Saagar Enjeti: What are conservatives conserving?
Andrew Yang Podcast
Andrew Yang & Audacy
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🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Rising co-host Saagar Enjeti joins Andrew for a crossover episode of The Realignment, where they discuss the decline of local journalism, how Andrew sees the mainstream media now that he has a platform at CNN, and Saagar’s thoughts on the current trajectory of the Republican Party.
Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OuHwPdsEmOA
Saagar Enjeti - https://twitter.com/esaagar | https://the-realignment.simplecast.com
Andrew Yang - https://instagram.com/andrewyang | https://twitter.com/AndrewYang
Zach Graumann - https://instagram.com/zachgraumann | https://twitter.com/Zach_Graumann
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| 0:00.0 | I want to make it easier for people to get married and have kids in this country. |
| 0:04.6 | And the number one reason in 2018 that we had the lowest marriage rate of all time was |
| 0:10.3 | not having the funds, not, you know, your religiosity, secularization, any of that, which |
| 0:15.3 | is something that is erroneously blamed by, in my view, like, libertarian conservatives |
| 0:21.0 | on people. |
| 0:22.6 | When in reality, it's what you're talking about. |
| 0:24.3 | It's the cruelty of an economic system, which makes it so that you are not living up |
| 0:28.8 | and making the choices that you want to make. |
| 0:31.4 | It should be a giant red flag to all of us if you have the lowest marriage rates because |
| 0:36.7 | of economic insecurity, the lowest childbearing rates because of economic insecurity. |
| 0:41.8 | You talk to a young person and they look up and say, I don't know if I'm ever going |
| 0:46.1 | to be able to settle down in the Married and Heavy Kid because I can barely, like, pay |
| 0:49.7 | off my debt and keep a roof over my head. |
| 0:51.9 | To me, right now, our goals should just be human flourishing and I agree with you that |
| 0:57.5 | most all the time, the best way to have people flourishes, to put the agency in their hands |
| 1:03.0 | and let them make their own decisions. |
| 1:07.5 | It's yet another cross over the great saga and jedi from the hill is going to be on |
| 1:24.0 | Yang speaks and I'm going to be on the realignment. |
| 1:26.4 | Thank you Andrew for so much for joining the podcast. |
| 1:28.4 | Really appreciate it, man. |
| 1:29.4 | Appreciate you. |
| 1:30.4 | I mean, I thought you were young. |
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