Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 309 ｜ Trump vs. Biden 2020： The Economy

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. We are going to continue on our election series

00:00:14.880 today talking about the economy and poverty. If I have time, I am also going to talk a little

00:00:22.580 bit more about the debate and my analysis of that at the end. I shared a lot about that

00:00:27.700 on Instagram, and most of you follow me there, and so you know my thoughts, but I wanted to give a

00:00:33.000 little bit more analysis and more clarity. For those of you who miss Theology Mondays, I am sorry

00:00:39.520 that we've kind of reformatted this, but you might have missed when I announced kind of at the beginning

00:00:44.100 of this election series that we would be changing it just temporarily until the election. And we

00:00:50.240 have had a lot of theology-centered interviews on Friday, so if that's something that you're

00:00:56.000 missing, then certainly tune into those Friday episodes. But also, we did a full theology episode

00:01:01.340 last Wednesday that if you're looking for just kind of a refreshing biblical perspective that doesn't

00:01:06.840 have to do with politics or really current events that much at all, then go back and listen to

00:01:11.720 Wednesday's episode. We, of course, are going to talk about that as well. But I don't compartmentalize

00:01:16.980 my faith. My faith, as it should, as it does for all people, whether someone admits it or not or

00:01:23.020 realizes it or not affects our worldview. It affects what we think about politics. It affects

00:01:28.300 what we think about right and wrong and justice in the economy and all of these different kinds

00:01:32.680 of issues. And so this is still a Christian conservative show. Sometimes we focus more

00:01:39.340 on the politics and sometimes we focus more on theology, but everything fundamentally is theological.

00:01:45.740 As I've said many times, politics is downstream from culture and culture is downstream from theology.

00:01:51.740 Everything you think about the world goes back to what you think about God, whether you're an

00:01:56.060 atheist or a monotheist. It is all built on the foundation of who you believe. If anyone created

00:02:04.400 the universe, who is the transcendent moral authority? Is it you? Is it the government? Is it the creator

00:02:09.780 of the heavens and the earth? So yeah, we are focusing more on the election than kind of breaking down a

00:02:17.460 particular biblical issue. But we have done that a few times in the past few weeks. So definitely make sure

00:02:23.120 that you are that you are catching all of the episodes before you say that we have completely thrown

00:02:29.100 something out or that we're not doing something anymore, because chances are you might have just

00:02:33.300 missed it. But today we are continuing to talk about the election in this particular election issue, which is

00:02:40.940 the economy and the issue of poverty. And this has been an issue in a presidential election since the

00:02:48.220 beginning of time, since the beginning of having presidential elections in the United States.

00:02:54.180 And of course, this election is no different, especially with all of the chaos that has been going on

00:03:01.680 and the jobs lost that that has the jobs that we have lost this year because of the lockdowns due to

00:03:11.680 the coronavirus. And so this is a big topic of conversation. Trump, of course, has touted an

00:03:17.580 economic boom and has given himself credit for that. And so we're going to look at some of those

00:03:22.040 claims today and see if they are true. We're going to compare a little bit Biden versus Trump and

00:03:26.840 their plans and policies, what Biden has been a part of in the past as far as his senatorial career and

00:03:34.000 his stint as vice president. And then we'll also look at what Donald Trump has done and plans to do. But

00:03:40.680 before I do that, I want to talk about the philosophies in general of left versus right. There is a big

00:03:47.760 misconception. Of course, you guys know I am a conservative. And so I have a particular

00:03:52.200 perspective on this. I have I have an angle that I'm coming from. And for the millionth time,

00:03:59.980 my desire is never to mislead. I try to give the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But you

00:04:07.060 know what my worldview is and at what point I am starting. And you know that I am going to fall in

00:04:12.660 line with conservative economic policy because I believe that not only do they make the most sense,

00:04:17.600 but they're best for every demographic of the country. Trump has been pretty conservative

00:04:22.540 economically, so I'm going to align with him. I'm not going to align with Joe Biden. I think that

00:04:28.200 many times people assume that Christians and I think Christian women in particular should be very

00:04:34.080 agnostic on politics in order to truly be godly. Like we should pretend like we don't have a

00:04:39.780 perspective and we should just say, oh, you know, some things are good with Biden. Some things are good

00:04:43.880 with Trump. Some things are good with leftism. I mean, one or two things is is good with

00:04:48.320 conservatism. That's only ever told, I feel like to Christian conservative women that they need to be 1.00

00:04:54.220 less opinionated about it, that they need to be less sure that they need to be less confident in

00:04:59.520 their beliefs. You never hear SJWs being told that kind of thing by the people who listen to them.

00:05:06.560 So look, I'm confident in conservative economic policy. That doesn't mean I know everything,

00:05:11.820 every nook and cranny of it. That doesn't mean that conservatives have never been wrong or I've

00:05:18.320 never been wrong on this. But you guys know where I'm going to land when it comes to this. And I am.

00:05:23.500 I'm admittedly trying to make the case to you for conservative policies. I'm not hiding that.

00:05:29.560 I don't know why people come to the show and they think that I'm not on one side of the issues. I am

00:05:34.440 very upfront about that. Everyone, unless they just don't know anything, is on a particular side of the

00:05:40.920 issues. And that's okay. We allow the Bible. We allow the word of God. We allow the Holy Spirit,

00:05:45.880 a biblical worldview to inform the rest of what we believe. And we're going to disagree

00:05:51.280 on some things, hopefully not the big things. And that's okay. I'm giving you a perspective.

00:05:56.740 You want a liberal perspective? You want an agnostic perspective? Then you shouldn't go to 1.00

00:06:02.020 the podcast that has Christian conservative in the description. Okay. Let me explain the conservative

00:06:08.560 philosophy in general. I mean, there's so much that we could get into in general

00:06:13.520 on the economy. So in general, conservatives, ideally, we believe in lower taxes. We believe

00:06:20.300 in fewer government programs, welfare programs that actually incentivize people to get back to work

00:06:26.080 rather than making it more lucrative for them not to work. We trust people to provide for themselves

00:06:32.400 if they are physically and mentally able to provide for themselves and to provide for their families on

00:06:37.600 their own and to give charitably as they see fit, voluntarily as they see fit. The liberal

00:06:44.460 philosophy in general believes higher taxes in particular for the rich, but also it ends up being

00:06:51.140 higher taxes for the middle class. That's just, that's typically the consequence of liberal tax policy. 0.75

00:06:58.640 The definition though of who is rich according to leftist dogma very often changes. You heard a couple

00:07:07.000 decades ago, Bernie Sanders talking about the evils of millionaires and how they're all greedy. Well,

00:07:13.160 now he is a millionaire with three houses. And so he talks about the evils of billionaires. And so

00:07:17.880 that definition of who the rich is, is changing. Nevertheless, they do talk about have talked

00:07:23.180 about for a very long time that we need higher taxes for the rich. And they believe the leftist

00:07:29.500 philosophy at least believes in the redistribution of wealth from the top and the middle to those at

00:07:35.120 the bottom. And though, and the thought is not just that this will lift up people at the bottom,

00:07:41.820 but that this is fair. So liberals are concerned with a particular definition of fairness, which tends

00:07:49.140 to mean equal outcomes. Conservatives are also concerned with fairness, but we have a different

00:07:54.640 definition of fairness. We believe in fairness of process. So we believe that regardless of

00:07:59.640 outcomes, people should be treated fairly and equally under the law. Of course, liberals also

00:08:05.500 believe that people should be treated fairly under the law, but they are more concerned with equality

00:08:09.640 of outcomes. And we are more concerned with simply equality of opportunity, whether or not people end up

00:08:15.100 with the same outcomes. We believe that we should strive as a society for equality of opportunity.

