Man your mum was a TOTAL genius. Buying a bumper sticker for her car. Wow. Blows me away. What a beacon of brilliance, shining at the centre of this umbra of ignorance. Oh how I wept when I read this, regarding your mother, who was a teacher, that had a bumper sticker. Oh my word. I bet she sooooOooooOoOoooOOOOOOooo much smarter than those STOOOPID uneducated Republicans. I bet she was basically Einstein. Was your mother LITERALLY a female Einstein? Hmmm? My word, what a story. Tell me more, tell me more about your mums bumper stickers and how they: "STUCK IT TO DA MAN!"
I completely agree with ur dad and big respect to him for serving against the natsis, my great grandad fought too, big love from Canada, but I'm just imagining him having an immense Bostonian accent like "Get a load of this guy!🤨🫴🤡"
Eight years ago I thought Bernie Sanders was radical and I was glad he didn't become a candidate. When I look back now, he was the only one who saw things clearly.
In Europe Sanders would not be a radical at all. Antifa is "radical" (in a good way), and we just send one of them to the EU parliament. American politics are too right wing.
@@rororidley5829 Bernie had not "unifying solutions". He was divisive. He was also weak. He will go with whatever the democrat party goes with. He will run his mouth a lot but then vote with the democrat party.
The future of big style USA is through Donald Trump. It's what the American people get at this time and that is exciting for many in Europe and the Commonwealth countries. It is like being concerned for a dear friend who has been trying to get pregnant for a long time, and finally the moment arrives. Every parent would be grateful to have a newborn as handsome as him. Everyone can unite behind Donald just like everyone can unite behind a big mac and fries. Easy peasy. America has the best of everything-great Sam's Clubs and Walton family bunkers, efficient drive thru lines, one stop shop style amazon shopping, Whole Foods, the best Netflix series, a population that is genuinely concerned for the welfare of it own people, wonderful botox injection divorce parties, and a superior education system that offers a multitude of choices, whether attending college or leaving to attend employer-paid apprentice training to work in the robust manufacturing sector of USA, and the list goes on.
Which is why he wants to eliminate the department of education. Things deteriorated when parents were given tax dollars that were for public education to use for their childrens private and or religious school tuition. That left less resources for public education. It's going to get worse.
were we ever better? These same people were the confederacy, they did nothing to oppose Germany until they were poised for world domination, they watched Kennedy get killed and then put Nixon in office anyway then Reagan... America was never better, we were just lucky to have two very large oceans between us and world wars
@@AvaMorene I know this FA, Abby Joseph Cohen Services but only by her reputation at Goldman Sachs; even though she's now involved in managing portfolios and providing investmnt guidance to clients. I have been trying to get in contact since I watched her interview on WSJ last month
@@GustavoHart-q4s I went from no money to lnvest with to busting my A** off on Uber eats for four months to raise about $20k to start trading with Abby Joseph Cohen. I am at $128k right now and LOVING that you have to bring this up here
I went from no money to lnvest with to busting my A** off on Uber eats for four months to raise about $20k to start trading with Abby Joseph Cohen. I am at $128k right now and LOVING that you have to bring this up here
Aww you saw or heard that comment and you hope to use it whenever possible in an attempt to make yourself seem more informed than you are, even if you use it in a context where it doesn't really apply
Or perhaps you, as Europeans, are looking through a fogged window and saying you see everything. I often see Europeans point out how ignorant Americans are of Europe, but in my experience, that is equally true the other way around.
The problem is: America was sanitized against the effects of fascism during WW2. It's just a casual word to most Americans, not a real life and DEATH story of starvation, gassing and having your skin turned into lampshades.
and saved and rebuild by the americans. quiet thankful as a german who lived a good life here in a country reconstructed by this big idea "democracy". what a turnaround
The one thing that stands out about Europe's politics to me in this regard is that the parliamentary system that is so common in the continent allows for a swift recall of a politician's power, through votes of no confidence and snap elections. I truly wish there were more Democratic senators in the US, so that the option would be available to impeach Presidents and Supreme Court justices and others, as the Constitution's framers clearly envisioned at least in some instances. Instead, there is impunity at the federal level, and nobody has ever really been impeached or censured on the federal level in any consequential way. The only way to get there is by electing left-leaning senators in rural areas, which seems near impossible in the US at the moment.
There is willful ignorance. Fox News has relentlessly attacked all the other Networks, ABC, NBC and CBS. So their followers won't tune in ever. Fox has successfully discredited the other networks.
That would have to be the most educated dumb thing ever written in the history of the world. There are more educated dumb people that actually uneducated dumb people. The thing with education is it comes from history. It comes from what people have learnt before you. The left destroys history so how does education fit in with the destroy history logic. Caroline you are dumb one and ignorant.
@@mr.saturn7833 If it's not lefty bullshit it's not education in their eyes. You see brainwashing is what they class as education on the left. You know boys can be girl's men are better at being women than women bull.
More than simply greed, it's a culture and a system which allow for individuals and private interests to amass limitless wealth and power. Everyone knows, as obvious as anything, that money is power. So why do we allow power to centralize into a wealthy elite? Billionaires should not exist. The wealthiest person in the country should never be more than 10 times wealthier than the poorest person. This is the only way for us to all grow wealthier, together.
The problem is, people in the USA don't know what socialism is - they have been taught a knee-jerk rejection of the term and have been convinced it's bad and scary, yet what they describe wanting _is_ socialism - healthcare, fair laws that protect workers, a fair shot, for corporates to be held to account, safety. They've been taught to vote against their own interests, because the democrats themselves aren't, for the most part, a socialist party either and both sides benefit from the same capitalism that helps their wealthy donors. Unfortunately, the US education system is deliberately bad and the US people are deliberately taught to pride ignorance of other cultures (and how they often have better systems) as patriotism.
The future of big style USA is through Donald Trump. It's what the American people get at this time and that is exciting for many in Europe and the Commonwealth countries. It is like being concerned for a dear friend who has been trying to get pregnant for a long time, and finally the moment arrives. Every parent would be grateful to have a newborn as handsome as him. Everyone can unite behind Donald just like everyone can unite behind a big mac and fries. Easy peasy. America has the best of everything-great Sam's Clubs and Walton family bunkers, efficient drive thru lines, one stop shop style amazon shopping, Whole Foods, the best Netflix series, a population that is genuinely concerned for the welfare of it own people, wonderful botox injection divorce parties, and a superior education system that offers a multitude of choices, whether attending college or leaving to attend employer-paid apprentice training to work in the robust manufacturing sector of USA, and the list goes on.
I've been to Europe several times and their ability to speak multiple languages and grasp of American politics is 1000x better than us. To be fair it's their close proximity to other countries whereas we are one huge continent here. Those of us who grew up bilingual with our grandparents language are lucky.
I spotted it when he was on the golf channel and he was asked if he is going to run for president, decades ago. Knew he was a crook when I first saw him on TV in the 70's. He was a despised New York socialite trying to get into the cool crowd.
If you read into the raise of Hitler especially with the economy and lack of education. You will understand why people are naïvely like this but it’s hard to deal with since we are surrounded by them and they are getting more angry but at the wrong group of people just like the Jews,
I agree! Biden should have held weekly or day press talking directly through main stream media the opposite of Trumps lie, and also immediately all the Democrats doing the same! In repetition, that’s what Trump did continuously with no opposition to his Babble!
That is literally in Hitler's playbook. It's science. Repeat things so many times people start to lose connection to what IS, so it's easily replaced with the LIE. It's like the Mandela Effect. If you get enough people misremembering, it spreads like a plague infecting everyone with the false reality.
It's the same routine as Reagan and W. Out of control autocracy, out of touch president. The populist routine deflects accountability, he's clearly not capable enough to be responsible. Part of the problem is we're not grappling with how deep this problem goes, and how long it's been growing. (Since Nixon, approval of critical democratic institutions has been in recession.)
People who vote for Trump Don't Vote based on what Trump will do for them ,They Vote for Trump based on what Trump will do to people who they dont like.
Once the immigrants are deported Magas will have lots of brown jobs to choose from. Agriculture, tree removal service, restaurant cooks, construction, sanitation, CNAs, housekeeping, security services, store clerks from Macys to Dollar Tree, supermarket cashiers, church staff, hospital environmental and maintenance staff. Unemempliyed Magas can apply
They also remove themselves from responsibility, "daddy trump will take care of it all plus make sure that the people I think are bad, are punished ". It's like they're children wanting a strict , controlling parent to make all of the hard decisions for them. Crazy .
When Trump went full Hitler during the last few weeks of his campaign I said he was preparing the world and he would say I showed you exactly who I was and you still voted for me. The problem is people treated it like a normal election and voted on issues instead of trying to stop Trump.
Exactly! All the people that were for healthy food regulations and anti vac went full RFK Jr. They basically gave up our whole system of government to a dictator. They could have voted for their issues of concern… now I fear we might never have a vote period.
The problem with this conversation is that it’s a feedback loop. People want good healthcare this is true but then you don’t vote for people who make that a priority like Bernie Sanders. People want higher wages but vote against unions. People want better work conditions and vote against regulation. People want to be able to afford their rent but vote against the politicians who want to go after corporate investment and algorithmic monopolies. They want lower groceries but voted for the person who immediately wants tariffs. Things were too expensive for sure but people ignored that inflation was coming down in favor of his age. We cannot fix a problem if we can’t properly identify it. The issue isn’t that politicians don’t brand well, it’s that the populace doesn’t educate itself. The bottom line is we are stupid.
I hate to agree with you, but I do. I live among MAGA-types. For all their lives, they have been anti-intellectual. Now, they are proud of being ignorant. Militant about it! We are doomed if we can't turn that around.
I think this oversimplifies it. In the US you don't have a democratic system that allows people to vote to express these preferences any longer. That's why you get odd voting preferences where people vote for both Trump and AOC at the same time. It's because it's not possible to vote for any party that delivers these things. Basically you need preferential voting, and some form of proportional voting (at state level first probably), to allow third and minor parties to fix these issues.
@ I do agree with preferential voting and maybe proportional voting. Rank choice seems to do well. I do not however agree with the idea that third parties alone can fix this situation. Better voting would allow us to pick out specific issues individuals so that’s certainly a positive but some alternative candidates are just as bad as the establishment. I also don’t subscribe to the belief that every single democrat it Republican is bad or that none of them know how to govern. Which brings my argument right back to the stupidity of voters, because we never choose the candidates that will benefit us. Neither do we grasp that change is marginal. The idea that we will trample over an entire candidate because of a single issue regardless of the other things they want to do is also ridiculous. For example Bernie sanders has a lot of pretty good ideas but the issues people don’t like is that he is a socialist or Jewish. Or Buttigieg being gay. There were even discussions with Romney was running for president on him being Mormon. stupidity made it one. These things should have never been a factor, stupidity is to blame for that.
