Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 37 ｜ Growing Anti-Americanism

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00:00:31.360 talk about anti-Americanism on the left. Something that we have seen exemplified, unfortunately,

00:00:38.060 by Democrats like Andrew Cuomo, Beto O'Rourke or some people surrounding him, Barack Obama and others.

00:00:45.600 And you might be thinking, well, Ali, this sounds really harsh. How can you accuse an entire side

00:00:51.960 of being unpatriotic? Well, I'm not accusing an entire side, and I do wish it was a harsh accusation,

00:00:58.720 but it's really not. The truth is, is that patriotism has become partisan. I don't think

00:01:05.060 it was always that way. I think at a time, maybe before I was born, people would say that both

00:01:11.140 Republicans and Democrats loved America. They just have different ideas of how that love of country

00:01:17.680 could manifest itself. People of different political affiliations could discuss differences

00:01:23.080 on foreign policy, domestic policy, diplomacy, taxes, welfare, and they could come together in

00:01:28.900 some sort of compromise, or at least at the end of the day, be able to look at their fellow American

00:01:33.340 on the other side of the aisle and say, okay, you know, we're both part of the same country and we

00:01:38.280 can love each other in that sense. But that's just not the case anymore. We are more polarized than

00:01:43.080 we've ever been. There are fewer people in the middle that was found by Pew Research in a study

00:01:48.760 called polarization in American politics. And it's really unfortunate. And there is a really big and

00:01:55.660 a really disturbing difference now between the right and the left that I think is fundamentally

00:02:00.360 driving us apart, and that is patriotism. Now, let me go ahead and say that not all people on the

00:02:07.060 right are patriotic, and not all people on the left are unpatriotic. There are people on both sides who

00:02:16.580 think that America is not the greatest country in the world, that we are corrupt, that we have a lot

00:02:22.520 to apologize for, yada, yada, yada, yada. And there are specifically, there are people on the left,

00:02:29.240 or at least people who identify as Democrats who are more liberal than conservatives, who do love our

00:02:34.200 country, who support our military and are supporters of American exceptionalism. So I am not saying that

00:02:41.780 only conservatives love the country and all liberals hate the country. But it is a documented

00:02:48.180 fact that Republicans are more proud to be Americans than Democrats are. So I will take a look with you at

00:02:54.720 some of these numbers that back up that assertion. So according to Gallup, in 2003, 70% of all Americans

00:03:02.460 said that they were, quote, extremely proud to be Americans. In 2016, only 52% did. That was a record

00:03:09.820 low. If you look at the graph that Gallup has in 2001, before 9-11, it was 55%. And then it spiked

00:03:17.800 after 9-11 and continued to go up until 2003. And then it kind of declined after that, probably due in

00:03:23.980 part to the cynicism of the war. In 2009, it was at 58%. So even though it was a lot lower than in 2003,

00:03:33.140 it was still higher than it was actually pre-9-11. And yet, from 2009 to 2016, that number dropped by

00:03:41.320 six percentage points. Huh. So let's see how that actually breaks down among different kinds of people.

00:03:47.420 Um, so it says that usually women have actually been prouder to be Americans than men have. Uh,

00:03:53.420 but right now, for whatever reason, or at least in 2016, uh, women are less proud than men by three

00:03:59.320 points. Um, listen to the generational differences. This is really interesting. And like I said, this

00:04:05.000 is in 2016. It might've changed a little bit. Uh, people aged 50 to 64 were the proudest people

00:04:10.980 polled with 64% of them, uh, extremely proud to be an American ages 30 to 49, a slim majority 51%

00:04:19.560 extremely proud. And then of course, as for 18 to 29 year olds, as of 2016, only 34%, barely a third

00:04:29.520 said that they were extremely proud to be Americans. Hmm. I wonder why that is. Could it be that the vast

00:04:37.060 majority of millennials and young people are the most progressive generation in American history?

