Democracy by Margaret Atwood | Democracy 2024

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  • Опубликовано: 25 дек 2024

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  • @dfs-comedy
    @dfs-comedy 11 месяцев назад +21

    Wonderful video. This gave me the chills. Canada (and the world) is lucky to have Margaret Atwood among us.

    • @appled2._.4
      @appled2._.4 6 месяцев назад

      😅😮😮
      Xc😢

  • @spacetoast7783
    @spacetoast7783 11 месяцев назад +29

    5:03 They literally do want to destroy their own country. Theyre not shy about it.

    • @NirtieDigger
      @NirtieDigger 11 месяцев назад +1

      So what about the left wing antifa and blm? They literally want to destroy their own country too.

  • @JWalkerAI
    @JWalkerAI 5 месяцев назад +5

    Interesting and really thoughtful. I was born in 1990 and never have I thought there to be a more important time to vote. I’ve never really taken it too serious I think neither have a lot of my peers. But things are a bit over the edge. I’m voting for sure. Get ready America. Do your duty.

  • @Grant_S_M
    @Grant_S_M 11 месяцев назад +7

    This nails it 100%.

  • @sirrahgames.outlook
    @sirrahgames.outlook 11 месяцев назад +49

    Margaret Atwood's confident assertion that Canada is nowhere near a dictatorship is misplaced. Canadians are perceived internationally as sensible centrists, but US-style culture wars have taken hold here in a big way and the far right and left are gaining traction. Unfortunately, Canadians are complacent and politically disengaged, and civil society and mainstream media are weak. Conditions are growing for a populist dictatorship takeover.

    • @Anigmama
      @Anigmama 11 месяцев назад +3

      Not perfect, but Canada is still doing better than many of us out here.

    • @Ukie88
      @Ukie88 11 месяцев назад +3

      I think Margaret Atwood knows more than you.

    • @brendahattie6553
      @brendahattie6553 11 месяцев назад

      @@Ukie88 agreed,

    • @barrowdwight
      @barrowdwight 11 месяцев назад +3

      After 30 years here I am concerned too. It seems to me this loose Federation of nearly independent fiefdoms has a growing population of folks escaping threat and turmoil in their home countries, and “complacent and politically disengaged” reflects their histories of fear and trauma. Everyone just wants somewhere safe. But this can let the non centrists dominate. Fear based populism feeds on this situation.

    • @wilhelmtomas4023
      @wilhelmtomas4023 11 месяцев назад +8

      It's easy enough to see that the far right is gaining ground politically in Canada, even if they haven't uet attained critical mass. But, what far left are you talking about, & where do they have any hold on political power?

  • @MusicForSeaMonsters
    @MusicForSeaMonsters 9 месяцев назад +5

    thanks for producing this vital piece, beautifully written and produced

  • @kathygray435
    @kathygray435 11 месяцев назад +10

    So eloquently explained!
    Thank you Margaret Atwood!!

  • @shanvirawat2988
    @shanvirawat2988 8 месяцев назад

    This was mind-blowing and stands true for most states in the current era. Art and literature has to take up the ante to overcome the delusions which have been embedded in societies of today. Any kind of extremism is anathema to a progressive society.

  • @singdevon1008
    @singdevon1008 11 месяцев назад +6

    Magnificent analysis! Cuts to the core and provides a foundation for everything else. There's a lot more to be said, but this provides a wonderful context to say it into.

