 So the fourth anniversary of the Parkland school shooting actually just passed and Parkland survivors as well as the families and parents of victims are speaking out because They haven't seen the action that was promised to them by Joe Biden on the campaign trail now in an interview with CNN David Hogg among others were talking about the Specific things that Biden can do by himself Without abolishing the filibuster that he has yet to do and they just launched a website called shock market Which basically tracks every single gun death that took place since Biden has taken office so they're trying to exert pressure on him and This is really important here because it shows you that there are very small Almost insignificant seemingly things that Biden can do and he won't even do the bare minimum So watch as David Hogg breaks it down here I think one of the things that I've thought about in this time is one of the first interviews that I had in the wake of the shooting Which was actually I believe on this show Just about four years ago and on that one of the things that I remember most distinctly from that in the time Since watching it is when I said I was asked by the reporter, you know, what do you want to say to politicians? And I said we're the kids You're the adults. You need to do something It's four years later, and I'm 21 years old and I'm an adult We need to do something and frankly President Biden needs to do something because there are certain things that he's leaving on the table That he can do right now like creating a national office of gun violence prevention and a national director of gun violence prevention and creating a comprehensive plan to dramatically reduce gun deaths before the state of the Union that he can do right now Regardless of the filibuster and regardless of what's going on in the Senate. So Igor Why isn't that happening? Do you think I don't know you have to ask the president you have to ask this Administration because as you know, they ran one of the most comprehensive plans to reduce gun violence President Biden made personal promises to Patricia to Manuel to David that this would be a top priority for him And the fact that they haven't done everything and anything in their power is unacceptable Absolutely unacceptable. So I feel like David Hogg is being extremely Reasonable here. He knows that there are limitations to what you can't accomplish via executive power But what he's asking for this is incredibly reasonable almost too reasonable in my opinion He wants to create a national office for gun violence prevention along with a director for gun violence Prevention and he wants a comprehensive plan as to how Biden's administration can reduce gun deaths plan and an office That's it. I'd argue that those Asks are essentially lip service But what's crazy is Biden won't even do that. He won't even do the bare minimum, of course He hasn't been pushing for legislation Because you know, he's not strong enough to stand up to people in his own party who refused to abolish the filibuster But he won't even do what he can do with his pen and that's a problem now Cam Kasky was even more explicit and other parkland survivor who didn't mince words He's really frustrated with Joe Biden He wrote on Twitter four years ago today when I was hiding in a packed classroom Wondering if the next person coming through the door would shoot us all I genuinely thought to myself that if Donald Trump wasn't president would be able to fix all this Learned my lesson. Biden's not doing it either. So this is a giant betrayal Trump was president when the parkland shooting happened and Democrats at least paid lip service to the idea that they were going to take action and now When they have power, I mean They're not even doing the bare minimum all that they're asking for is an office of gun prevention and a director for that position. That's nothing and a plan and They're not even getting that. I mean, how could you not see why they're frustrated? But of course liberals actually attacked Cam Kasky because he dared to criticize the Democratic Party and the implication is that if you Criticized Joe Biden then by default you're essentially tacitly endorsing the Republican Party But his response to this was just perfect. So he tweeted out Biden fans when I criticized the administration He's just trying to make the GOP look good literally Joe Biden last week Mitch McConnell is a man of honor Yeah, checkmate liberals unironically. So I mean, it's just ridiculous to think that it's Not acceptable for anyone to criticize Joe Biden because the GOP is so bad I mean, you're letting them off the hook when these are easy things that Biden can do at what point do loyalists within the Democratic Party ever Put the burden on the Democratic Party at what point do they say, you know what? Maybe they're failing us Maybe it's not that young people are failing them Maybe the Democratic Party establishment and their leadership is failing us, but that'll never be the case Now Cam Kasky was interviewed by MIDI Hassan on MSNBC And he kind of further elaborated about why he and his generation entirely are just disillusioned by the Biden administration Last week President Biden was talking tough about the second amendment. Have a listen There's no amendment. It's absolute