Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - December 29, 2023


EPISODE 637： CHRONICLES OF THE REVOLUTION — BLOOD ON THE STREETS


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In this special edition of our chronicles of the 1960s, Jack and Blake take a deep dive into the history of the civil rights movement in the United States. They discuss the many myths and misconceptions about the events of the Civil Rights Movement.

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00:00:46.960 This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
00:00:50.120 Deliver us from evil.
00:00:52.980 Jack Posobiec here.
00:00:54.640 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard Human Events Special Edition.
00:00:58.280 We've been running through these chronicles of the revolution.
00:01:01.640 If you're watching them in order, we had one called Blood on the Snow, the Russian Revolution.
00:01:07.940 This installment, Blood on the Streets.
00:01:11.680 The 60s revolution within the United States.
00:01:15.380 And the reason we talk about the 60s as a revolution certainly was, if you talk to the left,
00:01:21.420 they refer to it as the new American founding.
00:01:24.920 They refer to it as a revolution.
00:01:28.020 Yet on the right, for some reason, we don't question this.
00:01:30.440 We just kind of go along with everything we're taught about this era.
00:01:33.340 So many fake stories.
00:01:34.800 They cover up the violence.
00:01:36.800 They cover up the degeneracy.
00:01:39.200 They cover up the lies that were told about this era.
00:01:42.180 And so to help dispel some of those myths about what really is, and there's something that
00:01:48.080 I think the left does have right about the 1960s, is that it did fundamentally change the
00:01:53.940 way the United States operates.
00:01:56.700 And we go through a lot of these fundamental changes in this era.
00:02:00.820 And so to help me dispel all of these myths and set some of the records straight, we have
00:02:05.000 our co-host from ThoughtCrime and our co-host for Chronicles of the Revolution, Blake Neff.
00:02:09.600 Hey, Jack.
00:02:10.140 Great to be here again.
00:02:11.000 So, Blake, how is it, let's just set the frame really quickly.
00:02:15.540 How is it that people initially learn about the 1960s?
00:02:20.520 Yeah, I think this is the most important thing to start with, which is most people our age,
00:02:27.140 you know, we were in elementary school in the United States.
00:02:30.100 And before you take history or civics or government, we all have this class in elementary school we
00:02:35.340 call social studies.
00:02:37.060 And the way social studies works, this is how it works for me, and it probably works this
00:02:43.120 way for a lot of people, I assume.
00:02:44.640 I started attending school in the mid-90s.
00:02:47.020 And what you get is in about first grade, probably earlier these days, but I remember it in first
00:02:53.620 grade, you get your first children's book on, you know, how did we get modern America?
00:02:59.360 And so what you get is you get a children's book on the African-American civil rights movement.
00:03:03.640 And what you'll get is you'll get a very, very simple moral fable where for all of America,
00:03:11.020 you know, America a long time ago had slavery.
00:03:12.820 And then we had this Jim Crow where people are discriminated against only on their skin
00:03:17.100 color.
00:03:17.760 And then this is how it was everywhere.
00:03:20.140 And everyone just went along with it.
00:03:21.860 And then, like, one person, Martin Luther King Jr., stands up and is like, no, that's bad.
00:03:29.120 We shouldn't do that.
00:03:31.260 And he does, he starts these protests, and they're peaceful because he's a very virtuous
00:03:36.120 man.
00:03:37.100 And he gives these speeches that are so inspiring, it changes everyone's mind, but not everyone's 0.99
00:03:41.520 mind because then some evil racist shoots him dead. 0.97
00:03:45.060 And so he's this martyr forever. 0.99
00:03:47.280 And you get, this is the narrative you get, and it is a very simple moral fable about, you
00:03:55.340 know, right and wrong and the creation of modern America.
00:03:58.140 And this is like the first moral stuff, like the very first moral tale you get that is embedded
00:04:04.300 in actual American history that you get as a child.
00:04:07.280 And this is what you then slowly have expanded out over the course of growing up.
00:04:12.080 And I think it's a big reason.
00:04:13.500 Which, by the way, to interject real quickly, because we get that so young, it also sort
00:04:20.720 of, you know, it casts a pallor over everything else you learn about America's founding because
00:04:26.840 you were told that, okay, yes, we had this founding and we had the Declaration and the
00:04:32.880 War of Independence, et cetera.
00:04:34.240 But, you know, we were still bad right up until the 1960s.
00:04:38.200 Until the 60s, everything that happened was bad.
00:04:42.480 And we obviously see that play out in the iconoclasm that's currently going on in the
00:04:48.400 United States, where they will tear down basically anything of any American leader that came before
00:04:53.620 the 1960s.
00:04:54.880 Exactly.
00:04:55.640 It embeds a very simple moral framework for viewing relatively recent American history.
00:05:01.540 And it also means if you learn anything more about it, it's being built onto this structure
00:05:07.140 that is fundamentally, this is the most straightforward moral good that has happened in American history.
00:05:14.760 And so anything that else is attached to it that is also by extension good.
00:05:18.100 It takes something that is actually an enormously complex event, and in many ways, a clearly bad
00:05:24.040 event, and it dresses it up as something that was extremely moral, extremely necessary.
00:05:29.180 And I think most important of all, extremely irreversible.
00:05:33.240 And especially these days, conservatives are becoming more aware that if they kind of want
00:05:38.580 to undo wokeness or undo this sort of permanent revolution that exists in American history,
00:05:43.140 you actually have to go back to things that happened in the 1960s and seriously consider revising
00:05:50.040 what we did then.
00:05:50.940 And you can't do that if you're still locked into viewing it as this sacred moral crusade.
00:05:57.420 And we're going to get into why it's more complex, but I do want to have the caveat
00:06:02.640 that it's not like segregation was good, and it's not like everything that you hear about
00:06:09.020 it is false, but it always ends up missing a lot of nuance.
00:06:12.420 One of the most obvious ways that's the case is Martin Luther King Jr. gets praised for being
00:06:33.480 a peaceful activist, and he did promote peaceful activism.
00:06:37.700 But what they always end up glossing over is actually in the mid-60s and late-60s, civil
00:06:44.180 rights activism becomes a very violent thing.
00:06:47.040 There are very severe riots in many of America's major cities.
00:06:51.700 And on a scale that the ramifications of it, if we saw it happening in another country, we
00:06:57.480 would describe it as ethnic cleansing.
00:06:59.360 Like, there's a massive riot in Newark, New Jersey, and tens of thousands of people, based
00:07:05.380 on skin color, leave Newark because they don't feel that it's safe to live there anymore.
00:07:09.600 And, you know, nowadays it happens in Gaza, and you have the United Nations pass resolutions
00:07:13.700 about it.
