1 00:00:02,900 --> 00:00:08,500 When whippoorwills come and evening is nigh. 2 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:17,800 I have it in My Blue Heaven, welcome. 3 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:19,900 This is Rumble. With Michael Moore. 4 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:25,200 You are listening to episode 11 of my special mini podcast 5 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,200 series. Entitled blue dots in a red. 6 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:32,500 See how to win when you're blue in a red state. 7 00:00:32,700 --> 00:00:40,700 Just to turn to the ride if I find a little wild life, we lead 8 00:00:40,700 --> 00:00:47,400 into my. So here on episode 11, I want to 9 00:00:47,408 --> 00:00:52,800 talk about the ballot proposal, the ability of all citizens to 10 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:57,700 go into the voting booth and pass a law or a state 11 00:00:57,700 --> 00:01:02,300 Constitutional Amendment exists. Now, in half of our state's half 12 00:01:02,300 --> 00:01:06,900 the Six allow people to gather signatures to put a potential 13 00:01:06,900 --> 00:01:09,900 law or Constitutional Amendment on the ballot. 14 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,500 Pass it and boom, it's the law. Just like that. 15 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,200 Now, it really isn't just like that, you may have to collect 16 00:01:17,300 --> 00:01:19,400 thousands upon thousands of signatures. 17 00:01:19,700 --> 00:01:23,100 Then you've got a campaign for it, but what we have seen, 18 00:01:23,100 --> 00:01:26,500 especially in recent years, is ballot proposal after ballot 19 00:01:26,500 --> 00:01:31,400 proposal have passed and become. Wha, I mean, just in this last 20 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:34,900 election here in November, Or three states made it part of 21 00:01:34,900 --> 00:01:37,800 their constitution that women have the right to have an 22 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:41,900 abortion and that the government has no say in controlling their 23 00:01:41,900 --> 00:01:45,500 Reproductive Rights, California passed it Michigan. 24 00:01:45,500 --> 00:01:49,100 Past it, Vermont past it. Now those are blue States, but 25 00:01:49,100 --> 00:01:52,700 into red States, the opposite kind of ballot proposal. 26 00:01:52,700 --> 00:01:55,900 In other words, there was a proposal on the ballot in 27 00:01:55,900 --> 00:02:01,400 Kentucky and Montana to Red states to ban abortion to put 28 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:06,900 that into the Constitution and both States refused to do it. 29 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:11,800 The pro-choice side, one in Kentucky, and Montana just as it 30 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:16,200 had one in Kansas the Summer, where the people of Kansas 31 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:21,100 nearly 60% showed up and voted to keep abortion legal to have 32 00:02:21,100 --> 00:02:24,600 it part of their state constitution, Red State, Kansas 33 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:29,200 one of the great things about the ballot proposal initiatives 34 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,100 that are allowed in half of our state's, is that? 35 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,400 Well, The obvious, you can pass a law. 36 00:02:36,100 --> 00:02:38,600 You want to raise the minimum wage in your state. 37 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,800 Get it on the ballot and pass it virtually. 38 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,300 Every time a minimum wage proposal to increase the minimum 39 00:02:45,300 --> 00:02:50,900 wages on a ballot, it passes, You want to legalize marijuana? 40 00:02:51,100 --> 00:02:55,100 Get it on the ballot. You want an environmental law 41 00:02:55,100 --> 00:02:59,300 passed, you want Paid Family, Leave passed all of these 42 00:02:59,300 --> 00:03:01,900 things, you can make it happen in your state. 43 00:03:03,100 --> 00:03:05,500 So, that's one of the great things about Bella. 44 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:10,600 Proposes, its direct democracy. The people write the law and the 45 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:14,200 people pass it, and if they put it, the Constitution, the state 46 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:17,300 legislature could have a very hard time trying to mess with. 47 00:03:17,300 --> 00:03:21,900 It doesn't mean they won't try. But there's another Second Great 48 00:03:21,900 --> 00:03:25,200 reason to get ballot. Proposals on the ballot in your 49 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,900 state, especially in the red states by having that ballot 50 00:03:28,900 --> 00:03:32,800 proposal there, you're going to bring out the people who think 51 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:34,900 like you, who believe the way you believe. 52 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,000 But they often times don't vote, especially if they live in a red 53 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,100 State. They gave up voting. 54 00:03:40,100 --> 00:03:43,100 A lot of people just gave up voting a long time ago because 55 00:03:43,100 --> 00:03:45,300 they go in there to vote for the Democrat, the Democrat always 56 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:47,400 loses or they go in there and they say there's hardly any 57 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,000 Democrats on the ballot and they just give up they stop voting. 