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On today's show, Glenn Beck talks about the recent stabbings in Texas and Belfast, and how we can prevent them from happening to our kids. He also talks about why we need to stop the media's censorship of the truth.
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I start with a Carmelo story out of Texas and what it means.
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And how do we stop this from happening to our kids?
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I spoke a lot about this in several different parts of the show today.
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Then also the Belfast stabbing, because we're talking about two stabbings.
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We're talking about Carmelo stabbing in the United States and the attempted beheading of an Irish citizen and the nonsense that's going on there.
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And Graham Plattner, he wins. He is now the official Democratic nominee.
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Listening to us in New York City, Stan, welcome.
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Yeah, I wanted to comment on your segment you were just doing about the stabbing in Texas.
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And, you know, I just want to say, first of all, that, you know, all black communities don't feel the same.
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You know, it's kind of, you know, it's weird, Stan, because it's like not all white people think the same.
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I would imagine, you know, people tend to group and tend to think that that's the case, but it's really not.
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You know, people are individuals, you know, collectively, tell you the truth, we're all Americans.
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So truthfully and told, we all need to stop the ball.
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And because let me tell you, had that scenario been reversed,
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oh, it would have been a big, you know, that would have been a big cabal, you know.
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And, you know, it just seems like either way it goes,
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the race car is always pulled and that's always an issue.
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But you know what, Stan, I think that, you know,
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Because I said, I hope that, you know, what we're seeing are just a few NGOs and a few people that really don't get it.
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And I believe because there wasn't a big uprising yesterday in Texas, that that's not the way the black, the majority of the black community feels.
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Maybe this is a sign that we're getting past it a little bit.
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This may be a baby step in the right direction.
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And I appreciate it, especially hearing common sense coming out of New York City.
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You know, we have two knife attacks, and that's what everybody is talking about.
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And these knife attacks, we're not supposed to notice a pattern, I think.
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We were just talking about in Texas, you know, Carmelo Anthony, convicted of first-degree murder, 35 years for stabbing, verbal spat, we got it.
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But across the ocean, there is another knife attack that everybody's talking about.
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June 8th, a 30-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker.
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But he was charged with attempted murder after a brutal knife attack on a local man in his 40s, Stephen Ogilvy.
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and we have the video of him now on the ground just hacking at this guy's throat it is
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horrible straddling the guy on the ground slashing his head and his neck trying to hack his head off
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victim lost his left eye suffered devastating wounds to his face his neck and his back he's
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still fighting for his life in the hospital he's not dead yet now so what happened well i think
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you're starting to see the Bubba effect in Ireland.
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because it's years of frustration now boiling over.
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He thinks he's going to take vengeance on a Muslim.
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He kills a sheik because he's wearing a turban
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and everybody's like baba what did you do and they know they have to punish baba they know he
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has to go to jail but the federal government comes in and they're like no back off we know baba did
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wrong but we'll take care of that not you you're the cause of it so what is what are you seeing
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in belfast they went and they set fires at houses uh that supposedly were for immigrants some
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immigrants are you know they're not muslim they're not from africa whatever and they were standing
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outside go wait wait wait wait wait doesn't matter you've enraged the mob and the world wants to talk
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about isolated incidents and then far right group unrest let me tell you what's really happening
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here everything you're seeing these are horrors they're downstream from progressive policies
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under one creed kids don't know who they are anymore so a disagreement over a seat in a tent
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escalates immediately to murder we have sown entitlement we have sown grievance and we're now
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reaping the knives in schools and parking lots in belfast across the uk europe same globalist
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mindset open the floodgates diversity is our strength since when unity is our strength coming
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together even though we're diverse people coming together under one principle that's a strength
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imagine having an army and going you know what these guys are all going to do whatever they want
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they're all from different armies and they're all from different things we're just going to
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let them do what they want diversity is our strength they'd be slaughtered on the field
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then the people who are preaching this garbage to us brand concerned citizens as racist for
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pointing out the obvious you know not every arrival comes to assimilate to melt into western
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society to respect our laws and customs not every incident is about race we've seen the spikes in
