Guest Host: Krish Dhanam | Aug 9, 2024 | Hour 1

a patriot of course, because of the urgency. For those of you who know me, you know my story well. For those of you joining us in the additional markets that were picked up in the additional hour that we are going to do today and then a couple of

days later. I came from India in nineteen eighty six with nine dollars to my name, and right now I'm actually recording this in a hotel room in Fredericksburg, Texas, where I have been asked to be part of a journey called Patriot Academy that I've been a part of on the ancillary side for a good on two decades, and now with the brand new campus being built here in Fredericksburg, to restore liberty and give us some of

those God given rights that are inalienable. I am excited to bring my knowledge both of the world of apologetics and of evangelism to these humble quarters and maybe hang our shingles here in the retirement days of our life in good old Texas. But back to the business at hand. The show is called Conservative not Bitter. Around the corner. In November of this year, we will have again the significant election that every four years everybody says is the

most important election of our lifetime. Where I stand on a lot of these issues is public knowledge. You can check me out on YouTube. I don't promote anything as a general rule, because when people ask me to guest host for them, I think it's an incredible honor to just complement and supplement that which they have spent a lifetime building and branding. So for the majority of what we do, we try to just reference a couple of

ways in which you can reach us. And some of you have in years past come back and said, you like the mellow sweetness of the tone or whichever way you want to put it, but that it does complement Todds on a demeanor of trying to advocate and also accelerate the notion of let us be conservative. We don't

need to be bitter. When I look at the Declaration of Independence and any of those documents that frame this republic, I look at the rights that are inalienable, that are given to us by a creator God, that amongst these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And somewhere along the way in the journey we convoluted the last part happiness is the only one that seems to have that qualifier of pursuit. But the life ordained rights that we have been given by Creator, our life and liberty.

Some years ago, I remember sharing a story with a group of people and they kind of liked it. But the historian David Hackett Fisher one time was writing a chronicle. He himself a historian, was chronicling other historians who had researched the Civil War and the Revolutionary War and some such so a gentleman by the name of Melon Chamberlain was interviewing a gentleman by the name of Captain Levi Preston,

who at that time was well into his nineties. But Levi Preston was there on that faded shothard around the world, so to speak. The initial shots had conquered and Lexington, which changed the course and the trajectory of the imperialism and the colonization of Britain, and eventually later on in seventeen seventy six to the signing of that Gallon Declaration, and then the war lasted a good number of years after that, seventeen seventy six being one which took a

lot of courage and fortitude to finish. And hope you'll track with us on the second day I come back, which I think is scheduled to be Monday, And if that's the case, I will actually walk you through some parts of seventeen seventy six as an immigrant would read it, and give you a historical perspective there in. But going back to Melon Chamberlain's interview of Levi Preston, the questions asked of the young lad who had participated in the

Revolutionary War were quite simple. Did you react or did you join the forces? Because of the Stamp Act? He says, I don't think a stamp act ever got off the ground. In fact, I don't recall seeing a single piece of paper that had been taxed or that required a tax on the stamp there in. As far as the tea party, the next question was concerned, He says, I don't think I ever saw a little bag of tea. I think our boys already dumped it in the harbor by the

time we got there. He says, then, what, pray tell, was your desire to join the revolution? Was it because you had read the writings of Locke in Sydney and Harrington? He says no. He says, pray tell, what is your answer? Why did you fight? You were not the right person, you were not equipped to do it, you were not trained as a regimental soldier. Why did you do it? And the answer that Levi Preston, Captain Levi Preston, now well into his ninth general, ninth decade of existence, said

was quite humbling and simple. Now, I may be a little eager in how I tried to narrate history to you, so play along. Some of you may be googling. But if you're doing that, please stop and do that so that you're safe. But the reality is this, Here's what Levi Preston said. He says, we had always been free and intended to be free always, but the Red Coats intended it not so. And I'm thinking to myself, here we are on the cusp of another election. We hear

