The Ben Shapiro Show - Can Democrats Scold Their Way To Glory? | Ep. 855

00:00:00.000 We examine the brand new economic report.

00:00:02.000 Democrats say Americans are the problem, so vote Democrat.

00:00:05.000 And President Trump clings to his story about Hurricane Dorian and plays with Sharpies.

00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:10.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:11.000 All righty, we have a lot to get to today.

00:00:18.000 There is a new study out about the collapse of marriage, and it suggests that economics has something to do with that.

00:00:24.000 I think economics does have something to do with it, but I think the problem goes a lot deeper.

00:00:27.000 We'll get to that a little bit later on in the show.

00:00:29.000 We will also be getting to President Trump's bizarre fixation with how correct he was about the storm path of a storm that didn't go anywhere remotely near where he said it was going to go.

00:00:40.000 Who cares?

00:00:41.000 Why are we still on this?

00:00:42.000 Well, because the president doesn't let those sorts of things go.

00:00:44.000 We'll get to all that in just one second.

00:00:46.000 First, we begin with the August jobs report.

00:00:48.000 So according to the New York Times, the United States added 130,000 jobs in August.

00:00:52.000 The unemployment rate remains at 3.7%, meaning that the economy remains strong.

00:00:57.000 The figures show that the economy continues to add jobs despite the trade war and a global showdown.

00:01:01.000 What we are seeing is a trend line that looks like it is headed down since the beginning of 2019 in terms of job growth.

00:01:07.000 We've had a couple of very bad months.

00:01:08.000 We had February, which is a very bad month, and then we had a couple of months later, looks like May was a very bad month.

00:01:14.000 We've had some okay months mixed in, but overall, it looks as though the economy is slowing.

00:01:20.000 Now, it doesn't mean recession is around the corner.

00:01:22.000 It does mean That the economy is going to be slower, it looks like, headed into 2020, which of course is not great news for President Trump.

00:01:28.000 According to the New York Times, the American economy turned in a decent performance last month as businesses grew more cautious about hiring, according to the Labor Department's monthly employment report released on Friday.

00:01:38.000 About 25,000 of the jobs added were temporary position for the 2020 census.

00:01:42.000 When you remove those jobs, then the job growth looks even slower.

00:01:46.000 Now, does this mean we are in economic spiral?

00:01:49.000 Doom is upon us.

00:01:50.000 No, it means that a lot of people have a lot of trepidation about the future of the economy and they're not doing a lot of long term hiring right now in the expectation that sometime in 2020, 2021, we may see an economic downturn.

00:02:00.000 And that's not a surprise because we've been seeing those indicators systemically coming from China, coming from Europe.

00:02:05.000 For several months at this point, along with consumer spending, the labor market has been a source of stability for the economy, even as several gauges have turned downward and trade anxieties have mounted.

00:02:14.000 But in August, the private sector added 96,000 jobs, weaker than the pace so far in 2019, and an indication that businesses are becoming a little more reluctant to add headcount.

00:02:22.000 The report also revised down job gains for June and July by a total of 20,000, which, you know, going back and having to revise down numbers is never great.

00:02:29.000 Paul Ashworth is the chief U.S.

00:02:31.000 economist at Capital Economics.

00:02:33.000 He said the headline number in August was flattered by the big increase in census hiring.

00:02:37.000 He says even allowing for that, there's been a clear slowdown in trend employment growth, with the three-month and six-month averages both at around 150,000 now, down from about 230,000 a year ago.

00:02:48.000 But there were positive signs elsewhere in the report.

00:02:50.000 The labor force participation rate did rise to 63.2% from 63%, suggesting that workers who had been on the sidelines are gradually being lured back into the labor market.

00:02:59.000 And average hourly earnings did increase by 0.4%, which is actually more than analysts had expected, which suggests, again, when you have wage increases, that suggests that the demand for labor is exceeding the supply for labor by 0.4% in terms of wages.

00:03:13.000 The length of the average work week also increased after falling in July.

00:03:18.000 So there's some mixed numbers right now.

00:03:21.000 It looks like the economy is sort of on the brink of something, right?

00:03:24.000 It could be on the brink of another slow growth cycle.

00:03:27.000 It could be on the brink of a slow downturn.

00:03:29.000 It could be on the brink of a recession over the course of the next couple of years.

00:03:32.000 Businesses don't know, and so they're holding back their money.

00:03:35.000 A good piece of news for President Trump.

00:03:37.000 That economic report is not bad for Trump.

00:03:39.000 It's okay for Trump.

00:03:40.000 It's just not spectacular for Trump.

00:03:42.000 A good piece of news for President Trump is that the markets were up pretty significantly yesterday.

00:03:47.000 According to the New York Times, President Trump's decision to renew talks with China in the coming weeks sent financial markets soaring on Thursday As investors seized on the development as a sign that both sides could still find a way out of an economically damaging trade war.

00:03:58.000 The rally sent the S&P 500 up more than 1%, underscoring just how much financial markets are subsisting on hopes and fears about the trade war.

00:04:06.000 Shares fell through most of August as Mr. Trump escalated his fight with China and imposed more tariffs only to snap back on Thursday after news of the talks.

00:04:13.000 But expectations for progress remain low.

00:04:15.000 Many in the US and China see the best outcome as a continued stalemate that would prevent a collapse in relations.

00:04:21.000 Before the 2020 election.

00:04:23.000 And that is probably the most likely outcome because the fact is that the United States is not going to cut a long-term trade deal with China, not under the current conditions in which China is a serious geopolitical enemy of the United States.

00:04:34.000 And characterizing China this way is not a partisan affair.

00:04:38.000 The left in the United States is similarly beginning to recognize that China is a geopolitical threat to the United States and that harsh action is necessary. 0.50

00:04:46.000 Nicholas Kristof, who is a very left-leaning columnist for the New York Times, has a piece today talking about how China is ramping up its military presence around Taiwan, about how they've escalated their cyber attacks on Taiwan, about how China is becoming more militant.

00:05:02.000 I mean, he even acknowledges that President Trump's policies on Taiwan are better than his predecessors.

00:05:08.000 I mean, this is Nicholas Kristof, who is no friend of Trump.

00:05:10.000 He says President Trump has generally been more supportive of Taiwan than his predecessors, and that's worked well so far, but this has to be done very carefully.

00:05:17.000 But he points out Beijing has been really attacking Taiwan's capabilities.

00:05:23.000 That China has been stepping up its military pressure by increasing patrols in the area, that they could hold military exercise in the area.

00:05:30.000 Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said, quote, we are very concerned.

00:05:33.000 He said one concern was that a slowing economy and other troubles in China might lead Xi to make trouble for Taiwan as a distraction.

00:05:40.000 This is the scenario that is constantly playing on the minds of the key decision makers on Taiwan, he said.

00:05:44.000 So what that means is that the most likely outcome is indeed some sort of stalemate in terms of the United States and China that allows for continued economic growth up through the 2020 election, although it won't be booming in the same way that it would be if we weren't in the middle of a trade war with one of our largest trading partners.

00:05:59.000 And again, I think there are very good reasons to get into a trade war with China based on China's aggression on 5G, based on their aggression in terms of their Belt and Road Project, based on their aggression in terms of naval presence in the South China Sea, and their aggression in Hong Kong, and their aggression against Taiwan.

00:06:14.000 Those are all good reasons for us to take a very skeptical view of relations with China overall.

