506 - John Smick (3/15/21)

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4.6 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

We take a look at Stars And Strife, a new Starz documentary by David Smick (“macroeconomic advisor to a select group of prominent global investment funds”). It’s a documentary cautioning against the dangers of populist extremism, featuring the sober, reasonable analysis of James Baker, Leon Panetta, Rahm Emanuel, Alan Greenspan and Larry Summers, among others, and is honestly just as wild and deranged as You Me Madness. This completes a kind of inadvertent trilogy of films exploring inside the dream world from the POV of the middle class (Can’t Get You Out of My Head), the wealthy cultural elites (You Me Madness) and now, economic-political elite (Stars and Strife)

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0:00.0	You know what I'm saying?
0:02.0	You know what I'm saying?
0:03.0	That it was a term on me.
0:04.0	You invited me on here.
0:05.0	You're the fact that I'm a f***ing bearer of the enemy.
0:07.0	No, I don't want that.
0:08.0	You're going to bring this contract to its day.
0:10.0	Not the American way.
0:11.0	Why?
0:13.0	I'm worried about our country gorging on hate.
0:18.0	Something's gone very wrong in the fabric of American society,
0:22.0	which leaves people vulnerable to the appeal of the political hate industry.
0:28.0	We've always had parties, absolutely.
0:30.0	We've never had this level of dysfunction.
0:32.0	But both of our major political parties
0:34.0	contain a lot of old people
0:36.0	and before people reach the stage of dementia, they often turn nasty.
0:40.0	Are you stupid?
0:41.0	I'm your fault, Jam time!
0:42.0	We live in a zero-sum world.
0:44.0	We are absolutely convinced
0:46.0	that for one side to get ahead,
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