"The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them." - Turkish proverb.

@karenwhite9989

Ай бұрын

Amazing proverb. So sad but so true. Thanks for sharing this. People will vote for their own demise to quench their hatred.

@soniadavila9903

Ай бұрын

Si true!

@24HeySay

Ай бұрын

Just as Trump's head is made of wood, like too many of his followers heads.

@jandunn169

Ай бұрын

Brilliant. Thank you

@dellerwin1

Ай бұрын

Beautiful quote. Thanks. Am gonna circulate it.

Equating wealth with intelligence is a huge problem in the US.

@annakingry9157

Ай бұрын

And how many TV personalities are now in the business of running the country? Americans are not serious voters.

@judyives1832

Ай бұрын

Exactly. The USA has a habit shipping the rich. Even though the rich has usually done NOTHING to earn either their money or our respect. The money is being stolen from the middle class and the poor.

@dianneantonio9293

Ай бұрын

....world wide...look at the English Royals...other dynasties..

@ronniejohnson196

Ай бұрын

No Doubt!

@andreah6379

Ай бұрын

Americans IDOLIZE the greedy rich, are you kidding?!

I had a long conversation with Robert Reich when he was a dark horse candidate for Mass. Governor, and I was a newspaper editor. Smartest guy I ever met, beyond question.

@kenashworth7672

18 күн бұрын

What is a "dark horse candidate?" I don't know the expression.

@victoza9232

18 күн бұрын

@@kenashworth7672 It's a lesser-known candidate. Why don't you just Google it?

@carolewhelan2492

16 күн бұрын

@@kenashworth7672 an expression from over 150 years ago, by training a racehorse horse "in the dark" owners & trainers could enter it in a race and place bets at very favorable odds to win, since no one expected the horse to even be running in the race. So a human “Dark horse candidate” is one no one expected to even be in the political race, but has a good chance to win.

@kenashworth7672

16 күн бұрын

@@carolewhelan2492 Ah - thank you: the context now makes sense.

@victoza9232

15 күн бұрын

@@carolewhelan2492 You could've just written "a lesser-known candidate."

The problem with unfettered capitalism, in a nutshell. The income gap in the Western world is shameful. The myth of Reaganomics has bankrupted the middle class.

@pete5668

13 күн бұрын

🤣

@gxios

7 күн бұрын

Reagan killed inflation and my income tripled in the 1980's. I became middle class due to Reagan. The left wants the middle class destroyed, as it's the only class that demand that laws be enforced fairly, and that's a big sticking point for the rich and poor, for whom laws are to be circumvented.

@brettany_renee_blatchley

7 күн бұрын

Another big problem is trolls on social media, amiright pete5668??

@pete5668

7 күн бұрын

@@brettany_renee_blatchleyso I'm a troll if I disagree with you. Got it.

@brettany_renee_blatchley

7 күн бұрын

@@pete5668, no self-awareness - yeah, that's a troll characteristic.

I am 69 and the current direction of the country scares me. It's not Trump that scares me as much as the large group of people that do not see the framework of facism being set. Examples: the Supreme court is playing games with the wording of law. They struck down Roe and that's after 5 justices lied about overturning Roe in their senate hearings. Yesterday they decided to play games with the immunity of the president. Justice Alito said he was not interested in the case brought before the court. WHAT? That I thought WAS what the court system is supposed to do. Many on the court are re-writing the laws which is NOT in their power to do. How about our government creating coups in many countries for our domination in those markers and those countries resources all for big AMERICAN companies. How about Bush inacting the patriot act for our protection. And then lying about WMDs to get us into war and at the same time allowing our INDUSTRIAL complex to make more money. One of the only divisions of government that has no accountability to the money it spends. Biden continues this today in supplying the Isreal government with more weapons. The presidency has gone sideways. Trump said over and over that Covid was not a threat & that everyone should get back to work to keep our economy good. Good for who? Anyone owning stock? That's limited to very few at the top. The stock market used to be the sign of the worth of a company. NOT like Trump is trying to do with his social media company and make a quick buck. Many in the house and esspecially the senate are their to make money off of the stock market. And lets not forget Citizens United. What a perfect way to allow big money to take ever our government. When did THE AMERICAN WAY become worshipping money instead of life itself? We as a country do not support struggling people and make it hard for the less fortunate to lead a life of happiness. Why are we playing with our beliefs? Many news outlets are trying to normalize hate and atrocities. In school we had fire drills but NEVER had shooter drills. What the hell? Gun manufacturers are making money while we allow our values in humanity to drift downward. Where are the hard lines we as Americans will not cross? I would say our worship of money and power have condemned us to the hell we are currently facing. Sadly!

@erincaitlin1655

Ай бұрын

Well said !

@yourdaddy-mq4km

Ай бұрын

Did you forget who indicted their opposition?

@yourdaddy-mq4km

Ай бұрын

Did you forget who sent your tax funds to Ukraine?

@yourdaddy-mq4km

Ай бұрын

Did you forget who locked you down during the "pandemic"?

@tammyjantzen9004

Ай бұрын

You're 100% correct!!

Omg. He is explaining what I have been trying to say ever since Regan became president! I am 80 years old and have witnessed the destruction of the middle class by Big Business republicans since the early 80s!

@edwardhardy3469

Ай бұрын

Ronald Regan really got the ball rolling.

@henrimatisse7481

Ай бұрын

people only want happy news or news that favors their position.

@fritzforsthoefel8031

Ай бұрын

It's democrats who is destroying us here is the proof when taxes were raised by a large amount by Eisenhower it took one person working to support a family of four after the big tax increase it soon went to two people working to support a family of four a big drop in liveing standards now with government bigger than ever before and more regulations on business than ever before two people working struggle to support a family of four and our debt grows by seven percent a year our economy little over two this is unsustainable and will destroy our nation because of Democrat greed vote out handout Democrats before it's to late our childrens future depend on it

@juliemissick4206

Ай бұрын

Republicans are still trying to tell the average American middle and lower income earners that Reagan’s trickle down economics is in our best interest. It’s only in the interest of wealthy Americans and large corporations.

@rtm365bnc

Ай бұрын

Or the Hate, anger and chaos caucus

Robert Reich is a national treasure. Diminutive in size but giant in intellect, and always on the side of labor🇺🇸

@brianmclaughlin4419

22 күн бұрын

He seems a mediocre intellect to me couched in unfounded assertions and coached in Socialism.

@ericpfeiffer4037

22 күн бұрын

What’s unfounded about what he’s saying? You don’t seem to even know what socialism is. I’d hardly call a Rhode Scholar a mediocre intellect. Let’s compare your achievements by all means.

@John-jd7mm

21 күн бұрын

@@brianmclaughlin4419 Only socialism will save the working class Only socialism will save the country Only socialism will save democracy Only socialism will save the planet Capitalism destroys all of the above... this is FACT.

@OgeronimonominoregO

19 күн бұрын

Socialists politicized labor in the early days because it's a necessary part of their underlying class-struggle schtick. They have to have oppressors and oppressed else they can't divide and conquer the masses. This strategy had little success in the west so they turned to finding oppressors and oppressed outside of economic classes. They continue to use economics to try to woo people into surrendering their wealth and liberties, but it only works on a certain percentage of the population. There's no power base there still in what remains of the west. That's why you get all this other socialist propaganda on every conceivable social issue nowadays. Even 'gender' is now politicized in the most insane way that few ever could have predicted. So, in terms of why Trump is popular, one answer I would give is that he seems to know the difference between a man and a woman, and this resonates with the portion of the population that is still somewhat rational.

