Thanks for sharing your story! I’m a 71 year old woman and have always lived in Mississippi. My parents and everyone I knew were all Republican. I am now a Democrat and have been one for a long time. I catch lots of grief if I ever share that I am a Democrat. I’m so glad your son asked you about how you came to realize how wrong the Republican thinking was. I began to realize how wrong the Republicans were when I became a teacher. I had gotten a grant in college which required I teach 5 years in a low income area. The school where I taught was inner city and all my students were black. This is where my eyes became open to the “real world”! Most of my students were being raised by single mothers who worked 2-3 minimum wage jobs. Few of the parents had cars and they rented falling in homes. I began to visit the homes and got to realize how they lived. I saw the difficulties and issues that came with the lives they lived. My eyes were truly opened! Like when you got to see things working at the Welfare offices. I have often wondered if everyone could be placed in positions like we were, if more people could see how wrong Republican ideas are.
@@MrBreeze66 Why do you guys who always tend to forget Lee Atwater and the Southern Strategy as well that the racist ultraconservative wing of the Democratic Party-the Dixiecrats-became republicans. Simple as that. And if you don't believe or acknowledge that fact then you are spreading disinformation.
So what? What is all this insufferable whining about poverty? I could see your level of naivete in a 20 year old girl....but for a woman your age to be this foolish? Some people will always have more...some will always have less...this is true with regard to money and to pretty much everything else...You make the best of what IS...Enough with all this goddamned whining...if it bothers you that much, pick some black person and give them everything you have...but either way, shut your mouth with the whining and excuses...
I am a 70 year old African American Baby Boomer. This is one of the best conversations that I've heard in a long, long time. I am so appreciative of the clarity, courage, and vision displayed by your mom!
Your mother changed her mind because she is brave and deeply humane. Her description of encountering welfare recipients was very moving. We can all learn from her willingness to meet other people where they are.
I'm a 76-year-old Black woman born and raised in rural MS . My parents were sharecroppers. We were dirt poor but never on welfare. I moved to the city when I grew up. I had a college degree, so I was able to get a decent job. I met some single mothers who were on welfare, but they were anything but lazy. A welfare check was not enough to support a family of 3 at the poverty level. These mothers had to work as dishwashers, housekeepers, or whatever they could find to support. The craziest thing was that if the Welfare Dept. discovered they were working, their check would be cut. It was a system that kept people in poverty. In all of my 76 years on the earth, I have never seen a welfare queen. They never existed. That was just a made-up lie to make people hate the less fortunate.
I am an 80-year-old white woman raised on welfare. Thank God for it. My mother would’ve had to work in the seasonal cannery as well as dealing with five children, (and the ones that came along with the next man she was with). That money fed all of us. More than that, it meant she was around to manage our family relatively well. We children all began working odd jobs beginning at 10 to buy whatever it is that we wanted or needed. She wanted us to go to college and most of us did. Of course, there’s much more to the story as I’m sure there is for you. my best wishes to you. Claire Jeannette, Oakland, CA
Hello!!! I just happened to stumble across this video by accident as I was scrolling through RUclips video, and I am so glad I did. I am a 56-year-old black woman, 26-year retired Navy veteran, mother, and grandmother who was born the day after Martin Luther King's murder. To your beautiful Mom, I would like to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your story. I am so glad that you learned the truth. Yoi're right. It's okay to be angry about what happened in the past and how we got here where we are today, but understanding history keeps us from repeating past mistakes. You know, one of the things that I love most about the United States is our diversity, which allows us to bring forward different perspectives and share different ideas, making us the most powerful country in the world. Racism weakens us as a country, so I sincerely hope your message gets out to a broader audience, especially now. I am worried for us. 😢
Thank you so much for your comment. Your life is truly amazing and thank you for sharing this story. This is such an important conversation for us to have. Our power is in our diversity. I have always believed that. Please share the video if you like it because it's so important that we all share our experiences. I think you will be interested in the conversation my son just posted about what the '50s were really like. It's part of what still haunts us today. I am worried for us too but you give us all courage and strength.
I am a 71 year old woman who is a Democrat. I married into a family who were all die hard Republicans. I kept my mouth shut. As a woman working in the 70's I learned to fight for my rights. It made me more liberal.
I have a trans man friend. He says he tries not to peek when he uses the women's room. He's the .5%. We need to protect him at all cost. Women that feel uncomfortable should just hold it.
My mom was raised Catholic in Montana in the 40s and 50s. Her family listened to Father Coughlin’s radio show, and though he was off the air by the time she was able to understand, his toxic racism and fascism has had a lasting impact on her. She still talks about Joe McCarthy and how he was one of the few who knew what was really going on. She thinks Trump is our savior. I’m so grateful that your mom has evolved differently. This was a a great conversation to witness.
I'm sorry to hear. I like to use the phrase "What would Jesus do?" That helps me to decide what I think. I am Catholic but was not exposed to anything like this. I am a Vatican 2 child - Jesus loves, forgives if you are sincere, helps the least of us, has compassion....not the 1950's Catholic Church. I imagine it is hard to deal with. God is shaking his head and crying, I think, about Trump and those who have been taken in by him.
Kids need to be kids first. And taught right from wrong. As we move into middle school we used to have social studies. Along with History. And more in depth studies on into High School. Now I really don’t know. I’m 79 and middle class. I got a very good education through my schools. But our educators should be more up to date. Maybe we need to listen more to them. Rather than the politicians, who have a different agenda !!!! There is a reason so many teachers are quitting. Our schools are becoming a political football and our Children are taking the Brunt !!!!!!😢
What do y'all think the word educated means? If his entire story she is telling us is about when she belongs ever made up things that were obvious lies. You know, the exact opposite of being educated. Smh.
@@darksaint0124 , in those days, "educated" referred to people who had memorized enough information to spit it back out, upon command. It meant (1) "to be able to remember more information than others" and (2) be able to retrieve it quickly, upon command. Many geniuses were considered to be "retarded", because their thought patterns followed a path that others couldn't (or wouldn't) recognize.
When limbic system fight/flight /freeze becomes the dominant pattern, it is REALLY hard to switch off. She's telling a tale of freeing herself from mental control via fear perpetrated upon her by a power and control structure... from a young age. She is VERY strong. Stronger than your average person.
Yes, every MAGA true believer needs to see this video and really think it objectively and unemotionally. I am 78, and many of my neighbors are only voting for Trump because they are lifelong republicans. I try to explain that the party they think they belong to does not exist, MAGA has appropriated it!
But MAGA people either are incapable of or not interested in thinking objectively and unemotionally. They don’t put themselves in the place of others to experience a different point of view. They only care about themselves. Those I know find consideration of the situations of others somewhere between annoying to infuriating.
Look in the mirror please! Did you go along with the bioweapon mandated injections at the hand of the Biden regime. You went along with Warp Speed? Did you?
Thank You for sharing your journey of enlightenment. Not everyone can see past their own experience and prejudices !!!! All of us would do well to be more informed and involved !!!! On both sides.
I found this really interesting because I could never understand the obsession Americans have with socialism and communism. I am Italian and I live in UK, both countries have free healthcare, paid sick leave, maternity and paternity leave, unions and so on, and for us these are our rights, we fought for them. We don’t consider them communist measures, we pay our taxes and this is the very least the government can do in return. I can’t comprehend the American mentality that taking care of people in need is communist, or that people who cannot work due to a disability are lazy. So thank you for this video, it’s really well made and informative.
As a 46-year-old American, I'm comfortable telling you that Americans are the most propagandized people on the planet thanks to hyper-capitalism and a government that has almost always sided with the rich. America's infrastructure wasn't destroyed like Italy's and the UK's during WW2, thus, there was no force to push the United States into a more socialized healthcare system. "Communism" meant both communism but also anyone who wasn't a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Jews were heavily into socialism as was the emerging militant Black movement. Americans have been tricked into believing that wealthy people "earned" their money by working hard, which is never true, especially among the billionaire class and their servants in the upper middle class.
@martaveresi1455 You don't understand because you've never been subjected to the narrative of the stalwart rugged individualist, entrepreneurial, American "self made MAN", who "made it" on his own without any help from anybody. This is the image we are expected to aspire to, and any deviation from this theme, especially if it entails any "co-operative" or "communal" activity is viewed as communist, or at least socialist. Ditto for any program of what you would consider "social safety net" benefits. See, the word "social" is even embedded in the name! They're all about the individual competing against other individuals, and "cooperative" and "communal" are foreign ideas to their worldview.
I am an American born in the 1950s, I moved to Italy about 40 years ago. I was brought up with American propaganda and I can tell you that most Americans don't even know what Communism or Socialism is. They just associate it with "evil atheists". When I was a girl there was the Cold War going on so we had regular nuclear bomb drills in school! So obviously we thought of them as monsters. I remember Social Studies class when we learned about communist countries... we looked at pictures of gray buildings with children in gray schools wearing gray uniforms. Nobody talked about socialism from the standpoint of health care , maternity leave, unions etc. We just thought about gray buildings and nuclear bombs. When I first came to Italy, with my Italian boyfriend I met at university in California, he took me to eat in a park for the Festa dell' Unità. When he told me that the people I was sitting with were communists I was in absolute shock.That is how ignorant I was. They weren't demons with horns, just nice friendly people. That was the beginning of my deprogramming. I will tell, you just to mention health care for one thing, I would never go back to the States. We have problems here in Italy too, as you know, but American health care is just barbaric. My daughter has been hospitalized 13 times, she has serious problems, and I never had to pay a cent... if I lived in the States it would have bankrupted us. Actually she would probably be dead. Yes taxes are high here, and I complain like everybody else, but I would much rather pay taxes that I know will help others like my daughter than pay an equal ( or actually larger amount) to health insurance companies that are only in it for the money and are absolute sciacalli !I just cannot understand why Americans don't get that.
This was one of the most significant interviews I have watched. This should be seen en mass because when you don't know your history, you are doomed to repeat it!
Excellent pod cast....keep them coming please. MAGA is employing the same play book step by step. I'm a 71white female, and somehow escaped the cults of religion and politics because my parents were non-committal and very immature. My grandparents, both sides were blessedly "humanitarians" 1st and foremost, despite their religions. Both grandpas were strong & soft spoken. Always doing for others. This appealed to me more than my loud mouth, racist spewing great uncles. I'm sitting here listening and feeling grateful I was an unwanted, ignored kid with grandparents with high moral standards. Thank you.
Like your Mom, I am a baby boomer raised in Catholic schools, living in an all white neighborhood on Long Island, parented by conservative, republican parents. Somehow my siblings and I managed to accept progressive ideas despite that upbringing. I want to thank you for this wonderful series of interviews and for the honestly and frankness of your conversations with your Mom. I wish that more Americans would listen to her ideas and her common sense evolution from the right. Thank you for sharing this with the world!
I was born and raised in 1954 in Springfield, Illinois. Like "Mom," I was a product of Catholic education all the way through college. In Springfield, we were taught to idolize Abraham Lincoln and his freeing of the slaves. We had to memorize and recite the Gettysburg Address. That said, Springfield was not a center of the Abolishionist Movement. If memory serves, Lincoln either barely carried his home county or lost it outright. We were a segregated town. While we didn't go out of our way to belittle minorities, we believed they were not our equals. Use of the N word and racial jokes among whites was common. I think we were taught a more accurate version of the Civil War and Reconstruction. We were taught Reconstruction was a good program and would probably have been successful had Lincoln not been assassinated. Johnson was blamed for its failure in our lessons. However, the history lessons did not cover the misnamed 1908 "Springfield Race Riot", which was really a mass white terrorist attack on black citizens. It so shocked the nation that it resulted in formation of the NAACP. I didnt learn about it until i was in my 50s or 60s! Like you, I never knew of the discrimination in management of the GI Bill, racial real estate title prohobitions, discriminatory loans, job discrimination ...etc. I thought all the racial evil was in the South. Unlike you I did not learn of our overthrow of democratically elected governments, assasination of political leaders, etc. until I was probably in my late 40s or 50s. I finally awoke to the lies and brainwashing. That's why your program here is so important. Thank you!
