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This is the Tom Hartman program. Well, happy autumnal equinox.

It officially becomes autumn, and it's kind of feeling like it outside.

Anyhow, great to have you with us.

We've got a big show today, where I want to start out with trickle down authoritarianism

and how we really need to stop it.

Also, I want to get into the health insurance industry, claiming another victim,

and blue states showing how listening to science actually works.

Ken Burns has suggested that America could be on the cusp of a civil war,

or at least that the crisis that we're facing right now is on par with the civil war World War II

and the Republican Great Depression, and we'll be discussing that.

So we've got a lot that we're going to be covering today, as well as, you know,

just other kind of random news, but I want to start with trickle down authoritarianism.

This is both making life miserable for us, but it's also killing Americans.

It has killed over 600,000 Americans, in fact, and it needs to stop.

We've always had this dark, undercurrent of authoritarianism.

I mean, going back to slave owners, going to war with the north over their right to own

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