Why Liberty Requires Informed Citizens

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Conservative, not bitter indeed, my friends. It is an absolute pleasure to be here today. This will be day number eight, day number eight of going through what I consider to be pretty important framework.

Or the development, the expression of a political prism through which we can see the world of politics. It gives us something, some sort of a standard, some sort of a, again, a framework or a system that we can analyze and discuss the political issues of the day as I said, dating or going all the way back to the first program in this series too many people.

And I know you know these folks and some of you in the audience would say that you are these folks or you recently were these folks. Certainly many of you are not anywhere near this, but a lot of people are very knee jerk reaction or emotional when it comes to the issue of politics and they don't have a standard or some sort of a guide by which to make political decisions and these things matter tremendously.

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It's a pleasure to be here. Today we're going to talk about informed citizens and why Liberty requires that citizens be informed and engaged.

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Alright, so what do I want to discuss today? I mentioned off the top we want to talk about the importance of Liberty. I should say the importance of being informed as citizens when it comes to Liberty, having Liberty in our nation.

The Constitution alone cannot preserve Liberty. I think we've discovered that over the course of time. The Constitution does some wonderful thing. It's a fantastic document.

But we have to have an engaged and an informed citizenry to make the Constitution actually go to work if people ignore it as they often have, if they try to replace it, if they try to manipulate it, if they try to rewrite it, all these things have happened.

Over the course of time, we know that it takes citizens who are responsible, who are informed, who are engaged, who understand that institutions are not enough. It turns out, shockingly, surprisingly, that it depends upon the individuals who are running said institutions. That's what matters.

Having a free society, and this can be borderline terrifying, but having a free society ultimately hinges upon depends upon having an informed engaged group of responsible citizens. Yikes, that's terrifying.

When you think about what many Americans do today, my friends, are they informed? Are they engaged? Are they responsible? No, not in many instances. In many instances, they're more concerned about, I don't know, who's going to win American Idol, who's the latest contestant on the bachelor or the bachelor at?

Who's going to win the Super Bowl, who's going to be the number one draft pick in the NBA? Listen, that's any of these things, it's fine to pay attention to. Well, maybe not the bachelor or bachelor at.

But any of these things is fine to have a personal interest in. The problem is, the problem occurs when these things become more important or when they accumulate.

We all can't be experts in all of these things. If we are, we're probably not utilizing our time, the best way possible. And so what ends up happening is, we have an entertainment culture. People want it now, people want to be entertained. Of course, human nature, which we've talked about fuels this sort of thing a lot.

But so has what we've had things that have come along recently, right? Things like microwaves, fast food, drive-ups, things like social media, right? If you're bored, if you've been bored for any length of time at all, you pop your cell phone out and you start scrolling through whatever social media app.

Or you start texting friends or you go to a website, again, nothing wrong necessarily with any of these things. But we've lost the ability, many have anyway, to just sit and be with your thoughts, be alone, be quiet.

To sit and embrace the silence, the solitude, and just chew upon, dwell upon some of these important questions in life. Of course, the most important is, is there a creator? If so, what does he expect of me? And if he does exist, which spoiler alert he does, and he does have expectations,

unfortunately for us, but that's just part of the story, we can't, we've all messed up. We've all fallen short of those expectations. But there is a way to be reconciled to him. Those are things that we should be thinking about. And by the way, that way to be reconciled to the creator of the universe comes through Jesus Christ.

So that's the most important question to wrestle with. But also, how do we live this side of heaven? And a lot of things that we talked about on this program today, well, over the course of these last, now eight episodes, but also even, even before that, when you look at some of the things that we discussed just over the course of, it'll be 11 years, my friends, that we've done this program in August.

But over the course of time, just talking about these things and just developing some of these ideas, we talk about issues that matter. And it's almost as though many people don't have the capacity to have these sorts of conversations or even just the solitude and the thinking.

You know, I've shared before that I was a, after graduating from high school, excuse me, from college, I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. And I shared, I'm not going to go through the whole story, but I went through a period of time when I had no idea. And it wasn't because I was lazy and trying to find myself. I was actually always been pretty driven guy. But my first desire, at least I thought I was going

out at the time was to, to go into the military. I was medically disqualified from doing so. So my second option was after college was to go to law school. And I went to a pre law program. I loved the larger debates and conversations we had. I loved being the guy who had to defend conservatism or even Christian values in class on a regular basis.

