TMBS ReAir 130 - Against Essentialism & For Liberation ft. Adolph Reed
The Michael Brooks Show
Michael Brooks
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
TMBS 130 aired on Mar 11, 2020
Episode summary:
We need to learn our lessons & keep fighting.
Adolph Reed, professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, joins us to talk about the problems of modern liberalism & human rights discourse. And how to win the working class.
During the GEM, David breaks down the stock market collapse and why we need the FED to answer to the working class.
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| 0:00.0 | While our campaign has won the ideological debate, we are losing the debate over electability. |
| 0:26.0 | I cannot tell you how many people our campaign has spoken to who have said, and I quote, |
| 0:29.3 | I like what your campaign stands for. |
| 0:32.7 | I agree with what your campaign stands for, |
| 0:37.0 | but I'm going to vote for Joe Biden because I think Joe is the best candidate to defeat Donald Trump. |
| 0:44.8 | End of court. We have heard that statement all over this country. Needless to say, I strongly disagree with that assertion. |
| 0:54.0 | But that is what millions of Democrats and independents today believe. |
| 1:00.0 | On Sunday, I very much look forward to the debate in Arizona with my friend Joe Biden. |
| 1:08.0 | And let me be very frank as to the questions that I will be asking Joe. |
| 1:13.6 | Joe, what are you going to do for the 500,000 people who go bankrupt in our country |
| 1:21.6 | because of medically related debt? |
| 1:24.6 | And what are you going to do for the working people of this country |
| 1:30.3 | and small business people who are paying on average 20% of their incomes for health care? |
| 1:39.3 | Joe, what are you going to do to end the absurdity of the United States of America being the only |
| 1:44.9 | major country on earth where health care is not a human right? Are you really going to veto |
| 1:53.0 | a Medicare for all bill if it is passed in Congress? Joe, how are you going to respond to the scientists who tell us we have seven or eight years |
| 2:05.0 | remaining to transform our energy system before irreparable harm takes place to this planet |
| 2:13.3 | because of the ravages of climate change? |
| 2:17.4 | Joe, at a time when most young people need a higher education to make it into the middle class, |
| 2:23.3 | what are you going to do to make sure that all of our people can go to college or trade school |
| 2:30.3 | regardless of their income? |
| 2:32.3 | And what are you going to do about the millions of people who are struggling with outrageous |
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