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another advance to listening practice
practice lesson this
this is going to be another interesting
interesting lesson since we're talking
talking about politics or I've made
made a few videos on the channel one
one recently about Donald Trump and
and I wasn't really talking about
about my political views I was just
just trying to describe him as a person
person and I picked Trump just because
because he's in the news and other
other people will be talking about
about him so that way if you can maybe
maybe learn to describe him as well
well you can also understand what
what other people are saying but you
you can also just be able to describe
describe well yourself but
but actually I forget who it was but
but somebody in the comments was talking
talking about we know what would I
I do if I were president and so since
since this is another thing that also
also comes up when people are talking
talking about political things especially
especially during an election year
year and election season which seems
seems you know incredibly long in
in America this
this is something i thought well why
why don't I also talked about that
that just to kind of explain maybe
maybe my personal views a little bit
bit but also give you some examples
examples of things you can say so
so when you're talking about things
things
things you're
you're having conversations with people
people about how you can get or what
what you would do when you were president
president or if you became president
president
president this
this is just another common thing
thing that most people talk about
about and it's not just for presidential
presidential elections you can also
also talk about it if I were the boss
boss of the company if
if I were the captain of the team
team if I were the mayor of the town
town
town whatever
whatever your situation it is you
you want to be talking about this
this is just some examples of how
how you can explain that so
so I'm going to be talking about this
this well i'll throw in a few vocabulary
vocabulary words as well and I don't
don't want to get into too many political
political things but i just thought
thought i would share some personal
personal views about things just so
so maybe you can learn more about
about me and also get some may be
be some more interesting ways of describing
describing things in your own life
life
life so
so anyway if I were president if I
I were president I don't think I could
could ever become president even though
though now i am actually able to become
become president I believe you only
only need to be 35 years old so I'm
I'm 35 years old now you need to be
be born in America and I think
I think maybe there are one or two
two other qualifications but that's
that's why maybe
maybe someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger
Schwarzenegger could not become president
president united states because he
he wasn't born in America but maybe
maybe people will change the rules
rules later to allow foreigners to
to do that anyway whether you agree
agree with that rule or not those
those are the rules we have in place
place so if I were president let's
let's see if I were president I don't
don't even think I could become president
president
president I
I think maybe my views are a little
little bit a little bit I
I don't know that kind of going back
back maybe I don't want to be too
too confusing here but typically in
in America you have like the left
left and the right and when people
people think like the left and the
the right there are actually many
many other smaller groups and you
you know political ideas that people
people have but typically in America
America we have the left and the right
right to the left is the Democrats
Democrats and the right is the Republicans
Republicans or you can talk about
about the traditional views of work
work versus progressive views or other
other ways but basically it's it's
it's really one system that it's kind
kind of like two different sides of
of that same system so you never see
see people winning from outside of
of that one system and typically the
the the two sides of that system they
they don't really argue with each
each other so
so a lot of these people like if your
your conservative you believe maybe
maybe the government should be spending
spending less money you should have
have smaller government trying maybe
maybe to help people do more things
things for themselves and the progressive
progressive side or the the Liberals
Liberals as they're called the Democrats
Democrats
Democrats maybe
maybe they believe that the government
government should do more to help
help more people so maybe we should
should have bigger government programs
programs in order to help poor people
people or to help kids in schools
schools when maybe they don't have
have a good opportunity to learn so
so it's a question of what is the
the what is the real role of government
government which should government
government be trying to do and I think
think that probably the ideal system
system is an interesting mix of many
many different things so
so the problem most people have when
when they get into politics is there
there thinking well i have to have
have you know if I'm all a liberal
liberal or I'm a conservative than
than I have to believe all these different
different things but instead you really
really should be able to pick you
you know a collection of you know
know maybe some good things from this
this political philosophy or some
some other things from this political
political philosophy over here and
and if you do that then it's going
going to help you you know actually
actually devise something new and
and interesting because you could
could look at a situation or a political
political system like communism where
where you know basically the ideas
ideas from each according to his ability
ability
ability so
so from each person like if you are
are a strong person we will take like
like you're like ability to act in
in all the strength that you have
have and to each according to his
his need
his need this
this means that like if you need you
you know personal health care or something
something like that the government
government should provide that for
for you
for you so
so from each according to his ability
ability and to each according to his
his needs a free for each person like
like if you can give a lot to give
give a lot if you can't give so much
much you know give whatever you can
can
can but
but then hopefully everybody gets
gets taken care of now the problem
problem with something like communism
communism is because in just general
general in the human mind we can only
only maybe have a social group of
of about a hundred and fifty people
people and if you think about maybe
