The Auron MacIntyre Show - MSNBC vs. the Declaration of Independence

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00:00:30.520 Hey everybody, how's it going?

00:00:31.940 Thanks for joining me this afternoon.

00:00:33.500 I am Oren McIntyre.

00:00:35.680 So, pretty hilarious here recently.

00:00:40.420 Tragic and hilarious.

00:00:42.140 MSNBC ran a segment featuring a Politico journalist,

00:00:47.760 because journalists are just the best people in the world.

00:00:51.300 And the Politico journalist had just got done writing a piece

00:00:55.580 on the dangers of Christian nationalism.

00:00:57.500 Somehow, Donald Trump is surrounding himself with Christian nationalists.

00:01:02.100 The Christian nationalists are coming for your children.

00:01:04.720 You're only one minute away from the Handmaid's Tale,

00:01:07.100 and you must defeat Donald Trump,

00:01:09.280 or you will forever be locked in chains

00:01:11.900 and made subservient to Christian nationalists.

00:01:14.420 And while sounding this alarm,

00:01:16.340 the MSNBC guest, the writer over at Politico,

00:01:22.740 warned about the dangers of this belief.

00:01:26.820 I don't know if you guys have heard of this very radical idea.

00:01:30.400 The notion that rights come from God,

00:01:35.940 not from people, not from the government, but from God.

00:01:40.180 Very radical, very crazy, wild idea.

00:01:43.980 Can't believe that these new Christian nationalists have come up with this.

00:01:47.180 Obviously, you guys know that this is in the Declaration of Independence

00:01:51.260 and many other places.

00:01:52.520 There's a lot of problems here.

00:01:54.960 I want to run down what Heidi Pritzballa said on MSNBC,

00:02:00.940 the ideology she's attempting to refute,

00:02:03.620 which happens to be the ideology of the American founding,

00:02:06.820 and a lot of problems that people have

00:02:09.360 with kind of their conception of rights, natural law,

00:02:12.980 and probably most importantly, what governments actually do.

00:02:16.940 So I'm going to get into all that, guys.

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00:03:29.900 All right, guys.

00:03:30.920 So let me just go ahead and play you a little bit of this clip

00:03:34.140 of Heidi Prisbala on MSNBC.

00:03:37.000 Watch everyone just kind of nodding along

00:03:39.260 as if she's not saying something absolutely insane.

00:03:42.280 And the one thing that unites all of them,

00:03:44.620 because there's many different groups orbiting Trump,

00:03:46.300 but the thing that unites them as Christian nationalists,

00:03:49.660 not Christians, by the way,

00:03:51.460 because Christian nationalists is very different,

00:03:53.500 is that they believe that our rights as Americans,

00:03:56.400 as all human beings, don't come from any earthly authority.

00:04:00.500 They don't come from Congress.

00:04:01.380 They don't come from their Supreme Court.

00:04:02.620 They come from God.

00:04:03.920 The problem with that...

00:04:05.280 Very dangerous idea, guys.

00:04:07.580 The idea that our rights don't come from a government,

00:04:11.520 don't come from Congress,

00:04:12.800 don't come from a Supreme Court.

00:04:14.460 They come from God.

00:04:15.420 This is an incredibly radical view.

00:04:17.860 This is insane.

00:04:18.840 These crazy Christian nationalists

00:04:20.460 have infected the United States.

00:04:23.500 They're going to be coming in

00:04:24.780 under the Trump administration.

00:04:27.800 Now, why would you say this?

00:04:29.900 This is insane, right?

00:04:31.600 Okay, just a quick quote

00:04:33.860 from the Declaration of Independence,

00:04:35.740 just so we're all on the same page.

00:04:38.100 We hold these truths to be self-evident

00:04:40.060 that all men are created equal

00:04:41.720 and endowed by their creator

00:04:43.360 for certain inalienable rights

00:04:45.220 among which are life, liberty,

00:04:47.160 and the pursuit of happiness.

00:04:49.540 Just very basic,

00:04:51.260 the kind of thing that you learn in elementary school.

00:04:54.780 I know, because I taught...

00:04:57.100 Well, I taught high school,

00:04:58.280 but I taught this kind of thing all the time.

00:05:00.640 Like, even in public schools,

00:05:02.400 we still teach this idea

00:05:04.340 about where rights come from.

00:05:06.860 We still teach American school children,

00:05:10.720 believe it or not,

00:05:11.560 even in our incredibly communist school system,

00:05:14.700 we still teach children

00:05:15.840 that natural rights

00:05:17.160 are given to them by their creator

00:05:20.300 and can't be taken away by the government.

00:05:23.400 That's still the way that we teach

00:05:25.440 the Declaration of Independence,

00:05:27.280 the Constitution,

00:05:27.940 the founding documents

00:05:28.900 of the United States.

00:05:30.720 So the idea that Heidi Prisbala

00:05:33.300 would get on television

00:05:35.520 and say,

00:05:36.380 this is radical,

00:05:38.060 this is crazy,

00:05:39.060 Christians may not believe this,

00:05:40.420 because remember,

00:05:40.900 she says there's a big difference

00:05:41.940 between Christians

00:05:42.640 and Christian nationalists.

00:05:44.420 And, you know,

00:05:44.720 the Christians might not believe this,

00:05:46.780 but the crazy Christian nationalists,

00:05:48.540 they don't think their rights

00:05:49.560 come from a Congress.

00:05:50.700 They don't think their rights

00:05:51.520 come from the Supreme Court.

00:05:53.100 And where did they get that wild idea?

00:05:55.180 Where did they get that insane

00:05:56.580 piece of rhetoric?

00:05:58.280 Well, they got it from...

00:06:00.720 Thomas Jefferson

00:06:01.400 from the Declaration of Independence

00:06:03.060 from the founding documents

00:06:04.740 of the United States.

00:06:06.540 So very interestingly,

00:06:07.760 Heidi Prisbala,

00:06:08.640 who is warning everybody

00:06:09.800 about the evil dangers

00:06:11.440 of Christian nationalism,

00:06:12.740 Christian nationalism is coming

00:06:13.900 for all of your rights,

00:06:15.300 it's going to destroy your country,

00:06:16.800 it's going to become

00:06:17.500 a theocracy.

00:06:19.420 And the way,

00:06:19.940 and the example she gives,

00:06:21.360 the dangerous belief

00:06:22.460 that binds all these

00:06:23.740 Christian nationalists together

00:06:25.360 is that they agree

00:06:27.080 with the founding fathers.

00:06:30.020 Like verbatim.

00:06:31.360 Not in some way

00:06:32.540 that you can kind of debate.

00:06:34.480 It's not like it's an edge case.

00:06:35.980 It's not like

00:06:36.380 the Declaration

00:06:38.160 was really fuzzy on this.

00:06:40.380 The explicit understanding

00:06:42.340 of rights handed down

00:06:44.520 by the founding fathers.

00:06:45.460 Now, we could go into

00:06:46.260 whether that's the correct

00:06:47.160 understanding or not,

00:06:47.960 and we will a little bit later.

00:06:49.720 But the idea

00:06:51.560 that this is some radical idea,

00:06:53.160 that this is something

00:06:53.760 that Christian nationalists

00:06:54.860 have come up with

00:06:55.800 and are pushing down on people,

00:06:57.640 is absolutely insane.

00:06:59.540 And she's directly arguing

00:07:00.860 that that's the case, right?

00:07:03.360 And she's sitting on a panel

00:07:04.560 with, you know,

00:07:05.880 guys who are like,

00:07:07.320 used to be the head

00:07:08.060 of the Republican National Committee.

00:07:09.940 And nobody's saying,

00:07:11.120 whoa, whoa, wait, wait.

00:07:12.440 You're just,

00:07:13.060 you're just quoting

00:07:13.820 the Declaration of Independence

00:07:14.960 and calling it

00:07:15.780 Christian nationalism.

00:07:17.740 Because you would think

00:07:18.660 if you're on MSNBC,

00:07:20.960 you would like to,

00:07:21.900 I don't know,

00:07:22.620 separate the idea

00:07:23.720 of the Christian founding

00:07:25.200 of the country

00:07:25.940 from Christian nationalism.

00:07:27.620 But of course,

00:07:28.020 they deny the Christian founding

00:07:29.360 of the country.

00:07:30.100 And so any acknowledgement

00:07:31.180 of Christianity

00:07:32.180 in the founding

00:07:33.380 of the United States

00:07:34.600 is a problem for them.

00:07:36.260 So even guys like Michael Steele

00:07:38.280 would rather you,

00:07:39.640 I guess, forget

00:07:40.420 that the founding fathers

00:07:41.960 were actually pretty invested

00:07:44.080 in this notion of rights.

00:07:46.740 And this reveals

00:07:47.760 a couple of funny things.

00:07:49.100 First, it reveals the fact

00:07:50.440 that the entire debate

00:07:52.480 over Christian nationalism

00:07:53.600 is just insane, right?

00:07:55.420 I did a thread on this

00:07:56.440 on Twitter

00:07:56.820 and really just explained

00:07:58.340 that the only reason

00:07:59.620 we have any kind of debate

00:08:01.380 over the idea

00:08:02.340 of Christian nationalism

00:08:03.300 is that at some point

00:08:05.200 we made the idiotic choice

00:08:07.060 of embracing the idea

00:08:08.540 of neutral institutions.

00:08:10.940 Sorry,

00:08:11.620 but even the classically liberal

00:08:13.900 founding fathers

00:08:15.180 knew that morals

00:08:17.340 would be injected

00:08:19.160 into their institutions.

00:08:21.580 They understood

00:08:22.460 that their founding documents

00:08:24.440 and the different parts

00:08:25.740 of the United States

00:08:26.680 that would operate

00:08:27.680 would need to have

00:08:29.160 some kind of moral framework.

00:08:31.060 And they explicitly

00:08:31.820 made it clear,

00:08:33.400 people like, you know,

00:08:34.320 like John Adams

00:08:35.900 made it very clear

00:08:36.840 that that framework

00:08:37.940 would be Christian in nature,

00:08:39.960 that it would rely

00:08:40.900 on the morality brought forward

00:08:43.720 by things like the Ten Commandments

00:08:45.060 in the Bible.

00:08:46.080 This was very clearly

00:08:47.040 brought about, you know,

00:08:48.420 by the founding fathers.

00:08:49.640 They understood 100%

00:08:51.500 that these institutions

00:08:52.960 would be neutral.

00:08:54.280 The only reason

00:08:54.800 that those could not be neutral,

00:08:56.920 the only reason

00:08:57.380 those institutions

00:08:58.140 ever felt neutral

00:08:59.380 to us at any point

00:09:00.640 was that we shared

00:09:02.280 these values.

00:09:03.900 We shared a basically

00:09:05.620 universal understanding

00:09:07.220 that America

00:09:07.880 was a Christian country

00:09:09.600 and more specifically

00:09:11.000 a Protestant Christian country.

00:09:12.860 Now, that doesn't mean

00:09:13.620 that you couldn't be Catholic

00:09:14.820 or it doesn't even mean

00:09:16.420 that you could be Jewish

00:09:17.680 or something else

00:09:18.660 and come to the United States

00:09:19.960 and live under it.

00:09:21.240 However,

00:09:21.780 you would have to conform

00:09:23.300 to the Christian understanding,

00:09:25.600 specifically the Protestant

00:09:26.700 understanding

00:09:27.420 of morality,

00:09:30.100 of a moral vision,

00:09:30.960 of what the country should be.

00:09:32.780 If you couldn't do that,

00:09:33.840 then you would have a hard time

00:09:34.680 operating inside

00:09:35.420 the United States.

00:09:36.900 This was a basic building block

00:09:39.480 of our identity

00:09:41.400 as a nation,

00:09:42.280 of our founding,

00:09:43.240 of the creation

00:09:43.740 of our documents,

00:09:44.740 of our institutions,

00:09:46.260 the whole thing.

00:09:48.220 The only problem

00:09:49.060 with Christian nationalism

00:09:49.960 is that it is a catchphrase

00:09:52.060 that otherizes

00:09:53.120 what is the historical context

00:09:56.060 for all of American

00:09:58.400 political formation.

00:10:00.360 There is no other context

00:10:02.340 other than a Christian nation

00:10:04.340 in which you can understand

00:10:05.920 the documents and beliefs

00:10:07.920 of the United States.

00:10:10.860 And so,

00:10:11.360 it's very clear

00:10:12.240 what the left is trying to do

00:10:13.760 with this idea

00:10:14.540 of Christian nationalism.

00:10:16.360 They're trying to drive out

00:10:17.780 any understanding

00:10:19.100 that the United States

00:10:21.160 could be influenced

00:10:22.500 by Christianity.

00:10:23.520 They feel like they won

00:10:24.760 and they feel this correctly.

00:10:27.280 The left feel like

00:10:27.900 they won a holy war

00:10:29.140 against Christianity

00:10:30.160 and that they defeated it.

00:10:32.500 And that's tough

00:10:33.400 for a lot of people here,

00:10:34.380 but that's true.

00:10:35.360 in a lot of ways.

00:10:37.220 The left successfully drove

00:10:39.280 when we decided

00:10:40.220 that separation of church

00:10:41.220 and state is a thing

00:10:42.600 which isn't in the Constitution

00:10:44.240 at all, by the way.

