Yanis Varoufakis on the 2020 US election | DiEM25
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- Yanis Varoufakis's message on the results of the US elections 2020 and the future of progressive politics.
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Spot on as always Yanis. Your words always deliver hope.
My first thought after the Election: the Dems should be more worried than happy, the Reps should be more happy than worried.
Fantastic sum up. The establishment played this expertly. Biden wins having no platform promises to keep . Status quo returns. Dems crush Bernies supporters . Republicans shed Trump and avoid blame from the Republican base. Dems sully their voters by forcing them to vote for someone BLM and #metoo should despise. Evil but brilliant campaign
Who wants to be in Govt as the economy goes into a Depression.
@@mouvnation191 lol it might have been a short term win for them, but long term it is looking like the situation will eventually come to a head.
The anti-establishment sentiment is tangible and growing fast.
So valuable to have your clear voice in this times.
You are so incredibly inspiring 🙏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Once again the choice between consummate liar 1 and 2. U.S. politics is one big dog and pony show.
It is not that benign!
@@daysjours calling it a dog and pony show does not infer benignity. I suggest you look up the colloquial definition and educate yourself.
@@boeingdriver29 It was my failed attempt at wit. I am with you and was only making a joke that I would have rather LITERALLY rather watched a dog and pony show rather than two geriatric SOBs compete to rule the nation to benefit their handful of friends.
@@daysjours cheers. 👍
If Biden wins Georgia's Senate seats there is hope. If anyone knows people in that state, please encourage them to vote in January. You would have done your part for climate change in a big way. We can't do this without the United States.
As we all know, elections in the U.S. comes down to money. If you want the Democrats to win the Georgia senate seats, please consider making a contribution to Stacey Abram's organization Fair Fight: fairfight.com
I fully agree that Biden is a million times better than Trump, but do you genuinely believe that he will do enough to actually combat the climate crisis?
I highly doubt that he will be as progressive as Obama was and well Obama wasn’t progressive at all.
@@MauriceGucci I didn’t find any difference between Biden and Trump. Actually, Biden is shaping his cabinet that excluded Sanders and Warren
@@stephaniefreeman3914 Biden has basic human decency and probably actually believes that his actions are for the better. He’s a human being you can talk tho who share democratic values.
Trump doesn’t even have any of that. That’s the major difference between them imo.
@@MauriceGucci Human decency is not enough. Look at the numbers of people( working class and minorities) that voted for Trump in these elections. They don't care about decency. They care about job security, limits on mass immigration and the revocation of the TTIP agreement, which Biden will push through. The Republicans managed to keep the Senate and lost 11 seats in the House. Biden is a one term, sitting duck president.
Nothing but respect for you Sir....
If you are deeply happy that President Trump isn't going to be in the White House, I guess Joe Biden winning is *not* the worst possible outcome, or you'd have said something along the lines of "Even four more years of President Trump wouldn't have been *this* bad!".. I get what you're saying.. but I think the idea that this is the *worst* that could have happened isn't true. It's just not the *best* either..
Thanks Yanis! ✊👏 Your insights are always really good and damn, you're right!
Thankyou for the insight
I wonder what Yanis thinks now that Dems have the Senate.
I would like to add a perspective to things we should be concerned with besides corrupt politicians and far right fascism. Most of us are unwittingly supporting far right fascism that is supported and encouraged by the US around the world. We are simply oblivious to it.
I work with people who socially tilt right and they love to hate on BLM, they love to hate on single payer because they think it will make us all broke, they love to consume that propaganda/entertainment and they know what politicians they think they should fear. Funny thing is, according to them, Biden and Harris are just as extreme as any lefty progressive because this is what they heard the last time they watched TV or looked at their favorite website. And another thing that I've noticed is life long Democrats who utterly hate Trump fear that Biden is going to go too far left. Where do they get this nonsense? Biden could be a Republican. They also have distorted ideas about immigration and terrorism but the fake news on these is the same in the center or the neoliberal left.
