(excited music) - Well, hello there. Some more news fanatics, enthusiasts, hobbyists, devotees, and aficionados. How was your weekend? Mine was well. My roommate slash ex
life partner, Mr. Masky and I took a vacation to, I don't know the corner over there. It was really relaxing. Glad you could join us. As we rapidly approached
the quote most important and simultaneously unquote
stupidest presidential election of our lifetimes, it's worth taking a break
from the 24-second news cycle and all the doom scrolling to try and better understand this moment in terms of its historic context. You know, try to see the forest
for all the burning trees. When historians look back
at 2020, what will they see? Will they see the worst year ever? Will they see the last
good year we ever had? Will we learn the lessons of
this terrible year and realize that we are all in this
together and promote the ideals of a multiracial democracy that supports the fundamental needs of all of us? Or will we succumb to
fascism or will we go through door number three
and rejoice at the fact that politics is boring again? That things can just go back to normal and become complacent
as we go back to brunch or as it should be called Lekfast. (excited music) This year has seen the devastating
and heartbreaking murders of black people by the police. Like George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and the shooting of Jacob Blake. And so, so, so many others. And he failed response
to a deadly pandemic that has made the impact of
systemic racism painfully clear. One out of every thousand
black people in this country has died from this virus. This disease has laid bare
all of the inequalities in our society as the
rich have become richer and the poor have become
poorer during this pandemic. The good news, if there is
any, is that this has led to the largest sustained protest movement in American history. A multiracial coalition calling for racial and economic justice. Calling for a foundational
transformation of policing and our criminal legal system and a massive increase
in our social safety net. And the bad news is this movement and moment has also spawned a
racist and violent backlash. - This may be a lot of things, this moment we're living through, but it is definitely
not about black lives. And remember that when they come for you and at this rate, they will. - So make no mistake. No matter where you live,
your family will not be safe in the radical Democrats America. - The 17-year-old now arrested
following a horrifying attack in Kenosha captured on
the cellphone video. The shooting happened during the third night of unrest there following the police
shooting of Jacob Blake. - The actions of vigilantes
like Kyle Rittenhouse - We're looking at all of it. That was an interesting situation. You saw the same tape as I saw. And he was trying to get away from them, I guess, it looks like, and he fell and then they very violently attacked him. And it was something that
we're looking at right now and it's under investigation, but I guess he was in very big trouble. He would have been, he
probably would have been killed but it's under, it's under investigation. - How shocked are we that 17 year olds with rifles decided they
had to maintain order when no one else would? - Cucker Tarlson, sorry, (beep) asks, how shocked are
we that a 17-year-old crossed state lines armed
with an assault rifle that he was legally too young to own, and went out and killed two protestors, after he Tucker McNear Swanson Carlson and his network obsessively fixated on the threat to the suburbs
from BLM and Antifa terrorists spending hours displaying
violent imagery in the month leading up to the shooting
to represent these protests? Despite studies showing
that 93% of the protests were entirely peaceful. Including messaging that
running over protestors is okay and good, but somehow he
doesn't feel compelled to ask the same question about why people might be protesting in the streets following
a never-ending string of police killings, or the
fact that the police used force in over 54% of the demonstrations
in which they engaged. Because as we have noted on this show, these riots have largely been police riots and much of the looting comma violence that did take place has
been in direct response to the violent and
aggressive tactics of police. Including habitually committing literal war crimes against protestors. And despite the fact that the entire right-wing media apparatus,
the Republican Party and the president of an entire country, this country, in fact, has
been trying to scare the shit out of white people by claiming that BLM and Antifa terrorists are
planning to destroy the suburbs. The truth is that the
actual domestic terrorists are right-wing groups that
have been specifically and intentionally encouraged
by the president of a country, this country, like the
extremist group in Michigan that it was recently busted
for plotting to kidnap and or assassinate the
democratic governor of the state via PT Cruiser. Which was followed by the
president gleefully encouraging his rally crowd to chant lock her up, about the governor who
was going to be kidnapped - A guy like Biden, and the Democrats wanna keep Michigan locked up, locked down and closed for business. No, it's so badly hurting you say. - [Crowd] Lock her up,
