Cenk Uygur
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Podcast Appearances
In fact, I criticize Democrats a lot on The Young Turks.
But, no, you're not going to get your watch stolen in L.A.
I have a family.
We go out all the time.
It's perfectly safe.
So for a little while between 2019 and 2023, crime really did rise in some of the big cities we talked about on the air tours.
We were very honest about it.
It took some heat from the left on it.
But crime's gone down significantly in 24 and 25.
So I don't think those are real issues anymore.
In terms of our economic model, we need a couple of clarifications here.
So as I said earlier, we really do corporatism in America.
And another word for that or phrase for it is crony capitalism.
So we'd be lucky to get back to capitalism, let alone going all the way to socialism, because right now we don't have capitalism.
We don't have free markets.
We have capitalism.
Every industry has captured the government.
They've bribed all of our politicians.
We can't negotiate prices.
These are I mean, that is the most socialist thing I've ever heard, except it's socialism for corporations.