Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - November 10, 2022


Ep 707 ｜ Parental Rights Win & Unmarried Women March Left


Episode Stats

Length

57 minutes

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160.23412

Word Count

9,171

Sentence Count

602

Misogynist Sentences

28

Hate Speech Sentences

27


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Exit polls show the vast majority of unmarried women voting Democrat. Why is that? And while
00:00:07.000 we do have some bad news on the pro-life front, the news is not as bleak as it seems, and I'm
00:00:12.320 going to tell you why. Also, parental rights and education is a winning issue. And even though the
00:00:19.100 writers at The New Yorker are sad about it, we are going to continue to double down. And there are
00:00:25.740 some outstanding races that we will go over today. This episode is brought to you by our friends
00:00:30.860 at Good Ranchers. Go to GoodRanchers.com slash Allie. That's GoodRanchers.com slash Allie.
00:00:46.040 Okay, guys, hope everyone is having a wonderful week. We've got more to talk about today in regard
00:00:52.200 to the midterms. If you're watching on YouTube and my hair looks haphazard, that's because it is.
00:00:57.700 It's just one of those days. I got in this morning from Texas A&M, had a wonderful visit there,
00:01:05.680 talking to young women of America, some conservative women and men just about the state of the country
00:01:11.820 and how they combat the craziness in our culture. And it was so wonderful being able to meet all of
00:01:20.160 you. This fall, y'all, before we get into all of this, I just got to say, this fall has been
00:01:28.040 absolutely crazy for me in a good way in the sense that I love what I do and I've been really busy
00:01:36.360 doing what I love. But I've had so much travel, so much travel since the month of August. I mean,
00:01:44.040 September and October, we're nonstop, barely got a break in November. And I am really looking forward
00:01:51.920 to taking a breath in a few weeks when I am done with speaking engagements for the year.
00:01:57.700 I love speaking engagements. I love speaking in front of people. People ask me all the time,
00:02:02.200 do you get nervous about that? Does it make you anxious? No, not at all. I can't remember the last
00:02:06.860 time I got nervous speaking in front of people. And I also love meeting y'all. I love conversing with
00:02:13.400 you. I love hearing about how the podcast has impacted you or what you thought about my book or
00:02:19.160 answering the different questions that you guys have. I truly get energy and a lot of fulfillment
00:02:24.880 from that. But it is really hard to be gone. It's really hard to travel. It wears on you. It takes a
00:02:32.780 lot of your time. Even when my family and I travel together, it's just really difficult. So I am looking
00:02:38.600 forward to a season of a little bit of reprieve, at least from travel anyway. I'll still be here
00:02:45.420 with you all. So just know that that's kind of how I'm feeling this morning. And if you're watching
00:02:51.760 YouTube and you think that's how I'm also looking, you are correct. You're correct in your assessment.
00:02:57.960 Your girl is a little bit tired. But thank you to all of you who, by the way, you message me,
00:03:03.740 you tell me in person that you're praying for me, that you're praying for my family, that you're
00:03:07.800 praying for our health, that you're praying for my safety, that you're praying just for sustained
00:03:12.020 energy to talk about the things that we do. I feel those prayers. Those prayers are effective and they
00:03:17.440 mean a lot to me. When you tell me that you're praying for me, I take that to heart. I'm really
00:03:22.580 grateful for that. I really do. I've got the best audience in the world. People who have become a
00:03:27.300 community. People who have become friends. People who have become a form of a family. Related gals
00:03:34.520 and Related bros. That's not a real name that we have on here, but I'm just testing it out. You can
00:03:39.700 tell me what you think of it. Probably not the second one because we don't have a whole lot of
00:03:44.500 guys that listen to this. It's mostly women. But it really has become like a community and a family.
00:03:50.240 And I just appreciate that. And that is why I'm willing to travel across the country for you guys
00:03:54.780 and meet you because I love you so much. All right. Let's talk about a little bit about what's
00:04:00.900 going on. If you haven't listened to yesterday's episode or watched yesterday's episode that I did
00:04:04.840 with my friend Delano Squires, it was different than a lot of episodes that we do because it was
00:04:11.480 more of a conversation back and forth, less of an interview. And it was long. It was like an hour and
00:04:17.940 40 minutes and we aimed to give an analysis of the state of the country post midterms from a biblical
00:04:26.420 perspective. And so a lot of you guys enjoyed that. I got messages saying that it was your favorite
00:04:32.020 podcast that I've ever recorded, which says a lot because I have more than 700 of them. So
00:04:37.320 if you haven't gone back and listened to that from yesterday, I encourage you to do so. And today I
00:04:43.480 want to look a little bit more about some of the polling that I've seen coming out since the election
00:04:50.360 happened. Some of the articles that have been written trying to analyze why the results were
00:04:55.680 the way that they were. And even before we get into that, I will just say like we're still waiting
00:05:01.980 for the results of some elections. We're still looking at the state of Arizona and wondering why
00:05:07.600 places like Maricopa County can't get it together. It's like a third world country over there.
00:05:12.880 I mean, honestly, I think third world countries probably count their votes faster than the
00:05:17.440 people in Maricopa County in Arizona. It's crazy. So we're waiting on the results, I believe, from
00:05:22.900 Blake Masters. We're waiting on the results from Carrie Lake, the governor race there. It's really
00:05:29.580 tight. It's neck and neck. We're waiting on the result of a Senate race in Nevada as well. Is it
00:05:36.960 Nevada or Nevada? You guys always correct me and I can't ever remember which one that you guys prefer
00:05:41.720 who actually lived there. And then we are also we're still waiting on the results of a couple
00:05:48.800 other elections. I believe Lauren Bobert in Colorado. That was a shocker. I mean, that was a real
00:05:56.200 surprise. She comes from a conservative area and she might possibly hopefully not, but she might possibly
00:06:04.740 lose to her Democrat opponent. And then we've got a special election now in the state of Georgia
00:06:12.060 between Raphael Warnock and between Herschel Walker. And we talked a little bit about that yesterday.
