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00:01:44.000First, let me just say, it is the most wonderful time of the year for crapping on America, apparently.
00:01:48.000Apparently it is that time of the year.
00:01:50.000See, we are approaching a 2020 election, and as we approach that 2020 election, it is apparent that in order to gain the huzzahs of the mainstream media, in order to receive praise from the mainstream media, all you really have to do is take a dump All over the systems that have created prosperity and liberalism and freedom in the West.
00:02:09.000If you do that, then the media will praise you.
00:02:12.000Because our media, unfortunately, are populated with people who don't have a proper understanding of American history.
00:02:17.000Many of them read Howard Zinn's People History of the United States and think they know things now, even though that history is taken out of context and is completely meritless in terms of its general worldview.
00:02:28.000This is the way that a lot of people in the United States, particularly in the media, think.
00:02:32.000And what this means is that you're seeing even presidential candidates having to pay homage to this sort of worldview.
00:02:37.000Well, the latest to do this is Pete Buttigieg.
00:02:39.000Now, again, Buttigieg, his draw is that he's been running as a moderate in the past couple of months.
00:02:44.000He started off his campaign running as a moderate.
00:02:46.000Then he swiveled to the left in an attempt to grab that woke base.
00:02:49.000And then when that failed, he swiveled back to the center and he started picking up in the polls.
00:02:52.000And right now he's leading in Iowa and he's doing well in New Hampshire as well.
00:02:55.000Elizabeth Warren, conversely, She started off as the sort of rational alternative to Bernie Sanders, and then she skewed way out to the left and started talking nationalized healthcare, and then she fell apart because people don't like that sort of thing.
00:03:07.000Well, Buttigieg is making that same mistake now.
00:03:09.000The reason he's doing that is because he traveled down to South Carolina over the weekend, and he is trying to gain some black support for his candidacy.
00:03:17.000He's the whitest candidate in the race, or at least is perceived as such.
00:03:21.000In reality, Elizabeth Warren is even whiter because she's the whitest person who has ever lived, but Pete Buttigieg traveled down to South Carolina.
00:03:27.000He needs to start making some inroads in the black vote because the fact is that about two-thirds of the South Carolina primary base is black.
00:03:33.000So, the AP reports, as he labors to win over black voters whose support is vital to his Democratic presidential bid, Pete Buttigieg found a receptive host on Sunday and a civil rights activist who is sought to continue Rev.
00:03:45.000Martin Luther King Jr.' 's push for a racially diverse national campaign against poverty.
00:03:51.000William Barber's Greenleaf Christian Church, Buttigieg stayed for a discussion with the Poor People's Campaign begun by King shortly before his assassination in 1968.
00:03:59.000Barber, a pastor and former North Carolina NAACP president, revived the movement to unite a new generation of Americans of all races to combat economic inequality.
00:04:09.000Now, this of course was specifically designed in order to win Buttigieg some sort of support.
00:04:13.000He had had himself a rough week after he was attacked by Michael Harriot.
00:04:23.000Because Pete Buttigieg had suggested quite reasonably back in 2011 that educational inequality in the United States is not entirely due to systemic factors.
00:04:32.000Much educational inequality in the United States is due to the fact that there are a lot of kids who are growing up in areas where they do not have parental figures who are deeply ensconced in the education system, who are not teaching them that education is, in fact, a ladder out of poverty.
00:04:48.000And he was ripped up and down by Michael Harriot for that.
00:04:50.000And now Booty Judge is attempting to respond to that criticism by basically, it appears, bowing before the dictates of a sort of politically correct wokeness.
00:04:59.000Now Michael Harriot, who wrote this really, this pair of incredibly self-indulgent pieces which were praised as brilliant and wonderful because the more purple your writing is and the more you spice them with meaningful...
00:05:12.000Parables and anecdotes, the more people think that you have something important to say.
00:05:16.000Well, Harriet was on MSNBC and he was talking about Buttigieg, and he said, well, Democrats have to know how to talk to black voters.
00:05:21.000Now, this is in and of itself a bizarre contention, because the fact is, Democrats and Republicans should be talking to all voters, presumably, in the same way, because we're all individuals.
00:05:31.000The idea that you talk to a black voter differently than you talk to a Latino voter differently than you talk to a white voter, Is really awful for our politics.
00:05:39.000If you are tailoring your message specifically based on the race of the people to whom you are speaking, that would be you being kind of racist, right?
00:05:47.000If you are attempting to speak to white audiences, I mean reverse the racism, you see how true this is.
00:05:51.000If you spoke to white audiences differently than you speak to black audiences, then this is presumably you being a racist.
00:05:57.000But according to Michael Harriot, you have to tailor your message.
00:05:58.000What does it mean to tailor your message?
00:06:00.000You're not allowed to say true things if it's offensive to certain groups of people.
00:06:03.000So here's Michael Harriot saying this, and then we'll see Pete Buttigieg doing some of this.
00:06:07.000So here's Michael Harriot, of The Root, again, a man who wrote that Pete Buttigieg was a lying MF-er based on the fact that Buttigieg made a perfectly rational statement about educational inequality of outcome in the United States.
00:06:19.000And then Buttigieg called him, and then he wrote another piece about what a wonderful guy Michael Harriot is.
00:06:24.000There are people and candidates who come from places in America where they don't have to court the black vote.
