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Rise of Socialism: Is America able to accommodate a wide range of ideologies? · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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We are faith and fury.
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Love and fire.
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This is the human equation where every voice counts and every truth cuts deep.
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With your host, Joseph Pangara.
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Everybody, welcome aboard the human equation.
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I'm your host, Joseph Pangero.
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So we've seen some big changes that have been brewing for a while.
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You know, uh, I hope you're you're not one of those new year new me kind of people, because I don't think it does you any good.
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Strike that.
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Maybe for some of us it does.
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You know, these people that say, it's January, it's a new year, new me, I'm gonna go to work out, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that.
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And then we don't actually do that, do we?
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You know, what what do gyms count on?
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Gyms count on you purchasing a membership, usually recurring payment or a lump sum for the whole year, and people come, the gyms are crowded.
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Right?
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I've been going to gyms for years to work out, and you see that you know, January, crowded, February, crowded, by March, not so much.
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People stop coming, you know.
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It's a what do they say?
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To change a habit, you need to do something for 30 days in a row.
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So if you want to change a habit that you have, you say, okay, I I want to, I don't know, I want to walk more.
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Well, that means you gotta get up every day and walk.
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Now you don't have to do it first thing in the morning.
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I think it helps to work in the morning because whether it's uh walking or working out, because it starts your day off right, gets your systems pumping, and you get it out of the way.
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Now, I enjoy working out.
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I really do.
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It's uh it's one of those things, I guess you get endorphins are are released in your body when you're when you're working out, when you're doing something fun, physical, it feels good.
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So that's one of the reasons I like it.
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The problem is, even though I like it, finding time for it is difficult, right?
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Do you ever find that you really want to do something you know, now I gotta fit it into my schedule?
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So I don't want to go far afield on this, but what I'm talking about is that the changes that we've seen in our country recently, uh just are almost too hard to believe.
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So one of the things that we've seen is the uh New York City, New York City has just elected and sworn in its first outwardly socialist, if not communist mayor.
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Now, you say to yourself, uh, it's trendy, you know, it's this and that.
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We've been talking about this for a while.
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We've seen the statistics in the last couple of years, we've seen statistics that say young people under 35 years old have overwhelmingly, I think in 67% of them have said that socialism is a better political system for us to live under than the capitalist constitutional system we currently have.
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And when you look into that, you say, how did this happen?
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How does this happen in America after the World War II and the Cold War and all the things that we fought against uh to protect our our nation from communism and socialism, and we see the destruction that socialism causes to individuals and societies around the world?
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How is it that American young people have now abandoned everything that their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents lived by to have this nation to say to themselves, no, socialism would be better?
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And when you look into it, and it's really becoming crystalliz now.
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We are seeing the reasons, you know, people are you know for at first.
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I think it was just a strange poll.
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Yeah, it's a weird poll.
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Why would these young people say, well, you know, young people, they don't have any like what's the what's the expression?
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Uh if you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart.
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If you're not a conservative by 40, you have no brain.
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Well, I think that's true, and I I I think it's and at its essence, and that's what we like to do here is break things down to its essence, right?
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At its essence, what that is telling us is that it's about life experience.
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You have no life experience at 20, you know, very, very few people have uh a lot of hard scrabble uh life experience at 20 years old.
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You're a kid.
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You know, the the problems of the world seem simple to solve, you know, uh right and wrong seem so black and white.
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There is no overlapping, there is no um nuance to things.
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There's right and there's wrong, and if it's wrong, then we just do it the right way, right?
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And the whole concept of fairness, it's more fair in a socialist system because people don't go without.
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You don't have some people who have a lot and other people who have very, very little.
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Everyone has what they need, right?
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Each to each is to each his own to each need, or whatever it is, communist nonsense.
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The sentiment is understandable.
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I understand the sentiment.
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I want everyone to have everything they need too.
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Who doesn't?
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Who would sit around and say, no, I want me and my people to have things, but not those people.
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I want everyone to have everything they need.
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Every child should have an amazing opportunity at life.
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The the the problem stems from at its essence.
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Where does this come from?
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Well, recently you've seen with the rise of um other than the mainstream media, like here on America Out Loud.news, the fact that we have so many different voices on here offering their thoughts and their opinions, and all of you who write in to us and ask questions and give us your opinions.
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What we're finding is that this whole idea of uh everything is easily fixable if we would just be fair, if we would stop the greedy people from having everything, you know, the rich, if we just took some of the rich people's stuff and gave it to those who didn't have any, that we would solve a lot of our financial problems.
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Then everyone would have housing, everyone would have medicine, everyone would have food, and that is better than this system where you're on your own.
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Now, in its in its uh simplicity, in its simplicity and its innocence of that kind of a thought.
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Like I said, who would disagree with the concept of people don't go without?
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You know, uh for those of you who know me from my previous program, Chasing Justice, which you can find all the shows on the uh podcast section, you know, one of the one of the concepts of justice that we talked about was, you know, why is it fair that some people have a lot and other people don't?