00:04:42.140 Hmm. That statistically, most of us vote consistently Democrat. Huh. That's really interesting. So how do

00:04:50.240 Democrats feel about patriotism? Um, well, let's look at the numbers. Uh, so pre nine 11, uh, 53% of

00:04:59.000 Democrats were extremely proud to be Americans. And then in 2003, that number shot up to 63%. Um, and then

00:05:06.420 as of 2016, only 45% were so significantly lower than before nine 11. So after eight years of their,

00:05:14.980 uh, progressive darling, after eight years of leadership from the president that they hailed

00:05:19.640 as a hero, after eight years of ruthlessly pushing their leftist agenda, they were less proud to be

00:05:26.920 Americans than before. Well, surely, surely after all of that time, Republicans lost some patriotism,

00:05:33.100 right? After eight years of a president who did basically nothing that we agreed with, who passed

00:05:37.960 a healthcare act that most of us viewed as unconstitutional. Surely we became less proud

00:05:43.260 after all of that. Well, actually, no, we didn't. Uh, Republicans polled were actually even more proud

00:05:50.340 to be Americans than we were in, uh, before nine 11. So like every other group, our patriotism dropped,

00:05:57.940 uh, from 2003 in, uh, 2001, 64% of us were extremely proud and 2003, 80% of us were. And then

00:06:05.600 in 2016, uh, 2016, 68% of us were, which like I said, is higher than pre nine 11. Uh, then if you

00:06:14.560 go not by party affiliation, but ideological affiliation, uh, the gap gets even wider and in

00:06:20.780 my opinion, even more troubling than that. Uh, so only 36% of liberals in 2016 said that they were

00:06:27.600 extremely proud to be Americans, uh, down from 49% in 2001, 61% of conservatives kind of interesting

00:06:35.520 that it's actually lower than the Republican number, uh, were extremely proud down only 1%

00:06:41.920 from 2001. Um, and then we look at a study by Pew research, uh, people were asked to choose one of

00:06:49.080 these three options. A America is the greatest country in the world. B America is the greatest 0.58

00:06:55.940 country along with other countries in the world or C there are other countries better than the United

00:07:01.100 States. Uh, in 2011, 38% of Americans said that us, uh, is the greatest country in the world that

00:07:08.960 dropped to 29% in 2017. Uh, when asked in 2017, if America is the greatest country in the world,

00:07:16.400 older Americans and conservatives obviously were the most likely to say yes. Uh, among 18 to 29 year

00:07:23.040 olds, only 12%, 12% said yes to that question. Uh, with 28% saying that there are countries that

00:07:31.060 are better than America, uh, 47% of conservative Republicans say yes. And only 13% of liberal

00:07:38.860 Democrats say yes. Uh, 29% of liberal Democrats say there are countries that are better than us. So,

00:07:44.320 uh, those numbers look very similar to the millennial numbers. Uh, it's almost like the left is being

00:07:50.260 driven by millions of millennial socialists. Interesting. Uh, it's also interesting to see

00:07:55.900 that the greater number of degrees someone has also high school, college, post-grad, the less

00:08:01.540 likely they are to say that America is the greatest country in the world. It's almost like, it's almost

00:08:07.780 like universities are indoctrination stations now, rather than institutions of learning, because if they

00:08:14.680 were learning, if these students were learning anything of value, they would recognize the exceptionalism

00:08:20.120 of the country in which that we are all really blessed to live. And I'm going to talk about why

00:08:26.080 we are so blessed to live in this country, why it's such a privilege. And then I'll go into

00:08:30.340 specifically how the Democrats as of late are showing, uh, kind of more than ever, their flagrant

00:08:35.180 disregard for American greatness. Um, see if these kids, if people our age were learning anything in

00:08:41.060 college, they would be learning that America in our short, less than 250 years of existence has done

00:08:48.020 more to make men free than any other nation in existence. Uh, we are the only country, the only

00:08:54.280 country who has sacrificed everything, not just for our own liberty, but also for the liberty of both

00:08:59.140 our allies and our enemies. Can you think of another country who has done more to free strangers in

00:09:06.060 foreign lands from the iron fist of tyranny? Can you think of a greater force against the evils of

00:09:12.160 communism who has saved the entire world from totalitarianism, not just once, but multiple

00:09:18.840 times in just one century? Can you think of any who else has sustained the world's economy with the

00:09:24.820 greatest innovations history has ever seen? Who else has in such a short amount of time gone from

00:09:30.700 allowing the atrocity of African-American, uh, slaves to having countless African-Americans lead in both 1.00

00:09:36.760 the private and the public sector to recognizing African-Americans like Frederick Douglass, Harriet

00:09:41.620 Tubman, and Martin Luther King as some of our country's greatest heroes? Who, who else has gone from

00:09:48.460 women not being able to vote less than a hundred years ago, less than a hundred years ago to having

00:09:55.920 a woman sit on the Supreme court only 60 years, 60 ish years after the 19th amendment was passed. 0.99

00:10:02.040 Thanks to president Reagan, by the way, uh, who nominated the first woman to the Supreme court.

