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00:01:43.000Alrighty, so If the last year has taught us a couple of things, it's taught us a couple of things.
00:01:48.000One, the American people are incredibly resilient, like truly resilient.
00:01:51.000This has been an awful year, a truly bad year.
00:01:54.000Hundreds of thousands of Americans dead of COVID.
00:01:57.000A political system that has lost the trust of the American people, and I think in many cases rightly so.
00:02:04.000An institutional infrastructure in the United States that has undermined our trust in those institutions.
00:02:10.000The American people have withstood all of this, which is why I'm optimistic, despite all of that, going into next year, because the Republic still stands.
00:02:17.000And more importantly, I think that Americans are tough-minded enough to have withstood this awful year.
00:02:21.000And moving forward, I think that there is every possibility that things could get better in spite of all the obstacles we face.
00:02:27.000But one thing has become clear above all else in the middle of all of this, and that is We need new institutions.
00:02:33.000We need new institutions or we need to remake the institutions that currently govern us.
00:02:50.000What we have watched over the past couple of decades is the complete remaking of all the institutions in which Americans place their trust.
00:02:56.000And in fact, the only institutions where the constituency didn't really change radically, those are the institutions that have been under attack by the newfangled institutions, like the military and the police, right?
00:03:05.000Those are the institutions that are under assault.
00:03:07.000All of the other institutions have basically been hijacked by the power of the left and militarized and weaponized against you.
00:03:14.000They've been militarized and they've been weaponized by a group of people who truly believe that they are the select.
00:03:24.000They look down on people who do not speak the common language.
00:03:27.000And they're willing to close all avenues of power to people who do not think the way they think.
00:03:33.000And the consequences of their ideology are incredibly dangerous.
00:03:36.000They no longer believe in the free exchange of ideas, many of them.
00:03:38.000They no longer believe in individual freedoms and individual rights.
00:03:41.000They believe in a utopian scheme whereby they get to effectuate equality of outcome above all else.
00:03:48.000And I think Americans look at that and they rightly say, I don't trust these institutions that are trying to cram down a version of reality that doesn't exist on me and then tell me that I am some sort of heretic if I don't go along in order to get along.
00:04:00.000In fact, as I've been saying for literally years at this point, I think that that's really what the Trump phenomenon is and was.
00:04:04.000I think Trump is just a middle finger to all of these institutions that demanded your fealty while simultaneously undercutting you.
00:04:12.000That demanded that you believe in them, that you repeat the nostrums that they put in front of you, and then proceeded to use their institutional power in order to undercut a lot of your values.
00:04:22.000I think Trump was just a giant pulsating middle finger to that.
00:04:26.000I think that's why he's generated the enormous amount of love from his base that he has.
00:04:29.000I think it's why he's generated the enormous amount of hatred from the institutional left that he has.
00:04:34.000But to understand how deeply rooted this battle is and what's going to happen in the upcoming years.
00:04:39.000And this is where I think things are going to get worse, but I think the battle has just begun.
00:04:42.000I think that no matter where we stand at this moment, and no matter what happens when Joe Biden takes office in January, in late January, barring some sort of cataclysmic occurrence, No matter what happens, the battle is going to continue and it's going to get worse, but I think the American people are awake to the battle.
00:04:58.000I think Trump has had a hand in waking the American people up to that battle.
00:05:02.000Trump was not elected to govern, is the reality.
00:05:04.000Trump was elected in order to fight the culture war.
00:05:08.000If you ask his people why they love him, they don't love him because of the policy.
00:05:11.000I know there are wonks out there, you know, people like me, who like a lot of Trump's policy.
00:05:15.000But the reality is that the reason that Trump has an outsized fan base who are addicted and devoted to him is not because of what he has done on taxes.
00:05:23.000It is not because of conservative judges.
00:05:25.000It is because he does fight the culture battles and the culture wars are the place that this country is currently living.
00:05:31.000It's going to be that way until it's either weapons down on the culture war by the left or until the institutions themselves are either demolished or alternatives built or infiltrated by people who think differently.
00:05:41.000What we are watching is a battle over the institutions.
00:05:43.000Trump and the Democrats, all that stuff is at the tip of the iceberg.
00:05:46.000That is just the most obvious manifestation of this giant culture war that has been roiling America for decades on end.
00:05:55.000But we have now reached, I think, the culminating point.
00:05:58.000And frankly, I think it culminated over the last couple of weeks with this, frankly, unbelievable, unbelievable push by the CDC to tranche out vaccines by race.
00:06:21.000I mean that science is meant to simply be hypothesis and rebuttal.
00:06:27.000It is meant to be testing and it's meant to be falsifiability.
00:06:31.000It's meant to just be adding to the body of human knowledge by asking questions and getting objective answers.
00:06:37.000And yet science has now been hijacked in pursuit of politics.
00:06:41.000We have seen even that which has risen above disease made subject to the pursuit of politics in a time.
00:06:48.000It really is sort of a microcosm of where we are as a country and where we are as a civilization.
00:06:52.000In a time when Americans should have the most trust they've ever had in the scientific establishment.
00:06:56.000We have developed inside of nine months.
00:06:59.000The people who we hated most, the pharmaceutical companies.
00:07:00.000Inside of nine months, they developed vaccines that are 95% effective in preventing you from getting the disease and apparently have beneficial effects, even if you do get the disease, in weakening the effects of the disease.
00:07:10.000That is a triumph of science greater than any triumph of science Certainly since the landing man on the moon.
00:07:18.000I mean, it really is that monumental a triumph of science.
00:07:21.000We have seen doctors and medical workers.
