Point of View October 16, 2024 – Hour 2 : Midweek Updates

[00:00:04] Across America, Live, this is Point of View, Kirby Anderson.

[00:00:20] Second hour today, if you'd like to join the conversation, 1-800-351-1212.

[00:00:24] Do want to talk about elections for a couple of reasons.

[00:00:27] First of all, that is our action item.

[00:00:29] Second of all, it has launched into some other very interesting topics,

[00:00:34] one of which, of course, which we mentioned the other day, but it's worth getting into in some detail.

[00:00:39] The fact that the Biden Justice Department has decided to sue the state of Virginia

[00:00:45] because Governor Youngkin, who is the governor of the state of the Commonwealth of Virginia,

[00:00:50] wants to remove individuals from the voter rolls who have self-identified as non-citizens.

[00:00:58] So, do you have this?

[00:00:59] They have checked the box saying, no, we were not a citizen.

[00:01:03] You could say, well, who would possibly be against that?

[00:01:06] Well, the argument is, first of all, that, well, they might have become a citizen since they checked that box.

[00:01:13] Okay, how many of those people?

[00:01:14] Even if they do, they can still come and cast a provisional ballot.

[00:01:18] I'll go into that in just a minute.

[00:01:20] But the argument being used right now, which I don't completely disagree with,

[00:01:25] is that a number of years ago, in 1993, we had a federal voting law

[00:01:31] which prohibited removing individuals from the voter rolls 90 days before an election.

[00:01:38] Now, to be fair, Governor Youngkin signed this executive order back in August.

[00:01:42] If you're looking at your calendar day, it's October 16th.

[00:01:46] So, again, I think that was enough time.

[00:01:48] But even if you were to say, well, they're within the window,

[00:01:52] there was some exceptions, as I understand, to the 90-day rule.

[00:01:58] And that is, you certainly could remove people who were dead

[00:02:02] or those who had been convicted of crimes or were mentally incompetent or moved away.

[00:02:07] But illegal aliens don't fit under that.

[00:02:10] So we'll get into the details in just a minute

[00:02:11] and talk about whether or not we can let non-citizens vote in the District of Columbia

[00:02:16] and why even that issue could be, again, one of those, if you will, wedge arguments

[00:02:23] or, to use a different metaphor, camel's nose under the tent argument.

[00:02:27] So I'll get to that in just a minute.

[00:02:28] But I thought it would be good to come back just for a minute

[00:02:31] to the Kamala Harris plagiarism scandal

[00:02:36] because Kamala Harris has actually been accused, I think rightly so,

[00:02:41] of having her name on a book that came out a number of years ago

[00:02:46] called Smart on Crime, which has, and I think it's very well documented

[00:02:50] by Christopher Ruffo and others, that their virtual verbatim

[00:02:55] or semi-verbatim or near-verbatim lifts out of all sorts of documents.

[00:03:00] But Jeffrey Blair, who I've quoted from before, makes an interesting comment,

[00:03:06] and that is, first of all, recognize, yes, sometimes plagiarism can be the death knell

[00:03:10] to a person in the academic world.

[00:03:12] You need to find even a better example than the president of Harvard University,

[00:03:19] Claudine Gay, who was removed, essentially, from her position,

[00:03:24] although she stepped down.

[00:03:25] But we know she was probably pushed, or if not, she was encouraged to jump.

[00:03:30] And that was because, as she first would not take a good, clear stand on anti-Semitism,

[00:03:36] it then began to be interesting that people were also, since she was in the news,

[00:03:42] began to point out what you might call serial plagiarism.

[00:03:46] So the president of Harvard and a very prominent professor of Harvard University

[00:03:54] the other day was actually suing people for accusing her of plagiarism,

[00:03:58] and that case was thrown out, and she is no longer there as well.

[00:04:03] So, yes, that can hurt people in the academic world,

[00:04:06] and it probably wasn't real helpful for Joe Biden back in 1987,

[00:04:11] when it began to be very obvious.

[00:04:14] But Jeffrey Blair points out something, and that is,

[00:04:18] Kamala Harris probably didn't write smart on crime.

[00:04:21] As a matter of fact, it's virtually certain she did not write smart on crime,

[00:04:25] because, he says, let's not kid ourselves here,

[00:04:29] the fault lies with Harris' ghostwriter, not with Harris herself.

[00:04:33] Not this time.

[00:04:34] All politicians, he says, use ghostwriters to draft their useless

[00:04:38] and almost unreadable campaign biographies,

[00:04:41] and this is universally acknowledged.

[00:04:44] However, some much people still feeling outraged about it now.

[00:04:49] He then puts in parentheses, let's be clear, though,

[00:04:53] J.D. Vance wrote Hillbilly Elegy on his own,

[00:04:56] but you must remember Vance was an author long before he was a politician.

[00:05:01] And, of course, if you're in this business,

[00:05:04] Marlon Maddox used to have a phrase every once in a while that he would use,

[00:05:08] and at the end of an interview, as he was walking out of the studio,

[00:05:11] he would say, that was a really good book.

[00:05:14] I hope someday I get to actually interview the author,

[00:05:18] because sometimes there are ghostwriters in the Christian world, too.

[00:05:22] And, of course, not all the books we interview are Christian.

[00:05:24] But the point he's making, and I'll probably end with this,

[00:05:28] Kamala Harris didn't write the book,

[00:05:30] and nobody reasonably thinks that she did.

[00:05:35] Politicians use ghostwriters.

[00:05:36] It is polite fiction that we indulge in when we pretend otherwise.

[00:05:40] It's not even remotely scandalous to simply acknowledge

[00:05:44] it is a rather dull and ordinary aspect of the carnival of political public relations.

