The One Week ALL Americans Were United

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

Joe, Politics, Trump, Wash, Joewalsh, News, Thedaily, Thelincolnproject, Podsaveamerica

4.6 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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There was a period there, for a few days after January 6th, when EVERY American was united and felt the exact same. This is bad, this is way too far. And then…slowly but quickly, we sank back into our divide. And after a couple weeks, and then a few months, and now almost four years, January 6th divides us just like any issue…immigration, tax policy…divides us. How did that happen?

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0:00.0	America, we got to get back to doing what's expected of us as free citizens in this democracy.
0:07.6	That means being tolerant, being respectful, stay informed, and being engaged.
0:13.6	I'm former Congressman Joe Walsh.
0:15.6	Follow me here and join the millions of Americans who are renewing their social contract with each other.
0:23.0	The social contract, it's on us.
0:34.9	Hey, we talk about it all the time. Most everybody talks about it all the time. Why are we so divided as a country?
0:45.1	Why are we? And what do we do about that? What do we do about the divide? How do we help? Hello, TikTok. How do we do about the divide?
0:55.9	How do we help?
0:56.6	Hello, TikTok.
1:00.1	How do we help heal the divide?
1:11.6	I'm going to assume this Tuesday morning that most every American believes were too divided in this country. Most every American believes were too divided in this country.
1:18.3	Most every American believes were too polarized, were too tribal.
1:22.6	Most every American believes were dangerously divided.
1:25.9	Not every American, but most every American.
1:30.7	I'm going to assume for the sake of the next 20 minutes that most every American wants the United States of America to stay together.
1:38.7	I know not everybody wants us to stay together.
1:42.8	There was a time not too long ago where I really
1:46.1	questioned should we stay together does it make the most sense to stay together like
1:53.5	America's a married couple not all married couples hello TikTok not all
1:58.4	married couples stay together. But I'm going to believe that most Americans want to keep this
2:11.9	experiment together. Most Americans don't like the fact that we're so divided that were at each other's throats,
2:20.4	right, the left and the right, every day it's like this. I think most Americans would like that
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