The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 138 - The Blue Wave That Never Came

00:00:00.240 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we'll talk midterms, of course.

00:00:03.800 Did the fabled blue wave materialize for the Democrats?

00:00:07.600 No, it did not. But why? What can we make of all this?

00:00:10.340 I'll discuss that and other election-related topics.

00:00:13.360 Also in that same vein of the election, Florida voted to restore voting rights to felons.

00:00:19.680 I think that was the right call, and I'll tell you why.

00:00:22.260 All of that is coming up on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:23.980 I'm not sure if you heard about this or not.

00:00:30.720 It was kind of a little, a small sort of human interest story that the news was talking about last night.

00:00:35.280 There was an election. They call it the midterm election.

00:00:39.600 Maybe you heard about it. Results, which I'm sure you also heard, Democrats took the House as expected.

00:00:44.960 Republicans kept the Senate, picked up a few seats, sort of not expected on that.

00:00:49.020 And Democrats gained 28 seats in the House, made no gains in the Senate, as opposed to, say, the 2010 midterm elections,

00:00:59.180 when obviously Obama was the president and Republicans gained 63 seats in the House and I think five or six in the Senate.

00:01:05.860 So that was a red wave. This is not a blue wave, as was advertised and as we were promised.

00:01:12.940 Not a blue wave, not a bloodbath. Wasn't a red wave either.

00:01:16.340 Wasn't a bloodbath in the other direction. Now, the spin doctors are going to go to work and spin it one way or another, 0.99

00:01:22.840 as they already have been doing, obviously. But there weren't any waves.

00:01:29.460 There were some there were some ripples going in either direction, which is which is not what we were told.

00:01:34.560 Instead, I think the Democrats did basically what they had to do, what they what they what they were going to do,

00:01:44.000 given the way that the map was drawn up this time around.

00:01:47.320 There really wasn't much chance or possibility that Democrats would fail to gain the House.

00:01:51.940 So that was going to happen. It was inevitable.

00:01:53.460 The question was whether it would be a trouncing and whether they could seize control of the Senate at the same time.

00:02:02.980 And the answer to that was no on both counts.

00:02:06.060 That is pretty that's kind of incredible when you think about it, because as most people know,

00:02:11.740 the midterms are historically unkind to the party in power.

00:02:14.720 And then when you add on top of that, the unique factors that Trump brings to the table,

00:02:20.120 being a uniquely divisive president in that a lot of people love him, a lot of people really hate him.

00:02:26.240 He's also unpopular approval in the mid 40s.

00:02:29.580 Whether you like him or not, there's no way around that fact.

00:02:32.100 So that's something that Democrats should have been able to exploit, but they weren't able to.

00:02:38.260 They exploited it to some extent, but not to a very large extent.

00:02:41.920 So you have to evaluate this, their victory in the House.

00:02:46.920 I think you have to evaluate it within the context of what was expected.

00:02:52.600 And what the sort of bare minimum was for them.

00:02:56.540 And in that context, I don't think it was certainly was not a huge tsunami in their favor, as was predicted.

00:03:03.260 I think maybe they got a few steps above bare minimum.

00:03:08.200 Though, again, we can't call it a big win for Republicans either.

00:03:10.740 But I think when you consider the Democrats and the advantages that they had or should have had going into this.

00:03:22.360 And the fact that they were only able to pick up some seats in the House and actually lost in the Senate.

00:03:30.720 And then also, several of their kind of up-and-coming rock stars, supposedly, that they'd put millions of dollars into.

00:03:40.600 And they brought celebrities down to campaign for these people in Florida and Texas and Georgia.

00:03:46.880 And all of those lost, too.

00:03:48.520 Their up-and-coming rock stars lost, many of them.

00:03:51.340 So, when you consider that, it seems clear to me that there is still an obstacle in the way for Democrats.

00:04:00.340 That even though—now, of course, the rabid Trump haters, the really loyal Democrats, they're going to get those people.

