Polarization Is Our Biggest Internal Threat

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

Joe, Politics, Trump, Wash, Joewalsh, News, Thedaily, Thelincolnproject, Podsaveamerica

4.6 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This week, in my weekly face to face conversations with Americans, I sat down in Northern Virginia with regular guy/expert Brian Murphy, former Marine,FBI, and Homeland Security, to discuss the threats America faces at home and from abroad. Today, we dig into the threat of polarization.

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0:00.0	America, we got to get back to doing what's expected of us as free citizens in this democracy.
0:07.3	That means being tolerant, being respectful, staying informed, and being engaged.
0:13.5	I'm former Congressman Joe Walsh. Follow me here and join the millions of Americans who are renewing their social contract with each other.
0:23.7	The social contract, it's on us.
0:32.9	Hey, welcome all.
0:34.4	Hope you all had a good weekend.
0:36.0	Welcome TikTok.
0:41.7	I'm back on TikTok, live on TikTok.
0:49.1	I was suspended for about eight days from TikTok and I still don't know why I was suspended from TikTok, but it's good TikTok to be back. I promise to watch my language. Maybe that was it.
0:57.6	Maybe it was my language. I'll watch my language. But hope everybody had a good weekend,
1:04.5	no matter where you are politically. In my continuing travels around the country, in this mission of mine to have face-to-face
1:18.0	conversations with Americans all over the country, this week we were in northern Virginia,
1:30.1	and I'm going to be talking to an expert.
1:38.5	You'll see this week in Northern Virginia, talking to an expert about the threats this country faces,
1:41.5	the threats at home and the threats abroad.
1:43.7	And we'll get to that conversation.
1:46.6	It was a fascinating conversation. We'll get to that in just a moment.
1:49.0	But I wanna start with the plane.
1:54.4	De plane, de plane, de plane.
1:57.4	What was that from?
1:58.3	Fantasy Island, right, TikTok?
2:01.6	The plane.
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