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Well, uh when we break this down, it's because we don't all have the same skills and talents, right?
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It's just it it that's not how it is.
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And what America has offered us since its inception was equal opportunity, not equal outcome.
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And this is where uh, and this is one of the reasons that I I chose the name for this program, the human equation.
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Excuse me, because it's really understanding how how humans interact with the world, how we interact with other people and concepts and you know, there is no such thing as fair.
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Is it fair that um some people have more than others?
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It it's just the way it is, it's just how it is.
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The problem is that is very painful to some people, okay?
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Um I'm I'm trying to wrap my head around exactly the examples that I want to give you here, but I think we all can speak to them.
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We know that some people are amazingly talented when it comes to art, to drawing, to music, to singing, to painting, right?
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So we're in the arts, the higher actions of humanity.
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There are some people that are just so gifted and so amazing, and other people are not.
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And those people that are that gifted, they certainly can make a living off those skills, can't they?
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Don't we see uh these singers and uh musicians and actors making millions of dollars for playing a character in a movie, and then we see the lifestyle they have.
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They have a beautiful home on the beach in California, and they fly all over.
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They're not going to work Monday to Friday, they're not eking it out on $50,000 a year like so many Americans are.
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There's no such thing as fair.
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They happen to have those kind of skills.
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Well, this can this can cover many, many uh endeavors of a human being at our essence, right?
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So, how about brains, brain power?
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You know, how many people do we know that are just so intelligent that their intelligence leads them into careers that are very high paying, very lucrative, and they live great lives.
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Right?
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You you look at somebody who goes into
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The mathematics field.
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Now, my youngest son is an engineer.
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And this kid we knew from the time he was three years old.
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He had intelligence that was just off the chart, right?
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All my kids are smart.
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I got all very, very smart young people, blessed with that.
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But my youngest, we knew right off the bat that this kid was just above and beyond when it came to intelligence.
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And we fostered that, right?
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We fostered that to try and give him opportunities to continue to expand.
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Now, he ended up getting like opportunities at schools that we never could have afforded, an unbelievable school.
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And when he when he came to us, he would we were doing the college uh, you know, the college run, go around and look at colleges.
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And so we had a lot of schools that we call, you know, reach schools, schools that were really out of our league at uh financially.
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He could certainly do the work, we knew that, but it was just financially out of our reach.
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You know, uh a lot of the Ivy League schools and whatnot.
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We just didn't have the money for that.
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And that's just a reality.
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Um, but there was a lot, there's lots of good schools out there that are not just Ivy League schools.
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Those are just what's good about an Ivy League school, and the school he ended up going to is considered an equal to uh to an Ivy League school.
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I just don't want to talk about it at the moment, but you know, we couldn't afford his education for what he deserved.
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See, it wasn't fair that a young person like my son who deserved to go to one of the to the top schools in America, couldn't go because we couldn't afford it.
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That wasn't fair, but that was the reality we were dealing with.
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Well, he applied himself, and he um he got amazing SAT scores, like almost perfect scores, uh, with a modicum of studying.
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He was very, like I said, very smart.
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And his grades actually uh offered him about half the tuition.
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The cost of half the tuition at this school that there's no way we could afford, and that half tuition brought the school down into an area that we could afford with a little bit of a push.
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You know, if we worked really hard, extra work that dedicated more resources, he could go there.
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Well, he got accepted, because obviously very, very smart, uh, well-rounded.
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I mean, I I don't want to just talk about my son, but the reality is he's a great example of a kid who did not have millions and millions of dollars of resources, um, but he used his innate natural skill to get ahead.
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Now he gets to this school that half the tuition cost is still absurdly high.
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And he gets there and he does fantastic, makes the dean's list, he's just excels.
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We like we knew he would.
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And the second year, uh he was offered an opportunity to be an RA, a resident uh assistant.
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And they said, for that residence assistance, you will get free housing, a private apartment by himself with a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, beautiful, uh, right in the middle of the campus.
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Uh and they would pay him $10,000 a year to be an RA, that school would pay him.
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And then they took another 25% or 30% off the tuition.
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Now, at that point, it made it very reasonable for us to send him to this unbelievable school that he deserved to go to, but we just couldn't afford.
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Well, in his third year, he RA'd again, so he got the same same deal, same financial deal, and you know, we were struggling to make it, but we made it.
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Excuse me.
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And then he he calls home and he goes, hey Dad, they they want me to be a teaching assistant as well, because he was doing so well in his classes, the professors were like, hey, you should be helping teach this, and we can pay you another 10,000 dollars, uh, and helped him even more.
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So his tuition, he came out of this school.
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I think he personally has $15,000 in loan.
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That's it.
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Uh I have $30,000 in loans I had to take for him.
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His education is unbelievable.
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He interned with an absolutely amazing organization two years in a row.
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They brought him back, and before he even graduated, they offered him a full-time job that pays over a hundred thousand dollars to start.
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So this young man had all of this skill that other people didn't have.
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He has he has friends, a lot of friends who are really good young men and women, smart, not as smart as him.
