Democratic Party

scarier now when you implement what he's talking about.

because there's they're all consolidated yeah so they they can be on the same page and i'm sure everyone has seen those videos of um just yeah how they're saying the exact same thing so i'm going to start stop me whenever all right and here we go the engineering consent edward l bernays 1947 Freedom of speech and its democratic corollary, a free press, have tacitly expanded our Bill of Rights to include the right of persuasion.

I'm going to stop right

there.

This next sentence is key in

my opinion.

The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

Hmm.

Do you...

Has Major Hasan made any, uh, final requests, reached out to the president, anything like that to your knowledge?

Don't care.

He wants some apple pie.

I mean, 'cause there's-

Yeah

... you know, even the president, let me see, I think I have the, the president here.

Uh, he seems to be waffling a little bit about the live stream.

...

I, it's, it's almost like, dude, you're, like, this is America.

Right.

And look, I, I can criticize the Netanyahu government for some things that they've done.

... about various candidates.

Yes.

I mean, the guy, the gay bondage dude who-

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out of Pennsylvania.

Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro has now announced that he will back a bill that will open Pennsylvania's primary elections to unaffiliated voters.

HB 280, authored by state rep Jared Solomon, passed in the state house by a 115 to 88 vote on Tuesday.

And Shapiro said publicly, I support it.

You heard J.P. Pritzker not openly support open primaries.

We've had other governors on as well, and every single one of them, especially the ones with national aspirations, are going to be asked by me.

So this is big news that Governor Shapiro is saying he supports this bill and he supports open primaries.

And it should be celebrated.

It was that democracies do not have to accede and just sit by as anti-democratic actors take power and then subsequently dismantle the rights and freedoms, uh, of democracy itself, right? So the general idea, and, and with incredible clarity, I mean, in the, in the 1930s [laughs] is that, you know, basically fascism, which was the concern at the time, um, was using liberal freedoms itself in order to subsequently dismantle liberal freedoms like speech, press, assembly, parliaments, et cetera.

So what militant democrats and the framework of militant democracy basically calls for is to simply say, "We shouldn't let those people take power in the first place, and if that means curtailing some of their basic democratic rights, um, then that is what we sh- what we should do." And it's taken different forms.

Mostly it's been, uh, designed in the context of state power, so constitutional design, um, but things like banning certain political parties, for instance, would fall under that category, or, uh, you know, restricting rights of assemblies or, let's say, fascist symbols, uh, et cetera, depending on the, on the country.

But the idea is you don't let people weaponize those very freedoms because once they take office, um, then they'll take away and they'll strip the, uh, those freedoms away from other people.

I'm starting to pay attention.

I'm wondering, is that why I'm noticing now because I'm paying attention? You know how like before when who was elected president, I could care less who the hell was president, Democrat, Republican.

And quite frankly, I never could figure it out based on results, meaning they're both different.

Criminals? Pretty much.

If there were no PACs and super PACs that were influencing the way people vote, I might trust the government a little bit more.

But the idea and the concept of government is stupid.

And what I mean by that, and I'll clarify, how antiquated is this idea that I need to find someone in Las Vegas who that I trust like an ASB president type figure.

And I'm going to pay for them to go to DC to represent my interests back home.

Folks, that's going to wrap this one up.

Again, you know, we weren't talking about Republicans and Democrats.

We weren't talking about the midterms or conservatives or liberals.

No, this is an issue that transcends all that.