Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - October 02, 2023


Ep 882 | The Left's "Holy War" on Education | Guest: Liz Wheeler


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32 minutes

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178.88734

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5,730

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362

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

14


Summary

Liz Wheeler's new book, "Hide Your Children: Exposing the Marxists Behind the Attack on America's Kids," details the deep-rooted Marxist plot to destroy the nuclear family and take control of our children's minds.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The powers that be, specifically the progressive powers that be, are after your kids.
00:00:06.340 And they have been for a very long time.
00:00:09.860 The time has come for parents to do something about it.
00:00:12.940 And not just do something about it, but understand what we are up against, who specifically we're
00:00:18.920 up against.
00:00:19.680 That's why my friend Liz Wheeler, the host of the Liz Wheeler Show, wrote this book,
00:00:25.580 Hide Your Children, Exposing the Marxists Behind the Attack on America's Kids.
00:00:29.580 We have a fascinating conversation today.
00:00:31.760 You are going to love hearing her articulate what is in this book, why she wrote it.
00:00:36.420 It's a perfect setup for actually reading the book and understanding and ingesting everything,
00:00:43.100 all the information that she has given us in the book, all the tools that she's given
00:00:47.460 us for how to apply the information that she is supplying us with.
00:00:52.820 And so I know you're going to love this discussion I'm having with her.
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00:01:12.660 All right, Liz, thanks so much for joining us.
00:01:16.880 You've got a new book, Hide Your Children, Exposing the Marxists Behind the Attack on America's
00:01:23.120 Kids.
00:01:24.320 Tell us about this.
00:01:26.060 Hi, Allie.
00:01:26.500 Thanks so much for having me on the show.
00:01:28.100 It's fun to talk to you on air.
00:01:29.740 We talk so often off the air that it's fun when we get to be on a show together.
00:01:34.200 Yes, my new book just came out last week.
00:01:37.320 It's called Hide Your Children, Exposing the Marxists Behind the Attack on America's Kids.
00:01:41.720 And it really started as a question that I think a lot of us parents had, especially during
00:01:47.620 COVID, we would look over our children's shoulders on Zoom school and we'd see that there was
00:01:53.000 poison being poured into their minds, whether it was critical race theory or the transgender
00:01:56.420 ideology or just good old fashioned moral relativism, your truth and my truth more important than
00:02:02.320 the truth.
00:02:03.360 And it seems to me that this was a more concerted effort than ever before to attack our children.
00:02:08.400 So I set out to find out why it turns out.
00:02:11.300 The answer to that is not so much why, but who, who is behind this attack?
00:02:17.420 And what I discovered is it's not new.
00:02:19.320 This attack has been ongoing for nearly a century.
00:02:22.420 Actually, the left has been trying to re-engineer our society.
00:02:26.300 And unfortunately, they've been quite successful at it.
00:02:28.740 They have captured what I call four out of the five major foundational cultural institutions.
00:02:34.880 They've captured the media.
00:02:36.360 They've captured the education system.
00:02:37.820 They've captured a lot of religious institutions.
00:02:39.460 They've captured the law.
00:02:40.740 And they've just about destroyed the nuclear family as well.
00:02:44.500 There is one element of the nuclear family left standing.
00:02:47.420 That's children, which probably explains why the left has set their target on our children.
00:02:53.100 So what I do in my book is I name the names of the people behind the capture of our institutions,
00:03:00.380 the people behind the attack on America's children.
00:03:03.480 And then I offer a solution, which, Ali, I will tell you is different than the solution
00:03:09.220 the Republican Party offers for how we can retake our institutions and protect our children.
00:03:15.080 I think it's very important to protect our children for the sake of their individual souls.
00:03:18.920 Of course, every parent feels this way.
00:03:21.300 But it's also vitally important to our nation.
00:03:23.960 If we allow the left to capture our kids, then our nation is done.
00:03:28.100 And none of us want that.
00:03:29.220 Yeah, tell us a little bit about the why behind their strategy.
00:03:33.900 So we'll talk about the who.
00:03:35.480 But why do these people who are trying to prey upon our children, as communists have done
00:03:40.960 for a very long time, or really totalitarians of every stripe, have done for a very long
00:03:45.520 time, why the children?
00:03:48.240 Well, if you look at the nuclear family, the nuclear family has always been the bulwark against
00:03:52.200 evil.
00:03:52.540 It's always been the institution around which society was properly engineered.
00:03:57.720 Here in our own country, that's certainly true.
