We started in 1998 in new york. We have grown to be a National Movement that believes that politics should work for the many, not for the privileged youth. We recruit and train activists, educators, organizers, leaders, Everyday Americans so that they cannot run and govern. We believe that the people can run and govern. We worked pretty hard with our activist around the country. Recently come over this past primary season, we have elected eight working family democrats and democratic primaries that will be going to congress if they are successful. Our ideas are very popular across all america, urban america, every region. Host working family democrats. Are you a traditional thirdparty . Guest we do have a balance line in balance line ballot line two allows a party to be able to process with another party. In places like that we have our own ballot line. In other places, we run our folks in democratic primaries. A party is a group of people who come together, who have a set of issues and use elections as the main intervention. As long as that is happening, as long as you are doing that, you are a party. We chose different ways in order to advance our issues. Host woody efforts would you ever show up to eight general election to run as a democratic candidate . Guest i want to be clear, a minor party might send one of the candidates to the general election and sometimes the candidate that is closer to them, we do not believe in spoiler politics. There are opportunities where we would run in the general election, where we think there is a pop of victory. That has happened in some cases. The main kind of struggle is the site of struggle where we are finding against fascism. We are uniting with everybody, including people that identify as democratics, independence, conservatives. The other side of the struggle, which is taken place in the Democratic Party, is around how we ensure that americans can afford things like Public Education or lifesaving drugs, or childcare. That is the main thing that is happening you the Democratic Party. Host what has been your impact on the Democratic Party in recent cycles . Guest we have a pretty great track record. We have candidates up and down the country. Lets take congress for example, in texas, this is the south, this is the corporate elite fascism. They ran progressive candidacies, they were unapologetic about the issues. They one in their primaries and are likely to go to congress. Another person, governor lee in pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is a workingclass town. Governor lee is a progressive who built a Multiracial Coalition that included union workers, activists and many others. Some of those are likely to go to congress. This is a rural district where he challenged a long time incumbent, a long time incumbent, that as a democrat defied as both president and in line with the armor suitable companies. When the democrats were trying to negotiate in order for the federal government to be able to negotiate the prices of lifesaving drugs, he got in the way of that. She is running in a competitive testing in the general election in oregon. Combined all of these candidates , the fact that their issues are protohuman issues, if theres a fight protohuman issues. Human issues. Guest we will love for you to join the conversation. Host republicans, 202 7488001. Independence, 202 7488002. A special line for working party members, 202 7488003. We are talking about the midterm elections, but i wonder if President Biden decides to run for a second term, would you like to see him challenged in the democratic primary. Guest there has not been any challenges that emerged. What i am focused on today, building the united front against what, this is not hyperbole, what to me is fascism. I am actually really hardened that President Biden took a strong stance against the Republican Party. There really is a stark choice in this country. This is an important historical junction for everyone who is listening. We are deciding whether or not we want to live in a democracy. We are deciding if we are comfortable with the political colt taking government power. People who will identify as conservative, have that binary choice of freedom on the agenda. Historically, in a moment where forces are attempting to take over democracy or fascism forces are attempting, we know the only thing that has succeeded is the united front. We are a proud part of the united front with anybody, republican, independent, democrat, who wants to fight those forces and create a america where we all can prosper and where we have the abilities to have the debates. I want to have the debates around how we get to a place where we can afford childcare, or how we look at america where workers rights are valued. If there are conservative ideas, independence ideas come i want to live in a country where we can have that debate. We cant have that debate when we live in a country where Political Violence is going on. Where the idea of antidemocracy is the idea that we can just nullify an election if we do not like the outcome. We need to fight that front. November is our opportunity to do that. Host i cant think of a more existential and important conversation than today, than all of us, people of good faith, the majority of people who arent captured by a political call income comes together in order to succeed that call. Host lets chat with a few callers. John first in austin, texas. Independent. Caller good morning. As an independent, as an american, i am wondering how it is that trump is a cult and the Democratic Party is aa cult. We can talk a lot about the democratic parties in their facist views. Why is it that you want to bring the country together, yet you want to take this extreme side . Guest i want to be very clear, when i say the Republican Party has been captured by a cult. I remember it when the former president said that he could go and shoot somebody. His following would support him. It would praise him. That is a cult like a dedication to a leader. I think that the Republican Party has moved dangerously in that direction. It is just not true. You can say a lot of things and have a lot of critiques in the Democratic Party. In fact i would join you. It simply is not true that there is a personality cult on the left or Democratic Party with any other Political Movement. Whenever a democracy moves into a phase when there is a personality cult that is advocating for the nullification up elections and the deprivation of democratic institution, all of us needs to get together to stop that. This debate, i want to have