Point of View August 20, 2026 – Hour 2 : Woke 2.0 is Coming

[00:00:04] Across America, live, this is Point of View, Kerby Anderson. This hour we're going to spend some time really talking about the need for us to be wise, to have discernment during these midterms, and that's one of the reasons why we've posted a couple of very good pieces by Robert Knight.

[00:00:30] Radical Democrats gearing up for Woke 2.0 or some of the articles I have the title Woke 2.0 coming but don't believe them. Also the one Democrats and the liberal Greek tragedy. As you know, we have earlier in the week did talk about Robert Knight's piece, but I want to come back to it. Yesterday we even had a piece by Beckett Adams saying Woke 1 wasn't just crazy, it was destructive.

[00:00:55] And we just had a few minutes ago a piece by a member of Congress, Common Sense vs. Crazy. To give you an idea, this is going to be a midterm election where we're going to need to really be seeing what is there and to ask important questions. I just couldn't think of anybody better to spend some time with as our good friend Robert Knight. Individual course has written for everybody from the Los Angeles Times Heritage Foundation, but most importantly writes for the Washington Times.

[00:01:23] Individual that has been a friend of this ministry for many years. And Robert Knight, welcome back to Point of View. Always good to be on with you, Kirby. Let's see what can explain the difference I tried to do earlier in the week between Woke 1.0 and 2.0, because this is the distinction that Alexandra Acosta-Bortez is making. And I think it just illustrates the fact that we just need to recognize that they're going to be making some statements

[00:01:49] and we shouldn't go along with what they are trying to do in terms of rewriting history. Tell us more. Yeah, I think you just put it, you just hit it on the head, rewriting history. Woke 1.0 or Woke 1, which she said was, quoting someone, was crazy. It was only a few years ago. Yeah, it was. It was worse than crazy. It was very destructive. Yes. People lost their jobs over it. They crushed conservative opinion.

[00:02:19] They went after Christians. The whole Woke world is basically a communistic worldview that will brook no other opinions. And in the service of that, they went after everything from pro-lifers to people defending marriage, people opposing men and women's sports, and anyone questioning the government's take on COVID-19.

[00:02:46] You know, now we know so much more, Kirby, about the masking and how ineffective it was, and the six-foot distancing, which was arbitrary at best. We know about the source of the virus. It's pretty clear what came out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where they were working on making it stronger.

[00:03:10] And anybody who questioned any of that was deplatformed, was censored, was taken off social media. I mean, that was Woke 1.1. She's laughing it off as if it was no big deal. And she's promising Woke 2.0. And to me, Woke 2.0 is just more of the same plus more lies about Woke 1. One of the things I thought was interesting, and this is not your column, but Beckett Adams said,

[00:03:36] you know, even to say this and rewrite history is to say, well, that just happened because of the pandemic. And then he gives us all these illustrations of Brandon Icke back in 2014 being forced out of Mozilla because he donated all of $1,000 to California's Proposition 8, or the individuals that were being pushed off campus, protested, not even allowed, lectures being canceled abruptly and ended, even some of the drag shows and some of that,

[00:04:05] long before we even had the pandemic. So you can't really make that case. So that's one of the themes that runs through your piece, which I, again, encourage people to get a copy of. We've posted it on a website, pointofview.net. But there's another part that I think is even more important, and that is you say we should get ready to hear terms like, oh, you've just cherry-picked this, or that was taken out of context.

[00:04:30] And yet, as you point out, some of these, quote, old podcasts just happened two or three years ago, which were hardly the Bronze Age, were they? That's the point. Yeah, they're just, especially the Senate candidate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed. He said he was knocking football as a toxically masculine culture part of that.

[00:04:59] And he said it was destroying Native Americans and the transatlantic slave trade or some of the ethos of football. You know, now his campaign is saying, well, you're just cherry-picking those statements. You can't put them in any context for them to make any sense. And you can't do that with the statements by Hassan Piker, who was campaigned with Mr. El-Sayed.

