Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 48 ｜ Midterm Musings

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, what's up? Welcome to Relatable. My name is Allie Stuckey. Just in case you have

00:00:05.740 never been here before, thank you so much for listening. If you didn't know, you can also

00:00:10.600 watch this on CRTV.com slash Allie. And of course, you should definitely subscribe here if you

00:00:17.560 haven't already. So today we're going to talk a little bit about the midterms, which is just

00:00:23.800 like a couple of weeks away, which is crazy. I feel like we've been saying for so long,

00:00:27.520 oh, the midterms are far off. Anything could happen. And in this world of crazy American

00:00:32.900 politics, still technically anything could happen, but it's looking like it's going to be an extremely

00:00:39.900 close and perhaps an unpredictable night. So we're going to get into that in just a little bit. But

00:00:46.560 first, I'm going to talk about what I did for the past week or so, because I was a little bit MIA

00:00:52.520 last Friday. No, not this last Friday, but the Friday before I went to LA and then to Newport

00:01:01.480 Beach, which I learned for the first time is actually not a part of LA. I didn't realize that

00:01:06.320 like here in Dallas, we kind of just include everything as a part of Dallas, like all of

00:01:11.220 all of the suburbs are a part of Dallas. I guess in California, they don't really do that. I was in

00:01:16.340 Newport Beach and I was checking into the hotel. I was like, oh yeah, I'm in LA for work. He's like,

00:01:21.080 you're coming from LA. I thought I was in LA. So I learned that it unfortunately was really bad

00:01:26.920 weather. I was telling the people that I was speaking to, I was at a turning point event,

00:01:30.340 that the only reason I like to come to California is because of the weather. The laws are stupid. 1.00

00:01:35.340 Some of the people are extremely crazy, but at least you get great weather and you get to do 1.00

00:01:40.800 things like go to the beach, which we don't get to do in Texas. But that was not the case. I had to

00:01:45.020 stay inside my hotel room because the weather was awful. It was like 50 degrees and sunny. But anyway,

00:01:49.320 I got to speak to students at a turning point USA's Western regional conference. I think it

00:01:54.520 was called, and it was really fun. There are just so many excited young Republicans and young

00:01:59.360 conservatives, so much more excited about politics than I was when I was in high school and college.

00:02:04.700 So for all of our hate towards the younger generations, like millennials and generation Z,

00:02:09.200 just know that there's a large group of them out there that really love Liberty, that are really

00:02:13.980 involved, that are really active. I talked to more than a few young people too, who had been

00:02:19.060 red-pilled, aka they kind of converted from progressivism to liberalism. And the conversations

00:02:23.880 that I had with them were so interesting. A lot of them really felt like they were educated,

00:02:28.900 but they were just kind of educated in woke culture. They were educated in their little

00:02:33.420 echo chamber, in their little bubble of progressivism. Because as we've talked about on this podcast,

00:02:38.180 it is cool to be a progressive, especially a young progressive. That's why it's so much

00:02:42.180 intellectually easier to be a young liberal than it is to be a young conservative, because you don't

00:02:49.480 really have to think for yourself. All you have to do is say, oh, what does Beyonce think? Who is

00:02:54.120 Ariana Grande voting for? Oh, my professors are telling me that communism is awesome and capitalism

00:02:59.760 is bad. Okay. Well, most of the mainstream media leans to the left and is saying that Donald Trump

00:03:05.340 is a terrible president. So I guess I'll believe that. You really don't have to think

00:03:09.000 to be a progressive at all, whether you're old or young. Now, that's not to say that all

00:03:13.700 progressives don't think that they're just mindlessly following one ideology without actually

00:03:18.840 putting any thought into it. But it is to say that if you are a progressive, there is absolutely

00:03:23.640 no thinking whatsoever required of you. And in fact, it is encouraged not to think at all.

00:03:28.780 It's much more encouraged on the left just to feel, which is another reason why it's so attractive

00:03:33.240 to young people. So I talked to quite a lot of these young people at Turning Point USA.

00:03:38.000 who had once completely believed the whole Bernie Sanders shtick, the idea that socialism will be

00:03:48.620 good for America, that free college, free health care is exactly what we need. And then somewhere

00:03:53.240 along the way, they were just kind of hit with a ton of red conservative bricks. And they realized,

00:03:58.820 wow, this is not going to work. History is actually not working in the favor of my ideology.

