Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 17 ｜ The Greatest Country On Earth

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to Illyria.

00:00:06.580 She's the man. Anyone? Anyone? One of my favorite movies back in like 2004,

00:00:12.760 along with The Notebook and Mean Girls, of course. Okay. Anyway, it's Allie's Ducky. This

00:00:17.560 is Relatable, a CRTV podcast where we approach relevant cultural and political topics from a

00:00:23.200 Christian conservative perspective. You probably, if you're listening to this for the first time

00:00:28.100 and you just heard my opening or like, wow, this is how Christian conservatives try to be funny,

00:00:32.420 huh? No, please stay tuned. That's not really what I usually do. I don't know why I did it. Okay.

00:00:38.460 I just, it just came into my head and I did it. I don't know. But anyway, today in honor of the 4th

00:00:44.080 of July, we are going to talk about America and why it is awesome and why so many young people today,

00:00:51.540 including young Christians are averse to patriotism. And then, and then I also have a

00:00:58.860 really exciting announcement to make, but I'll do that after. Oh gosh, I have to remember. I have

00:01:04.360 to remember to make that announcement. It's going to be after I answer some questions and then I'll

00:01:09.280 tell you guys the exciting news. No, I'm not pregnant, by the way. So to those of you who always

00:01:14.860 ask me that, it is not that. It is something really fun, though, that you all will be happy about

00:01:20.540 and that actually affects your lives, which my pregnancy does not, believe it or not.

00:01:25.520 I am also going to try to make this podcast a little bit quicker today because it's the 4th of

00:01:30.920 July. So either you guys are at the lake, like I am going to be, or you guys are trying to finish

00:01:40.160 your work so you can go to the lake or just have fun. But I want you to enjoy this day off. But

00:01:46.580 hopefully you're listening to me still to celebrate our Independence Day.

00:01:51.560 This is my favorite holiday. It's always been my favorite holiday. So if you're ever on Jeopardy

00:01:56.960 and they're like, hey, what is Allie Stuckey's favorite holiday? You're not going to say Christmas.

00:02:01.900 You're going to say, what is Independence Day? And I know that's kind of blasphemous that I like the

00:02:07.520 holiday that celebrates the birth of our nation more than the holiday that celebrates the birth of

00:02:11.660 our savior. But you know what? You love who you love. I didn't choose that. Just kidding. Kind of.

00:02:18.820 Obviously, Christmas means more to me on a spiritual level. But I love the 4th of July because I love

00:02:23.520 summer. I love the celebrations. And most of all, I really, really love America. My husband could tell

00:02:30.220 you that every time the national anthem is played or God bless America, or even when we're pledging

00:02:35.020 allegiance to the flag at some kind of event, I usually tear up like I start crying and he's like, 0.99

00:02:40.860 oh my gosh, you're ridiculous. Like it's just a random Tuesday night. And I'm like, I know, 0.99

00:02:44.340 I know. I just can't help it. I was born with a love for my country. I was on HLN earlier this week

00:02:51.060 and they were playing a clip of George W. Bush's speech to the crowds after 9-11, you know, called

00:02:56.240 his bullhorn moment where he was talking to the people at Ground Zero. Just this really amazing

00:03:01.620 courage-inducing moment. And when I was listening to this on HLN before I was actually on screen,

00:03:07.400 I was tearing up. Because to me, it's moments like this that set our country apart from any

00:03:12.900 other country. And that's not to say that other countries haven't had heroes or heroic moments,

00:03:17.680 but in our very short 242 years of existence, we have been absolutely defined by and filled with

00:03:25.740 moments like this. There's this quote by the late Charles Krauthammer that I love. It says,

00:03:31.200 It is one of the enduring mysteries of American history, so near providential as to give the most

00:03:36.340 hardened atheist pause that it should have produced at every hinge point great men who matched the

00:03:41.820 moment. A roiling, revolutionary 18th century British colony gives birth to the greatest cohort 0.86

00:03:47.840 of political thinkers ever. Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Hamilton, Washington, Franklin, Jay.

00:03:54.040 The crisis of the 19th century brings forth Lincoln, the 20th FDR. 0.69

00:03:58.200 Um, this was in a column about the MLK memorial. So the point was to also include MLK on that list.

