I don’t mind paying taxes, without taxes we wouldn’t have a damn country we just need to be a little less greedy and we can’t let corporations lead in every damn thing
We need corporations to pay their fair share of taxes. The more you earn, the more you pay. That´s how they did it in the 50s when there was an actual middle class.
I remember my big sister (born in 1950) having 5 very difficult miscarriages after already have one child. Her doctor explained to her and her husband that if she got pregnant again that it would life threatening. He suggested that she get her tubes tied. Her husband needed to sign the consent form for the surgery. He refused because being sterile would make her less of a woman. She needed either her husband’s permission or her father’s (if she was unmarried) permission to get her tubes tied. She filed for divorce the following day and moved back into our father’s house. As soon as divorce was final, our father signed the consent. This happened in the 1970’s! That is not that long ago. We cannot go back!
Thank you for sharing your sister's story and what it was like for women prior to Roe vs. Wade. Too many men and some women, associate the womb as an attachment to the male ego, women are not chattel of men and we do not want to become chattel to men without a voice to dissent.
I was born in 1945. I had my tubes tied n 1975 after having two beautiful babies. Yes, I had to have my husband’s signature, ie, permission. Thankfully,he signed.
Lot of this repression of women; examples like this are cropping up. I guess a lot of these restrictions went by the wayside in my youth ahead of my awareness at the time. But Roe v Wade was in everyone's radar and it is a disgrace that donold reversed it.
I am Spartacus!...Younger Boomer, here. My grandparents on both sides of my family, escaped Fascism and Nazism , in Eastern Europe, they left before the rise of Hitler, just barely. That makes me only the 3rd generation of immigrants. Both grandparents escaped from Russia and immigrated to Canada, then eventually they immigrated to the USA. Other relatives weren't so lucky and perished at the hands of the Nazis. I guess that is why I have always had, a hair-trigger, anxiety about the return of Nazism. I smelled it, felt it in my bones, the day the Orange Hitler, was in our midst. The day Trump rode down his golden escalator.
YES!!! My story exactly! I am first generation and was raised with these stories! The crazy making stuff is that my entire family is MAGA and I'm the black sheep for living out the belief system I was raised with!!!
I'm your mom's age. I was never socially conservative, but I have always been fiscally conservative and I have voted Republican. Everything she said resonated with me from the McCarthy Era Black Listing, to the fear of enemy attacks. I experienced the fear of Russian attacking. I lived in Texas till I was a teen. My school's playground was adjacent to Carswell Air Force Base " it was primarily known as a major Strategic Air Command (SAC) base, focusing on training and supporting heavy bomber aircraft like the B-36 Peacemaker and B-52 Stratofortress, " Every day we heard the bombers taking off and landing with their explosive ear splitting sonic booms. I, as a 3rd - 4th grader, , did not know they were't being attacked by the Russians. I knew if they were, we would be incinerated. Every day. . . every day. . . too horrible for a child to think about. Then there was the horrible injustice. We were poor. But the black man who worked for my dad on occasion was destitute and he and his wife lived in what looked to me like a tool shed. Blacks, and my Latino school mates, could not access a public pool or beach in those sweltering summer days. I saw the signs posted, and the two water fountains. Watch Green Book if you want to take a trip back to "When America was Great". Not even married women could get birth control information, sex ed was tragically wanting, abortions were illegal, the black vote was suppressed, districts and cities were "red-lined", anti-miscegenation laws were in effect, and being gay was listed as a mental disorder and a crime. None of it was 'right'! The political right made overtures to the religious right. Read Republican Gomorrah by Max Blumenthal to get some idea of the 'long game' the religious right has been playing. Together they have wreaked havoc on this country and our constitution, by way politicians, school boards, home schooling, politically churches, and a far right Supreme Court. One example is the Catholic Church: "June 5, 2019 - The US Catholic Church spent more than $10 million on lobbyists over seven years to delay statute of limitations reforms from going into effect in eight states." [The Hill] This was to avoid responsibility for the abuse and rape of children. An unthinkable "thumb on the scale" to interfere with justice. Thinking about 'what was' enrages me, and seeing it loom before me again has almost sucked my soul dry. I thought we were better as a nation. Some of us are. I voted early for Harris. But even if she wins there will be unrest, as the fabric of our nation has been rent. My hope is that we can recover and become a better nation.
