 So Michael Moore has been appearing on MSNBC quite a bit lately and it's surprising to me that they keep bringing him back Because he's making incredibly solid points So you'd think that they would feel as if they need to kind of silence him and push him away But nonetheless he appeared again and he made a phenomenal point about Bernie Sanders And why young people are flocking to Bernie Sanders and everything he said here wasn't just Important but it was incredibly constructive because people who tune in to MSNBC They usually don't hear this message They usually don't get to hear about Bernie Sanders in a positive light But nonetheless Michael Moore did a phenomenal job here about educating the MSNBC viewer base Who will be voting in the Democratic Party primary and Democratic strategists who I'm assuming tune in to MSNBC Religiously, which is why they're so terrible at their jobs, but nonetheless, that's a different story for a different day This is what Michael Moore had to say about Bernie Sanders I'll tell you the one person as you've pointed out that remains steady and consistent is Bernie Sanders He has not gone down He only either stays where is or he goes up and he's mostly either in second place Or he's in first place depending on what week it is in which state Nevada etc. Where where he has pulled number one He's number one with 18 to 35 year olds and he's never dropped out of first place with young adults number one with Latino voters So, you know, it's really why don't we just put those numbers up. Yeah. Yeah, he is and we saw this in 2016 young voters He does extremely well. Yeah falls off a cliff when you get to about 45 years old. Why is that? Yeah? I'm jealous scene when the older the older you get He should be sitting there and just watching TV, you know, it's like I don't know but it's a great question Why do the youngest people trust the oldest candidate? I'd pay attention to that because I think my opinion is it's their future He's fighting for them. It's not his future. He's in his future Whatever he is doing to fight for climate change for better wages Medicare for all go down the whole list He's doing that for them Not for him. He doesn't need free college He doesn't he's he is this is what they love about him is that here is this this this man Who was in his 70s fighting for us so that we get a future so that we may have a planet that we can breathe on In a few years they see that and they know he's the real deal He's not bs-ing them and and he's not going to give in to any of the corporate interests Is there is there there's that word you always hear in politics a authenticity. Yeah, does he come across as Less scripted less packaged is that part of what you're obviously Everything, you know, he doesn't have his own personal stylist. He doesn't he doesn't have somebody telling him what to say He has no large contributors at all You know saying, you know Bernie if you could just cool it a little bit on this or give us a little bit of that Here's the problem. This is what I'm really worried about and I want people to think about over the holiday here is That I know a lot of people they come on the show here and they talk about, you know If we've got to get a more moderate candidate. We've got it. We won't win Actually, this will lose if we go more to the center We're gonna lose This here's what the center is offering. Here's the inspiration that comes from the center I'm not gonna guarantee that health care is a human right, but what I am gonna do is I'm gonna get you vouchers Or there's gonna be these health health Is that is that Biden and Buttigieg? Is that what you're describing? Yes, and the others the others that are in the center the way that even Michael Bloomberg is talking now. They're all about They think that what we need to do is to tell people let's go backward Let's go back to yes, you know, you should be know that we can't have it We can't have free college Well, why not because everybody in my generation who went to college either they went for free the entire UC system in California was free the the SUNY system here in New York mostly free out in Michigan You could go to the University of Michigan for a thousand dollars a year It's it's amazing that these kids have put up with putting themselves 40-50-60 thousand or more dollars in debt That's why anybody who says no we need to moderate and we need to go back to being more Conservative Democrats those days are gone So that first point about young people is incredibly important because when young people turn out to vote general turnout is higher overall and Democrats end up winning up and down the ballot So if Bernie Sanders were the nominee and he got a lot of young people to come out and vote Democrats across the country would turn out in higher numbers and they could retake the Senate and they would probably keep the house like Turnout is incredibly important and I can't stress this enough every single election is one big get-out-the-vote campaign It's not really about defeating the Republicans so much as it is getting out your own base and registering new voters Because the thing about young voters is we don't really realize the amount of power that we have We are going to decide this election regardless if we stay home or come out in droves to vote we will decide this election and we can actually take our future into our own hands if we vote if we Participate in the primary now the thing about primaries is not a lot of people participate in them More people will participate and pay attention to general elections So we just need young people to realize that if they come out and vote during the primary They can make a difference and perhaps make