Episode 3 - Krystal Ball
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Who is Krystal Ball and what is her background?
All right, welcome everybody. It is episode two of the Matt Jones Show. And for this episode, I thought I would bring on someone with ties to Louisville, Kentucky. I met this woman in Louisville many years ago when we tried to do a project and it was a lot of fun. Crystal Ball, she has been on everything from MSNBC to a number of different podcasts. She does Breaking Points with Crystal and Sagar. I think I got that right. um and has been on everything i mean she's been on every if there's a channel crystal you've been on it at some point about that joe rogan podcast you've been everywhere nice to have you on it's nice to see you matt it's a pleasure it wasn't that many years ago was it i don't know you know it does feel like it doesn't feel like that we used to go to lunch in louisville at the tie place on frankfurt avenue and argue about things and now we're 15 years later and here we are
Yep, indeed. It's a pleasure, and I'm honored to be guest number two. I didn't get the number one slot, but I'll take number two.
Well, yeah, Bomani was on my first one, so I decided to have him back again. Now, you do politics, but what I really like about you is even though you're on the left, like me, you come at things from a different perspective. So if somebody was to say to you, Crystal, explain your sort of political ideology in a short phrase, how would you explain it?
I mean, I would describe myself as populist left. So for me, you know, and a sort of economic analysis is really central to the way I view politics. And that doesn't mean that, you know, other things aren't important, that I don't focus on other things. Certainly right now in Trump 2.0, I'm focusing on a lot to do with deportations to due process and all those sorts of things as well. But, you know, at my core, that's that's kind of where I come from. And, you know, it's it's informed by this. Another thing I think you and I both have in common, like You know, I'm from a rural area. I'm from an area that is much more conservative. So I think that has affected my political views of, you know, having that kind of outsider perspective, viewing things a little differently.
And then what was really formative for me was I lived in the industrial Midwest, very close to East Palestine, where there was that horrific train explosion, all of that, you know, in Ohio. And that area was completely decimated by this bipartisan agenda for NAFTA and for opening up permanent normal trade relations with China. And it really was a bipartisan project. And I saw the way that town after town there was just devastated and the impact that had on people's lives. And so that really kind of opened up my eyes to the political system and has made it so even though I'm definitely on the left, there's no doubt about that. You know, I tend to vote for, you know, I vote for Democrats because they're more aligned with my view than others.
It's also given me a sort of critical eye towards both parties, I would say.
Yeah, you definitely are critical towards both parties. But I love that you said populist left because I don't think there's a lot of people like you and I for real in politics. And what I mean by that is for you and I, the working class, I think has always been the centerpiece of what we believe in. And people will say that, but then they don't necessarily actually do the things that lead to it. I mean, when I try to think of people in the Democratic Party now, if you're just talking on economics, Maybe John Fetterman – Bernie has parts of it, but then parts of it can go the other way, in my opinion. Do you agree with me that there are not a lot of people – first of all, there are not a lot of politicians that are Democrats in office from the places we're talking about, rural America.
There's just not anywhere, right? Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, I think that – I agree with pieces of that. So I'm much more of a Bernie bro than you are, and I actually can't stand John Fetterman because I think he cares more about a foreign country than he does about his own constituents with his obsession about Israel.
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