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Ep. 27 | USA: Democracy or Republic? · The Myth of Education Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: This episode will air Wednesday, July 29th.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the last days of the month that I have dubbed Freedom Month.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's no problem for me to explain this over and over and over again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we have a narrative that has been propagated in this nation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And everybody, even the most intelligent, patriotic people have fallen for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm going to take this opportunity to explain it from the perspective that I understand.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, I am a lay person, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not a constitutional expert.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not a lawyer.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not a judge.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm in the process of rereading the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
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  SPEAKER_00: and the Bill of Rights.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that that's the most that the average citizen can do is inform yourself
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  SPEAKER_00: and then re-educate yourself because everything that you've learned up
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  SPEAKER_00: to this point,
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  SPEAKER_00: I won't say everything is a lie,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I mean, as an example, did we really land on the moon 60, 70 years ago?
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, that's a conversation for another podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you Have any sources on this topic that you want me to check out,
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  SPEAKER_00: you can email them to mythofeducation at gmail.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you have feedback, good, bad, or ugly, give it to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give it to me because I'm always willing to learn.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm pretty set in my ways in some respects,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I'm still young enough to where I'm willing to change if I see
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  SPEAKER_00: that there is another layer of truth that I haven't gotten to.
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  SPEAKER_00: But by the So,
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  SPEAKER_00: anyways, let's start with that, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is a democracy?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I wrote down some notes here.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, the Greek word demos, meaning people and Kratos meaning power or rule.
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  SPEAKER_00: It forms the word democracy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It means the people rule or the rule of the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a political system existing during the time of the Greek Empire, most notably in Athens.
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  SPEAKER_00: And basically the governing authority is a simple majority or a popular vote.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's what I want you to listen to.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are some quotes from our founders.
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  SPEAKER_00: And specifically dealing with democracy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can verify these quotes for yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just going to say that these things are attributed to these men.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no reason to think that the Internet would lie about this, I guess.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Alexander Hamilton said,
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  SPEAKER_00: It has been observed that a pure democracy,
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  SPEAKER_00: if it were practicable, would be the most perfect government.
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  SPEAKER_00: Experience has proved that no position is more false than this.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ancient democracies in which
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  SPEAKER_00: the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their very character was tyranny.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their figure, deformity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, Alexander Hamilton.
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  SPEAKER_00: The instability...
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  SPEAKER_00: Is inherent in the nature of popular governments.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think very disputable.
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  SPEAKER_00: A representative democracy,
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  SPEAKER_00: more on that later,
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  SPEAKER_00: where the right of the election is well secured and regulated and the exercise of
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  SPEAKER_00: the legislation executable.
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  SPEAKER_00: And judicial authorities is vested in select persons chosen really and not nominally
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  SPEAKER_00: by the people will in my opinion be the most likely to be happy regular and durable
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  SPEAKER_00: if we incline too much to democracy we will soon shoot into a Last one
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  SPEAKER_00: from Alex Hamilton.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are now forming a Republican government and Republican meaning universal, not the party.
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  SPEAKER_00: Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in monarchy.
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  SPEAKER_00: John Adams, remember, democracy never lasts long.
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  SPEAKER_00: It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
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  SPEAKER_00: John Adams again, our constitution was made for a moral Imagine.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have founders who didn't even want the Democrat and Republican Party to exist.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, another topic for a different episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: Government,
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  SPEAKER_00: this is still John Adams,
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  SPEAKER_00: government is instituted for the common good,
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  SPEAKER_00: for the protection, safety,
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  SPEAKER_00: prosperity,
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  SPEAKER_00: and happiness of the people,
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  SPEAKER_00: and not for profit,
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  SPEAKER_00: honor, or private interests of any one man, family, class of men.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore the people alone have incontestable,
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  SPEAKER_00: unalienable,
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  SPEAKER_00: and indefensible right to institute government and to form, alter,
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  SPEAKER_00: or totally change the same when their protection,
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  SPEAKER_00: safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thomas Jefferson said,
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  SPEAKER_00: The Republican form of government is the only form of government
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  SPEAKER_00: which is not eternally at open or secret with the rights of mankind and tends
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  SPEAKER_00: to guard the least wealthy part of the community from oppression.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I could keep going, but you understand why.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you see the picture.
