>> Joseph Lutz raising the minimum wage to
$15 an hour. This will give 40 million workers
a pay raise and push the wage scale up everyone
else. Joe will also make it easier for workers
to join unions, create 12 weeks of paid family
leave. Fund universal pre-k for three and
four year olds and make childcare affordable
for millions of families.
Joe will rebuild our crumbling infrastructure
and fight the threat of climate change by
transitioning us to 100% clean electricity
over the next 15 years. These initiatives
will create millions of good paying jobs all
across our country. As you know, we are the
only industrialized nation not to guarantee
health care for all people.
While Joe and I disagree on the best path
to get universal coverage, he has a plan that
will greatly expand health care and cut the
cost of prescription drugs. Further, he will
lower the eligibility age of Medicare from
65 down to 60. To help reform our broken criminal
justice system, Joe will end private prisons
and detention centers, cash bail, and the
school to prison pipeline.
>> So let's talk about the substance though.
While many of the speakers at the first side
of the DNC were focused on, Trump is bad for
a number of reasons, which I mostly agree
with, but I've heard it a million times or
Joe is a good guy, which seems to be true.
He has empathy and compassion, all of that,
but I would like to see it attached to policy.
Bernie Sanders, well, he gave a bit of that,
and his mission that night was to try to get
more progressives to be comfortable with the
idea of supporting Joe Biden. The way that
he went about it, he tried to do what he always
does, which is to ground it in an acknowledgement
of our problems, what needs to be done to
fix them and what Joe Biden is actually supporting
to potentially do that.
So I wanna read you just a little tiny bit.
So he says, let me offer you just a few examples
of how Joe will move us forward. Joe supports
raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. He
acknowledges that I'll give 40 million workers
a pay raise. He wants to make it easier for
workers to join unions create, 12 weeks of
paid family leave, fund universal pre-k for
three and four year olds, make childcare affordable
for millions of families.
Rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, fight
the threat of climate change by transitioning
us to 100% clean electricity over the next
15 years, that will create millions of good
paying jobs. He says that they disagree on
the best path to universal health care coverage
but he has a plan that will greatly expand
health care and cut the cost of prescription
drugs.
Will also lowering the eligibility age of
Medicare from 65 to 60. And he talks about
him ending cash bail, ending private prisons
and detention centers and the school to prison
pipeline. That little summary I just gave
there, from his speech was more acknowledgment
of what can actually be done to solve problems
in terms of policy then I believe, I don't
think I'm being too unfair, the entire rest
of the night.
Yasmin, am I being fair or unfair?
>> I think that's fair. It was funny because
in your after show Cenk asked you, if you
remember anything that kobish are inside and
you're like man I don't know. And honestly,
what did she say? I remember that weird joke
that she made, well, now I don't even remember
the joke she made.
But you have something about the mail, like,
you'll have to do a change of address or something
like that. That's what we were getting the
whole night was a bunch of those, and then
stories, personal stories, whatever. But nobody
talked about policy and how the changes that
they want are actually gonna make it to the
people.
Bernie was the only one and this he was an
hour and a half in who did that? You know
what else he did that I really, really enjoyed
was that he addressed his millions of people
who supported him during the primaries. Which,
to me, felt a little bit like a flex, on Bernie's
part, like yeah, I got a million people.
But it was also a really good reminder, I
think, to the Democrats that there are millions
of Americans who generally vote Democratic,
who supported these really really progressive
ideals. And even really, really progressive
as far as the Democrats would see them, right?
And I think it's important that he keeps reminding
people that because it's true, I mean, there's
so much buying and support for all these means
platforms.
Medicare for All overwhelmingly Americans
support that idea. So it's not unreasonable
to expect your government to deliver that
for you if they can, and they can.
>> Yeah, yeah, I would argue that sort of
expectation is the whole point of having a
democracy in the first place. We should be
able to expect those sorts of things.
>> Right, yeah, in response Yazziek's comment,
I think it was kind of like a nice book. No,
we're still gonna be a little bit more progressive.