00:06:18.000 We just have to acknowledge that that will Dampen growth a little bit going in more than a little bit, probably going into 2020.

00:06:25.000 Now, in just a second, we're going to talk about the vulnerability for Democrats, because right now would seem like a pretty good time for Democrats.

00:06:31.000 President Trump is not popular in terms of his overall approval rating.

00:06:35.000 The Democratic Party is seeing significant gains in the polls in states like Wisconsin and states like Texas.

00:06:42.000 Wouldn't this be a great time for the Democratic Party?

00:06:44.000 Well, they've got one problem, and that's they can't get out of their own way.

00:06:46.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:08:17.000 Why is it that the polls are not better for Democrats in terms of favorability?

00:08:22.000 And there's a shocking new YouGov poll, Economist YouGov poll, taken between September 1st and 3rd.

00:08:28.000 And it's kind of fascinating because what it shows is that both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders actually have lower favorability ratings than President Trump in the new YouGov poll.

00:08:38.000 Biden's favorable and unfavorables in this poll are 42% favorable, 51% unfavorable for a net negative 9.

00:08:43.000 Bernie's are 42 and 50 for a net negative 8.

00:08:44.000 negative nine.

00:08:45.000 Bernie's are 42 and 50 for a net negative eight.

00:08:48.000 Trump's are 46 and 52 for a net negative seven.

00:08:51.000 This is that's bizarre.

00:08:54.000 I mean, that is a bizarre result.

00:08:56.000 So why are Democrats not more popular?

00:08:59.000 Why are Democrats not more popular?

00:09:01.000 Like, Trump makes himself quite vulnerable.

00:09:05.000 As we will see, President Trump has a habit of stepping on his own, you know.

00:09:09.000 But, you know, the fact is that the Democrats are not making themselves popular.

00:09:12.000 Well, one reason they're not making themselves popular is their pitch seems to be something like this. 1.00

00:09:17.000 Americans, you suck. 1.00

00:09:19.000 You're terrible. 1.00

00:09:20.000 There are certain groups of Americans that are probably okay. 0.98

00:09:24.000 They've been historically victimized. 1.00

00:09:26.000 But all the rest of you, you suck. 1.00

00:09:28.000 And even the ones who are members of groups that are historically victimized, let's be real about this, you kind of suck also. 1.00

00:09:34.000 Because after all, you are consuming the world's resources. 1.00

00:09:38.000 After all, you're believers in cruel, horrible religion. 1.00

00:09:42.000 After all, you're people who are hypocrites and terrible. 1.00

00:09:46.000 The new Puritans all are in the Democratic Party. 1.00

00:09:49.000 It really is an impressive thing.

00:09:51.000 I've been knocked before for being, quote unquote, a religious fundamentalist, which is always kind of hilarious to me, considering I wrote an entire book about the necessity for balance between religion and faith and how they support each other and buttress each other rather than splitting everything apart.

00:10:06.000 But the case that fundamentalism lies on the right is belied by the religious fundamentalism of the left about politics.

00:10:14.000 The way that the Democrats talk about politics these days, it's sinners in the hands of an angry God.

00:10:18.000 I mean, we have full Jonathan Edwards talk about modern American politics.

00:10:22.000 You Americans have sinned and you must atone. 0.95

00:10:27.000 And this is how you end up with a seven hour climate change town hall in which the Democrats claim that like religious figures of old, they are going to ban all the things.

00:10:35.000 They're going to set up their own set of commandments and they're going to ban all the things.

00:10:38.000 Here are Democrats just two nights ago talking about how all the things will be banned, all of them.

00:10:43.000 Let's talk about offshore drilling for oil.

00:10:45.000 Would you ban it?

00:10:46.000 We will transition off of fossil fuels.

00:10:46.000 Yes.

00:10:49.000 Natural gas, coal, oil.

00:10:52.000 What about the export of fossil fuels from the United States?

00:10:54.000 Would you ban that?

00:10:55.000 Absolutely, we must get to that point.

00:10:57.000 There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.

00:10:59.000 I'm in favor of a carbon-free America.

00:11:02.000 In my administration, we're not going to build any new nuclear power plants.

00:11:06.000 We set out the rules for what kind of coal-burning plants.

00:11:12.000 No one's going to build another coal-burning plant.

00:11:13.000 We've got to shut the ones down we have.

00:11:15.000 We're going to end factory farming because that is not only, that is a danger to the environment and to climate change.

00:11:23.000 We're going to ban all the things, all the things that must be banned.

00:11:26.000 But they go further than this.

00:11:28.000 The most fundamentalist Democrat in the race, and this is a big shock to me, it really is.

00:11:32.000 Because you didn't start off his candidacy this way.

00:11:34.000 The angriest dude on the Democratic side of the aisle, the woke scold of woke scold, is actually Pete Buttigieg.

00:11:40.000 So Pete Buttigieg started off this race, and he was a much more interesting candidate.

00:11:43.000 He was this sort of interesting purple state governor.

00:11:46.000 He's in Indiana.

00:11:48.000 He's trying to reach across the aisles of Republicans.

00:11:50.000 He says he'll eat at Chick-fil-A.

00:11:51.000 He knows a lot about issues.

00:11:53.000 He can talk really well.

00:11:55.000 He didn't seem like the kind of guy who is going to go full on, I'm going to lecture you like an angry schoolmarm.

00:12:02.000 It seemed more like an Elizabeth Warren candidacy.

00:12:04.000 And Warren has that, but Buttigieg has it in spades.

00:12:05.000 I mean, it's pretty impressive.

00:12:07.000 So Pete Buttigieg goes even further.

00:12:08.000 It's not just that he, like many other Democrats, wants to ban all the things.

00:12:12.000 He wants to blame you.

00:12:14.000 You're part of the problem, you see.

00:12:15.000 You.

00:12:16.000 I mean, literally you.

00:12:18.000 Here is Pete Buttigieg on CNN.

00:12:20.000 Who is now going to lecture you on all the things that you do wrong because you are an imperfect human being and thus must be blamed for all of the problems on earth.

00:12:29.000 Right now, we're in a mode where we're, I think we're thinking about it mostly through the perspective of guilt, you know, from using a straw to eating a burger.

00:12:37.000 Am I part of the problem?

00:12:38.000 In a certain way, yes.

00:12:39.000 But the most exciting thing is that we can all be part of the solution.

00:12:42.000 In a certain way, yes.

00:12:43.000 In a certain way, you are part of the problem.

00:12:44.000 But we can all be part of the solution.

00:12:46.000 I'm offering you a path to repentance.

00:12:47.000 Just follow my political agenda. 0.96

00:12:49.000 So you see, you're a sinner. 0.97

00:12:50.000 Repentance comes in the form of voting for me. 0.99

00:12:52.000 Right?

00:12:53.000 It's like old school.

00:12:55.000 Talk about Catholic indulgences, right? 0.86

00:12:57.000 Like you sin and now you must pay this indulgence to the church and then everything will be fine.

00:13:02.000 And this is how the Democrats see that you vote for higher taxes and you have partaken of the indulgence.

00:13:07.000 You acknowledge your white privilege, you have partaken of the indulgence.

00:13:10.000 And Buttigieg does this over and over and over again.

00:13:13.000 So here's Pete Buttigieg talking about Christians, right?

00:13:16.000 So it's not just that you are part of the problem if you eat hamburgers or you use straws.

00:13:19.000 Also, Pete Buttigieg is going to lecture you about religions.

