Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 45 ｜ You're Not a Victim

00:00:00.000 What's up, y'all? Welcome to Relatable. My name is Allie Stuckey. This is a podcast by CRTV.

00:00:06.780 If you don't already subscribe to CRTV.com, you definitely should because then you can watch this

00:00:12.660 rather than just listen to it. This is episode 45, which means we've been doing this for kind

00:00:19.320 of a long time now. It started out once a week and then you guys were listening so much and so

00:00:25.520 passionately that I decided to give you a twice a week podcast. So thank you so much for listening

00:00:31.420 and for following along. I get messages from you guys, uh, every day with suggestions, with feedback,

00:00:37.360 with, uh, encouragement. And I just really, really appreciate your voice. I might not be able to

00:00:43.800 answer every single message that I receive, but I try to read all of them and just know that it means

00:00:49.600 a lot to me when you guys interact with me, uh, online and care enough about this podcast that

00:00:55.500 you take the time to give me your thoughts, whether they are positive or critical. I just want you to

00:01:01.160 know that I really appreciate it. Uh, so today I want to talk about women and, um, how women are

00:01:10.020 perceived and also leveraged in the political sphere. Uh, obviously within this whole Kavanaugh drama that

00:01:18.200 we've experienced for the past few weeks, women have really been at the forefront, uh, on the left, 1.00

00:01:23.360 the mantra was believe women, this insane idea that we need to believe people based on their gender, 0.95

00:01:29.320 based on their anatomy, rather than based on the truth and credibility. Um, and I've talked about

00:01:34.520 in the past, that's been the trajectory of the me too movement, something that started out probably

00:01:40.040 positive. And in some ways, at least I think so the idea of listen to her, let's hear this woman out.

00:01:47.020 Let's hear this victim. Let's hear her story that I was on board with, but we went from listen to her

00:01:52.340 to believe her. And that's what I'm not on board with because when you believe someone simply based

00:01:57.680 on the fact that she's a woman, um, you are saying that facts are irrelevant, that credibility is

00:02:02.660 irrelevant, um, and that truth and justice are irrelevant. And that's not the world that I want

00:02:07.940 to live in. Unfortunately, that's what happens with a lot of leftist trends. They start out with,

00:02:12.760 um, at least some noble intent, and then they swing so far in the other direction that they

00:02:18.340 actually take away rights rather than give, than give rights, or they actually end up being much

00:02:25.400 less compassionate, uh, than when they started. And that's exactly what has happened with this part

00:02:30.880 of the me too movement. Um, now I still believe in hearing victims of sexual assault. I still believe

00:02:36.880 that's a conversation that we should have, um, in a very respectful and intellectual way. But this idea

00:02:44.080 of kind of, uh, throwing the baby out with the bathwater, if you will, or jumping wholesale into 0.97

00:02:49.660 this idea of disbelieving men and believing women based on gender, I think is absolutely ridiculous.

00:02:55.720 It undermines our justice system, which is you are innocent until you are proven guilty. I don't think

00:03:01.980 any of us really want to live in a world in which we are guilty until proven innocent, because yes,

00:03:07.640 right now, uh, we are condemning men without any proof whatsoever, but who's to say that that couldn't

00:03:15.200 happen for women as well. I mean, we already hear this idea propagated by the left, that there is no 0.96

00:03:20.740 difference really between men and women. They want everyone to be the really their main goal or their

00:03:26.400 underlying goal, I should say, is to make this, uh, is to convince everyone that gender is a social

00:03:33.040 construct and to convince everyone that gender is fluid. That's how they think they're going to 0.81

00:03:37.620 make this egalitarian society is if we are no longer separated, uh, by gender, but everyone

00:03:43.720 just views, uh, each other as comrade rather than as a man or a woman. That's how they think

00:03:49.860 they're going to take down the patriarchy. Uh, that's how they think that they are going to

00:03:53.720 accomplish egalitarianism. And so if that is the world that they are bringing us into, uh, where

00:03:58.960 gender doesn't exist, where there's, they've convinced us that there are no real differences between

00:04:03.320 men and women. Um, then who's to say that they're not also going to, uh, condemn women for things

00:04:10.240 like sexual assault or other crimes without any proof whatsoever. If we're all just comrade,

