You need to wake up! You need to start digging! And maybe you will start to get the TOTALE picture... Because the people running the media, are the ones running big ph@rm@, the universities, your president and the war industry!! So wake up!!! The only one totally utterly incapable is YOU! DO NOT BE FOOLED?
This isn’t the job of one person! Everyone is exhausted with how ridiculous the rich are in this country using us as pawns in this chess game they are playing with the world, infiltrating and destroying our lives. We need to work together to create a new party. There is no more room for a two party system and those puppet parties that exist just to make either the democrat or republican loose is unacceptable. What’s needed is a movement that supports creating a habitable and peaceful environment that we all can exist in comfortably with respect.
Outstanding discussion and one needed to be heard by tens of millions today depressed and fearful given the result of the election. Thank you everyone - you're becons of hope and light in our fractured, deteriorating existence.
You can make it better by trying to set a better default inner dialogue, for example things are bad but I still have a lot to be grateful for. We can encourage each other. And I'm not trying to be annoying about anything just trying to make a difference. And that starts with us. We as Americans have a lot of reflection to do. I for one don't care for the toxic division Portrayed by media and social media while we're all being taken advantage of equally by either party.
Sorry for this going the direction it did. We're gonna be having to get ready for the severe weather and saving each other from it. We're going to have food shortages.
What we saw yesterday was the death of moderation and centrism - tinkering around the edges of oligarchic capitalism. The losers are very unlikely to understand this and will continue to do the same - expecting a different result. Fascism has never had it so good.
I studied, but never heard what I recently learned. Chairman Mao did not kill thousands. He made it legal to kill landlords. The tenants happily did that then erected a statue to Mao. The French Revolution, 1789, also killed the landlords. Search Michael Hudson Marxism parasites
@@jgalt308 So, you're against comprehension of correct context, which is a clear indication of illiteracy and/or feeble mindedness. Or is that just a problem for your strawman arguments?
@@jgalt308love the ayn randian troll who just says bullshit on professor wolff's channel. You're fighting the good fight brother (changing no ones mind) keep at it
@@jgalt308 Caused by bad decisions from feeble minded upper management, and not by labor. You would know that if you weren't a business major flunky like those corporate flunkies.
The Greens are that Party but in your non Democracy their candidates weren't on the ballot in most States as the officials of the old Parties didn't want them as a choice voters could take.
@@scottastell9415 - Not True. Greens had ballot access in 38 states, plus the District of Columbia, In addition, Greens could be included as write-in candidates in 7 additional states. Only 5 states precluded ballot access by Greens. The states in which Greens had ballot access represented 508 electoral college votes. Yes, in many states Democrats and Republicans made it difficult for the Greens to get ballot access, but in the end Dems and Reps were not able to prevent it. That said, out of the thousands of political offices being voted on across the country, the Greens ran 168 candidates in total. Having only 168 candidates in total nationwide after 40 years in existence is not an indication that Greens are a viable political party. What it indicates is a group of social elitists who don't know how to organize for political power.
@raywarner3 - The best way you can support development of a viable third party is to either run for local office yourself or convince someone else to run for local office under a third-party banner. Whether it is a worker-oriented party, family-oriented party, Democratic Socialist, Greens, or any other. Get candidates for at least half of the offices on the ballot in every election. As soon as that third party is a known political power locally, start getting on the ballot for state elected offices with occasional candidates for the US House of Representatives. Putting up only 150 to 170 candidates across the country in each election for all of the thousands of elected political offices, as the Greens have done over their existence, is not going to create a viable third party.
I have listened to this twice already and I plan on listening again after that. This is the way through. I am convinced. Thank you SO MUCH for putting this out there. I will spread it like COVID.
If you are rural, live in a village, apartment, small city, have your neighbor over for dinner, coffee, etc. that you prepare yourself. Next you make it a potluck! And share a meal. Learn about your neighbor, no matter how different they are! So many helpful things can happen from there.
The problem with America is that the emphasis is all about making money...money rules over everything else in US society and the greed amoung politicians no no bounds.
It takes a while for the effects of a criminal government to manifest. So add another 40 years to your observation because that is when the seeds were sown.
Many people in America seem to compare the US Empire to the Roman Empire. Using that analogy, we are in the period where the Roman Senators were having their slaves cary off the stones falling from the crumbling Coliseum to decorate their villas.
@ Yah, it should make you pause and ask yourself what the context was of that comment rather than jumping to a conclusion. That could have meant a lot of things.
@@bluewater454 cheney is one of the pnac pricks. that's the only context you need to know. that and his ties to skull and bones. such a light weight you are...
Green Party 2024. They won 35% of the vote in Michigan, driven by the outrage over the Genocide and that those in power or waiting in the wings to take over were perpetrating. They were the only party offering peace and spending the money paying for foreign wars in America for health and infrastructure. That is why the Democrats sued to keep them off of Ballots throughout the country.
Everyone is acting like we didn't say the same thing in 2015. The green party is everything we want. If you don't care to act to support them, then stay silent. I'm tired your endless complaining and constant failure to act when it matters.
