Why Fascism Could be Here to Stay Even Though Trump is Leaving | The Mehdi Hasan Show
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- Опубликовано: 10 янв 2021
- Yale Philosophy Professor Jason Stanley joins Mehdi Hasan to explain the danger of Trump's supporters and allies feeling emboldened by the attack on the Capitol and the importance of accountability.
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"When Fascism comes to America, it will be waving a flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis
Trump and the Ewangelicans, Hitler and conservative Christians.
This quote has in fact never been said by Lewis. See: www.snopes.com/fact-check/sinclair-lewis-on-fascism/. Instead, I'll refer you to this quote by David Frum; “if conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism, they will abandon democracy.”
"It Can't Happen Here". Damn good book even if it's a little dated. And based on groups like we have now. I highly recommend this little book with a great impact to your mind. Btw. Snopes is wrong. Again.
And what a wide selection of flags these fascists display! From 🐍 snakes to stars 🌟 and bars 🦴to good luck symbols popular in Germany in the 30's, just the most wonderful display of happiness and love you'd ever want to see, these very fine ppl are singlehandedly keeping the flag industry booming!
That's. True. Because if it were foreigners. U.S. would have marched into multiple countries under the pretext of weapons of mass destruction. Murdered thousands if not millions of people ( we don't know, as no one has kept account) Occupied said countries for 20 years. Under the guise of bringing democracy or stopping terrorism.
this was the best segment ive seen from anyone in awhile. too many people being cautious about what they say. this guy just absolutely lays down the hammer. we need more people talking like him
Matt Majcan Exactly
I Love Both These these Men ❤️
Mehdi is a phenomenal reporter. I love his show
The time for caution and hand-wringing is over. The fascists have broken through the People's doors . . .
Stanford Yale graduate doesn't mean much anymore.
You can have the best education in the world but if you have no common sense or morals then what use is such an education?
The point he was making was that these people know very well that what they're saying are lies; They're not brainwashed followers. That's much more dangerous.
I just learned Mehdi is an American now. We need dedicated professionals. I like his style, less BS, more hard questions.
Did he see him neuter Eric Prince?
He was fantabulous!
@@karmicsmite9920 GLORIOUS!
Mehdi’s the best.
@@karmicsmite9920 when did he do that? sounds like something i'd like to watch
Do a RUclips search for Hasan interview Eric Prince. Hasan gets him to reveal that he lied to Congress during a congressional hearing.
Germany had been also regarded as a civilized country , and yet fascism prevailed.
Until 1945.
It takes a vulnerable population and one psycho to turn everything around. That's us now.
yeah Germany had some of the most educated and respected people in the world, nuclear physicists, philosophers etc.
it just doesn't help if the masses turn to madness.
However, it was not a democracy until after ww1.
@@alistairmackintosh9412 Correct.
What total ROT Blunt is speaking! Collins is just sad, amazed that she's reelected
if trump is not held accountable, there's newly formed far-right parties watching attently and waiting for their chance to replicate their own version of an insurrection. this has worldwide repercussions. something needs to be done, he needs to be used as an example.
Imagine what the working class who fight your illegal wars in far away countries year after year must feel like. Help the people, we are struggling out here.
Arrest him, Don Jr and Giuliani, and get this man and his crazy family restrained. Don’t sit around ventilating for the next dangerous week.
I am glad I am getting old and my two adult children do not have children. I pray they never do
I am glad that I have no children either.
on the other hand that means the cult fascists are the only ones reproducing and passing down their ideology.
@@MattMajcan you are right. Sad
@@MattMajcan right 😕 if i have children i'll probably adopt. i don't see the point of bringing more humans into this world. specially when there's so many children waiting and deserving of families. and i'll make sure to raise them with love instead of hate like they do
convince me Susan Collins isnt a robot
i agree with you, sorry!
Robots have more character and personality.
When a child touches a stove and doesn't get burned the child touches it more thinking he's proving Mom is wrong and he is right. How out of touch are these people?
What an important interview with Jason...
Many oof the USA Congressmen are losing their moral compass. What is sad is that most of them known Lawyers.
My cat is smarter than Senator Collins.
He is outta control....
And he gets away with it, that is the most interesting part of it.
I don't get the whole Susan Collins thing, I'm completely baffled at her popularity.
Maine must be breathing too much sea salt to reflect her.
