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Glenn and Matt discuss the results of the mid-term elections and what they mean for the future of the Democratic Party. Also, Glenn and Matt talk about what they would like to see Bernie Sanders as the next president of the United States.
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Welcome to the podcast, or as we like to call it today, a group therapy session, uh, where
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didn't work, didn't work at all, it did not work for me, it's, it's one of those days
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where we're dealing with some, uh, bad news that you may have caught from, uh, last night's
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election, yeah, a little bit of it, um, huh, I'm a tad frustrated today, I think you might
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be able to detect that occasionally during the program, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, so that's
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tonight, uh, we're going on today, and we, uh, hope you enjoy the podcast, and hope that
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your frustrations are, are, are helped, maybe a little, somehow or another, we cancel each
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other out, right, and we're all happy, and then tonight, you'll probably get a little
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bit more of this, as there's a brand new Stew Does America, followed by a brand new special
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on Glenn TV, yeah, yeah, this one's about, uh, the Great Reckoning, yeah, Wrath of God stuff
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tonight, you don't want to miss it at nine o'clock, please, we need you now more than
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Well, it's good, it's good, uh, let me just introduce you to the people that are going
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to be running the Senate now, I, I think you're going to be excited, I don't think this is
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bad at all, um, they are, uh, going to be taking control, and it, let's just look at
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who's going to be on the committees and leading the committees, uh, Robert Menendez, you remember
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him, he is, uh, the guy who was acquitted on federal corruption charges two years ago,
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um, he is going to be taking, uh, taking over the Foreign Relations Committee gavel, which
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will be great, um, he has been very upset that the president pulled, uh, forces out of
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northern Syria, uh, and, uh, that we rebuilt the military and then, uh, reduce the budget
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of the State Department and his priority, rebuild the State Department, make sure that baby is
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Then you have Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat of Oregon, uh, he's going to take the reins
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of the Finance Committee, which is great, uh, and he is going to roll back all of the tax
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cuts, uh, and he said we have to learn the lesson of the Great Recession, and that is you
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don't take your foot off the gas in the middle of an economic recovery.
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So, spend, spend, print, print, spend, print, spend, print, uh, then you have Dianne Feinstein.
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She should be the chair of the Judiciary Committee, but she's pissed a lot of people off on the
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left lately, especially when she said, hey, that Amy Coney Barrett thing, that, that went
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Uh, so speculation is, is that she's going to step down and let somebody else have the
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With a 1,000 year record of nonstop liberalism and progressivism.
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Not good enough, because she hugged Lindsey Graham once.
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It shows how much they care about their people.
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Now, the good thing is, we don't have a budget.
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Especially when your bank account reads negative.
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Now, we're going to get some real healthy spending in here, because Bernie Sanders is going to be the head of the Budget Committee, unless he's appointed to the Secretary of Labor position.
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Oh, thank goodness we're all going to have all kinds of rules, regulations, and plenty of labor unions if Bernie Sanders is the...
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I don't want to take the cyanide pill, but you're going to shoot yourself in the head.
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Like Hangover 2 and Hangover 3, they are equally terrible.
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Then you have Senator Mark Warner from the great state of Virginia, which is totally great.
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He's going to be the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, so he's going to oversee, you know, all of the CIA and NSA, and he's going to make sure that our directors are complete.
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Then we have on the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, we have Maria Cantwell.
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Now, she's from Washington State, and let me tell you something.
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So, she is going to be analyzing the impact of the tech giants on local journalism.
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So, you know, the hundreds of local and regional newspapers have disappeared.
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Revenue dried up because, I don't know, we're not riding horse and buggies anymore.
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And so, she's looking to figure out what we can do as a federal government to make sure those jobs are.
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And surely that won't lead to positive coverage for Democrats, would it?
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Certainly kissing the butt of journalists with one of your main proposals would not, there wouldn't be a secondary motivation for that.
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When you have the government paying your salary, you know you can trust those journalists to bite the hand that feeds them.
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I mean, NPR, you want to talk about the most fair and balanced source?
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He looks like he's going to be on the, not banking committee, that goes to someone else here.
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He's going to be screwing up the country somehow or another.
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Because the thing he's really interested in is emergency rental assistance.
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He's going to be on the appropriations committee.
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I am so glad that we have Patty Murray because she's, isn't she from Washington state too?
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And I, who doesn't love yet another progressive Democrat from Washington state.
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She is going to take control of health, education, labor, and pensions committees.
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She's going to be, she'll be able to take care of, you know, Obamacare.
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We're just going to, we're just going to have one health care system.
