According to Democrats, January 6th was the turning point for democracy and one of the most important dates in American history. Today is the anniversary of the day Joe Biden became the Vice President of the United States. What does that have to do with inflation and interest rates? And why are Democrats so worried about the Federal Reserve raising interest rates this year, potentially as soon as March? What are the implications for the economy, the stock market, and the economy as a whole, and what will it mean for the Democratic Party in the mid-term elections in November of 2022? Ben Shapiro breaks it all down and explains why the Democrats are freaking out and why they should be worried about it. FREE MEDITATION HERE! Ben Shapiro's new book, "The Autocratic Moment" is now available for purchase! If you like what you hear on the show, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and become a supporter of The Ben Shapiro Show! You'll get 20% off your first month with discount code: "ExpressVPN" when you sign up and receive $5 and get 10% off for the rest of the month when you enter the offer ends on January 6, 2020. Stand up for your digital rights! Shout out to Ben Shapiro at ExpressVpn at expressvpn at ExpressVPN at and Shout Out to Ben at . and take action at the ShoutOut for your Digital Rights! at expressVPN at . to get $5 or $10 and get 5% off the entire month for the month of January 6 months of your membership plan! and get $25 off your choice of a complimentary membership plan when you use ExpressVPN membership offer. You can get 5-a-day shipping plan starting at $99 or $50 or $25 or $99/month, and $99 gets you an ad discount when you become a VIP membership offer! you choose a maximum of $5/month and get 4 months of VIP access to the expressVpn Provenible Provenance Provenza Provenero Provenience Provenora Provedino Provenino Provedora Provenor Provedoro Provedor Provenior Provenoro Provenoria Provedo Proveno Provedee Provenee Provedeed Proveneed Provedoria Provenedo Provedored Provenitor Provedado Provenado Provedoris Provedida Proveditor?
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00:01:51.000The big news of the day is not January 6th.
00:01:54.000The big news of the day is that the Federal Reserve officials at their meeting last month, according to the Wall Street Journal, are now eyeing a faster timetable for raising interest rates this year, potentially as soon as March.
00:02:24.000This is all bad policy brought about by Joe Biden's interventionist take on economics.
00:02:30.000And the Federal Reserve raising its rates is going to have some pretty dire effects for the Democrats come 2022 in the midterm elections.
00:02:36.000According to the Wall Street Journal, minutes of their December 14th to 15th meeting, released Wednesday, showed officials believe that rising inflation and a very tight labor market could call for lifting short-term rates sooner or at a faster pace than participants had earlier anticipated.
00:02:49.000Some officials also thought the Fed should start shrinking its $8.76 trillion portfolio of bonds and other assets relatively soon after beginning to raise the rates.
00:02:57.000Investors would see the move as another way for the Fed to tighten financial conditions to cool the economy.
00:03:03.000The predictable effect of this revelation is that stocks immediately dumped.
00:03:07.000They turned sharply lower after the minutes were released on Wednesday afternoon.
00:04:18.000We must unite in defense of our democracy.
00:04:25.000Here was Vice President Kamala Harris claiming that January 6th was just like, wait for it, Pearl Harbor and 9-11.
00:04:32.000Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them where they were and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault.
00:04:49.000Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars, But a place in our collective memory.
00:05:28.000And I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy.
00:05:33.000We will make sure the will of the people is heard.
00:05:37.000That the ballot prevails, not violence.
00:05:40.000That authority in this nation will always Be peacefully transferred.
00:05:44.000You can't love your country only when you win.
00:05:46.000You can't obey the law only when it's convenient.
00:05:47.000You can't be patriotic when you embrace and enable lies.
00:05:50.000unprecedented threat on January 6th, but he will stand in the breach.
00:05:53.000All you have to do is give him complete ultimate power.
00:05:57.000You can't love your country only when you win.
00:06:00.000You can't obey the law only when it's convenient.
00:06:04.000You can't be patriotic when you embrace and enable lies.
00:06:09.000Those who stormed this Capitol and those who instigated and incited and those who called on them to do so held a dagger at the throat of America and American democracy.
00:06:26.000It's so tiresome because we know the game that he's playing, right?