58 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:53,800 Why bother or they're upset with the Democrats? 59 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:55,900 They say they're going to do one thing and they get elected and 60 00:03:55,900 --> 00:03:59,900 they don't do it for whatever reason, thousands upon thousands 61 00:03:59,900 --> 00:04:04,400 of people in your red State, who normally would vote for the 62 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,100 Democrat or the Democratic position stay home. 63 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:13,000 But when they hear, That on Election Day, they could go to 64 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:18,300 the voting booth and raise the minimum wage or protect a 65 00:04:18,300 --> 00:04:24,300 woman's right to choose or outlaw gerrymandering or create 66 00:04:24,300 --> 00:04:25,100 Paid Family. Leave. 67 00:04:25,100 --> 00:04:28,700 I mean, the list is endless. Think of, if you wanted to bring 68 00:04:28,700 --> 00:04:32,000 out the people that think like you and who if once in the booth 69 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,500 would vote for the Democratic candidates because you know, 70 00:04:35,500 --> 00:04:38,500 they've shown up there, there they see the Democrats, okay, 71 00:04:38,500 --> 00:04:41,300 those Democrats they want Increase the minimum wage and 72 00:04:41,300 --> 00:04:43,400 they wanted to, you know, legalize marijuana. 73 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,000 And alright, I'll vote for them. So many states have seen this 74 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,900 happen that if you get a progressive liberal Democratic 75 00:04:50,900 --> 00:04:54,300 position, put on the ballot where it will become law or it 76 00:04:54,300 --> 00:04:56,400 will become part of the state constitution. 77 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:01,500 The number of democratic voters shoots way up, there been record 78 00:05:01,500 --> 00:05:04,600 turnouts when these ballot proposals are on state ballots, 79 00:05:05,500 --> 00:05:08,700 So if you want to stand a chance of getting some of those, 80 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,000 especially the disaffected Democrats, the ones who sort of, 81 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,500 given up in the red States, watch how they'll come out to 82 00:05:15,500 --> 00:05:17,400 vote. When they have a chance to 83 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:23,000 enact, a liberal left Democratic law and then watch how many of 84 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:27,500 your local Democrats win the election, simply because the 85 00:05:27,500 --> 00:05:30,300 ballot proposal got them to show up. 86 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,200 It's a great side effect first. Yes, you get a good law passed 87 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:37,300 but then you've Got people in the voting booth who otherwise 88 00:05:37,300 --> 00:05:40,700 wouldn't be there and you get Democrats elected. 89 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:44,700 And I know I don't have to go through the whole thing with you 90 00:05:44,700 --> 00:05:47,700 again, about how I'm not a member of the democratic party. 91 00:05:47,700 --> 00:05:49,600 I don't pay dues to the Democrats. 92 00:05:49,900 --> 00:05:52,200 If you've listened to my podcast, or watch my movies, 93 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:54,000 you've seen. I have no problem going after 94 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:58,400 Democrats, who are no good for the people of this country, but 95 00:05:58,900 --> 00:06:04,700 there is a party that now has turned its back on itself and 96 00:06:04,700 --> 00:06:08,800 allowed itself to implode by becoming the party of trump, the 97 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,800 party of white supremacy and white privilege. 98 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:19,200 And they are on a tear to lose as many elections as possible in 99 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,300 the coming future because the American people don't agree with 100 00:06:22,300 --> 00:06:24,500 them. The American people disagree 101 00:06:24,500 --> 00:06:27,200 with the Republicans on virtually every single issue. 102 00:06:28,500 --> 00:06:31,600 And the only way they can get elected now is by trying to make 103 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,600 it difficult for the people that usually vote against them. 104 00:06:36,100 --> 00:06:40,200 Women, people of color young people, make it hard for them to 105 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,400 vote. And so through gerrymandering 106 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:47,000 and through voter suppression, they've protected a lot of their 107 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,000 seats that they have. No right to because the majority 108 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,800 of people in their areas and their districts in their state, 109 00:06:51,900 --> 00:06:53,900 really don't agree with them on the issues. 