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there was a time in this country when they talk about yesteryear and
American glorioso where things were going relatively well
the little domestic front looking for passing the CIA was thought to
coups in creating masses all over Latin America Africa Middle East Center right
but between 1940 and 1980 we actually
we did have any banking collapse major bank collapses that amazing
we're so used to the banks although its giant collapse
broad is that nothing for forty actually it
its 15 years when you actually go all the way back to when they do the
regulation
to when the classes begin again right where there were no
major banking collapses and up productivity
was going up and is my favorite chart you know I'm sure all product if he was
going up
as so we're american wages they were going up at the same exact great
right any about 1978 ran into a brick wall
so its and in in that time
you know ralph nader got us to get seat belts save millions of lives
sepals incarcerate weather was underrated things there is am
nader cut mix in the past the EP a if I'm up
environmental protection is lamaze that is amazing got on the pat nixon past
osha
to protect workers in their workplace well I because there was so much
pressure from liberals
to actually look up for the american citizens there are some strength yep
it was real we actually a government that represent us
with all its warts and down-sizer cetera but on the domestic front the
been a pretty decent job my guy I was at the Lyndon Johnson
the Presidential Museum when lyndon johnson became president
we still I mean it seems like a relatively recent we didn't have
electricity throughout the country
right to Tennessee yet cozy Valley Authority at I mean
that begin the process is so but it cannot be completed
and they will rule parts a Texas
word they work the there was no great deal with a work meeting have
electricity
the kids can go to school they had no opportunity women jus in a ton to
downsize
but he wanted to help those guys in in rural Texas
he's a god damn it I want this kid to have an opportunity okay
he had an upside and that was upset that was when we had partitions through all
the ups and downs
then generally looked out for us on the domestic front
okay so yes there was a better time right
and even in the 1990s I the the bill clinton
was is in the large part a corporatist he did a lot of positive things but in
the end
he'd negative yet great damage at the very end
right repealing glass the oau slow to the banking collapses
the Commodity Futures at NACA a
data that that led to the derivatives gambling that led to the collapse of the
economy right and a deregulated
deregulated which by the way on clinton's watch they deregulate the
media which allowed
yes giant conglomerates to take over
and a monopolize the media rate but but the effect so that were felt later
in the nineteen nineties I remember being in an
in the news department in Miami with bad
and every day at pick up back there was a USA Today okay I pick up the USA today
but it also calls
cooke et like it was good news teen pregnancy down poverty down
all these things right and then in 2000 thanks the rock trails and parks news in
the way that they
hoodwink the american people want the making bush president when he didn't win
the ball
popular vote or the like rowboat a beautiful regional Florida
we started down this path
in again to be fair its toll on the clinton actually
okay but bush accelerated in and now
in the reason for it is it began its 76 or 78 when they said corporations
have first amendment rights and they can spend money in politics
that's what nato points to that's what like you viewed if you study into my god
i've studied it didn't know and right
I study to study this idea it all changes
in 97 E not worry it's like that in eighty
it stays in 78 when they pass Belotti versus First National Bank a bus in this
is yes
corporations can spend money in politics and Nader
unrelated to my research told me once in but related in that i won research it
even more after he said this
I saw what happened had you run into a brick wall in the late seventies what
happened said tony coelho
eighties the democrat in the house that commenced
although the democrats now we can take corporate money to
okay and that was the beginning you that now we're close
to the end of that when they've taken over everything in Jimmy's right doesn't
matter ninety percent of America's aggressively
in all these will be a price to pay right there in a price to pay
yet like you know who work or politicians in 1957 of course there were
great
where they're going to big business interested maybe illegally slip the
money
great of course there were right but ninety percent of people why one so they
will lose the election
so they had to do it if ninety percent were they didn't want to go to World War
one
right I mean it took a walk and we won we were to be would get massacred grade
and but was unpopular so they couldn't do it
now war isn't popular room cares
here dares because nobody cares whether something's popular
the make it the reason we're it's not the worst economic state we've ever been
in
so the worst our foreign policies ever been in
but it's the worst are democracies ever yet and
so in since with that that is rotten
that is run to score the virus has taken over washington
there is until we solve that problem there's no good news ahead
there's no light and the tunnel and we're not turning the corner
that's while the state of the unions et cetera are flowering *** yep
there if they were not there's not going to be a magical year
we're always on the politicians go all the way I get elected
is by sucking up to the donors I'm not gonna do that this year
and they all decided in mass to be mister smith goes to washington
that that's not how it works that's not how the system at this point is built
you got to get the money out of politics if you don't do that
yes it's the worst I've seen unfortunately to get worse
every year well E he did
and quickly from Round Rock Obama did not mention that yet so
that's a great point and I love you so much
um move on did uphold their to
members okay so number seven was implement Obamacare more they have the
top seven right
and in environmental issues were in there for that anti-fracking et cetera
number one clearly was
get money out of politics okay and President Obama
does not do one single
solitary thing your money out of politics the number one concern to