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  SPEAKER_00: One source that I looked into said democracy is the institutionalization of freedom.
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  SPEAKER_00: OK, yet we have presidents like Ronald Reagan,
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  SPEAKER_00: who said we have to fight for freedom pretty much every generation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Franklin,
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  SPEAKER_00: at the end of the Constitutional Convention,
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  SPEAKER_00: when answering the question of whether or not we have freedom,
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  SPEAKER_00: A Republican form of government or a monarchy,
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  SPEAKER_00: he is attributed with saying a republic if you can keep it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ultimately, we are not a democracy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were not founded as a democracy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to talk about the difference between a democratic republic and
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  SPEAKER_00: a representative democracy,
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  SPEAKER_00: which we are both of those things,
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  SPEAKER_00: but calling our nation a democracy for short is asinine.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's really silly and it shows that You either have no intelligence at all
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  SPEAKER_00: or you're willfully ignorant of the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And essentially,
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  SPEAKER_00: we've had leftists just kind of overrun the narrative of the type of country
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  SPEAKER_00: that we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saying that we're a democracy, okay,
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  SPEAKER_00: the spirit behind mislabeling our country as that type
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  SPEAKER_00: of system is what gives people the right they think To go riot in the streets
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  SPEAKER_00: when something is not going their way.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we have an administration that is trying to rid our country of rapists
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  SPEAKER_00: and murderers and drug dealers and the worst of the worst of illegal immigrants.
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  SPEAKER_00: A democracy is the type of place where you'll see Words are very important.
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  SPEAKER_00: Words carry meaning, and words have power.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is,
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  SPEAKER_00: So now, what is a constitutional republic?
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  SPEAKER_00: A constitutional republic is, as John Adams put it, a government of laws and not of men.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the U.S. Constitution is our rule of law.
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  SPEAKER_00: We elect our representatives to make laws,
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  SPEAKER_00: and this is what is key and what is critical
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  SPEAKER_00: And so what are the key features of
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  SPEAKER_00: a republic?
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  SPEAKER_00: As I just said,
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  SPEAKER_00: we elect our representatives,
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  SPEAKER_00: their citizens,
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  SPEAKER_00: like us, who make laws to protect our rights and govern on our behalf.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Constitution
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  SPEAKER_00: is our rule of law.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the second thing to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: All statutes, ordinances, regulations should proceed from the Constitution.
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  SPEAKER_00: At no time does the loud majority become the rule of law.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know how many times I have to say that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter if the left has captured the media or Our education institutions,
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  SPEAKER_00: business, finance, whatever, stand alone on the truth, even if you have to.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is just what it requires.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what it means to be a patriot.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you'll be surprised.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you might be the first person to have to push back against something,
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  SPEAKER_00: but you'll quickly have people join you once they discern that there is safety and
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  SPEAKER_00: that there is something that can be accomplished in numbers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the truth always wins anyway.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what's another key feature of a constitutional republic?
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  SPEAKER_00: The rights of an individual, as well All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: So under the Constitution,
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  SPEAKER_00: we do have in our elections,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is a democratic process, we do have a popular vote.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've got an electoral college.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, those are topics that are deserving of their own.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then last but not least that I want to mention is the separation of powers.
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  SPEAKER_00: We defer to three branches of government for those of us who haven't been
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  SPEAKER_00: a civics class or will never take one because,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know, they don't hardly do that anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our three branches of government are legislative.
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  SPEAKER_00: This includes the House and Senate and makes up Congress.
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  SPEAKER_00: They draft and vote on our laws and spend all our money.
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  SPEAKER_00: The judicial branch,
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  SPEAKER_00: which includes the Supreme Court,
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  SPEAKER_00: the circuit courts, appellate courts, municipal courts, etc.
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  SPEAKER_00: They litigate and interpret our laws.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we have the executive branch,
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  SPEAKER_00: which includes the President of the United States,
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  SPEAKER_00: the military, law enforcement, they enforce our laws.
