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In a fiery segment of The Young Turks Thursday night, Ugyur tore into top progressives in Congress—namely Bernie Sanders, Pramila Jayapal and even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—for what he deemed as utter capitulation and cowardice in failing to fight for the $15 minimum wage, an issue on which they tirelessly campaigned. He also called out mainstream media reporters and editors, who, in his esteem, turned a blind eye to the blatant corruption that covers the corridors of power in Washington DC.
Discussing the minimum wage battle, Uygur deemed it obvious why many Democrats oppose raising the federal minimum wage, even if the media refuse to report it. “Corporate Democrats are all funded by corporations,” he says. “No one in the Washington media points it out, either because they suck at their jobs and are completely ignorant of what actually drives politicians or because they’re in on it. And their editors — the higher you go up the ladder the more they’re in on it. ‘Hey, you can’t disturb our advertisers and we need access to these corrupt politicians!’ So the media’s got giant culpability here.”
…“Right now It’s incumbent upon us to say, ‘Goddammit, Bernie. Goddammit, Justice Democrats. Legendary fighter, AOC, where are you? It was nice and easy and great to challenge Democratic leadership when you were primarying them, but now that you’re in power, all of a sudden you don’t want us to challenge Democratic leadership?’ Oh, hell no. You can get mad at us all day long but you have got to do your job and our job is to put pressure on you no matter what it costs us personally.”
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