Well, I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the founding fathers.

Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who would escape from Castro.

And in the midst of his story, one of my friends turned to the other and said, we don't know how lucky we are.

And the Cuban stopped and said, how lucky you are.

I had some place to escape to.

And in that sentence, he told us the entire story.

If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

And this idea that government is beholden to the people that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people.

It's still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man.

This is the issue of this election.

Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite,

in a far distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right.

Well, I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right.

There's only an up or down man's old age dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order,

or down to the anteep of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives,

those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is November 8th, 2022.

It is election day here in the United States of America.

And by golly, did we nail it with that cold open or what?

That's what it's all about. The experiment people will the experiment of man having some power over his own life, some sovereignty over how he lives will it continue?

Or will bureaucrats and lifelong politicians and people who would love to control you? Will they take more control?

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