 Kirsten Gillibrand towards the second half of night two of the first Democratic Party primary debate she really started to shine and speak up and She spoke about corruption in such an articulate way an impressive way that I wanted to spotlight it The reason why the Trump tax cut had to be passed is because they had to pay back their donors You heard it. They actually said those words So the corruption in Washington is real and it is something that makes every one of the plans We've heard about over the last several months Impossible and I have the most comprehensive approach to do it with clean elections publicly fund elections So we restore the power of our democracy into the hands of the voters not into the Koch brothers We were talking about issues Imagine we're in Florida. Imagine the Parkland kids having as much power in our democracy as the Koch brothers or the NRA Imagine their voices So this is great she's persuasive here everything she's saying is a hundred percent on point But here's the issue that I have with Kirsten Gillibrand. She's one of those candidates who? She talks the talk, but she's not walking the walk She talks about money in politics and then one of her first acts as a presidential candidate Was to go to a fundraiser that was thrown for her by the executive of a big pharma company Sally Sussman of Pfizer and Her excuse well, she's a friend and you know, she supports me Because I support LGBTQ rights. That's a poor excuse if you know about how big of an issue money in politics is And you know how corrosive Money is as a force in our democracy Why would you do that? Why would you do that? So it's odd To see her of all people talk this strongly and intelligently about the issue of money in politics I would expect someone like Kamala Harris who also I think is not a true progressive however you want to interpret that But you know, she's a latecomer when it comes to issues like medicare for all But I'd expect her to really use this issue to her advantage but what Kirsten Gillibrand has done is kind of carve out her own lane here and I think the way she's pitching this is look corruption is It's everywhere in the system. It's incredibly prevalent. So I propose the bill that eliminates all corruption Get money out of politics So you don't have to worry about me doing these fundraisers presumably because we should worry about that So, you know, she's saying the right things here. The problem is she just needs to talk the talk, right and uh, or Let me rephrase that she needs to walk the walk and not just talk the talk Because she is you know, she talks a good game. Um Now the problem is I don't think that people will be as perceptive as people who are as savvy as you know Someone who would seek out a political podcast Like this one you're not gonna know if you're just tuning in that she's not the real deal that she attends these fundraisers with big pharma executives You're just gonna think oh that makes sense. I think there's too much money in politics What she's saying makes sense to me You won't know that she only recently stopped taking corporate PAC money Doesn't say anything about these private fundraisers um Attends them herself So, you know, this is this is an issue However, I still want to commend her because positive reinforcement is important And I am a believer in giving credit where it's due and even if we can't necessarily believe what she's saying At least she's talking about this in a way. That's correct And in a way that ultimately we'll do what we want We'll shift the overton window to the left and get more people to talk about this policy or in this way And that matters No support on patreon What a loser Visit patreon.com Slashed humanist report to support the low ratings humanist report sad My views are much higher