Verdict with Ted Cruz - March 10, 2026


BONUS POD： Capitalism vs. Socialism in the 2026 Voter Mindset


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00:00:04.960 A lot of people have said about the, you know,
00:00:07.580 accusing the president of somehow flip-flopping
00:00:09.760 on what the standards are here.
00:00:11.840 But unconditional surrender, look, they have no Navy.
00:00:14.760 They've lost their space command.
00:00:16.180 They've lost their ability to find 12-digit grids.
00:00:19.440 So naturally, they're still firing drones and missiles.
00:00:23.880 Unconditional surrender means that
00:00:25.520 all those weapon systems are taken away.
00:00:28.020 That command stands down.
00:00:30.120 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
00:00:34.220 Good Tuesday morning.
00:00:35.200 Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update.
00:00:37.800 And we've got one big story for you.
00:00:39.680 There's a new shocking poll that has come out
00:00:41.520 showing that more than 30% of Americans
00:00:44.100 say they support the United States moving towards socialism
00:00:48.480 and getting rid of democracy.
00:00:50.900 How did we get to this point?
00:00:52.460 And how much are Democrats spending
00:00:54.260 to convince Americans that we need to trash democracy?
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00:02:35.920 It's the 47 Morning Update,
00:02:38.080 and it starts right now.
00:02:39.860 Story number one.
00:02:41.000 There's a new Fox News survey
00:02:42.360 that finds that 38% of voters
00:02:45.820 say it would be a good thing
00:02:48.560 for the U.S. to move away from capitalism
00:02:51.780 and towards socialism.
00:02:53.940 That's an all-time high.
00:02:55.820 61% view socialism negatively.
00:02:59.680 Did you hear me?
00:03:00.760 38% of voters said it would be a good thing
00:03:03.120 for the U.S. to move away from capitalism
00:03:04.980 and towards socialism.
00:03:07.140 How do we overcome that?
00:03:09.480 How do you think we got that?
00:03:11.200 I mean, excuse me, not 37,
00:03:12.740 38% of voters say it would be a good thing
00:03:14.760 for the U.S. to move away from capitalism
00:03:16.760 and towards socialism.
00:03:19.000 61% view socialism negative,
00:03:22.400 but you still have a large number.
00:03:25.980 And by the way,
00:03:26.720 the shift they say may be tied,
00:03:28.380 may be divided views on capitalism itself
00:03:30.540 as voters are split over
00:03:31.620 whether capitalism in the United States
00:03:34.060 is working well.
00:03:35.640 51% say it's working very or somewhat well,
00:03:40.580 but nearly as many,
00:03:41.840 this would be your left, your dims,
00:03:43.260 49% say it's working not very or not at all well.
00:03:49.820 That can explain to you the rise of Mandani,
00:03:52.660 for example, right?
00:03:54.220 And AOCs.
00:03:55.520 Like they have gone under the core belief
00:03:58.940 and the core point and the attack
00:04:02.580 and the obsession
00:04:04.780 that America is somehow evil in its existence
00:04:09.260 and that capitalism is the drug
00:04:12.520 that is evil in America
00:04:14.160 and that if we were all just somehow the same,
00:04:17.660 because part of this is the left knows
00:04:19.440 that a lot of their voters are poor
00:04:20.780 and they want to convince them
00:04:23.000 that the system's working against them, right?
00:04:25.500 Not for them.
00:04:27.380 And so they're like,
00:04:28.400 hey, help us take from the rich.
00:04:30.080 This is the Robin man like syndrome,
00:04:32.080 as I call it,
00:04:32.800 where you get a lot of people that do great
00:04:35.100 because they work their AWSs off
00:04:36.860 and you have a lot of people that don't
00:04:38.660 and then they're like,
00:04:39.320 well, I want what they have
00:04:40.120 but they're not willing to do the work
00:04:41.140 or study hard or go to school
00:04:42.580 or whatever it may be
00:04:43.600 and so there's a jealousy
00:04:45.000 and then you have politicians come around
00:04:46.460 and they're like,
00:04:47.160 hey, there's enough of you guys
00:04:48.380 that are angry and jealous
00:04:49.620 that I can convince you
00:04:52.660 that you're not failing
00:04:55.180 but the system is against you
00:04:56.960 and rigged against you
00:04:57.920 and it's not your fault
00:04:58.660 you didn't go to college,
00:04:59.560 it's not your fault
00:05:00.300 that you're a pothead,
00:05:01.540 it's not your fault
00:05:02.180 that you're a drug addict,
00:05:02.900 it's not your fault
00:05:03.500 that you're just lazy.