00:07:23.000We have seen nurses going into hospitals without proper protection.
00:07:27.000We see them in the hospitals right now working extraordinary shifts.
00:07:30.000We see the hospitals packed to the gills with people who have COVID and we see our medical workers who are out there fighting for life each and every day.
00:07:37.000And yet the amount of trust that we have in our public health experts, right, who are the scientific institutions infused with politics, is at an all-time low, and it should be at an all-time low.
00:07:47.000Because, as with all other institutions in American life, the scientific establishment has been infused with a certain level of wokeism.
00:07:55.000The people who run our public health establishment, this has been true since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, when everything became very political very fast.
00:08:01.000I was saying for months at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, I didn't understand why COVID had become so political.
00:08:06.000We should simply follow the data and then determine what was going to save the most lives and balance that out with what was going to infringe on the fewest possible freedoms and allow us to live our lives as normally as humanly possible while protecting the most lives.
00:08:18.000Those should be the obvious priorities of concern.
00:08:20.000Instead, it turned extremely political, extremely fast, and it became overtly political, particularly during the George Floyd protests, when 15 to 26 million Americans went out in the streets in the middle of a pandemic, and public health experts, epidemiologists from places like Harvard, went out there and suggested That it was perfectly okay for you to protest for George Floyd, but it was really bad for you to go to church.
00:08:41.000You couldn't go to a funeral for grandma outdoors, but you definitely could go out there and shout about racial injustice in the United States.
00:08:46.000And they said this in the name of science.
00:09:32.000All of Trump's heresies were pre-approved by the left.
00:09:37.000He just came around and said, okay, now I'm going to do it on behalf of the right.
00:09:39.000Okay, but in any case, the biggest story of the, honestly, I think it's in the last several years, is the fact that the CDC was going to tranche out life-saving care based on race.
00:09:49.000And then they wonder, then people wonder, why don't you have trust in the institutions?
00:09:52.000Why do you just want somebody who's going to come in and break things?
00:09:55.000Because when you lose institutional trust, everything gets torn down to the ground.
00:09:59.000So if you want to rebuild institutional trust, what you need to do is stop infusing all of the institutions with your politics.
00:10:10.000I think some people on the moderate left are coming around to this.
00:10:12.000I think some moderate liberals are coming around to this.
00:10:14.000So Yasha Monk, who normally writes for The Atlantic, he writes over at persuasion.community, why I'm losing trust in the institutions.
00:10:22.000He says, who should be first in line to get the vaccine against COVID-19?
00:10:25.000These kinds of decisions are never easy. There are many competing considerations.
00:10:29.000Highly trained moral philosophers can have deep disagreements about them.
00:10:31.000Though I myself have studied ethics and political philosophy for much of my academic career, I am deeply grateful I don't have to make those judgment calls. But for all of those difficulties, there are also some bedrock principles on which virtually all moral philosophers have long agreed. The first is that we should avoid leveling down everyone's quality of life for the purpose of achieving equality.
00:10:48.000It is unjust when some people have plenty of food while others are starving, but alleviating that inequality by making sure that an even greater number of people starve is clearly wrong.
00:10:56.000The second is we should not use ascriptive characteristics like race or ethnicity to allocate medical resources.
00:11:02.000To save one patient rather than another based on the color of their skin rightly strikes most philosophers and most Americans as barbaric.
00:11:08.000The Centers for Disease Control have just thrown both of those principles overboard in the name of social justice.
00:11:13.000In one of the most shocking moral misjudgments by a public body I've ever seen, the CDC invoked considerations of social justice to recommend providing vaccinations to essential workers before older Americans, even though this would, according to its own models, lead to a much greater death toll.
00:11:27.000After a massive public outcry, the agency has adopted revised recommendations.
00:11:31.000But though these are a clear improvement, they still violate the two bedrock principles of allocative justice and are likely to cause unnecessary suffering on a significant scale.
00:11:40.000And then he goes into the details as to how all of this happened and how politics infused the entire consideration here.
00:11:50.000He says the CDC was effectively about to recommend that a greater number of African-Americans die so that the share of African-Americans who receive the vaccine is slightly higher.
00:11:57.000This is what I explained yesterday and the day before on the show.
00:12:01.000I was pointing out that if you benefit 20-year-old essential workers who are proportionately more black, Over 85-year-old grandmothers who are proportionally more white, you're still going to end up killing an absolute number of black people more, a higher absolute number of black people, because black people over the age of 85 are still in that group of over the age of 85, and they are the most likely to die.
00:12:19.000If you're a 20-year-old black essential worker, the likelihood of you dying is extraordinarily low.
00:12:24.000So as Yasha Monk says, in blatant violation of the leveling down objection, prioritizing essential workers in the name of equality would likely kill more people in all relevant demographic groups.
00:12:35.000As criticism of the recommendations mounted, epidemiologists mostly circled the wagon, but thankfully, the pressure was too strong to ignore at a meeting that had, before the mounting controversy, been expected to rubber stamp the recommendations that had already been unanimously accepted.
00:12:47.000The CDC changed course and now suggested a more complicated scheme.
00:12:50.000Once medical workers had received the vaccine, both Americans over the age of 74 and essential frontline workers would be vaccinated.
00:12:56.000In the second phase, Americans over the age of 64 and the broader group of all remaining essential workers would get access to the vaccine.
00:13:05.000The reality is that if you are going to look at the actual proportion of people dying from COVID-19, it makes zero sense to not tranche older people before all these essential workers.
00:13:15.000I was looking at these stats yesterday, by the way.
00:13:18.000The COVID risk, according to the CDC, COVID risk is heavily striated by age.