00:10:06.760 Uh, we have three women and a black man on the highest court in the land and only a hundred years

00:10:12.560 ago. That would have been laughable. Uh, people always point, particularly people on the left point

00:10:17.920 to the inequalities that we've had throughout history to talk about how bad we are. No, every country,

00:10:25.700 every country in human history has had bad periods. They have all had injustice. Virtually every society

00:10:33.820 has had slavery. Virtually every society has oppressed women and elevated men. Virtually every

00:10:40.540 society has had inequality and has marginalized various segments of the population. No society

00:10:47.040 has righted their wrongs as quickly and as valiantly as the United States of America has.

00:10:52.620 No country has done more good in the world than we have. And you hear all of this nonsense about

00:10:59.540 imperialism and how we've messed up other countries by imposing our values. There was the story about

00:11:05.260 how India is no longer, uh, making, uh, gay sexual relations illegal. And, uh, people were actually

00:11:12.640 blaming the fact that it was illegal in the first place on old Victorian moors that were pushed on them

00:11:18.180 by American or Western imperialists, which is hilarious. So you still hear this all the time,

00:11:23.220 but the reality is, is that wherever American boots have been on the ground, the lives of those around

00:11:28.620 those American boots have improved. Uh, America has existed to make men, women, and children free. And we

00:11:36.360 have done that more effectively than any other nation in existence. So why is that? What makes us so

00:11:44.020 special? Because we are special. The reason is because we are the only country, the only successful country

00:11:51.140 anyway, that was founded on an idea and not just any idea, but a good idea. And that idea is that

00:11:58.200 all men and women are created equal. And that word created is crucial. And it points to the next part

00:12:05.480 that as created beings, we were endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, rights that

00:12:10.820 because they were given to us by a supreme transcendent, higher power cannot, or should not

00:12:16.400 be taken away by a lower power, i.e. the government, everything good that America has ever done

00:12:23.060 has been built on that foundation and everything bad that America has ever done. We have done bad

00:12:29.280 things. Any unequal, uh, injustice that America has ever allowed to flourish has not been built on that

00:12:36.600 foundation. So when people point to America's imperfections in our historical sins to prove the

00:12:42.140 point that America is inherently bad, no, America is not inherently bad. Inherently, America is very

00:12:50.080 good because the idea that we were founded on is good. Our premise is good. Any sins that we have

00:12:56.140 committed have been diversions away from that premise, away from the foundation, away from the idea that

00:13:01.460 makes us so good and so special, so exceptional. Um, we are the greatest experiment the world has ever put

00:13:11.080 forth. And that experiment is one in self-governance that man, when he is mostly left to his own

00:13:19.500 devices is able to flourish and should be free to flourish because of his inherent worth as an

00:13:25.560 individual. That was a concept wholly derived from Protestantism, by the way. And many people say that

00:13:31.420 that experiment has failed. Look at the corruption, look at the crony capitalism, the wealth disparities,

00:13:36.320 the school shootings, all of these things that show just how bad humans are and how in need we are of

00:13:42.560 the government to dictate our lives. There are lots of problems with that, but I will acknowledge,

00:13:48.300 yes, man is bad. We know that especially as Christians, that we are fallen. We are sinful.

00:13:53.160 We have the capacity to do disgusting, evil, heartless things. But despite all the evil that men and women 0.98

00:13:59.560 as fallen human beings have done in America, we have not learned that this experiment in self-governance 0.56

00:14:05.540 is a failure. What we've learned is that self-governance and liberty are double-edged swords.