00:03:59.760 We wouldn't be able to have a limited government, a small government, if we weren't relying on
00:04:04.800 married couples to take care of their own children versus relying on the government.
00:04:09.280 As you said, communists and Marxists have focused on trying to destroy the nuclear family for
00:04:14.260 a long time.
00:04:15.380 I believe there are religious undertones to this as well.
00:04:17.960 The nuclear family is not just an institution of secular society.
00:04:22.420 The nuclear family is a reflection of Christ's love for his church.
00:04:26.100 A married couple is supposed to be this example on earth of the mystical love that Christ has
00:04:32.480 for his church, where the husband is the head and sacrifices his life for his wife, and his
00:04:39.760 wife respects and submits to his mission to protect her and to sanctify her and to help
00:04:44.440 her be holy and get to heaven.
00:04:45.680 And this is an existential threat to communists because communism is at its core a satanic
00:04:51.160 ideology.
00:04:52.240 It rejects natural law.
00:04:53.560 It rejects the human person and the freedom that our creator endowed us with.
00:04:59.180 So we've seen throughout the course, even of American history, we've seen communists and
00:05:03.080 Marxists come after the elements of the nuclear family.
00:05:06.100 There are five elements.
00:05:07.280 There's man, there's woman, there's marriage, there's sex, and there's children.
00:05:11.580 We've seen radical feminism go after women and tell women that, you know, we shouldn't
00:05:17.480 actually serve the role in society that God created us to serve as wives and as mothers.
00:05:22.860 We've been degraded and told that that is meaningless, that our worth lies only in the amount of money
00:05:27.840 that comes in a paycheck.
00:05:28.760 Men are under sustained assault right now in our country with the Me Too movement, this
00:05:33.720 assault on the idea of presumption of innocence until or unless proven guilty.
00:05:38.840 I mean, you have grifters, con men like Andrew and Tristan Tate telling young men that what
00:05:43.720 it really means to be a man is to be materialistic and exploit women.
00:05:47.600 This is an assault on masculinity.
00:05:49.400 Marriage.
00:05:50.240 Conservatives surrendered marriage to the left a long time ago.
00:05:52.920 And I know that this can be an unpopular thing, even for Republicans and conservatives,
00:05:57.160 even for some Christians to discuss, although I confess that one's a little of a head scratcher
00:06:01.800 to me if it's uncomfortable for Christians.
00:06:04.200 But conservatives rendered marriage to gay marriage out of this false idea of just being tolerant
00:06:09.800 or being inclusive when really it gave away, it broke the institution of marriage, what it
00:06:16.640 means in our country, in addition to giving politicians or judges this role of being allowed
00:06:22.520 to redefine words, being the arbiters of truth, which is just authoritarianism.
00:06:27.820 Sex has been under sustained assault, the proper ordered form of sex, the proper place
00:06:33.760 of sex within a monogamous marriage.
00:06:36.300 That's been under assault since the sexual revolution, as we all know.
00:06:40.400 So there's really one element left of the nuclear family that needs to be compromised for the family
00:06:45.160 to be destroyed, and that's children.
00:06:47.400 And Marxists understand that if they can radically alienate children from parents, if they can
00:06:53.600 destroy parental rights, if they can cause children to turn, willingly turn against their
00:06:58.940 parents, then what is the purpose of a nuclear family, even in practicality, let alone the
00:07:04.620 spiritual implications of it?
00:07:06.060 So I think that this is really their moment of truth, if you will.
00:07:11.640 They understand, the Marxists understand that their time to impose this Marxism on our country
00:07:16.300 is now or never, which is why they are so relentlessly, so deliberately assaulting our children as blatantly
00:07:23.960 as they are.
00:07:36.060 And, you know, obviously, kids, God created them to be vulnerable.
00:07:40.320 God created them to be malleable.
00:07:42.980 They created them to care about authority, care about pleasing authority.
00:07:48.820 They made them, or God made them to be extremely teachable, which is why he also created the
00:07:53.400 family, because parents have an instinct to seek after the well-being and the best interests
00:08:00.260 of their child in a way that even the best teacher can't.
00:08:03.440 I mean, even very good teachers and educators and mentors simply don't have the same interest
00:08:09.240 and the same instinct towards protection of children as the parents do.
00:08:14.600 And yet, parents have been convinced, I think, to kind of delegate that responsibility of what
00:08:21.660 is essentially discipleship, all education is discipleship, and that responsibility of formation
00:08:28.000 to strangers that they don't know in any kind of education system, but particularly the public
00:08:34.460 education system, which we know is dominated mostly by progressive ideology.
