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How come in the extremely rere cases when government assistance actually lift some out of poverty because the recipient actually planted on improving their lives. And want reform the system. To multiple the rare cases of people building their lives . Through government assistance. You call them hypocrites. Even they actually can a difference in the failing war on poverty.and even the war on drugs. By not giving free money to people who would only give it to the drug cartels
I love the shape of the Perceys on you, but they don't make em in rosewater 😔. So, the Rosewater Durands are my faves out of this batch. But if you don't already have them, I bet the Perceys in Chestnut Crystal would be 😚🤌
@@sentientfetus3894 Are you sure you aren't on drugs? If you're sober, I suggest an extensive remedial English course.
@@sentientfetus3894 you make zero sense fetus. What are you trying to say?
Don't lead with the ads.
These people like to complain about “the elites” in power while being the elites in power
Yes, but as long as you know it’s both Republicans and Democrats that have these large organizations where they push beliefs from and very rich elites working in them.
Gop politicians spew those talking points to the GOP voters because they know the voters on the ground aren't mostly elites.
Fucking. Duuuuuuuuuhhhhhh.
It's worth noting, that as someone who used to be *very* conservative, it's good to understand what is actually meant by "elites in power". For one, let's get the obvious part out of the way: Jews. It always means Jews, when they talk about "the elites". But outside of that, it essentially means "groups of people (that we hate) rising above the stations in life we think they deserve to be in". Who is a part of that? Well everyone who isn't a white, straight, rich, conservative, Christian, male. If you don't fit that mold and you 'dare' to rise above your station that they think you should be at, then that makes you an "elite" in their worldview.
Because they believe in a hierarchal structure to society, and that there are those who not only deserve to be on top, but that anyone else "daring" to rise up to the top must be pushed back down by any means necessary. And the reason why they (which is to say the white, straight, rich, conservative, Christian, male) is not considered an 'elite' in their minds is because such a person is inherently *supposed* to be on top of society by default. And when he/they aren't, then clearly it is the system "rigged" against them because of "The Elite" keeping them down.
Case and point: Look at how conservatives lost their collective minds in 2008 when Obama was elected, then lost their minds *again* when Trump LOST in 2020. Both things basically boil down to the same (so-called) "issue" in their brains: The "wrong" kind of person was put in charge over the "correct" kind of person, ergo it must mean that the system is being rigged against us. (Rather than just admitting that, y'know, they lost and aren't actually popular; but that would mean admitting to actually thinking of their political opponents as being 'people' at all)
Like every (R) grievance or claim of victimhood....its really just a confession. Projection always and forever.
Hello, I DID DATA ENTRY FOR THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION! I am very happy to say that I was part of an actual accident that set the Foundation back extremely when it comes to small donors. While I never did much with big donors (except the pedo), their system was complete trash. Thousands of lines of donor information was corrupted or lost. So, uh, your welcome for my and another lady's incompetence. Lol
lol. Thank you for your service.
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Dog you should prolly delete this comment before they CIA your ass
You have done more good for our country than 99.9% of democratic congresspeople lol
This is what happens when corruption is legalized and glorified and when freedom becomes a synonym for property.
At least now I know what the panic over "socialism" is all about. Rougher, more dangerous working conditions, and corporate corner-cutting with intent to threaten the public as gravely as possible. I wonder whether even Joe McCarthy would feel good about perpetuating all that premature death.
Wonder how long before they bring back "the right to own slaves" in their "freedom" obsessed talking points.
Aren’t property rights human rights?
@@johndrew9382 Yes, but when billionaires' "property" amounts to being free of taxation while resulting government & household debt soars to dangerous levels. 40 years of "job creating tax cuts that pay for themselves" has yielded the bulk of those jobs being created outside America to the gain of no one but foreign workers and C-suites also paying less taxes.
Regular Americans can't possibly pay that 40 year accrued debt, we certainly didn't receive the promised benefits.
@@Mark-ef7pi You mean they’re not following the the tax law? if it’s free of taxation it’s because Congress has created loopholes. How many people do you know that say I don’t think I’m paying enough in taxes I’m going to write a big check?
As someone who works for a large, underfunded charity, these think tanks and foundations makes my blood boil. With the $31 million that the Heritage Foundation brought in, I could fund my organization full scale for 41 years.
I know the feeling. We're trying to start an organization that helps recently freed convicts obtain union apprenticeships or educational opportunities. Sadly, but unsurprisingly, the good Christians people would rather give to Trump or organizations like this.
And it’s a tax write-off!! That just bites! 🤨
@@GladeSwope technically Mabey but there so overworked that its doesn't matter and like you said one good vacation for the head and its all goes "into the system"
@@markmoseley5083Folls who have “paid their debt to society” have a tough time even finding employment. What is your org? I’d happily make a donation.
@@GladeSwope Why do you think the republicans have worked to systematically defund and hamstring the IRS? Why do you think they're willing to shut down the government to try and remove the IRS' current funding?
Its no coincidence that the name "Heritage Foundation" smells uniquely American Fascist. Whether this is on purpose, or has developed along the way? I'm still not sure.
So many have ironic names like "moms for liberty" and "freedom caucus". Heritage sounds uniquely fasc
I actually think they're being unironic. They're dead serious. Conservatives, in my experience, are humorless and have a profound lack of self-awareness. Just my opinion.
It was always to move away from the Washington consensus, but the early days of the Heritage Foundation were not explicitly fascist.