00:14:11.580 That while freedom allows us to commit inconceivably harmful acts, it also frees us to do more good for

00:14:19.440 our neighbors than anyone could have ever imagined before America was around. Self-governance, which is

00:14:26.240 necessarily girded by and fueled by free enterprise, has the power to lift people out of poverty without

00:14:33.160 enslaving them to the government. It enables us to be free-willed in our charity. It encourages

00:14:40.340 competition, which encourages innovation, which leads to advancements in technology and medicine

00:14:45.760 that have rerouted the course of human history for the better. The world is less hungry, less desperate,

00:14:52.680 more hopeful, and more successful because of America's idea of self-governance, which has sustained

00:14:57.900 the success of capitalism for centuries. There is a reason why so many people come to America

00:15:05.940 to start their businesses, to work in technology, to develop their innovations. There is a reason

00:15:12.100 why people bring their sick here to be healed. There is a reason why so many people come here

00:15:18.100 to receive top-of-the-line education. There is a reason why millions and millions of people

00:15:23.340 immigrate here every year, and very few people leave. And America has become, has been the most 0.99

00:15:31.340 open, the most welcome, and the most generous nation in the world to the tired, to the hungry,

00:15:36.880 and to the sick who have showed up at our door. So the only proper response from the world to America

00:15:44.040 in most cases, maybe, maybe not all cases, but most cases, is thank you. And we, as Americans,

00:15:51.640 should be thanking God for the grace that he has given us, for the faithfulness to us, for his

00:15:57.200 provision when we haven't deserved it. God has blessed America so much, and he has blessed each

00:16:04.840 of us who live here by allowing us to be born here or to move here. So thank you, God. And why?

00:16:13.520 Why, you ask, all of you smart listeners, why, if all of that is so true and obvious,

00:16:18.760 why does the left, according to the numbers, dislike America so much? Why are they so resentful

00:16:25.080 of American strength? Why are they so insistent that we are bad and that other countries are so

00:16:30.820 much better than us? Why, even after so much of their so-called progress, what they deem progress

00:16:36.760 under their dear leader, Barack Obama, were they so discontent with America, even more discontent?

00:16:42.300 And why, even though America is clearly going to the left in almost every regard, at least socially,

00:16:48.480 culturally, do conservatives stand firm in our love for America? Honestly, I couldn't tell you

00:16:56.140 one singular fundamental reason. Anti-Americanism really soared during the Cold War. Throughout the

00:17:03.520 world, there was anti-American propaganda pushed by Russia or USSR throughout Europe that I'm sure

00:17:10.480 contributed to the kind of anti-American sentiment throughout the world. Even now, universities

00:17:16.300 have been peddling far-left material for years. There have always been sympathizers of Marx and

00:17:21.600 Lenin, both adamantly anti-American men, anti-capitalism, anti-freedom. In every era, there are a few people

00:17:29.500 who try to bring those ideas back, who just ignore the bloodshed that socialism and communism have caused

00:17:35.680 throughout the past century and who insist that their ideas just, you know, have never been tried.

00:17:41.500 But in America, in general, those voices have been successfully drowned out. They've been kind of

00:17:47.600 pushed to the margins of society by both Republicans and Democrats. Until now. Now, Democrats openly

00:17:55.680 embrace Marxist identity politics and socialism. Many of them even have it in their name, Democratic Socialist,

00:18:01.920 which is just socialism that you choose. That's like having the power to pick which gun you're going

00:18:07.120 to get shot with. It's not that great. And even those who don't have socialists in their name are

00:18:12.400 embracing things like Medicare for all and free college, things that sound great but cost taxpayers

00:18:19.260 a heck of a lot of money. There are several of these kinds of candidates running for Congress and

00:18:25.040 in gubernatorial races this year, which should really scare us. So what we see is that socialist far-left

00:18:31.380 views and anti-Americanism go hand in hand. I highly doubt, I highly doubt that you would be able to

00:18:39.600 find an American socialist who is proud to be an American. So while they're enjoying all the benefits

00:18:45.120 of capitalism like Netflix and Uber, they're demoning the evils of it. Even though they themselves

00:18:51.580 have been able to rise to prominence because of American ideas and free enterprise, they complain

00:18:56.100 about the deep-seated American injustice that holds us all back. I mean, it's really, really laughable,

00:19:02.740 except it's not because it's also scary. Take Cynthia Nixon and Andrew Cuomo, for example.

