Political division and team identity (11-24-2025--Hour1)

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So anyway, what I was saying is that as we head into this holiday, you know, there's a distinction between left and right in a way that we really haven't seen before. We've seen it like an outbreak. It's kind of like if you had gosh. I don't want to compare it to an autoimmune disease, but you have these flares for people who have MS and loopus and things like this, where it gets worse. The next flare is progressively worse than the previous one. In a way, our country's kind of going through this. You had, you know, huge distinctions in the sixties and the seventies through the Reagan air one. Reagan was you know, some of my earliest memories of distinctions between left and right, not just the Carter inflation all that stuff, but during Reagan is when the media started going really all in to claim, oh, homelessness was worse, to claim, you know, that people were starving more than that. All of these things were worse. But and they one delayed at the feet of Reagan, which was absurd. I mean, a lot of these were on the cities and the policies of city. But none of the big ideas that the left has thrown at you in your lifetime have solved any of the problems in society. Now, I just want you to reflect on that because I'm going to go back to the neighbors in a second. Like I said, this is going to be a little bit everywhere, but think about any solution that's the Inflation Reduction Act. Did it reduce inflation? No, It sent it on a collision course with the American mindset. It did not. It was named to how can we fool you today? Inflation Reduction Act did the opposite the Affordable Care Act. It made nothing about health care more affordable. It gave the illusion that it was more affordable because it basically was subsidizing insurance, which did nothing to bring down actual cost of health care. It did nothing to help you make doctors more accessible. Remember the lie, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. That was an absolute lie. They knew it was a lie when they said it. And I'm going to go back to the neighbor because this is all going to tie together, is that when the left and right kind of go to battle, the right is already handicapped. The right is already handicapped because they they they're and I'm not trying to say the right is better, but what I'm saying is the right is handicapped because they they know that to solve a problem, the first thing you have to do is understand it. The left says, I don't have to understand the problem. The left says, I don't have to fix the problem. I just have to really make it look like I'm doing something. If I look like I'm doing something, then the public is happy. And I've got a media with wining my sales and they'll kind of echo anything I say, so I just say whatever I want to Affordable Care Act, Inflation Reduction Act, oh yeah, welfare. Welfare is going to solve poverty. The welfare State's going to just solve poverty for the country. None of none of that has ever come true. In fact, if you look at each one of these programs individually, the number of people on them has grown, in many cases exponentially. We've made people more dependent on government. Is that to me? It's the most anti American thing we've almost done collectively. You know, freedom, pursuit of happiness. Being dependent on a government program is not freedom, and it is not a pursuit of happiness. It is dependency. There's nothing American about being dependent on the government. And then we get these kind of mixed messages where you look at people that, through no fault of their own, genuinely need help. And that's the image that's projected to you on the media. Oh look at this family is genetic disorder, there's cancer, there's an unfortunate accident. That's what's projected to you to say, Oh, look, government is there. But again, let me remind you government is not designed to be a charity. If it is, then everything instance that we should be a socialist society, because government would be the charity to deal with all issues. It never works out. You take from those who have and give to those who don't, and that you run out of people who have, and then everybody starts starving to death and dying, which, by the way, was the very lesson of the very first Thanksgiving if you ever read that, if you ever read John Smith's diaries, the first Thanksgiving was horrific. There was no thanksgiving. They were very socialists. It was collective. People didn't grow because they took from others, and they all the blot of them died the next year. They kind of got a private capitalist system going and then it was abundance. But I digress, the point being because I want to go back to the neighbors. You keep hearing me say, Chad's talk about neighbors. When it's going to get to the neighbors. Is that these ideas have nothing inflation reduction. None of these big programs from the left solve actual problems because they are not interested in the problems. They're not even interested in solutions. It sounds good, mom. Donnie is fantastic and messaging. He tastes charismatic. You know, he speaks well. He goes out there and says, we're gonna have free grocery stores, We're gonna have free buses. If free, you would think what Manifel from heaven and just descended on the gas tanks to the buses, and that the grocery stores would he be filled with magical food. It's someone has to pay for it. You have to take from someone who earned it to make it available to those who don't. And you just you descend into a in a bit of madness. And when it starts going south on you, which inevitably does you look for someone else to blame. Let's blame the billionaires. It's their greed. It's the the successful businesses that are hoarding their money. It's and you try to make because you can't accept that you're the bad guy. Hey, you're