The Unlucky Many

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🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

What Republicans mean when they say "we're not a democracy." And generational diagnostics, from the very lucky "silent generation" to the very unlucky millennials.

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0:00.0	Senator Mike Lee tweeted that democracy impedes liberty, peace, and prosperity. So is the United
0:07.8	States a democracy, a republic? What should we be? From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:14.5	I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm Bob Garfield. Joe Biden is a youngish one. Nancy Pelosi is one. The Senate is filled with them.
0:23.6	The silent generation included all sorts.
0:26.6	Great civil rights leaders. Martin Luther King and John Lewis. So is Elvis Presbyle.
0:32.6	Sandra Day O'Connor. One thing they were not is silent.
0:36.6	Biden says his candidacy is a bridge
0:39.9	from his generation to the next ones, but the millennials have had it up to here with their elders.
0:46.6	I don't think it's necessarily to be mad at boomers. It's just to be mad at society configured
0:52.0	the way that it is. It's all coming up after this.
1:00.1	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:03.8	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:05.2	And I'm Bob Garfield.
1:06.9	What a splendid week for American democracy.
1:10.6	And just remember that when you go vote, it ain't going to change a damn thing.
1:14.6	Because all the laws that are already on the books are already bad enough.
1:18.6	And all they're going to do is make more laws that take more wealth and property and power from the people to themselves.
1:25.6	On Thursday, 13 right-wing alleged domestic terrorists were charged in a plot to kidnap
1:32.3	Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
1:35.3	This is from a TikTok video made by one of them in charge.
1:39.3	Because that's what it's all about is taking your freedom and your money so that they can empower and enrich
1:47.2	themselves. That's what criminals do and that's what the government is. Peace. Also on Thursday,
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