W. Kamau Bell
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5 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 14 Oct
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They want more access to health care.
They want better schools for their kids.
They want there to be less potholes in the streets.
So
but they've been, but, but political parties are weaponizing their differences against them.
So they think I want the opposite of what that guy wants.
And you both want, you want, and you've been told if that guy gets what he wants, then that means I get less of what I want when it's like, no, that's not how it actually ever should work, but that's how the political parties.
So yeah, I would say I was really clear about the division in the country between
like was planted.
It's not like a thing that happens naturally.
It's the thing that is sewn and planted.
And, and, and then on top of that, the enemy, the, by the last season of the United Shades, I said, I think the enemy of the episode is cap is American capitalism.
Now, American capitalism encompasses a lot, also encompasses white supremacy and racism and imperialism.
So it's like, it's all, it's, it's not just, you know, it's not, but that's what adds up to specific.
And I say American capitalism because other countries do capitalism differently, but,
But that's how you end up in a situation where like poor white people in Appalachia can vote for the party that actually doesn't care about them.
But they think this party is protecting tax cuts for rich people.
And one day my lottery ticket is going to hit and I will be a rich person who will need my taxes protected.
And you're just like and that's how they do it.
So I think it's just about weaponizing difference and weaponizing ignorance.
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