Order of Man - August 09, 2024


8 Masculine Political Positions | FRIDAY FIELD NOTES


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In this episode, I discuss the 8 Masculine Political Positions and why they are so important in the upcoming election. These positions are rooted in our innate ability and desire as men to protect, provide, and preside. I believe that we are uniquely qualified to do this, and we have a moral duty to step up in this way.

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00:00:00.000 Guys, these are eight masculine political positions. 1.00
00:00:02.500 And I know as I share this, a lot of these are probably not going to be popular.
00:00:05.760 Pretty popular with most of our audience here because we all kind of sing to the same tune.
00:00:09.660 But there are going to be a few of these that rub people the wrong way.
00:00:12.540 And if you want to have a discussion, I'm happy to have a discussion about it.
00:00:15.960 But ultimately, we need to start voting for the people who believe in these eight masculine political positions. 1.00
00:00:22.180 Because if we don't, we're going to find ourselves in a very, very bad way.
00:00:25.960 We cannot afford as a country another four years of the same or worse.
00:00:30.000 You're a man of action.
00:00:32.960 You live life to the fullest.
00:00:34.420 Embrace your fears and boldly chart your own path.
00:00:37.360 When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time.
00:00:40.760 Every time.
00:00:41.800 You are not easily deterred or defeated.
00:00:44.140 Rugged.
00:00:44.900 Resilient.
00:00:45.920 Strong.
00:00:46.880 This is your life.
00:00:47.980 This is who you are.
00:00:49.380 This is who you will become.
00:00:50.820 At the end of the day, and after all is said and done, you can call yourself a man.
00:00:56.060 As we come up to election season, I thought it would be very beneficial to talk a little
00:01:01.380 bit about what I would consider masculine political positions. 1.00
00:01:05.140 I haven't talked about politics a whole lot in this show, but I believe this election,
00:01:08.980 just like every election, is crucial in the future of this country.
00:01:15.720 And so I want to share some thoughts from a masculine perspective.
00:01:19.020 I would obviously highly, highly encourage you to vote.
00:01:22.380 As I said earlier, this is a very integral part of the American way of life, and it's
00:01:27.800 very crucial that we cast our vote in the millions, tens, if not hundreds of millions
00:01:32.240 of voices to make sure that our voices are heard, that our voices are represented, and
00:01:37.400 that we can steer to some degree the direction of this country.
00:01:41.500 And that's why it's so crucial that we talk about this.
00:01:44.320 Now, again, I'm talking about eight masculine political positions, but I think it begs the
00:01:49.260 question, what makes it a masculine political position? 1.00
00:01:53.240 Well, the reason I would consider this masculine is because the positions that I'm going to share
00:01:57.660 with you today are rooted in our innate ability and desire as men to protect, provide, and
00:02:04.840 preside.
00:02:05.600 So as you hear me talking about these positions, I would love for you to look at it in the context
00:02:10.820 of protection, provision, and then preside, which is synonymous with leadership.
00:02:14.960 I believe that we are uniquely qualified to do this.
00:02:17.820 I believe that God has called us to step up in this way, and we have a moral duty, obligation,
00:02:23.400 and responsibility to ourselves, to our family members, to our neighborhoods, our community
00:02:29.580 members, and to our fellow countrymen.
00:02:31.800 And that's why I look at it through this lens.
00:02:33.820 Now, I'm sure this is going to be a polarizing discussion, but what I would encourage us also
00:02:38.900 is that if we do disagree with some of these things, like I'm sure we will, that we're
00:02:43.300 able to have civil discourse.
00:02:45.200 I think that's one of the biggest challenges that this country is facing when it comes to
00:02:50.020 political divide and contention is that so few people are willing to have significant and
00:02:56.160 meaningful conversations.
00:02:57.860 Everybody's out to get their talking points in, to make other people feel stupid, to get
00:03:03.340 their viral moments by slandering the other side and telling them how big of an idiot 0.75
00:03:09.480 they are.
00:03:10.160 And I've been guilty of that as well, but I would highly encourage us to have thoughtful,
00:03:14.640 considerate, healthy discussions.
00:03:17.400 And I think the best way to do that is to avoid logical fallacies.
00:03:21.740 I've done a podcast in the past.
