The Ben Shapiro Show - The Left Wants To Raise Your Children | Ep. 1545

A Chicago mother has her daughter removed from her by the government all because she believes her daughter is a girl. Plus, we discuss the latest from my trip to Israel. The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Protect your data the way that I do. Check it out over at ExpressVpn.com slash Ben Shapiro on the right side of the page. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and also, Im gonna be giving out some gifts to the best REVIEWS in the next few weeks! 5 stars is much appreciated and really helps spread the word about what's going on. The opinions and thoughts expressed here are our own, not those of our companies, and are not related to those of any other companies. We do not endorse, promote, or endorse any other company or product that is in any way affiliated with it. This podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment of a medical or mental health problem. It is not meant to be intended to diagnose, treat, prevent, or prevent any medical or other medical problem, diagnosis or treatment, except that which is indicated in the article. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or nutritionist, or other professional nutritionist. Thank you for listening and sharing this podcast with your friends, family, colleagues, or your fellow listeners. You are being kind enough to leave us a review and share your thoughts and support us in the comments section below. -Ben Shapiro -The Ben Shapiro show is a work of a website that does not promote a product that doesn t promote veganism, vegetarianism, veganism or vegetarianism or other vegetarianism? Ben Shapiro is a friend of a company that makes veganism and vegetarianism and other such thing? - Thank you, Ben Shapiro - The Benny Shapiro Show - . -- Thank you? -- , ? "I don't mean anything at all by that means I don t mean anything I don't have anything at anything I do not mean anything by that doesn't mean that means anything at that is a fact I do NOT mean anything is anything at a thing I do that I have anything does not mean that I mean anything ... I do anything that I really do not have anything that is anything that he does not do that is something I do ... I have a fact that I've actually have anything to do ...

00:00:00.000 A Chicago mother has her daughter removed from her by the government all because she believes her daughter is a girl.

00:00:05.000 Plus, we discuss the latest from my trip to Israel.

00:00:07.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:22.000 President of the Heritage Foundation.

00:00:24.000 Kevin Roberts is now fighting back against some of the more libertarian-oriented members of the conservative movement and pointing out that traditional marriage is still a pretty damned important thing in society.

00:00:33.000 And it is incredible that we have now reached the point that the controversies about whether men and women exist, but it's not that incredible when you understand that the entire basis Of fundamental civilization growth is human reproductive capacity which relies on males and females being distinct and society having an interest in their mating habits and how they raise children we have tossed all of that out for the sense of sexual satisfaction we are that is to be found within.

00:00:57.000 It's a part of the same broader rubric traditional values must die so i feel satisfied with my sexual life within.

00:01:03.000 All the spurs from the same source so good for kevin roberts is the new head of heritage foundation.

00:01:09.000 He put out a statement saying, quote, marriage is a foundational bedrock of human society, one that many on the radical left are seeking to undermine and ultimately sweep away.

00:01:17.000 The concept of marriage between a man and a woman is and must remain non-negotiable.

00:01:20.000 It is a concept foundational to human flourishing and inherent to men and women as image bearers of our creator.

00:01:25.000 Now more than ever, we need leaders who will stand up for these basic truths.

00:01:27.000 The bad faith effort in Congress to weaponize marriage disrespects our fundamental institutions and divides Americans in a quest to score cheap political points no matter the social consequences.

00:01:36.000 I recognize there are some, including those on the right, who'd rather see the marriage issue just disappear.

00:01:39.000 I want to be clear.

00:01:40.000 I and my colleagues at the Heritage Foundation firmly disagree with that view.

00:01:43.000 We do so with kindness and respect.

00:01:45.000 We should not let the left divide us or weaken our shared interest in blocking this politicized stunt." He's talking about the fact that Congress is now taking up a bill that would enshrine same-sex marriage in law, regardless of Obergefell.

00:01:55.000 He says, to self-describe conservatives voicing support for this legislation or assenting with a shrug in a sure why not response, I offer this advice. We will remember how you respond to this moment. The left's attacks on the nuclear family and marriage are tearing at the soul of our country. Their efforts to silence and punish those who hold different beliefs is the opposite of tolerance, respect, or individual liberty. You do have to recognize that the movement that we have seen on the left from leave us alone in the privacy of our bedrooms to we need all of our activities celebrated by law and our perspectives must be ingrained in every legal institution to the point

00:02:25.000 that we can sever every bond between human beings, including the closest bond that exists between mother and child?

00:02:30.000 That is all part of the same concerted push against traditional values and pushing back against that push is going to require revival of an understanding of traditional wisdom.

