Through the people @Doc

Democracy is only secured through the citizens

@[NA2]Conq I disagree. People are easy to fool, buy and threaten.

For the people by the people

🤷‍♂️

Commerical psychology is a billion dollar industry and based on the notion that you can influence peoples choices to act against their own interests.

People are very easy to fool, even easier since the no child left behind stuff lowered the bar for education

Plato says this on the matter (in Gorgias): Imagine a cook-off between a chef and a doctor, and the panel is made up of kids. The chef produces the most delicious desserts and the doctor prepares healthy foods. The Doctor would soon be out of a job.

^

well, technically, Sokrates says it. Plato writes.

Those who speak care not that their names are remembered, only that the message is received.

Here’s one I’ve been trying to figure out maybe y’all can help? How can you make a system that dosn’t
dis-infranchise large population centres while still representing the will of the nation as a whole because when you look at america county by county the whole country is basically red.

Think I posted I wrong area I’m sorry

oh! You should read Oswald Spengler! He writes that power shifting from rural to urban is a correlate with the decline of a culture.

(decline of the west)

> Here’s one I’ve been trying to figure out maybe y’all can help? How can you make a system that dosn’t
> dis-infranchise large population centres while still representing the will of the nation as a whole because when you look at america county by county the whole country is basically red.
@[NA2]Conq either by

a. not having such a large union (would you want to spread the US even bigger? and be subject to even more large populations voting from even farther away? Join democratically with China as the 51st state? extreme example to show the effect of this)

b. or by having a federal system where the federal government is _actually_ limited, like the founders wanted (and like some of the founders wanted even more strictly but they lost out) and everything partisan is decided locally, instead of what happens now, where each or one side sees that it is easier to take things to the federal government than fight it over and over 50 times, once in each state. Even better, don't even need the federal government if you support "judicial activism", just get your 9 dictators and your work is done.

we should not be such a large union in the current state IMO

and it isn't just a problem of states versus states

even the red states have the same demographic issue in cities vs everywhere else

just the red states are not yet as urbanized

they are urbanizing

and there is nothing you can do about it

we are doomed to be ruled by the 51 %

the ones in the cities

but no matter what, you don't want to be ruled by a city 2K miles away

a third alternative I didn't mention is to have a system that takes into account geographical distance with your vote

which is sorta what the EC does

but I don't think this is ideal

it stinks and just says you shouldn't be a single system

in the past we were very nationalistic and wanted to spread our government everywhere

this OTOH is a very intuitive survival instinct

but OTOH it is silly; everyone shits on their government for all the shit it does to them, and then they turn around and have no problem siccing their government on whichever poor neighbor they have

@RobertGrulerEsq Concerning the sharpie gate thing...the ballot tabulators work simular to fax machines from what I could tell in how it scans the results.How hard would it be to open it up and put a mark in the spot where it would not be able to read any vote casted for president trump.Its fairly simple to do that.Sharpies would exaserbate the problem becouse it would have darker thicker inc and could even possibly rub off on the area where the machine would normally scan a Trump vote.The ballot are left and right for the presidential part,its as easy as marking on the glass in that area.Next thing you know many ballots for trump would get disqualified especially if using a sharpie where as Bidens wouldnt do that becouse it dosnt have a mark on the glass.Then a poll worker comes over hits the green button to disqualify.We have to think about this more in terms of it being not just something President biden and the DNC would have been involved in but that the poll workers and others ground level would have tried there own initiatives to mess up votes for trump.It makes more sense to me when held to that.

Just thought about it from whenI voted.I do not remember getting a green check mark on the screen either but was told I was good.Hoping I am since I cant check if the vote went to the right person or not.Also that would make more sense for the ballots that didnt vote down ticket.It would reject it for the general but not for the other area's possibly.

Figured I would share the thought eitherway.Keep up the great work btw,I mainly watch your show and the officer tatum for my news.Now and then I watch ben shapiro but not very often becouse he's kinda biased in my opinion.Dont get me wrong I dont think he means to be but he's one of those sorts that just dismisses the whole thing and thinks trump will lose most likely.I may think the samething but not for the same reasons.I think there are to many insane dems involved in the government now.Sadly republicans mostly just accept things and move on,they say work and I get it I really do but what is work if america is like china?I just dont have any faith in the elections anymore.I hope they figure it out but i just dont see how dems can be considered americans(not all) as a party if they did indeed commit any level of voter fraud.It isnt helping that bidens like some prom queen thinking she has won even tho she hasnt wich is just dividing the country even more.If they were smart they would just keep low and knock off the Fireworks crap and everything(hell whens the last time they set off fireworks for winning the election and streamed it all over the world?)We all know they dont have common sense tho....instead they seem to want this country divided and a war starting out.

I seen things like this happen in afghanastan when I was over there.The dems cheating or having ""GLITCHES" ON A MASSIVE SCALE just looks shady.THem trying to censor everyone except a few.More and more streamers and youtubers are being removed.Maybe youtube has more common sense then to tangle with a lawyer/ former judge lol.Anyway,really appreciate all the kewl video's.I normally have to pay large amounts of money to speak to an atterny much less have them break things down in a legal way...its refreshing to watch you do just that.So Im a huge fan.Be safe,talk to you at some point I hope.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1326926226888544256

fuck, now he has explicitly addressed it, regardless if its true, there is no going back or resolving what is the actual reality we are in.

lol

did he hand capitalize all that

or was it like that before he copypastad