The Auron MacIntyre Show - February 16, 2024


Conservative Identity Crisis ｜ 2⧸16⧸24


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57 minutes

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182.17973

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10,429

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658

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16


Summary

In this episode, I talk about why the conservative movement is having a bit of an identity crisis, and why the legacy positions left over from bygone eras of the Republican Party and conservative movement are still hindering the movement. I also talk about a new bill in Florida that has a lot of people on the internet very angry.


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00:00:30.940 Hey everybody, how's it going? Thanks for joining me this afternoon.
00:00:34.800 I am Oren McIntyre. I hope you're having a happy Friday.
00:00:38.600 I want to talk to you about a couple things today.
00:00:40.960 I want to dive into the fact that the conservative movement is having a bit of an identity crisis.
00:00:46.260 There are multiple kind of legacy positions left over from bygone eras of the Republican Party
00:00:53.500 and the conservative movement that I think are still hindering the conservative movement today
00:00:58.360 are holding it back from being able to really take advantage and make some wins and make some important gains
00:01:03.920 and most importantly work for the good of the people that it is supposed to be working for.
00:01:09.680 And I want to dive into what I think those are.
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00:02:48.900 So like I said, I think that the conservative movement has an identity crisis.
00:02:53.680 And I want to be clear, there's a couple of things happening.
00:02:56.660 First, we have the GOP proper.
00:02:58.460 We have the mainstream Republican Party.
00:03:01.000 Then we have conservatives in general, the idea of the movement of conservatism, which does not always agree with things that are very popular inside the Republican Party.
00:03:11.660 And then I think we have what is an emergent new right.
00:03:15.300 And we can say that all of these things are kind of nested inside of each other.
00:03:19.220 So be aware that as I talk about this, some of these terms will be used interchangeably.
00:03:24.220 But some of these arguments only apply to particular segments of kind of these three pieces of what is emerging on the right wing.
00:03:32.260 And I'll try to specify specifically, well, I said specifically twice, but I'll try to specify when this applies to the different groups, when it doesn't apply to all of them.
00:03:42.480 So the first thing I want to talk about is the issue of conservative ideas or really, in this case, more Republican ideas about economic freedom versus the ideas of family formation.
00:03:57.500 This is actually one of my first videos I ever did on the channel.
00:04:00.680 I talked about this in a video called The Ben Shapiro Paradox.
00:04:03.640 You can go back and check that out if you want to see it.
00:04:05.660 But basically, the first identity crisis that the conservative movement has is it's kind of marriage to the idea of complete laissez-faire economics, complete hands-off economics, that you should be pursuing money at every moment.
00:04:25.400 And that should be the driving force at every moment and that that's that's OK.
00:04:29.520 That's the that's the way that we should exist as Americans.
00:04:32.220 But also, we should have thriving families.
00:04:35.700 We should have vibrant families.
00:04:37.200 And those families are critical to kind of the continuation of our nation and building up our population and having, you know, transmitting our values and traditions, these things.
00:04:47.220 And these things are at odds.
00:04:49.160 This is a contradictory thing.
00:04:51.320 Not that every part of economic freedom is incompatible with family.
00:04:56.340 I'm not saying that.
00:04:57.280 Obviously, there are cases in which these things are very compatible.
00:05:00.600 However, this idea of prioritizing economic freedom or economic growth at any price has really cost us a lot of things.
00:05:09.960 We see a heavy investment in this generationally as well.
00:05:13.500 I talked about this a little bit in a couple of days ago in my You're the Boomer Now stream.
00:05:19.080 But I explained, you know, one of the things that a lot of people give the boomers a lot of guff about and rightly so is the fact that they focus more on their own economic aggrandizement, assuming that that would take care of their children as well.
00:05:32.620 The fact that they could make money and that they could go ahead and have all of the wealth and all the material benefits that they wanted, all of the miracles of progress that they desired.
00:05:43.200 Well, that would work for them.
00:05:44.520 And because it worked for them, that would work for their kids and so on and so on.
00:05:48.420 And so there's kind of this mentality that, well, if I got mine, then my kids will be able to get theirs.
00:05:53.880 And I don't really need to worry about kind of any other continuity or duty I have to different generations.
00:06:00.100 And this is a general attitude that does pervade a lot of the conservative movement.
00:06:04.840 Now, don't get me wrong.
00:06:05.860 Go out and do the thing on your own.
00:06:08.400 Like put the maximum effort in and take initiative is good individual advice.
00:06:13.320 Jordan Peterson's clean up your room advice is actually really good individual device advice.
00:06:18.680 It's a good piece of advice to give to somebody on that one to one level.
00:06:23.500 However, it's not good societal advice, actually.
00:06:27.180 You don't want every person to have to fight for every single thing in their lives because most people won't be able to do it.
00:06:35.480 It's not actually a good way to ensure that your family does well, that your community does well, that the posterity that the Constitution talks about will actually flourish.
00:06:46.740 You actually want to go ahead and invest in systems that will take care of families and encourage them to grow.
00:06:54.620 We can see this in a couple different areas.
00:06:56.500 So, for instance, as an example here, one of the things that is often said by conservatives is, well, you have to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.
00:07:04.620 So you need to go out there and make your own money and you have to take your own opportunities and you have to be willing to go out and travel to wherever jobs are.
00:07:12.960 You know, wherever jobs happen to be, that's where you need to go and you have to make your own way.
00:07:17.740 And that sounds good, right?
00:07:20.460 That feels like the pioneering advice.
00:07:22.580 That feels like the spirit that forged the West and conquered the Western territories in the United States and settled them and turned them into civilization.
00:07:31.280 That sounds like that at first.
00:07:33.120 But what you realize is that actually, well, there's not a lot of frontier anymore.
00:07:37.460 We're not exactly conquering frontier in the way that we had before.
00:07:40.840 It's not really the same process.
00:07:42.760 And on top of that, the constant emphasis on economic mobility is not actually good for communities.
00:07:50.700 It makes it very difficult for people to set down roots.
00:07:53.560 One of the things that helps people have families is being near their own family, having the free child care and the assistance that comes with an extended family in the area, being able to rely on grandparents and uncles and aunts and cousins and a network of people that actually help you.
00:08:12.760 In a community, those are the kinds of things that make a two-kid family into a four-kid family.
00:08:19.580 It's the kind of things that make a zero-kid family into a two-kid family.
00:08:22.700 The fact that you have that built in, that you're not going to have to pay an exorbitant amount for child care if something is going on, that you're not going to have to pay an exorbitant amount for education because there are good options in your community, because you are staying inside a community where you have roots.
