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Podcast: Heard Tell
Episode: Heard Tell for 10Feb22: Performative Patriotism, Congressional Staffers, Thiel, guest Jim Swift
Description: Heard Tell for February 10th, 2022, is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need about another round of bad legislative proposals trying to mandate performative patriotism. This time in West Virginia, with a going nowhere bill wanting high school seniors to swear an other to the constitution in order to graduate high school. But that brings up West Virginia v Barnette, the Supreme Court ruling that prevented students from being forced to do the pledge of allegiance, and we get into those who would want to legislate and enforce such things. Also...