The US is a strange country. When I visited there a few years ago what shocked me most was the massive level of consumerism. It was pervasive everywhere in the society. And the media, and it's made a lot worse with social media, is constantly about getting it's audience to consume. To get u to consume they pump the people with their distorted narrative and with fear. Divide and conquer. Fear and consumption. It's a deeply divided, fearful nation, taken over by the ideology of consumerism.
Not wrong. On the other hand, consumerism drives growth. Without growth, capitalism becomes unviable. No other economic system has proven viable for creating prosperity and giving citizens lives that are comfortable and, at least materially, healthy and meaningful, despite magical fantasies about alternatives.
It's the largest economy in the world, people have the money to spend. It's largely tuned out anyways like most ads are anywhere. Ever walked around any shopping center in Asia it's worse, but ok because it's creative. People still form and construct their lives as they want. Ads just try And make you feel like you need to be with the in crowd. 😊
My dad used to talk to me about the dangers of consumerism way back in the early seventies when I was a teenager. I had no idea why he was so adamant about it. Now I know
@@calvinsaxon5822apparently you have not visited France, Italy, Norway, Portugal these are just a few of my favorites. Just go to one, I’d suggest Italy, rent an Airbnb for a month. Get to know the locals. Then you’ll get it
I think you’re an analysis is very balanced. Reading through the comments here you definitely have people on both sides who aren’t happy with what you’re saying, I believe that’s a good indication you’re providing a balanced perspective, I appreciate you.
your inability to think beyond "two sides" is funny. you treat jackass vs pachyderm like it's real. like sunshine is real. or food. nice slave. so easily controlled by such simple things. 16 billion dollars just bought an election. who won hardly matters.
Biden certainly made mistakes but he is within our historical Democrat/Republican politics. The authoritarian Trump brings in a new form of government. For Mr Bremer to criticize Trump around the edges and ignore the seismic shift is sane-washing.
this is the very first time I hear someone explain why musk turned against biden. as a european who finds the whole US politics thing baffling that explanation was really helpful.
Mr. Bremmer, the only thing I believe, online, offline, from social media, mainstream and sidestream media, and even from barbershop visits is that one can never go wrong by underestimating the general intelligence of the American public ! This depressing fact is highlighted in elections, corporate board meeting decisions and especially how politicians perform their public duties.
The "general intelligence" of the public is absolutely gone, what are you talking about? They have just re-elected the guy who tried to overthrow the government, doesn't believe in democracy, and tanked the economy 4 years ago. The "generally intelligence" doesn't even wonder why we had to stimulate the economy in the first place? Because we had 18% unemployment from Trump... and they put that guy back in power. In the age of social media - its the general lack of intelligence of the public. Look at Brexit and how that public intelligence worked out.
Don’t underestimate the pandemic as a proximate cause of both inflation and distrust of institutions here in the US and abroad. COVID caused a lot of genuine psychological trauma, and it is absolutely playing a role in civil discourse and electoral politics.
Price to pay for not pro-actively managing the human population. To reach the 1st billion, it took from the beginning of humanity till 1900. So it took nearly 500,000 years or more for the human population to get the 1st billion. Since 1900, we have added another 6 billion and counting. So we added another 6 billion in just 123 years? Considering a finite amount of resources (including air and water) and land, what makes one think there will be no adverse impact of continued population growth?
@ I think there is general consensus among population experts that human populations are declining and will continue to, and the Malthusian crisis isn’t going to happen. I guess you should look it up - if you find a reliable authority to the contrary, please send me a link.
@ finally, my comment had nothing to do with population size. We’ve encroached on wildlife, which might be one cause of cross-species transmission, but population control was irrelevant to my comment.
Just like Trump lost to COVID in 2020, Harris lost to inflation (to be precise, high cost of living) in 2024. Most voters living from paycheck to paycheck unlikely watched the news, but had to stare at the pricetags in the supermarkets and see the rent go up.
Yes…Rent or home insurance, car insurance, food/needs, and gas. The “middle class” majority who have not received wage increases that stayed up with inflation feel worse or much worse off. And the few that did gain something in their check, look at their achievements as lost to inflation.
That i can understand. How people expect Trump and the possee behind him to make it better - after they already saw 4 years of attempted governement - now THAT is beyond my understanding.
The news of what though? Propaganda? The things the left media have said about Trump are all things that are untrue or Trump himself said he's against, yet the left elites keep on shoving it down our throats that he's for. That's why I left the left, not to mention the abuse towards anyone who doesn't 100% agree with them. Not to mention Kamala didn't have anything of value to say but to harass the other side. Anyone who saw unbiased, factual news saw how the border was, how many already offenders were coming to the country illegally and rpng and severely abusing women and children because they know the punishment is lighter in the US if at all, how woke nonsense has gone way too far that even centrists and millions of leftists voted for Trump. So on. Also, LOOK fml at the voting map. The only places which are majority blue are the rich urban city areas. Everywhere else, especially rural, is red. The lower class happily voted red. The upper class happily voted blue, if it wasn't already obvious from the hundreds of millionaire celebrities who are rich because of social media said they're blue. Your average red if you stepped outside would be someone just trying to afford life. If Harris lost to inflation, that's even more proof that those who don't care about it would vote blue cuz it doesn't affect their pockets, but those whose pockets are affected, like the lower class, needed to vote red. And I don't want any propaganda spewing about how he's against the lower class, or a bunch of isms and phobes and slurs. He's not any of those. I say that as a leftist myself, I just like the real truth and not just leftie hit pieces of him.
Ian This is the best looking into the future. Most of the people, including the ones that provide analysis of the situations, are stunned (me included) and unable to think on what is going to happen. Not surprising, for you, allways go deeper than most of us. Thank you, and please continue guiding us in understanding the un-understandable.
What he is raising about , whole primaries, bringing in money, donation and lobbies and what not, that changes the loyalty of the candidate before even he is elected.
