{"id":387,"date":"2024-02-05T04:20:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T04:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarksondemocrats.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:44:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:44:53","slug":"thought-provoking-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarksondemocrats.com\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Thought Provoking Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7dXBpWiwxkw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inside views how high-control evangelical nationalist communities function from former &#8220;Trad Wives&#8221; <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NJz-V6TO8lo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How the rich are taking over the US including the elections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xbM4D0u4LAU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Summary of Kristi Noem&#8217;s Tenure<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NYsxHXM2TWE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Marc Elias explains how the Safe America Act passed in the house is disenfranchising millions of voters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UDu2LfRDjYw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A typical week: summing up US administration&#8217;s failures in just one week<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZqrZ1F0aE2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leaving MAGA: hearing directly from a former MAGA believer<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J_zxY6YWTnE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Senator Durbin sums up how the Attorney General&#8217;s Office has become the shield of the Trump administration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/xXNA12iqb74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump pardons David Gentile who was sentenced on Ponzi-Scheme fraud<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5ejrJ4FuBOo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trumps ties to Russia laid bare by Charlie Angus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qwmiC7lUsOY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">US in November 2025, ICE is out of control<\/a><\/span>. To remind, here is the 4th amendment of the US constitution: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Fourth Amendment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">And the fifth Amendment is perhaps relevant as well:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Fifth Amendment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law<\/span>; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gd76UgifIyo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">For anyone interested in understanding the US economic warning signs as of November 2025<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Kz7ZjstARzc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How the Trump administration quietly gives tax breaks to corporations in the midst of the 2025 government shutdown<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ARpUQo8YUzg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A succinct summary of where things stand in the US as of October 2025<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-MTtkaJvANI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Senator Murphy&#8217;s floor speech on Trump&#8217;s Authoritarian Takeover.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6ON3gvRQuoA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Acting Deputy Chief Schnitt spills the beans how the Justice Department covers up the Epstein files to protect Republicans including Donald Trump<\/a><\/span>   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5byA_5yvO5c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This video describes the quite shifts during 2025 in international travel to the US<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DeIZcaDdnks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What&#8217;s the deal with US making trade deals? The real picture as of August 2025<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VoJ8cE-hu7Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Live footage of<\/span> ICE detaining law-abiding, hard-working individuals, even US citizens, while being masked, showing no batch, no arrest warrants, using unmarked cars, and leaving no information behind to where they take them.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cFa8t3SPgNw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Medicare-for-all: Not a radical left illusion but a must-do-priority<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e5-zgQM0LHo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The dire consequences of misinformation: A brainwashed Texas father voluntarily moves his family to Russia, joins the Russian army and to his surprise gets sent to the front line of the Ukraine war<\/span><\/a>   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=h5C5nFp-6-o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Singapore&#8217;s Prime Minister assesses the challenges of the changing world order<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=Qush09dKyiM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The China-US trade relations explained in lay terms<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DUMJqz53YW0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">We have arrived here: US government terrorizing ordinary US-citizens while raiding their home<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sjCn4cTTdYM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch to the end this video to see how many life-saving services were cut entirely by Trump in just a few days<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bFKxLJuJPZA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A summary of the major screw-ups during the first 100 days of Trump&#8217;s second terms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hycoCYenXls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Senator Chris Murphy lays out the ongoing open corruption of Government since January 2025<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o6wv-37xVO4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steve Rattner explains the economic reality on the ground vs. promises made during the State of the Union address. <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zn9BTALjtLY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rachel Maddow connects the dots on Trump&#8217;s behavior toward Russia<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ujsQ3bp9-4I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Life and Death consequences from actions taken in first month of new administration<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-tjOs6gc0nU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What happens when Court Rulings are not followed?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TVWWQFoOZDk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What is the Legacy of Biden&#8217;s four years as President?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q50p_lr0HPk&amp;pp=ygUndGhyZWUgbXl0aHMgb2YgQW1lcmljYSBsaXZpbmcgaW4gZnJhbmNl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Three Myths of America<\/span><\/a> debunked by a couple who lived abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U0Z0U-Y9kLE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Why Republican Business Men should thank Democratic Government.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katrinaforussenate.com\/wolves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Video<\/a><\/span> by North Carolina&#8217;s US Senate candidate Katrina Christiansen makes it clear what harm corporate greed causes to rural America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tC-qx-cKmKc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Stewart explains failures in US<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i65v_ZIOi9A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ukraine update on March 20, 2024<\/a><\/span>, including how Ukraine is suffering because of inaction in the US House of Representatives and how many Americans are not educated about this issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d3NGLuK1cwA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How Russia keeps influencing US selections.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JwX_8klAZ6w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Former Trump cultist shares how she got out of the cult.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Never heard of Jessica Denson? <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JzfwUiYp7Vs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch this video to understand why you should have.<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GftV3UPWPb4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What are really the threats for stealing elections in the US?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MHD-M1AG7Hs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">AOC shows how easy it is that &#8220;a bad guy&#8221; could be in office.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wtV5ev6813I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Germany: Low Crime, Clean Prisons, Lessons for America | Jeff Rosen | TEDxMountainViewHighSchool<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EkuMLId8SqE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Switzerland: So Many Guns, No Mass Shootings | The Daily Show Throwback<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6Pm0Mn0-jYU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why Finland And Denmark Are Happier Than The U.S.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mrBwTgTiubo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Legal voting rights battles in the US, summarized by Mark Elias, late fall of 2023<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have turned off the ability to comment on our posts because of getting too many spam comments. 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