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which is greater than the sum of its parts. Today, we're learning what it feels like to live in

an authoritarian country, something I suppose you could learn without listening to the show,

but we're going to help anyway, and give some advice on what you could learn without listening to the show, but we're going to

help anyway, and give some advice on what you should do about it to be the kind of citizen

we need right now. And if you don't have an attention span, we'll cut to the chase right here.

I think we've got a plan. People are going to think for themselves, think about how they will answer their grandkids, also ask your friends to think the same thing.

Virtue signal, because virtue is actually good, it turns out, be ready to build broad coalitions even when it's uncomfortable, and call in politicians to do the same thing because we need an inside

outside strategy to cover all of our bases. And we'll dive right in with a description of the

dual state. And this comes from a Vox article after the Minnesota Killings. What is your

role and how can you? By Sigel Samuel.

And they write, quote,

A German Jewish political scientist and labor lawyer, Frankel was a keen observer of the Nazi

political system. As he watched Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s, he wrote a manuscript

about what he was noticing on the ground in Germany. Then, he moved to the U.S. and in 1941, he wrote a manuscript about what he was noticing on the ground in Germany. Then he moved

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