@RaidDK

15 күн бұрын

@brianmclaughlin4419 Yes, to you, I’m sure he does. Not to smart people.

The level of greed is staggering. Insanity!

I was creamed by The Crash of 2008 -- lost my career, my health insurance, and almost all of my retirement investments at the age of 61. The government bailed out Wall St. and Corporate America, but private citizens had to find a way to recover independently. I had an affordable house, so my disabled son decided he needed to be my housemate and share all living expenses. I cooked from scratch, baked my own bread, started using homemade laundry detergent and hung my clothes outdoors to dry. We grew our own fruits and vegetables and gave up all single-use disposable paper and plastic products. My daughter jokes that I'm an escapee from a hippie commune. She's a Trumper, and despises me for my political and economic views. I'm financially okay now, still watching every dime. My town still has tent communities of seniors who never recovered ... but GM is doing just fine.

@flyrobin2544

Ай бұрын

The party that causes the homeless tent populations, screams the loudest about the nasty homeless tent camps. :(

@barrywassel3899

Ай бұрын

Hopefully your daughter will one day wake up from the "word drugs" tRump spreads around. And I sincerely congratulate you and your coping mechanisms, Kathryn. If that had happened to tRumpie, he would just cry and fill his diaper in a senior's home until someone fed him.

@privacylock855

Ай бұрын

Who are you voting for?

@elizabethsohler6516

Ай бұрын

In re: Your daughter. I'm sorry for your loss.

@andrewzcolvin

Ай бұрын

Your daughter has been poisoned by fascism. Such a shame.

Welfare for corporations that are wealthy- ok. Absent-father mothers on welfare - bad. 🙄

@yourdaddy-mq4km

Ай бұрын

Welfare is bad no matter who

@kt798

Ай бұрын

​@@yourdaddy-mq4kmthat is absolutely true... until situations change and you a hand.

@yourdaddy-mq4km

Ай бұрын

@@kt798 I've been there and I don't want anything from the government

@aurelia5614

Ай бұрын

@@yourdaddy-mq4km Not if you need it.

@ellarweegadsden8483

Ай бұрын

@@yourdaddy-mq4km You don't like welfare, but you aspire to be rich like the Waltons who never paid their employees enough so that they weren't eligible for welfare and food stamps. If we thought fathers in the home would help we'd never have set up welfare so they couldn't be in the home. Do you know how much a mom with 3 kids collects when she's on welfare? Why do we think that the people who get the least are the one's who're getting the most?

As a retired 73 year old man I have been searching in vain for an account of why my country has taken this downward spiral for most of my life. I am not the brightest bulb on the planet and find politics generally confusing and rife with untruthful assumption. In 24 minutes this gentleman has brought into focus the understanding I need to believe in my own intuition and sense of place in this bizarre environment we live in. Thank you sir. You have a new student.

@JacqueReynolds

4 күн бұрын

Exactly!

@ripsawful

4 күн бұрын

Don't be a sucker. This commie has been a master bullshatter for decades and has ruined many lives.

If The MAGA movement is so pro America, then explain why every totalitarian leader is for Trump.

@tobielurie4582

4 күн бұрын

Racisim

@user-rb1yf4he9q

4 күн бұрын

@@tobielurie4582 racism.

@victoza9232

3 күн бұрын

@@tobielurie4582 How is Trump racist? Btw, you misspelled racism.

@victoza9232

3 күн бұрын

@user-rb1yf4he9q "every totalitarian leader" Really? Name them.

@Engineer10211

3 күн бұрын

@@victoza9232 I'll start: bin Salman, Putin, Orban, Kim Jong-Un

As an Australian in Australia at the start of the Covid pandemic as a CEO of a company with over 1,000 workers I realised we could be in for a very rough times with a very big drop in sales revenue - I said to our CFO that our most valuable asset is our workers, they are what makes our business successful, I asked our CFO to develop a financial plan that would allow us to retain all of our staff through the pandemic, then I emailed all our staff to explain the dire situation and our plan to keep everyone employed but with the proviso that if our sales fell all staff including me the CEO and all management would have a pay reduction until the pandemic was over - this plan was extremely well received by all staff, the huge benefit for the business was at the end of the recession we had all our highly skilled staff still employed and we could immediately return to 100% production.

@asuka_the_void_witch

Ай бұрын

lmao you're a CEO? L

@lzrd8460

Ай бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@platinaatje6134

Ай бұрын

The same line the Dutch government took. As much as possible keep the employees employed so after the crisis you still have your qualified workforce. This strategy has worked out great, and employers still had their workers and did not have to put a lot of effort in building up a qualified staff from scratch.

@platinaatje6134

Ай бұрын

@@asuka_the_void_witch It seems that at this moment a lot of Americans think that stupidity is a virtue. These folks have a club named the GOP. Seems you are a member.

@you2bforall

Ай бұрын

Be careful, your fellow CEOs are going to have you committed.

Plainly put, many of us are tired of watching some people eat caviar, live in mansions, sail around in yachts, have personal physicians and send their kids to Ivy League universities while we struggle to buy groceries, keep a roof over our heads, own a reliable car to drive to work, go to a doctor and send our kids to college. Having a society filled with glutinous overconsumption on one end and grinding poverty on the other end is both unsustainable and dangerous.

@georgedunkelberg5004

Ай бұрын

BECAUSE SURVIVAL IS INSUFFICIENT!

@eric2500

Ай бұрын

Weirdly, I can remember that we spent at least two decades of the 80s and the 90s WATCHING these people live in their mansions and sail their yachts on TV and in the papers, while we kept the roofs over our heads just barely, our unions and pensions went away, our health got worse as we could not afford the good food and medicine...we bought the lie! *(I didn't, you didn't, but as a culture, we bought the lie!)*

@ace448

Ай бұрын

I disagree we are fine watching people do all those things what people are tired of is the inability for themselves to be that person.

@rspro575

Ай бұрын

Those are all very legitimate concerns. Trump can not and will not address any of them. He is about promoting his business interests and retribution to his stated enemies. He can not govern.

@debc2237

Ай бұрын

@@ace448 The physical Planet will not allow that.

Thank you Mr. Reich! Vote blue! 💙

@fritzforsthoefel8031

20 күн бұрын

If you vote Democrat why do you not pay enough taxes for the social programs they want do you not know the size of our debt and that our children will inherit a bankrupt shell of a nation because you won't pay enough taxes for the handouts democrats want

@fritzforsthoefel8031

20 күн бұрын

Our debt is thirty four trillion dollars our economy is twenty six trillion meaning when our creditors cash there bonds in for dollars they will lay claim to everything we produce and still owe more resources thats the future our children will have because you won't pay enough taxes for the handouts Democrats want stop voteing your own selfish interests and start voteing our childrens intrests vote out handout Democrats for our childrens sake

@JoseMartinez-df2db

20 күн бұрын

Biden is also a neofascist.

@victoza9232

18 күн бұрын

@illisssawhite2676 If you vote blue, you must REALLY hate this country. SlowJoe has made a mess and you want to vote for more of THAT? Jimmy Carter is breathing a sigh of relief knowing that SlowJoe is a bigger turd than he was.

