📉 Why American Democracy Is Failing | Karel Cast Ep. 25-102

📉 Why American Democracy Is Failing | Karel Cast Ep. 25-102
American democracy is crumbling — and our Founding Fathers warned us this would happen if we ever stopped prioritizing education and civic knowledge. Jefferson, Washington, and others believed an informed populace was essential to protect our freedoms. Yet today, education is under attack — especially from the GOP — and the consequences are devastating.
In this explosive episode of The Karel Cast, we ask: What happens when ignorance becomes policy? Why is the Department of Education constantly under fire? And how does this erosion of knowledge tie into the broader decay of American values?
Plus: The Gaza hunger crisis intensifies, and the global response remains shamefully silent. If starvation is man-made, then so is the solution — so why aren’t world powers stepping up?
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Let's give it a go. Carrilla is the one that
you need to know.

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Now.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
It's show side.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
All right in just sixty seconds. The most fabulous I mean,
he's really something. The best, most fabulous host will be here.
He just tells the truth all the time, bigly. And
he's funny, this guy.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Have you heard him?

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah, he's funny and smart, smart and funny, not like
those nasty people on lamestream media. So don't go anywhere.
He's almost here. I know he doesn't speak well of me,
and that's okay because I mean, he's really quite fabulous. O.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
SI, there is only one explanation for what's going on
in America today, and I'm going to tell you by
the way, our founders knew all about it. They had
the foresight. Also, why I'm tired of hearing about the
humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
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Speaker 1 (01:34):
It is the crowd Cast. I am Correl so very
glad you are joining me at my little desk. My
back has decided that I must sit down, so I'm
sitting down. But hey, look, we got a little desk
in my little microphone here, and we just look like
a regular old talk show, now, don't we. I like
standing up doing the show. David Hall once told me

(01:55):
I should always stand up to do the show. But
my back is really problematic right now. In fact, if
there's a day or two or three over the next
week or two that I'm not here, it will because
I'm probably in the hospital having back surgery. So we'll see.
But there's a lot to talk about today, and I
feel kind of like a late night talk show host
now sitting at this and for my next guest, But

(02:20):
so I do I feel like Don Lemon? So anyway,
we got a lot to talk about today, and I
don't know if I want to start with the thing
that I'm pissed off at or if I want to
start with the thing that I'm really that really intrigued me.
Last night, on a phone call with my friend DJ Valentino,
Rose heard Fridays on TikTok at seven o'clock and I

(02:43):
was so engaged with the topic in the phone call,
I thought you know what, this has to go on
my show, and so that does today's show. So let's
start with what I'm angry at this morning. On the
BBC and basically every other news channel, people are now
literally dying in mass en mass of starvation in Gaza,

(03:07):
and I'm furious about that. And this goes back again
to the conversation I had last night with Steven with
DJ Valentino where I told him about the Mandela quote
that moved me. One of the most powerful quotes I
have ever heard in my life ever, is from Nelson
Mandela when he said poverty is man made. And if

(03:32):
you extrapolate that out, basically everything is man made. We
created all of these systems, and so poverty is man
made and man can solve it and could solve it tomorrow,
like homelessness is man made and we could solve it tomorrow.
And basically income inequality is man made. Starvation is man made.

(04:02):
This is all our doing, and we could undo it
in a moment's notice. We really could. And so that's
that's one of the things that bothers me most about
our society. We act like so many things are just
out of our hands that it's divine intervention. It's you know,
and I don't mean the drag queen. So poverty is

(04:25):
man made and what's going on in Gaza right now
is a man made crisis. There's no great laws saying
that these people must starve. Netan Yahoo is trying to
commit genocide completely. If he can't blow them all up,
then he'll starve them to death. It's cruel and it's inhumane.

(04:50):
And why European nations and the United States don't simply
tell net and Yahoo we are sending aid through. If
you get in our way, we are going to blow
the crap out of you. You hurt us Israel. We
are sending food into Gaza. If you get in our way,

(05:14):
we will blow you up. Now, that's pretty simple. Where's
all my chatters today? By the way, YouTube dot com
forward slash really corel. YouTube dot com forward slash really corel.
Where are you chatters? I miss you when you're not there.
Oh maybe I'm not logged in. Maybe that's it. So

(05:34):
the fact that nations could simply tell Israel, no, we're
not letting you starve people. We're bringing food in period,
end of story, and if you try to stop us,
we will consider it an active aggression and will treat
you accordingly. We need an American president that's going to say,
we are not going to let these people starve. If

(05:56):
you don't let us deliver food, we're cutting off every
bit of four or an aid to your country. We
will not sell you any more weapons, we will not
give you any more money, period, and a story. Why
don't we do that? People are dying? And why don't
more people care? You know that that's the biggest thing