00:07:14.340 But it's like a totally forgotten thing in American history that this took place.
00:07:18.060 The murder rate absolutely explodes in the U.S.
00:07:20.620 Which, by the way, to be clear, we did actually just have Jack Cashel here on the program.
00:07:26.440 A couple weeks ago, if people want to pull that episode, where we specifically talked
00:07:30.800 about the Newark riots.
00:07:32.440 I actually have a quick list here of the riots of the 1960s, the ghetto riots that people talk
00:07:37.880 about.
00:07:38.820 Watts riots in Los Angeles, 1965.
00:07:41.780 Detroit riot, 1967.
00:07:43.880 The Newark riots of 1967.
00:07:45.720 The Harlem riots.
00:07:46.960 That was 1964.
00:07:49.260 And then the Washington, D.C. riots.
00:07:51.220 And this is, as you say, following the assassination of Martin Luther King.
00:07:54.620 So it was extremely violent in the 1960s.
00:07:59.480 And you do have, by the way, many governors at the time and mayors coming in and using
00:08:05.160 police to, Ronald Reagan actually was a governor who came in and used police force to put down
00:08:10.200 some of these riots and some of these uprisings.
00:08:12.260 So, yes, it did get quite violent.
00:08:14.580 And again, you know, we're told it's kind of like the same thing that we went through
00:08:18.660 in 2020 with the mostly peaceful protests, where we're told that violence was only on
00:08:24.700 the side of the police or vigilantes like Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:08:29.140 And that's the official narrative.
00:08:31.100 However, because of social media and because we have independent media now, we can actually
00:08:35.000 look and see the truth.
00:08:36.200 Exactly.
00:08:37.780 And, you know, another myth is this is one that's very popular on the right is we've
00:08:41.640 heavily mythologized the I have a dream speech, you know, judge my children by not the color
00:08:47.640 of their skin, but the content of their character and so on.
00:08:50.480 And it's not a bad speech and it's not bad rhetoric to celebrate it.
00:08:54.660 As far as things that you could celebrate that were being said in that era, that's a
00:08:58.680 good set of rhetoric to hold up.
00:09:00.960 But what is a myth is the idea that this is what they were fighting for in the 60s, actually,
00:09:06.660 or even that this is actually what Martin Luther King was fighting for, for the most part.
00:09:11.440 Because what we have a more confrontation of these days is basically immediately as the
00:09:17.920 civil rights revolution is unfolding, it goes almost instantly from we want equal opportunity
00:09:24.020 to what we actually want is equality of outcome.
00:09:27.120 So almost from the moment that the 1964 Civil Rights Act passes, even though the act says
00:09:33.500 you can't discriminate based on race, the federal government steps in under activist pressure
00:09:38.400 from liberal activist groups and they say, oh, yeah, actually, you know, it says you can't
00:09:42.880 discriminate based on race.
00:09:44.020 But what it actually means is you have to discriminate based on race because you have to do affirmative
00:09:48.360 action to offset, you know, this other discrimination that is invisible but is happening.
00:09:53.000 And, you know, we get disparate impact by the early 70s.
00:09:57.240 Disparate impact is a legal doctrine created by the Supreme Court that if any policy at any
00:10:02.900 company or any institution has an unequal outcome based on race or sex or national origin
00:10:09.820 or all these other categories, if they produce any sort of unequal outcome versus what would
00:10:14.220 be predicted by overall population, then we can assume that it is discriminatory.
00:10:18.800 Well, as some geniuses have finally started to point out, everything has a disparate impact
00:10:25.200 because, in fact, human beings are different.
00:10:27.540 But we got this standard right away.
00:10:29.600 And this has been what is looming over America for half a century since that we have this magical
00:10:35.200 law that says you can't discriminate except you're required to discriminate sometimes.
00:10:39.080 And only government bureaucrats can decide one way or another. 1.00
00:10:43.740 And this is obviously not what you're learning in first grade.
00:10:46.540 You're also not learning it in high school.
00:10:48.360 And it's just sort of it's created this sort of double think that is mandatory in American
00:10:54.020 life because you're supposed to affirm that we've made all these advances that take us away
00:10:59.460 from racism, away from discrimination.
00:11:01.520 And yet you look at the laws that we enact and the policies we enact at universities or
00:11:06.600 at employers, and they just scream at you, actually, you know, the opposite.
00:11:11.460 You have to have tons of discrimination.
00:11:13.240 Just today, when the day we're recording this, the mayor of Boston tried to organize a Christmas
00:11:20.360 party where she only invited non-white elected members of the city government, no white people 1.00
00:11:27.100 allowed.
00:11:27.480 And it just felt like this has to be the apotheosis of the left-wing civil rights revolution,
00:11:33.520 which is fully invert everything.
00:11:36.700 Well, and that's what we see here.
00:11:38.660 So we see this in terms of the, and really, as you say, the racial disparity.
00:11:44.100 So this is where we get away from.
00:11:45.940 So Jefferson has the line, of course, in the declaration about created equal and those phrases
00:11:52.500 created equal.
00:11:53.640 But I think the problem is, is that for folks who, let's just say, if you're not of a certain
00:12:01.160 IQ point and you can't understand the difference between created equal, as in you have equal
00:12:07.800 rights, you have equal standing, you have equal legitimacy as a human being, that doesn't mean
00:12:13.280 that everything is going to be equal.
00:12:15.720 You know, sports are a great example of this.
00:12:18.920 It's one of the last places where we do have some semblance of meritocracy and, of course,
00:12:24.500 disparate income or disparate outcomes, because that's the point of sports.
00:12:29.460 And this is also why sports have become such a social experimentation field for the left
00:12:33.800 with trans, but also with pushing various left-wing causes, because, of course, they also understand
00:12:39.800 that it flies in the face of their philosophical theories.
00:12:43.060 And so they don't actually understand the difference of equality before the law and equality of
00:12:50.880 outcomes.
00:12:52.040 They don't.
00:12:53.140 They don't.
00:12:53.660 It very much goes against their innermost values.
00:12:57.480 And I'm not surprised.
00:12:59.560 I think it actually hurts a lot of people on the right, too.
00:13:02.400 We have a very powerful desire to we want the world to be the saccharine place where it's
00:13:09.120 if everyone is given equal opportunity, naturally, it would produce equal outcomes.
00:13:13.740 I think if you put a gun to all of our heads, we would all admit this is not true.
00:13:17.680 But it's very easy when you're making public policy to just to just wish cast and just want
00:13:22.800 it to be different.
00:13:24.980 And over time, this has grown stronger and stronger in American life.
00:13:29.100 And it just has caused an enormous amount of self-destructive behavior.
00:13:31.940 And the 60s is, in many ways, the first pass at this, that they want to abolish Jim Crow.