00:04:05.080 And maybe I should start researching this and thinking for myself. That's typically what happens

00:04:10.760 once young people start thinking for themselves, thinking independently, getting out of that mindset

00:04:15.580 of identity politics. Like if I'm a woman, I have to vote this way. If I'm gay, if I'm black,

00:04:20.320 if I'm Asian, I have to vote this way. Once they start thinking for themselves and doing their own 1.00

00:04:24.740 research, adopting logic, they typically either if they don't fully go over to conservatism,

00:04:30.900 they're at least moderate because you see the absurdity of leftism. So I was really encouraged

00:04:36.500 by that, by these so-called conversion stories, not to be sacrilegious, but you know what I mean,

00:04:41.760 these switching over stories. And my hope is that more and more people wake up, especially young

00:04:47.840 people. And I think that they will. So that was the first leg of my journey. I was in LA slash Newport

00:04:53.600 Beach talking to these amazing young people that are much smarter than I was when I was their age.

00:04:58.960 And then I went to Nashville and in Nashville, I was a part of a town hall type show that was hosted

00:05:07.140 by a company called Ozzy. It's going to appear on PBS at some point. I don't remember the exact day.

00:05:15.240 It was an interesting experience. The audience was almost entirely liberal.

00:05:20.700 And it was very interesting to hear some of their concerns, some of their perspectives,

00:05:25.840 particularly on things like white privilege, Kavanaugh, Trump. You log on to Twitter every day

00:05:30.900 and you think, OK, these leftists that I see on Twitter, they've got to be a caricature of reality.

00:05:36.600 People on the left aren't really like this. Like they're not this emotional, right? They're not

00:05:40.020 this deranged about Donald Trump. They don't actually they're not actually this apathetic towards

00:05:45.740 facts, right? Wrong. A lot of the people that I've met over the past week, not just there,

00:05:52.400 but also when I went to UC Berkeley, which I'll get to in just a minute, made me realize that that

00:05:58.240 real there's a I don't want to say the majority of the left because I haven't seen the data on this,

00:06:02.580 but a large chunk of the left really just believes every talking point that is fed to them by MSNBC.

00:06:09.520 And sure, there are plenty of people, I'm sure, on the right that just listen to everything

00:06:13.300 President Trump says and believes it. I'm sure that's absolutely true. But the level of

00:06:20.520 emotionalism and how devoid of facts the arguments are on the left right now when it comes to things

00:06:28.540 like women's rights and feminism and the Me Too movement and Kavanaugh and President Trump and

00:06:35.040 President Trump being apparently against the LGBT community, against women, against all of these

00:06:41.420 minority groups, it's really amazing how they've come to believe these narratives and they don't

00:06:46.520 feel the obligation to attach it to reality. And that's one thing I realized both in this PBS town

00:06:53.900 hall that I was a part of and when I spoke to UC Berkeley. So that was the third leg of my journey.

00:06:59.640 I lectured in a class for about an hour at UC Berkeley. Thankfully, my husband was there. And so

00:07:05.620 he was there for moral support. I just realized that the burden of proof is always on conservatives

00:07:12.340 to provide evidence for our arguments, even though history backs our arguments and the validity of our

00:07:20.100 arguments, for example, that capitalism is good, that the free market is good, that small government

00:07:25.560 is better, that individual liberty is something that should be perpetuated because it's led to great

00:07:32.400 advancements in human rights. All of these things have been proven by history and can be attached to

00:07:37.900 reality, whereas much of the progressive argument is grounded in some future utopia that hasn't yet

00:07:45.100 happened yet, but they hope will actually happen. And therefore, it's not attached to reality. And yet,

00:07:50.520 for some reason, the burden of proof is always on conservatives to to show our work. And the funny

00:07:56.920 thing is, none of our work is ever good enough for the left. It's never enough to point to history or

00:08:03.260 to point to facts or to point to logic or even to point to science. We have to I don't I don't even

00:08:11.020 know stoop down to their emotional level in order to make an effective argument. And actually, probably

00:08:16.140 not even that, because see, the left is to humanize the right so effectively as Nazis, as these racist, 0.88

00:08:22.940 awful bigots that they don't have to actually contend with our arguments because they've already 0.93

00:08:27.380 dismissed us as immoral people. Therefore, they've already prejudged everything that comes out of our 0.94

00:08:32.540 mouths as immoral. So they don't have to listen to us. That is how they how they monopolize the 0.87

00:08:39.960 conversation and how they really dominate the public sphere by saying we don't need to listen to those

00:08:45.000 Nazis over there. We don't even need to hear their arguments out because, well, they're bad people and 0.94

00:08:51.020 we're not. And I saw that very clearly at UC Berkeley. So first, I was very excited for the

00:08:57.460 opportunity to lecture at a class at UC Berkeley. This professor, Dr. Ross, who teaches, I think it's

00:09:02.520 Poli Sci 179 at UC Berkeley is awesome. He's not I don't think he's a conservative. If he is, he's

00:09:09.200 certainly not outspoken about that. I think he went to UC Berkeley himself. Maybe it was raised in the

00:09:13.720 area. So I'd be really surprised if he is a conservative. Nevertheless, whether he's on the right or the

00:09:20.100 left, he cares about free speech, he cares about the freedom of thought, and he knows that free

00:09:25.080 speech is completely dead outside of his classroom at UC Berkeley. So he does something really cool.

