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The Erick Erickson Show

S11 EP127: Hour 1 - All the Red Flags

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Democrats who prefer to craft policy based on twitter instead of real life are ignoring all the red flags and head straight into a red wave plus polling continues to sink almost all democrats.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Eriksson Show across the nation from Atlanta, Georgia. The phone number, 87737-9-373-7-4-25. It was great talking with you guys down on WDBO this morning. I'm glad to be able to do that. Now, we've got to get into probably the biggest story of the day.

0:22.6

Heads are exploding. We talk sometimes here on the program about the bubble.

0:30.4

Well, actually, you know what? Before I do that, let me, let me say this. You know, I was going

0:34.7

Wednesday, Thursday Friday last week and yesterday had so much to say catching back up. I didn't even ask the call screter to come in because I knew. So we got a call screter, and I will do due diligence to take your phone calls. I'm sure some of you all have questions and comments you've been saving up. 87797-973-7-4-25. Very happy to do that with you today. We'll be patient with you. But, okay, back to, back to the big thing.

0:59.4

We talk a lot about the bubble. We're all in bubbles. We are all surrounded by people. And those people,

1:08.0

they tell us things and we tell them things and we hear things and they hear things and we synthesize, we analyze, we take a comprehensive look at things and we weave them together into the stories we tell ourselves.

1:20.8

Unfortunately for the Democrats, their bubble is the culturally dominant bubble.

1:26.1

And when I say culturally dominant, I do not mean it is dominant with the majority of the people.

1:30.8

It is dominant with those who set the opinions of prevailing culture.

1:35.7

And prevailing culture in this country is far to the left of where the people in the country are right now.

1:41.7

Look at how transgenderism has resurfaced around the country and the like.

1:45.5

The agitated push there, the parental backlash, it should tell people something.

1:50.0

But the cultural elite in this country believe they are dominant. They control most of the media.

1:55.4

They control Hollywood and television shows. They control the Democratic Party.

2:00.2

And they tell each other that they are right.

2:02.6

And inside that bubble, they affirm each other's core beliefs, and they allow very little

2:07.9

information in from outside that challenges it.

2:11.9

I mentioned last week the closing of the Democratic mind, how Democrats now will not allow in data

2:18.8

points that might challenge them they have epistemic certainty on all of their

2:23.7

beliefs and the problem here is that their beliefs are not necessarily right

2:28.8

and occasionally occasionally occasionally.

2:39.1

Something penetrates the bubble.

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