Welcome to the Eric Mataxis show.

I shouldn't tell you this, but Eric hired someone who sounds just like him to host today's show.

But since I'm the announcer, they told me.

So I am telling you, don't be fooled.

The real Eric's in jail. And welcome! Hey, folks, welcome to Hour 2 of the Erickman, Texas show. Today's election day. If you haven't yet voted, what are you doing listening to this program? If you're not listening to this in your car on the way to the polling booth, you need to, you need to, you know, you need to get on and vote.

It's the greatest privilege imaginable for free people to elect their leaders.

I'm talking to John Zmirak.

We've just got this segment to talk about this election.

What else is on your mind, young man?

We need to vote what we never voted before, pray like we never prayed before, because

American exceptionalism is on the ballot today. Today, our people decide whether they want to

continue to be the exceptional country that carries on the Christian view of the human person

as having fundamental dignity, fundamental rights, endowed with them by a creator, not by

the thing.

Are we carrying on the Christian view of the human person as having rights?

Life is being sacred. Citizenship as being sacred, citizenship as being

important, responsibility and family and local community as being essential, or are we going

to transform America into just another normal country, as Barack Obama once said, are we going to

become more like Belgium where the army

goes on strike? Like the Netherlands, where they're doing youth in Asia for children. Are we going

to be like France where angry refugees behead people in churches and we worry whether we've welcomed

them sufficiently or made them feel excluded and alienated, and it's our fault.

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