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The Left Is More Popular Than You Think · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  if you look at a list of the most popular politicians in America, I think seven of
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  the 10 would be considered left, right?
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  Right.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Monday, August 24th.
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  It's like Bernie Sanders is first, AOC is second, Mamdani is second or third.
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  Mamdani's up
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  there, yeah.
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  He's up there, but, and Biden and Harris are way low, and Trump is way
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  low, but the top 10, none of them are like the real crazy right-wingers.
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  If, if I had to pick one thing, if we were only allowed to deal with one issue, to me
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  it would be Medicare for all healthcare.
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  Yep.
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  Because I just, you're healthier, you're not sick all the time, you're liberated,
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  you don't have that anxiety, that stress.
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  I think that would be the key.
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  And politically, if you were the people responsible for that, you'd win
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  every election for the next 50 years.
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  In today's labor history on this date in 1970, the United Farm
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  Workers began its lettuce strike.
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  Today's labor quote is by the UFW's Cesar Chavez, who said, "If you really want
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  to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him. The people who give
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  you their food give you their heart."
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network.