Live from Music Row Tuesday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed official guest host Grant Henry in the studio for another edition of Grant’s Rants.
GRANT HENRY:
Let’s talk about Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine is a country in Europe, okay? It exists next to another country. It’s called Russia. And Russia is actually a bigger country. It’s a powerful country, Russia is. Russia decided, actually, guys, to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically, it’s wrong, I think.
There you go. That’s Grant’s Rants!
Guys, look, of course, we all know that Kamala Harris recited this previous belittling drivel on a talk show called The Morning Hustle when she was asked to explain how the Russia-Ukraine situation was directly affecting people in the United States.
And I’m here to tell anyone that voted for this woman to stop letting politicians get away with such condescending, pathetic rhetoric. Stop letting your politicians treat you like uninformed, uneducated plebes that need to be coddled. Some politicians in this country do not think you’re smart.
They don’t like you. They don’t respect you. They don’t think you’re capable of complex issues, and you’re proving them right when you blindly give your vote to them. Do not let yourself be taken advantage of. Do not let your communities, our state, or this country be taken advantage of.
Our government is meant to be of the people, by the people, and for the people. And who we elect matters. The kind and caliber of person that runs for elected office matters. What they think of their communities and their constituents matters.
Yes, of course, we need to focus on the ultimate outcome of elections. Don’t get me wrong. Elections have consequences that reverberate for decades. But I believe we need to start focusing more on the candidates that we put up to run.
We need to start focusing on the process of our primaries. The outcome of elections is important. However, the candidates we run are perhaps more important. We’ve all seen what happens when a supermajority of RINOs takes place.
And you hear me say on this program all the time, that we are on the verge of a paradigm shift in politics – a new age where power will be siphoned away from the hands of a few powerful elites and placed back into the hands of the people.
And I truly believe if we get the next eight months right, it could set the stage for the next 80 years. But to do so, we need to start focusing on candidates that are here for the right reasons. Noble men, and women that are running for elected office to truly serve their constituents, not the desires of leadership.
We need those that understand what it means to be a statesman, that have a commitment to their communities and their people. We must find people that have a history of carrying the torch of liberty for the area that they are intending to represent – someone that has a history of placing a megaphone in front of the local citizens to make their voice heard. We need to find those folks that know that our system is modeled off of the Judeo-Christian philosophy of sacrifice.
Because I promise you, in the next few years, political politics will require sacrifice. As John Winthrop said, ‘For this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man. We must entertain each other in brotherly affection.
We must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities and supply others of necessities. You see, someone running for office has a kind of calling placed on their lives – a calling to serve the people of that community and possess an intimate knowledge of the people in that community.
Again, as John Winthrop said, ‘For this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man, we must entertain each other in brotherly affection, we must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities for the supply of others’ necessities. We must uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness, gentleness, patience and liberality. We must delight in each other, make others’ conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor, and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.’
So I ask you here as we enter the upcoming midterm elections, now is the time to start putting in your research as to who will represent your beliefs, your dreams, your ideologies, and worldviews. I implore you to take the time to make sure that it’s someone that is of the people, by the people, and for the people.
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