Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1411 ｜ “Jesus Was a Socialist：” Why This is COMPLETELY Wrong

00:00:00.080 Socialism and progressivism in general has this misunderstanding of human nature.

00:00:05.760 Actually, they don't really believe in human nature.

00:00:08.120 They believe in nurture.

00:00:09.520 They believe that we are basically a blank slate, not hardwired toward anything,

00:00:14.380 that we can be nurtured and educated and pressured toward a particular worldview

00:00:20.420 or particular state of being, and eventually we'll get used to it and it'll be fine.

00:00:24.400 That is why I say that socialism is really a theology,

00:00:27.380 and it is a competing theology with the Christian worldview. It denies the creator

00:00:32.580 who knows us better than anyone, and it gets the human nature that he created wrong.

00:00:49.880 Hey y'all, welcome to Relatable. Hope everyone is having a wonderful day, a wonderful week so far.

00:00:54.620 So right now I am officially on a maternity break, but we pre-recorded lots of episodes

00:01:01.320 for you guys.

00:01:02.220 And this particular episode, we very recently recorded.

00:01:05.700 So this is still going to be very newsy, very timely, especially in light of the midterms.

00:01:11.340 We wanted to make sure that I recorded this right before I left for maternity leave so

00:01:17.000 that we could give you the most pertinent information possible about what is coming

00:01:22.160 down the pipeline when it comes to Democrats and who they're running for office, the ideology of

00:01:28.600 socialism and why it is still so popular rearing its ugly head yet again. And then of course,

00:01:36.640 give you the theology of socialism and what the Bible actually has to say about the entire

00:01:42.960 worldview of the socialist mindset. So let's go ahead and get into it. So the most famous

00:01:49.540 democratic socialist right now is arguably the mayor of New York city, Zoran Mamdani. Maybe

00:01:56.620 you've heard his name. He was, uh, in office. He got in office in January of 2026. He is a

00:02:03.300 millennial Muslim immigrant from Uganda. Now you might say this guy doesn't really look like he's

00:02:09.140 from Uganda. Well, he is in the upper caste. You might say of Uganda, his parents, very, 1.00

00:02:14.600 very wealthy professors. They immigrated here. And so that is one of the reasons why he was able

00:02:20.900 to work him his way up himself up so quickly. So he won his election last year has been trying to

00:02:28.980 run the city of New York, uh, for a few months now. And after his win, there were at least

00:02:35.100 eight congressional primary wins for candidates backed by the democratic socialists of America.

00:02:42.500 This is a national grassroots organization of socialists.

00:02:47.560 It was only 10 years ago, only 10 years ago, already 10 years ago.

00:02:52.020 It just depends on how you see the time warp that has been the last decade when Bernie

00:02:56.360 Sanders was running for office and the DSA hovered around 5,000 members.

00:03:01.680 You'll remember the rise of the squad, AOC, Rashida Tlaib.

00:03:06.060 Let me tell you, I still get asked.

00:03:07.780 I was just asked by a journalist the other day about my satirical interview with AOC in 2018.

00:03:15.080 That was just as an aside, like one of the craziest media moments. My first crazy media

00:03:19.900 moment, I did like a silly satirical sit down with AOC. It wasn't really her. I took an interview

00:03:26.600 that she did with PBS and I sat on the other side and I did like fake questions and cut up her

00:03:32.200 answers. That is not a format that I came up with, by the way. I thought that it was going to be

00:03:36.300 obvious to everyone. And it was to 95% of people that I was doing what Stephen Colbert had done,

00:03:40.840 what Jay Leno had done, just this kind of comical thing to show this person doesn't

00:03:45.600 know what they're talking about. It was written about by the mainstream media. It is still on my

00:03:49.900 Wikipedia page that I did this video and that it went viral, but that was at the peak of AOC's

00:03:56.380 popularity. And everyone was talking about, oh my goodness, these young socialists, they don't know

00:04:01.160 what they're talking about. And yet they're super popular among young people. This is really

00:04:04.720 troubling. You've got Rashida Tlaib. You've got Ilhan Omar. The DSA has now grown to more than

00:04:11.200 120,000 members. Yikes. Okay. It did seem like after Bernie Sanders lost that we kind of stopped

00:04:18.180 talking about socialism. Those of us who were in conservative media around 2017, 2018, that was,

00:04:25.420 uh, that was a drum that we were beating consistently to talk to people in our generation

00:04:30.680 about the effects of socialist policy, that they're not good. We can look throughout history.

00:04:36.400 We can look at the facts. No form of truth lines up with socialism being good, as we'll talk about

00:04:42.100 more today. But then we kind of stopped talking about it because after Trump won in 2016,

00:04:47.260 and then after Joe Biden, who is not a socialist, won in 2020, and it seemed like Democrats kind of

00:04:54.180 backed off there. And then, of course, Trump won again in 2024. It was like, OK, we've defeated

00:04:57.960 that. People realize that was too far. Democrats are going to back off the whole socialist thing,

00:05:03.220 or at least they won't say overtly that they're socialists. But then here comes Zoran Mamdani.

00:05:08.420 Here come all of these other congressional candidates that have their election days coming

00:05:13.120 up very soon. And it seems like socialism has not died. The popularity of socialism among a

00:05:19.500 certain demographic in America has not waned. If the socialists win these midterm elections coming

00:05:27.540 up. Like, what is that? What does that mean? What does that mean for the future of our country?

00:05:32.460 The truth is I'm not going to hide the ball here. You guys know how I feel about this.

00:05:36.560 The ideas that socialists espouse, they seem attractive. They seem easy. It doesn't, it's not

00:05:42.220 hard to hear something like we should just give people more money. We should just give people

00:05:48.180 food and think that that sounds compassionate. Does it require any critical thinking? It doesn't

00:05:53.300 require any understanding of facts or study to hear something emotional like that and say,

00:05:57.840 yes, that sounds moral, but they're not good. They actually end up hurting the very people

00:06:03.060 that they promised to protect, that they promised to help. Socialism leads to the exact opposite

00:06:08.700 results that socialists promise. It leads to poverty. It leads to scarcity. It leads to

00:06:14.700 restriction of individual freedoms. It has led throughout history to death. That's not an

00:06:20.780 exaggeration. I'm talking mass, mass, mass death as we'll get into today. So today we will make

00:06:26.620 the case that democratic socialism is really just socialism and it's really dangerous. It is

00:06:33.340 something that we want to avoid at all costs. It is not Christian. It is not loving. It is not 1.00

00:06:37.880 compassionate. It is not neutral. It's not innocuous. There is nothing good about what

00:06:44.280 these Democrats are espousing and we need to understand why. So first, as I always like to do,

00:06:51.000 let's define our terms. What is socialism? You'll probably get a variety of definitions depending

00:06:57.320 on whom you ask. I'm going to give the most charitable definition that I can while still

00:07:03.020 being accurate, trying to give a definition of socialism that a socialist would probably agree

00:07:07.740 with, but also explains to you what is actually meant by these things. It's an economic system

00:07:12.400 in which the government controls industries. The government owns and controls the major businesses,

00:07:17.380 land, factories, et cetera, rather than individuals and businesses owning them.

00:07:22.620 This contrasts with capitalism in which people and businesses control industries and decide

00:07:27.740 pricing, the materials used, how their products are distributed. Socialists believe that capitalism

00:07:33.560 in which some people are able to make more and more money, buy more and more, while others don't

00:07:39.380 make more money and aren't able to buy more and more is unjust because it has created economic

00:07:45.180 inequality. So you have people who are really rich and really poor. They see the huge gap between

00:07:51.300 someone like Elon Musk and the homeless guy on the streets of San Francisco as an inherent evil

00:07:56.580 that is largely caused by the injustices and the oppression of capitalism. So the solution,

00:08:03.380 they believe, would be for the government to run, say, SpaceX or any other major company to control

00:08:09.320 food distribution. So grocery stores, the companies that own these major grocery stores,

00:08:15.160 property distribution, money distribution, so that everyone has an equal amount of stuff.