[00:05:50] But, again, since Jeffrey Blahar wanted to make sure we knew that J.D. Vance wrote his book,

[00:05:57] I can say with certainty, because I've heard him speak on it,

[00:06:01] that Senator Ben Sasse, who, of course, is now, until recently,

[00:06:07] the president of the University of Florida, wrote his books.

[00:06:10] I can say that the interview that I did the other day with Marco Rubio,

[00:06:14] I know he wrote his book, and the reason for that is I've heard him give speeches on this,

[00:06:19] and some of the phraseology that is used in the books,

[00:06:23] the phraseology is actually something that I've heard him speak on.

[00:06:27] So there are times when you may get fooled into interviewing the person

[00:06:33] who's actually got the name on the cover but did not write the book.

[00:06:38] But let's just be honest, even though I didn't think this plagiarism scandal was going to go anywhere,

[00:06:44] I think as soon as maybe a little bit of sanity begins to break,

[00:06:49] we'll realize that if there is a problem with plagiarism,

[00:06:53] and there certainly seems to be many examples of that in the book,

[00:06:57] it is due to the ghostwriter that helped her write it years ago.

[00:07:02] And again, we probably will see a little bit of a tempest in the teapot,

[00:07:07] but that's about all that's going to come from that as well.

[00:07:10] We come back, though.

[00:07:11] Let me just for a few minutes get into this issue of election integrity

[00:07:16] because I do want to commend the governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

[00:07:21] I want to commend some of the legislatures, Georgia, Arizona,

[00:07:26] other places that have actually done their best to make sure we do have election integrity.

[00:07:32] And yet I recognize the latest poll shows that still 19% of the American electorate

[00:07:38] say they do not have confidence that this will be a free and fair election.

[00:07:43] Again, there are some problems that could be addressed,

[00:07:46] but that's all the more reason why, as we'll come back from the break,

[00:07:50] that it's probably important for you to vote early,

[00:07:52] it's important for you to maybe think about even at this late date to be an election observer.

[00:07:59] And, of course, also just the fact that, you know,

[00:08:01] if there were any shenanigans four years ago,

[00:08:05] fool me once, shame on you.

[00:08:08] Fool me twice, shame on me.

[00:08:10] We should keep our eyes open.

[00:08:12] And I'll just at least try to explain why we think this whole issue of election integrity is important

[00:08:19] because I think there is going to be a real drumbeat over the next couple of years

[00:08:23] to provide opportunities for non-citizens to vote,

[00:08:28] not under the table, but above the table, above board.

[00:08:31] And we'll talk about that right after these important messages.

[00:08:35] Stay tuned.

[00:08:57] This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson.

[00:09:03] You know, when I talk about the polarization in this country,

[00:09:06] I'm often asked why there is so much hostility towards Christians.

[00:09:10] We are often the greatest source of ministry and encouragement in the community.

[00:09:14] In his book, Christians in a Cancel Culture,

[00:09:16] Joe Dallas devotes a chapter to this question about hostility towards Christians.

[00:09:21] You can summarize his excellent discussion with three words that all begin with the letter C.

[00:09:26] The first is convenience.

[00:09:28] Whenever truth is told, someone is inconvenienced.

[00:09:31] Former worshipers of the goddess Diana were upset when the gospel was preached in Ephesus.

[00:09:35] The silversmith who made money selling shrines was negatively affected.

[00:09:40] Elijah's words to Ahab were an inconvenience to the king.

[00:09:44] And, of course, the teachings of Jesus were certainly troubling to the religious leaders of his day.

[00:09:49] He rebuked their hypocrisy, presented himself as a savior and the way to salvation.

[00:09:54] The second is conscience.

[00:09:56] Presenting biblical truth can prick the conscience of unbelievers and carnal Christians.

[00:10:00] One example he cites are the accusers of the adulterous woman who were convicted of their own sins

[00:10:06] because that conviction can be found in both Christians and non-Christians.

[00:10:10] The third is conviction.

[00:10:12] It would be a mistake to assume that hostility towards biblical truth springs only from an inconvenienced agenda or prick conscience.

[00:10:20] Saul of Tarsus had strong convictions.

[00:10:22] He persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it.

[00:10:26] Should we expect hostility?

[00:10:28] Jesus faced hostility, so we will likely face hostility as well as we present biblical truth.

[00:10:34] We should speak the truth in love and leave the rest to God.

[00:10:37] I'm Kirby Anderson, and that's my point of view.

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[00:11:04] Let's go back to this issue of election integrity.

[00:11:06] And first of all, I want to point you to our take action item, which I'll come to in just a minute.

[00:11:12] But I want to back into it by looking at what's going on in the state of Virginia.

[00:11:16] And I gave you a little bit of the facts, but it's worth mentioning again.

[00:11:20] Back in August 7th, which I think would have been certainly far enough back to actually issue an executive order,

[00:11:29] which was requiring the people in the state of Virginia, in the Commonwealth,

[00:11:35] to compare the daily list of people who identified as non-citizens at the Department of Motor Vehicles

[00:11:42] with a list of registered voters.

[00:11:45] These are people who have self-declared that they're not citizens of the United States.

[00:11:50] So let's then go and compare if indeed those individuals who already have told us that they are not citizens

[00:11:59] when they actually received a driver's license in the Commonwealth of Virginia,

[00:12:04] see if indeed they have actually registered to vote.

[00:12:08] And let's acknowledge that this is a punishment that will probably never be implemented.

[00:12:14] But if you look at the Federal Register under Law 1015, federal penal law makes it a crime for illegal aliens

[00:12:25] both to register to vote and to cast ballots.