Great discussion! I have 2 kids, 15 year old daughter who is upset trump won, and an 18 year old son who is happy that he won, so the gender and economy part of this discussion is super relevant to me. ❤❤❤
Dr. Fraad's opening statement was one of the most well articulated and relevant discussions on the rot occurring in our personal lives that I've heard anywhere. While I completely subscribe to the economic arguments from Prof Wolff, I feel this framing of gender relations and damage occurring amongst both men and women is such a powerful context to give people today. I really appreciate that she also didn't diminish the suffering and loss men are going through, in relation to how women are alternatively being exploited to higher degrees due to the shifts in the economy we all know about. Really well stated and I wish NPR or any of the major outlets would have as articulate and honest of pundits on their airwaves.
I agree. We need free national media to bring this to all the people, but there is so much corruption due to corporate interests that we the people are not hearing it.
@@NanceClearwater I mean, NPR is supposed to be that free public / national media. The problem is they've basically fallen victim to the same corporatist & identity politic messaging as the other traditional sources. This is honestly why an open competition and better access for independant channels / sources would be an ideal scenario. There's tons of great content (like Professor Wolff) out there, it just needs better access which is likely being suppressed to some extent by the major tech outlets.
most of us that have experience living in multiple western countries find that the British and the Americans are the worst educated places on the world. the world is not experiencing the same problems as you and Europe are. Writing from New Zealand
@@Buf-g6m Don't you find it "amazing" that for all the "understanding" he has offered, he has NEVER acknowledged the fact that he is married to her, and has two hyphenated children, one of whom is also a frequent guest?
"Economic literacy has been a disaster for the long time" - yep. Some economists have been saying this for a long time - not the wealthy ones that think the economy is doing well because they're doing well, but the wealth inequality economists that demand corporate billionaires and millionaires pay their fair share of tax: they're the ones the govt and mainstream media don't listen to.
Dr. Fraad's description of the status of men in modern America reminds me of how David Graeber described honor in Debt: The First 5,000 Years in some societies as a zero-sum game where one's honor was defined by the degree to which they degraded others.
@@GrandmaCathy Was it? Then you should have no problem explaining the regular debt jubilees of early cities, whose debts were forgiven, by whom, and what was the motivation of the debt holders?
@@pausereflect5911 Not now after there was solidarity on display on Election Day between Kennedy's far left and Trump's far right to create the greatest political presidential win in US history.
One of my greatest frustrations is the inability to see broad transformation during my lifetime. I am 40 and see this great idea of yours farther and farther away. I am willing to entertain some kind of hope for it, but I honestly think we are still not ready 😢
But you witnessed inflation go from 667% to over 7000% and a completely tyrannical government. Not enough change for you...or you just weren't paying attention?
It really is astonishing what American politics have devolved into, stuck with the two choices of something stupid or nothing at all. Tweedledee and tweedledum are arguing over who has the bigger crowd size, meanwhile the American people are suffering.
Despite the idiocy of both candidates, either being incompetent or a weasel. Harris really was the lesser of two evils. And because of this devastating loss my country is going to enter a dark age in which a fascist incrementally implements his dastard plan.
Not astonishing at all! A shit candidate who was not elected, she was chosen. A liberal media and elite that live in their own bubble of lies . Enter the period of grift
@@seaside3218 Wrong. Harris represented more of the same evil we have now with Biden's evil deep state entourage. With Kennedy by his side, Trump represents the people over the evil oligarchy. The dark age will be for the evil status quo.
@@andrewkrolikiewicz6522 You mean the 7700% inflation since 1939 just slipped by unnoticed? Given all the "understanding" being offered here, why would such a "brilliant educator" casually, OMIT this FACT? Why would he claim that "rationing" stopped inflation in the 40's and "wage and price controls" stopped it in the 70's? Other than the 95% inflation that occurred between 1860 and 1865, the 40s produced 70% inflation, and the 70s yielded 113%, which more than doubled the 367% inflation of the 39 to 79, total inflation rate. BTW the Federal Reserve Note is a "debt instrument" and being "legal tender" rather than "lawful money", you are using a debt instrument to discharge debt. If not having ENOUGH thinking time is a problem, imagine what not having the facts or the correct understanding of the words contribute to it? The "people" understand the effects, and voted accordingly, ( and democratically ) in a non-democratic "constitutional republic"...but they still have no clue as to the "cause" of those effects. Meanwhile, all you have is "troll" as an argument while you listen to "employers raise prices because they can" as the cause of INFLATION...and believe it without question.
building community requires money and people don't have any money. People are living paycheck to paycheck and there is no money left for socializing or providing food and entertainment for others to build the community. Churches used to be available, but having tried that route, I have found them to be just another corporate grifter, So what is left?
i've been a full-time independent political consultant and political journalist since 2010. My Voting Bloc of 3,500 is galvanized to replace Establishment Democrats with True Progressives AND create a viable 3rd party that truly stands with the middle class, the working class, and the poor.
The Electoral College makes it impossible to have more than 2 panties. Get rid of the Electoral College!! America would absolutely need to be a PURE democracy in order for us to have more than two viable parties. 270 electoral votes are needed. That's why all but two states are winner, take all now! If every state split their electoral votes, it would create a problem getting to 270. Personally, I prefer one person one vote.
