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🗓️ 4 November 2020
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From the National Review, historian Richard Brookhiser weighs in on the political landscape and presents ideas from, "Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea."
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0:00.0 | I |
0:10.0 | Should tell you this but Eric hired someone who sounds just like him to host today's show but since I'm the announcer |
0:17.3 | They told me so I am telling you don't be fooled the real Eric's in jail |
0:22.3 | Welcome hey folks welcome to our two of the air contact. So today's election day if you haven't yet voted |
0:27.8 | 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? |
0:33.9 | You need to you need to you know you need to you need to get on and vote |
0:38.5 | It's the greatest privilege imaginable for free people to elect their leaders |
0:44.1 | I'm talking to John as smear act. We've just got this segment |
0:48.9 | To talk about this election. What else on your mind young man |
0:54.3 | We need to vote what we never voted before |
0:58.0 | Pray what we never prayed before because American exceptionalism is on the ballot today |
1:03.3 | Today our people decide whether they want to continue to be the exceptional country that carries on the Christian view of the human person |
1:12.3 | It's having fundamental dignity fundamental rights and down with with them by a creator not by the thing |
1:20.2 | Are we |
1:22.2 | Carry on the Christian view of the human person is having rights life is being sacred citizenship is being important |
1:31.2 | Responsibility and family and local community as being essential or are we going to transform America into just another normal country as |
1:40.7 | Barack Obama once said are we going to become more like Belgium with the army goes on strike? |
1:46.9 | Like the Netherlands where they're doing youth in Asia for children |
1:50.4 | Are we going to be like France where angry refugees behead people in churches and we worry whether we've welcomed them sufficiently or make them feel excluded and |
2:01.4 | Alienated and it's our fault |
2:03.4 | Will America be the country you talked about in your book if you can keep it or will your book if you can keep it become |
2:12.2 | Historical Curio like oh remember that country that used to have those wacky ideas about |
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