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Uh he's naturally innately smart.
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They didn't have the drive that he had.
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He had great personal drive.
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Um, and he pushed himself and he took on more responsibility.
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And because of his hard work, he excelled.
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He got to go to the school he really wanted, his four first choice school is what this school was.
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He graduated with honors, and he got a job at a at an organization that he talked about from eighth grade.
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I want to work for this organization when I when I graduate from college, not any having any idea what he was going to do.
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My long-winded point here, besides expressing the pride I have in in this boy, and like I said, all my kids are brilliant.
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His was just unfair to the rest of the people around him, that he was so smart.
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His drive was higher than his peers.
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His dedication to things was more than others, and he's a good, decent caring guy.
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He's an Eagle Scout.
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I'm telling you.
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What he did is the exact American opportunity, is my point.
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America is about equal opportunity, not equal outcome.
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And these young people that see socialism as the better alternative, they're looking at the outcome without the hard work.
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At its essence, I think that's what it is.
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Listen, somebody, somebody wants uh, you know, we we hear them talking about guaranteed income.
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Well, guaranteed income from who?
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Oh, well, the government.
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The government will just print more money.
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They print it for bombs.
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Why can't they print it so people can live in a nice house?
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The concept, like I said, what how could you not say, well, that's a good idea, you know?
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You're right.
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Um we just give everybody a million dollars, that would be expensive, but then everybody would have a million dollars.
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And how well could you live if you had a million dollars?
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You could live uh a really good, interesting life, right?
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If you had a million bucks.
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But where would that money come from?
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Well, we would have to print it, go into debt for it.
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It would hurt our country in the long run.
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It's not a realistic answer, right?
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There is no, there is no panacea, and that's what what people are looking at.
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And I that's I get that.
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There are some realities that young people today are facing that maybe generations past didn't have to face.
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You know, this whole concept uh this liberal made-up term, and they're very good at that, our friends on the left, making things up, make changing the language.
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That's one of the keys of socialism and communism is to change the the framing of things.
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And they're very good at it.
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Uh, I have to give them credit.
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They're very, very good at it.
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You know, this whole thing, affordability.
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It's not affordable.
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Well, they're not wrong in many instances.
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You know, you look at uh what it costs to buy a car now, right?
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There was a time when you could buy a car that was expensive, you know, but a brand new car was, you know, $20,000, $25,000.
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That's a lot of money, right?
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Uh, but you could buy it, you could get it at a good interest rate, and if you had a job and you worked hard, you could earn money, and you'd have a good car.
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And you know, but when I when I was young, when I was young, one of the things that me and my brother uh learned early on was uh because of our socioeconomic situation that we were in, um, when you had a vehicle, some important equipment to have in that vehicle always was a hat, a coat, gloves, and a pair of shoes, because at some point you were gonna be walking because that car was going to break down on the side of the road, and you were going to be walking somewhere to get help, right?
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So, as a young person myself, starting out as I started out with my family, you know, I always got my wife the best car we could afford because she had to drive the children around.
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I couldn't have her breaking down on the side of the road and being stuck there with my kids.
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So I always took the less desirable vehicle, and we've had we've had some undesirable vehicles over the years, but they started and I got me back and forth to work.
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And that was something that we always we always strove for to say, wouldn't it be nice to have a car that's not a used car, somebody else's car, somebody else's problem.
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Uh, you know, every time you turn the key, it has to start.
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That is a basic element of being able to take care of yourself, is to have reliable transportation, right?
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Today, it's really hard to buy a brand new car.
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Um
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Even if you lease them, you know, none of these things are set up to be good for for the consumer.
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Uh, you know, you can find uh you can find good cars at a lower price.
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They might not have all the features you want.
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But they are still very, very expensive.
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My daughter, who's a brilliant young woman, and she's a professional, college degree, did great in school, amazing, got a job that she really, really likes.
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And she had to have a vehicle.
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She had to have a vehicle that started every day and got her around.
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I couldn't have my daughter driving around in a car that didn't start or broke down.
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So we got her the best car we could, and I ended up paying all the bills, even after she moved out.
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If the car broke down, I had to pay for it.
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I couldn't have my daughter breaking down on the side of the road.
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And she couldn't afford a new car.
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Well, recently, um, she leased her first car.
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A brand new car.
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She did all the research and she figured out based on price and model and features and all the things she wanted that you know this car would be the one that would suit her needs, and she could afford it.
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Now it's very expensive.
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She's paying $350 a month for that car lease, which is really kind of cheap.
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Go ahead and try and find a car for $350 a month.
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Uh so it's a three-year lease with a good set of mileage, 36,000 miles.
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She doesn't put that many miles on it.
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But then she has car insurance.
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She has to pay, she has to pay her rent.
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She makes a decent young person's salary, but almost all of it, other than maybe 250 a month that she can put in savings.
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Everything else she makes goes out the door for her expenses.
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Now saving 250 dollars is better than I did when I was her age.
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My wife and I, we couldn't save anything.
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Um we made other choices.
