Fear that Trump could win... doing for democracy!

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Diana from Lakewood OH

Nicely done video! Thank you!

Thank you for these uplifting words!!

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It's the election tricks you have to worry about. Even with the popular vote, Harris could lose or the courts will be used to ensure he gets into the White house again. Scary!

Such a great discussion! Thanks for the talking points and areas that I need to research more!

I follow Heather Cox Richardson and I'm Canadian! I am worried that even if Harris wins the popular vote, the Electoral college will enable Trump to get in again.

You know who's "all about" abortion? The christian god. Yup. He made us right? In his image right? He pulled out one of Adam's ribs, and created Eve right? So our biology is "god's will" right? 25%(ish) of all pregnancies end in miscarriage. THIS MEANS god's approval rating for abortion is a solid 25%. It also follows that god gave us big-ol' brains. Big enough to invent modern medicine. Which includes birth control, and abortion. And god gave us 'free will'. So that WE can choose to use either birth control and/or abortion. So really, god is 100% behind all abortions. Don't question your god...

making ammo more expensive will only drive the gun nuts to be MORE proactive with gun rights... 1) Clarify the 2nd amendment does NOT protect individual gun ownership. (It doesn't, read it...) 2) Add a constitutional amendment that gives the right to private gun ownership. And spells out a limited amount of guns/types of guns you can own. (6 shot revolver pistol, 2-shot shotgun, single shot bolt-action rifle. The 3 types of guns any private citizen can possible need). 3) Make all other guns illegal. 4) Have the government offer a buy-back program for all these guns. The government will pay you full retail, no matter the condition of the gun. 5) No one will be forced to hand in whatever guns they currently own. They can turn them in for the buy-back, or when they die, the government gets them. 6) Make the sale and manufacturing of military style weapons illegal. The government will buy out all current stock from gun stores/manufacturers. This way no "new" guns hit the streets/markets. 6) Make owning a gun like owning a car. You have to have a license, registration, and carry insurance. BUT the license should only cost $25, and should last 10 years. (Keep ownership affordable for everyone). There should be a federal database, that all levels of law enforcement can access. And insurance should be kept to less than $100/year for those with no past history of abusing a gun. (Cheap for the average law abiding citizen, but pricey for criminals/past criminals).

I thought first-time homebuyer loans were common in the U.S. Surely it’s not unique to California?

Heather, if you're interested, there's a "yarn-bombed" tree in the median on Western Ave in Augusta, Maine (Rte 202)!

Along with making ammunition more expensive, emphasize guns as a sport - not for killing people or even hunting. Make 'multi-shot' guns a crutch - something for lousy shots.

Thank you! My mom & sister, though Republican were more liberal than most Libs I've met... they just joined the same political Party as their parents. Even my Mom's Dad was really a VERY liberal Iowa farmer, gladly hiring women as field hands, open friends with black men, secretly helping neighbors, paying a fair price for tools when farmers lost their farms, and secretly giving clothes and food to the poor families in the nearest town as well as shipping needs to his cousins in Denver.

Just read "Moral Politics" by George Lakoff (retired Berkeley linguistic prof.). Clearly sets off the different mind sets of left and right AND 'bi-conceptuals' - where most of us live, as Heather says, in the middle class.

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Great interview! Thank you.

Trump tariffs are his means to extort big corporations for tariff reduction favor. It’s a scam for his own personal benefit.

Agree. Tariffs and crypto via Heritage and the Peter Theil's gang are meant to control and dominate..

I can’t believe she asked Heather whether she was eating Rice Crispiest as cereal or treats.

I remember Francis Schaeffer taking on the pro-life movement in 1976 but his point was only the protection of pre-born children. His whole point was noted as a "slippery slope" argument. There was no or little mention of the same procedure to save the life of the mother.

Heather is so smart! I love all of her writing and wish she'd been one of my professors when I was in school.