00:09:31.100 He gives conservatives the opportunity to speak in his classroom. I think it's once a semester.

00:09:35.960 So this was my turn. I got to go with the Claire Booth Lewis Policy Institute. That's an awesome

00:09:41.880 organization that you guys should look into, by the way. And I gave my presentation and then there was

00:09:47.660 about a 30 minute Q&A after my presentation. So I have been to Berkeley before. I've obviously heard

00:09:53.260 the stories about Berkeley. I've seen other conservative commentators that are much more

00:09:57.100 famous than I am be shouted down, be protested, really be threatened and felt like they're in danger

00:10:03.060 for simply speaking their opinions and speaking facts about conservatism. And so I knew what I was

00:10:10.760 walking into. However, this professor told me before I actually spoke that most of these kids are

00:10:16.300 actually apolitical. Yes, they probably lean to the left, but they're just apolitical. They don't

00:10:20.460 really care. So I thought that I would be walking into an environment that would be fairly open to

00:10:24.920 what I had to say. And like I said, I was very thankful for the opportunity, but I was shocked,

00:10:32.820 shocked, even though I was at UC Berkeley, I guess because of the pretext that I was given by him that

00:10:39.620 this is an apolitical group, I was still shocked at what they found surprising. And I don't have the

00:10:45.700 video for my speech yet. A lot of you have been asking about that, but I'll make sure to get it

00:10:49.920 and I'll post it whenever I can. I don't know who the people were that actually videoed it,

00:10:54.080 but I gave what I thought was a very mild presentation. I was trying to be somewhat

00:11:00.340 nonpartisan, somewhat, somewhat. The teacher told me to be as partisan as I want to be. So I kind of

00:11:07.240 sprinkled some things in there that I knew would get a rise out of people, but nothing absolutely

00:11:11.940 crazy. I talked about where we are going into the midterms, where Republicans are, where Democrats

00:11:16.760 are, and I spoke the truth about polls. I mean, almost every single one of my slides was a graph

00:11:21.300 from a nonpartisan poll or a nonpartisan study. This is not me just coming up with random

00:11:29.020 conjecture and communicating my bias about how awesome the Republican Party is and how bad the

00:11:35.060 Democratic Party is. I just talked about, OK, here's where we are with voter enthusiasm. Here's what

00:11:39.720 Democrats care about. Here's what Republicans care about. And Democrats better watch out because

00:11:43.900 Republicans are closing the gap. And here's why. I talked about the Kavanaugh thing. I talked about

00:11:48.880 how the left has really fallen into identity politics, has really devolved into tribalism

00:11:53.860 and how people are rejecting that. I talked about the fact this is a poll by NBC, by the way,

00:11:59.880 so not some conservative bastion. The poll that shows voter enthusiasm between Republican women

00:12:04.860 and Democratic women, how Democratic women were trumping Republican women in voter enthusiasm in 0.99

00:12:12.640 July. And in October, Republican women were beating Democratic women. And the reason for that, 0.99

00:12:18.880 I think, is because of the whole Kavanaugh thing, because our empathy for Kavanaugh and his family was

00:12:26.440 underestimated and underrepresented in the mainstream media. And yet it was there. I mean, you guys knew how

00:12:32.280 I felt about that whole thing, how passionate I was about it. And it really didn't have to do with

00:12:37.420 Republicanism for us. It had to do with principles. It had to do with due process. It had to do with

00:12:42.800 truth. It had to do with justice. All of these things were great motivators for us to say, hey, the

00:12:48.020 midterms actually matter. I don't know. Some of you said probably I don't know if I like the Republican

00:12:53.740 Party, but I know I don't want to be a part of the Democrats because you saw the crazy people that were

00:12:58.780 storming the Supreme Court steps. You saw the crazy people that were in the Senate chamber during the

00:13:04.120 hearings. You saw the absolute unhinged nature of the feminists on the left. And you said, all I know is I 1.00

00:13:12.220 don't want to be a part of that. That is why female voter enthusiasm is up. So I basically said all of that. 0.99

00:13:18.100 And I showed my work. I gave them facts. I gave them percentages. I gave them polls and studies and all of this

00:13:24.260 stuff to say, hey, Democrats probably need to get their act together because all of this hyperbole 0.81

00:13:30.760 when it comes to Donald Trump and conservatism, putting women back in the kitchen and taking us 1.00

00:13:37.740 back to coat hanger abortions and basically the poor are going to get poorer and the rich are going to

00:13:43.420 get richer and all of this horrible stuff, all of this unequal, inequitable stuff that's going to happen

00:13:48.360 in America because of Trump, because of Republicans, because of Brett Kavanaugh. Y'all might want to cool

00:13:52.820 it on that because it doesn't seem to be working that well. This blue wave that you guys have talked

00:13:59.380 about is going to be much less of a tsunami and much more of a little ripple, because even though

00:14:05.300 you have one of the least popular presidents in modern history, you still don't seem to be capable

00:14:13.100 of winning. Why is that? So I talked about all this. I talked about the dangers of identity politics.

