David Marchese, June 23, 2025. Starting at 40:59:
Democrats I think were
and I hate to make this so like Democrat Republican because it’s not all Democrats by the way
I think that there some Democrats are quite critical of this
you’ve seen obviously Bernie you see AOC like there’s
But I think what happens is the Democrats are like tied to the same you know uh corporations that are funding the Republicans
and they can’t actually push back against those corporations because they get so much funding from them
and in order to really make it a class war
which you should because that’s honestly the thing that’s going to resonate with the most people
they can’t do it because they’re in the pockets of
you know pharmaceutical companies the pockets of the medical industrial complex
just like Republicans are as well
so what they have to do is they made it an identity politics issue
and I think that that was unrelatable probably
and made people sway
and I would say that is part of it
and I would say the other part is
and I think that it’s important to say this for progressives in general
it is a harder
job to be a progressive publicly than it is to be a conservative
progressives are trying to push progress forward
how can we get more equity more equality for our marginalized people
it is much harder to just [ __ ] around with your boy on a podcast and say whatever words as we normally would
when part of your identity and your agenda is to seem like push these things forward
because it can be immediately used against you whereas a conservative can say whatever they want as long as they’re not talking about the gun lobby or you know Christians
Now that’s interesting. The Democrats were in effect forced to go hard on identity politics as a means of differentiating themselves from Republicans because they share the same corporate backers. I’m not at all sure that that is true, or to what extent it is true – I’ve not had time to think about it – but it’s interesting.
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