  • @vernonchow2032
    @vernonchow2032 11 месяцев назад +10

    In other words, it's all the fault of the radicals. Any doubts about establishment centrism stems from disinformation and Russian talking points fed to the right and left extremes of the horseshoe. I only speak for myself, but most anglosphere political discourse seems like just rhetoric spouted by people who have no idea of what non- rhetorical speech even looks like. The Trump as Zeppelin animations are cool, but there are a lot of countries where military attacks on congress aren't shocking at all.
    Trevor Noah got in trouble for comparing Trump to African dictators and even Jacob Zuma in South Africa: a womanizing ex-president with a base willing to riot on cue. The rise of ethnonationalism among the supporters of Trump and Orban must be understood as linked to rise of Modi and Duterte, or even the fact that Lula and Bolsonaro are both more popular in Brazil than anything the squishy center can put out. Anglosphere liberals learned the wrong lessons from the fall of the Berlin wall, and if the Donald does do to Washington institutions what the animations imply, I'm not sure how many people outside the US, or even outside the bicoastal elites within the US, are going to care.

  • @omuribep
    @omuribep 11 месяцев назад +4

    What an astonishing video !! A masterpiece. Thanks Finatial TImes :)

  • @Polikim852
    @Polikim852 9 месяцев назад +1

    excellent production!

  • @johnklein338
    @johnklein338 11 месяцев назад +5

    Really good, but Call The Bluff comes out of nowhere and doesn't fit well with the rest.

  • @michaelmackey754
    @michaelmackey754 10 месяцев назад

    Great video!

  • @salimalbulushi7956
    @salimalbulushi7956 8 месяцев назад

    👏good job

  • @coachtaewherbalife8817
    @coachtaewherbalife8817 11 месяцев назад +1

    We've seen many fledgling democracies fall. Now more established democracies are threatened while Russia and China are rising. The future is blurry.

    • @docjaramillo
      @docjaramillo 4 месяца назад

      Russia and china are NOT rising. They are authoritarian states without liberty, freedom of expression, or concern for their actions on the rest of the planet. America, for all its well publicized flaws, still remains the richest, most technologically advanced, AND generous county in the world.

  • @pgohearn
    @pgohearn 11 месяцев назад +15

    The false equivalence of the left and right doesn't help to create the social change necessary, Margaret. There is no extreme left wing with the power of the extreme right-wing in the USA.

    • @machidaman
      @machidaman 11 месяцев назад +15

      You know it isn't all about you, right? There is a wider world beyond your borders. I suggest obtaining, and then.making use of, a passport.

    • @richdobbs6595
      @richdobbs6595 11 месяцев назад +3

      That is true if you get to define what is extreme and what is power.

    • @Danielle_1234
      @Danielle_1234 11 месяцев назад +3

      The video addressed this by using USSR as an example.

    • @LanguagesWithAndrew
      @LanguagesWithAndrew 11 месяцев назад +2

      She didn't say or imply that there was. Straw man argument.

    • @oliverseguin7812
      @oliverseguin7812 11 месяцев назад +1

      she did directly equate the left to the right tho@@LanguagesWithAndrew

  • @davisoaresalves5179
    @davisoaresalves5179 11 месяцев назад +20

    Please don't elect Trump, I beg, Brazilian here.

    • @battokizu
      @battokizu 11 месяцев назад

      Trump getting in wont change a thing, stop worrying about our country when yours is literally rock bottom.

    • @spacetoast7783
      @spacetoast7783 11 месяцев назад

      Tens of millions of Americans will vote for someone who will not honor votes lmao.

    • @AuntieMamies
      @AuntieMamies 2 месяца назад

      Some of us are trying really hard not to. Some are trying really hard to elect him. And some just flat out don't care. For everyones sake I hope most people are on my side of doing what we can to keep him out of power. In fact I want most Republicans out of power. For a long time. They need a good decade or 2 of time out, sit in the corner and think about what they did.

    • @geofo60
      @geofo60 Месяц назад

      Too late !!