00:02:40.000 And one of the great realities of life that we refuse to acknowledge here in the post-Enlightenment West is that many of the things that we do, we do because tradition says we should do them.

00:02:50.000 And if they've improved over time, by thousands of years of practice, maybe I don't need some pointy head professor at a major Ivy League university to give me a rationale for why the thing works.

00:03:01.000 If a thing works, you use it.

00:03:04.000 And the simple fact is that if it works, you don't break it.

00:03:07.000 And yet the entire premise of the left is that if you can't explain it, they break it.

00:03:11.000 And even if you can explain it, they break it, is the reality.

00:03:13.000 Because all that matters to them is the end outcome.

00:03:16.000 Which again, is this perversely narcissistic notion that the only thing that matters in life is how you identify to the world, and the rest of the world is forced to comply, up to and including your parents, against actual biology.

00:03:27.000 Alrighty, in just one second, I've been traveling throughout Israel.

00:03:29.000 I want to give you the updates on how that is going, because it really is quite fascinating.

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00:04:40.000 Okay, so as you may have noticed from our filming setting, I'm actually filming from Israel last week, this week, next week.

00:04:47.000 And I gotta say, it's been pretty incredible to see the progress That has been made in Israel over the course of time.

00:04:56.000 There are a lot of things that Israel needs to learn from America, and there are some things that America really needs to learn from Israel.

00:05:01.000 So there are certain things that crop up, obviously, when you travel around Israel.

00:05:04.000 The first thing is that Israel has a bunch of bureaucratic legislation.

00:05:07.000 A lot of regulation.

00:05:09.000 Israel has an extraordinary amount of red tape.

00:05:12.000 To build a house in Israel, two years, three years, five years.

00:05:16.000 That's just the regulations.

00:05:18.000 Israel has extraordinarily high tax rates.

00:05:21.000 In the United States, the overall tax burden is about 24.5% of total domestic income.

00:05:25.000 In Israel, it's like 31%.

00:05:26.000 The top tax rate in Israel is 50% and it kicks in way lower than the top tax rate in the United States.

00:05:32.000 In America, it's 37%.

00:05:33.000 In Israel, the top corporate tax rate is 23%.

00:05:35.000 Top corporate tax rate in America is 21%.

00:05:40.000 In Israel, capital gains tax rate is like 25% for non-controlling shareholders, 30% for the actual controlling shareholders.

00:05:48.000 In the US, it's 15%.

00:05:49.000 In other words, it's hard to do business in Israel.

00:05:51.000 And yet Israel has somehow, against all odds and against bad policy, exploded economically speaking.

00:05:57.000 It is known as startup nation.

00:05:58.000 It is the place on earth with the most startups per capita.

00:06:01.000 Israel is a very small country.

00:06:02.000 Territorially, it's tiny.

00:06:04.000 It take you about 45 minutes to drive the width of the entire land of Israel in certain parts of Israel.

00:06:09.000 Maybe less.

00:06:10.000 In certain parts of Israel, it's more like 20 minutes.

00:06:13.000 The entire territory of the state of Israel is about half the size of New Jersey.

00:06:17.000 You don't really understand the Israeli-Arab conflict until you come here and you spend some time in Jerusalem.

00:06:21.000 Everybody lives cheek by jowl.

00:06:23.000 You can actually visibly see Ramallah from Jerusalem.

00:06:26.000 The parts of Jerusalem that you hear the left talk about dividing Jerusalem, that is not possible.

00:06:30.000 It's like taking your house and saying, during a divorce case, you should just divide the house down the middle.

00:06:35.000 You take this bathroom, I'll take this bedroom. 0.86

00:06:36.000 It's not going to work. 1.00

00:06:37.000 It's very, very foolish. 0.97

00:06:38.000 But in spite of all this, Israel has been able to achieve phenomenal economic success. 0.96

00:06:43.000 You know, Israel is burdened with a terrible bureaucratic system.

00:06:47.000 It is dominated by public sector unions.

00:06:49.000 Israel has a terrible judicial system in which the judiciary... You heard about judicial activism in the United States. 0.60

00:06:54.000 At least in the United States, there's a written constitution.

00:06:56.000 There is no written constitution in Israel.

00:06:58.000 So the Supreme Court of Israel basically just writes whatever it wants and everybody is expected to comply.

00:07:03.000 The Supreme Court in Israel actually even appoints its own successors.

