In this episode, we talk about how the New Right emerged, why it s important to have a political philosophy, and what it means to be a communist in the 21st century. We also discuss our political beliefs and why we believe they matter.
00:00:00.000I think this new political alliance of the tech entrepreneurs with the Americans who are just tired of being around makes a lot of sense when it comes to stuff like this.
00:00:11.000Okay, let's build new systems. Let's build better systems. We don't need to do things the way they've always been done.
00:00:15.760What progressivism is now is like a bureaucratic virus. And because these organizations are so large, they were taken over by this virus, which presents itself as progressive.
00:00:30.560And when you talk about the inefficiencies that this has gotten, I think a lot of people don't realize how big this is.
00:00:34.720You look at something like the case of putting the suicide netting on the Golden Gate Bridge, which ended up costing about a third the cost, even in cash-adjusted dollars, of the original construction of the bridge itself.
00:00:46.740When we talk about the collapse of our school system, we see as we pour more money into the school system, it's just increasing the size of the bureaucracy.
00:00:53.540I'm going to be putting some graphs on screen here so you can see this.
00:00:56.060Well, student outcomes are not improving by any stretch of the imagination.
00:01:00.420And their mental health is going haywire with a recent CDC study showing one in four school-age girls had a plan to kill themselves on any given year, not over the course of their entire adolescence.
00:01:13.000And it reported one in ten attempts to unalive oneself from students every single year.
00:01:19.620This stuff needs massive and immediate reform.
00:01:23.320So, let's go in to our actual policy positions.
00:01:32.940You are running for office in Pennsylvania right now.
00:01:36.160And this episode is meant to collate many of our evolving political beliefs into one video that we can use as an ad for this campaign cycle, but also for our regular watchers to catch up or have a one place to see everything that they can share with other people.
00:01:57.300And our political beliefs, well, they kind of matter because something that's been coming up more and more in other videos we've been doing is this concept of the new right.
00:02:08.600A new political faction forming was in the right.
00:02:11.580And at first, I thought that our views were just sort of a weird form of right-wing beliefs.
00:02:18.440Then I put in the names of other figures that are associated with this new right, like Elon and Peter Thiel and Chamath and Vivek and David Sachs and Marc Andreessen and J.D. Vance, the recently appointed VP for Trump.
00:02:31.360And I asked, what are the unifying political beliefs between these people?
00:02:36.840And it basically spit out our political belief system to a T.
00:02:42.360And then I was like, well, then what I really like to do with this video is one, explain in short, we've done longer videos that go into a lot more detail on this, how the new right emerged.
00:02:52.320And then also give a political philosophy, not just like a list of these are the things we believe, but a larger philosophy around why we believe these things.
00:03:39.200It's sort of a communist approach to putting together a family, you could say, from each according to their ability to each according to their needs.
00:03:45.840That's why all of our chickens are named after communists.
00:03:49.000Yes, because that's what always happens to communists at the end of the day is the slaughter.
00:03:53.280But what I mean in the family context, a communist family structure, is to say that we split tasks based on our ability and our needs while understanding that men and women are on average different.
00:04:08.860And therefore, some tasks are going to be easier for a woman or dispositionally more favorable for a woman, and some tasks are going to be easier for a man.
00:04:16.060Well, and also logistically, like, for example, it's a lot easier to get elected as a woman than it is as a man.
00:04:28.160So let's start with how the new right emerged.
00:04:32.820And this will be a summary of some stuff we've gone over in other videos.
00:04:36.440But broadly speaking, in the 90s, there was a force that we call GOP, Inc.
00:04:41.040This is what the Republican Party was.
00:04:43.080It was an alliance of two broad factions, one theocratic faction that was interested in legislating morality, i.e. enforcing people to conform to their view of what was moral through legislation, like, you know, banning gay marriage, for example.
00:04:58.580And then an alliance of them and big business, as well as blue bloods, because big business and blue bloods are usually the same group.
00:05:05.020Over time, big business moved to the left, as did intergenerational wealth.
00:05:10.940And the theocrats stopped being able to get anything done.
00:05:14.620At that point in history, Trump came along.
00:05:17.900Trump inspired an entirely new base that the Republicans hadn't classically appealed to, which was disenfranchised Americans.
00:05:25.800Americans who felt they were getting the raw deal and wanted to tear down parts of the system and try to build something new that kind of worked.
00:05:36.840But the new right hadn't really emerged yet with Trump, because when Trump took this position, the types of people, like I mentioned before, like Elon and Shamas and Vivek and David Sachs, you know, they were still and even us.