00:08:39.480 And really, that's not new.
00:08:40.800 Like, if you look at the history of public education, it has been about conformity.
00:08:45.080 It's been about indoctrination.
00:08:47.720 And now we just have a particular kind of indoctrination, which is an indoctrination against what we know
00:08:54.260 about gender, what we know about truth, what we know about morality, what we know about
00:08:58.340 history.
00:08:59.340 It's a destruction of all things good and right and true.
00:09:02.520 Not speaking for every single classroom of every single school, but the system at large,
00:09:07.000 from the teachers' unions to the education department.
00:09:09.660 Like, we know where they're coming from.
00:09:11.200 And yet a lot of well-meaning parents just willingly, voluntarily, happily surrender their
00:09:19.280 kids to the indoctrination of this ideology for hours and hours every week.
00:09:25.640 And then we wonder why America goes the direction that it has gone.
00:09:31.420 But it's because these people are extremely militant in the recruitment of our children
00:09:36.520 and have been for a very long time, right?
00:09:38.800 Yeah, it's so interesting that you bring this up, because one of the points that I
00:09:43.260 make in my book is that indoctrination itself is a morally neutral term.
00:09:49.300 It's not good in and of itself.
00:09:50.860 It's not bad in and of itself.
00:09:52.360 It's what's being indoctrinated that determines whether indoctrination is good or bad.
00:09:56.720 In fact, public schooling in the United States didn't become compulsory, didn't become mandatory
00:10:01.180 until 1852.
00:10:03.520 Massachusetts was the first state to make public education mandatory.
00:10:06.560 And the reason that they did this was not to teach children reading, writing, and arithmetic.
00:10:11.420 It wasn't about what we would consider academic subjects.
00:10:15.120 The reason they did this is because at the time there were a lot of immigrants coming
00:10:18.660 to our nation and specifically Catholic immigrants coming to our nation.
00:10:22.440 And the Protestant politicians at the time wanted these children coming to our nation who
00:10:27.780 had been born in another country to be loyal first to the United States.
00:10:32.080 So they wanted them indoctrinated in American civics.
00:10:34.700 And these Protestant politicians were pretty anti-Catholic and wanted these children to
00:10:38.640 be indoctrinated into what they term Protestant values.
00:10:41.880 I find this to be so fascinating because our education system, our public education system
00:10:47.140 was never intended to be neutral.
00:10:48.760 It was always intended to indoctrinate children.
00:10:51.800 It was just intended at the beginning to indoctrinate children in good things and what's good and right
00:10:56.040 and beautiful religious values and American values.
00:10:59.120 But somewhere along the way, the people who had made public education mandatory, understanding
00:11:05.500 that the purpose of it was indoctrination, surrendered the power of that institution, allowed it to
00:11:11.500 be captured by communists and Marxists who also understood that the public education system
00:11:17.020 was intended for indoctrination.
00:11:18.540 And they then took it over.
00:11:20.360 And for the last 50 years, they've dominated education from K through 12 through the university
00:11:25.560 level.
00:11:26.600 And yeah, it's no wonder that so many people in our generation, so many people in Gen Z,
00:11:31.860 even younger, it's no wonder so many of them are anti-American.
00:11:36.000 They are anti-Christian.
00:11:37.460 They believe in moral relativism.
00:11:38.940 They don't understand debate.
00:11:40.140 They're anti-free speech.
00:11:41.640 And I know it can sound like a difficult challenge when you call out individual parents for this.
00:11:47.040 But one of the things that I've been very encouraged by during the writing, the last year that I've
00:11:51.900 spent writing this book, is recognizing the movement that's been happening in our country
00:11:58.480 since COVID.
00:12:00.140 So many parents have had their eyes open to the fact that they have been essentially walking
00:12:05.760 blindly, that they have been deferring to the authority of teachers and public health officials
00:12:11.620 and pediatricians and librarians and all of these people that we colloquially call the
00:12:18.820 experts.
00:12:19.640 And parents, for the first time in my lifetime, I'm seeing parents say, well, wait a second.
00:12:24.560 Maybe these experts aren't correct.
00:12:26.480 Maybe they're not basing their advice and their mandates in science or reality.
00:12:30.640 Maybe they're ideologically driven.
00:12:32.100 And maybe I should think for myself.
00:12:33.760 And I find that more encouraging than focusing on the parents that are still willfully putting
00:12:42.000 their heads in the sand.
