Bhaskar Sunkara

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism · 22 Dec 2022 podcast

I can't promise to lead you to the, um, promised land because if I can lead you there and you just follow me there, someone's just going to lead you straight out as soon as I'm gone.

Um,

And I think there's something nice about that kind of anti, you know, blind following leader follower kind of dynamic on the left at its best.

Yeah, earned media is what they always talk about, right?

And political campaigns, like, you know, the more you could get on TV, the better.

Even like, I really like Fetterman, he just won his campaign.

But a good part of his early campaign, he had pivoted from talking about issues to just talking about Dr. Oz living in New Jersey.

And kind of having the troll campaign against him, which I found amusing, but also it was effective, obviously, one.

But, you know, it's a bit depressing because I would have rather a whole campaign cycle about health care and jobs and other other issues.

So I think that the fact that Bernie's –

Speeches very clearly came out of, if not directly his own pen, but his own rhetoric over the years.

And he kind of wrote it, seemed authentic, even if he was repeating it.

And then Trump, his just wild improvisation, I think people found real in a certain way.

And I would love for the left more generally to tap into some of that anti-establishment sentiment.

Yeah.

But obviously do it in a way that's productive, that doesn't blame immigrants or whatever else for problems.

But, you know, it's kind of built on a different basis.

But people are fed up for good reason with a lot of conventional politics.

And we need to speak to that.

Otherwise, it'll only be the right that is taking advantage of those people's anger.

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