00:13:38.820 I think it's understandable.
00:13:39.740 You shouldn't have laws that discriminate based on race.
00:13:42.800 And they sweep it away.
00:13:44.100 And then they essentially are angry that it doesn't immediately lead to absolute equality
00:13:49.240 in all things.
00:13:50.460 And so they very instantly start demanding special treatment of all sorts.
00:13:55.680 What happens on university campuses is really telling and very much a foreshadowing of what
00:13:59.740 we see later, in the late 60s, you start getting the first of these campus occupations.
00:14:05.320 And compared to today, it's actually remarkably radical what they get away with.
00:14:10.040 At my own alma mater at Dartmouth, there was a building, a Cutter Hall, and a group of,
00:14:15.720 I would say, I almost said BLM radicals, but it's like Black Panther type radicals. 0.92
00:14:19.940 I don't know if they were literally the Black Panthers, but some sort of Black radical group.
00:14:23.560 They occupy Cutter Hall, and they rename it the El-Hajj Al-Malik Al-Shabazz Center.
00:14:29.940 It's the Islamic name of Malcolm X.
00:14:32.500 And they just occupy it for months on end, maybe even like a year plus.
00:14:37.420 And the administration just won't kick them out.
00:14:40.480 They just let them do this.
00:14:42.080 And then their demands are, we want to get a Black Studies department, which none of these
00:14:46.620 had existed before.
00:14:47.420 You didn't have Black Studies or Asian Studies or LGBT Studies, any of these studies things,
00:14:53.900 these grievance studies departments.
00:14:55.220 They didn't exist.
00:14:56.540 And suddenly, they start doing all of these occupations of campus buildings that are going
00:15:01.240 on for months on end and are essentially just commandeering huge swaths of public space
00:15:07.380 and making these demands that, oh, you have to make academic departments that reflect
00:15:11.140 what we want.
00:15:11.820 And at the time, you have academics who say, we shouldn't do this because what we're going
00:15:17.020 to get is fake departments that produce fake scholarship, and these people are going to
00:15:22.440 be taking these classes because they're the only ones they can pass.
00:15:25.300 They'll get ghettoized into these academic subfields that are the only thing they can succeed
00:15:29.520 at, and they'll mess up the academy.
00:15:32.000 And everyone was like, no, that won't happen.
00:15:35.740 We just need to give them a little leg up and let them fit in better. 0.99
00:15:38.840 And now, here we are a half century later, every school has two or three or ten of these
00:15:44.680 departments.
00:15:45.680 And if you're an affirmative action admit to these schools, you're not going to do well 0.98
00:15:49.240 in normal classes.
00:15:50.440 So instead, you end up taking these classes, and you basically just go do politics full
00:15:56.340 time when you're at a university.
00:15:58.360 And then, you know, 50 years later, or 30 years later, you become the president of Harvard
00:16:02.960 University.
00:16:04.880 Exactly.
00:16:05.360 And so, Blake, let's go back to how this all started, because a lot of the driving forces
00:16:10.960 of this are not, you know, and Prusa Fahs points out, they're not the actual, as they
00:16:18.460 would call it, POCs.
00:16:19.940 It's not people of color that are driving this. 0.96
00:16:22.060 It's white people, and predominantly the hippies.
00:16:25.840 And so the rise of the hippie and the influence of the hippie is something that really starts
00:16:31.060 in the 1960s, this movement, which also leads to a sexual revolution that's going on at the 0.59
00:16:38.280 same time as the political revolution, the racial revolution.
00:16:44.820 How is it that these two coincide?
00:16:47.560 And how do they interplay here?
00:16:48.700 Yeah, well, it is, it's a tremendously, it's an era that feels like it has limitless possibilities.
00:16:57.300 It's everything, you know, we all have to make the okay boomer joke, and it really is
00:17:01.600 fitting, because at every phase of the boomers' lives...
00:17:05.000 I want to not make it, I want to get away from it, but we have to.
00:17:08.160 We can't get away from it.
00:17:09.160 We have to confront the boomer question, which is, if you're a boomer, every step of their
00:17:13.180 lives, they've been the biggest and most important demographic group in America, and
00:17:17.980 so they've always been the group treated most favorably politically.
00:17:22.440 So when the boomers are in their 20s, everything in American life is oriented towards boosting 0.77
00:17:29.160 young people so they can succeed.
00:17:31.140 This is when we have a huge expansion of college availability.
00:17:34.100 The 60s is the first generation where, really, if you want to go to college, you're pretty
00:17:39.220 much able to do it.
00:17:40.180 You either can afford it because the tuition is cheap, and so you work, you know, the infamous
00:17:43.920 boomer, you know, I worked one summer job and paid for my year of tuition, or, you know,
00:17:48.920 you get your GI bill and you could do it.
00:17:51.340 You could, or your parents, you know, were able to help you out somewhat, because, again,
00:17:54.700 it was cheap.
00:17:55.440 You didn't need to borrow $300,000 to do it.
00:17:58.480 So you have this massive expansion of the availability of college education.
00:18:07.080 You also have, you know, the sexual revolution was probably inevitable because now you have 0.95
00:18:11.180 the birth control pill.
00:18:12.700 It's widely available.
00:18:14.440 You have this...
00:18:15.020 All of these things are hitting, right?
00:18:16.320 So it's...
00:18:16.640 Yeah, all of these things are hitting.
00:18:17.980 The birth control hits, the massive expansion of economic opportunity after World War II,
00:18:24.380 this huge demographic group coming online, they're coming of age, electronic music is
00:18:31.200 taking off, mass media, you get, you get...
00:18:33.900 And then Woodstock, right, becomes Woodstock, you know, designer drugs are starting to come
00:18:38.060 out.
00:18:38.840 Drugs aren't new, they've always existed.
00:18:41.220 Sure.
00:18:42.160 But everything is there, and so it's just, it's an environment that feeds on itself,
00:18:46.740 sort of like, well, any...
00:18:48.000 Everything is new, everything's in doubt, everything is possible, and this, that...
00:18:52.820 And also you have the universities, and way more people are going to universities, and
00:18:56.320 then as now, universities were always these incubation pools for radicalism, and what
00:19:03.080 the expansion of universities really matters for...
00:19:05.100 Anything goes, you know, anything goes, I think, is...
00:19:07.380 It becomes sort of a...
00:19:08.500 Anything goes.
00:19:09.500 I know, so we're fighting against the...
00:19:11.380 Because, again, as you say, the moral tyranny that's applied to, that's applied to America,
00:19:17.580 right, America's founding, then gets applied to sort of the, just really a Christian moral
00:19:22.020 code, which had been very strong throughout the 1950s, throughout the 1940s, I mean, just
00:19:27.280 all the way through the United States, up until this point, and then everything...