00:05:49.020You know, we were still and actually even Trump's current running mate.
00:05:53.300Judy Vance was quite the never Trumper.
00:05:55.600Yes, but as time went on, the left moved further and further left.
00:06:01.120They began to sort of divide our society into an ethnic caste system that believed some humans were more deserving of human dignity than other humans.
00:06:10.220For example, with the CDC partially distributing COVID vaccines based on a person's ethnicity instead of based on their need, which is just horrifying to us.
00:06:19.540And recently, they have moved Jews to the bottom of this hierarchy, in our mind, making them a little different from Nazis.
00:06:26.260Recently, in response to one of our videos, somebody was a bit surprised by this point.
00:06:29.840They were like, oh, no, it's only the Zionists.
00:06:32.040And then I point out, well, you know, you look at the surveys, it's 85 to 95 percent of Jews are Zionists.
00:06:36.400It doesn't require much knowledge of Jewish history to know why many Jews would think that for the Jewish people to be safe, they need to have at least one state where they are the majority of the population.
00:06:47.340But outside of that, the urban monoculture, which the progressives push, is based on the belief system that all economic differences between cultural and ethnic groups is due entirely to discrimination.
00:07:02.640Therefore, if there is a group like the Jews that is disproportionately economically successful, yet claims to be the historic victims of discrimination, they must be lying.
00:07:13.320Because that is impossible within the urban monocultural perspective.
00:07:17.920But they have also overreached and gone against the science in many areas.
00:07:22.440For example, the gender transition of youth, which we will get to when we talk about our social policies.
00:07:27.680But this began to push the tech elite.
00:07:31.160So historically, in the 90s, big business was conservative.
00:07:36.120Entrepreneurial tech elites was progressive.
00:07:44.920And it was because, as J.D. Vance, I think, very eloquently showed, they actually have a lot in common with America's disenfranchised groups.
00:07:54.040So if you take people like the people of rural Appalachia, who have this pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps mentality, who have this belief in a meritocracy and grittiness and entrepreneurialism, these are all things that were always valued by the entrepreneur class.
00:08:08.540In addition to that, the entrepreneur class has been very heavily shaped by libertarian philosophy since the crypto boom.
00:08:14.580And in addition to that, they are very distrustful of large bureaucracies and believe that a lot of the way the government has handled things recently, like the COVID response and its, well, and election cycles, has become corrupt and bureaucratic and needs to be reformed.
00:08:31.200Yeah, I would just add that it seems that as we have shifted to an age of greater bureaucratic bloat and general organizational ossification in general, and just keep in mind, the cost of doing anything now in business and government is so much higher because now there are all these layers of management, all these layers of regulation, which add costs, which add personnel, which add departments.
00:08:54.380I think that also somehow has to do with the large organizations, you know, the big dot-coms of what used to be a much more scrappy era becoming progressive is that they're starting to align more with sort of progressive bureaucratic government interests.
00:09:11.040And I feel like a lot of what people see as progressivism actually isn't that anymore.
00:09:15.920It's not really what people think of when they think of like progressive social policies.
00:09:20.420It really has to do more with large, sprawling bureaucracies and a sort of cancerous growth.
00:09:29.940It's not about actual diversity and equality.
00:09:34.500It's about an organizational growth that has increased in size.
00:09:41.620It's a self-replicating idea that prevents the organization's normal immune system from attacking it by saying it's doing something very important, i.e. protecting diversity.
00:09:52.200I mean, you can look at recent leaks from things like Disney, where they had an instance of a half-black person not getting the job because they didn't, quote-unquote, look black enough.
00:10:01.440Or the recent leaks from the FAA are not leaks, but like now we know that this is what happened, where they built tests that were designed to get more minorities in.
00:10:11.900And the way the test did that was by asking questions like what was your least favorite subject in school and giving you points for saying science or saying do you take commands from authority well and giving you points for saying no, you didn't.
00:10:25.740So actual black people were not hired for this if they didn't fit stereotypes of black people.
00:10:33.520Yeah, it was only people in a specific association who actually kind of got the answers leaked to them, which is even more corrupt.
00:10:39.600So I think the really interesting thing about this, though, is that it's not that the large companies of before that used to be conservative somehow just became progressive culturally over time.
00:10:50.400It's more that what progressivism is now is like a bureaucratic virus.
00:10:56.980And because these organizations are so large, they were taken over by this virus, which presents itself as progressive.
00:11:06.800And when you talk about the inefficiencies that this has gotten, I think a lot of people don't realize how big this is.