the rally cries going around the tube. We hear people chattering all the time in sound bites, their vitriol, their hatred, their anger, and none of them go back to the basics of why do we need to preserve a republic? Why do we have to keep calling it a democracy when it is a republic? And I think if you repeat a lie often enough, it'll become true. That's what we have seen, has been proven by the side that disagrees with us. So having said that, I want to

take you through this concept of elections. And the first thing is consequences. When I look back through the annals of American history and when I look at what all the people did. Even when George Washington took command and Congress said we want you to be the commander of the Continental Army. In his letter to Martha and his letter to his friends, his brother, and to Congress itself, he said, I consider myself the least equipped person to

undertake this charge. But the duty and honor of the moment are what will convince me that I have to do the best I can. Throughout the war, he lamented that probably he was not the right guy, and many times his second in command doubted him, especially after the losses that were undertaken, when New York was run over, Brooklyn Heights was run over, the Jamaica Pass was run over, White Plains was run over, and these people were retreating

further and further. And as they decided to make that stand in Philadelphia, Congress itself had already retreated and moved their headquarters to Baltimore. So we have been through these times before where the fight seems that it's not worth fighting because the other side has a louder voice, a more well trained vocal outburst, and they are selling emotion

and we are selling logic. And as a result of that, many of us don't want to actually participate in this process because not only are we fed up, we are tired. In the words of that great beatle George Harrison, we

keep on voting. They still get in. When I, as an immigrant, look at conservative principles and start echoing the inner Reagan within me, I begin to ask myself a very simple question, how can people wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and actually go down the checklist of saying a border that is not secure is okay, migrants who come in here unchecked, unfettered, with immediate access

to all the benefits is okay. But the homelessness on the streets because we do not provide enough of a funding for our veterans who go and serve for us as they lie on the streets. The only time we clean them up is if a convention is coming to town and we don't want their encampments to be an isore to our own policy. My friends, it's a very

interesting time we find living in America these years. I mean, when you look at what this republic is all about, and how beautiful and gracious it has meant to immigrants like me, As an immigrant, I always wonder when I landed in New York City there were two lines immigrant others. There was no great debate as to which line you would belong in and how you would be received. The word used was when you arrive in New York, you will be processed. This is what was told to me

in the embassy in India. You will have to declare, you will have to show the police clearance that you don't carry a record from the country that you're exiting, which means I had to go and stand in line and fill paperwork in India to get a police clearance.

And I want you to imagine how arduous and long that process would have been in nineteen eighty six to get the clearance because nothing was digitized and nothing was computerized back then, so word of mouth people had to scour files and maybe they didn't do a good job in scowering all of them, but still you had to wait about six months before you got that no objection certificate. The same thing for your medical clearance. There are people

on the streets and India dying. So if you're just going to go to a doctor and say I want a regular wellness checkup and I need you to certify that I'm good and capable of traveling to another country with no communicable diseases, you are basically not given priority access. So the medical clearance takes time. But I love the word that was used in those days, processed. And now I want to bring us to fast forward to where we are now. Now the debate is people do not

need an ID to vote. That is about as dumb as a bag of rocks. And we're not calling anybody a bag of rocks, but we're saying the idea is dumb as a bag of rocks, or if you're from the South, the bag of hammers, or whatever you want to call. Well, you know, in the grand scheme of things, it's really not a big deal. Well, Aristotle said, nothing is what stones dream about at night. There are consequences when you want to talk elections. The first consequences is

our side gone out and registered? Is our side actually making sure that everybody who has a legal right to vote is going to cast that vote by the same token. Are they checks and balances in place that people who don't have a right to vote can now vote? Folks, I'm an immigrant. I came to this country and went through the process. I waited for each document that came at every specific period. After waiting legally, for the gap that passes before I had the right to do the

next thing X number of time. Months have to pass before you get your work permit. A little more time has to pass before you get your green card. After that, a little more time has to pass before you get your citizenship. Then you apply for your passport. Then all

of these things take time. But when I look back in hindsight and what I'm called on to do today, I am the immigrant who landed in the United States with nine dollars to my name in nineteen eighty six, and very soon have been asked to come as a dean of an institute in Fredericksburg, Texas, where I will teach young young kids, young adults conservative principles that are based on biblical truths. Now, I know three things for sure.