lock her up, lock her up! And then I guess they
said she was threatened. She's serious. And she blamed me. She blamed me. - And so, it's not
surprising that we're seeing more and more fully armed
militias, white supremacists and fascist street gangs
showing up at protests for racial justice, ready to stand by. Or the people who have driven their cars into protestors 104 times
since the protest began. Nor is it surprising
that fundraising efforts for the Kenosha shooter have
raised nearly a million dollars as of September 3rd,
while the president brags about the extra judicial
killing of Michael Reinoehl. The painful truth is that
political violence in response to movements for racial equality
is nothing new in America. In fact, it's kind of our thing. And so while this moment
in American history may appear to be particularly
bleak because it is. It's also important to remember
that literally every moment in American history, where we have started to make significant strides
towards racial equality have been met by an
aggressive racist backlash and a proactive reassertion
of white supremacy which has relentlessly
resulted in revised systems and policies and ideas that
always seem to uniquely adapt to the specific nature and
characteristics of the progress. And yet, while the particular adaptation and response is unique and
tailor made for the moment, the result is always the same. The preservation of a racial hierarchy, a caste system based on race because when it comes
to maintaining racism, America can be incredibly creative. (excited music) - Following the civil
war for a brief time, America actually tried to
advance racial equality. This is the era known as reconstruction. We pass the 13th amendment,
which ended slavery unless you were incarcerated. The 14th amendment,
which professed to grant equal protection under
the law to all citizens, regardless of race and the 15th amendment which reported to grant
voting rights to all citizens. Male citizens. President Ulysses S. Grant
even sent out federal troops to secure and protect the
voting rights of the freedman, which resulted in the very first black men being elected to the
US Congress and Senate. Hiram Revels became the first
black United States Senator in 1870, five years later, Blanch K. Bruce was elected
to the Senate in Mississippi. But this period also
included a major backlash. The OG domestic terrorist organization, the Ku Klux Klan formed an opposition to this racial progress and terrorized and murdered thousands
of would be black voters, politicians, and those who supported them. And while Grant fought back and ultimately dismantled this
first iteration of the KKK, don't worry, they'll be back. Following his presidency, the project of reconstruction
was ultimately abandoned with the election of Rutherford B. Hayes. The first president to
lose the popular vote and yet somehow win the presidency. And he did this through what became known as the Compromise of 1877, where Hayes agreed to
cede control of the South to democratic governments and back away from attempts at federal
intervention in the region. As well as place a
southerner in his cabinet. In return, Democrats would
not dispute Hayes' election and agreed to respect the
civil rights of black citizens. But surprise! The Dixiecrats did not in fact, respect the civil rights of
the newly freed black citizens. Instead, they created
what has come to be known as the Jim Crow segregation era. A series of laws that continued
to subjugate black people and uphold white supremacy. It was no longer illegal
to enslave black people, unless of course they were incarcerated, but this new network of laws would explicitly limit their rights including the right to vote and ensure that they would remain
second-class citizens. These laws would later be
heavily studied by Nazi Germany and become the basis for the Nuremberg law that stripped Jews and
others of their rights. America. Exporting fascism since before fascism. It would be nearly 100 years before we saw another black Senator in the United States. Consider the fact that Barack Obama was the fifth black us
Senator in American history. Fifth. That's this hand. He started serving in 2005. And Kamala Harris is only
the second black woman to ever serve in the Senate. That's two fingers. She began her term in 2017. In all of US history, there have been 1,984 total
senators, 1,984, nearly 2000. And yet in all of US history, there have only been 10 senators. These two hands who have been black. And yet my best friend band
mate, and favorite historian Ben Sha-P-Word thinks that. - Kamala Harris is not breaking
any glass ceilings here because there was no glass ceiling. Hillary Clinton was last major party nomination won the popular vote. So we've already had a woman
who won most popular votes in the presidential election. We've already had a
two-term black president. So the notion that Kamala
Harris faces unique obstacles is absolutely ridiculous. - That's right, folks. We already had a black. And a femoid has already
shattered the glass ceiling. Which is why the last episode of this show was called why current
president Hillary Clinton's climate change plan doesn't go far enough. And why the episode
before that was called, why lowering the eligibility
age of Medicare to 55 and implementing the