00:03:23.340 If you want to do a search on logical fallacies in our Order of Man library or the Order of Man
00:03:28.320 podcast, you can certainly do that.
00:03:29.880 But when you avoid logical fallacies and you only engage with parties that are also working
00:03:35.660 to avoid logical fallacies, can you actually have a real and healthy discussion?
00:03:40.360 So without any further delay, let's get into these.
00:03:43.400 These are not in any order, but these are eight masculine political positions, again, with the 0.99
00:03:49.060 foundation or emphasis being on protect, provide, and preside.
00:03:54.280 Number one, peace through strength.
00:03:56.320 We can argue and we can talk about different political people, but when it comes to our
00:04:02.040 position here and our security here in America and also internationally, it's evident.
00:04:08.900 It's very clear that we can foster peace and stability throughout the world, not just in
00:04:16.200 this country, but throughout the world when we're strong.
00:04:18.820 When we take weak positions, when we kowtow to evil people and terrorist regimes, it just
00:04:26.260 emboldens those people in those regimes to act up and act out.
00:04:31.260 If they know that there is not some sort of economic and physically capable fighting force
00:04:39.600 or deterrent, then it's more likely they're going to push the limits.
00:04:44.160 And this is why you've seen over the past several years, rising conflicts in the Middle
00:04:48.660 East with Israel and Palestine, why you've seen Russia invading Ukraine, why you have
00:04:55.900 China threatening Taiwan, and you're starting to see some of these powers, these international
00:05:02.720 powers congregate and work together to continue to push the bounds on what is acceptable and
00:05:09.200 what is not.
00:05:10.200 The reality is, is that when America is strong, the entire world is safer.
00:05:15.880 Now, I know, and I'll readily admit that we have gotten ourselves into foreign conflicts
00:05:20.600 in which we don't belong.
00:05:22.560 In fact, I was a direct participant of that.
00:05:26.160 I went to Iraq in 2005 and 2006, and I can see now looking at it that that's not something
00:05:31.720 that we should have got evolved in to the degree that we did.
00:05:34.580 We fight endless wars.
00:05:36.160 We have no meaning or definition of what it actually means to win a war, and we get sucked
00:05:40.780 into all of these little territorial regional conflicts that we should have no business being
00:05:45.740 involved in.
00:05:46.820 But part of the reason those things get worse is because we are weak.
00:05:52.040 We don't stand up to terrorists and to evil regimes.
00:05:57.580 We don't hold lines against those who would do evil to us and other people.
00:06:02.880 And we think that, you know, maybe we ought to just be kind or be nice or stay out of everything,
00:06:09.420 and then everybody would leave other people alone.
00:06:12.140 Well, clearly that isn't the case.
00:06:13.680 And if anybody believes that it just takes stepping away from for everybody to get along,
00:06:20.580 it's just not paying attention.
00:06:22.400 There are evil people in the world who want to do evil things, and it has nothing to do with
00:06:27.180 how nice or kind or acquiescing to their requests you are.
00:06:30.720 They hate you.
00:06:32.560 They hate your way of life.
00:06:34.640 They hate other people.
00:06:36.040 And there's a multitude of reasons for that that we're not going to get into today.
00:06:39.320 But evil exists.
00:06:40.920 And if we want to be safe here in this country, and we want the world to be a safer place,
00:06:46.260 then we need to be strong and bold, economically strong, self-sustaining for our natural resources
00:06:53.860 and energy, things like this.
00:06:55.680 And then also our political fighting force, or excuse me, our military fighting force
00:07:00.060 needs to be strong as well.
00:07:01.920 These are deterrents that keep the world safe.
00:07:04.760 All right, number two is national sovereignty.
00:07:08.400 This is a masculine political position. 0.98
00:07:11.200 And what that means, essentially, is that we need to close our borders to illegal aliens 1.00
00:07:17.400 and to foreign invaders.
00:07:19.520 Again, this is rooted in our ability as men to protect, provide, and preside.
00:07:25.400 If we don't have strong physical borders that keep people out, that we can turn the faucet
00:07:33.500 on to who and when we should allow those individuals in, then we no longer have a country.
00:07:38.600 There's no way for us to vet the amount of people, millions and millions of people pouring
00:07:43.540 in, primarily through the southern border, if we can't close the border.
