postyX - November 09, 2026


Why Democracy Fails and What it Gets You.

6 Events that cause mass chaos

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00:00:00.740 All right, without further ado, let's listen to why democracies fail,
00:00:07.480 and then we're going to get into some examples of what democracy gets you.
00:00:12.420 Why do democracies have a nasty habit of falling apart?
00:00:16.380 We hold them up as the ultimate form of government, the historical finish line.
00:00:21.000 History reminds us over and over again that they're not permanent.
00:00:25.260 John Adams noted democracy never lasts long, it commits suicide.
00:00:29.780 But why? And how?
00:00:31.400 We often imagine tanks in the streets and soldiers at the television station.
00:00:35.340 And I just find it funny because democracy really promotes,
00:00:40.180 or at least I think it tries to promote never-ending peace.
00:00:45.740 Like everything will just work out fine because it's a democracy,
00:00:48.520 which means everything's fair.
00:00:50.560 And this is exactly why democracies fail.
00:00:53.360 And for most of the 20th century, that was the case.
00:00:56.740 During the Cold War, nearly three out of four failed democracies ended with a military coup.
00:01:02.020 But in more modern times, they fall in a much different way.
00:01:05.240 Let's look at the fall of Athens.
00:01:07.180 How does the world's first democracy end up executing Socrates,
00:01:11.120 elevating demagogues, getting conquered, and disappearing from history?
00:01:14.540 Athens didn't fall in a single day, and it's a good lesson in what can happen when you hand power to the crowd.
00:01:21.000 So, again, democracies tend to take longer to fail.
00:01:25.540 That's what I've gathered.
00:01:27.120 I wrote a substack yesterday because, again, this is one of these subjects and I get autistic about this stuff and then I, you know, want to talk about it for like the next three, four or five days.
00:01:37.000 Anyways, that's why, like I said, it takes longer for it to fail than like a dictatorship maybe.
00:01:44.180 But they will fail ultimately.
00:01:46.480 so. It evolved over time, and it was unique in the world in that its citizens, or at least those who
00:01:52.200 were adult, male, and not slaves, were allowed to vote and directly make governmental decisions.
00:01:58.200 They met on a forum that would often hold 6,000 men and voted not to elect other leaders,
00:02:03.480 but they voted directly on proposed laws. It was groundbreaking, and it was also unsustainable.
00:02:09.960 Socrates saw it coming. He warned that democracy could turn into a ship where untrained passengers 0.82
00:02:15.160 ignore the navigator and follow the smoothest talking sailor. A few decades later, he'd be
00:02:20.720 sentenced to death by a 500-man jury. They officially killed him for corrupting the youth
00:02:25.680 and impiety, but really for questioning the established order, because they were the
00:02:30.900 established order. The turning point came earlier, when an eloquent speaker convinced Athens to
00:02:35.840 invade Sicily. He sold it as a quick, glorious win. Instead, it was a disaster. The fleet was
00:02:41.640 wiped out and Athens, which had been winning the Peloponnesian War, never recovered. A few years
00:02:46.920 later, a group of local oligarchs decided democracy failed and they seized power. Control went back
00:02:52.900 and forth a few times until Philip of Macedon crushed the Greek city-states and ended Athenian
00:02:58.220 self-rule. And maybe coincidentally, to this day, the Greeks really don't like the Macedonians all
00:03:03.640 that much. But Athens wasn't conquered because it was weak. It was conquered because it made itself
00:03:09.320 weak. It died from exhaustion, years of war, swings between populism and elitism, and the
00:03:15.360 citizens who saw rivals as threats instead of neighbors. Democracy means self-rule, but it can
00:03:21.180 also mean asking flawed people to restrain themselves in using power and to resist the
00:03:26.720 urge to follow whomever flatters them the best. So let's first take a look at the ways democracies
00:03:32.280 take their last breaths, how they literally die, because it happens different ways. And if you look
00:03:37.540 at history, patterns emerge. But first, I want to mention the opposite. Dictatorships, because they
00:03:44.360 usually don't go quietly. Think Mussolini hanged upside down by a mob. Gaddafi pulled from a sewer
00:03:50.320 pipe and shot on camera. Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena, they were lined up against a
00:03:55.960 wall and shot. Authoritarian regimes look strong right up until the moment they fall. When the fear
00:04:02.000 cracks, it usually happens fast. Power was so concentrated that the moment the center falls,
00:04:07.980 there's usually nothing to hold it up. But democracies, they usually don't die like that.
