1 00:00:03,100 --> 00:00:11,300 Blue skies smiling at me, nothing but blue skies. 2 00:00:11,500 --> 00:00:24,300 Do I see blue birds singing a song nothing but blue bird all 3 00:00:24,300 --> 00:00:29,800 day long. Never saw the sun shining so 4 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:32,600 bright. Never saw things go weeks. 5 00:00:32,700 --> 00:00:38,300 All right, noticing the days having by when you're in love my 6 00:00:38,300 --> 00:00:46,500 how they fly blue days, all of them gone, nothing but blue 7 00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:53,300 skies. From now on, this is Rumble with 8 00:00:53,300 --> 00:00:56,700 Michael Moore. It is episode 12 their final 9 00:00:56,700 --> 00:01:01,300 episode of our blue dots in a Red Sea series of many podcasts 10 00:01:01,300 --> 00:01:04,700 that we've done now. For He's talking about how to 11 00:01:04,700 --> 00:01:08,600 win when you're blue and living in a red state. 12 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,900 This series comes on the heels of our tremendous victory in 13 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:18,000 November where we all joined together to create a blue 14 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,000 tsunami for the midterm elections. 15 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:24,800 A blue tsunami that would halt the red wave that everyone was 16 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:26,900 predicting. We had to listen to this for 17 00:01:26,900 --> 00:01:30,000 months all during 2022. How the Republicans at the 18 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,900 midterm elections were going to grab five of the democratic 19 00:01:33,900 --> 00:01:39,200 seats in the Senate and defeat 60 Democrats to have 60 new 20 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:40,500 seats. It's in the House of 21 00:01:40,508 --> 00:01:46,000 Representatives. A red wave was predicted and 22 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,100 over and over and over again, all the pundits. 23 00:01:48,100 --> 00:01:51,800 And immediate everybody saying the same old thing and myself 24 00:01:52,300 --> 00:01:56,600 and a couple of others and hundreds of thousands of you 25 00:01:57,100 --> 00:01:59,500 felt differently. No way. 26 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,500 Were we going to be drowned in a red wave? 27 00:02:04,700 --> 00:02:09,000 And sure enough come November 8th, we put a stop to it. 28 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,400 We erected a blue wall. We not only didn't lose a single 29 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,300 seat in the Senate which has not happened. 30 00:02:15,300 --> 00:02:17,800 By the way. We're a sitting president always 31 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:23,900 loses a seed or 10 in the senate in the midterm elections that 32 00:02:23,900 --> 00:02:30,600 hasn't happened for any party. Since 1934 almost 90 years ago. 33 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:36,200 You and I, we did that. The Republicans did not end up 34 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,600 with a 60-seat. Majority in the house on 35 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:44,400 Election Day. Name a 10 seat majority, which 36 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:49,600 means you only need to flip five of them to block a vote, to be 37 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:54,000 the majority. To vote our way, you have to 38 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,300 believe, there are at least four or five Republicans out of the 39 00:02:58,300 --> 00:03:02,900 222 Republicans in the house that have some good sense. 40 00:03:02,900 --> 00:03:05,600 Some common sense, or how about some survival sense? 41 00:03:05,900 --> 00:03:11,000 Because, as I've said, 18 of these, Republicans got lucky and 42 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,200 they won in congressional districts, that Joe, Biden won 43 00:03:14,300 --> 00:03:16,800 in 2020. So, these are democratic 44 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:21,100 districts, they squeaked by, and got in the house, and they know 45 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,100 That their goose is cooked. Come 2024. 46 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,000 So they're going to have to pretend to be somewhat 47 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,700 open-minded, somewhat liberal, and vote with the Democrats, if 48 00:03:32,700 --> 00:03:34,600 they're going to win in a democratic District. 49 00:03:34,900 --> 00:03:38,100 But look at how discombobulated the whole thing is 15 ballast 50 00:03:38,100 --> 00:03:39,800 for them to elect their own speaker. 51 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,100 That's not fighting with us, that's fighting amongst 52 00:03:42,100 --> 00:03:44,900 themselves, they're in the middle of their own Civil War 53 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:48,200 and this discombobulation is going to benefit us greatly. 54 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:52,100 It'll slow them down, they'll be able to do less damage but we've 55 00:03:52,100 --> 00:03:54,400 got everything else. We've got the White House. 56 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,500 We've got the Senate, we won so many elections across the 57 00:03:58,500 --> 00:04:02,700 country in November where Democrats took over entire state 58 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:09,000 governments where Democrats one in red districts red towns, red 59 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,900 counties. And that's why I decided, I 60 00:04:10,900 --> 00:04:13,600 thought, you know, we had this great Victory. 