Frady breaks down the sociology and demographics of Democratic Socialists.

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Here is the full transcript from the audio clip: Bill Frady: It's hard to get out there and generalize what makes a Democratic Socialist. Um, but they—they do have some common traits. Most represent a very small slice of American life. Almost all of them are urban. They have no point of reference for anything small-town or rural. They'd probably live somewhere where there's a subway, buses, high-rises, a lot of Uber, a lot of taxis, probably in very close proximity to corporate, academic, and financial institutions. And despite all of that, they have no idea where anything like their food, fuel, water, where that comes from. And all of their outlook is all based on consumption. Production is—all that is is something that the people need to seize the means of! [laughs] And a lot of these people are first- or second-generation immigrants, most originating—originating from a failed or illiberal state in which—of what was once called the Third World, or which I still call the Third World. Their parents packed them up, left their homeland in search of the land of milk and honey, fair society's greater opportunity, Waffle Houses... and once they got here, their families prospered, all based upon our very generous, extensive educational, institutional support. None of them will get out there and explain to you why they ran away from a failed state only to become a virulent critic of the very charitable nation that they chose to join. Many of them are educated, they have a degree in some field that there's no professional pathway uh that they believe they were entitled to, and they're, you know... beyond that, they're otherwise poorly educated. Few possess any real grounding in history, literature, or the STEM fields. Most of what they study are the social sciences: political science, sociology, psychology, community relations, or the infamous "studies" programs. And when they graduate from left-wing universities, they emerge very arrogant and ignorant all at the same time! [laughs] And they're very radical egalitarians. They carry their degree around in their hand like a Filipino fighting stick, and they reference their university training. And listen, I, you know... I've always thought that college, while you're actually getting a genuine education, it ought—should also be the best years of a young life, right? And yet, they come out of that very bitter, right? Very bitter. In—in college, they got to rub elbows with the leftist elites, the wealthy students, the tenured professors, the administrators that they were paying, right, with their—with their exorbitant fees to be there. Then they—they thought that by going through this indoctrination, they earned their membership into a very exclusive club, and when that didn't properly materialize, the rage and the shame proved to be sort of a lethal concoction for them. So, they decided to find a cosmic solution for their own bad choices and personal disappointments. And many of them, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Malaika Jabali, James Talarico, Graham Platner, Claire Valdes... yeah, they're either childless, or single, or both. And for all of their sermonizing about being diverse, where are the suburbans that are married with children and have a direct personal stake in local school curricula? How come none of those folks are Democratic Socialists? They're also very obsessed with identity, ID politics. AOC and Rashida Tlaib fixate on white privilege and white supremacy. Idaliz Villanueva-Chevalier has denounced white women who date non-whites as "ugly colonizer women." Ilhan Omar loudly denounces genocide in Gaza, except she probably escaped that in Somalia, because Somalis like to kill other Somalis. I don't know how that works when Somalis are carrying out a genocide against Somalis. Seems like eventually it just vanish, doesn't it? Mamdani, he was well-off. Bernie Sanders, he's well-off. Ro Khanna is a multi-millionaire many times over thanks to family trusts. They claim to ...

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