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I can’t agree. If you can bankrupt a casino you’re not smart. Trump currently enjoys a cult of personality and is serving the purpose of the truly rich.
@@_robustus_ I would have to agree. Trump is a parrot, he sees something working so he repeats it, people tells him things so he repeats it. he keeps repeating and repeating because he has no critical thinking, no thinking of consequence.
Mr. Secretary, I must say. This time, you BLEW it Out of the Park, Sir! Nail on the Head, Spot-On, and Bigly. I just wish you'd teach our Dem presidential candidates how to communicate like you do. That would Put the Nail in the Coffin, Sir.. Thank You!
@mister.T Jr , not really. Andrew Yang is reaching across the aisle and doesn't play identity politics. What's wrong with taking good ideas and building on top of them? This isn't sports. Or competition. This is our Rebulic and until we start treating it as such we all lose, except those already controlling the power and wealth. He wants to work together to fix root causes to our problems, leaving no one out. How is that divide and conquer? Old politics out in with the new. It's not right, it's not left, it's forward. #yang2020
@mister.T Jr , I appreciate that, but he's here now so I'm supporting him now. The change needs to start somewhere. I see that in him. Regardless of how far he goes, he's already got the discussions on the table that are necessary to be had. I will keep supporting him to help get more recognition to the fact we need new ideas for a new world.
Thank you for framing the conversation away from the tired party lines...It's a conversation I've never been a part of. When the reality is haves vs. have nots.
@Michael Kahr So, I'm curious. Please explain the evidence that an economy with near record low unemployment and underemployment, the highest pay levels for ordinary workers ever achieved in history - among the highest in the world (the "stagnation" myth having been long debunked), poverty at levels not seen in nearly 30 years and less than half a percentage point above the lowest ever recorded and the standard of living across every income quintile materially improving ... "cannot work anymore?" Even if the "extreme wealth divide" were not massively overblown (to the point of being mostly fictional), isn't the real objective to make everyone better off regardless of how any articular group is doing better ... which is objectively the case? Just askin'?
FletchforFreedom so, if the extreme wealth divide is mostly fiction, then we can audit all oligarchs, here and now, and if we find any revenue that came from the 99 %, and remove it from their possession, that we would not find enough revenue to repair more than 1% of the chronic damages that the 99% endure???!!!
FletchforFreedom highest pay levels, when the right opposed minimum wage of $15/hour? an oilman running the EPA? a charter school privateer raiding the public school finances? gutting of regulations that force companies to be safe? adding, or attempting to add the most odious clauses of the old trans Pacific Asian treaty to a reworked NAFTA?( essentially allowing accused violators to shrug off most legal actions against them)?
FletchforFreedom too many young workers having to hold two jobs, and still be unable to move out, let alone make inroads on student debt. how will you grow GDP, let alone happiness like that? or future taxable income for the government? and how do we keep oligarchs out of government, when his cabinet( POS THAT IT IS) is worth 4.3 BILLION? I'll give him a half hall pass on China. they were ripping us off. but the tariffs probably sunk his economy. and, with the Chinese having bailed us out partially during '09, will they bail out the people that they are currently in a trade war with?
Please Google Andrew Yang. Mr. Reich's ideas line up so close with Yang's. I'm really surprised he doesn't back him. But time will tell. I agree completely with your comment and so does most of America.
Teresa you beat me to it! Yang fits so much of this. Democracy dollars to deal with money in Washington and UBI for the failing safety net. Facts and Numbers with appropriate framing to counter the us vs them that Trump brings into the conversation.
Every parent, right or left, knows what they’d do if they took their child to a playground and that child hoarded most of the toys on the playground even though they couldn’t possibly play with them all at once. They’d demand that their child choose the toys they wanted to play with right then, and to relinquish the rest for others to enjoy. There are 7 BILLION people on this Earth and a few bullies have hoarded all the resources with official-looking papers of “ownership.” We have to find a better system of divvying up the wealth that was here long before some billionaire called it his own. To ever know peace, we first have to learn to share... or at least stand up to the bullies who think the entire playground is theirs.
Parents also know that if their child brings some toys, let's say Legos, to that playground, they shouldn't have to distribute their toys evenly among all of the children there? Why should their child have to give up their toys just because some other kid didn't think to bring their own? People buy into this kind of crony capitalism because conservatives and oligarchs have so effectively beaten this false dichotomy into their brains: either you have a system where the rich can gather unlimited amounts of wealth at the expense of everyone else and have all the control they can buy or you have Soviet-style breadlines where nobody owns anything and everything is forcibly redistributed by the state. There is no middle ground. Unless they presented the current system as the only alternative nobody would support it.
@@SirPhysics If you were really a parent you would know a playground has play equipment so the kids don't need to bring anything but a snack and bandaids. In the example that was set, the child without toys would hit the kid with the most toys, there would be crying and pushing and your kid would come home with a broken doll and no sweater cuz that's how kids are. Adults, however, should have learned to share by now. Selfish and greedy kids become oligarchs. Or Republicans (except for the college years where the learn about Ayn Rand and think they're libertarians).
The Earth, like a playground, came equipped with everything needed to sustain life. No one was born with any “possessions.” But we were all born into a system that had used violence to predetermine ownership for every last tree and rock. Just ask any indigenous population... the American Indians, the Aborigines, etc. we can’t even leave our mother’s womb without trespassing on private property.
