Finding Civility in Arguments

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you just follow the news. The southern part of the United States, the areas that normally don't get hit with any snow, got hit with a massive snowstorm. Now, those of us in Jones County, Mississippi, we did not really see true accumulation. We saw some snow flurries, but it did not give us anything but better cold. But twenty minutes down the road in Hattiesburg they got a nice little path of snow, and all the way down to New Orleans they got eight to ten inches of snow.

So it was insane the last couple of days. With that, it's retavoc on scheduling of things and whatnot. So Chris McDaniels America. We're hoping that it will be recorded tomorrow and that's our target. But of course I've not heard back from the production crew yet, so they were further south, which is as crazy as it sounds. They were a part of the area that was more affected by the

winter storm. I believe they should be able to get out and travel a little bit tomorrow, but we shall see, because we are not one hundred percent sure at the moment of what's going to go on with that. But right now, that's the current plan. Chris McDaniels America. The newest episode record tomorrow and have a mass released Friday morning. Sometimes on the lookout for episode thirty nine of Chris McDaniels America. Now, what do I want to talk about

to start off this show. Well, of course, we know this week saw the return of Donald Trump as the President of the United States. We've already seen Donald Trump going in and in acting several executive orders, undoing several of Joe Biden's executive orders. Emay that knows me knows. I'm not a huge fan of executive orders. I want to see things done through the proper processes. But in several instances, these type of executive orders that are undoing

previous executive orders, I'm fine with that. It's when you start bypassing Congress completely. That's that's when I start to have a problem with it. We'll see in the next couple of days what more comes out. But one of the things I really wanted to talk about tonight because it's kind of one of those issues that has bothered me a little bit. This nation, as we know, is completely divided. Half of us are on Red Team, half

of us are on Blue Team. Now, I don't have to rehash how I feel about Red Team and Blue Team. That's something you can go back and listen to in previous episodes. But what I do want to talk about is how we're allowing this divide to further split us, potentially ruining relationships. I get it, you view the other side as crazy and they view you as crazy. But

we've always had political division in this country. It's always existed, But now it's almost as if the battle lines are drawn so far, so severe, that we're willing to cut ties with family members because they disagree with us on certain issues, or because I vote Republican and they vote Democrat. I found a story just why I was doing show prep today. It's on Fox News. You can go find

it yourself. The headline is liberal parents struggle with Trump voting son, New York Times reports, and again the story talks about how liberal parents are now the ones clashing with their conservative sons after the election. According to a New York Times article published on Sunday, it says when Eli brought a Make America Great Again hat home from college this summer, his parents threw it into the corner of his bedroom. They argued about guns, immigration, and abortion,

struggling to do so without permanently damaging their relationship. It continued, facts don't matter to you. Again, they and that goes back to one of the major problems here, this whole argument that the left loves to well, facts don't matter

to you. They for a long time, throughout the fact that Donald Trump was facing these prosecutions, that that somehow justified their stance, that he was a terrible person, that he was a criminal, even though if they want to talk about how facts don't matter to you, they ignore the fact that several of these things should have been misdemeanors and never gone to the level that it went, and that it was completely politicized. But they don't want

to talk about that. They don't want to get into those issues, because again, that doesn't make them feel good, it doesn't strengthen their argument this issue. Again, for a long time, there were a lot of conservative parents dealing with their children who came home from college after being indoctrinated by radical liberal professors. The difference there is why the conservative parents would argue against their beliefs. They still

showed love for their child. In the readings of some of these articles and some of these things that I've come across from those on the left, They're willing to completely disassociate with their own children merely because of a political disagreement. I don't understand that. Again, I don't have any children on my own, but I have witnessed my own parents. I have witnessed friends of mine with kids. I even have my own nieces, I have step niece and step nephew. I have adopted two nephews and my

good friend Chris McDaniel's two sons. Why it's not the same as a parental love. I understand that I do have some understanding of what it's like to love someone unconditionally, but I also have been able to witness these friends with kids and witness what they go through. The struggle when their children are maybe acting out or being disrespectful, not because they're not good kids, but because again, once you hit that teenage years, those hormones tend to help

you make some bad decisions at times. But the one thing that always remains true no matter what is I know there's nothing those kids could ever do that would break that love that their parents have for them. But in some of these articles, some of the stuff that I'm reading, I'm not quite sure that the left views that parental loved the same way that we do. I can think back to times in my life where friends went off to college, came back with more liberal beliefs