I'm a Brit watching your elections with a sense of dread for your country. Your mother is sharp and astute. I'm a socialist living in a country that is largely right leaning. For many years we have been governed by a mildly right wing Conservative Party, but those days are over and the lunatic right wing fringe has gained ground by aping Donald Trump. They have done so by demonising immigrants to the UK in exactly the way that Trump is in the US. Luckily for us the UK population voted overwhelming ly to get rid of the Conservative government whose immediate response has been to lurch even further to the right. I hope that those people that watch your TH-cam videos will hear the simple common sense that your wonderful mother speaks and see Trump for what he truly is.
Also, Fascist men do not think women have a place in the new GOP/Maga party. Poor women, Nikki Haley and Meghan Kelly who are calling for less "bro-culture" in Maga, they just don't get it
Damn Mom, You're good. Your analysis is spot on!! I'd love to see Mom on one of the major youtube liberal news outlets like the young Turks or Breaking Points. Maybe we can try to get her analysis out there even more.
I am Spartacus. I have voted for Kamala. My husband, our 3 children, their spouses, and their 2 adult children have all voted for Kamala. And we have encouraged and convinced our Aunt, the last family member in her generation, to put her staunch republican support aside, and vote for Kamala and democratic down the ballot. She told us,”No one has ever spoken to me so calmly and rationally about politics and the value of my vote before. You are all so understanding of how difficult it is to vote across the party line.”
I deeply appreciate your mother's insight. I've binged every episode while cleaning the house today. It helped calm my anxiety...I can't wait til this election is over and our nation can hopefully heal from the tremendous wounds Trump and his ilk have inflicted.
So smart and eloquent; blunt yet sharp! (And dare I say beautiful!) Your mother is a gifted communicator. I was very moved by the Spartacus parable. BTW, I sent a friend (she and I were both born in ‘46, though in different countries - brought up respectively RC and Presby), sent her the first in the Mom series, with just one sentence attached: “Ring any bells?” She wrote back an hour later: “Deafening!” I wish I could vote, because so much more than American democracy depends on a Harris win. Earth, herself, will shudder if Trump wins. Good cheer from 🇧🇲
If the Republicans wants their party back - vote for Kamala Harris and any Democrat who is running against MAGA. I also want a "healthy" Republican party and I'm a Democrat. So-called research down a "rabbit-hole" isn't necessary, it's common sense. Mom - I love and believe everything you're saying.
I'm a little younger than your mom. I was never conservative, but have lived on the left all my life. At the age of about 15 I decided I was a socialist (democratic). After working as a legal services lawyer, I went back for my PhD in sociology, and taught political sociology, gender studies, the sociology of poverty, and theory for 25 years. I agree 100% with your mom. It's what I try to tell my friends on the left--at least there's a chance that a Harris administration will listen, but no chance at all with Trump. A revolution, they say. Do you know who gets hurt in revolutions? It's never the power brokers except perhaps for one figurehead. It's always the weakest. We need to get this right. I thought, at the beginning of the pandemic, that there was a chance for the emergence of social democracy. But Trump and his coterie used it as a weapon against us. People of color and the poor will be the sacrificial lambs. I sit in my comfortable small house in my mostly Euro-American blue neighborhood in my blue college town in a state that used to be purple but now is turning bright red. But how long will this little oasis stay safe? I'm a coward by nature, but a part of me wonders what will force me to risk all to save the country--the world--and what form that risk would take. Or will I continue to be a coward and just observe.
@sophieonthemtn1239 Evil reigns when good men do nothing. Courage comes from character and it sounds like you have character, hence courage. You are not a coward.
This is how it begins to change, speaking to the other side. We are watching up here in Canada, waiting anxiously and cheering on all the Spartacus people! Love that line, don’t sell your daughters for 30 pieces of silver! Well said.
I disagree that the Republicans ever were fiscally responsible or for small government. I am about the same age as the mother. And was conservative in the seventies and for a few years after Reagan. The great depression was caused by Republicans. Who in the 1920s repealed fiscal regulations. Which allowed people to speculate with money they didn't have. The housing bubble of 2008 was similar. Giving loans to people that couldn't afford them. And Republicans are doing the same things today. Trying to repeal any rules that would the let rich usually white men. To make all the wealth they want. With the 99% of us paying for it. Even at the expense of billions of life. And possibly the extinction of the human race.
Thanks for your comment. I personally agree that failing to regulate and failing to commensurately tax big business and the very wealthy is NOT fiscally responsible. There is more than one way to waste money. Indulging greed and failing to protect the public is not a very common sense or even practical way to live.