00:11:11.200You know, you look at something like the case of putting the suicide netting on the Golden Gate Bridge, which ended up costing about a third the cost and taking about three times the time, even in cash adjusted dollars, of the original construction of the bridge itself.
00:11:26.080It's telling. I mean, it's also telling about the mental health of our society.
00:11:30.060The huge amounts have to be spent just to stop people from hurling themselves off the Golden Gate Bridge at this time.
00:11:35.160When we talk about the collapse of our school system, we see as we pour more money into the school system, it's just increasing the size of the bureaucracy.
00:11:42.520I'm going to be putting some graphs on screen here so you can see this.
00:11:45.380Well, student outcomes are not improving by any stretch of the imagination.
00:11:49.420And their mental health is going haywire with a recent CDC study showing one in four school age girls had a plan to kill themselves on any given year, not over the course of their entire adolescence.
00:12:01.780And it reported one in 10 attempts to unalive oneself from students every single year.
00:12:10.140This stuff needs massive and immediate reform.
00:12:14.540So let's go in to our actual policy positions and policy positions you sort of see across this group.
00:12:21.720So in terms of our fiscal policy, we have a policy position that historically you and I called Bull Moves Republicanism, but it seems to just align broadly with the new right or the techno conservatives, as we are sometimes called.
00:12:35.060And it is what I broadly would describe as pragmatic, evidence-based fiscal policy with a heavy distrust of bureaucracies.
00:12:43.660I have to emphasize here that evidence-based policy of any sort is actually incredibly radical as a political concept.
00:12:52.860So Malcolm sent me to Cambridge to study technology policy.
00:12:56.920I literally have a master's degree in it.
00:12:58.840And the entire punchline of the entire degree was, wouldn't it be cool if politicians made evidence-based policy decisions?
00:14:04.480Why when the phone lines were building out was heavy, heavy, heavy regulation put on them?
00:14:09.180Because if a company can buy the air between my wife and I and control what the other person is hearing or control most media in the country or something like that, that creates huge negative incentives and huge incentives for foul play.
00:14:23.240And so it makes sense to regulate that.
00:14:25.620But while we do believe that bureaucracy is bad, this does not mean that we are always against government intervention, as we have just pointed out, is trust busting.
00:14:35.040For example, you look at J.D. Vance, and he was for raising the minimum wage.
00:14:40.260He didn't pretend like it wouldn't cause people to lose their jobs.
00:14:43.000He didn't pretend like it wouldn't put companies out of business.
00:14:45.360He just considered those in his calculations.
00:14:48.560Or you can look at policies that we push.
00:14:51.020Like we would push a policy that says that companies should not be able to demand somebody work from the office unless they can prove there is an efficiency gain from that demand.
00:15:01.700And otherwise they should be permitted to work remotely, Malcolm's saying, because that makes it easier, for example, for parents to be parents.
00:15:09.020Or if you're talking about things like maternity leave, I believe that if a company cannot create a safe environment for a mother to bring her child into the office, they need to pay for her to be with that kid at home.
00:15:22.080And if it's not an office environment or an environment where the child can be safe, like a construction site or something like that, that means we need to allow the mother to stay home.
00:15:29.440Because, and if you're wondering why would you say something like this, there often are not other solutions for very young children other than to be with a mother.
00:15:38.340For the first, if you have not dealt with a baby under like three months old, it is very, very hard to find care solutions for them.
00:15:46.200And it also means that we are open to economic experimentation when we say evidence-based.
00:15:51.940So something like UBI is something that we would be open to, universal basic income.
00:15:57.720But we would be open to doing it on a test basis where it could be used to lower other bureaucracies.
00:16:03.540So this also applies to how we relate to things like cash handouts to people who are struggling financially.
00:16:11.240We are pro-cutting back all of the complicated bureaucratic mess and promoting simple cash handouts if those can pass along with a cutback of all of the other programs.
00:16:24.860Because we should be getting money directly into the hands of the citizens and not in the hands of bureaucrats.
00:16:29.740Which, as you saw from that school problem, this is why more money isn't helping with school outcomes.
00:16:35.660Because it's all going to the bureaucrats.
00:17:05.780Both, we run a company in Peru in addition to the United States.
00:17:10.400It's funny that in some countries like Peru, which you think, oh, like, you know, their systems cannot be anywhere close to as, you know, sophisticated as the governmental systems in the United States.
00:17:18.880Actually, in many ways, they're way more advanced because they were able to just leapfrog ahead.
00:17:23.600You know, they were developing certain systems when tech was way better than when we developed those same systems.