public option is not enough and just helps the private
insurance industry? And why we at Cody's Showdy felt like we could take a short
break from the headlines and focus on the trend
lines and is why we indulged in our epic trilogy about Baby Nut, which in alternate timeline retrospect was probably ill-advised. We lost a lot of subscribers. We are very sorry for that
in that alternate timeline. Although I think Ben might actually be a little confused, here and always. But here because breaking news. Hillary Clinton is not
in fact the president. That would of course be
Joe Biden, apparently, but despite Ben's constant
confusion about American history, the is that following
our nation's abandonment of reconstruction in the 1870s,
it would be nearly 100 years before a new civil rights
movement took hold. Led by people like Medgar
Evers and Martin Luther King along with the black power movement led by people like Malcolm
X and Fred Hampton. These movements pressured
president Lyndon Johnson to pass the Civil rights Act of 1964. And the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which effectively ended the Jim Crow era of explicit legal segregation. Progress but also backlash. Because all of these
leaders I just mentioned were assassinated along
with civil rights advocate and presidential candidate,
Robert F. Kennedy. The backlash to the civil
rights and black power movements of the 1960s was the literal
murder of the leaders of these movements, which
perhaps puts our recent debates about cancel culture into a
little bit of perspective. I don't know maybe, but of
course, it didn't end there. The Republican candidate
for president in this era, Richard Nixon deploy a political tactic which has come to be known
as the Southern Strategy. And while right wing grifter,
Candace Owens may claim that. - So we have the audacity
to think for themselves and become educated about our history and the myth of things
like the Southern Switch and the Southern Strategy
which never happened. - The Southern Strategy
very much did happen. Nixon's chief strategist Lee Atwater has admitted as much. The Southern Strategy and
the new laws and the ideology that it led to were a direct response to the victories of the
civil rights movement. It was theoretically no longer illegal to explicitly discriminate
against the black people. So all of the vocabulary and the policies had to become implicit. This new paradigm accelerated the era of rhetorical dog whistles
and racist code words. The Nixon campaign of 1968
responded to the protest for racial justice that were
taking place at the time by calling for law and order. Does that sound familiar? And the policies that developed in this new era were even more insidious. When Nixon became president, he declared drug abuse
public enemy number one. Former Nixon domestic
policy, chief John Ehrlichman revealed that the war on drugs was created as a political tool to
fight blacks and hippies who opposed the war in Vietnam. "We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana
and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their
leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." This strategy of using
racially coded language and the implementation of
supposed race neutral policies designed to specifically
appeal to white voters who wanted to maintain their
privileged status in society would later be perfected
by y Ronald "Mommy" Reagan who ushered in a new ideology which would serve to maintain
the racial cast system. Neoliberalism. This obsession with austerity, which sorry to tell
all of you, JC39 stans, actually started to gain traction under the presidency of Jimmy Carter ultimately resulted in policies that decimated the social safety net and essentially cemented
the racial inequality that had been created as a result of slavery and Jim Crow laws. And since the investments
that would be necessary to address racial inequality
were in effect forbidden, it prevented meaningful
progress from being made. These policies were justified by the ideology of neoliberalism. If you're poor, it's your fault. Government is the problem. Assistance to address poverty just creates a culture of dependency. Let the markets figure it out. These bootstrap best ideas were sold to the public through fear-mongering about crime and crack
babies in order to expand the war on drugs and mass incarceration. And the racializing of
government safety net programs like the myth of welfare Queens and the strapping young
bucks buying T-bone steaks with food stamps was used
to rationalize the cuts to our social safety net. These messages were used
as a way to convince a large percentage of white
people that the general concept of government assistance is synonymous with giving black people an unfair and undeserved advantage over them. And it was insidiously deployed as a political weapon to obscure the fact that their primary goal
was to vastly increase the advantages of corporations
and the rich and powerful. Of course it was all a big con job. America's a big con job. That's history. The very construction of race
and by extension, racism, in America developed as a
way to justify free labor, also known as slavery
to increase the profits of the ruling class. So the tactic of tricking a
bunch of white people to believe that their advantage in
