PM Show Hr 2 | If You Don't Impose Conservatism, People Will Bend to the Left

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and Load. Michael
Vari show is on the air.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Aristotle once said, find someone in life who loves you
as much as Democrats love the criminal. Now, to be clear,
they don't love the criminal as a person. What they
love is the chaos he brings to society, because it's
in that chaos where they grab power and money for themselves.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
The whole idea of picking cities based on their partisan
leadership is absurd.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
I mean, there are lots of Republican cities in town
struggling with crime. Everybody is across the country always. Crime
has always been part of our history. Shoes voters care
about where does Trump go? Migrant crime, carjackings, the really lurid,
awful stuff that is a crazy, crazy visual. Don't take

(01:02):
the beat.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
How do we deal with mental health and other issues
that drive the sort of random incidence that scare all
of us.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
That's what you should be talking about. That's where you
should be focused. Don't take the beat and talking.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
About migrant crime or carjackings are the things that actually
don't matter to that Many Americans.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Don't condemn the gang bangers. They've got guns.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
We've already tried that.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
If we've ended up with the largest prison population in
the world without solving the problems of crime and violence,
the addiction on jails and incarceration in this country, we
have moved past that. It is racist, it is immoral,
it is unholy, and it is not the way to
drive Violeace.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Demila Harris has embarrassed herself so badly. I mean, it's
a damn shame. I love to see it. Though she's
continuing her media tour to sell her book, and the
Democrats are all punching back because part of selling the
book is she had to trash everybody in the establishment
that she told us was great. Before yesterday we had

(02:08):
the news that Pete Buttergig was too gay to be
her vice president, which is bad enough that she would
say that, But then you stop and go, wait a second,
Tim wats was your vice president. You're saying that Pete
Buttergig is gayer than Tim Waltz. Now that is a headline.

(02:32):
That's an insult right there. She went in on Trump's
speech at the United Nations, saying that they all laughed
at him the last time he spoke at the United Nations.
Uh I got a minute thirty clip of her saying
that I'm not gonna waste your time nor mind you

(02:56):
trust me that she said it, it's important for your
own mental health. I'm in the middle of the game,
so I want to make sure you still love the
sport I do. I hope you will still tune in

(03:19):
if nothing else to our show, but I understand it
for a lot of people, the sport it's fun. I'd
be lying if I didn't confess to you that my
dream weekend is to watch college football from the moment
I wake up on Saturday till the moment I fall asleep,

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and however late it's on, I'll watch it. Middle Tennessee
Valley State versus Lower Vermont Academy of the Blind. Hell yeah, okay,
just tell me what are they going to I guess
every play is going to be a running play for
them because it's hard to throw it unless they some
sort of signal in the ball, which, frankly, if you did,

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I'd watch that is to figure it all out. I
don't care put a censor down in the end zone.
I just love to watch football being played. I love
it and I understand that a lot of people love
to watch the political game being played. You also have
to realize that while while media is a mirror of

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what you want, media gives you back what you go
looking for. Never forget that. That's why people tend to
self select what media they consume, and some people consume
media of things they absolutely hate. And it's a I

(04:49):
think I've told you the story. I'll try to make
it quick. My wife's my wife grew up in India
and her mother would be posted wherever her father was.
Her father was pretty high in the air Force and
wherever they went. Her mother who also had an Air
Force commission, but she had a private practice as well
to help the family financially, and so she would open
a clinic in their house. So the air force house

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would be like if you think of like a movie
theater that has two theaters and in the middle is
the uh is the concessions and the ticket sales. Well,
the family would be on one end of the of
the house and on the other end would be a clinic,
an infirmary, a nursing home, a convalescent home, whatever you
want to call it. So she would treat people and

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have hospital beds in one end of their house. So
my wife has all these stories of growing up in
the you know, out in the village in India, you've
never met poor people the way if you go out
into a village in India you meet poor people. There
are people who have no skill in writing anything. If
you were to tell them to write an ex for

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their name, they wouldn't know what that means. They're that illiterate.
And the pigeon patchwis gibberish they speak is not even
i'm told, understandable to most people around them. These are poor, poor,

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poor people of the earth. And she said that there
was a guy who had come and so she would
her mother would treat lepers, and nobody wants to treat lepers,
but leprosy was still common, and her mother would do it.
They're in their house, and my wife said it was
frightening to see people because you know, fingers would just
fall off, so you just they got nubs. It's terrible.