00:04:07.020 But it seems like there are plenty of people who don't really like Trump, aren't necessarily big fans of the Republican Party, yet are hesitant about supporting Democrats.

00:04:17.680 And why is that?

00:04:18.800 I think that there are many reasons for this, but let me just point to a few.

00:04:28.320 Number one, the hatred for white men that you see on the left.

00:04:37.280 I do, in fact, think that this is a problem for the Democrats.

00:04:42.040 It's because there are around 100 million white males in America, and they don't especially like being constantly cast as the villain.

00:04:49.640 And this liberal use of white man as a pejorative has the, I would think, not very surprising effect of alienating white men who aren't huge fans of having their identity reduced to an insult.

00:05:01.660 And to compound the problem on top of that, plenty of non-whites and non-men actually don't hate white men nearly as much as Democrats seem to think and want and expect. 0.63

00:05:10.840 And this may shock them to learn, but actually a significant number of women love men and appreciate men.

00:05:16.640 So resentment towards, open resentment and contempt for 100 million Americans is, let's say, distasteful to most of those 100 million and to a good portion of the other 225 million.

00:05:30.800 So I think that's a problem for Democrats.

00:05:32.640 And a second problem.

00:05:35.540 Nobody cares about celebrity endorsements.

00:05:39.000 OK, I think Democrats rely way too much on celebrities and on the clout of celebrity to get the results that they want.

00:05:47.280 You know, you had Oprah campaigning for Stacey Abrams in Georgia.

00:05:51.220 You had, and then she lost.

00:05:52.960 You had Taylor Swift, too much fanfare, came out and supported the opponent of Marsha Blackburn in Tennessee.

00:05:59.600 He lost.

00:06:00.200 There are many left wing celebrities who came out in favor of O'Rourke and he lost.

00:06:07.620 And then many more who were, you know, trying to mobilize voters to manufacture this big blue wave, which did not materialize.

00:06:14.020 So I think it turns out that that, in fact, people don't really care that much what what Oprah or Taylor Swift or George Clooney thinks.

00:06:21.100 Most people are saying to themselves, you know, or I should say most people are not going to say to themselves, hmm, I really like Marsha Blackburn's policies. 0.60

00:06:29.460 But then again, I also really like that song, Shake It Off.

00:06:31.860 So I think I'll vote for the other guy.

00:06:33.460 Most people aren't doing that.

00:06:35.520 So Democrats have massively overrated the ability of famous people to move the needle.

00:06:40.060 And I think actually there's plenty of reason to believe that the needle might be moved in the opposite direction.

00:06:46.220 And then the third thing, and this is really big, especially in this particular election.

00:06:49.760 And I think this, more than anything else, explains why the Democrats not only didn't gain control of the Senate, but actually lost seats in the Senate.

00:06:58.680 I think the number one reason for that for sure is Kavanaugh, which was, you know, the Democrat treatment of Kavanaugh.

00:07:04.980 And I said this going into the I said this week, I said that this is going to be a big problem for the Democrats.

00:07:09.680 And I think I was right about that.

00:07:11.140 The Democrat treatment of Brett Kavanaugh was not only one of the most vile smear campaigns in modern American history, but I still think, and I think clearly this has been vindicated, this perspective, that it was also one of the greatest political blunders in modern American history.

00:07:25.920 Because it turns out that a lot of people do not really like to see somebody dragged through the mud and destroyed vindictively, maliciously on unsubstantiated allegations and innuendo.

00:07:39.960 Most people do not actually delight, as Democrats seem to do, in the personal destruction of innocent men.

00:07:45.540 And I think on top of that, you know, men, when they watch these kinds of witch hunts unfold, the first thing that men think is, well, we feel really bad for the man who's being targeted.

00:07:59.080 But then also we think, well, what if that was me?

00:08:01.960 And then women, I think, see this, and they think to themselves, what if that was my son? 0.91

00:08:08.040 What if that was my, you know, my brother or my husband?