00:08:21.480 Everyone, they would say, is cared for equally as is decided by the state. Now, a democratic

00:08:27.260 socialist would say, well, you're still electing your leaders. You are deciding who are going to

00:08:33.060 be the people that run the government, that then decide all of the distribution of these resources.

00:08:37.980 So they would say that it's okay if we vote for this kind of government control of all of these

00:08:43.320 industries and distributions, then it is still a form of freedom. But of course, as you know,

00:08:49.340 there are lots and lots of bureaucrats in the government today that we did not vote for. And

00:08:55.020 that would be the case, of course, when it comes to democratic socialism as well. So how much say

00:08:59.120 are you really having? Just because you put democratic in front of socialism doesn't mean

00:09:03.700 that it's essentially different. So they would say though, that socialism would eliminate economic

00:09:09.020 inequality, which would also solve problems of say racial inequality, because for example,

00:09:13.980 there would be no all white or all black neighborhoods. There would be no, Oh, that's 0.77

00:09:17.960 a super nice neighborhood. Oh, that's a bad neighborhood. It would all be state housing.

00:09:22.080 The government would come in and ensure by controlling housing that no neighborhood is

00:09:26.680 better off than the other. The government would also run our healthcare. Our healthcare would

00:09:31.340 be free. You remember this with Bernie Sanders. This was his big thing, free healthcare, Medicare

00:09:35.060 for all. And we wouldn't have to pay extra for it. It doesn't actually mean that it is cost-free.

00:09:40.840 Our taxes would pay for it. And then we wouldn't have additional out-of-pocket costs. They have

00:09:45.800 this in Europe. They have this in Canada. The government would dictate hospital policy. They

00:09:51.420 would dictate doctor policy. There would be one standard of care and what they would call access

00:09:56.660 for everyone. I'm not getting into all of the downsides of this yet. I'm just trying to lay

00:10:01.020 out what their proposals are. In a truly socialist society, everyone also receives the same education.

00:10:06.640 No school choice, no private school options. Typically, like if you look at the countries

00:10:12.160 with a big social safety net, I don't know if I could say they're 100% socialist, but certainly

00:10:17.300 have a big government presence in the distribution of economic resources by taking in a ton of taxes.

00:10:25.260 There's no homeschool option either. There's just not a lot of choice when it comes to how to

00:10:29.540 educate our kids in a socialist society because in order to create the cohesion and compliance

00:10:34.540 that socialism requires, every young person needs to be educated with the same values in

00:10:40.040 the same way. The stated goal of socialism is focusing on needs over profit. That's what they

00:10:46.340 would say. So everyone gets a shirt, for example. It's just that. In socialism, the government

00:10:51.860 determines what kind of shirt, how much it's going to cost instead of private businesses being able

00:10:57.820 to innovate and set prices in order to make a profit, to be able to pay their employees,

00:11:03.240 to do all kinds of things. The same thing that you as an individual would do with profit.

00:11:07.620 Businesses function in generally the same way. Socialism says, no, you don't need the freedom

00:11:12.800 to do that. We're just going to take care of it. We're going to take it over. We're going to make

00:11:15.900 sure that everyone has a t-shirt. We would rather have everyone have one t-shirt than this person

00:11:21.540 over here be able to afford 10 t-shirts and this person only be able to afford one. Even if this

00:11:26.820 person only wants one t-shirt and this person has earned enough money to buy 10 t-shirts that is

00:11:32.080 still inherently unjust and unequal. And so the government is going to prevent that kind of so

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00:12:51.840 Worldwatch.news slash Allie code Allie. Now, where did this idea come from? A lot of people

00:13:02.340 think that it's inherently Christian to say that inequality or some people having more,

00:13:08.360 some people having less, um, is unjust that that is oppressive. Well, that idea doesn't come from

00:13:14.600 the Bible, and we will get more into that at the end of this episode, it actually comes from

00:13:18.740 essentially, or at least most famously, someone named Karl Marx, a German philosopher from the

00:13:24.080 19th century. He's known for his significant role in shaping the modern ideas of socialism

00:13:28.940 and communism. Now, we're not going to get too far into communism and the comparisons between

00:13:35.500 communism and socialism, but it's accurate enough to say that communism is the end goal of socialism.

00:13:41.280 and they're not exactly the same, but they almost always go together. In socialism, the government

00:13:46.280 owns and controls most things. In communism, the government owns and controls everything. So not

00:13:52.000 just major industries, not just huge businesses, but all of them. Socialists and communists

00:13:56.480 wouldn't call that government ownership. They call it collective ownership or collectivism.

00:14:02.280 And they would argue that everyone is sharing an ownership together. It's just that the government

00:14:06.800 is ensuring that we are sharing. They're ensuring that collective ownership. But of course, if the

00:14:12.360 government has to ensure something happens, then it's not voluntary. It's not sharing and it's not

00:14:16.540 our ownership. Karl Marx writes in the communist manifesto that all of recorded history could be

00:14:23.100 explained as class struggles, the oppressed versus the oppressor. This is from his book,

00:14:28.600 the communist manifesto written in 1848. Now that could ring some bells for you because we have

00:14:34.440 heard this language many times before, since I started this podcast, before I started this

00:14:38.680 podcast, but you and I have been talking about it since at least 2018. This idea that there is this

00:14:45.440 fixed group of people who are the oppressed, this fixed group of people who are the oppressors. And

00:14:50.840 we have to eliminate those distinctions by the government coming in and forcing the elimination

00:14:56.180 of those distinctions by making sure everyone has the same thing. Now, Karl Marx would say that

00:15:01.400 the oppressor versus the oppressed essentially comes down to rich and poor. But you have seen

00:15:07.440 the outworking of this kind of idea when it comes to our conversation about race,

00:15:12.120 comes to our conversation about gender, when it comes to immigrant versus citizen,

00:15:16.940 this idea of oppressor versus oppressed, this hierarchy of oppression called intersectionality,

00:15:23.100 that if you have an identity or multiple identities that are not the, um, white cisgender

00:15:32.120 hetero male, then you are somewhere on the side of the oppressed and you deserve more.

00:15:38.240 You're entitled to more. So we can see how that idea has played out in so many different ways,

00:15:43.500 but his thought at the time in the 19th century was mostly about economics. He talked about a

00:15:49.920 transition of a society and his dream world. Now remember Karl Marx, huge loser, big, big, 0.98

00:15:57.420 big loser. Okay. His dad was super disappointed in him. He was a smart guy. He could have done 1.00

00:16:02.920 a lot of different things. He had the means to be able to be successful and work hard himself,

00:16:07.540 but he was lazy. It was a lazy bones. And his dad actually wrote letters to him about this. Like, 0.97

00:16:13.480 dude, we didn't raise you this way. Like stop being so envious and covetous and stop making

00:16:18.440 money off of covetousness, like actually do something with your life. But Karl Marx was like

00:16:23.500 the OG lazy loser. And he sold this idea to so many people in the name of compassion, but really 0.97

00:16:29.880 it was just a lot of jealousy and laziness in his own heart and life. So he talked in his book about

00:16:34.620 a transition of a society from capitalism to communism. Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin

00:16:40.300 would later identify this transition as socialism. Lenin said in March of 1918,

00:16:46.800 and commencing socialist transformations, we must clearly have in mind the aim towards which

00:16:51.440 these transformations are in the long run directed, namely the aim of creating a communist

00:16:55.860 society to the realization of the principle from each according to his ability to each according

00:17:02.100 to his needs. Sounds really nice. Marx argued that the worker-controlled state would eventually

00:17:08.260 fade away, revealing a stateless, classless communist society where government is no longer

00:17:13.740 needed as the people work cooperatively for the good of everyone else. Wow, that sounds wonderful.

