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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You know, we back again.
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We're here at it.
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Are we headed towards socialism?
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Is communism on the way?
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Is this an extension of the Cold War?
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What's going on in our world today?
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I told you that the world is on fire.
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Paris is dirty.
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The people are upset.
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They are mad.
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Things are hot.
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Things are hot everywhere.
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Diesel is hot.
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Everything is too high.
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Groceries.
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I got a family of eight.
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And I think my grocery bill is two thousand dollars a month.
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Oh man, the days of the bread being a nickel is gone.
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It's been gone.
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You'll probably never see gas under three dollars again.
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Insurance, do you have it?
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Going to the doctor.
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Can you go?
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I mean, it is insanely high.
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And because things are not as affordable as they once were, is that the fuel for the desire to go to something else?
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Do we feel like the economic system we have right now is working?
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Does it work for you?
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Does it work for me?
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Does it work for the common man?
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That college degree, does it even matter anymore?
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That college degree that you have doesn't matter.
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You went to school, you took out loans.
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Oh my God, you can't find a job.
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There's only a certain amount of professions you can have that really matter.
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I mean, you gotta be a doctor, engineer, something, a high income earning job.
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That's what you need.
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You can't just do regular stuff.
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Is that the problem?
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Is that fueling the energy in Paris?
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Paris is burning.
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Paris is burning down.
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People want something different.
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So is socialism the way?
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Is communism the way?
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Is that where we want to go?
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Do we want a classless society?
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We're gonna get into this today.
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We're going to talk about this today as much as we can.
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I do not want to do this in a way to where it bores you.
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I want this to still be my style, which is conversation.
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I'm a conversationalist.
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I like to have conversation, but I do love history.
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I love fact.
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I want to teach you something.
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I want us to learn together.
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I'm going to paraphrase at times.
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I'm going to refer to notes.
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For this show, I had to do it.
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I like to shoot from the hip.
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I like to improv.
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That's just who I am.
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But in these times, as we continue on, we have to be a well-informed group of people because we can easily be misled.
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You can be misled.
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I'm going to talk about things that I want you to go research yourself.
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Do not just take my advice for it.
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You need to go research these things for yourself.
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Too many times today, we're looking at social media, we're being bombarded with things, and we just follow that.
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We go with the script because we're not informed.
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And the crazy thing about it in a society right now that we feel like we're being oppressed in, we're looking at our phones from the comfort of our homes.
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That is unique to me.
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It's nothing like the times of when the Bolshevik revolution happened in what became the Soviet Union and is now known as Russia.
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I mean, these are very unique times.
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So you must, you have to pay attention to what's happening around you, research it and make sure the information is correct.
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Things are high.
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But are we in a time where socialism and communism was an idea that societies that implemented it felt like it needed to happen?
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Are we living in those times?
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And we need to explore that.
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We need to understand where it comes from.
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What is socialism?
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Socialism isn't free shit.
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I need y'all to understand.
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It isn't just, okay, you know, free healthcare, universal healthcare.
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That is not socialism.
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Communism
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isn't, oh, the community comes together.
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Pure communism is when we all come together and we don't have a class society.
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I just don't think that's reasonable anywhere.
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There will always be some sort of competition.
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There will always be someone trying to conquer someone.
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There will always be a battle of tribes.
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It's what it is.
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But what are these things?
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We need to understand what they are.
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Because often I'm hearing people talk about socialism in a way where they're describing it as something where, hey, I'm just gonna get free stuff.
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I'm just gonna get free things.
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And that's not what socialism is.
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And so we need to break those things down and understand what it is and where it came from.
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How feasible is it to pay for everything that the government puts the bill for everything?
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How feasible is that?
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I'm asking you that question.
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I think you need to understand that nothing is going to be totally free.
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Nothing comes without a cost.
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Because here's the thing in Paris, in France, in France, the country of France, they have a universal healthcare system.
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They have some of these things that you've been told you should have here in the United States, and they are still rioting right now because it's just very expensive.
