Particularly true in his era, when robber barons owned the Supreme Court and the first inklings of calling corporations "people" (with Constitutional rights; the first big crack in our federal legal system), later crystallized by the absurd ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, giving extreme power to corporate interests to influence Congress and other legislative bodies.
@@1313tennisman The blanket "politics" is an inadequate word to the operation or subversion of governance. Say politics, and you could mean A: The debates and discussions of policy with the intent on reaching consensus to draw up laws. B: The conniving and scheaming of political leaders in order to gain advantages on making law or personal wealth and power C: The issuance of public statement in order to placate, rally or pacify the masses to achieve social stability. And so Zappa can speak of one politics while others looking to create positive change speak of another politics while someone complaining about the government speaks of a third politics. The problem is we all just think of politics as B or C and end up throwing A in the trash.
Re: the attack on public education, why doesn’t anyone just quote the obvious anymore? “Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
The history on public education is that it was designed to make kids more productive as factory workers... You're not to be taught critical thinking, to have self-autonomy, to carve your own path, etc. Public education is trash and Liberals need to allow more private schools wth voucher programs, as well as charter schools
Living in Canada I have always been dismayed when I hear Americans say that they have the best and most democratic nation . When anyone I have ever met abroad or in the States who is American doesn't know much about other countries. If I have met them in Europe, they complain about those countries not being like it is in the USA. It IS a dream state they are in
We have the best country in the world, but it is a fucking REPUBLIC, not a democracy. Democracy is what the founding fathers called "mob rule". We have NATURAL RIGHTS. You have them too but have allowed them to be stripped from you and most likely have never heard of the concept.
@@seanpalmer4248I pray that God opens your eyes and ears so you can see and hear the lies and corruption Trump demonstrates. This man is pure evil, but the darkness has not overcome the light. He will not win.
@@JadeDelphimaybe Isreal should get out of the land that they stole from the Palestinians! The biblle isn't real history, it's a man made bs, written by the thefts! Condoned genocide by a fairytale authority. Theres No Messiah! Only humans who what to be gods! And pawn people, with religious lies to die for them! Like trump wants people to die for him! Same male ego! See real history the first punch 1948!
Perlstein is 100% right on. Our current two-party system is a failed antagonistic system. We are seriously in trouble. The oldsters with power can not change. Here comes a battle for our future.
Exactly, the DNC/Democrats/Biden are simply operating Businsess As Usual, like there is nothing really happening any different. They put up a highly unpopular old man that barely beat Trump in 2020 who is now supporting war crimes, killing of thousands of children, women, and even people waving white flags. They have shutdown any possible aternative within the democratic process, the power brokers selecting the candidate. So what can be done? At this point, I can only see anything getting fixed once it gets even worse, since so far it has not gotten bad enough. So let the democrats fail once again, as they are responsible for this situation almost as much of the GOP/Trump.
Wake up brothers and sisters to the light of your own leader, your own spirit. Wake up brothers and sisters to the power of your love, your compassion. We do not need leaders that play chess with our lives.
Read the words. Don’t criticize people’s words by the “vibe” that you, yourself, are putting there. Your leader should be your own spirit. It’s very easy to read it this way. And more charitable. I’m an avid anti religious secularist. We love, we have compassion, we can strive to have a deeper connection to the oneness of humanity without it being “churchy.” Churches and religion have attempted throughout history to have a monopoly on morality, contemplation of a larger consciousness, community, charity, I could go on. Please don’t give them the satisfaction, because you seem to tacitly agree. The last thing we need is ignorant secular people sticking their snotty noses in to deride people who are expressing love and compassion and labelling them as notwithstanding because they MIGHT be religious. Maybe you shouldn’t speak for “we the people” when your first notion is to assume someone’s beliefs when they haven’t expressed them.
