Immigration Chaos Rages in the UK | Guest: David Azerrad | 8⧸5⧸2024
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David Azrad joins me to discuss the riots in the United Kingdom, and why the over-35s are the most likely to be involved in these kinds of protests. He also talks about the new program, Job Stacking, which is designed to help you stack multiple paycheques from different jobs without burning out or getting caught by employers.
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Hard to ignore the news coming out of the United Kingdom.
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There have been large-scale riots across the country.
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Over 35 protests in response to a stabbing spree
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that occurred there at a young girl's dance school.
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This has sent the entire country into quite a fight
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Native Britons versus many Islamic gangs marching around fighting each other.
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Unfortunately, this is part of a larger trend of many Western nations
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who seem more than willing to continue to leave their borders open
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And this is having predictable effects on their native populations.
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Joining me to discuss that today is David Azrad.
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For those who may not be familiar with your background,
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can you tell people a little bit about what you do?
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Yeah, I teach at one of the very, very few morally and intellectually serious colleges
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left in America, Hillsdale College, that I'm sure everyone knows about.
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We have a little campus in D.C. where we offer a master's program in government
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and then have kids from the main campus who come to a semester with us.
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And I teach political philosophy and American political thought.
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And then on the side, you know, I do some public stuff in the public square.
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And my accent, if anyone is wondering, is I'm originally from Montreal.
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So for those that are unfamiliar, what happened, the reason that we saw this violence in the U.K.
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right now is that a 17-year-old who is apparently a second-generation migrant, he was born in Britain,
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but there has been many different instances of terrorism, knife crime, other immigration-driven
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And when the 17-year-old decided to go to this dance camp for children, for young girls,
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I guess it was some Taylor Swift-themed event, he ended up stabbing three children to death
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This created, as you might imagine, quite the outcry.
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And that's why we ended up with this wide-ranging protest movement.
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Many of them did turn into violent riots, even though some of them obviously remained peaceful.
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And in response to that, we saw many Muslim groups then come into the streets, start bringing
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their own protests and violence into those situations.
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The government, for their part, has freaked out, as you might imagine.
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Keir Starmer, who's the new labor head of the British government, has basically said,
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we're going to crack down, not on immigrants or knife crime or any of these things, really,
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He's labeled everyone who is protesting out there far right.
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He's made it clear that people attending these events will have very, very serious punishment.
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In fact, he's even said that he's going to have a standing army of agents ready to break
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this up at any moment, which has rubbed a lot of people who have been waiting for something
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like a standing army to repel many of the immigrants coming into the country quite the wrong way,
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as they realize that there is plenty of available force to push back against riots or protests
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when they happen to be native-born Britons, but not so much when it's immigrant crime inside
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So, David, my question for you is, this is a trend we see across many different Western nations,
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especially Ireland not that long ago had their own violent outbursts due to a migrant crime,
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another knife attack targeting children in their country.
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Why do we see this obsession with open borders, basically, at any cost with so many European
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nations and no interest from their leadership about pushing back,
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as obviously the immigrants that enter often don't integrate well and bring violence in
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I think it's a convergence of two distinct worldviews.
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You have the worldview of the ruling class and the elites, which I broadly define as neoliberal,
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and then you have the worldview of the left, and I would distinguish the two, meaning there
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are a lot of establishment powerful people who will, in their heart of hearts, are more committed
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They may mount the platitude, but the justification is different.
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So, you know, one of the core tenets of the post-Cold War neoliberal order is something approaching
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open borders and touting the economic benefits of immigration.
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I mean, you know, you've heard these arguments, right?
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And look, I should say, there is some truth to that in the sense of, you know, a lot of
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these immigrants are hungrier and harder working than some segments of the working class in
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the West who have grown, you know, a bit lazy, and we think some jobs are beneath us.
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Now, we may be willing to do these jobs, but at a much higher wage, maybe, than the immigrants
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But so one reason for the incessant influx of immigration is the interest of big business.
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And look, to some extent, you know, the elites outside of big business who want the nannies,
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who want the golf caddies, you know, fill in the list of jobs that they want done cheaply.
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You know, the center hold of the left is obviously the academy.
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And from there, the ideas radiate out into the broader society.
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And there, the justification is, basically, they still have the trauma of the Holocaust.
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And the lesson they took from the Holocaust is not that anti-Semitism is bad or that German
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fascism is bad, is that white people are dangerous and that white hate is dangerous.
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And I think in their minds, the only safeguard against another Holocaust or a variation thereof,
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i.e. slavery, Jim Crow, is to reduce whites to a minority within their own country.