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Uh, and she's going to, with her in charge, it's going to be done right.
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Uh, well, when I say her in charge, I actually mean the center for American progress, uh, you
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know, with, with them in charge, uh, and writing all of the bills and everything she'll, but
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she'll be able to shepherd that and just be like, yeah, okay.
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This is, this is, and this is who they have, which is like, some of these people are so
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unremarkable, uh, but they will, you know, they, they're kind of nameless, faceless shepherds
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It won't matter, uh, whether they're effective or talented or smart.
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No, it's just, you know, they're going to have control and that's what, that's, what's
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The, uh, purse strings are held by the house, but the house on all of their oversight
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committees, they've appointed the squad to the heads of the oversight committees.
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So you got the squad making sure that things like pay, go pay as you go.
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You know, that rule that's just been suspended.
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Uh, and, uh, and Presley, strangely, uh, I'd rather have the guy who's dead, um, and buried
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next to his pool, like a hamster in Memphis named Presley.
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I'd rather have him, uh, in Congress, uh, than, uh, Ayanna Presley.
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But, uh, she said that the great thing is that the new rules in the house quote, have
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removed two structural barriers to our agenda for equity and justice, and will allow us to
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advance the bold policies like Medicare for all and the green new deal and an equitable
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And they said they are no longer going to have to worry about presenting big ideas that will
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get bogged down in procedural hurdles or harmful austerity measures.
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Look at this collection of people and all the wonderful things they're going to do for our
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Tonight, the Georgia win and the coming conservative reckoning.
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We are going to, uh, have reaction to the, uh, joint session in Congress to certify the
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Uh, we're told that, uh, this by Senate staffers, that the debates over the objections to certifying
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Now, more than ever, now, more than ever, we must protect each other's voices.
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If it's not the blaze, if it's somebody else that you think I just, this person, I totally
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And life would be very different in America without their voice.
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The sponsors on our radio programs, they believe many times the same things that you do.
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And the pressure they're going to feel soon is off the charts.
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And I will tell you in the coming days, we've already lost one of our longest running sponsors
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And they said, with what's coming, we don't want to be involved in anything, quote, dangerous, end quote.
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But you need to understand, we need you more than ever.
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All right, I'm going to explain what is happening and what happened last night.
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In case you haven't heard yet, it looks like the Republicans have lost control now of the Senate.
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And they are going to reverse now everything that Trump has done.
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They are going to be able to accomplish the Green New Deal, single-payer health care, everything.
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And it is going to come at a breakneck, breathtakingly fast speed.
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And they are going to land with their feet on the ground.
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What happened last night is a result of a $600 stimulus check.
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There are people that care about their families, that are having a hard time feeding their families.
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And Nancy Pelosi and her group made it very, very clear to those who are paying attention, they didn't want to give stimulus checks.
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They wanted people hurting before the election.
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And because they had the press, that's the way it was spun that the big old meany Republicans were the ones standing in the way.
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Because they only cared about special interest when, quite honestly, the exact opposite seems to me was true.
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But then they decide to roll out a stimulus package.
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They haven't been able to pay their rent or their mortgage.
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And you're coming to them after months of nothing with $600?
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We had the guy from Trafalgar polling on yesterday, and he said that's when the polls moved.
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GOP control of the Senate means you're not getting any more money.
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Democratic control of the Senate means money's on the way, and lots of it.
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That's exactly what I told you would happen in 2016.
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I told you in 2016, guys, I don't believe in Donald Trump at the time.
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I didn't think he would do any of these things.
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He turned out to be a very effective president.
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But I told you at the time when I didn't trust him that what's going to happen is we are going to have an economic crash in the last year,
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and it will be devastating, and either Donald Trump, and I thought this at the time, Donald Trump would just become FDR like nobody's business.
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And I said, either we are going to get FDR from Donald Trump, and he's going to transform everything,
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or you'll be voted out, and you will lose every election after that for a long time,
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because the Democrats will just become a candy store, and it will happen in this term.
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Well, I was wrong about Donald Trump, but I wasn't wrong about the scenario, and that's exactly what happened last night.
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Now, I want to talk to you about something even more dangerous, and that is people giving up.
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And you can understand it, because if there is no security, there is no freedom.
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That's why the Wild West was wild and needed to be tamed,
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because you could move to a town, and you were all like-minded people, and it was great,
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until the bad guys wanted what you had, and then there was no way to defend themselves.
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I don't have the money to be able to do anything about it.
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And it's going to get worse, because the dollar is going to die.
