Killer Mike of Run The Jewels has conducted a wide-reaching interview with the only presidential candidate who has anything to say about the real-life issues of the American people, Bernie Sanders. Today he made all six parts of the series available for viewing.
Bernie Sanders doesn’t stand a chance at the presidency. The American public is far too deep in the rabbit hole of distractionism, corporate gullibility and the cognitive dissonance of voting directly against their own interests time and again (I’m reminded of a story earlier this week of a North Carolina community who voted down a needed solar-energy project out of fear the panels would “suck up all the energy from the sun”). In fact, a very real possibility exists that Sanders would, as an independent, siphon enough votes from Clinton to hand the White House to Trump. This would move us into position for a real-life Idiocracy showdown between President Trump and the 2020 would-be-usurper, candidate Kanye West.
The stakes are high. But the conversations Bernie’s having, the topics he’s covering on the campaign trail are far more vital and urgent to our socioeconomic climate than any other discussion occurring on the candidate debate podiums, the news channels or the headlines of the week. It’s for this reason alone that Killer Mike pursued the candidate when he was in Atlanta for a rally last month, and the resulting conversation is a vital dose of awareness and truth, aimed directly at Generation Meh. The duo covered several different topics including health care reform, gun control, economic freedom, and the importance of voting. Although they don’t agree on every single issue – notably gun control – this conversation lead to an increased appreciation for each other that prompted Mike to officially endorse Bernie Sanders for President of the United States. Watch all the episodes below.
If I seem biased in my Sanders description, I applaud your consciousness. At this point, most perusers of any media form are in scroll mode, looking for the clip, the boildown facts and tweets, the next context-free quotable to garner clicks, hits and gives-a-shits, without concern for moving the needle of our general consciousness. These are the conversations that matter, that connect the critical dots between casual entertainment and progressive societal improvement based on awareness and accountability. Spread the word.
