00:00I think progressives and, you know, left-leaning Democrats are more used to these ideas.
00:08But even polling among Republicans and Independents, when you explain what you mean by socialism,
00:17they aren't necessarily hostile to it.
00:20So they may not like the word socialism, but if you say, you know, do you want health care?
00:27Like, do you want free health care? Is that a human right?
00:31Many, many people, even ones who identify as Republicans will say yes.
00:36Are Americans still afraid of the word socialism?
00:43Yes, fewer. Less and less of them, I think, are afraid of it.
00:50It's been funny to see over the course of the past year and a half,
00:55it used to be that our opponents would say, don't listen to them, they're socialists.
01:01But especially in New York, we've had success as socialists, we don't shy away from that.
01:08So now they're saying, don't listen to them, they're communists.
01:11They're trying new words to see what's scary.
01:15Some of you actually are communist.
01:16Some people are, yes.
01:19So that word's not that scary to us either.
01:23But I think, especially now that we have people in government,
01:29we have people in Congress, we have Zeran Mamdani as mayor,
01:34people will experience what it's like to actually be governed
01:38by someone who calls themselves a socialist.
01:42And then we'll see, it's not, it doesn't lead to bread lines or, you know, immediate catastrophe.
01:51But it means that there is someone who is taking principled stances,
01:55who is really trying to implement new ideas,
01:58and trying very hard to follow through on what they've said they were going to do.
02:03So I think the more people we have in government kind of showing what it looks like,
02:09the less scary it will become.
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