@@toyotaprius79 The last time he was Labor secretary the Dems went "3rd way," brought us NAFTA, and 2 right wing parties ever since. I like Robert Reich, but get the feeling that him educating people about our economic/political system is his penance for being part of the team that sold us out.
Thank you Robert! Keep it up, you are spot on the problems we face today! It’s been heading this direction for a longtime but please keep up the pressure!!
How do you get that message across to voters, especially when voter turnout remains so low by design? In 2010, it was 42% overall, in 2014, it was 37%, and in 2018 it was 50% (36% only for those younger than 30). The margin of victory for the GOP controlling the majority of our country's local, state, and Federal elections is dwarfed by the people who didn't vote. We can't entirely blame voter suppression either. Money in infotainment ensures messages like yours will never become mainstream. This is what I'm struggling with nowadays. My TH-cam/social media algorithm means my feed is populated by videos like Robert Reich whereas another person will have white supremacist content, gaming streams, makeup videos, travel vlogs, comic books, etc. That's not even touching older people who mainly watch pay television, so FOX News has their minds under lock.
@@desimc89 yes, well hell ...Fox News vs. ABC NBC MSNBC CNN PBS LA Times New York Times NPR BBC oh, it hardly seems fair that fox should have so much power
@@questioneverything2 - Add Sinclaire Media to your list on the side of Fox News. They own and dictate programming for hundreds of local news stations across the U.S. Not just local Fox affiliates, but NBC, CBS, and ABC news stations. As for print media, there's the New York Post, News America Marketing , and Storyfull. All owned by the same corporation that operates Fox News: Rupert Murdoch. The same man that also runs News Corp, which publishes Wall Street Journal, CIO Journal, CFO Journal, CMO Journal and international WSJ editions, Wall Street Journal Digital Network, Factiva, DJ Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, Barrons, MarketWatch, Dow Jones Private Market, and the DJX. As you can see, it isn't as one-sided as you make it out to be.
This is exactly why and what Bernie Sanders has been saying since he started his career as a politician and has been battling against corporate cronyism on the political level. Also, I just loved what Bernie Sanders did the other day at a Town Hall meeting, he convinced and prevented a veteran from taking his own life.
That is true and his party did everything to keep it that way. Look at the bum Al Gore making millions off Apple sitting on a board. In the old days you made $50,000 a year sitting on boards. I guess he is special inventing the internet and all. Reality is he is probably being paid off for allowing apple to bypass labor laws and minimum wage by using overseas labor. Thank Trump everyday for saving America.
EqualLandFreePeople Trump doesn’t care about you or America. He is acting in his own best interest by lowing his own future taxes and setting a stage for expanding his own brand. The presidency for him has just been a huge advertising campaign.
EqualLandFreePeople You assume that leaders like Trump are guided by logic but they are not. They are guided by an addiction to greed and fame that will only get worse with age. Look at who financially supports Trump’s campaign and you’ll see I’m right. Both liberal and conservative politicians are corrupt- please don’t be fooled by blind “hero” worship. It is we the people against the rich and powerful. No rich and powerful man is going to save us from people like him.
@@freetrailer4poor reading your statement I was not sure whether to laugh or vomit. I did neither but continue to sit in stunned silence at the absurd statement.
It's even worse. You could show it to those people in a never ending loop and they'd still be unable to wrap their head around it. Some people are just inherently shitty greedy people. We have to come to accept that many of our fellow people are just plain sociopaths/psycopaths. They do not possess any goodwill.
@@TheBubblegum420 I didn't watch this one. I know Robert Reich to have lied in dozens of other videos, so I ensure that people know that fact. He constantly peddles that things are getting worse, which is a blatant falsehood. Literally no demographic in the US is worse now in any measurable way than they were previously.
wealth is not finite, the idea that because someone else has a lot means someone else has little is a patently false statement. it's an argument based in jealousy.
Brian Szymanski bull you vote means nothing but to validate an invalid system period you vote you confirm the system you don’t they sweat they know you are no longer in their control period wake up sucker
How voting republican would change current situation? Just wonder. Build the wall? Stop all immigration? Deport all immigrants that look suspicious and don't praise Trump? Start war? Abolish SS, Medicare? Kick everybody out of Medicaid? Put yellow star on foreheads of infidells?
IncognitoTorpedo what a joke Putin really when Israel gets caught spying on the president and here in Texas we had to take an oath to Israel to get hurricane Harvey flood assistance your worried about Russia that’s silly
Thank you Dr. Reich.. You nailed it, again!! I completely agree with you. As you say, the real divide in America is not left & right.. it is UP & DOWN.
Holy Crap! This is the most insightful assessment and most effective communication for the overall problem we have in this country. I’m sending it to everyone!!!
Mr. Secretary, I must say. This time, you BLEW it Out of the Park, Sir! Nail on the Head, Spot-On, and Bigly. I just wish you'd teach our Dem presidential candidates how to communicate like you do. That would Put the Nail in the Coffin, Sir.. Thank You!
AAAHHH! CLASS WARFARE! MADNESS! ANARCHY! DOGS AND CATS LIVING TOGETHER; MASS HYSTERIA!!! Sorry, just wanted to get it out of the way. Good video; keep fighting the real fight!