00:06:28.000I mean, the game that he is playing right here is let me pass the legislation I want.
00:06:32.000Otherwise, you are the dagger at the throat of democracy.
00:06:35.000When he compares what happened on January 6th to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, you know, like black people being beaten up for being black as part of a broader Jim Crow effort to subvert the rights of black people.
00:06:45.000When he compares it to, when he compares it to December 7th, what he's really saying is that anybody who disagrees with his agenda is the enemy because when he says he wants a renaissance of democracy, He does not mean respect for elections purely and simply.
00:06:58.000What he really means is pass my Voting Rights Act.
00:07:00.000He means let me add 87 justices to the Supreme Court and kill the filibuster and federalize election procedure.
00:07:07.000It's a political game and pretending that it's not, pretending that this is all just good-hearted, let's get together and be more civil about our election, that's not what he's doing and anyone with half a brain knows that's not what he's doing.
00:07:17.000The worse things get for the Democrats, the more they're going to redirect to January 6th.
00:07:28.000And it was a moment in American history.
00:07:30.000What I mean by that is that President Trump spent from November 4th to January 6th telling people that he had duly won the election and that for fraudulent reasons, Joe Biden was being selected as president.
00:07:41.000And then he had his legal advisors telling people falsely that under the Electoral Count Act, the Vice President of the United States had the capacity to simply throw away state-certified votes.
00:07:56.000He didn't allege half of the stuff that he has alleged publicly.
00:07:59.000And so by the time that it came time to certify the election, which happened in early December, by the time that happened, the Trump team had basically Made no case as to why states should throw out their own election results.
00:08:10.000That is not to deny that there is election fraud in a country with 155 million votes.
00:08:16.000This is not to deny that there wasn't screwing around with the elections given the procedures of 2020.
00:08:21.000Thanks to the pandemic and thanks to democratic opportunism, there are a bunch of absentee ballots that were being sent out to people who did not ask for them or you had increased Drop in mailboxes or you had increase in terms of the number of people who were voting early, right?
00:08:37.000And it is also true that the election was, in fact, rigged from the perspective of the media, silencing information, preventing true information from getting to the public, and manipulating information that you did see, right?
00:08:59.000He won one case legally, and that was quickly overturned out of something like 80 across the country.
00:09:05.000And the ballot recounts that have been done in places like Georgia and in Arizona, including the audit that was done in Arizona, the much ballyhooed Maricopa County audit found that there was not mass electoral fraud on the scale necessary to declare that Donald Trump had won the election in Arizona, for example.
00:09:20.000So Donald Trump from November 4th to January 6th was maintaining that he was the rightfully elected President of the United States or that the election was totally fraudulent or that the Senate Majority Leader and the Vice President of the United States had the legal capacity to simply throw out duly certified state votes.
00:09:46.000I mean like tens of thousands of people.
00:09:49.000The vast majority of those people went home.
00:09:51.000The vast majority of those people did not engage in the violence at the Capitol building.
00:09:55.000And then several hundred people did engage in violence at the Capitol building.
00:09:58.000Something like 100 police officers were injured and some of those people broke into the Capitol building and some of the people in the Capitol building were running around yelling for Mike Pence.
00:10:43.000There was a peaceful transition of power.
00:10:45.000The presence of a riot does not mean that there was no peaceful transition of power.
00:10:48.000If that were the case, there was no peaceful transition of power back in 2017 when Donald Trump, at his inauguration, there were massive riots outside Trump's inauguration involving the arrest of over 200 people.
00:10:59.000Was that a peaceful transition of power?
00:11:00.000It was because Joe Biden left and Donald Trump took office.
00:11:03.000Well, on January 20th of 2021, Donald Trump left and Joe Biden took office.
00:11:08.000That is called a peaceful transition of power.
00:11:10.000Was this a moment of crisis for our democracy?
00:11:13.000Within three hours of idiots invading the Capitol building, the election was being certified.
00:11:20.000So then why is this a moment of national disgrace, a moment of national shame?
00:11:23.000And the answer is because for the left, it must be.
00:11:26.000It must be because of the left's goal.
00:11:28.000Within 24 hours of this event, forget 24 hours, then 24 minutes of this event, it became wildly apparent that for the Democrats and for the media, this was gold.
