We Asked Trump Voters Who They Blame for America's Problems | Ft. John Russell
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- Oliver Anthony became a viral sensation with Rich Men North of Richmond. We sent @heyjohnrussell to an Oliver Anthony concert in Michigan to find out why the song still resonates. The answer tells a bigger story about what people want in this election-and for this country.
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"The biggest con in this country is people making millions of dollars a year convincing people making $50,000 a year that people making $10,000 a year are the problem" - Brian Tyler Cohen (misattributed)
It’s a common saying. But yeah, BTC is the goat 🐐
@@marthastewartschowchow I was unsure, and heard it there first and cannot find anything about it's origin. 😅
As we ignore BTC is in his posh haircut and custom tailored suit. He says decent stuff, but like sheesh man just dress like us plebeians no need to be so preppy
I said this back in the 80s when I was just a little kid watching Reaganomics take place
For those wondering, a million dollars a year is around $2,739.73 a day, $50,000 a year is about 136.99 a day, and $10,000 a year is about $27.40 a day.
Nobody gets more free money from the govt. than billionaires
End _ALL_ welfare
Says no data ever.
And refugees!
@@Redditor6079you’re openly supporting a corrupt billionaire for president who is supported by the wealthiest man on earth. And you still find it in your heart to blame immigrants for your bad life.
@@cdevidal remember that you said that if you ever have to apply for unemployment to not lose your house, or when you get too old to work, or if you become disabled so you can't work and need Medicaid.
Crazy that Trump was bitching about the fact that he does NOT like to pay overtime to workers while hourly workers were clapping to him🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
That's double think for you!
As long as he constantly declares that he hates the same people, things and ideas that they do and they know he will dedicate his administration to the dismantling, criminalization and oppression of these people, things and ideas, they’ll be blind to the ways that they, themselves will be screwed over by him.
Trump got a 17 million dollar refund and has not paid tax’s in years
Well, the memo you missed is that they are racist and homophobic bigots. It all makes sense when you add those things together.
Won't be long now. Humanity will take a head dive right into the crapper...
the cognitive dissonance in people correctly identifying the issue, rich people in power, then proceed to think the con man billionaire will fix it....
Mind blowing...
Or a rich woman north of Richmond... she's worth 3 mil
🤯🤯🤯
that’s a lot of the working class for you… likely more of the working class voted for Trump than Hillary…
Exactly. And not only a con man billionaire but a con man billionaire with a long history of exploiting the working class by not paying his employees and contractors.
I'm an amputee cancer survivor with crippling depression. Nobody will hire me. So .... tell me again how my situation is *temporary*?
God bless you am i am glad you survived ! I understand your depression i have nothing else besides understanding
@@tiamarie1226 Thank you for your kind words and your understanding. Those things are in short supply these days, sadly. All the best to you ---
Glad you survived! Welfare sometime has a negative connotation and is used to shame people, but social programs should be seen as a good thing. What's shameful is a country were children, elderlies, sick people, etc. struggle to survive.
I work in healthcare. Anyone of us could be in your situation at any point. I would hope the people of this nation would support anyone in your situation. I vote for leaders who I think will align with my values.
@@petiteange08 Believe me, I'd rather be able-bodied and able-minded and not need to be on disability. I like to tell folks, "there but for fortune may go you or I." (Phil Ochs song ... check it out.) But when Herr Drumpf says that disabled folks should just *die* and folks do *not* stand up against that ... geez ... I'm honestly scared.
"Elon is screwing us" says the guy wearing a Trump t-shirt. 😒
He probably cheered when Elon showed up at Trump's rally.
Some Americans can connect the dots that the ultra rich 1% are root of the problems but also suffer cognitive dissonance.
He's another ignorant that doesn't understand Trump and Elon are the same ilk.
He’s almost there.
Elon is screwing us.
The guy wearing the Trump shirt and blaming Musk, who supports Trump, is a result of this country becoming increasingly idiotic.
I mean, it is dumb to support trump, but hating Musk is still fair. If I didn’t like a billionaire but they supported someone I supported, I’d still fuckin hate that billionaire.
@@aguyontheinternet8436 Yeah, I guess it's like, well, at least that person isn't *too* lost in the sauce, but they are still kinda stupid for not recognising the cognitive dissonance regarding it, like another person in the comments said.
What's idiotic is you saying a guy can't just not like Elon but like Trump.
Ya but Trump will do anything not to pay workers he hired so Trump is what the working class needs.
@@Anth888ya They are one in the same. You're the idiot.
John Russell does the best interviews. He's great at making people feel comfortable enough to be truthful with him whether he agrees with them or not.
The mullet does a lot for initial impressions.
"The upper class: keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class: pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there...just to scare the shit out of the middle class." -George Carlin
Greenspan: "USA can pay any debt because it can always print money"
At the federal level, Congress issues NEW CURRENCY every time it spends. State and local level uses tax revenue to pay for things.
Not 'upper class' or 'middle class' -
It's Executive class and Labor class.
What is middle class? You will be amazed that what you call middle class is actually top 80% of the income distribution
@@amzarnacht6710is owners and workers. Upper management still working class
It was always like this. Medieval nobility didn't pay taxes.
"Obese milking welfare"
First thought that came to mind was corporate welfare.
except that's not what he was saying... actually, he doesn't know what he was saying because the song is so vague it could be about anything you *wanted* it to be about... which is why it's a perfect right-wing song and most left-wingers just kind of "huh?" and moved on.
