+User 0 I don't know any person on this planet who would say America is the best country in the world.
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***** Okay, education-wise, America isn't as bad as you think. America may be "behind" other countries, but who defines the standard for education? China is higher up than we are? Well, more than half of their country is undeveloped rice fields, so how is that education working out, especially since the only reason they're starting to do well, (kind of) is that they've opened up to capitalism a little bit, although now, they're starting to close off, and their economy is suffering. American health care is better than most, surprisingly. It seems controlled by large corporations, which get a bad rap, but that creates incentive, which creates innovation, which means better health care. America has more advanced medical technology than Australia, where standardized health care is a widespread thing. Also, standardized health care might sound like a wet dream, but who pays for it? The middle class, and in Denmark, where standardized health care is a norm, people pay upwards of a 40% tax rate, and auto tax rate is 180%, which turns a $20,000 car into a $50,000. In Canada, where long waiting times and low quality are part of the norm, gas is average $10. Sometimes, the negatives outweigh the potential positives. Might I add that under Hippocratic law, all doctors are already under oath and sign documents when they graduate to treat anyone, regardless of financial position. I will agree that our government is a mess. A barely functioning machination of corrupt political power fed by nestled old money padding their own stomachs on the backs of the taxpayers. A prime example is that of the Clintons. I can go more into depth, however, suffice to say that I don't need to as of now. The problem is that of balance. The 50s were probably our brightest period financially, and prices were low, Americans--even poor ones--had lots and lots of buying power and high wages. If only social freedoms and financial success could be such today. It would be a utopia. Our country was built on much that much of Europe still respects, but starting in the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the government started seizing power, unconstitutional power, mind you, and that, combined with the succeeding administrations, coupled with the advent of technology and a generation enslaved to the luxuries of the 21st century, created a bastion of corrupt power that will most likely never be taken back, unless we follow the Declaration when it said: "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to establish new guards for their future security." But unless we follow that, we won't be able to take our freedom back and establish what we once had. We used to be feared, respected. Now, admittedly to your point, some are beginning to see our vulnerabilities, thanks to the current administration, but we still have much respect, and we are better than many give us credit for. I hope you read all this, but if you don't it's ok. I enjoy discussing with you, and hope you have a great day :)
+MrMighty147 You're absolutely right. I think it's coming. We just need the corporate aristocrats to say 'let them eat cake' over a sobbing family who was denied health insurance when their kids were dying. Oh wait... that's already happened.
What's even better is both parties often work together to redraw districts so they can make deals by bartering districts, votes, seats, etc. That's part of the reason there's so little incentive for politicians to change the system since they both benefit from the status quo. I don't even know where to start trying to fix this mess!
The fix is by hitting the big red button on America, and resetting the whole country. I wish I was joking. America is so corrupt that the only way to fix it is by getting rid of the political system completely.
I'm thinking you could fix the system by getting a philantropic ultra rich guy, say Warren Buffett, to simply flood the system with bribe money in order to get something done. Let's say he'd offer a all of House and Senat ultra cushiony positions in one of his firms after retirement, if they simply support a bill to reform the election system into a proportional one. Then, add 5M bonuses each on top if they support a bill to disable all future bribes of this kind by reforming at least one of the Houses into a professional parliament with high salaries, high pension, but transparent books, i.e. no lobbyists. A few billions should be able to do that - entire elections run on AFAIK a few hundreds of millions - someone like Buffett could buy the whole damn system and still have 80% of his wealth left to give to poor people after his death.
If you live in a state with voter initiatives, you could put a law on the ballot that makes gerrymandering illegal, although I ran the numbers and it costs an average of 1 million dollars in most states to make that happen. And that's without campaigning for it.
It's half of what the right wing does. They complain about things they don't understand. The other half of their time is spent complaining about things some of them understand.
Just for information, in France this system is used for electing the Senators but the districts don't change from year to year to accommodate whoever is in power at the time.
+ShakeyBox, yeah I mean this used to be a common system across Europe but counties are moving away from it and I think France should too. It's crazy to think that in the US it has been changed for the senatorial election but it's still used for the most important election of all.
+ShakeyBox It's a terrible system, however, I'd say that it's better than the American system because the lines are not often redrawn, not worse. It's arder to rig elections that way.
Wake up people, we are DROWNING in trevors and if we don't do something fast and let things keep on running this way, we'll start seeing them everywhere. the purple party profits from this of course, they all vote purple, so what they do is they invite all the trevors to come here and vote for them, and what do you know the purples keep getting elected and those trevors keep on leeching on our welfare, It's like trevorland here, I tell ya.
+Schwarzer Ritter The USA got their colors from the flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. These are the colors of Saint George and Saint Andrew.
elucidate Was it not called the "United Kingdom" prior to any part of Ireland joining? But yeah, I do mean the kingdom of Great Britain, as there was no Ireland or Northern Ireland in it at the time.
Undead Unicorn It wasn't called the "United Kingdom" when the US flag was made. It was called the "Kingdom of Great Britain", which later became the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
Well my name is Trevor and I LOVE the Yellow party. Just because my name is Trevor doesn't mean that I don't recognize that many Trevors are very dangerous and that the world deserves to be able to protect itself. Besides, the Purple party is corrupt. They should all be in jail.
Might as well be saying a prayer if you don't have a solution. America is not a democracy, never was. A Nation's future should never hinge on the proclivities of any single person, voters on both sides are exactly the same whenever someone challenges their beliefs, and both accuse anyone who doesn't agree with their assigned talking points of supporting the other party. Thus the supporters of both parties have hijacked and sold out the rest of humanity for the sake of their own egos and lack of imagination And this is how they've controlled us from the dawn of the 20th Century, where they pit us against each other, seed the debate with misinformation, some populism, and some catchy epithets, and continue to go about their plunder unopposed. All representatives will always be subject to influence from moneyed interests, blackmail, or assassination. The solution is a *Velvet Revolution* to install a *Scaled Direct Democracy* without representatives or politicians. Citizens initiated referendums with thresholds and a social contract using blockchain technology means communities can vote their own policies without politicians. With a vote for, against, and the option to redraft or veto, with the relative proportional thresholds. *Thorium Energy renders their global oil monopoly obsolete.* *#VelvetRevolution* *#ScaledDirectDemocracy* *#ThoriumEnergy* Thorium energy can process both nuclear and toxic waste, as well as make salt water desalination and carbon sequestration economically viable. It can also power synthetic fuel manufacture, and electric power for all forms of transport. Thorium reactors cannot be weaponized, are walk away safe, produce grams of waste to the tonne of conventional plants, and are low level radioactive for 300 years vs highly radioactive for 25,000. A person's lifetime of energy from thorium would cost less than $100. It also produces the world's best known cancer treatment when 1/2 adult in the western world will contract it. "The thorium molten salt power plant can produce clean energy cheaper than coal, which could be a reliable energy system toward a low carbon economy" PAL said. www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-nuclearpower-idUSKCN1UD0D0 If the profits from American labour were shared equally as they are with corporate shareholders, every household would receive $700k annually. If we got even a fraction of that we would have more than enough to fund education, healthcare and infrastructure for everybody. 52% of all greenhouse gases come from methane produced by Beef farming, which is currently 90% subsidized. Ending Beef Communism and embracing Hemp and Kelp farming as Moonshot technologies for use in packaging, construction, manufacturing, medicines, insulation, and clothing could alleviate the worst of climate change, sequester carbon, revitalize crop land and restore depleted habitats. It would also be conducive to have an independent public authority drawing from volunteers to act as third party advocates for the public interest, with the authority to charge and prosecute bad actors and cops in our own courts. This would ensure both Government and Law Enforcement are held to the highest standards of etiquette, ethical conduct, and equality of outcome regardless of Creed Color, or Economic bracket. Finally a National Digital Forum that allows for open sourced debate is essential for fascilatating Direct Democracy, and addressing the issues America does not want to face, from systemic racism, to ethnic cleansing as foriegn policy. If these things can't be discussed with frank honesty, civil moderation, without religious protections, and without the generic knee jerk reactionary bs, there is literally no hope for the West, as we will die by our own prejudices and cowardice. And of course Reparations, and indigenous sovereignty, if we claim to stand for anything right and true, reparations have to be a part of that picture, and no one is better suited to protect our natural environment, than the people who were already here when we arrived. qz.com/1032154/america-is-not-a-true-democracy-but-it-could-be-with-the-help-of-technology/
@@uncannyvalley2350 The heck? A national popular vote really does make sense, not whatever weird thing that is. A NPV would bring about a Representative Democracy, rather than that. If 51%% of people vote Democrat, 48% vote Republican, 0.75% vote Libertarian, and 0.25% vote Green Party, then put 204 Democrats in, 192 Republicans in, 3 Libertarians in, and 1 Greenie in. Makes sense, right? Right. Also, why did you break into a TED Talk on thorium energy?