00:04:06.160 And I would also add Frederick Douglass on that list. So when we needed a Washington, we got a

00:04:11.360 Washington. When we needed a Frederick Douglass, we got a Frederick Douglass, a Harriet Tubman, 0.92

00:04:16.320 a Susan B. Anthony, we got them. When we needed an FDR, we got an FDR. When we needed a Martin

00:04:21.900 Luther King, we got a Martin Luther King. When we needed a Ronald Reagan, we got a Ronald Reagan.

00:04:26.260 So far, God has blessed America in this way more than he's blessed any other nation that has existed

00:04:33.440 on earth. Um, so we've been around, like I said, for 242 years now officially, and just,

00:04:38.900 just think for a second about what we've accomplished in this short amount of time,

00:04:44.780 leader in industrial and technological revolutions, leader in space exploration,

00:04:49.260 leader in innovation, electricity, the light bulb, the telephone, the television,

00:04:52.700 air conditioning, the internet, computers, you are welcome. iPhones, Twitter, Facebook,

00:04:57.740 you're welcome. Greatest advances in modern medicine, you're welcome. Best in most well-known

00:05:02.960 movies and TV shows, you're welcome. Best higher education, us. Greatest military power, us.

00:05:09.220 Greatest defender of liberty, us. Greatest advocate of equality, us. America has carried the world on our

00:05:15.780 backs while safeguarding human dignity and perpetuating freedom for the past nearly 250 years.

00:05:22.360 There has been no greater earthly hope for mankind than the United States of America.

00:05:26.660 We saved the world from totalitarian obliteration and two world wars, then delivered part of the

00:05:31.540 world from communist destruction in the 1980s. Germany, you are welcome. UK, you are welcome.

00:05:36.920 Australia, you are welcome. Japan, you are welcome. Russia, you are welcome. The list goes on.

00:05:41.460 You are welcome. There's really nothing like the American spirit. Even our enemies acknowledge

00:05:49.500 this. There's nothing like American grit. In no other country is this rags to riches story that

00:05:55.500 has literally been popular since stories were a thing. The rags to riches story is not just possible

00:06:02.780 in this country, but it's plausible. Our very inception as a country was a rags to riches story. I mean,

00:06:09.400 think about it. A group of ragtag rebels deciding they wanted to escape the tyranny of the English 0.89

00:06:15.320 government, throwing a freaking shipment of English tea into the sea to protest unfair taxation. Two

00:06:22.380 years later, the Revolutionary War began. Three years later, they officially declared their independence

00:06:26.820 from England. Eight years later, America forced British troops in to surrender at the Battle of

00:06:32.140 Yorktown. The odds were so laughably stacked against us that none of this should have ever happened.

00:06:38.820 I mean, talk about an underdog story. That is America. That's who we are. It's our identity.

00:06:44.600 We overcome odds. It's in our blood. There's a reason why it's called the American dream and not

00:06:50.740 the British dream, not the Canadian dream. The American dream is the ability to go from nothing

00:06:56.440 to something. It's the ability to move up rather than be bound by a zip code or social classes. We reward

00:07:04.160 hard work and determination. We encourage innovation. No one, no one even holds a candle to who we are,

00:07:11.480 what we've accomplished. We are the only nation ever founded on an idea rather than a person or on

00:07:18.420 power. And that idea that we were founded on was self-governance and liberty. Most countries were

00:07:25.020 founded on some kind of dynasty or royalty or a strong man with the sole purpose of providing that

00:07:30.880 person with power. America wasn't. It was the only nation created for the people by the people

00:07:37.540 rather than for power by power. It wasn't founded on George Washington or for George Washington. He was

00:07:44.820 just the man of the moment, the person who was up for the job. And that's what our entire history has

00:07:50.320 been. Like I said before, a series of men and women who have been up to the task of safeguarding the gift

00:07:56.400 of liberty. Some have done it well, some not so well. And that is what makes us so unique. We

00:08:01.720 established a system that honors personal property and private ownership, tapping into something innate

00:08:07.480 as human beings, which is to own something, to cultivate it, to create something, to provide for

00:08:12.300 his or her family. That is literally the God-given desire of every single person on earth, and especially

00:08:17.900 of every man. It's the only country built on the premise that all men are created equal.