00:06:18.920 That's going to be really interesting. So we won't know the results of that for a little while now.
00:06:24.700 And one thing that people are saying, especially when it comes to Walker, when it comes to Dr.
00:06:30.700 their eyes and them not faring as well in their races as people wanted them to, or even as the
00:06:36.140 polls predicted, was that Trump was the one who endorsed these people and who picked these people
00:06:42.500 and that Trump just doesn't have the same political power that a lot of people thought that they did.
00:06:48.980 And so that's a big debate that people are having. We talked a little bit about that yesterday.
00:06:53.660 If Trump is good for the party, if Trump actually drags down the party, I think that one thing we know
00:06:58.640 for sure is that Trump is really not concerned about whether he is booing the party or whether
00:07:03.480 he's hurting the party. Trump is concerned with himself. He's concerned with his campaign.
00:07:08.280 I don't know about you. I'm not ready to debate 2024 yet. Like, I'm not ready to get into that.
00:07:13.940 I feel like we are still reeling from 2016. Gosh, it has gone by so quickly. We are so inundated with
00:07:21.540 politics. And that's one reason why I think kind of the nature of my podcast has changed a little bit
00:07:29.640 over the past year because I felt that you guys, as I am, are kind of burnt out when it comes to
00:07:37.620 politics. Obviously, we know better than maybe anyone else that politics matter and why politics
00:07:43.720 matter. But it can just be really hard constantly talking about political races and feeling like we
00:07:51.540 are in a constant state of election season. I mean, that wears on a person. There's more to life than
00:07:58.720 that. And so that's why we talk about a lot of the theological topics that we do, a lot of the cultural
00:08:04.320 and moral topics that we do. That's why we dedicate entire episodes to one interview or one subject and
00:08:11.500 not really talking about policy. Because at the end of the day, politics is downstream from culture,
00:08:17.080 but culture is downstream from theology. So while I care about these elections, like I want to make
00:08:22.160 sure that we're getting these big foundational issues right, then hopefully when it comes to
00:08:26.900 elections, we're thinking about them in the right way. So just know that on this podcast, like we're not
00:08:34.360 going to wade into 2024 quite yet. I mean, it's going to be fast. No doubt we're going to be talking
00:08:41.340 about it a year from now. But I am not going to be the show that is constantly already talking about
00:08:50.100 the next presidential election. It is just too much. It's like when you walk into Hobby Lobby
00:08:55.780 in August and you already see Christmas decorations and you're like, can I just enjoy it? School hasn't
00:09:02.760 even started yet. We haven't even had Labor Day. We haven't even had Halloween or our harvest party
00:09:08.600 or whatever it is that Christians celebrate on October 31st. We haven't even had Thanksgiving.
00:09:13.540 Like, just give us a little bit of a break, please. We just put our wreaths up. That's kind of how I
00:09:18.740 feel right now with all the talk about 2024. I think that we have a lot of lessons to learn from this
00:09:24.400 past election, a lot of analysis before we even look forward to the next election. And that's kind of
00:09:30.120 what I want to get into. I want to look at a couple articles that paint a really pessimistic picture,
00:09:36.760 I think, for where the state of our country is, where our morality is, where our hearts are. But then
00:09:43.260 also a couple articles that I think speak to a very positive movement that's happening on the right
00:09:51.080 and among people in general, even independents and moderates, that is being led by concerned moms and dads.
00:10:06.760 Okay, so as we mentioned yesterday, abortion was on the ballot in several states, in six states. It was
00:10:16.420 Vermont, Montana, Kentucky, California, and Michigan. And let's see, there was one other one. I don't have it in
00:10:32.000 front of me. So abortion was on the ballot. There was a measure that was on the ballot in six states.
00:10:40.260 And in some states, the measure was to guarantee the so-called right to abortion through all nine
00:10:46.460 months, unfettered access to the slaughter of unborn children. And in some cases, like in Kentucky,
00:10:53.120 it was a measure to say that there's simply no constitutional right to abortion. This is not
00:10:58.320 something that you should be guaranteed. And that failed. And possibly the most egregious one was in
00:11:03.920 the state of Montana, which is typically seen as a red state. And it was a measure that simply said
00:11:12.000 that a doctor must provide life-saving care to a baby that survives a botched abortion. So there's
00:11:20.340 no my body, my choice here. Like we're not talking about the bodily autonomy of the woman. Although, of course,
00:11:26.080 as I've argued many times, I think that that's a stupid assertion anyway, if you're trying to defend
00:11:32.640 ending the life of a child. But we're talking about a baby who is outside of the womb. And this
00:11:38.760 measure simply said that doctors have to provide life-saving care to this baby who survives an
00:11:46.340 abortion. The measure failed. The measure failed in the state of Montana. The majority of people said,
00:11:53.400 no, we do not want to require doctors to provide care to babies who survive abortions. We would
00:11:59.940 rather them be left to die. We would rather them die a slow and painful death, or maybe, I don't know,
00:12:08.280 killed in some way by the abortionist, then provide just basic, basic compassion and care for this living,
00:12:19.680 breathing, squirming human being who has just been a victim of violence. Now, some people might say,
00:12:28.400 well, the measure was very, it was very complicated and complex in its language. It was very difficult
00:12:34.500 to understand. And that is true. It was very difficult. But come on, people have brains. You
00:12:42.100 can understand, you can decipher, you have reading comprehension, like you get it. Shouldn't you be
00:12:47.500 reading up on these things beforehand anyway? Surely Republicans in that state, pro-lifers in that
00:12:52.540 state understood what was being said. And about half people, about half of people, a little less
00:12:58.420 than half, said, of course, they want doctors to provide this life-saving care. But more than half
00:13:04.500 said, no, they don't. So that is the state, in a lot of cases, of post-Roe America. And here,
00:13:13.620 I think, is one reason for that. One reason for that, as my friend Lila Rose has talked about for the past
00:13:21.660 couple of days, is that the abortion misinformation machine is incredibly powerful. It has a ton of
00:13:30.820 money. The abortion lobby spent over $300 million on campaigns and advertising and fear-mongering
00:13:41.260 and propaganda, supporting different candidates, supporting different forms of marketing and social
00:13:47.900 media targeting and messaging to ensure that all of these measures that sought to protect life failed
00:13:55.780 and all of the measures that sought to advance the killing of unborn children advanced. And they were
00:14:03.140 extremely successful. We simply do not have that kind of power when it comes to pro-life activism.