The people in her State that support her which are the majority, are wt nationalists sadly like so much of wt America. The majority of wt America voted for Trump.
dont bring children into the world guys, have some mercy. this is just getting warmed up
Us millenials and gen z already decided to be mostly childless probably for this reason, if not just because we're at worse than Les Miserables level of wealth inequality and disparity. I personally chose not to have kids right after this fascist was elected and got my IUD replaced when I could just in case Texas decided to criminalize birth control like it was poised to at the time.
The only problem with that is that the ultras have no such qualms about breeding and interbreeding.
- Another reason for their opposition to contraception and family planning
I’ve been telling people too! That’s why corporate America makes bad decisions their talking a lot and not listening to anyone.
How to fix US democracy and the Electoral System.
1) Shorten the Election Campaigns to 4-8 weeks maximum (like most other advanced democracies. This also helps to get money out of politics). Ridiculously long campaigns (18mths) are a waste of money, resources and time; time that should be spent governing the country and providing social programs for citizens needs, not campaigning for re-election.
2) Campaign finance reform (donations only via private citizens with strict donation limits, ban corporate funding and influence).
3) Voting Days to be held on the weekend (not Tuesday), and possibly in conjugation with Veteran’s Day Holiday. (Make it easier for all citizens to be able to vote).
4) Go back to reliable ‘hand marked pen and paper’ ballots publicly counted and scrutinized. Design simple to understand paper ballots, and do NOT use ‘Black Box’ electronic voting machines (EVMs) or ballot marking devices (BMDs), because any electronic devices are too easily hacked or manipulated to rig voting figures even if using ‘block-chain’ technology. Cyber-attacks can also be undetectable. www.coindesk.com/mit-paper-rejects-blockchain-based-voting-systems-elections
Paper ballots are more reliable and can be recounted if necessary. Democracy is too important to allow the possibility for cheating.
5) Stringent independent election audits to oversee and verify the result and eradicate election fraud.
6) Eliminate/abolish the Electoral College (Article 2, Section 1, of The Constitution). This would normally be difficult, because the Electoral College is constitutionally mandated, and abolishing it would require a constitutional amendment. Over the past 200 years more than 700 proposals have been introduced in Congress to reform or eliminate the Electoral College - without any becoming law. It requires two thirds of the House, two thirds of the Senate, and three quarters of the States to vote in favor.
There is another easier way to effectively end the Electoral College without technically abolishing it.
Agreement of the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
An organization called the ‘National Popular Vote Interstate Compact’ (NPVIC) is pushing to eliminate the Electoral College without tampering with the Constitution. Once the NPVIC has reached 270 electoral votes, the passed bills from all the states will kick in and guarantee that the candidate with the highest vote total nationwide would become the president.
So far, 15 states (CA, IL, NY, CO, CT, MD, MA, NJ, NM, OR, WA, DE, HI, RI, VT) and the District of Columbia (Total = 196 electoral votes) have committed to the cause. The bill has also passed at least one chamber in 9 additional states with 88 more electoral votes (AR, AZ, ME, MI, MN, NC, NV, OK, VA). So, we need 74 more electoral votes to eliminate the unfair influence of the Electoral College.
A total of 3,408 state legislators from all 50 states have endorsed it. www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-explanation
*American citizens need to become politically active to make this happen before the 2024 election.
7) Need for more political party diversity. Break-up the duopoly of the 2 major political parties (Democrats and Republicans) which has become an unofficial coalition serving only their corporate donors. Give voters real political choices rather than just the illusion of choice with just these 2 corrupted major political parties by corporate interests. There’s a need for at least a 3rd major party, possibly 4 or 5 major political parties like other advanced democratic countries. This would break up the duopoly, diversify the political landscape, and reduce the influence of corporate money corrupting the democratic system.
8) Get rid of First Past the Post (FPP) (sometimes called plurality) voting, and introduce some form of Proportional Representation (PR) Rank Choice Voting (RCV) preferably - Mixed Member Proportional Representation (MMP(R) with Multi-Member Districts.
MMP has voters select both a candidate in their local district and a party they'd like to win a majority. Everyone who wins a district gets a seat, and then additional seats are given out to ensure that parties are represented in proportion to their share of the party vote. This has a number of advantages. Unlike party list representation, people still have representatives with at least some ties to their local area.
Voters get 2 votes: one for their local representative, and one for their favorite party.
Mixed Member Proportional has familiar local representatives, and simple ballot.
9) Standardize the voting system nationally across all states.
10) Eliminate the need for political party registration (there’s no need to be affiliated to any political party, and it only encourages gerrymandering). No one should be loyal to just one political party. Force political parties to concentrate on policy to attract your vote.