00:04:15.220 if there's no difference between men and women, uh, what's stopping them from eventually bringing

00:04:20.300 false accusations against women that they don't agree with. Um, and when I say they, I mean the left

00:04:25.800 because they are the tyrannical, the tyrannical majority right now. Um, I've called conservatives,

00:04:31.520 the silent majority majority in this, in a sense of silent of the silent majority is really just a

00:04:37.440 large group of people. It doesn't necessarily mean 51%. Um, but they are, so while we might be the

00:04:44.820 silent or the quieter majority, they are the tyrannical majority. Um, and while we still

00:04:49.760 control the white house and we control Congress, there is no doubt that the left controls technology.

00:04:55.120 They control academia, they control entertainment, uh, they control the media, all of our modes of

00:05:00.720 information and communication are controlled by the left. So that is how they're able to execute

00:05:06.180 their tyranny. And so you should be worried about living in this, um, Orwellian world in which anyone

00:05:13.180 man or woman is convicted of something without being proven, uh, without being proven guilty. Uh,

00:05:20.980 that is how they are going to exact political revenge. Because remember the left does not believe

00:05:26.780 that if you are a conservative, you are just wrong or you are misinformed or just ignorant. Even they 0.98

00:05:31.800 believe that you are a bad person. And that is how they justify, um, any means whatsoever to tear down

00:05:38.480 not just your ideas, but you as a person, because they've convinced themselves or they've been convinced

00:05:44.320 that their political adversaries, um, are, are bad people and Nazis. And of course, any, any mode 0.68

00:05:53.440 necessary to defeat a Nazi is justified. It doesn't matter if it's storming you at your own home, 0.75

00:05:58.700 doxing you, uh, being as uncivil and as indecent as humanly possible is absolutely, um, okay in their

00:06:07.600 eyes because we are bad, terrible people. And they see themselves as vigilantes, as people on the right

00:06:15.160 side of history, as the moral arbiters. And we don't, we don't meet their standards. And, uh, so they feel

00:06:22.300 that they are justified in, in taking us down. Uh, that's why they are not worried about us being

00:06:27.640 silenced. They're not worried about us being bullied. They're not worried about us being fired

00:06:31.360 or even our lives being ruined. Like they tried to do with Brett Kavanaugh because they think that

00:06:35.800 they are fighting against what they see as evil. That is such a dangerous way to think. Um, I think

00:06:43.180 that liberals are absolutely wrong in nearly everything that they believe. I don't agree with their

00:06:48.300 policies. I hate their ideas. And I do think that they are ignorant and misinformed most of them.

00:06:53.720 Um, but I don't think that they are evil. Um, and I don't think that they are deliberately trying to,

00:06:59.920 I don't know. I don't think that their policies are deliberately wicked. Um, I just think that they

00:07:05.940 are wrong. But at the end of the day, I do see them as a human being. I do see them as a fellow American,

00:07:11.500 but it's very difficult when they don't see me the same way. How am I supposed to have a

00:07:17.880 relationship or a friendship with someone across the aisle who thinks because I'm pro-life that I 0.95

00:07:23.240 hate them, that I hate women. It's terrible Marxist propaganda that has infiltrated the left. 1.00

00:07:30.120 And that's why we see fewer and fewer moderates on the left and greater and greater numbers of,

00:07:36.440 uh, far left progressives. Um, there are many statistics that prove this, uh, including my

00:07:43.640 favorite study, partisanship and politics by Pew Research, October, 2017. Uh, there are more people

00:07:48.900 on the far left than ever before. Uh, that is exactly why we, uh, all of a sudden are kind of soft

00:07:55.300 or we, I say American, I mean, Americans, but really it's just the left. They're soft towards socialism.

