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>> Ed Vitagliano: welcome to
>> Tim Wildmon: today's Issues, offering a Christian response to the issues of the day. Here's your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association. Hey, good morning everyone and welcome to Today's Issues here on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to afr. You have tuned into a talk show, if you're wondering and we got some talkers, we brought them Ed Battagliano, talker number one. Good morning, Ed.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Good morning, Tim.
>> Tim Wildmon: Good morning, Wesley Wildmon. Good morning, M. Talker number two. Number three is, well, I guess, Where am I? I'm number four. You're number three, Chris.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, you're number one, sir.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's what I like to hear.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Number one.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. Krish Woodward, good morning to you, bro.
>> Chris Woodward: Good morning. I'll, I'll be any number you need me to be. I'm just happy to be here.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. That's the spirit.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Good spirit, good attitude.
>> Tim Wildmon: So we have four people, right? And if that's not enough, we got
>> Ed Vitagliano: our, we got a fifth.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who's that going?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Abraham Hamilton III will be on a panel with us.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, Abraham Hamilton iii.
>> Ed Vitagliano: He's gonna be in studio with us.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: So we do have one chair remaining.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, he's likely to bring it, as you like to say.
>> Ed Vitagliano: He does bring it.
>> Tim Wildmon: He will bring it. Abe Hamilton always brings it.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
Fred Jackson is on vacation and Tim Pritchard is moving to Florida
>> Tim Wildmon: all right, so we thank you for listening everybody, and welcome to the program. Lots and lots and lots. A lot to talk about here on the show and I mean a lot of stories to talk about. Fred Jackson, if you're wondering as, ah, he, he's on vacation this weekend.
>> Chris Woodward: He's on. He actually gets paid for his time off.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And you don't, you don't get well.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, you guys joked on Monday that I don't, but, yeah, but it
>> Ed Vitagliano: appears to have made you bitter.
>> Chris Woodward: I hold on to a lot of things. I, I told y', all, when I leave here, I go and talk to HR for a few minutes.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's not a therapy show. Yeah, okay.
>> Chris Woodward: I'll talk to.
>> Tim Wildmon: And there's no crying in radio either.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right. And if you need therapy, this is the wrong place to be.
>> Chris Woodward: I, I, I got it.
>> Tim Wildmon: We've got our own problems.
>> Chris Woodward: I've got, I've got Dr. Jessica Peck on retainer two times a month. But anyway, yeah, Fred's on a paid vacation and enjoying some, well deserved, much needed time off. Although he has been emailing me. and that's, you know, Fred goes on vacation and he still forwards things.
>> Ed Vitagliano: and Tim does the same thing.
>> Chris Woodward: Like three of the. Fred does not. Fred sleeps from like 7pm to about 3 in the morning. The only person up beyond, Jake from State Farm wearing khakis at 2am is Fred Jackson.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Tim will be on vacation down at the beach and sending stories to us.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm always working, always thinking of you guys.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's why I'll text you. Every vacation. I text you. Aren't you on vacation?
>> Tim Wildmon: well, I, I can't help myself. I'm a news junkie.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So when I sit down at the end of the day, even on vacation, I'll get the iPad out and start checking. What happened?
>> Ed Vitagliano: You know, I need to cover this.
>> Tim Wildmon: What happened now? Brother Ray Pritchard, in case you're wondering, we mentioned that he's had an attitude problem. most recently.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And I, we, he's in timeout.
>> Tim Wildmon: We, we've told him, you know, I don't want to disclose everything told him,
>> Wesley Wildmon: but at this point I think you're
>> Tim Wildmon: safe to say whatever I think, you know, we told him to go sit in the proverbial corner.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Until he can come back with a better attitude.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's right. You know, Ray, you know, he's constantly. I never heard a guy complain more than Ray. Oh yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: To wonder. He wrote a best selling book called Anchor for the Soul. Isn't it so any. No, I'm just teasing. Ray basically sent me a text yesterday apologizing, having missed so much, but he had a death in the family. He also, is moving to Florida from Kansas City. They're moving all their stuff and people know, you know, permanently. Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. He decided to move down to the Tampa area, just north of Tampa. And then he travels to teach at Bible camps during the summer as well. So he'll be, he said, I'll be sometime in mid July. He said he'll be back in the starting lineup.
>> Chris Woodward: I don't know how this works in your church, but I make a motion that we check out a van and we Go. And we do a live remote show from Ray's house.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm, sure he and his wife will appreciate that as they try to unpack.
>> Tim Wildmon: We're going to do.
>> Chris Woodward: You won't say that on radio.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, we're saving that trip for January.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: We're going to Tampa in January. So mark that one down.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's right. Ray is. We're teasing obviously about Ray having a bad attitude. Ray may have the best attitude of any person I've ever known.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: If you. This is if, if you were to spit and raise face, he would assume his eyebrows were on fire.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, I never heard that one before.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, that's a good one. You just make that up as you went.