that debate with the caller and people i could agree with. People who we disagree with should be able to afford health care, should be able to be invested in. When they are at the workplace, they should be able to organize if they want to. We should be able to struggle and disagree on the issues and a live in a society where our values and ideas cant lead to Political Violence. On january 6, we seem a lot of the far right violent Political Organization that are aligned with donald trump and his movement. We saw it at the search of his home. Violently confronting the fbi and law enforcement. We know that this is cult like behavior. I want to be very clear, i am not picking any issue with people of conservative views around this issue have conservative democracy. We can disagree with the issues. If we do not live in a country where we can struggle with ideas without a leading to a rupture of our society, we are going to be in trouble. Host good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. Again, if he wants to bring up aligning to cult things, he can mention the obama administration. You have the black lives matter, and t5, citing with democrats antifa, siding with democrats. They are making billions of dollars. We have free speech taken away. I will give you an example in massachusetts. I saw a woman come in, using two different ebt cards to buy groceries, then take out 65 to buy lottery tickets. That is what we cant stand. The government is handing out money. Yet, they are going to go order lottery tickets. Those are things you should be talking about. Have a great day. Guest thanks, caller. I think we can have multiple conversations. I think we can discuss and talk about hate. We should talk about hate. Not just abstract hate and peoples scum of the institutions and organizations and Political Movements that are attempting to rep us apart. Rip us apart. This is political corruption. This is autocracy. Im going to continue to talk about those things. Im going to continue to talk about the issues of working families. At the end of the day, i am not going to any working individual for the choices they want to make with their money. If you want to buy a lotto ticket, buy groceries, if you want to buy food, i believe that it is your choice. The america we live in come i believe in freedom. The wealthiest country in the history of countries, we should be able to support each other. Our government should invest in our communities. We are in safer committees when our government invests. That means investing in childcare, health care, education. I want to live in a country that invests and supports the poor. A lot of us are one or two paychecks away from being in a very challenging situation economically. In those moments, sometimes it is not a situation of lacking the initiative, or us not being hardworking. Sometimes we fall on hard times. I think it is the role of our friends, neighbors, the government to create a safety net for folks who fall on hard times and i think that is a decent way to create a community that i government that supports all of us. I would argue that to the end of time. Unfortunately has happened, there is welfare that currently exist and there is a lot of distributions of resources. That distribution is everyday people like us, that money going to corporations and billionaires. The welfare i think is most outrageous is the corporate welfare. The distribution of resources through tax cuts. There are people who are already wealthy. I think we need to take that on a very serious wave. What is actually happening is at the very wealthy are spending their money to the poor politician that will cut their taxes, sometimes a very handsomely. If they invest a few hundred thousand dollars, in the next cycle at least to a tax cut, that is a big deal. That leads to political corruption. For us, when you invest in working people, everyday folks, they trickle in every single direction. They trickle down economics. We want to be in a debates where we could actually develop a probate economy that works for everybody. Host this is jonathan. Four democrats. On the line for democrats. Good morning. Caller good morning. I am a proud member. I appreciate you being our leader. You talked about the party of our dream, what does that look like to you . Guest great question. I think that working people deserve to govern. As the working Families Party, we believe that working people should lead. When they lead, we unlock all of the capacity of our society, when we invest in our people, those investments are seen in different ways. We deserve a Political Party that also believes that most of the callers would believe that our politics are not serving us. The rigid twoparty system has not served us feared it has. It has created a environment that has led to division. Both people great on many things. Most people deserve Political Movement and political homes of their values and our unapologetic around. If there is a fight against a boss and for workers, people deserve a party will be unapologetic and consistent on these lines against the bosses. If it is a fight against pharmaceutical companies, so we can make sure we can pay for our lifesaving medications, a corporate actor but is attempting to engage in political corruption, that is clear and unapologetic. Pro human and pro person agenda. We deserve that and we should build that. If anybody is interested in building that with us, you can text us, 30403 and we will be happy to join us. Host john fetterman, did you support him in the primary . Guest we supported another candidates. We endorse more than 1000 in the primary. It was a great vigorous debate. We are proudly supporting democrats in the general election. We have candidates like federman , mandela barnes, in wisconsin who is a great working families debates. Stacey abrams in atlanta. We think that the federman campaign has done a excellent job. Host michigan. This is janet. Line for republican. Good morning. Caller good morning. I am a 77yearold white woman. Therefore, in your eyes we have nothing in common. We are both human beings who live in this wonderful country of the United States of america. Let me give you advice, you will never succeed in your goal by insulting half the country and calling them facist, racist p or you will never win your argument by saying you want to have a conversation, or less debated. E it appeared when you start out with the premise of i am wrong, i am your enemy, i am violence because i am a republican and voted for donald trump twice. This Political Violence that you are talking about