00:13:21.000 When I say that Democrats have become the religious fundamentalists, Pete Buttigieg is speaking the language of religious fundamentalism.

00:13:27.000 He's just doing it from the left right here.

00:13:30.000 For as long as there has been faith and as long as there has been politics, there have been different understandings on the right thing to do and how these things fit together.

00:13:37.000 But for the party and the movement known for beating other people on the head with their faith or their interpretation of their faith, it makes no sense to literally vote to take food away from the hungry, to essentially be practicing the very thing to essentially be practicing the very thing that not just a Christian scriptural tradition, but so many others tell us we're not supposed to do in terms of harming other people.

00:14:05.000 And I do think there's going to be a reckoning over that.

00:14:08.000 As it turns out, it's not Mayor Pete, it's Pastor Pete.

00:14:10.000 There will be a reckoning.

00:14:12.000 God's wrath will descend on you if you don't vote for Pete Buttigieg and his policies.

00:14:18.000 You must feel ashamed.

00:14:20.000 You must be scolded.

00:14:22.000 And lest you think I'm exaggerating this, listen to Pete Buttigieg talk about global warming.

00:14:26.000 He's talking about this.

00:14:27.000 He was on, I guess, late night TV and he was talking about this specifically in the context of religion.

00:14:33.000 Again, in the same way that you might hear your preacher talk about God being unhappy with the United States on abortion, but he says it's about global warming.

00:14:40.000 So you're going to have to explain to me the distinction.

00:14:43.000 Environmental stewardship isn't just about taking care of the planet.

00:14:46.000 It's taking care of our neighbor.

00:14:47.000 We're supposed to love our neighbor as ourselves.

00:14:49.000 And the biggest problem with climate change isn't just that it's going to hurt the planet.

00:14:53.000 I mean, in some way, shape, or form, the planet's still going to be here.

00:14:55.000 It's that we are hurting people.

00:14:57.000 People who are alive right now and people who will be born in the future.

00:15:01.000 The way I see it, I don't imagine that God's going to let us off the hook.

00:15:06.000 for abusing future generations any more than you would be off the hook for harming somebody right next to you.

00:15:12.000 And with climate change, we're doing both.

00:15:13.000 Pastor Pete, wow.

00:15:15.000 But don't worry, guys.

00:15:16.000 He is woke, so this is okay, right?

00:15:18.000 He's allowed to speak the language of religious fundamentalism and scold you and make you feel guilty and try and shame you into the precepts of his political religion by invoking God.

00:15:26.000 And he does it over and over and over again.

00:15:28.000 He did it again last night.

00:15:29.000 He talked about the Bible welcomes the stranger.

00:15:32.000 If any Republican invoked the Bible as much on the campaign trail as Pastor Pete does, then they would rightly be seen as a religious fanatic trying to invoke God and the Bible on a routine basis in order to push their policies.

00:15:45.000 Pete Buttigieg does it and the left is like, why?

00:15:48.000 Because the left has its own religion.

00:15:50.000 It's usually in the form of secular politics.

00:15:53.000 What's fun for them and sort of pranky for them is the fact that Pete Buttigieg is trying to take God and the Bible and then use it against the very people who typically cite God and biblical values as the basis for their own root values.

00:16:04.000 So the left seems to see Pastor Pete as some sort of a mole inside the religious camp.

00:16:10.000 But the truth is that he's more of a troll.

00:16:12.000 But that trollery is not in fact funny and it's not interesting.

00:16:17.000 And it is part of a broader left-wing viewpoint, which is that everybody has to be shamed into doing what you want, and they should be shamed by the forces of corporate homogeneity.

00:16:28.000 They should be forced to do what you want by the force of government, if that can be achieved.

00:16:33.000 Here's Pastor Pete again, citing the Bible.

00:16:36.000 As we see some of these figures on the religious right embrace behavior, and I think policies, but definitely behavior, that flies in the face, not just of my values, but of their own, then it reminds me of all of the parts of scripture where there's a lot about hypocrisy.

00:16:52.000 And I think we have an obligation to call that out and to speak about how, you know, not just the Christian faith tradition that I belong to, but pretty much any religious or non-religious moral tradition I've ever heard of, tells us that it's really important how we treat the least among us, the most vulnerable, the marginalized, that we are obliged to serve the poor and heal the sick and clothe the naked and welcome the stranger.

00:17:13.000 Stranger, by the way, being another word for immigrant. 1.00

00:17:16.000 And that what we're seeing right now in the White House is the opposite. 0.99

00:17:18.000 See, you're a bad Christian. 1.00

00:17:20.000 So Mayor Pete's pitch as the sort of id of the Democratic Party now, which is amazing, is that you are a bad Christian if you disagree with him, that you have sinned if you eat hamburgers or use straws. 0.99

00:17:32.000 This is the new religion. 0.96

00:17:33.000 That you will face a reckoning if you don't agree with him on global warming.

00:17:36.000 And that if you disagree with him on immigration, it's because you have offended God as represented by Pastor Pete or Pope Pete.

00:17:44.000 It's pretty impressive stuff.

00:17:45.000 As I say, there's an easy indulgence that you can receive from Pastor Pete, and that is simply to support the Democratic Party agenda.

00:17:52.000 And you see this over and over among actual top-notch Democrats.

00:17:55.000 What they will do is they say, well, I've paid my indulgence, don't you see?

00:17:57.000 I vote Democrat.

00:17:58.000 I support.

00:17:59.000 Carbon taxes that will never be implemented.

00:18:01.000 I support bans on various things that will never be banned.

00:18:05.000 I support all these things that will never... That is my indulgence.

00:18:08.000 I'm not going to do it myself.

00:18:09.000 I'm not actually going to undertake doing any of these things myself.

00:18:11.000 Instead, I'm going to mouth support for these broader principles that buy me off We'll get to all of that in just one second.

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00:19:42.000 Okay, so, again, the beautiful thing about being a Democrat is that to partake in the religion does not require that you actually abide by its dictates.

00:19:50.000 You just have to mouth support for its dictates.

00:19:52.000 And that's how you end up with Tucker Carlson asking Bill de Blasio, if you're so worried about climate change, why are you taking an SUV to the gym?

00:19:57.000 And de Blasio has no answer.

00:19:59.000 How can you take an SUV to the gym and back every day and say that you're really worried about climate change?

00:20:06.000 I know it's a petty question, but it's bugged me for years.

00:20:10.000 It's a Chrysler Pacifica.

00:20:10.000 It's a Pacifica.

00:20:11.000 It's a hybrid electric.

00:20:13.000 It's not an SUV, first of all.

00:20:17.000 Oh, it's got a gas engine in it.

00:20:19.000 I come from a neighborhood.

00:20:20.000 I go back to my neighborhood all the time.

00:20:22.000 It's the way to me that I stay connected to people, that I am able to have a routine that allows me to be 24-7 the best mayor I can be.

00:20:31.000 But should the climate have to pay the cost for that?

00:20:33.000 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:20:34.000 It's a few miles.

00:20:35.000 Oh, come on! 0.99

00:20:36.000 And Tucker, here's the great part about all this.

00:20:38.000 What do you mean?

00:20:40.000 Oh, come on! 0.99

00:20:40.000 I'm going to use that next time I get lectured about climate change. 0.99

00:20:43.000 Oh, come on! 0.99

00:20:44.000 And by the way, Bernie Sanders does the same exact thing as de Blasio, right?