I’m on the line of Boomers/Gen X. I lived in Europe with grandparents who fought the fascist Nazis and worked with the US Navy as the RESISTANCE to smuggle Jews, Artists, Scientists, Academics, etc out of the country in WWII. They were Fishermen. I learned so much from them about fascism true simple conservative survival. I hand washed cloth diapers hanging them out on a line, daily and walked to do our shopping everyday, locally. My EU grandparents had so much respect for America for saving them from Nazi Fascism. They allowed their only daughter to marry a Naval soldier who they welcomed in their home for 6 years.
The comparison of Trump with McCarthy is far more useful and powerful then the usual comparison with Hitler. The tendency of the right to search for a heroic stong man as a saviour is also a great thing to highlight. It's incredibly telling that the oligarchs operating in western democracies have a common playbook with those operating in Russia.
I wish every American was as intelligent and wise as this Mom! Thank you so much for this video. Love the analogy: I’m Spartacus!!! May God deliver us from evil and may God, blessed America! 🇺🇸
Old Missus here: You got it in one Mom! Why I could never become a Republican after cutting my political teeth on John Birch Society, Goldwater and the Civil Rights movement.
Paying your fair share of taxes is patriotic. It is inconsistent to beat your chest about being willing to die for this country and then treat taxes like a moral injury. They say that "freedom isn't free." It is paid for by our taxes, which then fund the military and other essential services. Thank you for such a great perspective and podcast.
Dear Irish ( and a southpaw! Much closer to first base when you bat) .. thank you! Please, spread the word. It just takes one voice to change things ... like yours!
I am just a couple of years younger than your mom. Grew up in the 60's. Thank you for a good comparison of how it was back then and now. Wonderful podcast. I am Spartacus!
Hoping for a post Trump win video, I’ve shared this with my boomer mother who I managed to talk and explain for eight years to see the right side of history, this election she voted for a democrat for the first time in her life, we cried together when we heard the news.
So inspiring. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. I voted by mail in September. Let’s go America, we are a democracy. Let’s save ourselves, and the world. 🇺🇸 Semper Fi 🇺🇸
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for you beautiful, discerning, and compassionate testimony. Your house is truly built on a foundation of stone(Matt.7:24-29).
I wish you had been on here earlier.. I’ve tried to get through to my kids, now you make it make sense. I’m still trying but have one to two days left… 😢
I enjoy listening to your conversations. The election happened, the majority of society voted for the Republican convict, and here we are. Makala lost, we lost, I cried. I hope to hear another conversation from you soon.
Mum, you are an inspiration to the world. We found you by accident, but what a well spoken, knowledgeable person you are. Your Spartacus anology was very moving. We're from Tasmania, a state of Australia, but we know how important this election is, not only for your country, but for the world. MeidasTouch should have you on their channel to reach a bigger audience.
Elections are not about ideology or religious values or about political ideology or about character. They are about how we divide the pie. People will vote for Trump because they believe that he will divide the pie in a way that favors them.
That used to be the case, but the Donald Trump has given people permission to express their religious fanaticism, racism and hatred openly. HUGE difference
@ursamagickmt672 That was the idea of Reaganomics. By cutting taxes you can make the pie bigger. The Laffer curve. But because of the first law of economics, limited supply for unlimited demand, there is a limit to how big the pie can get. The limit was passed but they still continued to cut taxes. Thus the expanding national debt. At some point the economy will seize up. It will be disasterous.
I have to say - I love this series SO much! Your mom is so sharp, and has an incredible memory and ability to tie so many threads together. I shared your show with my MAGA mother who (I hope) will benefit from hearing analysis from a contemporary. Thank you both for this wonderful content! ❤
Will we hear from you and your mom now after the election? I absolutely love love love listening to your podcasts with your mom… so educational for me and i am almost 60 …keep it up please
I am Spartacus! I am your age. I had goose bumps through the whole article and tears. I am sharing your articles with my grandchildren. They are a good history lesson and now awareness. Thank you for doing these podcast with your son.
I'm writing this 5 days after the election. I love you both for creating this channel and bringing truth, common sense, and education on how our democracy has been hijacked. I look forward to upcoming videos as hate and danger begins to flood over the country.
I am Spartacus. My son and daughter struggle in these economic times. The wealth inequality gap which has been growing since Regan is obscene. The proper investment by government in its people has shown over and over again to improve lives. And most often these have come under democratic rule. History does repeat itself. Vote blue
I have been saying that since the beginning…My sister is on the maga train and I have all I can do to talk with her…She just sounds angry and can’t wait till they hurt all those they hate…So said 🥺
I am Spartacus 👍😎👍 I only wish you two thought about publishing these episodes 2 weeks earlier when I could possibly forward them to people who needed to hear this. Everyone I know has already completed their early ballots. 😢
Thank you joell439. I know what you mean. But I took my own advice and said to myself, I know it's late, but one voice can make a difference. Please spread the world and add your awesome voice, I think it's helping people make up their mind.