the one who made all the promises to say government's going to solve all this, and then you're making out other people to be the bad guy because you don't accept responsibility for the policies you enacted. And again, we'll talk about our neighbors here in a second. Just I told you I would but that, and I'm not. I'm not here to say that the left is all full of bad people that because again there are neighbors, kind of bringing the analogy together. They are our neighbors. We're all in this together. And when we get back from the break, we're going to I'm gonna go through a few things that are happening right now that illustrate how myopic and how distorted minds are being twisted by those in education, by those in the media. They're being they're forgetting that you're an American. It matters. Being an American is one of the greatest gifts. If you happen to be born in this nation, you happen to be a part of this nation, you are lucky. And those of you who came here and worked and became citizens, you are very fortunate and your work is paying off, but it matters. And for many on the political left, being an American doesn't matter. It is something that is irrelevant to them. We're talking about that on the other side of the break because it is important as we head into this week, of all weeks, Gratitude is something I don't think we do well. And you can take the lessons of thanks saving for what you want, but in your own personal lives, we all should be having a position of gratitude. It's hard to be angry when you have a position of gratitude. It's hard to be resentful, it's hard to be envious, it's hard to be negative when you have a mindset of gratitude. And I think many conservatives don't do a good job of projecting gratitude to people, and the media certainly doesn't. 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It's funny we the left didn't talk about affordability much when inflation was skyrocketing and castles a bucket a gallon higher. But again I digress because I want to get to the neighbor part of this discussion. Because there was a lot throughout my notes, and they all tied together. I could start with any particular line and circle back to what I'm about to say, which is that as you go through life, if you do live in a neighborhood, or if you're in a rural area, you know your neighbors. They're not too far away. Can you imagine getting up every day and the main job you had was to go out, find a microphone or find a crowd and just beat the tar out of your neighbor, just just assault them verbally every day. That everything they did, short of drawing breath was terrible for the neighborhood, for the county, for the state, for the city, for the nation, that every day you went out and tried to gain political advantage by just bemoaning your neighbor. Now privately, you may get along great with your neighbor, may break bread with them, may have dinner with them. But every day it reminds me if you will going back to watching cartoons on Saturday morning, and that those Wiley Coyote cartoons. To me, I loved road Runner cartoons, just loved it. Always wanted ACNE catalog when I was growing up little bit. I know that Acne would become Amazon and be a real thing. But I digress back to the Wiley Cote situation. That there's Sam and the coyote and they they go to work every day and the coyote's trying to get the sheep and the dog the sheep dog is protecting the sheep, and it's constantly beating each other up. You know, they're they're finding ways to hurt one another to get advantage. And then when the whistle blows, they stop what they're doing. They go have lunch and they're talking about families, how life's going, and then the whistle blows in their back at it until the day ends, and it's a euphemism for you for what we see today. It's so funny how art imitates life because it's almost what it's like. And I say this to both sides, not just the left, but the right. You see it on TV where it's just propaganda after propaganda after propaganda, and we instead of talking about problems from a solution standpoint, we just try to gain political advantage. And maybe we've reached a point in society where people maybe the that's what people want. They like, they like our politics to be like a WWE storyline where it's the good guys the bad guys. You think your team's the good guys and the other person thinks their team's the good guy. But it never ends up really solving anything, and all we do is get further apart to the point where it's okay to have a discussion about putting a bullet in Charlie Kirk or taking a shot at Donald Trump, or hiding in the bushes to try to get a shot at Donald Trump, or taking out stabbing Ran Paul in his yard, or shooting at a baseball game Scalise. It does I mean, there's a certain point where the words do matter, because there are a lot of people that aren't quite right in the head and they take those words and they do harmful things. And I do think that the left doesn't realize how much hatred it projects. And I'll take it a step further to say that in a very broad sense, In a very very broad sense, the left is far less likely to believe in any kind of supreme being. And I'm not being mean here because there's plenty of folks on the left that see themselves as Christians, but in general, the political left systemically has a more socialist viewpoint, especially now, where it sees government as the solution. It sees the higher power of government as the source of power rather than God and a higher being, and that we as individuals have to go out there and be better people. If you're a Christian, you have to believe, you have to believe in the Savior. That's how that system works. But you also have an obligation to your fellow man, not that you go and say, oh, the government will take care of it, so I'm absolved of having to do anything that you At the local level. That's why local government