00:08:21.940 We realize there will always be disparate outcomes between individuals and groups because people

00:08:28.120 are different. People have different interests, different abilities, different upbringings,

00:08:33.200 different levels of intelligence, different levels of ambition, et cetera. And disparities,

00:08:38.840 conservatives know, do not mean necessarily that discrimination is involved unless direct discrimination

00:08:46.400 can actually be proven. So fairness from the conservative perspective. And of course,

00:08:51.660 I believe the correct perspective is that fairness does not mean that everyone ends up with the same

00:08:58.600 lot in life or even a similar lot in life, or everyone makes the same or even similar amounts of money

00:09:04.300 or that everyone's neighborhood looks the same, but that people are treated equitably, that there are not

00:09:11.400 two justice systems for the rich and the poor. And of course, liberals would also agree with that.

00:09:16.560 The people that the people should have the freedom to pursue opportunities as we see fit.

00:09:23.460 And we realize that there will be people who have greater obstacles in their lives than other people.

00:09:29.080 Some people will have greater privileges than other people's than other people. You are born with all

00:09:33.580 kinds of privileges that a lot of people don't talk about. There's pretty privilege.

00:09:37.500 There is smart privilege. There is athletic privilege, other kinds of talent privilege.

00:09:42.740 There is inherited wealth privilege, having two parents stay together in your home privilege.

00:09:48.440 But that does not mean conservatives believe that it is the government's job to try to reconfigure

00:09:54.140 society so that everyone has the same obstacles and the same privileges or lack of privileges

00:09:59.820 in order that we all have equal outcomes. We believe that attempt at reconfiguration of society

00:10:06.520 from the top down is very dangerous and harmful.

00:10:19.460 The left's version of fairness is concerned mostly, I should say left-isms, because there are always

00:10:26.080 people who say, well, I'm on the left and I don't believe that. The chances are you might not actually

00:10:34.320 know, but I don't mean this in a patronizing way. What is the why behind your leftist philosophy?

00:10:42.100 That's a wonderful thing about leftism is that it sounds really good on the surface and you can say,

00:10:46.460 oh, you believe in women's rights. You believe in equality. You believe in fairness.

00:10:51.160 You believe in an economy that works for everyone. The rich should pay their fair share.

00:10:55.000 And all of that sounds really good. And so you have a lot of liberals saying, well,

00:10:59.900 I believe in these things, but that doesn't mean that I believe in all the things that Ali Stuckey

00:11:03.500 says I believe in. Well, I study leftism as a philosophy, as an ideology for a living. And so

00:11:11.100 it might be, maybe not, but it might be that I actually know what's underneath your worldview more

00:11:17.640 than you do. Because you espouse the belief in certain philosophies, but maybe, I'm just saying maybe,

00:11:25.580 I don't know. You have not actually dug underneath the surface to know the cohesive worldview and the

00:11:32.320 logical conclusions and the foundations that some of your views actually belong to. So when I say

00:11:39.220 the left or when I say leftism, I'm not saying every single person who considers themselves on the

00:11:44.280 left believe this way. You might not know that the thing that you believe in, the thing that you

00:11:49.280 support, that there's actually something underneath it that you don't agree with or that you don't

00:11:53.580 believe in. And that's actually part of what I try to do to show the logical conclusion of leftism,

00:11:58.540 to show where the policies have showed up in other places and how they have not worked in the worldview

00:12:03.760 that it is connected to. That's part of my whole job is to show you that we all have a worldview.

00:12:09.640 You don't just believe in these isolated policies. You don't just have a faith over here and politics

00:12:14.540 over here and social issues over here. They're all combined and connected. And just because you have not

00:12:19.760 taken the time to realize those connections doesn't mean that I'm jumping to conclusions that

00:12:24.000 are not there. That is never my goal. If I truly am, then I do want you to reach out to me and say,

00:12:29.220 you know, I'm on the left and you believe we think this because of this, but here is why we actually

00:12:34.760 think it. Here's what is actually underneath it. Logically walk me through how I'm wrong.

00:12:38.980 Don't just say, well, no, Allie doesn't really know because I do study this for a living. And so

00:12:45.620 if you want to logically walk me through, factually walk me through why I am wrong about a particular

00:12:51.920 assertion about leftism, I would love to hear from you. I talk to people every day that I disagree with

00:12:57.140 who listen to this podcast. And we have, most of the time we have wonderful conversations unless they

00:13:01.440 get angry or something. So feel free, feel free to do that. So when I say leftism, I'm talking about

00:13:09.420 the philosophy in general. It doesn't include every single person who ascribes to it. So again,

00:13:14.160 the last version of fairness is concerned with outcomes. So you will hear them say the rich should

00:13:20.320 pay their fair share. Well, what is fair? Rich people already pay the vast majority of taxes in this

00:13:27.620 country. The top 50 percent of earners in this country pay almost 90 percent of the taxes in

00:13:33.320 this country. They pay not only a higher dollar amount, but they also pay a higher proportion of

00:13:39.760 their earnings and taxes. Fair typically to liberals is the amount that will minimize the gap between the

00:13:47.460 rich and the poor. That's what they see as fair. Again, equal, more equal outcomes, less disparate

00:13:52.400 outcomes because they believe it is unfair. For example, for a billionaire to be a billionaire

00:13:58.200 while a person in poverty is in poverty. They see that gap as proof in itself of an unjust system.

00:14:05.680 They tend to see wealth as finite. If one person gets three fourths of the pie, metaphorically,

00:14:11.640 obviously, there's only one fourth left over for everyone else. That's kind of how they see it. So

00:14:16.640 they attempt to make the pieces of the pie more equal through redistribution, more equal in size

00:14:23.380 to make it more fair. Leftists tend to see the rich, especially billionaires, as stealing from the

00:14:29.760 poor. So stealing pieces of pie from the poor, making the poor person's piece of pie smaller while

00:14:36.100 making their piece of pie bigger. The poverty is actually because of the oppression that is caused

00:14:44.160 by the rich. That's kind of the mentality that you see shared by people like Ilhan Omar and AOC and

00:14:50.820 Bernie Sanders and even now Elizabeth Warren. But conservatives don't see it that way. And I would

00:14:55.660 say that conservatism sees it correctly from my perspective. The rich are not rich because the

00:15:01.680 poor are poor and the poor are not poor because the rich are rich. Not in America in 2020. The solution

00:15:07.420 is not to make sure that the pieces of the pie are the same, but to continue expanding the size of the

00:15:15.560 pie by encouraging more output from the people, not more input from the government. So there isn't a

00:15:21.800 fixed size of the pie. The pie can get bigger and bigger and people can take as much as they are willing

00:15:28.160 to work for. That is how conservatives see it. Are there exceptions to that rule? Sure. But that is the

00:15:34.560 conservative view of what is actually fair and who gets how much of the pie. The rich are not rich

00:15:41.360 because the poor are poor and the poor are not poor because the rich are rich. Economist Thomas Sowell

00:15:45.880 wrote this or he writes this in his book, Wealth, Poverty and Politics. He says, it is by no means

00:15:53.120 obvious why we should prefer trying to equalize incomes to putting our efforts into increasing output.

00:15:59.900 People in general and the poor in particular seem to, quote, vote with their feet by moving to

00:16:04.540 where there's greater prosperity rather than where there is greater economic equality.

