Unlearn16: Class is in Session - The One Where The 'Politics Girl' Write a Democratic 'Short Letter'

00:00:00.000 classes in session and welcome to unlearn 16 classes in session guys today i am incredibly 1.00

00:00:09.160 lucky to have lee mcgowan sitting in front of me right now um and she runs well the formidable

00:00:17.260 let's be honest twitter page and podcast i am politics girl or politics girl podcast

00:00:23.600 she has amazing rants and let's i don't hand out that compliment quick just so you know i don't

00:00:30.640 that's not an easy throw for me um and we're gonna sit here and we're gonna fix the left today i think

00:00:37.200 that's what we're gonna do right we're just gonna i mean it's pretty easy it's tied up 30 minutes

00:00:42.960 no problems we'll send it out to everybody after we're done and we'll get it all sorted out

00:00:48.440 thank you so much so much for joining oh my gosh thank you so much for having me honestly joe this

00:00:54.540 is so great i love your stuff and i i know what you're saying about rants like boy do you rant

00:00:59.700 you're a great ranger and i think truly we need people out here ranting and of course it's a bunch 1.00

00:01:04.760 of mouthy women who are doing it right but it has to be said it's stuff that has to be done and i 1.00

00:01:09.500 think people like to hear things in bite-sized pieces but they also like to see themselves 0.99

00:01:13.860 reflected like I often say I say what people are thinking or I'm thinking what people can't quite

00:01:20.240 say and so I end up saying it and they go like yeah that and so and that's the thing and once

00:01:26.460 you once you're like that's what I was thinking that's what I was yeah that's what I had in my

00:01:29.960 head and then you can go out and talk to your own people and just have the words to use it and I

00:01:34.080 think that's what we need we need more people um acting as their own messengers to go out and you

00:01:39.960 know, spread the word, so to speak. And that's the brilliance of TikTok, the brilliance,

00:01:45.320 obviously, of the podcast format, which I haven't been in very long, the brilliance of all of these

00:01:50.920 social media streams that enables people with real world experience, whatever level of education,

00:01:58.940 whatever level diverse perspective, to be able to voice those opinions. And I think

00:02:04.840 it's so incredibly powerful and I think it scares the hell out of a lot of people, which is why

00:02:11.680 you've seen such a push. I know in the United States, speaking of TikTok, you know, people

00:02:17.160 are running around trying to ban it every place they can from government phones, from university

00:02:22.340 campuses now. There's like a whole bunch of university campuses. Yeah. The funny part is

00:02:27.540 when you try to censor, I just, it's like nobody sat down with them and said, look,

00:02:34.200 this is how the internet works or a kid's phone, because they're saying that they're going to ban

00:02:39.700 TikTok from their Wi-Fi networks. Like it's just going to be a block site. And I'm like,

00:02:45.240 do you think the kids don't have data? Do you think that it's just based on your

00:02:52.700 wife? They're just going to be sitting there on their data, doing whatever it is they want to do. 0.96

00:02:59.920 you're not going to be able to control that. What do you think about trying to ban TikTok?

00:03:06.400 Well, look, I mean, you think it's coming from the right?

00:03:10.000 Oh yeah. I mean, right now we just, with Josh Hawley, Josh Hawley just tried to ban it for

00:03:14.600 the entire country. He put, he's talking about that in the setting. So just, just FYI. He's

00:03:20.020 good. I love this party of small government. They have, you know, the Republicans have for years

00:03:24.940 been the party of small government and, you know, keep the government out of my business and freedom

00:03:29.200 and all this kind of stuff and they are the party yeah every single one of these things we're going

00:03:34.720 to tell you what to teach what to say who to love how to who to marry uh what sites you can look at

00:03:39.640 what what people you can hang out with how you could dress your body you know like it's the

00:03:44.580 opposite of freedom the opposite of small government the opposite of everything and

00:03:48.780 that's why people keep talking about how you know authoritarianism can come to america is

00:03:53.940 attempting to come to America. Now, as far as TikTok goes, you know, look, like you said,

00:03:59.980 you can't ban anything. And often when you tell people they can't have something,

00:04:04.780 it makes them want it more. Drives content. Yes. Content. Constantly. However, is there something

00:04:12.120 to be looked at with a foreign government owning a social media platform like this and what they

00:04:18.360 push. I'm not entirely convinced that the Chinese who own TikTok don't use it as a hilarious way 0.98

00:04:26.480 for us to fight with each other. Like if I was a foreign government that wanted to destroy America 0.99

00:04:30.760 and I could come up with a social media site like TikTok, which I happen to love,

00:04:35.740 but if I could do that and I could say, push the stuff that makes the right hate the left and push

00:04:40.620 the stuff that makes the left hate the right. And, you know, for a long time, sites like mine,

00:04:45.720 which are like, let's understand each other better and let's talk about these issues and

00:04:49.160 let's make it. And I thought, I think it's interesting. Like they would rather push the

00:04:53.440 ones that are like these libtards or these though, you know, so that we are fighting and at each 1.00

00:04:58.540 other's throat and pushing racism and pushing xenophobia and pushing transphobia because then 1.00

00:05:05.040 we're busy fighting each other and we're not paying attention to what they're doing. So is

00:05:08.720 there something to be said for monitoring, paying attention to, regulating what foreign governments

00:05:16.020 can do in our country? Sure. I think there's a discussion to be had there. I think there always

00:05:20.860 is. We should have had that discussion when Facebook started growing the way it did and

00:05:24.540 pushing hate as an algorithm. But just banning it altogether, that feels foolish, especially since

00:05:32.180 it seems to be a way for people to really truly communicate. And we've seen what happens when

00:05:36.360 someone like Elon comes along and tries to take away. Well, there we go. I think it's hysterical

00:05:41.160 also that we think for a minute that Elon Musk, a singular entity or, you know, I forgot his name,

00:05:49.620 Zuckerberg. He's been out of my head for so long. These individuals are able to accumulate this

00:05:58.140 kind of wealth, control the narrative, sit down and decide. And somehow we're more worried about

00:06:04.500 the Chinese government. I think it's also funny because I think that narrative is just saying,

00:06:09.680 well, the Chinese are obviously, like they're trying to push a narrative where the Chinese

00:06:12.660 are what? Worse people? I don't know if we can push that anymore, right? I don't know if we can 0.95

00:06:17.460 either. Yeah. A lot of my Chinese students will say- I mean, the communism, we could probably say

00:06:22.440 not great. Well, sure. But then you can flip it and talk about imperialism and talk about

00:06:27.900 colonization and talk about, like when we're talking about the way that we divide and conquer,

00:06:32.840 do we really think do we really think we need a foreign government to do that

00:06:38.760 but not now and i know you're well but ever like think about the birth of the united states

00:06:47.600 think about the birth of canada and you you decide how you colonize and how you move into a territory

00:06:54.700 and who you get on your side and in order to get those people on your side you need to have an

00:06:58.900 enemy and you're going to have that enemy for so long as you need them until you need to befriend