and they're more conservative upbringing their parents. When they came home. They didn't miss try to challenge every belief that they had. They maybe would say, well, that's interesting and maybe in time they could have it. But they understood when something's new to a child, when he comes home with something new, you're not gonna win by trying to poke holes in it right away. But they also understood too that it's okay to disagree, is okay to be on other sides

of the fence. Now have we gone so far extreme when it comes to the polittle equations, to these political arguments that we can't have civil discussions. The answer to that in many cases is yes. Just go on the internet and you'll see firsthand how uncivil the conversations are. Everybody wants to have that gotcha moment, that one up moment. Even though that we have this on the internet, it

has now transferred itself into real life. The meme culture, if you want to call it, that, where everything needs to be quick, concise, and witty, where you're always trying to get that one shot at the person that you disagree with. Look, I'm not gonna say I'm not guilty of it. I'm a talk radio show host. Of course I take shots at people. It's part of what I do. But would I do that with my own child. No, there would come a point in time where we'd have

rational conversation. But I can tell you one of the things that I would not do, no matter even if I thought it, I would not instantly throw in their face how wrong they are, because you're not going to win an argument that way. You cannot win an argument, especially with young person, by just instantly going to that this is why you're wrong card, that's going to shut

him down instantly. But back to this point, when you look at this stuff and you see some of the things that are being set online, some of the discussions, some of the discourse, it's crazy Carrie Underwood, country music singer. She performed at Trump's inauguration. The liberal elite in that Hollywood class that she's a part of, or attacking her.

They're attacking her because she associated with Donald Trump. There was a time in this country not long ago, that it wouldn't have mattered who was elected the president of the United States. It would have been the honor of your life to be invited to perform at that event. But now because she accepted such an honor, she's a bad person. Oh, she's a Trump person. She's terrible. Look, I'm gonna be honest with you. I have no clue

what Carrie Underwood's politics are about. I really don't don't care. But seeing this division and seeing the attacks that have been lobbied at her, that have been thrown at her merely because she wanted to show up and perform at Trump's inauguration. She was invited. It's the president of the United States, It's the honor of a lifetime. If you're a performer, these are the type of events that you

probably hope for, you dream of. She's supposed to turn it down just because you don't like the person that one. It sounds like a you problem, not a her problem. These are the type things that we're continuing to see, this true, true divide. And as we witness this divide, the next question, the next big thing that we have to have a discussion about, that we have to have a frank conversation about, is can we ever come back

from this? Are we so far divided? Are we so far gone now that there's no hope of us ever finding any common ground. I'm not talking about when it comes to policy. I'm not talking about giving up your ground, because as you know, I'm not a big fan of giving in to compromise, especially when the track record is that conservatives lose every time we cut a compromise, every time we reach across the aisle, we lose. But I'm

talking about everyday people, everyday society. There are so many things that we can focus on that we can find that commonality, that we can find that common ground on. There are so many aspects of our lives that if we reach out to someone that has a different political view on it, we can find some commonality. Sometimes it might be through our faith. Sometimes it might be to our jobs, to our love of our favorite sports team, whatever it is. There are areas where we can find

a commonality with one another in society. There are areas where we can pick out an opportunity to have a civil discussion. But all too often we'd rather go to that me mentality where we want to come up with a quick sound bite. Even though we're not on television, we're not on the radio, we're not the ones that you're seeing front and center, but we still crave that attention. We still crave that idea, so we won't that viral moment. Even if that viral moment is only amongst our peers,

we still crave it, we still want it. It's something that we believe will entertain others. So instead of trying to focus on our commonality, instead of trying to focus on the issues that could probably unite us and bring us together, we double down on just being mean and nasty to one another. All too often, it's so much easier for us to come up with the snide remark than it is to come up with a good natured response. There's a saying in the South. You've probably heard it

a time or two. If a little old lady looks at you and she tells you bless your heart, she's not truly blessing your heart. She's letting you know she thinks you're an idiot. But she's doing it in a kind manner. And most of us in the South know when we hear that uttered, it's time to move home, because she's trying to be respectful. Now, if you flip that on its script, you fast forward to today's times and you have someone younger, it's not going to be

a bless your heart thrown out. It's probably going to be some type of obscenity thrown in your general direction, letting you know that straight up, in no uncensored terms, that they think you are, in fact an idiot. This is where we've come. This is the de evolution of our society. And yes, the Internet played a major calls in it. A lot of things in pop culture, whether it's these rap artists that want to have these beef with one another and come up with different disk tracks.