00:13:22.000According to the CDC, the death rate of COVID for those above the age of 85 is 630 times the death rate for those between the ages of 18 and 49.
00:13:34.000For those between 75 and 84, the death rate is 220 times higher.
00:13:40.000For those between 65 and 74, the death rate is 90 times higher.
00:13:43.000So why in the world would you be prioritizing essential frontline workers who are 24 over people who are 67?
00:14:02.000He says, By disposition, I trust the functioning of establishment institutions and the decent intentions of my compatriots.
00:14:08.000In a country with rapidly falling social trust and growing political dysfunction, I try to hold on to my belief that some key organizations are doing their best.
00:14:15.000Until a few years ago, it was obvious to me I can trust what is written in the newspaper or what I am told by public health authorities.
00:14:23.000I still believe that most people, including the journalists who write for established newspapers and the civil servants who staff federal agencies, are the heroes in their own stories.
00:14:30.000But I no longer trust any institution in American life to such an extent I am willing to rely on its account of the world without looking into important matters on my own.
00:14:38.000So Yasha Monk is a mainstream liberal, right?
00:14:41.000And he is writing what I think many Americans now believe.
00:14:45.000It is not Trump who has undermined the institutions.
00:14:47.000The institutions undermined themselves and then Trump pointed out that they were hollow.
00:14:51.000That is what has happened over the course of the last four years.
00:14:54.000As Yasha Monk concludes, the reasons for this mistrust are perfectly encapsulated in the reports the mainstream newspapers published about the CDC's recommendation.
00:15:01.000The write-up in the New York Times, for example, barely mentions the committee's last-minute change of heart.
00:15:05.000A faithful reader of the newspaper of record would not even know that an important public body was, until it received massive criticism from the public about to sacrifice thousands of American lives on the altar of a dangerous and deeply illiberal ideology.
00:15:17.000And this is right, because the wokeism, the speaking of the vocabulary, the creation of the new ruling class, that exists across institutions.
00:15:25.000It is not merely relegated to the medical.
00:15:28.000It is not merely relegated to the CDC.
00:15:44.000They doused themselves in gasoline and they lit a match.
00:15:47.000And going into next year, that's going to leave a choice for Americans.
00:15:50.000Because what the left is going to do is they are now, with the power of the presidency behind them, when Joe Biden takes office, the Electoral College is voted, when that happens, all of these forces are going to be brought to bear in double the strength they normally would be.
00:16:04.000The reason that so many on the right were invested in Trump is because they saw Trump, I think in many ways correctly, as the man standing in the breach.
00:16:11.000They saw Trump as the guy who's taking on these institutions.
00:16:14.000They saw Trump as the guy who's willing to say the unsayable.
00:16:17.000Sure, sometimes he said ridiculous things.
00:16:18.000Sure, sometimes he tweeted dumb stuff.
00:16:20.000But the reality is he was also saying things that needed to be said in a way that many Republicans were shy.
00:16:24.000Many Republicans were shy to take on these institutions.
00:16:26.000Trump was never shy to take on the institutions.
00:16:28.000And a lot of Republicans said, okay, you know what?
00:16:32.000So the question is, If Trump isn't there, and Biden is in there, and Biden is going to be standing behind the institutional powers that be and ramming them forward, what are you going to do to fight back?
00:16:43.000What are we going to do to fight back?
00:16:44.000I want to talk a little bit more about the collapse of our institutional trust and what it means for the coming year, what it meant for the last year, in just one second.
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00:18:12.000OK, so what is the ideology of the new ruling class?
00:18:15.000The ideology of the new ruling class is that they are going to achieve ultimate utopia via equality of outcome.
00:18:21.000The new ideology of the of the ruling class is wokeism.
00:18:25.000It's the stuff that's taught at major universities.
00:18:28.000And so this ideological poison seeps into the bloodstream via the universities.
00:18:32.000The universities have been completely taken over by a radical left contingent that sees human beings in terms of group and seeks social justice, which is to say group justice at the expense of individual justice, that believes that Americans can be categorized by race, by sex, by sexual orientation.
00:18:48.000And then the coalition of the victimized can launch itself at the broader superstructure of American society.
00:18:55.000In order to do that, however, you have to renormalize America's institutions.
00:18:58.000You have to take over institutions that were not designed to cram down this divisive and disgusting ideology.
00:19:05.000You have to take over those institutions.
00:19:26.000but certainly in the last couple of years since Trump took over.
00:19:29.000Renormalization of the institutions. When Trump became president, there was an open effort to take over institutions that had not yet been taken over or to radicalize institutions that were already far to the left. All it takes is a tipping point, a number of people, in order to tip an entire institution.
00:19:47.000So renormalization theory, which is a term that was used by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of the book Black Swan.
00:19:55.000He talks about how you can use a process to basically Let a motivated minority cow a larger, largely uninterested majority into going along to get along.
00:20:05.000So Taleb, in his book, he gives the example of you have a vegetarian daughter in your family, and there are four members of the family, and so the vegetarian daughter can get the entire family to eat vegetarian.
00:20:14.000All she has to do is say, I'm not going to eat a meal that is not vegetarian.
00:20:18.000You can eat what you want, but I'm only going to eat vegetarian.
00:20:22.000Is she going to cook two separate meals, one for everybody else and one for the daughter, or is she just going to cook one meal and everybody sort of goes along with it?
00:20:28.000Now the entire family is eating vegetarian because they love their daughter.
00:20:32.000Because she's an intransigent minority.
00:20:34.000Not a racial minority, an ideological minority.
