October 24, 2024 • 46 mins
Election season 2024. United States turmoil. Getting back to our roots. Who are we? What is the U.S. foundation? Reading from George Washington's farewell address. Advice for peace and prosperity.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, and welcome back to Brainbow. Thank you so much
for joining me here today. My name is Michelle Panamadusa.
And today on the podcast, I'm gonna be reading. Okay,
it's this little book that I collected, and I've had
this book for so long and it doesn't it's so
old that it doesn't even have the copyright material or
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it doesn't. It's got like these like stitches, and I'll
take a picture of it for you guys to look at.
The pages are like really thick, you know, like like
resume pages, and oh shoot, and the page just fell
out right now. And so I don't know exactly when
this was printed, but it's from the Knickerbocker Press in
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New York, CP Putnam's Sons, and in it it contains
it's called the Ideals of the Republic, and it contains
the Declary of Independence, the Constitution, Washington's first inaugural address
from seventeen eighty nine, and then his second inaugural address,
which is seventeen ninety three. And each one of these
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inaugural addresses are just a couple of pages. Like the
first one is just a couple of pages, and then
the second one, it's like twenty pages, and then his
farewell address is like fifty pages, So that's the one
I'm going to be reading because that contains what I
call the ideals of the Republic. And then he let's
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see he's got and then it has the Lincoln Lincoln's
first inaugural and his the Gettysburg Address, and that's about it.
So before and again, I just want to tell you today.
Right now, it's October twenty fourth, we are heading into
our election with Kamala Harris and Trump, and it's the
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climate right now, the political climate is very volatile. The
Democrats here have it seems as though they've been elected
from the most corrupt group of people. And I'm thinking
that the reason why they rose to the top is
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like how scum rises to the top. I don't know
if you've ever made pickles or anything like that, but
what happens is the scum rises to the top and
you have to scoop it out. So what it appears
is that they put these young people that don't have
the experience or the credentials to actually be leaders, but
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they have really big egos and they're highly corruptible, not principled,
lacking integrity and character and puppets and just doing what
other people say. I mean, Kamala Harris literally said in
an interview which took her two days of not working
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so she could prepare for this for this interview with
with I think it was CNN Cooper. Anyways, it was
a it seemed like an easy type of interview, but
she she she went on to say that the way
she makes decisions is by having this hegemony tell her
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what to do, and she says, let's kick the tires
on that and and that's how she makes decisions. And
that's that's what she said. Is her is her fatal
flaw is that she listens to these people. But it's
also a good thing. So in this interview, she was
finally sober as it appears, you know, because in a
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lot of our other interviews it just seems like she's
kind of a little tipsy. But she did appear really
sober and kicking the tires. I I have never even
heard this expression. What does that mean? I kicked the
I tell them to kick the tires. That's that's what
she tells people. I guess that means is it done?
Did you fix it? So she's not even a leader
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who makes decisions. And she she said, she's a nerd
who does research. Isn't that what these what what they
hate about conspiracy theories is that we do our own research.
But she but she's now she's playing this card. She's
a cool, nerdy girl who does her own research, and
she she listens to her Hedgemeny because she wants to
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make good decisions. It was it was just wacky, But
this is gonna be the presidential candidate for our country.
It's wild. Then we got Trump and no offense or anything.
But it's just u There was a lot of propaganda
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about him for the past four years, and he started
out saying that he was gonna drain the swamp, and
then he wound up wound up putting Fauci in position.
So a lot of people don't really trust him either.
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So it's kind of like a disgruntled country right now,
where we don't want either one of these people. Elon
Musk said one time, if you just picked up a
phone book and you just picked any name, that would
be better. But all of a sudden, he's like, he's
all on board for Trump. And I guess if you
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had to choose one or the other would definitely be
Trump because the government has just gone out of control.
I mean, she literally bragged about splitting up families, taking
away children for true and sy she had this power
of the pen. She can just write her name and
she could ruin people's lives, and she giggled about it,
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like you know how she giggles all the time. She's
not a serious person. So I was wanting to introduce
George Washington's Ideals of the Republic because I want to
get back to the roots of what our country is
supposed to be about instead of all of this like
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nonsense about this woke type of attitude which started out
it seemed like it was good. Yeah, we needed some reformation,
We needed a change. We need this Uranian type of
energy of innovation and major changes because for a while
things were quietly sting. When Obama was president, he implemented
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this Obamacare, which gave everybody health care. But then everybody's sick.
I mean, we have more chronic illnesses than ever before
in history. And it's not because people are being diagnosed more.
I mean I've never seen this with children having allergies
and autism, like one out of thirty now have autism,
and we have more healthcare, and we have all these vaccines.
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People are getting vaccinated for all these diseases, but we're
having more chronic illnesses than ever. So there's a lot
going on too. Economically, it's like there's been for a while.
There's been a plan to increase wages in the state
that I live in. They were planning at increasing it
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to twenty dollars an hour. I knew about it back
in twenty sixteen, So this isn't something that occurred recently.
It's like this has been in planned for a while.
But then there's the inflation, and so instead of like
you know, people being happy about their pay wages being increased,
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they're disappointed about the inflation because it's evening out. And
then there are many people that don't have a voice,
like the homeless people, more homelessness than ever. The middle
class is kind of doing the same. There's been a
big hit with like the service industry. I would say
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that's the highest hit. Those are things like they would
consider luxuries. So while like the price of food has
gone up, the pay increase has gone up generally. And
then like say price for a haircut used to be
like ten dollars. You'd be able to find a ten
dollar haircut for a boy, and now it's like twenty
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five dollars, and you know things if you want to
get your your yard work done, these are considered luxuries.
It used to be just everybody would get their yards
taken care of by a professional, and now it's like,
I'm just going to do it myself. I'm not going
to pay those out rageous prices. So they're saying that
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the economy is good because the prices of the wages
that are growing up in proportion to the inflation of
everyday things, but they're not including these luxury service tickets.
And I'm wondering, how are these the people firing, like
the the you know, the people that are doing the
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landscapers and these other trades like haircutting and stuff like,
I wonder how they're doing. It seems like they're doing
well because when I called make an appointment to get
my dog's haircut, it went from say sixty five dollars
to minimum one hundred dollars, So they're making more money
and they still seem to be as busy or busier
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than ever, So I think they're doing okay. I just
it's just you're paying more for the same thing that
you were getting before. So I haven't analyzed that. I
had this interview with a journalist from the Wall Street
Journal and he was asking me about how the inflation
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affected our household, and I hadn't thought about it before
because I got it to this mindset that my grandparents
had of like, I'm not paying that much for that.
