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00:00:09.000Today's topic, we're going to talk about 10 silly arguments from the 2016 election.
00:00:14.000Now, I thought of this idea because I talk to a lot of conservatives and liberals about the election, and I find that on both sides, there's a lot of misinformation, there's a lot of wrong ideas.
00:00:25.000People don't look at it with the proper context.
00:00:26.000So I thought I'd break down 10 arguments that I think both sides can agree are a little bit silly when we actually focus for the principles underlying them.
00:00:35.000So, my least favorite argument, we'll start with this one.
00:00:39.000Is that Bernie can't pay for his programs.
00:00:41.000Now, of course, Bernie can't pay for his programs.
00:00:43.000But my problem with when conservatives say this is that they've already seeded that they're okay.
00:00:49.000That the argument is, well, if they were fiscally solvent, then universal health care would be fine and we could totally provide free education for everybody.
00:00:56.000The problem with free education, free health care is that they're immoral, not that they're unaffordable.
00:01:01.000I mean, saying that the reason we should oppose Bernie Sanders is because we can't afford the programs is like saying we should oppose the Holocaust because there's no way he could kill that many people in that short a time.
00:01:11.000The problem is because, principally, as conservatives, as someone who adheres to the principles of the founding of the Declaration of the Constitution, they're inconsistent with them.
00:01:20.000And the rights to education and health care, they're not in the Constitution.
00:01:24.000In Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, it doesn't sanction spending by the House on either of those provisions.
00:01:29.000So that's why I think that argument is totally silly for conservatives to make.
00:01:33.000You're already giving the liberals a false premise to argue that what they're doing is acceptable or right and not stealing.
00:01:50.000And every declaration that can be stated without evidence or justification can be just as easily refuted without evidence or justification.
00:01:58.000But because intellectually I aspire to be a little bit of a different caliber than Bernie Sanders, I will say that health care is not a human right because positive rights, the provision of action for another human being, naturally infringes on negative rights.
00:02:12.000So if I'm ailing, I have a cold, and say my production guy over here, Evan, is a doctor, Now, for me to have a right to health care would obligate him to come and serve me.
00:02:23.000Even if he doesn't want to, even if he's doing something else, he's obligated to.
00:02:27.000So he's not free to pursue his happiness.
00:02:30.000He's not entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the negative rights that are guaranteed to all people by our Creator in the Declaration of Independence.
00:02:37.000And another thing that the founders recognized was that rights are not the government's to give.
00:02:42.000The government can't say, well, now you have rights to food, now you have a right to health care.
00:02:51.000We can't just baselessly determine what's best through pragmatism.
00:02:54.000The next argument Bernie is a good man.
00:02:57.000This is one of the worst arguments that I hear, and Milo Yiannopoulos talks about this as well is that the scapegoat, or not the scapegoat, but the way that people get around Bernie Sanders being so impractical and radical is, well, I don't agree with everything, but he's doing the right thing.
00:04:02.000If you look on Wikipedia, the measures that Bernie Sanders supports, such as free health care and regulating capitalism and free education, that's social democracy, not democratic socialism.
00:04:13.000Something as reckless as mislabeling yourself as one of the most bankrupt and murderous ideologies of the 20th century, socialism, that on its own is immoral behavior.
00:04:22.000But on top of that, you're going to advance a cause like universal health care and universal education that are destructive and impractical and will lead to the demise of America if you're looking at the basic facts behind them.
00:04:35.000Last or two months ago, which said that his free education and health care would cost $46 trillion.
00:04:41.000If you're bankrupting the country with $50 trillion in additional debt, you don't have money to spend on Medicare, on Medicaid, on defense, and when you don't have defense, you lose freedom in America.
00:04:52.000And this is one small example of the impracticality that is so reckless and cannot be moral.
00:04:59.000The next argument that I've heard from conservatives and socialists the conservative argument against Bernie Sanders is.
00:05:12.000The problem with that is that it doesn't understand the motives of the left and of Bernie Sanders supporters.
00:05:20.000They're not playing the same game that we are.
00:05:22.000This assumption that they're trying to adhere to the principles of the founding country, no, they're trying to fundamentally transform the country.
00:05:28.000That's what Barack Obama said in 2008.
00:05:31.000So I wholeheartedly disagree with this argument that it's a disqualifier that they disagree with the founding principles.
00:05:37.000Wake up, that's been happening for the past 10 years.
00:05:40.000The left has diverged into progressivism and leftism that is actually regressive if you look at its effects and its principles.