They needed Joseph Coors' money who was the president of Coors Brewing company... As in the idiot who asked employees to pass a lie detector test... As in the idiot who paid out of his pocket to help the Contra affairs. Turns out that this guy had moral limits! So Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan were okay for Joseph Coors, but fascist and Nazi were not.
However, Paul Weylrich was there at the beginning and Weylrich was often associated with Lazlo Pasztor in Eastern Europe back in these days... As in Arrow cross party's Pasztor. And was known to be really soft on Domionism.
So you can see how easy it would be to move from Goldwater to harder right to fascistic as this organization becomes less dependent on Coors' money.
Some of this may or may not explain why the heritage foundation sounds like a bunch of drunks... 😅
Oh, it was on purpose alright...
Your delusional, tf you mean heritage foundation sounds fascist🤣
Heritage foundation has also played a major role in the rise of the “gender critical” anti-trans bigotry in the UK. They’ve directly funded and supported terf rhetoric
It is time for Republicans to start thinking for themselves and recognize the harm they are doing to people, the nation and their ideals.
About as likely as fish to start breathing through lungs
Asking a GOP'r to think for themselves is like asking a bear to shit in a toilet.
The TRUTH is they don’t care.
Here's the scary reality. We're likely to turn into more conservative people as we age, just like our grandparents. My elderly in-laws do not have the white brain matter anymore to sort out lies on social media. They rely on fear to survive, because they literally lack the software to solve complex problems any other way. Without information moderation, we are doomed to be tricked (just like they were) into these crowd funding scams that do irreparable harm. Section 230 ensures taking advantage of the vulnerable with disinformation is always going to be profitable for internet platforms. When we rely on Elon Musk to sort our information on the internet, we are getting the library we deserve.
@@freedomishavingachoice3020 "We're likely to turn into more conservative people as we age, just like our grandparents." I don't believe that to be true. What I do believe is that at a certain age, most people stop growing mentally. Let's call it about the time we stop going to school, whether it be college, high school, or sooner. Think about the music people favor. It is almost always the music that was popular during their late teens and early twenties. The same goes for just about everything else, except for their body fat percentage. So, we don't grow more conservative, we stay how we were in our early twenties while all younger people accept society's progression until they are in their early twenties. By the time we are in our sixties, we are about 40 years behind the times. But we did not regress to being like our grandparents, or even like our parents, who would be about 65 years behind the times.
Every liberal paying attention knows about the connection with the Heritage Foundation, conservative money, going back to Powell and Reagan. Every piece of legislation, Court ruling, and social issue has their finger prints on it.
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Gotta love how every looney GOP policy tracks right back to Big Double R.
To quote another destructive lunatic "I hate him PASSIONATELY."
Literally every week I learn something new about Reagan that intensifies my hate for him.
yep, he was merged with that women's movement killing bitch, Phyllis Schlafly, and the religious right under funding by the Koch Bros. This whole thing got started with that asshole, racist economist, James Buchanan and has global reach. It's all in 'Democracy in Chains' a must read!!!!
Reagan was definitely an awful religious conservative.
Raggedy Ronald. People were trying to sound the alarm about that mutherf_____ back then, but America was too enamored with The Great Script Reader/Human Teleprompter. We’ve been going downhill ever since.
@@randibgoodBid double R? Ronald Regan?
So they don’t want Socialism, but instead want Fascism. So much for my oath to the Constitution when I enlisted in the Army in 1998 and then retired in 2019. BTW love the Led Zeppelin shirt.
It's beyond me to understand how ANY veterans or current service members or any of their family members could ever support that TRE45ONOUS 5 time DRAFT DODGER after all he has done to our national security.
Thank you for your service? 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
They want socialism for the rich, rugged, individualistic capitalism for the rest of us.
So, 'socialism' is when workers aren't maimed and k1lled on the job...Gosh.
Good fascism is the future. That won’t happen though because the gop is weak and cowardly.
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Yup.. His name is ALAC. Oops..
My bad.. ALEC...
Among other crazy groups of rich folks..
Vote EVERY TWO YEARS. Get to know your state and local policies.
Yeah, you do that. This way, instead of being upset every 4 years, you can be upset every 2 when you realize that the state system is just as corrupt and stacked against you as the federal one!
Correction. Vote every year. Federal, state, municipal, town, schoolboard, sheriff, any local election. Most Americans are not aware of changes to their local government often occur by ballot questions
I have been mentioning that the fact that we have to many election dates gives many people election fatigue and turns down votes. I would look to have maybe 1 or two election dates say every 4 or 5 years. It would make it much more important.
Also, have online voting options where you can vote from anywhere. As well making election dates on weekends would also help.
Wonderful suggestion that will probably be taken by no one. You don't understand the root causes of why people don't vote or know about their state and local policies. I live in Maine where we have early voting, which is great because I work the night shift and would never be able to get somewhere on voting day, but not everyone has such opportunities. And I am not aware of "state and local policies" because those are found on the local news (I don't watch it because I don't have cable and can't stream it) or in local newspapers which I can't afford. Or maybe I could talk to friends about it if I weren't deaf. I imagine a lot of people have the same problems, even the ones who can hear fine.
I'll bet you think this comment is super helpful, and maybe it would be if you understood and empathized with the actual challenges to those ideas. And you'd probably need to spend more than half a minute on making your comment.
