Meeting with hurricane Harvey victims this hour at Houston's n r g center weighing in on the emergency response to the storm so far and very efficiently very well and that's very happy with the way everything is going a lot of the president has asked Congress for nearly 8000000000 dollars in aid meantime a grim number keeps rising death toll hit 50 early this morning that is expected to continue to rise as there are still a lot of missing people out as far as destruction of property goes 90000 homes hit by this floodwater of those 90007000 this true I completely lost Steve Harrigan in hard hit Cleveland Texas where residents continue to struggle people are scrambling for the very basics water fuel and even getting from here to there when you hear cell phone conversations one phrase you hear a lot is how can I get to there from here that's not asking for directions it's asking which roads are passable through the water and this is Harvey's remnants not packing much of a punch anymore but still soaking millions of Americans across a wide swath of the country a little bit of circulation there through the Ohio area stretching up to the Mid Atlantic New York City eventually going to see some of this rain really overnight tonight running you into tomorrow Fox meteorologist Adam quotes there and there's another threat in the east hurricane are Erma appears to be gaining steam again in the Atlantic currently packing winds of 110 miles per hour unclear if it will eventually impact the u.s. 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Other Week goes flying by and yeah we got to be a bit of a joker kind of survive the times these days Rick Wagner here and the land it's hard to keep track of all the numbers love 1099270 and we're back we're here thanks for joining me I really appreciate it I appreciate the comments I got on this week on email that's good ideas and if you don't remember my e-mail or you haven't added It's Rick Wagner just one long word r e z k w a d n e r at. Columnist as a newspaper columnist that would be a like a column with an ist on it. Dot com so you can communicate with me too but we're glad to have you here today half way decent whether it's hot but not you know not melting down hot yet anyway but we're back and another week where by the way it seems like we're all heure North Korea hasn't flown any missiles over San Francisco yet Oh I'm sure if they did that biggest concern would be the effect of global warming that those missiles might have but. They also are still hold the world together once again this hurricane New Year is here so much about it down in Texas . And we have friends that in Houston their home luckily is is well I want to stay safe but I mean it's not flooded there in the higher part of town but everything else around it's bad and. When you have a hurricane like this and you have water I was down in Houston after the last one and I want to say 2002 that flooded everything not this bad but pretty pretty badly and. 1st thing you realize when you're in used to is that it's really not very high Ok. If. It's Preedy low to the sea level and there's some places there when out towards the airport George w. Bush Airport not that seemed to me to be at or below sea level I mean I think if you stick a shovel in the ground that a fish comes out but I'm not sure so I mean subtleties Iana where lots of it are below sea level but I mean but once the water gets on these places it doesn't have anywhere to drain to really right which is part of the problem and then after the hurricane and the water rises in the waters then for the most part you do get rid of them there's ancillary issues of course we all are familiar with the disease that comes with things like that I mean because Senator the sewers are overflown. The chemicals and all sorts of things that aren't supposed to be mixed in with water that's around your ankles is has been disturbed there's just a myriad of things that happen there's dead animals and. You know eco matter all over the place in the water that comes out of the sewer I mean it's just you know you look at it typhus and. Dysentery and things like that people are very careful so it's a it's a tough situation and and one of the things that is much more minor than that but can lead to problems and is really bizarrely irritating and that is that even after some of the cleanup has been accomplished all the standing water everywhere. In every bucket cap. You know low part of the patio that. Holds water doesn't drain off everything like that gets mosquitos in it and. They are just thick and of course they can carry disease to say nothing about the fact that they're just. An annoyance but things like that all the little bits and pieces the come around from having things flooded in the course of houses that don't get ruined but get so much water on them that the phenomenon the rot kicks in and we here in Colorado western color especially the temperatures are so. You know dry that we forget what it's like in a really wet climate or in the best of times that it's easy to get rot you know and down there what you can find is that you get a lot of moisture in the air over a long time and then you get some. Around people's foundations or that gets creeped up under the stucco and stuff from water being maybe just a foot high around them it's real problems for that but you know we're all helping here and we're all people who want to help other people this is the part of the country where. The idea of charity and helping the neighbor out and so forth the still alive now we realize that we're not very. We're not very astute on these things and now we're of looked upon by the rest of