The latest on the midterms: How America can experience a “new birth of freedom”
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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In a democracy, we are tempted to invest politics with the same power and authority we have assigned to science, asking our leaders to “subdue reality” to the wishes of those who elect them. But politics in a democracy cannot solve our greatest problems because leaders are elected by voters to do what voters want, and voters are just as fallen as the leaders they elect. What, then, is the answer to our deepest challenges and needs?
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Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | When you request the songs tell the story, our Advent devotional for this year, |
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| 0:43.3 | Today is Thursday, November the 10th, 2022. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. Today's |
| 0:50.8 | daily article is narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum and written by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:57.3 | Hear God's word from Hosea chapter 4, verse 6. |
| 1:01.7 | My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. |
| 1:05.6 | Republicans are still on track this morning to regain control of the House, though numerous races are still undecided. |
| 1:11.6 | Three Cs are still undetermined in the Senate as well, where Republicans hold a 49-48 edge. |
| 1:18.6 | It has been said that democracy is a slow process of stumbling to the right decision instead of going straightforward to the wrong one. |
| 1:28.1 | As our latest exercise in democracy continues to unfold, a relevant Wall Street |
| 1:33.1 | journal article caught my eye today. In Lincoln's vision of democracy, famed Princeton historian |
| 1:41.1 | Alan C. Gelssoe shows how Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address |
| 1:46.4 | summarized American democracy concisely but brilliantly in his now famous triplet, |
| 1:53.7 | government of the people, by the people, for the people. Dr. Gelsow explained, and I quote, |
| 2:00.4 | this wasn't merely a rhetorical flourish. |
| 2:03.1 | In that triplet, Lincoln lays out the three fundamental elements of democracy. |
| 2:08.5 | The first is consent, government of the people. |
| 2:12.3 | The second is the people's voice in the working of government. Government by the people. The third is government |
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