00:08:00.960 Socialism used to be a bad word that not even people on the left or not very many people on the left

00:08:06.340 really, uh, talked about or especially highlighted in their campaign. But now it's this awesome

00:08:11.980 virtuous thing that should be commended. Um, just 20 years ago, even the Clinton said they wanted

00:08:18.940 abortion to be legal, safe, and rare. Hillary Clinton said, and I mean, rare, that's not the

00:08:23.740 case anymore. They're celebrating abortion as a right, as, um, uh, a keystone in feminism, 1.00

00:08:30.820 as something that is sacred for them. Uh, they used to be against illegal immigration. Even as

00:08:37.540 recently as 2013, Chuck Schumer said that illegal illegal immigration is a problem. Barack Obama used

00:08:43.660 to say that illegal immigration was a problem. Bill Clinton said that illegal immigration is a problem

00:08:48.120 that we need to know who's coming into our country. Do you hear that rhetoric at all from any single

00:08:53.200 Democrat anymore? No, it's all about open borders. It's all about abolishing ice. It's all about,

00:08:58.640 oh, well, no one person is illegal. We should just be able to let anyone in who wants to be in no matter

00:09:04.080 what. Um, the same thing with welfare. Welfare used to be seen as relief and then it was seen as, um,

00:09:12.820 a supplement. And now it's seen as something that you were entitled to. So when people tell you as a

00:09:19.900 conservative, this is what I tell people on college campuses. When people tell you as a conservative,

00:09:24.980 that you are the extreme one, that you are, uh, the one who is far out there that you can't be

00:09:32.200 reasoned with, uh, know that that is a lie. That is a lie. It is not you that is extreme. It is not you

00:09:40.000 that is out there. It is the left. The left has gotten decidedly more left, um, since 1990, but

00:09:46.560 especially in the past 10 years, it is not you that has changed. It is them. So if anyone is extreme,

00:09:53.680 it is the left. If anyone is, uh, fascist in how they approach ideas and how they try to exact their

00:10:02.420 ideas, um, it is the left. Now I'm not comparing them. I'm not saying that they are Nazis, that I'm

00:10:09.660 not trying to equate them with Hitler, but I'm saying in their, uh, how they actually try to implement

00:10:16.500 their ideas and get people to agree with them is a very tyrannical dictatorial way of, of doing so.

00:10:25.040 Um, I saw a tweet by Amy Siskant. I think that's how you say her name. She wrote this book comparing

00:10:31.780 Trump to a dictator. She said some really, really just crazy things on her Twitter. So maybe I

00:10:38.340 shouldn't be taking this tweet seriously, but it had like 15,000 likes on it. So I just,

00:10:43.820 I wanted to respond because it's so ridiculous. So her tweet said women voters now 63, 33 D slash 0.87

00:10:50.160 R. So Democrat slash Republican for midterms. She says, if you're a woman, stop and ask yourself 1.00

00:10:55.880 what this era of Republicans offers you. Nothing. You are second class citizens in their minds.

00:11:01.700 The ones they hide behind while all white men own the power and make decisions. Think about it. 0.95

00:11:07.140 So I'm just, I'm just baffled at how women have bought into this lie that not just the Republican 0.83

00:11:18.380 party, but just this class of white males is holding us back and holding us down in this country. Like 0.97

00:11:26.240 how can you, if, especially if you are a successful woman, you have a job, you've been able to, um, get

00:11:32.880 multiple degrees or one degree or whatever it is. You've been able to advance in your career, how you

00:11:38.780 can possibly look at your life and say, wow, I'm really held back. Wow. This is really unfair. The

00:11:45.500 patriarchy is really oppressing me. How can you possibly think that? I mean, women, I think, I don't,

00:11:52.020 I don't know statistics on this, but I see more women with side hustles who have been able to leverage, 1.00

00:11:56.960 uh, the power of social media way more than I've seen men be able to accomplish that now when

00:12:02.580 appearance is everything through Instagram, through YouTube, and that's how people make their money.

00:12:07.140 Women have a significant advantage. Um, and just in general, women are free to do whatever the heck 1.00

00:12:13.060 they want to do. Uh, we are allowed to be at home. We're committed for that. We're allowed to go out

00:12:18.720 and be the CEO of a fortune 500 company. We can run for office and we're not demeaned for any of those

00:12:24.540 things. Men, however, if they don't have a successful job or they're not providing for their

00:12:30.840 family, um, and they're at home and the ma or the, the woman is being, uh, is completely making the 0.98

00:12:37.940 only money, then men are demeaned for that. They are told that that's soft, that that's wrong,

00:12:43.720 that they shouldn't be doing that. And I'm not saying that men shouldn't be the providers. You guys

00:12:47.320 know that I believe that men should be providing and protecting for their families. And if moms want to 0.99

00:12:52.780 work too, I think that there's a way to do that in a way that's still healthy for the home. Um,

00:12:57.660 but I'm saying men are actually put in these societal categories, um, kind of in a more unfair

00:13:03.700 way than I think women are. I mean, women can literally own the world and be whoever they want 1.00

00:13:09.420 to be. That's not thanks to feminism, by the way, that's thanks to classical liberalism and 1.00

00:13:14.400 egalitarianism. That is an idea that's really perpetuated by conservatives and not liberals.

