RJ Shaw: on YouTube: Democratic Socialists of America - "Are these your actual policies?": Well, according to the Democratic Socialists, they would be in prison because they're oppressed peoples. 15:3715 minutes, 37 secondsThat's why you got to abolish the prisons. They're just being oppressed by a capitalist system. That's why they went to prison. No other reason. So, of course, give them back their full right 15:4515 minutes, 45 secondsto vote. Under the section, the next section, it is a real democracy. It says, "For the working class to govern, 15:5215 minutes, 52 secondswe need a new political system. End political corruption and legalized bribery. Get rid of lobbyists, dark 16:0216 minutes, 2 secondsmoney, and Citizens United, and publicly finance all elections." And oh, by the way, if you're thinking to yourself, 16:1016 minutes, 10 seconds"Well, that sounds good." How do they plan to do that? Well, that's what they say next. They plan to do that by abolishing the electoral college, 16:1816 minutes, 18 secondsreplacing the president and supreme court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress. 16:3016 minutes, 30 secondsThis is me reading what they're actually saying. I'm not paraphrasing here. 16:3316 minutes, 33 secondsAbolish the electoral college. Replace the president and the Supreme Court with an expanded Congress. And then they go on to talk about a Democratic Congress. 16:4216 minutes, 42 secondsThat's the next section. What does this new Congress look like? It says, "Replace the two-party system with a multi-party democracy, expand the House 16:5116 minutes, 51 secondsof Representatives, implement proportional representation and ranked choice voting in all elections, and 16:5916 minutes, 59 secondsabolish the Senate." So, what does this new democracy look like? Because remember, a little ways up, they said 17:0717 minutes, 7 secondsthey need to fundamentally change the entire system. This new system looks like getting rid of the president, getting rid of the Supreme Court, 17:1417 minutes, 14 secondsgetting rid of the Senate, and expanding the House of Representatives. So basically, all you have left is the House of Representatives. There are no 17:2117 minutes, 21 secondschecks and balances at all because that's what the tripart system is about. 17:2617 minutes, 26 secondsYou have Congress, which itself has a check and balance in itself from the House of Representatives and the Senate. 17:3417 minutes, 34 secondsBut Congress is checked by the president and the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is checked by Congress and the president. The president is checked by 17:4217 minutes, 42 secondsCongress and the Supreme Court. I don't know. Maybe I'm just way off base here. 17:4617 minutes, 46 secondsMaybe I don't understand. But if you get rid of everything else besides the House of Representatives, what do you got? We got no checks and balances whatsoever. 17:5417 minutes, 54 secondsI'm not entirely sure how they plan to replace the two-party system with a multi-partied system because the two-party system was what the people 18:0318 minutes, 3 secondschose. There used to be a multi-party system. It was just people whittle down all the parties to two parties and if they want to choose other parties they 18:1018 minutes, 10 secondscan do so. So I'm assuming again this is me assuming here I'm assuming they're going to legislate it in some way which is to say oh that house of 18:1818 minutes, 18 secondsrepresentatives well the parties that you can vote for in that house of representatives will be chosen by the government. Gee that's going to work out 18:2718 minutes, 27 secondswell. What do you think looking at history? Can you see that working out so well in history especially you know the last century in I don't know USSR sure 18:3618 minutes, 36 secondsin China now sure that works out beautifully and again this was one of the parts which they covered on the news which they said you really want to do 18:4318 minutes, 43 secondsthis to get rid of the presidency to get rid of the Supreme Court to end the Senate the representative for the democratic socialist of America said yes

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Hey, how you doing? This is R.J. So, today I'm going to do something a little bit different. I'm going to cover something which is almost exclusively political. But why would I do that?

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Well, number one, because this channel is about heroic virtues, about traditional heroes, and you get traditional heroes from heroic virtues,

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and those heroic virtues in part come from a moral standard. And what is politics? Well, if you want to trace it

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back logically, as I always say, it's simply public morals. But secondly, I want to do this and most notably because

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I'm going to cover a group of political activists basically within the United States. Why? Because after covering the

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people who make entertainment for the last what 8 years or so, listening to them speak, listening to their podcasts, their Zoom calls, reading their

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articles, and looking into the ideology, philosophy, and politics of these people, I can positively say that what

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I'm about to describe is the mindset of the people who write modern comics, certainly at Marvel, but I would include

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DC as well and all the other smaller main comic groups. These are the people who constitute institutions like Sweet