00:08:40.120 That's really critical.
00:08:41.340 The same is true, of course, for passing on religious traditions and all these things.
00:08:45.260 If you're constantly moving and chasing economic opportunities and looking for new jobs because that's the American spirit and that's what conservatives say to do, well, that means that you're not actually staying in the same place and investing heavily in institutions like churches or community organizations or civic organizations that would help out parents or families, people who are having a tough time.
00:09:09.180 If you want to reduce, you want to talk about the problem of big government and big government programs, well, a lot of those big government programs exist because they're filling in, they're backfilling a lot of the things that these stable communities used to do.
00:09:25.360 When you have a continuity from one generation to the next, when you have families taking care of each other going back hundreds of years, it's hard to leave somebody on a park bench.
00:09:36.780 If it's some random junkie, then no one takes care of them and no one makes sure that they have a warm meal and no one makes sure that they get off of their drugs.
00:09:46.040 But if you have a close-knit community where everybody knows that actually that's John's brother and John's family has been here for 200 years and we've all grown up next to him and we can't leave that guy here.
00:09:59.060 And actually, it's to the great shame of John's family in the first place that they would let a relative sleep out like this and be addicted to a drug like this.
00:10:06.940 Like that level of agency, that level of having some kind of responsibility to each other, that's the kind of thing that keeps the government from having to step in.
00:10:18.500 But you can't have that if you're also talking about constant economic mobility.
00:10:23.020 And again, Republicans, the right, conservatives have often very much been against protectionism.
00:10:29.240 They said, we can't have protection of our industries.
00:10:32.100 We can't have protections of our communities.
00:10:33.580 Creative destruction.
00:10:35.080 If economics comes in and hollows out your country and ships your job overseas, well, rough.
00:10:40.940 Just move to something else.
00:10:42.220 Learn to code, right?
00:10:43.360 Go do something else.
00:10:44.560 Move somewhere else.
00:10:45.660 But of course, that's the kind of stuff that devastates families.
00:10:48.240 It devastates communities.
00:10:50.060 It's what turns the middle of your rust belt into a ghost town.
00:10:55.060 And this is something that is directly at odds with the conservative ethos of having strong families, having family formation.
00:11:02.300 You have to pick and choose.
00:11:04.260 You can't tell people, oh, well, you can just travel anywhere.
00:11:06.920 You have to go after jobs all the time.
00:11:08.920 But also, you shouldn't rely on the government for any of this stuff.
00:11:14.020 You have to give people a functional social structure if you want them to be able to plug in and invest.
00:11:21.540 And if you don't do that, then they're going to fall back on the government because nobody is completely independent, especially when you start talking about families.
00:11:29.980 When you start talking and you start expanding beyond just this kind of Ayn Rand, hyper-independent, you know, single person who never has kids, never has families, goes out and does whatever they want.
00:11:41.300 Once you start actually looking at family units rather than just looking at the individual, you realize that this stuff is critical.
00:11:48.900 And that's why, again, this mentality of just go out and get yours is a serious problem.
00:11:53.680 Sure, we can tell everybody, well, you should just start doing rental properties.
00:11:57.320 You should just be going out there and getting second and third houses, you know, start your Airbnb, whatever.
00:12:03.380 That's great.
00:12:04.000 However, that drives up all of the costs of the housing in your area.
00:12:07.980 That puts entry-level housing out of the reach of young families.
00:12:11.700 Oh, well, it doesn't matter if we close the borders because, really, at the end of the day, these people are just going to drive down the cost of things we get here.
00:12:19.440 The people who come in and provide cheap labor, they're going to go ahead and do jobs Americans don't want to do.
00:12:24.380 This wasn't just an argument of the left.
00:12:26.120 In fact, this is primarily an argument of the right for decades.
00:12:29.420 And we see what happens, right?
00:12:31.260 American wages greater.
00:12:33.300 The price of goods goes up.
00:12:36.720 Things like food.
00:12:37.480 Things like medical care.
00:12:38.420 Things like education.
00:12:39.640 Things like housing.
00:12:40.440 They skyrocket up because of the boom of immigrants coming in.
00:12:45.820 And this all hurts the people who live here.
00:12:48.720 And this is, again, just this constant clash between what conservatives say they want and what their policies actually lead to.
00:12:57.560 Now, the good news is, and I think this is going to be true about a couple of these identity crisis problems, there has been a shift, right?
00:13:04.280 There has been some shift in this.
00:13:05.760 We have seen people start recognizing that mass immigration isn't just like a crime problem, though it most certainly is.
00:13:13.600 But that it has deleterious effects on a lot of things, including wages, including the ability of people to afford certain things that are essential for forming families.
00:13:22.580 We've started to recognize the need to protect our industries.
00:13:25.740 Donald Trump was widely maligned and still is by many people in the conservative movement for his protectionist ideas.
00:13:33.420 But he was very popular for this reason.
00:13:36.060 People are very tired of having their jobs shipped overseas.
00:13:39.300 They're very tired of having their city centers hollowed out.
00:13:42.200 They actually don't want to live this way and they don't have to live this way.
00:13:45.420 The options between the two parties should not just be, well, wildly degenerate people who might try to protect some of your industries and people who care about your values in theory, but don't do anything to actually protect your civilization in actual fact.
00:14:00.740 And so the fact that Donald Trump is willing to shift some of those ideas and come out that still gives him a lot of people who are opponents of his on the right, however, that is a good sign.
00:14:10.080 It's good to see that more people, guys like J.D. Vance and others who are moving into positions of power are espousing those ideas.
00:14:16.540 I think that that's a promising thing to resolve that identity crisis, that clash between two positions inside the Republican Party.
00:14:25.240 Another one, and this is similar, this one's kind of next to what I just talked about, but is the corporatism of the right.
00:14:33.400 Again, this is another promising one because we've seen the corporations have gotten so ridiculously and left wing that now the right is starting to understand what capital is a problem.
00:14:43.820 But for a very long time, the conservative movement thought that corporations were their friends.
00:14:47.980 They thought these people were on their side.
00:14:49.340 They said, oh, well, you know, we're for free trade, we're for economic opportunity, and that's OK at any cost.
00:14:56.420 And so we need to go ahead and invest in these or at least pretend like these corporations are neutral, at least at some level.
00:15:05.220 They're nominally on our side.
00:15:07.640 And that's been really critical.
00:15:09.120 Well, you know, it used to be that conservatives believe that all of these things were neutral institutions,
00:15:14.160 that corporations and education and things like that, those could be neutral institutions and that you didn't need to have your values in there.
