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250 Years of Imperfection - Big Picture with Jack Atherton · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: It's seven five at fifty five krc DE talk station.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, this time of week and this little bit
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  Speaker 1: of time, and on Wednesday we get to hear the
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  Speaker 1: brilliance of Jack add and we call it the Big
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  Speaker 1: Picture with Jack Adathan and my friend Welcome back to
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  Speaker 1: the Morning Show. Always love having you on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me backpal, and congratulations on soon becoming
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  Speaker 2: a father in law. Yeah, it's great.
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  Speaker 1: We're really excited about it. I'm still I'm asking, please,
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  Speaker 1: Dear God, if you can shoot a prayer our way
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  Speaker 1: for at least a decent Saturday afternoon, that will be
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  Speaker 1: very much appreciated, because it looks like it's gonna rain.
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  Speaker 1: It's an outdoor wedding, so my little pumpkin, it's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy about that. Whatever come what mayweatherwise, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna pull it off and we're gonna try to
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  Speaker 1: have a really good time. But I would appreciate drier conditions. Jack.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's gonna be wonderful. Brian, as long as you
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  Speaker 2: don't take advice from Robert de Niro about being an
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  Speaker 2: in law or.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else, or anything else. I was waiting for that Jack.
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  Speaker 2: Bryan in all the time, as you've let me blather on,
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  Speaker 2: not a week has gone on when we haven't tried
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  Speaker 2: to prove that the United States of America is the
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  Speaker 2: greatest country in the history of the world. So as
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  Speaker 2: we're about to wave flags, shoot all fireworks, and beat
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  Speaker 2: our chests like those UFC fighters on the White House lawn,
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  Speaker 2: it may seem unpatriotic to mention that America is the greatest.
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  Speaker 2: Pardon me not so well this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: We're the greatest, but we're not perfect. Our founders never
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  Speaker 2: expected us to be perfect, because unlike the ignor Ramises
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  Speaker 2: who want to govern us today. Yes, Kamala AOC, James Tolerico, Mom, Donnie,
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  Speaker 2: who had such a great night last night. I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: at all of you kids. Our founders were well educated
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  Speaker 2: before rebelling against a divine right king and his hereditary aristocracy. Jefferson,
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  Speaker 2: Franklin and the rest had read John Locke on God
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  Speaker 2: given individual rights. They had read Montesquieu and his call
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  Speaker 2: for limited government guaranteed by a separation of powers. And
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  Speaker 2: our founders read the first and still the most important
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  Speaker 2: book ever written about politics, Plato's Republic, the book Winston
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  Speaker 2: Churchill may have been thinking of when he later said
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  Speaker 2: democracy is the worst form of government except for all
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  Speaker 2: the other ones. Plato proves this in the Republic by
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  Speaker 2: showing how, unless we're careful, all forms of government degenerate
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  Speaker 2: into tyranny. The philosopher starts with aristocracies throughout history. The
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  Speaker 2: original aristocrats everywhere have always been conquerors. Yes, my leftist friends,
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  Speaker 2: including that lady at the opening of the hideous Obama
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  Speaker 2: Library who apologized to Native Americans for building on stolen land.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just evil American colonists who conquered land. How
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  Speaker 2: about just to take one example, England. At one point
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  Speaker 2: Anglo Saxons ruled there until an invader from Normandy across
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  Speaker 2: the channel on the coast of France. William the Conqueror
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  Speaker 2: chased Saxons like Robin Hood into Sherwood Forest. That really happened.
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  Speaker 2: The Normans created their own English aristocracy, some of whom
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  Speaker 2: are still around today, but not many Brian because, as
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  Speaker 2: Plato points out, aristocracy degenerates. William the Conqueror may have
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  Speaker 2: been okay as King's Coo, but his great grandson, King
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  Speaker 2: John was a creep That's why John was forced to
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  Speaker 2: sign Magna Carta, limiting the monarch's power. Plato observed that
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  Speaker 2: when aristocratic families degenerate, their power passes to oligarchs, moneymen, bankers, merchants,
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  Speaker 2: even bootleggers. The founder of America's most famous political family,
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  Speaker 2: Old Joe Kennedy, besides being a banker and a backer
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  Speaker 2: of Hollywood movies, also imported Canadian booze during and after Prohibition.