00:16:10.340 Rising standards of living, especially for those at the bottom economically, have resulted not so much

00:16:15.620 from changing the relative sizes of different slices of the economic pie as from increasing the size of

00:16:21.620 the pie itself, which has largely been accomplished without requiring heavy rhetoric, fierce emotions or

00:16:29.160 bloodshed, which, of course, is why it is much more difficult to make this a compelling election issue

00:16:36.180 for Republicans, because it's not that our pitch is not emotional. Our pitch is that you can do it.

00:16:45.100 Our pitch is that you are responsible if you're mentally and physically able to work for yourself and

00:16:50.140 to provide for your family to create those opportunities. And we want to create as much as we can

00:16:54.940 those equal opportunities. But you take it from there and we believe that you can do it.

00:16:59.520 It's much more compelling rhetorically, emotionally, politically for people to say,

00:17:04.760 you are pushed down by the oppression of the people at the top and we are going to rescue you.

00:17:10.560 That is much more appealing. Equal outcomes are impossible outside of tyranny. As Thomas Sowell also

00:17:18.400 points out in Discrimination and Disparities, if two siblings from the same family end up with different

00:17:23.640 outcomes in life, how is it possible that two people from different families, different backgrounds,

00:17:29.140 different schools, different cities and states should have the same outcome? People are different.

00:17:33.860 And this is going to take us into a direction that doesn't directly have to do with the economy.

00:17:41.120 It will go back to the economy. But it's what I believe is underneath all of this that I think

00:17:48.040 is important to point out. In my opinion, the biggest flaw of leftism is that it continually

00:17:53.740 gets human nature wrong. So whether or not you identify as a Christian on the left, understand 0.95

00:17:59.920 that the leftist philosophy, especially the brand that is under Marxism, which I know does not

00:18:06.680 characterize the whole Democratic Party, hopefully not most of the Democratic Party, but it is an

00:18:11.360 increasing portion of the Democratic Party that certainly kowtows to Marxism and Marxist organizations

00:18:17.600 like BLM and Antifa and some of the people who admire Karl Marx in the left wing of the party like

00:18:24.060 Bernie Sanders and AOC, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Julian Castro and people like that. It is a secularist,

00:18:33.280 humanist philosophy and God and the idea of human nature because we are created by God really gets in the

00:18:40.860 way of Marxism. It gets in the way of leftism. And they have tried really hard to marry Christianity 0.93

00:18:48.040 with Marxism by way of social justice. We actually talked about the quote from C.S. Lewis that talks

00:18:55.540 about the problem with trying to do that. But as Marx said himself, he believes that religion is the

00:19:03.700 opium of the masses, that it's actually getting in the way of people's happiness and fulfillment.

00:19:07.760 And that's because his philosophy is an anti-God philosophy. And because of that,

00:19:13.520 I believe leftism always gets human nature wrong. If you don't understand that there is a creator who

00:19:20.120 created us and he created us with purpose in a particular way, you have this evolutionary mindset

00:19:26.620 that says that people can change according to what society wants, according to societal demands.

00:19:33.560 And leftists not only believe that, but they believe it wrongly. The idea that society can

00:19:40.680 form people, that if society changes in a certain way, then every person will go that way too.

00:19:46.940 You see this, for example, in gender ideology. They say gender is a social construct. So if we can

00:19:52.640 change society's definition of male and female by saying that it's just a matter of personal choice,

00:19:57.620 then one day they believe we will live outside the gender binary. People will all identify is

00:20:04.780 whatever individual expression of gender they want. Furthermore, the thinking goes, we can eliminate, 0.81

00:20:10.600 if we can eliminate sex differences, we can eliminate sex discrimination. There will be no

00:20:15.840 separation in any segment of society based on male and female, and we will all live together

00:20:20.820 gender fluid harmony. But that won't happen. I'm here to tell you that that will not happen. It 1.00

00:20:28.620 will never happen. No matter how much academia and public education and the political class and

00:20:35.600 leftist activists are pushing it, it will not happen. Because gender is not a social construct.

00:20:42.300 Some expectations and fashion standards and things like that assigned to each gender

00:20:46.620 may be arbitrary and social constructs. Yes, absolutely. But gender is biological. Don't 0.97

00:20:53.620 buy into the lie that there's a difference between sex and gender. There is not. Some women may be more 1.00

00:20:58.300 traditionally male in how they present themselves, in their interests, the way they talk, the way they

00:21:04.040 dress. But there's still women. That doesn't change that fact. Some men may act more traditionally

00:21:11.040 female, but that doesn't make them any less men. And men and women are different down to our DNA.

00:21:18.120 Our brains develop differently inside the womb. We are physically different. Not just our anatomy,

00:21:24.680 but our anaerobic and aerobic capacity, our bone density, our capacity for muscle mass. All of these

00:21:32.260 things are different fundamentally. We have different hormones that affect our mentalities, our behavior.

00:21:39.000 If you watch a group of toddlers, of babies, people who have not been conditioned by society

00:21:46.260 to be a certain way, you will see, except for maybe a minority of outliers, the boys behave a certain way

00:21:52.640 and the girls behave a certain way. This is a good thing. This is a wonderful thing. This is how

00:21:58.200 human beings have always been and are supposed to be. Men and women are fundamentally different 1.00

00:22:03.880 in many ways. And we always will be. It is this very human nature that has perpetuated

00:22:09.560 human existence. And of course, we talked about on last Wednesday's episode, how purposefully and

00:22:16.880 beautifully, deliberately, specifically, God made them male and female and why he did so.

00:22:24.740 So unless Jesus returns, it will swing back in the other direction. Because truth, whether moral or

00:22:33.200 scientific is like a beach ball, you can try to push it down underwater with all of your might,

00:22:38.880 you can put all of your weight on top of it, eventually, it's going to pop back up.

00:22:43.040 And we will see how the eraser of actual definitions of male and female cause chaos in society and families

00:22:51.280 and individual lives. There has never been a society in history that is not at the very least organized

00:22:59.080 by male and female. Human beings need these basic categories. We require order. We require time.

00:23:06.980 We require calendars. We require measurements, instructions, guidelines, boundaries, definitions

00:23:12.700 to survive and thrive as cohesive societies. Every tribe and civilization since the beginning of time has

00:23:20.760 needed these things in some form. And we do, too.

00:23:24.320 We're already seeing child abuse by way of dressing kids up as the opposite gender, giving kids cross-sex 1.00

00:23:30.200 hormones, when in reality, they're kids who will grow out of their confusion by puberty. This stuff

00:23:36.280 has lifelong damage that we don't even know about yet. And unfortunately, so many platforms are silencing

00:23:42.000 those who have detransitioned and who have said, look, I didn't actually get the mental health

00:23:47.220 help that I needed when I was a teenager. You have, you need to read, you need to read irreversible

00:23:53.420 damage by Abigail Schreier. I've had her on my podcast before talking about these young girls 0.98

00:23:58.220 who have been swept up in what truly is a social contagion. It used to be very rare for girls to be 0.91

00:24:04.160 involved in the kind of transgender community. And now girls 12, 13, 14 years old are getting swept up

00:24:09.880 into it while they're in those awkward stages of wanting to be accepted and being uncomfortable in

00:24:15.080 their bodies as all girls are when they're in middle school and early high school. And they're being 0.74

00:24:19.600 pushed into and swept into this movement and affirmed by unknowing parents, affirmed by ignorant 0.99

00:24:28.400 and backwards psychologists, affirmed by doctors. And no one is taking the time to pause for a second 0.94

00:24:33.980 and say, Hey, is this actually what's going on? Do you actually have gender dysphoria? Or are you

00:24:40.160 dealing with relationship problems? Are you dealing with an unstable home? Are you dealing with self-esteem

00:24:44.400 issues? Are you dealing with a needing disorder? Are there other psychological issues that are going on

00:24:48.800 that we should treat and, and care about and focus on before we put you on a path to irreversible

00:24:55.240 damage of your body that you will, that you will never be able to recover from? Unfortunately,

00:25:02.320 we're sacrificing our, our kids and our girls on the altar of this idea that human nature doesn't

00:25:10.040 really exist, that we get to decide what we are and who we are based on the latest societal whim.

