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[TICK TICK BOOMPLAYING]
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♪ Yeah
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♪ I was right, you were wrong
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♪ Yeah
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♪ Going, going, you're gone
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♪ I saw you hesitating,
waiting too much
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♪ Until it slipped
through your hands
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♪ And then you stagger to
your feet and out the door
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♪ 'Cause there's
no second chance
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♪ That's right
'Cause I have done it before
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♪ And I can do it some more
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♪ I got my eye on the score
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♪ I'm gonna cut to the core
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♪ It's too late,
it's too soon, or is it?
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♪ Tick, tick, tick,
tick, boom ♪
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CROWD: USA! USA! USA!
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USA! USA! USA!
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[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
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MICHAEL DOUGLAS:
America is on fire.
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You'd have to be crazy
not to be terrified
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by what's happening today.
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We think today's
divisions and hate won't have consequences.
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Don't bet on it.
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Parents can feel it
in their bones
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that their children's future
is being jeopardized.
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The risks all around us
are mind-boggling
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and no one's got a game plan.
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The situation we're
experiencing today
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feels like we're on
the eve of destruction.
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We're feeling vulnerable
as a country.
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Recent polls show
a dramatic drop in American patriotism.
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Only 25 years ago,
2/3 of Americans said patriotism
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was very important to them.
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Today, only a third.
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Why do so few Americans
believe in America?
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Is it the decline of
the American Dream?
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Is it our loss of
sense of community,
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our own self-absorption
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or obsessive commitment
to hyper-partisanship?
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Or is it the result
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of the relentless criticism
on social media?
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Some of the drumbeat
that America
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is somehow a worthless,
evil country
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is being engineered
on the Internet daily
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by our adversaries.
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After the attack of 9/11,
the American people rallied
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with a renewed sense
of national unity.
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How would young
people react today
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were America attacked
by a foreign power?
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Would they believe enough
in the American idea to fight back?
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It's a troubling question.
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America was once a bastion
of hope and opportunity,
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a great paradox of
remarkable achievement
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and at times,
surprising disappointment.
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Our story begins in 2004
with the ironic
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and remarkable way
a young state senator
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from Illinois ignited his
national political career.
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[CROWD CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]
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There is not a liberal America
and a conservative America.
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There is the United States
of America.
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[CROWD CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]
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There is not a Black America
and a White America
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and Latino America
and Asian America.
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There's the United States
of America.
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[CROWD CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]
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We are one people.
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DOUGLAS: That was
a speech about unity,
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and the American
people loved it.
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The country's future back then
still looked promising.
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But now, why aren't our
leaders talking this way?
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Why did they lose their way?
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One of the things
that I admired
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about both Ronald Reagan
and Barack Obama
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was this intuition
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that unifying the country
was possible.
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That doesn't mean that they
were successful in doing it all the time,
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but what I like
is the natural tendency
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to wanna bring us together
around our high ideals.
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That's a really great thing.
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DOUGLAS: The groundwork
was laid to unify the country.
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Today, everything has changed.
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Many of our new leaders
actually feed the fires of division.
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Then they attack the hate
they helped create as reasons
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for voting against
the other side.
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It's a little like
the movieCasablanca.
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I'm shocked. Shocked to find
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that gambling
is going on in here.
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- Your winnings, sir.
- Oh, thank you very much.
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DOUGLAS: Is it any wonder
that our democracy is at risk
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and could topple
into chaos and mayhem?
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Both sides are redefining
hypocrisy to a new low,
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and that's dividing us
even further.
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Both sides wield power
through message control.
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Both use the same rallying cry.
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"I'm saving our democracy
from destruction
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"by the other side."
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But the line's
becoming a tired cliche
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because if the parties really
wanted to save our democracy,
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they would sit down
with each other to try
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to find common ground.
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And in most cases, they're not.
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Our problems are enormous
and they keep mounting.
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- [GLASS SHATTERING]
- [CROWD CLAMORING]
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In aWashington Post column,
three US generals
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warned the American military
is deeply divided
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along partisan lines.
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Their fear, a military breakdown
could lead to civil war.
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"We are chilled to our bones,"
the generals wrote.
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[CROWD CLAMORING]
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[PROTESTERS CHANTING]
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In a February 2023 tweet,
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Conservative Congresswoman
Marjorie Taylor Greene said this,
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"We need a national divorce.
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"We need to separate
by red states and blue states.
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"Everyone I talk to says this.
We are done."
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If we flood the Capitol
building, go inside.
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These are public buildings,
we own them.
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The blue states
have all the money.
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They must starve
the red states into submission.
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DOUGLAS: Nearly 40%
of Republicans
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and Democrats think it's time
to split up the country.
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A third of Americans believe
violence is justified
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to punish and defeat people
they don't agree with.
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So, Pepe's become
kind of a symbol.
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DOUGLAS: Trust
in the institutions
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of government has
reached an all-time low.
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We're feeling depressed,
dysfunctional,
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alienated and powerless.
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The government did this to us.
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We were normal, good,
law-abiding citizens.
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The crucible of any
democratic society
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is the peaceful
transfer of power.
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It is the electoral process,
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and that happens to
be the singular piece
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of the American democracy
that is, today, most broken.
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DOUGLAS: Unless we
learn how to get along
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with a renewed sense of
civility and humility,
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our democracy could collapse.
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And America will topple
into destruction.
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[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
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That's all you ever
hear about in this country, is our differences.
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It's all they ever talk about.
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Politicians in the media,
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always pushing the things
that separate us,
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things that make us different.
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That's the way the ruling class
operates in any society.
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They divide
the rest of the people.
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They keep the lower
and the middle classes fighting with each other
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so that they, the rich,
can run off
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with all the fucking money.
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- Fairly simple thing.
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Happens to work.
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Anything that's
different about us,
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you know that's what
they're pushing at you.
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Racial differences, religious,
ethnic, national backgrounds,
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jobs, income, education,
social status, sexuality,
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and anything they can do to
keep us fighting with each other
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so that they can keep
going to the bank.
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DOUGLAS: George Carlin's
observations are 30 years old,
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yet they're still
relevant today.
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Today, people in organizations
are making fortunes
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and accumulating enormous power,
convincing us
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to hate each other.
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And that's not right.
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America has
a leadership crisis made much worse
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by social media.
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Our political system
is dysfunctional,
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but the problem is
more than our leaders.
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The problem is us.
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We are a society that today
spends more on breast implants
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and Viagra than we do
on curing Alzheimer's.
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What does that say about us?
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Have we become an angry
band of narcissists?
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Are we the problem?
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So absorbed with self
that we ignore the common good?
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The United States is
the world's oldest democracy.
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In only two years,
America will celebrate its 250th birthday.
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Will we make it to the party?
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[PLAYFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
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DAVID IGNATIUS:
I was in Munich in Germany
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talking about
international security and I looked around
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and I thought, you know,
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"Bad things can happen
to good countries."
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[LIVELY MUSIC PLAYING]
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A terrible thing
happened in Germany,
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a Germany that was
becoming modern, that was increasingly
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predominant in the world
in the 1920s.
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It encountered a
populist movement that tapped a deep anger,
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resentment in the
German population.
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[SHOUTING IN GERMAN]
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It's very easy for our passions,
our resentments
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to become inflamed
by politicians.
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And when that happens,
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even the best countries
aren't immune.
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DOUGLAS: Could America
follow in Germany's footsteps?
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Not likely.
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But then again, a lot depends
on whether a civil war brings
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the US economy to its knees.
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Am I worried
about the country?
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You'd have to be crazy
or a hermit
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not to be worried about
the country at this point.
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[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
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It's very hard to
look at the division
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in the country right now
and not be worried.
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And if you have this
kind of divisiveness
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and this kind of anger
when times are decent,
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what's it gonna be like when
we face tougher economic times?
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There's no question there'll be
a day of reckoning,
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and when it finally ends,
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it's gonna be really,
really bloody.
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DOUGLAS: Our greatest
vulnerability
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is our financial system.
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For most of our lives,
we've been taught
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that our financial system
is located in America,
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but really, we are part
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of an interconnected
global financial system.
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Think of it like a generous
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but occasionally
suspicious great uncle
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who regularly gives you money,
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but every once in a while,
his mistrust overwhelms him.
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He thinks you're not
a stable investment.
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You're at war.
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He becomes mean and stingy.
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The money dries up.
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There are two words that
describe when this happens.
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Financial crisis.
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That's the ultimate risk
for America,
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of an economic civil war.
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Our financial markets collapse.
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The world sells our currency,
the dollar,
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so interest rates soar.
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Our economy goes into paralysis
and we lose everything.
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Our future, both red and blue,
goes poof.
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Some chance we could have
real economic collapse.
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And when that happens, you know,
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a lot of things can go wrong.
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DOUGLAS: America's division
involves more than political parties,
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ethnicity, and race.
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We are separating
from each other
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in so many different ways.
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It's urban versus rural.
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University-educated
and technology-proficient
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versus the high school-educated,
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people who work
with their hands.
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At the same time, we live
in each other's backyards.
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We're geographically, socially,
and financially intertwined.
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Look at how close
red and blue America
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live to each other in
these major cities.
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We could easily
destroy each other,
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which makes a modern civil war
particularly dangerous.
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The image of civil war is of
bloody hand-to-hand battles
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and dramatic cavalry charges.
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Instead, it would more likely
be an economic war
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between governors that would
risk sending both sides
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into an economic depression
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with tens of millions
of jobs lost.
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Families have already
been hit hard
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by the rising cost of living.
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WOMAN: To fill
my tank up is $80.
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When I first bought my truck,
a fill-up was $43.
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Everything is going
straight to bills,
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and like everything is a
bill, bill, bill, bill.
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Sometimes, I have to
not do one thing
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or not pay something
in a full amount
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just to make sure
something else is covered.
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DOUGLAS: Bread, milk, meat,
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and vegetable prices
have soared.
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A gallon of gasoline, sky high.
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Typical rent
used to be $600 a month.
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Now it's going on twice that.
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And here's the kicker.
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Under civil war
and its shortages,
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working families would be forced
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to pay double those prices
or more.
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You gotta make a decision
whether or not you're gonna
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pay your rent
or go buy some food.
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I don't even know how people
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are surviving in
some situations.
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DOUGLAS: So let's imagine
a civil war unfolding.
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It's pretty scary.
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[LIVELY MUSIC PLAYING]
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The news reports you're
about to see are not real.
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Not yet.
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They represent what could happen
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if we don't come to our senses.
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Some are highly probable,
all are possible.
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REPORTER: This is CBS News.
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A water crisis in California
has arrived in full force.
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Red states bordering
the Golden State
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have been slowly
diverting water supplies.
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California's lucrative fruit
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and vegetable industry
is literally drying up.
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In a related development,
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red state treasurers
are withdrawing money
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and deals from
Wall Street firms
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if they push climate change.
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[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
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REPORTER 2: This is CNN.
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The New York State
Senate leader today
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called upon the New York
Federal Reserve to shut down
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half of red state banks
based on security concerns.
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REPORTER 3: This is CBS News.
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In major blue
American cities,
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riots and burnings have become
a nightly occurrence,
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stoked initially by Red America
militant groups.
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But FBI officials
also suspect Russian
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and Iranian dark money
is being deployed
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to fund professional agitators.
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[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
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REPORTER 4: This is
breaking news.
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The White House today announced
plans to send federal troops
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to every American city
to restore order,
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but the Florida and Texas
governors have called up
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their own National Guards.
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As of tonight,
National Guard troops
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and tanks are deployed
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around the state capitol
buildings in Austin
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and Tallahassee, but they
themselves are surrounded
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by federal troops and tanks.
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America faces a
loyalty nightmare.
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REPORTER 5: This just in.
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[EXPLOSION]
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Early this evening,
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two dozen converted
commercial drones destroyed
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New York's Brooklyn
and 59th Street bridges
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and seriously damaged the
Holland and Lincoln tunnels.
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Five drones also
took out New York City's
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major utility, Con Edison.
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This is CNBC.
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Blue America today
placed a 100% tariff
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on all Red America
goods and services.
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And this afternoon,
23 red states announced plans
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to secede from the union.
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The second American Civil War
has officially begun.
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[SIREN BLARING]
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REPORTER 6: This is a
special report from CBS News.
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America's civil war
has its victims.
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In the last week alone,
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50 people died in northern
Minnesota from hypothermia
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as a result of red state
oil and gas cutoffs.
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Blue states are experiencing
severe shortages
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of meat and vegetables.
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In Manhattan,
a New York strip sirloin steak
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on the black market runs $400.
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Red America is
finding it impossible
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to import
pharmaceutical products.
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[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
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REPORTER 7: This is ABC News.
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In a stunning development,
the power center
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of the world is
suddenly shifting.
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America's strongest allies,
Germany, France, Canada,
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Australia, Japan,
and Great Britain today announced
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the broad outlines of an
extensive alliance with China.
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Washington is in shock.
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Just moments ago,
Great Britain issued this statement.
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Quote, "We are grateful
for America's friendship,
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"but under civil war,
you are not the same."
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Despite all its problems,
China has won the contest
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for global leadership.
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Said Great Britain's
prime minister, "God bless America,
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"God help America."
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[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
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DOUGLAS: This is an
extraordinarily dangerous time.
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There have never been so many
uncertainties, so many messes.
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How do we manage this chaos?
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The world economy is weakening,
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global trade's collapsing,
the world's debt is soaring.
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The interest rate
markets look shaky.
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There's a fear of even
deadlier viruses than COVID.
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Will we be able to gradually
stop using fossil fuels
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like oil and gas
without producing global political chaos?
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With populist parties
rising everywhere?
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[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
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[CROWD CHANTING]
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American power
is still very great.
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You see that
in the dollar right now.
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You see it in the role of
American energy production
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and food production
and its advanced education, you name it.
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But America's willingness and
ability to effectively project
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that power over time
has been eroded dramatically
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by the dysfunction of
the US political system.
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And every American ally
sees that
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and is worried about it.
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Every American adversary
sees that
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and views it as an opportunity
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to do what they want
with impunity.
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[SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE]
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DOUGLAS: This is scary stuff
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because united we stand,
divided we fall.
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...disown our
leadership who have...
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DOUGLAS: And all of this
is for what?
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So some selfish,
power-hungry leaders
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can expand their fan club
of social media haters?
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[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
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The thing about
the United States that gives me hope
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is it has a remarkable
capacity to reinvent itself.
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DOUGLAS: America's destiny
is still in our hands.
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The good news
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is that America historically
is self-correcting.
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We survived McCarthyism,
the civil rights battles,
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and King's assassination.
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Vietnam, Watergate.
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Seven defendants in the case.
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DOUGLAS: It took a while,
but our spirit of optimism
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came back after 9/11.