00:20:47.000 The oh-come-on routine.

00:20:48.000 But it's okay for the left, because Bill de Blasio cares, don't you see?

00:20:51.000 He cares.

00:20:52.000 And it's the caring that matters.

00:20:53.000 It's the lecturing that matters.

00:20:54.000 It's being part of the woke-skulled brigade. 0.99

00:20:56.000 So you're either going to be the target of the woke-skulled brigade, or you're going to be part of the woke-skulled brigade.

00:21:01.000 You're either with us, or you're against us.

00:21:04.000 And that's going to become a very unpopular agenda.

00:21:07.000 I can already see it among young people.

00:21:08.000 I think there are a lot of generations here who are looking around and going, this is not a world I wish to occupy, where I am seen as either a part of the woke-skulled brigade and the woke-skulled religious fervor, or I'm their target.

00:21:22.000 And you're starting to see this have blowback.

00:21:23.000 It's having blowback in the world of comedy with Dave Chappelle and people like Aziz Ansari.

00:21:27.000 It's having blowback in Hollywood.

00:21:28.000 There's a fascinating piece in the New York Times today called Why I Quit the Writer's Room by a guy named Walter Mosley.

00:21:34.000 I never heard of Walter Mosley.

00:21:35.000 It turns out that Walter Mosley is a novelist, screenwriter, and executive producer and writer on FX's Snowfall and the author, most recently, of Elements of Fiction.

00:21:43.000 He has a piece today all about him quitting a writer's room because the corporate woke scolds have now decided they're going to cram down the religious rules of the woke scold left.

00:21:54.000 Because here's how the system works.

00:21:55.000 A bunch of woke scolds get together and they decide that they're going to out people and hurt people and damage people's careers and damage corporations based on bad old tweets.

00:22:04.000 You have sinned and you must repent.

00:22:06.000 And the corporations cave because the corporations are risk averse.

00:22:09.000 And so they actually take the woke scold agenda and then they enshrine it in corporate bylaws.

00:22:14.000 They enshrine it in their HR practices.

00:22:16.000 And then it turns out that there's no flexibility in those practices.

00:22:19.000 So when somebody who's a member of the left sins against The hierarchy that the left itself has created, they must pay.

00:22:26.000 And this is exactly what happened to Walter Mosley.

00:22:29.000 He says, earlier this year, I had just finished with the Snowfall writer's room for the season when I took a similar job on a different show at a different network.

00:22:35.000 I'd been in the new room for a few weeks when I got a call from Human Resources.

00:22:38.000 A pleasant sounding young man said, Mr. Mosley, it has been reported that you use the N-word in the writer's room.

00:22:43.000 I replied, I am the N-word in the writer's room. 0.91

00:22:46.000 He's a black guy.

00:22:48.000 He said very nicely that I could not use that word except in a script.

00:22:51.000 I could write it, but I could not say it.

00:22:52.000 Me, a man whose people in America have been, among other things, slandered by many words.

00:22:57.000 But I could no longer use that particular word to describe the environs of my experience.

00:23:01.000 I have to stop with the forward thrust of this story to say that I had indeed said the word in the room.

00:23:06.000 I hadn't called anyone it.

00:23:08.000 I just told a story about a cop who explained to me on the streets of LA that he stopped all n-words in patty neighborhoods and all patties in n-word neighborhoods because they were usually up to no good. 0.99

00:23:17.000 I was telling a true story as I remembered it.

00:23:20.000 Someone in the room, I have no idea who, called HR and said that my use of the word made them uncomfortable, and the HR rep called to inform me that such language was unacceptable to my employers.

00:23:29.000 I couldn't use that word in common parlance, even to express an experience I lived through.

00:23:33.000 There I was, a black man in America, who shares with millions of others the history of racism, and more often than not, treated it as subhuman.

00:23:39.000 If addressed at all, that history had to be rendered in words my employers regarded as acceptable.

00:23:44.000 There I was being chastised for criticising the word that oppressed me and mine for centuries.

00:23:49.000 As far as I know, the word is in the dictionary.

00:23:51.000 As far as I know, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights assure me of both the freedom of speech and the pursuit of happiness.

00:23:57.000 Hey, he is right.

00:23:58.000 And you can see the political awakening beginning.

00:24:00.000 The Democratic Party is trying to formalize the rules of political correctness, implement them from above, in both governmental and corporate terms, and people are beginning to buck against that system.

00:24:10.000 You wonder why the Democrats aren't able to pull ahead of a very unpopular president like President Trump?

00:24:14.000 This would be the reason.

00:24:16.000 This would be the reason.

00:24:17.000 They've set up a standard that is unlivable, even for folks on the left.

00:24:21.000 I'll give you another example of this in just one second from the University of Alabama.

00:24:25.000 First, let's talk about September.

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00:24:31.000 You probably weren't aware of that.

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00:24:36.000 Well, now that you're aware, why don't you do something about it and stop wasting time?

00:24:40.000 Just go be an adult! 0.99

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00:24:44.000 And this is where life insurance comes in.

00:24:46.000 But 40% of Americans don't actually have life insurance.

00:24:48.000 Why? 0.98

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00:25:38.000 Okay, another example of the woke, scold, left standard coming back to bite them directly in the ass. 1.00

00:25:43.000 So there's this guy named Jamie Riley. 1.00

00:25:45.000 He's the University of Alabama Assistant Vice President and Dean of Students.

00:25:48.000 He has now resigned his position on Thursday after less than seven months on the job.

00:25:52.000 Why?

00:25:52.000 Well, Breitbart News published an article detailing images of past tweets from Riley in which he criticized the American flag and made a connection between police and racism.

00:26:02.000 According to Jackson Fuentes, the press secretary for the University of Alabama Student Government Association, they confirmed that Riley is no longer working at the university.

00:26:09.000 Fuentes said, So yeah, that's true.

00:26:10.000 And we do wish him the best.

00:26:11.000 Apparently he resigned his position.

00:26:12.000 So yeah, that's true.

00:26:16.000 And we do wish him the best.

00:26:18.000 Apparently he resigned his position.

00:26:19.000 So what exactly did this professor actually tweet out?

00:26:24.000 He tweeted out back in 2017, September of 2017.

00:26:26.000 The American flag represents a systemic history of racism for my people.

00:26:30.000 Police are a part of that system.

00:26:32.000 Is it that hard to see the correlation?

00:26:34.000 And then he also tweeted, I'm baffled about how the first thing white people say is that's not racist when they can't even experience racism.

00:26:40.000 You have zero opinion.

00:26:42.000 Hashtag miss me with your privilege.

00:26:45.000 And then he also sent a tweet saying, are movies about slavery truly about educating the unaware or to remind black people of our place in society?

00:26:51.000 Okay, these are all radical tweets, right?

00:26:52.000 I mean, these are things that I disagree with.

00:26:53.000 I think they are morally wrong.

00:26:55.000 Should he lose his job as assistant vice president and dean of students because he has some old tweets that I find offensive?

00:27:02.000 I think the answer is no.

00:27:03.000 But the world the left has created is a world without forgiveness.

00:27:06.000 And if the right decides to apply those same rules to people on the left, well, then this is the world the left has created.

00:27:11.000 And I think more and more people are tired of these rules.

00:27:13.000 I think more and more people Believe that these rules are terrible, that they're bad for America, that they're bad for the country, that the woke scolding of the left is tiresome and annoying, and that Trump was the middle finger to that.

