Jeffrey Winters
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first heard May 2026
last heard 20 May
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Actually running to Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention was a moment of panic.
And the panic was that there was a clash at that moment between oligarchs and oligarchy and democracy in the United States.
And the clash was in the form of a debt crisis.
Ordinary farmers were indebted.
The country was indebted after the war.
And one of the questions that was worked out or struggled over democratically was, who's going to bear the pain of this debt crisis?
And by the tens of thousands, these small farmers were being thrown into debtors' prisons.
Foreclosures in some areas were at a level of 70% of small farmers.
And what happened is, in the states where they got no relief, where democracy was not responsive,
They rose up, and especially Massachusetts, and we got Shays' Rebellion.
Those two things caused the framers to run to Philadelphia.
And the very first thing that Broadway Hamilton said in that convention was, there is an excess of democracy in the United States.
Right.
So it turns out that Putin's Russia is what I call a sultanistic oligarchy.
He is a sultanistic oligarch, and he's in charge of the rest of the oligarchs, and he protects them as well as attacks them based on their political behavior.
In the case of the United States, let's be clear.
The argument is that it is a democracy.
And in fact, there's a relationship between democracy.
struggling over issues like will women have access to the vote or on issues of race and so on democracy actually works it's in the vertical sense that in that moment in the convention well that just let's just let's just explain that because that's the distinction you draw in the book isn't it which is between sort of vertical
Just explain what you mean by that.
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