I Love this , my story is So similar, I’m 73 my father was a red dog republican! I looked down my nose at the draft dodgers and people burning their draft cards ! Then as an 18 year old I found myself in Vietnam. I found out those people that were getting tear gassed and Billy clubbed trying to make Their Government accountable were my Hero’s of the war! So much more to say , unfortunately not enough time . I So Appreciate this podcast , Thank You 🙏
I am 73 also. In the 70s, I dated several Vietnam vets. They were all very resistant to talking about their experience except for one. From him I learned a lot of soldiers came home addicted to heroin that started from sargeants who used drugs to keep the troops from losing it under severe conditions of war. My 83 y/o friend’s 2 brothers were paratroopers (one or both were in the 101st Airborne) and Rich told me that he was taunted and spat at when he came home. Did you also have this experience? Sincere and heartfelt gratitude for your service 💞
I think that we all need to hear more of these stories. YOUR experience, YOUR life IS important. I learnt so much just from listening to this wonderful mother. Our stories are REALLY IMPORTANT!!! Please don't die without passing them along. This interview makes me wish that he would interview some of the people HERE! There are such interesting comments from people.
@@lc4011 What happened in VietNam is happening RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK in Gaza. Both parties support the genocide. THIS administration is guilty of committing Ethnic Cleansing. It is American taxpayer dollars funding the slaughter and American bombs killing CIVILIANS. It is kept OUT of the Main Stream Media because the agenda is to KEEP A FOOTHOLD IN THE MIDDLE EAST. It's about Money and Power and it always has been. This is a HOLOCAUST. Be aware. You NOW cannot say that you "...didn't know." When they want us to go to war, they say "We are bringing Democracy to the world!" Translated, that means: Another country whose resources we can help ourselves to. I am a 67 year old Jew and a Democrat. But THIS administration is guilty of GENOCIDE. Trump is worse: he would raise Gaza to the ground and sell the oceanfront real estate to the highest bidder. But I won't vote for either side as both are as corrupt as the day is long and it is time EVERYONE woke up to this fact and DEMANDED the killing STOP. We said "NEVER AGAIN!" and that meant ALL PEOPLE.
I am so glad your Mom had friends who would listen to her and that she had enough curiosity to go work for the welfare dept. It really is a miracle that she was able to move beyond the bigoted ideology she was taught as a young child. What an amazing story!! It's so true that fear motivates people to move toward an autocratic government. Her description of fascism reminds me of Orwell's stories.
Oh come on. Go work for welfare and they gave her an apartment of elderly people, the nicest on the planet. Get real, what a total made up aren't we the greatest ever story. Just consider all the child protective services across the nation who fail time after time after time where children are unalive by horrible abuse because of useless organizations. What crap this lady spewed. Don't be fooled by the democrats. They stand for perversion, global elites, war and destruction of life as you know it. I'll talk you one thing, you bleeding heart liberals vote that useless woman into office and no one, I mean NO ONE, is coming to save you. She's a baby k*ller for God's sake, wake up.
At first I always wondered why Trump chose the border as his first real campaign move since it has very little impact in 99% of Americans lives, but now this video clears that up perfectly. Trump was following the Fascism 101 playbook right from the beginning. Choose an enemy in which you can create fear among the masses. Fox and the rest of right-wing media played along happily with the propaganda.
I have found myself looking to historians to understand how we got here and that along with interviews like this have been incredibly enlightening…. Know what I mean?
I was raised in the sixties and seventies, indoctrinated into Catholic ideology and filled with pride for our country. Thank you for doing this with your mom; it’s a true gift to all of us, especially now as we witness the same patterns of hate and racism. Politicians seem to pit “the others” against us, labeling us as the “good Americans.” I wish my sons would take the time to listen to this or be open to a different perspective. Blessings to your mom for fulfilling her purpose and doing good to elevate the human race.
Im 72 years old. I was just like your mother. I was very conservative in high school and college. I was very religious. I was against women's lib, abortion and sex before marriage. I did not believe girls only wear dresses. Now I'm a Democrat, pro women's rights and an atheist. I am happily married. I feel free emotionally. I don't think everyone should think like me. I admire your mother.
Your mom is 8 years older than me and grew up in a religious family so it is interesting to hear her memories of the political 50's and 60's. Thank you for sharing this conversation.
OMG, give me a break. Dumb story full of propaganda for people who honestly can't think for themselves and are persuaded easily by a kind face. Read about Edward Bernays and understand manipulation. Get a book called propaganda, get another called 1984. Stop listening to other people and think for yourself for God's sake already.
Thank you for the opportunity to listen to your mother’s story. Rarely do we have the opportunity to speak or listen to seniors who will share their experiences and their upbringing, let alone so honestly and in such detail. “The truth will set you free” and your mom’s life is a fine example. You must be proud of her!
I am loving these conversations! It is so powerful hearing your mom reflect on her middle school papers. What an authentic way of learing the history of public opinion. And I love how decisively KICK ASS she is.
This has to be the best first video on a channel I've ever seen. Every crazy MAGA person should listen to her story and see how clearly her story rhymes with their story. I think some of them could see the light and realize it is all lies.
MAGA?… Can hear?… 👀 NOT!… 😩 They’re in a “cult”… and cult members ONLY hear their “cult leader”… It takes ourVOTE 💙to move us ALL forward👉🏽 We’re NEVER going back… 💙💙💙
I'm a bit older than your mom, but I agree with everything she said. This is a great podcast, just keep it simple like you have it now. I'm now a committed follower.
Just watched this today. OMG thank you for sharing your mom with us!! She is an amazing woman. I have been struggling with understanding how in the world we are in this political situation AGAIN and what the hell is wrong with clueless people who believe and support the hateful untrue lies being spewed to them by the Republican establishment. My mom, who just passed at 96 years, was my guiding light for intelligent unbiased discussions regarding faith, life decisions , politics and being morally responsible to serving others in your community. Political discussions were based on staying connected with all available sources which included diverse perspectives of news articles and tv news as well as watching live congressional and senate hearings and voting. The divisive political misinformation and hateful rhetoric has been a source of arguments and hurtful feelings within families, mine included. I have been trying to understand the reasons anyone would be totally hoodwinked by the lies and hate for our own family members , friends and citizens of this country for a man who claims to be our “Savior” ! So thank you and your mom for this podcast. I will be watching your future podcasts…a saving grace these last days leading up to the election. I’m hoping it will lead to more meaningful discussions with family 🙏🏼 Pray for Texas !
This is so true. We have become so divided. Even our Families. I think Trump coined the phrase: The enemy within. And I think is us !!!!! We are losing our rights and blaming the proverbial Other’s !!!!
When she said, "If you can make someone believe, you can make them do just about anything." I'm reminded of a Netflix Doc I recently watched about the Police Units of the 3rd Reich. It wasn't the Military or the SS that murdered over a million jews up close and personal. It was regular guys called to be Policemen. These are the men who rounded up entire villages by the thousands and shot them. They all participated and only a small select few were ever held accountable at the Nuremberg Trials. I appreciate the conversation. My own mother born 54 wasn't much into politics. I was a pretty staunch conservative when I was younger. But this is why I now think that religious indoctrination is so dangerous. I was horribly ignorant of the world in which I lived. Which is exactly what the churchs want. Thanks to both you and your mom for this candid conversation. Much appreciated. Here is an excellent book for anyone who's interested. How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue24
ps My mother was labeled a Welfare Queen. Two abusive exhusbands left her with a sets of twins each. A 22 yo woman left to raise 4 little kids by herself with little family support. How these men were never held accountable even though both had good paying jobs and were Military Veterans. We're now left to struggle with lifelong ailments due to severe malnutrition. And the most egregious is the fact my mother worked herself into an early grave. She would have been 70 this year. The only thing Reagonomics did was drive people back into poverty and make those already struggling suffer more.
@@hollybug-76542 God Bless your dear Mother. People don’t seem to understand that before there was welfare, people used to have to give away their children or sell their children - _to whoever._ Destitute poverty is not caused by “laziness”, it’s about insurmountable circumstances. The only welfare people should be angry about is the welfare we give to giant corporations when they recklessly fail, and use our socialism money to give multi-million dollar executive bonuses and re-launch their business, without skipping a beat. 1 type of welfare costs us little and helps children make it to adulthood. Welfare for corporations, no one seems to care about or call those companies “welfare queens”
I'm a Democrat but I cannot vote for Harris as she won't acknowledge that there is a genocide going on in Gaza that WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR... we are funding it and sending munitions. I voted for Biden and THIS is what he has done: Betrayed us. I am appalled and CANNOT get past it. As a 67 year old Jew, to see Israel perform an ethnic cleansing of an entire people, is madness. WE said "Never again." and it is happening AT OUR HANDS!!! So... "No" to Harris. I am no fan of despicable Trump. So I will not vote.
This was incredible! I'm a millennial Black male living in the north midwest. Several of my coworkers are of the boomer generation and I was really beginning to lose hope in the possibility of bridging the generational gap, seeing this country for what it is and moving forward together. This interview has really inspired me to keep hold onto the hope of a more united America based on truth and compassion.
Omg I relate to this conversation in multiple ways. For one, my dad was a hardcore conservative my entire life. So much of what your mom describes is exactly what I heard from him all the time growing up. The fears about the country were too intense for me. I pushed back on it all the time, telling him I didn’t understand why he was so negative. I was a very naive kid. Which brings me to the second relatable part - I was a conservative too! (With the evangelical thrown in…yikes.) I could have written the things your mom said. I argued with lefty classmates in school. I was insufferable to them, I’m sure. Deconstructing the evangelical parts, for me, was the path to deconstruct the conservatism too. I’m still a registered republican because I don’t live in the US anymore and my adhd brain finds it hard to do paperwork. But I haven’t voted for a republican except for my very first presidential election in ‘96. My dad died last year and we barely spoke for the last 5 years of his life. When he found out I was voting for a Democrat, he decided to question me about my religious beliefs and made my non-belief a point of contention between us. As a mom to a trans kid, I have zero regrets about standing up for policies that help people instead of hating them. I think it’s tragic that any adult can let the hatred of conservatism numb them to caring about people. I talk to my kid about politics all the time. The conversations we have are about seeing a better way. The fears are about true threats that exist instead of made-up boogeymen. We focus on the needs of people. Policies and their impact on people. I wish I’d had even one adult in my life growing up who could have helped me learn that a bit sooner. But I got there and I’m grateful that I saw the lies of conservatism. I hope your podcast reaches a lot of people because this is such an important conversation and far more refreshing than the “why I left the left” diatribes.
Thank You for your candor !!!!! We could all be better people. Jesus did except all those who had flaws. HE DID NOT turn his back. Humans are flawed and through him we are forgiven !!!! We are being tested everyday !!! And by the grace , we could’ve been a person who is unacceptable !!!!!
@@cookingforme4711 No, she spoke the truth. You merely have no idea about history and the real reason for wars. Wars are about commodities, Vietnam was about bauxite mines that were in the mountains of Vietnam. Bauxite is the raw material to make Aluminum. The US got involved in the MiddleEast because of oil, the oil wells over there were originally found, developed and owned by American oil companies. America put the Saudi family in power in the area now called Saudi Arabia, they were no different than any other of the nomad families which roamed the Arabian Peninsula of the time. 9/11 came about because American financial institutions caused cascading financing failures all over the world from the Far east to the MiddleEast, which was why the World Trade Center towers were targeted. Ignorance is not bliss. Educate yourself.
Wow, please thank your mom for telling her story. I lost it when she said how that little girl asked her to be her sister. OMG. Bless your mom for her caring and compassion.
It's so refreshing to listen to her, and though I'm not American, I hear everything she is talking about. I live in the Caribbean, and as a child exposed to colonialism and catholicism, we had our share of brainwashing. But I, too, like her, was always thinking deeper than what was presented to us. As a teenager during the Vietnam War, could not accept why young men were going off to die so far away from their families and homes. Could not see into the purpose. We, too, had slavery and indenturship which we had to come to grips with. Being a British colony, truth was distorted. 😮
You had me hanging on every word - this is one of the most engaging, insightful and commendable testimonies of something we all need to know about - how a good person (and I have nothing but love for your mum!) can be groomed/radicalised/ call it what you want. I love that she's kept the receipts - the Goldwater badge, heaven's sake! So open, honest, clear, lively, informed. And a fascinating, vivid peek into a whole world of +/- 1960s North American history, too.
First let me thank both you and your mom for having the courage to create and publish this interview. My story parallels your mom’s very closely - 16 years of Catholic education - but not so clear-cut politically, for several reasons. One is that both my parents - devout Catholics - were not on the same page politically. Another is a high school Sociology teacher, in my Junior year at a Catholic high school - who still ranks as the BEST teacher I ever had - who spent the first semester building up Communism and completely debunked it the 2nd semester. Wish there were more like your mom. So inspiring. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this. You DO have a brilliant mother. I am a 61 year old woman who has come to many of these conclusions myself, although from a very different direction. However, I would never have been able to express them so clearly.