00:05:05.140 I mean, look,
00:05:05.920 I see this in life now.
00:05:07.220 I'm 44, Justin,
00:05:08.420 and like it's very interesting now
00:05:11.580 how many people in my 40s
00:05:13.700 that I used to be friends with
00:05:15.200 will actually like come after me
00:05:17.460 on social media,
00:05:18.200 like not call me,
00:05:19.520 not text me,
00:05:20.640 but will attack me
00:05:21.960 because they are,
00:05:24.020 I guess, frustrated
00:05:25.280 that I'm successful
00:05:26.200 and they're like,
00:05:26.640 well, you don't understand
00:05:27.280 the working man,
00:05:27.940 the hard man.
00:05:28.360 I'm like, dude,
00:05:28.620 I work my tail off.
00:05:30.420 Like while you were
00:05:31.060 trying to get,
00:05:32.720 one of them,
00:05:34.160 we had one of those
00:05:35.640 pretty blunt conversations
00:05:36.800 one day
00:05:37.240 and I said to him,
00:05:37.860 he was like,
00:05:38.780 well, you don't understand
00:05:39.560 what it's like to struggle.
00:05:40.280 I'm like, I do.
00:05:41.680 That's why I work so hard
00:05:42.960 and we both came
00:05:45.180 from the same place.
00:05:47.300 We both didn't grow up
00:05:49.260 on third base
00:05:50.040 or second base
00:05:50.900 or on first base,
00:05:52.340 okay?
00:05:52.680 Like you and I both
00:05:54.080 knew we needed to pay,
00:05:55.000 we were going to have
00:05:55.360 to pay for college.
00:05:56.420 You and I both knew
00:05:57.420 that we were going
00:05:57.880 to have to get there
00:05:58.520 on a college scholarship
00:05:59.480 if we were going to go
00:06:00.960 and the difference
00:06:02.600 between you and I is
00:06:03.840 I was out there
00:06:05.120 busting my tail
00:06:05.880 working 60 hours a week
00:06:07.100 teaching tennis in the summer
00:06:08.220 while you were trying
00:06:09.540 to get your beer plate
00:06:10.600 on the wall
00:06:11.260 at Flying Saucer
00:06:12.340 and if you know
00:06:12.980 what Flying Saucer is,
00:06:13.820 it's a beer house.
00:06:14.600 They have like
00:06:14.940 X number of brews on tap.
00:06:16.860 It's insane,
00:06:17.280 like over a hundred
00:06:18.020 and if you drink every beer
00:06:19.600 and you can't
00:06:20.000 and it's like
00:06:20.780 there's rules on it
00:06:22.160 so that you have
00:06:22.880 to come back every week
00:06:23.660 so you don't just
00:06:24.180 get belligerently drunk
00:06:25.680 but you can get
00:06:26.580 a plate with your name
00:06:27.900 on the wall
00:06:28.640 and I'm like,
00:06:29.720 dude,
00:06:29.840 that was your biggest
00:06:30.440 accomplishment
00:06:31.000 in your 20s
00:06:31.880 was like getting
00:06:32.980 your beer plate
00:06:34.180 on the wall
00:06:34.960 at Flying Saucer.
00:06:37.400 There's a difference
00:06:38.500 between my work ethic
00:06:39.800 and your work ethic
00:06:41.340 like a very,
00:06:43.680 very big difference
00:06:45.900 and now you're mad
00:06:47.920 and you become a liberal
00:06:49.100 because you somehow
00:06:50.140 think that like
00:06:50.800 the system's against you
00:06:52.180 and rigged.
00:06:53.080 No,
00:06:53.540 it's because you
00:06:54.700 didn't work hard.
00:06:57.160 You've got multiple mugshots
00:06:59.220 for being an idiot,
00:07:00.460 like not committing
00:07:01.180 major crimes,
00:07:02.360 like just being,
00:07:03.000 like just doing stupid stuff
00:07:04.260 like a DUI
00:07:05.220 and so that has hindered you
00:07:08.680 as well
00:07:09.440 in your development.