00:14:09.680 Now, I'm not saying that we've never been successful or effective, because we absolutely
00:14:16.660 have. I mean, it's actually incredible when you think about all of the backing that the left has
00:14:24.520 when it comes to abortion. I mean, just the institutional power, the monopoly that they have
00:14:31.220 over corporations, over much of the government, over so many entities in the United States,
00:14:37.320 and how little formal and institutional power we have. It's pretty incredible that we are ever able
00:14:45.420 to influence legislation. It's pretty incredible that we ever get pro-life laws passed. It's pretty
00:14:50.720 incredible that we have as many people vote for pro-life measures and against pro-abortion measures
00:14:57.860 that we do. And that really can be said about the right and left in general. We have so little
00:15:04.300 institutional power or media backing or cultural megaphones. We are constantly working against
00:15:11.920 the forces of mainstream culture to get our message out and to correct their propaganda
00:15:17.240 and misinformation. And we still win elections. And we still are competitive in elections that should
00:15:25.260 not be competitive in places like New York. And so it's actually pretty incredible that we are able
00:15:33.120 to withstand the onslaught of vitriol and deceit that we get as pro-lifers to ever be effective.
00:15:42.320 And so when you consider that, when you consider just the behemoth that we are up against, that is the
00:15:48.800 pro-abortion lobby, it is not all that surprising that these measures passed in some cases in pretty
00:15:56.120 slim margins. Think about the overturning of Roe v. Wade. That took not four years, not 14 years,
00:16:07.380 but 49 years. The overturning of Roe v. Wade took almost five decades, almost 50 years of pro-life
00:16:18.720 lobbying, of protesting, of activism, of getting the right people into power to push pro-life legislation,
00:16:30.320 electing the right presidents that will appoint justices who will uphold the Constitution and
00:16:37.580 interpret the Constitution correctly, which would be to say that there is no right in the Constitution
00:16:43.580 to abortion. I mean, we are talking about six Supreme Court justices appointed over a span of 30 years
00:16:52.540 by three different presidents, thanks to pro-lifers in this country who were relentless
00:16:59.040 in their perseverance and in their persistence to ensure that the law could change to conform to
00:17:06.500 justice and dignity and equality for pre-born children. That took almost 50 years.
00:17:12.800 And that was just what was happening in the political scene. That was just what was happening
00:17:18.920 in punditry. That was just what was happening in public. In private, pro-lifers were relentless
00:17:26.980 in their service to women and to fathers and their children, showing up every day to pregnancy centers,
00:17:35.940 to pro-life organizations, providing all of the material assistance and the spiritual and emotional
00:17:42.400 help that these women need in order to feel safe and to feel taken care of so that they will keep
00:17:54.040 their children. I mean, 50 years of that kind of work, 50 years of that kind of unsung and often unseen
00:18:03.200 obedience to the Lord, 50 years of that kind of consistency, it took 50 years of both private and
00:18:12.100 public, political and personal fighting by pro-lifers to finally elect legislators in the state of
00:18:22.700 Mississippi that would pass a law banning abortion that would then be written in a way that would then
00:18:30.520 make its way to the Supreme Court and at the right time with the right composition of justices.
00:18:39.080 That legislation was upheld and Roe v. Wade was effectively overturned. There were so many
00:18:45.700 different pieces that had to come together. And there were so many years of hard work and sometimes
00:18:54.640 pessimism and hopelessness that led to that. I mean, Roe v. Wade was overturned after years of the
00:19:06.400 pro-abortion left becoming increasingly radical, becoming increasingly violent. They've gone from safe,
00:19:15.920 legal, and rare to through all nine months without apology for any reason and paid for by the
00:19:24.620 taxpayer. So as the pro-abortion left became more rabid, as Planned Parenthood gained even more
00:19:32.060 influence, and the pro-abortion lobby got an even stronger grip on our culture. I mean, we've got
00:19:39.760 every celebrity female singer opening her concert talking about the importance of abortion. I mean,
00:19:47.520 it's just sick. It's just dark. It's so demonic. In the midst of that kind of darkness of the culture,
00:19:52.720 God in his providence and in his mercy allowed Roe v. Wade to be overturned and for states to pass just
00:20:00.920 laws to protect the lives of unborn children. So do not allow the results of these measures
00:20:11.220 in the midterm elections to permanently demoralize you or discourage you. Now, I understand being sad.
00:20:19.600 We should be sad. We should be sad about that in places like Michigan that more children are going
00:20:26.260 to be killed. Innocent babies are going to be killed because of this, especially after re-electing
00:20:31.720 Whitmer. We should be sad that California is now a quote-unquote sanctuary state for unfettered abortion.