FACTZ. Also, it's funny that someone mentioned your statement has "churchy vibes", simply for pointing out the potency of the Soul & the human Spirit, and that we don't need that. Atheists are so ignorant that they conflate any subject related to subtle energies and subtle body to dogmatic religion, which is a perversion of the Absolute Truth of Bhāgavat Dharma (Spiritual Law) & Spiritual Sciences such as Bhakti-yoga, Karma-yoga, Jñāna-yoga, Sāṁkhya-yoga etc. It seems that due to a poor fund of knowledge, they have little to no awareness of Spiritual, Vedic/Dharmic/Yogic Sciences. The true identity of the self is Ātmā, Eternal Spirit-soul, not the illusory (temporary) body, which is only a vehicle for the Soul, which transmigrates through 8,400,000 species of life within this material universe in the cycle of saṁsāra, birth&death, as it is granted an appropriate body according it's past karmic accounts. It' actually due to an absence of Dharma [adharma], that there is so much darkness, immorality, and exploitation going on currently as symptoms of the current age of kali-yuga, the age of sin, darkness, quarrel and hypocrisy --the symptoms of which were predicted in the ancient Vedic texts such as the Bhāgavat Purāṇa (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam), which was scribed into written form over 5000 years ago. There is no political or social solution to a spiritual illness, which is widespread throughout humanity on Earth Planet at this time.. Anyway keep on dropping these simple, yet powerful messages wherever it's pertinent. Haribol 🙏🏼📿🌸🪔🔥(((🐚)))
I don’t think they’ll do that again after their president did so terrible. They really don’t have a leg to stand on. The people that they send out in the streets to start riots aren’t going to be so easily fooled this time, as they all saw what happened to the power of their finances once Biden came in. Time to keep America first and oust the establishment for good.
Well, except for the dictator stuff, and the trashing of the Constitution stuff, and the vengeance stuff and the jailing of political enemies stuff, and the new Civil War stuff and the Fascist stuff…
the only parallels that biden and trump have, is their noticable and problematic age aswell as their unconditional support for israel (for different reasons, but with the same outcome)
@@beefandbarley *Dictator like signing the Paris treaty without Constitutionally required 2/3rds Senate* *Approval?* Or writing an Exec Order where POTUS pretends he is a dictator and can grant citizenship or student loan*forgiveness* *Or is it writing and Exec Order to LOCK people in an internet camps, BASED on their Race/'Ethnicity?*
I wish the Democrats would visit the red states more. It’s like we’ve been forgotten about by Democrats because they feel like they can’t win a red state.
You haven’t but the politicians running those states were elected to undermine the things you hold dear smh but it’s not about democrats or republicans it’s what we believe in and guess what some of those red states have really gone on off the deep end and that has been that way since 2008 the day Barack Obama was elected president so all this replacement theory or invasion creates this.
Let me put it this way. Here in Indiana voter turnout is ranked 50th in the country. The people don’t think for themselves any further than to fall in with the fascistic/racist bigots. They want a leader to do the deciding for them. Red states are a quagmire of dullards. Not to mention how unhinged they’ve become over race and gun rights.
The democrats are just "incompetent" political organizers and businessmen with regard to electoral politics and state politics. Blame it on poor democratic leadership at the electoral and state level. If the democrats had a real smart business leader, for example, a Mike Bloomberg ... then they would dominate both national and state politics. Certainly not in every red state but in enough red states to essentially shut out republicans almost forever. There are certainly a few strategies that democrats could employ, if they had good business leadership, given their overwhelming edge in the popular vote that could make them dominant. Why waste billions of dollars on essentially useless advertising that accomplishes nothing and changes nothing. Instead use those billions of dollars on a few strategies that would make a difference. For example: 1) devote resources to local organizing ... just like Stacey Abrahams in GA .... who changed the electoral dynamics in GA. Hire a few thousand political organizers and thier families and move them to a few key red states. Notably those red states where the margin of GOP victories is relatively small. Maybe places like WY, MT, ND, SD, etc. Surely a smart business leader can figure out which red states would take the least voters to flip from red to blue. After all a few thousand organiers and their families and if each just got a few new voters might well be enought to flip a few states. 2) Legally parachute in democratic voters into a few states and districts where they would make a difference. After all the democrats have millions of excess votes where they really are not needed (CA, NY, etc) Surely a smart business leader could figure out legal ways to "move" excess voters to districts and states where they could make a difference. Maybe ultra rich democrats could become residents there. Maybe democratic scholarships to students in those areas, or whatever. A truly smart democrat business leader would igure out how to use resources to legally "parachute" the necessry voters into close winnable districts and states. For example Boebert only won by a few hundred votes .... that should be an easy district for democrats to capture. 3) Then once democrats shift the balance in a few states by smart business leadership and effective use of resources .... then they can amplify and leverage such changes by going to work on gerrymandering in the red states which is the true reason why republicans continue to dominate red states. Come on democrats ..... get smart about understanding the game and get some superstar business leaders that can leverage all the advantages the democratic party has into winning the game ... especially in a few red states ... that would make all the difference in the political ballgame. Don't leave your fate to tired old politicians who just keep trying the same old losing political stunts .... get a real smart business leader who has shown they know how to win. Mike Bloomberg would be my recommendation or some of his top people, but there are probably quite a few others .... The democrats have nobody to blame but themselves because they certainly could dominate if they just give up on their tired old wasted strategies of wasting billions on useless advertising and lack of focus on strategies that could actually make a difference and implementing them.
