Spelade
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Michael Moore shares his personal history with both Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who both starred in 2009's "Capitalism: A Love Story." In very personal terms, he addresses the possible fracture within the progressive movement and why we must move past this in order to ensure the defeat of both Donald Trump and the rotten system that produced Trump.
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The Credibility Gap
Current Affairs
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/01/the-credibility-gap
Bernie in 1987: Lamenting that there aren’t more women in office and encouraging young girls to run:
https://twitter.com/pjayevans/status/1216826375744737280
Bernie in 1988: “In my view a woman could be elected president of the United States”
https://twitter.com/meaganmday/status/1216793548567113728
Bernie Sanders’s Hard Fight for Hillary Clinton
The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/bernie-sanderss-hard-fight-for-hillary-clinton
Compilation of 40 campaign events Bernie Sanders did for Hillary Clinton in 2016:
https://twitter.com/ThomasIsOnline/status/1147606198050574337
Compilation of 12 rallies and 3 fundraisers Hillary Clinton did for Barack Obama in 2008:
https://twitter.com/ThomasIsOnline/status/1147614729491353603
Exit polling after the 2008 campaign showed that 15 percent of Clinton-supporting Democrats in the primary voted for John McCain in the general election over Barack Obama:
https://web.archive.org/web/20081108082743/http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/exit.polls/
According to data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study, only 12 percent of people who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries voted for Trump in the general election:
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/545812242/1-in-10-sanders-primary-voters-ended-up-supporting-trump-survey-finds
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Since the economic crash of 2008, polling has consistently showed that young Americans are embracing socialism more than capitalism. Media outlets like Jacobin and organizations like DSA have emerged and they are mobilizing and informing new generations of political thinkers.
In this episode of "RUMBLE with Michael Moore," Michael is joined by Alex Press, an editor and writer at Jacobin, a labor organizer and a DSA member. She and Michael discuss the movement behind the Bernie Sanders campaign, health care, the Wizard of Oz, suicide, labor and more.
Rumble Reads:
You can read and subscribe to Jacobin Magazine here:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/
You can follow Alex Press here:
https://twitter.com/alexnpress
The laughable New York Times story from 2015 that Michael mentioned is here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/us/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign.html
The media and organizing project that Alex mentioned, Labor Notes, is here:
https://www.labornotes.org/
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On the eve of Donald Trump's impeachment by the U.S House of Representatives, Michael is joined by a man who's bravery in exposing the lies about the Vietnam War led to him being personally targeted by President Nixon...leading directly to Nixon's impeachment and resignation.
Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower, who Nixon National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger called "the most dangerous man in America," reflects on Nixon's resignation and why Trump must go.
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From this episode:
The film Michael called "my favorite documentary of all-time"
Hearts and Minds
https://youtu.be/v0DTs6edZjs
The scene we aired:
"We Are The Wrong Side"
https://youtu.be/STySb33rkUo
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Michael Moore introduces his new podcast and sets civilization back on course.