00:27:26.000 So if this becomes a battle between Pastor Pete and his schoolmarmish lecturing of you about your own personal morality, and Donald Trump and his freewheeling, I'll say anything, I don't really care.

00:27:37.000 The American people are not up for more Pastor Pete-ing.

00:27:40.000 And they're not.

00:27:40.000 They're not up for more shaming and guilting.

00:27:43.000 Not about things that they don't deserve to be shamed or guilted over, like believing in basic biblical precepts, or disagreeing with Mayor Pete over immigration policy, or wanting to see an actual plan for climate change that doesn't involve destroying the United States economy while China sails along on the shoals of carbon emissions.

00:27:59.000 And so I think that this is why the Democrats are having trouble with popularity.

00:28:02.000 Now, again, it's like this election, this 2020 election, is a game of hold my beer. 0.99

00:28:07.000 There's this meme online where it's like somebody's doing something stupid. 1.00

00:28:11.000 You're like, well, that that other person couldn't do something as stupid as that. 1.00

00:28:14.000 And the other person's like, well, hold my beer. 1.00

00:28:16.000 That's what's going on right now.

00:28:17.000 So Trump is constantly saying, tweeting things that damage himself.

00:28:22.000 And then the Democrats are like, hold my beer, let's do a seven hour climate change extravaganza where we talk about banning cows and air travel.

00:28:30.000 And then Trump is like, wait, no, you hold my beer.

00:28:34.000 And then he's like, you know what I'm gonna do?

00:28:35.000 I'm gonna do like a four-day controversy over whether I was originally right to have suggested that Hurricane Dorian might make landfall in Alabama.

00:28:43.000 You're like, wait, what?

00:28:44.000 Why is that a good idea?

00:28:46.000 Is that something we really have to do?

00:28:47.000 And the answer, according to Trump, is yes, because never back down, never compromise, never suggest that you could possibly have got nothing wrong.

00:28:53.000 Like, why couldn't Trump have just said, listen, got it wrong.

00:28:56.000 I was given information that Dorian might make landfall in Alabama.

00:28:59.000 I tweeted that out at the time.

00:29:00.000 It turns out it was wrong.

00:29:02.000 Listen to the National Weather Service.

00:29:03.000 Look how easy that was.

00:29:04.000 We solved the crisis in 15 seconds.

00:29:07.000 But President Trump's like, no, not gonna do that.

00:29:10.000 Not interested.

00:29:10.000 So he has now tweeted, about Hurricane Dorian repeatedly, repeatedly, right?

00:29:16.000 Because he is trying to suggest that he was always right when he was talking about the projected path of Hurricane Dorian.

00:29:24.000 This became a big controversy because there was a because President Trump did a press conference on September 4th, holding up a map of Hurricane Dorian, and it showed its projected storm path or possible storm path hitting Florida.

00:29:35.000 And he had tweeted out that it might hit Alabama, too.

00:29:37.000 So what did he do?

00:29:39.000 I mean, the supposition is that President Trump personally took a sharpie.

00:29:42.000 He loves sharpies.

00:29:44.000 He took a sharpie and he actually drew A larger storm path for the storm on the map.

00:29:51.000 Now, to me, this is funny because, look, human beings are flawed.

00:29:54.000 Human beings have foibles.

00:29:55.000 President Trump has plenty of them.

00:29:57.000 Am I really going to be, like, super offended that this man is very thin-skinned and arrogant and can't abide the fact that he made a mistake? 0.70

00:30:03.000 No. 1.00

00:30:03.000 I mean, like, if you don't know that by now, you haven't been watching closely enough or you're blind or you're stupid or whatever. 1.00

00:30:09.000 But the fact is, It's a little funny, isn't it? 1.00

00:30:19.000 The media decided to make this an all-out war.

00:30:22.000 How could Trump alter the hurricane map?

00:30:24.000 He's violated federal law!

00:30:25.000 Impeach! 1.00

00:30:26.000 It's like, oh my god, so he's, so now they're just throwing the beer back and forth.

00:30:30.000 They're both covered in beer.

00:30:31.000 It's like that scene at the beginning of Zoolander where everybody's shooting each other with gasoline and then somebody, we're just waiting for somebody to light the match at this point.

00:30:38.000 We're having a big gas fight.

00:30:39.000 And then we're just gonna light a match and everybody's gonna explode.

00:30:42.000 Because Trump's like, here, hold my beer.

00:30:44.000 And Democrats are like, here, hold our beer.

00:30:46.000 And now they're all covered in beer.

00:30:48.000 Everybody's covered in beer. 1.00

00:30:49.000 Okay, well, it's all so stupid and yet hilarious. 0.99

00:30:53.000 We'll talk about it in just one second. 0.99

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00:34:01.000 So as I say, President Trump, all he should be doing is the Donald Sutherland at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers face.

00:34:15.000 He should just be screaming and pointing at Democrats.

00:34:18.000 Instead, we get a week-long news cycle because he won't let go of the fact that he was not correct about the path of a hurricane that has already made landfall.

00:34:26.000 It turned the other way, dude.

00:34:27.000 But Trump won't let go of it.

00:34:28.000 He's like, just as I said, Alabama was originally projected to be hit.

00:34:32.000 The fake news denies it.

00:34:34.000 No, what they're saying is that you were informed that the hurricane was going to move, and then you put, with a sharpie, more of the hurricane going in the wrong direction, and then maintained that.

00:34:47.000 So, a couple things can be true.

00:34:49.000 One, the media are wildly overblowing this.

00:34:50.000 I mean, literally, members of the media are like, it's impeachable!

00:34:54.000 Doesn't this show how terrible he is?

00:34:55.000 I mean, it's a crisis, it's a crisis!

00:34:57.000 He took a sharpie and he put it on a map, and it's a crisis!

00:35:00.000 It's not a crisis.

00:35:01.000 Here's Chris Cuomo. 1.00

00:35:03.000 The dumber of the Cuomo brothers. 1.00

00:35:05.000 We're not allowed to call him Fredo because that's the F word. 0.99

00:35:07.000 Okay, but Chris Cuomo, he says that President Trump, he doesn't care about people dying in hurricanes.

00:35:13.000 He only cares about defending his silly claim about where the hurricane is going.

00:35:16.000 Yeah, you're right.

00:35:17.000 I'm sure that FEMA has suspended all resource allocation because Trump is using a Sharpie.

00:35:23.000 You are literally in the middle of a hurricane.

00:35:26.000 And this president is all about defending himself and his erroneous claim.

00:35:31.000 Fake maps, compelling people to justify his claims, and not really focusing on the people who should be getting help, which is what a leader does.

00:35:40.000 Oh, he's just fighting back.

00:35:43.000 Against what?

00:35:43.000 The truth?

00:35:45.000 Even if he were right and he was wrong.

00:35:48.000 You really think this was the time and this is the way for a president to act?

00:35:54.000 Okay, I mean, are we really gonna go down this path?

00:35:57.000 I love when the media are like, he's so unpresidential, it's unprecedented.

00:36:00.000 Yeah, we know.

00:36:01.000 We know, man!

00:36:02.000 I don't know what to tell you.

00:36:04.000 Welcome to reality, where Donald Trump is president.

00:36:06.000 Were you unaware that he's a man named Donald Trump who is also Donald Trump?

00:36:09.000 Are we supposed to be surprised by this?