00:25:15.840 So ideas have consequences. And I think this is the biggest consequence of leftism is the denial

00:25:22.340 of human nature and the debate between nurture versus nature. They always picture, or they always

00:25:28.340 pick, uh, nurture that we can nurture people into being and, uh, manifesting whatever society wants

00:25:37.280 at the time. Uh, leftists continually, continually get human nature wrong. Um, a great example of how

00:25:48.500 leftists get this wrong, not just when it comes to moral things and social things like gender ideology,

00:25:55.260 they get it wrong when it comes to economic issues, namely in the support of socialism and communism.

00:26:01.040 I know again, not all Democrats are socialists and communists. I'm not saying that, uh, I am talking

00:26:06.980 about leftism as an ideology, which an increasing number of Democrats hold to. Uh, but I do think

00:26:12.940 the party is certainly headed in that direction. Socialism and communism, which are closely tied,

00:26:18.740 deny the reality of human nature. They claim that people can be forced into generosity, which of course

00:26:25.260 is not generosity at all. People can be forced into living happily in equal mediocrity. Um, and that

00:26:31.480 once the government exacts its powers and redistributes all the property and wealth from the top to the

00:26:37.040 bottom so that everyone has equal outcomes, everyone will finally live in harmony. There will be no

00:26:42.380 poverty. There will be no racism. There will be no marginalization. There will be fewer crimes.

00:26:47.460 We will finally live in what they believe to be a fair society. So how has that worked out? Because

00:26:52.920 that's not a new idea. It's been around for a hundred plus years. How did it work out in China 0.90

00:26:58.660 and Venezuela and Cambodia and Zimbabwe and Venezuela and Soviet Russia and Eastern Germany?

00:27:04.340 Not well, not well. It's ended in suffering and more greed, more corruption from the top.

00:27:09.920 Bureaucrats always stay rich while the people get poor in socialist countries, starvation, violence,

00:27:16.000 bloodshed, injustice, because socialism and communism go against all that is good in human nature.

00:27:22.980 Canada, UK, Scandinavia, by the way, these places are not socialist. They are largely welfare states

00:27:30.020 that still have forms of capitalism in order to be able to fund their welfare state. They still have

00:27:34.860 too much socialized stuff. I still don't think those are good systems, but the means of production are not

00:27:40.080 entirely owned by the state. So they're not fully socialist states. People try to point to these as,

00:27:45.040 well, these are socialist places and they're working out well. They're actually really not.

00:27:49.400 Capitalism is not really a system. Capitalism is something that happens. So a lot of times you

00:27:57.640 hear people say socialism might not be biblical if they finally come to terms with the fact that

00:28:04.080 socialism is not biblical, but neither is capitalism. Capitalism causes oppression and causes all these bad

00:28:12.020 things to happen. So capitalism in its raw form, like in its most natural form, is just something

00:28:19.240 that happens when societies get together. You will remember if you were in my book club and we

00:28:24.660 read nothing to envy about ordinary life in North Korea. These people who had only learned anti-capitalism 1.00

00:28:32.300 propaganda their entire lives, who were taught to believe their whole lives that the state was their

00:28:39.100 provider, that their state, that the state, that the Kim dynasty was going to give them everything

00:28:44.960 they needed, that communism was good, that communism was fair, that communism was righteous and capitalism

00:28:50.440 was evil, and that it was actually because of the evil capitalist countries like Japan and America that 0.69

00:28:55.700 they were starving. No, no, no. Communism is good. Well, what happened? They created these black markets,

00:29:02.260 these illegal markets. They started smuggling food from China and trading with each other. And they created

00:29:08.060 this small, illegal capitalist economy inside North Korea in order to stay alive. These people had

00:29:13.320 never taken a class on capitalism. They didn't know supply and demand. They didn't know what it meant to

00:29:17.660 be a free market. They actually just knew that capitalism was really bad and evil. And yet, in order to

00:29:22.420 survive, because they didn't have any other choice, because communism and the corruption of the Kim

00:29:26.800 dynasty had so terribly failed them, they engaged in capitalism. Capitalism, supply and demand, again,

00:29:33.440 it's just its most raw form, its most basic form. The most basic philosophy is something that just

00:29:41.300 happens when people get together and they need to provide for their families. Socialism is something

00:29:46.860 that must be contrived. It must be pushed from the top down. And by the way, people who say capitalism

00:29:55.940 isn't biblical. No, God doesn't say that we must have a capitalistic society. And certainly there is

00:30:02.440 something wrong with greed, but capitalism doesn't cause greed. It allows you, it frees you to be as

00:30:09.040 greedy or as generous as you want to be. You can give all your money away in a capitalist system if you

00:30:15.080 want to, or you can keep all of your money. Yes, you can be greedy. In a socialist society, you only have

00:30:19.480 greed. You only have the mentality of entitlement that says, I deserve what someone else has because

00:30:26.600 I have less. That is not a biblical mentality. That's actually covetousness, which is banned in

00:30:32.540 the Ten Commandments. That's actually theft, which is also banned in the Ten Commandments.

00:30:37.620 And so you only have greed in socialism and communism. You have greed in capitalist societies,

00:30:44.700 but you also have amazing generosity that is not possible in communism or socialism.

00:30:51.040 We can look at some verses in the Bible, again, that speak against socialism and for the importance

00:30:56.540 of working, providing for your family and freely being generous to other people, which again,

00:31:00.940 is not possible in a communistic and socialistic society in which all of your money is going to

00:31:06.140 the government to be redistributed. Obviously, as I've said, private property was God's idea. Two of

00:31:11.700 the Ten Commandments. Make that clear. Do not steal. Do not covet. That's how important private

00:31:16.180 property was. Ownership of your property, which ultimately Marxism says is illegitimate. That

00:31:23.360 property should be shared. The Proverbs obviously speak to the importance of working hard, investing

00:31:29.040 smartly, not being lazy, not allowing yourself to be indebted to people, but being wise with your

00:31:36.900 money, being a hard worker. Ephesians 4, 28, let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor

00:31:43.100 doing honest work with his own hands so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

00:31:49.920 And so he does honest work with his own hands. He earns what he worked for, and then he gives

00:31:55.620 generously to those around him. That is what we are called to do voluntarily. The government outsourcing

00:32:03.500 our generosity to the government is not generosity. I mean, that is compulsion. That is forced

00:32:10.280 redistribution. There's nothing godly about that. Second Corinthians 9, 7, each one must give as he

00:32:16.300 has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.

