Election Day 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It was one of the great campaign lines in American history.
Before speaking to a giant audience in Saint Paul, Minnesota,
in October of nineteen forty seven, embattled President Harry S.
Truman declared, if you want to live like a Republican,
you got a vote for a Democrat. It worked. A
year later, he stunned the country, confounded the polls by

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taking his weekend do Better message right to the people,
and on election day he defeated heavily favored New York
Republican Governor Thomas Dewey. The idea was all Democrats should
have access to that of the wealthy, a nice house,
a new car, packed refrigerator, savings account, luxuries apparently assigned
only to Republicans of the day. Well, the new slogan

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is vote for a Democrat and live like one. If
you listen to the leading candidates in today's off yer
elections in New Jersey and Virginia, Minneapolis, and New York City,
it's not about keeping up with the Joneses, it's we're
done trying or on. Mundami, a thirty four year old
son of Hindu and Muslim parents who grew up in
wealth and privilege despite what he portrays never had a

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real job, is poised to become mayor of New York City,
making him the highest profile socialist bordering on communist elected
executive ever. We have and have had socialists in office.
Even Nebraska has one state Senator, Megan Hunt. Mundami won't
be the first avowed socialist mayor of New York. David

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Dinkins declared himself as much, won the office in nineteen
eighty nine and drove the city into such disrepair four
years later even a Republican beat him. Mundami is clear
vote for me, and the economic free ride these fat
cats have been on is pulling into the station. But
unlike Truman's message of pulling, even Mundami's plan is about

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free stuff, says elect Me, and the city bus fairs disappear, daycare,
free groceries, free apartartment rent, frozen, defund police. Under the
heading of public Safety reform, new privileges for LGBTQ folks,
a thirty dollars minimum wage, and an extra tax on
any household earning one million dollars. Now, before you say

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damn right, know this. The top rate in New York
State is ten point eight percent, more than double Nebraska's
income tax rate, and in New York City's five boroughs
you pay an additional four percent. The top earning New
Yorkers one million qualifies with federal, state, and local income
tax pay over fifty percent of their wages. And we

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haven't even gotten to user fees. It's always been expensive
to live there. It's expensive to live everywhere. But while
Truman's democrat economic doctrine of the day promoted growth in
the economy and we'll all do better, this one screams,
we just can't do it on our own anymore. The
younger generation loves guys like Mondamie, partly because they are fresh,

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but large because they dream out loud. Socialism is judged
by its literature, which means capitalism is judged by how
it operates. Fact is, those who love socialism have never
experienced it. With it, people think everything's free, missing the
obvious price tag. If Mondami stops charging bus fare or

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gives away groceries, baby sits your kids for free, who pays?
Eventually nobody because the makers fled, leaving only the takers,
and then the buses break down, the grocery shelves are empty,
and free rent buildings look like Omaha's city view apartments.
Don't think so. Ask somebody who lives in Cuba, or

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Venezuela or Russia. Socialism is easy to love because it
sounds so perfect. But when you're in love, whether it's
with the dazzling brunette in sophomore social studies class or
economic socialism, the dream Trump's reality history is stubborn. Socialism
has been tried, failed, and denied every time. To socialists,

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the idea is never to blame its surrogance, will never
stop believing that unaffordable housing, health care, and education is
all about market failure. Ever once heard one of them
blame the effects of government intrusion. We're all getting a
little taste of it right now thanks to Obama Care,
our experiment in socialized health insurance, premiums are eighty five

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percent higher, deductibles are doubled, fewer services, fewer doctors, failing
rural hospitals, and still twenty five million are uninsured. So
if we can't live like a democrat or our Republican,
how are we living