00:07:48.600 Now, inevitably, when I start talking about these things, people will say compassion and
00:07:52.960 bleeding hearts, and I understand all of that.
00:07:55.680 And if I was living in South America, I would probably make those same attempts.
00:08:01.920 But the reality is, you can't continue to open the borders and let people flow through 1.00
00:08:06.880 by the millions and say you're a compassionate person.
00:08:10.520 Because what about the people here in America who have ways of lives, who have family members
00:08:17.460 and community members that they want to protect?
00:08:20.760 If you really wanted to be compassionate, then what you would do is you would close the border
00:08:25.740 and you would work tirelessly to enact good pathways to legal citizenship.
00:08:35.320 But we can't do this.
00:08:36.780 It's not sustainable.
00:08:38.320 We're not able to vet.
00:08:39.580 We're not able to protect ourselves and our people.
00:08:42.420 And so we need to shut the borders down.
00:08:44.320 And that's a very masculine position.
00:08:46.800 I realize that there's other people in other countries that are having it hard.
00:08:50.240 Um, I, I think that there's a case to be made for humanitarian service and efforts that come
00:08:56.820 from the United States into these other countries and regions, but I don't believe it's our obligation
00:09:02.140 or even our responsibility to just open the floodgates and allow ourselves to be victimized,
00:09:08.380 allow ourselves to be vulnerable in ways that we aren't when the borders are closed and more
00:09:12.680 secure.
00:09:13.060 Number three, taxation is theft.
00:09:17.940 Uh, the, the, the multitude of taxes that we pay every single day is completely asinine.
00:09:25.780 Uh, I just got a bill.
00:09:27.120 I got an email for a bill for some software that I use here in my business and I got the
00:09:31.920 bill and it was whatever the bill was.
00:09:33.800 And then there was a little tax for Utah withholding and some property taxes and then the federal
00:09:38.620 income tax.
00:09:39.520 And then this registration and this line and this line, there was 10.
00:09:43.060 lines of taxes.
00:09:44.900 Now they all didn't say taxes, fees, things like that, but this is a form of taxation.
00:09:51.440 The government is incapable of creating any value.
00:09:57.120 And so it has to steal value from other people as to steal those resources from other people.
00:10:03.500 And it steals from you and me.
00:10:05.320 Now, look, I'm not going to tell you that we, a citizen should pay zero taxes.
00:10:10.040 I don't think that's sustainable either.
00:10:11.820 I think there are some opportunities for us to pay a marginal tax, uh, and, and maybe that's
00:10:19.460 a sales tax or a flat, uh, a flat income tax, but all of the other little fees and everything
00:10:26.500 else that are being added up.
00:10:27.800 Not to mention the horrible, horrible mismanagement of our resources.
00:10:32.860 Wouldn't it be nice if I could spend other people's money and what would I do with that
00:10:37.500 money?
00:10:37.880 Well, really whatever I want, I wouldn't be very prudent with it because I wouldn't need
00:10:41.740 to be.
00:10:42.100 I've got an endless supply of other people giving me their money.
00:10:46.320 And so I can make and afford to make horrible financial decisions.
00:10:50.460 Guys, we need to fight back against the absorbent amount of taxes that we're paying.
00:10:56.220 It's ridiculous.
00:10:57.600 It's stealing.
00:10:58.840 It's immoral and it's flat out wrong.
00:11:02.080 And it doesn't create a healthy, thriving society.
00:11:06.000 Inevitably, when you get into the tax discussion on both sides of the aisle, you have concerns
00:11:10.300 about who's getting tax cuts and who's not and trickle down economy versus trickle up economy.
00:11:14.900 But we all know, and even just intuitively, you know, that the people who are making money
00:11:21.580 need to pay taxes, of course, but they're already paying their quote unquote fair share.
00:11:27.040 Of course, they pay their fair share.
00:11:29.160 In fact, they pay more than their fair share.
00:11:31.420 Common sense would say that.
00:11:32.720 But when you start getting politicians and feelings involved, it's easy to think that the
00:11:37.260 billionaires and the millionaires of the world, since they have all the wealth, aren't really
00:11:42.200 paying any into taxes, that they're taking advantage of the system, that they're paying
00:11:47.280 less than somebody who might be making $30,000 or $40,000 a year.
