Hey you, I am a democratic Peter.
So we had another democratic debate.
It was a laugh riot, wasn't it?
Michael Bloomberg was involved
and he is a moron. Uh,
so no worries there.
Like before the debate,
I thought this guy's a competent
bad man and now I don't,
I think that he's a bad man.
Pete exposed himself as quite a sociopath,
making me feel empathy for Amy Klobuchar,
who I did not realize I could feel
empathy for. I did not like her.
Like, just to be clear, I do not like
Amy Klobuchar, but shockingly enough,
I found myself feeling very bad for
her. Uh, and wanting to punch Pete.
Bernie Sanders came off
phenomenally. Of course. Uh,
that seems to be what
he does at debates. Uh,
he's never particularly aggressive. Uh,
he was a little more aggressive this
time. It was good. I have no complaints.
Uh, it came out with him looking better
than he did prior and no one else has a
chance.
So that's basically what anybody who
wants him to win should want to happen.
But there's one thing in particular that
I would like to talk about regarding
this debate that I think is significantly
more important than any other thing
you can say. It was the very
last question of the night, uh,
when the candidates were asked if the
person with the most votes and delegates
should be the person who is nominated
at the end of primary season.
Basically the question was,
do you believe in democracy?
Should the person with the most delegates
at the end of this primary season be
the nominee? Even if they
are short of a majority,
whatever the rules of the democratic
party are, they should be followed.
And if they have a process, which I
believe I'm trying to do, the gesture,
everybody else, everybody can. Do you
want the convention to work? It's, well,
yes.
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but it convention working,
it's well means that people
have the delegates that are
pledged to them and they
keep those delegates until
the leading person convention.
Oh, okay.
Vice president Biden [inaudible] are
now leading person with the delegates.
Should they be the nominee
or not? It's way out.
Mayor Buddha judge. Not
necessarily. Not till their Senator.
The process work.
Well, the process includes 500
superdelegates on the second ballot.
So I think that the will of the
people should protect you guys.
Votes should be competent.
This made me a bit nervous.
Like let's just go
ahead and say something.
There is a specific word
that the democratic party
is conjuring in the name of
their party democracy. To be a Democrat,
a lowercase D Democrat would mean
that you believe in democracy,
but to be an upper case D Democrat,
apparently that's no longer the case. Now,
if you're going to remember all the
way back 20 years ago to 2016, uh,
you would remember that Hillary Clinton
beat Donald Trump in the popular vote by
about 3 million votes. Now,
this is a significant fact
or regarding this matter,
because pretty much everybody
said that's bullsh*t.
She should have won. And it's true.
It is bullsh*t and she should have won.
Getting the most votes in a democracy
should be the thing that is regarded as
the will of the people, but
that's not what happened is it?
We have this thing called the
electoral college, which, um,
supposedly most of the people on the
debate stage last night or against, uh,
Elizabeth Warren in particular has
railed against the electoral college.
It's time to get rid of the electronics.
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most democracies around the world, the
person who gets the most votes wins.
How about we make America that kind of
[inaudible]
she's got a plan. Everybody, a
plan to amend the constitution,
get rid of the electoral college,
and perhaps she believes that the person
who gets the most votes should be the
winner of an election.
Is the democratic primary not an election?
Is that what this is now?
Somebody with a systemic analysis,
perhaps angry about how things have
shook out here in capitalism and
neoliberalism, the interaction
between the state and capitalism,
the dynamics that go on right now,
a person critical of this might say,
well, this is a reason why we
shouldn't participate in elections.
And I wouldn't say that, yes,
this is very much a piece of evidence
that does in fact implicate the United
States as a serious problem when
it comes to elections. Uh, this,
the democratic primary is an election
of massive national consequence that's
more or less being held
by a private corporation.
The DNC and is applicable only to
its own rules, not outside ones,
which I'm sorry. No. If that
existed in another country,
we would go there and spread democracy,
meaning take their oil on low
society. The podcast I do with Ashley,
Angie speaks and Jake, uh,
we were talking about how bullsh*t the
Iowa sh*t is. Uh, but that's nothing,
that's literally nothing compared to
if the democratic party decides to say,
Hey, the person who gets the most votes
and delegates by the end of the primary
season, we're going to deny them
the nominate. That's, I mean,
Iowa is nothing compared
to that. Literally nothing.