society was under threat in order to perpetuate a system that was created to benefit
the wealthy worked yet again. And after 20 out of 24
years of Republican power, the Democrats of this era relented. Something they love to do. They cried uncle and found a third way to win elections again. By triangulating progressive policies and Reagan era austerity coupled with catering to
the interests of the rich, essentially the white flag was raised and the new paradigm and default setting of American politics
became the basic ideas of neoliberalism and
tough on crime policies. In the same way that our country operated under a system of Jim Crow laws that enforced a racial hierarchy for 90 plus years following reconstruction our country has operated
under a systemically racist and neoliberal mass incarceration template for the past 50 years as a response to the victories
of the civil rights movement. This also happens to be the same era that a certain Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has operated under. In fact, he has been one
of the major contributors to many of the problems
we are facing right now. Which brings us back to
what is happening today. Where the movement for
black lives is calling for an end to the war on
drugs, the over-policing of their neighborhoods
and mass incarceration. There was a call for
re-imagining public safety which would include massive investments in affordable housing,
healthcare, and education that would effectively end the
current neoliberal paradigm. The system that has maintained
the racial cast system in America is being challenged
in a way that it hasn't since the 1960s. But as predicted, there is a backlash. And this time, the threat
is not Jim Crow segregation or neoliberalism and mass incarceration. It's, no graphic. Okay, well, it's fascism. Fascism is the thing. - Fascism is a cult of
the leader who promises national restoration in the
face of supposed threats by leftist, radicals,
minorities, and immigrants. He promises only he can save us - This is ohilosopher Jason Stanley. Author of the book How Fascism Works. Stanley argues that there
are 10 pillars of fascism. And while it is worthwhile
to note that Trumpism happens to check the boxes of all 10 of Stanley's pillars of fascism, and the Trump apologists
have made arguments like well, it's not like
we have concentration camps or ethnic cleansing or secret police pulling people off the street despite the fact that predictably, all those things are now happening. We are going to focus on just a couple of Stanley's pillars of
fascism for the moment. Because if you are still not convinced that Trump is a fascist,
or at the very least represents American fascism to a T, feel free to check out the other videos we've done on this topic. But to recap, here's a short
summary from our last episode. Fascism goes through phases from ideology to full fledged regime. Is characterized by Pelon
genetic ultra nationalism, anti globalism, or rejection
of feminism and socialism and homosexuality and
Marxism and cultural Marxism and obsession with conspiracy theories, a fear of the other, a
creation of in-groups and out-groups to be
rejected from the ingroup and obsession with heroism and violence and machismo in a weaponry, a collection of syncretistic intellectuals complaining about liberal academia and Cami's a death cult led
by a charismatic male leader in the form of an
ideologically inconsistent and unprincipled opportunist
who plays on emotions and fears and popular trends
do further a dictatorship against the left. On this popular enthusiasm
due to a crisis of capitalism and ineffective, liberal
governance and political gridlock. Via uneasy Alliance
with conservative elites creating images and
traditions and language unique to each country
and leader and people. That's the basics. Handsome guy, get some sleep. And so in retrospect, clearly
there are a lot of reasons why our nation was primed for
the rise of fascism in 2016. Which included the white majority spheres of losing their privileged status to rapidly shifting demographic changes occurring in our country. And it's worth noting
that the increased size and scope of the Black Lives
Matter movement right now is as much a response
to the rise of fascism. As the fascist backlash
is a response to the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. A feedback loop. A snake eating its own other snake. No more analogies, I'm sorry. Just, I think it is important that we take a moment to examine why fascism is the logical response to this moment in American history. Because the terrible truth is America will do everything it can
to maintain capitalism and its racial caste system. And the ideas that support
the current structure that has maintained and administered this intentional inequality for so long is at risk of breaking apart. Because if national
debt and budget deficits are such a huge concern, why did we suddenly have trillions of dollars available to prop up the largest corporations
and super wealthy? If poverty and financial
hardship is result of personal failings,
why are so many people suffering financially through
no fault of their own? And why do we all expect the government which is supposedly the
enemy to now help us? And the systemic racism
is a myth and a lie. Why is a virus that is supposed
