@James Barlow Glad you think so. I wonder if that is why he is a world respected historian, author, lecturer and commentator and you're not?

Yes, he has been talking and writing about the causes and conditions for democracy, and for authoritarianism. The part of this interview which sticks with me (probably because I’ve been thinking the same thing for years 😉) is that, in order to have a functioning democracy, you need a lot more than simply having elections at regular intervals. It takes an informed, educated population. It takes a relatively peaceful situation. And it takes all that, because elections need to be about more than short-term solutions to acute situations. So people need to be able to think further down the road, which takes some basic security.

Democrats Court Packing? These guys are Propagandists!

@@hexistenz Which is why conservatives Republicans whatever you want to call them always are cutting educational funds they want people to be ignorant so that they can dominate them more easily

Patronising old fart

@@theoilandgasresourceportal2132 You can't handle the truth? Does it hurt when you know that everything he said was real? All you have to do is to change your mind ...that's it .Nothing special...when you see that something it's wrong ,just cross on the other side .You can cross back ,when your old side is right again,but why keep defending a lie ?

@James Barlow again - IF you would have voiced your criticism in a constructive manner one could take you seriously - this way you only come over as a disruptive element

@@gabrielconstantingarvvan2518 Britain voted for Brexit, its called democracy, if you dont like it try somewhere else

@@theoilandgasresourceportal2132 -Britain- ENGLAND voted for Brexit, its called -democracy- OVERRULE, if you dont like it try somewhere else ------- SOME OF THEM WILL

Yeah right, this guy's a Leftist clown propagandist.

Wow what a thought proving guy. It’s still all very overwhelming 🙏🏼🌏🌎🌍

Rochester Johnny I agree. I've read everything he's written and listened to his youtube seminars. He is indeed one of our greatest political thinkers of our time. To think he wrote On Tyranny in 2016: how prescient.

@James Barlow IF you would have voiced your criticism in a constructive manner one could take you seriously - this way you only come over as a disruptive element

@@labelmail You don't listen to constructive criticism. If so, you would have known long ago this fellow is a discredited hack.

good old russia scapegoat since napoleon. oh you losers

Agree Hazel.

Thanks. Will follow up.

@@MrSp0iler there's just nothing to you is there? You are as empty as your silly statement and I bet if I went to your channel that it would say this channel has no content which after all is just a statement reflecting who You are

Yes Hazel. Great insight & massive knowledge learning most of the languages of Eastern Europe to do original research on fascism and its rise destroying Russian and other peoples throughout the East. So sad to see Putin turning to fascism that Timothy details in his work.

Brilliantly biased sure!

@@DaveSCameron OK.

And by pointing that out you just told us more about you than you told us about him. Thanks.

Billithekat .. and the Israelis, of course.

It is hard to know who to trust less: CFR or Wikipedia.

@@billithekat1088 Don't worry, when the Chinese/Russian axis reaches its full maturation, in a decade or less, "nuking" Iran will be impossible unless our fearless leaders can figure out how to stop (technically unstoppable) hypersonic Russian missiles which would be fired in return for any assault on Iran. No difference who is in the White House then.

Of course he is and a member of the mo-co-di cabal too*

Made you feel warm and smug

Like, what could we learn?

@@goldwater1984 we could learn that academics living in ivory towers have no understanding, concern or regard for the lives of ordinary people

@@theoilandgasresourceportal2132 that's how I see it as well. Was wondering what context theShowman was using.

@Live Free or Die 2021 oh don't worry they can ignore it, nothing to see , those people don't count.Black,White, will all suffer.

@@davidrenton a large part of the urban/rural divide is largely a function of income inequality and opportunity inequality. If we can smooth that out and improve the lot of people in rural areas much of that will evaporate. And I live in a rural area, so i have a front row seat on the neglect of rural areas (access to broadband and quality healthcare are good examples).

Yes, strap their hands in and pry open their eyes with toothpicks as you play it.

I agree with Mr Snyder but alas 1996 Education Act states that governors, councils and heads must “forbid the promotion of partisan political views in the teaching of any subject in the school”. It doesn't seem to limit this to the UK context. I never did so during my 12 years' teaching career in the UK as a teacher and distinctly remember speaking to a head of my school who said she was not allowed to take a Brexit side because of her position. Of course, curriculum content is determined by political and ideological views but that is a different story...

No need, they've already been brainwashed by woke Marxist claptrap for decades now.

and well beyond secondary schools

Stop grooming children with your indoctrination you deviant

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For a opinion that is so not true. This guy is a joke.

@@sandrametzler8625 How so?

@Ivan Dafoe kudos for you. When dealing with a moron you need to be patient

Propaganda by the left. Clinton was ready to hand over to the Chinese. We know, they know that we know. We know they know that we know but they think we are stupid. In the next few weeks we will find out the truth.

LEFTIST PROPAGANDA🚩 STRAIGHT UP LIES! PUKE! 🤮

hear, hear

*yore

Yes, he is a fantastic activist.