00:20:37.000Okay, now you can take that family and you put them in a block party with four other families, and that family says, listen, because of our daughter, we all eat vegetarian, you can eat what you want, but the reality is that we're not going to eat whatever meat dishes you make.
00:20:50.000Now the person at the head of the block party has to decide, do I order two separate meals?
00:20:53.000Or is it easier for me just to order one meal and everybody just eats vegetarian?
00:20:56.000So now, based on one person, you have basically 20 people who are eating vegetarian.
00:21:00.000You can keep renormalizing up this way.
00:21:04.000And this applies in politics, as in life.
00:21:06.000So Taleb writes in his book, he says, you think that because some extreme right or left-wing party has, say, the support of 10% of the population, their candidate will get 10% of the votes.
00:21:15.000No, these baseline voters should be classified as inflexible and will always vote for their faction.
00:21:20.000Some of the flexible voters can also vote for that extreme faction.
00:21:23.000These people are the ones to watch out for, as they may swell the number of votes for the extreme party.
00:21:27.000But it's not enough to have one stubborn person, you have to have a tipping point.
00:21:31.000You need to actually have a certain number of people who are going to go along in order to get along and you have to have a certain number of people who are part of this hardcore coalition.
00:21:39.000So what the left has done is they've created a coalition.
00:21:42.000They understand that in a company of a thousand people there may only be one transgender person and if that transgender person says, I demand that every single person in the company start using preferred pronouns and that we declassify all the bathrooms.
00:21:54.000The other 999 people may say, no, we're not going to do that.
00:21:57.000But if the transgender person can get together with people who are in favor of other minority rights at the corporate level, and then they can form up, and now you got 20% of the population all stumping for each other's causes, right?
00:22:09.000This sort of Saul Alinsky coalitional politics.
00:22:11.000You can take over an entire institution.
00:22:14.000There's a physicist named Serge Galam.
00:22:16.000He has posited that in some cases, only about 20% of a population is needed to support an extreme view in order to cause radical renormalization.
00:22:24.000One way of creating an intransigent minority coalition would be the activation of what he calls frozen prejudices, at the risk of appearing intolerant or immoderate to a broad majority, while maintaining a solid core base.
00:22:34.000In other words, you start with a more motivated core group, you don't worry about who you alienate, you appeal to the prejudices of other vulnerable groups, and then they're forced to choose between joining with you and their most ardent enemies, people they actually don't like.
00:22:46.000Okay, so this is what has happened inside corporations.
00:22:49.000It's how Hollywood somehow got more left.
00:22:51.000And over the course of the last few years, you now have the Academy Awards declaring, for example, that they are only going to give awards based on whether the storyline features protagonists who are of particular race or particular sex or particular sexual orientation.
00:23:04.000Or whether a certain number of supporting players are of these particular group dynamics.
00:23:10.000You see corporations mirroring all this sort of stuff.
00:23:13.000And you see the media, which has been completely overtaken by wokeism, pushing this agenda extraordinarily hard.
00:23:22.000So, Google is one of the biggest companies on the planet.
00:23:26.000Google has gone nearly completely woke, right?
00:23:29.000Several years ago, there was this whole controversy because James Damore, who was working for Google at the time, he put out a memo about diversity inside the halls of Google in which he suggested that maybe the reason why he didn't have as many female engineers is because women didn't tend to go into engineering as much or because if you look at test scores on engineering, women tend to occupy the middle of the bell curve while men tend to occupy the tail ends of the bell curve.
00:23:51.000And he was thrown out of Google for this.
00:23:54.000Google has become completely woke because they're so afraid of their own employees.
00:23:57.000They're afraid of being perceived by the larger group of Americans as intolerant and bigoted.
00:24:03.000But more importantly, they're afraid of their own employees.
00:24:08.000See, all you have to do is be intransigent.
00:24:10.000You don't have to show evidence that wokeism is true.
00:24:13.000All you have to do is insist that people cater to you and people will begin catering to you.
00:24:19.000This is what happens across the political spectrum, and it certainly is happening on the left, and it's happening with regard to our institutions.
00:24:23.000So there's a story from Hot Air today talking about a former Google diversity recruiter who quit and talked about how terrible Google is to black people.
00:24:43.000This woman, whose name is April Christina Curley, She announced on Twitter this week she'd been fired in September after six years with Google.
00:24:50.000Her particular project was to help Google hire students straight out of historically black universities and colleges.
00:24:55.000Okay, now, immediately you would say, well, that doesn't sound like Google is trying to racially discriminate.
00:24:59.000It sounds like, I mean, at least not against black people.
00:25:01.000It sounds as though they're trying to racially discriminate in favor of black people by specifically recruiting at historically black colleges and universities.
00:25:07.000But this person writes, The reason Google never hired an HBCU student straight out of undergrad into one of their key engineering roles is because they didn't believe talent existed at these institutions until I showed up.
00:25:18.000When I started at Google, I quickly became aware of all the racist bleep put in place to keep black and brown students out of their pipeline.
00:25:24.000I routinely called out shady recruitment practices, such as screening out resumes of students with unfamiliar schools or university names.
00:25:31.000Okay, first of all, that is not a shitty recruitment practice.
00:25:34.000If I don't recognize the name of a school and then I do recognize the brand name of Harvard, there's a certain level of sorting that goes on when it comes to engineering jobs where people immediately assume that if you went to Harvard, and I think rightly so, that you are probably of higher IQ than a person who went to the local junior college that you've never heard of.
00:25:50.000That's basically all that it is at this point.
00:25:52.000But this person is too busy accusing Google of racism and cruelty.