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We made choices, not we didn't live extravagant.
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What we chose was that my wife would stay home and take care of our children.
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That was a decision we made as a couple.
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What is best for our family?
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What's going to give our family the best opportunity, not just to survive, not just to stumble along, but to be able to thrive and do really well.
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So we made a choice that she would stay home, which meant for me, I had my job.
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I I was blessed I ended up getting into law enforcement.
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So I had a solid job when I started, didn't pay a lot of money.
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Uh 20 20,000 a year to be a cop when I started.
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Uh, but you had health care, and it was good health care, right?
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And you also had a pension.
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Now you had to pay into your pension, but it was a solid base from which to operate.
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Now, that being said, that made my life a little easier to take care of my family, to allow my wife to stay home to take care of my children, which is best for my children, to have their mother there, right?
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So, what did I do?
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Well, I I wasn't privileged.
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I didn't have millions of dollars to draw back on.
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I had to take a second job.
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So I started a landscaping company where I cut grass before my shifts, after my shifts, and on the weekends.
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I planted trees.
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I worked extra hard for the things that we wanted to make up for the fact that our goal was to have my wife stay home with the kids to provide a solid base for my family so my family could excel.
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Now, some people say, Oh, well, you know, you could do that.
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Any well, what was the opportunity?
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I had opportunity.
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I looked around and said, How can I get more revenue to help my family?
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I can't I can't put my hand out, and people are just gonna put money in it.
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I had to do something, I had to work hard.
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And this was the ethic that I taught my children.
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They watched it, you know, when my boys were young, uh, my two older boys when they were young and they were old enough to, you know, they wanted to get a job.
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They wanted to do something, they wanted to earn money for their own spending, right?
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Beyond what I could I could give them.
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They said, Hey, can we come with you?
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And I said, Yes.
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Let me show you how this works.
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Let me show you how you run a business.
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Here's how you uh provide a service.
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And when you provide that service, here's how you take care of the customer, and here's how uh here's how you do the work, here's how you do the billing.
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And they actually got in the truck and came to work.
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And I taught them how to edge lawns and how to how to dig a hole and plant a tree, all very labor-intensive stuff in the cold of the spring, the heat of the summer, and the cold of the fall.
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But they got to see what it meant to do that kind of work.
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But then the money came in.
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Then the money came pouring in at the end of the month, and you know what I had?
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I had extra money that I could spend on the things that I wanted.
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So America offered me that opportunity, right?
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I couldn't just turn around and go, hey, cop shop, uh, I need 50,000 a year.
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Well, the pay is 20.
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That's it.
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So this is this is what I think is different in today's world, and I can see it in a lot of these young people when I compare them to the to the young people I have in my family, my kids, because they span a great deal of time.
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My oldest is 40, and my youngest is 22.
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Uh so yes, my wife and I decided to spend our entire lives raising children instead of having a beach house.
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But the the point I'm trying to make here is that my kids all saw my wife and I uh sacrifice, work hard towards our goals, maintain our goals, and do everything we could to achieve those goals.
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That turned them into high achieving young people.
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Their outcomes have all been amazing because, okay, they had a good foundation.
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They saw how how you how you work hard, how you go beyond what you have, what you do, if you want more, uh, and here's how you get it, right?
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Uh now was it was it glamorous digging holes and planting trees?
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It was not.
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Did it provide me the money I needed?
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Because that's all the skill set that I had at the time.
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That's the only thing I had.
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I didn't have a college degree.
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Right?
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I had to go to college uh I uh later in life.
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When I was younger, I couldn't.
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My father passed away at a very young age, and I had to go to work when I was 14 years old.
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But my kids knew those stories.
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They saw those stories, and they watched me and my wife do it.
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So they all learned how to do it.
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So for them, the American dream is not about an equal outcome.
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For them, the American dream is equal opportunity.
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What do I want to do and be and have and how do I go about getting it?
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Well, you go about getting it by working hard, dedicating yourself to goals.
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And in this whole push for socialism, I honestly see it as its essence, these young people saying life is not affordable, and we started out there, right?
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Cars are expensive, housing's expensive.
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What do I have to do to get it?
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Well, we see a lot of them, they they don't want to work hard.
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They they've been told that, hey, you it's not fair, people have to work hard.
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And that's what I think is is unfortunate for a lot of these young people.
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So when we come back, we're gonna talk about more about this rising socialism in America, and maybe put some context to it.
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We'll be right back.
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Uh, and I think that is part of uh a good thing, a dialogue.
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You know, people have to talk.
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I don't want to just talk to people that I agree with.
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I don't I don't like the echo chamber.
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Uh I do get frustrated when people don't think through their ideas or they only use slogans or you know, uh something they heard on the news, and they don't care where they get it from.
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It's true, it's true.
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You know, I heard it on CNN.
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Okay, well, you know, you got you gotta look at your sources.
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All right, and how do you look at sources?
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You hear something, and it sounds outrageous.
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And then you say, Oh my gosh, I can't believe that that's happening.
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But you don't go any further than that.
