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4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A history of right-wing militias in the US; Facebook's role in escalating tensions; and a Kenosha newspaper editor makes a stand.

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0:00.0	Send it in early and then go and vote. And if it's not tabulated, you vote. And the vote is going to count.
0:07.2	Fraud in the defense of democracy is no vice. Legality, no virtue. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:15.8	I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm Bob Garfield. The murder of two protesters in Kenosha by a gun-toting team is the latest
0:23.7	militia-related story to make headlines, but the movement's origins go way back.
0:28.9	In 1964, 76% of Americans would say that always or most of the time, they would trust the
0:35.1	government. By 1994, that had dropped to 19%.
0:38.6	And now all it takes to organize outrage into paramilitary action
0:43.4	is a place to post and get angry, courtesy of Facebook's algorithm.
0:48.6	Employees are increasingly saying the social effects of this company are frightening and something needs to be done.
0:56.7	It's all coming up after this.
1:02.3	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield.
1:07.7	And I'm Brooke Gladstone. Never has the phrase law and order as invoked by a president come to mean so clearly
1:15.6	its opposite.
1:17.0	Illegality and disorder.
1:19.3	Starting with the first, illegality.
1:21.9	Like voting twice.
1:24.0	On Wednesday, Donald Trump encouraged his North Carolina followers to cast two ballots, one by mail and one in person.
1:31.7	Send it in early and then go and vote.
1:35.2	And if it's not tabulated, you vote.
1:37.3	And the vote is going to count.
1:38.8	You can't let them take your vote away.
1:41.3	These people are playing dirty politics. In some states, you can ask for your mail-in
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