How The Left Continues To Eat Itself - Cenk Uygur

Who is more credible, the cast of The View or a dragon?

(laughs) These days, apparently a dragon. Uh, so, uh, as you know, uh, Joy Behar said that, uh, "Oh, you can't trust Joe Rogan. He believes in dragons." Oh, well, Joy Behar, uh, believed that Joe Biden was, um, young and dynamic, uh, that he had no cognitive difficulties at all, and that, uh, he was the best possible candidate for the Democrats. Uh, I can't find anything less credible than that.

Why are these people so out of touch? Like, is it, is it purposeful or is it ignorance?

Oh, it's definitely ignorance. And so, of course, this is really interesting 'cause I, um, am bilingual. Uh, I speak both populist and establishment, and, uh, that's because (laughs) I, uh, worked at MSNBC as a host. I worked at Current TV. I went to the, you know, some of the same schools that these folks went to, and so I, I, I mainly come from their world, but I'm a natural born populist, and so they've rejected me 2,000 times over before I even got to the right wing, right? And so... And, but I know how they think, and they're in their own bubble. Everybody's in their own bubble, and so in their bubble, they're right about everything and they're objective, right, and they truly believe that, right? And so anyone who disagrees with them, they think is not objective and is to be dismissed and derided and insulted, et cetera. And so they have no idea how clueless they are, and they d- they're not coming at it from bad intent, which a lot of people won't believe, right? But they actually, they, they genuinely believe they have the best of intent, and if you just listen to the establishment one more time, boy-

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... then they'll really deliver, right? And if you cheer for them louder, they'll really deliver, and I swear to God, they genuinely believe it.

Are they well-read? Because it seems to me in order to be able to have that level of self-belief, you need to, you need to really know what you're talking about, and I'm yet to see much evidence that that's the case.

No, that's the other amazing part. They're actually really well-educated, really well-read, but since the bubbles are so strong and thick, they still... It's like asking a fish, "How's the water?" and the fish says, "What water?" Right? So what they don't understand, this is the crux of what they don't understand, is that the establishmentment is built to preserve the status of the top 10%, and then, most importantly, the top 1% and then the top .1%, right? And since it's built on that and almost all of the people in the establishment are, at a minimum, in the top 10%, i- at least in term of socioeconomic status, and they grew up, m- most of them, not all of them, but most of them grew up in that context. When Joe Biden provides about 5 to 10% or Barack Obama provides 5 to 10% change, they think, "Oh my God, this is amazing. My life was already great and these saints have given me 5% extra positive change," in their minds, right? Or 10% positive change. "How could anyone complain? You guys are nuts." What I'm trying to get them to see is, no, brothers and sisters, but for the rest of the country, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. 5% change ain't gonna get it done. They need 50 to 100% change, and you're not getting it 'cause you just don't talk to folks like that and you're not in that context. And when I say that, they think I'm the biggest radical ever. And, and, and by the way, now, of course, the new theory is that's it. I've done the pivot, and I'm a right-winger, and I've abandoned all my policies, and, and I, and, uh, you know, et cetera, et cetera. No, I've been saying the same thing for 20 straight years.