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Welcome, welcome. Welcome to the Pro America Report. This is Ryan Hite, filling in this week for Mr. Ed Martin, who is out on assignment doing a lot of incredibly important and exciting things. And I look forward to him being back to share those with you. I say, I say look forward to him being back like I’m not excited to be here with you. I am. I’m thrilled and I hope that I hope that you’re thrilled too. I mean, this is only day three of the week, so maybe we should give you all another day or so before we vote on my permanent staying here. I’m kidding, Ed. If you’re listening, I’m only joking, OK? I’m only kidding. We’re not gonna have a vote. We’re not gonna vote you off the island. This is the Pro America Report with Ed Martin. Oh, boy. And of course, you can go to ProAmericaReport.com that’s Ed’s substack. And then of course, go to phyllisschlafly.com. Not only can you see the day job that Ed and I have, Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, and a lot of really neat conservative things happening there, but also you will be able to do a few important things. That’s where you’ll find the archives for this program. The Pro America Report. You can go there and you will get the podcast. All the past segments of guests. Their links and resources, and of course the all important WYNK e-mail the what you need to know. e-mail every weekday morning you will get that go and sign up there. That is the 2nd and also very important thing that you will get there at Phyllisschlafly.com. Don’t miss out. Phyllisschlafly.com proamericareport.com.
But we’ll dive into it today. We’ve got a great show. Charles Haywood is on. Victor Avila is on. We’ve got two really good guests. I’m looking forward to hearing from. I hope that you are as well, and this is a this is a good one. But I tell you what, for our what you need to know, it’s not so encouraging. And I I hate to say that we’ve had a couple of good discussions this week. We’ve been talking about anticipating the deep state been talking about paying attention to down ballot races, and I wanted to kind of circle back to that.
Just a couple of days ago. I kind of sat down the reminder as we are looking across the field, we see the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, our good friend, to conservatives, Congressman Bob Good in Virginia. He is apparently gonna face a pretty stiff primary electoral challenge. And that’s being put forward by the establishment Republicans while they call Bob Good a troublemaker, the establishment wing the RINOs we’ll call them the RINOs. I think that’s still a very effective term. Republicans in name only. They think that he is a troublemaker, that he wears the jersey of Republicanism, but he doesn’t come here to play the game and fight the good fight. No, no, he’s he’s definitely there to fight the good fight. But no, he’s not there to play the game. He is fighting the game, fighting the system, this self replicating, perpetuating system that has no interest in fighting for we the people. Has every interest in self enrichment. Accumulation of power and influence to the individual who runs it it it’s a it’s really a terrible thing. This behemoth, the Leviathan, this machine of American politics, especially the unelected bureaucratic branch of government over our executive branch, as we used to call it. It really is a very terrible thing to see, but as we look at that issue and and again Monday, what I had to remind everyone on and I think is important for us to remember, we talked a lot about Donald Trump. We’re talking a lot about Joe Biden. We’re talking a lot about these top of ticket races. But to to the very point of of can’t let go of the other ones. Bob Good. That is a wonderful voice in the US House of Representatives. We must all, he may not be our congressman, but we must all make sure we help him and others like him because we need those voices. We cannot forsake those down ballot races.
Well, today I am mindful of going down the ballot even further. And getting down to the nitty gritty, to the local level, we just had municipal elections, not only here in the St. Louis, MO area, but across the nation, in San Diego, in Virginia, in in all the states, coast to coast, many, many, many municipal and local elections took place, lots of mayors being elected, lots of Alderman being picked lots of propositions and ballot initiatives and taxes and levies and bonds and different things that were being considered by the voters.
But what’s very sad is that some of the most important people that you and I can elect our school board members. Those folks were on the ballot yesterday. Those folks were here for us all to choose and pick who was going to go and shape school policy in our area. Well, public school, government school policy, let’s be clear. And it was just like a normal election as far as turn out goes. And it’s pretty sad. It’s very small, very abysmal, in fact. Let me get to it. Here I want to look this up because I saw an update yesterday as we were going through.
My home county, St. Charles County, Missouri, big suburb of St. Louis for those of you who aren’t familiar, it’s it’s pretty populous. We have 10s, hundreds of thousands of people. It’s big, it’s very big, and it was very sad to me to see the update from our. From our election authority, our director of elections in St. Charles by about halfway through the day we had 5.6 I think it was 5.6% voter turnout. 5.6% of registered voters had bothered to come out to do municipal elections yesterday. Now, now I I hope I need to go back and double check that number and see I I hope that that drastically changed. That people came out after work and and there was a bigger umph.