00:08:13.380 And so Democrats insist that we believe all women, but normal people know that sometimes women are lying, and sometimes men are not lying.

00:08:23.840 And so the more that they try to force us to see it the other way, I just think it doesn't work.

00:08:30.000 Imagine if the Kavanaugh soap opera had never happened.

00:08:35.860 I think Democrats may well have won the Senate in that case.

00:08:38.620 Now, the fourth obstacle for Democrats, I think, and I would just put this under the broad category of madness.

00:08:48.460 The Democrat Party has become associated with, rightly, I think, madness.

00:08:55.800 PC madness, gender identity madness, Antifa madness.

00:08:59.280 So there are plenty of people who look at that, and they are viscerally, instinctively, on a gut level, repelled by it, because it just seems crazy to them.

00:09:15.000 They don't want to be associated with these violent mobs who are throwing Molotov cocktails and everything.

00:09:20.680 Polls show that over 80% of Americans are fed up with political correctness, and the fact that the Democrat Party owns political correctness and is sort of the arbiter of political correctness, that's a problem for them, because almost everyone hates it.

00:09:37.060 And then the gender identity stuff, too.

00:09:38.500 I've been saying for years that this is a bigger problem for Democrats than I think they realize.

00:09:43.120 No, I don't think there are very many people who are going to the polls, and the number one thing on their mind is that they want to oppose the liberal gender identity crusade.

00:09:54.960 Okay, so it's not the thing that's foremost on people's minds, but it is there.

00:10:00.960 It is there.

00:10:01.440 It's something that people think about.

00:10:03.120 And when you've got one side of the political aisle insisting that men are women, and that, in fact, if a grown man wants to come into the locker room with our daughter or our wife when they're undressing,

00:10:19.980 and when you've got one political party that's making that case, I think that has the effect, again, of viscerally repelling a lot of normal people,

00:10:29.560 who may otherwise agree with Democrats on other issues, and maybe aren't big fans of Trump or whatever.

00:10:36.800 And then the fifth big thing, of course, is the Trump, the Trump hate.

00:10:42.260 Democrats have so much hatred for Trump and are so consumed by it that it's getting to the point where you have to really hate Trump as well to that extent on that same level,

00:10:55.940 with that same fury and passion, or the Democrats are going to alienate you.

00:11:01.680 That's kind of what they demand.

00:11:03.640 They say Trump is Hitler, and they demand that we all see it exactly that way, where there's no gray area, there's no room in between.

00:11:11.120 And that's scaring a lot of people away.

00:11:12.860 And this leads into another point, where Democrats are consumed by hatred for Trump.

00:11:19.260 Even more than that, the Democratic base insists that its representatives be consumed by hatred for Trump.

00:11:27.300 So that is going to be an even bigger problem for the next two years for Democrats, I believe.

00:11:33.920 They now control the House of Representatives.

00:11:35.740 So they have the ability now to launch investigations and to file subpoenas and to look at Trump's tax returns and do all that kind of stuff.

00:11:47.580 And they've already made it clear that they plan on doing all of that.

00:11:51.220 If they want to go for impeachment, they could try to go for that as well.

00:11:54.360 And they're not going to be able to help themselves.

00:11:57.480 The wheels of government are going to grind to a halt even more than they've already been at a halt for the last several decades.

00:12:03.520 They're going to grind to a halt, and there's going to be total dysfunction, even more dysfunction, as Democrats in the House spend the next two years focused entirely on their vendetta against Trump.

00:12:23.020 Just look at what they did to Kavanaugh.

00:12:25.220 And they weren't even in power.

00:12:26.960 They didn't really have the ability to actually do anything to him.

00:12:29.680 But even there, they could not help himself, and they brought everything they could and just dumped it on Kavanaugh.

00:12:36.660 True, false, doesn't matter.

00:12:38.300 They weren't worried about the truth of it.