00:11:36.000And it was gold because they got to try and lump in everyone who voted with Trump To people who protested the election and then lump in all those people with the Capitol rioters.
00:11:45.000So the idea was that if you voted for Trump, or if you voted against Biden, or if you would ever consider voting for Trump, or if you would ever consider voting for any other Republican, you were complicit in the actions of January 6th.
00:11:56.000This became perfectly clear when Parler was knocked offline by Amazon Web Services.
00:12:00.000Amazon Web Services is a neutral service provider.
00:12:03.000The suggestion was that Parler had been used to organize the January 6th riots, and therefore, Parler needed to be dumped offline.
00:12:09.000Well, Facebook was used much more than Parler for that.
00:12:15.000It became very clear very quickly that major institutions in the United States were going to use January 6th As the excuse and the predicate for cracking down on political opposition.
00:13:14.000They're basing that on the fact that there are laws that have been passed in states like Georgia that shore up certain election procedures and actually loosen certain election procedures.
00:13:22.000Everyone who looks at the Georgia law just facially understands this is not a device for stealing elections in Georgia.
00:13:29.000Anyone who suggests to you that the Georgia election law is about Republicans stealing election is out of their mind or lying to you.
00:13:36.000The great election threat here does not exist.
00:13:39.000Okay, Republicans are not stealing elections across the country.
00:13:43.000The left is suggesting, for example, that the John Lewis Voting Rights Act be used in order to crack down on particularly red states when it comes to redistricting.
00:13:52.000There's only one problem, according to Cook Political, in Republican states in which they've engaged in redistricting this year.
00:13:57.000There really is no major shift toward Republican seats.
00:14:00.000There's actually more of a shift in Democratic states with Democratic redistricting than there is in Republican states with Republican redistricting.
00:14:06.000In other words, this is not a major problem.
00:14:08.000Democrats have decided it's a major problem because they wish to use this as the excuse to seize more power.
00:14:27.000Governor Stacey Abrams of Georgia, who lost an election by 50,000 votes and was declared in 2020 a governor of Georgia by the Democratic Party at their national convention?
00:14:36.000Who exactly on the Democratic side of the aisle is really upset about people who protest elections?
00:14:40.000The same people who spent four years declaring that Donald Trump was only president because of Russian collusion and Facebook memes?
00:14:47.000Or maybe we're supposed to believe that the Democratic left is deeply, deeply upset and angry over the treatment of police officers on January 6th.
00:14:55.000I mean, hell, the New York Times has an entire piece today titled, Capitol Police Bear Scars of Riots.
00:15:04.000About 100 police officers, 120 police officers were injured on January 6th over the course of the Black Lives Matter riots, which were predicated on a huge lie.
00:15:13.000A much bigger lie, by the way, in consequence for literally millions of Americans than the lie that President Trump openly won the 2020 election, for example.
00:15:21.000The lie that America's police are systemically racist, targeting black men and shooting them down in the streets.
00:15:25.000That's what Black Lives Matter was predicated upon.
00:15:27.000It was a full-blown lie promoted by every major Democrat to the point where you had the current Vice President of the United States bailing rioters out of jail in Minnesota.
00:15:37.000In those riots, over 2,000 police officers were injured.
00:15:43.000So are we supposed to believe that the reason that this is a truly historic event is because of mistreatment of police?
00:15:48.000Is that what we're meant to believe from the media and the Democrats?
00:15:52.000Which part of January 6th is the part that they are really, they're standing on solid ground in terms of their own approach toward, for example, elections, or treatment of police, or treatment of political violence, which they winked and nodded at, and in some cases openly promoted in the middle of 2020.
00:16:07.000That's why, as always, this is a political game, and pretending that it is anything but a political game is being pretty damned dishonest.
00:16:17.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:17:36.000Where was your entire party for all of summer 2020 when I was locked in my home in LA thanks to the riots that were occurring on Sunset Boulevard and down the street from me on Whitsitt?
00:17:53.000Don't shed me no crocodile tears about January 6th after you spent an entire summer greenlighting $5 billion in uninsured property damage across the country and pretending it's not a big deal because after all, George Floyd.