00:15:22.380 The key was to get values out of this scenario, right?
00:15:25.520 We don't want corporations preaching any values.
00:15:28.020 We don't want schools preaching any values.
00:15:31.020 And it turns out that that's never the case.
00:15:32.980 You never have a neutral institution.
00:15:34.940 That's not real.
00:15:35.800 We still have people arguing this, by the way.
00:15:37.720 We still get this, especially from what I would think would be called the libertarian consensus, right?
00:15:43.620 I know a lot of libertarians are going to be angry about me about this.
00:15:46.320 They always get angry when I talk about it this way.
00:15:49.100 But it's just true.
00:15:50.200 And you can just get as angry as you want.
00:15:52.680 Because they're like, oh, well, the corporate Republicans, they weren't ran, Paul.
00:15:56.480 I know what you're saying.
00:15:57.460 But their legitimization of their opinions was always the same.
00:16:01.080 There's this strand inside of conservative thinking that came in kind of the 90s and the early 2000s
00:16:08.140 that there would be some kind of libertarian consensus.
00:16:10.640 And that's how we would defeat the Democratic Party, that all the social positions of kind of the Christian right were very unpopular.
00:16:18.800 They needed to be abandoned.
00:16:19.780 And you just needed lower taxes and more opportunity.
00:16:22.800 And that was the way that the right would win.
00:16:24.680 More free speech, more opportunity, more freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom.
00:16:29.480 This was the key to victory, right?
00:16:31.100 That was a very big push in this kind of Cato Institute conservatism that existed.
00:16:39.780 Again, I know a lot of libertarians are going to take issue of this, but I really don't care because it's obviously an influence.
00:16:45.520 Yeah, Bellway libertarians, whatever.
00:16:47.340 They're taking a lot of these justifications and they worked for a long time.
00:16:52.300 And again, it looks like we're starting to step away from this a little bit, especially on the corporate side.
00:16:57.780 We're starting to recognize, of course, that corporations are not our friends, that these are people who really hate us.
00:17:03.200 And that a lot of, again, the corporate structures are there to impact families.
00:17:08.600 When you change the way that households work, when corporations are no longer required to pay a single working parent enough wage so that their spouse can stay home,
00:17:22.000 then you end up in a situation where the wife has to go to work.
00:17:26.160 Both parents have to go to work to pay for everything.
00:17:28.300 Every household becomes a dual income household because it has to become a dual income household.
00:17:33.720 That's the only way to stay in the race.
00:17:35.960 And we do this again.
00:17:36.800 This is to pay for all that housing and health care and all these things that we hide, we say, aren't really going up inside the inflation reports.
00:17:44.060 All the things we conveniently leave out of inflation reports and other economic indicators to pretend like there isn't really a problem.
00:17:50.220 But there's a huge problem.
00:17:51.460 All the things that you need to, like, actually have a family are skyrocketing in costs.
00:17:55.940 And part of that is the corporate structure.
00:17:57.860 It's the fact that we've incentivized this two income economy where instead of having a parent stay home and actually raise and educate the children,
00:18:05.800 the two people are working so they can pay someone else to raise and educate their children,
00:18:10.560 but also so they can pay for health care and pay for their housing and pay for everything else that's necessary, groceries and everything else that is going up.
00:18:18.520 And so we need to shift that mentality that corporations were on our side, not just because they suddenly adopted woke values,
00:18:26.640 but because their very structure actually created a problem for families.
00:18:31.300 The fact that they were no longer held to a societal standard of providing a living that could care for an entire family.
00:18:37.480 I mean, you look back and I know TV is not real life, but the things that are kind of believable on TV just in the 1990s are insane.
00:18:45.500 Now, you know, 80s and 90s, where some guy who is a manager at a shoe store could afford a nice house with four kids.
00:18:52.320 That that seems insane today, right?
00:18:55.120 You need to college educated people constantly making higher and higher incomes just so you can maybe rent a decent place in many places in the United States.
00:19:05.160 I mean, that's just a reality for a lot of people.
00:19:09.320 And that change again, I know TV is not real life, but you would never depict that today because it's just so absurd that no one would believe it.
00:19:18.100 And the fact that corporations have played a huge role in that, along again with things like mass immigration and other critical social changes, has really shifted the mentality.
00:19:29.220 Also, again, we need to think about the fact of these neutral institutions.
00:19:33.940 The fact that we used to think that conservatives could just leave things like education and corporations and things alone,
00:19:42.280 and that eventually we would just arrive at a certain level of neutrality is just not real.
00:19:47.340 And this is actually a little bit of a conflicting area between new conservatives who came over from the left and those who have been here for a while.
00:19:57.140 There's a lot of people who, you know, the kind of the I didn't leave the left, the left left me types, the neocon cycle types that I've talked about before.
00:20:05.440 They come in and like, oh, I thought I showed up and I just thought this was a party of freedom.
00:20:09.460 I thought this was about free speech and live and let live and do whatever you want.
00:20:12.740 And that clashes with people who are starting to realize that actually abandoning family values, abandoning tradition, abandoning all these things,
00:20:22.820 all these arguments, all these culture war arguments, as people came to call them, was actually a failure.
00:20:28.260 It actually didn't work very well at all.
00:20:30.160 And the fact that people like Ron DeSantis and others are willing to address them is actually their strength and not their weakness.
00:20:36.000 You know, the fact that Ron DeSantis would go after a corporation like Disney and win, by the way, victory.
00:20:42.720 A lot of people said he couldn't win.
00:20:44.060 It wasn't possible.
00:20:45.060 He did.
00:20:46.020 The fact that he would be willing to do that, that's a new type of republic.
00:20:49.960 That's a new type of conservative.
00:20:51.500 And there are still many in the conservative movement who are very uncomfortable, especially those who migrated over from the left and thought they were just coming around for, you know, 90s institutional liberalism with a coat of red paint on it,
00:21:05.540 are starting to realize that actually, you know, maybe that that isn't what the conservative movement is going to be about.
00:21:11.400 So that is a good shift.
00:21:12.600 Hopefully that continues.
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00:22:51.060 All right, guys, so back to these identity crisis issues that have plagued the Republicans and the wider conservative movement.
00:23:01.700 The next one I would say is the problem of nationalism versus empire.
00:23:07.120 Obviously, neoconservatism became very strong inside the right.
00:23:12.080 It dominated for a very long time.
00:23:14.100 There are good reasons for this.
00:23:16.100 World War II, post-World War II, a lot of Americans felt that it was the United States' job to protect the world from the Soviet Union.
00:23:25.240 The Cold War was real.