>> Ed Vitagliano: No, I'd heard that years ago. I always loved it because it's, it's. It's used for someone who's just as can be.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Huh? That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Don't on my leg and tell me it's raining.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I did not come up with that one. But that's also. That's awesome.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
Wesley went to China with Ray 15 years ago
>> Tim Wildmon: Ok. All right, Wesley, you travel with Ray to, China. You guys went to. What has that been 15 years ago?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Where'd you go on a 10 day.
>> Wesley Wildmon: There is actually 13. 13 years ago. Yeah, we were gone for 10 days. We one day of travel there and one day of travel back, or almost a day and a half. But yeah, we went to, Xi'. An. I think that's how you pronounce.
>> Tim Wildmon: Nobody knows.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. We went to Beijing.
>> Tim Wildmon: Beijing. Everybody's heard of Beijing, right?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Made, another stop along the way. yeah, went to Buc Ees.
>> Tim Wildmon: We actually rode up to Buc Ees in Beijing.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. Yeah.
>> Chris Woodward: How were those beaver nuggets?
>> Wesley Wildmon: And I remember shishi means thank you and chan in Mandarin.
>> Tim Wildmon: Mandarin.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah. We also rode a train from one of those stops. All. I got all this documented on my. On my desk and I've got pictures of all this stuff. But from one of our stops to the next, it was an overnight train ride. I remember doing that.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That like to do that.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Pretty cool.
>> Tim Wildmon: And you got the Great Wallnua of China.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, I got to see the whole Great Wallnua of China. We rode bikes on it, rented bikes and road bikes on it. So.
>> Tim Wildmon: No kidding.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Nope. No kidding. It was fun. We had, we had. We had two days of tour quotation tourists at work while we were there.
>> Tim Wildmon: So we had to do their food ministry incognito.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Incognito. And they actually, they Sent a government agent to follow us and go with us on our tourist days.
>> Chris Woodward: Really?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yep. So that was awkward.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Did you speak to the person?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, and so they spoke English and Mandarin. So, So, yeah, had a great time.
>> Tim Wildmon: And brought me back a wallet that I still use.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Really?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Thirteen years.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And it was made in China.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Chinese have been spying on you all this time.
>> Tim Wildmon: Do they insert some kind of chip in wallets?
>> Ed Vitagliano: I wouldn't. I wouldn't put it past them.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I had a good one, you know, missed it.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, what did you say?
>> Wesley Wildmon: And his wallet was made in China?
>> Tim Wildmon: yeah, because he bought it over there, brought it back and. But it still looks like before that,
>> Wesley Wildmon: though, I was following Ray's ministry four or five years before we. Even back when I was in middle school and, high school and even early days of college, I was following Ray way before, talking about his writings, his, videos, his ministry. Keep believing. And then having the opportunity to go was a lot of fun.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, absolutely.
Chris: New Yorkers are leaning towards Democratic, uh, socialism
All right, you're listening to today's issues. Krish, bring forth unto us your first story.
>> Chris Woodward: Well, NewSong Yorkers continue to.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's all we need to hear.
>> Chris Woodward: They continue to.
>> Tim Wildmon: Good enough.
>> Chris Woodward: Fall in love, with these Democratic socialists. Far left Democrats. not your dad's Democrats, to put it that way. And I only say this because yesterday there were primaries throughout NewSong York State, but NewSong York City is the one that many people are focusing their time and attention on, and rightly so, because again, NewSong Yorkers are leaning towards Democratic, socialism. Three candidates endorsed by Zoran Mamdani, Democratic Socialist Mayor of NewSong York City.
>> Tim Wildmon: Zoran Mandami.
>> Chris Woodward: Yes. Zoran Mamdani endorsed three candidates and all three. One. So he was three for three last night.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Chris Woodward: the candidates are Darieliza Avila Chevalier.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, good.
>> Chris Woodward: Claire. Claire Valdez and Brad Lander. To give you an idea of where these people are mentally, let's now hear a montage that roasted together for us. clip one.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Solidarity is the force that we need to vanquish Trump's fascism, to abolish I and to stand up to the billionaires.
>> Tim Wildmon: Abolish Ice Free Palestine. Organize your union
>> Ed Vitagliano: and join gsa.
>> Tim Wildmon: What we have delivered here today is a clear magic that the era of
>> Wesley Wildmon: taking a check and cashing a check
>> Chris Woodward: and calling it representation is over.
Are these U.S. congressional races? That's a good question. They are New York Congressional primaries
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, let me ask you this. These. Those three people we just heard from, who you named, are they. Were they. Did they win the primary Democrat side, which is going to win the general election almost always in NewSong York, Are these NewSong York City council, councilmen. Are these U.S. congressional races?
>> Chris Woodward: That's a good question. They are NewSong York Congressional primaries. So these congressional primary on a pathway to be Congress. Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow. So they're AOCs, except they're to the left of her.
>> Chris Woodward: Oh, yeah, I think they are.