Me too. I heard as as an allegory for bloated pockets. Kinda like the reverse of the fat Buddha. He's represented as fat to symbolize being full of goodness with plenty to share.
End _ALL_ welfare
@@cdevidal why do you hate poor people?
@@adam346 I'm aware of his thoughts on the line. But most welfare I've experienced, or had a hand in speaking about has been corporate welfare.
Just because the artist envisioned one position, doesn't mean it can't be interpreted another way. That's the great thing about art.
7:35 guy in the "not my first rodeo" white t-shirt is SPOT ON in his response saying "I will never punch down, if there is a problem it's from above. The people on Welfare, most of those people lost their way a long time ago and everyone is just so separated that I don't know if we can ever get back from being divided from ourselves, and for what cause?"
Right on man
Yes! I was about to write the same comment. You saved me some time.
He's so spot on with what he said but he's still voting for someone (Trump) antithetical to what he's saying. He's voting for someone who explicitly blames the people below him (punches down) and doesn't even hide it too. He's voting for a literal convicted felon (Trump the felon) while saying he said he wants someone tough on crime.
It's upsetting that he is so well spoken but can't see the forest for the trees.
Awesome message.
And his answer is to vote for a career criminal that was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. 😂
I was blown away by his statement Ngl lol
Two generations of declining public education has brought us here.
The rich learned in the 60's what happens when the poor are able to get the same education as the rich.
The poor use that knowledge to better the conditions of other poors. Which makes it harder for the already rich to keep exploiting poor people.
So the rich decided to turn education into a debt trap to keep the poors that make it through college in their place.
Yup wait until we go to all private school all trying to indoctrinate their own level of BS into children. God help us all.
And public education (teachers, staff, board members) is overwhelmingly funded and run by what kind of voters?
@@paulpease8254 also we aren't allowed to educate each other on platforms owned by corporate interests.
@@cdevidal Public education is funded by the state with some federal money. Not sure where you are going with the voter question. If you want to push that funding, or lack of funding, then we can discuss which party is underfunding public education in favor of 'school choice' (giving tax dollars to private corporations).
The guy who agreed to the motion that it would take a crime boss to get out of the system didn't realize that crime bosses reformed the system to their advantage when they became corporate bosses. That way you can legitimately be a criminal and it's ok
Like they used to say, “The best way to rob a bank is to own one.”
Trump is one of the very rich men north of Richmond. But the people fall for his lies.
So is she. She's worth 3 million, supported by billionaires. Oliver's song was about all politicians, including her.
If he reduces the power and reach of Washington DC that will increase the power and reach of each and every private individual in the country, whether rich or poor, relative to the bureaucratic machine.
Same with Biden and Kamala
@@cdevidal Hilarious. And here one can clearly see the problem with the "all politicians are bad" narrative. You can't even distinguish between millionaire and billionaire, let alone politicians that want to do shit for regular people and the bad ones.
@@cdevidal Yeah but Kamala will implement more socially beneficial, progressive policies than any Republican would.
we need a voting system that is similar to Switzerland the citizens decide which policy to go with not the politicians
I like that idea
like china
@@drblais5193I didn’t know China holds legit elections
We need a working class party and no other party like how China has
We do have its called a direct ballot but only for local and state we so need a national direct ballot
Weird to not like "punching down" while simultaneously supporting someone who's entire career has involved "punching down" 🤔🙄😒
Yeah, that guy was fairly eloquent, comparatively. He's obviously put some consideration into his viewpoint and isn't just parroting party talking points blindly, but not quite enough to reach a logical conclusion. I think if I had a casual conversation with him, I'd just assume he probably wasn't a conservative.
@@plienair Things like "basket of deplorables" make it easy to frame it as Liberal Coastal Elites punching down on regular folk. This is why Walz is damn good choice.
@@plienair It all falls apart where he wants a criminal or king to fix all the problems. At that point it becomes a fairy tale. I'd have loved to hear his opinion on Bernie.
@@worschtebrot its because of the lies, they truly think the other side is worse.
not just his career, his entire political platform
Corporate greed, landlord greed, investors buying up blocks of houses, price gouging (because they can), grocery monopolies, etc is the reason this country is going down. I mean how many billions does one person need?
Basically, capitalism is the wrong system to be in if you want a fair and rational society.
The irony of complaining about billionaires using a product funded by billionaires
@@cdevidal This reminds me of that old meme: "We should improve society somewhat." "Yet you participate in society. Curious!"
@@JW-mw7srcapitalism is fine, so long as you can prevent capital accumulation or resource monopolies and have good social welfare (for example, with a land tax and citizen's dividend)
@@cdevidalwasn't the internet literally a project that the government created? Google literally started as a research project at Stanford lol
The boomers at 6:07 still think that
Work = bills paid
So gd out of touch and tone deaf. Absolutely exhausting.
It works to a degree. Now I make others work and I get paid.
@@Bdamazyn “worked” to a degree (past tense).
Idk about your area, but at 15/hr a one bedroom apartment eats up 65% of monthly income.
@@Je5u5Freak69 Wages won't catch up to inflation if there are 10M new workers coming across the border every 4 years who are willing to work for far less because their family is abroad and they owe money to the cartels. One bedroom eats up 65% of monthly income? Not if there's 6 people in it and they all have 2 jobs and they take cash and don't pay taxes.