[00:12:29] There is pretty good evidence, and more of it is anecdotal, but some of it is statistical that that has happened in the past.

[00:12:36] And the obvious reaction, as you might have expected, from the Department of Justice under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

[00:12:45] is the Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clark, who is the head of the Civil Rights Division,

[00:12:50] actually has brought a lawsuit.

[00:12:52] And the argument is that, first of all, this policy places qualified voters in jeopardy of being removed from their roles

[00:13:00] and creates the risk of confusion for the electorate.

[00:13:03] Now, our friends at the ACLU argue something different, and that is the argument is if you go back to the 1993 federal voting law,

[00:13:13] it does not allow you to remove people from the ballot, or excuse me, for the voter rolls, 90 days before.

[00:13:21] Now, there are some exceptions, as I pointed out, to the 90-day rule.

[00:13:25] If the state is removing from the rolls the dead, those who have been convicted of crimes,

[00:13:32] those who are mentally incompetent, and those who have been moved away.

[00:13:36] But, of course, all of this would be happening after the executive order.

[00:13:40] Thus, the argument is it's after 90 days.

[00:13:43] Illegal aliens don't fit into that category, so it cannot be done.

[00:13:47] You might say, why the lawsuit in October?

[00:13:51] If, indeed, you were convinced that this was a problem in August,

[00:13:56] why wouldn't you have brought the suit then?

[00:14:00] Anybody have an answer?

[00:14:01] I do.

[00:14:03] I mentioned just the other day, as a matter of fact, on Monday,

[00:14:06] that now they're starting to say that it's possible that Virginia could actually end up

[00:14:13] providing the requisite number of votes for Donald Trump to win the electoral votes in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

[00:14:20] It is very difficult to come up with a scenario by which Kamala Harris loses Virginia

[00:14:27] and still gets 270 electoral votes.

[00:14:31] It's the same argument I used of the flip of the one with Donald Trump.

[00:14:36] It is difficult for me to come up with too many,

[00:14:39] although I did see one the other day of a Washington Post scenario

[00:14:42] in which Donald Trump loses Pennsylvania and gets 270 electoral votes.

[00:14:47] But the bottom line is, if you look right now,

[00:14:51] if you believe that these polls are accurate,

[00:14:54] and you know what I think about these polls,

[00:14:56] the only one that matters is November, but okay,

[00:14:58] trends maybe tell you something.

[00:15:01] You can find in maybe six of the seven swing states,

[00:15:06] Donald Trump is at least even or ahead.

[00:15:09] And again, most of these within the margin of error,

[00:15:12] assuming these polls are accurate.

[00:15:14] And of course, there's a lot of if with all of that.

[00:15:17] That would cause a great deal of panic.

[00:15:20] And if you are convinced that Virginia is in play,

[00:15:26] which you assume Virginia would be a blue state that would vote for Kamala Harris,

[00:15:31] hence the lawsuit.

[00:15:32] So I think you can kind of see where this might be going pretty quickly.

[00:15:36] While we're talking about that,

[00:15:37] one of the other articles I wanted to point out is a piece in which it gives you some big kind of back and forth

[00:15:44] that comes from Representative Byron Donalds,

[00:15:48] who, by the way, is African American.

[00:15:50] Not that that matters,

[00:15:51] but sometimes the race issue gets thrust into this issue of election integrity.

[00:15:55] So I thought I'd mention that.

[00:15:57] But nevertheless, he was in a back and forth with CNN's Dana Bash.

[00:16:03] You remember her from one of the debates.

[00:16:05] And so he argued on the Sunday talk shows that if we want to have a fair election,

[00:16:12] then we should actually have the various states follow the state election laws.

[00:16:19] Now, the issue was Dana Bash argued that this was just a loophole in trying to deal with this issue.

[00:16:27] And to his credit, and he is as articulate sometimes in these talk shows as, say, J.D. Vance,

[00:16:34] Representative Byron Donalds said,

[00:16:35] Wait a minute.

[00:16:36] It's actually not a loophole, Dana.

[00:16:38] If you look at what happened in Pennsylvania, Arizona, and other jurisdictions in 2020,

[00:16:43] they did not follow election procedures passed by the state legislatures.

[00:16:47] That's an empirical fact.

[00:16:49] He says the thing people want is that their local jurisdictions follow the laws passed by the states.

[00:16:55] As long as everyone does that,

[00:16:57] there's not going to be any problem certifying this election this November.

[00:17:00] Because the whole debate was,

[00:17:02] Well, if Donald Trump loses, will you certify the election?

[00:17:06] And the argument is,

[00:17:07] We'll certify an election if there isn't all sorts of questions about the election.

[00:17:12] And so, again, this is the fallback position.

[00:17:17] Dana Bash says,

[00:17:18] Wait a minute.

[00:17:18] There's no evidence of widespread fraud that went through 60 court cases.

[00:17:24] And that's, of course, the standard talking point.

[00:17:27] First of all, some of those cases were really just dismissed out of hand.

[00:17:30] But, okay, let's leave that.

[00:17:32] But, again, Representative Byron Donalds wasn't going to take that.

[00:17:35] He says, Look, Dana, I did not say fraud.

[00:17:37] You said fraud.

[00:17:39] You had the state of Pennsylvania where the state Supreme Court said they would count ballots three days after the polls closed in Pennsylvania in 2020.

[00:17:48] That's a violation of state law passed by the legislature signed by the governor.

[00:17:52] And so, again, they come back to this whole issue of what is called the Electoral Count Act and some others.