Every since I studied PEIS with a focus on Russia at Berkeley in the 90s, I've said that the Capitalism and Democracy can't co-exist. As long as you have a free market, money will rule and you'll never have the 'of and by the people' government our constitution promises. I used to tell my friends that we are the Great Roman empire of the (then) 20th century - and we are about to crumble, just as they did. People thought I was nuts. The thing is, as Americans, we're too cocky, we think our form of government is the end all and be all. It's not. It was another experiment. Any like every form of government before us (including communism), it will fail because of money, power and greed.
We’ve always been screwed. And always will be until we change everything. Like ending representative government and installing direct democracy with the tech we all hold in our hands. It’s a start
@Tom White : Most Americans have been well broken in by their corporate overlords. If you make the mistake of pointing out any of the numerous ways in which ordinary citizens and workers are being exploited and suppressed, from lack of holidays or childcare, to being over policed, to being underpaid, etc , you get Americans parroting back their oppressors talking points at you; dragging yourself up by your bootstraps, paying your own way, nothing to fear from the police and legal system, your bosses deserving all their pay and bonuses while you get a pittance, insurance and pharmaceutical companies needing all their profits and on and on. You have all been well trained. The top 1% don't even have to make their own case, you all are happy to do it for them.
Andrew Yang (and his base) bases his platform off of a singular idea that is based on well known, discussed, documented, observable, measurable economic fallacies. It's absolutely unreal that people can take someone seriously who literally bases their main platform on something that isn't just easily refuted, but has historically been already proven to be a false premise. Just google the Luddite Fallacy. If you don't get it after reading up, then you might be stupid.
I'm neither left or right but I try to seek rightiousnes. To encourage and support rightiousnes in the deeds of others and I believe that effort could save the republic. Take away left and right rehtoric and we aren't as far apart as we think or have been made to feel.
@@TheBubblegum420 I hope so, Brent, but even though in WA we think of ourselves as progressive, we are marbled to the bone with regressives, as are nearly all blue states.
@Blizard fan I do find myself less enthusiastic about Bernie. I feel like his heart is in the right place but for all his awesome ideas there's some non starters in there.
@Blizard fan First, Bernie is for a Comprehesive Immigration Policy. He talks extensively about it and has for a long time. Second, Are you willing to pay for the Military Contractor CEO's $$$ million dollar paychecks and taxpayer costs to continue bombing and mining exploitation of the immigrant's countries just to feed the 1% and drives the immigrants to the U.S.?
Isn't it sad you have to vote the right people into office in order for the system to work? I would say a system is broken if that's the case. Fight the wealthy, that's how you really win.
@Blizard fan if you want to stop illegal immigration, you have to punish those who gives them jobs. That is how illegal work was eradicated in Holland. An owner of a restaurant that has a unregistered worker faces a fine of eu 50.000 - nobody san afford that, so they stopped with hiring people like that in no time. Also, because economy needs foreign workers, you have to make it easier for people to get to the country legally, and give them options to stay temporarily, just for seasonal work, and to build time after which they can "earn" right to stay and live in usa, the country tat is made and build by immigrants :)))
Yep, this is the straight dope. The game is "Oligarchy vs. Democracy" now. Kudos to Reich and especially his video production team on these recent bit. Just fantastic!
You are giving too much personal credit to Trump’s intelligence and abilities. Have you read The Foundations of Geopolitics by Aleksandr Dugin? What you are describing is the Russian playbook for the U.S. He is being guided by someone in these directions. Trump does not the intelligence, focus, and strength of purpose to carry this out on a day to day basis. I do agree with oligarchy versus democracy.
Thank you Mr. Reich, you make so much sense. How many of us that have worked from age 17, sometimes 2 to 3 jobs, served this country for 20 years, and are now left behind. Unable to retire, and fed up with way this country is going. Yes, I will vote DEMOCRAT, and I will continue to fight for Democracy until the day I die as will you. Thanks.
You can't just vote Democrat and hope for the best. Lots of Democrat politicians are neoliberals. They love huge corporations and have, by and large, swallowed the lies of Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand. Mostly though, these folks are baby boomers, but there are some among other generations as well. Just not as many. Pelosi, Schumer, the Clintons, Mayor Pete, Biden, Beto, well, most of the pols in Washington, are neoliberals. Not any blue will do.
@Blizard fan it's not just the false narrative of neoliberal economics either. Many Dems are corrupt too. Kamala the phony pulled her investigation into Steve Mnuchin's SunTrust mortgage company even though counsel in the Cali AG's office found 1000 cases of fraud and was only halfway through the paperwork. Mnuchin donated to her campaign She claims to have smoked weed in college and how many weed smokers is she responsible for jailing as a prosecutor? Hypocrite as well. Elizabeth Warren made a name for herself barking at Wall Street CEOs but how effective has her "shame only campaign" been in uncovering fraud at the financial institutions? She did start the CFPB which HAS done some good, so I'll give her credit for that. Not Obama, nor Eric Holder went after Wall Street fraud once in office. Obama bailed on the public option when he didn't have to and violated the US Constitution when he drone striked a US citizen on foreign soil because he was in the company of alleged terrorists. Thought he'd be better on civil rights. Nobel peace prize winning, drone striker and deporter in Chief. Also a huge corporatist neoliberal. I could go on but I don't want to, it's too heartbreaking.
@@lordunhold5381 feel free to link some evidence how he's a hypocrite, unless of course its just a baseless opinion from someone who prefers alternative facts and feelings. :p
Outstanding. You got my letter! I'm sure I had no influence, probably not enough you would even remember it. But I knew you had it in you to begin with. Thank you.