00:19:10.060 I run it against each other in the Democratic primary for New York governor. Andrew Cuomo recently

00:19:14.980 said in a speech that America was never that great. Never great. Okay. So Andrew Cuomo,

00:19:22.540 a millionaire, thinks that America isn't that great. Cynthia Nixon, she didn't even have a whole 1.00

00:19:30.280 lot to say to that. She tried to use it to her benefit, but she didn't have a whole lot to say

00:19:34.580 because, oh yeah, she doesn't really like America either. So right now they're just in a battle for

00:19:40.300 who hates America more. That's apparently who New Yorkers want to elect. Great. Beto O'Rourke,

00:19:46.560 Ted Cruz's challenger for the Senate in Texas, recently said that he can think of, quote,

00:19:52.540 nothing more American than players kneeling for the national anthem. Really? Nothing? You can't

00:20:00.040 think of one thing more American than that? Not even, I don't know, sacrificing your life in the

00:20:06.980 military? That's not more American? Or maybe, I don't know, singing the national anthem with your

00:20:12.020 hand over your heart? That's not more American, you don't think? Okay. This is also the guy who

00:20:17.440 recently had a rally in Texas, of course, in Texas, at a veteran of foreign affairs

00:20:23.920 hall where people demanded, apparently, that the American flags that were up on the wall be taken

00:20:31.640 down. Now, his campaign says that it wasn't them, that it wasn't part of his campaign team that

00:20:37.420 requested this. But the guy who worked at the VFA hall who was running the event said that the

00:20:43.080 people who made the request came out of the room where the rest of the team was. So we don't know

00:20:48.600 exactly who requested it. I wasn't there. Beto's team has denied it was their team. But, but I guarantee

00:20:56.240 you, this would not have happened at a Republican rally. If it does one day, I will stand corrected.

00:21:01.760 I mean, I guess it could happen by some crazy alt-right person. But my guess is that it wouldn't.

00:21:08.260 Um, and then we had most recently the lovely, uh, Joe Scarborough of MSNBC on 9-11 a couple of days

00:21:17.080 ago. Um, this is a guy who says he is a Republican, by the way. Um, he has been a key leader in the

00:21:23.100 anti-Trump resistance for a couple years now. Um, and he wrote a piece for the Washington Post that he

00:21:30.660 decided he needed to publish on 9-11. And he tweeted out his article saying, Trump is more damaging

00:21:38.240 to the dream of America, uh, than any terrorist attack ever could be. Uh, I kind of paraphrase

00:21:45.820 that because I feel like grammatically it was a little bit messed up, but really that's what he

00:21:50.120 said, that Trump is more damaging to America and the American dream than a terrorist attack by a

00:21:55.500 foreign adversary. Really? Really? That's what he said. I want to know if he would say that to the

00:22:00.920 families of the firefighters who lost their lives on 9-11. Would he say that to the men and women who

00:22:05.760 have been fighting overseas for years for his right to be a raving, ignorant lunatic? Now the article

00:22:11.800 itself is really stupid, but it's not quite, not quite as bad as the headline because that would

00:22:18.260 be really bad. But the headline reveals everything that he actually thinks that Islamist, uh, terror

00:22:23.920 is literally worse than, uh, or is literally better than a president who has added millions of jobs to

00:22:31.840 our economy. And look, I understand not liking Donald Trump. I really do. There are many days

00:22:38.120 when I don't like Donald Trump, but I would never say that he is worse than a terror attack by a foreign 1.00

00:22:42.840 enemy in which my fellow countrymen and women were killed. 3000 people were murdered that day. Uh,

00:22:49.020 that is because the reason for the difference is because people like Joe and all of his leftist cronies

00:22:54.920 have a weak, flimsy understanding of American strength and patriotism. And they are so used to

00:23:01.260 their anti-American echo chambers that they think that they are totally in line by saying that Trump,

00:23:06.440 a president who has done a heck of a lot of good for our country, whether you like him or not,

00:23:10.160 is worse than Americans being murdered by Islamic terrorists. Um, he probably ran this headline by

00:23:16.040 everyone at MSNBC and they were all like, yeah, definitely dude, solid stuff. That's really,

00:23:21.220 really good. Uh, and then on Twitter, he was probably shocked when his tweet got really,

00:23:26.960 really badly ratioed by thousands of people with an actual brain. Um, really amazing stuff.

00:23:33.940 Uh, and then of course, uh, rewind to the 4th of July. I was on HLN right before the 4th of July.

