Welcome to the vast majority. I'm Jackabin Managing Editor Micah, you tricked.

Now you're probably familiar with Jacobin's printed word.

You clearly are familiar with our audio product.

But we will soon be moving into a bold new frontier,

that of the moving image. Yes, we are working on a documentary called

Socialism and American Story, and one of the filmmakers behind that documentary is

Yiel Bridge, and I talked to her for a little while

about this forthcoming documentary why she decided to make it and what it

shows about socialism in the 21st century.

Hi Yell, welcome to the vast majority. Hi Micah, thanks for having me.

So let's start out just with the backstory of this film. How did you come to make this

documentary about socialism? Well I've been making political films for for several

years now and I was working on another film called Saving Capitalism with

Robert Reich and then I met so many of these Bernie Trump voters that I'd been reading

about and there were all these people who voted for a

socialists and not necessarily knew what that what that word meant myself

included. I voted for Bernie and I didn't identify as a socialist that wasn't a word that I felt too familiar with and a lot of my friends felt the same way and I thought, oh, well, this is really, you know, something worth exploring.

What does this word mean and how come so many people are open to it now.

Sounds like you went from on a trajectory that is similar to a lot of people in America.

You were working for Robert Reich making it's documentary

and Robert Reich kind of represents what I would say is the best of American

liberalism I think Robert Reich is a great guy in many ways, but you know it's you were making a film called

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