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Okay, it's very expensive.
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Why are black people, the black community, why are we so enamored by this?
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Why are we enamored by socialism and uh communism and Marxism, the idea of Karl Marx?
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Why are we so enamored by this?
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You know, FD Signifier, I looked at his video the entire four hours.
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First off, in four hours, you need to offer a solution.
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You need to be giving a solution to issues that you think exist.
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You don't need to just take me to a place where you're talking about black leadership, and then all of a sudden you go on this emotional tangent about um killer mic.
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We are communicated through entertainment.
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We like entertainers, and that's why the Democratic Party continues to communicate to you through entertainment.
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By the way, I voted today.
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By the time you hear this, early voting is still going on.
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You need to go vote.
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Get out and vote.
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Research the candidates.
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I'm a victim of that myself.
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I mean, we only pay attention to certain candidates or certain parts of the election, and we don't look at the other people that's running and research them well at all.
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And no, I'm not just gonna vote Democrat because black people are standing outside with pamphlets with black faces on pamphlets and telling me, let's have a good day today.
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What does that mean?
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What does that mean?
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And the reason why I even brought up FD Signifier is because he's made some uh remarks to Killer Mike in you know, in regards to Killer Mike saying he's a capitalist.
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And how capitalism won't work for black people.
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That's what he's saying.
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Why do we separate ourselves?
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Why do we separate ourselves from the nation?
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We make our own group of people, we we separate ourselves even more than the quote unquote white man does.
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We separate ourselves from this nation that has a government that has an economic system that is working.
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Let's understand what capitalism is, okay?
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So, capitalism, predominantly private ownership of productive assets, market competition, uh, profit incentives, private investment, entrepreneurship, government regulation, and public services can coexist with capitalism.
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It can.
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It can coexist with that, meaning that capitalism doesn't necessarily dictate all the laws and legislation, although, guess what?
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Many politicians are corrupt.
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They're lot they're lobbyists.
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This was a term that was created by FDR because these rich people would just sit in the lobby and champion for certain laws to get passed.
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I do think that that is an issue.
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But I want you to understand the key part of capitalism should be competition.
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Competition should be involved when we're talking about economy because things that need to fail, need to fail.
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I don't think that uh banks should be bailed out.
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I don't think that uh car companies should be bailed out.
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However, if it's gonna be an issue with the overall economy, if it's going to hurt us, if it's going to tank the economy, maybe the government does need to step in.
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But that doesn't mean that we
shouldn't have regulations.
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But we need to understand what capitalism really is.
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Capitalism is not a bunch of rich guys controlling the world because that's how people see it.
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That's how people see it.
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Let's look at socialism, okay?
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Social, collective, or public ownership of productive assets.
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Social, collective, or public ownership of productive assets.
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Different socialist traditions propose different levels of government involvement.
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Different socialist traditions propose different levels of uh different levels of government involvement.
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Some favor centralized planning, others favor democratic institutions, worker ownership, or market socialism.
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So this is the collective.
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The collective is owning things, the collective is deciding what happens.
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Um many socialist traditions, as it says, has some central planning.
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So you're gonna have a group of people that are planning this out with the people.
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It's supposed to work.
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Like it sounds good, it sounds good, yeah.
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It sounds good, kind of sounds good, right?
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Kind of sounds like everybody's gonna work together to make this happen, but that typically doesn't happen.
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So let's talk about communism.
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Communism in Marxist theory, a classless and ultimately stateless society.
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Historical communist party governments generally establish extensive state control over the economy and political institutions.
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So this is classless.
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This is just kind of like, you know, um, everybody is the same.
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We believe that everybody is the same.
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We all have the same say with things.
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Um dystopian.
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That definitely reminds me of that.
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Social democracy maintains a predominantly capitalist economy, supports substantial social programs, uses taxation and regulation to reduce inequality, commonly associated with Nordic welfare state models.
