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Ben Wikler: “The government should not be on the side of the powerful…”

Featuring: Ben Wikler, Democratic | Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin

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Ben Wikler Discusses Democratic Strategies and Challenges on 'Black Like Me' Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 06:49

That everyone has the spark of the divine, if you want to think of it in religious language, that we're all children of God and that our policies and what the government does should reflect those two values. That The government should not be on the side of the powerful against those without so much power. And that we should be protecting the fundamental freedoms and rights that people have fought for to try to expand that circle generation after generation and are so often under attack. (06:49–06:53)

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Asserts that government policies should not favor the powerful over the less powerful.

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