Journalism? If he was a journalist he would not be employed by Channel 4 News. He is a Journalist in the same way Benito Mussolini was. A political activist who uses his evident talents as a writer and speaker to advance his political views. The main difference between Krishnan and Benito - Krish has no desire to enter active politics.

this is some of his better work - don't like the hectoring quick-fire style on news some times (and the Robert Downey Jr interview was shameful - but he was right to shake Tarantinos cage a bit given his cultural/cinematic influence)

I know, right?! Need to listen several times! They are both so eloquent, pertinent questions, incisive answers. Just a joy.

This is my go to for news , plus documentaries Channel four , News, and FILM FOUR. Yes I live in Scotland, lucky me.

Do not believe 1 word not 1 word! Aho Mitakuye Oiyasin!

Really? This Tim Synder? Author of "Bloodlands". Listening to him in this interview blather on about Russiagate is a bit of an embarassment for a Princeton academic. Tim Synder is at best an incompetent and partisan historian and at worst a rightwing imperialist propagandist.

@sybiz sybiz222 I would not agree with what you said about his best traits. I do not agree that his ability to motivate and inspire people Threatening people, stealing money, engaging workers to carry out work on many of his buildings, then refusing to pay them for the work they've don. defrauding people, cheating on each of his wives. He's a crook, who even tried to alter his own Father's Will, to ensure he got as much as he could. Think on.

Pomposity alert

WE cannot change. We can only improve. Social media is already part of our reality. What we can do is improve the conditions the virtual world operates under

Krishnan not Kristian

@@bl00dhoney Cursed auto-correct, thank you!

@@JackOsborneFilm auto-correct = them😅

Narcissistic Behaviour here! Antifa/BLM are deep state operatives! Trump will take the day and you will rejoice when the Truth is unveiled!

@@kathyborthwick6738 You might try wearing a tin foil hat to stop those strange voices you're hearing...it's a pity you weren't able to learn something valuable here...all because they keep ranting away at you so loudly.

@@kathyborthwick6738 Black Lives Matter,I cant breathe. Dont kill me.

@@judytelles9227 have you seen the whole tape? Where he's walking back n forth sayin I can't breathe, which happens when you're od'ing on fentanyl, but, unfortunately, his body stood breathing.

@@billithekat1088 George Soros pays for most. Look up BLM, and it says donations go to the democrats campaigns, after the top mucky mucks take their shares, of course.

Example?

@@jo18533 Leslie Wright

A rich privileged white man telling the plebs how dreadful they are. How they should all embrace his world view, which will keep him rich... stfu

I wouldn't place so much emphasis on throwaway comments by damaged nobodies, they don't contribute to leading thought. Very interesting was his point about the downgrading of humanities and history in education, before you learn what to think you must learn _how_ to think.

@@SirAntoniousBlock im sure you'd love to tell people how to think..

We’re wish he can be our President for ever

well spotted mate! there must have been a ton of suitable 'noddies' they could have used, poor QC basically (having spent 15 years in the broadcast industry)

I am astonished that this was your takeaway from this interview... Class A Smartarsery

Bravo!

Well said!

Journalism requires presenting a balanced view.

How did "they" rig the elections in ireland ? & who are they ?

also part of Trumps playbook. He studied Hitler

@Live Free or Die 2021 USA doesn't need the Russians to fck up. Russia can lean back and watch how USA manages by itselves...

Don’t you realize that these elites don’t want you to critically think, because if you did you’d realize you were on the wrong side of history.

But will they listen.

Corporations like yes men not intelligent men. That goes for women too:)

@@rorygee482 Corporations don't get to vote. People do. So we have no one to blame but ourselves, no matter how influential you think big money is.

@@endlessadventure541 Of course I’m not saying we bear no responsibility, however rich people like Murdoch who have agendas and the outlets to promote them can keep a lot of politicians in check. They can make or break political brands as easily as they can washing powder brands. That’s just factual.

As I was born in Poland and my grandfather fought against the actual fascists, I hesitate, even now to equate others to the fascists but the types of people who stormed the Capitol are definitely fascists. Certainly not "conservatives" though - anyone who destroys and damages anything such as statues and shows no respect for hundred year old buildings and ways in no way 'conserves' anything. Those people are undemocratic anarchists running on some one-person cult. However, I'm not willing to extend the definition of fascist to the remaining 70 million people who voted for him. They might be stupid but that alone doesn't make one a fascist. There should also be more discussion of how societal space for an angry childish toddler such as Trump had been generated in the first place.

@@kamiltrzebiatowski9331 I am actually a conservative by nature, but this is to much. I only said it because when you can't face the actual fact and look for any lies to cover your wrong doing then is sad it's really sad. Born in Italy lived in uk for 8 years immigrate to South East Asia for 23 years now back in UK with similarities. Brexit is based with the same extremists for right wing those they so call themselves Patriotic but far away from the truth they base their fact on lies. America is always been the pillar of democracy on the world they are recognised as been the one, but social media unfortunately with the spreading of REAL FAKE NEWS has brought all this to us and finally is time to reverse the trend we all have the right to live our life each one of us but within the human code and not brainwashing people. This will eventually be recognised that Trump is an Authoritarian Dictator type of personality. More importantly is a racist too so yeah is simple as that. All the best Ciao

@@mauriziointrigila1787 This looks like a very interesting response. Unfortunately, and I genuinely mean that, I'm struggling to understand your message and its content as you have not used any punctuation in your post, making it difficult to figure out where one sentence stops and another begins. If you are able to edit it, I shall respond. I genuinely do not mean any disrespect and hope none is taken.