Very powerful commentary. Thank you 🙏 so much. I have voted in every Presidential election for the last 54 years. I have never felt fear, and anxiety politically, until Donald Trump rode down his golden escalator in 2015. Tomorrow his reign of fear mongering, and hate comes to an end. 🤞
I don’t mind paying taxes, without taxes we wouldn’t have a damn country we just need to be a little less greedy and we can’t let corporations lead in every damn thing
We need corporations to pay their fair share of taxes. The more you earn, the more you pay. That´s how they did it in the 50s when there was an actual middle class.
I feel the middle and working classes are taxed but not upper class. They must pay mpre. I am referring to Elon Musk, among others.
@jjohnsengraciesmom it's Funny that Warren Buffet has even said it's unfair.
I remember my big sister (born in 1950) having 5 very difficult miscarriages after already have one child. Her doctor explained to her and her husband that if she got pregnant again that it would life threatening. He suggested that she get her tubes tied. Her husband needed to sign the consent form for the surgery. He refused because being sterile would make her less of a woman.
She needed either her husband’s permission or her father’s (if she was unmarried) permission to get her tubes tied. She filed for divorce the following day and moved back into our father’s house. As soon as divorce was final, our father signed the consent.
This happened in the 1970’s! That is not that long ago. We cannot go back!
RESPECT to your old man m8.
Thank you for sharing your sister's story and what it was like for women prior to Roe vs. Wade. Too many men and some women, associate the womb as an attachment to the male ego, women are not chattel of men and we do not want to become chattel to men without a voice to dissent.
I was born in 1945. I had my tubes tied n 1975 after having two beautiful babies. Yes, I had to have my husband’s signature, ie, permission. Thankfully,he signed.
Horrible. She could have died during a miscarriage. That can lead to hemorrhaging.
Lot of this repression of women; examples like this are cropping up. I guess a lot of these restrictions went by the wayside in my youth ahead of my awareness at the time. But Roe v Wade was in everyone's radar and it is a disgrace that donold reversed it.
"Don't sell your daughters for 30 pieces of silver.
Don't sell your country for 30 pieces of silver."
Indeed.
This is such a powerful statement. It made me stop in my tracks.
I am Spartacus!...Younger Boomer, here. My grandparents on both sides of my family, escaped Fascism and Nazism , in Eastern Europe, they left before the rise of Hitler, just barely. That makes me only the 3rd generation of immigrants. Both grandparents escaped from Russia and immigrated to Canada, then eventually they immigrated to the USA. Other relatives weren't so lucky and perished at the hands of the Nazis. I guess that is why I have always had, a hair-trigger, anxiety about the return of Nazism. I smelled it, felt it in my bones, the day the Orange Hitler, was in our midst. The day Trump rode down his golden escalator.
YES!!! My story exactly! I am first generation and was raised with these stories! The crazy making stuff is that my entire family is MAGA and I'm the black sheep for living out the belief system I was raised with!!!
Please i hope you would be able to influence the jewish follks to not vote for trump. hearing Ben Shapiro makes me super worried.
It is beyond comprehension what is happening, but now somehow we are not contesting election interference.
I'm your mom's age. I was never socially conservative, but I have always been fiscally conservative and I have voted Republican. Everything she said resonated with me from the McCarthy Era Black Listing, to the fear of enemy attacks. I experienced the fear of Russian attacking. I lived in Texas till I was a teen. My school's playground was adjacent to Carswell Air Force Base " it was primarily known as a major Strategic Air Command (SAC) base, focusing on training and supporting heavy bomber aircraft like the B-36 Peacemaker and B-52 Stratofortress, "
Every day we heard the bombers taking off and landing with their explosive ear splitting sonic booms. I, as a 3rd - 4th grader, , did not know they were't being attacked by the Russians. I knew if they were, we would be incinerated. Every day. . . every day. . . too horrible for a child to think about.
Then there was the horrible injustice. We were poor. But the black man who worked for my dad on occasion was destitute and he and his wife lived in what looked to me like a tool shed. Blacks, and my Latino school mates, could not access a public pool or beach in those sweltering summer days. I saw the signs posted, and the two water fountains. Watch Green Book if you want to take a trip back to "When America was Great".