00:23:40.240 I was on a panel with two Democrats. Um, I was, that was the only one, maybe the host was,

00:23:45.080 but I was the only one on the panel who was excited about celebrating the 4th of July. Always been my

00:23:49.640 favorite holiday, by the way. One guy said that he's not going to celebrate at all because of how

00:23:54.060 racist our country is. The other girl said that she will, but only cause she has to. So begrudgingly,

00:23:59.760 uh, there were leftists all over Twitter saying that they weren't going to celebrate. Uh, so what

00:24:04.420 we see is one, the left patriotism is dying. Um, if it's, if it ever really was alive into whatever

00:24:11.960 patriotism they do have left is dependent on who is in power. Um, that's just not true for

00:24:18.580 conservatives as the numbers we already talked about show. Uh, because patriotism that depends

00:24:23.820 on the president, isn't really patriotism. We are patriotic because of the principles on which

00:24:29.840 the country was founded and the unmatched strength that we have exhibit exhibited in our country's

00:24:35.020 lifetime. And these things don't change depending on who is in office. Uh, but the left doesn't feel

00:24:40.000 that way because they simply don't buy into it anymore. Uh, the foundation of American values,

00:24:46.660 they don't believe in self-governance, the idea that America originally put forth. If they did,

00:24:51.340 they wouldn't be pushing for socialism and taking down flags and insisting that America has never been

00:24:55.880 great and refusing to celebrate the 4th of July. And for a party who constantly decries the evils of

00:25:02.260 privilege, I can see nothing more privileged than not realizing how much better you and I have it

00:25:09.420 as an American than anyone else in the world. See, here's the problem. The problem is the, the,

00:25:17.900 the reason that we're so divided, uh, is because our differences as Republicans and Democrats are not

00:25:24.700 more complicated or more complex than they used to be. They are a lot more fundamental and a lot more

00:25:30.960 simple. We don't primarily disagree on policy anymore. We disagree on identity, on what it means to be

00:25:38.200 an American. Uh, we do not share a love of country. We do not share an appreciation for 0.99

00:25:43.780 the goodness and the greatness of America. Uh, we can't at the end of the day, look to our friends

00:25:49.280 on the left, some of them or most of them, but not all of them, but look to most of our friends on the

00:25:54.460 left and say, Hey, at least we're both Americans. And Hey, even though we have different ideas on how to

00:26:00.380 make our country better, we are both proud to be here, proud to be contributing to this, um,

00:26:05.880 great unfinished symphony. That is the United States of America. Uh, there is one party that

00:26:10.960 is proud. There's one party that is grateful for all that America has done for us and for the world.

00:26:16.080 And again, that doesn't mean that no one on the left is patriotic and that everyone on the right

00:26:20.520 is, but the right dominates the left when it comes to the area of patriotism. And that's been seen,

00:26:27.260 uh, through both statistical data and through the words and actions of the people that we've been

00:26:32.460 talking about. Um, and it's just, it's just not enough to say, okay, well, you know, whatever.

00:26:38.500 I don't want to worry about this. That's just what they think. That's just a matter of opinion.

00:26:42.260 Let them have their anti-Americanism and socialism, and we can have our love of country and capitalism.

00:26:48.000 Well, no, I'm not content with that. Those two things don't coexist. Um, I'm going to beat down

00:26:54.680 their stupid ideas forever until the day that I die. Do you know why? Because their way doesn't work

00:27:01.980 because it has led to forced mediocrity, to despair and death for millions of people.

00:27:08.180 Sure. Socialism might ensure equality, but it's equality of misery. This is not just a difference

00:27:14.040 of opinion. This is a dangerous, deadly ideology that has squashed the freedom and has taken the

00:27:20.280 lives of millions. You want to know what the end of Marxism looks like? Just look at China. Yes,

00:27:27.380 they have embraced capitalism in many ways, but virtually all of human life is dictated by the

00:27:34.160 government in China, and it's getting worse. Uh, they're developing technology to read the facial

00:27:38.920 expressions of its citizens to determine whether or not they are sufficiently loyal. That is real. Uh,

00:27:44.940 both Muslims and Christians are being prohibited from worship and or their places of worship are

00:27:50.100 being bugged by the government. Um, there is hardly any individual freedom whatsoever in China.

00:27:57.240 And that is precisely what happens when you give the government all of the power, which is exactly

00:28:02.800 what socialism, what communism, what Marxism, what Leninism does. Just look at the fates of the USSR,

00:28:09.620 Cambodia, Eastern Germany, all of these totalitarian countries who in the last century have slaughtered

00:28:16.200 its citizens. That is what happens when the power is taken from individuals and given to the government.