You didnt get the point of the video. Its not a liberal v. Conservative issue. If you side left, you need to stop looking at those on the conservative side as desgenerate but as equally human. Thats where we'll find connection
There's a joke here in the UK: A Tory, a Working Man and an Immigrant are having tea. The Tory takes nine of the ten digestives on the plate, and says to the Working Man, "Watch out, mate, that Immigrant's after your biscuit".
Couldn't have said this better myself. I believe our Democracy is at risk against the 1% Oligarchy. Robert Reich is 100% correct. Lets Save our Country, I Love it.
Until corporate America is severed from the daily workings of our government , until lobbyism is outlawed and 'K' street burned to the ground , until political donations both corporate and private are halted , ALL woes which plauge our people and nation shall go on and on and on .
Mark Murphy We need a constitutional amendment that defines a ‘person’, for the purposes of political speech, as a human being, and not a for-profit corporation nor an artificial intelligence.
Thank You! You always call it like it is. Simplifying the divided-mess down to its core truth goes a long way towards uniting us, amplifying our Voice - Let's Roar!
The Real Political Battle in America! That is the real political battle and know your talking about it good! Both parties are joined at the hip to the Oligarchy!
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That smart video you create Robert Reich .😉😉😉
I can’t agree. If you can bankrupt a casino you’re not smart. Trump currently enjoys a cult of personality and is serving the purpose of the truly rich.
@@_robustus_ I would have to agree. Trump is a parrot, he sees something working so he repeats it, people tells him things so he repeats it. he keeps repeating and repeating because he has no critical thinking, no thinking of consequence.
Mr. Secretary, I must say. This time, you BLEW it Out of the Park, Sir! Nail on the Head, Spot-On, and Bigly. I just wish you'd teach our Dem presidential candidates how to communicate like you do. That would Put the Nail in the Coffin, Sir.. Thank You!
Stop bully me Robustus you not understand or not watch the video you MAGA or Trump supporter you focused on far Right you not smart asshole.
The old divide & conquer still works. It's time to come together & say ENOUGH.
You are exactly right!
Yes It's Time To Eat The Rich!
But What Seasonings Pair Best With Their Tuff Flesh?
AndrewYang 2020
@mister.T Jr , not really. Andrew Yang is reaching across the aisle and doesn't play identity politics. What's wrong with taking good ideas and building on top of them? This isn't sports. Or competition. This is our Rebulic and until we start treating it as such we all lose, except those already controlling the power and wealth.
He wants to work together to fix root causes to our problems, leaving no one out. How is that divide and conquer?
Old politics out in with the new.
It's not right, it's not left, it's forward.
#yang2020
@mister.T Jr , I appreciate that, but he's here now so I'm supporting him now. The change needs to start somewhere. I see that in him. Regardless of how far he goes, he's already got the discussions on the table that are necessary to be had. I will keep supporting him to help get more recognition to the fact we need new ideas for a new world.
Thank you for framing the conversation away from the tired party lines...It's a conversation I've never been a part of. When the reality is haves vs. have nots.
AndrewYang 2020
@Michael Kahr So, I'm curious. Please explain the evidence that an economy with near record low unemployment and underemployment, the highest pay levels for ordinary workers ever achieved in history - among the highest in the world (the "stagnation" myth having been long debunked), poverty at levels not seen in nearly 30 years and less than half a percentage point above the lowest ever recorded and the standard of living across every income quintile materially improving ... "cannot work anymore?" Even if the "extreme wealth divide" were not massively overblown (to the point of being mostly fictional), isn't the real objective to make everyone better off regardless of how any articular group is doing better ... which is objectively the case? Just askin'?
FletchforFreedom
so, if the extreme wealth divide is mostly fiction, then we can audit all oligarchs, here and now, and if we find any revenue that came from the 99 %, and remove it from their possession, that we would not find enough revenue to repair more than 1% of the chronic damages that the 99% endure???!!!
FletchforFreedom
highest pay levels, when the right opposed minimum wage of $15/hour?
an oilman running the EPA? a charter school privateer raiding the public school finances? gutting of regulations that force companies to be safe? adding, or attempting to add the most odious clauses of the old trans Pacific Asian treaty to a reworked NAFTA?( essentially allowing accused violators to shrug off most legal actions against them)?
FletchforFreedom
too many young workers having to hold two jobs, and still be unable to move out, let alone make inroads on student debt. how will you grow GDP, let alone happiness like that? or future taxable income for the government? and how do we keep oligarchs out of government, when his cabinet( POS THAT IT IS) is worth 4.3 BILLION?
I'll give him a half hall pass on China. they were ripping us off. but the tariffs probably sunk his economy. and, with the Chinese having bailed us out partially during '09, will they bail out the people that they are currently in a trade war with?
Yes, I want to live in a world with the basic principles Robert describes !
Please Google Andrew Yang. Mr. Reich's ideas line up so close with Yang's. I'm really surprised he doesn't back him. But time will tell.
I agree completely with your comment and so does most of America.
Teresa you beat me to it! Yang fits so much of this. Democracy dollars to deal with money in Washington and UBI for the failing safety net. Facts and Numbers with appropriate framing to counter the us vs them that Trump brings into the conversation.
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I was kind of with you, Up UNTIL That “Chinaman” comment!!! That’s a Racist thing to Call AN AMERICAN BORN CITIZEN!!!
#yang2020
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Thank you for your videos. They give me hope that enough will listen and understand what’s really going on.