00:17:29.360So if we just kind of let go of what we started with and built something a little fresher, it's amazing how much money could be saved, how much time could be saved.
00:17:37.680So, like, literally people are like, oh, you can't have improved government services without paying more in taxes.
00:17:44.240If you just redesigned some systems, started fresh, you could both lower taxes and get better results, which is, you know, amazing but also frustrating because no one's doing it yet.
00:17:55.880I should point out how easy this can be.
00:17:58.080So you look at, like, when we talk about these inefficiencies, consider that, like, recently I was trying to do some business filings on an online platform.
00:18:04.500It would not let me submit them on the weekend.
00:18:15.940Or you consider in, you know, when she's saying things are so much smoother in Peru, you probably are underestimating how much smoother they are.
00:18:25.160I get a catalog that tells me everything that was done was my taxes the last time I paid with a pie chart and pictures of local improvements.
00:18:34.560And then it has a little slip in it where I give them my credit card and they're automatically deducted from my bank account.
00:19:13.280So you just want to be, like, you're not about like pointlessly defending big organizations that don't have any reason to defend them.
00:19:19.760You're, you're not about endless expansion of bureaucracy.
00:19:21.800You just want to do what helps the most people.
00:19:24.160That seems that there's got to be a catch there somewhere, right?
00:19:29.180Because it's just not the way politics has been played historically.
00:19:32.140But I think this new political alliance of the tech entrepreneurs with the Americans who are just tired of being around makes a lot of sense when it comes to stuff like this.
00:19:45.920We don't need to do things the way they've always been done because I don't need to worry about big multinationals losing their government contracts.
00:20:01.460Our overarching philosophy is cultural sovereignty, which is that the government should not be coercing people into living a certain way.
00:20:09.820You know, you shouldn't, you shouldn't force families to say, okay, you have to raise your kids in this culture.
00:20:16.740For example, in, in New York, there's been talk of, you know, shutting down various forms of private schooling.
00:20:22.880In some states, it's very difficult to be a homeschooling parent, or there's a lot of regulation around it.
00:20:28.040And of course, in, in all states, there's a varying report support for school vouchers, allowing people to send their kids to private schools and or homeschool their kids with some additional support.
00:20:39.800So really where we stand is, you know, kids should be able to be educated by their families as those families see fit without any control.
00:20:47.100We certainly never want to see ourselves getting to a place where families are in Germany, for example, where you literally cannot homeschool your children.
00:20:54.320And I don't know, what would you want to add to that?
00:20:57.120Well, I mean, the framing that I would use is we see society right now as being an existential battle between two groups.
00:21:07.800If you look back at what progressives were trying to promote in like the 90s and the 80s, they may have been wrongheaded in some areas, but broadly, they wanted more equality.
00:21:18.820That is no longer what they are pushing for.
00:21:21.440They are now pushing for what we call the urban monoculture.
00:21:25.680That's core value proposition is in the moment reduction of pain.
00:21:29.820This is where you get things like trigger warnings, small emotional pains should be avoided at all costs.
00:21:34.700But it's also where you get really strange decisions that would seem to make no sense at the if you're if you're looking for something like equality, like why do fentanyl handouts on the streets?
00:21:43.900That's obviously going to make it harder for people from less advantaged backgrounds to get off drugs and easier for people who are from advantaged backgrounds to get off drugs because they have their family support.
00:21:54.600Or why would you, like California has, remove certain types of testing in school?
00:21:59.780You know, the rich kids are still going to be able to go to SAT prep and everything like that.
00:22:03.380They're still going to be taking these tests and they're going to be using that to get ahead.
00:22:08.080Or why would you have something like the Hays Movement, the Healthy at Every Size Movement that you see on university campuses these days and things like fat studies departments that's trying to say we should not tell people it is unhealthy to be fat because that causes in the moment emotional pain.
00:22:25.300And the urban monoculture is the cultural group that exists across all large urban centers pretty much everywhere you go in the world, whether it is in France or New York or Philadelphia.
00:22:38.740This cultural group allows people to join it while ostensibly still being members of their birth culture.
00:22:45.840However, they are not allowed to continue to hold their birth culture's value sets.
00:22:49.860So if you don't understand what I mean when I say that, if I go across progressive groups, if I ask a progressive Muslim or a progressive Catholic or a progressive Jew, you know, what their views are on sexuality, what their views are on human gender roles, what their views are on a husband and wife's roles, what their views are on parental punishment techniques, what their views are on what happens to you, you know, after you die, what their views are on the cosmology of the universe, what their views are on our relation to the environment.