@fritzforsthoefel8031

17 күн бұрын

If you vote blue why do you not pay enough taxes for the social programs Democrats want instead of bankrupting our nation for our children we have a debt so big it defies belief because of Democrat programs that Democrats won't pay for why do Democrats hate our children

I remember Robert's speech. Back then I started preaching to anyone who would listen that we were heading to this future. Where employers would keep squeezing the working class more and more to where we are today. Donald Trump was someone who took advantage of other's downward spiral financially during the late 80's and early to mid 90's.

"ronald reagan murdered the american dream" - Hunter S. Thompson

@debc2237

Ай бұрын

A lot of Brits thought Margaret Thatcher was a financial savior but North Sea oil came on line as she took office. She had nothing to do with it any improvement.

@lyndakaye5198

Ай бұрын

F A C T !!!

@eleanormedina6703

Ай бұрын

Reagan's people'S actually tried to replicate the assassination of Kennedy.. yet the secret service ...Reagan was berated during office about great acting not.real journalists were already bought up. Nixon days. Can't win? Buy them.Those lazy heirs.Every heir was bought instead of protecting the family history.Shame on the future generations. YES I UNDERSTAND THE LAZINESS OF THE HEIRS JUST NOT GIVING A DAMN AND TALKING ABOUT I AM A BRAND.in name only.😂 All my oil clothes made r not going to be held for liability. 😂organization of labor is dead.Hey Reich what union do you belong too?

@yourdaddy-mq4km

Ай бұрын

​@@lyndakaye5198you say that like life didn't get drastically better after Reagan

@johnrider4649

Ай бұрын

@@yourdaddy-mq4km It did not. Reagan / Trickle Down Economics accelerated this present divided wealth and increasing fascism.

Believing someone who has lied extensively is simply being gullible and stupid.

@kentcavender6949

28 күн бұрын

You have just described the republican base

@adstryker5084

24 күн бұрын

@@kentcavender6949 "You have just described the Demonrat base" -- fixed it for you.

@you2bforall

24 күн бұрын

Fool #MAGAts once, shame on #TheTrumper. Fool #MAGAts twice shame on them.

@GMC-qo9xi

23 күн бұрын

@@adstryker5084trump has risen to power specifically by relentless and shamelessly slandering his opponents (anyone/everyone who stood in his way). He has mastered the power of lawlessness. Regardless of the sins of the democrats, the republicans have rationalized that the ends justify the means-fighting evil with evil.

@tryscience

22 күн бұрын

​​@@adstryker5084 Let's make it simple for you. In 1970 the top tax bracket was 70%. Now, tax advantages go to the wealthy and to businesses. Were you not listening to the gentleman? Your anger and frustration is a direct result of you being manipulated by the wealthy and powerful. Being manipulated against your own best interests. But you can't even see it.

In my European view it looks like the USA has allways been consumed with money and power.

@rjlchristie

4 күн бұрын

It's always been the cult of "me first and eff everyone else".

I so admire Mr. Reich's comments and his insight in this crazy political circus, especially with the orange Clown as ring Master. His views are always spot on! THANK YOU

Since 1980, worker pay has increased 20%, executive pay increased 400%, corperate profit has increased 1500%. Totally lopsided economy and society.

@fritzforsthoefel8031

Ай бұрын

Do you believe in a livable wage

@arturbello4213

Ай бұрын

Total NOT true.

@mholland9330

Ай бұрын

@@fritzforsthoefel8031 A livable wage is what gave us the middle class in America, and unions are the only country wide organizations that are still fighting for a livable wage for the working class.

@Bigfoot-px9gj

Ай бұрын

That's why whenever I see someone and get into a conversation, when we're done talking and say goodbye, I always say (for 40 years now) *_"Don't work too hard, nobody pays good enough for that..."_*

@user-ff4lr2jj5r

Ай бұрын

@@fritzforsthoefel8031 The point is you cannot have a livable wage with those figures.

How can you respect someone who is so selfish … it’s always been about Trump and him only … it makes me sick

@user-sg6sv9oi6i

26 күн бұрын

💯 agree

@robertl1504

23 күн бұрын

Why would a rich Narcissistic misogynistic billionaire give a damn about the lower and middle classes and any non wealthy Americans for that matter?

@gregpendrey6711

21 күн бұрын

The basket of deplorables are suseptible to fear mongering. They are fearful and shame based.

@DeaconBlues25

21 күн бұрын

Isn't that how it works with gods?

@TheGuinever

20 күн бұрын

It makes me sick, too. And I have lost faith in half the American public.

Thank you for your clarity in explaining a trend that has mystified me since 2015. I grew up in a strongly pro-union household in a largely pro-union area. It came as a genuine shock to learn that even among my own generation, not every school system educated students on the history of and benefits hard-won by unionization. Your discussion links the subjects in a profound and enlightening fashion. Thank you.

@technokicksyourass

2 күн бұрын

Unions are for losers. Check out the history of Britain to see how well unions worked out.

Good to hear someone finally calling out some of the massive destruction wrought on America by Ronald Reagan.

@uzeela

5 күн бұрын

YES AGREE!!

Because people have no idea what living under a Dictatorship is like.

@patland1762

Ай бұрын

I have always believed strongly in my heart one reason we should be grateful for immigrants, legal or illegal, is they are the only ones in this country who know what it is NOT to live in a Democracy.

@buslady6695

Ай бұрын

We might well find out, if Trump actually gets elected. I truly believe that is his goal. He is so full of hate and vindictiveness towards people he believes have done him harm.

@tonyjones1560

Ай бұрын

Fascism is a monster that eats its’ young. Some people won’t realize this until they find out the hard way and it’s NEVER pretty.

@seanhraba747

Ай бұрын

Ask David Hogg about that.

@IJayAmLegend

Ай бұрын

…night of the long knives. And that's amongst the psychopaths, not real people.

You are so right. Wages have gotten so far behind,. There is almost no such thing as pensions and unions so people can afford to retire. People have responded to this with anger and fear which fuels the path to dictatorship.

@yourdaddy-mq4km

Ай бұрын

Wages are behind because you still believe in the democrats.

@michaelcap9550

Ай бұрын

Unions killed many cities with their greed.

@groovee63

Ай бұрын

Per democrats !!! What do you think comes from open borders?surely you are blind and deaf

@RB-kr1ww

24 күн бұрын

@lynnjudd9036 Exactly right. Trump, as bad as he is, is not the problem, he is a symptom. As a scarily relevant example, Hitler came to power even though he was considered a bit of a joke at the time, (sound familiar?) because of the horrendous economic conditions imposed upon Germany after WWI.

@catherinepatton8699

22 күн бұрын

You bet it does.

When corporations became people is when things went bad for the working families

@terriem3922

6 күн бұрын

True

@GeorgeCrumpler

4 күн бұрын

Since their inception in a court of law corporations have been considered a "person"

That intro was so powerful. Seeing Robert predict the future way back in 94 is such a powerful attention grabber. That clip is a gold mine, Robert, take this feedback to your inequality media team and make the most of it. It's really prescient, and it effectively creates trust that you know what you:re talking about.

When companies don't think of their employees as human beings, they themselves are not human beings.

@user-yt3so4pk7u

Ай бұрын

We have to get rid of Citizen’s United, the Electoral College, & the filibuster. VOTE 100% BLUE no 3rd party no Nikki voters

@patland1762

Ай бұрын

Yes but under the law they are treated like human beings.

@nancycollins5172

Ай бұрын

@@user-yt3so4pk7u - No RFK Jr. voters, either!