00:17:19.200 So this is why they would say it's not government. It's not state run. All of these conservatives and

00:17:24.260 capitalists over there, they don't want to be disempowered because they don't want everyone

00:17:27.860 to be equal. Everyone would be equal and everyone would come to see the beauty and the virtue of

00:17:33.260 communism. We wouldn't even need the government. We wouldn't even need Bernie Sanders to tell us

00:17:37.140 to share our stuff because we are all working cooperatively for the good of another. The problem

00:17:42.580 this for as long as these ideas of socialism and communism have been around, as long as they have

00:17:48.300 been implemented and they have been implemented, this dream has never been realized. That's because

00:17:55.420 collectivism, socialism, communism, fascism even, concentrates power and resources in the hands of

00:18:01.940 the state, which always leads to tyranny, not freedom. That's because all of these collectivist

00:18:07.020 ideas have this human nature problem that humans actually are innately wired to provide for

00:18:14.480 ourselves, to want to protect our property. And we'll get into this more later, but you can see

00:18:20.280 this reflected in two of the 10 commandments. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not covet.

00:18:25.420 That's how much God cared about private property and ownership and the right of property that you

00:18:31.660 not only were not allowed to take something that was not yours. So the underlying assumption is

00:18:36.240 there that something is yours and that it shouldn't be taken from you. But also you shouldn't

00:18:41.140 even want what someone else has. You shouldn't want someone's wife. You shouldn't want someone's 1.00

00:18:44.220 donkey. You shouldn't want someone's property, jealousy, and covetousness. This idea of that

00:18:49.860 person has more than me and I deserve that. I want that is sinful, of course, in the Christian 1.00

00:18:56.780 worldview, but it is also degrading to the soul. And anything that is degrading to the soul is 0.99

00:19:03.640 been decaying to a society. And so socialism and progressivism in general has this misunderstanding

00:19:10.640 of human nature. Actually, they don't really believe in human nature. They believe in nurture.

00:19:16.300 They believe that we are basically a blank slate, not hardwired toward anything, that we can be

00:19:22.740 nurtured and educated and pressured toward a particular worldview or particular state of

00:19:28.960 being, and eventually we'll get used to it and it'll be fine. It's the same thing that they do

00:19:32.720 with gender, that we're not biologically hardwired to be male or female. Women aren't hardwired to 1.00

00:19:38.720 want certain things. Men aren't either. Everything is fluid. Everything is decided by self-declaration 0.99

00:19:44.240 and self-identity. That's because they deny Genesis. It all goes back to the very beginning.

00:19:51.020 That is why I say that socialism is really a theology and it is a competing theology with

00:19:56.600 the Christian worldview. And that essentially is why it never works. When you get down to

00:20:01.580 the fundamentals. That's why it doesn't work because it denies the creator who knows us

00:20:06.300 better than anyone. And it gets the human nature that he created wrong. So if you don't believe me,

00:20:12.000 let's just look at the practical ramifications of socialism over the years. The reason that

00:20:17.840 socialism never works on a practical level has to do with how it views and treats private property

00:20:25.160 and what socialists are always willing to do to take it.

00:20:28.640 They are willing to steal and kill and destroy

00:20:32.140 in the name of compassion and equality.

00:20:34.820 So here are just a few examples of what happens

00:20:37.020 when the government seizes or abolishes private property

00:20:39.400 in the name of communism and socialism.

00:20:41.380 We can look at the Soviet Union.

00:20:43.680 Joseph Stalin forced farmers into collective farms,

00:20:46.340 which helped cause the famine of the early 1930s.

00:20:50.100 Historians estimate that the deaths

00:20:51.700 from executions, camps, and famine

00:20:53.980 range up to around 20 million. So that is just because of government policy. They said you can't

00:21:00.820 own your private farms anymore. We're going to own farms. We'll call it collectivism. We'll make 0.93

00:21:05.820 sure that everything is distributed to everyone equally. So you've got bread lines, you are

00:21:10.540 rationed certain amount of food. You can't just make as much food as your community needs or

00:21:15.120 as your family needs. We are going to force you to give it to us to then redistribute to

00:21:19.900 other people. And there wasn't enough food. The government didn't do it efficiently. And so people

00:21:26.440 died. And when people refused, when people defected, when people didn't want to go along

00:21:30.900 with this, when they resisted their farm being taken from them, they were executed. And socialists 0.53

00:21:36.540 are always very, very, very sensitive when it comes to pushing back against their ideology,

00:21:41.640 because if you are going to have a completely collectivist society, everyone has to comply.

00:21:46.480 and in order for everyone to comply you have to agree so any thought crime any word crime any

00:21:53.460 attempt to try to convince something of something convince someone of something else has to face

00:22:01.060 imprisonment you have to face execution which is of course exactly what happened in the soviet

00:22:05.460 union as well as these work camps that tried to um you know work it out of the defectors and those

00:22:14.400 who disagreed with socialism. So this led to tens of millions of people dying.

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00:23:49.220 ever existed. So let me tell you what happened in China not very long ago, not even 100 years ago. 0.75

00:23:54.840 There are people alive today here in America that suffered under this leader Mao Zedong. 0.66

00:23:59.960 He set out to build a classless communist society. Land reform came first. Private land

00:24:05.040 was seized from landlords and redistributed to peasants. Landlords were publicly humiliated,

00:24:10.180 tortured, many were executed. We see this echoed in the language that we hear today by many

00:24:15.460 socialists in America, that landlords are these evil guys, you know, setting out to make people

00:24:21.200 impoverished and homeless. And this of course comes from this communist mentality. Then came

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00:24:34.860 society into an industrial society. So the government took all the farms, people were

00:24:40.980 executed when they resisted, or if they were just a landlord already, because of the confiscation

00:24:47.880 of farms, you were dealing with a famine. You were dealing with starvation, mass starvation,

00:24:53.060 which led to millions of deaths. But then private farming was ended altogether. Millions of peasants

00:24:58.840 were forced to leave agriculture to go into mining construction and steel production. The

00:25:03.480 government took too much food for the cities, even as agricultural production declined. These

00:25:09.180 policies contributed directly to what is referred to as the Great Chinese Famine, which caused 40

00:25:14.980 million deaths, making it the deadliest famine on record. Total deaths from all of Mao's communist

00:25:21.760 policies range from 70 to 80 million. China also had these struggle sessions where if you were,

00:25:29.440 especially if you were a professor, if you were in the intelligentsia, or if you were just a person

00:25:34.120 and someone's neighbor who was found out to be questioning the socialist communist regime,

00:25:39.320 you would be taken out, you'd be flogged, you'd be shamed out in the public square.

00:25:43.880 People would walk by and to try to prove their own allegiance to the regime and their own virtue.

00:25:49.520 They would call you names. They would say horrible things about you. And those struggle sessions,

00:25:53.400 it's a communist form of sanctification. It's a very ugly satanic form of sanctification,

00:25:58.620 Whereas of course, we know that God is making us whole holier through the trials that we go through for our own good. Like this is the satanic inversion of that, that through shame and through cruelty and through torture, we are going to try to make you a good socialist, um, uh, socialist regime supporter, um, total deaths from all of Mao's communist policies range from 70 to 80 million.