00:11:51.720 That just isn't the case.
00:11:53.620 And so wherever you can infuse tax breaks into the system, we're going to see increased
00:11:59.740 opportunity.
00:12:00.640 Now, people will complain about trickle down economics not working because of corporate
00:12:05.600 and billionaire greed.
00:12:06.860 And while greed is certainly something that we have to contend with as people, as human
00:12:11.780 beings and fight that temptation off, the reality is, is that those people who are making
00:12:16.680 that kind of money, when given more money, create more opportunities.
00:12:21.500 So maybe there is some greed, but that greed does actually trickle down when you have somebody
00:12:27.360 like Elon Musk deciding to invest in a new business or Jeff Bezos reaching out into a new
00:12:33.980 space.
00:12:35.000 These individuals are wealthy for a reason.
00:12:37.960 And it's not because they took advantage of people like you and me.
00:12:41.780 It's because they've been able to take their resources, apply them in a very intelligent
00:12:47.280 way in a market that helps reward them for innovation and infusing capital into the economy.
00:12:56.580 So we want people to have tax breaks, not just the rich, not just the poor, but everybody.
00:13:01.500 And so we need to fight against taxes and we need to make sure that we have a balanced budget
00:13:06.480 so that we can actually use our fewer tax dollars more effectively than they're currently being
00:13:10.720 used.
00:13:11.700 Let's move into number four.
00:13:13.960 This one's always a big one, but it's the Second Amendment.
00:13:17.600 You know, that's a masculine political position, a strong believer in the power of the Second 1.00
00:13:23.180 Amendment.
00:13:24.260 And inevitably, when you start talking about the Second Amendment, people say, well, there's
00:13:28.140 no reason for you to have an AR-15.
00:13:30.940 You don't need that to shoot a deer.
00:13:32.920 The Second Amendment says nothing about hunting.
00:13:35.300 Now, granted, I love to hunt and having the ability to do so without having a whole bunch
00:13:40.880 of unnecessary red tape and bureaucratic bullshit is a pretty nice thing.
00:13:46.000 But that's not why we have the Second Amendment. 1.00
00:13:48.700 The Second Amendment is to protect ourselves from not only foreign invaders, but also our government. 0.54
00:13:55.340 Our government, left unchecked, will definitely take advantage of the population.
00:14:01.260 In fact, it already does.
00:14:02.380 And we're armed.
00:14:03.720 Imagine what they would do if we were unarmed.
00:14:06.720 Now, people will say, yeah, but if we had less guns on the streets, then we'd have less
00:14:12.360 crime.
00:14:13.260 I don't really know that that's true.
00:14:14.740 And I think intuitively, it makes some sense.
00:14:20.440 But the reality is we have tens of millions of guns in the hands of United States citizens.
00:14:27.420 So if we issued, for example, some sort of government mandatory buyback program, not everybody's
00:14:33.960 those 10 million guns are not coming off the street.
00:14:38.280 Okay, sure, some of them are the people who would voluntarily give up their firepower.
00:14:45.620 Certainly, those people will give up their guns.
00:14:48.660 But everybody else who has their guns will either not use them, or if they do, they won't
00:14:54.880 be doing it legally, or they're already criminals.
00:14:58.260 And so we're taking the opportunity for us, humans, men, to protect ourselves and our people.
00:15:06.180 And obviously, that's going to create all sorts of problems.
00:15:09.440 You look out throughout human history, and when a civilization is disarmed, things go terribly,
00:15:15.800 terribly wrong.
00:15:16.780 Murder and horrific, horrific crimes against humanity.
00:15:23.680 We need to be armed.
00:15:24.940 Now, I will say that we should be responsible enough to understand how to use our firearms,
00:15:31.540 firearms, that we need to be aware of those who are criminals, that they don't get their
00:15:37.720 hands on firearms, those who are mentally unstable. 0.94
00:15:42.320 There needs to be some awareness of that, of course.
00:15:45.360 And I don't think any sane person is actually fighting against that.