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You don't research it to go see if it's true.
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Social media, you know, a lot of people get their news, a lot of younger people get their all their news from social media now on the different platforms.
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And you can say anything you want on those platforms.
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You can lie, you can come up with stuff, you can you can make things up, and people take it as gospel.
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And I think what they do is uh a lot of us, and I think this is uh this is not a uh nefarious thing, I think it's just human nature, is that if we have an opinion, we like when our opinion is backed up by other people saying something similar to our opinion or reinforcing our opinion, and therefore we see that as truth.
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Now, sometimes that is truth, but in many times it's not, and we have to be willing to open our eyes, open our minds, and find the truth, right?
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If if something is true and it's real and it's different than what you thought or what you believe, maybe you need to change your opinion, right?
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And I am never opposed to doing that.
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So that's what I when I look at this topic, you know, there's gonna be an article um on this topic, which is the the rise of socialism in American society.
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That's really the basis of this particular program.
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Uh because I see it, you know, seeing uh Mayor Mandami, and I think that's how Mam Dami, I think that's how they say his name in New York, and the you know, the people out there celebrating in the streets, uh cheering and excited that they're having socialism, and I don't think they really understand what they're gonna get.
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Now, several several years ago, one of uh the people that really helped me to understand the world and to open my thinking, right?
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Uh, I'm not a br uh uh brain-numbed robot that just listened to, oh, I because I like this No, I don't I don't did that.
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I started listening to the great uh Rush Limbaugh uh early on when his show first went nationwide uh on a New York station.
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Uh I was working in my backyard, and all of a sudden I hear that, you know, that classic um the pretenders, uh going to Ohio, which was became Russia's theme song.
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Doom, doo-doo-doo doom, do do, right?
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That song.
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And I said, what's this?
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And then I hear this guy come on.
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He a lot of the things he said were things that I, as a young person believed, but no one put them into words.
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I had not heard them expressed other than what I heard him going on in my head.
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So as a young person, I would have to say I was probably on the liberal side, because that's what everybody is when you're young.
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You know, you have this false sense of uh right and wrong.
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You don't understand nuance.
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That's what I started out saying today.
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Is that as a young person, the world seems so easy to fix if if you just did the right thing, and that's what I believe.
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I was that, you know, young guy.
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I'm out there in the world trying to uh do the right thing.
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And then I hear Rush Limbaugh.
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And I heard another guy too, Bob Grant.
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He was a local uh radio guy uh out of New York.
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And I heard heard the show, and I I was a fan of talk radio because uh doing the work, I love music, I was a musician, I still am a musician.
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I love playing my guitar, and but the reality was listening to music was good, but I enjoyed listening to talk radio, to hearing hearing about the the goings-on of the day, political, local, uh social, all these things going on, and then hearing people talk about it, hearing different people's opinions.
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Um of them influenced me to think in different ways.
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Other people, I heard them talk, and I realized, yeah, I don't agree with that at all.
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Um, and it helped me to solidify points of view.
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So I remember listening to Rush and hearing the things that he had to say.
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And one of the things he said, and it was very controversial at the time, because again, people jumped at the words instead of listening to the meaning.
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And this is what I find uh humans do all the time.
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We don't listen to understand, we listen to respond.
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That's a very famous saying out there.
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I use it all the time in my teaching, in my writing.
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And what it means is I have a point of view, and if I hear someone who uh backs up that point of view, I agree with them.
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They're right, they're smart, they're good, they're great.
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If I hear someone who says something against my point of view, I'm immediately ready to respond in a negative way, to shut them down, to overtalk them because I they're stupid, they don't know what they're talking about.
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That is not interaction, right?
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That is not interaction, that's reaction.
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And when we listen to understand, I might have a point of view, and I hear someone who's got a different point of view, and I have to examine what they're saying.
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Is there any truth to this?
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And then maybe adjust my point of view.
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Maybe I learned something.
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Well, in our world today, we don't we don't look to learn things.
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Most people do not look to learn.
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They look to have their own opinions backed up.
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Uh and if it's not that, then that person is wrong, they're hateful.
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That's why in in liberal world, you have an argument with someone who is of the liberal persuasion.
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And you start to make your case.
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This, that, that the minute they start to lose the argument or their facts are not correct, they go from debate and conversation and trying to persuade and present facts to name calling to uh accusing you of things to shut you down.
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Right?
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What's the first thing we hear from somebody when we're talking about any situation?
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You must be a racist if you want to talk about that.
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Well, see, that's a a liberal reaction to conversation because they don't want to talk about it because it makes them look bad.
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It makes their point of view mean maybe they have to re-evaluate their point of view.
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Uh we're not talking about racial issues when we're talking about crime in Chicago.
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Those are American citizens that are being uh slaughtered every single weekend, and we do nothing about it because well, you know, we don't want to we what you don't want to bring to light what's going on because you know you're gonna look bad or somebody's got in the meantime, people are getting killed.
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When we should say, no, this is not right.
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These are American citizens, these are our brothers and sisters.
