It Could Happen Here - How To Save America
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The first several episodes
of this podcast
have gotten a more
enthusiastic reaction
than I could have ever guessed.
I'm very grateful for that.
My motivation for doing this show
comes out of a very deep fear
I feel towards
where this country is headed
and what might happen if our present destructive course is not somehow arrested and averted.
So I'm glad that this has gone the podcast equivalent of viral.
I'm proud that so many people have reached out to tell me the impact it's had on them.
But I'm also troubled by some things,
and I hope you'll indulge me in a little bit of creative narcissism as I analyze my own work,
because the success thus far of It Could Happen Here has also given me a very clear understanding of some of its flaws.
For one thing, it's become very clear to me that this show has terrified an awful lot of people.
To some extent, that was my goal from the beginning. I've been scared about this for a
long time, and I wanted political moderates and liberals to see the dangers I see. But a number
of people have reached out to me and expressed feelings of hopelessness and an ear-panicked feeling that there is nothing they
can do to stop this. It was my plan to build to an episode about, you know, things people could do
to help make the Second American Civil War less likely, and end this series on an optimistic note.
There's certainly more than a little bit of narcissism in that as well, but from a storytelling
standpoint, it makes sense to keep building tension right up until the end and then close out on a hopeful
note. However, this is not just an exercise in storytelling. It's a work of journalism,
and given the kind of emotional impact podcasts have on their listeners, I think it would be
irresponsible to go that long without providing some suggestions for how folks might stop all of
this. There's more darkness to come in this series, I will promise you that,
but I've decided this little mini-episode should act as an intermission to provide some practical
advice on how to make everything I've talked about so far a little bit less likely to happen.
Now, the key to that is this. We have to get better at building solidarity across our political
divide. I want to make a couple of things clear before we get deeper into this. There is a right
way and a wrong way to foster communication between the right and the left.
Many primetime television journalistic hacks think the way to do this is to provide a platform to hate-mongering nationalists like Candace Owens.
Others think debate is the salve for all of our wounds.
NPR recently published an article titled, Keeping It Civil, How to Talk Politics Without Letting Things Turn Ugly.
Now, NPR shared this article on Twitter, and the first response was from my friend Molly.
She said, simply, no. Others shared the same sentiment.
Molly is a fan of my work, as I am a fan of her activism, and I understand her reaction.
She was deeply, intimately impacted by the violence at the Unite the Right rally in 2017.
And she has literal Nazis threaten to kill her on a near daily basis.
She's one of the people I was talking about in the first episode of this series when I mentioned
that, for some of us, the Second American Civil War has already started. So I want to make it
clear that I'm not saying the solution to all of this is for us to have polite debates with people
we disagree with. I think debate is useless. That's why assholes like Stephen Crowder and
Ben Shapiro spend their lives trying to have public debates
where they can destroy people they disagree with and, of course, sell more leftist tears mugs.
In fact, I think some of the most dangerous people in our society right now,
the people lurching us ever closer to bloody bullet-riddled calamity,
are fools with large platforms who provide a bullhorn for the most hateful among us
and justify it by saying that they're just having conversations. Joe Rogan and Logan Paul come most immediately to mind.
Both men recently hosted Alex Jones on their popular podcast and YouTube channel, respectively.
Rogan has continued to platform Jones after the latter repeatedly threatened to expose and destroy
him in a series of unhinged InfoWars rants. Joe Rogan does this because he
considers Alex Jones a friend, and because he has built a career off of hosting unhinged
conspiracy theorists. Rogan paints himself as just a simple, open-minded guy willing to listen to
anyone. I think if he were here right now, he'd say he doesn't see the harm in just talking to
someone with different opinions. Logan Paul would probably admit, if pressed, that he hosted Alex
Jones because he thought it was funny, and because he saw how incredibly popular Rogan's recent five-hour
podcast with Alex Jones was. As of the writing of this episode, that podcast has been watched
nearly 13 million times on YouTube alone. Thankfully, Paul's platforming of Jones was
less productive. That YouTube video is at around 453,000 views right now. But it still helped introduce Alex Jones to a much younger demographic, some of whom will follow him back to InfoWars.