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We survived, then thrived.
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We learn from our mistakes,
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and our greatest mistake lately
has been our loss
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of civility and empathy
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and the blind devotion by some
to political extremism.
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[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
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[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
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Democracies are fragile.
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They fail when
people stop believing
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in their common destiny.
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Not the American way.
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These damn bills that come
out here all the damn time.
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DOUGLAS: When our leaders
promote division and hate,
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they're playing with fire.
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So stick it up your ass.
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DOUGLAS: We can lose
control of our future,
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and whose hopes and dreams
will get crushed the process?
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Ours will.
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[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
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[LIVELY MUSIC PLAYING]
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The American idea is not that
we become identical robots.
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[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
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It's that we try to bridge
our differences to try
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to find common ground.
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Collaboration among
those with diverse views
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and experience can be
a powerful tool of reform.
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The most satisfying
kind of connections
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are not bonds, they're bridges.
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Where we find
a common story between us
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despite our differences.
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Bonding can actually lead
to ingroups and outgroups.
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The bridging commonalities
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are so much more satisfying
on a deep human level,
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and leads to an enduringly
good and healthy
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and strong society.
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DOUGLAS: Psychologists
have long understood
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that humans are extremely
social creatures.
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Without social connections,
we develop anxiety.
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That clearly happened
during the pandemic.
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In recent studies,
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social connections
were found in most cases
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to make us happier,
even healthier.
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When humans experience feelings
of anxiety, inadequacy,
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and insignificance,
they sometimes try to compensate
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with an insatiable
hunger for power.
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Today, many of our leaders
would risk the survival
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of democracy itself
in exchange for power.
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What we really need is
an interior revolution,
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a revolution of the heart.
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We need individuals
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who understand the
greatness within themselves
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and therefore have
more confidence
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and love coming from themselves.
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When you become afraid,
you imitate the cult of the self
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rather than what we might
call the spiritual democracy.
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The spiritual democracy
depends upon something
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other than money
and material goods being the essence
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of your satisfaction,
your dignity,
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how you're received by society.
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We need a spiritual democracy
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where the architecture,
the implementation,
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and the enforcement is
for the common good.
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DOUGLAS: Sometimes,
the answer is quite simple.
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People always
think that they act
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on the basis of their feeling.
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In other words,
you feel something first and then you do something.
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The truth of the matter
is that you'll tend
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to feel something after you
act in a particular way.
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There's a huge body of
psychological literature
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that shows if you
wanna be happier,
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the first thing you need to do
is to act happier.
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If you wanna feel
more gratitude,
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you need to say thank you
to somebody.
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The Dalai Lama told me this,
it was really shocking.
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I was asking him, "What do I do
when I feel contempt for somebody else?"
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He said, "Stop and
choose warmheartedness."
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He said, "Pretend you
feel warmhearted."
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And he's got
psychology on his side.
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This is really consistent
with how the structure
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of the brain works.
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DOUGLAS: So in
dealing with hate,
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often the answer is
simply to sit down
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and talk to the other side.
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Show the world that
numbers don't matter, but passion does.
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DOUGLAS: Hawk Newsome
had a transformative experience
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that brought him face-to-face
with his political enemies.
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He expected bloody violence.
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He detested everything
his adversaries stood for.
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[CROWD CLAMORING]
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Real Americans, everyday
hardworking Americans,
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regardless of socioeconomic
status, are people
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with love in their hearts.
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And I believe in that America.
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I believe in that
idealistic America.
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I'm happy that we
have the ability
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to voice our opinions
in this country.
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There have been a number of
demonstrations in recent months that turned deadly.
506
00:25:08,724 --> 00:25:10,900
Now a group is planning
what it calls
507
00:25:10,944 --> 00:25:13,033
the mother of all rallies.
508
00:25:13,076 --> 00:25:15,601
NEWSOME:
We went to Washington D.C.
509
00:25:15,644 --> 00:25:16,906
So we're like, "Okay,
510
00:25:16,950 --> 00:25:18,734
"we're gonna go to the
mother of all rallies."
511
00:25:18,778 --> 00:25:21,302
PROTESTER: We gotta give it
to these politicians in D.C.
512
00:25:21,345 --> 00:25:22,695
If we wanna do that in Portland,
513
00:25:22,738 --> 00:25:24,827
it's gonna take
some real courage.
514
00:25:24,871 --> 00:25:28,265
We get out of the car,
we suit up, we get our signs
515
00:25:28,309 --> 00:25:29,919
and our flags ready.
516
00:25:29,963 --> 00:25:32,008
We start to march
over to the Mall.
517
00:25:32,052 --> 00:25:33,140
PROTESTOR: Security.
518
00:25:34,184 --> 00:25:35,795
Security, get them...
519
00:25:35,838 --> 00:25:37,492
NEWSOME:
As we are walking up,
520
00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:40,843
the closer we got
to the actual rally,
521
00:25:40,887 --> 00:25:44,325
we heard people
were calling us, you know, the "N" word...
522
00:25:44,368 --> 00:25:45,718
[PROTESTOR SPEAKING]
523
00:25:49,722 --> 00:25:52,507
There was one fella who
was standing in front of us,
524
00:25:52,551 --> 00:25:55,031
he said, "Would you
like to go on stage?"
525
00:25:55,075 --> 00:25:58,557
And I kinda look around,
survey the group,
526
00:25:58,600 --> 00:25:59,993
and folks nodded like, "Yeah,
527
00:26:00,036 --> 00:26:01,821
"let's go up there
and let's give it to them."
528
00:26:01,864 --> 00:26:05,607
CROWD: USA! USA! USA!
529
00:26:05,651 --> 00:26:08,349
USA! USA!
530
00:26:08,392 --> 00:26:10,960
I'm standing here and
letting our presence be felt
531
00:26:11,004 --> 00:26:15,574
and letting them know that
we are in direct opposition
532
00:26:15,617 --> 00:26:17,837
to everything that
they're promoting.
533
00:26:20,274 --> 00:26:21,797
I was going to go up there,
534
00:26:21,841 --> 00:26:23,538
and there's terms
we use in the streets
535
00:26:23,582 --> 00:26:25,453
called "read them to filth."
536
00:26:25,496 --> 00:26:28,238
It means tell them
exactly who they are
537
00:26:28,282 --> 00:26:30,197
and how we feel about them.
538
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:34,375
But it was like
the skies opened up
539
00:26:34,418 --> 00:26:36,595
and God spoke to me directly.
540
00:26:36,638 --> 00:26:39,859
I know it sounds crazy,
but God spoke to me
541
00:26:39,902 --> 00:26:44,864
and said, "Let them
know who you are."
542
00:26:44,907 --> 00:26:46,953
After months of
divisive rhetoric,
543
00:26:46,996 --> 00:26:49,390
a moment of unity in
an unexpected place...
544
00:26:49,433 --> 00:26:52,698
The first thing outta my mouth
was, "I'm an American."
545
00:26:52,741 --> 00:26:55,178
I am an American.
546
00:26:55,222 --> 00:26:56,832
[CROWD CHEERING]
547
00:26:56,876 --> 00:26:58,225
They all went crazy.
548
00:26:58,268 --> 00:26:59,748
Like, "What do you mean?
549
00:26:59,792 --> 00:27:02,403
"You're a protestor,
you're a civil rights activist.
550
00:27:02,446 --> 00:27:04,797
"You're a self-proclaimed
liberator.
551
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,363
"You love America?"
552
00:27:06,407 --> 00:27:08,670
"Yes, I love America."
553
00:27:09,410 --> 00:27:11,978
And the beauty of America
554
00:27:12,021 --> 00:27:15,895
is that when you see something
broke in your country,
555
00:27:15,938 --> 00:27:18,767
you can mobilize to fix it.
556
00:27:18,811 --> 00:27:20,726
[CROWD CHEERING]
557
00:27:20,769 --> 00:27:22,771
And now they're clapping,
they're going...
558
00:27:22,815 --> 00:27:28,255
So when you see a man
murdered, choked to death
559
00:27:28,298 --> 00:27:30,474
after he calls for
his life 11 times
560
00:27:30,518 --> 00:27:34,609
and nothing happens, you have
to do something about that.
561
00:27:34,653 --> 00:27:36,655
And then there was
like this awkward,
562
00:27:36,698 --> 00:27:39,092
"I can't believe
I'm clapping for the guy."
563
00:27:39,135 --> 00:27:43,705
We say, if a cop is bad,
he needs to get fired
564
00:27:43,749 --> 00:27:48,318
like a bad lawyer,
like a bad [BLEEP] politician.
565
00:27:48,362 --> 00:27:51,582
"You know, this is
not what I believe in,
566
00:27:51,626 --> 00:27:53,759
"but he's kind of right."
567
00:27:53,802 --> 00:27:56,805
Secondly, I said,
"I'm a Christian."
568
00:27:56,849 --> 00:27:58,677
[IMITATES CROWD ROARING]
Everybody's going crazy.
569
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:00,069
[CROWD CHEERING]
570
00:28:00,113 --> 00:28:02,855
I don't think my Bible is
any different from yours
571
00:28:02,898 --> 00:28:05,422
when it says,
"Love thy neighbor."
572
00:28:05,466 --> 00:28:06,859
[CROWD CHEERING]
573
00:28:06,902 --> 00:28:08,469
What I really wanted
574
00:28:08,512 --> 00:28:11,472
was to show these folks there
are two guiding principles
575
00:28:11,515 --> 00:28:15,302
that we both have in common,
which are the Bible
576
00:28:15,345 --> 00:28:17,130
and the Constitution.
577
00:28:17,173 --> 00:28:19,872
[CROWD CHEERING]
578
00:28:23,092 --> 00:28:24,920
I think we made progress.
579
00:28:24,964 --> 00:28:29,316
I don't think that activists
received the message well.
580
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:33,494
I don't think that politicians
received the message well,
581
00:28:33,537 --> 00:28:37,890
but Americans, they saw that
as a coming together
582
00:28:37,933 --> 00:28:40,719
to find common ground
and they appreciated that.
583
00:28:42,024 --> 00:28:43,722
At some point, we're going
584
00:28:43,765 --> 00:28:47,334
to have to talk
to the other side.
585
00:28:51,599 --> 00:28:54,994
I think that I represent
the Black folk
586
00:28:55,037 --> 00:28:57,474
that most white people
will never hear.
587
00:28:57,518 --> 00:29:00,347
Black people sitting
at their kitchen tables
588
00:29:00,390 --> 00:29:03,393
discussing politics,
discussing their days at work.
589
00:29:03,437 --> 00:29:04,699
Everyday Black people,
590
00:29:04,743 --> 00:29:08,659
not the Boule or
the political elite,
591
00:29:08,703 --> 00:29:10,096
because they have agendas.
592
00:29:10,139 --> 00:29:12,576
They're tied into these
political machines.
593
00:29:12,620 --> 00:29:16,493
I think that Black folk
594
00:29:16,537 --> 00:29:20,715
are at a really
interesting place right now
595
00:29:20,759 --> 00:29:22,369
because they're all
paying attention.
596
00:29:22,412 --> 00:29:24,719
They all know that leaders
597
00:29:24,763 --> 00:29:27,722
are not really there
for their benefit.
598
00:29:27,766 --> 00:29:29,550
I don't think that
they're hopeless.
599
00:29:29,593 --> 00:29:32,074
I think they're more hopeful now
600
00:29:32,118 --> 00:29:33,554
than they have been in the past.
601
00:29:33,597 --> 00:29:36,775
We need to start teaching
Black people about money ASAP.
602
00:29:36,818 --> 00:29:38,689
They need to understand
how money works.
603
00:29:38,733 --> 00:29:41,867
I think Black people understand
what's on the horizon,
604
00:29:41,910 --> 00:29:44,173
what it's going to take
to get there.
605
00:29:44,217 --> 00:29:46,132
We need to change
our whole culture.
606
00:29:46,175 --> 00:29:48,395
The way we view each other,
the way we live.
607
00:29:48,438 --> 00:29:52,965
And that comes from being in
the trenches with the people.
608
00:29:53,008 --> 00:29:56,882
Let's talk about
the bridges of our common story.
609
00:29:56,925 --> 00:29:58,535
Let me try to understand you.
610
00:29:58,579 --> 00:30:02,409
You know, Americans,
they don't want to hate each other.
611
00:30:02,452 --> 00:30:04,846
Studies show that
when people can interact
612
00:30:04,890 --> 00:30:08,110
at a human level,
they can like each other.
613
00:30:08,154 --> 00:30:10,417
DOUGLAS: Like Hawk Newsome,
Derek Black found the value
614
00:30:10,460 --> 00:30:13,420
of coming together
and finding common ground.
615
00:30:13,463 --> 00:30:16,684
He was the heir apparent of
the white supremacist movement,
616
00:30:16,727 --> 00:30:19,382
but he broke away from the
racist, anti-Semitic thinking
617
00:30:19,426 --> 00:30:20,644
of his childhood.
618
00:30:20,688 --> 00:30:21,950
How?
619
00:30:21,994 --> 00:30:24,648
It wasn't a vigorous
intellectual exercise.
620
00:30:24,692 --> 00:30:26,563
He didn't listen to a podcast.
621
00:30:26,607 --> 00:30:27,738
It wasn't because he was barred
622
00:30:27,782 --> 00:30:29,610
from some social media outlet.
623
00:30:29,653 --> 00:30:32,178
He saw the light when
his community changed.
624
00:30:32,221 --> 00:30:34,615
He sat at a dinner in
a college dorm room
625
00:30:34,658 --> 00:30:36,878
every Friday night face-to-face
626
00:30:36,922 --> 00:30:39,011
with his adversaries,
who would also become
627
00:30:39,054 --> 00:30:40,621
his best friends.
628
00:30:40,664 --> 00:30:43,624
America needs to rediscover
the power of community
629
00:30:43,667 --> 00:30:46,888
and personal connection
to help end our division.
630
00:30:46,932 --> 00:30:48,542
WOMAN: Derek was
the most prominent
631
00:30:48,585 --> 00:30:50,805
young white supremacist
in the United States.
632
00:30:50,849 --> 00:30:52,415
DOUGLAS: He grew
up with David Duke,
633
00:30:52,459 --> 00:30:54,940
one of America's most
well-known white supremacist
634
00:30:54,983 --> 00:30:57,246
and anti-Semitic
conspiracy theorists
635
00:30:57,290 --> 00:30:59,161
and a neo-Nazi clan leader
636
00:30:59,205 --> 00:31:02,991
and Holocaust denier who
frequently visited his home.
637
00:31:03,035 --> 00:31:06,560
White nationalism is
rooted in antisemitism.