00:12:42.720 I know that can be a difficult conversation, but, you know, I've talked about this.
00:12:59.040 You've talked about this a lot over the past few years, just recognizing what indoctrination
00:13:03.760 is.
00:13:04.200 You make such a good point that if you break down the word indoctrination, you're placing
00:13:07.540 doctrines in someone.
00:13:08.940 There are good doctrines and there are bad doctrines.
00:13:10.680 There are true doctrines and there are false doctrines.
00:13:13.060 And so every bit of education is indoctrination.
00:13:17.100 I hear a lot of people say, you know, kids shouldn't be taught what to think, how to, but
00:13:22.320 they should just be taught how to think.
00:13:24.180 Well, kind of, but not really.
00:13:26.380 Yes, of course, it's important to teach kids how to think.
00:13:30.000 But of course, we teach kids what to think, too.
00:13:33.940 Not just how to come to the conclusions, but what the conclusions actually are.
00:13:38.820 And especially when it comes to parenting.
00:13:41.080 Parenting, education is discipleship.
00:13:43.500 And when you think about education like that, that, okay, your kids are being made into disciples
00:13:48.660 of someone, of something.
00:13:51.640 It's just a matter of what is it?
00:13:54.640 Like, what are they following?
00:13:56.240 Who are they following?
00:13:57.320 I think the left understands that.
00:13:59.580 The left understands that there's, it's not just about how to think.
00:14:02.660 It is about what to think.
00:14:03.780 That it's, there's not a neutral ground.
00:14:05.800 That education is not neutral.
00:14:07.400 The law is not neutral.
00:14:08.820 The public square is not neutral.
00:14:10.980 And yet some conservatives, although I think you're right, they're waking up, they still
00:14:15.420 believe that we can get back to a time when everything is just neutral.
00:14:20.140 There is some like neutral, secular space that we can all be in where our values are
00:14:26.340 just like mutually agreed upon based on no cohesive worldview.
00:14:30.760 I just, I don't think that that's possible.
00:14:34.140 I think that that is actually why the left wins so well, because as you said, there's
00:14:39.100 a religious undertone, I think, to Marxism.
00:14:41.680 And they are in the business of conquest, religious conquest, based on a very specific
00:14:47.780 pseudo-religious worldview.
00:14:49.460 And they recognize that neutrality is a myth.
00:14:52.580 I'm not sure the conservatives get that.
00:14:55.180 No, not at all.
00:14:55.780 I agree with you.
00:14:56.860 I don't think there's any such thing as neutrality.
00:14:59.420 I think that either the left is controlling these institutions or we are.
00:15:03.100 I don't believe in this idea of this, this even playing field where we all can remove
00:15:07.720 our values and thus every individual can simply choose to live his or her life however,
00:15:12.480 however we want.
00:15:13.180 In fact, the second half of my book, I think I'm prouder of than the first half of my book.
00:15:18.060 The first half is about the individuals and the organizations that are behind the capture
00:15:22.500 of the institutions behind the attack on America's children.
00:15:25.100 In the second half of the book, you could call a critique of the Republican Party for
00:15:29.520 the exact reasons that you mentioned, because the Republican Party is supposed to be the
00:15:34.000 bulwark against these attacks.
00:15:36.560 They're supposed to be the ones fighting against communism and Marxism, and they've failed.
00:15:40.700 You can look at any library right now, the children's sections of any library, pull up
00:15:46.560 your Twitter and look at the Drag Queen Story Hour.
00:15:48.720 I mean, our society's in chaos right now.
00:15:50.760 And the reason for this is the Republican Party has lost sight of a very important question.
00:15:56.960 And that question is, if we, as the United States of America, are supposed to be a free
00:16:01.700 country, what does that mean?
00:16:03.920 Is freedom the ultimate end or is freedom the means to something greater?
00:16:09.820 And I'll tell you, Ali, this is something that I've changed my mind on in the last few
00:16:13.660 years.
00:16:13.980 It started actually back at CPAC in 2016, eight years ago.
00:16:19.380 I had just spoken on the main stage.
00:16:21.100 And afterward, I was out in the lobby being interviewed about my speech and about the
00:16:24.920 candidates.
00:16:25.400 It was the exciting primary.
00:16:27.520 And this independent journalist comes up to me and asks me, what do you think the role
00:16:31.280 of government should be in our country?
00:16:33.700 And how do you define liberty?
00:16:35.360 And I remember being surprised at the time because most of the questions were, do you think
00:16:38.700 Marco Rubio is going to beat Ted Cruz?
