Blue skies smiling at me, nothing but blue skies.
Do I see blue birds singing a song nothing but blue bird all
day long. Never saw the sun shining so
bright. Never saw things go weeks.
All right, noticing the days having by when you're in love my
how they fly blue days, all of them gone, nothing but blue
skies. From now on, this is Rumble with
Michael Moore. It is episode 12 their final
episode of our blue dots in a Red Sea series of many podcasts
that we've done now. For He's talking about how to
win when you're blue and living in a red state.
This series comes on the heels of our tremendous victory in
November where we all joined together to create a blue
tsunami for the midterm elections.
A blue tsunami that would halt the red wave that everyone was
predicting. We had to listen to this for
months all during 2022. How the Republicans at the
midterm elections were going to grab five of the democratic
seats in the Senate and defeat 60 Democrats to have 60 new
seats. It's in the House of
Representatives. A red wave was predicted and
over and over and over again, all the pundits.
And immediate everybody saying the same old thing and myself
and a couple of others and hundreds of thousands of you
felt differently. No way.
Were we going to be drowned in a red wave?
And sure enough come November 8th, we put a stop to it.
We erected a blue wall. We not only didn't lose a single
seat in the Senate which has not happened.
By the way. We're a sitting president always
loses a seed or 10 in the senate in the midterm elections that
hasn't happened for any party. Since 1934 almost 90 years ago.
You and I, we did that. The Republicans did not end up
with a 60-seat. Majority in the house on
Election Day. Name a 10 seat majority, which
means you only need to flip five of them to block a vote, to be
the majority. To vote our way, you have to
believe, there are at least four or five Republicans out of the
222 Republicans in the house that have some good sense.
Some common sense, or how about some survival sense?
Because, as I've said, 18 of these, Republicans got lucky and
they won in congressional districts, that Joe, Biden won
in 2020. So, these are democratic
districts, they squeaked by, and got in the house, and they know
That their goose is cooked. Come 2024.
So they're going to have to pretend to be somewhat
open-minded, somewhat liberal, and vote with the Democrats, if
they're going to win in a democratic District.
But look at how discombobulated the whole thing is 15 ballast
for them to elect their own speaker.
That's not fighting with us, that's fighting amongst
themselves, they're in the middle of their own Civil War
and this discombobulation is going to benefit us greatly.
It'll slow them down, they'll be able to do less damage but we've
got everything else. We've got the White House.
We've got the Senate, we won so many elections across the
country in November where Democrats took over entire state
governments where Democrats one in red districts red towns, red
counties. And that's why I decided, I
thought, you know, we had this great Victory.
Why don't we try something even more challenging?
Let's see if we can turn red into blue.
Let's get our people elected next time in red districts,
Let's go on offense, let's stop playing defense.
Let's stop the Wimpy, Democratic response.
You no no, no. This is our country and they
have told us how much they hate this country and how much they
wanted to destroy it. 121 election, deniers people who
participated in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election
overthrow our government. They voted on the night of
January 6 2021 to not allow Joe Biden to take his rightful seat.
Eat in the White House, they're still there in Congress.
They've got to go, we need to play offense and that's why I
started this 12 episode series. So, I thought the best way to
wrap this up in to end it was, I want to briefly go over what
we've learned during this 12 episode series.
And what I'm proposing that we do with this information with
this momentum in these victories that we've had and then I want
to ask you, what do you think it would look like in your town, in
your county or in this country if we succeeded?
What if the majority of this country really was represented
and not gerrymandered out of existence?
What would that look like? A my final question to wrap
things up, could we handle it? Could we handle the joy of,
actually being in charge, really in charge in charge as Servants
of the people of being there for the people, the majority of this
country, the vast majority that believes that the minimum wage
needs to be above $7.25 an hour. The majority of the believe in
women's rights and especially their right to choose when it
comes to their own reproductive Health.
The vast majority of Americans agree with us on nearly all the
issues. There's no excuse for us to
allow the trumpeters and these election denying Republicans to
be running the show. So what have we learned?
