Janet Daley: Like Mccarthyism, America will soon wake up to wokeism | Off Script

Do not be fooled by the dominance of the woke movement; it is already running out of steam. In this week’s Off Script Janet Daley joins Steven Edginton to discuss America and Britain: what divides the two nations and what unites them. Watch the full video above or listen on your podcast app searching “Off Script”.
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[@valhaynes8973]

The elephant in the room this interview ignored is the effect of social media. America may be going through another neurosis but this time it is very different to the 1950’s and 60’s due to the internet. No one can honestly say if and when this woke madness will fizzle out because we are in unchartered waters.

[@annabizaro-doo-dah]

Agree. Not everyone who bandies phrases hot off the press from Academic papers have actually read them in context. Anyone can access and repeat the most incendiary ideas without fully understanding what's at stake on both sides of the argument. Social media is mainly driven by the most vocal members of a minority demographic (the young with a lot of time of their hands). A VOX POP repeating what receives the most favourable response. In other words an echo chamber that should be regarded with suspicion as a representation of popular opinion. It doesn't represent the majority of people.

[@alexk48]

The elephant in the room that's being ignored is not social media or the internet. It's censorship.

[@praline4157]

Yes the ideology is very much a resurrection of the sort from then but the connectivity of the internet has ramped it up

[@ebmurphy8744]

woke is waning, its now a slur. though we do like our puritanical fairytales gravely retarding the social square

[@randallfowler9348]

I believe with the internet it wanes more quickly. The counter argument to wokeness spreads as well.

[@paintedjaguar]

Daley: "The only people who came [to America] involuntarily were Africans." This is flat out untrue - it's just woke mythology. A large portion of the original population of the colonies were Irish and British natives who were condemned to transportation & servitude for "crimes" which were often political or simple poverty. In many cases their conditions and fate were no better than that of African slaves. This used to be common knowledge. Also, despite what Daley says class has actually been significant in US history. A lot of inherited wealth originated in royal land grants.

[@davidmitchell1391]

Partially agree, but their status was either as convicts serving a specific sentence ordered by a court of law, or indentured servants who, wishing to start a new life in the colonies, "voluntarily" agreed to serve a set number of years service. On completion of their sentence or indenture they were then as free as any other citizen. They were not chattel slaves (as were Black Africans) who faced absolutely no prospect of freedom and neither would their offspring.

[@mojimoji3545]

It's concerning how many people, especially Americans, who do not know this history. CRT is only going to make matters worse.

[@duxdawg]

@@davidmitchell1391 Not entirely true. Many Europeans, especially the Irish, were sold as chattel slaves to and in America. Most indentured servants were jerked around, robbed and otherwise kept in slavery for years beyond their original contract.

[@PhotosynthesisBisector1]

It was interesting listening to this woman’s very biased take on things🤔

[@otterssilver7299]

If looks could kill, her's would! She looks so angry, wow. Not sure I want to hear her opinion.

[@TheNobbynoonar]

I’m English, born and bred in England.I have lived in England all of my life. My family go back Into England as far as I can trace. I often feel dislocation, of “not belonging” and wondering where home is and feeling like a foreigner in my own land. Welcome to globalisation.

[@christopherdavis9883]

I must say I found a lot of what Janet Daly had to say very interesting.. but, her obvious disdain for Trump and kind of fawning over Biden did spoil the interview for me somewhat..

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

I can see why people would dislike Trump as a person, but she seemed not to have understood his appeal to roughly 50% of the American public at all.

[@christopherdavis9883]

Quite.. And to me it seems that facts too often now get distorted by emotions.

[@jimpollard113]

@@christopherdavis9883 Dead on.

[@pamelamohn5931]

The interviewer is absolutely correct on the comparison with Brexit. Whether it is decades or centuries it is still the same struggle.

[@pamelamohn5931]

I am quite sure there have been those who have wanted America's downfall since we gained independence. She just hit the nail on the head, the European mindset vs the American mindset. I noticed she said the 'old' American mind set. So a war of ideas has been going on since the beginning, still a war for independence for America.

[@khonieal]

Many Americans totally understood Brexit. The centralization of power is opposed by many.

[@becauseicount3483]

New footage has been released which shows people entering Capitol Hill peacefully in a single file while the police look on -

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

All the existing footage shows much the same. Looks more like a tourist visit than anything else.

[@thomasisking]

FBI has a lot to answer for re the "riot"

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

@@thomasisking - The Dems can never accept it for what it was just as they will never arrest Fauci - it would mean taking actual responsibility for some of the misery they cause.

[@deesantiago368]

Carlson and some senators say There are thousands upon thousands of hours of unreleased footage that does not fit the “insurrection” narrative.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

@@deesantiago368 - As far as I understand it not a single ‘insurgent’ was carrying a firearm or other weapon more dangerous than a stick. Hard to call that an insurrection whatever your definition is.

[@jacklondon295]

Trump was not anti legal immigration. His position was that of 75 percent of the American people.

[@coronaviruskillerforthegoo3353]

the problem was he did it wrong then.

[@rosaravello4275]

Trump is a nationalist! America first instead of this stupid Biden America last and open doors for uneducated illegal inmigración. Trump wants legal inmigración with educated people entering the country legally. Bringing the industries we gave China, back to USA! If America was sobad, why her parents came here first? Ungrateful talker! America is the greatest country in the world and history proves that!

[@BattleGn0me]

@@coronaviruskillerforthegoo3353 What's wrong bout enforcing the law?

[@coronaviruskillerforthegoo3353]

@@BattleGn0me no he did it wrong as he talked with 1 hand then allowed with the other. it is the hypocrite way.

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

@@coronaviruskillerforthegoo3353 Do what? What did he allow in regard to illegal immigration, that he spoke against?

[@cathydavis6726]

Around the 22 minute mark when she said 'CNN was the educated elite media' I knew there was no point in listening any longer.

[@juliesteimle3867]

Agreed. They not only get so much wrong, they have falsely reported so much. Take the Nick Sandman case or the Kyle Rittenhouse case. The don't know what truth is. They are just pushing propaganda.

[@MikeSmith-ym9eq]

@@juliesteimle3867 … CNN, etc. eerily quiet regarding Durham/Russiagate/Hitlery…

[@daw162]

View with a lens a little older - like 5 years ago. CNN thought it was still objective and for the composition of the cast there, it probably was (as in, what would people who were 95% liberal and not probably very good with numerical analysis think is middle of the road). They that up when they realized everyone had better ratings. Now, there's no trump in office and they want to claim they're going back. CNN was the less bonkers source for news when fox and MSNBC were going away from the center in different directions. Anyone on either side who thinks either of those two is objective is lacking nerve endings.