00:18:05.000Biden says, are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people?
00:18:14.000Well, I mean, I don't know, Joe, are we?
00:18:16.000Nancy Pelosi challenged a duly held election in the state of Iowa in which there is a very close congressional race, and she held up the results for months.
00:18:25.000There's even talk of seating the Democrat in place of the Republican in that particular race.
00:18:31.000I'm all for certified elections being carried forward.
00:18:34.000I think that Mike Pence and Mitch McConnell did the right thing in January of 2020.
00:18:40.000I also think that it would be good if states, for example, carry out their votes and then tally their votes and then certify their votes without political interference.
00:18:51.000I'm just wondering, do you still think that Governor Stacey Abrams is the governor of Georgia?
00:18:57.000We can't allow ourselves to be that kind of nation.
00:19:01.000Joe Biden is going to speak about January 6th incessantly because he's a crappy president and he has to get you to think about something else.
00:19:06.000Don't pay attention to the inflation over here.
00:19:09.000Please don't pay attention to the fact that we are shutting down schools in Chicago and in New York and in Philadelphia, or at least trying in New York.
00:19:30.000President Biden has been clear-eyed about the threat the former president represents to our democracy and how the former president constantly works to undermine basic American values and rule of law.
00:19:41.000And President Biden has, of course, spoken repeatedly about how the former president abused his office, undermined the Constitution, and ignored his oath to the American people in an effort to amass more power for himself and his allies.
00:19:53.000He sees January 6th as a tragic culmination of what those four years under President Trump did to our country.
00:20:00.000Okay, that right there is the key, right?
00:20:03.000So when Jen Psaki says that Joe Biden sees January 6th as the tragic culmination of what Trump did to the country.
00:20:08.000Okay, first of all, the democratic idea about politics is that the world began spinning the moment Trump became president, and then it stopped spinning on January 6th.
00:20:15.000That is the only period of history that we are ever allowed to look at.
00:20:18.000Actually, there are a couple periods, right?
00:20:19.000There's when America allowed slavery, and then you fast forward all the way to Trump becoming president.
00:20:25.000These are the only periods in American history that have ever mattered, according to the left, apparently.
00:20:30.000When Jen Psaki says that, what she means to do is to tie every Trump policy to January 6th.
00:20:34.000If you supported Trump's tax cuts, well, it did culminate in January 6th.
00:20:38.000If you supported Trump's foreign policy, the Abraham Accords, strengthening our position vis-a-vis China, well, that did culminate in January 6th.
00:20:46.000If you supported Trump's judicial nominees, well, that did culminate in January 6th.
00:21:00.000So they have to continue to maintain that there is this vast threat to American democracy that justifies exactly what they are doing.
00:21:07.000And again, what's amazing about this is they are not hiding the ball in any way, shape or form.
00:21:12.000If you mention it, people get mad at you because we're all supposed to believe that the only thing that matters in American life is January 6th.
00:21:18.000But they are pretty much just saying it.
00:21:22.000They are pretty much just saying what it is that they want to do.
00:21:26.000They want to push this rejiggering of all voting law.
00:22:09.000Because they had to maintain the idea that there is a threat so grave that you have to let us do exactly what we want to do.
00:22:14.000You'll get some more of this in just one second, because this is the universal message from the left on January 6th, the first anniversary.
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00:23:43.000Joe Biden's entire shtick here is again to promote the idea that democracy is under grave threat and therefore we can do what we want.
00:23:49.000He's trotting out his DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to say, there is indeed a continuing and real threat from insurrectionists a la January 6th.
00:23:57.000Meanwhile, why don't we leave the southern border open?
00:24:01.000Here's Alejandro Mayorkas, the terrible, terrible head of Homeland Security.
00:24:05.000domestic violent extremism does in fact remain one of the greatest threats that we face on the homeland. And what we in the Department of Homeland Security do is obtain information and share information and make sure that not only we across the federal enterprise, but also our state and local partners are fully equipped with the information and best positioned
00:24:34.000to prevent a threat from materializing.
00:24:37.000The threat is real but it is our job to be prepared for it and to be responsive if in fact it should materialize.
00:24:46.000Okay, no, the threat of a coup is not real.