15/hr with phone bills, clothes, food/ eating healthy [+200%], insurance, toiletries, rent, electricity, HOA, gas, tires, car maintaince, health checkups, travel plans. Entertainment, etc. 15/hr is insane imo.
That pissed me off so much. As someone who has a disability that seriously impacted me to a point where I shouldn't have been working, BUT I WAS, I discovered that to get on disability it takes a doctor who gives a shit and 2 years of fighting to prove you are disabled to get on disability. Then over the summer I was talking to a lady who's son has the same disability, plus three other things stacked on top of it to boot and they wanted to kick him off just because. Literally no reason except he reached adulthood and just expected him to work even though he is severely impacted by several things and one of them could potentially kill him. His disability didn't magically vanish because he reached adulthood, but now she's fighting it all over again.
And these people just act like it's a simple, everyone gets on disability because it's funzies. STFU.
Jfc these people are so close to making sense... and then they say they're voting Trump, and it crumbles because it's incoherent.
One term of Bidenomics is all they want.
I truly think it's disinformation on social media. There are so many nefarious actors that can now spin up 1000 AI bots to push some bullshit lie, and these simpletons drink it up because it makes them feel good.
They just haven’t got the mental capacity necessary to actually make it over the hill. They can almost get to the top, but then they tumble back down again. It is all so tiresome.
@@bartdoo5757 "Bidenomics" listen to yourself talk smh
@@AltoEcho Would you prefer something like "multiple democrat-sponsored trillion-dollar kickback packages resulting in rampant price inflation that they disingenuously blame on business owners?"
That is wonderful seeing something like this cross the various lines of politics among the working class. So many of the red voters are pointing their fingers in the right direction, but are supporting the same people that perpetuate it. How can we use this to create a sense of solidarity in the working class?
I particularly hated hearing the guy who said the president shouldn't be a politician but should come from a working family and stand up for the little guy. That guy is also voting for Trump who was given $400 MILLION from his dad and has been involved in politics for 25 years instead of the woman who went from working at McDonald's to being a District Attorney prosecuting criminals, to an attorney general who got a $20 billion settlement from big banks for their aggressive foreclosure of homeowners during the 2008 financial crisis and pushed stronger consumer protections in California.
Sure Kamala has put in the work and actually helped the working man but the billionaire who shits in a golden toilet and refuses to pay his workers is going to advocate for the little guy. Those voters are completely disconnected from reality.
Yup two party system at its best.We should have voted for Bernie in my opinion. He has been saying the same message his whole life and its for power for the working person.
Funny how people say rich people are to blame.. and then try to put a rich guy in the white house.
Irony.
@@matthewboyd8689 funny. I never cashed a paycheck written by a poor person.
See how easy this is? These people are stupid.
You mean the same guy who was poorer after being President, unlike your beloved Democrats who became millionaires during their tenure?
@@matt19wk this is funny because billionaires only pay the bare minimum for their employees not to quit and keep the other 90% of the workers value produced for themselves
@@jasonhoffarth well. That’s not true. I own stocks. That pay dividends. So some of those profits are coming to me. Directly. A middle class tax paying worker. In the free market you’re able to do the same. It’s your choice
10:49 "he's the best crime boss" while discussing getting corruption out of the government 🤦🏻♀️
Yeah, that one was a rollercoaster. Yes, yes, YES.... No! 🤦
@@plienair From a person living in another country, the whole video was a crazy rollercoaster ride.
The craziest bit to me is thinking he's a good crime boss... The good one's you'll never know were criminal, people have known his grifts for decades he's just been too much of a headache to deal with.
They somehow do mental gymnastics to give Trump a pass
Lmao at the dude calling him a “crime boss” before blatantly backing said crime boss out because he’s somehow the lesser of two evils.
I have canvassed for Blues since Carter.
I have learned to never be surprised by what voters believe.
What I have noticed the last three cycles is a growing distrust and lack of knowledge based on facts.
With the decline of newspapers and the growth of angertainment platforms the skill set is just ridiculous.
It reminds me of a middle school lunch table.
It seems as though they want to be duped. They want the drama.
We are a simple folk.
That ain't a country song he's playing. That's folk. Quite a distinction. Folk is anti-establishment. Folk is anti-big corporations. Folk is the story of your every day, average, working class man who is being taken advantage of. And the list doesn't end there.
Folk is the people's music.
Bella ciao, Bella ciao, Bella ciao ciao ciao
Kam is big corpo. She is estab.
country music used to be anti-government and anti-establishment before 9/11. damn shame what its become now
@@Redditor6079 how many businesses does Trump own? How many buildings has Trump leased hus name to? How many foreign countries does he conduct business in? Didn't Jared Kushner get $3 billion from the Saudis? Didn't Trump bankrupt a casino and a business "college"?
But it still doesn't make it .....good.
You can survive with out the rich but not with out the middle and working class
You can survive with out the rich, but you thrive with them. We're speaking to one another on a platform provided by billionaires.
The economic freedom that allows a thriving working class also produces billionaires. It's a Pareto distribution. Take away that economic freedom and the working class is also gone. Some billionaires are left-wing and some are right-wing. Last I checked, most are left-wing; they already got their cake and they don't care to leave that door they used open to the next generation so they support more regulations and higher taxes.
@cdevidal the internet was developed with public funding. Those billionaires you think are so essential and great take huge advantages over publicly funded infrastructures, whether it's the internet, roads, or rail they use to attain that obnoxious wealth while ducking their taxes
@@cdevidalslaves need not their slavers, and we're worse off under them but go off, I'm sure you think slavers did good for their slaves too 🤡
@@cdevidal we are not thriving.