These good people simply have a corporate media toxicity infection. These folks are even sympathetic to Trump's emboldening of white militant groups who are feeding off of racial tension, this is where things can get ugly fast. This is part of a media infection, because the media has shown that it will take no responsibility if the President acts like a fascist. But these people I work with are genuinely respectful and appreciative of their black co-workers despite real or perceived cultural differences.
Our main problems are corporate/MIC media and its totally undemocratic exercise of power over facts, information, narratives, context, representation of America, representation of the world, representation of values, representation of good and bad etc etc. Impunity in demonizing innocent people, impunity in ignoring ethical responsibility. Having the ethics of a legal team defending wanton poisoning of communities.
If you look at the history of television you will see an interesting parallel with the history of extremist economic thinking, dismantling of worker unions, the demonizing of the welfare state and those whom it helps, perverted values of success and spectacle, the use of cable TV for extremist propaganda and censorship of critical thinking. I'm only up to the nineties. The last twenty years have seen extreme growth and spread in usage and consolidation of messaging. And that is if you look at it only on a macro level. If you look at how it is managed on a micro level, it resembles how the intelligence community behaves. It will meticulously work to distract, distort, and confuse any one single idea until it loses all of its clarity or meaning or influence. And it will be doing this automatically soon if it isn't already. So these are real reasons, not a dystopian fantasy.
The new Space Force is basically a project to keep up the flow of trillions in private revenue for taxpayer funded monopoly R&D as well as obese profits. It is also an effective tool for domestic propaganda and an exhibition of emperial power. The US is becoming the anti-China China.
And as though it has been game planning for the last year corporate MSM is pivoting to the Biden WH with the staging of the "how to deal with the far left faction of the party" issue. I've noticed already the scripts being used to set this up. The media regime will be approaching this production similar to the Russia-gate production. And I wouldn't doubt it if bogus "intelligence" from "multiple intelligence sources" makes a showing for this cause. In fact Russia influence was thrown around when it was time to shut down Bernie. The Corbyn antisemetic slander is only effective with a fully bias corporate media.
The challenge to this observation is how alien the idea of being without corporate media is. And most if not all of us have never been without it. This makes it harder to see. And despite the toxicity and the manipulation most of us are dependent on it and most of us are bewitched.
Its been a hypothesis of mine for a while now, that science evolved before we achieved social emancipation from over accumulated power structures. Which means that the rich and powerful incorporate it and use it as they see fit, including psychology, which has been used since Freud in the 1920s by figures such as Edward Bernays, and then later on, behaviorism and cognitive science. That, including the development of the means of mass communication and surveillance, perfecting the business of manipulation of behavior and thought. The power harvested from the knowledge of science is too great, we needed a much more mature culture, free enough from the constraints of the primitive drives that move the lives of the super rich, and their cultural inheritance, in order to have a better chance at saving ourselves from a dystopian future. I hope Im wrong about this, but as you pointed out, things dont look great.
@@KB-uy3lv Do you think that fighting agaisnt institutional racism and for basic rights, are perverted values?
Left identity politics has taken the center stage to shepard people into fighting over Jerry Springer type drama meanwhile both parties embrace an elite conservative neoliberal economic agenda that is a drain on the real economy of the majority of Americans while being a wealth transfer towards Wall St.
The only people who buy into stupid statements like that are people who don't know better. That is why there is so much anti-socialism and anti-Marxist propaganda targeting young people who are a threat to corporate/Wall St handouts and the reality of politicians that have enough support from average people they are not dependent on corps and Wall St. These young people would be voting for Sanders if he wasn't stabbed in the back by Wall St, DNC, Biden, Obama, CIA, corporate news. In fact maybe this weird "evil" spouting dunce is part of the same PR movement as the one I was describing above. They like to call things evil but they have nothing of substance to say. They are like people who burn witches because their circumstances suck and they get other people to join them because there are so many ignorant desperate people who are easily recruited. (an important condition for MSM to work well) Notice I was describing how the corporate news, big tech, stock market, Fed handouts, MIC private revenue etc. are related. Our leaders are not holding political office, the real leaders are orchestrating Washington and the elections. They are the private for profit MIC, CIA, Wall St and fossil fuel energy and their think tanks who help the media with crafting propaganda and messaging for the public. Why else would a Marxism hating troll be watching a Varufakis video and bringing up Marxism out of the blue?
