Escape to rubber resort. I can't be the only one that is getting tired of this election season that is starting to get election fatigue. November can't get here soon enough, because again, every day there's another bit of insanity, there's another bit of tribalism. Whether it's people on your side of the equation putting out falsehoods that are easily disproven, or people on the other side of the equation putting
out falsehoods that are easily disproven. It's tiring. Social media has been a good tool for insurgent candidates to utilize and try to grow their name id and potentially make a name for themselves. It has also become something that
has been bastardized by the politicians. Every day I see another politician that I know is a weak need soft Republican that is trying to wrap himself up in Donald Trump, when I know for a fact they tried everything they could do to defeat Donald Trump, not just in twenty sixteen primary, but again earlier this year during that primary. These people will wrap themselves in Trump, and people will except that they are dying the wool Trump folks when
they never were. I've seen it firsthand where I've seen politicians that were very hostel and anti to Donald Trump running against somebody who wasn't. But maybe he said an off the cuff remark that wasn't truly insult of Trump, but it was weaponized against him, and the guy that was always always anti Trump wins the day because he has more money and he has that picture of him
standing next to Donald Trump with his thumbs up. We've got to be better people because this tribalism that we have fallen into, this trap Republican good Democrat, bad Democrat, good Republican bad. We no longer focus on the ideas. We no longer focus on the things that we should be focusing on. We don't look at a politician's score care and say, well, he's not voting with my value, so maybe I should vote him out. Now we look at him and say, well, look, he stood with President Trump,
so I should stand with him. We put too much stock in endorsements from other politicians who might be as bad or simply just have something to gain by getting behind the incumbent. There's a reason this country's in the state that it's in. And this might make some of you mad. It's not all Joe Biden's fault. It's not all Barack Obama's fault. It's not all the Democrats fault. A lot of that fault. We can look in the mirror and blame ourselves because we're not electing the best
of the best on either party. We will reject new blood simply because the old blood has more money and can come out and slap the new blood in the face. We will reject the person who has stood on principle and has a record of fighting for you, merely because you get a mailer that tells you what a terrible individual they are. These are the things that keep me up at night. These are the things that drive me
crazy and drive me up a wall. These are the very things that we need to be pushing back against. We don't need to fall into tribal camps. If a republican's a bad Republican, we need to replace him. But all too often we fall into the trap of incumbent preservation, where we see folks so much stock in that power of incumbency that we don't pay attention to why the insurgent candidate ran against him in the first place. We look at these things and we question why nothing ever changes.
But until we start to change the people we're putting in office, nothing's gonna change. Donald Trump in twenty sixteen represented being an agent of change. He ran on a premise of draining the swamp. Yet the swamp never got drained, nothing ever got changed, nothing from the swamp ever got deluded. Matter of fact, I think we filled it a little bit more ten times over. And I think that's a major part of the problem here. We can do better, but it takes us taking a little time to do
a little bit of our own research. And that's hard. I get it, But is it really that hard? Right here in my home state in Mississippi, we have a terrible congressman in the second Congressional District by the name of Benny Thompson. Manny Thompson has benefited greatly from a Gerrymander district that pretty much ensures that he's going to get reelected. Well, he's got a Republican challenger, and maybe they think he's got a shot because I saw that
the Republican Party endorsed the Republican candidate. Go figure, it's the Republican Party. That's what they're supposed to do. And of course you're seeing Republican office holders all coming out and does that really matter, because again, I think if you're a Republican, you were never going to vote for Benny Thompson in the first Those endorsements don't move the needle one iota. And if the district is drawn in a way that protects Benny Thompson still, then guess what.
Benny Thompson's probably gonna get reelected again. But we'll share the post of the Republican Party endorsing him like that means anything. They should have endorsed him the second he won the primary. This shouldn't have been something that happened months after the primary. He's their candidate. Of course they were gonna endorse him. I don't know, folks. I wish
I had more faith in the system. I wish I trusted the American electorate, but I don't anymore because I've seen them fail us too many times where they failed to do the research and properly get out and vote out bad politicians. They're more worried about voting for the name they know than actually committing themselves to changing anything.
This has been morning coffee with the Right Side, and I'm your host Jack Fairchilds and we're a part of the Midnight Ride Network And this show has been brought to you by Pearl River Casino and Resort,