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And so for them, it's a moral imperative because, as Susan Sontag said in the 60s, white people
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are a race of, you know, no, race of devils as Malcolm X.
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Susan Sontag said white people are the cancer of humanity.
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These sentiments are, you know, they're not going to be expressed by the CEO of a Fortune 500
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company, but they're quite common in the academy.
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And so basically, these two very powerful interest groups that have some overlap, the elites and
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the left, agree that we need a lot of immigration, preferably from the third world.
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And then even if people in the elites might have some reservations, like you may say, well,
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It's not good for business to have the kind of, you know, Northern African underclass that
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This is where the moral power of the left to come in.
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So if you were to have the temerity, I mean, you know this.
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You can't say, I want to maintain the current demographic composition of the country.
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So it basically falls on the right to try to have to oppose that.
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But the right to is compromised because a large part of the right has bought into the neoliberal
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And then another part lives in traumatizing fear of being called racist by the left.
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Because the people have consistently made clear that the levels of immigration are too
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And then they're dismissed as racists who cling to their guns and their religion.
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And so if you deny the legitimate sentiments of the people, a normal democratic outlet, like
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voting for someone who will reduce immigration, then it explodes periodically.
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They suffer the price much more than people who can afford to insulate themselves from
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the immigration and live in the swanky neighborhoods.
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I mean, I'm not making excuses for the rioting, but, you know, I suspect they probably feel that
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And it seems to me it would be perfectly reasonable and compatible with democracy, liberalism to
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say we should curtail, if not end mass immigration, give ourselves the time to digest and try to
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assimilate this weight of immigration and then reassess in a few decades, assuming, you know,
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we can even succeed in assimilating immigrants, which I think is an open question.
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It would be a perfectly normal democratic sentiment, but you're not allowed to express
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it because that means you're trying to, I don't know, to keep America white.
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It means you hate Muslims, none of which is true.
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And so these legitimate concerns of the people are silenced and demonized.
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I wonder, you know, you say this should be something that's completely compatible with
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And ideologically, that probably makes some level of sense.
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And so I guess the question is, when did this diverge?
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It would seem, as you say, that the, you know, kind of the ruling, the managerial elite
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have a particular desire to continue this open borders policy.
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Then the left have their own moral justifications for this.
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The right, I think, is often complicit in many ways, especially, I think, particularly because
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the idea that all Western nations are propositional nations has become so dominant.
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Even, you know, you might have some, I still disagree with it, but you might have some argument
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But obviously, in a place like the United Kingdom, there are white people native to that
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There is no argument about how they came over and conquered the island and oppressed the
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And yet somehow, you know, you still get guys like Starmer saying, oh, well, it's about
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It's really, or even, you know, the British right are largely talking about, it's got to
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And so, you know, there's no opposition in that area.
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And it seems like even though the ability to shut these borders should, again, be compatible
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with the ruling ideology that, you know, that they claim to value, the defense of democracy,
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we continually see that in fact, they keep betraying this.
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They keep saying, no, this is off the table, completely unaccessible to us, and often leaning
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on that idea of the propositional nature of the nations.
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And it just reveals to me that ultimately, they don't believe in democracy, or rather
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that they have, you know, a very strange definition of democracy, which is basically what the people
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would vote for if they were smart enough to know what's good for them, and they weren't
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so bigoted and didn't have their minds so corrupted by nationalism, chauvinism, and Christianity.
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So I would say this reveals that they are the ones who are illiberal and ultimately anti-democratic.
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But I think it's an eminently defensible position to claim the mantle of democracy, as I would,
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I mean, admittedly, the term is open to some, you know, disagreements, but broadly speaking,
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the idea of separation of church and state, government by consent, the rule of law and equal
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I mean, the founders didn't use the label liberal, but they believed in government by consent,
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in the rights of man, in the separation of church and state, and the rule of law.
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And look at the immigration policies they enacted, you know, the 1790, 1792, and 1795
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Immigration and Naturalization Acts, restrict immigration to free whites of good character.
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Now, you can disagree with that as a matter of policy, but it would take quite the level
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of temerity to claim that, I don't know, you know, you understood American republicanism better
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And, you know, when they did things that were in contradiction with their principles,
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like slavery, they all knew it and admitted it.
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Like, you're never going to find Jefferson defending slavery as a matter of principle.
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He knew full well that all men means all men and that, therefore, slavery is in contradiction.
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Whereas, when it comes to these immigration policies, where do you find any remorse from
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the founders saying, oh, this is incompatible with our principles?