00:10:45.720 It's in a separate letter

00:10:46.980 that has no bearing

00:10:48.700 on the Constitution.

00:10:50.380 But once we decided

00:10:51.640 that the idea

00:10:52.280 of separation of church

00:10:53.160 and state

00:10:53.520 meant that you could not

00:10:54.220 have any traditional religion

00:10:55.740 inside our institutions,

00:10:58.280 then naturally,

00:11:00.700 something else

00:11:01.160 had to fill the void

00:11:02.020 because there is no such thing

00:11:03.240 as a neutral institution.

00:11:04.240 They do not exist.

00:11:05.960 Your government

00:11:06.220 cannot be neutral.

00:11:07.660 It cannot be objective.

00:11:09.400 It has to have

00:11:10.660 some framework,

00:11:12.100 some reference

00:11:13.020 for what it is doing,

00:11:14.580 what the good is,

00:11:15.660 what it is pursuing.

00:11:17.100 And if that framework

00:11:18.040 is not Christian,

00:11:18.900 it will be something else.

00:11:20.300 And so once we

00:11:21.100 effectively banned,

00:11:22.380 we reinterpreted radically

00:11:24.160 our Constitution

00:11:25.300 to say that it banned

00:11:26.620 Christianity

00:11:27.120 from the public square

00:11:28.280 and for it to be relevant

00:11:30.700 in any of our decision-making,

00:11:32.260 then some other form

00:11:34.240 of moral vision,

00:11:35.300 some other religion

00:11:36.540 had to take over.

00:11:38.120 Now, a lot of people

00:11:38.680 don't like

00:11:39.280 wokeness being called

00:11:41.080 a religion.

00:11:41.560 They say it doesn't have

00:11:42.180 all the tenets.

00:11:42.820 It doesn't have

00:11:43.220 all the pieces.

00:11:44.120 It's not a true religion.

00:11:45.320 And they're right.

00:11:46.000 It doesn't have

00:11:46.660 all of those things.

00:11:47.680 But that is the function

00:11:48.980 it's serving.

00:11:49.640 Whether you like

00:11:50.420 the fact that it's

00:11:51.960 a hollowed-out version,

00:11:53.480 a terrible,

00:11:54.500 cheap version of religion,

00:11:56.120 doesn't really matter.

00:11:57.020 I get your argument.

00:11:58.200 It's fair.

00:11:58.740 It's not a real religion.

00:11:59.760 Okay.

00:12:00.740 But that's not

00:12:01.580 the important thing.

00:12:02.520 The important thing

00:12:03.380 is that it's functioning

00:12:04.540 as a religion.

00:12:05.460 And it's filling the void

00:12:06.840 that a religion plays

00:12:08.100 in all of our institutions

00:12:09.480 and our culture.

00:12:11.240 And the fact that

00:12:12.320 we got rid

00:12:13.360 of Christianity

00:12:14.020 meant that eventually

00:12:15.000 some secular religion,

00:12:18.180 you know,

00:12:18.860 the progressive religion,

00:12:20.740 the woke religion,

00:12:21.540 would have to enter

00:12:22.280 these institutions

00:12:23.160 and animate them.

00:12:24.760 And so the left

00:12:25.380 are freaking out

00:12:26.380 because they don't

00:12:27.360 want Christianity

00:12:28.040 to return

00:12:28.780 to the public square.

00:12:29.980 They said,

00:12:30.620 we beat this.

00:12:31.360 It's over.

00:12:31.980 It's done.

00:12:32.400 We've had this debate.

00:12:33.820 It's illegal for you

00:12:35.020 to have your Christianity

00:12:36.000 in these institutions.

00:12:38.860 Wokeness,

00:12:39.400 progressivism

00:12:39.940 is the only

00:12:40.820 acceptable religion.

00:12:42.740 What they're worried about

00:12:43.820 is that heretics

00:12:44.560 will come back

00:12:45.300 into power.

00:12:46.340 What they're worried about

00:12:47.200 is that their

00:12:48.020 hard-fought victory

00:12:49.180 against an opposing religion

00:12:50.820 could be devastating.

00:12:52.620 And you can tell here

00:12:54.300 because she's

00:12:55.000 directly arguing

00:12:56.200 against the Declaration

00:12:57.400 of Independence.

00:12:58.840 Word for word,

00:12:59.900 verbatim.

00:13:00.360 Again,

00:13:01.380 this is not some,

00:13:03.100 you know,

00:13:03.780 this is not some obscure

00:13:05.200 or vague understanding.

00:13:08.280 This is not

00:13:09.060 some confusing complex.

00:13:11.100 She is arguing

00:13:12.700 against the text

00:13:13.940 of the Declaration

00:13:15.080 of Independence

00:13:15.860 and the exact words

00:13:17.760 of what the founders said

00:13:19.560 about where rights

00:13:21.260 come from.

00:13:22.620 There's no question here.

00:13:24.060 This is not up for debate.

00:13:25.640 It's very obviously

00:13:26.660 what she's doing.

00:13:28.140 Why does she feel

00:13:28.760 confident about that?

00:13:29.620 Why does she feel

00:13:30.100 like she can do that?

00:13:31.500 Because in her mind,

00:13:32.560 this is a defeated religion.

00:13:34.660 The founding is done.

00:13:37.260 The left has replaced

00:13:38.840 the story

00:13:40.240 of the founding

00:13:41.420 of the United States

00:13:42.420 with a new story.

00:13:44.020 And that new story

00:13:44.940 is the Civil Rights Revolution.

00:13:48.040 The United States

00:13:49.040 is no longer

00:13:50.100 a country

00:13:51.760 founded on the idea

00:13:53.400 that all men

00:13:54.360 are created equal

00:13:55.260 and endowed

00:13:56.040 by their creator

00:13:56.820 with certain

00:13:57.320 inalienable rights.

00:13:59.040 That is no longer

00:14:00.480 the story

00:14:01.420 of the United States.

00:14:02.740 The story

00:14:03.400 of the United States

00:14:04.200 is that the United States

00:14:05.180 is an evil place

00:14:06.380 born in sin

00:14:08.160 and iniquity,

00:14:08.800 the original sin

00:14:09.680 of racism.

00:14:10.820 and that slavery,

00:14:14.160 which, you know,

00:14:14.760 is a human institution

00:14:15.780 for basically

00:14:16.760 the entirety

00:14:17.420 of our existence,

00:14:18.300 was suddenly

00:14:19.220 actually created

00:14:20.420 on the shores

00:14:21.900 of North America.

00:14:25.040 And that America

00:14:26.200 is uniquely evil

00:14:27.380 for its past

00:14:28.200 of slavery

00:14:28.680 and racism.

00:14:29.600 And the only thing

00:14:30.880 that can possibly

00:14:31.700 atone

00:14:32.260 is the continual

00:14:33.960 work,

00:14:34.560 the Sisyphean

00:14:35.380 effort

00:14:35.780 to remove

00:14:38.040 every last

00:14:39.480 little bit

00:14:40.280 of bias

00:14:41.540 or racism

00:14:42.340 from the souls

00:14:44.800 of our country.

00:14:46.440 And so the

00:14:46.800 Civil Rights Revolution,

00:14:48.460 the idea that

00:14:49.260 we will find

00:14:49.920 new and more

00:14:51.100 important rights

00:14:51.920 over and over again,

00:14:54.220 every generation,

00:14:55.440 find a new

00:14:56.300 way

00:14:57.000 to destroy

00:14:57.680 that old hate

00:14:58.560 and replace

00:14:59.080 this old

00:14:59.880 racist,

00:15:01.020 bigoted,

00:15:01.780 white background

00:15:02.540 and replace

00:15:03.620 it with

00:15:03.940 more diversity

00:15:04.760 and more rights.

00:15:06.780 That is the story

00:15:07.780 of the United States.

00:15:08.780 And they've replaced

00:15:09.500 the founding

00:15:09.900 of the United States

00:15:10.520 with that story.

00:15:11.860 And they are sure

00:15:13.000 not going to let

00:15:13.900 you come back

00:15:14.800 and they're not

00:15:15.980 going to let

00:15:16.300 some little thing

00:15:17.420 like the Declaration

00:15:18.220 of Independence

00:15:18.900 and the actual

00:15:19.540 words on the parchment

00:15:20.980 keep them

00:15:22.540 from holding

00:15:23.740 that story

00:15:24.400 at bay

00:15:25.560 and replacing it

00:15:26.620 with their new one.

00:15:27.640 Because they understand

00:15:28.620 the power

00:15:29.100 of the narrative.

00:15:30.400 They understand

00:15:31.240 the power

00:15:31.900 of the United States

00:15:33.720 having a central

00:15:35.400 moral narrative

00:15:36.840 about what

00:15:37.920 it is

00:15:39.060 and what it should

00:15:39.760 become.

00:15:40.960 And they are

00:15:41.780 dead set

00:15:42.900 on making sure

00:15:43.880 that the old

00:15:44.960 version

00:15:45.400 never returns.

00:15:47.300 Now,

00:15:47.860 I want to go ahead

00:15:48.700 and play the rest

00:15:50.000 of this video

00:15:50.700 because

00:15:51.300 Krizbala got really

00:15:52.720 worked up.

00:15:53.320 She's like,

00:15:53.640 oh,

00:15:53.740 people took this

00:15:54.340 clip out of context

00:15:55.260 because I took

00:15:56.360 the first 20 seconds

00:15:57.640 that got a lot

00:15:58.560 of play on Twitter

00:15:59.320 and that's what

00:16:00.200 I played for you first.

00:16:01.140 But I pulled

00:16:01.500 the wider clip

00:16:02.540 because she's,

00:16:03.520 oh,

00:16:03.640 there's more context.

00:16:04.680 I'm going to warn you,

00:16:05.740 there is more context

00:16:06.680 and none of it

00:16:07.280 helps her out.

00:16:08.140 So I'm going to play

00:16:08.940 some more of that

00:16:09.500 in a second, guys.

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00:17:38.680 All right.

00:17:39.260 So like I said,

00:17:39.900 let's go ahead

00:17:40.440 and listen to the rest

00:17:41.520 of this video

00:17:42.000 because I certainly

00:17:42.520 don't want to give her

00:17:43.520 short shrift.

00:17:44.680 You need to hear

00:17:45.400 every bit of this.

00:17:46.820 You'll understand

00:17:47.660 that it was not

00:17:48.860 taken out of context

00:17:49.780 and the context

00:17:50.400 does not help her.

00:17:51.560 That is that

00:17:52.460 they are determining

00:17:53.340 man,

00:17:54.520 men,

00:17:55.300 it is men,

00:17:56.120 are determining

00:17:57.360 what God

00:17:57.880 is telling them

00:17:58.680 and in the past

00:17:59.780 that so-called

00:18:01.000 natural law

00:18:01.960 is, you know,

00:18:02.740 it's a pillar

00:18:03.180 of Catholicism.

00:18:04.800 That so-called

00:18:06.080 natural law

00:18:07.140 which she correctly

00:18:08.440 identifies as

00:18:09.260 a pillar

00:18:09.760 of Catholicism

00:18:11.220 and a lot

00:18:12.420 of other thoughts

00:18:13.200 that you could argue

00:18:14.240 it goes all the way

00:18:15.180 back to Aristotle

00:18:16.120 but it's certainly

00:18:17.480 a central part

00:18:18.340 of Christian thought

00:18:19.700 but this so-called

00:18:21.480 natural law

00:18:22.440 has to be interpreted

00:18:23.800 by men.

00:18:25.400 Well, yeah,

00:18:25.840 the whole notion

00:18:27.200 of natural law

00:18:27.900 is it's observable

00:18:28.780 by men

00:18:29.520 and available

00:18:30.380 to us

00:18:30.940 through reason.

00:18:32.240 Well, let's hear

00:18:32.760 a little more

00:18:33.240 because, again,

00:18:33.800 it's not going

00:18:34.180 to get any better

00:18:34.660 for her.

00:18:36.220 Catholicism, for instance,

00:18:37.040 has been used

00:18:37.660 for good

00:18:38.520 in social justice

00:18:39.260 campaigns.

