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The police patch in Dearborn Michigan proves they are trying to unmake America, and it might be damn near treason for doing it. Also, we have some new poll numbers out with Justin Haskins that you have to hear. What is the actual state of socialism in America with those under 39?
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hey back from vacation with a lot to talk to you about uh the police patch in dearborn michigan
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proves they are trying to unmake america and uh it might be damn near treason uh for doing it also
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we have some new poll numbers out with justin haskins that you have to hear what is the actual
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state of socialism in america with those under 39 18 to 39 years old also just back from vacation
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standing with us now let's get to work what tim kane was talking about last week with our declaration
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of independence is so crucial it's why i started the program with it um if we don't have this we
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don't have anything and you have to understand that our founders came from a place to where
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they hated government um but they knew they needed some government uh and they were trying to put
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together a system that made men free this is a lens that we can't even relate to anymore because now
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governments and politicians all over the world their idea of creating laws is how do they gain more power
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how can they keep you in a box more it was the opposite of what our founders believed
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um and our founders believed look if everybody just understands that everybody has a right to
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say and do anything you know do the things they do and they understand civics that with those rights
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come responsibilities then we're going to be fine but if they don't understand that if they're not a
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moral society that understands moral sentiments if they don't if they if they're just out for greed
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they're just out for themselves and the whole system breaks down and uh and that's what we that's
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what we have if i have time i want to tell you some of the things that i i noticed on vacation um you
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know i went by it was in new york and i went by the what was it the center for ethical uh society or
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something like that and it's it was in a building that had to have been built around the turn of the
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century so it had to have been a progressive thing and it had a school next to it and everything else
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and i thought i wonder what the ethics are now coming out of the ethical society i wonder what
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those ethics are because ethics ethics are just changing everything is just changing under our feet
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because we no longer respect the ethics and the constitutional norms that created this country
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um and let me take you to dearborn michigan so last week we find out that um an institution the
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police department an institution sworn to uphold the constitution has introduced a uniform patch
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with arabic script for the very first time and it just says in arabic police department dearborn
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police department that's all it says and it's just to better connect with the population
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of uh muslim population there in dearborn michigan and it sounds harmless i mean you could make that
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into no big deal it's just you know it's dearborn police what is your problem well it's not just a
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small gesture of outreach it is a signal and signals matter for more than two centuries america has been
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an experiment and we used to describe it as a melting pot you could come here from any
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land speak any language any language any faith and we could come here and if you believed in the laws
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and the constitution of america if you believed in that and you upheld those things we could melt
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together and we could create something even greater than you could even imagine
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we didn't have race cultures we elevate what unites us instead of elevating what divides us and we
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don't bend our civic institutions to mirror any kind of uh tribal or religious identities we don't
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create parallel systems of justice or identity now i want you to think about history no immigrant group
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none ever no religion ever had law enforcement tailor itself to them never catholics came to this
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country by the millions what did they face they were mocked they were ridiculed they were accused of
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being agents of the pope churches were burned uh signs that read no irish allowed yet the catholic
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church didn't demand you know a crucifix on the police badge they didn't demand government offices
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display papal seals that would have been completely rejected by everybody what they did is they fought
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they endured and over generations they proved that they could be both catholic fully catholic and fully
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american and the same is true with the mormons what the mormons have faced they they have faced the
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harshest prosecution or persecution of all in missouri governor lilburn boggs signed an actual
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extermination order ordering mormons to be driven from the state or killed it was legal for you to
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kill a mormon because they were mormon that's the only government order like it in our history
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they were beaten they were tarred and feathered their homes were torched uh their leadership was