@WakeUpAmerican000s

Ай бұрын

The crooked SCOTUS says that judicial entities like Corporations and Unions are people and therefore have all rights that human persons have in the Bill of Rights. Though the SCOTUS ruled this nonsense in the 2010 Citizens United disaster, we have yet to see a CEO whose company went bankrupt be prosecuted for murder, or a startup Corporation that runs out of money and is aborted be prosecuted under Dobbs. The right-wing-nuts have weaponized the 1st Amendment to the detriment of our entire democratic system.

@debrap7137

Ай бұрын

Ah, the SCOTUS disagrees. "Corporations are people."

As Heather shared she kind of “lucked out” in her situation in 2008, my family experienced the opposite- as you said, we had sunk so much into a home, and in 2008 our income stopped due to a health issue (that took a year to resolve ). Our country bailed out the banks and corporations, but no one helped us. We lost everything including our home (and sadly eventually our marriage). All we needed was a little time. Our banks literally wouldn’t even answer the phone. They disappeared (until we bailed them out). Our income was from a major airline which could’ve offered support knowing the health issue would resolve. Again, they declared bankruptcy, screwed employees and yet got bailed out. The ripples continue as our kids have unplanned college debt as they try to make their way as adults. As a country we don’t discuss this recent history because corporations don’t want to remind us *they* are the ones who didn’t pull themselves up by their bootstraps. *They* got the government handout. Their workers got screwed. Thanks for actually discussing! I may be disillusioned, but I know going authoritarian is the exact wrong way to go!! 💙

@yourdaddy-mq4km

Ай бұрын

Blue team is the ones giving those handouts.

@5amiann

Ай бұрын

It's not teams. That's what's wrong with the rightwingers. To them it's a game. It's people's lives.

@yourdaddy-mq4km

Ай бұрын

@@5amiann if it's not teams to you then why do you call them "right-wingers"

@JvsSanders

Ай бұрын

Ronald Reagan was the Antichrist

@joanhalgren3502

Ай бұрын

I am sorry for your losses due to the oligarchy in charge at the time. It's hard to forgive such blatant greed! I hope your kids can get help with their debt and find a good path. We cannot give up on making things better and not allowing greed and power to win--together the collective can and must unite.Thanks for sharing your story!

Guilty... Guilty... Guilty... ... 34 times. He's officially a convicted felon now. And he is officially a weak loser now.

@goldenhawk352

5 күн бұрын

Typical leftist. Too lazy or two weak to write "guilty" all 34 times.

Also the dynamic of the family in which the wife was the homemaker but then entered the work force was driven by the banks by introducing the credit card to the middle class. Credit is debt for this argument. Debit creates the need for more income.

@uzeela

5 күн бұрын

The loan shark rates of interest is outrageous...late 70's... starting the upward climb to 24+% interest ion credit cards

The idea that corporate greed would trickle down is crazy.

@leptonsoup337

Ай бұрын

SOMETHING trickled down...

@lonpollard902

Ай бұрын

What's crazy is thinking that that explains the theocratic right, fascist right, and white nationalist right.

@mikewilliams6025

Ай бұрын

@@lonpollard902 What a loon

@timwarneka5681

Ай бұрын

Yes. And we knew that in the 80s when we were first offered this trickle down nonsense.

@williambell4576

Ай бұрын

Sound like Reagan.,,trickle down economics

I worked many years as top aide to a politician. When she started down the criminal path, I immediately quit. She ended up escaping prison because she got a sympathetic judge, although her husband was convicted. Our system needs to change...

@shawna1278

Ай бұрын

Who was convicted?

I have SO enjoyed this conversation. Thank you Mr. Reich. Keep up the fight!

I am a millenial from Northern California … when my whole city burned down and I was fleeing in the middle of the night I realized I did not have to pay rent next month… I started crying tears of joy and fantasizing that everywhere would burn down and then we could all just camp out and live a life where our only problem and stress was finding food to keep living. It made me so happy and everytime I see these neighborhoods full of boomers who own million dollar homes wish their houses would all burn down too… I no longer believe reform is possible… I will never own an asset and when I make more money my landlord will realize there is more “flexibility” in our finances and raise the rent again to take everything I worked for. I hear your call for optimism… but I don’t think it’s reasonable nor realistic to believe it will be better for my kids.

Bad culture and poor education.

@patbelcher6738

Ай бұрын

more like lack of both - culture and education

@brianmi40

Ай бұрын

"Culture" doesn't even come close to the realization that Big Business was handed the keys, starting with Reagan tax cuts, and moving right on through Clinton's "age of Big Government is over" as government was slowly stripped of almost all power.

@lindabalent2755

Ай бұрын

Especially poor education.

@michaelcap9550

Ай бұрын

@@lindabalent2755 NEA and the devil who leads it.

@williambell4576

Ай бұрын

And when you look at it, best foundation.😮

In 1979 the minimum wage in OH was $5.15/ hour. In 2019, the minimum wage in OH was $8.55/ hour. Barely a $3.00 increase in 40 years! You can totally thank Republicans for that; the party of greed and grievance. Under Fascism (Trump) this will only get worse!

@mariancruceru6826

Ай бұрын

in the 90'S in Ga. was $ 4.25/hrs!

@behr121002

Ай бұрын

Spot on! 👌

@wisecoconut5

Ай бұрын

Kansas still uses the federal minimum wage of $7.25, which was established in 2009. I feel your pain!

@JenniferStokes-lw5pm

Ай бұрын

No....The minimum wage was $3.30 an hour in Ohio. I know, I was a teen then and made that!

@littlebitofhope1489

Ай бұрын

Adjust it for time, and it's even worse. If they had just adjusted for inflation, even $5 would now be $24.91 per hour. So that is not an increase but a $17 loss. You CANNOT forget to adjust.

We appreciate this so much and we want to hear the entire conversation. Please feel free to do this again soon and often.

Nailed it right on the head, I watched the desperation growing up in a super rural environment. We grew up with animal, a garden, not much fuel, not much money. But we were not terribly fussy what we had to eat, rolled a jar of cream back and forth to make our own butter. Picking fireweed to feed the pigs, collecting fresh grass for the cows, and keeping those chickens very happy. That my friend has been regulated right out of reality now. So, having the way of surviving change so much, coupled with the fact we are all not penciled in has destroyed the resolve of humanity. And forced us into not even recognize the problems of both parents working to not even have enough to take care of House, Energy, Food. Pencil the world population in. Thank you for reading this. Have a great day.

This explains a lot, but it doesn’t explain the single-issue voters who are willing to throw democracy under the bus in support of their ideology.

@williamgalloway

Ай бұрын

The Trump supporters that I know weren't involved or all that interested in the political process before Trump. Most of them don't understand or care how the government operates - for instance how a bill becomes law. They certainly don't understand ideology. "Liberal" to them is nothing more than an insult they throw around like "snow flake". They don't know what fascism is I've heard them use fascist, Communist and socialist interchangeably. They support Trump simply because he told them it was okay to be an asshole. They don't have to be "politically correct" or "woke". He promised to protect them from "the blacks" and the scary LGBT community. He promised to build a wall to keep the brown people out and keep the white people safe.

@ZenLoops

Ай бұрын

We’ve single handedly destroyed our home off the backs of our children for bread and entertainment. Guess we will go to mars or pandora before we even reflect on what we have done to ourselves. That explains the throw out “democracy” vote. Democracy for what?

@tomrhodes1629

Ай бұрын

read my comment elsewhere on this video if you want the answer.....

@followyournature

Ай бұрын

Tribalism, mostly.... but, also ignorance. Many fall for the siren song and just want to belong to the loudest - perceived as strongest - tribe, and at any cost. Thousands of years ago, they would not have made it and passed on their genes. Sadly, we are now stuck dealing with these lowlifes.

