Democracy Must Be Protected

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Democracy is not doomed. We can fight for it. But the first step is to acknowledge we HAVE to fight for it. To recognize the reality of what CAN happen, and accept what WILL happen, if we don’t all work together to fix what’s broken. Democracy is under attack and it’s under attack, not from outside forces, but from one of the two major parties right here in the US. This is an unprecedented crisis that must be met with unified resistance. We are at the tipping point. We must make sure enough of us tip the direction in democracy’s favor. Thank you to today’s sponsors! Blinkist: http://www.blinkist.com/politicsgirl Sunbasket: https://sunbasket.com/politicsgirl Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/politicsgirl Please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue and inspire better change moving forward! Watch the show in video format on YouTube. Follow my Twitter. Follow my Instagram. Watch my Rants on TikTok. Like the Facebook Page. The PoliticsGirl Podcast is a Meidas Touch original podcast produced by Happy Warrior Entertainment. SOURCES: https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/14/politics/larry-hogan-2020-election-trump-biden-cnntv/index.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/us/representative-paul-mitchell-leaves-republican-party-over-its-refusal-to-accept-trumps-loss.html https://www.axios.com/midnight-is-approaching-to-pass-voting-rights-protections-d3d8cb12-3b2c-4422-8eee-f60425265472.html https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-american-polity-is-cracked-and-might-collapse-canada-must-prepare/ https://www.pnas.org/content/118/50/e2102149118 https://www.pnas.org/content/118/50/e2102144118 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/opinion/jan-6-jimmy-carter.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytopinion https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/january-6-insurrection-trump-coup-2024-election/620843/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20211206&utm_term=The%20Atlantic%20Daily https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/the-autocrats-are-winning/620526/?utm_medium=cr&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=december_cover_prospects_b&utm_content=B&utm_term=Prospects https://www.wondrium.com/is-western-democracy-threatening-suicide?tn=632_tray_Course_1_0_18579&lec=1 https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/the-worst-form-of-government/ https://www.republicanleader.senate.gov/about https://www.vox.com/22840615/us-defense-spending-increase-afghanistan-withdrawal https://www.britannica.com/topic/democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy https://apnews.com/article/democrats-popular-vote-win-d6331f7e8b51d52582bb2d60e2a007ec https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/us/politics/trump-endorses-viktor-orban-hungary.html https://www.history.com/topics/france/alexis-de-tocqueville https://www.theatlantic.com/author/yascha-mounk/ https://www.theatlantic.com/author/kori-schake/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bernard-Henri-Levy https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/AQp3hO-GQyI/clive-crook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week's podcast is sponsored by Blinkist.
0:03.0	Okay, before I jump in here, let me just say that I have it.
0:05.5	My husband has it, even my cute old dad in Canada is using it.
0:08.5	And I mean, we're all legitimately using it.
0:11.5	So, Blinkist is a book summarizing subscription service
0:14.5	that allows you to read or listen to key insights
0:17.0	from best-selling nonfiction books in around 15 minutes.
0:20.0	With all the books I have floating around,
0:21.5	who knows when I'll actually have the time to read them?
0:23.5	Blinkist not only summarizes them in audio form,
0:26.5	but also gives a text summary,
0:28.5	which you can highlight and build notes right on your phone
0:30.5	to follow up with later.
0:31.5	And when you're listening, they say things like,
0:33.5	hey, here's the key message for this chapter,
0:35.5	here's the takeaway.
0:36.5	So, it's incredibly helpful.
0:37.5	My husband, who has a knack for diving into topics he knows nothing about,
0:41.5	but feels like he should, just listen to the promise of Bitcoin by Bobby C. Lee.
0:45.5	No joke, 15 minutes later, he was like,
0:47.5	uh, everyone's been trying to explain this to me for years,
0:50.5	and I finally get it.
	...

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