The Auron MacIntyre Show - October 12, 2023


The World Liberals Made ｜ 10⧸12⧸23


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Length

10 minutes

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Word count

1,521

Sentence count

92

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

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Hate speech

2

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Summary

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After two radical leftist activists were stabbed to death in major U.S. cities, a heated debate quickly erupted online after many conservatives pointed out that these men fell victim to a problem that they had helped manufacture and justify. Progressives became livid over the fact that someone might recognize the simple cause-and-effect relationship between their politics and the sorrowful state of the cities in which they lived.

Transcript

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00:00:30.580 Last week, activist Ryan Carson was stabbed to death in New York City
00:00:34.520 and journalist Josh Kruger was shot and killed in his Philadelphia home.
00:00:39.280 Both men were radical leftist activists
00:00:41.460 who had recently downplayed the danger of crime in major U.S. cities.
00:00:46.340 A heated debate quickly erupted online
00:00:48.500 after many conservatives pointed out that these men fell victim to a problem
00:00:52.520 that they had helped manufacture and justify.
00:00:55.680 Progressives became livid over the fact that someone might recognize
00:00:59.220 the simple cause-and-effect relationship between these men's politics
00:01:02.620 and the sorrowful state of the cities in which they lived.
00:01:05.840 The fact that conservatives noticed the connection between leftist policies and violent crime
00:01:11.500 was far more offensive than the violent crime itself.
00:01:14.540 The key to maintaining a progressive worldview is screaming loud enough to drown out the reality unfolding before your eyes.
00:01:22.720 While I personally find mocking these deaths in poor taste,
00:01:27.520 it's hard to take the outrage and pearl-clutching from progressives seriously.
00:01:31.740 These are the same people who danced on the graves of every COVID skeptic,
00:01:36.760 celebrated the deaths of conservative pundits and Supreme Court justices,
00:01:40.720 and talked about putting their enemies in re-education camps.
00:01:44.480 Leftists are more than happy to celebrate the demise of their political opponents
00:01:48.140 and feel justified in doing so.
00:01:51.960 Progressives view conservatives as enemies in the Schmittian sense,
00:01:56.060 an alien other who poses an existential threat and against whom extreme action is justified.
00:02:03.700 Carson, an outspoken Antifa activist,
00:02:06.980 cheered the destruction of police stations during the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 0.92
00:02:11.500 and celebrated the death of conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on his social media accounts.
00:02:17.640 While those on the right might need to conduct themselves with decency for the health of their own souls,
00:02:23.620 the left's current calls for propriety are utterly fake and hollow.
00:02:29.380 Ultimately, it's a deeply flawed view of the human condition that leads the left
00:02:33.780 and the areas they control into ruin.
00:02:37.100 To the progressives, human nature is infinitely malleable
00:02:40.540 and individuals can be molded into the perfect subject that will produce an earthly utopia.
00:02:46.520 The human starts as basically good, kind, and socially cooperative
00:02:50.660 and is only forced to commit criminal acts by a set of oppressive institutions.
00:02:56.280 People are not fallen creatures who steal and murder due to the evil that lurks in every human soul,
00:03:01.880 but victims compelled to commit crimes by the white Christian capitalist patriarchy
00:03:06.940 that drives them to acts of desperation.
00:03:09.960 The left views the hard physical deterrence of police and prisons
00:03:13.880 not as necessary institutions for maintaining civilization against a violent aspect of human nature
00:03:19.740 that will always exist, but as the primary cause of that violence.
00:03:25.160 As amazing as it seems, leftists and even a great many liberals
00:03:29.260 have difficulty connecting the application of their utopian ideology
00:03:33.860 with the horrific consequences that follow.
00:03:36.240 The Antifa activists can call for police abolition,
00:03:40.760 open borders, and reduce prison sentences for violent felons
00:03:44.400 while still being totally shocked by the fact that the streets are full of criminals
00:03:48.500 who would knife a man sitting on a bench with his girlfriend. 0.99
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00:04:23.040 Preventing crime is no mystery.
00:04:25.960 Aggressive policing and strictly enforced penalties will usually do the trick,
00:04:30.000 but the results tend to offend liberal sensibilities.
00:04:34.220 The commission of crimes is not distributed equally across all demographics,
00:04:39.180 and effective deterrence will naturally follow this unequal distribution.