00:15:50.040 But when you start taking good, healthy, moral people and treat them like they're the problem
00:15:56.320 because they own the firearm, it's just a ploy, it's just a tactic to disarm a civilization
00:16:02.340 so that you can exploit, take advantage, rape, and otherwise pillage those people. 0.66
00:16:07.540 And I, for one, am not interested in letting that happen.
00:16:10.060 And I don't think any man should allow that to happen or be on board with that.
00:16:15.020 If you don't want to own a firearm, don't own a firearm.
00:16:17.700 If you don't want to be around firearms, don't be around firearms.
00:16:20.500 But I would highly, highly encourage you to arm yourself, get the training you need,
00:16:27.180 and learn how to use your firearms.
00:16:29.940 The next, and I think I'm on number five here, another masculine political position 0.99
00:16:35.380 is that the family unit is the fundamental unit of society.
00:16:40.500 I talked about this in the context of protect, provide, preside.
00:16:43.900 And this one specifically falls in the realm of preside.
00:16:46.880 It's our job as men to lead our families effectively.
00:16:50.840 And if we can't lead our families effectively, then Big Daddy government would love to come 0.96
00:16:55.960 in and step in and take your place as a man.
00:16:59.220 It's unfortunate when it happens, but it happens all the time.
00:17:03.680 And the government loves nothing more than to see families fall apart.
00:17:09.480 In fact, it rewards that happening.
00:17:13.620 And there's all sorts of government programs and benefits and no-fault divorces becoming
00:17:20.420 a thing that create real opposition to keeping the family unit intact.
00:17:25.540 Now, look, some of you might be saying to yourself, well, Ryan, you went through a divorce.
00:17:30.280 You don't have the same nuclear family that you did before.
00:17:32.860 And while that's true, I still am a huge proponent of it.
00:17:36.780 I still believe in marriage.
00:17:38.380 I still believe in the power of a nuclear family.
00:17:40.760 I still believe in having mom and dad in the home.
00:17:43.680 And if that can't happen for one reason or the other, it's a shame and it's a travesty.
00:17:47.940 But it's our job as men, even myself as a divorced father, to do everything that I can to lead
00:17:54.600 my children effectively and righteously, to provide for them financially, spiritually,
00:17:58.540 and emotionally, to teach them lessons, to create opportunities, to teach them how the
00:18:03.080 world works, and to lead them in righteousness.
00:18:05.600 The more men are out of the picture, the easier it is for the government to come in, swoop
00:18:10.920 in, and start indoctrinating our kids into ideologies that are dangerous and pervasive.
00:18:16.480 Now, some people will say, well, Ryan, isn't that all you're doing when you're raising your
00:18:19.920 kids?
00:18:20.760 Sure, I'll give you that.
00:18:22.320 You know, I'm teaching them a doctrine, a way of life, something that I believe is going
00:18:27.440 to serve them.
00:18:28.020 But here's the difference.
00:18:29.060 I have the authority to do so.
00:18:30.820 The government does not have authority over my children to do so.
00:18:33.500 By whose authority?
00:18:35.040 God's.
00:18:35.480 God has given me that authority to raise my children.
00:18:38.380 And so, yes, you might want to use the term indoctrination or brainwash.
00:18:42.780 Of course, those two terms have negative connotation, which is why people use them.
00:18:47.200 But yeah, you are teaching your children a set of beliefs that you think are going to
00:18:53.240 help serve them in the long run.
00:18:54.940 We need strong, righteous, bold, independent people.
00:18:59.020 And the best way to do that is not through a government who takes and steals and manipulates
00:19:06.500 and coerces and abuses its population, but by allowing fathers who are deeply connected
00:19:12.840 physically, mentally, and emotionally with their children to lead them, to guide them,
00:19:17.400 to instruct them.
00:19:18.820 Now, when I talk about this, a lot of the times I'll hear from people who say, well, what about
00:19:22.400 children without fathers?
00:19:23.520 What about them?
00:19:24.260 And here's my answer to that.
00:19:26.920 It's our job as members in the community, men specifically, to step up and to help those
00:19:32.720 young people.
00:19:34.140 Yes, there are millions and millions of children who don't have fathers in the home.
00:19:38.460 Those people need to be served too.
00:19:40.300 And so, it's your responsibility as the father of those kids' friends, your sons and daughters,
00:19:47.080 to bring them in, to teach them, to lead them, to guide them, to instruct them, to mentor,
00:19:51.720 to coach, to train, to love.
