The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - May 27, 2025


Actress Kyra Sedgwick Proves That Plato Was Right about Democracy (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_838)


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4 minutes

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657

Sentence count

29

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6

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Toxicity

5

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Summary

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Actress Kira Sedgwick says she's afraid that she'll no longer be able to vote in the United States because of Donald Trump. Is she right? Or is she right about everything else? And why does she care?

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00:00:00.400 Hi everybody, this is Gad Saad for the Sad Truth.
00:00:04.240 Plato had a very clear position when it came to democracy.
00:00:11.880 He thought that democracy should be ruled by philosopher kings, 0.99
00:00:16.960 the idea being that it is dangerous to allow imbeciles 0.99
00:00:22.760 to have the same voting power as those who are informed. 0.99
00:00:27.200 Now, we can certainly argue whether that is an elitist perspective and so on,
00:00:33.160 but the more I live, the more I realize that there certainly are positions
00:00:41.440 that the ancient Greeks took that certainly ring true today.
00:00:47.540 And so I just came across a clip on my ex-feed with Kira Sedgwick,
00:00:54.660 who is an actress, a Jewish actress,
00:00:58.400 and you'll see in a second why I'm referencing her religion,
00:01:01.840 who's married to Kevin Bacon.
00:01:03.440 She certainly seems like a, I mean, I don't know her obviously,
00:01:06.840 but she seems like a nice woman.
00:01:09.040 She has an aura of, you know, a positive aura.
00:01:12.980 But she was basically stating all of the things that she is so unbelievably fearful about
00:01:20.660 because Trump, you know, is now running the dictatorship in the United States
00:01:26.460 since he is indistinguishable from Hitler. 0.72
00:01:29.360 And so she said she's afraid that she no longer will have autonomy over her body.
00:01:34.440 She can no longer vote as a woman. 0.98
00:01:38.800 He's going to take those rights away that there will no longer be food banks
00:01:43.420 because Trump has instituted, you know, all of the federal government cuts.
00:01:49.220 And so people will starve.
00:01:50.380 So I'd like just for a second for you to pause and think she's almost,
00:01:56.980 she's roughly the same age.
00:02:00.080 She's navigating the world, looking at certain statistical regularities in the world.
00:02:05.740 She's hopefully using or not using some sort of causal inferencing mechanism to say,
00:02:11.740 you know, given A, I expect B to happen.
00:02:14.200 What would be the mechanism that would justify her, you know,
00:02:19.580 being afraid of a million things that she listed in that clip,
00:02:22.960 but being afraid that women's rights when it comes to voting will be taken away? 1.00
00:02:29.980 Is there any conceivable way by which in the United States today,
00:02:36.360 Donald Trump will say,
00:02:38.400 I'm done with the past hundred years or however long it's been
00:02:43.900 since women have gotten the right to vote in the United States.
00:02:47.400 I'm removing that unequivocally.
00:02:50.720 Women will now go back to being in the kitchen. 1.00
00:02:54.880 Food will no longer be available because I've made all cuts to the government.
00:03:01.160 And when she's saying that she no longer has autonomy over her body,
00:03:04.820 I'm presuming she's referencing the fact that Roe versus Wade was sent back to the States.
00:03:13.380 Now, I'm not sure how that would affect her because I would imagine that she is postmenopausal. 0.99
00:03:18.760 So in a very direct and literal sense, it can't affect her.
00:03:22.680 Not that Roe versus Wade removes the bodily autonomy of women. 0.98
00:03:27.980 But this is the stuff that I so often talk about when I discuss parasitized minds 1.00
00:03:34.500 as being the most dangerous force in nature.
00:03:37.300 This is a functioning human being who supposedly does not suffer from a mental illness, 0.97
00:03:43.800 although one can argue that baffling imbecility could be a form of cognitive impairment,
00:03:49.920 who genuinely believes, and so much believes, that she is emboldened to think 0.84
00:03:56.660 that here are the 73,000 ways by which I'm so afraid,
00:04:01.660 including my inability to no longer vote in the United States because I'm a woman.
00:04:06.440 Now, why did I mention that she's Jewish?
00:04:09.660 Do you think that there might be an intrusion of a religion in the United States, 0.97
00:04:16.500 if not in the West, that must, that might have a much more direct and real causal connection
00:04:25.160 to her as a woman being more threatened, to her as a Jewish woman being more threatened?
00:04:32.640 No.
00:04:34.980 Kira Sedwick decided that the most fundamental existential threat to her
00:04:41.240 and all women in the United States is Donald Trump. 1.00
00:04:46.500 Plato was so right.
00:04:48.180 Cheers, everybody.