I took a course on elections and the history of American politics. Part of what we covered was gerrymandering and it involved a project to create the most gerrymandered districts in a state to push certain issues. I worked for a solid 2 hours and made the most convoluted districts in a state that was about 30/70 for the two major parties, and could not make them as bad as they actually are in my state.
+777Skeptic In this instance he's ruining our great vision of democracy by showing how easily the votes can be manipulated, or just outright irrelevant
+777Skeptic The idea is that he ruins the perfect fluffy bunny view we have of the world by revealing unfortunate truths. Like the guy at parties who's too smart about everything and won't shut up about it.
Taylor Holmes kinda... some other videos are subtle about it. It doesn't help that on CollegeHumor, where Adam got started, even i noticed the democratic bias
@@CodaMissionor, rather, that myth-based politics is republican. Democrats don’t base most their claims off factual evidence because it’s difficult to get them to make any claims to begin with (except the progressives.) They do make alot of counterclaims, though!
+Kyle Medeiros gerrymandering just means taking a some information or data and grouping it in some way(obscuring the rest of the information from each group) so that it becomes advantageous to you.
cgp grey gives you what gerrymandering means but he also has sample videos giving examples of how the system works and videos about alternative systems
+Kyle Medeiros Gerrymandering means systematically drawing the boundaries of electoral districts, with knowledge of the population distribution and statistical voter behavior, so that your party will win a disproportionate representation advantage. The name Gerrymandering comes from the drawing of state senate election districts during the term of Massachusetts Governor Governor Elbridge Gerry, and from the shape of one of the districts looking like a salamander.
In France we don't redraw the district laws in every election. And even then is doesn't matter for many elections. For example, for the presidential elections it's a direct election. If 50.01% of the population votes for the Red Party, the Red Party wins. For the legislative, european and district (sort of representatives for a few cities that also elect the Senate), it's based on population. For example, we have one european representative for 760.000 inhabitants. The districts for the european elections have never been redrawn. For the legislative elections, we draw the lines in 2010 and 1986 (before that, there was a lot of changes in the number of representatives). And here again, it's based on population. Just look at our district maps. They are not as messy as yours. For the district elections, it was only simplified also in 2010 to represent better the population, just like for the legislative elections, because the system changed in 2011. Before that, the cantons (districts) were the exact same size since 1800. Please check your facts Adam and all the guys that supposedly do your research work.
Actually, redistricting in France is done based to keep up with the population change in density / location. The lower the population density is, the larger the district, so they all represent around the same % of the population (instead of 1 representative representing 50.000 people and one representing 700.000 people having 1 vote each, which is unfair for the population of the 2nd representative).
+Le7emeChat That's supposed to be the point in the US as well. Districts are redrawn to reflect changes in populations in order to insure each district has the same number of people. The problem is the way the rules are stated. As long as each district is a large continuous area with equal population you can shape them however you want.
+Le7emeChat Which makes perfect sense. Some states actually DO have 3rd parties draw districts...which leads us back to good old fashion regular bribery and corruption. Still makes more sense than letting the inmates run the asylum though .
+DrJohnZoidberg125 Not saying it isn't. It was stated that France only changes its districts to adjust for population growth, and I'm saying that's the same reason we do it in the US, and that some states in fact do it the same way. I'm saying the corruption persists when you change the system. Rather than being critical of France, I'm more critical of the US.
For the record, the UK has a very similar system, except that rather than local counties deciding their borders, the government in power does - which makes sense since the UK is about the size of a US state. Both Labour and the Tories have in the past increased or decreased the number of MPs and seats in Parliament in order to sway votes in their favour. This means areas such as Tory countrysides that are unlikely to swing one way or another would be split up into new counties under the Tories to give them more seats (and therefore more representation), or consolidated under Labour to reduce their power. For instance, the Tories have been looking to reduce the number of MPs from 650 to 600 since 2010 under the guise of "streamlining" and "cutting costs," but were stopped from doing this by the Lib Dems as this would be redrawn to split Tory safe seats and join Labour safe seats. Labour are no better, as they were the ones that originally expanded to 650.
CrackedLogic Productions he cares, or he would not run, he is so rich and powerful already he could have just bought hillary.....when she appraoched him and asked for donations!
+Shou Hazama It is if you know where to find it, also... They do have to make money to keep on making more episodes, So if you can I suggest that you watch it on TV or through other legal means (so that the show can keep on air as long as it can)
And it's still the same 4 years later because we let a billionaire in office. Having a billionaire in office and expecting them to help anybody is like expecting a feral dog with rabies not to bite you when you try and feed it.
My mom works at an elementary school and she told me that during the 2008 election her school got in new encyclopedias. She was wondering why they got them so early because they wouldn't have the 44th president printed in them yet. She opened the book up, though, and right above the caption for 44th president was a picture of Barack Obama. From that moment on I have never trusted any political elections (though I had little confidence in the system already).
(X) Doubt, considering that those encyclopedias were probably from a private company separate from the government i highly doubt that if elections were fixed a private company would know the results of the election. Furthermore you shouldn't take everything shown in these programs at face value. While he does produce many sources for this reasoning, his interpretations of the data could be used to push his opinion by slightly bending what the data is actually representing. Doing the research for yourself is really the only way to get the full picture as if you listen to someone's summary of a large sum of data, their interpretations will misrepresent what the data actually means.
It's more likely that someone in the company anticipated Obama would win the election. Some people just buy into a candidate so much they cannot imagine they will loose. Also, academic stuff does tend to lean towards the left, so it isn't entirely surprising this happened. It wouldn't be the first time people were so arrogant they acted like their prefered candidate had already won the election.
@@carolinejohnson-pseudonym1841 Mostly right. Also there is a company in my state that, if I remember correctly, does the silver for the presidential inauguration and they apparently decided to get the work done before the 2016 election. Yeah, they had to go back and redo it.
+carultch your challenge wasn't for me but I'm gonna make a go at it. Is it because the purple party has almost twice the amount of members, but the yellow party controls nearly half the districts
Owen MacMillan Thank you for attempting my challenge. The divisions at 0:55 might appear "fair" at first glance, because the proportions of the representatives matches the proportions of the voters. However, if you have a situation like this, it doesn't necessarily make fair results. It sets up safe elections for the representatives, where they run with no challengers. And you see the same representatives term after term. It is better from the point of view of the people, if representatives have to earn their wins in a competitive election.