But I realized that law school was not, was not for me. And I didn't know what to do. And I remember I ended up on a 200 acre standard bread horse farm. It's where I started listening to talk radio.

And it was during that time there that a lot of the things that we talk about today on this program were kind of built in to my way of thinking some things.

I, I guess discovered or learned or whatever through those moments of solitude. Some of them I learned by listening to the late great rush limbaugh who I listened to on a regular basis out there.

But some of the things I learned just from the solitude and the thinking there wasn't some there weren't smart phones in the day. In fact, I had a pager.

I had a pager back in the day so that some so that I could be reached didn't know what sort of urgency there was for me to be reached back in those days. But I had a pager.

But I didn't have smart phones. I didn't have social media. I had my thoughts. I had some course some books. I would chew on the things that I learned. Things that I'd heard on talk radio and other radio programs as well.

I remember listening to programs by some great great preachers like Adrian Rogers and Charles Stanley. I remember Chuck Swendoll listening to these programs.

The Bible answer man. Hang can a graph on and on. I listen to these programs.

I just listen to different sorts of things and you think and you learn and I just I feel like that's lacking today.

And I just think we fill the silence with some sort of noise and distraction and at some point that becomes a dangerous dangerous thing and what we have today.

And we had back then too. I'm not going to say that everything was perfect back in those days. But what we have today is disengagement from people now in some respect.

We have more engagement today than we did even 20 or 30 years ago because you no longer have the option. It has gotten so politically intense in this in this country.

You basically have to pick a side. You can't just sit it out. Now some people still do. But it's becoming harder and harder. Everything as I've said has become political.

What you eat, what you drink, what you wear, what's your favorite sport or activity. What you do for entertainment. All these things.

You just everything is political. Where you work, what you do for a living, everything has become political and there's disengagement.

Sometimes people think it's too confusing. Sometimes people think it's a lost cause. Sometimes people are just distracted by the shiny objects that are out there across the, across the fruited plane that get our attention and so forth.

We also have tribal thinking. I remember, and I've shared this before, but I remember when the internet really started to get a foothold and it began to, you know, people started looking to the internet for information.

I remember, you know, I keep in mind, I grew up in the era where the mainstream media controlled virtually everything that was discussed in coordination and collusion with the Democrat Party.

They controlled what was discussed. And I thought, finally, finally we're going to be able to get information out to people. And we certainly have through the internet. I'm not saying that we haven't.

But you, I didn't stop to, I guess, calculate or understand just how much propaganda, lies, deceit, self-serving interests, conspiracy theories. And yes, my friends, some conspiracy theories are true.

But a lot of them serve as nothing more than entertainment because they, they kind of just create this sort of fantasy for us in our minds where we just, it's almost like a movie plot or some sort of extreme, just series of events that we're trying to find out who done it, sort of thing.

And again, I'm not poo poo and all conspiracy theories, but you know what I mean, right? Everything on this planet is not a vast white right, right wing or left wing conspiracy. And there certainly are powerful players and people who have interest. That's always been the case.

But we have, the internet has created, especially algorithms on social media and so forth, it's created tribal thinking, even worse than we had previously, because it feeds you the things that you consume it feeds you more of it. It begins to identify that this person likes to consume CNN or Huffington Post or move on.org and they just feed you more and more of the insanity so much so.

That unless you intentionally go looking for the other left wing and incredibly crazy news out there as, as we do on this program, you won't find it because the algorithms, if you're getting your, your news just from social media, basically keep feeding you the things that, you know, I don't know, align with your thinking or your preferences or however you want to look at that.

And so we've got tribal thinking and then we've got this passive consumption of information. I think that this is a huge thing. I, I think, you know, it's been said, and I don't know who said it. Maybe I'll look it up during the break.

But it's been said that, you know, give me, if you were given the opportunity to change the laws of a society or the music and art and culture, the safer bet to change the way of the thinking of the people is to change the art and the music and the culture and the fashion, that sort of stuff.