@christophercelmer405

Ай бұрын

Most supporters are religious fundamentalists and therefore like worshipping an authoritative figure. However, most of what they engage with is surface level and performative. Therefore, they often have no strong conviction to their principles so long as they feel it gives them a better position over others.

The support he has accrued, is a testament to how bad the education system is here in the US. Ever notice he has the most support in desolate, rural areas, where the education is not as proficient. When education lacks, critical thinking goes out the window. Why do you think they believe everything he says?

@kevinscudder5058

Ай бұрын

The (POORLY EDUCATED) kzread.info/dash/bejne/gW16mKd6fbPRqZc.htmlsi=xQ9U4zyK2dra_rrY

@tswanson7791

Ай бұрын

So true.

@chrisdonovan8795

Ай бұрын

Bingo. I said the same thing. My only addition is that this has been in motion for decades. Look up Asimov's essay about the cult of ignorance.

@spir5102

Ай бұрын

This is why Republicans fight education funding so hard!

@eabryn

Ай бұрын

Yes it follows the old saying - keep them ignorant and keep them voting for you. Sadly it’s a repeat of the general situation that drove our ancestors to flee to the new world. Greed and indifference is lethal.

The speech of Robert from the old days says it so very perfectly well. The only problem is that it takes some intelligence to understand it. I guess more intelligence then the average voter has.

@uzeela

5 күн бұрын

Union Halls meeting used to keep the workers up on what was going is now replaced by Fox News.

Imagine if Bernie Sanders took power instead of Donald Trump. What a different world we would be living in!

@davidgregory5716

6 күн бұрын

Trump-GOP criminality explains their calls for violence against Americans to avoid accountability for their crimes against America. This Trump-GOP path to fascism mirrors Hitler Nazi path to fascism which explains German laws against any association with fascism, Nazism, nor and signs, banners, meetings, Nazi party identification. Germany took action to prevent the rise of Trumpism [Nazism] in any form. US must educate America on fascism or face demonic consequences.

@shantis601

5 күн бұрын

The biggest mistake Obama made was to support Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders without understanding why he was popular and the same forces caused the rise of Trump. If it was Sanders vs Trump in 2016, I wonder if Sanders would have won?

@russelkins141

5 күн бұрын

Yes! The Tragedy of the Commons....

”Those who don’t remember the past are condemed to repeat it.” George Santayana 1905

The country is poorly educated and everything has become complicated. They want someone to make decisions for them. They honestly think a 1%er is going to look out for them 😢😢

@arturbello4213

Ай бұрын

The Top 1% of USA Federal Income Tax payers pay 50% of the revenue collected.

@susanwhite7474

Ай бұрын

@@arturbello4213 That's not remotely responsive to what he commented.

@susanwhite7474

Ай бұрын

Yes, it's very odd how many people vote against their own economic interests because their hatred of others is more important to them. The orange man thing has made it glaringly obvious that a huge % of people don't understand what an authoritarian / anti-democratic takeover looks like.

@arturbello4213

Ай бұрын

@@susanwhite7474 It IS directly to the comment.

@susanwhite7474

Ай бұрын

@@arturbello4213 No, it's clearly not. The comment raised the issue of whether the 1% will "look out" for the poor idiots who support the orange felon, not what % of taxes the 1% pays.

Thank you both for this pod cast, keep it up, this is really helpful.

Oh my gosh Mr rice I just happened to tap on this podcast against the title caught my attention it's so good to see you sir and I'm adding you to my list actually I read what you post everyday and you've got to be most one of the most sane people on this planet love you God bless you and thank you

When companies started thinking of workers as cost/liability instead of value/asset, that was a big problem

❤Thank you Robert and Heather

I enjoy this program every week. Robert Reich is very knowledgeable and clear with his explanations and view of the future. Thank you for this uTube program.

I never understood the importance of unions to the middle class bargaining power until this broadcast. Thank you. I thought I avoided the recession of 2008 because my profession as a RN was in serious demand and shortages were profound, but my husband was retiring from a stock broker job and never went back to work ( his choice). We thought we could live off my nursing income of $75k and his retirement and social security. in 2008 -9 we lost our house to foreclosure because I became ill and unable to work. Within months our savings was depleted and we lost our home, sold my future pension benefits to survive and today I live on $2500 a month instead of $8000. No wonder the middle class is angry and frustrated and would pick somebody like Trump a con and a low life professor Harold Hill from the musical The Music Man on a promise that he would fix the system that we felt robbed by. Joe Biden, revive the middle class unions of the 50&60s and Americans will love you. Trump has proven he will protect the Amazons and Teslas that hold every day working class people hostage and without hope

That clip from 30 years ago is chilling to watch now and realize what was predicted then is a reality now. Just FYI, this radicalization of society and fierce tribalism is not unique issue to America, Europe suffers from similar fate for exactly same reason as described in the old clip.

Robert Reich is a good example of a man using his talent, knowledge and ability to work making life better for others. A life’s work.

@lonpollard902

Ай бұрын

No, Reich is an individual who has expertise in one topic and thinks it makes them an expert on other topics. Much like we see with Elon Musk, and so many others. The hubris is breathtaking. There's so much, from a political perspective, that he pretends aren't there. We have tens of millions of theocrats in this country, and they vote according to Eamon religious views elevated to rule of law. 32% of Americans. The percentage is less than half that in the other advanced western nations. The rise of the theocratic right has a lot to do with how we got here. I marvel at how many ex-Republicans have now spoken out about the problem of theocracy in the Republican party. They aren't afraid to use terms such as theocrat, theocracy, etc. And yet there's this wing on the left that runs from such terms. Won't acknowledge the problem. Won't acknowledge what a threat to freedom it is. And that in itself is a serious problem. If he's going to speak politics, he needs to include the major political forces in this country. The ideologies. The number one predictor of someone being a Trump supporter is being authoritarian minded. One can't get at the roots of that through talking economics. I knew a business professor who claimed that he could understand everything, including the movement of the planets, through liking at everything as business transactions. Fortunately, NASA didn't use him for guiding space flight. It's that same sort of hubris. An intelligent person having so much knowledge on one subject that they believe their willful ignorance in another topic doesn't get in the way of them being expert on that other subject. Like Musk thinking he has any clue whatsoever regarding what freedom of speech actually entails. Or Zuckerberg & Co. flailing about with concepts of ethics and standards. Utterly clueless. Which detracts in no way from their actual intelligence, or the actual range of knowledge that they have.

@MM-et3xb

5 күн бұрын

I feel free with trump. Biden is letting in illegals many criminals and destroying our country . The blue states are the worst off and this professor wants to keep going in this direction

Too many Americans just go for the soundbite, the catchy slogan. Thank goodness there are well informed commentators such as Robert Reich who take the time to provide the detail, context, and historical perspective so vital to the intelligent public discourse necessary for healthy democratic process.

I may not agree with Mr. Reich on everything, but respect him immensely. In my 60years I don’t know if I’ve ever heard someone speak so clearly to advocate their position. I wish him well, hope people listen to his observations and ideas.

This is excellent. My husband and I raised 2 kids and put them through college during the decades of stagnating wages. I couldn't work because he got stuck on the afternoon shift and I only had 2 hours between him leaving for work and the kids getting home from school. GM had stopped hiring and plants were closing. Jobs were going overseas. We never felt secure. BUT we have a pension, excellent health insurance and a life insurance policy on each of us. We feel more secure in retirement than in his 40 years of employment, plus we have some savings from the part time job I finally had time to fit in. Thank you, UAW ❣️ And I'm keeping my Volt.