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murdered they fled west outside of america proper to carve out a home in the wilderness and just be left
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alone in the mountains and what happened after they got there the u.s army marched into utah convinced the
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mormons were plotting a rebellion against the united states but they weren't in fact they revered the
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constitution and the declaration of independence more than their persecutors even did for years
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the mormon church used to teach the founding documents alongside the scripture it's what
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tethered that religion to i believe to sanity and not being pulled in every different direction
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they've stopped teaching the founding documents and i think it's a problem myself but who am i to say
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but mormons are the most patriotic of any religion in america check it why they didn't bend
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america to their faith they bound their faith to america now compare that and the catholics and
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everything else every other religious group that has ever come in
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now compare that to what's happening in dearborn michigan week after week and we have them on tape
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week after week from the pulpits of the local mosque the imams openly declare their goal not to join the
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american project but to replace it not to preserve the constitution but to subvert it they preach the
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supremacy of sharia law over american law and now the police department a symbol of our secular
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constitution order decides they want to appeal to that group to wear that identity on its uniform that's
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not inclusion that's not assimilation that's not the melting pot it's the opposite it's balkanization
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at its kindest it is the state bending towards the demand of a religious political ideology
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that seeks to replace our american civilization let me be really super clear on this this cannot stand
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our history shows us the way every faith every culture every group that has come to america has been tested
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i don't like it but it is worked out for the best of all of us
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because we have been forced to prove will we embrace the constitution or will we try to replace it
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are we coming over here and we're just going to live like irishmen and live by the irish laws
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or are we going to bend to the constitution of our new country catholics embraced it jews embraced it
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mormons embraced it baptists have embraced it millions of immigrants from every corner on the globe
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have embraced it and that's why we are who we are
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if dearborn or any other american city decides that they're going to start carving out exceptions to make
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government institutions bear the mark of the religion that seeks to dominate rather than integrate
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we are not just forgetting our history we are part of the unmaking of america
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because in the end the melting pot isn't about a cheese fondue it's not about food it's not about
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allegiance to one nation under god not sharia not under rome not under salt lake
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city under the constitution that's what the flag represents and if we lose this we lose america
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dearborn must not allow they're saying this is the the mayor came out on friday and said well this is
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only voluntary i mean you could you could have the patch or not we're not going to make it we're not
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going to make it required you should not make it available you should not make it available i'm a
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collector of history i have yet to see from uh you know the pennsylvania dutch region uh the police
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badges that were in german i grew up in the seattle in the pacific northwest where there's a lot of asians
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that this is the unmaking of america that's where i'd like to fall
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the best of the glenn beck program justin haskins he is the president of our republic stock stopping
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socialism.com he's the editor-in-chief and also a co-author of several books uh with me welcome to
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the program justin how are you i'm doing well glenn how are you uh well i was better until you
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contacted me on vacation and sent me this disturbing poll uh i'm i'm in bed at night and i'm reading this
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and i'm like oh dear why do i my wife's like i told you not to check your email and i'm like i didn't
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know jason uh justin was gonna write to me uh justin uh tell me first of all before we get into it
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how secure is the sample size on this poll uh it's a very good sample size 1200 people nationally
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only 18 to 39 year olds and we did we did that deliberately so that we could get a sample size
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large enough so we could pull out valid responses just from younger people so the whole purpose of
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this poll is to find out what younger people 18 to 39 think voters only and people who say that
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they're likely to vote so we're not talking about just people out in the public we're not talking about
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registered voters we're talking about people who are registered to vote and say they're likely to vote
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so let's go over some of the things that you have already released to the press and that is in the
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survey 18 39 year old likely voters uh the trump approval rating is a lot higher than you thought it