  • @x-b5516
    @x-b5516 11 месяцев назад +5

    Great analysis ❤❤

  • @sarnan10
    @sarnan10 11 месяцев назад +1

    Beautiful, simply beautiful!!! 😊

  • @benmcreynolds8581
    @benmcreynolds8581 11 месяцев назад +5

    It's hard to grasp why anyone would want to come to America currently? It's become so unaffordable, dysfunctional & unstable. Our country seems to have zero interest in improving these issues or the lives of its own citizens. Our cities feel disconnected, soulless, bland, unaffordable, etc. I really don't like the direction modern America has gone. We could do so much better. I love this country. I just want to see things improve. The 90's at least had a range of prices & places where people could live, unique things to do & places to go. Poor People, middle, upper class. There was places for people of all economic ranges ~Nowadays we have universally unaffordable cost of living, rent prices, shop rent prices.. (unless you are wealthy) I don't understand how long we can continue to function in this extremely dysfunctional manner?? I hope things change. People stuck in poverty need places to live too.. it's ridiculous how our current system pretty much requires everyone to be financially well off or you are screwed 👍🏻 It's so realistic 👍🏻 it's completely impossible for everyone to be financially well off. We need living options. We need places that average people can live, poor people can live.. Raising wages just continually makes things worse because our country says "it Has to increase things" So it does nothing but make things worse. We need places people can live even if they make below average $ (look at all the rent prices right now? The same goes for the rent of local small businesses too. It's absurd. I know this because my mom runs a local small business in Oregon. So that's 2 insane rents to pay per month! It's the biggest challenge to afford rent. Profit isn't even a thing. Its can we make it to next month? How stupid is that? What kind of quality of life is that?) This is Modern Day America 👍🏻 and when you look at our government, it doesn't seem like anything is going to be addressed or improved anytime soon.. Maybe multiple generations from now, idk? All i know is vast change needs to be done. I'm tired of either side of our government. None of it is working. Hopefully motivated people will come in & help adapt this amazing country so it doesn't collapse in on itself. I don't get how our current situation can be acceptable?

    • @geneappeal
      @geneappeal 9 месяцев назад +3

      The question is what are you doing about it.
      I am not American but I see Biden doing some very positive things to create a better future. He is trying to combat climate change, has directed billions to fix your infrastructure, has overseen a significant rise in employment and wages and in his recent state of the union sounded the alarm to make the wealthy pay their fair share. I am continually amazed at how ignorant Americans are of the good things happening in their country.
      Biden isn't perfect. And I agree with you that things are too tough for too many people but we don't get there overnight. The way forward is by joining with folks of like mind to elect people that are going to work for you. Join a union or an environmental group.
      Yes, I said environmental group; did you hear the connection Ms Atwood made between climate catastrophies and chaos?
      In the past our predecessors worked together to take on big tasks (ever seen a barn raising?). So stop whining and get busy.

    • @AuntieMamies
      @AuntieMamies 2 месяца назад +1

      We need to abolish trickle down. The 90s were different in terms of economics because we didn't have 40 years of all the wealth in the country being concentrated in the hands of few people. By that point it had really just started. People are too rich, and they have too much power. But the comment above me is correct. Biden has done some really great things in his 4 years, and some not so great things. We're drilling too much oil, and his foreign policy is horrific. We could continue improving on the good he's done. That is an option. Or, we could get apathetic and sit out in November, or vote 3rd party, hand the country to Trump. We need to get that man and all his buddies out of our system. They're a cancer. It's really not hard to know what WE have to do. What our government needs to do is heed the same warning Biden did. He was told, the road your country is on is straight into authoritarianism, because people are hurting. So he made some gains in the way a neoliberal can. We can do better, but we've been put on a good start. Let's just make sure we don't get set back 100 years

  • @Yotrek
    @Yotrek 11 месяцев назад +3

    5:17 shorter list: income equality. Reduce income inequality and your currency appreciates against itself.
    Edit: it’s math. So it can be proven by anybody anywhere in the world, with simple thought experiments. There is no left or right, just how fast your currency appreciates or depreciates against itself.
    A currency that depreciates becomes a failed civilization. A currency that appreciates against itself becomes a level 0 civilization on the kardashev scale.

    • @spacetoast7783
      @spacetoast7783 11 месяцев назад +3

      This has literally nothing to do with the video and is self-contradictory.

