00:01:28.000You did this and you don't get to blow it off.
00:01:30.000Oh, you know, it was just, it was like a weird thing.
00:01:32.000You know, it was a weird time and we did woke and it was like, It just had some issues, like, oh my God, like, oh my God, like, but now, like, it's different, like, oh my God.
00:01:44.000Alexandra Ocasio Cortez, quote, One dangerous aspect of thinking there is a woke problem is that Democratic chances for re election or majorities in House, Senate, and White House rely on the racial justice issue of voting rights.
00:01:55.000Dems' distancing from racial justice makes protection of voting rights less likely, ensuring losses.
00:02:02.000I mean, she was defending woke all the way through, quote, woke is a term pundits are now using as a derogatory euphemism for civil rights and justice.
00:02:10.000Making up a woke problem results in putting civil and voting rights on the back burner.
00:02:14.000In a year, state legislatures are planning out GOP majorities and voter suppression.
00:03:23.000So woke 1.0, first of all, again, building on the, normally when you build a 2.0, that means that you're building on the bones of 1.0, right?
00:03:56.000America was born in racism, it was born from slavery.
00:03:59.000Now, woke 1.0 was originally crafted during the Obama administration.
00:04:03.000It was crafted in 2012, 2013, when Obama decided to move away from the unifying messages of 2008 and instead argue that America was inherently racist.
00:05:36.000So, if woke 1.0 argued that racism was at the root of the system, woke 2.0 argues that capitalism is at the root of the system and capitalism is the problem.
00:05:44.000So, it's not that capitalism is an outgrowth of racism, racism is an outgrowth of capitalism.
00:05:50.000So, woke 1.0 argued that free markets arose from white supremacy.
00:05:54.000This was an explicit argument made by the 1619 Project that white supremacy undergirded free markets.
00:06:00.000Woke 2.0 argues That everything bad comes from capitalism, right?
00:06:04.000That white supremacy and imperialism and colonialism, these were all results of free markets and property rights.
00:06:10.000Now, Bernie said this back in 2016, and he was kind of mocked for it because the idea was he didn't get the racial struggle.
00:06:35.000Everything is fruit of that poisonous tree.
00:06:37.000Woke 2.0 is Edward Said, the former Columbia University professor and professional lawyer who said that America's failure is that we are basically a corrupt empire.
00:06:47.000We are a corrupt empire whose capitalism corrupted the earth and everything that happens everywhere else on earth that's bad and at home is due to our terrible free market system.
00:06:56.000And who better to represent America as a corrupt empire than victims of that corrupt empire?
00:07:01.000People from outside America who can come back to America and tell us what we do wrong.
00:07:09.000But if you can come from outside and explain to us that the reason that we have shortcomings in our life is the same as they had shortcomings, but their shortcomings were so much worse than ours, but they both come from the same source, which is not white supremacy.
00:07:31.000Woke 2.0 is, Is American capitalism inherently corrupting and bad?
00:07:37.000Is America's free market system, is the West's system of freedoms and free markets inherently imperialistic, colonialist, genocidal, and racist?
00:07:46.000But that comes from its free market, private property rights system.
00:07:50.000This is why the key issue of woke 1.0 was George Floyd or Ferguson, Missouri.
00:07:54.000And the key issue for woke 2.0 is Gaza.
00:07:56.000This is why you're sitting around going like, why the hell are we talking about the Gaza Strip?
00:07:59.000You know, it's a tiny strip of land that's very far away, like 8,000 miles away.
00:08:02.000Well, the answer is because woke 2.0 is about the idea that everything bad that happens on planet Earth must be the result of terrible Westernism.
00:08:27.000If you go far back enough to the beginning of the 20th century, one of the key arguments of the post-Marx Marxism, because again, there's sort of Marx as expressed in the Communist Manifesto or Das Kapital, and then there is the sort of rejiggering of Marx when it turned out that he was wrong about everything.
00:08:42.000His prediction was that capitalism would impoverish workers.
00:08:46.000It leads to the immiseration of the population.
00:08:48.000And it turns out that was totally false, that actually capitalism raised wages, capitalism made better stuff, and materially people were better off because of capitalism.
00:08:56.000So then, The left had to do a sort of rejiggering and reinterpretation of Marx.
00:09:00.000And so they did this at the beginning of the 20th century.
00:09:02.000A Marxist named J. A. Hobson argued, famously in 1902, that imperialism was an outgrowth of capitalism.
00:09:10.000He argued that basically the excess wealth and savings accumulated under capitalism led to imperialist profit seeking abroads.