Gov . Kemp signed a bill restricting unions . He stated that Georgia was a right to work state . (Which in my opinion, means a right to work for less ) the article implies that Georgia will discourage pro union business , because businesses want to move here to make money !..in other words all about business , not workers , as I see it .

@sonjaleesloth

Ай бұрын

And the poors will still vote him in just for his racist vitriol.

@fasteddie7276

Ай бұрын

Duh

@DanielinLaTuna

Ай бұрын

Unfortunately, corporate thinking divides humans into labor which is a cost to be cut, and executives which is a cost to be borne. In reality, workers of all kinds (from janitors and semiskilled to boardroom managers and executives) are another kind of asset (or capital) to be valued and husbanded for their collective contribution to whatever it is that the corporations are making.

@patbelcher6738

Ай бұрын

Kemp needs to be voted out.

@annakingry9157

3 күн бұрын

That's the Republican way. Corporations with a fortune and all privileges will let some profit "trickle down" to workers.

Mr Reich, thank you for taking a fairly complicated subject and helping us understand. You have a unique perspective that takes us back and forth through some history, once mentioned we remember, that makes today’s situation sensible. May God be with you and with us. As long as you’re with us I feel His presence. Thanks from East Tennessee.

This is the best "big picture" of our current problems. Thanks!

I love to listen to Reich talk about the last 40+ years, and why we are where we are today. He makes so much sense!

@joanhalgren3502

Ай бұрын

Reich speaks the same views as Marianne Williamson, who's on the ballot for president in about 40 states; yet, I am not aware of him ever mentioning her positions that are no different than his. Perhaps, he was too concerned about the fragmentation among voters that he feared would weaken the incumbent's chances and/or popularity still too frail.

If I was considering buying a Tesla now it's completely off the table $40 billion dollars he could have kept every employee and get everybody a raise with that kind of money and still walked away with 20 billion

@crainsuz

Ай бұрын

I would never even consider buying a Tesla because I refuse to give any of my money to Elon Musk.

@Ullumma

Ай бұрын

They have all had at least one recall... I'll reconsider when they get out of Beta testing on the public!

@lovemakestheworldgoround6726

Ай бұрын

The prosperity and success of Tesla and it's owner are commendable. But the obscene wealth and craven greed of the owner is sickening.

@yvonneplant9434

Ай бұрын

Get a hybrid.

@debc2237

Ай бұрын

@@lovemakestheworldgoround6726 That seems to have become the definition of "success"... greed.

This has been the best interview I’ve seen in ages!

Robert Reich, thank you for all the great information and insights. ❤❤❤

Don't forget, 40-years of public education cuts and corporate media-monopolies have also helped fuel this rightward lurch.

@slsilver481

Ай бұрын

💯

@mrrationalhippie

Ай бұрын

FOX LIES is a big part of the problem.

@LouieLouie505

Ай бұрын

"...40-years of public education cuts..." What are you using to support this claim? If anything, spending on education has gone up even using constant dollars comparisons (96 mil in 1980 ; 794 mil in 2020). The sad part is that despite this, nothing has changed for the students -- their test scores have basically stayed the same for decades.

@terryfunk2483

Ай бұрын

Actually it's 40 years of liberal indoctrination and teacher unions..😉

@phyllissnyder2563

Ай бұрын

Spot on!

The fact that there is no ability to prevent price gouging is insane. Corporate profits are as high as inflation. What a coincidence.

@bootmii98

Ай бұрын

Then profits are stagnant in real terms. How is that price gouging?

@marblox9300

Ай бұрын

@@bootmii98 Um, no. Silly liar boy.

@jaysonwallker1648

Ай бұрын

As much as I didn't like Richard nixon, he actually did something about it for a while.

@grmpEqweer

Ай бұрын

{misspelling for censor} There was a post ww two consensus that concentrated wealth led to {facsism}. As it did in {Grmanee}. The major industrial families supported Funny Mustache Guy financially. (His goons {at tacked} the anti capitalists) Major industrialists in the USA, in the 30's, plotted to install Smedley Butler as a {dictater}, and he turned them in for it.

@grmpEqweer

Ай бұрын

{misspelling for censor} There was a post ww two consensus that concentrated wealth led to {facsism}. As it did in {Grmanee}. The major industrial families supported Funny Mustache Guy financially.

Thank you for this video! I'm a Brit who is interested in what's going on in the US, and that explanation helped me understand things a lot more.

Excellent, insightful breakdown of how we got to this point. It was great starting this chat with Mr. Reich's amazing forsight so many years ago. So on point. 🎯

Thank you so much for bringing up unions. I worked for a multimillion dollar corporation as an Executive Assistant. Part of my job was to post anti union propaganda. I was sent weekly anti union propaganda newsletters to share with all managers. This same company had very few full time employees to avoid health insurance costs. I could go on and on about the anti worker policies. I encourage all young people, starting with my own daughter to only work for unionized companies. If they aren't for you they are against you regardless of the BS crumbs they throw you. Vote!!

@spackar2720

Ай бұрын

I work for a large corporation and my job is a union position. Thanks to the union, I get a guaranteed raise and bonus every year, comprehensive, low-cost health insurance, excellent retirement benefits, protection against unfair discipline/being fired or laid off, and a say in policies and procedures. For me, being in a union provides a balance of power between employee and employer. The benefits outweigh the costs. However, I know that not all unions are as beneficial as the one that I am a member of.

@dianaolson7547

13 күн бұрын

In the little bitty town of Foster Oregon, there was once a Plywood Mill owned by Willamette Industries. The Murphy Lumber bought it. Out went the union because Murphy's is a union busting company. Murphy's propagandized, badgered their employees until the employees voted out a union. They wish they hadn't. Now too many employees work 6 days a week just to make ends meet. So much for union busting.

@maryellengreenlaw6793

13 күн бұрын

I have one bumpersticker- I support the labor movement The people who brought you the weekend

@Yourmom-tc4rn

8 күн бұрын

You could not have posted anti-union propaganda since they are not unions. They are now political party extensions. Why do you think Biden announced 100% EV Tariffs? Sucking that union Richard.

@janice369

4 күн бұрын

​@@dianaolson7547 So WHY did the workers cave? WHY???? They knew what they had in their union. So they deserve what they have now. NO protection, NO decent benefits & low wages. It's really hard to have any sympathy when you vote against yourself & others!!!!! It's just ignorant..

I blame Reagan, and the GOP...

@nachoisme

Ай бұрын

He planted the seeds for ‘greed is good’ especially for corporations and the trees are growing ever taller every year

@andrewrohde2373

Ай бұрын

Precisely what I've been saying. Reagan started the "let's cut taxes for the rich" mantra, and the GOP immediately saw that was the way to huge donations to their campaigns from those very rich people. Today the GOP works only for the very rich and the largest corporations. Social issues like "wokeism" are just fodder for the easily distracted.

@stevechance150

Ай бұрын

Reagan the union Buster: Members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), one of the few unions that endorsed Reagan during the election of 1980, were picketing for better pay and working conditions. Reagan ordered them back to work. On August 5, following the PATCO workers' refusal to return to work, Reagan fired the 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored the order, and banned them from any federal government jobs, for life. Reagan sent a signal to corporate America, telling them that he was fine with union busting.

