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Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis presents:

This week on our longrunning, ongoing “Walk the Talk Show” podcast and video series, with awards and millions of views over the years…

Waylon discusses democracy, independent media, and how you can be a participant—if you care.

“We [Elephant] often criticize Donald Trump—and we’re fine with disagreement and discussion. But we’re not fine with hate or lies.

That’s our line. We’re totally fine with people correcting us, or thinking differently. We’re not okay with different facts. Facts are facts…because they’re true! You drop an apple and it falls. That’s related to gravity and to science.

From a spiritual point of view, our approach is empathy, openness, learning, not holding on to trying to be perfect. And the most important word, I think, in the Elephant land is ‘caring.’

Often we get comments about how we’re disrespecting the flag, or how we’re not patriots, or we should move out of the United States—we get told to eff off or leave the country if we don’t love it.

Well, my love, like any healthy relationship, is rooted in (hopefully) honesty and the courage to be honest, in a respectful way—which is a journalism ethic.”

~ Waylon H. Lewis

Watch the video: 

“In a democracy, patriotism looks like protecting democracy. There’s no greater patriotism than our veterans our service members defending democracy against fascism. And the Constitution notes that that defense must be against foreign or domestic adversaries.

We keep going because we care. And what we care about is protecting democracy in this incredibly vulnerable time because the Achilles’ heel of democracy is that it can be used to elect an anti-democratic leader. And that is what has happened.

And I think objectively, even if you love Trump, you view him as a sort of a bully or a dictator, or a strong man or a powerful person who will get what you want done.” ~ Waylon H. Lewis

Can’t watch the video? Why not listen? 

 ”What I am requesting is participation. Elephant has 13 million fans on social media and millions of readers, but we are only able to bring folks together around caring, fact-based conversation—people who disagree but can do so agreeably or respectfully—if you participate and right now independent media is getting killed by Facebook, et cetera.

They smother and suppress links. So when you go to elephantjournal.com, when you go to elephantjournal.com/best and get our free newsletter, when you go to elephantjournal.com/post and write something and share it—you keep independent media live, but more importantly, you keep respectful conversation, community, and caring facts alive.” ~ Waylon H. Lewis

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