Speaking of InfoWars, within a couple of days of that Logan Paul appearance, Alex Jones dedicated the better part of an episode of his show to an unhinged rant against the drag queen's story hour.
Now, this is an advocacy organization all over the U.S. and in several other countries
based around having drag queens read storybooks to kids at local libraries. The goal is to introduce
these kids to the idea that queer people exist in the world and are members of their communities,
too, like anyone else. At least, that's how most sane people interpret it. To Alex Jones,
it's part of a violent conspiracy to rape and murder children. These drag queens,
stand-ins for all queer people, are just trying to get children used to their presence so they don't fight back when they're abducted and ritually murdered. That's an inductee right there.
That's Renfield. A demon posing as a woman. A woman that gives life, that nurtures babies. And these poor babies, the last thing they see in the
inner hell is men dressed as women.
The last thing they see is they're hacked up and torn into pieces
and as their blood is slovenly licked into the
mouths. And no men will
stand against them. And lest we convince ourselves that no one really
listens to Alex Jones when he says this crazy shit, here's a clip from later in the episode,
when a caller who identifies himself as a cop talks about his desire to murder drag queens
without consequence. One thing you say that I like is you don't need orders from headquarters.
Well, a civilian, a parent or a legal guardian doesn't need the police, in my eyes, not being a cop,
to go to the school and grab that drag queen and drag them out in the parking lot and dispose of them.
If you're in that school and you're in kids and somebody's not stopping it,
I should have the legal right to go in there and put you down without repercussions.
Thanks to Dan from the Knowledge Fight podcast for both of those clips.
So I think I've made it clear at this point that there is absolutely a wrong way
to talk to the other side of the aisle.
We do not need to talk to Alex Jones or Milo Yiannopoulos or Richard Spencer or Candace Owens.
Ben Shapiro does not need to be debated about his racist claim that 800 million Muslims are dangerous radicals.
None of these people deserve to be platformed or debated. They need to be debated about his racist claim that 800 million Muslims are dangerous radicals. None of these people deserve to be platformed or debated.
They need to be ignored.
The people we need to talk to, the people we cannot ignore, are our fellow citizens.
They are people who may have fallen under the spells of some of these demagogues or of Trump himself,
but many of them are fundamentally decent human beings acting based on their imperfect knowledge of the world.
In episode two of this series, I talked about the revenge of rural America. I tried, imperfectly I'm
sure, to make the point that these people have legitimate grievances before detailing how they
could bring this country to its knees if pushed far enough. I think it's important for liberals
to understand this because a lot of the rhetoric I've seen from scorned Clinton supporters towards conservative America is extremely dangerous. Here's one example. In March of 2019, the news dropped that an Ohio
G implant was shutting down. Trump had campaigned in the area on the promise that he would keep this
factory open. Many liberals reacted jubilantly at seeing their political enemies take a hit.
The first comment I found on one article about the story read, quote,
take a hit. The first comment I found on one article about the story read, quote,
to all of the union members that placed an X beside that Nazi bastard's name,
you got what you deserved. Since Trump's upset victory, there's been a lot of talk on the left about eliminating the Electoral College. Now, I'm not going to defend that institution because it's
just super dumb, but I don't think people who urge its destruction really think about the
implications of what they're suggesting. Yes, it is unjust that 3 million more people voted for Hillary Clinton,
and she's still lost. But it's also unjust to say, fuck it, we enlightened city dwellers should get
to decide everything for rural Americans, and fuck what they want if they disagree with us.
That impulse, right there, will lead us to a civil war as surely as anything else.
Now, the good news is that the vast, vast majority of rural Americans
don't want to become violent insurgents.
They don't want to kill you.
They do want their world to stop falling apart.
They want to stop being ignored and written off as hicks by people in the cities.
More than anything, they want to have hope for the future.
There are many committed, bone-deep Trump supporters out in rural America,
but those people are outnumbered by the folks who just voted for him
because they saw no hope for politics as usual to deal with the crippling opioid problems in their communities,
the collapse of rural infrastructure, and the utter lack of hope they see on the faces of their children.
That sense of terror at what comes next is actually one area where we can all find common ground.