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So I think it's important to do that because, well, the main advantage they have morally is
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browbeating us into submission by calling us racist, by calling us fascist.
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I mean, I don't, we don't need to go over this, especially not with you and with your audience.
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But I refuse to give up the mantle of, I don't know, America, democracy, republicanism, liberalism,
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whatever you want to call it, in opposing immigration.
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It is most emphatically not incompatible with, you know, whatever the professed ideals of
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And, but by the way, they do that on everything.
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Like, when the people don't vote the right way on gay marriage, you stuff it down their
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When the people don't accept affirmative action, the people have not been happy with affirmative
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Well, you continue to stuff it down their throats.
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And, you know, now that the courts are pushing back on something, suddenly watch the Democratic
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So, you really see that they have redefined democracy to basically mean, I don't know how
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It could either be whatever the hell we want and what we think is right and we'll call it
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Or if you want to be slightly more generous is, well, what the people would actually want
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if they didn't have their mind distorted by Fox News and UKIP and Donald Trump and then,
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Like, if we could get them to be as enlightened as we are, then they would see it the way
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So, we're going to drag them to democracy, kicking and screaming, and one day they may
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Well, you know, if that's what you think, that ain't democracy.
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It's not what you do to free citizens of a free country who have the right to vote.
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I think in their minds, democracy is more of a global phenomenon, right?
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It's kind of like the Schmittian, you know, he who invokes humanity is planning to cheat
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You are outside the democracy because there's a global understanding of how we should be
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If the rest of the world had a say in this moment, they would vote with us.
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And so, really, we're just bringing you to the table of what democracy absolutely has
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Yeah, with, of course, the important caveat that you'll notice that they're not pushing
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I mean, no one is calling for, I don't know, massive, I mean, Africa has none of the diversity
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Where is the widespread effort, I don't know, to resettle Asians and whites there?
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I mean, to even raise this is ludicrous, right?
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I mean, who in the left would say we need to send more people to live in Africa?
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So it is global, except it's only, only the joys of diversity are only ever imposed on
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So one issue that I think that I always wonder about is, you know, as you pointed out, there's
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the, you know, you kind of have the ruling class, neoliberal, managerial, however you'd
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And then you have more the ideological true believers of the left.
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And, you know, Sam Francis, uh, when he was in Leviathan, his enemies was talking about
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how basically, uh, you know, at some point you had like the new left and it had to catch
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They were, they were heading a similar direction, but basically the managers realized they had
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to boil the frog slowly as where the, the radical ideological left wanted to happen now.
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The establishment and the left appeared to be enemies early on, but now they seem to
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be approaching, approaching this, uh, this horizon where they kind of merge together.
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But as the application of radical leftism has seeped into, I think kind of the managerial
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formulas, more and more of the established managers have become true believers.
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It seems to be that we're losing the brakes for this train that they can no longer figure
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out where the, uh, the application of ideology for, uh, the app for the acquirement or for
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acquiring power starts and where the, uh, you know, the actual benefits of it end.
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And so we ended up the scenario where they buy into policies that seem to doom their society,
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even though they're supposed to be kind of these cold reasoning, uh, managers who, who are
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really only interested in operating this global empire.
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And in making money, um, you know, the, the, there's a poem I love by Alexander Pope.
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It opens by saying, search thou the ruling passion.
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There, the wild are constant and the cunning known, uh, to me, the ruling passion of the
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managerial elite would be greed and the ruling passion of the left would be, um, I think
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Um, this is something where I think Nietzsche is right.
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Uh, resentment primarily directed at the success of the West and a hatred of the West, even
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Now, I think the managerial elite, you said, many of them have become true believers, meaning
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there are elements of the left that is now embedded in the corporations.
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I think those who are not, how do they justify their actions?
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I think it has to be a combination of either they partially believe their own lies, meaning
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not the left's lies that we're a nation of immigrants.
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This is no different than when the Irish came to America and the immigrants built this country,
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Um, like there's a lot of money to be made and, you know, let's be honest, America is an
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I mean, I mean, if there's so much money here, life is so comfortable, at least at the top,
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if you can insulate yourself from some of the bad aspects of it.
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Um, and then, like I said, I think the fear, like say you are, you know, the head of a major
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corporation and you're starting to have second doubts about this mass immigration, what are
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Like basically get crucified in the public square, uh, be socially ostracized in the big blue cities
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Like, you know, in America, it's much easier to come out of the closet as a homosexual than
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You know, one side will, you'll get honor and pride and love.