[00:05:27] He's campaigned with Zoran Mamdani, the socialist Islamic, communist Islamic mayor of New York. This guy's quotes are so toxic, we can't share them here, Kirby. That's right. But they're racist, they're disgusting, they're anti-Semitic. He's full of hate, and he doesn't mind showing it. And the Democrats are fine embracing him.

[00:05:52] And I think Republicans, if they're not completely without messaging experts, should remind everyone that this guy is right at the center of their campaigns. And that the party is fine with people like him. You know, one of the things people say is I have a pretty good memory. And I do remember some things. And one of those I remember is almost a year ago, I remember a Robert Knight saying, Kirby, you know,

[00:06:18] what's so interesting is that some of these candidates, which before used to hide their agenda, are now coming out and explicitly saying it. And, of course, you were talking about what, of course, ended up being the mayor's campaign. But since then, you had an individual who I guess is not going to be the Democratic Socialist candidate, Mrs. Hong,

[00:06:39] in terms of whether Thanksgiving is colonialist, but so or even some of these other individuals that like James Tallarico, who's running for Senate here and the state of Texas. But these are comments that are being made pretty dramatically now. And there is almost no attempt to hide them. And that is something different, don't you think? Well, yeah, the Democratic Socialists of America are on a roll right now.

[00:07:08] They just managed to get Angie Nixon in Florida named as the Democratic Senate candidate. Can you believe this? Yeah. Yeah. And here's the remarkable thing. Alex Vindemann was her opponent. You might remember him. I do. He helped out framing President Trump for that Ukraine phone call. That was his claim to fame. But anyway, the mainstream Democrats backed Mr. Vindemann. He raised more than $16 million for his campaign.

[00:07:38] And Angie Nixon raised less than a million, and she thumped him by 12 percentage points. I mean, this shows there's a tidal wave happening in the Democratic Party. Now, she's not going to win in November. Florida is a solidly Republican state. People love Governor DeSantis. They're not going to elect a nutcase like Angie Nixon, who has bought into the entire Democratic Socialists of America agenda, which is everything from defunding police to open borders.

[00:08:07] But the fact that the Democrats have selected her as their candidate tells you more about the Democratic Party than anything else. It sure does. Let's take a break, and I do want to continue on with some other issues. Of course, we have the interest that people have had about Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, but that was a Trojan horse back then. Do we have a Trojan horse now?

[00:08:31] And isn't it just amazing how, when being interviewed, many times these are individuals with the Democratic Socialists of America who are quite willing to say, Yeah, that's what I'm planning to do. That's what we would like to do if we get power. So we'll come back and talk about that with Robert Knight right after this. This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson.

[00:09:04] Washington, D.C. has two different types of museums, the Smithsonian Museum and the Museum of the Bible. I like both museums, but the first one is looking more like an instrument of wokeism and left-wing culture. Last year, President Trump issued an executive order dedicated to restoring truth and sanity to American history. This year, the White House Domestic Policy Council issued a 162-page report on the National Museum of American History. The director appeared before Congress to respond to the report.

[00:09:32] Now, you might have seen how the representative, Brandon Gill, asked the director if she thought politeness was a sign of white supremacy, since that is stated in the Smithsonian material. She also has been promoting a different role for the museum. She wants to connect research and scholarship to activism and advocacy. She sees their programs and displays as a prime tool of social justice. The Smithsonian Museum could learn something from the Museum of the Bible, even though it is not a taxpayer-funded government museum.

[00:10:01] It begins with some foundational principles, namely that the Bible is transcendent truth. It illustrates how the Bible shaped Western culture. By contrast, the Smithsonian attempts to reinterpret history through the latest cultural and philosophical fads. Perhaps the greatest failing of the Smithsonian isn't what is said, but what is left out. A recent white paper on the museum reported that there is no major exhibit dedicated to America's founding era,

[00:10:29] George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, other founding fathers, the Continental Congress, the Pilgrims, and the Puritans. The American people deserve better. I'm Kirby Anderson, and that's my Point of View. Go deeper on topics like you just heard by visiting pointofview.net. That's pointofview.net.

