If you can’t see the video, Warren is speaking to a crowd in someone’s porch or living room, it looks like. Warren explains, and defends, what she calls the “underlying social contract.” This social contract is what all progressives and liberals believe. It has been described before, but not by someone so smart and funny and not so passionately and simply. This is the kind of video that can convince those who vote against their own interests time and again just because “the Republicans want to keep my taxes low.”
If Warren keeps this up, she will win. And perhaps…. 2016. Cuomo v. Warren would be a nice primary. But let’s not get ahead… too much.
Here’s a transcript
I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.’ No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.
You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did.
Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.