[00:18:00] But, again, if you'd like to see some of the pushback back and forth,

[00:18:05] you can, whether you believe that there was any kind of electoral malfeasance or voter fraud during the election,

[00:18:13] and I documented in our booklet on voter fraud during the primaries of 2020 that the only examples I used were Democrats accusing other Democrats of voter fraud.

[00:18:27] And not only accusing, but actually in a couple of court cases winning and proving that fraud had taken place.

[00:18:33] So I did that for a very good reason because I wanted to illustrate that sometimes people say,

[00:18:40] Well, that's just a Republican talking point.

[00:18:42] No, these are Democrats accusing other Democrats of voter fraud that actually went to the court and actually were adjudicated.

[00:18:50] And so it illustrates that if some of that happened during the primaries,

[00:18:54] I think it's reasonable to assume that some of it might have happened during the general election.

[00:19:00] The fallback position at that point is, well, yes, maybe there was some limited voter fraud, but it didn't affect the election.

[00:19:08] Of course, my first quick answer to that is, how do you know?

[00:19:13] But a bigger question is, well, then what, how much election fraud do you think is appropriate?

[00:19:19] And I usually never get an answer to that one as well.

[00:19:22] All that coming back to this very important issue that we have for you today,

[00:19:27] and that is simply that we have a take action item.

[00:19:30] And it is one that I mentioned yesterday, but let's go into it again.

[00:19:34] And that is there's a piece of legislation, H.R. 192.

[00:19:38] It's already passed the House of Representatives.

[00:19:41] All the Republicans in the House voted for it.

[00:19:43] Fifty-two Democrats in the House voted for it.

[00:19:46] It's now in the United States Senate.

[00:19:48] And if you would want to contact your two senators about this, all you simply need to do is click on that button that says submit,

[00:19:56] put in your zip code, and up will pop your two United States senators.

[00:20:01] We have a suggested letter, and then you can modify it if you'd like and send it off,

[00:20:07] because we are very concerned about it says that any person who lives in the District of Columbia for 30 days

[00:20:15] is then eligible to vote on local elections.

[00:20:18] They might say, well, yes, but that's just local elections.

[00:20:21] Yes, but this is, again, as somebody that used to read a lot of the material coming out from groups like the ACLU and others,

[00:20:28] they'll argue that if we already allow people to vote in local elections,

[00:20:33] why shouldn't we allow them to vote in federal elections?

[00:20:37] If they actually in some way or another pay taxes,

[00:20:41] it seems unreasonable that if they pay taxes, they shouldn't be allowed to vote.

[00:20:45] So you can see that this wedge issue or the camel's nose under the tent kind of argument will be used to ultimately justify people

[00:20:54] who are not citizens being allowed to vote in every election.

[00:20:58] And that, I think, is the ultimate endgame.

[00:21:01] That's the goal.

[00:21:01] So how can you address all those issues?

[00:21:05] Well, start small.

[00:21:06] And that is with this particular one, which would be a deliberate attempt by the House of Representatives

[00:21:13] that has jurisdiction over the District of Columbia to stop non-citizens from voting in local elections in the District of Columbia.

[00:21:22] Pretty straightforward.

[00:21:23] And if you would like to act on it, it's on the website.

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[00:23:09] And now, here again, is Kirby Anderson.

[00:23:13] Final half hour, we're going to get into a couple of other issues that are sort of related to the campaign,

[00:23:17] but then wanted to end this second hour by giving a little bit of a history lesson and this piece by Dennis Prager,

[00:23:25] Israel Made the West, Israel is Saving the West.

[00:23:28] And it reminds me very much of a very good book by Ben Shapiro, which I would also recommend to you,

[00:23:34] The Right Side of History, How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great.

[00:23:39] We'll get into kind of a history lesson in just a minute.

[00:23:42] But just as a program note, let me just mention tomorrow, Penodextra will be sitting here.

[00:23:46] And one of her guests in the second hour is Sheila Walsh.

[00:23:49] I think you'll really enjoy that conversation.

[00:23:51] Then on Friday, we will spend some time talking with Liberty McCarter and Jeff Mateer.

[00:23:56] And we'll get into kind of what's been going on in the culture.

[00:23:59] I think you will appreciate the conversations throughout the rest of the week.

[00:24:02] And even some of the things happening next week as well.

[00:24:05] So lots going on.

[00:24:07] But let's, if we can, go to a piece that I've posted by Cal Thomas.

[00:24:12] Of course, Cal Thomas has been on the program with us on a pretty regular basis.

[00:24:15] And he has this one, Obama to the Rescue.

[00:24:18] And you could put that in question mark.

[00:24:20] Perhaps he doesn't.

[00:24:21] Because he points out that part of the issue is not only right now are those who are part of the Harris-Walsh campaign

[00:24:31] concerned about states like Virginia.

[00:24:33] They're also concerned about a key demographic that have always been instrumental in the Democratic Party.

[00:24:40] And that are African-Americans.

[00:24:41] But in particular, African-American men.

[00:24:45] And so that's one of the reasons that Barack Obama, former president, has really spent some time speaking to that issue.

[00:24:53] But to give us a little bit of a background, let's go back to 2020.

[00:24:59] Joe Biden, candidate Joe Biden on the Breakfast Club.

[00:25:03] This is where he was primarily engaged in what we might call a basement strategy.

[00:25:08] But from this Zoom said to this one African-American,

[00:25:12] if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black.

[00:25:16] That was one of the lines that kind of will go down in history, perhaps, in terms of the African-American community.

[00:25:21] But even last week, former President Barack Obama said,

[00:25:24] we have not yet seen the same kind of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods,

[00:25:30] meaning black neighborhoods and communities we saw when I was running.

