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the brian mclanahan show episode one hundred and ninety three are you ready to think locally

and act locally welcome to the b Brian McClanahan Show.

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Okay, all of that said, let's talk about the topic of the day, and it's actually an article

that was published in the Atlantic by John Dingell.

And John Dingell was a member of Congress for nearly 60 years, and he wrote this little op-ed

talking about what he would do to make government better.

So I read this, and it's just so full of red meat that I had to chew into it.

I had to take this thing apart, again, as the millennials like to say,

I had to unpack it. So I want to, there are so many things to get into with this particular piece.

And that way, if Dingell's objective was to be thought-provoking, it worked, unfortunately, I think people are going to read this and they're going to want to do what he said.

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