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Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

Election Edition: Ruling Class Lacks Wisdom

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

The First Digital Inc.

News, Politics, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9592 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Remember when California was trying to implement high-speed rail? Well, it was an epic failure. Mike Slater explains that it was due to a lack of wisdom in the ruling class. But whether it's California or national politics, the ruling class lacks wisdom across the board. Throughout history, wisdom has been needed to effectively govern. Mike Slater gives that perspective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey, welcome back to Road to the Midterms.

0:09.7

We are going to end every episode with a Politics by Faith message.

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Politics by Faith, that's the name of my podcast, where we take a story that is causing too much anxiety and we provide historical

0:24.2

perspective and then biblical peace. That's what I want. I want peace. I want less anxiety, more peace.

0:30.5

Why peace so that we can be ready to fight another day? And politics by faith, that podcast is available

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anywhere you listen to podcast. If you

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could please give that a subscribe and a five-star review. We got to beat the algorithm. We need to get

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a thousand five-star reviews so we can beat that algorithm. Now, we're going to post this final

0:50.3

TV segment as a podcast as well. And then, of course, we'll also have very specific podcast episodes too.

0:57.5

If you are a podcast listener right now and you're just listening to me, this will sound

1:02.3

different.

1:02.9

I have a different microphone because it's the TV show and it's the final segment of the TV

1:06.7

show.

1:07.3

Either way, however you're listening, thank you for being here.

1:12.6

So I heard an interview with Tucker Carlson the other day. He was making the point that people are naturally

1:17.8

hierarchical. It's just built into our nature. And we're always going to have a small number of

1:24.2

people, small number of leaders that we look to for direction. That's just the way

1:28.3

it is. So we're always going to have a ruling class. The question is, is it an impressive ruling class?

1:37.8

Are they smart people? Do they have self-restraint? Do they have wisdom? Are they thinking past the next 20 days or are they greedy

1:47.3

day traders? We've ended up today with a really bad ruling class. Our ruling class is

1:55.0

unimaginably bad. And we should be asking ourselves how we created this system where these people graduate Yale Law School

2:02.6

and then they go into leadership positions

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