00:04:13.420 Some get invaded, some get overthrown, some get voted out of existence. And each path says
00:04:18.800 something about that system's failures. Let's start with foreign conquest, because sometimes 0.99
00:04:23.140 So this is, I believe, foreign conquest is what we're going through now. It's just not as obvious
00:04:28.340 as it was in the past, right?
00:04:30.020 Where it was like people would get off the boats
00:04:32.360 and with guns and, you know, like,
00:04:34.260 and they just basically took it by force.
00:04:36.980 They're not really taking it by force at all.
00:04:39.000 We're giving it to them, right? 0.99
00:04:40.900 So, but it is a foreign conquest. 0.93
00:04:43.280 The enemy marches in like in Athens. 0.57
00:04:45.380 It happened to Czechoslovakia in 1939 0.85
00:04:47.460 when Hitler swallowed it. 0.87
00:04:49.040 And it happened to the Baltic states in 1940 0.55
00:04:51.160 when Stalin's tanks rolled in
00:04:53.320 and puppet regimes popped up overnight.
00:04:55.940 I mean, literally one day you're voting for parliament,
00:04:57.920 the next Moscow sending your politicians to the gulag more often though the death blow comes you
00:05:03.840 know if we had that kind of a democracy here maybe it wouldn't be so bad if there was an actual real
00:05:10.300 threat like in some of these European countries like there was in the past and maybe there still 0.98
00:05:15.900 is in some of them there was a real threat that you could lose your life if you fuck up as a 0.99
00:05:20.560 politician then maybe there wouldn't be such you know there wouldn't be as much fuckery going on 0.99
00:05:25.140 maybe a democracy, but then really that's not a true democracy, right, when you think about it. 0.97
00:05:30.540 From the inside, sometimes with a bang. Chile, 1973. Salvador Allende is elected. He's a Marxist
00:05:37.940 president facing deep economic chaos. The military, led by Augusto Pinochet, bombs the presidential
00:05:44.240 palace. Allende is killed. A military hunter takes power and holds it for almost 20 years.
00:05:49.380 Egypt 2012 after the Arab Spring Mohammed Morsi became Egypt's first democratically elected
00:05:55.960 president ever his presidency lasted just a year before the and see democracy definitely can't work
00:06:01.640 in these countries where they don't have as high of an IQ where it's like they just they don't have
00:06:09.000 reasoning good reasoning skills they don't have fully developed prefrontal cortexes where they
00:06:13.040 can predict the outcomes of things in the future democracy will never work in those countries and
00:06:18.080 I don't know why they continue to try. The military pushed him out following widespread
00:06:22.740 protests. A general has won essentially fake elections there ever since. Those are fairly
00:06:27.880 typical military takes over ends, and they often happen with popular support because either the
00:06:34.080 conditions in the country or the elected leader was just that bad. See, I talked about this, I think,
00:06:40.100 yeah, we talked about this in the last stream I did, where these are ways that you can, you know,
00:06:44.040 different ways you can get your country back without violence, but they create the chaos,
00:06:47.340 right it's the they make the problem the crisis or whatever or you know if they're lucky a crisis
00:06:53.060 happens naturally or organically and they use that as uh to their advantage but i think generally
00:06:58.420 they create the chaos and then they come in with the solution and at that point in time people are
00:07:03.300 so tired of living in this way in total chaos and you know uncertainty that they will beg for the
00:07:10.280 government to come in with strict you know rules and and structure because that's what they need
00:07:14.600 like they've been living in such chaos, right?
00:07:16.760 Chaos is not good for the human brain.