00:32:23.240 Second Thessalonians 3, 10. For even when we were with you, we would give you this command. If anyone is

00:32:28.580 not willing to work, let him not eat. Remember, AOC's Green New Deal originally said providing

00:32:34.320 economic security for those unwilling to work. That's a sin to God, and it goes against human nature. 0.55

00:32:41.640 Like I said, people see capitalism as a system of greed is causing greed. The reality is you are free

00:32:47.040 to be as greedy or as generous as you want to be, but you are not being righteous or generous by

00:32:53.140 forcibly giving all of your money to the government to redistribute as they see fit. These are bureaucrats

00:32:58.960 who will promise to redistribute your money in a way that is fair and takes care of the least of

00:33:04.660 these. They never do. They never do. You can't trust the government for that kind of thing. You only

00:33:09.600 vote for socialism and communism once. You get convinced to vote for it because you're told that

00:33:16.980 it's compassionate. You're told that it's the right thing to do. You're told that the government

00:33:20.480 does a better job of spending your money and giving your money away than you do until you buy

00:33:27.360 into it because you don't want to be a bigot. You don't want people to think that you don't care

00:33:30.700 about poor people. And so you vote for the politician who says they care about the poor

00:33:34.420 and they don't actually distribute the money to the poor because they need poor people to remain poor

00:33:39.240 in order to continue to get their votes. That is how it goes. That is the cycle that you might be

00:33:45.580 being duped by. And then they take all the money and the control for themselves and they have power

00:33:51.780 over your life until you are no longer free. That is the story of every single socialist and

00:33:56.940 communist regime that has ever taken power. Isn't history a wonderful thing? When socialism and

00:34:02.260 communism are implemented, they don't only not deliver on their promises of prosperity and

00:34:08.400 equality, they deliver the exact opposite. They deliver poverty and injustice. And the closer we move in

00:34:13.600 that direction with leftist policies, the closer we will be to that. Democrats have been fighting the

00:34:18.080 so-called war on poverty since the 1960s. And as Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams and lots of other

00:34:23.560 economists have repeatedly pointed out, it doesn't work. And in fact, at the same time, we've seen a

00:34:28.780 rise in crime and the disintegration of the family, which economists like that have actually

00:34:33.760 blamed the war on poverty for. It has created more dependence rather than incentivizing work and has

00:34:41.440 hurt more than it has helped. Conservatives do believe that there's a place for government.

00:34:45.760 There's a place for welfare. There is a place for government assistance. I'm not a libertarian.

00:34:51.040 I prefer, yes, that the burden of caring for your neighbor fall on you, fall on individuals in the

00:34:56.500 church. But I understand there are situations in which people need government help. But we believe

00:35:03.720 that that help should encourage work and productivity. If physically and mentally possible for a person,

00:35:09.620 rather than incentivize unemployment like it does in places like California. And that's not just because

00:35:14.960 we want the economy to be helped with productivity, although that is very important, but because we

00:35:19.560 believe in the inherent dignity of work and that it is it is in human nature to need to work and to be

00:35:27.060 productive. Again, something that leftism often denies. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic

00:35:32.640 representative from New York a couple of years ago, said that we should be excited by automation

00:35:37.760 taking our jobs because that means that we won't have to work those jobs anymore and we will be free

00:35:42.860 to do more of the things that we like to do. Andrew Yank has said, you know, universal basic income

00:35:49.320 will make sure that people don't have to do jobs that they don't want to do. I remember a self-proclaimed

00:35:56.100 communist on Twitter proclaiming there's nothing moral about work. The view on the far left is that

00:36:02.200 work is a moral, that it doesn't carry any moral significance to it. And if people don't want to

00:36:08.660 work, if they want to either just loot or they want to shoplift, that's a far left communist idea.

00:36:16.320 But again, mainstreamed by NPR, obviously being mainstreamed by Black Lives Matter and Antifa right

00:36:21.080 now, who are literally looting in the name of fighting against capitalism.

00:36:26.240 They believe that working for those things is not really important. If you just want to,

00:36:33.680 if you want to do whatever you want to do and not actually work a job, then you should be

00:36:37.460 free to do that and society will be just fine. But of course, conservatives don't believe that

00:36:42.300 and Christians don't believe that either. We know that there is something inherently good, 0.94

00:36:48.500 inherently moral about work. God created work. He created us to work. Work pre-existed the fall.

00:36:54.940 So Adam was told to work and to keep the ground, to name the animals before sin entered the world.

00:37:00.440 So sin is not, or work is not a necessary evil. Work is something that we are called to do. It is

00:37:05.980 part of human nature. And I'm not talking just about work that actually brings home a paycheck.

00:37:09.740 I'm talking about being a stay-at-home mom. I'm talking about being a volunteer and talking about

00:37:13.380 taking care of your home. Any way to be productive that provides something that is necessary,

00:37:18.740 provides something that is virtuous and good, provides a service or a product that people

00:37:23.780 actually need is good, productive work that God calls us to for his glory. God created humans to

00:37:32.260 be productive without work, without productive work. We become listless. We become purposeless.

00:37:38.500 Our minds atrophy and we get depressed. And so again, the leftist philosophy on work

00:37:44.020 is against human nature if you believe that it is amoral. So any policy, I believe,

00:37:50.440 needs to incentivize people to work. It needs to reward work and hard work. I don't believe in

00:37:57.040 institutionalizing envy by saying that those at the top, that those at the bottom deserve what was

00:38:03.480 made by those in the middle and at the top. Do I believe that people who are rich should be charitable,

00:38:10.180 that they should pay their employees well, that they should take care of them well,

00:38:13.860 rather than hoarding wealth themselves? Yes, I absolutely do. But do I think it's the government's

00:38:18.920 job, again, to reconfigure society, to try to eliminate greed, something that they will never

00:38:23.560 be able to do? You can be greedy as a poor person or a rich person, by the way. No, I don't. And I

00:38:29.040 think that actually ends up being very harmful. Of course, as we know, the problem with socialism is

00:38:33.920 that eventually you run out of other people's money. So all of this said, we see from Trump's

00:38:38.980 economic policies, for the most part, that the conservative philosophy that I've just explained

00:38:44.460 is represented. There was the 2017 tax bill. It did a few things. According to the Hoover Institute,

00:38:50.520 it dropped the top rate from President Clinton's 39.6% to 37%. And it dropped most other tax rates as

00:38:58.960 well. It raised the standard deduction for those who don't itemize from $13,000 for a married couple

00:39:04.640 filing jointly to $24,000 and eliminated the personal exemption. Limited to $10,000, the state and local

00:39:13.900 tax deduction for those who itemize increased the child tax credit from $1,000 to $2,000. Ended the

00:39:23.200 individual penalty that had been imposed by President Obama and Congress under the Affordable Care Act.

