conyers back again out of my chance to ask him if he would be with us when he launched progressive democrats of america at roxbury the last day that the democrats met in two thousand and four and we nominated john kerry and john conyers was there that was to launch a progressive democrats of america was a long road but it made a lot of sense working both inside and outside of congress to bring about change and being part of the social movement we were the electoral arm and it was great to have congressman conyers with us to help us to bring out a connection together in two thousand and four two thousand and eight excuse me two thousand and four for roxbury two thousand and eight he was back in s.p.d. it grew and continues to grow and we've been at every national convention since that's extraordinary now there's no actual connection between progressive democrats america p.d. america dot org and the democratic party right now legal connection you guys are not part of the party you don't you know dance with the party is a necessary no that's that's fair to say we sexuality for yourselves as the insurgents

conyers back again and by chance to ask him if he would be with us when he launched progressive democrats of america at roxbury the last day that the democrats met in two thousand and four and we nominated john kerry and john conyers was there that was to launch a progressive democrats of america was a long road but it made a lot of sense working both inside and outside of congress to bring about change and being part of the social movement we were the electoral arm and it was great to have congressman conyers with us to help us to bring out a connection together in two thousand and four two thousand eight hundred he's been two thousand and four for roxbury two thousand and eight he was back in s.p.d. grew and continues to grow and we've been at every national convention since that's extraordinary now there's no actual connection between progressive democrats america p american dot org and the democratic party right now legal connection you guys are not part of the party you don't you know dance with the party is a necessary no that's that's fair to say we sexually for yourselves as the insurgents w

ourselves so also we bring about that change and that's why i'm so water to be part of progressive democrats of america and be part of that social movement so what do you say to those people. either a who are waiting for the messiah you know they're there they are the people who thought that oh we elected president obama and he campaigned as we're dresses everything's going to change we can go back to sleep or we can go back to to work or you know pass the bog or the or the to the gin martini or whatever a or b. those people who say well you know we try to go out in the streets in ways we showed up to occupy wall street and you know the cops beat us up and you know screw that. well we again. broke obama sent me a note on. his record are some of our work but we have no illusions that he's a progressive don't look for the messiah as they often say in the buddhist community to kill the buddha when you see that we've got to take it upon ourselves it's our responsibility we've got to roll up our sleeves and get out there and make a difference i would argue that one of the reasons that occupy stalled was the

revitalized the left wing of the democratic party so what can progressives do to keep up that momentum is tim carpenter national director of the progressive democrats of america in tonight's special conversations with great minds. you need to know this republicans don't give a damn about working class americans but they want them to think that they do during an appearance on an assembly sees morning joe that a wisconsin republican congressman sean duffy told host and republican joe scarborough the republicans need to change their messaging so they can connect to people who are trying to move up. economic laughter. we have to actually take a message to where people are out we have moms that can pay the utility bill my dad who can't pay the mortgage oh those are conservative ideology and philosophy actually help lift them out of trying to place them today and move them up the economic ladder we don't do a good job of presenting that message and we have to change how we're doing it this is the core of the problem that republicans face there is nothing in the republican party's platform that actually helps people move up the economic ladder party platform only he

organizations that are the pressure groups, that are doing things, whether it's the tea party or progressive democrats of america, if we -- if we become -- if we're ready, there's going to be that moment where there's going to be an incredible political vacuum, and we step into that, people who say, we are going to fix this. this is not rocket science. we've done it before. america could be so much more progressive, so much -- and i don't mean that in a political sense. i mean, as in the so much better. we can become the nation that we were. we can become better than the nation we were. we can have an extraordinary future for ourselves and for our children. get ready, tag, you're it. [laughter] [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> the rest of you whose questions i don't answer tonight, i'll be over here, you know, we can hang out, but you're welcome to call into the show. i do it three hours a day, five days a week. less educated people voting against interests using one or two hot button issues, why doesn't the left do the same? [laughter] i don't think that, frankly, partisan hat, trying to be relative thro

chile was one of the most progressive countries in south america it's democratically elected. socialist president salvador allende nationalized big businesses and gave every chilean access to free healthcare and free higher education g.d.p. went up income inequality went down and for the first time ever working class chileans had a chance to live their version of the american dream but not everyone was happy with president i ended his chilean new deal behind his back the united states and that country's corporate and military elite were conspiring to sabotage his reforms and destroy the country's economy although i end his policies were successful chile still needed foreign loans to survive and so the nixon administration got the international monetary fund to suspend all aid its decimated the economy and stunted the progress i ended made over his first for years and years in office the chilean elites sabotaged campaign turned into outright treason on september eleventh nine hundred seventy three one with the help of the cia general august pinochet overthrew n.a.s. government