00:07:02.860 them to combat another enemy those are the birth of nations right there any nation yeah so this

00:07:09.220 idea of divisive politics I everybody's saying it's getting worse now it's getting worse now

00:07:15.540 I don't know I think we just I think it's definitely getting worse because I think that

00:07:20.400 the right uh especially like the religious right the far right you know the people that have been

00:07:26.820 pushing for 45 years to get rid of Roe, the people that didn't love it when we got social

00:07:32.260 justice in the first place, didn't love civil rights, didn't love women's rights, you know,

00:07:37.060 honestly could go back even further and they didn't like workers' rights, didn't like the

00:07:40.380 New Deal. Those people have been single-minded in pushing towards what they want, which is a

00:07:46.220 reversal, which really is a make America great again situation where there was a time in American

00:07:51.880 history where things were great. And we have to be honest, there was only one time in American

00:07:57.720 history where things were great for one group of people. If you were a straight, you know,

00:08:02.640 straight presenting white rich man, that there is a time in our history where things were,

00:08:07.780 that was a better time for you. Yeah. You could harass your secretary. You could attack your

00:08:12.380 workers. You could kill people building your railroad and be like, whoops, we're so sorry. 0.99

00:08:16.720 Get new workers. You know, like there was a way to do it. You'd have children in your factories, 0.98

00:08:20.560 go back even further. You could have slaves on your land, you know, like whatever. There was a

00:08:24.720 time where rich white land donning men, it was freaking great for them. And there is this kind of

00:08:31.540 now we call them the donor class that are trying to return us to a time where they answer to no

00:08:38.260 one, where they're not paying the taxes and they're not answering to anyone. And they don't

00:08:42.380 have the, all these rules that we have put on them. They, all the rules they call woke,

00:08:47.200 you know all the rules yes right um and they want to get rid of that and so yes i you know

00:08:52.260 i don't know i think there was so so i think about today and i think about you know obviously trump

00:08:58.260 and obviously the different factions and you know the the ultra right christian

00:09:03.840 nationalists yeah nationalists marjorie taylor greens and then i think to reagan

00:09:11.420 And then I think to what those men actually said back then.

00:09:16.900 And I think about what they said and what they stood for and what they manipulated and what they indoctrinated.

00:09:24.000 Reaganomics, if you talk to, I don't know what the percentage is, the majority of the United States population, they would think that was a success.

00:09:33.800 They would list Reagan.

00:09:35.220 Yeah, they would list Reagan as the best capitalist.

00:09:37.780 And Reagan was the one that sort of ushered in this evangelical kind of Christianity at its root because he knew what he had to manipulate.

00:09:44.820 I think the only thing that's heightened, maybe in some real time division, but also the perception of division is this, is the fact that you can now get on TikTok or Instagram or Twitter and you can be connected and you can voice all of the things that used to be kept in your household while you're watching the football game saying God knows what to your family members.

00:10:13.640 Now, in a real way, it's spewing everywhere. And I think it feels messy and dangerous and

00:10:22.400 terrifying and brand new, but I don't think it's new. I just think we're hearing about it now.

00:10:28.760 Well, I think especially the Republican Party has courted extremism for a really long time.

00:10:34.900 I think they have made bedfellows with some of the worst of the worst as a means to an end for

00:10:41.540 a really long time, whether it was Christian extremists, whether it was evangelicals.

00:10:45.000 And nowadays it's militia groups and white supremacists.

00:10:49.900 And, you know, it's kind of like they're not only playing footsie with these people

00:10:53.160 now, they're not doing it in a back room.

00:10:55.160 They're doing it right out in the open.

00:10:57.560 And I think that's the thing that feels different, you know, with a politician like Donald Trump

00:11:01.940 saying there were good people on both sides when one side was people saying Jews will

00:11:06.560 not replace us. 0.98

00:11:07.540 And you're like, great.

00:11:08.620 No, there weren't good people on both sides.

00:11:10.460 that out loud is not what they're saying isn't new. How they feel isn't new. But the embrace of

00:11:18.580 saying it out loud, that does feel new. Because I was saying to someone the other day, it's a

00:11:23.700 little bit like the racism, the extremism, the bigotry, the hatred of women, all this kind of

00:11:30.220 stuff. It's always been in the script. It's just been in the stage direction. So we don't say that

00:11:37.120 part out loud right like sure sure sure and now these politicians are reading the stage directions

00:11:43.740 out loud so we're going yeah well it's not like we didn't know it was there but now they're not

00:11:49.140 even pretending and i remember when donald trump was first newly elected somebody put up a meme

00:11:54.560 that was like make racist a shame again right and i thought yeah that's the thing i think that's the

00:12:00.720 difference it's that it's not like racism wasn't there it's that people are now proud and and

00:12:07.700 and emboldened and they're at that's why they're at these rallies these i mean trump's still having

00:12:13.080 freaking rallies like if that could be a bigger grift i can't i cannot believe people can't see

00:12:18.640 it but he's having them so that like-minded people can get together in seething in their like

00:12:23.380 hatred and pointing and bigotry and really feel kind of a freudian group mentality

00:12:29.060 buzz from that and i think that's new those kind of that because i mean i go back you go back to

00:12:38.440 world war ii in our country and in yours and if people really read our history and saw the

00:12:45.100 percentages of white supremacists in the united states in canada saying all of what you're saying

00:12:52.820 they just didn't have a microphone to say it so i mean we had a prime minister that turned away

00:12:57.920 Jews and said, no Jew was too many. He said that crap out loud, but he said that crap out loud 1.00

00:13:02.940 when everybody's like, that's right. Right. You, you say that crap. And there came a point where 1.00

00:13:09.300 you weren't supposed to this idea of being politically correct. And, and I don't know,

00:13:15.460 I mean, we could say the nineties, but not really, not really. The PC culture was the

00:13:20.640 that's when I was in high school. And I remember people freaking out about it. Um, like it was

00:13:26.080 too much you know everything is a pendulum swing right so i remember when pc culture came in in the

00:13:31.440 90s and at my school there was this whole argument at christmas time that we should be saying little

00:13:38.960 people and not elves and and we were like no like is that real they're fictional elves aren't real

00:13:47.600 like it's a story like they don't there's not people that live at the north pole and we had

00:13:52.320 this whole discussion at my school like it was very serious discussion like i don't think it's

00:13:56.320 appropriate to call them elves and we were like oh and that's where people and that's honestly

00:14:00.720 where the right wing gets a lot of their power because there is something to be said for people

00:14:06.080 questioning too much yeah an extreme they go like come on you know and then it makes an entire group

00:14:11.840 look insane even though most of the things they're saying is like hey we're not using that word

00:14:16.240 anymore because it's actually deeply insulting to a bunch of people right um but there's always

00:14:20.880 someone that takes it too far. And then they use that too far as everybody, everyone's doing this

00:14:26.080 elf thing. And that's not what everyone's doing. This elf thing. That's, that's, that's, I think