61 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,700 Why don't we try something even more challenging? 62 00:04:16,100 --> 00:04:19,100 Let's see if we can turn red into blue. 63 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,900 Let's get our people elected next time in red districts, 64 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,600 Let's go on offense, let's stop playing defense. 65 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,800 Let's stop the Wimpy, Democratic response. 66 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:33,700 You no no, no. This is our country and they 67 00:04:33,700 --> 00:04:36,800 have told us how much they hate this country and how much they 68 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:43,400 wanted to destroy it. 121 election, deniers people who 69 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,800 participated in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election 70 00:04:47,100 --> 00:04:50,000 overthrow our government. They voted on the night of 71 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,200 January 6 2021 to not allow Joe Biden to take his rightful seat. 72 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:58,500 Eat in the White House, they're still there in Congress. 73 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,300 They've got to go, we need to play offense and that's why I 74 00:05:02,300 --> 00:05:08,300 started this 12 episode series. So, I thought the best way to 75 00:05:08,300 --> 00:05:12,000 wrap this up in to end it was, I want to briefly go over what 76 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,000 we've learned during this 12 episode series. 77 00:05:16,100 --> 00:05:21,700 And what I'm proposing that we do with this information with 78 00:05:21,700 --> 00:05:26,100 this momentum in these victories that we've had and then I want 79 00:05:26,100 --> 00:05:29,900 to ask you, what do you think it would look like in your town, in 80 00:05:29,900 --> 00:05:33,500 your county or in this country if we succeeded? 81 00:05:34,900 --> 00:05:38,900 What if the majority of this country really was represented 82 00:05:38,900 --> 00:05:40,900 and not gerrymandered out of existence? 83 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:45,400 What would that look like? A my final question to wrap 84 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:50,800 things up, could we handle it? Could we handle the joy of, 85 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:56,100 actually being in charge, really in charge in charge as Servants 86 00:05:56,100 --> 00:06:00,400 of the people of being there for the people, the majority of this 87 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:05,500 country, the vast majority that believes that the minimum wage 88 00:06:05,500 --> 00:06:11,200 needs to be above $7.25 an hour. The majority of the believe in 89 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:13,800 women's rights and especially their right to choose when it 90 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:15,800 comes to their own reproductive Health. 91 00:06:16,500 --> 00:06:19,800 The vast majority of Americans agree with us on nearly all the 92 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:24,400 issues. There's no excuse for us to 93 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:29,900 allow the trumpeters and these election denying Republicans to 94 00:06:29,900 --> 00:06:34,800 be running the show. So what have we learned? 95 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:38,300 Well, again, we learned that we can elect people Democrats, 96 00:06:38,300 --> 00:06:41,400 liberals lefties, progressives in red areas. 97 00:06:42,100 --> 00:06:44,100 It happened all over the country, we can get ballot, 98 00:06:44,100 --> 00:06:48,600 proposals passed. The people showed up to vote on 99 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:53,800 Election Day and voted against attempts to ban abortion into 100 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:58,500 red States, Kentucky and Montana voters showed up in Nebraska, 101 00:06:58,500 --> 00:07:02,200 the Deep Red state of Nebraska on election day in November and 102 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:06,100 voted to increase the minimum wage by nearly 70 percent. 103 00:07:06,100 --> 00:07:10,200 I could go on and on, We can do more of this. 104 00:07:11,700 --> 00:07:15,500 I grew up in a red town and, you know, Conservative Republican 105 00:07:15,500 --> 00:07:17,900 part of Genesee County or Flint is. 106 00:07:17,900 --> 00:07:22,000 And then I, as an adult later in life, moved to Northern Michigan 107 00:07:22,100 --> 00:07:25,900 to a very red County where there were absolute zero elected 108 00:07:25,900 --> 00:07:28,400 Democrats in any local government or anything. 109 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:32,700 So I know how hard that says. But I and others were. 110 00:07:32,700 --> 00:07:36,900 I've lived I got elected to the Board of Education, as an 18 111 00:07:36,900 --> 00:07:39,100 year old hippie. And when I moved to Northern 112 00:07:39,100 --> 00:07:44,300 Michigan, a county that Had four dues-paying Democrats now has 113 00:07:44,300 --> 00:07:47,800 over 400. Things change? 114 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:51,500 We can change it in the reason. Why is that you're not alone? 115 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:53,800 You think you're alone? It feels like you're alone. 116 00:07:54,100 --> 00:07:57,300 You're living in a county where 70% of the county voted for 117 00:07:57,300 --> 00:08:03,500 Trump but that means 30 percent didn't So that there's 30,000 118 00:08:03,500 --> 00:08:07,700 people in your county. That means 10,000 voted for 119 00:08:07,700 --> 00:08:10,300 Biden. In your red County. 