Democracy by Margaret Atwood | Democracy 2024

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[spacetoast]

5:03 They literally do want to destroy their own country. Theyre not shy about it.

[MusicForSeaMonsters]

thanks for producing this vital piece, beautifully written and produced

[dfs-comedy]

Wonderful video. This gave me the chills. Canada (and the world) is lucky to have Margaret Atwood among us.

[JWalkerAI]

Interesting and really thoughtful. I was born in 1990 and never have I thought there to be a more important time to vote. I’ve never really taken it too serious I think neither have a lot of my peers. But things are a bit over the edge. I’m voting for sure. Get ready America. Do your duty.

[nicholashylton]

An excellent summary. It's a pity this doesn't have more views.

[kathygray]

So eloquently explained!
Thank you Margaret Atwood!!

[sirrahgames.outlook]

Margaret Atwood's confident assertion that Canada is nowhere near a dictatorship is misplaced. Canadians are perceived internationally as sensible centrists, but US-style culture wars have taken hold here in a big way and the far right and left are gaining traction. Unfortunately, Canadians are complacent and politically disengaged, and civil society and mainstream media are weak. Conditions are growing for a populist dictatorship takeover.

[singdevon]

Magnificent analysis! Cuts to the core and provides a foundation for everything else. There's a lot more to be said, but this provides a wonderful context to say it into.

[omuribep]

What an astonishing video !! A masterpiece. Thanks Finatial TImes :)

[shanvirawat]

This was mind-blowing and stands true for most states in the current era. Art and literature has to take up the ante to overcome the delusions which have been embedded in societies of today. Any kind of extremism is anathema to a progressive society.

[johnklein]

Really good, but Call The Bluff comes out of nowhere and doesn't fit well with the rest.

[vernonchow]

In other words, it's all the fault of the radicals. Any doubts about establishment centrism stems from disinformation and Russian talking points fed to the right and left extremes of the horseshoe. I only speak for myself, but most anglosphere political discourse seems like just rhetoric spouted by people who have no idea of what non- rhetorical speech even looks like. The Trump as Zeppelin animations are cool, but there are a lot of countries where military attacks on congress aren't shocking at all.

Trevor Noah got in trouble for comparing Trump to African dictators and even Jacob Zuma in South Africa: a womanizing ex-president with a base willing to riot on cue. The rise of ethnonationalism among the supporters of Trump and Orban must be understood as linked to rise of Modi and Duterte, or even the fact that Lula and Bolsonaro are both more popular in Brazil than anything the squishy center can put out. Anglosphere liberals learned the wrong lessons from the fall of the Berlin wall, and if the Donald does do to Washington institutions what the animations imply, I'm not sure how many people outside the US, or even outside the bicoastal elites within the US, are going to care.

[jeffreygunter]

Thank you once again, this was magnificent…

[coachtaewherbalife]

We've seen many fledgling democracies fall. Now more established democracies are threatened while Russia and China are rising. The future is blurry.

[pgohearn]

The false equivalence of the left and right doesn't help to create the social change necessary, Margaret. There is no extreme left wing with the power of the extreme right-wing in the USA.

[benmcreynolds]

It's hard to grasp why anyone would want to come to America currently? It's become so unaffordable, dysfunctional & unstable. Our country seems to have zero interest in improving these issues or the lives of its own citizens. Our cities feel disconnected, soulless, bland, unaffordable, etc. I really don't like the direction modern America has gone. We could do so much better. I love this country. I just want to see things improve. The 90's at least had a range of prices & places where people could live, unique things to do & places to go. Poor People, middle, upper class.  There was places for people of all economic ranges ~Nowadays we have universally unaffordable cost of living, rent prices, shop rent prices.. (unless you are wealthy) I don't understand how long we can continue to function in this extremely dysfunctional manner?? I hope things change. People stuck in poverty need places to live too.. it's ridiculous how our current system pretty much requires everyone to be financially well off or you are screwed 👍🏻 It's so realistic 👍🏻 it's completely impossible for everyone to be financially well off. We need living options. We need places that average people can live, poor people can live.. Raising wages just continually makes things worse because our country says "it Has to increase things"  So it does nothing but make things worse. We need places people can live even if they make below average $ (look at all the rent prices right now? The same goes for the rent of local small businesses too. It's absurd. I know this because my mom runs a local small business in Oregon. So that's 2 insane rents to pay per month! It's the biggest challenge to afford rent. Profit isn't even a thing. Its can we make it to next month? How stupid is that? What kind of quality of life is that?) This is Modern Day America 👍🏻 and when you look at our government, it doesn't seem like anything is going to be addressed or improved anytime soon.. Maybe multiple generations from now, idk? All i know is vast change needs to be done. I'm tired of either side of our government. None of it is working. Hopefully motivated people will come in & help adapt this amazing country so it doesn't collapse in on itself. I don't get how our current situation can be acceptable?

[glennnielsen]

Switzerland is the most democratic country I have come across. Democracy has the inherent disadvantage of favoring the majority at the expense of the minority. The more centralized a country is, the less democratic it will be, as people are different.

[davisoaresalves]

Please don't elect Trump, I beg, Brazilian here.

[paulrumyancev]

I feel that something very essential is missing in whole the presented picture - the global financial/trading system. This thing is like a texture, the thing that forms/creates and motivates the vectors that draw the world from one doctrine to another. Most of the nations are connected to the system and obey to its rules of play. If one plays well - he can be relaxed, wait for the next challenge. Can't play well? Endless Chaos, Wars and Dictatorship is your destiny. Interesting thing is that that financial system has control levers. And those who holds those levers decide on the rules of the next turn of the game. But what if some of the players just can not become a good in this game? For historical, demographic, geographic, or other reasons?

[benjaminneale]

Having some radicals doesnt necessarily lead to all the arrows in the video. Switzerlands system is a great example of how a country can remain stable despite being full of conpletely raving mad people of different political views that hate each other. A system of governance like this forces use to work together despite our differences. Unfortunately I haven't yet found another democracatic system of goverance which contains protection against both chaos and dictatorship that comes anywhere near matching it but nobody seems to care or ask how this country turned from impoverished backwater whose main export was mercenaries to the epitome of peace and no wars for 175 years!