00:20:39.920 Of course, that should make us sad. But that sadness has to motivate us, has to re-establish
00:20:48.700 our resolve to keep working harder. And I know we look at the state of our country and the state of
00:20:55.620 just utter depravity in our nation, and we think nothing can ever change. Things are only going to
00:21:01.380 get worse and worse. Look, we thought that a few years ago about Roe v. Wade. You do not know what
00:21:06.060 God is up to. And no matter what the result is of abortion legislation in America, and you and I share
00:21:13.400 the same goals about wanting to see the dignity and the rights and the humanity, the personhood of
00:21:19.000 unborn children written into law, not a subject of debate anymore. No matter what happens, like our
00:21:27.440 mandate as Christians is the same. To take up their cause, to fight for them both politically and
00:21:36.100 personally, both privately and publicly, not just in how we vote, and not just in how we speak and trying
00:21:44.360 to change hearts and minds, but also in how we show up for them tangibly. Look, state of Michigan, make sure
00:21:51.380 that if you're not already, most of you probably are, that you are volunteering at your local pro-life
00:21:56.160 pregnancy center. By the way, you can bet the Democrats are coming for them. They are going to try to make
00:22:01.560 it impossible for women in crisis to have a choice beyond abortion. We've already seen that kind of rhetoric
00:22:08.000 from Elizabeth Warren. We've already seen the terrorism against these pro-life pregnancy centers, but make
00:22:13.660 sure that you are sharing those arrows, that you are linking arms with them, that you are allowing them to not
00:22:19.900 just have your time and your resources and your prayers and your energy, but also your courage. Because as we say
00:22:24.480 a lot, courage begets courage. And our courage on this issue, as we show up together for these women and children,
00:22:31.860 that really is what can change culture and then can also change politics. And it might take 50 years, but if anything
00:22:39.900 is worth that, if anything is worth our time and our energy and our persistence and our hope, it is the lives of
00:22:46.480 children. So be sad about those measures, but keep going. Keep going. Because our obedience is owed, no matter
00:22:56.280 what the political outcome is. And God can very graciously use these things, work these things
00:23:02.880 together for good and for his glory. We saw that in the overturning of Roe v. Wade. We see that every day
00:23:09.720 with lives saved at these pregnancy centers. So that, I guess, is the good and the bad. When you're
00:23:15.980 looking at abortion, I think that abortion kind of probably did maybe after Roe v. Wade hurt some
00:23:25.100 Republican races, because there was a lot of misinformation about what pro-life laws do in
00:23:31.840 regard to miscarriage care and ectopic pregnancies, which we've debunked that on this podcast several
00:23:37.480 times. And we can link to a past episode about that. So I think that that was a little bit
00:23:43.020 difficult for Republicans to combat. However, it is still worth campaigning on. It is still worth
00:23:52.260 advocating for, because again, we're talking about the lives of innocent children. But then on the other
00:23:57.820 side, something that did not slow Republicans down, but actually brought a lot of Republicans to victory,
00:24:04.160 in particular, Ron DeSantis, was the issue of parental rights in education. And there is an
00:24:12.200 article in The New Yorker titled How Education Freedom, quote unquote, of course, played in the
00:24:19.280 midterms. And this article or this author, Jessica Winter says, in superintendent and school board races,
00:24:26.200 candidates fear mongering about unions and critical race theory, she puts again in scare quotes,
00:24:32.280 fared depressingly well. Well, if Jessica Winter at The New Yorker is depressed, then it must be really
00:24:39.260 good news for us. So we'll look at this good news in just a second. So this article in The New Yorker,
00:24:54.780 obviously, The New Yorker is a far left publication. And so she's not even trying to feign
00:25:00.140 any kind of objectivity here. Here's what she says about the results of the Tuesday elections when
00:25:07.640 it comes to school board races and Republicans who are running on a platform of parental rights
00:25:13.920 in education. She says a clown car school board race in Charleston, South Carolina ended with five
00:25:20.240 out of nine seats going to Moms for Liberty backed candidates. Yeah. Governor Ron DeSantis,
00:25:26.480 the maestro of Florida's don't say gay legislation and a home state hero to Moms for Liberty endorsed
00:25:33.040 six school board candidates, all of whom won their races. Moms for Liberty endorsed a total of 12
00:25:39.740 in Florida, winning nine in Texas. 10 out of 15 spots on the on the state school board appeared to be
00:25:46.420 going to Republicans, including three seats in which GOP incumbents either lost or dropped out of their
00:25:51.960 primary when facing opponents who took a harder line against CRT. Love it. And I just want to pause
00:26:00.260 and say, like, these people are such I don't there's no other word for it. They're such predators.
00:26:05.920 They're such groomers. Anyone who would come out against the Florida legislation, the so-called don't
00:26:12.500 say gay bill, you're a freak. I'm sorry, but you're a creep. We are talking about a bill that I mean,
00:26:19.040 a law that honestly does not go as far as we would like it to. All it says is that at public school
00:26:25.300 teachers, you cannot hold a formal classroom discussion with kindergartners through third
00:26:31.520 graders about gender switching and sexual orientation. Is that so difficult? Yes, it is.
00:26:38.360 If you were a child predator, that is really difficult. It also says that, hey, if, you know,
00:26:44.380 five-year-old Jack says that he wants to become Sally, you've got to inform the parents about that.
00:26:49.480 Of course you do. Of course you do. And people were up in arms about that. This journalist is up
00:26:56.100 in arms about that because they think that five-year-old Jack needs to be put on the path
00:27:00.060 of chemical castration and that his parents, I guess, don't need to be informed about it if he
00:27:04.280 wants to wear a dress at school. Apparently, they think that that's normal. It had nothing to do with
00:27:09.980 saying the word gay. Although I will say that's a pretty clever, a clever nickname for it. If you
00:27:17.360 are for that, if you are four or five to nine-year-olds learning that kind of thing from strangers at
00:27:23.180 school, you have problems. You have problems. This author has problems. I mean, I really have a hard
00:27:31.960 time sympathizing with the other side of this argument and even seeing how it could be an argument
00:27:38.200 at all. And this is something that the left does. They say that the right is manufacturing culture
00:27:44.500 wars. That we are just imagining these things out of thin air to try to create division, create
00:27:51.140 polarization, and that these things aren't really a problem. That why do we even care? We shouldn't
00:27:59.680 even care about this stuff. We're just making a huge deal out of it for no reason. They start the
00:28:05.780 culture war when they are teaching about transgenderism in the classroom. They start
00:28:10.500 the culture war when they start teaching forms of sexual depravity and perversion in the name of
00:28:18.080 comprehensive sex education. And all they're mad about is that we noticed. There is a war on the left
00:28:25.600 against noticing. They don't want you to notice that they're cutting off the healthy breasts of 12-year-olds
00:28:30.720 in Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Oakland, California. They don't want you to notice that
00:28:37.680 they are allowing little boys to come to school to take on different pronouns and to wear dresses
00:28:43.500 without their parents' knowledge or consent, then leading that child down a path of distress and
00:28:50.500 depression and anxiety for the rest of their lives, forcing parents then to be the ones to pick up the
00:28:55.860 pieces after those teachers and activists have long gone and forgotten that child's name. They didn't
00:29:00.900 want you to notice that that's happening. They didn't want you to notice that they're telling your
00:29:05.160 little white daughter in second grade that she is inherently oppressive and that her black friend
00:29:10.140 that she thought that she had a lot in common with is inherently oppressed. They didn't want you to
00:29:14.540 notice that. But because you noticed, they accuse you of the one of being the one who is divisive.