00:36:11.000 Two things can be simultaneously true. 1.00

00:36:13.000 One, this is particularly stupid. 0.99

00:36:14.000 Two, the media making a big deal out of Donald Trump being Donald Trump is extraordinarily tiresome. 1.00

00:36:19.000 Because it's like me being surprised when my son fusses in the morning when I put on his shoes.

00:36:22.000 Yeah, it's really irritating.

00:36:23.000 Also, he does it every morning because he's three. 0.99

00:36:26.000 Like, if Donald Trump tweets random crap, have we not adjusted to the fact that the President of the United States is a man who tweets random crap? 0.99

00:36:32.000 Pretty sure we're all aware of this. 0.99

00:36:34.000 Trump, of course, keeps doubling down.

00:36:36.000 He says, But was that all?

00:36:37.000 No, that was not all!

00:36:38.000 of the hurricane in the early stages.

00:36:39.000 As you can see, almost all models predicted it to go through Florida and also hitting Georgia and Alabama.

00:36:44.000 I accept the fake news apologies.

00:36:46.000 But was that all?

00:36:47.000 No, that was not all.

00:36:48.000 There are nine tweets on this.

00:36:50.000 Alabama was going to be hit or grazed. 1.00

00:36:54.000 And then Hurricane Dorian took a different path, up along the East Coast.

00:36:57.000 The fake news knows this very well.

00:36:58.000 That's why they're the fake news.

00:37:00.000 But wait, he's not done.

00:37:01.000 In the early days of the hurricane, when it was predicted that Dorian would go through Miami or West Palm Beach, even before it reached the Bahamas, certain models strongly suggested that Alabama and Georgia would be hit as it made its way through Florida and to the Gulf.

00:37:14.000 Instead, it turned north and went up the coast, where it continues now.

00:37:17.000 In the one model through Florida, the great state Alabama would have been hit or grazed.

00:37:21.000 In the path it took, no.

00:37:22.000 Read my full FEMA statement.

00:37:24.000 What I said was accurate, all fake news in order to demean.

00:37:28.000 Okay, like, again, is this a grand allocation?

00:37:31.000 Two things can be true.

00:37:32.000 One, what Trump is saying about the original Storm Path warnings and all of that.

00:37:37.000 There's some truth to that.

00:37:38.000 Two, is this worth the allocation of resources?

00:37:41.000 Three, are the media really going crazy over Trump being Trump?

00:37:44.000 Like, Trump is Trump.

00:37:46.000 We're all aware.

00:37:46.000 We're all very much aware of the Trump being Trump.

00:37:49.000 Is this a smart thing to do, however?

00:37:51.000 No, it is not a smart thing to do.

00:37:53.000 And so I guess this game of hold my beer will continue until the end of time or until 2020 election, whichever comes first.

00:37:59.000 Meanwhile, there's a fascinating new study that I want to talk about today.

00:38:02.000 It's really a really interesting new study.

00:38:05.000 It's from researchers at Cornell University.

00:38:07.000 They say marriage rates have steadily declined over the past few decades.

00:38:10.000 Now researchers from Cornell University are offering up a possible explanation.

00:38:14.000 There just aren't as many economically attractive men for unmarried women to meet as there used to be.

00:38:19.000 Previous studies had attempted to answer why marriage rates are on the decline, but most focus solely on gender ratio discrepancies, as opposed to looking into the specific socioeconomic characteristics that make a particular man and woman a good match, according to studyfinds.org.

00:38:32.000 First, The study's authors examined data collected on recent marriages between 2007 and 2012 and 2013 and 2017.

00:38:39.000 These data were gathered as part of the American Community Survey's cumulative five-year marriage statistics.

00:38:45.000 That data was used to estimate the financial and socio-demographic characteristics of unmarried women's potential husbands.

00:38:52.000 By creating economic profiles that resembled real husbands who had married comparable women.

00:38:55.000 So in other words, they would take two women, one was single, one was married.

00:38:59.000 They would say the married woman tends to be married to this type of dude. 0.77

00:39:02.000 Are there a lot of that type of dude in the population for the single woman to be married to? 1.00

00:39:06.000 And the answer was no.

00:39:07.000 Researchers found that the estimated potential dream husbands had an average income about 58% higher than the actual unmarried men currently available to unmarried women.

00:39:17.000 The synthetic husbands were also 30% more likely to be employed than real single men and 19% more likely to have a college degree. 0.85

00:39:24.000 It was also observed that many racial and ethnic minorities, specifically African-American women, seem to be dealing with especially low numbers of economically attractive potential mates.

00:39:33.000 So this is sort of Tucker Carlson's case, right?

00:39:34.000 Tucker Carlson has been making the case that men have been underserved in the labor force, that with the advent of women moving into the labor force at heavier and heavier rates, there's more competition for increasing jobs, but the number of jobs is not increasing fast enough, and that that increasing competition has left a lot of men out of jobs, Or in part-time jobs or in lower earning jobs because of wage competition.

00:39:54.000 And this has led to a decline in marriage because women want to marry men who earn more than they do or at least as much as they do. 0.97

00:39:59.000 They want to marry men who are better educated.

00:40:02.000 Everybody sort of wants to marry up is basically the supposition.

00:40:06.000 And this study is supposed to show exactly that.

00:40:09.000 And the study is basically saying there are not enough men who are earning high salaries for women to marry.

00:40:15.000 Okay, so that's a piece of data.

00:40:16.000 I think there's some flaws with the study.

00:40:17.000 I think, first of all, correlation does not equal causation.

00:40:20.000 It is quite possible that women are marrying the choicest men, specifically because they are the choicest men, but that doesn't explain why low-income women are unable to find men who are earning slightly more than that.

00:40:31.000 There are plenty of middle-class men who are unmarried, and a lot of low-income... You would imagine that what you would see, if that were the case, if it were really just about the number of women Not matching up with the number of men who earn more. 0.56

00:40:43.000 What you would expect to see is a decline in the levels of marriage as female income went up, right? 0.58

00:40:48.000 You'd expect to see a lot of poor women getting married because there are a lot of people who are richer than poor in the United States, a lot of men. 1.00

00:40:54.000 And then as you moved up the income scale, you would expect to see women who earn a lot of money marrying less and less. 1.00

00:40:59.000 And that's actually the opposite of what you see, right?

00:41:01.000 What you actually see is that women who are better educated tend to get married more often. 0.91

00:41:08.000 It's kind of fascinating.

00:41:10.000 As you increase the income scale, what you see is that higher levels of education actually correlate highly with higher levels of marriage.

00:41:18.000 So this kind of cuts against the normal supposition, which is that women who will go to college are women's empowerment specialists and they never get married.

00:41:26.000 Actually not true.

00:41:27.000 Actually not true.

00:41:28.000 As people get more educated, they actually tend to live more conservatively, which is kind of fascinating.

00:41:33.000 They tend to vote more liberal and live more conservatively.

00:41:36.000 Which is very interesting.

00:41:38.000 According to a Pew Research study from 2017, half of U.S.

00:41:41.000 adults today are married, a share that has remained relatively stable in recent years, but is down 9 percentage points over the past quarter century and dramatically different from the peak of 72% in 1960.

00:41:51.000 The decline in the share of married adults can be explained in part by the fact that Americans are marrying later in life, but delayed marriage may not explain all of the drop-off.

00:41:59.000 The share of Americans who have never married has been rising steadily in recent decades.