00:19:55.120 That's what they need.
00:19:56.460 They're not going to get that through the government.
00:19:59.200 They just become another cog in the wheel.
00:20:00.880 Look at the foster system.
00:20:02.320 Look at child protective services.
00:20:04.600 Look at the adoption system.
00:20:06.460 It's horrible.
00:20:07.280 It's horrendous.
00:20:08.880 These kids are struggling because the government's trying to do it.
00:20:13.120 Instead, it should be our job to do it.
00:20:15.480 In the absence of our own children, or even if you do have your own children, to bring
00:20:20.100 other people into the fold, if you will, by leading them, teaching them, guiding them,
00:20:24.180 and instructing them.
00:20:25.920 Let's get into number six.
00:20:27.880 Capitalism, free markets, and the meritocracy.
00:20:30.700 I cannot tell you how many people, even otherwise conservative people, would say that capitalism
00:20:35.760 is bad.
00:20:37.340 Capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty.
00:20:39.900 It's addressed and solved more medical conditions.
00:20:45.760 It's improved the way of life for more people than any other system combined.
00:20:51.840 It is a beautifully, beautifully crafted system.
00:20:54.800 Now, that's not to say it's not without its flaws.
00:20:58.200 It does have its flaws.
00:20:59.800 And yes, corporate greed is part of that, to some degree.
00:21:03.580 Another flaw is when you start getting the government involved in some of these affairs.
00:21:08.940 And that's what we would call crony capitalism, not to be confused with capitalism.
00:21:14.620 I'm a firm believer in free markets, and what we have today isn't even free.
00:21:18.160 There is so much regulation and bureaucracy and bullcrap that certain businesses can't
00:21:24.240 even do business, or they're hamstringed completely because big daddy government's trying to come
00:21:28.820 in not to do what they say they're doing to protect its population, but to protect and
00:21:33.720 consolidate its own power.
00:21:34.880 So, it's our job to edify and to uplift and to honor and then utilize the free markets,
00:21:42.540 to vote people into office who believe in free markets, who want to do away with unnecessary
00:21:47.460 regulation.
00:21:48.840 Energy is a great example of that.
00:21:51.220 You know, I cannot fathom why somebody would say, we don't want to create any energy or extract
00:21:58.800 any natural resources to provide energy here in the United States.
00:22:01.900 And they'll tell you, well, it's because of the green initiatives, right?
00:22:07.100 But if that were the case, then they'd have just a bigger problem with Russia doing it
00:22:10.860 or any other country doing it that we happen to be importing our energy resources from.
00:22:16.060 It's not a principled position.
00:22:18.900 If it were, then there would be an issue with every country doing it.
00:22:22.600 And that clearly isn't the case.
00:22:24.460 We as the United States of America are expected to hamstring ourselves knowing that every other
00:22:31.580 country in the world is not playing by the same rules that we are.
00:22:35.060 Now, there's ways to do this responsibly.
00:22:37.380 There's people that need to be involved in the process who are knowledgeable and smart
00:22:41.120 and have experience and education in these systems and these ways of extracting our natural
00:22:45.880 resources.
00:22:46.440 But we need to embrace the meritocracy.
00:22:49.980 We need to embrace free markets.
00:22:52.060 We need to embrace using and creating our own sources of energy, our own fuels, our own
00:23:00.680 food supply systems.
00:23:02.960 And we can do that through the free markets.
00:23:05.580 Now, there has to be a level playing field.
00:23:07.260 I'll give you that.
00:23:08.340 And I think there is a need in some instances for the government to be involved to create
00:23:12.940 some of those level playing fields.
00:23:15.140 But that's not what's happening.
00:23:16.620 When you have certain industries being subsidized and others being hamstringed, that has nothing
00:23:22.460 to do with a level playing field.
00:23:25.080 That has more to do with who's lining whose pockets and the political gamesmanship that
00:23:32.020 we see to keep people in power.
00:23:34.240 All right, let's move on to number seven, the rule of law.
00:23:39.220 We often hear that no one is above the law, and I would agree.
