In world history, the Jewish people have never had it better than they ve had for the last couple of decades. The rise of Israel as a strong international power made it possible for Jews to feel safer all over the world, and the fall of the Soviet Union freed millions of Jews to leave that communist cesspool. It s been an era of tolerance and goodwill toward Jews throughout the U.S. Guilt over the Holocaust stopped the Europeans from allowing their inherent and innate anti-Semitism from rising to the surface. All of that is now over, thanks to the international left. In the past couple of weeks, Palestinian Arabs have embarked on a well-calibrated and thoroughgoing stabbing spree throughout Israel. The stabbing spree follows hard on the Palestinian Authority dictator, Mahmoud Abbas, explaining to the United Nation that Palestinians no longer felt bound by the Oslo Accords. They just took the guns and turned them on the Jews as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the Iranians know they ve found their patsy in Barack Obama, and they re loving it. They re testing long-range ballistic missiles this week and they are funneling troops into Russian-run Syria with Russia s blessing, putting Israel on the defensive on its northern border with Gaza, as well as on its southern border with the southern border, as it s already on its defensive on it s eastern border with Israel, as they are loving it, and are pouring into Syria with Iran s support. The sudden turn against Israel globally is not super surprising, it s the result of the rise of the most powerful philosophical force of the recent past, Western self-loathing it springs from a general philosophy that Westerns are better off because they are better than you, the poor, poor, and therefore you need to be better than the poor. And it doesn t stop leftist Westerns from self loathing. It s not because of slavery, that America s rich, and that they ve been better off than the other people they call themselves. But it s because of their philosophies have failed, and now they have to use power to maintain their growth But that s not going to keep leftist Westerners from being better off, is it? That s better than slavery, is not because they have been better than other people, is because they ve become better than us, is better than we think they are? And that s what they ve got it wrong, is the problem, not the other way around, right?
00:00:00.000In world history, the Jewish people, they've never had it better than they've had for the last couple of decades.
00:00:05.000The rise of Israel as a strong international power made it possible for Jews to feel safer all over the world, and the fall of the Soviet Union freed millions of Jews to leave that communist cesspool.
00:00:15.000It's been an era of tolerance and goodwill toward Jews throughout the United States.
00:00:19.000Guilt over the Holocaust stopped the Europeans from allowing their inherent and innate anti-Semitism from rising to the surface.
00:00:25.000All of that is now over, thanks to the international left.
00:00:29.000In the last couple of weeks, Palestinian Arabs have embarked on a well-calibrated and thoroughgoing stabbing spree throughout Israel just over the last 24 hours.
00:00:37.000There are three people killed in shootings and stabbings in Israel.
00:00:41.000The stabbing spree follows hard on the Palestinian Authority dictator, Mahmoud Abbas, explaining to the United Nations that Palestinians no longer felt bound by the Oslo Accords.
00:00:51.000As if they ever felt bound by the Oslo Accords.
00:00:53.000They just took the guns and then turned them on the Jews as soon as possible.
00:00:56.000Well, the same week that Abbas did that, Politico reported that President Obama had rejected pleas from members of his own party to oppose Palestinian statehood as part of any Iran nuclear deal.
00:01:08.000Meanwhile, the Iranians know they've found their patsy in Barack Obama, and they are loving it.
00:01:14.000They've rejected any more negotiations with the West, and they tested long-range ballistic missiles this week, and they're funneling troops into Russian-run Syria.
00:01:22.000With Russia's blessing, Hezbollah terrorists, sponsored by Iran, are pouring into Syria, too, putting Israel on the defensive on its northern border.
00:01:29.000It's already on its defensive on its eastern border, as well as the southern border with Gaza.
00:01:34.000The sudden turn against Israel globally, not super surprising.
00:01:38.000It's the result of the rise of the most powerful philosophical force of the recent past, Western self-loathing.
00:01:45.000Western self-loathing, it springs from this general philosophy that anybody who's successful, nations, individuals, you must have become successful because you exploited downtrodden peoples.
00:01:56.000So America, in this particular view, is successful because we were means of the slaves and the Native Americans.
00:02:00.000European nations were successful because they invaded Africa and India.
00:02:06.000Israel is successful because it stole its land from those innocent Palestinian Arabs at the behest of the evil West, and then utilized the Palestinian Arabs for some reason or other that no one seems to be able to explain.
00:02:20.000America is successful because it embraced capitalism and Judeo-Christian moral values, both of which value the individual above the collective.
00:02:33.000America's actually successful in spite of its mistreatment of slaves, and Chinese, and Hispanics, and Native Americans, and women.