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If you come out as a, you know, you know, that, uh, curb your enthusiasm episode where
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Larry starts wearing a MAGA cap because he wants to be left alone in public.
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I mean, that might not work, you know, in many parts of America, but in Beverly Hills, of
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So the incentives are such that, I mean, occasionally you get some like these traders to their class.
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You know, I mean, Tucker, I think is a great example.
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And although, you know, he paid a price, like he lost the show and he's been pushed into the
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Now I read recently that he has the most listened to podcast.
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So you've got, you've got to work a little bit harder to get there.
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I don't know if you, I mean, actually this is something I don't know.
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He's been very clear that he's anti-illegal immigration, but pro large amounts of legal
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I think in a lot of his sensibilities, but, um, all this to say is.
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You know, the right is going to have to step up and, um, you know, almost all Western countries
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One exception is my native land of Canada, which is, I think shows how cooked Canada is.
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It kind of is astounding with the immigration and the problems that Canada has, that there
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really is no Trump, Zemmour, Pierre Wilders, Victor Orban, forgetting power.
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I mean, even in parliament, um, and if the right doesn't succeed, then there's no way
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I mean, I don't know how it ends, but this is clearly not sustainable.
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But, you know, I look, when I go home to Montreal, I feel it.
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I don't feel that there's any genuine coherence.
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But, you know, it's a bunch of people doing business with one another, living side by side.
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And I think it's only going to get worse as there's more and more diversity.
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But, yeah, I'm not counting on the managerial elite to one day decide.
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I think they probably think we'll just get the hell out of Dodge one day.
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And I don't know, relocate to Singapore or to Hong Kong.
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I'm not in contact with the bigwigs at Goldman Sachs.
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Well, China's rising, so maybe they think that, you know, if it gets really bad, we'll
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Yeah, there's a reason you actually want your elites tied to the well-being of the places
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You don't actually want your human capital to be that fluid.
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So one of the issues that I think a lot of people look at and wonder about when we see
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the, you know, like Starmer saying, I've got a, you know, I've got a standing army
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We're going to go ahead and put an end to this right now.
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Obviously, Canada had the trucker protests and, you know, there was a lot of manipulation.
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There's a lot of Fox-style manipulation of financial systems, shutting people down, controlling
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the media, making sure that your bank account got drained.
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But at the end of the day, they still ended up, you know, taking a billy club and knocking,
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you know, some heads and dragging truckers off of a bridge to end the protest.
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I think one of the problems with a lot of these modern governments is that they have
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swapped out a large amount of their security forces from being something that is competent
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to being something that is ideologically aligned.
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And to do that, they've had to enlist the, you know, a lot of women, a lot of people who,
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you know, a lot of foot soldiers who probably aren't that great at being soldiers, but are
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And so I think they're in this strange scenario where they want to be intimidating.
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I think this is why you see, for instance, the obscene overreaction to January 6th when
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it came to the American ruling class, because for the first time in a long time, even though
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the protests were relatively not violent compared to anything we saw in BLM, it still felt like
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they might actually test the waters of what it meant to go up against lions instead of
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And so we ended up in this scenario where, you know, they're freaking out and they're, you
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know, throwing every grandma who was in a hundred, a hundred miles of the Capitol during
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But at some point you wonder, can these managerial types who are so bad at violence and have replaced
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their security forces with a lot of people who aren't very good at applying it, can they
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ultimately keep control of these nations should things turn south for them?
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I gotta tell you, I never thought of it that way, but that would be a delicious irony if,
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you know, basically, you know, I worry about wokeness getting into engineering.
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I mean, bridges collapsing, getting into medicine, people dying on the operating table.
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You're saying, what if it basically undermined the regime forces used to crack down on dissent?
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Look, I think you've thought about this more than I have, but my initial reaction is no,
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I mean, the Capitol Hill police seems to me to be not just morbidly obese elderly women.
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Like, okay, maybe you don't, you know, beat out the 22-year-old in a fistfight,
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You just need to handcuff him and hand him over to the authorities,
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So, to me, I don't, I don't know, that'd be too cute by half,
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or maybe it's wishful thinking to think that it'll collapse on its own that way when it's turned against us.
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I think they have the ability to do a lot of harm to people,
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I mean, look, we still, you know, look, you're still on the air, right?
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So, I think our side has a tendency to get a bit too hysterical with America as an illegitimate tyranny.
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I mean, come on, let's not get carried away, right?
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There's, I think we live in a golden age of dissent.
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I think it is easier today to access dissenting information than it ever has been.