I am struck by several things by this conversation. First, your mother is not only intelligent but extremely intelligent, yet she was indoctrinated. Second, it was her personal experience/contact with human suffering (welfare agency) that not only touched something within her but also showed her she was taught some things that were lies. Third, he notion about corrupt entities having to tell some truth in order to reel you in and the blend in the lies - that's the National Enquirer, Fox News, conservative talk radio!
No dear, I was indoctrinated. Indoctrinated against the Republicans and djt. It took one simple thing to debunk all the democrat lies. I sat down and listened to Trump, in full then I replayed what the media said he said and I saw them lying over and over and over and can't unsee it. Kamala was installed, not a single vote. Don't do it. I'm telling you don't do it. Think for yourself, drown everyone out, open your eyes, pay attention and focus. This is important, it effects the rest of your life and you need to wake up to the manipulative ways of the democrats.
It is trusting that leads to indoctrination. Humans are trusting by NATURE..(until they learn NOT to be from gettin exploited and then become cynical and jaded) Fascists and Sociopaths know to target that trust. They are predators (just like epstein) Most adults who arent brainwashed realize that BEING trusting may sometimes end up badly but you cant live your life in a paranoid state. So being trusting and caring is a better way to live.
I’m really loving your concept here. Your mom is a wealth of great information. I’m a little younger than her at 66, and many of the things she is saying resonate with me. In the 60’s I was too young to understand much of what was going on in the world but these discussions are helping me thread a lot together. Hope you continue this series!
So glad to have stumbled upon you guys! First of all I wish I could sit down with my own mom and talk politics and how our life experiences have changed our perspectives and shaped us to be better people. Unfortunately my parents(dad born in 58 and mom in 52) are strict evangelicals who refuse to see the truth about our world and that they too were taught lies. They homeschooled me and my 3 siblings back in the late 80s when it was unheard of(my dad was a public school teacher which was also weird) and we used the Abeka curriculum that was written with “Christian world view.” I too was taught pretty much like your mom was and if I still had them I could also show you essays and things I wrote that today I would be ashamed of. My education was excellent, my dad made sure of that but my mom who was an artist was definitely NOT happy with her role as a stay at home mom and teacher and to this day(just turned 41) I struggle with what they now call “religious trauma or abuse.” I’d have to say I feel like they/society does not want people to know the truth because that means people must take responsibility for themselves and to admit their beliefs are what perpetuate the ugliness in our world. I grew up hating people who used food stamps. I was taught they were all lazy. There was probably one Africa American family in my home town but even though my moms parents were missionaries to Africa I still feel I grew up to where I thought I was better than anyone who wasn’t exactly like me or had the same beliefs as I did. College was where, like your mom, I finally had my eyes opened to conservative beliefs and that’s where I started picking apart my beliefs and realized everything I knew was exactly what my parents thought….based upon religious beliefs and opinions. Fast forward to 2019 when I had a 2 year old son and decided to leave my abusive marriage and fly across an ocean with my son and a bag with no idea what was ahead for me. Let me just say that sadly the world has not changed very much for those single moms with children. I came back to the United States to a handful of friends and parents who showed little to no interest in me or my son or helping me in any way as far as childcare. I was on my own because divorce was not acceptable and I was and had a,ways been the black sheep of the family. What I’m trying to say here is, it is so easy to judge others and to think of all these reasons why they end up in situations like having to find childcare or use food stamps…it’s so easy until it is YOU having to do those things. I’ll never forget the day I walked up to the welfare office to get food stamps for my son and I….never had I felt so much like a failure. Then I found out how difficult the process was and since then I have been on and off food stamps because I have “made too much money” to qualify for them. At one point I was selling items for extra cash and my boyfriend sent me money for groceries/bills and at my food stamp interview they told me I had to write a letter stating I only did that one time and I would not sell anything else or accept any other money without telling them first. I’m telling you this system is set up for people to fail. The only reason I am in anyway not on the streets is because the USAF forces my ex to pay child support and my boyfriend moved in. Because as a substitute teacher in my community in this tiny town and no childcare(too expensive) there is no way I would be able to live. Thankfully because of my amazing boyfriend I will be able to start focusing on my art and making income from that which is my dream. Anyway thank you for sharing this with the world. I love these videos!,❤
I'm five years younger than your mom and Canadian. I had no political consciousness other than what I got from books and movies, which was anti-establishment, anti-war, but not really liberal. I was vaguely against people getting too much help from the government until I was about forty and discovered Chomsky's description of American empire while exploring child language acquisition as a first-time mother. Chomsky and CBC Radio made me a progressive in the nineties. I worry that 70 million Americans vote Republican and 80 million don’t vote at all. An an interplanterary visitor might suggest America isn't qualified for democracy.
I too am Canadian and around the sun's age. I found their conversation fascinating and gave a lot of insight into Americans as a whole, and how different education is. School for us was just school, no importance on political ideological until high-school and that was was pretty much all sides. The only thing the only thing I would say that I feel I was lied to about was Louie Riel, and him being a traitor which technically he was but looking back through history it's a lot more nuanced than that as he wqs doing wha5 he could for his people.. I did take more history classes than was required so I definitely learned a bit more! 20th century history was my favorite as I learned so much, about the constructs of society and critical thinking.
Born in 1958. Raised in the Methodist church. We were taught that caring for others is of the utmost importance. I've never understood people who supposedly have faith, living in so much fear. I'm a lifelong Democrat. My dad was very into history and politics so i developed an interest early on.
I think there is a level of selfishness in some of the people. Sad to say. 😢 They have theirs, you get your own. Or they use the excuse. I worked hard to get what I have. But most won’t credit the good breaks they had. Or the help from someone who believed in them. Their are people who very hard, sometimes 2 or 3 jobs. But still struggling. And people still look down on them. If they need any help !!! What does that say about people and our society.
Sharon your story sounds like mine. Born in 1963. Raised by devout Methodists. From an early age I had SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE driven into me as a guiding principle. I was taught that you cannot remove the speck from your neighbor's eye until you remove the log from your own. Your faith was a personal responsibility, not a government tool. Mom and Dad both came from conservative Republican backgrounds. Dad's eyes were opened when he saw how Black service members were treated much worse than White during WW2. He saw first-hand how we "all bleed red". Mom left her conservative background after teaching in the Philadelphia public schools. I was taken to MLK rallies as a very very very young child. Dad would preach at the inner city black churches and take me along....the only little blond-haired, blue-eyed girl in the church. His "friends" would tell him he was endangering me....he knew better. My parents are both gone but what they taught me will never disappear. I'm a life long Democrat and progressive...difficult and complicated political issues should not be answered with hate, but with love....always. I am so grateful for both the faith and the progressive values taught to me by my parents.
I'm a very late 'boomer', b.1960. It's so interesting to hear from your Mom who's really a very early 'boomer'. My Mom was born in 1925 and was more progressive than your Mom during the same time periods. I think because my mom lived through the Depression, which touched her in very personal ways. Seeing and learning history through the eyes of those who lived it is the best!
Thanks for this interesting talk. I was born and raised in Japan and it took more than 20+ years for me to be able to recognize hate and fear playing a big role in the American politics. For years, I just couldn't figured out what religions had to do with many social issues. As your mother said "Do your homework," I totally agree with her. I don't have any political baggage since I wasn't raised in the US, so it scares me when some people blamed Biden for the increase in gasoline price. In Asia and Europe, the average people learn the role of OPEC in high school, and they know how OPEC can manipulate the gas price. When my conservative friends told me that they were frustrated with the liberals for causing the increase in the homeless population in the 'liberal cities', I just tell them that there are homeless in any large cities such as Paris, London, Tokyo, etc. I ask myself how I can contribute to the US. My way of contributing to the US is to share with others political perspectives that are free from any political baggage.
I’m a working poor American raised in a very multicultural large metropolitan area. I’m extremely fortunate that I was exposed to people from so many different countries, but even with that exposure I’m sad to say we just aren’t educated about the rest of the world here. I still struggled to comprehend the rest of the world well into my 20’s because of this lack of education and exposure. 80% of Americans have never had a passport and haven’t left their hometown or home state, let alone the country. If we were more culturally aware maybe we wouldn’t be so gullible.
This is an incredibly valuable thing to offer. I’m a white American who grew up in a rural, conservative state and I’ve had very little exposure to people of different backgrounds outside of the internet. Politics have always confused me and I value those with unbiased opinions.
Hi @sick_icarus , Thank you for your reply. I can understand how you feel. I have to work hard to keep my own thoughts independent from political narratives out there. I watch news on TV occasionally to catch up new buzz words and narratives in politics. But most of the time, I do my own investigation online by following money and data in the world - which politicians connected with who, which countries are importing and exporting, what US is importing and exporting from what state, journals published by think-tank organizations, who owns what companies and who are the parent companies, who has factories in Mexico and when they started their manufacturing business, etc. You can see the web of world business and politics. It's fascinating. MAGA gets my attention in this way: Trump's and his supporter's narrative that the world is US taking advantage of America. I think the world simply caught up with the US after WWII. The US was an aggressive super power in the world for decades. Maybe companies in other countries had more money spent on R&D while US companies were busying lobbying politicians. Sure some large companies got subsidies from their own government, but US had lots of resources and power to manipulate the global market for a long time. I just can't see US as a victim of the unfair global political and business practices as MAGA clams. I also don't understand why American people are not upset by the fact that fake evidence convinced the nation to invade Iraq. Trillions of dollars were wasted and many US soldiers died in the war and worst of all, the political vacuum created by the war helped created ISIS and no one is calling to find out who created fake evidence that Saddam Hussein had the weapons of mass destruction. I feel sad that some people in the US are caught by the dualistic thinking: either this or that. For example, if one calls for a bad apple in the law enforcement, then he or she must be an anti-police. Or if one question Biden's policy on immigration, then he or she is not compassionate. It's like Gaston in the movie Beaty and the Beast: "if you are not with us, you are against us!' Where is pragmatism the US had so proudly?
The childcare center in housing with single parents is what I wanted to try to get going before becoming disabled. People rotating in, while getting an education, looking for work, etc. As well as other strategies. If we really tried as a society, we could help people.
wow that essay at 11 years old-but THIS though-"you can't fix it if you don't know whats going on-and you CAN'T fix it unless you care"- thank you for caring😇
Thank both of you for this - in the midst of all the screaming (Right AND Left), a few moments of LISTENING! “Once you give yourself to fear……”. Truer words never spoken.
1:08:11 This moment brought me to tears. The suffering of the poor girl, your mothers utter devastation at finally truly grasping the lies she had been fed. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Fantastic interview. In so many ways, history is repeating itself. Fear is a huge motivator, and having a scapegoat to blame is one of the oldest tricks in the book. So are lines like “the press is the enemy of the people,” “only I can fix it,” being “chosen by God” to show the way, “our country is going to hell”…you get the point. We are here again in 2024 😞
I’ve got 3 years on you. Was raised in a Liberal home thanks to my heretic Irish father and I remember my Mom’s strong sense of fear of McCarthy because she had converted to Unitarian. It’s wonderful to hear you describe that era.
I’m 74 I grew up not knowing my parents political leanings, her story is interesting yet I personally felt that the only good political position was liberal. I later learned my father was conservative, I was shocked.
Wow, I appreciated this so much! Gives so much insight into our situation today. My thanks to you for not sensationalizing at all. My thanks to your mother for speaking so honestly. I was in elementary school in the 60s and this has also given me new perspective on the era that shaped me.
In 2014 I took a college anthropology class called Revolution and Development in the modern world. It forever opened my eyes to the effects of colonization, globalization , and the far too frequent nefariousness of the USA in the world. The vast misunderstanding of how global economies work, communism in word and used as a ruse for fascism, the things your mom is talking about are blanks for most people. They feel the responsibility to vote but are confused. And the Corps/Moneyed do this on purpose. Enlightened education is destroyed, by poverty and social media etc. I said everyone in America needs to know these things (and they don’t) and especially they need to know all this to vote well.
@@donnaparks5815 Knowledge and education is what gives you power. You’re not so easily manipulated. That’s where they get us. We are to busy making a living. To really know what’s going on. Little sounds bites and canned news doesn’t get to the real world. And the talking heads are just a distraction !!!!! We are letting them dupe us an every turn. We must wake up before it’s too late !!!!!!
