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00:00:24.000Kevin 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.
00:00:33.000And 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.
00:00:57.000It's a part of the same broader rubric traditional values must die so i feel satisfied with my sexual life within.
00:01:03.000All the spurs from the same source so good for kevin roberts is the new head of heritage foundation.
00:01:09.000He 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.
00:01:17.000The concept of marriage between a man and a woman is and must remain non-negotiable.
00:01:20.000It is a concept foundational to human flourishing and inherent to men and women as image bearers of our creator.
00:01:25.000Now more than ever, we need leaders who will stand up for these basic truths.
00:01:27.000The 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.
00:01:36.000I recognize there are some, including those on the right, who'd rather see the marriage issue just disappear.
00:01:45.000We 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.
00:01:55.000He 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
00:02:25.000that we can sever every bond between human beings, including the closest bond that exists between mother and child?
00:02:30.000That 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.
00:02:40.000And 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.
00:02:50.000And 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.
00:03:04.000And the simple fact is that if it works, you don't break it.
00:03:07.000And yet the entire premise of the left is that if you can't explain it, they break it.
00:03:11.000And even if you can explain it, they break it, is the reality.
00:03:13.000Because all that matters to them is the end outcome.
00:03:16.000Which 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.
00:03:27.000Alrighty, in just one second, I've been traveling throughout Israel.
00:03:29.000I want to give you the updates on how that is going, because it really is quite fascinating.
00:03:32.000First, You've heard me debunk communism, JFK conspiracies, and other disputed topics.
00:03:37.000What I haven't debunked yet is the lie surrounding store-bought meat.
00:03:40.000Grocery stores and leftists will tell you to buy the grass-fed, super-omega, morally superior, equity-bringing, live-your-truth beef.
00:03:45.000Pushing the lie, those labels mean anything at all.
00:03:47.000Well, they don't mean anything at all.
00:03:49.000In fact, those labels are often slapped on products imported from overseas with more frequent flyer miles than you have.
00:03:53.000Here is the label that actually matters.
00:03:58.000Good Ranchers only sources from farms and ranches here in the United States.
00:04:01.000Maybe you thought a steak cooking over a fire couldn't get more American.
00:04:04.000It can, with any box of Good Ranchers.
00:04:06.000I'm told the iron levels of the Daily Wire employees is at an all-time high because they've just been stuffing their faces with Good Ranchers.
00:04:40.000Okay, so as you may have noticed from our filming setting, I'm actually filming from Israel last week, this week, next week.
00:04:47.000And I gotta say, it's been pretty incredible to see the progress That has been made in Israel over the course of time.
00:04:56.000There 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.
00:05:01.000So there are certain things that crop up, obviously, when you travel around Israel.
00:05:04.000The first thing is that Israel has a bunch of bureaucratic legislation.
00:06:38.000But in spite of all this, Israel has been able to achieve phenomenal economic success.
00:06:43.000You know, Israel is burdened with a terrible bureaucratic system.
00:06:47.000It is dominated by public sector unions.
00:06:49.000Israel has a terrible judicial system in which the judiciary... You heard about judicial activism in the United States.
00:06:54.000At least in the United States, there's a written constitution.
00:06:56.000There is no written constitution in Israel.
00:06:58.000So the Supreme Court of Israel basically just writes whatever it wants and everybody is expected to comply.
00:07:03.000The Supreme Court in Israel actually even appoints its own successors.
00:07:06.000So imagine Ruth Bader Ginsburg appointing her own successor.
00:07:09.000That's essentially how it works in the state of Israel.
00:07:11.000These folks are not answerable to the actual legislature of the state of Israel, the Knesset.
00:07:17.000Despite all these problems, Israel has seen a lot of success.
00:07:19.000So 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?
00:07:30.000America 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.
00:07:39.000You 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.
00:07:44.000Israel is still, because it's a small country, and because it's still relatively new, it's only 74 years old.
00:07:53.000You still sometimes have to call the brother-in-law who knows somebody over at one of the ministries in order to get something done.
00:07:58.000But in spite of that, Israel has grown at an extraordinary pace.
00:08:02.000And more than that, Israel has a healthy and vibrant social fabric.
00:08:05.000So 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?
00:08:16.000But the reproduction rate in Israel is way higher than any place else In the Western world.
00:08:21.000The reproduction rate in Israel, including in the secular areas, is well above replacement rates.
00:08:26.000Like, kids are a priority in the state of Israel.
00:08:30.000The reproduction rate in Judea and Samaria, which are the most biblically historic parts of Israel, that'd be like Hebron, Ephrat, all those areas.
00:08:39.000Hundreds of thousands of Jews live over there.
00:08:42.000Supposedly outside quote-unquote Green Line Israel, the disputed territories.
00:08:45.000The reproduction rate there is 4.6 kids per family.
00:09:01.000Overall, the state of Israel has a reproduction rate of well over 3.
00:09:04.000The fertility rate in Haifa, which again is a very secular area, is 2.4.
00:09:11.000So, 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.
00:09:22.000A state is just a formalization of a pre-existing political arrangement.
00:09:26.000There has to be a sense of national unity in order for a state to survive.
00:09:29.000There has to be a sense of common national purpose and common national destiny.
00:10:21.000And the reason for that is, again, because there's a certain level of social fabric and solidarity that exists.
00:10:25.000Now, it exists because of common religion, obviously.
00:10:29.000And there's a sort of traditional aspect to religion that used to exist in the United States among people who considered themselves more secular.
00:10:35.000And people would still say that they believed in God, they still believed in general Judeo-Christian principles.
00:10:50.000But there's something else too, and that is that Israel is threatened existentially on all of its borders, and that means solidarity.
00:10:58.000So if you go back to the 1990s in Israel, so the first time I visited Israel was 2000.
00:11:02.0002000 happened to be the beginning of the second intifada.
00:11:04.000So we were in Israel when the Sparrows pizzeria was bombed, killing a couple of Americans.
00:11:08.000Actually, no, the father of one of the people was killed in that bombing.
00:11:11.000The 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.
00:11:19.000The 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.
00:11:26.000There was that movement on the left in Israel.
00:11:28.000And then it turns out that an implacable foe that wants your destruction has a good way of clarifying the mind.
00:11:33.000Suddenly you realize, wait a second, the people who I thought were my enemies are actually my friends.
00:11:37.000Those people are actually my brothers and sisters.
00:11:39.000Americans have stopped thinking about each other that way because we haven't had an existential threat really since the Soviet Union.
00:11:45.000But the truth is that history will always provide an existential threat to a country that weakens itself from within.
00:11:50.000In Israel, that reflected itself in a radical shift toward the center-right in Israel.
00:11:54.000Right now, the Israeli Knesset, the parliament here, 80 of 120 seats should be considered center to center-right.
00:12:02.000And if they're slightly left of center, it's only on religious policy.
00:12:06.000It is certainly not on matters of military defense, for example.
00:12:11.000Now, that sort of solidarity is really, really important for a country, and America lacks that level of solidarity.
00:14:00.000I think America will get that together.
00:14:02.000When you visit a country like Israel, you realize that all anew.
00:14:06.000And 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.
00:14:13.000Alrighty, we'll be back here next week with much, much more content.
00:14:16.000In the meantime, rest up over the weekend.
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