00:24:49.000The threat of a mass-scale insurrection is not real.
00:24:51.000I mean, how motivated are Democrats to come up?
00:24:56.000With this narrative, they've been sending polls showing that something like 4% of Americans want Trump to lead a coup right now.
00:25:02.00010% of Americans think Elvis is still alive.
00:25:03.000And the margin of error on these polls is like 4%.
00:25:05.000But we're supposed to believe that there's 10 million Americans who are desperate and willing to pick up arms in order to effectuate a coup.
00:25:16.000By the way, the people who violated the law on January 6th have been prosecuted to the hilt by the federal government.
00:25:22.000Much, much more than the rioters of Black Lives Matter summer.
00:25:26.000There were literally thousands of people committing crimes across the country during 2020.
00:25:32.000A huge majority of those people are not going to jail.
00:25:35.000I wish to God that we had the same sort of law and order attitude toward the rioters of 2020 that we did toward the rioters of January 6th.
00:25:42.000This is why I don't believe Democrats when they start talking about, yes, well, January 6th, it's all about law and order.
00:25:46.000Here's Merrick Garland doing that routine.
00:25:50.000With increasing numbers of individuals having breached the Capitol, members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, including the President of the Senate, Vice President Mike Pence, had to be evacuated.
00:26:04.000As a consequence, proceedings in both chambers were disrupted for hours, interfering with a fundamental element of American democracy, the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next.
00:26:20.000Those involved must be held accountable.
00:26:24.000And there is no higher priority for us at the Department of Justice.
00:26:30.000It's the only priority at the Department of Justice because the Department of Justice is a political tool of the Biden administration.
00:26:35.000Well, how about, honestly, it's not whataboutism to say that there is a standard and it should apply across the board.
00:26:40.000If it does not apply across the board, I have a feeling that it's politically driven.
00:26:45.000It's not whataboutism because I think that the people who broke the law on January 6th should go to jail.
00:26:48.000It would be whataboutism if I were making the argument that they shouldn't go to jail.
00:26:51.000But if you broke the law, you should go to jail.
00:26:53.000But I believe that about everybody who breaks the law.
00:26:56.000But Merrick Garland and DOJ don't believe that.
00:26:58.000They're currently cramming down consent decrees on police departments, making it easier for criminals to effectuate their crime.
00:27:05.000Here's Merrick Garland continuing along these lines.
00:27:07.000January 6th, of course, being the only important event in American history.
00:27:11.000The actions we have taken thus far will not be our last.
00:27:17.000The Justice Department remains committed to holding all January 6th perpetrators at any level accountable under law, whether they were present that day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy.
00:27:36.000We will follow the facts wherever they lead.
00:27:42.000Okay, meanwhile, so I have some doubts about the way that this sort of stuff is portrayed.
00:27:47.000The reason I have some doubts about the way this is portrayed is because, for example, the idea here is that Trump led the insurrection.
00:27:53.000Okay, now, again, Trump said things that were not true between November 4th and January 6th.
00:28:40.000Bernie Sanders is not guilty for the congressional baseball shooting.
00:28:42.000Barack Obama was not guilty for the 2016 assassination of six Dallas police officers.
00:28:47.000And Donald Trump is not guilty for the break-in at the Capitol building.
00:28:51.000But the goal for the media is always to turn whatever Trump says into incitement.
00:28:58.000So, for example, Yesterday, Trump put out a statement regarding VAX mandates.
00:29:03.000He said the Biden administration's response to COVID is getting worse every day.
00:29:06.000Joe Biden said there is no federal solution to the pandemic, but he then federalized the distribution of antibodies.
00:29:10.000Red states are getting the short end of the stick.
00:29:12.000In my administration, we respected the role of governors to take care of their own states, and they could request antibodies and therapeutics depending on what they needed.
00:29:18.000That's the way our country is supposed to run.
00:29:21.000Now there's talk by the Biden administration again about closing schools and even VAX mandates for schoolchildren.
00:29:37.000He says that the exact phrase that he uses is, this is an outrage and MAGA nation should rise up and oppose this egregious federal government outreach.
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00:31:33.000The 1,000-year-old former president of the United States writing in the New York Times about how we almost descended into complete tyranny in January of 2020.
