Hasan Piker

I shouldn't even be getting into that.

Yeah.

I think if someone wants to improve the material conditions of the working class in this country, if someone says no to unnecessary endless wars and advocates to bring our productive output back home to work on ourselves, in some ways, not a dissimilar message to the lie that MAGA told about isolationism and

no new wars and being the peace president.

If someone actually identifies with that and wants to advance that agenda, I'm going to be there for them.

So I am a firm believer that one of the biggest issues in the United States of America, which is the heart of empire, one of the most capitalist countries, this is a proto-capitalist country before capitalism and industrial revolution even happened, is the idea that most people do not have class consciousness.

Most Americans don't understand that they're a working class and that there are people who generate most of their revenue, most of their net worth off of capital accumulation.

But the overwhelming majority of Americans, and the 99%, as Bernie likes to call it, they don't do that.

They get a regular wage.

They're not business owners.

Or even if they're business owners, they oftentimes operate their own business.

So the overwhelming amount of money that they're making, that they're putting in their pocket, is coming from their own labor.

And they don't identify with that at all.

They're hopped up on American exceptionalism, American individualism.

So my goal is to instill class consciousness in people and help them identify what would be more like help them identify who is actually causing harm to them.

And in my assessment, it's the billionaires and the corporations who actually control the levers of power in this country and not the vulnerable populations, the marginalized communities that the Republicans very effectively take people's frustrations and redirect them towards.

Right.

It's not a trans person or a Guatemalan migrant that's like raising your rent.

It's your landlord.

It's not a trans person or or a Mexican undocumented immigrant that's working in a field that is responsible for why your your grocery prices are going up.