The Liberty Podcast: August 30 2024

The Liberty Podcast August 30 2024

We are entering a "holiday weekend" but with a good-versus-evil election choice only weeks away it's advisable to keep our heads on a swivel as summer days dwindle.

It also is advisable to focus more discerning eyes on endless polling data purporting to forecast the outcomes of various elections, especially in the race for the White House. Public polling is deeply flawed due to a pervasive "response bias" that pollsters frequently ignore. With Kamala Harris coronated as the Democrat candidate for president, "wealthy, educated, white Democrats ... are crawling across broken glass to respond to political surveys," writes polling expert Mark Harris.

Additionally, the headline generated by every poll -- who is ahead and who would win if the election occurred today -- glosses over important, buried specifics. A recent survey of 1,368 registered voters by The Economist/YouGov has Harris ahead but within the poll's margin of error (47%-45%), but only 51% of the same respondents agreed they have a "very clear" or "somewhat clear" understanding of Harris's policy positions. Among those favoring Trump, 67% agree they know for what Trump stands on policy.

So it comes down to a pathetic scenario -- who prevails, the Kamala Kool-Aid clueless "vibe" voter or the informed voter? Which matters because, as one example, Kamala's "klueless klub" surely has no idea that her campaign's economic advisor is a socialist, wealth re-distribution "eat the rich" radical. During today's podcast, we pull back the curtain on Bharat Ramamurti's dream of a DEI-based economy.

These same low-information zombies likely do not know that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Harris's VP running mate, signed legislation that required licensed school teachers to "affirm" (protect) transgenderism and race Marxism. These same teachers are required to make first graders ponder "ethnicity, equality, liberation and systems of power". What about reading and math?

One blogger (Ruy Teixeira) nails it: "There is nary an enthusiasm of contemporary cultural progressivism that (Walz) has not indulged."

Here's what else is on our radar as we wrap up another unrelenting Liberty Podcast:

- Axios.com is very upset that more Americans are waking up to the scandalous mRNA inoculations (which are not vaccines) with one in five understanding that it's safer to contract COVID-19 than it is to be jabbed (and join legions of jab-injured healthy adults). Ask mRNA pioneer Robert W. Malone, MD, about his ongoing case of "long Covid" after receiving two Moderna jabs in 2021.

- We also reference Edward Dowd's landmark studies of excess mortality during the pandemic. Inexplicable deaths, Dowd finds, were spiking but not due to the virus itself. He authored "Cause Unknown" which was updated in 2023 and is available at Amazon.com.

- The Republican majority in the U.S. House has an opportunity to change the course of history. But will Rep. Richard Hudson (NC-09) and his fellow Republicans stay the course by demanding that funding the government through year's end is tied to Senate passage of the SAVE Act, which forces every American voter under the law to have proof of citizenship before voting in our elections. It sounds like common sense, but Democrats are obsessed with allowing illegal immigrants to line up at the polls with the rest of us.

- The Atlantic's McKay Coppins threw up his hands and shook his head after encountering so many people at Trump rallies folding their hands and bowing their heads in prayer. They seem to have in common a shared belief in God. Oh no!