Point of View October 22, 2026 – Hour 1 : FlyDubai Attempted Hijacking/Israel Elections, Midterm Elections

[00:00:04] Across America, live, this is Point of View. And now, your guest host for Point of View. Hi everybody, Charlie Hodges with you. Kirby Anderson is on assignment, so I'm with you for the next two hours today on Point of View.

[00:00:30] Hope you stay with us the whole time. We've got a fun show for you. We're going to talk first off with a paramedic who's on the front lines in Israel, and then our good friend Robert Knight will join us to talk about the elections. Open lines for a while. And then coming in to join us will be Vinny Manchillo from Glasshouse Strategies in Texas. He's a political consultant who has worked on campaigns all over the country,

[00:00:55] and we're going to do a deep dive on the midterms and his new book, 10 Ways to Lose an Election. But first off, and we have the midterms here, well, we have some elections coming up in Israel first. And this is the first time they'll have elections since the terror attacks on October 7th, back when Hamas did those brutal killings.

[00:01:19] And joining us from Israel right now is Rhea Myers, paramedic, who's on the front lines. Rhea, thanks for joining us. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Thanks for welcoming me to the show. My name's Arieh. I'm a paramedic with Magen David Adom. I trained many years ago initially in London, and then I moved to Israel about 14 years ago.

[00:01:46] And I've been working as a paramedic since then with MDA or MADA as we call it here in Israel, which is Israel's national emergency medical services and blood services organization. So how have things been in Israel since things have supposedly cooled down? How are things going? Are we still seeing a lot of terrorism activity?

[00:02:12] What we're seeing is a huge amount of preparedness, certainly on our front. It's there's always a feeling in the air that something might happen. You know, we're still concerned about what might happen with with Iran. We're still concerned about what might happen with with Hamas, with Hezbollah in the north. All of that, all those threats still exist. Some more, some less. But the fact is that we need to be ready for anything.

[00:02:40] And whilst Israelis try to continue on with their daily lives with normal routine, Magen David Atom has to be prepared for that routine to change very, very rapidly. You know, when the war broke out at 6.30 in the morning on the 7th of October back in 23, Magen David Atom, that normally would have about 300 or 350 ambulances across the country on shift,

[00:03:05] managed to man every single one of its, at the time, 1,400 ambulances within the hour, just to be able to provide the response that was required, not just in the south, not just to the war zone, but also to the routine calls that were still happening all across Israel, even as war was happening. And that's part of the reality that we live here, is that we, whilst we are prepared for anything, and first of all, no one prepared us for anything like the 7th of October.

[00:03:35] And you were prepared also... But we have to be sure that our organization can respond as quickly as possible. And you were prepared also for the fly Dubai incident that happened when the co-pilot decided he wanted to do something bad with one of those planes. What was that like? So I was one of the lucky responders who got to meet the passengers from that flight when they arrived back here in Israel at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv.

[00:04:05] And to be a part of that and to witness the emotion, the reaction of the passengers who came off that flight, really was something incredible. You know, we were there because we were concerned that the injuries that had been reported to us may be more significant than what had been reported, and we wanted to make sure that we were able to be there for anyone who might need us as soon as they came off that plane. Luckily at the time, there were only very, very minor injuries, nothing short of a miracle,

[00:04:35] considering what they had endured and what they'd been through and the potential result of what was happening on that flight. The fact that we only saw some minor injuries really was quite remarkable. I want to show you a book, ladies and gentlemen, it's called Terrorism. And Kerby Anderson wrote this. It's a biblical view on terrorism. We're talking about that this half hour on Point of View.

[00:05:04] And if you want this, you can go ahead and get with us. We're at pointofview.net. We'll supply you with this book, and we can get you taken care of to where you can learn more about the biblical view of terrorism. What can we do, Araya? What can we do to help you?

[00:05:28] The first thing that I think would help is an understanding of what the reality on the ground is like for Israelis today. If you were to fly into Israel today, you wouldn't see a war zone. What you would see is a country that is thriving, that is alive, that if you go out onto the streets, you'll see people living their daily lives.