Focusing on class is the only way to bring the working people back together in fight against the only real foe we have.
Yes. Political/corpo elitist class vs everybody else
Yes. Funny how people in power seem to push literally anything else.
We need more Marxism in public schools, I'm tired of the Red Scare nonsense.
@@anthonyesposito7 haha garbage ideology for gullibl3s
@@anthonyesposito7They've already pushed it to the max. The only way left for angsty teens to rebel anymore is to express conservative ideals.
They are all SO CLOSE to understanding
yea ppl forget that the rich man, the one who let down millions of workers, who's currently exploiting the legal system to avoid paying for the crimes he committed, is trump.
While one of the crowd members is commenting how welfare shouldn’t be for life, I see a person in a wheelchair go by behind her. It’s not about who is to blame; but about how they got everyone blaming rather than wanting to help one another. The idea that it’s my taxes is the real problem, since our taxes pale in comparison to what could be paid in by corporations to help folks who do require assistance, sometimes for life.
Thank you for noticing that, too. I'm disabled but under 40 in Texas so I'm denied all assistance. I don't even qualify for food stamps literally cuz I'm unable to work and don't have children. The average lifespan for my condition is 48. Some of us need welfare assistance for life and that's not our fault!
I was an EMT, surgical tech, college instructor, and volunteered at animal shelters before becoming disabled. But my standing in our society immediately fell to nothing when I lost my job, health insurance, income, and car in less than 24hrs.
The woman that said the "not for life" bit could be me one day and she'll be in for a very rude awakening to see how the rest of us live.
FYI, welfare and disability are totally different things. Got it?
@@Glimmmerra social security disability benefits are considered welfare by those on the right. You are being pedantic in an attempt to sound smart. It's not working. Got it?
Trump wasn't a politician back in 2016. Trump is definitely a politician now in 2024.
Trump has been a "politician" since the 90's, his first unsuccessful campaign for president was in 2000. Just because he wasn't in government doesn't mean he wasn't playing politics.
The former guy has been a politician all his life just not an elected one.
He's been a con man for probably all of his adult life. He's the same person now as he was before, just older.
If con man = politician I would say he has always been a politician. Just saying.
Hillary Clinton attended Donald Trump's third wedding. Trump has contributed to Clinton's past campaigns and her husband's foundation.
He was always a politician
It's so sad that the only reason Trump even stands a chance is because so many working class people are misguided into believing that he'll somehow help them. In the 4 years that he was in office, what did he do to help the working class? He signed a massive tax cut for corporations & the rich which hardly benefited the working class at all, and he was obsessed with building a wall along the southern border. What else do these people think he did?
"Hardly benefitted them" is incorrect, because that implies that it benefitted them at all
It's like they're all masochists and enjoy the self-flagellation and abuse. SAD!!!!!
Working class people want to go back to the days before the progressive agenda crippled the economy and gave criminals carte blanche to do whatever they feel like without consequence.
Now ask the same questions about her.
@@cdevidal Her who? No her has been POTUS .. YET. You're so lacking in any logical thinking skills.
MAGA voters know it's still socially unacceptable to say on camera that they're for white nationalism and for tribalism, so that's why they say platitudes about how they want the nation to come together, how they wish politicians would work across the aisle, etc. Actions speak louder than words. They continue to vote for candidates who aren't interested in governing for the people. These MAGA voters continue to vote for the far right/culture warrior, Marjorie Taylor Green type of politicians every single time. No moderate or centrists candidates get a fair hearing by these type of voters.
I know plenty of them. They don't say that stuff off-camera, either. Meet some of them outside of the internet. They don't bite.
Why the baseless slander?
@@cdevidal They do, however, vote for r@pists and grifters with ZERO interest in helping ANY of them with their *actual* problems. They get more desperate and scared, vote for dumber candidates, get more desperate, vote for more corrupt candidates, and here we are. They need a deafening wake-up call to get out of the cycle of voting for imbeciles with no interest in them whatsoever.
1/3rd of all the jobs in the USA don't pay a living wage. No one should be forced to work most of the day, every day of the week, and still be living paycheck to paycheck.
@@darkwyzard you’re right. They should learn a skill that gets them a job that provides the income to support the life you want to live. If flipping burgers or pouring lattes is a career move you can’t expect much.
They don't have to. They can start a business, even if they're poor. The USA is the 6th easiest nation to start a business in. Many people--even poor people--do it all the time. All. The. Time.
@@darkwyzard maybe they need to look at their spending. Some ppl could spend their way to poverty no matter what.
@@matt19wk So we shouldn't have burger joints or coffee jobs then, yeah? If we want those services to exist, then someone has to do the labor. Why should that labor be devalued over some other labor if it's valuable to our society?
@@matt19wk 2/3rds of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and have no savings/retirement. I don't think that's the heart of the problem.
If I were to build a shed but didn't put any of the screws in, if that shed collapses, I am the one to blame as I did not properly support it.
If rich people control our wages and the prices of the products they sell us, if the economy collapses, they are the ones to blame as they did not properly support us.
You're almost there. Rich people, yes--the rich people north of Richmond.