00:07:19.680 And they know this, and that's why they continue to create it
00:07:22.400 so that we're desperate for, like I said, some kind of structure.
00:07:26.220 But the most common path today, countries vote their way into it.
00:07:30.920 It's the strong man route.
00:07:32.560 A charismatic leader rides on a wave of anger,
00:07:35.140 always with real and serious problems underneath.
00:07:37.740 They promise to clean house and fix the system,
00:07:40.100 and if voters give them the power to do it, democracy slowly becomes optional. 0.65
00:07:44.400 Weimar Germany in the 30s.
00:07:46.180 Hitler doesn't take power in a coup.
00:07:47.980 He wins a plurality, gets legally appointed.
00:07:50.320 Now, obviously, this person's going to come at it from a normie perspective,
00:07:55.500 so he's going to, I'm sure, demonize Hitler. 0.86
00:07:59.100 But the reality is that the reason why Hitler rose to power 0.78
00:08:03.280 is because it was what people wanted and desired. 0.84
00:08:06.200 The elites that created this Weimar Republic and stuff like that
00:08:10.120 were out enjoying themselves and all the stuff 0.77
00:08:12.040 where the rest of the country was suffering and witness to all this degeneracy so they wanted a
00:08:17.360 strong leader that was going to get things back in order and that's what's always going to happen
00:08:21.740 right this is always going to happen so they want to demonize you know hitler as whatever
00:08:26.300 being this you know the worst leader and this tyrannical person but people remember they
00:08:32.840 elected him right they voted for him so what's the difference now when we let that we vote for
00:08:38.840 these people. They're just doing their tyranny, you know, on a different, like a lower scale where
00:08:42.640 we can't see it behind the scenes.
00:08:45.580 ...pointed chancellor then uses the Reichstag fire to push emergency laws. Within months,
00:08:51.020 democracy's dead. And he didn't really break the rules. He just used them differently. Venezuela,
00:08:56.180 1992. I saw the start of this one firsthand. I will never forget working there and talking to
00:09:01.740 people who weren't all that sold on democracy, which I found shocking. The upper class had
00:09:07.160 nostalgia about the military governments with low crime and because again and I've said this a
00:09:11.740 million times democracy relies on the like blank slate ism right it relies on the fact that every
00:09:19.240 individual is exactly the same they're equal in all aspects right which is not the case so it can
00:09:26.000 never work because when you have something like that you're going to have people that take
00:09:30.080 advantage of it you're going to have like it just it just can't work and that even goes within your
00:09:35.060 own, you know, people, within your own race, people are not equal. Men and women aren't equal.
00:09:39.560 You know, low IQ versus IQ people aren't equal. Like, it's just the way it is. 0.93
00:09:43.460 Parties were corrupt. Military man Hugo Chavez first tries a coup that fails,
00:09:48.400 then runs as a populist in 1998, promising to smash the corrupt elite. He wins,
00:09:54.380 rewrites the Constitution, packs the courts, shut down the media, and then he turned the system in.
00:09:58.640 See, and this is what I mean, right? You can democratically vote in somebody,
00:10:03.400 but if there's no mechanism to remove that person like when they are you know then what's the point
00:10:10.840 you know what i mean like they can come in they they got a mandate they don't have to necessarily
00:10:15.900 follow that mandate what's the what's the risk to them if they don't oh maybe they'll get voted out 0.93
00:10:21.480 in four years like i said but in the meantime they can change all this shit so that there can't even 0.93
00:10:25.760 be a fair election the next time so this is what people like people don't realize this stuff into a 0.93
00:10:31.360 tool for essentially permanent power, all with popular backing, even from idealistic actors.
