Welcome to rumble with Michael Moore.
And this is our special mini podcast series that we're doing
here for 12 days from now. Until January 6, the series.
Is is called blue dots in a red. See how to win when you're blue
in a red state in our first two episodes.
We've already told you about all the Democrats who've won in red
districts, red areas, all across the country last month in the
midterm elections. In episode 2, we talked about
how if you live in a red area or you have family or friends that
live there, you're not alone. You are not alone.
Even in the worst Trump. Districts.
Where he may have won. 70% of the vote.
That still means thousands and thousands of Voters voted for
Biden. Their like-minded.
People like-minded to you and all you have to do is find them,
organize them, get together with them and build from there.
Today's episode, number three is called, they are more blue than
you or they know. And that they I'm referring to
are your neighbors, thousands upon thousands of them.
M in blue States and red States. They are not registered as
Democrats. They are not members of the
democratic party. They have never Paid Dues to the
Democratic party. They've never written it
campaign contribution. Check to a single Democrat
running for office. In fact, the very idea of the
Democrats, too many of them repulses them.
They would never call themselves a Democrat.
And if a polling company calls their phone and asks them, if
they say approved you approve or disapprove of the job President
Biden is doing, they mostly always will say, Mark me down is
disapprove. But it's not because they're a
Republican or a white supremacist.
Just the opposite. It's because they are probably
in their soul. Old-school, Democrats and have
given up long ago after 30 years of watching the Democratic party
cave in compromise become wimps. And they believe that actually
Biden hasn't gone far enough to support unions and working
families and women and the like that's why they disapprove, they
disapprove because they believe Biden's gone back on his
campaign promises. They believe is Chris Hedges
pointed out this week that the Democrats are now the war party
increasing the defense budget increasing Homeland Security.
They think Biden should be cutting these things or spending
the money on things that will help the working and the poor
people of this country. They think Biden should be
forcing Putin to the peace table.
Not giving billions born weapons to Ukraine to keep the war
going. The entire pacifist Wing, the
anti-war wing of liberal America, opposes Biden, And this
is what the media gets wrong. When the polls show that say 57%
of Americans disapprove of Biden.
The conclusion that the media draws is that, oh, that means 57
percent are going to vote for the Republicans.
That's why they always get this wrong.
Nothing could be further from the truth, the media and the
Democratic party. They want to believe that there
is no left in this country. They want you to believe.
There's no Progressive left. When Bernie won nearly half the
states in the 2016 Democratic primaries.
They freaked out. And they went on a purge of the
left. The left knew that Hillary
couldn't win and they were right.
So the Democratic party power structure decided to punish the
Bernie wing of the Democratic Party.
I'm not going to get into that, that's for another episode.
But suffice it to say, I saw it upfront and personal, and then
Hillary herself refused to go and campaign in states that
Bernie won like Michigan. Why?
I mean seriously, sometimes it seems like the DNC hates the
left more than it hates Republicans. and I think that's
because they know that we are the ones who are actually going
to eventually, fulfill the dreams of f.d.r. and JFK and
Jesse Jackson and Shirley Chisholm So, when you hear Biden
has a 57 percent disapproval, just shave 20 points off that
right away because it's not Republicans, it's the left 20
points of people who represent the left in this country who
just want Biden to do the job that he was elected to do.
And, you know, I've been very supportive of many of these
great things that Biden has won and succeeded in.
But I'm just want to be clear. When you understand, why we
having to reach out to people, who used to vote, and no longer
Vote, or only vote occasionally. Because they feel let down.
By this party. That was supposed to be fighting
for them. So let's get back to your
neighbors. Who would now?
No longer ever be caught dead calling themselves.
A Democrat and yet and here's the spoiler alert.
Spoiler alert, I say this to all of you blue dots out there
trying to survive in a sea of red that you live in.
And I'm telling you that much to your surprise and much to their
surprise many, many of your neighbors already agree with
you. They are already blue even if
they don't know it. How do I know this?
It's simple because they they want to breathe clean air.
They want to drink clean water. They want safe, roads without
holes in them. They want the best schools for
their kids. They believe in the Golden Rule.
They don't like bullies. The majority, don't own a gun
and they hate the fact that their five year olds are forced
to go through active shooter drills. they despise that the
government thinks it has a right now to be in your consenting
adult bedroom and they'd really like to know why they are paying
record inflation. Prices during a time of record,
low unemployment record profits, a recent rare increase in
workers wages, a robust stock market.