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Democratic socialism, let's talk about that because we've been hearing a lot about it, seeks socialist economic arrangements through democratic political institutions, often emphasizes public or worker ownership, should not automatically be equated with the uh Linist one-party government.
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Okay, so Vladimir Lenin.
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Um, where did socialism come from?
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Where did this idea come from?
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I'm gonna do some paraphrasing here, okay, because uh we're we're on a time limit, but we're gonna revisit this.
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So this is probably gonna be broken up into a series, but we need to understand where uh socialism, communism, where do these concepts come from?
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You've heard of Marxism, but there's a man named Karl Marx who uh was born in uh Prussia, Prussia, Prussia, Prussia, Prussia, um, which is now Germany, and he was an economist and a philosopher.
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And essentially he believed that capitalists, the capitalists and the workers, that there's a divide there.
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There's a there's a conflict of interest there.
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And this conflict of interest causes more problems than it causes solutions.
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And I just think if you hear it that way, you kind of think it of it like that today.
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You look at capitalism as people that are getting, excuse me, uberly rich and are taking advantage of the workers.
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And in order to solve this problem, you have to develop something, some kind of economic system where it's more a co-op, where we can share the goods and we can share the services in a way to where there's really no private ownership that that's gonna work out better.
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And that was his idea.
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This was a theory, this was not really uh imposed in any kind of way.
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This was media.
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I want you to understand how important media is because he has writings on this and a philosophy that he puts out for people to ingest.
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And so at the time, depending on where you were in the world, it made perfect sense.
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It just hadn't been implemented, it hadn't been enacted.
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No one had put this into service yet.
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But obviously, just off the basic idea, first off, many of us take basic ideas, and if it hits us right there, we're ready to act at that time.
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That happens, that's just what it is.
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We are ready to act at that time.
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And so when you look at a place like Russia, okay, that was under a monarchy, and we're talking about coming out of World War I.
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If you were to read this material and you're looking at what's happening to Russia, you know, post-war, let's look at some of the things that happened to Russia.
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I wanna, I wanna, and I want to give some context as we talk about this.
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I'm gonna go up in my notes.
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Okay.
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And I want to talk a little bit more about uh Carl too, okay?
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Because I did give some some some facts of him, but um he's a German-born philosopher, economist, and political theorist.
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Um, he co-authored the Communist Manifesto in 1848 with Friedrich Engills.
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I hope I said his name right.
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Um he criticized capitalism and private ownership of the productive capital, argued that capitalism generates conflict between capital owners and wage laborers.
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Said that.
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Believe class struggle played a central role in historical change, anticipated the eventual replacement of capitalism by a different economic order.
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So I want to talk about what was going on in Russia at this time because you got this guy, Vladimir Lenin, who's inspired by these writings.
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He's inspired by this idea.
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You have widespread rural poverty, okay, unequal land ownership, okay, rapid but uneven industrialization, poor industrial working conditions, World War One, military casualties, food shortages, and inflation, growing dissatisfaction with the monarchy, political instability following the uh SARS abdication.
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That's very important to understand because Russia is under a monarchy.
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There is no constitutional government here, there is no democratic society here, but there is control at the top, and so you Vladimir Lenin is, you know, reading this information.
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He's inspired by Karl Marx, and he says to himself, this is the way to go.
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We need a change, but how do we enforce a change?
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What type of change do we have here?
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What's gonna happen?
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Okay, Vladimir Lenin is looked at as a Russian Marxist revolutionary, okay?
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He is the leader of the Bolshevik faction, advocated a disciplined revolutionary political party, and led the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917.
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He established a government that nationalized major industries and suppressed political opponents, introduced limited market reforms in 1921.
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Okay.
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Um 1917 is a very important year because in February there is a revolution that happens, and then a provisionary government comes in, and then um I believe in October, yes, October 1917, the Bolsheviks overthrow this government, and then of course he takes over.
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The Bolsheviks take over uh this government.
