George Packer
speaker
697 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 6 May
George Packer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Can we stop with the vile discourse?
That might actually, it won't excite people to work 20 hours a day, although it might some, but it will at least appeal to that sense that there is something higher
There's something higher than just winning or losing elections or winning or losing fights on social media.
What do you think?
Do you have an answer to your own question?
Ah, that's a very potent way to put it.
I think so.
I think right now Trump is giving it new life because his America is so...
unbelievably unequal and his favors and his corruption are so blatant and so in favor of the 0.01% that although Americans normally don't go for a politics of class resentment, we're much more likely to be appealed to by a politics of race resentment or educational resentment.
It's there waiting to be used.
And I think a successful politician will know how to use it, but will not use it by appealing to the same
degree of bitterness and resentment and ugliness that Trump has appealed to in order to turn working class Americans against more upper middle class Americans or educated Americans.
Instead, it should be done with a sense of hope and a sense of commonality.
Maybe there will be a little class of people who won't be included in equal America and they will be the 0.01%.
I'm okay with that.
They've had it good.
They can handle that.
But I think part of Sanders' problem, although his class focus has been powerful, it's always seemed like it's being addressed to a different country.
Not a country of people who are aspiring to
to rise, but instead to a country where there's fixed classes and they've always hated each other and they'll always hate each other.
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