00:18:40.000 Martin Luther King

00:18:40.860 evoked it

00:18:41.880 in talking about

00:18:42.860 civil rights

00:18:43.560 but now

00:18:44.280 you have

00:18:44.980 an extremist

00:18:45.840 element

00:18:46.460 of conservative

00:18:47.800 can she not say

00:18:49.460 extremist

00:18:49.980 or is that like

00:18:50.580 is this like

00:18:51.180 the Carnegie Foundation

00:18:52.660 is a Carnegie

00:18:53.340 it's Carnegie

00:18:53.880 it depends

00:18:54.380 on how upper class

00:18:55.300 you want to sound

00:18:55.840 it could be extremist

00:18:57.080 yeah, the idea

00:18:58.780 that natural law

00:19:00.800 is only good

00:19:01.760 it's only valuable

00:19:02.840 when it says

00:19:03.360 the things

00:19:03.680 I wanted to say

00:19:04.640 so natural law

00:19:05.340 is fine

00:19:05.940 when it's being

00:19:06.520 invoked by MLK

00:19:07.820 or, you know,

00:19:09.200 civil rights

00:19:10.020 but all of a sudden

00:19:11.300 you can't talk

00:19:12.360 about natural law

00:19:13.420 when we're talking

00:19:14.800 about any other

00:19:15.820 political issue

00:19:16.660 so a problem

00:19:17.580 to be really clear

00:19:18.680 is not natural law

00:19:20.800 in theory

00:19:21.840 she's fine

00:19:23.200 if natural law

00:19:24.160 is being invoked

00:19:25.380 into politics

00:19:26.100 in fact

00:19:26.760 she has no problem

00:19:27.820 with Christian nationalism

00:19:29.260 as long as it's being used

00:19:30.900 by, I guess

00:19:31.700 Martin Luther King

00:19:32.620 now, I've done

00:19:33.700 an entire episode

00:19:34.540 on Martin Luther King

00:19:36.500 and his very unorthodox

00:19:38.160 views on many things

00:19:39.240 including marital fidelity

00:19:40.700 and the kind of fact

00:19:42.400 that he didn't really

00:19:43.000 believe in Christianity

00:19:44.020 however

00:19:44.720 he certainly invoked it

00:19:46.180 he certainly knew

00:19:47.080 how to invoke Christianity

00:19:49.020 when he gave his speech

00:19:50.180 and to the extent

00:19:51.380 of which he was invoking

00:19:52.260 in the civil rights movement

00:19:53.400 she's fine with that

00:19:54.640 so her problem

00:19:55.240 is to be clear

00:19:56.000 not Christian nationalism

00:19:57.060 at all

00:19:57.720 she's actually just fine

00:19:58.920 with the invocation

00:20:00.040 of biblical values

00:20:01.140 as long as she thinks

00:20:02.700 they're helping

00:20:03.220 her current political

00:20:04.560 her current political

00:20:07.200 propaganda

00:20:08.060 Christians who say

00:20:09.940 that this applies

00:20:11.240 specifically to issues

00:20:12.360 including abortion

00:20:13.260 gay marriage

00:20:14.360 and it's going

00:20:14.920 much further than that

00:20:16.000 as you see

00:20:16.460 for instance

00:20:16.920 with the ruling

00:20:17.400 in Alabama

00:20:18.000 this week

00:20:19.020 that judge

00:20:19.440 is connected

00:20:19.960 to that dominionist

00:20:21.160 faction

00:20:22.540 and talking about

00:20:24.220 a lot of other issues

00:20:25.880 including surrogacy

00:20:27.620 IVF

00:20:28.820 you know

00:20:29.700 sex education

00:20:30.480 in schools

00:20:31.080 there's a lot

00:20:32.560 in addition

00:20:33.560 again

00:20:34.680 so we're really terrified

00:20:36.180 it's a terrifying

00:20:37.520 moment here

00:20:38.280 because Christians

00:20:39.580 might apply

00:20:41.240 Christian values

00:20:42.460 to the things

00:20:44.080 that they vote for

00:20:44.900 which is again

00:20:46.260 the whole point

00:20:47.560 in theory

00:20:48.260 of voting

00:20:48.920 right

00:20:49.260 it's the whole point

00:20:49.820 of having

00:20:50.820 a democracy

00:20:51.900 I'm not a big

00:20:52.620 democracy fan

00:20:53.400 but if you are

00:20:54.120 this is the whole point

00:20:55.380 is that your values

00:20:57.440 will be reflected

00:20:58.180 in the way you vote

00:20:59.100 and your worldview

00:21:00.260 will be shaped by

00:21:01.400 well your religion

00:21:02.460 now again

00:21:03.660 she was more than fine

00:21:04.840 with Martin Luther King's

00:21:06.280 worldview being shaped

00:21:07.360 by religion

00:21:08.280 she's fine

00:21:08.960 with it being

00:21:10.200 the Catholic

00:21:11.220 idea of social justice

00:21:13.080 she's fine

00:21:13.720 with the Catholic

00:21:14.200 idea of social justice

00:21:15.140 when it's creating

00:21:16.820 the kind of program

00:21:17.660 she wants

00:21:18.400 but when the Catholic

00:21:19.720 idea of natural law

00:21:20.840 is not just applied

00:21:21.560 to the social justice

00:21:23.160 activism that she wants

00:21:24.480 but it's also applied

00:21:25.540 to abortion

00:21:26.520 or other things

00:21:27.340 all of a sudden

00:21:28.100 this is a huge problem

00:21:29.180 so there's

00:21:30.300 her own

00:21:31.140 admitted

00:21:32.100 lack of any kind

00:21:33.200 of consistency

00:21:33.900 it's very clearly

00:21:35.220 just her political preference

00:21:36.900 she has no

00:21:38.420 actual interest

00:21:41.020 in getting rid

00:21:42.800 of Christian nationalism

00:21:43.740 or restricting

00:21:45.060 a Christian idea

00:21:46.040 if it helps her out

00:21:47.480 if it builds

00:21:48.420 the kind of world

00:21:49.120 she's hoping for

00:21:50.160 she doesn't have

00:21:51.180 any problem there

00:21:51.880 she understands

00:21:52.840 its value

00:21:53.640 and this is

00:21:54.500 you see this so often

00:21:55.540 with Democrats

00:21:57.120 like oh

00:21:57.520 Christian nationalism

00:21:58.280 is terrifying

00:21:58.960 now let me go

00:21:59.460 give a speech

00:21:59.940 at this black church

00:22:00.820 right

00:22:01.160 because what they're

00:22:02.300 really saying is

00:22:03.160 they hate white

00:22:04.080 evangelicals

00:22:04.960 and that's really

00:22:06.100 what she's worrying

00:22:06.880 about here

00:22:07.620 this is what she's

00:22:08.320 warning about

00:22:08.960 I was recently on

00:22:10.640 my buddy Steve

00:22:11.800 Steve Dace's show

00:22:14.240 and we were talking

00:22:16.260 about this

00:22:16.900 and I made this point

00:22:17.960 as I've made it

00:22:18.640 a number of times

00:22:19.320 on this show as well

00:22:20.900 this entire thing

00:22:22.460 this entire narrative

00:22:23.580 the whole reason

00:22:24.580 that the left

00:22:25.080 is doing this

00:22:25.780 is simply that

00:22:27.620 they want to go ahead

00:22:28.500 and conflate

00:22:29.240 Christian nationalism

00:22:30.200 with white men

00:22:30.880 that's it

00:22:31.840 they know

00:22:33.140 that white evangelicals

00:22:34.800 are pretty pro-Trump

00:22:36.360 that they're going to

00:22:37.160 vote for him

00:22:38.180 no matter what

00:22:39.400 they're not going

00:22:40.380 to lose that

00:22:40.980 voting base

00:22:41.640 no matter what

00:22:42.460 because they were

00:22:43.540 never going to have

00:22:44.040 it in the first place

00:22:44.820 and so they might

00:22:45.580 as well just go ahead

00:22:46.220 and attack them

00:22:47.660 and create a lot

00:22:48.260 of hatred

00:22:48.660 they also know

00:22:49.860 that the FBI

00:22:50.840 and the DHS

00:22:52.100 and all these

00:22:52.880 other organizations

00:22:53.840 are pretty much

00:22:54.780 weapons free

00:22:55.460 when it comes

00:22:56.180 to attacking

00:22:56.940 white nationalists

00:22:58.300 they know that

00:22:59.180 banks can debank

00:23:00.380 them

00:23:00.680 they know that

00:23:01.220 people can fire

00:23:01.980 them

00:23:02.320 they know

00:23:02.740 that they can

00:23:03.400 more or less

00:23:03.840 throw them in jail

00:23:04.660 without any kind

00:23:05.520 of reason

00:23:06.040 because nobody

00:23:08.320 likes them

00:23:08.960 and so if you can

00:23:09.800 go ahead and make

00:23:10.920 Christian nationalists

00:23:12.340 white nationalists

00:23:13.140 then you can basically

00:23:14.340 say we can do

00:23:15.060 anything to these

00:23:15.780 people

00:23:16.180 and that means

00:23:16.800 we can do anything

00:23:17.400 to Trump supporters

00:23:18.160 because these people

00:23:18.780 are all Trump supporters

00:23:19.760 and that's actually

00:23:20.760 what's going on here

00:23:21.740 there's no real

00:23:22.700 problem

00:23:23.200 I mean

00:23:23.560 she hates

00:23:24.280 Christianity

00:23:24.860 don't get me wrong

00:23:25.800 maybe she likes it

00:23:27.500 in the way

00:23:28.720 that you can

00:23:29.620 radically reinterpret

00:23:30.680 it to prop up

00:23:32.160 whatever kind of

00:23:33.060 progressive worldview

00:23:34.460 you're currently

00:23:35.040 hawking

00:23:35.540 but in the actual

00:23:36.860 Christianity

00:23:37.400 consistent application

00:23:38.800 of like she said

00:23:39.540 natural law

00:23:40.440 is terrifying

00:23:41.660 to her

00:23:42.300 right

00:23:42.620 because natural law

00:23:43.620 ooh very scary

00:23:44.800 this idea of natural law

00:23:46.280 these people think

00:23:47.060 their rights come

00:23:47.640 from natural law

00:23:48.800 and not from

00:23:49.540 the Supreme Court

00:23:50.820 or Congress

00:23:51.460 so to be clear

00:23:52.620 Przbala would be

00:23:54.500 fine if the Supreme

00:23:55.700 Court said

00:23:56.400 I don't know

00:23:57.180 no abortion

00:23:58.400 right

00:23:58.820 since that's where

00:23:59.980 rights come from

00:24:01.020 she would be fine

00:24:02.480 with that

00:24:02.960 because that's

00:24:05.120 where rights

00:24:05.560 actually come from

00:24:06.440 they don't come

00:24:06.980 from God

00:24:07.440 there's nothing

00:24:07.820 outside of Congress

00:24:09.960 or the Supreme Court

00:24:12.120 so if the Supreme Court

00:24:13.780 goes ahead and rules

00:24:14.840 and gets rid of

00:24:15.500 affirmative action

00:24:16.360 or gets rid of

00:24:17.400 Roe vs. Wade

00:24:18.340 or some of the other

00:24:19.200 things that she holds

00:24:20.060 sacred

00:24:20.500 well she's fine

00:24:21.540 with that

00:24:21.920 right

00:24:22.200 no of course not

00:24:23.460 right

00:24:24.100 because she has

00:24:25.300 a worldview

00:24:25.880 she has a religion

00:24:26.980 and she believes

00:24:28.340 thoroughly that

00:24:29.140 she has rights

00:24:30.100 whether they're

00:24:30.860 codified

00:24:31.560 in a declaration

00:24:32.980 or in a constitution

00:24:34.500 or in a bill of rights

00:24:36.080 or in any given amendment

00:24:37.660 or in any kind of law

00:24:39.560 she doesn't care

00:24:40.620 because she knows

00:24:42.280 that she has

00:24:42.940 a particular worldview

00:24:44.160 that she's trying

00:24:44.840 to make this country

00:24:46.100 conform to

00:24:46.960 and she is pushing

00:24:48.660 for that relentlessly

00:24:50.220 and when it's useful

00:24:52.360 to cite the constitution

00:24:54.080 or the bill of rights

00:24:55.180 or you know

00:24:55.880 some idea of natural law

00:24:57.340 then she'll do that

00:24:58.420 and when it's not useful

00:25:00.560 when those things

00:25:01.140 are in the way

00:25:01.800 she'll say that

00:25:02.560 there are radical tenets

00:25:03.780 dreamed up by

00:25:04.660 Christian nationalism

00:25:05.760 three minutes ago

00:25:07.040 because there is

00:25:08.640 no principle here

00:25:09.500 outside of the fact

00:25:10.640 that she wants

00:25:11.620 to go ahead

00:25:12.200 and force

00:25:13.160 her understanding

00:25:14.480 of the world

00:25:15.400 on everyone

00:25:15.940 because guess what guys

00:25:17.760 and this is

00:25:18.300 this is just the truth

00:25:19.660 that's what politics is

00:25:21.560 politics is the battle

00:25:22.940 for what's going to be

00:25:24.600 the shared value

00:25:25.560 and the reason

00:25:28.820 to the extent

00:25:30.320 which democracy