I retired recently, and what I've found is that there ARE a lot of bad actors out there, there IS a lot of bad information disseminated for a variety of reasons, but I thought I was pretty well informed until I had the 2-4 hours PER DAY, to both ferret out reliable sources and comb through what they got wrong and have corrected, and to try to parse good information from bad in a more general sense. Information divorced from political or personal ideology or bias. The three network information environment i grew up with may be the only viable model to accurately inform a public who works/commutes more than 40 hours a week, or are otherwise exposed to the type of information overload that modern for profit media demands.
Certain ideologies influence the decision of what to report. I think it would be better to visualize the ideology behind the news. I think it would be relatively easy to label it using AI.
Peace and prosperity is the lie. No educated society destroys its capacity to survive by exploiting nature as a product. The economy is great but the environment is dying.
If anyone wants to know what is happening, talk to animal rights movement. We know the depravity of agriculture and all the powerful interests behind the economies of animal agriculture and the medical industry that rose out of it. Power wants power. Read Charles Pattersons book Eternal Treblinka Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust to understand what got us here . Read Piers Beirne's book, Murdering Animals Writings on Theriocide Homicide and Non speciesist Criminology. Human supremacy isca sickness.
Ian is awesome. Objective, honest, critical thinker. The way these things should be done. Always a reliable source of understanding world events accurately.
I keep hearing that a majority of Americans do not like the direction that the country is heading without anyone ever telling me just what that direction is. Also, is this direction real or imagined, created by the media, especially rightwing media? Is it just a phony narrative or legitimately true? In the end, a majority of Americans thought that a convicted felon who attempted a coup, who can't stop lying, and can't be trusted with very sensitive documents/information, and who may very well be on his last legs, was the better choice.
@brigham2250, all very true. How is that a "better direction"??? (I've hated that question-- what does that even mean? It's not a ship headed for an island! It's going many directions.)
Constitutional Rights. The left wants to govern what we can say and our means to defend it. The First and Second Amendments. The left (political left) believes that money can win and rule. The democratic party and kamala as a whole spent over 1 billion on their race. Then those same people say money should not be in politics when Elon Musk spends money to insentivize voting in a key swing state. Trump is not a good person. But over 50% of the population believe that he will protect our rights, fix the economy (at least get in the right track, to many people expect change today, when all change takes time) as well is secure our home from invaders.
Those 14 million people were made up mail in votes created to stole the election, you are so close to realizing the truth and at the same time so far away, you see that 14 million votes disappear from one election to the other, and those votes never existed historically either (there was a huge jump in votes specifically for that election), and they just happened to be mail in votes and ALL OF THEM specifically for Biden, and yet you think this rather than being fraud was just people who this time decided to not mail in their vote again, lol.
I'm not an American, and I find both parties laughable. In fact, your entire political system is laughable. With that said: Sometimes you feel so strongly about subject x, that you are willing to compromise on subject y,z.. in order to influence subject x. I highly doubt that the majority of Conservatives voted because they find the above mentioned things acceptable, but they likely have a problem with immigration, wokeism or abortion. Many probably even voted for the Conservative party, because that's what they have always done. When you live in a democracy you have to accept that other people think something else than you, and that sometimes they will win elections, implementing things you don't like.When that happens, it is your job to not automatically think of them as inherently bad people. They can have bad reasons for thinking as they do, but they can also have good reasons. Either way, we don't know.
Oh, and when there's only truly two relevant parties to vote on, the alternative to voting on the thing you believe in, will be to vote on the thing you really don't believe in. Imagine if Trump wasn't surrounded by controversies and that he was just a business man, still as stupid and orange as today and Kamala had been accused of 'grape', how would you vote?
Did you not actually listen to or attempt to comprehend the video you commented on? I’m not saying he’s correct, but he gave some reasonable answers to your root question.
Google productivity vs pay and you'll soon find out. The truth is, both major parties set about impoverishing America's working class since pay was decoupled from productivity in the late 70s..what you are now seeing is the inevitable consequence of that. Trump is merely the manifestation of modern America.
That may be your pet issue but that is not what most people were voting on. Plus Harris did not run a campaign on identity politics, I'd say she went out of her way to stay away from it. And I'm also getting sick of people acting like the right doesn't play it's own form of identity politics. When they use terms like "real Americans" that is right wing identity politics. When you make lies about Haitians eating your pets that is identity politics.
Oh absolutely 💯 spot on. Bremmer was spineless for not touching on identity politics. And I like and respect him, but that’s a fail. It was definitely a factor. Not sure how big of a factor, but a factor nonetheless
If we "still have a functioning House & Senate, in 2026" it will be "interesting" to see How "popular" Trump-GOP Policies are with Americans (If Americans are still capable of "disseminating any facts)"..
No matter what, a huge contingent of people here will believe what they are fed. Right now, they’re being fed by Elon Musk’s X, where he controls the narrative. So, even if they’re going through a bad situation, they may not recognize it. He who controls the narrative, wins!
Yes, people dont like high prices. The cause is not immigrants; it's corporate greed, but it's easier to believe the price of eggs and rent is due to those who don't look like you. Shades of 1933 Germany.
High prices are mostly caused by governments around the world (including U.S.) trying to cope with preposterous debt loads by diluting the value of currency. In future, environmental crises will be a bigger driver of high prices. The largest producer of eggs in the U.S. is Cal-Maine foods. They are listed on the NYSE and their finances are a matter of public record. It’s not a bad company, but I have not owned. stock in them for thirty years. There are no solutions to global debt and environmental problems. Different policies will affect different groups differently. Billionaires want policies that will preserve their inter-generational wealth. These policies are incompatible with policies intended to help the environment. The billionaires know all about climate change (Elon Musk bought Tesla!) even as their frontman calls it a “Chinese hoax”. The billionaires believe the best policy to preserve our biosphere is to crash the economy and reduce the population. I must write in out of the way corners to delay Google’s deletion of my comment.
Trump garnered roughly rhe same number of votes as he received in 2016 and 2020. It is the votes that the democrat candidates received that changed. Kamala received roughly similar to what Hillary received. The difference is the 14 million additional votes that were counted for Biden. Where did those voters go? That is the topic that needs discussion...