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But first, let me give you something written by Jenny White.
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If you're going to Warnock's church, that would be a bad place.
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Find God that is not a source of frustration, despair, hopelessness, or injustice.
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For decades, I've been told to trust American institutions.
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And if I have grievances to work harder to improve them, and I've done so far more than most Americans,
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and my reward has been watching corruption and ineptitude only increase.
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As a public school science teacher in the late 1990s, I watched my parents disengage from their children and students gain more and more power over my classroom every day.
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I saw administrators allow it to happen and even excuse bad behaviors.
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She just needs to blow off some steam, and let's give her a safe place to do that.
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I saw good teachers leave the profession rather than fight the brewing storm on the horizon that would make them constables instead of instructors,
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rely more on technology than instruction, and remove their classroom autonomy.
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Concerned about the way the Obama administration was taking control of public education, handing out stimulus checks, pushing for government-run health care,
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I helped bring in candidates for public office to interview and study bills and legislation.
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I worked with legislators to develop a bill to improve civic understanding by mandating study of U.S. founding documents in high school.
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I watched legislators talk to me and my fellow citizen lobbyists as though we were nothing more than a little gum on the bottom of their shoe
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and explain to us why they knew better than we did.
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A legislator told me voters sent him to Capitol Hill to make laws,
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and I watched a scowl darken his face when I told him,
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no, voters send you to the Capitol to protect their liberty, which often means repealing laws.
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I watched legislators lie to my face about the status of bills and why they wouldn't vote for them.
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I became frustrated, disillusioned with legislators and the entire civic system, and I quit.
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On September 12, 2009, I went to our nation's Capitol for the Taxpayers' March on Washington.
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It was amazing to flood the streets of Washington, D.C. with hundreds of thousands of other human beings,
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knowing that I wasn't the only person concerned about the State of the Union, its history and trajectory.
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Although we left the Washington Mall cleaner than we found it,
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we came home to hear that not only had corporate media downplayed and lied about the numbers of participants,
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but according to them, we were all middle America yokels who knew little beyond what we could dig up in our cornfields.
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We were called disgusting names, criticized, denigrated, and smeared by even the President Obama himself.
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Hoping for the best, I enrolled my children in public elementary school that year.
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Over the course of five years, I watched a son be bullied so badly by other students
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that his own teacher, that I had tried homeschooling just to see him smile again.
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I watched my other son left behind in math to the point that he couldn't add single-digit numbers properly.
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I watched a daughter bring home papers about global warming and bad white people who hurt Native Americans.
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I joined the Parent-Teacher Association only to find that fixing these issues wouldn't happen
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because there were no issues more important than selling wrapping paper to buy a new gymnasium and computers,
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make sure we have the same equipment other schools did.
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I saw no future for my children, and me there, I quit the system.
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Hoping that becoming involved in party politics could help steer the type of legislature-elect,
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For years, I doodlyfully went to every precinct meeting, county meeting, district meeting,
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even volunteering for the platform committee, numerous years.
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Every year, a group of us tried to create policies that would require Republican legislators
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But after six years of no success with that or any other activity attempted
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to make Republican politicians more accountable to the people who elected them,
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I became frustrated and disillusioned with the party, and I quit.
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I found a little national education initiative called Common Core.
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I began writing about its problems, joined many other parents attempting to push back,
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even helping to get Common Core removed from state law.
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But after all my efforts, watching nothing improve,
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I watched the State Department of Education continue to find ways
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to propel Common Core into the classrooms, with us having no way to stop it.
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I watched teachers use social media to tear myself and other parents apart,
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personally for having the audacity to care about our kids and other Oklahoma students,
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Since that day, I have seen legislators and judges ignore significant allegations of wrongdoing,
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strong reasons for doubting results, and legitimate evidence of election fraud.
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I'm angry because I've been playing by the rules.
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I've been paying my taxes, being civil, tolerant to my neighbor,
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accepting without protest the election of past presidents I didn't support,
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and never threatening physical violence, using name-calling, canceling careers,
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or media to misreport, misrepresent, or otherwise create dissension and anger.
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Yet the other side has carte blanche to do all of this.
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Today, I will stand with fellow Americans on the Mall in Washington, D.C.,
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to be able to fight and understand what's going on.
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is to not be behind the eight ball when it comes to money.
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the average person would have voted for Donald Trump.
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This would have been a very different election.
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That's what made the point and a half difference.
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And then there's something else that's going on
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that we had experts on say were going to happen.
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But the digital currency is the way of the future.
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And I don't know how it is all going to shake out,