Owen MacMillan Given 30 purple voters and 20 yellow voters, we'd like to divide in 5 groups of 10 with 3 winning purple, and 2 winning yellow. We'd also like to get the ratio of yellow-to-purple in each group as close to 50% as possible, to make a competitive election. The closest way I can think of to do this: Group 1: 6 yellow, 4 purple Group 2: 6 yellow, 4 purple Group 3: 4 yellow, 6 purple Group 4: 2 yellow, 8 purple Group 5: 2 yellow, 8 purple Or you could try: Group 1: 6 yellow, 4 purple Group 2: 6 yellow, 4 purple Group 3: 4 yellow, 6 purple Group 4: 4 yellow, 6 purple Group 5: 10 purple The first example gets you 3 competitive districts, and 2 districts with large margins for purple. The second example gets you 4 competitive districts, and one district with a landslide victory for purple. Unless your voters as a whole are near balanced, it is difficult to set up a situation where the district wins match the proportions of the voters, and are set up a competitive manner where representatives have to earn their vote.
+Jodie Walton (JBTZ XCLSV) FINALLY someone mentioned who it was. The whole episode all I could think was I recognized her from something, but my brain kept going back to Frau from Austin Powers.
+Justin Callahan EVERYONE hates Gerrymandering. It actually is illegal in a few states. EDIT: It's not illegal to redraw district lines. However, it has to be because of a change in population.
+NFITC1 Can you give me an example of where it is illegal? And what do they do to enforce it? How do the authorities know when the people who draw the districts do so with an intentional bias?
+JayT2010 How do you know he "agrees" with you? Or even that he has a "hatred" for it? This guy is an actor parroting a script. It says nothing of his position - OR his agenda.
I binged a couple dozen Adam Ruins Everything episodes over the past few days, and now I don't believe in anything and wish I could disappear into the wilderness forever :D
Did you do your resear'ch correctly on France? Because we actually elect our president using direct universal suffrage, we do not have super electors. Our "districts" actually never change shapes, some merge together but that is it, and their use is kinda like the American States, only with less power (they can't make their own laws, only policies), and are also divided into smaller districts that have less power each. But we hold separate elections for each of them ("départementales, régionales, présidentielles) in which the people, and by that i mean the WHOLE population, votes directly for the candidates. Please check your sources before making such comparison, as it is not on point. A French.
+Damocles16 Thank you for the language lesson. Can you explain to me, the difference between du and de in French? Is it like a masculine/feminine version of the same preposition?
That's a hard one. First, De and Du can mean "some". In this case, you will indeed say "du" if it's masculine (some wine = du vin), or "de la" with feminine (some pie = de la tarte"), or "des" with plural. In french, you always need a preposition! 2nd: "de" also mean "of" : (a glass of wine = un verre de vin) ; "De" is also used when you mention a quantity, even with masculine : (much wine = beaucoup de vin ; a lot of bread = beaucoup de pain). Don't forget the contraction if the next word starts with a vowel. (a glass of water = un verre d'eau) 3rd: "de"/"du" are also "from", depending on the gender : (je viens de Paris (Fem) / Je viens du Colorado (mas). Didn't know I could explain that one!
America. The 1st world country that most Americans dislike. Including me. Because America. Still doesn't give other countries the right to make fun of Americans though.
Badwithnames14 I didn't make fun of other countries. And I was more referring to people who say America is horrible and filled with corrupt cops and obese people. Less making fun and more insulting. Making fun is always fun.
Singapore has this system as well. Group Representation Constituency (GRC) and Single Member Constituency (SMC). The Elections Office redraw these constituencies based on previous election results.
I feel like this was less about justifying election rigging and more about exposing a faulty system. Why not call it "Why every vote doesn't necessarily matter"?
Jackie89000 everybody loves Canada. The place where it takes hours of wait time in the emergency room because everybody has healthcare. The place where they can come and put you in jail for putting a joke on the Internet.
This video's about gerrymandering though, and how it affects electoral college votes. Biden won both the popular vote and the college, making it the closest we've had to a "fair election" in ages.
i would like to ask a question even though thqt the winner is already decided before we even hear it then what's the point of us voting if the winner has already been picked?
Because it is a two party system. Unless the majority party for that district stays home in high enough numbers then it is basically a foregone conclusion. Honestly the party primaries are the ones that really matter.
The winner hasn't already been picked, but one candidate definitely has an advantage. Gerrymandering slows the political pendulum. Gerrymandering allowed Democrats to keep the Texas legislative majority until the 2002 elections, despite the fact that no Democrat had won a statewide election in a decade. There was a big ruckus when the districts were redrawn in 2003 because the Democrats had drawn them in 2001. Democrats have fits every time Republicans draw districts.
Yang Tommy I think you lack knowledge of the US. Our society isn't some type of Wild West Movie but believe the media clearly correct on about how Hillary was going to win. Glad I'm American were the closest nation to true capitalism. You may look at the US as the country with crazy stupid people but think about it. The US is one of the greatest nations standing which clearly shows we must be doing something right.
Glad. Our nation is now steering away from failure towards prosperity. With President elect Trump winning over 3 million more of the legal popular vote, the nation rejected the failed Liberal agenda. Minorities put him over the top. They rejected Clinton too.
Absaalookemensch I don't think he won the popular vote but he definitely one the electoral vote. I've heard that many false news outlets post that. Still he won by the system in a fair matter. But you are correct about more minorities supporting the Republican Party this election compared to the last. Hope President Trump does great for us American. Also lets hope the Republican Party changes things around the nation. It suck in NJ and I want more personal freedoms, smaller government, and a stronger grip on our capitalism. #WeBleedRed #GodBlessAmerica
If the majority of the American public knew about this and wanted it to change, then the government would be forced to change. There is a possibility that military could be used, but that is another story. Unfortunately, this requires people to be educated heavily on politics, and the education system in America is very biased. It's controlled to make sure people never find out, or to make people not really care even if they do learn about it. Even if every American knew about Gerrymandering, among the other atrocities the government commits, they wouldn't even really care. The government wanted this to happen so they can exploit and do whatever they want.
Only 25% of countries on Earth are democracies. You have an extraordinary privilege being a citizen of the Free World, and you're just gonna waste it? You make me sick. Millions of people around the world would love to immigrate to America if they could, and you can't even appreciate what you have?
***** That stat is either wrong or taken out of context. If that were really true, then why would politicians spend upwards of millions of dollars on political ads and campaigning to get your vote?
If you look back, Washington said the same thing. No one listened. Not like it would help. I don't want either candidate within a mile of the white house. Honestly, this country is screwed up.
Everything political ages well lol. Good thing it’s been proven multiple times, most notably by the White House Cyber Security, that the election was actually safe.
@@genericchannelname4110 So long we keep ignoring the massive amounts of irregularities and witness testimonies. As well as some very concerning issues we've should have been working to fix for years now, but haven't with the good old phrase "It is what it is".
+John Doe FAM your party wants everyone to have a gun and statistics prove that countries with gun control experiences 0 mass shootings so who are the insane ones. Getcho dum dum bubblegum lookin ass..
Ok, I'm from France and I need explanations : the départements and régions in France are not changing every election. What do you mean by France having a system like this ?