00:10:36.780 Before that story was over, people ate their pets and zoo animals during food shortages,
00:10:41.740 and about a quarter of the population fled the country. Turkey. Erdogan starts in 2003 as a
00:10:47.520 reformer. A decade later, he's purged the military, neutered the judiciary, and turned Turkey into what
00:10:52.880 people call a competitive autocracy. Elections still happen, but the ruling party controls the
00:10:58.780 board. Right. So it's just it's like a fake democracy, right? It's an illusion only. And
00:11:04.520 losses are rare. Turkey didn't implode like Venezuela. And this version of collapse can be
00:11:09.700 harder to see because the institutions stay in place. The courts, the legislature, even the
00:11:15.240 elections. You can still vote, but your vote may not matter that much. And again, in recent years,
00:11:21.300 this has been more likely to occur with an eager population. Heck, even in the Galactic Republic.
00:11:28.780 Yeah, it's so funny, too, because this video is a year old, but they're still referencing the Star Wars stuff.
00:11:34.940 And that just is, you know, back in the media cycle, again, people are referencing the Star Wars and how it compares to, you know, Anakin compares to current, you know, Zoomer men.
00:11:47.940 So this is how liberty dies. 0.95
00:11:51.220 With thunderous applause.
00:11:53.500 Now let's pause for a second and ask, why should we really care about why democracies fail?
00:11:58.100 I mean, all governments eventually fail.
00:12:00.700 So why does it matter?
00:12:01.820 Because for all their mess and dysfunction,
00:12:04.480 democracies are still the best government humanity has come up with.
00:12:08.120 Objectively, comparatively, historically,
00:12:11.300 they give their citizens advantages that most people wouldn't trade away.
00:12:15.480 Democracies let people fire their leaders without bloodshed.
00:12:18.400 They give you the right to speak.
00:12:19.860 Well, again, you can fire them after, right?
00:12:24.920 They've been already had four years.
00:12:26.900 And in the States, I guess it's different. You can impeach and all this other stuff.
00:12:30.320 But here in Canada, you can basically, you know, you have to wait.
00:12:34.480 So they have four years to destroy everything, right?
00:12:37.680 People who abuse it. You don't need to shoot your way into office or swear loyalty to a dictator.
00:12:43.040 If you care enough, you can fight to change the system.
00:12:45.680 And if enough people agree with you, you can succeed.
00:12:48.820 That's rare throughout history.
00:12:50.960 Democracies also tend to protect basic rights, speech, religion, due process, because they have to.
00:12:56.900 Leaders need support.
00:12:57.920 Right, but again, like we're seeing this now, right, in the U.S.
00:13:01.480 So the U.S. has, they actually have it in their constitution, right, these freedoms.
00:13:07.080 All of our, you know, most other Western countries probably do not have it written or codified into law.
00:13:13.420 But, like I said, even in the U.S., you're seeing this being pressed now, this issue, right?
00:13:19.140 They're still protected for the most part under, you know, the, is it the Second Amendment or the First Amendment?
00:13:25.640 for how long we don't know right because how it kind of how it happens is like the boiled frog
00:13:31.300 thing where like they'll eventually it'll be like well you know this kind of speech isn't
00:13:35.160 thing if it crosses into hateful hey lawless um it crosses into hateful you know what i mean like
00:13:41.000 they're always able to kind of you know with democracies because they just need to have
00:13:45.720 a small majority like you just have to have 51 which means 49 of the public disagree and they
00:13:51.440 have to live with it you know what i mean so i don't know i again i think that it's just too easy
00:13:55.800 to corrupt court to stay in power and the feedback loop keeps them in check it's not perfect but in
00:14:02.720 real democracies you don't get jailed or worse for speaking out against the leader and that happens 0.52
00:14:08.100 today are people getting china yeah okay so he's going to talk about it it happens today it it not
00:14:13.320 just these places it's happening in western countries too right like the uk russia iran
00:14:19.960 Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Venezuela, and so many other countries.
00:14:24.180 About half of the world lives under an authoritarian state.
00:14:27.740 And any look at the data shows that democracies tend to do better to help.
00:14:31.340 The other half lives under it but doesn't know it.
00:14:33.720 They think they're living in a democracy. 0.99
00:14:35.800 That's what's the fucking worst part. 0.99
00:14:37.580 At least these people that know they're living in an authoritarian regime, 0.99
00:14:40.960 they know it, right?