00:39:28.260 That is obviously extremely controversial. That's why the left say, oh, he wants to take away your

00:39:33.660 health care. Well, what he's doing is making sure that it is, you're not forced onto Obamacare if you

00:39:40.260 don't have insurance. And we talked about that in the Amy Coney Barrett episode, how controversial and

00:39:46.700 arguably unconstitutional that individual mandate was. Raised the exemption on the alternative minimum

00:39:52.740 tax from $86,200 to $109,400 for married filers. Doubled the estate tax exemption from $5.6 million to

00:40:04.960 $11.2 million. Permanently reduced the corporate tax income rate to 21%. For most corporate income,

00:40:12.760 it had been 35%. So a major drop there. And I actually heard Joe Biden say, well, it was a very

00:40:20.360 confusing statement. Again, one of the reasons why I think Trump should have just let Biden talk more

00:40:26.160 because he digs his own grave. He was saying how, oh, I'm going to, he literally said like,

00:40:30.980 I'm going to get rid of a bunch of those, a bunch of those taxes, like 21% corporate tax rate. It

00:40:37.360 should be higher than that. It should be 28%. What? I don't really know what he was saying. But

00:40:42.240 Trump in the 2017 act, he dropped the corporate tax rate to 21%, allowed full expensing of short-lived

00:40:52.520 capital investments for five years, allowed repatriation at a tax rate of 15.5% on what at the

00:40:58.620 time were deferred foreign profits, eliminated the corporate alternative minimum tax. So the tax

00:41:05.020 foundation estimated that the increase in the U.S. capital stock due to the tax cut in the long run

00:41:11.880 would be 4.8%, which is a pretty significant number. And one of the, one of the accomplishments

00:41:18.420 that people don't talk about quite enough that I think conservatives should be highlighting more

00:41:22.240 is the deregulation that has happened under the Trump administration. And he is also,

00:41:28.280 the administration has tried to slow the growth of these new regulations. It started at the very

00:41:33.580 beginning of his time in office. He had a two for one executive order that required at least two prior

00:41:40.320 regulations to be abolished for every new regulation issued. That is an awesome policy. The administration,

00:41:47.880 according to Clyde Wayne Cruz, vice president for policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute,

00:41:53.200 a pro-market think tank, he said that the Trump administration in fiscal year 2018 undertook 176

00:42:01.480 deregulatory actions and 14 regulatory ones. That is a ratio of 12.1 to six. And this is why that

00:42:09.080 matters for the economy. The cost savings for that deregulation amounts to about $23.4 billion.

00:42:18.220 That's, you know, it's kind of a small amount, but it does matter. The Council of Economic Advisors

00:42:23.180 estimates that after five to 10 years, this new approach to federal regulation will have raised real

00:42:27.880 incomes by $3,100 per household per year, which is a big deal for a lot of families. Sure, it might not

00:42:34.860 be a lot to someone like Nancy Pelosi, who is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But for most

00:42:39.420 people, for you and me, that actually matters. 20 notable federal deregulatory actions alone will

00:42:44.900 be saving American consumers and businesses about $220 billion per year. After they go into full effect,

00:42:51.560 they will increase real incomes by about 1.3%. And so that hardly ever happens when someone gets into

00:42:59.340 office. They hardly ever shrink the power of the government by deregulation. Certainly it's not

00:43:04.180 something a Democrat would do because they want to grow the power of the government. So that is, 0.98

00:43:08.500 we should be giving kudos to President Trump and his administration for that. If we look at GDP growth

00:43:13.700 under Donald Trump, he can't get any credit for what happened at the beginning of his presidency in

00:43:19.080 2017, because of course, he had only been in office for a couple months at that point. And Obama can get

00:43:26.900 credit for that. But we can give him credit for real GDP growth between the first quarter of 2017

00:43:33.100 and the second quarter of 2019. During that time, the real GDP grew by an annual average of 2.7%,

00:43:40.980 according to the Hoover Institute, which was half a percentage point higher than the growth rate

00:43:45.360 during Obama's time in office. This article goes on to say that substantial, what makes the 0.5 extra

00:43:52.380 percentage points of annual growth even more striking is that it happened years after the economic

00:43:57.600 recovery occurred and growth rates well after recoveries tend to fall. Also, according to

00:44:04.260 President Trump's White House's own site, the employment rate reached its lowest level in half

00:44:10.880 a century. In 2019, unemployment rates for African Americans, for Hispanic Americans, for Asian

00:44:17.600 Americans, Americans without a high school degree and disabled Americans have logged record lows.

00:44:23.560 The Trump economy is bringing workers off the sidelines after they were left behind for years.

00:44:29.780 The prime age labor force has expanded by 2.3 million under President Trump after shrinking

00:44:35.220 by almost 1.6 million under the previous administration. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic

00:44:43.060 and that resulted in the quarantines and the lockdowns and all of that, the U.S. economy was

00:44:50.240 boomy. The unemployment rate was at the lowest that it had been since 1969. Hourly earnings had

00:44:56.360 risen to their highest level since the fallout of the 2008-2009 recession, especially among blue-collar

00:45:03.540 workers. The GDP growth, it exceeded our expectations, including those of the nonpartisan

00:45:09.240 Congressional Budget Office. A lot of the critics of the Trump administration, this is according to an

00:45:15.900 op-ed in The Hill, were actually proven wrong when they were talking about how his economic policies

00:45:22.340 are going to go. They had said that the economy would never recover from the 2016 election, that

00:45:28.600 their plans for economic growth were too optimistic. They said there was going to be stagnation,

00:45:34.620 that we were going to be stuck in neutral, but that didn't actually happen. Now, President Trump has

00:45:39.320 signed several executive orders to try to help the economy boost itself back up after the coronavirus

00:45:46.160 directed the Treasury Secretary to defer the 6.2% Social Security tax on wages for employees, making less

00:45:53.920 than $100,000 a year. According to The Hill, although the suspension would last from September 1 to

00:45:59.420 December 31st, Trump has promised to make it permanent if re-elected. And the article does go on to say

00:46:05.460 this is less than ideal. Obviously, tax reform should be done by Congress. But I think during

00:46:11.640 this time, the White House really didn't see any alternatives if the goal is to help people

00:46:16.620 without giving them a wide array of policies and that it believes would hurt the country. And so

00:46:24.100 I think that it felt the White House felt like they had to do this. According to The Wall Street

00:46:30.120 Journal, when we're looking at Biden's economic cheerleaders, the people who say that he's going

00:46:36.300 to do a great job, and they look at the Obama administration. The other night, you know,

00:46:40.060 Joe Biden said that he left Trump a booming economy and Trump has tanked it during the year of

00:46:45.520 coronavirus. Actually, the New York Times actually fact-checked Joe Biden on that and said that was

00:46:50.580 false, that the Obama economy was a long expansion, but it was not an incredible expansion. It was not a

00:46:56.940 boom. And of course, Trump did not cause the coronavirus, the coronavirus. And he also did

00:47:03.640 not cause the lockdowns that created the economic fallout of the coronavirus. And so good job to New

00:47:09.960 York Times. That was like one of the only fact checks I saw by them of Joe Biden. So obviously,

00:47:14.780 that was wrong. WSJ goes a little bit more on that. And this article, Mr. Biden's cheerleaders say

00:47:21.820 he inherited the deepest recession since the Great Depression and handed President Trump the longest

00:47:26.380 expansion on record. And it's true that Obama did get some things right on this. But like I said,

00:47:33.860 it was a long recovery. It wasn't necessarily a great recovery. The overall economic numbers tell

00:47:39.340 a negative story. Annual economic growth adjusted for inflation averaged 2.3 percent after the recession

00:47:45.500 ended in June 2009 across Mr. Obama's two terms. Despite the length of the post-2009 expansion,

00:47:51.500 it was shallow. Sluggish growth went hand in hand with the worst labor recovery in generations.

00:47:57.720 The unemployment rate peaked at 10 percent in October 2009. It didn't reach the pre-recession

00:48:02.920 level of 4.4 percent until March 2017. That painfully slow healing overstates the improvement

00:48:10.240 since many since so many Americans dropped out of the workforce labor participation rate was low

00:48:17.460 under Obama fell to 62.8 percent. When Obama left office in January 2017 from a pre-recession 66.2 percent.