00:06:37.000They don't have to appeal to black citizens.
00:06:40.000They don't have to appeal to black voters.
00:06:44.000And they can still get elected into the positions as mayor of South Bend or to senator.
00:06:51.000But when they have to Okay, so what does it mean to speak to black voters differently?
00:07:05.000Well, Pete Buttigieg thinks that what that means is nodding along when people say insane things about the evils of the United States.
00:07:11.000So, Reverend William Barber is sitting across from Buttigieg, and he starts lecturing him on the evils of the United States, and Buttigieg just sits there and goes right along with it, as far as I can see.
00:07:21.000I don't see any blowback from Buttigieg or an attempt to correct the record.
00:07:24.000Here is William Barber jumping into a statement about how people who are illegally entering the United States from south of America's border are reclaiming land that was originally won by the United States.
00:07:35.000So it's legitimate, therefore, to be an illegal immigrant.
00:07:39.000Whenever people say, we call people illegal aliens and all these things that are not human and certainly not Christian, Why can't we just own in America that some of the people that are trying to come from Mexico here are coming back to land we stole?
00:07:58.000And the reason we took the land is because people wanted to keep their slaves.
00:08:03.000Okay, so the Mexican-American War is a very controversial aspect of American history.
00:08:09.000There were folks like Abraham Lincoln who were very much opposed to the Mexican-American War because they believed that the Mexican-American War was designed to admit new slave states to the Union.
00:08:18.000But what Barber says there, that illegal immigrants are crossing the border because of some sort of revenge play from 1848, is Perfectly insane.
00:08:25.000And any sovereign country has to be in control of their own borders.
00:08:29.000But the fact that Buttigieg is nodding along to that speaks of how members of the left believe they have to appeal to various members of the democratic constituency.
00:08:40.000In other words, the intellectual base of the left, the stuff that starts on college campuses and then filters out to the media and then filters out to so-called thought leaders in the democratic community, it is quite anti-American in certain aspects of how it views American history and how it views capitalism, how it views Western liberalism.
00:08:58.000We'll get to more of that in just one second.
00:09:06.000Well, not just because I didn't have to get up early every morning in order to come into work, but also because I was sleeping on that Helix Sleep mattress.
00:09:13.000I mean, you talk about a great Christmas gift.
00:09:15.000You're talking about something that you can get for somebody for the holidays that they're going to enjoy, like, all the time.
00:10:10.000Okay, so that perspective that you saw there from Reverend William Barber, and that is being nodded along to by Pete Buttigieg, unfortunately, That perspective is gaining credence in certain parts of the American population.
00:10:23.000Not broken down by race, but broken down by politics.
00:10:27.000It's why you see people like Colin Kaepernick being granted all sorts of endless media time for his virtue-signaling stupidity on a wide variety of topics.
00:10:35.000So, for example, Colin Kaepernick over the weekend Well, again, retains his fame only because the media keep covering his various anti-American protests, whether he's putting pigs on his socks or whether he's saying that the Betsy Ross flag is racist.
00:10:48.000Well, his latest bid for attention, since he obviously doesn't want to play quarterback in the NFL, he trashed the United States on un-Thanksgiving Day, which I guess is sort of like your unbirthday in Alice in Wonderland.
00:10:59.000A very merry un-Thanksgiving Day to you.
00:11:02.000He said that he was accusing the United States of having stolen billions of acres of land from indigenous people, and then he released a video on his Twitter account to play into all this.
00:11:11.000So here is Colin Kaepernick, a millionaire, thanks to the Western system he is currently criticizing, in America, a country that he apparently really does not like in many ways.
00:11:21.000Cutting a video on un-Thanksgiving Day because apparently we're not supposed to be thankful to God that we live in this country.
00:11:25.000We're not supposed to be thankful to God that Western civilization arrived on these shores.
00:11:30.000We're supposed to pretend that everything would have been better for the world if Europeans had never come to the continent.
00:11:36.000Which, again, that is not to discount any of the evils Europeans committed when arriving on this continent.
00:11:41.000But to pretend that the world would be a better place, broadly speaking, if Europeans had never colonized the United States, is to be completely ignorant of world history, economics, and pretty much everything else.
00:11:49.000Here's Colin Kaepernick doing that routine, presumably, well, leaning back in his mansion and watching this thing on his Twitter account created on his iPhone.
00:11:58.000It's been 50 years since the occupation.
00:12:01.000And that struggle has continued for that 50 years.
00:12:05.000And before that 50 years, it will continue from this point.
00:12:09.000It's our responsibility to honor our ancestors and honor our elders by carrying on that struggle.
00:12:17.000Don't let their sacrifices be in vain.
00:12:21.000That's why it's important for all of us to be here today.
00:12:24.000To show that we're together, that we're unified, that we have that solidarity.
00:12:29.000And I hope to spend many more of these with you.
00:12:31.000Okay, and then Kaepernick wrote on Twitter, Spent the morning at Indigenous People's Sunrise Ceremony on the 50-year anniversary of the occupation of Alcatraz.
00:12:38.000The U.S. government has stolen over 1.5 billion acres of land from Indigenous people.
00:12:45.000Okay, it is certainly worthwhile to recognize that the United States is based on European peoples coming to land that they did not originally discover.