the country well really just a couple of places on the East Coast but if it's not there it's you know the rubes you know of course in our dangerous lunatics were also those 2 so there's that problem but what I wanted to say was. You guys were so complimentary about some stuff we played on the radio here that I'm discovering that I had on. Classical liberal economics Milton Friedman in a few things like that that you enjoyed them. That when I was thinking about how people are reacting to I want to play a little bit of Victor Davis Hanson the other night on that well yeah on Tucker Carlson my favorite Victor Davis Hanson and Newt introduction one of the greatest minds there. Rural America is clearly voting conservative they didn't always but they do now why is that take a look at the state of California it was the bluest state of course in the 2016 election but every part of this state is democratic many counties in the state central valley voted big numbers for Donald Trump Victor Davis Hanson is a classic scholar of the senior fellow at the Hoover Institution the University of New cities also a farmer in the central valley and just wrote a piece in titled Why the Central Valley votes more conservative where he described the 2016 election as a revolt by the forgotten masses against elites it was a revolt he said against quote a world where walls on the border are proof of ignorance xenophobia gates and walls around private Tony residences are logical measures to ensure security Mr Hanson joins us now 1st thanks a lot for coming on thank you for having me so how would you summarize this what is the core cultural difference that creates the political divide between rural and urban voters. I think it has a lot to do with speech and deeds thought and action the people in the country they tend to be a little more isolated and how they dress or how they sound are not as important as what they do so we've we've done now a half century with this best and brightest paradigm where your zip code or income or the brand of education you're stamped with the supposed to mean something and we take that for granted and people out in the country can to be a little bit more autonomous they pump their own water they deal with their own sewage so a man or woman that can repair a hydraulic ram in 10 minutes or get on their belly and take out a transmission that takes a lot of skill and it takes right intelligence and ingenuity it and we we haven't value that because we're in this paradigm you leave this Tony prep school and you go to an Ivy League or Stanford and then you get branded you go to Dupont Circle Upper West Side and we consider you wise and the people in the interior said wait a minute we're 20 we're 20 trillion dollars in debt you can't speak on a campus without being shouted down we've got the worst economic group from Who are you smart guys that gave us that exam didn't do it somebody did and so I think that there are they want to judge people of what they do other than what they say or how they look and there's also the point that you make in the piece that the entire system has benefited the people who designed it here so you put it the Trumper of all was a pushback against the winner take all globalization that enrich the populated coasts are more than the spaces in between my questions that you occupy both worlds both at Stanford and in the sexuality to the coastal realize this to they understand what this was about. No I don't think they do I think when they get up in the morning I'm on the coast right now my op ed column is not going to be all sorts to somebody in India somebody in Fresno who are older might lose his job so people who do mining and logging and manufacturing and farming the material things they're saying to us wait a minute you have a granite counter in your kitchen you have a stainless steel refrigerator Those are nice things we make these things and we're not outdated and we want to look for somebody that recognizes the work that we contribute to society where you know you can't eat an apple all the time well and you do have to go back to the elemental essence of food and military security and housing and construction we are the people so supply we don't have degrees we're not pajama boys we don't look and sound like you people but if you keep taking us for granted you're going to get more of the same and that was sort of this tragic shout back to a therapeutic culture but it's more than take this for granted lots of countries have seen this the tension between the countryside in the cities but why the loathing of the people in the cities for the think that in the country. That's a very good point Tucker and that I think is a different subject that is that the people on the coast or the elites never assume that they have to suffer the ramifications of their own ideology is what people are said to be xenophobia our native us because they want to wall and they look at Mark Zuckerberg who walls around his estate Whoa whoa whoa why are they say we want reservoirs we need water we need dams and the people in the coast say well that's so pre-industrial we don't do that anymore and yet San Francisco is supplied by head check she water transfer so it's a sort of anger that these people on the coast don't follow the very rules that they employ forever whether it's a letter to copy or flying on a jet and then lecturing us about carbon footprints they just don't feel that people follow the same rules that are applied to the people in the center and then there they suffer the added indignity of being called xenophobe or blinkered or knuckle draggers and they get angry it's an emotional response as you