638
00:31:06,603 --> 00:31:10,999
[PROTESTORS SHOUTING]
639
00:31:11,043 --> 00:31:13,654
If you actually break apart
their ideology,
640
00:31:13,697 --> 00:31:16,004
they want separation of people.
641
00:31:16,048 --> 00:31:17,745
They want mass deportation.
642
00:31:17,788 --> 00:31:21,314
We believe we have the right
to maintain our countries
643
00:31:21,357 --> 00:31:22,576
as white nations.
644
00:31:22,619 --> 00:31:24,795
We believe we're being
subject to genocide.
645
00:31:24,839 --> 00:31:26,188
I was 19 years old
646
00:31:26,232 --> 00:31:28,364
and I totally believed
the entire ideology.
647
00:31:28,408 --> 00:31:32,542
I ran for a local county seat
and won it,
648
00:31:32,586 --> 00:31:34,109
and I made national news.
649
00:31:34,153 --> 00:31:37,678
Really seemed like I was going
to take over this movement.
650
00:31:39,375 --> 00:31:42,596
When I showed up to this little
liberal arts college, at first,
651
00:31:42,639 --> 00:31:44,206
no one knew my background.
652
00:31:44,250 --> 00:31:47,340
I was still doing a radio show
in the morning with my dad.
653
00:31:47,383 --> 00:31:48,863
Nobody happened to google me.
654
00:31:48,907 --> 00:31:51,387
It was only in the second
semester where it came out
655
00:31:51,431 --> 00:31:54,782
and it became an
enormous controversy on this little campus.
656
00:31:54,825 --> 00:31:57,089
People who
I'd made friends with felt really betrayed.
657
00:31:57,132 --> 00:31:59,395
But the next thing I did
was start attending
658
00:31:59,439 --> 00:32:03,704
a Shabbat dinner
from a practicing Orthodox Jewish student
659
00:32:03,747 --> 00:32:05,836
who lived next to me.
660
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:07,360
I went just because
there weren't
661
00:32:07,403 --> 00:32:09,362
that many social invitations.
662
00:32:09,405 --> 00:32:12,365
And what was unexpected
is that I kept coming back.
663
00:32:12,408 --> 00:32:15,063
His dinners were very diverse
664
00:32:15,107 --> 00:32:18,371
and that was a space where
we were able to talk.
665
00:32:18,414 --> 00:32:21,548
In my ideology,
it said that they didn't belong in the country.
666
00:32:21,591 --> 00:32:25,117
Having to reconcile that was
extremely difficult for them.
667
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,771
And also keep in mind,
this wasn't a couple of weeks,
668
00:32:27,815 --> 00:32:30,470
it was years of engagement.
669
00:32:32,646 --> 00:32:34,604
TREVOR NOAH:
From the very beginning, you were taught
670
00:32:34,648 --> 00:32:38,130
to think a certain way.
671
00:32:38,173 --> 00:32:40,567
How do you even begin
the journey of starting
672
00:32:40,610 --> 00:32:41,960
to think differently?
673
00:32:43,744 --> 00:32:46,486
BLACK:
Leaving a community and a whole ideology
674
00:32:46,529 --> 00:32:48,227
that felt very
central to my life
675
00:32:48,270 --> 00:32:49,880
was extremely difficult.
676
00:32:49,924 --> 00:32:52,709
Condemning it meant
condemning everybody
677
00:32:52,753 --> 00:32:54,015
who was in my life.
678
00:32:54,059 --> 00:32:56,322
It was not changing my mind
that was so hard.
679
00:32:56,365 --> 00:32:59,629
It was changing community.
680
00:32:59,673 --> 00:33:02,981
It was not clear
whether there was any sort of family relationship
681
00:33:03,024 --> 00:33:05,722
beyond the ideology
for a long time.
682
00:33:07,420 --> 00:33:09,639
David Duke was
committed to the idea
683
00:33:09,683 --> 00:33:15,080
that it was Stockholm syndrome
because I had been among lefty anti-racists for too long.
684
00:33:15,123 --> 00:33:17,430
I think over time,
my family came to recognize
685
00:33:17,473 --> 00:33:20,346
that I could be the same person
686
00:33:20,389 --> 00:33:24,176
and have realized
how we were wrong.
687
00:33:24,219 --> 00:33:26,482
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
688
00:33:26,526 --> 00:33:30,791
I think community is
the essential element.
689
00:33:30,834 --> 00:33:34,621
People don't change their minds
because you throw facts at them.
690
00:33:34,664 --> 00:33:38,190
People change their minds
because their community changes,
691
00:33:38,233 --> 00:33:42,107
because the people that are
important to them change.
692
00:33:44,065 --> 00:33:45,849
So now,
not only are you not racist,
693
00:33:45,893 --> 00:33:47,808
your last name is Black,
which...
694
00:33:47,851 --> 00:33:49,114
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
695
00:33:49,157 --> 00:33:52,117
...is like an added
part of the story.
696
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:53,466
DOUGLAS:
Americans with courage
697
00:33:53,509 --> 00:33:55,076
are starting to step forward.
698
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:56,991
One gave a speech at
the Academy Awards
699
00:33:57,035 --> 00:34:00,038
that blew the roof off
of LA's Union Station.
700
00:34:00,081 --> 00:34:02,997
My mother taught me
to refuse hate.
701
00:34:03,041 --> 00:34:05,739
She taught me to refuse
blanket judgment.
702
00:34:05,782 --> 00:34:08,481
And in this time,
and with all of the Internet
703
00:34:08,524 --> 00:34:10,352
and social media and algorithms
704
00:34:10,396 --> 00:34:12,963
and everything that wants
us to think a certain way,
705
00:34:13,007 --> 00:34:15,183
the 24-hour news cycle,
it is my hope
706
00:34:15,227 --> 00:34:17,229
that all of us would
teach our kids,
707
00:34:17,272 --> 00:34:20,623
and not only to remember,
just refuse hate,
708
00:34:20,667 --> 00:34:22,103
don't hate anybody.
709
00:34:22,147 --> 00:34:25,019
I refuse to hate someone
because they are Mexican
710
00:34:25,063 --> 00:34:27,587
or because they
are Black or white...
711
00:34:27,630 --> 00:34:28,675
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]
712
00:34:28,718 --> 00:34:30,459
...or LBGTQ.
713
00:34:30,503 --> 00:34:33,419
I refuse to hate someone because
they're a police officer.
714
00:34:33,462 --> 00:34:36,683
I refuse to hate someone
because they are Asian.
715
00:34:36,726 --> 00:34:40,078
So anyone who wants to meet me
in the middle to refuse hate,
716
00:34:40,121 --> 00:34:41,862
to refuse blanket judgment,
717
00:34:41,905 --> 00:34:44,691
and to help lift someone's
feet off the ground,
718
00:34:44,734 --> 00:34:45,779
this one is for you too.
719
00:34:45,822 --> 00:34:50,000
Look, and this is
the Pollyanna in me.
720
00:34:50,044 --> 00:34:51,872
People are fundamentally good.
721
00:34:53,787 --> 00:34:55,267
People hurt for each other.
722
00:34:56,050 --> 00:34:58,052
America is a good example.
723
00:34:58,096 --> 00:34:59,836
There's no country on this earth
724
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:02,622
more philanthropic than America.
725
00:35:04,145 --> 00:35:06,191
I believe in the
American people.
726
00:35:08,149 --> 00:35:09,542
We all have our politics.
727
00:35:09,585 --> 00:35:11,413
We all have our hates
and our fears.
728
00:35:11,457 --> 00:35:14,199
But deep down,
there is a love of country
729
00:35:14,895 --> 00:35:17,332
that I think prevails.
730
00:35:17,376 --> 00:35:20,466
Every time I hear that the
American Dream is fading,
731
00:35:20,509 --> 00:35:22,903
I look at the Latino community.
We're making progress,
732
00:35:22,946 --> 00:35:26,733
maybe not as fast as we want,
maybe not as good as we want,
733
00:35:26,776 --> 00:35:27,995
but we're making progress.
734
00:35:28,038 --> 00:35:31,346
Latino values are
creating a social tissue
735
00:35:31,390 --> 00:35:35,307
that is necessary in a country
that's divided, in a country
736
00:35:35,350 --> 00:35:38,919
where individualistic values
are gaining over
737
00:35:38,962 --> 00:35:40,964
cultural values
and social values.
738
00:35:41,008 --> 00:35:42,575
What Latinos are united by
739
00:35:42,618 --> 00:35:44,490
is not language,
it's not religion.
740
00:35:44,533 --> 00:35:46,579
It's our desire to make it.
741
00:35:46,622 --> 00:35:48,276
We are fighters.
742
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,235
We are optimistic
about the future.
743
00:35:50,278 --> 00:35:52,280
We love this country.
744
00:35:52,324 --> 00:35:55,849
NEWSOME: We have to keep
taking steps to get to a place
745
00:35:55,892 --> 00:35:57,981
where we can heal as a country.
746
00:35:58,025 --> 00:36:00,288
When we are dancing
with the angels,
747
00:36:00,332 --> 00:36:03,465
the question will be asked,
what did we do
748
00:36:04,684 --> 00:36:08,253
to make sure we kept
our democracy intact?
749
00:36:09,297 --> 00:36:10,864
DOUGLAS:
We're not born haters.
750
00:36:10,907 --> 00:36:14,433
Hate is something we learn
and it can be unlearned.
751
00:36:14,476 --> 00:36:18,219
The opposite of hatred
and anger is not love.
752
00:36:18,263 --> 00:36:20,265
The opposite of hatred
is empathy.
753
00:36:20,308 --> 00:36:22,136
You know, we have to
come together as a country
754
00:36:22,180 --> 00:36:23,964
by breaking
the habit of contempt.
755
00:36:24,007 --> 00:36:27,097
I have this phrase that
I chant in the streets.
756
00:36:27,141 --> 00:36:29,361
It's like I... "I..."
757
00:36:29,404 --> 00:36:31,841
- I believe.
- I believe...
758
00:36:31,885 --> 00:36:33,800
I believe that we will win.
759
00:36:33,843 --> 00:36:35,454
I believe that we will win.
760
00:36:35,497 --> 00:36:38,021
In my heart, with my faith,
761
00:36:38,065 --> 00:36:40,459
and what I'm seeing
in this country.
762
00:36:40,502 --> 00:36:41,634
I believe that we will win.
763
00:36:41,677 --> 00:36:44,463
I believe that we'll
find a way to love
764
00:36:44,506 --> 00:36:46,813
and respect one another.
765
00:36:46,856 --> 00:36:48,206
As Assata Shakur said,
766
00:36:48,249 --> 00:36:50,338
"We have nothing to
lose but our chains."
767
00:36:52,775 --> 00:36:55,517
[LIVELY MUSIC PLAYING]
768
00:37:00,261 --> 00:37:01,567
DOUGLAS: The first step
in our journey
769
00:37:01,610 --> 00:37:04,570
is to ask, "Why are humans
so tempted to hate?"
770
00:37:04,613 --> 00:37:07,312
Hate has always been part
of the human experience.
771
00:37:07,355 --> 00:37:09,314
It's a favorite theme
in the movies.
772
00:37:09,357 --> 00:37:10,402
I hate you.
773
00:37:10,445 --> 00:37:12,360
And I especially hate you.
774
00:37:13,231 --> 00:37:14,536
I hate you, Joker.
775
00:37:14,580 --> 00:37:17,017
[GASPS] I hate you too.
776
00:37:17,060 --> 00:37:18,148
I hate you.
777
00:37:18,192 --> 00:37:20,629
How can you say
something so mean?
778
00:37:20,673 --> 00:37:22,065
I hate you!
779
00:37:22,109 --> 00:37:24,546
DOUGLAS: Hate comes from
feelings of humiliation.
780
00:37:24,590 --> 00:37:28,158
When people feel humiliated,
particularly in the economy,
781
00:37:28,202 --> 00:37:30,813
the humiliation turns to anger
782
00:37:30,857 --> 00:37:33,555
and then quickly,
the anger becomes hate.
783
00:37:33,599 --> 00:37:36,645
If the hate is fueled by
feelings of alienation,
784
00:37:36,689 --> 00:37:39,431
it lingers seemingly forever.
785
00:37:39,474 --> 00:37:42,608
What's behind today's
hate and division?
786
00:37:42,651 --> 00:37:47,090
Is it culture, religion, race?
787
00:37:47,134 --> 00:37:50,224
Even when we make advances
on race, deep pockets
788
00:37:50,268 --> 00:37:54,228
of discrimination by race
seem to rear their ugly heads.
789
00:37:54,272 --> 00:37:57,927
Discrimination by race
of any kind needs to be stamped out.
790
00:37:57,971 --> 00:38:00,060
But we also need to
focus on inequities
791
00:38:00,103 --> 00:38:03,716
as a result of differences
in social class.
792
00:38:03,759 --> 00:38:07,502
It's getting much harder in
America to move from one class
793
00:38:07,546 --> 00:38:09,069
to a higher class.
794
00:38:10,462 --> 00:38:14,379
What's driving this is
a sense of a loss of status.
795
00:38:16,206 --> 00:38:19,601
BRADLEY HARDY:
Most American families will have years
796
00:38:19,645 --> 00:38:22,387
where they'll be poor
or near poor.
797
00:38:22,430 --> 00:38:26,434
DOUGLAS: The root cause
of a lot of today's division is economic.
798
00:38:26,478 --> 00:38:28,306
Our economic system
has been failing
799
00:38:28,349 --> 00:38:31,526
for many Americans for decades.
800
00:38:31,570 --> 00:38:33,963
Is it economic
or is it cultural?
801
00:38:34,007 --> 00:38:36,749
And the answer is you can't
separate the cultural
802
00:38:36,792 --> 00:38:38,577
and the economic
because economics
803
00:38:38,620 --> 00:38:40,753
winds up becoming an
expression of our culture.
804
00:38:40,796 --> 00:38:43,277
There is a very
intimate relationship
805
00:38:43,321 --> 00:38:46,889
between economics and identity.
806
00:38:46,933 --> 00:38:48,326
If you have a job,
807
00:38:48,369 --> 00:38:50,110
it's not just a source
of resources,
808
00:38:50,153 --> 00:38:52,591
it's also a source
of your identity
809
00:38:52,634 --> 00:38:55,420
or your dignity,
your self-esteem.
810
00:38:56,551 --> 00:38:58,640
Where is the dignity in poverty?
811
00:38:58,684 --> 00:39:01,643
In going home and
looking at your family
812
00:39:01,687 --> 00:39:04,298
and realizing that there's
no food in the refrigerator,
813
00:39:04,342 --> 00:39:05,995
your light's about
to get cut off
814
00:39:06,039 --> 00:39:09,303
and you're about
a payment away from being evicted.
815
00:39:09,347 --> 00:39:11,914
How can you hold your head up?