00:08:23.740 Now, I know some of you are thinking, Ali, aren't you whitewashing history? What about all of the 0.88

00:08:31.880 horrible things that America has done? What about the Trail of Tears, slavery, Japanese internment

00:08:37.700 camps, Jim Crow, the racism and the inequality that still exists in our country? What about our

00:08:43.740 homelessness and the opioid problem? I mean, what about abortion? What about the scandals throughout

00:08:48.480 our history? What about our tribalism? And I would say, I hear you. I hear you. I

00:08:53.440 acknowledge these points. But no, I'm not whitewashing history by saying that America

00:08:58.720 is and always has been the greatest country in the world. I'm not ignoring these things

00:09:03.220 because the reality is our sins don't define us. Our unbelievable ability to repent of and

00:09:08.920 overcome those sins does. That's why I believe that we can abolish abortion because we've been 0.81

00:09:14.340 able to abolish other atrocities in the past. We are a young country, guys. England, like over

00:09:20.400 a thousand years old. Japan, thousands of years old. China, thousands of years old. Sweden,

00:09:25.260 old as crap. Russia, old as heck. These countries have like ancient history. We don't, at least 1.00

00:09:32.740 not the actual United States. The Native Americans did, but we as a country are just babies compared 0.79

00:09:37.500 to the rest of the world. And guess what? Virtually every country on the face of the planet has also

00:09:43.640 been through periods of injustice, of inequality, of slavery, of racism, of xenophobia, if you want

00:09:50.640 to call it that. And few, if any, can say that they have overcome these obstacles as quickly and as

00:09:56.200 valiantly as we have. We fought a freaking war over slavery. God raised up an incredible civil rights

00:10:02.360 leader in MLK to knock down segregation and Jim Crow. We live in a place now where everyone,

00:10:08.100 no matter their race, no matter their socioeconomic background, no matter their religion or upbringing

00:10:13.960 can achieve great things. That's just objectively true. But unfortunately, we live in a day and age

00:10:20.920 where people insist that that is not true. That because our founders owned slaves, because they

00:10:26.320 were white supremacists, because they were bigots, that our founding, our founding documents are all

00:10:31.800 fundamentally bad, that we are bad at our core, that America is not and never has been a good idea, 0.90

00:10:39.160 and that we're still seething with racism and hatred. That HLN interview that I told you all about,

00:10:45.560 the other debater that was also on the panel was literally saying that he's not going to celebrate

00:10:50.000 the 4th of July because of America's racism against black people. Like, dude, you are living in a

00:10:55.900 fantasy world. And that's a really dark fantasy. Like, I'm not saying that racism doesn't exist.

00:11:01.900 And where it does exist, it is wrong. It should be called out. But if you or anyone else honestly think

00:11:08.260 that the color of your skin holds you back from succeeding in this country, you have been brainwashed, 0.96

00:11:14.700 completely, a thousand percent lied to. We have black, brown, yellow people in all positions of

00:11:21.940 leadership. We have the greatest number of immigrants in the world. Of all the refugees

00:11:26.680 in the world, the number one country they wish to migrate to is the United States. That is a 0.82

00:11:30.500 documented fact. You can look it up. The country that adopts the most babies from around the world

00:11:36.080 is the United States. We are an exceedingly compassionate and open country. The world would

00:11:41.640 be so much poorer, so much more hopeless, and so much more truly frightening and dangerous,

00:11:47.560 I believe, without the United States of America. Wherever there have been American boots on the 0.80

00:11:52.700 ground, the lives of the people around them have improved. It was at the end of George W. Bush's

00:11:58.300 presidency, though, that people really kind of stopped believing this, that people felt dejected.

00:12:02.420 I think the unity encouraged by 9-11 had worn off a little bit. People were confused. They were

00:12:07.680 frustrated by the length of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. And Barack Obama totally exacerbated

00:12:14.040 that. That's not my opinion. That's just a fact. I would say that whether I was a Democrat or

00:12:18.780 Republican. There's a study from October 2017 by Pew Research that shows partisanship in America by

00:12:25.740 measuring where Democrats or Republicans stand on each issue today versus where they stood in 1990.

