WHOSE JOB IS DEMOCRACY? WITH GUEST-HOST JEFFERSON SMITH
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
So many of the challenges we face are nobody’s job. In a market sense, what big company benefits from fundamentally improving our health system? Whose job is it to save the climate? Whose job is it to redeem ourselves from the oppression of black slavery and the genocide of Native Americans? Whose job is it to restore the middle class? So many of the most daunting challenges and exciting opportunities we face are, in a market sense? Nobody's job. You are the coalition of the benevolently irrational. The good people are doing good things for no good reason. And you are priceless. Definition of priceless? Worth a lot, not for sale.
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| 0:42.8 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:48.8 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm Jefferson Smith sitting in honor to do so. |
| 0:54.4 | There's also hot democracy summer. |
| 0:56.6 | We're going to register voters. |
| 0:58.4 | We're going to try to build small groups that can work together to encourage one another |
| 1:04.4 | to turn out voters. |
| 1:05.6 | Lots of ways to help. |
| 1:06.7 | How do you want to help? |
| 1:08.6 | Last time I was here, people offered suggestions of ways people can spend their hot |
| 1:13.5 | democracy summer. |
| 1:14.1 | When I say hot democracy summer, what do I mean? |
| 1:16.3 | Well, by the time ballots are counted, it's because they've been cast. |
| 1:22.8 | We talk about November election, but let's be clear. |
| 1:25.5 | Anywhere with absentee voting or anywhere with all vote by mail or largely vote by mail, |
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