to be the great equalizer instead killing more black people than anyone else in any other group? Could it be that all of these
ideas were all bold face lies? Yes. And as more and more
people in this country recognize these lies more and
more people are saying this, it becomes harder and
harder to hold on to power through a system where
theoretically, at least, the people actually have
a say in the matter. Which is why these fascists
are actively trying to undermine democracy itself and literally steal this election. The backlash we are confronting today threatens to fundamentally redefine the alleged foundational
ideals of American democracy. The number one pillar of
fascism on Stanley's list is described as a mythic past. A great mythic past which
the leader hearkens back to. You know, MAGA. so while racial justice
advocates are calling for a better understanding of
how the racism and systemic and legal discrimination of
our past affects the lives of black people today,
Donald Trump is threatening to withhold funding for
schools that discuss the 1619 project and is
directing all federal agencies to cancel all training programs on critical race theory or white privilege calling these ideas
anti-American propaganda. By the way, critical race
theory draws from the ideas of infamous anti Americans
like Martin Luther King, Jr. And Frederick Douglas, a
guy who is being recognized more and more and espouses wacky ideas like race is a social construct and institutionalized racism exists. And perhaps most importantly,
what if it didn't? Also like if anti-racism ideas
equal anti-American ideas, that kind of implies that
pro-racism would be pro-American. So I guess, good job Trump,
you accidentally nailed it. Trump is now calling for
a patriotic education to defend history from the left and his partner in crime
Attorney General Bill Barr has been suggesting
that federal prosecutors should charge protestors with sedition. A crime punishable by up
to 20 years in prison. This is all modern day book burning. The goal here is to dismiss
and deny our nation's history of racism and
create a new mythic past. And to accomplish this
task, these fascists and their enablers will use another tactic from Stanley's pillars of fascism. Victimhood. Stanley argues that in fascism, the dominant group are
the greatest victims. - Right now, being a Republican and specifically being a Trump supporter is probably the most dangerous
and the most disrespected, the most stereotype
against thing in America. - I am greeted with a hostile press. The likes of which no
president has ever seen. The closest would be that
gentleman right up there. They always said Lincoln, nobody got treated worse than Lincoln. I believe I am treated worse. - I think we live in a
tremendously racist society towards white people. And yes, there is racism
towards black people, there's racism towards Chinese people, but it is overwhelmingly at this point in society,
towards white people. - That is how irrational the
white hatred is on the left. It is analogous to the
antisemitism that pervaded Europe. - By using this tactic, these neofascist have convinced their audience that any effort to
address racial inequality is by very definition going
to further harm the lives and status of white people. While the system ushered in by Reagan convinced the white people that
the playing field was level and racism was a thing of the past. The new system that is taking hold is convincing white people that actually, they are at a distinct disadvantage. And the inevitable consequences of buying into this fascist ideology
are extremely severe. And not just in the obvious
ways like fascism is bad. And yet our alternative to
this, terrifying outcome. It's not great. We are in a situation where we are either going to descend deeper into fascism, very, very, not good, folks. Or run the risk of
maintaining the status quo. Also not good folks. Many people are saying this. Not nearly as bad as
fascism, but not good, not nearly good enough. Joe Biden may not publicly
celebrate sending a death squad to extra judicially murder
a suspected criminal but he will respond to nationwide
calls to defund the police by proposing the exact opposite solution. Which is pretty in line with how he's contributed
to neo-liberalism his whole career. We know that Trump will continue
to tear this country apart with the devastating consequences. But we also know that it is likely that the Biden administration
will hashtag resist the structural reforms that are necessary to address racial and economic inequality. There a very real risk
that a Biden administration will attempt to placate
and pacify the movement by offering up symbolic gestures at the expense of the structural
changes that are necessary. The solution to racial inequality is not appointing a LatinX
woman to head up ICE, it's to abolish ICE altogether. It is possible. And perhaps probable that
a Biden administration could be the political equivalent of posting a black square on Instagram. Make no mistake. Trump and his fascism must
be repudiated and defeated. And he's far worse and far more dangerous than Joe Biden and his
insufficient proposals. But the Biden philosophy of trying to compromise
with the fascist enablers and racist in the Republican party which inevitably perpetuates