[00:05:56] But at the back of everybody's mind is the possibility of what might happen next. And understanding that reality that life here really is continuing and that everybody who lives here really wants to live their life in peace. Nobody here is looking for war. And certainly nobody is looking for terrorism or anything such like. We really just want to live our lives in peace. And having that understanding from around the world is incredible.

[00:06:26] You know, we have supporters from all over the globe who help Magen David Adom do what we do, which is save lives in Israel every single day. And a lot of that is thanks to the supporters that we have around the world, whether that support is in the form of emergency vehicles or emergency equipment or even just prayer, which is always important and always a big thing to help us out here.

[00:06:52] And if you wanted just to find out about what Magen David Adom is, you can have a look online. You can see that if you were to go onto savinglivesinisrael.org, you'll find a lot about what this organization actually does. The people here in Israel rely on Magen David Adom for their resilience, for the knowledge that we are there, and for the services that we provide, whether that's ambulance services or the blood services. We are the blood bank, the national blood bank for the state of Israel.

[00:07:23] And knowing that we have friends and supporters across the world who have helped us do that is an incredible feeling. Well, I'm sure a lot of our listeners are going to step up with the prayer, but we'll also go to your website. Anything that we can do, we'll do to help you. Coming back on the other side of the break, we want to talk a little bit more about what's coming up in Israel. We have the elections coming up.

[00:07:47] How is that going to affect what everything is being done to prepare for possible attacks? What are those preparations like? It's all coming up. And don't forget, you can get Kirby's pamphlet right here just by getting with us at pointofview.net.

[00:08:10] We look forward to having you with us for the next hour and 20 minutes or so that we're on the air. Join us and stay with us right here on pointofview.net. I'm Charlie Hodges sitting in for Kirby Anderson. He's on assignment today. And we look forward to getting into more with Aria Myers coming up shortly after this break. Thanks for joining us today.

[00:09:00] This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson. Last month, I talked about the decreasing number of young men in the labor force. Kyle Becker adds some additional insight into why women outnumber men in the workforce. For example, during a struggling economy, often men are the first to be let go. But that is only part of the problem. He observes that the latest data shows something different. Women outnumbering men in the workforce is becoming the new normal.

[00:09:30] Economist Stephen Moore explains, Working-age men have lost jobs while women have captured virtually 100% of the net new jobs. Men are being replaced in some job sectors. He reminds us that in the manufacturing and tech sectors, where men have traditionally dominated by numbers, that is another issue, H-1B visa holders. Foreign workers have replaced many workers in the United States in fields that attract men.

[00:09:56] Women are not only obtaining more college degrees than men, but they also seem to have an advantage in hiring. Nearly 60% of all bachelor degrees go to women. Second, a recent article in Science discovered that female recruiters are more likely to favor female applicants, but the researchers did not find that male recruiters showed a greater preference for men. The social consequences of this are not positive. This country is already experiencing historically low rates of marriage.

[00:10:24] Low rates of marriage also result in lower birth rate and fewer families. The fewer men working is probably another reason for why men account for four out of five suicide deaths. This gender employment gap is not only harmful for men, it is also harmful for our society. I'm Kirby Anderson, and that's my Point of View.

[00:10:49] Go deeper on topics like you just heard by visiting pointofview.net. That's pointofview.net. You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. Charlie Hodgson for Kirby Anderson, who is on assignment. This is Point of View with Aria Myers, a paramedic from Israel.

[00:11:16] And Aria, one question that I've always had for first responders is how can you separate seeing what you see and then being able to live what people would say as a normal life? How tough is that? Because I'm sure you see a lot more than our first responders here would, and the ones here see a lot anyway.