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Baby Incorporated, which control what kind of video games get made. These are the people who have rewritten Dungeons

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and Dragons to be more inclusive. These are the people who make up the sensitivity readers that are the gatekeepers for modern fiction,

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especially what you see on your shelves at a normal bookstore. These are the people who make up the backbone of the Writer Guild of America. These are the

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people who write the rules for the new Oscar standards of diversity, equity, and inclusion. So to shorten all of that

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up, these are the people that control mainstream entertainment no matter what it is. And as such are the people who

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have sought to destroy, as you will see, the idea of personal responsibility and thus the core of what it means to be a

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traditional hero. Because traditional heroes again are built upon the heroic virtues and the heroic virtues are built

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upon the individual will. So what I'm going to do is to go to the official website of the Democratic Socialists of

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America and read you what they say about themselves. And why am I doing that?

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Well, because these people now make up, it is estimated about onethird of the Democratic Party. and in more than a few

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places are starting to eclipse normal Democrats. Even where those Democrats have been in power for years, they're

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starting to primary. That is to say, when the Democrats have their elections for who they want to be their candidate, they're starting to beat out the normal

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Democrats. So, this is not a small group. This is not a fringe group, even though that is what they try to portray in the mainstream media. And you may be

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familiar if you've been watching the news over the last couple of weeks with some of the policies of the Democratic Socialists of America because it's been

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on the news. It's been on at the very least two channels which are diametrically opposed to each other which are Fox News and CNN where they

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had this lady who was a representative from the Democratic Socialists of America and they asked her point blank, "Are these your actual policies?" And

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she said, "Yes, yes, yes, yes." And the funny thing was I was watching it as a clip from one of these news organizations. And coincidentally

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enough, as I was doing so, there were a couple of members of my family, very young members of my family in the room.

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We're talking 20s and teens. And I said to them, I'm going to play this clip for you. Please listen to it. That way when I say these things in the future, you

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can't call me crazy. You can't say that's not true because this is on Fox News. This is on CNN. And funny enough,

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even after I played the clip for them, and these are conservative individuals, they said, "No, that can't be right.

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That can't be real. That's AI. That must be AI. Someone must have generated that to make these people say these things.

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That's not real. It can't be real." But it is. That's why I'm going to the horse's mouth, going to the actual website of the Democratic Socialist of

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America. And for those of you who just listened to my voice, in case you want to watch this video again, I will be putting some of this up in the background so you can see what I'm

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talking about to again prove that I'm not just coming up with this myself. So, let's start on the opening page. Now, obviously, I'm not going to go through

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this entire website. That would be way too long. I'm going to give you the high points. You can go look at it yourself. It is at dsa.org.

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Now, the first thing that you're greeted on the top left of this page is the symbol for the Democratic Socialists of

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America, which is two hands shaking on a red background with a rose behind them.

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Now, we'll get to that symbolism in a little bit. So, briefly, I want to take you to the chapters page to show you how many chapters there are all over America

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and what territories they cover. And again, this is not a small territory. If you're looking at this map, what do you think? One quarter of America. And if

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you go to the detailed chapters list, I think there are 240 chapters and all across America. That's just across

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America. Although they tilt themselves throughout this website as being an international organization. Oh, and I forgot to say on the front page you get

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pictures of Zoran Mandami from New York, Rashida Talib, Alexandrio Okaziocortez, and other people in Congress. Let's get

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to the meat of the entire thing. First, if you go to the program section of their website, you're greeted with a red

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raised fist, which says workers deserve more. So, it's all about the workers.

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And again, we'll get back to the symbolism of that in a minute or two, but let's go over some of the more interesting points of this page. The

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first heading is, imagine taking a day off from work in a future without capitalism. Again, you can read the whole section here if you want. It's

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very short, but they bold out this section that says, "You work as much as you're able and no more than needed." The second section is, "Speaking of

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bills, you don't really have them anymore." And it reads, "You have no debt. You don't need health insurance.

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You don't pay a mortgage or have a landlord because comfortable housing is a human right. Your retirement is publicly funded. food, education,

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energy, medicine, and transportation aren't for-profit businesses. They are common goods and utilities. So, these

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are the kind of things that they open with. This is how they sell what comes later in this page talking about your day off because there's no capitalism.