@carlosbond5062

Ай бұрын

I think Newt Gingrich gets a lot of discredit too!

@amlach6148

Ай бұрын

It all started with Reagan 😕

Thank you. I am subscribing. First time I’ve listened to your Koffee Klatch and I enjoyed it very much. Great clarification. I am a retired public school teacher. Yes, there are many things wrong with education today, but those states that have good unions for the teachers are doing far better than lthe others. Many experienced teachers are now earning six figure salaries. The unions have made the difference.

This program is amazing! We NEED, as a democratic country, to understand the draw of criminal trump. This is an eye-opening discussion that put it in perspective for me. Please, please, contact the Biden election committee and convince them to put this wisdom into their campaign! Everyone talks about trump's radicalization, but they can't understand that Biden is our best hope. Your program is an epiphany to me. Thank you!

@annakingry9157

3 күн бұрын

Biden is an old Washington guy. He has values and priorities that include citizens instead of the Repub obsession with Big Business, which involves very few of us.

Trickle down was the beginning of the end for the middle class. Rich got richer, poor got poorer. Wages stagnated.

@fritzforsthoefel8031

Ай бұрын

You lie or don't know what you are talking about what was the ministry wage in nineteen eighty and what is in California now

@fritzforsthoefel8031

Ай бұрын

Minimum wage was three dollars an hour in nineteen eight it's now twenty in California nearly a seven hundred percent increase were you not aware of that

@bv2999

Ай бұрын

Only one thing "Trickled Down" and it was'nt the money.

@fritzforsthoefel8031

Ай бұрын

Why does someone else's money have to trickle down to you are you a child why can't you as an adult create your own wealth

@fritzforsthoefel8031

Ай бұрын

You lie about wages not riseing for low skilled workers why would you do that

Thank you for your wise voice 💙💙💙💙💙🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸

Thankful to be the benefactor of my parent's hard work. Blessed to have been able to pass that gift on to my daughters. Not all Americans have been as fortunate.

It’s about time we face this dilemma. Good for you! Love this.!

It is not just in the US. It is widespread, unfortunately

@jacquirimown3886

Ай бұрын

If you’re trying to figure out how read the book Stolen Focus by Johann Hari. It helps explain why so many Americans are falling for the conman.

@sks1258

Ай бұрын

So true. People have stopped thinking for themselves.

@ontrada

Ай бұрын

As an American, when I look at other developed (and even some developing) countries, it seems that they are doing so much more for their people in regards to social safety nets, etc. Your comment surprises me, but I believe it.

@celiawaddell4526

Ай бұрын

I would like to hear more global situations, professor.

@mariondean8499

Ай бұрын

⁠Please elaborate.

Those who are enamored with Trump share the same poor character, dishonor and lack of sound reasoning.

@dennisweidner288

Ай бұрын

enzoitgoes8335 Typical. Avoid talking about issues like open borders, crime, inflation, China, antisemitism, debt, etc.--and just level personal attacks.

@brianmi40

Ай бұрын

@@dennisweidner288 Justified when he's in court every day as the first ever President convicted and going to be convicted of more. Borders aren't "open" despite FOX lies, crime comes from decades of GOP driven stagnant wages, inflation comes from government capture by big business to where we have Socialism, but it's just for big business, not the people. Debt was EXPLODED by Trump tax cuts. But you don't care about facts, since your diet on FOX doesn't include such things.

@markcepeda8144

Ай бұрын

​@@dennisweidner288..disrespected women and people with disabilities disregarded our allies while being meretricious to putin gave a tax cut to the wealthy 2017and lying about a election he won 2016popular vote and one he lost 2020or coddling racist nefarious organisms Charlottesville and d.c Jan 6th and lied about a pandemic and now stealing classified documents and lying about returning them!!! From trump !!!!!!!😊

@ajc5479

Ай бұрын

@@dennisweidner288 open borders - Trump ordered Johnson to keep it that way. Crime = Trump Inflation - Outside of Presidents control China - They own Trump Antisemitism - Republican party - Most hate Palestine, the rest hate Israel. So 100% hate Semites Dept - from lowering taxes and borrowing - no president done more of this than Trump

@blue81blue81

26 күн бұрын

Lets see now...... poor character, dishonor, lack of sound reasoning. Sounds like what we got now in the Biden admin. Oh don't forget a complete lack of mental awareness by the man in charge.

Thank you, this is probably the best explanation of events I've listen until today. Congratulations!

This man is a genius! The Trump era has brought out all the symptoms. I was born in 1954 in a time when the middle class could afford a home. My son is a lawyer & makes a good salary & can't afford a home. It's so sad. Keep on talking, guys!

Please Robert continue relentlessly explaining what happened 40 years ago! Reagan, Thatcher, right wing think tanks, salary stagnation, de-unionisation, tax reductions for the rich/enterprises, the middle class shrinking, etc.

@meeraj-4774

Ай бұрын

You forgot money printing and devaluing currency

@user-df6mf9mb2l

Ай бұрын

You said it, 1980 was the turning point.

@debc2237

Ай бұрын

@@user-df6mf9mb2l And Thatcher looked good because North Sea oil came on tap as she took power.

@ktm9202

Ай бұрын

Tax cuts for the wealthy & big corporations by every Republican administration since Reagan. Effectively transferring US Wealth to the wealthiest and weakening the Middle Class and everyone else. Republicans hate for FDR New Deal & later expansion by Johnson.

@e.1766

Ай бұрын

Yup! I'm constantly sharing these vids, so ppl Understand the Facts. Trump supporters will still argue. It's funny. Jesus Himself could come to Earth (like they want & all), & they're so busy hunched over Trump Bibles, w/ their Trump Sneakers, & Trump Prison Wine (up & coming) that they wouldn't even notice

The concentration of wealth, ownership,and power continues unabated while we ponder the causes of Fascism and the Cult of Personality that is today's GOP.

@debc2237

Ай бұрын

Financial deregulation.

@yourdaddy-mq4km

Ай бұрын

It's a reflection of the uniparty that is trying to jail Trump

@Chez8922-kf6cy

Ай бұрын

We've all played the Game of Monopoly and seen how it ends. America is getting to the end of the Monopoly game.

@blackwind743

Ай бұрын

I can just imagine Gorbachev sitting and listening to Ronald Reagan's plan for the country and thinking "You mean all I have to do is sit here and do nothing and this fool will destroy his own country? This has to be too good to be true."

@thelakeman5207

Ай бұрын

When an election turns into a movement, like MAGA, the propaganda keeps the movement afloat. People believe, because they want to believe. Truth is pushed to the side.

This! 100% what I have been saying! Those who hold high places have adopted the philosophy of *irrational* self-interest. It started back in the 50's/60's and we are now faced with the inevitable outcome.

Wow. 1994. How profound in your intuitive knowing. So glad you are spreading the messages you do.

This is the best explanation of how we got from the 1970’s to today. But I don’t think most people understand it’s not Biden’s fault.

@tonyjones1560

Ай бұрын

One of the many things I find frightening about all this? There are people on the right who are old enough to know that Biden simply *couldn’t* have caused a lot of the current problems. The border crisis is a case in point. Generally speaking, Trump is a symptom, not a cause, of a cancer that’s been growing for 40 years. Unfortunately, it has reached the brain.

@sway2382

Ай бұрын

Biden is complicit at best. He may have tried to do some good things in the past 3 years, but he also helped create this mess we are in...

