Fresno Bee Diminishes Ever More

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is not a big story, but it's a big
story to me, dang it. It's a story about something
that was a very big part of my childhood here,
growing up as a kid in Clovis, in my case
of here in the San Joaquin Valley, and its total
deterioration as an institution as it reduces in size and

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manpower and personnel and influence in money as it is
gobbled up by larger and larger corporations. Little story from
the Fresno Be. I still kind of like local news outlets.

(00:44):
I want local news outlets. I'm a local talk radio host.
I talk about local Fresno things. I need local news.
And sometimes people like, why don't react to stuff that
the Fresno Bee does or says? Is there it's columnists
do or say like they're not very relevant, and especially
for a conservative talk show. So few conservatives actually read

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the Fresno Bee anymore. And I can't help but just
be sad about that. That one. That's kind of true.
I mean, I do still think sometimes like there's interesting
stuff to be gleaned. But the news came out last
week that the Fresno Bee was laying off all of

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its opinion staff, all of its local columnists, Juannas Barzaaloira
Tad Weber, who had been the opinion page editor for
a long time and had stepped back to a lesser
role Instead of being the editor, he was now just
a columnist, and I think he was only working part

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time for the paper. And this all follows from Marrek Warzowski,
who'd been a long time columnist for the Bee. He
left the paper this past summer. So there's no Fresno
area Fresno B columnist. All of the opinion column writing

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is going to be sort of McClatchy based out of Sacramento.
McClatchy is the newsgroup that owns the Fresno Bee. It
owns Sacramento B, Fresno B. I think it owns the
Miami Herald. I think it's called the main newspaper in Miami.
And the whole thing has just been bought up by

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US Weekly or whatever the corporation is that owns US Weekly.
So that's why when you go to the Presno Bee's website,
if you scroll down long enough, you get all these
like this celebrity Goss of Sydney Sweeney went on a
date with Glennon Powell has got a new girlfriend. He
It's like, wait, I thought this was like a news

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I thought this was news, But what is this all
the celebrity gossip step Oh, because it's owned by US
Weekly now And I confess I feel really sad about
this for a couple of reasons. One is just growing up.
What a big deal the Fresno Bee was. It was
just kind of a staple of Fresno, a kind of

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a signature institution of Fresno life. It was a major
advertising platform. I remember my dad, who was a surgeon
at Valley Children's Hospital for thirty one years. Valley Children's
did this big, like months long ad campaign where they

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would take out a full page picture ad in the
b and it was a full page and it was
just a picture of my dad with a kid sitting
in his lat I think it was the daughter of
the pr director for the hospital or something, and it
was a good picture. So they just kept using it

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for all their advertising, including for a time I'm there.
They had, you know the scrolling ads that they used
to have at the baggage claim at the airport. At
the Fresno Airport. One of those scrolling ads was a
picture of my dad, that same picture of my dad
holding you know, sitting there with a kid in his lap.
So these big ads in the paper with my dad,

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you know, front and center, and we would always go, ah,
there's Dad. The I remember the Fresno Bee being just
physically larger than it is now. It was probably about,
I don't know, like an inch or two wider. Back

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when I was grown up, it was thicker. Obviously, it
was much thicker. There were multiple sections that just no
longer exist, and I feel like the change happened sometime
between two thousand and six, certainly from the decade of
two thousand six to twenty fifteen or so, so that

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was my decade away from Fresno largely. I started in
college as a freshman in the fall of two thousand
and six. Six to twenty ten, I was an undergrad.
Twenty ten to twenty thirteen, I was a law student.
Twenty thirteen to twenty fifteen, I was working my first
job as an attorney out in Massachusetts, and then I

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moved back to Fresno in twenty fifteen, and by the
time I got back, I was just I was constantly
shocked at how narrow the newspaper was, and how thin
it was, how many sections were gone, how little I
mean a lot of the bulk of the Fresno b

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used to be just advertisements and stuff like that, but
how much of that was gone. It was just totally
deteriorated as I think advertisers realized that people were aren't
using the Fresno b for news anymore, and their advertising
dollars were sort of wasted on it. You you know,