maybe you have like a thousand or
or two thousand or however many Facebook
Facebook friends you have you really
really only have a few people that
that you can actually remember things
things about so
so typically the like the size of
of the human mind where the ability
ability of the human mind to look
look at different social groups or
or talk about different people or
or interact with different people
people in a daily on a daily basis
basis in your everyday life if
if you have more than a hundred and
and fifty people it makes it really
really difficult to you have for you
you to have personal connections with
with these people and
and if that's the case then you're
you're less likely to want to do things
things and to share things and to
to trust those people so
so the further away you are from someone
someone the less you know that person
person unless you trust them the less
less you want to support that person
person to help that person and so
so on
so on so
so most people they have its kind
kind of the individual first and then
then your family and your children
children and your close friends and
and working out of the circle from
from that
from that so
so the people on the inside the closest
closest to to you are the people that
that have your trust the most these
these are the people maybe you would
would be willing to die for just even
even do everyday favors for things
things like that like helping people
people move but
but if some random person walks up
up to you on the street and says hey
hey I'm like moving to a new house
house can you help me move you would
would say no I mean why would I do
do that maybe you would but most people
people would not likely do that and
and it just means that you know they
they don't have a connection with
with that person so
so communism the idea of everybody
everybody helping and everybody working
working together works in a small
small scale so communism we can't
can't really say communist and doesn't
doesn't work or communism does work
work it's more about the scale of
of the of the economy or the group
group of people so
so again like just being very quick
quick like smaller you know like maybe
maybe monkeys they have a like a smaller
smaller brain and a smaller capacity
capacity to have a like a a large
large group of you know people living
living among them something like that
that
that so
so the the social aspect of how you
you think and all the connections
connections you have its its kind
kind of limited physically by the
the sides of your brain and just how
how we've evolved so maybe some monkeys
monkeys they have only a few few members
members in their particular group
group but we could have like many
many many in ours so we can have a
a lot of people in our group but again
again once you get beyond that number
number of about a hundred and fifty
fifty people you begin losing connections
connections with them so
so part of this again like just talking
talking very very briefly but very
very quickly i know there's a lot
lot we could go into about politics
politics a lot i could explain but
but the important part what I'm I'm
I'm just speaking about up until now
now is that you shouldn't have a situation
situation where you only do one thing
thing or only do something else it's
it's more how can we pick the best
best things from many different political
political philosophies or situations
situations to create the best society
society possible so i don't want to
to limit myself and say well like
like socialism is bad because if you
you think you like socialism is bad
bad completely it means you can have
have a police force so
so people pay for a police force or
or a fire department and if you think
think about it like let's say if i
i have a particular fire department
department and I have to personally
personally pay that fire department
department if there's a fire at my
my neighbor's house and that fire
fire comes to my house and I didn't
didn't pay I'm
I'm screwed so I don't know really
really what I can do without having
having to pay you no particular fire
fire department to
to have somebody manage you know one
one particular house or a different
different fire department for another
another house in the same area it
it doesn't really work so well so
so there are some situations where
where a business or a private entity
entity so private this is the opposite
opposite of a public thing like a
a government sponsored or a government
government support identity this
this is why we have two different
different sets of organizations like
like that but they can all if we figure
figure out a good way to have them
them work together that's
that's going to be probably the best
best thing for us so I think it's
it's a trap when
when people say like well I'm a Republican
Republican or i'm a democrat or something
something like this I i personally
personally do not have a political
political affiliation because
because I really just don't care about
about having to fit into one particular
particular set of beliefs when maybe
maybe something else might be appropriate
appropriate so
so anyway that's kind of the the foundation
foundation of the way I think the
the other thing is that i think it's
it's important to understand like
like up like in the same way we're
we're thinking about like a hundred
hundred and fifty people is is something
something that's kind of like a biological
biological thing that we should really
really think about instead of maybe
maybe we try to have like twenty thousand
thousand people working together in
in like a communist system where maybe
maybe it wouldn't work so well and
and again like maybe it would in some
some places but typically it doesn't
doesn't work so well without the close
close connections and trust that people
people have and again that's not really
really possible with be on a group
group of about a hundred and fifty
fifty people but to some other things
things about politics I
I remember listening to Hillary Clinton
Clinton speak one time and I believe
believe she actually wrote a book
book called it takes a village it
it takes a village and this is a like
like an African proverb that says
says it takes a village so
so a village like all the people in
in the village are required to raise
raise a child it takes a village to
to raise a child so
so what this means is that typically
typically like in a village you would
would have a child learning from lots
lots of different people this is what
what it really means to take a village
village to raise a child like it doesn't
doesn't mean it takes the government
government to raise a child and I
I think the tricky thing is that when
when you have a system of government
government where people can vote and
and say like well I want more money