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We have to stop the crime in Chicago.
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But we don't say that because then we'd have to admit that maybe the policies or the beliefs we have about it is isn't not right, and I won't do that.
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I will instead I will call you a name and shut you down.
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I won't talk about it.
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That's what our friends on the left do all the time.
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Um the whole conversation that we see, and I'm getting a little far off field here.
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I'm gonna believe me, I'm gonna swing back in a minute to our socialism, but I think understanding this is important to understand the thinking patterns of people, and that's what we're talking about.
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As as people in America start to turn towards, hey, maybe socialism is not so bad.
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Well, they're forgetting the lessons of history, they're forgetting the lessons of human nature, they're forgetting all the experiences we have with this in the past because they want something.
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What do they want?
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They want fairness.
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They want all these things which are good, but it's just not the way we get to it.
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It's in reality, and that's what experience and time and all that teaches us.
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So when we see uh the conversation about crime in Chicago specifically, you know.
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We see this knee-jerk reaction to it.
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Now, I think Trump derangement syndrome also plays into this pretty strongly because anything that Trump wants to do, our friends on the left are just against because he wants to do it.
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And if it makes him look good, they'll deny it, they'll lie about it, they'll make things up about it.
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He's racist.
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That's why he's there.
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No, he's not there.
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He's there because American citizens are getting slaughtered, and he wants to stop that and protect people in America, right?
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But when we look at this, Rush Rush said uh when uh President Barack Obama was elected, Rush famously came out and said, I hope he fails.
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I hope he fails.
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And if you understood, if you listened to him and you understood his thinking and how he broke things down into understanding and how he broke things down into its component parts, it helped him to come up with a thought on the on the process.
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I learned that from listening to him.
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And when he came out and said, I hope he fails, our friends on the left lost their minds.
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He's hoping that America fails and goes down because he's racist and he hates that there's a black president and he doesn't want to.
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And that's not what he was saying at all.
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What he was talking about, and I understood this innately because I had listened to the man, I understood how he thought, and I listened to understand, not just to respond.
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What he was talking about was, I hope he fails.
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He was saying, I hope his liberal socialist policies fail, that he doesn't drag the country into socialism.
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Right?
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That's what he was hoping.
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I hope he fails in his attempt to socialize the country, to fundamentally change America.
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So with the with the focus of point of view and the focus of looking back with now time and experience to see those policies hurt or help America, Barack Obama's left-wing socialist policies.
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Did they help or hurt America?
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They hurt America.
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They hurt us, you know.
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How many times do we have to see that we'll have a popular liberal individual be elected as president?
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And within their first term, or sometimes they're re-elected in a second term.
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God knows why, but they are.
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And we see the economy goes into ruins, we see the uh American prestige on the world stage uh drops, we see our military fall apart, it gets defunded.
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Uh, and then what happens?
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Things get so bad, and America turns around and then says, okay, we have to go in a different direction.
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Let's go back with the conservative, the Republican and turn things around, right?
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Under liberals, taxes go up, spending goes up, policies that we don't really agree with take off.
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And this has never been highlighted more than under the Biden administration, right?
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The Biden administration uh was the pinnacle of this left-wing kind of thinking taken, taken to its uh ultimate power, and we saw these these arguments that we that have torn our country apart.
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So was Rush right?
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I hope he fails.
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Yes.
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And that's what he meant.
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He didn't mean the country fail.
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He didn't hate Obama because he was black.
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Nothing to do with that.
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It was his policies.
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And that's what I learned from listening to that.
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I don't care who people love, I don't care who people uh, what their color their skin is or where they're from.
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I want us all to get along and to all enjoy America and enjoy the opportunity that America offers.
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And then I really think it would be smart if everyone took an example of people who work hard to get ahead.
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Now, that brings us back now to this socialist point of view.
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I told you the story about my youngest son and all my kids actually, who who watched me and my wife make decisions, struggle, sacrifice to get ahead.
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And over the long term, I I did.
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I I succeeded.
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I've had uh three or four businesses uh on top of my police career.
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I'm a writer, I'm an author, you can get my books.
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I have this program here, I have I have other programs, podcasts that I do.
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Um I write articles.
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Uh all the things I've wanted to do, I've been able to do, and my income has gone up because of my hard work, right?
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This is not asking you for a pat on the back.
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I'm simply saying I not only did I preach this, make the best of your opportunity, but I lived it.
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My kids saw it and they lived it.
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And we were not a family of privilege.
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We were not a family of money, family of all this other stuff.
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But all my kids are doing very well financially now because they've applied themselves, they've applied the lessons they learned and they worked hard.
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That is the reason I'm using them as an example and my life.
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So this whole idea of socialism, that it would be fair, that it would be better, that is against human nature.
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And in the human equation, there are some things that are just absolutely true.
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Now we don't like that.
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In our modern world, truth, truth has been viewed as an impediment.
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The truth is an impediment to fairness.
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The truth is an impediment to people's happiness.
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The truth is an impediment to a better world.