00:12:41.900 They weren't worried about anything like that.

00:12:43.640 They just wanted to destroy him.

00:12:45.580 And so think about that, and then think about that times 100 for the next two years, because I think that's what we're in store for.

00:12:54.520 It is—it's not going to be good for the country to have even more dysfunction in government and to have a political party that is focused only on destroying the president.

00:13:06.000 Not going to be good for the country.

00:13:07.200 It's going to be very bad for the country.

00:13:08.280 But politically, I think it may be the best thing that could have happened to Trump, actually, maybe sort of counterintuitively.

00:13:16.500 I think once we get past the 2020 election and the results are in, I think we may look back and say to ourselves that the thing that sealed the deal was Democrats taking control of the House in 2018.

00:13:30.200 Because people are—just consider how sick people were when they saw the Democrat behavior towards Kavanaugh and how fed up people were.

00:13:45.940 And these were—and there were a lot of people that were fed up and sick with—fed up with it and sick of it, who even maybe said to themselves, you know, maybe Kavanaugh is guilty.

00:13:57.100 I don't really know.

00:13:57.900 But this is just way overboard, and I can't support it.

00:14:01.780 So I think there are going to be a lot of people who look at what the Democrats are going to do over the next two years and are going to say, yeah, you know what?

00:14:07.260 I'm not a big fan of Trump.

00:14:08.800 Maybe he has been corrupt or done these things.

00:14:11.260 I'm not really sure.

00:14:12.040 But this is just way overboard.

00:14:13.560 I don't want this to be the sole focus of our political system for years.

00:14:21.580 I think people are going to get sick of it, and the Democrats are not going to be able to help themselves, and they're going to shoot themselves in the foot.

00:14:28.240 All right.

00:14:28.620 Another point about elections.

00:14:33.520 Yesterday, before the results came in, I tweeted something.

00:14:37.320 I mentioned this on the show yesterday, this point, but I'm going to revisit it briefly.

00:14:41.080 This is what I tweeted.

00:14:41.800 I said, elections are important, but no matter who wins, 99.999% of your daily life and existence will be completely unaffected by the results today.

00:14:52.280 Just a bit of perspective.

00:14:54.400 Now, this tweet provoked a massive response, like 3,000 responses and counting, I think.

00:14:59.480 And much of it was very angry.

00:15:01.540 People were incensed.

00:15:03.180 Liberals especially.

00:15:03.860 They were incensed at the notion that their lives don't necessarily hinge on the machinations of politicians.

00:15:10.120 They were mad that I would dare suggest that they exist apart from election results and that their existence will continue on, basically unimpeded, no matter who's in office.

00:15:22.140 Many people told me that I'm just a privileged, cishet man, and I'm clearly speaking from a position of bigotry and cruelty, et cetera, and so forth.

00:15:32.180 But I posed the question several times, and I could not really get a good answer.

00:15:36.400 I posed the question.

00:15:37.100 I said, okay, give me some specific examples of ways that your life is directly, substantially, quantifiably harmed by the politicians in office.

00:15:47.680 And since most of the people that were objecting were liberals, I could make it more specific, and I said, okay, we've had Republicans have controlled the government for two years, controlled Congress, controlled the executive branch.

00:16:03.740 They've been appointing judges and everything.

00:16:06.180 So tell me, over these last two years, how have you been directly and personally harmed?

00:16:12.800 Give me specific examples.

00:16:14.240 And nobody could really do that aside from, I'll give you one typical response.

00:16:19.480 Somebody tweeted and said, in an attempt to answer this challenge, said they listed a bunch of ways that they've been harmed, apparently.

00:16:30.360 This is what they listed.

00:16:31.640 Health care, clean water, breathable air, freedom from violence, education, the well-being of our neighbors, the future of our climate, trade with other countries, tax rates, ability to obtain contraception, Social Security.

00:16:44.240 And they said that, yeah, 99% of your life isn't affected if that 99% does not include any of those things, implication being that Republicans have hurt us on all of the levels that were just outlined there.