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would be right yeah yeah 48 percent at a positive approval rating of donald trump which for young
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people is very high so that's that's the good news that's the only good news we're going to talk
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we might have to come back to that first question several times uh do you believe the united states
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is a fundamentally good evil or morally mixed country yep this one is not too bad uh it's not great but
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fundamentally good was 28 which is which is low but mixed was 50 and fundamentally evil was 17 and i think
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mixed mixed at 50 is not an unreasonable crazy response i i can see why all sorts of people
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might choose that so i don't think there's anything terrible here it depends on what you mean by mixed
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fundamentally good at 28 it's a little low fundamentally evil at 17 it's a little disturbing but it's not
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it's not insane the insane stuff comes a little bit later do you agree or disagree with this statement
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major industries talk about the uh crazy stuff coming later here it is major industries like
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health care energy and big tech should be nationalized and give more control and equity to the people
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yeah this was this was the really i mean this one floored me if you look at strongly agree
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somewhat agree for that statement you just read it's over 75 percent of young people including
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including the vast majority of republicans young republicans and people who identify as conservatives
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it was pretty similar in fact how young republicans responded compared to liberals and uh independents
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and democrats they all pretty much agreed that yes the government the federal government should
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be nationalizing whole industries to make things uh more equitable for people as the guy who is the um
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uh chief editor-in-chief of stopping socialism what's the problem with nationalizing energy and health care
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well what happens typically well uh usually there's blood in the streets when you do enough when you do
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too much of that um you know socialism communism have been spectacularly horrible uh throughout the course
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of human history across every society culture religion uh doesn't matter when or what kind of
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technological advancements you have when you call the more you collectivize a society the more
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authoritarian that society gets the less you have individual freedom and the worse the economy usually is for
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regular people so it's been a catastrophe across the board everyone listening to this audience probably
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knows that um and so the idea that you would have three quarters of young voters so remember these people are
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going to be the primary voters in 10 to 20 years saying yeah you know what we should be nationalizing
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whole industries whole industries um is so disturbing and i don't think that conservatives
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uh are understand how deeply rooted some of these ideas are with younger people uh and i will tell you i think
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some conservatives are walking a very dangerous line and uh you know coming up with a little mix of
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of everything um and um and i think we have to be very careful on uh on what is being said and who our
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friends and allies are uh by the way that number again is 39 percent strongly agree
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37 percent somewhat agree somewhat disagree 12 percent strongly disagree five percent
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that is disastrous now try this one on these are the ones that have been we got new ones these are
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just a few of the ones that were released or late last week the next presidential election is in
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2028 would you like to see a democratic socialist candidate win the 2028 presidential election
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yep 53 percent said yes 53 percent of of all voters said yes and the most shocking thing
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was that 35 percent of those who we polled who said they voted for donald trump in 2024
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said that they want to see a socialist win in 2028
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and so about a third of republicans 35 percent of uh trump voters 43 percent of people who
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call themselves conservatives so even on the right among younger people there is a large group
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that want a socialist president in 2028 and the reason the reason is is it tied into the next few
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questions okay so here's question of five among the following options which best describes your
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biggest reason you would like to see a democratic socialist candidate 31 percent said housing costs
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are too high 12 percent taxes are too low for corporations 11 percent taxes are too low for
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wealthy individuals 8 percent want single-payer health care systems 17 say the economy unfairly benefits
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older wealthier americans 15 says the economy unfairly benefits large corporations 5 percent some other
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reason and 2 percent unsure now let's get into the new polls that uh we're breaking uh today question
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six how would you describe your current financial situation yeah uh only 24 said that they're doing well
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uh 34 38 said getting by struggling 29 percent 7 said in crisis so if you add up just getting by
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struggling and in crisis that's 74 said that they're you know just barely getting by at best
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and i think that explains a lot of the other negative responses we've seen so far in this poll and
