Heard Tell w/ Andrew Donaldson For 18JUN23

Politics of “Open” Society, POTUS Runners-Up, UK Royal Family Obsession, w/ Alan Elrod & Sarah Stook

Your Heard Tell for Wednesday, January 18th, 2022, is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by discussing individual freedom and government role in protecting it with Alan Elrod of the Pulaski Institute who wrote about how rhetoric on having an open, pluarlistic society doesn’t always match what politicians and policy makers are doing, and worse how some say they want freedom and openness but are really fighting for exactly the opposite. Alan also talks about Florida vs Disney, Governor Ron DeSantis policies and statements, how pundits on the right and left making everything out to be extreme isn’t helping, and why we really shouldn’t compare everything we don’t like to Nazi Germany, while the Weimar Republic does have some lessons for modern times. Also, Heard Tell favorite Sarah Stook joins us from the UK to talk about her latest historical series about United State Presidental runners-up and what can be learned from the candidates that fell short of the top political prize, why America is so obsessed with the British Royal Family, outside…