Point of View September 10, 2024 – Hour 2 : Tuesday Notes

[00:00:03] Is the presidential debate in the midst of course of a presidential campaign? It is the

[00:00:27] only debate and because of that in some respects the stakes have been raised much higher than

[00:00:34] normally. And I think part of that is when something is rare it oftentimes is more expensive.

[00:00:40] Gold for example is rare so obviously it has been seen as valuable. Only 21 million

[00:00:47] Bitcoin that's rare. Even a ticket to the Super Bowl probably much more expensive than

[00:00:54] a ticket to the World Series because there's potentially seven games at least four or maybe

[00:00:59] as many as seven games. So when you have one debate it is do or die tonight and it has

[00:01:05] been interesting to see how both sides have really tried to if you will lower the expectations

[00:01:14] knowing that sometimes debates don't change minds but a debate can ruin a particular campaign.

[00:01:23] You can go all the way back to when Gerald Ford essentially liberated Poland when it was

[00:01:30] liberated and that one really is back in the 1970s. And so again people probably don't remember

[00:01:38] that as well. A lot of people watching the Ronald Reagan movie right now maybe they weren't

[00:01:45] alive hear the story about I am not going to actually deal with my opponents youth

[00:01:52] and inexperience and not make age an issue and some other great lines over time but

[00:01:58] most of the time there are individuals that come into a presidential debate trying to just

[00:02:04] not make a big mistake and of course there are some of those as well especially interesting

[00:02:09] enough the one place where you see a lot of mistakes often times isn't the vice presidential

[00:02:14] debates but let's simply recognize that there have been some that have said that all Kamala

[00:02:21] Harris has to do is show up be somewhat articulate and do a better job than Joe Biden.

[00:02:28] Okay that's pretty low standard there pretty low barrier to actually actually deal with and on the

[00:02:36] other hand some people say look Donald Trump seems to be doing pretty well so maybe he doesn't need

[00:02:42] to do so much but it's one of those topics where we will probably spend a lot more time tomorrow

[00:02:50] evaluating both the style and the substance the sad reality is sometimes the style matters

[00:02:55] as much as substance that goes all the way back to 1960 when people who listen to the debate on

[00:03:02] radio thought Richard Nixon did much better than John F Kennedy but those who watched on television

[00:03:09] were convinced that John F Kennedy did much better and so television requires you to have some

[00:03:14] kind of style some presence and of course the whole argument is will Kamala Harris lose her

[00:03:21] train of thought how will she do without a teleprompter will of course Donald Trump lose his

[00:03:27] cool get angry start name calling or lose his train of thought entirely and wander off on a topic

[00:03:33] we will see and that all happens tomorrow it'll happen tonight and we'll evaluate some of that

[00:03:40] tomorrow but one of the most interesting things about this is after so much time wanting to

[00:03:47] hear something about policy that now finally the vice president and now presidential nominee

[00:03:54] Kamala Harris has finally released her policy platform on Monday and what we can see is that

[00:04:03] it illustrates the fact that even though she wants to run away from some issues she's going to stand

[00:04:09] strong on many part of the issue is this I have oftentimes said that if you have a wrong diagnosis

[00:04:18] by definition you're probably going to come up with a wrong prescription tonight we're going to

[00:04:23] hear some that will give maybe even a good diagnosis but still a wrong prescription to pick on

[00:04:29] Donald Trump for a minute he'll say yeah we are dealing with a trade deficit so we need

[00:04:34] tariffs well okay good diagnosis not sure sure that's the best prescription but in the case of Kamala

[00:04:40] Harris some really bad diagnosis and I'm just going to pick three or four examples I might even post

[00:04:47] this article tomorrow so you can read in its entirety but first of all the argument on the

[00:04:52] policy platform by Kamala Harris and Tim waltz is that the reason we have inflation is due

[00:04:59] to price gouging and not due to government spending well we've already sort of covered that first of