The GOP want guns in the hands of the putzes that will use them to actively threaten the rest of us. Open carry is a open threat. It's why they unlease the stupid. The GOP clearly believes they are our betters and they use their crazies to keep us "lessers" in our place.

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"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing emotion or by not being little girls. Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not. The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture. Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home. Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age. Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers." The U.S. has more guns per capita and supplies more guns to the world than any other country. What would be a fistfight without guns turns into dead bodies with them. Families with guns in the house are more likely to shoot themselves accidentally than to shoot any intruder. Women abused by their partners have a five-fold increased risk of being killed when their partner owns a gun. Every three hours, at least one child is wounded or killed by gunfire." Gloria Steinem "The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality. Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties. It is the function of women to teach men how to be human. It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle. The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time. The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement. For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value. Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough. The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind. Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity. Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever." Ashley Montagu "The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine." Terence McKenna "When the status and power of women is greater so also is the nation’s general quality of life; when they are lower, so is the quality of life for all. We humans are wired for empathy by evolution, but when children grow up in dominator families they internalize this male over female template for relations early on. They then automatically apply it to other differences, whether based on race, religion, sexual orientation, and so forth. People from authoritarian, male-dominated, punitive families tend to vote for "strongman" leaders and for "hard" punitive policies (prisons, wars) rather than "soft" caring policies (healthcare, childcare). Not everyone from this background does. But many people do. And this conditioning can be exploited, as Trump's campaign did, especially in times like ours of economic, social, and technological upheaval." Riane Eisler "In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking. For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom. Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in. Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage of men. If you think of religions as if they were novels, the authors are men, and so are the major characters. Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think motherhood is the default setting for a woman's life from first period to menopause, and she needs a note from God not to say yes to every zygote that knocks on her door." Katha Pollitt "In America, we have a government that is now run by white nationalists, by billionaires, by incredible misogynists. Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn’t killed our hearts. It’s killed men’s hearts. It’s silenced them, it’s cut them off. I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and life-force. This manifests itself in different cultural variances, but that's really what's going on everywhere. We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue. When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet. Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls. Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If we can figure out how to make women feel safe and honor women, it would be parallel or equal to honoring life itself. Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is core to ending violence." Eve Ensler "It is essential that we raise the image of sex, which is currently seen as a purely biological affair and often portrayed in its worst manifestations, to that of a spiritually based activity. I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in. Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself." Stanislav Grof "When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. A major function of fundamentalist religion is to bolster deeply insecure and fearful people. This is done by justifying a way of life with all of its defining prejudices. It thereby provides an appropriate and legitimate outlet for one's anger. The authority of an inerrant Bible that can be readily quoted to buttress this point of view becomes an essential ingredient to such a life. When that Bible is challenged, or relativized, the resulting anger proves the point categorically." John Shelby Spong "Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too." Robert A. Heinlein "Fascism is the frenzy of sexual cripples." Wilhelm Reich "It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends." Theodor Adorno

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Tariff talk that Trumpers might understand… in 2018 Trump raised tariff in goods from China. In 2019 Dollar Tree began selling items at $1.25 (because costs had gone up). In TN lots of rural Trump voters shop at Dollar Tree and complain about the .25 increase. Direct tariff example !

I’ve noticed Trump likes policies where he can justify behaving like a bully. Tariffs are one of these. Bully is his only strong suit.

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Young men are finding out that they don't automatically get the Entitlement. Just listen. -- They are confused. Mom-- raise them right!

I wonder why the Zoom link in the calendar invite wasn't working for me. Were others having a similar issue? Probably user error! lol

Excellent video w/ excellent info. Thank you so much!

I know this is unimportant but neither of you look as if you are in your 60s! Add being so influential to so many young, middle and older… keep it up… go democracy.

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Excellent Listen. Thank you Mike. Midterms ARE in our hands if we step up and act. Start be sharing this link everyone!

It's nice to see some democrats are transparent. Kudos.