[00:10:57] You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. We're going to continue our conversation today with Robert Knight. And again, we have posted these two columns, so you can find them at our website, pointofview.net. And, of course, you can go to roberthnight.com either way and find them there. Or, of course, you can go out to the Washington Times. And, Robert, for just a minute, you were talking about the case and the election in Florida, but we earlier talked about, of course, the U.S. Senate candidate there in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed.

[00:11:26] He defeated Haley Stevens, and she, again, was backed by the Democratic institution. So we're seeing individuals who are fairly or very liberal being defeated by Democratic socialists. And this, I think, has got to be causing all sorts of indigestion to some of the Democratic leadership, don't you think?

[00:11:52] Well, yeah, I think they're in a tough spot because if they embrace these Democratic socialist candidates who are completely out of touch with the rest of America, that'll put the Democratic Party way out on the left-wing ledge where they don't want to jump off. If they reject them, then that'll split the party because most of the energy right now is among young people who have fallen for this socialist nonsense they learned at universities.

[00:12:22] They're all in on getting rid of capitalism. They don't even know what it means. They think it just means billionaires are running rampant all over us. And they don't look at, oh, indoor plumbing, electricity, cars, all the things, iPhones, all the things that capitalism brought because it's not a philosophy. It's just it's truth in advertising. It's paying for what you want to pay for.

[00:12:48] And the buyer and the seller agree on a price, and that's freedom. And, you know, it's Karl Marx who popularized the term capitalism to make it seem like some onerous philosophy that had to be defeated. But it's really just about people being free to do what they would do naturally. Right. Well, and again, since we're talking about being on the edge in your second article that we have here,

[00:13:14] you do say the only prominent Democrat to protest the takeover of the party is Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, who has lamented that our parties become, and I love his line, an orgy of socialism, and called the Democratic Socialists of America members deeply anti-American and crazy. And I do have to put a smile on your face by saying, who would have thought that the conscience of this Democratic Party would be John Fetterman out of Pennsylvania?

[00:13:42] But he's really the only prominent person I can find that's making those kinds of statements. How about you? Well, as far as public officials, yes, but you even see people like Bill Maher on HBO. And Bill Maher is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal. He really doesn't like the Christian right. I know that because I was on his program, please, incorrect years ago. I kind of had it out with him.

[00:14:09] He was a nice guy in person, but still very left-wing. But now he's speaking out. He's saying, my goodness, the Democrats are like lemmings going off this left-wing cliff. Yeah, they're crazy. He said, you know, they better wake up. But, you know, they haven't woken up because the Democratic leadership keeps proclaiming that their party is a big tent, and there's plenty of room under that big top for these communists and the Democratic Socialists of America.

[00:14:36] And I don't use that word lightly, Kirby, but when they talk about tech, if you look at their platform, it's straight communism, taking over the means of production, abolishing the U.S. Constitution, opening the borders, free child care, free college, free housing. No way to pay for all this. I mean, I guess crazy is better than communist. I don't know. I don't know.

[00:15:02] Well, and again, let's for just a minute answer the one question I think some people have, and that is, well, they say it, but do they really mean it? And, of course, Shannon Bream with Fox News the other day interviewed the DSA national co-chair, Megan Romer, and then also an individual with The New Yorker interviewed. And in both cases, you have the co-chair of the National Democratic Socialist of America saying, oh, yeah, we're all for this, you know.

[00:15:27] And Charles Cook points out that when you talk about to abolish the Senate is to effectively abolish the states, to abolish the Supreme Court is to abolish the rule of law, to abolish the borders and our militaries, to abolish our sovereignty, and to abolish the prisons is to abolish our ordered liberty, and to abolish private property is abolish our economy.