110 00:06:55,700 --> 00:06:58,800 Now, I've told you about the situation in Michigan before, 111 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,000 but I just want to underscore what we learned in the year. 112 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,900 2018, we had three ballot proposals that year on the 113 00:07:06,900 --> 00:07:10,400 ballot in Michigan. The first proposal was to 114 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,300 legalize marijuana. No longer throwing people in 115 00:07:13,300 --> 00:07:16,000 prison for possessing or using marijuana. 116 00:07:16,700 --> 00:07:21,100 The second proposal was to Outlaw gerrymandering and take 117 00:07:21,100 --> 00:07:24,100 the drawing of the political maps out of the hands of the 118 00:07:24,100 --> 00:07:26,100 police. Little parties out of the hands 119 00:07:26,100 --> 00:07:29,200 of the politicians in hand. It over to a citizen's 120 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,900 commission, nonpartisan where they'd have to draw the real 121 00:07:32,900 --> 00:07:36,700 Maps, the true maps in the right way and not draw it. 122 00:07:36,700 --> 00:07:41,100 So that it keeps down the vote of the black and brown citizens 123 00:07:41,100 --> 00:07:44,700 of our state. The third ballot proposal in 124 00:07:44,700 --> 00:07:49,100 2018 in the state of Michigan, was intended to instill a series 125 00:07:49,100 --> 00:07:53,800 of voting policies to the state constitution to end voter 126 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,400 suppression. Russian policies, like same-day 127 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:00,500 voter registration. No excuse, absentee voting, make 128 00:08:00,500 --> 00:08:05,000 it easier for people to vote. So those were the three measures 129 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,500 on the ballot marijuana, gerrymandering and voter 130 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:10,400 suppression and guess what happened. 131 00:08:10,900 --> 00:08:16,500 All three past marijuana was legalized in Michigan, and voter 132 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:19,600 suppression and gerrymandering were outlawed. 133 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:26,100 It also had the secondary effect in that midterm election in 2018 134 00:08:26,700 --> 00:08:30,200 where we record number of. People, voting Democratic showed 135 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:33,100 up to vote a record. Number of young people showed up 136 00:08:33,100 --> 00:08:37,299 to vote, one of the highest turnouts in the black community, 137 00:08:37,700 --> 00:08:40,200 showed up to vote. Why? 138 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,400 Because I'll long gerrymandering, if you tell the 139 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,600 black or brown communities, in your state that they have a 140 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:50,200 chance to eliminate voter suppression and gerrymandering 141 00:08:52,700 --> 00:08:57,700 They turned out in droves and young people for both that and 142 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:02,400 legalizing marijuana turned out in droves and because they did, 143 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:06,200 and because in the voting booth, what they end up doing voting 144 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,600 for the Democrats. And so every Republican in the 145 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,300 executive branch of the Michigan, Government was thrown 146 00:09:12,300 --> 00:09:17,200 out of office, and the people elected a Democrat for governor, 147 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:19,800 a Democrat for lieutenant governor, a Democrat for 148 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,400 attorney general, and a Democrat for Secretary of State. 149 00:09:22,500 --> 00:09:28,300 And just like that gone. The Republicans held every one 150 00:09:28,300 --> 00:09:32,600 of those positions and gone. That was that. 151 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:38,500 The secondary effect of having ballot, proposals on the issues 152 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,200 that people do believe strongly in. 153 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:44,100 They may not want to come and vote for politicians, but when 154 00:09:44,100 --> 00:09:48,700 they have a chance to create law while that will make their lives 155 00:09:48,700 --> 00:09:54,700 better, that will pay them more than $7.25 an hour that will let 156 00:09:54,700 --> 00:09:57,200 them have a paid family, leave if they need one. 157 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,800 They show up to vote. And then they vote for the 158 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:07,000 people that agree with them. And that's not the Republicans 159 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,100 and they know it. And that's why the Republicans 160 00:10:09,100 --> 00:10:11,500 were booted out of office. And in this election in 161 00:10:11,500 --> 00:10:16,100 November, not only were those, four Democrats who were elected 162 00:10:16,100 --> 00:10:19,500 to run the government in Michigan in 2018. 163 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:24,500 Now, four years later, they not only were re-elected, but the 164 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:28,700 Democrats also took over the Michigan State Senate and the 165 00:10:28,700 --> 00:10:30,900 Michigan House of Representatives. 166 00:10:32,500 --> 00:10:35,300 Democrat is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. 