00:05:48.000So, no, I don't think they're incompatible.
00:05:50.000I think we're fighting the wrong argument if we're saying that you're incompatible.
00:07:04.000And you break down the syntax of actually what he says, and nowhere in it does he exclude people or attribute certain characteristics to people because of their race.
00:07:13.000You break down what he says about immigration, and it's that we can't have an unsecure border.
00:07:17.000He says he's fine with legal immigration.
00:07:19.000If you were a racist, you wouldn't be.
00:07:21.000The problem is with illegal immigration because it's a national security and a fiscal problem.
00:07:25.000You look at the problem with the moratorium on Muslim immigration.
00:07:28.000That's not a racist proposal in itself, namely because Islam is not a race, but secondarily because it was in response to radical Islamic terrorism.
00:07:37.000And a lot of people don't like to use that term because maybe it appropriates a much broader moderate Muslim community to the very small sect of extremists.
00:07:47.000But the policy proposal was not in response to all Muslims being terrorists, but when they're able to infiltrate and inspire lone wolves in places like Paris and Brussels, maybe we need to take serious, drastic action.
00:07:58.000But that alone doesn't make him racist.
00:08:02.000The next argument that we have is that Donald Trump is unelectable.
00:08:07.000I don't dispute that Donald Trump might be unelectable.
00:08:09.000I dispute that we should be determining our candidates based on electability.
00:08:14.000This was an argument that was used in 1996 to put Bob Dole in Bill Clinton's way to get destroyed.
00:08:19.000This was the argument to put John McCain in Barack Obama's way to get destroyed.
00:08:23.000This was the argument in 2012 to put nice guy Mitt Romney up against Barack Obama.
00:08:29.000And Obamacare once again to get destroyed.
00:08:31.000They talked going up into this election about Marco Rubio being the most electable guy, except that he wasn't elected in a single state except for Minnesota.
00:08:39.000The only state, by the way, which did not vote for Reagan in 1984.
00:08:43.000So, not exactly a state that conservatives want to win.
00:08:46.000The argument with Donald Trump not being electable stems from a fear of Donald Trump and conservatism.
00:08:52.000And anybody that's making the argument based on the polling, I think, has not learned the lesson of this election.
00:09:00.000In July and August, that had Jeb Bush and Scott Walker at 25% and at 15% saying these guys were going to run away with the election, and it didn't happen.
00:09:09.000You looked at the polls for Bernie Sanders, where he was 50% under Hillary Clinton, and now they're almost tied nationally.
00:09:16.000Anyone that's projecting what the general election is going to look like based on polling when the general hasn't started has not learned the lessons of the primary.
00:09:24.000The next silly argument of this election is that Ted Cruz is crazy or an idiot or a theocrat.
00:09:31.000This mostly stems from ignorance of what Ted Cruz's actual policy positions are.
00:09:35.000I've talked to many conservatives, excuse me, many liberals who don't know a thing about Ted Cruz's policies.
00:09:54.000Even conservatives who say that Ted Cruz is too conservative, they don't know why.
00:09:59.000If you press them on what's so conservative about Ted Cruz and they don't understand, I talked to one conservative and I said, why don't You like him?
00:10:05.000He said, I don't like the way he pronounces Ayatollah Khamenei.
00:10:10.000The liberals who say that he's, and they're the more, they have the more convictions, I guess, and the more ground to stand on.
00:10:16.000They're afraid because he's a real conservative, and they have a right to be because he is.
00:10:20.000But I've talked to other liberals who think that he's going to turn America into a theocracy, and that is fundamentally misguided because Ted Cruz is a 10th Amendment candidate, and we've never had one of those before.
00:10:30.000We've had Second Amendment Republicans, we've had Fourth Amendment libertarians, we've had First Amendment Democrats and Republicans.
00:10:37.000We've never really had, with the exception of maybe Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich, we've never really had a mainstream 10th Amendment president since 9 11.
00:10:46.000And the 10th Amendment, of course, reserved powers not enumerated to the federal government in the Constitution to the states.
00:10:53.000So that when you're talking about things like gay marriage and pot legalization and abortion, Ted Cruz is not a man who principally would override those through executive fiat like our current president might.
00:11:05.000So when you're looking at his record as a constitutionalist, Even more so than an evangelical, the argument that he's some theocrat really falls apart.
00:11:14.000The next argument that we have is that Donald Trump is not a conservative.
