Hello there. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erickson show across the nation. The phone number is 877-973-725. I actually want to start this hour with a phone call because it relates to this issue of ineptness on the Democratic side.

Because look, I see the, and you can always email me, Eric at EW.

Erickson.com, E.R. I CK, both Eric and Erickson.

And there's definitely a generational divide.

If you're older than me, you tend to think, no, this is all sort of a progressive plot,

and they're thinking five, six, seven moves ahead of us. And if you're younger than me,

you're willing to say, yeah, these progressives are dumber than the old progressives and

they're really inept. And that's where I am. I actually think there is a level of

ineptitude here.

And part of it is, well, I want to get into why that is.

And maybe those of you who are older than me, maybe I can prove me.

If you disagree, that's fine.

But I've got some relevant data from a progressive out there that I think kind of shows what's going on here.

And I want to talk about that in charter schools. There's a tie-in to this with charter schools.

But before we get there, I want to go to Maureen, who's been waiting patiently.

Maureen, welcome to the program. How are you?

Hey, how are you? Great. What's going on?

Well, I just had a thought on what you are talking about, and that is that I have a lot of conservative

and progressive friends and family members who keep trying to tell me that all of the stuff

that's going on right now is part of a massive master plan

with some infinite far-reaching deep state scheme and kind of not believing that because

you know we also talk about how foolish, you know, idiotic, dense,

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