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*Trailer* Inside the Machine: The Left’s Battle within Democratic Party w/ Ian Miller
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This is the trailer the full episode that will be posted on 5/20!
In this intriguing conversation, host Carlos Childs is joined by Ian Miller, a progressive Democrat and member of the Baltimore County Democratic Central Committee District 44B, to discuss the inner workings of the Democratic Party, the influence of party machinery, and the importance of progressive activism within the system. He shares insights on party reform, the role of central committees, and strategies for challenging establishment politics. Carlos and Ian also discuss the recent political landscape, including the 2024 election, Democratic Party dynamics, foreign policy issues, and Maryland's congressional races. He offers insights into voter behavior, party strategies, and the potential for third-party movements.
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But I think at some level, it also should be kind of understood as a verb and as a psychology. You know, politics is just this interconnected system of relationships. And there are a lot of really well-meaning people who enter into politics and they need to maintain their relationships to do all the great things that they want to do. But day by day, you know, it's not these massive, we like we have this kind of uh uh idea of like, oh, these quid pro quos and everything. But like more than anything, like it's uh it's it's a series of day-to-day microtransactions on your values that you don't even recognize it. And people don't recognize that they're unrecognizable of who they once were. And also, I mean, there's a good number of people that don't have any principles or values or empathy that are also in these spaces. And you know, but I I think too, like people really in general, they don't they don't want to be uncomfortable, they want to be conflict averse. And I think the party spaces a lot of times can become, you know, you just you you want to be in the room. And I think like on the more critical side of things, there is an intoxication to that power and that proximity to power and that feeling of importance. And you want to be in the room and you want to be respected in in the room and you want to be invited to the next room. And when you go out on a limb where you challenge somebody powerful, you're not gonna get that, you're not gonna get that invite. Or, you know, you're worried that's gonna jeopardize your path on running for higher office, or if you're a staffer, you know, whatever your next step is, that um we do a great job at at alienating and ostracizing the left and kind of putting scarlet letters and villainizing people for these stances that make it more comfortable to not be in alignment with somebody that is taking a moral stance. They don't wanna, it's it's really uncomfortable for them to think, even for a second, that I may be a part of the problem because everybody thinks they are, you know, they're the hero of their own story, they're part of the solution, they're they're fighting for for all this change and this progress. And when somebody holds them to account on their relationships to very, very problematic systems of of oppression, they they don't like it and they don't want to feel that way. And so there's a manufacturing of ways for people to not have to feel that way.
SPEAKER_01No, you're definitely right. People will people will make any excuse that they that they need. And I'll even say from my experience on the central committee, but also meeting some of these central committee people, it's a lot of them don't even get favors or anything happening. It's what you said. They just want to be in the room when the politicians are there. They they want to shake hands, they want to say, take a picture with Stanny Hoyer and said, I met him one day, and then I don't know, show their grandkids or somebody who don't care. It's really a sad thing.