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How you get to go to the movies and you get what you deserve because the workers deserve more. Now again not going to

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read the entire section but let's go down to the policies which they want to implement in order to bring about this

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utopian-like future. This is later on down the page where it says how do we get here? How do we get to that place where there is no capitalism and

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everything's owned by the government and everything's free. Now there is a section called our perspective where they basically say this is how we see

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the world at the very least America at this point. This is the hard cell, not the soft cell from above. But just to let you know, they're not just coming

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after the Republicans. A little bit down about the third paragraph, it says after talking about all the things wrong with America, they say the Republicans are in

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on it. The Democratic Party is asleep at the wheel and both are funded by the same criminal class of billionaires and

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war profiteeers. Now, again, I don't care if you agree with that or don't.

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That's their perspective, and I'm showing you their perspective. and then what they're going to do to bring about what they want. So, one of those parts

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is to reshape the entire Democratic party. Now, as I used to when I went over articles, it's always good to really just go down to the bottom

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paragraph when such people write articles and see what they're actually saying. So, the bottom paragraph, it says, "DA has written this program for

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ending capitalist oligarchy and creating a real democracy. Some of these demands may be one under our current system, but

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we know complete victory will require building a new society from the ground up. We push these demands to their

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furthest extent today so we can fight for their fullest realization in a socialist future. Join us. Now, I'll

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give a little snapshot of the section called what we fight for. If you want to stop it and read it, go ahead. Some of these things include the freedom to

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flourish, health care for all, housing for all. One of the more interesting is called finish reconstruction where they

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say and the legacies of slavery and colonialism. Reinforce anti-discrimination laws, honor all

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treaties and tribal sovereignty, enact reparations, and massively invest in good jobs, quality housing, and

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infrastructure in neglected minority communities. They have another section called the Green New Deal. If you don't know what the Green New Deal is by now,

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it's basically summed up in their last statement in that section saying to phase out the use of fossil fuels to

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reclaim and repair our earth's resources for all. It doesn't say for America. It

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doesn't say for Americans. It says for all. And of course, if you have had your head out of the sand for any length of

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time, you've heard the people with actual knowledge and experience say if we were to phase out fossil fuels completely, which is what they're

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talking about, it would cause a worldwide catastrophe. But again, maybe you're for this, maybe you're not. How's

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about the section called feminism for all? Here they say, "Socialist feminism fights for queer liberation and the

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freedom of all workingclass women. Stop gender violence and end policies that oppress bodily autonomy and intimate

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life, including patriarchal restrictions on abortion, childirth and child raising, gender expression and

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transition, marriage and divorce. ban sex discrimination and ensure fair compensation and support for all forms

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of labor, including care work. Now, like the other section where I was talking about reconstruction, you see that it's

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for all the minorities. And in this feminist section, you can see that it's for women and people who are non-traditional. And by the way, when

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they say support all forms of labor, what are they talking about? where they're talking about sex workers, basically prostitutes of all forms,

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which I find funny because they talk about no capitalism and the government owns the companies. I guess you're going to have governmentf funded sex workers

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in the future, the socialist utopian future. And given how each of us know how efficient and beautiful government

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work is, can you imagine how that would work? I'm sure they would use it to push some kinds of transition on you. I don't

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know. That's just my take. All right, so let's get to the more extreme of these policies because these ones haven't been extreme yet. There is a section that

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says end mass incarceration and police immunity. It says, "Demilitarize police

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departments, disempower police unions, and redirect funding to public services

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as steps towards fully abolishing the police and prison system, which protects

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the rich and jails the poor. Treat drug addiction and mental illness as health issues, not crimes. end qualified

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immunity and empower civilian oversight bodies with real authority over the

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police. Okay, so this was one of the sections that my young relatives did not actually believe. And it's not just that

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there should be civilian bodies that control the police cuz that's what they're saying here. It's that they want

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to abolish the police and the prison system which basically they're saying the police gets completely destroyed as

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it currently is and become something which is controlled by the public and the prison systems just become big hospitals. And again have to remind you

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this is their official policy. This is what the woman said on the news. Yes, this is our long-term plan to abolish the police and to end prison systems.

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You want to live in that world? I don't.

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Now, the next section is titled workingclass foreign policy. And again, there might be a couple of things in here you might agree with. I don't know.

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First one is end the US war machine. The second one is free Palestine. The third one is to end blockades, embargos, and

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sanctions. The third one is to abolish ICE. Oh, by the way, they want to end blockades, embargos, and sanctions. Why?

