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I'm going to walk you through the country as I see it today and try to make sense of it all.

As I begin with a preliminary, those of you who watch me for years know that I'm a history

buff. I think one of the challenges of today is we've lost touch with all of American

history. I'm going to explain this. I'm going to try to make a cohesive and total narrative

that makes sense of where we are right now and also hopefully gives you some optimism

going forward even if there are very few people who want to be optimistic in general.

So let's start here. One of the major challenges that I believe we are facing as a country

today is we have gone back in time to the 18th and the 19th century. And we have done

that with all of the aspects of 21st century technology which did not exist in the 18th

and 19th century. So let me say this right off the top. I believe Joe Biden won the

2020 election. There are all different sorts of parameters involved in winning any election

in 2016. Donald Trump won by around 70,000 votes in 2020. Joe Biden is going to win by

around 40,000 votes. Okay. All of this started really in 2016 which I believe was the first

full fruition of a social media era driven presidential campaign. In 2016 the Democrats

nominated Hillary Clinton the most dislike democratic presidential nominee of all time.

And the Republicans nominated Donald Trump the most disliked Republican presidential nominee

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