120 00:08:12,700 --> 00:08:17,400 Come on. There's no reason to feel like 121 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:19,800 the victim here. There's no reason to bemoan the 122 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:25,600 fact that you live in Oklahoma or Tennessee or Utah. 123 00:08:27,300 --> 00:08:29,600 The mayor of Salt Lake City is a Democrat. 124 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,100 Cities in Texas, are run by democrats. 125 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:36,799 There are Democrats in every red State and there are Democrats 126 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:40,299 and liberals progressives that can get elected. 127 00:08:41,700 --> 00:08:43,000 You don't have to be a dues-paying member of the 128 00:08:43,008 --> 00:08:46,800 democratic party. I'm not this is not about oh the 129 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:49,200 Democrats are so great. We know the problem of the 130 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:53,400 Democrats and how much they've let us down over the years. 131 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:59,600 This started as a teenager. Lyndon Johnson, Vietnam War. 132 00:09:00,900 --> 00:09:05,800 Those of us who grew up in that era, we don't trust any party. 133 00:09:07,100 --> 00:09:12,800 Including the Democrats. So while we, we don't vote for 134 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:16,900 Republicans like a lot of you don't miss the point here. 135 00:09:16,900 --> 00:09:19,800 The point is that we use the resources that we have. 136 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,300 We have a two party system. Now, lots of people over the 137 00:09:23,300 --> 00:09:25,300 years and we need third party. When you threw pretty well. 138 00:09:25,300 --> 00:09:28,400 We didn't make that happen. So quit saying it. 139 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:32,200 In fact, we have a constitution set up to make sure that a third 140 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:34,900 party candidate is not going to win. 141 00:09:35,500 --> 00:09:38,300 So we need to come up with other Solutions. 142 00:09:38,500 --> 00:09:42,700 We can talk about that in the months to come but for right now 143 00:09:42,700 --> 00:09:44,500 we have to remove these Trump sirs. 144 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:47,100 We have to remove the white supremacists, the 145 00:09:47,100 --> 00:09:51,800 insurrectionist We have to use what's available to us to beat 146 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:57,300 back the Beast. And you have to stop feeling 147 00:09:57,300 --> 00:09:59,600 that you're alone. There are blue voters all around 148 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:00,600 you. The first thing you've got to do 149 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:03,500 is identify and find the blue voters in your area. 150 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,300 And become friends and form a new group. 151 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,400 If the Democrats aren't doing anything in your county, just 152 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:13,900 take 10 friends to the next monthly meeting. 153 00:10:13,900 --> 00:10:16,300 And you could take the Democratic party over and then 154 00:10:16,300 --> 00:10:20,300 you define the platform of your County, Democrats, you're just 155 00:10:20,300 --> 00:10:23,100 using the name, you know, the name exists been around for a 156 00:10:23,108 --> 00:10:24,200 while. They've got a logo. 157 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:26,200 It's a donkey. They got the stationary already 158 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:28,200 printed, you know? You don't go through any of that 159 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:29,900 stuff. It will save a lot of meetings 160 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:33,100 and let me tell you something, when I say, turn red and the 161 00:10:33,100 --> 00:10:36,700 blue, you are not trying to convert a single Republican, you 162 00:10:36,700 --> 00:10:38,100 do not want to try and convert it. 163 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,900 Single trumpster that will take up so much of your time and your 164 00:10:41,900 --> 00:10:46,600 energy and it will depress you. You know, I once heard a writer 165 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:50,100 philosopher, say my life, I used to see myself as, you know, 166 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:52,500 there were two tracks and I was on the train that was going in 167 00:10:52,500 --> 00:10:56,000 the right direction, and the train would be coming on the 168 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:57,700 other track going in the wrong direction. 169 00:10:57,700 --> 00:11:01,100 And I used to think it was my job to go out and stand on that 170 00:11:01,100 --> 00:11:05,400 other track and try to stop the train with all my might and to 171 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:09,200 turn that train around. So it go The right direction. 172 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:14,600 And after Decades of trying to do that, I learned that really 173 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:20,000 all I accomplished was getting run over and I realized then 174 00:11:20,500 --> 00:11:24,300 that my job was to stay on the train that I'm on, stay on that 175 00:11:24,300 --> 00:11:26,900 track. And as the train going, in the 176 00:11:26,900 --> 00:11:31,400 wrong direction, is passing by look out the window into the 177 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:33,800 window of the people on that train. 178 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:38,300 And you will see one or two or ten people with a look on their 179 00:11:38,300 --> 00:11:40,300 face thinking. I wish I was on that other. 