I went to Catholic school in the 50's and 60's and Adrienne's take on it is totally accurate. I didn't break free and follow my own mind and heart until college and even then not completely. I'm a complete progressive today and an environmentalist but I seem to have forgotten the import of this early part of my journey. I can't wait to hear more.
Your mom is beautiful. She reminds me of the great singer/actvist Joan Baez. Your mom's story, the eloquence of her words, & the courageous self-analysis is very inspiring. BRAVO.👏👏👏
I was born in 1968 in Oakland. My dad was a cop and very much a conservative Christian. I was raised with this dame attitude! Liberals/democrats hated freedom and God and the Constitution and family. I was fed the narrative that “those people” were communists and if we let them get into power, they’d come and take all our stuff and we’d starve. Or we could be imprisoned because we believe in God and speak out against the government. For decades, I heard that “they” would break down our door and take all our guns. We were having our taxes stolen and being forced to work hard so that the liberals can be lazy. I was in my 30s before I got brave enough to ask questions and find answers. Before that point, I was ridiculed for questioning. I lived in a bubble. It’s so amazing when you break free; but I find it makes me less tolerant of those who refuse to look outside their echo chamber.
Fun to hear someone speak to me about OUR time. I was born in 49, in Illinois, Protestant Farm Boy, Wife born in 48 In Queens, Catholic. We met in 97. Magic ever since. So much to learn and understand, your Mom helps me to fill in the blanks. Her Dad said WhatNot, too. Excellent share, thank you, D&M in Virginia
I just loved this video! I grew up in upstate NY in the 70's/80's to parents who weren't Catholic, but the mentality where I lived was exactly what your mother's experience was. And that mentality remains, to this day. I was a liberal by nature, but witnessed, as a teen, some of those insidious beliefs that had been programmed into me, like the welfare queens and how the unemployed are just lazy and don't want to work. When I really saw it, I was disgusted that I was carrying a belief about others that I had no personal experience with and couldn't know was even true. Your mother is amazing, and I am grateful to have listened to her story. It helped put pieces of my own life and family history into greater perspective. Thank you! 💜
I am a Black woman born in the mid 50”s. My parents and family were very involved in civil rights in Newark,NJ in the sixties. That was the environment and consciousness I was raised in. Your conversation with your mother was very enlightening and a case for why we need to know and learn each other’s stories and histories and a big case for why we see critical thinking missing from our young people. I don’t know what you need to do to get this to more people to see but you must absolutely try.
This. Is. An. Excellent. Offering! 🤲🏽❤️ Thank You for sharing so beautifully together this revolutionary, evolutionary tale of growing through it all. You ARE. A brilliant Woman and have raised a thoughtful and conscientious Man. Thank You each for being YOU!🫶🏽🇺🇸❤️🦋
What a brilliant interview. I appreciate your mom’s honesty and your wonderful questions and discussion. Thank you for posting this. I look forward to hearing more from this channel.
Boy, I so identified. I’m older than your mother (b 1941). Like her I had 16 years of Catholic education. Originally from the Midwest, my family moved to Pittsburgh when I was 9. The population there was largely Eastern European and very anti-communist. I remember being invited to dinner at the house of a classmate whose father was a judge. “I Led 3 Lives” came on the TV right after dinner. This was a program about a US double agent tracking down communists on the west coast. I remember the judge shouting a couple of times, “Get’em, Philbrick (the agent). In 1960, age 19, we moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where we settled in Oakland. What a culture shock! My thinking evolved over time. Of course, the VietNam war was one impetus for re-evaluating one’s ideas. About race relations: I’d never gone to school with or lived in a community with African Americans prior to Oakland. The house we moved to there was larger and in a classier neighborhood than all previous residences, but there were Black and Asian families living on our street.
Thank you Will & Mom! I'm a late boomer (1959), so I appreciate hearing Mom's perspective on the 40's & 50's as precursors for what my lived experience has been relative to politics in my life. It's also extremely heartening to hear a like-minded woman who is strong, intelligent and a critical thinker! Thank you ! But my question: Is there a way to define "conservative" and "liberal" in the year 2024 and going forward?
@@SusanHMcIntyre Seems we've got to get back down to basics... Democracy, rule of law,, basic human rights, personal dignity, bodily autonomy... To me - that's conservative.
@@CarolineBrunnquell-k5w I am a Democrat and the values you assigned to Republicans are the same ones I believe in. I believe the difference comes from what we think are the root causes of problems and the solutions. But the values are the same if what you say is true.
@@towanda1067 I’m a Democrat as well. And she listed the same exact beliefs. I’ve been saying we are not that far apart. Out here in the heart land !!!!! We just have to stop and listen to each other. And find that common ground. We the people should be in charge. That is what our Vote is for. Politicians work for us !!!!!
Wow. What an incredibly interesting conversation! Very insightful. I’ve been listening to more of your podcasts, so this comment is not solely based upon THIS podcast. But overall…..very, very interesting. “Mom” here, is the same age as my older sister. I too, am a late boomer….12 years of Catholic education as well. I’m in the Midwest and….in being on the end of the boomer generation, I would have to say that age 11, I was actively questioning the Catholic Church. All of my friends only paid lip service to the “rules” and so forth….we were more influenced by the slogan “Question Authority”. So, being raised by an authoritarian styled father….both my older brother and myself questioned and challenged not only our father but the Catholic crap that was trying to “influence” us. Dad was a lifelong Dem tho. Me too. I am the only sibling out of 4 kids that graduated college. Dad did NOT put me thru college….he didn’t see me as a person willing to “invest” in….so I left home at age 18 and because I was considered “independent” from my family I became eligible for Financial Aid, from yes….the Federal Government. Reagan did try to slash or severely curtail this program. Yes…. I lived in “poverty” but being free from being under my father’s thumb and the horrors of my family life WAS WORTH IT. And, it allowed me to get a great college education. I questioned authority all right….started w/ Reagan bs and I’ve never quit.
This is a fabulous conversation, and I love your mom. She did get one thing kind of wrong, and I think it’s important to say this. While it’s true that the descendants of slave owners, or the people who directly benefited from the institution of slavery, are not responsible for slavery, they do benefit retroactively from the wealth that was accumulated as a result of the institution of slavery. And it isn’t just descendants of slave owners, it’s everyone who benefited from that trade. Descendants of shipbuilders who never owned slaves, but built the ships that they traveled in, are the beneficiaries of generational wealth that was built on the back of slavery. Descendants of textile manufacturers and dry goods sellers all benefit from generational wealth that was accumulated on the backs of slaves. We may not be responsible for it, but there’s a reason why reparations are important.
I'm so glad I found your video on you tube...I'm a little older than your mom, I was born in 1944, I'll be 81 soon. I grew up in a Catholic household, attended Catholic school through high school, but I never once thought that the "right", whatever that was, was anything I'd ever be interested or involved in. I guess that means I've been a leftie, or a liberal, all my life after I passed that line of the age of reason. Hypocrisy was out; truth was in. It seemed so simple to me then, a long time ago. It's different today - lies are truth to some people. I've lost family to MAGA, and I know I am perhaps one of millions who may have similar stories. It's a very sad time in America today.
I was born in 1957 and also had that guilt to make the world better, used to be called being a good citizen, Barry Goldwater Parents, I started to see the holes in those theories after Kent State...as a kid...being an Avid reader...The ugly American etc, Upton Sinclair. Godspeed...even though you are singing to the choir ...I enjoyed it. Dee California
You are so lucky to have conversations like this with your mom. If I had a smidgen of this conversation with my mother, I could have been a different person now. Sadly, both my parents have passed away, and I miss them. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much; I was born as the country was trying to leave all this behind, and there was still a palpable tension. When the most recent divide began to show its ugly head and Influence my kind, compassionate parents, much of the very early sentiment of my childhood echoed and broke my heart. I do still hold out hope they will break free of the lies they have come to believe, I look forward to more of your story hour soon. I hope they come out quickly. Thank you
I just fell into this first episode. Terrific! As an 82 year old liberal I can relate to every second of your video. Your mom reminds me of my mom. I am excited to follow your channel.
Her recalling the time with the mom and little girl making jewelry was a very emotional moment to witness. Such a profound interview and i hope you continue to do these
Great concept for a channel. Powerful stuff. Hope it takes off! I miss talking to my Mom about the state of the world and regret not asking her more questions when I had the chance.
I'm late to this party, but I just wanted to say how much I *admired* the courage it takes to step up and speak out about beliefs that have been proven to be false, mistakes made and changes undergone - including an excerpt from an essay written along time ago. It takes a lot to step up and do this, and I just am so impressed.
Thank you for this video! I listen to politics and history content all day long - I have not been as fascinated, educated, and moved as a human being by anything as much as this video in a very long time. It’s hard to express in words the tremendous gravity it holds on so many levels, thank you again!
Thanks for sharing your story! I’m a 71 year old woman and have always lived in Mississippi. My parents and everyone I knew were all Republican. I am now a Democrat and have been one for a long time. I catch lots of grief if I ever share that I am a Democrat. I’m so glad your son asked you about how you came to realize how wrong the Republican thinking was. I began to realize how wrong the Republicans were when I became a teacher. I had gotten a grant in college which required I teach 5 years in a low income area. The school where I taught was inner city and all my students were black. This is where my eyes became open to the “real world”! Most of my students were being raised by single mothers who worked 2-3 minimum wage jobs. Few of the parents had cars and they rented falling in homes. I began to visit the homes and got to realize how they lived. I saw the difficulties and issues that came with the lives they lived. My eyes were truly opened! Like when you got to see things working at the Welfare offices. I have often wondered if everyone could be placed in positions like we were, if more people could see how wrong Republican ideas are.
Thank you for sharing this story -- I wonder the same thing, and I have to think that yes, it would change people.
That’s amazing, Mississippi didn’t start voting Republican until the 1990s. I truly doubt your story.
@@MrBreeze66 Why do you guys who always tend to forget Lee Atwater and the Southern Strategy as well that the racist ultraconservative wing of the Democratic Party-the Dixiecrats-became republicans. Simple as that. And if you don't believe or acknowledge that fact then you are spreading disinformation.
Glad for your experience. Happy you helped, and are Still Helping!
So what? What is all this insufferable whining about poverty? I could see your level of naivete in a 20 year old girl....but for a woman your age to be this foolish? Some people will always have more...some will always have less...this is true with regard to money and to pretty much everything else...You make the best of what IS...Enough with all this goddamned whining...if it bothers you that much, pick some black person and give them everything you have...but either way, shut your mouth with the whining and excuses...
My mom was a Dem and I loved talking politics with her. She passed away this June and I’m really missing her.
I’m sorry for your loss…… I love the fact that you talked about things while she was alive!!!
Condolences.
@@hugh261 Thank you
I'm sorry for your loss, thank you so much for sharing.
My mom was a dem too. I loved talking about politics (and every other subject!) with her. She was awesome. She died 4 years ago next week.
I am a 70 year old African American Baby Boomer. This is one of the best conversations that I've heard in a long, long time. I am so appreciative of the clarity, courage, and vision displayed by your mom!
Me too . astounded . delighted!
Your mother changed her mind because she is brave and deeply humane. Her description of encountering welfare recipients was very moving. We can all learn from her willingness to meet other people where they are.
I'm a 76-year-old Black woman born and raised in rural MS . My parents were sharecroppers. We were dirt poor but never on welfare. I moved to the city when I grew up. I had a college degree, so I was able to get a decent job. I met some single mothers who were on welfare, but they were anything but lazy. A welfare check was not enough to support a family of 3 at the poverty level. These mothers had to work as dishwashers, housekeepers, or whatever they could find to support. The craziest thing was that if the Welfare Dept. discovered they were working, their check would be cut. It was a system that kept people in poverty. In all of my 76 years on the earth, I have never seen a welfare queen. They never existed. That was just a made-up lie to make people hate the less fortunate.