say I live on the coast of makes me angry just watching a professor Hanson That was really interesting thanks a lot for coming on and I. Thank you for having me Well once again another another real genius that. We need to listen to more of because we get told all the time a smart some these people are this is something the handsomest talking about when you're some of the really is. Intelligent. Educated and grounded see that's the difference Hanson like I mentioned before some of you may know as. He is a classics and military historian written great books on military history the cli the Classical Age on the Peloponnesian War with the Greeks and so forth just you know it's fascinating stuff really I know it sounds very dry but it's not if you bring the. The trick to anything is to bring it alive you know you did was subject to the world and make it seem boring most boring said in the world to make it seem pretty interesting sometimes if you have talent Well the subject is not boring of understanding how warfare and juxtaposition nations have as has created history and how different political cultures have given rise to different things the Sidey and you know he has pointed this out many times but he also has grown up on a farm in California and has inherited it from this is he's a 3rd generation farmer so his viewpoints are so fascinating we'll probably list him again later in the show so I found something else would be good but you know it's a think about what he had to say about what's going on between us and the city's a 2454 Highway 6 and 50. 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So great. To get him a. Bit of play that bumper to come back in our 2nd segment here folks Rick Wagoner's show getting it right there and came Kiddieland. Because I think you're going to want to howl I mean I certainly do course I kind of feel like that alive so I'm not so sure I'm quite the barometer of it but but we listen that fascinating discussion that Tucker Carlson had earlier this month on his show with Victor Davis Hanson regarding how the left views middle America Colorado is a little odd We're not exactly middle America in the sense that. Many people on the coast you know want to disparage you know the Iowa Nebraska you know that going to Colorado has Aspen and Telluride and you know Breckenridge and Vail and Denver is kind of you know wacky out there you know and so it's it's a little more hip when you have boulder of course which you now and so where we are often given a bit of a pass out there a low people like you and I on the western slope Colorado. Who don't live in one of Pitkin County or Senegal county or something like that I guess live more kind and knuckle draggers as a as a Hanson would say but. What I want to talk about was something that I'm sure after hearing that what what people on the coasts and the really smart people sort of not like me but smart people think and many you might be aware of this for him and so I thought it would be good to follow Hansen's kind of informative presentation with Merkel from Salon magazine online magazine or salon as I mentioned before there are 2 really lefty news magazines on the Internet that are actual news magazines not just something that some nut job in you know drinking Long Island iced tea and his underwear and wearing a you know. Take back our you know defeat Trump resist hat in their mom's basement or whatever but. The salon is sort of. Well a slate and Salon slate is sort of commie and Salon is sort of. To the left of that. But the salon remember this the whole name of it right salon is like we all know what the salons of Europe which is you know sort of like a drawing rooms and so forth of the 18th century and right there were people get together and have since living discussions and and sniffs nuff off of the off of their palms by the way there's a if you're an orthopedic surgeon or a doctor out there there's a place on your wrist it's called the snuff box that where you get a fracture or something there and that's actually the place where people used to put a bit of snuff and snow with this stuff and then of course laugh wildly at the those peasants outside kind of like that so it's a salon so when you name your magazine like that then what do you think well salon has. Discovered one of their writers that you know the national anthem but to be the Star Spangled Banner is a neo confederate symbol. I I didn't know that some of you may I don't know I may have missed that there's a staff writer at Salon is name is a Jeffrey Moore Lay and he declared recently I'm reading this this is a story from Pajamas Media p.j. Media. So I want to credit them by the name of Tom. Really. A good find your I mean a lawyer or others have commented on it he said that the national anthem or memorials and holiday's honor veterans are in fact neo confederate symbols in disguise because the Star-Spangled Banner in him is emblematic of America since. Its juxtaposing it with America's history of legalized slavery Jim Crow laws and legalized lynchings by the way lynchings were never legalized and they really lynchings. And derided the militaristic and racist overtones in the song lyrics I don't hear any racist overtones in there are any others militaristic because remember Star-Spangled Banner was written about a battle Ok sorry to go off their. Head of the national anthem was initially popularized as a political prop to author the Southern slaveholders rebellion I didn't know that either and you know what neither does he this is just something he's decided. He says that in the decades following the Civil War the South strove to establish rituals they love to say that