[00:25:34] And Cal Thomas puts it this way.

[00:25:36] The condescension inherent in these remarks is one reason why especially young black men are moving away from the Democratic Party,

[00:25:45] to which blacks have been joined at the hip since Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration.

[00:25:51] This kind of tribal groupthink is designed to keep certain demographics in line in voting in perpetuity to Democrats.

[00:25:59] Certainly from Roosevelt's on and then even since Lyndon Johnson, the Great Society Program, Civil Rights Act and others,

[00:26:07] you always had, if you were a Democratic candidate, an assumption, a reasonable assumption,

[00:26:13] that you could maybe get 90 percent of the Democratic vote from the African-American community,

[00:26:20] maybe another 10 percent independents and some Republicans.

[00:26:23] And so that is no longer necessarily the case.

[00:26:28] And so Cal Thomas goes on to really talk about this a little bit more because he says,

[00:26:33] quote, former President Barack Obama is the only former president in my lifetime not to leave Washington after his administration ended.

[00:26:42] Some believe he's been behaving as a third-term president behind the scenes of the Biden-Harris administration.

[00:26:48] By the way, Cal Thomas hints at that.

[00:26:51] I think more and more people are starting to believe that.

[00:26:54] But then goes on to say that this former president is reeled by his comments that there is much worry in the party

[00:27:00] that even a small departure of young black voters could spell doom for Democrats in the coming election.

[00:27:07] There are some very good pieces written by, in one particular case,

[00:27:11] an individual that has been on this program many times, Dr. Merrill Matthews,

[00:27:17] who a number of years ago ran some numbers saying there's probably never going to be a time,

[00:27:23] at least he thought in his lifetime, in our lifetime, in which more African-Americans would vote Republican than Democrat.

[00:27:30] But he was pointing out that given the fact that there is such a swing,

[00:27:34] and always has been such a swing towards the Democratic side,

[00:27:36] even an erosion, in other words, you don't have 90% of the vote, but only maybe 80% of the vote,

[00:27:43] that almost is as if they are voting for Republicans because they're not voting.

[00:27:48] And so that's the issue.

[00:27:50] And again, coming back to Cal Thomas, he said,

[00:27:53] former President Barack Obama is right to be concerned because Cal Thomas says,

[00:27:58] according to the 2024 National Black Voter Project longitudinal study,

[00:28:03] I know it's a lot of words there, which is showing the following,

[00:28:08] and it's a longitudinal study, so it means over many years,

[00:28:11] a growing number of black voters are becoming more conservative

[00:28:16] than their civil rights era parents and grandparents.

[00:28:20] The survey showed, for example, that the highest percentage of black conservatives,

[00:28:26] are 22% are actually those between the ages of 18 and 29.

[00:28:32] The 30 to 49 age group, 18, almost 19%, 45 to 64, 10%, oldest about 4%.

[00:28:39] So the bottom line is very simple.

[00:28:41] The younger you are, if you are African-American,

[00:28:45] the more likely you are to be a conservative.

[00:28:48] The older you are, the less likely.

[00:28:51] And so this is why, again, you have former President Barack Obama chiding,

[00:28:57] and I'm using now the quotes from Cal Thomas,

[00:28:59] chiding young black men, and that's not sitting well with them

[00:29:03] because in some respects they maybe are thinking,

[00:29:07] well, you've been taking the black vote for granted

[00:29:10] and maybe asking the question, as you might imagine,

[00:29:13] what have you done for us?

[00:29:14] Now, the point that Cal Thomas makes is when Barack Obama won the presidency,

[00:29:18] I wrote that he could have a life-changing influence on African-Americans

[00:29:22] by endorsing school choice because, after all, black parents,

[00:29:27] especially in the inner cities like Chicago,

[00:29:29] have told pollsters they want to send their kids to better schools,

[00:29:32] but Democrats in that city and really nationwide have pretty much ignored that

[00:29:38] because, of course, the very significant influence of teachers' unions.

[00:29:42] And so as a result, that has been a very important issue.

[00:29:47] Cal Thomas goes on to talk about some other issues,

[00:29:50] the so-called women's issues and everything else,

[00:29:52] but he makes a final statement to his Republican friends reading this.

[00:29:56] If Republicans can solidify even a small percentage of young black voters,

[00:30:01] they will have secured for themselves victories up and down the ballot in this election,

[00:30:06] possibly for many elections to come.

[00:30:08] This assumes they will follow through on their promises,

[00:30:11] especially on the economy and education.

[00:30:13] And one possible line Republicans might use is,

[00:30:16] why are Democrats pro-choice when it comes to abortion,

[00:30:19] but anti-choice for educating children who are born?

[00:30:23] Of course, another quote he gives from Thomas Sowell, African-American economist,

[00:30:28] and that was,

[00:30:29] Barack Obama's political genius is his ability to say things that sound good to people

[00:30:33] who have not followed the issues in any detail,

[00:30:35] regardless of how obviously fraudulent he says they may have been to those who have.

[00:30:41] So again, another issue.

[00:30:43] We've talked about how many born-again Christians may not vote.

[00:30:48] There's another issue,

[00:30:49] how many black men, African-American men,

[00:30:54] may not vote for Democrats,

[00:30:57] but might vote for Republicans.

[00:30:59] And that percentage seems to be very interesting.

[00:31:02] Just before we take a break,

[00:31:03] let me just mention our friend Stephen Moore,

[00:31:05] who had on before,

[00:31:06] points out that here is a question and an issue that nobody in the media is reporting on

[00:31:13] in terms of Vice President Kamala Harris.