@deepfocusinside4685

Ай бұрын

Same here in Austria too, a majority of people always vote right wing parties since the eighties and there were a lot of scandals and corruption here too, but the right always blame the migrants for the problems and get reelected and can do politics for the rich. In the US also republicans made politics for the rich and massive tax cuts there, democrats were much more successful to reduce the deficit when they were in charge but republicans just lie and blame democrats for their poor economic performance without any facts behind these claims. So disgusting to see how this plays out and especially if you try to explain the facts to other people who are voting the political right, they don't even try to respond reasonable, they want to belief their claims and find the absurdest arguments to stay by these claims. I think we are mostly brainwashed by society and the corporations and media which influence it, to think in the way which is best suited for the people in power to become even more powerful, richer and criminal as they were.

@user-fe8yp1rb9m

Ай бұрын

He’s been a politician for what, 40 years? I don’t think did much to improve things. Problem is most federal politicians are bought and paid for. Look at some of their net worth on a government salary.

@tonyjones1560

Ай бұрын

@@user-fe8yp1rb9m I “googled” Joe Biden’s net worth. According to Forbes, he owns two houses at a combined value of $10 million. He was elected to the Senate at age 29, so that gives him 52 years of unbroken government service. I agree that most of our “leaders” are corrupt as hell! That said, given that Comer (and anyone else) has spectacularly failed to tie him to anything, I have to conclude that Biden has done poor job of stealing and taking bribes…

In school I interned for a politician and he gave me pointers on how democracy and politics work. He said that you could gauge whether government is working when the Democrats, the Republicans and other interested parties closed themselves into closed room and after arbitration the parties came out with a bill that could be presented to the fellow council members to vote on. This arbitration resulted in no interest group getting 100% of what they wanted. All parties were equally unhappy. After hearing him describe to me how the sausage would be made it would sound like authoritarian government would be a better way to get results. He would then ask me if I should expect the authoritarian’s results be my results? My politician, my boss would then quote Churchhill to me, “No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

@annakingry9157

Ай бұрын

Compromise is not authoritarianism. It's the opposite.

@ellarweegadsden8483

Ай бұрын

You mean this is as good as it gets? So, homeless people who never existed at this magnitude in the country, is not the worst? Even than our Civil war? And Churchill was full of ish.

@tammyjantzen9004

Ай бұрын

​No. That's not what it means...

@TheWorshipful2008

Ай бұрын

That is a pragmatic way to govern. In my opinion that is fine. It means they are thinking.

@aquelpibe

Ай бұрын

@@ellarweegadsden8483 The problem is you THINK you have democracy. The truth is that the American system is flawed. For many years, but especially since the SCOTUS Citizens United ruling, big money has had massive sway over the parties - more over the GOP, less the Democrats, but still bad. Other anomalies like the electoral college and widespread gerrymandering compound the problem.

Very good talk of why the USA is where we are at today!

I sure feel much better about President Biden after watching this very informative and honest video.

Robert Reich, you have my respect for your work in our country & always being a voice of reason.

@thomastucker5686

Ай бұрын

When is the last time you heard him criticize Biden? If he hasn't, he is useless.

@goazer2

Ай бұрын

Given that everything I've heard him say for the last 5 years has been a flagrant lie he does not have my respect.

@sebastianlaplume461

Ай бұрын

@@goazer2source?

@goazer2

Ай бұрын

@@sebastianlaplume461 You can compare his and Thomas Sowell's videos on minimum wage, then look at what is actually happening in California which just did a big minimum wage increase. A guy called mentiswave did a video about his video on greedflation. The debunkers video on Reich's video about getting rid of the electoral college. Not the most intellectually rigorus video but it doesn't really need to be if you understand anything about the electorial college you know that the idea it should be subverted or abolished is insane. There's more but those are what I have handy.

@sebastianlaplume461

Ай бұрын

@@goazer2 the electoral college is a prototype that fails to represent, it was not well thought out. We can elect the president the same way we elect everyone else. Look at Germany’s election system if you need a perfect real world representation on how voting should be done. When the system was put in place there weren’t good alternatives so they spitballed something, we have alternatives now that simply are just better and should use them. I agree minimum wage is an effort to fight the symptoms, not the cause of the problem. Scandinavian countries mostly don’t have minimum wage because their labor sector is stacked with unions and if companies can’t glue themselves to the minimum wage, they’re forced to be competitive. Their heavy social programs also aid in that. If the US is going to be so interventionist that it can’t even call itself an open market anymore, we can at least implement the strong programs and labor protections other controlled economies enjoy.

That was the best explanation I've heard thus far on why there are voters for Trump. Still can't believe they believe it though. So sad.

You look and sound even better today! Always enjoy your insight! Thank you for giving…

So wonderful. So succinct and direct and so easy to understand.

CEOs who can't manage to live on pay of a few million a year are obviously not good at financial management.

@susanwhite7474

Ай бұрын

It's not about "managing to live on a few million a year."

Robert Reich quietly but assertively saying, "Donald Trump is a scumbag" made me do a spit-take.

@OK-gk1rp

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂 it made me swerve into the next lane

@dionmcgee5610

Ай бұрын

Why? It's obviously true. If ANYONE in the world should be called a scumbag, it's the scummiest bag we have in the USA. Donny is scumbaggiest #1. He's also #2, just to be vulgar - in his honor. You know he would want it that way.

@mikewilliams6025

Ай бұрын

Takes one to know one

@susancanyon

Ай бұрын

Yet the corruption of Biden gets a pass and he is silent. wake up and the witch hunt against Trump. Reich lives in California controlled by a dictator and a one party rigged system.

VOTE VOTE BLUE IF YOUR FOR OUR COUNTRY AMERIC WE SHOULD BE SO PROUD TO LIVE IN AMERICA I AM SO THANKFULL I WAS BORN IN MY COUNTRY N FREE OF SPEACH N FREEDOM TO DO AS WE WANT THANK YOU JUESE

Robert Reich, never tuned in before, but was glad I did today. You are a pretty smart guy, able to piece together, in a structured way, the reasons why we are where we are today. You make the unintelligible, intelligible, i.e. your decade by decade interpretation of events was very useful your audience. I learned a lot. And just for that, you have yourself a new subscriber!

I'm 72 years old and I remember that whole period of corporate rating where they would go in and buy a struggling company and then just dismantle it instead of improving it

@reneeflanders192

Ай бұрын

Raiding.

He couldn’t have done it, without the media amplifying his lies! Hungary elected a “strongman too”!

@sonjaleesloth

Ай бұрын

And that weirdo Argentinian right-wing leader. Italy has a female Hitler in charge now but that country goes back & forth in elections.

@mariancruceru6826

Ай бұрын

orban is too small, he wants to be a Putin!

@radagastbrown9001

Ай бұрын

Better politicians start with better voters.

@annakingry9157

Ай бұрын

Trump is a creation of the media. Always has been. Bankrupt all the time, accused of crimes all the time, complete incompetent. The media stood Trump up, and keeps him up.

@jaynefinley

Ай бұрын

I agree Ned. The media has given Trump so many passes. By normalizing his abhorrent behavior, never asking hard questions, the media fueled the monster.

My father, a WWII combat vet who was a very intelligent man, was nevertheless surprised when I told him in the early 1980’s that I thought that we did not have to worry about Communism. Rather we needed to worry about Fascism. Nothing I have seen since has changed my opinion on that. 50 million people died in WWII to defeat Fascism - was it in vain?

Robert, you and Heather make a stellar team --- hope you two can do more talks like this, or even create a channel with you both,