Trump is a byproduct of democrats corruption, elitism, and ignoring working class people, among other issues. Very frustrating people won’t acknowledge this. Are they still better in some ways? Of course, but a lot of people are OVER it, democrats have a higher expectation because they’re supposed to be better, many expected democrats to listen and they refused. Trump constantly proclaims to be against “the system” “elites” “drain the swamp”, the people just want to feel heard, doesn’t matter he’s lying through his teeth, they’re willing to take that chance. Sigh. Fools. :( The dem party helped create this monster and it sucks because people think I’m just trying to obstruct progress, quit the opposite, THEY are because they know we’re trapped. Have to choose between status quo that benefits the rich and full blown authoritarians.
@@Chloe-nh6oj Sorry, but I must disagree with you. Trump is going to stuff his pockets and also the pockets of the big spenders who support him. He is and has always been a fake billionair. And if you believe anything he says, than you are a foolish missinformed person.
*To try it....???? Of course he would!!! Either that, or prepare to go to jail as soon as his jail-exempted job is over!!! WHAT A EFFING MESS AMERICAN POLITICS HAVE BECOME!!!*
@@katshades he’s been testing the waters, seeing what he can get away with and getting progressively worse. Now that he has some allies, no guard rails and a bunch of billionaires in charge this time around there are less and less things standing in his way. That’s what the warnings were about. He couldn’t just do it immediately. He now has and Elon running round who wasn’t even elected influencing congress to take funding from 9/11 first responders and research for kids with cancer and wants to put Medicare on the chopping block. He wants to take Greenland and the Panama Canal for F sake. And he’s needlessly threatening our allies. These billionaires do not care about us!
@@katshadeshow about an armed insurrection?? How about removing women’s rights to reproductive freedom? How about kids in cages? Family separation? Just sayin’ …
He IS disqualified An erroneous SCOTUS dictum is not law, the constitution is. Anyone who swears trymp in becomes guilty of aiding an insurectionist traitor as well… by running him, constitutionlly the entire republican party is now legally not allowed to participate in politics!
@mobilegamersunite - this is a delusional take! If he does that i will come back to this comment and apologize, but please man thats just silly to say, especially after he has already been president once.
@jeromycertain7698 delusional take?!? You support the guy that said we should use hand sanitizer injections 💉 to fight covid...thats your guy, says a lot about you.
How in the world we had enough people to elect him is mind boggling!!! The amount of warnings, many, many of them coming from his very own, hand-picked employees, is a first in all of American history.
Nobody took Adolf hitler seriously in the beginning either and they had to pay a high price for that so it is really wise to take Donald Trump seriously when he talks about immigration and other issues in a way that can be seen as dictatorial rhetoric the most dangerous thing USA can do is to underestimate Donald Trump and those people around him like Steve miller
I'd argue that the main difference between Trump and A.H. is though that the latter was driven by idoelogy. He truly believed that the people he hated needed to be destroyed. Trump on the other hand, as is becoming increasingly obvious, is only driven by lining his pockets and staying out of jail. He parroted MAGA talking points because he knew it would get him into office and keep him rich & important. So in short I absolutely do agree that Trump will try to establish an autocracy where he'll never have to worry about the judiciary system again, but other than A.H. he himself doesn't have much interest in doing anything about immigration other than what is needed to make him look good.
@@Myrslokstok this is not revolutionary it’s seems to be the same fascist ideology thinking as in the thirties and forties only adapted to today’s new situation
It is the "woman" part not the black part. Obama had huge support. Also, many black men refused to vote for Kamala because she is a woman. Polls going back to 2016 showed that over 15% of people would not vote for a woman under any circu,stance, but only 4% wouldn't vote for a black man.
@@Athena752-r6h Bingo, we have a Bingo ! I didn't think our society had so many small minded people. It's tragic & sad, that they would vote for such a subhuman creature, who could care less about their best interests & yet even now many of them still believe his lies. It's sad that our whole country, must now suffer, because of their hate, misogyny, ignorance, racism & ideological premises. 😮
I've dealt with these red hats and the trauma they cause. They drive around our community with those big american flags waving from the back of their cars while shouting USA and it's absolutely terrifying to witness.
@Justin88800 you don't get it. They aren't waving the flag with pride. They are waving it with aggression. They are saying, "maga won and we are America now." Also, maga flag waving is not saying "we are americans." It says "America is maga." Nationalism (fascism) is scary to witness. Check out nazi Germany and the swastika.
@@Justin88800Just driving around a neighbourhood shouting in a threatening manner with arrogance is menacing. Waving a flag may just be a yay fourth July type of thing, or it can be a yeah, bitch, 6 January style. There are vast differences. Now maybe your question was innocent, or maybe you’re a magat yourself and relishing the fear you lot are causing the non-magat population. Poking fun at them, as it were.
Did you see the carnage on Jan.6?! I can’t even look at my country’s flag anymore because of these rotten thugs who believed themselves to be “patriots”. These misguided maniacs are anything but!!
I met Donald Trump back in 1968 at the mutual age of 21 and studied him very closely for five straight months. Like the once Bavarian Corporal, he is a clueless Cosmic "mark" sleepwalking to mind bending total catastrophe after High Noon on 01/20/25. God help us!
And he is now preparing his Night of the Long Knives. Like the Bavarian corporal did after he had secured the support of oligarch Krupp (Musk) he disbanded the SA: the working class storm troopers (Maga), who helped voting him into power the year before.
@@ricardocabeza6006 In all fairness, I think David's brilliant ability to cross analyse and usually come up with the most logical explanation concerning his topic may, at times, seem to make him sound arrogant when in fact he's just well read.
@@edharbas4828 But he doesn't come up with the most logical explanation. He comes up with the explanation he knows you want to hear so you will keep clicking on his videos generating income.
And also, Homer Simpson, while being extremely stupid, is always shown to have many redeeming qualities, of which Mc Donald Trump has not a single one.
America needs to put more money into its education system not less, they need to encourage book reading not banning books. Without critical thinking and independent research so one can make an intelligent choice, one needs to be well educated and the US is going in the opposite direction with this government.
but the system is working as designed. and if our only options inside the system are keeping it this way, then the path to systemic change is outside the system
You don’t seem to understand: educated people don’t make the big corporations money. We all know it’s necessary, but as long as corporations are profiting, the government won’t give a shit
@bonnierobinson9993 I agree 100%, but i think education needs to be in "local" control. City, county, and state level. I just dont think the federal government should be in control. Our government cant do anything very efficiently excpet maybe the military and based upon the spending thats questionable.
@@jeromycertain7698 red states typically tend to be cheaper, but as a consequence have worse schools than blue states. Bringing the issue back to the states only exacerbates that issue. Greater centralization ensures equal opportunity for all US citizens, regardless of whether their state is red or blue Edit: and if you think the government can’t do anything efficiently, maybe you should elect the officials who will actually do something about it rather than the half-assed solution of just taking it out of their control. That way, the problem actually gets solved rather than a bandaid being put on it in hopes that it doesn’t get exposed again
Not so much ignorance as cowardice.These lousy Republicans just collapsed and went lock,stock,and barrel for this profligate amoral mutt knowing what a threat to my country he is.
Wow, David found another liberal that will call Trump a fascist. This is some ground breaking stuff from David. You must be really impressed with his name calling abilities. LMAO
Expert? Canada is chock full of marxist academics, and that's why Canada is on the brink of societal and economic collapse. Pakman always likes to put stock in these fringe people...because he's part of the fringe himself! Hey! What does that make you?
@@annienigro4624 we should ask him. I worked in a deep red southern state many years ago and everyone thought I was from Michigan. So unless we're trained linguists it's really hard to tell for sure. Update, yes you're correct, he was born in the USA but holds dual citizenship and obviously lives in Canada.
When the Democrats try to address the concerns of every day people, the GOP fights them tooth and nail to be sure that they fail in order to regain/maintain power. It is frustrating that ordinary people can not see that.
Exactly! Look, both parties cater to corporate America. However, Dems do attempt to pass bills that would actually help us and Reps always shoot it down and only vote it through after it's been soooo watered down. Look at Build Back Better for instance that the Biden admin tried and tried to get through! Got watered down until it became the Inflation Reduction Act instead, it did pull us out of the recession nightmare from Trump's first term but still wasn't what it could've been.
While that is partly true, since Clinton, the Dems have run against the messes that the Republicans made, but when they win, doing little to reverse them. For example, grocery prices were up in the last few years. Yet Biden never reversed the Trump tariffs! Obama won the presidency in part because of the 2008 downturn. Yes, he and Bernanke did a lot to prevent the next Great Depression. But not a single banker saw any legal consequences for destroying the world's economy, and pretty much all the sacrifices were made by labor. Pelosi announced that "the US is a center-right country", and did everything she could to kneecap any representative who proposed popular policies that ran counter to that narrative. And let's not forget it was Clinton who deregulated Wall Street and signed the criminal laws going after so-called "urban super-predators". Ever since Clinton, the party leaders have essentially told the left--and even the left-leaning moderate Black voters that are their base: "yes, we ran on fixing this, but that's not reality. So sit down; the adults are talking". That's a really terrible way to treat your base. So yes, the Dems have been penalized at times for going left, but a lot of that comes from their bedrock insistence that tiny little tweaks are the best they can do, and anything more is juvenile nonsense.
Maybe because the dems have been absolute shit regarding addressing "the concerns of every day people". Harris ran on small business loans and first-time home buyers. Wtf? I'm trying to pay rent and eat while praying I don't get sick or injured and wind up homeless.
"what we really need to ask is - what is it that's happened in the culture that makes ignorance so profound that it becomes difficult for people to address questions like this and make the obvious obvious. And that is - this is not just about Healthcare - it's about an attack on the public good, it's an attack on education, it's an attack on the critical functions of agency, it's an attack on collective struggle. These are the issues. The other stuff is just simply detritus, it's a consequence of those problems." 12:00 Brilliant. Couldn't agree more.
The dumbing down of America started in the mid 70s with calculators, then during the 90s reality TV shows, the big brother, khardashian, jersey shore housewives trash tv, over reliance on Google reference instead of brain work. Outsourcing of our IT tech support. The deterioration of the public school system with Mass exodus & retirement of qualified teachers from the 60s. The latchkey generation of the 70s who lost parental supervision because if the recession.
A perfect storm began to brew when the winds of change that blew through the 1960's died down and left confusion. The old certainties had been exposed but not overturned. The love of money filled the void and became the meaning of existence for many. For others a descent into rudderless individuality and substance fuelled hells. For others, resentment and anger, hatred and despair. The post war journey is taking us in to a reversion to the human default position of ever increasing inequalities. A state which was once believed to be the natural or God ordained order. " Rich man in his Castle, poor man at his gate. He (God) made them high and lowly, and ordered their estate" This theory allowed the rich feel comfortable with the situation and resigned the poor to be contented with their lot. This is where we are headed back to but it will be bloody on the way. The human condition dictates it.
He nailed it. Who do we blame for the collapse of sound reasoning? Are we being driven to desperation by billionaires that profit from this bad decision? We’re pawns in a racket that we don’t benefit from.
Sound reasoning...like murdering human beings in their mother's womb because like Adolf Hitler, you decided you could change what it means to be a human being? That kind of "sound reasoning" . " For the reasoning of humankind is only wicked continually" said God.