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  Speaker 2: The Irish outsiders millions bought him so much political influence
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  Speaker 2: Joe became our ambassador to Great Britain, where he infamously
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  Speaker 2: tried to appease at Al F. Hitler. When the Allies
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  Speaker 2: eventually beat Hitler, Joe's son, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a war hero,
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  Speaker 2: had to live down his father's reputation. How do he
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  Speaker 2: do that? Well? This takes us to Plato's next regime. Democracy.
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  Speaker 2: Plato says, children of the rich are often ashamed of
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  Speaker 2: their privilege, so they become champions of the poor. They
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  Speaker 2: become democrats. Socialists not so much. JF. Kay himself. Sounding
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  Speaker 2: more like Reagan than Roosevelt. President Kennedy supported massive across
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  Speaker 2: the board tax cuts, believing that a rising tide lifts
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  Speaker 2: all boats thanks to economic growth, a word you never
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  Speaker 2: hear from later Republicans, including Senator Ted Kennedy. Guilt written
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  Speaker 2: over a lot of things. Teddy became America's leaving leftists
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  Speaker 2: leading the way to open borders and cradle to grave
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  Speaker 2: welfare because the Democrat Party is all about buying votes
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  Speaker 2: by getting rich and poor hooked on big government. Plato
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  Speaker 2: like Winston Churchill and Alexander Hamilton, by the way, did
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  Speaker 2: not believe democracy is the ideal form of government. They
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  Speaker 2: all feared mob rule. They feared demagogues who would promise
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  Speaker 2: voters never ending handouts, ruining their character, and sapping the
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  Speaker 2: nation's strength until demogogues become tyrants. Today's so called Democrat
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  Speaker 2: Party is an unholy marriage of globalist demagogues think George
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  Speaker 2: Sorrow's mom, Donnie Nancy Pelosi, and those left abjectly dependent
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  Speaker 2: on big government. We're talking about public union members, including
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  Speaker 2: teachers who run big cities like Chicago. Also the permanently poor,
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  Speaker 2: uneducated drowning in a pop culture that worships victimhood, as
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  Speaker 2: well as illegal immigrants, especially today, immediately qualifying for both
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  Speaker 2: legal and fraudulent subsidies paid for by taxpayers. Two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty years ago. Our founders recognized this risk, as
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  Speaker 2: Benjamin Franklin said, only of virtuous people are capable of freedom.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's true, Brian, ben himself was not perfectly virtuous,
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  Speaker 2: as his laws suffering wife Deborah. Neither were slave owners
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  Speaker 2: or robber barons abusing workers, including children. The United States
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  Speaker 2: of America has never been uniquely evil. But from the
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  Speaker 2: start we were the product of compromise between big states
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  Speaker 2: and small rich states and poor, free and slave states.
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  Speaker 2: That's all true, and it has to always be remembered. Nevertheless, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: how many nations throughout history have fought a civil war
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  Speaker 2: to free their slaves. How many welcomed illegal immigrants and
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  Speaker 2: then legal immigrants. Once we realized that we were being
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  Speaker 2: overrun and we were dispensing welfare to everybody, we welcomed
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  Speaker 2: legal immigrants still from around the globe, asking only that
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  Speaker 2: they assimilate and embrace the American ideals of tolerance, personal rights,
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  Speaker 2: and personal responsibility. Plato dreamt of a republic with the
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  Speaker 2: wisest and most experienced men and women. He explicitly included women,
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  Speaker 2: ruled as philosopher kings and queens, supported by a courageous
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  Speaker 2: military and virtuous private citizens. But with those who criticized
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  Speaker 2: the republic without reading it, ignore is that Plato admits
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  Speaker 2: his ideal republic is impossible. That's why he defends democracy
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  Speaker 2: as the best possible alternative, because, more than any top
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  Speaker 2: down big government, a democratic republic elected by a broad
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  Speaker 2: base of citizens is most likely to allow individuals to
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  Speaker 2: pursue their own notion of the virtuous life. More than monarchies, theocracies,
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  Speaker 2: or socialist paradises, democracy leaves each of us free to
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  Speaker 2: perfect ourselves at our children. So, friends, on this two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our independence, resist demagogues, reject
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  Speaker 2: big government, and let's instead make ourselves worthy of our
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  Speaker 2: imperfect but magnificent American Republic. What do you say that.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with the one hundred percent?