I am an 80-year-old white woman raised on welfare. Thank God for it. My mother would’ve had to work in the seasonal cannery as well as dealing with five children, (and the ones that came along with the next man she was with). That money fed all of us. More than that, it meant she was around to manage our family relatively well. We children all began working odd jobs beginning at 10 to buy whatever it is that we wanted or needed. She wanted us to go to college and most of us did. Of course, there’s much more to the story as I’m sure there is for you. my best wishes to you. Claire Jeannette, Oakland, CA
Hello!!! I just happened to stumble across this video by accident as I was scrolling through RUclips video, and I am so glad I did. I am a 56-year-old black woman, 26-year retired Navy veteran, mother, and grandmother who was born the day after Martin Luther King's murder. To your beautiful Mom, I would like to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your story. I am so glad that you learned the truth. Yoi're right. It's okay to be angry about what happened in the past and how we got here where we are today, but understanding history keeps us from repeating past mistakes. You know, one of the things that I love most about the United States is our diversity, which allows us to bring forward different perspectives and share different ideas, making us the most powerful country in the world. Racism weakens us as a country, so I sincerely hope your message gets out to a broader audience, especially now. I am worried for us. 😢
Thank you so much for your comment. Your life is truly amazing and thank you for sharing this story. This is such an important conversation for us to have. Our power is in our diversity. I have always believed that. Please share the video if you like it because it's so important that we all share our experiences. I think you will be interested in the conversation my son just posted about what the '50s were really like. It's part of what still haunts us today. I am worried for us too but you give us all courage and strength.
@AdrienneLarkin-g5l Thank you so much, Mrs. Larkin!!!! You are awesome!!!! 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
Thank you for your service 🫡
@@deborahsevigny4763 Thank you so very much!!! It was both an honor and a privilege to serve.
Such an optimist you are. More power to you! Greetings from Seattle 😊
I am a 71 year old woman who is a Democrat. I married into a family who were all die hard Republicans. I kept my mouth shut. As a woman working in the 70's I learned to fight for my rights. It made me more liberal.
I have a trans man friend. He says he tries not to peek when he uses the women's room. He's the .5%. We need to protect him at all cost. Women that feel uncomfortable should just hold it.
My mom was raised Catholic in Montana in the 40s and 50s. Her family listened to Father Coughlin’s radio show, and though he was off the air by the time she was able to understand, his toxic racism and fascism has had a lasting impact on her. She still talks about Joe McCarthy and how he was one of the few who knew what was really going on. She thinks Trump is our savior.
I’m so grateful that your mom has evolved differently. This was a a great conversation to witness.
Rachel Maddow has an excellent two season podcast about this very thing. It's called Ultra. It was a part of history I knew very little about.
@@chickenmama823 l learned a lot from her series.
You’re ignoring Father Coughlin’s antisemitism.
@ no. But thank you for explicitly highlighting it.
I'm sorry to hear. I like to use the phrase "What would Jesus do?" That helps me to decide what I think. I am Catholic but was not exposed to anything like this. I am a Vatican 2 child - Jesus loves, forgives if you are sincere, helps the least of us, has compassion....not the 1950's Catholic Church. I imagine it is hard to deal with. God is shaking his head and crying, I think, about Trump and those who have been taken in by him.
I am 71 born in 1953 ….. OK your mom is very verbally gifted… Please please please keep going
I’m 71 too. This lady is well spoken and educated. She is very impressive. I didn’t know anything about politics in my youth.
Kids need to be kids first. And taught right from wrong. As we move into middle school we used to have social studies. Along with History. And more in depth studies on into High School. Now I really don’t know. I’m 79 and middle class. I got a very good education through my schools. But our educators should be more up to date. Maybe we need to listen more to them. Rather than the politicians, who have a different agenda !!!!
There is a reason so many teachers are quitting. Our schools are becoming a political
football and our Children are taking the Brunt !!!!!!😢
What do y'all think the word educated means? If his entire story she is telling us is about when she belongs ever made up things that were obvious lies. You know, the exact opposite of being educated. Smh.
@@darksaint0124 , in those days, "educated" referred to people who had memorized enough information to spit it back out, upon command. It meant (1) "to be able to remember more information than others" and (2) be able to retrieve it quickly, upon command. Many geniuses were considered to be "retarded", because their thought patterns followed a path that others couldn't (or wouldn't) recognize.
@@darksaint0124huh?
When limbic system fight/flight /freeze becomes the dominant pattern, it is REALLY hard to switch off. She's telling a tale of freeing herself from mental control via fear perpetrated upon her by a power and control structure... from a young age. She is VERY strong. Stronger than your average person.
We drew strength from each other. Hence the group cultures.
Well said
Like I said, "Catholicism IS Indoctrination!"
Indeed , listening to her is a humbling experience as well as being inspirational.
Remember her Irish grandma!
Yes, every MAGA true believer needs to see this video and really think it objectively and unemotionally. I am 78, and many of my neighbors are only voting for Trump because they are lifelong republicans. I try to explain that the party they think they belong to does not exist, MAGA has appropriated it!
So true. People are basing their opinions on their own life experiences and not open to learn.
But MAGA people either are incapable of or not interested in thinking objectively and unemotionally. They don’t put themselves in the place of others to experience a different point of view. They only care about themselves. Those I know find consideration of the situations of others somewhere between annoying to infuriating.
You mean patriotic American citizens have taken over the Republican party and you American hating people can't be having that.
Look in the mirror please! Did you go along with the bioweapon mandated injections at the hand of the Biden regime. You went along with Warp Speed? Did you?
It is quite apparent the Republican Party was always a dangerous organization. They were always moving toward what they have become now.
This explains so many things I didn't understand. You are so lucky to have this Mom. And now we have her too. Thanks!
❤❤❤I Love that❤❤❤
I’m a boomer like Mom. She communicates our experience very well.
I hope we get to hear more from her. I’m going to listen to this again.
Thank You for sharing your journey of enlightenment. Not everyone can see past their own experience and prejudices !!!! All of us would do well to be more informed and involved !!!! On both sides.
I found this really interesting because I could never understand the obsession Americans have with socialism and communism. I am Italian and I live in UK, both countries have free healthcare, paid sick leave, maternity and paternity leave, unions and so on, and for us these are our rights, we fought for them. We don’t consider them communist measures, we pay our taxes and this is the very least the government can do in return. I can’t comprehend the American mentality that taking care of people in need is communist, or that people who cannot work due to a disability are lazy.
So thank you for this video, it’s really well made and informative.
And thank you for being you!
As a 46-year-old American, I'm comfortable telling you that Americans are the most propagandized people on the planet thanks to hyper-capitalism and a government that has almost always sided with the rich. America's infrastructure wasn't destroyed like Italy's and the UK's during WW2, thus, there was no force to push the United States into a more socialized healthcare system.
"Communism" meant both communism but also anyone who wasn't a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Jews were heavily into socialism as was the emerging militant Black movement.
Americans have been tricked into believing that wealthy people "earned" their money by working hard, which is never true, especially among the billionaire class and their servants in the upper middle class.
@ finally someone with a brain…
@martaveresi1455 You don't understand because you've never been subjected to the narrative of the stalwart rugged individualist, entrepreneurial, American "self made MAN", who "made it" on his own without any help from anybody. This is the image we are expected to aspire to, and any deviation from this theme, especially if it entails any "co-operative" or "communal" activity is viewed as communist, or at least socialist. Ditto for any program of what you would consider "social safety net" benefits. See, the word "social" is even embedded in the name! They're all about the individual competing against other individuals, and "cooperative" and "communal" are foreign ideas to their worldview.
I am an American born in the 1950s, I moved to Italy about 40 years ago. I was brought up with American propaganda and I can tell you that most Americans don't even know what Communism or Socialism is. They just associate it with "evil atheists". When I was a girl there was the Cold War going on so we had regular nuclear bomb drills in school! So obviously we thought of them as monsters. I remember Social Studies class when we learned about communist countries... we looked at pictures of gray buildings with children in gray schools wearing gray uniforms. Nobody talked about socialism from the standpoint of health care , maternity leave, unions etc. We just thought about gray buildings and nuclear bombs. When I first came to Italy, with my Italian boyfriend I met at university in California, he took me to eat in a park for the Festa dell' Unità. When he told me that the people I was sitting with were communists I was in absolute shock.That is how ignorant I was. They weren't demons with horns, just nice friendly people. That was the beginning of my deprogramming. I will tell, you just to mention health care for one thing, I would never go back to the States. We have problems here in Italy too, as you know, but American health care is just barbaric. My daughter has been hospitalized 13 times, she has serious problems, and I never had to pay a cent... if I lived in the States it would have bankrupted us. Actually she would probably be dead. Yes taxes are high here, and I complain like everybody else, but I would much rather pay taxes that I know will help others like my daughter than pay an equal ( or actually larger amount) to health insurance companies that are only in it for the money and are absolute sciacalli !I just cannot understand why Americans don't get that.
This was one of the most significant interviews I have watched. This should be seen en mass because when you don't know your history, you are doomed to repeat it!
It's not just that, but also that you are vulnerable to manipulation into perpetuating the power grab behind the greatest horrors that we act out.
Which we are repeating it right now.
Sometimes you know your history but you choose to repeat it because you prefer the lifestyle of your ancestors.
Wow what a turnaround in world view. There is hope!
Excellent pod cast....keep them coming please. MAGA is employing the same play book step by step. I'm a 71white female, and somehow escaped the cults of religion and politics because my parents were non-committal and very immature. My grandparents, both sides were blessedly "humanitarians" 1st and foremost, despite their religions. Both grandpas were strong & soft spoken. Always doing for others. This appealed to me more than my loud mouth, racist spewing great uncles. I'm sitting here listening and feeling grateful I was an unwanted, ignored kid with grandparents with high moral standards. Thank you.
Oh, the strange gifts we receive!
Like your Mom, I am a baby boomer raised in Catholic schools, living in an all white neighborhood on Long Island, parented by conservative, republican parents. Somehow my siblings and I managed to accept progressive ideas despite that upbringing. I want to thank you for this wonderful series of interviews and for the honestly and frankness of your conversations with your Mom. I wish that more Americans would listen to her ideas and her common sense evolution from the right. Thank you for sharing this with the world!
I was born and raised in 1954 in Springfield, Illinois. Like "Mom," I was a product of Catholic education all the way through college. In Springfield, we were taught to idolize Abraham Lincoln and his freeing of the slaves. We had to memorize and recite the Gettysburg Address. That said, Springfield was not a center of the Abolishionist Movement. If memory serves, Lincoln either barely carried his home county or lost it outright. We were a segregated town. While we didn't go out of our way to belittle minorities, we believed they were not our equals. Use of the N word and racial jokes among whites was common.
I think we were taught a more accurate version of the Civil War and Reconstruction. We were taught Reconstruction was a good program and would probably have been successful had Lincoln not been assassinated. Johnson was blamed for its failure in our lessons.
However, the history lessons did not cover the misnamed 1908 "Springfield Race Riot", which was really a mass white terrorist attack on black citizens. It so shocked the nation that it resulted in formation of the NAACP. I didnt learn about it until i was in my 50s or 60s!
Like you, I never knew of the discrimination in management of the GI Bill, racial real estate title prohobitions, discriminatory loans, job discrimination ...etc. I thought all the racial evil was in the South.
Unlike you I did not learn of our overthrow of democratically elected governments, assasination of political leaders, etc. until I was probably in my late 40s or 50s. I finally awoke to the lies and brainwashing. That's why your program here is so important. Thank you!
I really appreciate hearing your mom trace the evolution of her political thinking. Please continue sharing. 💙💙💙💙
This is so wonderful to see. I think my mom is lost for good, but I'm glad to see some have learned to leave the fear and hate behind.
Was so sad for me that every time I voted for decades, was simply to negate my grandmother's vote.
Mom is a great story teller, very articulate and easy to listen too!
I Love this , my story is So similar, I’m 73 my father was a red dog republican! I looked down my nose at the draft dodgers and people burning their draft cards ! Then as an 18 year old I found myself in Vietnam. I found out those people that were getting tear gassed and Billy clubbed trying to make Their Government accountable were my Hero’s of the war! So much more to say , unfortunately not enough time . I So Appreciate this podcast , Thank You 🙏
I am 73 also. In the 70s, I dated several Vietnam vets. They were all very resistant to talking about their experience except for one. From him I learned a lot of soldiers came home addicted to heroin that started from sargeants who used drugs to keep the troops from losing it under severe conditions of war. My 83 y/o friend’s 2 brothers were paratroopers (one or both were in the 101st Airborne) and Rich told me that he was taunted and spat at when he came home. Did you also have this experience? Sincere and heartfelt gratitude for your service 💞
Me too
I think that we all need to hear more of these stories. YOUR experience, YOUR life IS important. I learnt so much just from listening to this wonderful mother. Our stories are REALLY IMPORTANT!!! Please don't die without passing them along. This interview makes me wish that he would interview some of the people HERE! There are such interesting comments from people.
My Vietnam era combat vet friend came home addicted to heroin. I asked him why. He said, "Because the 'juicers' would lose it."