[@cakenpie]

Janet should listen Thomas Sowell’s podcast on “slavery.”

[@quaid667]

And Thomas Sowell and Joe Biden on the welfare state.

[@garymelnyk7910]

Yes totally agree Danielle. And after she’s read it, she should move on to his Intellectuals and Society.

[@jm-je4tl]

Haha. Always pulling out Sowell to be a slavery apologist

[@quaid667]

@@jm-je4tl apologist?

[@gingerbaker4390]

I get the feeling America is tearing itself apart irrevocabley

[@miyojewoltsnasonth2159]

Indeed they are, fully and irrevocably.

[@elfoxy1997]

And south America. And the middle East

[@julianwalch3567]

Many thought the same thing in the 1960's- Vietnam,the two Kennedy assasinations, MLK and the civil rights movement, the counter culture and Richard Nixon. Far more extreme than now.

[@egverlander]

Especially with idiots like Daley tying to "explain" things.

[@alexk48]

America is not tearing itself apart. Communist leftists are tearing America apart and that ideology is a European export.

[@patharvard]

Janet has been away from the US for far too long to understand it as it is today. In many respects, it is much different from how she describes it.

[@mikeantonio3163]

We can only go on what we see on TV and social media and it appears there's a huge divide between have and have-nots. I cannot get my head around usa eviction law from loss of job.

[@kellifox3250]

Keen awareness of every shift on the social/political landscape in the US has been an existential concern for Canadians since both countries were formed. Verum est prius amore is right. She is describing the US of her youth in the 60s and 70s. The US of my own childhood. What we see when we look south now is something different, and something much more dangerous. Janet Daly has been away from the US a long time and has clearly not taken any pains to update her understanding of it's politics.

[@hiddenriverarts]

Calling Joe Biden likeable is absolutely mind-boggling. His treatment of Anita Hill, his badly-concealed egoism and racism, his general corruption....he is disgusting. The neoliberal Democrats pushed him forward because they play the "lesser evil" game over and over. Lesser evil is still evil. And now, on top of everything else wrong with Biden, he is suffering from advanced dementia. How anyone could any serious person call him "kind"? He was shoved down the throats of voters terrified of another Trump presidency.

[@friendlyfire7861]

Yes. She was off base on almost every point she made and added nothing to the discourse.

[@jo8198]

The US did not vote for “Nice” In a president Trump brought independence back to America, we voted on a his platform Not his personality

[@m.turpel4818]

Independence from what?

[@NashHinton]

His platform svcks too. Taxcuts on Billionaires, banning abortion.

[@nora22000]

He never achieved anything except hate. Hate is a terrible platform, and haters hate themselves.

[@nora22000]

This woman is an elitist nabob. She could shut up--and we'd all be better off.

[@jo8198]

@@nora22000 I certainly agree She drips with far left liberalism it’s sickening

[@gerulanusgeluteampau3791]

Brandon being nice? I remember him constantly calling people for a fight or for push-up contests. As if someone would agree hitting and killing a senile neuropath.

[@AVMamfortas]

Biden a 'nice' man?? Is she blind.? He is a fake from birth onward. His entire political life has been a farce of corruption.

[@lizeggar2421]

She did have the Brexit question spot on. It had nothing to do with racism or immigration. It was simply about our sovereign right to rule ourselves.

[@McTimF]

So racism and immigration?

[@leondight8162]

@@McTimF sovereign right to rule our self equates immigration and racism?

[@hamiltonmackenzie3340]

And racism, definitely racism.

[@leondight8162]

@@hamiltonmackenzie3340 How?

[@DenianArcoleo]

@@McTimF No.

[@53weazel]

Let’s go Brandon…Eff off Daley !!

[@richardhart3290]

Steven Edgington is amongst the very best interviewers out there.

[@elkpaz560]

He's great isn't he? Has all the right questions.

[@fraserbailey6347]

I was about to say that he seems to be astonishingly dumb.

[@carolinenorman6141]

True

[@carolinenorman6141]

@@fraserbailey6347 lol

[@awuma]

I was a bit annoyed by him. He clearly has his own opinions, and he was leading Janet Daley along expecting her to amplify them, but she had her own rather different personal observations.

[@elkpaz560]

The very thing that she says distinguishes the UK and the US is the thing that is changing rapidly - and deliberately so. How often have we been told by our ruling classes that we are 'a nation of immigrants' or as Daley puts it 'a land of displaced people.' The trend is an accelerating curve.

[@biteycat]

Britain is not a nation of immigrants. So tired of hearing this lie repeated endlessly. Research shows that many of the indigenous people of the British isles share the same DNA as our Neolithic ancestors. The invasions by the Saxons, Vikings, Normans simply added to an existing gene pool but did not replace it.

[@elkpaz560]

@@biteycat I'm identifying the propaganda not making a descriptive statement. However, the trend is very much that the majority will be immigrant in a few decades.

[@sisiphas]

@@biteycat I agree, Britain is largely not a nation of immigrants. The country I live in - Australia- is. A third or so of its population were born elsewhere.

[@terry4137]

@@biteycat bunch of Muslims

[@raymondbedborough8522]

@@biteycat except the Welsh and Cornish which defeated squeezed South West. The most powerful stayed and mixed their genes.

[@mrnashvilletalkslarryfergu2640]

I am an American and she is wrong Trump/Brexit were very much the same issue. Control our borders, stop free movement, enter trade deals and re-negotiate those deals that America was short changed and so forth. Yes, he was also voted in as a job creator but again that’s what Brexit was about also. Plus like Brexit, it was about supplying higher salaries vs what they paid for non citizen migrants.

[@jimpollard113]

Yes, I think this comment is closer to the truth.

[@matthewkopp2391]

I think it is similar as well. The USA media obfuscated the issues. Both Clinton and Tony Blair abandoned working class politics. Their attitude was that it was no longer relevant or getting votes. And Obama too. But in the USA there hasn’t been a working class awareness since the 1940’s, largely because of the McCarthy era and then most of the 1960’s was a “left” dissociated from the working class. It could hardly be categorized as “left” other than the MLK & Hampton movements. The Clintons are a perfect picture of the dissociated boutique left politics. And people on the economic left and right in general got sick of boutique politics.

[@ethelmini]

Also a based on a lie, so inevitably an abject failure.