00:13:05.000And that before the Europeans even arrived on this continent, there were plenty of people who were colonizing each other's lands.
00:13:11.000There were internecine warfares between Native American tribes.
00:13:13.000There were people who were colonizing other people's land.
00:13:16.000This has been happening throughout history.
00:13:18.000To single out European colonization of the Americas as a unique evil in the history of the world is simply ridiculous.
00:13:25.000And not only is it ridiculous, it's particularly ridiculous on Thanksgiving, which is a day specifically designated to be tolerant and open.
00:13:31.000Thanksgiving is a day that was specifically created in order to recognize the common humanity between Native Americans and European peoples who arrived on the continent.
00:13:40.000I mean, it's a ridiculous take on American history, a context-free take on American history, but unfortunately, it is this sort of view of America that is splitting the country right now.
00:13:50.000It's one of the things that really is splitting the country.
00:13:51.000I think that it also goes to the 1619 Project, for example, which is something that the New York Times was pushing.
00:13:57.000You remember that the New York Times pushed the so-called 1619 Project.
00:14:01.000The idea of the United States was not founded in 1776.
00:14:03.000It was founded in 1619 with the original arrival of African slaves on the American continent being brought by European slave traders.
00:14:13.000Okay, there's only one problem with that.
00:14:14.000Even historians recognize now that the 1619 Project is basically a bunch of garbage.
00:14:20.000James McPherson, who is a Civil War historian, he wrote a very famous book called Battle Cry of Freedom, which is a terrific book, by the way, if you ever want to read some Civil War history.
00:14:31.000He said, I'd say, almost from the outset, I was disturbed by what seemed like a very unbalanced, one-sided account which lacked context and perspective on the complexity of slavery, which was clearly, obviously, not an exclusively American institution, but existed throughout history.
00:14:43.000And slavery in the United States was only a small part of a larger world process that unfolded over many centuries.
00:14:48.000In the United States, too, there was not only slavery, but also an anti-slavery movement.
00:14:52.000So I thought the account, which emphasized American racism, which is obviously a major part of the history, no question about it, But it focused so narrowly on that part of the story, it left most of the history out.
00:15:01.000He also suggested the idea that racism is a permanent condition.
00:15:06.000It doesn't account for the countervailing tendencies in American history.
00:15:09.000Opposition to slavery and opposition to racism has been an important theme in American history.
00:15:14.000And it's not just McPherson who's been complaining about the 1619 Project.
00:15:17.000Gordon Wood, who's another Pulitzer Prize winner on the Revolutionary War, He said that he was surprised by the scope of the 16 at 19 project.
00:15:24.000He said it is so wrong in so many ways and yet that sort of false history that is being taught to the American people by idiots like Colin Kaepernick and then supposed knowledgeable people like Howard Zinn and then being pressed forward by politicians who bow to it.
00:15:40.000If you want to have an American unity, I'm writing a whole book on this right now.
00:15:43.000If you want to have any sort of American unity, there are certain ties that have to bind us together.
00:15:47.000A basic understanding of the American philosophy, the creedal truths of what it means to be American, which are basically embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
00:15:55.000The idea that all men are created equal, and that we have equal rights, and that those rights include rights to life, liberty, and property, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:16:04.000Those are basic, creedal American truths.
00:16:08.000We have to believe that we're all part of the same stream of history.
00:16:10.000Yes, some of us were victimized in that history, and some of us Our grandparents were the aggressors in that history.
00:16:17.000But we're all part of that same history because we're all part of the same story, we're all part of the same country.
00:16:21.000And yet what we are seeing now is an attempt to revise history and divide Americans from each other by making us permanent identity groups that are simply victimizing each other through hierarchies of power.
00:16:32.000What we're watching right now is that the ties that bind us in terms of our understanding of rights, a culture of rights, rights expressed in the Bill of Rights, those rights are being overthrown on a daily basis by people who believe that those rights, as expressed in the Bill of Rights, are actually just an expression of people attempting to cram down their own power view of politics.
00:16:49.000And so, for example, the right to free speech is merely powerful people expressing themselves and non-powerful people being silenced.
00:16:56.000So, we have to silence the right to free speech through hate crimes, through hate speech laws, and through campaign finance reform, Yeah, less speech is the answer.
00:17:04.000We're taking all of the ties that bind us together, and then we are ripping them apart.
00:17:08.000And then we're ripping them apart, and we're celebrating as we do this.
00:17:14.000Perfect example of this today, there's a piece by a guy named Damon Young, who's the author of a book called What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker.
00:17:20.000And it's in the New York Times, it's called In Defense of Woke.
00:17:23.000And he talks about why wokeness is good.
00:17:39.000But it has migrated, so that now it's a term of praise, because if you are woke to the American system, you see how evil, inherently, the American system is, and therefore you are woke.
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00:19:06.000Okay, so this op-ed in the New York Times really is indicative of a certain worldview that is gaining credence and tearing apart the country.
00:19:12.000It's called Indefensive Woke by Damon Young.
00:19:15.000Does Donald Trump and his supporters want the rest of us to stay asleep?
00:19:19.000You see, if you want to talk about American history in positive ways, if you see America as a generally good development, if you see capitalism as a generally good development, it's because you want people to stay asleep.
