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🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A feature of this era is how often we use the words unprecedented to describe on a daily basis |
| 0:11.8 | the depravities, the actions of our political and power class in the United States. |
| 0:20.4 | We live in unprecedented times. political and power class in the United States. |
| 0:24.8 | We live in unprecedented times. |
| 0:29.6 | And what unprecedented means is simply this. |
| 0:41.5 | There are things that are happening routinely that have never ever happened before in the entire history of the country at a moment where the entirety of the country, as is the case with the whole of the world, |
| 0:51.3 | is connected together. There is a feature of this age that is truly |
| 0:59.2 | unprecedented. It is that any one of us, out of 330 million of us, can with their phone, talk to all of us at any moment on any day in any given |
| 1:18.5 | second. |
| 1:19.5 | In fact, you can talk to nearly every person on the earth. |
| 1:26.7 | We are all inextricably connected by the rapidity of |
| 1:34.2 | scientific advancement and the unleashing of scientific knowledge. The question that this raises |
| 1:43.4 | is will American democracy be able to survive it? |
| 1:50.3 | Because alongside with this ability to communicate with everyone instantaneously, |
| 1:58.7 | came along a perfectly designed demagogue who craved power, was hostile to liberty |
| 2:07.7 | and the Constitution, and did something that no other American has ever done. |
| 2:16.4 | I'm talking about, of course, Donald Trump. |
| 2:19.9 | And what he did was swear the 35 word oath that was prescribed in the American Constitution |
| 2:27.6 | and taken by George Washington and then desecrated. |
| 2:33.5 | Donald Trump became the president that the founders feared and worried about and predicted. |
| 2:43.3 | He is the unprincipled man that kept them awake at night. |
| 2:50.1 | Donald Trump has brought the United States |
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