[@mrnashvilletalkslarryfergu2640]

@@ethelmini what was? Brexit is great for UK Trump was best thing for USA since Reagan,

[@matthewkopp2391]

@@mrnashvilletalkslarryfergu2640 Reagan tripled the debt and tripled the poverty index. And if it were not for Japan buying US Bonds the USA would have went bankrupt, but keep the fantasy alive.

[@lostinsweden5039]

i knew she was going to irritate me. Donald Trump doesn't understand the constitution of his own country? he appeared to have a much more acute understanding of it, and care for it, and the present incumbent.

[@HTHAMMACK1]

Donald Trump is a soulless, loathsome idiot who doesn't possess a single redeeming quality. He understands nothing of anything, and I doubt he could walk and chew gum at the same time without thinking about it. He certainly didn't understand the constitution when he tried to overturn a democratic election, or destroy democracy by trying to coerce election officials, or when he spread lies about a rigged election.

[@EgoShredder]

@@HTHAMMACK1 The only thing wrong with Donald, is he is bought and paid for by Jwhose. They bailed him out of his debts but in return for being their puppet on the global stage, to assist with bringing in Agenda 2030 via the C19 trojan horse etc.

[@errolkim1334]

@@HTHAMMACK1 let's go brandon

[@errolkim1334]

She's thick.

[@annharding9634]

@@HTHAMMACK1 Huge money he and family embezzled from US Gov.

[@shirleyhyland4308]

She keeps criticizing DT, while we have a demented national embarrassment in the White House. When DT was President I wasn’t paying $4.50 for gas.

[@whatta1501]

Did he have anything to do with the trillion dollar Cares Act? I think the big bucks went out to the wealthiest people. Politicians are politicians, even hair sniffers and game show hosts. We are always waiting on a savior.

[@QuercusRobur44]

I'm no expert on American politics but how can she state that Trump (for all his flaws) "deviated" from supporting global human rights? He wasn't isolationist (as she states), he just said that he needed to put America first. I couldn't help but notice that her comment about America being all about the "liberal world order" mentions America standing for law-abiding, tolerance and equality - but she doesn't mention freedom at all, possibly the single most important thing America stands for.

[@egverlander]

100% correct.

[@rickp354]

Biden is not nice...he's a crooked career political hack and only a puppet show for the DemonRat Donkeys!

[@kenjohnston2531]

Unfortunately, she is not very bright.

[@dawnclabaugh3598]

PERSONAL liberty. I basically quit flying after 2001; I am NOT going to stand in a long line as if I'm an elementary school pupil and be TOLD. It's a bogus system that has done little, if anything, to make anyone safer, but it has changed many people's mindset ... or taught the younger ones that "this is liberty". I got tired, too, of people yelling at me for not being "patriotic" when I'd try to merely state there were BETTER ways, far less intrusive, to achieve the stated objective of decreasing or eliminating terrorism on flights.

[@debravictoria7452]

@@dawnclabaugh3598 Seems that certain people had investments in those machines placed in airports.

[@scottdabbers8145]

Does Janet not remember the Kavanagh hearing when a bunch of equally deranged people from the other side invaded the Capitol?

[@gingerbaker4390]

I said exactly this at the time.. It was as if the anti Kavanagh mobs never happened..

[@TedATL1]

Just last week a mob smashed in to the Dept of Interior. 55 arrested. Scarcely reported because they were leftie greens.

[@mandead]

@@TedATL1 I hadn't heard about that. How many Capitol police officers did they shoot?

[@TheCuriousConservative]

Lol and CHAD!! It is insane how blind leftists are. It's aggravating to tears.

[@Saddamuel]

@@mandead As many as the January 6th group did. Zero, I believe. But on the other side, I don't think any of the greenies were shot and killed whereas at least one woman was killed by Capitol police.

[@DontBeNaiveGuys]

I’m a little gob smacked that she thinks CNN is so righteous.! Obviously not as clued up as we thought.

[@mrjagriff]

Not what she meant at all

[@freddieoblivion6122]

@Idanthyrsus This was the first thing I thought - the difference is that McCarthy was RIGHT, wokeness is so stupid and WRONG.

[@carontownsend9890]

She did not mean that she was talking about their style and philosophy

[@DontBeNaiveGuys]

If i miss understood but it came across as the CNN are far more educated and therefore more reliable. Was i wrong ?

[@vanessamay3689]

Trump did not cause the riot

[@mrmister9622]

She describes British politics as being different because of its people's "stability" having lived there for "ten generations"... but with Demographic Displacement, when white Britons are a minority in the UK (estimated at 2060), this "American" phenomenon of people "looking for a home" will be present in the UK... So in that way, British politics is downstream from American politics

[@benphilips9918]

London is a foreign/international city. It has no connection with the rest of the country at all. Yet that is where we're all governed from.

[@mrmister9622]

@@benphilips9918 Absolutely spot on... London is not a British City and yet its the seat of power.

[@alexandershavleyko1313]

covid etc. equals everything

[@carolinenorman6141]

That’s why I watch America their culture comes here

[@dawnclabaugh3598]

And of course, it is being DONE to every country in Europe. If we were actually intelligent life, we'd recognize the "undeclared war" that's being fought against each of our nation's. Instead, we "tolerate". And pay more for everything while we earn less (because of increased competition). It's very deliberate ...

[@Kwesekara1672]

I certainly don’t agree with her statement that Trump is an ignoramus.

[@candaceroberts3238]

Many of her remarks make me think she is an ignoramus. She does not come across as likeable.

[@Kwesekara1672]

@@candaceroberts3238 No indeed!

[@shhh3185]

@@candaceroberts3238 Maybe she's right about a few things. Maybe she's not likeable. Neither has anything to do with the other.

[@darebearxpoeticjustice]

“A Very Stable Genius”. Read the book.

[@friendlyfire7861]

Yes, that remark was ignorance itself.

[@DontBeNaiveGuys]

Our MSM and work environment as well as political bubble, have already jumped on the American wokism bandwagon.

[@lizeggar2421]

Her TDS gets a trifle tedious. Especially when she talks about the January 6th incident. It was nit the first time the Capitol had been "invaded". Just the first time that the press had made such a todo about it. For example, during the Kavenaugh hearings, a very similar incident occurred. To blame Trump for the invasion is inaccurate, to say the least. He had no idea of what was happening. He was giving a speech quite some way away. In fact, at the end of his speech he said let us walk now, peacefully towards the Capitol. He had no idea that by that time, an innocent, unarmed woman had been shot in the head.