00:31:46.000There was no institutional support for the Capitol rioters who were cleared from the Capitol building, I repeat, again, within three hours.
00:31:53.000They went to jail, and then the election was certified by Donald Trump's vice president.
00:31:58.000But according to Jimmy Carter, it was a crisis for democracy, and that crisis has not abated.
00:32:03.000He says, one year ago, a violent mob guided by unscrupulous politicians stormed the Capitol and almost succeeded in preventing the Democratic transfer of power.
00:32:10.000They didn't even come close to preventing the Democratic transfer of power.
00:32:13.000They did not come within 100 yards of preventing the Democratic transfer of power.
00:32:19.000They occupied a building, were cleared from the building within three hours.
00:32:23.000The only person who was killed, by the way, is one of the protesters shot, Ashley Babbitt.
00:32:27.000Everybody else who died, died of a heart attack or died of other extraneous conditions.
00:32:31.000There's no direct evidence that any police officer was murdered on January 6th.
00:32:38.000But again, it has to be blown up into, we're on the verge of losing our democracy, which of course is really, really, really silly.
00:32:44.000He says, all four of us former presidents condemned their actions and affirmed the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
00:32:49.000There followed a brief hope that the insurrection would shock the nation into addressing the toxic polarization that threatens our democracy.
00:32:55.000Is what Jimmy Carter, Captain Polarization himself has to say.
00:32:58.000However, one year on, Promoters of the lie that the election was stolen have taken over one political party and stoked distrust in our electoral systems.
00:33:06.000These forces exert power and influence the relentless disinformation which continues to turn Americans against Americans.
00:33:12.000Politicians in my home state of Georgia, as well as in others, such as Texas and Florida, have leveraged the distrust they have created to enact laws that empower partisan legislatures to intervene in election processes.
00:33:22.000They seek to win by any means, and many Americans are being persuaded to think and act likewise, threatening to collapse the foundations of our society and democracy with breathtaking speed.
00:33:31.000I now fear that what we have fought so hard to achieve globally, the right to free, fair elections unhindered by strongman politicians, has become dangerously fragile at home.
00:33:39.000Okay, so I have a question for Jimmy Carter.
00:33:42.000In 2006, Jimmy Carter, I mean, speaking of free and fair elections, Jimmy Carter, in 2006, presided over an election in the Gaza Strip.
00:34:22.000He says, first, while citizens can disagree on policies, people of all political stripes must agree on fundamental constitutional principles and norms of fairness, civility, and respect for the rule of law.
00:34:36.000I'm just wondering why it only applies to one side of the political aisle, but I have no problem with any of that.
00:34:41.000Second, we must push for reforms that ensure the security and accessibility of our elections and ensure public confidence in the accuracy of results.
00:34:51.000Third, we must resist the polarization that is reshaping our identities around politics.
00:34:55.000We must focus on a few core truths that we are all human, we are all Americans, we have common hopes for our communities and our country to thrive.
00:35:02.000Fourth, violence has no place in our politics.
00:35:04.000We must act urgently to pass or strengthen laws to reverse the trends of character assassination, intimidation, and the presence of armed militias at events.
00:35:12.000Um, okay, I don't know how that is going to materialize in a country where we still respect the First Amendment.
00:35:17.000There is a pretty wide distinction between violence in politics and trends of character assassination.
00:35:25.000That seems like a... Now you're starting to verge on the conflation of good ideas with very, very bad ideas.
00:35:32.000Finally, he says, lastly, the spread of disinformation, especially on social media, must be addressed.
00:35:36.000We must rein in these platforms and get in the habit of seeking out accurate information.
00:35:41.000Corporate America and religious communities should encourage respect for democratic norms, participation in elections, and efforts to counter disinformation.
00:35:48.000So now he's talking again about how he gets to define what is disinformation and what is not, and he gets to control that.
00:35:54.000So we went very quickly from things we can all agree on to things that very few of us can agree on because we don't trust you to actually handle those systems.
00:36:13.000What she is is the id of the Democratic Party.
00:36:15.000When Joy Behar says something, this is what lies at the gut level of the Democratic Party.
00:36:20.000What she says here is pretty much the whole ball of wax.