[00:31:16] He says,

[00:31:17] according to the American Business Defense Foundation,

[00:31:20] under the Harris tax plan,

[00:31:22] the number of Americans subject to the hated death tax,

[00:31:25] also called the inheritance tax,

[00:31:27] would double or perhaps even triple.

[00:31:30] This would happen because he has declared that she will let the tax cuts

[00:31:34] that Donald Trump implemented a number of years ago expire,

[00:31:37] but then wants to even increase it more.

[00:31:41] If you start looking at this,

[00:31:43] it is possible that we're talking about people that own,

[00:31:46] I don't know,

[00:31:47] farms,

[00:31:48] ranches,

[00:31:49] maybe family-owned businesses,

[00:31:52] that indeed they would have to pay a tremendous amount,

[00:31:56] 40% estate tax,

[00:31:59] and then another 5% to 15% depending on which state they die in.

[00:32:04] In other words,

[00:32:05] he says,

[00:32:05] roughly half of a family's inheritance

[00:32:08] might be forked over to the politicians.

[00:32:11] The IRS gets almost as much as the kids and the grandkids.

[00:32:15] He makes this one sly comment.

[00:32:17] The agents should at least pay their respects at the funeral.

[00:32:20] And if you think that's not bad enough,

[00:32:22] the senator from Massachusetts,

[00:32:25] that would be Elizabeth Warren,

[00:32:26] who,

[00:32:26] by the way,

[00:32:27] has an opponent that would like to unseat her.

[00:32:30] We'll see how that happens.

[00:32:31] I suspect she'll be reelected,

[00:32:32] but all things could happen.

[00:32:35] She has introduced a bill that would even increase the so-called death tax

[00:32:40] or inheritance or estate tax even higher.

[00:32:43] And this would raise to anywhere from 55% to 65%

[00:32:48] and also lower the groups that are not exempt even lower

[00:32:53] to really affect all sorts of families.

[00:32:57] So as we get closer to having the government not being able to pay for all of the spending,

[00:33:05] it's quite possible that the election of a certain person to the office of presidency

[00:33:11] or reelecting certain people to Congress could increase the estate tax,

[00:33:17] the inheritance tax,

[00:33:18] or what is best called the death tax,

[00:33:20] to levels never seen before.

[00:33:23] So if you'd like to get some facts and figures on that,

[00:33:26] that is actually our fourth article,

[00:33:29] or I guess it's a third article on the website,

[00:33:31] that you can read and begin to see there are some consequences

[00:33:36] in this election who you vote for.

[00:33:39] We'll take a break.

[00:33:39] We'll come back with more right after this.

[00:33:55] You're listening to Point of View,

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[00:34:01] We started in with a little bit of a history lesson,

[00:34:02] and if you really enjoyed history when you were in school,

[00:34:06] I think you'll love this.

[00:34:08] But even if you did not,

[00:34:09] there are ways to make history more interesting,

[00:34:12] and certainly that's something that we want to do here at Point of View.

[00:34:16] As a matter of fact,

[00:34:17] I might just mention that tomorrow I will be out,

[00:34:20] and probably good because this will be an opportunity for Penna Dexter

[00:34:23] to do an in-studio interview with Sheila Walsh.

[00:34:26] I think you'll really enjoy that conversation,

[00:34:28] some of the other things that Penna will be bringing to the conversation.

[00:34:31] But I'm going to be speaking to a group on America's godly heritage,

[00:34:35] and some of the booklets I'm giving out are the ones we make available to you.

[00:34:39] Here's this first one,

[00:34:40] which is entitled A Biblical View on Patriot Pastors and Patriot Preachers,

[00:34:45] and we'll be talking about the influence of these pastors

[00:34:49] during first the American Revolution and the First Great Awakening,

[00:34:53] the Second Great Awakening,

[00:34:54] and those kinds of stories,

[00:34:56] which I think are very helpful.

[00:34:57] And I'll also be giving out this booklet on,

[00:34:59] of course,

[00:35:00] one that we've talked about,

[00:35:01] The Importance of Voting.

[00:35:02] And again,

[00:35:03] I would highly recommend that if you are not a member of the Truth Team,

[00:35:07] you might consider becoming a member just to receive these booklets,

[00:35:11] which come out once a month.

[00:35:12] The most recent ones are about cycles in history.

[00:35:16] I just saw the one the other day here on censorship.

[00:35:18] I don't even think it's been mailed yet.

[00:35:20] But again,

[00:35:21] this one on voting,

[00:35:22] this one has been very popular,

[00:35:25] boxes of these,

[00:35:26] because people want to,

[00:35:28] first they read them,

[00:35:28] and then they realize how key this is,

[00:35:31] and they want to hand it to their friends,

[00:35:32] neighbors,

[00:35:33] coworkers,

[00:35:33] hand it out in the Sunday school class.

[00:35:35] And those are resources we put in your hands.

[00:35:37] And to kind of get us into this history,

[00:35:40] I have this last article by Dennis Prager.

[00:35:44] It's entitled,

[00:35:45] Israel Made the West,

[00:35:47] Israel is Saving the West.

[00:35:48] Now he's looking at it from a Jewish point of view.

[00:35:51] My presentation tomorrow looks at it from a Judeo-Christian view.

[00:35:55] I certainly appreciate our Jewish friends,

[00:35:57] but also the Christian ideas as well.

[00:36:00] And he starts out by saying,

[00:36:01] it's a truism that the West was formed by Athens and Jerusalem,

[00:36:06] meaning the rational thinking introduced by Greece,

[00:36:10] and the moral and religious thought introduced by Israel.