democratic policy and values. not talking about a progressive splinter group that just made this up. this is at the heart of what democrats stand for, supposed to be. america and guess what america is in trouble. our middle class has been so weakened. we can't afford not to talk about these issues. median wages today are actually lower than they were in the year 2000 and americans are desperately worried about what the future holds. third way says the message won't resonate outside of new york and massachusetts but they seem to have forgotten someone who ran a national election on a platform of reducing inequality. do you remember this guy? yeah. joining me now president of the center for american progress and adam green, co-founder of the progressive change campaign committee. thank you both for joining me. >> good to be here. >> thank you for having us. >> nera, there was a front page in "the new york times" today that i think directly spoke to this issue and it was that said deglass owe's tale of two new yorks inspires liberals beyond city. clearly, this idea has spread beyondy dallas owe. >> president obama had a speech honored by cap and talked about

of the obama agenda is stalled. progressives blame the president and weak party leadership. >> democrats didn't push hard enough to create an agenda that would put americack to work, rebuild our infrastructure, get us out of the wars, and to take us in a new direction on trade and push for civil liberties. >> reporter: but the think tank known as third wave ripped into far left economic pop ulists, warning in a hard-hitting op-ed that, nothing would be more disastrous for democrats. the political problems of liberal populism are bad enough. the movement relies on a, we can have it all fantasy. when the tea party pushed the gop right, democrats lost the house majority in the biggest blowout in 50 years. a coalition of 54 blue dog democrats saw their ranks decimated by more than half then, and they're down to 15 now. blue dogs were all the rage in the '90s. president clinton declared the era of big government over, the economy was strong and budget was balanced. >> growing the private economy is the prerequisite for being a party of opportunity. that's something that democrats cannot afford to forget. >> reporter: evan bayh is a centrist and former govern

political campaign here where he's saying to organizing for america or liberal and progressive groupz and any supporters of the law or democraticcted officials all across the country, get people signed up. especially younger and healthier people so that this will work. he said, there's no going back. it's not going to be repealed not as long as i'm president. let's sell it and make it work. he was basically speaking to the troops today about what sales points they should make. >> you mentioned those troops and organizing for america, as you know, this was one of the most innovative campaigns ever, gathering 16 million on a network. and yet that part of the network has not been as effective at this stage of governing and selling. politico is reporting last week that they will actually share this valuable data and these campaign lists after months of grum bling from some democrats it was not completely available. so there's valuable supporter network exists and being shared with other democrats but not being pushed to take on republican governors who won't expand medicaid or do other things on the aca here. >> i think first thing

democrats. the process we are undertaking will hopefully arrive at a situation where we get an agreement that is reflective of the priorities of trying to create progress for everyone in america. if we can find that common ground, the republicans will find willing partners in democrats in the house and the senate. from we have this tweet dedi. ron tweets in the sequester has created $85 billion in spending cuts randomly spread out throughout the economy in a manner that has cost americans hundreds of thousands of jobs at a time when we need to continue to recover for the americans who are still suffering. that targetedze spending cuts is a far more preferable way to reduce our expenditures in this country then randomly generated spending cuts spread across areas that are counterproductive. that was the experience in europe where austerity measures were put in after the economy collapsed and made the situation worse. we cannot repeat that mistake here in america. host: hi, tj. caller: good morning. i have a comment and a complement, greta, for you. you are questioning the representative from texas. you clearly revealed how he was lying about the food stamp cuts and budget. i h

of poverty. we are talking about cuts to food stamps. i wonder from your standpoint whether you think democrats and progressives have paid enough attention to this issue, which is hunger in americar democrats have ceded too much ground to the right. at this moment being where we are on poverty, we're talking about cuts to food stamps instead of at the very least maintaining funding we have. >> this is an interesting question when we've just extolled the virtue of obama's ability to negotiate. what that represents and we talk about mandela. listen, we obviously made jokes all morning about the gridlock in washington. i think what's happening is lawmakers who want to get something done are making deals to get something done. there's no question this is on the backs of the least of us. so this -- lets just take the workers who work in restaurants, tip wages, something tom knows a lot about. 1980, $0.70 for bread and you earned about $2.13 as tipped wage if you worked in a restaurant. today bread is like $3 and you earn $2.13 tipped wage. so what we've seen is actually food costs have gone up, wages have been stagnant." so a lot of people we're talking about are workers. the whole d

america. of course, hay didn't call themselves communists -- they didn't call themselves communists, i never heard them use that word. they called themselves progressives. my mother was also a registered democrat. over the course of the last 40 years, the communist progressive left that i grew up in had moved into the democratic party. it started with the mcgovern campaign and today sits in the white house and runs the democratic party. now, i know when you say, oh, the democrats, they're communist s, people will look at you and say this guy is an extremist. he's a relic. actually, i was called a relic by a harvard professor in "the new york times" for noticing that there's an alliance between the radical left in america and the islamo-fascists that professor feldman is an apologist for them, not surprising. but it wasn't as though "the new york times" identified him that way. [laughter] valerie jarrett and david axlerod are obama's two key advisers; one's his political campaign manager, and jarrett manages everything else. barack obama, valerie jarrett, david axlerod all were born into the same communist left that i was, all trained in the communist left, all graduated to the new left which w

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