Comments by "Sean Fitzgerald" (@seanfitzgerald4207) on "Jeremi Suri: Civil War, Slavery, Freedom, and Democracy | Lex Fridman Podcast #354" video.

  1. A potential issue with voting for ideas not for people is that the people who are value aligned with particular ideas during a campaign and voting period may after getting elected either not act in accordance with the ideas upon which voters elected them to office, or their views change and no longer align with those ideas not sure how to solve for this but the concept of issue-based voting is certainly interesting to explore
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  2. I have got to push back on Jeremi's assertion that Trump failed to protect his employees.....ok maybe so, but then the SAME THING could be said of Nancy Pelosi who was 100% aware of credible intel that there could be something happening at the Capitol during this process and CHOSE to reduce the number of Capitol Police on duty to skeletal numbers.
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  3. i think it is not accurate to say that ALL protestors who entered the Capitol on Jan 6 had the intention of overthrowing the legitimate government or stopping the peaceful transfer of power, i think there were definitely a small minority of them who intended that (including agent provocateur Ray Epps) but there is no clear indication that all the several hundred people acted with any intention like that
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