00:14:32.600 I remember it distinctly. Yeah. Well, you should, I think you really would. And so when we see this,

00:14:38.280 like, and you and I both have the same, I think the same idea in the sense that if, and I, and

00:14:44.900 when I talk about building, you know, conversations and having discussions in no way, shape or

00:14:50.720 farm. Am I ever talking about minimizing what I think, how I feel, what I can prove, what I want

00:14:56.960 to argue? Having said that, you know, sitting down with somebody on the opposite side of that table

00:15:04.320 has incredible value, right? Incredible value. I can sit down and speak about privatization of

00:15:12.520 healthcare and socialized medicine and stand firmly where I stand, but still have value in

00:15:17.880 that conversation to know that there's no perfect system. And the more we talk about different

00:15:23.080 angles and different ways to do things, the better off we all get. But now, how are we supposed to

00:15:31.340 have a conversation? Margie Taylor Greene is saying, the Jewish population owns lasers that 0.99

00:15:38.720 started the forest fires in California. Where's the bridge? Yeah, no, how are you supposed to have

00:15:44.900 conversation like you're talking about i can sit down and talk to you about socialized medicine

00:15:48.580 and i can say here's where i stand and you can say here's where you stand then we can talk about

00:15:52.420 the nuance in the middle there and we can find something that you know they used to say a

00:15:56.340 successful negotiation is when both people leave the table a little bit unhappy right so that is a

00:16:03.780 successful negotiation so my problem is that what we're being asked to do these days often is not

00:16:10.500 to have a discussion about should we have socialized health care what's a better way to do

00:16:15.140 our health care we're not even talking about policy anymore in america in many ways it's like

00:16:20.340 should gay people exist and it's like there is no we're not going to have a nuanced conversation

00:16:26.900 i'm going to stand firmly in what i believe which is of course right and if your position is they

00:16:33.060 shouldn't or if they are be about it and i want to hear a single thing and we're not going to teach

00:16:37.860 about it then there's no middle what are we talking about like i'm not going to have that

00:16:41.380 discussion with you and i think that's where we get into problems and here's i know you're never

00:16:46.340 going to hear these words come out of my mouth but here's where the right has become sort of evil

00:16:51.860 geniuses about it because what they've done and you and i spoke about this if they've figured out

00:16:57.540 ways to simplify messaging to such a bare bones embarrass embarrassingly um you know rudimentary

00:17:09.780 idea so that everybody can stand up and clap at that idea um and it eliminates all conversation

00:17:20.020 it eliminates all discussion and it riles up a population, especially when you tap into that

00:17:27.300 nostalgia factor. And they do it beautifully. And this is what we're up against. And you and

00:17:35.700 I have spoken about it because the left doesn't simplify. No. Because we know better. Well,

00:17:42.100 Well, I think because the left would be technically the party of intellectual thought and big discussions.

00:17:50.780 And the thing is, it's simple, right?

00:17:53.000 So we're not very good at simplifying.

00:17:55.240 And I think the problem is, is that I'm thinking of a Mark Twain quote.

00:18:00.520 There's an old Mark Twain quote.

00:18:01.580 I love Mark Twain.

00:18:02.640 I know, he's so great.

00:18:03.840 He's so great.

00:18:04.380 But he said, I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one.

00:18:09.180 and and i'm like that's a perfect quote i know and i always think of it when i think of the

00:18:16.540 democrats it's like to really succinctly say this it's like so it's like very complicated so

00:18:23.360 i'm just gonna say it in a million words so like we're we're super wordy we're verbose we like

00:18:28.920 lose the plot unnecessarily when someone like shoots us off topic and we don't have a massive

00:18:34.400 killer instinct as a party to kind of just destroy. So we end up sort of tying ourselves

00:18:40.380 into knots, right? Like Democrats should unquestionably be the party of the people.

00:18:46.360 We represent unions and we represent freedom of speech and who you love and what you do and who

00:18:52.980 you are. And yet we're constantly branded elite and out of touch. And that's just freaking great

00:18:58.680 branding, by the way. Pro-life was great branding. Because if you say we're the party of pro-life,

00:19:06.540 what does that make the other party? Anti-life, right? Pro-abortion? Like no one was ever pro-abortion,

00:19:12.940 but that you had no way to, there was like, once they spun it. No nuance. They eliminated the

00:19:18.100 nuance. Yeah. And then you're in trouble, right? You're in trouble. And I think a lot about climate

00:19:22.860 change. Climate change is actually a Republican phraseology. We were saying global warming.

00:19:30.560 Right. And global warming, people could kind of get their head around, even if they were confused,

00:19:34.740 they could still get their head around it. But the Republicans were like, we're getting killed

00:19:38.880 on this global warming thing. So we're going to call it climate change because the climate has

00:19:42.660 always been changing. Always changing. And they chose that, right? That was Republican messaging.

00:19:48.480 and now we're trying to figure out a different way to brand it and what I'm hearing a lot is

00:19:55.260 like climate catastrophe but the problem with climate catastrophe is it feels like well great 0.98

00:20:01.460 we're fucked right like so then it's like well I'm not gonna help then because it's a freaking 0.53

00:20:06.400 catastrophe it feels hopeless I don't want to do anything so there's great messengers out here 0.88

00:20:11.860 uh in in the states and one of them his name is Billy Ray and he's recently been like we need to

00:20:17.380 call it climate rescue. We're the party of climate rescue, right? So it's all about like,

00:20:21.500 we're here to help. We're going to do the work. Like we can save it. We have to be on board.

00:20:25.480 And I feel like, yeah, that's kind of more the realm we need to go. Climate rescue. Like

00:20:30.800 it's, we're going to save the planet. We're going to do good things. And I think if we're the party

00:20:36.060 of climate rescue, then that would make you the party of climate destruction, which they are.

00:20:41.000 And then we can, then we can like get them on their heels, you know, because that's our problem

00:20:45.980 is that democrats are always on the back foot we are never offensive coming at you and then we get

00:20:52.780 in real trouble because we start trying to explain it oh well here's the thing and then if you have

00:20:57.500 it and then we're gone you lost us completely so we have to get off defense and on to offense

00:21:03.260 and stop allowing the republicans to dominate uh the messaging because i don't think it's

00:21:10.620 about sloganeering you know the democrats this year had democrats deliver which they were and

00:21:16.060 i thought that was good i used it myself they had build back better which is you know it's

00:21:20.540 catchy but it's it's i don't know whatever i mean like every time it's it's sloganeering that's

00:21:27.580 not messaging that's sloganeering yeah i think the thing is is that it's what we need to do is

00:21:33.820 brand better we need a better brand the democrats need a better brand and then we need to sell that

00:21:40.460 brand right and i think that's where we need to be looking at it more like the republicans did us a

00:21:48.220 huge favor by collectively losing their minds i i you know they've gone so extremist with the book

00:21:54.220 banning and banning teaching and not talking about gender or sexuality and banning abortions without

00:21:59.900 exception and letting you know mothers just die on tables and you know trying to cut social security