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And so she said, there's this guy that would keep
coming back. My wife thought he was a leper, but
she didn't think to ask her mom because her mom
didn't she didn't want to have to talk about that stuff.
But my wife said, how come that leoper? He's always
got open sores on where his knuckles are, where his
fingers are gone. That's weird. Others don't have that. And

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her mom said, honey, he's not a leper. He's an addict.
He was so poor he couldn't afford alcohol whoch, so
he would put his hand down into snake pit and
get bitten by the hand by the snake because the
venom would give him a drug, he said. And I
had to be ashamed him about. Well, that's what some
people are doing by watching CNN, AN MSNBC. It makes

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them miserable, but they can't they can't stop watching it.
But it's not a bad bob. The point I was
going to make it before I got somewhat sidetracked, which
seems to be the story of my life. It's all
about the journey, not the destination, is that whatever truth
you are pursuing, you can find someone willing to give

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it to you. It might not be truth in the abstract,
it might not be truth in reality. It might be
truth that is truth that is relative, as in, you
know you make three hundred thousand dollars a year, are

(08:05):
you rich well relative to somebody that makes ten thousand
dollars a year, but not relative to Elon Musk. So
I guess it just depends on your definition of rich.
You can find in the smorgasboard board of the marketplace

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of media, someone to feed whatever view of the world
you want. So to that extent, people self select the
news that they want, and that news therefore becomes a
mirror of what they brought to the table. It's just
true of everyone, not just school shooters and the guy

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who assassinated Charlie Kirk. But when we look at the
case of that guy, well, you end up finding is
an echo chamber of wherever you start, you end up,
and there's no growth. The problem is a steady diet

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of what you already believed, without any socratic method that
forces you to question, to consider context. There becomes a
what's it called preference bias? What is the oh, it's

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the illusory truth effect. They call it the illusory truth
effect or the repetition truth effect. When you hear something
it may not be true. Let's take for the sake
of this argument, something is not true, but you keep

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hearing it enough times you believe it to be true
simply because of the repetition of it, the consistent repetition
of it, and so it becomes more familiar, and in
that familiarity there is comfort, and there is trust to

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the point that you're unaware that there is an alternative position.
And so the more of that you get piled on
top of itself, the deeper your belief in the certainty
of what you're seeing, such that even after a point
that you are exposed to another opinion, you're too far gone.

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You simply believe that those people have not received the
truth as you have. There's a similar but separate concept
called the frequency illusion. What is the term for it, Ramon.

(11:06):
It is the uh yes, thank you, the Botto Minhoff phenomena.
Are you sure that's right? I'm gonna take your word
for it. It's something like that, the botder Minehoff phenomenon
that makes it really sound, which is that when you
notice something. I'll give you example, if you buy a
white truck, Let's say you buy a white Chevy Silverado,

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you will all of a sudden notice in the next
three days that everybody's driving a white Chevy Silverado. Well,
they didn't sell any more Silverados except for yours. It's
just that now you notice it when you weren't noticing it,
and so that creates this illusion that there are more
of them than there are. If you, for instance, start

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noticing tesla's because you get a Tesla, all of a sudden,
you hadn't really even thought about how many Tesla's they
are on their room, but immediately there are Teslas. And
that's true of whatever your vehicle. There are a number
of things like that. If you start noticing interracial marriages

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or people wearing crew cuts because you get one, and
now you're subconsciously on the lookout for this, and all
of a sudden it's everywhere. Well, this is what happens
with the guy that shot Charlie Kirk. I'm sure I
don't know a lot about him, but from what you

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can tell by piecing it together. But it's not just
true of him. It's true of the guy behind you
in the grocery store who's convinced you're a racist because
you glance back to see what's in his bag or
what's in his basket. It's true of the guy who,