180 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:43,400 Our train, I don't like this train full of kooky people. 181 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,900 I want to be, I want to be on the other train and then I 182 00:11:46,900 --> 00:11:50,600 learned how to reach my hand out across over to the other track 183 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,700 and pull them through the window and to come into our train. 184 00:11:54,700 --> 00:11:56,800 That's the job. That's the thing. 185 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:01,300 We can accomplish. How many hours you have to 186 00:12:01,300 --> 00:12:02,700 convince him. That JFK jr. 187 00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:05,200 Is not going to reappear on a certain day in the middle of 188 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:08,800 some Plaza. Don't stay away from all of that 189 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:12,700 nonsense. You've got to let them go. 190 00:12:12,700 --> 00:12:16,100 You've already done this with your cousin, your uncle, your 191 00:12:16,100 --> 00:12:19,700 brother-in-law. You love them, but they've just 192 00:12:19,700 --> 00:12:24,100 gone off the rails. Lost souls bless them. 193 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:29,200 Let them go. I'm asking you to approach the 194 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,800 third of your county that voted for Biden, find them find the 195 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:36,900 people were already Democrats and then you've got the largest 196 00:12:36,900 --> 00:12:39,600 political party in your area. The non-voter party because 197 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:41,700 still forty to fifty percent of Americans. 198 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:46,600 Don't vote in most elections. All the Studies have shown the 199 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:48,600 majority of the non-voters when they're asked. 200 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,200 Well, if you had the vote, how would you vote? 201 00:12:51,700 --> 00:12:56,000 The majority of the non-voters, take the liberal position, they 202 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,700 side with the Democrats so if they're citing with the 203 00:12:58,700 --> 00:13:01,000 Democrats in their heads but they don't want to vote for 204 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,300 Democrats. Your job is to get them to the 205 00:13:03,300 --> 00:13:05,400 polls, to convince them know this time. 206 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,400 You got to put that aside for these next few years, we got 207 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:12,200 serious work to do. So yeah, we have work to do but 208 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,600 it's not that hard because remember you don't have to come 209 00:13:14,700 --> 00:13:19,000 convince the majority of these people go down the whole damn 210 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,300 list. They believe in Paid Family, 211 00:13:22,300 --> 00:13:23,500 Leave. The majority of Americans 212 00:13:23,700 --> 00:13:27,600 believe college should be free. Every poll, every study shows, 213 00:13:27,700 --> 00:13:31,700 we are in the majority and that means in your red County, in 214 00:13:31,700 --> 00:13:35,600 your red Town, you've got a few hundred or a few thousand people 215 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:37,700 that already agree with you, but they just don't vote. 216 00:13:39,300 --> 00:13:42,100 And you just need to get out there and organize and that's 217 00:13:42,100 --> 00:13:44,800 what I'm I proposed. And also, in these podcast, I'm 218 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:48,400 proposing that you form your own group, your own blue group. 219 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:53,100 And once you do that, one of the first things you need to start 220 00:13:53,100 --> 00:13:57,700 doing, is that politics? It's being a good neighbor. 221 00:13:58,900 --> 00:14:01,700 Convince a democrat in town who's got, maybe an empty 222 00:14:01,700 --> 00:14:03,800 storefront, or an office, or whatever. 223 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:08,600 And establish visibility, we are the Democratic party of red, 224 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:12,000 snake County, hang a sign out on the window. 225 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,600 Democratic headquarters. It'll freak A lot of people out 226 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:19,100 because they've never seen a Democratic headquarters in this 227 00:14:19,100 --> 00:14:24,700 red town, but there you are. And then what you need to do is 228 00:14:24,900 --> 00:14:27,200 not be pushing politicians right away. 229 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:31,000 You need to say we're here for you the main thing we want to 230 00:14:31,008 --> 00:14:36,700 tell you residents of red snake county is that we are here for 231 00:14:36,700 --> 00:14:41,800 you and when you need help you call the Democrats, if your kids 232 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:43,500 need a winter coat. We're going to have a winter 233 00:14:43,500 --> 00:14:46,900 coat drive every year, if your car slides off the road and goes 234 00:14:46,900 --> 00:14:49,300 into a ditch and of course, you don't have the money to afford 235 00:14:49,300 --> 00:14:52,400 insurance or AAA the, you know, get the free Towing. 236 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:55,000 All that call. The Democratic party 237 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,400 headquarters. Get a phone number. 