@@KB-uy3lv that's right !
& since when has a true revolution of the 'people' been funded by big corp's ...lol.....people have lost the ability to think for themselves ...
I lub U maaan ;-) Spot on. That ladies and gentlemen, is how a REAL progressive sounds!
Thank you from Hamilton, Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
That "only" accomplishment of Trump not to have started a new war is a biggie though. I feel that Syria and Libya tilt the scale between the last ones despite their differences in rhetorical prowess and style🤷♂️
Absolutely agree. I had hope that 8 years of a President not wanting foreign wars might wean the USA off an appetite for them. I fear Biden's big business donors will get exactly what they seem to want.
Disagree, Trump also ended TTIP TTP and stopped the CIA funding ISIS. He also deported half the amount of people Biden Obama did in their first 4 years.
People are paying attention with Trump in office.
@@jollyyeholiver1578 Every day this president refuses to except the results of the election the chances of a Civil War increase.
@@AAB463 True, though democrats shouldn't have meddled this much, seriously this election was fcking embarrassing.
@@KB-uy3lv the courts (the institution that has always resolved disputes for this country) have said there is NO EVIDENCE.
I recognise your concerns but I think you need to let the dust settle yet. Also, most of the European groups that mobilized to aide Biden are staying the course to flip the Senate in January, this deal is not done yet by any means and maybe in the short term, you should be focused on helping that to occur rather than lamenting what has occurred.
I’ll vote Yanis all day long
As always, and with great respect Sir, your thoughts on this matter are forever held in high esteem by any thinking and woke individual(s). Never disappointing, your crystal clear vision of what is real and what is not, is almost clairvoyant. I have admired from afar your beginning early dances on the world stage. A natural leader. However, and I am an ignorant man regarding most things political. I just think your wrong about President Trump. I'm always so surprised when you verbalized your distrust of Trumps motivations. You my friend, may God circle his angels around you, your family, and all your friends, and protect you, and them, from all evil. All.
Awesome Yanis
I hope that we survive this next 50 years without a civil war
Thank you Yanis.
Yes, carpe diem. Forward together. Gracias Yanis.
Very well said Yanis
Bang on the money... yet again!
Makes total sense
Excellent analysis as always. One disagreement, we do not have to defend Biden. We did our job, and helped get Trump out of office. We continue to organize and build our message. Regardless of the establishment position.
Yup, I completely agree.
Thank you.
For you Yanis 🌷🌷🌷🌷
Globally agree with the analysis, but classifying Trump voters as "xenophobic" is a gross oversimplification.
so the assassination of an Iranian general is not an act of war? sending special forces to Venezuela not an act of war? what a pity that the bar is so low, that starting a new war is a victory rather than pulling out completely from war
@@BocaoZ true, but the intent from the Trump admin was there to start one, the Iranians came out looking reasonable and not blood thirsty like Bolton
Just because no war resulted from the offensive war crime committed by Trump doesn't mean we can credit him for not having started a new war. Maybe he didn't start one but it does look like he tried to.
Radical Centre - I nominate this for oxymoron of the year 2020.
Yup he is secretly protecting the establishment=oligarchy of which he has always been an aspect of. Also known as controlled opposition meaning he knows this is an oligarchy situation & it always has been so he is pretending that there are parties & choices when he knows there are none & the only thing preventing justice-change is just that a realization in enough minds that reality exists.
