Episode 200: Interview With DJ McGuire on Switching Parties / Listener Feedback

It’s here; episode 200! And what an extravaganza it is.

I have an interview with D. J. McGuire. He’s a co-host of The More Perfect Union podcast, one of my favorites. I wanted to speak with D. J. because he has moved from being a conservative Republican to a conservative Democrat. Contradiction in terms, you say? It didn’t used to be. When I moved to Georgia, Sam Nunn was one such animal. In today’s political climate, however, it’s certainly an endangered specie. I talked with him about his conservative bona fides, why he switched, whether his views have changed, and what would cause him to switch back. It’s a fascinating discussion.

And I have feedback from 5 listeners, including a voice mail. (See, it really does work!) I’ll be answering their questions as part of this episode.

So thanks for joining me for the longest episode ever (over 56 minutes!) of one of the shortest political podcasts out there. I hope it gets you to consider this.

Mentioned links:

The Conservative Zone

Black Lives Matter: 28% of Abortions Done on Black Babies But Blacks Just 12% of Population

Birthright citizenship in the United States [Wikipedia]

Podcasts mentioned:

The More Perfect Union Podcast

The Ben Shapiro Show

Challenging Opinions

GetReligion

Observations

The Ricochet Podcast

Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (including “Let My People Think”)

BreakPoint

Radio Free Acton

Show transcript

[Part 1 of McGuire interview]

We’ll get back to the interview a little later. Now that we understand DJ’s views, we’ll talk more about his party switch after we get to listener feedback.

I got this message from listener Jim Zile

I wanted to congratulate you on episode 200 and wanted to get your insights on a world that looks at many things that are gray as black and white and also the opposite, seeing things that are black and white as gray. One example is abortion. That is taking the life of a person. It is black and white, not gray. I believe an example going the other way is the phrase “black lives matter”. In this case the question should not be “Do black lives matter?” It should be “How much do black lives matter?” If a person is pro-choice and does not condemn gang violence then black lives do not matter very much to that person. You could have two people. A white cop who loves, protects and serves everyone in his inner city community and a black man who is in a gang and makes his girlfriend get an abortion. To whom do black lives matter more?

There may be examples that illustrate this better but when an issue comes up I ask myself if this is something that society is generally looking and as black and white that is really gray or is the opposite true.

Thanks for producing one of my favorite podcasts!

Thanks, Jim, I’m glad to be right up there.

This is an interesting way to look at…well, a couple of issues these days.

First let me note that, as I’ve heard it, the phrase “black lives matter” is the short version of “black lives matter as much as everyone else’s”.