[00:05:06] all it's a bad diagnosis because that's not what happened and then the solution or the prescription

[00:05:12] is even worse price controls but I loved how this particular article that maybe we'll post tomorrow

[00:05:19] quotes from E. J. and Tony he's a budget expert and he said one of the functions of money

[00:05:26] is that of a measuring tool he said of a yardstick were to shrink from 36 inches down to just 30

[00:05:33] inches it would take 120 of these shortened yardsticks to cover the distance of a football field

[00:05:39] instead of 100 as the dollar has lost value takes more dollars to measure the value of the things

[00:05:44] we buy so again he also then raises the question if price gouging is the reason then why is it

[00:05:54] we have had price gouging now why did businessmen just magically become greedy when Biden and Harris

[00:06:04] took office were corporations never greedy he asked in the 40 years leading up to Biden's

[00:06:10] inflationary expansion of government businesses haven't been passed on their higher cost to

[00:06:15] consumers if they're trying to be greedy they're doing it all wrong so first of all the diagnosis

[00:06:22] is of course flawed if there's a reason we have inflation it's that we have more dollars chasing

[00:06:28] the same number of goods and by definition that's inflation there is another one and this is an

[00:06:35] argument that is again the idea that we would have a secure border if indeed we were to actually

[00:06:45] pass the bipartisan border bill but again as many people have pointed out it was more political

[00:06:52] posturing a quote from senator ron johnson who said this was a bill that would spend 20 billion

[00:06:59] dollars to not secure the border but to effectively encounter process and just disperse illegal

[00:07:05] migrants and then of course there is a willingness to die on a few hills one of course

[00:07:11] is abortion but the other is the equality act i was surprised that that was in there because if

[00:07:17] you're not familiar we've on many occasions talked about the equality act which would attempt to

[00:07:23] redefine the anti-discrimination protections that are in the law but actually begin to apply those

[00:07:30] to lgbtq as well and of course then that is not terribly popular among most americans

[00:07:38] because they are not too excited about changing the 1964 civil rights act so that it would then force

[00:07:47] schools to allow biological males who identify as females first of all to compete with girls and

[00:07:53] women in sports and even use the private female facilities of bathrooms and locker rooms and the

[00:07:59] rest so there is just a number of places where now for the first time we have the

[00:08:05] campaign platform of kamala harris we will be glad to post that but if you go to our website right now

[00:08:12] point of view dot net click on election central you will see that we have already posted the

[00:08:19] republican platform and the democratic platform under the articles and we've also included in

[00:08:26] just the last day or two first liberties election resource center which again we'll

[00:08:31] talk more about on friday when he has some people from first liberty in case your pastor is wondering

[00:08:35] what he can do in terms of addressing some of these social issues so a lot of that already exists

[00:08:42] and more of it will be posted every single day let's take a break we'll come back and talk about

[00:08:47] more right after this this is viewpoints with kirby anderson professor paul kenger has a new book

[00:09:06] on the devil and coral marks that reminds us how much marks hated god and christianity in his book

[00:09:11] and on my radio program he cited marks and many of the biographies that showed how scary he was

[00:09:16] his own family and friends were frightened by his demonic fits of rage and his bizarre focus on

[00:09:21] violence marx wrote when our turn comes we shall make no excuses for the terror there is only

[00:09:27] one way in which the murderous death agnes of the old society and the bloody birth rows of

[00:09:32] the new society can be shortened simplified and concentrated and that way is revolutionary terror

[00:09:37] in his book and also in a recent column in the american spectator he also asked a relevant question

[00:09:42] why not cancel carl marx his writings are filled with racist rants and anti-juice and anti-semitic

[00:09:49] statements paul kenger documents that carl marx was after all a bigot his attitude towards blacks

[00:09:54] and jews alone not to mention women would stun stonewall jackson ugly racial ethnic

[00:09:59] stereotypes by marx are littered throughout his writings if you want to find examples i suggest