00:23:27.860 And I know that's easy to look back now and say, oh, well, obviously we were going to win that.
00:23:32.480 Or there was never really a threat of world destruction through nuclear war.
00:23:38.000 But there was.
00:23:39.820 It was very real.
00:23:41.120 And you have to take that seriously.
00:23:42.960 So it's easy to look back now and say, oh, well, you know, we didn't really need to become a global empire.
00:23:48.460 We didn't really need to go out and fight these people.
00:23:50.520 We didn't really need to stop communism everywhere because everything worked out.
00:23:54.840 But I think that's a kind of a post hoc rationalization of a position you want to hold.
00:24:00.340 There's a reason that a lot of guys who became, you know, who were called paleocons, guys like Pat Buchanan,
00:24:06.000 who truly believed that America should mainly stay inside its borders, protect itself, went along with the Cold War and many of the neocon policies.
00:24:14.800 And the reason was that they really did see Russia, I think probably correctly, as an existential threat, not only to the United States, but possibly the world.
00:24:23.060 And that if there wasn't some way to strongly stand against it, there really could be a very serious threat to the American homeland.
00:24:31.780 That said, you know, the reason that you got the paleocon movement, the reason that you also got things like paleo libertarians who were kind of always on board with this.
00:24:41.560 But the reason these two groups agreed with what happened or agreed with each other is after the Cold War, after the fall of the Soviet Union, we just kept going.
00:24:49.560 Right. First, we're going to Iraq and then we're going to Iraq again.
00:24:53.220 You get the idea. We just continued to intervene.
00:24:56.020 This didn't stop, even though the Soviet Union fell.
00:24:58.900 We had lost the reason that America had to maintain a global empire, but we continued to kind of act as if it was necessary.
00:25:06.560 And this is understandable. There's an understandable identity crisis moment here because most Americans, particularly conservatives, really do want to be isolationist.
00:25:16.480 And, you know, I don't use that as a dirty word.
00:25:18.500 I think that's just a healthy way to understand that your country should primarily be involved in its own protection, that you should primarily care about your own borders and your own safety and your own people.
00:25:29.480 And the only reason you should really be involved with foreign countries or, you know, any kind of war outside of your immediate protection is if it's if it somehow is existential.
00:25:40.400 It directly impacts you and your ability to carry on as a as a nation.
00:25:45.020 Otherwise, you should probably avoid that as much as possible.
00:25:47.280 However, it was understandable why Americans got linked into this, because first they got drawn into a lot of these global concept conflicts, world wars, and then they had probably what was a legitimate interest in protecting against the Soviet Union.
00:26:02.240 And a lot of this got tied directly to patriotism.
00:26:05.280 And I think right wingers are understandably and for good reason, inherently patriotic.
00:26:11.120 They should be they have a pride in their country and they have many of them are service members or veterans or they have family who are I grew up, you know, on military bases, large amounts of my family and my friends were military.
00:26:24.960 And so it made perfect sense to to feel like you had to support this in every situation and that questioning this was a mistake.
00:26:33.020 However, that momentum of patriotism, especially in the face of the fact that many on the left were straight up communists and really did hate the country.
00:26:40.320 And really were opposing American action because they were legitimately communist and they they did want to see America defeated because they preferred communism that there was a lot of understandable, you know, kind of righteous pushback against that reflexive and righteous pushback against that.
00:26:58.560 However, once that threat was gone, that constant culture war need to defend a military action was preyed upon by neocons, the military industrial complex.
00:27:10.180 It was used to make profit was used to continue to justify placing America in these situations.
00:27:17.400 Well, after you could make any argument that it truly had any bearing on America's national security, everything became America's national security because the American nation became global.
00:27:27.280 We had to defend the empire, you know, every part of it, you know, we're we have critical trade routes somewhere in Southeast Asia.
00:27:34.680 And so if anything happens there, we've got to be involved.
00:27:37.140 And, you know, we've got allies over here and we've got troops stationed in every base across the, you know, the entire country.
00:27:43.220 And so anytime someone sneezes, we have to go to war with them because, you know, we've got to protect our thing.
00:27:49.720 Well, yeah, if you put your soldiers in positions and let's be really frank, a lot of neocons used soldiers as bait.
00:27:56.480 They wasted American lives.
00:27:58.180 They got people killed specifically so they could start wars and they could perpetuate this machine.
00:28:02.940 And so conservatives have a very serious identity crisis in this area because, you know, they want to they rightly want to support their troops.
00:28:11.080 They want to give military men a good thing to protect, something worthy to do.
00:28:16.700 They want to support them.
00:28:17.980 All of that is entirely noble.
00:28:19.920 And the reflex to do that makes perfect sense.
00:28:22.400 However, it's become very clear that the global American empire is not operating in America's interests.
00:28:27.040 It's operating in the interests of people who want to go ahead and, you know, basically separate themselves from from the United States in all but name and use the country as a tax farm for the global empire.
00:28:39.300 And that fact has led a lot of conservatives to have very serious confusion.
00:28:44.560 I mean, at the beginning of the Ukraine war, even though we've done this through all these other Afghanistan and Iraq and everything at the beginning of the Ukraine war, there was a little bit of Fox News.
00:28:54.480 Rah, rah, rah.
00:28:55.280 We got to go.
00:28:55.880 But the encouraging thing was it did seem like a lot of conservatives, a lot of people in the commentariat who normally would have been on board with all this and immediately would have been like, we got to go to war, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:29:07.860 They started to understand the problems here and they started to see that there was an issue.
00:29:12.200 And it felt like for the first time, especially when Donald Trump came by and gave people a reason why they no longer had to have this identity crisis, you know, because, look, it was the right that had been sending their sons to die.
00:29:24.420 Let's be really clear.
00:29:25.440 You know, the United States military, especially its effective troops, its real forward fighting troops, the people who are involved in special forces and combat units, they're primarily right wing.
00:29:36.120 They're primarily from families who have been serving for generations.
00:29:40.280 They're from places like Texas and from Appalachia.
00:29:43.860 They're not probably from the heart of Chicago.
00:29:47.040 And so there was the Republicans and the Republicans in the right that had really those conservative families that had been sending their children to die in these wars.
00:29:55.420 And I think they rightly were looking for a reason to say, we don't have to do this anymore.
00:29:59.900 And Donald Trump gave them a way to be patriotic and still question the military and what was happening.
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00:30:37.860 And so I think that started to resolve some of the identity crisis inside the right.
00:30:41.780 But then we see places like Israel, you know, there's the tax that happened over there.
00:30:45.700 And all of a sudden, oh, we've got to go to war with Iran.
