Janine Turner
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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It's just coming back to the middle, coming back to hearing both points of view, coming back to growing, listening and reason and hearing and combining these talents that we have in America because we have so much talent in America.
I hear you saying the return of common sense, which is something I found myself saying like three or four years ago. I kept saying, I want to invent the common sense party. I said I wanted the pragmatism party. And I think common sense is returning, don't you?
It's a basic function.
Trump said in his speech, his acceptance speech, the common core of common sense. And I think that's very, very valid.
I agree. That's a very powerful statement. And, you know, you were talking about Doge, Janine, and I brought this up the other night. I was on the Gutfeld show, and I saw the Secretary of Education on Chelsea Handler's old talk show. If you remember, she had a talk show on Netflix for a few minutes. And she goes, I don't know anything about education.
So I thought I'd bring in the secretary of education and he could tell me what education's all about because I know nothing. She goes, well, tell me about education. You're the secretary of education. What do you do? And he goes, what do I do? She goes, yeah, what's your job? He goes, oh, my job? My job is to protect the civil liberties of every student in the country.
And I thought, oh shit, we are in trouble. This was Obama's Secretary of Education. And I thought that an entire department, we need education. We don't need civil liberties. Yes, yes, we need civil liberties, but by God, we have to have education. That department must go. It must go.
We need to teach them about the United States Constitution, right? That's missing in our country. Let's talk about the Constitution. Let's talk about what it gives you. Let's talk about the rulebook, the liberties that you have within the Constitution and why our founders and whatnot and all of our representatives and all of our presidents, you know, they swear to protect the Constitution.
There's not enough education about the Constitution anymore.
I really do agree with you. And it sounds sort of trivial and trite to say that these days, but I think this is the only country founded on a set of ideas. And if we don't, as a feature of our citizenship, come to an understanding of those ideas, How can we have a voting? I mean, that was the founding fathers concern that we could do.
Could people be educated enough to really be responsible for their votes? And if we don't even understand what we are about, we're not around a common history, we're not around a common ethnicity, we're not around, we have some common heritage, but not much. It's really the unified around this idea codified in the constitution, that is what this country, this experiment, this great experiment was.
And how do we do it without people understanding what it is? You agree?
I agree.
Well, I would disagree with that a bit. I would disagree with that a bit. Go ahead. John Adams, he was my favorite, really believed in education, maybe not public education, but knowledge is power. We must really educate our students. So I think it should be on a state level, quite frankly, but education is important. It's reasonable.
both points of view to be able to teach our kids to reason and to be civically minded about being a citizen in our country.
I agree. I think we'd all agree on that. And, you know, I was educated in New England and New England has a magnificent educational heritage. And John Adams was certainly a part of how that got established. It's a question of whether there should be a federal public or how that should work. But a topic for another time. Janita, I got to kind of wrap up.
Give us your final thoughts and your final pitch for Constituting America and your podcast and what they can find in the book. Tell us everything.
Oh, thank you. Well, my book is just about finding joy and despair. And it's a collaboration of poetry and prose and how to dig yourself out of despair. Constituting America is about finding civic reason. We have a speaking program. We have an academic study. We have a talk show that I do on American acceptance. So it's all about loving America, understanding why America is great.
And understanding how we need to teach our students. You know, we offer those programs about why the Constitution actually really matters. It is the rule book.
And then the podcast.
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