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So what our friends on the left do, and like I said, they're very good at this, is they change the paradigm of phrases and words and meanings, they come up with new ones.
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Uh they they they twist the truth into things that they want.
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And you have to ask yourself, is that good?
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Well, the answer is obvious.
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To a clear-thinking person, it's obvious.
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No, is the answer.
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It's not good.
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You know, uh, we look at this whole um this whole situation with these transgender people, and I I find them to be people who are suffering.
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They are unhappy, obviously.
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Um, they're human beings.
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And they're suffering with whatever whatever is going on in their head that they're not happy with who they are.
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So therefore, they think that changing that would make the difference.
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Okay.
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I don't have those particular feelings.
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I don't feel like I needed to change myself.
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I never thought I'd be better off as a woman than as a man.
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I've been a man.
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I've always felt like a man.
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I do man things.
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But I can imagine that some people, and they have expressed themselves, have those kind of feelings.
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Well, we see the argument from the conservative side is not about hating those people.
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It's about trying to understand what's going on with them to help them in the best way that can actually help them.
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So one of the things our friends on the left do when it comes to the truth, the truth of the matter is there are two genders.
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That's what there are.
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It's not a construct, it's not a social construct.
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It's the reality.
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It's biology.
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It's the truth.
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There are two genders, male and female.
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Now, you can have a man who feels like a woman, really believes he's a woman, would be better off as a woman.
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Well, you know what?
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As an adult man, he could act on it, do whatever he wants.
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He can have surgery, remove his genitals, do whatever he wants to do, wear a dress.
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If that makes him happy, then good.
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Same thing with a woman.
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If a woman feels she's a man and wants to have a uh, what did Rush call it?
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Uh had the operation adictomy, um, which I always thought was pretty funny.
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He was pretty clever.
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Um, then go ahead and do it.
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If that makes them happy, go ahead.
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What the heck do I care?
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But demanding that all of us go along with their belief because it makes them feel better, that is just not, it's not the truth.
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And I know people look at the you're a hater.
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It's the immediate media immediate thing that they look at and say, hate, hey, you hey, you must hate.
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I don't hate anybody.
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I just look at the truth.
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I don't care what you do, you want to wear a dress and say you're a woman, good for you.
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But you can't make me say it, right?
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Just like me saying, I believe Jesus Christ is the Lord and Savior of all of humanity.
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I believe that to my heart and soul.
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Do I demand you believe it?
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No.
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That's up to you to believe.
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This is what I believe, and therefore I live my life this way.
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If you don't believe it, for me personally, I think you're missing out.
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I think I think you're missing a great, you know, opportunity for eternity, but that's your choice.
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I don't demand that you believe Jesus is your Lord and Savior.
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I don't, I don't demand that society say that.
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Why?
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Because for some people, it's not their truth, right?
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For me, it is the truth.
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And this is where the truth gets lost.
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And I think this is the argument with socialism, is that there's this belief, and if you if you research it, if you study it, if you go in back and you read the works of these socialist communists, if you read how they teach their people to manipulate the society, everything we see happening is written down in their books.
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The fact that, of course, you know, you you no one's gonna teach that their that their belief system is illegitimate.
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Or their belief system has an ulterior motive, which socialism and communism does.
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It's about the power of the elite.
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Because what always happens?
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We're all going to be equal.
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Everybody's going to be equal.
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But some are more equal than others.
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That comes right out of Animal Farm, right?
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When the pigs took over, the pigs became the most powerful animals.
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And the whole idea was to take the power away from the farmer.
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And all the animals could live and have an equal life be great.
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And then the pigs end up controlling everything, living in the living in the house, living in the with the best of food, living off the labor of everyone else.
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This is what happens every time.
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Look at Venezuela.
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Venezuela was the most profitable, beautiful country of all.
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And what happened?
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They went socialist communist.
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And is Maduro, is he living in a hut starving?
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Is he out there eating rice five days?
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No, he's living in a mansion.
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He's got millions of dollars.
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This is what happens every time.
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This is the reality.
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Regardless of what people want, this equal, this uh everyone's gonna have everything.
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It never works out that way.
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When the government takes over resources and the controls the means of opportunity and outcome, then you have inevitably what we see in every one of these countries.
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Now, those who say, oh, Scandinavia, Scandinavia is perfect.
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Well, Scandinavia is not perfect, right?
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It's not perfect.
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And what it is, it's a hybrid of the two systems because they realize you can't just tax everyone to death, take all their stuff and give them everything.
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You just can't.
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It doesn't work.
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Um in the past, I had met a woman, I'm gonna tell this real quick, because then I want to cover some key differences between our system and socialists, and just to lay it out there.
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I met this woman who who, very nice, you know, raised a beautiful family, and her daughter was very, very far to the left.
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Her daughter just was uh a lefty thinker, um, socialist in her head, and she's gonna go move over to one of these Scandinavian countries.
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And she's gonna live there where it's fair, and everybody has everything.
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Well, the young lady met a man from that area.
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They dated.