has such an important role to play, but it's not a charity. And that's where I think the left has convinced the American public that it's that the government is a charity and that being an American is an amorphous thing no matter where you come from, that borders don't matter, and that you can just come across the border and you have rights. And the left wants to tell you that healthcare is a right, that having money is a right, that having access to everything is a right, not a privilege or not something you have to work for. And I say that in the example of this, and I want to get back to the Daghbor thing is like even today, students at Wakefield High School up in wake County Public School stage a walkout to protest ICE while holding anti ICE signs. The same district which send out an email authorizing excuse absences for illegals and offered at home lessons for illegals. So, if your students are walking out because they're protesting that non Americans should be allowed to be a part of everything, what do you think that school's teaching them? What do you think that public school system is teaching them about being an American or the history of the country, a country that looks at all the mistakes it's made and said, Okay, we made these mistakes, and we made things better about the mistakes we've made. But instead, what it teaches them is that somehow America is evil, that the people in the country evil, being an American is almost evil, And so you're raising future Americans to hate the country they live in, while the rest of the world wants to get here still by far, the country more people want to come to than any other country on the planet Earth. While the people that are here protest the existence of their own country and are being taught that are being taught that being an American is not important, that the borders don't matter, and that is an unsustainable situation. And that's where do your neighbors believe. And I think many of your neighbors do, even your leftist neighbors believe they want a country. It would be hard for me to fathom that someone of your neighbors would say, you know what, I'm good with their not having a border, and you say, well, just tear down your fence. You don't need a fence. Let everyone come to. Can they stay in your backyard and your leftist neighbors would say no, no, why would I do that? Or better, Yet, if you live in a gated neighborhood, would your leftist neighbors in the gated neighborhoods just say, hey, let's tear all the gates down. Let's let them come in here. Come on, You've got plenty of space, You've got more than enough. No, because it applies to someone else, not them. It's easy to protect these kids in Wakefield if you applied that kind of mentality to them. This is a snowflake nation we're raising. We're raising people in a way that's anti American. And yet part of the public education system is to make good citizens, not blind citizens. Mind you not teach them that they don't have a right to protest or they can't disagree. But you're raising them to not like their own country. And if you raise them to not like their own country, what's the future of your military, what's the future of your system? If you raise an entire nation of kids to be anti that nation, you don't have a nation, because but for the respect for a piece of paper under glass at the National Archives, we don't. We're held together by a belief and a set of rules that we set up were the most unique, in fact, the most unique in the world. Costa Rica's tried to imitate it. They have a constitution too. Here's a great idea. 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So it is an astounding pace of change and human I guess societal evolution not just into you know, not species, but from a societal standpoint, the impacts. And I'm not a doom and gloom raight, I mean, I reflect on any part of history. We had these monumental shifts and things with automation was going to destroy all the jobs. It didn't you know that that cars were going to destroy things because we're replacing horses, That that that computers were going to revolutionize things, that Y two K was going to destroy the world. It's just news and and people's desire for fear. As we do, we are motivated by fear almost as a society more than almost anything. I think that's why the news throws everything bad that happens, you know, right there at dinner time and right before you go to bed, it's you know, it's eleven o'clock. Here's who got robbed, raped and killed? And hey, have a nice night, whether it's going to be okay tomorrow, right, and and they The net result of that is that that we are driven by fear, anger and rage, or maybe anger and rage or shades of gray. But that way of being is not healthy. It's not good for you. It doesn't give you meaning and purpose, and if it does, it's the wrong kind of meaning and purpose. You know, the climate change is a really good example of that. You know, you know, first it was going to be an ice ags and it was going to be global warming, and then that didn't work, so well, let's call it climate change. And all the socialists realized, well, the way we fix climate changes by creating socialism. So hey, let's all glam onto that because we had to control the means of production and energy through the government. That way we solve the climate problem. And then we'll act like you should be afraid, very afraid, because polar bears are going to die, penguins aren't going to breed, the ice shell is going to collapse, cities are going to be underwater, the earth is gonna boil. You're all gonna die, and you got to do something about it right now or else. And now we've heard the or else for forty years, and we're not oreelsing very well because it's now it's not even a sexy topic for the right or the left. There's people throwing stuff. And now there's an emerging bit of research saying, hey, we may be headed toward an