Ari Berman: Minority Rule and Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Democracy
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- Join journalist Ari Berman as he discusses the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power in America. Explore how voter suppression, election subversion, gerrymandering, dark money, and other tactics have threatened the will of the majority and the foundation of representative government. Learn about the ongoing conflict between white supremacy and multiracial democracy, and discover the inspiring story of resistance to these regressive efforts. Don't miss this insightful discussion on the challenges facing American democracy today.
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May 7, 2024
Photo by Ports Bishop.
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Ari Berman
National Voting Rights Correspondent, Mother Jones and The Center for Investigative Reporting; Author, Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People-and the Fight to Resist It; X @Ariberman
In Conversation with Clara Jeffery
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I wish every voter would watch this and understand why everything feels wrong.
Im sold on this book 📚
Wow, I forgot how pivotal Pat Buchanan was to initiating extremist republican views! 😨🤨
It really is terrifying to hear this!
Thank you for the eye-opening presentation and the good suggestions.
What's clear is this. From the outset very human frailties resulted in a new country that was built on inequities that amount to a suicide pact. Such grotesque unfairness as part of the very foundation of a nation must eventually either be nullified or left to tear the structure apart.
Apt assessment Ari. Ensure you give your support for the current pres.
Doddering Joe?
Ridiculous
I thought we are a democratic republic 🤔
Nobody says we're not a republic. The question is our commitment to the "democratic" part.
@@JR-pr8jb❤ IF you get rid of the 'electoral college, you will be better.❣️🇨🇦💙💙💙💙.
What was crazy was the 3'5th.. then in 1857 Dredd Scott decision has property only argument.
Thanks for such an informative interview! Cannot wait to read the book.
A good take on this is Ann Cox Richardson's book, "How The South Won The Civil War."
❤️ WHEN DEMOCRACY IS LOST IT IS HART TO GET IT BACK !❤️❣️🇨🇦💙💙💙. THANK YOU !
about replacing that three-fifths clause: is that what section 2 "whole number of persons" of the 14th amendment is referring to?
Shall the most populous states such as California demand a new Constitutional Convention or secede from the Union if the demand is not met?
Splitting California will always create a bunch of conservative low density states and two high density progressive states at most. It isn't the progressives who want to split the state up.
Agreed
#RCV! 🗳 ☑️
We can't address any of this until we win in November. If democracy wins in November. And if we don't, we are in for the kind of system change that could bake in minority rule for decades. And we dont have decades to go through a Franco type authoritarian system of government like Spain. We have a climate emergency with a small window of opportunity to do something meaningful about it. Our kids and grandkids are already in a lot trouble and they are not even born. Now they also have to worry about their civil rights and a potential dictatorship??? Are you freaking kidding us???
We're a Republic not a democracy.
What's so hard to understand?
I understand that Republic and democracy are not interchangeable concepts.
Moronic empty statements @hcwxars1. A democracy means either direct or indirect control of a government by the population of the state. A republic means a government is held by elected representatives and supreme power remains in the population of the state. Therefore we are a Republic Democracy as we, the population, elect representatives to manage the government and its laws. The issue persists that a minority in bodies have taken actions to eliminate our ability as a majoirty of the population to influence the government
Check out Heather Cox Richardson on the “ democracy/ republic” subject. Her subject is American Politics.
we're an indirect democracy. but if you've given up on democracy then you can put your belief into practice by staying home on election day.
No state can secede cuz no state can be self sustaining.
While I agree with Ari’s fundamental analysis, he said after 35:20 “…all of this predated Trump.” Yet at 35:04 he brings up the Wisconsin Democratic governor elected in 2018 was hamstrung by the legislature, which was after Trump was elected by the Electoral College in 2016. Generalizations are sloppy communication and provide one’s detractors fodder for argument.
5 states have populations of less than a million, i.e., way fewer than my medium-size central Florida metropolitan area. Yet each of those 5 rural states critically has 2 Senators. No wonder they suck up so much federal funding.
The one man one vote idea ignores the fact that a majority of adults lack the foresight and good judgment to save their Micawber Threshold and about 40% lack the foresight to avoid unwed parenthood. I want people making, executing and litigating laws elected and appointed by competent citizens even if it's a minority.
Then maybe people like you shouldn't dumb down the population while filling the information waves with mis/disinformation?
Wars were fought over that and a vote for every person won. We’re NOT going back.