When I was a kid, I would, you know, pay
fifty dollars for a haircut, and my grandparents would be like, oh,
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I would never do that. You know, they cut their
own hair and they make their own pies. They don't
pay ten dollars for a pie, and it's because they
lived in a time where you can get apples for
free from a tree and make your own pie. Or
you know, if you would just cut their own hair
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and if you pay for it, it would be just a
couple of dollars or so, because that's something that you
don't really need. And so we're seeing this again where
you know, I'm cutting my own I've been cutting my
hair for a while though, but I'm kind of a
doing yourself type of person. But I would become this
sort of like it's the principle of paying so much
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for something when before you didn't have to so irregardless
of how much money you're making, it's like, I'm not
going to pay that much for it. At that point,
it's just like a status symbol. It's like buying a
purse or a belt buckle to show off how much
money you have. So all in all, it all seems
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to equal out, except for the homeless population. The billionaires
seem to be making. There's more billionaires than ever too,
so I guess like the very top they've gone more money,
and then the very bottom they lost money, and then
in the middle class we're kind of like the same.
So that's what makes a strong voting population for the
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Democratic Party because they appeal to the middle class people
the most. And the reason why is because they don't
get taxed as hard as people that make more money.
So it's like on a sliding scale here the tax
You know, if you're making a lot of money, you
can get taxed over forty percent, and if you're just
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middle class, it's thirty percent or lower. So the Democrats
are pretty strong with the people that rely on social programs.
If you are a single mother and you rely on
you know, food stamps or you know whatever welfare then
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or if you're like an elderly person who relies on
Social Security, anybody who relies on the state is a
dependent on the state. They're still very democratic because the
Republicans traditionally have appealed more to the wealthier upper class
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people who are entrepreneurs that that don't wanna raise taxes
because they don't wanna give money to people that are
in need of it cause they say, well, you know,
too bad, so sad you should have finished college. So
there's a a social type of war going on where
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the privileged people are hated by the under class. It's
kind of like a class war. So that's where we
are right now in Halloween's approaching on October thirty first,
which is very fitting for this whole volatile atmosphere that
we're living in as this election approaches on November fifth.
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I don't want to get into so much of that
because you know, with the shipping in these people from
other countries that are dependent on the state gives them
more votes, and that's a whole other thing. I can't
believe that people from other countries can be shipped in
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to vote that's just that if I mean, can you
imagine going to like Germany and voting for the prime
minister or something, or Sweden or something. They would be like,
what are you doing, Like you're not going to vote.
They're not They're not gonna take people from other countries
to vote. It seems like a conflict of interest, right,
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But they're doing it and they're using the democratic card
of like we're helping the underprivileged, and that is a
big emotional vote. When people buy things, they buy things
based on them, and so they're buying, they're voting based
on what's right, what's morally right, where it's the lower
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class versus the upper class. So the problem with that
is it seems like it could be something dangerous brewing,
especially with social media. I mean, if you looked throughout history,
remember when remember in India back in the eighties, there
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was a just one day, there was a civil war
that broke out over somebody shot, Oh gosh, what was
it Gandhi or Gandhi's wife. I don't even know. See,
if you're an American, you're kind of like you don't
really know as much about what's happening in the world
because you're just so fixated on thinking the world involves
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around you here in the country. So sorry about not
knowing exactly what caused this these riots, But the Muslims
and the Hindus just went to war with each other.
And one day because because someone from Gandhi side got
shot and it was a Muslim, and it's like, okay,
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so all the Muslims are bad, and so then Muslims
were killing Hindus. I remember reading this one account where
there was a Hindu family that had a restaurant and
they all ran upstairs when the Muslims started attacking and
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they poured out a vat of boiling oil and then
after that there you know, after this all settled down
and people stopped killing each other, which resolved after a
couple of days. It's like the purge, when for a
couple of days, then you know, everyone started putting in
these iron like iron fences and securing their windows where
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they didn't have to do that before. And well now
it's peaceful there between Hindus and Muslims. It's like they've
forgotten about it. But there are still the security measures
that are like residual from back in the eighties that
really haven't been upgraded. They don't have guns there to
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protect themselves. There's not that fear of like only you know,
the Hindus are going to attack the Muslims and so forth.
It just came and it went really fast. And that
was back in the eighties. So now it's social media.
It could I think it could happen really fast again
with this with a class or between Democrats and Republicans.
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And then of course, you know, I'm watching these videos,
which I don't know should I be doing this, watching
these videos of these angry liberals going or pseudoliberals going
to people's houses that have Trump signs and yelling cursing
at them for supporting like why are you supporting this guy?
We have celebrities. They're threatening to kill themselves, to jump
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off cliffs, burn themselves, leave the country if Trump gets elected.
They're calling for his assassination. I mean, Kamala Harris just
said yesterday that Trump is basically Hitler and he wants
to kill citizens who want to get him out of power,
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while they're the ones that actually implemented this new law
to use deadly force on anybody who opposes the government.
It's such a weird, wacky time right now, I swear.
So I wanted to get back to the basics and
the roots of it. What does it mean to be
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an American? What are the ideals of this republic? And
it began as a republic like an oligarchy, where you
have wise elderly elders. You had to be a certain age,
you had to have a certain amount of experience, you
had to be a war general. Now it's like, you
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don't even have to serve in the military, But back
then it was just understood, Yeah, you've had to at
least served in a war. George Washington was the general
during the Revolutionary War. And so I'm just gonna go
ahead and start reading this because it's like fifty pages
or so. Let's see how far I can get this
a little book though, so it's not like it's not
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like a full page I'd say it's like maybe twenty
five pages. It's an eight by eleven Okay, farewell address, friends,
and this is George Washington, friends and fellows. Citizens. The
period for a new election of a citizen to administer
the executive government of the United States being not a distant,
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and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be
employed in designating the person who is to be clothed
with that important trust. It appears to me proper, especially
as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of
the public voice, that I should now apprise you of
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the resolution I have formed to decline being considered among
the number of those out of whom of choice is
to be made. I beg you, at the same time
to do me the justice to be assured that this
resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to
all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a
dutiful citizen to his country, and that in withdrawing the
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tender of service which silence in my situation might imply,
I am influenced by no diminution of zeal for your
future interest, no deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness,
but am supported by a full conviction that the step
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is compatible with both the acceptance and continuance of the
office to which your suffrages have twice called me. Have
been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of
duty and to a deference for what appeared to be
your desire. I constantly hoped that it would have been
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much earlier in my power, consistently with motives which I
was not at liberally at liberty to disregard to return
to that retirement from which I had been reluctantly drawn.