00:14:19.040 I talked about where I think Democrats are going wrong, and I didn't think that this was going to

00:14:24.180 be that controversial. Actually, I thought I was being kind of nice, giving some advice to Democrats,

00:14:28.760 something that I'm not really in the business of doing, quite frankly, because I like watching them

00:14:33.080 devolve into craziness. But it was met with literal gasps from the audience. I don't think that I talked

00:14:42.280 for more than 60 seconds without getting gasps from the audience. Some people were yelling. I have

00:14:48.880 no idea what they were yelling, but yelling. I got a few laughs on things that I didn't think were

00:14:54.380 funny. At one point, I talked about how abortion is killing a child. I think it was in response to a 0.92

00:14:59.120 question that I got. Everyone bust out laughing at that. They thought that that was hilarious. One girl

00:15:04.800 thought that she really trapped me in asking me if I did not believe Dr. Ford. I said, no, I don't

00:15:13.000 think that she was assaulted by Kavanaugh. It gasps, gasps. And she said, why? It was like they had never

00:15:21.060 heard that. It was like they had never heard it. And then we had one guy bringing up the yearbook.

00:15:25.860 He thought that that was a legitimate argument as if he was there in the 1980s when Brett Kavanaugh was in

00:15:34.180 high school and he knows what who Renee is or he knows what the devil's triangle is. They thought

00:15:39.280 that these were legitimate arguments. I think that I might have been the first conservative that a lot

00:15:45.900 of these people met in person and that a lot of these people had ever heard the things that they

00:15:51.700 thought were extreme. I'm like, I haven't even started talking about a wall yet. You guys,

00:15:55.560 the things that they thought were extreme really amazed me. And it also discouraged me because like I said,

00:16:02.140 you log on to Twitter and you think that the people you see on Twitter that are on the left are caricatures

00:16:06.980 of reality and they're really not. The people that I heard ask questions in Nashville and the people

00:16:13.480 that I spoke to in California are they sound like they have never heard a conservative argument. They have

00:16:20.980 never heard someone talk who doesn't actually agree with them. They just take as absolute fact things like

00:16:27.760 white privilege, things like deep-seated systemic racism that they say still exists in this country,

00:16:34.940 the gender wage gap, the income gap, and the education gap they say actually points to systemic

00:16:42.460 discrimination and racism. It's crazy how they've just accepted these things as real without asking,

00:16:50.220 is there any proof of this whatsoever? Because there's really not. And it's no wonder if you look at the

00:16:56.920 numbers on, on polls about patriotism, which, which party is actually more patriotic than the other

00:17:03.760 by asking, do you think America is the greatest country in the world? Or are you extremely proud

00:17:07.900 to be American? It's really no wonder that Republicans are so far above Democrats. They do not think that

00:17:13.220 this is a good country. They think that this is a terrible, unequal, unfair country. And that we

00:17:20.540 should be, if we're going to be a good, just country, that we need to be guaranteeing equality of 0.82

00:17:25.460 outcomes, which is absolutely ridiculous. You can't control equality of outcomes without forcing

00:17:30.980 some people into mediocrity, which is also called tyranny. But that is something that the left

00:17:35.400 doesn't get. They've completely abandoned reality. And I'm telling you, I've told you this before,

00:17:39.380 if you listen to my podcast, this extremism from the left is fairly new. There was one point,

00:17:46.740 probably around 2003, most recently, when the majority of Americans had a mixture of liberal and

00:17:53.220 conservative views. This is from Pew Research. That is not true anymore. By 2011, we had spread

00:17:58.620 far apart. But between 2011 and 2017, we spread so far apart that there's almost no one in the

00:18:05.600 middle. There are people way over here on conservatism and even more people way over here

00:18:10.540 on leftism. And that's part of why we can't get along. And I've already talked to my podcast about

00:18:14.580 the fundamental differences that we really have between the right and the left, but I won't get into

00:18:18.700 all of that right now. So that was my adventure over the past week. It was fun. I was really tired.