[00:15:51] When you work your way through all those lists, you recognize this is something that looks more like the example I used yesterday was Dr. Zhivago in communism. And you do use this illustration that we have in history had some examples of a Trojan horse of communism in 1917 and a Trojan horse of Islam with the Shah of Iran in 1979.

[00:16:20] So we may not be there yet, but I see the rumblings of something that we've seen before in history, don't you think? Yeah, there have been a number of things. And, of course, the original Trojan horse is the Greek soldiers hiding in the big wooden horse, and they hauled it into Troy, and then they conquered Troy that way. My point in the column is that the Democrats are hauling in their own Trojan horse right now full of Islamists and communists.

[00:16:47] And they see them as a short-term way to win elections, but they don't see the longer-term reckoning, reckoning that if either of those parties, factions, actually took over and got power in this country, they'd start eliminating their enemies. That's what these people always do, whether it's Islamists or communists. And they're not polite about it.

[00:17:14] I mean, they especially have it in for churches and Christianity, and you can see that all over the world, wherever there are Muslim-majority countries. There's no religious freedom. And there are no churches in Saudi Arabia, even though Saudi Arabia is an ally of ours. Everybody soft-peddles the threat of Islam until you see it in places like Nigeria or Pakistan

[00:17:41] or any number of countries where Christians are fearful for their lives all the time. And here we are importing it into this country. Yes. Well, and Mark Lewis, the other day I posted his piece on the Have No Stopping Point. He was talking primarily of communists, but it's also with Muslims as well. When you say, well, where's the natural stopping point? Well, there isn't. When you don't believe in God, then there's no absolute fixed moral code.

[00:18:06] If you don't believe in boarding babies, then why would you stop there? When you no longer feel that you have to properly define marriage, then we can change that. And so as a result, as soon as you start understanding that if the foundation is anti-God and anti-private property and anti-family, it doesn't bode well for a constitutional republic,

[00:18:33] and that's why I think we need to have a great deal of discernment during this midterm election, don't you think? Well, yeah, and Christians have to get off the couch, Kirby. I mean, we've seen more Christian participation in recent elections, but it's got to go much higher. One reason Zoran Mandami, and perhaps the main reason he won in New York City, despite it having the largest Jewish population in the world of any city,

[00:19:01] and his being anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic, was that Muslim voters turned out 93%. Think about that. Of the registered Muslim voters in New York City, 93% voted. That's a pretty remarkable voting bloc, and it means you don't have to worry about majority in other ways. And they do that in places.

[00:19:27] They work as a bloc, and with small numbers you can wield a lot of power, and Christians have to push back. They have to vote in similar large numbers, and if Christians did that, we really wouldn't have all these problems. We'd have a biblically informed government instead of a government that seems to want to undo biblical Christianity and our Judeo-Christian ethic. Very good.

[00:19:54] We're coming to a break, and I've heard that I can keep you on for a little bit longer because two of my commentaries recently, I, of course, always like you to talk about your commentaries, but in this case I have one about grocery stores. What's going to happen when we start having citywide grocery stores in each one of the boroughs in New York City? I think I've got some thoughts about that. And then the other one about museums, because it does seem to me that we've got two different kinds of museums. The Smithsonian Museum, which has gone quite woke,

[00:20:24] and also the Museum of the Bible. And since those are a couple of my commentaries, I thought when we bring you back from the break, I thought I might just get a couple of comments on some things I've been writing about and we've been talking about because ultimately that is the case. And let me just mention for those of you that actually receive some of the material we send out in the mail. The September issue is this booklet, which is entitled A Biblical Point of View on Woke Christianity. A Biblical View on Woke Christianity.

[00:20:53] And you can see that some of those ideas have been in the boardroom. Of course, they've been on the campus for years. Some of them are coming out now on the campaign trail because of some of these individuals that are ordained ministers actually promoting woke Christianity. So this is another issue that we've been talking about. And I just again wanted to alert you to be watching your mailbox so that you can actually find that booklet,

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[00:22:51] You are listening to Point of View. The opinions expressed on Point of View do not necessarily reflect the views of the management or staff of this station. And now, here again, is Kirby Anderson. Back for the last half hour, let me just mention that I wanted to keep Robert Knight on for just a few more minutes just to get his comment on a few issues.