The strength of my inclination to do this previous to
the last election had even led to the preparation of
an address to declare it to you. But mature reflection
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on then perplexed and critical posture of our affairs with
foreign nations, and the namous advice of persons entitled to
my confidence, impelled me to abandon the idea. I rejoice
that the state of your concerns, external as well as internal,
no longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible with the
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sentiment of duty or propriety, and the persuaded whatever partiality
may be retained for my services, that in the present
circumstances of our country, you will not disapprove my determination
to retire. The impressions with which I first undertook the
arduous trusts were explained on the proper occasion. In the
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discharge of this trust, I will only say that I have,
with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of
the government, the best exertions of which a very fallible
judgment was capable, not unconscious in the outset of the
inferiority of my qualifications. Experience in my own eyes, perhaps
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still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the
motives of diffidence of myself, And every day the increasing
weight of years admonishes me more and more that the
shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it
will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given
peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have
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the consolation to believe that while choice and prudence invite
me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
And looking forward to the moment which is to terminate
the career of my public life, my feelings do not
permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment of that debt
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of gratitude which I owe to be, which I owe
to my beloved country for the many honors it has
conferred upon me, still more for the steadfast confidence with
which it had supported me, and for the opportunities I
have thence enjoyed of manifesting my inviolable attachment by services
faithful and persevering, through a useful unequal to my zeal,
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it benefits. If benefits have resulted to our country from
these services, Let it always be remembered to your praise,
and as an instructive example in our annals, that under
circumstances in which the passions agitated in every direction, reliable
to mislead amidst appearances, sometimes dubious fcissitudes of fortune, often discouraging,
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in situations in which not unfrequently want of excess of
success has countenanced the spirit of criticism. The constancy of
your support was the essential prop of the efforts and
a guarantee of the plans by which they were affected.
Profoundly penetrated with this idea, I shall carry it with
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me to the grave as a strong incitement to unceasing
vows that Heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens
of its beneficence, that your union and brotherly affection may
be perpetual, That the free Constitution, which is the work
of your hands, may be sacredly maintained, and its administration
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in every department may be stamped with wisdom and virtue.
That in fine, the happiness of the people of these
states under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete
by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use
of this blessing as will acquire to them the glory
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of recommending it to the applause the affection and adoption
of every nation which is yet a stranger to it. Here,
perhaps I ought to stop but a solicitude for your welfare,
which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension
of danger natural to that solicitude. Urge me, on an
occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation,
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and to recommend to you frequent review some sentiments which
are the results of much reflection, of no inconsiderable observation,
and which appear to me all important to the permanency
of your felicity as a people. These will be offered
to you with a more freedom, as you can only
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see in them the disinterested warnings of the departed friend,
who can possibly have no personal motive to bias the counsels.
Nor can I forget as an encouragement to it, your
indulgent reception of my sentiments on a former and not
dissimilar occasion, interwoven, as is the love of liberty with
every ligament of your hearts. No recommendation of mine is
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necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment. The unity of government,
which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you.
It is justly so, for it is a main pillar
in the edifice of your real independence, the support of
your tranquility at home, your peace abroad, of your safety,
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of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so
highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that
from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will
be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds
the conviction of this truth. As this is the point
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of your political fortress, against which the batteries of internal
and external enemies will be most constantly and actively, though
often covertly and insidiously directed. It is of infinite moment
that you should properly estimate the immense value of your
national union to your collective and individual happiness. That you
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should cherish a cordial habitual and a movable attachment to it,
accustoming yourselves to think can speak of it as a
palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its
preservation with jealous anxiety whatever may suggest, even a suspicion
that it can be, in any event, be abandoned and
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indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to
alienate any portion of our country, from the rest or
to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the
various parts. For this, you have every inducement of sympathy
and interest. Citizens, by birth or choice of a common country.
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That country has a right to concentrate your affections. The
name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity,
must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than
appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference,
you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles.
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You have a common cause fought and triumphed together. The
independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint
consuls and joint efforts of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.
But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility,
are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to
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your interest. Here, every portion of our country finds the
most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union
of the whole. The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with
a self protected by the equal laws of a common government,
finds in the production of the latter great additional resources
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of maritime and commercial enterprise. So he's saying, in the
south there's more money. There's back then there is because
the weather's nicer, and so they can grow more and
precious materials of manufacturing industry. The South, in the same intercourse,
benefiting by the agency of the North, sees its agriculture
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grow and its commerce expand, turning partly into its own
channels the scene and of the North it finds its
particular navigation invigorated, and while it contributes in different ways
to nourish and increase. Okay, so in the North we
have these lakes that go out to the oceans, so
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the trade routes they would more easily be accessed through
the north. And so this established the cities in the
north to the in comparison to the countries where all
of the industry was being back then it was like
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cotton and whatever they would grow, they would ship it
up to the North, and then over time the North
took the money and kept the money, and then just
kind of devoured the South, which would happen later on
the Civil War. It looks forward to the protection of
a maritime strength to which itself is unequally adapted. The East,
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in a like intercourse with the West, already finds, and
in the progressive improvement of interior communications by land and water,
will more and more find a valuable vent for the
commodities which it brings from abroad or manufactures at home.
The West derives from the East supplies requisite to its
growth and comfort, and what is perhaps of still greater consequence,
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it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable
outlets for its own productions to the weight, influence, and
future maritime strength of the Atlantic side of the Union,
directed by the into indi indissoluble community of interest as
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one nation. Any other tenure by which the West can
hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate
strength or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any
foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious. While then every part
of your country thus feels an immediate and particular interest
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in union. All the parts combined cannot fail to find
in the united mass of beings and efforts greater strength,
greater resource, proportionately, greater security from external danger, a less
frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations. And what
is of inestimabile value, they must derive from union and
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exemption from those broils and wars between themselves which so
frequently afflict neighboring countries not tied together by the same government,
which their rivalship alone would be sufficient to produce, but
a foreign alliances, attachments, and intrigues would stimulate in bitter Hence, likewise,
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they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments,
which under any form of government are inauspicious to liberty. So, okay,
let's just highlight this. He's saying, a really big military
goes hand in hand with taking away our liberties, and
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which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
In this sense, it is that your union ought to
be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and
that the love of one ought to endear you the
preservation of the other. These considerations speak a persuasive language
to every reflecting and virtuous mind, and exhibit the continuance
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of the union as a primary object of patriotic desire.
