Speaker 1: Escape to rubber resort. I can't be the only one
Speaker 1: that is getting tired of this election season that is
Speaker 1: starting to get election fatigue. November can't get here soon enough,
Speaker 1: because again, every day there's another bit of insanity, there's
Speaker 1: another bit of tribalism. Whether it's people on your side
Speaker 1: of the equation putting out falsehoods that are easily disproven,
Speaker 1: or people on the other side of the equation putting
Speaker 1: out falsehoods that are easily disproven. It's tiring. Social media
Speaker 1: has been a good tool for insurgent candidates to utilize
Speaker 1: and try to grow their name id and potentially make
Speaker 1: a name for themselves. It has also become something that
Speaker 1: has been bastardized by the politicians. Every day I see
Speaker 1: another politician that I know is a weak need soft
Speaker 1: Republican that is trying to wrap himself up in Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: when I know for a fact they tried everything they
Speaker 1: could do to defeat Donald Trump, not just in twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen primary, but again earlier this year during that primary.
Speaker 1: These people will wrap themselves in Trump, and people will
Speaker 1: except that they are dying the wool Trump folks when
Speaker 1: they never were. I've seen it firsthand where I've seen
Speaker 1: politicians that were very hostel and anti to Donald Trump
Speaker 1: running against somebody who wasn't. But maybe he said an
Speaker 1: off the cuff remark that wasn't truly insult of Trump,
Speaker 1: but it was weaponized against him, and the guy that
Speaker 1: was always always anti Trump wins the day because he
Speaker 1: has more money and he has that picture of him
Speaker 1: standing next to Donald Trump with his thumbs up. We've
Speaker 1: got to be better people because this tribalism that we
Speaker 1: have fallen into, this trap Republican good Democrat, bad Democrat,
Speaker 1: good Republican bad. We no longer focus on the ideas.
Speaker 1: We no longer focus on the things that we should
Speaker 1: be focusing on. We don't look at a politician's score
Speaker 1: care and say, well, he's not voting with my value,
Speaker 1: so maybe I should vote him out. Now we look
Speaker 1: at him and say, well, look, he stood with President Trump,
Speaker 1: so I should stand with him. We put too much
Speaker 1: stock in endorsements from other politicians who might be as
Speaker 1: bad or simply just have something to gain by getting
Speaker 1: behind the incumbent. There's a reason this country's in the
Speaker 1: state that it's in. And this might make some of
Speaker 1: you mad. It's not all Joe Biden's fault. It's not
Speaker 1: all Barack Obama's fault. It's not all the Democrats fault.
Speaker 1: A lot of that fault. We can look in the
Speaker 1: mirror and blame ourselves because we're not electing the best
Speaker 1: of the best on either party. We will reject new
Speaker 1: blood simply because the old blood has more money and
Speaker 1: can come out and slap the new blood in the face.
Speaker 1: We will reject the person who has stood on principle
Speaker 1: and has a record of fighting for you, merely because
Speaker 1: you get a mailer that tells you what a terrible
Speaker 1: individual they are. These are the things that keep me
Speaker 1: up at night. These are the things that drive me
Speaker 1: crazy and drive me up a wall. These are the
Speaker 1: very things that we need to be pushing back against.
Speaker 1: We don't need to fall into tribal camps. If a
Speaker 1: republican's a bad Republican, we need to replace him. But
Speaker 1: all too often we fall into the trap of incumbent preservation,
Speaker 1: where we see folks so much stock in that power
Speaker 1: of incumbency that we don't pay attention to why the
Speaker 1: insurgent candidate ran against him in the first place. We
Speaker 1: look at these things and we question why nothing ever changes.
Speaker 1: But until we start to change the people we're putting
Speaker 1: in office, nothing's gonna change. Donald Trump in twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: represented being an agent of change. He ran on a
Speaker 1: premise of draining the swamp. Yet the swamp never got drained,
Speaker 1: nothing ever got changed, nothing from the swamp ever got deluded.
Speaker 1: Matter of fact, I think we filled it a little
Speaker 1: bit more ten times over. And I think that's a
Speaker 1: major part of the problem here. We can do better,
Speaker 1: but it takes us taking a little time to do
Speaker 1: a little bit of our own research. And that's hard.
Speaker 1: I get it, But is it really that hard? Right
Speaker 1: here in my home state in Mississippi, we have a
Speaker 1: terrible congressman in the second Congressional District by the name
Speaker 1: of Benny Thompson. Manny Thompson has benefited greatly from a
Speaker 1: Gerrymander district that pretty much ensures that he's going to
Speaker 1: get reelected. Well, he's got a Republican challenger, and maybe
Speaker 1: they think he's got a shot because I saw that
Speaker 1: the Republican Party endorsed the Republican candidate. Go figure, it's
Speaker 1: the Republican Party. That's what they're supposed to do. And
Speaker 1: of course you're seeing Republican office holders all coming out
Speaker 1: and does that really matter, because again, I think if
Speaker 1: you're a Republican, you were never going to vote for
Speaker 1: Benny Thompson in the first Those endorsements don't move the
Speaker 1: needle one iota. And if the district is drawn in
Speaker 1: a way that protects Benny Thompson still, then guess what.
Speaker 1: Benny Thompson's probably gonna get reelected again. But we'll share
Speaker 1: the post of the Republican Party endorsing him like that
Speaker 1: means anything. They should have endorsed him the second he
Speaker 1: won the primary. This shouldn't have been something that happened
Speaker 1: months after the primary. He's their candidate. Of course they
Speaker 1: were gonna endorse him. I don't know, folks. I wish
Speaker 1: I had more faith in the system. I wish I
Speaker 1: trusted the American electorate, but I don't anymore because I've
Speaker 1: seen them fail us too many times where they failed
Speaker 1: to do the research and properly get out and vote
Speaker 1: out bad politicians. They're more worried about voting for the
Speaker 1: name they know than actually committing themselves to changing anything.
Speaker 1: This has been morning coffee with the Right Side, and
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