I absolutely feel the same way.
Yes, I think you just said what we are all struggling to put into words . Thank you!
Every parent, right or left, knows what they’d do if they took their child to a playground and that child hoarded most of the toys on the playground even though they couldn’t possibly play with them all at once. They’d demand that their child choose the toys they wanted to play with right then, and to relinquish the rest for others to enjoy. There are 7 BILLION people on this Earth and a few bullies have hoarded all the resources with official-looking papers of “ownership.” We have to find a better system of divvying up the wealth that was here long before some billionaire called it his own. To ever know peace, we first have to learn to share... or at least stand up to the bullies who think the entire playground is theirs.
Parents also know that if their child brings some toys, let's say Legos, to that playground, they shouldn't have to distribute their toys evenly among all of the children there? Why should their child have to give up their toys just because some other kid didn't think to bring their own?
People buy into this kind of crony capitalism because conservatives and oligarchs have so effectively beaten this false dichotomy into their brains: either you have a system where the rich can gather unlimited amounts of wealth at the expense of everyone else and have all the control they can buy or you have Soviet-style breadlines where nobody owns anything and everything is forcibly redistributed by the state. There is no middle ground. Unless they presented the current system as the only alternative nobody would support it.
@@SirPhysics
If you were really a parent you would know a playground has play equipment so the kids don't need to bring anything but a snack and bandaids. In the example that was set, the child without toys would hit the kid with the most toys, there would be crying and pushing and your kid would come home with a broken doll and no sweater cuz that's how kids are.
Adults, however, should have learned to share by now. Selfish and greedy kids become oligarchs.
Or Republicans (except for the college years where the learn about Ayn Rand and think they're libertarians).
The Earth, like a playground, came equipped with everything needed to sustain life. No one was born with any “possessions.” But we were all born into a system that had used violence to predetermine ownership for every last tree and rock. Just ask any indigenous population... the American Indians, the Aborigines, etc. we can’t even leave our mother’s womb without trespassing on private property.
Thanks for this analogy. I'm gonna steal it just so you know.
@@daedum3177 It's really beautiful, isn't it? Thanks, HH!
First to say thank you for teaching us all! You're an American treasure!
Indeed... we need more pundits who see so clearly and speak so eloquently.
I wonder if he'll become the US Labour secretary again.
@@toyotaprius79 The last time he was Labor secretary the Dems went "3rd way," brought us NAFTA, and 2 right wing parties ever since. I like Robert Reich, but get the feeling that him educating people about our economic/political system is his penance for being part of the team that sold us out.
@@chuckwilliams6261 If you think NAFTA was bad, then you don't actually care about or understand economics.
@@IWLDELJ Share holders win/ working people lose in the race to the bottom.
Thank you Robert! Keep it up, you are spot on the problems we face today! It’s been heading this direction for a longtime but please keep up the pressure!!
This is exactly what Bernie represents and what he has been fighting his entire life. Money out of politics should be our number one goal.
How do you get that message across to voters, especially when voter turnout remains so low by design? In 2010, it was 42% overall, in 2014, it was 37%, and in 2018 it was 50% (36% only for those younger than 30). The margin of victory for the GOP controlling the majority of our country's local, state, and Federal elections is dwarfed by the people who didn't vote. We can't entirely blame voter suppression either.
Money in infotainment ensures messages like yours will never become mainstream.
This is what I'm struggling with nowadays. My TH-cam/social media algorithm means my feed is populated by videos like Robert Reich whereas another person will have white supremacist content, gaming streams, makeup videos, travel vlogs, comic books, etc. That's not even touching older people who mainly watch pay television, so FOX News has their minds under lock.
Yeah it shouldn't be very expensive for the new green deal or socialized Medicare or free higher education and forgiving student loans.
@@desimc89 yes, well hell ...Fox News vs. ABC NBC MSNBC CNN PBS LA Times New York Times NPR BBC oh, it hardly seems fair that fox should have so much power
@@questioneverything2 - Add Sinclaire Media to your list on the side of Fox News. They own and dictate programming for hundreds of local news stations across the U.S. Not just local Fox affiliates, but NBC, CBS, and ABC news stations. As for print media, there's the New York Post, News America Marketing , and Storyfull. All owned by the same corporation that operates Fox News: Rupert Murdoch. The same man that also runs News Corp, which publishes Wall Street Journal, CIO Journal, CFO Journal, CMO Journal and international WSJ editions, Wall Street Journal Digital Network, Factiva, DJ Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, Barrons, MarketWatch, Dow Jones Private Market, and the DJX.
As you can see, it isn't as one-sided as you make it out to be.
maybe Chinese Communist money out of the Bidens should also be a goal.
This is exactly why and what Bernie Sanders has been saying since he started his career as a politician and has been battling against corporate cronyism on the political level.
Also, I just loved what Bernie Sanders did the other day at a Town Hall meeting, he convinced and prevented a veteran from taking his own life.
20+ years ago George Carlin addressed the "Owners" of this country and now we're just starting to get it.
That is true and his party did everything to keep it that way. Look at the bum Al Gore making millions off Apple sitting on a board. In the old days you made $50,000 a year sitting on boards. I guess he is special inventing the internet and all. Reality is he is probably being paid off for allowing apple to bypass labor laws and minimum wage by using overseas labor. Thank Trump everyday for saving America.