[00:11:41] I think acknowledging the fact, first of all, that all EMTs, paramedics, first responders from all the services, acknowledging the fact that they are human is the first step to understanding actually what we experience. And whilst we are obviously exposed to a lot more than your average person, whether that's in Israel, whether that's in the United States, wherever it is across the world,

[00:12:08] the fact is that in most cases what it builds is resilience. And that's not to say that we don't see difficult sites and that we're not involved in difficult incidents. There's definitely a huge element of that, and it's a question of knowing how to balance that. And sometimes there are points that are much more difficult. You know, treating kids is always difficult, but from what we've seen over the last three years,

[00:12:36] heading into a war zone and heading into an area that's been hit by a ballistic missile that's been fired by a genocidal state like Iran, fired at a civilian population, and then having to search the area where there is huge destruction. You don't know what you're going to find. You don't know whether there are going to be any lives and how they've been affected, whether you'll be able to save anybody.

[00:13:03] And all that time also having the knowledge that whilst you're in the field, there could be another rocket alert, there could be another missile fired towards you. Any of that could be happening at any given moment. And the strength of the organization of Magen David Adom is having a huge number of staff and volunteers. There's some 40,000 people in our organization, 90% of whom, believe it or not, are volunteers.

[00:13:31] And knowing that we can rely – the state of Israel relies on Maghain David Adon, and within the organization we can rely on each other for the support that we need. But it's a lot of training is involved, but there's also systems in place to help those who might be struggling. And we know that it happens. Whilst we try to separate what we see at work and then living a – like you called it, a relatively normal life,

[00:14:00] that's what we attempt to do. And most of the time it works, and sometimes we just need a little bit of extra help. How much harder is it to go into a situation when you know another rocket might be coming in, another situation that comes in that's just so much more dangerous than what we normally would assume a paramedic arriving to a scene be? How does that add to the stress of the job?

[00:14:26] You know, one of the first things we teach anyone who does anything like a basic first aid course, anything from that up to our paramedic students, any doctors and nurses, the first thing you teach when you're teaching first aid is always the element of safety. Always look after your own safety before you do anything else. But when we are faced with the fact that we have people who really need rescuing and that there is that risk, the fact that you're walking into a disaster zone,

[00:14:55] there is the risk of further attacks. It's in the back of your mind, but it's probably in the front of your mind, to be honest, that you really are taking a big risk in order to go and help save the lives of other people. But that's what our job is all about. That's what we are there for. We are there to help save lives on the scene. We are there to help collect the blood supplies that we need for all of Israel's hospitals. All of that done is by Magen David Adon.

[00:15:23] And there's also people behind the scenes who are helping to save lives. You know, Magen David Adon is also home to the National Milk Bank, ensuring that we can help premature babies in hospitals get the best start they possibly can have in life. It's not just a question of saving lives. It really is all about changing lives as well as what we do out in the field. Ria Myers, a senior paramedic and emergency provider in Israel, joining us on Point of View.

[00:15:53] Let's go back to the hijacking. I guess when you show up and there are not as many people hurt and things aren't as serious as you were originally told going to the scene, that has to make you feel better when you go into that. But still you have to deal with the stress of those who made it through. Tell me a little bit about that.

[00:16:15] So one of the responses that we had at the airport alongside us were specialist teams, psychotrauma teams, ensuring that if anybody needed help on that front, receive the help they needed as well. It's an incredibly important part of treating a human being. It's not just a question of treating any visible injuries that you might see.

[00:16:44] And we saw a few of those. There were people who came up with cuts and bruises and scrapes, and one person who had fractured ribs who was the only person we actually had to take to hospital on that day. But obviously there is a huge element of the psychological aspect, of understanding what you've been through. And I'm sure that when they landed here in Israel, just a few hours after the event itself took place, I'm sure that many of them couldn't quite comprehend yet what they had been through,

[00:17:14] and only something that will be a bit of a process. You know, for years I've seen videos of people kissing the ground when they landed the Holy Land, but I've never seen it for real up until I met this flight in Ben Gurion Airport. So, Ria, I thank you very much for being with us. The company that you work for again and the website where people can learn more about you. The company, the organization is called Magin David Adon.

[00:17:43] It is Israel's national EMS and blood services organization. It is responsible for all the emergency, pre-hospital emergency medicine. It is responsible for supplying all of the hospitals with the blood supplies they need, the milk that we need for the premature babies in the hospital as well. And the website is savinglivesinisrael.org. Savinglivesinisrael.org.

