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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 551 - Our Government is Clearly Afraid of Doing Hard Things

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Nearly one year ago today, the American Capitol was overtaken during a conservative riot over the election. Hard decisions needed to be made in that moment, but weren't. It was that failure, in part, that caused the complete collapse of the security before, during, and immediately after the insurrection. Over the past year, countless hard decisions should've been made and hard actions taken in response to this crisis. But those decisions and actions simply have not happened. And we will all pay the price as a result.

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In a lot of ways, I think the United States government has lost its will to do hard things, to make hard decisions,

0:46.0

and to particularly do hard things that impact everyday people, working people, poor people, struggling people.

0:56.0

And what happens is, no matter who's in office, if it's Joe Biden or Donald Trump or even Barack Obama, which I know is a sin for many of you,

1:07.0

including some people in my own house, to have even a mild critique of President Obama.

1:14.0

But what happens is, our government over time, having lost its will to do genuinely hard things,

1:27.0

what happens is, when you have a literal insurrection at the capital,

1:34.0

a takeover of the capital nearly one year ago today.

1:39.0

Our government still appears to be truly unwilling to do the hard thing there.

1:47.0

Let me unpack and explain what I mean.

1:49.0

I have a story to tell you as well.

1:51.0

This is Sean King and you are listening to The Breakdown.

1:56.0

The Breakdown.

2:12.0

We're now nearing the one year anniversary of the riots at the American capital,

2:23.0

the insurrection at the American capital, the break-in and takeover of the American capital.

2:31.0

And what's clear to me, there was a path that I thought we were going to go down.

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