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knife crime grooming gangs rapes violence authorities that downplay or deny and then
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accuse the people who are saying, wait a minute, this is my neighborhood, accuse them of being
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racist. And let me just talk about beheadings. Because I don't know the last time you saw
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somebody in the street trying to hack somebody's head off, but I looked it up. England hasn't had
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beheadings since 1747. We weren't even a country. And the guy that they beheaded was executed for
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treason so 1747 was the last time people were beheaded in great britain until the mass migration
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from certain muslim majority countries brought the ideology and the blades with it i have now
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seen in the last five years two people on the streets of england one was beheaded he was a
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soldier gee i wonder what that was and now this one where they tried to cut the guy's head off
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gee and the press is like i don't know we don't know the we don't have a probable cause probable
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cause probable cause we don't know the cause but you don't know the probable cause i know
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it was probably rooted in that guy's culture probable cause i mean it could be the cultural
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class rooted in islamic patterns of violence that have no place in western society that's
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probable isn't it i mean good enough is enough enough is enough people are rising up because
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the elites ignored them for too long if you keep telling people that they are stupid bigoted far
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right just for preferring straight safe streets and a coherent community where their children
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aren't continually raped and you and and and they just don't want imported chaos because
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they got enough chaos in their lives we have enough problems with crime in with with americans
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we don't need to bring more people in that are criminals that want to be head people you know
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towns just didn't slide into third world violence by accident it happened when leaders prioritized
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open borders and brought the third world in. And then they added political correctness over
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integration and vetting over the national interest. I'm telling you, Britain does not
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have a civil war yet, but you are at the Bubba effect in Great Britain now. And if the elites
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keep denying reality and blaming the native population instead of confronting failed
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policies, they're lighting the fuse themselves. Victims are being stabbed here in America,
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nearly beheaded in the streets of Great Britain. They're own citizens. Aren't these the people
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that our governments are sworn to protect? You're not very kind. This isn't about kindness.
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this is suicide suicide by compassion without any wisdom at all what do you say we plant the flag
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deep in the heart of truth a truth borders exist for a reason assimilation isn't optional
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here in america self-control and moral clarity are not relics their survival
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i mean look how far we have fallen look at what our society has become over the last 20 years
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we weren't like this before we were not like this what has changed oh i don't know the progressive
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nonsense and i think our children deserve a better future than knife fights our neighborhoods deserve
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better than imported tribal violence here's the good news all of these things they provide an
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opportunity for us to wake up when people see that guy on the street in Belfast where the guy
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is hacking at his neck it provides a chance for everyone to wake up now I think the people
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are awakened. People in Great Britain, they do not have a Martin Luther King example. They don't.
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Their example is Gandhi, but Gandhi used it against the English, so they're not really happy
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with Gandhi. They don't have that example. They only have Christ, and Christ is almost dead
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in Great Britain. There is no real church in Great Britain. It's starting to revive a little bit,
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but it's on the ropes these people are not going to go for a martin luther king there is no
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understanding of that over there if we if we can reject the division we can restore real
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accountability we can secure our homes and remember who we are under god then perhaps
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these tragedies are not going to be in vain because we can still choose life we can still
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choose order we can still choose courage over chaos you know they're calling the one guy who
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stopped the beheading a uh a hero and i find that kind of sad it's true but there were a lot of
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people standing around just taping it with their phone what do you say you put the phone down now
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i i understand if it's one person i get it but if there's lots of people standing around
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or you, you videotape so we have it on record,
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and the rest of us, let's go stop that guy from being beheaded.
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Now back to the podcast. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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and self-mutilating, and suicide, and all of these things.
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If you're a parent or a grandparent, I want you to listen carefully here.
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We are a people that have misplaced our own story.
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We have lost the thread of who we are and how we got here.
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And the story they're being fed to replace that is just of grievance and anger and revenge.
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On the last national history exam, 13% of eighth graders came out proficient.