@@lc4011 What happened in VietNam is happening RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK in Gaza. Both parties support the genocide. THIS administration is guilty of committing Ethnic Cleansing. It is American taxpayer dollars funding the slaughter and American bombs killing CIVILIANS. It is kept OUT of the Main Stream Media because the agenda is to KEEP A FOOTHOLD IN THE MIDDLE EAST. It's about Money and Power and it always has been. This is a HOLOCAUST. Be aware. You NOW cannot say that you "...didn't know."
When they want us to go to war, they say "We are bringing Democracy to the world!" Translated, that means: Another country whose resources we can help ourselves to.
I am a 67 year old Jew and a Democrat. But THIS administration is guilty of GENOCIDE. Trump is worse: he would raise Gaza to the ground and sell the oceanfront real estate to the highest bidder. But I won't vote for either side as both are as corrupt as the day is long and it is time EVERYONE woke up to this fact and DEMANDED the killing STOP.
We said "NEVER AGAIN!" and that meant ALL PEOPLE.
I am so glad your Mom had friends who would listen to her and that she had enough curiosity to go work for the welfare dept. It really is a miracle that she was able to move beyond the bigoted ideology she was taught as a young child. What an amazing story!! It's so true that fear motivates people to move toward an autocratic government. Her description of fascism reminds me of Orwell's stories.
Oh come on. Go work for welfare and they gave her an apartment of elderly people, the nicest on the planet. Get real, what a total made up aren't we the greatest ever story. Just consider all the child protective services across the nation who fail time after time after time where children are unalive by horrible abuse because of useless organizations. What crap this lady spewed. Don't be fooled by the democrats. They stand for perversion, global elites, war and destruction of life as you know it. I'll talk you one thing, you bleeding heart liberals vote that useless woman into office and no one, I mean NO ONE, is coming to save you. She's a baby k*ller for God's sake, wake up.
At first I always wondered why Trump chose the border as his first real campaign move since it has very little impact in 99% of Americans lives, but now this video clears that up perfectly. Trump was following the Fascism 101 playbook right from the beginning. Choose an enemy in which you can create fear among the masses. Fox and the rest of right-wing media played along happily with the propaganda.
Thank you for recording this. Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
I have found myself looking to historians to understand how we got here and that along with interviews like this have been incredibly enlightening…. Know what I mean?
I was raised in the sixties and seventies, indoctrinated into Catholic ideology and filled with pride for our country. Thank you for doing this with your mom; it’s a true gift to all of us, especially now as we witness the same patterns of hate and racism. Politicians seem to pit “the others” against us, labeling us as the “good Americans.” I wish my sons would take the time to listen to this or be open to a different perspective. Blessings to your mom for fulfilling her purpose and doing good to elevate the human race.
Im 72 years old. I was just like your mother. I was very conservative in high school and college. I was very religious. I was against women's lib, abortion and sex before marriage. I did not believe girls only wear dresses. Now I'm a Democrat, pro women's rights and an atheist. I am happily married. I feel free emotionally. I don't think everyone should think like me. I admire your mother.
Glad you saw the light!
Your mom is 8 years older than me and grew up in a religious family so it is interesting to hear her memories of the political 50's and 60's. Thank you for sharing this conversation.
75 years later we have our own McCarthey !
I now see that too!?? My gosh, history is repeating itself 🤷🤦
I just received a fundraising text from trump talking about “Kamala’s dirty liberal money.”🙄
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We sure do. I'm betting Ameruca will do better on Nov 5
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We NEVER sit through a full RUclips video. We were riveted to Mom. Her story and the way she tells it is compelling and so, so needed at this time.
OMG, give me a break. Dumb story full of propaganda for people who honestly can't think for themselves and are persuaded easily by a kind face. Read about Edward Bernays and understand manipulation. Get a book called propaganda, get another called 1984. Stop listening to other people and think for yourself for God's sake already.
Thank you for the opportunity to listen to your mother’s story. Rarely do we have the opportunity to speak or listen to seniors who will share their experiences and their upbringing, let alone so honestly and in such detail. “The truth will set you free” and your mom’s life is a fine example. You must be proud of her!
"Thomas Paine said, “If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves”.
Wise words !!!! We forget there is always common ground !!!!
And That is a start !!!!!
Popeye said, "I yam what I yam."
I am loving these conversations! It is so powerful hearing your mom reflect on her middle school papers. What an authentic way of learing the history of public opinion. And I love how decisively KICK ASS she is.
I’m also 77 and your discussion takes me back to the time when innocence and ignorance were indistinguishable.
Nice one.
Precisely, and to object to what adults were saying was viewed as being dumb or contrary, not open-minded inquisitive behavior.
Nicely put Kenrick.
❤ this observation!
This has to be the best first video on a channel I've ever seen. Every crazy MAGA person should listen to her story and see how clearly her story rhymes with their story. I think some of them could see the light and realize it is all lies.
Thank you!
MAGA?… Can hear?… 👀 NOT!… 😩
They’re in a “cult”… and cult members ONLY hear their “cult leader”…
It takes ourVOTE 💙to move us ALL forward👉🏽
We’re NEVER going back… 💙💙💙
I'm a bit older than your mom, but I agree with everything she said. This is a great podcast, just keep it simple like you have it now. I'm now a committed follower.
Just watched this today. OMG thank you for sharing your mom with us!! She is an amazing woman. I have been struggling with understanding how in the world we are in this political situation AGAIN and what the hell is wrong with clueless people who believe and support the hateful untrue lies being spewed to them by the Republican establishment.
My mom, who just passed at 96 years, was my guiding light for intelligent unbiased
discussions regarding faith, life decisions , politics and being morally responsible to serving others in your community. Political discussions were based on staying connected with all available sources which included diverse perspectives of news articles and tv news as well as watching live congressional and senate hearings and voting.
The divisive political misinformation and hateful rhetoric has been a source of arguments and hurtful feelings within families, mine included.
I have been trying to understand the reasons anyone would be totally hoodwinked by the lies and hate for our own family members , friends and citizens of this country for a man who claims to be our “Savior” !
So thank you and your mom for this podcast. I will be watching your future podcasts…a saving grace these last days leading up to the election. I’m hoping it will lead to more meaningful discussions with family 🙏🏼
Pray for Texas !
This is so true. We have become so divided. Even our Families. I think Trump coined the
phrase: The enemy within. And I think is us !!!!! We are losing our rights and blaming the proverbial Other’s !!!!
Jasmine Crockett is one of the people I always listen to, even though I'm a Californian. I do pray for Texas.
When she said, "If you can make someone believe, you can make them do just about anything." I'm reminded of a Netflix Doc I recently watched about the Police Units of the 3rd Reich. It wasn't the Military or the SS that murdered over a million jews up close and personal. It was regular guys called to be Policemen. These are the men who rounded up entire villages by the thousands and shot them. They all participated and only a small select few were ever held accountable at the Nuremberg Trials.
I appreciate the conversation. My own mother born 54 wasn't much into politics. I was a pretty staunch conservative when I was younger. But this is why I now think that religious indoctrination is so dangerous. I was horribly ignorant of the world in which I lived. Which is exactly what the churchs want.
Thanks to both you and your mom for this candid conversation. Much appreciated. Here is an excellent book for anyone who's interested.
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
by Heather Cox Richardson
#HarrisWalz2024
#VoteBlue24
ps My mother was labeled a Welfare Queen. Two abusive exhusbands left her with a sets of twins each. A 22 yo woman left to raise 4 little kids by herself with little family support. How these men were never held accountable even though both had good paying jobs and were Military Veterans.
We're now left to struggle with lifelong ailments due to severe malnutrition. And the most egregious is the fact my mother worked herself into an early grave. She would have been 70 this year. The only thing Reagonomics did was drive people back into poverty and make those already struggling suffer more.
I would love to find this a watch it.
@@hollybug-76542 God Bless your dear Mother. People don’t seem to understand that before there was welfare, people used to have to give away their children or sell their children - _to whoever._ Destitute poverty is not caused by “laziness”, it’s about insurmountable circumstances. The only welfare people should be angry about is the welfare we give to giant corporations when they recklessly fail, and use our socialism money to give multi-million dollar executive bonuses and re-launch their business, without skipping a beat. 1 type of welfare costs us little and helps children make it to adulthood. Welfare for corporations, no one seems to care about or call those companies “welfare queens”
I'm a Democrat but I cannot vote for Harris as she won't acknowledge that there is a genocide going on in Gaza that WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR... we are funding it and sending munitions. I voted for Biden and THIS is what he has done: Betrayed us. I am appalled and CANNOT get past it. As a 67 year old Jew, to see Israel perform an ethnic cleansing of an entire people, is madness.
WE said "Never again." and it is happening AT OUR HANDS!!! So... "No" to Harris.
I am no fan of despicable Trump. So I will not vote.
Oh I love love love Heather!!!!!❤
This was incredible! I'm a millennial Black male living in the north midwest. Several of my coworkers are of the boomer generation and I was really beginning to lose hope in the possibility of bridging the generational gap, seeing this country for what it is and moving forward together. This interview has really inspired me to keep hold onto the hope of a more united America based on truth and compassion.
I keep thinking how to get this to more folks. I’ll bet the older folks you’re talking about would enjoy this.
Omg I relate to this conversation in multiple ways. For one, my dad was a hardcore conservative my entire life. So much of what your mom describes is exactly what I heard from him all the time growing up. The fears about the country were too intense for me. I pushed back on it all the time, telling him I didn’t understand why he was so negative. I was a very naive kid. Which brings me to the second relatable part - I was a conservative too! (With the evangelical thrown in…yikes.) I could have written the things your mom said. I argued with lefty classmates in school. I was insufferable to them, I’m sure. Deconstructing the evangelical parts, for me, was the path to deconstruct the conservatism too. I’m still a registered republican because I don’t live in the US anymore and my adhd brain finds it hard to do paperwork. But I haven’t voted for a republican except for my very first presidential election in ‘96.
My dad died last year and we barely spoke for the last 5 years of his life. When he found out I was voting for a Democrat, he decided to question me about my religious beliefs and made my non-belief a point of contention between us. As a mom to a trans kid, I have zero regrets about standing up for policies that help people instead of hating them. I think it’s tragic that any adult can let the hatred of conservatism numb them to caring about people. I talk to my kid about politics all the time. The conversations we have are about seeing a better way. The fears are about true threats that exist instead of made-up boogeymen. We focus on the needs of people. Policies and their impact on people.
I wish I’d had even one adult in my life growing up who could have helped me learn that a bit sooner. But I got there and I’m grateful that I saw the lies of conservatism. I hope your podcast reaches a lot of people because this is such an important conversation and far more refreshing than the “why I left the left” diatribes.
Wrong, what she said is crap
Thank You for your candor !!!!! We could all be better people. Jesus did except all those who had flaws. HE DID NOT turn his back. Humans are flawed and through him we are forgiven !!!! We are being tested everyday !!!
And by the grace , we could’ve been a person who is unacceptable !!!!!
@@cookingforme4711 No, she spoke the truth. You merely have no idea about history and the real reason for wars. Wars are about commodities, Vietnam was about bauxite mines that were in the mountains of Vietnam. Bauxite is the raw material to make Aluminum. The US got involved in the MiddleEast because of oil, the oil wells over there were originally found, developed and owned by American oil companies. America put the Saudi family in power in the area now called Saudi Arabia, they were no different than any other of the nomad families which roamed the Arabian Peninsula of the time. 9/11 came about because American financial institutions caused cascading financing failures all over the world from the Far east to the MiddleEast, which was why the World Trade Center towers were targeted.
Ignorance is not bliss. Educate yourself.
Wow, please thank your mom for telling her story. I lost it when she said how that little girl asked her to be her sister. OMG. Bless your mom for her caring and compassion.
It's so refreshing to listen to her, and though I'm not American, I hear everything she is talking about. I live in the Caribbean, and as a child exposed to colonialism and catholicism, we had our share of brainwashing. But I, too, like her, was always thinking deeper than what was presented to us. As a teenager during the Vietnam War, could not accept why young men were going off to die so far away from their families and homes. Could not see into the purpose. We, too, had slavery and indenturship which we had to come to grips with. Being a British colony, truth was distorted. 😮
It seems that’s the first thing that goes !!! TRUTH 😢😢😢
You had me hanging on every word - this is one of the most engaging, insightful and commendable testimonies of something we all need to know about - how a good person (and I have nothing but love for your mum!) can be groomed/radicalised/ call it what you want. I love that she's kept the receipts - the Goldwater badge, heaven's sake!
