Through The Years, this is Rumble with Michael Moore.
Welcome everyone. Episode 6 of our Series this
week called Old blue dots in a Red Sea.
This episode, we are calling our civic duty.
We must attend, it's been great hearing from all of you.
How you're already acting on the things, I'm suggesting that
people do in Red towns and red counties, instead of just
sitting there and feeling sorry for the fact that we're
surrounded by so many, right? Winger so much hate.
There are now numerous examples across the country where
liberals lefties. Democrats progressives have been
elected in the midterm elections and elsewhere across the country
and this can happen where you live and if you live in a what
we call a blue area, there are parts of your state that are red
and republican-dominated, you have family and friends who live
in Texas and Florida and North Carolina on And on and on and
you can tell them about what we're talking about, you can
send them this blue dots in a Red Sea series.
Now, we're already up to episode 6.
If you missed the previous episodes, there's a link to
these episodes on this page. Go back and listen to them.
Just like we built the blue tsunami for the midterms that
stopped the Red Wave. People are already now at work.
In red areas across the country to get ready for the next
election and to do it now. Not wait.
So in this episode here, let me explain what I mean by our civic
duty and how we must show up. We must attend Every month in
every County in America in every town or city in America, there
are meetings of elected officials and sadly.
In a lot of red areas. There are only Republicans on
the Town, Council on the County Commission.
And most people don't go to the public meetings, they don't pay
attention to them in a lot of areas, especially rural areas.
They no longer have a A media oppress that covers what's going
on at these meetings. And because they then operate
mostly in the dark, they get away with murder.
They do stuff against the public interest.
And these Republicans who control these County
commission's, these town council's, they do the bidding
of the people who have the money.
We have the power in town, You know what I'm talking about?
If you live in one of these areas, I've lived in areas like
this. So I want to propose something,
very simple and that's for you and your newfound friends who
vote for Democrats who are themselves of a liberal mind.
I want each of you to sign up to attend a governmental meeting.
Who here doesn't have the time to go to one public meeting of
the elected representatives to see what they're doing and to
report back to the larger group. This is what's going on.
This is what I witnessed. We all have the time to do this
because we're not asking a lot again, if you've got 50 or 100
people who have already signed up to be part of this new
movement in your town, in your county.
You just need 12 people, that would cover a whole year of
school board meetings. They'll go once a year and it's
better if there's two of you Two Democrats to liberals to
Progressive, whatever you want to call yourself.
There's two of you. At next month's school board
meeting sign up right now I'll take February.
No, I'll take March okay, you'll do may just create the list,
amongst the people who are going to show up in a tent and there's
two of you, you sit there in the audience and you take notes.
So that after the meeting you could write up a report as to
here's what the school board did at this meeting and you send it
to each of the people who joined your group, the blue people in
your red area and now they know and I would make yourself known,
I would wear a button that wherever you live.
If you live in red snake County just wear a button that says,
red snake Dems. And they're going to be like,
what there's Democrats in the room.
Are you kidding? Oh yeah, I know.
We're citizens. We vote.
We want to see what's going on, and we want to report back to
people seriously, it will blow their mind.
They're not used to our site showing up in red states.
Red counties. If you show up, and you're
sitting there, You're writing stuff down and then your
reporting back to the larger group.
That's one of the first steps that needs to be taken another
thing you can do. While you're there, let's say
it's the County Commission meeting or the city council
meeting Town, Council, Village Council, whatever its called
you're there in the audience, there's always a public comment
section at these meetings. And all of a sudden, you find
yourself in a meeting where the school board is talking about
banning books. Because there are characters in
these books that have lgbtq people mentioned in them.
So, you know, there's a huge effort afoot here to ban these
books in public schools across the country, or you're at a
County Commission meeting where they've decided to ignore the
recommendations on how to deal with the climate catastrophe
that were in the middle of And then one of you, the two of you
who are, they're attending the meeting you decide you're going
to stand up at the public comment section and say
something about this to defend these books, they want to ban to
force them to acknowledge that the local environment, the
little piece of the planet that this red Town occupies is
committing actions that are making things worse.