[00:18:09] Thank you very much for joining us on Point of View today, and we look forward to hearing from you again soon. But before you leave, one question. Are you all prepping for any kind of increased activity because of the elections coming up? There is a raised level of alert in the country anyway. I'm waiting to see what might happen before the elections, because of the elections,

[00:18:36] what might happen from the Iranian side, from any of our neighbors who threaten Israel on a regular basis. We're constantly preparing. We have ongoing drills. We are making sure that we have enough vehicles and responders and equipment in order to make sure that we are prepared for anything. And whilst all of that is happening in the background, we're also training many more volunteers who want to come and help learn how to save lives in a time of need.

[00:19:04] And having that extra boost of people who want to learn how to save a life is something that's going to help us make a difference. So God forbid should we face anything serious again. Rhea Myers, thank you again for joining us. We greatly appreciate you being here today and giving us more of an insight of what you all go through on a daily basis in the state of Israel. Thank you very much.

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[00:19:56] So please get with us. Pointofview.net, you can get this book. We have a number of other books that you can get as well. The Weaponization of Intelligence, we'll talk a little bit about that later. The Declaration of Independence, Why Empires Fall. Some of that's coming up today too. And America's Founding. All part of Pointofview.net.

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[00:20:42] We will be joined by a former editor at the Los Angeles Times and we'll go over the election coming up. Most of the time when you go to an election, people say, oh, it's not that big of a deal. Life will go on because the two parties are so close. It's not that close anymore.

[00:21:03] And we'll talk about this election and how you can be a part of it to help decide how this country will actually move forward. I'm Charlie Hodges in for Kirby Anderson. He is on assignment. This is Point of View. And we'll be back in just a couple minutes on today's program. Thanks for joining us.

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[00:22:54] 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, your guest host for Point of View. Charlie Hodge is in for Kerby Anderson, who is on assignment today. Election coming up in just 12 days.

[00:23:24] And Robert Knight, formerly with the Los Angeles Times. He's a news editor and writer. He's a media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Joins us now. Bob, thanks for joining us. I'm Charlie Hodges. Nice to meet you. Hey, nice to meet you, Charlie. Tell us a little bit more about yourself. Oh, I'm an ink-stained wretch. Let's start with that. I still love newspapers. I read three of them every morning.

[00:23:54] The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, and The Washington Post. The first two are a joy. The third one is kind of a duty. The Post is so bad now. I mean, it's always been liberal, but now it's just outright left-wing propaganda on the news pages. But I will say the editorial section has changed remarkably since Jeff Bezos told them to quit pushing communist propaganda and start defending free markets.

[00:24:23] Well, it used to be you got the propaganda and all that stuff on the op-ed pages, and the front page was supposed to be where you got all the good information. I guess that's rules have flipped around a little bit? Yes, they have flipped. The whole front section is all propaganda.

[00:24:44] It's all anti-Trump, nonstop, anti-Republican, and pro-Muslim, pro-LGBTQ, pro-Democrat, anti-Christian. I mean, you name it. I mean, they are clearly on the side that the Democratic Socialists of America would find quite accommodating. You have a column up at the Washington Times. The election should not be this crucial, but it is.

[00:25:14] We have a link for it, by the way, on pointofview.net, so you can look at it there. Tell me about your column and how important it is for people to get out. Well, this is a watershed election because we haven't seen the Democratic Party this dangerous ever, I don't believe. They've been taken over by the socialists led by Bernie Sanders, who wasn't even a Democrat.

[00:25:42] He was proudly independent, a Democratic Socialist. But now he's calling the shots in the Democratic Party, along with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York and Ilhan Omar. These are all members of the Progressive Caucus in Congress. And they basically have said that the Democratic Party has to push 100-proof Marxism or they're betraying poor people. And so they want open borders.

[00:26:11] They want Medicare for all, which is socialized medicine. The government would take over our health care system. They damaged it badly with Obamacare. Now they want to finish the job and put us under a government system. And, you know, if you like the way the government runs the post office, you'd probably love what happens to your health care and your doctor. They are pushing everything that has made things bad in America.