So open, honest, clear, lively, informed. And a fascinating, vivid peek into a whole world of +/- 1960s North American history, too.
First let me thank both you and your mom for having the courage to create and publish this interview. My story parallels your mom’s very closely - 16 years of Catholic education - but not so clear-cut politically, for several reasons. One is that both my parents - devout Catholics - were not on the same page politically.
Another is a high school Sociology teacher, in my Junior year at a Catholic high school - who still ranks as the BEST teacher I ever had - who spent the first semester building up Communism and completely debunked it the 2nd semester.
Wish there were more like your mom. So inspiring. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this. You DO have a brilliant mother. I am a 61 year old woman who has come to many of these conclusions myself, although from a very different direction. However, I would never have been able to express them so clearly.
I am struck by several things by this conversation. First, your mother is not only intelligent but extremely intelligent, yet she was indoctrinated. Second, it was her personal experience/contact with human suffering (welfare agency) that not only touched something within her but also showed her she was taught some things that were lies. Third, he notion about corrupt entities having to tell some truth in order to reel you in and the blend in the lies - that's the National Enquirer, Fox News, conservative talk radio!
No dear, I was indoctrinated. Indoctrinated against the Republicans and djt. It took one simple thing to debunk all the democrat lies. I sat down and listened to Trump, in full then I replayed what the media said he said and I saw them lying over and over and over and can't unsee it. Kamala was installed, not a single vote. Don't do it. I'm telling you don't do it. Think for yourself, drown everyone out, open your eyes, pay attention and focus. This is important, it effects the rest of your life and you need to wake up to the manipulative ways of the democrats.
EXACTLY! The propagandists mix in a little truth just to sucker you in
It is trusting that leads to indoctrination. Humans are trusting by NATURE..(until they learn NOT to be from gettin exploited and then become cynical and jaded)
Fascists and Sociopaths know to target that trust. They are predators (just like epstein)
Most adults who arent brainwashed realize that BEING trusting may sometimes end up badly but you cant live your life in a paranoid state. So being trusting and caring is a better way to live.
I’m really loving your concept here. Your mom is a wealth of great information. I’m a little younger than her at 66, and many of the things she is saying resonate with me. In the 60’s I was too young to understand much of what was going on in the world but these discussions are helping me thread a lot together. Hope you continue this series!
don’t know how this channel found me but it is great. thank you so much.
So glad to have stumbled upon you guys! First of all I wish I could sit down with my own mom and talk politics and how our life experiences have changed our perspectives and shaped us to be better people. Unfortunately my parents(dad born in 58 and mom in 52) are strict evangelicals who refuse to see the truth about our world and that they too were taught lies. They homeschooled me and my 3 siblings back in the late 80s when it was unheard of(my dad was a public school teacher which was also weird) and we used the Abeka curriculum that was written with “Christian world view.” I too was taught pretty much like your mom was and if I still had them I could also show you essays and things I wrote that today I would be ashamed of. My education was excellent, my dad made sure of that but my mom who was an artist was definitely NOT happy with her role as a stay at home mom and teacher and to this day(just turned 41) I struggle with what they now call “religious trauma or abuse.”
I’d have to say I feel like they/society does not want people to know the truth because that means people must take responsibility for themselves and to admit their beliefs are what perpetuate the ugliness in our world.
I grew up hating people who used food stamps. I was taught they were all lazy. There was probably one Africa American family in my home town but even though my moms parents were missionaries to Africa I still feel I grew up to where I thought I was better than anyone who wasn’t exactly like me or had the same beliefs as I did. College was where, like your mom, I finally had my eyes opened to conservative beliefs and that’s where I started picking apart my beliefs and realized everything I knew was exactly what my parents thought….based upon religious beliefs and opinions.
Fast forward to 2019 when I had a 2 year old son and decided to leave my abusive marriage and fly across an ocean with my son and a bag with no idea what was ahead for me. Let me just say that sadly the world has not changed very much for those single moms with children. I came back to the United States to a handful of friends and parents who showed little to no interest in me or my son or helping me in any way as far as childcare. I was on my own because divorce was not acceptable and I was and had a,ways been the black sheep of the family.
What I’m trying to say here is, it is so easy to judge others and to think of all these reasons why they end up in situations like having to find childcare or use food stamps…it’s so easy until it is YOU having to do those things.
I’ll never forget the day I walked up to the welfare office to get food stamps for my son and I….never had I felt so much like a failure. Then I found out how difficult the process was and since then I have been on and off food stamps because I have “made too much money” to qualify for them. At one point I was selling items for extra cash and my boyfriend sent me money for groceries/bills and at my food stamp interview they told me I had to write a letter stating I only did that one time and I would not sell anything else or accept any other money without telling them first. I’m telling you this system is set up for people to fail. The only reason I am in anyway not on the streets is because the USAF forces my ex to pay child support and my boyfriend moved in. Because as a substitute teacher in my community in this tiny town and no childcare(too expensive) there is no way I would be able to live. Thankfully because of my amazing boyfriend I will be able to start focusing on my art and making income from that which is my dream. Anyway thank you for sharing this with the world. I love these videos!,❤
I'm five years younger than your mom and Canadian. I had no political consciousness other than what I got from books and movies, which was anti-establishment, anti-war, but not really liberal. I was vaguely against people getting too much help from the government until I was about forty and discovered Chomsky's description of American empire while exploring child language acquisition as a first-time mother. Chomsky and CBC Radio made me a progressive in the nineties. I worry that 70 million Americans vote Republican and 80 million don’t vote at all. An an interplanterary visitor might suggest America isn't qualified for democracy.
I too am Canadian and around the sun's age. I found their conversation fascinating and gave a lot of insight into Americans as a whole, and how different education is. School for us was just school, no importance on political ideological until high-school and that was was pretty much all sides. The only thing the only thing I would say that I feel I was lied to about was Louie Riel, and him being a traitor which technically he was but looking back through history it's a lot more nuanced than that as he wqs doing wha5 he could for his people.. I did take more history classes than was required so I definitely learned a bit more! 20th century history was my favorite as I learned so much, about the constructs of society and critical thinking.
Born in 1958. Raised in the Methodist church. We were taught that caring for others is of the utmost importance. I've never understood people who supposedly have faith, living in so much fear. I'm a lifelong Democrat.
My dad was very into history and politics so i developed an interest early on.
You're my age, Sharon. :)
@beckydavis4958 I prefer to call us level 6! 😊
I think there is a level of selfishness in some of the people. Sad to say. 😢 They have theirs, you get your own. Or they use the excuse. I worked hard to get what I have. But most won’t credit the good breaks they had. Or the help from someone who believed in them.
Their are people who very hard, sometimes 2 or 3 jobs. But still struggling. And people still look down on them. If they need any help !!!
What does that say about people and our society.
Sharon your story sounds like mine. Born in 1963. Raised by devout Methodists. From an early age I had SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE driven into me as a guiding principle. I was taught that you cannot remove the speck from your neighbor's eye until you remove the log from your own. Your faith was a personal responsibility, not a government tool. Mom and Dad both came from conservative Republican backgrounds. Dad's eyes were opened when he saw how Black service members were treated much worse than White during WW2. He saw first-hand how we "all bleed red". Mom left her conservative background after teaching in the Philadelphia public schools. I was taken to MLK rallies as a very very very young child. Dad would preach at the inner city black churches and take me along....the only little blond-haired, blue-eyed girl in the church. His "friends" would tell him he was endangering me....he knew better. My parents are both gone but what they taught me will never disappear. I'm a life long Democrat and progressive...difficult and complicated political issues should not be answered with hate, but with love....always. I am so grateful for both the faith and the progressive values taught to me by my parents.
I'm a very late 'boomer', b.1960. It's so interesting to hear from your Mom who's really a very early 'boomer'. My Mom was born in 1925 and was more progressive than your Mom during the same time periods. I think because my mom lived through the Depression, which touched her in very personal ways. Seeing and learning history through the eyes of those who lived it is the best!
1960 was the best year. Easy to work out how old I am 😂😂😂
@@Gintonics2 right!? I'm 24!
@@1ACL And your mom was born in 1925? Hah! She should apply for a Guinness World record ;)
@@bladdnun3016 what do you mean? She's not still alive, if your comment was referring to age.
@@bladdnun3016 oh, duh, I get it!☺
I ‘woke ‘ when I was 9 years old.
I matured in other words.
That’s why I never used drugs , joined , or went into a cult.
Thanks to you and your Mom.
never had caffeine in your life?
Calling drug users immature and judging them as inferior isn’t a very mature or well informed point of view.
This is important, interesting and very well done. A story of transformation. Thank you.
Thanks for this interesting talk. I was born and raised in Japan and it took more than 20+ years for me to be able to recognize hate and fear playing a big role in the American politics. For years, I just couldn't figured out what religions had to do with many social issues.
As your mother said "Do your homework," I totally agree with her. I don't have any political baggage since I wasn't raised in the US, so it scares me when some people blamed Biden for the increase in gasoline price. In Asia and Europe, the average people learn the role of OPEC in high school, and they know how OPEC can manipulate the gas price. When my conservative friends told me that they were frustrated with the liberals for causing the increase in the homeless population in the 'liberal cities', I just tell them that there are homeless in any large cities such as Paris, London, Tokyo, etc.
I ask myself how I can contribute to the US. My way of contributing to the US is to share with others political perspectives that are free from any political baggage.
I’m a working poor American raised in a very multicultural large metropolitan area. I’m extremely fortunate that I was exposed to people from so many different countries, but even with that exposure I’m sad to say we just aren’t educated about the rest of the world here. I still struggled to comprehend the rest of the world well into my 20’s because of this lack of education and exposure. 80% of Americans have never had a passport and haven’t left their hometown or home state, let alone the country. If we were more culturally aware maybe we wouldn’t be so gullible.
This is an incredibly valuable thing to offer. I’m a white American who grew up in a rural, conservative state and I’ve had very little exposure to people of different backgrounds outside of the internet. Politics have always confused me and I value those with unbiased opinions.
Hi @sick_icarus , Thank you for your reply. I can understand how you feel. I have to work hard to keep my own thoughts independent from political narratives out there. I watch news on TV occasionally to catch up new buzz words and narratives in politics. But most of the time, I do my own investigation online by following money and data in the world - which politicians connected with who, which countries are importing and exporting, what US is importing and exporting from what state, journals published by think-tank organizations, who owns what companies and who are the parent companies, who has factories in Mexico and when they started their manufacturing business, etc. You can see the web of world business and politics. It's fascinating.
MAGA gets my attention in this way: Trump's and his supporter's narrative that the world is US taking advantage of America. I think the world simply caught up with the US after WWII. The US was an aggressive super power in the world for decades. Maybe companies in other countries had more money spent on R&D while US companies were busying lobbying politicians. Sure some large companies got subsidies from their own government, but US had lots of resources and power to manipulate the global market for a long time. I just can't see US as a victim of the unfair global political and business practices as MAGA clams.
I also don't understand why American people are not upset by the fact that fake evidence convinced the nation to invade Iraq. Trillions of dollars were wasted and many US soldiers died in the war and worst of all, the political vacuum created by the war helped created ISIS and no one is calling to find out who created fake evidence that Saddam Hussein had the weapons of mass destruction.
I feel sad that some people in the US are caught by the dualistic thinking: either this or that. For example, if one calls for a bad apple in the law enforcement, then he or she must be an anti-police. Or if one question Biden's policy on immigration, then he or she is not compassionate. It's like Gaston in the movie Beaty and the Beast: "if you are not with us, you are against us!'
Where is pragmatism the US had so proudly?
The "average" American isn't terribly well educated by our school system and our media sphere is controlled by rich corporations.
Please provide more!! This format is brilliant. Your Mom is smart, relatable and emotionally mature. I appreciate this channel.
The childcare center in housing with single parents is what I wanted to try to get going before becoming disabled. People rotating in, while getting an education, looking for work, etc. As well as other strategies. If we really tried as a society, we could help people.
Excellent video thank you. 🇨🇦👏👏👏 l really hope America can move forward from this very scary dark time. Well done.
We can, we're voting for Trump and if you have any sense you'll vote for Pierre.
Amen !!! Pray to God we make the right choice !!!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
wow that essay at 11 years old-but THIS though-"you can't fix it if you don't know whats going on-and you CAN'T fix it unless you care"- thank you for caring😇
Thank both of you for this - in the midst of all the screaming (Right AND Left), a few moments of LISTENING!