00:19:32.160 Which, by the way, is because of the deification of the 1960s, this is also why we see the demonization
00:19:41.120 of the 1950s in popular culture.
00:19:44.040 They must demonize it, because, of course, this must be a fascist era ruled by the patriarchy,
00:19:50.300 and, you know, you see so much of left-wing media, and really mainstream media, putting
00:19:55.520 this out.
00:19:56.360 But, you know, the other thing I was going to throw out, that, you know, you see the trajectory
00:19:59.240 of a lot of this.
00:20:00.240 It, you know, people say, well, how do we get to OnlyFans?
00:20:02.340 How do we get to abortion on demand? 0.99
00:20:04.300 How do we get all these things in just such a short time?
00:20:06.620 And I keep telling people, it just really goes back to the 1960s.
00:20:10.700 And guess what?
00:20:11.980 You know, you want to tell the truth about Woodstock?
00:20:14.160 You want to tell the truth about the Free Love Movement?
00:20:15.960 Guess what?
00:20:16.560 There's just as much rape at Woodstock 69 as there was in Woodstock 99. 0.98
00:20:22.060 It's just they won't talk about it.
00:20:24.440 Yeah.
00:20:25.480 Another thing that's important to hit on the expansion of colleges is we think of campuses
00:20:30.120 as, you know, very liberal places.
00:20:32.060 And that's always been somewhat true.
00:20:34.440 You've always had a lot of political radicals at campuses.
00:20:37.500 But it used to be a lot more evenly split.
00:20:40.400 And a phenomenon that matters a lot is you have a huge expansion of overall, of the size
00:20:46.260 of universities, the number of universities, the, you know, the number of faculty at universities.
00:20:50.840 And this is hitting in the 60s.
00:20:52.780 It's also when the Vietnam War is going on.
00:20:55.480 And, you know, university studies are a great way to dodge the draft at this time.
00:20:59.800 And so you get this perfect storm where universities are expanding just as you have an
00:21:04.320 also a growing number of left-leaning individuals who are inclined to go into academia.
00:21:11.620 And so famously these days, if you get a PhD, the job market is terrible, especially if, you
00:21:15.740 know, you're white and you're just not, you know, you're a lower class of person.
00:21:19.880 But back then, you know, you could get a PhD and get a job in these universities and you'd
00:21:25.160 have tenure and you'd be able to sit there until you're 80 years old.
00:21:28.160 They also, at the same time, the Supreme Court came in and, or not yet, the Supreme Court
00:21:34.000 had not yet ruled that mandatory retirement ages for professors were illegal.
00:21:39.100 They went, later went and did this.
00:21:40.540 But in the 50s and 60s, you were turning 60 and being turned out of these universities
00:21:45.080 because you were too old.
00:21:46.460 So all these people are able to get jobs in academia and then they get lifetime tenure.
00:21:51.260 And then the Supreme Court says they can never be forced to retire.
00:21:53.760 And it's like, oh, shocker, now our universities are all uniformly super giga left-wing.
00:21:59.820 And then these days you have smug left-wingers who are like, whoa, they're all liberal because
00:22:03.900 only smart people, smart people are all liberals.
00:22:07.840 And so that's like the genesis of this universities as a permanent factory of wokeness is, okay, 0.92
00:22:14.700 they were built in the 60s that way and these people are never going to change.
00:22:18.880 And then the draft, because you've got, you know, at the same time going on, you've
00:22:23.540 also got the Vietnam War kicks off.
00:22:26.520 So you have JFK's assassination, 1964.
00:22:29.420 Now suddenly everything's in play.
00:22:31.820 The Vietnam War really ramps up under LBJ after, who is concurrently pushing the civil 0.52
00:22:37.820 rights legislation.
00:22:39.140 So the draft, of course, gives them something to rail against while they're on these college
00:22:43.320 campuses, even though if they're in college, they're not actually subject to the draft
00:22:47.220 themselves.
00:22:48.560 You see, of course, MLK's assassination later, RFK's assassination later.
00:22:55.540 So when people do talk about the turbulent 60s, I mean, they're not joking.
00:22:59.520 It was an extremely turbulent era.
00:23:02.820 And you have this group of people that are, again, as I said before, they're coming of age
00:23:08.160 amidst all of this.
00:23:09.440 So on one hand, it's like the moral superstructures, right?
00:23:14.520 The moral superstructures of all of society are being torn down, right, as they're being
00:23:19.520 told they can have anything they want, they can do anything they want, and they are essentially
00:23:24.300 taking over the country.
00:23:26.040 For sure.
00:23:26.860 And they always will justify it as, okay, well, we were, you know, these days, it'll
00:23:32.320 be common to admit there were excesses to this era, but the justification is always, well,
00:23:36.200 we were overthrowing this evil system.
00:23:38.060 Like, you know, boomers taking credit for the civil rights movement. 0.88
00:23:41.280 And one of the most important myths of this is that the 60s was the civil rights movement.
00:23:46.400 And it's actually not true.
00:23:48.880 The civil rights movement is a thing that goes on for decades.
00:23:52.640 It's in the 1920s, you know, the big cause is we should have a national lynching ban.
00:23:57.000 And it's basically symbolic to demand this because murdering people was already illegal.
00:24:02.120 But this is what they would do.
00:24:03.080 They would, like, have back and forth on this.
00:24:04.940 And it sort of worked in the sense that lynching over time went away.
00:24:08.840 You do not have extrajudicial killings of black people in the 40s like you do in the 10s
00:24:14.220 or 20s.
00:24:15.240 And then also Jim Crow was going away, too.
00:24:17.900 Like, the famous Brown versus Board of Education decision, it came after about half the country
00:24:23.380 had already just abolished school segregation on their own.
00:24:28.280 And in California, California famously, you know, we all know about Jackie Robinson integrating
00:24:33.500 Major League Baseball.
00:24:35.680 But what's less well known is the biggest reason, like, the reason the NFL integrates is they want
00:24:40.640 to put a team in California.
00:24:41.840 And California already has a bunch of laws against segregation.
00:24:45.440 And they say, we won't let a team move here if they're in a segregated league.
00:24:49.620 And so NFL desegregates.
00:24:52.480 And this was happening in all these places over time, gradually.
00:24:56.940 And by the end of the 50s, it had largely been complete outside of, like, hardline places
00:25:01.640 in the American South.
00:25:03.380 And it gets rewritten in this way as America was this super ultra-racist country everywhere
00:25:09.860 until the 60s radicals came up with the idea of not being a crappy person, as people on
00:25:15.780 Reddit would say with slightly more swear words.
