a democracy. e you can t be because in a a democracy, the government has a moral and legal obligation to tell you the truth. always, period.n and that makes sense because in a democracy, you are not a subject or a mere consumer. you reen. a citizen. of you are a shareholder in who the system. you were an owner of it.nt are y the people who run your government are your employees. likethey re like your cleaningod lady. you may appreciate the work they do. good jobe minute you. cuf but the minute you catch them stealing your cufflinks, you fired them. those are the rules because bu those are the rules because t whatbut what if the rules were inverted? what if you caught an employee stealing? but instead of seemingseem asha and penington, he whipped around and attacked you like you were the criminahel? f well, that is the experience of watching white house spokesman john kirby talk about the destruction of the nord stream pipelines. anyondestructorth stre who ie who thinks
you see that every day. how ow many members of congress who voted to expand the police powers od tof the irs don t payn their own taxes? more than a few. w how many politicians sup who fervently support gun control have armed bodyguardst o that you pay for? well, let s see.r? every single one we could go on and on and on. whatever they re demanding thato you do this week, you can be dead certain they are notbe doing it themselves. everyone notices us . it enrages people, but it s often misinterpreted people say. this is hypocrisy, but it sit sp not. it s privilegrivileged.e. when nancy pelosi walks into her hair a point without a mask at the height of the covid, no lockdown s, it s not because she forgot to bring a mask. noe fo, she knows exactly whate she s doing. nancy pelosi is affirming her position iorder.n social order. nancy pelosi is in charge. you are not. nancy pelosi can do whatever she cares to do.ca you can res to dt. that s the messages is she s sending an
the same way our leaders run our country. they yammer on endlessly g abour itmocracy, but then at the same time, they do their best to a avoid democracy s most basic requirements, like free speechel and representative government. e a few years ago, the prime minister of italy at the time, paolo gentiloni, bragged tow ye the world economic forum about his plans to, quote, bring more social justice to the country by what she meant, importing many more thousands of poorly educated economic migrants from the third world into italy. we are very open on migration, he said. we are saving lives at sea, a saving lives.oo congratulations. you re such a good person. but the question is , and it s a relevant question in a democracy, what are the people who live in italy that would be your constituents? think of that idea. well, as the prime ministert? explained, he didn t care, quot: quote, a demand for more democracy not only is wrong, it s even dangerous.llows you following this, you
moving the setting to new york city. we wencityt to brian kilmeade fa comment. oh, my . oh, my gosh. something clearly is wrong with him. i mean, other than his . personality looks and careertti choice. butth according to one casts member, settincig a movie in ths city will make it twenty timess more mortifying. moreyeah, no, all you gotta do e is turn the camera on and point it down any street. and if there isn t a burning fox news christmas tree in your way and just hope thatd st someone doesn t beat youea senseless and steal your camera before you re done. so how is new york lately? well, yo u got machete attacks. you got gangs, and dirt bikesstg robbing people in daylight. you got strung out o and homele and that s just in kat s apartment. yeah, yo shou got of shoving pee in front of trains. elderly you got transients clobbering the elderly. you got jesse watters hangingen out on sixth avenuuel e hoping you ll recognize him who don t p give him money or he ll give you
so with that in mind, it s the worth remembering that one hundred years ago, memphis a boom was one of the richest, best organized cities in the country. it ha hadd a booming economy. it had beautiful municipalhan parks, a lot of them more than a hundred. it had one of the most modern te sanitation systems in worle take something w for granted now. but when yellow fever was real, no one took it for granted. memphis was such a bigwas th deal that in fact, was the mis the informal capital of an entire american region. the mississippi deltanot an,t not anymore. in fact, by last year, i f b you went to memphis, it was hard to believe that any of that had ever been true at any point. because by that point and nowa memphis had become a husk and a highly threatening one in 2020si one , according to federal, statistics, memphis, tennessee, was the most dangerous city in the united states . talast year.w much it recorded a total of three hundred and forty two murders. no?w, how