He is not the only one calling the disastrous centrist dogma, that has allowed right wing monstrosities to rise and become mainstream, 'radical'. We have to start unmasking their self-identification as 'moderates'. There is nothing 'moderate' about Centrists. They are ruthless, rapacious corporatists and warmongers to boot. They have radicalised the economy by subjugating all social demands and needs to their 'free market' dogma. Their only excuse is some hollow identity politics which they have abstracted from the nexus of political struggles and treat in isolation from and over and above socio-economic struggles. They have demolished the value of the very institutions they appeal to when they run against an orange turd. More radical than that you can't get.
Actually makes sense. Very old phrase. It means people that refuse to move left out of idealogical centrism, which is an oxymoron itself. Ofc thats not the reason centrist politicians dont move left-their reason is soft corruption.
@@cloudmane4159 There is no left/right in an oligarchy=in any system ANY system that is rule by the few they are all pyramid systems trying to tell anyone different is either mental illness or attempted deception. There is only real direct Democracy or there is control by groups or the minority of society which is & will always be oligarchy no matter if you call it socialism or republic or even if you call it Direct Democracy it doesn't matter if that system is not transparent & can only act at the behest/will of the majority. Everything else is criminal unless of course you think the few are superior which again means you are pathological.
@@allegory6393 but they aren't CENTRISTS. They're RIGHT WING DEMOCRATS.
I agree with Mr. Varoufakis's assessment and tried to articulate this to my family as to why Trumpism would still be around for quite some time and all they could do was say they'll go away...If you study history or are just paying attention to what is going on i would say that this is far from over, unfortunately.
The usual facile spiel, it is impossible to undesrtand the appeal populist republicanism (which I don't actually like) by ascribing it all to racism etc. and describing its proponensts as protofascists; this is not only a misreading of a much more complex phenomenon, it is also counterproductive and merely helps to impede a return to sanity in American politics.
Always the same globalist " political corect " song .... very poor analisis !!! " Populist republicanism " is the only way to freedom nowadays , wether we like it or not !!!
The 2 deciding Senate seats will be voted on January 5th. Stacy Abrams is busy organizing there to seat Democrats. Donations will be most helpful as republican donors are flooding money there as we speak!
A very intelligent man. Yanis should be running the IMF
Of course· the establishment, the powerful governments and the Bourgeoisie would not allow it.
Χαίρετε! ! I’m a Bernie supporter and I was disappointed to see him not chosen as the nominee: however, seeing now the close margin that Biden won by, I’m glad he didn’t get it as I doubt he would have fared as well in the general election - and Trump would be president. I’m happy to have Bernie somewhere in the administration. Ευχαριστώ!
Thanks Yannis.
Feel a lot better.
Why racist? Anything to back that up? This needs to stop.
Always the same poor globalist and "political correct" song !!!!
"Since 1900, 35 conflicts have been launched by Republican administrations compared to 23 by Democrats, with 10 (out of 12) GOP (Republican) presidents launching one or more conflicts, compared to 8 (out of 8) Democrats."
An interest of conflicts
I agree with you!
My last ditch comes from remembering that Roosevelt came from the elite and that such an epiphiny can happen again
it happened because the left was several magnitudes stronger in america during the 30s.
Franklin Roosevelt was a disaster as a peacetime president. He had America where he wanted it and turned the screws so the depression stayed in place.
I respect Yanis Varoufakis enormously and I agree with this longterm view. The problem is this analysis lacks consideration of the immediate need to get Trump out of office. Of course Biden, as a neoliberal, is not the solution to our big problems, but there are immediate, pressing needs to be addressed. The most urgent issue is the pandemic, which Trump will do next to nothing about. A Biden presidency and a GOP controlled senate (not settled) will/would be extremely frustrating, but I don't see how a Trump second term and a GOP controlled senate would be better.
Marvellous as ever
So how is it decided what a doctor earns a plumber a teacher a supermarket asst a minister etc
Still hope to get the senate.