00:13:19.100 So this idea that Amy says that we are second class citizens in Republicans' minds behind all

00:13:25.920 white men, what, what are you talking about? What are you talking about? This is just not true. 0.74

00:13:33.620 It's just not reality. She says, think about it. I am thinking about it. I am a Republican. I am a

00:13:39.820 woman. I have an awesome life. Like I've been able to do exactly what I want to do. I was able to get

00:13:45.400 into college, to go to college, to graduate from college with honors, to go into a job that, yeah,

00:13:51.840 the first two jobs I didn't like, but I got a job and it was able to give me a platform for what I

00:13:56.740 wanted to do. Now I was able to take this risk of becoming an entrepreneur and trying to make it on

00:14:02.580 my own, being a woman on the internet, um, who is held to sometimes impossible standards. I've been able

00:14:08.980 to do all of this. And I have not just, it's not that I've been held back by men. If anything,

00:14:14.380 men throughout my career and in my life have been the ones to propel me forward. Um, the people that

00:14:20.620 have tried to hold me back in my career to tell me that I can't do what I'm doing, that I shouldn't

00:14:25.660 be doing what I'm doing, who have started rumors about me that aren't true, who have tried to stab me

00:14:30.420 in the back and ruin my success have not been men. It has been women who have done that. If there is

00:14:38.060 any, um, if there's any obstacle to a woman's success, it is often other women, jealousy, resentment, 1.00

00:14:47.840 pettiness, insecurity, all of these things that women struggle with. That's what stops women from 1.00

00:14:53.320 being successful, not men. I can think of all of the people in my life. Um, besides my mom,

00:15:00.680 who has been a huge cheerleader and people in my family and my close friends who men and women have

00:15:06.160 been very supportive of me, but within my career, the people who have helped me, who have pushed me

00:15:13.080 forward, who have provided me with opportunities, who have guided me, given me advice, who have told me,

00:15:18.780 Ali, you can do this. You have a unique voice. I believe in you. Let me connect you to this

00:15:23.300 person. They have all been men. They've all been men. If there was really this, uh, grand scheme of

00:15:31.160 the patriarchy to hold women back, how does that, how, how does that add up with my life in the lives

00:15:40.340 of many other women in media and elsewhere that I know? I haven't had one man in my life. Now there 0.98

00:15:47.620 have been creepy guys who have said, Oh, I'm going to help you be famous. And obviously those guys are,

00:15:53.300 avoided. There are women who do that as well. Um, but I accredit so much of where I am to men in my

00:16:01.280 life who have been encouraging to me, who have been helpful to me, who have told me to be confident,

00:16:08.380 who have provided me with a voice and a platform. Like if that's the patriarchy, I love it. Like thank

00:16:16.720 God for the patriarchy because I wouldn't be where I am without those men helping me. So people like

00:16:24.840 Amy, they live in an alternate universe that is not real. It's not real. They're watching too much

00:16:32.360 Handmaid's Tale. Like they're listening to people like Kamala Harris and Dianne Feinstein and Nancy

00:16:38.920 Pelosi and Elizabeth Warren and all these idiots in Hollywood that say, you're a victim, you're a victim, 1.00

00:16:44.680 you're a victim. And they just start believing it rather than looking at their own life and saying, 1.00

00:16:50.160 wow, I have it really good because here's the reality. There has never been a better time or a

00:16:57.160 better place to be a woman than in 2018 in the United States of America. In fact, there's really

00:17:04.040 never been a better place to be a woman. Yes. We can talk about before the 19th amendment. We can talk 0.71

00:17:10.260 about the times where we actually didn't have equal rights to men. Even in that, America has been the

