therefore it s timeless. it works as well today. 230 years later as it did back then because it s principle driven. we have found the principles work we want to go back to the principles, including we were talking about democracy, republic. and the american republic, in addition to being a republic, we re a federal constitutional republic. federal republic means we share power evenly with the states. that s what we don t do anymore. glenn: who here has raise your hand if you i ll give you several choices. raise your hand if you think the soviet union was just a failed state. raise your hand if you think the soviet union was a bad state. raise your hand if you think the soviet union was evil. not everybody. not everybody.
are. they haven t had a new idea. barack obama and the progressive left idea comes from 1848. with karl marx and socialism. that s not not a new idea. glenn: that s not a new idea. that s the oldest idea known to mankind. right. glenn: what they think is we re arguing to go back to 1990, you know, ronald reagan. we re not. we re arguing that the states should be empowered because this giant government doesn t work, you can t afford it. it doesn t work. and so you dismantle the government and bring the control local there. one of the things we re arguing for is a set of principles proven to be successful across time. they change the principles. we don t care if technology changes. but the founders, that s what is so cool about the constitution. it doesn t deal with specifics. it deals with the principles.