11) Have polling stations available at all public schools (there must be enough polling places for everyone)
12) Ban voter suppression, introduce a 28th Amendment for the right of every citizen 18 years old and over the right to vote, or introduce mandatory voting (every eligible citizen votes - $50 fine if you don't vote)
Australia has mandatory voting and because of this 95% voter turnout.
By contrast in the US millions of voters are purged from voter rolls, and at least 40% of provisional ballots are thrown in the trash can and not counted. It’s just another method of rigging the electoral system.
13) Ban gerrymandering of districts to favor one political party. Independent commission should draw district lines, not partisan political parties. Voters should pick their politicians, NOT politicians their voters.
14) *Consider a Unicameral Congress (House of Representatives only needed to pass Bills. There’s no need for the Senate to pass Bills, and so situations like McConnell holding up important legislation and holding the American people hostage cannot happen )
*(NZ is an advanced democracy and has a Unicameral Parliament which works very efficiently).
*(a Unicameral System is also one step closer to a direct democracy of all the common people).
Unicameral System: www.investopedia.com/terms/u/unicameral-system.asp
Bicameral System: www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bicameral-system.asp
(*The majority of international governments use the unicameral system-with a roughly 60/40 split between unicameral and bicameral.)
The only other option other than a unicameral system, is to make it mandatory for Bills passed in the House MUST be voted on immediately in the Senate. Mitch McConnell has sat on hundreds of Bills effectively blocking them from passing.
15) Have all sessions in Congress live streamed, so the public can view what is going on, and who is voting for what policies. Make politicians accountable.
16) Term limits on all politicians (Congressman and Senators) and judges (in particular Supreme Court justices - no lifetime appointments).
17) Balance the Supreme Court with non-partisan, impartial judges. Have rigorous vetting and confirmation process. (Amy Coney Barrett couldn’t even recite the rights of the 1st Amendment)
18) Voting Rights Act upgraded.
19) Election security strengthened. (Cyber security, independent scrutiny and audits)
20) Introduce political education into high schools at age 16 and older to prepare for voting. New voters need to understand how democratic systems work, how important it is to vote, how to engage in political activism, how laws are passed and brought into effect, how to interpret the Political Compass accurately (e.g. social democracy is NOT socialism or communism), how to understand Monetary policy (interest rates and the supply of money in circulation, generally managed by Central Bank), how to understand Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), how to understand Fiscal policy (taxation and government spending, generally determined by government legislation), how to understand media bias, how to identify fake news and conspiracy theories, and how to fact check and use critical thinking skills etc.
21) Mainstream and Social Media restrictions on advertising, disinformation and propaganda generally and particularly during elections (e.g. Facebook/Cambridge Analytica, Trump’s Tweets, FOX propaganda, disinformation and opinion reporting e.g. Hannity, Ingraham, Carlson, Dobbs, Pirro etc.)
22) Media Blackout before election (possibly 72 hours before and on voting days themselves)
23) Install an independent Election Management Body (EMB) to be responsible for the polling, conducting and tabulating of votes in elections and referenda, and the registration of political parties, oversight of campaign finance, design of the ballot papers, drawing of electoral boundaries, resolution of electoral disputes, civic and voter education and media monitoring for the safeguarding the legitimacy of democratic institutions and the peaceful transitions of power. They need to ensure all aspects of any electoral contest meets global norms and follows the fundamental guiding principles of elections, including independence, impartiality, integrity, transparency, efficiency, professionalism and service-mindedness, that perform in the best interest of the voters.
24) Abolish Justice Dept. memo that says a sitting president cannot be indicted for crimes committed.
25) Tighten the control of the President’s pardon power. Criminals MUST be held accountable for their crimes.
26) Transfer of power to take place immediately a new President is elected. (U.K. is able to transfer power within a few days).
27) On policies, provide universal health care and tax payer funded tertiary education. Federally guaranteed jobs to upgrade infrastructure and transition away from fossil fuels ASAP. Implement the ‘Green New Deal’. Cut military spending, and divert the funds instead to social programs
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These people are nuts
"The president touched the hot stove on Wednesday and is unlikely to touch it again" Too late, he's burned his bridges and now it's only a matter of time before he's a jailbird. No more tweeting little Donnie.
Nobody likes touching a hot stove more than Finals Trump.
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An important thing to remember about neo-fascists is that a lot of them understand so little that they have no idea that's actually what they are.
Think of Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz as Baby Hitler.
Hawley def has the look of a nazi. Just imagine him in a nazi suit, uncanny. Cruz is a blob.
Excellent interviewer and responses...