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13 they're in school currently 13 4 in 10 couldn't clear the bottom bar which was
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we're going to set a document out in front of you tell us anything about it they couldn't do it
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and you can guess what those documents were right the civic scores fell for the first time since
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they started keeping record in 1998 we are raising a generation that cannot explain the
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country they're standing in. And it's not just the story that is thinning out. It is everything that
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used to hold a person in place. Stories, your family, holds you in place. The church holds you
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in place. A church is used to anchor a town. Fewer than half of us now belong to a congregation.
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Gallup has its lowest measure since they started asking this question in 1937.
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In 1990, 3% of Americans said they had no close friend at all.
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since 1990 we didn't drift apart slowly we hollowed out in one generation so of course
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we're lonely surgeon general said that it's an epidemic of loneliness he gave a body count he
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said isolation does to a person to a human body roughly what smoking 15 cigarettes a day does
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loneliness now it used to be that the loneliest people in america were the old people not now
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it's the under 30s the most wired the most connected the most in touch generation that
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has ever drawn breath is also the most alone human beings have ever produced hang on just a second
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and then say, what do you think's happening to our kids?
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a loneliness the doctors are calling a health emergency.
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You don't know all the stuff that you've known in the past.
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Picture that country being handed to you one day.
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They're not supposed to know who they are at 19.
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They're not supposed to know who they are at 16.
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it's something that kids build piece by piece and they build it after whatever is reflected
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back at them here's what's changed since we were growing up when you and i were building ourselves
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the mirrors were our friends remember what did your mom used to always say show me your friends
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i'll show you your future it was our friends it was our family it was a coach it was a teacher
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It was a pastor. Today, your daughter is 12 years old, and she's holding a mirror in her hand
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eight or nine hours every day. More waking hours than she spends in any classroom or doing anything
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else. She's looking at that mirror. It's actually worse than a mirror. The phone, the feed, the
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algorithm, the shows she watches, the influencers she follows, what she hears at school. This mirror
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is actually talking back to her, whispering the same question.
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You've got people who know exactly what they're doing.
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they have a vision for who your kid should become.
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They're patient, and they didn't ask your permission.
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I'm telling you, stop assuming that everything coming through that screen
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A kid, younger than you think, still under construction,
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swimming in a sea, an ocean of a thousand voices,
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and offers the whole package, finished identity.
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Kids, the kid doesn't feel like they're joining something.
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They feel like they're finally becoming someone.
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oh you're going to join the the club for you know because you're bi or you want to be trans
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you're joining a club and all your friends are there and you're accepted and you're cool
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and the hook is set into your kid the deepest when your kid is lost when they're cut from the team
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when they're dumped when they're left out of the group chat when you move to a new town a new
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schools nobody saved them a seat you know how that feels even at your age when a kid feels
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invisible. A ready-made identity stop becomes attractive and becomes irresistible because
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they're looking for a shore. And the people I want to warn you about, the determined ones,
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they know all of this. They're not looking for your kid at their best. They're looking for your
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kid at his loneliness, the loneliest. Don't kid yourself that the one, my kids, my kids are fine.
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really because a lot of them are hurting you just can't see it you don't remember
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you've seen this movie over and over again okay our kids have never seen this movie before
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we've watched movements rise and fall our whole lives we we know things are going to constantly
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change we know the smell of it they don't they can't spot the bad movie yet the group that says
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sure, you belong over here, but hand your doubt over at the door. Stop questioning. Stop pushing
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back. That one thing, that one group that promises to transform your kid, and all they have to do is
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just obey. Just obey. Just fit in. That's the bind. The pull is stronger on the young. The danger is
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harder for them to see and the recruiters now have to have to uh not go out and search everywhere
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they just they find the recruit right there it it's in their pocket
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your gut might say make a list good groups are here bad groups are here block this app ban that
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channel switch schools look you use your judgment you're the parent you know your kids but you're
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not going to be able to list your way out of this. Some of these movements are harmless.