00:30:47.900 We've got to give these people, you know, tens of billions of dollars,
00:30:51.600 even though they don't need it at all.
00:30:53.240 That kind of cycle starts again.
00:30:55.040 And it's just like we have to get over this.
00:30:57.480 We have this identity crisis has to end.
00:30:59.660 If we're going to be American nationalists, we have to care about the nation.
00:31:03.840 We have to put America first.
00:31:05.200 We have to put America first in every scenario at every turn.
00:31:09.380 You know, that doesn't mean that there aren't foreign conflicts that we might have to be involved in.
00:31:16.080 It doesn't mean that there aren't interests beyond America's borders that we might have to be involved in.
00:31:21.320 But it means that we are very careful, extremely careful with the blood and treasure of this nation.
00:31:27.260 The young men who would go and fight.
00:31:29.120 The truth is we don't have a lot of sons left to send at this point.
00:31:33.020 You know, there are a lot of a lot of the groups that used to mainly make up the combat effective forces of the United States military are no longer producing a lot of children.
00:31:45.100 And the ones that are there don't want to go because they've been told that actually white men are the devil.
00:31:50.900 White Christian men are the problem with the country and they don't want to go and die for an empire that hates them.
00:31:57.280 And so we're kind of seeing that occur as well.
00:32:00.600 So it's another one of those things where this identity crisis inside the right still exists.
00:32:06.320 However, it is starting to wane some.
00:32:09.400 We are seeing moves in the right direction.
00:32:11.640 I hope those continue.
00:32:13.380 The next identity crisis that I wanted to talk about is protecting the status quo.
00:32:17.480 I've mentioned this a few times, but I think it bears repeating.
00:32:21.560 Republicans want to defend the status quo for a lot of reasons because they're part of the uniparty.
00:32:27.040 But conservatives want to do it reflexively because they are conservative.
00:32:31.120 By their very nature, their job is, you know, their disposition is to protect what exists.
00:32:36.300 We are there to, you know, this is the second residue, the type two residue of Pareto.
00:32:42.400 The lions as Machiavelli would refer to them.
00:32:45.840 Those that have the persistent characteristics that want to make sure that that family and nation continue on, that that religion and belief are protected.
00:32:57.040 That's that built in conservative instinct.
00:33:00.140 So it makes perfect sense that conservatives want to protect that which has been a part of their lives that since, you know, that everything they can remember.
00:33:08.860 And so reflexively, conservatives tend to want to protect institutions.
00:33:13.200 And so they will say, well, we need law and order.
00:33:16.460 So maybe the FBI is fine.
00:33:18.160 And, you know, we of course, we support the military.
00:33:20.420 We support troops.
00:33:21.420 We don't really want to question that.
00:33:22.980 And, you know, there's all the there are all these institutions that we feel because they've just existed.
00:33:28.360 We need to go ahead and protect.
00:33:29.980 And again, normally, that's a very healthy instinct.
00:33:32.840 That's a very natural and healthy thing for conservatives to do.
00:33:36.180 And so we're in a very strange position for a lot of people who are dispositionally conservative.
00:33:43.720 I am.
00:33:44.280 That is me.
00:33:45.580 You know, I'm talking about myself here.
00:33:47.640 You know, that this is my natural disposition.
00:33:50.260 I am not a rebel.
00:33:51.620 I am not a radical.
00:33:52.920 I am not an extremist.
00:33:54.160 I am not a revolutionary by nature.
00:33:57.460 That is just not who I am.
00:33:58.840 I want to defend the institutions that have been a critical part of my tradition and my home and my family and, you know, kind of my society.
00:34:08.140 However, those institutions have all been turned against the people of this country.
00:34:13.380 They have been turned against the, you know, the very populations that they are supposed to serve.
00:34:18.900 The Department of Education does not educate children.
00:34:21.100 It brainwashes them into radical gay race communism.
00:34:24.980 The Border Patrol does not protect our border from illegal immigrants.
00:34:29.940 It literally welcomes them in.
00:34:32.160 Our Department of Defense does not defend this country.
00:34:35.400 It only defends the borders of countries like Ukraine or Israel or Afghanistan or Iraq.
00:34:41.700 Like, that's the truth about our institutions.
00:34:45.100 They don't actually do what they're supposed to do to serve this country.
00:34:49.060 And so protecting them is actually a mistake.
00:34:51.860 It actually hurts conservatives.
00:34:54.180 Things like the FBI are being used to persecute conservatives, not to protect them.
00:35:00.340 And so we have this identity crisis because we naturally want to defend these things, but we actually need to talk about replacing them entirely.
00:35:09.580 And, you know, again, I feel like there is some movement here.
00:35:12.460 I think a lot of people recognize the corruption of something like the FBI, obviously the Border Patrol.
00:35:17.360 Well, again, many of these people, many Border Patrol agents are super angry that they can't do their job.
00:35:22.560 They're furious that they are not allowed to do their job.
00:35:25.200 They're happy that places like Texas are actually protecting to at least some degree the border.
00:35:30.000 However, that doesn't really matter because if they're not doing their job, well, the purpose of the system is what it does.
00:35:36.040 If the Border Patrol lets a lot of people in, whether the Border Patrol agents like that or not, then the purpose of the Border Patrol is to let people in.
00:35:44.380 You know, if the education system doesn't educate children, whether individual teachers, I used to be a teacher.
00:35:49.680 I was angry about that fact.
00:35:51.420 But that doesn't really matter because at the end of the day, the purpose of the education system is what it does.
00:35:55.940 And what it does is indoctrinate children into radical leftist ideology.
00:35:59.980 And so, you know, conservatives have to address this.
00:36:04.380 Again, I think this is something that's changing, but this one I think is harder because conservatives have a hard time of thinking of themselves instead as the ones that are actually seeking change.
00:36:13.840 They're the ones who are actively trying to establish something new, make something new.
00:36:18.120 And that's why I think a critical mentality shift, there's one mentality shift that has to happen inside the conservative movement.
00:36:24.120 This is it. And I think it's the hardest one because, again, dispositionally, that's not what conservatives want to do.
00:36:29.600 That's not who they are. Right. That's just the case.
00:36:33.080 The final contradiction. This one's a little not like the others, but I think it's worth mentioning.
00:36:37.860 And please hear me when I say this. I'm about to talk about the Second Amendment and I am a Second Amendment supporter, have been my whole life.
00:36:45.580 Avid shooter, you know, always enjoyed that.
00:36:48.880 And my enjoyment is not the purpose.
00:36:50.720 That's not the reason the Second Amendment was written, but just putting my bona fides out there that what I'm about to say is not an argument against the Second Amendment at all.
