Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "Ivan Krastev: Can democracy exist without trust?" video.

  1. i tend to agree with you mostly about republicans ... but democrats are similar in some cases. it is the need to group people and judge them that is being taken advantage of. studies have shown and measures all the little tricks humans use to parse the world, and now it is easy enough to trick a whole country if you have the right levers. the bottom line is that the only way out is to base society on human values - not money, not power.
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  2. thats why they has to be something more than democracy, there needs to be tenets of beliefs, metrics that we can measure, concepts that we believe in. there used to be until the fast talkers came in and perverted the process and the conversation. now it is impossible to get those people out because we have no idea who they are. it is the whole terrorism meme, hiding among the body politic are the parasites so now the body politic is just parasites.
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  3. that is the systems fault. there is no reason people cannot understand this needless complexity, the complexity is there for the same reason technical jargon is - to keep people out and away. to have real democracy everything must be open and everyone must be able to ask any question and get an answer. but most of all we have to police the body politic to remove the people who poison it.
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  4. 6:54 - "remember until the 1970's the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality, the more democratic our societies have been the more equal they had been becoming, now we have the reverse tendency the spread of democracy is very much accompanied by the increase in inequality." This is the takeaway to me. We used to know that you had to have some system to keep the most powerful from getting too powerful, example is the highly progressive & estate tax.
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  5. Thus the significance of the Corporate Jet Airplane. What can possible go up against a whole world system that controls every square inch of the planet?
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  6. the reagan revolution was wrong, government did know better ... so the people who stood to lose put their resources and focus on government and took it over - but the do not want us to realize that they did it, so we continue as usual with a superficial pretense that we have democracy or people that we can vote for that are not psychopaths, and there may be an occasional one or two, but we are as a world being mind-f-ked by lack of contact with reality.
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