00:48:28.940 Obama and Democrats also really changed the economy, transformed the economy with the Affordable Care Act

00:48:36.280 in a way that was not good. And Mr. Biden is now promising to repeat this, but on an even bigger scale

00:48:44.320 with his version of another health care act and the Green New Deal, which his website does say that he

00:48:51.420 supports. According to WSJ, the economic manifesto his policy team co-authored with staffers from the

00:48:57.200 Bernie Sanders campaign promises to install 500 million solar panels in five years, eliminate carbon

00:49:03.140 emissions from power plants and replace every school bus with a green model. The document doesn't

00:49:07.560 explicitly ban fossil fuel production, but it promises new rules that will raise costs and curtail it.

00:49:12.520 The Biden economic plan is best understood as Obama Obamanomics pulled left by Bernie Sanders. He'd

00:49:19.560 raised taxes by $3 trillion by his count, about $4 trillion by independent calculations. His spending

00:49:25.620 plans run to at least $7.4 trillion conservatively estimated. His labor proposals are the most pro-union

00:49:32.600 since the 1935 Wagner Act. Regulations on health care, energy, transportation, technology and finance will

00:49:38.500 multiply. So as Donald Trump deregulated in order to save the taxpayers money, he is going to multiply

00:49:45.100 regulations, often with the priority of reducing racial inequities rather than increasing opportunity.

00:49:52.120 And so this is one of those examples of Democrats trying to reconfigure society to create equality of

00:49:57.660 outcome that always ends badly. The U.S. economy will have a growth spurt in 2021 as the pandemic ends,

00:50:04.260 no matter who wins the election. But over time, these destructive policies will inevitably lead

00:50:09.760 to slower growth. The Fed will be called to do even more, perhaps including bond purchases of private

00:50:14.800 companies and modern monetary theories, debt monetization asset holders will benefit more

00:50:20.340 than wage earners. This may not matter in the election since Democrats and Donald Trump both want 0.97

00:50:24.760 to make this a referendum on Donald Trump. But voters should be under no illusions about what they're

00:50:29.820 buying in the Biden agenda and under no fog of amnesia concerning what happened last time. So

00:50:34.780 there's been this myth that the Obama economy was wonderful. And while there was a recovery there,

00:50:41.520 like this article points out, and even like the New York Times pointed out, it was a shallow recovery.

00:50:46.540 It was not a booming economy. Labor participation was low. And it was not this wonderful gift that was

00:50:54.240 handed to President Trump, which he just has simply carried on. The economy really has boomed under

00:50:59.960 President Trump. Unemployment really has gone down. Labor participation really has gone up. GDP really

00:51:05.500 has climbed high. And taxes really have gone down. And of course, the left doesn't want us to believe

00:51:14.780 that. They don't want us to hear that because that is one of the winning issues for Donald Trump. I do

00:51:20.480 think that is part of why Democrats, Democratic states and Democratic cities have continued to

00:51:26.840 lock down, even when the science tells us that that's not necessary. Sweden is going to end the 0.98

00:51:31.900 year with zero deaths and zero hospitalizations, and they never shut down. And so we don't know that

00:51:39.860 the science of lockdowns is good. We don't know that these lockdowns, the way that we have completely

00:51:45.460 shut down businesses and people's lives has actually worked at all. And yet, Democratic governors,

00:51:53.320 Democratic, you know, city councils, mayors have continued to push these regulations, I think,

00:51:58.740 in part, I think, in part, because they do not want an economic recovery that President Trump is going

00:52:04.600 to be able to take credit for. And I do think that is part of what is behind all of this in in the

00:52:13.100 United States. But the fact of the matter is, is that Trump is not to blame for the economy going

00:52:18.780 down the tubes this year, not just because he didn't start the coronavirus, China did, but also 0.99

00:52:23.740 because he is not the one who has set these draconian, unscientific lockdowns on people's

00:52:29.180 lives. Whereas Joe Biden, he believes that we need to continue to shut down the economy. He believes

00:52:34.600 that we need a universal mask mandate and that that is going to be what puts us back on track.

00:52:40.220 The science just doesn't prove that that is true. And so with Biden, you're looking at higher taxes.

00:52:45.080 He admitted that he has admitted that twice now. He has admitted that we are going to have higher

00:52:50.080 taxes. He will have to raise the taxes on the middle class. He says that he's not going to,

00:52:55.180 but the plan is going to require that, especially to pay for the environmental plan, the climate change

00:53:02.000 plan that he has. Remember, when you vote for either one of them, but in particular, when you vote for

00:53:09.860 Joe Biden, you are not just voting for Joe Biden. Of course, he wants to present himself as a

00:53:13.920 moderate because he wants all the people that voted for Trump in 2016 and maybe feel like they

00:53:18.720 can't vote for him anymore or the people in the middle of the country who would never vote for a

00:53:21.840 socialist, but would vote for Joe Biden because he's Uncle Joe and he authored the 1994 crime bill.

00:53:28.200 So he's been tough on crime. He's a moderate. You're not really voting for him. They picked him

00:53:32.940 strategically. The DNC picked him strategically, even though he probably shouldn't have won the

00:53:36.840 primary because they want these middle of the country votes because they realize that if they

00:53:41.220 get this election in the bag and they finally get power and they are able to do all the things that

00:53:45.060 they've said that they want to do explicitly, like pack the courts, that means expand the Supreme Court

00:53:49.880 and then pack it with judicial activist judges. They can get rid of the Electoral College. They can

00:53:56.360 reconfigure the Senate so that it's proportional to population size the same way that the House is.

00:54:01.660 They can give statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico. They'll never have to worry about not having power again.

00:54:07.460 So when you are voting for Joe Biden, you are voting for the furthest left wing of the party. I mean,

00:54:13.740 we actually see that in his unity task force, which is headed up by Bernie Sanders. I mean,

00:54:19.040 we see this in the support of people like AOC. I don't think he himself is a communist or he himself

00:54:25.020 is a socialist, but his administration will be. Kamala Harris was voted or was, according to her votes,

00:54:32.540 was the furthest left member of the Senate right next to Bernie Sanders last year. And she has said before,

00:54:40.760 maybe it was a gaffe, maybe it was a 40 in slip. The Harris administration with Joe Biden.

00:54:45.300 Joe Biden is on such cognitive decline that he is not going to be making any policy. He is going to be the vessel

00:54:52.980 through which the far left get their policies done. And it's very sad that they understand that

00:54:59.100 their policies and their far left candidates would never be voted for. And so they have to force it

00:55:04.660 upon people in this way. And that's exactly what's going to happen. I just want you to hear this,

00:55:10.100 that Joe Biden will not be a return to normalcy. I know that that's really what the media wants you

00:55:15.120 to believe that all the chaos will end. The coronavirus will end. All of the immaturity and the back and forth

00:55:20.980 between the political parties will end and we'll finally be back to a place of stability. I guarantee,

00:55:26.340 I hope that I'm wrong on this. I guarantee you the chaos will continue. The instability will continue.

00:55:31.760 The far left bullies who are harassing people in the streets, who are making diners get out of their car,

00:55:36.320 raise their fists, say Black Lives Matter, the people who are looting and writing 1.00

00:55:40.000 and the anti-capitalist anarchists are going to be empowered and your life is going to be worse.