00:16:58.880 Now, of course, the suggestion that a person has not been able to breathe or drink water since Republicans took office is obviously, let's say, a bit of an exaggeration.

00:17:12.880 One might even call it a hysterical lie.

00:17:15.300 And it does bring up the question of how are you still alive after two years of this, if you haven't been able to breathe and you haven't gotten a break from violence, you haven't been able to drink or any of that for two years.

00:17:30.660 So it seems like you have actually survived somehow, in spite of all that.

00:17:35.780 Now, but this echoes the utterly hysterical, delusional claims from many other people who say that their lives have been hanging in the balance and have been greatly harmed by what's been going on in Washington.

00:17:54.740 Now, if these were unborn children responding, then I would have to agree, because unborn children, their lives really do hang in the balance depending on what laws are passed.

00:18:07.700 But as for born people in modern America, my point is simply that our well-being does not substantially hinge on what politicians say and do.

00:18:20.060 And the fact that despite all of the hand-wringing, despite all of the panic from Democrats and liberals, Trump got into office, we had Republicans controlling Congress, and things worked out okay for them.

00:18:35.860 Like, they're still alive, they're still living their life, they don't live in a dictatorship, despite what they claim, because they can do what they want, they can say what they want, they can carry about however they want.

00:18:51.640 In fact, we've learned that they can even go in the streets and throw rocks and burn buildings, and they won't necessarily even get arrested for that.

00:18:58.600 So they've got a ton of freedom.

00:19:00.460 They've got arguably more freedom than they should have, which only proves my point, that yes, elections are important, and politicians have the ability to cause harm, yes, but not nearly to the extent that we seem to think, judging by our reaction to elections.

00:19:24.200 Because every election, the side that loses will act as though life as they know it is over, but then life continues.

00:19:35.180 And most people just continue on, and in their daily lives, they wouldn't really even be able to tell who's in control of the government or who got elected to office,

00:19:48.480 because it really has no bearing on most of what they do throughout their life and throughout their day.

00:19:54.300 I said 99.99% of what you do throughout your day, you know, based on that, you wouldn't even be able to tell who's in office.

00:20:00.620 And I think that that's true.

00:20:01.840 Really, what I'm trying to communicate here, and what I'm trying to convey, is that we have freedom, actually.

00:20:12.880 And it's a testament to our founders who set up this system, that even when there is so much incompetence and so much dysfunction,

00:20:20.440 even in spite of that, we still have freedom, and we can still live our lives, those of us who are born,

00:20:26.460 which is quite a caveat, I realize, but that's what I'm talking about right now.

00:20:31.840 It's interesting to me that people are so resistant to this idea, that people could be angry and offended

00:20:42.140 simply because I said that they have freedom, and they can still live their lives, and their life will not be over

00:20:48.660 just because the politician that they wanted to get in office didn't get in.

00:20:52.700 Why would someone be angry at that?

00:20:54.180 I'm trying to encourage you and say, you'll be fine, really, I promise.

00:20:58.680 You have freedom, but it seems like people don't want that message, and they don't want to realize that they have freedom.

00:21:08.280 People are...

00:21:10.980 And the only explanation I can think of for that is that people don't...

00:21:15.080 Even though people have freedom, they don't really want it, and they don't want to believe that they have it,

00:21:20.300 and they don't want us to believe that they have it, because the only rationale I can think of,

00:21:25.980 the only way to explain it, is that they're just looking for excuses in their life.

00:21:29.900 Because with freedom comes a certain amount of accountability and responsibility.

00:21:34.740 You're responsible for your life.

00:21:36.460 And there are a lot of people in America who do not want to be responsible for their own lives,

00:21:40.100 don't want to take the blame for anything.

00:21:42.160 And so that's why they make this absurd claim.

00:21:46.180 They speak in this apocalyptic manner about elections and politicians and policies and everything else,

00:21:52.960 because they don't want freedom.