EqualLandFreePeople Trump doesn’t care about you or America. He is acting in his own best interest by lowing his own future taxes and setting a stage for expanding his own brand. The presidency for him has just been a huge advertising campaign.
@@Baker.Matthew You are mistaken. Everything he does is for the benefit of the U.S.. He knows he is old and any more money does not matter.
EqualLandFreePeople You assume that leaders like Trump are guided by logic but they are not. They are guided by an addiction to greed and fame that will only get worse with age. Look at who financially supports Trump’s campaign and you’ll see I’m right. Both liberal and conservative politicians are corrupt- please don’t be fooled by blind “hero” worship. It is we the people against the rich and powerful. No rich and powerful man is going to save us from people like him.
@@freetrailer4poor reading your statement I was not sure whether to laugh or vomit. I did neither but continue to sit in stunned silence at the absurd statement.
It's so sad that the people that need to see this video never will, because they don't want to change their minds.
It's even worse. You could show it to those people in a never ending loop and they'd still be unable to wrap their head around it. Some people are just inherently shitty greedy people. We have to come to accept that many of our fellow people are just plain sociopaths/psycopaths. They do not possess any goodwill.
The people who see this video tend to be idiots that believe the provably false horse shit this guy peddles.
Trump supporters
Tell me ONE LIE in this video
@@TheBubblegum420 I didn't watch this one. I know Robert Reich to have lied in dozens of other videos, so I ensure that people know that fact.
He constantly peddles that things are getting worse, which is a blatant falsehood. Literally no demographic in the US is worse now in any measurable way than they were previously.
safer to divide and conquer. with both wings are tearing into each other. the distractors get away with the wealth.
cmdraftbrn Exactly.
wealth is not finite, the idea that because someone else has a lot means someone else has little is a patently false statement. it's an argument based in jealousy.
Thank you for creating these informative videos. Keep up the good work you're doing, it's appreciated.
Remember to vote to change the current situation in the country. If you don't vote then don't complain.
So vote republican
Brian Szymanski bull you vote means nothing but to validate an invalid system period you vote you confirm the system you don’t they sweat they know you are no longer in their control period wake up sucker
How voting republican would change current situation? Just wonder. Build the wall? Stop all immigration? Deport all immigrants that look suspicious and don't praise Trump? Start war? Abolish SS, Medicare? Kick everybody out of Medicaid? Put yellow star on foreheads of infidells?
@@jocelynamtower9508 You're a troll. How much does Putin pay you to try to get Americans to not vote?
IncognitoTorpedo what a joke Putin really when Israel gets caught spying on the president and here in Texas we had to take an oath to Israel to get hurricane Harvey flood assistance your worried about Russia that’s silly
YOU FORGOT TO URGE VOTING... Yet it was an excellent video.
He does urge voting, when mentioning fighting against voter suppression.
This should be the most watched channel on TH-cam.
Keep up the good work!
I like how sound your arguments are. Why couldn't we get you to run for president? It's not too late!
Amen! I like him too.
I LOVE THE IDEA! He's very knowledgeable and has a dignified disposition. President Robert Reich has a nice ring to it also.
Thank you Dr. Reich.. You nailed it, again!! I completely agree with you. As you say, the real divide in America is not left & right.. it is UP & DOWN.
Looks like Jeff Bezos disliked this.
He did just recently lose 3 billion dollars in tax cuts, he earned that money as payment for making money. It was his birthright dammit!
All those numbers are doctored.
Holy Crap! This is the most insightful assessment and most effective communication for the overall problem we have in this country. I’m sending it to everyone!!!
Thanks, Robert right on point as usual. People just aren't seeing the big picture of Oligarchy vs. Democracy.
Americans will still vote Trump back in
Mr. Secretary, I must say. This time, you BLEW it Out of the Park, Sir! Nail on the Head, Spot-On, and Bigly. I just wish you'd teach our Dem presidential candidates how to communicate like you do. That would Put the Nail in the Coffin, Sir.. Thank You!
Pete Buttigieg does exactly that. Take time to watch and follow him. He was the only calm, sensible and articulate candidate in all of the debates.
@@DJames-qw8rk
And yet we have no idea what the hell he thinks.
AAAHHH! CLASS WARFARE! MADNESS! ANARCHY! DOGS AND CATS LIVING TOGETHER; MASS HYSTERIA!!!
Sorry, just wanted to get it out of the way.
Good video; keep fighting the real fight!
Hee hee hee hee hee! 👻
Every since I studied PEIS with a focus on Russia at Berkeley in the 90s, I've said that the Capitalism and Democracy can't co-exist. As long as you have a free market, money will rule and you'll never have the 'of and by the people' government our constitution promises. I used to tell my friends that we are the Great Roman empire of the (then) 20th century - and we are about to crumble, just as they did. People thought I was nuts. The thing is, as Americans, we're too cocky, we think our form of government is the end all and be all. It's not. It was another experiment. Any like every form of government before us (including communism), it will fail because of money, power and greed.
In other words...us workin people are screwed.
NOT if you #VOTE!! #BernieSanders2020 MUST be #POTUS46!!
We’ve always been screwed. And always will be until we change everything. Like ending representative government and installing direct democracy with the tech we all hold in our hands. It’s a start
@Tom White :
Most Americans have been well broken in by their corporate overlords.