00:28:21.960 That is why our founders founded the kind of country that they did. Just look at Venezuela,

00:28:27.060 a government who promised its citizens everything and is now bankrupt and its people are starving in the

00:28:33.560 streets. Um, all of this doesn't happen right away. At first, it just looks like growing the size and the

00:28:40.820 power of the government, which admittedly America has been doing for a long time. Uh, the new

00:28:46.000 programs always sound really nice and really compassionate, even Christian. Oh, let's, let's

00:28:51.240 just, let's just try, let's just try Medicare for all. Let's just try single payer healthcare. So everyone

00:28:56.140 is covered. Let's just, let's just see what happens if we make college free. Let's just force companies

00:29:01.000 to raise the minimum wage, $15. Uh, let's outlaw inheritance so that when a person dies, they have to give

00:29:07.200 their leftover money to the government. Uh, let's make sure that the government provides everyone with

00:29:11.940 the job who wants one. And then, Hey, we might just go ahead and abolish profit. And Oh, do you mind

00:29:18.500 if we overtake the means of production and seize private property? Okay, great. Thanks so much.

00:29:24.080 Um, and no, we are not to all out levels of, uh, you know, a socialist regime yet. Uh, but if not for

00:29:35.340 us, if not for people like you and me pushing back against this far left anti-American narrative,

00:29:40.400 talking to our friends, educating the people around us, teaching our kids, supporting freedom

00:29:45.780 loving candidates, getting involved in the campaigns of conservatives, uh, fighting for

00:29:50.620 judges like Kavanaugh, who actually acknowledged the existence of the constitution, unlike in many

00:29:55.800 leftist judges, uh, we would be there and we would be getting there soon. Uh, that is why you do not

00:30:03.500 give the left an inch just as a matter of principle, not an inch. Now I'm not saying that we don't agree

00:30:09.520 on some things or that we don't try to come together on issues that matter to us both, but when it comes

00:30:15.240 to being bullied by the liberal mom, when they tell you you're a bigot for believing in God, that

00:30:20.940 you're selfish for promoting capitalism, that you're arrogant for believing in American exceptionalism,

00:30:26.580 don't submit to that. Don't give into that. You, you come to them with facts. You tell them why

00:30:33.080 America is the greatest country in the world and why socialism has been such a fatal failure every

00:30:38.900 single time it has been tried. And yes, it has been tried. Um, it is really unfortunate that

00:30:46.200 patriotism has become political, that one side so outweighs the other when it comes to loving our

00:30:51.760 country, but don't let them push you into silence. Be proud of that. Be grateful. You can still

00:30:57.560 acknowledge our flaws, our sins, the injustices that have occurred and do occur. The times that we

00:31:03.280 failed to live up to our places, the shining city on a Hill as the beacon of Liberty, as the leader

00:31:08.340 inequality and freedom, but that does not require you to become cynical about just how blessed we

00:31:13.480 are and have been as a country. Um, I think that it is a slap in the face to God, uh, not to thank

00:31:21.360 him for allowing us graciously to live in a country where we can worship him freely and talk about him

00:31:27.700 without fear of punishment. There are millions of people around the world who see that freedom as a

00:31:32.220 far off privilege that they'll never get to enjoy. We see it as a given right. Um, that is because of

00:31:38.740 the God inspired values on which we are founded and the men and women who have fought and died to

00:31:44.220 make that a continued reality for us. And it is up to us to keep that alive. It is a fight.

00:31:50.200 Unfortunately, I wish it wasn't, but it is, it's an uphill battle. Um, it's a fight for American

00:31:55.420 greatness against, uh, those both here and abroad who, uh, who really despise us. Uh, they despise us

00:32:03.860 because of, uh, because of our unique greatness, a greatness without which by the way, the world

00:32:09.760 would be a much darker place. Um, okay, that's it for today. Thank you guys so much for listening.

00:32:15.960 Please leave a positive review. If you would like, of course you can message me on Instagram. If you have

00:32:20.780 any suggestions or feedback for the show, you can also email me at the conservative millennial blog.com

00:32:26.460 and I'll see you next week.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - September 13, 2018

Ep 37 ｜ Growing Anti-Americanism

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