Mehdi, do you remember during the presidential debate Trump told his supporters “to stand by and stand down “, well this was the moment he was planning for, to move on capital
We need to push our senator's and government officials to invoke the legal consequences so that this fascist movement can be reduced. They are growing like a cancer in our society and need to be minimized. If we are a country of rule of law, then they need to use it and stop being complacent.
I wish a kickass democracy would teach him ASAP!
i've gone to several different right wing sites and stations on youtube to talk with argue with right wingers. i've been kicked off so many times from all these sites i don't remember all the different names i've used to get back on. we all need to go in and argue with our right wing brothers and sisters. just fill their comment pages up with different opinions than the ones they think are their own. the mercers finance parler and breitbart. murdogh finances foxnews. there's limbaugh on the radio and youtube. these people are rich. their audience is their milk cow. that cow is fine with being milked as long as the lies they love keep coming. we need to force feed those cows with some truth.
Some good points..... I think you will find that the term is ‘Cash Cow’
Who in Maine was dumb enough to vote for Joe Biden and Susan Collins?
Let him "learn his lesson" back in Florida or in jail.
What we need is a splinter party on the Right. If there are any remaining Republicans with integrity, they need to distance and distinguish themselves from the fascists and authoritarians.
Yeah. Let dangerous domestic terrorists off so you don’t create division.
Trump gutted the pentagon so when the Sargent of Arms sad he asked for help twice!I believe him!
The reporter should ask Roy Blunt what does he mean by Trump touching the hot stove. You are leaving these creeps plausible deniability and wiggle room. Get him to state exactly what he thinks the president has done that can be equated to touching the hot stove. Ask Collins does she think Trump has learned his lesson.(How did she ever get reelected. Her constituents must be as doddery as she is).
Perfect example of how education is absolutely no guarantee of either intelligence or morality. As far as I know, Christ never attended college.
You would think that ww2 and millions of deaths would deter people from going down this path again. This time it might be billions of lives. Don't just follow. Learn about the past and think for yourself.
For MAGAs: No peace for America until there is just us.
I don’t know why but establishment Democrats always assume conservatives will behave like good liberals. When they show you what they are willing to participate in don’t make excuses for them, don’t play devil’s advocate, just believe them!
Hello Mr Mehdi Hasan, shall we talk about problems in middle East, qatar, turkey, islamic state, Syria etc for a change?
WE ARE TO BLAME !he'sstill in his fknexpensivesuits! & HES is obviously ABOVE THE LAW!
WELCOME TO AMERICA NANCY. This is what its like out here for so many marginalized and poor people and CHILDREN in schools and homes across America. NOW DO SOMETHING.
Senator Collins, I don't know what kind of life experiences you had that caused you to conclude that Trump did learn his lesson. Maybe you thought "Oh, he's a boorish, callous, cruel person on the campaign trail. But that's just him being a rough and tough candidate. He'll be presidential when he gets into office". OTOH, I, just a regular workaday guy, could see back in *2015* (I didn't pay attn to Trump before that) that Trump's habitually crass, nasty, cruel behavior signals somebody who'd have no inhibitions against dishing out a raw deal to even his most devoted fans if he got benefit from it. I'd've thought a US Senator would have the social skills and life experience to see at least that much. But apparently I'm wrong.
Triplicate s hav3chanted at rally’s 8 more years!You can only have 8 not 12 years exhibit A.
AOC like Kamala is fated ... and in ascendency ...
830 in, its imprimatur
I keep saying just because they went to the college doesn’t mean they learned anything. Their education was paid for them by wealthy parents/donors. There is no incentive to learn and obviously they didn’t because they keep spewing stupid statements!!!!
Its funny fascism always poits to America, and always manages to land in europe
princeton yale, has graduates that didn't really earn thier place amongst their piers. just there because daddy or mommy is a booster club donor etc etc. all C student
What’s more dangerous trump or those who enabled him & gave him passes; he should be prosecuted for his crimes
I think after 45 leaves and Bidon starts his tenture they will see an extremely different adminstration. i hope the people will give him time as he will not know the full extent of things till he gets in their. We all know 45 held back on a lot of info that was to be give to Bidon but was not. In a way i am happy dems control both as this racism and hatred will take time to cool down and this will help. 45 allowed and incouraged it to fester for 4 yrs.
Fourteenth Amendment
Section 3
No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Amdt14.S3.1 Disqualification from Holding Office
Amdt14.S3.1.1 Disqualification Clause
Why are Powell and Flynn no longer in the spotlight. They should be investigated too for their part in whipping up the minds of deplorables to commit heinous crimes, so effortlessly!
What are you talking about??? This the start of #BeirutRules for years to come.
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