[@bubb5225]

Troll.

[@Saddamuel]

Puerto Rican nationalists once literally shot into Congress from the gallery I believe. These people are insane.

[@Didleeios88]

Weak comparison between a sepreme court appointment and a presidential election... Peaceful transfer of power has been a point of pride in American democracy. It was hard to watch that challanged on any side of the aisle.

[@alexk48]

@@bubb5225 communist.

[@janjones2629]

1000% correct. Perhaps Janet could place a call to the Director of the FBI, and find out how successfully they managed to pull this Capitol Stunt off so successfully. Their going to need the CORRUPT FBI'S help, in the not too distant future. (When Nigel Farage attempts to run for Prime Minister.)

[@Carrera-gp9od]

America declared independence from England? Surely it claimed independence from Great Britain 🇬🇧

[@jonathandrake8640]

America's Poodle again?

[@503matelo]

At what age did Janet Daley move permanently to Great Britain / England? She has just the tiniest hint of a British accent , making it obvious she has not lived in the States for many years.

[@TedATL1]

I think she's been there 40 years or more.

[@lisbeardsley75]

For one thing lol

[@stephenbrookes7268]

She definitely knows more about the current and recently past British psyche. I can only know from US based comments as to her handle on the same across the pond.

[@rosemaryhowes8047]

She has been here since the 60s, so a long time. I find this interview very interesting.

[@lisbeardsley75]

@@rosemaryhowes8047 everyone supposedly has a right their own opinion

[@cmmndrblu]

There's no tradition of passing on wealth in America? Really?

[@friendlyfire7861]

Seriously, she has no clue.

[@paulmetcalfe6855]

Recently a sattelite Telegraph columnist whilst being interviewed by the New Culture Forum described what it was like when he visited the Telegraph offices. He said he was shocked to find it like he would have expected the Guardian offices would have been with its woke employees and overall environment. After listening to 10 minutes of this woman, her praise of Boris and vicious attacks on Trump makes it clear to me that cancelling my subscription some years ago was the right decision. She is a reflection of what the Conservative Party has become, a party with a green woke agenda that conserves nothing but the party itself. Thank God I emigrated.

[@lizeggar2421]

I was pleased the interviewer picked that up and put in another point of view.

[@darebearxpoeticjustice]

Yeah I mean who needs a green agenda? Because who needs a planet?? We’ll live on Mars right???

[@terrywickham781]

I disagree with Miss Daly, people came to America to make it home and become Americans. Multiculturalism was started by Liberals, people were being told to celebrate the country they came from, their holidays, ....., and that is when people started divided.

[@jimpollard113]

Exactly. Multi-culture is a failed concept. Dividing people is not the way to unify them.

[@brasschick4214]

Yes, It’s shocking. All those Christians going to church and celebrating Christmas etc. 🤦‍♀️

[@fostxswire1600]

I find it interesting that when I ask my Scottish born grandpa about being Scottish he says that he is American. Although, he has stories and such, he is American.

[@jakehiller6444]

As an Irish person she is completely spot on about Irish Americans. Every year these Irish Americans visit our country telling us that they're from here even though it's the first time they've ever visited.

[@victoriapruitt1209]

She's also absolutely WRONG about Biden as well. Biden isn't for the Liberal order, especially the rule of law. He goes after journalists that are critical of him, thinks the law applies differently to people based on their political opinions, economic level, ethnicity, etc.

[@rashone2879]

Absolutely. This woman is arrogant and opiated.

[@hiddenriverarts]

Exactly. He was shoved down our throats by the neoliberal Dems playing their "lesser evil" game.

[@craiga2002]

The problem with the title is that Mccarthy was right - read the Venona decrypts of Soviet signal traffic.

[@biohz8445]

100%

[@jordane5150]

Honestly I just felt her position was incoherent. When she was trying to assert a fundamental difference between America and the UK I think she was speaking about an America that hadn't existed since the 50's. If Americans believed poverty was a personal failing they wouldn't have voted for Trump, who ran on a platform which lambasted the Democrats for free trade deals like NAAFTA which disadvantaged American workers and industries.

[@DuchessWillow]

We don’t need a president who is “nice” we need a president that is competent. That flaw in thinking is what got us what we have today. Not a fan of this woman. Using emotional appeals to put down your opposition is a poor argument tactic that largely invalidates the points shes *trying* to connect.

[@hittitecharioteer]

Competence is somewhat subjective. Personally, I prefer principled, and committed to delivering manifesto promises. Biden is neither competent nor principled. He certainly needs committing.

[@NorfolkSceptic]

@Andreth Too many are influencing beyond their authority, and competence, and not owning up to their responsibility when TSHTF.

[@wiseonwords]

@Willow L - And by the way, Joe Biden is NOT nice!

[@edwardst-pierre1020]

I can't understand why this woman isn't like leader of the western countries seeing that she knows so much about the world. But God forbid that she would be the Mayor of my town.

[@janebaker966]

That Biden guy is weird and creepy and surely he didn't win any vote. They,whoever they are decided he should be in so they fixed it. So if her mate Boris is so wonderful why is he bringing us down to a third world country. Daft old bat.

[@TP-ie3hj]

The best part of this interview is that it shows us the very reason for our troubles. The quasi intellectual rambling on about nothing, thinking it everything. While the wide eyed wanna be quasi intellectuals listen as if it carried water. We would be so better served if she were a baker or a beet farmer.

[@nonfictionone]

Like… Victor Davis Hanson? :->

[@aaronjenkins2135]

@@nonfictionone exactly a intellectual who understands the world from the bottom. Not a neoliberal bubble of cognitive dissonance.

[@friendlyfire7861]

Yup.

[@jbcarseiii]

It seems that her understanding of US politics is stuck at the age at which she emigrated.

[@duncanfsimpson]

Yes exactly

[@alexk48]

It's stuck in her northeast russian jewish bolshevism exacerbated by her " education" on the left coast at Berkeley.

[@QueenAmethyst55]

Nevertheless I found it very interesting.

[@friendlyfire7861]

Which must have been the 7th grade 😂😂😂

[@jocrowl704]

“Equal Opportunity” -yes “Attendance Trophy”. NO

[@Libdump]

I’m fascinated how quickly America is going back into the Dark ages.

[@louisetaylor2131]

I’m terrified by it and the downfall of the west in general. What bothers me most is it’s coming from within, it seems like treason to me

[@jimpollard113]

Woke ideology is medieval, and in the very worst way possible.

