es, he calls it the Brandon administration, as I borrowed his joke just a moment ago. The Brandon administration always gets a big laugh from the partisans.

Let's talk about the things that are happening. Things are happening. Let's see. Vaccination mandates going into effect January 4th for big employers over 100 people. What is there to say about that? You know, I could say I don't like them. You could say you don't like them. But here's the only thing I'm going to add to this.

If you think it's the government that is mandating this, you're completely wrong. That's probably what most of you think. You think the government is mandating it, and I would argue that that's only technically true. It is true that the government is mandating it and they have rules and whatnot. But I remind you, as Rasmussen reminded me today, they've got a new poll. Rasmussen poll: 52 percent of the public surveyed support workers refusing vaccinations. But that means there's a whole bunch of people who don't.

So just slightly more than half of the country is in favor of not doing these mandates. Here's the thing you need to know. If that were 75 percent, it wouldn't be happening. How many disagree with me? So here's the point. Right now 52 percent of workers support not making people have to get vaccinations, so they're opposed to the mandate. But only 52 percent. Hypothetically, if it were 75 percent, would it be happening? Anybody? Does anybody think it would happen if it were 75 percent against it? I don't think so. I don't think so.

Now you could disagree where that number is, 75 or 90 or whatever. But my point is the only reason the government can do this is because the public, by enough people, are on board, just barely. It feels like it's sort of a slim majority. But you're not dealing with the government. You're dealing with your fellow citizens. If you could convince half of the remaining people who were for mandates to take your side, you'd have 75 percent against mandates and they just wouldn't happen. Does anybody doubt that? That's my take on it.

So I think that we often mistake where power is. Power is with the people completely in this country. That will just always be the case, at least for anything long term. If we need quick decisions such as a war situation, then we actually prefer the government to do it because it has to be quick. But for these longer-term, considered topics, we really have the power completely. But we have to be on the same side or we have nothing.

So that's the difference, I suppose. If the government can keep us confused and ignorant, they do have the power.

There are effectively three political parties now, would you agree? Two of them are called Democrats. You've got your progressives and then your standard Democrats, I guess. But then Republicans are more unified. So it's lik