I know this because I've seen it on the faces of many urban liberals and leftists as we digest the latest heart-wrenching
story about climate change or read about the concentration camps our government has built in
El Paso. Once we start talking, we may find that we have more points we can agree on than we thought.
We should not be debating each other. We should be focusing on finding solutions to the problems
that we can all see. Climate change is actually a good example. Eight in ten Americans believe the climate is changing,
bringing with it more extreme weather conditions. This includes more than 60 percent of Republicans.
A healthy majority of Americans, 54 percent, consider climate change a serious problem.
Just this spring, South Dakota, Nebraska, and southern Minnesota experienced apocalyptic mud
slides after unprecedented spring rains.
The mud did billions of dollars in damage and obliterated many local economies.
These mudslides in the north and midwest echo equally apocalyptic mudslides experienced by Californians in early 2018.
Solidarity is a word with a long and confusing ideological pedigree.
It crept into popular political discourse in the 1840s,
as socialism began to take off around the world
and utopian experiments were launched throughout the West.
By 1900, the concept of solidarity was so widely understood
that it would be fair to call it the global cornerstone
of progressive politics.
Around the turn of the century,
the great sociologist, Emil Durkheim explained, quote,
"'The sense of solidarity is the foundation of morality,
since it is necessary to show the young that human beings are by no means isolated within themselves,
but are part of a totality from which they cannot be separated other than in their thoughts,
that society lives and operates in them,
and represents the best aspect of their own nature. We don't fight, we don't riot, even when the walls outside our door.
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Fascist political success relies wholly on separation. The people who want to raise the
temperature in our society and provoke open, bloody violence between left and right thrive
when the rest of us isolate ourselves. Their ideas
metastasize when rural Americans hide on their farms and in their small towns, and urban Americans
preach to each other from the safety of their ideological bubbles. A 2014 Pew survey found that
31% of consistent conservatives and 44% of consistent liberals have muted or unfriended
a follower based on political disagreements. During the 2016
election, 75% of Clinton voters did not have a single Trump supporter in their network.
More than half of Trump and Clinton voters reported not regularly discussing politics
with someone who disagreed with them. Only about 20% of voters on either side had truly mixed
social networks and discussed politics regularly with people they didn't agree with. When we don't
talk to each other at all, we miss opportunities for solidarity. I've been fortunate enough to spend a
lot of my life as a leftist in deeply red territory, so I'd like to expand on another
opportunity for solidarity, the end of the billionaire class. Dan Riffle, Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez's senior policy advisor, made the news recently when he changed his Twitter name to
Every Billionaire is a Policy Failure. Now, this is not a statement you're likely to get most
conservatives on board with, if you phrase it that way. But when you get into the meat of what
Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats suggest in order to reduce income inequality, there's actually less
daylight between right and left than you might suspect. 76% of registered voters want the wealthiest Americans to pay more in taxes.
61% of us support the sort of wealth tax proposed by Elizabeth Warren, which boosts the taxes on
those with a net worth of over $50 million. 45% of Americans support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's
70% top marginal tax rate on people who make more than $10 million. Across the political spectrum,
Americans increasingly agree that the rich are not paying their fair share, and that they ought to.
Hammer and sickle flags and talk of guillotines will not convert anyone to supporting a higher
marginal tax rate, but you might see some success in talking to them about the Sackler family.
The Sacklers are the billionaire clan behind Purdue Pharmaceuticals. Starting in 1995 and running right up until the present day, they conducted a fraudulent advertising campaign to hide the addictiveness of their most profitable product, OxyContin, and get it into the bodies of as many Americans as possible.
ill were prescribed to something commonly handed out for the kind of chronic pain they do not help with. As a result, more than 200,000 Americans have died of prescription painkiller overdoses.
