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We take our basic rights for granted, other voices pill fill the void. demagogues get out there and promise simple fixes to complicated problems. tucker: so he is condemning demagoguery, huh? that is much given he has been the chief practitioner in the country. he with the other speeches he has given is the opponents are racist and therefore unreasonable and worth ignoring. the idea if he calls americans racist enough times they will obey. that is how he ran the country for eight years. this is not a policy argument he is making. it s a theological one. the question is as a political matter does it still work? what if people aren t intimidate nid anymore? what if they view him as a credible, moral voice in they tried this in 2016. vote for us or you re a bad person. how did that work out? people resented it so much they voted for a former casino ....
We just can t go back to that. but as a deeply religious person it s also unchristian to me. jesus said suffer the little children unto me. he did not say let the children suffer. they are ignoring the needs to dishonor the god who made them. tucker: bible quoters all of a sudden. meanwhile, barack obama, maybe the most morally self-righteous person ever returned to the campaign trail, his favorite venue and back to his favorite hobby, lecturing america on bigotry. they appeal to the tribal instincts and they appeal to fear. they try to pit one group against the other. and they tell us, oh, order and security will be restored if it weren t for the folks who don t look like us or sound like us. or pray like we do. well, when we don t vote, when ....
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Is written about you. people do not understand what it is until you are either interviewed or you are the subject of a story and you go, this is not how it happened. i swear this is not how it happened! there should be a bulk of those stories of people that not just a book, it could be a set. i was interviewed by the new york times. this is what it was, this is how it happened. don t get me started on puerto rico and all these people that died in the storm that i covered for over two weeks that property owner in puerto rico, my father 1 of 17 children, they say all these people died in the storm, 70% of power out before the storm. when did people start dying? when was it on hurricane barrier that the people started was it when the power went out? i was there one time, a transformer fire and the power went out. did they start dying then? at what point do you recognize ....
People of goodwill from across the political spectrum call out the bigots and the fear mongers and work to compromise and get things done and promote the better angels of our nature. but when there s a vacuum in our democracy, when we don t vote, when we take our basic rights and freedoms for granted, when we turn away and stop paying attention and stop engaging and stop believing and look for the newest diversion, the electronic versions of bread and circuses, then other voices fill the void. a politics of fear and resentment and retrenchment takes hold and demagogues ....