00:07:11.720 Like you made
00:07:12.720 some stupid decisions
00:07:13.660 being arrogant
00:07:14.320 with people you worked with
00:07:15.540 and you got fired
00:07:16.280 from jobs
00:07:16.940 because of insubordination
00:07:18.420 that again
00:07:20.140 and some of that
00:07:20.940 came back
00:07:21.360 to the drinking issues
00:07:22.240 like this is,
00:07:24.020 there is a real
00:07:26.480 interesting moment
00:07:27.980 happening here
00:07:28.740 in this country
00:07:29.360 whereas the left
00:07:30.120 is saying
00:07:30.600 to people like that,
00:07:31.600 hey,
00:07:31.820 it's somehow
00:07:33.060 the system
00:07:33.860 that screwed you
00:07:34.480 and that's why
00:07:34.960 you're making
00:07:35.400 all these bad decisions
00:07:36.380 and that's where
00:07:38.600 the Mondanis,
00:07:39.380 the AOCs
00:07:40.100 and all these liberal mayors
00:07:41.180 in different liberal cities
00:07:42.160 like Memphis
00:07:42.920 and New Orleans
00:07:44.300 and Detroit
00:07:45.080 and Baltimore
00:07:45.680 come in
00:07:46.200 because they figured out
00:07:48.060 that there's enough
00:07:48.880 lazy people
00:07:49.920 that they can get to vote
00:07:52.460 for that they just
00:07:53.040 give them free stuff.
00:07:54.480 It's modern day slavery,
00:07:56.080 right?
00:07:56.740 Like I'll feed you
00:07:58.060 but I'm not going to help
00:07:59.760 you get out of poverty
00:08:00.500 because if I help you
00:08:01.180 get out of poverty
00:08:01.980 then you don't need me anymore.
00:08:05.700 One of the biggest reasons
00:08:07.060 why the Democratic Party
00:08:08.080 tried to destroy
00:08:08.680 Donald Trump
00:08:09.100 through impeachment
00:08:09.640 in 2016,
00:08:10.700 2017,
00:08:11.340 2018,
00:08:11.920 2019
00:08:12.340 is because
00:08:14.040 they understood
00:08:14.720 the threat
00:08:15.300 that Donald Trump
00:08:15.920 was to the minority voters.
00:08:17.440 Why do you think
00:08:18.260 the Democrats
00:08:18.980 let so many illegal immigrants
00:08:20.100 into this country?
00:08:21.240 Because Donald Trump
00:08:22.580 had completely decimated
00:08:25.620 the Democratic Party's
00:08:26.880 control of the
00:08:27.500 African American community
00:08:28.520 and you had
00:08:30.520 African American
00:08:31.320 unemployment rates
00:08:33.000 at the lowest
00:08:33.560 in history
00:08:34.480 when Donald Trump
00:08:35.600 was present
00:08:36.000 in his first term.
00:08:37.700 You had the lowest
00:08:38.340 unemployment rate
00:08:38.980 for African Americans,
00:08:40.380 Asian Americans
00:08:40.960 and Latinos
00:08:42.440 and so what
00:08:44.460 the Democratic Party
00:08:45.340 realized was
00:08:46.160 if this keeps up
00:08:47.740 and thank goodness
00:08:49.220 COVID came in for them
00:08:50.400 it saved them
00:08:50.900 politically in many ways
00:08:52.100 because COVID
00:08:53.280 you know really
00:08:54.100 as you know
00:08:54.640 hurt the economy
00:08:55.320 in a major way
00:08:56.080 and that stopped
00:08:57.860 a lot of the Trump
00:08:58.580 like MAGA movement
00:09:00.660 and I think
00:09:02.520 in many ways
00:09:02.960 cost Trump
00:09:03.480 his presidency
00:09:04.120 his first time
00:09:05.160 because of what
00:09:06.380 happened with COVID
00:09:07.300 and it just shut down
00:09:08.000 the whole country
00:09:08.660 and they
00:09:10.700 that was the gift
00:09:11.520 to the Democratic Party
00:09:12.560 but the Democratic Party
00:09:14.240 was losing their base
00:09:15.620 because what Donald Trump
00:09:16.700 said was
00:09:17.040 I don't want you
00:09:17.940 to live in poverty
00:09:18.660 your whole life
00:09:19.400 I don't want you
00:09:20.960 to live on food stamps
00:09:22.260 your whole life
00:09:23.320 I want to empower you