00:25:58.000So she says, every single day for six years, I fought tirelessly to provide black and brown students the opportunity to launch a career in tech. Often I found myself arguing and pleading with white women who lead recruitment teams for internships and full-time roles, begging for students who are more than qualified to be considered for offers. And then she says, because of my adamant advocacy of black and brown students to be fairly and justly considered for roles at Google, I experienced active abuse and retaliation from several managers who harassed me and many other black women.
00:26:22.000Despite stellar performance metrics, which can be supported by multiple data points, I was repeatedly denied promotions, had my compensation cut, placed on performance improvement plans, denied leadership opportunities, yelled at, intentionally excluded from meetings, etc.
00:26:36.000The final finale, she says, F Google, F the way Google treats black women and black people.
00:26:42.000Take it from me, the most successful black queer woman recruiter who they fired in the middle of an MF pandemic because they were tired of hearing me call them out on their racist BS.
00:26:51.000This is the second high profile black employee to announce leaving Google this month.
00:26:55.000Hey, the backlash within the company led to a group called the Black Googler Network meeting with Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai with a list of demands regarding all sorts of things.
00:27:05.000You can watch the renormalization of Google in process.
00:27:30.000And because they seek a uniform corporate culture, it is easier to make everybody uniform by adopting wokeism than it is to make everybody uniform by rejecting wokeism.
00:27:39.000And so you've seen the corporations taken over every single day.
00:27:42.000Every single day this year, I've been receiving notes from people who have interviews at top 50 corporations saying that they are being asked questions like, what have you done to fight American systemic racism?
00:27:52.000I'm sorry, that has nothing to do with being an engineer at Google.
00:27:55.000Also, it makes assumptions about the world that simply aren't true.
00:27:58.000But better to mirror the crowd than to actually stand up to the lie.
00:28:03.000This is why Americans don't trust corporate institutions because they see Apple saying that it stands up for wokeism, simultaneously saying that it wants to stand in favor of slave labor in China.
00:28:15.000They see LeBron James suggesting that America is systemically racist at the same time that he is yelling at Daryl Morey from the Houston Rockets for standing up for freedom in Hong Kong.
00:28:57.000I can't tell you that, honestly, the number of calls and emails that I receive over the course of a given week from people who say, I'm afraid of speaking up.
00:29:05.000I'm afraid of saying what I think is true.
00:29:06.000I'm afraid of saying it in college classroom.
00:29:08.000I can't say it to my high school friends.
00:29:11.000And we're not talking about saying awful, terrible things.
00:29:14.000We're talking about putting up pictures of yourself at a 4th of July parade.
00:29:17.000We're talking about saying that America is not systemically racist.
00:29:20.000It's stuff that most Americans tend to believe.
00:29:22.000If you say that you think it's bad to kneel for the flag, this is now considered a breach of protocol.
00:29:28.000The only way you can get away with this is by silencing, and the way that you get away with this by silencing is by leveraging the institutions of power on your behalf.
00:29:34.000The right is not incorrect to feel that it is under assault from every major institution of our society, because it basically is.
00:29:42.000Traditional, and when I say the right, I don't mean small government libertarianism.
00:29:48.000I mean a certain level of respect for American history and a belief in deeply American principles like individual rights, like constitutional rights, like the Declaration of Independence.
00:29:57.000These things are deeply controversial in today's world.
00:29:59.000And if you signify your support for them and your opposition to people who try to tear them down, this puts you not only on the chopping block, it puts you at the risk of being excised from polite society.
00:30:10.000That is what everybody has been feeling over the course of this year.
00:30:13.000The pandemic only exacerbated this, particularly in the wake of the racial protests that we saw.
00:30:19.000But what we are living through is a renormalization of all of American society via the institutions.
00:30:25.000This has always been a dangerous aspect of American life.
00:30:28.000America relies a lot on social pressure, not just governmental pressure.
00:30:32.000We're going to get a government that is going to be fostering this sort of institutional discrimination against conservatism, or against traditional social values, or against even basic positive views of Americanism.
00:30:41.000We're going to see that from the government.
00:30:44.000But social life matters a lot more than that.
00:30:47.000America, because the government was small historically, always relied a lot on social pressure in order to force compliance with sort of social norms.
00:30:57.000That could be good, depending on what social norms are being enforced.
00:30:59.000The problem is the social norms right now are really, really bad.
00:31:10.000He says, under the absolute government of one alone, despotism struck the body crudely so as to reach the soul.
00:31:15.000And the soul, escaping from those blows, rose gloriously above it.
00:31:18.000But in democratic republics, tyranny does not proceed in this way.
00:31:21.000So he's saying that if you look to the tyrannies of Europe, then what you see is an absolute despotic government cramming down its viewpoint on everybody else, but people tend to rebel against that.
00:31:29.000He says in democratic republics, that's not what happens.
00:31:31.000He says, In democratic republics, tyranny does not proceed in this way.
00:31:36.000It leaves the body and goes straight for the soul.
00:31:38.000The master no longer says to it, you shall think as I do or you shall die.
00:31:41.000He says, you're free not to think as I do.
00:31:43.000Your life, your goods, everything remains to you.
00:31:45.000But from this day on, you are a stranger among us.
00:31:48.000You shall keep your privileges in the city, but they will become useless to you.
00:31:51.000For if you crave the vote of your fellow citizens, they will not grant it to you.
00:31:53.000And if you demand only their esteem, they will still pretend to refuse it to you.
00:31:57.000You shall remain among men, but you shall lose your rights of humanity.
00:32:00.000When you approach those like you, they shall flee you as being impure, and those who believe in your innocence, even they shall abandon you.
00:32:05.000For one would flee them in their turn.