00:14:42.340 Here, we're led to believe that we're living in a democracy,
00:14:45.320 but really it's an authoritarian regime.
00:14:46.600 regime. Help people with longer lives, better health, higher standards of living, and more
00:14:52.080 innovation. They also go to war less often, and almost never with each other. I mean, wars still
00:14:56.780 happen, of course, but statistically, democratic countries are far less likely to start them,
00:15:02.260 especially against other democracies. Unless you're Israel. It saved millions of lives, 0.50
00:15:08.000 and it's what makes their collapse so troubling, because when democracies fail,
00:15:12.620 people lose more than just some government style.
00:15:15.820 Okay, so I talked about the final death of democracies,
00:15:18.820 but that doesn't happen overnight.
00:15:20.780 Let's look at how they get sick.
00:15:22.500 First, some common reasons,
00:15:24.580 and then we'll take a look at a couple myths.
00:15:26.600 Because here as well,
00:15:27.780 you could see recurring patterns throughout history.
00:15:30.220 And the baseline is usually the same,
00:15:32.140 with government failure in doing some basic jobs,
00:15:35.320 like economics or safety.
00:15:37.700 Then, a general distrust of the system
00:15:40.200 and a strong polarization.
00:15:42.040 Let's start with that, as disagreement.
00:15:44.140 And another thing is, is the rule of law.
00:15:46.600 They are not being able to uphold the law.
00:15:48.820 That's another sign, basically, of a failed democracy or a failed society.
00:15:52.880 Turns into stronger tribalism.
00:15:54.680 Because identity wars rot democracy.
00:15:57.400 The whole idea of a loyal opposition breaks down.
00:16:00.460 Instead of arguing with people, you write them off as immoral, dangerous, even evil.
00:16:04.540 At its core, democracy is a compromise machine.
00:16:08.120 You vote, you lose sometimes, you live with it.
00:16:10.560 And that only works when the opposition is seen as legitimate.
00:16:14.200 Once that line's crossed, the normal rules stop applying.
00:16:17.620 The Spanish Republic in the 1930s is a textbook case.
00:16:21.280 Left and right didn't just disagree, they saw each other as existential threats.
00:16:25.740 The rhetoric got hotter, violence broke out, and by 1936, the country was in a full-blown civil war.
00:16:31.720 In the final years of the Roman Republic, rival politicians funded street gangs to beat or kill opponents.
00:16:37.140 and this I think happens in societies when we get into the age like what you know how they talk
00:16:44.120 about societies the fourth turnings right the four turnings and I think when you get to that
00:16:48.540 fourth turning where it becomes like society you become deck it becomes decadent rather
00:16:52.500 and people are living in indulgence and and they're not really struggling in any you know
00:16:57.940 meaningful way that's when these things happen like that's what happened with Weimar Republic
00:17:02.980 that's what happened right before Rome you know fell and they talk about the whole bread and
00:17:08.420 circuses thing right well yeah because they they didn't have anything to do they were society was
00:17:13.780 so good at that point in time there you know there was no conflicts there was it so all they you know
00:17:18.160 to keep themselves occupied they watched other you know men kill each other or kill animals or
00:17:22.280 men be killed by animals in the ring or the coliseum or whatever they called it that's why
00:17:26.940 they call it bread and circuses it was a distraction right to distract people from what
00:17:30.780 was actually really going on. And I think this is where, you know, all democracies or societies,
00:17:36.420 I guess you could say, fail, is when people get too comfortable and they're living in indulgence
00:17:41.400 and decadence. A related symptom? Institutional distrust. Democracy isn't just elections. It's
00:17:48.580 trust in the process, the courts, the media, the legislature, the whole machinery. And when that
00:17:53.060 trust breaks down, people stop accepting outcomes they don't like. They start believing the game is
00:17:58.220 rigged, and maybe it was. Germany in the 1920s had a new democratic constitution. It also had
00:18:05.440 serious economic problems and humiliation after World War I and political street brawls. People
00:18:11.120 on both sides thought that the other was cheating or planning a coup. And by the time Hitler was 0.85
00:18:15.880 appointed in 1933, a lot of Germans had given up on the system. Same thing in Peru. See where
00:18:23.240 they ended there? Because they don't want to talk about Hitler in any kind of good light.