Whole towns in rural America have been decimated, in some cases nearly wiped out by a plague of
addiction. And while small-town Americans have died in their thousands, the Sacklers have
increased their net worth from tens of millions of dollars to around $14 billion. They've spent a tidy chunk
of that money funding a number of radical anti-Muslim organizations dedicated to stoking
right-wing fears of Islam. I don't know about you, but I like the idea of fighting a war against the
billionaires through the ballot box alongside conservatives more than I like the idea of
fighting conservatives with bullets while the Sacklers and their ilk flee to compounds in New
Zealand. There are other opportunities for cross-political solidarity. Some of them are
nestled in the things that seem most frightening about our current political climate. In episode
one, I talked about the increased prevalence of left-wing gun advocacy groups. This can be seen
as a proto-insurgency situation, something that leads to more fear and division and eventually
violence. But it could also be another opportunity to find common ground.
I've spent a lot of time in Los Angeles gun stores.
They're some of the only places in the city where you'll regularly run into vocal Republicans.
I also recently went out to a shooting range with the John Brown Gun Club, a leftist gun
organization.
In both places and surrounded by both groups of people, I heard a lot of the same complaints
about California's confusing and often unproductive gun laws.
In the weeks since the first episode of this podcast launch,
dozens upon dozens of liberals and leftists have reached out to me asking if they should buy firearms.
Many told me they were already in the process of buying their first guns.
I realized that these people on the left were starting to feel something that many on the right have felt for a while,
the desire to arm up in the face of an uncertain future.
I do worry that all these guns might wind up arm up in the face of an uncertain future. I do worry that
all these guns might wind up being used in violence. Absolutely, I do. But I also have hope
that the presence of a left-wing gun culture might foster some productive conversations across the
political chasm. Because the current conversations we're having about guns in this country are not
productive. This is embodied well by a message Eric Swalwell, a Democratic representative from California, recently received from a furious gun nut.
young motherf***er gonna take over the Constitution? F*** you. You want to go to war,
motherf***er? We're going to war, and you're gonna be the first motherf***ing casualty. F*** you.
Now, that's obviously terrifying and f***ed up, and I'm afraid that Rep. Swalwell's response only made it worse. Immediately after playing that audio, he played this text on screen.
We recently passed background check bills in the House. We must ban and buy back
assault weapons next. Now, this probably sounds reasonable to many of you, and I'm not trying to
talk you out of whatever your views on this issue are, but I also see it as another escalation,
taking this nut's violent rhetoric and giving him exactly what he wants, a left-wing boogeyman
coming for his guns. 41% of American households own a gun, and the AR-15 is by far the most common single firearm
in this nation. Gun ownership in America is on a significant upward trend. After dropping for
much of the 1990s, it's ticked steadily higher in the 21st century. Drawing a hard political line
by saying, fuck you, we're going to take your weapons, is not nearly as bad as threatening
murder, obviously, and I'm not trying to equate the two, but it is not a productive step forward either. Because most gun owners are not literal madmen, like the guy who
threatened Representative Swalwell. 69% of NRA members support comprehensive background checks.
Not only is that number nice, it shows widespread support for an into unregulated face-to-face
sales, what some pundits refer to as the gun show loophole. 78% of non-NRA gun owners,
like myself, support universal background checks. Now when we talk about other gun control measures,
like gun violence restraining orders, raising the age required to purchase firearms, and implementing
waiting periods in more states, things get more controversial. But still, half of American gun
owners support a national firearms purchase database. There is clearly room for
conversation and for real progress on these issues. The NRA and certain politicians stand the most
extreme versions of their respective policies, but most American voters, including gun-owning voters,
can be convinced to support more nuanced policies that still have a real impact on gun violence.
I've been shooting since I was seven years old, and I own what most people would describe as a fuckload of firearms. And I can tell you that much of the frustration rational
gun owners feel towards politicians like Representative Swalwell comes from the fact
that most gun control laws are written by people who don't understand firearms. Some laws make
objective sense to me. Waiting periods are sane and sensible. I can get behind banning people
under 21 from perching semi-automatic weapons. But then there's California's assault weapons ban. Most liberals probably think it means I can't own
AR-15s or AK-47s, but I own both in the city of Los Angeles. The law just means that I've had to
stick a silly and very easily removable plastic flipper on the pistol grip of my rifle so it
doesn't technically count as a pistol grip. This is part of why I think more firearms ownership
among the left could lead to more effective gun control. If the people writing those laws know
what they're talking about, and if gun owners on the right see broad support for a reasonable
interpretation of the Second Amendment, if they see a lot of people on the other side of the aisle
also own firearms and are trying to take their guns, they might be more open to talking about
common sense gun control policies. I think one of Barack Obama's biggest mistakes during his first presidential campaign was
referring to rural Americans as people who cling to their guns and Bibles.
