Ed Elson
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136 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
Ed Elson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For damn good reason.
Thank you.
And I wake up thinking about that.
And, you know, that's that's who we're going to that's who we are.
We're moving to a – the keys to a thriving democracy are threefold.
You have to have strong institutions that people respect.
You have to have shared stories that we're the good guys and we won World War II for the right reasons and Americans' hearts are in the right place and believe in the founding fathers and the rights of people.
And you also have to have kind of a lot of social capital within smaller networks, whether it's your church or your neighbors or maybe you served, you know, how you feel about people who also served in the Marines or whatever it might be.
And slowly but surely, social media is eroding all of those things.
And this is just another example of how those three things will continue to come down and be eroded.
You have somewhere between a half and two-thirds of Americans, depending on their age, now get their news from social media.
And today, when I was on Morning Joe, I called Trump an insurrectionist and a rapist.
Mika had to stop the show and say that Trump was found liable for sexual abuse.
Now, imagine in contrast what you're going to be able to say about anything, health, elections, what you should do when a fire breaks out in the Pacific Palisades on Trump.
on meta.
I mean, we are all going into, we are all separating further and further.
And to think that this doesn't have not only implications around candidates or politics, but violence.
Look what happened in 2017.
There was violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar.
And a year later, there were rumors circulated on WhatsApp, unfettered, and people were being pulled out of cars in small towns in India and hanged because of rumors around kidnappings.
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