and donald trump is making noise down in a maralargo, but he s done. the republican party and the crisis in american democracy is not done. and, earlier this week, the democrats in the texas state legislature fled a loaded word but they flew to washington so that there would not be a quorum, so no business could be transacted in the texas state legislature. why? because the republican majority wanted to change the rules on voting and to sharply curtail the ability of people to vote, particularly african americans and people from poorer communities. voting day is usually a tuesday well, you know, a lot of people have jobs where they actually can t take the day off,
of their own, who have known nothing but post dictatorship, pre democratic, grotesquely corrupt societies. iraq i mean, we don t talk enough about iraq, and there s demonstrations all the time. you know what kind of repression is needed to keep the lid on in egypt. we see what is happening in south africa, we see what s happening in cuba. and i think it is the long noted demographic bulge. there s so many people, young people who want more, who, through the internet, through intervention by the united states and the g7 powers, been opened up to the idea of democracy, but their daily lives are ground down by horrendous corruption. and covid has given them a spark to come into the streets and say, no, we will not live like this any more.
cuba is a political football in america, you have the miami cubans on the right and the american left who want to support the revolution, which is a totally corrupted one party, one family rule. there is nothing to support there. what is interesting to me is when you think back to when south africa threw off apartheid in the early 905, when you think of iraq today, there is a generation of people who are 30 years old and they probably have started families of their own, who have known nothing but post dictatorship, pre democratic, grotesquely corrupt societies. we don t talk enough about iraq, and there are demonstrations all the time. you know what kind of repression is needed to keep the lid on in egypt. we see what is happening in south africa, in cuba.
he has not lifted them and the cubans have used as an excuse to say, it is a billy the american s fault, if only they lifted the embargo, we could feed you, everything would be right again. is it a diplomatic mistake, do you think, to keep a country like cuba under this embargo and give them this excuse? there are a lot of people - who say mr biden should see if he cannot be adopted - what mr 0bama did, particularly by opening up and relaxing sanctions, allowing - the remittances, all of thati money to go from cubans in america. i am not an expert inl the politics of florida, but i am told that it is a key part of it. l the democratic party are trying to defend themselves - in key races there, they do not want to pick a fight with the powerful cuban - republicans at the moment, etc, etc. so there is a little bit of politics in this. - at the moment, joe biden is being very specific. - yesterday, himself at the press conferencel with angela merkel, he referred to cuba as a failed stat
something that will always stay with me, especially coming from germany. james, finally, on the relationship between united states and cuba. it is a fascinating one, not least in its peculiarity. joe biden is chuck with the trump sanctions stuck with the trump sanctions stuck with the trump sanctions stuck with the trump sanctions. is it a diplomatic mistake, do you think, to keep a country like cuba under that embargo? keep a country like cuba under that embaruo? . , .,, ., embargo? there are people who say es, mr embargo? there are people who say yes. mr itiden embargo? there are people who say yes, mr biden should embargo? there are people who say yes, mr biden should re-adopt i embargo? there are people who say yes, mr biden should re-adopt what| yes, mr biden should re adopt what mr 0bama yes, mr biden should re adopt what mr 0bama did. yes, mr biden should re adopt what mr 0bama did, particularly- yes, mr biden should re adopt what mr 0bama did, particularly open