when the amendment was passed It didn't say anybody can own a gun and any kind of gun and any kind of weapon You couldn't buy a cannon and when the this amendment was passed And so no reason why I should be able to buy certain assault weapons But now Biden was scorched by the pro-gun right for those comments But although he's been painted as a gun grabber on the right as you point out There's been no major movement on major gun reform. There was a bill passed in the house It died in the Senate like every other bill. I wonder what are you know, you said we were young four years ago You're still young Cameron What are young people feeling when they put a lot of their energy into getting Democrats to the White House a Majority in both chambers of Congress even if narrow in the Senate, but you don't get Crucial issues like gun control out of it. How do you keep motivating people to keep voting? Well, it's crazy because it's not only Us not getting the major sweeping reform that not only young people with people across the board you want We're not getting the basic stuff. We're not getting Biden's campaign promises that can't be stopped in the Senate We're not getting the national director of gun violence prevention that he said he would appoint on the campaign Which you can't blame cinema and mansion on that one and I love blaming cinema good point stuff They are the I love talking about how they how they ruin everything, but Biden can do that with the stroke of a pen so Look beyond gun control measures He made a lot of promises about student student loan debt and then it came out and Treated it like the people who need help with their student loans or a bunch of rich kids going to Princeton From wealthy families, right? Yeah, but Biden is making no friends in my generation and mind you the concept of anyone in my generation Supporting a conservative is completely absurd to me, but Biden's not Biden's not doing anything to win the young people over and we're tired. We're Quite quite jaded quite cynical and look I'm gonna keep on voting blue, but I mean it's getting less fun every time So basically between Millennials and Gen Z the Democratic Party has fucked up so bad Performed so poorly failed on so many different levels that they've basically blackpilled two different generations my generation Millennials we were blackpilled when we enthusiastically supported Obama and He did fuck all to change the country when he got into office even after he explicitly ran on hope and change And then we have Biden and the current iteration of the Democratic Party Just basically giving Gen Z the middle finger not even doing the bare minimum. It's truly just It's so predictable. It's so predictable But of course after they fail to get elected because they fucked up so so badly Who do you think they're gonna blame? They're gonna blame young people They're gonna blame the lefts because remember it is never the Democratic Party who can fail you It's always voters who fail the Democratic Party now. I do want to Go to one comment that camp said there he said and look I'm gonna keep on voting blue But it's getting less fun every time see I don't think you should say this because they don't give a shit If you're having fun when you vote for them, they just scared that you vote for them Now I'm not saying that you know We should just allow Republicans to win but what I do want the left to do is be a little bit more savvy in making threats to The Democratic Party establishment. I've been saying this consistently so back in 2016 when the DOC DNC was trying to sabotage Bernie Sanders I think that Bernie Sanders should have threatened it to run as a third-party candidate in the general election Now I wouldn't have expected him to do that and I wouldn't have supported any Spoiler effect that would have led to Donald Trump getting elected But still if you kind of puff up your chest and you talk a big game, perhaps you scare them a little bit, right? And you know, I saw these interviews from the Iowa caucus where you had young people show up to support Bernie Sanders Enthusiastically and I remember it was either a CNN or an MSNBC anchor Asking this group of young people. Well, if Bernie Sanders isn't the nominee Would you still support the person who is and they're like, oh, of course So, you know, if you're gonna do that keep it to yourself As much as you can and don't show your cards until the last minute because the Democratic Party Needs to acknowledge that when you say that you're going to still vote for Democrats, even though it's becoming less fun they they get this False sense of security, right? They think okay. Well, at least they're not, you know Disatisfied enough to not vote for us, but in actuality most people are probably going to be so turned off that they stay home to vote There's a lot of people who I know personally young people who are disillusioned and just don't turn out to vote And I think that that's gonna be the majority of young people So, you know, I think that you have to hold your cards and don't admit things like this If you're a leftist because you want them to know you're so dissatisfied that there's a possibility you tune tune out That's how dissatisfied you are even if you're not gonna do it at least Don't show your cards yet But part of the