I'm not an expert, but I do know that America's political system was influenced by France's. This video was part of a two-part series, the other part being about America's Electoral College, so it's possible that line was meant for that video (As, if I recall, France's senators are chosen by an Electoral College, as well.) It could be an honest mistake, or it could be referencing an old system that was done away with (As I'm aware France had a referendum in 1958 that ammended the constitution - but again, I forget the details. )
He's referring to how France has no laws surrounding how legislative districts are distributed. But unlike us, the Constitutional Council has to approve redistricting and that's only happened twice since the founding of the Fifth Republic (1987 and 2010), all 3 drawings were done by a conservative government who made the map favor conservatives. But for us, we redraw after a census, which is done every 10 years. Fortunately though, more and more districts are passing laws to put redistricting into the hands of non-partisan commissions.
Like France ? What are you talking about ? For the senate maybe, one of those useless things that are about to disappear, but for important stuff no. Absolutely not.
Actually, districts (called circonscriptions) are used for regional elections and legislative elections, which means that both chambers of the parliament (the Assemblée Nationale elected during the legislative elections and the Senate elected by the regional representatives), even if most french people don't bother, that's pretty important stuff. And just because the president can use the 49.3 to pass a law whenever he wants doesn't mean it's normal... Districts don't seem as crazy as the one showed in the video though, they mosly are one block and quite simple shapes outside big cities...
When you combine all the episodes of Adam Ruins Everything you get enough reasons to form an actual Revolution.
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+User 0 I don't know any person on this planet who would say America is the best country in the world.
***** Okay, education-wise, America isn't as bad as you think. America may be "behind" other countries, but who defines the standard for education? China is higher up than we are? Well, more than half of their country is undeveloped rice fields, so how is that education working out, especially since the only reason they're starting to do well, (kind of) is that they've opened up to capitalism a little bit, although now, they're starting to close off, and their economy is suffering.
American health care is better than most, surprisingly. It seems controlled by large corporations, which get a bad rap, but that creates incentive, which creates innovation, which means better health care. America has more advanced medical technology than Australia, where standardized health care is a widespread thing.
Also, standardized health care might sound like a wet dream, but who pays for it? The middle class, and in Denmark, where standardized health care is a norm, people pay upwards of a 40% tax rate, and auto tax rate is 180%, which turns a $20,000 car into a $50,000. In Canada, where long waiting times and low quality are part of the norm, gas is average $10. Sometimes, the negatives outweigh the potential positives. Might I add that under Hippocratic law, all doctors are already under oath and sign documents when they graduate to treat anyone, regardless of financial position.
I will agree that our government is a mess. A barely functioning machination of corrupt political power fed by nestled old money padding their own stomachs on the backs of the taxpayers. A prime example is that of the Clintons. I can go more into depth, however, suffice to say that I don't need to as of now.
The problem is that of balance. The 50s were probably our brightest period financially, and prices were low, Americans--even poor ones--had lots and lots of buying power and high wages. If only social freedoms and financial success could be such today. It would be a utopia. Our country was built on much that much of Europe still respects, but starting in the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the government started seizing power, unconstitutional power, mind you, and that, combined with the succeeding administrations, coupled with the advent of technology and a generation enslaved to the luxuries of the 21st century, created a bastion of corrupt power that will most likely never be taken back, unless we follow the Declaration when it said:
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to establish new guards for their future security."
But unless we follow that, we won't be able to take our freedom back and establish what we once had. We used to be feared, respected. Now, admittedly to your point, some are beginning to see our vulnerabilities, thanks to the current administration, but we still have much respect, and we are better than many give us credit for.
I hope you read all this, but if you don't it's ok. I enjoy discussing with you, and hope you have a great day :)
+MrMighty147 And enough time to prevent it.
+MrMighty147 You're absolutely right. I think it's coming. We just need the corporate aristocrats to say 'let them eat cake' over a sobbing family who was denied health insurance when their kids were dying. Oh wait... that's already happened.
What's even better is both parties often work together to redraw districts so they can make deals by bartering districts, votes, seats, etc. That's part of the reason there's so little incentive for politicians to change the system since they both benefit from the status quo. I don't even know where to start trying to fix this mess!
well having a few more viable parties would help.
The fix is by hitting the big red button on America, and resetting the whole country.
I wish I was joking. America is so corrupt that the only way to fix it is by getting rid of the political system completely.
Ch1l1C0nCarnag3 And that red button's name is Donald Trump! Lol.
I'm thinking you could fix the system by getting a philantropic ultra rich guy, say Warren Buffett, to simply flood the system with bribe money in order to get something done.
Let's say he'd offer a all of House and Senat ultra cushiony positions in one of his firms after retirement, if they simply support a bill to reform the election system into a proportional one. Then, add 5M bonuses each on top if they support a bill to disable all future bribes of this kind by reforming at least one of the Houses into a professional parliament with high salaries, high pension, but transparent books, i.e. no lobbyists.
A few billions should be able to do that - entire elections run on AFAIK a few hundreds of millions - someone like Buffett could buy the whole damn system and still have 80% of his wealth left to give to poor people after his death.
If you live in a state with voter initiatives, you could put a law on the ballot that makes gerrymandering illegal, although I ran the numbers and it costs an average of 1 million dollars in most states to make that happen. And that's without campaigning for it.
I just love "I hate that word, and I have no idea what it means."
It's half of what the right wing does. They complain about things they don't understand. The other half of their time is spent complaining about things some of them understand.
Lol you act like the left wing doesn't do the exact same thing.
Co Ah The implication is that they complain because they are afraid of what they don't understand just because they don't understand it.
Like communism
It's doesn't matter which side of wings you have, you can only fly if you have both sides😂
I really like the simplicity of this explanation of gerrymandering.
I think the party that hates Gays, abortion, healthcare and the environment would not be ok with redrawing the maps in a fair and equitable way...
Just for information, in France this system is used for electing the Senators but the districts don't change from year to year to accommodate whoever is in power at the time.
Grégory Alouache So you're saying that the system is significantly worse than in France?
+ShakeyBox, yeah I mean this used to be a common system across Europe but counties are moving away from it and I think France should too. It's crazy to think that in the US it has been changed for the senatorial election but it's still used for the most important election of all.
I DONT FIND IT CRAZY, ITS THE SAME REASON WE STILL DONT USE METRIC AS A FOUNDATION AND HAVE A INFASTRUCTURE THATS FALLING APPART
+ShakeyBox It's a terrible system, however, I'd say that it's better than the American system because the lines are not often redrawn, not worse. It's arder to rig elections that way.
+that_pac12 *harder
I had to back up the video and re-watch a little because my mind was blown with the opposing views of the yellow and purple parties.
Wake up people, we are DROWNING in trevors and if we don't do something fast and let things keep on running this way, we'll start seeing them everywhere.
the purple party profits from this of course, they all vote purple, so what they do is they invite all the trevors to come here and vote for them, and what do you know the purples keep getting elected and those trevors keep on leeching on our welfare, It's like trevorland here, I tell ya.
This was a well-thought out comment and I'm better for having read it. Thank you Ido.
As a french guy I was thinkking "well it's the same here" may be it's time to get revolutionary on their ass.
guess you got to bring back the guillotine. viva le revolution!
VIVA LA REVOLUTION
Yess..
"Freedom for America, Freedom for France"
Socialists
Hahaha if you would know what "socialists" did this year in France. They're more like liberal economic socialists (wish is no socialism at all).
Of course the USA are not like France.
The American flag is red, white and blue, the French flag is blue, white and red.
+Schwarzer Ritter
The USA got their colors from the flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. These are the colors of Saint George and Saint Andrew.
+carultch You mean "Kingdom of Great Britain"?
elucidate Was it not called the "United Kingdom" prior to any part of Ireland joining?
But yeah, I do mean the kingdom of Great Britain, as there was no Ireland or Northern Ireland in it at the time.
+elucidate no, he meant the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Because that is what it is.
