It could be argued. That were now in the midst of a could in slow motion. Democracy is weakening. Conference as it is strengthening. And none of us has chosen this route for our society. In spite of which our elites quite happily continue down that. This is a multilane highway. The kind of savage laceration. That runs directly over the center of camden new jersey so that commuters in and out of philadelphia never have to see. See this city this sacrifice. And thats what weve done weve rendered those trapped in the sacrifice songs invisible. These people have been not just rendered invisible through infrastructure but theyve been rendered invisible through a media which doesnt report their story at all. And we should also know that theyre completely trapped they cant get loans rents are actually quite high in camden although youre living in la potato conditions. And this was one of the major Manufacturing Centers of the United States. Oh i used to have r. C. A. Victor. The famous italian tenor caruso used to come here to. Campbells soup one of the Largest Companies in the country. This was a major force up until world war 2 a lot of our ships were built here i think just in the ford in world war 235000 people were employed. I am. Coming great admirer of the canadian intellectual John Ralston Saul who used the term corporate coup detat in his book the unconscious civilization was a very important book for me because it it gave me the vocabulary to understand that corporate today tom how it was carried out and how it expressed itself in our society in 1905 writing Something Like that felt really risky because i was essentially saying you know muslim he won the 2nd world war it was his proposal corporatism that seriously was defeated saying war in iraq was really arguing that it was the way of organizing society which he had become more and more powerful please raise your right hand and repeat after me. Donald john trump do solemnly swear and i was slightly covering my bad spy saying that it was a coup detat in slow motion because i was feeling my way into no one ever said anything like that. When i sign this bill into law america will have the lowest marginal tax rates and the most modern tax code among major industrialized nations. Patty murray i guess i was wrong was that it wasnt slow motion was really very fast when you think about it was really a matter of the. Donald trump do solemnly swear i will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States also this president of the United States. And theres no question that to put it out. Were well into that world were well into the 1st world but this crisis there were is maybe we want to call it a legitimacy crisis right the status quo or the legitimating framework of capitalism right that has sort of guided us over the past 3 decades and this kind of organizing system has really lost legitimacy the main reason is simply that its been a project that has benefited elites enormously and despite all of the kind of rhetoric of how much you know market flexibility will help workers how much free trade will help you know average people become more skilled and get better jobs the reality is ordinary working families are not doing well in fact theyre doing substantially worse than they were doing a few decades ago and theyre getting through so used to be. Youre getting. Your little 21 inch screen. And how about america and the max. So this kind of. Has created. At least in its political. And that gave rise to. The elites look at. Some mean these idiotic hes. Competent hes lazy. At least was a stupid enough to realize that he had to give the corporate c. E. O. s wall street what they wanted which was the tax. Deductions that. Are temporary. But are long term for. Private equity he gave the military 10 percent budget increase. And he deregulated Industries Like the e. P. A. Judges and so they tolerate. A number of. Hard core economic libertarians particularly. Individuals like the koch brothers. Made very clear since the early seventys that they would like to see a system. Property owners that is a democracy to represent those with money those with economic power. We have today because its been shapes and crafted by hoping to ensure that democracy doesnt exist. But instead we have just a constellation of powerful interest groups. It was basically saying individuals cannot be the source of legitimacy in society it has to be done on the basis of selfinterest. Down on space specialist groups its astonishing when you read this stuff and you see the extent to which that idea of group us versus the responsibility of the citizen has become increasingly are the decades. It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep thats a famous mussolini quote youre a tweet it was a lead it was was a lady id say ok dont go its a very good quote its a very interesting quote and i know its i saw it i saw what i know who said it but what difference does it make whether is was alenia somebody elses or certainly a very interesting quote but you want to be associated with a fascist. No i want to be associated with interesting quotes i think this particular time in American History including trump is one of the most important periods of the history including the revolution and i say that carefully as historian because theyre run out of options and what you see is donald trump is the end of the option of a corporate dominated system it may go to fascism its not at fascism yet thankfully the possibility of something approaching fascism particularly if there is violence particular just in the black Community Something of a. Repression attack on Civil Liberties is certainly possible and could be very ugly could be very ugly when you have a system of power where a tiny group of people have all of it are messed up and you have 8 people who control half the wealth when