4.8 • 784 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | Thanks for listening for earlier access to these episodes, access to Ask Me Anything sessions, |
0:06.2 | and extended breakdowns of historical and current events, please consider joining our warning |
0:11.4 | premium community by clicking the link in the description to this episode. |
0:18.2 | The situation we find ourselves in as a country didn't happen overnight. |
0:24.6 | It is the accumulation of events over decades. |
0:29.5 | The American people have looked. |
0:32.2 | They've seen. |
0:33.6 | They've seen the greed of the elites in American society. |
0:38.5 | They've come to the conclusion that there's one set of rules for people at the top |
0:43.4 | and a different set for everybody else. |
0:47.7 | Cynicism replaced faith and belief in the majesty of the American system of government. We have lost sight in this country |
0:57.7 | as a general proposition around the meaning of patriotism, what it is. We have adopted instead a type |
1:07.7 | of performative jingoism, the type that we see at NFL games, a few minutes |
1:14.2 | of loud cheering, giant flags, expensive military hardware flying overhead, people screaming, |
1:21.7 | chanting, USA, USA, mindlessly over and over again. |
1:29.2 | That's not patriotism. |
1:32.8 | Patriotism is a deep faith in the idea |
1:37.3 | that animated the United States of America |
1:40.5 | and brought it to life. |
1:43.4 | The right to vote to choose is elemental to being an American and towards the foundation of the |
1:57.3 | United States. |
1:59.3 | This country rejected the idea of a king. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in -603 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Steve Schmidt, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Steve Schmidt and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.