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A Billion Reasons to Worry — Who’s Really Running America’s Schools · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: All the assassination attempts seem to go in one directions
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  Speaker 1: Good Tuesday morning. Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 1: the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got one major
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  Speaker 1: story for you. You wonder why there's so much violence
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  Speaker 1: against Donald Trump and other conservatives, Well you may just
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  Speaker 1: need to follow the money. We've now learned that teachers'
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  Speaker 1: unions have spent more than a billion dollars in the
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  Speaker 1: last decade to influence what your kids believe. And now
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  Speaker 1: polling data shows that one in four Democrats believe that
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  Speaker 1: political violence is appropriate. We break all this down for
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  Speaker 1: the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 1: There have been three different assassination attempts on President Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump where bullets have been fired. We also know that
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  Speaker 1: there was another assassination attempt on the President of the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America by a man that decided to
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  Speaker 1: bring a shotgun as well as other weapons. That would
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  Speaker 1: be for a total of four different assassination attempts on
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  Speaker 1: President Trump that we know about. The question is why
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  Speaker 1: is this happening and could it be because the left
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  Speaker 1: has taken over the education system and is radicalizing people
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  Speaker 1: to hate Conservatives, to hate Christians, and to hate Donald Trump. Well,
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  Speaker 1: a watchdog group has now released a pair of reports
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  Speaker 1: exposing how America's teachers union, Yes, the teachers' unions that
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  Speaker 1: control our public education across the US, have funneled now
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  Speaker 1: more than one billion dollars into left wing political causes
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  Speaker 1: over the last decade. So let me start with a
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  Speaker 1: question that every American should be asking. What happens when
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  Speaker 1: the institutions that we're supposed to trust to educate our
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  Speaker 1: kids become some of the biggest political players in the
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  Speaker 1: country at the exact same time, our politics are becoming
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  Speaker 1: so extreme that the president United States of America is
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  Speaker 1: now on a regular schedule of assassination, attempts an essence
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  Speaker 1: while in office. Because that's really where we are today.
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  Speaker 1: It may be the inconvenient truth, but it is. The
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  Speaker 1: nation's largest teachers' unions, like the National Education Association and
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  Speaker 1: the American Federation of Teachers, they know what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: They're pouring more than one billion into left winning political
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  Speaker 1: causes and activism, more than a billion dollars. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to really think about how much money that is. Now.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't small dollar advocacy. This isn't occasional political engagement
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  Speaker 1: by the teachers' unions, which teachers should be nonpartisan. They
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  Speaker 1: should be teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: statistically they're failing this country and we're at the lowest
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  Speaker 1: of nations that we compare ourselves to and reading, writing,
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  Speaker 1: and arithmetic in some categories. When it comes to civilized nations,
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  Speaker 1: we are at the bottom of the barrel. And it
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  Speaker 1: may be because all of these teachers unions are hiring, supporting,
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  Speaker 1: and advocating to become in doctor nation schools instead of
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  Speaker 1: actually teaching children in education. And all you have to
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  Speaker 1: do is follow the money. When you look at the
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  Speaker 1: full scale political influence that these teachers unions are involved in,
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  Speaker 1: it should honestly be against the law. When you break
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  Speaker 1: down where that money's going, the picture becomes even more
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  Speaker 1: clear what they believe in. These unions are bankrolling political
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  Speaker 1: campaigns overwhelming for Democrat people running for office, Socialists, Marxists,
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  Speaker 1: and communists. And it's not just people running for office.
