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start today with Ben from San Diego. Ben from San Diego, welcome to the David Pacman Show.
What's on your mind today? What can I do for you?
Ben, you've got to accept my invitation in order for me to be able to hear you. Please don't start
us off on such a sour note. It would be so sad. Speaker 3:
Hi, David, this is Ben. Can you hear me? Speaker 1: I can hear you loud and clear, sir.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I wanted to get your thoughts on an idea I had which was related
to the Supreme Court. And my thought is that the sort of the donor class of the
conservative right in the U.S. are alarmed by changing demographics. And in addition to.
Fewer people are voting along conservative lines. They may also be concerned about seeing Gen Z and
millennials prudently having fewer children. Speaker 1: And why would that be
a concern to them? Speaker 3: Well, I'm
thinking that they're concerned about not having a sufficient reserve army of labor for the future
and that that might be a motivation. Ben. And Coney
Barrett on to the onto the Supreme Court. Speaker 1: Yeah, you sort of blanked out
there. It might be a motivation. For what? Speaker 3: Might be a motivation for the
overturning of Roe, among other things. Speaker 1: Oh, in other words, overturn
Roe. Fewer people have abortions, more kids are born. You build more of a labor supply.
Speaker 4: Yes. Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, listen, when you
talk to some of these right wingers about Social Security, one of the things that they will say is
they will just kind of recognize the demographic reality that due to baby boomer retirements and
expected continued retirements, there are fewer people working to build the Social Security trust
fund and more and more people receiving benefits. But usually they say that because they want to
kill Social Security. And so the plan that you are talking or privatize it, the the idea you're
talking about would be we want to save Social Security and fix it. Therefore, we want more
people born so that they can work. It just runs a little bit counter to what they've said they
actually want to see happen with Social Security. Nevertheless, it is true that the right recognizes
that there is a demographic problem for them, but the demographic problem they seem to realize
exists is younger and younger voters are less and less likely to vote for Republicans. But what it's
led them to do is to try to figure out ways to just steal elections. I think what you're looking
at, you're thinking about this very thoughtfully. But I think that they've already figured out their
approach, which is make it really difficult to vote in Democratic areas, try to take elections
that we actually lost anyway. That seems to be their approach right now, not, you know, birth,
a whole bunch of people that then can work and we can convince to vote for us. I just see no
evidence that that's what they're doing. Speaker 3: I see. Okay. Thank you.
Speaker 1: My pleasure. Great to hear from you. There is Ben. Let's go next
to Chloe from Southern California. Chloe, welcome to the David Parkman show. What's
on your mind today, Chloe? Chloe, please accept our invitation so that we can hear you. Oh,
boy. And Chloe. Last chance here. To appear on the David Parkman Show. All right. No, Khloe,