Not even married women could get birth control information, sex ed was tragically wanting, abortions were illegal, the black vote was suppressed, districts and cities were "red-lined", anti-miscegenation laws were in effect, and being gay was listed as a mental disorder and a crime. None of it was 'right'! The political right made overtures to the religious right. Read Republican Gomorrah by Max Blumenthal to get some idea of the 'long game' the religious right has been playing. Together they have wreaked havoc on this country and our constitution, by way politicians, school boards, home schooling, politically churches, and a far right Supreme Court. One example is the Catholic Church: "June 5, 2019 - The US Catholic Church spent more than $10 million on lobbyists over seven years to delay statute of limitations reforms from going into effect in eight states." [The Hill] This was to avoid responsibility for the abuse and rape of children. An unthinkable "thumb on the scale" to interfere with justice.
Thinking about 'what was' enrages me, and seeing it loom before me again has almost sucked my soul dry. I thought we were better as a nation. Some of us are. I voted early for Harris. But even if she wins there will be unrest, as the fabric of our nation has been rent. My hope is that we can recover and become a better nation.
Best comment here. Thank you. 😢
Mom is right. She is so eloquent! Gotta love her.
I have fear. It's fear of Trump being president.
I feel that same fear. It’s the cautious part of the optimism- cautiously optimistic
@@deannepitre4191 "nauseously optimistic"
Oh no. 😮 😢
Mom is so wise and no-nonsense. When I hear her talk I feel safe. Tough to explain.
Mom woke up and realized she's been lied to for 70 years
She has perspective because she was living through historic times.
I'm a Brit watching your elections with a sense of dread for your country. Your mother is sharp and astute. I'm a socialist living in a country that is largely right leaning. For many years we have been governed by a mildly right wing Conservative Party, but those days are over and the lunatic right wing fringe has gained ground by aping Donald Trump. They have done so by demonising immigrants to the UK in exactly the way that Trump is in the US. Luckily for us the UK population voted overwhelming ly to get rid of the Conservative government whose immediate response has been to lurch even further to the right. I hope that those people that watch your TH-cam videos will hear the simple common sense that your wonderful mother speaks and see Trump for what he truly is.
I agree.
Aloha from Hawai'i.
The US) is a cautionary tale, as it were.
I believe the same lunacy is developing in Australia
@@micheledix2616 Again? I was so pleased when you guys ousted the theocrats who'd had a stranglehold on your politics.
@Patricklimpkin Same in Canada.
Also, Fascist men do not think women have a place in the new GOP/Maga party. Poor women, Nikki Haley and Meghan Kelly who are calling for less "bro-culture" in Maga, they just don't get it
PS: Women will are now becoming and soon will openly be "the enemy within."
Damn Mom, You're good. Your analysis is spot on!! I'd love to see Mom on one of the major youtube liberal news outlets like the young Turks or Breaking Points. Maybe we can try to get her analysis out there even more.
I am Spartacus, I am also a Baby Boomer who was born in the late 1950’s and I voted for freedom. Freedom for all Americans.
Same and I don’t want to go back. The hated, bullying and horrible racism.
❤😢🫨😮 “ don’t sell your daughters for 30 pieces of silver” Boomer Mom
I am Spartacus. I have voted for Kamala. My husband, our 3 children, their spouses, and their 2 adult children have all voted for Kamala.
And we have encouraged and convinced our Aunt, the last family member in her generation, to put her staunch republican support aside, and vote for Kamala and democratic down the ballot. She told us,”No one has ever spoken to me so calmly and rationally about politics and the value of my vote before. You are all so understanding of how difficult it is to vote across the party line.”
Love to your kind and beautiful family. How you approached your Aunt, and her response, speaks volumes about you all.
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering.” -Yoda
Thank you Mom and Child for articulating the times we live in. So valuable.
I deeply appreciate your mother's insight. I've binged every episode while cleaning the house today. It helped calm my anxiety...I can't wait til this election is over and our nation can hopefully heal from the tremendous wounds Trump and his ilk have inflicted.
Oh, and, I"M SPARTACUS!
So smart and eloquent; blunt yet sharp! (And dare I say beautiful!)
Your mother is a gifted communicator. I was very moved by the Spartacus parable.
BTW, I sent a friend (she and I were both born in ‘46, though in different countries - brought up respectively RC and Presby), sent her the first in the Mom series, with just one sentence attached:
“Ring any bells?”
She wrote back an hour later:
“Deafening!”
I wish I could vote, because so much more than American democracy depends on a Harris win. Earth, herself, will shudder if Trump wins.