00:16:40.880 Do you think Donald Trump will be the nominee?
00:16:42.000 It was mostly about politics, not policy.
00:16:44.500 And I remember giving this guy a pretty, a pretty libertarian answer.
00:16:48.160 Oh, I think government should stay off our lawn and mind its own business unless it's
00:16:51.420 protecting inherent rights, God-given rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:16:56.300 And the journalist follows up and says, okay, well then do you believe in the legalization
00:17:00.580 of drugs?
00:17:02.040 And I was like, well, what kind of drugs?
00:17:04.300 Are you talking about meth?
00:17:05.540 Are you talking about heroin?
00:17:06.600 Are you talking about fentanyl, cocaine?
00:17:08.700 And he said, sure.
00:17:09.860 And I said, well, no, I don't think that we should legalize drugs.
00:17:12.840 And he says, why not?
00:17:14.260 And I, I answered and say, well, because that would cause destruction in our society.
00:17:18.080 Clearly that would lead to chaos.
00:17:19.820 And he asks me, he says, well, do you think that your answer to this question is a contradiction
00:17:23.680 of your definition of liberty and how you think government or what role you think government
00:17:28.500 should play in our society?
00:17:29.600 And I remember at the time in, in my head kind of being like, huh, that's an interesting
00:17:34.460 question.
00:17:35.260 It turns out the guy was an activist, not a journalist.
00:17:38.340 He was an activist for marijuana legalization.
00:17:40.500 But this conversation stuck with me for years and years because he's wrong about marijuana,
00:17:46.120 but he is correct about this libertarian idea of liberty.
00:17:50.820 And I realized that if we embrace this idea that freedom is the ultimate end, then what
00:17:58.060 David French said about drag queen story hour being a blessing of liberty is in fact, correct.
00:18:03.940 Even though you and I and everyone watching and listening to the show knows that it's not
00:18:07.700 moral.
00:18:08.480 There's no morality to that.
00:18:09.520 It's grotesque.
00:18:10.120 It's evil.
00:18:10.660 It's satanic.
00:18:11.360 And so if freedom is not, if it cannot be the end and up into itself because it leads
00:18:17.660 to immorality, then freedom must be the means to something greater.
00:18:21.860 And the Republican party has forgotten to answer this question.
00:18:26.360 We've forgotten to ask, well, what is the something greater?
00:18:30.200 How do we want our society to be ordered?
00:18:32.920 What do we mean when we say we want human flourishing?
00:18:35.860 We've just completely neglected to answer that question.
00:18:38.540 We've been so busy pointing out what's wrong because it's fairly easy to identify what's
00:18:43.580 wrong.
00:18:44.080 And we've forgotten to define and then offer what is right in its stead.
00:18:50.200 And it's led us to this chaos.
00:19:03.400 I think a lot of us have had the evolution that you just described.
00:19:07.640 Really, what stunned me about what you just said is that 2016 was eight years ago or was
00:19:13.460 seven years ago, right?
00:19:15.040 How many years ago was it?
00:19:16.340 Seven years ago.
00:19:16.920 Seven years ago.
00:19:17.740 What?
00:19:18.440 How is that possible, first of all?
00:19:20.240 But secondly, I think that a lot of us feel the same way.
00:19:25.120 Like we saw, we've seen through COVID.
00:19:27.380 We've seen through the just the speed at which the moral devolution is going and the sexual
00:19:36.740 revolution or devolution, however you want to describe that.
00:19:40.780 I think that we've just all had that kind of whiplash that you described and realized,
00:19:45.200 OK, the role of the government has to be a little bit different than just live and let
00:19:52.660 live.
00:19:53.020 And of course, you do believe in a level of liberty, of course.
00:19:56.340 And I know the left always accuses the right of being authoritarian, which is laughable when
00:20:00.840 you actually look at their policies.
00:20:02.440 But what you're saying is what the left has said for a long time, that there is no neutral
00:20:06.700 ground and that liberty has to be tethered to something.
00:20:10.560 The left believes that, too, that liberty has to be tethered to things that I think are
00:20:14.880 immoral and wrong and must be constrained for different reasons and in different ways than
00:20:19.920 what we believe. But the right also believes that, too, like we also believe that there
00:20:24.180 are limitations, but we believe that our limitations and our reasons for our limitations
00:20:27.960 are actually good, that our parameters, that our definitions, that the morality that we
00:20:32.280 are espousing is good.