Well, again, we learned that we can elect people Democrats,
liberals lefties, progressives in red areas.
It happened all over the country, we can get ballot,
proposals passed. The people showed up to vote on
Election Day and voted against attempts to ban abortion into
red States, Kentucky and Montana voters showed up in Nebraska,
the Deep Red state of Nebraska on election day in November and
voted to increase the minimum wage by nearly 70 percent.
I could go on and on, We can do more of this.
I grew up in a red town and, you know, Conservative Republican
part of Genesee County or Flint is.
And then I, as an adult later in life, moved to Northern Michigan
to a very red County where there were absolute zero elected
Democrats in any local government or anything.
So I know how hard that says. But I and others were.
I've lived I got elected to the Board of Education, as an 18
year old hippie. And when I moved to Northern
Michigan, a county that Had four dues-paying Democrats now has
over 400. Things change?
We can change it in the reason. Why is that you're not alone?
You think you're alone? It feels like you're alone.
You're living in a county where 70% of the county voted for
Trump but that means 30 percent didn't So that there's 30,000
people in your county. That means 10,000 voted for
Biden. In your red County.
Come on. There's no reason to feel like
the victim here. There's no reason to bemoan the
fact that you live in Oklahoma or Tennessee or Utah.
The mayor of Salt Lake City is a Democrat.
Cities in Texas, are run by democrats.
There are Democrats in every red State and there are Democrats
and liberals progressives that can get elected.
You don't have to be a dues-paying member of the
democratic party. I'm not this is not about oh the
Democrats are so great. We know the problem of the
Democrats and how much they've let us down over the years.
This started as a teenager. Lyndon Johnson, Vietnam War.
Those of us who grew up in that era, we don't trust any party.
Including the Democrats. So while we, we don't vote for
Republicans like a lot of you don't miss the point here.
The point is that we use the resources that we have.
We have a two party system. Now, lots of people over the
years and we need third party. When you threw pretty well.
We didn't make that happen. So quit saying it.
In fact, we have a constitution set up to make sure that a third
party candidate is not going to win.
So we need to come up with other Solutions.
We can talk about that in the months to come but for right now
we have to remove these Trump sirs.
We have to remove the white supremacists, the
insurrectionist We have to use what's available to us to beat
back the Beast. And you have to stop feeling
that you're alone. There are blue voters all around
you. The first thing you've got to do
is identify and find the blue voters in your area.
And become friends and form a new group.
If the Democrats aren't doing anything in your county, just
take 10 friends to the next monthly meeting.
And you could take the Democratic party over and then
you define the platform of your County, Democrats, you're just
using the name, you know, the name exists been around for a
while. They've got a logo.
It's a donkey. They got the stationary already
printed, you know? You don't go through any of that
stuff. It will save a lot of meetings
and let me tell you something, when I say, turn red and the
blue, you are not trying to convert a single Republican, you
do not want to try and convert it.
Single trumpster that will take up so much of your time and your
energy and it will depress you. You know, I once heard a writer
philosopher, say my life, I used to see myself as, you know,
there were two tracks and I was on the train that was going in
the right direction, and the train would be coming on the
other track going in the wrong direction.
And I used to think it was my job to go out and stand on that
other track and try to stop the train with all my might and to
turn that train around. So it go The right direction.
And after Decades of trying to do that, I learned that really
all I accomplished was getting run over and I realized then
that my job was to stay on the train that I'm on, stay on that
track. And as the train going, in the
wrong direction, is passing by look out the window into the
window of the people on that train.
And you will see one or two or ten people with a look on their
face thinking. I wish I was on that other.
Our train, I don't like this train full of kooky people.
I want to be, I want to be on the other train and then I
learned how to reach my hand out across over to the other track
and pull them through the window and to come into our train.
That's the job. That's the thing.
We can accomplish. How many hours you have to
convince him. That JFK jr.
Is not going to reappear on a certain day in the middle of
some Plaza. Don't stay away from all of that
nonsense. You've got to let them go.
