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Should Republicans Respond to the Rise of Democratic Socialists_(M4A_128K) · Drawn of History

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  Speaker 1: There's been kind of some more socialist candidates, right? Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Which I think is a safe term to use.
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  Speaker 2: Democratic socialists.
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  Speaker 1: There's been like some more socialist candidates that have popped
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  Speaker 1: up and have garnered a lot of support.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that the Republican Party, like is there
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  Speaker 1: a response to that that the Republican Party should kind
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  Speaker 1: of have or that the Republican Party like has to
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  Speaker 1: that sort of happening? Like what is kind of the
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  Speaker 1: Republican Party's response to that or counteraction to that if
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  Speaker 1: there is one?
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  Speaker 2: Right question. Well, Senator Bernie Sanders... You thought it was
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  Speaker 2: a good question? Yeah, it was a good question. Thanks, dude.
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  Speaker 2: Senator Bernie Sanders, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, Mayor Mom Donnie, Mayor of
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  Speaker 2: New York, Mr. Graham Plattner, who's running for Senate in Maine,
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  Speaker 2: they are socialists. They believe in a government-run economy. They
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  Speaker 2: believe that My words, not theirs. You should send all
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  Speaker 2: your money and all of your freedom to them, and
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  Speaker 2: they can make decisions for you. I don't believe that.
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  Speaker 2: I believe in free enterprise. I think free enterprise has
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  Speaker 2: done more to lift people out of poverty than all
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  Speaker 2: the social programs put together. They believe in defunding the police.
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  Speaker 2: They were behind all of that. They believe that cops...
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  Speaker 2: are a bigger problem than criminals. They believe in defunding ICE.
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  Speaker 2: They believe that, I know some of them that they
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  Speaker 2: think all white people are racist. I know some of
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  Speaker 2: them that they think Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and
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  Speaker 2: Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head are
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  Speaker 2: all racist.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, to say Mr. Potato Head is racist, bring him up.
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  Speaker 1: He's mixed, isn't he? I don't believe that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's at least half russet.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think the— Dude, hold on. There's Mr. Potato Head.
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  Speaker 1: Bro, and look, first of all, look at the second Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Potato Head. Look at Mr. Potato Head.
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  Speaker 2: I just remember when— That guy, you tell him— Show
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  Speaker 2: the first Mr. Potato Head.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, bring out your first one.
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  Speaker 2: That was the one they got mad at. No, there
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  Speaker 2: was another one.
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  Speaker 1: Bro, what are you talking about? Steve Harvey played him, too?
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  Speaker 2: Look at the one in the middle on the second row.
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  Speaker 1: He gets all the roles.
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  Speaker 2: They got mad. They said the creators of Mr. Potato
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  Speaker 2: Head were racist. Oh, come on, bro. Now, I don't look.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't know that's what you meant. I thought
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  Speaker 1: you meant the potato itself, man. The potato definitely.
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  Speaker 2: No, Mr. Potato Head.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the potato definitely. He's from Jackson. But, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he's racist at all. The creators of it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think Dr. Seuss was racist.
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  Speaker 1: No, he wasn't racist. I don't think so at all, dude.
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  Speaker 1: The cat in the hat?
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  Speaker 2: I remember.
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  Speaker 1: That's a black guy.
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  Speaker 2: But my point is most– Horton.
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  Speaker 1: He is a who? That's not racist at all. It
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  Speaker 1: should be Horton, he is a what? Or I think–
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Never mind. Go on. America what?
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  Speaker 2: America is not perfect, but we're good. And we caught
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  Speaker 2: the disease of slavery, but we beat it back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's a lot of speculation about how slavery
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  Speaker 1: started and where it started and what exactly happened. And
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  Speaker 1: I do think that over time, there's definitely this constant, like,
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  Speaker 1: there's definitely a ploy, it seems like, by the media
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  Speaker 1: sometimes that tries to remind, like, it's like, tries to
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  Speaker 1: keep people locked into, like, a victim mentality sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: And that's, it's okay to be a victim sometimes, but
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  Speaker 1: if all you are is a victim, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: tough to move forward sometimes. It is. For any of us,
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  Speaker 1: regarding anything. What do you think are some of the
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  Speaker 1: pitfalls of long terms of like socialism that maybe people
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  Speaker 1: don't see that have happened in the past? If you
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  Speaker 1: have an example.