00:36:58.380 However, what I am going to say is that there is a bit of an identity crisis inside the conservative movement when it comes to particularly the Second Amendment, because while I think the Second Amendment is critical and I would certainly rather have it than not.
00:37:12.620 Again, this is not an argument against the Second Amendment.
00:37:15.520 If you're going to give me a choice, hey, after you make this argument, are you going to give up your Second Amendment rights?
00:37:19.540 The answer is no. But there is a truth.
00:37:22.900 There is a truth hidden in here.
00:37:24.460 And the truth is that gun ownership in the United States in many ways has formed a security blanket for conservatives.
00:37:31.780 One of the things that we believe, one of the things that's part of our civic religion, and this is a really weird part of our civic religion, is that we are we've kind of legalized a revolution.
00:37:44.760 That in the Constitution, especially really in the Declaration of Independence, but also in the Constitution through things like the Second Amendment, it's part of our idea that the people have the right to throw off a government if they choose to.
00:37:58.960 If the government is not serving them, of course, like it says in the Declaration of Independence, then you need to sever those ties.
00:38:04.220 You need to lose those bonds and you need to go ahead and start your own thing.
00:38:08.520 Right. And we say that this is why the Second Amendment exists.
00:38:11.900 You hear this all the time from people.
00:38:13.860 Well, the Second Amendment isn't there for sports shooting.
00:38:16.360 It's not there for hunting.
00:38:17.260 It's not even there for self-protection, though that is your right as as just a Western individual from the Western tradition.
00:38:27.580 However.
00:38:29.460 The actual purpose most people give to the Second Amendment is the right of revolution, basically, that the people have the right to defend themselves against the government should the government become tyrannical.
00:38:39.940 And that makes perfect sense.
00:38:41.660 Again, it's specifically stated by guys like Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
00:38:46.920 Many people go ahead and cite Jefferson's letter saying that the you know, the tree of liberty has to be watered by the blood of tyrants and patriots from time to time.
00:38:59.080 People love to quote that.
00:39:00.300 What they don't realize is actually that's not about the Revolutionary War in the United States.
00:39:06.320 That letter is about is about a rebellion that happened later on in the United States.
00:39:15.440 It was against the United States government.
00:39:18.040 It was Shays' rebellion he was talking about and that there have been multiple rebellions in the United States, including probably the most obvious one, which would be the Civil War.
00:39:27.020 And during none of those were we actually allowed to do that?
00:39:31.200 But we it's very strange because we have this notion that we are a country that freed itself through revolution against a tyrannical king.
00:39:40.660 Makes sense, right?
00:39:42.160 However, we then go on to say, and of course, we always have this option.
00:39:46.140 But actually, if we look at our history, we know we don't have this option at all.
00:39:50.120 In fact, we regularly have failed to be able to do this.
00:39:52.820 The groups that have tried it have failed, most notably, again, in the 1860s.
00:39:58.000 And so it's very clear that we do not have this right and that we never did and that actually no constitution can actually go ahead and secure that right because that's not what constitutions do for many reasons.
00:40:12.900 But but but no regime can ever install the rights to overthrow it.
00:40:18.000 That's just not how governments work at all.
00:40:21.700 And most importantly for the United States, this creates the identity crisis and particularly conservatives because they have a hard time recognizing that they are an empire.
00:40:30.540 One of the hardest things for a lot of conservatives to admit is that the United States is an empire.
00:40:35.040 And the reason they have a problem doing that is the story of our empire is that it started as a revolution against empires.
00:40:41.020 We didn't want to have colonies.
00:40:42.500 We didn't want to be a colony more.
00:40:43.780 We wanted freedom from a foreign power.
00:40:46.900 And so we went ahead and had this revolution.
00:40:48.640 And if we're the kind of country that found its entire identity on the fact that we had a revolution to overthrow a tyrannical power.
00:40:56.900 Well, then, how can we be an empire?
00:41:00.580 How could we have founded ourselves by overthrowing an empire because it was tyrannical and that's a core part of our identity?
00:41:07.060 But also, we are a global empire.
00:41:09.040 We do oppose or oppose our will.
00:41:10.920 And actually, there is no way constitutionally for us to kind of, you know, get rid of this type of thing.
00:41:18.880 So, again, that one's less of a solvable issue as so much as just something that's always been a contradiction at the heart of the United States and has certainly carried into the conservative mindset.
00:41:31.500 And like I said, that one's not like the others.
00:41:33.640 The other ones are far more fixable.
00:41:35.260 I think there are things that are on the way to being fixed.
00:41:37.900 I think that one sits a little more core at the heart of America and not just conservatives.
00:41:43.480 It's a truth that's difficult to recognize.
00:41:45.660 Nobody likes to admit it.
00:41:46.800 I certainly don't like it, but it is something that we should probably recognize if we understand our political situation because the longer we kind of lie to ourselves about what our nation is and what it's become and the reality is a political power, we have a harder time recognizing where we're at.
00:42:03.280 And, again, this is not an argument against the Second Amendment.
00:42:05.820 I still think that it should exist and I still think people should have the right to bear arms, defend themselves, that kind of thing.
00:42:12.320 I'm simply pointing out that there is an identity contradiction at the heart of kind of how we see ourselves as a nation.
00:42:19.840 And that often leads us to a form of confusion when we're trained to understand our role in the world and our current reality inside our power structure.
00:42:30.960 All right, guys.
00:42:31.740 Well, that is what I was talking about with the identity crisis.
00:42:35.620 I wanted to talk about one more thing today, which is a bill that is coming out in Florida.
00:42:42.360 All of a sudden, there is an uproar about a bill in Florida.
00:42:46.840 And, you know, you would think, OK, well, this must be a pretty radical bill.
00:42:51.060 It must be doing something crazy.
00:42:53.540 And what does it exist to do?
00:42:55.780 Well, it exists to protect children.
00:42:58.400 What is this bill?
00:42:59.600 Well, it's House Bill SB 1342.
00:43:03.240 And as you can see from the headline here, a lot of people are up in arms.
00:43:08.120 We saw a very, a very interesting kind of run of people who said this bill will target LGBTQ folks.
00:43:16.000 And that's a very strange thing to say, because what does the bill do?
00:43:19.100 Well, the bill exists to offer the death penalty for those who would engage in the sexual assault of minors.
00:43:27.300 Which, good.
00:43:30.080 It's great.
00:43:31.080 Like, that seems really critical.
00:43:33.400 Now, obviously, this article is a little older.
00:43:37.380 However, you know, the kind of controversy about this has picked back up in the news.
