Valuetainment - April 03, 2026


“There Would Be A REVOLUTION!” - Why Politicians Are POWERLESS To Fix The System


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6 minutes

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1,236

Sentence count

78

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1

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1

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Today's episode is a mashup of two of my favorite pieces of economic commentary from the past few days. In this episode, I talk about what I think of Bernie Sanders and why he is the best candidate to fix our current economic problems.

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00:00:00.000 Everything he just said, how do you process the information of what he's saying?
00:00:02.900 Because for me, what it's making me think about is the following.
00:00:06.720 Are politicians lying to us about affordability because what really needs to be done could potentially crash the market?
00:00:14.200 Or is there a real fix without needing to crash the market?
00:00:17.580 Because sometimes you're like the next person gets elected.
00:00:20.720 What's the right thing to do?
00:00:21.720 If I do that, my poll numbers, my this, my that.
00:00:24.900 So guess what?
00:00:26.040 Kick it to the next guy. 1.00
00:00:27.080 Next guy comes in, well, when I get elected, we're going to fix the national debt.
00:00:30.940 Kick it to the – well, when I get elected, and then eventually nobody actually does what they're supposed to be doing.
00:00:36.040 What do you think?
00:00:36.740 What he's saying is exactly right.
00:00:38.040 You don't need to crash the markets to do it.
00:00:40.320 To the contrary, his plan would send the markets soaring, GDP soaring on low inflation.
00:00:45.780 Would that not make the rich richer, poor poor?
00:00:48.060 Wouldn't that make the –
00:00:48.960 No, it would actually do the opposite.
00:00:50.900 And the reason why no one wants to do it is for that exact reason.
00:00:54.100 It's actually a much more decentralization of the economy.
00:00:57.420 It would – the so-called K-shaped economy we have, it would take the legs of the K and narrow them actually in a mutually beneficial way, right?
00:01:05.640 It would be basically like that with the lower leg growing faster than the higher leg, but it would be the best of all worlds.
00:01:15.400 But the very reason they don't want to, it's ultimately about political power.
00:01:20.400 what he's really saying and why they don't want you they they the policymakers the central bankers
00:01:25.900 don't want this discussed the credit creation discussed is what happens there's a great quote
00:01:32.960 from from Henry Ford I believe it was uh a hundred so years ago so that it's all it is
00:01:38.580 all well that the public does not understand how money's created for if they did there would be a
00:01:46.900 revolution by morning. I think that's in Ron Paul's book, if I'm not mistaken. I think I'm sure
00:01:51.760 it is. There it is. Well, yeah, it is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand
00:01:56.340 our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before
00:01:59.800 tomorrow morning, Henry Ford. And that's ultimately the issue, because think about the implications of
00:02:05.120 it, what this does to people's psyches. I'm a Republican. I'm a Democrat. The left is to blame.
00:02:10.880 The right is to blame. The left can fix it. The right can fix it. No, they can't, because if you
00:02:15.420 control the ability to create money? There's another great quote by Meyer Amschel Rothschild,
00:02:20.920 give me control of a nation's currency and I care not who makes its laws. That's what Richard is
00:02:25.900 ultimately saying. And so it's really about, yes, in our system, the politicians say what they say
00:02:33.480 on the campaign trail because they need to vote. The billionaire and the average Joe on the street
00:02:38.560 both get the same vote. Once he's in office, everything changes. The guy on the street,
00:02:45.140 they don't care about, while the billionaire has extremely much higher political power
00:02:49.960 than the guy on the street. And so what is the interest of the billionaire is to continue to
00:02:55.580 control and gain power. And I'm not picking on, like, listen, if you do a great business,
00:03:00.840 I'm not discriminating against billionaires by saying this. I'm simply just using that as an
00:03:04.380 example. But those people in power want to continue to be in and grow their power. And the
00:03:12.160 way you do that is by controlling the money supply, by constricting control of the growth
00:03:20.720 of the money supply. And also controlling the narrative, because this knowledge has been
00:03:25.300 suppressed. And I've had to fight against all sorts of suppression of my work in the last two
00:03:32.460 decades, the policymakers, or let's say their handlers in the background and the billionaire
00:03:39.120 class, they don't want people to realize that we, and you know, politicians should really
00:03:45.060 love this, the truth is we can have high, sustainable, sustained economic growth, double
00:03:52.340 digit growth, without inflation, without crises, and fairly equitable, so everyone gets a share,
00:04:01.400 Everyone who's working hard, everyone who's contributing, the hard work will be rewarded.
00:04:04.980 Now, that is capitalism.
00:04:06.120 That's freedom.
00:04:07.420 And you don't need the restrictions and scarcity, the rationing, where then the allocators have all the power and they decide, oh, there's going to be allocated here.
00:04:16.140 And, oh, sorry, we're now out of kerosene and we're going to allocate.
00:04:19.160 And, of course, the private jets, you know, of the decision makers will still work.
00:04:23.620 But, you know, so when you have scarcity, the central planners love it.
00:04:28.220 And we saw that in the Soviet Union, which is all about scarcity, and the central plan is doing that allocation.
00:04:34.620 But the opposite is the American model and the American dream implemented.
00:04:39.460 And it used to work very well and deliver, you know, 15% growth, 20% growth.
00:04:44.600 And America moved from a developing country, emerging market, to the number one power in the world.
00:04:50.200 It was on the back of the same model, which later was then introduced in East Asia and also China introduced.
00:04:55.480 Well, why is America forgetting this?
00:04:58.060 You know, Germany used this and America used this in the 19th century.
00:05:01.440 So we can have this high growth and prosperity without any downside.
00:05:06.020 And markets will love it.
00:05:07.480 So why is this not happening?
00:05:08.800 It's exactly as Luke says.
00:05:10.100 Well, think about Germany in the 1800s.
00:05:11.760 Who didn't like what Germany was doing? 0.99
00:05:13.780 Germany was running very much an Anglo economic model until, I believe, the crisis of 1873,
00:05:20.420 in which they took a step back.
00:05:21.880 Germany, they said, wait a second, this makes no sense.
00:05:24.860 And they then pursued very aggressively the model that Dr. Werner is talking about.
00:05:31.500 And they outgrew the UK.
00:05:33.500 They had massive growth, massive productivity, low inflation, increase in every massive prosperity.
00:05:40.500 But it began to threaten the British Navy, the British Empire.
00:05:45.120 Well, they felt it didn't actually threaten.
00:05:47.300 No, it didn't.
00:05:47.860 To be clear, that's right.
00:05:49.120 The British began to feel threatened by it, to state it more accurately.
00:05:52.780 Including these beautiful cities that were created and, you know, the cathedrals built and the prosperity is so visible, which explains this totally unnecessary carpet bombing of German cities, you know, which was a war crime, is actually so that the world doesn't see this prosperity for ordinary people, you know, these fantastic buildings.
00:06:11.460 The Berlinda Baghdad Railway.
00:06:12.600 They were doing the Silk Road of China.
00:06:15.820 Richard Werner's on Menecht.
00:06:17.300 If you want to ask him any questions, we're going to put his QR code around here and the link as well.
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