>> Tim Wildmon: They are.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I was looking at a story here on the NewSong York Post, about this. Now, Vanliere Jones. You guys know Vanliere Jones, CNN commentator. He's pretty far left.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: He says, quote, the roof is collapsing on the Democratic Party establishment tonight. And you can't write off NewSong York City because this is a power center for the establishment and the insurgency. They're going head to head. Ton. I couldn't tell from the quote if Vanliere. Jon. Vanliere Jones approves of their win or if he's just talking about the challenge this poses to the regular liberal establishment. Yeah, one of these, socialists slash communists. That one, is, representative. No, it's, Claire Valdez. I think she was a. Is she a state representative?
>> Chris Woodward: Currently A state assembly member.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Okay.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And, this is a statement about her from US Senator Jon Fetterman, who's more like the old guard Democratic Party. She says some of these candidates. He says some of these candidates are outrageous. They want to abolish ice, abolish police, abolish the border. She even said, talking about, Valdez, I'm not even going to say what the ugly thing was, but it was, hostile to Kamala Harris. Okay. Kamala Harris is not acceptable to these people.
>> Chris Woodward: And she's listed as being a 2028 candidate.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Let me tell you, okay? Couple things here. One is, if this were only NewSong York City Council races, I really wouldn't care. I mean, too bad for them, right? But, you know, you put yourself in
>> Chris Woodward: this situation kind of thing.
>> Tim Wildmon: But here's what's troubling is that these people you just heard from are on a track to win in November and then go to Washington D.C. to be U.S. house of Representative members. and they vote on legislation that affects us all. So this is why this is very concerning. May get Abe to comment on this, too, as well.
New York City has the largest concentration of Jews anywhere in the world
But here Wesley, Ed and Krish and listeners, let me tell you one dynamic that's maybe going to be. I don't know if it'll be reported or under reported, but New, York City has the largest number of Jews anywhere in the world. In Israel. M. Okay. now South Florida has a lot of Jews living there, too, but NewSong York City has the highest concentration in the greater NewSong York area of Jewish people than any other, place in America. There is coming, ah, a clash, it seems to me, and it's kind of already flared up in some places between. Okay, let me finish my point on that. But these Jews in NewSong York vote Democrat right now. There are only a few places in the greater NewSong York City area that you would consider Republican, areas anymore. Now remember, as liberal as NewSong York is, they did vote for Bloomberg for mayor. What was his first name?
>> Chris Woodward: Micah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Micah the billionaire. They did vote for Rudolph Giuliani, what, two decades ago.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: For mayor. So they do. They have had some Republicans, in leadership in NewSong York City, but for the most part it's a Democrat, Controlled area. But here's what I'm saying. You heard one of those congressional people right there. Candidates say free Palestine.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. That is a, that is a direct shot at the Jews. Okay, so there is. And Mandami and his wife have expressed anti Semitism. That's right out in the open.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Especially his wife. So, I don't know what's going to happen there when you have all these Jews living in NewSong York and now you have a growing, the growing popularity of, I call them Jew haters.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: But here's where they would say, they would say, no, we're not Jew haters. We just hate the policies of Israel in killing the Palestinians, genocide and all that. Free Palestine. You say free Palestine. Basically you're saying, get rid of Israel. So it's a little, sometimes it's a little murky because I think you can criticize the policies of Israel without being a Jew hater. I think that is possible. but at the same time, these folks are not, they're not distinguishing much anymore. If you're a Jew and you support Israel, you are might as well be a Nazi who supports Hitler. And so you deserve to be targeted as well. So does that make sense?
>> Ed Vitagliano: No, it does. And now here's the thing about this election, because mom, this is first of all showing the growing, power of Mamdani. Because these were all endorsed by the NewSong York City mayor.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay. Now, with, with all respect to Senator Fetterman, I still want to see how much this influences the Democratic Party across the country for, for this one reason. We mentioned this when Mamdani was elected. Okay. And I looked it up just to make sure Zoran Mamdani was not elected by a majority of native born NewSong Yorkers. Now this is, I'm reading from the AI generated answer to my question, exit polling indicates Mamdani lost this demographic to Andrew Cuomo by an 11 point margin. Native NewSong Yorkers, Democrats voted for Cuomo.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay. Who voted for Mamdani? Newer residents. He won 81% of those living in the city for less than 10 years who backed his campaign.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow.
>> Ed Vitagliano: So I'm guessing that was the same dynamic that we saw yesterday. So I'm waiting to see if this is simply a case of socialists moving to America.
>> Ed Vitagliano: From elsewhere, voting for continuation of socialist policies, or probably more disturbingly, if it's true, is this a nationwide movement in the Democratic Party to go socialist?
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: What I, here's my position, here's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking that during COVID if we remember back, there was a lot of moderates and traditional Democrats that left because of the COVID lockdowns. They were NewSong York, NewSong York, NewSong York. You've had people leaving NewSong York for the last eight to 10 years at droves. And especially in the last three to five years since COVID you're having what was left of and you got the, you got the rest of. Rest of. Everyone else is living in the countryside and they're probably, they don't have any, they're not voting.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Showing up at the boat, maybe.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Maybe, people with money, business owners, because they don't want to get taxed to death, leaving as well.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. So it's being left to its own demise is what I'm thinking, is what I'm seeing.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah. Fox managed to find one immigrant, on the streets of NewSong York City that does not want socialism in the city that he moved to, that being NewSong York City. And I say that based on this Q and A between the reporter and the immigrant here in Clip 9.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Do you want to bring socialism in?