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why pay for the Fresno Bee when you can pay
for online advertising or whatever. And the Fresno Bee has
become I mean, it's sad to say. I feel like
the Fresno Bee has become the sort of dinosaur along
the level of like the Yellow Pages and the deterioration
of their now and now the disillusion really of their

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local opinion columns. I feel like that's the last nail
in the coffin. It's a shame. It's kind of a shame,
and it's a shame for a couple of reasons. Now again,
I say this as a conservative who you know, I
probably never agreed with anything Merrik Kworzawski ever wrote. I

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probably agreed with almost nothing that Tad Weber Ever wrote,
I probably didn't agree with much that one as bar
as a Lawera Ever wrote, Okay, I think the Fresno
Bee suffered from the same kinds of editorial blind spots
that so many newspapers suffer from, where they actually think

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that the editorial board of the paper, that the editorial
positions they take, they actually think that they are moderates,
when actually they are just extremely conventional liberals. And that
fact was always annoying to the mostly conservative readership of
the Beat, where any close election they would always endorse

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the Democrat. The one time they didn't that I can
recall was when David Valadeo was running against TJ. Cox
for the second time, and by that point it was
so blindingly clear that TJ. Cox was a crook and
he would later I believe, I believe he led guilty

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to fraud charge if he or led guilty or was convicted,
or that a plea deal or something to various kinds
of fraud charges. It was so apparent by that point
that TJ. Cox was dirty that they actually did endorse
David Valadeo. Valadeo votes to impeach Donald Trump, and the
Fresno b shows him no gratitude for that vote, which

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was genuinely like, you can agree with that vote or
disagree with that vote. Valadeo voting for that was really
going out on a limb on his part. I mean,
he relies on King's County Republicans for his seat, who
like Donald Trump quite a bit, and the Fresno B

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basically gave him zero credit for what must have been
an incredibly going out on a limb, risk taking kind
of vote for a cause that the Fresno be very
much believed it. Anyway, the Presdent B was always just
just totally conventionally liberal, which I always felt just never
made sense for the San Jaquin Valley. They should have

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had someone on a columnist, a dedicated columnist on staff
who was really conservative, and they you know, they would
run Victor David Hanson's column, but that was like a
nationally syndicated thing, and he wasn't part of the editorial
staff of the Bee itself. He wasn't a local columnist.

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I had approached them about doing a local column thing,
and it was at a very difficult time with work
and I couldn't really follow through on it, and of
course they were like, yeah, absolutely, no, money involved in this, okay,
and it wouldn't have involved being part of their editorial
team either, So why is it a bad thing for
local newspapers to die? This is my kind, This is

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my most lib opinion. I think local newspapers are really good.
Unfortunately all of them are liberal, so no conservatives really
crying any big alligator tears. But I do think that
the deterioration of low news outlets is a really bad
and concerning thing. Why, as someone who monitors what goes

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on in Sacramento a lot for state policy. I mean,
I'm obviously a little bit more concerned with abortion policy
than most, but all kinds of stuff happens in Sacramento,
Huge influential policy decisions happen at the state capitol California.

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Statewide legislation gets introduced, passed, and I feel like ninety
percent of the people don't have an earthly clue about it.
They have no idea until long after the stuff is passed.
And I think that the lack of resources in local

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news outlets, and maybe it's part of it is the
poor coverage that local news outlets would give it just
results in people being woefully uninformed, especially relevant relative to
like really critical federal legislation, Like when Congress was debating

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the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, President Trump's Big Reconciliation Bill.
There was wall to wall coverage. There was coverage well
in advance coverage about any ways in which the bill
change updates the legislation blub Why because it was a
national story. So you had national outlets covering it and
everyone got to hear about it. If you watched Fox
News on a regular basis or CNN on a regular basis,

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or read the New York Times at the Washington Post,
or even read the presdo B because they were just
getting articles from the AP and this and that, you
would have a pretty good understanding of the tracking of
that legislation. Major legislation gets introduced in Sacramento and nobody
hears about it. Nobody hears about it, or they'll hear
about it after a critical committee vote has taken place,

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after it's already passed, and that'll be for a lot
of people the first time they even hear about the
dang thing. And of course, I mean, part of this
is the problem that we've just had a nationalization of
media that's really exploded as a result of one cable
TV to the Internet. Most people getting their news nowadays

