Why do so many Americans support a neofascist? | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich
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- Heather and I take a deep dive into why so many Americans are supporting a neofascist for president. Trump is the consequence rather than the cause of several major problems that have worsened over four decades - problems that have undermined the American middle class, and caused a substantial number of people to become angry, anxious, and cynical.
Please pull up a chair and grab a cub of coffee.
"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.
Amazing proverb. So sad but so true. Thanks for sharing this. People will vote for their own demise to quench their hatred.
Si true!
Just as Trump's head is made of wood, like too many of his followers heads.
Brilliant. Thank you
Beautiful quote. Thanks. Am gonna circulate it.
Equating wealth with intelligence is a huge problem in the US.
And how many TV personalities are now in the business of running the country? Americans are not serious voters.
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.
....world wide...look at the English Royals...other dynasties..
No Doubt!
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.
What is a "dark horse candidate?" I don't know the expression.
@@kenashworth7672 It's a lesser-known candidate. Why don't you just Google it?
@@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.
@@carolewhelan2492 Ah - thank you: the context now makes sense.
@@carolewhelan2492 You could've just written "a lesser-known candidate."
Good to hear someone finally calling out some of the massive destruction wrought on America by Ronald Reagan.
YES AGREE!!
Donald Trump makes Ronald Reagan look like Abraham Lincoln in comparison.
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!
Well said !
Did you forget who indicted their opposition?
Did you forget who sent your tax funds to Ukraine?
Did you forget who locked you down during the "pandemic"?
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!
Ronald Regan really got the ball rolling.
people only want happy news or news that favors their position.
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
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.
Or the Hate, anger and chaos caucus
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.
Exactly!
Don't be a sucker. This commie has been a master bullshatter for decades and has ruined many lives.
What a brave conclusion you make sir ; believe your own truth and never be to old to learn. I wish you all the best.
@@user-ji4yo9nn4c Thank you for your reply to my comment about Mr. Reich, however, my remark was more likely a need for self preservation than any sense of bravery. Be well!
See th v-docs > "The Secret of Oz" (on the history of money, banking, the Fed & gov. corruption) and "A History of Central Banking" on Goodson's book. They enable understanding the whole-system problem & the possible solution Reich never reveals.
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.
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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.
Another big problem is trolls on social media, amiright pete5668??
@@brettany_renee_blatchleyso I'm a troll if I disagree with you. Got it.
@@pete5668, no self-awareness - yeah, that's a troll characteristic.
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.
The party that causes the homeless tent populations, screams the loudest about the nasty homeless tent camps. :(
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.
Who are you voting for?
In re: Your daughter. I'm sorry for your loss.
Your daughter has been poisoned by fascism. Such a shame.
"ronald reagan murdered the american dream" - Hunter S. Thompson
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.
F A C T !!!
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?
@@lyndakaye5198you say that like life didn't get drastically better after Reagan
@@yourdaddy-mq4km It did not. Reagan / Trickle Down Economics accelerated this present divided wealth and increasing fascism.
The level of greed is staggering. Insanity!
its power, greed for power
In my European view it looks like the USA has allways been consumed with money and power.
It's always been the cult of "me first and eff everyone else".
Many people still celebrate Henry Ford as a great innovator.
Not all American's feel that way, but I can't argue against your assessment of the general population.
@@Gray_Bush That is important to realize. The real problem population amounts to a large minority that is loud, garish and infuriatingly stupid.
Only a small portion of us, and as is often the case, the small segment makes the biggest noise.
Because people have no idea what living under a Dictatorship is like.
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.
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.
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.
Ask David Hogg about that.
…night of the long knives. And that's amongst the psychopaths, not real people.
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.
lmao you're a CEO? L
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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.
@@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.
Be careful, your fellow CEOs are going to have you committed.
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!