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  Speaker 2: Jack?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, who could not agree with that? I'm just
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  Speaker 1: besides a lot of people, well because they don't bother
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  Speaker 1: contemplating what they're asking for. You know, you just look
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  Speaker 1: at the numbers alone. This simple reality that if you
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  Speaker 1: look at the economics of our country, what we've accomplished
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  Speaker 1: over the years, the growth of our country what we
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  Speaker 1: have exported by way of technology and brilliance, the gifts
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  Speaker 1: we've given to the world in terms of you know,
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  Speaker 1: crop growth and modern conveniences, you know, things that keep
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  Speaker 1: people alive longer. The average age of death. Obviously, he's
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  Speaker 1: gotten longer and longer and longer over the Well, thank
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  Speaker 1: you to the United States and it's infusion of cash
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  Speaker 1: around the entire globe. I mean, we have funded and
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  Speaker 1: kept so many nations alive and out of peril, and
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  Speaker 1: we never get any seem to get any credit for it.
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  Speaker 1: You can only do all of the things we've been
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  Speaker 1: able to accomplish in spite of our warts over the
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  Speaker 1: years without an economically successful system of government, and it
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  Speaker 1: is wildly successful. And you know, Jack, I don't understand
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  Speaker 1: why everyone wants to run the opposite direction and kill
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  Speaker 1: our own economy, kill the goose that laid the golden egg.
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  Speaker 1: The world relies upon on a marriage and American largest
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  Speaker 1: for all of its social programs. Hell, the UN is
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  Speaker 1: asking for one point three trillion dollars every year to
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  Speaker 1: fight climate cast What country supports the UN more than
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  Speaker 1: any other at least until recently, right, well be on
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  Speaker 1: the hook for that, and they wanted to develop Africa,
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  Speaker 1: for example. Well, okay, you couldn't even ask for something
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  Speaker 1: like that without the demonstrable awesomeness of the American system
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  Speaker 1: of government and our economic philosophy, which is waning but
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  Speaker 1: largely capitalist. So what do they want to do. They
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  Speaker 1: want to destroy it. They want to bring about socialism,
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  Speaker 1: wealthy distribution to everybody, which we know is economically damaging,
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  Speaker 1: and of course it's basically a poison pill for the
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  Speaker 1: entire society that lives under socialism or communism. It's happened
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  Speaker 1: over and over again. Why do we continue to race
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  Speaker 1: in that direction? Collectively? Jack add and more and more
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  Speaker 1: every day people reject the idea of capitalism in favor
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  Speaker 1: of socialism, not knowing, I guess what's down the road
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  Speaker 1: if we go that direction.
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  Speaker 2: Collective ignorance, socialists ignorant of history, even recent history. They
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  Speaker 2: don't believe that socialism will kill America. And we have
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  Speaker 2: to admit, Brian life will go on even if Democrats
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  Speaker 2: turn America into a one party socialist state, where New
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  Speaker 2: York City is now a one party socialist city. And
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  Speaker 2: just as life went on after the collapse of the
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  Speaker 2: Roman Republic, you just had to live under murderous lunatic
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  Speaker 2: emperors by Colleguia and Nero. The United States pardon me,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. The United States has been an experiment in
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  Speaker 2: constitutional limited government. The norm throughout the ages has always
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  Speaker 2: been big government of tribal leaders, theocrants like today's iatolas
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  Speaker 2: and Iran kings and dictators. America uniquely was a blank
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  Speaker 2: slate that attracted settlers who were imperfect, damnably imperfect. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Puritans burned witches, Southerners held slaves, Yet their descendants steadily
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  Speaker 2: expanded individual rights and responsibilities secured by limited constitutional governments.
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  Speaker 2: That's what's at stake In twenty twenty six and twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight, as Benjamin Franklin warned, we have a republic
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  Speaker 2: if we can keep it.
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  Speaker 1: I was waiting for that quote, Jack Adan, in perfect
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  Speaker 1: end to our discussion this morning, and always brilliant. I
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  Speaker 1: can't thank you enough for your commentary every week. I'm
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  Speaker 1: inspired by it and of course giving people food for
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  Speaker 1: thought and more people need to reflect upon what you
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  Speaker 1: talked about today than they apparently are right now, because
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  Speaker 1: we are running down a dangerous, dangerous path