You've already done this with your cousin, your uncle, your
brother-in-law. You love them, but they've just
gone off the rails. Lost souls bless them.
Let them go. I'm asking you to approach the
third of your county that voted for Biden, find them find the
people were already Democrats and then you've got the largest
political party in your area. The non-voter party because
still forty to fifty percent of Americans.
Don't vote in most elections. All the Studies have shown the
majority of the non-voters when they're asked.
Well, if you had the vote, how would you vote?
The majority of the non-voters, take the liberal position, they
side with the Democrats so if they're citing with the
Democrats in their heads but they don't want to vote for
Democrats. Your job is to get them to the
polls, to convince them know this time.
You got to put that aside for these next few years, we got
serious work to do. So yeah, we have work to do but
it's not that hard because remember you don't have to come
convince the majority of these people go down the whole damn
list. They believe in Paid Family,
Leave. The majority of Americans
believe college should be free. Every poll, every study shows,
we are in the majority and that means in your red County, in
your red Town, you've got a few hundred or a few thousand people
that already agree with you, but they just don't vote.
And you just need to get out there and organize and that's
what I'm I proposed. And also, in these podcast, I'm
proposing that you form your own group, your own blue group.
And once you do that, one of the first things you need to start
doing, is that politics? It's being a good neighbor.
Convince a democrat in town who's got, maybe an empty
storefront, or an office, or whatever.
And establish visibility, we are the Democratic party of red,
snake County, hang a sign out on the window.
Democratic headquarters. It'll freak A lot of people out
because they've never seen a Democratic headquarters in this
red town, but there you are. And then what you need to do is
not be pushing politicians right away.
You need to say we're here for you the main thing we want to
tell you residents of red snake county is that we are here for
you and when you need help you call the Democrats, if your kids
need a winter coat. We're going to have a winter
coat drive every year, if your car slides off the road and goes
into a ditch and of course, you don't have the money to afford
insurance or AAA the, you know, get the free Towing.
All that call. The Democratic party
headquarters. Get a phone number.
They can remember. Yes, you're going to have to
pull some money together but get a cheap online phone and phone
number. Let the people of the Town know
that you're there to help them set up a tutoring program where
the local Democrats are here to help tutor your kids if they
need any help with math or history or whatever.
Start attending the governmental meetings where your Democratic
button, or your liberal button, your Progressive, whatever
button, you've got, just go there, be visible.
Let them see the Democrats exist and you're there to report back
to your group what they're doing this month with the school board
sometimes you may have to stand up and speak because some crazy
stuff gets said and you've got to stand up there and counteract
it too much stuff, gets said at these meetings by crazy right
Wingers and nobody ever counters it then the people who are the
elected officials up The board of the ground.
This is how the people feel. No, you've got to let them know
that that's not how the people feel.
Some people feel that way, not the people.
Other suggestions, I had get a sister city in a blue State and
if you're in a blue state or blue Town, find a place on the
map, a red City, a red town, red County, and make them your
sister County. Help them talk to them.
Communicate with them. Have zoom meetings with them.
Have a potluck over Zoom. Go visit them, let them come,
visit you, share ideas, how did you get that 18 year old hippie
elected to the school board? If we start communicating like
this and we have the technology and the means to communicate,
you can start your own online paper.
Without having to print a newspaper, you can start doing
your own investigative reporting.
What's going on locally? What is the people in the town?
Especially the non-voters? Who lean your way, start to see
that you're telling them things that they never heard because
they're the local media, is either gone or it's just a bunch
of fluff. Think about that, think of what
they're going to start to think about.
You think about how they're going to vote for Democrats
because they're going to know. The Democrats are the ones that
put a winter coat on my kid. The Democrats are the ones who
help my kid past that history test the Democrats.
That's how I learned about how our water here in town is not
safe. Ballot proposals the success of
that in the last couple of couple of Elections here to
Outlaw gerrymandering we can vote on that in half the States.
You don't have to wait for the legislature Outlaw.