Undead Unicorn It wasn't called the "United Kingdom" when the US flag was made. It was called the "Kingdom of Great Britain", which later became the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
"we're not like France", correct, France has really great quality healthcare
Yea
@Flap Jack go eat a hamburger
No, the United States is rated to have the best healthcare
@@patrickl8849 Source?
@@eliopalombi Another Adam ruins everything episode about American healthcare
"As a proud Trevor American"
Oh my lord I lost it.
im with the purple party for obvious reasons
Your baby vapes ?
Your color AND name.
Well my name is Trevor and I LOVE the Yellow party. Just because my name is Trevor doesn't mean that I don't recognize that many Trevors are very dangerous and that the world deserves to be able to protect itself.
Besides, the Purple party is corrupt. They should all be in jail.
Nikki Lee trevors deserve equal rights
Trevor Lives Matter
As an american, so many parts of american government and politics need complete abolition.
AGREED
Yeah, the electoral collage really makes more sense to replace with popular vote
Then you are not an American.
Might as well be saying a prayer if you don't have a solution.
America is not a democracy, never was. A Nation's future should never hinge on the proclivities of any single person, voters on both sides are exactly the same whenever someone challenges their beliefs, and both accuse anyone who doesn't agree with their assigned talking points of supporting the other party. Thus the supporters of both parties have hijacked and sold out the rest of humanity for the sake of their own egos and lack of imagination
And this is how they've controlled us from the dawn of the 20th Century, where they pit us against each other, seed the debate with misinformation, some populism, and some catchy epithets, and continue to go about their plunder unopposed. All representatives will always be subject to influence from moneyed interests, blackmail, or assassination.
The solution is a *Velvet Revolution* to install a *Scaled Direct Democracy* without representatives or politicians. Citizens initiated referendums with thresholds and a social contract using blockchain technology means communities can vote their own policies without politicians. With a vote for, against, and the option to redraft or veto, with the relative proportional thresholds.
*Thorium Energy renders their global oil monopoly obsolete.*
*#VelvetRevolution*
*#ScaledDirectDemocracy*
*#ThoriumEnergy*
Thorium energy can process both nuclear and toxic waste, as well as make salt water desalination and carbon sequestration economically viable. It can also power synthetic fuel manufacture, and electric power for all forms of transport. Thorium reactors cannot be weaponized, are walk away safe, produce grams of waste to the tonne of conventional plants, and are low level radioactive for 300 years vs highly radioactive for 25,000. A person's lifetime of energy from thorium would cost less than $100. It also produces the world's best known cancer treatment when 1/2 adult in the western world will contract it.
"The thorium molten salt power plant can produce clean energy cheaper than coal, which could be a reliable energy system toward a low carbon economy" PAL said.
www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-nuclearpower-idUSKCN1UD0D0
If the profits from American labour were shared equally as they are with corporate shareholders, every household would receive $700k annually. If we got even a fraction of that we would have more than enough to fund education, healthcare and infrastructure for everybody.
52% of all greenhouse gases come from methane produced by Beef farming, which is currently 90% subsidized. Ending Beef Communism and embracing Hemp and Kelp farming as Moonshot technologies for use in packaging, construction, manufacturing, medicines, insulation, and clothing could alleviate the worst of climate change, sequester carbon, revitalize crop land and restore depleted habitats.
It would also be conducive to have an independent public authority drawing from volunteers to act as third party advocates for the public interest, with the authority to charge and prosecute bad actors and cops in our own courts. This would ensure both Government and Law Enforcement are held to the highest standards of etiquette, ethical conduct, and equality of outcome regardless of Creed Color, or Economic bracket.
Finally a National Digital Forum that allows for open sourced debate is essential for fascilatating Direct Democracy, and addressing the issues America does not want to face, from systemic racism, to ethnic cleansing as foriegn policy. If these things can't be discussed with frank honesty, civil moderation, without religious protections, and without the generic knee jerk reactionary bs, there is literally no hope for the West, as we will die by our own prejudices and cowardice. And of course Reparations, and indigenous sovereignty, if we claim to stand for anything right and true, reparations have to be a part of that picture, and no one is better suited to protect our natural environment, than the people who were already here when we arrived.
qz.com/1032154/america-is-not-a-true-democracy-but-it-could-be-with-the-help-of-technology/
@@uncannyvalley2350 The heck? A national popular vote really does make sense, not whatever weird thing that is. A NPV would bring about a Representative Democracy, rather than that. If 51%% of people vote Democrat, 48% vote Republican, 0.75% vote Libertarian, and 0.25% vote Green Party, then put 204 Democrats in, 192 Republicans in, 3 Libertarians in, and 1 Greenie in. Makes sense, right? Right. Also, why did you break into a TED Talk on thorium energy?
I took a course on elections and the history of American politics. Part of what we covered was gerrymandering and it involved a project to create the most gerrymandered districts in a state to push certain issues. I worked for a solid 2 hours and made the most convoluted districts in a state that was about 30/70 for the two major parties, and could not make them as bad as they actually are in my state.
Why is this called "Adam Ruins Everything"? It should be called "Adam Exposes Everything."
No that's something you'll find on the adult channels.
+elucidate comment of 2015
+777Skeptic In this instance he's ruining our great vision of democracy by showing how easily the votes can be manipulated, or just outright irrelevant
+777Skeptic The idea is that he ruins the perfect fluffy bunny view we have of the world by revealing unfortunate truths. Like the guy at parties who's too smart about everything and won't shut up about it.
+777Skeptic the less you know the better you sleep. He ruins your sleep
I truly appreciate the fact that they remain unbiased when presenting and don't subtly hint at a particular party.
Is that sarcastic? He is very much biased.
Taylor Holmes kinda... some other videos are subtle about it. It doesn't help that on CollegeHumor, where Adam got started, even i noticed the democratic bias
In this video, no. In every other vaguely political video by college humor, they are hugely Democrat biased
@@Wolverines83 Its almost as if fact based politics is Democratic
@@CodaMissionor, rather, that myth-based politics is republican. Democrats don’t base most their claims off factual evidence because it’s difficult to get them to make any claims to begin with (except the progressives.) They do make alot of counterclaims, though!
I reallllllly hope he gets a second season at the very least. This man is one of the few deserving people on tv.
'Murica , Land of The "Free"
Free fines
+murmani khoshtaria It's the land of the free range cows.
+murmani khoshtaria too bad we live in "America" and not Murica
+Syth .Mog this is so much more profound than it seems at first glance.
WildWankers Despite a tingling sensation in the back of my mind, I'm thoroughly satiated for now. How about you?
This video is trevorist.
More like Nameist
#RequireAllBabiesToVape
#ProudTrevorAmericans
John Fizzelo #KillAllTrevors
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#imgayandoffended
#IWannaDieToAGayManRapingMe
you know what's better then elections?
knowledge
Sitting here in my garage with my.... Brand new wamborlini
+I HAVE NO NAME than*
+I HAVE NO NAME but you know what i like more than knowledge? macaroni
+I HAVE NO NAME
erections?
+SilverishKitten Such a missed opportunity.
"If voting made any difference they would not let us do it." Mark Twain
Down with Trevors! They are LITERALLY the worst.
+Daniel Hale THE LEGION OF TREVORS SHALL RISE
+TheSmashMaster9000 But he totally deserves the death penalty!
+Daniel Hale *Figuratively*
+Trevor Tiger TREVOR REVOLUTION!!!!!
***** TREVOLUTION!!!
I learned about Gerrymandering in a course on government but I don't remember anything about it...this is something I'd like to learn more about.