Voting won't change anything. All it does is reinforce the dam that holds back the crazies. So yes, definitely vote, but don't expect it to affect any real change. If you want changes, join or form a worker union.
I have been surprised that more people haven't been talking about project 2025. With how much sway the Heritage Foundation has over the republican platform its scary. So thank you for covering this.
I try to tell everyone to read Project 2025. People are no paying attention.
You would think that the one party we can vote for that's against this would be sounding the alarm. Huh, weird. Almost like they're not qualified to stop it.
Project 2025 was written to convert more people. It's like their Bible and blueprints for their next "steps" which is ultimate extremist religious conservatism. What I found to be the most terrifying after reading 600+ pages of this document was the very clear and laid out plans to take down women's rights and LGBTQ RIGHTS literally stating that anyone who displays being LGBTQ is automatically p0rnograph1c and should be imprisoned for exposing people to it... They also mentioned taking away rights for gays to adopt or be married, taking away medical and decent systems and replacing them with RELIGIOUS programs instead like gender affirming care could be changed to CIS conversion therapy. I seriously had a very bad mental breakdown after reading 600+ pages of that in less than a week. I also told people to read it and they ignored me and said I was overreacting. As a trans, autistic person project 2025 is literally like a horror book
I think it's because Dem Party leaders don't care as much about winning as they do with preserving their own privileged status. Because even if the GOP wins, they'll still be sitting pretty. Let's face it --- both parties are Wall Street parties and they both serve corporate power.
Extremely enlightened. You know a foundation has reach when it sends the president a list of potential justices. Wow
The Cato Institute is also poweful in a terrifying way. According to Christopher Leonard, the Cato Institute and Mercatus Center have been insanely influentual in Regulatory Policies.
It goes further for groups like the federalist society. Not only did they judge shop via appeals with the antichoice disinformation, but they paid the tuition for multiple judges, which is somehow not a bribe at all because they weren't judges yet. I'm sure you wouldn't ever rule in favor of the groups who backed your education, right?
@@FuckKKKonservatives111you're goddamn right
@@MichaelShulskiCato, to its credit, generally opposed Trump and Trumpism.
@@FuckKKKonservatives111that's a little far
Let us not forget that the Heritage Foundation has been feeding Right-wing radio talk show hosts for as long as Right-wing talk radio became a thing in the eighties. Sean Hannity tends to reliably spout Hertitage Foundation talking points and has throughout his career.
You don't think the "left" does the same with the ADL and SPLC? It's all the same? They're all the same people.
Deport Hannity!!!! He's A Traitor Of Democracy.
He Doesn't Deserve Citizenship, After Knowingly, Betraying The American Citizenry. He's A Lying, Treasonous,
Wannabe Ologarch. Grifting The American People..
When We,All Know That He Lied! Straight Up! Blessings And Truth For All.
As I have already watched the 20-25 project video, I sat down to watch this one braced for what was next. A lot of people comment how they grab a coffee and sit down to watch. I grabbed a beer. As soon as I heard “christian right” and “moral majority”, I ,as I always do in such a circumstance, wanted to throw-up. By the end of the video, I knew I had made a mistake. Next time, I’ll grab a Scotch
LMBO! 🤣
Why? There's nothing wrong with Christianity. Moral majority doesn't mean anything as morality is nebulous. It's just word salad.
You're so indoctrinated that you actually hate the very people you should be uniting with. Division is what politicians want. They're the real enemy.
Yes, in addition to ending dark money, public funding of all campaigns, ending the ludicrous idea and laws that say Corporations are people. . .
We need the Fairness Doctrine back and updated.
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Like stopping AIPAC as well too and restores diversity of opinions to Democrat party and MSM.
I'm glad to see someone on UA-cam start to shine a spotlight on these policy farms and the God awful reach they have. Maybe do the Manhattan Institute next.
Is the war poverty going any better then the war on drugs . Only less 1% of people on government assistance actually get of poverty. And it's because they actually wanted to and it's horrible to reform welfare so that if focuses on those people.
. Yet we can make better impact on war on poverty and war on drugs by giving less money to those give it to the drug cartel
Unfortunately, it ignores what is really powering all this. Let’s at least have a debate about the tens of millions of mentally stunted citizens who are enabling all this.
@@wisdom9091aw hon, are you lost or did you forget your medication this morning?
@@wisdom9091 its not anything like that. Im going to explain something to you and if you dont get it the first time, please re-read it.
You have been fed a bunch of lies about both drugs and welfare. Most people on welfare stay in poverty because there are so few ways to get out of it that just giving them enough money to be able to eat and not be homelss is not so bad. You need to look at welfare as "we the people" (you, me, your grandma...everyone) subsidizing the crap pay that businesses give people. This may shock you but most people on assistance....have jobs!!!! they just dont make enough..I know what you are going to say "Just find a different job."
Ill run right down to homeless shelter and tell them that. Im sure they will just slap their foreheads and say "damn, why didnt I think of that!?"
It isnt that easy. The assumption you are making is there are enough good jobs for people to move up into. This also kinda cracks the head of the meritacrcy thing. I'll let you come to that one on your own.
The war on poverty actually really helped man. You should look it up sometime. We just happen to have two rightwing parties that have worked hard to ensure that the war on poverty is just enough to ensure that companies have a steady feed of extremely precariously living people that will accept the terms.
very coercive hunh?
Good idea to tackle the Manhattan Institute. I would say we should do the Family Research Council and The Alliance Defending Freedom next as well.