Good cheer from 🇧🇲
If the Republicans wants their party back - vote for Kamala Harris and any Democrat who is running against MAGA. I also want a "healthy" Republican party and I'm a Democrat. So-called research down a "rabbit-hole" isn't necessary, it's common sense. Mom - I love and believe everything you're saying.
The GOP are going the same way as the Whigs! Who I hear you ask! Exactly. Google the Whigs & the GOP will join them in the history.
I would say scrap the Republican party name and all and start over.
Voted 🔵 for my daughters, granddaughter, nieces and cousins.
Thank you Mom!
I am Spartacus.
I was born in 1947, and I say You Go Girl! I love this!
Likewise - 1947. Lead on.
Refreshing to listen to and read posts from articulate people.
I'm a little younger than your mom. I was never conservative, but have lived on the left all my life. At the age of about 15 I decided I was a socialist (democratic). After working as a legal services lawyer, I went back for my PhD in sociology, and taught political sociology, gender studies, the sociology of poverty, and theory for 25 years.
I agree 100% with your mom. It's what I try to tell my friends on the left--at least there's a chance that a Harris administration will listen, but no chance at all with Trump. A revolution, they say. Do you know who gets hurt in revolutions? It's never the power brokers except perhaps for one figurehead. It's always the weakest.
We need to get this right. I thought, at the beginning of the pandemic, that there was a chance for the emergence of social democracy. But Trump and his coterie used it as a weapon against us. People of color and the poor will be the sacrificial lambs.
I sit in my comfortable small house in my mostly Euro-American blue neighborhood in my blue college town in a state that used to be purple but now is turning bright red. But how long will this little oasis stay safe? I'm a coward by nature, but a part of me wonders what will force me to risk all to save the country--the world--and what form that risk would take. Or will I continue to be a coward and just observe.
I sooooo hear you; you are not alone. Strength in numbers. They can't kill all of us--who would do the 'little' jobs they don't want to do??
You will become their useless eater and their fodder eventually. Remember always my friend to be silent is to consent ….do what is necessary.
@sophieonthemtn1239 Evil reigns when good men do nothing. Courage comes from character and it sounds like you have character, hence courage. You are not a coward.
I love you, Mom! Such wisdom.
So eloquent and so wise.
This is how it begins to change, speaking to the other side. We are watching up here in Canada, waiting anxiously and cheering on all the Spartacus people! Love that line, don’t sell your daughters for 30 pieces of silver! Well said.
I disagree that the Republicans ever were fiscally responsible or for small government. I am about the same age as the mother. And was conservative in the seventies and for a few years after Reagan. The great depression was caused by Republicans. Who in the 1920s repealed fiscal regulations. Which allowed people to speculate with money they didn't have. The housing bubble of 2008 was similar. Giving loans to people that couldn't afford them. And Republicans are doing the same things today. Trying to repeal any rules that would the let rich usually white men. To make all the wealth they want. With the 99% of us paying for it. Even at the expense of billions of life. And possibly the extinction of the human race.
Thanks for your comment. I personally agree that failing to regulate and failing to commensurately tax big business and the very wealthy is NOT fiscally responsible. There is more than one way to waste money. Indulging greed and failing to protect the public is not a very common sense or even practical way to live.
Add the disastrous Savings & Loans scandal of 1989 which resulted from Reagan era deregulation.
@jimralston4789 I remember that, a savings and loan in my town was involved. I don't believe that members ever got their savings back.
I’m on the line of Boomers/Gen X. I lived in Europe with grandparents who fought the fascist Nazis and worked with the US Navy as the RESISTANCE to smuggle Jews, Artists, Scientists, Academics, etc out of the country in WWII. They were Fishermen. I learned so much from them about fascism true simple conservative survival. I hand washed cloth diapers hanging them out on a line, daily and walked to do our shopping everyday, locally.
My EU grandparents had so much respect for America for saving them from Nazi Fascism. They allowed their only daughter to marry a Naval soldier who they welcomed in their home for 6 years.
The comparison of Trump with McCarthy is far more useful and powerful then the usual comparison with Hitler. The tendency of the right to search for a heroic stong man as a saviour is also a great thing to highlight.
It's incredibly telling that the oligarchs operating in western democracies have a common playbook with those operating in Russia.
Trump's original lawyer Roy Cohen worked for and with Joe McCarthy. He taught Trump many of the his tricks
I would argue that Cambodia likely believes McCarthy to be comparable to Hitler.
These podcasts are so perfect for this time in our nation's history! I hope they will continue after the election.