(06:19):
for me. Why don't more people care that these Palestinians,
these gosins as I call them, because there is no Palestine,
why don't they care? Can can you tell me? Can
you tell me why no one is standing up to
Israel and telling Israel we are not going to let
you systematically get rid of every person in the Gaza

(06:43):
strip through starvation. Can you tell me? Because it's beyond me,
it's cruel, it's inhumane. The UN has denounced it, the
World Health Organization has denounced it. So even if the
United States doesn't lead the way, why isn't France, Why

(07:04):
isn't England? Why isn't somebody leading the way to feed
these people? This is twenty twenty five and we have
thousands of people now passing away from starvation when food
is one hundred miles away. They're caged animals and we're

(07:24):
not feeding them. You wouldn't treat a dog. Most people
wouldn't treat a dog the way that Israel is treating
the Palestinians. It is illegal to cage an animal in
and not feed it. That's illegal. So why are we
allowing this? Is Trump? So up and yeah, Net, and

(07:48):
you who's Net? And Yahoo's wahoo, We're not why are
we We're not afraid of Israel. We're not afraid of
them attacking us. We're not afraid of them, you know.
So why what Unless it's that we really want the
Palestinians to die, unless it's that all of Europe and

(08:09):
the United States truly do not want the Palestinians to live,
that has to be it. It has to be that
we simply want them to die so we can take
that land and turn it into the riviera, as Trump
has said. Otherwise, why aren't we demanding telling Israel not

(08:32):
asking permission? You know, And we're not. We don't need
to ask Israel's permission to feed starving people who died
and left them. God, why are we letting people starve
just because Israel wants us to? This is the most humane,
inhumane chapter of human history that I've lived, knowingly letting

(08:57):
people starve to death because Israel wants them to. Oh okay, yeah, yep.
Well they's Sandy and Rachel and Kennedy and Phineas and
my chatters. Do you like my desks? Do you like
my little setup here? Do you like my new little career.
I think it looks great. Actually, I might just keep

(09:19):
it even after I even after my damn back if
my damn back ever heels. I've got to get the
green from around me. I'm glowing green a little bit.
But outside of that, I like it. I like it
a lot, all right. So that's my first thing that
I'm angry at today, that it appears the world is
acting like Israel is some divine power that can't be

(09:41):
told what to do, and so letting them starve people
is okay. It's not okay, it's not okay. We should
tell them we're going in, we're feeding these people, you're
getting out of our way, or we're going to bomb
the hell out of you. It's that simple. If the
Israelis don't have enough compassion, and boy are they losing

(10:06):
favor in the world, then they should And why don't
I hear more Jews speaking out about starving the gossm Oh, well,
if they give us back our prisoners, so you're okay
with them starving to death? What a cruel? What a
cruel people that do this? Cast Israel has become a

(10:26):
cruel mate and the dudes a cruel people. They're letting
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Speaker 1 (11:13):
So I made a bad generalization just then about the
Jews must be bad people. From now there are many
Jews speaking out about the starvation of the Palestinians, and
I apologize to my Jewish listeners who do speak out
and are not down with net and Yahoo and the
country of Israel allowing the Gosens to starve. So I apologize.

(11:38):
And if you are Jewish and you are as upset
as I am about the Palestinians starving to death for
no reason. They could air drop food today, but Israel
won't let us. You know what, we should just go
and do it. And if they fire upon us, fire back.
I mean we act like Israel could in some way
hurt us. They couldn't. France, England acts like Israel in

(12:03):
some way could harm them. They can't. So why they
don't just say, look, we're going to bring this food in.
If you fire upon us, we will retaliate. I don't
under you know, it's someone's got to be making money
from the starving of the Palestinians. Somewhere. Somebody has to

(12:25):
be benefiting, because anything in this world, and everything in
this world is only done because someone benefits from it.
So someone must benefit from starving the Palestinians, and that's
someone I think is Benjamin Netanyahu. So there we have it,
all right, Corella. As I told you, nearly eighty percent

(12:46):
of the Israeli people want this to end, and we
are devastated and we are ashamed, but we feel powerless.
You're right, I fully believe that I believe most people
in Israel right now want this to end and don't
want the Palestinian starving. I think it's the government. Just
like here, we can't control Donald Trump, and the Israelis

(13:08):
can't seem to control Benjamin Nettan Yahoo. We have three
out of control people in the world right now. We
have Vladimir Putin, we have Benjamin Nettan Yahoo, and we
have Donald Trump. And the ironic thing is is that
Donald Trump said when he got into office he would
take care of those two. He hasn't. Now. Speaking of