00:26:24.840 when it comes to the work camps, when it comes to dying in prison, when it comes to the massive

00:26:29.720 famine. Then later in 1979, the government of China enforced the one child policy that said

00:26:36.740 you could only have one child. Things were so catastrophic there. They were still reeling from

00:26:40.920 the effects of this famine. They weren't willing, they still aren't willing to relent, um, all of

00:26:47.320 the government control. And so instead of going back to, okay, we need the individuals, we need

00:26:52.820 the private, um, private industrialization, the private ownership of these farms in order to get

00:26:58.920 back on track. They said, no, no, no. It's because there's too many people. And so we need a one

00:27:03.340 child policy that led to thousands and thousands and thousands of abortions and infanticide. That 0.99

00:27:10.540 was 1979 to 2015 y'all. That's not very long ago. That is 11 years ago that the one child policy

00:27:17.860 stopped in china and i watched a documentary a few years ago of this woman who now is in america

00:27:25.100 but talked about the one child policy and how horrible it was there would literally be piles

00:27:30.080 of dead babies in certain outside of like the city limits this is so similar to the exposure

00:27:36.880 hills in ancient rome it's just all the same thing paganism secularism getting out of god's

00:27:43.980 ordering of things, children and vulnerable people always pay the price. And so socialism

00:27:50.060 claims to be helping the least of these claims to be helping the vulnerable. It's actually the

00:27:54.380 vulnerable that these socialist policies always hurt the most. Then we have Cambodia from 1975

00:27:59.980 to 1979, Pol Pot's communist regime abolished private property, emptied the cities, shut down

00:28:05.920 markets, abolished money, trade, forced people into rural communes to grow rice. The goal was 0.72

00:28:12.600 Marx's goal, classless society with no inequality and no oppression. Its leaders wanted something

00:28:18.580 called a year zero, a total reset. Remember us talking recently about the great reset in which

00:28:24.780 they would start over and build an entirely new oppression-less society. When it comes to

00:28:31.560 Khmer Rouge and Cambodia, like there is so much history there. There's a book about the killing

00:28:38.580 fields and how children were recruited to fight in Pol Pot's army and the death and destruction

00:28:46.760 and the starvation and the torture and the imprisonment to try to get back to year zero.

00:28:51.800 I mean, it is some of the most brutal stuff to read. And it was all started in the name of

00:28:57.620 compassion and trying to help the poor. It's estimated that Cambodia lost 1.5 to 2 million

00:29:05.100 people up to a quarter of the population again they died from starvation from disease from

00:29:11.860 overwork because the communal farms failed the communal farms failed um and these mass graves

00:29:18.560 as i said were known as killing fields a saying attributed to the regime went keeping you as no

00:29:23.960 gain losing you as no laws because when the collective is the goal the individual no longer

00:29:30.100 matters. This is not a belief that individuals matter because they are made in God's image.

00:29:35.040 And so we need to make sure that they are dignified. It is the belief in the collective.

00:29:39.360 So if you have to lose one or 2 million people in order to get to this oppressionless society,

00:29:46.400 then no big deal. That is again, why progressives and conservatives have a very different view

00:29:51.300 of the value of human life from conception onward. We could go on and on. There have been so many

00:29:56.980 countries that have tried the same thing even more recently. If we look at a place like Zimbabwe,

00:30:02.500 Zimbabwe and Africa used to be called the breadbasket of Africa. It was thriving. There was

00:30:07.220 a lot of trade that went on there. There were farms that were very successful. And then you

00:30:11.780 had Robert Mugabe. He took over 1970s, 80s was when he was coming to power. And he said, no,

00:30:19.000 we've got these white oppressors because the most successful farms for the most part were owned by 0.77

00:30:23.560 these white Zimbabweans who had been there for generations, but he said, no, these are colonizers. 0.82

00:30:28.080 These are oppressors. We're going to confiscate these farms. We're going to give them to the more

00:30:32.980 indigenous Zimbabweans, the black Zimbabweans. We are going to take their farms over. This of 1.00

00:30:38.240 course led to deaths, to executions, to, um, arson of these farms because, okay, if you won't

00:30:45.160 let us have them, then you can't have them either. The white farmers fled, the government took over 0.68

00:30:51.160 and then redistributed these farms and all the farms failed because none of these people who

00:30:57.060 were given these farms knew how to farm. They didn't know anything about trade. They didn't

00:31:02.820 care about serving the community and selling and making a profit both for themselves and for their

00:31:10.040 communities. And so it's spiraled. The country spiraled into poverty, which of course led to

00:31:16.180 millions of deaths, it still has not recovered. It's still a very corrupt nation. The healthcare

00:31:21.620 system, there's almost nothing to speak of. And it is all because Robert Mugabe came in and he

00:31:27.440 said, I'm going to end oppression and I'm going to end inequality. And to do that, there's going

00:31:33.540 to be some pain, but we'll figure it out. And they still have not recovered after 40 plus years.

00:31:40.380 Okay, so that's just a taste of what has happened throughout history when socialism is implemented.

00:31:47.640 It doesn't work. It's never worked.

00:31:49.640 You don't have a single positive example of socialism taking over and people becoming better off.

00:31:55.680 Everything always gets worse.

00:31:57.380 So what would actually happen in the United States?

00:31:59.280 Is there a distinction between what we've seen in history and what the democratic socialists of America are proposing today?

00:32:05.100 According to the DSA website, we must replace capitalism with democratic socialism.

00:32:09.400 Our vision pushes further than historic social democracy and leaves behind authoritarian visions of socialism in the dustbin of history.

00:32:16.240 The measures they're proposing, from the taking of private property to the elimination of important checks and balances in the Senate,

00:32:24.580 the three equal branches of government, and the Electoral College, do not discourage authoritarianism.

00:32:29.500 They actually create the conditions that make it possible, probable, I would say, inevitable.

00:32:34.640 a man named christian nimitz a political economist and editorial director at the

00:32:39.860 institute of economic affairs he wrote in his 2019 book socialism the failed idea that never dies

00:32:45.980 when contemporary socialists talk about extending democracy to the economy and democratizing every

00:32:51.660 aspect of society they're being they're not being dishonest that is the aspiration but the point he

00:32:56.780 says they miss is that this has always been the aspiration and the promise of socialism when

00:33:01.940 If contemporary socialists talk about a non-autocratic, non-authoritarian, participatory, and

00:33:06.820 humanitarian version of socialism, they are not as original as they think they are.

00:33:10.960 That was always the idea.

00:33:12.420 This is what socialists have always said.

00:33:14.300 It is not for a lack of trying that has never turned out this way.

00:33:17.380 And so you'll hear socialists to say, oh no, like we don't want what Joseph Stalin did.

00:33:21.560 Well, this guy, Namitz, writes that that's actually what Joseph Stalin set out to do too.

00:33:26.460 Like he also wanted a peaceful socialist society.

00:33:28.620 He also envisioned a world. Karl Marx envisioned a world. Mao Zedong envisioned a world when

00:33:34.420 everyone would voluntarily give up their private property and everyone would work together. That's

00:33:39.280 what Pol Pot said that he wanted too. And I don't disbelieve that they said that they wanted that. 0.98

00:33:44.000 But again, when you come up against human nature, when you realize that people actually like their

00:33:47.740 property, they like having the freedom to take care of their own family, to be as industrious as

00:33:52.660 they want to be, that something in us is hardwired for that kind of thing. They meet resistance and

00:33:59.600 then they say, okay, it's for the greater good. It's for the greater good. You face the wall.