00:25:31.080 can work

00:25:31.740 to the extent

00:25:32.300 where you can have

00:25:34.200 a dialogue

00:25:36.540 over differences

00:25:38.360 of opinion

00:25:39.160 and come to a resolution

00:25:40.680 the extent

00:25:42.040 which that can happen

00:25:43.300 it's only because

00:25:44.900 you have a

00:25:45.580 a firm grounding

00:25:48.240 in a larger

00:25:49.860 shared belief

00:25:50.640 you have a set

00:25:51.340 of axioms

00:25:52.280 to which you hold

00:25:53.760 these are things

00:25:55.080 that are undebatable

00:25:56.120 things that are

00:25:57.160 unassailable

00:25:58.060 things that cannot

00:25:59.200 be destroyed

00:26:00.680 through argumentation

00:26:02.220 these are the things

00:26:03.260 that you never

00:26:03.840 question

00:26:04.440 okay

00:26:05.340 and everybody

00:26:06.860 has them

00:26:07.440 I don't care

00:26:08.420 what anybody says

00:26:09.400 I don't care

00:26:10.140 what any garbage

00:26:11.140 people tell you

00:26:12.460 about

00:26:13.620 I'm a free thinker

00:26:14.880 and I question

00:26:15.420 everything

00:26:15.740 no you don't

00:26:16.920 no you don't

00:26:18.020 because you probably

00:26:18.660 don't question

00:26:19.200 the idea that you

00:26:19.920 could question

00:26:20.440 everything

00:26:20.820 and that you

00:26:21.340 should have

00:26:22.000 free speech

00:26:22.540 and you should

00:26:23.040 be able to think

00:26:23.580 about all these things

00:26:24.380 you don't question

00:26:25.400 it all

00:26:25.800 there have to be

00:26:27.140 things on which

00:26:27.860 you stand

00:26:28.180 there has to be

00:26:28.800 some kind of

00:26:29.860 foundational belief

00:26:30.920 so you've always

00:26:31.820 been picky about

00:26:32.500 your produce

00:26:33.080 but now you find

00:26:34.380 yourself checking

00:26:35.040 every label

00:26:35.600 to make sure

00:26:36.260 it's Canadian

00:26:37.000 so be it

00:26:38.340 at Sobeys

00:26:39.700 we always pick

00:26:40.580 guaranteed fresh

00:26:41.420 Canadian produce

00:26:42.240 first

00:26:42.660 restrictions apply

00:26:43.780 see in store

00:26:44.520 or online for details

00:26:45.780 and to the extent

00:26:49.840 which your country

00:26:50.860 is founded

00:26:52.400 on a particular

00:26:53.740 set of core

00:26:54.520 beliefs and

00:26:55.080 understandings

00:26:55.700 that give them

00:26:56.060 a shared

00:26:56.440 worldview

00:26:56.860 you can have

00:26:58.180 some back and

00:26:58.820 forth on some

00:26:59.560 of the details

00:27:00.220 you can have

00:27:00.680 some level

00:27:01.240 of debate

00:27:01.760 there is

00:27:02.400 some level

00:27:03.500 of wiggle room

00:27:04.660 on how you're

00:27:05.720 going to apply

00:27:06.160 things

00:27:06.600 what the best

00:27:07.180 way to pursue

00:27:07.740 them is

00:27:08.240 but that only

00:27:09.300 works if you

00:27:09.820 continue to have

00:27:10.840 that shared

00:27:11.520 vision

00:27:11.940 if you have

00:27:12.880 that set

00:27:13.540 foundation

00:27:14.200 on which you

00:27:15.140 can build

00:27:15.740 and you have

00:27:16.520 that shared

00:27:17.060 understanding

00:27:17.600 of the good

00:27:18.360 and what you

00:27:18.820 should be

00:27:19.220 pursuing

00:27:19.720 then there can

00:27:20.720 be some level

00:27:21.660 of negotiation

00:27:23.420 debate about

00:27:24.840 how that's going

00:27:25.920 to get applied

00:27:26.500 but when your

00:27:28.000 worlds are so

00:27:29.060 radically apart

00:27:30.200 and so radically

00:27:31.020 separated

00:27:31.800 that there's

00:27:33.220 nothing shared

00:27:34.000 there's no value

00:27:34.920 shared between

00:27:35.640 each other

00:27:36.220 then all you're

00:27:37.660 doing is having

00:27:38.320 a battle over

00:27:39.000 whose values

00:27:39.820 will reign supreme

00:27:40.700 it's a zero

00:27:41.420 sum game

00:27:42.040 there is no

00:27:42.700 negotiation

00:27:43.440 because there

00:27:44.280 can be no

00:27:44.920 objectivity

00:27:45.680 you can have

00:27:46.960 no objectivity

00:27:47.860 you can have

00:27:48.400 no sweet

00:27:49.300 center between

00:27:50.020 people with

00:27:50.840 radically different

00:27:51.660 ideas like

00:27:52.380 there are only

00:27:53.400 two sexes

00:27:54.540 and eight-year-olds

00:27:56.380 should be getting

00:27:56.800 puberty blockers

00:27:57.680 until they figure

00:27:58.340 out what gender

00:27:59.340 they want to go

00:27:59.980 ahead and live

00:28:00.860 their life as

00:28:01.540 there is no

00:28:02.440 middle ground

00:28:02.980 there there is

00:28:03.600 no area for

00:28:04.740 debate

00:28:05.120 there is no

00:28:06.140 shared understanding

00:28:07.500 that can let you

00:28:08.680 navigate those

00:28:09.680 two extremes

00:28:10.720 and that's exactly

00:28:11.740 where we are

00:28:12.520 and so

00:28:13.460 Prisbala

00:28:14.100 you know

00:28:15.220 again

00:28:15.600 she's more

00:28:16.380 than happy

00:28:16.720 to invoke

00:28:17.320 the idea

00:28:17.920 of natural

00:28:18.680 law

00:28:19.040 the idea

00:28:19.600 that there

00:28:20.340 are these

00:28:20.680 observable

00:28:21.380 truths

00:28:22.160 about humanity

00:28:24.020 that are

00:28:25.480 evident

00:28:26.080 and inform

00:28:27.820 the way that

00:28:28.720 we order

00:28:29.420 our society

00:28:30.140 she's fine

00:28:30.940 invoking that

00:28:32.200 as long as

00:28:32.720 she thinks

00:28:33.060 it's furthering

00:28:33.780 a civil rights

00:28:34.400 movement

00:28:34.700 or some

00:28:35.120 level of

00:28:35.520 social justice

00:28:36.300 but the

00:28:38.300 minute that it

00:28:38.900 would have

00:28:39.200 other implications

00:28:40.080 for other

00:28:41.800 political issues

00:28:42.720 where she's not

00:28:43.640 in line with

00:28:44.340 that current

00:28:44.880 doctrine

00:28:45.360 well all of a

00:28:46.420 sudden it needs

00:28:46.900 to be vacated

00:28:47.620 it's a radical

00:28:48.460 radical idea

00:28:50.400 now in response

00:28:52.440 to this a number

00:28:53.420 of people

00:28:53.960 understandably

00:28:55.180 got a little

00:28:56.580 upset

00:28:56.940 and they said

00:28:58.380 things like

00:28:58.980 the government

00:28:59.920 exists only to

00:29:00.920 secure rights

00:29:01.860 that's it

00:29:03.400 and those rights

00:29:04.560 have to come

00:29:04.940 from God

00:29:05.300 they can't come

00:29:06.000 from anywhere else

00:29:06.740 those rights

00:29:07.200 have to come

00:29:07.680 from God

00:29:08.060 and I want

00:29:09.920 to get into

00:29:10.340 that a little

00:29:10.840 bit because

00:29:11.640 there's some

00:29:12.660 truth to that

00:29:13.380 but there's

00:29:13.940 also I think

00:29:14.880 some problems

00:29:15.920 with that

00:29:16.460 and this might

00:29:17.740 be getting me

00:29:18.040 in trouble

00:29:18.320 with some

00:29:18.640 people because

00:29:19.100 I'm about

00:29:19.440 to question

00:29:20.520 a few

00:29:20.820 assertions

00:29:21.380 in the

00:29:21.700 Declaration

00:29:22.040 of Independence

00:29:22.660 itself

00:29:23.140 and that's

00:29:25.600 going to put

00:29:26.380 us in some

00:29:27.580 exciting ground

00:29:28.320 but I think

00:29:28.720 it's necessary

00:29:29.280 so I'm going

00:29:30.280 to go ahead

00:29:30.520 and bring that

00:29:30.940 up real quick

00:29:31.520 because I think

00:29:32.180 we need to

00:29:32.740 understand

00:29:33.320 some of the

00:29:34.520 problems

00:29:34.920 with that

00:29:35.960 assertion

00:29:36.520 so

00:29:37.200 obviously

00:29:39.300 we're probably

00:29:40.000 familiar with

00:29:40.820 a lot of

00:29:41.280 the Declaration

00:29:41.700 here but let's

00:29:42.640 go ahead and

00:29:43.140 read through

00:29:43.480 a little bit

00:29:43.960 again

00:29:44.300 when in the

00:29:45.280 course of

00:29:45.620 human events

00:29:46.260 it becomes

00:29:46.620 necessary for

00:29:47.340 one people

00:29:47.880 to dissolve

00:29:48.400 their political

00:29:49.020 bands

00:29:49.640 which they

00:29:50.860 have connected

00:29:51.340 which have

00:29:52.040 connected them

00:29:52.540 with another

00:29:53.080 and to assume

00:29:54.100 among the

00:29:54.540 powers of the

00:29:55.140 earth the

00:29:55.660 separate and

00:29:56.080 equal station

00:29:57.120 to which the

00:29:57.720 laws of nature

00:29:58.640 and nature's

00:29:59.200 God entitled

00:29:59.820 them

00:30:00.200 a decent

00:30:02.160 respect to the

00:30:02.820 opinions of

00:30:03.340 mankind requires

00:30:04.180 that they should

00:30:04.660 declare the

00:30:05.180 causes which

00:30:06.300 impel them

00:30:06.860 to the

00:30:07.800 separation

00:30:08.380 so right

00:30:09.260 there he's

00:30:10.160 clearly citing

00:30:11.140 natural law

00:30:13.840 right there

00:30:14.820 are laws of

00:30:15.540 nature and

00:30:16.000 nature's God

00:30:16.580 so again

00:30:17.760 this so-called

00:30:19.260 natural law

00:30:21.020 you mean the

00:30:22.240 one cited

00:30:22.940 directly in

00:30:24.660 the opening

00:30:25.360 paragraph of

00:30:26.580 the Declaration

00:30:27.260 of Independence

00:30:27.960 that so-called

00:30:29.900 natural law

00:30:30.500 she's literally

00:30:31.160 just arguing

00:30:31.840 against the

00:30:32.400 Declaration of

00:30:33.080 Independence

00:30:33.480 again it's

00:30:34.220 it's not some

00:30:35.460 level of nuance

00:30:36.320 she just

00:30:37.140 hates the

00:30:37.680 founding

00:30:37.960 document

00:30:38.520 she just

00:30:39.480 hates

00:30:39.980 America

00:30:40.740 which is

00:30:42.300 what progressives

00:30:42.880 do they hate

00:30:43.420 America and

00:30:43.860 they want to

00:30:44.140 replace the

00:30:45.080 founding story

00:30:45.980 the founding

00:30:47.220 story is one

00:30:48.400 they do not

00:30:48.960 like and they

00:30:49.780 want to replace

00:30:50.400 it with the

00:30:50.780 civil rights

00:30:51.220 revolution

00:30:51.760 you notice that

00:30:53.000 everything that

00:30:53.840 she invoked

00:30:54.600 everything she

00:30:55.460 said that

00:30:55.820 natural law

00:30:56.620 would endanger

00:30:59.300 oh this

00:31:00.460 Christian

00:31:00.820 understanding of

00:31:01.500 rights that

00:31:01.920 rights come from

00:31:02.560 God and not

00:31:03.360 from Congress

00:31:04.200 or from

00:31:05.280 the Supreme

00:31:06.000 Court which

00:31:06.360 again she

00:31:06.700 doesn't believe

00:31:07.080 anyway because

00:31:08.160 the minute the

00:31:08.600 Supreme Court

00:31:09.000 disagrees with

00:31:09.600 her she's not

00:31:10.760 gonna she's not

00:31:11.660 gonna invest in

00:31:12.800 it but whatever

00:31:13.260 she says the

00:31:14.260 institutions of

00:31:16.140 the country are

00:31:16.840 the things that

00:31:17.400 dictate your

00:31:17.980 rights which is

00:31:18.620 the exact

00:31:19.020 opposite literally

00:31:20.160 the exact

00:31:20.960 opposite of

00:31:22.660 what the

00:31:23.100 founding father

00:31:23.640 said they

00:31:24.960 said actually

00:31:25.580 these things

00:31:26.540 are the

00:31:28.120 you know law

00:31:28.920 law of nature

00:31:29.780 and nature

00:31:30.100 nature's God

00:31:31.020 now to be

00:31:31.760 clear this

00:31:32.200 is this

00:31:32.680 is Jefferson

00:31:33.420 this is the

00:31:33.940 Declaration of

00:31:34.460 Independence

00:31:34.820 explaining why

00:31:36.440 it needs to

00:31:36.980 exist in the

00:31:37.500 first place

00:31:38.060 right if

00:31:38.820 we're gonna

00:31:39.180 break away

00:31:39.820 from England

00:31:40.800 we should

00:31:41.120 probably tell

00:31:41.600 you why

00:31:42.140 and we're