00:17:16.140 best country in the world for human rights. Even in, yes, of course, we've had human atrocities,

00:17:24.220 the way that we put the Japanese in internment camps, of course, slavery. But as I've said before,

00:17:29.780 America is not defined by its sins. And those are very real sins and injustices. We are defined by the

00:17:35.260 pace at which and the way which we have been able to overcome them better than any other country in

00:17:41.600 existence. We are only less than 250 years old and we have created a society in which anyone can do

00:17:50.820 anything that they set their mind to. But Democrats don't want you to believe that. They don't want you

00:17:56.620 to believe that. They want you to believe that you are disadvantaged as a woman, you are disadvantaged as

00:18:00.660 a black person and you need them. Amy says, think about what the Republican Party can offer you.

00:18:06.660 OK, we want to think about what the Republican Party can offer me. What have Democrats done for me

00:18:12.600 as a woman? What have Democrats done for anyone? Can you tell me one accomplishment that they've actually 0.66

00:18:19.440 pushed forward for minorities, for the marginalized, for women? What have Democrats done for women,

00:18:27.120 really? Because all I've seen them do is make women more discontent, more unhappy, chasing after 1.00

00:18:33.720 the wrong things, redefining what it means to be a woman and condemning things like being a housewife

00:18:40.600 or a mom. I can't name a single thing that Democrats have done for women. Republicans now,

00:18:47.360 I'm not saying Republicans are perfect. Again, like I said on Tuesday, they are still funding Planned

00:18:52.260 Parenthood. They still haven't built the wall. By the way, I think both of those are women's issues 1.00

00:18:56.180 because women are women are humans and we care about those things. So I'm not saying Republicans

00:19:01.840 are perfect. But the difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans don't say that

00:19:06.640 they offer. We're not offering something to a particular group like women or to minorities.

00:19:12.780 We are offering everyone lower taxes and freedom and border security, all of the things that every

00:19:20.040 family, no matter the color, no matter the gender of what you are, should care about because it affects

00:19:24.780 our everyday life. And again, Republicans are not perfect in these things by any means. But if you

00:19:31.520 want to compare Democrats and Republicans, Republicans at least aren't telling you that you're a victim

00:19:36.500 every day. At least they're not denying reality. Like Democrats want you to think that America is

00:19:42.700 against you and nothing could be further from the truth. So I responded to this absolutely insane

00:19:50.120 person named Amy Siskund on Twitter. And I just asked, I just, well, I said I quote tweeted her and

00:19:57.220 then I asked a few questions that I think that women should actually consider rather than what has the 0.99

00:20:03.040 Republican Party done for me, which is such an idiotic, it just, it doesn't make any sense. But 0.99

00:20:08.660 number one question, women, do you really consider yourself a victim of systemic oppression? 0.99

00:20:14.780 Do you really feel women that the patriarchy or sexism has held you back from being as successful

00:20:22.780 as you could be? Think about that. Like, do you really? And if you do, if you really feel like

00:20:30.920 the patriarchy or sexism has significantly held you back and the women that you know, and it's if you

00:20:36.560 really feel like that is why you're not successful and it's not your own failure or just hard times that

00:20:43.240 you fell upon, you really feel like it's the patriarchy, can you point to how? Can you point

00:20:47.940 to a disadvantage that you have in your life because you are a woman in this country that's 0.99

00:20:54.140 not based on, okay, you grew up poor or you're in debt just like a lot of people who graduate from

00:21:01.620 college are or your own failure or your own incompetence or anything that you yourself are

00:21:08.100 responsible for? Like, what in your life is caused by sexism? I would like to know.

00:21:15.380 Number two, even if your answer to one was yes, what have, and I've already asked this,

00:21:22.320 but I'll ask it again, what have Democrats actually done to fix that? Like, if you really truly,

00:21:28.180 if you can come up with an example of how the patriarchy has held you back in America,

00:21:31.860 what do you see Democrats doing to really combat that besides telling you lies about, uh, oh,

00:21:39.640 Kavanaugh is going to bring women back to the kitchen? Like, what have Democrats done besides 0.98

00:21:44.220 make you angry and bitter and resentful and held you back because you're too busy complaining about

00:21:49.440 things to actually be successful in your own life? What have Democrats done to fix this so-called

00:21:55.300 elusive patriarchy? What have Democrats ever done that has helped women be happier and more successful?