00:23:19.280I'm going to get broadly the same answers.
00:23:22.040They are allowed to keep a few holidays here and there, but broadly speaking, when a person enters the urban monoculture, they have to let go of any genuine cultural differentiation.
00:23:33.400When I ask conservatives of these various religious factions those same questions, I am going to get wildly different answers.
00:23:43.980What the conservative party has become is an alliance of diverse cultural segments that are trying to protect their children from the urban monoculture.
00:23:53.860And here you might be like, whoa, what do you mean protect your children?
00:23:56.480Well, the problem is that before the 90s, progressives and conservatives had about the same number of kids.
00:24:01.100When progressives got consumed by the urban monoculture, which was a genuine cultural shift from promoting equality to mostly trying to fight in the moment emotional pain, what ended up happening was their fertility rate absolutely crashed.
00:24:15.720And now they can only continue to exist as a culturally relevant faction by converting children from high fertility cultural groups or importing children from high fertility cultural groups.
00:24:28.280That means that the iterations of progressive culture that more aggressively target people in the age range where a person is most likely to deconvert from their birth culture between 15 and 23 end up outcompeting the other iterations.
00:24:41.380And progressive culture begins to do this more and more and more in crazier and crazier ways, specifically through control of the education system and through attempts to control children's entertainment.
00:24:51.340The point I am making here is I don't believe that this is some sort of conspiracy masterminded by a shadowy cabal.
00:24:59.660It's just that the iterations of this incredibly low fertility urban monoculture that disproportionately targeted youth ended up converting more members than other factions of it and thus began to represent more and more of it.
00:25:15.240This is terrifying to this diverse alliance of conservative families and I see our primary policy goal in regards to like social agendas is to protect diverse and high fertility families, children's from deconversion, giving the children an opportunity to decide to deconvert when they want to, when they leave the financial support of their parents.
00:25:42.020But before then, I believe that the rules of the culture are best made by a family.
00:25:48.740And then people will be like, well, what if it's something, you know, clearly abusive?
00:25:52.360And then it's like, where do you draw the line?
00:25:53.720Like, what about Jewish circumcision, for example?
00:25:58.420And yet many other cultural groups would say that this is child genital mutilation and therefore it should be made illegal in our country.
00:26:06.020And if you were inclined to believe that government overreach in terms of parenting practices isn't that much of a problem, keep in mind that one in three children in America has a child protective services case opened on them.
00:26:18.900At the end of the day, I think the people who are best able to make decisions about whether a child should be, have to undergo some sort of cultural sacrifice or unusual cultural technique or parenting technique or tradition are people who have undergone that themselves.
00:26:35.740I am okay with, for example, Jews who themselves were circumcised deciding to, after a lifetime of living with that, make that decision for their own kids.
00:26:46.200Yeah. And I think, so when it comes to like adult issue legislation, I think that the bigger policy is leave this up to people.
00:26:57.020For example, we are not against gay marriage.
00:26:59.780We are not against, you know, sort of legislating how adults live their lives.
00:27:03.900Well, and I'd also point out that Trump has really moved in this direction as well.
00:27:34.340And what progressives try to choose obscure racists to argue that the conservative party has a racist base.
00:27:42.540Yet here I will put on screen a poll done by FiveThirtyEight, a mainstream polling organization, showing that until Obama was elected president, more Democrats than Republicans said they would not vote a black person president.
00:27:55.420And you can see by these various graphs I'm putting on screen here that look at different types of racism, that there really isn't a disproportionately racist Republican base.
00:28:03.100And there never has been, at least not since the 70s or so.
00:28:08.620This means that you have been manipulated by a media into believing that far fringe extremists make up any relevant portion of the party.
00:28:19.860Well, and you, I mean, I think anyone can understand why this would happen.
00:28:23.460You know, we live in an age where outrage drives clicks, where algorithms are driven by whatever gets the most engagement, not whatever is the most reasonable or correct or smart, but by what makes people either really angry or laugh a ton.
00:28:38.940And of course that means you're going to get crazy extreme views elevated from all sides.
00:28:44.660Well, yeah, but it's important to note that the crazy extreme views on the right are not being implemented into policy.
00:29:17.340This has been my first year in preschool with a class of my own teaching alongside another queer neurodivergent educator, and we have been rocking our two's class.
00:29:31.620But our teaching team is shifting, and a new person is being onboarded, someone with many years of experience.
00:29:37.640So today at the lunch table, when the topic of gender and genitals came up, one of our students plainly looked up and said,
00:29:45.900Well, I'm a girl today, but I know that Teacher Coe isn't.