One there is a God to it ain't me. And three it's not whoever is listening to this either, but as a result of that in infallible, inerrant word of God. So first, whenever you're looking at elections, look at the consequences that come as a result of a character lapsed.

Consequences that come as a result of conversations that are not had, Consequences that begin to birth and share raise their ugly head because of choices we have made, consequences that will happen because we have not been concerned about all of the illegitimacy of the stealing of a republic that takes case in front of our eyes. Now, when

you look at the Supreme Court's laws being passed. And if you want more information on this, I'd encourage you to go and look at the work of Alliance defending freedom and how so much of what we have believed was legal was actually just us being hoodwinked when none

of it actually was legal. When these laws are now being repealed, along with them, into the dust bin of society will go all of the stuff that we were asked to react to for the last forty or fifty years, the erection of monuments on public grounds, all of these things were passed. Is somehow you know there's a separation of church and state. My friend's separation of church and state, to the best of my knowledge, is not in any document.

It was in an innocuous letter written by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist and at that time I think he was an emissary in France when the letter was written to him, and his reply was there will always

be a wall of separation between church and state. I don't think it was a sanction that it would be open season against the church, and you could get very easily a license to build a mosque or a permit to erect a temple, but somehow, in order to be a church, you had to be cautioned in some way. One of the great travesties during COVID was that you could worship in replace except a place of worship that

we call the church. And the reason was city Hall doesn't want to take on these large percentage of the people they do not understand, and the fear factor of who you might offend has actually made it easy to offend those people that you are. Let me repeat that, the fear of offending someone who you might offend as a feeling ends up allowing you to offend what you are

and what you represent. Everything outside of what you are and how you were raised and what you represent becomes the alien cultures around us become the migrant cultures moving into our neighborhoods. Now you're talking to a brown skin kid who was mentored by a man named zig Ziggler who called him Twilight, affectionately saying this is my boy. He's not black, he's not white, He's my Twilight. As a result, I wrote an ode to mister Zigler called Twilight,

where I thanked him for correcting my lens. You know everything you look at doesn't have to be woe. It can be r It doesn't have to be a rose colored lens. It can be a rose colored lens. And sometimes you can look at it through the tint of optimism. But that requires a conversation to be had, that requires you crossing the street, going to the people who are

not like you, who come from other places. You may not have drawn the straw of the ends of the earth to fulfill the great commission, my dear friends, but you may have drawn the straw that Judaea and Samaria has now been brought to you. So I like the fact that the Republican Party, the Conservative movement, is calling itself a big tent. But by the same token, there have to be some lines as to what you would

consider fair course in that tent. Excuse me, because if you look at America as a general rule, you will see the same thing as happened. Let me paint for you four pillar posts of the choices that were made for us in our absence, But in our presence? What does that mean? It was made in our presence because

it was visually offered to us as a choice. It was made in our absence because you and I by then had already created the donut effect in the central part of her and retreated to the suburbs, where we decided we were going to raise our children and raise our fences. What were the choices given to us? Hey, other lifestyles are here to stay. Why don't you agree that a man can love a man, or a woman can love a woman, or whatever the choice was, It

was goffered in a very benign way. It had no malignancy to it, It had no urgency to it, It had no It just said, you know, we are just people just like you, and we want you to allow us to love. As long as it was in the privacy of their own choices and their own behaviors, You and I didn't feel threatened. Plus, we had already moved to suburbia. We decided to homeschool our kids and raise our fences. So what happens is the first step in

any movement. If you go back to studying or Well, or you study Huxley believing we're either totalitarian or we're too lazy, whichever mood you want to pick up, the choices are the same. First, they say, acknowledge that other things are here to stay. You and I said, Okay, no harm, no foul, doesn't bother me. More power to you go at it. Very soon A time passes and they say, now that you've acknowledged it's here, why don't you accept that it's not only here to stay, it's

here to be recognized. You had a little pebble in your shoe. You were a little uncomfortable in your gate when they started pushing the envelopes and the boundaries of your own character and your own conviction, and very quickly you said to yourself, Okay, you know, maybe I need to pause and remove this pebble. Well, you created smaller cliques that were a little more like you, and you