political gridlock and ineffectual governance
is part of the reason that fascism was able to
rise in the first place. And regardless of who was in power, billion dollar corporations like Pepsi Co. will continue to try and appease us by discontinuing racist
brands like Aunt Jemima while they spend millions
of dollars lobbying against public health efforts that disproportionately
impact the black community. So how do we stop this? How do we neutralize the most
powerful political weapon in American history, racism? And disable a tactic that has been used throughout our history
to protect the interests of the wealthy, by
convincing a large percentage of white people in our country that addressing racial inequality will somehow negatively
affect their lives. Well, we can start by telling the truth. - Racism is bad for white people too. - This is Heather McGhee. The former president of the
progressive think tank, Demos You may remember her from
this clip from C-Span. - I was hoping that your guests can help me change my
mind about some things. I'm a white male and I am prejudice. I have these different fears and I don't want my fears
to come true, you know. So I try to avoid that. And I come off as being prejudice, right? But I just have fears. I don't like to be forced to like people. I like to be led to like
people through example and what can I do to change? To be a better American? - Following this exchange, Heather McGee actually met
with the caller in person. A man named Gary. And over the years,
the two became friends. - And Gary would tell you
that I've taught him a lot about systemic racism in
America and public policy. But I learned a lot from Gary too. And the biggest lesson for me
has been that Gary's prejudice has caused him to suffer. Fear anxiety, isolation. And it's made me rethink
many of the economic problems I've been focusing on my entire career. I wondered is it possible
that our society's racism has likewise been backfiring
on the very same people set up to benefit from privilege? - The cost of fear and
anxiety can be devastating to people are dead because
of Kyle Rittenhouse's fear and anxiety. And Rittenhouse himself is
now facing murder charges. But also think about what a
racist person is missing out on. There are 42 million black
people in the United States. That's a lot of people
you could be friends with. Play video games with. Share life's precious,
beautiful moments with. Or even (beep). And if you are a lower class white person, at the bottom of the top tier
of the racial caste system, who has absorbed our society's message that white people are
superior to black people and deserve a privileged
status in society as a result. You're being set up for
constant disappointment. Because in the course of your life, you will see many, many
examples of members of this supposedly inferior race and or culture excel in ways
that you are not excelling. For many lower class white people, it doesn't look like a privilege to them. This could have something
to do with the fact that over recent years,
there's been a surge of deaths within the undereducated white
working class population. Largely due to what authors
Anne Case and Angus Deaton call Deaths of Despair. Deaths from alcoholism,
drug abuse, and suicide. Wouldn't it be nice to
let go of that burden and beyond the emotional and
psychological costs of racism to white people, there are incredibly significant material costs. Study after study has shown
that when white people think that a government program
helps a lot of black people or other people of color,
they're more likely to oppose it. This is why we can't have nice things. And while a disproportionate
number of black people benefit from social safety net programs, because, you know systemic
racism makes black people more likely to be poor and live in areas of concentrated poverty with fewer options for upward mobility. The majority of the
people that participate in these programs are white. According to the Center of
Budget and Policy Priorities in 2014, 6.2 million
working age white people were lifted above the poverty line by government safety net programs compared to 2.8 million black people. In 2015, over 40% of food
stamp recipients were white. And in 2016, white people made up 43% of Medicaid recipients. I hope you get my point. A large number of white
people oppose policies that help lots of white people. Why is that? Heather McGee tells the story of the Oak Park pool
in Montgomery, Alabama. One of the many public
amenities funded by tax dollars in the era of the new deal. Yet this public good
suffered a tragic fate as a function of the backlash
to the end of segregation. - It was the meeting place for the town, except the Oak Park pool,
though it was funded by all of Montgomery
Citizens was for whites only. When a federal court finally
deemed this unconstitutional, the reaction of the
town council was swift. Effective January 1st, 1959. They decided they would
drain the public pool rather than let black families swim too. - This is a good metaphor for how racism is bad for everyone. A metaphor that also actually happened. It's true that white people
have a privileged status in the racial caste
system, but that privilege is only in comparison
to the subjective group and the efforts to maintain this dynamic, hold everyone down. No one can enjoy the Oak