[00:10:04] you read the book or his column in the american spectator i simply cannot repeat some of the

[00:10:08] awful things that carl marx said about people of different races and ethnic backgrounds you

[00:10:13] know on university campuses today we're told by students and professors to ignore those dead

[00:10:18] white european males that have given us western culture but isn't carl marx one of those dead

[00:10:23] white european males well of course he is but once again he gets a pass carl marx should

[00:10:28] be canceled for his bigotry alone but even more so for the fact that his writings provided

[00:10:32] the foundation for totalitarian regimes responsible for more than one hundred million deaths in

[00:10:38] the twentieth century i'm curvy anderson and that's my point of view

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[00:11:01] your listener supported source for truth back once again let me just mention that in just a minute

[00:11:06] i'm going to be talking about our first article and for those of you that kind of like to follow

[00:11:11] along you can do so this is also one we're going to be showing some charts so those of you

[00:11:15] that have the ability to watch the program you can either go to point of view dot net and

[00:11:20] click on the watch button or you can go to facebook and watch it there are other places

[00:11:25] where it is available i'm going to show some graphs and charts but i'll try to explain those for those

[00:11:29] of you that are just listening on radio but just before we do so since i um wanted to mention

[00:11:35] one other piece that is now in the platform posted by kamala harris there's a section there

[00:11:42] called keeping america safe in which it proclaims that vice president harris will never hesitate

[00:11:48] to take whatever action is necessary to protect us forces in interest from iran

[00:11:54] in iranian backed terrorist groups now the problem with that is twofold number one the reason we've

[00:12:03] been dealing with some of these problems in the middle east not the least of which is the

[00:12:09] attack on october 7th which led to the killing of 1100 plus israelis and americans women and

[00:12:17] children was due to the fact that the world's sponsor of radical islamic terrorism that would be

[00:12:26] iran was actually benefiting from the loose sanctions and the ability to financially provide

[00:12:35] for hamas and now hezbollah to attack israel i know that a lot of individuals

[00:12:42] that are going to be watching tonight or even paying attention to the campaign

[00:12:47] are not going to be thinking about foreign policy that much but recognize that when you

[00:12:53] talk about a president you are electing a commander in chief and when we are dealing with a level of

[00:13:00] terrorism around the world but especially in the middle east a lot of that is funded by iran

[00:13:07] and the economic sanctions that used to exist were loosened significantly and the best estimates

[00:13:15] are probably anywhere from 71 million or more of resources were in the hands of iran which then

[00:13:24] went into of course the armaments in hamas and now hezbollah to the north maybe even the

[00:13:31] and these proxies war is in some respects funded by that i would think that certainly

[00:13:38] donald trump will raise that issue now he always tends to raise it in well they were afraid to act

[00:13:44] and nobody there was no war when i was president well that may be true but it has as much to do

[00:13:50] with the fact that there was not the funding for those kinds of proxy wars to take place

[00:13:55] and i also believe that in light of that also they're going to be bringing up probably some

[00:14:01] of the problems of immigration and uh though we have i think on this program mentioned the

[00:14:07] venice wailian um gangs taking over aurora colorado i haven't really mentioned the hasian

[00:14:15] nationals that seem to have now taken over springfield ohio and if you've not been

[00:14:22] paying attention to that there were in round numbers anywhere from 15 000 to 20 000 hasians

[00:14:28] that are in springfield ohio which is uh what has oftentimes been seen as a blue collar jobs

[00:14:36] town but it is one where it has been just overwhelmed by of course you've seen if you've

[00:14:43] watched any youtube of them going into the various parks grabbing a duck deep taking its head

[00:14:50] off and eating it cat eating claims all sorts of stuff i mean you can go out and find those on the

[00:14:56] internet and so i would suspect that one of the issues which i think has been a pre-ineminent

[00:15:04] issue for many voters has been the issue of immigration or border security is certainly