If you make the mistake of pointing out any of the numerous ways in which ordinary citizens and workers are being exploited and suppressed, from lack of holidays or childcare, to being over policed, to being underpaid, etc , you get Americans parroting back their oppressors talking points at you; dragging yourself up by your bootstraps, paying your own way, nothing to fear from the police and legal system, your bosses deserving all their pay and bonuses while you get a pittance, insurance and pharmaceutical companies needing all their profits and on and on.
You have all been well trained. The top 1% don't even have to make their own case, you all are happy to do it for them.
Always refreshing to learn and be confident during these pivotal times in politics. Love you Sir!
I agree!!
Andrew Yang... It's not left, it's not right - it's forward
It's neat rhetoric, but can't happen with the "right" struggling by hook _and_ crook to cripple the Left.
Good for you.
@Vox Populi UBI is opted in. It can't be a worse deal for someone by definition.
Andrew Yang (and his base) bases his platform off of a singular idea that is based on well known, discussed, documented, observable, measurable economic fallacies. It's absolutely unreal that people can take someone seriously who literally bases their main platform on something that isn't just easily refuted, but has historically been already proven to be a false premise.
Just google the Luddite Fallacy. If you don't get it after reading up, then you might be stupid.
I'm neither left or right but I try to seek rightiousnes. To encourage and support rightiousnes in the deeds of others and I believe that effort could save the republic. Take away left and right rehtoric and we aren't as far apart as we think or have been made to feel.
As per Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, John Locke, Reich. Yes, it all makes sense. We must hang together or the oligarchs will hang us separately.
Your videos are soooooo necessary ! ! ! Thank you Professor Bobby ! ! !
This divide is not just in the United States. I see a similar divide in Canada, and I suspect it's in the UK too.
Not In bc Canada ! It’s very progressive here !
@@TheBubblegum420 I hope so, Brent, but even though in WA we think of ourselves as progressive, we are marbled to the bone with regressives, as are nearly all blue states.
Thanks for all of the truly enlightening videos, Robert. I ALWAYS learn something!
It ALL boils down to voting for the best candidate to get all of these things done: BERNIE SANDERS 2020!!!
@Blizard fan
That's NOT his idea; only the "right" wing's predictable mischaracterization of it.
@Blizard fan I do find myself less enthusiastic about Bernie. I feel like his heart is in the right place but for all his awesome ideas there's some non starters in there.
@Blizard fan First, Bernie is for a Comprehesive Immigration Policy. He talks extensively about it and has for a long time. Second, Are you willing to pay for the Military Contractor CEO's $$$ million dollar paychecks and taxpayer costs to continue bombing and mining exploitation of the immigrant's countries just to feed the 1% and drives the immigrants to the U.S.?
Isn't it sad you have to vote the right people into office in order for the system to work? I would say a system is broken if that's the case. Fight the wealthy, that's how you really win.
@Blizard fan if you want to stop illegal immigration, you have to punish those who gives them jobs. That is how illegal work was eradicated in Holland. An owner of a restaurant that has a unregistered worker faces a fine of eu 50.000 - nobody san afford that, so they stopped with hiring people like that in no time.
Also, because economy needs foreign workers, you have to make it easier for people to get to the country legally, and give them options to stay temporarily, just for seasonal work, and to build time after which they can "earn" right to stay and live in usa, the country tat is made and build by immigrants :)))
Yep, this is the straight dope. The game is "Oligarchy vs. Democracy" now.
Kudos to Reich and especially his video production team on these recent bit. Just fantastic!
Run for president Robert after Bernie has served his two terms
Thank God neither will ever happen!
FletchforFreedom god doesn’t exist
@@MrMjdc There is several orders of magnitude more evidence of God than of a socialist who is not a complete moron.
Sadly - very true and very well researched document. Your views are spot-on and your message is very powerful.
Sounds like Andrew YANG's video and about Yang's policies.
Good job Robert Reich :)
always great to see you cover these important topics so fittingly, clearly and honestly.
Lot's of respect
Good! Onli one dislike in a political video😁. Wonderful video anyway
It's got to be a record for a political video on TH-cam. Makes you think this man has a sound argument.
You hit it on the head again. Thank you Robert.
Media is a major problem. Lately i get to thinking maybe its time to reduce the servers. Maybe it's time to go to the mechanics of the problems.
Reduce media outlets? They are dropping like flies as we speak.
This is the most accurate 5 mins on the internet right now. Hands down
You are giving too much personal credit to Trump’s intelligence and abilities. Have you read The Foundations of Geopolitics by Aleksandr Dugin? What you are describing is the Russian playbook for the U.S. He is being guided by someone in these directions. Trump does not the intelligence, focus, and strength of purpose to carry this out on a day to day basis. I do agree with oligarchy versus democracy.
You are so spot on! Thank you Mr Reich!!!
Thank you Mr. Reich, you make so much sense. How many of us that have worked from age 17, sometimes 2 to 3 jobs, served this country for 20 years, and are now left behind. Unable to retire, and fed up with way this country is going. Yes, I will vote DEMOCRAT, and I will continue to fight for Democracy until the day I die as will you. Thanks.
You can't just vote Democrat and hope for the best. Lots of Democrat politicians are neoliberals. They love huge corporations and have, by and large, swallowed the lies of Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand. Mostly though, these folks are baby boomers, but there are some among other generations as well. Just not as many. Pelosi, Schumer, the Clintons, Mayor Pete, Biden, Beto, well, most of the pols in Washington, are neoliberals.
Not any blue will do.