Park pool any longer. Not even Joe Biden or as
good friend, Corn Pop. But by contrast, striving
for racial equality actually improves the lives of everybody. Consider the fact that
the Freedmen's Bureau, established during reconstruction to help the formerly enslaved people following the civil war
established a public school system that served both black and white children and would lay the foundation
for public education in the former Confederate States. Or consider how title nine of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has also protected the rights of women and members of the LGBTQ community. Most of whom were white. Just think about how overhauling our policing system reforming
our criminal legal system ending mass incarceration, expanding our social safety net and investing in the housing,
healthcare, education and general welfare of all of our citizens would benefit everyone today,
including white people. The truth is that the best way
to address racial inequality is with a progressive agenda. And the best way to implement
a progressive agenda that helps everyone is by
creating a multiracial coalition, dedicated to dismantling systemic racism and economic inequality. Eradicating systemic racism
would be the right thing to do even if it didn't help white people. But the fact that it does kind of makes it a pretty easy decision, right? But I'm less interested
in placing the blame on everyday white people, per se, since as we've just illustrated, many of them are also the
victims of our racist system. I'd rather put the blame where it belongs. On the producers of the racist
ideas that divide Americans in order to protect their capital. They are the ones who benefit from the system while
everyone else suffers. And thankfully, millions of
white people are realizing this and are understanding
the nature and impact of this country's legacy
of racial injustice and have joined the movement for black lives and economic justice. So there is some reason to hope. And it is perhaps an indication of this movement success that Joe Biden who has been firmly planted in the current system
of mass incarceration and neoliberalism has been
pressured to acknowledge that some of his previous
policies were mistakes. The victories of the civil rights movement weren't marked by the election of LBJ. They were defined by how the movement was able to exert the
necessary pressure to force him to act in meaningful ways. And though this journey will be long and hard and require persistence, the alternative is much, much worse. The alternative is
full-blown mask off fascism. And the best weapon we have
to oppose that right now and hopefully make this
country less fertile soil for fascism to rise again
in the future is democracy. While that is still a viable option. And I really don't wanna
be doing another video in four years, pleading with you to vote for John Delaney
over Tucker Carlson. So step one, get rid of
Trump and his fascism. And step two is to bully Biden and to not let the less obvious, less mask off problems that
led us to Trump slip through. Because even if we are able to succeed in getting rid of the disgusting
monster that is Donald, I have to flush the
toilet 15 times, Trump. We need to stay in the fight and stay in the streets
socially distanced of course, with, you know, with your mask on, 'cause the, the global pandemic that's killed over 220,000
people and counting. And the current president strategy to win is to say that his opponent
wants to listen to scientists. So I don't know. See ya. (excited music) I'm losing. All right. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the part where
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I think on of the arguments that was most successful about pulling me left was pointing out the ways that racial and economic justice can help make the whole of society better. Happier people, much safer cities, better economy, more innovation, and so on. Leaving so many people behind in the quest to better society and personal lives is a critical mistake that inevitably lead to problems like gangs and the recent riots, and if we want these problems to stop, we need to make life better for the people who feel like they have no options and have been treated as less than human by our current system.
Cody and the Some More News crew are indeed a reputable source and I enjoy their showdy.
I literally never watch youtube videos that are this long, and I very rarely watch youtube at all. But I'm glad I watched this. Funny, informative, accurate.
Cody bang on correct. Racial injustice and capitalism go hand in hand
"How Fascism Works" is required reading. Added a few quality, necessary points to my understanding. One of which is the wholesale invention of a communism threat to scare people into supporting fascism. "Communism," especially Stalinist totalitarianism communism, has zero real possibility of coming to America which is why they need to frame things like medicine and housing as the step immediately prior to gulags in order to gin up support.
Cody is just socialist John Oliver. And i like it.
If anyone's interested in more on this topic and how racism and capitalism develop together I have this video on capitalism and white supremacy https://youtu.be/bBn2i52cucQ