00:25:18.920 And they used this to take advantage of changes.
00:25:22.080 They, like, they'll take credit for changes that were happening anyway and use this to justify
00:25:28.160 the insane radicalism that they would do.
00:25:29.980 This was on my one appearance on Joy Reid on MSNBC all the way back in 2016.
00:25:39.000 This is exactly what I challenged her on because she claimed that the entire legacy of the Civil
00:25:44.960 Rights Movement and the Civil Rights Act was Democrats and that it was LBJ.
00:25:50.520 And I started trying to explain some of this to her and even pointed out that LBJ, when
00:25:56.180 he was a congressman and later a senator, was completely against civil rights.
00:26:00.460 It was only after he took up the mantle becoming president that he was able to do, you know,
00:26:05.320 that he really just, you know, kind of glommed onto it.
00:26:07.460 And she basically threw me off the show. 0.82
00:26:09.500 Yeah.
00:26:09.720 And it's really what it is, is it's when you can see the drive get sick because the push
00:26:16.040 for equal treatment under the law is a good thing.
00:26:19.180 You want people to be treated equally under the law, to not be reduced to their skin color.
00:26:23.960 And it's the 60s where we get away from this, where we start saying, instead of treating
00:26:28.280 you as an equal person, we're going to categorize you as, you know, a member of this race.
00:26:33.160 This is when we start getting the Census Bureau erecting these weird racial categories that
00:26:37.620 we still live under today.
00:26:39.000 Like Hispanics. 1.00
00:26:40.220 Hispanics are fake. 1.00
00:26:41.760 Like, what is the actual commonality between someone from the Dominican Republic who is of 0.90
00:26:47.720 African ancestry and then a person from Argentina who's of Italian ancestry and a person from
00:26:53.700 Mexico who is Amerindian in ancestry and then a person from Spain who, you know, looks like
00:26:59.920 they just came off some Viking longship.
00:27:03.300 And to say that this is all...
00:27:04.500 Which, by the way, my joke with that is always go up to a Puerto Rican and call him Mexican, 0.92
00:27:09.160 see what happens.
00:27:09.760 Yeah, like, so the only commonality between them is they all, you know, speak Spanish.
00:27:15.880 And then, but the Census Bureau, entirely because of the civil rights revolution, like the modern 0.95
00:27:21.420 civil rights law revolution of the 70s, comes on and says, oh, well, we're going to create
00:27:25.880 a single category for all these people for essentially the purposes of allowing them to agitate for
00:27:32.400 special treatment under the law.
00:27:34.000 And you start getting weirder and weirder versions of this.
00:27:37.460 For example, in the past, people of the Indian subcontinent, Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis,
00:27:43.180 they were classified as Caucasian.
00:27:45.740 And then they essentially campaigned to get themselves switched to being considered Asian.
00:27:51.400 And the reason for this is basically just that, well, if we're considered Asian, we can
00:27:56.080 apply for special government grants that are for disadvantaged minorities.
00:28:00.080 And they're still eligible for this, even though Indian Americans have the highest income of 0.99
00:28:04.580 any group in the U.S.
00:28:06.240 You also see this in the fact that we predominantly start seeing now with black Americans, we now
00:28:13.300 start seeing recent immigrants leapfrogging actual African Americans that are descended from
00:28:19.720 people who lived through these eras that you're describing or who lived under slavery.
00:28:24.300 We see recent immigrants or the children of recent immigrants just totally leapfrogging them 1.00
00:28:28.780 using these pathways that were set up for for for, you know, these, quote unquote, historical
00:28:34.680 injustices that they did not live under and that they were not subject to with, you know,
00:28:40.880 case of point, you know, you have conflict Kamala Harris and Barack Obama. 1.00
00:28:46.060 You'll have conflict between them.
00:28:47.800 Like there will be black activist groups on campuses who will agitate and then they will
00:28:52.800 say, you know, we want these giveaways from the administration.
00:28:56.460 But the benefits should go to ADOS, as they call them, A-D-O-S, American Descendants of 0.99
00:29:01.880 Slavery.
00:29:02.200 American Descendants of Slavery.
00:29:03.720 Yeah.
00:29:04.180 Of slavery.
00:29:04.960 Because they point out somewhat reasonable, I think, that I think it's reasonable to say
00:29:10.040 there is some hangover from slavery that hurts them.
00:29:12.840 And OK, if this is going to be our justification for things, they should be the ones who benefit
00:29:17.360 from it.
00:29:17.860 And the funny thing is, is the reason they can't is because as part of all of the legal
00:29:23.000 constructs we built up to justify all of the modern segregation and discrimination we
00:29:28.440 do, the official explanation was that we can't you can't do affirmative action for like
00:29:33.260 retrospectively fixing harms like slavery.
00:29:36.760 You can do it because diversity is good.
00:29:39.000 That's just what the Supreme Court came up with.
00:29:41.000 And that's why we got the diversity cult. 0.77
00:29:42.900 No one was talking about diversity is our strength in the 60s.
00:29:46.140 It's just a guy at the Supreme Court says that diversity is why you can do affirmative
00:29:50.560 action.
00:29:51.560 And as a result, suddenly everyone thinks diversity is great.
00:29:55.140 It's always what I would say the unifying theme since the 60s is you'll get recurring cases
00:30:00.900 of people have to find some excuse to justify discrimination based on basic traits, sex, race,
00:30:09.920 religion, what have you.
00:30:11.020 And they come up with an excuse and suddenly that excuse goes everywhere.
00:30:14.860 And we keep doing this over and over rather than accept the harder truth, which is we
00:30:19.860 should treat people as individuals.
00:30:21.700 We should treat people equally.
00:30:24.160 And we should accept that this might create macro outcomes that make us feel uncomfortable.
00:30:30.280 And Jack, where's Jack?
00:30:33.300 Where's Jack?
00:30:35.620 Where is he?
00:30:36.900 Jack, I want to see you.
00:30:38.440 Great job, Jack.
00:30:42.100 Thank you.
00:30:42.860 What a job you do.
00:30:44.280 You know, we have an incredible thing.
00:30:45.660 We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys and these are the
00:30:50.120 guys who should be getting Pulisic.
00:30:51.420 The stuff that was happening in 2020 with George Floyd greatly resembled stuff that was going
00:30:59.440 on in the 60s where you have violent turmoil in the cities, but you even have it in the
00:31:04.180 80s and 90s.
00:31:05.120 We're on like our third or fourth pass of this by now.
00:31:08.220 Right.
00:31:08.360 And so, right.
00:31:09.360 We keep having these like soft cultural revolutions off from the 90s, the 60s, the 80s,
00:31:14.320 the 90s now, and what's interesting is that you don't really hear most of the sort of
00:31:19.320 anti-woke, anti-CRT crusaders talk about these things.