816
00:39:11,958 --> 00:39:15,440
This is not what the American
Dream is supposed to be.
817
00:39:15,483 --> 00:39:17,355
FUKUYAMA: So one of
the big problems is simply
818
00:39:17,398 --> 00:39:19,400
of people that thought
they were middle class
819
00:39:19,444 --> 00:39:22,577
or working class
that have lost status.
820
00:39:22,621 --> 00:39:24,318
If you lose that job,
821
00:39:24,362 --> 00:39:26,494
it means society has
somehow devalued you.
822
00:39:26,538 --> 00:39:28,409
It's that loss of value
823
00:39:28,453 --> 00:39:30,803
that actually creates
the greatest anger.
824
00:39:30,846 --> 00:39:33,501
DOUGLAS:
And recent statistics show that the ultra-poor
825
00:39:33,545 --> 00:39:35,982
and ultra-rich in America
in recent decades
826
00:39:36,025 --> 00:39:38,550
have both seen
their incomes increase.
827
00:39:38,593 --> 00:39:40,595
The ultra-poor mostly
with government assistance
828
00:39:40,639 --> 00:39:43,163
through welfare benefits
and help buying food.
829
00:39:43,206 --> 00:39:45,513
And by contrast,
the middle class has not seen
830
00:39:45,557 --> 00:39:48,037
their paychecks grow
in any meaningful way.
831
00:39:48,081 --> 00:39:50,388
Manufacturing employment
has collapsed.
832
00:39:50,431 --> 00:39:52,346
The worker who once
earned 30 bucks an hour
833
00:39:52,390 --> 00:39:56,524
at a fabricating plant now earns
half that at a coffee shop.
834
00:39:56,568 --> 00:39:59,309
No wonder blue-collar
workers are so angry.
835
00:39:59,353 --> 00:40:00,920
And while in financial terms,
836
00:40:00,963 --> 00:40:03,966
the ultra-poor have benefited
some in recent decades,
837
00:40:04,010 --> 00:40:05,620
that's not enough.
838
00:40:05,664 --> 00:40:09,015
They live in a culture that
robs them of their dignity.
839
00:40:09,058 --> 00:40:12,105
With no job skills in a
largely service economy,
840
00:40:12,148 --> 00:40:13,846
no one wants to hire them.
841
00:40:15,325 --> 00:40:19,721
[PLAYFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
842
00:40:19,765 --> 00:40:22,463
Let me tell you a story
about the American economy.
843
00:40:22,507 --> 00:40:25,597
It's been a glorious
but ugly paradox.
844
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:27,294
Good and bad.
845
00:40:27,337 --> 00:40:29,122
We often succeed magnificently.
846
00:40:29,165 --> 00:40:30,776
Look at us.
847
00:40:30,819 --> 00:40:33,213
We weren't around 300 years ago.
848
00:40:33,256 --> 00:40:37,957
You go to Italy, there's nothing
younger than 500 years.
849
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,656
Go to France, go to...
wherever you want.
850
00:40:41,700 --> 00:40:44,920
They had multiple centuries
jump on us.
851
00:40:44,964 --> 00:40:46,705
Look what we did,
852
00:40:46,748 --> 00:40:48,402
and we're all a bunch of mutts.
853
00:40:48,446 --> 00:40:51,971
[MARCHING MUSIC PLAYING]
854
00:40:56,366 --> 00:40:57,933
DOUGLAS:
Incredibly, in 1930,
855
00:40:57,977 --> 00:40:59,892
we built the
Empire State Building,
856
00:40:59,935 --> 00:41:04,287
then the tallest in the world,
in a year and 45 days.
857
00:41:04,331 --> 00:41:08,596
Today, we can't build
a four-bedroom house that fast.
858
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:12,687
In the 1980s and '90s,
the world economies globalized.
859
00:41:12,731 --> 00:41:14,994
♪ I want my MTV, MTV, MTV ♪
860
00:41:15,037 --> 00:41:17,126
DOUGLAS: Trade with
other countries exploded.
861
00:41:17,170 --> 00:41:19,651
We experienced a
technological revolution.
862
00:41:19,694 --> 00:41:21,522
America won big.
863
00:41:21,566 --> 00:41:22,741
In January 1980,
864
00:41:22,784 --> 00:41:25,221
the Dow Jones'
Industrial Average Stock Index
865
00:41:25,265 --> 00:41:27,093
was only 8.75.
866
00:41:27,136 --> 00:41:32,098
By 2022, that stock market
had jumped an amazing 3,700%
867
00:41:32,141 --> 00:41:33,578
and two billion people
868
00:41:33,621 --> 00:41:35,797
around the world had been
brought out of poverty.
869
00:41:35,841 --> 00:41:38,408
Yeah, too much
is never enough.
870
00:41:38,452 --> 00:41:39,671
DOUGLAS: The bad news?
871
00:41:39,714 --> 00:41:41,716
In America,
we saw a tale of two cities.
872
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:45,372
Wall Street got rich,
Main Street didn't.
873
00:41:45,415 --> 00:41:47,113
Why?
874
00:41:47,156 --> 00:41:49,855
Only those with
enough money saved could invest in stocks,
875
00:41:49,898 --> 00:41:52,553
and that's less than half of us.
876
00:41:52,597 --> 00:41:54,686
So only half could ride
the market escalator up
877
00:41:54,729 --> 00:41:56,339
and grow more affluent.
878
00:41:56,383 --> 00:41:58,516
The rest merely earned wages.
879
00:41:58,559 --> 00:42:00,300
For this and other reasons,
880
00:42:00,343 --> 00:42:06,045
income inequality soared,
a slow-burning resentment set in.
881
00:42:06,088 --> 00:42:09,483
And when interest rates were
dropped for many years to 0%
882
00:42:09,527 --> 00:42:12,051
to save Wall Street
from crisis in 2008
883
00:42:12,094 --> 00:42:13,835
and our savings accounts
earned nothing
884
00:42:13,879 --> 00:42:15,620
while the stock market boomed,
885
00:42:15,663 --> 00:42:18,884
we saw the greatest
wealth transfer from the working class
886
00:42:18,927 --> 00:42:22,670
to the upper class
in the history of mankind.
887
00:42:22,714 --> 00:42:23,889
Is that fair?
888
00:42:23,932 --> 00:42:25,891
Meanwhile, the performance
889
00:42:25,934 --> 00:42:29,808
of the US economy itself,
that is, its ability to do more with less,
890
00:42:29,851 --> 00:42:32,637
has become less impressive.
891
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:36,031
In the 1960s,
we had a Ferrari economy.
892
00:42:36,075 --> 00:42:39,600
In the 1980s and '90s,
a Porsche economy.
893
00:42:40,906 --> 00:42:42,908
Today, we have a Segway economy.
894
00:42:42,951 --> 00:42:44,779
Here's what I want you to do.
895
00:42:44,823 --> 00:42:47,347
DOUGLAS: Our economy
is becoming less productive
896
00:42:47,390 --> 00:42:49,218
and unless we do something,
897
00:42:49,262 --> 00:42:52,526
the shrinking
of America's middle class is likely to intensify.
898
00:42:52,570 --> 00:42:55,834
People are tired,
and I don't think people
899
00:42:55,877 --> 00:42:59,881
or the government or anybody
is really all that worried
900
00:42:59,925 --> 00:43:03,668
about how people are
getting by anymore.
901
00:43:03,711 --> 00:43:06,366
It's not that
capitalism is bad.
902
00:43:06,409 --> 00:43:09,848
It's not that we're bad people,
it's just that
903
00:43:09,891 --> 00:43:13,373
as we've been focused
on this staggering
904
00:43:13,416 --> 00:43:18,552
and extraordinary growth
engine that continues to exist today,
905
00:43:18,596 --> 00:43:20,772
an awful lot of people
906
00:43:20,815 --> 00:43:23,688
have been left out
of the equation.
907
00:43:27,126 --> 00:43:30,738
Lots of people that are set
to become very, very angry.
908
00:43:30,782 --> 00:43:32,566
DOUGLAS: Economies
don't create prosperity
909
00:43:32,610 --> 00:43:34,742
just because
central banks print money
910
00:43:34,786 --> 00:43:37,005
or developers,
as they did in China,
911
00:43:37,049 --> 00:43:40,095
build hundreds
of impressive but empty apartment high-rises
912
00:43:40,139 --> 00:43:43,359
in hundreds of cities using
dubious credit schemes.
913
00:43:43,403 --> 00:43:46,711
Prosperity comes when
one thing happens.
914
00:43:46,754 --> 00:43:48,756
Daring people create new firms
915
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,064
that replace firms built
on less effective ideas.
916
00:43:52,107 --> 00:43:55,676
In other words, they innovate,
they take a risk.
917
00:43:55,720 --> 00:43:58,940
Startups are at the core
of America's economy.
918
00:43:59,767 --> 00:44:02,727
[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
919
00:44:05,207 --> 00:44:06,731
DOUGLAS: The economy
propels forward
920
00:44:06,774 --> 00:44:09,211
and creates new opportunities
and new jobs.
921
00:44:09,255 --> 00:44:12,867
All this happens in a climate
of wide-open competition.
922
00:44:12,911 --> 00:44:17,002
Look at firms like
General Motors, Control Data,
923
00:44:17,045 --> 00:44:20,919
Pan Am, Kodak,
they all stumbled.
924
00:44:20,962 --> 00:44:22,224
Why?
925
00:44:22,268 --> 00:44:24,618
They failed to innovate,
they became lazy.
926
00:44:24,662 --> 00:44:28,927
Most got replaced by more
daring and innovative firms.
927
00:44:28,970 --> 00:44:30,929
But mass innovation
doesn't work in a culture
928
00:44:30,972 --> 00:44:32,365
of the inside deal.
929
00:44:32,408 --> 00:44:35,890
The culture that's taken
over Washington D.C.
930
00:44:35,934 --> 00:44:39,067
And does it make sense that
75% of America's wealth
931
00:44:39,111 --> 00:44:41,461
used to create
new companies today is controlled
932
00:44:41,504 --> 00:44:43,332
by less than a dozen big banks?
933
00:44:43,376 --> 00:44:46,422
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
934
00:44:46,466 --> 00:44:48,207
In entrepreneurial capitalism,
935
00:44:48,250 --> 00:44:50,078
the winners have
one thing in common.
936
00:44:50,122 --> 00:44:53,168
They work incredibly hard
and never give up.
937
00:44:53,212 --> 00:44:56,955
They want to achieve success
so badly, their teeth hurt.
938
00:44:58,043 --> 00:44:59,653
Consider the life and times
939
00:44:59,697 --> 00:45:01,786
of Warren Buffett's
famous Mrs. B.
940
00:45:01,829 --> 00:45:04,005
She wrote the book
on not giving up,
941
00:45:04,049 --> 00:45:07,182
and she definitely
was not an insider.
942
00:45:07,226 --> 00:45:12,274
This woman, Rose Blumkin,
who landed in Seattle in 1917,
943
00:45:12,318 --> 00:45:16,148
couldn't speak a word
of English, had a tag around her neck.
944
00:45:16,191 --> 00:45:18,846
The tag said,
"Fort Dodge, Iowa."
945
00:45:18,890 --> 00:45:21,283
The Red Cross got her
to Fort Dodge,
946
00:45:21,327 --> 00:45:23,982
where she was reunited
with her husband, who had come
947
00:45:24,025 --> 00:45:25,897
to the country
a couple of years earlier.
948
00:45:25,940 --> 00:45:28,726
And she lived in Fort Dodge
for two years.
949
00:45:28,769 --> 00:45:31,990
And as she put it,
she felt like a dummy.
950
00:45:32,033 --> 00:45:33,600
She couldn't pick up
the language,
951
00:45:33,643 --> 00:45:35,341
she couldn't learn a word.
952
00:45:35,384 --> 00:45:37,473
And so she decided,
she and her husband
953
00:45:37,517 --> 00:45:40,085
decided to move to Omaha.
954
00:45:40,128 --> 00:45:43,871
So they came to Omaha in 1919.
955
00:45:43,915 --> 00:45:47,135
And then as her oldest
daughter went to school,
956
00:45:47,179 --> 00:45:50,182
she would come home,
this daughter, Frances,
957
00:45:50,225 --> 00:45:52,793
and she would teach
her mother the words
958
00:45:52,837 --> 00:45:55,753
she'd learned in school
that day.
959
00:45:55,796 --> 00:46:00,714
And this woman, Rose Blumkin,
spent 20 years saving money.
960
00:46:00,758 --> 00:46:03,412
She sold used clothing to do it.
961
00:46:03,456 --> 00:46:07,373
And after 20 years,
she'd saved $2,500.
962
00:46:08,417 --> 00:46:09,767
She went to Chicago
963
00:46:09,810 --> 00:46:12,204
and she bought
what she could of furniture.
964
00:46:12,247 --> 00:46:15,773
Her dream had always been
to open a furniture store.
965
00:46:15,816 --> 00:46:17,513
And this woman
who had never gone
966
00:46:17,557 --> 00:46:22,170
to school one day in
her life, with $2,500,
967
00:46:22,214 --> 00:46:26,392
she built a business
which she sold to me
968
00:46:26,435 --> 00:46:30,657
in 1983 for $60 million,
approximately.
969
00:46:30,700 --> 00:46:31,876
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]
970
00:46:31,919 --> 00:46:35,357
This woman,
she could not read or write,
971
00:46:35,401 --> 00:46:39,797
but she brought a
determination to succeed.
972
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:42,408
She knew she could
outwork anyone else.
973
00:46:42,451 --> 00:46:45,759
She knew that she cared
about her customers.
974
00:46:45,803 --> 00:46:48,109
She worked at very low
gross margins,
975
00:46:48,153 --> 00:46:51,634
but she built this
incredible business.
976
00:46:51,678 --> 00:46:56,074
DOUGLAS: Mrs. B's life
defines capitalism at its best.
977
00:46:56,117 --> 00:46:59,294
No insider deals, no government
manipulation of markets,
978
00:46:59,338 --> 00:47:02,341
no risky financing schemes
based on free money.
979
00:47:02,384 --> 00:47:05,779
Just thousands of lives
transformed through a combination
980
00:47:05,823 --> 00:47:09,348
of one person's daring guts
and hard work.
981
00:47:09,391 --> 00:47:11,611
We often talk of
the American Dream.
982
00:47:11,654 --> 00:47:14,570
Mrs. B is the American Dream.
983
00:47:14,614 --> 00:47:17,008
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
984
00:47:22,317 --> 00:47:23,928
The United States used to have
985
00:47:23,971 --> 00:47:26,191
some of the greatest
class mobility
986
00:47:26,234 --> 00:47:27,670
economically in the world.