+Kyle Medeiros CGP Grey's channel has a series on this and other election topics.
+Kyle Medeiros gerrymandering just means taking a some information or data and grouping it in some way(obscuring the rest of the information from each group) so that it becomes advantageous to you.
cgp grey gives you what gerrymandering means but he also has sample videos giving examples of how the system works and videos about alternative systems
+Kyle Medeiros
Gerrymandering means systematically drawing the boundaries of electoral districts, with knowledge of the population distribution and statistical voter behavior, so that your party will win a disproportionate representation advantage.
The name Gerrymandering comes from the drawing of state senate election districts during the term of Massachusetts Governor Governor Elbridge Gerry, and from the shape of one of the districts looking like a salamander.
"Your vote matters"
Well yes, but actually no
In France we don't redraw the district laws in every election. And even then is doesn't matter for many elections. For example, for the presidential elections it's a direct election. If 50.01% of the population votes for the Red Party, the Red Party wins.
For the legislative, european and district (sort of representatives for a few cities that also elect the Senate), it's based on population. For example, we have one european representative for 760.000 inhabitants.
The districts for the european elections have never been redrawn.
For the legislative elections, we draw the lines in 2010 and 1986 (before that, there was a lot of changes in the number of representatives). And here again, it's based on population. Just look at our district maps. They are not as messy as yours.
For the district elections, it was only simplified also in 2010 to represent better the population, just like for the legislative elections, because the system changed in 2011. Before that, the cantons (districts) were the exact same size since 1800.
Please check your facts Adam and all the guys that supposedly do your research work.
where are my proud Trevor Americans !!!
+Guyver2391 the Trevors may be dead but at least nobody can force my baby to vape #longliveyellowparty
+Trever DeBoard lmao hahaha!
+Owen MacMillan Ummmmmm. So this is awkward
HERE VOTE PURPLE
+Trevor LeMaster it won't change anything they will still cheat 😂😂
"Now we can pass a law requiring baby's to vape" best quote ever
for those who want more on this, look yup CGP grey. he's done a bunch if videos on unfair voting practices
Actually, redistricting in France is done based to keep up with the population change in density / location.
The lower the population density is, the larger the district, so they all represent around the same % of the population
(instead of 1 representative representing 50.000 people and one representing 700.000 people having 1 vote each, which is unfair for the population of the 2nd representative).
+Le7emeChat That's supposed to be the point in the US as well. Districts are redrawn to reflect changes in populations in order to insure each district has the same number of people. The problem is the way the rules are stated. As long as each district is a large continuous area with equal population you can shape them however you want.
BUT elected are not the one in charge of the redistriting in France. It is done by none-partisant service.
+Le7emeChat Which makes perfect sense. Some states actually DO have 3rd parties draw districts...which leads us back to good old fashion regular bribery and corruption.
Still makes more sense than letting the inmates run the asylum though .
+klyffjohnson The point is, if you couldn't understand, US is more corrupt than France. Don't try to fool yourself that it isn't, buddy.
+DrJohnZoidberg125 Not saying it isn't.
It was stated that France only changes its districts to adjust for population growth, and I'm saying that's the same reason we do it in the US, and that some states in fact do it the same way.
I'm saying the corruption persists when you change the system. Rather than being critical of France, I'm more critical of the US.
For the record, the UK has a very similar system, except that rather than local counties deciding their borders, the government in power does - which makes sense since the UK is about the size of a US state. Both Labour and the Tories have in the past increased or decreased the number of MPs and seats in Parliament in order to sway votes in their favour. This means areas such as Tory countrysides that are unlikely to swing one way or another would be split up into new counties under the Tories to give them more seats (and therefore more representation), or consolidated under Labour to reduce their power.
For instance, the Tories have been looking to reduce the number of MPs from 650 to 600 since 2010 under the guise of "streamlining" and "cutting costs," but were stopped from doing this by the Lib Dems as this would be redrawn to split Tory safe seats and join Labour safe seats. Labour are no better, as they were the ones that originally expanded to 650.
One of my browser extensions replaced "elections" with "eating contests."
This would have been a very different video, had it been called that.
Eating contest? Change the browser extension (I am not familiar with technical terms and is just making assumptions that you could)
....... why haven't we done anything about this????
Ask Kennedy
because america is a corrupt shithole...
you can do something about it right now, vote trump!
+Jack Drive Trump could honestly care less. He has NEVER focused on it, and probably would be just as active IN IT as anyone else.
CrackedLogic Productions
he cares, or he would not run, he is so rich and powerful already he could have just bought hillary.....when she appraoched him and asked for donations!
1:24 Welp, goodbye everyone, y'all know I'm gonna die soon..
Rest in peace, my Trevor friend.
I'm glad, you Trevors' are ruining america with your crossed t's and curved e's.
Ben Rajan Fite me
Beware the banana.
Hey man we're in this together
I believe in both parties #WarmGrayParty
This entire show should be free on the internet. Educate the public, Adam! One ruined thing at a time!!
+Shou Hazama
It is if you know where to find it,
also... They do have to make money to keep on making more episodes, So if you can I suggest that you watch it on TV or through other legal means (so that the show can keep on air as long as it can)
Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to “terminate” gerrymandering. That’s perfect
b-but... Merica...
It's sucks.
Eclyptical pls come to brasil
Murica is weird tbh
America is trash
And it's still the same 4 years later because we let a billionaire in office.
Having a billionaire in office and expecting them to help anybody is like expecting a feral dog with rabies not to bite you when you try and feed it.
Is this what happened with Sanders and Clinton? Sanders won Wyoming yet lost in delegates.
I think it is.
Damn...
It is similar but the difference is that gerrymandering is for two different parties not two candidates in the same one.
Except parties can create whatever rules they want, and ignore how elections work in the actual election.
Clinton won way more delegates and super delegates
My mom works at an elementary school and she told me that during the 2008 election her school got in new encyclopedias. She was wondering why they got them so early because they wouldn't have the 44th president printed in them yet. She opened the book up, though, and right above the caption for 44th president was a picture of Barack Obama. From that moment on I have never trusted any political elections (though I had little confidence in the system already).
Senyahgirl wow.. I gotta ask... really?
(X) Doubt, considering that those encyclopedias were probably from a private company separate from the government i highly doubt that if elections were fixed a private company would know the results of the election. Furthermore you shouldn't take everything shown in these programs at face value. While he does produce many sources for this reasoning, his interpretations of the data could be used to push his opinion by slightly bending what the data is actually representing. Doing the research for yourself is really the only way to get the full picture as if you listen to someone's summary of a large sum of data, their interpretations will misrepresent what the data actually means.
It's more likely that someone in the company anticipated Obama would win the election. Some people just buy into a candidate so much they cannot imagine they will loose.
Also, academic stuff does tend to lean towards the left, so it isn't entirely surprising this happened. It wouldn't be the first time people were so arrogant they acted like their prefered candidate had already won the election.
@@carolinejohnson-pseudonym1841 Mostly right. Also there is a company in my state that, if I remember correctly, does the silver for the presidential inauguration and they apparently decided to get the work done before the 2016 election. Yeah, they had to go back and redo it.
Omg ymthank you i will sue america this instancw
Isn't that the mom from Boy Meets World.
Oh my god I though I was the only one who noticed
+Animal Lover
Omg a actor in an acting bit? omggggggggg
hahahaha
I noticed that
good eye
I didn't understand gerrymandering well until this video with the useful visual aid. Thanks!
+Mark Pomerleau
Here's a challenge for you. Why is the example of divisions at 0:55 not entirely a "fair" way of dividing the districts?