238 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:58,400 They can remember. Yes, you're going to have to 239 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:02,100 pull some money together but get a cheap online phone and phone 240 00:15:02,100 --> 00:15:04,800 number. Let the people of the Town know 241 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,900 that you're there to help them set up a tutoring program where 242 00:15:07,900 --> 00:15:10,600 the local Democrats are here to help tutor your kids if they 243 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,000 need any help with math or history or whatever. 244 00:15:14,900 --> 00:15:18,300 Start attending the governmental meetings where your Democratic 245 00:15:18,300 --> 00:15:20,900 button, or your liberal button, your Progressive, whatever 246 00:15:20,900 --> 00:15:24,400 button, you've got, just go there, be visible. 247 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:27,300 Let them see the Democrats exist and you're there to report back 248 00:15:27,300 --> 00:15:30,700 to your group what they're doing this month with the school board 249 00:15:31,300 --> 00:15:33,600 sometimes you may have to stand up and speak because some crazy 250 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,100 stuff gets said and you've got to stand up there and counteract 251 00:15:36,100 --> 00:15:39,600 it too much stuff, gets said at these meetings by crazy right 252 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:43,600 Wingers and nobody ever counters it then the people who are the 253 00:15:43,608 --> 00:15:45,400 elected officials up The board of the ground. 254 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,500 This is how the people feel. No, you've got to let them know 255 00:15:48,500 --> 00:15:50,300 that that's not how the people feel. 256 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,900 Some people feel that way, not the people. 257 00:15:55,500 --> 00:15:59,600 Other suggestions, I had get a sister city in a blue State and 258 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,500 if you're in a blue state or blue Town, find a place on the 259 00:16:02,500 --> 00:16:05,800 map, a red City, a red town, red County, and make them your 260 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:09,600 sister County. Help them talk to them. 261 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:11,500 Communicate with them. Have zoom meetings with them. 262 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:15,700 Have a potluck over Zoom. Go visit them, let them come, 263 00:16:15,700 --> 00:16:19,300 visit you, share ideas, how did you get that 18 year old hippie 264 00:16:19,300 --> 00:16:22,900 elected to the school board? If we start communicating like 265 00:16:22,900 --> 00:16:26,000 this and we have the technology and the means to communicate, 266 00:16:26,500 --> 00:16:28,300 you can start your own online paper. 267 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,800 Without having to print a newspaper, you can start doing 268 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:33,000 your own investigative reporting. 269 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,300 What's going on locally? What is the people in the town? 270 00:16:35,300 --> 00:16:38,200 Especially the non-voters? Who lean your way, start to see 271 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:40,300 that you're telling them things that they never heard because 272 00:16:40,300 --> 00:16:43,100 they're the local media, is either gone or it's just a bunch 273 00:16:43,100 --> 00:16:46,800 of fluff. Think about that, think of what 274 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:47,800 they're going to start to think about. 275 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:50,200 You think about how they're going to vote for Democrats 276 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:52,400 because they're going to know. The Democrats are the ones that 277 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,700 put a winter coat on my kid. The Democrats are the ones who 278 00:16:55,700 --> 00:16:58,400 help my kid past that history test the Democrats. 279 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,900 That's how I learned about how our water here in town is not 280 00:17:01,900 --> 00:17:09,599 safe. Ballot proposals the success of 281 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:13,500 that in the last couple of couple of Elections here to 282 00:17:13,500 --> 00:17:17,500 Outlaw gerrymandering we can vote on that in half the States. 283 00:17:17,900 --> 00:17:19,800 You don't have to wait for the legislature Outlaw. 284 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,300 Why would they outlaw it? That's they got elected because 285 00:17:22,300 --> 00:17:25,599 of gerrymandering you can get the signature as you can get 286 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:28,200 these on the ballot and you can Outlaw it like we did in 287 00:17:28,208 --> 00:17:31,200 Michigan. Watch the documentary slay, the 288 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:33,900 dragon that document, I will show you how to get a ballot 289 00:17:33,900 --> 00:17:36,500 proposal passed, and how you can eliminate gerrymandering in 290 00:17:36,500 --> 00:17:40,800 voter suppression, and when you put on good ballot, proposals, 291 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,200 like that? They legalized marijuana or 292 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:47,900 raise the minimum wage, watch how many people come out to vote 293 00:17:47,900 --> 00:17:50,800 that are on our side. It don't usually vote but when 294 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:52,700 they can pass a law, they show up to vote. 295 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,200 And while they're in the booth, they'll vote for some of our 296 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:56,700 candidates. We're going to get people 297 00:17:56,700 --> 00:18:00,400 elected in red areas. Because of these ballot 298 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:04,800 proposals. And really, really important. 