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Chapter 1: What are the failings the left sees in the Democratic party?
They think the most milquetoast lib is like a radical communist. Like it doesn't, they don't know what the word means. Keep your government hands off my Medicare.
All right, joining us today on IHIP News is Blakely. They are a non-binary artist, songwriter, political commentator, who has gone viral on social media for their takedowns on both sides of the aisle. Blakely, welcome.
Thank you so much for having me.
Yeah, I just wanna give my audience a little background about you and me. So we follow each other online, and I think it's probably safe to say you're further left
than me even though i like to think of myself as fairly left i want to build alliances and have healthy conversations because i think people on the left agree on a lot more than what they disagree online so you identify as a leftist yeah and what do you take about this civil war that's going on with the democrats with like maybe the libs the progressives and the leftists
So for me, I mostly blame the Democratic Party. And I separate that a little bit from your rank and file lib, right? So sometimes the libs, just the rank and file libs, do make me insane. Like, I'll be being driven crazy. But... I think it is actually mostly the power apparatus.
And I think one of the problems is, which is why I'm so glad we're having this conversation and why you're one of the few people that I would say is like more liberal that has even been willing to have it, is that the Democratic Party and the people that are in the media, the people who are influential, they have done everything they can to not talk about it. They don't want to confront it.
This has been going on- When you say it, what are you talking about? The war, the fight between the left and the progressives, the democratic establishment, they don't wanna confront it. It's kinda like how our government and our politicians wanna close their eyes and cover their eyes and they don't wanna talk about Palestine, right? Like in Israel, they don't wanna talk about it.
It's the same thing with the Democratic Party and the liberals and the progressives. The entrenched power in the Democratic Party And the people that run the party, the people who have the influence and the power in the party do not want to confront what is happening at the grassroots level. And they don't wanna confront how corrupt the party is and why people leave more and more and more.
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Chapter 2: How does Blakely define the civil war within the Democrats?
And I always say they're probably like fascist collaborating, but I'm very concerned about this because I see it as the establishment Democrat is scapegoating leftists and we will not win elections. Now I do think in the midterms, the Democrats are going to win regardless of what they do. That's how bad Trump is. I agree. That's how bad Trump went. So let me ask you this.
If let's say of the new flock of Congress people, let's say that 50% of them are establishment. and 15% of them are in the progressive caucus. Are you a person of a political mind that believes that they're gonna have to compromise those two factions to get stuff done? Or is it all or nothing?
I don't think it's all or nothing. I think it depends on the issue. Because if you notice, the compromise always comes at the expense of the most marginalized. Yeah. It's never, oh, we're going to compromise to, you know, I don't know, get one certain policy.
The compromises always only go one way, scapegoating marginalized people and throwing them under the bus, whether that be Black Americans, trans people, people who can get pregnant in a red state. That's always the... the compromise. But so it's not that I'm against, I'm not one of these people that's like never. What do you think about Zoran and Hochul?
They've been working together. Exactly how it should be done.
Yes, absolutely. I love it. The problem is when they always say, as you said, they're scapegoating the left constantly. They never want to work with the left. They always are demonizing them. And the problem with that is
you are not the right understands that they need to cater to their base and the democrats demonize the people that are on the left they alienate them they say go away we don't want you instead of actually trying to work and actually understand and try to appeal to the left that was something zoron brilliantly did was like no i'm actually going to try to appeal to you instead of kicking you in the teeth which is what the democratic party always does to the left and the insane thing is
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Chapter 3: What criticisms does Blakely have about the Democratic Party's leadership?
is that too many people are just okay with accepting that. Like to me, what I find not acceptable is things like, we're not gonna release the autopsy report. Oh, that pissed me off. That is so unacceptable. That really pissed me off. Last night, how is it acceptable that the leader, the so-called leader, chuckles in the Senate- And he's a fascist.
He's a fascist and a fascist collaborator, that he's out here voting down set the the blocking sending thousand pound bombs to the terrorist genocidal apartheid regime of israel When 90% of the Democratic voting base does not want them to.
We cannot, we cannot as a party be an anti-war party, which we must be in the face. Because all, it doesn't matter which Republican it is, they all lead to neocons. Exactly. Every single time. They cannot help themselves. So we have to be the anti-war party. And we cannot... fund any country, any military that commits war crimes every day.
And it seems to be a feature, not a bug of the IDF that they cannot help themselves and intentionally target in double and triple tap strikes.
kids which we would all have an understanding easily if they weren't white that is the reality if this was any other country doing this or even if i want to be you know fair and say okay if it was russia they would be doing this the fact that they have done what they have done and continue to mass murder children and women and
the most horrific atrocities that I've ever seen that have been burned and etched in my mind that I'm never gonna recover from. And our so-called leaders keep trying to convince us that this is normal and acceptable, and we just need to give them nice murder tools.
absolute like that's where i do draw the line absolutely the not so it is a huge shift though and i agree with you i i mean i cannot stand chuckles i think he's worthless i wish they would just deal with him now i wish they would say you're not the minority leader but that's my wish whatever but i will say that it is pretty impressive that a year ago would have been unheard of that 40 people would have voted the way they did so that's because of the left
Right. And there is progress. There's progress happening. But sometimes when I, because I would say I'm like, you're here, here's the libs, I'm here. I guess I'm a progressive. Yes. Okay. So, and a lot of people, just FYI, listener, viewer, where I grew up in Oklahoma City, they make no distinction.
Oh, 100%.
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Chapter 4: How does the Democratic Party's approach affect grassroots movements?
So I say I'm a progressive because I do vote. Do you believe in harm reduction voting? I do, but I also believe in holding people accountable and not continuing to enable abusers. So there's harm reduction and then there's... you're actually not reducing harm.
You are being the wife that's allowing the husband to still beat the shit out of their kids and telling them that you're trying to protect them. So there's that. With the AOC thing, which is kind of the analogy that I use when I watch the whole thing with you and Hasan that blew up when people had a fucking meltdown about him saying he wouldn't vote for Gavin Newsom.
I made like three videos about it because I...
that they lost their mind you know people lost their mind he really like people just he occupies so much real estate and he does and part of that is honestly like legit just racism and islamophobia because his name is hassan and people think scary muslim and it's you know that's that and the fact that he's unapologetic which i absolutely love because you know so with aoc
i do think that yes there is perfection i'm not an unreasonable man i'm not like no the left is perfect and this like i sympathize with the libs sometimes and we'll be like no you know we we need to be a little bit more understanding in certain areas and i think my theory is
and you'll understand this is somebody who also grew up with a lot of evangelicals, is that I actually think that one of the reasons why the left can be so harsh sometimes is because they just haven't deconstructed their abusive evangelical Christianity that they grew up in. They just grew up and became atheists, but they never deconstructed that kind of religious abuse.
So they're very harsh and they're very quick to punish. It's a very religious mentality.
I can totally get on board.
Yeah, I think that's what it is because a lot of the left will be like, a lot of people I know in the left will be like, yeah, we're anti-imperialist and fuck the police and we're anti-carceral. And then like, you'll mess up and they'll be like, fuck you, you piece of shit. You deserve to die.
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