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Andrew Yang Podcast

Saagar Enjeti: What are conservatives conserving?

Andrew Yang Podcast

Andrew Yang & Audacy

Society & Culture

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 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

Transcript

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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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