00:09:25.100 to pay for your own stuff
00:09:26.220 but not because I'm
00:09:27.520 like don't want to
00:09:28.740 give you help
00:09:29.400 it's because I want you
00:09:30.400 to live a better life
00:09:31.440 I don't want you
00:09:32.660 to live in government housing
00:09:33.860 I don't want you
00:09:35.380 to be in a HUD house
00:09:37.280 your whole life
00:09:38.140 I don't want you
00:09:39.840 to have to depend
00:09:40.620 on handouts
00:09:41.680 to survive
00:09:42.360 I want you
00:09:43.900 to be able
00:09:44.140 to get your kids
00:09:44.720 in a good school
00:09:45.760 not a failing school
00:09:47.560 and one of the ways
00:09:49.280 that Democrats
00:09:49.820 keep Americans down
00:09:51.480 is by giving their kids
00:09:53.700 horrific educational quality
00:09:55.280 horrific
00:09:57.040 educational quality
00:09:59.500 the level of
00:10:01.660 of of Democrat cities
00:10:04.200 education quality level
00:10:06.200 it is failing
00:10:07.480 virtually nationwide
00:10:09.000 in every school district
00:10:10.180 in a major city
00:10:11.020 where Democrats
00:10:12.020 control it
00:10:12.720 and the question
00:10:14.100 is why
00:10:15.600 I think it's
00:10:17.240 designed deliberately
00:10:18.300 because if kids
00:10:20.200 are uneducated
00:10:21.060 then they are going
00:10:21.860 to end up
00:10:22.240 depending on them
00:10:23.720 the Democratic Party
00:10:24.740 for survival
00:10:25.620 after they fail
00:10:26.780 in school
00:10:27.360 if you empower
00:10:29.200 a kid
00:10:29.980 to be smart
00:10:30.760 and get a great education
00:10:32.800 okay
00:10:34.080 like
00:10:35.200 if
00:10:36.260 if you
00:10:37.180 if you have a child
00:10:40.800 succeed
00:10:41.280 and get on their own
00:10:42.180 the chances
00:10:44.040 that child
00:10:44.620 at some point
00:10:45.060 in their life
00:10:45.320 becomes a Republican
00:10:46.180 are very high
00:10:47.220 and the Democratic Party
00:10:49.500 understands
00:10:50.400 that
00:10:52.000 if you empower
00:10:53.720 if these kids
00:10:55.200 grow up
00:10:55.740 and we don't own them
00:10:56.800 in poverty
00:10:57.460 and own them
00:10:58.420 because of their failures
00:10:59.980 that we've created
00:11:00.800 an environment
00:11:01.300 for them to fail
00:11:02.020 with failing schools
00:11:03.020 then
00:11:03.920 that is
00:11:05.600 self-fulfilling prophecy
00:11:06.720 like okay
00:11:07.320 they'll vote for us
00:11:08.060 and their kids
00:11:08.580 will vote for us
00:11:09.240 and they'll never
00:11:09.940 get out of the ghetto
00:11:10.440 and they'll always
00:11:11.220 need us
00:11:11.740 for their food
00:11:12.460 and for their lights
00:11:13.620 and their heat
00:11:14.260 and their HUD housing
00:11:15.220 and their
00:11:15.720 and their government aid
00:11:17.240 and their
00:11:17.680 their government health care
00:11:18.960 right
00:11:19.180 like that's one of the reasons
00:11:19.920 why Obamacare
00:11:20.580 was so important
00:11:21.400 to the Democratic Party
00:11:22.160 because it was a way to
00:11:23.260 I would say
00:11:25.260 in chain
00:11:26.160 Democratic voters
00:11:28.260 to them
00:11:28.760 you can't vote against me
00:11:30.440 you need that health care
00:11:31.260 right
00:11:32.120 like you can't vote against me
00:11:33.520 you need that
00:11:34.760 and without me
00:11:36.120 you're screwed
00:11:36.880 right
00:11:37.940 like without me
00:11:38.640 you're in deep trouble
00:11:39.620 without me
00:11:40.980 you've got serious
00:11:42.060 serious
00:11:42.860 serious problems
00:11:44.400 and so that's why
00:11:45.820 they keep voting for them
00:11:46.700 like that's just
00:11:47.520 what happens here
00:11:48.420 thank you for listening
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