00:22:02.640 I, I need to know the answer to that. Um, number three, do you not find it ironically patronizing

00:22:10.960 that these so-called feminists who promote female empowerment and strength are telling you that you

00:22:18.100 have to vote for them or else you secretly hate women? See, here's the funny thing. They always blast, 1.00

00:22:24.040 the feminists always blast the patriarchy for telling women what to think, telling women what to do 1.00

00:22:28.320 for trying to control them. Um, that's exactly what feminists do. This is the matriarchy and the 1.00

00:22:36.080 matriarchy is a lot more shrill. I'll tell you that. Uh, number four, little miss Amy lady says the 1.00

00:22:43.760 Republican party has done nothing to, uh, hasn't offered you anything as a woman. Okay. Well, there's a

00:22:50.860 problem with this rhetoric in and of itself. What are you looking to be offered by a political party?

00:22:58.900 What do you think a political party is supposed to offer you? Um, personally, I just want politicians

00:23:06.280 to keep us safe, to keep my community safe or, um, enact policies that keep us safe, uh, that help me

00:23:14.560 keep more of my money and I want them to stay out of my life. That that's what I want. And I want the

00:23:20.760 free market to take care of everything else. Like, of course I care for the least of these. Of course I

00:23:25.520 care for people that can't, uh, afford healthcare coverage. Of course I care for the poor and the

00:23:31.820 marginalized and the vulnerable. And I think I do a better job of taking care of those people than the 0.98

00:23:37.380 government does. And it's a win-win because I get to, um, I get to show charity and generosity

00:23:45.320 for my fellow neighbor. They receive that generosity and we don't have to be controlled

00:23:52.180 by bureaucrats who say you need us and you need to depend on us. Um, so yeah, I don't need to be

00:24:00.040 offered anything except to protect life, liberty, and my freedom to pursue happiness. That's all I want

00:24:06.020 for my politicians. And Democrats do none of that. They do none of that. They're ideological bullies.

00:24:11.980 They don't care about your freedom. They want to give you stuff so you depend on them and so they

00:24:16.640 can stay in power. That is the vicious cycle of the democratic party. Fifth question, uh, Democrats,

00:24:24.080 uh, oh, maybe it's not a question. I think this was just a comment. So number five, point number five,

00:24:30.580 Democrats depend on women, uh, thinking with their feelings instead of with our heads. Um, they hope 1.00

00:24:38.740 that we're going to be swayed by this rhetoric. Uh, if you hate misogyny and if you love women,

00:24:44.460 you'll vote for us. Uh, and sadly they've been really effective because of course, I mean, people who

00:24:50.400 aren't really thinking or maybe aren't very political are like, well, I don't want to hate women.

00:24:55.380 Like, I don't want to be a part of the party of misogyny. So they've been really effective in that,

00:25:00.940 but you shouldn't be fooled. Like think for a second, what are the things that you care about?

00:25:05.380 Don't you care about the things that everyone else cares about? Don't you care about being able to raise

00:25:09.660 your family in a safe community? Don't you care about keeping more money in your pocket? Don't you

00:25:14.140 care about paying less in taxes and about jobs? Like nothing's more compassionate by the way,

00:25:19.900 than voting for the party who will actually create jobs rather than take them away. That is

00:25:26.460 compassionate. Um, and then she quote tweeted me and she said, Oh, your values are keeping women in 0.97

00:25:33.100 cages or women, children in cages at the border and denying global warming, obviously misrepresenting

00:25:39.500 my side, but that's how desperate they are. They have to misrepresent what conservatives stand for

00:25:44.260 in order to be effective in their rhetoric at all. Um, that, that is how unhinged they are 0.54

00:25:52.400 completely unhinged. So my message for you, and I, I encourage you to share this podcast,

00:25:57.860 this particular episode with your liberal friends, they might totally agree with me. 0.70

00:26:02.600 They probably are going to think that I'm some awful sexist bigot. That's, that's fine. I mean, 0.92

00:26:07.260 that's par for the course at this point. You and I, I guess, as women who are conservatives,

00:26:12.060 um, and as men who are conservatives, like we're in the minority. So that means that we're going to

00:26:16.880 be bullied. That doesn't make us victims. That's just a reality. That means that we fight harder.