00:31:43.040 and we're

00:31:44.220 we're compelled

00:31:45.260 to do that

00:31:45.840 by the laws

00:31:47.240 of nature

00:31:47.680 and nature's

00:31:48.260 God

00:31:48.500 that's what

00:31:50.060 he's saying

00:31:50.480 here but

00:31:51.540 obviously if

00:31:52.240 he's citing

00:31:52.900 that here he

00:31:53.700 believes that

00:31:54.760 that in a

00:31:55.140 larger context

00:31:56.220 right it's

00:31:57.320 not going to

00:31:57.700 be restricted

00:31:59.000 only to the

00:31:59.840 fact that we

00:32:00.260 should probably

00:32:00.800 write a

00:32:01.260 Declaration of

00:32:01.940 Independence

00:32:02.300 and then he

00:32:03.480 says here we

00:32:04.160 hold these

00:32:04.560 truths to be

00:32:05.080 self-evident

00:32:05.700 that all men

00:32:06.660 are created

00:32:07.200 equal and

00:32:07.960 endowed by

00:32:08.420 the creator

00:32:08.960 with certain

00:32:09.560 unalienable

00:32:10.200 rights that

00:32:11.280 among them

00:32:11.720 are life

00:32:12.240 liberty and

00:32:12.840 the pursuit

00:32:13.160 of happiness

00:32:13.760 now I

00:32:16.600 want to I

00:32:17.000 want to talk

00:32:17.440 about this

00:32:18.040 phrase right

00:32:18.560 here we

00:32:18.940 hold these

00:32:19.400 truths to

00:32:20.140 be self-evident

00:32:21.620 now this

00:32:23.560 is often

00:32:24.940 just read

00:32:25.600 verbatim

00:32:26.560 without a lot

00:32:27.020 of thought

00:32:27.440 and I

00:32:27.980 understand why

00:32:28.520 it says

00:32:28.900 self-evident

00:32:29.540 it should be

00:32:30.100 self-evident

00:32:30.620 right but we

00:32:31.320 need to think

00:32:31.720 about how

00:32:32.220 things are

00:32:32.680 self-evident

00:32:33.320 how can

00:32:34.340 anything be

00:32:34.940 self-evident

00:32:35.580 well for

00:32:36.280 something to

00:32:36.640 be self-evident

00:32:37.340 we all have

00:32:38.380 to share a

00:32:39.400 similar observation

00:32:40.540 we all have to

00:32:42.060 look at the

00:32:42.560 same thing and

00:32:43.400 understand it the

00:32:44.300 same way

00:32:44.980 we all need

00:32:46.740 some level of

00:32:47.560 self-evident

00:32:48.300 truth we can't

00:32:49.400 reason out every

00:32:50.600 aspect of

00:32:51.500 society

00:32:52.100 because you

00:32:54.040 can't reason

00:32:54.780 out your first

00:32:55.980 principles that's

00:32:57.020 not actually

00:32:57.580 something you

00:32:58.080 can do you

00:32:58.580 can't a

00:32:59.040 priori create

00:33:00.120 all of

00:33:01.440 these things

00:33:02.020 you actually

00:33:03.080 need to

00:33:03.680 come at

00:33:04.780 reason from

00:33:05.380 something you

00:33:06.640 have to have a

00:33:07.200 shared understanding

00:33:08.060 of the world to

00:33:08.800 reason from

00:33:09.520 otherwise you can't

00:33:11.180 communicate it with

00:33:11.840 people so how are

00:33:13.200 things self-evident

00:33:14.120 well the way you get

00:33:15.220 something that is

00:33:15.780 self-evident is you

00:33:17.240 share a world

00:33:18.480 view you share a

00:33:20.420 understanding of the

00:33:21.460 way the world should

00:33:22.380 be you share a

00:33:24.340 tradition

00:33:24.800 traditions are what

00:33:26.900 create something that

00:33:27.880 is self-evident

00:33:29.040 now you might say

00:33:31.480 well that can't be

00:33:32.520 right I mean there

00:33:33.620 are certain things that

00:33:34.240 everybody understands

00:33:35.200 guys I need you to

00:33:36.740 look at any kind of

00:33:37.820 history okay

00:33:38.680 there are certain

00:33:40.200 things that people

00:33:40.860 understand like if you

00:33:41.820 throw something up it

00:33:42.720 will fall down now

00:33:43.740 maybe we wait till

00:33:44.500 Isaac Newton before we

00:33:45.360 call it gravity but

00:33:46.880 pretty much everyone can

00:33:48.020 understand that level of

00:33:49.420 natural law right

00:33:50.740 however you need to

00:33:52.900 look at older

00:33:54.060 civilizations

00:33:55.320 there are many

00:33:57.540 civilizations in

00:33:58.800 Central America that

00:34:00.140 just

00:34:00.420 sacrificed

00:34:01.820 thousands of people

00:34:03.940 one of the reasons it

00:34:05.220 was easy for the

00:34:05.880 conquistadors to

00:34:06.900 conquer

00:34:07.260 in Central America

00:34:09.580 was that all of the

00:34:11.020 neighbors

00:34:11.400 were tired of

00:34:13.380 being

00:34:14.100 sacrificed

00:34:15.160 on altars

00:34:16.060 okay

00:34:16.480 if you look at the

00:34:18.600 Romans

00:34:18.920 and there's a pretty

00:34:20.600 common practice of

00:34:21.880 simply exposing

00:34:23.060 unwanted infants

00:34:24.400 to nature if you

00:34:26.060 didn't want your

00:34:26.660 child you just left

00:34:28.100 them to die

00:34:29.080 and that was not

00:34:30.680 considered particularly

00:34:32.000 immoral

00:34:33.040 that was just the way

00:34:34.980 it was done

00:34:35.600 now you might look at

00:34:37.460 a dying infant on the

00:34:38.680 side of a road an

00:34:39.580 infant left in the

00:34:41.040 wilderness to die or

00:34:42.300 being smashed on the

00:34:43.360 tarpian rock

00:34:44.180 or innocent people

00:34:46.740 being

00:34:47.220 sacrificed

00:34:48.320 by the thousands

00:34:50.240 to please

00:34:51.820 you know some

00:34:52.640 god and say to

00:34:53.580 yourself

00:34:53.960 well that's

00:34:54.700 self-evidently

00:34:55.540 wrong

00:34:55.880 or maybe

00:34:57.140 you know the

00:34:57.960 enslavement of

00:34:58.940 lots of people

00:34:59.560 that's self-evidently

00:35:00.420 wrong

00:35:00.680 but actually it's

00:35:01.740 not

00:35:02.020 it's not

00:35:03.100 self-evidently

00:35:04.020 wrong

00:35:04.340 if you don't

00:35:05.320 have a shared

00:35:06.260 tradition

00:35:06.820 if you don't

00:35:07.980 have an

00:35:08.720 understanding

00:35:09.460 that binds

00:35:11.080 your community

00:35:11.740 together

00:35:12.300 then those things

00:35:14.080 aren't actually

00:35:14.880 evident

00:35:15.260 they're not

00:35:15.880 actually

00:35:16.420 something that

00:35:17.580 everyone

00:35:17.840 understand

00:35:18.460 and so

00:35:20.180 you have

00:35:21.340 to have

00:35:21.980 a

00:35:22.640 shared

00:35:23.260 tradition

00:35:23.840 to

00:35:24.540 understand

00:35:24.980 what is

00:35:25.520 self-evident

00:35:25.960 now it may

00:35:26.380 have been

00:35:26.700 self-evident

00:35:27.440 to the founders

00:35:29.260 that the people

00:35:30.660 in America

00:35:31.320 were created

00:35:32.380 equal

00:35:32.720 and had

00:35:33.960 these rights

00:35:35.300 of life

00:35:35.720 liberty

00:35:36.040 and the

00:35:36.280 pursuit

00:35:36.500 of happiness

00:35:37.060 they're of

00:35:37.960 course

00:35:38.140 ripping this

00:35:38.980 from John

00:35:39.460 Locke

00:35:39.860 right

00:35:40.140 but

00:35:41.960 it wouldn't

00:35:43.300 have been

00:35:43.580 self-evident

00:35:44.080 to pretty much

00:35:44.900 anyone else

00:35:45.700 prior to

00:35:46.760 history

00:35:47.060 the idea

00:35:47.660 of

00:35:48.100 these

00:35:48.640 natural

00:35:49.040 rights

00:35:49.620 that wasn't

00:35:50.520 very clear

00:35:51.140 now again

00:35:52.300 they had been

00:35:52.720 invoked

00:35:53.080 to some

00:35:53.780 level

00:35:54.160 I guess

00:35:55.100 you could

00:35:55.400 say

00:35:55.740 with Thomas

00:35:56.260 Aquinas

00:35:56.720 that's

00:35:57.340 obviously

00:35:57.680 where

00:35:58.020 a lot

00:35:58.640 of

00:35:58.760 natural

00:35:59.020 law

00:35:59.460 theory

00:36:00.360 comes

00:36:00.760 from

00:36:01.080 some

00:36:01.700 people

00:36:01.920 will

00:36:02.180 again

00:36:02.400 take

00:36:02.620 it

00:36:02.720 all

00:36:02.840 the

00:36:02.940 way

00:36:03.080 back

00:36:03.320 to

00:36:03.480 Aristotle

00:36:04.040 though

00:36:04.480 there's

00:36:04.760 a

00:36:05.000 question

00:36:05.840 of

00:36:06.060 natural

00:36:06.880 law

00:36:07.320 and

00:36:07.500 natural

00:36:07.780 rights

00:36:08.080 there

00:36:08.360 and

00:36:09.080 them

00:36:09.540 being

00:36:09.740 different

00:36:10.020 things

00:36:10.380 but

00:36:10.600 we

00:36:10.820 could

00:36:10.980 spend

00:36:11.240 a lot

00:36:11.640 of

00:36:11.760 time

00:36:11.940 on

00:36:12.100 that

00:36:12.340 the

00:36:13.220 point

00:36:15.700 are

00:36:15.840 not

00:36:16.080 as

00:36:16.420 clear

00:36:16.880 unless

00:36:18.000 you

00:36:18.180 put

00:36:18.320 them

00:36:18.460 in

00:36:18.560 a

00:36:18.700 particular

00:36:19.260 tradition

00:36:20.140 if

00:36:20.940 you

00:36:21.060 tie

00:36:21.280 them

00:36:21.480 to

00:36:21.800 a

00:36:22.400 particular

00:36:22.860 understanding

00:36:23.680 of the

00:36:24.040 world

00:36:24.320 they

00:36:24.960 can't

00:36:25.280 actually

00:36:25.760 universalize

00:36:26.880 the way

00:36:27.460 that many

00:36:27.800 people

00:36:28.080 want

00:36:28.340 them

00:36:28.500 to

00:36:28.720 the way

00:36:29.100 many

00:36:29.380 conservatives

00:36:29.900 want

00:36:30.260 them

00:36:30.400 to

00:36:30.620 because

00:36:31.660 if

00:36:31.860 you

00:36:31.960 try

00:36:32.200 to

00:36:32.340 universalize

00:36:33.100 them

00:36:33.240 we

00:36:33.420 end

00:36:33.600 up

00:36:33.740 where

00:36:33.880 we

00:36:34.060 are

00:36:34.220 now

00:36:34.640 okay

00:36:35.560 you

00:36:36.320 have

00:36:36.520 to

00:36:36.640 pull

00:36:36.800 them

00:36:36.940 out

00:36:37.260 of

00:36:37.740 their

00:36:38.400 context

00:36:39.100 even

00:36:39.540 their

00:36:39.760 Christian

00:36:40.220 context

00:36:40.740 if

00:36:42.300 you

00:36:42.420 want

00:36:42.540 to

00:36:42.620 go

00:36:42.740 ahead

00:36:42.960 and

00:36:43.120 universalize

00:36:43.980 them

00:36:44.220 and

00:36:44.720 that's

00:36:44.900 exactly

00:36:45.300 what

00:36:45.700 she's

00:36:46.660 trying

00:36:46.860 to

00:36:47.000 do

00:36:47.160 here

00:36:47.300 that's

00:36:47.540 exactly

00:36:47.960 what

00:36:48.380 Heidi

00:36:48.920 Prisbala

00:36:49.360 was

00:36:49.560 trying

00:36:49.820 to

00:36:50.000 do

00:36:50.200 these

00:36:50.940 rights

00:36:51.180 need

00:36:51.360 to

00:36:51.460 be

00:36:51.620 ripped

00:36:51.840 out

00:36:52.220 of

00:36:52.360 their

00:36:52.500 Christian

00:36:52.840 context

00:36:53.320 they

00:36:53.560 can't

00:36:53.880 exist

00:36:54.240 solely

00:36:54.640 in

00:36:54.760 their

00:36:54.840 Christian

00:36:55.040 context

00:36:55.420 maybe

00:36:56.100 Martin

00:36:56.660 Luther

00:36:56.820 King

00:36:57.140 invoked

00:36:57.600 this

00:36:58.160 idea

00:36:58.440 of

00:36:58.580 natural

00:36:58.900 law

00:36:59.260 and

00:36:59.420 these

00:36:59.900 natural

00:37:00.240 rights

00:37:00.600 back

00:37:01.140 when

00:37:01.300 he

00:37:01.480 was

00:37:01.660 trying

00:37:02.000 to

00:37:02.420 push

00:37:03.640 this

00:37:03.840 onto

00:37:03.980 a

00:37:04.180 Christian

00:37:04.500 audience

00:37:05.080 but

00:37:05.580 we

00:37:05.680 don't

00:37:05.840 need

00:37:05.960 that

00:37:06.140 Christian

00:37:06.500 stuff

00:37:06.840 anymore

00:37:07.120 because

00:37:07.480 we

00:37:07.780 won

00:37:08.060 the

00:37:08.200 progressives

00:37:08.680 won

00:37:09.340 the

00:37:09.600 religious

00:37:10.700 war

00:37:11.200 we

00:37:11.820 are

00:37:11.960 the

00:37:12.100 victors

00:37:12.460 now

00:37:12.820 our

00:37:13.620 ideology

00:37:14.200 reigns

00:37:14.640 supreme

00:37:14.960 and

00:37:15.800 we

00:37:15.940 don't

00:37:16.140 need

00:37:16.400 these

00:37:16.840 understandings

00:37:18.760 anymore

00:37:19.120 to get

00:37:19.560 to where

00:37:19.880 we're

00:37:20.040 getting

00:37:20.220 so the