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How can project on the net tax payers on not paying their fair share and oppose reforming the those system to those getting tax payer assistance have to pay something back. Do realize the the recent job numbers. The same week we came so close to a shutdown prove lot on government assistance just don't wanna work
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Take a deep breath and try that again. Because unless there is a translation available, your word salad makes zero sense.
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@@Smartass012 perhaps try laying off the tequila before trying to express yourself...
In Canada, The Fraser Institute is a direct offshoot of the Heritage Foundation in the US. THe Frazer Institute is a hard right Canadian think tank that the Canada Conservatives Party love to use in forming their toxic policies. Needless to say, the Heritage institute has other toxic subsidiaries operating in Australia, New Zealand, England and European Economic Community at large. All these organizations are linked to the Koch Family Foundation
What about them is hard right
So they're trying to influence the English speaking world..... Greeeeat 😢
Hate is hard right.
Go Leeja! Your country needs you. "Philanthropy" is the use of wealth garnered from the poor and powerless ("To he who has shall more be given..." etc.) and used against them to shape the world they have to endure.
A side note: Percentages have become the most evil and insidious tool the rich and powerful. A 10% tax cut for someone on $20,000 = $2,000. The same percentage tax cut on $200,000 = $20.000 and the same on $2,000,000 = $200,000. A very neat bookkeeping trick of transferring wealth by stealth while disingenuously keeping up appearances.
Thanks for this. It's absolutely terrifying. I believe this a continuation of earlier organizations like the John Birch Society. Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.
I've never understood how the 1A gives anyone the right to fund these think tanks anonymously. The public's interest in transparency should outweigh individual privacy interests. We have the right to know exactly who is paying these people to push their agenda.
Sorry, but that sounds EXTREMELY fascist. "The interests of the many outweigh the rights of the few." Big yikes, my dude.
@@TheDespicablePatriotthat’s exactly the opposite of fascism. Are you naturally this stupid or do you do it professionally?
Ruling from the Bench....
There is a reason the Heritage foundation primarily targeted there.
@MrTempest365 how about rephrasing it: individual CORPORATION interests? Because these billionaires are not really acting on their own little platforms, but as representatives OF their massive corporation?
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You are so far from the mark, I wonder if your being disingenuous with this strawmen.
I am going to suggest looking up the concept of Sousvalience and how it has empowered us to take on actual Fascists. For it is almost like these types of government, that you clearly are fearful of, dislike freedom-of-information because it means they can not control the message. For the reality, the history, of fascist governments has always been in the interest of a tiny few over the well being of the many.
Try a different strawman, next time:
It looks foolish that you claim putting the welfare of the many over the elite is fascist....
Election winners make the laws, set the punishments, and shape the judiciary. Help Democrats get elected. Neutrality helps the oppressor.
Reminder, despite gerrymandering and the electoral college, many seats are winner take all. Your vote matters. Governors, US Senate, and many judges are statewide winner take all. Don't let gerrymandering and electoral college convince you to sit any race out.
And please, please take your local school board elections seriously. Make sure the Moms For Liberty nut jobs don’t get seated on school boards!
Get dark money out of politics, AND stop exempting donations from taxes. Maybe just over a certain amount, or maybe altogether. It's kinda insane that they are tax deductible to begin with.
THIS
Show me a single candidate who espouses this ideology. And I'll vote them in.
Wait. That was Bernie. And neolibs did everything they could, to prevent his Presidency. Granted, Bernie didn't fight back as hard as he should've.
Great idea! And unactionable. Yeah, I'll get to work on the vague idea of "getting dark money out of polics". Leeja at least had the right idea of suggesting that we vote for politicians who will regulate themselves, because that's a step in doing that. But none of us can "stop exempting donations from taxes", so you're really aiming this at the wrong people.
@@Starcrash6984 Leeja herself said to 'get dark money out of politics'. I was echoing that while suggesting the more actionable policy of canceling tax exemptions for donations. I basically critiqued her the way you're trying to do to me, but added a suggestion for something better to do.
Maybe watch the video again.
Nothing sweeping like that or MFA or free college etc will happen nationally. State by state is where we should aim. Once the bluer states get it then the red states might follow suit, or once enough states get it then maybe it can be nationalized despite the best attempts of conservatives.
@@Jcewazhere Duh. I did watch the video, because I even cited what she said on this topic. "Maybe read the comment again."
"Canceling tax exemptions for donations" is not "actionable policy" because _we_ don't create policy. _Politicians_ create policy. Did I not already explicitly state this very obvious thing?
Just one of the reasons the rich and corporations fear and hate unions it gives the working class a voice !
I used to think that the heritage foundation primarily managed the historical sites in America such as museums. Boy was I wrong.
Nope. But they are the reason why history is no longer taught in public schools. Destroying public education and creating an ignorant electorate is a huge goal for them.
More like maintaining the slavemaster class. And now it is actually White Supremacy branded by the dog whistle “anti-woke”
"Heritage" is thinly veiled racism for "whatever we deem to be OUR heritage"
It's crazy seeing the Heritage Foundation be this influential. My small school was one of their *sports rivals* as a kid, and I never thought I would have to hear about them again so much as an adult
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
Louis D. Brandeis
Thanks. This was very well presented! The Heritage Foundation is clearly a very effective lobby organization for the wealthy and religious right.