00:18:24.540 I was so glad that my husband got to join me for the last part of it. It was his birthday. He turned

00:18:30.120 a whopping 28 years old and we got to spend that in San Francisco. Besides the craziness that San

00:18:35.260 Francisco is, I love San Francisco. I think it's a beautiful city. People always talk about like the

00:18:40.600 poop that you see on the sidewalks and like the needles that you see on the sidewalks. I didn't

00:18:45.440 actually see that. That's not to say it wasn't there. I didn't walk around in the tenderloin,

00:18:49.720 which is the not great part of San Francisco. But the part that we were in was beautiful. The

00:18:55.500 weather was beautiful. I just wish California wasn't so ideologically backwards in so many

00:19:00.620 ways because it is a beautiful state. I know unpopular opinion to say on a conservative podcast,

00:19:06.300 but I actually love the city of San Francisco. Then we got home. My in-laws came in town and we just

00:19:13.600 hung out with him. It was beautiful fall weather in Texas. We're actually having a season change

00:19:18.240 for like the first time in a long time. I feel like we didn't have a fall at all last year,

00:19:26.180 but we're having a fall and it's great. Now the leaves probably won't change because that doesn't

00:19:32.740 really happen in Texas, but we're enjoying some crisp weather that never ever happens.

00:19:38.980 Um, okay. I think that's it. I think that's all I have to say about my travels and about this past

00:19:45.860 week. Now I'm here for a little bit. I'm not traveling quite as much. I travel a lot in the

00:19:50.080 fall for speaking engagements to college campuses. If you would like me to come speak at your college

00:19:55.420 campus, you of course can reach out to me. My schedule is just about full for the fall,

00:20:00.360 but next semester or next year I am open. So make sure to email me if you would like. Okay. Now let's

00:20:07.160 talk about the midterms just a little bit, which like I said, is happening in a couple of weeks.

00:20:10.800 If you are not planning to vote, what are you doing? I would be very surprised because I think

00:20:15.080 most people that listen to my podcast are probably very politically active. If you have not donated to

00:20:21.660 the campaigns that you are supporting, I encourage you to do so. If you can block walk for them,

00:20:26.320 if you can go to the polls and volunteer, make sure that you are getting as involved as you can in

00:20:31.400 your local election. Um, I don't always require straight ticket voting. Of course,

00:20:35.940 I'm going to be voting. I'm going to be voting Republican. I don't necessarily say you should

00:20:41.260 vote Republican in every single race for every single regard. I do encourage you to research

00:20:48.380 your candidates and vote for the more Liberty minded candidate, maybe in some kind of weird

00:20:53.060 district. That's the Democrat. I don't really know. That's probably not true anymore, but maybe it

00:20:58.140 is. So I won't tell you to just vote Republican no matter what, but really research the issues.

00:21:02.380 Don't just read, you know, MSNBC or even Fox news, make sure that you know their voting record.

00:21:07.940 If they're an incumbent or if they've served elsewhere, make sure you know what their values

00:21:12.360 are, know what they stand for. We've got some really tight races. One kind of tight race is

00:21:18.340 between bid or work and Ted Cruz here in Texas, but the polls are looking good for Ted Cruz for a while

00:21:23.820 there. Beta work was closing the gap. He has become a media darling, despite the fact that when he was 26

00:21:30.860 years old, which is old, by the way, I'm 26 now, he had a DUI and fled the scene. That's kind of a big

00:21:38.960 deal in politics. If that was a Republican, he would have been absolutely dragged through the mud. He

00:21:43.080 probably would have been done. Nevertheless, he won't on Ellen. He's been on Jen Hatmaker's podcast.

00:21:48.380 He's been making the media rounds, all the popular leftist outlets. And yet he is trailing

00:21:54.780 behind Ted Cruz. But as we know, anything could happen. He could, he could still, he could still

00:22:01.300 win. Probably not, but he could. But if Republicans are apathetic, it's definitely a possibility. So if

00:22:06.760 you are living in Texas, make sure that not only you are voting, make sure that your friends are

00:22:10.820 voting, make sure that you send your friend links, have conversations with them about it. You don't have

00:22:15.040 to be confrontational. You don't have to be antagonizing or aggravating. Just have a conversation

00:22:22.160 with them about it. Ask them if they're voting. Make them feel like that's the most important thing

00:22:27.140 to you, that they are involved, that they exercise the important right and drive them to the polls if

00:22:33.160 you need to. Make sure that those around you have transportation. Do everything you can to make sure

00:22:38.240 that your friends are voting. Of course, you want them to vote in the right way. And to do that,

00:22:42.140 have conversations with them. It's definitely not too early to start right now. It's probably a really

00:22:46.540 good time because a month ago, a lot of people weren't thinking about it. But and if you know people

00:22:52.000 that are voting Democrat, if you're a young person, you probably do just have a conversation with them

00:22:56.600 about it. You don't have to be, like I said, confrontational. You don't have to make them

00:23:00.020 feel like you're judging them or anything like that. Just have a conversation about it. Start

00:23:03.760 asking them why they're voting Democrat, why they like this particular candidate that they're voting

00:23:08.400 for, particularly if it's Beto. Start asking really what their values are, particularly if you have

00:23:14.680 Christians that are voting Democrat. Ask them what they think about being pro-choice or about being

00:23:18.920 pro-abortion. Ask them what they think is Christian about welfare. Maybe don't say it like that because

00:23:23.600 that sounds kind of rhetorical and sarcastic, but have sincere, honest conversations. And I think the

00:23:28.600 best way to talk to people that you don't agree with is to ask them questions and to get them to

00:23:33.220 start thinking about why they believe what they believe. You don't even have to have a proper retort.