00:18:27.140 But they ended it right there.
00:18:28.700 But obviously, yes, he was appointed, I guess, as was a chancellor.
00:18:32.080 And then I'm pretty sure he was elected to some position, whatever.
00:18:36.140 So it was the will of the people still, right?
00:18:38.660 And as much as people don't want to admit it, it was.
00:18:41.940 1992, President Fujimora shut down Congress and ruled by decree.
00:18:46.280 And a lot of Peruvians cheered him on.
00:18:47.960 Because to them, the institutions had become punchlines, corrupt, paralyzed. 0.94
00:18:53.460 When the courts are a joke and politicians are clowns, a strong man doesn't look so bad. 0.87
00:18:58.120 Now, let me talk about two factors you see everywhere. 0.73
00:19:00.660 So really, the politicians are doing it to themselves, right?
00:19:03.140 By acting this way, it's only going to give them temporary power when you think about it,
00:19:06.760 because people do get tired of the circus eventually, right?
00:19:10.640 And then they start looking for somebody that, like I said, offers stability and normality.
00:19:14.420 But we're a little closer to myth than really driving reasons.
00:19:18.100 And the first is voter apathy.
00:19:20.140 It's almost said as a given.
00:19:21.100 But when people stop participating, especially at the ballot box, democracy starts to falter.
00:19:26.100 And that apathy creates a vacuum that gets filled by the most extreme voices.
00:19:29.900 But I just didn't see good examples.
00:19:32.520 I saw more often the opposite.
00:19:34.540 I mean, oftentimes when people are pretty good with their governments, a lot of them don't vote.
00:19:39.540 I mean, you can see that in the United States.
00:19:41.600 As an anecdote, 44 years ago, it looked as if a KKK member was going to win the Louisiana governor's race.
00:19:48.120 Is that David Duke?
00:19:49.500 That's David Duke, right?
00:19:51.100 I cared about that, and turnout almost doubled to 82% defeating him.
00:19:56.140 The more I researched, the less I saw evidence of apathy playing a role in countries losing democracy.
00:20:01.360 It was really more driven by a frustration that their votes meant nothing.
00:20:05.400 And there's another common concept.
00:20:06.660 And that's where we are now, right?
00:20:09.160 That's where we are now.
00:20:10.640 Our votes really don't mean anything.
00:20:13.580 And a good perfect example, recent example, is the U.S. midterms, right?
00:20:19.020 Trump had a mandate to deliver on specific things, and he didn't deliver on any of those things.
00:20:25.400 I mean, again, the deportations were not at the level that he said they were going to be,
00:20:29.620 did not release the Epstein files, all this other stuff.
00:20:33.920 You know, the economy is still not doing that great.
00:20:36.020 Gas prices are, you know, whatever down in the States.
00:20:38.240 They're expensive as well.
00:20:40.080 And this is what happens, right?
00:20:41.580 You didn't deliver on those promises.
00:20:43.540 So, I mean, I guess at least in the U.S. there is sort of a mechanism.
00:20:47.580 You have these midterms that the public can kind of send the message.
00:20:51.120 Again, I don't know if it was all above board this time.
00:20:53.760 Who knows, right?
00:20:54.880 But that's, you know, that's the only way. 0.97
00:20:57.820 Here in Canada and stuff like that, you've got to fucking wait it out.
00:21:01.480 Except it isn't quite a myth, but it's worth discussing. 0.93
00:21:04.240 Because people usually have it backwards.
00:21:06.980 Virtually every write-up talks about how the final act in a dying democracy
00:21:10.520 comes at the hand of a charismatic populist leader.
00:21:13.680 And yes, that's usually the case, but it occurs after the system has already been hollowed out.
00:21:19.280 See?