Sex has actually been decreasing every generation since the baby boomers and will continue to due to increased technology and forms of entertainment. Suicides, drug usage and drug overdoses increases every year (the disease of despair) they call it. This also happens when income inequality increases along with crazy beliefs and lower morality
Hey i feel poetic.... so i thank you guys. I knew the creative spirit would shine through. Even if just for a second of this sad day. Sad because we know there will be more pain. Pain to the vulnerable
No one talks about how domestic producers will also raise prices since they don’t have to compete as much with products that have tariffs. So that means another huge wealth transfer as prices climb. This is the condition that lead to the gilded age and the Great Depression.
The complexity of modern life , the time and energy required for it all , combined with the money problems many people are having is the problem with having well organised , represented and healthy communities.
"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." If you understand THAT, it may be the inspiration to understand the history of this "constitutional republic" and how what exists at present is precisely what that document was written to prevent.
You are right - politics used to be about service - the elected and government officials were public servants. But yes, it became a business. The memo by the chamber of commerce many years ago mobilized business to take over the "public" sector.
And when did this transition occur? Union membership ( private sector/ non-farm ) peaked in 1954 ( at 35% ) while U.S production as a percentage of world production peaked in 1950. By 1980, union membership had fallen to 22% and 50% were now public sector unions. The Powell Memo occurred in 1971 the same year FDR's de facto fiat became de jure while the inflation rate hit 367% from it's 1939 ..67% in 1860 and 1897 "lawful money" dollars. By 1980 this had doubled to 667%+. The growth of government at all levels began in 1913.
We need four parties coupled with tiered voting. Tiered voting would make choosing an alternative party safer for your vote, giving the alternative party more power than any alternative party has now. We also need to get private money out of elections.
It's going to be interesting to see how disappointed Trump voters will be when nothing changes and things get worse for them. Women will be a big part of this when the promises of Trump fail to protect and advance them. Birthrates are down for a reason..I didn't know about suicides in the military. I was 10 years old when I realized that life was not fair in the US. I stopped saying the pledge of allegiance. That was around 1956.
I stopped saying it in childhood as well. I never believed in the bs they kept trying to instill in us. It took my parents into their 60s to understand that so much of it is brainwashing and not real.
Fantastic program and analysis, as always. I follow you regularly and particularly like the message promoting solidarity of the workers against the employers. It seems to me, the greatest chance of gathering support for a new party must center on this. The side note is that it takes the far rights ability to separate people by any other characteristic away (color, religion, sex, orientation, etc). The workers will be educated to stick together based only on their common issue; work.
Thank each and all of you for a wonderful exchange on addressing the subjects of interest to so many people wondering "what the hell is happening with American Democracy" and where do we go from here to elevate ourselves out of this uncivil, damaged and polarized political tug of war. 58:44
Thank you for the reminder that we aren’t alone. Many people are surrounded by liberals and MAGA people and feel hopeless as socialists. This program was encouraging.
The problem is that American companies would rather do business outside of our country and ship the stuff back into America. As if they think they're above our economic laws. Americans just want America to have a solid foundation and currently our system has gotten us here. We need to keep business here. Why can't we upgrade our work force to manufacture what we need. If American companies are going to avoid paying taxes here by leaving and then still want to benefit by sucking out of our economy then I say fuck em
Thanks so much everyone. I would love to hear Professor Wolff address our Canadian economic situation at some point. It is pretty grim too for younger people but we have a few soft landing spots that American capitalism does not. God bless.🇨🇦
Occupy Wall St, the mass protests from Tunisia to Syria, protest in EU, Black protests and more. These were monumental initially. They were sincere movements coming through solidarity and organization. But the State through police FBI CIA and whatever else systematically through various means destroyed them. I saw their potential emerge by the 99%. To me the problem isn't a disaffected people, but a Capitalist State using people's desires for justice against the people
The difference between the American and Chinese governments is that in America, they are politicians who are self-serving and in China, they are administrators who have the interests of the people at heart.
I just got blasted w the knowledge I should have had already about how we owe China $816 billion in debt. We are the country most in debt- no wonder the gov is always broke and trying to gouge us. We can't afford Socialism!
I was a Bernie Sanders supporter in 2016, still am. I became an independent in 2018 when I saw the Dems quibbling over whether or not to impeach trump. Bc we only have two choices, I end up always voting for the democrat. But I've advocated for a few years now that AA voters leave the Democratic party, and the Republican party, en masse and become independents. No need to reinvent the wheel, just infuse the independent ranks w disaffected voters who support the working and middle classes, and introduce an independent candidate into the next presidential election.
That happened during this election. But the deck was stacked against RFK Jr by the Democrats. So he joined forces with Trump, who supports the working and middle classes. Those disaffected voters caused the greatest comeback presidential election win and in US history with a clear mandate to reinvent the US Government.
@helloitsmehb I take issue w that simply bc it's a new idea and has not reached anybody but the few who have seen my post. I'm also sure that I'm not the only one to think of this, so there are others who will come around to the realization that we no longer have anything to lose.
@@helloitsmehb I feel you. But the truth is either don't vote and totally surrender--knowing the majority of AAs do not have the means to move internationally, coupled w the fact that giving up US citizenship voluntarily is expensive--or keep voting but in ways that will reap real results. The only path I see, as someone who is moving overseas, is to continue to vote. That's important for those who will or must remain. There's only paper thin line between my optimism and my pessimism, but this is bigger than me. That's all.
