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Podcast: The Alan Sanders Show
Episode: What does it mean to swear an oath today?
Description: Today, I want to look a little more philosophically into what it means to take an oath of office. What does it mean in our current day for politicians who are quick to say the words, but are equally quick to forget them? This is learned behavior over years. To show this, I recount a story of how one of my daughters tried to hide a note from a teacher. This was when she was in kindergarten or first grade. Shame and guilt drove her to tears harder than any punishment I could have doled out on her. Instead...