>> Ed Vitagliano: No.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: No, no. Why? No. Why?
>> Tim Wildmon: Because I from Latin America. We have a Venezuela, we have a Cuba, we have a, Bolivia. No one this in NewSong York.
>> Wesley Wildmon: So that's.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who are we hearing from right there?
>> Chris Woodward: That is, an immigrant in NewSong York City that Fox was interviewing in kind of a post election or he
>> Tim Wildmon: came from a socialist country and he says we don't want that, we don't want that.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And he's one of an example that if you were to follow up with him in two years, he's going to be in Kansas, he's going to be in Texas, he's going to be in Manhattan, Kansas.
>> Ed Vitagliano: so that remains to be seen is how widespread a movement this is.
Tim Hamilton: I think young people are becoming open to more radical ideas
And I'll tell you one other thing that I think is working at work in the Democratic Party and frankly this is probably across America amongst a lot of young people younger even than you two guys. you know, Wesley, in their 20s.
>> Tim Wildmon: You mean people.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, people in their 20s, maybe early 30s. and that is the the affordability crisis. I don't know what else to call it. That's what everyone calls it. I, I think, I, I, I think that there are a lot of young people who see no path forward for them achieving the American dream. And I think some of them are becoming open to more radical approach. And my own feeling is the only way for America to get past this is this sounds, I'm not trying to over spiritualize. This is for America to have a real awakening. Christianity has to govern even our capitalist system.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Okay.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You have to have a concern for other people, not just the size of your own bank account. in order for the economy to make room for people through its policies, the government policies that give young people hope. Because you don't want young people to become radicalized. I guess is, is the thing I'm saying because when people become radicalized they'll take a chance on communism thinking. That's the answer.
>> Wesley Wildmon: All consciousness and all reasonability, all the thinking comes, that goes out the window.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, it goes out the window and they take a chance on it. And then the old expression is you can vote your way into communism but you got to fight your way out.
>> Tim Wildmon: I also think a lot of these people who are voting are idealistic, far lefties and they really think that their ideas are going to work and be good for America.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah. but they're also about that shallow too.
>> Tim Wildmon: They're very shallow. They, they, they vote, they actually vote on stolen land. Well, which is very, very disappointing.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It's funny. But that's, that's how shallow the stolen land people.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Chris Woodward: Actually had a so called land acknowledgment ceremony at the opening of Obama's presidential library where they talked about how this building, which by the way is really ugly, is built on stolen land. And so they began by talking about and giving a shout out to all the Native American tribes that used to occupy this land. If it's stolen land and it's wrong
>> Tim Wildmon: for us, you got to give it back.
>> Chris Woodward: Why are you building a building on it?
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's insane.
>> Tim Wildmon: They built the Obama library on stolen land.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And they acknowledged it. But I guess in parentheses. Too bad it's lousy to Be you suck it up.
>> Tim Wildmon: Cheap buttercup.
>> Chris Woodward: I am not making this up at all. People can look it up. They meet a coup of times a week. But the LA County, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, they begin every meeting.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Chris Woodward: With a land acknowledgement. Talking about how we are meeting on land of umpteen tribes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: How does that help? If you're a Native American, how does that help you?
>> Chris Woodward: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: I do that.
>> Chris Woodward: You just get reminded every time.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. I knew that when I lay pine straw at my house, think about the stolen land that this flower.
>> Wesley Wildmon: The reason we know he's joking because he's never laid pine straw.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: No, actually, he's always.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, but your mama likes to mow the grass, and I do not want to take that away from her.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right. It's a blessing for her. You can't take her blessing.
>> Tim Wildmon: Happy. Get out there on the lawnmower and not talk to anybody for two hours. And if I were to say, let me do that for you.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: I would be stealing her joy.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: And I don't want to.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You're a great man, Tim.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, we all make sacrifices. You know what I'm saying? let's go ahead and take our break a little early here as we broadcast from stolen land, probably.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Stolen land.
>> Tim Wildmon: Stolen land.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Gotta miss that.
>> Tim Wildmon: And, I guess Abraham Hamilton iii, He's on his way, right? We're respecting him. He said he'll be here. He committed.
>> Wesley Wildmon: He just walked past.
>> Tim Wildmon: He did.
>> Chris Woodward: Okay, Good deal.
>> Wesley Wildmon: He's gonna get popcorn.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, that's. That's a man after my own heart right there. we'll be back momentarily with more of today's issues on the American Family Radio Network.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Sam.