00:42:04.000 Marriage rates are now more closely linked to socioeconomic status than ever before.

00:42:08.000 And what the Census Bureau data show is that the education gap in marital status has continued to widen.

00:42:14.000 Percentage of U.S.

00:42:15.000 adults 25 and older married by education.

00:42:18.000 65% of people with a bachelor's plus degree are married in the United States age 25 and older.

00:42:24.000 High school or less, only 50% of Americans are married by over the age of 25, only half.

00:42:32.000 That's a very significant difference.

00:42:34.000 So is that about the lack of marriageable partners?

00:42:36.000 It seems probably not because the fact is again, most Americans are not poor.

00:42:40.000 So if you are poorly educated or you have lower levels of education, there should be more marriageable partners available to you because you're here in education.

00:42:48.000 Most Americans are here in education. 0.64

00:42:49.000 That's a much broader gamut of people who you could choose to marry presumably.

00:42:53.000 So the data don't quite match up.

00:42:55.000 The economic hollowing out theory doesn't quite match up.

00:42:58.000 Now, it is true that higher earning men would provide more of an economic benefit for marriage, obviously.

00:43:05.000 But what this really goes to is a cultural effect.

00:43:07.000 So this has been the big battle inside the conservative movement right now over the role of government.

00:43:12.000 So people like Tucker have suggested that what you need is government interventionism to shore up male wages in order so that people will get married.

00:43:19.000 And there is some truth to the idea that as male wages have relatively declined compared to female wages, that the marriage rates have gone down.

00:43:27.000 But it is also true that exactly what you would expect to happen with regard to economics has been exacerbated wildly, wildly by the decline of religion in America.

00:43:41.000 And what you are expecting, again, what you would expect to see is that people who are lower on the income totem pole should be getting married more often if they are simply seeking a partner who earns more than they do, because again, they're low on the income totem pole.

00:43:52.000 Instead, what you are seeing is that high school educated males are not getting married as much.

00:43:57.000 That the middle income and blue collar workers are not getting married as much, which is quite fascinating.

00:44:04.000 That the real problem is existing lower down on the income spectrum.

00:44:09.000 So there's an article in the Atlantic today talking about America without family, God, or patriotism, because there was a new poll we talked about on the show showing that younger people in America do not believe in family, God, or patriotism.

00:44:21.000 And where is that population really located?

00:44:24.000 The author of this piece in the Atlantic, Derek Thompson, a staff writer, he points out that disproportionately, disproportionately, it's not really about youth alone.

00:44:33.000 It's about something bigger.

00:44:35.000 He says there's this blanket distrust of institutions of authority, but it's not confined to the relatively young, and it isn't confined to the over-educated.

00:44:45.000 He points out a study from Catherine Eden and Timothy Nelson at Princeton University, Andrew Cherlin at Johns Hopkins, and Robert Francis at Whitworth.

00:44:51.000 They published a paper based on lengthy interviews conducted from 2000 to 2013 with older, low-income men without a college degree in black and white working-class neighborhoods in the Boston, Charleston, Chicago, and Philadelphia areas.

00:45:03.000 Now, what you would expect is that these are people who want to get married but can't get married because they're not earning enough, right?

00:45:07.000 That would be the theory behind sort of what Tucker says and what this new study says about the economics of marriage.

00:45:13.000 It turns out, a lot of these dudes just don't want to get married.

00:45:16.000 According to this particular study, many of these men, having been disconnected from the stable, unionized, pension-paying jobs of their fathers, reject the diseased state of American institutions in ways that millennials might find relatable.

00:45:28.000 First, low-income, working-class men are turning away from organized religion even faster than millennials in Gen Z.

00:45:35.000 And this, I think, is the causative factor.

00:45:37.000 Since the 1970s, church attendance among white men without a college degree has fallen even more than among white college graduates, according to the paper.

00:45:45.000 They remain deeply spiritual without being traditionally devout.

00:45:47.000 They avoid church.

00:45:49.000 Instead, they prefer to browse the internet and libraries for makeshift pieces of religious self.

00:45:54.000 They've detached from religious institutions.

00:45:57.000 And many poor working class men now reject the nuclear family itself.

00:46:01.000 Their marriage rates have declined in lockstep with their church attendance, right?

00:46:04.000 Not in lockstep with their economic situation, in lockstep with their church attendance.

00:46:08.000 The authors note a number of these men were eager to have close relationships with their kids, even when they had little relationship with the mothers.

00:46:15.000 Many of them had given up on romance with the relationship with women.

00:46:20.000 And they're facing challenges with regard to mental health, specifically because they've abandoned a lot of these institutions.

00:46:26.000 And this is actually what you see.

00:46:27.000 The share of married adults varies widely by religious practice.

00:46:32.000 And here, the correlation is extraordinarily high.

00:46:35.000 The more religious you are, the more likely you are to be married in the United States.

00:46:39.000 The richer you are, the more likely you are to be married.

00:46:41.000 And the more religious you are, the more likely you are to be married.

00:46:43.000 Well, religion crosses all sorts of income lines.

00:46:46.000 So, it really doesn't look like a wealth effect so much as it is an institutional effect.

00:46:50.000 Because, here's the deal.

00:46:52.000 There are two reasons to get married.

00:46:54.000 Reason number one is because it's an economic decision.

00:46:58.000 There, the changes in American economics obviously would have an impact.

00:47:02.000 So if you're getting married because you believe that two incomes are better than one, or because you're looking for a breadwinner in your home and you can't find a breadwinner in your home, obviously that's going to impact marriage rates.

00:47:11.000 But the fact is, most people historically in the United States and abroad do not get married for the economic arrangement.

00:47:16.000 They don't.

00:47:16.000 Most people traditionally have gotten married because they believe that it is the right thing to do, that it betters you, that you're fulfilling a religious obligation, And that is particularly important in industrialized countries.

00:47:28.000 Because it used to be, right, in poorer countries, that the economics and the religion lined up.

00:47:33.000 The economics and the religion lined up really well, in fact, because you wanted, you were poor.

00:47:38.000 Your biggest asset was going to be your children, right?

00:47:40.000 Your children were gonna take care of you in your old age.

00:47:41.000 They were gonna help you work the fields.

00:47:43.000 They were gonna make sure that you were taken care of.

00:47:44.000 They were going to join the family business.

00:47:46.000 So you wanted to pop out little workers, right? 0.99

00:47:48.000 I mean, on an economic level.

00:47:49.000 You were going to create your own labor supply.

00:47:51.000 And the only way to do that is to marry mom and then have kids.

00:47:54.000 And so that lined up perfectly with the dictates of your religion, which also suggested you were fulfilling a spiritual and religious duty to get married and have kids.

00:48:02.000 Well now what you've seen in the West is a bifurcation of the economics and the religion.

00:48:06.000 So religions has the same thing that it always said, which is it is spiritually fulfilling, it is a godly mandate for you to get married and pop out kids, that this is something that you ought to do will make you better, it is you fulfilling a spiritual requirement of you dictated by God.

00:48:20.000 Religion has not changed one iota on this, which is why people who deeply believe in religion are still getting married.

00:48:25.000 But the economics have changed.

00:48:27.000 Because now, having kids is a net cost.

00:48:29.000 In fact, women who have kids, that is a... According to Elizabeth Warren, that is one of the single best predictors of a woman going bankrupt, is having children. 1.00

00:48:38.000 So, kids are actually a net cost, right?

