Van Jones excoriates Kamala Harris' failed campaign that ran on freedom, because now Democrats are 'free from having to run anything in Washington DC':
"There's a reckoning inside the Democratic Party. Kamala Harris promised us freedom.
Well, she delivered it to us because now we're free from having to run anything in Washington, DC. That's not what we were signing up for, that's what we got.
And I hope the party takes the chance to look at the fact that we pushed all our rebels out of this party.
We had a rebellion in our party in 2016. It was called Bernie Sanders. You had a rebellion in your party in 2016 who was called Donald Trump, your rebel won, Our Rebel Lost.
And then since then, the rebels in our party been pushed out. RFK was a rebel inside of our party. He wanted to run against Joe Biden fair and square.
The DNC wouldn't let him push them out. You can you can walk down the list. Don't forget Elon Musk was a Andrew Yang Democrat four years ago. He's out. You can walk down the list. Joe Rogan was very favorable toward Michelle Obama. He was a Bernie guy. He's out. So there's something that's happened, this party where the rebels in this party no longer feel like they have a place."
'Rage Against the Machine' has become the machine.
Van Jones laments that the Democrat party does not lift people up, but puts people down with 'dehumanizing binaries' like BLM:
"We're pushing people out of this party. And the last thing I'll say is, I hate all this people the anti-woke, the anti this, the anti that. But you've got to look in the mirror at a certain point.
We've had five movements in a row in our party that rely on dehumanizing binaries where you put down some people to lift somebody else. I love all our movements, but, but there's a moral flaw when every movement's got to put somebody down. Black lives matter, all white people are racist. That that is not going to work.
That is that is, in fact, a part of the ideology that that subconsciously there's unconscious bias. And the way that lands over people is you're calling them names. There's got to be a better way to say it.
You walk through all of our movements. You look at Bernie. All billionaires are evil. Everybody, 99% is a victim. Oprah Winfrey is a billionaire. She's not evil. That doesn't work.
If you're Jewish, if you're Jewish, you're a colonizer. If you're against if you're for the Palestinian, you can do whatever you want to.
These things are landing very poorly because it's not Dr. King."
'It's not Dr. King' Reminder: Democrats were also the ones who jailed MLK and Dick Gregory in 1963 for protesting for civil rights.