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are turning to Fox News or MSNBC or CNN more
so than your local nightly news broadcast on ABC thirty,
KC twenty four, CBS forty seven, kmph, Fox twenty six.
They're turning to Fox News or MSNBC more and more
and more rather than local news coverage. I think local

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news coverage winds up getting stuff from national and they
don't have the kind of expertise to really cover what's
happening in Sacramento and in a really, really in depth
and intelligent way. I think that as we have this

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greater and greater nationalization of news, people lose sight of
what's happening in their own backyards. They lose sight of
what's happening at their own state capitals. And you know,
some of this got deteriorated obviously over the course of
the twentieth century, as the federal government has expanded in
power and power and power and size and size and size.
You know, the expansion of what the Interstate Commerce Clause means,

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that really took off in nineteen thirty seven, where the
federal government is regulating so much of American life, so
much of the American economy, so much of American healthcare,
so much of this, so much of that that people
are more focused on the federal government. But really the concept,
the structure of our constitutional order is it structured that

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the center of your political life is more so supposed
to be your state capital rather than Washington, d C. You.
You know, I don't want to get to like, you know,
the South will Rise again or anything like that, But
I think that the structure of the constitution was that

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you were a Virginian, a Maryland or a whatever Massachusetts
people call themselves. I lived there for two years. I
have no idea you were. Your identity. The political community
to which you were most connected was your state. You

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had a much greater likelihood of knowing, on an individual level,
your state lawmaker, and you still do knowing your state
lawmaker than your member of Congress. You had a direct connection.
The issues debated at your state government level in your
state capital were issues on a smaller level that you,

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as an individual citizen, probably knew a little bit better about,
and that through your state lawmakers who represent you at
the state legislature. And you know, state lawmakers were representing
a relatively small number of people still do. In any
state other than California, there's a very good chance you
could know your state lawmaker by name. You would be

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able to have a greater connection to greater and more
intelligent participation in the life of your state legislature. Well
as people consume their news more and more and more
by cable television, as people identify the center of their
political lives more and more. In Washington, it wasn't helped
by the fact that local newspapers were just deteriorating and deteriorating,

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as in sort of the central thing, which is personnel.
I mean, the President b went from when I was
kid having this massive staff to now, I mean they
got like a skeleton crew, and that skeleton crew just
can't they can't. They can't cover what's going on in Sacramento.
They're relying entirely on people from McClatchy News and the

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Sacramento Bee who you know, and they just don't have
the space. They don't have the space for you know,
ten stories. I mean, I mean, if you had me
living in Sacramento and let me lose having my lawyer
brain and knowing a little bit about the procedures of
the state Capitol. I could walk around the capitol. I

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could give you like three or four interesting stories about
what's going on in the state Capitol pretty much every day,
and they just don't have that. They don't have it,
and so much of statewide media is just totally supine
to whatever the Democrats want to do. So I will
confess I'm bummed at the deterioration of the Fresno Bee.

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I'm bummed about it. I wish there was something to
fill that gap. Maybe gv wire is going to be that.
I mean, gv Wire I think is sort of you know,
they're kind of a rising stock and the Fresno Bee
is a declining stock. Although maybe that's you know, my perception.
When I mean the kinds of overhead costs that the

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gv wire is going to have are necessarily going to
be less than what the presdent Bee has. Maybe the
gv wire is destined to take over local news. I'm
not sure, but it bums me out. It genuinely bums
me out that the Fresno Bee isn't as significance because
I do think it's harmful to our political life to

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not have robust flourishing informative news outlets that actually cover
what's happening in Sacramento. That's We'll dig more into that
after the break. This is the John Jrwardy Show here
on Power Talk. How am I any of you listening
could honestly say, I know who my state Assembly member is.