00:32:08.000I leave you your life, but I leave it to you worse than death." What Tocqueville says there, that is what we are undergoing right now.
00:32:14.000We are undergoing the use of social pressure in order to completely destroy not only all social comedy, but any ability to dissent.
00:32:22.000We have now reached the point where, by the way, this week, the former head of the ACLU had an amazing quote.
00:32:28.000So the former head of the ACLU, the other day, he put out a statement in which he talked with Reason Magazine, and here is what he says.
00:32:39.000He says that, remember, the ACLU, these are the people who used to defend free speech.
00:32:42.000These are the people who used to believe that even Nazis should be able to march through Skokie, right, a heavily Jewish area in Chicago.
00:32:48.000All right, Ira Glasser, who is the former head of the ACLU, here's what he said.
00:32:51.000This is the new America in which we live.
00:32:52.000He said he was visiting one of America's top law schools quote the audience was a rainbow There was many women as men there were people of every skin color and every ethnicity It was the kind of thing we dreamed about it was it So I'm looking at this audience and feeling very wonderful about it And then after the panel discussion, person after person got up, including some of the younger professors, to assert that their goals of social justice for blacks, for women, for minorities of all kinds, were incompatible with free speech and that free speech was an antagonist.
00:33:19.000For people who today claim to be passionate about social justice, to establish free speech as an enemy is suicidal.
00:33:25.000But here's the thing, it's not suicidal.
00:33:27.000Because social justice is not actually in favor of free speech.
00:33:31.000It is not in favor of individual rights.
00:33:32.000It is in favor of you shutting the F up.
00:33:35.000That is what the institutions have been militarized on behalf of.
00:33:38.000This is why you are not allowed to talk about the fact that America is not systemically racist in public places.
00:33:44.000I'm lucky, I get to do it for a living.
00:33:45.000But if you say that in a corporate boardroom, you'll get fired.
00:33:49.000If you say that at university, you'll get graded down and ostracized by your classmates.
00:33:54.000If you say that, even in the halls of science, you will be shouted down.
00:33:59.000For God's sake, the Center for Disease Control is about to tranche out vaccines based on race.
00:34:03.000In a free country, we're supposed to be treated as individuals.
00:34:06.000So you're not wrong to feel like you're under assault.
00:34:08.000You were never wrong to feel like you were under assault.
00:34:20.000That's gonna be the big one next year.
00:34:21.000You're gonna see a spate of big name bannings.
00:34:24.000This is something my friend Dave Rubin has been pointing out.
00:34:26.000Twitter is already talking about banning Trump the minute he's not president.
00:34:30.000You're seeing it from corporations, which is the most dangerous of all.
00:34:33.000But the most pervasive way you see this is from the media.
00:34:35.000The media have been institutionally captured and they pervert every one of these other instances, right?
00:34:40.000So the media have basically become an activist group.
00:34:42.000They're in the business of promoting wokeism in science.
00:34:45.000They're in the business of promoting wokeism in social media and cracking down on social media and trying to prevent social media.
00:34:51.000from being able to disseminate ideas that you like, but that they don't, right?
00:34:55.000This is why media has basically devoted itself to trying to pressure places like Facebook and Twitter into canceling people they don't like.
00:35:04.000It is the media who are driving all of these narratives about why it's good to protest in favor of defunding the police, but it's very bad to protest in favor of being able to open your business.
00:35:14.000It is the media who have been pushing Hollywood, even Hollywood, to the left.
00:35:18.000It is the media who have been treating corporations as evil and wrongheaded if they dare to stand up for their own ability to make money.
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00:36:57.000In a moment, we'll get to what we can do in the next year.
00:36:59.000Cause you know, we're getting to the end of the year.
00:37:01.000What can we do next year to fight back against this?
00:37:02.000Cause it feels like all the guns are pointed in against the views that are traditionally American.
00:37:08.000We're going to talk about what we can do to fight back.
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00:38:44.000So how do we fight back against this is really the question, because as I say, I think everybody By the way, I think the people who are even kind of mainstream liberals feel this.
00:38:58.000The reason that I know this is that there are polls talking about how many people are afraid to speak up, how many people feel the pressure not to say what they think.
00:39:07.000And the answer is an awful lot of them.
00:39:08.000In fact, the only subgroup of Americans who believe that they get to say what they believe on a regular basis are people who consider themselves progressive.
00:39:15.000That is the only group of people in America, by polling, who feel that they get to say what they believe.
00:39:22.000Well, first of all, we're going to have to rely on people, believe it or not, who are moderate liberals, who are sick of watching the Overton window shut.
00:39:29.000Now, at the beginning, it's going to be self-preservation.
00:39:30.000It's going to be like that Harper's Weekly letter that you saw earlier this year, where a bunch of anti-Trump liberals signed a letter saying, we don't like cancel culture.
00:39:36.000I was like, you know what would have been nice?
00:39:37.000Is if you had actually defended people who you disagree with, not just you agreeing with yourself and saying that you wish that you hadn't been canceled.
00:39:43.000It'd be really nice if you opened up the Overton window a little bit wider.
00:39:46.000You're gonna have to rely on moderate liberals.
00:39:48.000But I think that coalition is building.
00:39:52.000I think that there is now cultural energy behind the idea that there has to be some sort of alternative here.
00:39:58.000And so there are a few things that we can do.
00:40:01.000There are a few things that I think are actually pretty necessary here to fight back.
00:40:04.000And I think that this is going to be the battle for the next year.
00:40:06.000As people get thrown off of social media, As social media gets hijacked by a Biden administration, as Biden attempts to use the power of government to cram down his own particular woke viewpoint, and I know that he isn't by nature woke, but he has adopted wokeism as his own.