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Because they want to basically allow the socialist and communist countries to flourish. So-called flourish. They

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mention Cuba and Venezuela. Under the end or abolish ICE, they say end ICE detention and deportations and punish

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federal agents brutality. So anybody who was a part of ICE or an informative for ICE would probably go to their quote

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unquote non-prisons. They would actually be probably real prisons. But hey, they continue on by saying, "Legalize

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migration, grant amnesty for all immigrants regardless of status, provide

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a path to citizenship for all permanent residents, and end visa caps and quotas.

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So just open up the borders. Anybody who comes in is a legal migrant, a legalized migrant, and grant them amnesty

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regardless of their status. Anybody who comes across the non border gets to be a permanent resident and then a citizen.

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And again, the woman on the news, this is one of the things they asked her directly. One of the things again my young relatives did not believe. She

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said, "You want to get rid of borders?" She said, "Absolutely. Part of the long-term plan." Now, let's get to the biggest section. It's called

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workingclass democracy. Under democracy for all, they say, extend full voting rights to all permanent US residents and

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restore the right to vote for incarcerated people and people with criminal convictions. Establish

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statethood for Washington DC and recognize the right to self-determination for all US

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territories and colonies. Expand and protect voting rights and end voter suppression. Now, of course, you

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remember from the section above that to grant voting rights to all US residents means that anybody who comes across the

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border, first of all, should be considered a US resident. So, open up voting to everybody. You walk across the

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border, there's a government path to get you to be declared a resident and you can vote, no problem. Not to mention, of

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course, allowing formerly incarcerated peoples and people with criminal convictions to vote because, of course, they've made such great life choices.

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Well, according to the Democratic Socialists, they would be in prison because they're oppressed peoples.

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That's why you got to abolish the prisons. They're just being oppressed by a capitalist system. That's why they went to prison. No other reason. So, of course, give them back their full right

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to vote. Under the section, the next section, it is a real democracy. It says, "For the working class to govern,

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we need a new political system. End political corruption and legalized bribery. Get rid of lobbyists, dark

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money, and Citizens United, and publicly finance all elections." And oh, by the way, if you're thinking to yourself,

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"Well, that sounds good." How do they plan to do that? Well, that's what they say next. They plan to do that by abolishing the electoral college,

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replacing the president and supreme court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.

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This is me reading what they're actually saying. I'm not paraphrasing here.

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Abolish the electoral college. Replace the president and the Supreme Court with an expanded Congress. And then they go on to talk about a Democratic Congress.

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That's the next section. What does this new Congress look like? It says, "Replace the two-party system with a multi-party democracy, expand the House

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of Representatives, implement proportional representation and ranked choice voting in all elections, and

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abolish the Senate." So, what does this new democracy look like? Because remember, a little ways up, they said

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they need to fundamentally change the entire system. This new system looks like getting rid of the president, getting rid of the Supreme Court,

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getting rid of the Senate, and expanding the House of Representatives. So basically, all you have left is the House of Representatives. There are no

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checks and balances at all because that's what the tripart system is about.

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You have Congress, which itself has a check and balance in itself from the House of Representatives and the Senate.

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But Congress is checked by the president and the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is checked by Congress and the president. The president is checked by

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Congress and the Supreme Court. I don't know. Maybe I'm just way off base here.

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Maybe I don't understand. But if you get rid of everything else besides the House of Representatives, what do you got? We got no checks and balances whatsoever.

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I'm not entirely sure how they plan to replace the two-party system with a multi-partied system because the two-party system was what the people

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chose. There used to be a multi-party system. It was just people whittle down all the parties to two parties and if they want to choose other parties they

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can do so. So I'm assuming again this is me assuming here I'm assuming they're going to legislate it in some way which is to say oh that house of

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representatives well the parties that you can vote for in that house of representatives will be chosen by the government. Gee that's going to work out

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well. What do you think looking at history? Can you see that working out so well in history especially you know the last century in I don't know USSR sure

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in China now sure that works out beautifully and again this was one of the parts which they covered on the news which they said you really want to do

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this to get rid of the presidency to get rid of the Supreme Court to end the Senate the representative for the democratic socialist of America said yes

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yes yes indeed long-term plan that's what we want to do and again what my young friends could not believe So if

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you hear anybody in the future say, "Oh, well, they don't want to destroy America." Really? So they don't want to destroy America. They just want to

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fundamentally change the entire system to something that is completely unrecognizable to what we have now. No electoral college, no president, no

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Supreme Court, no Senate, just the House of Representatives with parties that mysteriously seem to be set up without

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any mention of how these parties are set up because the other old parties must be gotten rid of as well. But it's still America, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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They don't want to destroy America.