Wonderful program: opinions from different perspectives to give working-class people alternatives. Professor Wolff, I try to listen to most of your programs... lucid teaching and good-heartedness to approach crucial problems!
From the other side of the world, you are totally right. Our grandparents survived the ww2. then the socialist/communist ''ruling'' and since we end up in whatever this is, we will make it though this time around ! Thanks all you to take the time to share it with us !
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The context being shared here is what people need to hear right now.
The corporate media is totally and utterly incapable of articulating this.
On the contrary, Matt, they're perfectly capable but unwilling. ☹
"Green Fire", geoff nelson hill, London, UK.
You need to wake up! You need to start digging! And maybe you will start to get the TOTALE picture...
Because the people running the media, are the ones running big ph@rm@, the universities, your president and the war industry!!
So wake up!!! The only one totally utterly incapable is YOU!
DO NOT BE FOOLED?
Corporate media is the tool of the elites. They never have and never will speak for the interests of working people.
@@geoffreynhill2833 ..Exactly!
Unwilling to report reality.
Thank you all for doing this program.
Thanks for that. I’m in a politics blackout today. Except for you. ❤
Richard offers his insight as an anchor for collective sanity.
And I am truly trying to understand.......😢✌️🇨🇦@@aliciaczechowski3281
@@aliciaczechowski3281
The left is certainly in need of a healthy dose of sanity 😄
- but you won’t find it from Prof Wolff or Dr Fraud
@@gjthomas9770 Wow
Me too ans that's for the next 5 years
Both D and R losing power is a win for humanity. A political party that actually represents me and my values would be amazing.
Establish the parry you describe!
Don’t worry. D and R have been replaced by Fascism.
This isn’t the job of one person! Everyone is exhausted with how ridiculous the rich are in this country using us as pawns in this chess game they are playing with the world, infiltrating and destroying our lives. We need to work together to create a new party. There is no more room for a two party system and those puppet parties that exist just to make either the democrat or republican loose is unacceptable. What’s needed is a movement that supports creating a habitable and peaceful environment that we all can exist in comfortably with respect.
And rare as the Dodo bird.
Outstanding discussion and one needed to be heard by tens of millions today depressed and fearful given the result of the election. Thank you everyone - you're becons of hope and light in our fractured, deteriorating existence.
No, the majority voted for Trump...although Harris does share the
word salad and TDS of the "oppressed"...that Wolff inspires.
You can make it better by trying to set a better default inner dialogue, for example things are bad but I still have a lot to be grateful for. We can encourage each other. And I'm not trying to be annoying about anything just trying to make a difference. And that starts with us. We as Americans have a lot of reflection to do. I for one don't care for the toxic division Portrayed by media and social media while we're all being taken advantage of equally by either party.
Sorry for this going the direction it did. We're gonna be having to get ready for the severe weather and saving each other from it. We're going to have food shortages.
So we're going to have to come together no matter what political views we have.
@@WE.ARE138 So what is the mechanism being used by these parties to achieve their goals?
What we saw yesterday was the death of moderation and centrism - tinkering around the edges of oligarchic capitalism. The losers are very unlikely to understand this and will continue to do the same - expecting a different result. Fascism has never had it so good.
👍👍
Well said
Do you think Biden's Administration was moderate and centered?
I studied, but never heard what I recently learned. Chairman Mao did not kill thousands. He made it legal to kill landlords. The tenants happily did that then erected a statue to Mao. The French Revolution, 1789, also killed the landlords. Search Michael Hudson Marxism parasites
@@miophx8283 I'd say it was right-wing. For *America,* it was center (because our "center" is so far to the right).
Mrs. Wolff and Mr. Wolff go together as hand in glove: both equally kind, smart and beautiful.
You got that right. Competition is not what capitalism is about. It’s about destroying your competitors until you own ever.
Really? So you're against monopolies and unions then?
Destroying monopolies; building unions for strong foundation. @@jgalt308
@@jgalt308 So, you're against comprehension of correct context, which is a clear indication of illiteracy and/or feeble mindedness.
Or is that just a problem for your strawman arguments?
@@jgalt308love the ayn randian troll who just says bullshit on professor wolff's channel. You're fighting the good fight brother (changing no ones mind) keep at it
@@ktk44man Was the question too hard?
Thank you Professor Wolff, Dr. Harriet Fraad, and Professor Shahram Azhar.
Thanks so much. Brilliant! I'm so glad to see this program even though I'm an Australian.
It is the same for me, except that I am from Belgium in Europe.
Thank you three.
We also need real independent socialist labor organizations that fight for worker control of production.
and their inevitable unemployment.
@@jgalt308 Caused by bad decisions from feeble minded upper management, and not by labor.
You would know that if you weren't a business major flunky like those corporate flunkies.
@@kevinschmidt2210 Start your own business then
co-ops
workers own companies
What an eye opener by all of you ! Thank you very much !
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Much agree, thanks for the discussion.
Thank you all for this most important message!
What was the message?
Excellent podcast. Thank you all. And here may I say that Harriets podcasts are a real eyeopener and helps articulate what so many of us FEEL.