ice age. Global warming causes ice age, watch out, then the seas will resess. Well, a lot more land and not be good. Animals will not like freezing. Wait, too warm bad? Too cold bad? Just right? Who sets the thermostat? Who's going to be responsible for the global thermostat? They turn it over to you men. They screw up everything they could screw up the thermostat. Imagine gonna make it wi fi. They give they give the control to some one guy who lives in a cave I don't know, in Norway, and he controls the global thermostat. It's a button and it sets. I think how ridiculous and ludicrous it sounds. But yet that's where the fear and loathing and pandering and soapboxing come from. And I'll give you an example, talk about the neighbor thing. If your neighbors, and many of you have probably experienced a situation where there are neighbors that are so politically diverse from you that it's you've abandoned the friendship. Many of you've done it on social media. I stepped away from social media in many ways, the whole Instagram, Facebook that I just said, to hell with it. I'm happy, I'm so much happier without it, so much dumped it, got rid of it. Hard to believe dumped it and life just improved dramatically because it was not It was just not what you think it is. It's a false idle of some type. But nonetheless, many of you have defriended people because of disagreements with them. And the strangest part about that to me, and I'm gonna say it and people in the left heads are gonna explode, But this Trump derangement syndrome is a real issue. People who have the inability to discuss issues because they are so obsessed with the person who might agree with or disagree with the given issue that they become unhinged. You know, a person like Rosy o'donald that moves away from the country to get away from Trump and then it's constantly talking about him. She just can't she can't help it. She's got a mental she's got a mental gap in her brain where she's so obsessed with him she can't live her life. She's miserable. And a lot of these people that hate Trump, they're just miserable people because they are driven by hate and rage. And you can't even have a discussion with him about the issues. You want to talk about the border, Hey, don't you think having a better order borders is a good thing. No, Trump is the devil, my god, Orange Man bad, Ice horrible. They were masks, Oh my good. Well wait, didn't you like mask a few years ago? With that's different? That's republic health than has saved people. Well, Ice is kind of save in the country from illegal invasion. Oh, it's different. Trump is horrible. Do you like gas being a little cheaper because it's different. I can't stand Trump. You can't have a reasonable discussion with unreasonable people. And the Trump derangement syndrome has made many of your neighbors unreasonable people. And that says more about them than you. And we've never seen anything like that in society, even with Reagan as much as the political left and Tip O'Neil, a lot of people went after Reagan or Push to a lesser degree, or Dick Cheney his funeral, I guess his white flags are at half mask. But this is different, and this is someone who wants to break down the system and diversify it. Now, does that mean you agree with everything Donald Trump does? Know? No, there's nobody in a marriage out there that agrees with their husband or wife. Eighty five percent of the time or eighty percent of the time. Hey, look, I'm very chagrined about these two thousand dollars checks. I'd love to see the debt paid down. But one thing that Donald Trump recognizes is the power of media and messaging and so saying hey, I know you guys have bashed these tariffs, but if I make a physical representation of the tariff's success into a check for you, then you'll get it. Now. I don't know if they will or not. I still think debt and deficits are something we ought to be taking seriously and knocking them down. But that's me. So I can disagree with the President on that and agree with the mothers. I'm not this Ukrainian Russian deal, and I'm not sure I agree with those twenty three points. But I know the way the guy in the White House works. He wants to make a deal, throw things out there, get people talking, solve a problem. That's what it's about. And ninety percent of solving a problem is understanding the problem first. And whether you're in government or in business or even in your own life, understand the problem. And we'll talk about that on the other side of the break. Talk a little bit about healthcare, and I'll mention Charlie Sheen because Charlie Sheen is a good example of an evolving mentality, at least from a political standpoint. All Right, if you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too. And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. 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This is just about ten seconds ago, with a judge ruling that the Department of Justice attorney handling the case was not lawfully appointed. So we'll see. I have a strong suspicion that's not the end of that story, and we will see. But the James Comy situation is it's a weird one. Did Diddy live before before Congress? Looks like he did. But again, I'm not a judge. I'm not on the grand jury. So we'll see what happens next on that story. Now, when we were going to the break, I just want to say a couple of things before you get to the Charlie Machine component. It is that when I when I watched and I did, I've enjoyed turning news off some over the past couple of months. It's been kind of a relief in a way to to to look at it anew. One of the things I used to do and I would encourage all of you to do. This is to challenge your own beliefs. If you lean left, then kind of read some right leaning stuff, look at news sources that you're not used to. Quit feeding your your own bias, quit feeding your own confirmation. Biason and I tell people