[00:26:41] And they want to undo everything that President Trump has done to make it better. First, starting with the secure border, kicking out illegal immigrant criminals. The crime rate has dropped considerably while Trump's been president. And inflation went down. I know it's bad now. People are upset at $4 a gallon gas clean or even more. But under Biden, it got up to $5 a gallon. People forget that.

[00:27:11] And I have a feeling it's going to drop considerably once we wrap up the Iran war. And you can't do it on an American midterm election timeline, apparently. I, like many people, thought it would be over before now. But I'm told by people in the intelligence communities that Iran has no more oil to sell. They've been okay up until now, but it's gone. So their economy is reeling. The inflation is out of control. We devastated their military.

[00:27:41] They're just hanging on because they're hoping the Democrats will retake Congress. And, you know, if the American people have anything to say about it, they should deny the Democrats getting back in power after what they did during the Biden years. Yeah, like the death to America vote Democrat chant, you know. That's sort of what we're hearing.

[00:28:03] But one of the things the Democrats are doing is they're making this alliance with Islam, trying to get power and control. And do people really realize that a lot of the things that the liberal Democrats believe the Muslims don't? No, they don't. They cover that up.

[00:28:30] But the red-green alliance, which is the Marxist leftist Democrats aligning with the Islamists, put in the name of achieving power, they put their differences behind them.

[00:28:47] But, you know, if the Islamists ever really did get the upper hand, the liberals who are being taken for this ride would be very unhappy because the Islamists want to put Sharia law into effect. And Sharia law is not only incompatible with the U.S. Constitution, it's incompatible with what the liberals are pushing in terms of the LGBTQ agenda and freedom of speech and all kinds of things.

[00:29:17] But, you know, they are good at covering up their radicalism. Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan has been trying to deny his family has deep ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is an international terrorist organization. So much has come out about that. I don't see how he can keep covering up. But he's trying to appeal to the typical Democrat voter.

[00:29:44] And a lot of black Americans have traditionally voted Democrat. That's changing when they've seen that the Democrats have not improved their lives, made them dependent on the welfare state, and really don't have the interest of the black family in their hearts. But Al-Sayed knows he's in trouble with black voters. So he was talking to a black interviewer the other day. And this is how blatant his appeal is.

[00:30:12] She was ordering some expensive salmon at this restaurant. And he said, well, I'll have the fried chicken. Like he thinks that will appeal to black. And, you know, think about it. Surprised he didn't want a side of watermelon with it, you know. I mean, as long as we're dealing in stereotypes here. And that's sad. Anyway, that's how desperate he is. What do you think his chances are of beating Rodgers? You think he's got a good chance?

[00:30:42] No, I don't. I don't think Michiganders are going to put up with it. I think they realize that he's out to lunch. He's not what he appears. Just his having Hassan Piker campaign with him at the University of Michigan and elsewhere. Hassan Piker is beyond radical. He has blamed America for 9-11. He said that white Americans should step aside.

[00:31:10] And he says things that I can't share now on the radio because they're so obscene with regard to white women. I mean, this guy is toxic. And Syed is trying to pretend it's just some guy he had an interview with once when he was out campaigning with him. In fact, Hassan Piker has campaigned with a dozen Democratic candidates around the country. And the Republicans, if they haven't done so already, need to expose that.

[00:31:38] Hang them around their necks like an albatross. Robert Knight, columnist with The Washington Times. He has a column out right now. You can link to it at pointofview.net. And we have a nice Outlook magazine article that you can look up. It's the socialist surge is happening in America. Are the two sides compatible? Look at that. You can get this. Just go to pointofview.net. We'll send you one.

[00:32:06] And you can read about this. You can read what Robert says. And you can see for yourself that these two ideologies really don't work. Coming back from break, we're going to take a look at some more parts of this election. But briefly, Robert, how much grief are you taking for the column that you wrote? Oh, just online grief. You know, there are trolls everywhere.