kind of receded. You changed churches and joined the church that was more biblically based and not the church that said that we're going to be open folks when we come back. After we finish this segment, we got a little more time. But I mean the next segment, I'm going to address the church's choices as well. And again I've done this before, but blessed Ard for his ability to have now longer segments so that I don't need to run through the process. I can walk you through

it first came acknowledgment, then came acceptance. Once they acknowledged and accepted, very quickly, they moved to level three, which was now it's turned time for you to approve. And you and I were looking saying, wait a minute, okay. So this is where elections have consequences, because when a movement is taking place on one side, on the other side, the movement is now stacking the judicial system with people

who are activists. Throughout human history, the judges and the electorate and the people who are put in positions of power within the court system were always only designed to enforce the law. It doesn't take a five data kappa from MIT to figure that that's what the founding fathers intended. Where Congress shall pass the laws, the executive shall sign them into action, and the judiciary will make sure they're

enforced as laws of the land. When you get activism in the judicial side, people are not just writing opinions. They're writing in interpretations of their own prejudices of how they believe about something. So suddenly this nation with bated breath waits for certain periods of the year when nine people in black robes wake up, eat their cereal and we wonder if they're happy or not, and whether they're ruling,

will either favor us or favor us or not. Once that approval part happened, all the die has been all. You know, The chips are now down, the dye has been cast. You're behind the eight ball. Whatever analogy you want to use, whatever colloquialism you want to attach. We are now standing in suburbia, looking over our fences, saying, what happened? I came to a country all these years ago. I worked hard, I paid my taxes, I was on the school board, my children are homeschooled. Whatever it is.

guilty as you go in and buy stuff. You did everything right, You made all the right choices, and suddenly the law has been hammered down and saying, wait a minute, not only what is parallel behavior identity issue?

disagree with on some foundational level. You know, one of the great travesties of these movements are not so much that they happen on our watch, and that you and I, if we are over the age of thirty, are culpable because this generation given to us, and the Ronald Reagan era, the post World War two, people who were born and changed the nation's fate and fortune. We allowed this to

happen on our watch. And what happens is no longer is the main Street parade just an abhorrent behavior, which now says what happens in the privacy of a bedroom or in the sanctity of a marriage is now on public display and for vocal and visual consumption. They have decided to go after the least of these. They have decided to go after the innocent. That's what is abhorrent in the culture we are now living in. You want

to talk elections, you want to talk society. You want to talk about why we need to have the right people at the right time, at the grassroots level, from the school board to the municipality, to your state, to

the Senate, to Congress and eventually the presidency. When the world begins to attack wonder when the world begins to attack innocence, when they bring all these colored paraphernalia of people who are just overdressed ogres in a world trying to make cute monsters out of them, sit around three year old and four year old, and then you see those three year old and four year old kids being

drugged by their own parents into these parades. I wonder what the founding fathers will say if today, when they looked up after having signed that document, realizing they were getting ready to commit treason, if they looked up and saw the parade, not the parade that was given to Franklin and some of the others, with the parade that we now, and they'll ask themselves, was this the republic that we thought was worth fighting for? I think they will say yes, because they had second guess every one

of these moods. That's why the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and the Declaration was some of the most gallant things ever written in history, because none something like that had never been written. When we come back after the break, we'll deal with another segment talking about the importance of God in this diatribe and how God matters in the election more after this. All right, dear friends listeners, welcome back to the Todd Huff Show, Conservative Not Bitter,

the home of Conservative Not Bitter. This is your guest host, Chrish Dunna'm filling in for my dear friend Todd Huff as he gets that reprieve, as he has to accelerate that which he does in the days and months ahead, as we have this republic to save. For those of you listening in the great state of Indiana where all of this eventually originally began, I plan to be there, and I'm going to ask Todd to make that announcement