@@MittensHeart You have some of the problems right, but you assign blame to the wrong people. The Democrats want to make everyone poor and on welfare, that was the plan starting with Obama. That was the reason he started mass uncontrolled immigration, so he could depress wages and put workers on welfare, then he tripled regulations for small businesses so they had to go out of business and on welfare. Guess what happens when most of the people are on welfare? They are forced to keep voting for the party that will guarantee their welfare,...and you have the makings of a one -party state. That was Obama's plan...what amazes me is that Democrat supporters are so stupid that they can't see it coming. The election of Donald Trump saved you...for now.
Like what Chomsky once said he was am not concerned with Regan he was concerned with the people Ronald surrounded himself with. There are lots of bad hombres in Trump's orbit with their own agendas and a majority of their plans do not benefit the majority of the US population
Citing nicki haley is like citing Charles Manson for warning about climate change. Both people are technically correct in their statements but they're also both people corrupted people n not a good look for using as a spokesperson.
…and then she turned around and supported him…That type of people are as despicable as he is, so let’s stop citing them as some sort of fountains of wisdom.
Roosevelt was actually called a fellow Fascist by a real fascist with the name Mussolini. If you want to start then start there with the man that invented the ideology. He certainly met the actual definition by encouraging class cooperation while elevating the state above other classes as the mediator with the final say. I will say I don’t view it as a dirty word as the current Chinese economic system (post Deng reforms) is a fascist model which has elevated billions out of poverty
Exactly. The EC makes that impossible due to the fact a winner has to get at least 270. If no one gets 270, then the House gets to decide who the President is.
Your side lost an election. Get over it. Your ideology is part of the minority. Only in America do you see this much boo-hooing over a stupid election. Instead of pointing your finger at the majority and calling them ignorant, you need to look at yourself and how easily emotionally manipulated you are.
Got a bad bad theory that the gop invents trickle down as a public stunt which when they project it really means; don't worry, whatever you say will trickle through think tanks and pundits and be curated that way, just be there as our statue.
Why?...trickle down worked when Reagan did it. OK...if you were a useless bum waiting for the government to pay your way through life , then trickle down didn't work for you, because it only benefitted people who wanted to help themselves.
@@Therecanbeonly123 I mean, they're already there, looking for someone to dictate to them what's true, or at least what moral is, all the while not tracking who's actually being arrested for pedophilia (yes, it's clergy).
Churches are such a Huge Indoctrination Network where Preachers receive Training on How to Preach Republican Politics from the Pulpit. See: Katherine Stewart who's been on FFRF Freedom From Religion Fdn. YTube.
Whether or not Trump can accomplish his Fascistic policies, his stated goals, most of which rely on the complete abdication of Constitutional law, should alone disqualify him from office forever. The man is the world's worst nightmare. Giroux seems brilliant, by the way.
@@egwthe1you want to be in a resistance I wish you the best. Really I’m pulling for you and all the rest. Hard pass for me though. I’m checking out and going into a bubble. Ignorance is bliss is my new motto.
As a Canadian really enjoyed Prof Giroux's take on current insanities. I have been depending on US experts like Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Fiona Hill, etc for my fast track, get up to speed on motivations of gullible uneducated people to follow Fascism/Dictator playbooks. I grew up near McMaster, a great University. I have friends who grew up during WW2 behind Iron Curtain, they say MAGA voters have no idea what they just voted for. I was in one of those countries in early 1970s, it was an eye opener as a teenager who had been in many western Europe counties previously. Thx David for all you do. We have very few people in Canada like you and your compatriots explaining what is going on. We are seeing the dangerous playbook flow up here like a tsunami these days.
The amount of young people that grew up in countries formerly beyond the Iron Curtain and that will throw away democracy for a perceived strongman is also mind boggling. I blame it on the failure of the educational system and on the power of trends set up in the USA. We want it or not, the US is a powerful trendsetter, influencing the rest of the world.😢
There are gullible people everywhere, subject to manipulation. Furthermore, racism, xenophobia, poverty and greed can easily be harnessed to bring populists to power, this is also same everywhere. That also US has descended so low is quite sad.
Drat! Those nettling ignorant Trump voters! That's why Harris pandered to the wise 18-24 scholars who live w/their parents and align with visionaries such as Cardi B!
PLEASE have him back on the show. I liked the first half, loved the second half and Dr. Giroux is just getting started. An unexpected surprise this morning! Thank you 😊
90% of MAGA that voted 🗳 for DUMP will regret it for the rest of their lives 🙄 not only will it effect them but it could effect there children and grandchildren
They wont regret it. Once they're done with trans people, immigrants and liberal elite, and if their lives have not improved, they'll find new scapegoats. Gays, jews, lefties, black people are next. You don't seriously think a MAGA cultist would ever say: "Hey wait a minute.."? 😂
Once MAGA are done with their current scapegoats, and if their lives haven't improved (and they wont), Trump will just direct them to new scapegoats. There wont be any regret or reflection.
Imagine if all that energy you waste with your hatred for Trump, was used for your own personal growth. Perhaps you should just focus on yourself for four years.
You're literally ŕètarťed. He's explicitly said he's going to make government smaller, that means more freedom. The exact opposite of what you people want to do.
My trumper relatives believe trump cares about America, his brusqueness attributed to him being a New Yorker . They refuse to believe anything negative about him as they are all false allegations . They refuse to see what we see , or they just don't care , or, it's just about owning the libs and they're certainly OK with that. And some "like" trump because they are "like" trump. And there it is . Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas . God bless America, we're gonna need it.
@@leifanderson3487 There's nothing weird about a Democrat prosecutor in a Democrat state prosecuting the opposing candidate during an election year... Right? No way that could be politically motivated... Right? LMAO
The future of big style USA is through Donald Trump. It's what the American people get at this time and that is exciting for many in Europe and the Commonwealth countries. It is like being concerned for a dear friend who has been trying to get pregnant for a long time, and finally the moment arrives. Every parent would be grateful to have a newborn as handsome as him. Everyone can unite behind Donald just like everyone can unite behind a big mac and fries. Easy peasy. America has the best of everything-great Sam's Clubs and Walton family bunkers, efficient drive thru lines, one stop shop style amazon shopping, Whole Foods, the best Netflix series, a population that is genuinely concerned for the welfare of it own people, wonderful botox injection divorce parties, and a superior education system that offers a multitude of choices, whether attending college or leaving to attend employer-paid apprentice training to work in the robust manufacturing sector of USA, and the list goes on.
Yeah, he attracted a lot of trolls after getting all pouty on Piers Morgan after the election. It also didn't help that he panicked over losing 10k subs while allegedly having 2 million subs. That makes it pretty obvious the majority of David's subs are bot accounts that David pays to subscribe to him to inflate his numbers. Or it could have been how he completely misled his audience with inaccurate information to believe Harris would win the election. But I guess these are the things you want David to keep doing...
I've been reading a lot about this QFS thing but I don't fully understand how that fits in with NESARA/GESARA.. It sounds like they're saying it's going to replace the current financial system. Does anyone else know what's really going on?
The QFS is designed to replace the old system with something more stable, efficient, and equitable. We're looking at a global shift, where digital assets, backed by tangible value, will support the new financial order😊😊😊😊
Please I am really interested in switching to the QFS. Can anyone please help me out. been looking for a way over 2 years now. I do not trust the banks anymore
Sure quantumdave, I have moved major of my assets into the QFS, I just have enough cash to sustain me for a very long time, I don't want to be a victim of the GCR
The current fight between Elon and MAGAs is actually very important as it will *hinder Project 2025.* As well as attempts to install and assist right-wing governments elsewhere, such as in Europe. Elon has been such a vital asset for the far right worldwide, that having a falling out between him and the more virulent rascist is a disaster for the propagation of the far right, and thereby authoritarianism. And as for Project 2025, that requires unity with nearly every elected federal Republican politician marching, or _goosestepping,_ in lockstep, in order to succeed with their power grab. They have such a small margin of control in the Legislature that they can't afford any GOP politicians feeling conflicted with the Base. Democracy might well be saved because of the fragile egos of a pair of narcissists who can't stick to the plan..
@@casbot71 I don't know that Musk is an important driver of that particular plan. He would certainly benefit from parts of it, but I don't think he particularly cares about the religious zealotry that underlies large parts of it. You can look to the Federalist society, the Supreme Court and right wing evangelical and Catholic "Christian nationalists" for the force behind those scary ideas. But of course the billionaires who underwrite them want their piece of the pie. And unlike Musk they are smart enough to stay out of the public eye. And are all the more dangerous because of it.
@marlenesmall5527 The disunity within MAGA and the civil war Elon's causing will get in the way of Project 2025. Already, Elon's debt limit stunt has blown up the illusion of Trump having control over Republican Congresscritters. And by Trump unnecessarily stepping in and picking to side with Elon in this current spate, it's going to further hurt Trumps political capital. Trump needs a lot of political capital and influence to get everyone to fall in line and support the various pieces of legislation necessary for the plan (such as for the reclassification of federal employees). It's not that Elon was necessary for the plan, although control of Twitter would be useful to it. It's that Elon is throwing bombs around inside the tent. And that is a real hindrance to everything. Now, a distraction is useful when doing nefarious deeds, but this is a distraction for the ones trying to carry out the nefarious deeds. Where Elon is vital, however, is in helping spread far right authoritarianism to other Western countries. Twitter is used to amplify the messaging and spread rightwing disinformation, and so on. Then Elon's pocketbook is an incredibly powerful tool in smaller countries, where a hundred million dollar donation is more than all the major political parties combined normally spend on an election campaign.
Because he got majorities everywhere. Every county in 95%+ of voting places moved to the right. He is EXACTLY what this country wants. They voted for fascism, knowing full-well who and what he is.
Bernie has been fighting this stuff for decades but unfortunately the Democrats decided to ignore these problems until it was too late. And these career politicians decided not to push forward with AOC, instead defaulting to their typical Democrat to run the show at the DNC. There are people trying to fight, but many of them are getting snuffed out by household Democrats. The Democratic Party needs an upheaval right now and needs to start working on becoming an actual leftist party again. Instead they are gearing towards the same old appeasement of Republicans and remain on the center-right.
Just because the income-dependent, and now targeted press isn't covering it doesn't mean it's not happening. It's very likely that most of the resistance going on is at the local and state levels. Look there.
Hillary got screwed over too. Seems to be what happens. You think Bernie got treated worse? The idea Bernie was a savior doesn't work. The whole bird on the podium was stupid. I really like and respect bernie.
@maryhobbs4183 seems to be a theme. I definitely don't think he was the savior or necessarily agree with him on e everything. However, he was a leftist populist and he appealed to the same kind of people swayed by Trump's feaux Populism. Heck, even Rogan was on board with Bernie. It was obvious the corporate dem funders were threatened by him and thus we ended up with your typical "more of the same"candidate that the a large swathe of average voters were tired of seeing and railing against.