The thought of owning a home don't even enter my mind. As a disabled veteran living on a fixed income, well maybe not all that fixed since I live in constant fear that reevaluation is just around the corner, but owning a home is simply out of the question. Things are happening too fast to keep up. The media can't be trusted so I spend a ridiculous amount of time fact checking just to be afforded the opportunity to make an informed decision at the voting box. Most people in my area are getting their political advice from church and that's a very big and dangerous problem. In my opinion America is in a dangerous downward spiral and we will take the rest of the world with us because of greed and generations of people who believe they are entitled. I'm not even gonna touch on the climate crisis, over population an religious extremism. People who work three jobs and have a family to take care of don't have time to fact check everything they see and hear on the lying media every day, so they turn to social media and couch journalist which is even worse.
You evade govt controls on housing.
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.
Since 1980, worker pay has increased 20%, executive pay increased 400%, corperate profit has increased 1500%.
Totally lopsided economy and society.
Do you believe in a livable wage
Total NOT true.
@@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.
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..."_*
@@fritzforsthoefel8031 The point is you cannot have a livable wage with those figures.
Welfare for corporations that are wealthy- ok.
Absent-father mothers on welfare - bad. 🙄
Welfare is bad no matter who
@@yourdaddy-mq4kmthat is absolutely true... until situations change and you a hand.
@@kt798 I've been there and I don't want anything from the government
@@yourdaddy-mq4km Not if you need it.
@@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?
Spot on. We need a young Bernie Sanders. Someone who is angry and speaks fire against private equity and how it has gutted the greatest country on earth.
Well with RFK Jr you get someone like that against Big Pharama. It's a start.
The ruling class still sees no need to permit us to have even the milquetoast social democratic concessions advocated by Sanders. They would decline the candidacy of a young Sanders just as quickly and firmly.
@@morpher44 Don't equate a libertarian conspiracy theorist with an educated economist.
@@JonPienaar Bernie too old now and since he has been painted as a socialist, it is very unlikely he will be a presidential candidate that goes anywhere --- unless there is a huge economic crisis after a huge war..
When corporations became people is when things went bad for the working families
True
Since their inception in a court of law corporations have been considered a "person"
Happened in1976
Yep! Citizens United needs to be repealed.
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.
BECAUSE SURVIVAL IS INSUFFICIENT!
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!)*
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.
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.
@@ace448 The physical Planet will not allow that.
Believing someone who has lied extensively is simply being gullible and stupid.
You have just described the republican base
@@kentcavender6949 "You have just described the Demonrat base" -- fixed it for you.
Fool #MAGAts once, shame on #TheTrumper.
Fool #MAGAts twice shame on them.
@@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.
@@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.
If The MAGA movement is so pro America, then explain why every totalitarian leader is for Trump.
Racisim
@@tobielurie4582 racism.
@@tobielurie4582 How is Trump racist? Btw, you misspelled racism.
@user-rb1yf4he9q "every totalitarian leader" Really? Name them.
@@victoza9232 I'll start: bin Salman, Putin, Orban, Kim Jong-Un
Imagine if Bernie Sanders took power instead of Donald Trump.
What a different world we would be living in!
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.
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?
Yes! The Tragedy of the Commons....
How can you respect someone who is so selfish … it’s always been about Trump and him only … it makes me sick
💯 agree
Why would a rich Narcissistic misogynistic billionaire give a damn about the lower and middle classes and any non wealthy Americans for that matter?
The basket of deplorables are suseptible to fear mongering. They are fearful and shame based.
Isn't that how it works with gods?
It makes me sick, too. And I have lost faith in half the American public.
When companies don't think of their employees as human beings, they themselves are not human beings.
We have to get rid of Citizen’s United, the Electoral College, & the filibuster. VOTE 100% BLUE no 3rd party no Nikki voters
Yes but under the law they are treated like human beings.
@@user-yt3so4pk7u - No RFK Jr. voters, either!
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.
Ah, the SCOTUS disagrees. "Corporations are people."
We appreciate this so much and we want to hear the entire conversation. Please feel free to do this again soon and often.
"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities " Voltaire
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!! 💙
Blue team is the ones giving those handouts.
It's not teams. That's what's wrong with the rightwingers. To them it's a game. It's people's lives.
@@5amiann if it's not teams to you then why do you call them "right-wingers"
Ronald Reagan was the Antichrist
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!
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.
Wages are behind because you still believe in the democrats.
Unions killed many cities with their greed.
Per democrats !!! What do you think comes from open borders?surely you are blind and deaf
@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.
