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Hey, welcome back to the Lars Larson joke and consider this.
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A socialist just won Michigan's Democratic Senate primary.
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Should Americans be concerned about where the Democrat Party is headed and whether or not it's becoming the DSA Party.
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John Tillman is president of the American Culture Project, a Michigan native, and the author of The Political Vice.
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John, welcome back to the program.
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Great to be with you, Lars.
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Kind of shocking my native state electing a D uh a DSA adjacent.
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He claims he's not DSA, but he looks DSA adjacent to me.
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So he says he's not full-blown DSA.
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He's just DSA light.
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Is that how it works these days?
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He just he just the way it works now in the Democratic Party, unfortunately, is he believes in everything the DSA believes, but he doesn't want to own the label because he's afraid it'll prevent him from winning the general election against Michael Rogers for that Senate seat.
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So much is the you know, the old joke, uh, when do you know a lawyer is lying?
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His lips are moving.
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This happens with politicians too.
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And uh I think that we're we're we're hearing some good posturing for the fall campaign.
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Although he's come out pretty aggressive uh post his very narrow 15,001 percent vote win, uh, and he's going after Mike Rogers with some aggression.
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Well, and and I kind of wonder about this, how does the party writ large, you know, the whole Democrat Party, how do they handle it?
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Do they embrace the DSA uh or do they say, no, no, no, that's not us.
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There's something else?
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Because uh it would seem that uh that all of these different candidates that are showing up, including uh the three members who got the nomination in uh in New York State in Manhattan, uh, you know, to to and effectively in districts where if you win the the Democrat primary, then you're gonna win the general because that's the way the districts are engineered.
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Um, what's the party gonna say about all this?
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Uh don't they have to make a choice to either embrace it or reject it?
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Well, the the the party establishment, which I find is a bit of a misnomer, the party establishment since the Biden administration, and you could even go back to the Obama administration if you want, but really during the Biden administration, we really saw the Democratic Party brand and its establishment move far to the left of where the American people are.
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And they moved so far left during the Biden administration that they had cozy right up next to the DSA and those who are running on an open socialist label.
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So the idea that the Democratic Party has sort of moderate Democrats, I think, is a misnomer.
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And the best example of that is Abigail Sandberger in Virginia, who ran as a supposed moderate and then has governed out of the gate as a radical progressive.
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And she is right adjacent to DSA positions.
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So I think the real question is: is the brand of the Democratic Party now socialist in DSA Central?
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Uh, or are there enough voters in the Democratic primaries that remain who will show up uh in these low-votes and really move the elections in another direction?
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I don't think so, because all the energy is in the far-left, radical left part of the party that the DSA now dominates and controls.
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So, John, I'm talking to John Tillman from the American Culture Project, and he's the author of The Political Vice.
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What is it, if anything, that any American would find attractive about a socialist candidate?
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Because I don't understand how people can look around the landscape of a solidly capitalist country where an awful lot of the good things about what happens in this country are driven by the capitalism that's made America a very, very singularly wealthy country on earth, um, you know, not necessarily because of oil, although we've got a lot of that these days, or natural resources, but because of just pure capitalism, and then to say, no, no, no, I want to embrace socialism when there's no place on earth where socialism has actually worked.
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The progressive left and the DSA contingent within that and the entire Democratic Party has been very effective over the last 20 to 30 years of a narrative which is uh if there's any kind of calamity in your life, it's not your fault, you're a victim.
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And we all have calamities, Lars.
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We all go through difficulties, we all have failures, we all have setbacks.
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And the American spirit has always been we get back up, we dust ourselves off, and we get back in the game, and we try again.
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The American resilience is legendary.
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But what the left has been doing is starting out with a racial division.
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Uh, if you're black and you're having troubles in your life, it's because so the oppressive uh systemic racism of white America is causing those troubles.
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If you're an immigrant from Mexico or Central America, uh then the problems you're having is because your skin is brown and you came from a different country.