Much gratitude to you both! 😍😍
Agree, Any paying attention could see this happening 🚨🚨🚨
Im voting for my 10 yr old niece who has zero bodily autonomy in this country right now. 🗳 💙
Excellent message. Stand up and be counted!
I am Spartacus. I also am a decade or so behind your Mom (1959 baby). I pray Kamal wins! Love the podcast.
Wow! I am going to put this message on my Facebook page.
Thank you!
I wish every American was as intelligent and wise as this Mom! Thank you so much for this video. Love the analogy: I’m Spartacus!!! May God deliver us from evil and may God, blessed America! 🇺🇸
Thank you both for making these videos.
Extremely well stated!
"I Am Spartacus!!"
I love this podcast more than I can say. You are both such an inspiration.
Thank you so much for speaking out.
Peace! ☮️
I hope I can be as wise as your mom.
I'm an older Gen X'er and a moderate. I appreciate these podcasts.
Old Missus here: You got it in one Mom! Why I could never become a Republican after cutting my political teeth on John Birch Society, Goldwater and the Civil Rights movement.
Thank you so much for sharing your story! Already voted for Kamala, Go Blue!
Oh man…. Your mom just gave me so much hope.
Mom, hit the nail on the head! I have been saying exactly the same thing!
Paying your fair share of taxes is patriotic. It is inconsistent to beat your chest about being willing to die for this country and then treat taxes like a moral injury. They say that "freedom isn't free." It is paid for by our taxes, which then fund the military and other essential services. Thank you for such a great perspective and podcast.
Your Mom is amazing. She is so intelligent and insightful.
Great mum
Spot on ........ PINK TSUNAMI WARNING
That's right. The day they overturned Roe was the day they lost the election. What a price so many have paid.
Thank you for bringing this up and explaining it. As a younger person the context helps me understand why we are where we are.
Dear Irish ( and a southpaw! Much closer to first base when you bat) .. thank you! Please, spread the word. It just takes one voice to change things ... like yours!
Thank you for sharing these very insightful and important conversations.
We are Spartacus! Keep America Great!
I suspect if anyone in the ‘50s had performed Trump’s microphone act in public, he’d have been imprisoned!
Homosexuality was a crime, men were jailed for sodomy and were raped to death (by the heterosexual inmates. Go figure)
This is my second time hearing from your mom and I became an immediate fan. Her perspective is very important.
So so good! Keep going, flowing, teaching, growing alongside us!🙌🏽🫶🏽🇺🇸❤️🦋
I am just a couple of years younger than your mom. Grew up in the 60's. Thank you for a good comparison of how it was back then and now. Wonderful podcast. I am Spartacus!
We need a video after this horrible election.
Your mom is da bomb!!! ❤
I love hearing these two and have learned so much! Thanks 🙏🏽 💙
Oh Mom. Please, tell me there are more intelligent people like you in America, who are capable of critical thinking.
There are. There really are. We just need to spread the word. One voice at a time.
There are. Just apparently not enough.
Thank you for this very important information.
I found Spartacus is streaming on Prime, if anyone else is interested.
She is brilliant
thank you so much for sharing your mothers knowledge and wisdom with the world. much respect from Denmark.
Hoping for a post Trump win video, I’ve shared this with my boomer mother who I managed to talk and explain for eight years to see the right side of history, this election she voted for a democrat for the first time in her life, we cried together when we heard the news.
So inspiring. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
I voted by mail in September. Let’s go America, we are a democracy. Let’s save ourselves, and the world.
🇺🇸 Semper Fi 🇺🇸
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for you beautiful, discerning, and compassionate testimony. Your house is truly built on a foundation of stone(Matt.7:24-29).
Love these dialogs!
She just gave everyone a fantastic history lesson and I hope everyone heeds her message, which is accurate.
I am Spartacus.
I wish you had been on here earlier.. I’ve tried to get through to my kids, now you make it make sense. I’m still trying but have one to two days left… 😢
Again, I LOVE MOM. I wish she could run for president...
I voted on 10/26/2024 in Michigan . 💙
This gave me so much clarity. In the words from an actual everyday citizen who lived through it! I am Spartacus!!!❤💜
Very moving. What a mum 🥰
I was brought up in an extreme Presbyterian family and church. The sentiments that gave trump power have always been around.
You talk about the oligarchs.. no my own family has lied to me to get me to do things they knew I said I didn't want.
I enjoy listening to your conversations. The election happened, the majority of society voted for the Republican convict, and here we are. Makala lost, we lost, I cried. I hope to hear another conversation from you soon.