rituals and things like that like like they're starting a tribe in New Guinea. Which is Memorial Day which honor the veterans of southern and northern army is equally implying a quality of respect for their causes now it. Honors a sacrifice of people made for their country and mainly of course the United States of America. But that's just a horrible and disturbing reach also said the Confederate flag is also a star spangled banner which it does have stars and a couple of stripes on it I think he's reaching there too he says he doesn't want the national anthem barred per say so I'm well I'm glad about that. But he does feel like the flag for example is a problem and he there's another lady out there who's also written something that she's a professor at Clark University named Cynthia and. She was recently at a Red Sox game of course in you know Austin bested and. She wrote a column for the University of California Press saying that she cringed when a mammoth Stars and Stripes was unfurled in the mid outfield she not only cringed I'm reading from Mr Breckon story here. So at that she was perturbed when war veterans were honored during the game while everyone in the stadium erupted into applause she refused digitally sitting on my hands saying nothing. He's a brave and there and. She said America urges like for America to. Traditions come from or hatred of militarized patriotism to question rather active duty soldiers or war veterans are the most appropriate to carry the flag onto the field yes I'm not making that. She said that we should be honoring people from battered women's shelters or e.r. Nurses or kindergarten teachers honoring minutes part of American station of militarized patriotism. She's echoing there are 2 women's studies professor that are quoting this story that in a Texas a and m. By the way if you can believe it are you an academic article or the summer that us war memorials perpetuate white heterosexual male supremacy class hierarchies and systemic violence and they promote historical narratives that are inherently conservative. You do. Also they were upset because most of the statues of white heterosexual and this what are stand they use the word sis gendered male I'm sure that's something I'm assuming that means the person who the gender is what they were born with I don't even know. They argue that to reaffirm the great man perspective the dom that in American history for too long. And the author points out if you think that this is like just a a nugget of a few nut jobs and they are nut jobs just Google what's wrong with the American flag on the computer and you'll see a lot of this stuff and. That is what we're really struggling with right now it's much worse than you think you see it's much worse anything with some but the people around you are much better than you think. So but these folks that's why they do these things you can understand because I can understand. They think I should know. Someone will win a $5000.00 prize from Hudson family Dental in our never ending contest you could win a dental care gift certificate that can be used for cleaning whitening fillings x. 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Radio hero President Trump is in Houston visiting people displaced by Hurricane Harvey Mr Trump stop 1st at the in our g Center which is serving as a shelter and I reacted to volunteer efforts there and I think it's great the message things are working out well. Really I think people appreciate what's been the been done very efficiently very well and it's very happy with the way everything later today the president will visit Lake Charles Louisiana Hurricane Earl strengthening in the Atlantic it appears to be approaching parts of the Caribbean once it gets in that area the water is really really warm that's why a lot of the models are indicating that it could be a Category 4 Category 5 maybe storm by state as meteorologists Rick Wright mother Thurman may move in the vicinity of the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos in about a week. We were 4th. Globally and local. I want to go on to you know the end of the segment we were talking about the. The story about national anthem as a neo confederate symbol and we went over a lot of stuff on what the academic community out there academic We don't necessarily mean someone that's teaching Yama tree someplace or. It really even here and in our own town or as I know anyway but I have a lot of academics that are this loopy but they're all over the place and they feed those ideas we were talking about on America on the flag and. We were talking about that one of the professors was upset because. Military men run furling the flag at a game and she doesn't like militarized patriotism and she's thought that instead of honoring veterans she proposal women should be honored instead find were about women veteran that she suggested that inferring a flag at the game they should had battered women's shelter volunteers are e.r. Nurses are kind of garden teachers were dug out last time and you read through the stuff and you think what. I do these people eat where they live so much. It's. I'm reading so the stuff we talk about you know that us war and morals perpetuate white heterosexual male supremacy class hierarchies and systemic violence just listen to those words because you're going to hear them. More and more from interviews with people in and tif. Protest groups and so forth because this is what they're being fed this is the fodder in which they are being raised right and anybody that doesn't think that some of the scribblings of these mad academics doesn't matter it does in the sense that it justifies these folks