00:23:38.780 If you don't know a good argument against their reason for voting Democrat, you don't have to give it.

00:23:45.740 That's fine. Just ask them, why are you voting this way? Why do you have these values? Say,

00:23:51.280 huh, as a Christian, I kind of see it like this. Or, huh, I didn't think about it like that,

00:23:55.880 but here's how I see it. I think it's good. And that might not change their vote come midterms,

00:24:01.000 but at least they A, know that Republicans are willing to hear them out, that we're not these

00:24:05.680 terrible people that don't want to hear other people's views and are not open-minded. And B,

00:24:09.760 maybe it starts, it gets them to start thinking about why they believe what they believe

00:24:13.460 and to try to start defending their arguments better. And maybe in the process of trying to

00:24:17.580 defend their arguments better, they awaken to the beauty of logic and conservatism. You just never

00:24:25.920 know. So start having those conversations, especially with your apolitical friends. Get

00:24:30.580 them involved. Get them excited. Let them know what is at stake. A lot is at stake in this election.

00:24:35.580 Also, let people know that are on the fence that voting Republican does not mean that you love

00:24:41.500 Donald Trump. That's what we're kind of having a hard time with right now. There are a lot of

00:24:45.920 Republicans and soft Republicans and particularly suburban women who don't like Donald Trump. I get 0.81

00:24:52.420 it. He's not, in my opinion, the most likable guy in the world. So if you don't like him, I totally

00:24:57.520 understand what these women and what these people who are on the fence need to know is that voting in 1.00

00:25:03.120 your local election for Republicans or voting for a Republican senator does not mean that you love

00:25:09.880 Donald Trump. It's not even necessarily a direct help to Donald Trump. It does not unite you to

00:25:14.580 Donald Trump. You are voting for principles. You are voting for values. You are voting for the

00:25:18.860 perpetuation of individual liberty for the Constitution, for the Second Amendment, for the

00:25:23.940 First Amendment, for all of these things that conservatives stand for. And if those are things

00:25:27.700 that you stand for, that you want to protect for your kids and for your posterity, then you probably

00:25:33.080 need to vote Republican or, like I said, for the more liberty-minded candidate. This is not about

00:25:38.220 liking Donald Trump. The left wants to make everything about Donald Trump because they think

00:25:42.560 it helps their case. He has a low approval rating. So if they make the election about Donald Trump,

00:25:47.500 they know fewer people will vote Republican. You need to tell your apolitical friends or your friends

00:25:52.260 who are on the fence, particularly suburban women who are thinking they don't want to vote for Donald 0.98

00:25:56.460 Trump anymore, that voting for Republican is not voting for Donald Trump, that this has very little

00:26:02.340 to do with Donald Trump. And Donald Trump is going to be gone in six years at the most. And this is

00:26:08.480 about voting for your principles. Don't switch over to the Democratic Party just because you don't like

00:26:12.840 the president. He is extremely temporary. So those are the conversations that you need to be having with

00:26:18.120 people. I know they can be awkward. I know they can be uncomfortable. And I'm not asking you to risk

00:26:22.860 your relationships in order to talk politics. If someone doesn't want to talk politics,

00:26:27.040 politics, that's fine. I don't want you to force that on them. Relationships are more important than

00:26:32.040 politics. But if you can try to prod, try to get your friends excited. If you're really close to

00:26:37.760 someone, guilt them into voting like I will be doing that with my friends. At this point, all of my

00:26:43.480 friends know to vote. But if they weren't, then I would definitely be guilting them into voting. So one of the

00:26:48.880 close elections, like I said, Ted Cruz versus Beto O'Rourke. We've also got McSally versus Sinema.