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Some are propaganda. Some are extraordinarily dangerous. Your kid's vulnerability is identical
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for all of those categories because the weakness was never in the movement. The weakness is in
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the normal unfinished kid and the normal lonely moment that is now not normal or it's becoming
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normal at epidemic proportions. And it goes wherever they go. You can't pre-screen the whole
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world. So I got a couple of ideas, and I want you to actually write this down. If you're
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following me on this, write these two things down. First one, give them a place where they belong.
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And more importantly, where they belong, where they can sit and disagree, and it's allowed.
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okay your dinner table your church is even better you disagree i don't know i have a question about
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this good question question question question with boldness even the very existence of god
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forever be a god he'd much surely rather honest questioning over blindfolded fear yes question
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because if the only place you're offering your kid belonging is a place that demands their silence
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they will pay that price and when they're hurting when they've gone quiet and pulled away
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that's not a moment to give them space that's the moment to move towards them because somebody's
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going to fill that void in your kid and the only question on the table is who second thing tell
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them about the trap tell them share this monologue talk to them like they're adults because they
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understand a lot more. Speak in plain English. If anyone ever tells you that you have to stop
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doubting in order to belong, run, run from them. If they promise that they will transform you
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and all that you have to do for payment is be compliant, that's the tell. Tell them this now
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before they need it, because they will need it if they haven't already. And when they do,
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you need them to be able to recognize it on sight you cannot bubble wrap your kids you can't vet
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every voice that reaches them that world is long gone but you can make sure that when they walk out
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your door their eyes are wide open and they have a home worth coming back to
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listen to your kids encourage them to question even you that's going to be so hard
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i hated the teenage kids i hated the teenage years with my kids i hated it but they are you know
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god is just a genius do you know why our kids get so nasty when they're teenagers
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because god needs them to find out who they are and they can't do it if they're living with you
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and they're 20. So there's this natural thing that says, I just, you don't know anything.
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You're stupid. That's good. That's good. You want them to have that because that means they're
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questioning everything and they want to find who they are. You have to make that safe for them
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because if you are fighting that all the time it will only get worse and then they won't listen to
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you anymore they barely listen if they're you're like my kids they barely listen to you anyway
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but you've got to make sure that you are a place where you can they can tell you anything
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and believe me my my son and my daughter have told me things that i'm like
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oh my gosh don't react don't react you're right you ever had a kid tell you anything like that
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where you're like oh oh okay yeah that's no big deal and inside you're like ah don't react that
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way okay all right i understand that i need some time can i think on that let's talk about that
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some more that's really interesting i'm glad you told me that no i'm not inside no i'm not i'm not
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i didn't want to know that i didn't want to know that yes you do because they are so lonely
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they are looking on who they are if you can't help them find safe places to help. My father
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said to me when I was young, I've said this a million times, son, the two most powerful words
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in any language is I am, and it's usually followed by a blank. I am blank. I am happy. I am sad. I am
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a monster. I am worthless. I am great. Whatever it is, I am is usually followed with a blank.
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And if you don't fill that in, I'll never forget the way he said it. He leaned into me and he said,
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believe me, there are all kinds of people that are just waiting to fill it in for you.
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You make the choice on what you fill that blank with and be very careful because that's who you
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will be. Share that with your kids. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Last night in May, a Democratic party got the candidate and had been told it could not afford
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to lose. Graham Plattner. We know him as an oyster farmer. He is a combat veteran. He is an outsider
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and he beat the establishment's own recruit, Janet Mills.
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He beat her so thoroughly that she quit the race weeks before the votes even were counted.
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That means 20% of Democrats voted for a hat that is not going to be the senator over this guy, okay?
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And now he is the nominee, the official nominee for the Democrats against Susan Collins.
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Collins is the only Republican senator that is sitting in a state that did not vote for Donald Trump.
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For Democrats trying to take back the Senate, Maine is the doorway, and they think Plattner is the key.
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Actually, there are several problems, but let's start with this one.
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That is the death head that the SS wore on their caps, and they had the same tattoos on their bodies.