You bet it does.
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.
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.
The idea that corporate greed would trickle down is crazy.
SOMETHING trickled down...
What's crazy is thinking that that explains the theocratic right, fascist right, and white nationalist right.
@@lonpollard902 What a loon
Yes. And we knew that in the 80s when we were first offered this trickle down nonsense.
Sound like Reagan.,,trickle down economics
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.
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.
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
Guilty...
Guilty...
Guilty...
... 34 times.
He's officially a convicted felon now.
And he is officially a weak loser now.
Typical leftist. Too lazy or two weak to write "guilty" all 34 times.
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.
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...
Who was convicted?
”Those who don’t remember the past are condemed to repeat it.” George Santayana 1905
As a teen I saw a problem. "work hard and do the right thing and you will be taken care of". Total b.s. and if you couldn't see through the b.s., that's on you. What did I know I had to do? Not have children, not buy a house, buy used Japanese vehicles, get as much as possible second hand, owe nothing to anyone if possible.
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.
I blame Reagan, and the GOP...
He planted the seeds for ‘greed is good’ especially for corporations and the trees are growing ever taller every year
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.
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.
I think Newt Gingrich gets a lot of discredit too!
It all started with Reagan 😕
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!
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.
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.
When you think you’re poor and uneducated, you are. When you’re angry and scared, you are. When you think you’re going to get saved from all of this, you won’t.
Bad culture and poor education.
more like lack of both - culture and education
"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.
Especially poor education.
@@lindabalent2755 NEA and the devil who leads it.
And when you look at it, best foundation.😮
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!!
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.
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.
I have one bumpersticker- I support the labor movement The people who brought you the weekend
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.
@@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..
Mussolini famously said: I didn't invent fascism - I drew it out of the Italians' unconcious mind.'
This is the best "big picture" of our current problems. Thanks!
Don't forget, 40-years of public education cuts and corporate media-monopolies have also helped fuel this rightward lurch.
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FOX LIES is a big part of the problem.
"...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.
Actually it's 40 years of liberal indoctrination and teacher unions..😉
Spot on!
Hi from Portugal!
🆘️ Americans, please don't let trumpy win!!
We won't!
FORCA PORTUGAL
Many of us are working hard to get out EVERY blue vote. 🗳 Our country can kiss democracy goodbye, if we don't win in November. The consequences of other will be horrible for the World!
The Don will never be elected to anything again unless his prison mates decide he should be in charge of lunch seating.
Looking from an objective pov; does it look that bleak to you that it could happen again? I'm concerned if he wins, but more concerned if he doesn't because of the possibility it would be deja vu all over again...God forbid!
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.
You're describing life in rural Africa. Breakdown of society means more open rule of warlords and gangsters. What we need is for the working class to get together and turn the tables on landlords and moneylenders. Part of the problem is that generations of brainwashing have convinced workers in the US that egoism is everything, that we are all isolated individuals, that collective action is useless or evil. But that's an ideology that serves the 1%.
I don't think this system can be reformed either. I think we have to build a different one.
I am not prescribing this as solution. Only felt it was relevant to the discussion about lack of hope and why people want to burn it all down. I was very surprised by my reaction… I thought I should be upset but instead I was so comforted by the idea that rent could just go away overnight… the life of my mother as a single mom has always been rent poor and moving around near the brink of homelessness even though working all the time… so I grew up in this feeling and have been living it on my own for decades… I wish we could just push a button and all landlords and real estate investors heads would implode at once… then we could make a new law outlawing rents. Because this is not a nessessary practice nor natural occurrence it is a constructed system to milk the working class of their life force. We could have just as easily came up with a system to build housing and finance its ownership publicly without interest so that everyone would own their own assets. But instead we had the enclosures and pay people per hour so they can work very hard and pay it all back to the wealthy… slaver with extra steps in between
Thank you Robert Reich for your endless dedication and courage towards fairness and justice.
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?
The (POORLY EDUCATED) czcams.com/video/O9F6EAMPky4/video.htmlsi=xQ9U4zyK2dra_rrY
So true.
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.
This is why Republicans fight education funding so hard!
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.