167 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:40,900 And the statistic that kind of blew my mind are couple weeks 168 00:10:40,900 --> 00:10:45,100 ago when I saw the results of November's election in all the 169 00:10:45,100 --> 00:10:47,300 top positions. So I'm talking about, you know, 170 00:10:47,300 --> 00:10:49,500 Governor lieutenant, governor, Secretary of State Attorney 171 00:10:49,500 --> 00:10:54,000 General, the Speaker of the House in Michigan, the head of 172 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:58,300 the senate in Michigan, the Chief Justice of the Supreme 173 00:10:58,300 --> 00:11:04,500 Court. Five of the seven are women and 174 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:10,800 the other two are black men. That's the entire leadership of 175 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:13,600 the State House. The state senate, the executive 176 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:18,500 branch and the Supreme Court judicial legislative executive 177 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,200 all run. Now by democrats And the 178 00:11:22,208 --> 00:11:24,500 majority of the house, Democrats, the majority of the 179 00:11:24,500 --> 00:11:27,300 Senate Democrats and for the first time in a long time. 180 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:30,700 Now, that the gerrymandering was ended, the map was drawn the 181 00:11:30,700 --> 00:11:33,600 right way. The majority of members of 182 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:38,200 Congress that were sent to d.c. from Michigan for the first time 183 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:43,800 a majority are Democrats. Just because of that one, ballot 184 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:47,300 proposal. And then people started showing 185 00:11:47,300 --> 00:11:50,300 up. And then the Democrats for these 186 00:11:50,300 --> 00:11:52,400 last four years, had the executive branch. 187 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:55,900 And we're in charge people, like what they saw from Gretchen, 188 00:11:55,900 --> 00:11:59,500 Whitmer in the others and they came back to not only real like 189 00:11:59,500 --> 00:12:03,000 them, but the clean house entirely in boot. 190 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:09,500 All the Republican leaders out executive legislative Chief 191 00:12:09,500 --> 00:12:15,600 Justice of the Supreme Court. Women and black men are running 192 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,400 the show in Michigan. There is not a single white man 193 00:12:20,100 --> 00:12:23,400 in this leadership position in the legislature. 194 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,800 In the governor's house. Or the Supreme Court. 195 00:12:31,700 --> 00:12:35,400 Okay, maybe you don't want to say that too loudly, because 196 00:12:36,500 --> 00:12:42,100 white guys are really upset and they tend to create 197 00:12:42,100 --> 00:12:45,500 insurrections and storm Capitol Buildings and take American flag 198 00:12:45,500 --> 00:12:51,400 poles and RAM them into the, into the chests of people that 199 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:53,000 are trying to protect the capital. 200 00:12:53,500 --> 00:13:00,300 But I have to say the fact that women and black Americans Are 201 00:13:00,300 --> 00:13:04,600 running the state of Michigan. Does that sound kind of cool? 202 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,600 Maybe we'll have a chance for something better. 203 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:15,600 And white guys. Hey, we've been in power for 204 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:17,400 like I don't know ten thousand years. 205 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:23,000 It's been a nice run. But maybe we set aside a bit 206 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:27,300 here and see if other people have better ideas to fix this 207 00:13:27,500 --> 00:13:35,200 country in this world. I know you're thinking I want to 208 00:13:35,208 --> 00:13:39,900 move to Michigan. Okay, it's not Nirvana but I'm 209 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:44,500 just saying that this is what happens when you have good 210 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,000 ballot proposals and you get people out to vote for them. 211 00:13:49,300 --> 00:13:53,100 It may seem like a lot of work, but you're forming your new 212 00:13:53,100 --> 00:13:58,100 groups or you're joining existing ones. whether you live 213 00:13:58,100 --> 00:14:02,400 in a blue state or a red state, There are ballot proposal laws 214 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,900 and I'm going to read the list of states where you can get 215 00:14:04,900 --> 00:14:08,800 proposals and initiatives laws on the ballot to vote for, and 216 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:10,200 you're going to be surprised. You're going to hear a lot of 217 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:15,200 red States. Now if your state doesn't have a 218 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,800 law that allows you to vote direct democracy to vote on a 219 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:22,300 law or an amendment to the Constitution in your state, then 220 00:14:22,300 --> 00:14:25,400 you've got to work on your state legislature in your Governor to 221 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:28,400 get that past, especially if you're in a red State. 