00:19:32.000So, it was quaint, really, that feeling I had in the months after the 2016 presidential election, where I convinced myself I'd do everything possible in the next four years to prevent Donald Trump from becoming normalized.
00:19:42.000It was our duty to never stop shouting about his abnormalities, and I believed that this conscientiousness had an unlimited bandwidth.
00:19:52.000The fate of the republic depended on it.
00:19:54.000But there I was, on a lazy Saturday three years later, sitting in my living room, choosing to binge-watch Queen Sugar instead of recaps of the impeachment inquiry.
00:20:01.000If I hadn't been doing that, I would have browsed Zillow to scout shelving space ideas for open-concept kitchens.
00:20:06.000Either way, while my disdain for the president and his supporters remains, my capacity for hyper-consciousness has faded.
00:20:11.000I don't possess the stamina for the sort of vigilance necessary to stay cognizant of everything he's doing, nor do I wish to.
00:20:17.000Someone has to do it, though, and I'm just not woke enough.
00:20:22.000Rarely has a colloquialism had as many mutations.
00:20:26.000Woke described his racial awareness and cynicism so extra it bordered on parody where you're so awake that your third eye saw things that aren't there.
00:20:33.000The movies I'm gonna get you sucka and don't be a menace to South Central while drinking your juice in the hood satirized this concept.
00:20:38.000Each film's most racially conscious character was either married to a white woman or willing to trample a sister to get to one.
00:20:43.000Also, Woke was used exclusively by black people to refer to other black people.
00:20:47.000It was our word because only we were mindful enough to recognize when that pro-blackness was a performance.
00:20:53.000As the aughts approached, like 2000, the term started to lose its racial connotation, becoming a catch-all instead for any sort of progressive behavior.
00:21:00.000You were woke if you recycled, or maybe just retweeted an infographic on the virtues of recycling.
00:21:11.000Well, woke floats in the linguistic purgatory of terms coined by us that can no longer be said unironically.
00:21:18.000What was a compliment just a few years ago has become, at best, an eye-roll.
00:21:21.000Mostly, though, it's used as a pejorative.
00:21:23.000Bill Maher seems to consider wokeness his personal albatross, as he's apparently blind to the paradox of getting paid likely millions of dollars a year to complain about what he believes he's no longer allowed to say.
00:21:33.000Progressives have to be careful not to be so woke that will scare moderates into voting for Donald Trump, warn usually white male columnists in every major American newspaper.
00:21:41.000When the beloved and iconic Deadspin was effectively killed this fall, haters crawled out of the internet's crevices, cheering the demise of a marriage of sports and wokeness they considered Well, actually, it effectively committed suicide with its own wokeness.
00:21:54.000But, here is the point of this very silly column.
00:22:00.000This columnist suggests Today, when I turn on the news and attempt to slog through the impeachment inquiry, I'm reminded of some of the inane conspiracy theories my wokest college classmates considered gospel.
00:22:10.000There was the Tommy Hilfiger one, where he shouldn't buy his clothes because he went on Oprah and expressed disgust at black people wearing them.
00:22:15.000There was the Timberland one, where he should stop buying those boots because the emblem, a tree, represented lynchings.
00:22:20.000These conspiracies could be debunked with superficial research.
00:22:24.000But even as we'd roll our eyes at them for believing these untruths, we knew they weren't wrong about America.
00:22:34.000That's the key sentence for so many people on the quote-unquote woke left.
00:22:38.000Every horrible thing you could possibly come up with to say about America, Maybe it's not right, but it's justified.
00:22:45.000Don't take them literally, but take them seriously.
00:22:47.000In other words, if it's a bad conspiracy theory about the United States, if it is a context-free interpretation of American history, if the idea is that America is universally the worst, and so we just sort of craft the fact pattern in order to meet that end, that's justified because, after all, the point is correct.
00:23:05.000So in other words, this person is saying that yes, wokeness used to encompass this sort of conspiratorialism, but conspiratorialism is not unjustified in a country where America is conspiratorially racist.
00:23:19.000He says that, sure, we can point out that some of these conspiracy theories were dumb, like Tommy Hilfiger, or the Timberland boots, but the Tuskegee experiment did happen, and COINTELPRO did happen, and redlining did happen, and gerrymandering is happening, and black people were targeted for subprime lending.
00:23:36.000We are arrested and incarcerated today at wildly disproportionate rates, while the perpetually woke are dismissed.
00:23:42.000They're also the canaries in our coal mines, alerting us to the dangers we might be too drowsy to see.
00:23:49.000Whatever you say that's bad about the country is justified because those are just people with highly attuned antennae.
00:23:55.000And because their antennae are so highly attuned, they can see the evils in American society where you cannot.
00:24:00.000And so that's why we should be paying attention to people who make crazed claims about the nature of the United States and American history, because in the end, they're just the bleeding edge, right?
00:24:10.000I mean, they're just the tip of the spear.
00:24:11.000And even in that paragraph, Where this columnist is trying to put together all the things that do happen, he puts together a bunch of things that did happen, and a bunch of claims he's making about now, and not all the claims he's making about now are true.
00:24:23.000So for example, he says, the Tuskegee experiment did happen.
00:24:27.000And then he says, gerrymandering is happening.
00:24:29.000Well, gerrymandering has always happened.
00:24:31.000I mean, there's nothing new about gerrymandering.