Is there a doubt whether a common government can embrace
so large a sphere, Let's experience. Let experience solve it.
To listen to mere speculation in such a case, we're criminal.
We are authorized to hope that a proper organization of
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the whole, with the auxiliary agency of governments for the
respective subdivisions, will afford a happy issue to the experiment.
It is well worth a fair and full experiment with
such powerful and obvious motives to union all parts of
our country. While experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticality,
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there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of
those who, in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands.
I think this is key. Let's highlight this. So whenever
there is distrust of patriotism, who in the quarter may
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endeavor to weaken the bands? This is what we need
to watch out for. We need to watch out for
those who distrust patriotism. In contemplating the causes which may
disturb the union. It occurs as a matter of serious
concern that any ground should have been burnished for characterizing
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parties by geographical discrimination northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western. Whence,
designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there
is a real difference of local interests and views. So
as soon as you start seeing the country pitting itself
against each other, he's saying to be very careful and
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watch out for this. One of the expedients of party
to acquire influence within particular districts is to misrepresent the
opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourself
too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from
these misinterpretations, this emotional fervor that we're now feeling right
now where it's like, you know, people are being pitted
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against each other, people from the city, people from the
country that have different values in California against Florida, And
it's like there's all of these factions now that are
dissolving this united whole that we used to embrace as
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diversity of a country where now it's like, oh, you're
from Texas, Texas is this, Oh you're from California, California's
that New York is that, Florida is that? And then
you're in the middle, and then it's like, oh, that's
just the bread bowl that where nothing matters. And so
we're seeing exactly what he predicted. He's saying, watch out
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for this kind of ideology. They tend to render alien
to each other those who ought to be bound together
by fraternal affection. The inhabitants of our western co have
lately had a useful lesson on this. They have seen
in the negotiation by the Executive and in the unanimous
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ratification by the Senate of the treaty with Spain, and
in the universal satisfaction of that event throughout the United States,
a decisive proof how unfounded were the suspicious propagated among
them of a policy in the General Government and in
the Atlantic States unfriendly to their interests in regard to
the Mississippi. They have been witnesses to the formation of
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two treaties, that with Great Britain and that with Spain,
which secured to them everything they could desire in respect
to the foreign relations towards confirming their prosperity. Will it
not be their wisdom to rely for the preservation of
these advantages in the Union by which they were procured.
Will they not henceforth be deaf to those advisers, if
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such there are, who would sever them from their brethren
and connect them with aliens. To the efficacy and permanency
of your union. A government for the whole is indispensable.
No alliances, however strict between the parts, can be inadequate substitute.
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They must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all
alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth,
you have improved upon your first essay by the adoption
of a constitution of government better calculated than your for
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than your former, for an intimate union, and for the
efficacious management of your common concerns. This government, the offspring
of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full
investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in
the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and
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containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has
adjust claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for
its authority. Compliance with the laws are duties enjoined by
the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis of our
political systems is the right of the people to make
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and to alter their constitution of government. The basis of
our political systems is the right of the people to
make and to alter the constitution of government. But the constitution,
which at any time exists till changed by an explicit
and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory
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upon all. The very idea of the power and the
right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty
of every individual to obey the established government. All obstructions
to the execution of the laws, All combinations and associations
under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, contact,
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or all the regular deliberation and act of the constituted authorities,
and destructive of this fundamental principle and a fatal tendency,
they serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial
and extraordinary force, to put in the place of the
delegated will of the nation, the will of a party,
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often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community, and,
according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make
the public administrations the mirror of the ill concerted and
incongruous projects of faction rather than the organ of consistent
and wholesome plans, digestify common councils, and modified by mutual interests. However,
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combinations or associations of the above description may now and
then answer popular ends. They are likely, in the course
of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious,
and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power
of the people and to usurp for themselves the reigns
of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted
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them to unjust dominion. Towards the preservation of your government
and the permanency of your present happy state, it is
requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular opposition to
its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care
spirit of innovation upon its principled however specious, and this
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specious the pretext. One method of assault may be to
effect in the forms of the Constitution alterations which will
impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine
what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to
which you may be invited, remember that time and habit
are at least as necessary to fix the true character
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of governments, as of other human institutions. So time and
habit fix character and governments and human institutions. That experience
is the surest standard by which to test the real
tendency of the existing constitution of a country. That facility
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and changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion,
exposes to perpetual change from the endless variety of hypothesis
and opinion. And remember especially that for the efficient management
of your common interests in a country so extensive as ours,
a government of as much vigor as is consistent with
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the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Okay, I just
want to take a break here for right now, because
I still have a go and I'm gonna do another
part two on this. But I'm just gonna end this
by saying, the strength of the constitution and the strength
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of a democracy, it needs a found It needs a foundation.
It needs some roots. Of course. Sometimes, you know, you
when there's a thing called getting root rot or when
a plant is root bound, it's because it outgrew the pot.
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So you gotta transplant it, and you gotta change it.
You gotta change change the plant and prune off some
things so that it could expand more. Nothing in nature
stays the same forever, including a government or even the Bible.
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But here's the paradox, and I believe like every truth
is a paradox. If you were to accept the Bible
as the foundation of your spirituality and you put your
faith in that, that belief carries a spiritual power. So
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even if you come across passages that could own slavery
and whatnot, that foundation that you have, that respect, that
reverence for it, it keeps you in the mother plan,
meaning that yeah, you can you can discard some things,
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but you don't throw the whole thing out right. You
don't throw the whole the baby out with the bathwater
kind of thing. And it's a precarious stage in development
when you have to discard things that no longer work
for you, including our Constitution, which has been amendment amended
over time. But it's not something that is to be
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taken lightly. But the paradox is there's also a human
tendency to not change. And this is terrible because we
can't learn if we don't forget things that give us
a confirmation bias. This is the reason why there's prejudice
and biases and discrimination. This prevents us from getting to
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the truth is when we hold on to this sanctity
of what's worked before and the fear of maybe you're
going to be the one that gets pruned. So let's
just not prune anything, and let's just sit here and
rot together. Our country is rotting right now, and there
needs to be pruning. It's like too much gleal in
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the brain is just clouding all the synapses from firing cohesively.
So there needs to be some kind of pruning so
that we can enter a new stage of development for
our country. Wanting to state of name is not an option.
Change is inevitable, but in what direction are we going
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to go? So thank you for joining me here today.