progress
but if you told his administration had to pick move on
who gives right absolutely right and he benefits from the exact same system
I mean you get corporate money so why would why would any politician
fight back against the system that they take advantage up
right you know so look as I've said before and you guys know that I
I care deeply about this issue and that's why we sorta Wolfpack im
if you're interested in fighting back toward dash back that comes the way to
do it
it like don't get confused I like all is Jake saying this to support walk back
no no I circled back because we had to solve this issue
it's the other way around at look I spend another Saturday
certain Sunday night 9 o'clock the ten o'clock at night when I was exhausted
I spent on a the phone with executive director walk back
and and signing pictures from members a walk back where they wanted that I did
that
exited over two and a half hours you think I wanna spend my Sunday night
doing that I wonder why its HBO shows
but did as somebody asked me to walk in new hampshire
like hey this seems like such a long shot while you doing it
my answers what choice do we have your two choices are
either you do you attempt this long shot or
you give up any so there's no light at the end of the tunnel
it's not going to get better an apple cider but then I would pull the Blue
show around the new
then what's the point in doing the show and tell me about what's happening in
the news
if the answer is nothing good ever going to happen right
so so the
the reason I brought that up Anna is because he talked about like the
politicians
yet be careful here let me and I on a a positive note here
cuz yes the federal politicians this system is
totally taken over and you can get a loan Bernie Sanders here
or congressman sarbanes who fights against this doesn't think super PAC
money
the decent honest guy itself right
um but on the state level
they're not corrupted I mean ok are the corrupt politicians there of course of
course
did the Koch brothers takeover the entire city kansas yes they did
it was like you know the bloody Kansas kuhen
where they tour starts out there already conserve republicans
and putting coke republicans would scare the bejesus out of other republicans in
the country by the way
okay state leaders anyway um
but I was up in new hampshire too quick stories
okay to tell you how uncorrupted some state legislators are
it and how we have a hope the hope is that
that the states can rescue us by calling for convention
well we pass the amendment that I think is
the bullet that would chains that mean there's no magic bullets about
yeah actually got money out of politics that is the one thing that affects
everything else that unplug the matrix
yeah okay so to no one was from maine
in May their public filings you know who she is she sick
she works a catcher's okay literally
at a local girl grocery store who's this
this is a state representative in me okay okay
really yet a.m. shows their public financing
shoes like 0 so I just got a raise a.m.
I think she raced 50 bucks for five people 250 bucks
and when you do that in the public financing system they give you forty
five hundred dollars
which is enough to run you know small district in May rate
some running for US Congress is running for the District in her own state
she what can you imagine at the national level
low the lady at your local Ralphs or giant or whatever your local grocery
store is
take cash register lady running and winning to be amazing
it can't happen at the national level but it can happen at the state level
its if you have public financing she just read 200 you know
boom and now that she's there they lower and her
she still works the cash register and her two sisters come up to her and
they're like hey Diane
Ekka help fix this is a go let me take a moment to
the nation that by the way you're 17 hours and 28 yr okay
is not awesome is now a democracy is supposed to be
great so can we can miss those people to call for convention
yes yes I mean up government by the people for the people
exactly I think the second one is in new hampshire Tim Smith
is a rep a state representative you know how much she spent to win his see
300 bucks really is not always an amazing isn't it amazing
so we wouldn't have a stalker observed him Smith in you like a way to get money
about this is of course I do
only restrained rose for my bus reso your money above link
I and they recognize even if you've got a republican
in the state level and we have in indiana republicans introducing a
resolution
the amazing by the national level you never get over but no
where the state level you go up to me that's really happening
yeah absolutely think goto I'm Tiger will test back to come get updates on
its
if you're in the what happen in the in
I'll Indiana and Iowa was
one person was like arms gonna call simply have a new york so we we recently
hired
is amoco mall I'm gonna call the state reps and Senators okay
will to power it doesn't take money it just takes persistence
as Salim found someone who'd won their election in New York
by seven boats okay and that was a baller role
area so he comes in getting money at a party is incredibly popular
in every district we get people to call that
representative she says okay I'm she says
okay now here's a person who could help you she says up with possible political
contact
it to get the bill introduced and then that person helpless upon Republicans
who might agree
for their own political reasons a near desert like you never know
something or Eliza tried so anyway in indiana
the we had a republican new is yes Republican hey do you think
that outside or should be able to come in
and influence you will like giving you a time I like so for example
a Bloomberg should be able to she be able to come in and give your opponent
all this money to run against you and her on this
AP gone camping on or
paid herbert George Soros you want to spend a lot of money in your district
in a gonna that's outrageous it's wrong
he's right that is averaged right was appealed
really okay so bearing down on him at the Koch brothers might want to spread
some money would
but little the Koch brothers that audiences that's right they screw the
regular a supplement that
the republicans and they put in there own
like owned and operated ripple yes right right
so there's hope out there but we President Obama said is not easy
we are aware that's the working really hard to get okay
heart so that's my spiel and I'm sticking with it