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That's that's still America. And of course, the kicker is the last section.

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Well, second last section because the last section is democracy at work, which talks about empowering workers to come together to fight the boss. But the

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kicker is economic democracy, which means what it says? Establish public ownership of the largest corporations

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and essential industries to ensure democratic control. and accountability to the people. Enact aggressive wealth

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taxes on the richest individuals and corporations to spend on public goods and infrastructure. Oh, that sounds so

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beautiful, doesn't it? Public ownership of all large corporations. And again, one of the things the newscaster asked the woman from the Democratic Socialist

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of America, "You actually mean this?" She said, "Yep, absolutely." It's kind of weird because, you know, they talk at the top about getting rid of capitalism,

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but here they talk about public ownership of the large corporations. Hm.

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I wonder how that works without capitalism. Only thing I can think of historically and philosophically that

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would want this to happen would be um Oh, fascism. Right. I knew there was

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something there stuck in my mind. I heard about this before. Right. That's what those pesky Germans did in the 1930s. Public ownership of the largest

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corporations. Got it? So, that's the end of the major section that I'm going to cover. I'll just go over a few extra

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bits here. Now, if you think these policies are out of date or I'm misquing them from some historical document, no. At the bottom, it says author's note.

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Our program was drafted between the months of April and June of 2026 by the committee of the DSA members. So, yeah,

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brand new. If this page happens to disappear in the future mysteriously or change significantly, at the very least, we have some kind of record. I'm sure

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there's more than just me. But let's go back to a few things that I would be interested in and maybe you haven't thought of. If you're watching and not

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just listening to me, have you noticed the kind of art that they're using within all of these pages? Especially the page I've just gone over, how human

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beings are deformed. I know that a lot of us might be used to this kind of cartoonish style from what you've seen

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on television over the last 20 years, but these forms of deformed human beings, you ever notice something about them? Especially these ones here, I

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think there's been a general consensus within, let's say, animation to degrade and deform, to create grotesque images,

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which is what grotesque means basically, to deform. and I'll say it to create degenerate images. Well, you see that

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makes you a blank slate as part of a amorphous body or cell within the crowd.

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Again, all about the crowd, not about the individual. And if you focus in on any individual, you see how they're deformed in a specific way to fit the

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work that they're doing. Which is why they're talking about the workers, because you become a worker. That's what this is about. You're a worker. You're

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part of a machine. You're not a human being. That's what these images tell me.

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But let's concentrate on one specific, well, two specific images. That would be the one at the top of this page, which

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is the red raised fist, or the one at the very top of the page, very first page, which is two hands shaking over a flower. It's a rose on a red background.

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Where do those come from? Well, let's go to our friend, our very liberal left-leaning friend, Wikipedia, and ask them. Now, it's funny because the

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Wikipedia people try to mix it all up together and show pictures of Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk holding their fists in the air, saying, "Well, the

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left and the right does it, too." And then it gives the entire history of the thing, talking about it as a leftist symbol because there's pictures of it

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and pictures of people. We're not talking about the picture. We're talking about the image. The very top of the section on raised fists says, "The

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raised fist or the clenched fist is a longstanding image of mixed meaning, often a symbol of solidarity, especially

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with a political movement. And it is a common symbol representing a wide range of political ideologies, most notably

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socialism, communism, anarchism, and trade unionism. and can also be used as

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a salute expressing unity, strength or resistance. Now again on the secondary page where I read most of this is the

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raised clenched fist. Now these are the democratic socialists of America. So no surprise there. But let's go to the

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other one, the fist and rose which for the democratic socialists of America they have two shaking hands in a row. So that's their interpretation of it, which

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the socialists around the world encourage different interpretations of it. If we go to the Wikipedia page for the fist and rose, it says, "The fist

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and rose, sometimes called the rose in the fist or fist with a rose, is an emblem used or formerly used by a number

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of left-wing and center-left parties and political organizations around the world. It depicts a rose symbolizing the

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promises of a better life under socialist government and a clenched fist holding it symbolizing the activist

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commitment and solidarity necessary to achieve it. So again, they're just socialists obviously that's all that they are. They just want social

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programs, right? And then we go down just a little more and it says in 1979 it was taken up by the Socialist

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International. It has often been chosen to provide an attractive visual alternative to the communist hammer and

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sickle. Oh, gee. Really? Never would have guessed that. And then a little further down, it talks about how this