00:20:35.240 And so I do I agree with you that conservatives just kind of need to come to terms with that
00:20:39.060 and realize like morality really exists.
00:20:41.840 Right and wrong really exists.
00:20:43.340 Good and bad really exists.
00:20:44.720 The reason why we believe that we are endowed with certain inalienable rights is because
00:20:48.180 there's a creator who created all of these things.
00:20:51.260 So tell us a little bit more about like how specifically we apply that knowledge that
00:20:56.180 everyone needs to come to terms with.
00:20:57.520 That doesn't mean we have to agree on everything theologically.
00:20:59.840 You're Catholic.
00:21:00.540 I'm Protestant.
00:21:01.240 We're not going to agree on all theology.
00:21:03.720 But we agree as conservatives.
00:21:06.380 We agree that our rights come from somewhere, that morality and truth come from somewhere,
00:21:10.240 that these things are authoritative and that that authority transcends the power of the
00:21:14.360 government.
00:21:14.680 Like we've got to agree on that in order to build from there, from that foundation, in
00:21:21.060 order to push back on the assault that is the religious Marxism from the left.
00:21:25.380 So tell us a little bit more about what that looks like.
00:21:27.940 That's exactly right.
00:21:28.860 So what's really interesting is this idea that I'm proposing isn't a new idea.
00:21:33.380 This is actually our constitutional heritage.
00:21:36.440 So if you look at the Declaration of Independence, if you'll allow me to get a little historically
00:21:39.780 nerdy for a moment, the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, used the ideas
00:21:45.240 or the definition of liberty of John Locke, who was essentially libertarian.
00:21:50.080 He believed that a society should be as close to absolute freedom, meaning animalistic anarchy,
00:21:56.280 if you will, as possible for a civilized society.
00:21:59.400 And after the Declaration of Independence, a brilliant document, you know, I have no quibble
00:22:02.960 with it, of course.
00:22:03.700 We had the Articles of Confederation, which essentially embraced John Locke's view on
00:22:08.500 liberty as well, this libertarian view on liberty.
00:22:10.640 And it resulted in chaos in the United States of America.
00:22:13.560 It was unworkable for us to be a cohesive nation.
00:22:17.060 And so we had the Constitutional Convention.
00:22:19.040 And this Constitution that came from this convention was not a libertarian document at all.
00:22:25.540 It did not resemble the Articles of Confederation.
00:22:27.760 It did not resemble any of John Locke's ideas on liberty.
00:22:30.500 Instead, James Madison, the father of our Constitution, the author of our Constitution,
00:22:35.960 he grappled with this same question.
00:22:38.300 If liberty is not the ultimate end, it is the means to something greater.
00:22:42.220 What is that something greater?
00:22:44.440 And in Federalist Paper No. 51, he gave us the answer.
00:22:47.700 He said the definition of liberty is justice.
00:22:51.540 So the something greater that liberty is the tool to use to achieve is justice.
00:22:56.760 And what's more, Madison pulled this from Edmund Burke.
00:23:00.980 Edmund Burke also defined liberty as justice, but he went a step further.
00:23:05.580 He said the definition of justice, because, of course, that's the question that follows,
00:23:09.560 well, okay, liberty is justice, but what is justice?
00:23:12.500 He said the definition of justice is original justice, capital O, capital J.
00:23:17.060 And what he meant by that is he meant biblical justice.
00:23:20.260 He meant natural law.
00:23:22.180 Now, a lot of people are going to respond to this and say, well, are you talking about theocracy,
00:23:25.120 Liz, are you talking about religion?
00:23:27.220 And the answer is no, I'm not talking about theocracy.
00:23:29.760 But yes, I am talking about religion.
00:23:31.920 The foundation of our country was built on this shared understanding of the definition
00:23:37.320 of right and wrong and man and woman and marriage and immorality and morality and liberty and justice.
00:23:43.760 And you don't have to be any kind of religious person.
00:23:46.200 You don't have to be a Christian.
00:23:46.940 You don't have to be a Jew.
00:23:47.720 To understand that that is the necessary component or the component that is necessary for our society
00:23:55.180 to be cohesive, we have to have a foundational agreement on the definition of these foundational
00:24:03.040 terms.
00:24:03.780 And our nation already has that.
00:24:06.080 We Democrats don't like it.
00:24:07.740 They try to reject it.
00:24:08.560 They don't like our country or anything we stand for.
00:24:10.720 Republicans have just lost sight of the fact that it's OK to have morality and moral order
00:24:17.180 in our laws and in our society.