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I know who my state senator is. I know what
the State Assembly and the State Senate are. I know
the rough breakdown between Republicans and Democrats in the State
Assembly and the state legislature here in California. I know
the names of any people in leadership in the State Assembly,

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in the State Senate. I mean probably it's not very
many of you. I think more people know who their
member of Congress is. They know the balance of power
in the House and in the Senate. They know federal
stuff better than they do state stuff. And by the way,

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state stuff matters. Guys, Why does California have the highest
gas prices in the country. It's not because of a
federal question, and every state has different states have different
price ranges for their gas. California has the highest. California
has higher prices than Hawaii, which last I checked, is

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an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a
series of islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
that can only get their gas by having it shipped
to them on a big boat. Why is California more expensive?
Why is it California more difficult to build a house in?
Why is California more difficult to start a family? And

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why is California more difficult to own a home? And
why are housing price is more expensive in California? Where
bubbah bit But why is California different? It's because of
decisions made in the state legislature, decisions that most people
don't pay any attention to. Most people don't pay attention

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to what happens in their state legislatures. They just don't.
Most people don't don't have the foggiest idea who their
state Assembly members, state senator is. They don't even understand
the functions of these things or what these things are.
And it's a shame because it should be something that

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what's happening in our state government actually more immediately affects
us in many ways than what happens in Congress. It's
a more present reality that can neutralize what's happening in Washington,
d C. So again, this is why there's a part

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of me that's bummed. I mean, the Fresno Bee probably
brought a lot of their own deterioration on themselves. This
is me reacting to the news that the Fresno Bee's
local opinion staff has been totally laid off. All their
local columnists are gone. I think maybe the Fresno Bee
brought this on themselves. Maybe if they had covered stuff

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in Sacramento politics a little better, although maybe there's no
appetite for that kind of news. If they had had
maybe a bit more diversity in their editorial board, on
the among their staff of columnists, maybe different outcomes would
have prevailed. Who knows, But in short, I'm still sort
of bummed. I'm bummed about the deterioration of local news

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institutions because it leads to a total loss in understanding
what's going on at the state capitol. And if you
don't understand what's going on at the state capitol, you're
missing out on decisions that profoundly impact your life, and
in many ways more so than what happens in Washington,

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d C. When we return a little bit about the
founding fathers and why state governments are more important. State
governments should be a little bit more important to you
than what's happening federally. That's next on the John Girardi Show.
So this deterioration of the Fresno Bee that I've been
bellyaching about, it's leading me to want to talk about
We do this occasionally on the show, a little bit

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of political theory, a little bit talking about the Founding Fathers,
a little bit thinking about government, nature of government. So bucklin, guys,
we're gonna have a little fun right now. I want
to talk about some of the ideals that inspired the
Founding Fathers in putting together the kind of government that
they did, and first just how influenced they are they

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were by classical culture and specifically Rome. Now, the Founding Fathers,
these are guys in the eighteenth century, and around this
time a lot of educated Englishmen were doing what was
called the Grand Tour. And the Grand Tour would involve

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going through France and various different routes of seeing great
monument of the classical world, Roman world, and it would
always end in Rome. It would always Rome was always
the highlight feature of seeing the great cities of Europe,
and Rome was always the last, destination and appreciation admiration

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for classical civilization Greece and Rome was very, very high.
The most public education involved, and this has been true
for a long time. Most public education involved learning Greek,
learning Latin, reading Greek and Latin authors, and the founding
fathers clearly had read their Greek and Latin authors. They
knew Aristotle, Polivious, and a lot of the Founding fathers

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they sort of some people say maybe they were LARPing
a little bit, live action role playing, maybe a little
bit they were affecting this, but they really viewed themselves
as Roman citizens, soldier, gentlemen, farmers. That was their sort

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of self conception. You can very see you can very
much see that in the attitude of a lot of
Southern politicians, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, a lot of those
guys viewed themselves in that kind of a light. Now, unfortunately,
they imitated it a little too well by having slaves,

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which was a horrific aspect of both American Southern society
as well as Roman society. Slavery was pretty brutal under
both conceptions. But we're talking about the political theory that
these guys embraced. Now, one aspect of political theory that

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they really understood and embraced was were the different conceptions
coming from Greek authors of the different kinds of government.
And there were sort of three broad based categories democracy
rule by the people, the people themselves, or or a
council of the citizenry, the citizenry itself, I should say,
not all the people, the citizenry, which citizens are a

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more limited category than residents. You know, Athens is held
up as you know the world's first democracy. Well, the
voting body of who was actually a citizen of Athens
was much smaller than the total population. Slaves were obviously excluded,
women were obviously excluded, and a lot of whatever sort