at some point when he comes back. But we may be on the verge of doing something for God and country about a month before the election in some part around that place, So hopefully we'll be able to get you guys a little jazzed up and have some speakers and some music there that will allow us to reflect on the beauty of where we live, the scenery around which we live and why it is worth saving for austerity, not by trying to discount, delineate, or discourage people from

other worldviews. We want to continue to be the melting pot. We want to continue to participate in the Great Commission and the Great Commandment, but we don't want them to be mutually exclusive in that we want to go and tell people that we love them, but we love them because of who sent us, and vice versa. So I hope I did not overwhelm you with that, you know where I didn't take a breath for that first segment, but I wanted to try to cover a lot of

what I think is important. I'm going to be with you for this hour and the next hour, and then for a couple of hours after the weekend is due, and hopefully during this time if you have any questions today and want to reach out to me, my email is Chrish. That's rh at Chris Dunham so again kh At Krish, d A. Nam Deis and David ha n is In, Nancy am Is in Mary Chris Dunham dot com.

Chris at Chris Dunham dot com. I have been in this nation now for about thirty eight years and have traveled the length and breadth of it as a motivational speaker. I was raised in an orthodox Hindu family, converted to Christianity at the behest and teachings of a man named mister zig Ziggler, who many of you will know. For those of you who don't know who mister zig Ziggler is,

just look it up. He was one of the quintessential motivational geniuses of our time that truly and favorably always articulated not only a triune God, but a triune man who had to be grateful for looking up at a God, leaning on a family, and standing on proudly on the roots of posterity, God, family and country. So when we began this show, we said, let's talk elections. We talked about the consequences that elections have. We said, we need

to begin a conversation. I basically highlighted some of the choices that the others made for us, choices we never made for ourselves. For you who are quasi independent, some of you may be already ultra conservative, and you may have issues with the candidates, and you know this whole lesser of ea, all of that other conversation being a side I don't think we're trying to elect the pope or we're trying to elect the bishop. So sometimes we

have to get off. I tell people, as a believer in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the deliverance that comes therein my simplest way, is the only way I get off my high horse is realizing that at the time of triumphal entry, my Lord himself came in on a donkey. While it's blasphemy to make scripture sound whatever you wanted to sound, I just took the animal out of the equation and said, when you're on your high horse, remember that your Lord came in on donkey. Don't get

theological into that. There's no theological statement in there. It's just my imagery of how my Lord humbled himself to his ultimate sacrifice, and we need to humble ourselves in this process to ask ourselves, is this republic worth saving? And if it is worth saving, what are the choices I have been presented in front of me. A choice that would save this republic, that would in some way provide protection for the unborn, A choice that will actually give the right to vote to only those who are

citizens of this great nation. The choice that will say that, you know what, I don't care what your social economic strata was where you came from. If you're in the asylum process, go through the asylum process, like the people who came to the Land of Liberty and actually had to go through the process of being sequestered if they were contaminated or taken too contamination zones, if they were infected. This is how it has always been done. This is still how it has done in war torn countries when

you end up in a refugee camp. Now I live in Texas, and it's almost like open season. I heard one border patrol agent or one person talk about the fact that in the days of old, a farmer may have had fifteen hundred acres that bordered the entire His entire property was one long border, and so whatever law he had on his land was the law he had

on his land, so he prevented any crossings. But now one of the guys says that it's almost like you've got a small five yard and six yard pitches, like you know, just imagine mowing your yard and going against the grain. You see those rows formed. He says, that's how property is in some parts of the state where one guy may agree with allowing a border patrol agent to patrol his border, and another may say it's my right,

don't do it because this is what I want to do. Well, I'm giving you a practical illustration of a porous It has nothing to do with asylum. If the number of people crossing that border now range one hundred and fifty countries, I don't want even go into the extremism that that border will create or what the background of the people is. But I want you to have this image that anthropologically and historically has been given since Aristotle and when rhetoric was born, so that if you want to have a

conversation with someone, just say this. Anytime in human history you have seen men and women hold their belongings and go in a certain direction. They were fleeing war. Anytime you just see a group of men with no women in sight and no children in sight, and they're quasi well dressed and they have a suitcase, they're headed to war. These are people being designed and designated to infiltrate us.