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Of course, that belies the fact that Nigerians who come here from Africa uh do better than every single ethnic group or racial group in the country, with the exception of Asians.
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And that also belies the fact that Asians come here.
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They're at the top of the list in terms of performance.
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I have a great friend of mine, uh, Dr.
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Orfe Gazange, who came from Gazon, West Africa, who's lived a marvelous life.
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And he said the expectations of people here are different.
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There's a sense of uh uh victimization.
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And so the DSA and the Democrats are saying only the government can come in and right this wrong that's happened in your life.
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And that is an electoral strategy that has been winning uh as to whether or not it can win with these kind of candidates.
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So I think the jury's out on that, but we should not take it for granted that we're gonna that the conservative pro-America, pro-liberty candidates are gonna win.
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These are gonna be very tough elections, and I think Mike Rogers is gonna it's gonna be up for grabs in Michigan.
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Well, I'm a fan of Rogers, and especially when running against this El Sayed character, but the idea that somehow the government is gonna be able to solve this problem.
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Uh have any of these people taken note of the fact that most of the problems that the government tries to tackle, it can't begin to think, you know, it doesn't work.
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I mean, almost everything the government does or touches seems to turn from gold to dross.
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I mean, the only thing that's go ahead.
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Oh, I'm sorry, Lars, but I was gonna say you've making you're making such an important point.
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The fact is we we uh who are believing America and believe in free enterprise have not done a good enough job of communicating to American people the point you just made.
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And the best example of that is everything the governor or la government is largely in control of healthcare, education, costs go up, performance goes down.
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Everything in the private sector where the government has a relatively uh insurance into that as well.
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Everything in the private sector where the government doesn't have much of a role, costs go down and services improve.
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Uh gas prices as high as they're high, and we're unhappy about that.
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They're actually lower than at any time during the Biden administration, but people don't seem to see that yet, in part because the media bias is so explicit, trying to paint a negative picture prior to the midterms.
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Unbelievable.
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Uh John, I so appreciate your point of view, and thanks very much for coming on the show.
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We uh we appreciate it.
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Great to be with you, Lars.
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Thanks again.
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That is John Tillman.
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John is the president of the American Culture Project.
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He's a native of the state of Michigan that we've just been talking about, the author of The Political Vice.
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Let me tell you about something else.
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Everybody talks about those weight loss injections.
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You know, the GLP ones, and I'll admit the results are dramatic.
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They work by lowering your blood sugar and reducing your appetite.
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But what if you wanted to be able to do that without the painful weekly injections, the prescription drugs, and of course all the nasty side effects that you hear about from GLP ones?
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That's why doctors created a weight loss supplement called lean.
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And the results, I can say, because I've used it myself, are remarkable.
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The studied ingredients in lean have been shown to lower your blood sugar.
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They burn up fat by converting it to energy, and they curb your appetite and your cravings.
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That means you're not as hungry.
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But lean is not for the casual dieter who only has a few pounds to lose.
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The doctors at Brickhouse Nutrition created lean for frustrated dieters with 10 or more pounds to lose.
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I want to get you started.
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I can arrange 20% off the regular price and free rush shipping so you can add lean to your healthy diet and exercise plan that applies to loyal Lars listeners.
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Do this.
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That's promo code LARS at takelean.com.
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Glad to have you with me and always glad to take your phone calls and your emails in the next segment.
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We'll get to those naystayer calls.
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And if you believe in supporting American craftsmanship, veterans, and independent talk radio, go to my website, pick up a limited edition Lars Larson Show challenge coin.
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We decided we wanted one for the show.
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We finally found an American veteran group to produce them.
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Everyone comes with a personally signed thank you card, and all proceeds from the Lars Larson Show Challenge coin go to the veterans.
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Not a single dime goes to yours truly or my crew.
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You're listening to the Lars Larson show.
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Hey, welcome back to the Lars Larson joke and consider this.
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A socialist just won Michigan's Democratic Senate primary.
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Should Americans be concerned about where the Democrat Party is headed and whether or not it's becoming the DSA Party.
