Heather Ann Thompson

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670 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 26 Jun

Heather Ann Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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By the way, unsuccessfully, there was a union that came into Ford.

And the truth is that rich people, every bit of the taxes they had to pay, they had fought it really from the beginning.

They fought the New Deal.

They fought the funding that it would take for things like Social Security for everybody.

They fought unions tooth and nail.

They fought the idea that they would have to contribute to public housing for people.

And we've missed that history.

We've lost that history.

And that's one of the reasons why we've been able to trust rich people to do the right thing again.

It's always been hard for rich people to imagine that they had an obligation to a

bigger public.

Remember that the public that needs that kind of help, I mean, we're talking about children.

We're talking about disabled people.

We're talking about elderly people who can't work.

We're talking about an entire society that needs good roads or protected food or education.

And

In American history, it's always been the case that to get that, we've had to really fight hard for it.

And the belief that we'll be taken care of by benevolent, rich people, you know, it benefits some people more than others, for sure.

But for the broader society, we need policies that are

race neutral, you know, that are broader, distributive for everybody.

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