00:22:06.060 and letting kids get slaughtered in their schools like oh it's so bad that you think like

00:22:13.420 how can we lose this messaging to these people that are literally monsters but

00:22:18.040 i think our messaging should technically become easier but we can't just do their crazy vote for

00:22:23.900 us right it has to be who we are this is where we stand this is what we believe in not as a bumper

00:22:32.540 sticker, but as a bite-sized thought. So Americans don't have to spend too much time thinking about

00:22:37.980 who we are and we don't leave a whole lot of room for debate. It's the short letter. That's my,

00:22:44.300 you just gave me my most favorite quote of all time. I don't know why I've never even heard of

00:22:50.460 it, but it's the short letter. And, and you're a hundred percent right. And I think we, and it's

00:22:57.660 interesting because you talk about the Democrats as like a collective and we all know that's not

00:23:03.380 the way anything works. Nothing works as a monolith. In fact, if it did, it would probably

00:23:07.900 work better. That's why people like authoritarianism because it's like one thought. As long as I'm in

00:23:13.960 charge, as long as I'm running the show, I'm fine. I think it would work great as long as I'm the

00:23:19.900 dictator exactly but i think that we have to have to have to start like i think you start and and i

00:23:29.140 honestly believe i've spent so much time thinking about this you do have to start with freedom

00:23:35.220 because the republicans have used that word and broken it into just painfully jagged edges that

00:23:45.460 don't make any goddamn sense anymore and somehow they've been able to manipulate it and say 0.87

00:23:52.400 you have freedom because you can't get an abortion you have freedom because i won't let your kid read 0.98

00:23:58.560 to kill a mockingbird you have freedom because your kid has to fulfill pre-described gender roles

00:24:06.100 that we've been doing for the last 3 000 years there it is how we have up here listen you guys 1.00

00:24:14.720 have your fair share of idiots. We have Jordan Peterson. So I'm waiting for him to move to 1.00

00:24:22.460 Florida or something. He belongs in Florida. Let's be honest. But his notion, like when I hear him

00:24:29.860 speak and he obviously never debates anybody with any significant sort of rationality anymore.

00:24:35.600 He just won't. He won't have those conversations. But when I hear him speak about academic freedom

00:24:42.080 and then say in the same sentence, we should defund feminism and Marxist ideology and any

00:24:52.100 critical thought philosophy from all of the major universities today. And I'm like, dude,

00:24:59.460 how can you say those two things in that same breath? Yeah. How can you say that? How can you

00:25:06.040 say all of my rights are getting taken away i can't say what i think and then and then exhale

00:25:13.080 and then say and people listen to them

00:25:19.080 right same with desantis is exactly what there's they're they're similar

00:25:24.040 you know vice so to speak but i think we have to start there and we have to start with education

00:25:31.480 because if we don't it's so much easier to manipulate look donald trump wasn't wrong

00:25:39.220 when he said i love the uneducated i mean there we go it's that's the stage directions out loud 0.96

00:25:45.400 again right like that's what that is and you know if if we're dumb and quite frankly nowadays if 0.78

00:25:51.520 we're poor we are too busy or we are too stressed or we don't understand scared and terrified yes

00:25:57.560 why shouldn't it be i think the thing is to speak to your point about education and we can come back

00:26:02.280 to freedom because i couldn't agree with you more i think that's exactly it that's where freedom

00:26:05.880 starts and where you when you pull people especially in america freedom is the number one

00:26:14.280 sure that they want above all i mean like it is heads and shoulders above every other thing above

00:26:18.760 equality above pay raise about everything it's freedom freedom which is funny because if you

00:26:23.800 you don't have those other things you're talking about it's very hard freedom but i think you're

00:26:30.400 right that in you have to keep hitting freedom but the democrats should be able to absolutely

00:26:35.920 steal this done properly steal this we're the party of freedom we want you to be who you want

00:26:42.660 to be love who you want to love worship what you want to worship you know be with the people wear

00:26:47.060 what you want to wear we believe in the american people we believe you have the power to make your

00:26:51.140 own decisions we don't want big government these are the people they keep saying they're small

00:26:54.740 government they want to control everything we believe in freedom we don't need the government

00:26:58.740 telling us what to say and what to think and what to read we don't want government mandated pregnancy

00:27:03.740 we don't want the government to choose what religion we are what form of that religion we

00:27:08.600 believe in freedom right i think we could take that in a heartbeat from them a heartbeat that's

00:27:14.520 I think, I think that's the play. Yeah. But I just, oh, sorry, go ahead. Yeah, yeah, no.

00:27:20.940 No, but I was saying when you were saying about Jordan Peterson and him saying like,

00:27:24.440 we're not going to have any feminists, we're not going to have any Marxist ideology. We're not

00:27:28.300 going to have any of this. And I think one of the things we have to start doing is instead of

00:27:33.600 meeting people like they're making a good faith argument, I think one of the best things we could

00:27:38.660 do is use strategic ignorance and this happens even when you when someone's being a bully to you

00:27:46.120 and you're in middle school right strategic ignorance can be very helpful someone's like 0.73

00:27:50.580 oh well you wouldn't understand that you know people say this with blondes you wouldn't

00:27:53.840 understand that lee because you're blonde and you could be like why wouldn't i understand it

00:27:58.960 because i'm blonde and they could be like haha see you totally don't get it i'm like no no i

00:28:02.720 still don't get it and what they have to do is get to the point where they tell you directly 0.96

00:28:06.420 that they think you're stupid and then it's not funny anymore and then they end up looking like 0.99

00:28:10.800 an ass so the thing is is i think that there's something to be said for that so when they say 1.00

00:28:14.740 we're going to take all marxist ideology out of school that somebody says what do you mean by 0.99

00:28:18.940 marxist ideology and then it's like wait because they don't know a lot of the times they're spewing

00:28:28.280 a bunch of you know what do you mean by no feminist teaching yeah and they're like you

00:28:34.260 know what i mean like and you're like no no i don't what do you mean and make them be like well

00:28:39.440 i don't think women are specified you know i and then because like what they can't do is what

00:28:44.480 democrats have done for too long is nuance they've spent so long in bumper sticker land force them 0.99

00:28:51.640 to defend their bumper sticker which by the way they cannot take what they say at face value and

00:28:59.280 instead of responding with being defensive be a little bit more dismissive like right let me just

00:29:06.260 repeat what you just said did you just say that we should get rid of all classes that have to do 0.99

00:29:10.460 with women and they're like well i mean what and then get them in that position where you're like

00:29:16.880 yeah that's interesting because i think we talk about politics a lot like it's a game 0.52

00:29:21.500 we play by the rules they cheat you know but it's not a game politics is completely different

00:29:27.880 because the results matter to all of our lives.

00:29:32.000 People think politics don't matter.

00:29:33.440 And I always say, like, here's the thing.

00:29:35.620 Actually, politics matters to every single thing you do in your life.

00:29:40.220 Everybody.