So funny democrats were all over Trump about cognitive decline, yet they elected dementia joe that can complete a sentence, cant find his way off a stage, can’t ride a bike and cannot walk upstairs. I believe he was the same age as trump when he was elected, and now I’m hearing them use age and cognitive decline about Trump again. If sleepy joe pulled it off, Trump can too.
@@Kjleed13 *You should research FDR a little more!* *FDR said he admired MUSSOLINI, and was impressed by his achievements!* *So FDR was a CLOSET Fascist?* *Maybe it was because Fascism isn't much different to Socialism as the left insists?*
@@revolutionche3 Trump agrees with Putin, looking to abandon Ukraine and Israel, which could lead to loss of Ukraine, destabilizing Europe, loss of trust in America. 😒 American withdrawal will cause a vacuum that could escalate tension and war into South China Sea, Middle East and Europe. I don’t agree with war, Trump is impulsive and doesn’t understand the consequences of his actions.
Are you blind or delusional? Desantis barely won in Florida in 2018 then in 2022 Desantis won Florida by more than 20 points. Seems like you are just ignorant to reality.
Rick is a vote blue no matter who type. he is completely blinded by one side and is a danger more than the far right. I pick no side, just what works for me.
Conquistadors! What do you think religion is, FASCISM! Brainwashing! Male dominate stupidly! Name one reality of human act via religion! Not a group of people " doing gods work"! Not a number game, I got all bad ones,lined NO. Soup kitchens at west minister Abby or homeless shelters at the vatican? NO, ONLY TRINKET SHOPS or shoppes,in england.
I have news for you -- this (1963 to present) isn't what fascism feels or looks like. My mom, who was born in the literal embers of postwar Poland, was 18 when Kennedy was killed, and she had to talk her Holocaust-survivor parents down from losing their shit, hiding in the basement, etc. To anyone who's experienced fascism, it'd be embarrassing to call *this* fascism.
Since Nixon, that's the first seeds of neo-fascist thought inthe GOP... it's amplified since then and snowballed since 2008. Given the mass right-wing delusion that "dictatorship is somehow better than democracy" is beyond just Trump; it speaks to a growing cancer within American society that is much more frightening to me than any individual candidate.
What a depressing segment. More of the Donald Trump Show. But I shouldn't be surprised. Last year, programs like this also tore Joe Biden down at every opportunity.
Finally some honest reporting! Thank all of you for not bothsidesing the threat we are facing. We cannot normalize this facism. Thank you Rick Perlstein as well.
I 100% agree with all that was said about Trump and especially Desantis . I live in FL so this comment would be too long if I expressed all my grievances I have towards Desantis . FL needs a blue wave and I did notice 1 thing this year , compared to the last several years, is the absence of trump & Desantis signs & bumper stickers . Signs may be too early but seeing the absence of trump stickers and confederate flags from all the trucks (the majority choice if vehicle where I live), has been a refreshing change . Vote 💙 Biden for president 2024
Whew, look around, see the signs. Trump has NEVER been for the people.Can you truly assess his behaviors, actual objective facts, not his words... Come on now, don't live in fear and demonizing groups of people. Leaders who truly represent people, lead from connection and love. Check out history...
Davo’s has lost all credibility, they are only concerned with the rich getting richer, and the rest of us floundering in the world that we can’t afford to live in
No he doesn’t. They don’t want him. They just want to have a nice relaxing time doing deals and drinking eggnog with the democrats on the other side of the aisle. Trump is a pain for them.
it's embarrassingly sad, trump supporters are just everyday folk that have been blatantly suckered into thinking he is one of them, the sob is a danger to society.
In 1928, a massacre of Jews in Hebron by local Arabs occurred, similar to the one that occurred on October 7th. Their organizations have changed over the years, but the ideology remains the same.