00:36:23.000The reason that this has to be done right now, the reason January 6th is important, the reason they have to federalize election law, the reason that they have to go back to the Voting Rights Act, even though the Supreme Court basically says this doesn't apply 50 years on, The reason they have to do this is because Republicans might win.
00:36:54.000I'm not losing hope yet, but I will worry in November if the Republicans take over the House and the Senate.
00:37:00.000That will be the beginning of the end for this country.
00:37:05.000Oh, if they win the House and the Senate, it's the beginning of the end of the country.
00:37:08.000Well, that justifies pretty much anything, does it?
00:37:10.000I thought from Jimmy Carter we're supposed to end polarization.
00:37:13.000Nothing ends polarization quite like saying that if your political opponents win an election, it's the end of the country.
00:37:18.000But that's what I'm... They are simultaneously making the case that political polarization has to end, and the only way for political polarization to end is for them to win from now until the end of time.
00:37:28.000That is one way to end polarization, is to create a monopoly.
00:37:32.000Monopolies end polarization, because now you don't have two polls.
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00:39:56.000Alrighty, so again, the agenda here is very clear.
00:40:06.000January 6th is the center of the universe because the left wants to do things.
00:40:08.000So, for example, there's a piece in the New York Times today from Cynthia Miller Idris, director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab at American University.
00:40:18.000The first part of this column, America's most urgent threat now comes from within.
00:40:22.000Our most urgent threat now comes from within.
00:40:25.000That threat, of course, is the January 6th riot types.
00:40:29.000So what is her recommendation as to policy?
00:40:33.000Because extremist ideas are no longer limited to an isolated lone wolf fringe, the United States should focus less on isolating and containing a few bad cells, and more on reducing the fertile ground in which anti-democratic and violent extremist ideologies thrive.
00:40:46.000It needs a public health approach to preventing violent extremism.
00:40:49.000This is where all the bells should be clanging.
00:40:51.000Because whenever the left says public health approach, think about what they did over public health over the last year and a half.
00:40:57.000Over the last few years, public health meant they could lock you in your home and send your children home from school interminably.
00:41:01.000They could force masks on your face and force vaccines into your arm.
00:41:05.000And when the left says public health approach, they mean, we can force you to do anything we want.
00:41:10.000Says this columnist, This means that federal, state, and local governments should invest in and promote digital and media literacy programs, civic education, and other efforts to strengthen democratic norms and values.
00:41:21.000American leaders should lead by example in rejecting disinformation, propaganda, online manipulation, and conspiracy theories.
00:41:27.000It's not an easy fix, and this shift in mindset will not happen overnight, but inclusive, equitable democracies make it harder for extremist ideas to take root and spread.
00:41:35.000No one wants the federal government to police people's beliefs.
00:41:46.000government's focus on using conventional counterterrorism tools fails to account for the generally unchecked spread of disinformation and conspiracy theories, propaganda targeting racial and religious minorities, and the increasing dehumanization of those with whom one disagrees.
00:41:59.000These are important precursors to violence.
00:42:01.000What would January 6th have looked like if policymakers had focused on these precursors?
00:42:06.000Many of the Americans who stormed the Capitol last year were immersed in a universe of disinformation that convinced them they were heroes acting to save democracy.
00:42:13.000A public health approach to preventing violent extremism would shift prevention work away from security and intelligence experts, away from wiretaps and cultivated informants, and toward social workers, school counselors and teachers, mental health experts, and religious leaders to focus on social support and democratic resilience.
00:42:30.000In such a world, the rioters' lives would look very different.
00:42:34.000They would have been taught in school or through programs in sports clubs or faith communities to recognize disinformation.
00:42:38.000They would have been less susceptible to claims about a stolen election.
00:42:42.000If you were to flirt with those claims and mention them to a family member or a friend, the relative or friend would know how to get help.
00:42:48.000There would be dedicated resources like a toll-free support line or gatherings akin to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings that could offer counseling and intervention.
00:42:56.000No approach can totally prevent radicalization, but a more holistic one is better suited to defend against mainstream extremism.
00:43:05.000So, the idea here is that we need the federal government to get involved in how people consume information.
