>> let's love people. >> my fellow americans, before i get into my sermon and trust me, i want to preach as well as i can today, you must think that this is a bleak and dismal time. you get up every day, trying to feed your kids trishg go to school, trying to tell the truth as best you can trying to share your life with your loved ones. there doesn't seem to be much good news. here you are dealing with waking up in the morning and seeing more trouble in iraq and discovering eric cantor is dipping out and discovering the world around you is crumbling, and yet in the midst of that bleakness and that seeming hopelessness, nothing to lay on your bed and know where to hang your hat comes the news that a bunch of rich and wealthy and elite and gifted and talented people are exulting in the fact there's a huge gulf, a big divide in this country. a new poll by the pew research group has beltway insiders and cultural eleastists climbing a self-righteous high horse today. 27% of democrats believe the republican party is a threat to the nation's well-being. the same poll shows 36% of republicans believe democrats are a threat to the nation's well-ing being. those numbers have shocked people stuck in the washington bubble. ron fournier tweeted out 1/3 of partisan voters view the other side ace threat to the nation's well-beingen it's easy to look down on people's hardships if you never field them. people have gone broke or died due to inadequate and fraudulent health care coverage, and treatment. republicans have made it to their -- made it their mission to keep that old system in place, that is a threat to this great nation, not partisanship. there has never been such a divide between rich and poor in america. republicans have made sure working women and men have to escape for every penny, as they bend over backwards to make sure the ultrarich get every single advantage and tax break and exploit every tax loophole possible. that is a threat to the nation's well-being. republicans think people who make minimum wage are earning too much money. poor people have to work two and three jobs to make ends meet, and i know what i'm talking about, i had to do it. that or than anything else has destroyed the family unit. talk about family values and value all families, including those who have to work a lot to make ends meet, work 40, 50, 60 hours a week to make it up to the poverty level. hurts men, women, specially children. that's another threat to the land that i love. republicans have tried to strip reproductive rights for african and all women for almost 50 years. if republicans have their way, women would have to go to dangerous extremes, remember, back alley abortions to make personal decisions about their own bodies. in the past that's a deadly mix that does tremendous harm and damage to the nation. does that sound like a threat to you? republicans have voted time and time again to make sure women get paid less than men. that's an economic threat to the gend, which is majority of america. republicans have done everything in their power to make it harder for americans to vote. the go is the only weapon average people have to make a difference in this country. taking that away is a threat to this country and to democracy itself. just this week, we have had our 74th, 74th, school shooting since 20 small children were murdered in cold blood at sandy hook. republicans have been paralyzed by their puppet masters at the nra. republicans have ignores the problem and prayed for it to go away. that's a threat to every child who walks into a classroom in america. republicans have whipped up an anti-government sentiment in this country, the likes of which we haven't seen since the civil war. gun battle between militia and federal agents narrowly averted in nevada two months ago. this week two anti-government people shot and killed two police officers and a civilian, as they screamed about the start of a revolution. this is a a major threat to the well-being of america. just this morning, americans saw images of iraq spiraling off into a sectarian civil war. this comes 11 years after a republican president of the united states led us into a preemptive war based on false intelligence. a war that killed over 4,000 of america's fighting men and women, not to mention the over 100,000 iraqis who lost their lives. the same people who lied to this country into war are back this morning, pushing president obama to get back into the same mess republican president george w. bush put us in in the first place. this is a completely dangerous threat to the well-being of america. the list of republican policies have that damaged the country could go on and on for hours. let me show you why democrats think republicans are dangerous for the well-being of americans. >> let's repeal this failure before it literally kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens. let's not do that. let's love people. >> i wish to god she had had an m-4 in her office locked up so when she heard gunfire she pulls it out and didn't have to lunge her owically with nothing in her hand but was he takes his gun out and kills those precious kids. >> to deny president obama a second term. >> not against having unemployment insurance. i think though that the longer you have it it does provide disincentive to work and studies indicate this. >> from what i understand from doctors, that's rare. if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. >> we're coming to a country get morgue takers thanmakers in america. we need to moremakers. >> 47% with him who believe they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. >> my friends, this time the leaders in washington and mainstream media wake up and realize regular americans have had enough. the basic dream of going to college, getting a good job, marrying the person that you love, buying a home and building a better life for your children has fallen out of the reach of average americans. the new american dream is surviving to your next paycheck. that's no way to live. what is damaging is the false equivalence made between both sides, left and right, as if they're equally responsible for the suffering of the masses as if a bitter partisanship is a problem and not a battle over the values of our democracy. it ain't an equal fight nor the responsible endure by americans be laid at feet of both parties in the belief it's both sides' fall. the partisan bickering is the problem not the true plague, a party that takes every time it can, every incentive to hurt the poor, that cares little for the masses of folk in our country, those folk are the true victims of partisanship. those who struggle with the $7.25 minimum wage are victims of partisanship. those who are chronically unemployed, underemployed, though are the victims of partisanship. those who barely subsift on food stamps to victims of partisanship, of the snap decisions that cut their funding to the bone. those who have their reproductive rights challenged, clear before our eyes. those whose voting rights are vulnerable to rebuff in a clueless supreme court the victims of partisanship. those who don't enjoy benefits of marriage equality are the victims of partisanship. those who still can't get adequate health care are the victims of partisanship. those whose loved ones, especially children, cut down by guns because we still can't generate a sane gun