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Abe Hamilton: We're seeing emergence of far left Democrats in big cities
Hey, welcome back everybody to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Tim Edwards, Wesley and Krish. And now Abraham Hamilton the third joins us. Good morning, brother A.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Good morning.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, just to clarify, we were talking at last, last segment about the. How far left these, the emerging, what I say, I don't know if I say leaders, the emerging delegation of new people, people elected to office in the Democrat Party, let me put that way, in their 30s or far lefties. Far, far lefties. But I joked and said and I'm not too far off that they're the same people are gonna that believe that we're living on stolen land in the U.S. huh? Huh? Yeah, they are the, that's their ideology. So, hey, let me ask you this. This, I was going to clarify but I won't get into that because it'll take, take us down a rabbit hole and I'll be here for 10 more minutes and before we emerge and only to learn it was a gopher hoe. So Abe, these people that are, that we've talked about, Krish mentioned in NewSong York City last night, who three of them. They were three for three and these people are far, far left, politically, and they're going to probably be elected to Congress. So they're going to go to D.C. and affect all of us with their ideology and their votes. What's driving this emergence of far lefties, in NewSong York, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Louisiana, we see this happening across the country in big City America. Washington, D.C. yeah. D.C. they just elected their own Mandani.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah, it's the same, agenda and movement, if you will, that led to AOC's election. So you have these far left radical groups that look for candidates to prop up, to run. That's what happened with this Graham, Platner guy in Maine that he was recruited to run by some of these people. Because the momentum in the Democrat Party, as well as the funding is primarily behind these radicals. It is, you know as well as I know that, you used to be a thing called a Blue Dog Democrat. That does not exist anymore because, the party has made the decision to recast itself, frankly, officially almost as the Socialist Party of America. That's why you have Bernie Sanders running for the presidency as an open Democratic socialist. AOC openly running as a Democratic socialist. These people now openly running as Democratic socialists. And so they're at the next phase of their agenda to really move the United States of America more formally into a system.
>> Tim Wildmon: Have they really taken over the Democrat Party? Because we have Jon Fetterman speaking out. You have the, traditional Democrats, which are far too liberal for my liking, but still they're Joe Biden types. They are Joe Manchin. They still, they still are there.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: But you have to ask yourself, are they supported and celebrated or are they tolerated? The reality is the Democrat Party, by and large, is really, really upset with Fetterman. You know, and many of them did not expect Fetterman to be Senator Fetterman the way that he is as they, as he campaigned.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And he's up for reelection.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: And he's up for reelection. And a question will be in 28. Do you think he will be supported by the Democratic Party?
>> Tim Wildmon: No, I don't.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Or will he be Primary, probably.
>> Tim Wildmon: Although in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is more conservative than they, say NewSong York, for example. So I'm not sure where that, where that goes. But what we're saying here, we're seeing the emergence, I use that word, of, the Alexandria, the squad, the Alexandria, Ocasio Cortez, aoc, far left ideology. And that's emerging as the driving force, to elect new Democrat candidates. And they're like pushing out what they call the establishment and they AOC and her ilk are about to become the establishment.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: That's what they're seeking to accomplish.
>> Ed Vitagliano: well, and this win, this trio of victories for commies. In NewSong York City yesterday, we mentioned this Representative, Claire Valdez, that Fetterman criticized, but she won her primary by more than 20 points. They're not just squeaking victories out. Abe, let me just ask you this. Now, there are different types of socialist approaches.
>> Ed Vitagliano: When it comes to changing, the political landscape, there is the more incremental approach where you have, where you elect socialists, they vote for socialist policies. Free this, free that, free. But at its core, let me ask you this. True socialism, true communism, are they compatible with our Constitution?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: No, absolutely not. Absolutely not. Socialism and communism are not compatible with our Constitution. That's why you had, you know, I have to go back here because this is what they meant when they said these words. The fundamental transformation of the United States of America. They know as America has been constituted, our founding documents, our separation of powers, it's not conducive to socialism and communism. So in order to have that in our country, it has to come as a result of a fundamental transformation. And that's why they work so hard to try to persuade younger people. It's the same thing. I mean, Iran is in the news. People often forget that the revolution in Iran was often fomented by the younger generations of Iranians who welcomed the, transition toward the Islamic Republic, which they have now.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Unsuspecting.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Unsuspectingly. Similarly in Virginia, for example, Governor, Abigail Spanberger, who I unaffectionately call Abercrombie and Fitch, Governor Abercrombie, she campaigned as a moderate, but she governed as a conventional 21st century democrat. And we're going to see that all around the country even more. There will be some who campaign as if this is not their true agenda
>> Tim Wildmon: in trouble, especially in more conservative states.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Especially in more conservative states. But once they secure power, look how they govern. And so the reality of the Jon Fetterman and others, the Democrat party at this stage wants to see them move further and further, further to the margins and nationalization, if you will, of the squad.
>> Tim Wildmon: I think that. Wesley, you might want to comment. Krish, I know we got another story to get to. I think still today that helps the Republicans on a national level. Let me tell you what, now, I don't know how much, because I'm thinking of the electoral college map, for president. That's what I'm thinking of. Primarily. And, you know, the Republicans have to win Ohio, the Republicans have to win Florida. They have to win those states to sort of counteract NewSong York and California as best they can. And Texas has always been red. You know, I think it'll stay red. But, it's those, it's those countries, it's those purple, states like Pennsylvania, like Michigan, like what. Wisconsin. We think of those states. And Georgia now, you know, is purple. So I. Virginia. Virginia.