00:21:19.660 That last leader is really the end result rather than the primary cause of the...
00:21:23.980 Yeah, it wasn't his fault, okay, people, that it collapsed.
00:21:28.140 He was just the hero people needed to kind of save them from the collapse.
00:21:33.280 Collapse.
00:21:34.020 When a government is seen as performing its basic needs, a leader like that can't rise to power.
00:21:39.100 But when things are going to hell, someone will always be there to step into that role.
00:21:43.680 And one factor that seems to supersede all others, economic misery.
00:21:48.280 When people lose their jobs, their savings, their ability to put food on the table,
00:21:52.320 they don't stay patient.
00:21:53.640 They get desperate and angry.
00:21:55.020 And fancy talk about constitutions and social norms,
00:21:59.060 that sounds like a bunch of elites worried about the wrong things. 0.71
00:22:02.360 Again, back to Germany.
00:22:03.980 In 1923, inflation hit 30,000% per month.
00:22:09.840 That's crazy.
00:22:10.740 And honestly, I could see that, you know, something like that coming here, like happening here right before, you know, it collapses.
00:22:17.900 The economy basically collapses.
00:22:21.860 They used to pay more.
00:22:23.080 Like housing inflation is, I mean, it's not 30,000, but housing inflation has raised quite, like has gone up quite a bit more so than what would be, could be explained by normal, you know, market, whatever.
00:22:35.680 It was twice a day because the money was literally worth less hour by hour.
00:22:40.360 Kids would play with stacks of money because they were cheaper than toys.
00:22:43.620 People sometimes needed wheelbarrows to move their cash.
00:22:47.020 The middle class saw their life savings wiped out. 0.74
00:22:49.940 And when the 19... 0.59
00:22:50.580 This is what happens when you keep printing money, like they were doing here during Convid.
00:22:54.100 The 1929 Depression came. Unemployment went past 30%.
00:22:57.900 That desperation drove more people to Hitler than Mein Kampf.
00:23:01.860 I mentioned Chile's president, Salvador Allende, getting overthrown in 1973.
00:23:05.720 three. There, inflation blew past 500% and basic goods vanished from the stores. They had mass
00:23:12.140 protests, strikes, violence before the military took over. A similar pattern happened in Brazil
00:23:17.700 in 1964 and a lot of other countries. When a good number of people think that the system is broken
00:23:23.420 and can't handle the basics of why they want a government to exist, it opens a door for somebody
00:23:29.420 to walk in and say, this isn't working anymore. Let's try something different. And remember,
00:23:33.800 right government is not there to rule every it's not supposed to be there to rule every aspect of
00:23:39.380 your life they're supposed to solely be there to keep it keep it going you know what i mean like
00:23:44.640 to uphold the rule of law and to keep the manage the infrastructure of the country that's it
00:23:50.260 but now right and this is because of all these different you know manufactured and i guess some
00:23:56.160 organic crises that have happened people want to you know like i said want to be told what to do
00:24:02.500 They can't think for themselves. They have never had to experience any kind of really major crisis or hard times like, you know, the silent generation before the boomers had to go through and stuff like that.
00:24:16.000 So they don't know what to do. They need someone to tell them. So we get an idea, right?
00:24:21.140 Now we're going to go look at some current world examples of our democracy in action.