  • @emilyn2949
    @emilyn2949 4 месяца назад +1

    we're fucked

  • @jeffreygunter417
    @jeffreygunter417 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you once again, this was magnificent…

  • @edwardolaie
    @edwardolaie 11 месяцев назад

    cool video

  • @tiedupinthreads
    @tiedupinthreads 11 месяцев назад

    How true!

  • @anourtine6204
    @anourtine6204 5 месяцев назад

    Who’s here after reading Project 2025?

    • @sherryviera5696
      @sherryviera5696 Месяц назад

      Not me, because I actually already knew who Margaret Atwood was.

    • @anourtine6204
      @anourtine6204 Месяц назад

      @@sherryviera5696 If you're implying that I didn't know who Margaret Atwood was until I learned about Project 2025, then that is a false and baseless accusation...
      I understand you're hurting, but assuming moral superiority over strangers ain't gonna help, Hun.

  • @benjaminneale5528
    @benjaminneale5528 9 месяцев назад

    Having some radicals doesnt necessarily lead to all the arrows in the video. Switzerlands system is a great example of how a country can remain stable despite being full of conpletely raving mad people of different political views that hate each other. A system of governance like this forces use to work together despite our differences. Unfortunately I haven't yet found another democracatic system of goverance which contains protection against both chaos and dictatorship that comes anywhere near matching it but nobody seems to care or ask how this country turned from impoverished backwater whose main export was mercenaries to the epitome of peace and no wars for 175 years!

    • @docjaramillo
      @docjaramillo 4 месяца назад

      Good for little tiny secluded racially and religiously homogeneous Switzerland. America has nearly 40x the population plus every ethnicity race and religion as part of that population. I’m tired of the snobbery from small (relatively insignificant) European countries acting like they have everything figured out.

    • @benjaminneale5528
      @benjaminneale5528 4 месяца назад

      @@docjaramillo have you ever been to Switzerland? It's anything other than racially and religiously homogeneous. Over 60% of the town I live in have another Passport other than Swiss and there are probably more Muslim believers than Christians. Perhaps a few villages in the mountains are still like that. Funnily enough the federal system and constitution was originally almost an exact copy of the US when introduced in 1848 but it has changed a lot to include the semi direct democratic elements which some US states then adopted

    • @benjaminneale5528
      @benjaminneale5528 4 месяца назад

      Of course comparing countries and their systems is not always helpful as each comes with its own set of issues and it's own advantages and disadvantages. Switzerland being no different. What I meant is that it has a good set of checks and balances in place to ensure relative stability in times like these. The US and Switzerland have borrowed alot from each other and I think many people here identified strongly with the US system and are sad to see it at the verge of teetering into destruction

  • @glennnielsen8054
    @glennnielsen8054 11 месяцев назад +2

    Switzerland is the most democratic country I have come across. Democracy has the inherent disadvantage of favoring the majority at the expense of the minority. The more centralized a country is, the less democratic it will be, as people are different.

    • @spacetoast7783
      @spacetoast7783 11 месяцев назад +3

      It's not less democratic; it just disfavors unpopular opinion. Your issue is with democracy.

  • @WebWiredWeirdo
    @WebWiredWeirdo 9 месяцев назад +1

    Yes 🧠🕹️The Propaganda is strong in here.
    But LOVE AND FAITH are much stronger. No more war ☮️

  • @johnmorris679
    @johnmorris679 11 месяцев назад +1

    👍

  • @paulrumyancev
    @paulrumyancev 11 месяцев назад +4

    I feel that something very essential is missing in whole the presented picture - the global financial/trading system. This thing is like a texture, the thing that forms/creates and motivates the vectors that draw the world from one doctrine to another. Most of the nations are connected to the system and obey to its rules of play. If one plays well - he can be relaxed, wait for the next challenge. Can't play well? Endless Chaos, Wars and Dictatorship is your destiny. Interesting thing is that that financial system has control levers. And those who holds those levers decide on the rules of the next turn of the game. But what if some of the players just can not become a good in this game? For historical, demographic, geographic, or other reasons?