00:12:32.220 You can Google Pew growing partisan divide in America to actually look at the graphs if you want

00:12:38.380 to. I cite this study all the time because I think it's so extremely revealing. First of all,

00:12:44.680 Democrats have moved way far to the left on virtually every issue, welfare, immigration,

00:12:50.180 race issues. Republicans have honestly stayed about the same, except on guns. We've actually

00:12:54.320 moved further to the right on guns. But overall, it is not conservatives who have changed our positions.

00:13:00.120 It is progressives. And where we saw the most change on the left, the most moving of the left

00:13:05.500 further to the left was during Barack Obama's presidency. More Democrats than ever believe

00:13:10.740 that systemic racism is what is holding black people back. That wasn't true even 30 years ago.

00:13:16.980 More Democrats than ever are soft on immigration. More Democrats than ever believe the government

00:13:21.760 doesn't do enough to help out the poor. From 2009 to 2017, Democrats went way to the left.

00:13:28.860 And as a consequence, they now have abandoned positions that used to be common sense American

00:13:33.960 positions. Illegal immigration. Nearly everyone used to be against illegal immigration. There are

00:13:39.320 videos of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, all speaking out against the evils of

00:13:44.060 illegal immigration and promising to curb it. Free speech. Free speech was considered liberal at one 0.95

00:13:50.260 point. A lot of freedom-focused positions were liberal until liberals became progressives. Then it

00:13:55.280 was no longer about what people could do, but about what people should do. They became the thought

00:14:00.880 police, the authorities on morality, the arbiters of truth. And a lot of that happened while Obama was

00:14:06.520 president. He was really the first president to not just give credence to politically and fiscally

00:14:12.540 progressive ideas, but socially progressive ideas. He gave a voice to Black Lives Matter, to anti-police

00:14:18.660 protests, to intersectionality, to fears of systemic racism, to fights over gender equality, class warfare.

00:14:25.140 Not only that, but he attempted to humble America, to bring us down, to condemn American exceptionalism by

00:14:32.240 apologizing to other countries for our strength and then turning around and strengthening terroristic 0.52

00:14:37.300 countries like Iran. When people say that Obama was a Marxist who promoted Marxism, that is what they

00:14:44.400 mean. And you might not agree with me on this one, but I don't personally, despite all of those things,

00:14:52.400 think that Obama was a bad person. I actually don't think he probably intended to harm the country.

00:14:59.460 He probably had great intentions. I think actually most progressives and Democrats probably do have

00:15:04.840 great intentions. Maybe not all of them, not Maxine Waters, but some of them do. But their platform is

00:15:10.760 without a doubt, increasingly anti-American. I'm not trying to throw punches on the 4th of July here.

00:15:16.620 I'm just trying to give us context and trying to say why we are so tribalized these days.

00:15:21.500 Why celebrating the 4th of July and being a patriot is now a political position? Why we seem to be

00:15:27.980 getting further apart? Trump certainly doesn't help matters if I'm being fair with his tactless tweets

00:15:35.020 and incendiary rhetoric. But to blame him for our division would be wrong since we were growing

00:15:43.340 further apart due to leftist extremism far before he took office. Now, I am someone who believes in a good

00:15:50.960 debate. And I believe that disagreements make us better, but only if we are headed toward the same

00:15:55.980 general goal. As long as we both agree that American ideals are good and worth preserving,

00:16:01.120 we can disagree on what that looks like. That's fine. I can live with America becoming different,

00:16:05.900 but I cannot live with America becoming Europe. And that's the direction that the left is openly

00:16:11.240 headed. They want socialized health care, free college, free housing, guaranteed government jobs,

00:16:16.780 the abolishment of private prison prisons, the abolishment of private property. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,

00:16:23.720 she's a democratic socialist that just won her primary in New York. She is the representation 0.54

00:16:29.060 of where Democrats are headed. And that is her public platform. The problem is, though, that is not America.

