Nov. 2, 2016 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| With six days left to the election, it's incredible how little public discourse this past year | ||
| has had to do with the actual issues. | ||
| Immigration has become a meme fest revolving around Trump's proposed wall. | ||
| Abortion was basically relegated to one three minute exchange in the final debate. | ||
| There's been virtually nothing on legalizing marijuana, the war on drugs, or reforming our prison system. | ||
| Foreign policy has been reduced to Trump saying he can't tell us what he's going to do so that he doesn't tip anyone off vs. Hillary promoting her experience, much of which was a disaster. | ||
| There's been pretty much no talk of infrastructure or education, but a whole lot on genital grabbing and hacked emails. | ||
| My hope is that this is the last election we'll ever have where seemingly every major issue is neglected and the minutiae of he said, she said gets center stage. | ||
| Out of all of this anger and frustration and general lunacy, I really do believe that something good will rise from the ashes. | ||
| The majority of us want to talk about the real issues. | ||
| We don't want to demonize everyone, we don't want to be pandered to, and we do want to find solutions. | ||
| We got in this political mess this year because for so long we've allowed the system to let the lowest common denominator rise to the top. | ||
| Maybe we needed this freak show to happen so that the masses, the silent majority, would finally wake up and realize that it's actually our lives, our welfare, And our families on the line. | ||
| Every generation has something new to fight for and maybe for this generation the fight will be to recreate a system by the people and for the people. | ||
| That's why the next few years are going to be an incredibly important piece of history. | ||
| Will we sit back and let the worst of us continue to take control? | ||
| Or will we fight back? | ||
| Will we find allies where we used to find enemies? | ||
| And will we stand for principles even when it's not popular to do so? | ||
| I really believe that we'll do the right thing, but the only way we'll do it is by really discussing issues and not the sideshow. | ||
| Let's demand that our leaders explain why they believe in what they believe, why they vote the way they vote, and why they deserve the right to speak for us as citizens. | ||
| Let's step back from the scandals and the screaming and focus on education and empowerment. | ||
| Politicians and the media aren't going to magically just become better. | ||
| We have to demand that they do. | ||
| And the only way we can demand it is if we demand it from ourselves. | ||
| We can start by being outspoken instead of just outraged. | ||
| This week we're continuing our collaboration with Learn Liberty. | ||
| We're teaming up with Learn Liberty once a month to talk to professors, thought leaders, and authors on a wide variety of topics all related to free speech and classical liberalism. | ||
| Two things we could certainly use a little more of these days. | ||
| Joining me this week is Dr. Steve Davies. | ||
| Dr. Davies is head of education at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London. | ||
| He's also a lecturer and a historian whose research includes crime and criminal justice, the history of ideas and political thought, comparative economic history, and much more. | ||
| In short, this guy knows his stuff and we're going to get into all of it Or at least as much as we can in an hour. | ||
| So sit back, take a break from the sound bites and distractions, and open your minds to the issues that matter. |
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