00:07:06.000 So imagine Ruth Bader Ginsburg appointing her own successor. 1.00

00:07:09.000 That's essentially how it works in the state of Israel.

00:07:11.000 These folks are not answerable to the actual legislature of the state of Israel, the Knesset.

00:07:17.000 Despite all these problems, Israel has seen a lot of success.

00:07:19.000 So what Israel needs to learn from America is obviously how to run their government better, free markets, allowing people to keep more of what they earn, building more, less regulation, right?

00:07:28.000 All those things are necessary.

00:07:30.000 America is actually, you don't realize how well run a country America is, particularly in red states like Florida, where I live, until you come to a place like Israel, which is not particularly well run. 0.87

00:07:39.000 You can always tell the difference between, you know, how well run a country is by how many people you have to know to get something done.

00:07:44.000 Israel is still, because it's a small country, and because it's still relatively new, it's only 74 years old.

00:07:51.000 Because of that...

00:07:53.000 You still sometimes have to call the brother-in-law who knows somebody over at one of the ministries in order to get something done.

00:07:58.000 But in spite of that, Israel has grown at an extraordinary pace.

00:08:02.000 And more than that, Israel has a healthy and vibrant social fabric.

00:08:05.000 So there are lots of divisions in the state of Israel between the religious and the non-religious, between the people who live in Judea and Samaria and the people who live in Tel Aviv, between Arab and Israeli, right?

00:08:13.000 These are all real divisions.

00:08:16.000 But the reproduction rate in Israel is way higher than any place else In the Western world.

00:08:21.000 The reproduction rate in Israel, including in the secular areas, is well above replacement rates.

00:08:26.000 Like, kids are a priority in the state of Israel.

00:08:30.000 The reproduction rate in Judea and Samaria, which are the most biblically historic parts of Israel, that'd be like Hebron, Ephrat, all those areas.

00:08:39.000 Hundreds of thousands of Jews live over there.

00:08:42.000 Supposedly outside quote-unquote Green Line Israel, the disputed territories.

00:08:45.000 The reproduction rate there is 4.6 kids per family.

00:08:49.000 Which is extraordinary.

00:08:50.000 In the United States, the number is 1.6.

00:08:52.000 In Tel Aviv, which is the most secular area of Israel, Tel Aviv has a reproduction rate of 2.4.

00:09:00.000 2.5.

00:09:01.000 Overall, the state of Israel has a reproduction rate of well over 3.

00:09:04.000 The fertility rate in Haifa, which again is a very secular area, is 2.4.

00:09:11.000 So, Israel is a growing nation-state, and the reason it's a growing nation-state is because it recognizes something that the United States needs to remind itself of today, which is that a nation has to be the key component in a nation-state.

00:09:22.000 A state is just a formalization of a pre-existing political arrangement.

00:09:26.000 There has to be a sense of national unity in order for a state to survive.

00:09:29.000 There has to be a sense of common national purpose and common national destiny.

00:09:33.000 Israel does this right.

00:09:34.000 That is because Israel, obviously the Jews in Israel, have a common history.

00:09:38.000 They understand the 2,000 year exile.

00:09:41.000 They understand persecution ranging from the Spanish Inquisition to the Holocaust.

00:09:47.000 They understand that they are living on the biblical soil where their forefathers once roamed, where Abraham and Isaac walked the land.

00:09:57.000 They understand that they are walking the exact same sites where David slew Goliath.

00:10:00.000 They get all of that, right?

00:10:01.000 There's a real solidarity about all of that.

00:10:02.000 Even secular Jews, people who don't believe in the biblical origins of the Torah, still understand what the holidays are.

00:10:09.000 In the same way that, you know, people who are left in America, they should still understand what July 4th is all about.

00:10:13.000 They should still celebrate July 4th in a real way as opposed to protesting the flag.

00:10:17.000 You don't see secular Israelis protesting the flag of the State of Israel.

00:10:19.000 It's just not a thing here.

00:10:21.000 And the reason for that is, again, because there's a certain level of social fabric and solidarity that exists.

00:10:25.000 Now, it exists because of common religion, obviously.

00:10:29.000 And there's a sort of traditional aspect to religion that used to exist in the United States among people who considered themselves more secular.

00:10:35.000 And people would still say that they believed in God, they still believed in general Judeo-Christian principles.

00:10:39.000 That has sort of fallen apart.

00:10:40.000 In Israel, that has not fallen apart in nearly the same way.

00:10:44.000 It may fall apart because Israel tends to adopt all the bad policies of the West at a certain point. 0.66

00:10:48.000 Hopefully, it does not.

