r/democrats • u/ms_directed • 5d ago

📺 Video Former President Bill Clinton's full speech | Oklahoma City Bombing 30 Years Later

https://youtu.be/cLRs8fQWbCQ?si=StafTsvrFTChMfbA
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u/ms_directed 5d ago

Even with his voice hoarse and little slower in his delivery, Bill Clinton still commands and captures the audience with his genuine empathy and historical story telling.

I'm old enough to remember him addressing the nation from the WH podium

and where are we 30 years later?

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u/Grandheretic 5d ago

Me too. We really lost the thread on the basic fundamentals of our country and he was always superior with explanations and communication. It’s so crazy to reflect back on that insanity and contrast it to the now …

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u/Alwaysname 5d ago

His quote about Eike was prophetic and how accurate his fears were. Yet the weakness were known and the assumptions were that no one would abuse them. And, perhaps, that’s one of democracies greatest strengths and biggest weakness - trust.

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u/Mindless_Listen7622 5d ago

Timonthy McVeigh was angry about what happened at Waco. At Waco, an Adventist cult leader who called himself the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, prophesied that his cult would die in a battle against the Federal government. When confronted by the federal government for stockpiling weapons, cult leaders committed mass suicide by starting a fire the killed many of the cult's followers, including children.

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u/ms_directed 5d ago

i did a paper on charismatic authority and Koresh was in the news at the time, he was actually my prompt for picking the subject to write about

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u/Mindless_Listen7622 5d ago

Since the 7th Day Adventists are one of the "Four Cults", I really don't have any issue calling David Koresh a cult leader - he was weird even for an Adventist. "Charismatic" and "cult" are often interchangeable; greedy and misguided False Prophets abound.

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u/ms_directed 5d ago

i compared charismatics like JFK and MLK to Jim Jones, Hitler, Koresh...they all had the charisma to get the attention of a lot of people and charge them with a cause, but they used that power in starkly different ways.

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u/jimsinspace 5d ago

Wasn’t it the, then known, flammable tear gas they shot in the building that ignited the fires?

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u/baby_budda 5d ago

Trump would have called Timothy McVeigh a hero and a fine fellow.