00:02:41.000It's not because of slavery that America's rich.
00:02:43.000After all, nations throughout history have exploited people of all sorts.
00:02:47.000In fact, Arab nations still continue to engage in slavery.
00:02:50.000They haven't seen tremendous success because of it.
00:02:52.000America has become more successful, not less successful, as it became more tolerant.
00:02:57.000The same holds true of European nations, who would have been better off not to exploit the people they conquered, but actually just treat them as trading partners.
00:03:03.000You know, Lenin said that capitalism was the final stage of imperialism.
00:03:08.000Imperialism, rather, was the final stage of capitalism.
00:03:10.000That capitalism ended its growth, and therefore you have to invade other countries.
00:03:15.000It's been known as economic nonsense for years.
00:03:17.000The truth is that imperialism, conquering other nations, is necessary for non-capitalistic, non-free countries.
00:03:24.000That's why Vladimir Putin and ISIS and the Chinese government, they're all aggressively seeking territorial expansion and exploitation of subject peoples.
00:03:33.000Their philosophies have failed, and now they have to use power to maintain their growth.
00:03:38.000But that's not going to stop leftist Westerners from self-loathing.
00:03:42.000And it doesn't stop leftists from believing that the West is bad and hating Israel specifically because of it.
00:03:47.000So, for example, President Obama's spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright, yesterday we talked about him.
00:03:51.000He spoke over the weekend at the Million Man March on the National Mall.
00:03:55.000Which was really kind of like the barely 1,000-man march.
00:03:59.000But the protesters who did show up, they cheered, and Wright then explained his theology of Jesus, drawn directly from nothing remotely approaching the Bible.
00:04:09.000He said that Jesus was a Palestinian, which makes no sense since Palestine, the name of it wasn't even given until 70 A.D.
00:04:16.000by the Romans as an insult to the Jews.
00:04:18.000Jeremiah Wright said that the Palestinian people had the Europeans come and take their country, even though they didn't have a country.
00:04:24.000He said the youth in Ferguson, Missouri and the youth in Palestine have united together to remind us that the dots need to be connected.
00:04:31.000And he says there's an apartheid wall that was built twice the size of the Berlin Wall in height, keeping Palestinians off of illegally occupied territories.
00:04:38.000Actually, the security wall was built only after the Palestinians crossed over into Israeli territory to kill Jews.
00:05:10.000That you hear Jeremiah Wright make between Palestinians exploited and black people being exploited.
00:05:16.000President Obama wrote exactly about this in Dreams from My Father.
00:05:19.000Here's what Obama wrote, and it sounds a lot like Jeremiah Wright.
00:05:22.000He wrote, quote, I know, I have seen the desperation and disorder of the powerless, how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi, and how easily they slip into violence and despair.
00:05:33.000I know the response of the powerful to this disorder.
00:05:36.000Alternating, as it does, between a dull complacency and, when the disorder spills out of its prescribed confines, a steady, unthinking application of force and more sophisticated military hardware is inadequate to the task.
00:05:48.000When you sift through that Melvillian endless sentence, what he's basically saying is that all suffering springs from inequality, and all inequality springs from exploitation.
00:05:58.000So if Palestinians are suffering, that's because Israel is at fault.
00:06:24.000Western self-loathing now dominates not just the United States, but Europe.
00:06:28.000And Westerners welcome unscreened Muslims from North Africa and the Middle East in the name of equality, even as the rates of Jew-targeting attacks have risen dramatically in recent years.
00:06:37.000And it's even crept its way into Israel, where the leftist post-Zionist movement now says that there's guilt, blood guilt, on the Jewish state for its foundation.
00:06:46.000Because it's easy to quote-unquote other the Jews, Western leftists don't feel any qualms siding with Arab murderers, they can brush off Jewish kids getting stabbed while riding bikes, or people being shot while riding a bus, because all these kids were beneficiaries of Western colonialism.
00:07:00.000So Jews shouldn't really be seeking sympathy from Western leftists.
00:07:04.000After all, the same leftists who are now condemning Dr. Ben Carson for stating the obvious, Jews could have used some guns against the Nazis, well, these are the same leftists today who say that Jews should be disarmed again against today's Nazis.
00:07:18.000Jews are looking for love in all the wrong places if they're looking to the left.
00:07:21.000I'm Ben Shapiro, and this is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:07:33.000Okay, so before we get into today's topic, which is the continuing attempt by Democrats to turn Republicans into your kooky uncle, I want to talk briefly about some breaking news that happened this morning.
