Welcome once again to the Conversations that Matter of Podcast. My name is John Harris.

We're going to talk about Upside Down World today. That's right, Upside Down World.

That's the only term I have to describe what I've seen, not just in the news, but over the past

week with my own eyes as I've traveled everywhere from Auburn, Alabama to Seattle, Washington,

and some places in between. is amazing to me how cultures so different

that the people that think so different about things can exist in the same country

and as things become more centralized are effectively governed by the

same central authority. And if one side, one culture controls that central authority. They impose their will on the

other side. It doesn't quite go as much that way from the other end.

Conservatives don't tend to impose quite as much. They tend to be be want to be left alone and have less government but we're entering a time now where I don't know if we want to call it post-conservative I'm not even sure what we want to call this. I mean it's certainly post-Christian but we're

losing pretty much everything that grounded us as a people and I think back to what George

Washington said in his farewell address.

He talked about the United States being,

despite the differences between North, South,

and Mid-Atlantic, having a common cultural heritage. They're part,'re the same people they all come from

England just about of course there were exceptions but in general that's the

kind of English traditions English value systems existed within the United States

and governed the United States. These ruling assumptions were from the people who came here

and set up the governments that were in the original 13 colonies.

He talks about having a common religion. They're all Christians of one stripe or another.

And of course common customs and traditions. Well whether or not that was true at

Washington's time could be even debated to some extent to the south and the

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