00:16:35.880 And the reason that is not America is because it's just not a different interpretation of

00:16:44.640 the original American idea of self-governance, the idea that we were founded on. It's actually

00:16:50.240 another idea entirely. It denies that men and women have an inherent desire and an inherent right to own

00:16:57.060 property, to do work that actually matters, that actually contributes to something. These things don't

00:17:02.600 happen in a socialist society in which the government gives you everything you need.

00:17:06.980 Socialism is not possible without a totalitarian government seizing the property and the means of

00:17:11.580 production. Freedom and socialism do not and have not ever coincided. And this is exactly what the

00:17:20.040 founders were worried about. This is exactly what they warned us about and what every great voice of

00:17:24.900 liberty in our history has warned us about. This is why I'm a conservative. This is why I speak up.

00:17:30.140 This is why I vote. Not because I want to protect my ideology, but because I want to protect America.

00:17:37.660 Now, again, that doesn't mean that all Democrats hate our country. I am sure that there are plenty

00:17:43.200 of patriotic Democrats and unpatriotic Republicans. But the Democrats who wish our country resembled

00:17:50.060 European socialism cannot simultaneously call themselves patriotic. They just can't.

00:17:55.560 That system is antithetical to what our country is built on and what has made America great for

00:17:59.840 these past 242 years. So that's the troubling trend that we see on the left side of the political

00:18:06.800 aisle. But I also want to point out some of the misconceptions that I'm seeing among my fellow

00:18:12.300 millennials and particularly among Christian millennials. In the election cycle, I heard a

00:18:17.280 good number of my Christian friends express a kind of apathy about voting and being involved civically

00:18:22.580 because, well, Jesus is coming back and who cares? Some of this apathy was understandable,

00:18:28.260 I think, considering the level of vitriol in the 2016 election cycle and just kind of the griminess of

00:18:33.820 both candidates. And in general, I do think it's good and right and biblical for Christians to be able

00:18:38.680 to remove themselves from the nitty gritty of politics, to step back from the incessant conflict

00:18:43.700 and the drama of the political world and remember who we are, whose we are and where we're going.

00:18:50.340 Our citizenship is in heaven. That's true. It is for another kingdom that we work. That is true.

00:18:56.600 All of this will come to pass. That's true. I say that almost weekly on my show. One day we will no

00:19:01.800 longer have arguments, no politics, no government besides the ruling of God himself. And none of this

00:19:06.880 will matter. All of this is true. But my view is, is that until then, until then, we are called to

00:19:14.140 play a role. If all Christians decided that we were not going to be a part of what we considered

00:19:20.500 ungodly or secular spheres, then there would be no light anywhere. If Christians decided to pull out 0.99

00:19:25.680 of politics, out of schools, out of marketing, out of PR, out of engineering, whatever it is,

00:19:30.060 just because ultimately none of it's going to matter, there would be no light in darkness.

00:19:34.720 And we are called to be salt and light. Now that doesn't mean that you have to be intimately

00:19:39.860 involved and acquainted with every detail of the news. I actually think that would be super unhealthy,

00:19:45.460 but it does mean that we should be active, involved citizens who work toward the betterment

00:19:50.540 of our communities and our country. And a huge part of that, the main part of that for Christians

00:19:55.320 is sharing the gospel, loving your neighbor, taking care of your church, showing hospitality to

00:20:00.300 strangers, caring for the widow and the orphan, being the hands and feet of Jesus in

00:20:04.600 the ways that scripture tells us to. But it also means using the talents that God has given you

00:20:09.020 to contribute to the well-being of those around you. Colossians 3.23, work heartily, ask for the

00:20:14.140 Lord and not for man. 1 Corinthians 10.31, everything you do, do it for the glory of God.