00:24:34.000The claim that gerrymandering is purely racial is not completely justified, and the idea that it's happening now, as opposed to then, is silly.
00:24:42.000In fact, gerrymandering has been happening throughout... It's named after Elbridge Gerry, who's one of the founders.
00:24:50.000When he conflates redlining from the 1970s and 1980s with arrest rates that are disproportionate today, disproportionate racially, but not disproportionate in terms of crime, that is a conflation.
00:25:06.000Today, however, the President of the United States is possibly involved in a multinational scheme to suppress votes, discredit rivals, and threaten whistleblowers.
00:25:14.000This fever dream feels like the premise of a John Grisham novel that his editor rejected for being too absurd.
00:25:18.000But I am bored out of my mind with the impeachment proceedings and would rather watch my shower faucet drip.
00:25:23.000Or perhaps just go to bed early and catch up on some sleep.
00:25:25.000And when I find myself giving the insufficiently woke a hard time, I remember, someone has to stay awake.
00:25:31.000This is an article in the New York Times specifically accusing the President of the United States of, quote, a multinational scheme to suppress votes, discredit rivals, and threaten whistleblowers.
00:25:42.000But, again, every conspiracy is justified because, in the end, America is a very bad place.
00:25:46.000And you see this sort of conspiratorialism across the West, unfortunately.
00:25:53.000A belief that the West is a uniquely terrible place.
00:25:56.000In fact, there's an article from ProjectSyndicate.org written by Greta Thunberg, who is, of course, the 16-year-old climate change activist who sailed over here to lecture us all about carbon emissions, and Luisa Neubauer and Angela Valenzuela.
00:26:11.000And this column basically suggests that all of the talk about climate change is really not about climate change, it's about the evils of the West generally.
00:26:19.000This column says, for more than a year, children and young people from around the world have been striking for the climate.
00:26:24.000We launched a movement that defied all expectations, with millions of people lending their voices and their bodies to the cause.
00:26:31.000Like, you marching is not, quote-unquote, lending your body to the cause, since no one was actually putting your body in danger.
00:26:37.000These folks, including Greta Thunberg, say, we did not do this because it was our dream, but because we didn't see anyone else taking action to secure our future, and despite the vocal support we have received from many adults, including some of the world's most powerful leaders, we still don't.
00:26:51.000We do it because we see no other options.
00:26:53.000Countless negotiations have produced much-typed, but ultimately empty commitments from the world's governments, the same governments that allow fossil fuel companies to drill forever more oil and gas and burn away our futures for their profit.
00:27:05.000By the way, I just would like to point out here that carbon-based fuels are one of the great causes of increased world prosperity over the past 50 to 60 years.
00:27:21.000The real point is that these kids are calling, Greta Thunberg and the other people who wrote this column, they are not just calling for change on climate change.
00:27:45.000It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will.
00:27:48.000Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it.
00:27:53.000You're gonna have to explain how sexism is responsible for climate change.
00:27:57.000That one you're gonna have to explain to me.
00:27:59.000That if women didn't run the world, what, we would have solar power?
00:28:01.000That if women ran the world, we'd have solar power?
00:28:03.000Somehow we would have broken the, we would have broken The Da Vinci Code, we would have figured out how to provide cheap nuclear and solar power that surpassed the rates of carbon-based fuels.
00:28:15.000Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it.
00:28:29.000If you just want to claim that there are environmental consequences to the use of carbon-based fuels, that's an argument.
00:28:35.000You want to suggest that you want to dismantle basically the entire Western system and condemn it as entirely evil, simply because you don't like it, and then blame climate change?
00:28:45.000Yes, that's radical stuff, and it is leading to a crack-up in Western civilization.
00:28:50.000We'll get to more of this in just one second, because the election of 2020 is going to be largely about this conflict of visions, and elections all over the world are going to be about this conflict of visions.
00:28:58.000We'll get to more of that in just one second.
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00:33:05.000Okay, so this is a conflict that is breaking out across the West again.
00:33:13.000The view of Western history, Western civilization, institutions like capitalism that have raised more than half the globe from abject, sheer starvation-level poverty in the last 40 years alone.
00:33:24.000And there's a group of people in the West who don't like any of this and want all of it to go away and see everything through a glass darkly.
00:33:29.000Every single development in the West is seen as an inherent bad.
00:33:32.000And so you have idiots like Mark Ruffalo, who has earned millions of dollars saying lines that other people wrote for him on a screen And he tweeted out the other day, it's time for an economic revolution.
00:33:41.000Capitalism today is failing us, killing us, and robbing from our children's future.
00:34:27.000By the way, he was browsing as of 2017, a $10 million renovated Upper West Side brownstone.
00:34:32.000So that sounds like a guy who really hates capitalism.
00:34:36.000He tweeted out a piece from Time Magazine called, How America's Elites Lost Their Grip.
00:34:40.000All about how capitalism has failed all of us and how socialism is now the wave of the future.
00:34:47.000Again, if you are standing against the capitalist system, and then you propose that you're standing in favor of human beings, you're going to have to square those things.
00:34:56.000And don't give me that the countries of Sweden and Denmark and Finland are somehow socialist paradises.
00:35:05.000If you want exorbitant tax rates starting at 60 grand a year, And if you still want to live in a free market system, that's a free market system, ma'am.
