Why does the corporate media constantly tell the Democratic party to "Move to the center" when these so-called far left policies are actually the center of America? Plus, Mark Pocan holds court with calls from across the nation.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 7 March 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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You can't turn on a cable TV news channel these days without seeing some TV pundit or panelist saying that Democrats need to "move to the middle." What the heck do they mean? Do they mean that Democrats should say it's just fine that over 30 million Americans have no health care? Does "moving to the middle" mean that we love that the big banks make hundreds of billions in profits by ripping us off and putting our economy at risk? That fossil fuel and chemical industries should continue to poison us and our planet? That it's just fine if drug companies and for-profit colleges and Charter Schools keep ripping us off? That it's just fine that the American Dream is dead and there's no need to bring back unions and union jobs? What is "the center" beyond the status quo? Thom deepens this question of left-shaming in a fascinating discussion with conservative Bryan Pruitt. Then, listeners add to the pool of thought in their own ways. Thom reads from 'Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny.' Progressive activist Mark Pocan swings into action explaining the recent work of the House Progress Caucus to the people (that call in). Mark in San Diego asks why nobody ever tells Republicans 'to move to the center', or their candidates are too extreme.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:20.0 | believers in peace, freedom in the American way, |
| 0:22.0 | job Hartman here with you. |
| 0:23.3 | You know, you can't turn on a TV news channel these days, at least a cable TV news channel, |
| 0:29.4 | without seeing some TV pundit. |
| 0:32.1 | And in fact, this morning I saw the TV host Stephanie Rule |
| 0:34.6 | going off on this whole thing about how Democrats need to move to the middle. |
| 0:39.9 | What the hell does that mean? I mean, do they mean the Democrats just say it's just fine that 30 million Americans have no health insurance? |
| 0:50.0 | Do we love the big banks making, I think they just made $230 billion in profits, best year |
| 0:56.2 | they ever had while ripping us off and putting our economy at risk? Is that what moved |
| 1:01.5 | to the middle means? The status quo? |
| 1:04.0 | Oh, things are just fine the way they are. |
| 1:06.0 | Let's just make little tiny tweaks. |
| 1:08.0 | Is that what they're talking about? |
| 1:10.0 | Does move to the middle mean that the fossil fuel and chemical industry should continue to |
| 1:14.8 | poison us in our planet? I mean is it just fine that the drug companies and for-profit colleges |
| 1:21.4 | and charter schools are literally ripping us off to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars a year |
| 1:27.6 | transferring that money out of the pockets of working people, the middle class, retired people, young people, and into the pockets of |
| 1:34.3 | billionaire CEOs? |
| 1:36.7 | Is it just fine that the American dream is dead? |
| 1:39.6 | That for the first time, literally in the history of the United States a generation is not going to |
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