i've been getting some emails from
listeners saying we hear a lot about
we need to mock received this is a
democracy
the market is the most important thing
and some audience members are saying to
me
this democracy even really mean anything
anymore
when we actually talk about it does it
mean the anything close to what
we always hear the tea party talk about
the founders and what the founders
wanted
doesn't mean anything close to what the
founders wonder which by the way the
premise of what
starting to infer what exactly what the
founders wanted for political gain
something i reject completely
democracy does will mean something in
theory i think
and we hear arguments about what kind of
country do we want what kind of society
do we want
and democracy always seems to be a part
of that and we hear that
you mean like democracy has a definition
in the dictionary poor what we know that
it does look at that democracy is the
way
that we want the country to be run we
hear that from both sides
when i think about one dollar one vote
for example you might notice citizens
united
it doesn't really sound democratic to me
allowing the influence of money
from corporations to go above and beyond
i believe if we are honest with
ourselves the founders wanted and i feel
almost dirty even saying what the
founders one and i don't know what they
wanted i think anybody who claims to
know exactly what it is they had in mind
is is rick is they can't possibly know
that
i think it's not it's not genuine say
that
not being able to put in place something
that after poll after poll
is clearly highly support supported by
the people national health care the
government should provide
healthcare
we can't put that in place not because
of political or rather
the will of the people we can put in
place because of health care lobbies
health insurance companies
pharmaceutical manufacturers the entire
sick care economy
is that democratic is that the fed to
democracy people are talking about when
they say we need to get back
to the democracy
but the founders wanted it doesn't link
that doesn't ring true to me
so resist
demography earlier democracy listen
people vote
people do vote and whoever wins put into
power according to the art world boat or
depending on what type of racism general
election
but are we really happy with this
watered-down definition of democracy
that
every couple years people are voting in
people are voting locally is that they
are we resetting such an embarrassingly
low barometer for democracy
because democracy has been completely
subverted
by corporations and lobbies in special
interests
there are still people who
have cause is to get things done and
talk to her congressman who talked her
senators and they get these past did
tyler anywhere on that these are very
small
bentsen not on a national scale by any
means gift ten people write a letter to
us to a congressman a conservative
district saying they want him to
introduce
language for public option are they
going to do it based on that now
now you may argue well there could be a
hundred people who want the opposite
but that it's been rightful
so with the idea that we can write our
our congressmen and anything will
actually happen again did those
petitions and let's get it all think
that together
and call your congressman
but this is a watered down version of
democracy i believe
but i'd beers a definition democracy is
a political form of government in which
governing powers derived from the people
by consensus by direct referendum
or by means of elected representatives
of the people
let's look beyond the big picture
on this and actually at these last
elections
was the will of the people reflected
in the supreme court deciding
that george w_ bush won florida in the
two thousand election
is that democracy model of the people is
the
popular vote then no
the the vote in florida
are disenfranchised voters every single
election
evidence of democracy i don't think so
people go back to what the defined
founders want right and as i said i find
it increasingly irrelevant but also
misused misinterpreted and twisted
letter not forget
that the founders didn't really want
they true democracy right they wanted
white property owners to be the ones who
vote
would we consider that the democracy
today i mean are we at least beyond that
barometer if only white property owners
could vote today
seems to be pretty clear for the
founders one it would that be a
democracy so going back to this
interpretation
attempted interpretation of what the
founders wanted to determine do we have
a democracy or not
tumi does not ring true
and that's right there white property
owners are the ones who vo
so how do you fix it producers say
okay it's a watered-down democracy
it it is what it is when i don't know
what if i don't know how to fix it i
think it's definitely watered-down i'd
be curious to hear audience dots on this
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