00:48:42.000 Because now the government's gonna take care of you in your old age.

00:48:44.000 Now we have a social welfare net.

00:48:46.000 Your kids are not a labor supply. 0.55

00:48:47.000 You're gonna have to pay for your kid's education all the way through college and sometimes grad school.

00:48:51.000 So, the economics are diverging from the religious mandate.

00:48:55.000 So, the question is, which is more likely to fix America?

00:48:59.000 Or both?

00:49:00.000 One, to quote-unquote, fix the economics.

00:49:02.000 That's very difficult without either changing the labor system in the United States through subsidies or through regulations, which would lower the average level of the American consumption habits tremendously.

00:49:16.000 It would misallocate resources.

00:49:17.000 It would not be an economic language, Pareto efficient.

00:49:20.000 It would damage some people at the expense of other people.

00:49:23.000 Is that the best path?

00:49:25.000 Do you really think that we can reestablish an economic system where it is economically beneficial for women to marry and men to marry and them to have kids? 0.98

00:49:32.000 Because that has never applied in industrialized countries, which is why as people get richer, they tend to have fewer children, right?

00:49:38.000 Because kids cost instead of being a benefit.

00:49:40.000 Or should we be encouraging people to reconnect with a lot of the religious and spiritual institutions that used to give people meaning?

00:49:49.000 Because it turns out that the lack of meaning is probably a better predictor of whether you're going to make solid decisions in your personal life than whether you earn a lot of money or whether you don't earn a lot of money.

00:49:58.000 The correlation there is really high.

00:50:00.000 The study from Pew shows that among agnostics and atheists, only about 35% are married.

00:50:07.000 Among people who are members of the Presbyterian Church or the UCC or the Evangelical Lutheran Church, it is well above 60%.

00:50:12.000 And this holds true for virtually all churches in the United States that people attend on a regular basis.

00:50:18.000 So is it a cultural problem or is it an economic problem?

00:50:21.000 You can blame it on economics, but it's a lot harder to change the basic rules of economics.

00:50:26.000 It is a lot easier, I think, and I think, frankly, more fruitful.

00:50:29.000 I think the rules of economics are always going to push against you because they just go for what is most efficient.

00:50:35.000 And what is most efficient may not cut in favor of the social institutions you love.

00:50:38.000 You have to, brick by brick, rebuild those social institutions if you wish to reestablish the importance of marriage.

00:50:44.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I like.

00:50:48.000 So, here is a thing that I like.

00:50:50.000 I do... I'm always amused by the... Dennis Prager, my friend Dennis Prager, he has this very simple thought experiment that he likes to do.

00:50:56.000 And his thought experiment is...

00:50:59.000 You're standing above a river, there's a drowning person, and there's your dog.

00:51:02.000 Which one do you save?

00:51:03.000 And he's always surprised that a huge number of people say that they would save the dog.

00:51:08.000 I am similarly surprised, but that same logic is now applied to the logic of abortion.

00:51:13.000 Will Witt over at PragerU did a video in which he went around asking a bunch of liberals whether we should protect the lives of unborn eagles.

00:51:21.000 Unborn eagles' eggs.

00:51:22.000 And then he asked them about unborn humans.

00:51:23.000 Watch.

00:51:26.000 What's up guys?

00:51:26.000 This is Will Witt with PragerU.

00:51:28.000 Today we're in Echo Park where we have a petition to stop the killing of eagles, stop the destruction of eagle eggs.

00:51:34.000 But then we're asking them to sign a petition to stop the killing of babies. 0.90

00:51:38.000 Yeah, of course.

00:51:39.000 Awesome.

00:51:40.000 Don't kill eagles.

00:51:41.000 Yeah, double signature is fine.

00:51:42.000 Had like three white claws today.

00:51:44.000 And so I didn't know if you guys would want to sign this for sure, yeah.

00:51:47.000 Best of luck, I hope you save the eagles.

00:51:50.000 Thank you, thank you so much.

00:51:51.000 And we actually, let me just talk to you real quick.

00:51:53.000 We have one other petition about stopping the killing of humans too.

00:51:57.000 Oh my god.

00:51:59.000 Stop the killing of babies.

00:52:01.000 I hate killing of babies.

00:52:02.000 Right?

00:52:03.000 Like, you hate abortion?

00:52:04.000 We want to protect their rights, too, even though being, like, unborn.

00:52:07.000 Wait, no, I don't agree with that.

00:52:09.000 I, uh, fully support abortion. 0.96

00:52:12.000 Why do you support not the killing of unborn eagles, but the killing of unborn children?

00:52:18.000 Um, I think it's the mother's decision. 0.96

00:52:20.000 But babies are gross. 0.99

00:52:23.000 You say babies are gross? 1.00

00:52:25.000 Yes.

00:52:26.000 Well, it's just like, you know what it does to your body?

00:52:27.000 You're not a woman, so you'd have no idea. 0.88

00:52:29.000 A human woman should have more rights probably than a bald eagle. 1.00

00:52:33.000 Yeah.

00:52:33.000 Okay.

00:52:34.000 Abortion.

00:52:35.000 Thanks.

00:52:36.000 Wow.

00:52:37.000 Wow.

00:52:38.000 Yeah, there's some real philosophical disconnect right there.

00:52:41.000 Okay, one other thing that I like.

00:52:42.000 So Drew Brees, the woke police came for Drew Brees today, the quarterback of the New Orleans Saints.

00:52:46.000 He had cut a video for Focus on the Family for National Bring a Bible to School Day.

00:52:50.000 Drew Brees is a religious Christian.

00:52:51.000 And he had just cut this video saying that you should bring a Bible to school to demonstrate your religious fealty.

00:52:57.000 That doesn't violate the First Amendment.

00:52:58.000 It doesn't ruin your school or anything.

00:53:00.000 And that's fine.

00:53:01.000 The woke scults came after him because they were like, well, he worked with focus on the family and focus on the family is in favor of traditional marriage.

00:53:06.000 And that means they're evil. 0.89

00:53:07.000 So Drew Brees is evil.

00:53:09.000 Well, Drew Brees was asked about this and he's like, are you guys effing kidding me?

00:53:12.000 I cut a video on behalf of people being able to bring Bibles to school.

00:53:16.000 And now I'm on the chopping block.

00:53:18.000 Here's Drew Brees defending himself as well.

00:53:20.000 He should.

00:53:21.000 There's been a lot of negativity spread about me in the LGBTQ community recently based upon a article that someone wrote with a very negative headline that I think led people to believe that somehow I was aligned with an organization that was anti LGBTQ.

00:53:40.000 What I did was I filmed a video recently that was encouraging kids to bring their Bibles to school for National Bring Your Bible to School Day.

00:53:49.000 It was as simple as that.

00:53:50.000 So I'm not sure why the negativity spread or why people tried to rope me into certain negativity.

00:53:56.000 I do not support any groups that discriminate or that have their own agendas that are trying to promote inequality.

00:54:07.000 Okay, so, you know, again, good for Drew Brees.

00:54:11.000 The Woke Police will come for anybody, man, and you cannot give an inch.

00:54:14.000 You cannot give an inch, because they're just the worst.

00:54:16.000 Alrighty, we don't have time for things that I hate, because basically the whole show this week has been about things that I hate.

00:54:21.000 So, we will be here a little bit later with two additional hours of content, or, alternatively, we will see you here next week.

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Can Democrats Scold Their Way To Glory? | Ep. 855

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