How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- We review the book, How Democracies Die, and its highly relevant discussion of the rise of autocrats, Donald Trump, and how easily democracies fall. By Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. As always, just our honest thoughts... no hate, ill will, or intolerance intended. Whatever your personal feelings, much love to you all.
Dave & Olive ❤️
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Dave, I don't think I can read this right now. I'm well aware of how easily we can lose our representative democracy. We are on the brink. I so miss the days when we could discuss and argue policy without forgetting the importance of our country's very foundation. Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts. 💚🐶
I get it. Its scary stuff.
I read this book in 2019. The danger to our democracy can’t be underestimated. I glad you are willing to talk about this.
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Scary stuff, Greg. Olive says hi! 🐶
Thank you so much for doing your part in keeping the dialogue open and sincere. I think most people are quite unsatisfied with the two choices we are to pick from. Ranked choice voting would alleviate so many systemic issues we have. Cheers.
Hi Jorge. Thanks for your comments. We have to do something, right? It’s getting scary out there.
Fascinating sounding book. Great discussion.
Thanks Brian. I'm sure you would like it. "like" is not really the right word, but you know what I mean.
Great video. A lot of food for thought.
Thanks girl!
Love the shirt and glad you are home safe. No doubt Olive was very excited to see you home. Enjoyed hearing your review of this book. You did an excellent job with many relevant points. Sad you would lose subscribers over this, you are stating your opinion based on the book and what you see happening.
@@Cobaltdragon Hey, you gain some, you lose some 🤷♂️ . Thanks Elaine!
@@BookBlather very true.
This book sounds super interesting! I definitely don’t know much about global politics so this seems like I’d learn something for sure. (I’m honestly so scared for the upcoming election. 😩)
You and me both. It’s a very easy read, and I feel like I learned a fair bit.
I dunno how you got through this! I feel like it would just make me angry like talking to most of my coworkers (2A and hate the proper groups or keep walking til you get to a country where you’re wanted, yea I’ve been actually told that, or had folks proud that their child will probably get their butt handed to em for groping women that admittedly aren’t interested, but at least its proof the little criminal is straight 🙄🤬)
It gives me a bit of hope that you can be Republican, but not acting like Trump is just perfect in every way as I so often deal with. If more folks were like you, maybe we could actually find a not terrible middle ground.
As always, love the shirt and Olive is absolutely adorable and deserves all the treats!
@@gingerbibliophile Oh man. Sorry to hear about your experience, Kat. But it’s not shocking these days… that crap has become so normalized… so demoralizing 😖. Also, for the record, Olive is a democrat, and we love each other to death! 😊
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Nervious times. Fascinating book. I like reading about the history of Rome and Juliuss Caesar. Glad to hear you speaking out against Trump. Even my Christian-Conservitive father is against him 😮🎉😂
Scary times, Allen. Scary times.
Sadly nothing last forever,
Yours and Olive's demonic eyes seemed kind of appropriate. Great review. Project 2025 has gotten a lot of attention today in the press and I'm stressed out of my mind.
@@eriebeverly I know. I didn’t even want to mention that 😖. I don’t know what happened with the eyes… wasn’t using a candle this time 🤷♂️. But like you said…. it seemed appropriate 😈
@@BookBlather Whatever was causing the glowing eyes went away when you commented that you thought your camera had died. Maybe some kind of backup light or something?
@@eriebeverly Ah! Probably left the flash on. Thanks… that’s a good trick to know when it’s time for Halloween videos 😊
@@BookBlather I got the impression that you've had cataracts treated, or in some other fashion had your corneas or retinas replaced surgically at some point, but even with that in mind I thought it was odd that it was both eyes! Pretty uncommon having to have such an extreme surgery in both eyes!
@@DestructoPop Hehe… look closely, and you’ll see Olive has them too 😜. You’re not the first person to mention that. It’s an artifact of the light. Sometimes I do it on purpose with a candle (if we’re talking horror or at Halloween). This time it was by accident… left the camera flash on 😂
Next time you go on vacation take Outlaw by Angus Donald, its a fun, popcorn historical fantasy about Robin Hood. Just wanted to give you a book that was 180 degrees from the political science book.🤪
I'll write that one down 😊
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