Liberals Need to Own Their Monster | 2⧸7⧸2024
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1 hour and 1 minute
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181.79788
Summary
In this episode, I talk about the problem of moderate liberals who have buyer s remorse and are now regretting many of the things that have come from the movement they are part of but refuse to take ownership over what they ended up creating.
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Hey, everybody. Thanks for joining me this afternoon.
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I want to talk to you guys a little bit about the problem of moderate liberals.
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The problem of liberals who have some buyer's remorse.
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Progressives who fell off the tip of the spear of the revolution
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and are now regretting many of the things that have come from the movement that they are part of
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but refuse to take ownership over what they ended up creating.
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I want to also talk to you a little bit about Donald Trump saying that we should end the Bud Light boycott
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and about Elon revealing Disney and its slate of different required diversity
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hires, representation, everything, internal documents coming out from Disney
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which obviously should be illegal under the Civil Rights Act, violate all kinds of things.
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I'm going to talk about why they probably don't or why we're unlikely to see action
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Like I said, I want to start off with the phenomenon of the unrepentant liberal
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who finds himself no longer welcome on the left,
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but all of a sudden realizes that he should probably make some kind of common cause
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the kind of people that they've hated their entire life,
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but don't really change anything about what they've been doing,
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the way that they led a movement to where it is now.
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Of course, I've mentioned people like this before.
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We've talked about people like Bill Maher, that kind of thing.
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And I want to dive deeper into why we keep seeing this phenomenon
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because a lot of people want to welcome guys like this in.
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They want to say, oh, well, I mean, if you're against the left,
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We're going to end up creating a coalition that's going to win.
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But I want to talk about why the fact that these people are unrepentant
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about their leftism, why they don't see where they messed up,
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is a serious problem and why that's more likely to pull people on the right,
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conservatives, that kind of thing, into the center along with them
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than it is to actually create something that's going to defeat the left.
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So, like I said, been seeing on Twitter a lot people like Richard Dawkins,
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oh, how can people not understand that there are two sexes?
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I mean, yes, you can argue about genders and these kind of things,
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How can these people say that there are just infant,
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I've also noticed someone like Brett Weinstein.
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He was complaining about the fact that people were challenging credentials.
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If a doctor didn't agree with certain vaccination requirements
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or different things that have now become a mainstay of necessary political,
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ideological belief, if you want to operate in most professions,
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especially high-profile professions like the medical profession.
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And once we start firing medical professionals for just acknowledging the truth
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then we've broken the entire system and it's all shattered.
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And I want to make it really clear because I made it clear in a thread
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responding to Brett that this was not about him.
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I've obviously, like many people, seen him on a number of different things.
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though I would disagree with many of the things I've heard him say,
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but he has at least looked at the progressive left
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However, many people like Brett share a kind of a common issue.
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And again, I don't know about Brett personally.
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And then the argument is that a lot of these people
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and I think it's pretty fair to say that a guy like Brett
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a militant atheist who set out to destroy Christianity
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and all the fundamental building blocks that were attached to it.
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who thought it was his duty to go after a religion
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All of these people thought that it was really critical now
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that has been just tearing through our society,
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the critical things that make civilization possible.
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And the whole point that I made in kind of my argument
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and most of you were a part of it from the beginning.
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who had what were progressive views at the time,
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You just don't like that it started breaking down