@DBLDQ One in ten voters stayed home? It is possible, but why did they turn out for Biden during a pandemic? This is why I said, "This is the topic..."
i've been a full-time independent political consultant and political journalist since 2010. My Voting Bloc of 3,500 is galvanized to replace Establishment Democrats with True Progressives AND create a viable 3rd party that truly stands with the middle class, the working class, and the poor.
'True Progressive' basically lets divide people into ever more tighter groups and then place grievance labels worth points... 160 points if you of a marginalised group, 100 points for black, 50 points for Asians and of course minus 500 points for white working class without a college education and add minus a thousand point if you love your country...As an immigrant, I saw us coming together, yes racism was pretty bad in the 70's but it got better in the 80's and even better in the 90's and by the early 2000's I thought we had got there as both the far right and the far left had been pushed into the far corners....but out of no where this new word started popping up 'progressive' along with diverse, inclusive etc. etc. and this has undone all the hard work to bring people and communities together..how utterley sad...
Biden got 81m votes in the last election and Kamala only got 68m whereas Trump got the same number of votes. What happened to those 13m votes? How did they magically disappear?
You see, there's this thing called "learning how to count," which you need to work on since you haven't waited for all the votes to be counted, and there was this thing called covid lockdowns, which gave everyone unlimited free time, and there is this thing called "turnout," which I can best describe in the sentence "your braincells didn't turnout when you wrote that comment."
I know way too many who voted democratic last time, who didn’t vote this time. There’s no conspiracy here; it’s primarily the youth vote. Millions participated in the “no vote” movement to make a point to Dems, especially about the war.
Re: 6:25, Prices don't "come down". I mean, please call out the stupidity of this belief, which is widespread among Trump voters, i.e. the idea that Trump is not only going to tame inflation but is going to make "prices go down". There is no such thing. That's called deflation. If that is happening, the economy is in a really bad place.
this is why democrats loss "The primary problem is not disinformation. The primary problem is people listen to it because key functions of their government aren't working, and they're asking themselves: why doesn't it work?" Alex karp
Nope, that does not hold water, proven by the fact there are MILLIONS of us out here that live in the same country, the same states, the same cities and we did not fall for the disinformation, we use our critical-thinking skills. Until certain people act like accountable adults and realize A) they have been duped by soundbites because they could not be bothered to check the veracity of a conspiracy before repeating/sharing it, and B) make an effort to push back against the people who assumed them to be gullible enough to fall for nonsense...
Partly agree, however no government or country will be prosperous all the time through any circumstances, there will always be situations of distress on any country and democracies are far easier to be taken advantage of during these situations.
Inflation....food prices up 25%, rent up 20%, interest rates more than doubling. Carter, Bush, and Harris all lost primarily because most voters felt the pain of cumulative inflation.
You people loved him before he bought twitter, he was the super cool scientists that was exploring space and creating electrical cars, something leftists love, but once he bought twitter and took away the toy of terminally online people (which includes journalists, influencers and other famous people) then everyone started hating him, it's so transparent that it's funny.
4:44 - 13:39 When will Americans learn that America is not a Democracy? America is a Republic, a Constitutionally Limited Republic. If we can keep it, as Benjamin Franklin once said.
On the other hand you can only go on what he stated in the election campaign. That's the deal he was making to the electorate. It remains to be seen if he imposes all those tariffs at the rates he suggested and the deportation of 11 million undocumented people. He didn't build much of a wall so it could all be Trumpian lies.
@@bobo0202 “waste”? Really? You do realize that by not supporting Ukraine, we give Putin the green light for any expansion he desires, and demonstrate apathy and the fact we cannot be trusted to be an ally to any of our existing allies, right? Just want to make sure you understand that, because America only is a recipe for America bye-bye.
@@garygagnon4637Nah you guys will have a safer more prosperous country with more money in your pockets while still claiming Trump is the devil. Enjoy your right to free speech fellow American.
@@Miles4912 May be. May be not. Why not wait and see. If he’s everything you guys seem to think he is then rightfully go in on him, but may be just may be he’s not the monster you guys have ben led to believe.
I disagree with the statement that it was a mistake by Biden not to invite Musk to that event. Musk has such anti-union policies that Biden was right in shunning him. Pragmatism may be the most advantageous path, but it's not always the best path or the right path.
Right? As if anyone but the hardcore Republican party voters were going to idolize Elon. Most people see him for what he is: a billionaire who profits off of the continued toil of Americans, and simultaneously a fool who believes whatever he wants to believe
Interesting points but you're still sane-washing Trump. The supreme court have given him carte blanche to do as he pleases. I would be very surprised if he feels the need to follow president or law when it comes to his actions. Also he does care what governments the countries he is making deals with have, the more dictatorial the better. It wasn't Trudeau he saluted when he met them.
Although I believe that the studies of journalism are beneficial , I firmly believe that the skill of unbiased reporting cannot be taught, it is a part of one's natural talent or character. To have an unbiased media, you have to recruit the unbiased character, then teach journalism.
When I was watching traditional media news, I would watch the speech that Trump would give in full then listen to what the the media said about it and it was never the truth on what he was saying. It's as simple as that.
We could have shown our daughters and granddaughters that they can become anything they want in this world. Instead, we showed our sons and grandsons that they can get away with being monsters.
The other thing you didn’t mention is that back in 2022, Zelensky and Putin had a draft agreement to end the fighting. But when Boris Johnson came over from England and told Zelensky not to sign it, that’s when the war escalated. You should know that.
No matter who is POTUS, what is the importance of being united and supportive for the next four years? What happens when you are not supportive? How can other countries take advantage of that?
A question for Ian: why don't we invite Russia to join a New NATO and become a part of the EU possibly, which Will bring Russia to the Christian West where it belongs. They will start the road to becoming a new economic and technological power and there will be peace in the world?
It is too late for that. It should have been done in the early 2000s when Putin pivoted West but the USA brushed him off, downgrading Russia from the world power to the “regional power”
The most bewildering outcome to me from this election was that Biden got more women's vote in 2020 than Harris did in 2024. There's a real conclusion to be drawn there but I don't know what it is. Polls had shown that there was a 45% difference between college educated women and young male voters. I think Trump has altered the entire way we interact with politics, creating not just left and right silos, but silos within conservatives and liberals making outcomes really hard to predict and hard to interpret.