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when he walks right up to your car, makes a
beeline for your car and you're in the intersection and
you lock your doors. He is convinced it's because he's black.
You may lock your doors if he's white, if he's young,
if he's old, because you don't know who that is,

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and that is a natural form of self defense. But
he's been told repeatedly and consistently, often throughout the course
of his life, that everybody hates him because he's black,
and he has been told to process every stimulus that

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comes at him through that filter. And this is why
often you will notice, let's just take blacks and whites.
This is why often you will notice that a black
person will accuse you of racism, and your immediate thought is, not, well,
let's leave aside view of blacks generally, or blacks who

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commit crime, or blacks who play sports, or blacks who
are good singers, or blacks who preach, or blacks who
live in my neighbor. Let's leave all that aside for
a moment, and let's first address the fact that, honestly,
I wasn't even thinking about you. So you're welcome to

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perceive me as a racist if you'd like to do that,
that's fine, but you need to understand that I don't
live my life thinking about you or other black people
all day every day. I don't live my life. I
don't sit in my house and scheme how people with
your same skin color can commit more murders, make babies

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they don't raise, be sent to prison, shoot each other
and drive by killings, become rappers who sing about women
with big butts who they're going to impregnate and never
hang around for and then probably beat half to death.
I just don't think about it. So you're welcome to
think that. I think you're a horrible person, but honest,

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ized thing about football. Continue with the Michael Berry Show.
I don't want to be a part of this nonsense,
all right? Thank you for what happens when a person
is in a constant feedback loop of bad information. What
is a society to do when you understand that most

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people live in a silo? You know, Let's take a guy.
I'm just going to pick some random spots. Let's take
a guy living in Waller County outside of Houston by
thirty minutes to an hour, depending on the traffic, and

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he's got what he calls a farm. It's three to
five acres. He's got some chickens and a horse of
his kids play with, and uh, maybe he's got a
few goats, and he drives a bigger truck than he needs.
And he's got a little tractor and he plays farmer,
and maybe the homeschool. And it's a perfect little life.

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It's it's bucolic. It's you know, you got the fresh hay.
And maybe he cuts the grass for the for the
little lady next door because he loves riding on his
little tractor and his kids play outside and they feel safe.
And mom goes online and gets the curriculum, and they

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live this perfect little life and most of what they
get as information is a feedback of what they already want.
They wake up and read their Bible, They do their bible,
stay in the morning. Look gets garbage in, garbage out
for a computer. But that garbage doesn't have to be garbage.
It could be wholesome. People who go out seeking wholesome

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content get wholesome content, and they find wholesome results, and
you'll find that those people can be very happy, maddeningly happy.
This might be your grandmother. So if you call your
grandmother today and she's not watching Fox News twenty four
hours a day, and she's not on Twitter, and she's

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not obsessed with social media and all the anger and bitterness,
and you just call and see how she's doing. She's
probably in a good mood, especially if her tomatoes are
coming up and you're gonna visit and she can give
you some of them, and she's gonna make you your pie.
And maybe she's watching you know the uh, what's the

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old Movies Network, and she's watching old episodes of Green
Acres and she's just happy she can be well. This
is how most Americans are living. This is how Republicans living.
They've moved from from the urban environment to the suburban
and now to the rural because with technology, a mom

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can homeschooler kids without having to sit in front of
them all day. I got a bubbet buddy we call
the Aggie plumber lives in College Station. Small plumbing operation him.
He does the plumbing, His buddy does the ac He's
my show sponsors in Houston. Don't mind me mentioning it
because he doesn't leave that area. He just he does
his small business. He runs it, takes care of his

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wife and his kids, and wife does the finances and
the happy little life right, happy little family and his
son Eli, sixteen, the third of five or ten kids,
I forget how many kids. Yes, he decided he wanted
to work full time. He'd had enough for school, So
he does homeschooling in the morning for a couple hours,