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Uh he came here, met the family, seems like a nice young man, and they're gonna go move back to Scandinavia, wherever they wherever they went.
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And they live back, and she's there for about three years, and then all of a sudden she tells her mother um she's moving back, and she doesn't think her husband is coming, but she can't take it there anymore.
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Because uh you're given five gallons of gas a month.
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And once you run out of that, you get on your bicycle and you ride.
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The taxes were confiscatory.
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Yeah, they had health care, but they had no extra money.
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Uh they had an apartment, but it wasn't where they wanted to live.
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And she realized that the promise of everyone will have everything doesn't mean everyone will have everything that they want.
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It means you'll have the basic things that everyone survives, but human nature says, I want more than that.
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I don't want to have to ride a bike when I run out of gas.
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I'd rather work a less extra and you, oh, and you didn't get those benefits until you were there a couple of years.
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So it was it was not what she thought in this beautiful Scandinavia has everything.
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Because this is not human nature, and it doesn't work.
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All right, so here's some key differences.
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And I want you to go read the article uh that I'm gonna put out with this particular episode.
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It'll be on the platform.
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All right, so let's see, the role of government in our current system, government is limited, right?
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Private sector drives most services.
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In a socialist system, I think we all know, the government takes a larger role in managing services like health care, housing, transportation, and energy, the day-to-day impact, more services might be guaranteed, but people may experience more regulation and less private choice.
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So New York is going to get free busing.
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This is what Mayor Mamdami has said.
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I'm free busing, uh freeze the rents, I'm gonna, I'm gonna give everybody everything.
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Isn't that always the uh what we hear from these people on the left?
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Uh, from Bernie from AOC.
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Everyone should have everything.
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Well, everyone's not gonna have what they have.
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Everyone's not gonna have four summer houses like Bernie has, or no one's gonna have millions of dollars like the broke bartender AOC, who's been in a Congress person for a couple years and suddenly she's got money, like Elon Omar, who was basically penniless, and uh five years later she's got 20 million dollars.
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Gee, I wonder how that happened, right?
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Joe Biden, who never had a real job other than government, ends up uh with houses all over the place, uh shell companies, millions of dollars.
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How does that happen, right?
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Economic ownership.
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In our current system, our capitalist system, private ownership is the default.
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You start your own business, you buy your house, you own it, you have the responsibility of paying for it, working for it.
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In a socialist system, key industries are publicly owned and taken over.
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They're heavily regulated to ensure that everyone can have access to it.
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Well, it does your does your standard of living go up or down in these countries that have socialism?
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Well, everyone gets an apartment, but not everyone gets the beautiful beach house because that's not available anymore, right?
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Only only certain people can have that.
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The taxation struggle uh structure.
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Currently, progressive taxes, right?
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But relatively low compared to socialist kind of countries.
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Why?
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Because they confiscate your income so that they can pay for everything.
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And that's what everyone's anticipating is gonna have to happen in New York.
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The governor, Governor Hochel, who's hanging on by a thread politically.
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Uh she says, uh, we're not, we can't, we can't cut the taxes.
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We can't give the money for free bus.
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We don't have the money for it.
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So they're gonna have to go take it.
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They're gonna have to regulate it and take it.
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And that's what happens, right?
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Government can't do what it's supposed to do, let alone do all these other things.
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So it's it's gonna be high taxes.
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You're gonna see they're gonna immediately, well, we need more money.
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Well, we're gonna go after the millionaires.
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Well, what are the millionaires gonna do?
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Unless you're stupid, you're gonna pack your bags and get out of there.
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Why would you just let somebody come and take your money?
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It's your money.
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Well, it's not fair, they got millions.
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Well, you know what?
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There is let's go back.
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There is no fair.
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Some people were handed that money from their families' hard work.
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Other people earned it because of their happen to have skill sets or they have brains that can give them jobs that do that.
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Other people can't work harder, get another job.
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Uh, I don't think I'll ever be a millionaire.
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I would love to be a million.
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I don't think it's fair that I couldn't be a millionaire or a movie star or a rock star.
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It's not fair.
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I wanted those things, but I didn't have the skill sets for it, right?
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So it didn't work out.
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Individual versus collective rights in our current system, strong emphasis on individual liberty and personal autonomy, right?
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You can be who you are.
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In a socialist thing, greater emphasis on collective welfare and equality of outcomes.
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You see what I'm saying?
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All right, so when we look at the, and there's many more.
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There's many more that we can get into, and I'm gonna do another program on this probably next week.
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I'll have the panel on and we'll talk about this more.
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But just keep this in mind.
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As we move more and more towards this socialist model, uh, because of what it hopefully will bring us, we have to look at history and reality and realize in most reality pictures, it's not.
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It's gonna bring us all down to a level of equality that's much less than what we currently have.
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Because the human equation tells us if you take away people's opportunity and they're allowing their spirit, their drive, their individual talents to dictate their outcome, you're gonna have a negative outcome.
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So that's why the capitalist system is better.
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And we all have equal opportunity.
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All right, my friends, we'll see you down the road.