00:29:40.540 The day your groceries, the day your garbage gets picked up

00:29:43.900 to how fast you're allowed to drive

00:29:45.520 to whether you get to live through a pandemic.

00:29:48.940 That's all politics.

00:29:51.180 And now you can see politics is going to tell you

00:29:52.920 what you can learn in school.

00:29:54.400 It's going to tell you how many kids you can have.

00:29:56.340 It's going to tell you who you can have kids with.

00:29:58.200 It's going to, so you may as well dial into politics because it's going to make all your

00:30:01.520 decisions for you anyway.

00:30:02.620 So you may as well have a say.

00:30:04.980 Yeah.

00:30:05.540 So.

00:30:06.300 Oh, a hundred percent.

00:30:07.440 And I think, but here's the thing.

00:30:09.940 You're right.

00:30:11.400 People don't want you to be right.

00:30:14.680 People would rather, and I mean this with no disrespect or condensation, condensation.

00:30:21.180 No.

00:30:21.920 Condensation.

00:30:22.640 Well, I should throw some water at myself.

00:30:25.200 Condescension.

00:30:25.780 Should we?

00:30:26.040 Oh, we can just get a little damp. We get very damp. There's no condensation in this podcast.

00:30:32.200 I can't be condescending when I don't even understand the word. Here's the bottom line

00:30:37.820 of the average person. And I truly believe this. And I mean, no disrespect. They are worried about

00:30:44.200 their kid. They are worried about mortgage payments. They are worried about why eggs

00:30:49.820 cost so much money. They are worried about their family who happens to be sick. They are, right?

00:30:55.060 And then we, you and I, ask them to be worried about these big, big issues.

00:31:00.400 And they're just like, I don't have time.

00:31:04.200 I can't.

00:31:05.560 I can't even if I wanted to.

00:31:07.880 So the way to avoid a level of cognitive dissonance and stress and anxiety is to say it doesn't matter.

00:31:15.940 Yeah.

00:31:16.980 It doesn't matter.

00:31:18.740 Right?

00:31:18.940 The environment's going to be okay because we will build the technology to fix the environment like a giant, I don't know what they envision in their head, like maybe a giant vacuum of some sort in the ocean or something.

00:31:31.680 We will fix that later.

00:31:33.960 You know, Elon Musk is going to send us all to Mars.

00:31:36.920 We will be genius enough to fix that.

00:31:40.680 Stop making me separate my compost from my recyclables.

00:31:44.640 It's too much.

00:31:46.300 Yeah.

00:31:46.440 You know, don't get every Thursday night. I hate garbage day. Want to know why? Because it's just like this acidide job of what goes in what bin and who's collecting it on what day. And my life is relatively privileged. But if I had three kids and dinner and this is happening and my, I don't, it's an example of the complexity that really is life. 0.70

00:32:10.920 And every person I think is looking to simplify, which is why you have a Republican say something so simple.

00:32:18.460 And we just, we, people, drawn to that because it makes us feel good.

00:32:23.300 Yeah, which is why we end up with authoritarian dictators.

00:32:27.940 Because they come in like Trump did and say, I alone can fix it. 1.00

00:32:32.160 Is your life crap? 1.00

00:32:33.580 That's because of these people. 1.00

00:32:35.340 That's because of this happened to you.

00:32:36.700 That's because of them.

00:32:37.600 I'll fix that.

00:32:38.700 I'll get rid of them.

00:32:39.520 I'll take rid of this.

00:32:40.460 I'll make your life better. You have done everything right. It's these people that took

00:32:45.760 it from you. Let me fix it for you. And you go, good. That would be great. I'd love to not be

00:32:49.340 worried about it. Like, thank you so much. Right. And the problem is that's why people are drawn to

00:32:53.860 dictators, but dictators never work out right. Because as soon as you've given them the power,

00:32:59.800 then they just take it from everywhere. And you're like, wait a second. Now I'm not allowed

00:33:03.080 to leave my house at this time. I'm not allowed to go here. I don't have any, like, we don't have

00:33:06.600 the TV stations anymore. Now I'm just listening to this. And now I'm afraid to go here. I can't

00:33:11.240 talk to these people. I can't be seen with these people. Like you don't realize how much you gave

00:33:15.060 away in trying to allow somebody to make all your decisions for you. And I think the thing is, is

00:33:19.420 that we have to understand that we're in a position now where we could go one way or the other. We're

00:33:24.840 literally at a crossroads. And unfortunately, it doesn't matter how busy you are, you have to dial

00:33:31.640 back in. But what we can try and tell people is if we get a functioning working government that

00:33:40.300 also pulls us away from authoritarianism, if America is the democracy they've always told

00:33:47.040 people they are, but we all know they are not, but we have the potential to be, if we pass voting

00:33:52.380 protection laws and we get rid of the filibuster and we talk about getting rid of the electoral

00:33:56.140 college and we put more power in the states where the Democrats pay attention to the states and not

00:34:00.380 just federal government and we start actually representing the people because i mean what other

00:34:06.120 country has you know has the popular vote winner losing the presidential election you know what i

00:34:12.460 mean yeah well that's true um but just a different way but we just do it in a funny way yeah but

00:34:19.640 ultimately like that's not that doesn't feel like democracy and we need to represent people and then

00:34:23.540 we need to make their lives easier we actually need to have government that like you shouldn't

00:34:29.800 have to be working four jobs to just keep food on your table. It shouldn't be impossible to

00:34:37.700 buy a house. And that is something government could do. Government could come in and say,

00:34:42.540 I'm sorry, everything after your third home, you're paying a 90% tax rate on. If you are a 0.69

00:34:48.580 foreign investor like they did in Canada, you want to come in and be a foreign investor,

00:34:52.200 we're going to charge you an extra 45% tax, 15% tax, whatever. That makes it unappealing.

00:34:57.100 down here in the States, we have entire neighborhoods that are bought up by hedge funds

00:35:00.940 and like Zillow. And then they turn around and they rent the houses back to us. And we can't

00:35:07.480 even buy starter houses. That is something a government could come in and say, nope,

00:35:11.440 no, no giant corporations can buy single family dwellings. Those go to single, you know, those

00:35:16.640 are things that would actually change people's lives. And then they wouldn't have to be so

00:35:21.180 strained that they couldn't pay attention to their government. We have been told our whole life

00:35:26.920 to not talk about politics that's what people teach us as little children don't talk about

00:35:33.380 politics don't talk about religion and one of the two things that caused the biggest problems in the

00:35:37.980 history of the freaking world politics and religion right so the only people that benefit

00:35:43.700 from us not talking about politics and not talking about religion are the leaders of politics and

00:35:48.800 religion that don't want to pay attention to what they're doing and we have to say you know what

00:35:52.520 we're not doing that anymore we're going to talk about all of it and we're going to start changing 0.99

00:35:57.060 it i have two painful points number one we we are well because this is the thing we have to address

00:36:04.460 and it's a sensitive thing with you americans we have to talk about the elephant in the room which

00:36:09.980 is capitalism oh god we we can't and that's the problem how all those things you just spoke about

00:36:16.760 You can't come near to fixing them without talking about how you regulate big business. And the notion of free enterprise and everybody does whatever the hell they want is a failed state notion. It is a doomsday prophecy.