to get lets them dress up their craziness or their dislike of the system our self-hatred or wanting to reinvent themselves like a talk before he lets them dress all that up with this language right all of the systemic oppression of you to do right and well this is the cyst normative which is you know this sis normative Sister Sister gendered we talk about all of you that's in one of these quotes to. It makes them sound intelligent to themselves and I suppose each other because they're using words and phrases that that sound as other diagnostic and sort of a social logical way and because of that we get stuck with them and I don't know. How you shake your. Kids out of the stuff once they went through been hooked into it because they feel like they're you know they feel like they've really figured wow this is you know I'm very intelligent now and I mean I'm just saying that a bad way but I mean everybody likes to think oh I'm really on to something right listen to this there's all these are words there's a there's people nodding in about how we've penetrated by our study of this and to do that you know and some you know and they get to feel like they're rebelling because let's face it kids rebel a certain age is they just want to it seems that it's part of the whole trip down the aisle of you know from being a baby to being a man or woman right I mean it's it's that formative period and so. They they see this is justification for that but it you know you'd prefer that they listen to you know music that irritates you and dressed in a way that made you want to you know lock them in their room and that would be Ok that would be the end of a out of the rebelling but see when you when you stick them in college now they're immersed in this stuff they're stuck in it and they hear it all the time and. The professors and the seen as in the classes that toss this this. You know this tripe out. Make someone who argues against it feel very isolated it's funny because what they're trying to do is exactly what they cues everyone else of course we know that is right is usually people do the things that they're accusing other people about right and so what that they what they are doing is in fact trying to isolate people they're trying to make them feel like they're. A lot nobody else thinks that you know as we've talked about that on the show this is why talk radio is so important and why. It is in completely necessary because it is allowed people to understand that they're not alone as a matter of fact they're probably in the majority of people because for too long what they've what they've done is they've been able to convince people in this is not been the case for 10 or 12 years but I mean before what they would they would get people to think that they essentially. Controlled the news media deliver information until you thought. It must just be me right and that's very dangerous because what it does is it allows. People to think well the weight of everybody else's analysis is seems to be against me maybe i should you know reconsider now there's nothing wrong with reconsidering your position I'd certainly like to have a lot of other. Like a lot of other people reconsider their positions but not of one it's simply because you feel as though. Someone is in the midst of being isolated by some by the media because that's what happens and. Talk radio has freed us from that because individuals are quite aware and quite able to. I think we can say some I'm searching for the word here. Because because we're not as conservatives members of a collective right and we don't buy into that and I've always said that x. One of the reasons that it makes it a little harder for us. Because we are always wanting to push forth the. Individual rights and we want to push forth individual effort and so forth and so our 1st in instinct is not to. You know Ok I didn't like that that's it I'm going to go out and I'm going to organize all my friends we're going to have a protest we're going to have a Twitter feed we're going to. We're going to have a flash mob we're going to you know with this this is not how. This is this is not how conservatives think so we're always fall behind in that because the next thing we know all these people show up because that is how they relate and they relate as a group we relate as individuals. They don't feel that they exist outside the group they think that groupthink. And constant reinforcement. Is something that is completely necessary and it's what they essentially survive on right. There is a constant and ending. Reaffirm ation of what they have to say over and over again without. Anybody allowed to challenge it because if you're allowed to challenge a lot of these goofy ideas then what happens what happens is that the more the person who's challenge has to explain them. The more that you become aware that. They're weak they're intellectually weak they are. They don't have the weight of. The logic and the historical precedent. Which is always what destroys them. Is that they don't have a they don't have that to be able to drop on so during a debate if you allow someone to. Debate them and to draw them out with different ideas the week of their argument begins to be exposed so that can't be allowed right now and why can't it be allowed well because everyone has to think the same and there's no reason for you to think differently because we have it all already figured out. And since we already have it figured out if you're trying to undermine it then you're a nonbeliever. That's all it is I mean this isn't a big mystery right this is the believers versus the nonbelievers I mean the climate change stuff of