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🗓️ 8 August 2018
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | Yesterday in Ohio's 12th Congressional District, there was a special election. |
0:03.5 | The Republican one, by 1,754 votes. |
0:07.8 | Many people on the left, many Democrats are furious, blaming the Green Party and saying |
0:11.7 | pretty horrible things about them, because they believe the Green Party cost them this |
0:15.6 | election, that by voting for the Green Party they took votes away from the Democrats who |
0:19.2 | then lost. |
0:20.2 | However, the Green Party candidate only got 1,120 votes, so even if every single person |
0:25.5 | who voted Green voted for the Democrats, the Democrats still would have lost. |
0:29.8 | To me, this is a sign of the authoritarian tendencies of many people associated with |
0:34.2 | the left. |
0:35.2 | And don't get me wrong, I think there are many people associated with the right or authoritarian |
0:38.3 | as well, but because the news today is the special election in Ohio, I'm going to talk |
0:43.2 | about various instances where I believe the left is moving into authoritarianism, including |
0:48.2 | the banning of Alex Jones and the response to Twitter's decision to keep them on the |
0:52.0 | platform, antifa street battles, and I guess the question I have is just why do these people |
0:58.5 | on the left think the Green Party cost them this election? |
1:02.6 | The Washington Examiner has the story, Ohio's special election pushes Green Party into |
1:07.0 | Twitter's trending topics. |
1:08.8 | The razor thin margin between Republican Troy Balderson and Democrat Danny O'Connor in |
1:13.3 | the special election in Ohio's 12th congressional district drove the Green Party to the top |
1:16.7 | of Twitter's trending topics late Tuesday. |
1:19.0 | Comedian Kathy Griffin was just one of the social media services users who criticized Green |
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