Because the laws, my friends, the laws come from that. It's like advertising. I remember learning about, I've been in the world of marketing and advertising. And I remember hearing rush years ago saying that advertising is basically holding up a mirror to the audience.

If you hear an ad, if you see an ad, if you read something online, it's the advertiser wants to connect with you wants to find commonality with you. They're not trying to move you. Now sometimes you've got extreme groups that try to use advertising to shape the thinking of people.

But the left hasn't had to do this. They've had entertainers in their pockets, the people who create music and influence our culture and our thinking and the things that we consume and listen to or watch on television or online or whatever today, the things that we consume and listen to when that filter is off.

You know, I'm often said on this program, if you go up to somebody and you say, hey, I want to have a discussion about this, to visit issue, and I'm going to try to change your mind on it.

Well, what you've unintentionally done or maybe intentionally, I don't know, but often unintentionally, what you've done is you've created a massive defense mechanism for the person that you're going to speak with.

Because they're coming in ready for you to try to change their mind. And of course, it's human nature to say you're not going to change my mind on anything.

Right? It's been salespeople are trained, for example. They're trained to, well, to understand that if the prospect says something in a conversation, then it's the truth.

But if the salesperson says it in the mind of the prospect, it's a lie. That's why skilled salespeople ask a lot of questions to get basically the buyer or the prospect to say something to say the things that naturally lead to them purchasing your product or your service or whatever.

And so, but far too often when it comes to the way we think about culture, the way we think about how we live our lives, it's suddenly influenced when the filters off.

You know, I've gotten to the point now, I don't, I've gotten to that, I don't know if it's my age, if it's just my interest, but I don't listen to much, I listen to, I'll listen to maybe Pandora find a channel that I like.

I'll listen to when I'm doing some work classical music or I'll listen to, there's some apps that play just kind of instrumental music in the background that's designed to help you focus and all this kind of stuff, think and relax.

But I don't spend a lot of time listening to pop music and man, oh man, if you turn it on and you haven't been listening to it, it is sometimes shocking.

I read, I read some of the lyrics of songs, I've done that a few times over the course of the history of this program and I'm embarrassed.

And that, since or what I say to you, because these songs are so, it's not even provocative, just absolutely vulgar, wicked, vile, just some terrible stuff.

And that's the stuff that's fueling the subconscious of people because that defense mechanism is down, we don't have a filter up.

And we're just consuming, just consuming information and entertainment passively and it is dangerous.

And I say all of this to get to the bottom line here that says Liberty survives only when and only if its citizens stay informed and engaged.

And I would add, I bumped the microphone there, I would add one other thing to this, I would say informed and engaged absolutely.

But I would also say, I would also say, earnestly seeking truth.

So it's not just that we want to know what's happening, it's not just what we want to stay on top of it so that we hold these jokers and clowns accountable.

We also want to be in line with truth.

We also, the things that we talked about over the course of these past eight episodes now.

We want to be aligned with what is actually true and good and to put first things first because that's what really matters.

Liberty can survive only when citizens do this.

If citizens become corrupted and evil and don't focus on first principles and things that are true, if they don't stay informed and engaged.

Liberty, my friends, crumbles, it absolutely has throughout history and it can do it again.

You know, it's amazing to me how some people think America could never crumble.

And I think my oh my, you need to pick up a book and read history. I know it's always, it's always someone else's problem.

It's always reading about something else that happened and a land far, far away or something many, many years ago.

But my friends, those people thought the same exact things and their culture.

They thought that they were what they could not fall that they were above even a suspicion that they were going to collapse.

But this has happened before and it can happen again. It's a dangerous thing to play with.

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So citizens, we're all citizens. Well, that's a whole, that opens up a whole other talking point here.

But let's presumably, we're all citizens here of this great nation and citizens matter.

Republics depend up, which is what we have a constitutional republic depends on voters constituents voters choose their politicians voters influence policy.

And of course, it's dangerous if uninformed citizens are so uninformed, so naive, or dare I say stupid, rush used to say low information voters.

But if that's prevalent in a society, people can be easily manipulated. That's why propaganda works when people cannot identify truth.

You've talked about truth early on back in the first or second episode of this series. Propaganda works when people can't identify truth.