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And uh let's I want to be very clear that uh Vladimir Lenin is a leftist.
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He's a leftist.
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What was happening during the time that influenced this takeover?
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I just told you it was a monarchy, it was a complete um control of power at the top.
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Now, something to note, I want to talk about this before we just, you know, we're just gonna talk.
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We're gonna get into this because I want you to think and use your brain.
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You know, when the Bolsheviks take over, when Vladimir Lenin takes over, um, he suppresses all other political opposition.
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They are the central planners of the government.
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They give say to what happens and how things go.
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Socialism and communism to date has more so been very much so experimental.
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So when you say things like capitalism doesn't work, but we look at the United States and see that clearly it does, and then we go back and look at a place like Russia that has had many different changes over the uh as far as let's just talk about the 250 years that the United States have been around.
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Um it has it has changed a few times compared to us in the United States, which has had a constitutional government, we are a republic, a democratic republic, and um we have a free market here.
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We are not under a monarchy, we do not have a monarchy here, so we need to establish that.
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I want to also talk about in Karl Marx's idea of socialism and communism, he doesn't there isn't enough time to talk about how capitalism can have reform.
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And then you have to look at what's happening in that part of the world.
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When you look at the forms of government and the type of leadership that these places have had, they have far more time than the United States has.
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The same.
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Again, Marx has an idea.
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He has a philosophy here.
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He has a philosophy.
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This is a theory of his.
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But we're going to watch Vladimir Lenin actually enact this and put this in play.
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I mean, if you ask me, I don't think it's a total success because there are going to be many other changes to Russia moving forward.
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And you're going to eventually find countries, you know, which Vladimir Lenin did this, he did allow some private uh ownership, uh, you know, entrepreneurship under his rule later on.
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Because it's hard not to.
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I mean, it's the same thing when you look at China.
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There's this talk of China and how
China has worked and look at what they're doing, which is a communist country.
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But look at how they, even though the government is heavily in charge of everything, I mean, it's a communist country.
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I mean, they are in charge of everything.
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They have the say, they have the final say, but they have allowed free enterprise, they've lied, they have allowed private ownership, they've allowed entrepreneurship to come in because they see that the free market works.
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Things are expensive, yes.
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Things are very expensive.
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Um, but we have a government set up to where we can impose reform, and that's what we need to be seeking out.
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When these politicians get in office in this country, they are yes, they're wooed by money, they accept money, they accept donations, and they are uh they are persuaded to legislate a certain way, yes.
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But we the people have to start to investigate this, seek these individuals out, and we have to come the things that we can do as a people, since we want to come together and talk about socialism and communism, we have to come together with our dollars and get behind the candidate and support that candidate.
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Money is going to solve issues, money solves problems.
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Also, there are people who love money.
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Ken Paxton, yes, Ken Paxton loves money.
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A lot of those conservatives love money.
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Donald Trump, they're they're going to get rich, and in the process, they don't have any real integrity.
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We have to begin to get to a place to where we're calling this out on both sides.
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So you may hear me talk about conservative ideals because I'm very much more conservative.
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Um, I'm I'm going to lean towards being more Republican, but I can call it out when it's bullshit because at the end of the day, we've all lost our way on both sides.
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We have lost our way on both sides.
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But what I don't want you to get confused is that what we're living in right now, the form of government we have right now, is anything like this that you want to enact when we're talking about socialism and communism, because it ain't the same, and the situation that they were going through in that Bolshevik revolution ain't what you're going through.
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And I would argue that France, Paris is burning right now because they wanted to have a bunch of free shit.
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But guess where that money's gonna come from?
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You you're going to suffer in a situation where you do not allow
free competition, where you don't allow things to just happen naturally in the free market.
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There is supposed to be a natural um way of movement there, and that's that mimics life.
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Survival of the fittest.
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It works, good, it doesn't, great.
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You're doing something, competition drives um creativity, uh, it it it drives creation of new things.
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That's what happens.
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In that sense, when conservatives talk about less government, I do agree with that.