I think on statewide elections that far lefty candidates can hurt Democrats
Virginia, yeah. so I just wonder, I think on statewide elections that hurts. That if you got a far lefty running, that hurts Democrats in purple states. But that remains to be seen. But you know, I don't know. I don't, I don't bring formal statistics for that. I'm just thinking, you know.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah. In order for it to actually hurt, I think the Republicans. Republicans will have to do a good job of showing, the kind of sleight of hand that transpires. And you have, the James Talafrico attempt to, to present himself. Oh, I was just kidding when I said God is non binary. And oh yeah, I said some things wrong. Like when he says, like, yeah, I'm a Christian who hates Christianity. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he said that, by the way. He did, yeah, I heard Christianity. Oh, you know, it was just a misstep. I don't really, really feel that way.
>> Tim Wildmon: And I saw a survey last night in Texas, for the Senate race and for those who don't know, that's the ag, Pax Tax, first name Ken. Ken versus, James Talarico Talerico. What have you nicknamed him?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Talafrico.
>> Tim Wildmon: Do you work for Trump? Are you the guy who feeds him?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: I do not.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Anyway, and the poll showed, Paxton ahead. This is polling and this is for a November race by like 1 or 2%. so that's the headline. Said pulls ahead and I'm going. Well, how far did he pull ahead? So I don't know how accurate that is, but it's a very close race right now in Texas. I think Paxton will win in the end. I mean, they said Ted Cruz was going to lose there too. He did not. He won. Now, is it a 10 point margin anymore in Texas? No, but it's still five, you know what I'm saying? Statewide.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's why I think in let others jump in too. But I don't, I don't think the commie candidates are gonna, are gonna hurt the Democratic Party against the Republicans because they, and Abe used The word, the expression, sleight of hand is they frame the issues around bread and butter, kitchen table kinds of issues that are going to drive a lot of people to the poll.
>> Tim Wildmon: Universal health care.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Universal. All that stuff.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Depending on the jurisdiction.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: In NewSong York, they'll go full on.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: You know, globalized government.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Government.
>> Tim Wildmon: Grocery stores.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Grocery stores. But in Virginia.
>> Ed Vitagliano: But then, but, but that's. To me, that is why this is a dangerous movement, because these folks can come to power and then once they're in power, they just start writing the legislation. And it's very difficult to claw this back. We have four years of Joe Biden. We're having to claw back all the people who came into this country illegally. All the policies, all the fraud, all the money that was going to usaid, all this stuff. It's very difficult to get it back once it's been passed.
Abe Hamilton III: Think Republicans have made progress in purple states
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. You're listening to today's issues on the American Family Radio Network. Abe Hamilton III joining us. This, segment. Ed Westy and Krish. Wesley and Krish. go ahead.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I think the Republicans have made a lot more progress than we realize because if you think about Trump won the electoral vote and he won the popular vote. in addition to that, we've had a lot of victories in the WOKE movement, the di. The.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: The.
>> Wesley Wildmon: The movement.
>> Tim Wildmon: You mean against those things?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Against those things. We've also, under the Trump administration, we've shut down the border for the most part. There's not as much illegal imm. Could we do better?
>> Tim Wildmon: Think those things help in elections in purple states?
>> Wesley Wildmon: I do think so. And I do think, in contrast, we've seen, and we've seen at times your, I forget the gentleman, the guy who said this, but he said, yeah, we're going to take your guns. What was the gentleman's name?
>> Chris Woodward: That was, Beto.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Beto, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Anybody says that's not a gentleman, but go ahead.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, that's a good point.
>> Tim Wildmon: Your idea, you're being nice.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: You mean the candidate that tried to beat Beto, o'.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Rourke.
>> Chris Woodward: It was the Tel Avico before Telerika.
>> Wesley Wildmon: We've seen in contrast the far left and the Republican candidate, and they're just so. There's a growing. They're going further and further, bigger and bigger gap, that it's easier to see the difference between the two. And, I was going to ask Abel on this. I mentioned this before, right before you came on. I think the NewSong York. I think that also comes from a lot of the Traditional Democrats, moderates leaving NewSong York leading up, in the last five to eight years. And you're seeing that in other states too. So I've all I've been saying since COVID red states are going to become more red, purple state or blue states are going to become more blue. I think you're going to get less of, purple.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. all right, Krish, what's the next story we wanted to bring up with Abe?
More Democrats and young people say conflicted or indifferent about America
>> Chris Woodward: Well, one thing that we could combat socialism and Marxism with is patriotism, love of country, and the principles upon which our great nation is founded. Unfortunately, more and more Americans, are not exactly patriotic these days. And that's not me saying it. It's the Associated Press NORC poll, which is from the University of Chicago. And they found that, more Democrats and young people say conflicted or indifferent describes their feelings about America. 250. About 4 in 10 Democrats and roughly 3 in 10 adults under 30 say conflicted describes their feelings extremely or very well. About 3 in 10 in each case feel indifferent. So liberal people, liberal minded people, not happy with America. Sadly, only about half of Republicans, 54% say they feel excited about this country's anniversary.
