The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre
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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | How often do you get the chance to access a world-class education for free? |
| 0:05.0 | That is exactly what Hillsdale College is offering with its new online course, Athens and Sparta. |
| 0:11.2 | Few rivalries in history have left us deeper mark as Athens and Sparta. |
| 0:15.4 | One was the birthplace of democracy, philosophy and art. |
| 0:18.6 | The other built a culture of strength, unity and sacrifice. |
| 0:22.5 | Dive in today at Hillsdale.edu slash trigger. Over nine lectures, distinguished historians |
| 0:28.7 | Victor Davis Hanson and Paul Ray guide you through the triumphs and failures of these cities, |
| 0:33.1 | from the Greek victory in the Persian War which secured freedom and democracy in the West, |
| 0:38.1 | to the devastating Peloponnesian War |
| 0:40.3 | that brought Athens Golden Age to an end. |
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| 0:51.3 | That's Hillsdale.edu slash trigger. |
| 1:00.9 | The biggest phenomenon in the Western world over the last decade or two has been the total betrayal of the working class. The people who make stuff, fix stuff, move stuff, and build |
| 1:08.3 | stuff, their opportunities absolutely destroyed by massive government interventions that have concentrated wealth in among a very small group of well-connected insiders. |
| 1:22.6 | You're focusing on the narrow economic part of it, but I think what Francis is alluding to is there's... It's the same thing. |
| 1:28.3 | Well, is it though, because there's a cultural and ideological dimension to this as well, because, |
| 1:33.3 | say, the policy of net zero, which is just economic suicide. |
| 1:37.3 | It's the same thing. |
| 1:38.3 | Exactly the same thing, because it's being used as a pretext to concentrate money and power in the hands of the state. |
| 1:51.1 | Before we start, a very quick recommendation, we know our audience, and every so often something comes along that we think you'll genuinely want to see. |
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