Rep. Greg Casar
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43 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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I'm headed across the country to go speak to those independent and Republican and disaffected voters and let them know that we can be the kind of party that includes them. Because I believe that we may disagree on this social issue or that one, but at the end of the day, we should all be able to agree that the richest man on earth
should not be coming after veterans, should not be coming after social security, should not be coming after your healthcare just to make himself more rich. So I appreciate you having me on and we're going to keep up the message.
Look, on a roll, what I know is that when the ultra rich and special interests were on a roll in the 1920s and they started controlling the government, they crashed the economy and caused the Great Depression. When the ultra rich and the big banks were controlling the government, they were, quote unquote, on a roll and caused the Great Recession in 2008. And we've got to stop that role.
We can't let them do something like that again. And the only cure, the only solution to oligarchy is the actual power of working people. The only solution to want to be autocrats is more democracy. So we need more and more people to show up and speak out against Trump and Musk's abuses.
And when people speak out, we start to recognize we actually still do live in a democracy where we can have a real check and balance. on these billionaires, but it takes people being willing to organize and it takes elected officials of conscience being willing to stand up and fight.
That's actually what I've always found. I don't think that as progressives or as Democrats that we have to throw any vulnerable people under the bus or have to give up our ideas of equality. We can actually say, look, we may disagree on some social issues here or there, but on the core economic issues, think about who you would rather have on your side.
a person that cares about raising your wages, cutting your taxes, lowering costs, and taking on these big corporate oligarchs? Or do you want the Elon Musks of the world on your side? And so I'm going on this fight oligarchy tour with Senator Sanders and with Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez because we can expose what Elon Musk is doing to the everyday person. Look, here's how I put it to people.
Elon Musk and Trump want to share all these lies about Doge. but you can quickly explain Doge with just two numbers. First, $8 million a day. $8 million a day is how much Elon Musk collects in federal government contracts. And the second number you need to know is $65 a day. That's how much money your average senior that's worked their entire life gets from Social Security.
Elon Musk isn't looking to cut actual waste, fraud, and abuse from big pharma or from big tech or from his own $8 million a day, he's looking to cut your parents $65 a day they get in social security. Elon Musk has called social security a Ponzi scheme and billions of dollars that he wants to quote unquote eliminate. If you take that message out to working people,
Folks seem less like they're on the left or on the right and more that it's people that believe that we should be protecting Social Security. We shouldn't be protecting Elon Musk's eight million dollars a day. You know, folks have been working their entire life. They're not the parasites and the moochers. Elon Musk is the moochers.
That's the guy that's collecting eight million dollars a day and is in a corrupt way trying to gather even more money from the government for himself.
I think, you know, you can, another key two numbers. are that over 80% of Republican voters oppose these enormous cuts to Medicaid, but over 100%, not over 100%, but I'll say that again, over 80% of Republican voters oppose these massive cuts to Medicaid, but 100% of Republican members of Congress are trying to cut Medicaid right now. That's the enormous disconnect.
The enormous disconnect is that Republican officials aren't acting as Congress people representing their constituents. They're acting like Trump-Musk employees.
And that's the space that Democrats and activists really need to step into and go and tell folks that voted for Donald Trump that they were sold a lie and that they need to hear the real truth and be a part of a big tent that includes all different sorts of people.
And when you ask the question of why aren't people getting the message, why aren't they hearing the message, is that, sure, Democrats, I think, do need to improve our policies and improve our messaging.
But there's another big question that Democrats need to grapple with, which is, what if people aren't even hearing the words coming out of our mouths because we aren't being willing to pick a fight? What if we're not making politics interesting enough for people? We have to actually show people that we're willing to stand up and fight for them. We should be willing...
to name a villain, to say that Musk is corrupt, to say that Trump is breaking the law, to not just act as business as usual, because then are people even going to notice what we have to say? So I think Democrats have to recognize that we need to be willing to be confrontational and not do things business as usual. Otherwise, is anybody going to hear us?
So I want to talk some about being part of the stand and fight wing of the Democratic Party, not the play dead part of the Democratic Party, because a corpse is not very inspirational and many folks don't hear its message.
Yeah, what I want people at home to know is that Donald Trump and Elon Musk want you to feel powerless in this moment. Because if you decide there's just nothing we can do, this is just too much of a lost cause, then they win and they get to control everything.
And so it was people like you that after the ultra rich took over the economy in the 1920s, people like just like you watching at home, organized, elected FDR, the president, created Social Security and built the New Deal. It was people just like you.
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