00:07:44.000Apparently, a new report says, surprise, surprise, as we all knew, it was the Russians who shot down that Malaysian airliner.
00:07:50.000Remember, there was a Malaysian airliner that took
00:09:01.000Two, the Russians are conducting military operations in the Middle East for the first time since World War II, bombing the people that we are supporting.
00:09:25.000Syria was Russia's only ally in the region.
00:09:30.000And today, rather than being able to count on their support and maintain the base they had in Syria, which they've had for a long time, Mr. Putin now is devoting his own troops, his own military, just to barely hold together by a thread
00:09:53.000Steve, I gotta tell you, if you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership.
00:10:09.000Well, actually, that is precisely Barack Obama's definition of leadership.
00:10:12.000He's run America's economy into the ground, and he's had to send troops into places like Libya to prop up allies that don't exist anymore.
00:10:19.000And that's also true in Syria, where he's had to send money to people who don't even exist, who spent $500 million paying five people to fight the Russian-backed Assad.
00:10:30.000The reason I point this out and start with this is because I want you to remember this as a backdrop to what we're about to hear, which is that the real problem with America is not that guy.
00:10:38.000The real problem for America is not that, dude.
00:10:41.000The real problem for America is the Republican Party.
00:10:43.000Always and forever, the Republican Party is the biggest problem for America, for the world, their disaster area.
00:10:50.000And for that perspective, we go today to David Brooks.
00:11:01.000David Brooks is not a conservative, and how he's been considered a conservative columnist at the New York Times is absolutely beyond me.
00:11:07.000Remember, David Brooks is the guy who said, back in 2005, he sat down with then-Senator Obama, and he said that he looked at the crease in Barack Obama's pants, which I can only assume is not a euphemism.
00:11:18.000But he looked at the crease in Barack Obama's pants, and that's when he realized that Barack Obama would not just be a good president, he would be a great president.
00:11:26.000David Brooks then proceeded to write a column in 2006 called Run, Barack, Run.
00:11:30.000Run, Barack—this is the conservative columnist for The New York Times.
00:11:33.000Well, today he has a piece that is the most egregious hit piece on conservatives that I've maybe ever read from somebody who at least purports to be conservative.
00:11:42.000You're used to it from the left, but this sort of
00:11:45.000Hypocritical, vitriolic nonsense you're not really used to hearing from people supposedly on the right.
00:11:50.000And it's worth going through in detail because if you want to understand the rifts that are happening in the Republican Party over in Congress, if you want to understand the rifts that are happening in the conservative movement over Donald Trump or Ben Carson, if you want to understand why Republicans are so all fired mad all the time,
00:12:07.000They're mad at people like David Brooks, and they should be mad at people like David Brooks.
00:12:10.000Here's what David Brooks writes today in the New York Times.
00:12:25.000So, so far I'm reading this and I'm thinking, okay, this is sort of true.
00:12:36.000I mean, the conservative base was betrayed by Republican leadership that seems to want to compromise at every available turn with people who want to destroy the fundamental bases of Western civilization, right?
00:12:47.000So far I'm with him, but that's not what he's saying.
00:12:50.000What he says is that the party abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism.
00:12:55.000So you'd be much better off if we just stuck with the strategy of surrendering at every turn to Democrats and calling it incrementalism.
00:13:03.000If Democrats take 10 steps forward and Republicans push slightly back and then allow Democrats to take another 10 steps forward, that is incrementalism, according to David Brooks.
00:13:11.000He says, Republicans came to see themselves as insurgents and revolutionaries, and every revolution tends toward anarchy and ends up devouring its own.
00:14:51.000But conservatism stands for intellectual humility.
00:14:53.000The reason conservatism likes intellectual humility is the idea that people in power, if they're not humble, if they have no intellectual humility, they'll do whatever they want.
00:15:05.000And they'll run roughshod completely, completely over the rights of the American people.
00:15:09.000But conservatism does not stand for intellectual humility other than the idea that human beings are capable of both good and bad.
00:15:35.000There's a difference between being humble in the face of God and being humble in the face of Barack Obama, as much as leftists would like to say they're the same thing.
00:15:42.000And you have David Brooks continuing, he says that they prefer reform rather than revolution, they respect hierarchy.
00:15:47.000Okay, conservatives respect hierarchy so long as that hierarchy protects rights.
00:15:52.000But the revolutionaries of the American Revolution were not particularly fond of a hierarchy that enshrined King George, for example.
00:15:58.000But again, remember, everything that David Brooks is saying, none of this actually has to do with principles of liberty and limited government.
