WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 6 July 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Why America Can't Have "Nice Things" - So, if the majority of Americans want Scandinavian/European healthcare, schools, unions, wages and taxes-on-the-rich, why don’t we have these things? "Rightwing billionaires have mobilized racism to stack our courts & put their shills in office. Those politicians, in turn, keep taxes & regulation low on the billionaires. It’s a system that feeds itself and deprives Americans of the fruits of democracy."
Activist and Academy Award winning actor, Martin Sheen joins the show with producer/director Arthur Kanegis on their new documentary film, The World is My Country-the Garry Davis Story.
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| 0:00.0 | this is the Tom Hartman program. Hey Tom Hartman here with you. We had a great |
| 0:17.7 | fourth of July weekend. I hope you did too. Got together with family and friends. We |
| 0:21.8 | got a big show today. Martin Sheen is going to drop by. He's got a new movie. The Gary |
| 0:26.3 | Davis story. This is fascinating. What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? We'll |
| 0:29.8 | get into that with Martin Sheen. And in just a moment, don't put your mask away. And |
| 0:34.9 | here's why. But I will do that after the break. But first, you know, my op-ed over at |
| 0:40.3 | harbeterreport.com and really the thing that's on the top of my mind. I mean, I really |
| 0:44.4 | think this is the biggest issue America is facing right now. The single biggest issue |
| 0:50.1 | is why can't America have nice things? I mean, basically what we have now is a system |
| 0:59.4 | where right-wing billionaires have bought our political system. They've stacked the Supreme |
| 1:05.5 | Court through, you know, groups like the Federalist Society and the Judicial Crisis Network |
| 1:11.3 | that are funded by billionaire money, dark money that you can't even track a lot of it. |
| 1:16.6 | They get these people on the Supreme Court and then the Supreme Court say, oh yeah, it's |
| 1:20.6 | cool for billionaires to influence elections. And the result of that is that our democracy |
| 1:27.2 | doesn't work. And one of the things that they're doing is, you know, making it harder for |
| 1:31.9 | people to vote. And because our democracy doesn't work, we don't have nice things. That's |
| 1:37.1 | it in summary. What got me thinking about this was a post that I saw on Democratic |
| 1:40.6 | Underground over the weekend. Somebody had turned a post by a woman named Caroline who |
| 1:45.0 | lives in Sweden. I linked to her Twitter account at SWE resistance on Twitter over at |
| 1:51.2 | harbeterreport.com. And this was, you know, actually a couple of years ago. But now it's |
| 1:55.0 | been turned into a meme and gone viral all over again. She wrote, I live in Sweden. We |
| 1:59.8 | have social security, affordable health care, strict gun laws, five weeks paid annual leave, |
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