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John Tillman is president of the American Culture Project, a Michigan native, and the author of The Political Vice.
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John, welcome back to the program.
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Great to be with you, Lars.
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Kind of shocking my native state electing a D uh a DSA adjacent.
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He claims he's not DSA, but he looks DSA adjacent to me.
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So he says he's not full-blown DSA.
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He's just DSA light.
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Is that how it works these days?
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He just he just the way it works now in the Democratic Party, unfortunately, is he believes in everything the DSA believes, but he doesn't want to own the label because he's afraid it'll prevent him from winning the general election against Michael Rogers for that Senate seat.
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So much is the you know, the old joke, uh, when do you know a lawyer is lying?
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His lips are moving.
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This happens with politicians too.
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And uh I think that we're we're we're hearing some good posturing for the fall campaign.
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Although he's come out pretty aggressive uh post his very narrow 15,001 percent vote win, uh, and he's going after Mike Rogers with some aggression.
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Well, and and I kind of wonder about this, how does the party writ large, you know, the whole Democrat Party, how do they handle it?
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Do they embrace the DSA uh or do they say, no, no, no, that's not us.
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There's something else?
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Because uh it would seem that uh that all of these different candidates that are showing up, including uh the three members who got the nomination in uh in New York State in Manhattan, uh, you know, to to and effectively in districts where if you win the the Democrat primary, then you're gonna win the general because that's the way the districts are engineered.
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Um, what's the party gonna say about all this?
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Uh don't they have to make a choice to either embrace it or reject it?
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Well, the the the party establishment, which I find is a bit of a misnomer, the party establishment since the Biden administration, and you could even go back to the Obama administration if you want, but really during the Biden administration, we really saw the Democratic Party brand and its establishment move far to the left of where the American people are.
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And they moved so far left during the Biden administration that they had cozy right up next to the DSA and those who are running on an open socialist label.
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So the idea that the Democratic Party has sort of moderate Democrats, I think, is a misnomer.
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And the best example of that is Abigail Sandberger in Virginia, who ran as a supposed moderate and then has governed out of the gate as a radical progressive.
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And she is right adjacent to DSA positions.
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So I think the real question is: is the brand of the Democratic Party now socialist in DSA Central?
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Uh, or are there enough voters in the Democratic primaries that remain who will show up uh in these low-votes and really move the elections in another direction?
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I don't think so, because all the energy is in the far-left, radical left part of the party that the DSA now dominates and controls.
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So, John, I'm talking to John Tillman from the American Culture Project, and he's the author of The Political Vice.
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What is it, if anything, that any American would find attractive about a socialist candidate?
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Because I don't understand how people can look around the landscape of a solidly capitalist country where an awful lot of the good things about what happens in this country are driven by the capitalism that's made America a very, very singularly wealthy country on earth, um, you know, not necessarily because of oil, although we've got a lot of that these days, or natural resources, but because of just pure capitalism, and then to say, no, no, no, I want to embrace socialism when there's no place on earth where socialism has actually worked.
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The progressive left and the DSA contingent within that and the entire Democratic Party has been very effective over the last 20 to 30 years of a narrative which is uh if there's any kind of calamity in your life, it's not your fault, you're a victim.
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And we all have calamities, Lars.
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We all go through difficulties, we all have failures, we all have setbacks.
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And the American spirit has always been we get back up, we dust ourselves off, and we get back in the game, and we try again.
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The American resilience is legendary.
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But what the left has been doing is starting out with a racial division.
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Uh, if you're black and you're having troubles in your life, it's because so the oppressive uh systemic racism of white America is causing those troubles.
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If you're an immigrant from Mexico or Central America, uh then the problems you're having is because your skin is brown and you came from a different country.
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Of course, that belies the fact that Nigerians who come here from Africa uh do better than every single ethnic group or racial group in the country, with the exception of Asians.
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And that also belies the fact that Asians come here.
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They're at the top of the list in terms of performance.
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I have a great friend of mine, uh, Dr.