987
00:47:27,714 --> 00:47:30,717
It today has less class mobility
988
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:33,111
than any other OECD economy.
989
00:47:33,154 --> 00:47:35,113
The best way to
predict the wealth
990
00:47:35,156 --> 00:47:37,332
of your children in
the United States
991
00:47:37,376 --> 00:47:39,639
compared to any other
advanced industrial democracy
992
00:47:39,682 --> 00:47:41,206
is the wealth of the parents.
993
00:47:41,249 --> 00:47:44,992
That is more true in the US
than it is in the UK or Canada
994
00:47:45,036 --> 00:47:47,473
or Japan or France
or Germany or Italy.
995
00:47:47,516 --> 00:47:49,344
It's astonishing.
996
00:47:49,388 --> 00:47:53,000
DOUGLAS: Thirty years ago,
a person born into the bottom 25%
997
00:47:53,044 --> 00:47:56,003
of the country economically,
who studied hard
998
00:47:56,047 --> 00:47:59,964
and worked hard,
had about a 25% chance of rising
999
00:48:00,007 --> 00:48:02,140
to the top 25%.
1000
00:48:02,183 --> 00:48:06,144
Today, only a 5% chance.
1001
00:48:06,187 --> 00:48:08,015
It's called the American Dream
1002
00:48:08,059 --> 00:48:11,323
'cause you have to be asleep
to believe it.
1003
00:48:11,366 --> 00:48:13,368
DOUGLAS: And if you know
you'll never be part
1004
00:48:13,412 --> 00:48:16,502
of that special 5% with a
chance of rising to the top,
1005
00:48:16,545 --> 00:48:20,375
why shouldn't you be resentful
towards those who made it?
1006
00:48:20,419 --> 00:48:24,205
The answer is to give
more people more opportunity.
1007
00:48:24,249 --> 00:48:27,252
DOUGLAS: To encourage
risk-takers to awaken a wave
1008
00:48:27,295 --> 00:48:31,996
of daring activity that results
in an innovation revolution.
1009
00:48:35,042 --> 00:48:37,740
This was supposed to be
the land of opportunity.
1010
00:48:37,784 --> 00:48:39,220
In other words,
you're a kid like me
1011
00:48:39,264 --> 00:48:41,919
that grows up in housing
projects outside of Boston,
1012
00:48:41,962 --> 00:48:43,268
you can make it.
1013
00:48:43,311 --> 00:48:44,791
Doesn't matter if
you don't have money,
1014
00:48:44,834 --> 00:48:46,619
if your parents don't
have education,
1015
00:48:46,662 --> 00:48:48,012
you can make a difference.
1016
00:48:48,055 --> 00:48:49,927
Xi Jinping talks about
the Chinese Dream,
1017
00:48:49,970 --> 00:48:53,191
and economically,
more Chinese believe
1018
00:48:53,234 --> 00:48:54,844
in the China Dream today,
1019
00:48:54,888 --> 00:48:57,064
even though
their political system is incredibly repressive,
1020
00:48:57,108 --> 00:48:59,893
than Americans believe
in the American Dream.
1021
00:48:59,937 --> 00:49:04,637
Obviously, that
reality weaponized
1022
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:09,120
by social media
is going to drive an unwind
1023
00:49:09,163 --> 00:49:13,254
of the values that our
political system is based on.
1024
00:49:13,298 --> 00:49:15,996
People are not gonna fight
for American democracy
1025
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:17,911
they don't even know
what it stands for,
1026
00:49:17,955 --> 00:49:19,869
if they believe that
opportunity no longer
1027
00:49:19,913 --> 00:49:21,654
comes to them from it.
1028
00:49:21,697 --> 00:49:24,222
We should do whatever we can
1029
00:49:24,265 --> 00:49:27,312
to mitigate the
income inequality.
1030
00:49:27,355 --> 00:49:29,749
But you just make damn sure
1031
00:49:29,792 --> 00:49:32,882
that everybody has
equal opportunity
1032
00:49:32,926 --> 00:49:36,886
to achieve income gains.
1033
00:49:36,930 --> 00:49:40,238
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
1034
00:49:51,292 --> 00:49:53,425
DOUGLAS: With economic
opportunity in decline,
1035
00:49:53,468 --> 00:49:56,254
we resort to silly
status competition.
1036
00:49:56,297 --> 00:50:00,649
So we have one of the most
powerful emotions known to man,
1037
00:50:00,693 --> 00:50:03,261
which is envy, taking place.
1038
00:50:03,304 --> 00:50:05,176
DOUGLAS: It's the
new Kardashian era.
1039
00:50:05,219 --> 00:50:07,439
In past times, the old WASPS,
1040
00:50:07,482 --> 00:50:09,136
the old-money type were clever.
1041
00:50:09,180 --> 00:50:11,138
They downplayed their
wealth and privilege.
1042
00:50:11,182 --> 00:50:13,619
They understood the
dangerous power of envy,
1043
00:50:13,662 --> 00:50:15,273
particularly during
periods when the ladder
1044
00:50:15,316 --> 00:50:17,840
of opportunity was
missing a lot of rungs.
1045
00:50:17,884 --> 00:50:19,364
Today, many of the affluent
1046
00:50:19,407 --> 00:50:21,279
seem to use their wealth
precisely for the purpose
1047
00:50:21,322 --> 00:50:24,630
of creating envy
and enhancing status.
1048
00:50:24,673 --> 00:50:27,328
It's as if they want
everyone else to feel inferior.
1049
00:50:27,372 --> 00:50:29,678
All right, let's do it.
1050
00:50:29,722 --> 00:50:31,245
DOUGLAS: Their new status
gives them a sense
1051
00:50:31,289 --> 00:50:33,465
of power over
the less fortunate.
1052
00:50:33,508 --> 00:50:36,207
It's exactly the way
it's supposed to be.
1053
00:50:36,250 --> 00:50:39,253
DOUGLAS: And Instagram
has become an out-and-out
1054
00:50:39,297 --> 00:50:42,648
factory for producing
hate-inducing envy.
1055
00:50:42,691 --> 00:50:44,563
People who are thriving
don't have time
1056
00:50:44,606 --> 00:50:48,175
for these silly games
of status competition.
1057
00:50:48,219 --> 00:50:51,700
The problem is not enough
Americans are thriving.
1058
00:50:53,441 --> 00:50:56,140
ALICE RIVLIN: We can't afford
to be two countries,
1059
00:50:56,183 --> 00:51:00,492
where one country
is cities and coast
1060
00:51:01,884 --> 00:51:04,191
and the other is the heartland.
1061
00:51:04,235 --> 00:51:06,933
I grew up in the Middle West,
so I relate to this,
1062
00:51:06,976 --> 00:51:11,851
where small towns and
small cities are not doing well.
1063
00:51:15,159 --> 00:51:16,769
DOUGLAS: Wonder why
working people today
1064
00:51:16,812 --> 00:51:18,771
are so resentful and angry?
1065
00:51:18,814 --> 00:51:22,601
Our leaders have consistently
failed to look out for them.
1066
00:51:22,644 --> 00:51:25,734
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
1067
00:51:32,698 --> 00:51:36,310
The velvet rope economy has
enabled a new aristocracy
1068
00:51:36,354 --> 00:51:38,834
of brains and money
to cut itself off
1069
00:51:38,878 --> 00:51:41,620
from the rest of America.
1070
00:51:41,663 --> 00:51:44,362
They give their leaders
hefty campaign contributions,
1071
00:51:44,405 --> 00:51:46,059
then sneer at the working class
1072
00:51:46,103 --> 00:51:49,018
for things like their religion
or even the way they dress.
1073
00:51:49,062 --> 00:51:51,151
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
1074
00:51:51,195 --> 00:51:53,153
The giant multinational
corporations
1075
00:51:53,197 --> 00:51:55,982
sent American
blue-collar jobs abroad.
1076
00:51:56,025 --> 00:51:57,549
At the same time,
1077
00:51:57,592 --> 00:52:00,378
the opioid outbreak hit the
American heartland hard.
1078
00:52:00,421 --> 00:52:01,814
And for a long time,
1079
00:52:01,857 --> 00:52:05,252
many in Washington seemed
not to pay attention.
1080
00:52:05,296 --> 00:52:07,820
Working-class folks are
not without their faults.
1081
00:52:07,863 --> 00:52:09,604
Politicians feed them nonsense.
1082
00:52:09,648 --> 00:52:13,695
They often believe it no matter
how absurd and destructive.
1083
00:52:13,739 --> 00:52:16,959
Watch this recent campaign ad
run by a reckless candidate
1084
00:52:17,003 --> 00:52:18,961
who appears to suggest
it's okay
1085
00:52:19,005 --> 00:52:20,833
to shoot his fellow politicians
1086
00:52:20,876 --> 00:52:22,139
if he doesn't agree with them.
1087
00:52:22,182 --> 00:52:24,184
I'm Eric Greitens, Navy SEAL,
1088
00:52:24,228 --> 00:52:27,492
and today,
we're going RINO hunting.
1089
00:52:27,535 --> 00:52:30,103
The RINO feeds on corruption
1090
00:52:30,147 --> 00:52:32,932
and is marked by
the stripes of cowardice.
1091
00:52:34,847 --> 00:52:37,415
[EXPLOSION]
1092
00:52:38,285 --> 00:52:41,332
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
1093
00:52:42,681 --> 00:52:44,987
DOUGLAS: But ask yourself,
do working-class
1094
00:52:45,031 --> 00:52:47,468
and middle-class families
deserve to be ridiculed
1095
00:52:47,512 --> 00:52:50,428
by so many elites
the way they often are today?
1096
00:52:50,471 --> 00:52:52,212
Good enough to fix your toilet,
1097
00:52:52,256 --> 00:52:53,779
but not good enough
to stay for coffee
1098
00:52:53,822 --> 00:52:57,870
or meet your friends or
merit some level of respect.
1099
00:52:57,913 --> 00:52:59,437
Our leaders failed to understand
1100
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:02,440
how global capitalism
made working families
1101
00:53:02,483 --> 00:53:04,268
take the worst hits.
1102
00:53:04,311 --> 00:53:07,445
These families lost jobs
and earned less money.
1103
00:53:07,488 --> 00:53:09,098
Our industrial supply chains
1104
00:53:09,142 --> 00:53:12,276
for things like life-saving
medicines were based in brutal
1105
00:53:12,319 --> 00:53:14,626
and unstable parts of the world.
1106
00:53:14,669 --> 00:53:16,671
What fool made that decision?
1107
00:53:16,715 --> 00:53:21,067
I think we need a return
to the idea of government
1108
00:53:21,110 --> 00:53:24,331
as a protector of
the middle class.
1109
00:53:24,375 --> 00:53:25,898
DOUGLAS: Capitalism
needs to be measured
1110
00:53:25,941 --> 00:53:29,293
not just by the bottom line,
but by the people it serves.
1111
00:53:29,336 --> 00:53:31,251
It's really the
Good Shepherd model.
1112
00:53:31,295 --> 00:53:32,644
We must all move ahead,
1113
00:53:32,687 --> 00:53:35,386
but we can't afford to
leave anyone behind.
1114
00:53:36,387 --> 00:53:39,216
[PLAYFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
1115
00:53:45,222 --> 00:53:49,356
Capitalism has also
become a lot more top-down than bottom-up.
1116
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:52,011
It's a system more and
more centrally controlled.
1117
00:53:52,054 --> 00:53:54,927
Large corporations overwhelm
the small businesses.
1118
00:53:54,970 --> 00:53:57,277
They lobby for special
corporate welfare
1119
00:53:57,321 --> 00:53:59,540
and use patent laws to
hurt other businesses.
1120
00:53:59,584 --> 00:54:02,761
They get special tax breaks,
they change the rules
1121
00:54:02,804 --> 00:54:04,023
to stifle competitors.
1122
00:54:04,066 --> 00:54:06,330
Anything to avoid a
level playing field.
1123
00:54:06,373 --> 00:54:09,028
In the grand battle of
David versus Goliath,
1124
00:54:09,071 --> 00:54:11,291
David doesn't have a chance.
1125
00:54:11,335 --> 00:54:12,858
And that makes
the economy more rigid
1126
00:54:12,901 --> 00:54:15,730
and less open to
new opportunities.
1127
00:54:15,774 --> 00:54:18,994
Both parties had walked away
from capitalism.
1128
00:54:19,038 --> 00:54:22,041
[PLAYFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
1129
00:54:28,569 --> 00:54:30,876
DOUGLAS: A ruthless
corporate elite in America
1130
00:54:30,919 --> 00:54:33,008
is picking winners and losers.
1131
00:54:33,052 --> 00:54:35,663
The big drug companies are
allowed to hire lobbyists
1132
00:54:35,707 --> 00:54:38,579
and lawyers to extend a drug
patent's termination date.
1133
00:54:38,623 --> 00:54:39,711
Why?
1134
00:54:39,754 --> 00:54:41,016
Why do that?
1135
00:54:41,060 --> 00:54:43,280
To keep drug prices high.
1136
00:54:43,323 --> 00:54:45,760
The cost to American
families each year
1137
00:54:45,804 --> 00:54:48,415
for the medicines they need
is about a third
1138
00:54:48,459 --> 00:54:52,637
of a trillion dollars,
right out of your pocket.
1139
00:54:55,248 --> 00:54:58,382
Now ask yourself,
how damaging is it to have so many
1140
00:54:58,425 --> 00:55:02,429
of our universities,
politicians, news channels, musicians,
1141
00:55:02,473 --> 00:55:06,564
and artists so dependent
on corporate support,
1142
00:55:06,607 --> 00:55:09,044
so heavily influenced
behind the scenes
1143
00:55:09,088 --> 00:55:11,612
by multinational corporations?
1144
00:55:11,656 --> 00:55:14,876
It means America is becoming
increasingly ungovernable
1145
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:16,400
as a democracy.
1146
00:55:16,443 --> 00:55:19,011
Trust in our major
institutions is collapsing.
1147
00:55:27,541 --> 00:55:29,935
DOUGLAS: Many are
infatuated with socialism,
1148
00:55:29,978 --> 00:55:31,937
but less than one in five
are aware
1149
00:55:31,980 --> 00:55:34,635
of what socialism actually is.
1150
00:55:34,679 --> 00:55:38,857
Why would these young people
have any great affection
1151
00:55:38,900 --> 00:55:40,249
for American capitalism?
1152
00:55:40,293 --> 00:55:43,252
They watched American
capitalism literally destroy
1153
00:55:43,296 --> 00:55:45,472
the economy in 2008.
1154
00:55:45,516 --> 00:55:49,868
They watched their parents
go through literal hell.
1155
00:55:49,911 --> 00:55:54,307
They've watched college
become beyond expensive.
