BONUS POD： China’s 'New' Viral Outbreak Echoes COVID-Era Measures plus Democrats Face Removal Over Quorum Walkout
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Ben Ferguson talks about a viral outbreak in China spread by mosquito bites, the Texas Supreme Court ruling against the governor and Supreme Court, and why you should switch your cell phone service provider to one that supports your First Amendment rights and opposes abortion.
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The term that I use now to describe the Democrats,
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these Marxists and Islamists, is authoritarian Democrats.
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In other words, they'll go through the voting process as long as they win,
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but if they don't win, they'll try and sabotage, you know, a Trump or a Republican.
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They don't really care about the electorate except if it gives them power.
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They don't really care about the well-being of the average person
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You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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It's nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update,
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and we've got a couple of major stories for you this morning.
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This one is a story I hope I never have to talk about again,
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The CDC has now issued a travel warning over a viral outbreak in China
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It is very eerie how close this is to the initial warnings we got with COVID-19.
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Also, it is ratcheting up in Texas as Democrats refuse to come back to work.
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about his new book on power and how it relates to everything that's going on in Texas.
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It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now.
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There is a major story that needs to be on your radar,
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and it's one that concerns now China yet again,
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and the CDC issuing a travel warning over a viral outbreak in China
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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This is much like what we witness with the coronavirus
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for a province in China due to a, quote, major outbreak.
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The agency is recommending travelers practice enhanced precautions.
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As of August the 6th, if you believe the numbers coming out of China,
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over 7,000 confirmed cases of chikungunya have been reported
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with the outbreak spreading to Hong Kong and other provinces.
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Well, symptoms typically appear, they say, three to seven days after a mosquito bite.
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And while most recover within a week, there are major problems that can happen
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characterized as being major issues with fever,
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severe joint pain, severe headaches, muscle aches, joint swelling, and a rash.
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There is also a concern over death, even though it's being categorized as rare.
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Older adults and people with certain health conditions will also face high risk of severe symptoms
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Yet again, another concern of the similarities we're talking about here
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because of what happened last time when it came out of China.
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Now, in 2025, this strand has affected approximately 240,000 people across 16 countries,
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Chinese authorities have mobilized intense containment strategies,
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including drones, to locate standing water, insecticide spraying,
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even targeting individuals before entering buildings,
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deployment of mosquito-eating fish, fines or penalties for stagnant water accumulation,
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Here is more from Fox News Channel about the CDC putting out the warning for Americans.
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Tonight, a viral outbreak in China prompts the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
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More than 7,000 cases of this disease have been reported so far.
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State Department correspondent Jillian Turner has details tonight live from the State Department.
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The CDC, as you mentioned, is warning Americans traveling to China about chikungunya.
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It is a virus that spreads to humans through infected mosquito bites.
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It can cause severe illness, with symptoms that mimic pretty closely dengue fever and Zika virus,
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They say most people infected get better within a week.
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However, some can have severe joint pain for months to years.
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Other symptoms include severe fever and fatigue.
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The outbreak now is in the Chinese province Guangdong.
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It's near Hong Kong, with more than 7,000 cases reported so far,
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prompting some pretty dramatic measures to contain the spread,
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like mandatory insect repellent blasts for people entering the area,
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mandatory property checks for stagnant water, which attracts mosquitoes,
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and when found, is now punishable by fines or even arrests.
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If you happen to get this, they're quarantining you in hospitals with mosquito netting
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These are the kind of draconian responses we saw with COVID.
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The CDC says Americans traveling to eight other countries are also at elevated risk of exposure
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to the virus, even if there is no current outbreak there.
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People at risk for more severe cases of chikungunya include newborns,
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seniors 65 years and up, as well as people with diabetes or heart disease.
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Now, the good news is that unlike COVID, deaths from this disease are exceedingly rare.
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You can also protect yourself by getting vaccinated against it
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or by preventing mosquito bites in the first place through all the usual mechanisms,
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insect repellent netting, wearing long sleeves, and staying in air conditioning.
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You listened to this warning, and there's a couple of points here that need to be made clear.
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Number one, there's no specific treatment for this.
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So management focuses on symptom relief, rest, hydration, over-the-counter pain relief,
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and vaccines, as they mentioned, are available in the U.S.
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and recommended for travelers that are going to the outbreak regions.
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But then the question also comes up, and this is why I want it on your radar screen.
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Why are they treating this in China very much the same way they treated COVID?
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Now, they're saying to minimize the risk of exposure, the CDC advises the use of insect repellent,
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wearing long-sleeved shirts and long pants, staying in screened or air-conditioned accommodation.
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They also have a warning for pregnant travelers, especially near delivery.
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They're encouraged now to, quote, reconsider travel, as infection near childbirth can pass to newborns.
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Vaccination should be discussed with a health care provider, the CDC is also saying.
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So this is a story that I hope I don't have to talk about again with you.
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But when you're dealing with China and what they're doing right now, you have to wonder, what are they hiding?
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I want to move on to another major story, and it deals with what's happening in Texas.
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The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, has now filed a lawsuit to start the removal for dereliction of duty.
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Derelict Democrats and saying, you're not showing up for work.
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You fled the state to block redistricting bill, and now we're going to hold you accountable for exactly that.
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Governor Abbott filing the lawsuit Tuesday night with the Texas Supreme Court seeking to begin the process
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for the removal of House Democratic Caucus Chairman Liu and others.
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The chairman, along with most of his Democrat House colleagues, fled the state to block a quorum in protest of the GOP's efforts
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to carry out their duty of congressional seat redistricting.
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Today, I took emergency action, the governor said, to begin the removal from office of derelict Democrat Texas House members.
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I filed the suit directly with the Texas Supreme Court to quickly make clear the authority I have to bring the lawsuit
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Now, on Sunday, Abbott ordered the House Democrats, who fled the state, to break quorum to return to work,
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or he would take action to vacate their legislative seats and appoint replacements.
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This truancy ends now, Governor Abbott said in a Sunday night statement.
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The derelict Democratic House members must return to Texas and be in attendance when the House reconvenes at 3 p.m. on Monday, August 4th.
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The governor said he will invoke the Texas Attorney General opinion to remove the absent Democrats from their elected office.
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In that opinion, the attorney general considered whether Texas law allows for a determination that a legislator has vacated office
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The attorney general concluded that whether a specific legislator abandoned his or her office such that a vacancy occurred
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will be a fact question for a court, quote, unquote.
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Sunday afternoon, Texas House Democrats fled the state to Illinois to stop the state legislature from moving forward
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on plans to redistrict Texas congressional districts.
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Democratic caucus chairman Wu, a Democrat from Houston, said the governor is using an intentionally racist map
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to steal the voices of millions of black and Latino Texans, all to execute a corrupt political deal.
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The derelict Texas House members ignored the governor's order and did not return to the Capitol.
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Filed a notice with the Texas Supreme Court in support of the governor's lawsuit saying this,
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Texas is taking every available avenue to force runaway Democrats to return to Texas
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That's what the attorney general Ken Paxton said in the statement saying, quote,
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Under the Texas Constitution and Texas law, the office of the attorney general has the legal authority
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to bring these cases against the renegade House members.
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I have alerted the Texas Supreme Court that I will be making additional filings on Friday
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if the Democrats continued to abandon their legislative duties.
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Abbott also wrote a letter to the Texas Supreme Court about his action of filing directly with the state's top course,
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bypassing the district and appellate court system.
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The governor cited Section 22 of the Texas Constitution and court precedent for those actions.
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The Supreme Court requests a response from the respondent.
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Chairman Wu, the Democrat, no later than Friday, August 8th at 5 p.m.
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The case number for the emergency petition is 25-0674.
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Translation, it's getting very real now for Democrats that there is a chance that if they do not come back to Texas,
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Texas Tribune reporter, by the way, posting comments from Chairman Wu in response to the governor's latest action to remove him
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and fellow Democratic legislators, saying, quote,
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I took an oath to the Constitution, not a politician's agenda.
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Denying the governor a quorum was not an abandonment of my office.
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He said, I took that oath to the Constitution, not the political agenda.
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And he's hoping the American people will go along with him.
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One person, by the way, that definitely is going along with him is the governor of Illinois,
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trying to turn this into his own political moment.
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J.B. Pritzker firing back at Trump's threat to arrest runaway Texas Democrats, saying,
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Is that, you know, our local law enforcement protect everybody in Illinois.
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Our state troopers protect everybody in Illinois and anybody who's here in Illinois.
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And so whether it's federal agents coming to Illinois or state rangers from Texas,
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if you haven't broken federal law, you're, you know, you're basically unwelcome.
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And there's no way that they can be, that our state legislators here,
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So there's the governor of Illinois saying, hey, I stand up for illegal immigrants that are in my state
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Why not go ahead and protect some hardcore liberal Democrats from Texas as well?
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Now, governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, he has a very simple response to J.D. Pritzker
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So the Democrats, when they return, they're going to be accountable for certain legal violations,
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And the sooner they get back, maybe the lesser the consequences.
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But the longer they stay, the greater the consequences.
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And there's a very good chance that the governors got this one right.
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And Democrats may lose their jobs over all of this,
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refusing to come back to the state that they said they were representing
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I also sat down and had a very interesting conversation with a dear friend of mine,
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He has a new book out called On Power, a book that I hope all of you will buy.
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And I asked him about what was happening in Texas and how his book relates to what we're witnessing.
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I want you to take a listen to what Mark Levin, the great one, had to say.
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Speaking of power, I want to get your take on what Democrats have just decided to do in Texas,
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They have run to other states that are basically advocating for socialism and communism and Marxism.
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come on over, we'll house you, we'll love on you, yada, yada, yada.
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And they say this is what power now looks like to the left.
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Well, this gerrymandering, is that what you're talking about pretty much?
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But let's point out, I have a whole chapter on language in there,
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and they're proving the point in the chapter, and I'll let people read it themselves.
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The 2020 census, they had quote-unquote mathematical errors,
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which resulted in Democrats having five more seats than they should have had.
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They don't have a single Republican member of the House of Representatives.
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They have one Republican out of eight in the state of Maryland.
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Then you look at Illinois, 14 Democrats and three Republicans.
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So this party, the Democrat Party, it embraces Marxism.
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It embraces the Islamists against the Israelis.
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Again, I discuss this in the chapter in the book.
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They corrupt the public debate so people don't even know what to debate.
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They come up with slogans and repetition, which is a big deal for them,
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So people get in their minds that it's the Republicans are trying to steal the midterm
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And so, so many people who don't focus on this day in and day out have no idea what's
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actually going on, except the drumbeat that they hear over and over and over again.
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So it is very dangerous what these people are doing, but it has to be countered.
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And the way we counter it is, again, we go to the core of this book.
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And rather than making superficial arguments, we say they want to grab power.
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And the book explains why and how they do it and how to respond to it.
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I hope all of you, by the way, will grab Mark Levin's new book,
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On Power, as it exposes the nature of power, its historical uses, and its impact on liberty.
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The book argues that while power can be used for oppression, it is also essential for a
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thriving society when it's structured with checks and balances.
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The left, by the way, has bastardized power, and, well, now we're witnessing it in real
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And this is exactly why I hope all of you will grab Mark Levin's new book, On Power.
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Thank you for listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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