>> Tim Wildmon: Before you, Abe, answers this, and I appreciate you bringing that poll up, but polls like that, need a lot more, you know, sub polling data to understand fully what we're talking about here. Because, patriotism, is that defined as excitement for the moment? Because if you would have asked me during the Obama and Biden years, you know, some of the agenda that they were carrying out. Are you excited about America? I'd have said no. But it wouldn't have been, I'm unpatriotic, and don't love this country. You see what I'm saying?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So it's a little.
>> Ed Vitagliano: But this, this was specifically about how you feel about America in the 250th
>> Chris Woodward: head again to our 250th anniversary.
>> Ed Vitagliano: But you're, you're saying that's a snapshot in time?
>> Tim Wildmon: Not that's what I'm saying.
>> Chris Woodward: Probably.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. I remember in seven in 1776.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: You remember that?
>> Tim Wildmon: Ah, yeah. I got a time machine.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: I know where you parked.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Eating.
>> Tim Wildmon: I got a bunch of diet on this coffee popcorn combo. Okay. If I'm traveling 250 years back.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: I was gonna say, 1976.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Okay, gotcha.
>> Tim Wildmon: Long before you were.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: on this earth. Wesley and Krish, when were you born?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: 1980.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, before Abe too.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ed. I'm Ed. I'm Looking at you, brother, it's you and me. Us. Gray beard.
>> Chris Woodward: Just us. I look like I'm old enough to be wealthy, Grandpa, I graduated.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I graduated in 1976.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, well, you're even. I graduated in 81, so you're even. Anyway, the point is, I do have one. Point is, I remember in 1976, there was Universal, overwhelming celebration in our country. There's never even a thought that I remember now. I was not. I would have been 13, so I wasn't exactly consuming national news, or polls or surveys. But just I remember in those years, there was overwhelming people, maybe a Democrat or a Republican, it didn't matter. They loved this country and they wanted to see the best for this country.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And that was in the wake of all the trouble over the Vietnam War.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that's right. Even had that as the backdrop.
>> Tim Wildmon: So then there were, you know, half of America was upset about us being in.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And the civil rights movement, the Vietnam, that was, that was in the late 60s, 60s and it was.
>> Tim Wildmon: But you had a lot of turmoil.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: In our country. But yet there was a unifying.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Exactly.
>> Tim Wildmon: Unifying spirit among all people, almost all people in America. That Abe, that America was worth celebrating. The ideal, not that we were perfect, had a lot, but the ideal of what America could be.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah. I mean, the anecdotal reference in 1976-2026, I mean, there's been a consistent and concerted effort to once again infiltrate the hearts and minds of younger Americans. to have 16, 19, project style revisionism communicated that will manipulate younger generations of Americans away from what's true about the country. It's not perfect, but when you consider a poll like that, I would say contrast it with a lot of the foreigners who are visiting our country for the World Cup.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, let's play that right now.
>> Chris Woodward: Okay. Yeah, we got,
>> Tim Wildmon: Good point, Abe. So what we're about to play. Wesley, you found this, didn't you?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: What did you find?
>> Wesley Wildmon: I found a clip with Jake Tapper interview.
>> Tim Wildmon: Jake Tapper fan.
What do you make of all the viral content coming out of this tournament
>> Wesley Wildmon: You are interviewing an German soccer fan or player?
>> Chris Woodward: Soccer fan.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Soccer player.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Was it Freddie from Germany?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Freddie, I think Freddie, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who's traveling the country and he was
>> Wesley Wildmon: asked what did he think about his experience while being here? Play the clip.
>> Tim Wildmon: What do you make of all the viral content coming out of this tournament and, and all the love for the European tourists, from the American people as you show us our country with fresh eyes.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: In Europe, we have a lot of rather negative news about the Americans in the last five years, let's say that. And I think we are all enjoying, like, the fact that this country is so great to visit. The people are amazing, so welcoming. The culture is amazing. It's like Europeans are, getting a new view of America right now, I think, through. Also through our content. And that's cool, I think.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And you said that, Jake Tapper, did you say he really knew to hear that?
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is there any more to that for
>> Chris Woodward: Jake Tapper's last day?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, that's it. I think, I think, I think that. Well, that's all we got. There may have been more there, but I know that the biggest reason I said that I mentioned this in the show for a meeting. It's even better if you see the video because Jake Tapper's like, I did not want to hear that. That is not, But, you know, it's one of those where you're smiling like. Okay, did he just say that? Yes, he did.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: And so, Freddie from Germany is one. I played some clips on my show of this. You have people from Scotland.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: From Japan, from Ghana, from all over the world. And one guy who said, we owe the United States of America an apology. What the media and our elected officials have been telling us about this country is not true.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: One guy went so far as to say, I don't know why anybody in America would be upset because you have Texas Roadhouse in your country. You walk in, they give you a bag of peanuts and the bread and the butter.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: And then he said that free refills.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Free refills.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Free refills. Blew this European cat. He was like, they give you free. Every cup comes with ice. You know, it's easy for us to laugh at.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I know.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: We can take these things for granted. It's almost like you have to be a, modern revisionist, younger American to despise our country. But when you see our country with fresh eyes, even with all of the difficulties, the challenges, this is still the best nation.