course the biggest example of that but there's there's others too the idea that we stole America from Native Americans that's practically a given in the debates anymore where you have to start off like well I mean no it's given that we didn't treat everybody you know we didn't treat everybody perfectly well and I but that's that is something cannot be undone and in the grand scheme of things the United States having done you know bad things like all great nations or any nations really and then a lot less of them and have as went out of its way to in fact spend a lot of time on a lot of lives to try and right wrongs We're not an imperialist country I that that's the thing that I don't understand people say all the time on campus them and saying it since the sixty's. Well imperialism in the words that if you're trying to impose your will on others your colonial power. That definition what imperialism seems to be a little slippery to me but I think at its base it's the idea that you want to take over the world and rule it in your image right now we have a little problem with that where we think that we can go in and impose Jeffersonian democracy on everybody. That. We're able to you know show them the way that's the way for everybody and force us not true as we've discussed here many times and I've talked to a lot of you folks out there you understand that if you don't have the similar traditions that we have the similar reliance on institutions that. Your you're in a situation where you can't have the same system right you can't you can't utilize the same tools you don't have them so to go in there and say well we're going to have one man one vote we're going to have 2 houses of the legislature to do this and that you'll have no concept of that and they can't wrap their heads around it and then some of the things you're fighting against prejudice that already exist or have courts decide this well the history in this country of the courts may be that the courts have always been subservient to the regime right. Now we've kind of reached the other end where I think the courts were somewhat subservient to but I mean the federal courts. The Obama administration and they still are unfortunately that's not who is running the country so they are balancing things all over the place. Against the Trump administration and as we've talked about before one of most difficult things to do in the in the federal courts in terms of getting an agenda Cross is that is to fight the judge shopping that goes on. I mean we've seen that with 2 or 3 of frumps agenda items particularly the the attempt to limit migration from countries that are on a terror watch list it's constantly rephrased as a Muslim ban. Not what it is so you shop around until you find judges that you know are going to be in more or less agreement with that right. And if you or I have a problem in the state of Colorado and it happens in Mesa County Delta County Montrose counties and McGill and you with a dozen counties that are listening to this more and really. You usually start out there the idea is that you start out close to where the problem is and if it occurred there then that court has jurisdiction and as venue things like that when the federal system if something's going on at a federal level then anywhere that that rule can touch you can go to which it's understandable but what that means is if I say something on immigration and I want to stop folks from coming in uncontrolled from somewhere then if someone wants to challenge that they can go to pretty much any jurisdiction in the United States where there is a border where people are coming across where there is act. Like when you get off the air airplane in Denver where there's international airport where they check your identification and your passport all that kind of stuff and you know rather not be let into the country in other words so that they can use that to shop around I'm not exactly sure how you get around that per se but it is something to be aware of that's why. You guys know this too we've talked about it in a lot of other people's well is that some of these decisions as they try and find a district court judge somewhere in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals which is located in San Francisco has enough thinking at that district court judge to agree with them. And judges a personality just like anybody else and sort of a history of ruling so you can you know kind of figure that out and if there's some place within the jurisdiction that judge has which is very broad as a district court judge a federal judge then. You bring the action you get the decision you want more or less and we're going to go well it's going to go to the night Circuit Court of Appeals which is completely made up of just I mean we don't have to every knows called The Night Circus Court of Appeals of the most reversed court of a federal court of appeals circuit out there by the Supreme Court but. So it goes there a need to act on it in a swift fashion which is the case of the appellate courts then what's your remedy if they as expected rule against your immigration policy or something because that's kind of the personality the judges that are on that court orders to go at a Supreme Court well when is that going to happen getting thing to the something the Supreme Court and to say that it that it has the ability to get there not everything even has the ability to get there there are certain jurisdictional issues that have to be met and some of the mean the court can decide to hear the case and some of the court is required to hear the case because they are the dispute was in the court is for whichever one