00:36:34.960 And yes, it caused the United States to build and Canada to build in a certain capacity over a very, you know, short amount of time in an oppressive way.

00:36:44.440 But on the backs of who and on the backs of people from where and now the chickens are just coming home to roost.

00:36:53.840 But nobody, you can't say I can't go into the States and talk about capitalism.

00:37:00.180 I don't.

00:37:01.100 You get, you can't, you get kicked out of places.

00:37:04.700 Come on.

00:37:05.580 Look, we do love our money.

00:37:06.900 Here's the thing.

00:37:07.420 I think there is a, there is a, uh, we do love our money.

00:37:12.180 It's not, I'm not going to lie.

00:37:13.220 I mean, it's a, it's a capitalistic country.

00:37:15.000 It's how you, you know, it's American exceptionalism.

00:37:17.620 It's like, I made this, I pulled myself up from my bootstraps.

00:37:20.400 I did this to keep every single cent of it.

00:37:22.800 And I think the thing is, is that you have to start by addressing some of it.

00:37:28.580 Like Biden created a bill this year that will tax the biggest corporations in America a 15% flat tax to start with.

00:37:35.900 Because currently, most of the biggest corporations in America don't pay any tax, right?

00:37:40.540 Like it's a joke.

00:37:41.660 They're making billions of dollars.

00:37:43.660 The fact that we have this many billionaires is a failed tax policy.

00:37:49.460 It's not based on skill.

00:37:53.500 It's not based on brilliance.

00:37:55.340 I mean, if you think Elon Musk can take us to fricking Mars, the guy can't run Twitter.

00:37:59.920 So like, I'm not following him to a different planet.

00:38:02.300 That is out of your mind.

00:38:03.900 But it is, it is a tax policy that allows people to keep that much money and hoard it

00:38:09.900 to themselves.

00:38:10.420 That is a flawed and failed tax policy right now.

00:38:15.120 So when people talk about make America great again, you think about it, you go, what, what

00:38:20.400 time period are they talking about?

00:38:21.600 and mostly people but mostly people would say I don't know like the 50s 60s yeah right and so

00:38:27.600 it's like white picket fence you know 2.5 kids the mom and like the thing with the little apron

00:38:32.640 and like that's the perfect America right okay sure at that time the highest tax rate for the

00:38:39.480 richest people was between 75 and 90 percent after a certain amount of money you make a certain amount

00:38:45.660 the money, you're in the normal tax rate, then you make over that, we're taxing 75 to 90%. So when

00:38:52.500 that side talks about make America great again, you're like, okay, great. We're going to go back

00:38:57.520 to a 75% tax rate on anything over $50 million a year. That would change our country. And the

00:39:05.420 majority of the country would get behind that. You know, we would make another huge difference

00:39:09.140 if we had a massive um inheritance tax change right so there's a lot of people in america and

00:39:16.580 probably canada too that say i created this business i worked really hard i deserve to keep

00:39:23.100 all my money this is the like don't tax me anything go yourself i made this yeah and you

00:39:28.700 say okay great you made a ton of money you made this great company good for you you keep it you

00:39:34.420 up to 50 million dollars you're in the regular tax rate with the rest of us after 50 million we're

00:39:38.920 going to tax you a lot. So it behooves you to give your money away. It behooves you to start

00:39:43.340 new companies. It behooves you to try and cure cancer because otherwise we're going to tax you

00:39:46.880 for a fortune. But when you die, you can only leave X amount of money to your heirs. And it

00:39:54.960 could be a fair amount of money, but it's not like your kids never need to work again. Their

00:40:00.020 kids never, this kind of guaranteed wealth where we've created a brand new aristocracy that's just

00:40:05.720 handing down their money to other people, to their children. And then you get these third

00:40:10.240 generation of just dumb asses that don't know how to do anything, but they're so rich and they 0.99

00:40:14.020 create TikTok. And they never work. TikTok. No idea. And most people will tell you that those 1.00

00:40:19.640 kids are miserable. They have no purpose in life. They don't know what they're doing. Those are the 0.98

00:40:23.420 kids that go on drugs. These are the poor parents that are like, I don't know. We've had them in

00:40:26.900 this rehab center in Utah. I don't know. And you're like, that's because they have no purpose

00:40:32.260 because you have given them so much of a safety net that they're tangled in it yeah so we could

00:40:38.460 also change the wealth tax and the inheritance tax so it's like your kids can you know have

00:40:44.900 your beach house in manhattan beach and they can get your ski place in vale but then they're done

00:40:49.040 they're tapped out at 50 mil so now what are they gonna do you're asking but now you're asking and

00:40:54.160 again this all comes back to capitalism it all comes back to the way the structure works and

00:40:58.620 And I don't know, because now you're asking for that top 1% to tell on themselves.

00:41:07.240 And that top 1% has funded political campaigns right across the board, no matter who they

00:41:13.480 are and what side of the aisle they sit on.

00:41:15.980 Who's ever going to pass that legislation and then get elected after two years or after

00:41:21.720 six years?

00:41:23.040 The same people that are going to pass legislation to reverse Citizens United. 0.98

00:41:27.880 that corporations are people and you can put unlimited amounts of money half this shit devolved

00:41:33.540 after that decision you reverse that decision you say we're running on reversing uh you know

00:41:39.380 citizens united corporations are not people they can't make decisions on their corporations like

00:41:44.900 hobby lobby saying oh we can't pay for our employees birth control because of our religion

00:41:49.700 you're like you're a company you don't have a religion you're a company oh well we do we're

00:41:53.760 people and we can give as much money as we want that citizens united decision destroyed america

00:41:58.480 we need to reverse that what year was that oh god look it up on the internet 2014 google it

00:42:06.800 i don't know jesus dates it's a torturous decision it made a huge issue and if we could reverse that

00:42:14.400 that would make a tremendous difference and i think also you just get behind the idea that like

00:42:20.240 Like, keep as much money as you want if you're alive.

00:42:23.480 After that, we're taking all your money.

00:42:26.700 So you may as well, you know, cure a disease, build the entire rainforest, you know.

00:42:32.820 Yeah, everybody hates on Bill Gates for buying up farmland or whatever he's doing down there that people are riled up about.

00:42:38.140 But that man's not leaving his kids anything.

00:42:41.320 He's been very vocal about it.

00:42:43.040 He's like, if my kids, I'm going to leave them something.

00:42:46.940 But if my kids, after everything they've gotten, all the advantages in the world, can't figure out how to stand on their own and they need my $200 billion, no.

00:42:59.460 Yeah.

00:42:59.740 That's going to go.

00:43:01.000 When Bill Gates passes, I swear to God, we will find a cure for HIV.

00:43:06.020 Like that will be the final put.

