The Auron MacIntyre Show - September 21, 2023


A Nation of People Not Ideology ｜ 9⧸21⧸23

Hosted by
Auron MacIntyre
Mentioned
Thomas Carlyle Joe Biden Vladimir Putin Chuck Schumer Paul Krugman Rocky
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Episode Stats


Length

11 minutes

Words per minute

137.1

Word count

1,538

Sentence count

90

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Hate speech

2

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Summary

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The media have been covering for Joe Biden s disastrous presidency by running comically propagandistic headlines about the success of his policies. Yes, the average person may be struggling, but nothing can stop the American Politburo from publishing stories about new record harvests with the kind of fervor that would make a Soviet commissar blush. While the media s shameless partisanship for the Biden administration makes their distortions more obvious, this denial about the true quality of life in the United States is hardly new. Both parties have prioritized the victory of their ideological preferences over the well-being of the American people.

Transcript

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00:00:30.000 The media have been covering for Joe Biden's disastrous presidency
00:00:41.700 by running comically propagandistic headlines about the success of Bidenomics.
00:00:47.460 Yes, the average person may be struggling,
00:00:49.940 but nothing can stop the American Politburo from publishing stories about new record harvests
00:00:55.560 with the kind of fervor that would make a Soviet commissar blush.
00:00:58.420 While the media's shameless partisanship for the Biden administration makes their distortions
00:01:04.000 more obvious, this denial about the true quality of life in the United States is hardly new.
00:01:09.740 Both parties have prioritized the victory of their ideological preferences over the well-being of the American people.
00:01:17.800 Narrative victory has become far more important to our ruling class
00:01:21.440 than understanding the real condition of the average citizen.
00:01:25.140 In his essay, Chartism, Thomas Carlyle raised what he called the Condition of England question.
00:01:32.520 Carlyle was watching as the Industrial Revolution radically transformed the lives of the working class in Britain.
00:01:38.940 He was particularly concerned with the ruling elite's new obsession with data collection and economic theories.
00:01:47.720 Carlyle referred to economics as the dismal science
00:01:50.660 because it attempted to quantify everything about the human experience
00:01:53.960 and solve all of society's ills through statistical analysis.
00:01:57.660 The human experience is incredibly complex, nested in a thick web of tradition and folkways
00:02:04.720 that are not easily displayed on a spreadsheet.
00:02:07.920 Carlyle warned that this focus on impersonal and cold measurements
00:02:12.000 would allow economists to lie about the true condition of the people by manipulating data.
00:02:17.660 The reign of quantity, data, and experts would not free people from governance
00:02:23.600 but would instead make them subordinate to inhuman forces which would act in their own interests.
00:02:30.540 The current leftist push to portray America's tenuous economic position in a cheerful light
00:02:36.560 only demonstrates the truth of Carlyle's concerns.
00:02:40.660 Spending has run rampant, inflation is out of control,
00:02:44.100 and the only answer that Democrats have to offer is even more government programs and outrageous deficits.
00:02:51.420 As evidence, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer recently posted about how the Inflation Reduction Act
00:02:57.360 allowed for the planting of nearly $75 million worth of trees in New York.
00:03:03.380 Democrats have no interest in how inflation impacts the average American.
00:03:08.540 Politicians only care about how the situation can be used to further their ideological goal.
00:03:14.100 And they are more than happy to manipulate data to ensure that outcome.
00:03:19.400 Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman went so far as to claim that if you remove housing,
00:03:24.820 cars, food, and energy, it appears that inflation has been largely defeated.
00:03:30.160 Yes, that's right.
00:03:30.840 As long as you remove everything humans need to live, the average American is doing great.
00:03:35.840 While it's easy to focus on the absurdity of the current leftist regime, Republicans are just as guilty.
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00:04:50.540 For decades, conservative commentators told middle Americans whose jobs were being shipped overseas
00:04:55.760 that economic conditions were improving because new and better jobs would arise
00:05:00.500 from the creative destruction of the free market.
00:05:03.720 Young families who couldn't afford to purchase a home due to skyrocketing residential prices