You didn't consider the senate and congress not allowing him to proceed. So far, they aren't allowing him to appoint the people to carry out his agenda. Hopefully, enough of us wake-up and realize that they were played.
Why are you really worried about economic growth, lower cost of living, ending wars and fixing our broken health system? Those sound like the good things Trump will do that I'm excited about.😕
@@Heidicode Thats what he promised.... either without saying how he plans to do so - or giving simplistic plans that hundreds of subject-matter specialist say will make things much worse. Think of the 100 professors. How do you people keep believing him? Keep believing he can get stuff done? His first admin was largely him making promises that never materialized. He just says stuff, but never delievers. Its not what he "will do" but what he fabulated about, giving no reason but blind hope to believe it. Ahh well, you elected the man. We all will have to suffer the consequences. I hope I´m wrong and your unfounded belief in a proven conman miraculously tunrs out correct. But I would be reeeeaallly surprised if in 4 years both of us are not much poorer and the US a much worse place to live in.
The US is a strange country. When I visited there a few years ago what shocked me most was the massive level of consumerism. It was pervasive everywhere in the society. And the media, and it's made a lot worse with social media, is constantly about getting it's audience to consume. To get u to consume they pump the people with their distorted narrative and with fear. Divide and conquer. Fear and consumption. It's a deeply divided, fearful nation, taken over by the ideology of consumerism.
As an American I think your assessment of us is spot on
Not wrong. On the other hand, consumerism drives growth. Without growth, capitalism becomes unviable. No other economic system has proven viable for creating prosperity and giving citizens lives that are comfortable and, at least materially, healthy and meaningful, despite magical fantasies about alternatives.
It's the largest economy in the world, people have the money to spend. It's largely tuned out anyways like most ads are anywhere. Ever walked around any shopping center in Asia it's worse, but ok because it's creative. People still form and construct their lives as they want. Ads just try And make you feel like you need to be with the in crowd. 😊
My dad used to talk to me about the dangers of consumerism way back in the early seventies when I was a teenager. I had no idea why he was so adamant about it. Now I know
@@calvinsaxon5822apparently you have not visited France, Italy, Norway, Portugal these are just a few of my favorites. Just go to one, I’d suggest Italy, rent an Airbnb for a month. Get to know the locals. Then you’ll get it
I think you’re an analysis is very balanced. Reading through the comments here you definitely have people on both sides who aren’t happy with what you’re saying, I believe that’s a good indication you’re providing a balanced perspective, I appreciate you.
Gracias.........:)
That supposed axiom that if both sides are upset, you must be speaking the truth is just ridiculous. I'm too exhausted to explain it to you.
your inability to think beyond "two sides" is funny. you treat jackass vs pachyderm like it's real. like sunshine is real. or food. nice slave. so easily controlled by such simple things. 16 billion dollars just bought an election. who won hardly matters.
Biden certainly made mistakes but he is within our historical Democrat/Republican politics. The authoritarian Trump brings in a new form of government. For Mr Bremer to criticize Trump around the edges and ignore the seismic shift is sane-washing.
Its not, if he's allowed on TED he's suspect.
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. -Yoda.
History repeating itself like in 1933.
This was actually from a long, long time ago…
I wish this quote went viral it would really help this country..!
Saw this on another channel...
2016 A New Hope
2020 The Empire Strikes Back
2024 The Return of the Jedi
FYI. I supported 3rd party this election.
Focusing on social justice instead of the cost of eggs is why we lost
this is the very first time I hear someone explain why musk turned against biden. as a european who finds the whole US politics thing baffling that explanation was really helpful.
That was a great explanation and revelation about the values of Musk. He couldn't get a deal so he went the other direction.
For Musk, it’s all about business.
@@guneeta7896 Isn't for Trump also all about business ?
@@thegreatujo Huge part of Trump's actions are about ego, also.
Yeah, I did not hear that elsewhere either.
Rational unbiased commentary from Ian. A rare thing these days.
'from Ian'.
@@rigelb9025 the other person did seem less so. 🙂
Hahahaha, yeah, sure it was.
not entirely unbiased. He tried though...
@@GretalyAgreed. One can tell he tends to be a left-leaning globalist, but overall he seemed reasonably fair in his assessment of most points.
Mr. Bremmer, the only thing I believe, online, offline, from social media, mainstream and sidestream media, and even from barbershop visits is that one can never go wrong by underestimating the general intelligence of the American public !
This depressing fact is highlighted in elections, corporate board meeting decisions and especially how politicians perform their public duties.
And they still haven't woke up yet!
The "general intelligence" of the public is absolutely gone, what are you talking about? They have just re-elected the guy who tried to overthrow the government, doesn't believe in democracy, and tanked the economy 4 years ago. The "generally intelligence" doesn't even wonder why we had to stimulate the economy in the first place? Because we had 18% unemployment from Trump... and they put that guy back in power. In the age of social media - its the general lack of intelligence of the public. Look at Brexit and how that public intelligence worked out.
I fully agree.
Don’t underestimate the pandemic as a proximate cause of both inflation and distrust of institutions here in the US and abroad.
COVID caused a lot of genuine psychological trauma, and it is absolutely playing a role in civil discourse and electoral politics.
Price to pay for not pro-actively managing the human population. To reach the 1st billion, it took from the beginning of humanity till 1900. So it took nearly 500,000 years or more for the human population to get the 1st billion. Since 1900, we have added another 6 billion and counting. So we added another 6 billion in just 123 years?
Considering a finite amount of resources (including air and water) and land, what makes one think there will be no adverse impact of continued population growth?
@ I think there is general consensus among population experts that human populations are declining and will continue to, and the Malthusian crisis isn’t going to happen. I guess you should look it up - if you find a reliable authority to the contrary, please send me a link.
@ also, what do you mean by “pro-actively managing the human population”? Like China? Sounds more than a little Orwellian. Please explain yourself.
@ finally, my comment had nothing to do with population size. We’ve encroached on wildlife, which might be one cause of cross-species transmission, but population control was irrelevant to my comment.