00:43:07.740 Well, that's where he puts all of his money, right?

00:43:09.380 Like he challenges government's leverage.

00:43:11.280 I have another problem.

00:43:12.300 Another big problem.

00:43:14.160 Nobody talks about this.

00:43:16.940 We no longer, and this is a scary thing that politicians just can't say out loud, but somebody needs to say it.

00:43:24.560 We no longer have a federal government or a state government that operates with impunity or outside of the international economic order.

00:43:37.020 We do not, in any country on this planet, unless you're talking about North Korea, which is completely shut off, you are dependent upon other countries and decisions other countries make for what products are going to cost money, for what things are going to be scarce, for all of that.

00:43:59.300 And we look to our leaders like, fix the economy. You just ask them to fix the world economy. Because nobody's being honest and saying, we are no longer driving the ship. We are part of the boat. And we just have to manage it, right? Nobody's saying that.

00:44:19.500 You know, now people are saying it in a terrifying way, like the Marjorie Taylor 0.99

00:44:23.200 Greens, when you start hearing shit like everything should be made in America, cut 0.99

00:44:28.840 everything, right? 1.00

00:44:30.600 Well, that's what they're saying.

00:44:31.680 Yeah, like the anti-globalist campaign, but it's really mostly like a nationalistic 0.99

00:44:35.940 bullshit. 0.99

00:44:37.060 And now all of a sudden you become an isolated entity. 1.00

00:44:40.040 Good luck with that.

00:44:40.940 I remember how that played out.

00:44:42.640 Yeah.

00:44:43.220 Right?

00:44:43.800 But how do we address that?

00:44:45.820 Because it's a very, at the end of the day, international economic organizations and dependencies and interconnectivity has to diminish democratic choices, democratic control over your own nation.

00:45:03.560 The idea that this sovereign nation, it's been a fallacy for a very long time, but it's incredibly flawed now.

00:45:12.380 So we tell people to vote and get involved. But on the flip side, nobody's admitting to it. They kind of do sometimes, but not really. Nobody's admitting to the fact, well, guess what, guys, we're all on the same. We're all playing a bit of a game right now. But if China decides something different, or if, you know, I don't know, Cambodia does something different, or that impacts us, and I can't control it.

00:45:41.480 yeah i think how do we yeah no i think i think one of the best ways to see that in our if you're

00:45:48.140 not if you're having trouble if you're listening and you're having trouble kind of this is

00:45:51.800 globalism this is what people talk about all the time you know like the word wef i hear people

00:45:56.160 talk about the world economic forum one more time as though it's this surprising entity

00:46:01.100 no and that we we used to have complete control over our country's money but now we don't because

00:46:07.960 they do. No, it's always been a side effect of capitalism and international economic trade.

00:46:12.920 Well, we also kept selling our debt to foreign countries, which was problematic.

00:46:17.200 But I think the thing is, is that you look at inflation, you know, down here in the States,

00:46:21.320 when we had the midterm elections, you know, they were like, this inflation is terrible. And

00:46:26.860 Biden's done this. And people were like, I'm sorry, is Biden, the president of Belgium? Is

00:46:31.700 he the president of France? Is he the president of, you know, Lithuania? Because everyone is

00:46:36.580 having inflation. It's global inflation. It's all blowback from, you know, shutting down the ports

00:46:41.540 and shutting down commerce during the pandemic. Like you could see globalization. You could see

00:46:48.760 how interconnected we are because of the pandemic. You could say, oh, well, we can't get our chip

00:46:53.740 from China to get on a boat to come here so we can make the car that needs the chip. You know,

00:46:59.360 like it's all connected and how essential it is that we learn how to work with others. So this

00:47:05.360 idea of of isolationism and nationalism and hyper nationalism and christian nationalism none of it

00:47:12.440 works because we don't live in that world anymore however we also should know that authoritarianism

00:47:18.580 is on the rise around the world for the very first time democracies are less less than 50

00:47:24.380 percent of the world's governments are democracies now and that's terrifying because a lot of people

00:47:30.940 are like just fix it you know we goes back to that strongman dictator we were talking about before

00:47:35.080 just fix it and they go to a strong man they usually elect a strong man within a democratic

00:47:41.120 environment and then the environment becomes undemocratic afterwards like

00:47:46.360 you know anywhere from belarus to hungary to russia you know what i mean like it started

00:47:52.820 democratic and then it just went really quick downhill but the thing about these new autocracies

00:47:58.760 is that they are also globalists they are working together and applebaum did the most amazing

00:48:05.020 article in the Atlantic. And the front of the magazine was the bad guys are winning.

00:48:11.140 And it was about how these guys are working in what she called, and I thought it was so smart,

00:48:16.380 she called Autocracy Inc. Like if you think of it like a corporation, and there's all these

00:48:21.900 companies, and they're no longer working with like an ideology, like we believe in this. It's

00:48:26.400 not that it's that they believe in their own success and their own money and their own retained

00:48:30.180 power. And then they worked together. So, you know, like Maduro in Venezuela, like he should

00:48:36.500 have been ousted, right? But he was being propped up by money from Saudi Arabia and propped up by

00:48:42.900 people buying things from Hungary and propped up by Russia and propped up. Same thing happened when

00:48:48.920 the Belarus had their election and Likenschenko didn't win. He didn't win. And yet he took over

00:48:57.100 anyway. And the people revolted. They were out in the streets. They were protesting.

00:49:01.780 And literally, look at Chekhov gets on the phone with Putin. He's like, what am I supposed to do?

00:49:05.620 These people are rioting. And they're like, you didn't win. We know you didn't win. And Putin's

00:49:10.100 like, I'm going to send down my people that will explain. And you just have to strategically arrest

00:49:14.740 certain people, strategically kill certain people, strategically do this. And it's not like you don't

00:49:19.500 have to kill everyone. You just have to kill the right people. There's an actual plan now. So the 1.00

00:49:23.800 autocrats are getting it together. What I think is that democracies have to get it together,

00:49:28.240 which is why, to take it to a totally different place, it matters that we're all supporting the

00:49:33.420 war in Ukraine, right? Because they are the actual front line of the fight between autocracy

00:49:40.640 and democracy. And we have to make sure that the democracies of the world retain power because

00:49:47.540 we're so close to losing it. And then we'll never get any of those things we want because we can't

00:49:52.280 stop the globalism. But the question is, who controls the globalism? Is it the autocratic

00:49:58.280 ink, autocracy ink, or is it democracy ink? Because one of them will.

00:50:04.460 Well, I think that the sad reality right now, and I don't know if you get around this,

00:50:08.380 and I know I'm starting to sound like a Canadian communist by the minute, it's the people.

