Today We Vote, Tomorrow We Kvetch

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Democracy is on the ballot, croquet's a game played with a mallet, an onion is a grown-up shallot. Also the return of Robb Willer, Director of the Polarization and Social Change Lab at Stanford University. He conducted a mega-study of ways to strengthen Americans' attitudes toward Democracy, which you may have heard is on the ballot. It shall not whither … or shall it? Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, November 8th, 2022 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:07.4	It's the justime Mike Pesca, Voting Day Election Day, and democracy is on the ballot.
0:13.7	I went to a meds game last month, baseball was on the ticket, or maybe it's more like
0:18.2	I went to the Comedy Cellar and laughter was on the menu.
0:21.4	I'm not ignorant, I know that hundreds of Republicans will be elected today who deny
0:26.3	the results of the 2020 election.
0:28.7	Voting for them isn't good, we're in a struggle between forces that acknowledge the truth
0:33.4	of the last election and forces that deny factual outcomes.
0:38.3	The American public agrees, the 2020 election was not stolen, and still the American public
0:44.2	will be voting for Republicans in greater numbers than Democrats.
0:47.8	What does that tell you about the effectiveness of democratic messaging or democratic policies?
0:52.9	Maybe it just says overall that the party of the president always loses seats in the midterms.
0:58.8	But it's a weird way to test the premise of democracy being on the ballot by voting against
1:05.7	the party that makes the argument, and then the next day, instead of, well, we told you
1:10.6	democracy was on the ballot, the next day it's like, well, yeah, I guess those guys won.
1:14.7	Good luck.
1:15.7	Congratulations.
1:16.7	Wait a minute, what about that part about being on the ballot?
1:19.8	David Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker, so one of the two or three most important
1:24.2	media figures in America today writes, elections never lacked for a sense of political consequence.
1:30.3	Now it does not require a catastrophist state of mind to worry that this election will be
1:37.7	the last of its kind.
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