00:21:56.300 And so I'll tell you, even though we do not right now live in a dictatorship,

00:22:00.180 and we still largely have freedom,

00:22:03.220 when we get to the point in America

00:22:07.380 where a large number of people don't want freedom

00:22:13.860 and would prefer not to have it,

00:22:16.260 and are, in fact, trying to convince themselves they don't have it,

00:22:18.920 well, that's when you do get into a dangerous point.

00:22:23.440 And I think if we continue on,

00:22:26.340 if we persist in that mentality and that philosophy,

00:22:29.760 then who knows?

00:22:30.900 Maybe years down the line, we won't have freedom.

00:22:32.500 Maybe we really will live in a dictatorship,

00:22:34.980 because it seems like that's what everybody wants.

00:22:40.320 So that's something to be careful about.

00:22:42.540 One more thing I wanted to mention

00:22:44.500 relating to the results last night

00:22:49.060 and getting away from Republican versus Democrat.

00:22:54.040 There was an interesting vote in Florida.

00:22:57.620 They voted to restore voting rights to felons.

00:23:02.500 So that a felon who gets out of jail,

00:23:04.980 completes whatever additional requirements are necessary,

00:23:09.680 that at that point they can then get the vote back

00:23:11.940 and be re-enfranchised.

00:23:14.040 Now, convicted murderers and convicted violent sex felons,

00:23:18.220 they will not be,

00:23:22.160 they won't,

00:23:22.940 they're an exception.

00:23:23.640 But everybody else can vote again.

00:23:28.660 And I think that that's the right call.

00:23:30.980 And that's how it should be in every state.

00:23:33.000 I think it's pretty absurd, actually,

00:23:35.080 that we disenfranchise people who commit crimes forever,

00:23:39.580 for the rest of their life.

00:23:40.580 They can never vote again.

00:23:42.940 Even if, I mean, let's say,

00:23:44.820 you take a guy who,

00:23:45.780 at the age of 18,

00:23:46.900 falls in with the wrong crowd,

00:23:48.560 commits a robbery or something,

00:23:49.820 that's a felony,

00:23:51.960 it's a serious felony,

00:23:52.860 goes to jail as well he should,

00:23:54.840 and then gets out after four or five years or whatever.

00:23:58.980 And then even fast forward the clock

00:24:00.800 to the guy is now 60 years old,

00:24:03.740 and he committed this crime when he was 18.

00:24:05.380 He got out of jail.

00:24:06.140 He's been out of jail for 30 years or more.

00:24:11.380 But the way the law works in a lot of states,

00:24:13.800 he still can't vote.

00:24:15.900 Maybe he's had a job.

00:24:17.040 He's been a contributing member of society.

00:24:18.860 He got a college education.

00:24:20.460 Still can't vote

00:24:21.060 because of something that happened 30, 40 years ago.

00:24:24.000 I think that's crazy.

00:24:25.880 I just think it is.

00:24:27.420 Once you've served your time

00:24:28.980 and you've paid your debt to society,

00:24:31.140 I think the just and right thing

00:24:34.040 is to let someone then go and live

00:24:36.360 and move on.

00:24:40.560 And if someone has committed a crime

00:24:44.060 that is so heinous

00:24:47.040 that they can never really repay the debt

00:24:49.560 and that they should face

00:24:51.020 lifetime consequences for,

00:24:53.180 well, then that's someone

00:24:53.920 who should still be in prison,

00:24:55.280 in my mind.

00:24:58.220 This is one of my,

00:24:59.180 I don't want to get sidetracked here,

00:25:00.380 this is one of my big problems

00:25:01.800 with the sex offender registry.