[00:23:20] But when, especially, Robert, you were talking about Islam and the Muslim issue, I thought for a minute I would go back to a piece that first John Stonestreet and Glenn Sunshine, who I know both of them very well, did a breakpoint commentary. And then I did it as well because Tucker Carlson, who you know, actually had someone on the program a while back and said, you know, really, this conflict between Islam and Christianity is more of a recent one.

[00:23:48] There was basically a peace between Islam and Christianity for its first 500 years. And all of us that have done any studies go, what? I mean, after the death of Muhammad, you have the Muslim army moving out of Arabia. It takes all of the Holy Land. What was the Christian Byzantine Empire? There, conquers Spain, moves into France. If it were not for the defeat of the Muslim army at the hands of Charles Martel, the hammer,

[00:24:17] they would have taken most of Europe. Later on, they're at the very gates of Vienna. Christians who were in those conquered regions, they were demons. They were second-class citizens. They had to pay a jizra, a special tax. Many of these churches were demolished. And I just think it gets back to, Robert, the need to just get some history, because in some cases we need to counter the history that comes from, quote,

[00:24:45] conservative podcasts, don't you think? Well, some of them. In fact, Tucker, I think, is guilty of having people on who are utterly irresponsible and are soft-pedaling the dangers of Islam. And then there are people like Candace Owens, who is openly anti-Semitic and anti-Israel. And these people are, I think they're being useful idiots.

[00:25:13] They're allowing the other side to define what the views we should have toward Israel, toward Islam. And I think they're wrong. And I don't know what happened with Tucker, because he was so good when he was on Fox News. Yes, he was. He would, oh, he'd bring up things that the mainstream media wouldn't touch, kind of things you hear on this program.

[00:25:41] And then when he left, he was still good for a while. Now he's kind of shifted over. And I'm still scratching my head. I mean, I've encountered Tucker over the years myself, and I've always found him reasonable. And he played a crucial role when he was at Fox. Anyway, Kirby, yes, whether it's from the right or left, I think the rising anti-Semitism is very disturbing. Right.

[00:26:09] And the blase attitude toward Islam. I think Islam has to be taken seriously. Yeah, and I have Muslim friends. I run into them all the time when I walk, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about people that honestly want to implement Sharia and fight as jihad and those kinds of things. But anyway, I was going to ask you about the grocery stores, because this one, again, is kind of interesting,

[00:26:35] because somewhere along the line there is going to be a problem for socialists, because they'll run out of other people's money, to quote Margaret Thatcher. And there now, Zoran Mamdani is wanting to put at least a city-wide grocery store in every one of the boroughs, has identified one. And yet you've, first of all, got to ask, why are we doing this when we have such an extensive network of food assistance? But more importantly, if he is going to be able to reduce prices by 30%, you know what's going to happen.

[00:27:05] There's going to be a black market. And people are going to go buy the groceries and then go sell them. So they're saying, well, maybe in order to prevent that, we're going to have to require people to show an ID to buy groceries. I'm not making this up. And then you can't show an ID to vote, but you have to show an ID to buy groceries. But still, there are going to be residents that might try to exploit the system. So they're going to have to, I think, limit the number of groceries any person can purchase.

[00:27:32] And you just start saying, and then, of course, after spending $70 million, you know they're going to go broke eventually. And just as an illustration, again, that maybe people will have a very visible idea as to why socialism is not a good idea when they look at some of the grocery stores that are being implemented and distributed and established in some of these boroughs in New York City. Yeah, it would be a good lesson for the whole country

[00:28:00] because the first thing that will happen is it will put for-profit grocery stores out of business. Yes. And that's what their point is. The socialists want everything provided by the government. It keeps people dependent, keeps them voting a certain way for the person who promises the free stuff army more stuff. It's very cynical. And, you know, the same Democrats who bemoan the idea of food deserts, which are areas that don't have many grocery stores,

[00:28:30] are setting out to create more food deserts in New York City by putting the existing grocery stores out of business. This is classic Marxist economics. Center everything in the government. And then when it has its destructive effect elsewhere, then say, oh, now we need more government to pick up the pieces. And again, they're going to spend $70 million. You're going to run out of products very quickly, so they're going to have to spend some more.