The people who are smart enough to know who is responsible for the state of our country, yet still ignorant enough to vote for trump are the real problem
Do you have a better candidate? No, Democrats sued everyone else off the ballot and all we have left is Kamala who is supported by far more billionaires than Trump is.
and the people ignorant enough to vote for Harris are the real problem too. The state of our country goes well back to the 1960s at least - and the welfare state - driven by the Democrats - LBJ laid it out - and your ilk piled on. Then the GOP did a bunch of gutting up the middle to polarize us against each other. So blaming a late comer like Trump seems a bit foolish at best.
That TDS of yours, you might want to take a look at getting it adjusted. Figure out he's not the real enemy. It's a lot deeper than that.
Corporate greed, corporate owned politicians, greedy politicians. We need blue collar workers running for office and only for two terms. Maybe then we get our country back.
Surprise, Trump and MAGA want to eliminate overtime pay!
No, they don't.
You're mistaken. They want to eliminate _taxes_ on overtime pay.
@@cbdevidaljk1
Correct.
No tax on overtime because overtime is eliminated. That’s what Trump did when he runs his company.
@@cbdevidaljk1 He has actually said both. It's in his policy. Biden increased the overtime pay to workers making up to $58k/year but Trump wants to decrease it again back down to only $35k/year so that anyone who makes over 35k would not qualify. (This is for white collar professionals that are salary.) Trump also said he wants to eliminate taxes on overtime and tips but I can 100% guarantee he will not do that. And he's been bragging about not paying people overtime that was owed so.... yeah.
John Russell, you're an amazing person! keep doing this good work!! Thank you.
The dude complaining about Elon Musk but he’s wearing a Trump shirt. WTAF?!
The video shows that it's just the identity battles created by the media dividing us. Focusing on class, we quickly find our commonalities and who is to blame. That's the whole point of the system.
Cognitive dissonance. It's crazy how common this is. These people complaining about companies gouging prices still support the party that puts corporations over people EVERY time!
@@jon1913😂 that would be both major parties! Talk about cognitive dissonance.
@@linemanap There is one party trying to push higher wages, lower taxes for the middle class, less corporate monopolies, help small businesses. Than all their bills get blocked by republicans. The democratic party is far from perfect, at least its not throwing the people in the trash and let donald and his billionaire buddies rule the world. Talk about cognitive dissonance thinking that is the same thing
@@jon1913 Which party puts corporations over people? Could it be the one that wanted to force every worker and every school child to take a medicine they didn't want or lose their jobs so the company that makes that medicine can rake in incredible profits?
The crazy thing about food stamps (SNAP) is, that it is not for poor people, it is for corporations, especially Walmart. 2/3 of all Walmart customers are food stamp (SNAP) recipients, because Walmart and other big corporations rather have the government (tax payers that can still pay taxes) pay them to feed the poor, rather than pay workers better so they can buy merchandise from Walmart and corporations. The reason we have food stamps, is exactly because corporations refuse to pay living wages. The food stamp program is a welfare program for corporations that taxpayers pay for. This is how they control the government and then blame the working poor. But that corporate tune is old now and nobody believes it anymore.
This is just late stage capitalism. When Jack Welch normalized putting the shareholder first and the customer and employee last, the fix was in. The only thing that keeps capitalism afloat is government intervention.
Government keeps saving companies from bankrupt.
It all started with citizens united-look that up
Citizen United is only a step along the way. Granted, it was a huge step; but it was not the beginning. The "beginning" goes back *_at least as far_* as the Lewis Powell Memo to the United States Chamber of Commerce in 1971. He wrote a lengthy, confidential memo to his friend, Eugene Sydnor, Jr., the Director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Titled “Attack on American Free Enterprise System,” it outlined -- *_ways that corporations could band together_* -- not only to fight off regulations but also to infiltrate universities, publishers, magazines, ad agencies, TV networks, *_and even courts_* to make them sympathetic to business. The memo went out two months before he was nominated to the Supreme Court.
@@Construimus_Batuimus I feel like you're listening to The Masterplan podcast.
@@worschtebrot Never heard of it, until now. Checked it out. Right there on one of their lists of topics: The Powell memo.
I love how we can debate the meaning of a song whose lyrics are so clear and concise I mean ITS IN THE DAMN NAME its clearly about class struggle.
The French came up with a solution to this problem back in July of 1789.
Great example. Instead of the American-style liberal democracy that they wanted they got another authoritarian "emperor" who plunged the continent into brutal warfare for a decade. Great example not to follow.
Which mostly killed the middle class... the really rich folks? They almost all got away.
Love that solution I wish it will come back, why not make an exaple with the political class of these days. I can already hear the sweet sound.
While I initially agree, look at France now. Well the planet in general moves further right every day.
The one dude I would have guessed has it figured out then I hear he is a trump loving guy saying we need to stop looking here and broaden the horizons. I'm like WTF mate???
6:15 Welfare isn't available for a lifetime. After Clinton reformed it in the 1990s it's been limited to three years.
Unless you work or are disabled.
Clinton's welfare reform was based on three things
1. Poor people don't deserve welfare
2. Welfare is restricted to force poor people into minimum wage jobs
3. Poor women shouldn't have kids
The beliefs of Congress, not myself
If we can get rid of lobbyists in Washington and big money PACs out of politics. There is a shot for change in our direction. Otherwise big corporations will continue the downward spiral. Which makes no sense. They need workers to fill those jobs to move their cheap products. When the workers aren't coming to work. They suffer as well. I really felt for the girl working 3-4 jobs just to survive That's not living, that's slavery.