[@Happyheretic2308]

Stop insulting the Dark Ages. Modern America hasn’t the capacity to produce the Lindisfarne Gospels.

[@stephenbrookes7268]

Don't be fooled into believing that it is confined to USA!

[@stephenbrookes7268]

@@Happyheretic2308 My limited understanding of the dark ages, is that we don't really know too much about them. So how can we compare?

[@chrismattravers5434]

I'm amazed she writes for The Telegraph. She makes some good points, but her prejudices eek out! She let's Biden off the hook as a nice guy and her hatred of Trump, is evident! Listened for 10 minutes, then thought enough!

[@scarfhs1]

Hatred of Trump is not a prejudice, it is a logical reaction.

[@TheDarZone]

I didn't make it that long, only 4 min. The comments are much more interesting!

[@ajs41]

She's basically a British writer these days, despite her accent. So I'm not really bothered if she gets things about the United States wrong. She's right about British politics 99% of the time.

[@paddyhalligan28]

Totally agree. Had to check it was actually Janet Daly. Where did she get this nonsense about Biden being a nice man. Won’t be wasting my time reading anything she has to say

[@anthonynicholas1165]

Me too, she started out so well and quickly fell into Dem talking points.

[@maggiehayes9431]

Unfortunately I cannot upvote this podcast - even tho I really approve of the interviewer. This pseudo intellectual woman kept ducking and weaving like a politician when the interviewer called her out on her proclamations.. such as ‘ Biden’s call over Afghanistan was directed by the military’!!! After being challenged she changed it to Biden’s foreign ‘policy advisors’- she completely removed Biden from all responsibility! Too many inconsistencies in her rhetoric to mention here. She appears so party political it discredits her more reasonable thoughts. Upvotes to the interviewer

[@tmaxyb]

We'll said

[@egverlander]

@@tmaxyb 100%

[@jazura2]

@@egverlander Agree

[@mytinyketolife6797]

Just sounds she doesn’t like American and what’s with the fake accent…Karmala should take lessons

[@mytinyketolife6797]

The United States government and MSM were the only one deranged the rest of just watch the officials hid in basements and boo hoo a lot. And as far as statues go most people could care less I’d rather have a tree planted than a statue erected

[@heather333]

By the way, in 1776 the thirteen American colonies declared their independence from the United Kindgon of Great Britain (not England).

[@naomiroberts6222]

She utterly and completely misses Donald Trump and the national movement of America First.

[@egverlander]

100%

[@carlosreid51]

We have to rid political swamp from RINOs and really Marxists leftist and take back western society .

[@dauncey1008]

I disagree with Janet's suggestion that Europeans don't believe in going to where work is available. What is different is the paternalistic (and deeply patronising) attitude of the elites. Most people just want a chance to earn a decent living, take care of their families and live as happily as possible, regardless of where they come from. They don't want to be spoon-fed, pitied or patronised.

[@user-qn6yt3zx3w]

I am (well trained) to believe that there is some truth, fact and value in everything that is uttered from the mouth of someone as experienced and involved as Janet Daley, but I found this interview to be an exception to the rule.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

There were some illuminating bits, especially the idea of the aimless American soul, neurotic because it’s rootless.

[@bubb5225]

@@sirrathersplendid4825 fu, Russian.

[@bcazz5202]

Really? I found this to be the best analysis of the current divide I've ever heard. Please expand on why your perspective.

[@alexk48]

@@sirrathersplendid4825 then wouldn't Janet Daley be neurotic because she's rootless and pretending to be a Brit? Never take a neurotic seriously.

[@botnot5618]

@@alexk48 Spot on. She is pushing an agenda.

[@fitzhamilton]

Yeah. Speaking as an American, having listened to this interview all the way through, I have to say some of what this woman says is true. But much of it is distorted nonsense. One salient problem is her analysis of what happened on January 6. There is a massive subterranean shift happening here, where a huge percentage of the people are becoming profoundly alienated from our government, our political process. It's increasingly being seen as an oligarchy with little meaningful democratic praxis above the state level, not a constitutional democratic republic. Trump is merely a transgressive symbol of that alienation, an expression of rebellion and contempt of the elite, disgust with a process that is no longer returning the expected results for a large percentage of people. If there was one message in the 2016 election, it's that people wanted radical control of immigration, a border wall, enforcement of current labor laws viz. immigration, and serious tariffs and protectionism for what's left of our industry - to include even leaving NAFTA. But what they got was a massive tax cut for the wealthy and no substantial movement on immigration at all. I don't think that Trump is the future here. There will either be a meaningful positive shift on the Federal level - which I do not expect - or very wicked things will come.. Things far worse than Trump or what happened on January sixth. If that happens, it will be largely the fault of this oligarchic elite, who are deliberately inciting it with their intransigent contempt of the democratic process.

[@jimpollard113]

Good analysis. No one seems to get why Trump got elected, or how pissed everyone is.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

I don’t think politics on either side of the Atlantic mirrors each other, I think the UK left slavishly follows the US left because they don’t have an original idea in their head.

[@jeananne2408]

They also have cluster B personality disorders in common.

[@jspy8138]

The Left in the UK struggle to think critically and dread the thought of not voting Labour - it's a cause if much anguish and hand-wringing for them - as if they have abandoned their own baby! Maybe it's the brainwashing done at schools, colleges, universities? This generation of schoolkids are constantly told "Britain isn't Great anymore" and that 'the UK would starve without the EU because most of our food cones from Europe' - utter claptrap!

[@mrjagriff]

Lol , yeh TAX and SPEND ! Hardly need an A level to come up with that idea !decade after decade

[@HondoTrailside]

In the US, up until recently, the left and the right were basically the same. Labour and the Conservatives in the UK are not basically the same, Tony Blair aside.

[@alexk48]

The left in the US and the UK are both old Bolsheviks. One does not follow the other. They both follow the same communist ideology and employ the same tactics.

[@msalim2354]

Generally I agree with Janet Daly but she has contradicted herself a few times in this interview. Case in point - she disclaims similarities on causes of dissatisfaction between ‘rust belt’ and ‘red wall’ populations resulting in both groups voting right of centre, mostly for their first time ever. Why is she so far off the mark on this one? One factor could be that she strongly dislikes Trump and so cannot credit him with Anything. Drop the scales from your eyes, Janet. See straight or sound unconvincing, like now.