money and typically people that vote
vote like let's like vote ourselves
ourselves more more
more money if we can have better benefits
benefits like people are going to
to vote for those things presumably
presumably if it gets the more money
money in the short term and maybe
maybe they're not thinking about the
the long term benefit of what they
they should have so
so it's a kind of a tricky thing we're
we're thinking about the government
government providing things for you
you or you providing things for yourself
yourself so where where do you create
create that may be Hillary Clinton
Clinton would believe that the government
government should be providing much
much more people where someone like
like me believes that I think it actually
actually hurts people when you try
try to give them too much and this
this is actually an interesting thing
thing about aid when you think about
about like sending like a to Africa
Africa or maybe like any particular
particular place where like if you
you send a like a big money particularly
particularly like I want to give like
like some t-shirts or something like
like that i want to send clothing
clothing to this particular place
place that maybe they don't have much
much clothes something like that now
now what that actually does is like
like it provides some clothing but
but it removes that part of the economy
economy where people are creating
creating clothes for themselves so
so the more you do things for other
other people the more you actually
actually just give them things as
as opposed to educating them and this
this is why i like to spend a lot
lot of my time educating is because
because if you don't do that then
then people are just receiving aid
aid and they teach or you kind of
of teach them you train those people
people to just do the same thing over
over and over again where they don't
don't you know they don't have to
to rely on themselves in order to
to do think they just wait for the
the more more aid to come their own
own economy doesn't grow stronger
stronger because they don't have to
to do anything and that's one of the
the problems with having a large government
government is because you train people
people to actually just wait for things
things to come to them instead of
of actually going out and trying to
to get the things that they want another
another thing the final thing I'll
I'll mention in this video I don't
don't want to talk about too many
many things but if I were president
president if I were actually present
present United States probably one
one of the biggest things i would
would do I would focus on education
education for sure but I would in
in including education a lot of financial
financial education many other things
things about education that we can
can kind of important things that
that little little kids and you know
know even older students need to know
know but they're just not taught in
in school there's a lot of reasons
reasons for that especially about
about money like really a first grader
grader second graders even all the
the way up your
your high school very few students
students actually learn about finances
finances in school and because they
they don't learn about money they
they make a lot of mistakes with money
money and that creates a lot of larger
larger economic problems that we have
have in America and certainly elsewhere
elsewhere but i think the probably
probably the biggest thing that I
I would like to do is to encourage
encourage more entrepreneurship so
so if you look at I think I've spoken
spoken about this actually in maybe
maybe a previous video but it's really
really important to have a situation
situation where you can have multiple
multiple companies that are providing
providing the i guess for the economy
economy or like even the safety of
of a particular community so
so if you look at a even like a movie
movie like Roger and me so this is
is a michael moore movie a documentary
documentary where he's talking about
about Flint Michigan now Flint Michigan
Michigan was the home of General Motors
Motors maybe even still is I don't
don't remember now but the documentary
documentary was just it's really highlighting
highlighting the fact that if you
you have a community with one business
business or one really strong business
business and everybody works for that
that community or everybody works
works for that business in that community
community if something bad happens
happens to that like that that business
business moves or that business goes
goes bankrupt something everybody
everybody in the community is destroyed
destroyed as a result it's really
really difficult to come back from
from that
from that I
I like to think of the analogy of
of a spider web and if you have a
a spider web with only one string
string on it that's
that's going to be really really bad
bad if you cut that string but a spider
spider web with many many strings
strings on it you can get holes and
and I in the spiderweb all over the
the place but these spider web in
in general is still very strong so
so i would much rather have a community
community where you have lots of thriving
thriving businesses were lots of people
people are creating things for each
each other because if some of them
them go bankrupt something bad happens
happens then the whole system is still
still not destroyed so
so it becomes much better to actually
actually focus on individual families
families individual businesses those
those kind of things producing more
more things to actually make the economy
economy stronger and so I would work
work more about that anyway I
I don't plan on running for president
president this year I think I'm probably
probably a little bit late but if
if you want to nominate me feel free
free you can write my name down if
if you are yeah
yeah Americans are not so many native
native speakers watching this video
video series unless you're a teacher
teacher but anyway more
more than just listening to my views
views about politics hopefully this
this has given you some food for thought
thought
thought food
food for thought just an interesting
interesting ways of talking about
about politics so
so that you can think about you know
know just whatever you're watching
watching other people or even when
when you're talking about yourself
yourself and you want to have an interesting
interesting discussion or just want
want to explain about how you would
would do something better so
so if I were the boss I would do this
this or if I were the captain again
again of some sports team I would
would do something like that anyway
anyway that's it for this advanced
advanced listening practice lesson
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good and bad points even myself maybe
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