James Telfer
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259 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Aug
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It just...
What it did is it reinforced some of my precepts, some of my patriotism, that thought that, no, we can't let it go this way.
The thought that we do need to have the balancing arguments.
It takes all kinds, right?
As we used to say down in Florida, it takes all kinds.
I want the friends that are uber liberal.
I want the friends that are on the conservative side.
I want to hear both.
And I think both need to be reflected in valued voices.
The more we shut each other out and the more our families divide, the more we isolate ourselves, which is, you know, another part of this book is when I talk about AI and how we're isolating ourselves from the rest of, you know, we don't talk to our neighbors anymore.
There's no sense of community anymore.
The worst things end up in the end.
And this is how we get to a spot where this is even a conceivable future for us.
A leader of the free world.
And that's what we should be, and that's what our influence should be.
I think you have varying levels of that.
I think our excursions into Iraq and Afghanistan have kind of snapped us back as a country that we don't want to be necessarily leading on the outside.
We have a lot to take care of on the inside of our country, and there's a point to be made there.
But I do think we are a superpower.
We should be leading the ideals of democracy around the world.
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