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  Speaker 2: I do not believe that the people in the Democratic
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  Speaker 2: Socialist Party that I just named, some of them I know.
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  Speaker 2: Senator Sanders is a friend of mine. I believe deep
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  Speaker 2: down they think they're smarter and more virtuous. than the
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  Speaker 2: American people and that they can make decisions for the
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  Speaker 2: country and the country will be better off. And I
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  Speaker 2: respectfully disagree with them. I trust the American people. This
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  Speaker 2: is the greatest country in all of human history. The
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  Speaker 2: whole world knows it. Everybody wants to come here. When's
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  Speaker 2: the last time you heard of somebody trying to sneak
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  Speaker 2: into China? People want to come here.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good point.
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  Speaker 2: And it's because... We believe in free enterprise. We believe
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  Speaker 2: that our future can be better than our present or
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  Speaker 2: our past. We believe in free will and responsibility. You know,
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  Speaker 2: most Americans, they don't read Aristotle every day because they're
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  Speaker 2: busy earning a living. But they're plenty smart. They don't
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  Speaker 2: need a soul-crushing federal government to run their lives. And
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  Speaker 2: free enterprise works. socialism name one country where it worked
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't work in cuba it didn't work in argentina
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  Speaker 2: it didn't work in the former soviet union.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that's what i think sometimes if if we do
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  Speaker 1: get to that place of it where if it were
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  Speaker 1: to grow that much that could it work is it
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  Speaker 1: different would something be different this time i don't know
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  Speaker 1: you know it's interesting to think about um you know,
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  Speaker 1: if it ever was really tried earnestly. It's hard to know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not, I'm not saying, I'm not voting in.
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  Speaker 2: It was tried earnestly in Cuba.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And we see how that turned out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It was tried earnestly under Peron in Argentina.
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  Speaker 1: But do you think that Castro was earned, like in
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  Speaker 1: the end, he kind of became corrupted, right?
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  Speaker 2: He was very corrupt. They've always been corrupt.
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  Speaker 1: But do you think in the beginning he was earned,
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  Speaker 1: like he tried to play himself as earnest probably?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I think he was, I think he believed in the
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  Speaker 2: socialist philosophy.
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  Speaker 1: Right. But in the end, it just became about him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And Senator Bernie Sanders, I think he's been on your show. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I love Bernie. I love him. He comes in.
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  Speaker 1: He's got his bag. We've sent him a little thing.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, I just want a couple of cookies on
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  Speaker 1: a plate. He's like Santa.
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  Speaker 2: It took me a long time to get to know
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  Speaker 2: Bernie because he's– I thought he just didn't like me
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  Speaker 2: because he can be kind of gruff. But he's kind
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  Speaker 2: of gruff. I remember one day I got him to smile.
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  Speaker 2: I was walking over to the Capitol with another senator
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  Speaker 2: to vote. And Bernie passed me by, and he didn't speak.
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  Speaker 2: And I leaned over and said, Bernie. He said, what?
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  Speaker 2: I said, pay your taxes, man. We need the money.
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  Speaker 2: And he got a little smile. But he's a great guy.
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  Speaker 2: But he is genuinely a socialist. And he honestly believes
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  Speaker 2: that if you made money in business, that you did
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  Speaker 2: it by taking advantage of somebody or you stole it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's not been my experience. I know many successful
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  Speaker 2: businesswomen and businessmen that have created a lot of jobs.
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  Speaker 2: They earn the money, honestly. When you started out, nobody
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  Speaker 2: gave it to you. You did it through hard work.
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  Speaker 2: You took risks. If you had failed, the government wasn't
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  Speaker 2: going to be there to bail you out. And most
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  Speaker 2: of the businesses in America are small business. And these
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  Speaker 2: are people that sometimes they mortgage their home to take
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  Speaker 2: a risk, and they work hard, and they create jobs.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's America, and that's why we're the
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  Speaker 2: greatest country in all of human history.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: But not everybody agrees with me.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay.