#1415 Opinions and Principles

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🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week on the Thomas Jefferson Hour, Jefferson speaks about his election to the Presidency and the delays in certification as the 3rd President, along with his feelings of the need to unite a divided electorate. On March 4, 1801 in his inaugural address he famously stated, "But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans. We are all federalists."

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0:00.0	Good day, Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners, and thank you so much for listening.
0:09.1	You know, Clay, I think people have been hearing sad stories about our little hometown.
0:15.8	Well, it's not looking good, you know, that the, you know, when the national government,
0:20.7	when the Trump administration rebukes the leadership of North Dakota,
0:27.9	that, well, Dr. Deborah Birx was in, was in our hometown.
0:32.0	You know, when she said she wandered around, she said she wandered around Bismarck and she had never,
0:38.3	ever seen such unwillingness to do social distancing and to wear masks. Think of that.
0:45.2	She's been all over the place, David. She said that in all of her experience, she's never seen
0:49.6	anything as deplorable as the fact that North Dakota's refused to do the thing that will ensure
0:55.0	public health. And because of it, of course, we in South Dakota are now the nation's leading COVID-19
1:01.5	hotspots. Shame, shame, shame on North Dakota. But, but I can report that last night the,
1:07.6	the Bismarck City Commission passed a mask wearing mandate. It's unenforceable, but it's at least a step.
1:16.2	I watched the local news. You should hear this clip. This guy was standing at the podium arguing
1:22.9	against masks and he was holding a rabbit's foot and he said, I could periodically rub this rabbit's
1:29.0	foot and it would give me just as much protection as this mask. I was like, oh, my. You just got a
1:35.6	wonder, you know, how we weaponized basic public health protocols. I mean, look, there are some people
1:41.8	that say that masks are less effective than than they're said to be and there are people that say
1:47.1	certain individuals can actually be harmed by mask wearing, but the overwhelming consensus of
1:53.5	most of the epidemiologists of the world of most of the public health experts of every person at
1:58.4	Johns Hopkins or the World Health Organization or the CDC, the overwhelming consensus is that
2:03.8	wearing a mask and practicing social distancing is the number one way to prevent the spread of
2:10.1	this virus. And I've even heard the head of the CDC say to in a testimony before Congress,
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