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  SPEAKER_00: And our republic is set up as such
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  SPEAKER_00: that our 50 states are almost like little mini nations, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So federally, we have the president, his cabinet, etc.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then when you come stateside,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's like we have the governor,
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  SPEAKER_00: we've got mayors in our cities, and we've got city councils, all the things.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that a constitutional republic is brilliant.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's no concentrated superpower in our constitutional republic.
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  SPEAKER_00: A separation of powers is the exact opposite of a democracy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope I have demonstrated that well up to this point in the podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, what is a representative democracy?
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  SPEAKER_00: So when I post on social media...
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not a democracy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not a democracy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then people come in my comment section and are like, we're a representative democracy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I'm not going to push back other than to say a representative democracy is
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  SPEAKER_00: in effect a constitutional republic.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are not a direct democracy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not a pure democracy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need to hold them accountable because they answer to us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can withdraw our support from them at any time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what we have the opportunity to do every two to four years.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have an election, which I said is a democratic election.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a difference between democratic and democracy.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: So every two to four years or a special election,
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  SPEAKER_00: we get the opportunity to voice whether
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  SPEAKER_00: or not we still support this person representing us under the legislative branch.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know how many times I have to repeat this.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are not a law unto ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are held to the standard of the Constitution,
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  SPEAKER_00: and that is the rule of law that we have to hold our representatives to.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, as conservatives, we understand.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is no problem with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have to have some final authority that is neutral or objective so
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  SPEAKER_00: that everyone can be subject to that,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is why it makes sense that the founders would base the Constitution
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  SPEAKER_00: on Scripture, all the New Testament passages, because they believed that God...
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  SPEAKER_00: Being a supreme being is the one who created man and then gave us the morality that we live by.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't kill, don't cheat, don't steal, etc.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, not all of the founders were Bible-believing, born-again, Sunday-morning Christians.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't think
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  SPEAKER_00: that it is helpful to romanticize history,
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  SPEAKER_00: just like it is not helpful to demonize our history.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just want the truth to prevail.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just keep that in mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whatever the truth is,
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  SPEAKER_00: whether it's good,
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  SPEAKER_00: bad, ugly, you want it to prevail because it's something to learn from.
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  SPEAKER_00: Regardless of whether or not all of these men were Christians under the terms
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  SPEAKER_00: that are I would say that they were or trying to determine whether or not they went
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  SPEAKER_00: to heaven or hell.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that's irrelevant for the purposes of today of us remembering the things that they said.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the things that they wrote, those things, in my opinion, are timeless.
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  SPEAKER_00: Morality hasn't changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just that people have gotten more evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so those who think that the rule of law needs to change with the times,
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  SPEAKER_00: those are people who want to be able to get away with more.
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  SPEAKER_00: They want to be able to answer to less and have less accountability.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just is what it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is a presidential republic.
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  SPEAKER_00: We elect our leader, our supreme leader of the executive branch.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is opposed to a parliament.
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  SPEAKER_00: In a parliament,
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  SPEAKER_00: they elect legislators and the party or a body or coalition that serves
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  SPEAKER_00: So there are other countries that you can look to that have a setup like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Israel would be one of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's an imperfect situation, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and to be honest,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Constitution created a situation that we would like to believe is perfect,
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  SPEAKER_00: but the Constitution is only as valuable or as pertinent and applicable
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  SPEAKER_00: as we apply it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I can already hear some pushback, and I've seen it in my comment section.
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  SPEAKER_00: I even bring it up sometimes that our founders didn't necessarily live up to all of
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  SPEAKER_00: the ideals when it came to freedom.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you read some of our amendments to the Constitution,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's I mean,
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  SPEAKER_00: they forgot they didn't forget,
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  SPEAKER_00: but it was like when they were first sitting down and having these conversations,
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  SPEAKER_00: they forgot that they had slaves or something.
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  SPEAKER_00: But anyway, through time, they tried to make it right.
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  SPEAKER_00: And to be honest, the perpetuation of slavery.
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  SPEAKER_00: Slavery of Jim Crow,
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  SPEAKER_00: of those negative things against someone who looks like me,
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  SPEAKER_00: it all came from the Democrat Party.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can trace it all the way back and learn that those evils that was
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  SPEAKER_00: in men's hearts, it all stems from people who were left morally.
