The Auron MacIntyre Show - March 30, 2023


Conservatism Is Dead. Build Something New ｜ 3⧸30⧸23


Episode Stats


Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

149.2057

Word count

1,484

Sentence count

74

Harmful content

Misogyny

4

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Hate speech

4

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Summary

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The values that once bound America s culture together have collapsed, and conservatives must face that reality with open eyes. A new poll from the Wall Street Journal has revealed that respondents who felt patriotism was very important to them dramatically decreased from 70% in 1998 to just 38% in 2023. The importance of religion and having children faced a similarly alarming drop in importance.

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00:00:30.000 The values that once bound America's culture together have collapsed,
00:00:35.200 and conservatives must face that reality with open eyes.
00:00:39.160 A new poll from the Wall Street Journal has revealed that respondents who felt patriotism
00:00:43.540 was very important to them dramatically decreased from 70% in 1998 to just 38% in 2023.
00:00:51.060 The importance of religion and having children faced a similarly alarming drop in importance
00:00:56.300 from 62% to 39% and from 59% to 30% respectively.
00:01:01.260 Community involvement saw a sharp rise in 2019 to 62% but cratered in 2023 to 27%.
00:01:10.260 These aren't just the values that America was built on, but the very basic priorities that
00:01:17.020 any nation must have for its own survival.
00:01:19.980 Any population that cares so little about the things that constitute the culture and transmit
00:01:25.900 that culture to the next generation is destined to face decline and decay.
00:01:30.660 It's common to hear from many different corners of the political landscape that the culture war is a distraction.
00:01:37.400 Those who would prefer the nation's political conversation to center on issues like taxes,
00:01:42.680 foreign policy, environmentalism, or economic disparity often express exhaustion with the never-ending clash
00:01:50.000 of moral visions in the United States.
00:01:52.900 This is, to some extent, understandable.
00:01:55.700 Many aspects of America's culture have become profoundly ugly and difficult to look at.
00:02:01.300 Most people don't want to see an endless parade of drag queens exposing themselves to minors on their social media feeds. 1.00
00:02:08.980 And it would certainly be nice to return to a time when the largest disagreement in our country
00:02:13.960 was the size of the next tax cut.
00:02:16.280 In the 1980s, cultural conservatives were relentlessly mocked for making supposedly hyperbolic doomsday predictions
00:02:24.480 about the cultural shifts across the United States.
00:02:28.060 TV hosts and political pundits laughed at the notion that the deconstruction of traditional, religious, familial, and sexual norms
00:02:36.000 would create a slippery slope down which the culture would plunge. 0.78
00:02:40.000 Conservatives were successfully shamed into abandoning what was left of the cultural battle,
00:02:44.900 one they had already mostly lost in the 1960s, and resigned themselves to a series of rearguard actions.
00:02:52.200 The American right adopted the more libertarian approach of focusing on the size of government
00:02:57.360 and its encroachment on personal and financial freedoms,
00:03:00.940 in the belief that creating a smaller and more neutral state would limit its ability to negatively influence the culture.
00:03:08.740 Christian conservatives hoped that a smaller government would leave their families and faith alone,
00:03:14.020 but despite their new focus, government only grew in both size and scope.
00:03:19.720 Private organizations seemed all too eager to join formal government entities in pushing progressive social doctrine,
00:03:26.840 and conservatives quickly found themselves without any significant social institutions to defend their way of life.
00:03:33.620 Many churches now prioritize the progressive political doctrine over the Christian gospel.
00:03:38.780 Institutions that should have stood against the fashionable destruction of traditional values
00:03:44.260 are now ruled by the progressive egregore, wearing the once-proud faith's skin like a trophy.
00:03:51.100 The predictions of the religious right have proven far too mild in retrospect.
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00:04:26.440 Former stalwarts of the conservative movement like David French now regularly argue for the
00:04:32.000 constitutional necessity of drag queen story hour, and neocons like Bill Kristol attack
