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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: Jesse Ventura Explains Why So Many Americans Are Voting for Trump Jesse Ventura Explains Why So Many Americans Are Voting for Trump A candid Q&A about gun control, the war on drugs, George W. Bush, and more. Getty By Luke O'Neil Jul 13, 2016 John Kerry once said, "In America, you have a right to be stupid." Nowhere is that more true than in the world of politics. That quote leads off Sh*t Politicians Say, the latest book from Jesse Ventura, a man who knows of what he speaks. In the book, the onetime governor of Minnesota, Vietnam veteran, actor, professional wrestler, media personality, and current icon of libertarian-hued, conspiracy-minded wokeness, walks us through a collection of some of the dumbest things U.S. politicians have said throughout history. And things have only gotten stupider over time. "Stupid seems to be everywhere these days," Ventura writes. "Some believe it's because the human race is getting stupider and stupider with every passing year. Me? …I'd like to thank television, the internet, social media, and the 24-hour news cycle for bringing more stupid to the public consciousness more efficiently than ever before." To help make it more manageable, Ventura broke the book down into chapters that adhere to one particular group's unique brand of stupid—"Shit Founding Fathers Said" or "Shit Politicians Say About Civil Rights Issues," for example. Unsurprisingly, George W. Bush and Sarah Palin are both given their own individuals sections. I spoke with Ventura about the book and about his thoughts, which were ample, on the state of politics, policing, and technology. ESQ: We'll get to the book in a minute, but I'd like to hear your thoughts about these past few weeks in the news. What the hell is going on in this country? Ventura: Well, in my opinion, you've got to go to the source of what's caused the militarization of our police department, to where they seem to be now operating under a premise of "shoot first and ask questions later." I think the root problem, ultimately—of course racism plays a role—but throwing racism aside, it's the war on drugs. It's caused the militarization of our police forces, the violation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, where you see doors getting knocked down without warrants, people getting shot inside. If we would legalize drugs, decriminalize, like Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate, wants to do, all of this in time would go away, and you would see a new relationship between police and people. They don't raid houses in Beverly Hills, unless you're Tommy Chong. They don't raid affluent neighborhoods. It's always in the lower income—ghetto, if you want to call it that. And all this hostility comes from the war on drugs. That makes a lot of sense to me. It inspires this tension you see between police and minority communities. This latest one in Minnesota, they pulled a guy over for a taillight out. And because they were black, they thought, Oh there's gotta be some drug involved here. I can see the thought process going through the cop's head… The other thing I'm interested is: Where's the NRA on this deal? Because this guy was a concealed carry. Yeah, they tend to go silent when it's something like this. And then of course, in Dallas… I wouldn't want to comment because I haven't delved into it enough. It seems the police used a bomb on a robot to kill the suspect, which is just insane to me, speaking of the militarization of the police. Police with bombs now? Oh yeah. The federal government has given them all those armaments. I was driving down the highway a couple months ago, this big black thing, looked like something you'd see in the deserts of Iraq. I pulled up next to it, and it said Minnesota Highway Patrol. Those are my cops. If I had been governor, I would've immediately gone to the head of the Highway Patrol and said, "What the hell is this thing? Get rid of it." Call me paranoid and all that, but in light of what happened at the Boston Marathon a few years ago, which to me was a practice run for martial law, I foresee a lot of this building up to a martial law situation. Again, we need to end the war on drugs. That would put the cartels in Mexico out of business. Everywhere they've legalized marijuana, heroin use has dropped [Editor's note: This is an unsubstantiated claim]. And if they want to look at a problem, how about looking at what killed Prince: opiates. And here's another one on the gun end of it: Everyone is outraged, the mass shootings, this and that, which are horrible. But do you realize there are 300,000 drunk drivers a day in this country? Now, they're going to go after the gun manufacturers? What a slippery slope that is. If you're going to hold a gun manufacturer responsible for this misuse of their product, wouldn't you also have to hold automakers responsible when a drunk driver kills someone misusing their product? Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 3.
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In national politics Ventura is essentially a Democrat with very anti-Republican views.
He's more constitutional than any dem in deecee, or all of them put together.
But when there is a choice between Obama and a Republican he takes Obama. He lied on AJ's show in 2012 and said it took 4 years for a recovery. Reagan did it in less time.
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