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  SPEAKER_00: And several of the founders,
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  SPEAKER_00: Benjamin Franklin,
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  SPEAKER_00: I think is one of them,
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  SPEAKER_00: and there were a few others, maybe Washington, I can't remember them all.
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  SPEAKER_00: But a lot of them, upon their death, they set their slaves free.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so read into that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not all of the founders were slave owners, just like all of them weren't Christians, etc.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I understand why leftists try to come along and say, Christianity is...
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  SPEAKER_00: All of those things are absolutely ridiculous because all you need to do is to take
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  SPEAKER_00: the good, the bad, the ugly and know that these were flawed men.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at the end of the day,
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  SPEAKER_00: before you make them your hero,
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  SPEAKER_00: just make Jesus Christ your hero because God is the one who wanted the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: of A to exist.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he wanted it to be a constitutional republic.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wanted this to be a city on a hill,
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  SPEAKER_00: a beacon of a That can't be hidden and that's lit for the world to see.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't mean that we're perfect in all of our ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think all you need to read is one headline and you know that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But freedom is progressive.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the only thing that I would say is progressive in that,
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  SPEAKER_00: like I said earlier,
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  SPEAKER_00: it has to be And the only thing that can relieve you from that is
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  SPEAKER_00: What is a democratic republic?
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  SPEAKER_00: A democratic republic is what I've been describing this whole podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you understand?
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  SPEAKER_00: At the end of the day, democracy only happens in the voting booth.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's when it happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: From that point forward,
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  SPEAKER_00: We have to follow the process of the Constitution and treat that as the rule of law.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one person can just decide for a whole group of people because they got
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  SPEAKER_00: the majority vote, that they're just going to do what they want.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is the clash that we see within the Republican Party,
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  SPEAKER_00: within the Democrat Party,
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  SPEAKER_00: which I'm convinced that if you're still a Democrat, then, I mean...
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  SPEAKER_00: This is just willful ignorance at this point.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to just blanketly call every Democrat a racist,
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  SPEAKER_00: baby dismembering psycho, but essentially that is what has taken over your party.
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  SPEAKER_00: You would be better off,
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  SPEAKER_00: I guess,
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  SPEAKER_00: being independent or no party and then voting conservative because none
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  SPEAKER_00: of our policies are pro-death policies.
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  SPEAKER_00: So anyway, Democratic Republic, every two to four years there's an election.
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  SPEAKER_00: The people are not the rule of law, but the people are the government.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are a constitutional republic.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can call us a republic for short.
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  SPEAKER_00: That would be more accurate than calling us a democracy.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is largely due to our public education systems.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't function as a democracy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I also want to point out, and this is from a source that I use for this podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to link to it in the show notes.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, I always link there.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is a piece of romance.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it says,
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  SPEAKER_00: That have been molded through a long, often torturous history.
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  SPEAKER_00: Democracy is the institutionalization of freedom.
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  SPEAKER_00: So remember when I quoted that earlier, that's this source.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is what it says.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the end,
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  SPEAKER_00: people living in a democratic society must serve as the ultimate guardians
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  SPEAKER_00: of their own freedoms.
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  SPEAKER_00: And must forge their own path towards the ideals set forth in the preamble of
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  SPEAKER_00: the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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  SPEAKER_00: Recognition of the inherent dignity and the equal and inalienable rights
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  SPEAKER_00: of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom,
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  SPEAKER_00: justice and peace in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: OK, that all sounds really good.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it's leaving something out.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is leaving out the rule of law.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is leaving out the supreme authority in that situation.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you have a set of people who are always just basically...
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  SPEAKER_00: What did it say?
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  SPEAKER_00: Guarding their own freedom and forging their own path.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those things sound very brave and courageous and valiant,
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  SPEAKER_00: but that is to a fault if morality and what is considered
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  SPEAKER_00: to be right versus wrong is always subjective to the individual or the group.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, furthermore,
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  SPEAKER_00: this might be off subject,
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: on subject,
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  SPEAKER_00: but people talk about how we're on stolen land
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  SPEAKER_00: and we have these land acknowledgments and things being read.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not pledging allegiance to the United Nations.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not pledging allegiance to a council of human rights.