And a time when the u.s. is now. So energy self-sufficient, we no
longer have to import hardly any expensive overseas oil The
inflation were suffering from is actually because there has been
an increase in corporate greed and how the rich have taken
advantage of this pandemic. Because I want to tell you about
Billy Bob. Billy Bob just found out from
his wife, Mary Sue Bob who just got home from the Piggly, Wiggly
Supermarket, where she works the cash register in aisle four.
She just found out that Ricky Bob, who works the same exact
job next to her in aisle? Five.
He's paid a dollar more per hour than she is a dollar more than
Billy Bob's wife. Mary Sue.
Ricky Bob is making more money doing the same exact job.
Well when Billy Bob just found this out he went ballistic and
within an hour unbeknownst to him he had become a raging
feminist. And he is now with Mary Sue on
the phone, calling the other women at the store to organize a
goddamn meeting. That my friends is how change
happens. Not because of Party politics.
It's personal experience and obvious, unfairness and
Injustice. Billy Bob instantly realizes
that his family is being cheated.
Out of forty dollars a week only because his wife is a woman and
by being paid that $40 less each week. well what could that forty
dollars, go to That could mean they could go out on Saturday
night, have a date with themselves or it's the cost of
two kids backpacks for school. If you added up annually for 12
months of that, It's two months worth of rent payments because
Billy Bob's wife makes a dollar less an hour than the man
working next to her. That's what turns Billy.
Bob blue. That's what makes him part of
the blue tsunami. But the Democratic party
apparatus still has never understood how to reach out to
the already. Existing blue voters that are,
they're there for the taking, therefore for the grace of
whatever. Like Billy Bob.
That's why you wherever you are and especially in the red
states, you have to start your own Democratic party locally.
And you may have to do it without the help of or in spite
of the state Democrats or the federal Democrats, but that's
okay. That's okay.
You don't need them. They've written you off a long
time ago. You're in a red state, you live
in Utah or Mississippi. We're not sending any organizers
or money down there except you'd think to the Democrats
Mississippi would be at the top of their list.
It's the largest black state in the country.
The highest percentage of the population that is black, is in
Mississippi. It's over 35%.
Because African Americans generally do vote for the
Democrats, you think they'd be down there, trying to get every
Democratic vote. They can get Or how about Texas?
You'd think that would be a democratic state by now.
You'd think they would be maybe after Mississippi.
They be number two on the list because it's the largest
Hispanic state in the country. But no, the Democrats now for
too long. They've looked at this the wrong
way there to stuck in their old patterns.
Well, you know, that's a red state Don't send him any money.
So the Cavalry is never coming to the rescue if you live there.
So, stop waiting for them. You can turn it around.
And it's not just red States. The Bronx knew they'd been
written off or taken for granted for decades so they finally got
fed up and voted for Alexandria. Ocasio Cortez Ferguson.
Missouri elected, Cory Bush, to Commerce, black, Detroit
elected. A radical palestinian-american
in a district that was less than ten percent Muslim.
They all serve in Congress though.
And with today's lesson here on this podcast, they are more blue
than you, realize your neighbors.
You can begin to see that. It's not just a simple as red
and blue. In fact as bad as you think you
have at living in a red State, those who live in blue areas,
sometimes have to fight certain Democrats who've crossed over to
where the money and the power is.
They forgotten their main job. This is a nationwide.
Struggle one though that we are winning and we will win.
So there's no crying in politics.
You got stuck living in a deep red State.
Suck it up and fight. The rest of us are here to join.
You like we did last month in the red state of Nebraska where
the good people of America got behind the poor and the Working
Poor of Nebraska. And voted.
Yes, on a ballot proposal raising the minimum wage by over
60% it passed because all those the brass guns who are derided
by us for being read. In backwards.
Well they just passed the bluest of blue laws.
To give a massive pay raise to the lowest paid workers in their
state that my friends is called an act of pure Democratic
socialism in a state, full of corn and rednecks rednecks,
really? Really?
Yeah, that's how you want to look at it.
Well as I said they are more blue.
Then even, you know, and the sooner that we acknowledge that
the sooner, we will turn red into blue.
Just ask our new feminist, Billy Bob,
I'll be back tomorrow with our next mini podcast edition of
blue dots in a red. See how to win when you're blue
in a red state. Thanks for tuning in to this.
Please share this podcast with friends family that live in red
States. If you live in a blue State you
have red parts of your state, trust me, you know, this this is
work. We all need to do and we can do
so many Americans already agree with us.
Let's make this Victory happen. We can make this happen in the
next election. I totally believe this.
We did something great in the midterms.
We could do it again here in two years.
My thanks to my producer and my editor, Angela of Argos.
And to all of you for participating in this blue
tsunami that we're going to keep going here in the United States
of America. I'll see you tomorrow.