Why would they outlaw it? That's they got elected because
of gerrymandering you can get the signature as you can get
these on the ballot and you can Outlaw it like we did in
Michigan. Watch the documentary slay, the
dragon that document, I will show you how to get a ballot
proposal passed, and how you can eliminate gerrymandering in
voter suppression, and when you put on good ballot, proposals,
like that? They legalized marijuana or
raise the minimum wage, watch how many people come out to vote
that are on our side. It don't usually vote but when
they can pass a law, they show up to vote.
And while they're in the booth, they'll vote for some of our
candidates. We're going to get people
elected in red areas. Because of these ballot
proposals. And really, really important.
You need to have a recruitment committee to find the right
candidates to run before the 2024 election, which means you
got to do it in 2023. Find beloved people in your
community, don't just go with the same old.
Same old politician types. The you know, the high school
football coach. He's a decent guy politically.
He's good. Why not ask him to run?
What about the Girl Scout leader is in charge of the Girl Scouts
in your county? They loved her ask her to run
The woman who set up the soup kitchen, the food bank people
that have done good things, they should also run for office,
they're going to vote for them because they know they've done
good for the community. And feeding people shouldn't be
a partisan political thing putting a coat on a cold.
Kid should not be a partisan thing.
They just will know that it wasn't that that Republicans
that help them in their family. It was the Democrats.
It was the Democrats that when they found out at the local
Piggly Wiggly or whatever grocery store, you have that the
women there are being paid a dollar less than our than the
men. As I told you, I'm one of the
episodes here when Billy Bob found out that his wife who
works the cash register at the grocery store.
It makes a dollar our less than the man working in the aisle
next to her doing the same job. When he found that out, he did
the math. Because like we had dollar and
it says $40 less. So week were being cheated out
of what would this family do? If we have 40 extra dollars a
week times, 52 weeks that's over two thousand dollars.
What family wouldn't benefit from two thousand extra dollars
simply by paying women the same as men and the people in town
are going to. Remember you're the one that did
that. I know about I'm not a Democrat,
but I agree what the Democrats done?
All the stuff I've done in this room in this red area that I
live in. I've now moved in, there's a
lot, there's a town. That's the county seat right
now, and it's a blue town. So, I know that we're in this
little blue town and surrounded in my own, read, by my own Red
Sea. And I, and others.
We've done all these good things for the town and started a film
festival and whole bunch of other wonderful things that as
liberal, Progressive Lefty types that we've done.
And I can't tell you how many people will stop me on the
street, especially even Republican types will say, well
more. I'll tell you I don't agree with
you politically, not a Democrat. I sure like what you've done for
this town though I'll smile and I'll say, well, thank you,
that's very kind of you to say that but I just want you to know
that, you know, the reason that I'm probably doing these good
things for the town, it's because of my politics because
what I believe in, because my values that you can't separate
that out, so I know it probably feels good to for you to have to
swallow the fact that I'm not a, I'm not the devil.
But I believe that if you give me two seconds of your time,
I'll give you a couple of examples of what else we can do
here to make things better. To stop the sewage going into
Lake Michigan, you know, all so many things, we could do the
things that we stand for, on our side of the political fence.
Inside because we're Democrats, I'm not a democrat in that
sense. I'm not, you know, but I vote
for Democrats, I caucus with the Democrats.
So run the right people run, beloved people in town that
people love people. Love these people and of course
they would vote for them. They saw their name on a ballot.
But don't be afraid anymore. Don't be afraid to take a stand
and imagine. Imagine what is it going to look
like in this red County? Like what if we actually did all
this? What if we got some people
elected? In that red County, I talk to
you about that. I lived 10 years in a Northern
Michigan. this past, November 3 of the Township's turn blue in
this red County, the never voted for a Democrat before, and they,
and in this, in this election, the midterm election in November
3, of the townships, in my red County, Photo for Gretchen,
Whitmer, the Democrat for Governor State of Michigan.
And the Democrat for Secretary of State, they still talking
about it. They can't people still cannot
believe that three of the Township's turn blue It's
happened all over the country. In November, they haven't
covered it much on the news because we don't have the media
that we used to have. They do, it's been decimated.