And one major thing they seem to do is to influence state legislators, who get very little media coverage. Speaking of which; my state passed a law, which permits concealed carry without and training. I see no useful purpose for this, except that they want ignorant people to kill one another, specifically, black people. I helped someone a few years ago, who taught the state required, concealed carry license. the class dealt with safety and legal matters.
Yes. This floors me! In the interest of their "God given" right to avoid any regulation of guns - we all have to live with the results of increasing gun violence.@@yurei8
Except their end goal is violent overthrow and world domination.
I've never clicked on a video so fast, much love to you from Norway, my fellow left wing nut job💪🏻🤟🏻❤
There's a very strong link between the Heritage Foundation and Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan. Hillsdale College is an incubator for a lot of these neoliberal conservative ideas. And it was beloved by Rush Limbaugh who donated huge sums of money to it and has a building named for him.
It was a big culture shock to grow up and find out the heritage foundation is a right wind think tank, their name came up before all the pbs kids shows i watched when i was little. "Bought to you by the heritage foundation, and viewers like you". Like damn I thought they were with us.
Oh man, I'd totally forgotten about that! Dang.
I’m pretty sure they still do.
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That just enforces how right wing or right leaning everything is.
Leeja, you should run for office. I see so many brilliant UA-camrs out here educating folks on these shady organizations and the harm they've done to not just Americans but countries around the world. People like Leeja, Dr. Glauckomflecken, Sam Seder and others are exactly the type of people we need in office. I've never missed an election but I'm tired of always voting the least harmful person rather than someone I can say reflects my positions, beliefs and values. I'm being sincere when I say Leeja Miller, you should seek political office.
No, Leeja, stay where you are. But anyone who wants someone else to run for office should think about doing it themselves. I'm happy to tell you why you shouldn't, but I'm also happy to tell you why you should.
She absolutely should, but she would be putting herself in grave danger of being murdered by conservatives. They despise intelligent articulate women like her.
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Could we stop suggesting that people run for office just because they're good at media presentations? Jon Stewart gets this a lot too, and hell, I'm sure even personalities on the conservative side do as well.
We don't need these folks in a role where they have to win the favor of their opposition. We need them doing what they do best, all guns blazing. Find your 'run for office' people in your local government or state legislature. They already have experience with the political process. Where do you think the right gets theirs?
@@scarpfish This is right wing bogus. She's a lawyer who does her research, she already knows how the political process operates. The people in local and state governments are bad people, that's exactly the problem.
I do think you should run for office. Because you can do both and running for office as a temporary position. It should not be a courier, so implementing some changes and fighting for others. You can do from an office perspective. And then once you get out of office, you could always consult and workless people in government. The difference between the dangerous politicians who do it now. And what I'm describing is that you should. Actually, lobby on behalf of the people rather than your pocket book.
I really appreciate your ability to explain complex matters so efficiently. Thank you.
How people get cancelled for speaking against left talking points. Why is hates against groups of left . But hate speech form important conversation why does TV push left wing talking points
It's mindblowing to witness the way in which some people's greed for power & wealth has no limits & the lengths they'll go to, to fulfill that greed.
The problem with just telling people to “get out and vote” is what you said right before that: the Electoral College. Only people who live in swing states have a statistical likelihood of affecting the presidential election. For congressional representatives and local elections, we have lots of other barriers - namely single-seat districts and plurality voting. So the first step to fixing all of these issues has to be electing people at the local level who will support voting reforms, and one we have sufficient support at the local level push these reforms up to the state and then federal levels. _Hopefully_ with enough grass-roots advocacy and willing legislators, we can eventually pass a Constitutional amendment to replace the Electoral College with a popular vote for President … but that’s going to be a very long-term objective.
Great video. I think one of the big problems in understanding American politics is that the media seems to portray conservatism, as if it is a grassroots movement. However, that is like trying to understand, geology without having an understanding of plate tectonics.
Nice analogy. ❤
Spoilers: Yes, Reagan, again.
BTW, I'd be also interested in law and the rise of the current (broken) Health care insurance system. (Which would also involve Reagan, if I understand correctly)
Nixon allowed healthcare to become a for-profit industry.
ETA: But I'm sure Reagan made it worse.
yes.
Yes. The health insurance system k1lls.
P.s. Dr Glaucomflecken did a series on the health insurance industry in September.
Known this for 30 years, thanks for explaining it as well as you did.
I think their biggest issue... is focusing on returning us to the 1800s regulation and being involved in people's personal freedom.
Really funny. For my phd thesis i looked into the heritage foundation a bit today, and now I come home and I see this video
Well, now you have another source to cite.
What are you writing your thesis about?
@@erzsebetkovacs2527 about expert advisory groups for medical issues like the acip in the us. How they are organised, justify recommendations and so on. And of course, i looked a bit into think tanks and their influence in politics as they are very close, and of course, the heritage foundation is an obvious example of problematic influence of "expert groups". So today i spend my lunch break to look a bit through their homepage and read a few articles abt them.
This is a very thorough and well thought video that should be a college course so we can bring back critical thinking on who votes, rather that brainwashed sheep that follow what their device tells them to from social media. You're amazing Leeja, thank you
It's even more evident what kind of power they yield with the recent discoveries of "gifts" to Clarence Thomas', I would also bet the other Conservative Justices receive similar "gifts". It also begs the question what other Courts are influenced?
It only means corruption and bribery is no longer outlawed
Only corruption and bribery huh?@@Demopans5990
Great break down as always counserler.
Thank you for the Project 2025 and for this video as well.
