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Welcome to the show, in this full 1 hour 46 minute livestream for premium subscribers we take another peek behind the machinations of the media cycle and stories that cause us all to feel a little demoralized from time to time.

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In fact? that’s where we start with my recent piece “Dear Patriot, you’re supposed to be demoralized” We then check in with the conflict in the Holy Land, which brings up an interesting question for our post modern democracy - who precisely gets to have an identity? and who doesn’t? It bears meditation considering how many of these conflicts we see bubbling up around the world and in our backyard have to deal with this subject.