12:00 i think personally growing up in the 2000s we didnt have alot of vocal rolemodels, musicians for example, since Dixie Chicks and Sinead O'Connor were effectively wiped off the face of the earth for protesting injustices, it became standard for actors and musicians with any sort of fanbase (and a PR Team) to never speak on politics with any degree of substance. Consequently those very progressive ideals held by the majority of celebrities and by extention their fans in the 90s and mid-late 80s got quieter and quieter. We didnt any longer have Nirvana-tier bands proudly declaring their music wasnt for Misogynists or Racists, or mainstream groups like Rage Against The Machine promoting militant democratic views, or rappers like Public Enemy and NWA speaking out directly against police corruption and the prison industrial complex. Young teens learn through osmosis, they take on the beliefs of their idols, the only prominent figures who actually had beliefs proudly and loudly displayed in the last 10 years were right wing conspiracy theorists and violent misigynists, so now most teenage boys are referring to women and girls as "Females" and complaining about the "woke agenda" because theres literally no one else in the media to latch onto who is conventionally 'cool' and isnt shit scared to show their political beliefs because itll get them barred from mentions on fox news and they might lose some fans. Monetary incentives and opportunity have out-weighed morals in the modern age.
Why are people doubting TFG? He has NEVER suffered a consequence for his actions, not held accountable by people who could have prevented all this and Amerikkkans were so gullible that they think he's all THAT. I didn't vote for him yet here we are.
True. Fox News is the most anti-USA, disruptive entity in America. It’s as if it’s a foreign mouthpiece to bring down the country … it’s not, but it sure seems like it.
Impeach on general principles? He was impeached each time on clear violations. Nancy Pelosi blocked impeachment until there was an overt act. We need to do the same. And work on the midterms.
@Dewydidit Not sure about that.... The amount of disinformation being spread through social media has reached unprecedented level, even politicians are getting in on it, and with the rise of AI, it’s only going to escalate in the coming years. Social media has become a powerful tool for far-right hate groups to expand their reach rapidly and organize real-world chaos more effectively than ever before
it was underestimated as a brainwashing tool, and MAGA has utilized it to the max. I used to think it would be a defence against propaganda, but it has become a source instead
This is one fantastic interview. Those who actually know what democracy is and want Americans to live in a democracy had better get going… There is so little time and so much work to be done in saving our country. There’s no time to be complacent. New approaches are needed. New answers are needed. We have to outshine the anti-democracy front in every way possible… in ways that even Trumpists can understand. This shouldn’t be so difficult. We are already on higher ground.
Thank you for bringing Dr. Giroux on board for this segment, David. One of the last lights of learning in this new age of obscurantism. May he continue to grow in wisdom and courage.
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It's already a fascism or United Healthcare wouldn't be able to exist. They wouldn't be able to fund political campaigns
My mother was a teacher... she had a bumper-sticker that said, "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance..."
Man your mum was a TOTAL genius. Buying a bumper sticker for her car. Wow. Blows me away. What a beacon of brilliance, shining at the centre of this umbra of ignorance. Oh how I wept when I read this, regarding your mother, who was a teacher, that had a bumper sticker. Oh my word. I bet she sooooOooooOoOoooOOOOOOooo much smarter than those STOOOPID uneducated Republicans. I bet she was basically Einstein. Was your mother LITERALLY a female Einstein? Hmmm? My word, what a story. Tell me more, tell me more about your mums bumper stickers and how they: "STUCK IT TO DA MAN!"
Hate, anger, and stupidity won this election and America has a surplus of all three.
@@gheiberg59 very true as well as accurate! Makes me somewhat sad.
But also ignorance is bliss?
I rather be dumb. I don’t have to put in the extra work of thinking. Laziness is my bread and butter. *mind goes numb and begins to drool*
This is what my late father, a WW2 vet, said when he saw Trump on the TV back some ten years ago: "This guy thinks he's Hitler or Mussolini!"
My Dad said the same thing. He was a lifelong Republican but detested Trump.
A wonderful WW2 vet said to me regarding his generation, "when we are gone, things will change". Here we are.
Your dad never gave a close look to America. Trump is just part of it.
@@alomaalber6514Unfortunately, he couldn’t be more right.
I completely agree with ur dad and big respect to him for serving against the natsis, my great grandad fought too, big love from Canada, but I'm just imagining him having an immense Bostonian accent like "Get a load of this guy!🤨🫴🤡"
Money in politics was the complete and total downfall of ALL politicians. Duh.
Citizens United was the most dumbass Supreme Court ruling of all time
How many Americans do you think don't even know about Citizens United!!
@@ronbensen3964 A decent amount know.
Money in politics?! Didn’t the Harris campaign blow over a billion dollars?
@@ronbensen3964I’ve been screaming we need to make citizens United as ubiquitous in American social dialogue as woke, crt, etc
Eight years ago I thought Bernie Sanders was radical and I was glad he didn't become a candidate. When I look back now, he was the only one who saw things clearly.
In Europe Sanders would not be a radical at all. Antifa is "radical" (in a good way), and we just send one of them to the EU parliament. American politics are too right wing.
@@JessicaDainese Bernie has no spine. He is weak.
Bernie was the only one speaking to the same pain in people that Trump tapped into, but with unifying solutions.
@@rororidley5829 Bernie had not "unifying solutions". He was divisive. He was also weak. He will go with whatever the democrat party goes with. He will run his mouth a lot but then vote with the democrat party.
The future of big style USA is through Donald Trump. It's what the American people get at this time and that is exciting for many in Europe and the Commonwealth countries. It is like being concerned for a dear friend who has been trying to get pregnant for a long time, and finally the moment arrives. Every parent would be grateful to have a newborn as handsome as him. Everyone can unite behind Donald just like everyone can unite behind a big mac and fries. Easy peasy. America has the best of everything-great Sam's Clubs and Walton family bunkers, efficient drive thru lines, one stop shop style amazon shopping, Whole Foods, the best Netflix series, a population that is genuinely concerned for the welfare of it own people, wonderful botox injection divorce parties, and a superior education system that offers a multitude of choices, whether attending college or leaving to attend employer-paid apprentice training to work in the robust manufacturing sector of USA, and the list goes on.
Democracy is only as strong as the education system that surrounds it. - Socrates
Thank you! My sentiment exactly.
Which is why he wants to eliminate the department of education. Things deteriorated when parents were given tax dollars that were for public education to use for their childrens private and or religious school tuition. That left less resources for public education. It's going to get worse.
Democracy is dead. Money is in total control. And a Bernie Sanders type will never be allowed to arise again.
The situation requires re vo lu ti on.
Yeah see how shitty the public education in America and you why we are in this situation
In that case...... America is FUKT.
How far America has fallen. I'm sad to see it in my lifetime.
Me too. I was born right after WWII when we were so proud, now not so much with Trump.
@@mr.saturn7833
Yeah - They said that last time!
You right!! Biden and Harris destroyed this country!! Don't worry, Trump will fix it all!!!
were we ever better? These same people were the confederacy, they did nothing to oppose Germany until they were poised for world domination, they watched Kennedy get killed and then put Nixon in office anyway then Reagan... America was never better, we were just lucky to have two very large oceans between us and world wars
Talk to us how it has been after the next 4 years.
You can't be more unAmerican than Trump.
As an American. It is my RIGHT to proudly suckle on a government teat. And Trump is my way.
You mean democrats.
@@AvaMorene I know this FA, Abby Joseph Cohen Services but only by her reputation at Goldman Sachs; even though she's now involved in managing portfolios and providing investmnt guidance to clients. I have been trying to get in contact since I watched her interview on WSJ last month
@@GustavoHart-q4s I went from no money to lnvest with to busting my A** off on Uber eats for four months to raise about $20k to start trading with Abby Joseph Cohen. I am at $128k right now and LOVING that you have to bring this up here
I went from no money to lnvest with to busting my A** off on Uber eats for four months to raise about $20k to start trading with Abby Joseph Cohen. I am at $128k right now and LOVING that you have to bring this up here
When someone tells you EXACTLY who they are, LISTEN.
Listening and actually hearing what is said seems pretty rare
Aww you saw or heard that comment and you hope to use it whenever possible in an attempt to make yourself seem more informed than you are, even if you use it in a context where it doesn't really apply
Perhaps we, as Europeans, can see Trump as facist clearer having had the place destroyed by it.
Or perhaps you, as Europeans, are looking through a fogged window and saying you see everything.
I often see Europeans point out how ignorant Americans are of Europe, but in my experience, that is equally true the other way around.
The problem is:
America was sanitized against the effects of fascism during WW2.
It's just a casual word to most Americans, not a real life and DEATH story of starvation, gassing and having your skin turned into lampshades.
and saved and rebuild by the americans. quiet thankful as a german who lived a good life here in a country reconstructed by this big idea "democracy". what a turnaround
@@kalamari3288that is an idiotic comment
The one thing that stands out about Europe's politics to me in this regard is that the parliamentary system that is so common in the continent allows for a swift recall of a politician's power, through votes of no confidence and snap elections. I truly wish there were more Democratic senators in the US, so that the option would be available to impeach Presidents and Supreme Court justices and others, as the Constitution's framers clearly envisioned at least in some instances. Instead, there is impunity at the federal level, and nobody has ever really been impeached or censured on the federal level in any consequential way. The only way to get there is by electing left-leaning senators in rural areas, which seems near impossible in the US at the moment.
As I’ve said for decades, take away education and ignorance is the only outcome.
There is willful ignorance. Fox News has relentlessly attacked all the other Networks, ABC, NBC and CBS. So their followers won't tune in ever. Fox has successfully discredited the other networks.
How do you take away education? There’s access to knowledge just about everywhere in our society.
Mr.Pluto, please don’t be willfully ignorant.
That would have to be the most educated dumb thing ever written in the history of the world. There are more educated dumb people that actually uneducated dumb people. The thing with education is it comes from history. It comes from what people have learnt before you. The left destroys history so how does education fit in with the destroy history logic. Caroline you are dumb one and ignorant.
@@mr.saturn7833 If it's not lefty bullshit it's not education in their eyes. You see brainwashing is what they class as education on the left. You know boys can be girl's men are better at being women than women bull.
Greed, it's always been greed that destroys civilizations.
Greed is often a symptom of the obsession to gain power.
More than simply greed, it's a culture and a system which allow for individuals and private interests to amass limitless wealth and power. Everyone knows, as obvious as anything, that money is power. So why do we allow power to centralize into a wealthy elite? Billionaires should not exist. The wealthiest person in the country should never be more than 10 times wealthier than the poorest person. This is the only way for us to all grow wealthier, together.
@@rampaginwalrusPlease put forward a remedy, we will be shoulder to shoulder, I'm with you all the way!
Hitler wanted more territory for the Germanic people. They had to think of themselves as superior. Like Trump.
Complacency is the equal partner of greed in this equation.
The problem is, people in the USA don't know what socialism is - they have been taught a knee-jerk rejection of the term and have been convinced it's bad and scary, yet what they describe wanting _is_ socialism - healthcare, fair laws that protect workers, a fair shot, for corporates to be held to account, safety. They've been taught to vote against their own interests, because the democrats themselves aren't, for the most part, a socialist party either and both sides benefit from the same capitalism that helps their wealthy donors. Unfortunately, the US education system is deliberately bad and the US people are deliberately taught to pride ignorance of other cultures (and how they often have better systems) as patriotism.