Progressives have reason to be cautiously optimistic in that the young entering the voting pool are increasingly progressive and stay that way. (They don’t un-learn the problems with capitalism.) The Overton window may gradually shift left and both parties will need to rebrand themselves accordingly. Republicans suppressing votes and gerrymandering is an act of desperation because they know this wave is coming, hopefully. But only time will tell.
agree
Dear YANIS,
This world is a shame
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At the time Biden became the Democratic Nominee, I knew we got nothing but worst possible outcome.
This video is unavailable, does anybody knows why it’s not accessible?
the next few years are going to be real fun in US, I'm looking forward to the high entertainment factor it all will have, anyhow for civilized people
Can we get a Yanis/Yang podcast please? There is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel and its name is Andrew Yang
Yang is a fraud.
Yanis: real masculinity.
I agree with everything you say Yanis but I don't think it is helpful or accurate to divide politics into 'sides', left vs right, conservatives vs progressive. This introduces the team or belonging emotion. I would rather think of and discuss politics on a merits bases.
Yanis -- please listen to Glenn Greenwald re the results. I think it is very very important as an analysis of the election and positing that one side was proto-fascist. A must analysis.
When the political system is in deep crisis, no matter who became the leader, it is only a matter of time when a state collapse.
Oh for God's sake. The electorate did not choose Bernie in the primaries.
As Snders supporter, I have to say, Bernie disappointed greatly. I hope this is not the leaders we want in the future. Nor Obama 2.0, so called Squad.
And as a progressive, no one should defend Biden.
Yes! Support the Movement for a People’s Party! We need to end the duopoly of two corporate parties and create a progressive, working class party.
@serendipidus1 Sanders disappointed because he didn't support any new progressive that challanged Dem leaders, no mention of Assange. And while he gives his ass to Biden, Biden rejected him and his ideas. That's not leader.
P.s. your friends had 4 years to change their party preference, if they wanted to vote Sanders 2020
@serendipidus1 yap, exactly that. I also got dissapointed, when I saw Bernie's war vote. He was against Irak war because Republicans started it. But he supportet every war initiated by Dems. That's why he doesn't mention Assange.
@@enzogilchrist4363 That would only work if you reform the electoral system itself
Quite cogent analysis.
Agreed.
Please don’t underestimate the majority who will still go to the streets. We are watching this new administration ,closely! Big business is not off the hooks.
Cute. Bet you guys said that about Obama too.
The problem was my iPhone. I can watch it now.
The Silk Roads in the background!
And Banksy.
and Edna O Brien. nice
Love yanis
I'm with you Yanis, for the most part, but perhaps your take is too pessimistic. For one thing when Trump won 306 to 223 electoral votes (and lost the popular vote by over 3 million) he described it as a "landslide". Even compensating for Trump's proclivity for exaggeration, I don't think that margin can be described as thin. This is the same margin Biden attained, but in Biden's case it is reinforced with a popular vote margin in excess of 5 million. If you are referring to the small margins in individual states like Arizona and Florida, that's a function of the polarisation of the US population, and is now baked into the system, but for Biden to have prevailed in those states represents a massive upset. As for the Senate, I looks likely that the Republicans will retain control, although that is by no means certain.
He all predicc, he knows all thincc but most importantly... He s a PREMADE HMS DICC
No one against the domination of politics by big business would have any say in the USA Democratic Party
We're getting closer. Bernie made headway and we've got AOC, Ilhan Omar et al. I find in dark moments I'm quite pessimistic as well, but we shouldn't forget that without a VERY concerted effort by big, capitalist enabling names, Bernie would have secured the nomination. That it was so close should surely give us hope.
Serious question ...
Can someone please explain 'Radical left' to me? What is so wrong here?
I orient myself as a pretty liberal democrat and I don't really understand where this term got formed ('Radical left')? How can left be radical? It makes no sense to me ...