[00:15:10] going to be highlighted maybe not necessarily by kamala harris but either by donald trump or

[00:15:17] i think if you have any kind of responsible action from the commentators

[00:15:25] saying don't we have problems right now where individuals are oftentimes hasians for example

[00:15:31] in springfield ohio getting better treatment than even veterans don't we have a situation where

[00:15:38] immigrants have just overrun new york city chicago denver whatever it might be aren't we dealing with

[00:15:44] venezuelan gangs in aurora colorado and on and on and on and what are we going to do about that

[00:15:50] if that question does not show up well again i would suggest that might be media malpractice

[00:15:57] but let's for just a minute be an equal grief giver because what we have going on tonight

[00:16:03] is free lunch promises and so bruce yendale decided to talk about the fact that it's now

[00:16:12] september he says the countdown to the november elections is getting louder both sides know the

[00:16:18] remaining swing voters they need to win will not be persuaded by platitudes but instead it's time

[00:16:25] for what he calls retail politics what will you do for me just me and it has to be free

[00:16:33] so he says whether we're talking about no more taxes on tips on social security or

[00:16:39] checks for giving student debt free money for home purchase down payments mandated access to

[00:16:47] in vitro fertilization or child care services controls on grocery or rental costs raising minimum

[00:16:54] wages he says the candidates are full of free lunch proposals free lunch promises and the

[00:17:03] bottom line is this is happening both by republicans and democrats both by certainly donald trump

[00:17:10] and by kamala harris and so he says again what they're saying is yes elect me you'll get your

[00:17:17] favorite lunch every day how will i pay ma not to worry i'll borrow the money or print it

[00:17:23] and of course taking together he says that as citizens of this great nation we understand

[00:17:28] that there's no such thing as a free lunch so that brings us to the charts that he has actually

[00:17:35] produced by ryan yonk and tomah savage of the american institute for economic research

[00:17:41] so the first chart i'll hold it up here but we'll put it on the screen is a chart that helps

[00:17:46] you understand that if you look at the federal government by spending on category the blue in

[00:17:54] is mandatory spending and that such things as social security and that such things as medicare

[00:18:02] and that involves chip and it involves income security and federal civilian and military

[00:18:09] retirement and veterans programs and all sorts of issues all of that is mandatory spending

[00:18:17] so what you end up with is then in the orange just you have what is called discretionary spending

[00:18:24] in that and a particular case then is certainly just those things having to do with non-defense

[00:18:32] spending and defense spending and then he goes on to remind us that eventually we're going to get

[00:18:37] to the point where the interest on the debt is larger will be larger than the defense spending

[00:18:45] and so we are at a time as i've like to say we're not broke we're 35 trillion dollars past broke

[00:18:53] and if we could post that second article here this one is again a chart that just helps you

[00:18:59] understand that we've gone from a time in which we had a negligible national debt

[00:19:04] to one that has just skyrocketed to 35 trillion dollars 35 trillion dollars is just an enormous

[00:19:14] amount of money and by the way that indexes in billions of dollars so again that's why it looks

[00:19:20] like 30 000 but it's actually 35 000 and you can see that it has grown dramatically and so in

[00:19:28] some respects as this is being talked about tonight and you're going to hear all sorts of promises

[00:19:35] the bottom line is that you i think as a taxpayer need to ask the question how we're going to pay for

[00:19:44] it in this article it's our first article here it says a quote from the peterson foundation

[00:19:49] says this in fiscal year 2024 the federal government will spend more on interest than

[00:19:56] on defense as well as non-defense discretionary spending this includes funding for transportation

[00:20:02] veterans education health international affairs national resources the environment general

[00:20:07] science technology general government and much much more he says taking that a step further

[00:20:12] then relying on the congressional budget office numbers the foundation reports that

[00:20:17] interest will become the largest category in the federal budget by 2051 exceeding the

[00:20:23] amount spent even on social security that year now he says we all know that won't happen so sometime