I'm Brainbow. I will do a part two where I'll
finish the farewell address, and I hope to see you
next time.
Hi, and welcome back to Brainbow. Thank you so much
for joining me here today. My name is Michelle Panamadusa.
And today on the podcast, I'm gonna be reading. Okay,
it's this little book that I collected, and I've had
this book for so long and it doesn't it's so
old that it doesn't even have the copyright material or
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it doesn't. It's got like these like stitches, and I'll
take a picture of it for you guys to look at.
The pages are like really thick, you know, like like
resume pages, and oh shoot, and the page just fell
out right now. And so I don't know exactly when
this was printed, but it's from the Knickerbocker Press in
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New York, CP Putnam's Sons, and in it it contains
it's called the Ideals of the Republic, and it contains
the Declary of Independence, the Constitution, Washington's first inaugural address
from seventeen eighty nine, and then his second inaugural address,
which is seventeen ninety three. And each one of these
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inaugural addresses are just a couple of pages. Like the
first one is just a couple of pages, and then
the second one, it's like twenty pages, and then his
farewell address is like fifty pages, So that's the one
I'm going to be reading because that contains what I
call the ideals of the Republic. And then he let's
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see he's got and then it has the Lincoln Lincoln's
first inaugural and his the Gettysburg Address, and that's about it.
So before and again, I just want to tell you today.
Right now, it's October twenty fourth, we are heading into
our election with Kamala Harris and Trump, and it's the
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climate right now, the political climate is very volatile. The
Democrats here have it seems as though they've been elected
from the most corrupt group of people. And I'm thinking
that the reason why they rose to the top is
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like how scum rises to the top. I don't know
if you've ever made pickles or anything like that, but
what happens is the scum rises to the top and
you have to scoop it out. So what it appears
is that they put these young people that don't have
the experience or the credentials to actually be leaders, but
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they have really big egos and they're highly corruptible, not principled,
lacking integrity and character and puppets and just doing what
other people say. I mean, Kamala Harris literally said in
an interview which took her two days of not working
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so she could prepare for this for this interview with
with I think it was CNN Cooper. Anyways, it was
a it seemed like an easy type of interview, but
she she she went on to say that the way
she makes decisions is by having this hegemony tell her
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what to do, and she says, let's kick the tires
on that and and that's how she makes decisions. And
that's that's what she said. Is her is her fatal
flaw is that she listens to these people. But it's
also a good thing. So in this interview, she was
finally sober as it appears, you know, because in a
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lot of our other interviews it just seems like she's
kind of a little tipsy. But she did appear really
sober and kicking the tires. I I have never even
heard this expression. What does that mean? I kicked the
I tell them to kick the tires. That's that's what
she tells people. I guess that means is it done?
Did you fix it? So she's not even a leader
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who makes decisions. And she she said, she's a nerd
who does research. Isn't that what these what what they
hate about conspiracy theories is that we do our own research.
But she but she's now she's playing this card. She's
a cool, nerdy girl who does her own research, and
she she listens to her Hedgemeny because she wants to
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make good decisions. It was it was just wacky, But
this is gonna be the presidential candidate for our country.
It's wild. Then we got Trump and no offense or anything.
But it's just u There was a lot of propaganda
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about him for the past four years, and he started
out saying that he was gonna drain the swamp, and
then he wound up wound up putting Fauci in position.
So a lot of people don't really trust him either.
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So it's kind of like a disgruntled country right now,
where we don't want either one of these people. Elon
Musk said one time, if you just picked up a
phone book and you just picked any name, that would
be better. But all of a sudden, he's like, he's
all on board for Trump. And I guess if you
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had to choose one or the other would definitely be
Trump because the government has just gone out of control.
I mean, she literally bragged about splitting up families, taking
away children for true and sy she had this power
of the pen. She can just write her name and
she could ruin people's lives, and she giggled about it,
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like you know how she giggles all the time. She's
not a serious person. So I was wanting to introduce
George Washington's Ideals of the Republic because I want to
get back to the roots of what our country is
supposed to be about instead of all of this like
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nonsense about this woke type of attitude which started out
it seemed like it was good. Yeah, we needed some reformation,
We needed a change. We need this Uranian type of
energy of innovation and major changes because for a while
things were quietly sting. When Obama was president, he implemented
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this Obamacare, which gave everybody health care. But then everybody's sick.
I mean, we have more chronic illnesses than ever before
in history. And it's not because people are being diagnosed more.
I mean I've never seen this with children having allergies
and autism, like one out of thirty now have autism,
and we have more healthcare, and we have all these vaccines.
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People are getting vaccinated for all these diseases, but we're
having more chronic illnesses than ever. So there's a lot
going on too. Economically, it's like there's been for a while.
There's been a plan to increase wages in the state
that I live in. They were planning at increasing it
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to twenty dollars an hour. I knew about it back
in twenty sixteen, So this isn't something that occurred recently.
It's like this has been in planned for a while.
But then there's the inflation, and so instead of like
you know, people being happy about their pay wages being increased,
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they're disappointed about the inflation because it's evening out. And
then there are many people that don't have a voice,
like the homeless people, more homelessness than ever. The middle
class is kind of doing the same. There's been a
big hit with like the service industry. I would say
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that's the highest hit. Those are things like they would
consider luxuries. So while like the price of food has
gone up, the pay increase has gone up generally. And
then like say price for a haircut used to be
like ten dollars. You'd be able to find a ten
dollar haircut for a boy, and now it's like twenty
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five dollars, and you know things if you want to
get your your yard work done, these are considered luxuries.
It used to be just everybody would get their yards
taken care of by a professional, and now it's like,
I'm just going to do it myself. I'm not going
to pay those out rageous prices. So they're saying that
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the economy is good because the prices of the wages
that are growing up in proportion to the inflation of
everyday things, but they're not including these luxury service tickets.
And I'm wondering, how are these the people firing, like
the the you know, the people that are doing the
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landscapers and these other trades like haircutting and stuff like,
I wonder how they're doing. It seems like they're doing
well because when I called make an appointment to get
my dog's haircut, it went from say sixty five dollars
to minimum one hundred dollars, So they're making more money
and they still seem to be as busy or busier
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than ever, So I think they're doing okay. I just
it's just you're paying more for the same thing that
you were getting before. So I haven't analyzed that. I
had this interview with a journalist from the Wall Street
Journal and he was asking me about how the inflation
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affected our household, and I hadn't thought about it before
because I got it to this mindset that my grandparents
had of like, I'm not paying that much for that.