She was awful here.
Facts and reason do NOT care about your feelings.
Another party is absolutely necessary. Following on how to contribute.
The Greens are that Party but in your non Democracy their candidates weren't on the ballot in most States as the officials of the old Parties didn't want them as a choice voters could take.
@@scottastell9415 - Not True. Greens had ballot access in 38 states, plus the District of Columbia, In addition, Greens could be included as write-in candidates in 7 additional states. Only 5 states precluded ballot access by Greens. The states in which Greens had ballot access represented 508 electoral college votes. Yes, in many states Democrats and Republicans made it difficult for the Greens to get ballot access, but in the end Dems and Reps were not able to prevent it.
That said, out of the thousands of political offices being voted on across the country, the Greens ran 168 candidates in total. Having only 168 candidates in total nationwide after 40 years in existence is not an indication that Greens are a viable political party. What it indicates is a group of social elitists who don't know how to organize for political power.
@raywarner3 - The best way you can support development of a viable third party is to either run for local office yourself or convince someone else to run for local office under a third-party banner. Whether it is a worker-oriented party, family-oriented party, Democratic Socialist, Greens, or any other. Get candidates for at least half of the offices on the ballot in every election. As soon as that third party is a known political power locally, start getting on the ballot for state elected offices with occasional candidates for the US House of Representatives. Putting up only 150 to 170 candidates across the country in each election for all of the thousands of elected political offices, as the Greens have done over their existence, is not going to create a viable third party.
One needs more than one.
To change the System overhaul.
By the People, For the people and of the people.
Why? The third party won!!!
Wonderful talk. Thank you for giving us a warm and compassion perspective to this dark day.
I have listened to this twice already and I plan on listening again after that. This is the way through. I am convinced. Thank you SO MUCH for putting this out there. I will spread it like COVID.
Wolff is the only perspective worth listening to.
BIG UP
PROF AS USUAL VERY INFORMATIVE
You all rock. What a genius combo.
I needed this today.
Thank you to the panel members!
If you are rural, live in a village, apartment, small city, have your neighbor over for dinner, coffee, etc. that you prepare yourself. Next you make it a potluck! And share a meal. Learn about your neighbor, no matter how different they are! So many helpful things can happen from there.
The problem with America is that the emphasis is all about making money...money rules over everything else in US society and the greed amoung politicians no no bounds.
You mean making "fiat" money!
So much truth here 🙏🌞 Thank you for keeping it real and being a beacon of light in this, our hour of darkness 🌞🤝🌞🤝🌞
Name 3 and include the time stamps.
Thank you for all that you do professor wolff
Hot air production?
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@@jgalt308 Yes, you are good at that.
Sooo good of you to admit it!
The guy from PA makes more sense. Thank you. I am a white woman with two college degrees and now 63 and this economy has been rough for 40 plus years.
It takes a while for the effects of a criminal government to manifest. So add another 40 years to your observation because that is when the seeds were sown.
Many people in America seem to compare the US Empire to the Roman Empire. Using that analogy, we are in the period where the Roman Senators were having their slaves cary off the stones falling from the crumbling Coliseum to decorate their villas.
@@johnbotsford6897 Marxists are the best story tellers.
Dick Cheney said we are the new Rome. That should give every one pause.
@ Yah, it should make you pause and ask yourself what the context was of that comment rather than jumping to a conclusion. That could have meant a lot of things.
profound
@@bluewater454 cheney is one of the pnac pricks. that's the only context you need to know. that and his ties to skull and bones.
such a light weight you are...
A very interesting and powerful discussion. Thank you so much. 💖💖💖 Smart and necessary. Unite the many to fight the few.
I DO THIS. ALREADY SENDING YOUR PODCAST OUT TO SO MANY PRACTICALLY EVERY SINGLE. DAY
The 3rd political party you describe is something I'd like to be a part of.
Ross Perot in 1996.
Trumps party is the third party because the old republican party was full of rhinos and they are pretty much goneski.
So wakeup morons!!
Green Party 2024. They won 35% of the vote in Michigan, driven by the outrage over the Genocide and that those in power or waiting in the wings to take over were perpetrating. They were the only party offering peace and spending the money paying for foreign wars in America for health and infrastructure. That is why the Democrats sued to keep them off of Ballots throughout the country.
Everyone is acting like we didn't say the same thing in 2015. The green party is everything we want. If you don't care to act to support them, then stay silent. I'm tired your endless complaining and constant failure to act when it matters.
Once again coming back to find everything I posted has been deleted.
Excellent! Thank you for giving me hope.
So, Obama didn't do that?
Great discussion! I have 2 kids, 15 year old daughter who is upset trump won, and an 18 year old son who is happy that he won, so the gender and economy part of this discussion is super relevant to me. ❤❤❤
Dr. Fraad's opening statement was one of the most well articulated and relevant discussions on the rot occurring in our personal lives that I've heard anywhere. While I completely subscribe to the economic arguments from Prof Wolff, I feel this framing of gender relations and damage occurring amongst both men and women is such a powerful context to give people today.
I really appreciate that she also didn't diminish the suffering and loss men are going through, in relation to how women are alternatively being exploited to higher degrees due to the shifts in the economy we all know about.
