If this video doesn't sit well with you, GOOD. It shouldn't. Maybe you can't put your finger on all the reasons why it doesn't. To be fair, John Kerry is a great speaker. He speaks with confidence and concern with statesman stature. However the words he uses need to be decoded. It took me a long time to realize that his (and the class of people that opperate state agencies) vision for governance is actually burdened by the people. Once I figured out that their definitions of words are different than their original meaning everything clicked.
“It is really hard to govern today” = control the minds of the population. Some times you hear the word “populism” and lately it is in a negative light. This because the desire of the state is different than the desire of the people. It is always hard to govern when the state views populism as a threat.
“The referees we used to have to determine what is a fact and what isn't a fact” = state-funded institutions with the ability to change definitions as needed. Their titles are simply referred to as “experts” but note, only the ones that come from institutions that have state and corporate funding.
When elites say "threat to democracy", they’re not talking about a risk to the idea of government “by the people and for the people”. Instead, they’re talking about a threat to the institutions that currently hold power—the ones that have grown comfortable with their authority. These institutions—whether it's the state, media, or big corporations—have not acted in the best interest of the public for a very long time. They are dead set focused on protecting their own power and keeping control, knowing that it doesn’t represent the people.
You are a hindrance to their agenda. Every time you watch a video that is not from an “official news source” or listen to a podcast from someone who’s been canceled and censored, your freedoms are getting in the way of “democracy.” They view your First Amendment as a privilege that will need to be modified once they “win the right to govern”.
As for me, I'm a huge fan of misinformation and disinformation. If the state does not want me to know something then I definitely want to know what it is. Allow me to determine what I choose to believe and what I choose to not believe. The state has been choosing what I was allowed to know for a long time. 12 years of government school growing up. I remember as an adult the first time I realized the state choose a set of “facts” that the population adopted but simply were not true. Remember the food pyramid brought to you through the public schools by the FDA? Binge on carbs, limit meat and eggs (read the book Fiat Food to learn why they said that). That was the first time I realized that my best interest was not in mind by the state and that “facts” are subject to the incentives of the agency that crafted the “fact.”
I recently went to hear Kennedy speak. He said to remember these three rules.
“One: when you give a government a power it will never voluntarily relinquish it.
Two: if you give a government a power, it will ultimately abuse it to the maximum extent possible.
Three: no one ever complied their way out of totalitarianism.”
John Kerry, the rights of the people are derived from God. May it will forever stand as a roadblock to your idea of Democracy! https://video.nostr.build/bfaf69b65b5ea4adea0a2bc849d49e016c03de2b02f945f1041923e5bdc28aac.mp4