Maybe it's just different videos that you've watched of your favorite star attacking another star that they've had beef on a film set. Whatever the case it is, we've adopted that in our everyday lives. And as we've adopted that in our everyday lives, it's expanded into our political beliefs and persuasions. Again, I'm not saying that we need to change any one of our beliefs, not the slightest. I'm an unapologetic conservative, But at the same time, I can

sit down. I've got an aunt. She lives in Ganginesville, Florida. She has worked for elected Democrats. She is a die on the whole Democrat, unapologetically so. But me and my aunt can actually sit down and have civil conversations about politics, knowing we're not going to agree at the end, but she values my perspective and I value hers. It's not about coming to an agreement. It's always best too that if you're going to eventually win an argument, that you

understand the other side's argument. Even if the other side's argument is insane, you need to understand it. This is a lesson that Chris McDaniel taught me years ago when we first started the Right Side radio program back in the old days, when we're on terrestrial radio, we could take callers, and we did. We took callers, and wouldn't you know it, every now and then a liberal would

call in. And when a liberal would call in, Chris would have a conversation with them, and I always sat back and say, why are we giving them time to give us their point of view? It's just terrible. Their point of view is garbage. Should we should cut them

off sooner? Chris disagreed with me on that point under and you know what, he was right because in allowing them to talk and give their flawed point of view, Chris then was able to continue the discussion with them while poking holes in their belief but doing it in a manner that was not disrespectful. Sure, every now and then you'd get a lunatic liberal call in and would just start calling names and do whatever. Those you have to cut off quickly because they're not there for a

meaningful discussion. They're very much what I've been talking about for this past twenty four minutes. But Chris always had a way, and that stuck with me, and it was because he had a willingness to listen to their ideas, to listen to their beliefs, knowing full well he wasn't going to agree with them, knowing full well that at the end of the day there was a strong possibility that he and that caller were going to have to

agree to disagree. But more times than not, what I've witnessed sitting across from him in that radio studio, was Chris be able to reach some of these people, Not all, but some of them would honestly say, well, you know, I didn't think of it that way. Will you bring up some good points? He had that knack. He was good when it came to the format it talk radio, for sure, and it served him well as he went

on to have a career in politics. But the biggest question I guess I have nowadays is if the Right Side Radio program were a brand new show launching on Terrest Radio today, Chris McDaniel and I, despite how gifted Chris is as a listener, despite how gifted he is as someone who can argue his point, would he find a civil conversation today? Would his skills still translate in the day and age of the gotcha SoundBite? I think we would run in a far more of the name

callers than we did back in the old days. I think we'd run into for more people unwilling to actually listen to the point that Chris is trying to make after he showed them respect and let them make their point. I think nowadays when he tried to offer a counterpoint, nowadays,

I think they try to shout over him. Which that used to crack me up when a caller would call in and think they were going to shout over me like I did and have control of the knob and couldn't just turn their microphone down, or if they're really being dilligerent, hit the disconnect button and hang up on them. It's just again, and we have to be honest with ourselves when it comes to this lack of civility. It's

not just the left. It's not just the left anymore, because our side can be just as guilty of it as their side. I know some of you are mad that I'll say that, or you're screaming at your radio right now, going well, they do it to us, and they're nasty. I get it. I get all the excuses and all the reasons to follow down that path, but ask yourself, what are we winning by going down that path,

we're not having a free exchange of ideas. Why. I understand that the left wants to wash out our belief structure. I understand that the left does not want us to be allowed to give our opinion because it might in some way differ from their own. I get every ounce of that. I understand that. But at the same time, two wrongs don't make a right. We sometimes have to be willing to listen to their side and then in an educated way, poke holes in what they presented us.

And it's not going to be easy nowadays, because again, most don't want to have that conversation with you. Most want to attack. But when you come across one that is willing to see down and give you that exchange, that will listen point for point, You give a point, he gives a counterpoint, and y'all keep it respectful. If you come across one and then you engage in those leftist tactics of just attack, attack, attack, call an idiot,

do whatever you do, what are you gaining? You just got another liberal now that thinks that you're not willing to listen to their point. Again, I can see their point of view is insane. I have said that a couple of times now, but we still have to come up with some form of stibility in our country. I'm not talking about civility in the halls of Congress. I think we're well past time for civility in the halls

of Congress because you see how they act. But as far as us, John Q. Citizen, we need to have more civility. Look. I have seen folks who I know are conservative, but they disagree with some one issue one issue, and I've seen them attacked for it. I've seen them