00:40:23.000As this happens, there are going to be a few things that have to happen.
00:40:26.000One, conservatives are going to have to take a page from Trump, not in terms of tweeting whatever Trump tweets.
00:40:32.000But you have to embrace truth and not niceness.
00:40:35.000I know there are a lot of conservatives out there who are worried that if you speak truth, it is not nice.
00:40:40.000It's one of the reasons why my slogan has been for years now, facts don't care about your feelings.
00:40:43.000That actually was something that came up in the midst of a discussion about what sort of pronouns to use with people.
00:40:48.000And I was pointing out that biological males are biologically male.
00:40:51.000And somebody said, well, you have to respect the pronouns.
00:40:52.000And I said, well, facts don't care about your feelings.
00:40:54.000Okay, well, facts do not care about your feelings, and we're gonna all have to push forward with that attitude, because it is niceness that has been the chief weapon used against the right.
00:41:03.000I think the right knows this, by the way.
00:41:04.000It's why the right is never gonna nominate John McCain or Mitt Romney again.
00:41:33.000Standing up in favor of virtue does not mean that you are a jerk.
00:41:36.000It means that you are saying things that are true and necessary.
00:41:39.000Also, you're going to have to engage and convince, right?
00:41:41.000This is something that we have not yet done.
00:41:43.000This means we do have to reach out to people who are in the middle.
00:41:45.000We do have to reach out to suburban women who turned away from Trump in this last election cycle.
00:41:49.000We are going to have to reach out, not just to people who already agree with us, but increasingly we're going to have to reach out with a conservative message that speaks truth boldly and draws in stark colors to people who have not historically voted Republican.
00:42:25.000He said a lot of things that are false, but the underlying message, which is that the institutions suck and are attempting to drag you into their own ideology.
00:42:34.000Selena Zito had this formulation early on in Trump's campaign where they said people take Trump seriously, but not literally.
00:42:40.000And I think that that has always been true.
00:42:42.000I think it will remain true because the serious message underneath all of this is that this stuff has to stop, that the assault has to stop.
00:42:49.000Okay, there's another tactic that the right is going to have to take.
00:42:52.000And this is a tactic I don't particularly like, but I think that we are reaching that point.
00:42:57.000It's something that I myself pushed when I was the head of an organization called Truth Revolt.
00:43:01.000My business partner Jeremy Boring and I, before we ever launched Daily Wire, we launched a mission that was sort of reverse media matters.
00:43:07.000The idea, and we said it clearly, was mutually assured destruction.
00:43:12.000If you can renormalize an organization as large as Google simply by cobbling together a coalition of the supposedly dispossessed in order to renormalize from the inside and you can exercise pressure from the institutions like the media from the outside in order to move institutions, if you can threaten boycotts, if you can threaten bad publicity from one side and move the institution, The right has a choice.
00:43:34.000We can either sit it out and we can let the left do that, or we can fight back on the left's terms.
00:43:39.000And that means that if we see a company that is now pushing leftism, we're going to have to use the same means as the left.
00:43:50.000But just like with mutually assured destruction, where everybody wishes nuclear weapons didn't exist, the only thing worse The only thing worse than you having nuclear weapons and your opponents having nuclear weapons is your opponents having nuclear weapons and you not having nuclear weapons, right?
00:44:03.000Mutually assured destruction kept the peace.
00:44:05.000The reason it kept the peace is because everybody knew it had to be weapons down, otherwise everything would go up in flames.
00:44:11.000The right is gonna, in some ways, have to become more militant, not less militant.
00:44:14.000Militant on behalf of principle, okay?
00:44:15.000Not on behalf of personality, not on behalf of just yelling at people, but on behalf of principle.
00:44:20.000When corporations start cramming down Robin DiAngelo diversity classes, People inside the organization are going to have to say no, and they're going to have to unify to say no.
00:44:28.000And this is really the key point, beyond everything else.
00:44:31.000Beyond everything else, there's going to have to be some level of solidarity that is built up.
00:44:35.000It is not fair to ask individuals who are inside institutions to stand up.
00:44:38.000As I said before, if the ratio is 1,000 to 1 against you, you standing up just gets you fired.
00:44:43.000We're going to need to start coalition building.
00:44:45.000We're going to need to start building communities of people who are willing to come out together and say, no, we are not going along with this.
00:44:50.000No, we are simply not going to do this.
00:44:53.000And we need to provide safe haven for people who do get fired from these sorts of positions.
00:44:58.000We need to provide defense mechanisms for people who stand up and get clubbed on the head.
00:45:03.000And that means the building of alternative institutions.
00:45:05.000That means we need an alternative media for people who are ousted from traditional media for speaking the truth.
00:45:10.000It means that we need an alternative Hollywood structure where people in Hollywood who disagree with the prevailing woke-ism of Hollywood have a place to go and get their movies funded.
00:45:18.000And we need to patronize those movies.
00:45:19.000We need to make sure that people actually watch that stuff.
00:45:22.000We need to make sure that if you are in the scientific establishment and you are ousted for the grave sin of saying something biologically true, that we provide a soft landing for you.
00:45:32.000That we provide a landing spot for you.
00:45:34.000And one of the great mistakes that the right made is that they always assumed that institutions beyond college would shape the people coming out of college.
00:45:41.000We understood that colleges shape the students and they shape them toward woke philosophy.
00:45:47.000But we also assume that they would get out in the real world, they'd go work in corporate land, they would get a job, they'd pay taxes, and eventually they'd get more conservative.
00:45:56.000But statistically speaking, what has now happened here is that people exited college and instead of the institutions shaping them, they shaped the institutions.