00:11:19.000I have a problem with that because the proliferation of the hashtag never Trump movement that's come out of everyone from the neocons, the libertarians, you look at Ted Cruz, you look at Max Boot, Marco Rubio, the intellectuals, the establishment, Jeb Bush, Lindsey Graham they're all piling up on top of them.
00:11:39.000That in 2016, after eight years of Obama, after six years of a Republican House and two years of a Republican Senate that could not get conservative policy in action.
00:11:59.000Now, all of a sudden, all these conservatives are going to come out of the woodwork and lecture, we the people, Americans, and Donald Trump about what conservatism is all about.
00:12:08.000And get Paul Ryan the beard to come out when Donald Trump proposes the moratorium on Muslim immigration to say, that's not what America stands for.
00:12:16.000That's not what conservatism stands for.
00:12:19.000After you pass Barack Obama's omnibus spending bill, you're not really an authority on what conservatism is and isn't.
00:12:26.000I will not dispute that Donald Trump is not a conservative in the traditional American sense, but he is a conservative in the broader past 500 years, arguably 1,000 years of Western culture.
00:12:39.000You go back to Cato the Elder, you go back to Metternich in Austria, and this is the tradition of conservatism which Trump embraces.
00:12:46.000Not necessarily small government classical liberalism, which it has come to be defined by in the modern era.
00:12:53.000But that we should favor stability and order over chaos and other elements.
00:12:59.000And that's why you see him stronger on national security versus privacy.
00:13:03.000That's why you see him as not really caring about social issues, more so against defending the nation, reaffirming the culture, that he's a cultural president.
00:13:10.000So that's where I think that you can't really call Donald Trump with authority, not a conservative, at least not in the broader sense.
00:13:27.000I don't understand why everyone is so afraid of Donald Trump.
00:13:30.000I know that he says a lot of incendiary things, but when you compare it to what Barack Obama said, when you compare it to what even many radical Republicans have said, it's not all that incendiary.
00:13:40.000I mean, what he's proposing is that you restrict immigration from Iraq and Syria.
00:13:45.000What he's proposing is that you build a wall between America and Mexico, that you have a border.
00:13:51.000The way that he says them is incendiary, but really they shouldn't be.
00:13:54.000And this is because for so long we've been nurtured by this media culture.
00:13:58.000We've been talked down to by CNN and C SPAN that when we have a Republican debate, we're treated with kid gloves, like we're all a bunch of morons.
00:14:06.000They asked Donald Trump if he's a comic book villain.
00:14:08.000They asked Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio to resign.
00:14:11.000I mean, when you're looking at the culture that we're being brought up in, it shouldn't be so shocking that the American people will support someone that sticks up for their culture and their values.
00:14:21.000So I fundamentally disagree with this proposition that we should wholeheartedly go against one man and it's all against Donald Trump because he's a little bit crass.
00:14:34.000Barack Obama went to Argentina last week and he said that principally we shouldn't focus on the difference between communism and capitalism, but just on what works.
00:14:42.000That's an argument that's been used by Marxists for a hundred years.
00:14:46.000And I think that's far more reckless to be indoctrinating our youth with Marxist multiculturalism than with simple things that are crass on Twitter, things we don't like to hear.
00:14:56.000I think we misplace our values and our priorities in that regard.
00:15:00.000The next argument comes out of the Bernie Sanders camp.
00:15:02.000That we have a corrupt campaign finance system.
00:15:09.000And it's sort of a self defeating premise because the fact that Bernie Sanders is doing so well and Donald Trump is doing so well speaks to the opposite of the fact.
00:15:17.000If big financiers and donors could control the elections, why wouldn't they drive Bernie Sanders right out?
00:15:23.000Why wouldn't they drive Donald Trump right out?
00:15:25.000Donald Trump in the South Carolina debate said he thought Bush was responsible for 9 11.
00:15:30.000You don't think the donors had a problem with that?
00:15:36.000That Jeb Bush and Scott Walker and many others had going into the race, and even Hillary Clinton had, where Jeb Bush was spending $3,000 per vote in Iowa, where he poured millions of dollars in New Hampshire and couldn't beat Ted Cruz, who spent less than $1 million.
00:15:49.000And there's just nothing to substantiate the claim that money is controlling elections.
00:15:54.000If that were the case, you wouldn't have the Tea Party, you wouldn't have Bernie Sanders saying this stuff, and you wouldn't have Donald Trump.
00:16:11.000So, those are 10 ridiculous arguments from the 2016 election.
00:16:15.000I'm Nicholas J. Fuentes, and this was the Nicholas J. Fuentes Show.
00:16:18.000Thank you for watching, and God bless America.