[00:28:59] But again, the goal of the stores is not to sell produce. The goals of the store is to sell socialism. And that's exactly what's going on. I've got a commentary coming out tomorrow where this is done by a liberal group. I'm pretty sure it's even located in Berkeley, where I was born, in which they point out, if you compare, interestingly enough, back when there was a division between East Germany and West Germany, especially between East Berlin and West Berlin, they talk about two grocery stores 20 miles apart,

[00:29:28] one in East Berlin, one in West Berlin. The one in East Berlin only has about 3,000 items. And as a matter of fact, not very healthy items sometimes. And as a result, the people in East Berlin didn't have as much health and didn't live as long. The same grocery store in West Berlin had more than 7,000 items. And because it was competing with other grocery chains, which was probably cheaper and better food and better resources,

[00:29:58] the people lived longer and all the rest. So it's almost like a social experiment that we have seen, those of us that are older. And I just think we need to share some of that with some of the young people. But just before you go, my commentary today is about what I call the tale of two museums. I love the Museum of the Bible. And by the way, I've been a supporter of the Smithsonian Museum. But if you have been paying attention at all, you might remember when after the White House Domestic Policy Council

[00:30:27] issued their report on the National Museum of American History, they bring in the director of the Smithsonian and representative Brandon Gill. Remember that question? Do you think politeness is a sign of white supremacy? And she was like rolling her eyes. Well, that was in the Smithsonian material. So it does seem to me that even though we see some of these woke ideas on campus,

[00:30:51] some of those have leaked into taxpayer-funded museums, haven't they? Oh, yeah. And it wasn't just that. It was punctuality was another white thing. Yes. Being on time. And hard work. Yeah, being on time, hard work. These are white aspects that are being forced by racist people on minorities.

[00:31:16] I mean, think of how minorities feel about this. I've worked hard all my life. I've raised a family. And now they're telling me I'm just a victim of white supremacy because I have these attributes I've worked so hard to develop. It's just so racist on its surface. And one of the things I've learned from you over the years, Robert, because you have certainly looked at the issue of media bias, it's sometimes not just what they say but what they don't say.

[00:31:45] And that report, and I'm quoting from the report, found that, quote, no major exhibit is dedicated to America's founding era, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, other founding fathers, the Continental Congress, the Pilgrims, and the Puritans. So it isn't just that they're focusing so much time on, and again, there are some dark chapters in American history, the Indian Wars, slave trade, Jim Crow.

[00:32:11] But they just completely eliminate the things that might even make you proud of being an American. Yeah, I took my grandson last year to the Smithsonian, and he was very excited because he loves history. And we kept looking in vain for things that really were encouraging and made us proud to be Americans. And there were lots of things about labor struggles and all kinds of things. And I thought, wait a second, this isn't the Smithsonian I remember. Yeah. Well, if nothing else, I need to let you go.

[00:32:41] I kept you a little bit longer, but if nothing else, I value your input. We, of course, post almost all of your columns and talk about it even when you're not here and when I had a chance to keep you a few extra minutes, thank you for your graciousness. And maybe you should get combat pay for it. But at least when you're on with Bill Maher, you deserve combat pay. I remember that interview as well. So thank you for being with us today, your own point of view. Thank you so much for having me, Kirby. And God bless you.