00:43:43.120 In fact, you can find this article back on MSN.
00:43:46.180 You know, this isn't just some random article from some crazy outlet.
00:43:52.060 I mean, maybe it is to some extent, but, you know, it's, it's popping back up in major places like, like MSN.
00:43:59.680 And the response to this bill has been, well, this could literally be, you know, the death, the little death of queer and trans citizens.
00:44:07.700 Right.
00:44:09.060 And, yeah, this seems like a very, a very strange thing to say.
00:44:12.940 It seems like a very odd thing to complain about.
00:44:15.560 So, now, let's read a little bit of this bill so we can get an idea.
00:44:20.740 Again, this is something that, that Ron DeSantis and the Florida legislature introduced a while back.
00:44:26.660 But, interesting to see this kind of pop back up as something that people are caring deeply about.
00:44:33.340 So, what does it say here?
00:44:34.380 Florida has somehow become an even more lethal place to live as a queer and trans American thanks to a passage of two new bills.
00:44:42.080 Again, very odd, very odd thing for you, you know, to kind of say about this bill, given kind of what it's trying to do.
00:44:52.060 They say, the first, the bill, SB 1342, stipulates that sexual child abuse and acts of pedophilia may be punishable by the death penalty.
00:45:02.100 Good.
00:45:03.300 Based.
00:45:04.020 Right.
00:45:04.460 Yes.
00:45:04.840 Like, like, obviously, this is a horrible thing to do.
00:45:10.840 So, now, now, Idaho is, is having a similar bill, and this is why this came back up, right?
00:45:16.680 This is, this article is about the bill in Florida, but Idaho is, is launching a similar bill, and this is why people are freaking out about this.
00:45:25.440 But I'm just giving you the Florida article here.
00:45:27.960 But, but, but the, the second bill would make it easier for a jury to send the accused to the gallows, according to Reuters' bill, and allow juries to recommend the death penalty in capital cases on eight to four vote instead of a unanimous vote.
00:45:43.400 So, it's interesting.
00:45:44.360 I looked into this bill.
00:45:46.300 If you, if you click on the link, you can actually look into the bill.
00:45:49.600 And the bill specifically talks about 12-year-olds.
00:45:54.480 So, to be really clear, it's people under 12 that this bill is protecting.
00:46:00.240 It's not even like you can make some kind of argument about the in-betweens here.
00:46:05.060 Now, I don't know if the Idaho bill has the exact same language, but very interesting that, that, that is the reason they're angry.
00:46:13.080 Now, how does this affect queer people?
00:46:15.300 Well, that's a good question.
00:46:16.340 One does start to wonder, if you have been paying attention to what's going on in Florida this year, you'll know that Ron DeSantis is trying his best to have queer and trans citizens, as well as their allies, labeled as child abusers, for simply helping trans kids get access to gender-affirming health care.
00:46:31.940 Well, that's a really interesting thing to say.
00:46:34.080 What does that mean, gender-affirming health care?
00:46:37.460 Oh, you mean the mutilation of children.
00:46:39.620 What you mean is they, they want to criminalize the mutilation of children.
00:46:42.660 And more importantly, again here, under 12.
00:46:45.220 So, obviously, I don't think that there's a valid argument to say that over 12, this becomes okay.
00:46:51.660 In fact, this should be banned for everyone.
00:46:53.800 This should not exist for children or adults.
00:46:56.600 This is, this is just, this is not medical care.
00:46:58.840 This is mutilation.
00:46:59.860 And we should not have ritual mutilation practiced on anyone, particularly on children.
00:47:05.180 But this bill is specifically protecting those 11 and under.
00:47:09.320 And so, you can't even make the case that, oh, well, you know, people can consent to this or even that the child, you know, can consent or has some idea of their gender.
00:47:18.560 This is very obviously protecting those who are under this age.
00:47:24.000 But it was very crazy that we saw a lot of people getting angry about this.
00:47:29.000 Again, Idaho's passage of this bill has, or Idaho's, yeah, passage of the bill is having a lot of people having a similar outrage.
00:47:38.120 And I just thought it was really important to point out how ridiculous this whole thing has become because that's quite the stunning admission that we're making here, right?
00:47:48.760 That's quite the stunning admission that we are making that this is how we think we're protecting people or the fact that we would try to protect people in this way is a problem specifically for this community.
00:48:01.540 There's quite the admission, it feels like that it's happening there, saying things that maybe even perhaps weren't meant to be said by pointing out this problem.
00:48:12.280 All right, guys, let's go ahead and switch over to the questions of the people.
00:48:15.700 We got a few over here.
00:48:18.620 CB says, I'm an American.
00:48:20.940 Oh, sorry, I didn't put that up here.
00:48:22.840 CB says, I'm an American just like anyone else can be.
00:48:25.980 Yeah, as always, if everyone is American, then no one is an American.
00:48:32.280 And that is quite the problem here.
00:48:35.940 Creeper Weirdo says, but Ayn Rand said, if you're selfish enough, she did actually, she did write a book called The Virtue of Selfishness.
00:48:45.000 Interesting if you get, you know, Ayn Rand gets a lot of crap for kind of her prose style.
00:48:51.100 I do think that Atlas Shrugged and The Found Head are interesting books.
00:48:54.300 I'm not one of these people who just like completely dies because they at one point thought that Ayn Rand had some interesting points.
00:49:01.760 I think Ayn Rand did have some interesting points.
00:49:04.460 It's a phase a lot of people go through for a reason.
00:49:06.880 However, if you delve deeper into Ayn Rand's stuff, you look at her attempts at like actual philosophy, which I did.
00:49:14.400 You can kind of see how quickly those things fall apart.
00:49:17.800 It's pretty ugly, actually, once you start looking at this.
00:49:21.560 Let's see.
00:49:23.300 Let's move on.
00:49:24.600 Deuce Boogaloo says, Oren, you have it backwards.
00:49:27.840 The state isn't backfilling community services.
00:49:30.940 It's having these programs eviscerated with every institution between the individual and the state.
00:49:35.460 Hoppe refers to this as progressive de-civilization.
00:49:38.080 Yes, I know exactly what you're talking about.
00:49:39.760 In fact, Hoppe is borrowing that, again, from Bertrand de Juvenal.
00:49:44.620 So that's not new to Hoppe.
00:49:46.320 It's Bertrand de Juvenal.
00:49:47.880 Yeah, to be clear, this is a symbiotic relationship, right?
00:49:51.080 Now, you can say, and this is, I'm going to say, this is my problem with a lot of libertarians, including Hoppe.
00:49:58.240 I think Hoppe is right about a lot.
