Graham Platner
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2,222 appearances
59 recordings
20 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Graham Platner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · Politics for ME (and You) with Graham Platner · 29 Apr 2026
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Which actually, amusingly enough, it came out of the first real nationwide polling that was ever done.
Oh, wow.
In 42 and 43, the administration did a massive polling effort across the country to ask working Americans, what are the things that you need?
Now, unsurprisingly, it was, we want security in our housing.
We want jobs that matter, that pay us a living wage.
We want the ability to collectively bargain and join unions.
We want access to healthcare.
We want access to education.
1944, FDR puts out the Economic Bill of Rights, which essentially says, we as a nation, in order to democratize our economy, we need to provide as rights to
Things like housing, healthcare, education, collective bargaining, all of it.
When he kind of lays it out, he says, and I'm gonna paraphrase here, but he essentially says, look, if we do not systemically change and not allow for this consolidation of wealth,
We are going to wind up eventually right back where we were in the late 1920s.
And even though that this nation defeated fascism on the battlefields abroad, that is going to engender and create fascism here at home.
And then he dies.
Wow.
He dies in 45.
And with his death dies the political will to bring that economic bill of rights into a reality.
And look, I honestly, like, had we implemented that in the late 1940s, we live in a different society today.
And can I tell you why I think that is?
It's because I don't think they actually do want to tax the rich.
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