The author Willa Cather in her novels, mentioned the deep thread of fascism in American culture.
I just watched this two weeks now post election. I’m devastated but would love to hear from both of you. What’s next?? Scary times for sure.
Thank you!
This is the most reasonable American person I have ever heard speak. I bow deeply to you, madam.
Mum, you are an inspiration to the world. We found you by accident, but what a well spoken, knowledgeable person you are. Your Spartacus anology was very moving. We're from Tasmania, a state of Australia, but we know how important this election is, not only for your country, but for the world. MeidasTouch should have you on their channel to reach a bigger audience.
Dear Aussiehank1, thank you SO much. Maybe you could put a bee in the bonnet of the Meidas touch - love those guys too.
Elections are not about ideology or religious values or about political ideology or about character. They are about how we divide the pie. People will vote for Trump because they believe that he will divide the pie in a way that favors them.
That used to be the case, but the Donald Trump has given people permission to express their religious fanaticism, racism and hatred openly. HUGE difference
@Starfish2145 These are delusions. Elections are about how we divide the pie. That's all.
Who would think that donOld would divide a pie in anybodies favor but his own? Insane take.
Remember W saying he'd "make the pie higher". No comment about this election though.
@ursamagickmt672 That was the idea of Reaganomics. By cutting taxes you can make the pie bigger. The Laffer curve. But because of the first law of economics, limited supply for unlimited demand, there is a limit to how big the pie can get. The limit was passed but they still continued to cut taxes. Thus the expanding national debt. At some point the economy will seize up. It will be disasterous.
I have to say - I love this series SO much! Your mom is so sharp, and has an incredible memory and ability to tie so many threads together.
I shared your show with my MAGA mother who (I hope) will benefit from hearing analysis from a contemporary.
Thank you both for this wonderful content! ❤
Preach on, Mom!
Thanks for this. We have a harder job now.💙
Will we hear from you and your mom now after the election? I absolutely love love love listening to your podcasts with your mom… so educational for me and i am almost 60 …keep it up please
Hi Roxanne! Yes... you will hear from us very soon! Thanks for your support :)
She is a smart lady, she knows politics well. One thing I don’t understand is how she voted for Trump in 2016.
I really liked the podcast.
Oh goodness, I hope I didn't give that impression! I had changed my views long before 2016, that's for sure!
Love the podcast. Keep going!
I am Spartacus! I am your age. I had goose bumps through the whole article and tears. I am sharing your articles with my grandchildren. They are a good history lesson and now awareness. Thank you for doing these podcast with your son.
thank you so much! the history of Spartacus was really informative
I am Sparticus! ❤
Love their intro. ❤ I’m hooked on this. And no, *I* am Spartacus.
I'm writing this 5 days after the election. I love you both for creating this channel and bringing truth, common sense, and education on how our democracy has been hijacked. I look forward to upcoming videos as hate and danger begins to flood over the country.
Something is rotten in America
I am Spartacus. My son and daughter struggle in these economic times. The wealth inequality gap which has been growing since Regan is obscene. The proper investment by government in its people has shown over and over again to improve lives. And most often these have come under democratic rule. History does repeat itself. Vote blue
Struggling here, as my family worships wealth. I'm fairly distanced from them, but it still hurts. Voted on Friday for Kamala!
Brilliant...share this with everyone with a conscience.
Thank you! Please, share far and wide. It just takes one action to change everything.
I have been saying that since the beginning…My sister is on the maga train and I have all I can do to talk with her…She just sounds angry and can’t wait till they hurt all those they hate…So said 🥺
Does she not know that good little maga ladies are meant to stay in the kitchen?
I am Spartacus 👍😎👍 I only wish you two thought about publishing these episodes 2 weeks earlier when I could possibly forward them to people who needed to hear this. Everyone I know has already completed their early ballots. 😢
Thank you joell439. I know what you mean. But I took my own advice and said to myself, I know it's late, but one voice can make a difference. Please spread the world and add your awesome voice, I think it's helping people make up their mind.
Very powerful commentary. Thank you 🙏 so much. I have voted in every Presidential election for the last 54 years. I have never felt fear, and anxiety politically, until Donald Trump rode down his golden escalator in 2015. Tomorrow his reign of fear mongering, and hate comes to an end. 🤞
Adrienne - love you and your thinking. Great interviewing style
He is a tool for Miller, Musk etc.
Miller, Bannon, and the christofascists are the puppet masters. tRump doesn’t have any ideas of his own.