222 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:29,500 All they're not going to pass this. 223 00:14:29,500 --> 00:14:32,000 No, no, they actually will pass it. 224 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,600 There's a reason Florida has ballot proposals because the 225 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:38,600 Republicans there who they believe that the majority of the 226 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:41,500 people support them. And so they like the idea of 227 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:45,800 they Pass laws, you know, hateful laws, anti-immigration, 228 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:48,800 laws, whatever, and sometimes this happens in sometimes, 229 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:52,100 wealthy individuals or corporations, they want to see 230 00:14:52,100 --> 00:14:54,900 ballot proposals pass it. And they will try to spend money 231 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:58,600 to get things on the ballot that benefit the rich. 232 00:14:59,100 --> 00:15:02,100 That's why, when you get a law passed that allows for ballot 233 00:15:02,100 --> 00:15:06,900 proposals, you have to make sure that money does not control who 234 00:15:06,900 --> 00:15:10,000 gets their law on the ballot very critical. 235 00:15:11,500 --> 00:15:16,000 Let me just give you a few other examples, over the last couple 236 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:21,500 of Elections, red state of Alaska, passed a law that says 237 00:15:21,500 --> 00:15:24,700 we will do ranked Choice voting for now on ranked Choice voting 238 00:15:24,700 --> 00:15:29,600 is it's a better way to get a sense of what people truly want 239 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:31,000 in terms of who they're electing. 240 00:15:31,300 --> 00:15:33,900 So the easiest way to explain this is when you go into the 241 00:15:33,900 --> 00:15:37,000 voting booth, you put a 1 by your first choice in a to buy 242 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,300 your second choice and so that way you don't end up with 243 00:15:40,300 --> 00:15:43,500 somebody that It isn't really wanted by the majority of the 244 00:15:43,500 --> 00:15:46,700 people, you know, if you get to say your second choice and your 245 00:15:46,700 --> 00:15:50,000 second choice then becomes elected, then it's like, well, 246 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,500 it wasn't my first choice. But at least I'm not stuck with 247 00:15:52,500 --> 00:15:55,800 this bozo over here that I and a whole bunch of other people 248 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:59,300 don't want, but they somehow get elected because they came in 249 00:15:59,300 --> 00:16:02,300 third, and they won with what's called a plurality of the votes, 250 00:16:02,300 --> 00:16:06,100 not a majority, but they have more votes than the other two, 251 00:16:06,100 --> 00:16:10,100 which means somebody who gets 35 percent of the votes can be, the 252 00:16:10,100 --> 00:16:12,500 person who is elected, That's not right. 253 00:16:13,300 --> 00:16:17,900 They didn't want Bozo. Number three at all. anyways, so 254 00:16:17,900 --> 00:16:23,500 Alaska past that Nebraska increase the minimum wage by 255 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:26,900 sixty or seventy percent some crazy wonderful number. 256 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:33,000 A few years ago, the State of Florida passed a constitutional 257 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:37,900 amendment, that says that once a person finishes their time in 258 00:16:37,900 --> 00:16:41,200 prison and their parole, they should get their voting rights 259 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,700 back. So many people if they're ever 260 00:16:44,700 --> 00:16:47,100 convicted of a crime, their voting rights are stripped from 261 00:16:47,100 --> 00:16:50,500 them in many states for life that's wrong. 262 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,200 And it's also a way to bring down the number of black and 263 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:57,500 brown voters because we proportionally, put more black 264 00:16:57,500 --> 00:17:00,800 and brown people in prison, they don't have lawyers, they don't 265 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,500 have money. And the circumstances of the 266 00:17:03,500 --> 00:17:06,300 crimes they committed are often as a result of their poverty. 267 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:10,800 It's kind of a way to be racist without looking like you're 268 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:12,900 racist. I don't know if they're black or 269 00:17:12,900 --> 00:17:15,400 brown, we had to lock them up because of X Y or Z. 270 00:17:16,500 --> 00:17:19,200 Well, okay, fine. So you got away with it, you 271 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:22,500 have a state that has a, maybe not quite a, just a criminal 272 00:17:22,500 --> 00:17:26,000 justice system. But once they do their time, 273 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:30,600 once they repay their debts to society, they should be able to 274 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:32,600 rejoin society. And one of the ways you rejoin 275 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:37,900 Society is voting participating in the system, Florida decided 276 00:17:37,900 --> 00:17:41,400 to do that now, there have been many lawsuits since voters of 277 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:44,500 Florida said, this is what we want, and of course, the right 278 00:17:44,500 --> 00:17:47,500 Wingers have held this up in court and made it more and more 279 00:17:47,500 --> 00:17:50,600 difficult nonetheless. They'll just think about that. 280 00:17:50,700 --> 00:17:56,000 The red State of Florida passed a law saying that felons as long 281 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:00,000 as they were not sexual offenders or committed murder, 282 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,700 felons could vote once they're out of prison. 