bring democracy to the Middle East it was as if he had no sense of of the forces that had made the Arab world undemocratic for centuries no awareness of how much harder it is to doanything uh about the political culture of a place which is profoundly authoritarian and has been for a long time it doesn't mean the Arab world is
Number one, ownership conflicts are all around us. Is it undemocratic ? Is it unfair?
It violated, in ways that I found intolerable, the rights of a religious minority-- the biggest religious minority, in fact-- in Switzerland. But to call it undemocratic is a little odd, because a majority of the people did, in fact, vote for it. So the way I think to understand what Viktor Orbán has done in Hungary and the way to understand parts of what Donald
and Twitter is just um an incredible godsend um and so what I will find especially interesting is looking to those um uh sort of developing countries um in undemocratic countries to see whether these organizing Technologies um actually uh help not just to have a demonstration effect of showing the uh
And the reason why they don't do that is because it's one of the most anti-democratic institutes you could possibly imagine. I'm just gonna mentioned two specific things about it being highly undemocratic . The first one is we're here in New York.
I want to take one of our online questions now. championing those values, or being neutral about them relative to maybe illiberal values or undemocratic ?
The building of minarets is forbidden." Which doesn't make much sense. Now, that was criticized in the Swiss media and abroad as undemocratic . And I think that's a confusion of terms.
I mean, maybe in another country he's not your president, but if you're an American-- you may not like him, I don't like him, but he's my president. He was elected. And that the DNC is not openly rejecting that sentiment as undemocratic and undermining of our national ideals is disgusting. And that the GOP, when Donald Trump engaged in a seven-year-long campaign to convince the American public
to vote or they were it was very heavily restricted. It was hard for them to vote. And that existed in the United States, you know, between the Civil War and the and the 1960s, you had very undemocratic parts of the United States. And I think some of the people who are in Washington right now in the Trump administration are working from that
democracy in this country. And that was the imperfect response. Hey, that kind of sound like you all are saying we saved democracy by further making the system undemocratic , though. That is a fair fair point to make, right? Like, how far do you go when trying to save democracy if the things
And both sides engage in it and it's disgusting. And honestly, when people say, he's not my president, you are saying is deeply undemocratic thing when you say that. He is your president.
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