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  Speaker 1: They're also funding the most extreme activist groups of the
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  Speaker 1: progressive agenda. They're backing ballot initiatives on issues far outside
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  Speaker 1: and beyond education, and they're spending heavily on lobbying to
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  Speaker 1: influence legislation to protect their indoctrination of our children in
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  Speaker 1: this country. I go back to the core point. This
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  Speaker 1: isn't about mass scores, this isn't about reading levels. It's
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  Speaker 1: literally about political indoctrination, and these organizations have become some
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  Speaker 1: of the most powerful political machines in this country. They're
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  Speaker 1: using their resources that many teachers themselves are required to
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  Speaker 1: contribute through dues, and if you don't that is called collusion.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, then you're on the outs with a teachers' union.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck getting a job or a promotion. These teachers,
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  Speaker 1: many of them, are forced to give to the teachers' unions. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't about the classroom anymore at all. They're not
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  Speaker 1: even trying to hide it. Think about what's not being
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  Speaker 1: funded when a billion dollars goes into political activism. The
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  Speaker 1: money it's not going to fixing our struggling schools. It's
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  Speaker 1: not going to reduce class sizes. It's not even going
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  Speaker 1: to increase teacher salaries directly or even help students catch
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  Speaker 1: up after they missed school and went way behind where
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  Speaker 1: they should be after COVID. No, no, no, no no. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: it's being directed into shaping the political landscape of this country.
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  Speaker 1: And that should raise a serious question. When did teachers
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  Speaker 1: and the union stop being about education and start being
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  Speaker 1: about ideology. Well, democrats clearly decide they were going to
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  Speaker 1: play the long game. They were going to control the
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  Speaker 1: minds of our children at the education levels of elementary
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  Speaker 1: school and then middle school, and then junior high and
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  Speaker 1: then high school, and then they started dumping big money
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  Speaker 1: into in our universities. This is the game plan. And
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  Speaker 1: then you look at what they've accomplished in politics. Twenty
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  Speaker 1: five percent of Democrats now believe that political violence is
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  Speaker 1: justified an acceptable. Why when you grow a generation through
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  Speaker 1: the education system to be ashamed of this country, to
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  Speaker 1: hate America, and to believe that if they're not getting
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  Speaker 1: their way and you do not bow down to their beliefs,
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  Speaker 1: they can then literally kill you to get rid of
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  Speaker 1: you as a roadblock. The rhetoric is getting sharper, and
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  Speaker 1: the bullets are flying, and the lines, well, they're getting
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  Speaker 1: more extreme. The reason polling paints this troubling picture a
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  Speaker 1: significant portion of actual American voters. We're talking about millions
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  Speaker 1: of voters. Twenty five percent of the Democratic Party say
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  Speaker 1: political violence can be justified. Now just stop for a
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  Speaker 1: moment and think about this latest assassination attempt on President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: How do we get to the point or millions and
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  Speaker 1: millions of Americans one in four think that it's okay
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  Speaker 1: to kill someone, to hurt someone because they've voted for
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  Speaker 1: something you disagree with. Now that's not some fringe entitlement
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  Speaker 1: on the internet. That's a real, measurable slice of the
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  Speaker 1: American population, the American electorate. And no matter your politics,
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  Speaker 1: whether you're Republican, a Democrat, and independent, you should be
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  Speaker 1: terrified knowing that in the United States of America, one
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  Speaker 1: out of four Democratic voters thinks they can kill you
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  Speaker 1: if they don't like what you're saying. Because once people
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  Speaker 1: start believing that violence is a legitimate answer, a legitimate
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  Speaker 1: political tool, we are no longer justibating ideas. We're entering
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  Speaker 1: a new dangerous territory. It's basically a coup whenever you
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  Speaker 1: want it. And it's time that we're honest about connecting
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  Speaker 1: these dots. It is, in fact, the education system is
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  Speaker 1: breeding a generation to hate this country. And when you
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  Speaker 1: have massive financial power from the teachers' unions, that money
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  Speaker 1: is now flowing heavily into one side of the political spectrum,
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  Speaker 1: and a growing acceptance, at least among some of extreme tactics,
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  Speaker 1: including assassinating a sitting president. So that brings up the
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  Speaker 1: big question, what kind of environment has left created because
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  Speaker 1: these institutions, they don't just reflect culture, they literally shape it.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why Democrats chose years ago to take over
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  Speaker 1: our education systems and they've done it completely. And when
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  Speaker 1: organizations tied directly by the way to our schools are
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  Speaker 1: deeply involved and the radical partisan politics, what happens then, well,
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  Speaker 1: what gets emphasized in the classroom is what they believe.