00:55:46.360 Again, I'm not fear-mongering because I hope that's not true. I will root for the Biden administration

00:55:50.860 if he wins and hope that, you know, he, that America really does go to this wonderful, awesome

00:55:57.500 place. I hope that. But I'm telling you, that's not what's in the bag here. We've seen this play too

00:56:03.920 many times. Um, okay. Very, very, very quickly. I do just want to say, I do want to say one thing

00:56:11.860 about, uh, I do want to say one thing about the debates. So if anyone from the RNC or Trump's

00:56:18.080 campaign, which I'm sure they're not, but if they are listening, Trump, he's got to win over

00:56:24.060 the suburban moms. A lot of them he's got, but a lot of them he doesn't. He has to win over the

00:56:29.340 Christian suburban moms who have bought into the lie that the democratic party is the party of all life, 0.98

00:56:33.700 even though they're the party of dismembering babies in the womb, even though I don't believe 0.97

00:56:36.940 there are policies at all assist people who are already born. Unfortunately, a lot of them have

00:56:41.720 bought into that lie. And a lot of these women are looking for someone to conduct themselves in a way 1.00

00:56:47.060 that is calm and assured. President Trump started out that way in the debate. He did not end up that

00:56:51.300 way. The constant interruptions and interjections and talking over people does not appeal to a wide

00:56:56.100 array of people in particular women. And yes, there are going to be parts of Trump's base.

00:57:01.700 There will be suburban moms that will comment on this and say, I'm a suburban mom and I disagree 0.68

00:57:05.120 with you. OK, yeah, of course, there are going to be people who disagree with me. I talked to

00:57:09.100 hundreds of people that night who are Trump supporters, some of them in the middle, some

00:57:12.680 of them undecided, saying, please, I want Trump to stop talking. Started out well. Some parts were

00:57:18.100 well. I understand that he wanted to correct the record because they were lying about him and it was

00:57:22.340 two against one. Chris Wallace, Joe Biden against Donald Trump, 100 percent frustrating.

00:57:26.860 I probably wouldn't have been able to keep my cool either. But he's got to learn timing. He's got

00:57:31.640 to learn self-restraint. He's got to let people lie about him for a second before he corrects the

00:57:37.440 record. His attitude matters. His personality matters. Now, I'm here to tell you, if you are

00:57:43.440 questioning Donald Trump, I totally understand. I have been a critic of a lot of the things he said

00:57:49.540 and the way he says them. So I do understand. But Trump's personality, his insistence upon

00:57:55.220 interjecting is not going to be what shapes America, is not going to be what affects your life,

00:58:01.900 your child's life and the lives of your children's children. It is not going to shape the future of 0.97

00:58:06.900 the country. But policies will. Policies will. And I believe personally, and I think that I have

00:58:13.100 helped make that case over the past few weeks in these election episodes, that democratic policies

00:58:17.620 are destructive, that your kids' lives and your grandkids' lives are not going to be better by

00:58:22.740 voting for someone that is going to usher in far leftism. I know that Joe Biden might seem like he

00:58:29.000 is more polite, which he's really not. Like if you've seen him with voters that he disagrees with

00:58:34.040 calling the guy fat at a town hall, saying that he'll challenge him to a push-up contest,

00:58:38.900 calling, telling the guy getting in his face in the factory that one time when he was taking a

00:58:44.080 factory tour that he was full of BS saying the actual words because the guy was saying something

00:58:49.960 that he didn't like. I mean, the guy, Joe Biden certainly flies off the handle, has all of the

00:58:55.000 character flaws that Donald Trump has. But he is so far off his rocker at this point that he is

00:59:03.140 actually unable to fight back to Trump on the debate stage. And he has the help of people like

00:59:07.660 Chris Wallace. And so I understand why he might be appealing to people that are like, you know,

00:59:11.180 I just want someone gentle. I just want someone kind. I just want someone normal. And so the Trump

00:59:16.060 campaign needs to realize that people are going to look at the different personalities in the debates

00:59:20.460 and that Trump needs to conduct himself a little bit better in all of that. But you guys need to

00:59:25.040 realize who are looking at the debates and trying to make your decision based off of that, that the

00:59:30.040 debates aren't going to be what shapes your life or your kid's life or your grandkids' lives. It's just

00:59:34.220 not. And it's not going to be someone's personality. It's not going to be someone's interruptions.

00:59:39.540 You are voting for so much more than one particular person. And by the way, Trump has

00:59:44.100 denounced white supremacy multiple times. He denounced it three years ago after the Charlottesville

00:59:49.680 protests, whatever you want to call those demonstrations, riots. And then he also denounced

00:59:54.360 it one year ago after a shooting. You can look this up on YouTube, explicitly called out white

01:00:00.220 supremacists. And during the debate, when Chris Wallace said, you know, I want you to denounce

01:00:05.040 white supremacists. I want you to denounce Proud Boys. Trump says, sure, I'll do it. I'll do it.

01:00:10.860 Just tell me who to denounce. I'll do it. But he also pivots because he realizes the question is a

01:00:16.380 trap because he realizes that they are trying to make the violence that's going on in our major

01:00:21.280 cities a right wing problem when it is demonstrably, provably a left wing problem. Antifa and BLM are not

01:00:27.940 denying that they are the ones doing the looting and the arson and the rioting in these major cities.

01:00:32.620 They're not denying that they are taking credit for those things because they believe this is

01:00:37.200 their resistance against capitalism, the Western rule of law. Like follow Andy, you know, on Twitter,

01:00:41.820 you will see the reports and the evidence and the photos and the videos of all of these people.

01:00:46.280 I'm not saying that maybe some right wing extremists are coming there and trying to be

01:00:51.700 vigilantes or maybe even make the chaos worse. But that's not who's originating this chaos.

01:00:56.480 And Joe Biden has never been made to denounce these people. He said in this in this debate that,

01:01:04.360 oh, Antifa is just it's just an idea. It's not it's not it's not a group. OK, well, Antifa

01:01:10.540 is an organized movement. It's a well-funded movement. It is a pre-planned movement. This has

01:01:17.100 been pre-planned and pre-orchestrated for months and months long before, long before George Floyd

01:01:22.360 happened. By the way, as we talked about the person who wrote in defense of looting saying

01:01:27.840 back in April that she sees looting on the horizon and a revolution on the horizon against capitalism

01:01:33.820 and that that involves looting and arson. That was in April that she said this documented by NPR

01:01:40.200 before George Floyd happened. So, no, this is a left wing revolution that no Democrat has denounced

01:01:46.000 and actually has praised. White supremacists are not the one that white supremacy is evil. OK, 0.97

01:01:51.680 we know that it's evil. But white supremacists are not the ones that are writing our curriculum in

01:01:57.360 public school. Like they're not the ones that are in our that are in academia. They're in the

01:02:02.620 highest levels of federal office and federal agencies preaching their theories the way that

01:02:08.200 far left activists are preaching critical race theory in a way that's going to divide us. You are not

01:02:13.340 seeing entire corporations and politicians, political parties and sports teams going out

01:02:18.640 and and supporting white supremacists. But you are seeing them preach the divisiveness

01:02:26.340 of critical race theory and the false narratives that go along with critical race theory and Marxist

01:02:31.460 organizations like Antifa and BLM. And so Trump trying to divert attention away from that question is

01:02:38.020 saying, I see that you have me in a trap. Look, we're in a tornado right now. You guys are asking me

01:02:43.280 about floods and I'm trying to deal with the tornado. We can deal with floods when floods are our main

01:02:47.900 problem. But right now, tornadoes are our main problem. And Biden and the Democrats are like,

01:02:51.980 oh, no, no, no. But you must like floods then. It's craziness. So those are my thoughts on that.

01:02:57.420 I just wanted to give some some some brief some some brief analysis. I have more to say. But this is

01:03:02.620 once again, another long episode. So I'm just going to end it there. Hope that was helpful. I will be

01:03:07.320 back here on Wednesday. See you guys then.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - October 05, 2020

Ep 309 ｜ Trump vs. Biden 2020： The Economy

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