00:20:20.340 This is, I'm not saying that those verses support voting, but I am saying that those verses support

00:20:26.040 being an active participant in your community and being able to contribute to your community by

00:20:32.320 working hard. We are called to be active, to work hard. Work, actually, as a side note, was in the

00:20:38.600 world before the fall, so it's not a consequence of sin. And also, we are called to be good stewards

00:20:43.480 of the amazing freedom and gifts that God has blessed us with. And that's another reason that it makes

00:20:49.120 me so mad when Christians don't vote. You realize, those of you who don't vote, which I'm sure none of

00:20:54.840 you who listen to this podcast don't vote, but just in case, you realize that it's only by the grace

00:21:00.400 of God that you live in the freest country in the world, right? And you realize that men and women 0.67

00:21:04.200 have left their families, their homes to die for you to live in the freest country in the world,

00:21:09.380 and you're not going to vote because you're too lazy or you don't feel like it. That is such an

00:21:15.840 ignorant and privileged position to take. You don't have to vote for my candidate. I really don't 1.00

00:21:21.540 care about that. You can write in Kermit the Frog if you want to, but you need to vote. Vote in local

00:21:27.680 elections. Vote in the midterms. Vote in the general election. You owe it to your neighbors.

00:21:31.820 You owe it to the men and women who have fought for your freedom. You owe it to the amazing country

00:21:36.500 that God has mercifully allowed you to live in. And guess what, Christians? No candidate is ever 1.00

00:21:42.420 going to be perfect, okay? Not a single one. They're all sinful. Even the ones who sound good

00:21:47.760 are not good. No one apart from Christ is good, okay? We know that. Now, I'm not saying we shouldn't

00:21:52.660 care about decency at all. I'm not saying that morality doesn't matter. I do think morality and decency

00:21:57.200 matter. I talked about this on one of my previous episodes about Trump having sex with a porn star. 0.99

00:22:02.800 The values of a candidate matter, of course, but refusing to vote because the candidate isn't 1.00

00:22:07.320 perfect is stupid, okay? It's just stupid. We're not voting for our political messiah. We already 1.00

00:22:12.160 have a messiah. His name is Jesus. He's coming back. But until he does, we have the responsibility

00:22:18.360 to advance his kingdom by, one, sharing the gospel and loving our neighbor, and two, being active,

00:22:23.440 hardworking, Christlike participants in the world in which he's allowed us to live. He didn't have to

00:22:27.700 do that, which, in my opinion, includes being good stewards of the gift of common grace that is living

00:22:33.560 in this country. I encourage everyone also to read Every Good Endeavor by Timothy Keller. It doesn't have

00:22:40.300 anything to do with voting or being a good citizen necessarily besides working, but I think it does a good

00:22:45.440 job of explaining the balance of being in the world and not of it. So all this to say, be grateful,

00:22:53.400 people. Be grateful that we live in America. Be grateful to live in such an amazing country. Be

00:22:59.240 cautious about those who would exchange liberty for convenience and handouts. And be careful with

00:23:04.240 the gift of freedom that's been entrusted to us. Also remember that no matter what side of the

00:23:08.940 political aisle you're on, we are called to pray for our leaders, which I personally need to do more.

00:23:14.380 And also, I do want to say, speaking of things I need to do more or used to not do a lot of,

00:23:19.380 I will also say, for those of you who are feeling guilty and feeling like ashamed that, oh, I don't

00:23:24.280 know enough about or I don't participate enough in the political process, I will just say,

00:23:30.740 this is not always something that I've done. I have not always been as aware of and as passionate

00:23:36.760 about politics or politics and culture, at least, as I am now. I was a fairly apathetic high school

00:23:43.460 and college student. I wasn't always active and as participatory as I should have been. So if that's

00:23:48.580 you, don't feel bad about yourself. It's never too late. We all go through stages and I think it's

00:23:53.260 important part of adulthood to start paying attention and doing something about preserving

00:23:57.020 the things that we care about. So just a note there. Okay, a couple questions that I got on

00:24:03.400 Instagram. I'm just going to read them off Instagram. Usually, I take them and I write them

00:24:07.420 down and I write out my answers and stuff like that. But today, I'm just not going to. I'm just

00:24:16.260 going to read them off Instagram. So one of my questions or one of the questions was, should

00:24:20.800 Christians stand for or say the Pledge of Allegiance? I think that's a very interesting question. I think

00:24:26.540 that's not necessarily, there's not necessarily a biblical answer for that. I think that we're smart

00:24:32.040 enough as people to know that when we pledge allegiance to the flag, we're not like pledging

