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🗓️ 3 February 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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0:00.0 | Friends, by the time you get this, we should know the results of the Iowa |
0:09.5 | Caucasus. So before we get into this week's episode, I just want to say thank you to the |
0:17.0 | millions of people who make this campaign what it is, who phone banked and |
0:22.3 | door knocked, texted and donated, spoke to your parents, |
0:26.5 | coworkers and friends about why this struggle truly is so so vitally important. |
0:36.0 | Every four years you hear it, |
0:38.1 | that this election is the most important election |
0:41.8 | of our lifetimes. |
0:43.0 | Well, there's a case to be made that this year, it's true. |
0:48.0 | It's not just that we have a corrupt demagogue in the White House, |
0:52.0 | who rules through fear, division, and intimidation. |
0:56.4 | It's not just that we've reached levels of wealth inequality unmatched since the Gilded Age, |
1:02.0 | a plutocracy so imbalanced that we have a billionaire |
1:05.9 | openly trying to buy this election. And it's not just that all over the world we're seeing the rise of far right leaders who channel |
1:15.2 | populist rage against the most vulnerable while allying themselves cynically |
1:20.9 | with capital. It's that on top of all of that the clock is |
1:27.4 | ticking on our capacity to keep large swaths of this planet habitable. |
1:33.2 | All over the world ecosystems are in collapse. |
1:36.4 | Oceans are acidified. |
1:38.6 | Entire continents are burning. |
1:41.6 | Climate refugees are already on the move. This moment might just be our |
1:47.6 | last off-ramp for the world we leave our children becomes unrecognizable to the one we inherited. |
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