@@kamiltrzebiatowski9331 hahaha yeah sorry no worry will do that....

@@mauriziointrigila1787 I've become more conservative lately because of the actions and ideologies of radical left wingers such as radical feminists and generally 'woke' movement, which impacted heavily on my personal life a few years back, almost costing me my life. I consider these movements to be as dangerous and based on lies, as you say, as the extreme right wing movements. Radical left is smarter in that it pretends to be for equality while it is clearly interested in power. Right wing extremists such as the insurrectionists in the States are aggressive and open. They need to be stopped. And Trump *is* dangerous but I wish people would look closer at the conditions that made it possible for him to become so popular and get such following. Any movements seem to be not just *for* something but also *against* something. That something seems to be rooted in postmodernism and hope fir once the left would stop pretending they are moral angels. The idea of fake news can be derived directly from the very tenets of postmodernism. I hope Trump is impeached, removed. What he did is inexcusable. He is certainly an authoritarian but primarily I think he is an idiot and Narcissus. A child who cannot take defeat. A child with a huge amount of power - that is truly scary. Children should not be presidents of anything, much less of the United States. A president inciting the attack on his own government's buildings is beyond reproach - and just freaking weird. It's like if I incited my neighbours to attack my house because I'm not a Councillor in my street! I personally prefer not to use words like racist, liar and transphobe but rather be specific about an action that is so. I don't particularly think Britain is a racist country, having grown up where I did, but there's certainly racism in it (the fact racism or sexism exists here doesn't make it sexist or racism but that's a philosophical point). Trump, however, is racist because the amount of evidence for it in his case is simply staggering. I used to be a teacher - the guy would've had 800 behaviour referrals from me had he been in my class! I just hope this does not spin out of control. I mean the twitter and others taking moral ground and banning speech. This is dangerous - and stinks of actual censorship of the kind I still remember from communist Poland. It never ever ends well. By the way, Trump is certainly no conservative and neither are people destroying the Capitol: nobody who destroys historical statues and goes against century-old revered traditions in this way can possibly be considered 'conservative'. It was actually quite amusing to hear Democrats defend the traditions; normally you hear them speak of defunding the police, removing statues and taking down capitalism. With this level of tensions, I won't be surprised if 20 years from now there will no longer be United States but two or more countries bordering Canada.

He pulled in $200mill

WHAT A LOAD OF DECEITFUL RUBBISH.

People said him running and winning the primary was unlikely. Never rule out the unthinkable

Yeah best stay clear of Dominion counting machines and smartmatic softwear

Yes I saw that podcast, basically the coup attempt was an inside job. The military wouldn’t get behind it , but the capital police sure did!

Bloodlands by Snyder was an excellent ......sobering....book

Beyond Tyranny is short and an excellent guide to preventing authoritarianism.

@@adriennerutledge5745 Do you mean "On Tyranny?" If so, I agree.

well said

'angry, racist, media personality flying the flag of regression.' Such as..

'Poverty' is the inability of a person within a society to have a viable contingency plan for a (foreseeable) threat to his well-being that other people in the same society DO have a viable contingency for, primarily through the use of purchasing power. The easiest example for this in the US are situations with medicines, where person A is able to afford the cost and survives, while person B cannot afford the cost, so person B has an existential threat to his life. While in poverty, an individual will not be able to consider the impact of different political platforms that impact his future because his priority will be to figure out how to survive today.

Good discussion point from @ J H. I'd go a little more basic and say that poverty is not simply based upon economics or even basic survivability (food/clothing/shelter). Rather, it is based in the marginalization of any people from societal norms. For example, the societal norm is to have insurance, saving, etc. to legally survive an emergency. The marginalized may have no other option than to operate outside of the law to meet the needs of the same emergency: theft, hustle, con, etc.) There's also "intellectual poverty" (and many others) that are obviously rampant across segments of our populace - both in the US and across other countries/cultures. But I digress. :)

Congrats to you , with so many strikes against you , you rose above those imperatives!! Dr. McCallister! ( theres Irish in there too, my mom is Jew , with the last name McCallister!)

@@rachelmacdonald723 my husband’s last name is McCalister. My family name is Hobbs. Thanks

Well, ain't you just a smorasborg of victimhood. Good for you.

@@gugenheimer7728 you read that into my comment. Aren't you a smorgasbord of misdirected rage.

@@BryanHobbsMcCalister Nope. You're doing the victim Olympics thing. Good luck with that. Might get you tenure.

I don’t think he actually said that. He talked about patterns, not identical events.

Ann P the difference between the UK and the USA is when leaders overstep the line they are booted out by the people, if it was proven that Boris said over 30.000 lies I'm sure he would not hold office for the full term,!!(maybe I'm wrong,) I'm not a fan of any politician.