283 00:18:04,900 --> 00:18:09,700 That happened in a red state. So don't think because you live 284 00:18:09,700 --> 00:18:13,900 in a red state that this can't happen, I want you to think 285 00:18:13,900 --> 00:18:17,500 about this. I want you to think about how 286 00:18:17,500 --> 00:18:21,000 ballot proposals, not only can get good laws and good 287 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,300 Constitutional Amendments passed in your state. 288 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:30,300 They will also bring out people who believe like, you do vote 289 00:18:30,300 --> 00:18:33,700 for the ballot initiatives, that protect the environment that 290 00:18:33,700 --> 00:18:37,200 protect women's rights, that protect workers rights. 291 00:18:39,900 --> 00:18:42,600 That legalize marijuana. That stop gerrymandering. 292 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:46,100 And, you know, you don't have to try and get 5 ballot. 293 00:18:46,100 --> 00:18:47,800 Proposals on just pick one of those. 294 00:18:48,700 --> 00:18:52,900 Just increase the minimum wage just increase the minimum wage 295 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:55,800 in your state. And look how many people that 296 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:59,400 will bring out. Who will then vote for the 297 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:04,800 liberal Progressive Democrat. That's on your ballot. 298 00:19:07,700 --> 00:19:11,800 My friends in red States, think about this and find out to. 299 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:14,800 If you can, do ballot proposals, just in your city, or your 300 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:19,100 county because that will be good for where you're living. 301 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,400 And it'll be good to bring out and discover your new friends, 302 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,500 your new blue friends, who want these laws passed? 303 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:31,500 Okay. So as I said, half the states in 304 00:19:31,500 --> 00:19:34,800 this country allow for ballot proposals, where the people the 305 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:39,000 citizens, the voters, get to enact laws or amend the state 306 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,300 constitution, depending on what state you live in. 307 00:19:41,300 --> 00:19:43,600 Most of these allow amendments to the Constitution. 308 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:47,700 Some you can pass just the law, but whatever ballot proposals, 309 00:19:47,700 --> 00:19:50,600 direct democracy are allowed in these states. 310 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,100 If you live in one of these states, I want you to consider 311 00:19:54,100 --> 00:19:57,500 getting at least one ballot proposal on the ballot in the 312 00:19:57,500 --> 00:20:01,300 2024 election. Here they are the ballot 313 00:20:01,300 --> 00:20:05,000 proposal States. Alaska right away, a red state, 314 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:13,900 Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, 315 00:20:14,700 --> 00:20:19,900 Idaho Illinois. Maine Maryland. 316 00:20:20,300 --> 00:20:27,300 Massachusetts Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, 317 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:36,300 Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada. North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma 318 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:42,500 Oregon. South Dakota Utah, what the 319 00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:47,400 state of Washington? And yes, Wyoming. 320 00:20:50,900 --> 00:20:52,600 And also the District of Columbia. 321 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:59,900 I mean, you have a wide variety of States blue States and red 322 00:20:59,900 --> 00:21:01,100 States. I just read. 323 00:21:02,100 --> 00:21:06,200 Now, these states are states that allow in some capacity for 324 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:09,000 citizens to initiate ballot proposals. 325 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:13,500 If you didn't hear your state mention, that means more than 326 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:17,600 likely, you can't get a law. Put on a ballot for the citizens 327 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:21,000 to vote on. So you've got to make that a law 328 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,100 in your state. You've got to get that passed. 329 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:29,000 To allow ballot proposals on the state ballot and think of the 330 00:21:29,008 --> 00:21:33,200 great campaign you can wage to make this happen because the 331 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,800 question you'd have to ask the legislators if they did want to 332 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:39,800 allow this is so you are against the citizens of this state. 