00:50:13.520 Well, but you can't, I love it that we deny that somebody, an individual, Elon Musk's wealth

00:50:20.220 makes me insane because he's he's on trajectory to be the world's first trillionaire yeah i mean

00:50:27.260 listen somebody said the other day if you if you can lose 200 billion dollars in one year

00:50:33.180 we need a wealth tax we need a wealth tax like if you can lose that in one year and be like

00:50:39.740 then guess what we should be taking it from you we shouldn't be relying on the benevolence of

00:50:43.900 billionaires absolutely but here's the problem with that and this is why i think it's a it's

00:50:49.580 a money problem and i think the autocrats are using the money to prop themselves up like it's

00:50:55.580 it's very much connected because we the united states could do that and elon musk could move

00:51:05.100 countries do you see what i'm saying all of a sudden all of a sudden you have these multi-billion

00:51:14.540 hundreds of billions of dollars say I'm just not going to be here anymore then if that's what you

00:51:20.320 guys think is the best avenue I'm going to take my ball and go I'm going to go home and so that's

00:51:26.380 another problem with this sort of globalist idea this idea that I can go anywhere on this planet

00:51:32.640 as long as I'm given a level of freedom now having said that you're right democracy does serve to do

00:51:39.200 something because you know andrew tate's finding out the hard way isn't he though yeah he runs his

00:51:45.460 mouth runs his mouth says i have so many passports this i moved to romania because i just pay them 0.98

00:51:51.120 off and they could give a shit now romania is like god this guy's chirping us an awful lot 0.99

00:51:56.760 that's everybody thinks it's about i have no doubt that he traffics women i have no doubt that he 0.99

00:52:01.800 does all of these horrible things absolutely it's how he made his money but i do understand

00:52:06.080 the romanian government's looking at this going he can't just be out here saying whatever he want

00:52:12.440 making us look ineffectual and weak and whatever like he can run the show so if you're a smart

00:52:21.940 billionaire or millionaire you learn you are not protected in the autocratic world the only way

00:52:29.760 you have protection is by using your billions to to magnify or support the growth of democracies

00:52:40.520 in order to have most of your freedoms protected and you might get taxed but you won't be in jail

00:52:47.660 or you won't be sent to an island somewhere or whatever right yeah and i think honestly there's

00:52:55.660 also like you have to make the democracies of the world more appealing you know what i mean like

00:53:00.200 okay you could pick up your money and you know people are like watch out for trump he's gonna

00:53:03.880 end up in saudi arabia you know and you're like yeah but then he has to live in saudi arabia like

00:53:08.660 the thing is is you have to make the democracies of the world be more appealing yes that it's you

00:53:13.800 know like yeah you know what i get taxed more but it's like canada you know like oh i get taxed more

00:53:17.760 but i can like drive an hour north and be in the woods and like that's worth it for me or like i

00:53:22.260 get my health care and i never have to worry about you know i don't i mean god knows your

00:53:26.000 health care is having a disaster right now but in general the idea because you know i grew up in

00:53:31.220 canada right so when i grew up in canada before i became an american citizen i was in a huge car

00:53:36.420 accident when i was 16 at no point as i was lying you know thrown from the car lying there i i i was

00:53:44.360 like i can move my fingers like i'm not paralyzed okay you know and you're but at no point was

00:53:48.580 anyone like oh gosh this ambulance is gonna cost so much money like fixing her is gonna cost so

00:53:54.780 much money that was not the question it was like though that part is not the problem the problem

00:53:59.360 is that she's like very broken right that was the problem that's that should have been the problem

00:54:04.140 in the states that's not the problem right so that is a completely different there's you have

00:54:10.260 to make your country so appealing that yeah it's worth paying the taxes for health care it's worth

00:54:17.300 paying the taxes for, you know, insurance or whatever. Like my, my house is protected because

00:54:23.080 of X, Y, and Z. I don't, I live in a safe area. My kids can walk to and from school, you know,

00:54:28.800 because there's only a certain, I mean, like you talk about the percentage of the world that's

00:54:32.640 that rich. We know how small it is. The 0.11%, the 1%, you know, so we have to make it appealing

00:54:39.760 for the rest of us and we have to tax those people. And if they move, they move. 0.97

00:54:44.320 and on that note i'm going to end with mark twain's quote

00:54:49.280 i love how i think we figure stuff out i think we figured out freedom we gotta we gotta re

00:54:57.900 we don't have to redefine we gotta actually define using common sense knowledge what freedom means

00:55:05.440 and what it means to have a government that supports that and that advocates for that and

00:55:11.200 that facilitates a system that is going to grant the most of that. That's it. That's where you

00:55:18.340 start. And you start there. And I say, start with education because it's the kids. Let's be honest,

00:55:24.580 they're way smarter than most of us. Anyways, you, you can't eliminate that. And I think

00:55:30.120 to be perfectly honest, all of this censoring the rights doing, I honestly think it's another

00:55:35.280 shot in the foot because you can't. The kid has a computer, you stupid moron. Yeah, you banned that 1.00

00:55:42.980 book. What do you think they're going to look up first? You just made them download it.

00:55:48.400 So dumb. But on that note, I want to say the Mark Twain. Give me the Mark Twain quote again 0.99

00:55:53.380 before we sign off for today because it's a perfect quote. Okay. Write it down. Everybody

00:55:57.220 get a pen. The Mark Twain quote says, I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote

00:56:03.720 you a long one. It's perfect. So good. It's a perfect quote. It's so good. Thank you so much

00:56:10.380 for hanging out with me today. I appreciate it so much. I hope we do like a whole bunch of these.

00:56:14.940 I think so. I think this must be done. Anytime. Anytime you want on here, please come on. Can

00:56:20.300 you tell everybody where to find you on TikTok, on Twitter, on podcasts, on... Yeah, I'm very easy.

00:56:26.220 I am politics. Come on down to Los Angeles. No, here's the thing. I am politics girl everywhere.

00:56:33.720 So on Twitter, on all those things, I am politics girl.

00:56:37.160 But if you just type in politics girl, it comes up.

00:56:39.680 It's politics girl on YouTube.

00:56:41.100 You can find the whole podcast, which I get some great people.

00:56:44.320 And we talk just like this, like about really nuanced stuff, but like people that have real

00:56:48.840 power and can really do things.

00:56:50.200 And I love having them on to be like, well, but why are you doing it like that?

00:56:53.920 And they are marvelous people.

00:56:55.460 And then I do my rants.

00:56:56.500 So that is all over social media under politics girl.

00:56:59.240 And like, please follow me.

00:57:00.640 Because at the end of the day, I always say, you know, first of all, we have to understand,

00:57:04.920 which goes back to your education, right?

00:57:06.680 When we have knowledge, when we understand, we care.

00:57:10.520 And when we care, that's when change happens.

00:57:13.580 So it all starts with knowledge.

00:57:15.160 And that's what we try and do.

00:57:17.760 Amazing.

00:57:18.160 Thank you so much for hanging out with me for the hour, guys.

00:57:21.400 I will see you next Tuesday.

00:57:23.780 Same bad time, same bad station.

00:57:25.640 Have a great night.

00:57:26.980 Dismissed.

Unlearn16: Class is in Session - January 31, 2023

The One Where The 'Politics Girl' Write a Democratic 'Short Letter'

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