[00:20:29] or another this all is going to collapse even with printing more money and we all recognize

[00:20:37] that there is no such thing as a free lunch and so i wanted you to have some of the facts

[00:20:44] and figures and these charts one again on mandatory spending and discretionary spending

[00:20:51] and one on the chart that shows the increased because as a taxpayer you need to ask that question

[00:20:59] and the younger you are the more you should be angry at what is happening because what they're

[00:21:06] doing is borrowing money from the future and using it to pay right now and putting more and

[00:21:12] more debt on you for the future and it seems to me that at a time when no one else i don't

[00:21:19] know the commentators will bring it up i know the politicians won't bring it up someone needs to

[00:21:23] bring up the fact that we're spending more than we're taking in and it doesn't look good for the

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[00:23:08] or staff of this station and now here again is kirby anson back once again about half an hour left

[00:23:16] and then we will move on to some topics that we will get to the today of the rest will get

[00:23:22] postponed till tomorrow let me just mention if you go to our website point of view dot net

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[00:25:07] is right there let me just uh before we move on to some other issues because actually there is

[00:25:13] a very important hearing taking place today in congress but while we're talking about the um

[00:25:19] debate tonight there's going to be one other thing and that is what you're going to hear

[00:25:24] both candidates talk about the endorsements that they have received and um i'll just read

[00:25:31] gary bowers peace because it was a good summary both donald trump and comel Harris have received

[00:25:36] high-profile endorsements recently trump was endorsed by elon musk probably the most visionary

[00:25:41] billionaire of course we just mentioned yesterday how he might head up the efficiency commission

[00:25:47] uh trump was also endorsed by robert f kennedy jr the most prominent member of the iconic

[00:25:51] kennedy family and all that and then of course harris has been endorsed i did not know this until

[00:25:58] i read gary's by russian leader vladimir putin now some say putin is just trying to hurt harris

[00:26:03] but the endorsement makes sense since her policies would benefit russia and of course she has also

[00:26:08] been endorsed by dick cheney which is interesting because they've been making a big deal about that

[00:26:12] and more than a few people but it's certainly senator tom cotton i think jd vance as well

[00:26:18] has said wait a minute you guys all referred to dick cheney as darth vader um that he's a war criminal

[00:26:25] and now you're all thrilled about the fact that he's endorsing comel harris although he is a republican

[00:26:32] so uh you're going to hear some of those kinds of statements being made tonight as well if you

[00:26:39] trust polls and i have my doubts but there are some things that the polls ask that give you

[00:26:46] a trend in the most recent new york times ciena college poll has donald trump leading comel harris

[00:26:54] 48 to 47 of course that's within the margin of error that's not the point i want to focus on

[00:27:00] other than just to remind you at this point hillary clinton had a three-point lead

[00:27:04] biden had an eight-point lead so let's recognize that um trump ahead is not something we see

[00:27:11] either in 2016 or 2020 but the more significant part is if you dig deep into the poll a majority

[00:27:20] of voters say that they believe that comel harris bears responsibility for inflation 54 percent

[00:27:27] a majority 63 percent believe that comel harris bears responsibility for the chaos of the border

[00:27:33] now just simply saying that trump didn't want this bill passed first of all does not bear

[00:27:39] scrutiny because there were people speaking out against that bill that was i think spending a lot

[00:27:46] of money and not getting anything done long before trump weighed in but nevertheless um the uh a majority

[00:27:53] 55 percent say that comel harris is just more of the same um and uh of 61 percent of the voters

[00:28:02] say they want the next president to be a major change from biden that could work both for comel

[00:28:07] harris or for donald trump and 53 percent or majority say that trump represents major change so

[00:28:14] what they mean by that will be interesting but again i don't take polls too seriously but when

[00:28:21] you get a majority of people when asked certain questions that gives you at least a sense of

[00:28:27] where that is and so we'll see how that plays itself out tonight let me real quickly though