that republicans and ultra magas are doing does not exist, it is a lie. The summer of 2020, when antifa and black lives matter burned cities, hundreds of people were killed. Nothing happened to any of them. This incident on january 6 is a touchstone for people like you to paint every republican with a broad brush of violence. It is wrong. It is a lie. Cspan. Org thank you. Guest thank you. A lot of people voted for donald trump, twice. If im going to gauge in a real conversation, i have to be honest. The truth is, there is a very active, real violent antidemocratic movement that has captured the Republican Party. It has taken the Republican Party in a dangerous direction. I do not believe that every person that voted for donald trump agrees with that. If you disagree with the idea of politics and Political Violence, join a united front. I cant think of a more important thing to do. In saying that, i ruffle a fume feathers or make feathers or make folks uncomfortable, theres no way we could have a conversation that is not based on the truth, that includes a hard truth. Hard truth about a party or a movement that you might identify with. We have to start telling the truth. I understand that some callers may be offended by some of those truths. It does not mean that it is not the truth. By the way, caller, i grew up in a diverse community. I work with people across generations, i know a lot of 77yearolds would agree with me. Host this is a bill in florida. Independence. Caller i am calling because i wanted to know exactly what you see as the differences between conservative on the number of issues. A conservative and a maggot a republican, what are the differences. If you can go into a bit of differences between the working Families Party and the Democratic Party, do you consider yourself a facest . Guest the key mark of the maga republican cult, a allegiance to donald trump. A willingness to align yourself with Political Violence. Also, a willingness to challenge for Democratic Institutions if it achieves your political end. This is the nature of eight antidemocratic. Conservatives believe all types of things about corporate taxes, the size of government, about core values, that has nothing to do about whether or not you pledge allegiance to a individual or if you are willing to nullify the election if you do not get the outcome you want. The working Families Party and who we are in distinction between us and the democratic parties, we unite with everybody. We unite with the Democratic Party in general elections in order to concede the far right. We engage in a rigorous debate yearround on the issue with folks to identify with folks who identify as a democrat. The way that we talk about just can seem very binary. For us we believe in the politics of the vast majority of us versus the politics of the very few. By few come i mean people in wall street, corporations who are attempting to corporately capture our government. And are attempting to capture both parties. In the Democratic Party, you do have institutions who have evidence of that corporate capture. As a result, when democrats gets an opportunity to govern, they are conflicted because they have to fight where they do not have support in the working base. We are very clear about that. There should be no debate about that. We need a Political Party that every single day will support workers. That is the main difference we doing the, credit party and the politics of the 2 Democratic Party and the politics of the twoparty system. Host if you describe the working party as a social Families Party . Guest they include people who identify as democrats. They include people who identify as their main political identity comes in from the work that they do. The working Families Party is a diverse party. It includes a lot of folks. I cannot be more proud of that. A multi tendency, pro people populist party. Host this is lydia in new york. Good morning. Republican line. Caller the thing that concerns me about what you are saying, it is labeling groups of people. I know people who are democrats and republicans. I know people who voted for donald trump, that would even consider themselves as maga. They are not hateful. Whenever a group gets labeled and used by a Political Party to try to make their point, all i could think about is hitlers when he demonized the jews. They used that to gain power. It doesnt matter to me who is far right and far left, when you start labeling, i find that dangerous. It makes me less likely to Pay Attention to what that group is saying. Most people think a variety of things. We all have Different Reasons that they support a candidate or vote a certain way. I voted democrat for many years. The main reason i changed is because i look at the intercities, i see that things have not improved. I think, why are the cities that has been led by democrats for years and years not gotten better. Why is there still poverty. I just would encourage any Political Group not to demonize another Political Group. Each person that votes a certain way is making that decision based on a number of factors. Guest thank you. To that last point, i could not agree more with the caller. We should not demonize each other. People make decisions, including political decisions for all types of reasons. They think that i want to clarify, you might disagree. The characterization of the right and the left. In late real terms, in real terms, theres a very resourced, dedicated, violent rightwing apparatus that has already taken lives and will take more lives. It is political in its nature. All of us need to challenge and distance ourselves organized against. I do not believe that violent rightwing apparatus includes everybody who voted for one candidate or another. However, i would say, if you do disagree with that, you can disagree with lyrical violence, if you disagree with Political Violence, if you disagree with hate, white supremacy, it is article to this moment to be explicit and say so. Crackle to this moment to be explicit to say so. Critical at this mom to be explicit to say so. At this moment to be explicit to say so. Our political system, i could probably agree with some of those critiques. We need to be better as a country. We need to build a country that works for many, not for a few. Our political system has not delivered. We can if we come together. Host we are going to end it there this morning. Maurice mitchell is the director of the working families. Pandemic, Energy Production in pennsylvania, and education policy. Ad
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