00:31:24.360 They'll try to kind of stand up each piece of DEI or CRT or whatever the specific line
00:31:33.160 is and try to knock that down.
00:31:35.240 But they sort of try to work, and I found this, and I'm not going to single anybody out
00:31:39.200 here, but I found that they try to do so within the framework still of the 1960s without just 0.69
00:31:47.060 coming out and saying, no, this is ridiculous. 0.58
00:31:48.880 We need to get rid of all of it. 0.96
00:31:51.520 Well, it's comical.
00:31:53.200 It's a lot like what we said with the Spanish Civil War the other day, where they always 1.00
00:31:56.220 have to talk about this conflict because it's the one they lost, and so they can pretend
00:32:01.540 it would have worked out great if they'd won.
00:32:03.060 But it's sort of like this here, where we're perpetually in the 1960s, and they act like
00:32:08.440 they're opposing the same man as always, because to do otherwise would have to confront the
00:32:13.480 fact that actually the left has run entire cities and entire states for the entire duration
00:32:21.120 of a human lifetime at this point, and has often made no progress or literally gone backwards.
00:32:26.960 This will come up with education reform all the time.
00:32:29.480 You'll have to hear, yeah, we need to do this new education reform proposal because we have
00:32:34.220 to overcome systemic racism in the school system.
00:32:37.380 Bro, you guys have been running the public schools in Los Angeles, in New York City, in
00:32:43.460 Boston.
00:32:44.140 Take your pick of these cities.
00:32:45.880 There have been no Republicans doing anything of importance in any major American city in
00:32:52.740 decades, and they just invent an entirely new reality. 0.84
00:32:57.740 It's sort of like feminism, where they'll do this in silly ways. 1.00
00:33:01.780 Like, do you remember when that Captain Marvel movie came out about five or six years ago?
00:33:07.620 Yeah, and Disney lied about how many tickets were sold for it, and then the next movie Marvel
00:33:12.160 came out was a complete failure.
00:33:14.140 It's not about that.
00:33:15.340 It's that it was hyped.
00:33:16.800 Like, this movie is important because it's a movie, it's a blockbuster movie that stars a
00:33:22.800 woman, and no one's made a movie that shows girls can be heroes before. 1.00
00:33:26.620 And, like, you just, at that point, Wonder Woman had been made two years before, and they
00:33:31.920 just expected you to forget that it existed.
00:33:32.640 It's constant year zeroing.
00:33:34.760 It's constant year zeroing.
00:33:36.120 And then, of course, you could go back decades.
00:33:37.340 Or they did this with Black Panther. 0.50
00:33:38.680 Alien starred a woman.
00:33:39.560 No, they did this with Black Panther, too.
00:33:40.940 And I remember catching people, another Ridley Scott, by the way, but I remember catching
00:33:45.680 people with Black Panther, and then saying this was the first Marvel movie to star a black
00:33:49.920 man, and I said, what about Blade?
00:33:52.120 There was a whole trilogy of Blade movies.
00:33:55.680 They were great, by the way.
00:33:57.120 There was even a TV series, all of which preceded the Black Panther film, but they wanted to
00:34:01.820 get into their marketing, and so they had to twist it around.
00:34:04.720 Well, it's the first one in the current iteration of the...
00:34:08.200 Yeah, they always...
00:34:09.760 And it's, they want to continue to run this narrative.
00:34:13.280 It's the same playbook they keep running.
00:34:15.560 Historic.
00:34:16.180 It's all historic.
00:34:17.000 Everything has to be historic.
00:34:18.040 If you want a great book that captures the feel of all this, and I didn't bring it with
00:34:24.520 me, unfortunately, but there's a great book by Thomas Wolfe, one of the great writers
00:34:27.960 of the 20th century, and it's called The Bonfire of the Vanities, and it's a lot of things.
00:34:32.600 I could not recommend this more.
00:34:34.140 It's a big novel, and it hits a lot of themes.
00:34:36.240 It's basically about New York in the 80s, but the core thrust of the book is this investment
00:34:40.720 banker accidentally sort of hits a, you know, an honor student in the Bronx.
00:34:48.540 They literally joke about this, calling him an honor student.
00:34:50.740 He thinks he's getting mugged.
00:34:52.300 It's unclear if he is, actually.
00:34:53.980 He hits this honor student, sends him into the hospital in a coma, and it starts off this
00:34:57.820 massive Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin-type freak out of the public.
00:35:02.800 It blows up this guy's life.
00:35:04.320 It's a huge scandal.
00:35:05.220 There's all these political opportunists.
00:35:07.440 There's this Al Sharpton-type figure, who is amazing because Al Sharpton was not a public
00:35:13.040 figure at this time.
00:35:14.520 Wolfe writes Al Sharpton into existence before Al Sharpton exists.
00:35:18.460 He predicted Al Sharpton.
00:35:19.340 He predicted Al Sharpton.
00:35:20.640 A lot of it, by the way, because the enemy is this sort of like waspy, successful individual.
00:35:28.060 I've been making the argument that Donald Trump is kind of like living through this in his
00:35:32.540 New York trials, particularly in the fraud trial, that it's sort of like, no, you've
00:35:37.060 become a target for so many of these people, like Letitia James here, to build up one, that
00:35:42.820 the parallels are very striking.
00:35:45.160 That is, yeah.
00:35:45.560 It's just so telling that this book is now 35 years old at this point.
00:35:48.780 And yet, if you read it, it feels so much like what we were going through in the late
00:35:53.420 2000s and then through the George Floyd moment.
00:35:56.360 And it just hits you.
00:35:57.860 So this stuff is, it's not that it happens always, but it's very cyclical.
00:36:02.880 We go through the same processes over and over again.
00:36:05.660 It rises and falls like the tides or like a wave that you'll get this surge of left-wing
00:36:12.820 stuff where they'll kind of act like no one's ever tried to create equality before.
00:36:17.920 And then now we have this idea and it's totally going to work.
00:36:20.860 And then they get all these concessions.
00:36:22.800 They do their thing.
00:36:24.080 It doesn't work.
00:36:25.000 And then they come back and they're like, we have to do this because, you know, everything's
00:36:28.340 been under the control of the man the whole time.
00:36:30.700 And we're going to, we're going to be the first people who decide racism's bad.
00:36:35.140 And yeah, exactly.
00:36:35.860 And then the template for that is set in the sixties, which is why it's totally set.
00:36:40.160 And then the sixties, it's like counterculture, counterculture, counterculture, do whatever
00:36:44.160 you want.
00:36:44.820 Free love, free drugs, free everything, tear down all the moral superstructures, set Chesterton's
00:36:50.600 fence on fire.