00:09:18.000There was too much money in the West, so we had to somehow spend that money somewhere, so we had to conquer other places.
00:09:38.000And you tell me this doesn't sound exactly like Bernie Sanders or Zarim Amdani or Abdullah Sayed or Hassan Piker.
00:09:43.000Quote Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and of the financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the people of the world by a handful of advanced countries.
00:09:55.000And this booty is shared between two or three powerful world marauders armed to the teeth who involve the whole world in their war over the sharing of their booty.
00:10:04.000That's Lenin in 1917, and also Mandani and El Sayed and Piker and all the rest today.
00:10:10.000It is also increasingly the Horseshoe Right, again, which sees America as a corrupt empire and sees all of that as an outgrowth of individualistic free markets.
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00:11:55.000So, Americans have been convinced over the course of the last 25 years or so that actually America is the bad guy, that we and our allies are fundamentally evil, that our foreign policy decisions of the past two decades and maybe longer, going all the way back to World War II, according to some, are actually terrible and horrible, and we're the bad guys in the world.
00:12:11.000And second, there's a lot of economic angst right now.
00:12:14.000Combine those two things a belief that America is a nefarious power globally and our economic angst, and you get woke 2.0.
00:12:23.000It's the program of Abdul El Sayed and Zarmamdani 2.
00:12:27.000Again, it's just old school Leninism with some brown foreign faces at the front, the supposed victims of the system.
00:12:33.000It's actually the dream of Jean Paul Sartre, the far left communist who wrote back in the 1960s, quote, this is about Western civilization.
00:12:41.000It's our turn to tread the path step by step, which leads down to native level.
00:12:45.000But to become natives altogether, our soil must be occupied by a formerly colonized people and we must starve of hunger, right?
00:13:33.000AOC's trying to capitalize on all of this.
00:13:36.000And here she was saying that millennials are an angry generational tsunami at the polls.
00:13:43.000Even right now, when we look at this insurgent wave of what is happening, oftentimes when people are doing that Monday morning quarterbacking and what demographics voted where, the big one that's being ignored is the generational tidal wave.
00:14:01.000It really, really, you see it in the polling.
00:14:16.000That generation is starting to be decisive at the polls.
00:14:20.000And there is anger at being ignored, sidelined, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us on everything from the economy to climate.
00:14:49.000This created a bit of an awkwardness for Abdul El Sayed.
00:14:51.000So, Abdul El Sayed, because, again, the left decided to support Ukraine against Russia because they decided that Russia was pro Trump for whatever dumb reason.
00:14:59.000Abdul El Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, he was asked on Meet the Press why he supports funding for Ukraine but not Israel.
00:15:06.000And he ignores the obvious answer, which is that he hates Jews.
00:15:09.000But here he was trying to explain the difference.
00:15:11.000And the difference is not the difference.
00:15:14.000You're saying you would not support sending aid to Israel, which was attacked by Hamas, but you have also said that you would support sending military aid to Ukraine, which was, of course, attacked and invaded by Russia.
00:15:31.000Well, in Ukraine, you're talking about attacks from a leader of a neighboring sovereign country who clearly violated international law in attempting to breach the sovereignty of the Ukrainian public.
00:16:01.000So when we're talking about taking on Putin and his violation of international law, I do believe we have a responsibility to uphold international law and therefore to support Ukraine and its efforts.
00:17:14.000But to sit here and play gotcha politics with a dumb thing somebody said out of context that they disavowed themselves to say, Oh, well, what does that mean about what you think?
00:17:24.000I want to be held accountable for what I say and what I do rather than this idea that we're so stuck in cancel culture that all of us agreed was a bad idea back in 2020, but we seem to want to bring back.
00:17:45.000And by the way, it's an entire cohesive worldview.
00:17:47.000You shouldn't be campaigning with Hassan Piker, not because Hassan Piker said something about 9 11, but because his entire worldview is built around hatred of the United States.
00:20:22.000It's a lot easier to believe that America was bad in Iraq than to believe that all your neighbors are racist.
00:20:27.000And the left, of course, is perfectly happy with woke 2.0.
00:20:30.000They're perfectly happy with woke 1.0.
00:20:31.000They'll say all the words, they'll fly all the flags, they'll put up all of the little insignias on their profiles.
00:20:37.000They may have to avoid like a few easy pitfalls, you know, shave the rough edges off Hassan Piker by claiming, as the media do, that he's just, you know, he just has comments on Israel, not that he's a full scale terrorism supporter, or pretend that Zoramanzani is just critical of corporations, not capitalism, the way that John Idiot Stewart does.
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