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SECTION 3
WHY KAMALA HARRIS LOST THE ELECTION
Version 1 ... February 2025

the Democrats are as responsible for Mr Trump as anybody else and it should be
understood for the historical moment that it is and I think Mr Trump won
because he managed this symbolism very well I am naughty I am not of that
establishment I hate them like you do they have abused me personally just like
you this and kamla Harris Can you know she would have had to develop a different

Why Kamala Harris Lost the Election

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Persona a different projection she didn't do that I'm not privy so I don't know what
her calculations were but I think they were wrong I think she lost the election
not because Mr Trump became more popular but because her side became less so and
so the the votes you know there were fewer voters and blah blah blah and he was able to make inroads among young
voters and black voters more than enough to and he only won by one and a half% of
the vote you know he he has to create the Mandate verbally because he doesn't have it in
reality whe but you with him you never quite know whether whether he grasps the
boundary between the fantasy and and the B and the reality or whether he really

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thinks as other presidents have that he can now create the reality it conveniently conforms to how he would
like it to be this you know a lot of people make that mistake before we
return to this Narrative of change which I find very compelling and I guess it might actually be involved in this
conversation in this this coming question and also Victor Davis Hansen who I just mentioned you referred to
Union and in our last conversation you anticipated that the Unions would be in
support of Biden and I wanted to ask why then for instance a union like the long
shoreman's Union ended up going for Trump well the unions have been on
decline in this country if you look at membership was not the only measure but
it's an important measure they've been on decline for half a century I mean that has put them in an
impossible situation they their traditions in this country had to do

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with servicing your members you know filing grievances uh
representing your workers with the employer getting better wages working conditions and that takes time and
energy and staff and the only way you pay for that
is if you have members who pay dues so if you're losing membership for 50 years
and the line is literally I mean a little blips but it's basically a line
of 50-year decline I believe their Peak was in 1955 or around there and it's
been downhill ever since in the private sector which is the major part of our economy union membership is 7% or less
of the labor for that means 93% of private employees are not represented by
a union well the unions are bankrupt then they don't have them where are they going to get the money to sustain the

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staff which could provide the services that could sustain the union when you
put that together with the post depression roll back of the new
deal I mean remember 1947 is crucial it's the passage of the Taft heartley
act whose whose Provisions most people don't know but you really want to go
back if you're interested and look at them there are things such as if you're a communist you can't be a leader of a
union well hello friends Communists are the people who usually lead unions and
do so in a militant way who else would you expect I mean Communists with a
small C whether or not they're members of a Communist party and even bigger
than the tartle ACT said anything won by a union at a

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workplace any wage increase any working condition Improvement has to be given to
everybody working there whether they join the union and pay dues or not I
mean what yeah and by the way not just shame on the on on on the employer class
for having come together to support these bills which why they pass but also the unions themselves
did they not understand what this would do to them did it take 50 years of
observing the results the answer is they accommodated
to the conditions they faced and those conditions were a
society that had gone through a trauma the collapse of its own capitalist
system in the Great Depression and the decision of the employer class that what had happened
there must never be allowed to happen again what happened there was the mass

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of people cut an alliance with Mr Roosevelt and got their social security
we talked about this last time and and all of that Social Security unemployment
compensation the 10 million or 12 million workers hired by the government
all of the money for that was taken from the rich the corporations and the rich whose taxes were raised and who were
required to loan what they didn't pay in taxes okay they don't want that ever
happen again and they went to work with a kind of unanimity and a kind of
commitment that comes out of being frightened badly frightened by what they
observed yeah this is hard to get across to Americans but
what what for those people they observed was the equivalent of what Europeans
observe oberved with Nazis marching through their streets a a shock a shock

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a horror for many um a re shifting of the way you think
about the world and yourself in it and they made a decision very impressive
to and They carried it through they demonized the left look many of the people hauled
before the house on American Activities Committee believe it or not that's what it was called not my language they chose
an unamerican Activities Committee you they were going to decide what's
American and what isn't and they were going to punish imprison Deport all
kinds of things they did with those who were deemed unamerican uh they went after the the
Coalition that produced a new deal it was a coalition of the democratic party
Mr President Roosevelt the union movement which he

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encouraged led by the CIO which was then the dominant union experience and there
two socialists and one Communist party that was the New Deal coalition people interested in civil
rights or women wanting the end of sexism found their places within those
institutions Socialist Party communist part labor movement and that had to be smashed to bits and they went
systematically what was the weakest link of that Coalition the Communist party
because that could be linked to the great new enemy our former Ally right
you had to develop a theater and that theater shaped the American political
Consciousness I remember when my son was um of an age to go to college one of the
places he wanted to look at was the University of Chicago so my back them up and we went
to Chicago so that my son could you know go around and they had a little program like they usually do for for prospective

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students and there was an existing student who took us around showed us the campus and at one point my son cuz it's
my son said well are there political groups asking with all
the all the open honesty and N that a
17-year-old would have and the Young man who was taking us around it was very nice and very helpful said yes we have
everything from the then he me mentioned a right-wing Young Americans for Freedom
a right-wing group all the way over to the Democratic party and for him and for everybody else
that was it that was politics there was nothing further left
or same way of saying it further left to takes you out of the conversation into

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the area of scary dangerous evil for that and the young man in the
University of Chicago very American had absorbed that without understanding what
he was doing he absorbed the whole country is that and that's why when this
era of capitalism is over as I believe it to be
um and the dominant position in the United States is over as I believe it to be and you turn in with the horror of that
the fear of what that means well then you go to the right because that's the
alternative to what you have had all along and you feel the need for a break
Mr Trump plays that theme endlessly I'm new I'm different I'm going to I'm going
to I'm with the verbiage and the the the hyper you know 400 president itial
orders each having to reverse them the next morning could didn't think it through look at this you it's a

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spectacle but it's a spectacle that has its real Roots again I'm just keeping track of
all the things we're going to be coming back to I I assume that a big portion of our conversation will be about the end
of the American Empire and where we are with Trump right now but now I I would

Is Victor Davis Hanson Wrong About the Elites’ War on the Working Class?

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like to take this narrative you've given about the election being explained by a
desire for Change and the inability of Harris and the Democratic party to provide that I'd like to connect that to
what Victor Davis Hansen said and see if you see any resonance between the two ideas the way that Victor accounted for
the election is he sees it I think as part of a larger culture war between on
the one hand what he referred to as the B Coastal left-wing intellectual Elite