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the ones that are going to come pretty soon here uh seven which best describes your personal
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life situation you are thriving you're doing well with a few ups and downs you feel stuck and
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uncertain you feel lonely disconnected or emotionally drained you're in a crisis and feel most negative
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about your personal life yeah about a third said uh that they feel stuck or uncertain lonely or that
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they're in a crisis that's a third of young people say say that i mean that's that's not great only 19
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said thriving 46 said they have ups and downs which i think is you know not too too shocking but the
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idea that there's a third of american voters out there who feel like they can't buy a home and they
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feel like they are lonely and that they're in crisis and that life is just not going well at all for them
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again i think that's that's driving a lot of the support for socialism where you have 53 percent of
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these people saying yeah i want a socialist president in 2028 so socialism is not the answer it is the
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symptom it's the symptom of what people are feeling right now and they they don't know any other they
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nobody's presenting them with anything other than you know republican democrat bullcrap um and socialists
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are coming at it from a completely new angle or so the you the youth think it's the oldest and most
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failed system of all time um but they're seeing this as a solution that is different than what the
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party uh you know the republican democrats are offering even though the democrats are offering the
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socialism thing uh number eight do you think the american economy is unfair to young people 62 percent
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say yes yeah and 27 said no and i think that this really gets at the heart of what the issue is here
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when you look at the reasons when you when you look at the detailed data of the poll what you to try to
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find out if there's an association uh between some kind of demographic or response question about
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people's lives and their support for socialism to see if there's a correlation there between something
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that's happening and what whether someone's a socialist or not the one of the top correlations
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connections is if people think the economy is unfair and if they're having trouble buying a home or they
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don't think they can buy a home or that's one of their reasons for supporting socialism so in other words
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there's this fairness issue and if it's not even about inequality it's not about it's not about
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well they have too much well if they feel like the system is to use a trump term rigged
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and throughout the data that's what we see over and over and over again as lots of young people say
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the economy is rigged for older people for wealthier people for corporations it's rigged and if they say
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yeah i think it's rigged you know then they're more likely to say yeah i want a socialist and i also
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think this is why the same group has a relatively high approval rating of donald trump it's it's because
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the reason that a lot of young people like trump in the poll is that he's not part of the establishment
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and i think i don't think that they i think a lot of young people who voted for trump and who like
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trump they didn't do it because they like free market pro-liberty policies and that's not a good
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thing but i but i don't think that's why they did it i think a lot of them voted for trump and support
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him because he's not the establishment and that's what they don't like they want to blow the establishment
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up i so my justin my sample size is my two young adults my two children and they're like talking to
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me and saying dad i will never be able to own a home looking at the prices looking at interest rates
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they're like i can't even afford to pay rent at an apartment and they they don't know what to do
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and so they're looking at on like tiktok and they're like who's this mom don me guy this sounds
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interesting they bring this to me they grew up listening to me indoctrinating them their entire
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lives they're looking at other voices like on tiktok are we just not being loud enough no we're not
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we're not um connecting with them they're we're not uh i i i feel like they don't feel they're being
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heard um and we are speaking to them in red white and blue and that means nothing the statue of liberty
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means nothing to them uh ellis island means nothing to them the flag means nothing to them it's all
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partisan politics it's all they're all symbols of really the two parties you know uh and in america
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they don't relate to at all i think that's that's our biggest problem and not being able to break
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through to your point question nine how confident are you that you will own a home at some point in
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the next 10 years 29 say they already own a home which i found interesting that's a i think a pretty
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high number for somebody who was you know uh 18 to 34 years old 39 39 um yeah there's a lot of 18 to 30
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that i i didn't own a home and when i was you know 30 just had gotten a home when i was 30 um but go