(13:31):
Donald Trump getting into office, last night, in my conversation
with Steve, I said, you know, we have to remember
the United States was not started by the best and
the brightest. That many of the people that came to
the colonies were religious zealots and people that simply were

(13:53):
too extreme for the countries that they lived in, and
so they were sent here. And not only that, but
we had great wisdom in our founding fathers, and that
wisdom was that they didn't know at all, but they
did know the basics because of what they had lived

(14:16):
through in terms of separating from King George, and I
reminded Steve about Thomas Jefferson, who is my favorite founding father.
I want to go to Monticello one day because Jefferson, truly,
with all of his flaws, is one of my favorite
founding fathers. And the founders when they were starting the country,

(14:41):
they did not want everyone to vote. And you might
think because they were racist. No, well they were racist,
but they wanted only educated voters, okay, And they assumed
that white land owning men would have some degree of education.

(15:06):
So that's why when they were writing the Constitution and
the Declaration and all that, that's why white land owning
men were the ones they wanted to vote. Not because
they liked white people more, not because they liked landowners more,
but because they assumed that they would be educated. Now,
there's a great article I found by Marizio Valsani about

(15:31):
how America's founders believed civic education and historical knowledge would
prevent tyranny and foster democracy. Prevent tyranny and foster democracy.
So Jefferson himself said that there is no democracy without education.

(15:53):
Another French philosopher who lived up until seventeen fifty five
but was here in the United States, Baron Montess, Thank you,
he again advocated for the creation of governments for the
people and with the people, but he said that the
uneducated would irredeemably act through passion. Consequently, they ought to

(16:14):
be directed by those of higher rank and restrained within bounds.
Our founders knew we had to be educated. Thomas Jefferson
said that a government by citizens in mass acting directly
and personally according to the rules established by the majority.

(16:37):
And he said, look, I disagree with George Washington on
one thing, and one thing only, is that I have
more confidence than he does in the natural integrity and
discretion of the people. In other words, Jefferson felt, no
everybody should be able to vote, but they all should
meet their civic duty of becoming educated. Jefferson assumed that

(17:00):
people would want to be educated. Washington wasn't so hopeful.
He thought there should be some kind of test or
some kind of something before you voted. They both believed
in national universities. Their minds must be improved to a
certain degree, said Jefferson. So while the people are potentially

(17:24):
the safe depositories for a democratic nation, in reality they
should go through a training process. He said, we must
illuminate as far as practical the minds of the people
at large and give them knowledge of the facts which
history exhibits. In other words, they need to know their history.

(17:47):
We need to educate and inform the whole mass of
the people. He kept repeating it always. This was his mantra.
Our liberty can never be safe but in the hands
of the people themselves, and that too, of the people
with a certain degree of instruction. Our liberty can never

(18:09):
be safe unless it is in the hands of the people,
and the people are educated. Wherever the people are well informed,
wrote Jefferson, they can be trusted with their own government,
implying if the people are not well informed, they cannot

(18:30):
be trusted with their own government. Benjamin Russia, Philadelphia doctor.
He addressed the United States on the need for a
national university which taught history, the law of nature and nations,
civil law, municipal laws of our country, and the principles
of commerce taught by competent professors. George Washington addressed the

(18:54):
same idea in his farewell speech to the Nation and
to the Senate. We wish to awaken Congress to the
desirableness of a national university and a military academy whose
wings would span over as many citizens as possible, because
he said, the more homogeneous our citizens can be made,

(19:16):
the greater will the prospect of a permanent union. The
more homogeneous, the more like one, the more many things
blended into one that our nation can become, the greater
our prospect of a permanent union. Are you hearing what

(19:40):
I'm hearing? Are you hearing that our founders really believe
that we all had a responsibility to be well informed,
and that information, that knowledge was the most important bed
rock of a democracy, that an educated electricist and an

(20:06):
educated popas was tantamat to the survival of the democracy.
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(21:10):
the party going as long as we can. All right.
During the break, I was checking the chatroom at YouTube
dot com, Forward slash, Lykrell and No, Rachel. I don't

(21:32):
assume that all Americans are maga, Nor do I assume
that all Israelis hate Palestinians. I do not. I'm simply
saying Israel is preventing the world from feeding the Palestinians,
and Israel is not feeding them themselves. Now, those are facts.
No matter how badly most Israelis want to end the war,

(21:54):
and no matter how badly most Israelis don't want to
starve the Palestinians. It's precisely what they're doing, just like
no matter how we want to say that not all
Americans are MAGA. MAGA is controlling everything from our government,
to our media corporations, to regular corporations, public policy. Everything

(22:17):
is being controlled by MAGA. So if we're not all maga,
how is that happening? And if most Israelis don't take Palestinians,
how are they starving them? You'll say, well, we're powerless
against our leaders. To go back to what I was
talking about, we are in this situation because most of Americans,