[00:28:33] so that i cover most of them here we've posted mentioned that there is a very good piece coming

[00:28:39] out by guy benzin and that is the argument being made by comel harris and her campaign

[00:28:45] is she's changed her mind and again i have no problem with flip-flopping if she was against

[00:28:50] fracking and now she has not going to have a ban on it i think that's good i mean that will help

[00:28:56] the energy issue of america but i think she has to explain it more than just simply that she's changed

[00:29:04] her mind because she endorsed the green new deal and she endorsed legislation to ban fracking so

[00:29:09] this is not just uh well i changed my mind because i was against fracking when i was in

[00:29:14] college or law school and now i know a lot more about that no these are policy positions you

[00:29:19] held about five years ago four or five years ago so i think that's important but it's also interesting

[00:29:27] that as guy benzin points out if you really want to understand who's telling the truth

[00:29:32] it's bernie sanders and i've said this before he says one of the useful things about bernie

[00:29:37] sanders is that he's an unapologetic died in the wool socialist who occasionally burnt the

[00:29:43] blurt out the truth even if it conflicts with whatever story his tribe is attempting to sell

[00:29:49] to the american people and i've said you know if i ever met him i'd say you know i may disagree

[00:29:54] with you but i appreciate the fact that you hold true to your views and you're not wishy washy

[00:30:01] even if i think you're really wrong on most of these issues at least you aren't trying to

[00:30:06] say the right thing to get somebody to vote for you which i think is admirable and hard to

[00:30:12] find these days because he says one of the examples is when bernie sanders admitted that the so-called

[00:30:18] again this is so-called inflation reduction act wasn't about reducing inflation at all

[00:30:27] in reality it was the green spending bill with the inflation related title slapped onto it

[00:30:35] based on what polling and focus groups identified as the voters top concern

[00:30:42] if you say wait a minute i want to see that well this gives you a link to his speech so you can

[00:30:46] see it yourself by the way as i like to point out he's not the only one that is said that jill

[00:30:53] biden said that just the other day as well he was actually trying to curry some favor with

[00:30:59] environmental groups and he actually said at the time he wished he'd sold the inflation

[00:31:03] reduction act as what it really was a green new deal type of bill so you have individuals every

[00:31:10] once in a while that let the truth slip let the mask slip whatever you want to say and that is

[00:31:16] certainly something that is illustrated again by the fact that there are attempts to try to

[00:31:23] mislead the american people but sooner or later the truth comes out and we knew that in the

[00:31:33] the house judiciary subcommittee on the constitutional government are actually hearing on

[00:31:40] the board board it excuse me the biden harris border crisis non-citizen voting

[00:31:47] this has been going on since about um um one o'clock and this hearing is one in which they

[00:31:55] are looking at how many individuals who have crossed the border illegally are actually voting

[00:32:03] and so you've got the secretary of state you've got the policy director of the immigration

[00:32:09] accountability project you have of course jim jordan who chairs the house judiciary committee

[00:32:15] who actually are called for this and said only american citizens should vote in american

[00:32:22] elections that's not controversial unless you're a democrat the hearing will be chaired and is

[00:32:29] being chaired right now by the subcommittee chairman and that's chip roye and he was on fox news last

[00:32:34] night to actually discuss the border crisis and so actually there will be actually having two

[00:32:40] hearings ones called the biden harris border crisis victim perspectives and the other one is the

[00:32:47] biden harris border crisis non-citizen voting so we will cover more of that certainly in the

[00:32:54] future but it is i think a good illustration of one other topic that is certainly of concern

[00:33:02] and as i travel around california last week illinois next week and as i traveled other places

[00:33:08] people say can we really believe that this election will be secure and one of the questions is how

[00:33:15] many individuals who are here illegally are going to be voting you're being assured with lots

[00:33:20] of hand waving from the mainstream media that that's not an issue but this subcommittee hearing