on the right and the same thing. So this isn't anything anyone who's ever listened to me says, Hey, challenge your belief structure. You'll you'll, you'll you'll discern in a relatively quick way if you feel that way, if you really genuinely feel that way, or you feel a little brainwashed by what you're you've taken in, and that's that's a great realization moment. It's a great moment. It's a before and after in your life. You know, when you realize, hey, I'm paying all these taxes, am I really? Yeah? I almost? Thank god, I'm not getting all the government I'm paying for. So and it's good whether at the local level, at the state level, of the national level, looking at challenging your own does did we know If you're a left you would say, did did the Affordable Care Act really make health care more affordable, more accessible? Did it bring prices down, the Inflation Reduction Act? Did it really do all those things that you know, I believe my team was going to bring about. If you're on the right to the big beautiful bill, do you feel challenged? What that means? Did you like that? Do you like what you're seeing from the White House? Not just because you like your team? Not like pulling for the Panthers, which is increasingly difficult. Sometimes you pull for the Panthers. Oh why, they're the Caroline team, the Panthers. We love them. Even when they screw up, We still love them, you know. Or maybe you're a Bucks fan. Oh no, Now the Bucks of the Panthers are tied. Tonight's going to be a big game. Christian mccaff are going to be on the field. Who do we pull for? Oh no, we like Christian, but he's on the other team. Now. The point being is, you know, challenge your own assumptions and find it. You'll find where your actual philosophy might might exist within you. And there's nothing wrong with having an evolving position on things. You may find that the information you thought, or you gleaned or you wanted to believe wasn't true, and that takes us to the Charlie Sheen story. And you know, Charlie Sheen a much much storied life. One something about his life and craziness. You know, the highest paid person to ever be on television on a sitcom, I think one point two to five million per episode some scene amount of money. Had it all talk about a fall from grace. He just, you know, is proof that to giving people too much for something that is out it just isn't is out of proportion to what they do, and having a lack of a strong inner belief system can can destroy you. You give somebody everything they want, you get serious way to destroy somebody. And somehow he survived that should have probably been dead a couple times. And if you watch his documentary, I'm not saying you should, but you see what happened. But so he recently did Magan Kelly's show and on that he made an interesting observation and I think it's I think it's worth repeating. It's not it's not ideating with Charlie Sheen or anything he's done, or his lifestyle or anything like that. It's just seeing someone who's been kind of to the top of something, destroyed themselves and is looking at life through different lenses and so making Kelly ask him, and you know someone who's been in Hollywood his entire life, Martin Sheen's son, Emilius Vez his brother, And she says, hey, are you getting more comfortable with your politics and expressing them? And he says, well, I am. I think I've talked to you about this early on. I had to feel something different because I think we all, all of us, remained beholden to the structure of the house we were raised in. In other words, if you were raised by a bunch of leftis, you probably are one. If you're raised by an arch conservative group, you probably maybe are rebelled. Oh yeah, okay, I was okay for a while, but then I've paid the most taxes of anybody in my family. He goes on to say, you know what I couldn't do because I was about to do the documentary and start my book while at the same time trying to bring a beer to the public, you know, and it's currently shipping. I was not going to go to bed every night. And so he says, I can tackle any of this with just focus, motivation, determination if I feel like I did during Trump's first term, right, so he's talking about being disillusioned during Trump's first term. Now, I was not going to go to bed every night feeling hopeless. I was not going to go to bed every night being told things were catastrophic. The end is nine. I thought, all right, I'm going to conduct an experiment. Literally, I'm going to change the channel. I'm going to do my own research, like I've done with everything in my life. I will listen to other voices, thank you, I'll explore just hearing both sides of the story, you know, because what I was so hypnotized by in some ways can be described as state run media. I'm sorry, but it can. Legacy media is very much like that. So he's exclaiming the way in which what he was seeing was just constantly one version of everything, and that's where his belief was being driven by what he was exposed to completely, which also took him sound some very dark roads. And I said, okay, all right, enough, I'm going to change the channel. Here are different voices and do research. And the things that I discovered and the things I started to really unearth, you know, it was just it's not one of those moments. It's like months of this moment of oh my gosh, and I felt this is Charlie Sheen saying it, and I felt really stupid. I don't have a fancier way to describe it. I feel really stupid. Just some of the stuff I bought into, some other stuff I was worshiping, and some people I hated because they told me that I was supposed to hate them. He's not alone. This is a great season for folks to examine that if you're living that life of looking at your TV and being driven to hate people, you're watching the wrong channels and getting the wrong information. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.