[@damianbylightning6823]

Trump being a threat to the Constitution is a case in point - Democrat chicanery on 'voter suppression' is 'legitimate'. The GOP, Trumpist reaction or counter-strategy is not legitimate. How odd! What if those currently supporting Trump imported an emotional and moral element to their argument, which they currently lack - would that then make the counter as legitimate as the original? Granted that 'moral' arguments seem to consist of claims made by paid activists? What needs to change for the counter for it to become legitimate or just a piece of the political furniture that pundits take for granted? Can pundits ever take the Trumpist counter for granted? It is a 'lie' whereas the Democrat lie is 'not a lie'? How odd! If not, why not? Is it the blessing of tax-funded activists, rather than public opinion that counts or are they somewhat equally weighted? If GOP begins to claim they are representing minority interests and they gain a substantial backing among voters - but not professional 'helpers' of the poor etc, is that enough? Is it the blessing of the pundits and activists combined that's needed to change the narrative or is one more important than the other? Who writes the rules? This is all rather odd and Daley seems to take a lot for granted and hasn't really thought very deeply about the issue.

[@markhuntermd]

She doesn't seem to understand how the banks own and destroy the nation. Regarding rust belt: see the "Triffin dilemma or Triffin paradox"

[@777jones]

Trump was a populist and a nationalist rather than an elitist and a globalist.

[@ajs41]

She's right to say that Brexit was about old bitterness between the classes, whereas Trump was about something new.

[@damianbylightning6823]

@@ajs41 Brexit was many things - the bitterness between classes was one aspect. Also, Trump was a reaction to the 'professional' classes v the ordinary people. This was exactly the same in the class differences we see in Brexit - but Trump was also many things too. I'd also add that Trump was broadly right about foreign policy, border policy and tying energy policy to foreign policy. It is difficult to imagine how a POTUS could get these wrong anyway! To get it wrong isn't easy - you'd have to have a POTUS who is hamstrung by crackpot groups within his own party, in order to be even vaguely wrong about these policies. LOL!

[@dorabastable7028]

Janet Daley speaks from her experience without consulting actual history. Example, America began to enforce strict immigration laws favouring western Europeans to curtail Chinese and Jewish immigration beginning in the 1880s and culminating in the 1924 act. Also, she has a narrow scope of how immigration effected the slums of large cities such as Birmingham, London, and Liverpool where working class white communities were replaced largely by immigrants from her vast dominions, especially from the Indian continent and colonial outposts from the Caribbean. Regards Trump: large urban areas of religious Jews and Zionists(Christian and Jewish) voted for Trump because of his pro-Israel position. Their car caravans blocked and disrupted traffic with large Jewish populations- especially in New York. So much more to criticise about Janet Daley and her pro-Brexit position as well as her very much delusional respect to the US Constitution. No mention about police brutality against people of colour in either America or the UK, especially England. Positive: she does not recognise religion as a positive force as other guests of this program have argued.

[@j2174]

" No mention about police brutality against people of colour in either America or the UK, especially England." - Is this because Scotland etc are something like 94-96% "white" still? ;)

[@PresAdams-bz2ep]

She's NOT WORKING CLASS, is she? Why would she understand?

[@terrywickham781]

I think this woman is as SENILE as SLEEPY JOE is, LOL She is speaking of the man who is selling our country to anyone who will give him the MOST BRIBE!!

[@bcazz5202]

Better check your bubble. Seems a bit restrictive.

[@sidnotvicious8442]

I don't understand how she can describe Brandon as really nice. He really isn't. Not genuinely.

[@terrywickham781]

@@bcazz5202 Your president is getting ready to get us into a war, cheers for Brandon, yaaaaay😠😤😡!

[@friendlyfire7861]

Yes.

[@friendlyfire7861]

​@@bcazz5202Anyone who says "check your" shows who he is right away. That's an "own" only for woke liberals, not normal people.

[@rolandtours8404]

Janet Daley made an interesting early point about American homelessness. That reminded me of the movie "Wizard of Oz" about a girl seeking to return home. As a grandchild of immigrants to America, I certainly feel a lack of rootedness. Both America and Britain are grappling with economic globalization and 3rd world immigration, which have created winners and losers in both countries. This struggle has partly manifested in Trump and Brexit. The current division in American society is being exacerbated by wealthy extremists of both left and right who support the most extreme politicians and movements. Black Lives Matter, supported by Jeff Bezos and wealthy corporations, distracts from issues of economic inequality and insecurity. Oddly, BLM was founded by a few Black Communists who want to use race to break up the United States. They are allied with Islamists, like CAIR, who also want to destroy our liberal democracy. Steve Edginton did a good job.

[@TedATL1]

Yes, but she forgets that a large portion of the US descended from immigrants 7-10 generations ago. I dont think they feel displaced. Post WW2 has seen immense mobility within the US. But that is also largely true of Europeans.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

@@TedATL1 - I suspect she’s reflecting on her own family’s history, which goes back barely a century, and she left in the 1960s, so that’s just three generations.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

@@TedATL1 - As for mobility of Europeans, that’s almost certainly down to private car ownership, much as in the USA. Trains have been around almost a century longer but I don’t think caused the same type of mass internal migration.

[@cmdraven]

@@TedATL1 It's still a patchwork country with patchwork politics and policies, hence there is no real sense of unity there.

[@dawnclabaugh3598]

@@disatyriad1953 True; I doubt anyone would raise the "issue" the same way in a European country. I think we've been far too tolerant for far too long. Nothing stops the haters from emigrating to a country more to their taste.

[@vacuumfireradio253]

Steven says in one sentence what she struggled to express in 5 minutes. This is just woeful...

[@Jackknifegyp]

Her diarrhea of the mouth is disgusting.

[@pamelamohn5931]

She evidently doesn't know Americans quite as well as she thinks. I know families that have been here for generations and know their history and know where home is, I know where home is for me.

[@athelstan927]

.. yet british society is being unpicked bit by bit..

[@hittitecharioteer]

Common Purpose placemen in key positions all through the public sector, and in the bigger private sector businesses connected to government contracts.

[@cappygolucky]

And they alllow it

[@hittitecharioteer]

@@cappygolucky Hard to believe, but most of the British and Irish public have never heard of Common Purpose.

[@zootsoot2006]

The West's enemies, and we all know who they are, have been targeting the US almost singularly, believing the UK will follow suit sooner or later given the cultural dominance they have over us. It' s happening, when the US falls, so will the UK and all the five eyes countries together.

[@TheRustyLM]

I’m an atheist Yank, and I pray pray pray that Janet is correct that America will snap out of this psychosis. 🙏

[@ForzaJersey]

Then talk your Lefty friends out of wokeist bs.