00:35:13.000If you ask the people from Sweden and Norway whether they are living in a free market system, they will tell you they are living in a free market system.
00:35:18.000The government does not own all the means of production.
00:35:22.000But the fact is that this conflict over vision, over what America stands for, what the West stands for, is continuing to resonate across the West.
00:35:35.000It's really dangerous because ideally you'd have two sides that both agreed on fundamental principles, they just disagreed about how to get to the goal.
00:35:41.000And that'd be the idea, is that you have everybody agreeing that Western civilization is a pretty wonderful place, that free market capitalism is an engine of growth, some disagreements about what government should take care of and what government should not take care of, some disagreements on sort of marginalia, You'd have some disagreements on foreign policy, you'd have some disagreements on the nature of just how much to cast blame on American history as opposed to credit American history, but a basic understanding that America is a pretty incredibly wonderful place by any sort of historical or contemporaneous standards.
00:36:29.000He murdered two people on London Bridge on Friday.
00:36:32.000It turns out that he was released early.
00:36:35.000Boris Johnson, who is currently the Prime Minister and is running for Prime Minister again in the new elections that are about to happen over there, he said, the reason this killer was out on the streets was because of automatic early release, which was brought in by a leftist government.
00:36:48.000He said, I've only been in office for 120 days.
00:36:53.000Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn was suggesting that convicted terrorists should not necessarily serve their full sentences.
00:36:59.000He suggested that it would be a mistake to re-entrench the idea that if you're a convicted terrorist who tries to kill people on London Bridge, that you should have to stay in jail for a while.
00:37:09.000The killer, in this case, was a convicted terrorist.
00:37:22.000A conference on criminal rehabilitation beside London Bridge.
00:37:25.000Police said that this terrorist had been previously convicted of terrorism offenses, but was freed early from prison.
00:37:33.000Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn, who's an open communist at this point, he said it depends on the circumstance, it depends on the sentence, but crucially, it depends on what they've done in prison.
00:37:41.000So he wants to continue to let people out of prison.
00:37:44.000And then here is his general His general belief, Jeremy Corbyn, is that the West bears some sort of responsibility for every sin on Earth, including the sins of terrorists, who, after all, are simply responding to the Western predations that have been so prevalent over the course of the globe.
00:38:03.000Now all of this is leading, as I say, to tremendous political polarization.
00:38:07.000And you see people like Thomas Edsel, who is a data-driven, kind of interesting columnist over at the New York Times, desperately trying to cling to the ideal.
00:38:15.000He's trying to cling to the ideal that liberals in the United States and abroad, that they do not hold completely separate Visions of what the world should be than people who are not of the left.
00:38:26.000So Edsel has a piece in the New York Times called liberals do not want to destroy the family or society for that matter.
00:38:31.000How did this preposterous idea leap to the forefront of conservative thinking?
00:38:35.000Okay, well, I've just given you about half an hour on how this quote-unquote preposterous idea leapt to the forefront of conservative thinking, and it is because you have leading politicians in the Democratic Party and abroad, you have leading media members who are specifically spending every single day talking about the innate evils of Western systems,
00:38:54.000It's because grave changes brought about by the social left in the United States have had deep, abiding ramifications for American life, and the left has not only not apologized for those things, but has attempted to accelerate the pace of social change to the point where they are now talking about obliterating the distinctions between male and female completely, so that a male can become a female, a female can become a male, and if you disagree, then you're a bigot.
00:39:16.000And Thomas Edsel is sitting there going, why do these conservatives think that people are tearing down institutions?
00:39:20.000Why would people think that the left is trying to destroy it?
00:39:23.000Because Greta Thunberg had a piece over the weekend in which she talked about how basically the West was a series of colonialist, patriarchal, and racist institutions that needed to be torn out at the root to save us all from drowning, thanks to global warming.
00:39:37.000Maybe because one of the hottest political candidates on the 2020 scene is sitting there nodding while a reverend suggests to him that illegal aliens should be able to cross into the United States on a moral level because Texas used to belong to Mexico.
00:39:52.000Like, this is not an evidence-free situation.
00:39:55.000It's not that the right is simply making things up about what the left thinks.
00:39:59.000The left has been fairly clear about what it thinks on a variety of these issues.
00:40:03.000And it's particularly true of cultural elites.
00:40:05.000Now where Edsel is right is that if you ask mainstream liberals, if you ask most people who are constituents, Constituents, what they think of America, I still think that most quote-unquote mainstream liberals believe that America is a great place.
00:40:17.000By polling data, this is true, by the way.
00:40:19.000If you ask most mainstream liberals whether they believe that capitalism is a good thing, most will still say yes.
00:40:24.000If you ask them whether they believe in the American flag and apple pie and motherhood, they will say yes.
00:40:28.000But the elites in the democratic institutions, in the higher echelons of media, in the halls of power, increasingly they don't believe this.
00:40:35.000And on Twitter, they certainly don't believe this.
00:40:38.000The media elite on Twitter who have created this woke echo chamber for themselves, they don't agree with this.
00:40:55.000And he suggests that Attorney General William Barr, who warned in a speech at Notre Dame on October 11th that secular liberalism had unleashed, quote, licentiousness, the unbridled pursuit of personal appetites at the expense of the common good.
