Dan Caplinger
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1,715 appearances
16 recordings
4 series
first heard Oct 2023
last heard 4d ago
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They said, and therefore we must also conquer China so that we can ensure American dominance worldwide for the 21st century in the economy of the future.
And I was like, no, no.
And we need to go to we need to have a shooting war.
We need to have a shooting war in the Pacific if that is required to maintain our unquestioned economic dominance.
And this is just nothing could be more disastrous for the American economy, for the American people, for the Chinese people, for the planet or for humanity as a whole than to think that we're going to go into some Cold War, which then becomes a shooting war with China.
We need to reinvest in multi.
I mean, how about a radical idea like multilateralism, diplomacy, dialogue?
You know, being able to actually solve problems with other nations around the world that we don't agree with every day of the week, but we have to live with them in the same way we have to live with our neighbors here in Lansing.
We don't always agree with them, but we don't just firebomb each other's homes.
So seeing how that progressive agenda, because I do believe that there was, you know, something good about Biden's efforts to, you know, build a working class agenda.
And he did a lot to support unions and his investment in green industrial policy was significant.
But that was all undone by the hawkishness that pervaded his administration in the ways I just mentioned, as well as and then especially the blank check that was offered to Netanyahu to conduct the genocide in Gaza.
It destroyed the Democratic coalition.
So if we want to be able to win and keep winning in the future for the American working class,
We need to bring a more sensible foreign policy into the center of our politics rather than thinking that we can just focus on the domestic issues and let the war hawks and the blob have their way with our foreign policy.
It's just not going to work.
It has been a central question.
I mean, I remember sitting in a meeting of the Clinton County Democratic Party last October when I was just getting into the race.
This is a relatively rural county north of Lansing, Democratic Party activists, mostly over the age of 65, many of them over the age of 75 and almost entirely white.
deliberating in really good faith for like 40 minutes about the language of a resolution to condemn the blockade on Gaza in defense of the Palestinian children who were starving there.
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