They don't have the reporters. So you don't, we don't hear
about a lot of stuff. But imagine, if we did more
this, what if in the next election?
We tripled what we did in this election?
Think about this. Think about what it would look
like, What would life be like? And my last question, could we
handle it to could, we handle the joy of actually holding the
reins and steering the country in a direction that benefits?
Everyone What would it be like if we didn't have to worry about
the white supremacist? Ruling the day here?
Isn't that the place where you want to live?
That's where I want to live. And I think we have a good
chance of doing it. The majority are already with us
on the issues. It's up to us to run the right
people. Get them elected and pass
legislation, including on the ballot with ballot proposals.
If we do that, we are going to have a much better situation in
this country. And the road ahead, especially
for our kids and our grandkids is going to be a better Road.
I really appreciate you joining with me during these 12 episodes
of the discussion. That's taking place.
The emails you've sent me the comments that you've made the
voicemails. You've left me.
Incredible. And so moving to me and it's
just charged me up and I can't wait to do even more of this.
You know, we're so busy trying to get this podcast out every
day. We've done this pretty much
every day, we had to deal with what was going on in Congress
here last week. But since Christmas day, and we
haven't had time to do transcripts and post them.
So you could read this, not everybody, you know, listens to
podcast, but I want to encourage you.
If you've just come to this podcast for the first time to
come back to become a free subscriber on my sub stack,
there's a thing where you can subscribe right here, just click
on it, it'll ask you, if you want to be a paid subscription.
Scriber, but you don't have to, because I don't have a pay wall,
it's all free. The paid subscription is if you
just want to help support the cause here, you know, it does
cost money to do what we do. But I'm cool.
I just want you listening to the podcast and reading these sub
stacked columns that I send out every week, but sign up give a
gift subscription to your good. Family members that are stuck in
these red areas so because we haven't had a chance to put
transcripts up with these. I'm going to try to figure out
how to do a little Like a quickie book called blue dots in
a Red Sea and put this out digitally maybe, I'll approach
my publisher, whatever. I love the little pamphlet type
books or the that little book Timothy Snyder did on tyranny.
Things like that. I think it's good to have the
written word, to what we've been talking about and where you can
see the blueprint, you can read the strategy, you can share it
with others and I still believe in the printed word in books.
So if I I can somehow finagle away to turn this into a quick
book and a digital book. I'm going to do that, so stay
tuned for that. I'll you'll hear about this
hopefully in the next month or so.
And again, thank you for being part of this.
Thank you for everything. You did leading up to the
election in November. All of us together, building
that blue wall. When everybody said we couldn't
do it all the pundits. Everybody even liberals on TV
bemoaning, the fact that we were going to get our ass kicked It's
time to rise out of that, kind of thinking and that despair.
No, the country that you live in.
Yes. There's a lot of crazies.
Yes, 73 million. People voted for Trump.
If you've got 73 million people and a lot of them have guns,
that's not a good feeling. I get it.
You're listening to this from another country or thinking
Mike. Mike.
Yeah, but there's 333 million in this country not 71 million.
The majority of the people wanted him gone, they didn't
want him. The first time they wanted
Hillary, she won by 3 million votes but we don't have a true
full democracy yet. And we talked about that on
these podcasts of how we've got to get rid of the Electoral
College. We've got to get rid of the
filibuster, we've got to make gerrymandering a crime and we're
going to do all of that. The people have had it.
My special special thanks to my producer and my editor Angela,
vargo's. Thanks everyone.
I hope the New Year is already doing well for you and if not,
I'm here, I'm with you. I appreciate you.
I love you. I appreciate the love that
you're sharing with other people.
I am weirdly optimistic right now and I hold my hand out to
you and ask you to join me. Let's start the next phase of
this. Let's go on offense.
Let's go into these red parts of the country and let's get a
number of our fellow blue, people elected and save our
democracy such as it is. And make it better.
Come on. We can do this.
We are doing it. This is Michael Moore.
We can do this. We are doing it.
This is Michael Moore.