00:10:50.000 But there's something else too, and that is that Israel is threatened existentially on all of its borders, and that means solidarity.

00:10:58.000 So if you go back to the 1990s in Israel, so the first time I visited Israel was 2000.

00:11:02.000 2000 happened to be the beginning of the second intifada.

00:11:04.000 So we were in Israel when the Sparrows pizzeria was bombed, killing a couple of Americans.

00:11:08.000 Actually, no, the father of one of the people was killed in that bombing.

00:11:11.000 The second Intifada period, like right before that, there was a serious post-Zionist movement in Israel that's very similar to the sort of post-American movement in America.

00:11:19.000 The idea that America has no reason to exist, America is historically bad, there's no reason for it to continue, it should fall apart, that'd be better for the world.

00:11:26.000 There was that movement on the left in Israel.

00:11:28.000 And then it turns out that an implacable foe that wants your destruction has a good way of clarifying the mind.

00:11:33.000 Suddenly you realize, wait a second, the people who I thought were my enemies are actually my friends.

00:11:37.000 Those people are actually my brothers and sisters.

00:11:39.000 Americans have stopped thinking about each other that way because we haven't had an existential threat really since the Soviet Union.

00:11:45.000 But the truth is that history will always provide an existential threat to a country that weakens itself from within.

00:11:50.000 In Israel, that reflected itself in a radical shift toward the center-right in Israel.

00:11:54.000 Right now, the Israeli Knesset, the parliament here, 80 of 120 seats should be considered center to center-right.

00:12:02.000 And if they're slightly left of center, it's only on religious policy.

00:12:06.000 It is certainly not on matters of military defense, for example.

00:12:11.000 Now, that sort of solidarity is really, really important for a country, and America lacks that level of solidarity.

00:12:15.000 We used to have it.

00:12:16.000 I think we can have it again.

00:12:18.000 Now, that solidarity in American history very often left out, marginalized, and preyed upon groups, most obviously black Americans.

00:12:26.000 But the whole promise of the civil rights movement is that black Americans were now part of the bargain.

00:12:32.000 And then the left has said that they can't be part of the bargain, that nobody can be part of the bargain because the bargain's a lie.

00:12:36.000 That's not true.

00:12:37.000 The bargain is there for all Americans to take advantage of.

00:12:39.000 It's why Hispanics are shifting in a more Republican, conservative direction. 0.98

00:12:43.000 Because they don't believe the lie that the left is selling.

00:12:45.000 America needs to find the sort of social solidarity, the reason for national existence that Israel has.

00:12:51.000 Israel understands its purpose.

00:12:52.000 It's to preserve the Jewish people.

00:12:54.000 It's to preserve a future for a people that has been historically persecuted.

00:12:57.000 It is to provide freedom for all of its citizens, including Arab citizens.

00:13:02.000 That is its goal.

00:13:03.000 And there's a reason for it to exist.

00:13:04.000 And it needs to exist.

00:13:06.000 If Americans can't explain why America needs to exist, needs to, not should, needs to, then America is going to fall apart.

00:13:13.000 And what that means is we need to rediscover our national purpose.

00:13:15.000 That national purpose is embedded in the Declaration of Independence.

00:13:18.000 It's the idea that there are rights that pre-exist governments and are guaranteed by the government.

00:13:23.000 It's the idea that there is a tradition common to the vast majority of Americans rooted in Judeo-Christian virtue.

00:13:28.000 Doesn't require you to go to church, but you have to understand where those virtues came from.

00:13:31.000 That you have more in common with your neighbor than you have that differentiates you from your neighbor.

00:13:37.000 As the left pushes, this is why I think the final battle in the United States has to be over social policy.

00:13:42.000 Really, not even economic or foreign policy.

00:13:44.000 Because the things that bind us are going to be things like how we view the nuclear family.

00:13:49.000 How we view male and female.

00:13:52.000 How we view the basic institutions necessary for a free society.

00:13:55.000 The little platoons Edmund Burke talked about.

00:13:58.000 America can still get that together. 0.88

00:13:59.000 I think that the backlash is coming.

00:14:00.000 I think America will get that together.

00:14:02.000 When you visit a country like Israel, you realize that all anew.

00:14:06.000 And I think it is well worthwhile for people to take note of what Israel is doing right and what it's doing wrong because it has a lot of lessons for places like the United States.

00:14:13.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here next week with much, much more content.

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00:14:18.000 Enjoy it.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - July 29, 2022

The Left Wants To Raise Your Children | Ep. 1545

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