 So for part of an MLK Day event writer and activist Tana Hasekots was talking to representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and she dropped a number of truth bombs that I think are so important not just because the Democratic Party needs to hear this, but because this is actually probably going to piss them off quite frankly, but everything she's saying here is 100% accurate and I like hearing her say this because it makes me feel vindicated because I've been saying these things on the program now for years but finally she is saying this and she has a bigger platform than I do so normal people need to understand that the United States of America is not the only country in the world and when you compare our Democratic Party and our country to the rest of the world it gives you some much-needed perspective and she's going to drop a truth bomb in the sense that she's going to tell us what the Democratic Party really is in actuality take a look. In what you said earlier too I wanted to go back to what you said about our left party we don't have a left party in the United States. The Democratic Party is not a left party. The Democratic Party is a center or center conservative party we do not advocate for we do not we can't even get a floor vote on Medicare for all not even a floor vote that gets voted down we can't even get a vote on it so this is not a left party there are left members inside the Democratic Party that are working to try to make that shift happen but you're right it does convey a certain sentiment about true believers and and there are a lot of true believers in that we can capitalism our way out of poverty in the Democratic Party if anything that's probably the majority and that's an area in which I agree with Dr. King that that assessment is flawed. That was absolutely amazing everything she said there is correct the Democratic Party is not a left party they are a center to conservative party that is exactly true and people need to realize why this is the case take the issue of Medicare for all as an example that was great for her to bring that up we can't even get a vote on Medicare for all even though we know it would be defeated probably we can't even get a vote on it and we have a Democrat as the speaker of the House Democrats are so out of line with the actual left it's preposterous to say that the aggregate Democratic Party is left-wing I mean think about this so even the conservative party in Canada and the Tories in the UK are to the left of Democrats on the issue of health care because you know they may want to covertly undermine their universal or single-payer health care systems but they can't do it openly right they have to try to find ways to nibble around the edges and privatize it increasingly so that way they can get around public opinion which would not like that right but Democrats you have so many of them who aren't just openly hostile towards the notion of Medicare for all and single-payer but they're literally running against it and they want to be the nominee of the Democratic Party the party that is widely viewed as the left party that is preposterous that would never happen can you imagine Justin Trudeau running against Canada's single-payer system can you imagine the Labour leader running against a nationalized health care system saying I'm going to undo that so you have freedom of choice between public and private I mean the prospect of that is laughable they would never do it they would get obliterated these parties would be wiped out but yet here in the United States the notion that health care should be free at the point of service is something that is mocked and all of the mainstream media agrees that Medicare for all is a bad idea when most of the developed world has it now again that's not to say that these systems are protected because even in Australia they've had a universal health care system but they are increasingly privatizing it and it's getting worse but if you honestly are looking to find anyone who is openly saying I'm going to fight against single-payer as they do in the United States that politicians career would be done immediately but yet we have Amy Klobuchar calling it a pipe dream we have Joe Biden fear mongering about the cost as he votes for war after war after war and it's infuriating people have to understand that the Democratic Party is not a real left-wing party and the only reason why they focused so heavily on being woke and focused on social issues is because that is the only like that's the only set of issues that won't defend their corporate donors so they can talk about women's rights they can talk about LGBTQ rights and not offend anyone in the corporate class because corporate America has largely embraced a lot of these social issues but when it comes to something like economic rights Medicare for all having the right to see a doctor if you get sick well um they're against it is not insane and what's funny to me is that the Democratic Party they desperately tried to get the moral high ground so they co-opt language from proponents of Medicare for all and they say something like oh well I believe healthcare is a right Tom Perez says this the DNC chair but I'm sorry if you truly believe that healthcare is a right then you believe that it should be free at the point of service because something that's a right can't be denied to someone or shouldn't be denied to someone if they don't have a dime to their name so if you're homeless or you're an immigrant if you don't have money you can't see a doctor does that sound like a human right no so everything she says is just it's on point I'm so glad she made this point because when I say it you know my audience knows that that's true but when she says it it reaches a broader audience people who respect her who don't necessarily follow left circles like you and I they start to really think well yeah maybe that's true Medicare for all is something that other types of countries have