the most amount of difference because I think the primary for Bernie Is going to be the biggest hurdle going up against Donald Trump will be a little bit easier for him But in the primary there's a lot of Democrats with 1718 people still running He's going to need their votes. So if they just realize that coming out to vote will decide this election And they realized how much power they had that really would be a step in the right direction Now why they support Bernie? Michael Moore says it's their future. He's fighting for them. It's not his future He's in his future. Whatever he is doing to fight for climate change for better wages Medicare for all go down the whole list He's doing that for them not for him. He doesn't need free college And that's such an important point and I think this is obvious to a lot of people Bernie Sanders is not running for himself if he had you know ambitions to be president Don't you think that he would have decided to run back in the 90s or early 2000s? We all know that Bernie Sanders decided to be begrudgingly run because back in 2016 Hillary Clinton was a very right-wing conservative democrat and elizabeth warren was too afraid to step up and challenge Hillary Clinton So Bernie Sanders decided to step in and offer voters an alternative and little did he know he catalyzed a nationwide movement So now he has to See his vision all the way through now contrast that with people like pete buddha judge I mean does anyone really believe that pete buddha judge is running because of a particular policy? Or a duty to the country he's running because he wants to be the president He wants to be in a position of power. He wants to be adored in the way that brock obama is adored Usually people who run for president They do it for power and influence and I think that most of the time like if you're running for president You genuinely must be a sociopath because I can't see how anyone would want that job Um, I mean we need someone who really doesn't want to be president and bernie is that perfect person He's not running because he's worried about his career. The man is almost 80 years old He's running because he believes he is the only person capable at this point in time Who can run who's old enough to run Who could actually affect change and even if he's not able to get his agenda passed He knows the importance of galvanizing a movement and just getting us on that trajectory Of social democracy. That's incredibly important. So what michael more said here is accurate Now he also made a point about centrism and how running to the right Is going to be a losing strategy now the fact that we have to remind people of this Is absurd to me because we just tried this strategy in 2016 Trump is president So we shouldn't have to say this the fact that we do really speaks to how horrible american politics has become But nonetheless, michael more said if we go more to the center, we're gonna lose They're telling people we should go backward basically and he's right because even though we haven't actually secured policies like medicare for all of free college to say that you know, we should just settle for a college affordability and a public option We've changed dialogue to where we're starting to really think about these things as human rights But now we've gone back. We've decided, you know what? Maybe healthcare isn't actually human, right? Maybe college shouldn't be free For everyone. Maybe it should just be something that's means tested and slightly more affordable Maybe we pour a little bit more subsidies into college and hope that that works so that is essentially Us being regressive if we choose to settle for someone Who is more centrist like pete buddha judge and joe biden I mean, we've worked so hard over the past couple of years, especially people on the ground Fighting for medicare for all canvassing for medicare for all educating people about medicare for all So to just opt for someone like joe biden and pete buddha judge all of the hard work that you put in would be undone So even if we don't have those policies, we are going backwards If we nominate someone who doesn't support those policies and he says it's amazing what these kids have put up with by putting themselves in dead Yeah We're just asking To have the social and economic mobility that our parents and grandparents had That's what we're asking But yet when we ask that our tax dollars benefit us We get lambasted by boomers who suggest that we just want everything for free because we're lazy No, the economy has changed And bernie sanders is the only person who acknowledges the reality of the country and capitalism and the economy And he has the right policy prescriptions that would actually benefit our lives Nobody else has that nobody else is actually going to be effective at fighting For these things because nobody else has a movement behind them. So i'm just surprised that msnbc keeps bringing on michael more Even though he's making these great points even though he's actually speaking truth to power It's shocking to me genuinely And i hope that they continue to invite him on because even if Most people who tune into msnbc probably won't see that segment I mean anytime We're able to penetrate their bubble and get a little bit of progressivism onto msnbc Then i think that that's a good thing because a lot of people like it or not still tune into msnbc religiously And um, that's a problem But until we can get some better alternative that we can turn the left onto Then we have to get as many people on msnbc like michael more As possible who will actually say the right thing and not continue to give democrats horrible advice as everyone else does on that program