AIDING AUTHORITARIANISM or DEATH BY DEDUCTIBLES
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 8 June 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Can America become a functional multi-ethnic Democracy? Or will both parties effectively choose to support a male-dominated white ethno-state? How corrupt are the right-wing Democratic Senators currently holding up legislation that could help the common man? Also, activist and author Wendell Potter has a fascinating book out on the health insurance industry. How do high deductibles keep many Americans from going to the doctor?
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| 0:00.0 | It's going to be an interesting day, it's going to be a very interesting day. |
| 0:21.3 | I want to start out with this question, can America function as a multiracial, multi-ethnic, |
| 0:28.8 | religious democracy? |
| 0:31.6 | Louise and I took a drive, we got to get stuck crazy. |
| 0:36.4 | You know, it was the first time actually in almost two years that we've burned any gasoline |
| 0:41.4 | of any consequence. |
| 0:42.4 | It took a drive to a rural area of Oregon yesterday. |
| 0:46.3 | We're thinking maybe we'd find a restaurant where we could sit outside or something, but |
| 0:49.8 | what we found was in these small towns and counties in Oregon where they're still having |
| 0:56.0 | really high COVID rates. |
| 0:58.6 | These were in masks and the restaurants were packed and we were not willing to walk in. |
| 1:04.4 | So we drove through a taco bell, ate the car with the dogs, but anyhow, it was a nice |
| 1:10.6 | trip. |
| 1:11.6 | But as we were driving through this one town, I saw a couple of guys with like brush |
| 1:15.2 | cuts and kind of looking very military, but obviously not military. |
| 1:20.0 | And I said, okay, Democratic revoter or Republican voter and she's like Republican. |
| 1:24.6 | We played that little game for a few minutes. |
| 1:27.0 | And obviously it's very superficial. |
| 1:30.6 | But if you look at the people who show up for Republican party gatherings versus the |
| 1:33.9 | people who show up for Democratic party gatherings, you can kind of spot at least a lot of folks |
| 1:39.0 | political affiliations just by how they're dressing, how they wear their hair, who they |
| 1:43.9 | are essentially. |
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