The future of big style USA is through Donald Trump. It's what the American people get at this time and that is exciting for many in Europe and the Commonwealth countries. It is like being concerned for a dear friend who has been trying to get pregnant for a long time, and finally the moment arrives. Every parent would be grateful to have a newborn as handsome as him. Everyone can unite behind Donald just like everyone can unite behind a big mac and fries. Easy peasy. America has the best of everything-great Sam's Clubs and Walton family bunkers, efficient drive thru lines, one stop shop style amazon shopping, Whole Foods, the best Netflix series, a population that is genuinely concerned for the welfare of it own people, wonderful botox injection divorce parties, and a superior education system that offers a multitude of choices, whether attending college or leaving to attend employer-paid apprentice training to work in the robust manufacturing sector of USA, and the list goes on.
We can thank main stream media for a lot of it! Fake News!
Well said!
Exactly 😀
I've been to Europe several times and their ability to speak multiple languages and grasp of American politics is 1000x better than us.
To be fair it's their close proximity to other countries whereas we are one huge continent here. Those of us who grew up bilingual with our grandparents language are lucky.
Every dictator in history was underestimated. Think about that! I saw who he is with his first term.
I recognized it during Obama’s first term. 🤷♂️
@@Chloe-nh6oj how does it feel to have been suckered into voting for someone that thinks you're worthless? 🫵🤣
I spotted it when he was on the golf channel and he was asked if he is going to run for president, decades ago. Knew he was a crook when I first saw him on TV in the 70's. He was a despised New York socialite trying to get into the cool crowd.
It's all Mark Burnett's fault.
@ yet all the democrat party elite kissed his ring seeking political contributions. Why is that?
It can't be ignored any longer. There is something wrong with a society where people can easily be made to believe absurdities through repetition. 🐺
Spot on basically lies 24/7
Not being called out by large corporate greed ignoring everything he said
If you read into the raise of Hitler especially with the economy and lack of education. You will understand why people are naïvely like this but it’s hard to deal with since we are surrounded by them and they are getting more angry but at the wrong group of people just like the Jews,
I agree! Biden should have held weekly or day press talking directly through main stream media the opposite of Trumps lie, and also immediately all the Democrats doing the same! In repetition, that’s what Trump did continuously with no opposition to his Babble!
It happened before and it's happening again
That is literally in Hitler's playbook. It's science. Repeat things so many times people start to lose connection to what IS, so it's easily replaced with the LIE. It's like the Mandela Effect. If you get enough people misremembering, it spreads like a plague infecting everyone with the false reality.
He had no consequences for his first presidency, why would he not try to consolidate power?
I hope I'm wrong but I'm getting a really bad feeling.
@@tom68536Take some distance from the fear mongering.
It's the same routine as Reagan and W.
Out of control autocracy, out of touch president.
The populist routine deflects accountability, he's clearly not capable enough to be responsible.
Part of the problem is we're not grappling with how deep this problem goes, and how long it's been growing. (Since Nixon, approval of critical democratic institutions has been in recession.)
@@tom68536
Yup...
Denounsiation...
Removal of the NON believers...
In the
RELIGIOS CULT
( sweden )
Acquiescence implies consent. I think trump is the tip of the festering pimple.
People who vote for Trump Don't Vote based on what Trump will do for them ,They Vote for Trump based on what Trump will do to people who they dont like.
I think the hard-core maganauts must be filled with self-loathing.
It’s all about the hate.
Once the immigrants are deported Magas will have lots of brown jobs to choose from. Agriculture, tree removal service, restaurant cooks, construction, sanitation, CNAs, housekeeping, security services, store clerks from Macys to Dollar Tree, supermarket cashiers, church staff, hospital environmental and maintenance staff. Unemempliyed Magas can apply
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They also remove themselves from responsibility, "daddy trump will take care of it all plus make sure that the people I think are bad, are punished ". It's like they're children wanting a strict , controlling parent to make all of the hard decisions for them. Crazy .
When Trump went full Hitler during the last few weeks of his campaign I said he was preparing the world and he would say I showed you exactly who I was and you still voted for me.
The problem is people treated it like a normal election and voted on issues instead of trying to stop Trump.
Exactly! All the people that were for healthy food regulations and anti vac went full RFK Jr. They basically gave up our whole system of government to a dictator.
They could have voted for their issues of concern… now I fear we might never have a vote period.
That rally at MSG was pretty blatant with their intentions.
trump had no policies that weren't racist and homophobic. Everything he said were lies!!
@@plantbasedsenior4240Yep, that was their real intentions on show and for all to see!
@@plantbasedsenior4240 Could you please elaborate on that?
The problem with this conversation is that it’s a feedback loop. People want good healthcare this is true but then you don’t vote for people who make that a priority like Bernie Sanders. People want higher wages but vote against unions. People want better work conditions and vote against regulation. People want to be able to afford their rent but vote against the politicians who want to go after corporate investment and algorithmic monopolies. They want lower groceries but voted for the person who immediately wants tariffs. Things were too expensive for sure but people ignored that inflation was coming down in favor of his age. We cannot fix a problem if we can’t properly identify it. The issue isn’t that politicians don’t brand well, it’s that the populace doesn’t educate itself. The bottom line is we are stupid.
Who profits? Trump didn't win.
100 percent!
I hate to agree with you, but I do. I live among MAGA-types. For all their lives, they have been anti-intellectual. Now, they are proud of being ignorant. Militant about it! We are doomed if we can't turn that around.
I think this oversimplifies it. In the US you don't have a democratic system that allows people to vote to express these preferences any longer. That's why you get odd voting preferences where people vote for both Trump and AOC at the same time. It's because it's not possible to vote for any party that delivers these things. Basically you need preferential voting, and some form of proportional voting (at state level first probably), to allow third and minor parties to fix these issues.
@ I do agree with preferential voting and maybe proportional voting. Rank choice seems to do well. I do not however agree with the idea that third parties alone can fix this situation. Better voting would allow us to pick out specific issues individuals so that’s certainly a positive but some alternative candidates are just as bad as the establishment. I also don’t subscribe to the belief that every single democrat it Republican is bad or that none of them know how to govern. Which brings my argument right back to the stupidity of voters, because we never choose the candidates that will benefit us. Neither do we grasp that change is marginal. The idea that we will trample over an entire candidate because of a single issue regardless of the other things they want to do is also ridiculous. For example Bernie sanders has a lot of pretty good ideas but the issues people don’t like is that he is a socialist or Jewish. Or Buttigieg being gay. There were even discussions with Romney was running for president on him being Mormon. stupidity made it one. These things should have never been a factor, stupidity is to blame for that.
I am embarrassed to be living in such a stupid country. I love America. But the level of ignorance is unbelievable.
My thoughts, also!
Ironic 😂
30 years of Republican attacks on the education system is finally bearing fruit
Not to worry Linda McMahon will be in charge of Trump's Board of Education.
The racism aspect is just as big as the ignorance aspect. Most of the MAGA cult are both.
People don't want the truth, they just want a good story. We need a party that can deliver both.
Trump is a byproduct of democrats corruption, elitism, and ignoring working class people, among other issues. Very frustrating people won’t acknowledge this. Are they still better in some ways? Of course, but a lot of people are OVER it, democrats have a higher expectation because they’re supposed to be better, many expected democrats to listen and they refused. Trump constantly proclaims to be against “the system” “elites” “drain the swamp”, the people just want to feel heard, doesn’t matter he’s lying through his teeth, they’re willing to take that chance. Sigh. Fools. :( The dem party helped create this monster and it sucks because people think I’m just trying to obstruct progress, quit the opposite, THEY are because they know we’re trapped. Have to choose between status quo that benefits the rich and full blown authoritarians.
How stupid is this country???
Extremely
Well...
Look who just got voted into office, nuff said
I, too, am amazed at how different things in this country are from my lifelong perception.
Exceptionally so… 😢
He has no redeeming qualities
He's despicable
Fortunately he will be out of office in just a few weeks. Then America will be saved by Donald Trump!
@@Chloe-nh6ojThe comments were about Trump, not Biden.
🤔😉😏😀😃
@@Chloe-nh6oj Sorry, but I must disagree with you. Trump is going to stuff his pockets and also the pockets of the big spenders who support him. He is and has always been a fake billionair. And if you believe anything he says, than you are a foolish missinformed person.
@ you need a check up if you think China Joe has redeeming qualities.
@@Chloe-nh6ojare you uneducated?
As an outside observer… I saw this coming about 25-30 years ago…
It’s been a terrifying ride.
*To try it....???? Of course he would!!! Either that, or prepare to go to jail as soon as his jail-exempted job is over!!! WHAT A EFFING MESS AMERICAN POLITICS HAVE BECOME!!!*
He won't live long enuf to face any accountability.
@@ropativ7483 ye he said that he'd be a dictator...
Why? Because America rejected Obama’s puppet? Maybe your oligarchs need to hand pick better candidates next time. 🤷♂️
@@LindaCarpenter-j3e He would live long enough to try fascism....and it does not need an academia to unravel the obvious...
The rich payed for their puppets and now they're going try to dance all over us until we break. Yeah, we're NOT going to break you basturds !.
Trump wishes he could be Putin. Some how one of the weakest people in America ended up being in the lime light.
The squeaky wheel gets the oil.
@greengold7648 What oil? Is Trump going to sell US oil independence to another country?
It is a saying. Be loud & Obnoxious, Persistent & People give you what you want. @@monorail4252
Most of the crude oil we use to refine gasoline for cars comes from Canada.
Yup trying to make our Allies pissed off by making his wanna be Dictator remarks …
Thank you for having this conversation, gents. ✊🏼
An informative intelligient discussion that would benefit the Trumpers to hear but sadly this will not happen yet
The scary thing is that half the voters in this country couldn’t be happier with what is to come!
They think so for now anyway…check with them in a year or so 🤦♂️
Actions have consequences in the real world. Suffering will be their teacher.
More than half of
We will have double digit inflation in 18-24 months from now. That’s when internal conflict and global conflict will ignite.
@@asdf9890 they’re already turning against Elon Musk
Of course he will. Brace yourselves
Yes he’ll try but he’ll fail. Besides being a moron he’s old and in bad health.
You guys have been saying this since 2015. What happened?
He'll try for sure
@@katshades he’s been testing the waters, seeing what he can get away with and getting progressively worse. Now that he has some allies, no guard rails and a bunch of billionaires in charge this time around there are less and less things standing in his way. That’s what the warnings were about. He couldn’t just do it immediately. He now has and Elon running round who wasn’t even elected influencing congress to take funding from 9/11 first responders and research for kids with cancer and wants to put Medicare on the chopping block. He wants to take Greenland and the Panama Canal for F sake. And he’s needlessly threatening our allies. These billionaires do not care about us!
@@katshadeshow about an armed insurrection?? How about removing women’s rights to reproductive freedom? How about kids in cages? Family separation? Just sayin’ …
He wont leave office again ... he will try to stay forever. He should be disqualified from being sworn in because of the insurrection
He will 'create' a crisis, call martial law suspend the constitution and elections indefinitely, and Americans will let him.
There's that magical word again....SHOULD.
He IS disqualified
An erroneous SCOTUS dictum is not law, the constitution is. Anyone who swears trymp in becomes guilty of aiding an insurectionist traitor as well… by running him, constitutionlly the entire republican party is now legally not allowed to participate in politics!
