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Obviously, AI is, I think, going to be the defining political issue of the midterms and for sure the the next
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presidential election, but I feel like what is going on with the DSA is really a fusion of two things. The voting base
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of the DSA are relatively wealthy white liberals who are downwardly mobile. They're losing votes with workingclass
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people. They're losing votes with poor people. They're losing votes with black Americans. They're losing votes with
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Hispanic Americans. the people that the Democratic Party I think for a long time
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tried and whether they failed or succeeded tried to represent and give a voice to, they are not of interest to
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the DSA. And I just think there's there's a whole class of people who went to an elite school. They grew up in
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really nice circumstances and uh instead of going into industry, they went into this kind of giant NGO
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nonprofit machine and their outcomes have been very different from people who did productive things for the world. You
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know, I've said on this show many times, Elon has done more to decarbonize the planet than every activist combined.
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>> Yeah. times 10, by the way, >> times 10. And I think these NOS's and the fact that the government is
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increasingly outsourcing a lot of funding to them is a really big part of this problem. And
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then you can give jobs, $600,000 a year jobs run in an NGO that does nothing productive to your friends and allies.
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And it's really organized corruption happening happening at a massive scale. And I hope that the mainstream Democrats
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can find a compelling candidate because I think the reason that the DSA is increasingly ascendant is not because of
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their ideas. I think their ideas appeal to this very nar narrow subset of downwardly mobile rich white people who
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you know increasingly maybe live in you know quasi gentiel poverty because they they're not doing productive things.
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They may be well-intentioned but they're not doing productive things and can find
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a compelling candidate because I think the reason they're ascendant is Zoran Mandani. I think he is one of the most
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talented politicians I've ever seen in my lifetime. But I think he is a singularly talented politician and he is
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the reason that the DSA is ascendant. not their ideas or not dissatisfaction with AI, but it's