00:29:21.880 They accuse you of being the one who is making a big deal out of it. They accuse you of being the one who
00:29:27.780 is stoking the culture war. No, we just started noticing and we're reacting like any rational and
00:29:34.980 moral people would. They didn't want you to notice that they're having drag shows in which little
00:29:41.960 children are giving dollar bills to men who are dancing in thongs. They didn't want you to notice that
00:29:48.320 they're having drag queen story hour gaslighting you into thinking that there's nothing sexual about
00:29:54.020 it as if there could be an innocuous reason for a man to want to dress up as a scantily clad woman
00:30:02.060 and dance for children. They didn't want you to notice that. But because you're noticing it,
00:30:07.720 now they are going to continue to gaslight and to say, you're fear mongering. You're creating things
00:30:13.720 out of thin air. You're imagining all of this. And it's a very strategic method of manipulation
00:30:23.060 because they're not going to be able to dupe you and me. The people who are involved with
00:30:28.920 Moms for Liberty, the women who are running for these school board races, most of the people who
00:30:33.440 listen to this podcast, we know the truth. We see it. You follow Libs of TikTok. You know that this is
00:30:38.860 not just one or two teachers. It's not all teachers, but it's a lot of teachers. It's enough
00:30:44.140 teachers to make a difference. Like we know the corruption of the teachers unions. We know that
00:30:49.180 we're not making this up. We see it in the kids curriculum at school. Like we see the pornography
00:30:54.500 that is on display at children's libraries, at public school libraries, depicting sexual acts that
00:31:02.340 no child should have access to. We see that. We know it. We believe our eyes and ears who they are
00:31:09.160 appealing to when they call these Moms for Liberty activists and these new school board members and
00:31:17.120 people like you and me, fear mongers or radicals or extremists or crazy people are making things up.
00:31:25.080 They are appealing to the parents who are on the fence. They are appealing to the parents who care
00:31:31.760 more about what other people think of them than they do the curriculum at their kid's school.
00:31:38.100 They are appealing to the people whose propensity is going along to get along. They are appealing to
00:31:45.220 what I often call the mushy middle. Parents who love their kids. They're not derelict parents.
00:31:51.740 And parents who would say that they care, but at the end of the day, just don't want to be called
00:31:56.800 the bigot. They don't want to be misunderstood. They don't want to be maligned. They don't want to
00:32:01.620 lose what they perceive to be their community standing. And the last thing that they want to
00:32:06.480 be seen as is a Karen. And so they just say, you know what? I'm just going to pretend like this
00:32:13.660 isn't happening in my district. Or they convince themselves that it could never happen at their
00:32:18.120 school. Or even if it is happening, it's really not that big of a deal, right? I mean, a lot of you
00:32:24.840 used to be that woman. We all used to be that woman. We all used to be the kind of person who would turn
00:32:30.280 a blind eye to what's happening in the culture, what's happening in our schools. Because we just
00:32:35.500 didn't want to be accused of making a big deal of something. We didn't want to stir the pot. We
00:32:43.180 didn't want to be seen as controversial. We thought it was better to just be nice and to just get along
00:32:49.760 with people and to just be popular. We all were that at one point. We were intimidated by these dumb
00:32:55.860 journalists who told us that to care about what's happening in schools makes you a fear monger and a
00:33:02.020 crazy person. But then something happened. Something probably happened in your life. You thought it could
00:33:08.080 never happen in your conservative Alabama school district where you know all the teachers because
00:33:13.340 they go to your church. Your kid brings home a book. They bring home a worksheet. They tell a story
00:33:20.760 about what their teacher told them. They learn something that you would have really rather
00:33:25.640 they not learn or learn from you. And you realize, wow, this is a lot more insidious than I thought.
00:33:32.180 I never thought that it would come to my doorstep. I never thought it would affect my child. I never
00:33:37.040 thought my child would be impacted by this. And yet here you are. Something woke you up. And thankfully,
00:33:45.040 that is happening across the country. That is why, to the sadness of this New Yorker journalist and to
00:33:55.180 many on the left, there's really nothing that you can say to intimidate us out of standing for our
00:34:02.720 children. We have determined that anyone who stands in between us and our children will be removed
00:34:12.840 from power and stripped of their titles. Like it's not enough for us to go to the school board meetings
00:34:19.560 and complain and go viral on Twitter. That can make an impact. I think that's important. But no,
00:34:25.420 we're coming for your school boards. We're coming for your curriculum. We're coming for the books in
00:34:30.520 the public libraries that are displaying pornography. Like we are coming for the city councils. We're coming
00:34:36.200 for your district. We are going to take power and there is nothing that you can do to stop it.
00:34:44.220 You have been infiltrating the public school system for far too long and allowing what is a pseudo
00:34:51.000 religion, by the way, secular progressivism, to dominate curriculum and to run the show in these
00:35:02.200 public schools. And not just as parents of public school students, but as taxpayers, as citizens,
00:35:08.500 we are tired of it. We're tired of it. All right. And so we would like our values to be on display
00:35:19.000 for a little while. Like, how about let's try that. Let's try that. I mean, secular progressives have
00:35:25.380 tried to shove their religion and their values down our throat for decades now. And where has
00:35:35.220 that gotten the public school system? I mean, obviously, we know where it is in a lot of cases
00:35:39.880 morally. But how is it looking academically? Not good. Kids aren't learning what they need to
00:35:47.080 about reading, reading comprehension, science, math, because in some cases, instead, they are learning
00:35:53.620 activism. And this is not me maligning all public school teachers. Thank God we still do have good
00:35:59.240 Christian public school teachers there. You are a light in darkness and I want you to continue
00:36:03.280 shining. Thank the Lord for that. But how public education has gone so far ain't good.