@mobilegamersunite - this is a delusional take! If he does that i will come back to this comment and apologize, but please man thats just silly to say, especially after he has already been president once.
@jeromycertain7698 delusional take?!? You support the guy that said we should use hand sanitizer injections 💉 to fight covid...thats your guy, says a lot about you.
How in the world we had enough people to elect him is mind boggling!!!
The amount of warnings, many, many of them coming from his very own, hand-picked employees, is a first in all of American history.
Still don’t think he won fairly. IMO he had underhanded help from Musk!!!
@@MatterDaddy6 agree 💯
Musk bought some votes?
I couldn’t believe he’d even show up on the polls 😢
Seriously
Nobody took Adolf hitler seriously in the beginning either and they had to pay a high price for that so it is really wise to take Donald Trump seriously when he talks about immigration and other issues in a way that can be seen as dictatorial rhetoric the most dangerous thing USA can do is to underestimate Donald Trump and those people around him like Steve miller
Think it is quite comon they don't take revolutionary leaders serius at first!
I'd argue that the main difference between Trump and A.H. is though that the latter was driven by idoelogy. He truly believed that the people he hated needed to be destroyed. Trump on the other hand, as is becoming increasingly obvious, is only driven by lining his pockets and staying out of jail. He parroted MAGA talking points because he knew it would get him into office and keep him rich & important. So in short I absolutely do agree that Trump will try to establish an autocracy where he'll never have to worry about the judiciary system again, but other than A.H. he himself doesn't have much interest in doing anything about immigration other than what is needed to make him look good.
@@Myrslokstok this is not revolutionary it’s seems to be the same fascist ideology thinking as in the thirties and forties only adapted to today’s new situation
I think we have to also simply accept the fact that a large number of non college males 18-45 would never in their lives vote for a black woman.
It is the "woman" part not the black part. Obama had huge support. Also, many black men refused to vote for Kamala because she is a woman. Polls going back to 2016 showed that over 15% of people would not vote for a woman under any circu,stance, but only 4% wouldn't vote for a black man.
That is the real reason he won.
@@Athena752-r6h
Bingo, we have a Bingo ! I didn't think our society had so many small minded people. It's tragic & sad, that they would vote for such a subhuman creature, who could care less about their best interests & yet even now many of them still believe his lies. It's sad that our whole country, must now suffer, because of their hate, misogyny, ignorance, racism & ideological premises. 😮
Big facts.
@@Athena752-r6h, yep. Even though the black woman campaigned on things they actually agreed with, she is still a black woman.
I've dealt with these red hats and the trauma they cause. They drive around our community with those big american flags waving from the back of their cars while shouting USA and it's absolutely terrifying to witness.
You're terrified of people waving an American flag in America? Why?
@Justin88800 you don't get it. They aren't waving the flag with pride. They are waving it with aggression. They are saying, "maga won and we are America now." Also, maga flag waving is not saying "we are americans." It says "America is maga." Nationalism (fascism) is scary to witness. Check out nazi Germany and the swastika.
@@Justin88800 It what those people are trying to replace the American flag WITH that you should be afraid of!
@@Justin88800Just driving around a neighbourhood shouting in a threatening manner with arrogance is menacing. Waving a flag may just be a yay fourth July type of thing, or it can be a yeah, bitch, 6 January style. There are vast differences. Now maybe your question was innocent, or maybe you’re a magat yourself and relishing the fear you lot are causing the non-magat population. Poking fun at them, as it were.
Did you see the carnage on Jan.6?! I can’t even look at my country’s flag anymore because of these rotten thugs who believed themselves to be “patriots”. These misguided maniacs are anything but!!
I met Donald Trump back in 1968 at the mutual age of 21 and studied him very closely for five straight months. Like the once Bavarian Corporal, he is a clueless Cosmic "mark" sleepwalking to mind bending total catastrophe after High Noon on 01/20/25. God help us!
You should write it up and give everyone more of you recollections
Haha what BS.
Seems like a true scholar - I also heard back in 1969 he started what we know today as acid.
What?
And he is now preparing his Night of the Long Knives. Like the Bavarian corporal did after he had secured the support of oligarch Krupp (Musk) he disbanded the SA: the working class storm troopers (Maga), who helped voting him into power the year before.
We needed Bernie Sanders but they wouldn't allow us to have him.
This professor is exactly what we ALL NEED TO HEAR !!!!!!
fake professor
@@patsaccaro9203 did it hit a cord?
I disagreed with him on several points
@@Stormstorm1 Explain ?
@@sophiavega1777 fake cord
Arrogance is the pre-cursor to ignorance which is a catalyst for discrimination.
And that is exactly why the democrats were tossed to the curb last November. 🤷♂️
Ignorance will lead to this country’s downfall
Well, it doesn't get more arrogant than David.
@@ricardocabeza6006 In all fairness, I think David's brilliant ability to cross analyse and usually come up with the most logical explanation concerning his topic may, at times, seem to make him sound arrogant when in fact he's just well read.
@@edharbas4828 But he doesn't come up with the most logical explanation. He comes up with the explanation he knows you want to hear so you will keep clicking on his videos generating income.
On the Simpsons, Abe told a young Homer: "We've got a system set up to make sure someone like you never becomes President!" Oh, how wrong he was!
Out of all the famous political philosophers... you quote the Simpsons. Wow. Society really is getting dumber and dumber.
@ricardocabeza6006 To quote Benjamin Disraeli: "Get bent!"
And also, Homer Simpson, while being extremely stupid, is always shown to have many redeeming qualities, of which Mc Donald Trump has not a single one.
America needs to put more money into its education system not less, they need to encourage book reading not banning books. Without critical thinking and independent research so one can make an intelligent choice, one needs to be well educated and the US is going in the opposite direction with this government.
but the system is working as designed. and if our only options inside the system are keeping it this way, then the path to systemic change is outside the system
You don’t seem to understand: educated people don’t make the big corporations money. We all know it’s necessary, but as long as corporations are profiting, the government won’t give a shit
@bonnierobinson9993 I agree 100%, but i think education needs to be in "local" control. City, county, and state level. I just dont think the federal government should be in control. Our government cant do anything very efficiently excpet maybe the military and based upon the spending thats questionable.
@@jeromycertain7698 red states typically tend to be cheaper, but as a consequence have worse schools than blue states. Bringing the issue back to the states only exacerbates that issue. Greater centralization ensures equal opportunity for all US citizens, regardless of whether their state is red or blue
Edit: and if you think the government can’t do anything efficiently, maybe you should elect the officials who will actually do something about it rather than the half-assed solution of just taking it out of their control. That way, the problem actually gets solved rather than a bandaid being put on it in hopes that it doesn’t get exposed again
Fascinating take on how ignorance has taken over the Republican Party.
Yet we were smart enough to beat your puppet of a candidate. Next time have your oligarchs hand pick a better candidate.
Ignorance has taken over a VERY large part of the USA and it’s going to get worse as the old generation dies off.
@@Chloe-nh6oj
Trump took 250M from Elon
Trump stole your money
You must be a white ameriKan.
Not so much ignorance as cowardice.These lousy Republicans just collapsed and went lock,stock,and barrel for this profligate amoral mutt knowing what a threat to my country he is.
@@Chloe-nh6ojignorance and stupidity
I love that you had an expert on your show from Canada 🇨🇦 Well said Professor!
Wow, David found another liberal that will call Trump a fascist. This is some ground breaking stuff from David. You must be really impressed with his name calling abilities. LMAO
Expert? Canada is chock full of marxist academics, and that's why Canada is on the brink of societal and economic collapse. Pakman always likes to put stock in these fringe people...because he's part of the fringe himself! Hey! What does that make you?
Except, he didn't.
He might be teaching in Canada but his accent gives away the fact that the professor is American.
@@annienigro4624 we should ask him. I worked in a deep red southern state many years ago and everyone thought I was from Michigan. So unless we're trained linguists it's really hard to tell for sure.
Update, yes you're correct, he was born in the USA but holds dual citizenship and obviously lives in Canada.
When the Democrats try to address the concerns of every day people, the GOP fights them tooth and nail to be sure that they fail in order to regain/maintain power. It is frustrating that ordinary people can not see that.
Exactly! Look, both parties cater to corporate America. However, Dems do attempt to pass bills that would actually help us and Reps always shoot it down and only vote it through after it's been soooo watered down.
Look at Build Back Better for instance that the Biden admin tried and tried to get through! Got watered down until it became the Inflation Reduction Act instead, it did pull us out of the recession nightmare from Trump's first term but still wasn't what it could've been.
While that is partly true, since Clinton, the Dems have run against the messes that the Republicans made, but when they win, doing little to reverse them. For example, grocery prices were up in the last few years. Yet Biden never reversed the Trump tariffs! Obama won the presidency in part because of the 2008 downturn. Yes, he and Bernanke did a lot to prevent the next Great Depression. But not a single banker saw any legal consequences for destroying the world's economy, and pretty much all the sacrifices were made by labor. Pelosi announced that "the US is a center-right country", and did everything she could to kneecap any representative who proposed popular policies that ran counter to that narrative. And let's not forget it was Clinton who deregulated Wall Street and signed the criminal laws going after so-called "urban super-predators". Ever since Clinton, the party leaders have essentially told the left--and even the left-leaning moderate Black voters that are their base: "yes, we ran on fixing this, but that's not reality. So sit down; the adults are talking". That's a really terrible way to treat your base.
So yes, the Dems have been penalized at times for going left, but a lot of that comes from their bedrock insistence that tiny little tweaks are the best they can do, and anything more is juvenile nonsense.
Maybe because the dems have been absolute shit regarding addressing "the concerns of every day people". Harris ran on small business loans and first-time home buyers. Wtf? I'm trying to pay rent and eat while praying I don't get sick or injured and wind up homeless.
Democrats went as far as to indict their political opponent in an attempt to maintain power. It is frustrating that you can not see that.
If the Dems are so smart, why are they losing to MAGA ignoramuses?
"what we really need to ask is - what is it that's happened in the culture that makes ignorance so profound that it becomes difficult for people to address questions like this and make the obvious obvious. And that is - this is not just about Healthcare - it's about an attack on the public good, it's an attack on education, it's an attack on the critical functions of agency, it's an attack on collective struggle. These are the issues. The other stuff is just simply detritus, it's a consequence of those problems." 12:00
Brilliant. Couldn't agree more.
The dumbing down of America started in the mid 70s with calculators, then during the 90s reality TV shows, the big brother, khardashian, jersey shore housewives trash tv, over reliance on Google reference instead of brain work. Outsourcing of our IT tech support. The deterioration of the public school system with Mass exodus & retirement of qualified teachers from the 60s. The latchkey generation of the 70s who lost parental supervision because if the recession.
A perfect storm began to brew when the winds of change that blew through the 1960's died down and left confusion. The old certainties had been exposed but not overturned. The love of money filled the void and became the meaning of existence for many. For others a descent into rudderless individuality and substance fuelled hells. For others, resentment and anger, hatred and despair.
The post war journey is taking us in to a reversion to the human default position of ever increasing inequalities.