00:24:26.920 we get stuff like this
00:24:30.060 Canada's education system is pumping out
00:24:32.560 mass amounts of Marxist activists
00:24:34.660 there's so much wealth produced by
00:24:36.540 workers and we should take it
00:24:38.020 so this is what our democracy gets us people who think
00:24:40.560 that they should benefit from the fruits
00:24:42.440 of your labor
00:24:43.140 that the fact that you know just because
00:24:46.520 you worked for it and they didn't
00:24:48.540 but you have something they don't
00:24:50.340 you should be you should have to
00:24:52.340 they should be entitled to it
00:24:53.720 and Avalon why are you here today 0.98
00:24:56.120 for osap and to fuck doug ford i'm here because i've been watching doug ford make cuts to public 0.99
00:25:01.060 what the fuck is that what is that 0.99
00:25:03.880 that i'm shocked is that a man oh i'm assuming that's a man like services for the past four 1.00
00:25:13.060 years here in ontario and i'm tired if it's not if that's a lady cover your fucking self up 0.98
00:25:18.260 okay have some fucking respect the people in ontario that have the least get hurt the most 0.98
00:25:24.540 by these cuts no one is gonna fight for us we have to come together and and fight for all the 0.96
00:25:29.720 wealth that exists in society there's so much wealth there is so much wealth okay and i don't
00:25:34.840 deny that there is some you know of these elites and stuff like that that probably have generational 1.00
00:25:39.740 wealth that didn't earn it i'll agree with that but a lot of these people that they like to shit 0.76
00:25:44.980 on right they've they've worked they started somewhere they weren't just handed their wealth
00:25:50.100 right and regardless do something about it then right like if you if you don't like the fact that
00:25:55.820 people are making more money than you well do something about it instead of sitting there
00:25:59.440 complaining and and feeling like they should give up half their income for you so you can
00:26:03.380 sit around and do what are you contributing anything to society no so why are you entitled
00:26:10.560 to somebody else's the fruits of their labor in a democracy are we enjoying democracy yet guys
00:26:15.980 oh this is a good one guys this is a good one and the comments were even good too because people
00:26:21.760 were actually defending this okay so a vancouver landlord was fined 90 000 after dividing a single
00:26:28.620 family home into 21 rooms for 17 tenants and i anticipate or sorry not anticipate i suspect
00:26:37.000 that this is what goes on in ontario in brampton specifically quite a bit so the first comment i 1.00
00:26:44.460 came across I thought was hilarious like this dumb bitch can Canadians complain about affordable 1.00
00:26:48.220 housing and then ban it is that considered housing or is it considered like being homeless with just 1.00
00:26:55.440 like you know like really this is not the kind of this is what you know Indians and maybe Chinese 0.96
00:27:01.420 people are used to in their countries but in Canada we like I've said a million fucking times
00:27:05.960 we built our country in our image okay so we built the country the way we want it to be 0.51
00:27:10.980 we don't want to live in you know on top of each other we don't want to live in places where we
00:27:15.740 have to share a bedroom with three other people that we don't know you know so the fact that 0.99
00:27:23.160 someone was like oh they complain about affordable housing bitch if it wasn't for the fact that we 0.98
00:27:27.340 were getting a million new residents every single fucking year we wouldn't have this issue okay so 0.99
00:27:33.440 So democracy gets us the fact that we voted, or not voted, sorry, Canadians, they've polled Canadians, and we've said we don't want any more immigration. 0.97
00:27:44.960 Actually, we want it to be reversed. 0.93
00:27:47.500 But in a democracy, you get the argument that Canada needs it because of our low birth rate, right, the replacement rate, which itself is partly driven by extremely high housing costs.
00:28:00.540 it's dumb given how much the population has already grown since 2015 relative to peers
00:28:05.180 so this is um somebody tried to you know own right uh the chuds by saying canada's tfr in 87
00:28:13.040 was 1.6 kids now it's 1.26 right and that's the reason why no it's not the reason why because if
00:28:20.220 it was the reason why then we wouldn't have an unemployment rate right now we wouldn't have
00:28:24.480 people unemployed, we wouldn't have a housing crisis. No. So that's not the reason why. It's
00:28:31.820 because big businesses have lobbied to have cheap labor that doesn't complain. Okay, basically a
00:28:36.920 slave class. So this is the population growth in the OECD countries. Canada is number four on this
00:28:46.940 Israel is number one. I don't know how that is, because they don't allow, well, they might allow 0.99
00:28:52.920 people in, but they don't allow them to become citizens. Luxembourg, Iceland, that's fucking 0.98
00:28:58.060 insane. Iceland. So in the last, what's that nine years, Canada has an increased population of 15%. 0.99
00:29:06.200 And the majority of that I can guarantee is through immigration.