They need workers, that's why most of the richest 1% support Democrats and open borders. A million new young, able men willing to work for very very little and cram 6+ to a bedroom makes it really easy to not pay anyone else more money. And the richest enclaves in America, where people like Bill Gates and Justin Trudeau vacation, are filled with foreign workers because they can be easily intimidated by their employment agency just like they do with Bangladeshis in Dubai and Kuwait.
I know someone who IS 5'3" and 300 lbs. She eats one to 2 small meals a day and maybe 3 cups of coffee because she's always tired. She doesn't eat sugar and only buys low fat stuff. She works a low-paying job and gets Medicaid and a few food stamps. She has been trying like hell to get a second job, but no one wants to hire her because she has herniated discs in her back. She doesn't eat fudge rounds and COULDN'T AFFORD THEM anyway!!! So the people that are saying that crap can go pound sand!
A lot of low-fat foods hide high sugar.
@@AnonymousMusing She reads labels & avoids it as much as she can. Funny how, when they put the words "sugar-free" or "low fat" on something, they increase the price by a dollar or 2. It's my sister.
Hypothyroidism??
@@AnonymousMusing I agree. Our body needs animal fats. That satiates your brain. Butter, ghee, lard, tallow and the fat on beef, pork and lamb.
Lies lies lies. like the people who occasionally tell me "(insert family member here) smoked three packs of a day, yet died at 110 years old, but only because they got hit by a truck.)
My only problem with that song is that he does such a great job and then makes it about the obese and having to pay for their healthcare. It could be a bit more cohesive to keep it about how the rich are grifters who predate on the middle and lower classes.
This is the same whattaboutist logical fallacy as people saying "why can't I keep my gas-guzzler unnecessary lifted diesel smogger when someone somewhere else has a private jet?" Obese people not taking personal responsibility for their health might be individually insignificant, but when half the country is that way it's terrible just like if half the country had straight piped tuned diesels the smog would be unbreathable. Don't shift the blame to "rich" people, poor people aren't angels.
Both are problems.
That's the line that *really* hooks the MAGA cult though. They love blaming the poor and desperate for their problems MUCH more than they acknowledge the wealthy are the problem. Revering the wealthy is *literally* one of the core tenets of conservatism, which posits that there are naturally superior and inferior classes of people.
When 1/2 of kids use food stamps at some point, it is a structural problem, things sre broken
Unbelievable how well they can assess rhe problem and then completely fumble a solution.
You know that's what they're saying about the Democrats. Amazing how the party that thinks it's for the working man wants to take more of his money and send it to the richest zip code in the nation to be divided by lobbyists and professional beggars. The core disagreement is on facts and values, which makes it very hard to heal. The left and right do not agree on the factual things that got us where we are and do not agree on the principle values that will fix the problem.
What?! *surely* the billionaire with the 3rd grade comprehension who's never demonstrated an inkling of concern for ANYONE other than himself will institute comprehensive and effective policies to ease the concerns of the most vulnerable among us!
He'd never propose anything as dumb as immediately raising prices 20%, would he?
A common thread in there is that they don't like politicians and trump isn't one.
Aside from his 4 years in government politics, has he not been personally politicking for his businesses, his real estate projects, his schemes? If he wasn't a politician then why would he ever need to be weighing in on the central park 5 or long form birth certificates or "crime boss" stuff? That's all just politics.
And he ran for pres in 2000.
But by all means elect a billionaire and a millionaire supported by other billionaires
You must be referring to Kamala, who is worth 3 million, supported by billionaires such as Michael Bloomberg and James Simons. Both sides are corrupt. When will people end lesser evil voting!?
You must be referring to the current female veep*, who is worth 3 million, supported by billionaires such as Michael Bloomberg and James Simons. Both sides are corrupt. When will people end lesser evil voting!?
*YTube deletes my comment if I use her real name
You know, the current veep is worth 3 million, supported by billionaires such as Bloomberg and J. Simons--just sayin'
We hear it-so and so has hundreds of millions,half a billion in campaign donations. The one who raised the most usually takes the position?
I’d make sandwiches. If I had a tour bus I’d sleep in it or Quality Inn.
The retired General running against MTG held a “stump speech” out of the back of his truck bed.
$$ for the logistics/security take care of, but how much does someone need to just talk? Pelosi got a million dollars to speak-that’s just 1 example
We all want the same thing, unfortunately many of us have been conned by a snake oil salesman.
At this point, some people believe the lies!
I think most have been conned by their refusal or inability to think rationally. That’s complicated by the fact that they won’t open themselves to listen to people with different ideas. They always think someone is looking to con them.
Politicians don't miss a bit to show how quick they are to corrupt, not even 5 seconds after being asked the question, he's already twisting words in his favor, the rest followed en samble
And Oliver _did_ say that his song is about rich _politicians_ , both blue _and_ red
The pink elephant in the room is Late Stage Capitalism
I'd like to see a story about the links between AIPAC and the Right To Work (for Less) movement. Jacobin did a story on it a while back. They're our enemies in more way than one.
Puppet masters.
Why? Scapegoating getting popular again? Didn't learn anything from 1945?
As long as the dollar comes before people, this issue will not cease.
Stand up for the little guy. Sounds like Tim Walz to me.
Waltz? You mean Walz.
Tim Walz stands up for the protected classes because that creates more division which is the goal of his partners in China.
@@agbook2007 corrected thanks!
Listen closely to both Harris's and Trump's speeches. They, like most other politicians, talk about work ethic, taking pride in your work and being hard-working Americans. Why? Because they want you to be a good boy little employee, that's why.
