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104 - Will Warren Be The Establishment's Last Stand? ft. Krystal Ball & Artesia Balthrop (Patreon)

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It's impossible to understand the crisis in Kashmir without understanding India's far-right. 

 Shoutout to Allan Lee Rogers for asking this question to Bernie (https://twitter.com/Allaen51/status/1167595897297035265) 

Krystal Ball (@KrystalBall) host of HillTV's Rising calls in to talk about the difference between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren's theory of change. Also, the ongoing miner strike in Kentucky.   

Update on Brexit. 

During the GEM, David (@DavidGriscom) breaks down just how radical Bernie Sanders' Green New Deal is. 

Artesia Balthrop (@ArtesianB) TV & Film Producer joins us to talk about Jay-Z's NFL partnership and the water crisis in Newark. 







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J P 3

On the DSCC, Colorado Senate issue, if you want to be generous the argument is that the leadership is doing what it needs to do to compete with the GOP on fundraising. My own view is a lot more cynical. I think that the DSCC, the DCCC, and DNC, all effectively play a gatekeeping function on behalf of corporate power. Prior to 2012 the DSCC allowed a bunch of candidates with more unorthodox views on corporate power to get into Congress (e.g. Wellstone, Sanders, Feingold, Warren, Jim Webb). Post-Citizen's United, with Schumer as majority leader, the function of the organization is to keep new people advocating single-payer health care, financial regulation, and a Green New Deal out of the Senate. It was reported that Romanoff has been effectively told that consulting firms will not work with him for fear of being blacklisted (similar to the DCCC and incumbents). That Colorado seat in particular is one of two seats that are highly likely to flip in 2020, regardless of who the nominee is. I don't think this is really a question of ideology either. It's mostly about greed and the way that people within these organizations move back and forth between corporate lobbying jobs and fundraising organizations. The biggest threat to their power isn't losing to the GOP -- it's a political system where corporate power is diminished and the gravy train ends.

J P 3
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There's plenty that can be done with presidential authority alone. e.g. the Courts so far have pretty much given Trump a blank check on his invocation of "national security" as a basis for overriding Congressional funding directives -- the next Dem president will be able to act relying on those precedents. There's a lot that can be done through administrative action. e.g. restore DACA, decriminalization of marijuana by reclassification. Obviously it would be much better to flip both houses of Congress too. However, realistically, there is no way that a Democratic majority financed through the DCCC and DSCC is going to support progressive economic goals. If Sanders is elected, he's going to face resistance from both the GOP and the Dem leadership in his first two years. His willingness to fight for more fundamental change is one of the great things about him, but, especially after 2008 and the challenges with health care, financial regulation, immigration legislation, the failure to enact changes to unionization rules, I wouldn't assume that all of the resistance to progressive policy goals is going to come from a far-right GOP. The Democratic Party also has to change the way it operates.