00:36:10.920 Teachers unions are corrupt. The people that we've put in charge, the bureaucracy there,
00:36:14.700 they've got a worldview that's toxic. Kids are not learning the values that they need to be learning.
00:36:21.360 They're not even learning the reading, writing, and arithmetic that they need to be learning. So
00:36:25.760 I think it's time for a change. I think it's time that moms who have a vested interest in the education
00:36:33.660 of not just their kids, but their communities start to take over these school boards and make a change
00:36:39.600 for the betterment of our country. And that is what is happening. And there is nothing that anyone
00:36:45.920 at the New Yorker or anyone in liberal media can do about it. Now, this Jessica Winters at the New
00:36:52.720 Yorker goes on to say she's trying to figure out. She's trying to figure out here and what I'm about
00:36:58.920 to read, how this movement gained so much steam. And her theory is that it's backed by billionaires.
00:37:04.640 She says the precise logical relation between the conservative libertarian axis of billionaires who
00:37:10.340 wish to privatize public education, notably among them Betsy DeVos, who is the secretary of education
00:37:15.220 under Trump and the rank and file right wing moms who back don't say gay is as yet unclear. For the
00:37:22.040 moment, at least their desires match. Yes, maybe in some cases their desires match. But you've seen a
00:37:28.360 lot of the media say, oh, the Moms for Liberty, the only reason why they're popular is because they've
00:37:34.500 got these huge corporate backers and they're funded by right wing billionaires. That's not true.
00:37:39.820 It is an organic movement that has multiplied magnificently over the past couple of years
00:37:45.520 simply because moms are angry and dads are angry and people are incensed and they're starting to care
00:37:52.480 and they're starting to wake up. They mobilized a movement that was already brewing, helped organize
00:37:58.300 them and then equip them to run for office. The left thinks that they're the only ones that can organize.
00:38:04.220 The left thinks that they are the only ones who can rally the troops to take over institutions. That's
00:38:12.480 what they do. And the left does it really well. They have done the long march through our institutions,
00:38:18.300 through public education, through academia, through major corporations, through most of the federal
00:38:23.880 government. And they've done a really good job at that. And they do not like it when the other side
00:38:31.840 decides to do the same. They think that the only people who should check their worldview at the door,
00:38:38.560 the only people who should not have a say in curriculum, should not have a say in public policy
00:38:46.740 are Christian conservatives. They get to bring their worldview. They get to bring their theological and
00:38:53.500 moral views. They get to shape culture and curriculum and laws. But apparently when we do
00:39:01.160 that, that's scary Christian nationalism, that's scary Christo-fascism. Again, it's just a manipulation
00:39:07.040 tactic and you should absolutely ignore it. In this New Yorker article, she goes on and on about how sad
00:39:14.340 this is, how they demonize teachers' unions. I guess a lot of people just had amnesia about 2020.
00:39:20.960 Like you just don't remember how the Chicago teachers' union said that opening schools back
00:39:26.620 up. I mean, we're talking about a majority, minority kids in a poor area opening schools back up in 2020
00:39:33.460 and 2021, they said was about misogyny and racism. All right. The teachers' unions and places like
00:39:40.120 Arizona, they were staging die-ins where they put up these fake tombstones and said, if you make us go
00:39:47.580 back to school, we're going to die. And then we saw that a lot of people leading those rallies,
00:39:53.120 leading those protests were going on vacation while they were supposed to be teaching at school.
00:39:59.240 The teachers' unions are corrupt. Plus, it is unethical to force taxpayers to fund a union that
00:40:05.540 is then using those taxpayer dollars to fund politicians that we're not voting for. That's what
00:40:11.320 happens in all public unions, whether it's police unions or teachers' unions, and that is unethical.
00:40:15.460 We should not have public unions. And so our public unions in general, it's wrong, but also our public
00:40:22.800 unions are corrupt. When it comes to the teachers' union, the teachers' union is almost exclusively
00:40:31.020 corrupt. And they fought against the opening of schools. They fought for virtual learning. They
00:40:36.420 fought for mandatory masking. All of these things that have done irreparable harm to America's youth.
00:40:42.920 Yeah, of course we're going to demonize them. They have earned that demonization. They have earned
00:40:48.540 our mistrust. They have earned us mobilizing against them. And good for moms for liberty.
00:40:54.220 Good for every politician who rallies behind these moms, who recognizes the moment that we're in.
00:40:59.980 I mean, it's going to take a lot of energy and a lot of perseverance on the part of parents,
00:41:06.160 and not just moms, by the way. I know moms, the whole mama bear thing, we're very fierce in
00:41:11.640 protection of our kids. But gosh, we need dads on the front line of this. We need dads also. And
00:41:17.760 there are many who are to step up and say, no, not my kid. Not my school. I mean, you guys know,
00:41:24.240 though, how I feel about public education in general versus a Christian education. I believe that you
00:41:28.160 should do everything that you possibly can to ensure that your child gets a Christian education.
00:41:33.420 I saw a review from someone saying that I think that homeschool is the only way to go,
00:41:38.760 which is funny because I've literally never said that. I was not homeschooled myself.
00:41:44.060 I do think that parents should be doing everything possible to ensure that their kids get a Christian
00:41:49.520 education that's just such an irreplaceable foundation. You will never, ever, ever regret
00:41:54.300 giving your kids that. But whether your kids are in private school or public school, we still have
00:41:59.440 a vested interest in what kids are learning in schools. And therefore, we have a say in it.
00:42:04.520 Your tax dollars are going there. You have a say. You have a vested interest. And so I'm sad about
00:42:10.760 like how the abortion issue shaped up in the midterms. But looking at these local elections and how this
00:42:17.540 issue is a winning issue for parents and for politicians and how these school boards are being
00:42:24.860 taken over, I'm so thankful for that, that Republicans really have woken up to the reality
00:42:29.740 of the importance of local politics. Someone asked me last night, a student asked me last night at A&M,
00:42:35.340 like, how do I know who's running in my area? How do I get involved in local politics myself?