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and then he catches up with dad on his project.
So he might be crawling under a block and base,
peering beam home, or up in an attic all day,
and by the time he graduates high school he will
have paid off a truck that he owns and be
ready to make a down payment on a house all
instead of sitting at school waiting on the bell to
ring for the next class and getting in trouble and

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called down because you're a seventeen or eighteen year old boy,
and that's you know, you get in trouble with the warden. Well,
he does his schooling about two hours every morning online,
and you think, well, that's not enough. You'd be surprised
how little actual educating goes on in a school. Most
of the school day from the moment your kid leads

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the moment they get home is getting to the school,
getting parked, playing grab ass with the other kids, getting
to the class, everybody getting seated, the teacher deciding she's
going to start teaching after who knows what else, and
then getting down to whatever it is, then telling Billy

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to stopped pulling Susie's hair, and then there's all the
administrative crap. Before you know it, it's time to go,
and then there's lunch, and before you know it, the
day is. The day is over, and most of it
was just moving from room to room and assigning stuff
for you to do when you got home. You can

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actually do the learning, the transmission and reception of information
in a very short period of time. But what are
we to do with this situation where you got crazy,
and I mean crazy, You got a kid that is
not fitting into that world we described a minute ago
in Waller, Texas, or Uptown New York, nisco EUNA, or

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Sarahsolaar Franklin, Tennessee, or Gadsden, Alabama, Pensacola, Florida, or you
name it right. What are we to do to the
with the person who who starts feeling different? You know,
he doesn't want to go to homecoming, he doesn't want
to go to prom, he's not popular. He finds that

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he'd rather paint his nails. Black and look like Marilyn Manson,
and he doesn't fit in, and he doesn't want to
play football or baseball or basketball, or play golf or
do anything else. He doesn't want to go fishing with
his dad, and he sits in his room and before
long he gets on the computer and there's a whole
world of weird out there, and maybe the first few

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rounds of weird don't appeal to him, but eventually they do.
Eventually he finds something that makes him feel better about
himself because somebody is as weird as him. And before
you know it, he is sucked into a turbine with
propellers that are going to chew him up and spit
him out. And God help our nation, because for as
many trainny shooters as we have, it's a small percentage

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of how many I suspect would like to do it.
And by the way, then let's send him to a
doctor where he's going to feed him full of hormones
that are going to absolutely ruin his mind and make
him irrational and angry and lashing out. And now he's confused,
he's in a free fall, and the only thing he

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can do to make sense of all this is pick
up a gun and kill somebody, and what do you
think is going to start happening? And that's exactly what
we're seeing. So how do you break that? How do
you break that cycle? That's the challenge because the only
shot you've got at that kid is that his parents
will interact. How often do we see We saw it

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in this case where the parents throw up their hands
because it becomes exhausting. Well, as a parent, if you
don't continue to engage your child as they wander off
the reservation, who will. The system is not prepared to
engage your child. The schools are not prepared to reform
your child to your child. In most cases, they are

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the reason.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
You know.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
There's a group in Houston. It's a school called Stratford
High School and a little kid named Jack Robertson. I
had him on the show last week and they have
started a TPUSA chapter at their school. There was a
white liberal crazy woman that tried to shut it down.
These kids are feeding off each other's positivity. Kids have
got to be in a positive place to have a

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positive life experience, and that's part of what parents need
to make sure they do. For all the time we
spend talking about school shooters and crazy people and the
guy who assassinated Charlie Kirk. We need to spend more
time talking about how to save your kid. The outlier

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is the guy who killed Charlie Kirk. What about all
the great kids? There's a group here in Houston. Break
hit me before I could get to it. There's a
group here in Houston and at a school on the
West Side called Stratford str at fr D, And like

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dozens of thousands of schools across the country, they applied
for a chapter of TPUSA after Charlie Kirk was assassinated,
and nothing noteworthy about that happened all across the country.
In fact, the state of Oklahoma is it's a pretty
cool deal. State of Oklahoma has decided there will be

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a TPUSA chapter at every school in Oklahoma. Their school,
their Superintendent of Schools declared this, that's kind of like
a fellowship of Christian athletes at every school, or national
honors society or a student government because they care about values.