299 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,200 You need to have a recruitment committee to find the right 300 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:11,900 candidates to run before the 2024 election, which means you 301 00:18:11,900 --> 00:18:16,400 got to do it in 2023. Find beloved people in your 302 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:18,800 community, don't just go with the same old. 303 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:22,100 Same old politician types. The you know, the high school 304 00:18:22,100 --> 00:18:25,000 football coach. He's a decent guy politically. 305 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,400 He's good. Why not ask him to run? 306 00:18:28,700 --> 00:18:33,000 What about the Girl Scout leader is in charge of the Girl Scouts 307 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:37,000 in your county? They loved her ask her to run 308 00:18:39,100 --> 00:18:44,000 The woman who set up the soup kitchen, the food bank people 309 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,300 that have done good things, they should also run for office, 310 00:18:47,700 --> 00:18:49,100 they're going to vote for them because they know they've done 311 00:18:49,100 --> 00:18:55,600 good for the community. And feeding people shouldn't be 312 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:58,500 a partisan political thing putting a coat on a cold. 313 00:18:58,500 --> 00:19:00,100 Kid should not be a partisan thing. 314 00:19:00,500 --> 00:19:02,800 They just will know that it wasn't that that Republicans 315 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,200 that help them in their family. It was the Democrats. 316 00:19:05,500 --> 00:19:08,400 It was the Democrats that when they found out at the local 317 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,000 Piggly Wiggly or whatever grocery store, you have that the 318 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,400 women there are being paid a dollar less than our than the 319 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:17,600 men. As I told you, I'm one of the 320 00:19:17,608 --> 00:19:20,900 episodes here when Billy Bob found out that his wife who 321 00:19:20,900 --> 00:19:22,800 works the cash register at the grocery store. 322 00:19:22,900 --> 00:19:27,300 It makes a dollar our less than the man working in the aisle 323 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:31,600 next to her doing the same job. When he found that out, he did 324 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,500 the math. Because like we had dollar and 325 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:36,100 it says $40 less. So week were being cheated out 326 00:19:36,100 --> 00:19:39,100 of what would this family do? If we have 40 extra dollars a 327 00:19:39,100 --> 00:19:44,400 week times, 52 weeks that's over two thousand dollars. 328 00:19:47,300 --> 00:19:50,900 What family wouldn't benefit from two thousand extra dollars 329 00:19:50,900 --> 00:19:56,800 simply by paying women the same as men and the people in town 330 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:58,200 are going to. Remember you're the one that did 331 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:02,600 that. I know about I'm not a Democrat, 332 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,300 but I agree what the Democrats done? 333 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:10,000 All the stuff I've done in this room in this red area that I 334 00:20:10,008 --> 00:20:11,900 live in. I've now moved in, there's a 335 00:20:11,900 --> 00:20:14,200 lot, there's a town. That's the county seat right 336 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:17,000 now, and it's a blue town. So, I know that we're in this 337 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,700 little blue town and surrounded in my own, read, by my own Red 338 00:20:20,700 --> 00:20:23,500 Sea. And I, and others. 339 00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:26,800 We've done all these good things for the town and started a film 340 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:30,700 festival and whole bunch of other wonderful things that as 341 00:20:30,700 --> 00:20:33,500 liberal, Progressive Lefty types that we've done. 342 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,900 And I can't tell you how many people will stop me on the 343 00:20:36,900 --> 00:20:41,400 street, especially even Republican types will say, well 344 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,700 more. I'll tell you I don't agree with 345 00:20:44,700 --> 00:20:50,700 you politically, not a Democrat. I sure like what you've done for 346 00:20:50,700 --> 00:20:55,400 this town though I'll smile and I'll say, well, thank you, 347 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,100 that's very kind of you to say that but I just want you to know 348 00:20:58,100 --> 00:21:01,300 that, you know, the reason that I'm probably doing these good 349 00:21:01,300 --> 00:21:06,200 things for the town, it's because of my politics because 350 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:10,200 what I believe in, because my values that you can't separate 351 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:15,700 that out, so I know it probably feels good to for you to have to 352 00:21:15,700 --> 00:21:18,800 swallow the fact that I'm not a, I'm not the devil. 