#MI: Asking "Why are politics so awful?" Part 1. @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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https://amgreatness.com/2023/12/02/why-are-todays-politics-so-awful/
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| 0:00.0 | Looking for keys, looking for keys, looking for keys. |
| 0:10.0 | Everyone's tired of looking for keys. |
| 0:14.0 | So the Honda HRV hybrid can be unlocked |
| 0:18.0 | and turned on |
| 0:21.0 | with your phone. Why are we listening take us next? |
| 0:27.8 | Honda, the power of dreams. |
| 0:30.2 | This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor. I welcome Thaddeus McCotter of American |
| 0:35.6 | Greatness recovering politician writing about this question and this will be a four-part response, and this is part one. |
| 0:45.0 | The question is straightforward. |
| 0:47.0 | Why are today's politics so awful? |
| 0:50.0 | It's a thought-provoking question. |
| 0:52.0 | I started to think to myself, well I could guess ahead of time |
| 0:56.1 | or I could read the essay. That is a very good evening to you. And a deal of the challenge for me is to say well it must have been this bad before but |
| 1:08.0 | you mentioned that we now have communications that make the awfulness impossible to escape. |
| 1:16.8 | Why did this happen to us? |
| 1:18.5 | What did we do to deserve this? |
| 1:20.8 | Are we bad citizens? |
| 1:22.2 | Are we ill-red? Why are they so awful? |
| 1:25.0 | Well, I think that what you have to start from the reality |
| 1:30.0 | that we live amidst a communication revolution, where in the palm of your hand you can communicate, |
| 1:39.4 | express yourself to extend |
| 1:43.0 | extents on drinking human history. |
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