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The American Mind

Seceding from Earth | The Roundtable Ep. 79

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

Philosophy, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Who runs America? Is it the surveillance state that aims to strangle the life out of regular citizens? The billionaires racing to space? Or the people? As the Borg gathers power, the editors gather to discuss what may come. Plus: in Michigan, the feds are caught out in a sting operation.

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0:00.0

coming up on this episode of The Round Table.

0:03.0

Well, you're the exception.

0:04.8

You're the extremist because you believe things

0:08.5

that up until five seconds ago,

0:10.7

the vast majority of everybody believed.

0:13.9

And the thing is like, no, we're the normal ones.

0:17.3

The people who have gotten extreme

0:19.0

are these lunatic woke people who are now in charge

0:22.3

and then some very, very greedy and desperate elites

0:27.7

who've globbed onto it, who think this is their moment

0:30.9

to push and shine.

0:32.2

And I go back and forth.

0:34.2

I mean, the positive is, oh, well,

0:36.6

there will be a backlash to all this.

0:38.9

That's the positive take.

0:40.3

The negative is, a friend of mine just sent this to me.

0:43.5

It was a quote, I'm gonna butcher it,

0:45.2

but the general sentiment was, and this is terrifying,

0:49.5

that right now we're in a kind of moment of calm.

0:51.8

The kind of calm when the ocean recedes,

0:55.4

and there's all kinds of dead and stinking things around,

0:58.1

but everyone's pretending it's all fine

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