or a type of thing that other countries have and we should have that yeah and she also says that they think that we can just capitalism our way out of poverty and other issues this is the crux of the issue with Democrats they are neoliberal to their core right even someone like Elizabeth Warren who the media I think incorrectly views as far left she stood up in a plot of Donald Trump when he said that will never be a socialist nation we are so so detached from the rest of the world and other countries like I always see comments like on reddit or Twitter from people who will live in countries with a single-payer system saying I don't know how you guys put up with this bullshit like why aren't you in the streets because healthcare should be free at the point of service like this is something that nobody else worries about other countries their citizens take this for granted but we have to beg the left party to get on board with this it's just it's in theory eating and people need to know that the Democratic Party is not a left party they're a centrist and then we have a Republican Party who is far right now shifting gears a little bit she talked about something else she was asked about billionaires and you know why is it that you know she's against billionaires basically I think that Tana Hasekots was basically playing devil's advocate here and she was asked about you know the prospect of someone earning a billion dollars and her response here was just brilliant why specifically does you know I'm Joe billionaire I made widgets I sold those widgets I made billions of dollars you know selling those widgets making those widgets therefore those billions of dollars of mine why am I the enemy of health well you didn't make those widgets did you because you employ thousands of people and paid them less than the living wage to make those which is for you you didn't make those widgets you sat on a couch while thousands of people were paid modern day slave wages and in some cases real slave real modern day slavery depending on where you are in terms of food production you made that money off the backs of undocumented people you made that money off of the backs of black and brown people being paid off a living wage under a living wage you made that money off of the backs of single mothers and all of these people who are literally dying because they can't afford to live and so no one ever makes a billion dollars you take a billion dollars no one ever makes a billion dollars you take a billion dollars that's just that's low-clap worthy yeah that is exactly it if you made a billion dollars you're either exploiting the labor of your workers you are gaming the system taking advantage of tax loopholes buying politicians you can't work hard enough to earn a billion dollars and even if you could which you can't believe if you could you shouldn't have a billion dollars because that is so much money that is such an unfathomable amount of money that even if you lived to be a thousand years old you couldn't possibly spend all of that money so Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has done more to shift the Overton window to the left than perhaps almost every single politician with the exception of Bernie Sanders her electoral victory shows you why beating all of these incumbent Democrats primarying them is worthwhile which is why we have to go for the top take out the leaders right support Makayla Wilkes who's running against Steny Hoyer support Shahid Buttar who's running against Nancy Pelosi in support the bevy of congressional candidates running across the country primarying these corporate Democrats so that way we actually can remake the Democratic Party in our own image make a party that's actually left-wing so we don't have just two right-wing parties to choose from we actually have a left-wing option in every election not just in some elections where you're lucky enough to have a progressive running so I'm glad the AOC said this it's incredibly true and to you and I this is not going to be surprising she's not saying anything that's groundbreaking but to the average American who will hear her say this to them this is something that they probably hadn't considered before and this is you know something that you have to say if you're going to make the case for left-wing ideas because the prospect of Medicare for all seems scary to someone who doesn't know that this is common throughout the world so educating people letting them know that the United States doesn't just exist in a vacuum it is one country among many and this isn't some new thing Medicare for all is single-payer and that is not a new concept it's tried and true it works this would save lives so we just have to get people to rethink about politics or think about politics for the first time and get them to understand that it's not just you know Democrats versus Republicans this is large moneyed interests against us because the Democratic Party they're not selectively against the left they've been bought into the positions that they currently hold and I don't just mean that electorally I mean that ideologically as well they believe Medicare for all is bad well because they take money from the industry and maybe they don't even believe that this Amy Klobuchar actually believe that Medicare for all is bad I mean it's so common sense that you you find it hard to suggest that someone could be stupid enough to believe that right or Joe Biden could be stupid enough to believe that the status quo is going to be cheaper in the long run than a Medicare for all like they have to be either dumb or disingenuous it's one of two options but either way people need to hear about the truth and AOC is doing that and I hope that you know this is a spread far and wide because people who vote Democrat who are loyal to the Democratic Party need to know that this is not a party that is looking out for you and they're certainly not left leaning they're a centrist to center conservative