When I was a kid, I would, you know, pay
fifty dollars for a haircut, and my grandparents would be like, oh,
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I would never do that. You know, they cut their
own hair and they make their own pies. They don't
pay ten dollars for a pie, and it's because they
lived in a time where you can get apples for
free from a tree and make your own pie. Or
you know, if you would just cut their own hair
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and if you pay for it, it would be just a
couple of dollars or so, because that's something that you
don't really need. And so we're seeing this again where
you know, I'm cutting my own I've been cutting my
hair for a while though, but I'm kind of a
doing yourself type of person. But I would become this
sort of like it's the principle of paying so much
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for something when before you didn't have to so irregardless
of how much money you're making, it's like, I'm not
going to pay that much for it. At that point,
it's just like a status symbol. It's like buying a
purse or a belt buckle to show off how much
money you have. So all in all, it all seems
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to equal out, except for the homeless population. The billionaires
seem to be making. There's more billionaires than ever too,
so I guess like the very top they've gone more money,
and then the very bottom they lost money, and then
in the middle class we're kind of like the same.
So that's what makes a strong voting population for the
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Democratic Party because they appeal to the middle class people
the most. And the reason why is because they don't
get taxed as hard as people that make more money.
So it's like on a sliding scale here the tax
You know, if you're making a lot of money, you
can get taxed over forty percent, and if you're just
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middle class, it's thirty percent or lower. So the Democrats
are pretty strong with the people that rely on social programs.
If you are a single mother and you rely on
you know, food stamps or you know whatever welfare then
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or if you're like an elderly person who relies on
Social Security, anybody who relies on the state is a
dependent on the state. They're still very democratic because the
Republicans traditionally have appealed more to the wealthier upper class
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people who are entrepreneurs that that don't wanna raise taxes
because they don't wanna give money to people that are
in need of it cause they say, well, you know,
too bad, so sad you should have finished college. So
there's a a social type of war going on where
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the privileged people are hated by the under class. It's
kind of like a class war. So that's where we
are right now in Halloween's approaching on October thirty first,
which is very fitting for this whole volatile atmosphere that
we're living in as this election approaches on November fifth.
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I don't want to get into so much of that
because you know, with the shipping in these people from
other countries that are dependent on the state gives them
more votes, and that's a whole other thing. I can't
believe that people from other countries can be shipped in
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to vote that's just that if I mean, can you
imagine going to like Germany and voting for the prime
minister or something, or Sweden or something. They would be like,
what are you doing, Like you're not going to vote.
They're not They're not gonna take people from other countries
to vote. It seems like a conflict of interest, right,
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But they're doing it and they're using the democratic card
of like we're helping the underprivileged, and that is a
big emotional vote. When people buy things, they buy things
based on them, and so they're buying, they're voting based
on what's right, what's morally right, where it's the lower
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class versus the upper class. So the problem with that
is it seems like it could be something dangerous brewing,
especially with social media. I mean, if you looked throughout history,
remember when remember in India back in the eighties, there
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was a just one day, there was a civil war
that broke out over somebody shot, Oh gosh, what was
it Gandhi or Gandhi's wife. I don't even know. See,
if you're an American, you're kind of like you don't
really know as much about what's happening in the world
because you're just so fixated on thinking the world involves
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around you here in the country. So sorry about not
knowing exactly what caused this these riots, But the Muslims
and the Hindus just went to war with each other.
And one day because because someone from Gandhi side got
shot and it was a Muslim, and it's like, okay,
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so all the Muslims are bad, and so then Muslims
were killing Hindus. I remember reading this one account where
there was a Hindu family that had a restaurant and
they all ran upstairs when the Muslims started attacking and
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they poured out a vat of boiling oil and then
after that there you know, after this all settled down
and people stopped killing each other, which resolved after a
couple of days. It's like the purge, when for a
couple of days, then you know, everyone started putting in
these iron like iron fences and securing their windows where
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they didn't have to do that before. And well now
it's peaceful there between Hindus and Muslims. It's like they've
forgotten about it. But there are still the security measures
that are like residual from back in the eighties that
really haven't been upgraded. They don't have guns there to
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protect themselves. There's not that fear of like only you know,
the Hindus are going to attack the Muslims and so forth.
It just came and it went really fast. And that
was back in the eighties. So now it's social media.
It could I think it could happen really fast again
with this with a class or between Democrats and Republicans.
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And then of course, you know, I'm watching these videos,
which I don't know should I be doing this, watching
these videos of these angry liberals going or pseudoliberals going
to people's houses that have Trump signs and yelling cursing
at them for supporting like why are you supporting this guy?
We have celebrities. They're threatening to kill themselves, to jump
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off cliffs, burn themselves, leave the country if Trump gets elected.
They're calling for his assassination. I mean, Kamala Harris just
said yesterday that Trump is basically Hitler and he wants
to kill citizens who want to get him out of power,
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while they're the ones that actually implemented this new law
to use deadly force on anybody who opposes the government.
It's such a weird, wacky time right now, I swear.
So I wanted to get back to the basics and
the roots of it. What does it mean to be
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an American? What are the ideals of this republic? And
it began as a republic like an oligarchy, where you
have wise elderly elders. You had to be a certain age,
you had to have a certain amount of experience, you
had to be a war general. Now it's like, you
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don't even have to serve in the military, But back
then it was just understood, Yeah, you've had to at
least served in a war. George Washington was the general
during the Revolutionary War. And so I'm just gonna go
ahead and start reading this because it's like fifty pages
or so. Let's see how far I can get this
a little book though, so it's not like it's not
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like a full page I'd say it's like maybe twenty
five pages. It's an eight by eleven Okay, farewell address, friends,
and this is George Washington, friends and fellows. Citizens. The
period for a new election of a citizen to administer
the executive government of the United States being not a distant,
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and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be
employed in designating the person who is to be clothed
with that important trust. It appears to me proper, especially
as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of
the public voice, that I should now apprise you of
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the resolution I have formed to decline being considered among
the number of those out of whom of choice is
to be made. I beg you, at the same time
to do me the justice to be assured that this
resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to
all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a
dutiful citizen to his country, and that in withdrawing the
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tender of service which silence in my situation might imply,
I am influenced by no diminution of zeal for your
future interest, no deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness,
but am supported by a full conviction that the step
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is compatible with both the acceptance and continuance of the
office to which your suffrages have twice called me. Have
been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of
duty and to a deference for what appeared to be
your desire. I constantly hoped that it would have been
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much earlier in my power, consistently with motives which I
was not at liberally at liberty to disregard to return
to that retirement from which I had been reluctantly drawn.