00:04:44.760 Leftists see this pattern, and due to their warped view of human nature,
00:04:48.740 assume that it's the deterrence itself that causes crime.
00:04:52.080 People should be able to sit on a bench in New York City at any time, day or night,
00:04:58.820 without fearing for their lives.
00:05:01.460 This is not an unrealistic goal.
00:05:04.220 The social technology required to achieve this is neither new nor profound.
00:05:08.860 But the left is obsessed with the idea of social progress,
00:05:12.200 and cares very little about the destruction their revolution leaves in its wake.
00:05:17.060 A few years ago, a popular internet meme featured the most absurd,
00:05:22.400 degenerate, or violent event possible with the text,
00:05:25.540 This is the future liberals want, emblazoned across the top.
00:05:29.180 That meme format is dead, because it simply became the world we now occupy.
00:05:35.280 Leftists demand police abolition, but are then shocked by violent crime.
00:05:40.140 They call for open borders, but are shocked by human trafficking,
00:05:43.580 low wages for workers, and a housing shortage.
00:05:46.120 Leftists championed locking down the nation's children during COVID,
00:05:51.320 but are shocked by massive educational setbacks and cratering mental health.
00:05:56.780 If the communist revolutions of the past have taught us anything,
00:06:00.720 it's that progressives will continue their march towards utopia,
00:06:04.260 no matter how violent, depressing, or economically devastating
00:06:07.940 the consequences of their policies become.
00:06:11.240 The left is utopian.
00:06:13.980 Utopia is impossible.
00:06:15.500 Therefore, no matter how long the left has been in power,
00:06:19.540 real leftism has never been tried.
00:06:22.260 Leftists' only solution is to try harder.
00:06:26.740 Those with what the economist Thomas Sowell called the constrained vision
00:06:31.660 understand that human nature is deeply flawed and largely unchangeable.
00:06:36.480 We live in a fallen world where people can and will make evil choices,
00:06:42.320 even if their material needs are met.
00:06:45.440 Greed, violence, poverty, addiction, and crime are tragically just as much of a part of the human
00:06:52.520 experience as love, peace, joy, and contentment.
00:06:56.520 That doesn't mean that individuals with the constrained vision are exempt from making the world a better place.
00:07:03.900 They still feel a strong sense of duty to care for and improve the lives of those in their families and communities.
00:07:10.880 But unlike those with the utopian, unconstrained vision,
00:07:15.340 conservatives know that there are hard limits to human nature,
00:07:19.320 and so they are less likely to support radical social engineering.
00:07:24.040 Utopians believe that crime can be ameliorated by social workers armed with therapy.
00:07:30.560 Conservatives understand that some evils can only be stopped by a police officer armed with a gun.
00:07:36.240 Conservatives love to quote John Adams' famous line,
00:07:41.180 Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people, and with good reason. 0.99
00:07:46.940 It communicates the traditional view that faith and a shared commitment to the same moral vision
00:07:52.680 are the building blocks of society.
00:07:55.260 But they rarely consider the implications of the line that follows.
00:07:59.400 It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
00:08:02.480 Liberty is the rare and precious fruit of virtue.
00:08:07.040 Virtue is not the fruit of liberty.
00:08:10.200 Progressives have deconstructed traditions that constrained our nature
00:08:14.120 in the hope that it would allow them to reach utopia.
00:08:17.400 Instead, it has unleashed the far darker impulses that lurked beneath the surface of civilization.
00:08:24.420 The representative republic established by the U.S. Constitution
00:08:28.280 and the liberty it provided were not meant for those bent on civilizational suicide.
00:08:34.820 Liberals have a monopoly on political power in most major American cities,
00:08:39.420 and the results are as predictable as a heroin user with a blank check.
00:08:43.840 The difficult but unavoidable truth is that progressives are simply incapable of self-government.
00:08:50.020 The left has destroyed the regions it rules and will continue to do so
00:08:54.740 no matter how devastating the consequences become.
00:08:58.280 In the past, a pendulum effect ensured that the delusional policies of the left
00:09:02.880 would foster higher crime and social decay,
00:09:05.860 followed by a conservative reaction of self-preservation to clean up the streets and restore order.
00:09:11.880 Before long, of course, people would forget why things got so bad
00:09:16.460 and return to pursuing utopia.
00:09:18.380 That time has passed.
00:09:21.060 The pendulum is broken.
00:09:23.200 The progressive revolution has driven all conservative influence out of blue cities.
00:09:28.120 The liberals got the future they wanted,
00:09:30.280 and now they must suffer the consequences of the world that they made.
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