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ahead with the rest of that poll yeah so so then uh 21 said discouraged but you know somewhat hopeful
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12 said not confident 10 said you were convinced you were never own a home 3 not sure so if you add
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up the negative responses it's around 43 that gave that response but i think that again 29 you already
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own a home and 25 you're confident you will own a home is still good it just these these other numbers
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have you know discouraged but hopeful you'll own a home who's discouraging that and how is that being
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discouraged um you know only 12 let's see 12 22 25 percent are not sure they're ever going to own a
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home that's too high of a number but um i i don't think that's completely dismal you're streaming the
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best of glenn beck to hear more of this interview and others download the full show podcasts wherever
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you get podcasts so uh i went on vacation uh last week and i had some work that i had to do and i kind
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of tied vacation into some of the work my wife always loves that um but it first it took us to
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las vegas and then we went to new york city where i had to give a speech and it was my wife's birthday
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and silently you know as a all smiles and happy birthday and everything else i'm cataloging what
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i'm seeing and i'm not sure i've digested all of it yet um but i i watched our culture and what i took
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away from this is our our culture is beyond sick it's almost zombie a zombie culture it's it's moving
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without thinking or without heart it's just moving from day to day paycheck to paycheck or worse
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circus to circus and let me start at the circus vegas look vegas is i don't like gambling so um
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and i love drinking too much so it's really not a city that it's you know all cut out for me
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um and it's always been about cheap thrills it's always been gaudy and bright and flashy and everything
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else um cheap thrills is not right the right word because nothing in vegas is cheap you know long
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gone are the five dollar dinners and the hey free show for the gamblers and that's all gone uh this is
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a city where everything now is about the money and just looking at the scale of the hotels as i was
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walking down the street and i'm looking at the scale of things i'm thinking if you don't understand
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that the house always wins just by looking at the scale of this city you're the one that's just
00:31:23.520
going to be broke on the floor of the casino because they'll rob you of everything um the house always
00:31:30.460
wins and it has become more and more about the money and to me at least i think more and more about
00:31:38.540
the flash of everything um the food seemed to be the only thing that was really real in vegas
00:31:46.580
uh the food was amazing you know thanks for the four pounds that i i i had i gained i took with me
00:31:55.360
that didn't stay in in las vegas but after we would eat we would wash it down with a show
00:32:01.040
and that that was not a good palate cleanser if you will uh i've watched the shows and they were
00:32:08.880
soulless absolutely soulless i mean there's only so many tricks that a chinese contortionist can do
00:32:16.140
or you know so many yo-yo like discs that they can throw in the air and catch before you're like
00:32:22.720
i've seen this done this um we went to a show called mj the michael jackson story my wife's a big
00:32:30.400
michael jackson fan so we went to see mj woof was that bad um it was like they took a bad idea and
00:32:40.660
then just said let's just turn the volume up to 10 and put bright lights on and we can put everybody
00:32:46.080
in spangles and you're like wow that was really really bad the people on stage they might as well
00:32:53.160
have been droids honestly and because what i what i took from that again was this city is only about
00:33:00.380
the money the the the house doesn't want to spend any money on any star because they'll have to pay
00:33:07.760
stars more so they just you can you dance good you dance and don't stand out i mean nothing was
00:33:15.360
nothing was authentic nothing was real nothing was one-on-one you know there was no connection
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on anything and i i wondered is this change from when frank and sammy and dean is that the way it
00:33:32.260
was then because i've seen the old footage you know you watch youtube and you see the old footage and
00:33:37.240
you're like i mean they were having fun they they they related to people you know my parents only took
00:33:45.360
one vacation by themselves left us behind and it was to reno so not vegas but still and i wondered
00:33:54.820
how did my parents because they saw glenn campbell how did my parents afford this
00:34:00.660
well they could afford it because it wasn't like it is now everything everything it seems is like
00:34:08.620
disney world everything is how much money can i squeeze out of this person you know the house
00:34:14.980
isn't just trying to take money at the tables they they are making sure that every square inch
00:34:21.780
is trying to squeeze money out of you all the time
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then i had to go to new york city had to give a speech at the for the radio industry
00:34:31.140
and um you know going from vegas to new york doesn't improve your mood much
00:34:39.480
but uh it was my wife's birthday that week and so i wanted to make it special for her and do things
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that she wanted to do and invited my kids to join us and we were uptown and downtown we were on fifth
00:34:55.180
avenue and times square and chelsea in the village and all of that stuff and i was just looking for
00:35:13.280
however this rot kind of makes sense in a way because new york city is the home of the progressive
00:35:21.360
movement you know its fingerprints are on all of the buildings and the architecture of the 1900s and
00:35:26.880
you know the small theaters that are on the side streets that nobody even really notices anymore
00:35:32.000
the little plaque that you know said we hosted margaret sanger here and you know all of that nonsense
00:35:38.600
starts here and blah blah blah blah blah blah up on i don't know central park west there is this
00:35:46.640
this collection of buildings marked the society uh or the uh center for ethical society and it was
00:35:55.720
clearly a progressive building and you know from the 1900s and i thought what what are the ethics in