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  Speaker 1: It's how literally the books are written, It's how the
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  Speaker 1: issues are framed, it's how the papers are assigned, it's
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  Speaker 1: how the discussions are organized, and it's how the next
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  Speaker 1: generation then understands America and politics itself. So the message
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  Speaker 1: that we all need to understand right now is this,
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  Speaker 1: If major institutions are fully engaged in partisan battles with
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  Speaker 1: our tax dours and pouring massive resources into ideological causes,
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  Speaker 1: while part of the political base are becoming more accepting
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  Speaker 1: of this extreme rhetoric, then what are we actually teaching
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  Speaker 1: our kids? What are we teaching them directly? And also
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  Speaker 1: what are we teaching them indirectly? Are we teaching debate, No,
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  Speaker 1: what we are teaching is violence. We're teaching literal division.
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  Speaker 1: Are we encouraging critical thinking? No, we are enforcing and
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  Speaker 1: reinforcing that your political ideology is supreme over all others.
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  Speaker 1: There is no grand debate, and if the other side wins,
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  Speaker 1: you just kill them. Because kids are watching all of this,
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  Speaker 1: they're absorbing everything in the classroom, and then they're forming
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  Speaker 1: their own understanding of how the world works, how America works. Now,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully this is a wake up call for parents. It's
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  Speaker 1: why we're seeing in some places in the country. Parents
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  Speaker 1: are showing up by the thousands at school board meetings
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  Speaker 1: across this country, not because they want to fight with teachers,
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  Speaker 1: because now they're demanding answers. They're asking the basic questions
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  Speaker 1: we should have been asking years ago. Why is education
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  Speaker 1: becoming a political indoctrination. Why are unions spending billions on
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  Speaker 1: issues outside of the classroom, And why does it feel
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  Speaker 1: like ideology is creeping into spaces that used to be
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  Speaker 1: and are supposed to be neutral. These aren't unreasonable questions,
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  Speaker 1: they're basic accountability questions. We also know there's some simple truths.
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  Speaker 1: Money and power. Well, they're one and the same, and
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  Speaker 1: when you have both, when they're used for evil, there
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  Speaker 1: are real consequences. Money power is either a positive or
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  Speaker 1: a negative, And what we're witnessing right now is when
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  Speaker 1: the left spends a billion dollars on politics, not only
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  Speaker 1: they gain hearts and minds and influence, but when they
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  Speaker 1: gain that influence, they're now shaping the outcome of what
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  Speaker 1: happens next. And when you shape those outcomes demanding that
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  Speaker 1: there is political violence, that's exactly what is happening right now.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to know why a guy by
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  Speaker 1: the name of Donald Trump got shot at yet again,
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  Speaker 1: let's be clear, it is because of what these kids
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  Speaker 1: have been indoctrinated to believe. It is because the radical
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  Speaker 1: left now has convinced twenty five percent of their own party,
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  Speaker 1: and that number actually may be higher. There's some that
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  Speaker 1: may have lied to the pollsters, not really wanting to
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  Speaker 1: say out loud that they believe in political violence, but
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  Speaker 1: that those that laugh about when the president gets shot
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  Speaker 1: saying they wish the shooter would have been better at it.
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  Speaker 1: You know those people you see on social media that
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  Speaker 1: hide behind their computer screen. So here we are a
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  Speaker 1: third assassination attempt others we don't know about that were
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  Speaker 1: foiled before they became actual plans that were actually taken
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  Speaker 1: to the president and a teacher's union or unions that
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  Speaker 1: are spending more than a billion dollars to influence the
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  Speaker 1: minds of our children to think and believe that killing
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  Speaker 1: someone you disagree with is warranted, is just, is appropriate.
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  Speaker 1: That is how we've gotten where we are today.
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