Ed Helms & RepresentUs CEO Josh Graham Lynn name the root cause of political dysfunction in America
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Our system is dysfunctional. Politicians spend all of their time fundraising. Lobbyists and special interests have gamed the system to advance their agendas. Nothing is getting done in our country.
So, how did we get here? The short answer: Corruption.
Watch Ed Helms and RepresentUs CEO Josh Graham Lynn break down the root causes of corruption in our political system, and how we, the people, can fix them. Join us: act.represent....
RepresentUs bring together conservatives, progressives, and everyone in between to pass powerful state and local laws that fix our broken elections and stop political bribery. Our strategy is central to dismantling the root causes of inequities in our Senate, Congress, and beyond. We fight for democracy reform to end political corruption, extremism, and gridlock.
We’ve passed over 156 anti-corruption laws, from anti-gerrymandering and ranked choice voting to sweeping ethics and transparency laws.
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The fact that this took a year before I found it on TikTok is insane. Why are there only 91k subscribers?
I'm the same way.
apps like TikTok and Facebook don't want you to find it.
@@wesleybarber233same
The fact that this video was so so buried by the algorithm. It genuinely terrifies me about the state of large “industry”. There is so much hard shouldering by government, but especially by politicians who are trying to better their personal lives. As opposed to those who are trying to selflessly help others. And strangely, each politician believes they are doing “good work”. Politics is sneaky, even to the politicians who do it. It’s the system that’s flawed, not the politicians. Most ordinary people would fall into the same trap, when it’s the fundamental system that fails us.
This message was clear and the argument for prioritizing voting reform was well laid out! As a Forward Party supporter, I hope that FWD and RepresentUs are willing to combine their powers and efforts to accelerate this movement.
Amen to that!!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@@UXtatic If the so called Forward Party is to be truly legit, it needs to stop taking corporate money. Otherwise, I have grave doubts that it is nothing more than a tool to actually sabotage pro democracy movements.
You can thank George Carlin for giving unapologetic activists like you a head start. Comedy starts a movement.
Hell yeah! Down with corruption!
Whether there is zero percent public support or one hundred percent public support, the level of public support effectively has no influence on what Congress does. 3:05
Frankly, with media as it is, some of this won't be successful as long as corporate capitalism exists. But represent us probably is a prerequisite for solving much of anything.
Agree. We know both sides of the media is corrupt. Politicians have no reason to change it
Capitalism is fine as long as government corruption is prevented.
Very good presentation.
I hope and pray Represent Us gets some money. This is the only organization that I have found that is people run and actually cares about we the people. Stopping corruption should be covered by every major media outlets yet it does not since the 1% who own everything do not want us to become educated on what is going on. Thank you so much for this effort.
Even with Ed helms, a video on the greatest issue facing North America has only 1.2k views?? Am I Actually going insane or were those people laughing at the issues that have been destroying lives around them for years? Laughing?
Because they were there for entertainment by a comedian.
I agree 100% but I also see a lot of fraud celebrities that clearly hold outspoken polarized ideology represented in this video. That is also at the crux of the problem. It’s hard to get ordinary people to jump on board when they see people involved that are clearly not executing through their words and actions on the public platform.
Exactly!
100% agree!! When you have democrat hack Mark Ruffalo in a video, this doesn’t make me want to help this organization at all!!
So why the hell haven’t they talked about this kind of game-changing mentality on Rogan? I mean, that’s how you reach the most people, and likely the “right people”
Because Rogan's audience don't get no charts and graphs. They want entertainment.
wonderful
As a Wyoming resident, we need serious help.
It’s been out for a year and it only has 8k views?! How??
I saw a clip of it on the tok and came looking for it after.
Exact same for me; just saw it on tiktok and followed it here. How has this not gone viral yet? This movement sounds promising
I'm so sorry to hear about Ed Helms's impending suicide
Interesting that only the extremes votes in primaries
13:06 "Fixing democracy fixes those other things. It unlocks all of the gridlock."
donating to democracy is controversial and can make the right wing media damage your reputation, donating to democracy can also lead to those causes being themselves shaped/corrupted by big donors, and then there is also the fact that a lot of these big donors are just looking to improve their image by giving to education or health after acquiring their millions in questionable ways, not looking for real solutions. if they just paid their taxes there wouldn't be a need for their charity. also ranked choice voting doesn't really get rid of spoiler effects and is only slightly better than the current system. but I completely agree with everything else in this video.
Great talk, but misses the most powerful solution of all: an identity-vetted troll-proof social media platform to (1) hold elected officials directly accountable to their constituents, (2) eliminate the need for dark money, special interest pandering and massive time wasted on fundraising, (3) enable grassroots debate and vetting of issues and prospective political candidates, and (4) moderate online discussions with AI tools that enforce good-faith rules of conversation. DM me for more.
I wish this video got more views than that picture of Selena Gomez that broke the records of views and likes. I don’t think people will ever be serious enough about what really matters. But we sure do like to complain.
Very good
The ppl that need to see this and take this in ate not the ppl watching. Nor would they believe it or understand
Please summarize the key lynchpins to Democracy in a few short bullet points.
Please have a call to action with how people can help where they live besides only sending money.
So they want all the states to think one way and then for the federal government to make it the law of the land. Instead of having each state choose their own way, so that we truly have a choice. So it won’t matter if we live in California or Texas the federal government will make it the same everywhere. No thanks!
When people threaten me with death threats, it makes me want to do really bad things 👿
You lost me at...legitimate election.
For real though, an important part of a more fair and reliable system is the ability to investigate any serious funny business
Right
Comment for the algorithm
I agree with most of this, but when they showed which celebrities are involved they lost me. Most of those are the most extreme left. Not bipartisan independent thinkers.
They are all US citizens and have a voice + there are extremes on both sides.
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Ranked Choice voting SUCKS! It disenfranchises voters and splits votes of same-party candidates to elevate a different-party candidate, even though each of the same-party candidates beats the different-party candidate in a head-to-head matchup. Essentially, it pushes the third favorite candidate above the top two candidates when the top two are from the same party, by splitting the vote. Plus, tallying the votes from a ranked choice election is so complicated it takes twice as long, which leads to voters becoming suspicious, and often results in the incorrect winner being declared (see the 2022 Oakland, CA school board race).
Vote third party
Your chart is confusing mean with average.
Lets listen to some out of touch celebrities. 😊
Or a troll on the internet. Did you even watch the video? What is not to like?
A TROLL indeed!
@@hodr1000 Man, why would I listen to someone that doesn’t understand the troubles of the common man?
@@MrGert150 because that's not the topic of the video? you really didn't watch it lol
@@MrGert150 you have nothing to offer? Trump supporter?