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🗓️ 12 March 2020
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0:00.0 | I have a theory of power is really interesting here because one of the realizations I'm coming to lately is just how many liberals are actually monarchists. |
0:08.6 | And you can't say this to them because they won't, they will not hear it. |
0:11.7 | They will not believe it, but they are. |
0:13.4 | And I think so much of like, you can see it in like this worship of Elizabeth Warren. |
0:18.7 | Like, you know, it's entirely one thing to like somebody for their policies, |
0:22.3 | and you can even feel a personal connection. I certainly feel a personal connection to Bernie |
0:24.9 | because, you know, from the same people that he is from. My grandmother was a Jewish socialist. |
0:30.9 | But you see in these like very intense, like personal relationships that people have, |
0:35.8 | people have like a very like monarchist relationship with the Clintons. |
0:40.4 | They really see Hillary as a queen. |
0:42.9 | And you can see it in terminology that is about it. |
0:44.7 | And they really like they see that family as really being like a royal family. |
0:47.9 | Like when the protesters confronted Chelsea Clinton. |
0:52.2 | You know, Chelsea Clinton who was pregnant with the heir to the throne. You know, people are very, very upset. Like how dare you confront Chelsea Clinton. You know, Chelsea Clinton who was pregnant with the heir to the throne. |
0:55.4 | You know, people are very, very upset. Like, how dare you confront Chelsea Clinton after she'd |
0:58.7 | said a bunch of really shitty things and then showed up to this vigil? |
1:02.5 | I think a lot of liberals think power is you vote for somebody who is really great. You sort of |
1:09.9 | elect a king or queen. They take care of it and you chill sort of elected king or queen. |
1:11.3 | They take care of it and you chill out because the king or queen handles it and you just sort |
1:15.3 | of worship them. |
1:16.5 | Well, that's Obama, right? |
1:18.2 | Yeah. |
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