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Musk buying Twitter has definitely helped, but even independently of that,
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you know, I was at Mount Holyoke last week, and of course, their bookstore is claiming to sell banned books.
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If they were banned books, you wouldn't be selling them.
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This is like some public library in Wichita that said, we won't carry it.
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You can get any book you want shipped to your house within 24 hours.
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So, we still have a long way to go, but what worries me more than the police crackdown on mobs,
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because part of it is, I don't know, I don't support mob violence on our side.
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I mean, especially not on their side, but I don't think it's the solution is for us to start rioting.
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I do think we should start protesting, and I think there's a lot that could be done within the bounds of the law
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without beating up civilians and setting fire to cities.
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I also don't see what good will come from that.
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And there, I guess, yeah, there also, you know,
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wokeness is going to erode the competence of the prosecutors, of the judges,
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but ultimately, this is still, the regime has a lot of power.
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they don't secure the border or stop the George Floyd riots,
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it's not because they can't, but it's because they won't.
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Because when they decide to do something, they're actually somewhat capable.
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Look at the pier in Gaza, what a farce that was.
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The U.S. military, $300 million pissed out into the ocean.
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But I still fear, I think we should still fear the regime.
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And I think the one thing I want to make clear is I said we're not a tyranny.
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but things are definitely trending in that direction.
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In terms of more and more dissent, more and more repression, more and more censorship.
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So mine is not, oh, it's okay, there's nothing to worry about, you know, Amazon will ship you books.
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But it's also, I don't think, good to be hysterical to the point where you start making drastic measures
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that may not be warranted because you don't see that maybe more, less radical measures may prove to be fruitful.
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Yeah, I think it really depends on the status of the country.
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So, for instance, a place like the U.K. or Canada might be in a very different situation than perhaps America or France
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because of the level of actual pushback that exists somewhere inside the political system.
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You know, the problem with mass immigration is that it's really a problem.
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There's a collapsing decision space issue here, right?
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Like, over time, the longer your borders are open,
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the more difficult it is to solve the problem of open borders through the democratic mechanism.
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And so if you're in the situation where the United States is,
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where you have perhaps a viable opposition that is willing to take action relatively soon,
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then perhaps the need for doing anything outside of the formal political process is much different
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as opposed to, like, where Canada or somebody, even by the time they recognize they need a real opposition party,
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will not have time to raise and create a significant pushback before basically their fate is sealed.
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Yeah, and let me maybe go counter to what I said.
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You know, I'm maybe at my most blackpailed, and I'm a generally optimistic person about this country,
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And so I can, you know, where Canada just really has no real conservative movement,
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So I see a lot of good things in the U.S. that don't exist in Canada,
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and that tends to make me a bit more optimistic.
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But I am completely blackpailed about us ever deporting the illegals.
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I don't know, you re-invite me a few years from now, I don't know,
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after the second J.D. Vance term on the back of the first Trump term,
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and you say, David, I'm going to play the clip.
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You said they're never going to deport the illegals, and they did.
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I mean, you remember the so-called Muslim ban, right?
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About as insignificant a policy as it gets in the grand scheme of things.
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They reacted like we had, I mean, the Third Reich,
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Imagine the media coverage if we started deporting the illegals.
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That is when my morale is, because they're here.
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If, heaven forbid, Harris is elected, more will come in.
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I mean, again, without violating any democratic norms.
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And if we're not going to forcibly remove everyone,
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we could really remove the incentives of being here.
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You know, making it harder to work, tax remittances, you name it.
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so that Trump can do a victory lap and say, I did it.
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I think it's one of those things that has to become possible,
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I think any actual solution is not currently politically tenable.
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And that's actually what makes it a solution at all.
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All real solutions exist outside of the current ability of politicians to enact them.
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I wonder, as a notorious democracy disrespecter,
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with a media that is manipulating people in the way you're talking about
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along with birthright citizenship and everything else
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that basically guarantees generational victories to the left
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as long as they can keep the border open long enough.
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As somebody who seems to be a little more pro that solution
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and not willing to surrender that ground to people,
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that the very mechanism you would need to control this
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that is ravaging the validity of the voter base?
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if you had to force me to put a label on myself,
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which, you know, it's a very pretentious thing to say,
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I probably feel most comfortable with Tocqueville,
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although even there I have reservations with Tocqueville.
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that we're kind of stuck with democracy broadly defined.
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It has a lot of savage tendencies, as he puts it.
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So I'm of the view that we're kind of stuck with...
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but step-by-step radicalization of the electorate
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I think it's harder to see at the national level,
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gives us a little glimpse into what is possible.