+carultch your challenge wasn't for me but I'm gonna make a go at it. Is it because the purple party has almost twice the amount of members, but the yellow party controls nearly half the districts
Owen MacMillan Thank you for attempting my challenge.
The divisions at 0:55 might appear "fair" at first glance, because the proportions of the representatives matches the proportions of the voters.
However, if you have a situation like this, it doesn't necessarily make fair results. It sets up safe elections for the representatives, where they run with no challengers. And you see the same representatives term after term. It is better from the point of view of the people, if representatives have to earn their wins in a competitive election.
Owen MacMillan
Given 30 purple voters and 20 yellow voters, we'd like to divide in 5 groups of 10 with 3 winning purple, and 2 winning yellow. We'd also like to get the ratio of yellow-to-purple in each group as close to 50% as possible, to make a competitive election.
The closest way I can think of to do this:
Group 1: 6 yellow, 4 purple
Group 2: 6 yellow, 4 purple
Group 3: 4 yellow, 6 purple
Group 4: 2 yellow, 8 purple
Group 5: 2 yellow, 8 purple
Or you could try:
Group 1: 6 yellow, 4 purple
Group 2: 6 yellow, 4 purple
Group 3: 4 yellow, 6 purple
Group 4: 4 yellow, 6 purple
Group 5: 10 purple
The first example gets you 3 competitive districts, and 2 districts with large margins for purple. The second example gets you 4 competitive districts, and one district with a landslide victory for purple.
Unless your voters as a whole are near balanced, it is difficult to set up a situation where the district wins match the proportions of the voters, and are set up a competitive manner where representatives have to earn their vote.
lol who is a proud Trevor American XD
Me
Me
samuel alcala i was hurt
plz dont kill me
run
This really applies to the events right now
spot on
I had a Adam ruins everything add in front of this!
I was confused for a sec... You mean "ad", as in "advertisement", right?
Benjamin Philipp yup, sorry for the typo.
Gavriel bar-or I had a Wendy's ad
Am I the only just stuck on the fact that that is Corey Matthews' mom? Yes? Ok....I'll go to my corner....😞
I was thinking the same thing lmao
BrohamAdam glad I'm not alone, lol
+Jodie Walton (JBTZ XCLSV) FINALLY someone mentioned who it was. The whole episode all I could think was I recognized her from something, but my brain kept going back to Frau from Austin Powers.
+Jodie Walton (JBTZ XCLSV) I was looking in the comments for who that was, thanks!
+Jodie Walton (JBTZ XCLSV)
OH that's who she is. I couldn't place it.
Dear Mr. Adam. Thank you for showing us the light 🖼
What if Adam is Gerrymandering us O_o
Thank God. Someone agrees with my hatred of Gerrymandering...
+Justin Callahan EVERYONE hates Gerrymandering. It actually is illegal in a few states.
EDIT:
It's not illegal to redraw district lines. However, it has to be because of a change in population.
+Justin Callahan there isnt a single american who is pro gerrymandering, but the people in positions of power have no incentive to change it
+d4nnyQQ I'm pretty sure the people in positions of power are definitely pro-Gerrymandering.
+NFITC1
Can you give me an example of where it is illegal?
And what do they do to enforce it? How do the authorities know when the people who draw the districts do so with an intentional bias?
+JayT2010 How do you know he "agrees" with you? Or even that he has a "hatred" for it? This guy is an actor parroting a script. It says nothing of his position - OR his agenda.
Adam is like Jon Stewart: pointing out the idiocy of politicians and laws and yet never once proposing that they have less power.
Chad9976 He does in the full episode.
Chad9976 He does in the full episode.
just listened to "less i know the better" by Tame Impala...take that Trevor
no one is going to talk about how that's the mom from boy meets world? just me? okay...
+lindsey baremore I saw it toooo
No. Instead, let's talk about how she's the grandma from "Girls Meets World."
u no its a spinoff right
Has she been on that show yet? I only watch it when my kid is. But I haven't seen Coreys parents on there yet. I've seen Shawn and Eric.
***** yesssss!
I binged a couple dozen Adam Ruins Everything episodes over the past few days, and now I don't believe in anything and wish I could disappear into the wilderness forever :D
We need Adam ruins Fitness Supplements
Did you do your resear'ch correctly on France? Because we actually elect our president using direct universal suffrage, we do not have super electors. Our "districts" actually never change shapes, some merge together but that is it, and their use is kinda like the American States, only with less power (they can't make their own laws, only policies), and are also divided into smaller districts that have less power each. But we hold separate elections for each of them ("départementales, régionales, présidentielles) in which the people, and by that i mean the WHOLE population, votes directly for the candidates.
Please check your sources before making such comparison, as it is not on point.
A French.
Jeremy Bataillon that’s completely irrelevant to the video
That just means the US is alone in it's stupidity.
Fewer voters, not "less voters" 1:35
0:46 - Im both parties tbh
No, jokes are funny, this is terrifying.
As a proud french citizen, let me tell you that "oui oui" is not appropriate in 2:14. Adam must say "si si" if he contradicts the woman.
+Damocles16
Thank you for the language lesson. Can you explain to me, the difference between du and de in French? Is it like a masculine/feminine version of the same preposition?
That's a hard one.
First, De and Du can mean "some". In this case, you will indeed say "du" if it's masculine (some wine = du vin), or "de la" with feminine (some pie = de la tarte"), or "des" with plural.
In french, you always need a preposition!
2nd: "de" also mean "of" : (a glass of wine = un verre de vin) ; "De" is also used when you mention a quantity, even with masculine : (much wine = beaucoup de vin ; a lot of bread = beaucoup de pain).
Don't forget the contraction if the next word starts with a vowel. (a glass of water = un verre d'eau)
3rd: "de"/"du" are also "from", depending on the gender : (je viens de Paris (Fem) / Je viens du Colorado (mas).
Didn't know I could explain that one!
Now we can pass a law *REQUIRING* babies to vape
Actually Gerrymandering is illegal, but redistricting is mandated by the Constitution. It is illegal to Gerrymander when redistricting.
The way it's designed though, what's the difference? It's almost required to Gerrymander.
Political gerrymandering is perfectly legal (where practiced) and a certain amount of racial gerrymandering is required by law.
America. The 1st world country that most Americans dislike.
Including me.
Because America.
Still doesn't give other countries the right to make fun of Americans though.
If other countries can't make fun of Americans, then why make fun of us?
It's all just joking, not a big deal.
Badwithnames14 I didn't make fun of other countries.
And I was more referring to people who say America is horrible and filled with corrupt cops and obese people. Less making fun and more insulting. Making fun is always fun.
CowsBeFlyin There is some truth, but it's not like everybody here is obese. In fact, I can't think of anyone off the top of my head.
+ThatZommy I just noticed a distinct diffrence but damn, it was just like in the movies!
CowsBeFlyin How so? I'm a bit curious.
Singapore has this system as well. Group Representation Constituency (GRC) and Single Member Constituency (SMC). The Elections Office redraw these constituencies based on previous election results.
CGP Grey
Oliwier EB, WHOO HOO!
Im voting Trevor purple
Andrew Chapman don't put a gun in your pocket or they might do something weird... #allgunsaregay#purpletrevors
i like trevor because he tries to help the minority of trevors who are being pushed aside and forgot about by other parties.
This aged like fine wine
There needs to be an invisible system where politicians don't know where there supporters live...
Anyone else watching this in 2020?
When you mean "yes" after someone says "no", it's not "oui, oui", it's "si, si".
I feel like this was less about justifying election rigging and more about exposing a faulty system. Why not call it "Why every vote doesn't necessarily matter"?