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symbol was to replace the SFIO symbol, which was the symbol of the three arrows, which is also the symbol

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from the 1930s of the anti-fascists, which is also the symbol today of Antifa. So, hm. Let's see. Do you think

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that perhaps perhaps I'm just spitballing here, perhaps that the brown shirts, the enforcement wing, the non

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police police who roam the streets and enforce the political agenda of the democratic socialists of America is

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Antifa. Gee, I wonder could possibly be again just pitballing maybe. I like the next section where it says, "In late

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1969, the founder of a communication agency came up with the idea, which is

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the idea of the symbol to signal change and attract new members, especially women, with the request that it not look

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too bullsheik." What does that mean? Who are the Bolevixs? Well, the Bolevixs were led by Lenin and they were a radical fraction of the Marxist Russian

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Social Democratic Labor Party. They split from the Menchviks in 1903. So they were the radical radical part of

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the Russian Marxist party. So again, creation of this symbol, the rose with the hand, it's because they don't want to look too extreme. They don't want to

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look also like they're courting communism, which they are because they specifically wanted it to replace the

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hammer and sickle. They wanted to sell it in a more palatable way to people and expand the tent, especially to women.

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Gee, didn't see that at all coming. Did you? Especially when I was reading some of that stuff on the other page about feminism for all. Or how about, and I'll

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link this at the end because I did this about a month ago. How about the communist catechism that I read in that video a month ago. Again, I'll link it

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at the end where it talks about the extreme actions of how communism was about to take over. And again, this is

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over 120 years ago and how they needed, desperately needed the help of women.

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Now, lest I be accused of confusing these two symbols, the one that the democratic socialists use and the fist and the rose, there's a section further

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down where it goes through every country that uses this symbol and it says United States. It says under that, the

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democratic socialists of America use a modified version on which the clenched fist is represented with two hands

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shaking. The hands are in white and black lines respectively, and some branches color the skin beige and brown,

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a reference to race and ethnicity issues, and to the civil rights movement. The Democratic Socialist

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Organization Committee, one of the DSA's precursor organization, had used the classic fist and rose. The DSA, as the

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DSOC before it, was a member of the SI, but left it in 2017. The SI, by the way, is the Socialist International. It

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continues, "Some branches and sections of the party use altered versions of the emblem. The two hands are redrawn to

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make a V sign in Los Angeles, and they previously shook under a palm tree." The queer socialist working group filled the

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flower, or sometimes just the several parts of the leaves, with the colors of the rainbow flag. And it ends by saying,

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"Another derived logo displays the classic rose under three raised fists of different skin color. It is used by the

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Palestine Solidarity Working Group." So let's go back to the original reason I'm talking about all of this. Who are these people? Well, these are the people who

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are slowly taking over the Democratic Party. These are the people who make up, it is estimated, 1th3 of the base of the

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Democratic Party right now. And as I personally stated at the first of this video, after examining cultural

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institutions that have to do with entertainment for the last 7, 8 years, it is my estimation that these are the people who write your comics, who

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control your games, whether they be tabletop or video. These are the people who make up the Writers Guild of America. These are the people who

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control the gatekeeping for novel writing. These are the people that institute the standards for what constitutes a good movie in Hollywood.

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And if I'm right in that assertion, that assertion which I lay down as evidence my entire channel and the videos there in, can you see why a traditional hero

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is anthemma is a cursed thing within the entertainment of today? And can you also

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see why I so adamantly concentrate on political systems and ideologies when

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I'm talking about entertainment? Can you see how ridiculous those people have been over the last 10 years minimum who

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roll their eyes when you have to discuss socialism and communism when we just want to talk about making comics or good

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movies or Dn D or video games or the novels on your shelf when you go to the bookstore? Can you see how far their

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heads are stuck well in the sand? And can you see why the political is important? Now, I'm not saying the

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current system is beautiful, that it works seamlessly. I think it's got massive problems. But this ain't the solution. This is driving head first

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into the source of the problem. And I know, who am I? I don't even live in the US right now. Who am I to make a statement about politics there?

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Especially when the country I live in is far down the rabbit hole of this entire thing. Farther down the rabbit hole,

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down the sinkhole, down the toilet of these kinds of ideas. Well, disregard me if you want. That's your choice. I'm

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just a solitary voice saying that if you don't stand at some point, if you don't rally your heroic courage and you let

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these people continue to take more and more, well, you get what you deserve

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