“Once you give yourself to fear……”. Truer words never spoken.
1:08:11 This moment brought me to tears. The suffering of the poor girl, your mothers utter devastation at finally truly grasping the lies she had been fed. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Fantastic interview. In so many ways, history is repeating itself. Fear is a huge motivator, and having a scapegoat to blame is one of the oldest tricks in the book. So are lines like “the press is the enemy of the people,” “only I can fix it,” being “chosen by God” to show the way, “our country is going to hell”…you get the point. We are here again in 2024 😞
Exactly what we're experiencing now - very dangerous times.
Very interesting interview. Thank you.
Wonderful! Just found this randomly and I learned a bunch! Thank you.
I’ve got 3 years on you. Was raised in a Liberal home thanks to my heretic Irish father and I remember my Mom’s strong sense of fear of McCarthy because she had converted to Unitarian. It’s wonderful to hear you describe that era.
I’m 74 I grew up not knowing my parents political leanings, her story is interesting yet I personally felt that the only good political position was liberal. I later learned my father was conservative, I was shocked.
Yes, 2 things my mother (born 1929) feared: poverty and speaking out politically.
This should go viral...your Mom is a national treasure!
Wow, I appreciated this so much! Gives so much insight into our situation today. My thanks to you for not sensationalizing at all. My thanks to your mother for speaking so honestly. I was in elementary school in the 60s and this has also given me new perspective on the era that shaped me.
In 2014 I took a college anthropology class called Revolution and Development in the modern world. It forever opened my eyes to the effects of colonization, globalization , and the far too frequent nefariousness of the USA in the world. The vast misunderstanding of how global economies work, communism in word and used as a ruse for fascism, the things your mom is talking about are blanks for most people. They feel the responsibility to vote but are confused. And the Corps/Moneyed do this on purpose. Enlightened education is destroyed, by poverty and social media etc. I said everyone in America needs to know these things (and they don’t) and especially they need to know all this to vote well.
@@donnaparks5815 Knowledge and education is what gives you power. You’re not so easily manipulated. That’s where they get us. We are to busy making a living. To really know what’s going on. Little sounds bites and canned news doesn’t get to the real world. And the talking heads are just a distraction !!!!! We are letting them dupe us an every turn.
We must wake up before it’s too late !!!!!!
I went to Catholic school in the 50's and 60's and Adrienne's take on it is totally accurate. I didn't break free and follow my own mind and heart until college and even then not completely. I'm a complete progressive today and an environmentalist but I seem to have forgotten the import of this early part of my journey. I can't wait to hear more.
Yes, I grew up Protestant in the same era & had the same experience.
Your mom is beautiful. She reminds me of the great singer/actvist Joan Baez. Your mom's story, the eloquence of her words, & the courageous self-analysis is very inspiring. BRAVO.👏👏👏
Spot on‼️👏
I was born in 1968 in Oakland. My dad was a cop and very much a conservative Christian. I was raised with this dame attitude! Liberals/democrats hated freedom and God and the Constitution and family. I was fed the narrative that “those people” were communists and if we let them get into power, they’d come and take all our stuff and we’d starve. Or we could be imprisoned because we believe in God and speak out against the government. For decades, I heard that “they” would break down our door and take all our guns. We were having our taxes stolen and being forced to work hard so that the liberals can be lazy. I was in my 30s before I got brave enough to ask questions and find answers. Before that point, I was ridiculed for questioning. I lived in a bubble. It’s so amazing when you break free; but I find it makes me less tolerant of those who refuse to look outside their echo chamber.
Fun to hear someone speak to me about OUR time. I was born in 49, in Illinois, Protestant Farm Boy, Wife born in 48 In Queens, Catholic. We met in 97. Magic ever since. So much to learn and understand, your Mom helps me to fill in the blanks. Her Dad said WhatNot, too. Excellent share, thank you, D&M in Virginia
I just loved this video! I grew up in upstate NY in the 70's/80's to parents who weren't Catholic, but the mentality where I lived was exactly what your mother's experience was. And that mentality remains, to this day. I was a liberal by nature, but witnessed, as a teen, some of those insidious beliefs that had been programmed into me, like the welfare queens and how the unemployed are just lazy and don't want to work. When I really saw it, I was disgusted that I was carrying a belief about others that I had no personal experience with and couldn't know was even true.
Your mother is amazing, and I am grateful to have listened to her story. It helped put pieces of my own life and family history into greater perspective. Thank you! 💜
Your mom is quite amazing. I had no intention of viewing this whole video...but ended up here to the very end.
I'm glad your mom is sharing everything she's sharing. And thanks for putting this together. I look forward to more.
I am a Black woman born in the mid 50”s. My parents and family were very involved in civil rights in Newark,NJ in the sixties. That was the environment and consciousness I was raised in. Your conversation with your mother was very enlightening and a case for why we need to know and learn each other’s stories and histories and a big case for why we see critical thinking missing from our young people. I don’t know what you need to do to get this to more people to see but you must absolutely try.
Thank you Sunshine! That really means a lot to us ♥
This. Is. An. Excellent. Offering! 🤲🏽❤️
Thank You for sharing so beautifully together this revolutionary, evolutionary tale of growing through it all. You ARE. A brilliant Woman and have raised a thoughtful and conscientious Man. Thank You each for being YOU!🫶🏽🇺🇸❤️🦋
I’m here for this!
What a brilliant interview. I appreciate your mom’s honesty and your wonderful questions and discussion. Thank you for posting this. I look forward to hearing more from this channel.
Boy, I so identified. I’m older than your mother (b 1941). Like her I had 16 years of Catholic education. Originally from the Midwest, my family moved to Pittsburgh when I was 9. The population there was largely Eastern European and very anti-communist. I remember being invited to dinner at the house of a classmate whose father was a judge. “I Led 3 Lives” came on the TV right after dinner. This was a program about a US double agent tracking down communists on the west coast. I remember the judge shouting a couple of times, “Get’em, Philbrick (the agent). In 1960, age 19, we moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where we settled in Oakland. What a culture shock! My thinking evolved over time. Of course, the VietNam war was one impetus for re-evaluating one’s ideas. About race relations: I’d never gone to school with or lived in a community with African Americans prior to Oakland. The house we moved to there was larger and in a classier neighborhood than all previous residences, but there were Black and Asian families living on our street.
Thank you Will & Mom! I'm a late boomer (1959), so I appreciate hearing Mom's perspective on the 40's & 50's as precursors for what my lived experience has been relative to politics in my life. It's also extremely heartening to hear a like-minded woman who is strong, intelligent and a critical thinker! Thank you ! But my question: Is there a way to define "conservative" and "liberal" in the year 2024 and going forward?
Good question. I think we’re still defining our identities. How would you suggest? (I’m a 1954 boomer)
@@SusanHMcIntyre Seems we've got to get back down to basics... Democracy, rule of law,, basic human rights, personal dignity, bodily autonomy... To me - that's conservative.
@@CarolineBrunnquell-k5w I am a Democrat and the values you assigned to Republicans are the same ones I believe in. I believe the difference comes from what we think are the root causes of problems and the solutions. But the values are the same if what you say is true.
@@towanda1067 Exactly my point. We have more in common than not. A good place to start.
@@towanda1067 I’m a Democrat as well. And she listed the same exact beliefs. I’ve been saying we are not that far apart. Out here in the heart land !!!!! We just have to stop and listen to each other. And find that common ground. We the people should be in charge. That is what our Vote is for. Politicians work for us !!!!!
Wow. What an incredibly interesting conversation! Very insightful. I’ve been listening to more of your podcasts, so this comment is not solely based upon THIS podcast. But overall…..very, very interesting.
“Mom” here, is the same age as my older sister. I too, am a late boomer….12 years of Catholic education as well. I’m in the Midwest and….in being on the end of the boomer generation, I would have to say that age 11, I was actively questioning the Catholic Church. All of my friends only paid lip service to the “rules” and so forth….we were more influenced by the slogan “Question Authority”. So, being raised by an authoritarian styled father….both my older brother and myself questioned and challenged not only our father but the Catholic crap that was trying to “influence” us. Dad was a lifelong Dem tho. Me too. I am the only sibling out of 4 kids that graduated college. Dad did NOT put me thru college….he didn’t see me as a person willing to “invest” in….so I left home at age 18 and because I was considered “independent” from my family I became eligible for Financial Aid, from yes….the Federal Government. Reagan did try to slash or severely curtail this program. Yes…. I lived in “poverty” but being free from being under my father’s thumb and the horrors of my family life WAS WORTH IT. And, it allowed me to get a great college education. I questioned authority all right….started w/ Reagan bs and I’ve never quit.
This is a fabulous conversation, and I love your mom. She did get one thing kind of wrong, and I think it’s important to say this. While it’s true that the descendants of slave owners, or the people who directly benefited from the institution of slavery, are not responsible for slavery, they do benefit retroactively from the wealth that was accumulated as a result of the institution of slavery. And it isn’t just descendants of slave owners, it’s everyone who benefited from that trade. Descendants of shipbuilders who never owned slaves, but built the ships that they traveled in, are the beneficiaries of generational wealth that was built on the back of slavery. Descendants of textile manufacturers and dry goods sellers all benefit from generational wealth that was accumulated on the backs of slaves. We may not be responsible for it, but there’s a reason why reparations are important.
It's absolutely no surprise that folks who get bored with compromise, complexity and nuance tend to lean right.
I'm so glad I found your video on you tube...I'm a little older than your mom, I was born in 1944, I'll be 81 soon. I grew up in a Catholic household, attended Catholic school through high school, but I never once thought that the "right", whatever that was, was anything I'd ever be interested or involved in. I guess that means I've been a leftie, or a liberal, all my life after I passed that line of the age of reason. Hypocrisy was out; truth was in. It seemed so simple to me then, a long time ago. It's different today - lies are truth to some people. I've lost family to MAGA, and I know I am perhaps one of millions who may have similar stories. It's a very sad time in America today.
Excellent 👌. Mom is awesome! Thank you. Glad I found the channel.
What an important and incredibly interesting piece! Thanks so much to you and your mom, and her honesty. We need more voices like hers.
This was a really wonderful discussion. Thank you both so much.
I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to understand the mind of Trump supporters. This podcast has given me the best insight so far. Many thanks.
Your mother’s journey and life experiences are so relatable and thought provoking! I look forward to your next podcast!
I was born in 1957 and also had that guilt to make the world better, used to be called being a good citizen, Barry Goldwater Parents, I started to see the holes in those theories after Kent State...as a kid...being an Avid reader...The ugly American etc, Upton Sinclair.
Godspeed...even though you are singing to the choir ...I enjoyed it.
Dee
California
You are so lucky to have conversations like this with your mom. If I had a smidgen of this conversation with my mother, I could have been a different person now. Sadly, both my parents have passed away, and I miss them. Thank you for sharing!
I also grew up in a very conservative home. I appreciate your story and that you are sharing it. Thank you!!!
Thank you so much; I was born as the country was trying to leave all this behind, and there was still a palpable tension. When the most recent divide began to show its ugly head and Influence my kind, compassionate parents, much of the very early sentiment of my childhood echoed and broke my heart. I do still hold out hope they will break free of the lies they have come to believe, I look forward to more of your story hour soon. I hope they come out quickly. Thank you
Excellent analysis by your insightful mother.
This is one of the most relevant, helpful discussions I've heard in quite some time. What excellent work. Thank you.
I just fell into this first episode. Terrific! As an 82 year old liberal I can relate to every second of your video. Your mom reminds me of my mom. I am excited to follow your channel.
I stuck with the whole podcast to hear what made her change. Think you should clip this and make available on social media.
Thanks for that. We are going to do that and it's a great idea. Thank you! And thanks for sticking with it to the end.
@@AdrienneLarkin-g5l😊😊😊😊
Her recalling the time with the mom and little girl making jewelry was a very emotional moment to witness. Such a profound interview and i hope you continue to do these
Great concept for a channel. Powerful stuff. Hope it takes off!
I miss talking to my Mom about the state of the world and regret not asking her more questions when I had the chance.
I'm late to this party, but I just wanted to say how much I *admired* the courage it takes to step up and speak out about beliefs that have been proven to be false, mistakes made and changes undergone - including an excerpt from an essay written along time ago. It takes a lot to step up and do this, and I just am so impressed.
Thank you for this video! I listen to politics and history content all day long - I have not been as fascinated, educated, and moved as a human being by anything as much as this video in a very long time. It’s hard to express in words the tremendous gravity it holds on so many levels, thank you again!