00:05:08.440 were told to get an extra job and stop eating avocado toast.
00:05:12.080 Young married couples who couldn't afford to have children due to prohibitive health care costs
00:05:17.080 were told that everything was fine because flat-screen televisions from China were very cheap.
00:05:23.320 Free trade, mass immigration, and cheap money were supposed to allow the nation to innovate its way out of any problem.
00:05:30.420 The Party of Family Values didn't seem to care if family formation was increasingly out of reach
00:05:36.540 as long as the GDP line went up.
00:05:38.820 The Republican Party has been a cheerleader for corporations that worked hard
00:05:43.820 to destroy American culture, push a woke agenda, and make the dream of raising a family on one income impossible.
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00:06:21.780 The conservative establishment might talk about the importance of church or community,
00:06:27.080 but it eagerly endorses the economic forces that regularly tear apart those same communities.
00:06:33.300 In its ideological push for small government at any price,
00:06:37.360 the GOP forgot what made small government possible in the first place,
00:06:42.320 a robust network of families and community organizations that provided mutual aid for those in need.
00:06:48.920 The drive for a beltway, libertarian version of radical individualism was painted over with a thin coat of family values
00:06:57.560 to disguise its destructive nature, but it was dismantling the very structures on which those values stood.
00:07:04.360 This obsession with economic ideology didn't just damage the country socially, but also materially.
00:07:13.000 During the pandemic, many Americans were shocked to discover that the obsession with higher profit and cheaper products
00:07:19.740 had moved production of critical medical supplies like ventilators and antibiotics entirely offshore.
00:07:26.040 In a time of dire crisis, the United States was totally dependent on the very same hostile nation
00:07:33.380 that had fostered that crisis for essential medical supplies.
00:07:37.640 Any nation that was thinking about the well-being of its people would understand
00:07:41.980 that having some degree of domestic production for those items is critical, no matter what the cost.
00:07:48.060 But our leaders have learned nothing from this crisis, and little effort has been made to create
00:07:53.500 any emergency production capacity for these essentials.
00:07:58.220 The condition of the American people is not a cold statistic that can be derived from data.
00:08:04.700 The nation is vast, and it contains many different regions, cultures, and traditions
00:08:09.820 that can only be understood by living in them.
00:08:13.900 America's gross domestic product or the price of consumer electronics does not tell the story
00:08:19.660 of how people live their day-to-day lives.
00:08:23.580 Man cannot live on affordable flat-screen televisions alone.
00:08:29.180 Yes, the Biden administration has been shamelessly rearranging economic indicators
00:08:34.380 in the hope of papering over deep societal problems, but it's far from the first to do so.
00:08:40.140 It's much easier to abstract people into easily manipulatable data points than to actually
00:08:46.140 walk their communities and understand their problems.
00:08:50.220 Americans are facing a crisis of meaning.
00:08:53.100 The elderly move across the country to die alone in nursing homes.
00:08:57.420 Career strivers suddenly reach middle age and find that they have
00:09:01.020 nothing beyond a soulless corporate job to bring purpose to their lives.
00:09:06.220 Young people search for real communities of belonging, 0.97
00:09:09.100 but find only digital simulations of what was once a central part of human life.
00:09:15.500 Stock values can increase all they like,
00:09:17.820 but none of these problems will ever be solved by robust economic development.
00:09:24.140 Our modern minds have been trained to trust the quantifiable.
00:09:27.740 We have been trained to believe that the opinions of experts and the authority of data
00:09:33.180 hold priority over all other forms of knowledge.
00:09:36.700 But if we are to solve the social and spiritual problems our nation now faces,
00:09:41.980 we must learn to view our countrymen as humans, not boxes on a spreadsheet.
00:09:47.420 To understand the condition of America, leaders must view the United States as a people with organic 0.97
00:09:54.220 needs and ways of being, not an economic zone which can be optimized through social engineering.
00:10:00.540 Until our rulers see the nation as a people and not a temporary staging area for their pet economic ideologies,
00:10:07.660 they'll never be able to truly address what ails the country.
00:10:24.220 And of course you can watch all of these episodes and read all of my columns over at The Blaze.
00:10:45.100 Thanks for watching guys, and as always, I'll talk to you next time.
00:10:54.220 Let's see .
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