[00:36:14] I mentioned a minute ago,

[00:36:15] a book that I would highly recommend by Ben Shapiro,

[00:36:18] which has the title,

[00:36:19] The Right Side of History,

[00:36:21] How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great.

[00:36:25] And he goes through the idea of reason,

[00:36:29] which we get from the Greeks,

[00:36:30] and moral purpose,

[00:36:32] which we get,

[00:36:32] of course,

[00:36:33] from Jerusalem,

[00:36:34] we get from Jews and Christians,

[00:36:35] and if you don't have the time to read the book,

[00:36:39] you have maybe like five minutes to watch a Dennis Prager video.

[00:36:44] I came across it just the other day again,

[00:36:46] in which they had preceded it with a Joe Rogan comment,

[00:36:49] and then backed into the video,

[00:36:52] but you can just type in Ben Shapiro,

[00:36:55] and reason and moral purpose,

[00:36:56] the right side of history,

[00:36:58] and there's a very well done video that goes into that.

[00:37:01] Well, anyway,

[00:37:02] Dennis Prager says,

[00:37:03] Of the two,

[00:37:04] reason and moral reflection,

[00:37:07] Jerusalem's contribution was the most enduring.

[00:37:10] He says,

[00:37:11] Relatively few Westerners read Aristotle and Plato.

[00:37:15] Virtually every citizen of the West,

[00:37:18] even the illiterate until the last generation or two,

[00:37:20] were familiar with the Bible.

[00:37:22] Europe was Westernized by the Catholic Church

[00:37:25] in the name of the Bible,

[00:37:26] not Homer.

[00:37:28] I, by the way,

[00:37:29] would recommend that you read some of the great classics as well.

[00:37:33] My producer, for example,

[00:37:35] actually has a degree in that regard,

[00:37:37] and those of us that either would read them voluntarily

[00:37:41] or take a class and be forced to,

[00:37:44] I think it is certainly very helpful.

[00:37:47] But he goes on to point out

[00:37:48] that were it not for the Jews and the Bible

[00:37:50] and Christianity,

[00:37:52] there would be, of course,

[00:37:53] no Western civilization.

[00:37:55] He says,

[00:37:56] With regard to America and the founding of America,

[00:37:59] its founders,

[00:38:00] even the least religious ones,

[00:38:02] were rooted in biblical morality.

[00:38:04] Two of the least religious,

[00:38:06] Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin,

[00:38:08] designed the great seal of the United States

[00:38:11] that depicted the Jews leaving Egypt.

[00:38:14] The only inscription of the symbol of American liberty,

[00:38:18] the Liberty Bell,

[00:38:19] is actually a verse from the Torah,

[00:38:22] the first five books of the Bible.

[00:38:23] The insignia of Yale University is in Hebrew,

[00:38:26] and it is also taken from the Torah.

[00:38:28] And the Princeton University seal features an open Bible,

[00:38:33] and basically up until 1800,

[00:38:36] students at Yale, Harvard,

[00:38:37] and other universities were required to study Hebrew.

[00:38:40] Of course,

[00:38:40] they were also supposed to study Greek,

[00:38:42] and that was the case.

[00:38:43] Many American founders,

[00:38:45] Dennis Prager said,

[00:38:46] called America the second Israel.

[00:38:49] Israel.

[00:38:50] And so,

[00:38:51] one particular professor of Haifa University said,

[00:38:54] So prevalent was the Old Testament

[00:38:56] in the early culture of the United States

[00:38:58] that for decades after the start of the 19th century,

[00:39:01] it was,

[00:39:01] in the words of Perry Miller,

[00:39:03] by the way,

[00:39:03] an individual who,

[00:39:04] I have one of his books,

[00:39:05] a Harvard professor,

[00:39:07] said that the air was what they breathed.

[00:39:10] And so,

[00:39:10] again,

[00:39:10] that is the case.

[00:39:12] If you want to go back to some of the founders,

[00:39:13] I'm going to be quoting at least John Adams

[00:39:16] a couple of times tomorrow when I speak.

[00:39:18] John Adams,

[00:39:19] the second president of the United States,

[00:39:20] first vice president,

[00:39:22] said,

[00:39:22] I will insist the Hebrews have contributed more

[00:39:25] to civilized men than any other nation.

[00:39:27] If I was an atheist and believed in blind,

[00:39:30] eternal fate,

[00:39:31] I would still believe that fate was ordained

[00:39:34] the Jews to be the most essential instrument

[00:39:37] for civilizing the nations.

[00:39:38] The Romans and their empire were but a bubble

[00:39:41] in comparison to the Jews.

[00:39:42] They have given religion to three quarters of the globe

[00:39:46] and have influenced the affairs of mankind

[00:39:48] more and more happily than any other nation,

[00:39:50] ancient or modern.

[00:39:51] And,

[00:39:52] of course,

[00:39:52] understanding that Jews ultimately were the foundation

[00:39:55] of Christianity,

[00:39:56] as we well know.

[00:39:57] But another great quote here comes from Gerald Baker,

[00:40:02] who was writing for the Wall Street Journal,

[00:40:04] and he simply has this,

[00:40:06] and I'll end with this.

[00:40:07] Gerald Baker says,

[00:40:09] How will we ever repay the debt we owe Israel?

[00:40:11] What the Jewish state has done in the past year

[00:40:14] for its own defense,

[00:40:15] but in the process,

[00:40:16] and not coincidentally for the security of us all,

[00:40:19] will rank among one of the most important contributions

[00:40:22] to the defense of Western civilization

[00:40:25] in the past three quarters of a century.