00:37:21.200 self-evident

00:37:21.700 truth

00:37:22.140 is

00:37:22.400 critical

00:37:22.900 but

00:37:23.940 it's

00:37:24.100 critical

00:37:24.380 only

00:37:24.720 in so

00:37:25.220 much

00:37:25.420 as

00:37:25.760 you

00:37:26.260 have

00:37:26.400 a

00:37:26.560 shared

00:37:26.840 understanding

00:37:27.520 of

00:37:27.740 the

00:37:27.860 world

00:37:28.140 if

00:37:28.760 you

00:37:28.900 don't

00:37:29.380 share

00:37:29.880 values

00:37:30.560 if

00:37:30.780 you

00:37:30.920 don't

00:37:31.260 share

00:37:31.500 those

00:37:31.720 core

00:37:32.120 bedrock

00:37:32.980 axioms

00:37:33.820 things

00:37:34.460 are

00:37:34.620 not

00:37:34.840 self-evident

00:37:35.420 they

00:37:36.000 can't

00:37:36.400 be

00:37:36.640 there

00:37:37.640 can

00:37:37.820 only

00:37:38.080 be

00:37:38.280 self-evident

00:37:38.860 truth

00:37:39.300 when

00:37:40.020 you

00:37:40.160 share

00:37:40.620 an

00:37:41.740 understanding

00:37:42.300 a moral

00:37:42.820 framework

00:37:43.400 a vision

00:37:44.480 for your

00:37:45.500 country

00:37:45.860 for your

00:37:46.540 people

00:37:46.860 and that's

00:37:48.160 what they're

00:37:48.440 invoking

00:37:48.800 here

00:37:49.080 and that

00:37:50.200 that's

00:37:50.520 really

00:37:50.740 important

00:37:51.180 all right

00:37:52.900 so a

00:37:53.380 little more

00:37:53.840 here because

00:37:54.240 again I

00:37:54.520 wanted to

00:37:54.880 talk about

00:37:55.400 where

00:37:55.760 what

00:37:56.380 governments

00:37:56.740 do

00:37:56.980 and where

00:37:57.280 rights

00:37:57.500 come

00:37:57.720 from

00:37:58.060 that to

00:37:58.940 secure

00:37:59.260 these

00:37:59.520 rights

00:37:59.800 governments

00:38:00.200 are

00:38:00.600 instituted

00:38:01.120 among

00:38:01.440 men

00:38:01.800 deriving

00:38:02.400 their

00:38:02.600 powers

00:38:02.960 from

00:38:03.580 the

00:38:04.180 consent

00:38:04.480 of

00:38:04.660 the

00:38:04.760 governed

00:38:05.060 that

00:38:05.740 whenever

00:38:06.020 any

00:38:06.280 form

00:38:06.560 of

00:38:06.920 government

00:38:07.340 becomes

00:38:07.700 destructive

00:38:08.100 to these

00:38:08.480 ends

00:38:08.740 it is

00:38:09.020 the right

00:38:09.360 of the

00:38:09.500 people

00:38:09.680 to alter

00:38:10.160 or abolish

00:38:10.820 it

00:38:11.000 and institute

00:38:11.860 a new

00:38:12.260 government

00:38:12.620 laying its

00:38:13.280 foundations

00:38:13.760 on such

00:38:14.400 principles

00:38:14.820 and organizations

00:38:15.660 and organizing

00:38:17.200 its power

00:38:17.900 in such a

00:38:18.660 form as

00:38:19.200 to them

00:38:20.060 as to

00:38:21.140 them

00:38:21.380 shall

00:38:21.640 seem

00:38:22.140 most likely

00:38:22.900 to affect

00:38:23.700 their safety

00:38:24.220 and happiness

00:38:24.840 now

00:38:25.220 that sentence

00:38:28.140 right there

00:38:28.540 is dangerous

00:38:29.240 to our

00:38:29.600 current regime

00:38:30.160 which is

00:38:30.800 one of the

00:38:31.120 reasons that

00:38:31.620 they do

00:38:31.960 not

00:38:32.340 want you

00:38:33.800 looking at

00:38:34.220 the

00:38:34.320 declaration

00:38:34.740 of

00:38:34.960 independence

00:38:35.360 to be

00:38:35.840 quite

00:38:36.120 frank

00:38:36.440 this

00:38:37.040 document

00:38:37.440 is an

00:38:37.880 incendiary

00:38:38.440 document

00:38:38.980 it was

00:38:39.780 back then

00:38:40.320 and it

00:38:40.580 still is

00:38:40.980 today

00:38:41.280 and if

00:38:42.600 you look

00:38:42.940 at what

00:38:43.260 this document

00:38:43.860 says

00:38:44.320 it is

00:38:44.880 very

00:38:45.240 dangerous

00:38:45.680 to our

00:38:46.040 current

00:38:46.260 regime

00:38:47.100 which is

00:38:48.680 why they

00:38:48.980 need to

00:38:49.260 invalidate

00:38:49.820 it

00:38:49.940 that's

00:38:50.180 why

00:38:50.540 Heidi

00:38:51.100 Prisball

00:38:51.400 is very

00:38:52.120 worried

00:38:52.800 about

00:38:53.680 Christian

00:38:54.280 nationalism

00:38:54.900 and by

00:38:55.520 that she

00:38:55.880 means

00:38:56.160 basic

00:38:57.660 American

00:38:58.180 values

00:38:58.800 she's

00:38:59.640 very

00:39:00.000 worried

00:39:00.480 about

00:39:00.800 the

00:39:00.960 return

00:39:01.420 of

00:39:02.220 the

00:39:02.380 actual

00:39:02.960 values

00:39:03.500 of

00:39:03.640 the

00:39:03.760 United

00:39:03.980 States

00:39:04.400 now

00:39:04.680 I want

00:39:05.360 to talk

00:39:05.660 about

00:39:05.840 something

00:39:06.080 here

00:39:06.320 and this

00:39:06.620 is

00:39:06.780 what's

00:39:07.440 going to

00:39:07.620 be

00:39:07.740 controversial

00:39:08.260 but it

00:39:09.260 says

00:39:09.540 that

00:39:10.340 whenever

00:39:10.580 any

00:39:10.900 form

00:39:11.200 of

00:39:11.380 or

00:39:11.540 sorry

00:39:11.760 before

00:39:12.020 that

00:39:12.280 that

00:39:12.760 to

00:39:12.900 secure

00:39:13.220 these

00:39:13.520 rights

00:39:13.800 governments

00:39:14.220 are

00:39:14.520 instituted

00:39:15.040 among

00:39:15.320 men

00:39:15.660 deriving

00:39:16.200 their

00:39:16.360 just

00:39:16.560 powers

00:39:16.920 from

00:39:17.340 the

00:39:17.520 consent

00:39:17.800 of

00:39:17.920 the

00:39:18.020 government

00:39:18.240 all

00:39:18.560 right

00:39:18.700 so

00:39:19.820 this

00:39:23.020 is

00:39:23.340 a little

00:39:24.460 bit

00:39:24.620 of a

00:39:24.820 problem

00:39:25.060 because

00:39:26.080 a lot

00:39:26.560 of

00:39:26.640 people

00:39:26.820 say

00:39:27.040 oh

00:39:27.240 well

00:39:27.600 governments

00:39:29.360 only

00:39:29.720 exist

00:39:30.080 to

00:39:30.320 secure

00:39:30.800 my

00:39:32.320 rights

00:39:32.740 sorry

00:39:34.460 but

00:39:34.640 that's

00:39:34.880 not

00:39:35.040 true

00:39:35.320 I

00:39:36.900 know

00:39:37.200 heresy

00:39:38.620 here

00:39:38.840 but

00:39:38.960 that's

00:39:39.200 not

00:39:39.360 true

00:39:39.620 the

00:39:40.660 American

00:39:41.420 government

00:39:41.860 does

00:39:42.120 not

00:39:42.320 exist

00:39:42.560 to

00:39:42.760 secure

00:39:43.060 rights

00:39:43.540 and

00:39:44.220 has

00:39:44.380 never

00:39:44.620 existed

00:39:44.960 to

00:39:45.180 secure

00:39:45.440 rights

00:39:45.840 and

00:39:46.400 the

00:39:46.540 idea

00:39:46.940 that

00:39:47.240 the

00:39:47.360 American

00:39:47.660 government

00:39:47.980 exists

00:39:48.380 to

00:39:48.660 secure

00:39:49.060 rights

00:39:49.340 is

00:39:49.500 what

00:39:49.680 gets

00:39:50.000 you

00:39:50.140 the

00:39:50.320 civil

00:39:50.540 rights

00:39:50.820 rebel

00:39:51.080 what's

00:39:54.440 the

00:39:54.560 new

00:39:55.360 story

00:39:56.000 guys

00:39:56.660 what's

00:39:56.920 the

00:39:57.040 new

00:39:57.240 story

00:39:57.560 of

00:39:57.700 the

00:39:57.800 United

00:39:58.040 States

00:39:58.460 oh

00:39:59.440 it's

00:39:59.640 the

00:39:59.740 never

00:39:59.960 ending

00:40:00.160 quest

00:40:00.520 for

00:40:00.700 rights

00:40:01.080 that

00:40:02.480 if

00:40:02.620 our

00:40:02.880 government

00:40:03.240 isn't

00:40:03.640 always

00:40:04.240 and

00:40:04.720 forever

00:40:05.240 searching

00:40:05.900 out

00:40:06.220 new

00:40:06.840 and

00:40:07.460 more

00:40:07.660 obscure

00:40:08.300 rights

00:40:09.020 to grant

00:40:10.100 to people

00:40:10.620 then it

00:40:11.420 has no

00:40:11.760 right

00:40:11.960 to

00:40:12.160 exist

00:40:12.560 right

00:40:13.520 and so

00:40:14.740 if you

00:40:14.980 take this

00:40:15.500 in isolation

00:40:16.280 and you

00:40:17.360 make this

00:40:17.700 the entire

00:40:18.300 mission

00:40:18.720 of the

00:40:19.100 United

00:40:19.380 States

00:40:19.880 and its

00:40:20.280 government

00:40:20.640 then you

00:40:22.040 get the

00:40:22.600 global

00:40:22.860 American

00:40:23.320 empire

00:40:23.740 you get

00:40:24.900 the pride

00:40:25.320 flag

00:40:26.000 flying

00:40:27.000 over

00:40:27.460 our

00:40:28.180 consulates

00:40:28.860 our

00:40:29.820 embassies

00:40:30.240 in every

00:40:30.940 nation

00:40:31.520 this is

00:40:33.300 the current

00:40:33.740 story of

00:40:34.300 America

00:40:34.780 and not

00:40:36.580 only does

00:40:37.660 America

00:40:37.940 exist

00:40:38.400 only to

00:40:39.180 secure

00:40:39.560 rights

00:40:40.060 and find

00:40:41.040 more rights

00:40:41.860 and force

00:40:42.740 more rights

00:40:43.440 down your

00:40:44.360 throat

00:40:44.680 at the

00:40:45.120 point of

00:40:45.400 a gun

00:40:45.720 but it

00:40:46.320 has to

00:40:46.620 do that

00:40:46.900 to every

00:40:47.320 other

00:40:47.540 nation

00:40:47.900 too

00:40:48.200 it has

00:40:48.840 to invade

00:40:49.420 every

00:40:49.780 other

00:40:50.040 nation

00:40:50.460 so that

00:40:51.420 it can

00:40:51.760 also

00:40:52.260 apply

00:40:52.840 those

00:40:53.100 rights

00:40:53.360 there

00:40:53.660 right

00:40:54.740 that's

00:40:56.220 the

00:40:56.360 that's

00:40:56.720 the

00:40:56.920 argument

00:40:57.220 we're

00:40:57.440 now

00:40:57.600 getting

00:40:57.860 why do

00:40:58.140 we have

00:40:58.340 to go

00:40:58.560 to

00:40:58.700 Ukraine

00:40:59.280 well a lot

00:40:59.880 of reasons

00:41:00.200 but one

00:41:00.540 of them

00:41:00.700 is Vladimir

00:41:01.080 Putin

00:41:01.460 doesn't like

00:41:02.280 the LGBTQ

00:41:02.920 people too

00:41:03.720 much and

00:41:04.040 so we

00:41:04.320 have to go

00:41:04.700 to war

00:41:05.140 to defend

00:41:06.000 those rights

00:41:06.560 in what

00:41:07.000 Ukraine

00:41:07.420 that's

00:41:08.900 literally

00:41:09.280 one of

00:41:10.760 one of

00:41:11.040 the key

00:41:11.300 arguments

00:41:11.860 that people

00:41:12.620 use

00:41:13.060 that the

00:41:13.360 left

00:41:13.540 uses

00:41:13.900 for their

00:41:15.260 interest

00:41:15.980 in regime

00:41:16.460 change

00:41:16.880 so here's

00:41:18.740 what governments

00:41:19.300 actually do

00:41:20.140 here are

00:41:22.120 what governments

00:41:23.260 really

00:41:23.900 here's what

00:41:24.340 governments

00:41:24.620 really do

00:41:25.100 what governments

00:41:26.300 actually do

00:41:27.220 is secure

00:41:28.080 a monopoly

00:41:28.640 on force

00:41:29.860 to bring

00:41:31.820 order to

00:41:32.380 an area

00:41:32.840 and then

00:41:33.780 they extract

00:41:34.460 benefits

00:41:35.080 for their

00:41:36.260 for their

00:41:37.780 key clients

00:41:38.540 through taxes

00:41:40.260 that's a

00:41:42.420 really cynical

00:41:43.000 thing

00:41:43.500 like I

00:41:44.100 understand

00:41:44.460 that that's

00:41:44.880 a that

00:41:45.220 there is a

00:41:46.300 danger in

00:41:47.060 being too

00:41:48.000 reductive

00:41:48.720 but at

00:41:49.860 the core

00:41:50.500 this is what

00:41:51.240 governments

00:41:51.640 actually do

00:41:52.460 if you look

00:41:53.220 at the work

00:41:53.580 of Bertrand

00:41:54.060 de Juvenil

00:41:54.540 he talks

00:41:55.080 about this

00:41:55.740 and you'll

00:41:56.240 see this

00:41:56.640 reflected in

00:41:57.180 the work

00:41:57.400 of many

00:41:57.680 libertarians

00:41:58.360 like Hoppe

00:41:59.260 who was

00:41:59.780 you know

00:42:00.640 more or less

00:42:01.420 more or less

00:42:02.060 regurgitating a

00:42:03.080 large amount

00:42:03.400 of Bertrand

00:42:03.760 de Juvenil

00:42:04.240 in Democracy

00:42:04.820 the guy

00:42:05.120 that failed

00:42:05.480 but governments

00:42:07.680 this is and I

00:42:08.520 got a lot of

00:42:08.900 cheers from

00:42:09.380 from libertarians

00:42:10.320 when I pointed

00:42:10.740 this out on

00:42:11.220 Twitter but

00:42:12.100 governments start

00:42:13.000 as criminal

00:42:13.500 enterprises

