watch this great video from yesterday of Bernie shredding the media at a presser

[cali]

https://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=bGv2SPB8pNU

[silverweb]

1. Link goes to the YouTube main page, not the video.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]At least for me.

[cali]

3. it goes directly to the video for me

Try this
https://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=bGv2SPB8pNU

[silverweb]

11. Nope. Weird.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I even tried logging out of YouTube first, but both links still take me to the front page.

What's the exact title of the video? Maybe I can find it that way.



On edit: Problem solved below!

[DanTex]

2. Good clip, though you should fix the url. Honest question, though.

When Bernie says, (roughly quoting here), that the GOP has done a brilliant job dividing the American people on issues like gay marriage and abortion, how is this not tantamount to saying that economic issues are more important than social issues like those?

I mean, one could also alternately say that the GOP has done a great job dividing the American people on economic issues to distract from things like abortion and gay marriage. That we should get Americans together and work for gay rights and abortion and other social issues and not let economic issues divide us.

[cali]

4. I don't get what's wrong with.the link

And I don't think.he's saying economic interests are more important, he's responding to a.question about.people voting against their own economic interests.

[DanTex]

5. Delete the "#/watch?" from it and it will embed. Like this:

If you post this, without the spaces, it will work:
https://www. youtube .com/watch?v=bGv2SPB8pNU

[cali]

7. thanks but apparently I'm hopeless at this. oh.well

[mucifer]

8. Wow thank you!

[Raine1967]

14. Thanks DanTex.

much appreciated!

[libdem4life]

15. Bernie takes 'em back to school...while his lovely and adoring wife takes photos of him.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

23. It's so natural

not manicured

[slipslidingaway]

20. Correct link, thanks!!! n/t

[DanTex]

6. But he says the GOP is dividing people using social issues.

Why are social issues the divisive ones, and economic issues the ones that people are supposed to come together on? Why aren't the economic issues considered divisive, and why shouldn't people come together based on social issues?

[cali]

9. but this is commonly known and commonly acknowledged by dems to be

a republican tactic

[DanTex]

10. I acknowledge that too. It's the "what's the matter with Kansas" theory.

And there's truth to it. And yet, it does carry the implicit assumption that what people really should be voting on is their economic values and not their social values. Which may be true. But there's still a prioritization there.

[2banon]

19. Socio-economic issues are explicitly tied together

they are separate but directly linked in political context, most especially profound in Vulture Capitalist/Plutocratic societies. I believe one of the main reasons why people in our culture do not understand the link, is because it is rarely referenced, it is rarely illustrated, it is rarely pointed out in every day conversation, because it serves the oligarchs very well to confuse perceptions and thereby maintain divisiveness among the working poor and "middle" classes.

[Motown_Johnny]

18. The question was about people voting against their own

economic self interests.

Bernie points out that the (R)s have divided the country on social issues and I think he is implying that it is because people end up on the (R) side of that divide that they then vote the way the (R)s want them too.

So, people vote against their own economic self interests because they are so fervently against the social issues of the other side that they vote on those instead of the economic issues.

Does that make sense?

[silverweb]

12. Fantastic presser!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Thanks!

And thank you, DanTex, for fixing the video URL!

[Raine1967]

13. please fix the link? it takes me here:

https://www.youtube.com/supported_browsers?next_url=%2F%3Fapp%3Ddesktop

[cali]

16. sorry, rains, I tried

[Raine1967]

17. IT's fine, I saw that someone else gave a better link above.

[slipslidingaway]

21. knr, thx to both you and Dan Tex, excellent clip! n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

22. Shredding is a great term!

I liked the way he answered the guy from the UK who asked him about Labour candidate Jeremy Corbyn my hero.