called names, Oh, you're just a liberal. They're not. They disagree with you on one issue, and yet you're willing to throw them out and cast them off with the Democrats merely because you don't want to listen, merely because there might be a point that's countered to the point that you're making, and now it's easier for you to call names and throw them out. This political divide again between red and blue. I don't think it's going away soon. I definitely don't believe that we're going to see a

change in our political culture anytime soon. But what I do believe is if we can engage, especially with one another, we can find some commonality. We don't have to be casting out fellow conservatives merely because they disagree you on Maybe they disagree with you on Trump, maybe they disagree with you on this point, that point. It doesn't matter, case in point. I think renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America is this silly thing and a

waste of time and a distraction from real issues. But I guarantee you there are some people out there that our big proponents of called from America, are mad at me for saying that out loud, accuse me of just being a liberal or hating Trump, which couldn't be further from the truth. But that's the direction, and that's how far we have de evolved when it comes to being

able to discuss politics in a meaningful manner. If we don't find our way, we don't figure out a way to get back to where we can actually discuss issues without attacks, we're going to continue to struggle. This nation will continue down the wrong path if we don't come up with some type of refocus. It's that simple, people. We're going to pause right here for our first commercial

break of the program. It is something to think about, people, because again, do we really need to be ending friendships? Do we really need to be casting out family members because of political disagreements. I don't know about you, but I think that we as humans should be better than that, should strive to be better that. This is the right

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welcome back here to the right Side Radio program. Goodness, folks, these attacks, these unwillingness to find a common realm with your average citizen. Again, I'm not talking about a politician. Politicians can rue the day because again they have helped create and help shape some of this divide, whether it's with their inflammatory attack ads that they run on anyone that runs against them, or their insistence on ignoring their

campaign promises when they get elected. And that's something that we have seen all too often, where politicians can hide behind the strength of incumbency. We've seen it throughout history, whether it's nationally or right here in your home state. Bad politicians get elected, they go to Washington, they go to Jackson, they go to whatever your state capital is, and they ignore the very campaign promises that they made to you. And they did all of this knowing that

you're going to have a short term memory. They also did all of this knowing that if they get a challenger, he's not going to have the money in order to compete with them. That all he has to do is spend enough money on attack mailers, on attack television spots, whatever he can do to levy an attack against his opponent.

That's what he's going to do. John Q incumbent understands that this is how he keeps the system in his way, and you, as the voter, you continue to fall for it because you recognize John Q Incumbent's name and you understand that John Q incumbent has always been there, so he must be doing something good. But you're ignoring his actions.

You're ignoring how many times he's broken a promise. Now, sure he can come home to you and he can come up with excuses and he can throw out, well, we really wanted to get that done this session, but we just didn't have the votes. And then you're left scratching your head, especially in a state like Mississippi where Republicans control both the House and the Senate. They control the governor's mansion, the lieutenant governor's office, so how do

they not have the votes? They have a overwhelming majority, but they still can't get things like elimination of the income tax done. These are things they can't get done and then when you do the research, you understand the reason that doesn't get done is we have a lieutenant governor in the state of Mississippi that is truly a Democrat that just happens have an or biased name and doesn't want it done. But most people won't take the

time to do that research. They won't take the time to look into these things and understand there's a reason why. So when they come home and say that they just didn't have the votes, we fall for it every time, because again, we don't ask that next question. We're not thinking. We're not programmed to be critical thinkers anymore, so that next question of why couldn't you get it done? John Q incumbent, when your party controls everything, why couldn't you

get it done? Now, let's look at Washington, John Q incumbent and the United States Senate. When certain pieces of Donald Trump's agenda get rejected and John Q incumbent comes home and he's asked about it, his answer is going to be predictably, well, we just didn't have the votes

to reach that threshold that we needed. They're going to hide behind the parliamentary rules that regard the filibuster, a rule that could have been changed, a rule that they could at any time move away from, but they don't want to because they understand it gives them political cover from things they don't want to enact. If you don't have enough votes to move it forward, it is what it is, and you, who may be against it might even be able to hide behind that without ever having

to take a vote. So therefore, when you come home to your constituents and they start asking you questions about it, you can just look them straight in the eye and say, well, we tried, we just didn't have the votes. Despite the fact that your party is control of the Senate, despite the fact that your party's in control of the House,

control of the White House. These are the excuses that they throw out time and time again, and while we're sitting down eating each other alive, because this person disagrees with you on this issue, even though more than not your lockstep together on ninety nine point nine percent of the issues. But you only want to focus on the issue that he disagrees with you on because that proves he's not a true conservative, That proves he's not rock