    • @brendahattie6553
      @brendahattie6553 11 месяцев назад

      What's with the "he"??

    • @paulrumyancev
      @paulrumyancev 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@brendahattie6553I think that "he" there is the institution that rules certain country

    • @johnisdoe
      @johnisdoe 10 месяцев назад

      @@brendahattie6553 HE... pun intended... probably speaks another gendered language.

  • @donaldavis
    @donaldavis 10 месяцев назад

    Is Margret Atwood predicting the future accurately-- again?

  • @juliancoulden1753
    @juliancoulden1753 11 месяцев назад +1

    It’s an over simplistic analysis.

  • @glennnielsen8054
    @glennnielsen8054 11 месяцев назад +3

    The word dictator originates from the Roman Empire. When there were major challenges or the system faltered, a dictator was appointed who could make swift and effective decisions. In that context, it is perhaps unfair to leave the word with a negative connotation.

    • @uniteddreamer
      @uniteddreamer 11 месяцев назад

      I can't see trump making swift and efficient decisions. And swift and efficient decisions by netanyahu and Putin seem to result in thousands of people efficiently killed. I don't see the benefits.

    • @glennnielsen8054
      @glennnielsen8054 11 месяцев назад

      @@Besthinktwice You are right, just think about how the term liberal is misused in the US. Something related is that if you study many of the Asian countries, they have received an economic boost under what can be described as a dictatorship in today's terms, but over time have developed to become more democratic.

  • @BlergleslinkVettermoo
    @BlergleslinkVettermoo 11 месяцев назад +2

    I think FT readers would prefer opinion that is more data-driven rather than dark impressions from a novelist (however talented she may be).

  • @georgthullberg8667
    @georgthullberg8667 11 месяцев назад

    The message I get from this vid is that everything is pointless, we're hellbound anyway.. M-kay, thanks a lot for the information.

  • @michaelaridgway556
    @michaelaridgway556 11 месяцев назад

    So good!

  • @prakhartripathi8465
    @prakhartripathi8465 11 месяцев назад +1

    The biggest example of democracy's resilience is India where in 1947 the country started with power capita income of usd 430 and enormous diversity and bloodshed of partition coupled with illiteracy and huge diversity and yet has kept developing at a decent rate without doing mass killings like china

    • @wilhelmtomas4023
      @wilhelmtomas4023 11 месяцев назад

      The BJP/RSS regime in India no longer qualifies as a liberal democracy. The Modi government routinely deploys violence against not just its political opponents but against common people who happen to belong to out-groups (prominently, Muslims). It frequently resorts to press censorship & employs arbitrary detention against dissidents. And it maintains a brutal occupation of Kashmir, where soldiers & police have complete impunity & license to kill.

  • @theodorathompson2034
    @theodorathompson2034 2 месяца назад +1

    Unfortunately the MAGA Trump supporters cannot understand something reasonable like this video.

  • @mack-uv6gn
    @mack-uv6gn 11 месяцев назад +1

    👍

  • @emk2214
    @emk2214 5 месяцев назад

    that rulers should accountable for rule of law, and thats why trump is a fuckin dictator

  • @substandard5587
    @substandard5587 11 месяцев назад +9

    The conclusions about trump and the us right wing are absolutely absurd. Wanting fair elections and transparent governance does not consitute a dictatorship. Trump is not a dictator, he is a president like all those before and all those after.

    • @Anigmama
      @Anigmama 11 месяцев назад +7

      Like President Putin?

    • @substandard5587
      @substandard5587 11 месяцев назад

      @@Anigmama unlike biden and the DNC, Trump has yet to imprison political rivals or throw frivolous lawsuits against political enemies.