If you live in a major urban area, don't regularly go to church, and have never fired a gun,
Obama's words probably rang true.
They gelled with what you believed, especially about rural Americans.
But think about how those words would feel from the perspective of someone whose town has an unemployment rate more than double the national average,
someone who has lost multiple friends and family members to opiate addiction,
someone for whom the center of their social life is church on Sunday, someone for whom access to
a firearm is the best way to get affordable meat, someone whose best memories of their granddad,
father, or uncle involve learning how to shoot. To that person, Barack Obama's words sounded less like an apt diagnosis
and more like a slap to the face.
We don't fight, we don't riot, even when the war's outside our door.
Welcome, I'm Danny Thrill.
Won't you join me as the fire and dare enter?
Nocturnal, Tales from the Shadows, presented by iHeart and Sonorum.
An anthology of modern-day horror stories inspired by the legends of Latin America.
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to bone-chilling brushes with supernatural creatures.
I know you.
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None of this is an apologia for the literal Nazis among the right wing,
people like that gang of fascists arrested in Florida with a rocket launcher earlier this year.
Fuck those people.
But most conservatives are not those people,
and if we can reach out to them in solidarity over the problems we share,
if they can be shown they have cause and pain in common with poor people in inner-city America,
if they can see that the socialists yelling about billionaires
are pissed at the same people whose poison pills killed their mom,
well, that presents a path forward.
And to be honest, it's the only path I can see that isn't drenched in blood.
So, this brings us to the question of what you, the listener, can start doing right now to help with this.
The bad actors in our society, people like Dr. Jordan Peterson, don't want you to do anything.
Dr. Peterson, who was also platformed into the mainstream by Joe Rogan, says this,
I think that's horseshit.
Self-improvement is all well and good,
but we are heading towards a gaping precipice of murder right now.
The world, and the country, needs you to get out there and try to unfuck this nation
more than it needs you to clean your room and do sit-ups.
Martin Luther King Jr. cheated on his wife.
Mahatma Gandhi was a racist with a terrible temper.
Both men made the world immeasurably better through their activism.
You don't have to be perfect to help build a more perfect world.
So, what do I recommend?
What can you do right now?
If you live in Oregon, I'd suggest volunteering and donating to the Rural Organizing Project.
The ROP evolved out of a fight against a rural far-right political insurgency based around anti-gay politics
and turned into an aggressive counter-messaging campaign aimed at de-radicalizing rural conservatives and helping to show them areas like environmental
protection and an opposition to foreign wars where they agree with their progressive urban cousins.
Another group you might consider donating to or volunteering with is Light Upon Light.
They focus on de-radicalizing extremists of all types.
They currently have a GoFundMe set up that is badly in need of support. In episode two, I talked about the role literal neo-Nazis and other such
violent criminals play in raising the temperature high enough to allow for a civil war. Light Upon
Light and other groups with similar missions, like Life After Hate, dedicate themselves to
lowering that temperature. Their work is important. It buys all of us more time to fix the underlying
causes of this budding civil war.
If you have emergency medical experience, you might consider volunteering your time with Remote Area Medical.
This is a volunteer medical charity that provides healthcare options to people in impoverished, underserved rural communities.
They are not a political group, but the work they do is invaluable in letting rural Americans know they aren't forgotten or abandoned by the rest of us. That too lowers the temperature. Another important way to lower the temperature is
education, connecting people to good information about the world to push back against the bullshit
peddled by the Alex Joneses and Joe's Rogan of the world. Many small, impoverished rural towns
lack convenient access to libraries. 32% of rural Americans say they have not read
a book in the last year, compared to 23% of city dwellers. Bookmobiles exist to
fight back against this problem. Now the number of active bookmobiles has
declined in recent years, but that trend seems to be changing and you can be a
part of that by donating money or by volunteering your time to create a
bookmobile of your own. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is a nationwide volunteer organization
geared towards supporting disaster survivors in the immediate term with food and medical aid,
and in the long term through education on things like permaculture.