00:25:05.900 Now, I like the idea

00:25:07.940 of knowing where sex offenders are,

00:25:09.720 but if you're telling me

00:25:12.360 that someone has committed a crime

00:25:14.780 that is so heinous

00:25:17.220 that now they're a threat to society

00:25:23.960 for the rest of their lives

00:25:25.580 and I can't even trust,

00:25:28.540 you know,

00:25:28.840 I need to know where they live

00:25:30.440 so that I can make sure

00:25:31.480 that my kids never go anywhere near that house.

00:25:33.920 Well, it seems to me

00:25:34.540 that's someone who should still be in jail, right?

00:25:36.380 But if it's someone

00:25:38.080 who needs to be on a registry,

00:25:40.400 then what you're telling me

00:25:41.480 is that they're still a threat.

00:25:43.620 So they should be in jail.

00:25:45.020 If they're not a threat anymore,

00:25:46.680 then they shouldn't be on a registry.

00:25:48.240 So there should be no need for that.

00:25:51.480 And I think of the same thing with voting.

00:25:53.520 If you're telling me

00:25:54.300 that this is someone

00:25:55.060 who has done something so terrible

00:25:57.300 that they should have

00:25:59.200 their voice taken from them politically

00:26:01.720 for the rest of their lives,

00:26:03.080 then it seems like

00:26:04.360 that's someone who should still be.

00:26:05.300 But if they did something

00:26:06.680 that doesn't really justify

00:26:08.120 those kinds of lifetime consequences,

00:26:10.460 then once they get out of jail,

00:26:12.880 then they should be able

00:26:13.540 to return to their life.

00:26:15.200 And I say this as someone who is not,

00:26:18.240 you know,

00:26:18.420 I'm not one of those people,

00:26:19.540 as I've made clear,

00:26:20.360 I'm not one of those people

00:26:20.900 that believes

00:26:21.340 that we need to get everybody out to the polls

00:26:22.840 and that America

00:26:23.860 and our democracy is benefited

00:26:25.860 just by shoving

00:26:28.240 the highest number of warm bodies

00:26:31.940 into the polling station that we can.

00:26:33.840 I don't think that at all.

00:26:34.660 In fact,

00:26:35.560 I'm in favor of disenfranchising some people.

00:26:38.340 I'm in favor of disenfranchising people 0.97

00:26:40.180 who are oblivious,

00:26:42.060 who don't know anything

00:26:43.560 about our government,

00:26:44.760 about the system,

00:26:45.960 about the candidates

00:26:46.820 that they're voting for.

00:26:47.720 If there was a way

00:26:48.240 to weed them out

00:26:48.840 and disenfranchise them, 0.57

00:26:49.760 I would.

00:26:50.560 But a felon

00:26:52.040 who does not fall into that category,

00:26:53.820 I see no reason

00:26:54.440 why they shouldn't be able to vote.

00:26:55.380 In fact,

00:26:56.780 someone who's been in jail,

00:26:58.940 I think that they have seen the system

00:27:01.600 from the inside,

00:27:03.260 literally,

00:27:03.860 and so they have a perspective

00:27:05.040 that I actually think

00:27:05.620 is kind of valuable

00:27:06.740 in the voting booth.

00:27:09.860 It may be,

00:27:10.620 I'm sure it's a sort of cynical perspective

00:27:12.200 about the government,

00:27:12.980 but good.

00:27:13.980 I think we could use more cynical,

00:27:15.860 I think we could use more people

00:27:16.920 who are cynical about government

00:27:17.980 in the voting booth

00:27:18.740 come election day.

00:27:20.120 So I think their perspective

00:27:20.760 is valuable,

00:27:21.920 even if you don't think

00:27:22.760 it's valuable,

00:27:23.800 that still does not justify

00:27:25.200 removing the vote from them.

00:27:26.560 So I think that Florida

00:27:28.280 got that one right.

00:27:30.500 All right.

00:27:31.540 We'll leave it there.

00:27:32.440 Thanks for watching.

00:27:33.080 Thanks for listening, everybody.

00:27:34.060 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - November 07, 2018

Ep. 138 - The Blue Wave That Never Came

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