The Fifth Column (hosts collective: Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, Matt Welch) - primary speaker identity: Unknown
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The Fifth Column (hosts collective: Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, Matt Welch) - primary speaker identity: Unknown’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Why isn't it ignorant?
Ignorance is actually much more defensive.
We could say, well, this person just somehow doesn't understand or hasn't learned a lot about the world.
Okay, you were wrong about that, but that's at least an argument.
Uneducated suggests that there is a fix that these people could go through by being inert sheep vessels to be the recipients of the transmitted virtues of the graduates from the Columbia Teachers College or something.
It is...
Crazy, crazy, crazy elitist to say such things.
And it's really ironic and fun almost that AOC and Bernie Sanders, who were kind of part of the DSA wing of the party, which is ostensibly supposed to be for working people.
They could be telling a story about young men in this country and having a theory of the case where they'd be able to make their socialist arguments.
And that theory of the case is we have a really weird kind of unique in the rich world problem of people of working age not working.
Right.
And this is disproportionately men, but not only men compared to the rest of the world.
So what's your theory of the case for that and how are you going to address it?
They could do that with empathy and sympathy.
They could also look at the fact that we have crazy disability policies in this country that they probably supported in many cases that people are opting into, even though they're not quite disabled.
But they don't want to do that because that would call into their own things into question.
But they're not doing any of that.
They're instead calling you uneducated because you disagree with how they look at the world.
And this is why we're seeing this kind of shift of the political demographics in this country from who is the party of the rich and who is not.
It's an amazing thing because we've given AOC far too much credit for being a skilled politician.
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