[@nonfictionone]

Better ask the billionaires who own media if they will let the populace snap out of it. ‘Nuh.’

[@roberttrickey2135]

I am very sorry but I also agree she has been away from the US far too long and oddly lacks a basic understanding of what this huge and diverse country offers to the world- Just look at anything in the popular culture realm and America is the reference point up to which all other countries hope one day to measure (and not to mention as the worlds oldest democracy, continues to stand as a beacon of light to all corners of this very dark world.

[@kiwitrainguy]

Oldest Democracy? I thought the Greeks were practising a form of it over 2000 years ago. And the title of Largest Democracy goes to India.

[@friendlyfire7861]

👍

[@monsieurlewop]

I've almost always enjoyed reading and hearing Janet speak, but her TDS and hysterical characterisation of the slightly disorderly sightseeing tour of January 6 are risible.

[@dutube99]

"About 140 officers - 73 from the Capitol Police and 65 from the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington - were injured, the departments have said. They ranged from bruises and lacerations to more serious damage such as concussions, rib fractures, burns and even a mild heart attack....The number of those injured does not account for the dozens, if not hundreds, of officers who law enforcement officials estimate will suffer in years to come with post-traumatic stress disorder" --NYTimes Wasn't exactly the average Black Friday levels of disorderly.

[@rogerwhite95]

@@dutube99 There is no possible credibility in anything the NY Times says.

[@yeahohright3097]

Actually Janet is more based than anyone in this comment section because she both recognizes the dangers of wokism and the dangers of Trumpism

[@brendaforliberty6836]

@@yeahohright3097 Wokeism is Marxism.and is contemptible.

[@fostxswire1600]

@@dutube99 These levels of disorderly are waaaay below that of black Friday.

[@lorasaltis4134]

Europeans think of the Ireland of today. Americans do not. Americans connection to Ireland and all of Europe is historical. It is ancestral. It's not about Europe today and the people living there today. It's about our ancestors and how we choose to honor them and stay connected to them. I think this is hard for Europeans to understand for exactly the reason Ms. Daley says. When your ancestral homeland and your current residence is one and the same place, it's not an issue.

[@TheDarZone]

That may have been her one reasonable point.

[@lorasaltis4134]

@@TheDarZone I agree. She is an old ex-pat who doesn't seem to understand the US very well.

[@nicolaperren9493]

I think more people voted for Brexit as they see we are being told what to do by others than our Government, I don't think people in the USA would take to being told what to do by Canada or Mexico!

[@rosefitzpatrick35]

Struggled to listen to the end, didn't really gain anything.

[@mikeoglen6848]

I'm not gaining anything from your comment.

[@deesantiago368]

She says “Nationalist” as if it’s a bad thing.

[@jellybiscuit]

I'm sure she thinks it is.

[@ZoeSummers1701A]

It is.

[@leondight8162]

@@ZoeSummers1701A how?

[@jacobushubertuskirchner9948]

It is. Nationalism always runs the risk of causing war. Being a patriot is based on love for one's country, being a nationalist is based on pride.

[@jacobushubertuskirchner9948]

It is. Nationalism always runs the risk of causing war. Being a patriot is based on love for one's country, being a nationalist is based on pride.

[@kaff0]

Let's go Brandon!

[@stevens879]

I feel like she makes some salient points but she has this disdain for the yokels of America. She talks about this neurotisicm of not belonging anywhere in America but I think that is some self projection. I can't remember who said it but the difference between the somewheres and anywheres and I think she falls into the latter category. All this patriotism and nationalism she talks about are the people that feel very rooted here. She has a very east coast take on the world

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

As far as I understand it not a single ‘insurgent’ at the Capitol on 6 January was carrying a firearm or other weapon more dangerous than a stick. Hard to call that an insurrection whatever your definition is.

[@bryndonbooth9536]

Yep, 7 minutes in and she's been praising Biden and attacking Trump. While I'm sure she has some valuable things to say, blind anti-Trumpism is rather off-putting.

[@jillal-fuhaid1763]

Trump 😂😂😂

[@pjpredhomme7699]

actually it is a good qualifier of someone with something worthwhile to say

[@jonathandrake8640]

@@jillal-fuhaid1763 Anti Trump 😂😂😂

[@jillal-fuhaid1763]

@@jonathandrake8640 anyone with half a brain must be anti- Trump . Who wants to be ruled by a moronic megalomaniac.🤣🤣🤣

[@maxheadrom3088]

With all due respect, what happened in the Capitol was nothing. Ask some CIA people about what a coup is and how it looks like.

[@SandfordSmythe]

"nothing" is not a good word to choose

[@friendlyfire7861]

Exactly. I keep saying to come to where I live and see what a real insurrection is (ya puss) 👍

[@friendlyfire7861]

​@@SandfordSmythe"Mostly peaceful protest" may have been better 😂

[@crowbar9566]

Janet Daley is a bloody legend. We're very lucky to have poached her from the US.

[@Nicole-kk6bx]

Example of an elite who feels compelled to speak for the working class of which they have no real contact with, studying us from the outside like we are zoo animals but is completely out-of-touch.

[@nv7287]

Example of an elite who feels compelled to moralise to and critique the working class - they have never spoken for working class. They only wish to rule it

[@paulmetcalfe6855]

I think Mccarthy was misunderstood in a similar way to that of our own Enoch Powell. She admits to being "part of the 60s student revolution generation", so what the hell is she doing writing for a supposedly right wing newspaper?

[@friendlyfire7861]

For his injustices, McCarthy was, in fact, right about communist infiltration in Hollywood. And they picked up right where they left off. But we should have dealt with it through dialogue, because it's only been and will be that much harder to defeat now.

[@lloydbraun6026]

Except McCarthy was right, and if we paid more attention to him back then we wouldn’t be in this mess. The 1965 Immigration Act a decade later would never have come to fruition

[@paulatreides4274]

Damn straight.

[@hittitecharioteer]

Sad to say, but looking more so every year.

[@danielcalderwood6674]

Her fellow Tribesmen were responsible for that. Rootless cosmopolitans.

[@jspy8138]

We need to post The 45 Goals of Communism in every bus stop, pub and work noticeboard...then campaign to Outlaw Communism- it's what they fear the most !

[@janebennett8097]

Not many of the comments her did not seem to understand what she was talking about . I found it one of the most. interesting and accurate account as to what America is like. and her comparisons exact ly right.