353 00:21:19,700 --> 00:21:22,900 But I believe that if you give me two seconds of your time, 354 00:21:22,900 --> 00:21:25,100 I'll give you a couple of examples of what else we can do 355 00:21:25,100 --> 00:21:29,700 here to make things better. To stop the sewage going into 356 00:21:29,700 --> 00:21:33,900 Lake Michigan, you know, all so many things, we could do the 357 00:21:33,900 --> 00:21:36,700 things that we stand for, on our side of the political fence. 358 00:21:39,300 --> 00:21:42,400 Inside because we're Democrats, I'm not a democrat in that 359 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:44,400 sense. I'm not, you know, but I vote 360 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,000 for Democrats, I caucus with the Democrats. 361 00:21:50,100 --> 00:21:54,400 So run the right people run, beloved people in town that 362 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,700 people love people. Love these people and of course 363 00:21:56,700 --> 00:21:59,600 they would vote for them. They saw their name on a ballot. 364 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:05,100 But don't be afraid anymore. Don't be afraid to take a stand 365 00:22:05,500 --> 00:22:08,000 and imagine. Imagine what is it going to look 366 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:12,200 like in this red County? Like what if we actually did all 367 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,700 this? What if we got some people 368 00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:18,000 elected? In that red County, I talk to 369 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,200 you about that. I lived 10 years in a Northern 370 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:27,200 Michigan. this past, November 3 of the Township's turn blue in 371 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,900 this red County, the never voted for a Democrat before, and they, 372 00:22:30,900 --> 00:22:34,400 and in this, in this election, the midterm election in November 373 00:22:34,900 --> 00:22:39,100 3, of the townships, in my red County, Photo for Gretchen, 374 00:22:39,100 --> 00:22:42,300 Whitmer, the Democrat for Governor State of Michigan. 375 00:22:43,500 --> 00:22:46,500 And the Democrat for Secretary of State, they still talking 376 00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:48,300 about it. They can't people still cannot 377 00:22:48,300 --> 00:22:55,700 believe that three of the Township's turn blue It's 378 00:22:55,700 --> 00:22:59,000 happened all over the country. In November, they haven't 379 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,200 covered it much on the news because we don't have the media 380 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,600 that we used to have. They do, it's been decimated. 381 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,300 They don't have the reporters. So you don't, we don't hear 382 00:23:07,300 --> 00:23:13,200 about a lot of stuff. But imagine, if we did more 383 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,300 this, what if in the next election? 384 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,000 We tripled what we did in this election? 385 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,900 Think about this. Think about what it would look 386 00:23:23,900 --> 00:23:28,500 like, What would life be like? And my last question, could we 387 00:23:28,500 --> 00:23:34,100 handle it to could, we handle the joy of actually holding the 388 00:23:34,100 --> 00:23:37,700 reins and steering the country in a direction that benefits? 389 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:47,300 Everyone What would it be like if we didn't have to worry about 390 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:49,500 the white supremacist? Ruling the day here? 391 00:23:53,700 --> 00:23:55,300 Isn't that the place where you want to live? 392 00:23:56,100 --> 00:23:59,100 That's where I want to live. And I think we have a good 393 00:23:59,100 --> 00:24:02,200 chance of doing it. The majority are already with us 394 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,900 on the issues. It's up to us to run the right 395 00:24:04,900 --> 00:24:09,100 people. Get them elected and pass 396 00:24:09,100 --> 00:24:13,300 legislation, including on the ballot with ballot proposals. 397 00:24:14,100 --> 00:24:19,200 If we do that, we are going to have a much better situation in 398 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:23,100 this country. And the road ahead, especially 399 00:24:23,100 --> 00:24:26,500 for our kids and our grandkids is going to be a better Road. 400 00:24:29,900 --> 00:24:33,700 I really appreciate you joining with me during these 12 episodes 401 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,500 of the discussion. That's taking place. 402 00:24:36,500 --> 00:24:40,300 The emails you've sent me the comments that you've made the 403 00:24:40,300 --> 00:24:41,600 voicemails. You've left me. 404 00:24:42,900 --> 00:24:46,900 Incredible. And so moving to me and it's 405 00:24:46,900 --> 00:24:50,200 just charged me up and I can't wait to do even more of this. 406 00:24:51,300 --> 00:24:53,500 You know, we're so busy trying to get this podcast out every 407 00:24:53,500 --> 00:24:55,400 day. We've done this pretty much 408 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,900 every day, we had to deal with what was going on in Congress 409 00:24:57,900 --> 00:25:02,000 here last week. But since Christmas day, and we 410 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,500 haven't had time to do transcripts and post them. 411 00:25:04,500 --> 00:25:07,200 So you could read this, not everybody, you know, listens to 412 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:08,900 podcast, but I want to encourage you. 413 00:25:08,900 --> 00:25:11,800 If you've just come to this podcast for the first time to 414 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:15,200 come back to become a free subscriber on my sub stack, 415 00:25:15,900 --> 00:25:18,400 there's a thing where you can subscribe right here, just click 416 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,500 on it, it'll ask you, if you want to be a paid subscription. 