And over a period of time, certainly you're going to wake up and ask yourself, I wonder what happened that's the truth. Now you may want to disagree with it because Indiana is far away, or Utah is far away, or wherever you're listening. But as I have traveled this country, I have seen that the migrant crisis in this nation that is now tipping twenty and twenty five and thirty

million people are here to stay. Now. We can have promises made that there'll be mass deportation day one, but the irony is I can believe that we haven't been able to find them now, and some people saying we may never be able to find them, which is a crop hunto itself for the simple reason that I know if I don't pay my taxes for a couple of years, they're going to find me. We know where people are.

My friends. If you own a smartphone and you have talked to your bride with the microphone nothing, your phone is not even on, and the phone is between you and your significant other in the house, and you talk about a product very soon on each other's speed of social media, you will see advertisements for that particular product.

If the algorithm can actually come into the confines of your house through your smart device and tell you what you're thinking about buying just because you've vocalized it once you think they don't know where you are. That is so as I mean again, you know, if you buy that, we've got swamp planned kind of thing. But these are my concerns. My concerns are that the arguments we are having are not real arguments. We are trying to argue

stuff that shouldn't actually even exist. When I'm talking to someone and he's saying a voter idea is racist or voters are not you know, we shouldn't be worried about people coming through and bussing them to another city is illegal and it's inconstitutional. You know, it's bloney. You look at the hospitals being overrun, and anybody who wants emergency care can walk in, whether they have documentation or not.

And I'm coughing up four hundred dollars a month in insurance, and my bride is coughing up another eight hundred with our pre existing conditions, and if we're coughing up twelve hundred dollars a month in insurance so that when we walk in we can show them a card saying that I'm paying into this, I need treatment, And they're looking at you and saying, wait a minute, we're overrun, and somehow I've got to tiptoe back out of there, because if I say the wrong thing, I'm going to be

branded bigoted or racist or prejudiced. Folks, it's time to wake up. I know. The conversation has to be not bitter, and the question is not about anger. The question is about rhetoric. The question is about logic. Logic rule one oh one, the law of non contradiction. Two things cannot exist in the same mood, with the same relationship at the same time when they are provided and presented in

opposite ways. So same thing with the language issue. There are certain parts of this country and certain parts of the state of Texas I go to when I ask for service and they look at me and say, I don't speak English. Now I'm an immigrant. Tell me this.

This should not bother me in some way or at least get me concerned about the fact of how far have we come that we don't have that basic civic need, saying you know what, if you're in the service sector, you need to be able to at least answer the questions of those that are footing the bill for the establishment to exist in the first place. These are my concerns. So we've talked about consequences. We've talked about having a

conversation crossing the street. We talked about some of the choices that we have made, some of the choices made for us. We talked about the conviction, the concerns. When we come back in the last segment of the first hour, I'm going to begin the concept of what are the convictions we need to have, what are the compromise and commitment. We may deal with that in the second hour of the first day. But again, my name is Chris Dunham.

My email is Chris at Chris Dunham dot com. In the past, when I have come on this show, some of you have been kind to send out a message which he then forwarded to me, and kindly reach out to me, and we'll talk to you more when we come back after the break. Thanks a lot for listening. Hang in there, we'll be right back after these message. Welcome back, dear friends. This is Krish Dunham filling in for Todd Huff on the Home of Conservative Not Better.

When Todd asked me if I wanted to do the show again and said it had gone to an expanded format. I'm glad I only fill in because this is an art form that I'm still learning, and so if there are hiccups along the way, or you can hear a sound in the background, it's because of me, as an amateur, trying to help a friend and trying to learn or be part of a conversation that is a little more mainstream. Again.

My name is Chrish Dunham and I live in the great state of Texas, have for all my life in these yere United States, and currently am participating in a week long program that is just really close and dear to my heart. It's called Patriot Academy. Patriot Academy. It's a movement that was started by a friend of mine who served in the Texas legislature many moons ago, and I think Todd is interview him in the past, and the gentleman and I have been very, very dear friends

for over thirty years. I was there the night he proposed to his wife. I had the privilege of performing the wedding of his older boy, and so we go back as family very very many many years, and I have occasionally come and done a talk here, done a talk there. Over the years for him, and now we are finally seeing the culmination of a dream for the Republic that we need to save. And Patriot Academy now has a brand new campus. Again there's no shameless plug here.