[00:32:35] So it's no big problem. I'm just so used to it, having done pro-family issues for years. The people most upset tend to be the LGBTQ activists. They're outraged whenever you disagree with them. And I disagree with everything they stand for, particularly the issue of marriage and the whole transgender thing, especially when it comes to children. But I want to give your listeners some good news.

[00:33:05] One thing the media are ignoring are the surge in Republican registrations all across the country. Nevada has swung back into a Republican advantage. North Carolina now has more registered Republicans than Democrats. In Pennsylvania, they had a 900,000 advantage in 2016. That's down to just about 200,000 and dropping.

[00:33:32] People are looking at the Democratic Party and saying, you know, I've always thought they were the workers' party, but now they look like radicals. Hold that thought, Robert. We'll be right back with more Point of View. Right.

[00:33:58] You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. Robert Knight, our guest from the Washington Times. Robert, for years, pollsters, not exactly the most scrupulous pollsters, would put out polls to try to suppress the vote this year. A lot of them are calling for a red wave or a blue wave this time.

[00:34:23] Do you think that's going to hold down the vote, or do you think it will actually get Republicans to show up this time? I happen to think it's not going to turn out the way they keep predicting, because a lot of people who are conservative don't answer polls anymore. I know my wife and I don't. We don't know who is taking the poll. We don't know what they're going to do with the information. In the age of AI, anything could be done with it.

[00:34:51] So our folks tend not to take polls. So they're almost always skewed the other way, and sometimes they're deliberately so. The Washington Post is running all kinds of polls itself, and it just seems geared toward pushing the electorate in one direction, and that would be toward Democrats.

[00:35:16] They just ran a poll this week saying Americans – well, many polls saying Americans don't trust Trump anymore. And I don't think it's a matter of trusting President Trump. It's whether you like him or not because of his rough personality and some of the things he's done lately. But the policies are amazing.

[00:35:36] As I said, just closing the border alone and turning off the illegal immigration of millions that came in when the Democrats were in power is enough. But he's done so many other things that we should applaud, including his appointments. I look at the judges. I look at people running the federal agencies who are trying to reform them. And I'm thinking, do you really want to undo all that?

[00:36:03] And people need to know if they vote for Democrats, they are enabling the Islamist lobby, the LGBTQ lobby, the socialist lobby, and the transgender lobby. I mean, if you look at the recent votes, Republicans have tried to outlaw doing medical experiments on kids to change their sex, which you can't do, but you sure can harm them.

[00:36:31] And the Democrats vote unanimously against curbing that practice. And what does that tell you? It tells you that they're in the grip of these far-left radicals. And the Republicans, just being normal, should be enough for them to win the election. You'd hope so. I mean, I've never heard of six genders until a Senate candidate from Texas said that there were six genders.

[00:36:59] And now he says he never said that when it's on tape that he did. Are people buying this stuff? Yeah, you're talking about James Tallerico, the Democrat candidate for Senate. Yeah, Tallerico. And he's running against Ken Paxton, who's been a very effective attorney general in Texas. In fact, he stopped the transgender experiments in Texas hospitals. He went after the main hospitals and has shut it down.

[00:37:29] You know, that alone should get him elected. But he's also for the policies that President Trump has backed on securing the border. And he's also been divorced. And his divorce has been a big thing out of this as well. Yeah, I'm thinking, yeah, you know, he's got a checkered record morally in his personal life.

[00:37:54] And, you know, none of us likes that, but it's either him or this radical leftist who is distorting Christianity to the point of making Jesus into some kind of nutcase from San Francisco. I mean, you probably had this on your program already, just a lot of the things he said. But it isn't just the six genders. It's the non-binary God.

[00:38:22] And he voted against a bill curbing the experiments on kids in Texas when he was in the legislature. And he's a Christian who's ashamed of Christianity. And he's ashamed of Christianity. He's a Christian who hates Christianity, quote, unquote. You know, he's trying to walk back a lot of these things.

[00:38:42] But I hope that people of Texas can see right through him and say, look, Ken Paxton's not perfect, but at least he's not a fake Christian like this guy. This guy's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Well, you've got Bush's, George W. Bush's daughter's giving money to his campaign, and his brother voted for him. Yeah, that does not bode well for the Bush family.

