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"... add up the value of everything you own and minus your debts. Could you live on that for the rest of your life? ... If not, you're part of the big we, right? You're part of the movement, you're the 99%. If you can live off it for the rest of your life, we're coming for you."
#AshSarkar, 2025
https://shows.acast.com/bold-politics-with-zack-polanski/episodes/68b71504093397eb05dee4e5
This is a great interview. Lot's of insights I think are relevant to the social democratic left here too.
Listening to Chlöe Swarbrick talking with Zack Polanski on his Bold Politics podcast;
https://shows.acast.com/bold-politics-with-zack-polanski/episodes/68eeb23658893bb6e3e57b1a
When they talked about the post-war welfare state and the neoliberal coup, it got me a bit weepy.
Anyone born from 1980 on, has one advantage over the rest of us; for them, this state of decay is how it's always been. They haven't had to watch successive govts take a wrecking ball to the caring society and close-knit communities they grew up with.
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