What's Really Killing American Democracy, with Will Tanner

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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With just a few days to go before the 2024 presidential elections, we hear a lot of chatter about American democracy, usually from partisan hacks who are more interested in touting self-serving lies than honing up to inconvenient truths. But the actual hurdles we face as we try to heal our ailing system are much more complicated, and overcoming them is going to take much more than lofty slogans. Liel is joined by writer Will Tanner, who delivers a cautionary tale from the late Roman Republic contemporary Americans should heed, and explains why the policies too many of our lawmakers are pursuing have led another nation grappling with racial justice, South Africa, to the brink of collapse.

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0:16.3	Friends, it gives me tremendous joy to talk to you about one of the most astonishing books I have read in a very long time, also written by my dear friend and a man I admire so deeply, Bernard Unri Lavey, the world famous philosopher, weaving in 50 years of experience with Israel
0:24.7	Bernard analyzes global responses to October 7th and explains the new and
0:31.0	virulent waves of the oldest hatred in the world, anti-Semitism.
0:35.0	He talks about why Israel is waging this existential war against barbarism alone
0:40.0	and what's at stake not only for Israel but for the rest of the world.
0:45.0	Bernard Rilaviz Israel alone is a passionate and outraged creed occur about the loneliness of Israel,
0:51.0	about the tragedy of October 7th and about what Bernard had witnessed
0:54.6	when he landed in Israel the day after the pogroms. If you're looking for a book to
0:59.1	educate you, inspire you, and give you hope for the future of our fight.
1:05.0	This is the one.
1:06.0	Bernardo Releviz, Isral alone. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
1:15.0	oh, oh, oh, Hey there and welcome back to Rubles, the show for people who are tired of being lied to,
1:35.2	and more importantly, are tired of lying to themselves. And this election we have
1:40.0	coming up in just a few days, sadly, it's not so much about two candidates
1:44.8	who couldn't be any more different or two opposing world views or anything like
1:48.8	that. If the selection is about anything, it's about the lies. So many of us are determined to believe are actually true.
1:57.0	The lies we hold on to for dear life because without them, nothing makes sense to us anymore.
2:02.0	The lies that are keeping us from fixing the problems
2:05.3	we all know we need to address right now. Soon we'll be joined by writer and podcaster
2:11.6	Will Tanner who will talk to us about the one ancient
2:14.8	Roman leader who perfectly explains our fractured politics and about the lessons America
2:20.0	should urgently learn from another nation that is grappling with questions of racial justice,
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