00:42:14.100 the beginning

00:42:15.300 of the

00:42:15.660 government

00:42:15.980 is it's

00:42:17.320 the roaming

00:42:17.800 war band

00:42:18.400 that comes

00:42:19.440 in and

00:42:19.880 takes over

00:42:20.580 and secures

00:42:22.740 control of an

00:42:23.420 area and

00:42:24.380 decides instead

00:42:25.020 of moving on

00:42:25.780 to go ahead

00:42:26.260 and tax the

00:42:27.260 people and

00:42:28.460 then they

00:42:28.780 realize that

00:42:29.760 actually when

00:42:30.740 you're taxing

00:42:31.280 these people

00:42:31.860 if you're

00:42:32.360 going to take

00:42:32.880 some of what

00:42:33.460 they make

00:42:34.040 rather than

00:42:34.460 just take

00:42:34.820 it all

00:42:35.120 because yeah

00:42:35.960 we can keep

00:42:36.480 raiding we

00:42:37.180 can keep

00:42:37.520 roaming or

00:42:38.060 whatever but

00:42:38.800 actually it's

00:42:39.340 much easier to

00:42:39.920 go ahead and

00:42:40.280 stay in place

00:42:40.960 and you know

00:42:42.220 regularly collect

00:42:42.980 these taxes and

00:42:43.640 just protect

00:42:44.100 this area

00:42:44.960 at some point

00:42:46.480 you figure out

00:42:47.060 that actually

00:42:47.560 the best thing

00:42:48.060 to do is not

00:42:48.680 just to protect

00:42:49.560 you know protect

00:42:50.220 the area but

00:42:51.080 you actually start

00:42:51.720 caring about the

00:42:52.580 well-being of the

00:42:53.140 people because

00:42:53.840 yeah well if we're

00:42:54.580 going to be ruling

00:42:55.040 this area for a

00:42:55.680 long time and

00:42:56.400 we're going to be

00:42:56.740 extracting wealth

00:42:57.560 from it then the

00:42:58.540 better off these

00:42:59.200 people are the more

00:43:00.060 wealth we can

00:43:00.580 extract and I'm

00:43:01.980 going to be

00:43:02.180 handing this

00:43:02.660 down to my

00:43:03.240 children and my

00:43:03.920 grandchildren and

00:43:04.980 so therefore it

00:43:06.320 makes sense for me

00:43:07.260 to go ahead and

00:43:07.820 actually care

00:43:08.680 intergenerationally

00:43:10.420 about the good of

00:43:11.300 these people and

00:43:12.740 if we do this for

00:43:13.380 long enough then

00:43:14.540 eventually actually

00:43:15.560 what we end up

00:43:16.420 with is a

00:43:16.960 government that

00:43:17.580 starts caring in

00:43:18.760 general about the

00:43:19.860 people and their

00:43:20.460 welfare not just

00:43:21.600 from a material

00:43:22.300 benefit though that

00:43:23.380 it does give them

00:43:24.420 a material benefit

00:43:25.360 but they actually

00:43:26.340 start caring about

00:43:27.140 them on like a

00:43:27.860 real level because

00:43:29.040 they're you know

00:43:30.260 become bound their

00:43:31.380 prosperity becomes

00:43:32.160 bound to these

00:43:32.740 people and as

00:43:34.280 the juvenile says

00:43:35.480 in on power this

00:43:36.820 is where the spirit

00:43:37.480 of the wrecks is

00:43:38.600 born this is where

00:43:40.120 the idea of the

00:43:41.600 actual monarch the

00:43:42.960 real true king is

00:43:44.740 born because it's

00:43:45.740 that it's once the

00:43:46.700 government starts

00:43:47.400 feeling like it

00:43:48.900 shares a destiny

00:43:50.600 with the people that

00:43:52.120 the good of the

00:43:52.680 people and the good

00:43:53.560 of the rulers are

00:43:54.580 one that's when we

00:43:56.300 get the best

00:43:56.820 governance that's

00:43:57.800 when we get the

00:43:59.220 best results for

00:44:00.240 government now the

00:44:01.920 nice thing about

00:44:02.600 the American

00:44:03.480 government is early

00:44:04.220 on this was kind

00:44:05.120 of true from the

00:44:05.840 beginning we didn't

00:44:06.740 need a roving war

00:44:07.980 ban to go ahead and

00:44:09.200 secure the American

00:44:10.200 state that's kind of

00:44:12.580 one of the reasons I

00:44:13.800 think that we

00:44:14.280 probably get to kind

00:44:16.360 of pretend a little

00:44:17.100 bit of this as we

00:44:17.880 skip some of the

00:44:18.520 starting steps you

00:44:20.020 know the British

00:44:20.620 had already come in

00:44:21.620 the Americans had

00:44:23.200 worked at British as

00:44:24.020 British colonists to

00:44:25.340 settle a large amount

00:44:26.340 of this they had

00:44:26.960 already kind of cut

00:44:27.600 this swath out of

00:44:29.760 you know a certain

00:44:30.980 amount of the

00:44:32.820 Northeast and they

00:44:34.820 had expanded it out

00:44:35.880 and this had become

00:44:36.920 the United States or

00:44:38.040 what would become the

00:44:38.900 United States and so

00:44:40.400 that was already the

00:44:41.400 case and so what was

00:44:42.580 happening in the

00:44:43.500 United States is that

00:44:45.520 a lot of the people

00:44:47.420 who had already had

00:44:48.400 British values right

00:44:49.640 they had already come

00:44:50.440 from England they

00:44:52.720 had moved here many

00:44:54.000 cases because they

00:44:54.720 were religious

00:44:55.220 extremists who

00:44:56.000 couldn't practice their

00:44:57.560 religion in England

00:44:59.020 they had moved to the

00:45:00.800 United States and

00:45:01.980 they had started to

00:45:02.620 build their own

00:45:03.100 culture that they

00:45:04.420 the government they

00:45:05.180 had no longer was

00:45:07.100 one that shared the

00:45:08.060 same moral vision

00:45:09.200 that they did their

00:45:10.360 moral vision had

00:45:11.140 diverged from the

00:45:12.760 British understanding

00:45:13.620 primarily because the

00:45:14.660 British didn't

00:45:15.700 understand didn't

00:45:16.700 understand the

00:45:17.400 Americans perhaps as

00:45:18.520 British citizens due

00:45:19.520 to where they live I

00:45:20.520 mean they did to some

00:45:21.200 degree but not

00:45:22.320 entirely they didn't

00:45:23.600 they didn't think that

00:45:24.220 they had exactly the

00:45:25.140 same the same

00:45:26.560 relationship with the

00:45:27.520 crowd and so the

00:45:28.740 Americans were kind of

00:45:30.000 had you know because

00:45:30.900 they had been so far

00:45:31.900 away for so long they

00:45:33.260 started to develop this

00:45:34.600 shared moral vision

00:45:35.540 which was separate from

00:45:37.080 the British one in fact

00:45:38.460 in some ways it was the

00:45:39.800 hyper British one many

00:45:41.720 people don't know this

00:45:42.700 but Montesquieu who is a

00:45:44.060 heavy influence on the

00:45:46.260 shaper the shapers of our

00:45:47.740 constitution drew his

00:45:49.360 inspiration from the

00:45:50.500 British government so in

00:45:51.800 many ways our government

00:45:52.660 was already modeled on the

00:45:53.820 British government with

00:45:54.560 just you know some more

00:45:55.940 substitutions they

00:45:56.980 liberalized it in many

00:45:58.320 ways and so they were

00:46:00.100 they were taking this

00:46:01.040 idea that was already

00:46:02.620 very British in its

00:46:03.480 nature but had diverged

00:46:04.620 significantly enough to

00:46:05.780 create a separate moral

00:46:06.880 vision a separate world

00:46:07.920 view and this would

00:46:09.120 spark a lot of the

00:46:10.660 American Revolution now

00:46:12.200 some people get angry

00:46:13.480 about the American

00:46:14.120 Revolution was it

00:46:15.420 justified another time I

00:46:17.240 tend to say yes because

00:46:18.620 they had lost the mandate

00:46:20.060 of heaven the British had

00:46:21.240 lost the mandate of

00:46:22.020 heaven they no longer

00:46:23.680 kind of shared a world

00:46:25.460 view with the United

00:46:26.760 States or what would

00:46:27.860 become the United States

00:46:28.700 the British colonists at

00:46:30.060 that time and that's why

00:46:31.300 they ended up being

00:46:31.860 overthrown but again we

00:46:32.820 could debate that for a

00:46:34.040 long time the point

00:46:34.880 being is that the United

00:46:37.740 States government while it

00:46:38.900 was originally founded

00:46:40.260 with the idea okay here

00:46:42.280 are some of these rights

00:46:42.960 that we really want to

00:46:43.760 have from the beginning

00:46:44.840 and we're going to

00:46:45.400 enumerate them and that's

00:46:46.560 going to be the reason

00:46:47.700 that we created this

00:46:49.580 government if we actually

00:46:51.320 pay attention to the

00:46:52.220 history of the United

00:46:53.040 States that doesn't

00:46:54.780 really work out like if

00:46:56.580 you know anything about

00:46:57.520 what happened immediately

00:46:58.420 after the war the states

00:47:00.320 are heavily taxing people

00:47:01.980 immediately taxes that

00:47:04.140 were actually way more

00:47:05.200 oppressive than the

00:47:06.060 British taxes to pay back

00:47:07.800 the war debt they had for

00:47:09.540 fighting off the British

00:47:10.320 was just hilarious because

00:47:11.420 the whole reason that the

00:47:13.060 British were upping their

00:47:14.000 taxes against the American

00:47:15.880 colonists was because they

00:47:17.520 wanted to pay off their

00:47:18.620 debt from the French and

00:47:20.380 Indian War and so you

00:47:22.540 know there's this there's

00:47:23.600 a little bit of a cycle

00:47:24.480 here the point being the

00:47:27.000 Americans the American

00:47:28.840 government kind of

00:47:29.640 immediately started down a

00:47:31.240 path of centralizing

00:47:32.340 power first it got rid of

00:47:33.920 the Articles of

00:47:34.500 Confederation for the

00:47:35.580 Constitution and it put

00:47:37.220 down a number of

00:47:37.940 rebellions that thought

00:47:39.100 that the central

00:47:40.180 government was becoming

00:47:41.000 too powerful and was

00:47:42.320 exercising its power

00:47:43.540 tyrannically and then of

00:47:45.880 course we know what

00:47:46.540 happened during the Civil

00:47:47.360 War and you know it

00:47:48.780 maybe became very clear

00:47:49.940 that more power needed to

00:47:51.100 be centralized if you

00:47:51.980 were going to have

00:47:52.360 control over all these

00:47:53.760 states that had attempted

00:47:55.560 to leave the Union and

00:47:57.220 the further and further we

00:47:58.820 go the FDR revolution the

00:48:00.780 Civil Rights Revolution

00:48:01.740 every one of these are

00:48:03.440 justifications for

00:48:04.540 government

00:48:04.960 centralization in every

00:48:06.400 case the government is

00:48:07.720 justifying more and more

00:48:09.020 power hey we need an

00:48:10.380 income tax so we can go

00:48:11.500 ahead and fight and pay

00:48:12.700 for these wars we can

00:48:13.760 you know we can pay for

00:48:14.560 these standing armies that

00:48:15.620 we have to keep around in

00:48:17.120 case we have to like I

00:48:18.040 don't know retake southern

00:48:19.740 states or something this

00:48:21.180 is something that

00:48:21.920 happened over and over

00:48:22.900 again and the truth is

00:48:24.860 that governments never

00:48:26.840 really secure rights at

00:48:28.380 least not directly so how

00:48:30.440 are they secured okay

00:48:31.740 here's how they're

00:48:33.380 secured again the only way

00:48:35.400 that we have rights the

00:48:36.720 only way that it's self

00:48:37.500 evident about what rights

00:48:38.900 would be is if we have a

00:48:40.740 shared tradition right we

00:48:42.400 have to have a shared

00:48:43.220 tradition and

00:48:43.860 understanding if we don't

00:48:44.840 have those those shared

00:48:46.980 ideas about the moral

00:48:48.200 vision then nothing can

00:48:49.660 be a self-evident truth

00:48:50.800 so if we have that then

00:48:55.200 as a culture as a people

00:48:57.860 we share a tradition in