Its weird to watch people willing to support a rapist with 34 felonies who has a long list of accusers including a girl who was 13 at the time.
We are in america.. it doesnt shock me
Well republicans hate women so theres your answer
Politicians without accusers: 0.
@@gorkyd7912 How's the weather in Russia?
Yeah management sucks I've never seen a low level person cause an entire company to suffer the country works the same way.
Some of these people are so ignorant. Which causes arrogance. Then the hate seeps in. Thus become a tool of the rich man.
A lot of the poor vote for the rich.
And a lot of the rich vote D. The majority of them, in fact.
That guy who was talking about how it's all about the working class? What do you want to bet that he thinks Marxism, socialism, and mortal sin are all the same thing?
Dude, shut up. We need to focus on what we have in common, not what divides us. That guy had a lot of good points.
Meanwhile, they vote for the guy with Elmo jumping im the air on stage.
Boycott the big corporations, shop local small businesses. Call your state senators, mine called me back in regards to health insurance and I have a phone meeting set up with them on Friday. Complain to the right people!
This was THE best video I've seen in a long time. Across all genres and services. Building class consciousness is so important when fighting for a better future.
The system doesn't work for either side of the political thicket. Keeping the working class divided and attacking each other only allows the mega rich and the corporations to hoard more power and wealth.
The people united will never be defeated.
The party of “personal responsibility” at its best
"Everyone's just so separated that I don't know if we can ever get back to it. We're so divide against ourselves, common people, for what cause? If you can't recognize both evils, we're never gonna go anywhere." After hearing that, I feel just a little less alone today.
Oliver Anthony for President....You can do it buddy! I have faith.
More John Russel please. I need to see my mullet having socialist king talking to so many fascinating people on my feed
Important note: Being anti-rich does not mean being anti-capitalism.
It should, because the main problem IS capitalism.
@@Lumi_Lumi13 No, no, we love capitalism.
The irony of people bitching about capitalism with a device, on a platform, that only capitalism could have given them. Jesus. We need solid guardrails on the system, but the people that could put those in are bought and paid for by the system.
Knowing that some rich people did things you disagree with doesn't mean you're anti-rich. No one is anti-rich when they have an opportunity to be rich themselves.
@@shalafi71... You miiiight wanna brush up on your history there. Capitalism did not bring you computers, nor the internet.. and not the protocalls for on demand streaming either.
But it kinda played a role in the semi conductor. No it wasnt even capitalism at least not what we would consider capitalism in the mordern sense. More public investment and mutual retirement funds, but in the 1950's that *was* capitalism. And even then it wasnt silicone semiconductors that IBM discovered.
The U.S. Air Force. Thats primarily who you have to thank for the internet, computers, and somewhat standardized binary protocal that would at least make programming possible.
And like three guys named Steve who just wrote the internet protocalls. Just. because they wanted a better internet.
I think it was a UofU student who wrote the current protocals TH-cam uses for video streaming so he could watch movies with his freind across town.
I forget who it was that wrote the DNS service that all websites depend on to have a website instead if a numerical IP address. But it was just one guy who had trouble remebering IP addresses. He also wrote the code for ALL secure web protocals. Just a dude, never made a dime from it.
Let that sink in. The backbone of your modern life was either made for military or made because someone was bored. And big companies took the hard work and just never gave a dime to the inventors.
can u pls cover the importance of welfare for those with long-term disabilities and/or disability rights in general?
Exactly.
The lack there of. :(
This is what Trump himself did to our country
don't give him so much credit. Reagan started it. trumps just continuing the push.
@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr on certain issue's you could say Nixon.
Why should the rich have the exclusive power to decide how things are made and what is done with it? Shouldn't everyone have an equal say? Shouldn't the people who face the consequences of what industry does be able to veto or approve of what is done with our planet's resources? We do all of the work, but the rich get to own it all and make the rules. The only reason they rule us in the first place is by being born rich.
No, everyone should not have an equal say. That's simplistic thinking. Murderers and thieves don't get an equal say as responsible workers and providers. Rich people have traditionally attained a larger voice in society because of the fact that they were given money by other people, which represents goods and services. If I feed a village of 1000 people and they all pay me $5 per meal I get a larger voice through that money than someone who just eats and provides nothing.
But people get rich through scams and bureaucracy. And people get rich in other countries and then come here to influence us. That needs to be guarded against.
Top notch video. Truly wonderful. Thank you guys so much for being out there and genuinely connecting with people and the struggles we all share.
We need to organize these people in strong, progressive unions -- that's how we won the new deal, and we can win something larger
How about a taxpayer union. Not another dime from us until the wanton vote-buying spending bills end. I'm trying to raise a family but 20% of my money goes to the federal government and none of that comes back to me because I'm not one of the special manipulated voter groups. Not to mention they're now spending nearly 2 trillion just on interest payments because we didn't solve this problem last decade.
When visiting family in PA last year I was shocked to find a family member that thought the Democrats are the party that have been resisting minimum wage increases. She admitted not paying attention to news. But even in her admitted ignorance still thought she was right. 😪 People we need to vote for the party that wants to increase minimum wage. That is the Democratic party for those that don't know.
Increasing the minimum increases the cost of doing business, which increases the price of goods, and you're right back to where you started. We need better solutions.
The Democrats in the House, Senate, and the President and Vice President are involved in financing wars. Ukraine, Israel and Iran.
