Sen. Bernie Sanders had informed him that he was a revolutionary, he said. "This is a country filled with people who wake up wanting to change the world"--and he would know, having explored the evils of environmental pollution of water and the air in 34 states.
He's just completed another film on the ongoing drama of heroic resistance at Standing Rock: "Those people in the water are the soul of everything we live for," he said.
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This oh-so-hard act to follow was succeeded by another popular progressive comedian and radio broadcaster on SiriusXM Insight #121, as well as filmmaker, John Fugelsang.
His outstanding new film, "Dream On," retracing Alexander de Tocqueville's travels throughout this country in the 1830s, looking for American democracy and finding it, encompasses 200 interviews.
"It is the American dream to rise," he said.
Referring to Trump's criticism of Pope Francis, he excoriated the conflict "His Holiness versus His Assholiness."
"Anyone who wants to build a wall instead of a bridge isn't Christian," Pope Francis had said.
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The morning of the last day was a gut-puncher:
In this culture of retaliation, the largest number of terrorist acts have been committed by the United States, not Islamist extremists.
Trump has used us and exploited our suffering.
This administration will kill us.
Bannon's policy has nothing to do with 9/11.
It's now not America First but Trump and Money first.
Everything is at stake.
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