00:36:00.840
this place it looked like a temple you know and then the crime and the the sheer number of people out on
00:36:08.100
the streets and and just the garbage in the streets and it's just gone downhill and no one sees each other
00:36:14.720
nobody looks nobody makes eye contact because that you know invites trouble or perhaps even worse a
00:36:22.480
and i saw the same kind of consumerism in new york that i saw in vegas i saw it uptown and you go
00:36:32.360
downtown and you see the same kind of consumerism as you see uptown except it's packaged differently
00:36:38.300
it's the separation between the new uh youth and the old you know people because the old people they
00:36:48.580
all go to fifth avenue and the young people they all go to the village because that's where it's real
00:36:53.100
you know what a bunch of garbage it is just packaged differently for those under 35 who don't like
00:36:59.720
consumerism but they still want their prada bag you know you go uptown and you'll find that
00:37:05.980
ten thousand dollar purse in a huge glitzy building where you're just above the door door is a you know
00:37:11.960
a golden logo and a hundred thousand dollar storefront windows and fancy shopping bags announcing to
00:37:18.940
everybody you shopped here but you go downtown and they don't have those big fancy shopping bags they
00:37:26.660
just have plain shopping bags made of recycled paper from stores in old restored buildings that
00:37:32.960
scream uniqueness and non-conformity and the logo is very small it's not over the door it's down on
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the corner of one of the simple windows that just look into the store with no fancy mannequins because
00:37:45.200
the shoppers there sure they want the same ten thousand dollar purse but they want to feel better than
00:37:51.520
those people uptown it's all garbage it's it's all the same garbage it's just packaged differently
00:38:00.700
and everybody thinks they're so unique and they're being sold the same garbage
00:38:05.180
i saw people it was so distorted the reality in their vain attempted beauty my gosh i saw these women who
00:38:16.120
so lost and they were surrounded by men who were acting and dressing like women that i mean i began to see
00:38:28.040
the images from you know the capital city in the hunger games
00:38:32.760
that is us now look go watch that movie that's us
00:38:37.240
so did i find anything real yeah strangely i did
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and it's so strange because what i found real was actually fake
00:38:55.100
i mean i know that's laughable but it's true we saw a show called the outsiders you might have seen
00:39:02.180
the movie a long time ago they made it into a stage show it's an amazing movie and the emotions were real
00:39:08.460
even though i knew they were all fake they were at least real it reflected real life the struggles that
00:39:15.680
everybody has you know those mistakes that we all make and the truth we finally find just when we think
00:39:22.120
it's just about too late we find it you know i thought about my life and what i went through as an outsider
00:39:28.160
as a you know 20 something i thought about my kids who are outsiders and they're 20 somethings i realized
00:39:34.160
the show is so successful because that tragic adolescence in 20 something years they're not unique
00:39:49.920
and west side story was you know the same story of romeo and juliet it's the same story over and over
00:39:57.840
and over and over again but it's authentic and it is true the struggle is true the things we're all
00:40:08.160
the next night we saw operation mincemeat and i really had to convince my wife on this i said i
00:40:14.640
know it's your birthday week but operation mincemeat it's one of my favorite stories it is a story about
00:40:19.360
world war ii and how ian fleming and the british convinced hitler how to move his troops from sicily
00:40:26.740
to where greece or someplace because we needed to invade through sicily and it's a great story but this
00:40:34.060
was a comedy musical and i'm like i don't know well the producers made you know the hitler look
00:40:40.980
pretty ridiculous i wonder how it's going to happen this time it was a play of probably 20 characters
00:40:49.080
and i could tell you that the laughs were genuine i could tell you that if the the show was was great
00:40:56.680
but what stood out to me was what was real what was real was the relentless work
00:41:05.320
the script was shockingly detailed and extraordinarily accurate true to the story i was
00:41:12.380
blown away by that but the raw risk of the talent that stood out on stage real artists top of their
00:41:22.200
field working harder than most people work trying to bring these people from the past to life
00:41:28.460
and they did it and they did it in a shockingly great way i mean it was it again was the struggle
00:41:38.280
of an artist just trying to be the best they can that's what i found inspiring that's what i found
00:41:47.940
and you know what i found that in a cab driver who was amazing he was just trying to be the best he could be
00:41:58.200
it wasn't about the ticket price it wasn't about the house winning it wasn't about trying to fool
00:42:06.860
you into something it was about the human magic that can only happen when humans get together and pour
00:42:18.000
we walked by a bar i had never seen before i generally don't go into bars uh for good reason
00:42:30.960
but we walked by a bar i hadn't seen it before it was the ralph lauren polo bar and if you know me
00:42:38.880
i'm a big fan of ralph lauren for what he has done i think he is the i think he's the only
00:42:45.840
the only company the only person that is not afraid of saying america is great
00:42:53.280
i mean it's he does the best advertising for america of anyone else ralph lauren when you see his product
00:43:01.760
he is america he was the u.s open over the weekend he's the olympics he is america all the time
00:43:11.680
so i walk into this bar and i just want to take a look because i'm a fan of of what he has done
00:43:19.200
and i looked at this and i said to my wife look at the lamps he designed the lighting the chairs the
00:43:27.680
fabrics everything in this building is his he designed this it's amazing to me you know people
00:43:37.920
now they just expect they're going to design clothing and open a store and they're going to
00:43:41.520
celebrate how great and unique they really are ralph lauren started out by selling ties that he
00:43:46.720
designed and made out of the trunk of his car because no one would buy them no store would have
00:43:53.360
him in so he just decided i'll just go out on fifth avenue and i'll just start selling ties and he sold
00:43:58.080
them out of the trunk of his car and now he's america
00:44:09.120
real life i saw it at the greek diner we had breakfast at not great food but still owned by the
00:44:14.400
same greek family staffed with his sons and daughters i wondered how many generations of the
00:44:19.040
family has worked there the father perhaps the grandfather now still had his accent
00:44:27.840
i spent the week looking over america's medical charts if you will and i found mixed messages
00:44:35.760
i found things that were real in places i didn't expect i found the truth
00:44:41.280
and i found them in people just being themselves
00:44:44.080
that's where the magic happens and that's when america is at her best