Luke's right about the lack of a core liberal ideology. There is no coherent economic analysis or position in any liberal tradition, in the US or elsewhere. Liberalism is all about the removal of obatacles and expansion of "opportunity". This fits well into the American national narrative and is does not criticize Capitalism. This liberal tradition goes back to the 18th century and has never had a coherent response to Capitalism or to the social and political destruction wrought by this economic system.

The core issue to what is driving almost all political dissent, both left and right, is that the politics of the center are not working.

Inspired by the teachings of Richard wolff I’ve started a democratized bread company. By workers for workers. We vote on what bread we will produce next week. Think it will be Naan.

Michael & Us fan here, love Luke and looking forward to reading his new book. Great interview 😎

Radlibs refuse to go as hard as is needed. The whole “my friend Biden” bs really drove me nuts. Full throated radical socialism is what we need, we just don’t have anyone with the conviction or courage to really stir up the working class. Bernie should have gone up there and stated that corporate media is the enemy of the people and that every single candidate on the debate stage was owned by lobbyists, as was the entire Democratic Party. While completely disingenuous, Trump calling out all of Washington and the US political machine was a winning strategy.

Haha, loved the jab at "rad-libs".

Obama is to blame for the cancellation of the second space race. Space-X brought it back.

There are different kinds of Centrist: -The "Everyone has good points, lets just do both" mediator -The "Politicians used to appeal to everyone before gerrymandering was invented" political castaway -The aristotlian "Both too much and too little of any virtue is a vice" philosopher -The "Y'all f*cking crazy, I'm just going to smile and back away slowly" average person

We are toast, please pass the organic marmalade and vegan butter.

Wim kok in the Netherlands (Holland) 1994 to 2002

Rad Libs can be found streaming on twitch ordering Uber eats and reading donos while they complain about capitalism. Perhaps they should build more democratized businesses in the way richard wolff prescribes. He lays out step by step how to. How hard can it be 🤷

Look at social democrats in Denmark and Sweden,

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So Luke..would your current life be supported under "socialism?" Just looking at your backdrop. Do you own your own property?

Eliminating poverty is not the goal of capitalist liberalism it's an essential part that must be maintained. Capitalism maintains an artificial pool of unemployment it deems necessary and healthy for capitalism. Because without unemployment and crushing poverty they cannot maintain a monopoly on employment or wages that favor capital.

I love that the guy who wrote a book about centrism looks like an AI-generated image of a centrist

2:53 Oh, yeah. Centrism isn't really an ideology. But it does have an "ism" right in front of it. Totally not an ideology as if you really need to be a "centrist" in order to that. 😁

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FDR wasn’t a contemporary liberal, he was a progressive

Talkin a whole bunch of nothin

Jacobin lib arc

I, like, wish, like, Jen and, like, Kyle, wouldn't, like, use the word "like", like, so much, like. It's, like, really, like, quite, like, annoying.

I'll repeat what I posted on the full VOD, for the sake of debate and discussion. I'm always left with a feeling of cognitive dissonance on the part of the Left when they attempt to discredit Liberalism. There's conflation and misunderstanding--purposeful or genuine--of certain political philosophies (like neoliberalism); and it all ultimately amounts to the convient catharsis of "Liberalism's ends are nice but impossible without socialist means". Yet, here we are, and Liberalism seems to be doing pretty well on its merits. Indeed, here you guys are--socialists--freely exhibiting dissension, the type of which has not and would not be allowed in the types of societies you ultimately advocate for, or at the very least extend clemency to. Here we all are, 225 years since the declaration of independence and progress has been made on social and racial issues, and will continue to be made; institutions, though battered by the Left and Trump in recent years, remain robust and effective; individual freedom, property rights, innovation, elections every four years, separation of power all in check. The perennial problem the Left have in attempting to tackling Liberalism is you are testament to its efficacy and functioning. The momentous thing about Liberalism is that it affords a constant dialogue. Cogitation and negotiation--from the individual, to the governing bodies--over its on-going form and its failings in order for them to emended. Your guest bemoaned Liberalism's acknowledgment of people's differing values and fallibilities. This is not a bad thing, you plonker! Liberalism acknowledges the thousands-of-years of observed human history and psychology showing that, indeed, not everyone possesses the same value; not everyone can or wants to be, say, an astrophysicist. Society requires binmen, and there's nothing wrong with that career. This speaks to the fundamental schism between everyone and the Left - the latter refuses reality and prescribes utopianism.