@Blizard fan it's not just the false narrative of neoliberal economics either. Many Dems are corrupt too. Kamala the phony pulled her investigation into Steve Mnuchin's SunTrust mortgage company even though counsel in the Cali AG's office found 1000 cases of fraud and was only halfway through the paperwork. Mnuchin donated to her campaign She claims to have smoked weed in college and how many weed smokers is she responsible for jailing as a prosecutor? Hypocrite as well. Elizabeth Warren made a name for herself barking at Wall Street CEOs but how effective has her "shame only campaign" been in uncovering fraud at the financial institutions? She did start the CFPB which HAS done some good, so I'll give her credit for that. Not Obama, nor Eric Holder went after Wall Street fraud once in office. Obama bailed on the public option when he didn't have to and violated the US Constitution when he drone striked a US citizen on foreign soil because he was in the company of alleged terrorists. Thought he'd be better on civil rights. Nobel peace prize winning, drone striker and deporter in Chief. Also a huge corporatist neoliberal.
I could go on but I don't want to, it's too heartbreaking.
Anthony Twohill So true. Just as many Dems in the pocket of corporate America as Republicans.
Spot on!
Have to share!!
A+
Another awesome video from our explainer in chief! This is the perfect video to share with everyone!
The divide is greedy big cooperation .and the evangelical.
Great video... Thank you
And theres only one old jewish guy running for president that would fight the oligarchy
And he is a total hypocrat
@@lordunhold5381 feel free to link some evidence how he's a hypocrite, unless of course its just a baseless opinion from someone who prefers alternative facts and feelings. :p
Add one young white/Polynesian/Asian woman whose fight vs. oligarchy makes Bernie look weak. Tulsi 2020
@@rohjo Agreed, I luv Tulsi too. Can't do much about anything else till we take on the military industrial complex. And shes Hawaiian~
...Elizabeth Warren
Thanks again Richard. You explain the situation so well.. We are definitely being played.
Thank you Mr. Riech as always.
You literally just described the Bernie Sanders campaign. I was half expecting an endorsement at the end. Why not endorse him?
Outstanding. You got my letter! I'm sure I had no influence, probably not enough you would even remember it. But I knew you had it in you to begin with. Thank you.
*After watching this... Please TH-cam... Study finds key difference in conservative brains*
They live in fear
You didnt get the point of the video. Its not a liberal v. Conservative issue. If you side left, you need to stop looking at those on the conservative side as desgenerate but as equally human. Thats where we'll find connection
This was so informative and important to know! Thank you,sir!
This IS exactly why I LUV Elizabeth Warren....she's my hero!!
totally admire you -- keeping us informed and thinking
There's a joke here in the UK: A Tory, a Working Man and an Immigrant are having tea. The Tory takes nine of the ten digestives on the plate, and says to the Working Man, "Watch out, mate, that Immigrant's after your biscuit".
I have learned so much from you Prof Reich, thank you so much indeed. Wade Goodwin, The FAIR Digest, South Africa
A very fresh voice of reasoning and truth plus logic. Thank you.
I listen to all of your videos, Professor Reich, and I tell others to listen too. Thank you for all the valuable information!
As usual you are spot on . thank you for not giving up in telling it like it is. Keep up the good work.
As always RR is right on the money, thank you Professor Reich
You have nailed it, sir. Thank you.
Couldn't have said this better myself. I believe our Democracy is at risk against the 1% Oligarchy. Robert Reich is 100% correct. Lets Save our Country, I Love it.
I sensed this when young. Now that I am in my twilight years, the situation has become utterly intolerable !
Amazing video! Thanks Robert Reich for his resilience in fighting for this democracy and what it stands for.
United we stand, 99%!
Excellent video! Right on point. Exactly what all American voters need to hear. Thank you!
Nicely and simply put! I agree.
Until corporate America is severed from the daily workings of our government , until lobbyism is outlawed and 'K' street burned to the ground , until political donations both corporate and private are halted , ALL woes which plauge our people and nation shall go on and on and on .
Mark Murphy We need a constitutional amendment that defines a ‘person’, for the purposes of political speech, as a human being, and not a for-profit corporation nor an artificial intelligence.
Extremely good and illuminating! Mr. Reich should have a Nobel Prize in popularizing - in making complicated stuff available to everyone.
Brilliant! Thank you Prof. Reich.
Thank you for your video. Very enlightening and I agree.
Very well said sir!
Thank You! You always call it like it is. Simplifying the divided-mess down to its core truth goes a long way towards uniting us, amplifying our Voice - Let's Roar!
Excellent video.
Well spoken thanks.
Robert riech spitting some truth out here, the first step to solving a problem is recognizing there is one
This is excellent
Thank you Mr. Reich. As always, you are spot on with the big picture.
The Real Political Battle in America! That is the real political battle and know your talking about it good! Both parties are joined at the hip to the Oligarchy!
Thank you for all of your work. I learn so much from you.
great video, thank you so much, shared. you rock!
Thank you very much for the video.
Thanks for your information about politics.
I just love you Robert Reich!!! Keep educating my friend!
Excellent analysis, Mr. Reich.
You nailed it!
Well said !!
Great stuff...
Thank you Mr. Reich for your concise short explanations. What would we do without you?
Thank you for being the voice of reason. We have a mountain to climb. Your voice is helping loyal Americans find our way up.
Thank you.
I appreciate you very much !
Muy bueno!!!
This is an important message for any western democracy.
Thank you robert reich for your continuing education of all of us! Love your videos!!