@@bkinstler They why are billions all over the world are living in slums around big cities?
Just like Trump lost to COVID in 2020, Harris lost to inflation (to be precise, high cost of living) in 2024.
Most voters living from paycheck to paycheck unlikely watched the news, but had to stare at the pricetags in the supermarkets and see the rent go up.
Yes…Rent or home insurance, car insurance, food/needs, and gas. The “middle class” majority who have not received wage increases that stayed up with inflation feel worse or much worse off. And the few that did gain something in their check, look at their achievements as lost to inflation.
That i can understand.
How people expect Trump and the possee behind him to make it better - after they already saw 4 years of attempted governement - now THAT is beyond my understanding.
People should've watched the news and got some perspective. The whole world suffered inflation after Covid, it wasn't Biden's fault
So Trump will make their life better? Poor folks will stay poor, rich folks like Musk and Bezos will get more millions and billions.
The news of what though? Propaganda? The things the left media have said about Trump are all things that are untrue or Trump himself said he's against, yet the left elites keep on shoving it down our throats that he's for. That's why I left the left, not to mention the abuse towards anyone who doesn't 100% agree with them. Not to mention Kamala didn't have anything of value to say but to harass the other side. Anyone who saw unbiased, factual news saw how the border was, how many already offenders were coming to the country illegally and rpng and severely abusing women and children because they know the punishment is lighter in the US if at all, how woke nonsense has gone way too far that even centrists and millions of leftists voted for Trump. So on.
Also, LOOK fml at the voting map. The only places which are majority blue are the rich urban city areas. Everywhere else, especially rural, is red. The lower class happily voted red. The upper class happily voted blue, if it wasn't already obvious from the hundreds of millionaire celebrities who are rich because of social media said they're blue. Your average red if you stepped outside would be someone just trying to afford life. If Harris lost to inflation, that's even more proof that those who don't care about it would vote blue cuz it doesn't affect their pockets, but those whose pockets are affected, like the lower class, needed to vote red. And I don't want any propaganda spewing about how he's against the lower class, or a bunch of isms and phobes and slurs. He's not any of those. I say that as a leftist myself, I just like the real truth and not just leftie hit pieces of him.
Ian
This is the best looking into the future. Most of the people, including the ones that provide analysis of the situations, are stunned (me included) and unable to think on what is going to happen.
Not surprising, for you, allways go deeper than most of us.
Thank you, and please continue guiding us in understanding the un-understandable.
This has been a sobering listen indeed.
Thank you for broadcasting.
Excellent. It is interesting to hear unbiased information presented intelligently.
In Singapore, our politics does not involve businessmen/celebrities/entertainers who openly express their support for one candidate or another.
Here we have more freedom of speech for Everybody.
We should be a reminder that it can happen to you too, maybe it just hasn't happened YET.
Yes but in Singapore you also impose long prison sentences for smoking weed. So there's that.
@@Annah382 Wait until you realise that Kamala wanted to arrest you for that
What he is raising about , whole primaries, bringing in money, donation and lobbies and what not, that changes the loyalty of the candidate before even he is elected.
This without exception is the most unbiased analysis of the world situation I have heard. Thank you very much for sharing it.
I retired recently, and what I've found is that there ARE a lot of bad actors out there, there IS a lot of bad information disseminated for a variety of reasons, but I thought I was pretty well informed until I had the 2-4 hours PER DAY, to both ferret out reliable sources and comb through what they got wrong and have corrected, and to try to parse good information from bad in a more general sense. Information divorced from political or personal ideology or bias. The three network information environment i grew up with may be the only viable model to accurately inform a public who works/commutes more than 40 hours a week, or are otherwise exposed to the type of information overload that modern for profit media demands.
Certain ideologies influence the decision of what to report. I think it would be better to visualize the ideology behind the news. I think it would be relatively easy to label it using AI.
@@mossydog2385 there is no such thing as information without bias. It literally does not exist
Thanks!
"20% Worldwide Pandemic Inflation" .. People have Pandemic Amnesia, only conscious of the Prices ..
Peace and prosperity is the lie. No educated society destroys its capacity to survive by exploiting nature as a product. The economy is great but the environment is dying.
If anyone wants to know what is happening, talk to animal rights movement. We know the depravity of agriculture and all the powerful interests behind the economies of animal agriculture and the medical industry that rose out of it. Power wants power. Read Charles Pattersons book Eternal Treblinka Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust to understand what got us here . Read Piers Beirne's book, Murdering Animals Writings on Theriocide Homicide and Non speciesist Criminology. Human supremacy isca sickness.
Exactly. I keep saying this to people and they look at me like I'm an idiot 😷
@@0nFoot They linked economic anxiety w/ Immigration / blame and kept pounding on it ..
Actually Biden has had much contribution to the world wide inflation because US dollar is the reserve currency.
Ian is awesome. Objective, honest, critical thinker. The way these things should be done. Always a reliable source of understanding world events accurately.
Very helpful analysis, thanks!
I keep hearing that a majority of Americans do not like the direction that the country is heading without anyone ever telling me just what that direction is. Also, is this direction real or imagined, created by the media, especially rightwing media? Is it just a phony narrative or legitimately true? In the end, a majority of Americans thought that a convicted felon who attempted a coup, who can't stop lying, and can't be trusted with very sensitive documents/information, and who may very well be on his last legs, was the better choice.
@brigham2250, all very true. How is that a "better direction"??? (I've hated that question-- what does that even mean? It's not a ship headed for an island! It's going many directions.)
Constitutional Rights. The left wants to govern what we can say and our means to defend it. The First and Second Amendments.
The left (political left) believes that money can win and rule. The democratic party and kamala as a whole spent over 1 billion on their race. Then those same people say money should not be in politics when Elon Musk spends money to insentivize voting in a key swing state.
Trump is not a good person. But over 50% of the population believe that he will protect our rights, fix the economy (at least get in the right track, to many people expect change today, when all change takes time) as well is secure our home from invaders.
how about a phony media being a part of the direction we are heading (1984)....
try this tune in WION an Indian news outlet, its like news used to be
We simply dont like a country led by people who cant even define what a woman is, thats all.
“Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?”
3:20 - "when you don't give the real customer what they pay for, uh...they go somewhere else" genius stuff here
Btw, I will credit Ian, He gave for the most part a very fair take. Even if I have some criticisms, he was pretty honest and truthful.
So good to listen too. This was fair and deep analysis… totally recommend watching
Ian Bremmer always informative with smart commentary
About half of those who did vote didn't vote for him, he did receive less votes than he did in 2016, and there were 14 million people who did not vote
Umm... he got more votes than either 2016 or 2020. Check again.
And he got 5m more votes than Kamala.
@NicholasWongCQ can you supply me a credible source and I will look at it
@@meganparra4026 Simple Google or Wikipedia. What's YOUR source that tells you Trump got less votes than he did in 2016??
Those 14 million people were made up mail in votes created to stole the election, you are so close to realizing the truth and at the same time so far away, you see that 14 million votes disappear from one election to the other, and those votes never existed historically either (there was a huge jump in votes specifically for that election), and they just happened to be mail in votes and ALL OF THEM specifically for Biden, and yet you think this rather than being fraud was just people who this time decided to not mail in their vote again, lol.
This was one of the most interesting perspectives on current US & world politics. It's refreshing to hear insight without bias.
Ian needs to move to a room that doesn't have as much echo in it. Sound was bad.
Sounds like he's in a tiled sunroom.
could not watch
The man does so many interviews and he still uses the built-in microphone...
It’s his bunker for when Trump takes office.
Love this series with Ian Bremmer!!
How can so many people find bigotry, dishonesty, criminality and greed acceptable. I am a saddened and ashamed to be an American right now.
I'm not an American, and I find both parties laughable. In fact, your entire political system is laughable. With that said: Sometimes you feel so strongly about subject x, that you are willing to compromise on subject y,z.. in order to influence subject x. I highly doubt that the majority of Conservatives voted because they find the above mentioned things acceptable, but they likely have a problem with immigration, wokeism or abortion. Many probably even voted for the Conservative party, because that's what they have always done. When you live in a democracy you have to accept that other people think something else than you, and that sometimes they will win elections, implementing things you don't like.When that happens, it is your job to not automatically think of them as inherently bad people. They can have bad reasons for thinking as they do, but they can also have good reasons. Either way, we don't know.
Oh, and when there's only truly two relevant parties to vote on, the alternative to voting on the thing you believe in, will be to vote on the thing you really don't believe in. Imagine if Trump wasn't surrounded by controversies and that he was just a business man, still as stupid and orange as today and Kamala had been accused of 'grape', how would you vote?
Did you not actually listen to or attempt to comprehend the video you commented on? I’m not saying he’s correct, but he gave some reasonable answers to your root question.
You can leave
Google productivity vs pay and you'll soon find out. The truth is, both major parties set about impoverishing America's working class since pay was decoupled from productivity in the late 70s..what you are now seeing is the inevitable consequence of that. Trump is merely the manifestation of modern America.
The fact that you didn't mention how incredibly annoying identity politics are to the vast majority of people is very telling.
Bingo
Yep...until "they/them" understand why "they/them" is a problem, it's not going to change directions.
That may be your pet issue but that is not what most people were voting on. Plus Harris did not run a campaign on identity politics, I'd say she went out of her way to stay away from it. And I'm also getting sick of people acting like the right doesn't play it's own form of identity politics. When they use terms like "real Americans" that is right wing identity politics. When you make lies about Haitians eating your pets that is identity politics.
@@rexx9496 What you said and what I said are both true.
Oh absolutely 💯 spot on. Bremmer was spineless for not touching on identity politics. And I like and respect him, but that’s a fail. It was definitely a factor. Not sure how big of a factor, but a factor nonetheless
Always competent, objective expertise from this gentleman.
If we "still have a functioning House & Senate, in 2026" it will be "interesting" to see How "popular" Trump-GOP Policies are with Americans (If Americans are still capable of "disseminating any facts)"..
No matter what, a huge contingent of people here will believe what they are fed. Right now, they’re being fed by Elon Musk’s X, where he controls the narrative. So, even if they’re going through a bad situation, they may not recognize it. He who controls the narrative, wins!
Thank you 👍
Yes, people dont like high prices. The cause is not immigrants; it's corporate greed, but it's easier to believe the price of eggs and rent is due to those who don't look like you. Shades of 1933 Germany.
They'll see it once it's too late!!!
Also Izrale took down the Democrats.
The mass deportations will cause a recession or a depression as immigrant labor is baked into our GDP.
Corporate greed man!
High prices are mostly caused by governments around the world (including U.S.) trying to cope with preposterous debt loads by diluting the value of currency. In future, environmental crises will be a bigger driver of high prices.
The largest producer of eggs in the U.S. is Cal-Maine foods. They are listed on the NYSE and their finances are a matter of public record. It’s not a bad company, but I have not owned. stock in them for thirty years.
There are no solutions to global debt and environmental problems. Different policies will affect different groups differently. Billionaires want policies that will preserve their inter-generational wealth. These policies are incompatible with policies intended to help the environment. The billionaires know all about climate change (Elon Musk bought Tesla!) even as their frontman calls it a “Chinese hoax”. The billionaires believe the best policy to preserve our biosphere is to crash the economy and reduce the population.
I must write in out of the way corners to delay Google’s deletion of my comment.
We should just call a lie a lie.
Russian Collusion hoax was a lie
It's the cost of living not the rate of inflation.
Trump garnered roughly rhe same number of votes as he received in 2016 and 2020.
It is the votes that the democrat candidates received that changed.
Kamala received roughly similar to what Hillary received.
The difference is the 14 million additional votes that were counted for Biden. Where did those voters go?
That is the topic that needs discussion...
🤔🙄 maybe they didn’t exist in the first place . . .
The only showed up in suitcases during the “gas leaks” 4 years ago
I voted for Biden last time, neither this time. I can’t be the only one.
@DBLDQ
One in ten voters stayed home?
It is possible, but why did they turn out for Biden during a pandemic?
