This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor. I welcome my colleague Thaddis

McCotter writing an American greatness a recovering politician. Very importantly, Thaddis is writing

a column about right now and about how people understand

their freedom their liberty their authority their rights that is

rights God-given rights we already possess,

cannot be infringed by the state.

However, there is a very large faction left of center, as that is rights, disagrees, believing the state is

the ultimate grantor of rights and that our democracy, in quotes, must not be impaired by the antique concept of unalienable

God-given constitutional rights.

That is, there is the ideological dispute by itself.

It's been there before it will be there again.

Is it understood by the Republicans that it's left to them

to understand where those rights come from because the Democrats are not helping.

Good evening to you.

Good evening to you, John. I think they do. I think they understand that they are under

attack. They are under attack by the left that argues 50 plus one

can basically trammel every single right that you have.

They then also see that it's the same left, progressive left that argues that they are true freedom, which is certainly 1984 in our time, because the Democrats believe that if you think about it in terms of

abortion rights, they're going to make sure and mandate that you have to pay for abortion

rights, that you have to perform abortions, that you have to provide abortion insurance even if you're Catholic and

reject abortion on demand reject abortion as a social evil is a moral

evil if you are anyone who believes that it is a moral evil, they want to make sure

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