417 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:22,600 Scriber, but you don't have to, because I don't have a pay wall, 418 00:25:23,100 --> 00:25:26,000 it's all free. The paid subscription is if you 419 00:25:26,008 --> 00:25:29,300 just want to help support the cause here, you know, it does 420 00:25:29,300 --> 00:25:32,500 cost money to do what we do. But I'm cool. 421 00:25:32,500 --> 00:25:35,400 I just want you listening to the podcast and reading these sub 422 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:39,300 stacked columns that I send out every week, but sign up give a 423 00:25:39,308 --> 00:25:43,300 gift subscription to your good. Family members that are stuck in 424 00:25:43,300 --> 00:25:47,500 these red areas so because we haven't had a chance to put 425 00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:49,900 transcripts up with these. I'm going to try to figure out 426 00:25:49,908 --> 00:25:54,000 how to do a little Like a quickie book called blue dots in 427 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,700 a Red Sea and put this out digitally maybe, I'll approach 428 00:25:57,700 --> 00:26:00,700 my publisher, whatever. I love the little pamphlet type 429 00:26:00,700 --> 00:26:05,000 books or the that little book Timothy Snyder did on tyranny. 430 00:26:05,300 --> 00:26:07,700 Things like that. I think it's good to have the 431 00:26:07,700 --> 00:26:11,000 written word, to what we've been talking about and where you can 432 00:26:11,100 --> 00:26:14,500 see the blueprint, you can read the strategy, you can share it 433 00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:19,800 with others and I still believe in the printed word in books. 434 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,600 So if I I can somehow finagle away to turn this into a quick 435 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,100 book and a digital book. I'm going to do that, so stay 436 00:26:26,100 --> 00:26:27,900 tuned for that. I'll you'll hear about this 437 00:26:27,900 --> 00:26:30,200 hopefully in the next month or so. 438 00:26:30,700 --> 00:26:33,000 And again, thank you for being part of this. 439 00:26:33,300 --> 00:26:36,000 Thank you for everything. You did leading up to the 440 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,100 election in November. All of us together, building 441 00:26:39,100 --> 00:26:41,500 that blue wall. When everybody said we couldn't 442 00:26:41,500 --> 00:26:45,800 do it all the pundits. Everybody even liberals on TV 443 00:26:46,700 --> 00:26:53,000 bemoaning, the fact that we were going to get our ass kicked It's 444 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,800 time to rise out of that, kind of thinking and that despair. 445 00:26:57,500 --> 00:26:59,200 No, the country that you live in. 446 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,200 Yes. There's a lot of crazies. 447 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,800 Yes, 73 million. People voted for Trump. 448 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,500 If you've got 73 million people and a lot of them have guns, 449 00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:12,200 that's not a good feeling. I get it. 450 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,000 You're listening to this from another country or thinking 451 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:14,800 Mike. Mike. 452 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,900 Yeah, but there's 333 million in this country not 71 million. 453 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,300 The majority of the people wanted him gone, they didn't 454 00:27:23,300 --> 00:27:24,400 want him. The first time they wanted 455 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,700 Hillary, she won by 3 million votes but we don't have a true 456 00:27:27,700 --> 00:27:30,800 full democracy yet. And we talked about that on 457 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,600 these podcasts of how we've got to get rid of the Electoral 458 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,500 College. We've got to get rid of the 459 00:27:36,500 --> 00:27:41,900 filibuster, we've got to make gerrymandering a crime and we're 460 00:27:41,900 --> 00:27:46,200 going to do all of that. The people have had it. 461 00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:52,900 My special special thanks to my producer and my editor Angela, 462 00:27:52,900 --> 00:27:55,400 vargo's. Thanks everyone. 463 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:59,300 I hope the New Year is already doing well for you and if not, 464 00:27:59,700 --> 00:28:02,600 I'm here, I'm with you. I appreciate you. 465 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,000 I love you. I appreciate the love that 466 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,700 you're sharing with other people. 467 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:13,300 I am weirdly optimistic right now and I hold my hand out to 468 00:28:13,300 --> 00:28:16,200 you and ask you to join me. Let's start the next phase of 469 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:17,600 this. Let's go on offense. 470 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,900 Let's go into these red parts of the country and let's get a 471 00:28:20,908 --> 00:28:25,100 number of our fellow blue, people elected and save our 472 00:28:25,100 --> 00:28:29,100 democracy such as it is. And make it better. 473 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,300 Come on. We can do this. 474 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,900 We are doing it. This is Michael Moore. 475 00:28:32,300 --> 00:28:34,800 We can do this. We are doing it. 476 00:28:35,900 --> 00:28:36,900 This is Michael Moore.