It's really pretty simple if you just stop and think about it. Freedom requires responsibility. You've heard me quote Ronald Reagan on this program before.

I have many, many candidates for my favorite Ronald Reagan quote, but at in the mix, some of the ones I like the seven most terrifying words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

I love that. I love love love Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall. I love that. And I love this one. There's others too, but I love this one. Reagan said freedom is always.

Or only a generation away from extinction, not paraphrasing here, but you don't pass along. We as Americans do not pass along in our bloodstream through our DNA to the next generation.

We don't pass it along. They don't naturally our children don't naturally inherit it. We have to pass that torch that torts of liberty is burning.

It's been burning brightly in this country for 200 will be 250 years old. Now it's certainly dimmed over time and all I don't want to get into that, but it's burned brightly in comparison to how the vast majority of the world lives today and candidly.

How the vast vast majority of people have lived on this planet throughout the course of history it burns brightly and the only thing the only thing that allows it to be handed to the next generation is the previous generation or the one that's current I should say.

The current generation has to explain it. They have to articulate it. They have to present it in such a way to the next generation that the next generation accepts it embraces it and prepares to do the same to the generation that follows them.

That is our responsibility. It requires freedom requires that we take responsibility for this and we're complacent. Now I know I'm preaching to the choir but I'm sure I've got some complacent people out there listening today. I'm sure that there are and I'm sure if we're all being honest we all would say at some point I've been complacent about maybe these very things or at least something in my life I've been complacent.

But comfort leads to disengagement when things are easy when we're living in a process and that's what's happened we lived in such a prosperous society for so long we've gotten so comfortable as a people we're so financially blessed so we have such a high standard of living I've tried to illustrate this you know sometimes when you have this job that I have you think you try to think of as many ways as possible to communicate the message.

And I one of the ways I try to do it is I say listen just think about this for a moment we have an entertainment culture right let's take the NFL for example.

I'm a fan I used to be a huge fan of the NFL they've done a lot of damage to the NFL from a true football fans perspective but be that as it may been a fan of the NFL so that's so we're already to a point where we are prosperous enough as a nation to where we can pay quite handsomely.

I might add people to be athletes full time to where they make on average much much much more than the average American just regular worker average American taxpayer to the point where they're making millions of dollars a year many of them most of them in fact in many of the major sports are all the major sports in some of these contracts.

I think it's getting to the point I don't know if you know this maybe you do but sports the professional sports you get paid you get paid per game.

So they don't get checks I think this is true for all sports I know it's true for the NFL I'm pretty sure it's true for the NBA I think it's true for all sports they get paid basically I guess weekly during the season and so for example.

There's I don't know what the highest NBA salary is I'm going to look it up I think it's in the 60 millions I'm looking it up right now Steph Curry's got to be up there.

LeBron James is still up there I don't know if he took a pay cut with some of the things I don't know.

Here we go Steph Curry 62.6 million for a year now listen to me I'm not here I'm not here to criticize that I'm not saying he's worth that or not.

That's what he's being paid and he's being paid that because so much money pours into he's an NBA player basketball player.

So let's take that 62.6 million dollars and you divide that you think about this you divide 62.

I'm going here to talk about how much we we've valued entertainment in this culture to where people aren't really producing anything and I'm going to get this isn't even he's at least work he's working on his shot.

You know getting in shape so if he's getting paid that over the course of 82 games that's 763.414 dollars per game that's per game.

A game is 48 minutes now they don't play the full 48 minutes I don't know the number of minutes Steph Curry plays but let's say it's around 35.

So if he plays 35 minutes a game. He gets 21,811 dollars and some change for every minute he's on the basketball minute of now a minute you know this I know my wife she'll comment there'll be two minutes of a basketball game or football game.

And she's like I this is going to take a half an hour and she's not completely wrong sometimes that is the case.

So it's it's not a real minutes or it's a minute of competition on the court right.

And there's timeouts and fows and everything else.

So but he's making that a minute of playing that that he plays and he's not the only I've got the other contracts here.

And Yoke itch makes 59 million antenna coupos makes 58 and a half.

The bottom line is that's a lot of money but it doesn't stop there.

We also we also have people who have careers talking about the people who are entertaining us think about ESPN think about sports talk radio.