Really well stated and I wish NPR or any of the major outlets would have as articulate and honest of pundits on their airwaves.
I agree. We need free national media to bring this to all the people, but there is so much corruption due to corporate interests that we the people are not hearing it.
@@NanceClearwater I mean, NPR is supposed to be that free public / national media. The problem is they've basically fallen victim to the same corporatist & identity politic messaging as the other traditional sources. This is honestly why an open competition and better access for independant channels / sources would be an ideal scenario. There's tons of great content (like Professor Wolff) out there, it just needs better access which is likely being suppressed to some extent by the major tech outlets.
This is beautiful, i think people who follow your program want this. And Shahram you are great.❤from the Netherlands
This needs to be heard by the whole planet.
most of us that have experience living in multiple western countries find that the British and the Americans are the worst educated places on the world. the world is not experiencing the same problems as you and Europe are. Writing from New Zealand
Great show!! Love all your analysis & comments😘
Thanks Prof Wolff + Wife and guest.
That's the Proffs wife!? I had no idea!
@katfayegarrett3872 She was from what i understand , hopefully they're still going strong.
@@Buf-g6m Don't you find it "amazing" that for all the "understanding" he has offered,
he has NEVER acknowledged the fact that he is married to her, and has two
hyphenated children, one of whom is also a frequent guest?
@@jgalt308 what is the point of your remark supposed to be?
@@Buf-g6m What do the words suggest it might be?
"Economic literacy has been a disaster for the long time" - yep. Some economists have been saying this for a long time - not the wealthy ones that think the economy is doing well because they're doing well, but the wealth inequality economists that demand corporate billionaires and millionaires pay their fair share of tax: they're the ones the govt and mainstream media don't listen to.
Mr Wolff, thank you for the analysis and your fierce contempt, I enjoyed your words
Dr. Fraad's description of the status of men in modern America reminds me of how David Graeber described honor in Debt: The First 5,000 Years in some societies as a zero-sum game where one's honor was defined by the degree to which they degraded others.
And which societies were those?
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@@jgalt308Read 5,000 Years of Debt. Very educational.
@@GrandmaCathy Was it? Then you should have no problem explaining the regular debt jubilees of early cities, whose debts were forgiven, by whom, and what was the motivation of the debt holders?
Welcome Dr Harriet fraad,it's good to see you.
Wow!!! What Dr. Harriet Fraad says is true and shocking and miserable. SHOOK MY SOUL TO THE CORE!!!
How capitalism affects people's personal lives is very interesting.
@@tomasasompolinsky1143 Yes, fairy tales usually are.
Now if only you had capitalism here.
@@jgalt308 Of course we do, to argue we dont is disingenuous.
@@tlpineapple1 Extremely disingenuous.
@@jgalt308 The Ayn Rand bot is proven to still be defective.
Or is it intentionally programmed to behave exactly like the defective Ayn Rand?
So VERY grateful to all of you for illuminating the many paths that have brought us here. Helps to make sense of a world gone mad. Many thanks!
Really? So, tell us how and when the world went mad?
The one thing the corporate/political elites fear is solidarity.
No FEAR of that now is there?
@@pausereflect5911 Not now after there was solidarity on display on Election Day between Kennedy's far left and Trump's far right to create the greatest political presidential win in US history.
One of my greatest frustrations is the inability to see broad transformation during my lifetime. I am 40 and see this great idea of yours farther and farther away. I am willing to entertain some kind of hope for it, but I honestly think we are still not ready 😢
But you witnessed inflation go from 667% to over 7000% and a completely
tyrannical government. Not enough change for you...or you just
weren't paying attention?
Harriet had great insights. And social facts
Kudos to all 3 of you!
It really is astonishing what American politics have devolved into, stuck with the two choices of something stupid or nothing at all. Tweedledee and tweedledum are arguing over who has the bigger crowd size, meanwhile the American people are suffering.
Harris wasn't a choice.
@@jgalt308 Which is why she lost.
Of course, there was no argument. Trump had the crowd size, while Harris only had the cackle.
Despite the idiocy of both candidates, either being incompetent or a weasel. Harris really was the lesser of two evils. And because of this devastating loss my country is going to enter a dark age in which a fascist incrementally implements his dastard plan.
Not astonishing at all! A shit candidate who was not elected, she was chosen.
A liberal media and elite that live in their own bubble of lies .
Enter the period of grift
@@seaside3218 Wrong. Harris represented more of the same evil we have now with Biden's evil deep state entourage. With Kennedy by his side, Trump represents the people over the evil oligarchy. The dark age will be for the evil status quo.
"😢👉 America has become a dumbed-down and stupefied society . Our government reflects this ...
Stupid no ignorant for sure.
I'm ready to support your new party Richard 😍...I love these two guests. Please invite them on again!!!
United, we stand divided. We fall 👍👍✌️✌️
Division is what this site is all about.
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lmao the j salt bot of the neo-feudal ideology of private property fetishism talking about how others are dividing people 😂
We are falling in slow motion. Not many noticed. Working to pay everlasting debt have got no time to think.
@@andrewkrolikiewicz6522 You mean the 7700% inflation since 1939
just slipped by unnoticed? Given all the "understanding" being offered here,
why would such a "brilliant educator" casually, OMIT this FACT?
