Harvard University professor Steven Levitsky, co-author of the bestsellers “Tyranny of the Minority” and “How Democracies Die,” joins Jon Stewart to talk about how the Founding Fathers shaped elected democracy through improvisation, the challenge of constitutional reform, and the importance of improving and evolving democratic institutions. #DailyShow #JonStewart #Constitution #Democracy
You know Jon Stewart is old when he refers to millennials as “kids.”😂The real kids who are going to change America are the zoomers. They’re the most progressive generation in U.S. history.
ReplyJon talks about “what the kids say” and then says “Millennials”. I’m a Millennial and I turn 40 this year😂 Wonder when people will realise that millennials aren’t young😂
ReplyPlato seems to have been correct about the Ship of State. Democracy isn’t guided by reason & intellect, but through rhetoric, riches, & intoxicants.
ReplyAmerica has turned into a big joke. 😢
ReplyTwo jews sitting in a tree…
ReplyThink about the comparison of modern digital vs analog democracy, I was begging for them to get into this ;
ReplyOne is either on or off, right or wrong.
One is more based in nearly infinite metered values within set parameters.
Thoughts?
“They’re the ones that are going to save our multiracial democracy”
Jon: “they better!”
Now run for president like we want you to lol
ReplyI love the author interviews! Missed these.
ReplyThe Constitution is archaic and has stayed that way due to Originalists and those who refuse to put flesh on the skeleton of freedom.
ReplyWhere were the questions about the book the man just wrote?
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ReplyA democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner.
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ReplyA scholarly look at a fair democracy and the Constitution..?
ReplyJust gotta wonder how long before it gets Banned by Florida / Moms for Liberty as “fake news”.
I tried explaining this to my cousin and he just went on and on about how the US was perfect and the better than any other country and system ever.
In truth we were one of the first and other countries learned from us. Now some of it is terrible outdated. The blind nationalism of some of these people is disturbing.
ReplyI’m okay with a dictatorship…as long as I’m the dictator.
ReplyThere were
Replyrepublics in the United provinces and Haiti
#TrickleDown Lil Bush prez deregulated the oil ind. 1 thanksgiving day in a 30sec news break on ABC while the NFL played 6 oil men an lilG Bush it naver made the news that day or ever wen Bush took over from Clinton gas was under 2$ a gal wen Bush left office gas was 6$ a gal oil co’s last yr made 35Bil$ more than the yr b4 “profit” the price of gas is the economy
Replytwo minorities are tyrannical on both left and right, and the center is just timid.
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