So there's a recent study, that was conducted around the world and
people were asked whether or not they believe their country is democratic or
not truly democratic or not.
Or if they're kind of leaning towards that hole fascism thing.
[LAUGH] So some of these results, it may be surprised some people, it didn't really
surprise me cuz of course we're gonna mention what we think here in America.
So, first of all, before we get into this, this study was published by LaTanya and
it was commissioned by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation.
And they describe themselves as the only brand tracking tool that provides accurate
consumer insights from 100 plus countries worldwide and one intuitive dashboard.
So, that's just a little basis behind them.
Let's jump right into this because citizens were asked to bring
their own countries on a scale from not at all democratic to quote, very democratic.
And here these results on this map here.
The more to the red, you'll see, it's not very democratic and more in the green.
Pretty democratic as you can see there.
Since we're focused here on where we are in America were right there somewhere in
the middle is kind of hinting slightly pink there.
But that's where we're falling in.
And as you can see, there's, all these other countries that determine where
everyone's you wanna check out there.
But more specific numbers here because 83% of respondents in China said that their
country is democratic, 74% in Switzerland say that their country is also democratic.
Approximately 49% of respondents in America say that their country is
democratic right down the middle.
Approximately 45% of respondents in Russia say,
that it is democratic and 37% in Turkey also say the same.
So in comparing America to China, let's look at this,
cuz this is the percentage of people who believe that their government serves
the interests of the majority versus the minority of the people that live there.
So the green represents the amount of people who believe that serves
the majority.
United States again, we're looking at 63% and in China 7%,
say that their government serves the minority.
Now, maybe this is from messaging is from politicians talking this up or
just from people's experiences and not really feeling they're
being represented by the folks that were voted into office.
So what about when it comes to the United States stands and says, yeah,
70% said that that that corruption is a threat to their democracy.
While 72% of response in America also say that the influence of global corporations
is a threat to their democracy.
It's a question of whether or not we're hearing this or
whether not they're buying this from something else because there was one more
step I wanted to get to you guys jumping down there to fair and unfair elections.
This is maybe where messaging comes in, cuz I don't look at this chart.
So, since 2021,
the fear of unfair elections has increased most dramatically in the United States.
Crazy how that works.
As it is jumped up man.
The difference 14 points, just in that one year.
>> Yeah.
>> And maybe there's a lot of Trump and democrat and
Republican voters thinking this has happened.
>> So there's there's two big takeaways from this.
One is that, the people in China think that they have a country that is far more
democratic than the people in America do.
And so they're half wrong, half right, in my opinion.
So why do they think that?
Even though they actually obviously, they don't have a democracy in China, right?
But, they view it as the government is representing what
we actually want and in China, yes, there's corruption.
Of course, there is at the highest levels, right?
But they make a very concerted effort to clamp down on corruption.
And they will bust business owners and even party officials for
corruption and crack down on in a very public way.
So, it gives a sense of equality.
That is why a lot of the Chinese are saying, yeah, we have a democracy,
everybody's relatively equal here, right?
Whereas in America, people are saying, there ain't nobody equal here.
When they say minority, they don't mean as in race, they mean,
as in a few rich people control the whole country.
And here in,
America a lot of people are answering yeah that's obviously true, right?
Whereas they're not saying that in China.
Now look, there's other factors that of course there's overwhelming propaganda in
China that does that affect them?
Yes, state run TV and media, etcetera.
But we have corporate media here and that's basically state propaganda for
the people in charge for the establishment in America.
But guess what?
The American people aren't buying it anymore.
That at least a point number two, which is amazing.
78% say, yeah, in America say, that America is corrupt.
What's amazing about that?
That's not the amazing number.
You all know that you're in that 78%, right?
Now what's amazing, is that 0% of our reporters think that.
78% of Americans go obviously this country's corrupt,
72% say obviously run by corporations.
0% of our reporters in DC say that.
None of the reporters noticed what all of you noticed?
Are they really reporters?
Or are they part of that state media that doesn't even more effective job or
used to do a more effective job?
Now apparently the now that gets out of the bag.
But they used to just as good a propaganda as Chinese state media but
it's not working anymore because of social media in my opinion.
>> I've been on the ground knocking on doors and this is no surprise to me.
And what I hear time and time again is that I'm just done with politics.
It doesn't help.
It's not changing my life.
And I totally understand where they're coming from.
Time after time we see that our legislators are passing bills that
are really corporate welfare bills that are giving them huge tax breaks,
bailing them out.
But we're not bailing out the working class families here in our country.
And when we see people like Jeff Bezos who is with Amazon and
his union busting across the country and
yet like people like my opponent are accepting money from Amazon.
We can understand why this is continuing to happen time after time.
And even just in my own race, part of the 48 hour reports,
which you have to report every 48 hours on any donations over 1000.
My client had over $50,000 from the energy industries.
I mean, that we are being saturated or or legislation being saturated with
corporate donations, which are really a way for them to have speech and
have influence that the average American cannot afford.
They are not having the same influence the same speech.
And this is why, time after time after time, legislation that has
the approval of the majority of America across parties lines,
things like Medicare for all, things like a green new deal.
I mean, the majority of Americans will do support these are some level across
party lines, they are never coming to fruition right now because there don't
the donut basis do not want these legislators to actually pass these bills.
And it's why making sure we have someone in office that isn't
accepting these donations is important.
But even with that right off out of the gate,
we're already at a huge disadvantage as a progressive not accepting corporate
money because we're not able to raise the type of money they are.
And it just continues to translate even in office.
So we have to,
not only have people who are willing not to accept it as they're running.
But once in office we have to work to overturn citizens United.
We have to work to really call out all of these legislators that are having all this
corporate funding and make sure that people understand what's at stake and
vote them out.
>> So Amy is running them, the first district of Nevada for US Congress.
Amy, when you talk about the $50,000 that your opponent took, your in the primaries,
you're not talking about the Republican, you're talking about Democrat, right?
>> Yes, I'm talking about a Democrat who over half of her money that she has raised
has been from Corporate Pac Money.
>> Yeah, but don't worry,
I'm sure that the climate change isn't affecting Vegas at all.
>> [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH] So but
your Democrats do it too.
So Amy doesn't take Corporate Pac Money but tons and tons of Democrats,
most of the Democrats take Corporate Pac Money, they gorge on it.
They don't represent their voters.
That's why you're gonna vote for progressives and primaries.
But look, to give you a sense of how broken our democracy is and
how the American people are right and all the mainstream media reports,
all of them are wrong.
They're all like,
no these are beloved honorable gentleman having real debates about principles.
What's Lindsey Graham's principles?
None zero, he's corrupt.
That's his principal.
That's scandalous, 78% of the country agrees with me.
You guys are radical progressives, okay?
Then the 78% of the country's radical progressives.
Thank you, we appreciate it.
Anyway, last thing is,
the federal background checks to give you a sense of how out of control it is.
Different polling the lowest one handed at 88% approval.
The highest one has it at 97% approval.
We can't get it done.
Well, if you can't pass a law that 97% of Americans want.
Do you really live in a democracy and
the whole country is screaming no, no we don't.
And income inequality here is so bad.
The Chinese folks in China I think they have a democracy and we think we don't,
because they treat people their citizens with more decency than we do.
Now our corruption is completely and utterly out of control and
part of the people covering it up is the mainstream
media who never ever talk about it.
And that gives a giant advent advantage to the corrupt,
whether they're in the Democratic Party or the Republican Party.