00:26:54.100 That Senate seat in Arizona Sinema is crazy. She's a crazy woman. It's come out how just radical and 1.00

00:27:02.160 how far left and extreme she is. McSally is awesome. She's a Republican woman. She is someone that 0.94

00:27:08.060 absolutely should be supported. Of course, in no situation is a candidate perfect. But McSally is a

00:27:15.600 good option, especially next to this crazy lady who was actually recently caught saying that 1.00

00:27:21.500 that how did she phrase it? Oh, she said that stay-at-home moms are nothing more than leeches. 1.00

00:27:27.980 So that's what she thinks of women. She also has a lot of disrespect for the state of Arizona. 1.00

00:27:33.960 So she's just not someone that you want to put in office. We've got a close governor race, 1.00

00:27:38.200 Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp in Georgia. I used to live in Georgia. My husband's family all lives in

00:27:43.420 Georgia. We are all biting our nails at this whole thing. Stacey Abrams is an absolute moon 1.00

00:27:49.900 bat. She's just crazy. Like she spoke to a group in Statesboro, Georgia. Statesboro, Georgia is 1.00

00:27:56.160 extremely agricultural. She told the people there when she was delivering a speech that they could

00:28:01.000 do better than agriculture and hospitality. That tells me right there that she doesn't know anything

00:28:06.120 about the state whatsoever. Agriculture and hospitality are big in Georgia and they're great industries.

00:28:10.980 You can make a lot of money in both of those industries and they're respectable,

00:28:15.120 dignified industries. Stacey Abrams has no idea what she is doing. She is so far left. And yet

00:28:21.200 in the liberal counties, particularly in Atlanta and Clark County, where Athens, Georgia is, and

00:28:27.120 in Columbus, there are plenty of kind of liberal pockets in Georgia. They are going towards her.

00:28:33.620 Now, Brian Kemp, I think is a good candidate. He's done some polarizing things. Like he ran an ad

00:28:37.880 that depicted him like rounding up illegal immigrants. I wasn't the really the biggest

00:28:43.880 fan of that. I'm like, why do something that's going to push the soft Republicans away? I don't

00:28:49.540 know. But he's obviously going to be a better candidate. He knows Georgia better. He knows

00:28:53.880 the Georgian people better. He has he has a good record of leadership. He's already been secretary of

00:29:01.540 state for Georgia. Stacey Abrams really has no legitimate experience whatsoever.

00:29:06.060 We've also got the governor race down in Florida between Andrew Gillum and Ron DeSantis. We know

00:29:11.700 that Andrew Gillum has already been endorsed by Democratic Socialists of America. So there's

00:29:15.880 really nothing else to say about him. Let's see. I'm just trying to think of these off the top of

00:29:20.480 my head. There are plenty of other close and important races out there. So stay in the know on

00:29:26.480 that. I'm always checking 538 blog. I just think it gives a pretty good indication of what the

00:29:33.280 election is going to be like right now. They have the typical Republicans are keeping the Senate,

00:29:37.820 but Republicans are losing the House. That's probably going to be true. The chances are pretty

00:29:42.780 good that that's going to be true. But again, you never know. We've got a narrow majority in the

00:29:47.220 Senate right now. There's a possibility that we keep our majority in the House, but it's pretty

00:29:52.760 unlikely. So just make sure that you are involved. Make sure that you're doing whatever you can to

00:29:57.340 raise awareness as long as you're not absolutely risking all of your closest relationships.

00:30:02.440 Okay. I have a question to answer that someone asked me. So last week I talked about abortion and

00:30:09.600 how one of the, I think really the only logical argument or not argument for abortion, there is a

00:30:16.240 logical argument for abortion, but the only logical case or the only case where abortion could be

00:30:23.060 ideologically defended would be if the woman who is pregnant was going to lose her physical life,

00:30:30.000 like actually going to lose her life. Not just there's a chance that she's going to lose her life,

00:30:34.660 but she is going to die. Now I recognize that the chances of that are so close to so close to zero

00:30:43.600 that just doesn't really happen in America. Thank God medicine and technology is so advanced that that

00:30:48.580 really doesn't happen. And there are women who are told to abort their children. Like there was a 1.00

00:30:52.980 professor at my college firm and I think I talked about this last week. She had breast cancer. She 0.99

00:30:57.900 was told to abort her child. She didn't. Her child is strong and awesome. And obviously that is always

00:31:04.480 the better alternative. So I would never, no matter what, encourage a woman to have an abortion, 1.00

00:31:10.200 no matter what. But I am talking philosophically. Philosophically, if the argument is that all life is

00:31:15.820 dignified, that all life is worth something, that murder of an innocent person should never be

00:31:20.700 justified. Then the life, the worthiness of the life of the mother is equal to the worthiness of

00:31:28.900 the life of the child. That's the only logical way that I can say, okay, if it's a choice, you have to

00:31:35.180 choose one or the other and neither is technically philosophically immoral. Now someone emailed me and

00:31:41.560 said, when someone becomes a mother, they then have the responsibility to take care of their child,

00:31:47.860 the child in the womb or the child outside of the womb, even if that means laying down their life.