[00:39:08] Unfortunately, it doesn't make them look like they're true conservatives. And, you know, you can't always blame things on family members that you can't control. Right. But it's kind of disappointing, okay? How do we get more people of faith to vote? We have so many people who say that, you know, God needs to say out of elections.

[00:39:34] We got the, you know, freedom from religion organization. How do we get our people to say, hey, we've got to wake up and go vote? Well, the head of the Southern Baptist Convention has called on pastors to teach their congregations how important elections are.

[00:39:57] How if you don't vote, you're going to put yourselves under atheists and leftists and people who hate Jesus, hate Christianity, hate you, in fact. God doesn't call for that. He's not into political suicide for Americans. We shouldn't get overly caught up in politics. But to ignore it is to say that, oh, well, Jesus apparently isn't sovereign overall.

[00:40:25] He should be king overall, including the world of politics. I like the line you had in your column. It says it may depend on whether enough citizens pray for divine help while working as if it's up to them. Will we get the divine help? Yeah, absolutely. We have to pray diligently for God to intervene here and disappoint all the media who are saying, oh, boy, the Democrats are going to ride high here.

[00:40:55] I don't think they will. I think given where the Democrats have gone with their takeover by the Democratic Socialists of America who are – if you look – go ahead online. Look up their platform. It's unbelievable. It's right out of Karl Marx. It's free stuff for everybody, government takeover of everything, including industries and the health care system.

[00:41:22] I mean, if you want socialism and you want to end up like North Korea, great, vote Democrat. But if you don't, if you want to preserve America as the freest, most prosperous country in history, you've got to vote Republican. And I'm just saying that I believe objectively. I know it sounds partisan, and I guess it is. But if you look at what each party stands for, I think the stakes are enormous here.

[00:41:51] And if you have friends and family that say, oh, I just don't want to bother voting, light a fire under them. Tell them they're going to lose their country if they don't get out and vote. Robert Knight, Los Angeles Times, his column, reminder, the election should not be this crucial, but it is. You can get a link to it at pointofview.net, or you can just go to Los Angeles Times. We're going to open up the phone line. Oh, wait a minute, Charlie. And thanks for being here. Charlie, I've got to correct that.

[00:42:19] Okay, it's Washington Times. You've got to correct that. Washington Times, I'm sorry. Washington Times. Yeah, it used to be with the L.A. Times. Right. Yeah, the column's in the Washington Times, and you can go to pointofview.net. Thanks for being here, sir. I appreciate it. Thank you so much, Charlie. God bless. God bless. We're coming up next with open phones. We're going to just talk about what's going on for the next 30 minutes, and then joining us at the bottom of the next hour, Vinny Manchiello from Glass House Strategies,

[00:42:48] and we'll talk more about the election. I'm Charlie Hodges sitting in for Kirby Anderson, who is on assignment, and this is Point of View on radio stations across the country and on pointofview.net. I want to thank you for being here, and we look forward to having you here for the next hour. Thanks for coming. It's a fun ride. What do they call it? The Magical Mystery Tour? Many years ago, they began saying that we live in the information age.

[00:43:18] Well, today, there is so much information coming at us from every direction. The hardest thing is to discern which issues are really important, and how can I make a positive impact without wasting my time trying to figure out accurate information. Let me give you a suggestion to help with that. Visit pointofview.net. Look at the tabs across the top. Find the one named Viewpoints.

[00:43:44] Kirby Anderson and others on our team are constantly watching for news to identify those issues that you really need to know about. They boil things down in a brief summary, and then you can decide if it's something on which you want to learn more and get involved. Again, when you go to pointofview.net, click on Viewpoints, you'll see exactly what I mean. You'll see the issues that we are covering right now, and when you like what you see, I honestly think you will,

[00:44:13] you can slide on over, enter your email, and get them automatically sent to your inbox each day. That's it. Take a minute now. Be informed. Pointofview.net. Click on Viewpoints. Point of View will continue after this. Pointofview.net. Pointofview.net.