00:46:04.000And then by grabbing power at the institutions, they used the institutions to create widgets of themselves, to silence everybody.
00:46:11.000There is a majority in this country that still believes that America is the greatest country ever conceived.
00:46:15.000There's still a majority in this country that believes that America is not systemically racist and is filled with good people who want to treat each other decently That still believe in human virtue and believe in individual rights?
00:46:27.000There's still a majority in this country who's willing to go out and work hard every day and believes that work is good for the soul in many cases and that we shouldn't be incentivizing people to stay home?
00:46:38.000There's still a majority of people in this country who basically want to be left alone.
00:46:42.000And most of all, there's a majority in this country that still wants to stick together.
00:46:44.000But in order for us to stick together, we're actually going to have to now create structures for us to stick together.
00:46:50.000Because, as Benjamin Franklin said at the outset of this entire project, either we hang together or we hang separately.
00:47:20.000And as the left pushes harder and harder, That just means the right is going to have to come up with better strategies and push back harder in every arena, not just with regard to voting, but with regard to every cultural institution there is.
00:47:32.000We're going to have to push back hard.
00:47:33.000And if we do, I think that we're still the majority and I think that we'll win.
00:47:36.000OK, so before we break, I just wanted to bring you a couple of minutes of something inspiring.
00:47:42.000So one of the things that we have done here at Daily Wire is we put together a fantastic series called Apollo 11.
00:47:48.000What we saw, it is a it is a review of the The greatest achievement in human history, perhaps, putting a man on the moon in terms of technological expertise.
00:47:59.000It is unparalleled in the annals of history, obviously.
00:48:02.000And Bill Whittle was the host of that particular program for us.
00:48:05.000It is now available if you subscribe over at Daily Wire.
00:48:52.000I think that after having done the Apollo 11 series, actually the moon might be a better place for you than California in the very, very near future.
00:48:58.000So let's talk about the Apollo 11 series that you did.
00:49:00.000Why do you think that that story is still important for today?
00:49:04.000Well, especially given the trends of the last six, seven weeks or so, you can make a pretty compelling argument that July 20th, 1969 was the pinnacle of human history.
00:49:16.000That may have been as far as we've gone.
00:49:18.000It may have been the boldest thing that we did, the most ambitious thing that we did.
00:49:22.000I like to think it's not, but certainly as far as history to this point goes, it's the most remarkable achievement in the history of the human species.
00:49:31.000And one of the things that you do in your Apollo 11 series is you put it into the historical context.
00:49:35.000It wasn't just a scientific achievement.
00:49:36.000It was also a political achievement, considering that it really was part and parcel of this massive Cold War that we were having with the Soviet Union at the time.
00:49:44.000And it was a subset of the Cold War when you had a 42-year conflict where, you know, the nuclear weapons tend to deter people just running off the handle a little bit.
00:49:55.000It gave both sides an opportunity to compete for world opinion, and it gave them an opportunity to compete with pretty much with the hardware that the militaries of both countries had put together.
00:50:08.000Certainly in the early stages, the boosters on both sides were intercontinental ballistic missile boosters.
00:50:14.000And the whole thing was about technology.
00:50:16.000And as we talk about in the first episode, just the raw shock of Sputnik, of having a Russian satellite overhead.
00:50:24.000And then just a few months later, they put up Sputnik 2 with a dog.
00:50:30.000So you got to think, here I am an American in 1957-58, and there's a dead communist dog flying over my house four or five times a day.
00:50:39.000That tends to focus your mind in an age of thermonuclear warheads.
00:50:43.000So Bill, one of the things that I think is fascinating about where we are sort of in modern life is there is this feeling that we may be embarking on a second space age, this time led by some folks in the private sector like Elon Musk and SpaceX.
00:50:56.000What is the continuum in terms of America's focus on the stars here?
00:51:03.000Well, the work that the private space companies are doing is remarkable, and this is the space age that America really should have.
00:51:12.000I hate to use this word, sustainable, but it's economically sustainable.
00:51:17.000They're doing it for a profit, which means that they don't get to pull the rug out from under our feet.
00:51:22.000There was an Apollo 18, 19, and 20 that were built, stacked, ready to go, and they were simply cut by Congress.
00:51:30.000We don't have to worry about those kind of things with a private company.
00:51:33.000All of the great aviation companies like Lockheed, Boeing, Hughes, Northrop, were all based on individual companies run by individual men who decided this is what I want to do and Elon Musk is doing that.
00:51:47.000My only concern right now, Ben, Is that Donald Trump had put together an entirely new looking NASA and that NASA was a hands off NASA that was predicated on allowing the private sector to get into space and do the work they've always wanted to.
00:52:04.000cooperation with China, and we're hearing talk about, you know, all sorts of making everything an economic and racial issue. And that is the only thing that worries me about the space program as it exists today. Musk is amazing because he understands that in this era, since we don't have the Russian threat over our head, he understands how important it is to make things just plain fun.
00:52:30.000I mean, the launch of Starman and a red Tesla Sportster and David Bowie and Don't Panic from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and then those twin boosters landing together.
00:52:41.000As I say in the series, I saw the moon landing when I was 10 from the Plaza Hotel in New York.
00:52:48.000And when Neil Armstrong said, that's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind, there was a roar.
00:52:54.000Just this roar came up from Central Park, and I haven't heard the like of that since, until I heard the reaction to those crowds when those two boosters on SpaceX Falcon Heavy came back down.
00:54:39.000President Trump pardons political allies, NPR names WAP the song of the year, oh boy, and just 49% of Americans believe the coronavirus vaccine is safe.