1156
00:55:54,351 --> 00:55:56,265
They've watched
the healthcare system
1157
00:55:56,309 --> 00:55:58,529
become beyond expensive.
1158
00:55:58,572 --> 00:56:00,139
They've looked at
the job market,
1159
00:56:00,182 --> 00:56:01,880
they've looked at wage growth
1160
00:56:01,923 --> 00:56:06,014
and like, "What the shit
is this producing for me?"
1161
00:56:06,058 --> 00:56:08,800
You know, I could tell you
a lot of reasons
1162
00:56:08,843 --> 00:56:11,324
that you should try to work
to make capitalism better,
1163
00:56:11,368 --> 00:56:13,761
because the
alternatives never work.
1164
00:56:13,805 --> 00:56:17,243
The biggest problem, I think,
1165
00:56:17,286 --> 00:56:20,681
is American capitalism
buys Washington.
1166
00:56:20,725 --> 00:56:24,816
They're just for sale,
and everybody fricking knows it.
1167
00:56:24,859 --> 00:56:27,819
REPORTER: Sam Bankman-Fried
has been the second-biggest
1168
00:56:27,862 --> 00:56:32,301
individual donor in the
2021 to 2022 election cycle.
1169
00:56:32,345 --> 00:56:34,216
Bankman-Fried had made donations
1170
00:56:34,260 --> 00:56:37,481
worth 39.8 million US dollars.
1171
00:56:39,396 --> 00:56:41,180
DOUGLAS: In today's
Washington D.C.,
1172
00:56:41,223 --> 00:56:42,529
wealthy special interest groups
1173
00:56:42,573 --> 00:56:45,010
have wrapped their
tentacles around the city,
1174
00:56:45,053 --> 00:56:47,491
threatening to kill
our economy's dynamism.
1175
00:56:47,534 --> 00:56:49,536
I don't think
capitalism is the problem.
1176
00:56:49,580 --> 00:56:51,495
I think the problem is
the governance system.
1177
00:56:51,538 --> 00:56:54,715
If you have a
level playing field
1178
00:56:54,759 --> 00:56:58,937
where the government acts
as an impartial regulator,
1179
00:56:58,980 --> 00:57:02,941
you want capitalists to make
money to grow businesses.
1180
00:57:02,984 --> 00:57:06,161
But if they are able
to call the balls
1181
00:57:06,205 --> 00:57:08,033
and strikes in addition to that,
1182
00:57:08,076 --> 00:57:09,817
then people are
going to get screwed.
1183
00:57:09,861 --> 00:57:12,603
And the United States has,
in addition
1184
00:57:12,646 --> 00:57:15,649
to having the most
staggering entrepreneurship
1185
00:57:15,693 --> 00:57:17,172
and corporate innovation,
1186
00:57:17,216 --> 00:57:18,565
also has the system
1187
00:57:18,609 --> 00:57:22,221
where those same individuals
can write the rules.
1188
00:57:22,264 --> 00:57:25,050
That's not capitalism at all.
1189
00:57:25,093 --> 00:57:26,399
That's a subversion
1190
00:57:26,443 --> 00:57:28,270
of what the US system
is supposed to be about.
1191
00:57:28,314 --> 00:57:29,794
The average American
doesn't realize
1192
00:57:29,837 --> 00:57:34,015
how much the laws are
written by lobbyists.
1193
00:57:34,059 --> 00:57:36,714
And it's shocking now,
having spent a fair amount of time
1194
00:57:36,757 --> 00:57:40,674
inside the system,
how the system actually works.
1195
00:57:40,718 --> 00:57:44,983
And it's obvious that if
the system is organized
1196
00:57:45,026 --> 00:57:47,594
around incumbencies writing
the laws, the incumbencies
1197
00:57:47,638 --> 00:57:50,467
will benefit from the laws
that are written.
1198
00:57:50,510 --> 00:57:52,599
So a guy named Eric Hoffer,
1199
00:57:52,643 --> 00:57:56,168
a longshoreman philosopher,
said, in my opinion,
1200
00:57:56,211 --> 00:57:58,518
the smartest thing I've
ever heard in my life. He said...
1201
00:57:58,562 --> 00:58:00,651
[READING]
1202
00:58:04,306 --> 00:58:06,221
Welcome to the United States.
1203
00:58:07,135 --> 00:58:08,528
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
1204
00:58:08,572 --> 00:58:11,749
DOUGLAS: Capitalism has
become an insider's club.
1205
00:58:11,792 --> 00:58:14,186
Winners too often are
the subsidized, privileged,
1206
00:58:14,229 --> 00:58:16,275
or insiders who take advantage
1207
00:58:16,318 --> 00:58:18,886
of their political connections.
1208
00:58:18,930 --> 00:58:22,673
The outsiders like Mrs. B
wouldn't have a chance today.
1209
00:58:23,456 --> 00:58:25,284
How times have changed.
1210
00:58:25,327 --> 00:58:28,809
Would Bill Gates, with his tiny
young Seattle firm Microsoft
1211
00:58:28,853 --> 00:58:31,638
have been able to do what
he did with giant IBM
1212
00:58:31,682 --> 00:58:33,161
in today's climate?
1213
00:58:33,205 --> 00:58:35,294
Not a chance.
1214
00:58:35,337 --> 00:58:39,080
The bottom line, one reason
our economy isn't performing
1215
00:58:39,124 --> 00:58:40,517
with prosperity for all
1216
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:42,736
is the policy corruption
in Washington.
1217
00:58:42,780 --> 00:58:47,306
It is a system that
values campaign fundraising above people,
1218
00:58:47,349 --> 00:58:50,918
and a system that's
killing the American Dream.
1219
00:58:50,962 --> 00:58:53,268
As Jack Nicholson
so aptly said...
1220
00:58:53,312 --> 00:58:55,967
This town needs an enema.
1221
00:58:56,010 --> 00:58:57,708
[HORN BLOWING]
1222
00:59:09,197 --> 00:59:12,200
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
1223
01:00:54,433 --> 01:00:57,697
[PLAYFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
1224
01:01:02,006 --> 01:01:05,009
DOUGLAS: We need to
allow for new outside voices,
1225
01:01:05,052 --> 01:01:07,838
but that requires reform
of our political system
1226
01:01:07,881 --> 01:01:09,709
and how we fund it.
1227
01:01:10,841 --> 01:01:14,105
Politics isn't broken,
it's fixed.
1228
01:01:14,148 --> 01:01:17,804
Our political system
essentially puts the voter
1229
01:01:17,848 --> 01:01:19,719
at the bottom.
1230
01:01:19,763 --> 01:01:22,983
We need to elevate
the power of the voter
1231
01:01:23,027 --> 01:01:27,684
as the premier customer,
and make the currency of votes
1232
01:01:27,727 --> 01:01:31,426
more important
than the currency of money.
1233
01:01:31,470 --> 01:01:32,689
Politicians around money
1234
01:01:32,732 --> 01:01:34,691
are like drug addicts
around cocaine.
1235
01:01:36,431 --> 01:01:40,653
It really takes a reinvention
1236
01:01:40,697 --> 01:01:43,961
of the core structures
of that system.
1237
01:01:44,004 --> 01:01:48,661
We can't expect incremental
improvements to get us out
1238
01:01:48,705 --> 01:01:50,837
of the state that we're in.
1239
01:01:50,881 --> 01:01:57,017
Until you get at the
problem of money in politics,
1240
01:01:57,061 --> 01:01:59,759
people are not gonna feel
like they have a place
1241
01:01:59,803 --> 01:02:01,239
in the system.
1242
01:02:01,282 --> 01:02:04,459
I'd say, "Oh, no, you know,
when you get older you'll,
1243
01:02:04,503 --> 01:02:05,765
"you'll get better perspective
1244
01:02:05,809 --> 01:02:07,680
"and you'll see things
in a different way."
1245
01:02:07,724 --> 01:02:08,855
No.
1246
01:02:08,899 --> 01:02:10,465
It's really bad.
1247
01:02:12,206 --> 01:02:13,686
DOUGLAS: The system is rigged
1248
01:02:13,730 --> 01:02:16,123
in favor of the two parties.
1249
01:02:16,167 --> 01:02:18,343
It's the ultimate racket.
1250
01:02:18,386 --> 01:02:20,780
Just follow the money.
1251
01:02:20,824 --> 01:02:25,393
A person can give
$847,500 annually
1252
01:02:25,437 --> 01:02:27,961
to either or both of
our political parties.
1253
01:02:28,005 --> 01:02:30,007
But someone running as
an independent is limited
1254
01:02:30,050 --> 01:02:34,054
to receiving only
$5,400 every two years.
1255
01:02:34,098 --> 01:02:37,101
The parties have colluded
to create fundraising rules
1256
01:02:37,144 --> 01:02:41,105
that allow their candidates to
receive 313 times more money
1257
01:02:41,148 --> 01:02:43,194
than an independent candidate.
1258
01:02:43,237 --> 01:02:44,499
Is that fair?
1259
01:02:44,543 --> 01:02:47,633
It's an insider's club,
but only two sides.
1260
01:02:47,676 --> 01:02:50,505
Both political parties are
experts at reducing nuanced,
1261
01:02:50,549 --> 01:02:53,682
complex problems into
extremist slogans.
1262
01:02:53,726 --> 01:02:55,075
No room for new voices
1263
01:02:55,119 --> 01:02:57,599
and little accountability
for their own results.
1264
01:02:57,643 --> 01:03:01,038
Their fundraising rules
reflect the political corruption of our time.
1265
01:03:01,081 --> 01:03:03,910
Play to the high-dollar donors.
Let the rest of the country
1266
01:03:03,954 --> 01:03:06,783
flirt with civil war,
then do nothing about it
1267
01:03:06,826 --> 01:03:08,741
or actually promote division.
1268
01:03:08,785 --> 01:03:10,961
This is the selfish
insanity of our times.
1269
01:03:11,004 --> 01:03:12,571
The things that matter
in this country
1270
01:03:12,614 --> 01:03:14,007
have been reduced in choice.
1271
01:03:14,051 --> 01:03:16,053
There are two political parties,
there are a handful
1272
01:03:16,096 --> 01:03:18,098
of insurance companies,
but if you want a bagel,
1273
01:03:18,142 --> 01:03:20,622
there are 23 flavors
'cause you have the illusion.
1274
01:03:20,666 --> 01:03:23,669
You have the illusion of choice.
1275
01:03:23,712 --> 01:03:25,627
DOUGLAS: Politics
is also dark money.
1276
01:03:25,671 --> 01:03:28,195
Dark money has grabbed
the American political system
1277
01:03:28,239 --> 01:03:29,240
by the throat.
1278
01:03:29,283 --> 01:03:30,850
The 2010 Supreme Court decision
1279
01:03:30,894 --> 01:03:33,113
Citizens United
allows billionaires
1280
01:03:33,157 --> 01:03:35,942
and corporations to spend
virtually unlimited amounts
1281
01:03:35,986 --> 01:03:38,727
of indirect support of
candidates and their causes
1282
01:03:38,771 --> 01:03:41,034
and they can do so anonymously.
1283
01:03:41,078 --> 01:03:43,863
Is that not the definition
of the word crazy?
1284
01:03:45,169 --> 01:03:47,084
[PLAYFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
1285
01:03:54,221 --> 01:03:57,790
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
1286
01:03:57,834 --> 01:04:01,054
Politicians constantly say
things we know are not true,
1287
01:04:01,098 --> 01:04:03,752
or they simplify things
of nuance and complexity.
1288
01:04:03,796 --> 01:04:05,798
Yet we go along with the lies.
1289
01:04:05,842 --> 01:04:07,060
Why?
1290
01:04:07,104 --> 01:04:09,367
Because we don't want
our side to lose.
1291
01:04:09,410 --> 01:04:12,892
Each party's media
cheerleaders pass on the lies.
1292
01:04:12,936 --> 01:04:14,938
It's not whether
the information is true.
1293
01:04:14,981 --> 01:04:17,592
It's whether
the base believes it.
1294
01:04:19,377 --> 01:04:23,294
Talk about a sure way to
destroy our democracy.
1295
01:04:23,337 --> 01:04:27,646
It's almost as if cable TV
networks have become clubs
1296
01:04:27,689 --> 01:04:28,908
and that they're in the business
1297
01:04:28,952 --> 01:04:31,302
of telling you
the people you like are great.
1298
01:04:31,345 --> 01:04:32,999
The people you hate are awful.
1299
01:04:33,043 --> 01:04:38,396
Somehow, that space where
you challenge people's
1300
01:04:38,439 --> 01:04:41,573
preconceptions rather
than reinforcing them
1301
01:04:41,616 --> 01:04:43,140
has to be rebuilt.
1302
01:04:44,750 --> 01:04:46,143
DOUGLAS: But wouldn't it
be simpler
1303
01:04:46,186 --> 01:04:49,668
if we all told the truth,
both sides?
1304
01:04:49,711 --> 01:04:52,932
We first need to agree
on a common set of facts.
1305
01:04:52,976 --> 01:04:56,544
We need less heat
and more light.
1306
01:04:56,588 --> 01:05:00,026
If we're not careful, America
will descend into a chaos,
1307
01:05:00,070 --> 01:05:02,986
a moral chaos that could
destroy our future.
1308
01:05:04,726 --> 01:05:07,860
In 1798, John Adams wrote
a famous letter warning
1309
01:05:07,904 --> 01:05:09,993
of the weaknesses
of our government.
1310
01:05:10,036 --> 01:05:11,820
A government he helped create.
1311
01:05:11,864 --> 01:05:13,387
Every American should read it.
1312
01:05:13,431 --> 01:05:17,217
ADAMS:
"If the people's virtue fails, our constitutional
1313
01:05:17,261 --> 01:05:20,917
"form of government lacks
the power to preserve itself.
1314
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:23,136
"We can't contain the mob."
1315
01:05:25,051 --> 01:05:28,098
Maybe it's not the
politicians who suck.
1316
01:05:28,141 --> 01:05:33,277
Maybe something else sucks
around here, like the public.
1317
01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:35,714
Because if it's really just
the fault of these politicians,
1318
01:05:35,757 --> 01:05:39,152
then where are all the other
bright people of conscience?
1319
01:05:39,196 --> 01:05:40,414
Where are all the
bright, honest,
1320
01:05:40,458 --> 01:05:42,764
intelligent Americans
ready to step in
1321
01:05:42,808 --> 01:05:44,418
and save the nation
and lead the way?
1322
01:05:46,551 --> 01:05:49,380
Look, unfortunately,
1323
01:05:51,251 --> 01:05:53,688
the most qualified
people in America
1324
01:05:53,732 --> 01:05:56,256
don't run for public office.