The strength of my inclination to do this previous to
the last election had even led to the preparation of
an address to declare it to you. But mature reflection
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on then perplexed and critical posture of our affairs with
foreign nations, and the namous advice of persons entitled to
my confidence, impelled me to abandon the idea. I rejoice
that the state of your concerns, external as well as internal,
no longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible with the
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sentiment of duty or propriety, and the persuaded whatever partiality
may be retained for my services, that in the present
circumstances of our country, you will not disapprove my determination
to retire. The impressions with which I first undertook the
arduous trusts were explained on the proper occasion. In the
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discharge of this trust, I will only say that I have,
with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of
the government, the best exertions of which a very fallible
judgment was capable, not unconscious in the outset of the
inferiority of my qualifications. Experience in my own eyes, perhaps
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still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the
motives of diffidence of myself, And every day the increasing
weight of years admonishes me more and more that the
shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it
will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given
peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have
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the consolation to believe that while choice and prudence invite
me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
And looking forward to the moment which is to terminate
the career of my public life, my feelings do not
permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment of that debt
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of gratitude which I owe to be, which I owe
to my beloved country for the many honors it has
conferred upon me, still more for the steadfast confidence with
which it had supported me, and for the opportunities I
have thence enjoyed of manifesting my inviolable attachment by services
faithful and persevering, through a useful unequal to my zeal,
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it benefits. If benefits have resulted to our country from
these services, Let it always be remembered to your praise,
and as an instructive example in our annals, that under
circumstances in which the passions agitated in every direction, reliable
to mislead amidst appearances, sometimes dubious fcissitudes of fortune, often discouraging,
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in situations in which not unfrequently want of excess of
success has countenanced the spirit of criticism. The constancy of
your support was the essential prop of the efforts and
a guarantee of the plans by which they were affected.
Profoundly penetrated with this idea, I shall carry it with
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me to the grave as a strong incitement to unceasing
vows that Heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens
of its beneficence, that your union and brotherly affection may
be perpetual, That the free Constitution, which is the work
of your hands, may be sacredly maintained, and its administration
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in every department may be stamped with wisdom and virtue.
That in fine, the happiness of the people of these
states under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete
by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use
of this blessing as will acquire to them the glory
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of recommending it to the applause the affection and adoption
of every nation which is yet a stranger to it. Here,
perhaps I ought to stop but a solicitude for your welfare,
which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension
of danger natural to that solicitude. Urge me, on an
occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation,
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and to recommend to you frequent review some sentiments which
are the results of much reflection, of no inconsiderable observation,
and which appear to me all important to the permanency
of your felicity as a people. These will be offered
to you with a more freedom, as you can only
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see in them the disinterested warnings of the departed friend,
who can possibly have no personal motive to bias the counsels.
Nor can I forget as an encouragement to it, your
indulgent reception of my sentiments on a former and not
dissimilar occasion, interwoven, as is the love of liberty with
every ligament of your hearts. No recommendation of mine is
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necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment. The unity of government,
which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you.
It is justly so, for it is a main pillar
in the edifice of your real independence, the support of
your tranquility at home, your peace abroad, of your safety,
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of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so
highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that
from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will
be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds
the conviction of this truth. As this is the point
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of your political fortress, against which the batteries of internal
and external enemies will be most constantly and actively, though
often covertly and insidiously directed. It is of infinite moment
that you should properly estimate the immense value of your
national union to your collective and individual happiness. That you
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should cherish a cordial habitual and a movable attachment to it,
accustoming yourselves to think can speak of it as a
palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its
preservation with jealous anxiety whatever may suggest, even a suspicion
that it can be, in any event, be abandoned and
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indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to
alienate any portion of our country, from the rest or
to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the
various parts. For this, you have every inducement of sympathy
and interest. Citizens, by birth or choice of a common country.
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That country has a right to concentrate your affections. The
name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity,
must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than
appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference,
you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles.
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You have a common cause fought and triumphed together. The
independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint
consuls and joint efforts of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.
But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility,
are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to
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your interest. Here, every portion of our country finds the
most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union
of the whole. The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with
a self protected by the equal laws of a common government,
finds in the production of the latter great additional resources
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of maritime and commercial enterprise. So he's saying, in the
south there's more money. There's back then there is because
the weather's nicer, and so they can grow more and
precious materials of manufacturing industry. The South, in the same intercourse,
benefiting by the agency of the North, sees its agriculture
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grow and its commerce expand, turning partly into its own
channels the scene and of the North it finds its
particular navigation invigorated, and while it contributes in different ways
to nourish and increase. Okay, so in the North we
have these lakes that go out to the oceans, so
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the trade routes they would more easily be accessed through
the north. And so this established the cities in the
north to the in comparison to the countries where all
of the industry was being back then it was like
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cotton and whatever they would grow, they would ship it
up to the North, and then over time the North
took the money and kept the money, and then just
kind of devoured the South, which would happen later on
the Civil War. It looks forward to the protection of
a maritime strength to which itself is unequally adapted. The East,
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in a like intercourse with the West, already finds, and
in the progressive improvement of interior communications by land and water,
will more and more find a valuable vent for the
commodities which it brings from abroad or manufactures at home.
The West derives from the East supplies requisite to its
growth and comfort, and what is perhaps of still greater consequence,
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it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable
outlets for its own productions to the weight, influence, and
future maritime strength of the Atlantic side of the Union,
directed by the into indi indissoluble community of interest as
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one nation. Any other tenure by which the West can
hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate
strength or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any
foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious. While then every part
of your country thus feels an immediate and particular interest
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in union. All the parts combined cannot fail to find
in the united mass of beings and efforts greater strength,
greater resource, proportionately, greater security from external danger, a less
frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations. And what
is of inestimabile value, they must derive from union and
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exemption from those broils and wars between themselves which so
frequently afflict neighboring countries not tied together by the same government,
which their rivalship alone would be sufficient to produce, but
a foreign alliances, attachments, and intrigues would stimulate in bitter Hence, likewise,
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they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments,
which under any form of government are inauspicious to liberty. So, okay,
let's just highlight this. He's saying, a really big military
goes hand in hand with taking away our liberties, and
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which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
In this sense, it is that your union ought to
be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and
that the love of one ought to endear you the
preservation of the other. These considerations speak a persuasive language
to every reflecting and virtuous mind, and exhibit the continuance
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of the union as a primary object of patriotic desire.