00:24:18.840 That is in no way a breach of the separation of church and state, because it's requiring
00:24:24.220 no one to worship a God that they don't want to or go to church when they don't want to.
00:24:28.800 It's no religious participation necessary, which would be what a violation of church and state
00:24:34.180 would be.
00:24:34.620 It is instead an understanding that we can't have a society unless we agree that there are
00:24:40.280 some objective truths.
00:24:41.620 And it's already written into our Constitution what those objective truths are.
00:24:45.980 It's just up to us as conservatives.
00:24:47.640 This is what I challenge people in my book to reclaim that and restore it so that we can
00:24:52.060 restore order in our society.
00:24:53.640 And, you know, a lot of people, you know, myself included, have complained that the left seems
00:25:10.920 so much more cohesive, so much more able to build coalitions and to accomplish something
00:25:17.260 than the right.
00:25:18.020 But, you know, I thought about it.
00:25:19.120 I'm like, well, there is a there's a reason for that.
00:25:21.200 There's a fundamental reason for that.
00:25:23.800 The leftist ideology, progressivism, Marxism, whatever you want to call it, collective it,
00:25:28.240 the collectivism that we see from the left.
00:25:30.500 It is only destroying.
00:25:33.040 It is really easy to just give a random person a sledgehammer and to not care how they go about
00:25:39.060 it, to not care what they're destroying, as long as they're destroying something, as long
00:25:43.240 as they are given a tool to tear down these institutions, to tear down the family, to tear
00:25:47.840 down all the things that we're talking about.
00:25:49.700 You don't really have to have a game plan.
00:25:51.540 You don't have to have a shared foundation.
00:25:53.560 You don't really have to have a cohesive moral vision.
00:25:55.900 You don't even have to know what you're going to build after everything is destroyed.
00:25:59.340 You're just in the business of destruction.
00:26:02.300 So it's kind of easy to just link arms with someone who wants to take a bulldozer to things.
00:26:08.180 But for the right, we're trying to build.
00:26:10.680 We're not just trying to destroy.
00:26:12.180 And in order to build, you have to have a foundation.
00:26:14.560 It's not going to work if your foundation is sticks, my foundation is sand, their foundation
00:26:19.020 is stone.
00:26:19.820 Like we all need to have the same foundation.
00:26:22.420 That is the difficulty of coming together with conservatives, because I agree with you
00:26:27.060 100 percent unless we all at the very least have the shared foundational understanding of
00:26:35.880 who is ultimately in charge, where our rights come from, that there is a supreme transcendent
00:26:41.960 right and wrong, that virtue really actually objectively exists, and that our laws have
00:26:47.480 to flow from these things while not compelling people to worship Jesus the way that you and
00:26:52.620 I do.
00:26:54.360 Unless we start there, then it's not going to work.
00:26:57.960 Like we can agree on a lot of different things.
00:27:00.000 There are atheists, secular, leftists that I agree with on gender and different things.
00:27:03.920 But ultimately, at the end of the day, if we don't agree on the foundation and then build
00:27:08.700 from there, we're lost.
00:27:11.200 And what I really love is that you talk specifically, it's specific in the second half of your book
00:27:16.280 of how we do this.
00:27:17.320 It's not just what you just articulated.
00:27:19.780 It's specific.
00:27:21.060 Okay, so we start at the foundation.
00:27:22.660 We know who's behind it, first half of the book, which we don't even have time to get
00:27:25.580 into.
00:27:25.920 I really encourage people to read it because it's so interesting how you track all the
00:27:29.240 people and how it connects to like modern people in charge today.
00:27:33.660 Insane.
00:27:34.060 But the second half of the book is like, okay, we've got we know who's behind it.
00:27:38.940 Here's our moral vision.
00:27:40.140 And here's exactly how we execute it.
00:27:42.540 Right?
00:27:43.120 Yes.
00:27:43.400 So what's funny is my editor, when I gave him the first draft of that last chapter, he
00:27:48.660 said, this is intimidating, Liz, even for a president of the United States, let alone
00:27:52.280 a flustered parent.
00:27:53.640 And I tell this, I tell this little tale on him because that's what I intended it to be.
00:27:58.440 I'm tired of the platitudes and the cliches.
00:28:00.780 And just make sure your home is in order and everything else politically and culturally
00:28:04.760 will follow narratives that we've been hearing for the last 50 years from the Republican
00:28:08.920 Party.
00:28:09.720 Yes, of course you should, as an individual, have your affairs in order.