00:24:36.460 our entire soul. We're not saying that the flag grants us salvation. Obviously, our allegiance

00:24:43.200 is to Christ, not to America. But in an earthly sense, yes, we believe in and fight for the values

00:24:48.420 of our country. If you don't believe in the values of our country, then you should either try to change

00:24:52.420 them or move. And that's all the Pledge of Allegiance is to me. I don't think it's weird or

00:24:57.580 biblical to be loyal to your country as long as that loyalty doesn't interfere

00:25:01.400 with or supersede with your allegiance to God. I got another question about how we interact with

00:25:09.400 liberals and people like that in real life. Okay. Well, you see, I don't actually interact with a lot

00:25:21.920 of liberals in real life. There are a lot of feminists in real life. Now, I have in the past, 1.00

00:25:25.900 and I have friends that don't believe the same things that I do politically, but we just don't

00:25:30.680 talk about it. I have a friend who really loathed Donald Trump. She, you know, posted things about

00:25:36.000 Donald Trump during the election, really didn't like him. That's fine. You know, I don't think

00:25:41.740 unlike my some of my colleagues over on the left, I don't think that my friends who didn't vote for

00:25:46.860 Donald Trump are bad people. I even I don't even think that they're bad people because they're

00:25:51.280 liberals. Do I think they're misinformed? Do I think they're misguided? Do I think that

00:25:54.640 they're wrong for being liberal? Absolutely. Especially those that call themselves Christians. 1.00

00:26:00.180 However, I don't think that they are they have character flaws necessarily, just because they

00:26:07.220 believe differently than I do. So if it's necessary to maintain a relationship to put politics aside,

00:26:13.480 I can do that. I always try to be respectful on air if I'm ever debating a liberal, which happens

00:26:18.700 often. I don't always get the same respect. And I am pretty fiery and feisty because that makes for

00:26:24.300 good TV and it's fun. And that's what I actually genuinely am like in real life. So I try to be

00:26:29.040 respectful while also stating my opinions. I'm very opinionated. If you guys didn't know.

00:26:35.080 OK, other question.

00:26:36.920 As I'm sure, you know, Maxine Waters has been encouraging divisiveness and harassment of Trump

00:26:46.740 administration members. Needless to say, this is immature and unbecoming. But do you believe that

00:26:50.960 she should be censored and or removed from Congress? I don't. I think really, number one, I think that

00:26:59.600 she needs to say exactly where she is because she's doing a lot for the Republican Party. 0.90

00:27:03.800 I think that she and Nancy Pelosi, both as crazy as they are, are doing a lot of good for Republicans 0.98

00:27:11.680 because it's showing it's showing people just how crazy the Democrats can be. And I don't know if she 0.97

00:27:19.020 should be a censor to remove from Congress. Do I think that what she said was zany? Yes. I just

00:27:24.740 wouldn't be the person in Congress to push that. But if it happens, maybe it's good. I mean, she did

00:27:29.340 practically incite violence and she is crazy. But like I said, she's doing good things for us,

00:27:34.760 at least. OK, so my major announcement, my big announcement is that as of next week,

00:27:44.460 I am going to have two podcasts a week. So that's really exciting. Yay. I'm really excited. Your wishes

00:27:51.720 are my commands. And you guys have been saying a lot how much you like this podcast, which I really

00:27:57.640 appreciate. Thank you so much for listening. And then also how you would like me to have more

00:28:02.580 podcasts. And I would really like that, too, because I have a lot to talk about. Sometimes

00:28:06.820 my podcasts get really long because there's so much I want to say. So now I'm going to have two

00:28:11.200 podcasts a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays starting next week. So get pumped, get excited. You get twice

00:28:16.800 as much of me at least every week, which is really, really exciting. I know you guys are just going to

00:28:22.560 be celebrating all the more on 4th of July because of that. But anyway, seriously, thank you so much

00:28:28.000 for listening and for supporting this podcast. That's why I get to double it, because you have

00:28:32.680 supported me so well. So thank you. I hope you guys have a great 4th of July. Love y'all. See you on

00:28:38.040 Tuesday of next week. Bye.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - July 04, 2018

Ep 17 ｜ The Greatest Country On Earth

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