00:36:51.820 Just go and do whatever you want.
00:36:53.100 And then this, this kind of culminates one of the things that I think people have said
00:36:58.100 that this has been culminated through there.
00:37:00.060 I know there's a lot of conspiracy theories about this, but the Manson murders and the
00:37:04.520 Manson situation really at the end of the 1960s happens in 1969, these brutal killings
00:37:11.900 where it's Charles Manson attempting to spark a race war that's been led to through this hippie 0.95
00:37:20.080 movement through this free association, free love, free everything kind of situation.
00:37:25.260 And that I think that may be, I'm not going to say it breaks the spell, but I think, as
00:37:29.840 you say, that really is one of the shocking moments that just sort of brings a lot of people
00:37:34.000 in the 1960s and then ends that iteration of it because it sort of breaks the spell and
00:37:39.900 says, Oh wait, no, wait, wait.
00:37:41.120 This is the real world.
00:37:42.840 Sharon Tate, you know, was a, you know, aspiring actress, Roman Polanski, by the way, is involved
00:37:48.760 who comes up later in a number of other situations.
00:37:52.580 And so you, you, you usually get it where it runs to great excess and then it runs directly
00:37:58.820 into a wall.
00:37:59.520 There's elements of that.
00:38:02.180 I think it can get overblown because what'll happen is they always want to rewrite history
00:38:06.420 that this was super popular and then thereby they can say, Oh, but then this thing happened
00:38:10.720 and brought us to our senses.
00:38:11.800 But really what it was is just, okay, in 1968, it felt like America was absolutely disintegrating.
00:38:18.880 Obviously that's the spring.
00:38:20.600 MLK is assassinated.
00:38:22.360 RFK, the senior, is assassinated.
00:38:24.940 It's a violent year.
00:38:26.020 There's huge riots in a ton of American cities.
00:38:29.200 Vietnam war opposition is reaching its apex.
00:38:32.100 It feels like the whole country is ripping itself apart.
00:38:34.940 And it turns out like politically what happens then.
00:38:37.580 And what happens is we get Nixon.
00:38:39.940 Nixon is elected.
00:38:40.900 Richard Nixon becomes the president.
00:38:43.320 Right.
00:38:43.480 So this is always, I've always gone back to try to tie this together.
00:38:46.260 Yeah.
00:38:46.880 Yeah.
00:38:47.180 And Nixon gets elected on essentially the plea to, you know, screw the hippies and law and
00:38:51.800 order.
00:38:52.080 And he's imperfect at this as, you know, we'll get used to with other Republican
00:38:55.800 presidents over the years.
00:38:57.860 But he does represent that.
00:39:00.300 And that's another thing that ties into today.
00:39:02.820 Richard Nixon, I like to say.
00:39:04.420 Which, by the way, and then an even bigger landslide in 1972.
00:39:07.960 He does.
00:39:08.300 He does.
00:39:08.740 But Richard Nixon, regardless of what happens, he's the first template for the modern Republican
00:39:13.620 president.
00:39:14.320 If you look at how Eisenhower is treated by the country, it's just not relatable today.
00:39:18.760 He's a Republican.
00:39:19.640 He's popular.
00:39:20.660 Plenty of the press likes him.
00:39:22.200 It's fine.
00:39:22.620 Nixon is essentially the first Republican, and every Republican since has been the same
00:39:27.380 way, who is literally Hitler.
00:39:29.840 They become absolutely unglued about him.
00:39:33.380 They just hate they being, you know, the establishment left, the university left, the media left.
00:39:40.060 They hate him to this volcanic degree.
00:39:43.240 If you ever want to feel kind of a cringe sense, you know, Hunter S. Thompson, famous boomer
00:39:48.700 journalist, drug head.
00:39:50.500 He, when Nixon died in 1993, Hunter S. Thompson writes an obituary for him. 1.00
00:39:56.820 And it's just utterly nasty, vile garbage. 0.92
00:40:00.400 And I read it a couple of years ago because I was writing an essay on Nixon. 0.98
00:40:04.380 And it struck me, Hunter S. Thompson was a Reddit user, and he died before Reddit was
00:40:12.320 a thing.
00:40:13.420 But it literally reads like the unhinged screed that a Reddit user would post after someone
00:40:18.620 noteworthy dies.
00:40:19.660 For the folks in our audience, and by the way, disclaimer of yes, no, no, obviously we're
00:40:24.180 not talking about all baby boomers, right?
00:40:26.780 We understand.
00:40:27.300 Steve Bannon, if you're listening, we don't include you in this number.
00:40:30.580 We don't include the folks that woke out of this.
00:40:33.320 But we're talking about the people who participated in this counterculture who were predominantly
00:40:38.160 baby boomers.
00:40:38.720 By the way, I'm like an elder millennial.
00:40:41.000 And, you know, I talk about millennials all the time.
00:40:43.760 But when you mentioned this, when you mentioned this, this setup of a Reddit user, just real
00:40:52.280 quick, I know we're towards the end of the episode here.
00:40:54.040 What you mentioned before, what do you mean by a Reddit user?
00:40:56.400 What is the archetype you're talking about?
00:40:58.480 So Reddit is popular for all older people out there.
00:41:04.500 It's a popular, it's a very mainstream website.
00:41:08.920 You can have subforms called subreddits on a million different topics.
00:41:13.300 So there's news.
00:41:13.920 I call it social media for people who hate social media.
00:41:16.400 Yeah.
00:41:16.600 There's news, there's religion, there's the NFL, there's knitting, there'll be breakaway
00:41:23.440 subcategories for all of these.
00:41:26.020 There'll be comedy subreddits.
00:41:27.360 There was famously during the 2016 election, there was the Donald.
00:41:30.360 It was one of the earliest Donald Trump fan pages.
00:41:32.880 It was later shut down because...
00:41:34.660 I was on there.
00:41:35.360 I was all over there.
00:41:36.000 And it's, it very much represents the zeitgeist of what you'd maybe call normie millennials.
00:41:43.420 And it has this very, it's, it encourages a type of personality where like, if you're
00:41:50.860 the type of person who your personality is, you know, quoting famous movie lines and just
00:41:56.280 imitating other people because you think it's funny and you get this sort of like fake personality
00:42:00.940 personality of over-exaggerated jocularity.
00:42:05.440 So, you know, rather than, man, I'm trying to think, what would be like the best example
00:42:10.300 of like a Reddit?
00:42:11.260 Well, I guess I'm trying to say like someone, it's, it's, you're completely pedantic.
00:42:14.900 You, you want to engage in arguments all the time, yet you're also at the same time, incredibly
00:42:20.700 obtuse, generally lack self-awareness, generally are not someone who goes outside very much.