You can report that back to the larger group, you can also stand
up and say something that usually have like a three to
five minute time limit. But if you find yourself there
and all of a sudden, there's a group of people that have been
lining up at the podium to talk about how they don't want their
children, being taught in school about America's racist past
about how we enslaved human beings. here's your chance to
let them hear for the first time probably ever somebody stand up
and say, no, you know, I think our students should learn about
that and give the reasons why The first step in really
accomplishing anything, isn't it really that?
You have to show up? It seems like the simplest of
ideas and yet so often we don't or we leave it up to somebody
else or we think somebody else is doing it.
No, this has to be done by you. so in your new blue group in red
snake County, you know, you get out of calendar and you pass it
around and you ask people to sign up for one school board
meeting this year or sign up for one town council meeting or one
County Commission meeting. You don't need a lot of people.
Like I said, if you've got 50 to 100 people, you already have
enough people. If everybody just chose one or
two meetings, a year to attend, you've got the time, we all had
the time to show up, jeez. If we can't do that, what's the
point? We all need to put ourselves on
the map and again if you live in a blu-ray, you should do this to
it shouldn't just be in a red area.
We should all be attending and speaking out and paying
attention to what our elected representatives are doing.
This is our moment. And this is going to feel really
good doing this and doing it with others, doing with
strangers. You are voice at these meetings,
you are going to pull the curtains back.
So they do not operate in the dark, any longer you're going to
shine a light and you're going to let the rest of us know in
our group? What happened last night?
At that school board meeting at that County Commission meeting.
I know, like I said, it's so simple and yet it's so
important. And you will put the local blue
group on the map. And they will know that there
will be somebody there at every meeting during the year.
There may be two people. There, there may be more, you
may decide to bring friends and family on your night that you're
covering it. Bring five people.
Make sure everybody's wearing a button or something to identify
themselves. I know you're thinking Mike I
really don't want to go into the Hornet's Nest here of these
right-wingers and identify myself.
Don't worry about it. Seriously, the first of all
they're so cocksure of themselves that they're going to
keep running things and that there are no Democrats.
There are no liberals in our red Town.
They're not going to actually be worried, not at first at least.
Your presence, your presence must be felt and seen.
You are the bulwark that stands between tyranny and a free
people. Because if democracy is allowed
to operate in the dark behind closed doors, no press covering
it. Oh, that's there Nirvana.
You prevent that from happening, simply by being there.
That's all I wanted to say today.
These are short podcasts. There's not a lot to think about
here. Make this part of your mission
in your blue group. I can't believe all the mail
that you've been sending me in these last few days during the
week between Christmas and New Year's and you're already
planning your first meeting in January.
Somebody sent me a posters that they're putting up around
Portland for the the group that they've formed here this week,
the Portland Democrats and Independence, broadening that
tent bringing in more people and not just waiting for the party
hacks to do this, but you the people you do it.
Thank you for participating in this.
Thank you for doing what you're already doing.
To preserve our democracy. On this New Year's Eve.
We end 2022. What a year of the suspend.
Oh my God, but we made it. We got through it.
The Red Wave didn't come crashing down and destroy
everything. Yeah, they got a little piece of
the cake. But as I told you there will be
many of them that won't make it through the two years whether
because of Scandal weather because one of their own elected
representatives are discovered as being a fraud and a fake.
The Republicans are having a very hard time trying to create
any control there in the middle of chaos and we want to help
them but that chaos Thank you for listening to this.
Today, I'll be back tomorrow on New Year's Day with a special
edition of this blue dots in a Red Sea mini podcast series for
you. I'm going to go over some
suggestions for your local groups for you and your friends,
New Year's resolutions for our democracy, actual things that
you can do. That'll be tomorrow on New
Year's Day. Thank you again enjoy this
evening. Say goodbye to this year and
let's look forward to all the good that we're going to do in
2023. It's an exciting thought.
They had no idea what was coming at them on November 8 this year
and they really, really have no idea what you and I and
thousands of others are cooking up here for the new year of
2023. Be well, everyone take care and
happy New Year.