❤Thank you Robert and Heather
I heeded it in 1994. What good did it do? Love you, Robert Reich!!! You are a real mensch and GREAT American. Thanks for working so hard for all the people.
I've been a big fan of Robert for many years as he is an insightful and eloquent spokesman for common sense solutions to get America out of the precarious rut we're in. He is always worth listening to. Very few pundits and politicians will speak the unbiased truth as clearly as Robert.
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.
You forgot money printing and devaluing currency
You said it, 1980 was the turning point.
@@user-df6mf9mb2l And Thatcher looked good because North Sea oil came on tap as she took power.
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.
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
When companies started thinking of workers as cost/liability instead of value/asset, that was a big problem
Mr. Reich you are handsome inside and outside.
Thank you both for your great Kaffeeklatsch.
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!
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.
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.
It is not just in the US. It is widespread, unfortunately
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.
So true. People have stopped thinking for themselves.
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.
I would like to hear more global situations, professor.
Please elaborate.
Robert Reich, thank you for all the great information and insights. ❤❤❤
TRUR, TRUE, TRUE. I’m 77 this year and grew up in The Bronx, NY. 1947. Families lived in small apartments following WWII. There was rationing of rubber and everything else needed for the war. Families had to live this way until after the war. Returning service men created the “baby boom”. Neighbors and my family had the first opportunity to move out - buy a home, go to college, move up the economic ladder. Everyone had their eye on the future. Graduating high school I didn’t need college. Got a job the week I graduated. Homelessness was something heard of but never saw (in the Bronx). Today college is necessary. Wealthy parents help. Purchasing a home costs a fortune. The future looks scary. Knowledge of technology a must. If you are poor, with little opportunity, getting started is almost unsurmountable without support. Buying a home more then likely financially out of reach. Really a different world.
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.
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.
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?
read my comment elsewhere on this video if you want the answer.....
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.
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.
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
I would never even consider buying a Tesla because I refuse to give any of my money to Elon Musk.
They have all had at least one recall... I'll reconsider when they get out of Beta testing on the public!
The prosperity and success of Tesla and it's owner are commendable. But the obscene wealth and craven greed of the owner is sickening.
Get a hybrid.
@@lovemakestheworldgoround6726 That seems to have become the definition of "success"... greed.
CEO's aren't hired to produce product or services. They are hired to maximize stock value and dividends. CEO of Boeing does't care about his aircraft as long as nothing happens to negatively affect stock value.
I have SO enjoyed this conversation. Thank you Mr. Reich. Keep up the fight!
The fact that there is no ability to prevent price gouging is insane. Corporate profits are as high as inflation. What a coincidence.
Then profits are stagnant in real terms. How is that price gouging?
@@bootmii98 Um, no. Silly liar boy.
As much as I didn't like Richard nixon, he actually did something about it for a while.
{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.
{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.
Unions are coming back! Let's support class solidarity and come together
The Autoworkers negotiated a raise of approx. 25%!!!
That's HUGE!
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Workers need a voice...unions give them that...
Trump hates unions ,trump hates everything and everyone except himself.
@@paddyholly2184 yea! Love to see that. There is so much wealth in this world that everyone should be able to prosper
Very good talk of why the USA is where we are at today!
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 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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
@@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…
Robert Reich, you have my respect for your work in our country & always being a voice of reason.
When is the last time you heard him criticize Biden? If he hasn't, he is useless.
Given that everything I've heard him say for the last 5 years has been a flagrant lie he does not have my respect.
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@@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.
@@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.
God bless this man.
I sure feel much better about President Biden after watching this very informative and honest video.
Trickle down was the beginning of the end for the middle class. Rich got richer, poor got poorer. Wages stagnated.
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
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
Only one thing "Trickled Down" and it was'nt the money.
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
You lie about wages not riseing for low skilled workers why would you do that
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.
It’s about time we face this dilemma. Good for you! Love this.!
RFK is the candidate who is bringing the conversation that things are broken, but he is also able to communicate his solutions in a way that resonates with people in a way that President Biden hasn't beeb able to do.
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.
Financial deregulation.
