WHY DON'T ALL AMERICANS KNOW THE REAL OBJECTIVES OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 7 November 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
After voters in California chose to exempt Uber and Lyft drivers from hard-won worker protections, Dr Richard Wolff wonders whether a Biden administration will champion the working person, or support the wealthy who the Democratic party still go to for money. Can Joe Biden overcome this contradiction? If the Democrats had spent a billion campaign dollars promoting the Green New Deal and expanding Medicare, would have this election have been a blowout? Does it still work to be a milk-toast Democrat? And what media should Democrats be spending their money on?
Did the horror show of the last four years show us all who the Republicans really are, or will Democrats have to learn how to get their message across? Plus- the religious broadcaster who just died of Covid after endorsing the so-called herd immunity policy of Donald Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.8 | On the line with us is Professor Richard Wolff, the economist co-founder of Democracy at |
| 0:20.0 | Work Author of Numbers Books, as late as the sickness is the system. |
| 0:24.0 | When capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or itself, democracy worked out info and |
| 0:29.3 | R.D. Wolff with 2Fs.com, his website's Prof. Wolff, his Twitter handle, PR-O-F-W-O-L-F-F Professor |
| 0:35.7 | Wolff. |
| 0:36.7 | Welcome back. |
| 0:37.7 | There was a big ballot measure in California that passed that the gig economy companies, |
| 0:43.1 | principally over and lift, had put apparently over $100 million into promoting the opposition |
| 0:49.8 | was able to raise a couple million dollars to the unions. |
| 0:52.0 | I think maybe $20 million to fight it, but they were up against a huge pile of cash. |
| 0:57.8 | Can you tell us about what that ballot measure was and why it's of consequence to every |
| 1:03.1 | working person in America? |
| 1:05.0 | Yes, I'd be glad to, and I'm really, I'm grateful that you are giving it this kind of attention, |
| 1:11.2 | Tom, it really deserves it. |
| 1:13.7 | The way to understand it again is, historically, you know, we live in a country where over |
| 1:17.8 | the last 150 to 200 years, all kinds of men and women have struggled in every part of |
| 1:24.3 | this country to develop what we generally call labor protection legislation. |
| 1:30.8 | Rules that say an employer has to pay a worker when the worker works, that you can't abuse |
| 1:35.8 | working people, that you can't demand that they work overtime without compensating them |
| 1:40.8 | extra for it, that you can't sexually harass them and on and on and on and on. |
| 1:46.9 | All of those laws that were fought for were fought for at a time when everyone generally |
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