Why You Should Be A Socialist

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

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🗓️ 22 August 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Not driving as much? Find out how you can get money back from your auto insurance company as Ralph welcomes Insurance Director of the Consumer Federation, Robert Hunter. Also, we speak to Chuck Collins about how the rich are parking their money in charitable foundations and taxpayers are footing the bill. And finally, the editor of Current Affairs, Nathan Robinson, joins to tell us “Why You Should Be A Socialist.”

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0:00.0	It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.
0:05.0	Stand up, stand up.
0:07.0	You've been sitting way too long.
0:10.0	Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host
0:17.9	David Feldman. Hello, David. Hello everybody. And the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. Hello, Ralph. Hello, everybody.
0:25.0	We have a man of the hour.
0:26.0	We have a jam-packed program today where the theme is essentially wealth and how it's distributed.
0:32.0	In the first part of the show we will welcome back
0:33.8	someone who has been a clear beneficiary of the present economic system. Chuck
0:38.9	Collins is the great-grandson of Oscar Meyer of the Oscar Meyer Wiener fortune and he was born into the top 1%.
0:46.4	But at 26 years old he gave it away. Now he works hard to reduce inequality.
0:52.1	The organization he's part of, the Institute of Policy Studies,
0:56.3	recently released a report explaining why our current system of billionaire donations
1:01.2	doesn't work well. At least it doesn't work well for the 99%. He'll tell
1:05.4	us more about the needed reform for the way billionaires donate money. In the
1:10.1	second half we're going to talk about that taboo scary subject and favorite bogeyman of the right.
1:16.0	Socialism. It's back.
1:18.8	More young people support socialism now than any time since the labor movement of the 1920s. More and more people are unhappy
1:26.4	with the abusive system of capitalism we live under. And during this pandemic, we've watched
1:31.2	capitalism help the rich and heard everyone else.
1:34.4	We're going to talk about this with our guest Nathan Robinson.
1:37.2	He is the editor of Current Affairs and the author of Why you should be a socialist.
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