[00:33:27] i think will surface some material that we'll talk about if not tomorrow later in the week

[00:33:32] those are the kinds of things we talk about here on point of view when we come back

[00:33:36] what's the future we need a spiritual revival and michael brown talks about that right after

[00:33:42] this you're listening to point of view for truth back once again let me just mention that tomorrow

[00:34:03] we're going to have two short interviews most of the time we're going to be obviously talking

[00:34:07] about the debate tonight but one of those interviews is with michael scott and he is with of course the

[00:34:14] pre-reflex and pinnacle peak pictures produced of course god's not dead series the latest one

[00:34:20] is god's not dead in god we trust which fits very well with the conversation we're going to

[00:34:25] have in just a minute about michael brown so we will certainly mention again that film which

[00:34:30] i think you might want to see and it's just a reminder once again that many of these problems

[00:34:36] we're talking about are going to exist no matter who we elect as president no matter who we elect

[00:34:42] to the united states senator the house of representatives now that being said that

[00:34:46] doesn't mean well we throw up our hands when we say don't vote because believe me there's

[00:34:50] pretty good evidence that certain candidates will do at least a better job of dressing

[00:34:56] these problems and other candidates will actually make the problem worse so there is the civic duty

[00:35:03] that we have to vote in november but don't kid yourself and think that all the solutions

[00:35:10] that we need to implement are going to be carried out in the political specter i have said before

[00:35:17] and you've heard me say it maybe too many times that politics is downstream from culture

[00:35:23] and certainly when we look at the political answers we can certainly ask that we do not have

[00:35:29] candidates or politicians that do more harm than good but many of these are intractable problems

[00:35:36] not easily solved and part of the problem is you can't solve a problem if you can't

[00:35:42] accurately identify the diagnosis and as i pointed out just a minute ago if you want to read through

[00:35:48] the platform for kamala harris there are a number of times where i'm saying that's just not the wrong

[00:35:53] guy that is a wrong diagnosis that's not how the problem surfaced and so anything you're going to

[00:35:59] solve or try to solve is the wrong diagnosis because you're going to then come up with

[00:36:05] the wrong prescription because that was the wrong diagnosis in the first place and i can certainly

[00:36:10] examine some of those tomorrow because i'm sure we'll hear some from both of the candidates

[00:36:16] but the bigger issue is as we really need a spiritual revival and that is why this last

[00:36:23] article i've posted actually is a reprint from the book that we did the interview with dr

[00:36:30] michael brown it was entitled and is entitled turn the tide how to ignite a cultural awakening

[00:36:37] and the title of this article is simply the hour is more urgent than we realize

[00:36:43] he gives us a quote from cardinal francis george i've used it before in which he said

[00:36:48] as he was speaking to other catholic priests i expect to die in bed my successor will die in

[00:36:54] prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square his successor will pick up the

[00:36:59] shards of a ruined society slowly help rebuild civilization as the church has done so often

[00:37:05] in human history i'm not sure i would necessarily say it the same way but again it really helps us

[00:37:13] realize that unless there's some kind of spiritual turnaround cultural turnaround that is the trajectory

[00:37:21] we are headed in and michael brown puts it this way in my view speaking as soberly as i can

[00:37:28] the picture of cardinal george painted is entirely plausible barring one thing and only one thing a

[00:37:36] sweeping revival that produces a radical reformation to our society a spiritual renewal so deep at

[00:37:43] birth a spiritual awakening otherwise the crash is inevitable and he says really there is a

[00:37:51] concern about the future of this country he says there's really a three-fold issue number one

[00:37:59] why are we here it was a powerful revival movements in the past that turned the tide and

[00:38:04] saved the nation nothing else will do so today so if you think we're in a problem right now

[00:38:11] only we can do is look at the first great awakening or the second great awakening

[00:38:15] and hope and pray for something like that number two we have in many ways been on a steady he says

[00:38:22] moral and spiritual decline since the counterculture revolution in the 1960s so really he says it's