00:26:22.260 Um, I encourage you to share this podcast with them. Just, I want to see what they would say.

00:26:26.140 I want to see what their comebacks are to, to these things. Um, because here's, here's my main thing

00:26:31.380 that I want people to realize. And I want you as a woman, if you're a woman realizing or listening to 0.59

00:26:37.760 this, if you are a minority listening to this, um, you are not a victim. You're not like if you're

00:26:44.680 poor, you're poor. If you've been abused, you have been abused. And while maybe you were a victim

00:26:50.020 at one time in your life or for a season of your life, maybe you went through child abuse,

00:26:55.200 terrible, terrible, terrible trauma. Um, and because of that incident, you were a victim.

00:27:00.660 That doesn't mean that you're a victim for life. That doesn't mean that you are unable to escape

00:27:06.700 injustice. Um, that doesn't mean that there is systemic injustice in this country that is holding

00:27:12.620 you back. That's the beautiful thing about America is that if you are willing to work hard,

00:27:19.540 you can do anything you want to do. And people tell you that's not true. It is true. There's story

00:27:24.660 after story of people coming from absolutely nothing, overcoming all kinds of obstacles. And, uh,

00:27:30.420 becoming something great that only happens here in America and the people who become something in

00:27:36.140 other countries come to America in order to manifest their dreams. And anyone tells you,

00:27:41.100 if anyone tells you that America is not the greatest country in the world for women, for minorities,

00:27:46.040 for people of all in all kinds of marginalized groups, they are lying to you, specifically the 0.99

00:27:51.920 Democrats. They're lying. Also as a Christian, this idea that you are a victim because of your skin

00:27:59.040 color, uh, because of your socioeconomic status, because of your gender, your sexual orientation,

00:28:04.160 whatever it is, uh, it is not biblical. Like I had someone tell me once the intersectionality is a

00:28:10.020 biblical concept. No, it's not. No, it's not. Nowhere in the Bible does God define people by their

00:28:17.800 oppression or by their victimhood. Now he, uh, is with the brokenhearted. He binds their wounds. He cares

00:28:24.200 about the poor. He cares about the oppressed. He cares about the least of these. That is the charge

00:28:28.280 that we have as Christians to take care of the least of these, to notice them. That's the beautiful

00:28:32.940 thing about Jesus is that he locks eyes with people that, uh, this, that society at that point thought

00:28:39.480 was unclean or, um, should just be ignored. Yes. That is a beautiful part about Christianity. That's

00:28:46.140 a central component of Christianity, but God still does not tell us that we should be defined by our

00:28:53.640 oppression or by our victim status for the rest of our lives. That is, um, such a selfish view of the

00:29:01.760 world. And it's a sad view of the world. And that's not a message of hope. That's a message of despair.

00:29:07.840 The Bible in Romans says that we are more than conquerors in Christ, more than conquerors, that we

00:29:14.340 shouldn't be feeling bad for ourselves ever. That if we believe that God is in control, that he, uh,

00:29:21.920 purposely destined us to live where we have lived, um, when we have lived here, that he has given us

00:29:28.480 our skin tone, that he has given us our, our sex and, and our gender, um, then there is no reason

00:29:36.000 for us to scoff at him by saying, wow, it's really unfair that I was made this way. And wow, I have so

00:29:43.340 much stacked against me. No, you are more than a conqueror in Christ. That's what he says. Now that

00:29:48.620 doesn't mean that we shouldn't point out injustice and, and we shouldn't help victims. Of course,

00:29:53.240 like I said, we are absolutely called to do those things, but defining people and identifying people

00:29:59.460 by their victimhood doesn't help anyone. And I actually think that it impedes the gospel because

00:30:05.940 like I said, it is not a message of hope. It is a message of despair. Um, it's, it's really amazing.