00:49:00.180 which we have a certain

00:49:01.120 way of being and that way

00:49:02.220 of being establishes certain

00:49:04.200 natural relationships this

00:49:06.620 is natural law this is this

00:49:08.760 is natural law these are

00:49:10.500 the things that we naturally

00:49:12.020 do our rhythms of life our

00:49:13.580 understanding of ways of

00:49:15.100 being that are manifested

00:49:16.800 because of the things that

00:49:18.440 we are imbued with by God

00:49:20.440 that's where rights come

00:49:22.940 from and we need that to be

00:49:27.160 able to understand our

00:49:28.880 constitutions as just of

00:49:30.360 Joseph de Maistre says and

00:49:31.620 I've explained several times

00:49:32.880 because I'm a big fan of

00:49:34.340 Joseph de Maistre each people

00:49:36.200 is imprinted by God with a

00:49:38.560 certain way of being

00:49:39.920 Spengler hit on this from a

00:49:42.220 non-Christian perspective when

00:49:43.620 he talked about his

00:49:44.400 metaphysical symbols of

00:49:46.160 civilizations but Joseph

00:49:47.620 de Maistre said this is just

00:49:48.980 imprinted from God and

00:49:50.900 constitutions are only ever

00:49:52.580 a reflection of the rights

00:49:54.120 that are already placed on

00:49:55.480 the heart of the people in

00:49:56.540 their tradition in their way

00:49:57.480 of being it can't be

00:49:58.840 anything else so no

00:50:00.320 constitution has ever given

00:50:02.240 you your rights either to be

00:50:03.620 clear not the Supreme Court

00:50:05.760 not Congress not the Bill of

00:50:08.660 Rights or even the

00:50:09.420 Constitution of the

00:50:10.120 Declaration of Independence

00:50:11.160 none of the founding documents

00:50:12.500 give you any of your rights it

00:50:14.260 is the traditions from that

00:50:16.600 arise from your people from

00:50:19.000 their way of being from their

00:50:20.640 understanding of how a

00:50:22.340 community should be shaped that

00:50:24.440 gives rise to a to your rights

00:50:27.580 it is tradition that protects

00:50:29.400 your rights those traditions can

00:50:31.260 be written down as ours were in

00:50:34.240 the Constitution and then they

00:50:36.620 can help you understand I guess

00:50:38.520 what you should be doing but

00:50:41.300 ultimately the Constitution is

00:50:42.740 never protecting any of your

00:50:43.980 rights ultimately that's not

00:50:47.180 happening it is the tradition

00:50:49.640 it is the shared understanding that

00:50:52.340 protects your rights against

00:50:53.260 government because again

00:50:54.740 governments start as banditry

00:50:56.820 they start as people who want to

00:50:58.960 extract wealth from you and the

00:51:01.800 only way that the people

00:51:02.960 collectively can keep the

00:51:04.940 government from centralizing power

00:51:07.560 and fleecing you from all your

00:51:08.820 all your worth and taking all of

00:51:10.600 your rights is by having a

00:51:12.440 shared understanding of the good

00:51:14.020 that the government is unable to

00:51:16.540 violate in the ancient city

00:51:19.020 Fustel de Colanges explains that

00:51:23.100 if Rome wanted to become an

00:51:24.920 empire it had to break down the

00:51:26.940 power of the family and the old

00:51:29.500 religion the original religion in

00:51:31.880 Rome was not the great pantheon we

00:51:34.620 think of today but was actually a

00:51:37.460 worship of the household fire it was

00:51:39.960 the the spirit was in a form of

00:51:41.860 ancestor worship that came from the

00:51:43.900 sacred flame in the hearth and the

00:51:46.160 land and the place where your

00:51:48.120 parents were buried that's what gave

00:51:50.080 people their rights you didn't have

00:51:51.880 property rights because you know you

00:51:54.280 you were a free liberal individual

00:51:56.480 you had property rights because your

00:51:58.720 family's bones were literally interred

00:52:01.440 in the ground in the property you had

00:52:04.120 and if you lost your property you

00:52:07.960 wouldn't be able to properly

00:52:08.820 worship and sustain your family

00:52:11.020 during their time in the underworld

00:52:13.040 and so you had a right to your

00:52:15.420 property because there was a shared

00:52:17.100 belief that people should take care of

00:52:19.840 their families even after death they

00:52:22.040 should continue to worship their

00:52:23.160 ancestors and they should continue to

00:52:25.800 hold the feast days and sustain them in

00:52:28.040 all of these things so you had rights but

00:52:30.720 the rights were bound inside your

00:52:32.320 tradition your rights were bound to

00:52:33.700 your duty to care for your dead

00:52:36.180 relatives and to worship them and to

00:52:38.560 sustain them in the afterlife they were

00:52:40.660 not some free-floating individual thing

00:52:43.280 they were tied directly to a religion

00:52:45.980 directly to a tradition directly to a

00:52:49.300 way of being directly to a belief and

00:52:54.460 the reason that the Roman government

00:52:56.180 couldn't take many of those things

00:52:57.920 the reason that the Roman government

00:52:59.400 had to respect the authority of the

00:53:03.020 different families the patrician

00:53:05.220 families in Rome was because the

00:53:07.480 beliefs of the people were too strong

00:53:09.300 the religion was too strong and it

00:53:11.560 would not allow the government to steal

00:53:15.560 more take more centralize more power

00:53:17.960 it was the tradition of the people that

00:53:21.360 actually protects your rights that's

00:53:24.420 where rights come from your rights do

00:53:26.480 not come from government that's true

00:53:28.520 because you know Heidi Prisbal is very

00:53:31.880 wrong about that but they also don't

00:53:34.320 come from the Constitution they don't

00:53:36.820 come and your government does not exist

00:53:39.380 to protect them sorry founding fathers

00:53:41.440 sorry I know but but that that little

00:53:44.720 piece of phrasing has has has sent a lot

00:53:48.440 of people down the wrong path it's

00:53:50.020 created a lot of misunderstanding your

00:53:52.480 rights come from the protection of a

00:53:56.000 shared culture and a shared way of

00:53:57.820 being and to be fair in many ways the

00:54:00.600 founders did understand that even

00:54:02.020 though that one phrase has created a

00:54:04.340 lot of problems many of the founders

00:54:06.960 expressed their understanding that you

00:54:08.980 had to have that shared biblical vision

00:54:10.920 that shared Christian morality if the

00:54:13.420 Constitution was going to work at all

00:54:14.700 so I'm not saying they didn't

00:54:15.680 understand that on some level I'm just

00:54:17.320 saying some of the language they have

00:54:18.460 used has led people to to completely

00:54:22.380 remove the idea of rights of natural

00:54:25.760 rights from their grounding inside our

00:54:29.320 tradition as a people and if you don't

00:54:31.080 have that tradition as a people the

00:54:32.900 rights don't mean anything and that's

00:54:34.280 what the whole civil rights revolution

00:54:36.220 the whole story that the left has

00:54:37.940 replaced the founding with has done it

00:54:40.400 is pulled all of this out of its

00:54:42.320 Christian context as attempted to create

00:54:45.100 rights as their own narrative their own

00:54:48.200 justification for the existence of the

00:54:50.080 government and so you need to be careful

00:54:51.760 about saying the government exists to

00:54:53.400 protect your rights because it doesn't

00:54:55.420 actually the government is always an

00:54:56.820 opponent of your rights always the

00:54:59.640 government is always an opponent of the

00:55:01.120 rights that doesn't mean I understand

00:55:03.200 I'm not an anarchist I'm not arguing

00:55:04.880 against states states will exist men must

00:55:09.200 be ruled they will be ruled that's all

00:55:11.880 there is to it however you have to

00:55:15.080 understand that the natural tension

00:55:16.700 always exists while the state is

00:55:19.040 necessary I know libertarians get very

00:55:21.600 angry in the comments well a state is

00:55:23.380 always necessary it is always also to

00:55:27.880 some extent an enemy of your liberty and

00:55:30.600 your liberty in this context is your

00:55:33.180 ability to pursue the good wrapped

00:55:36.180 layered in the understanding of a

00:55:39.720 particular form of virtue a tradition

00:55:41.700 which defines it you don't have the

00:55:43.900 virtuous tradition then you don't have

00:55:46.200 liberty that's all there is to it

00:55:49.040 that's where rights actually come from

00:55:50.900 and that's how they're protected no

00:55:53.280 government protects your rights sorry

00:55:56.320 your rights come from a tradition a

00:56:00.180 shared understanding of value that's

00:56:03.460 actually where it comes from all right

00:56:05.100 guys let's go ahead and switch over I've

00:56:07.700 got some questions of the people here

00:56:09.720 real quick let me go ahead and switch

00:56:12.300 over

00:56:12.800 thing that unites all of them

00:56:14.440 let's see go ahead and switch over to

00:56:17.180 the questions of the people

00:56:18.440 creeper weirdo says msnpc the narrative

00:56:23.580 and nothing but it yes the uh the npc meme

00:56:27.660 excellent sir uh deuce bigelow says do you

00:56:30.680 know the channel uh ho math he has a

00:56:32.880 video called levels which talks about the

00:56:34.840 ways of uh about ways of thinking and it

00:56:38.700 all almost objectively proves right-wing

00:56:41.500 intellectuals have a higher level of

00:56:43.500 consciousness than their left leftist

00:56:46.140 counterparts uh no I can't say that I'm

00:56:48.340 familiar with that channel or that

00:56:50.400 particular argument uh though it does

00:56:52.300 sound interesting thank you uh creeper

00:56:54.840 weirdo says uh these are the last gas of

00:56:57.320 wokeness really it's it yes wokeness is

00:56:59.940 most assuredly on the way out yeah and

00:57:02.360 again that has always been my point this

00:57:04.600 stuff is too integral to the actual ruling

00:57:07.760 formula of our elites they cannot pivot

00:57:10.120 away from it they don't know how they

00:57:12.280 believe this and it's also critical to

00:57:15.160 the uh infrastructure of everything

00:57:18.860 their their patronage network every bit

00:57:20.920 of this they cannot they cannot roll this

00:57:23.380 back they must push forward because

00:57:25.200 that's what the revolution entails uh our

00:57:28.060 our our revolutionaries are true

00:57:30.580 believers and they will go ahead and

00:57:31.920 continue to push this forward

00:57:33.060 uh creepy weirdo says jesus said be nice

00:57:35.940 that's the whole of the law yeah so so

00:57:38.340 often the case is that that's the only

00:57:40.820 thing jesus ever said and the minute you

00:57:42.980 assert anything else from the bible we're

00:57:45.340 fine uh using using jesus said be nice

00:57:48.360 uh whenever we're pushing our political

00:57:49.900 agenda but the minute you notice that

00:57:51.840 jesus might have said some other things

00:57:53.240 that aren't as popular with the current

00:57:55.720 spirit of the age all of a sudden uh we're

00:57:58.480 not as big fans of the bible and it turns

00:58:00.480 out it's just christian nationalism all

00:58:03.020 right guys well i'm gonna go ahead and wrap

00:58:05.260 things up i want to thank you so much for

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The Auron MacIntyre Show - February 26, 2024

MSNBC vs. the Declaration of Independence ｜ 2⧸26⧸24

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