00:41:06.000He said that there was a glaring incongruity.
00:41:08.000How could Barr possibly fail to recognize there is no better example of a man in unbridled pursuit of his own appetites than his boss?
00:41:37.000But the right properly sees Trump as a bulwark against the left's wholesale onslaught on these values themselves.
00:41:44.000The fact that Trump doesn't abide by them on a personal level, or maybe even care about some of those values on a personal level, does not mean that he is not a tool to stop the left in its ongoing drive to destroy fundamental basic institutions.
00:41:55.000But Thomas Edsel says, the forces of secularism press on with even greater militancy that the message that Barr is putting out.
00:42:04.000It's part of a renewed drive by social conservatives to demonize liberal elites.
00:42:08.000This theme underpins the new book by Mary Eberstadt, a senior research fellow at the Faith and Reason Institute, Primal Screams, How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics.
00:42:16.000The alterations of traditional family structure and the social order brought forth by the sexual revolution, Eberstadt writes, have simultaneously rained down destruction on the natural habitat of the human animal, with radical results we are only beginning to understand.
00:42:28.000The assault on liberal elites also dominates why liberalism failed by Patrick Deneen, and the words of Robert George, professor of jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton, He says in practice many if not most liberals are as deeply disturbed by family dysfunction as conservatives, but they are not ranting about it.
00:42:47.000Instead of promoting the kind of anarchy described by Barr and others on the right, scholars on the left now acknowledge that the sexual revolution and personal autonomy movement had significant costs as well as notable gains.
00:42:57.000Well I'm not seeing that from a lot of folks on the political left, are you?
00:43:00.000I'm sure there are scholars who have come out and pointed out that, oh yes, it seems that when we completely wrecked the ideal of the family back in the 1950s and 60s and suggested, as third-wave feminists did, that family situations were mini-concentration camps.
00:43:14.000That is a direct paraphrase, if there is such a thing.
00:43:17.000It's an actual paraphrase of feminist literature.
00:43:22.000Now they're coming around to the idea that maybe that was damaging?
00:43:27.000What you hear from the left is that conservatives, evil Republicans, they want to bring us back to those dysfunctional, leave-it-to-beaver family ideals of the 1950s.
00:43:39.000In a 2015 study, Pew, a liberal think tank, reported the percentage of children under 18 living with two parents in their first marriage fell from 73% in 1960 to 46% in 2014.
00:43:51.000Yes, but the fact that Pew reported it, and it's a liberal think tank, does not change the fact that it was liberals who drove that change in the first place!
00:44:00.000And then he says there's the fact that it is well-educated, often secular, liberal elites, so detested by social conservatives, who are reviving the traditional two-parent family, with declining divorce rates and a commitment to combined forces to invest in their children.
00:44:12.000Okay, well, there is a correlation between economic success, if this is the point, between economic success and living in a stable two-parent household, and creating stable two-parent households for your children.
00:44:24.000But Charles Murray wrote a very famous book called Coming Apart, in which he talked about how denizens of sort of rich, liberal, elite areas were preaching values entirely at odds from the lifestyles they were living, and how this was bleeding down to the population.
00:44:39.000So Edsel tries to make the case that we all agree that families are good.
00:44:43.000We all agree on basic social principles.
00:44:45.000And conservatives are crazy to think that the left is pushing on this stuff.
00:44:49.000And then, in the same newspaper, they'll talk about how drag queens are going to take down Trump.
00:44:53.000How drag queens' story hour is going to fix America.
00:44:56.000About how males can be females and females can be males, and we need to reset the standards of what constitutes bigotry in the United States.
00:45:03.000About how those who suggest that traditional family is in fact superior to non-traditional family, in terms of both the effects on children and the effects on the spouses, that if you point this out, you're a bigot.
00:45:14.000Again, I wish that Edsel's world were the reality.
00:45:17.000I wish that Edsel were the leader of the Democratic Party.
00:46:03.000But the fact is that Joe Biden is being derided by members of his own party For being too old, out of touch, his...
00:46:12.000His slogan in Iowa has been no more malarkey.
00:46:15.000He's on what he calls his no more malarkey tour, and he's being mocked for all of that because he's supposedly out of touch.
00:46:21.000To be in touch means to call Michael Harriot over at The Root and basically apologize for having rational viewpoints on inequality in America, so long as it pleases Michael Harriot.
00:46:30.000The unwoke thing to do is to be a fan of Joe Biden, who seems to be a sort of fan of traditional Americanism, even if he has been an agent of, I would say, Radical social change in a variety of areas.
00:46:44.000So Biden is perceived as fading, but his popularity among the Democratic base, honestly, I see that sort of as a hopeful sign for the fact that there are a lot of Democrats who don't believe in the more radical agenda of the Democratic Party.
00:46:55.000Unfortunately, he is a bad vessel for this movement.
00:46:58.000And so you end up with Joe Biden talking about hairy legs on the campaign trail.
00:47:02.000And by the way, you know, I sit on the stand and it get hot.
00:47:06.000I got a lot of, I got hairy legs that turn that, that, that, that, that, that turn blonde in the sun.
00:47:15.000And the kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down.
00:47:19.000So it was straight and then watch the hair come back up again.
00:47:34.000It's not going so great for the old guard Democratic Party, but at least Biden's durability as a candidate, that is mostly reliant on the Edsel point of view, which again, I hope wins out.