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In Oklahoma, a lot of people on our side are
scared to death to impose our values. Power information education.
Values is a vacuum. If you don't put your values
in that space. That vacuum must be filled, and it

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will be filled with something, either actively by liberalism or
by default by the liberal bent, because the arc of
things without a devoted conservatism bends toward liberalism. I think

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it was Ronald Reagan who said something to the effect of,
if you don't impose conservatism, organizations will the arc of
organizations will bend to the left. I gotta go look
the quote up and heard it or read it in years,
but you get a general idea. And whether Reagan said

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it or not, I'm saying it now and it happens
to be true. And so that is your call to action.
You know, I I meet a lot of people. If
I'm gonna be completely honest here, this this is, this
is this is your alter call for you, Ramon, Can
I guess softully and tenderly? But can I just get it?

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (26:20):
What's it called? When nobody's singing, it's just a music? Yeah, instrumental.
Here's my call to you, because I get people who
come up to me and they can tell me everything
that's going wrong. They can tell me the name of
the guy who shot Charlie Kirk and they'll write it
to me. Michael say his name might not I say
his name? Why do I want to make him famous?
I know his name, I don't want to say his name.

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I want to say the name was of good things,
not bad things. I want to highlight and make heroes
of good people, not bad people. Why do we Why
do we commit to memory evil names and evil people.
We should remember their evil deeds as a talisman against

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what they do. So I have people who will come
up to me and they'll tell me all the bad
things that are happening at their kids' school, and I'll say,
all right, what are you doing? It's good for your kid.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
See.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
The point is we've got to create the life for
ourselves and our families that we want. We're real good
at figuring out what we're against, but we need to
decide what we're for, and we need to teach that
and promote it. And we need to be prepared that

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the world doesn't want that. The world wants to destroy that.
Some people hate that because it makes them feel judged,
It makes them feel small. They don't like what it
is that gives you a joy, that gives you stability,

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that gives you a sustainable faith and happiness and optimism.
They don't like that because they don't have it, and
so they don't like you for having it. They don't
wish you well, they don't wish success upon you. They
don't want you teaching that to their children. They don't

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even want you teaching it to yours. They're unhappy, and
misery loves company. But we spend so darn much time
worrying about how evil they are, when what we ought
to do is be turning on the light. Best example

(28:50):
I can think of that in the early nineteen hundreds
of one hundred and twenty years ago or so, there
was a sermon collection called The Supreme con Quest and
is by a fellow named William Lonsdale Watkinson. And he
had a famous phrase, and you've heard it before. You
might have thought it was a Chinese proverb or eleanor

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Roosevelt or John Lennon or somebody else. It's misattributed. This
was part of his sermon collection. It's called The Supreme Conquest,
if you want to go find it. And he famously said,
it is better to light a candle than to curse
the darkness. It is better to light a candle than

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to curse the darkness. What does that mean we're real
good as conservatives, as patriots, as Christians, as parents at
cursing the darkness. But maybe we need to get better
at lighting a candle. See, children don't just need to

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know all the bad that is in society, because that
is not an actionable avoidance. Avoidance is not the action.
Avoidance is the reaction to evil. But if all we're
ever doing is reacting, who are we at our core?

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If we are defining ourselves as being against that, what
are we for? Are we cursing the darkness? Or are
we lighting a candle? Are we teaching our children where
happiness is? Don't do this, and don't do that, and

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don't go over there, and don't associate with that, and
don't believe this and that's not true. Great, you don't
even have to tell those things. You don't have to
tell them what not to do. If you've shown them
what to do, they'll be so busy doing what to
do as opposed to what not to do, that they

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won't have time idle hands in the devil's workshop. Put
their minds and hands and bodies and energy to work
doing good things. Teach them positive things, service to others,
loving your younger siblings, working diligence and work and sweat,

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reading your Bible, helping other people, because when you become
engaged in those things, you don't need to curse the darkness.
There won't be any because you lit a candle to
light the world. Come on, think on that point. Let
tell that thank you, and good night,