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I hope everybody had a good weekend I don't wanna waste
anytime before i address the controversial and viral Russell Brand
video that has been sent to me by
twenty or thirty people many of them pointing out look
lewis's strategy %uh not voting
has been vindicated by Russell Brand who also says it doesn't make any sense to
vote
I completely disagree with the %uh the
the how the two are being wrapped together as if they are the same thing
Russell Brand made some very good a
statements that I wanna look at Russell Brand of course the comedian and actor
let's go now to the Newsnight interview
with Jer Jeremy Paxman where he asks Russell Brand about voting
this is the key part about voting will start their
I just have so much to say I i'm I'm i've been waiting for days lou is to
address this on the show
so with no further delay let's take a look at this bit this because one part
the controversial
interview but is it really don't even vote you know the impact
will how do you have any authority to talk about politics lol I don't
I get my authority from this pre-existing paradigm which is quite
narrow
and only serves a few people I'll look elsewhere for alternatives that might be
of service
to humanity alternate means alternate political systems
they being well-known vanity a chair maybe got to do a magazine of late model
of me play
by I say but he's the Phoenician do shouldn't destroy the planet
shouldn't create massive economic disparity shouldn't ignore the needs of
the people
the burden of proof is on the people with the power not people like doing a
magazine how do you imagine the people
get power well I met in there so high Rocco systems they've been preserved
for the generalized being voted in as i *** your neighbor not even be asked
to vote on this quite narrow
quite narrow prescriptive parameter that changes within that the
there in a democracy that's how it works flood i think is working very well
Jeremy given that the plan is being destroyed
given that there's economic disparity refused a great what time does note any
the note and no I'm not today's I'm saying if you can't be asked to vote why
should we be asked to listen to your political point if you don't have to
listen to my political point of view but it's not %uh
I'm not voting out apathy I'm not voting out absolute indifference and weariness
exhaustion from the lies treachery deceit other the political class but has
been going on for generations now
I which is now reached fever pitch we have a disenfranchised this illusion
despondent underclass not being represented by the Apple ecosystem
servo injuries pass it complicit a with that system and that's not something I'm
offering up
almost everything that Russell Brand said in this video
is correct and I don't blame him it
I don't blame Louis for what not although Lewis has voted actually let's
be clear: Lewis has just indicated that
he doesn't really find it to be that useful because nothing will change no
matter who he votes for
I don't blame anybody for feeling this way now Lewis before I get to my
criticism
did you like Russell Brand's comments today resonate with you
I loved it I absolutely love baby interview
and I i I admit that I still
have those feelings and I agree with basic just about everything that he said
you locate the one part love what Russell Brand said that I don't agree
with is at the very end above this
portion of the interview he says that if U-boat
you are complicit in the broken system you're in some way part
love the problem now there that part I disagree with but there's also something
that missing here
I agree with Russell Brand about all the issues that he says exist
in in society I agree with him that there would be
many reasons to think that but not boding
might make more of a statement politically
then your vote and how much your boat would affect
except there is a key thing if you're going to make this argument that Russell
Brand made
you have to add on and after you say all that
you say however pragmatically speaking
if you don't vote in the United States
you were not really road testing the system
evenly you are helping one particular
political party that doesn't want you to vote
that knows the higher voter turnout is the more likely it is
that the more progressive candidate will win
and there are benefits to them specifically from reducing voter turnout
they know that the fewer people vote
the more likely they are conservative political social and economic agenda
is two paths and and that is merely a statement
a back Louis okay that maybe but that is not what you tell someone who's saying
they refused about because they think the system is broken
they're doing it for different reasons and AIDS Day coincidently it happens to
help a certain party you can hold them accountable for that David
this al Qaeda want you to go to church you know you don't go to church David
while you're eating out Qaeda
are you can't do that you can make that argument I completely disagree with the
comparison because we have a situation here
where we can look at non-voting
as a form of protest right week we can do that we can understand that however
how exactly is non-voting going to lead
as a form of protest to what the non boaters what it is only in the US
specifically in the US going to further entrench
the extremist conservative ideologies
that many of those who don't vote want to eliminate
so it would literally be counterproductive
well David I guess we need to make sure that literally nobody in the country
votes that
not one person send me your thoughts on this some people emailing me think they
feel Lewis has been vindicated by Russell Brand
others saying Russell Brand is being he is cherry picking and being selective in
the information he presents here
send me your thoughts