Please, inform me
Its just a smear term invented by the right wing to shift the overton window even further. They called Bernie radical left eventhough he was pretty center-right-with-a-conscience in global terms. Just wanted people to have healthcare and stuff.
The right will call anyone left of freaking Hitler a "radical leftist," just to alienate them from the discourse and brainwash centrists.
Radical is a bad thing in the right wing mind that has a cultural association with the movements of the sixties which among people who culturally associate with conservatism was an evil destructive time in America’s past which brought about “cancel culture” and “PC” and a break down of “traditional (white mostly Protestant conservative in their mind) values.” Anything even very modestly liberal or progressive is considered “radical left” which in any other part of the world wouldn’t be considered very left at all. Speaks to a extreme right ward shift since the 70’s in American political culture.
Tankies and anarkiddies
@@satyasyasatyasya5746 Thank you! Based on this explanation I am radical as well :)
Interesting how more freedom extends to more radical for some people.
@@AndrejGobec You're welcome.
Smear tactics and lies are all the right has, since they don't have an idealogy as such, just post-hoc justifications for being greedy sadistic rich d-bags.
Yanis would you please elaborate on the “ great depression in US for next 2 years”?
The 2020 market crash duh.
@@R1ckr011 The market is not a good indictor of the economy for the working class.
Do fascists lower taxes and defend individual rights to bear arms? Do fascists allow states to run their own health policies (e.g., COVID), instead of controlling from the top? Please explain how Trump is a fascist.
Thank you Yanis!
the future in politics lies beyond the existing party system (, if things turn out well for humanity) .
Direct democracy is the only way to secure that parties as the Democrats dont use well sounding party programs to mislead the population, but keeping the status quo j as you said it). I believe the way to reach the goal of a human society lies in the development of out of parlament structures, that follow the rules of direct democracy. The way through the political parlamentary system by aprogrssive party could definitely help, but we should proceed in both ways because of the uncertainty of success in a parlamentary corrupt system. If we vote with our purse everyday we can make a change, if we dedicate our workforce only in the construction of out of the system structures, we might suceed.
As a progressive, I find it so appalling how much our side just complains. We find millions of excuses for own inability to win elections. Unless we grow up we are deemed to fail again and again.
Always on the money
Thank you my brother! At least there is one sane voice left in the world...YV
...the lesser of two evils....seems a persistent human story...and perhaps it is part of the nature of democracy...anyway, another great perspective Yanis.
Try a multiparty system, so you can choose the least of several evils.. Much better!
Just Watch George Carlin. Owners of the country! Get Real!
If Trump had won - what great havoc would he have released? On African-Americans, civil liberties, women’s rights, .... Wrong on that one Yanis.
Democrats always doing identity politics. One day you'll remember trump. What is happening now is what happened in iraq and Libya. They assassinated their own president following command from western regime. Look at iraq and libya now. Trump will never fade away. Look at what socialism has done to Venezuela and Cuba. Trump did what's best for American. For 4 years democrats hated their own country. The truth will always come out. The fraud will be exposed. God always wins
@@rexfordasiedu5963 You are deluded. In time, DJT will be remembered for what he is - a greedy amoral opportunist willing to tear his country apart for personal gain.
@@pashakdescilly7517what does a billionaire need money for. What is personal gain for him. Hes richer than all the mainstream media. Owns so many hotels and golf clubs. Personal gains? Your name look indian. I don't blame you. All your leftist politicians are millionaire. Ask yourself how come Biden and hillary outspent trump on campaign.. which rich people supported them. Personal gains? A president who thinks about farmers. Lowered taxes for us. A president who thinks about the middle class. If he is what you say he is I don't think over 72 million people voted for him. Such a brainwashed Pashak de Scilly. Be a free thinker. A billionaire who left his wealth behind to come and save his people. All your leftist people did was to interrupt him. Boy or girl or whoever you are go get some sushi and eat and watch how Donald Trump wins the election. Leftist cancel culture socialist asshole.
