Political Polarization Threatens America's Social Fabric

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. Well with us today is Hank Shankloff, a Democratic strategist, a long term friend, and one person that whether you’re a Democrat or a publican or independent, cares about America, cares about the world, cares about being fair and well, Hank, what’s on your mind this Sunday morning?

0:22 Speaker 2 Well, John, first of all, good morning to you, and happy Sunday to your listeners. You know, it’s what’s going on in Los Angeles is worth watching very careful. You know, if the Democratic Socials candidate, the anti Semitic Democratic Socials candidate, wins in Los Angeles, that will mean that the Democratic Socialist effectively control New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. So

0:43 thus far, Chicago is a good example of what happens with long term lunacy. The place is emptying out, jobs are leaving. It’s a mess, and you know, not so good, not so good. That’s what the future holds in Los Angeles. Well, who knows, it’ll be a major mess.

0:58 Speaker 1 It is. I mean, you have you have the mayor’s race in Los Angeles, which is very important. You have the governor’s race in California. I mean, in the question is can we people in California feel that they’re getting a fair and square deal, and everybody that’s supposed to be voting is voting, and the people are not supposed

1:23 to be voting should not be voting.

1:26 Speaker 2 Well, that’s true, John, but you also have the overwriting concerns by Americans about the cost of living in a sense that things are out of control. You have a younger generation that there’s just you know, thinks they’re always something overall, they’ve never gone out and when you sweat on their brown nor serve this nation in anywhere, no

1:42 participated in democracy. So this is their moment to get even. You know, there are examples of getting even around the country. Chicago is one plantner in the main maybe another who you know, I just shudder to think with the boys, the ninety three hundred people who never hit the age of eighteen, many of them were lying in military in

2:01 the military cemetery overlooking Normandy, would be thinking today if they were alive, if they were able to tell you what it feels like after what the price that they paid in this nation paid for God was a Nazi symbol on his chest to be put. Potentially the next senator from Maine I understood.

2:20 Speaker 1 I mean that would be you know, any other concerns, any particular states. I mean, there’s a big senatorial race in Alaska, there’s one in where is it? North Carolina? Is it? And one in Maine we talked about. I think I think Texas is usually okay. Florida there’s a governor’s race. I mean, I hope not too many people

2:48 from New York. So many people from New York that are stupid that’s still voting Democratic moving to Florida. I hope it doesn’t change things in Florida.

2:57 Speaker 2 Well, you know, the country is going through an extreme, ordinary ideological shift. The Democrats stand for nothing except anti Trumpism, and the Republicans stand for trump Ism. In some place in the middle. There’s got to be, you know, there’s nowhere in the middle for people to rest anymore. The young people are beyond upset. They see their American dream,

3:18 which you know is about about probably in many cases, about nine dollars lattes and gentrifying neighborhoods where they’re destroying what used to be middle income of reportable housing by doing so that they have a right to do what they’re doing without serving or paying a price. Of any kind or volunteering or making the civic culture any stronger,

3:36 which is really really a problem. You know, the national ethos is changing. It’s no longer with liberty and justice for all. And they have some beefs. I mean, the beef about an unfair tax system is right, the beef about unwanted wars, whether you know, they don’t understand international politics or what the cost is of democracy. We have

3:55 people who have never are not willing to pay the cost of democracy in any way, shape or form, and protecting democracy whether we like it or not, as a dirty business. You know. So what do people expect that’s going to happen the next generation in which you and I will not be here to see, likely will have

4:11 to be educated, or this entire nation will pull apart, you know, because they when the left and the extreme left and the extreme right meet, they tend to meet in places of hate. If you look at the history of European politics particularly, and the hate becomes pretty extreme, very extreme.

4:27 Speaker 1 You could see what’s happening in Ireland. You know, you heard what happened in Ireland. You heard what happened in Canada. I mean, uh, you know, immigration, we welcome immigration, but we don’t welcome migration that want to change our way of life.

4:48 Speaker 2 Well, that’s you’re here exactly right, John. But you know what’s worse is we’re now living in a world where our children are imbeciles because they don’t read, they don’t think, they think this is all handed to them. And I do not understand that. In order to have a democracy, yes, you accept immigrants, but you have to you have to

5:06 begin to have people who really want to want to integrate into the culture at large. You know, if you go to Giboran, Michigan, and you look at that recent city council hearing where a fellow disagreed with the religious ethos of the of the community, he was effectively barred.

5:24 You know you can’t have that. You know, descent has to be permitted, differences of opinion have to be permitted. And just because you don’t share the same religion doesn’t mean you ought to be murdered. That’s part of what’s going on and part of what is being sanctioned. And God help us if Americans do not wake up and

5:41 understand how serious this is.

5:44 Speaker 1 Understood, well, Hank Shankov, let’s work together. That’s let’s pray together, work together, and make a better life for our kids and our grand kids. Thank you so much.

5:53 Speaker 2 We have to fight. You have to fight for what you believe in, and you have to fight for America and God bless this extraordinary nation that is so much for the world. Thank you, John I. You’ll be able to wonderful rest today.

6:03 Speaker 1 Thank you.