This is why I said, "This is the topic..."
@Ugottabekiddingme
There was statistical irregularities.
Great conversation
i've been a full-time independent political consultant and political journalist since 2010. My Voting Bloc of 3,500 is galvanized to replace Establishment Democrats with True Progressives AND create a viable 3rd party that truly stands with the middle class, the working class, and the poor.
I wish you well......
@@lynetteneal945 Don't wish. Participate. Do your part.
HURRY UP
'True Progressive' basically lets divide people into ever more tighter groups and then place grievance labels worth points... 160 points if you of a marginalised group, 100 points for black, 50 points for Asians and of course minus 500 points for white working class without a college education and add minus a thousand point if you love your country...As an immigrant, I saw us coming together, yes racism was pretty bad in the 70's but it got better in the 80's and even better in the 90's and by the early 2000's I thought we had got there as both the far right and the far left had been pushed into the far corners....but out of no where this new word started popping up 'progressive' along with diverse, inclusive etc. etc. and this has undone all the hard work to bring people and communities together..how utterley sad...
@@vMaxHeadroomexactly.
Thank you for this. G0
Ignorance is powerful .
If the democrats did their job, they would still be in power.
That conclusion is chilling.
Biden got 81m votes in the last election and Kamala only got 68m whereas Trump got the same number of votes. What happened to those 13m votes? How did they magically disappear?
I would say they died but they were dead in 2020 too😂
@@kennytran5020really funny comrade, thanks for ruining the country
You see, there's this thing called "learning how to count," which you need to work on since you haven't waited for all the votes to be counted, and there was this thing called covid lockdowns, which gave everyone unlimited free time, and there is this thing called "turnout," which I can best describe in the sentence "your braincells didn't turnout when you wrote that comment."
I know way too many who voted democratic last time, who didn’t vote this time. There’s no conspiracy here; it’s primarily the youth vote. Millions participated in the “no vote” movement to make a point to Dems, especially about the war.
@@Moonspec😂😂
Very insightly interview.
We have bee too lenient towards ignorance and feelings. Just tell people who are wrong that they are wrong.
That does not work in America
So YOU are wrong….
Re: 6:25, Prices don't "come down". I mean, please call out the stupidity of this belief, which is widespread among Trump voters, i.e. the idea that Trump is not only going to tame inflation but is going to make "prices go down". There is no such thing. That's called deflation. If that is happening, the economy is in a really bad place.
Since when TED started discussing about politics ?
Among all Christmas gifts Helen will receive this year, i wish there is a ultrasonic eyeglass cleaner👓
I need one too.
I'm glad to see Ian again
Second time to listen to Ian Bremmer. What a great thinker.
this is why democrats loss
"The primary problem is not disinformation. The primary problem is people listen to it because key functions of their government aren't working, and they're asking themselves: why doesn't it work?"
Alex karp
No no, it's primarily disinformation
Nope, that does not hold water, proven by the fact there are MILLIONS of us out here that live in the same country, the same states, the same cities and we did not fall for the disinformation, we use our critical-thinking skills. Until certain people act like accountable adults and realize A) they have been duped by soundbites because they could not be bothered to check the veracity of a conspiracy before repeating/sharing it, and B) make an effort to push back against the people who assumed them to be gullible enough to fall for nonsense...
Oh it is a great deal of misinformation including what you just said.
Absolutely correct. The government is not representing it's constituents ... Just the corporations.
Partly agree, however no government or country will be prosperous all the time through any circumstances, there will always be situations of distress on any country and democracies are far easier to be taken advantage of during these situations.
Great great analysis!
Inflation....food prices up 25%, rent up 20%, interest rates more than doubling. Carter, Bush, and Harris all lost primarily because most voters felt the pain of cumulative inflation.
What a thoughtful discussion.
Elon Musk seems like an unstable mad scientist and from one minute to the next I don't know if he's going to save the world or destroy it.
You people loved him before he bought twitter, he was the super cool scientists that was exploring space and creating electrical cars, something leftists love, but once he bought twitter and took away the toy of terminally online people (which includes journalists, influencers and other famous people) then everyone started hating him, it's so transparent that it's funny.
4:44 - 13:39 When will Americans learn that America is not a Democracy? America is a Republic, a Constitutionally Limited Republic. If we can keep it, as Benjamin Franklin once said.
Good analysis of what Trump might do instead of all this whining about why he shouldn't have won.
On the other hand you can only go on what he stated in the election campaign. That's the deal he was making to the electorate. It remains to be seen if he imposes all those tariffs at the rates he suggested and the deportation of 11 million undocumented people. He didn't build much of a wall so it could all be Trumpian lies.
Hmm, yeah, sure……prepare to be surprised and disappointed, and, if you have any morals, horrified. But keep drinking the orange Kool-Aid.
@@F16_viper_pilot Hopefully he stops the waste of American tax dollars on Ukraine
@@bobo0202 “waste”? Really? You do realize that by not supporting Ukraine, we give Putin the green light for any expansion he desires, and demonstrate apathy and the fact we cannot be trusted to be an ally to any of our existing allies, right? Just want to make sure you understand that, because America only is a recipe for America bye-bye.
@@F16_viper_pilot I’m not a Trumpist but Democrats need to do some serious soul searching or else JD Vance is going to be the President in 2029.
We need the next episode please
Remember over half of us did not support him in any way. Pray for America.
We're screwed
@@garygagnon4637Nah you guys will have a safer more prosperous country with more money in your pockets while still claiming Trump is the devil. Enjoy your right to free speech fellow American.
@@amrg211Americans are gonna pay higher prices for these tarrifs, this is what the people wanted believe me
@@Miles4912 May be. May be not. Why not wait and see. If he’s everything you guys seem to think he is then rightfully go in on him, but may be just may be he’s not the monster you guys have ben led to believe.
@@amrg211how can you say he's not a monster when he's proven to us time and time again over and over what a monster he is?
Man, I avoided clicking this video so long since I though it was Dr. Drew 🤣
Excellent interview
I disagree with the statement that it was a mistake by Biden not to invite Musk to that event. Musk has such anti-union policies that Biden was right in shunning him. Pragmatism may be the most advantageous path, but it's not always the best path or the right path.
