#1200 Our Republic

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🗓️ 23 September 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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President Jefferson is discusses the differences between a democracy and a republic.

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0:00.0	Well, I can't even believe the stuff that came out of your mouth today.
0:04.6	Geez, you know, here I am being a Jeffersonian optimist and you beat the crap out.
0:09.0	I didn't beat the crap out of you.
0:10.0	I said the American people are no longer in a republic and it shows.
0:14.0	Yeah.
0:16.0	That's what I said.
0:17.0	Yeah.
0:18.0	And you started out by drawing me in on this Mr. Jefferson,
0:21.0	and tell us what a republic is and tell us how a republic works.
0:23.2	I thought that was good.
0:25.2	It was no motive in that.
0:26.4	I just, you know, I really do think people need to think about it.
0:28.8	As long as we were on history, it made perfect sense.
0:31.1	But then when you say to me out of character oh how well are we
0:33.7	doing then I'm going to tell the truth and that we are not doing very well well we
0:39.9	have 753 bases worldwide there's a wedding party in Afghanistan.
0:45.0	Oops, we sent the cruise missile to the wrong spot. Sorry, we killed 82 of you.
0:49.0	Why are you radical? Why do you hate us?
0:51.0	So in the very beginning of this, I said to to Mr Jefferson I was tempted to ask him about gardening.
0:55.7	We should have.
0:56.7	And you know all of those people...
0:57.7	My tomatoes are fabulous.
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