We're still gonna go a little further left.
>> Yeah, so I think that Bernie did a good
job of doing what his mission there was, which
was to try to press the party on the issues
he cares about while pressing his supporters
to support Joe Biden.
Which I know Bernie is gonna get a lot of
criticism for that even from some people who
supported him in the past. Even though Like
you can't look at anything Bernie has done
through the course of his career and find
what he's doing right now to be inconsistent
with that.
He has always supported vigorous primary challenges,
trying to expand the scope of the conversation
politically. And then pragmatic political
moves that have the best chance of delivering
that outcome. In the same way that he supported
Hillary Clinton in 2016, he's supporting Joe
Biden this year. He would prefer it with him.
I would prefer it with him. I'm sure a lot
of people would. But that's not the situation
we're in right now. And so he's proceeding
accordingly.
>> It kinda reminds me whenever I find people
who voted for Trump back in 2016, and then
they're disgruntled about everything he's
done ever since then it's like, well, what
did you expect?
And they're like, well, I figured he would
change when he got into office. I figured
he would be a little less crazy once he got
in. I'm almost like why? I mean, he's always
been that person, and this is what he's been
consistent with even before he is running
for president.
So now I'm kind of hesitant to say that Democrats
or Progressives are thinking the same thing
will happen with Joe Biden. But I think the
big difference there, the big distinction
is that Joe Biden is already further left
than Donald Trump is. And Bernie's message
wasn't that Joe Biden will change and be more
like us.
It's still that we're gonna have to work for
these policies but we just have a much better
chance of pushing them through with Joe Biden
there as opposed to Donald Trump.
>> Exactly,
>> We got to remember that.
>> Yeah, there's no path where the next four
years are fun and awesome and easy, it's just
not gonna happen.
The question is, what do you want that fight
to look like? How difficult do you want it
to be? You could have it impossible or you
could have it very difficult and annoying
and frustrating and depressing.
>> Yeah, especially when you consider just
a Democratic cabinet would be amazing.
Even having a full cabinet would be amazing.
Just getting things done all over in different
aspects of government. That's what needs to
happen. That's what hasn't been happening-
>> Yeah.
>> For almost four years now.
>> But I did wanna read a comment. So I got
a statement from Josie Caballero.
She was a candidate who was on the show several
times is now a delegate who is planning to
vote for Bernie at the DNC. Josie gave us
this statement saying, the convention has
begun to the same empty platitudes we saw
back in 2016. The DNC seems to think that
pretty images and right wing conservatives
speaking for another centrist Democrat will
inspire a nation to vote.
Well, canned clapping and cheering will not
convince anyone. And I agree I don't know
how effective it's gonna be in rallying some
conservatives to support him. But I think
that if that is their strategy, and I wish
that was and I wish that they were inspiring,
more younger, disaffected and apathetic progressives
and leftists and all of that to get involved.
But if they are gonna go for those conservatives,
I mean, focusing on Trump is crazy and Joe
Biden is a decent guy, that's a way to do
it, I guess.
>> I don't think it's gonna be effective either
as far as converting people. I think it's
only good for the people who are already going
to vote for Joe Biden.
And even Sanders, like yeah, this is fine,
they're not particularly rolled up about it,
or excited to go vote. But as far as the Republicans
if they're even tuning into something like
this, I mean, we've been criticizing Donald
Trump for how long since before he was elected
and hasn't done anything.
That's not the messaging that they're looking
for, all they do is they ohh, we're Democrats
or Progressives and then they kind of brush
it off. Even if you have all the data to back
up, whatever you're saying they don't care,
they don't listen to you. I think the only
thing that I've found that people really will
vote for or against something as if it impacts
their wallet, their bank account.
>> Yeah,
>> Or if they've been very, very specifically
and directly affected by something like if
somebody they know died of COVID
>> Yeah,
>> But beyond that I don't this isn't gonna
do it.