Is there a doubt whether a common government can embrace
so large a sphere, Let's experience. Let experience solve it.
To listen to mere speculation in such a case, we're criminal.
We are authorized to hope that a proper organization of
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the whole, with the auxiliary agency of governments for the
respective subdivisions, will afford a happy issue to the experiment.
It is well worth a fair and full experiment with
such powerful and obvious motives to union all parts of
our country. While experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticality,
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there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of
those who, in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands.
I think this is key. Let's highlight this. So whenever
there is distrust of patriotism, who in the quarter may
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endeavor to weaken the bands? This is what we need
to watch out for. We need to watch out for
those who distrust patriotism. In contemplating the causes which may
disturb the union. It occurs as a matter of serious
concern that any ground should have been burnished for characterizing
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parties by geographical discrimination northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western. Whence,
designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there
is a real difference of local interests and views. So
as soon as you start seeing the country pitting itself
against each other, he's saying to be very careful and
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watch out for this. One of the expedients of party
to acquire influence within particular districts is to misrepresent the
opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourself
too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from
these misinterpretations, this emotional fervor that we're now feeling right
now where it's like, you know, people are being pitted
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against each other, people from the city, people from the
country that have different values in California against Florida, And
it's like there's all of these factions now that are
dissolving this united whole that we used to embrace as
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diversity of a country where now it's like, oh, you're
from Texas, Texas is this, Oh you're from California, California's
that New York is that, Florida is that? And then
you're in the middle, and then it's like, oh, that's
just the bread bowl that where nothing matters. And so
we're seeing exactly what he predicted. He's saying, watch out
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for this kind of ideology. They tend to render alien
to each other those who ought to be bound together
by fraternal affection. The inhabitants of our western co have
lately had a useful lesson on this. They have seen
in the negotiation by the Executive and in the unanimous
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ratification by the Senate of the treaty with Spain, and
in the universal satisfaction of that event throughout the United States,
a decisive proof how unfounded were the suspicious propagated among
them of a policy in the General Government and in
the Atlantic States unfriendly to their interests in regard to
the Mississippi. They have been witnesses to the formation of
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two treaties, that with Great Britain and that with Spain,
which secured to them everything they could desire in respect
to the foreign relations towards confirming their prosperity. Will it
not be their wisdom to rely for the preservation of
these advantages in the Union by which they were procured.
Will they not henceforth be deaf to those advisers, if
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such there are, who would sever them from their brethren
and connect them with aliens. To the efficacy and permanency
of your union. A government for the whole is indispensable.
No alliances, however strict between the parts, can be inadequate substitute.
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They must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all
alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth,
you have improved upon your first essay by the adoption
of a constitution of government better calculated than your for
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than your former, for an intimate union, and for the
efficacious management of your common concerns. This government, the offspring
of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full
investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in
the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and
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containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has
adjust claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for
its authority. Compliance with the laws are duties enjoined by
the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis of our
political systems is the right of the people to make
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and to alter their constitution of government. The basis of
our political systems is the right of the people to
make and to alter the constitution of government. But the constitution,
which at any time exists till changed by an explicit
and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory
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upon all. The very idea of the power and the
right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty
of every individual to obey the established government. All obstructions
to the execution of the laws, All combinations and associations
under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, contact,
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or all the regular deliberation and act of the constituted authorities,
and destructive of this fundamental principle and a fatal tendency,
they serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial
and extraordinary force, to put in the place of the
delegated will of the nation, the will of a party,
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often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community, and,
according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make
the public administrations the mirror of the ill concerted and
incongruous projects of faction rather than the organ of consistent
and wholesome plans, digestify common councils, and modified by mutual interests. However,
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combinations or associations of the above description may now and
then answer popular ends. They are likely, in the course
of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious,
and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power
of the people and to usurp for themselves the reigns
of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted
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them to unjust dominion. Towards the preservation of your government
and the permanency of your present happy state, it is
requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular opposition to
its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care
spirit of innovation upon its principled however specious, and this
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specious the pretext. One method of assault may be to
effect in the forms of the Constitution alterations which will
impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine
what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to
which you may be invited, remember that time and habit
are at least as necessary to fix the true character
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of governments, as of other human institutions. So time and
habit fix character and governments and human institutions. That experience
is the surest standard by which to test the real
tendency of the existing constitution of a country. That facility
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and changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion,
exposes to perpetual change from the endless variety of hypothesis
and opinion. And remember especially that for the efficient management
of your common interests in a country so extensive as ours,
a government of as much vigor as is consistent with
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the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Okay, I just
want to take a break here for right now, because
I still have a go and I'm gonna do another
part two on this. But I'm just gonna end this
by saying, the strength of the constitution and the strength
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of a democracy, it needs a found It needs a foundation.
It needs some roots. Of course. Sometimes, you know, you
when there's a thing called getting root rot or when
a plant is root bound, it's because it outgrew the pot.
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So you gotta transplant it, and you gotta change it.
You gotta change change the plant and prune off some
things so that it could expand more. Nothing in nature
stays the same forever, including a government or even the Bible.
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But here's the paradox, and I believe like every truth
is a paradox. If you were to accept the Bible
as the foundation of your spirituality and you put your
faith in that, that belief carries a spiritual power. So
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even if you come across passages that could own slavery
and whatnot, that foundation that you have, that respect, that
reverence for it, it keeps you in the mother plan,
meaning that yeah, you can you can discard some things,
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but you don't throw the whole thing out right. You
don't throw the whole the baby out with the bathwater
kind of thing. And it's a precarious stage in development
when you have to discard things that no longer work
for you, including our Constitution, which has been amendment amended
over time. But it's not something that is to be
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taken lightly. But the paradox is there's also a human
tendency to not change. And this is terrible because we
can't learn if we don't forget things that give us
a confirmation bias. This is the reason why there's prejudice
and biases and discrimination. This prevents us from getting to
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the truth is when we hold on to this sanctity
of what's worked before and the fear of maybe you're
going to be the one that gets pruned. So let's
just not prune anything, and let's just sit here and
rot together. Our country is rotting right now, and there
needs to be pruning. It's like too much gleal in
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the brain is just clouding all the synapses from firing cohesively.
So there needs to be some kind of pruning so
that we can enter a new stage of development for
our country. Wanting to state of name is not an option.
Change is inevitable, but in what direction are we going
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to go? So thank you for joining me here today.
I'm Brainbow. I will do a part two where I'll
finish the farewell address, and I hope to see you
next time.
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