00:28:12.700 Of course you should have moral order in your family.
00:28:15.660 But conservatives have forgotten that limited government doesn't mean that all government
00:28:21.880 is bad or immoral.
00:28:24.140 Limited government simply means that our government has enumerated powers.
00:28:27.400 It has limits to it and it's accountable to us, to we, the people.
00:28:31.580 That's what limited government means.
00:28:33.020 It doesn't mean that government has no just authority to help order our society.
00:28:37.820 And yet the Republican Party has fallen for the false idea.
00:28:41.180 And you can see this, by the way, Chris Christie is a really good example of this right now because
00:28:45.320 he refuses to or he condemns states that are trying to ban transgender surgeries for children
00:28:52.980 because he said that's not a limited government viewpoint.
00:28:54.880 And I almost laughed when I heard this because I thought, well, what are you, what do you
00:28:58.640 think the morality of limited government is if it's going to allow children to have their
00:29:03.160 genitals mutilated in the name of a Marxist ideology?
00:29:05.940 No, no.
00:29:06.640 Government has just authority and it's time for Republicans and conservatives to understand
00:29:11.060 that the just authority of government should be harnessed to properly order our society along
00:29:17.340 these foundational truths.
00:29:18.560 I call it natural law because it means natural law is this reason that God instilled in each
00:29:24.800 and every one of us that we don't need.
00:29:27.140 It's not our idea of right and wrong.
00:29:28.760 It's not entirely nurture.
00:29:30.500 It's nature.
00:29:31.200 We can discern what's right and wrong for ourselves.
00:29:33.000 We know in our guts what is right and wrong.
00:29:35.240 That is natural law.
00:29:37.420 English law, which is what the Constitution was built on, was built on natural law.
00:29:42.500 This is our historical legacy here.
00:29:44.760 So I have a list of 12 governmental ways that conservatives and Republicans must, they
00:29:53.220 should, but they must use the government to properly order society.
00:29:57.640 Otherwise, we are going to continue in this chaos that we are living.
00:30:01.680 Sometimes these things can't be done just you and me at home, Allie.
00:30:04.920 It can't be done just go to church and raise your children according to biblical values.
00:30:09.300 Those are great things, necessary things, moral things.
00:30:12.300 Sometimes it takes our collective efforts to pressure our elected officials to do the
00:30:17.960 right thing at the governmental level, to harness the government's just authority to
00:30:23.000 make sure our society is ordered along natural law.
00:30:27.160 Totally.
00:30:27.740 Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people.
00:30:30.660 It is wholly inadequate for any other kind of people.
00:30:33.500 Right now, we really don't have a moral and religious society, unfortunately.
00:30:38.720 And I agree with you.
00:30:39.960 That's, of course, if we could snap our fingers, like, we would change the hearts of the people
00:30:44.700 so that they are inclined toward God.
00:30:47.280 Like, we all want that kind of spiritual revolution to happen, that kind of reawakening.
00:30:53.640 But it doesn't have to be either or.
00:30:56.220 We can pray for that.
00:30:57.300 We can work toward that.
00:30:58.440 We can hope for that.
00:30:59.360 We can live that out in our homes.
00:31:01.100 But God has also instituted the government.
00:31:03.720 Romans 13, we see that.
00:31:05.000 There is a reason for laws.
00:31:06.720 There is a reason for the government.
00:31:07.940 There is a reason for the state.
00:31:09.920 And as you said, it must be used to pursue justice, to constrain evil, and to promote
00:31:15.760 what is good.
00:31:16.380 That is straight up biblical.
00:31:18.260 And it's also what happens to be good for everyone, too.
00:31:21.520 Liz, that is so powerful.
00:31:23.200 I am so excited for your book.
00:31:24.900 That's already doing super well.
00:31:27.220 I encourage everyone to go out and get it.
00:31:28.800 They can get it wherever books are sold, right?
00:31:30.680 You can.
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00:31:37.560 else that books are sold.
00:31:38.900 I appreciate everyone picking up this copy.
00:31:40.620 I think you will find it to be a lot.
00:31:43.860 There's a lot of information in there.
00:31:45.000 But my hope is that once you read this, you are inspired for the fight.
00:31:48.200 And these are the tools that we have been asking for for decades for how to actually retake
00:31:53.640 our country from these Marxists.
00:31:55.200 It's HideYourChildrenBook.com.
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00:31:58.900 Liz, thank you so much.
00:32:00.140 I really appreciate it.
00:32:01.260 Thanks, Allie.