00:31:52.440 And I absolutely agree with you. I totally agree with you. I pray to God that I'm never in that

00:31:58.640 situation, but that would, that would be my choice. I would do anything to protect my child. I agree with

00:32:04.580 you that that is our God-given responsibility, but I'm talking philosophically and legally. It's

00:32:09.840 somewhat of a difficult case to make against it. If you feel that the mother's life is equally as worthy

00:32:17.800 as the child's life. Um, I hope that that makes sense. I'm open to evolving on that. I hope that

00:32:26.220 that doesn't make it sound like I, in any case, condone abortion. I am so far from that. I believe

00:32:33.940 that life starts at conception that there is never any excuse to terminate a child's life in the womb

00:32:41.580 or outside of the womb, of course. But I understand the philosophical position of saying, if you

00:32:49.260 actually were forced to choose between a mother and a child, it is no more immoral to choose the 0.98

00:32:55.820 mother over the child. Does that make sense? I hope that makes sense. I hope that that's not 0.65

00:33:00.720 miscommunicated or misconstrued in any way. I am absolutely as pro-life as they come in every

00:33:07.880 situation, but I'm talking from a logical philosophical position. Okay. Uh, one more thing.

00:33:14.780 One more question. Someone asked me how I deal with haters. Sometimes it really does hurt my feelings.

00:33:19.540 Other times it doesn't. Most of the time, like when I get stupid trolls on social media, I don't 1.00

00:33:25.420 really care. I get those every day. You always get the troll that thinks, oh, they're going to take 1.00

00:33:29.800 you down and really hurt your feelings and make you feel like this isn't a legitimate career. And I'm

00:33:33.620 like, there were 15,000 of you before you came along. I don't know your name. I won't remember

00:33:40.620 your name tomorrow. It just kind of, you get desensitized to it. Is that how you say that?

00:33:47.320 I'm not sure if I said that the right way. You no longer care about it anymore because it just

00:33:52.220 happens so much that it just doesn't bother you. Now, there's some criticism that hurts more than

00:33:59.040 others, especially if they're from friends or people that, you know, now that doesn't really

00:34:03.780 happen to me, but I've told you guys in the past about someone who was my college roommate,

00:34:07.280 who was also in my wedding, who decided to express her hatred of my views and really dislike of me on

00:34:14.660 social media. That was really just bizarre. That of course hurts your feelings because that person

00:34:18.820 knows you and they've completely let politics drive a wedge in your relationship and also shroud

00:34:25.960 their opinion of you. So that really sucks. And that's not to say that criticism never bothers 0.99

00:34:30.760 me because sometimes it certainly does, but my value doesn't come from what people say about me

00:34:37.920 on the internet. It comes from something much higher than that. It obviously comes from my faith in

00:34:42.360 Christ, but also my family. Like I have a lot of confidence that comes from encouragements from my

00:34:47.980 friends and my family and the people that really know me. That's really how I stay grounded.

00:34:52.280 Just live a normal life with normal friends, normal family. And they just keep me down to

00:34:59.040 earth for when it's either praise on the internet or hate on the internet. Okay. Now I'm going to

00:35:04.960 highlight a nonprofit. Someone sent me information about a passion center for children that is an

00:35:12.840 organization here in the United States that provides food, clothing, other resources for child-headed

00:35:18.760 households in Malawi in Africa. So this area that they help is actually the number one place in the

00:35:28.760 world for child-headed households. So one of their parents probably died from HIV AIDS. So now a minor

00:35:35.960 is actually taking care of their entire family. These families are in need and desperate need of help

00:35:43.120 more than any other type of family. Obviously they live in an extremely impoverished part of the world,

00:35:47.960 and now they don't even have an adult to take care of them. So these kids are learning trades.

00:35:53.340 They're getting provided for clothing-wise, food-wise, and they're able to just subsist and to live a

00:36:00.040 life and to not have to worry all the time about where their next meal is coming from. So this is

00:36:05.460 Passion Center for Children. You can go to passioncenterforchildren.org and you can donate to them.

00:36:10.080 You can see some of the pictures of the kids that they've been able to help. It's really amazing.

00:36:14.500 What an amazing cause too. I mean, God tells us to care for the widows and the orphans. This is such

00:36:20.640 a good way to do this. And you see the pictures of where some of these kids live, and you just realize

00:36:25.020 how much we take for granted on a daily basis. They live in basically a mud hut. And we know more 0.99

00:36:31.380 luxury than any other group of people in human history. So the least we can do is help a group like

00:36:37.640 this, help kids like this who really have nothing, and show them the love of Christ, the same grace that

00:36:42.960 God in Christ has shown us. So that's my podcast for today. I will see you guys on Thursday. If you

00:36:48.500 have any suggestions or questions, you know where to find me.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - October 23, 2018

Ep 48 ｜ Midterm Musings

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