This is the Tom Hartman program.

And greetings my friends, Patriots,

lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way.

I'm here with you on this beautiful Monday here in Portland, Oregon.

It is just an amazing time to be alive.

If Paul Krugman's lies lies lies lies lies. I don't know if you saw this in the New York

times and I get to that in a little bit.

But I wanted to start out with a riff on a piece that I published on an alternate over the weekend. It went up, I don't know, six eight hours ago at alternate.org.

And it's titled, The America I New is pretty much gone.

Actually, that's not the exact title.

Let me pull it up and the America I knew has almost disappeared.

There we go.

And what's left of our democratic institutions are under siege.

And it's not just our democratic institutions, it's our country.

For example, and this is just by way of, you know, my example for the day, right?

But, you know, we all have them, right, in every field, in every industry.

It's like, you know, we're not being dealt with

as American citizens and as American consumers

the way historically we have been.

For example, the modern moving industry was really, I mean,

literally created in the 1800s, in the early 1800s, when they had the calistoga cars the calistoga

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