2 Reasons Socialism is Rising in America

Obviously, AI is, I think, going to be the defining political issue of the midterms and for sure the the next presidential election, but I feel like what is going on with the DSA is really a fusion of two things. The voting base of the DSA are relatively wealthy white liberals who are downwardly mobile. They're losing votes with workingclass people. They're losing votes with poor people. They're losing votes with black Americans. They're losing votes with Hispanic Americans. the people that the Democratic Party I think for a long time tried and whether they failed or succeeded tried to represent and give a voice to, they are not of interest to

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 really nice circumstances and uh instead of going into industry, they went into this kind of giant NGO nonprofit machine and their outcomes have been very different from people who did productive things for the world. You know, I've said on this show many times, Elon has done more to decarbonize the planet than every activist combined. >> Yeah. times 10, by the way, >> times 10. And I think these NOS's and the fact that the government is increasingly outsourcing a lot of funding to them is a really big part of this problem. And

then you can give jobs, $600,000 a year jobs run in an NGO that does nothing productive to your friends and allies. And it's really organized corruption happening happening at a massive scale. And I hope that the mainstream Democrats can find a compelling candidate because I think the reason that the DSA is increasingly ascendant is not because of their ideas. I think their ideas appeal to this very nar narrow subset of downwardly mobile rich white people who you know increasingly maybe live in you know quasi gentiel poverty because they they're not doing productive things. They may be well-intentioned but they're not doing productive things and can find

a compelling candidate because I think the reason they're ascendant is Zoran Mandani. I think he is one of the most talented politicians I've ever seen in my lifetime. But I think he is a singularly talented politician and he is the reason that the DSA is ascendant. not their ideas or not dissatisfaction with AI, but it's