@@rexfordasiedu5963 Make up your mind - do you think I am Indian or Japanese? You really don't have a clue, about that or anything else.
Trump has cut taxes - for the super rich. For everyone else, tax rises and reduced services. He's gagging to destroy the ACA during a pandemic. That is what Trump really thinks of the ordinary US citizen. Totally expendable, and of no account whatsoever. That means you, too. He's after your vote, and any money he can grift from you. Latest wheeze is begging for money to cover the legal expenses in his spurious challenges to the presidential election counts. Remember the 'build the wall' fiasco? Some of his finest men got caught scamming money donated by his loyal followers. Dupes one and all....
You talk as though Trump is Your Personal Messiah and Saviour. He's just a con-man. You haven't heard about the hundreds of millions of dollars he owes in debt which is coming due this year, and he has personally guaranteed?
Cancel culture is SOO US right-wing. You Trumpers see the whole world in your own image. It's called projection. Look it up
Surely things are not as bad as you suggest. First, the Senate balance of power cannot be known until January with a run-off of two seats in Georgia -- which, if won by Democrats, would make the Senate 50:50 with a casting vote by Kamala Harris as vice president (elect). This gives Democrats in Georgia -- where Biden has effectively won despite a recount -- enormous incentive to get eg new young voters registered and to get the vote out. As for Biden representing only big business, I don't think so. Despite divisions in his party he is well aware of the importance of retaining support from the left and, having won the election, is less dependent on corporate funding for campaigning -- though he may be compromised like all candidates by pre-election promises. The threat from white supremacist armed "militias" urged on by 70 million aggrieved Trumpists of whom nearly 80 percent believe the election was "stolen", seems much more serious.
I'm a leftish retired (white) American lawyer who has been a fan of ours for many years, but I disagree with almost every word of your latest video. First of all, Sanders was not defeated by some secret conspiracy of corporate forces but by his own repellant personality, which consisted of endless, full-volume screaming on one subject only, which is economic injustice. I entirely agree with his POV but I could not stand him as a candidate, and I voted for EW. And I remind you that Democracy depends on the support of actual voters, and Sanders failed to even make a tiny DENT in the Democrats most important constituency, which is Black voters, and Black women specifically. Second, you have made a lot of assumptions about Joe Biden which have no basis in fact. First of all, he gets 5 stars for deposing the loony SOB in the White House. Second, you have no basis whatsoever for concluding that he is going to be just another voice of corporate America. In order to win, he forged a brilliant coalition that spans the spectrum from AOC to Conor Lamb, and he has shown himself entirely open to the ideas of the left. I could go on, but you get the idea. You do yourself a great disservice by this kind of uninformed screed. Best for you to give our new President a chance. There will be plenty of time to attack him later, if that proves to be necessary.
I totally agree with you. But I am from scandinavia and I beleave that a big majority of Europeans beleave the same. Let Us hope that the prograsive part of the democrats Will get some influense on the Biden politics. For the good of the People, since they don't know Any better.
To reduce those who support Trump racist can only be but deranged thinking. And to come from an individual who is a thinker and academic is awful. Shameful.
Please Yanis, could you tell us a few words about "The Great Reset" ? (the proposal being push forward by the Davos WEF )
How come diem
has less than 100k subscribers?
Babylon is falling and its poetic justice that its a tv game show host thats bringing it down
We could get a 50/50 senate with Harris being the tying vote. There will be a Strong third party candidate in 2024.
Meaning the democrats will Lose again. Great.
@@R1ckr011 we don’t want the Democrats to win.
At least the fascism is weakend. Next step is to go more to the left but they will have to take it step by step.
It's Not weakened. There's 0 evidence of this from a mere numerical standpoint.
There's still 8 weeks unil Biden is president. Don't forget that.