It's a reflection of the uniparty that is trying to jail Trump
We've all played the Game of Monopoly and seen how it ends. America is getting to the end of the Monopoly game.
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."
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.
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.”
Compromise is not authoritarianism. It's the opposite.
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.
No. That's not what it means...
That is a pragmatic way to govern. In my opinion that is fine. It means they are thinking.
@@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.
Thank you, this is probably the best explanation of events I've listen until today. Congratulations!
This has been the best interview I’ve seen in ages!
He couldn’t have done it, without the media amplifying his lies! Hungary elected a “strongman too”!
And that weirdo Argentinian right-wing leader. Italy has a female Hitler in charge now but that country goes back & forth in elections.
orban is too small, he wants to be a Putin!
Better politicians start with better voters.
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.
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.
CEOs who can't manage to live on pay of a few million a year are obviously not good at financial management.
It's not about "managing to live on a few million a year."
I'm from the Netherlands, but even to me Robert Reich is the most insightful and intelligent person I know. His prediction at the start of the video he made years ago is so spot on.
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.
Robert Reich is a national treasure. Diminutive in size but giant in intellect, and always on the side of labor🇺🇸
He seems a mediocre intellect to me couched in unfounded assertions and coached in Socialism.
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.
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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.
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.
@brianmclaughlin4419
Yes, to you, I’m sure he does.
Not to smart people.
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!
in the 90'S in Ga. was $ 4.25/hrs!
Spot on! 👌
Kansas still uses the federal minimum wage of $7.25, which was established in 2009. I feel your pain!
No....The minimum wage was $3.30 an hour in Ohio. I know, I was a teen then and made that!
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.
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
It's an interesting story you tell here, nurseratchet. But here's the thing. You and your husband were earning a lot! But when things fell apart (2008-2009) your financial position collapsed quickly. Doesn't that foretell some rather poor planning? It's unclear how old you and your husband are/were, but with that kind of income shouldn't your house been well along to be paid for? We ,in our family, worked hard to have our house paid off, knowing that if anything goes wrong in the financial world we'd do well to own our house outright and not be beholden to a mortgage. And our cars too. So now we are retired and have only insurance and taxes to be concerned with. Our meager social security and pensions do us just fine. Financial advisors would tell us we are in big trouble with our limited income --- but they're thinking we should be world travelers, living in a McMansion and spending freely. We have no need for any of that anymore. We're comfortable with some grandchildren, a good lifestyle and plenty to keep us busy and entertained. Could you have been in this position too, if you'd planned ahead? Forgive me if I'm missing something --- just going on what you wrote. Best of luck to you.
@@PENNA65000 I had only been married to my husband for 2 years and he purchased the home with another wife. He was a financial planner before our marriage , but had no plan during our marriage to work again. I tried to manage on my income because he wasn’t interested but this was a very expensive home with 3k monthly payments. I failed, but you’re right, the lack of a plan, lack of motivation on his part caused this particular mortgage failure. He was 65 and I was 52 when we married in 2006. I had no idea what a financial mess I married into, assuming he knew what he was doing. I soon found out he was irresponsible and lazy. He left the marriage when I became too ill to work
I love your shows Robert!! Thank you for sharing your wisdom and clairvoyance! America needs your guidance during these dangerous times when our democracy is in peril.
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
Raiding.
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 .
And the poors will still vote him in just for his racist vitriol.
Duh
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.
Kemp needs to be voted out.
That's the Republican way. Corporations with a fortune and all privileges will let some profit "trickle down" to workers.
I loved hearing his clear, historical explanation of why we the middle class in America are in our current state of affairs. So wisely spoken with his real life experience and keen intellect. It is depressing to hear the truth of how the middle class has become what it is today, but he finalized his message with an infusion of hope for what the future can be if we give Joe Biden more time to do his work with a second term, while rejecting Don the Con. Fantastic message, just the plain truth. Thank you.
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. 🎯
When people get laid off they soon realise they are not as special as their company previously said they were.
Thank you Mr Reich for sharing your knowledge and wisdom along with insight you are a true patriot.
Yes! Heather’s right. We want a lecture
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Wow. 1994. How profound in your intuitive knowing. So glad you are spreading the messages you do.