00:16:04.000According to David Brooks, conservatism has nothing to do with liberty and limited government, and the people who fight for liberty and limited government are not conservative unless they use his tactics of incrementalism and kindness and politeness.
00:16:16.000He says, conservatives of this disposition can be dull, but they know how to nurture and run institutions.
00:16:23.000I seem to remember a time when George W. Bush was president and we had a Republican Congress and things went very poorly.
00:16:28.000He says, they also see the nation—this is really the key—David Brooks says, Conservatives do see a community that is tied together.
00:16:49.000In terms of normative, we aspire to a community that's tied together, but we don't assume it.
00:16:55.000We don't assume that that community exists in the absence of all evidence.
00:16:59.000We don't pretend the community exists when there's no evidence to back that up.
00:17:03.000I have nothing in common with Barack Obama ideologically or in terms of where I want the future of the country to go.
00:17:08.000There are no ties that bind me to him.
00:17:10.000He's my president because that's the system we have.
00:17:12.000We have no ties that bind us together.
00:17:14.000When it comes to hardcore leftists, don't pretend there's a common thread holding my ideology to theirs that we both want what's best for the country.
00:17:23.000They want what's worst for the country.
00:17:24.000Otherwise, I wouldn't be fighting them.
00:17:26.000This nonsense that we live in a country where everybody simply gets along politically and it's just a matter of compromise, he's talking about an era that no longer exists.
00:17:35.000But because he's talking about that era, and because he doesn't believe crisis is ever possible, he says anybody who looks at today's political situation as though it's a crisis is a nutjob.
00:17:44.000And so he says, Today's Republicans, like Newt Gingrich and Ben Carson and Rush Limbaugh, they're always saying that civilization is on the brink of collapse, every setback, like the passage of Obamacare, became the ruination of the republic, comparisons to Nazi Germany became a staple.
00:17:59.000Hey, first of all, not every comparison to Nazi Germany is worthwhile or decent.
00:18:03.000However, if you never use Nazi Germany as a backdrop to what you're talking about, if you never acknowledge the possibility of tyranny rising, tyranny becomes inevitable.
00:18:12.000I promise you, the people who are most shocked by the rise of Nazi Germany were the people who ended up in the ovens.
00:18:19.000That the people who are always the victims of tyranny are the people who don't see it coming.
00:18:23.000And it's not because they're morally decadent, there's something wrong with them, it's because if you assume the best, likely the worst is going to happen to you at some point.
00:18:30.000By the way, when he says every setback like the passage of Obamacare becomes the ruination of the republic, Obamacare was a large step toward the ruination of the republic.
00:18:39.000Obamacare says the government can force you to buy anything the government wants to force you to buy.
00:20:21.000If the founders thought that, they wouldn't have said that.
00:20:23.000And the founders knew tyranny since they fought tyranny.
00:20:25.000And by the way, what the founders considered tyranny, we now consider basic state government here in the state of California.
00:20:31.000I mean, seriously, the tax rates the founders were fighting against under King George were significantly lower than the tax rates
00:20:36.000that most Americans are currently paying to the federal and state government.
00:20:40.000So the idea that the founders were on any level okay with the argument that tyranny would never happen in America is ignorance of American history.
00:20:50.000But this really is the problem inside the Republican Party and in our republic as a whole.
00:20:54.000Do the American people take seriously the threat of their rights being removed from them?
00:20:59.000We're the richest, most powerful nation in history.
00:21:01.000We have all sorts of things at our disposal.
00:21:02.000We have great iPhones, and we have terrific computers, and we have nice cars produced in other countries, and we have all sorts of wonderful things in everyday life.
00:21:26.000When Barack Obama says, we're the greatest country in the world and we'll always be the greatest country in the world, even as he takes a sledgehammer to all the foundational principles upon which America stands, you have to wonder, what's he talking about?
00:21:39.000Does he believe that being born in America makes you a better quality human being to build a better quality country than being born elsewhere?
00:21:46.000Because if not, what is he even saying?
00:21:50.000If you're somebody like David Brooks and you believe everything's gonna be okay just because it's gonna be okay, that we all have common bonds in the absence of any common bonds...
00:21:58.000You're gonna be the one who's most taken by surprise when the government comes for you.
00:22:02.000Because the fact is that we do have an ideological battle on our hands.
00:22:06.000We are at a tipping point, because America is always at a tipping point.
00:22:09.000And for all these folks, I never cite Ronald Reagan, but for all these folks who worship at the altar of Ronald Reagan to ignore the fact that Reagan is the one who said that freedom is always one generation away from extinction, demonstrates their willingness to blind themselves in the face of real and true threats to American rights and American liberty.