The Failures And The Future Of The Democratic Party
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2017
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Chelsey Gentry-Tipton is the Nebraska Democratic Party Black Caucus Chair and Anthony Walraven is an activist from Peoria, Illinois who recently ran for City Council in his city. They sit down with Brett to discuss the modern history of the Democratic Party, Bill Clinton's Third Way strategy, the Hillary vs. Bernie primary, the role of race and class in the party, the limitations of the Democratic Party, lessons learned from the humiliating loss to Trump in the 2016 presidential election, the future of the party, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | We're educated, we've been given a certain set of tools, but then we're going to throw |
| 0:03.4 | on right back into the working class. |
| 0:04.8 | Well, good luck with that because more and more of us are waking the fuck up. |
| 0:08.2 | So we have a tendency to what we have, we have earned, right? |
| 0:14.4 | And what we don't have, we are going to earn. |
| 0:18.4 | We unintentionally, I think, oftentimes kind of frame our lives as though we are the |
| 0:25.6 | predestined. |
| 0:27.2 | People want to be guilt-free. |
| 0:28.2 | Like, I didn't do it. |
| 0:29.2 | Like, this is not my fault. |
| 0:30.2 | And I think that's part of the distancing from, like, people who don't want to admit that |
| 0:35.2 | they're prepared. |
| 0:37.2 | When the main function of a protect and serve, supposedly, group is actually revenue generation, |
| 0:45.2 | they don't protect and serve. |
| 0:47.2 | Simply illogical to say that the things that affect all of us that can result in us losing |
| 0:52.0 | our house, that can result in us not having clean drinking water, why should those be |
| 0:56.1 | in anybody else's hands? |
| 0:57.8 | They should be in the people's hands who are affected by those institutions. |
| 1:01.4 | People engage in to overcome oppression, to fight back, and to identify those systems |
| 1:07.7 | of structures that are oppressing them. |
| 1:10.4 | God, those communists are amazing. |
| 1:13.5 | Welcome to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
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