Mara Liason

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262 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 6d ago

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The NPR Politics Podcast · Voters say the American Dream is dead. Why? · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

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Well no, it was we have the same problems as you do, center left parties, and we want to find out uh what we can learn from American blue collar voters. matched

And they found that three and five, no surprise, say the next generation will not be better off than them. matched

Over half say they cannot afford basic necessities. matched

They can't afford to buy the things that make up a middle class lifestyle. matched

Two thirds of them said they don't make enough money to get ahead. matched

And what's really interesting is that seven in ten in this poll said that wealth is unfairly distributed and the government has an obligation to address this, which is pretty surprising for America, which usually is a kind of anti government. matched

majority politics, eight in ten young people eighteen to twenty nine said that the government has an obligation to address extreme wealth inequality, whether that means improving social security benefits or making sure billionaires pay the same tax rate as middle class people. matched

But this is yet another example of the convergence of economic populism on the left and the right matched

And sixty three percent of the people in this poll said they didn't feel represented by either party. matched

And what it shows is that Democrats, the party of government helping working class people, have an opportunity but also a lot of work to do. matched

I think they can cla that is the Democratic Party. matched

Democrats should help working class people, not billionaires. matched

I think the problem is they haven't figured out a way to do that and a way to uh appeal to voters who are otherwise disenchanted with them for all sorts of cultural issues. matched

Yes, but we also have uh the we'll we'll do a whole nother pot on this. matched

But we also have the phenomenon of college educated working class. matched

We have all sorts of college educated people who can't afford a middle class lifestyle. matched

And that's where the Democrats have a big opportunity. matched

If they can figure out how to take it. matched

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