[00:40:28] Israel has,

[00:40:29] in 12 months,

[00:40:30] done nothing less than redraw

[00:40:31] the balance of global security,

[00:40:34] not just in the region,

[00:40:35] but in the wider world.

[00:40:37] It has established thousands of the terrorists,

[00:40:39] eliminated,

[00:40:40] I should say.

[00:40:41] It has eliminated thousands of terrorists

[00:40:43] whose commitment to a savage,

[00:40:45] theocratic ideology

[00:40:46] has claimed so many lives

[00:40:48] across the region

[00:40:49] and the world

[00:40:50] for decades.

[00:40:52] Above all,

[00:40:52] it was provided an unexpected

[00:40:54] but crucial reminder

[00:40:56] to our enemies

[00:40:57] that there are at least some

[00:40:59] willing and able

[00:41:01] to pursue and defeat them,

[00:41:03] whatever the risk

[00:41:04] to our own lives

[00:41:05] and resources.

[00:41:06] The only appropriate response

[00:41:08] to Israel's gallantry,

[00:41:10] fortitude,

[00:41:11] and skill from us

[00:41:12] is its normal allies,

[00:41:14] especially in the United States,

[00:41:15] are thank you

[00:41:16] and how can we help.

[00:41:18] You know,

[00:41:19] never in the field

[00:41:20] of human conflict

[00:41:22] have so many

[00:41:23] been owed by so many,

[00:41:25] Winston Churchill said

[00:41:26] of the men

[00:41:27] of the Royal Air Force

[00:41:28] after they repelled

[00:41:30] Hitler's Luftwaffe

[00:41:31] during the Battle of Britain.

[00:41:34] He says,

[00:41:35] we should echo those words

[00:41:36] as we watch in awe

[00:41:38] what a country

[00:41:39] smaller in area

[00:41:41] than New Jersey

[00:41:42] with a population

[00:41:43] less than North Carolina's

[00:41:45] and an economy

[00:41:47] smaller than that

[00:41:47] of Washington State

[00:41:49] has done for us all.

[00:41:51] At a time when

[00:41:52] so many people,

[00:41:54] including the current

[00:41:54] President of the United States,

[00:41:56] seem to be bent

[00:41:57] on trying to change policy

[00:42:00] in Israel,

[00:42:01] have been critical

[00:42:02] of the leaders in Israel,

[00:42:04] Dennis Prager reminds us

[00:42:05] that not only

[00:42:06] do we owe our civilization

[00:42:09] to a Judeo-Christian foundation,

[00:42:11] in some respects,

[00:42:12] the security that we may see

[00:42:14] in the future

[00:42:14] in the Middle East,

[00:42:15] in part,

[00:42:16] is due to how Israel

[00:42:18] is saving that region

[00:42:20] of the world.

[00:42:21] So I thought we'd end

[00:42:22] with that,

[00:42:23] and again,

[00:42:24] it is a look back

[00:42:24] in history,

[00:42:25] but also right now,

[00:42:27] over this last year

[00:42:29] from October 7th

[00:42:30] to today,

[00:42:31] October 16th,

[00:42:32] a year later,

[00:42:33] what's been happening

[00:42:34] in Israel

[00:42:35] may have very significant

[00:42:36] positive consequences

[00:42:38] in the Middle East,

[00:42:40] even in the future.

[00:42:41] So,

[00:42:41] I hope you'll take the time

[00:42:42] to read some of these articles.

[00:42:43] Let me again commend you

[00:42:45] the book by Michael Brown,

[00:42:47] Hearts of Compassion,

[00:42:48] Backbones of Steel.

[00:42:50] Hope you've appreciated

[00:42:51] the conversation today.

[00:42:53] Tomorrow,

[00:42:53] of course,

[00:42:53] Pentadextra will be with us.

[00:42:54] Friday,

[00:42:55] we'll have our weekend edition.

[00:42:56] Want to thank Megan

[00:42:57] for help engineering

[00:42:58] the program.

[00:42:59] Steve,

[00:42:59] thank you for producing

[00:43:00] the program,

[00:43:00] and we look forward

[00:43:01] to seeing you tomorrow

[00:43:02] right here

[00:43:03] on Point of View.

[00:43:04] It almost seems like

[00:43:11] we live in a different world

[00:43:13] from many people

[00:43:14] in positions of authority.

[00:43:16] They say men can be women

[00:43:18] and women men.

[00:43:19] People are prosecuted

[00:43:21] differently,

[00:43:22] or not at all,

[00:43:23] depending on their politics.

[00:43:25] Criminals are more valued

[00:43:26] and rewarded

[00:43:27] than law-abiding citizens.

[00:43:29] It's so overwhelming,

[00:43:31] so demoralizing.

[00:43:32] You feel like giving up,

[00:43:34] but we can't,

[00:43:36] we shouldn't,

[00:43:36] we must not.

[00:43:37] As Winston Churchill said

[00:43:39] to Britain

[00:43:40] in the darkest days

[00:43:41] of World War II,

[00:43:42] never give in,

[00:43:44] never give in,

[00:43:45] never,

[00:43:45] never,

[00:43:46] never,

[00:43:46] never yield to force,

[00:43:48] never yield to the

[00:43:49] apparently overwhelming

[00:43:51] might of the enemy.

[00:43:53] And that's what we say

[00:43:54] to you today.

[00:43:55] This is not a time

[00:43:56] to give in,

[00:43:57] but to step up

[00:43:58] and join Point of View

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[00:44:01] in the chaos.

[00:44:02] We can't do it alone,

[00:44:04] but together,

[00:44:05] with God's help,

[00:44:07] we will be

[00:44:07] overcome the darkness.

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