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of democratic elements. And most Greek city states in this
classical era, you know, the fifth and fourth centuries BC,
as well as the Roman Republic kind of two hundreds
to when did the empire start? Was at thirty the
house shoot? What was with the day of the Battle

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of Axiom. I think that was thirty two BC thirty
one BC. Anyway, the Roman the Roman Republic, as well
as most Greek city states would have some kind of
voting assembly of the citizen ry and a lot of
it had to do at least at the start, with
military service. The guys who were likely going to fight,

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they were the ones who got to vote, and so
in a lot of Greek city states there was sort
of a property qualification that you had to meet in
order to be able to vote in what was often
called the boulet. Boulet is the Greek word for sort
of the voting assembly of citizen ry. There was a
kind of property qualification you had to have because basically

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you had to be able to afford your own hop
light armor. You know, your big shield, your helmet, your breastplate,
your sword, your spears, et cetera. If you didn't have
enough money to afford those things, and they didn't have
the modern day conception of the state pays for the
gear for soldiers and people's s up to be soldiers

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even if they have no money. That conception wouldn't come
until much later in the Roman Republic around sort of
the mid first century BC under Marius. Up Prior to that,
soldiers paid for their own armor, and the idea was

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if the city was and most government was at the
level of the city state, especially in Greece, the police,
which was the city and sort of the outlying rural
areas of farmland that helped support the urban area of
the city. The basic idea was, if we're going to war,
the guys who are going to fight in the war
vote on it. Okay, the guys who would be fighting

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are the ones who are going to decide whether we're
going to war or whether we're not. And thus, if
you were a guy who was going to go to war,
ie you had hoplight armor, you were able to afford
to go to war, then you got to vote. If
you didn't have enough money for armor or anything and
you weren't therefore able to go fight, well we don't
care about your opinion. That was sort of the way

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the Greek city states handled If you were a slave,
you're not going to go fight, so we don't care
about your opinion. The women were not going to go fight,
so their opinion they didn't care about. No, Probably there
was sort of old school attitudes about women involved in
that also, but you get the idea. It was based
on who was going to fight, and a lot of

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people think this was why Athens developed a fuller democracy
was because Athens was a naval power, so the financial
barrier to entry to serve in the military was a
lot lower. Can you pull an oar? All right, you're
in the military, Okay, yeah, you could. You know, it
doesn't take a lot of money to pull an oar

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to row a naval boat fighting for Athens in one
of her naval conflicts. So you had democracy, you had oligarchy,
which means rule by a few people, and all kinds
of different Athenian city states had some sort of oligarchic institution,

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a council of elders. In Rome, they had the Roman senate.
Senate was just the council of old guys Senex. Senex
is the Latin word for old. This is the council
of elders. The idea is these guys are older, wiser,
more experienced. Now, there was also like really high level
property qualifications. To be a senator. You had to have

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been a former magistrate of some sort within the Roman system,
and you had to have enough money. So the Senate
played this really important role in Roman politics up until
the establishment of the Principate or the Empire under Augustine. Yeah, okay,

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so Augustine justice, I might have said Augustine. Augustine was
the fourth century AD. Christian theologian Augustus is the Roman Emperor,
the first Roman emperor, and the start of the Roman
Empire as opposed to the Roman Republic was thirty one
BC after the Battle of Acxiom. Okay, so you have

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democracy ruled by the people directly, the people directly voting
on stuff. Rule by oligarchy, which means rule by a
few people. Oligoy was the Greek word for a few,
a limited crowd of people with certain kinds of qualifications
of education or money or whatever. And then monarchy rule
by one person doesn't necessarily mean kingship, hereditary kingship. It

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just means rule by one person. And Greek political theorists
saw there were certain benefits and downsides to all of
those forms of government. With monarchy, you did have of decisiveness,
singularity of purpose. You know, there's no argument about what

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the policy is going to be. One guy is in charge.
With oligarchy, you get your best and brightest, but they're
a little separate. They might be a little bit separate
from the community, and their interests might not be aligned
with the broader political community. With democracy, yeah, everyone gets
to be involved, but there's sort of the bread and
circuses phenomenon that a democracy might vote in ways that

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are in the venal self interest of just the majority.
Democracies can be swayed by the winds of shifting emotion
in the way that maybe a senate something with older,
wiser hands, more experienced hands, would not be. So there
were pluses and minuses to all these different forms of government,
and the Founding Fathers embedded all three of these elements

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into not just our federal constitution, but also into our
state constitutions. The state constitutions for most of the United
States are very very similar in structure to the federal constitution.
Within our constitution, we have a bit of a democratic element.