control policy, they are the victims of partisanship. and those stuck in warehouses and perilous borders because our failed immigration policies are not working are the victims of partisanship. and the truth is, so-called partisanship is in fact a one-sided love affair with privilege and prosperity for the few, while masses are made poor somewhere more vulnerable day by day, by policies enacted by superrich and uncaring wealthy people. it's time we called it for what it is. it's not partisanship. it's the provinciale practices of a part that could care less about the middle class, the working class, the working poor, and the poor. and when we wake up and realize this truth will all be better off as a nation so this is what i want you to do. get up out of your seats right now. go to your windows, open them up, and holler out, enough is enough! get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question, do republican policies threaten america? text a for yes, b for no. 67622. go to our [email protected]. for more, let me bring in dr. frederick douglas hanes iii and dr. jones, author of "a dreadful deceit, myth of race from the colonial era to obama's america." i've been doing a poor job preaching. you're the real preacher. tell us, 27% of democrats who think republican policies threaten america, where are they coming from? are they wrong about that? >> no question that the republican policies are what is wrong. and again, let's me just say to the sermon you just gave, amen and hallelujah, let's past the offering plate so we can begin to enact policies that benefit the least of these, policies that benefit the poor. the republican drama kings and drama queens evidently, in their civics lisson, missed the suffix of american values expressed in the american flag. they don't believe in the liberty and justice for all. you've got the have-gots getting more and the have-notes getting less and the greedy right wing republicans doing an amazing job of vilifying, of demonizing, those who are poor. they do an amazing job of acting as if somehow the poor are taking from them and the sad thing is, they have a theology disguised as ideology that basically says that we are doing this in the name of our faith. in a real sense, their faith must have edited out that portion of scripture which said i was hungry and you fed me. first you gave me something to drink. i'll remix. i was hungry and you cut snap food program, i was thirsty for knowledge, you cut my access to opportunities and head start as well as pell grant funding. so, their value systems are, in a real sense, vilifying and making victims of the have-notes. what about that wonderful statue of liberty there in new york or right there in between new york and new jersey that says, give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to be free, it's as if they have forgotten the values that helped to shape and form america. and in the process, they are destroying america. and so, if anybody's threatening the america that we love, the land that we love, it's that kind of nasty partisanship that vilifies and demonizes the have-notes where the have-gots get more. >> great sermon. dr. jones, i apologize for two baptist preparers bringing this power tonight. you have a long, with that kind of insight, you're analytical ly as a scholar. these are too dangerous for america. give us a sense why people are afraid of progressive ideas that can unseat some of the unfair and unjustice practices that have characterized too much of american history. >> let's me say, first, as a historian i'm struck by the fact that a substantial segment of the population today seems to have no sense of the common good, collective welfare. the fact that we're all in this together. there's a kind of rampant severalish individualism that prevails. we see that with skip tic skepte school system. we saw it with the debate over health care, the notion that, well, you have to be able to pay and pay a lot for anything you want or need, whether it's an education, whether it's good health insurance. you know, andrew carnegie, the steel magnate used to say the more unequal american society, the better. he said it was a measure of the country's progress, that the gap between rich and poor was widening in the late 19th century. he thought the rich should get richer, it would provide an example to the poor. it didn't bother him at all that people were working hard and making very little. so in a way i think we see today an echo of that view, that the richer the rich get, the better it is for the united states. it's an incredibly mean-spirited point of view. as i said, no sense there of the common good, the collective welfare. >> absolutely. dr. hanes, in light of the brilliant summation that dr. jones gave us, don't you think these policies that hurt poor people hurt america? mr. carnegie was wrong. the gulf between the have-gots and have-notes reproduces the dysfunction that good zit encit want to get rid of the same persons who talk about national security in no way are concerned about the security of the least of these, no way concerned about the security of those who are trying to get some of the american dream. so with that being the case, we are hurting not just ourselves, we are compromising our future and my play, my prayer, we will come together with a common cause of the values that helped to shape the principles that helped to shape america, but at the same time, look out for the children. so there must be a cause centered america, when it comes to our politics but also a focus on making america better for our children. that does not mean widening the income gap. it does not mean ensuring that the have-gots get more and the have-notes get less and we demonize them in the process. we look out for, as our brilliant professor said, the common good. the common good all of us can go to higher ground. >> there it is. dr. jones, we have seen horrible thicks in the last few days, armed stand-off, recently the killing of two police officers, because of anti-government sentiment. that seem to be a serious threat to america, that kind of anti-americanism that is not root in the kind of critical engagement with traditions of progress but really, believing that the state is disserving the very people advantaged by it historically. >> yes. certainly this anti-government attitude is not new in the united states but what might be unprecedented is the number of guns that are available today. and i think when you pair that with certain right wing talk show media that really egg people on to these views as reverend hanes said, views that demonize the poor, it's a lethal combination. it's a lethal combination. >> right. absolutely right. thank you so much to both of you being on the show. thank you so much for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> remember to answer tonight's question at bottom of the screen. share your thoughts on twitter. and on facebook. we really want to know what you think. coming up -- aye florida law makes celebrate the new bill that rick scott signed into law but the governor's nowhere to be found. rapid response panel weighs in on why rick scott is hiding out. voting rights victory in ohio, federal judge strikes down efforts to suppress the vote. trenders is next. oh my god! look. you need to see this. show 'em the 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