[00:33:08] And I hope people contribute to point of view and keep you on the air getting the truth out. It's so desperately needed. And I say that coming from a media background. Well, again, it's great. RobertHKnight.com. Of course, we have all the links to all the other resources there. And we've posted these two columns. So, Robert, thank you. We're going to take a break and make a few final comments because, of course, tomorrow is our weekend edition. And, boy, we have a lot to cover then. We'll see if we can get it all in.

[00:33:35] We might need one of those electronic shoehorns to get it all in. We'll talk about that right after this. You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. Back for just a few more minutes.

[00:34:01] Let me just mention tomorrow we're going to be talking with a couple of our guests around the roundtable. Holly Randall will be with us, and she's with First Liberty Institute. We'll talk about a victory for religious accommodation. And that is something that I think we should be reporting more often because of a Supreme Court decision that came down in the Groff case. We also will talk about this idea of back to school because, after all, Cal Thomas has written a piece on back to school.

[00:34:28] Of course, I quoted a day from Larry Sand escaping the educational industrial complex. So I do want to mention some of those issues. And that, by the way, is the latest Outlook magazine, which may have already landed in your mailbox. It did in mine. Then we'll talk about a couple of the other issues that we've discussed today with our good friend Robert Knight. Leftist schemes that don't work. Charlie Cook goes into that in some detail. And Jeff Blahar also warns us, don't fall for fake polls.

[00:34:58] My goodness. These polls, in some cases, have been so far off. And good polls are certainly hard to come by. But then when some of them are deliberately used to advance an agenda, it's, again, important for you to not pay attention to some of those. It is hard enough for people that do this as a living and really want to do it with integrity. Because, again, more and more people don't have a landline.

[00:35:27] They just have a cell phone. And how to get a responsible and accurate picture is difficult enough. Some of these were deliberately faked polls. And we're going to talk about that tomorrow. Jeff Blahar does that in some detail. And then we're going to play a piece, or at least point you to a very good interview that Liberty did on online sports betting. Because the other day I did mention this issue of gambling.

[00:35:54] And, again, let me hold up our booklet on gambling that came out a while ago. And I wrote that in large part because I was convinced that we have a very significant phenomenon. A majority, anywhere from 52 to 53 percent of Gen Z, actually see this opportunity to bet on sports as a way to get ahead financially. Which is a complete disaster.

[00:36:21] But I think it illustrates only so well how many young people today are giving up on the traditional ways to support yourself. Investing. You know, dollar cost averaging may not sound real interesting. But that's going to be a lot more helpful. Especially if you get into assets that appreciate. Or even assets that aren't not going to be inflated. Inflated. Things like gold or Bitcoin. Things of that nature. There are some.

[00:36:50] And, by the way, it's easier perhaps than ever to invest in some of that than ever before. And yet to instead turn your back on some wise investments. And to think that maybe you could get rich quick with gambling. I think we're going to really get into that in some detail. If we have time, I do want to also talk about what is happening in Iran. We will, if not cover that on Friday, certainly cover it next week.

[00:37:15] And so those are all some topics that we will be covering tomorrow with Holly and Liberty. Let me just one more time encourage you, if you would like to know a little bit more about some of the issues we've addressed, you can certainly click on that button that says Learn More. And then it will give you information about our guest, our show materials, as well as my viewpoints commentaries, and our take action. As mentioned, our take action is still up there, although we're probably going to move on to some other topics.

[00:37:45] But just about the time I thought, well, we'll move on. We're starting to hear everybody else on talk shows talking about flock cameras. So I thought one more time I might just mention that we do have a chance for you to contact your member of Congress. And it has to do with the Privacy Act. And that is a bill put forward by Representative Keith Self. He has a number of co-sponsors, but it would be great for your representative to be a co-sponsor as well.

[00:38:11] To recognize there are some value in these so-called flock cameras to maybe help law enforcement to track down individuals. But it also is just another layer of digital surveillance. As I've said before, one camera is a tool. A thousand, or now it's up to 1,200 cameras is digital surveillance. And some of these cities are starting to cover the cameras. Some of them are saying, well, we're going to take them down. But here's the rest of the story.