problem with this and what I'm saying is that there is a substantial portion of Democrats I don't know how much this is all speculation who just don't give a shit They actually want to lose at least one branch of Congress because if they don't control all branches of government then the expectation to deliver Is gone, right currently it's really uncomfortable because Democrats are sitting on their asses doing fuck all knowing that their voters are getting more pissed off and You know, they know the second Republicans retake Congress or or retake the house at a minimum probably at the end of the year Then they're relieved because now it's like, okay Now we have an excuse now, you know, we can just say the Republicans won't pass any legislation We can talk about all this wonderful legislation that we're proposing while knowing that the Republicans will never allow it to pass and the reason why Democrats don't actually want to pass legislation is because They'll offend their donors the reason why they don't like actually being in control And I don't know how many actually feel this way But this is I feel like it's got to be a substantial number the reason why they don't like being in control is because They're walking a fine line, right? They're trying to pretend as if they're pro worker But everything that they can do to help people would you know, infuriate their donors So they're they're in this weird predicament where they pay lip service to working-class issues to an extent and they talk About health care, but then when they get elected they do fuck all and it's just it's a cycle that is so abusive and Structive and you know until we get Someone in in government a president who actually is trying to meaningfully address The underlying systemic issues that are fucking up our late-stage capitalist country and that when I say that I mean literally capitalism itself Then we're never gonna make progress and people will say all right, Mike Well, you know, you acknowledge that the Democratic Party has fucked up. So it's time to vote third party again, right? Well, look, I voted third party in the past I kind of you know mixed in match between voting Democrat and voting third party The problem is that the people who say you have to vote third party They don't actually try to push through the reforms that would make third parties electorally viable. I mean, I have been consistent about this I've been pushing for a legislation like HR 4000 which would actually lead to Proportional representation or at least more proportional representation range choice voting and nobody wants to talk about electoral reform If you want third parties to be viable, you have to push for electoral reform first Otherwise, you're never going to get past these two party systems And I think it's a bit of an oversimplification to say that the totality of our issues is that we just have two parties That are both the same or largely the same which I don't agree with but I mean Two parties that are both economically conservative The problem is that you know if we get a fourth party or a fifth party and we have multiple parties We still live in a late-stage capitalist system and those parties are just as susceptible to corruption as the Democratic Party and Republican Party is So, you know unless you tackle the root causes that is Driving this instability driving, you know, this commodification of every aspect of our lives and that is capitalism Then there's going to be no change and how do you attack capitalism? How do you try to? How do you break capitalism who the fuck knows? I mean, I'm not saying that I have you know a crystal or not a crystal ball a magic wand and you Could just fix it like that by snapping your fingers But unless you have someone who's willing to fight to just try to deliver for the working class You're gonna be stuck in this situation. So the Democratic Party will continue to fail people fail working class voters people of color Marginalized communities and then when they fuck up and when young people and and marginalized people point this out Democratic Party loyalists will always point the finger and blame you when they inevitably lose It's just a vicious cycle and at a minimum the best we can do is acknowledge it But try to push for someone to get elected that actually cares and we could start by electing folks like Jessica Snarrows and Nina Turner. I mean them getting elected wouldn't be the end all be all right No one politician is a panacea But the point is we keep fighting because when you actually give up and tune out That's when they officially are victorious. That's when they win because notice that the establishment They absolutely want nothing more than for you to tune out and just check out of politics and just ignore it That's a victory to the ruling class, but the fact is even if we're not successful. We remain a consistent President we maintain a consistent presence and we are a pain in their ass for as long as we possibly can tolerate it because that's the only way that we can we can Behave when there's so much at stake. I mean you we just can't afford to tune out and even if Resistance is futile and nothing seems likely to change The point is we keep going because if we do go down then at least we go down fighting and I'll leave that there