Saikat Chakrabarti

Yeah, I absolutely agree.

I think what people are looking for right now is, yes, in the short term, we do need people who are going to stand up and fight this authoritarian regime that is taking control of our country and they want Democrats with real fight.

But beyond that, it's about what do we do after that?

We can't go back to a pre-Trump status quo because that's what got us Trump.

The economy, as it was before, wasn't working.

Working people were working longer and longer hours to afford less and less.

And so people want some sort of bold sweeping change.

And I believe right now we're in our New Deal moment.

We're at the point where we have to envision a new society, one that puts working people first,

it's all really coming to a head i mean with a combination of like the epstein files coming out showing how there is this cabal of wealthy elite pedophiles running the world which is absurd but it's true it seems like but at the same time you have ai popping up and these tech oligarchs and crypto billionaires gobbling up more and more of the wealth in our society and trying to create a permanent underclass people do not want this mad max dystopian future

And I think we as Democrats have to offer the alternative for how do we actually create something way better than what we had before out of the carnage that we see right now.

Yeah, and I think the thing that the Democrats often miss is these fears and challenges, people recognize that they're huge.

They're these big country-defining, era-defining problems.

And often, the Democratic Party wants to try to figure out how to triangulate and say the exact right thing to different populations.

But what people are really craving, and this is what I'm seeing in my campaign, is people want to hear ideas that are as big as the problems that you want to tackle.

So when it comes to something like AI,

the regulations that politicians i mean most politicians aren't even talking about other than bernie sanders but the regulations most politicians are proposing everyone knows they're way too small and they're not going to tackle this challenge of something that might wipe out half of all our jobs or wipe out humanity itself right so we have to be talking about the future of the country in a way that's that scales and i think it honestly is forcing this bigger conversation about

What is our country for?

What is our economy for?

What are the values we have as a nation?