Ep 25 | The Future Is... Socialism?

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

Blaze Podcast Network

News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

4.6 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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I break down what Democratic Socialism is, why kids these days think it's great and the myth that Jesus was a socialist. Cabot Phillips of Campus Reform joins the show to discuss his findings on millennials' view of socialism. Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's CRTV's relatable with Ali Stucky, where we talk culture, theology, and political news,
0:06.9	not necessarily in that order or all at once. Today we're going to talk about democratic socialism.
0:12.6	What it is, why young people love it so much and why? Oh yeah, Jesus was not a socialist.
0:19.5	We're going to talk to Cabbitt Phillips of campus reform who went out to Alexandria,
0:24.3	Acaccio Cortez's district in New York and asked her potential constituents questions about socialism.
0:31.7	Turns out they didn't understand very much. So first, why are we talking about this? Because
0:39.6	democratic socialism is becoming more mainstream on the political left and in the Democratic party.
0:46.1	We've talked about Acaccio Cortez and her openly socialist platform before in this podcast.
0:51.9	We all remember Bernie Sanders who more millennials voted for in the primaries than for Trump or Clinton
0:57.7	combined. We've been hearing about the push for free healthcare coverage. Of course, you know
1:02.5	about Obamacare and free college for a long time. It's really no secret that Democrats have been
1:08.4	inching towards socialism for a while. And now they are just coming out and fully embracing it.
1:15.5	A gallup poll back in 2016 cited that 55% of millennials now support socialism.
1:23.2	So let's define socialism and particularly democratic socialism, which is the ideology
1:29.8	de jour on the left. Well, we already know what democratic means. Hopefully, it means that the people
1:36.0	have a say that you vote. So what is democratic socialism? Well, if you go to the democratic
1:43.5	socialist of America website, the organization that I believe Acaccio Cortez is a part of,
1:48.8	you can see their constitution, which reads, we are socialist because we reject an economic order
1:56.2	based on private, profit, alienated labor, gross inequalities of wealth and power, discrimination
2:02.4	based on race, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, disability status, age, religion,
2:09.0	and national origin and brutality and violence and defense of the status quo. We are socialist
2:14.0	because we share a vision of a humane social order based on popular control of resources and
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