00:34:03.180 You face the wall. You are now recruited into our regime. Like that's just, that's, that's what

00:34:09.540 happens. And that is why it always becomes forceful. You cannot have socialism and peace

00:34:14.800 at the same time. You just can't because it bucks against human nature.

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00:36:03.280 oppressive, it doesn't just go against human nature, which we'll get into more, but it also

00:36:08.640 goes against what our founding fathers knew. For example, John Adams wrote in 1787, property is

00:36:13.240 surely a right of mankind as really as liberty. The moment the idea is admitted into society that

00:36:18.280 property is not as sacred as the laws of God and that there is not a force of law and public

00:36:23.580 justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. And so he knew long before Karl Marx

00:36:30.300 had written the communist manifesto, he knew that one hallmark of tyranny is devaluing the right to

00:36:37.740 private property and that private property and liberty go hand in hand. You really can't have

00:36:43.080 one without the other. This is why guys, people say that America is a Christian nation. People 0.97

00:36:48.760 try to say, Oh no, it's not. It's completely secular. No secularism looks like Karl Marx.

00:36:54.140 Secularism looks like Mao Zedong. Secularism says that the government is God, that we can actually

00:36:59.140 reach heaven here on earth, that the future, our future hope doesn't have to be in Christ in a new

00:37:05.120 heaven and a new earth where there truly will be only justice and no oppression. We can create that

00:37:09.760 here on earth, but the government has to do it. And we have to force collectivism to eliminate

00:37:16.980 all oppression. That is the secular progressive worldview that has run many other countries that

00:37:23.760 stands in direct contrast to what someone like John Adams is saying. And he's not just drawing

00:37:28.620 that from his personal opinion. He is drawing that from the precepts of the Bible, which again,

00:37:33.760 two of the big 10 go right against socialism thou shall not covet thou shall not steal

00:37:39.220 thomas jefferson said in his first inaugural address in 1801 a wise and frugal government

00:37:44.560 which shall restrain men from injuring one another which shall leave them otherwise free

00:37:49.160 to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take for the mouth of

00:37:53.260 labor the bread it has earned this is the sum of good government okay so he's not an anarchist here

00:37:59.980 he says that there is a role for the government which shall restrain men from injuring one another

00:38:05.000 but shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement

00:38:09.500 and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned like if i want to define

00:38:16.020 socialism that's what i would say it takes from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned and

00:38:20.780 gives it to someone that has not labored for it and has not earned it the founders argued that a

00:38:26.340 major part of the government's job is to protect private property, not to transfer it into the

00:38:30.820 hands of the government. Okay. So how does this look today? These democratic socialists, you don't

00:38:36.980 hear them overtly calling for violence. You don't hear Zoran Mamdani saying that we are going to

00:38:42.400 seize all of the means of production. And if you resist, we're going to execute you. Of course, 0.98

00:38:48.180 they're better strategists than that. As I said, Lenin was a better strategist than that. Marx

00:38:52.520 was a better strategist than that the communist manifesto does not prescribe executing people it

00:38:58.140 is just the natural consequence of the pushing of these kinds of these kinds of policies so let's

00:39:06.480 take a look at what this sounds like and what this looks like today here is Zoran Mamdani talking

00:39:12.540 about billionaires top four I don't think that we should have billionaires because frankly it is

00:39:17.920 so much money in a moment of such inequality. And ultimately, what we need more of is equality

00:39:24.280 across our city and across our state and across our country. And I look forward to work with

00:39:28.920 everyone, including billionaires, to make a city that is fairer for all of them.

00:39:33.320 Okay, so that's what it sounds like today. And it sounds good. You're like, that doesn't sound

00:39:37.600 like Karl Marx. He's got a point. Why should someone have a billion dollars and someone not

00:39:41.260 have a billion dollars? Well, why should someone have $100,000 and someone have $3,000? So you see

00:39:47.340 how it will never stop at billionaires because of the underlying principle there is that some

00:39:51.940 people shouldn't have a lot while other people don't have a lot. Then you person who has worked

00:39:56.300 really hard to make a hundred thousand dollars a year. It is also inherently unjust for you to

00:40:01.560 have that while the homeless person has nothing. Okay. We start with billionaires because we know

00:40:06.740 that that is what is going to solicit the most sympathy and understanding and agreement because

00:40:11.260 the vast, vast, vast majority of us are not billionaires will never be billionaires. But if

00:40:16.120 the underlying principle applies that inequality is always evil, then it doesn't stop at Elon Musk.

00:40:21.640 It doesn't stop at Mark Zuckerberg. It goes to millionaires, which extends to someone who has,

00:40:28.820 you know, $900 million and someone who just made $1 million at maybe 45 years old. And then if the

00:40:36.440 principle is still going to apply, then why shouldn't it apply to someone who makes $500,000?

00:40:40.500 Why shouldn't it apply to someone who makes $50,000 while someone else can barely make

00:40:46.580 ends meet making $25,000 at McDonald's? So this is how it starts. It always ends up trickling

00:40:54.480 down because if inequality is always wrong, then making $50,000 while someone else makes $25,000

00:40:59.940 is also unjust. So he's convincing people here that rich people don't deserve the wealth they

00:41:06.640 create automatically. Just their existence is what is unjust. And so this is how people start

00:41:13.160 to come around because you see this and you're like, yeah, that really is oppression. But I'm

00:41:17.520 telling you, Elon Musk, let me just tell you right now, Elon Musk is not why someone is poor.

00:41:22.620 Elon Musk having a lot of money has nothing to do with how much money I have. I'm never going to

00:41:26.880 have as much money as Elon Musk. And that's not because Elon Musk is oppressing me. That's not

00:41:30.700 because the system is oppressing me. That's because I don't know. I don't have the same

00:41:34.420 brain, the same innovation, the same resources, the same upbringing, the same environment,

00:41:39.260 the same IQ as Elon Musk. And that is simply true. Um, that's true of everyone. We are all

00:41:44.920 different. That's another thing that socialists consistently get wrong. And I really encourage

00:41:49.700 you to read Thomas soul. Um, quest for cosmic justice is a great one to start with, uh,

00:41:55.180 discrimination and disparities. Those are like my main two that I would recommend to you by Thomas

00:41:59.920 soul. And he talks about this. There are two, there are siblings from the same family. If you

00:42:04.740 got two siblings from the same family, they can end up in totally different places in life.

00:42:08.280 One can be extremely successful. One can be extremely unsuccessful. They were raised in

00:42:13.600 the same environment with the same resources, given the same opportunities. And yet one did

00:42:18.300 one thing, one went another direction. That doesn't mean that one of them was oppressed

00:42:23.060 and didn't get the same as the other person. That's inherently unjust. People make choices.

00:42:27.000 They make decisions and yes, some people are born richer than other people. That is life

00:42:31.880 That's just life that has always been that will always will be and that fact

00:42:36.780 The differentiation between someone who was born in one station and someone who was born another station is not inherently unjust

00:42:42.920 Okay, you're gonna have to tell me why that's unjust

00:42:45.480 Why is it inherently unjust for some people to be born in a certain situation and others not to

00:42:51.180 Inequality is not inherently unjust

00:42:54.980 democratic socialists like mandami mandani insist that their brand of socialism is different but

00:43:01.980 again it's the same defunding of the department of defense public ownership of corporations and

00:43:07.080 essential industries he's also tried to um take over grocery stores in new york city they want

00:43:14.180 to abolish the senate they want to abolish the electoral college all the things that bring the

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00:43:51.640 Medicare for all increased gun control measures, access to transgender surgeries, hormones for

00:43:57.380 minors and expanded abortion access. And of course they consider themselves democratic socialists.