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People do get to vote on stuff, but they have
this sort of mediating principle through their elected representatives. So
it's not the people who directly vote on laws in
our federal system. The people vote for representatives who vote
for their laws, and those meet that mediating institution of
representatives we call Congress. So we have the House of Representatives,

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which is a bit more the democratic side of things.
The House of Representatives can completely change over the course
of two years. Its entire makeup can totally change if
the American people are swept by the wins of an
individual political moment, they can vote out every single member
of Congress and place every single member of Congress with

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a new member of Congress, completely reshaped the face of
the whole thing. And you do see this where there
are big swings. When there's a big congressional election with
a big change in power, one party or the other
might pick up forty seats fifty seats, because this is

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sort of the democratic element. It shifts and swings and
changes depending on the mood of the country. Then you
have the Senate. The Senate is kind of supposed to
be an oligarchic system. It's supposed to be older guys.
I mean, you know again, it's aping the Roman Senate.

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It's imitating the Roman Senate. That's why they called it that.
So senators have the longest term of office of any
office holders in the executive or legislative brands. They get
six years. President only gets four. Senators get six years,
so they're not constantly looking over their shoulder at the
next election. They have a little bit more leeway to

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do what they think is right, as opposed to just
whatever reflects popular opinion. In the original constitution before the
seventeenth Amendment, senators were also picked by the state legislature,
not directly elected by the people. This gave senators even
more separation from the whims of popular sentiment. You know,

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they just had to approve what the older, more experienced
hands were actual members of the state legislature thought for
their individual state. And then you have a monarchic element
within our constitutional order, the president. And again this isn't
in the sense that the president is a king who
you know, has a hereditary lordship or anything like that.

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It just means rule by one person. And we designate
certain areas of activity foreign policy, military policy, law enforcement.
Rather than law writing, we designate all of those things
to the president, to one guy, one guy setting the

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policy for the whole government. And this sort of played
off of sort of certain flaws that were in the
Roman constitution, so that the chief magistrates in the Roman system,
who wielded various kinds of executive and military power, were
the consuls. And there were consul consuls, and there were

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two consuls every year and month in month out. They
would sort of lead the legislative assemblies and things like that,
and each one was designated to be the general for
a large army, a consular sized army. Well, the problem
is that sometimes the two consuls wouldn't get along with
each other and this could lead to military disaster. So

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the Romans did have this sort of break glass in
case of emergency mechanism called the dictator. The dictator was
a temporary office where one guy would have total military
control for a time, for the duration of some emergency
or six months, whichever ended sooner. So the dictatorship was

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one of these examples. Okay, so the founding fathers incorporated
a lot of these different ideas in the federal constitution,
but also the state constitutions and the state constitutions were
important because of this idea that comes from Aristotle. Aristotle
thought that an authentic political community involved individuals who were
bound together by certain common ties race, ancestry, common worship,

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and the bonds that just result from being together locally,
you know, economic bonds, things like that. This is why
the state governments had more power, and the federal government
was a limited and enumerated had had limited and enumerated power,
and state governments had broader powers called the police power
that the state government level was what was more proper

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to you the binds, the ties between people in your
local community. So this is why federalism is so deeply
ingrained in American government. We'll be back with more here
on the John Rardy Show. Folks. The San Francisco political
scene is getting spicy. Not only is Scott Wiener running

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for Nancy Pelosi's old seat, Christine Pelosi is running for
Scott Wiener's old State Senate seat. And now it appears
that Chasa Boudin is running against Scott Wiener for Pelosi's
old for Nancy Pelosi's old congressional seat, it'll be Chaser
Budin against Scott Wiener. I can't think who I hate more.

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I mean, I was thinking no one I could despise,
nobody more than Scott Wiener. Chaser Budin's close. I mean,
this is the da who is so liberal that San
Franciscolkins voted to kick him out of office. Man, that's
going to be wild to watch over the next year.
So that'll do it, John Girardi Show. See you next
time on Power Talk