of the reasons it is hearing going to hear the argument the appeal from the circuit court Well I don't even notice but the United States Supreme Court and move very fast and so just to doing that just getting it through is the Circuit Court of Appeals and make something go so slowly that it becomes ineffective even if at some point it gets overturned. You've made your point if you if you do it right so it's a tactical kind of situation. But if you go back we're talking about what other countries I mean they don't even have that kind of do they. So for us trying to set up a Jeffersonian as you for 2 It kind of system doesn't work so that's but that's the kind of imperialism if you want to call it that that I think that we've had a problem with is this nation building thing where we try to build nations that have absolutely nothing in common with us a story Clee into into little models kind of of what we've done and you know again and again I come back to what MacArthur did with Japan and I do not understand why that's not talked about more I know some of you are familiar with it but I mean MacArthur's transformation of post-war Japan now sort of fits. Overlord as it were. Is history just doesn't seem to wrap its head around it I mean we know more about the Marshall Plan which was a much more what's very important but a much more individualized and disjointed effort I mean what MacArthur did is he took a hard look at Japanese history and culture tried to figure out where it kind of went off the rails with the Tojo situation and you know how they manipulated the Emperor's parent authority over people and just everything what he wanted to do was create a system that was similar to a parliamentary system of government and so forth which he thought and I think rightly so and don't think he thought all if he had some pretty smart guys work nothing but they could get there if they could you know move certain levers and that society in the levers and needed to move is the reason that here Hito wasn't put on trial for war crimes his participation in allowing these are ordering some of these things or allowing Tojo that sense of the prime minister of those they happen and use authority was because MacArthur. Said Look if we do something with the Emperor who still has an aura a mystique of sort of mythological power about him then we're going to destroy a huge fabric in this culture and I don't know how we put it back together again you know we start from square one and there is no central figure of authority to organize around it which I thought was a brilliant realisation So by keeping the imperial system and organizing around that essentially making it similar to sort of a constitutional monarchy organizing around the idea of that and then just slowly introducing the parliamentary pieces they're able to you know create a government for Japan that's still working now. Later on MacArthur had some ideas that I think are and when they were time of Victor Davis Hanson and the other pieces he got a great discussion on this he had learning about MacArthur being correct in. What he wanted to do and we just didn't Truman stop him this is not say we thought we should've started nuking people but. Truman and MacArthur that conflict over the Korean War is not being revisited notice that you haven't always troubled North Korea and I don't think a large swath of our populations even aware of when the Korean War or police action or do we want to call it was 5. How long it was where whatever that the war is technically still going on this is just this is the middle of an armistice the truce. No one is like settled it and in the meantime it was you know a line was drawn on the 39th Parallel basically because everybody was you know. Beat up. North Koreans who really couldn't go on any further MacArthur been removed by. Truman and the idea that was so bold it's all stopped here will pen these guys up and they'll just fall apart which by the way was not a particularly bad idea is if you were to take North Korea and able to actually isolate it so make it live on its own yeah I would fall apart right away but the Chinese who you may recall you know sent soldiers in when it looked like we were going to swamp North Korea because they didn't want. The allied forces on their border they wanted it but they liked having a North Korea as it were between them and us or them in the South Koreans and whomever but they they continued to turn North Korea into a puppet state now it's not really a puppet so much but they they supply everything necessary for just barely equal long and then everything else is this nut job puts in the weapons and. MacArthur would have had his way there would be a North Korea now going to discuss his is thinking on that but I mean that is what's surprising to me is there's just no visit and that there's there's nothing Dallas about North Korea that doesn't seem to have taken place you know far as as far as I can tell everyone thinks North Korea just compartments came into existence decade or 2 ago and there's no historical anything with it anyway folks I know you're watching your eye on the highway and will be Ok the next week actually next week or forget I'm preempted by a football game I saw so I may put something up on my website the war on wrong dot com as a podcast will see check it out they care. A locally owned business we just shop a modern classic Motors for tickets and more information go to 961 k s t r died. Fighting for a day the mission will be easier fighting for clear skies and for every city healthy lines throughout the country and they're fighting to. 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