    • @DarrylGold
      @DarrylGold 11 месяцев назад +1

      Lame@@Anigmama

    • @daveh3777
      @daveh3777 11 месяцев назад

      Confused. The only people in the US that think elections aren't fair are Republicans who support Trump. Also true is that the only people creating election fraud are Trump supporting Republicans.

    • @wilhelmtomas4023
      @wilhelmtomas4023 11 месяцев назад

      Need you be reminded that Trump attempted a COUP to stay in power extralegally after he lost an election? He tried to overturn the election by force, by summoning a mob to attack the capitol & disrupt the certification of the election results & the peaceful transfer of power.

  • @pcaridad
    @pcaridad 11 месяцев назад

    Wow. This video is creepy 😮

  • @MarcelMahoney
    @MarcelMahoney 11 месяцев назад +4

    ATWOOD tortured me in high school . Horrific bore.

  • @FoffEmo
    @FoffEmo 11 месяцев назад +5

    What a tenuous grasp of History she has. What rubbish.

  • @richdobbs6595
    @richdobbs6595 11 месяцев назад +3

    Seems foolish to castigate Trump for things that he might do yet not mention already occurring situations that destroy effective rule of law like the summer of love, not prosecuting shoplifting, and not enforcing immigration law. But most of all, this is the continuation of the idea that there is something inherently good about democracy even if it is divorced from limits on the power of the political sphere. This comes off as a partisan "be scared of the bogey man" presentation.

    • @johnisdoe
      @johnisdoe 10 месяцев назад +2

      While that wasn't the point of the video, I do think that those are important points that should've been included. The left is kind of dealing with a problem of hypocrisy imo.
      Edit: while that is an issue, it'e less of an issue than far right extremism.

  • @whatthefunction9140
    @whatthefunction9140 11 месяцев назад

    Nice ai you have there

  • @christosgravias7976
    @christosgravias7976 11 месяцев назад +1

    sounds like you dont really believe in democracy

  • @NirtieDigger
    @NirtieDigger 11 месяцев назад +1

    Canada is very close to a left wing dictatorship, and trump seems to be the only sane politician as bizzare as that sounds.

    • @Grant_S_M
      @Grant_S_M 11 месяцев назад

      You are one hoping for a dictatorship.

    • @oliverseguin7812
      @oliverseguin7812 11 месяцев назад +4

      yeah this just aint true lol

    • @NirtieDigger
      @NirtieDigger 11 месяцев назад

      @@oliverseguin7812 okay bot.

    • @oliverseguin7812
      @oliverseguin7812 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@NirtieDigger that the best you got? Last I checked I still have all my rights so I don’t see how im living under a dictatorship

    • @NirtieDigger
      @NirtieDigger 11 месяцев назад

      @ericmorin9764 not currently but on track to becoming.

  • @t.p.5533
    @t.p.5533 10 месяцев назад

    You are all big lier, because your democracy is Just the people in the West, Gaza is dying, and this is a responsibility of u

  • @Texas-p8n
    @Texas-p8n 9 месяцев назад

    Truadeu is a woke authoritarian leader

  • @trevortoop5166
    @trevortoop5166 11 месяцев назад +1

    Democracy has has been set back 90 years by Trudeau.

    • @Grant_S_M
      @Grant_S_M 11 месяцев назад

      No. Trudeau is doing all he can to thwart a global RW fascist insurgency. Your man putler is losing.

    • @oliverseguin7812
      @oliverseguin7812 11 месяцев назад +1

      explain

  • @77dris
    @77dris 11 месяцев назад

    The nonsense about climate change pretty much made all the rest of the video meaningless.

    • @johnisdoe
      @johnisdoe 10 месяцев назад +2

      Oh really? Have you ever witnessed the aftermath of natural events like an earthquake/tsunami in Japan? What about wildfires in Maui? Have you ever lived in an arid Sahel/middle eastern country with no infrastructure, water or roads? Do you know what that life is like? Have you even at least watched Mad Max?
      Any of those should make you understand why climate change is something the world rather avoid, than live to know the existence/full effects of.