solid red like you are. When he might have a principled reason for why he doesn't agree with you on that, and the fact that you won't take the time to listen to it. That means when he comes pushing a candidate running against John Q incumbent, you're going to go side with John qancumbt despite all of his deficiencies, despite everything that John Q incumbent has laid out for you, everything that he has shown you of how poor of a politician, how poor of a representative, how poor of

an employee he's been for you and your area. Because you're your neighbor, Martin, he doesn't agree with you on this particular issue. So if he's wrong on that, he's not a true Conservatives. Therefore, since he's not a true conservative and he's pushing the challenger, well I've got to stay with John Q incumbent because Martins Martin's a bad guy,

which means as candidate challenger is a bad guy too. Again, I'm laying out how all this division again, I get the right and the left division, and I spoke in the first half about how we shouldn't allow it to divide families. Now I'm talking about these smaller divisions because again, it all plays in together, it all interlocks I'm not talking about major policy points that are a problem, because trust me, there are some major policy points that I

have issue with with the Republican Party. It's part of the reason why I don't associate myself with the Republican Party anymore. Do I vote Republican more times than not, but it's just because their candidate is the better candidate. But I am an active participant within the Republican Party. Now will I be one again one day? I can't answer that, honestly. At this time, I honestly don't know.

But they'll use these things. They'll utilize these to protect bad politicians, politicians that want to expand Obamacare, which again that's truly not a conservative point of view, but they're going to defend it, and they're going to defend it against the challenger because John Q incumbent told them that, well, we need to do this for this and because you disagreed with Martin on one point. Now you're going to

have to accept Obamacare expansion. You're going to have to accept that these state income tax is not going anywhere. These are issues that you helped create yourself because you decided to follow down this path instead of focusing on the numerous areas that you agree with your neighbor. Because you harped on the one thing that you didn't, you now are stuck with John Qan combent because you can't listen to him on the Challenger. You can't accept that

he might be right on the Challenger. This is where we are in this country, and this is part of the reason why we are struggling to get anything done, to change anything, because we can't come up with a way to communicate even within ourselves. We can't find a common place to have that discussion, that civility with our neighbors about key conservative points. And until we figure this out, we're going to continue down this dangerous path. This is

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back here to the right Side Radio Program. Here we are in the home stretch the radio show, the final segment of the program. Today, folks, we're talking about this division. We're talking about how can we figure out some common ground, whether it's with your family in a right left situation or those of us who are truly conservative and truly want to see real substantive change made, not just within

the country, within our party, within our state. Get us to the points where we can salvage things for this country the way that we need to. How do we get there? How do we achieve that? I don't have a definitive answer other than dial back some of your rhetoric. Don't be so quick to jump to the name calling. Don't be so quick to just attack. It is so important. I had a friend a few years ago. He wanted

to start for all the right reasons too. Nothing about a vanity project here, but he wanted to start a conservative action group. He wanted to figure out a way to make substitutive change within our community. He wanted to try to figure out a way to hold politicians accountable. And his vision, his dream was to start something locally and expand it and work with other groups throughout the state and come up with a way to have a

statewide networking group, a very honorable, noble cause. And I remember when he first I told him why it wasn't going to work, and I hated to be that guy, but I told him, I said, look, I love this and I want to be proven wrong. I want to see it work. But the problem that you're going to run into with these other groups and organized as that have already gotten off the ground is they're going to

be extremely territorial. They're not gonna want to seed any ground you because you're the Johnny come Lately, which is ridiculous thought process, because again, if we truly want to encourage everyone to get involved, we should encourage them to

get involved. That's the reason why if I have someone reach out to me saying that they want to start their own podcast, their own show, I'm willing to sit down and talk with them and give them advice and walk them through every step because I understand what we're trying to achieve is bigger than me, and I hope it outlasts me. I hope that the things that we're fighting for, the things that we're trying to invoke change on, will be enacted and we'll still be fighting for the

things we haven't gotten long after I'm gone. But that's not the way a lot of these groups and organizations are. For a lot of these people, it's more about the power. It's more about the prestige than it is about the movement, than it is about getting things done. They would rather have a group an organization that does little to nothing, but they get to hold the title, the top billing

in that group and in that organization. They would rather have that be what they put forth than actually ceding a little bit of that power to work with the newcomer, to work with people that are trying to come on the scenes and come up with a way to create a network where we can all come together. That's always

been sad to me. That's always been sad to me, because again, this is another part of the division, because again, if you have organizations like conservative coalitions or tea party group or conservative action groups, whatever they call themselves, they should all want to try to get together for the common goal. But instead it turns into everyone's own little kingdoms. It turns into this manifestation of well, this is my group,

