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🗓️ 10 March 2025
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Former U.S. Representtive Jamaal Bowman makes his first appearance on Bad Faith to talk about the future of the Democratic Party and whether he still has faith in an inside/outside strategy after AIPAC spent an unprecedented sum of millions to unseat him last year. Brie and Bowman debate the merits of Force The Vote, whether FTV activists had "no plan," and whether the Squad's alternative plans justified their inaction in that moment.
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0:00.0 | I mean, you said there's energy out there, right? |
0:01.8 | And the Green Party is doing the work and Joe Stein and they're doing what they're doing. |
0:06.1 | So that's good. |
0:07.3 | If it's landing and it's motivating, it's inspiring, then the people will get involved and then it will grow and then it'll become powerful. |
0:14.5 | And then it will do what they've got to do. |
0:16.8 | And so that's just what it is. |
0:19.0 | Not exactly, representative. |
0:20.5 | Because as you witnessed firsthand, the Democratic Party goes through incredible lengths to use their lawyers to keep the Green Party off the ballot. |
0:29.1 | The corporate media won't give them any attention, won't have them all on their shows. |
0:34.6 | And people like you who do have more of a platform than they do or certainly Bernie Sanders |
0:39.3 | who has an enormous platform who can go on cable shows that could exponentially increase people's |
0:46.1 | public awareness that there is even anything outside of the two-party system. |
0:49.3 | The Green Party or any third party's biggest obstacle is letting people know that they exist. |
0:53.8 | When I have chats in the backs of Ubers with people who are very frustrated at the two-party system, |
0:58.5 | when I mention that there's something other than Republican and Democrats, |
1:01.9 | they're shocked and they want to know more. |
1:04.6 | But I would love a world where the squad was regularly doing the wonderful live streams |
1:09.8 | that AOC is able to command so much |
1:11.4 | attention for, I would love it if instead of using that platform to attack Jill Stein, |
1:16.3 | which she did in the lead up to the election, that it was to say, hey, it's a good thing that |
1:22.1 | in our democracy, we have other choices, especially since the guy I've chosen to endorse or |
1:27.4 | the woman that I've chosen to endorse is committing a genocide that I say I don't support, but I'm going to tell you to vote for. |
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