Right? As if anyone but the hardcore Republican party voters were going to idolize Elon. Most people see him for what he is: a billionaire who profits off of the continued toil of Americans, and simultaneously a fool who believes whatever he wants to believe
Just wait until tariffs jump prices by 10-29%, social security privatized, climate feedback loops locked in, and collapse of the healthcare system.
wont happen.
@WilliamKimmons lolz I guess you know more than all the economists and climatologists.
@WilliamKimmons and Rs have been wanting to privilege social security for decades.
Ian has real skill at pointing out the obvious!
You were radically off. You thought Trump would loose.
😂🎉
"lose", not "loose". Trump is loose, for sure.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Interesting points but you're still sane-washing Trump. The supreme court have given him carte blanche to do as he pleases. I would be very surprised if he feels the need to follow president or law when it comes to his actions.
Also he does care what governments the countries he is making deals with have, the more dictatorial the better. It wasn't Trudeau he saluted when he met them.
I can't imagine what Prime Minister Roger Trump will be like. I know he hangs out with a right rum lot 😢
Yeah, this guy has obviously imbibed the orange Kool-Aid quite heavily.
Although I believe that the studies of journalism are beneficial , I firmly believe that the skill of unbiased reporting cannot be taught, it is a part of one's natural talent or character. To have an unbiased media, you have to recruit the unbiased character, then teach journalism.
When I was watching traditional media news, I would watch the speech that Trump would give in full then listen to what the the media said about it and it was never the truth on what he was saying. It's as simple as that.
Beautiful
JD Vance has 24 mos of Political Experience, and was Theil's "appointee" .. Trump's got Musk / Musk's got Trump (for now) ..
He's now 'The Apprentice'. Much loyalty will his master demand from him.
The Theil / Musk / Trump trifecta of doom.
Bremmer is very honest and dishonest at the same time.
I want to see this guy on a 4 hour podcast with Joe rogan
great talk
Moral of this election: nothing matters but grocery prices
We could have shown our daughters and granddaughters that they can become anything they want in this world. Instead, we showed our sons and grandsons that they can get away with being monsters.
Well,
Mr. Ian Bremmer explains what happened in this 2024 presidential election very well.
Hate and Lies won the day..U.S.A., U.S.A!!!
Very interesting. 🤙
Do we need to create a gofundme for better mic for TED? Poor TED without any funds to afford a decent mic. 😢
Go have your ears checked!!!
Interesting. Thanks for the explanation.
The disinformation is on inflation. The disinformation is on immigration.
The other thing you didn’t mention is that back in 2022, Zelensky and Putin had a draft agreement to end the fighting. But when Boris Johnson came over from England and told Zelensky not to sign it, that’s when the war escalated. You should know that.
Talking to Ian Bremmer is like talking to an AI bot. He just recites the official talking points.
Agree, what insights?
Time for direct democracy. Real-time vote for real time effect. No political leaders to take lead. People can lead by voting.
Inflation is going to skyrocket too funny.
I always love hearing from Ian, almost no one else has a better grasp on geopolitics today.
Pendulums swing. The End.
And the doomsday clock gets ever closer to 12....
The pendulum may have swung all the way around.
No matter who is POTUS, what is the importance of being united and supportive for the next four years? What happens when you are not supportive? How can other countries take advantage of that?
JD Vance has star power??? Really. Bring in the WWF as secretary of commerce??? Is the circus coming to the White House ???
@@DEREKAGIBSON Cant be worse than the geriatric ward and cackle factory can it?
I enjoyed this a lot and feel I learned a few things too. Great interview
A question for Ian: why don't we invite Russia to join a New NATO and become a part of the EU possibly, which Will bring Russia to the Christian West where it belongs. They will start the road to becoming a new economic and technological power and there will be peace in the world?
It is too late for that. It should have been done in the early 2000s when Putin pivoted West but the USA brushed him off, downgrading Russia from the world power to the “regional power”
The most bewildering outcome to me from this election was that Biden got more women's vote in 2020 than Harris did in 2024. There's a real conclusion to be drawn there but I don't know what it is. Polls had shown that there was a 45% difference between college educated women and young male voters. I think Trump has altered the entire way we interact with politics, creating not just left and right silos, but silos within conservatives and liberals making outcomes really hard to predict and hard to interpret.
Great job in normalizing Trump’s behaviour, Ian
Yes, it's quite a thing to hear describing despotic, undemocratic and parafascist political behaviours as "interesting"...
Einstein taught us that "Time is relative." What the age of social media is teaching us is that reality is also relative.
The cope is strong with this one.
It really isn't. Its precisely right. Tell me what he is wrong about.
This guy is informative
He is giving way too much credit to the average person who voted in this election. They knew next to nothing about policy.
You didn't consider the senate and congress not allowing him to proceed. So far, they aren't allowing him to appoint the people to carry out his agenda. Hopefully, enough of us wake-up and realize that they were played.
Terrified of a Trump presidency, really worried of economic growth, lower cost of living, ending of wars and fixing our broken health system. 😢
Bookmarked
Why are you really worried about economic growth, lower cost of living, ending wars and fixing our broken health system? Those sound like the good things Trump will do that I'm excited about.😕
@@Heidicode Thats what he promised.... either without saying how he plans to do so - or giving simplistic plans that hundreds of subject-matter specialist say will make things much worse. Think of the 100 professors.
How do you people keep believing him? Keep believing he can get stuff done?
His first admin was largely him making promises that never materialized. He just says stuff, but never delievers.
Its not what he "will do" but what he fabulated about, giving no reason but blind hope to believe it.
Ahh well, you elected the man. We all will have to suffer the consequences.
I hope I´m wrong and your unfounded belief in a proven conman miraculously tunrs out correct.
But I would be reeeeaallly surprised if in 4 years both of us are not much poorer and the US a much worse place to live in.
@@Heidicodeyour obliviousness is amazing. Thank you for making me smile today.
Gee, Ian, where was your criticism of mainstream journalism last year or even before the election season started?