It is not mentioned that fascism is also an agenda ; a decision to enact the playbook of fascism . That means that fascism is also a decision of the wealthy leadership to promote it and enforce it in the political decision making by taking the reins of the state and government. Not only in the national but as an international movement together with war. Just like in Germany, Italy , Spain and others.
We contiuously dodge the real issue of so-called America Democracy. And (in my opinion) is that the US is not and has never been a true democracy. The more descriptive description would be what I call a "democratic-plutocracy". It is a system where votes really matter, but there is an extreme limit on their effectiveness. In our system, we get to vote for one plutocracy supporter over the other. Sure, we can pick whichever one offers us the best deal. The the nature of this best deal is going to be constrained in that it must continue to support the plutocracy. This was never made more clear than in the mid-nineties, when the Clinton Administration had such corporate libertarian policies that it chased the Republican Party even further to the Right. This is how "...a New American Century" morphed into becoming Make America Great Again. And what did the Democratic Party offer as an alternative? Next to nothing. A new political party must arise to challenge the plutocracy. Its major Tennant should be to change how political campaigns are financed. Until this happens, we can expect a further drift toward dictatorship, as the plutocrats suffer ever falling popularity and have to struggle ever more desperately to hang onto their power.
I fear you may be right. We do need some way to reel in the amount of money these candidates are spending. He who spends the most should not always be the one that wins. I believe as a country, we tried to do that at one time, but it failed. I also believe there are some issues in this country that the vote should be taken straight to the American people and bypass the elected officials. Those of a moral issue like abortion comes to mind. That whole thing was a joke in my opinion. If that vote had gone straight to the American people, abortion would still be legal in this country. Trump, the divider in chief.
My guess has been more like the fall of Rome. A few big pops here and there, but otherwise just stumbling along the road towards irrelevance. The Germans managed to summon a manufacturing industry to go to war, we sold ours.
Good luck America! I would be worried for what your country would become if Trump is elected. The Democratic Party needs to come up with another candidate. Biden is old and weak.
Five-year there will be no country what is going on in this country,employment rate is down in five years and ordinary working class are suffering financially because of the costs living and people are working for straving wages...this guest is bias..
I'm not a Desantis fan but what Perlstein said about him in Guantanamo was not factual. People won't believe us when explaining our position if we stretch the facts to the point of absurdity. It de-legitimatizes factual info people need to hear.
Yet you, who tRump loves (because of what he said while campaigning), believe every lie tRump tells you? Or is it just that you don't care how much he lies, or what crimes he commits, but he is your racist messiah, and that is what counts for you?
It's an interesting speech marker, isn't it? Saying "right?" forces the listener to agree with you before even thinking through the point being presented.
Joe Biden doesn't have any "cognitive issues." We all misspeak occasionally. That is not a cognitive issue. Biden has forgotten more than Trump ever knew. He is in exactly the job that his 40 years of experience prepared him for.
He got a name _wrong?_ OMG! Clear mental illness right there that should disqualify him from ever speaking again, right? If it weren't for their double standards, the left wouldn't have any standards at all.
There's a piece of Media footage where Joe Biden greets the Chinese Premier with a handshake prior to his incumbency. 'Its in the bag, I'll be President ' the handshake screams. That's the reality of Elections.
This guy says Trumps cognitive abilities are negligible... Put Trump and this guy in a room. Together and I'll bet this guy is the one looking cognitively negligible. Trump WILL be the president soon. Make peace with it.
Holy Mackerel!!! I cannot believe that Americans LISTEN to this person and accept his nonsense! Absolutely astonishing...I could not listen to it all. It was just vile.
You surely must be talking about the current administration that has indicted the front-runner for president 94 times. And has indicted almost everybody that worked for him.. did someone say fascism??
The Israel war against Palestinian people in Gaza is to force evictions for Israel economic plan. Israel PM presented the Israeli economic plan to UN two weeks before the Israeli war. Produce oil and gas from Gaza land and sea and build oil and gas exports facilities on Gaza. Build Israel Bengorian canal and port on Gaza land and sea the alternative route to Suez canal. The Bengorian canal requires the completion of Abraham accord to bring the neighboring countries to participate on the Israeli economic plan.
And beachfront property for tourism and elities then hand over stolen west bank property for soldiers pay after exterminate all Palestinian from their own land continued from before 1948.
You alone do not represent the American people. Polls are always wrong because many of us don’t participate in them. This Evil man will not win. I have faith that there are more intelligent people than people like yourself in this country.