00:23:41.980 But there seems to be a separate system for certain people, the elites, if you will, that
00:23:48.700 they're no longer subject to the same rules and laws and requirements that we are.
00:23:52.620 Men, if we want to protect our people, and we want to embrace these free markets, and
00:23:57.600 we want to be able to have our firearms, and we want to own property, and we want to pursue
00:24:05.060 our own life, liberty, and happiness, then we need to know that we have a rule of law in
00:24:10.880 place that does not discriminate, but is even an objective in its application of the law.
00:24:17.680 Why should there be a different set of rules for different people?
00:24:20.640 Whether that's based on economic status, income status, immutable characteristics like
00:24:25.960 sexual orientation, or the color of somebody's skin.
00:24:29.540 No, it should be all the same.
00:24:31.220 And we need to elect politicians who believe in the rule of law and who have no qualms about
00:24:36.300 administering it fairly and justly.
00:24:38.420 Isn't that how law is supposed to be administered anyways?
00:24:41.460 Justice is blind, or at least it was or ought to be, but it isn't in this country.
00:24:46.720 And so we need to make sure that we have representatives who represent us and understand that we can't
00:24:54.220 have criminals and thugs and crime running rampant throughout the cities, all throughout
00:25:01.160 the United States, because it creates real problems with some of these other things.
00:25:04.640 And it keeps honest, hardworking Americans from pursuing what they have a right, a God-given
00:25:12.360 right, as acknowledged in our founding documents, we need rule of law.
00:25:18.440 And if a politician doesn't believe in rule of law, then they should not get your vote.
00:25:25.240 All right, the last one here, this is a big one, is equality, but not equity.
00:25:30.240 Now, I talk about this often, and it still seems to me that there's some confusion between
00:25:36.280 equality and equity.
00:25:38.900 So let me explain it as briefly as I can here.
00:25:41.000 Equality is making sure that everybody's being treated fairly and equally.
00:25:47.040 That's where the word equality is from.
00:25:49.560 That's the root word is equal, that we're all being treated equal.
00:25:53.900 Equity means that we have equal outcomes.
00:25:57.960 So you've heard certain politicians who will say, because different people are starting at
00:26:03.260 different places, that they might need more in order to get them to the same place.
00:26:08.380 Well, that is communism.
00:26:09.740 And I hope you understand that's communism.
00:26:13.560 And I'm going to go back to something I said earlier.
00:26:15.900 The government cannot create anything.
00:26:18.360 It just takes resources and then redistributes them in a way it feels is appropriate.
00:26:24.720 So if it cannot create resources, where does it get the resources to make up the difference,
00:26:32.820 so to speak, so that somebody who maybe wasn't born with the same economic advantages as somebody
00:26:37.580 else can end up in the same place?
00:26:40.140 Well, they steal it.
00:26:41.060 They can't create it.
00:26:43.420 So they steal it.
00:26:44.540 And they steal it from you.
00:26:46.080 And they steal it from me.
00:26:47.220 And they steal it from the backs of hardworking Americans who want nothing more than to be 0.99
00:26:52.500 left alone and to live their righteous lives, raising their kids and pursuing their own pursuits,
00:26:58.720 interests, hobbies, activities, and fulfillment.
00:27:00.500 Okay, we, I don't know where we came up with this idea that everybody's supposed to be equal.
00:27:07.260 Of course, that's not true.
00:27:09.500 If you want to look at it at a micro level, athletics, do I get upset because I'm not 6'7
00:27:16.780 and the perfect physical specimen to play basketball?
00:27:21.700 Of course, I don't because it sounds silly, right?
00:27:25.420 But equity says that I should be playing with LeBron James and I should be winning just as
00:27:29.700 many games and I should make just as much money as him.
00:27:32.940 Well, that's stupid.
00:27:34.700 Okay, no one actually believes that everybody starts at the same place.
00:27:39.380 And, you know, in many cases, it's unfortunate.
00:27:42.500 It's tragic.
00:27:43.100 How many people, whether they're white or brown or any other race, how many people are
00:27:49.880 born into poverty and, yes, do not have the same economic advantages as those who maybe
00:27:57.220 were born into wealth?
00:27:59.420 Is it the government's job to make up for that?
00:28:01.600 No, it's our job as citizens to help out where we can.