[00:38:30] either revival or we die number three he says there's no guarantee that america will not go

[00:38:36] the way of the roman empire fading into oblivion and have a fate similar to the soviet union

[00:38:43] breaking into fragments of course the soviet union broke into 15 independent states so to make his

[00:38:51] case he instead of quoting from just the cardinal george francis george then quotes from a russian

[00:38:59] that could certainly speak to that and that's alexander s else in eason and i'm going to

[00:39:04] include this because alexander s else in eason was invited to the commencement exercises

[00:39:10] at harvard university in 1978 and there describing the horrors of the communist revolution

[00:39:18] he said if i were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause

[00:39:27] of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up 60 million of our people i could put it put it no

[00:39:33] more accurately than to repeat man had forgotten god that's why it all happened and he goes on to

[00:39:40] talk about how as some respects when he looks at the united states and that was back in 1978

[00:39:48] he sees some of the same issues there as well a looting and havoc and social trends and all

[00:39:56] then to make his point one more time then michael brown quotes from francis schaefer

[00:40:03] and again francis schaefer wrote about the idea of a christian manifesto and he wrote

[00:40:09] about the reality of historic christianity becoming a minority in the west stripped of its

[00:40:15] cultural power and influence and ultimately said that that would be the trajectory if indeed we

[00:40:22] did not have a revival and then concludes by saying but even a christian thinker is brilliant

[00:40:26] as schaefer might struggle to find the right words to describe a nation in which 13 year old girls

[00:40:32] are encouraged by doctors to have their particular body parts removed men going to men's bathrooms

[00:40:39] finding things because men can menstruate the whole banning from social media for misgendering

[00:40:47] an individual for the transgender issue or the fact that we have music today saturated with the most

[00:40:53] profane graphic and degrading sexual imagery possible or that we have fentanyl overdoses which

[00:41:01] have become the leading cause of death for adults between 18 and 45 and the answer of course is

[00:41:08] very simple that is we are in the midst of a cultural revolution which he points out

[00:41:13] that has given us acronyms like crt dei esg we've had individuals that have wanted to have their own

[00:41:23] beliefs and actually force their own beliefs on you and reject absolute truth and it really brings

[00:41:30] us back to if we are convinced that the nation is headed in the wrong direction and a majority

[00:41:36] of americans a super majority of americans believe the nation is headed in the wrong

[00:41:42] direction the first step may be the election of an individual or individuals in positions of power

[00:41:50] from the federal government to the state government to the local government but the real answers are

[00:41:55] outside of politics they are spiritual and cultural and that is certainly why once again

[00:42:01] if you go to our website and scroll down you will see in addition to our material about

[00:42:06] the election central there's also an opportunity for you to subscribe to our pray for america

[00:42:12] and those of you that have subscribed know that each week we send out a number set of prayer targets

[00:42:19] oftentimes based upon some of the things i've written in my commentaries and so we would

[00:42:24] like to provide that to you as well the answers will see some of them tonight in the debate

[00:42:30] but the real answers come from the bible come from spiritual renewal and that's what we are

[00:42:36] certainly dedicated to as well hope you'll take the time to find some of the articles we've posted

[00:42:42] on the website today if you'd like to know more about kasey luskin in the interview we did in the

[00:42:46] first hour it's all available on the website point of view dot net if you'd like to listen to

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[00:43:01] even before we get together tomorrow i'm going to thank meghan for help engineering the program

[00:43:06] steve thank you for doing the program see you back here tomorrow right here on point of view

[00:43:11] 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

[00:43:24] on their politics criminals are more valued and rewarded than law-abiding citizens

[00:43:30] it's so overwhelming so demoralizing you feel like giving up but we can't we shouldn't we must not

[00:43:38] as winston churchell said to britain in the darkest days of world war two never give in never give

[00:43:45] in never never never never yield to force never yield to the apparently overwhelming

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