A state which was once believed to be the natural or God ordained order.
" Rich man in his Castle,
poor man at his gate.
He (God) made them high and lowly, and ordered their estate"
This theory allowed the rich feel comfortable with the situation and resigned the poor to be contented with their lot.
This is where we are headed back to but it will be bloody on the way.
The human condition dictates it.
He nailed it. Who do we blame for the collapse of sound reasoning? Are we being driven to desperation by billionaires that profit from this bad decision? We’re pawns in a racket that we don’t benefit from.
So we were driven to desperation by the billionaires that endorsed Biden in 2020?
Exposing children to faith-based religions before they reach the age of reason, cripples them for life!
Sound reasoning...like murdering human beings in their mother's womb because like Adolf Hitler, you decided you could change what it means to be a human being? That kind of "sound reasoning" . " For the reasoning of humankind is only wicked continually" said God.
@ricardocabeza6006 cry harder, no one's listening.
@@MittensHeart You have some of the problems right, but you assign blame to the wrong people. The Democrats want to make everyone poor and on welfare, that was the plan starting with Obama. That was the reason he started mass uncontrolled immigration, so he could depress wages and put workers on welfare, then he tripled regulations for small businesses so they had to go out of business and on welfare. Guess what happens when most of the people are on welfare? They are forced to keep voting for the party that will guarantee their welfare,...and you have the makings of a one -party state. That was Obama's plan...what amazes me is that Democrat supporters are so stupid that they can't see it coming. The election of Donald Trump saved you...for now.
Stephen Miller very dangerous
Like what Chomsky once said he was am not concerned with Regan he was concerned with the people Ronald surrounded himself with. There are lots of bad hombres in Trump's orbit with their own agendas and a majority of their plans do not benefit the majority of the US population
Why? Because he wants to enforce existing laws?
@@Chloe-nh6oj why? what existing laws aren't being enforced?
@@Chloe-nh6ojno, sad troll. Because some of us have listened to his fascist rhetoric and have critical thinking skills.
@@Chloe-nh6oj He's the reincarnation of Goebbels.
What a country, what a people.
Absolutely mindblowing.
You really hate democracy, don’t you?
@@Chloe-nh6oj when democracy allows overtly criminalistic and dangerous people to be elected then it's not helping its own case very much is it
@@Chloe-nh6oj Very funny considering that you're part of the movement wanting to end it to install an ethnonational dictatorship
@@Chloe-nh6oj What democracy? Democracy for the rich?
@tell me you are a Marxist without actually telling me you are a Marxist. 🤷♂️
As Nikki Haley stated many times during her campaign: everything Trump touches creates chaos
Citing nicki haley is like citing Charles Manson for warning about climate change. Both people are technically correct in their statements but they're also both people corrupted people n not a good look for using as a spokesperson.
Let me fix that. It turns to sheit when trump touches it.
@@vladimirmeltzer1475 did you report my comment? It's gone.
…and then she turned around and supported him…That type of people are as despicable as he is, so let’s stop citing them as some sort of fountains of wisdom.
And now she kisses his ass.
Critical thinking and emotional intelligence is paramount for the educated and informed citizen of today and especially tomorrow.
We were heading towards FASCISM beginning with Reagan.
Nixon got there first, but he got caught and was afraid so resigned. He should never have been pardoned.
Poor in USA will be the first to suffer. .then the workers..rich will be ok ...Sad times ahead for all ....
Yep he began the march to the far right, aligned with the religious freaks. a big spender. union buster
Roosevelt was actually called a fellow Fascist by a real fascist with the name Mussolini. If you want to start then start there with the man that invented the ideology. He certainly met the actual definition by encouraging class cooperation while elevating the state above other classes as the mediator with the final say. I will say I don’t view it as a dirty word as the current Chinese economic system (post Deng reforms) is a fascist model which has elevated billions out of poverty
Im so sick of having to talk about Trump!
And yet you came here knowing the video would be about trump
He’s probably only 3 Big Macs away from a major coronary so there’s that .
That’s too bad. If you would have voted for him in 2020 you’d have less than a month left of dealing with him.
Welp, Americans gave up the chance to _not_ have to talk about him in November, so…
You're not sick of him. No one made you click on this video about him. You love him.
In a democracy, whatever happens to the nation, the sole responsibility falls on the citizenry and no one else.
It begins and remains the responsibility of the electorate. But the responsibility is universal.
A Supreme Court desction in 2010 played some roll
I’ll be honest Americans are terribly irresponsible
We've been in an oligarchy for decades. Democracy left a long time ago. We're just about to experience the results..
@@articrafthandmade6284 Teddy Roosevelt tried, and yet here we are again.
THANK YOU for having DR. GIROUX from Canada on this segment! Top notch discussion. 👏👏👏👏👏
Another amazing interview David. Thank you
The only way to end two party system, is to end the Electoral College. Multiparty system in U.S. can’t happen until then.
Exactly. The EC makes that impossible due to the fact a winner has to get at least 270. If no one gets 270, then the House gets to decide who the President is.
It’s that damn pesky constitution, isn’t it? Don’t you just hate it when the rules get in the way?
So never.
a multi party system will not fix a god damn thing in this country
also proportional representation for congress election
Thank you, Mr. Pakman, and Professor Giroux, for what is truly a most important discussion.
I agree with what Mr. Giroux is saying! Asking the bigger questions about what got us here, etc.
Trump - capitalizing on ignorance
Maybe the American people recognized that the democrats hate them? You can’t govern people you hate.
The ignorant leading the ignorant!
He taught MAGA to celebrate their stupidity.
"l love the uneducated."
Your side lost an election. Get over it. Your ideology is part of the minority.
Only in America do you see this much boo-hooing over a stupid election.
Instead of pointing your finger at the majority and calling them ignorant, you need to look at yourself and how easily emotionally manipulated you are.
Dismantle Trickle-down! Oligarchs laughing at America.
Got a bad bad theory that the gop invents trickle down as a public stunt which when they project it really means; don't worry, whatever you say will trickle through think tanks and pundits and be curated that way, just be there as our statue.
Why?...trickle down worked when Reagan did it. OK...if you were a useless bum waiting for the government to pay your way through life , then trickle down didn't work for you, because it only benefitted people who wanted to help themselves.
Trickle-down means those at the bottom get just a trickle.
Another thing overlooked was the influence of preachers and their congregations. Expecially the evanligicals.
That’s absolutely true!
Indeed one of the best vehicles to spread misinformation to the gullible.
@@Therecanbeonly123 I mean, they're already there, looking for someone to dictate to them what's true, or at least what moral is, all the while not tracking who's actually being arrested for pedophilia (yes, it's clergy).
Do Muslims next. Come on pussy. Do it.
Churches are such a Huge Indoctrination Network where Preachers receive Training on How to Preach Republican Politics from the Pulpit.
See: Katherine Stewart who's been on FFRF Freedom From Religion Fdn. YTube.
Whether or not Trump can accomplish his Fascistic policies, his stated goals, most of which rely on the complete abdication of Constitutional law, should alone disqualify him from office forever. The man is the world's worst nightmare. Giroux seems brilliant, by the way.
Justice was denied
Justice was hijacked by Biden’s pardon of his own son. 🤷♂️
14th NowMovement January 3-5 Washington
@@egwthe1you want to be in a resistance I wish you the best. Really I’m pulling for you and all the rest. Hard pass for me though. I’m checking out and going into a bubble. Ignorance is bliss is my new motto.
As a Canadian really enjoyed Prof Giroux's take on current insanities. I have been depending on US experts like Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Fiona Hill, etc for my fast track, get up to speed on motivations of gullible uneducated people to follow Fascism/Dictator playbooks. I grew up near McMaster, a great University. I have friends who grew up during WW2 behind Iron Curtain, they say MAGA voters have no idea what they just voted for. I was in one of those countries in early 1970s, it was an eye opener as a teenager who had been in many western Europe counties previously. Thx David for all you do. We have very few people in Canada like you and your compatriots explaining what is going on. We are seeing the dangerous playbook flow up here like a tsunami these days.
The amount of young people that grew up in countries formerly beyond the Iron Curtain and that will throw away democracy for a perceived strongman is also mind boggling. I blame it on the failure of the educational system and on the power of trends set up in the USA. We want it or not, the US is a powerful trendsetter, influencing the rest of the world.😢
There are gullible people everywhere, subject to manipulation. Furthermore, racism, xenophobia, poverty and greed can easily be harnessed to bring populists to power, this is also same everywhere. That also US has descended so low is quite sad.
Drat! Those nettling ignorant Trump voters!
That's why Harris pandered to the wise 18-24 scholars who live w/their parents and align with visionaries such as Cardi B!
Wow! Thank you. This man is laying down the absolute facts about what is happening in our country right now!
PLEASE have him back on the show. I liked the first half, loved the second half and Dr. Giroux is just getting started. An unexpected surprise this morning! Thank you 😊
Agreed. This was such a valuable segment.
"self delusion turns into a form of self sabotage"
Wise words.
Mr Giroux made many excellent points! Hoping he will be a guest again!
90% of MAGA that voted 🗳 for DUMP will regret it for the rest of their lives 🙄 not only will it effect them but it could effect there children and grandchildren
They wont regret it. Once they're done with trans people, immigrants and liberal elite, and if their lives have not improved, they'll find new scapegoats. Gays, jews, lefties, black people are next. You don't seriously think a MAGA cultist would ever say: "Hey wait a minute.."? 😂
🎉😂
You realise you'll need to get beyond the whole "haha told ya so" narrative right? I know it gets the likes but it won't help your country one bit.
Once MAGA are done with their current scapegoats, and if their lives haven't improved (and they wont), Trump will just direct them to new scapegoats. There wont be any regret or reflection.
Just shut the fuck up. You guys caused enough damage and nobody is listening to your fear mongering any longer.
Thank you for having the professon on your program David. I agree with him 100%. We need to organize the resistance this next 4 years!
Imagine if all that energy you waste with your hatred for Trump, was used for your own personal growth. Perhaps you should just focus on yourself for four years.
Liberals: Trump looks like a fascist
Leftists: Trump is clearly a fascist
Trump: I'm a fascist
MAGA: He isn't a fascist
MAGA supports fascist policies so obviously they have to deny that that's what they are
So when did Trump say he was? Or is that just in your imagination?
@@ricardocabeza6006He literally said that he's going to be a dictator on day one. The good news is that he's a doddering old malignant narcissist.
You're literally ŕètarťed. He's explicitly said he's going to make government smaller, that means more freedom. The exact opposite of what you people want to do.
You are literally ŕatarṭèd. He's going to make the government smaller. That's not what fascism is....
My trumper relatives believe trump cares about America, his brusqueness attributed to him being a New Yorker .
They refuse to believe anything negative about him as they are all false allegations .
They refuse to see what we see , or they just don't care , or, it's just about owning the libs and they're certainly OK with that.
And some "like" trump because they are "like" trump.
And there it is .
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas .
God bless America, we're gonna need it.
Lol he's a convicted criminal.
That's not a false allegation.
@@dcmastermindfirst9418 The idiots say it was a sham trial.