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that's how i mean if you were a member of the ss that's why you went to prison most likely
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afterwards because you had the the um tattoo and everybody knows it um and that is happening
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they're turning a blind eye to that at a time when this just happened on the subway in new york
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listen to what this woman said to another woman who she just i guess assumed was jewish listen to
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this. Jews are eating kids. Jews are eating kids. Jews are eating kids. It's okay for her to eat
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children, but I can't choke her out. At least there were some sane people on the subway with
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but we're entering insane times you don't mess with this then let's look at the old post there
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was a report in the new york times remember the new york times their paper not ours which uh three
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women who used to be in relationships with him described the behavior they called toxic and
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unsettling one of them said that he physically restrained her in a room until she was in his
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word calm you're not leaving until you're calm wow and the party is lining up behind him this is
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the me too party so yes he's done these things but i mean he can win he can win the stakes are
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too high i mean yes he's done these things but you know this time it's different no no no remember
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what i told you last week everything you say before the word but is what your principles are
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what you believe. Everything after the but is what you're willing to trade those principles for.
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Yes, he's got a Nazi swastika, but we have to win the Senate.
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Okay, I want to give you three warnings. One of them is political. One is about a movement
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and what it becomes when it makes this trade. And the other is very, very old,
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older than our country, older than the idea of our country even. And I promise you by the end,
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you will see it's all the same warning bell okay so let me start with the political one and i want
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to aim right back at you know the republicans first because you know the only way you can
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gain trust with people is when you aim at your own side first so let me do that republicans
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they have walked into the same fire and the same trap over and over and over again and they get
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burned every single time uh roy moore in alabama 2017 party rallied around a man drowning in
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allegations because the seat mattered they lost the seat reddest state in america went to democrat
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todd aiken in missouri richard moordock in indiana two winnable seats in 2012 thrown into the ditch
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not over policy but over the candidate christine o'donnell in delaware the insurgent who knocked
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off the electable guy in the primary and then just lost in the general uh and just went away
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2020 mitch mcconnell sorry 2022 mitch mcconnell stood up and said the quiet part out loud he said
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it was candidate quality and i don't like mitch mcconnell but he's right he admitted his own
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voters had handed the other team a majority by nominating people who couldn't close the deal
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there's a body of research behind this you know a scandal stain or an extreme nominee
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reliably runs behind in what a plain generic candidate of the same party would have gotten
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in the same state i don't know if it's going to happen in maine but the party always tells
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itself the you know the movement's energy it's going to outrun the baggage but the baggage wins
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the race almost every time okay that's the political warning and it's bipartisan and it's
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earned the seat you believe you cannot afford to lose is the exact seat you're most likely
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you're most tempted to likely throw away because need makes you stupid and you'll talk yourself
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into a candidate you would have laughed out of the room a year ago when the stakes felt smaller
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okay now here's a second warning and this one's harder because it's not about strategy it's about
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the soul for a decade one word has been used it's an it is an artillery shell that has been
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fired by the american left over and over and over again and that shell is nazi it's been pointed at
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parents at school boards it's been pointed at catholics anyone who wouldn't get in line for
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their political their political viewpoint they've been called a nazi okay it's like this universal
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solvent pour it on your opponent and you never have to argue with them again because you don't
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debate nazis you destroy them right i have seen good people get that label welded to their foreheads
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for the crime of just disagreeing and now the people who have used that as a shell made that
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word its sword is wait what you're you you got a guy who has a death head tattoo covered it up
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after he but he's he stands accused by women who knew him and called him frightened of frightening
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controlling and he's got a death head wait what and you're swallowing it what happened to the
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artillery shell they're doing it because he's useful when you excuse your own people in what
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you damned in everyone else you've just confessed that your use of nazi was never a principle you're
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not actually worried about nazis you use that as a weapon and that's it a principle is something
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you hold even when it costs you the election a weapon is something you drop the second it gets
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too heavy to swing a movement that figures out it can do this that virtue is just a tool you pick up
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to hit the other guy and set down when it's inconvenient that movement loses its soul long
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before it ever loses the vote. And I believe that has already happened. That's why you have
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the problem with the Democratic Party. They don't have anything they actually believe in except
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win. Everything else is a tool. The temptation to weaponize your own goodness, that's human,
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not partisan. It's human. And the day we start excusing our own side, that's the day to be
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afraid, because the day we've become the thing we've warned everyone about is the last day for
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us, too. Democrats just went through this with Eric Swalwell. I mean, despicable, horrible human
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being, discarded, disgraced. The minute he stopped being useful, and they think they're going to do
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this with Plattner, the minute he becomes no longer a use, they think he can get rid of. But, you know,
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remember, with Nazis, they've tried that before, and it didn't work. Now, let me give you the third
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one. The third warning, this one goes back 2,400 years to Athens. I want to tell you about a guy
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you probably have never heard of. Most gifted man of his generation in Athens. His name was
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Al-Solbiades. That's it. Al-Solbiades. Sorry, I don't speak Greek. Picture this guy. Charismatic.
