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Megyn Kelly recently sat down with journalist Glenn Greenwald to tackle a subject every American should care about: how we talk to each other and why getting off the internet — literally touching grass — matters for our national health. The conversation, which aired on The Megyn Kelly Show, dug into the rot social media has created and the need to restore face-to-face discourse instead of online pile-ons.
Greenwald, now the host of Rumble’s System Update, pushed back against the modern reflex to cancel and censor rather than engage, arguing that real conversation is the antidote to tribalism. Kelly and Greenwald agreed that habits like constant scrolling and anonymous outrage have hollowed out our ability to civilly disagree and solve real problems.
This is a message conservatives should champion loudly: free speech and robust debate aren’t just abstract principles — they’re the glue of a functioning society. While the left preaches tolerance, too often its activists practice intolerance by silencing dissenting voices; encouraging everyday Americans to step outside, meet neighbors, and talk in person is practical patriotism. No algorithm should replace a handshake or a neighborhood conversation.
The broader point about “touching grass” is also a rebuke to Big Tech’s dominance in shaping thought. Platforms run by coastal elites have weaponized social feeds into censorship engines and moral theaters, and moving conversations back into real communities weakens that chokehold. If conservatives want to win cultural influence, we should be the ones rebuilding town halls, parent groups, and local civic life — not surrendering them to sanctimonious Twitter mobs.
Mainstream outlets continue to fret and flail as control slips from their hands, proving Greenwald’s point that the panic among establishment media is real and revealing. Americans see through the performance: people want honest talk, not curated outrage, and the elite’s meltdown only reinforces the need for decentralizing conversation and power.
This episode is a call to action for conservatives: don’t retreat to echo chambers or answer every provocation online. Get involved in your communities, invite conversations with neighbors who disagree, and model the respectful, reality-based debate our country desperately needs.
We should be proud to defend free speech while promoting the simple civic virtue of face-to-face engagement — it’s how we win hearts, minds, and the future. If the left wants to return to serious governance and not just performative outrage, let them join us outside the feeds and into the sunlight of real conversation.