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We need to allow some natural um, you know, things should happen naturally.
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However, what happens is corruption comes in.
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But that's where we all have to, guess what?
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Not just go off of things on the surface, really get into what's going on, and then really force a change, force our politicians to change or get them out.
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That's what has to happen.
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Do you think that the black community is gonna thrive under communism and socialism?
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Is that what you think?
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You really believe that?
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You believe that the black community would thrive under socialism and communism.
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How you're gonna get lumped in with everyone else, and at 13% of the nation, your best bet is capitalism.
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Your best bet is getting some money in your pocket, investing in your community, getting with others that look like you, or maybe not look at you, and doing what you want with your money, investing it in some program, infrastructure, whatever it is, in your community and making it better.
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What else is better than that?
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Only in America.
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Only in America can you do these things.
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Only in America can someone be down on their luck one minute and totally go up the next.
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And the freedoms that it gives.
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Patrick Henry said, give me liberty or give me death.
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The United States is about liberty and fighting for it.
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This is the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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We have forgotten that.
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And this is why I said nationalism is a thing.
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Y'all attack me in the comments and y'all can put the little coon.
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I'm gonna say coon, I'm gonna say white, I'ma say all these words.
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I'm not gonna be, I am not going to center myself in a place where we should have freedom of speech.
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How do you think that that is a white-owned or a whitewashed idea to have nationalism?
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You need to understand why this country exists so you can stay away from shit like this, or even thinking that this is gonna be a thing.
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Because all on your timeline now, as you see Paris burning, you're gonna start to begin to say that this is the type of government we should have, and we believe in this, and I think that this is, you know, because things are too high, we need some kind of change.
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What change are you gonna put in?
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And and the crazy part of this, on the left, you have people that are being set in front of you that truly believe in real socialism, they have no allegiance to the country.
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They have no real allegiance to this country.
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And they've come from places that have different forms of government and economies where it's more centrally controlled, and that is a problem.
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We are living in a nation where even though we have corruption and we have some issue, we can confront it and get it changed if we get well informed.
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But we can't allow people to get in front of this screen, don't encourage you to go research the information, and you just take what they say at face value, like FD signifier, talking about capitalism won't help black people.
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And there's an undertone of socialism to his rhetoric, too.
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Black people have always fallen victim to this because we are the or have been the subjugated group.
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Martin Luther King talked about socialism.
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Many black revolutionaries did because we thought that this was the fate.
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This we thought that this was the way to fight racial disparity.
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The way to fight racial disparity and the way to fight um um uh uh discrimination is through legislation.
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You are in a again, a republic, democratic republic.
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You have to invest in your politics, and you have to sometimes fight for your politics.
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That's why you have the right to protest.
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You protest something, and sometimes, unfortunately, things have gotten violent for black people, but we've gotten legislation to change, and you want to make sure that that legislation is enforced, and you need to fight for the right to be able to have economic freedom through capital.
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You need access to capital, we need to come together to get that capital.
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We need to find ways to get capital the way everyone else has by continuing to protest, fight, whatever the case may be.
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But we need to start with investing in ourselves, we have to invest in our community.
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I don't think that black people need to be aligned with other communities that are anti-American.
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I do not believe that at all.
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Socialism and communism have has not worked.
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You cannot point out a society where it has worked, and if you find it that it's working, if you found that it's worked a little bit, is it truly a socialism or communist-driven community?
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Is it a hybrid?
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And I think a lot of times you're looking at hybrids the question I have to leave you with today is this in the United States of America, are we really oppressed?
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Do we really have it that bad?
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Does this form of government really not work?
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And do you understand and know what socialism and communism really is?
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Do you know what it is?
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Have you studied it?
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Where in the world has it really worked?
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And would you really take a nation this great and burn it down?
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We're gonna talk about that, whatever that is, even if it's uncomfortable, I'm gonna have uncomfortable, controversial conversations.
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As always, thank you.
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