@@leifanderson3487 There's nothing weird about a Democrat prosecutor in a Democrat state prosecuting the opposing candidate during an election year... Right? No way that could be politically motivated... Right? LMAO
@ricardocabeza6006 you are blind dumb and deaf if you don't know that trump is guilty of everything he's being charged with
The future of big style USA is through Donald Trump. It's what the American people get at this time and that is exciting for many in Europe and the Commonwealth countries. It is like being concerned for a dear friend who has been trying to get pregnant for a long time, and finally the moment arrives. Every parent would be grateful to have a newborn as handsome as him. Everyone can unite behind Donald just like everyone can unite behind a big mac and fries. Easy peasy. America has the best of everything-great Sam's Clubs and Walton family bunkers, efficient drive thru lines, one stop shop style amazon shopping, Whole Foods, the best Netflix series, a population that is genuinely concerned for the welfare of it own people, wonderful botox injection divorce parties, and a superior education system that offers a multitude of choices, whether attending college or leaving to attend employer-paid apprentice training to work in the robust manufacturing sector of USA, and the list goes on.
David gets so many trolls in these comments. Keep it up, David.
Yeah, he attracted a lot of trolls after getting all pouty on Piers Morgan after the election. It also didn't help that he panicked over losing 10k subs while allegedly having 2 million subs. That makes it pretty obvious the majority of David's subs are bot accounts that David pays to subscribe to him to inflate his numbers. Or it could have been how he completely misled his audience with inaccurate information to believe Harris would win the election. But I guess these are the things you want David to keep doing...
I've been reading a lot about this QFS thing but I don't fully understand how that fits in with NESARA/GESARA.. It sounds like they're saying it's going to replace the current financial system. Does anyone else know what's really going on?
The QFS is designed to replace the old system with something more stable, efficient, and equitable.
We're looking at a global shift, where digital assets, backed by tangible value, will support the new financial order😊😊😊😊
Please I am really interested in switching to the QFS. Can anyone please help me out. been looking for a way over 2 years now. I do not trust the banks anymore
Sure quantumdave, I have moved major of my assets into the QFS, I just have enough cash to sustain me for a very long time, I don't want to be a victim of the GCR
Where can I find him?
ON TELEGRAMS?
The current fight between Elon and MAGAs is actually very important as it will *hinder Project 2025.* As well as attempts to install and assist right-wing governments elsewhere, such as in Europe.
Elon has been such a vital asset for the far right worldwide, that having a falling out between him and the more virulent rascist is a disaster for the propagation of the far right, and thereby authoritarianism.
And as for Project 2025, that requires unity with nearly every elected federal Republican politician marching, or _goosestepping,_ in lockstep, in order to succeed with their power grab.
They have such a small margin of control in the Legislature that they can't afford any GOP politicians feeling conflicted with the Base.
Democracy might well be saved because of the fragile egos of a pair of narcissists who can't stick to the plan..
Well stated, yes. 🤝🏅🏆
I think you are right!
@@casbot71 I don't know that Musk is an important driver of that particular plan. He would certainly benefit from parts of it, but I don't think he particularly cares about the religious zealotry that underlies large parts of it. You can look to the Federalist society, the Supreme Court and right wing evangelical and Catholic "Christian nationalists" for the force behind those scary ideas. But of course the billionaires who underwrite them want their piece of the pie. And unlike Musk they are smart enough to stay out of the public eye. And are all the more dangerous because of it.
@marlenesmall5527 The disunity within MAGA and the civil war Elon's causing will get in the way of Project 2025.
Already, Elon's debt limit stunt has blown up the illusion of Trump having control over Republican Congresscritters.
And by Trump unnecessarily stepping in and picking to side with Elon in this current spate, it's going to further hurt Trumps political capital.
Trump needs a lot of political capital and influence to get everyone to fall in line and support the various pieces of legislation necessary for the plan (such as for the reclassification of federal employees).
It's not that Elon was necessary for the plan, although control of Twitter would be useful to it. It's that Elon is throwing bombs around inside the tent.
And that is a real hindrance to everything.
Now, a distraction is useful when doing nefarious deeds, but this is a distraction for the ones trying to carry out the nefarious deeds.
Where Elon is vital, however, is in helping spread far right authoritarianism to other Western countries. Twitter is used to amplify the messaging and spread rightwing disinformation, and so on.
Then Elon's pocketbook is an incredibly powerful tool in smaller countries, where a hundred million dollar donation is more than all the major political parties combined normally spend on an election campaign.
And I’ve seen absolutely no resistance from anyone in office.
Because he got majorities everywhere. Every county in 95%+ of voting places moved to the right. He is EXACTLY what this country wants. They voted for fascism, knowing full-well who and what he is.
Bernie has been fighting this stuff for decades but unfortunately the Democrats decided to ignore these problems until it was too late. And these career politicians decided not to push forward with AOC, instead defaulting to their typical Democrat to run the show at the DNC. There are people trying to fight, but many of them are getting snuffed out by household Democrats. The Democratic Party needs an upheaval right now and needs to start working on becoming an actual leftist party again. Instead they are gearing towards the same old appeasement of Republicans and remain on the center-right.
I think there will be resistance closer to January 20th.
Just because the income-dependent, and now targeted press isn't covering it doesn't mean it's not happening. It's very likely that most of the resistance going on is at the local and state levels. Look there.
The best way to defeat Trump's ideology for good, is not to fight it but let it play out so people can see he is worse than the alternatives.
The democrats sealed our fate when they screwed over Bernie. Agree with his ideas or not but at least he had ideas that people could relate to.
Hillary got screwed over too. Seems to be what happens. You think Bernie got treated worse? The idea Bernie was a savior doesn't work. The whole bird on the podium was stupid. I really like and respect bernie.
The Dems are beholden to their corporate donors. Bernie was shaking things up so they had to put a stop to that.
I live in Washington state . We voted for Bernie in the primary. Our governor and super delegates over road the will of the people and chose Hillary.
@maryhobbs4183 seems to be a theme. I definitely don't think he was the savior or necessarily agree with him on e everything. However, he was a leftist populist and he appealed to the same kind of people swayed by Trump's feaux Populism. Heck, even Rogan was on board with Bernie. It was obvious the corporate dem funders were threatened by him and thus we ended up with your typical "more of the same"candidate that the a large swathe of average voters were tired of seeing and railing against.
12:00 i think personally growing up in the 2000s we didnt have alot of vocal rolemodels, musicians for example, since Dixie Chicks and Sinead O'Connor were effectively wiped off the face of the earth for protesting injustices, it became standard for actors and musicians with any sort of fanbase (and a PR Team) to never speak on politics with any degree of substance.
Consequently those very progressive ideals held by the majority of celebrities and by extention their fans in the 90s and mid-late 80s got quieter and quieter. We didnt any longer have Nirvana-tier bands proudly declaring their music wasnt for Misogynists or Racists, or mainstream groups like Rage Against The Machine promoting militant democratic views, or rappers like Public Enemy and NWA speaking out directly against police corruption and the prison industrial complex.
Young teens learn through osmosis, they take on the beliefs of their idols, the only prominent figures who actually had beliefs proudly and loudly displayed in the last 10 years were right wing conspiracy theorists and violent misigynists, so now most teenage boys are referring to women and girls as "Females" and complaining about the "woke agenda" because theres literally no one else in the media to latch onto who is conventionally 'cool' and isnt shit scared to show their political beliefs because itll get them barred from mentions on fox news and they might lose some fans.
Monetary incentives and opportunity have out-weighed morals in the modern age.
Why are people doubting TFG? He has NEVER suffered a consequence for his actions, not held accountable by people who could have prevented all this and Amerikkkans were so gullible that they think he's all THAT. I didn't vote for him yet here we are.
Good points and intellectual discussion..
Should make the concerned people think.....
What's happened to our culture? Fox news, that's what.
True. Fox News is the most anti-USA, disruptive entity in America. It’s as if it’s a foreign mouthpiece to bring down the country … it’s not, but it sure seems like it.
Best interview i have heard in a long time. Thank you. Very well spoken and understood
Please have him on more often!
This is an EXCELLENT interview. Let’s go people!!
IMPEACH 3 TIMES!!!!!!!!
Real Americans voted for Trump 😅
@@randycouch2769what is a real American, exactly?
@@randycouch2769yeah that’s the problem
Impeach on general principles? He was impeached each time on clear violations. Nancy Pelosi blocked impeachment until there was an overt act. We need to do the same. And work on the midterms.
@@randycouch2769 Real Americans voted AGAINST Trump.
1984, “Ignorance is strength”
@@23cutemonkey exactly. Good thing Biden and Harris and their ignorance will be gone on January 20
This is the left in a nutshell
I need to read that again. I haven't since 1970 or so.
Its always you nazis wrongfully quoting orwell lol
Brilliant. ! We need more interviews like this .
Thank you for all thegoodwork you do, David. I wish you, your family and friends a very Happy New Year. Live Long and Prosper ❤
Social media has really done a number on society. Something needs to be done about it.
That's like blaming books for Hitler because he wrote one. The lack of American humility is a bigger problem than social media.
@Dewydidit Not sure about that.... The amount of disinformation being spread through social media has reached unprecedented level, even politicians are getting in on it, and with the rise of AI, it’s only going to escalate in the coming years. Social media has become a powerful tool for far-right hate groups to expand their reach rapidly and organize real-world chaos more effectively than ever before
It's especially a problem when oligarchs take control of them and feed the propaganda machine...
it was underestimated as a brainwashing tool, and MAGA has utilized it to the max. I used to think it would be a defence against propaganda, but it has become a source instead
social media is society. its just a magnifiying glass for preexisting problems
Buyers' remorse of biblical proportions dead ahead. Thank you benighted American electorate. Well done.
This guy is PISSED! I don’t blame him. I thought he was very insightful. Thank you both for the video.
Chump should be in prison no where near the White House.
This is one fantastic interview.
Those who actually know what democracy is and want Americans to live in a democracy had better get going… There is so little time and so much work to be done in saving our country. There’s no time to be complacent. New approaches are needed. New answers are needed. We have to outshine the anti-democracy front in every way possible… in ways that even Trumpists can understand. This shouldn’t be so difficult. We are already on higher ground.
So democracy is appointing a presidential nominee, rather than holding an open primary for the people to decide?
And we have to fight against it instead of trying to normalize it or saying it will never happen here.
People are going to see it with their own eyes so legacy media is going to have to report on it
That's why we need to support ACLU during times like this.
That’s exactly what he does he makes his base feel things are bad and he lies that the Democrates are the reason why
Every single time.
You mean exactly what David does with Trump?
Thank you for bringing Dr. Giroux on board for this segment, David. One of the last lights of learning in this new age of obscurantism. May he continue to grow in wisdom and courage.
14:24
You need to remove money from politics and the words will come naturally
I agree with Henry, I have always taken him for his word, when you can decipher it from his horrible language skills.
He’s old and not mentally all there. If he was in better health or younger I’d be more concerned.
@chloe-stephlis6281 oh come on, he can't talk intelligently & never could. He's a moron.
IQ(45/47) = 73.
Spot on about the culture of ignorance. This is something the Democrats have to take very serious acknowledgement of then work on changing it.