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00:45:45.720 We've got another rising star, Abdul El Saeed. Yes, that is an American politician in the

00:45:53.440 battleground state of Michigan. He is running as a Democrat against Republican Mike Rogers.

00:45:58.820 You got Mike Rogers and Abdul El Saeed. Okay. Running for the Senate seat there like AOC and

00:46:05.840 Mamdani before they got into their elected positions. He's never held public office. He

00:46:10.380 did run unsuccessfully for governor in 2018, but he's back and he seems to actually have

00:46:15.340 the potential of winning. He's never officially joined the DSA, but he appears with AOC,

00:46:21.900 Bernie Sanders, other DSA affiliated figures. Um, he spoke at six events held by DSA chapters

00:46:29.120 between 2017 and 2020. Uh, the media has been somewhat critical of his DSA ties. Um, he had

00:46:36.840 very radical left-wing stances online before, before his race. He has ties to the Soros family

00:46:43.940 that go back several years before the Senate campaign.

00:46:46.940 He received the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship

00:46:49.840 for New Americans in 2012.

00:46:51.620 If you don't know George Soros,

00:46:53.280 very, very old billionaire.

00:46:54.540 It's okay for George Soros to be a billionaire, by the way.

00:46:56.880 It's okay for him to be a billionaire.

00:46:58.180 He's one of the good ones

00:46:59.300 because he funds all of these progressive causes,

00:47:02.620 open borders organizations.

00:47:04.180 He has fought very hard with his money

00:47:06.440 for the destruction of the United States, 0.99

00:47:08.280 for the destruction of the influence of Christianity

00:47:10.120 and conservatism.

00:47:11.720 And so he is always funding these far left politicians. Of course, El Saeed seems to be

00:47:16.540 in bed with the Soros family. Democracy PAC funded by the Soros family has given $9 million to Senate

00:47:22.860 majority PAC, which has pledged $30 million to help elect El Saeed. It's very interesting how

00:47:29.660 these people like AOC, like Mamdani, like El Saeed, even like the woman that I debated

00:47:35.860 recently for the free press, like they all have a particular look, they all have a particular story,

00:47:42.400 and they all seem to have a ton of money that is funding them. Obviously, Democrats are very good

00:47:49.440 at recruiting these particular candidates with a certain aura that they are confident have the

00:47:55.040 potential to win, and they all have radical left socialist policy positions. El Saeed has been very

00:48:02.320 careful not to publicly associate with DSA while he has been running. So something in him understands

00:48:08.780 that socialism, just blatant socialism, saying that I'm a democratic socialist the way that

00:48:13.760 Bernie Sanders did is still not popular enough. They think they can sell the ideas without selling

00:48:18.380 the packaging of socialism. They might be right about that. The truth is the DSA doesn't care.

00:48:23.380 Whatever, whatever works. As of July, 2026, DSA officials said that they were mobilizing

00:48:29.400 organizers, volunteers, and resources to support El Saeed's campaign. So he might not openly say

00:48:34.540 I'm a socialist. The socialists are saying we openly support El Saeed. And that tells you

00:48:39.420 what you need to know. Of course, he's a radical in every other progressive sense as well. But the

00:48:45.120 fact that he is so closely associated with the Soros family, so closely associated with the DSA

00:48:51.000 tells you a lot about how radical he is. So if you are in the state of Michigan,

00:48:55.860 you need to ensure that you are getting out to vote. And then we have another candidate who is

00:49:01.320 up for reelection. That is AOC. She is also kind of doing the same thing here. And she is on the

00:49:08.300 one hand, a couple of years ago, talking about the means of production using socialist terminology.

00:49:14.020 And now she is still espousing a lot of the same ideas, but while she's running for office,

00:49:18.560 she won't call herself a socialist. Here's top three. Do you think people should die because

00:49:23.460 they can't afford insulin. Do you think that fossil fuel CEO should decide whether the planet

00:49:28.080 gets set on fire? Unionize your workplace. Start a worker cooperative. If it's too extreme for

00:49:37.840 working people to own the means of production, why is it okay for private billionaires to own

00:49:44.220 the means of production? Okay, so this is kind of the same thing that Karl Marx did. Say things

00:49:49.420 like, oh, you need the people, the working people to own the means of production without actually

00:49:53.040 talking about how state confiscation, state compulsion, how do things get into the hands of

00:49:59.400 working people? And how has that actually looked throughout history? It's looked like a lot of

00:50:03.560 violence. Now you can say, well, I still don't like the oligarchy that we have of these, you

00:50:08.220 know, these companies, BlackRock, these huge billionaires owning so much of what we have.

00:50:14.360 Okay. Well, the government doesn't solve that problem by taking over the means of production.

00:50:19.600 And then you have AOC now. She says she's talking just like a socialist in that last clip. I don't know why she's whispering, but she is. And then now she's saying, oh, I actually disagree with the Democratic socialists on some things, too.

00:50:33.700 But do you see, I mean, are those positions you support?

00:50:35.600 you support? No, but I think that this is a free country. Everyone can have all sorts of beliefs

00:50:42.780 and they can organize around them and you're free to do what you like and, you know, have

00:50:47.940 conversations with your neighbors. But my job as an elected official is to guarantee health care in

00:50:54.260 America. Okay. So the positions that he was asking about, public ownership of corporations and

00:50:59.940 industries, abolishing the police in prisons, granting amnesty for all immigrants, abolishing

00:51:04.500 the Senate. I don't think that there's anything on that list that she doesn't actually agree with

00:51:09.320 or that she has any kind of contention with. She has talked about abolishing the police in prisons.

00:51:14.020 She talked about amnesty for all illegal aliens. She's, I don't know if she's ever talked about

00:51:18.300 abolishing the Senate, but she is just going to say no there because she wants to win. She's a 0.92

00:51:22.800 politician, just like anyone else. Some of these socialist politicians sound like they're more

00:51:27.180 genuine than others. Um, but they're not. The truth is, is that the Democrats are playing it

00:51:32.500 well. Socialism scares a lot of people off, just the word itself, but the ideas are kind of

00:51:37.700 popular. 43% of Americans now hold a positive view of socialist ideas. According to a 2026

00:51:44.120 Gallup poll, that's the highest level recorded since Gallup started tracking the question since

00:51:48.000 2010. So this idea that I think a lot of us had that socialism has died in popularity is just not

00:51:53.360 true. As you'd probably expect, it's highest for Democrats and for Gen Z. 65% of Democrats rated

00:52:01.300 socialism positively compared to only 14% of Republicans, 57% of those aged 18 to 34 viewed

00:52:08.680 socialism positively. Now, this to me is just not surprising when you have a generation that has

00:52:13.700 been raised on the idea that doing what you want to do and doing what makes you happy and leisure

00:52:19.900 and relaxing are the most important things in life, that they would not see dignity, that they

00:52:24.940 would not see inherent goodness and necessity and simply working hard and earning something for

00:52:30.140 yourself. I'm not saying all Gen Z are lazy. I know that from firsthand experience that that is

00:52:35.000 not true. I have Gen Z women who work for me who are amazing hard workers, very thoughtful people.

00:52:40.220 I'm very thankful for that. But in general, there's a technology addiction problem. There 0.99

00:52:45.180 is an outsourcing of critical thinking and hard work to AI problem amongst a lot of young people.