1325
01:05:56,300 --> 01:05:58,432
DOUGLAS: We need leaders
who care less about politics
1326
01:05:58,476 --> 01:06:01,609
and themselves and more
about the common good.
1327
01:06:02,697 --> 01:06:04,569
People in communities,
1328
01:06:04,612 --> 01:06:06,571
they don't fight over
Republicans or Democrats.
1329
01:06:06,614 --> 01:06:09,095
They got a pothole,
you deal with the damn pothole.
1330
01:06:11,184 --> 01:06:14,274
The whole country's got
a fucked-up mentality, man.
1331
01:06:14,318 --> 01:06:17,103
Everybody's so busy wanting
to be down with a gang.
1332
01:06:17,147 --> 01:06:18,713
"I'm a conservative,
I'm liberal, I'm conservative."
1333
01:06:18,757 --> 01:06:19,758
It's bullshit.
1334
01:06:19,801 --> 01:06:22,326
Be a fucking person.
1335
01:06:22,369 --> 01:06:23,762
Listen.
1336
01:06:23,805 --> 01:06:26,199
Let it swirl around your head.
1337
01:06:26,243 --> 01:06:28,506
Then form your opinion.
1338
01:06:28,549 --> 01:06:33,641
No normal, decent person
is one thing. Okay?
1339
01:06:33,685 --> 01:06:35,817
I got some shit
I'm conservative about.
1340
01:06:35,861 --> 01:06:37,906
I got some shit
I'm liberal about.
1341
01:06:37,950 --> 01:06:39,430
The problems
we're having today,
1342
01:06:39,473 --> 01:06:42,911
they pale in comparison
to the problems we had
1343
01:06:42,955 --> 01:06:45,740
in advance of the Civil War
1344
01:06:45,784 --> 01:06:47,612
and they pale in comparison
1345
01:06:47,655 --> 01:06:50,615
to other problems we've
had throughout history.
1346
01:06:50,658 --> 01:06:52,617
We've prevailed over those.
1347
01:06:52,660 --> 01:06:54,532
We will prevail over these.
1348
01:06:54,575 --> 01:06:57,361
By saying that I
see a path to success,
1349
01:06:57,404 --> 01:07:01,060
I'm not telling you that
there's not an alternative path.
1350
01:07:01,104 --> 01:07:02,583
I do see the path.
1351
01:07:02,627 --> 01:07:07,153
I think deep down,
Secretary Baker is probably right,
1352
01:07:07,197 --> 01:07:08,937
but you know,
that's like if you go in,
1353
01:07:08,981 --> 01:07:10,852
and you got some kind of
medical procedure, say, "Look,
1354
01:07:10,896 --> 01:07:13,638
"you know, there's a 30% chance
this doesn't work out."
1355
01:07:13,681 --> 01:07:17,990
Things may all be manifest
in a large-scale fiscal crisis,
1356
01:07:18,034 --> 01:07:21,167
and current debts-to-GDP ratios
1357
01:07:21,211 --> 01:07:22,690
are already remarkably high.
1358
01:07:22,734 --> 01:07:25,128
They're like where they were
at the end of World War II,
1359
01:07:25,171 --> 01:07:27,086
but we haven't
started the war yet.
1360
01:07:34,093 --> 01:07:37,618
I'd like to award an
Oscar to the inventors
1361
01:07:37,662 --> 01:07:39,620
of the 20th century.
1362
01:07:39,664 --> 01:07:41,144
The people from
1363
01:07:41,187 --> 01:07:42,928
Alexander Graham Bell
to Thomas Edison,
1364
01:07:42,971 --> 01:07:45,539
to the Wright Brothers,
I'd like to call them all up here
1365
01:07:45,583 --> 01:07:47,498
and they're gonna
call back to you.
1366
01:07:47,541 --> 01:07:51,371
Your challenge is,
can you match what we achieved?
1367
01:07:51,415 --> 01:07:54,287
And my prediction is that
we're not gonna match them.
1368
01:07:54,331 --> 01:07:56,811
DOUGLAS: That's one view,
that we will forever experience
1369
01:07:56,855 --> 01:07:58,422
an innovation slowdown.
1370
01:07:58,465 --> 01:08:00,163
But others strongly disagree.
1371
01:08:00,206 --> 01:08:03,601
I believe we're
going through maybe
1372
01:08:03,644 --> 01:08:06,691
one of the great productivity
booms that we've been through
1373
01:08:06,734 --> 01:08:09,215
maybe since the
Industrial Revolution,
1374
01:08:09,259 --> 01:08:11,304
driven by the tech sector,
1375
01:08:11,348 --> 01:08:14,264
artificial intelligence
and the cloud,
1376
01:08:14,307 --> 01:08:16,570
and now they're doing data
analytics on the cloud.
1377
01:08:16,614 --> 01:08:19,704
And a lot of this, of course,
goes unmeasured.
1378
01:08:19,747 --> 01:08:24,143
It's really hard for me
to not think that this is one
1379
01:08:24,187 --> 01:08:26,232
of those dark periods
like the Civil War
1380
01:08:26,276 --> 01:08:29,192
or the '70s that America's
gonna come out of.
1381
01:08:31,281 --> 01:08:33,979
DOUGLAS: America's best days
could still lie ahead.
1382
01:08:34,022 --> 01:08:35,676
I think we're
onwards and upwards.
1383
01:08:35,720 --> 01:08:38,201
I mean, for 50 years,
the artificial intelligence revolution
1384
01:08:38,244 --> 01:08:40,203
has basically
disappointed and stalled
1385
01:08:40,246 --> 01:08:42,901
and now it is making
explosive gains.
1386
01:08:42,944 --> 01:08:47,079
Quantum computing,
explosive gains, biotechnology,
1387
01:08:47,123 --> 01:08:49,429
CRISPR technology,
genetic engineering,
1388
01:08:49,473 --> 01:08:52,563
explosive gains, new energies.
1389
01:08:52,606 --> 01:08:55,957
Solar is cheaper at scale
than coal is today.
1390
01:08:56,001 --> 01:08:57,307
That's extraordinary.
1391
01:08:57,350 --> 01:08:59,004
Electric vehicles
and supply chain,
1392
01:08:59,047 --> 01:09:03,400
my God, I mean,
fusion technology even may well be breakout now
1393
01:09:03,443 --> 01:09:05,489
after disappointments
for decades.
1394
01:09:05,532 --> 01:09:08,231
I am staggered by the scale
1395
01:09:08,274 --> 01:09:11,886
and quickness of
innovation in technologies
1396
01:09:11,930 --> 01:09:13,758
across the board.
1397
01:09:13,801 --> 01:09:17,631
The unlocking of human
potential with education
1398
01:09:17,675 --> 01:09:20,982
and globalization has been
the most extraordinary story
1399
01:09:21,026 --> 01:09:23,333
in the history of humanity.
1400
01:09:23,376 --> 01:09:25,291
DOUGLAS: That's the
message of this film.
1401
01:09:25,335 --> 01:09:27,946
There are significant
reasons to be hopeful.
1402
01:09:27,989 --> 01:09:30,688
This is the time for
the best strategic minds
1403
01:09:30,731 --> 01:09:34,344
from both sides to come together
on a new American game plan
1404
01:09:34,387 --> 01:09:37,434
of empathy, risk-taking,
courage, and honesty.
1405
01:09:37,477 --> 01:09:40,437
This is the time for
a brave, new, talented,
1406
01:09:40,480 --> 01:09:42,090
charismatic problem-solver
1407
01:09:42,134 --> 01:09:45,485
to throw away the label and
embrace America as a flawed
1408
01:09:45,529 --> 01:09:48,619
but unique experiment in
the history of humanity.
1409
01:09:48,662 --> 01:09:51,361
If we could build the tallest
building in the world
1410
01:09:51,404 --> 01:09:54,451
in a year and 45 days,
we can create a new
1411
01:09:54,494 --> 01:09:57,976
and better land of opportunity
where everyone has a chance
1412
01:09:58,019 --> 01:09:59,847
and no one's left behind.
1413
01:09:59,891 --> 01:10:02,894
Is that special leader
out there listening?
1414
01:10:02,937 --> 01:10:04,504
Are the rest of us listening
1415
01:10:04,548 --> 01:10:07,290
to the persistent call from
folks screaming for a return
1416
01:10:07,333 --> 01:10:08,813
of the American Dream?
1417
01:10:11,424 --> 01:10:14,384
[LIVELY MUSIC PLAYING]
1418
01:10:24,220 --> 01:10:28,006
I am optimistic
about America's future.
1419
01:10:28,049 --> 01:10:29,355
If you go back through history,
1420
01:10:29,399 --> 01:10:31,488
people thought the
Russians would surpass us.
1421
01:10:31,531 --> 01:10:33,881
We got it together
and it didn't happen.
1422
01:10:33,925 --> 01:10:36,493
The President of the United
States declared a crisis
1423
01:10:36,536 --> 01:10:37,581
of the national spirit.
1424
01:10:37,624 --> 01:10:38,799
"...confidence in the future."
1425
01:10:38,843 --> 01:10:40,758
The malaise lifted.
1426
01:10:40,801 --> 01:10:44,544
People felt that the Cold War
was over and Japan had won
1427
01:10:44,588 --> 01:10:48,548
and we had a period of
remarkable economic prosperity.
1428
01:10:48,592 --> 01:10:50,507
Patrick Henry declared
that the spirit
1429
01:10:50,550 --> 01:10:52,639
of the revolution had been lost.
1430
01:10:52,683 --> 01:10:56,774
That was in 1792,
and he was wrong.
1431
01:10:56,817 --> 01:11:00,821
And so it is the great
strength of America
1432
01:11:00,865 --> 01:11:05,086
that Americans change
and shape its future
1433
01:11:05,130 --> 01:11:06,871
that makes it very resilient.
1434
01:11:06,914 --> 01:11:09,308
[LIVELY MUSIC PLAYING]
1435
01:11:09,352 --> 01:11:11,919
DOUGLAS: There are no
facts about the future.
1436
01:11:11,963 --> 01:11:15,923
Our future is in our hands,
if we come to our senses.
1437
01:11:16,924 --> 01:11:18,578
We control our destiny.
1438
01:11:21,581 --> 01:11:24,062
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
1439
01:11:24,105 --> 01:11:26,238
REPORTER: This is ABC News.
1440
01:11:26,282 --> 01:11:28,371
Yesterday, a different
kind of president,
1441
01:11:28,414 --> 01:11:30,286
a non-partisan pragmatist,
1442
01:11:30,329 --> 01:11:33,724
easily won the White House on
the promise to unify America
1443
01:11:33,767 --> 01:11:37,684
behind a spirit of humility,
empathy, and courage.
1444
01:11:37,728 --> 01:11:41,253
Our new president's Common
Ground campaign was a big win
1445
01:11:41,297 --> 01:11:42,776
for the middle class.
1446
01:11:42,820 --> 01:11:46,911
The extremists,
both left and right, lost big.
1447
01:11:48,129 --> 01:11:49,609
And this just in.
1448
01:11:49,653 --> 01:11:52,656
In a stunning post-election
poll taken yesterday,
1449
01:11:52,699 --> 01:11:54,527
three out of four Americans
1450
01:11:54,571 --> 01:11:57,313
said they are suddenly
optimistic about the future.
1451
01:11:57,356 --> 01:12:00,577
A month ago,
only one in four Americans
1452
01:12:00,620 --> 01:12:04,058
felt their country's best days
could still lie ahead.
1453
01:12:04,102 --> 01:12:06,060
It's a new day in America.
1454
01:12:06,104 --> 01:12:07,453
In an acceptance speech,
1455
01:12:07,497 --> 01:12:10,413
our new president
declared there is a way.
1456
01:12:11,936 --> 01:12:14,330
Wall Street firms have,
for years,
1457
01:12:14,373 --> 01:12:16,462
had their own
special tax loophole
1458
01:12:16,506 --> 01:12:18,769
for what they call
"carried interest."
1459
01:12:18,812 --> 01:12:21,598
Wall Street firms should
give up some of the tax break
1460
01:12:21,641 --> 01:12:24,296
and we should then
use that extra revenue
1461
01:12:24,340 --> 01:12:26,603
to expand a provision
in the tax code
1462
01:12:26,646 --> 01:12:29,780
called the Earned Income
Tax Credit.
1463
01:12:29,823 --> 01:12:32,260
This credit helps financially
stressed working families
1464
01:12:32,304 --> 01:12:36,134
who are at risk of falling
out of the middle class.
1465
01:12:36,177 --> 01:12:37,440
Our new president also wants
1466
01:12:37,483 --> 01:12:40,834
to make every
American an investor.
1467
01:12:40,878 --> 01:12:43,663
The commander-in-chief will
provide every child at birth
1468
01:12:43,707 --> 01:12:48,102
a stock index account with
a $10,000 loan paid back
1469
01:12:48,146 --> 01:12:50,148
with interest in 60 years.
1470
01:12:50,191 --> 01:12:53,107
By then, the account
could easily be worth
1471
01:12:53,151 --> 01:12:54,805
a million dollars or more.
1472
01:12:54,848 --> 01:12:58,156
It's called the Miracle
of Financial Compounding.
1473
01:12:58,199 --> 01:13:00,811
Young people can add to
that account as it grows
1474
01:13:00,854 --> 01:13:04,554
and use some of it
for education.
1475
01:13:04,597 --> 01:13:07,165
"Social media is threatening
our way of life,"
1476
01:13:07,208 --> 01:13:08,819
says our new president.
1477
01:13:08,862 --> 01:13:11,604
"The social media companies
should face the same libel laws
1478
01:13:11,648 --> 01:13:14,694
"as The New York Times
and other media outlets."
1479
01:13:14,738 --> 01:13:17,523
Yesterday's remarks concluded
with this demand of Congress
1480
01:13:17,567 --> 01:13:21,048
by the new president. Quote,
"It is time to sit down
1481
01:13:21,092 --> 01:13:22,789
"with the other side.
1482
01:13:22,833 --> 01:13:25,662
"Today, Congress works
two days a week, then they fly home
1483
01:13:25,705 --> 01:13:28,708
"to raise money from their
heavy-hitter supporters.
1484
01:13:28,752 --> 01:13:31,711
"It is time members of Congress
work five days a week
1485
01:13:31,755 --> 01:13:34,758
"like the rest of America
and get stuff done.
1486
01:13:34,801 --> 01:13:36,716
"They need to bring their
families to Washington
1487
01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:38,805
"where they can all get
to know each other.
1488
01:13:38,849 --> 01:13:41,504
"It is hard to
hate the other side when your families
1489
01:13:41,547 --> 01:13:43,070
"are close friends."
