Hal Sparks Loves America: 'We Have A Responsibility To Fix It'

Appearing with comedian Erik Bransteen on The Dean Obeidallah Show last Friday (Independence Day), C&L favorite Hal Sparks went on a must-hear rant about patriotism and our duty to stick by the American experiment. Hal took on our current government's authoritarianism and how every country, including ours, must face the natural human tendencies towards it. MUST listen clip and transcript below, with host Deah Obeidallah bringing up Independence Day and patriotism:

DEAN OBEIDALLAH (HOST): There is a partisan component [to polls on patriotism], right? When it was a Democratic president, Democrats were high and Republicans were lower.

But I do think, honestly, and I could be wrong, and you tell me, I have a lot of listeners who call and we talk about this.

It seems like a fundamental foundational shaking of your belief in this country. That's what Trump is doing to us now in five months. So what's your take? What do you think?

HAL SPARKS: No, I'm I'm an extraordinarily proud American.

I think our system is fantastic.

I think democracy is messy.

And if any German ever calls me out, am I ashamed of being an American?

They can go pound sand.

No country gets to skip history.

And we all go through this like re-monarchization or authoritarian shift at some period.

It's how you respond to it and push back on it that matters.

And seventy-five million people voted for a woman of color last year.

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