[@frankvghn1955]

As an Irish person who lived through 30yrs of "the troubles" I don't have the same view of Britain that Janet Daley has looking tru her rose tinted glasses nor do I share her view that Americans are racists. Nor do I share any of her views on President Trump or the so called insurrection on January 6th (nobody has been charged with insurrection how come?) and the only person murdered was Ashley Babbit who was unarmed white lady and shot by a black man. Nor do I share her view that wokism is just a fad that will disappear in a flash all of a sudden. The woke cult has deep roots in Communism, a Communism that is being indoctrinated by Socialists throughout every aspect of life in America from Academia to Hollywood and more scarily tru Marxist Media, big tech and RINOS & The demokkkrat party.

[@friendlyfire7861]

Yes. And she was wrong about everything.

[@tammys8711]

I have full respect for Steven. I do wonder if he had interviewed Victor Davis Hanson about his book, "The Case for Trump", first, if he could have directed her into addressing/admitting Trump's flat out 100% successes. Then, discuss how they contrast Biden's awful failure and his administration's dismantling of America.

[@wuteva34]

The country‘s cheese slid way off the right side of it’s cracker back in 2001. Now 20 years later, the cheese has slid way off the left side of its cracker. I have no doubt the center will return back to the center. I just hope it does not take 20 years. I am 52 years old. I do not want to live out the rest of my life with wokeness

[@garymelnyk7910]

I always learn from interviews like this. Not so much from the speaker…….as we only get one view. But from the plurality and diversity of opinions (some unusually astute) in the comments section. As Shakespeare said: “All Is True”.

[@bpm990d]

So very true. Bad ideas can's stand the sanitizing force of the truth. Yahoo use to have a comment section but they closed it down because of civility. However the reality was Yahoo was advancing insane narratives in peoples news feeds, and they were getting destroyed in the comment section. No more comments, no more problem with getting their agenda wrecked.

[@thetopcat8946]

Lets go Brandon!

[@kevinmorgan8534]

Bless your heart!

[@LloydieP]

Never heard of, or from, this guest before. Hopefully, I won't again. She's commenting on the present, with the world view of someone who hasn't consulted reality for many years. Has she even stepped outside in the last twenty years. Edit: Downvoted for the guest, not the interviewer.

[@poppedweasel]

I'm glad I saw this video. It proves once again that it's better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. She is so out of touch.

[@supportme123]

If Labour get elected, say goodbye forever to freedom of expression.

[@anthonylemkendorf3114]

This interview has provided one thing for me,a vastly more insightful comment section than the interview itself .The world is morally deteriorating rapidly, the feeling that we don’t belong anywhere is perhaps the feeling that something serious is about to change for all of us.

[@friendlyfire7861]

Yes. It's great to see that people see through all this old clicheed stupid garbage.

[@davidh1927]

She has her facts wrong about slavery in America....relative to the rest of world slavery it was not particularly brutal..listen to Thomas Sowells video on slavery..

[@wdm1000]

Great interview by Steven Edington.

[@jimspencer6677]

The fact about people who are overly nice, is deep down they are quite the opposite!

[@sisiphas]

Thé US of which she speaks and says is not an issue in the UK, has, I think pervaded Scotland. The partisan viciousness and insecurities of the Scottish nationalists is not unlike that in the US

[@RBGHfam]

I liked the discussion until she starting talking about January 6th. Which seems to be nothing more than a few thousand idiots invading a building, with the help of certain people working with the intellegence agencies to invoke more power for the federal government ...aka the plot of the movie backdraft.

[@marksutton5540]

She knows us better than we know ourselves.

[@louismartin4446]

BS… she talks in circles She does not impress me at all

[@j2174]

I would never describe CNN, MSNC etc as "acting European" LOL.

[@flites1]

Fascinating interview. Janet is so knowledgeable and Steven is a fantastic interviewer.

[@joannaennis7866]

Italians and Scandinavians came to America with a Christian/Judeo culture and work ethic unlike the I slam is tion of Europe and America in the 21 century!

[@shortstraw4]

🙏 may they wake up from the woke nightmare

[@margaretgreenwood4243]

It’s getting like this in the UK now. We have a Pakistani demographic whose loyalty is divided towards this country. I see this as politically dangerous. Being 80 I have seen various groups of immigrants integrate pretty well and it is always difficult for second and third generations but the Islamic element is creating uncertainty regarding loyalty

[@xaviertaylor759]

Concern the UK "will" head down the same path? Will? We are already there!

[@thisNewFoundLand]

...i give a thumbs-up for the sake of civil discourse, and the open forum of the host production. Though, this woman is a puzzle to my mind -- speaking in such broad strokes, her words smear recklessly about and everyone ends up bespotted and likely offended. She is adrift in a sea of rationalized egocentricity, shielding some rippling self loathing that she sends back at America -- the country which enabled her rise to such lofty social heights. Daley is old in mind. Schooled. Not capable of fathoming the depths of our collective crisis, and unable/unwilling to witness the depths of the corruption and depravity entrenched quite vilely in our societal constructs. The level of organized manipulation we are collectively experiencing is astounding, imho.

[@catlarry]

How so?

[@marial8415]

"Old in mind' and then the following paragraph, how well put and how very true.

[@khonieal]

I don’t agree on all her points but it is a good discussion.

[@kevinstoneham1245]

I get really sick of the South East continually being lumped together with London in terms of being affluent. It is London that is affluent and only certain areas as well. There are plenty of poor people in the South East.

[@severianmonk7394]

Is she out of her mind? 'There is no significant inherited wealth or advantage in America.' When did she crawl out from under her rock and how long was she under it? She doesn't look hundreds of year old, not quite, but staying out of direct sunlight might have wonderful effects.

[@matthewkopp2391]

I was surprised she said that. when I found out that the John Adams family were neighbors to Donald Trump it was a bit of a surprise how families could hold onto wealth for 200 years. But then there’s old money from every era the Rockefellers, Getty, Guggenheim, etc. actually the strange thing about the USA as compared to Europe is the wealthy actually don’t hide it as much, in places like Germany the wealthy try to hide the fact that they are wealthy. They also feel a more direct obligation to society out of tradition.

[@TheSapphire51]

Great interview. We all need to hear more from intelligent, informed people like this woman.

[@erpollock]

This woman does not impress me. I shall say no more.

[@tomsdottir]

Blow me, and here was me thinking that the United States declared their independence from the kingdom of Great Britain rather than England (0:31). Does this mean they're still not independent of Scotland and Wales? Or does he just not know the difference between GB and England?