Why would he claim that "rationing" stopped inflation in the 40's
and "wage and price controls" stopped it in the 70's?
Other than the 95% inflation that occurred between 1860 and 1865,
the 40s produced 70% inflation, and the 70s yielded 113%, which more than
doubled the 367% inflation of the 39 to 79, total inflation rate.
BTW the Federal Reserve Note is a "debt instrument" and being "legal tender"
rather than "lawful money", you are using a debt instrument to discharge debt.
If not having ENOUGH thinking time is a problem, imagine what not having the
facts or the correct understanding of the words contribute to it?
The "people" understand the effects, and voted accordingly, ( and democratically )
in a non-democratic "constitutional republic"...but they still have no
clue as to the "cause" of those effects.
Meanwhile, all you have is "troll" as an argument while you listen to "employers
raise prices because they can" as the cause of INFLATION...and believe it without question.
You explain with such clarity. I have shared this with my friends.
building community requires money and people don't have any money. People are living paycheck to paycheck and there is no money left for socializing or providing food and entertainment for others to build the community. Churches used to be available, but having tried that route, I have found them to be just another corporate grifter, So what is left?
Building community is free and necessary.
You have a good point. Also, some people are still sheltering from Covid.
i've been a full-time independent political consultant and political journalist since 2010. My Voting Bloc of 3,500 is galvanized to replace Establishment Democrats with True Progressives AND create a viable 3rd party that truly stands with the middle class, the working class, and the poor.
The Electoral College makes it impossible to have more than 2 panties. Get rid of the Electoral College!!
America would absolutely need to be a PURE democracy in order for us to have more than two viable parties. 270 electoral votes are needed. That's why all but two states are winner, take all now!
If every state split their electoral votes, it would create a problem getting to 270. Personally, I prefer one person one vote.
Only 93,000 views after 4 days? That right there is a big part of the problem. People are watching fox and msnbc
Sex has actually been decreasing every generation since the baby boomers and will continue to due to increased technology and forms of entertainment. Suicides, drug usage and drug overdoses increases every year (the disease of despair) they call it. This also happens when income inequality increases along with crazy beliefs and lower morality
Sex is just depressing nowadays
Harriet f r a a d really laid it out there, some education for me! Thank you very much, Harriet
Hey i feel poetic.... so i thank you guys. I knew the creative spirit would shine through. Even if just for a second of this sad day.
Sad because we know there will be more pain. Pain to the vulnerable
No one talks about how domestic producers will also raise prices since they don’t have to compete as much with products that have tariffs. So that means another huge wealth transfer as prices climb. This is the condition that lead to the gilded age and the Great Depression.
The complexity of modern life , the time and energy required for it all , combined with the money problems many people are having is the problem with having well organised , represented and healthy communities.
Precisely the attitude Democrats and Republicans hope you'll maintain.
@marclawson2536 you're right.
"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." If you understand THAT, it may be the inspiration to understand the history of this "constitutional republic" and how what exists at present is precisely what that document was written to prevent.
@@jgalt308 John Gault, now there's a load of propoganda for ya'.
Hence the use if the word "might"...that facts or reason will emerge here is an extreme improbability.
Thanks all of you, excellent discussion.
Dr. Fraade, we are probably a similar age and similar profession. I could not agree more with what you say, and I have said pretty much the same.
You are right - politics used to be about service - the elected and government officials were public servants. But yes, it became a business. The memo by the chamber of commerce many years ago mobilized business to take over the "public" sector.
And when did this transition occur? Union membership ( private sector/ non-farm ) peaked in 1954 ( at 35% ) while U.S production as a percentage of world production peaked in 1950. By 1980, union membership had fallen to 22% and 50% were now public sector unions.
The Powell Memo occurred in 1971 the same year FDR's de facto fiat became de jure while the inflation rate hit 367% from it's 1939 ..67%
in 1860 and 1897 "lawful money" dollars. By 1980 this had doubled to 667%+. The growth of government at all levels began in 1913.
Harriet and Richard nice to see That you’re sharing your knowledge
If only it were knowledge.
@@jgalt308 You're right! They shared their wisdom. Good catch!
Empowering and hope inducing Professor Wolff and esteemed guests. 🙏🏼
From New Zealand , thank you Mr Wolff and guests, this was amazing !
Excellent message and oh so needed❤
Great discussion and honest, truthful conversations between very knowledgeable individuals with nothing to gain. Everyone needs to hear this.
So there is no gain involved here? Who do you think is paying for this?
@@jgalt308 Once again, your misunderstanding of the correct context proves your willful ignorance.
God dang it Professor Wolff. Why do you have to make so much sense!!! 😅😅😂
Most normal people don't agree.
@@jgalt308 ... with you.
We need four parties coupled with tiered voting. Tiered voting would make choosing an alternative party safer for your vote, giving the alternative party more power than any alternative party has now. We also need to get private money out of elections.
We need however many parties we can muster!!
If only Ameica could hear this discussion. Thank you.
A discussion so many of us are looking for and wanting hear!