00:52:51.940 So it shouldn't be that surprising that you can easily sell them the idea. Well, yeah,

00:52:56.100 you shouldn't have to work. Like you shouldn't have to work very hard. The government should

00:53:00.540 just give you what you need and then you can go to brunch and get your iced coffee at the bodega

00:53:05.180 and be happy. I think that's the dream that's sold. Of course, as we know, that's not how

00:53:11.460 socialism actually, actually ends up. So we've got some work to do. We've got some work to do

00:53:17.640 when it comes to the ballot box. Make sure you know who is on your ballot. If you are in the

00:53:21.480 state of Texas. Look, you got Tallarico versus Paxton. I understand you don't, you don't like

00:53:27.500 Paxton. A lot of you don't out there. And honestly, I don't even know what his campaign has been

00:53:33.280 doing. It hasn't been strong. It's been largely absent. He's got some moral issues in his past

00:53:37.480 that we do not have to justify. And you don't even have to overlook. You just have to look at

00:53:43.340 the simple fact that you have two centers on the ballot. One who represents policies that are

00:53:48.000 better. One who represents policies that are worse. We've talked about James Tallarico a lot.

00:53:52.240 We can link those episodes in the description. So you can go see policy for policy statement

00:53:56.780 for statement, what he actually supports. He would be a disaster. Okay. He also has his own

00:54:02.440 moral issues. It's not like he has been above reproach in his own moral personal life,

00:54:06.800 plus his wackadoodle theology, plus his terrible policy positions, especially on things that are

00:54:12.440 unquestionable for the Christian, like abortion, like gender, like parental rights. I mean,

00:54:17.820 he is absolutely radical and atrocious when it comes to those things. You do not have to like

00:54:22.120 the person that you vote for. You don't have to agree with them on everything. You don't have to

00:54:25.540 want to be their friend. They're not your pastor. They're not your Valentine. You're not voting

00:54:30.040 based on vibes. You are voting based on policy. And at the end of the day, Paxton's policies are

00:54:36.720 better than Tallarico's policies. Every election for all of history has been the decision between

00:54:42.540 two sinners. You can choose to opt out, but you can't opt out and then complain

00:54:47.900 for yourself or for your kids. Politics matter because policy matters because

00:54:52.300 people matter. Politics affects policy. Policy affects people. People matter. People matter to

00:54:59.020 God and therefore they matter to us. So I do encourage you to go out and vote. And I do

00:55:03.060 encourage, I'm just going to tell you like vote Republican down the ballot. I'm not going to be

00:55:06.400 shy about that. I'm not going to tell you that, oh, there are some Democrats that are better.

00:55:11.840 There's not. There's not. Because of what the Democratic Party represents. There might be some

00:55:16.120 individual Democrats on the ballot who might be less pro-abortion than others, less radical on

00:55:20.660 gender, not out-and-out socialists. I'm sure that is true. I'm sure there might be some personally 0.58

00:55:26.160 moderate Democrats out there. But once they get to Congress, everything changes. Once they get

00:55:31.540 to Congress, they will vote in lock step with Hakeem Jeffries. They will vote in lock step

00:55:37.800 with the Democrats in the house and the Senate. Okay. They're, they're not going to go in there

00:55:43.200 and try to shake things up and moderate. That's not what happens when they get to DC. What happens

00:55:48.740 with the Republicans, unfortunately, is that they run a very conservative campaign and then they end

00:55:53.900 up moderating once they get in office. What happens with progressives is that they run a

00:55:57.420 moderate campaign and they end up going to the left once they get in office. So just understand

00:56:03.240 that, that if you're voting, you think you're voting for a moderate Democrat, you're actually

00:56:07.120 voting for a radical progressive. If you think that you're voting in many cases for, uh, for a

00:56:14.460 hardline conservative Republican, you're probably voting for ultimately a moderate Republican,

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00:57:46.500 sevenweekscoffee.com code Allie. Let's look into why socialism is biblically wrong. There's this

00:57:59.840 tweet or there's this post on X that says, I find it astounding that Christians believe heaven is

00:58:04.700 this beautiful place with breathtaking natural landscapes where all your needs are met. There's

00:58:09.600 no war or hunger and everyone lives in harmony. Yet here on earth, they call it socialism and say

00:58:14.180 it's evil. Oh, I'm so glad you brought this up, uh, big Timmy on X, because this is actually a

00:58:22.200 perfect way to be able to explain the difference. You see socialism where people are forced into

00:58:29.020 collective ownership, where you don't actually own anything and so-called equality is foisted

00:58:36.560 upon us by the government, it is the state that is in control. In heaven, it's Jesus that's in

00:58:44.240 control. See, Jesus is perfect, and everyone who is in heaven has believed the same thing.

00:58:50.460 And we also are without sin, so we don't have jealousy, we don't have covetousness,

00:58:55.100 we don't have selfishness that hasn't been forced out of us, that has been sanctified out of us

00:59:00.240 because of Jesus Christ and his Holy Spirit. And it is because of his rule. It is because of his

00:59:07.120 leadership. It is because of his presence there in heaven that all will be made right and all

00:59:13.100 will be perfect. Okay. You're trying to accomplish that here on earth through socialism, through

00:59:19.260 force, through a government. And in so doing, you are trying to create heaven on earth where it

00:59:26.340 cannot actually exist. God knew that earth is not heaven. That is why God invented the government.

00:59:33.020 That's why he invented laws. That's why he invented judges and justice and due process.

00:59:38.800 We see this all throughout the law giving books in the old Testament. That's why he says that

00:59:44.100 the government's job in Romans 13 is to wield the sword, to punish the evildoer and to reward those

00:59:50.900 who do good. He understands human nature. He understands the fallenness of man. He understands

00:59:56.460 the need for order. He understands the need for private property. As we've already said multiple

01:00:02.300 times, that is why two of the 10 commandments, that's a lot. Two of the 10 commandments have to

01:00:09.600 do with private property. Don't steal something that's not yours. Do not want something that's

01:00:15.560 not yours. So right there, we say, don't do this thing with your hands that has to do with other

01:00:20.000 people's stuff. Don't do this thing with your heart that has to do with other people's stuff.

01:00:24.040 That's how much God cares about us being content with what we have. It was Winston Churchill who

01:00:29.680 talked about this gospel of greed and this gospel of grievance that is socialism. It really is

01:00:36.120 founded on the idea that someone has more than me and I deserve that. You know, I tell this story

01:00:42.760 because I think of this as socialism. There was one time I was spending the night at a neighbor's

01:00:48.340 house at a friend's house when I was little and I wanted two pillows because I always slept on two

01:00:54.960 pillows and she only wanted one pillow. Okay. She only wanted one pillow, but I wanted, I wanted

01:01:01.680 another pillow. I only had one pillow and I wanted to go get another pillow. And she wouldn't tell me

01:01:07.020 where the other pillows were. Cause she said, that's not fair. I only have one pillow. And I

01:01:10.200 said, well, you can have two pillows. She said, I don't want two pillows. And so then we were stuck

01:01:14.600 in this bind where I wanted two pillows, but I couldn't have it because she only had one pillow

01:01:18.200 and she didn't want to go get another pillow for herself, but I did. Okay. That's the stupidity

01:01:22.800 of socialism. It is like, you also could, not every single person is like physically, 1.00

01:01:29.540 mentally capable of doing this, but most people are capable of earning something for themselves.

01:01:34.180 Most people are capable in the United States of America of making something for themselves,

01:01:37.820 of providing for themselves. And most people are where they are through the choices of someone.