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Orfe Gazange, who came from Gazon, West Africa, who's lived a marvelous life.
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And he said the expectations of people here are different.
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There's a sense of uh uh victimization.
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And so the DSA and the Democrats are saying only the government can come in and right this wrong that's happened in your life.
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And that is an electoral strategy that has been winning uh as to whether or not it can win with these kind of candidates.
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So I think the jury's out on that, but we should not take it for granted that we're gonna that the conservative pro-America, pro-liberty candidates are gonna win.
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These are gonna be very tough elections, and I think Mike Rogers is gonna it's gonna be up for grabs in Michigan.
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Well, I'm a fan of Rogers, and especially when running against this El Sayed character, but the idea that somehow the government is gonna be able to solve this problem.
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Uh have any of these people taken note of the fact that most of the problems that the government tries to tackle, it can't begin to think, you know, it doesn't work.
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I mean, almost everything the government does or touches seems to turn from gold to dross.
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I mean, the only thing that's go ahead.
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Oh, I'm sorry, Lars, but I was gonna say you've making you're making such an important point.
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The fact is we we uh who are believing America and believe in free enterprise have not done a good enough job of communicating to American people the point you just made.
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And the best example of that is everything the governor or la government is largely in control of healthcare, education, costs go up, performance goes down.
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Everything in the private sector where the government has a relatively uh insurance into that as well.
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Everything in the private sector where the government doesn't have much of a role, costs go down and services improve.
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Uh gas prices as high as they're high, and we're unhappy about that.
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They're actually lower than at any time during the Biden administration, but people don't seem to see that yet, in part because the media bias is so explicit, trying to paint a negative picture prior to the midterms.
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Unbelievable.
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Uh John, I so appreciate your point of view, and thanks very much for coming on the show.
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We uh we appreciate it.
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Great to be with you, Lars.
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Thanks again.
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That is John Tillman.
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John is the president of the American Culture Project.
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He's a native of the state of Michigan that we've just been talking about, the author of The Political Vice.
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Let me tell you about something else.
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Everybody talks about those weight loss injections.
00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:11.199
You know, the GLP ones, and I'll admit the results are dramatic.
00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:14.639
They work by lowering your blood sugar and reducing your appetite.
00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:24.959
But what if you wanted to be able to do that without the painful weekly injections, the prescription drugs, and of course all the nasty side effects that you hear about from GLP ones?
00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:28.720
That's why doctors created a weight loss supplement called lean.
00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:32.560
And the results, I can say, because I've used it myself, are remarkable.
00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:36.399
The studied ingredients in lean have been shown to lower your blood sugar.
00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:41.759
They burn up fat by converting it to energy, and they curb your appetite and your cravings.
00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:43.519
That means you're not as hungry.
00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:47.920
But lean is not for the casual dieter who only has a few pounds to lose.
00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:54.399
The doctors at Brickhouse Nutrition created lean for frustrated dieters with 10 or more pounds to lose.
00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:55.680
I want to get you started.
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I can arrange 20% off the regular price and free rush shipping so you can add lean to your healthy diet and exercise plan that applies to loyal Lars listeners.
00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:06.720
Do this.
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Visit takelean.com and enter Lars for the discount.
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That's L-A-R-S.
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That's promo code LARS at takelean.com.
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Glad to have you with me and always glad to take your phone calls and your emails in the next segment.
00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:21.680
We'll get to those naystayer calls.
00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:32.639
And if you believe in supporting American craftsmanship, veterans, and independent talk radio, go to my website, pick up a limited edition Lars Larson Show challenge coin.
00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:34.799
I've collected challenge coins for years.
00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:36.799
We decided we wanted one for the show.
00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:40.320
We finally found an American veteran group to produce them.
00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:48.080
Everyone comes with a personally signed thank you card, and all proceeds from the Lars Larson Show Challenge coin go to the veterans.
00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:51.519
Not a single dime goes to yours truly or my crew.
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You're listening to the Lars Larson show.