00:43:25.000The notion from the left is that January 6th represented an institutional threat to democracy.
00:43:31.000The truth is, the true powers in our society are all on the other side.
00:43:35.000Every major power in the United States is not only on the other side of January 6th, they're on the other side of the aisle from the conservatives generally.
00:43:43.000The great myth of January 6th is that Democrats and their allies are a put-upon group of people who have no power in the American political discourse and therefore they must use the power of government in order to cram down their point of view and restructure elections.
00:44:00.000The reality is that every major institution in the United States has been performing a soft takeover of all of our political thought and the way politics is done in the United States.
00:44:13.000Thomas Edsel has a piece in the New York Times that's just astonishing.
00:44:16.000This piece is about what happened in 2020, which, for the record, is much more an American tipping point than what happened in 2021.
00:44:22.000What happened in 2020 with the Black Lives Matter riots, in which every major institution in American public life immediately swiveled into line and began pouring billions of dollars into a radical cause, should be far more of a cause for concern than 200, 300, 500 droogs running into the Capitol building, breaking some windows, and getting arrested.
00:44:45.000In order for there to be a coup or an insurrection, typically, you have to, number one, have a plan, which they didn't on January 6th, and number two, you actually have to have some sort of institutional backing, which again, they did not on January 6th.
00:44:56.000But the radicals on the left do have institutional backing.
00:45:00.000There's no one who's too radical for the left, and there's no program too radical for the left and the institutions that back it.
00:45:06.000Thomas Edsel has a piece yesterday about the institutional support for the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
00:45:11.000in 2020. Ready for this? The killing of George Floyd and the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests that followed drove an exceptionally large increase in foundation grants and pledges to criminal and racial justice reform groups and other causes.
00:45:22.000Candid is a website that connects people who want to change the world with the resources Publish.
00:45:28.000What does Candid's grants data say about funding for racial equity in the United States?
00:45:35.000Kubrot, in the months since George Floyd's murder by Minneapolis police, witnessed a surge in attention to long-standing anti-Black racism in the United States.
00:45:42.000Although racial inequality is hardly a new phenomenon, the public reaction to these events does feel bigger and more broad-based.
00:45:48.000Before Floyd's death, Candid found that philanthropies provided $3.3 billion in racial equity funding in the nine years from 2011 to 2019.
00:45:54.000So something in excess of $300 million a year.
00:45:55.000So something in excess of 300 million dollars a year.
00:46:00.000Major corporations and philanthropies from 2011 to 2019.
00:46:04.000Since then, candid calculations revealed these totals for 2020.
00:46:09.000$11.6 billion in 2021 for quote-unquote racial equity funding.
00:46:12.000Okay, that is a grand total, if I'm doing my math correctly, of $24.3 billion.
00:46:15.000billion dollars in 2021 for quote unquote racial equity funding.
00:46:19.000Okay, that that that is a grand total if I'm doing my math correctly of 24.3 billion dollars 24.3 billion dollars in 2020 2021 coming from major institutions in our society for the Black Lives Matter movement.
00:46:35.000I know the conservative movement really well.
00:46:36.000There is no way in hell the conservatives have ever spent anything remotely like that in a two-year period on anything political, including elections.
00:46:42.000Okay, on a presidential election, conservatives might spend, I don't know, what, a billion dollars?
00:47:08.000Silicon Valley Community Foundation, $1 billion.
00:47:10.000Walton Family Foundation, $689 million.
00:47:12.000The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, $438 million.
00:47:15.000Foundation to Promote an Open Society, that's George Soros, $350.5 million.
00:47:21.000The institutions in our society do run in one direction.
00:47:25.000The institutional power in our society runs in one direction.
00:47:28.000To suggest that the institutional power and the threat to our country lies in the direction of a few hundred people who went, as far as I'm aware, unarmed into the Capitol building.
00:47:40.000There's no guns found on anybody in the Capitol building, so far as I'm aware.
00:47:43.000That that is the true threat to democracy.
00:47:45.000And the true threat to democracy is not the fact that all of our institutions, from politics to media to corporate life, have swiveled behind a radical agenda that undermines political comedy in the country.
00:47:57.000Is a wild misdirect, which of course is what this really is, right?