[00:38:39] Sometimes they're putting up other cameras that don't have the name flock on them. So this is, I think, an issue that needs to be addressed. And so that's why we thought we would bring it to you. Because we do have, at least ostensibly, have a Fourth Amendment protection against illegal searches and seizures. And Congressman Self said, you know, Americans have the right to be secure in their privacy. And that just does not disappear just because we have new technology or artificial intelligence.

[00:39:07] So I thought I would mention that issue as well. And as we are talking about the midterms, one of the issues I also brought up the other day is you're going to hear more and more people talking about tax the rich. And so one of the pieces we've posted by Betsy McCoy is available. I've got a commentary coming out next week on that. And you might say, well, I'm not rich, so why would I care?

[00:39:33] Well, the bottom line is, as she points out in her piece on tax the rich, is that we actually have seen one income tax scheme that was supposed to be temporary and only had one bracket for the very wealthy. Thirty-five years later, it's still in effect, and now it has seven brackets. You know, sometimes when they say we're going to go after the rich, they oftentimes go after the middle class as well. And she points out there are quite a few. There's the Taylor Swift tax in Rhode Island.

[00:40:03] There's the Connecticut Mansion tax. I was in Connecticut the other day and Rhode Island. Heard about that. We have a similar kind of tax in Washington, D.C. And if friends out in California, there's Proposition 40 that will implement a wealth tax. And so it's just worth recognizing that this is going to be one of those big issues that we're going to have to address. And so that is certainly the case. Don't forget, my commentary today is on the subject of museums. And we love the museums.

[00:40:31] Frankly, I love the Smithsonian Museum. But I love the comment by Robert Knight. Take his grandson there. Loves history. You're trying to find any exhibit that you can feel proud about. I mean, there are a few. But I think there is a need to kind of bring some of that back to sanity. We need some common sense. We need common sense on the campus. We need common sense in these museums. We need common sense in the boardrooms of major corporations.

[00:40:57] We need common sense out there in the campaign, which is one of the reasons why we're talking about this issue of woke Christianity, which has sort of made its way out there into the campaign trail and the need for us to think about that as well. And as I was mentioning when we were talking about the grocery stores, I'll just give you a preview. My commentary tomorrow is on socialism and the Berlin Wall.

[00:41:22] It is unfortunate, but a lot of young people have never grown up around the Iron Curtain, grown up around this idea of a divided country. And in some respects, you had almost a perfect social experiment because when Germany was divided between East Germany and West Germany, they also divided Berlin with the people in East Berlin realize they could just walk over to West Berlin.

[00:41:51] And they would eventually be able to travel to West Germany. And so, of course, they put up a wall. And that then provided, if you will, a social experiment between the tale of two grocery stores, one in East Berlin, one in West Berlin. And the difference in the products, in the difference in terms of the quality, and the difference in terms of the health and lifestyle of the individuals was dramatic.

[00:42:18] And I think just illustrates, again, if you needed any history, if you needed any examples, here's one more example that we can certainly cite as well. So lots of great resources available on our website at pointofview.net. I hope that you'll also click on that button that says Restoring America's Godly Heritage Give Now because we certainly do depend upon your financial support. Most importantly, I want to say thank you to Megan.

[00:42:47] But usually it's thank you to Megan Henderson who had a car problem, I believe. So it's Megan Kitchen. And isn't it great to have both Meghans here too? Actually, and Megan, thank you for stepping in and helping out. Derek, thank you for producing this program. Enjoy your day. We'll see you back here tomorrow right here on Point of View. It almost seems like we live in a different world from many people in positions of authority.

[00:43:16] They say men can be women and women men. People are prosecuted differently or not at all depending on their politics. Criminals are more valued and rewarded than law-abiding citizens. It's so overwhelming, so demoralizing. You feel like giving up. But we can't. We shouldn't. We must not. As Winston Churchill said to Britain in the darkest days of World War II, never give in. Never give in.

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