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just to make the point no one alive can touch me so athens sees this guy and they're like this guy
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is fabulous he's great he's the future and they were right to be dazzled he really was that good
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but that's also what made him so dangerous because a mediocre man you can dismiss a brilliant one
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you convince yourself you have to have them so at the moment people decide it needs a man it
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loses the one thing it has to keep and that is the ability to judge him and dismiss him so
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this guy goes in and he is talking to Athens and he's he talks them into a great gamble of war
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the Sicilian expedition and you all know you never take on the Sicilians
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it's an enormous fleet and he sends it across the sea to conquer Syracuse the cautious men
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in Athens said don't do it but he is he is who he is and he wins the argument but on the eve of
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the fleet's departure Athens wakes up and they find across the whole city in the dark somebody
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had gone around smashing all the sacred statues the irms whatever they are and they stood at
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every door and somebody went did that the city was horrified suspicion fell on on this
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guy and his fast crowd. And they knew it was him. His enemies were clever, but that didn't stop him
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from sailing. They just said, ah, let him go. So they let him go and then recalled him to stand
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trial, knowing that they had him. Okay. Here's where you learn who he really was. Rather than
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come home and face Athens, he defects, and he defects to Sparta. That's the enemy of Athens,
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and he didn't just sit there. He handed Sparta the playbook to destroy his own city. He's not
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going to go back. Fortify this position in our territory, he says. Send aid to Syracuse. Both
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things happen. The great Sicilian expedition, his idea, ended in total annihilation. The Athenian
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army was destroyed. All of its generals executed. A generation of young men from Athens gone.
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The man that Athens had needed so badly authored their own death. Now you'd think that would be
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the end of it, but it wasn't, because somebody still found him useful. They still found him
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useful. He wears out his welcome in Sparta, because that's what these guys do. He was reportedly,
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I guess, seducing the Spartan king's wife, and then he fled to Persia. And then, astonishingly,
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Athens takes him back. The fleet recalls him. He won them some victories. He sails home in 407,
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and he's a hero didn't you just turn and yeah then the first time for the first time things
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go wrong on his watch and they turned on him again and he went into exile again and he died
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in a foreign land with his house in flames all around him murdered some say at the request of
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the very people he'd served. Why am I telling you this story that happened in 407? Because
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the warning that history is handing the Democratic Party this week, it's handing this lesson
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and warning to all of us because none of us is too good to need the warning or to not
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need the warning. Athens did not fall because it lacked talent. It fell because it could not stop
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reaching for the talented man that they had every reason not to trust, but they had to win.
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They needed him so much to win. They never trusted him, never enough to follow him safely,
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and so he did the worst possible thing it used him again and again and then the using is what
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got them all killed so when a party stands out front of a flawed but dazzling candidate
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whispering to itself he's the only one that can win stakes are so high this time it's different
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understand this has happened over and over and over again in history this is not a moment of
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strength. This is the precise sound a civilization makes right before it decides that the man it
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can't afford to trust is the man it can't afford to lose. The statues came down the night in Athens,
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but they let him go anyway because they needed him to win.
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