2021 December 28 The Bryan Hyde Show

<p><a href="https://www.ericpetersautos.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos</strong></a> joins me for a year-end retrospective. We talk about the good and bad of 2021 and what to watch for in 2022.</p> <p>Why does it feel as though the inability to leave others alone is spreading? <a href="https://reason.com/2021/12/27/americas-divisions-may-have-passed-the-tipping-point/" target="_blank"><u><strong>J.D. Tuccille says America's divisions may have passed the tipping point</strong></u></a>.</p> <p>If you've ever taken pleasure in seeing another person suffer because of their political beliefs, you're on a slippery slope. Never forget that <a href="https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-viciousness-of-tribalism" target="_blank"><strong>authoritarianism is fueled by the viciousness of tribalism</strong></a>.</p> <p>When someone tells you to follow the science, too often this is another way of saying, "Shut up and do what I'm telling you." Each one of us has a responsibility to be our own fact-checker. As Joakim Book explains, that means that <a href="https://www.aier.org/article/the-only-question-that-matters-is-it-correct/" target="_blank"><strong>the only question that matters is: Is it correct</strong></a>?</p> <p>If you've ever been labeled unfairly, you know the pain it brings is real. Paul Rosenberg makes <a href="https://freemansperspective.com/fixed-traits-and-fate/" target="_blank"><strong>a clear distinction between fixed traits and fate</strong></a> to remind us that losing doesn't make us permanent losers.</p> <p>Trust for the political class is quickly disappearing. And for good reason. It's hard sometimes to remember when politicians weren't so craven in their power-seeking. If you haven't read George Washington's farewell address, <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/12/american_prophet_george_washington.html" target="_blank"><strong>you're missing a chance to hear some prophetic advice</strong></a> from a great man.</p> <p>I know we're not supposed to tak