you have a tiny group of people who have all the power you have to have some means to make sure the rest of us dont get together and take it back. You can see that the logos been superimposed on to the other fighters face what all these tweets reveal about the thinking of the most powerful man in the world and his priorities and some would argue his humanity by though it is obvious that trump is actually a bad negotiator this symbiotic relationship between trump and his socalled adversaries and c. N. N. B. C its kind of phony when you get right down to it i mean c. N. N. Made a 1000000000 dollars last year cable News Companies will steadily gain and make money during the course of the elections is and then as soon as the election happens their profits will drop off that did not happen with tropi gets 2 scoops of the new r. T. Screen with his chocolate cream pie instead of the single scoop for everyone else theyve continued to make money theyre making bank like never before and trump is definitely the reason everybody understands this. Is the symptom is not the disease the system was already so corrupt and the anger towards the elites in both the democratic and Republican Party was so pronounced. That his vote garrity actually gave voice to a large segment of the American Public that was sick of being betrayed and lied to we know from 2008 that the segment of the population that has suffered the most economically are africanamerican households. Because they can put forth a black face or a woman in functions as a. And thats what obama was obama was a brand and thats why after he won in 2008 advertising age gave obama its top annual award which was marketer of the year. I love i. Is youll be d. A reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation community. Are you going the right way or are you being so. Direct. What is true whats his fate. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or a maybe in the shallows. How can you explain love ive been to 82 countries i did in 12 but i came here and on those 3 days i just filled with hope. And he kept pretty isnt it sick show. I made my decision to come here because i felt you i could build a new life serious. Companies and. I was a priest but i think god decided that this man is no good to be free while prostyle if it were only a 10. Year old where my one dream is that all my children busy find. Same kind of happiness i do. I love my home i love cold weather i like the culture like the history like everything about it. And i know that. Russian fama. The corporate state doesnt mind having somebody like a trump around and sort of embarrassing but they dont really mind providing he brings the taxes down and providing the. Contracts and providing that he does what they want if he gets too annoying to get rid of it. It isnt clear to what extent he understands that he is the sort of. Dancing. Is so good to be here again sean youre the greatest ratings when im on your show about people who spend a lot of time and money getting the Supreme Court to remove controls on spending elections putting in place laws that have to do with how corporations run those people are watching carefully to see the extent to which is this boy our boy or not can we really get enough use out of him. Anymore real. Like you dont we have ever seen you get we will make america strong. We will make america well again we will make america proud and we will make america safe again. If you are. Going to give up. That there were one. And i went back there and i think. They were strapped down here so we got a house like 9 years ago where the guy who owns 9 years ago my housekeeper close down when they hear people close to this backyard. Every night. It seems theres no good news when it comes to the Housing Market sales of existing homes plunged 8. 6 percent in november as compared to october just 6 months 3 of the 5 biggest independent firms on wall street tough now disappeared 9 years ago families went downhill broke apart their family their house their. Work during the month. You. Knew. I was woken by one day and the peak of here was it was still dark out though the sun had come up came up and i seen a guy just should not dare kind of look like he was sleeping or whatever so i just kept walking and the guy was up there and he was overdosed and he was dead he must have sat there on my knee must either froze to death already overdosed itself told him. He saw the needle and you know his arm and then everybody comes running by like oh my god where do you get that is everybody wants to go so this was you know i mean its its a pretty sad situation going on out here right now i wish you park i think im coming out here well can i sue is this my guy that you know they can think a white that were that. So these are sacrificing. Places that capitalism exploited and destroyed for profit. And left behind misery poverty environmental devastation. Are you. With. What have you seen in terms of patterns like over or lets say the last couple years are is up and stable or things getting worse wow would you describe i know within ive been here going on 9 years and over the past couple years we are feeding more families and im talking about the husband the wife and the children 20 percent might be actually living on the street. The rest of them may be in low Income Housing or Something Like. 200. 00 people might come in on the 1st day of the month and 400. 