00:42:28.640 And if anybody wants to really go in down this, and I don't want to feel like you're
00:42:31.620 the point too much, because we are running out of time, but just go, go, go into a Google
00:42:36.460 search or brave search, DuckDuckGo and type Reddit meetup.
00:42:40.420 And you will see exactly what I mean.
00:42:42.660 These are like the, the full on troglodytes of the internet.
00:42:46.100 But Blake, we're, we're coming to the end of at least the first four installments of
00:42:50.700 Chronicles of the Revolution.
00:42:52.300 We might have more, you know, we might be able to do some more of these.
00:42:55.400 I think people were going to like them, but some of the themes that I wanted to reflect
00:42:59.800 on that we've seen here is that we, we find economic, we find that economics drives these
00:43:05.520 things.
00:43:06.140 It, it can be economic disparity, but in some time, in one case, at least of the 1960s,
00:43:11.360 it's actually economic abundance, which drives a lot of the, a lot of the social worries, which
00:43:16.200 is definitely, definitely something to, for a lot of people to understand that you get the
00:43:20.880 excesses here because of the abundance of economics.
00:43:24.680 It really is.
00:43:25.280 It's, it really is.
00:43:27.680 And I guess another one is just the, the smashing of, of former cultures, right? 1.00
00:43:33.340 The sma, whatever came before must be destroyed. 1.00
00:43:35.760 I mean, obviously that is the definition of a revolution, but people understand this has
00:43:38.960 to do with moral codes.
00:43:40.440 It has to do with institutional codes, has to do with law itself.
00:43:43.820 And then again, in many of these cases, and really one of the themes, and certainly we
00:43:48.240 picked the revolutions here, um, but it's this theme of equality.
00:43:52.260 Everybody must become equal.
00:43:54.160 Everyone must be made equal.
00:43:55.580 And if you are not being equal, then the government will come in and force you to be equal.
00:44:01.580 Yeah.
00:44:02.340 I really like that point about economic abundance because it's really what we've been dependent
00:44:06.700 on ever since that we can afford, America has been so rich for so long that we've been
00:44:13.680 able to afford these huge delusions that the trillions of dollars we're spending on this
00:44:19.260 program, that's going to achieve equality through, you know, we're going to reform the schools
00:44:23.480 or we're going to change the welfare system, or we're going to, you know, have these entirely
00:44:28.480 fake jobs that we've created at these private companies that don't have any strict demands on
00:44:34.260 people that we've been so wealthy for so long that we can just throw unlimited money at,
00:44:40.040 you know, these new initiatives that will be what will finally cure what ails us.
00:44:44.140 And in poorer societies, you just have more constrained resources.
00:44:48.660 And so things get very, like they get more violent and more vicious more quickly because
00:44:52.520 there actually is not a lot of surplus to go around.
00:44:55.240 Whereas, uh, you know, Chris Caldwell's book, the age of entitlement of the reason he called
00:45:00.820 it that was, he says, the way America solved the social upheaval of the sixties was we just
00:45:06.720 decided to spend our way out of it. We'll just give the activists all of what they want, but we
00:45:11.580 also won't raise taxes because we can borrow money basically forever. And, you know, boomers 0.76
00:45:17.740 will get rich, Gen X will get rich, and, you know, the complainers will still get their slice of
00:45:23.500 tribute and everyone will be fine because we just have unlimited money. And I think the way you
00:45:27.780 could see this system, we mentioned it's cyclical, but the way it will finally start to come apart is
00:45:31.500 we might be running out of the money to do this. Like we're, we're setting aside too much national
00:45:36.540 wealth to keep what is essentially a sham system going.
00:45:40.720 Well, and this has been, you know, for, for the, uh, the war room fans out there, we know this is
00:45:45.740 something that Steve Bannon harps on regularly that we simply cannot continue the borrowing. Um, of
00:45:52.580 course, this is the very issue that directly leads to Speaker McCarthy's ouster, uh, by the,
00:45:59.080 um, you know, you call it the MAGA wing, the Gates wing of the party, uh, really has to do with these
00:46:03.580 debt ceiling fights. And it has to do with this idea that we can't just keep spending our way into
00:46:08.100 whatever we want. And it also is something by the way, that just, it, you know, we talk about the,
00:46:12.440 um, you know, weak men create, uh, create bad times meme, but it's, it's something where,
00:46:18.680 you know, we've allowed ourselves the luxury of having these, um, you know, luxury ideas as
00:46:24.240 Charlie calls them on his show that, you know, we can run around and waste time talking about
00:46:29.220 these ridiculous things because we don't have to worry as much about the basic necessities,
00:46:33.600 but it turns out Blake that a lot of the basic necessities, the infrastructure, the systems in
00:46:38.600 this country, the complex systems are suddenly beginning to collapse because we've basically
00:46:44.340 left them in a state of disrepair. Yep. Uh, you can afford to be delusional for a very long time,
00:46:52.100 especially if you're a global superpower, but you, you can't be delusional and fake forever. And I
00:46:57.700 think that is a lesson that America is learning now. And I think it's actually a reason you start
00:47:02.580 seeing it crumbling, like, you know, affirmative action on these college campuses. It was, it was one 0.82
00:47:08.340 thing to just pass people who are totally unqualified for jobs or degrees when they're 10% of the people
00:47:15.280 that you're doing this for. But when it's half of everyone, more than half, you actually are just
00:47:21.240 badly warping your society to keep a delusion going. And, you know, eventually you can actually just blow
00:47:28.480 up your country doing this. And I think it will be a white pill as it were, if we managed to pull
00:47:33.560 ourselves back from the abyss before we go hurtling over it. Well, I think it's exactly right. And so I hope
00:47:39.300 that everybody enjoyed watching this series Chronicles of the Revolution. I had fun doing it. Blake feels
00:47:44.680 it feels like you had some fun doing it there, huh? Oh, it was a blast. It was a blast. Yeah, this is great
00:47:49.560 because, you know, as we sit here, it's Christmas time, we're in the holidays, you know, we want to go and
00:47:54.980 teach people about some of the topics that we don't get the normal bandwidth, we don't have the normal
00:48:01.060 bandwidth to get into things, especially like this episode right here, the 1960s blood on the
00:48:08.880 streets, the revolution that did reshape America. And yet we in the conservative movement, we don't
00:48:15.300 talk about it, or we're scared of talking about it, or for whatever reason, we find it easier to just
00:48:21.580 kind of go along with it rather than fight back. We need to stop. We need to understand that a lot of
00:48:27.700 these bad ideas came from that age of access, that age of entitlement, and that age of blood
00:48:34.320 on the streets. This has been Jack Posobiec. My co-host has been Blake Neff. You can't find him
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