9/13/17 - "America Needs a Plea not a Scolding"

The Glenn Beck Program

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News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 13 September 2017

⏱️ 121 minutes

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America needs a 'plea' not a 'scolding' ...'radical right' vs. 'radical left' ...Should we start prepping for civil war?...Top 5 warnings... a 'cold' civil war ...Anxiety-ridden America ...Nancy Pelosi: They’re coming for the ‘Dreamers’ ...Journalist Michael Moynihan joins the show to talk about the dangers of cutting off service for Nazi websites...Here comes the new $1,000 iPhone X...The government is beholden to Apple? ...Hollywood cheapskates donate for hurricane relief...Stevie Wonder: You ‘Must Be Blind or Unintelligent’ To Not Believe in Global Warming. The Glenn Beck Program with Glenn Beck, Pat Gray, Stu Burguiere and Jeff Fisher, Weekdays 9a–12pm ET on TheBlaze Radio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Blaze Radio Network.
0:05.0	On demand.
0:08.0	Love. Courage.
0:11.0	Truth.
0:12.0	America has a really serious problem.
0:15.0	And here it is.
0:16.0	We don't even know who we are.
0:19.0	Even worse,
0:21.0	we don't even care.
0:23.0	We don't even care that we don't know.
0:26.0	Only 26% of Americans can name all three branches of our government.
0:31.0	26%.
0:34.0	Now, this is a little depressing, but it has been brought to us by the annual Constitutional Day Civics Survey.
0:43.0	According to the survey, more than one-third of Americans cannot name any of our First Amendment rights.
0:51.0	Any, not one.
0:53.0	There's five, by the way, they can't name one.
0:59.0	Now, how is that even possible?
1:02.0	In a nation where you have to go to school by law.
1:10.0	We have less of an excuse than any previous generation of Americans for knowing, for not knowing, the basic mechanics of our government.
1:19.0	I mean, there was a time when you couldn't find this stuff.
1:23.0	There was a time when, you know, you couldn't afford a book, you couldn't get to school.
1:27.0	School wasn't man, whatever the excuse was, but we have more tools and resources at the touch of a button than our ancestors could have ever dreamt of.
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