00:42:40.600 And I say, join your local Republican group, Republican women's groups, young Republicans,
00:42:46.420 you know, the Republican Party of whatever city or district that you are in or whatever county that
00:42:53.420 you're in. A lot of those people have been in local politics for decades, even if it's just to get some
00:42:58.740 education about what's at stake, who is running for what, what positions are open. I think that's a
00:43:05.460 really good starting point. It can be hard to look at local media as your source of information for
00:43:11.580 these things, although sometimes local journalism is more accurate and reliable than national.
00:43:16.560 Still, you need to get plugged into your local Republican Party. And you don't like I'm not
00:43:21.660 someone who goes to my local Republican meetings every week or every month. I just don't. I'm on
00:43:26.220 their email list. And so I read the emails and sometimes I'll go to their events. And so you don't
00:43:31.780 have to be like fully sold out and dedicated to every single meeting, local political meeting. You will
00:43:38.040 find some very interesting people at these meetings. But just go enough to understand kind of what's
00:43:44.800 going on, making sure that you're voting your local elections and that you know what's happening. And
00:43:49.780 then also that you know what's being taught in your local schools. It is a local game. Really, all
00:43:55.800 politics are local. And it is a long game. It's a ground game. And it starts in the sphere in which God
00:44:03.360 has providentially placed you on this tiny speck of eternity. One of our goals, our responsibilities
00:44:10.660 as Christians is to beautify, to improve the small or large sphere in which God has placed us, to glorify
00:44:21.500 him by obeying him and thus making the lives of the people around us better. And being an active
00:44:32.500 Christian citizen seeking the welfare of the city that we are dwelling in, as Jeremiah calls the
00:44:39.220 exiles to do in Babylon. And since we are exiles, we are called to do it as well in the United States.
00:44:45.260 It means participation. It means involvement. And it also means trying to align to God's order
00:44:53.780 because God's ways are good. They are better. God is love. Therefore, we will never love our neighbor
00:44:59.400 well by voting or acting or speaking in a way that opposes his stated order. And one of the
00:45:06.680 stated orders that we see throughout Scripture is the authority of the state versus the authority of
00:45:13.140 the church versus the authority of the family. The state is not a parent. The state is not a god. The
00:45:21.060 state is not a pastor. And it should not have the right to usurp the responsibility and the rights of
00:45:29.400 parents to care for and educate and be the primary discipler of our children. Remember, someone is
00:45:36.160 always trying to disciple your children. You get to decide and should decide who it's going to be and
00:45:42.500 how. So, of course, this is a winning movement for parents. And I pray that we continue to double
00:45:49.300 down. All right. There's one more thing that I want to talk about that I thought was interesting
00:45:53.220 from Tuesday's election. And that is how women vote in this and how women who are not married tend to
00:46:02.860 vote. All right. So I wanted to discuss this statistic that I saw. I saw it originally tweeted
00:46:17.900 by Brad Wilcox. We've had him on the show. He discusses and studies marriage and family formation
00:46:25.240 and how that affects society. I'll link my episode with him. Really interesting discussion. But one
00:46:30.880 thing that he noted was that unmarried women are far more likely than any other group to vote Democrat.
00:46:39.340 So 39 percent of married men vote Democrat. 42 percent of married women vote Democrat versus 59 percent of
00:46:48.060 married men voting Republican and 56 percent of married women voting Republican. And then you look
00:46:53.480 at unmarried men. Unmarried men are also more likely, slightly more likely to vote for Democrats than
00:47:00.480 married men. So 52 percent of unmarried men vote Republican versus 45 percent who vote Democrat.
00:47:06.960 And then here's here's where you have the big change. So while 59 percent of married or married
00:47:15.900 men vote Republican, 52 percent of unmarried men vote Republican. But then you've got 56 percent of
00:47:23.640 married women who vote Republican and only 31 percent of unmarried women who vote Republican.
00:47:29.580 So you've got a huge change there, a huge shift from a married woman to a non-married woman.
00:47:36.540 And 68 percent of unmarried women vote Democrat. More than any other demographic when it comes to
00:47:46.140 looking at gender by marital status. I also think it's interesting that apparently this exit poll,
00:47:52.560 I don't know if it's CNN or what it is, only has categories for the gender binary. It's interesting.
00:47:59.240 68 percent of unmarried women vote Democrat versus 42 percent of married women. What exactly do we make
00:48:08.660 of that? Well, I'm curious to know. Tell me in the comments on YouTube. What do you make of that?
00:48:13.880 Think about that. Like, why do you think that is? I mean, I do think and this is probably why a lot of
00:48:19.880 people on the left are constantly demonizing marriage. I mean, every week in the Atlantic or the
00:48:26.060 New Yorker, you see some kind of article glorifying marriage and finding yourself in your job or
00:48:32.540 travel or whatever it is. Obviously, we have pushed on women for a very long time that you should only
00:48:39.000 be pursuing your career in your 20s and 30s and that you should maybe try to think about having kids
00:48:46.000 once you reach 40 when it's very, very difficult to do. And so they've been pursuing that for a long
00:48:53.300 time. Feminist ideology is partly to blame for that, although I am very sympathetic to I think
00:48:59.080 some to a lot of things that my feminist friends believe. I mean, I think that we should admit that
00:49:04.880 feminist ideology has led women to thinking that in order to be equal to men, that you have to do the
00:49:10.960 same things as men. That is part of what's behind like the push for abortion. You should be able to
00:49:15.860 walk away from a baby if a man is. But also you should be able to make as much money. You should be able to
00:49:22.720 pursue the same career opportunities, which has led a lot of women, I think, to giving up their fertile
00:49:29.780 years to do that. Not in all cases. There are plenty of women who are pursuing jobs who would like to be
00:49:35.160 married and have not found the person. But there are a lot of people who are voluntarily giving that up
00:49:40.440 in order to pursue careers. And I am wondering why that ends up with them voting Democrat. Is it because
00:49:48.720 they feel like they have more of a need to have an abortion? And so that's driving them to it? Is it simply
00:49:56.640 because there is something about the nature of marriage, the nature of then living in the suburbs, which a lot of
00:50:03.940 married couples do, you move from the city to the suburbs, the nature of having children, of being a mother
00:50:10.520 that makes you more conservative? I think so. Now, I have plenty of unmarried friends, female, who are
00:50:18.460 conservative. They would be in this 31 percent. But they would probably say that most of their
00:50:24.380 co-workers in their same demographic and most of their friends are not. They're very sympathetic towards
00:50:30.140 social justice causes. They are extremely emotional with their vote. They haven't really thought about why
00:50:36.100 they're pro-abortion, but they just feel like they should. Do unmarried women also spend more time?