Pretty sure there is nothing cheerful about this whole thing.
Please vote blue, everyone, while we still can.
Audre Lorde once wrote that "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house". As proponents of communal democracy, it is vital that we remember that the oppressive systems we endure and the right-wing organizations (described in this video) that create them will not be effectively challenged by a "leftist heritage foundation or state policy network" but instead by cooperative community institutions engaging in a wide range of mutual aid, political organizing, reform lobbying, and justice advocacy. Voting is only one tool in our theoretical tool kit, but as Leeja explains, it's crucial to the health the state and political structures (ie. laws, regulatory agencies, etc.) that have so much influence over our lives.
Never heard that quote but it makes sense.
A leftist version of the Heritage Foundation would be the reform lobbying, and justice advocacy parts, wouldn't it?
Again thanks Leeja for doing the deep dive for us common folk. It's so disturbing, and so sad that many of us have had to distance ourselves from family and friends who refuse to see the truth of the fascist takeover of our jusges and politics.
God knows I've tried to reach and and be calm. Logic no longer works.
I’ll never understand how this shit is all public info and we still have working class people who vote Republican and aggressively defend the party
I love it when a new leeja video drops in time for me to watch it while I eat lunch
Morning coffee for meee!! 🎉
I get a 30 minute and 2 10's so I watch a bit, think about it while working, watch more, think about that, then do the same again.
I find it helps me fully understand the video lol
You rock, Leeja. Your videos are so very well done. Respect and much love and thanks!
The bottom line about billionaires is that nobody tells them, "no".
I suppose 'heritage foundations' was better marketing than the 'oligarchy foundation'.
It is very enlightening, very satisfying, to be walked through this by someone who does actually know what they're talking about. Thank you Leeja ~ you are a breath of fresh air.
I should in honesty, preface this with a disclaimer. I am not an American, I am a 60 year old Australian invalid pensioner living in Brisbane. I lean left, but politicians are, well ~ they're politicians. I guess it's better if they sprout an ideology I like, but they're still politicians ~
If I may be so bold, I ask a question. I know who the Chair Person of the Republican National Congress is. That's Rana, who doesn't use her actual surname because that might be contentious. That's public. I don't know who ANYBODY ELSE in the RNC is. I have tried to look, but that seems to be a secret.
Are they grand high wizzard with oak-leaves and diamonds in the KKK?
Are they all owners of fire-arm companies and what remains of the tobacco industry? I know there's a multilayer connection between the RNC and the National Rifle Assoc. I also hear the NRA was used as a conduit to smuggle money in from Russia to fund the Trump election in '16....
This clip has joined another of yours on my list of Favourite Clips.
There was a scandal at the NRA when it was revealed that NRA executives especially the chairman had been embezzling hundreds of millions of dollars from donations in order to finance a jet-setting billionaire lifestyle much like that of Trump campaign manager and Putin asset Paul Manafort. The financial crimes were so extreme that the NRA was facing bankruptcy. That story seemed to just fade away and the NRA continued in their evil activities, and it was later quietly mentioned that the org. had been bailed out by .....two Russian oligarchs who donated enough to make up for all the stolen money and make the NRA solvent again. Naturally, police were not involved in any of this, because they don't interfere with, arrest, or investigate anything right wing, including terrorist groups. Sorry about the essay, but more attention should be payed to the influence of Putin and Putin's anti-democracy operation through financing of right wing groups by Russian oligarchs. Groups like the proud boys would be nothing but skinheads meeting in an alley were it not for the financing and support from the Putin regime. All the right wing think tanks, PACs, white nationalist terrorists and the Republican party are being financed by the Russian oligarchs--it's part of Putin's plan to damage or destroy democracy in the West. They have delivered the Trump election, Brexit, and now the propaganda campaign against supporting Ukraine in order to damage NATO. Here in Canada, it's the same way. Every crackpot right wing hate group now has the ability to organize nation-wide protests and slick public relations all for the purpose of electing a conservative general gov't, which hasn't happened in a long time because their policies and direction has been taken over by the pro-Trump racist fringe anti-vax nutjobs and most voters are turned off by them.. They are a minority but a very loud one, but they are a threat to our country's existence.
I want to bring the the name of a man named David Bossie, (USA). he was a main figure in the Citizen's United Supreme Court case, that allowed unlimited money from corporation to politics. he was a senior advisor on Trump 2016 presidential campaign. Look out for anything he is involved in US politics.
Just because she parrots what you want to hear doesn't mean she knows wtf she talking about goober.
@@dogfaceponysoldier She is a licensed attorney. And she produces videos on different subjects which require research and detailed analysis. I have great respect for her views. If you have some different facts, I can respect them to consider them. But I doubt it.
@@dogfaceponysoldier Your side is the one that bans ideas that they don't want to hear. Case in point; Critical Race Theory. That theory take the focus away from individual racism, and puts focus on system practices, which are part of history. This is not elementary school material.
Meanwhile, some on your side, have claimed that black people have no history. And at the same coverup negative events of history. So the right is the side, that only recognizes what they want to hear.
Canadian here. I wish you all luck on making these changes to dark money involvement reality.
This is great, Leeja! The Heritage Foundation has had its hand in some of the worst policies of the last 50 years. So glad you covered this topic. It makes me wonder: What are the liberal think tanks?