00:28:05.400 And this is why charitable contributions, charitable organizations, learning to be good
00:28:10.760 Christians or even believers in God in general so that we can be charitable with our time,
00:28:16.460 talents, gifts, and abilities so that we can lift these people up.
00:28:19.740 It's not the government's responsibility to do that.
00:28:22.780 The government's responsibility is to making sure everybody is treated equal.
00:28:26.580 And then what we do with that is based on our own merits.
00:28:30.600 This is that meritocracy I was talking about earlier.
00:28:34.460 This is the only way to create prosperity and abundance.
00:28:37.900 And it's easy to believe that if the government comes in and saves people who need saving,
00:28:42.720 that everybody's going to be better off.
00:28:44.540 You can't solve problems for people if they don't learn the skills to be able to solve
00:28:49.300 those problems for themselves.
00:28:50.720 We hear this a lot when it comes to homelessness.
00:28:53.160 Well, just get everybody a house.
00:28:54.740 Well, I think that would work for a time.
00:28:57.100 But guess what?
00:28:58.280 Everybody's going to default back into their current behaviors, their current belief systems,
00:29:03.720 the way they currently show up.
00:29:05.640 And we're going to be in the same problems we were a few short years later.
00:29:10.780 It's not an issue of resources.
00:29:13.780 It's an issue of application of the resources people have.
00:29:18.920 So yeah, I'm not a communist and men aren't communists because we believe in individual
00:29:24.780 responsibility.
00:29:25.440 We believe in rugged individualism.
00:29:29.040 We believe that people should be rewarded for their own efforts.
00:29:32.080 That's the meritocracy.
00:29:33.660 And we believe that we are not victims or should not act like victims or play victims to something
00:29:40.100 that we have control over.
00:29:41.460 Guys, these are eight masculine political positions. 1.00
00:29:43.960 And I know as I share this, a lot of these are probably not going to be popular.
00:29:47.180 Pretty popular with most of our audience here because we all kind of sing to the same tune.
00:29:51.080 But there are going to be a few of these that rub people the wrong way.
00:29:53.800 And if you want to have a discussion, I'm happy to have a discussion about it.
00:29:57.420 But ultimately, we need to start voting for the people who believe in these eight masculine
00:30:01.640 political positions.
00:30:03.600 Because if we don't, we're going to find ourselves in a very, very bad way.
00:30:07.300 We cannot afford as a country another four years of the same or worse.
00:30:10.880 We need to elect politicians who believe in these, who espouse these ideals.
00:30:15.620 And that's not to say the people that we elect are always perfect.
00:30:18.160 We know they're not.
00:30:19.380 But this is what I need from my elected officials.
00:30:22.860 So let's go through them really quickly.
00:30:24.680 And then we'll call it a day.
00:30:26.100 Again, we're looking at each one of these through the lens of protecting, providing,
00:30:30.000 and presiding.
00:30:30.880 Number one, peace through strength internationally.
00:30:33.960 Number two, national sovereignty by closing the border.
00:30:36.920 Number three, realizing that taxation is theft.
00:30:41.280 Number four, belief in the Second Amendment to protect ourselves from people and the government.
00:30:47.480 Number five, the family unit as a fundamental foundation of society.
00:30:51.960 Number six, capitalism, free markets, and the meritocracy.
00:30:55.860 Number seven, the rule of law.
00:30:57.880 And number eight, equality, not equity.
00:31:00.480 If you want to have a follow-up discussion, hit me up on Instagram.
00:31:03.420 Let me know what you think.
00:31:04.540 Share your comments.
00:31:05.380 Shoot me a DM.
00:31:05.960 I'm very, very active over there at Ryan Mickler.
00:31:08.840 My last name is spelled M-I-C-H-L-E-R.
00:31:11.880 And let's really consider these as we get closer to November.
00:31:15.680 This is a big, big election cycle, not just at the federal level, but also within your
00:31:21.140 states and municipalities do we need to start considering who we're bringing in as
00:31:25.340 representatives of us.
00:31:28.040 All right, guys.
00:31:28.480 I hope that serves you.
00:31:29.440 I'm sure I riled a bunch of people up today, so I'd love to hear more about it.
00:31:32.700 And we'll keep having the conversations we need to have.
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