01:01:43.420 It's very often from our own choices. It could be in some cases from the choices of parents or

01:01:48.100 choices of other people, but progressives continually degrade the significance of people's

01:01:55.940 autonomy and people's choices and see all of us as some kind of a product of our circumstances

01:02:01.900 that we didn't control. And that's what they see as unfair. When most people have made choices

01:02:06.320 that have led them to where they are and have contributed to the kind of provision that they

01:02:11.000 are able to have for themselves and their families. That does not mean that everyone

01:02:14.260 who is rich has made better choices and everyone who is poor has made bad choices. I'm not saying

01:02:18.740 that being rich or being poor is inherently good or bad. It's just true that people make

01:02:24.700 their decisions and someone having more money than you is not inherently wrong. It's not inherently

01:02:30.600 wrong. Scripture encourages believers to be diligent and to work. I've heard even on Theo

01:02:36.840 Vaughn, Zoran Mamdani talk about socialism is about dignity, making sure that people have what

01:02:42.740 they need to take a big breath and to be, or, you know, take a relieving breath, sigh of relief

01:02:48.500 and, um, and be dignified. But it's really hard work that gives us dignity. We're dignified

01:02:55.700 because we're all made in the image of God, but to manifest the dignity that God has given us

01:03:00.180 to live out us being made in the Imago Dei, we work. God worked for six days. He didn't have to,

01:03:07.820 but I think that was an example for us that he worked for six days. He created the heavens and

01:03:13.240 the earth, and then he rested on the seventh day. He didn't need that rest. He didn't need the

01:03:17.560 relief from exertion, but he showed us what that should look like. And even before the fall,

01:03:23.400 before the fall, we see in Genesis 2, 15, the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden

01:03:27.220 of Eden to work it and to keep it. Work is not inherently evil. Work is good. Work is part of

01:03:32.760 being made in God's image. That is also a part of the reason why socialism just fails so drastically

01:03:37.700 is because when people don't have the dignity of being able to earn something for themselves,

01:03:43.400 to be able to eat the bread that, um, comes from their labor, then you rob them of dignity.

01:03:52.160 You rob them of autonomy. I read this book called nothing to envy, and it's about life in North

01:03:58.540 Korea. I really encourage you to read it. It was a compelling book. It was easy to read and it was

01:04:02.640 really quick. And it talked about how in North Korea, of course, it's communist, the government

01:04:08.080 controls everything. You don't have any private property, any autonomy. There's obviously no such

01:04:13.000 thing as trade, but how these black markets would exist and how people would smuggle things over

01:04:19.060 from China. They would trade for more food for their family. And this capitalist, a sub economy

01:04:26.700 in North Korea exists illegally that depends upon the principles of capitalism. Now these people

01:04:34.060 raised in North Korea have no idea what capitalism is. They don't really know what supply and demand

01:04:39.280 is. They've never been to the West. They don't know what our economic system is like. And yet

01:04:43.280 it's innate in them that this should cost this much. This is how much this is valued. I will

01:04:48.620 trade you this for this. That is like kind of the basis of capitalism and economic freedom.

01:04:53.700 And even in these tyrannical communist places, humans, because of human nature, understand

01:04:58.960 private property. They understand earning things. They understand paying for things. And that's why

01:05:04.400 socialism fails so often because of bucks against that. Proverbs 10.4 says, a slack hand causes

01:05:10.660 poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. That's all throughout Proverbs. Second Thessalonians

01:05:15.760 3.10, for even when we were with you, we would give you this command. If anyone is not willing

01:05:20.360 to work, let him not eat. Don't be lazy. Don't be lazy. People say that the early church in Acts

01:05:29.140 is an example of socialism, Acts 2, 44 through 45. And all who believed were together and had

01:05:35.340 all things in common, and they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the

01:05:38.700 proceeds to all as any had need. Again, they were doing this voluntarily. They were doing this

01:05:44.420 because they were compelled by the Holy Spirit. They were doing this under the leadership of

01:05:47.740 Christ. They weren't doing this because it was compulsory. They weren't doing this because the

01:05:52.880 government told them to. In fact, we are warned in second Corinthians against compulsory giving

01:05:58.560 second Corinthians nine, seven through eight, each one must give as he has decided in his heart,

01:06:03.320 not reluctantly or under compulsion for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all

01:06:09.780 grace abound to you so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in

01:06:14.120 every good work. Paying your taxes is not cheerful giving. Okay. That is not paying what you've

01:06:20.160 decided in your own heart. That is paying what the IRS tells you, or sometimes doesn't even tell

01:06:24.200 you what you owe. We are not cheerfully giving to the government. We are giving to the government

01:06:29.700 and they are saying, we'll put you in jail if you don't. Okay. That's not a cheerful, that's

01:06:34.520 not charity. That's not cheerful giving. Democrats have a different view of this versus Republicans.

01:06:39.300 That's why Republicans on average give far and away more to charity than Democrats do,

01:06:44.140 because Democrats have replaced in so many cases, socialism and government with God and

01:06:48.760 Christianity or the opposite. Actually, they've replaced God and Christianity with the government

01:06:53.840 and socialism. Christians understand that we will not live in a perfect world until Jesus returns.

01:07:00.140 And this entire idea of total equality, I just wonder how you square that with Jesus saying the

01:07:06.120 first will be last and the last will be first, even in heaven. Like there is some, we don't know

01:07:10.520 exactly what that means, but there's some kind of ordering, even maybe some kind of hierarchy

01:07:15.640 in heaven. Um, and so this idea that everyone has to be the same in order for things to be just,

01:07:22.660 we don't see that anywhere in scripture, nowhere in scripture. Um, this idea that the government

01:07:28.960 should become church, that the government should become mom and dad, that the government should

01:07:32.280 become your nanny, that the government should become your caretaker, that the government should

01:07:35.860 become your grocer. You're just not going to see that founded in scripture. You're just not going

01:07:40.940 to. And there's going to be people like Ms. Rachel, like AOC, like Tallarico who tell you that,

01:07:46.320 of course, it is just compassionate to give more and more to people through the government. It's

01:07:51.980 not. You won't find a basis for that definition of compassion in scripture. Giving people what

01:07:57.760 they want or even always what they say they need without getting them to earn that thing is not

01:08:04.000 necessarily compassionate. Sometimes it's mercy and we should have the freedom to be able to do

01:08:09.280 that when we want to. But when we are compelled to do so by the government, it's no longer charity

01:08:13.960 and it doesn't glorify God. There's a role for the government, but it's not to be your caretaker.

01:08:19.340 It's certainly not to be your moral arbiter. And when that happens, when it's just because

01:08:24.680 it's idolatry, when we replace God with government, when we replace his system with socialism,

01:08:29.660 scripture with socialism, death and decay occur. Satan loves socialism. He does. That's why he

01:08:35.920 steals and kills and destroys every time it takes power. And that's why voting is also a theological

01:08:41.180 issue. That is why you being involved in politics is so important because remember the progressive

01:08:48.160 does not compartmentalize his or her worldview before going into the voting booth. They convince

01:08:53.600 you to do so, call you a Christian nationalist, call you a Christo fascist. When you try to bring 0.99

01:08:58.220 your worldview into the voting booth, but they're not checking it at the door. They're bringing the

01:09:02.760 fullness of their theology into everything they do in the public. And Christians should too,

01:09:07.860 may the best idea win. So go out there and vote, realize that socialism has not ended. It's still

01:09:13.400 a theological issue. It's still an issue of people rejecting God. And so you as a Christian being an

01:09:19.220 agent of goodness, an agent of order, an agent of wisdom, an agent of the gospel need to infuse

01:09:24.020 salt and light wherever you go. One way to do that is by voting. So make sure that you vote

01:09:30.160 on election day. All right. That's all we got time for. We'll be back here next time.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - October 22, 2026

Ep 1411 ｜ “Jesus Was a Socialist：” Why This is COMPLETELY Wrong

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