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SECTION 3
WHY KAMALA HARRIS LOST THE ELECTION
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  • the Democrats are as responsible for Mr Trump as anybody else and it should be
  • understood for the historical moment that it is and I think Mr Trump won
  • because he managed this symbolism very well I am naughty I am not of that
  • establishment I hate them like you do they have abused me personally just like
  • you this and kamla Harris Can you know she would have had to develop a different


    • Why Kamala Harris Lost the Election
  • 15:11
  • Persona a different projection she didn't do that I'm not privy so I don't know what
  • her calculations were but I think they were wrong I think she lost the election
  • not because Mr Trump became more popular but because her side became less so and
  • so the the votes you know there were fewer voters and blah blah blah and he was able to make inroads among young
  • voters and black voters more than enough to and he only won by one and a half% of
  • the vote you know he he has to create the Mandate verbally because he doesn't have it in
  • reality whe but you with him you never quite know whether whether he grasps the
  • boundary between the fantasy and and the B and the reality or whether he really

  • 16:01
  • thinks as other presidents have that he can now create the reality it conveniently conforms to how he would
  • like it to be this you know a lot of people make that mistake before we
  • return to this Narrative of change which I find very compelling and I guess it might actually be involved in this
  • conversation in this this coming question and also Victor Davis Hansen who I just mentioned you referred to
  • Union and in our last conversation you anticipated that the Unions would be in
  • support of Biden and I wanted to ask why then for instance a union like the long
  • shoreman's Union ended up going for Trump well the unions have been on
  • decline in this country if you look at membership was not the only measure but
  • it's an important measure they've been on decline for half a century I mean that has put them in an
  • impossible situation they their traditions in this country had to do

  • 17:05
  • with servicing your members you know filing grievances uh
  • representing your workers with the employer getting better wages working conditions and that takes time and
  • energy and staff and the only way you pay for that
  • is if you have members who pay dues so if you're losing membership for 50 years
  • and the line is literally I mean a little blips but it's basically a line
  • of 50-year decline I believe their Peak was in 1955 or around there and it's
  • been downhill ever since in the private sector which is the major part of our economy union membership is 7% or less
  • of the labor for that means 93% of private employees are not represented by
  • a union well the unions are bankrupt then they don't have them where are they going to get the money to sustain the

  • 18:04
  • staff which could provide the services that could sustain the union when you
  • put that together with the post depression roll back of the new
  • deal I mean remember 1947 is crucial it's the passage of the Taft heartley
  • act whose whose Provisions most people don't know but you really want to go
  • back if you're interested and look at them there are things such as if you're a communist you can't be a leader of a
  • union well hello friends Communists are the people who usually lead unions and
  • do so in a militant way who else would you expect I mean Communists with a
  • small C whether or not they're members of a Communist party and even bigger
  • than the tartle ACT said anything won by a union at a

  • 19:03
  • workplace any wage increase any working condition Improvement has to be given to
  • everybody working there whether they join the union and pay dues or not I
  • mean what yeah and by the way not just shame on the on on on the employer class
  • for having come together to support these bills which why they pass but also the unions themselves
  • did they not understand what this would do to them did it take 50 years of
  • observing the results the answer is they accommodated
  • to the conditions they faced and those conditions were a
  • society that had gone through a trauma the collapse of its own capitalist
  • system in the Great Depression and the decision of the employer class that what had happened
  • there must never be allowed to happen again what happened there was the mass

  • 20:03
  • of people cut an alliance with Mr Roosevelt and got their social security
  • we talked about this last time and and all of that Social Security unemployment
  • compensation the 10 million or 12 million workers hired by the government
  • all of the money for that was taken from the rich the corporations and the rich whose taxes were raised and who were
  • required to loan what they didn't pay in taxes okay they don't want that ever
  • happen again and they went to work with a kind of unanimity and a kind of
  • commitment that comes out of being frightened badly frightened by what they
  • observed yeah this is hard to get across to Americans but
  • what what for those people they observed was the equivalent of what Europeans
  • observe oberved with Nazis marching through their streets a a shock a shock

  • 21:04
  • a horror for many um a re shifting of the way you think
  • about the world and yourself in it and they made a decision very impressive
  • to and They carried it through they demonized the left look many of the people hauled
  • before the house on American Activities Committee believe it or not that's what it was called not my language they chose
  • an unamerican Activities Committee you they were going to decide what's
  • American and what isn't and they were going to punish imprison Deport all
  • kinds of things they did with those who were deemed unamerican uh they went after the the
  • Coalition that produced a new deal it was a coalition of the democratic party
  • Mr President Roosevelt the union movement which he

  • 22:03
  • encouraged led by the CIO which was then the dominant union experience and there
  • two socialists and one Communist party that was the New Deal coalition people interested in civil
  • rights or women wanting the end of sexism found their places within those
  • institutions Socialist Party communist part labor movement and that had to be smashed to bits and they went
  • systematically what was the weakest link of that Coalition the Communist party
  • because that could be linked to the great new enemy our former Ally right
  • you had to develop a theater and that theater shaped the American political
  • Consciousness I remember when my son was um of an age to go to college one of the
  • places he wanted to look at was the University of Chicago so my back them up and we went
  • to Chicago so that my son could you know go around and they had a little program like they usually do for for prospective

  • 23:07
  • students and there was an existing student who took us around showed us the campus and at one point my son cuz it's
  • my son said well are there political groups asking with all
  • the all the open honesty and N that a
  • 17-year-old would have and the Young man who was taking us around it was very nice and very helpful said yes we have
  • everything from the then he me mentioned a right-wing Young Americans for Freedom
  • a right-wing group all the way over to the Democratic party and for him and for everybody else
  • that was it that was politics there was nothing further left
  • or same way of saying it further left to takes you out of the conversation into

  • 24:01
  • the area of scary dangerous evil for that and the young man in the
  • University of Chicago very American had absorbed that without understanding what
  • he was doing he absorbed the whole country is that and that's why when this
  • era of capitalism is over as I believe it to be
  • um and the dominant position in the United States is over as I believe it to be and you turn in with the horror of that
  • the fear of what that means well then you go to the right because that's the
  • alternative to what you have had all along and you feel the need for a break
  • Mr Trump plays that theme endlessly I'm new I'm different I'm going to I'm going
  • to I'm with the verbiage and the the the hyper you know 400 president itial
  • orders each having to reverse them the next morning could didn't think it through look at this you it's a

  • 25:04
  • spectacle but it's a spectacle that has its real Roots again I'm just keeping track of
  • all the things we're going to be coming back to I I assume that a big portion of our conversation will be about the end
  • of the American Empire and where we are with Trump right now but now I I would

  • Is Victor Davis Hanson Wrong About the Elites’ War on the Working Class?
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  • 25:25
  • like to take this narrative you've given about the election being explained by a
  • desire for Change and the inability of Harris and the Democratic party to provide that I'd like to connect that to
  • what Victor Davis Hansen said and see if you see any resonance between the two ideas the way that Victor accounted for
  • the election is he sees it I think as part of a larger culture war between on
  • the one hand what he referred to as the B Coastal left-wing intellectual Elite
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