This week Faiz Shakir joins Sean O'Brien on Better Bad Ideas. Faiz is the senior advisor to Bernie Sanders and executive director of the nonprofit media organization More Perfect Union.

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Chapters

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00 39 - Getting to know Faiz

00:03:52 - Why Faiz is a Democrat.

00:08:40 - Faiz's first job

00:11:30 - 911 Changed Things

00:15:10 - Lost faith in institutions

00:18:48 - The DNC Emails

00:21:20 - ACLU

00:23:00 - Bernie Sanders hires Faiz

00:27:58 - Bernie Sanders impression

00:34:34 - Have Democrats lost sight of who they are?

00:42:30 - What voters want

00:45:00 - Fix the Democrat brand

00:54:00 - President O'Brien

00:54:30 - Can we agree on good ideas?

01:00:00 - Learning from the workers

01:02:45 - DNC Election popularity context

01:06:21 - Faiz's family life

01:09:30 - School nurse advocacy

01:10:37 - More Perfect Union

01:16:45 - Podcasts replacings Mainstream media

01:22:00 - Democrats not showing up

01:29:53 - Hasan Piker

01:33:00 - How Faiz supports working people

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