You can go and take It's a nationwide movement. We recently had a Patriot Academy at the Indiana Capital where we had some young kids come in and taught them the entire art and science of motivation and civics and momentum. They actually go into committee, understand what a bill is, learn how to bring a bill, learn how to canvass it, Learn how it gets out of committee, learn how to

debate it on the floor. Learn how to see if the amendment is needed for your bill, See if it'll go, See if the governor will pass it, see if the Senate and the Chamber will vote for it. So these are kids eighteen to twenty two who go through this process. The reason I'm sharing that with you is just something

It is real heartening and gratifying to see. When I look at my own convictions, I know that I talk a lot about the things that have gone wrong in this nation and the time I've been here, and I apologize to these kids that it happened on my watch. The reason I say my watch and not our watches.

There was a time in my journey where I was more concerned with paying my bill, putting my mortgage, putting my son through college, and taking care of my aged parents and me myself and I whether I'm Conservative, or whether I'm Republican, or whether I'm American or not is not the issue. Survival, you know, went back to the basics of Maslow's theory of hierarchy, and that was my journey.

But then when I began anchoring and being part of this journey in the last twenty years, I thought to myself, in that short period of time, we have already seen some of our people become victorious at different stages around the nation. And as a result of that, I thought to myself, I said, you know, I wish more people would just it's not a question of whether we are right or we are left, or we're good or we're bad, or we're up or we're down. Is there a way

to study basic civics? Is there a way to study what a republic means? Is there a way to understand the consequence of a single vote? Think about it. In the chamber of any place where they are passing a resolution that will eventually go to the upper floor and eventually to the President or whatever for a bill to eventually become a law of the land, a single vote can derail it. Not in the opinions and all of that,

but in the way the two third majority works. And in some states it's two thirds of the elected body. In some states it's two thirds of those present, and so a vote is very important. Well, if the vote is important in the halls where the votes are being exercised, how much more important is my vote to make sure the right person gets into that hall or the right number of people get into that congressional seat. While the election that is coming up is for the President of

the United States. Congress goes through an election every two years, and we need to be making sure that we have the right people at the school board level. We have to have the right people at the county level, we have to have the right people at the state level.

And that's what I mean when I go through the process of watching these kids, and I call them kids because they're about forty years my junior, but I think if they are learning the stuff at the age of eighteen nineteen twenty, and many of them come three and four years in a row, so they completely immersed in the process and understand the process. I asked myself, I said, wow, what would happen? I mean, just think about it. Most people who are elected to office don't even know the process.

They spend the first year learning the process, and their clerks actually educate them. The clerks actually read the bills and tell them, hey, based on your constituents and based on all of the stuff that your people know, these are the people. This is what you need to think, and then the individuality will come in. But a majority of these people are learning the procedure on the fly. Think about how great. And this is why I'm saying

it's important. When I look at eighteen to twenty two year old I always used to think myself, man, these guys are young, and then I thought about the people who fought to say to frame this republic. Thomas Jefferson was thirty four, I think when he wrote the Declaration of Independence. Alexander Hamilton was nineteen and twenty when he was manning the cannons that had been brought from Taekwondo

Roga in those in that Battle of New York. I mean, this man goes on to become the first Secretary of the Treasure at the age of fourteen and fifteen he's writing great reviews. And you know, these stories fascinate me. But they happen to people who were very, very young. Now why is it that they were able to stand tall, walk proud, and make legislation and eventually write a charter and create a document that had never been done in the history of human existence. I think there's something very

profound as to how they began. And what we'll do is when we come back, we'll talk about some of the compromises and the commitments we need to make when we do the second hour, and then I will begin to show some seeds about some of the exciting things that we can be doing at our level in the next couple of months to make sure this thing is what we want it to be. Stay tuned. We'll be back in the next hour.