00 people might come in on the last day im not but its the people that are coming in towards the end of the month with the children and they tell us im here because i cant pay my electric bill and feed my kids why why do you think that is because i think that despite the fact that the economy has improved for a segment of the population the people that are at the bottom life really hasnt changed and probably even got harder for them. And the rest are you know now you know that everybody calls madam says adams i graduated from a program got how many years ago at actually 2000 where were you in prison i was a Southern State southern baghdad southern was right thats where all the eric white area guards are would one go or has leg is hanging from a tree teds and to me it was. Yes were you doing before you want. I was selling drugs i was using drugs made game that was my lifestyle and suddenly using drugs you go to prison youre going to come out there you might come out better you might come out crazier yeah certainly come out was enough but youre going to change this place is. Based because you see the people call me and some of these people become a hate used to be. Teaches but if you stay ahead good trade but just between Mental Health and drugs you know they gradually put in the system. I. Out how many kids i have 66 kids are you work and yes where he worked all possible guards but cant do you know what so how many hours a day do you work while this is where you are in prison and what where which one on the south would you. Please im trying to get my way but its going to hard you know nobody want to help you i mean. You see cities that have been sacrificed Youngstown Ohio one of the steel capitals of the world. What these capitalists have done in cities like camden in cities. Youngstown in southern West Virginia theyre doing everywhere reconfiguring the Global Economy into an incredibly wealthy global oligarchy class dont take this the wrong way but you sound like a left wing nut bar out here to go on people defend a character assassination if you want to discuss issues thats fine but i mean the found by fox news and i dont go on look you have had very eloquent writers people one can call one candidate who laid this out. With you know incredible lucidity and to somehow attack the bike on someone. Engages in the kind of trash talk and alluded to corporate are what i write well thank you so much for joining us here i dont know it will be well. Thank you all for being here this very Incredible Group of world class Business Leaders thats what you are these c. E. O. s are in some cases pulling compensation packages in the billions of dollars often defrauding their own shareholders so this is the bill right here that i consider this very much a bill for the middle class have a bill for jobs and jobs are produced through companies and corporations and you see that happening corporations are literally go it wild over this these corporations and banks what do they do with the tax cuts will be bought back their own stock 170800000000. 00 thats how much in buybacks this year that is the most seen this far into a calendar year ever why because if the stock goes up the compensation packages for the managers of these corporations goes up. Its not good for the economy its not even good for their company. Her issues are literally go over the us. Theres a business trying to harvest their harvesting themselves. Thats what. The 62 year old wall street tycoon raked in nearly a half 1000000000. 00 between 2002007 the start of old school free markets low taxes low everything government doesnt provide anything for anybody kind of conservatism that is the policy preferences of the tiny 8 rich doods who own half the wealth and the you know layer of rich people underneath and it is not popular so you have to get it by army and so you see things like Voter Suppression building more prisons and disenfranchising people who have spent time in you see gerrymandering you see all sorts of undemocratic practices that are used to make sure that people who might vote their own interests cant vote arent represented when they do vote and then you just see people running like trump promising to bring jobs back to their states and then what they do once in office is a big old bait and switch and its this kind of insane attitude where theyre just looting and stealing as fast as they can as everything collapsed. This used to be there was a warning to him just like a good friend. Its more than i remember grandpa worked here all his life back in the sixtys i was a kid he used to tell me that one day this week this mill would close down his belly would cry i said there is no way its too big its huge it goes from miles this way to way miles now boy its never going to close margolies words were true. You could be the pride of the nation its gone its gone along with. Hundreds rather mills just like with this one right here this was this was a proud nation. The end of a love story well tensions in the u. S. German relationship determine the fate of nato if elected will joe biden be americas version of the soviet ruler plenty of fresh air. Was a pandemic no certainly no blood is just flying to nationalities. Has emerged we told them but seriously we dont have the facts in the world feasting. Chief. Judge of. Comedy crisis sleaze to sentence on and. We can do better we should. Everyone is contributing its your own way but we also know this crisis will not go on forever the challenges created with the response has been masked so many good people are helping us. It makes us feel very proud that were in it together. I am sure it and she and youre watching another lockdown edition of going underground coming up on the show as u. S. Security forces prepared to retreat from portland after accusations of gassing beating and kidnapping protesters is the war against racial capitalism far from over we ask longtime protest organizer and vice chair of the Oregon Democrats black caucus Gregory Mchale and his nasa launches its historic perseverance rover to mars to look for signs of life is it the end of us a gemini in unlocking the secrets of the universe after chinese attempts to make history on the red planet we asked alan stern who is leading the 1st ever mission to explore pluto a