1490
01:13:44,594 --> 01:13:46,900
And from now on,
it will be a federal crime
1491
01:13:46,944 --> 01:13:50,382
for a corporate lobbyist or a
lobbyist for a foreign country
1492
01:13:50,426 --> 01:13:52,906
to write their own bills
in Congress.
1493
01:13:52,950 --> 01:13:56,649
The insider's clubhouse
is closed.
1494
01:13:56,693 --> 01:14:00,174
Our new president wants to
end this ugly American era
1495
01:14:00,218 --> 01:14:02,046
of hate and division.
1496
01:14:02,089 --> 01:14:05,092
After all,
we are all in this together.
1497
01:14:05,136 --> 01:14:09,445
For all of our faults, America
is an aspirational country.
1498
01:14:09,488 --> 01:14:13,405
Our ideals have always
far exceeded our reality.
1499
01:14:13,449 --> 01:14:16,974
Nevertheless, we're
an amazing experiment.
1500
01:14:17,017 --> 01:14:18,715
We're completely
unique in history.
1501
01:14:18,758 --> 01:14:20,194
There'll never be
another America.
1502
01:14:20,238 --> 01:14:21,282
We're it.
1503
01:14:21,326 --> 01:14:24,416
It's an experiment in humanity.
1504
01:14:24,460 --> 01:14:26,897
It almost would be
impossible to duplicate.
1505
01:14:26,940 --> 01:14:28,246
I wish I could live to be 200
1506
01:14:28,289 --> 01:14:30,117
'cause I'm sure it's
going to even be better
1507
01:14:30,161 --> 01:14:31,162
than it is right now.
1508
01:14:31,205 --> 01:14:32,685
Absolutely.
1509
01:14:32,729 --> 01:14:35,383
We've proven as a nation,
1510
01:14:35,427 --> 01:14:36,733
you give us a mountain to climb
1511
01:14:36,776 --> 01:14:38,604
and we'll show you
how to climb it.
1512
01:14:38,648 --> 01:14:43,087
What can help us out of this?
There is competition
1513
01:14:43,130 --> 01:14:44,610
with a rival superpower.
1514
01:14:44,654 --> 01:14:47,004
The ambitions of China
1515
01:14:47,047 --> 01:14:51,443
and the external threat
that it constitutes may help us
1516
01:14:51,487 --> 01:14:56,056
pull ourselves out of
this dangerous spiral
1517
01:14:56,100 --> 01:14:58,276
of hatred and stagnation.
1518
01:14:58,319 --> 01:15:00,800
We can disagree about a whole
range of cultural issues,
1519
01:15:00,844 --> 01:15:03,803
which seem hugely important
to us at this moment,
1520
01:15:03,847 --> 01:15:08,591
but if we ask the question,
"Would you rather be run
1521
01:15:08,634 --> 01:15:11,071
"by the Chinese Communist Party
1522
01:15:11,115 --> 01:15:14,161
"or would you rather stick
with the rule of law
1523
01:15:14,205 --> 01:15:15,641
"and constitutional government?"
1524
01:15:15,685 --> 01:15:18,601
I think we might still
find some consensus
1525
01:15:18,644 --> 01:15:20,733
on sticking with the latter.
1526
01:15:20,777 --> 01:15:25,608
When I look at 2100
and I think about a world
1527
01:15:25,651 --> 01:15:30,221
that is no longer
reliant on fossil fuels,
1528
01:15:30,264 --> 01:15:34,486
I think about a world that
has incredible abundance
1529
01:15:34,530 --> 01:15:37,489
of inexpensive,
decentralized energy.
1530
01:15:37,533 --> 01:15:38,664
We've never had
a world like that.
1531
01:15:38,708 --> 01:15:39,970
That's an extraordinary world.
1532
01:15:40,013 --> 01:15:42,102
That's a world that
unlocks an enormous amount
1533
01:15:42,146 --> 01:15:43,451
of human potential.
1534
01:15:43,495 --> 01:15:47,412
What I don't know is to
get from here to there,
1535
01:15:47,455 --> 01:15:49,501
the level of
political dysfunction,
1536
01:15:49,545 --> 01:15:52,156
technological dysfunction,
economic hardship
1537
01:15:52,199 --> 01:15:53,592
that will be experienced.
1538
01:15:56,987 --> 01:16:00,599
When I think of two Americas,
I think of over-45
1539
01:16:00,643 --> 01:16:02,862
and under-45,
and if somehow or another,
1540
01:16:02,906 --> 01:16:06,736
all of us old people just
got the hell outta here,
1541
01:16:06,779 --> 01:16:10,522
because young America is
really not that divided.
1542
01:16:10,566 --> 01:16:13,525
All right?
If you go look at the numbers,
1543
01:16:13,569 --> 01:16:15,832
they're very different
than Old America.
1544
01:16:15,875 --> 01:16:20,445
And generational, and so
if we can just get through
1545
01:16:20,488 --> 01:16:22,839
the next, I don't know,
15 years,
1546
01:16:22,882 --> 01:16:24,362
we're not gonna be that divided.
1547
01:16:28,801 --> 01:16:31,456
DOUGLAS: America is
not a perfect country.
1548
01:16:31,499 --> 01:16:33,153
We've made mistakes,
1549
01:16:34,764 --> 01:16:37,070
but America's best days
could still lie ahead
1550
01:16:37,114 --> 01:16:39,420
if we're willing
to do the hard work
1551
01:16:39,464 --> 01:16:42,075
of understanding each other.
1552
01:16:42,119 --> 01:16:43,207
I love America.
1553
01:16:43,250 --> 01:16:44,556
America abuses my people,
1554
01:16:44,600 --> 01:16:46,253
but I love my country
and I believe
1555
01:16:46,297 --> 01:16:49,169
that we can make it
what it deserves to be.
1556
01:16:49,213 --> 01:16:50,997
We can do it together,
but we have to
1557
01:16:51,041 --> 01:16:55,523
build a solid foundation
in our communities.
1558
01:16:55,567 --> 01:16:57,525
DOUGLAS: America is burning.
1559
01:16:57,569 --> 01:16:58,918
Burning with a desire
1560
01:16:58,962 --> 01:17:02,356
to bring back the American
Dream for everyone.
1561
01:17:04,445 --> 01:17:06,099
This is a very exciting time.
1562
01:17:06,143 --> 01:17:10,495
The tools that we have
to develop opportunity for ourselves
1563
01:17:10,538 --> 01:17:15,369
and globally are like no tools
we have ever had before.
1564
01:17:15,413 --> 01:17:19,243
But are we going to rebuild
our nation with that?
1565
01:17:20,897 --> 01:17:23,421
Are we gonna rebuild
our planet with that?
1566
01:17:25,118 --> 01:17:29,340
Will we learn from the mistakes
of our very recent past?
1567
01:17:29,383 --> 01:17:33,997
So it is we, the people,
ultimately, that are going to have to
1568
01:17:34,040 --> 01:17:39,742
rise up and say, "Wait a minute,
this is our democracy.
1569
01:17:39,785 --> 01:17:41,657
"We can do better."
1570
01:17:41,700 --> 01:17:45,617
I think that our elections
are character tests.
1571
01:17:45,661 --> 01:17:48,011
Obviously, we're testing the
characters of the candidates
1572
01:17:48,054 --> 01:17:50,796
and weighing them,
but in a broader sense,
1573
01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:53,756
they test the character
of the electorate.
1574
01:17:53,799 --> 01:17:56,497
People have an
immediate opportunity
1575
01:17:56,541 --> 01:17:57,934
to change what they don't like.
1576
01:17:57,977 --> 01:17:59,936
By turning out, voting,
1577
01:17:59,979 --> 01:18:02,112
by getting involved in
the political process,
1578
01:18:02,155 --> 01:18:06,290
by reforming the parties,
by having cleaner election laws
1579
01:18:06,333 --> 01:18:07,595
that take dirty money out.
1580
01:18:07,639 --> 01:18:09,597
We've become, I'll be frank,
1581
01:18:09,641 --> 01:18:11,556
a lazy citizenry.
1582
01:18:11,599 --> 01:18:13,906
There is, without a doubt,
1583
01:18:13,950 --> 01:18:17,910
a road to best days ahead
for the country.
1584
01:18:17,954 --> 01:18:21,827
But let me be clear, we are
not on that road and I...
1585
01:18:25,265 --> 01:18:30,053
I don't think that we
do ourselves justice
1586
01:18:30,096 --> 01:18:34,884
to pretend that that road
is just around the corner
1587
01:18:34,927 --> 01:18:38,322
and that it's somehow part
of America's birthright
1588
01:18:38,365 --> 01:18:42,805
or our pre-destiny because
it's happened that way before.
1589
01:18:42,848 --> 01:18:48,288
This "best days ahead"
is both an opportunity
1590
01:18:48,332 --> 01:18:50,160
and a responsibility,
1591
01:18:50,203 --> 01:18:53,380
but it's also,
most importantly, a choice.
1592
01:18:53,424 --> 01:18:55,948
DOUGLAS: But ultimately,
America's problem
1593
01:18:55,992 --> 01:18:59,082
is more than the economy,
our dysfunctional politics
1594
01:18:59,125 --> 01:19:01,911
and our broken system
of communication.
1595
01:19:01,954 --> 01:19:04,783
Our problem is us.
1596
01:19:04,827 --> 01:19:08,047
We need to find that
revolution of the heart.
1597
01:19:08,091 --> 01:19:11,834
We need to break free of the
chains of hate and division.
1598
01:19:13,444 --> 01:19:16,882
We need to make our
way back to unity.
1599
01:19:20,320 --> 01:19:25,543
[I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND
WHAT I'M LOOKING FORPLAYING]
1600
01:19:29,373 --> 01:19:34,204
♪ I have climbed
highest mountains
1601
01:19:34,247 --> 01:19:38,512
♪ I have run
through the fields
1602
01:19:38,556 --> 01:19:43,082
♪ Only to be with you
1603
01:19:43,126 --> 01:19:47,565
♪ Only to be with you
1604
01:19:48,566 --> 01:19:50,829
♪ I have run
1605
01:19:50,873 --> 01:19:53,049
♪ I have crawled
1606
01:19:53,092 --> 01:19:54,311
♪ I have scaled... ♪
1607
01:19:54,354 --> 01:19:55,965
[MAN READING]
1608
01:20:05,104 --> 01:20:10,109
Ask not what your
country can do for you.
1609
01:20:10,153 --> 01:20:13,156
Ask what you can do
for your country.
1610
01:20:13,199 --> 01:20:15,375
[CROWD CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]
1611
01:20:15,419 --> 01:20:19,945
How can we love our country
and not love our countrymen?
1612
01:20:19,989 --> 01:20:22,600
Bipartisanship was
not a four-letter word.
1613
01:20:22,643 --> 01:20:28,084
Neither Democrats nor
Republicans have a monopoly on wisdom.
1614
01:20:28,127 --> 01:20:29,825
The essence of America,
1615
01:20:29,868 --> 01:20:33,089
what really unites us,
is not nationality
1616
01:20:33,132 --> 01:20:35,439
or ethnicity or religion.
1617
01:20:35,961 --> 01:20:37,789
It is an idea.
1618
01:20:37,833 --> 01:20:40,879
And what an idea it is,
1619
01:20:40,923 --> 01:20:43,577
that you can come from
humble circumstances
1620
01:20:43,621 --> 01:20:45,579
and you can do great things.
1621
01:20:45,623 --> 01:20:47,625
I have a dream today.
1622
01:20:49,018 --> 01:20:51,716
Martin Luther King
isn't a Black hero.
1623
01:20:51,759 --> 01:20:53,109
He's an American hero.
1624
01:20:53,152 --> 01:20:54,458
CARLIN: I used to
be Irish Catholic.
1625
01:20:54,501 --> 01:20:56,764
Now I'm an American.
You know, you grow.
1626
01:20:56,808 --> 01:20:59,158
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
1627
01:20:59,202 --> 01:21:02,466
MOTHER TERESA: Only humility
will lead us to unity.
1628
01:21:03,380 --> 01:21:04,381
Here's the deal.
1629
01:21:04,424 --> 01:21:07,210
We're never gonna
solve this shit
1630
01:21:07,253 --> 01:21:09,560
until we all get
on the same page.
1631
01:21:09,603 --> 01:21:11,867
You need to know how
to solve your problems.
1632
01:21:11,910 --> 01:21:15,305
You need to know
where your power lies.
1633
01:21:15,348 --> 01:21:20,876
You are Americans, so your
power lies in each other.
1634
01:21:21,659 --> 01:21:23,530
[MAYA ANGELOU READING]
1635
01:21:47,554 --> 01:21:52,168
♪ I believe in
the kingdom come
1636
01:21:52,211 --> 01:21:56,737
♪ Then all the colors
will bleed into one
1637
01:21:56,781 --> 01:22:01,090
♪ Bleed into one
1638
01:22:01,133 --> 01:22:04,963
♪ But yes, I'm still running
1639
01:22:06,095 --> 01:22:07,923
♪ You broke the bonds
1640
01:22:07,966 --> 01:22:11,230
♪ And you loosed the chains
1641
01:22:11,274 --> 01:22:13,667
♪ Carried the cross
1642
01:22:13,711 --> 01:22:16,018
♪ Of my shame
1643
01:22:16,061 --> 01:22:20,196
♪ Of my shame
1644
01:22:20,239 --> 01:22:25,375
♪ You know I believe it
1645
01:22:25,418 --> 01:22:32,295
♪ But I still haven't found
what I'm looking for
1646
01:22:34,906 --> 01:22:41,565
♪ But I still haven't found
what I'm looking for
1647
01:22:44,524 --> 01:22:51,140
♪ But I still haven't found
what I'm looking for
1648
01:22:54,230 --> 01:23:00,976
♪ But I still haven't found
what I'm looking for
1649
01:23:29,874 --> 01:23:34,444
♪ I believe in
the kingdom come
1650
01:23:34,487 --> 01:23:39,101
♪ Then all the colors
will bleed into one
1651
01:23:39,144 --> 01:23:43,366
♪ Bleed into one
1652
01:23:43,409 --> 01:23:47,283
♪ But yes, I'm still running
1653
01:23:48,414 --> 01:23:50,286
♪ You broke the bonds
1654
01:23:50,329 --> 01:23:53,593
♪ And you loosed the chains
1655
01:23:53,637 --> 01:23:55,813
♪ Carried the cross
1656
01:23:55,856 --> 01:23:58,468
♪ Of my shame
1657
01:23:58,511 --> 01:24:02,733
♪ Of my shame
1658
01:24:02,776 --> 01:24:07,738
♪ You know I believe it
1659
01:24:07,781 --> 01:24:14,658
♪ But I still haven't found
what I'm looking for
1660
01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:19,315
♪ But I still haven't found
what I'm looking for ♪