I don't care what you say with your group. We're going to do our own and that's Look, that's fine, but if you're doing it at the detriment of creating that network, and you look back, had passed elections, and you go to yourself, why did we lose so solidly? Why couldn't we figure out a way to We had the best candidate we were ever going to have and we still lost. How did that happen? What happened because you created too much division within your groups and organizations. Yeah,

you got an organization off the ground. Yeah you got people to show up to your meetings, but because of all the infighting in the division, you weren't able to keep them. You weren't able to reach places outside of your own area or outside of your own bubble boo, because again, you were not too interested in figuring out a way to expand you were focused solely on your own little kingdom. And because that focus on your own little kingdom, you have other people in other areas now

that want to attack you and discredit you. To the credit of the friend of mine that started his own group, he never was like that. Didn't see that from him. Now. He might have been crotchety and a little too hard headed for some to deal with, But I honestly can say he wasn't in it for his own purposes. He

wasn't starting something to create his own vanity project. Last week I mentioned that I have a friend that's considering running for mayor of my old hometown and in conversations I have strongly encouraged this person to make a go

for it. And in these conversations I found out that there are various folks that should be within the groups that would want to support them, but instead of showing the support for them, instead of showing the support because they understand that the current mayor is a problem, that the city is sinking fast, and if they don't figure out a way to change it, they just want to discourage. They want to backbite because again, my friend is not

their chosen path. And after having this conversation, my advice was go for it, because they wouldn't be making these calls if they didn't view you as a threat.

be willing to walk into battle. We have to be willing to stand up for the things that we believe in, and we have to be willing to have civil conversations with people that we don't think we agree with, Because until we're willing to do that, especially with the people within our own circles that we have created our own division with, we're not going to be able to attack the other side. We're not going to be able to take down the Left, We're not going to be able

to take down the Republican establishment, whoever it is. As long as there's that much backbiting and division amongst our own selves, how are we ever going to advance anything? How are we ever going to get to that point where we're going to be successful. We can't be We can't be successful if all we ever do is backbite. I think we can get there, people, I truly do. I believe that if we put forth the effort, if we put forth the work, we can truly change things

in this country for the better. I think if we truly fight for everything that we believe in that we hold dear, do so in a manner in which we can explain to people while we are on this side without resorting to the name calling, without getting too territorial over the precious group that we created, without kicking family members to the curb. Maybe then we can figure out a way to truly save this country. The election of

Donald J. Trump is a good thing. It will move things in the right direction without a doubt, but it's not the only thing. There is so much more that we have to achieve in so little time to be able to achieve it. If you believe Donald Trump can do everything by himself, then well I'm sorry, but you are wrong, and you're going to be one of the very ones sitting there when things don't go our way,

questioning why that happened. Maybe you'll even blame Trump for not getting it done, when the reality is you failed him by not engaging the system and holding bad politicians accountable, all because you let a petty grudge with your neighbor keep you from backing his candidate. You stuck with John Q, incumbent, and now you're wondering why nothing changed, why nothing improved.

You could have taken your group, You could have joined up with groups in other towns and communities and created a network throughout the state that could have potentially moved the needle in the right direction. But instead you were worried that if you did that, you might lose power of your own little kingdom, so you resisted forming that coalition. And by resisting forming that coalition, you ensured that the

challenger won't drum up the support that he needs. Folks, we just have to figure out a way to not let the petty little differences be what drives us apart. If you believe in red versus blue, and you believe that blue is insane, then you should be willing to do whatever it takes to work with your fellow conservatives despite whatever differences or disagreements shall might be able to

come across. You might find a way to change everything if you can just put that stuff aside for a minute, if you can just move past some of that nonsense and move towards a path in which we figure out a way to find those core tenants, those core principles that we want hundred percent agree on, and we move forward. Maybe it's three, maybe it's four, but find those core tenants, find those core principles, focus on those, work together to achieve those goals, and let the other stuff that you

disagree on. You can fight that battle another day, but all too often we get so wrapped up in the single issue that we're not willing to work with the person who could probably help us achieve the goals that we want to achieve. And that's sad to me. That's where this division, this me mentality culture is all coming from, and until we get past it, we're not going to

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