333 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,400 From determining what the law should be. 334 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,700 Well yes I tried. I am I'm I think it's much 335 00:21:47,700 --> 00:21:51,300 better just to leave that up to the experts, the politicians in 336 00:21:51,300 --> 00:21:54,300 our state capital, they they know what's best for the people 337 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,100 and know the people don't know what's best for themselves and 338 00:21:57,100 --> 00:21:59,500 they should not be able to go into the voting booth and and 339 00:21:59,500 --> 00:22:04,300 pass a law. What what's their other 340 00:22:04,300 --> 00:22:09,900 argument? No, I'm telling you if we had a 341 00:22:09,900 --> 00:22:13,300 real movement going for this, look at all the blue states in 342 00:22:13,300 --> 00:22:16,200 the liberal states, that it weren't on that list. 343 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:20,400 I just mentioned States like New York, where the state 344 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:24,000 legislature can add a ballot proposal to the ballot, but not 345 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:29,500 citizens, that has to change. It should be in all 50 states. 346 00:22:31,500 --> 00:22:35,600 Just the right to choose alone should be on every state ballot 347 00:22:35,900 --> 00:22:39,300 because all the polls have shown in every single state, including 348 00:22:39,300 --> 00:22:43,300 the red States. The majority of people did not 349 00:22:43,300 --> 00:22:48,000 want to overturn Roe v-- Wade. You know, they may not be for 350 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:52,500 abortion themselves personally, but they didn't want to upset 351 00:22:52,500 --> 00:22:56,500 the status quo. The majority of Voters are women 352 00:22:56,500 --> 00:23:01,500 not men. You have a ballot proposal that 353 00:23:01,500 --> 00:23:05,700 supports women's rights. That has a great chance of 354 00:23:05,700 --> 00:23:08,000 passing. So far, this year, since Roe v-- 355 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:12,100 Wade, the five ballot proposals it run in November and the one 356 00:23:12,100 --> 00:23:17,600 in the summer in Kansas the pro-choice position past And 357 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:22,300 even here over the weekend, the Supreme Court in South Carolina, 358 00:23:22,300 --> 00:23:27,400 in red deep red, South Carolina, the Republican Supreme Court, 359 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,600 threw out the abortion, Banning law that now exists. 360 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,500 Our, it says that you can't have an abortion after 6 weeks. 361 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,400 Supreme Court in South Carolina, through that out here over the 362 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,700 weekend. Gone. 363 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,000 That's the position of the American people. 364 00:23:45,500 --> 00:23:47,500 That's how the majority of Americans feel. 365 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:51,100 You put that on your ballot, it's not only going to pass, 366 00:23:51,100 --> 00:23:52,400 it's going to bring out like-minded. 367 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,200 People to vote for other things, on the ballot and other 368 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,600 candidates, the kind of candidates we want elected so 369 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,300 that we can remove these Chrome stirs. 370 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:08,000 Pick a ballot proposal for the 2024 election right now, so you 371 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:13,000 can get started, get it on the ballot, bring out your base, 372 00:24:13,100 --> 00:24:18,600 your voters, your Progressive liberal, Democratic people, who 373 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,700 maybe don't vote very often, but they will come out to pass a law 374 00:24:21,700 --> 00:24:24,200 that benefits them in the rest of the people in your state. 375 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,800 Make this a top priority. Don't be satisfied with 376 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:34,300 continuing to be just a little blue dot in the Red Sea. 377 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:39,600 It's time for change. We can make this happen and you 378 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:43,200 are the people that connect night, this You can make this 379 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:49,500 happen. I want to recommend also a 380 00:24:49,500 --> 00:24:54,300 documentary called slay, the dragon of how people in Michigan 381 00:24:54,300 --> 00:24:58,800 and other states. Have used the ballot proposal to 382 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,800 stop gerrymandering and voter suppression. 383 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,900 Please, watch this incredible, documentary slay. 384 00:25:03,900 --> 00:25:07,400 The dragon, I'll have a link for it here on this podcast page. 385 00:25:08,900 --> 00:25:12,700 I'll be back hopefully tomorrow with our final episode episode 386 00:25:12,700 --> 00:25:15,400 12 in our series blue dots in a Red Sea. 387 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,200 Please join me for that. Please share this with other 388 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,600 people. 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