Tim Opperman: The deception of our education system is intentional
>> Ed Vitagliano: All right, let me ask you. The 64,000.
>> Tim Wildmon: And then Wesley wants to speak.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, all right, go ahead.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I'm just going to say, I'll just add all this is that the deception of our education system, both in high, Both public schools, but also in college. It's not necessarily that. In some cases they just outright lie, but in more cases they just purposefully leave out.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yes.
>> Wesley Wildmon: The good things.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, that's my question.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: My question is, for the last 50 years, is this just the accidental result of People teaching our young people, and they happen to have a personal distaste for America, or was this an intentional, I don't want to say plot, but is this an intentional effort to undermine America by destroying the people's love for our history?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: And I don't want to sound unnecessarily conspiratorial, but the fact is it is intentional. I can cite you from 1972. Chester Pierce said, Every five year old coming to school in America comes to school. School. Mentally ill. Mentally ill. And he said this at an international education conference. And you asked, well, why do you say they come to school mentally ill? Well, because they show up at 5 with certain allegiances, you know, to the founding fathers of our country, certain allegiances to this nation.
>> Tim Wildmon: They pledge allegiance to the flag of
>> Abraham Hamilton III: the United States of America, separate entities, certain allegiances to their own parents, allegiances to God. And it's the role of the educator to make all of these sick children well. That's what Chester Pierce did in 1972.
>> Tim Wildmon: And he was, he was a dean
>> Abraham Hamilton III: of education at Harvard University and a leading, advocate for formational education, K through 12. Now, this is not 2022, 1972. He was saying these things. And what Wesley said is exactly right. It's not always affirmative misrepresentations, but it's calculated and intentional omissions from our national history that leaves you with a perception to ultimately shape the perception. So it's not like, hey, I'm going to tell Ed this falsity, but I'm going to just say, you know, Ed, you know Wesley, you know, sometimes he's grumbling, grumpy.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Which may be true.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: That's not the whole of who Wesley is. But if all you know is Wesley's
>> Ed Vitagliano: grumpy and we're seeing this with these Europeans, they were hearing all this stuff about America and Africans, Japanese, Japanese or the.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: All of them.
>> Tim Wildmon: I love the Japanese because they clean up their own.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes, yes.
>> Chris Woodward: That's the thing. That's the terrible thing. They come over here and take care of something that isn't even theirs.
>> Tim Wildmon: And the Japanese, the stories about the Japanese.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah. Clean it up after themselves. Umpteenth generation Americans that are like, that's somebody's job.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, it's terrible.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: And the deputies do that all over the world. But the, but the disdain for our country and the apathy concerning something like the 250th anniversary of our Declaration is not just a casual coincidence. It's a manufactured outcome. A manufactured Result.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You know, I just want to just toss this in. I'm sure we go on, on and on. I, read a book many years ago called the Collapse of the Third Republic. It was about the fall of France in World War II. How quickly. A lot of people don't know this. France had the largest army in Europe at the time, even larger than the Nazis. It collapsed in six weeks. And William Manchester, who wrote this book, he was over there when this happened. He writes this. It's a very long book. But he said, the collapse of France in World War II is in part because the people were taught to hate their own country. And when it came time to run, or got. Now, a lot of French soldiers actually fought very, very courageously and bravely. But the people who ran said, why should I die for this country? And, what I fear is that more and more people are being taught to despise the nation to where there's nothing worth fighting for.
>> Tim Wildmon: The part I find curious. And you ask, well, Tim, what part is that? And, so I'll tell you. These people on the far left have such disdain for our country, and yet they want millions of people to come into our country m. And experience a systemic racism themselves and all the problems that we have here in our country, the fascism. And yet let's open our borders and see the millions come in who want to live in that.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah, because somebody is lying, too. I said the exact same thing.
>> Ed Vitagliano: The two things can't be true.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: This can't be the worst nation in the world.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oppression.
>> Tim Wildmon: Now come to America.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Suffer.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Right?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: But y' all talk about. You hear? Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Those legislators, if they believe what they're saying, they're the ones who should be wanting to build the wall. You don't want to come.
>> Tim Wildmon: You don't want to come here. It's terrible.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Filled with zombies.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's fascist.
>> Wesley Wildmon: We're putting others before ourselves.
>> Tim Wildmon: Fascist.
>> Ed Vitagliano: zombies.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. All right.
Abe Levin: Coming up this afternoon on your show on AFRA
Thank you, Abe. what do you got? Coming up this afternoon on your show,
>> Abraham Hamilton III: I'm going to continue walking through some of the details of the MOU between Iran and. And the US I actually sent some of this to Ed. We went through points one through 10 yesterday. Monday through nine yesterday. We go through points 10 through 14.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, thanks, Abe. And we'll be back in five minutes with more of today's issues. The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: M.