That would be a slap in the face to every
single person who participated in the
democratic process. Win
or lose. It's bullsh*t.
It's saying it doesn't
really matter what you do,
what matters is what we want.
And we want you to listen to low society
Lincoln description for the democratic
party,
the call itself democratic and essentially
have every major candidate say,
no,
democracy isn't the thing I
want to do is a serious problem.
Not only does it imply the name
of the party is a misnomer, uh,
but it also implies it's a lie. And
if you take me seriously on any level,
you know that the people in
power are lying to us isn't new.
It's not a thing that I
am treating as special,
but it's really f*cking irritating.
Living in a so-called democracy,
living in a place where the expectation
has been created that our vote counts.
Not saying that it does,
I'm saying there's an expectation that
he does living in that all of the people
who are not spending all of their time
in politics land getting angry about
various things that
candidates have said like me.
I'll just be completely honest.
I'm used to senators telling mayors
that senators are more important than
mayors, but this is the arena
to seriously f*ck mayor Pete.
Like Bloomberg is a terrible person,
and yet I can't seem to stop
hating mayor Pete Moore,
but in this country where we
expect our vote to matter.
What just happened on the stage last
night when every single person except
Bernie Sanders said, no,
I don't want that to be how we do this.
I don't want the vote to matter.
It a completely f*cked up.
Everything that everybody said about
who should have won 2016 at risk of
sounding a little simplistic.
One thing I believe is that in an
American presidential election person that
gets the most votes ought
to be a person who wins.
That just threw it out the f*cking
window. There's no credibility here.
We've got two contradicting opinions from
the most important people in the party
at the moment, and B,
it made Bernie Sanders
look really f*cking good.
We are at a point where it's acceptable
for not just the majority but all but
one of the six remaining
democratic candidates to say,
I don't believe in democracy. I
don't want to do this democratically.
I want my shot according to
the elites of this party.
I want the authority to be able to step
in and make the results do whatever.
This is authoritarianism.
That is exactly what's wrong with
what everyone calls the other side.
They call Donald Trump an authoritarian
all the time and I don't think they're
wrong.
I just think that they are also very
clearly on some level authoritarians.
There is one choice. If
you believe in democracy,
if you believe in centering the American
worker over the corporate elite,
there's one choice.
If you don't believe in bombing the
living hell out of other peoples nations,
there is one choice. If you believe
that healthcare's are right,
there's one choice. If you believe
that climate change is a real problem,
one, there are no other choices.
It's Bernie Sanders and this on top of
all that makes him the only choice if you
believe the will of the people is even
vaguely important because it's very clear
that none of the others do.
If Bernie Sanders does not
win the democratic primary,
if they push some other piece of sh*t
through the norm will be established that
neither of the two major parties is
democratic. I do think, by the way,
that will destroy the democratic party.
I don't know what it will
do to the Republican party.
It might end up giving them power.
It might not. I have no clue.
But I will say this, it can't happen.
We can't let it happen. We
have to go so freaking hard.
I've been saying this,
this entire presidential campaign
since early last year when I made my
endorsement video of Bernie
Sanders. It's basically this.
This is necessary to get
movement, politics moving.
We're not going to do it without
doing this. So let's do this.
Volunteer, donate money,
vote and commit to a voting
block. Collectivize our vote.
You are voting for Bernie Sanders.
You are going to do everything that is
possible to vote Bernie Sanders in your
democratic primary, even
if you're not a Democrat,
even if it requires
temporarily registering as a
Democrat, it doesn't matter.
We're getting Bernie Sanders into the
goddamn white house and then we're doing
sh*t outside of the political
system. And here's the thing.
If we want a good world for ourselves,
for our children, for our grandchildren,
that's the foreseeable future.
We're going to be working both inside
and outside the system as a movement for
an indefinite period of time. If
you don't see things that way,
I think we're screwed. Like I'm serious.
It's got to be so much more.
It's gotta be beyond
what you expect to do.
It's got to go on and on and on
and on and on it. It can't stop.
This is a step to get
the boot off our neck,
to open up a space for
people to act in public,
for people to organize,
for people to unionize,
for power to collectivize.
Is this going to be
socialism? No, it's not.
Bernie Sanders being elected president
is not going to be socialism.
If Bernie Sanders gets his entire
agenda passed, that's not socialism.
We're not pretending it is, but
it's a step and more than that,
it's a necessary step.
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