Minimum wage is a fake issue. Wages have gone up dramatically in the last few years and it had nothing to do with minimum wage, because it doesn't matter. GOP opposes it because GOP opposes everything that Dems do. Dems support it because it makes it look like they're supporting workers. In reality push it too high and a bunch of people lose their jobs but leave it too low and no one cares about it anyway.
Doesn't matter who's left and who's right, if we're all stuck at the bottom, ignoring who's on top
It does matter, the subdivision of the working class means we'll never come together to eliminate the worker/owner class division. The left are the ones working towards that goal, the right fight against it as they see such power inequity as just and natural
oh god.. the song is so vague it could be literally anything... please do not take that song as any sort of calling or like he cared about anyone that he was singing to... it's about his attempts to reach a group of people dumb enough to believe he is on their side without pissing too many people off at the same time... he blames rich men but also the poor and claims that the rich want total control but the poor are the ones milking the system? Like, WHAT?! BE CONSISTENT.
Lmao thank you! Someone that caught the bullshit 😅! Didn't like the song and he's probably a Trumper too lol. He didn't say anything profound.
The ‘Rich Men North Of Richmond’ regard us as livestock on their farm.
Ding ding ding ding! Correct! The rich are farming everyone else.
You all are amazing! Thank you!
It takes money to cause problems. Money triggers decisions, decisions trigger problems.
By dividing our population, we remain a conquered people unable to afford life's necessities while the rich have never had it better.
"We're so divided" when was the last time you talked to someone across the table? We share so many things in common yet they think we are so different. I'm so tired of this facade.
I've talked to blue voters plenty of times. They are indoctrinated into a specific belief system by the media and their education so it's just an endless process of "that's actually wrong and here's proof" on every single topic. In most cases I can't even get to any real conversation because they already believe I'm "racist" because I don't agree with them politically.
Nice work. We need more of this kind thing - showing how much people actually agree on the big picture issues.
Go find a grassroots campaign that is for the working class/pro peace and volunteer for them.....and take all your friends. You'll win. We'll win.
$5 for a dozen eggs!? That's hyperbole, right?
It depends on what part of the country you live in?
$3 here, and that's the cheap stuff
For every dollar earned by an employee, how much of that ends in the billionaire's pocket?
The irony of using a billionaire's platform to complain about billionaires
Crazy to me that someone would put Biden in the rich category when Trump is richer? I hate Trump, but I'm almost certain he is, and he would brag about it too given the chance 100%. I think I hate these videos the most BECAUSE it makes the people seem relatable, and then it's like, this is their answer. Hurts so much...
I’m still confused. Many of these people sound reasonable yet they still support Trump.
Double think. It's crazy, but their is the proof.
Cognitive dissonance
They think there's no good alternative, but if we all chose a good third party we could stop this nonsense. Or, we can continue down the road of lesser evil voting.
@@cdevidalI agree that a third party candidate would be nIce option but at this point that’s unavailable. Given that we’re dealing with Trump and the ghouls that are trying to take control, I’d say the lesser of two evils will suffice. I hate saying that.
@@cdevidal The very qualified and viable 3rd party candidate in this election was sued into bankruptcy by the Democrat machine and is now supporting Trump. Maybe that should be a clue.
I find that songwriter disingenuous. I call it "the fudgerounds song." That is some Reagan era dogwistle racist shit.
He's not an R voter and wrote it about rich politicians on both sides
Remember, if you hear racist dogwhistles you're the racist.
You know those rich men north of Richmond?
How many do you think actually live in Texas to take advantage of their... competitive upper tax bracket rates?
People need to be reminded that being a politician isnt meant to be a permanent career and that you can decide to run tomorrow. The government doesnt need to be full of alienated career politicians, ordinary people can make their own parties, run for their own reasons, and should be the majority of candidates on every ballot in a democracy
Naw... If a politician is good at it, and works for the people that voted them in, they can stay as long as they like. Of course, that's not most politicians..
You can't stop working to run in an election if you're struggling to pay rent. There's a minimum barrier to entry, let alone to have any semblance of a fair playing field.
Yes but we don't have a democracy we have an oligarchy. You have to win from within in this system that's why besides Bernie Sanders there isn't a single independent candidate anywhere with any power to affect change.
Sure but you need sufficent funds to actually get people to notice and take you seriously. If you cant advertise yourself, you cant get votes.
"Trump is not a politician". Apparently, President of the United States is not a politician.
Trump wasn't a politician back in 2016. Trump is definitely a politician now in 2024.
@@stevechance150Trump has always been a con man. He's the same person now that he has always been. He lied just like a lot of politicians do to get elected and continues to lie, stoke fears and direct hatred towards certain groups of people. Too many people are rationalizing his behavior, and too many of you were fooled into thinking he wasn't a politician just because he said he wasn't. He has always been a politician in a cartoon billionaires suit.
@@stevechance150 dude ran in 2000, this is his fourth time.
I'd love to see a presidential race with candidates like Mike Rowe and John Stewart. Both intelligent, well spoken, and have the people in mind. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll ever get there.
She lost me cause she can't put down the trump vance sign.
"I think some people use it and abuse it. I think that's the problem."
Go ahead and tell us what those people look like and what they ought to do.
10:44 - WOW. What an incredible, insightful inquiry. Well done. This whole thing is so well done it ALMOST makes me forget about that mullet. 😂
"don't look up" mixed with "divide and conquer"