The elites WANT you poor. Here's why



Democrat elites say they’re the biggest supporters of the poor, but in reality, they’re anything but.

“I’m looking at what the Western world, the elites, are doing to their own countries and our own civilization,” Glenn Beck says to "Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women" author Batya Ungar-Sargon. “They are impoverishing people.”

Ungar-Sargon agrees.

“There has been a massive plunder of the middle class by the elites,” she tells Glenn, noting that it began when they shipped good manufacturing jobs overseas to build up China and Mexico’s middle class.

“We’re never going to get those jobs back,” she says. “If you want the American dream, you have to go to college where you’ll become a card-carrying Democrat.”

Now, while a massive number of American youths have been indoctrinated through their leftist college curriculums, the Biden administration has opened up the border.

“15 million illegal migrants from failed social states to undercut the wages in the jobs that remained here,” Ungar-Sargon exclaims. “It’s because fundamentally to the elites, there’s no difference between being working-class and being poor.”

“They want everybody to be poor because they control the college-educated and the poor,” she continues. “That is why they’re trying to get everybody out of the middle class and either into the college-credentialed, leftist elites or to make them poor because that’s how the Democrats win.”


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Guest Corners Bill Maher on Biden & He Refuses to Answer

Guest Corners Bill Maher on Biden & He Refuses to Answer

Newsweek editor gives Bill Maher headaches, gets Democrat guest to admit border wall may have helped illegal alien crisis



Batya Ungar-Sargon, Newsweek's opinion editor and author of "Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy," gave Bill Maher all sorts of headaches on "Real Time" Friday night, particularly when she got a former U.S. representative — a Democrat, no less — to admit a wall at the border with Mexico actually may have helped America's illegal alien crisis.

What are the details?

In one segment, Ungar-Sargon challenged Maher, asking him if he really believes America is better off now than in 2018.

"How were we worse?" Maher replied.

"Ask the American people," Ungar-Sargon answered back. "Inflation, immigration crisis, eight million people ... who cross [the border] illegally ... we don't know who they are. Crimes being committed. People can't afford homes because of the [high] mortgage rates."

Another program guest, former U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), tried to call out Ungar-Sargon by saying if former President Donald Trump "would've built the wall, maybe all these people wouldn't be coming over illegally."

Ungar-Sargon obviously wouldn't let that moment go.

"Oh, so you support building the wall?" she answered back, laughing.

Furiously digging his way out of the faux pas, Ryan somehow managed to declare that Ungar-Sargon "can't have it both ways. You're blaming [President Joe] Biden for [illegal] immigration. Trump said he was going to build a wall. He didn't do s**t!"

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In another segment, Ungar-Sargon wasn't buying the idea that Biden may lose Michigan in the election due to the state's high Muslim population being angry that he's backing Israel in its war against Hamas.

"I think that the media really, really wants to put this narrative out there that Biden is going to lose Michigan over Gaza when the truth is he's going to lose Michigan over 600,000 auto workers because his EV market was extremely punishing to auto workers," she stated.

More from Ungar-Sargon:

There's been this big realignment where working-class Americans are very, very, very much on the Trump train: People who used to be Democrats and used to vote for Democrats. And rather than admit that — this outrage that Democrats lost the working-class vote — and try to figure out how we can appeal to them again, they're looking for excuses and other things to blame. Like ... this war in Gaza, or they'll call them deplorables, or they'll call them racists, you know, because they don't want to admit that Trump has picked up a lot of the policies that used to be Democratic policies in the '90s, like controlling the border, for example. The idea that an open border and mass migration is extremely punishing to the working class; it drives down their wages. It's class warfare against the working class. It is an upward transfer of wealth from the working class who end up competing with immigrants to the elites who end up employing them, and now they can employ cheap [labor] immigrants instead of having to pay working-class Americans a living wage.
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We Need A More Forceful Pushback To A Hostile Media

In the book 'Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy,' Batya Ungar-Sargon urges news consumers to champion unpopular opinions—but is it enough?

Batya Ungar-Sargon, author who SCHOOLED Brian Stelter: 'Woke media' like CNN is actually WAKING UP liberals



Wokeness has taken over the American left — or at least the elite — and the corporate media is leading the charge. But the left's "Great Awokening" is actually fueling a great awakening of average liberals, including this week's guest on "The Glenn Beck Podcast."

Newsweek deputy opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon joined Glenn after taking CNN's Brian Stelter to school about wokeness on his own show "Reliable Sources".

.@bungarsargon is spot on in her critique of the media\u2019s response to #VAGov results. There should be a lot more reflection on cable news and a lot less hot airpic.twitter.com/iHGAEcjppx

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Batya reviewed the biggest takeaways from her new book, "Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy," including how journalists have abandoned the working class, how she overcame Trump derangement syndrome, why the left hates conservative media, and why there's much more that unites us than divides us.

Watch the video clip below or find the full episode of "The Glenn Beck Podcast" here:


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