00:04:37.840 Ron DeSantis for restricting child mutilation in Florida.
00:04:42.060 The direct sexualization of children has awakened many to the dire consequences that America's
00:04:47.940 cultural shift has wrought, but that realization may have come too late.
00:04:51.800 As the recent Wall Street Journal poll revealed, less than 40% of Americans hold their nation,
00:04:58.360 their god, or their posterity as a top priority.
00:05:02.660 This decline reflects not only progressive radicalization, but a trend among red states as well.
00:05:09.080 For a majority of the country, that which conservatives sought to conserve has lost its cultural primacy.
00:05:15.740 The good news is that the situation is far from hopeless.
00:05:20.400 While those on the right have been impacted by the general cultural zeitgeist, there is a wide gap between the Democrats and Republicans.
00:05:28.320 GOP voters are twice as likely to value patriotism and religion as their progressive counterparts.
00:05:35.960 Conservatives are also more likely to value having children, though only by 12%.
00:05:41.020 There is still a stark difference between the two moral visions in the United States, and that should give those on the right hope.
00:05:49.100 But the conservative moral vision no longer represents most of the country.
00:05:54.140 Those who are waiting for the fabled silent majority to rise up and retake America's institutions do so in vain, 1.00
00:06:02.360 and a new approach must be formulated.
00:06:04.560 A nation's culture shapes every other aspect of its being.
00:06:08.980 The language, folkways, and religious beliefs of a people create the very substance out of which the state is formed.
00:06:16.820 Culture defines what people value, which determines what they'll prioritize and pursue with their collective will and resources.
00:06:25.440 The culture war can never be avoided, because it's the war for the very values and language 0.56
00:06:31.140 with which citizens of a nation will evaluate every other aspect of political life.
00:06:37.420 The mere attempt to conserve that which once defined America's culture has been an objective failure.
00:06:44.520 The disastrous strategy of protecting traditional values simply by shrinking the size of government
00:06:50.620 has allowed the radical doctrines of woke progressivism to take hold.
00:06:55.300 The right must no longer see itself as the defender of the status quo,
00:06:59.800 conserving the current values of the nation's institutions,
00:07:03.620 but instead as culturally insurgent,
00:07:06.640 seeking to subvert the rotten core of progressive orthodoxy and replace it with the good, the beautiful, and the true.
00:07:14.760 Americans seeking to return to a culture that values the religion and tradition of their ancestors
00:07:20.280 can't rely on some vague notion of collective allegiance to those concepts,
00:07:25.240 but must instead forge a new movement that offers a dynamic alternative to the civilizational decay
00:07:32.460 being pushed on the current generation.
00:07:35.420 The forces advancing woke doctrine aren't revolutionary or rebellious.
00:07:40.760 They're the holders of privilege and power.
00:07:43.660 It's the corporations, school administrators, and human resource commissars
00:07:48.580 forcing the dismal, progressive agenda into every single aspect of daily life.
00:07:54.800 These dreary schoolmarms of civilizational decline have robbed the culture of its meaning and vitality,
00:08:02.080 and they should be opposed as the profoundly dull and bloodless force that they truly are.
00:08:07.280 Instead of trying to conserve institutions infested with these vile doctrines,
00:08:12.300 the right should seek to build new and vital organizations
00:08:15.880 that can connect the most beautiful and powerful aspects of America's past
00:08:20.620 with a vision of the future that offers meaning and purpose.
00:08:25.240 This vision is a multi-generational project that can't be achieved
00:08:29.460 with a single presidential election or the passage of some perfunctory legislation.
00:08:34.580 The forces of renewal must be willing to commit themselves
00:08:38.140 to the creation of institutions that will implement and safeguard their vision
00:08:42.820 even as the tide of electoral politics ebbs and flows.
00:08:47.060 There's an ancient Greek proverb that says,
00:08:49.820 Society grows great when old men plant trees 1.00
00:08:53.260 whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
00:08:56.300 We are called not to be the generation that conserves,
00:08:59.900 but the generation that builds anew,
00:09:02.220 so those who come after can rest once again in the shelter of a great civilization.
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