Their motto is solidarity, not charity,
and they represent a method of spreading leftist principles and building class consciousness
through something that works a hell of a lot better than handing out pamphlets. Direct action. Thanks to climate change, nightmarish natural
disasters are only going to grow more common in the coming years. If you are someone who has been
deeply worried by the things I've talked about on this podcast, you should really consider
volunteering with mutual aid disaster relief. Not only can the actions of a group like this help to
de-radicalize and lower the temperature in parts of the country, but if fighting does spark off, it will be handy to already be in contact with a group of activists who have practical experience dealing with calamity.
And then, of course, there's political action.
I don't think it's hyperbolic to say that the 2020 election will be the most important election of our lifetimes
and may, in fact, be the most important election in this nation's history.
and may in fact be the most important election in this nation's history.
Even a narrow Democratic victory could be disastrous, as it would give President Trump an opportunity to deny the legitimacy of his defeat.
We will not ensure a healthy margin of victory
and reduce the odds of a violent right-wing insurgency
just by preaching to our bubbles about how much we hate Trump.
We need to get out in rural communities and talk to these people,
like Leslie Cockburn did in 2018.
Leslie was the Democratic candidate in Virginia's 5th district.
She did much of her campaigning in rural and small-town Virginia, talking to conservatives
whose minds were not closed to the possibility of voting for a Democrat.
Now, Leslie did not win her election, but that doesn't mean her outreach and the outreach
of her campaign's workers and volunteers was useless.
She lost by under 7 points. mean her outreach and the outreach of her campaign's workers and volunteers was useless.
She lost by under seven points. For comparison, the Democratic candidate in 2016 in Virginia's 5th District lost by 17 points. Leslie's defeat is evidence of serious progress. While she was
campaigning, she said this to The Intercept, quote, If you talk to people in these rural areas,
you find out that there are a huge number of very, what I call just mainstream old-fashioned Democrats.
It's simple, basic.
They believe in a living wage.
They believe in collective bargaining.
They believe in decent health care for everyone.
I think a lot of people listening to this episode were probably surprised by the fact that most conservatives now accept the reality of climate change, finally, and that most gun owners actually support more gun control regulations. In the same way, many Republicans are shocked to realize how many
liberals and leftists are devoutly religious, own firearms, or agree that raising taxes on gasoline
and middle-income Americans is a dumb idea. There's quite a lot of evidence that Democrats
and Republicans are very, very bad at understanding what the other people on the other side of the aisle, not the politicians, but the people, look like and believe. A Pew Research Center poll last
year backs this up. It found that Republicans estimated LGBT people made up 38% of the
Democratic Party, actual number 6%, and that Democrats estimated 44% of Republicans made
more than a quarter of a million dollars a year. Actual number, 2%. 538 summarized
the research by saying, in short, the parties in our heads are not the parties in real life.
The question everyone hearing this should ask is this. If we're getting all this basic stuff wrong
about the other side, what else might we be missing? Is it possible that a lot of this division,
which seems to be inching inexorably closer to violence, is the result of bad actors in the media and shithead politicians rather than truly insurmountable
visions of the world. I want to be clear here, I'm not saying that, say, racism and anti-LGBT
bigotry on the right is not a problem, nor am I saying that there aren't political disagreements
in our country where there isn't room for compromise. But there are things we can agree on
and other things we can compromise on.
And if we work on those things without compromising things like trans rights,
racial justice, or abortion,
we might be able to build enough goodwill
to reduce some of this pressure.
Working together to say,
tax billionaires and fight the opiate crisis
and reduce the impact of climate change
doesn't just help with those problems.
It helps to quench the hatreds
that have been building for years.
It might stop us from going over the edge. I think it's worth a shot, and I know it's better
than shooting. I'm Robert Evans, and I'm just exhausted from reading all of that. You can find
me on Twitter at I Write Okay. You can find this show on Twitter at HappenHerePod, and you can find this show online at ItCouldHappenHerePod.com.
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