00:30:14.900 It's amazing how the left has been able to use this line of reasoning to win people over. And the

00:30:20.980 reason is, is because you can be extremely intellectually lazy. It actually helps if you

00:30:26.260 are intellectually lazy in order to be a liberal, because from the beginning of time, we have been

00:30:32.140 tempted to blame people. I mean, that was exactly what happened after the fall. Adam said, it was the

00:30:38.120 woman you gave me. And Eve said, well, it was the serpent instead of taking responsibility. Like this was,

00:30:44.020 uh, one of the very first sins that was committed after disobedience to God was the, the blame

00:30:50.660 shifting. That's the immediate reaction when we, uh, can't come to terms with the things that we

00:30:56.160 could be responsible for. Uh, that, that, uh, that idea that we are victims of someone else literally

00:31:03.500 goes back to the garden of Eden. That is why Democrats are so successful. So what are you supposed

00:31:09.220 to do to combat that? You start thinking for yourself and you start taking responsibility.

00:31:14.060 And look, I understand that things happen to all of us that we can't control. We can't control what

00:31:18.920 kind of family we were born into. We can't control our socioeconomic status. We can't control our race. 0.59

00:31:24.400 And there might be real obstacles you face because of those things. But the mentality that you have

00:31:31.440 shouldn't be one of despair, especially as a Christian. And it shouldn't be one of, well,

00:31:36.200 this is just really, this is really unjust that I, you know, that I was born in this town,

00:31:43.460 that I was born in this kind of family, that I was born in this home, that I can't afford,

00:31:47.800 uh, my parents can afford to send me to this Ivy league school in the same way that other people

00:31:53.500 can. That just means that, yes, you might have to work harder than the person next to you.

00:31:58.360 That in itself isn't unjust. That's life. Like my parents always taught me growing up,

00:32:03.780 life isn't fair. We say here in Texas, the fair comes once a year. Life isn't fair.

00:32:11.200 What liberals want is equality of outcome. That's not what conservatives want. We want equality of

00:32:17.740 opportunity. Um, that might mean that you get to a different outcome than the person who works harder

00:32:22.960 than you, or maybe who was born to a different family than you even, or who, um, is smarter than

00:32:29.420 you, more talented than you. Uh, that's okay. That's life. Democrats think that if anything is

00:32:35.880 difficult, the left thinks if anything is difficult, that is inherently unjust and that the government

00:32:41.060 needs to write that wrong. And that is why, that is why we are coddling the next generation. That is

00:32:48.120 why I don't use the word snowflake ever. But if you want to use that term, that is why we have a

00:32:53.460 generation of sensitive so-called snowflakes for lack of a better term, because we've been told

00:32:59.820 that losing or competing and then not getting the same result as someone else is unjust. And the

00:33:06.520 government needs to write that wrong. Um, that's sad. That's sad. That's not what America was built

00:33:11.720 on. That's not what has made America the greatest country, the most compassionate country, the strongest

00:33:17.040 country, the freest country that has ever existed on this earth. Um, so if you care about any of

00:33:23.340 these things, if you wake up and realize, Hey, you're not a victim and you don't want to be,

00:33:28.260 you don't want to exist in a world that tells everyone that they are victims and that they need

00:33:32.500 the government, then you should vote Republican in November. Again, Republicans aren't perfect,

00:33:39.540 but they're a heck of a lot better than their counterparts on the left. I refuse. Like I said on

00:33:46.940 Tuesday, I refuse to live in the world that the leftists and the socialists want for us. I refuse to

00:33:52.360 live in that world. And even if I don't like what a Republican has to say, I'm not necessarily always

00:33:57.660 voting for Republicans. I am voting against Democrats. Um, I will do whatever it takes to

00:34:03.320 keep Democrats out of power because the direction that they're going and where they have come to now

00:34:09.160 is absolutely insane and anti-American. It just is. Um, okay. I said that I was going to get to

00:34:16.120 questions today. I'm not going to, I will next time. There's a very interesting video that I want

00:34:22.180 to play you guys on Tuesday, um, of an Episcopal church that had an atheist abortion provider come

00:34:28.740 speak at their church and it's completely like, it's insane. So I'm going to talk about that on

00:34:34.160 Tuesday. Uh, for now, I hope that you guys have a great weekend and I will see you next week.

00:34:39.120 I'll see you next week.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - October 11, 2018

Ep 45 ｜ You're Not a Victim

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