00:50:00.220 I respect Hoppe more than most libertarian thinkers, especially, again, because he's drawing from Bertrand de Juvenal.
00:50:05.520 But a lot of people just want to be like, the state, the state, the state.
00:50:09.200 The state is the only problem here.
00:50:10.800 And if it wasn't for the state, this wouldn't happen.
00:50:14.460 Well, that's true to some extent, because the only reason you can unload some of these burdens is the fact that a large state exists.
00:50:20.180 However, I don't think that it's fair to say that this is solely an issue of the state.
00:50:27.680 People are making this decision.
00:50:29.740 And when they're given the option, they will go ahead and cede this over.
00:50:33.360 So the fact that the option exists at all from the state is a big part of the problem.
00:50:38.740 However, I think it's wrong to not understand that this is a community problem as well.
00:50:45.100 And I think that, yes, it does get pushed down by the state.
00:50:49.380 They want this to happen.
00:50:51.220 You can clearly see this in some of the ways that welfare was handled, was specifically designed to break up families and to subsidize single motherhood
00:51:01.100 and make sure that fathers are in a Serena household.
00:51:03.620 A lot of these things, yes, they do, are often motivated by the state.
00:51:07.760 But I would say this is a reciprocal relationship.
00:51:10.800 And I think that it doesn't do us any service to rob the community of its agency here.
00:51:17.240 Creeper Weiru says, but James Lindsay says, yes.
00:51:20.740 Yes, James Lindsay says a great many things.
00:51:24.680 Justy says, how can we make ancestry great again or not viable?
00:51:29.660 Yeah, I mean, so there's a lot here.
00:51:34.380 A big issue that we have, of course, is that we have told people that they don't need to care about this stuff,
00:51:41.740 that everybody is a completely autonomous, rational individual, and they don't need this kind of continuity in their lives anymore.
00:51:51.080 They don't need this as an identity anymore.
00:51:53.280 Or you'll even see a lot of conservatives say, identity isn't the problem.
00:51:57.240 We need to get rid of identity.
00:51:58.580 I think that's a mistake.
00:51:59.460 I'm probably going to try to explain more of that.
00:52:01.940 But the fact that people are so disconnected from their families is for a great many reasons.
00:52:09.280 We don't value history anymore.
00:52:10.780 We create economic incentives to disrupt those communities.
00:52:13.940 You're simply not going to be interested in your ancestry if you don't know your grandparents, if you don't know your aunts and uncles,
00:52:19.660 if you're not living in a town or an area where your family has deep ties because that was the building that your family built 100 years ago,
00:52:29.180 or that was where your great-great-grandmother met your great-great-grandfather, and that's the whole reason you exist.
00:52:34.800 If you're not in a place, if you don't have people in a place, then ancestry will eventually lose itself.
00:52:42.260 People still trace their ancestry to some degree, but as people move from country to country or state to state,
00:52:49.620 and the more you move and the more often you shift, just the less likely you're able to be able to continue those things.
00:52:55.640 Can we make it great again?
00:52:58.060 Can we rebuild those connections?
00:53:00.000 Well, intentionally, you can do so, right?
00:53:02.280 I think at the individual level you can, but as a society, that's going to require us to, I think,
00:53:07.740 probably make some sacrifices, some sacrifices that I don't think currently we're willing to make.
00:53:12.240 And so that means that, you know, until certain things break down and until certain realities just remove economic mobility
00:53:20.280 and until, you know, we are more intentional about the necessity to go ahead and, you know, have this structure,
00:53:28.080 have this community, understand that this is as necessary for human flourishing as, you know,
00:53:34.320 a good health care or a recurring calorie count.
00:53:38.300 Until we recognize those things and we make the effort to preserve them, I don't think they're going to happen.
00:53:42.420 Is it viable?
00:53:43.100 I think it will eventually be, but is it coming anytime soon?
00:53:46.280 Probably not.
00:53:46.960 Matt Grudier says, wife and I just had our first baby.
00:53:51.460 Congratulations.
00:53:52.580 We live five hours from our family.
00:53:54.440 We decided to move back home.
00:53:55.880 Turns out our family is very important unless you want to send your kid to daycare.
00:53:59.320 I'd rather die.
00:54:00.200 Remote work makes that possible.
00:54:01.600 And that is the good news, actually, right?
00:54:03.400 Is that remote work does open up a whole new set of opportunities.
00:54:06.960 Usually, technology has been a detriment to this, but the remote work thing is a great opportunity for people who do want to keep themselves within striking distance of the family,
00:54:17.780 want to stay in more conservative communities, don't want to move to blue cities.
00:54:21.660 It does allow that.
00:54:23.120 And the fact that you're willing to make that sacrifice for your family says a lot and good for you.
00:54:28.700 And I think that you're right, that those things are important.
00:54:31.240 Of course, that relies on families that think that that is part of their duty.
00:54:34.580 Now, most grandparents will take care of the grandchildren, if you ask them enough.
00:54:38.600 But there is a reciprocal duty that has to exist.
00:54:41.860 You can make the sacrifice or try to live next to your family.
00:54:44.900 But if the community and the family don't feel like they need to go out of their way to help each other, then it doesn't really matter.
00:54:50.680 And so I'm glad that you're making that decision.
00:54:53.580 I think that, you know, and again, congratulations on your on your child.
00:54:57.340 And and I think that's important that you're putting yourself in that situation where you don't have to rely on strangers to take care of your kid.
00:55:03.720 But obviously, this is only an option if we make it make it so the communities can continue to exist next to each other.
00:55:11.420 Remote work is a nice way around that.
00:55:13.600 But not everybody has a laptop job, right?
00:55:15.520 Not everybody can make that choice.
00:55:18.360 And so we need to be able to build communities that allow that for everybody, not just for people who happen to have that technological mobility in their community.
00:55:28.060 Creeper weirdo.
00:55:28.780 So you literally game ending trans people.
00:55:33.080 Oh, OK.
00:55:33.580 Yes.
00:55:34.220 Yeah.
00:55:34.760 Again, the thing that everyone is screaming, you know, and that's it's just amazing how that has become the reason that, you know, the government has to compel speech.
00:55:43.900 The government has to, you know, allow, you know, not protect children is so that, you know, this this one micro community can cannot be can feel safe.
00:55:52.960 It turns out that actually you can't let people make that argument constantly or they will just destroy your civilization.
00:55:59.540 Life of Brian says Jacobin Marial Crusades have always been discordant with the right and much more consistent with the left ideology.
00:56:08.900 Legal alien mercenaries are nigh.
00:56:12.500 All right, man.
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