Welcome to the Deleport with me, James Deleport, and I know I always say I'm excited about

this week's special guest, but I really am, even though you can't see him, well maybe

especially that you can't see him because his voice is something to relish, I've enjoyed

his podcast, which he records under the name The Quash. Well, his handle is Legal Man

or Lee Gaulman. Lee, welcome to the Deleport. Well, thank you, thanks for having me, I appreciate

it. Yeah, I get the feeling when I listen to your podcasts that you've been on a similar

journey to me, in that I think you describe yourself as a former constitutional conservative,

and I imagine like me, you used to spend a lot of time invested in the system, which

one day, if only we elected the right guy or Gaul was going to sort things out and things

were going to get much better, and we just had to keep voting our way till eventually

we got there. Is that a fair summary of your former incarnation? Absolutely, I was completely

totally bought into that standard narrative. Yeah, I think that this podcast is going to

be a really good correction. It won't be a wake-up call because I'm afraid that these

people are most of them will never be able to see, but for reasons we can discuss. But

I think that there are still so many people out there, I would call them Normis, I don't

know what you'd call them, who still, despite endless disappointments, being slapped in

the face by reality again and again, they still imagine that this mess we're in can be

remedied through this thing that they call democracy. Yes, it's unbelievable to me. It blows

my mind at it. At this point, having had the internet for 25 years and seeing what goes

on every single time, every single time they still continue to believe in this fantasy

that literally has no evidence supporting it. There's no evidence supporting it, not

just in the United States, there's no evidence to support it in any country using the system

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