(22:39):
I mean, we just got to fess up. We don't
value education in this country. We don't value educated people.
We don't value education. We are doing everything we can
to dumb Americans down, to shorten their attention spans, to
stop critical thinking in its tracks, to make everything a SoundBite,

(23:00):
and everything play to the emotions and not to the intellect.
We literally have a president that his stated goal is
to dismantle the Department of Education, and the courts just
gave him approval. We are an ignorant nation and becoming
more and more so. Young people today are more ignorant

(23:24):
than ever. They do not have the life skills to survive,
and subsequently they're not And here we are. We have
defunded education. Instead of having the best schools, the most
modern schools in the world, that teach the most well
rounded curriculum that there is, we have the worst schools

(23:49):
in the world. We have defunded. We have teachers that
are exhausted. We have teachers that have to give their
own money just for school supply for their students. We
have students in sixth grade that can't read and they
cannot write. No one writes essays anymore, no one writes

(24:10):
long form papers anymore, No one writes novels, no one
reads novels. We have purposely dumbed down this country and
this is where we are. And our founders said that
we will lose our democratic republic if we are not educated.

(24:33):
The masses know nothing about civics. They know nothing about
civic law, they know nothing about finance, foreign affairs. They
know nothing about this, and they don't want to Our
newscasters because the founders felt that the dissemination of information
was one of the most important things in our country.

(24:56):
Our newscasters are not learned individuals. There are no more
Edward R. Murrows or Walter Cronkite's outside of Rachel Maddow,
who is a Rhodes scholar. That's about it. We actually
revel in our stupidity. Our television programs celebrate stupidity. Everything

(25:21):
in our culture celebrates consumerism and stupidity. And that's why
we're losing our democracy. Because you're not an idiot. If
you're listening to me, you're not an idiot. You're educator.
I know, I have the stats. You're educated. You either

(25:42):
went through some college or have a college degree. You're
obviously critical thinkers. We're the minority. That's what this election
cost us, or taught us that educated people in America
are the minority, and that includes our young people. Look

(26:02):
at all the young people now gravitating towards religion and maga.
Only idiots gravitate towards fairy tales and maga. That's it period.
Educated people do not believe in guys with white Beard
sitting on a throne in the sky. Critical thinkers do

(26:23):
not join maga. So our founders told us that democracy
could only be safe, that it could only flourish if
the people were educated and informed about their history about policies.
And now we're just the opposite. We revel in our stupidity.

(26:48):
We are now turning our brain over to AI. Let
AI think for us, Let it write for us, Let
it come up with ideas for us, Let it do
everything for us. We don't value education, we don't value intellect.
We actually make fun of people who are very smart,

(27:10):
and we don't reward them. There's very few super intelligent
rich people. We don't reward people for being super intelligent.
It's very sad. It is very very sad. You know.
Today on social media, I saw an Indianapolis church allow

(27:32):
a minister to say that gays should shoot themselves in
the head because they are an abomination and they should
all die or be killed by the government. Not in
sixteen forty July twenty third, twenty twenty five, from an
Indianapolis church, a preacher stood on the pulpit and said

(27:57):
gays should have the back of their head blown off, yes,
and that we should do it ourselves. We should commit
suicide because we are abominations. Now, I'm not going to
go into how children could be listening. I'm not. I
am just going to say that for those of you
that wonder why we still need gay pride events, for

(28:19):
those of you that wonder why we still are vocal
and why we still say we need to do so
much more. This is why you could not stand on
a pulpit and say that about any other group of people,
but he can say it about gays. This guy one

(28:41):
of those brothers, the fighters. What's his name, there's two brothers.
They're huge Internet to say Logan Paul that the boxer one.
I think it's Jake Paul or whatever his name is.
He is on social media right now getting all kinds
of props because he said there is three genders male, female,
and mentally ill, and everybody's agreeing with him. So if

(29:07):
you wonder why as gay people, and why as a
gay person I still talk about gay issues and still
push and still make it a central issue, that's why.
That's why. Because when you feed that problem to the
ignorant nation that I just told you about, they're going

(29:30):
to act on it because they're ignorant. How do we
solve the crisis mass re education? Will anyone do it? No?
We need much bigger standards for our media. We need
better standards for our schools. I'm actually afraid America is
lost because we won't educate ourselves. That's the sole reason.

(29:53):
Because we will not educate the uneducated. MAGA doesn't want
an education. I don't want to be smart. They like
very ignor and that's why we're where we're at. I
am krel be who you want to be following. Don't
hurt me, buddy. Thank you for liking the new setup.
I like the new setup too, I really do so

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