Wiki "List of Think Tanks in the US". There are far fewer center and center-left organizations than right/conservative think tanks. I think this comes down to the right using them to warp reality in service of monied interests vs. literally everyone else using them to advance humanity.
@@michaeltaylor5451they have to use these think-tanks to come up with ideas on how to get stupid people to vote for them and against their own best left, the true left doesn't need that. most decent human beings don't need that.
Plus a lot more people who fund think tanks (billionaires and millionaires) tend to be Republican/conservative/right-wing instead of the opposite.
The Heritage Foundation is the reason our present world is such a shit storm
It’s time we start taking a serious look at our non-profit laws. They are abused by so many different groups, from churches to politics to flat-out fraudsters.
We need to stop shady companies in our politics
I came here for the inevitable "Our friend, Ronald Reagan!" And was pleasantly surprised that she put the Powell Memorandum on blast. 10/10.
I'm so pleased by the conclusion here. Fixing campaign finances, dark money, so that positions and ideas determine a candidate's credibility instead of how much money they can bring in will fix so many problems in this country. Those polls reflect what we deserve. The voting public knows what we want, and we keep getting candidates that we don't want in part because of how money influences elections. Great video.
Leeja is crankin these videos out in record time
I would like to volunteer or work for an organization that will help to ban dark money from the govt. This has been something that has been making me so angry for years. Does anyone have any suggestions for such an organization? Thanks!
Wolf-Pac.
I appreciate the bleakness, Leeja. Comforting lies or half-truths got us into this awful situation. It'll take confronting ideas a hell of a lot bleaker than these to get us back out.
Untill dark money is eliminated from politics democracy is in great danger.
I have family and friends that have fallen down the conspiracy rabbit hole, and if I mention the heritage foundation they look at me like I'm the crazy one...
What conspiracy theories
Thank you to Leeja for putting together and making these videos on these very important political topics that many people know bits of information about, but don't fully understand or notice how it all works together. Best regards!
They are already writing a lot of pur legislation. I find it horrifying that so many of our representatives are abdicating their responsibilities to outside organizations
This is partly due to the radical right's evil plot for total domination as well. The more they defund government, the fewer positions there are for research and policy writing within the government. So they rely on outside sources, like lobbyists, to do it for them. This is an area where a democracy-focused non-profit could really help by providing this service to receptive Democrats (who are the only ones interested in democracy any more.)
My favourite part of the Heritage Foundation is in the documentary about Ralph Nader when the guy says "corporations really don't have that much power, in a global economy they may get a little tax break but thats about it".
Then it cuts to Ralph Nader saying "these corporations are the guys complaining that their glass is only 98% full".
I met a tea party candidate for whom I had only one question. Not only did he have no idea what I was talking about. But he scheduled an outdoor event that could have killed his own children. I asked him what he thought about the refurbishment of the USS enterprise just to sell it for scrap/razors a year later. I told him that he should get his children off the swing set. He wheeled on me with a vengeance asking WHY! At that very second an enormous bolt of lightning struck less than 200 yards away. So he scheduled an outdoor event during an awsome storm. Thank goodness he lost the election. And was never heard from again. Since then I have not seen any compromises in the house and Senate. Compromise is the first nessecity of government. Am i wrong. You can't compromise with a fool. Again, am I wrong?
The first necessity of a DEMOCRATIC government.
...These people want minority rule, not democratic compromise.
Ummm
We don't need the Enterprise anymore as we're building a new one. On top of that, we give killer deals on military surplus. So what? It's been done since forever. We don't give things away for free, because other would be in debt to us. So, we take something in exchange so there's no perceived power imbalance. How much money have we given to Ukraine? We're never going to see that money or munitions back. At least whoever is buying the Enterprise will see some economic boost from it (plus, we don't have to deal with it).
Who are you tell another man how to handle his children? Maybe he got mad at you because your arrogance is apparent and is annoying due to your condescension? Maybe learn how to talk to people.
Thank you for making a large amount of complicated information consumable / understandable. Great work!
Thank you for doing the research and condensing the facts for the rest of us.
I've watched several of your videos and my goodness it is really good! Well researched. Well explained. I appreciate the hard work you and your staff put into each submission.
It’s scary watching this from the U.K. given how much our politics is turning into yours. Though at least there’s memes to be had about the revolving door in Number 10 (thankfully not for its best inhabitant. Larry the official Mouser).
I mean labor in the UK is pretty far left
@@crazyeight9 No. They’re centre left and drifting right. And it’s Labour.
The reason this happens most people are good people. We don’t recognize there are evil people. We should a lot of them take your friends, potential mate, screw you over for a promotion. A lot of people are not good. We need to realize that.
@@katashworth41 no labour seems Pretty far left. They seem to be for uncontrolled migration and pretty much socialism. The democrats are definitely not nearly as left wing as labour
@@crazyeight9 really? Migration is all you're basing your argument on? Labour are centrist at best.
A couple of months ago, I was Googling for data on gender affirming care and mental health. The top result was transphobic article from the Heritage Foundation. The guy who wrote the article did not have a background in health or medicine, and he is opposed to gay marriage. I wonder why that article contradicted credible sources, like the APA, JAMA, Harvard, etc! 🤔
Thank You for shedding some light on this topic. Yes, I am old enough to remember fully the Watergate trial. I have noticed the change in the Republican Party and how they handle, especially the position of Presidency and how it goes against the Constitution. Of course as we all know, the path to the Presidency, does start in the states and its disctricts. So we never had a doubt it started there.👏👏👏
Most of what the Heritage Found would encourage, like dark money, federalist judges and definitely funding justices in exchange for rulings like Thomas and Alito, actually go against the Constitution.