It's going to be interesting to see how disappointed Trump voters will be when nothing changes and things get worse for them. Women will be a big part of this when the promises of Trump fail to protect and advance them. Birthrates are down for a reason..I didn't know about suicides in the military. I was 10 years old when I realized that life was not fair in the US. I stopped saying the pledge of allegiance. That was around 1956.
Kennedy is the remedy who will change things for the better, just as he has for over 40 years as a trail attorney!
I stopped saying it in childhood as well. I never believed in the bs they kept trying to instill in us. It took my parents into their 60s to understand that so much of it is brainwashing and not real.
Fantastic program and analysis, as always. I follow you regularly and particularly like the message promoting solidarity of the workers against the employers. It seems to me, the greatest chance of gathering support for a new party must center on this. The side note is that it takes the far rights ability to separate people by any other characteristic away (color, religion, sex, orientation, etc). The workers will be educated to stick together based only on their common issue; work.
Thanks. Professor Wolfe is a great and intelligent person. Great education.
I love your work! ❤
Greetings and respect from Australia!
Wages will not go up. Grocery prices will not go down.
So interesting and yes-everybody needs to hear that!!
This was good to listen to, and you all made elucidative points that help find clear paths through this mess.
Thank each and all of you for a wonderful exchange on addressing the subjects of interest to so many people wondering "what the hell is happening with American Democracy" and where do we go from here to elevate ourselves out of this uncivil, damaged and polarized political tug of war. 58:44
Thank you for the reminder that we aren’t alone. Many people are surrounded by liberals and MAGA people and feel hopeless as socialists. This program was encouraging.
Thank you very much!
BTW: All of Mr.Wolff's shows are worth keeping in favorites❣
Your the man professor Wolff. That why I always listen to you.
Ralf Nader on Nov. 6th was interviewed by Democracy Now. He explained why the majority voted for Trump. It's very well informative.
The problem is that American companies would rather do business outside of our country and ship the stuff back into America. As if they think they're above our economic laws. Americans just want America to have a solid foundation and currently our system has gotten us here. We need to keep business here. Why can't we upgrade our work force to manufacture what we need. If American companies are going to avoid paying taxes here by leaving and then still want to benefit by sucking out of our economy then I say fuck em
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Thankyou for speaking the Truth - + sharing it with us.
Thanks so much everyone. I would love to hear Professor Wolff address our Canadian economic situation at some point. It is pretty grim too for younger people but we have a few soft landing spots that American capitalism does not. God bless.🇨🇦
Occupy Wall St, the mass protests from Tunisia to Syria, protest in EU, Black protests and more. These were monumental initially. They were sincere movements coming through solidarity and organization. But the State through police FBI CIA and whatever else systematically through various means destroyed them. I saw their potential emerge by the 99%.
To me the problem isn't a disaffected people, but a Capitalist State using people's desires for justice against the people
Brilliant 😊!.. share everyone ❤️🕊️
The difference between the American and Chinese governments is that in America, they are politicians who are self-serving and in China, they are administrators who have the interests of the people at heart.
Chinese & American government share a consultant in common: McKinsey & Company or one of its well trained subsidiaries.
Pure evil.
Ran into professor Wolff's contributions today and already find them the best antidote to despair, which is left to do next.
I just got blasted w the knowledge I should have had already about how we owe China $816 billion in debt. We are the country most in debt- no wonder the gov is always broke and trying to gouge us. We can't afford Socialism!
I was a Bernie Sanders supporter in 2016, still am. I became an independent in 2018 when I saw the Dems quibbling over whether or not to impeach trump. Bc we only have two choices, I end up always voting for the democrat. But I've advocated for a few years now that AA voters leave the Democratic party, and the Republican party, en masse and become independents. No need to reinvent the wheel, just infuse the independent ranks w disaffected voters who support the working and middle classes, and introduce an independent candidate into the next presidential election.
Never going to happen. Look around at your fellow citizens 😂
That happened during this election. But the deck was stacked against RFK Jr by the Democrats. So he joined forces with Trump, who supports the working and middle classes. Those disaffected voters caused the greatest comeback presidential election win and in US history with a clear mandate to reinvent the US Government.
@helloitsmehb I take issue w that simply bc it's a new idea and has not reached anybody but the few who have seen my post. I'm also sure that I'm not the only one to think of this, so there are others who will come around to the realization that we no longer have anything to lose.
@@danieldhardman5388 let’s hope so but highly unlikely. Got to be a realist at some point
@@helloitsmehb I feel you. But the truth is either don't vote and totally surrender--knowing the majority of AAs do not have the means to move internationally, coupled w the fact that giving up US citizenship voluntarily is expensive--or keep voting but in ways that will reap real results. The only path I see, as someone who is moving overseas, is to continue to vote. That's important for those who will or must remain. There's only paper thin line between my optimism and my pessimism, but this is bigger than me. That's all.
Wonderful program: opinions from different perspectives to give working-class people alternatives. Professor Wolff, I try to listen to most of your programs... lucid teaching and good-heartedness to approach crucial problems!
"Madison Avenue hoopdidoodle"
I'm absolutely using that...
From the other side of the world, you are totally right. Our grandparents survived the ww2. then the socialist/communist ''ruling'' and since we end up in whatever this is, we will make it though this time around ! Thanks all you to take the time to share it with us !
thank you for so many reasons