But this isn’t any surprise to any of us, is it? It really isn’t at all because we are used to seeing. Abysmally low turnouts and and we have talked about this on the program before. Just about you know how horribly low it is among particularly conservatives and people who identify as Christians and and the Catholic voters and different things there. There’s just, you know, the evangelical Protestant Christians and Catholics. You you can get down into each of these demographics and and kind of start to nail down how many supposed folks there are who fit into these demographics that are. Elected, or that are registered voters and the numbers are just very terrifying and sad to see a quarter or or less than 1/4, you know, 20, 15% of the registered voters in some of these very important blocks who I would think would go out and make good decisions aren’t showing up.
So who does? Who does show up? Well, people that you and I don’t agree with. And at least that’s what we’ve seen quite a bit of, and that’s what was, in my mind, pretty unfortunate about yesterday’s elections around us. The whole St. Louis area had a pretty clean sweep. Of teachers union backed candidates for school boards in most of the major school districts all around the area of the St. Louis County and city and the suburbs, and not. Not that I saw one single conservative independent minded candidate got through. All of them lost.
Now it it was somewhat close you cause you know often in school board elections you see pick two of the names below. So there’ll be a couple of people running that are endorsed by the teachers unions. And then there’s a couple people running who are going to be, you know, more conservative and the outsiders who are going to go in and have some transparency and clean things up.
So there has been a huge change. It felt like in the temperature of that room, the room of paying attention to school board elections, 2021, you may remember in Virginia there was a boiling over in Loudon County and other places. Angry parents and not just angry parents, they turned into angry parent voters who were unhappy about what was going on and and I think you and I, listener, know just how bad public schools, government schools have gotten.
But a lot of people started waking up to this after the classroom came home to their home on their students’ laptop screen. Thank you COVID pandemic 2020. People got a real first hand look at some of the stuff. The junk that is going on in the government system and. Said. Whoa, whoa, whoa. No way. This is not OK and this was coming from a lot of people who are not politically connected, not very plugged into these cultural issues. That is. You know, I think that was a good wake up call.
But I gotta wonder where has that fervor gone? Has it? Has it petered out in a lot of places, including out my own home area here in the St. Louis, MO area? I hope not. San Diego, Virginia, places where you and I live, places where we have seen this boil over in the last couple of years. Has it gone? I I worry so. This. I think that’s what you need to know. And and we got a little bit of a wind up here before we got to the punchline, but that’s
what you need to know is the government schools have a stranglehold and it’s not just on curriculum and what’s taught in the schools. The government schools have a stranglehold on. Who comes in as the checking and balancing authority who comes into the school boards to guide and direct.
There is a system, a self perpetuating system here, and it’s even, I would argue, more dangerous than the folks that we see in Congress and the Senate, even across the federal executive agencies. Make no mistake, those are dangerous people who are doing dangerous things to citizens of the United States of America.
But these folks, these are the folks who are crafting the minds. And massaging the ideas of our future generations.
And I think that you and I know for years now the better part of a century, this government schooling system has not been conducted in some sort of honest, transparent and Pro America Pro patriotism Pro Judeo-Christian values way. In fact, it’s been very much running the opposite. This has been the epicenter of humanist and Marxist ideology and principle in America. It has started in the schools and I think we both know that government schools have a stranglehold on the system and we have got to break that up.
Is it too late? Maybe it is. Maybe it’s not, but we still must go and work. Even if you’re pulling your kids out. Which personally, I think you ought to do. Save your kids immediately. We still got to go and fight because there are so many families, so many kids dependent upon that system. We still have to go and fight. Don’t. Don’t let go of those down ballot races. They are so important. Arguably more important than the big oxygen sucking ones like the President of the United States, which we hear about over and over on the news. That’s what you need to know today, government schools have a stranglehold. We must break it. That is what you need to know.
Thank you for being with us, for joining us for the show today. We’re gonna take a quick break, come back to a couple of great guests. Don’t miss out on it. ProAmericaReport.com, PhyllisSchlafly.com. And we will see you back here after the break on the Pro America Report.