Why do they need districts to begin with...? Just take the whole sum...
But I thought that our elections were completely secure and questioning them was a threat to democracy!?
Canada, can I come crash with you guys for the next few decades?
Jackie89000 everybody loves Canada. The place where it takes hours of wait time in the emergency room because everybody has healthcare. The place where they can come and put you in jail for putting a joke on the Internet.
Trever or Trevor? I might be safe...
ImBatCat just change your name to Collin.
Ok thanks
Wow... This is shocking. Great series! Thanks for creating this content!
Who would have guessed 4 years later this is relevant in 2020
How? Or is it just because there is an election
This is relevant for every election. Gerrymandering didn't begin in 2020.
1 day after Bidens inauguration. TH-cam has an interesting sense of humour☠
This video's about gerrymandering though, and how it affects electoral college votes. Biden won both the popular vote and the college, making it the closest we've had to a "fair election" in ages.
Love these video's getting me WOKE AF! Thanks other Adam!
This aged so great
"It's ok when we do it"
i would like to ask a question even though thqt the winner is already decided before we even hear it then what's the point of us voting if the winner has already been picked?
Because it is a two party system. Unless the majority party for that district stays home in high enough numbers then it is basically a foregone conclusion. Honestly the party primaries are the ones that really matter.
So americans keep thinking they're living in a free country.
Indoctrination at its finest.
The winner hasn't already been picked, but one candidate definitely has an advantage. Gerrymandering slows the political pendulum. Gerrymandering allowed Democrats to keep the Texas legislative majority until the 2002 elections, despite the fact that no Democrat had won a statewide election in a decade. There was a big ruckus when the districts were redrawn in 2003 because the Democrats had drawn them in 2001. Democrats have fits every time Republicans draw districts.
They do this in the U.K. too, lived here half my life and i have seen it done twice so far.
My name is Trevor...
Oh no.
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How free do you feel now Americans?
Yang Tommy I think you lack knowledge of the US. Our society isn't some type of Wild West Movie but believe the media clearly correct on about how Hillary was going to win. Glad I'm American were the closest nation to true capitalism. You may look at the US as the country with crazy stupid people but think about it. The US is one of the greatest nations standing which clearly shows we must be doing something right.
Glad. Our nation is now steering away from failure towards prosperity.
With President elect Trump winning over 3 million more of the legal popular vote, the nation rejected the failed Liberal agenda. Minorities put him over the top. They rejected Clinton too.
Absaalookemensch I don't think he won the popular vote but he definitely one the electoral vote. I've heard that many false news outlets post that. Still he won by the system in a fair matter. But you are correct about more minorities supporting the Republican Party this election compared to the last. Hope President Trump does great for us American. Also lets hope the Republican Party changes things around the nation. It suck in NJ and I want more personal freedoms, smaller government, and a stronger grip on our capitalism. #WeBleedRed #GodBlessAmerica
+Absaalookemensch Lol way to believe fake news
Kurukulla how's it fake
This episode has helped me with at least 2 persuasive essays 👍
Is there anything we can do about this?
If the majority of the American public knew about this and wanted it to change, then the government would be forced to change. There is a possibility that military could be used, but that is another story. Unfortunately, this requires people to be educated heavily on politics, and the education system in America is very biased. It's controlled to make sure people never find out, or to make people not really care even if they do learn about it. Even if every American knew about Gerrymandering, among the other atrocities the government commits, they wouldn't even really care. The government wanted this to happen so they can exploit and do whatever they want.
Not unless you have 100billion dollars lying around
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Funny time to get recomend this
Gerrymandering could be replaced with hexagonal grid whose initiating point is selected at random and tesselations alter slightly in size.
Who's here after the 2020 election 😂.
is that the mom from boy meets world?
aslandia726 it is not. They have different mouths.
"That sounds like cheating."
Adam-"Oh that's EXACTLY what it is!"
LOL best part of the video and it's TRUE!
Oh cool. I don't have to care about politics anymore.
Only 25% of countries on Earth are democracies. You have an extraordinary privilege being a citizen of the Free World, and you're just gonna waste it? You make me sick. Millions of people around the world would love to immigrate to America if they could, and you can't even appreciate what you have?
0IIIIII ... it was just a joke.
***** If that were true then how do you explain the US's high rank on the Democracy Index?
***** Those flaws may be real, but the US is still a democracy, and not just by technicality; civil liberties are very strong here.
***** That stat is either wrong or taken out of context. If that were really true, then why would politicians spend upwards of millions of dollars on political ads and campaigning to get your vote?
2020 was rigged for sure
2:13
Her: were not like france
Adam: oui oui
Her: * GASP *
oui oui*
Thanks I guess I was just kinda dumb last month
If people voted for the person they want and not based purely off of the political party, this wouldn't matter.
People voting means nothing. The politicians decide who they want to vote for and who will win.
the media manipulates what people want by telling them biased facts, look at all the exaggerated scandals against trump
If you look back, Washington said the same thing. No one listened. Not like it would help. I don't want either candidate within a mile of the white house. Honestly, this country is screwed up.
This aged well
Everything political ages well lol. Good thing it’s been proven multiple times, most notably by the White House Cyber Security, that the election was actually safe.
@@genericchannelname4110 So long we keep ignoring the massive amounts of irregularities and witness testimonies. As well as some very concerning issues we've should have been working to fix for years now, but haven't with the good old phrase "It is what it is".
I feel like Adam Ruins Everything is a shorter version of Last Week Tonight and this is amazing
Top 4 shits that America needs to throw out
1. Gerrymandering
2. Citizens United
3. Filibustering
4. Winner-takes all policy
+Always Offended You are absolutely right!
+John Doe FAM your party wants everyone to have a gun and statistics prove that countries with gun control experiences 0 mass shootings so who are the insane ones. Getcho dum dum bubblegum lookin ass..
OR you could use google on your damn own and search for Australia and other countries' statistics. I'm not going to feed you with a baby spoon
Ok, I'm from France and I need explanations : the départements and régions in France are not changing every election. What do you mean by France having a system like this ?
Le fronce with le baquettes suck ass just like the US.
I'm not an expert, but I do know that America's political system was influenced by France's. This video was part of a two-part series, the other part being about America's Electoral College, so it's possible that line was meant for that video (As, if I recall, France's senators are chosen by an Electoral College, as well.)
It could be an honest mistake, or it could be referencing an old system that was done away with (As I'm aware France had a referendum in 1958 that ammended the constitution - but again, I forget the details. )
He's referring to how France has no laws surrounding how legislative districts are distributed. But unlike us, the Constitutional Council has to approve redistricting and that's only happened twice since the founding of the Fifth Republic (1987 and 2010), all 3 drawings were done by a conservative government who made the map favor conservatives.
But for us, we redraw after a census, which is done every 10 years. Fortunately though, more and more districts are passing laws to put redistricting into the hands of non-partisan commissions.
Thank you for clarifying, Willgtl. I was actually quite curious about it, myself.
Adam you make me smart thank you
Like France ? What are you talking about ? For the senate maybe, one of those useless things that are about to disappear, but for important stuff no. Absolutely not.
hence the 'like' France.
It's more like the UK I would say.
Actually, districts (called circonscriptions) are used for regional elections and legislative elections, which means that both chambers of the parliament (the Assemblée Nationale elected during the legislative elections and the Senate elected by the regional representatives), even if most french people don't bother, that's pretty important stuff. And just because the president can use the 49.3 to pass a law whenever he wants doesn't mean it's normal...
Districts don't seem as crazy as the one showed in the video though, they mosly are one block and quite simple shapes outside big cities...