Fascism goes way beyond Trump. It slides and comes up from the point you least imagine. Fascism can come from people of the "left" and people of the right. Fascism is in technocracy. Fascism is in the social media system. It is in the way enterprises justify freedom of speech for everyone regardless of any human right.
@@MirkoskjiVero Facism that comes from the "left" is not coming from the left, but from the Capitalism slaves that is destroying the left solidarity. .
@@d.lindstrom7130 i know. i dont really consider "fascist"lefts really left. it does not exist. but representatives of the "lefts" may have agendas that contain ideas that swing in other directions.
Thanks YV (you should sell a fragrance with initials like that).
Nuclear Winter is an even more imminent and extensive environmental threat now. I'd suggest a panel or interview with Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator of the Global Alliance Against Weapons and Nuclear Power In Space.
I think you're uncharitable toward the Folk Right, though - they are culturally-indigenous, and their support will be required to expel and subdue the Empire.
The man makes perfect sense.
I was afraid he would predict something like that ... crap... 😬
And on top, he's right.
Have a lot of respect for Varoufakis but 1) we shouldn’t concede the Senate races in Georgia just yet & 2) we are in such a desperate place that maybe people will be ready to organize a general strike to make real demands and whatnot. We can’t rely on the Democrats. We are the ones we are waiting for, as others have said. This is no time for despair.
I agree 1000% with everything you've said. AND.... We MUST use this golden opportunity to work with the Republicans(and all parties) and FINALLY expose the various methods that are being used- by BOTH SIDES to change the outcome of ALL elections. Not just the Presidency is at stake, but the entire election system around the country have been affected by election manipulation of all manner.
We must live up to the pursuit of DEMOCRACY which is not about a candidate or a party. It’s about the will of the voters deciding the outcome of an election. I have worked for Election Integrity since 2004. It is the height of hypocrisy to be working for election integrity for YEARS, and then all of a sudden when “we” win claim that the election is legitimate. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to finally change this flawed system and close the loopholes that may make it possible for Trump to pull a coup d'etat with the Supreme Court picking a president yet again.
In other words, nothing can really change without changing the US electoral system itself -- getting rid of the Electoral College, Republican gerrymandering, and voter suppression which together perpetuate the rightwing bias in US politics. Our Electoral College equivalent in the UK is "First Past The Post" -- in esch case an anti-democratic, Winner-Takes-All system which enables the election of minority governments despite losing the popular vote.
@@gabrielmills2361 AND we must make to counting software in voting machines open source and show the scanned ballot images on a channel so that EVERYONE can count them. There are so signatures on these pictures of the actual ballots so it won't be a privacy issue. That way fractionalizing the votes won't be possible. BlackBoxVoting.org
@@BeautifulCalligraphy Thanks for the link: voting in the US does seem to be more open to fraud than in the UK, where we don't use machines. But without Proportional Representation, we still don't have representative democracy -- and most people don't understand this (yet).
The first act of president Trump in 2021 should be to give you a one way ticket, from where the he'll you came.
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There’s still a Senate runoff in Georgia & agenuine movement away from Republicans in the South☮️❤️😷✊🏼
Amen.
Good analysis but I think if you lived here you would know better than to assume there would be a legitimate 2024 election after Trump II
I live in the US and clean houses for a living. I struggle on every level of economic discomfort. I agree with everything Yanis says, but I have no idea what I can do to support a people's movement. What can I do???
Join DSA ?
Europe is well-ahead on green new economies and collectivist progressivism, so you can show us the way. Let us know how you like the new round of lockdowns across the continent.
Living beyond your means didn't help Greece fair too well did it? Greece working to become a tech hub of the Mediterranean could have happened had there not been the massive corruption among Greek politicians.
The American political establishment needs to rebuilt from the ground up around the working class family and unions. The middle class strategy focused on the 50's style managerial, so called nuclear family model failed.
Yanis is a socialist. So was Stalin. He was finance minister for Greece - Greece's finances speaks for itself.