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He's here. He's here. Now broadcasting from the underground command post. Deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker, somewhere under the brick and steel of a non-distrib building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mike. Love them.

Hello, America. Mark Levin. Our numbers eight seven seven three eight one three eight one one eight seven seven three eight one three eight one one. Everything Joe Biden is doing.

He's undermining this republic and empowering the Democrat party.

Because if you empower the Democrat party and it's radical neo-Marxist agenda, you undermine the country. You undermine the country.

I want to read something to you. Let's get back to basics here. I want to read something to you. You won't hear this in most schools anymore.

I'm surprised they haven't tried to destroy the reputation of Alexis de Toeville in his book Democracy in America just a matter of time.

You notice the Democrats want to keep centralizing power. And there's a reason for that.

So Alexis de Toeville comes to America not once but twice and he travels the country and he takes copious notes and he writes one volume and then two volumes called Democracy in America.

And for 50 years, that is after his death. It's of no consequence.

Then people begin reading this book. These two volumes. Then they begin thinking about what he's written.

And we haven't put it down since. At least those of us who care about our republic.

One of the things he writes in here, travel America, he says nothing is more striking to a European traveler in the United States than the absence of what we termed the government or the administration.

He came here in the middle of the eight about at the 1840s. Written laws exist in America. The one sees the deli execution of them.

But although everything moves regularly, the mover can nowhere be discovered. The hand that directs the social machine is invisible.

Nevertheless, as all persons must have recourse to certain grammatical forms, which are the foundation of human language.

In order to express their thoughts, so all communities are obliged to secure their existence by submitting to a certain amount of authority without which they fall into anarchy.

This authority may be distributed in several ways, but it must always exist somewhere. There are two methods of diminishing the force of authority in a nation.

The first is to weaken the supreme power and it's very principal by forbidding or preventing society from acting in its own defense under certain circumstances.

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