The spiritual transfer of the two parties was definitely becoming visible by the 1950's. Reagan really embraced pre Civil War policies. De- regulation, trickle down theory, were actually a way of markets, workplaces and taxation of corporate/industrial America before the Civil War and would never prosper America in the market, trade, taxation system we have today. When the Civil War took place, we did not have Social Security or Federal Personal Income tax. Today, it would actually have workers paying more than corporates and wealth in taxes,yet making far less wages. Its a way of keeping slavery. It creates "oligarchy" by manipulating wealth of the nation and buys corporates their say in legislation. Which is why groups like the NRA think their britches are bigger than what they are, now.
I am so happy to have found your channel. You make it very easy to explain certain things to cult members in my family in plain, easily understandable terms, and you provide receipts.
I can’t express how much I appreciate your videos. Honestly I haven’t seen all that many, however, I have done enough fact checking to know your someone completely worthy of an audience. I’d like to see you as a guest on mainline news media
Wow, yet another thing from the Reagan era that is actively continuing to make life unlivable in this country unless you're in the 1%. BARF 🤮🤮🤮
Also, love those ultra-wide glasses you tried on last. Definitely keepers!
We really have to charge these monsters. As we see them rise.
We've never had a democracy, Leeja. The folks who debated the draft of the Constitution were terrified of democracy (especially after Shays Rebellion) and demanded a government that catered to the upper class with some input from people in the working class who owned at least some property. They were more enamored with the Roman Republic and they were honest about it.
.... And all men were created equal..
Woman couldn't vote & black folks couldn't handle a gun... Gottit
We have what is more actively described as a *representative* democracy. We vote for the representatives who apply the policies that typically the people support. Those people that we elect are also a part of the election of the chief executive, the president.
So while it's not a democracy in the traditional sense, even being called "indirect" democracy, there is SOME power for the people. The issue is, finding the pure people who are going up for representation.
Love your work, we gotta get this out to people!
The staffing. My god. I didn’t connect that until today. I presume other presidents know some and get advice on others, trying to make things somewhat balanced. But of course trump wouldn't have that, and of COURSE he'd favor an "academic" that inflates his ego.
It amuses me to remeber Trump saying that he would hire only the best people for his administration, then go on to fill up the executive branch with Heritage Foundation stooges. And then how often he talked about his hires as stupid, incompetent, bad people. Not many people connected the dots to realize that Trump simply hired off a list that was handed to him. Just like his Supreme Court nominees.
We must get rid of the electoral college.
In order to abolished the electoral college. America has to criminalize Conservativism
This is very scary stuff. Thank you for speaking out about this.
"Babe wake up, Leeja uploaded another awesome video" is what I'd say if my wife cared about what I watch 😅
But for real, YAY!
She should. Leeja is peak.
i watch leeja with my wife’s boyfriend all the time!
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I love the facts.
No views. No "I think".
Just facts. Simple
What about the fact that we are ignoring the 10's of millions of citizens who are enthusiastically supporting these harmful ideologies and those of us who recognize that this actually is harmful are not even debating HOW large numbers of our fellow citizens came to think this way? Kinda important, wouldn't you agree? We need to go beyond just criticizing them and characterizing them with insulting names, and begin a public discussion about understanding it and what to do about it.
@@UnMoored_ That's why we follow this channel.
@@ItsDannyRobbins That would be great if one of her future videos focuses on connecting some of these dots together.
@@UnMoored_ Absolutely!
Leeja opens the eyes. Opens the consciousness. Facts
In the spirit of openness....... I'm not an American citizen.😛
I am though fascinated by how mainstream media pushes an agenda. Left or Right.
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Shine that light and watch the roaches run.
The willful ignorance of the people allows the greasy wheels.
Unfortunately, the accurate portrayal of Clinton demonstrates what we can still expect from Democratic presidents. The most conservative forces in the party hierarchy strain what they don't want before it ever rises to that level. Realize that if you're just going to vote, it won't be enough.
Leeja, you rock! Love the content !
This was easily with the most terrifying videos I’ve ever seen. They’ve developed a perfect machine for seizing power. The Heritage Foundation thinks for them and leaves it up to the republican party to run the rhetoric machine. So when you put it together you have country that runs on money and a party that has no shame. The only thing that can stop it is a people with pride, dignity and honesty. Good luck.
Brilliant Discourse on this very important matter. Cheers from Michael. Australia.
It's ALL ABOUT CAPITALISM!!! When the basic premise is "Greed is Good," you've got no place to go but down.
Mixed with Judeo-Christian Fundamentalism.
This should be illegal.
I’m from New Zealand, so I usually get your uploads on a Thursday morning each week. They truly are the highlight of my day, I eagerly await them and enjoy how thought provoking they are.
I’ve always suspected that the “I have the right to NOT vote” is a core slogan of those who are too stupid to realise they have been manipulated out of the one last remaining piece of valuable influence they have.
The interesting thing about the name "Heritage" is its a revamp of Confederacy. Alot of Confederate organizations and parks changed their name to heritage to try to scrub their image.
You gotta hand it to them, the Heritage Foundation has permanently poisoned the concept of "think tank".
Thank you for doing videos like this
Correlation between the loss of aid and growth in homelessness shows the actual impact on working class people