00:50:41.500 I don't know. Consuming secular media, on social media, on TikTok than married women just because
00:50:48.340 their attention isn't quite as divided as married women and especially moms are. I think it more has to do
00:50:56.080 with simply the nature of the institution of marriage that is a stabilizing force. I think it more has to do
00:51:04.100 with becoming a mom, too, and seeing how policies actually affect your children. You start to think
00:51:10.960 about things in a bigger picture way. You're not just thinking, well, how does this affect me? You're
00:51:16.700 thinking long term. You're thinking about their safety and their security and their education and all of
00:51:24.800 the things that, quite honestly, Democrats attack. And so I think that's part of it. I also think that
00:51:31.300 husbands influence their wives. I think that they have a big influence on their wives and what their
00:51:38.100 wives think. And Republicans and men tend to be more Republican than Democrat. So I also think that
00:51:46.200 that's probably a part of it. I also think, and this is hard to figure out from the data, that
00:51:53.300 married women or Christians are more likely to be married than unmarried. And I think Christians,
00:52:03.040 evangelicals especially, tend to be more conservative. Like if you are getting married,
00:52:10.660 you probably have conservative, some conservative values anyway, whether they're religious values or
00:52:16.980 you just think, you know what, it's better to have commitment and stability and then have kids than it
00:52:22.040 is for me to just be perpetually single and go through a bunch of guys and have a bunch of sexual
00:52:27.440 partners. So I think that has a lot to do with it, just differing values. I know some people guess
00:52:35.000 that it has to do with like bitterness or resentment. I don't know, maybe for some. I mean, we have seen a
00:52:41.200 lot of statistics showing that liberals are just more likely to have mental health issues and things like
00:52:48.300 that than people who identify as conservative. We've also seen plenty of data that shows religious
00:52:53.480 married women are on average happier than non-religious unmarried women. I do tend to think
00:53:00.760 that people who are angrier tend to vote Democrat. I think that we see that a lot at the, when you look
00:53:07.580 at the pro-abortion protesters versus the pro-life protesters, it's pretty easy to see like who has joy
00:53:15.040 and who has gratitude and who has gratitude and who is just filled with a lot of anger and selfishness
00:53:18.840 and bitterness. So a lot of combining factors there, in my opinion. No surprise, also under 30
00:53:25.440 voting statistics, we got the majority of Generation Z voting for Democrats. According to a CNN National
00:53:35.880 House exit poll, 18 to 29 year olds are by far more supportive of the Democratic Party. Again, I think
00:53:46.020 that has to do with not being married, with not understanding how the world works, with not having
00:53:50.960 kids. But I mean, also Democrats, because they have every cultural megaphone that exists, media, social
00:53:58.160 media, because TikTok is dominated really by left-wing views, right-wing views very often get kicked off.
00:54:05.680 Of course, of course, you're going to have this. I mean, these, most of these kids went to public
00:54:08.840 school. They're getting the education that we're talking about. Most of these kids go to, a lot
00:54:12.080 of these kids go to college. And academia is dominated by left-wing ideology. It is very difficult.
00:54:17.520 It's very difficult for a young person to not be left-wing unless they are just totally okay with
00:54:23.040 being kind of marginalized and bullied in some way. And that's not to say that Republicans don't have
00:54:28.300 like an appeal problem to young people, because I think they do. But we also have a lot of things
00:54:34.460 working against us. And also, young people are super emotional, and they don't have the front
00:54:40.500 part of their brain developed. And it is really easy to just believe mantras like trans women are
00:54:46.480 women, and my body, my choice, without really thinking those things through. I don't think
00:54:50.720 young people are dumb. I think that they're inundated with a lot of propaganda. It can be
00:54:54.700 really hard for a variety of reasons to navigate them. Also, we can do a better job. Republicans
00:54:59.380 can do a better job of appealing to them. And then we've got suburban moms. Suburban moms,
00:55:06.860 by the way, are very competitive. Ron DeSantis won the female vote in Florida for the first time in,
00:55:12.100 I don't know, 20 years, 40 years. I can't remember. And so it is possible when you run on the issue of
00:55:17.540 education and freedom and anti-gender ideology to win a majority of moms. Most Republicans are afraid
00:55:24.760 of engaging in those culture wars because they think that they're unpopular. They're actually
00:55:28.900 not. I mean, Republicans seem to be, in a lot of ways, very disconnected from their base. But I am
00:55:34.000 hoping that there is a change in there. Suburban women, very competitive. I am constantly disappointed
00:55:39.900 by that, because there are a lot of them that identify as Christians who, again, are taken by this
00:55:45.660 message of toxic empathy, of thinking that in order to be compassionate towards people, you have to be
00:55:50.620 for open borders, you have to be pro-abortion, you have to be pro-unconditional welfare. And all we
00:55:55.120 have to do is just think a little bit harder about the consequences of those policies and how they
00:55:59.500 actually shake out to be something that is not compassionate or empathetic or loving at all.
00:56:05.380 All right. I just wanted to kind of add a little bit more flavor and analysis of what happened on
00:56:10.400 Tuesday. Lots more that we could talk about. Lots to talk about next week before we
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