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  SPEAKER_00: Human rights.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was not even a thing 250, 150, whatever years ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: War and conquering territories and the strongest man winning,
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  SPEAKER_00: that was just how societies were set up.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't think, except in a situation like the Bible, Yes, yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was wrong that Africans were enslaved in the United States of America.
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  SPEAKER_00: However,
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  SPEAKER_00: taking the good,
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  SPEAKER_00: the bad with the ugly and making sure that truth will prevail,
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  SPEAKER_00: a lot of those people that came here were enslaved by Africans and
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  SPEAKER_00: then they were sold to the Spaniards and to the Europeans, etc., etc.
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  SPEAKER_00: This transatlantic slave trade was something that was going on the worldwide.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you want to say that somebody or some nation was racist,
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  SPEAKER_00: the whole world was racist 250 years ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: People with dark skin couldn't catch a break.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so this is not the sort of thing where we're wanting
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  SPEAKER_00: to rewrite what freedom means, where we want to rewrite what justice or peace means.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are no reparations that are due.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, let me just get this plug in here for anybody interested.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are no reparations that are due to Black people, all right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I've heard those arguments too, right,
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  SPEAKER_00: under the guise of justice and trying to have some sort of reconciliation
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  SPEAKER_00: for Black people in this country.
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  SPEAKER_00: No reparations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reparations are due.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the reason why I say that is because we've already received them.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: We gave this much money to the Native tribes and to the Japanese
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  SPEAKER_00: and all these things after the war that happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: OK, well, Black Americans have also received reparation.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's called food stamps.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's called Section 8 housing.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's called the first of the month.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of those handouts that incentivize you to get pregnant out of wedlock
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  SPEAKER_00: and not work a full time job.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are your reparations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Medicaid is a reparation.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: The taxpayers are paying for all of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: The government doesn't have any money.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's our money.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those of us who work.
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  SPEAKER_00: And who pay taxes into the system are the ones that are supporting your sorry behind
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_00: that we don't cuss on this show.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: I really wanted to call you a donkey in a three-letter word.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the problem with that mentality and what we're being sold is that it all comes
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  SPEAKER_00: in this nightmare.
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  SPEAKER_00: A nice, neat little package called a democracy.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is what is behind that word and why we should stop using it.
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  SPEAKER_00: To constantly be defending your freedom,
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  SPEAKER_00: it means to constantly uphold the rule of law and to preserve or
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  SPEAKER_00: in our case conserve what has already been proven throughout history
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  SPEAKER_00: to be working.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have advanced as a country.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've advanced as a nation.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've never been a slave.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't live through Jim Crow.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are black people alive today who did, and they don't have the same mentality.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just wanted to leave you with that for the month of July.
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  SPEAKER_00: Please leave a comment, share this episode.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: The logical conclusion is that if we are a law unto ourselves, we are going to self-destruct.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_00: That is what secular humanism is.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is a recipe for self-destruction.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is the Lord of the United States of America.
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  SPEAKER_00: And although you hated leftists,
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  SPEAKER_00: Donald Trump is the president right now at the filming of this episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Constitution Substitution is our rule of law.
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  SPEAKER_00: So as long as those of us,
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_00: Christian nationalists is what you call us,
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  SPEAKER_00: but to me that just breaks down to I love God and I love my country.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to look any deeper than that because any implication beyond
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: that is not going to be true of me anyway.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_00: If it wasn't for us praying people waving our appeal to heaven flags,
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  SPEAKER_00: God would have already wiped the United States out.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_00: So you should be glad that you have some opposition and
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  SPEAKER_00: that there are praying people on this soil.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_00: It is saving your life.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_00: It is preserving what you have,
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  SPEAKER_00: even though you're using your freedom to march in our streets naked and violently.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, let me know what you think.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, like, leave a comment, please share, and let's keep the conversation going.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_00: We have a democratic process that's coming up in November.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everybody is going to exercise their right to vote.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at that point, you need to vote common sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: You live in a republic, not a democracy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vote like you want to keep it that way.