Again I'm not here to criticize more power to the people who can gain an audience entertain people.

I mean this 24 7 now there are so many shows if you turn on ESPN in the middle of the day or ESPN 2 or 15 or whatever we're up to now it is unbelievable.

The amount of people who have podcasts and shows and radio things and all this stuff up there and their televised all that.

So we've got that but not only that we then have people and again you may do this and I'm not criticizing I'm just I'm just showing you how much.

Interest we've paid in entertainment and how that shows that we are such a prosperous economy and country that we can have three layers deep of entertainment.

We also have not just the athletes not just the people who talk about the athletes we have a whole industry called fantasy sports where you can go and you can pretend to be a GM of a baseball basketball football whatever.

And there's a scoring system and you have come again I got no problem with it I'm not criticizing it but on top of that we have people we have programs the sports talk stuff there are programs devoted to talking about fantasy sports to help the people who have fantasy teams when they're fantasy leagues.

The point here is to say this nation has been incredibly prosperous to the point that some people only produce things that support that are like three layers deep from just us being entertained it's a crazy thing to think about anyway.

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So we talked about complacency we talked about how complacency is a problem in this country comfort leads to us being disengaged people stop paying attention and I use some examples I talked about entertainment and how we have layers upon layers of entertainers.

Of entertainment in this in this culture in fact for some people I don't know if people think about it this way.

But worshiping something is when we consider it to be ultimately worthy the most the the pinnacle of creation the the thing that we that we ultimately submit everything to and a lot of people worship entertainment.

Government because of all this distraction because of all the stuff going on the confusion the lack of interest and everything else.

Government can expand quietly that's what's interesting to me the government expanded has been expanding for the past 50 plus years and no one said anything about it until Trump came along.

Now you and I did but I mean in the world of politics now we've got common average everyday Americans who are you know 100% on board with Trump and draining the swamp and all that sort of stuff.

Because he's help expose it they've seen it for what it is there's no more can't really be you can still be distracted but you can't.

It's hard to avoid it anymore. Trump and the the hatred that exists for Trump on the other side of the aisle makes this virtually impossible again you can be complacent and not paying attention to some things what the same time.

Sing it you can't avoid it like you could even 10 years ago Liberty erodes gradually this is what it needs it needs conditions to where people are satisfied and disengaged because it doesn't just go away suddenly not in the vast majority of instance instances it erodes gradually over time.

And so so our culture my friends our culture needs to be focused on making sure not just that we have a civic understanding because our culture should be thinking about the family we as individual people should be thinking about the family we should be thinking thinking about faith.

And our what we worship because we all worship something we should be thinking about education what we're teaching the next generation what we're teaching them to be true what we're teaching them is you know a fairy tale or false and that sort of stuff.

And then also that civic understanding these are the things that we should be very very interested in doing our culture will either sustain freedom or it will allow freedom to a road over the course of time we can't simply trust institutions we can't simply say oh well that's been written in the constitution you can't again I'm not minimizing the constitution should be.

Really highly respected highly regarded I don't mean to say bad things about the constitution I'm not saying that I'm saying if we simply just think the constitution by itself is going to help us with staying the test the time to shirt certainly can help because it puts words it puts ideas into writing we've seen repeatedly how those ideas are misrepresented how people don't read those words how many people.

People have sat down and read the constitution the declaration of independence the Federalist papers many people haven't done that and they matter these things matter again our culture will sustain freedom not the institutions we have to hold the institutions accountable we have to hold the people who run the institutions accountable and if we don't know what they should be doing if we don't know the role of.

Government if we don't know the nature of truth if we don't know that we're being subjected to propaganda if we don't know human nature all things by the way that we've talked about over the course of this series here over the past now eight episodes as I glance down and realize we're running out of time here for this segment but that's what we have to do that's our role that's what we're doing on here I know many of you are doing the same things in your.

We're doing the same things in your circles of influence as well and that's what we need friends if you want to get all the information about this series and whatever else we talk about next on this program text the word truth to 317 785 1030 again text truth to 317 785 1030 I appreciate you joining us you can also text your thoughts and questions and opinions there as well but I got to go have a great day SDG.

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