00:47:42.000Okay, now, we are approaching, unfortunately, the end of the show, but I would be remiss if I did not sound off on this insane interview between Molly Jongfast, who has become just insufferable.
00:47:54.000If she wasn't already, she's just insufferable.
00:47:57.000Alright, let's talk about somebody with Trump Derangement Syndrome.
00:47:59.000She has a piece in the Daily Beast today.
00:48:02.000Now, Lisa Page is best known as the person who is an FBI lawyer schtupping Peter Strzok, and the two of them were texting each other about how much they hated Trump, basically.
00:48:10.000Trump has used this as a talking point in his campaign, pointing out that there are members of the so-called Deep State who are out to get him from the very beginning.
00:48:18.000Well, she has now come out and done an interview, and Mollie Jung Fast's interview with her is just absolutely fawning.
00:48:25.000She says it's not that often that you interview a subject who has no interest in being famous.
00:48:29.000But recently, I did just that when I sat down with Lisa Page the week before Thanksgiving in my hotel room in Washington, D.C.
00:48:35.000Page, of course, is the former FBI lawyer whose text message exchanges with Agent Peter struck that belittled Donald Trump and expressed fear at his possible victory became international news.
00:48:43.000They were hijacked by Trump to fuel his deep state conspiracy.
00:48:47.000For nearly two years since her name first made the papers, she's been publicly silent.
00:48:51.000I asked her why she was willing to talk now.
00:48:53.000Honestly, his demeaning fake orgasm was really the straw that broke the camel's back, she says.
00:48:57.000The president called out her name as he acted out an orgasm in front of thousands of people at a Minneapolis rally on October 11th.
00:49:03.000Here's what it looked like when Trump supposedly demeaned her by faking an orgasm, which, again, I don't know what your orgasms sound like, but this is a weird take on an orgasm if this is supposedly an orgasm.
00:50:23.000Matt Damon and Christian Bale, two of our best actors.
00:50:26.000And it is based on the Ford attempt in the mid-60s to win Le Mans, which is the 24-hour race.
00:50:34.000The way it works, by the way, it's not one driver for 24 hours.
00:50:36.000It is one car that is raced for 24 hours, which means that it has to be a pretty durable piece of machinery.
00:50:42.000And the entire movie is basically about Ford attempting to overcome Ferrari and the entrepreneurial and artistic spirit of individuals who are attempting to do something cool, which is really what the movie is about.
00:50:53.000You want to talk about movies that are really in praise of capitalism?
00:50:56.000This is a movie that is basically in praise of capitalism, even though it tries to make the corporate higher-ups the villains of the piece.
00:52:58.000It has been turning into a junk heap because it is a liberal city.
00:53:00.000It is a horribly, horribly governed city.
00:53:03.000And so whenever they talk about glittering emblems of inequality, you might want to look to, I don't know, the state and local government, which have been dominated by Democrats basically since I was a teenager.
00:53:13.000Anyway, the New York Times says, There's no end to the glittering emblems of privilege in the city.
00:53:18.000Affluent families scramble for coveted spots in fancy kindergartens.
00:53:21.000And up in the hills of Bel Air, where a sprawling estate just hit the market for a record $225 million, lush trees line the streets, providing welcome relief from punishing heat.
00:53:30.000They say the sun has always been in the draw of L.A., but these days, shade is increasingly seen as a precious commodity as the crises of climate change and inequality converge.
00:53:40.000See, because they didn't plant a lot of trees in heavily urban areas, which happens to be true of every heavily urban area basically in the United States.
00:53:47.000I mean, if you walk down the middle of Midtown Manhattan, not a lot of shade happening on those streets either.
00:54:46.000It's just... Yes, it is better to be rich than poor.
00:54:51.000This has always been true for all of human history.
00:54:54.000Pointing out that fact does not recommend a solution, nor does it suggest that the fact that it is better to be rich than poor means that the problem itself is that there are rich people and people who are less rich.
00:55:04.000The problem is, how do we get people to rise from poverty?
00:55:07.000Not that somebody has a $225 million estate in Bel Air, but how do we make life better for the people in downtown?
00:55:14.000Folks in LA keep thinking if they tax that $225 million estate, magically life in downtown becomes better.
00:55:20.000By the way, the only thing that's made downtown better in recent history has been public-private projects done with literally tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars in private money in cooperation with the city of Los Angeles.
00:55:32.000But everything is an inequality issue.
00:55:34.000When you boil down everything to inequality, Basically, the New York Times is a drunk looking for the car keys under the lamp.
00:55:43.000The proverbial drunk looking for the car keys under the lamp.
00:55:46.000Is that if they're not there, then it must be they don't exist?
00:55:49.000You're only looking where the light is?
00:55:51.000Well, for them, everything exists in the light of inequality.
00:55:55.000And therefore, if you're worried about shade, that's not a problem with bad city planning.
00:55:58.000That's not a problem with bad city governance.
00:56:00.000That's a problem that there are some rich people and some poor people.
00:56:52.000A Muslim terrorist goes on a rampage, climate activists admit environmentalism isn't about the environment, and Bernie Sanders calls Christianity un-American.
00:57:01.000We examine what all these three stories have in common, that all human conflict is religious.