00:00:41.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:49.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:36.000Because Aristotle, who wrote politics, literally wrote the book called Politics, 2,400 years ago, it feels like he's talking about what we're living through right now.
00:02:52.000And so dictators, tyrants, despots act exactly the same as they did 2,400 years ago.
00:03:19.000Human nature is nothing more than a product of the circumstances around you.
00:03:31.000We as conservatives, hence the sweatshirt that I'm wearing that you guys can find at shop tpusa.com, we believe that human nature is naturally flawed, that human nature is a constant battle between good and evil, and that people will act in predictable patterns.
00:03:53.000The Rassoian view, and yes, Plato had this view in some sense, and this is where Plato and Aristotle disagreed.
00:03:59.000They thought that human beings can be improved or perfected even if certain things are changed or implemented.
00:04:12.000This is why the United States Constitution is the most phenomenal breakthrough, because the U.S. Constitution was not written for the times.
00:04:22.000It was written to stand the test of time.
00:04:34.000Dictators preserve themselves by not letting there be any schools or collegial gatherings for leisured pursuits and doing everything that will keep all people as unknown to one another as possible since familiarity breeds a greater degree of mutual trust.
00:05:03.000They keep public gatherings shut down.
00:05:08.000Schools are still closed in California, New York, and we've gone through an entire year of school closures and lockdowns, complete and total societal isolation.
00:05:19.000They kept you from celebrating Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas, New Year's, birthdays with your family and friends, and doing everything that will, quote, keep all people as unknown to one another as possible, since familiarity breeds a greater degree of mutual trust.
00:06:46.000When you do not have that common sense of trust or familiarity, that's where dictators, that's where despots, that's where tyrannical leaders are able to assume ultimate control.
00:07:05.000This paragraph here that was written 2,400 years ago sounds like something that was written yesterday by a very wise person on Twitter.
00:07:16.000So how is it possible that something that was written so long ago applies as if we're reading it in real time?
00:07:23.000Again, it goes back to this idea that human nature does not change, and especially the pattern of power grabbers or central planners, dictators or despots.
00:07:43.000The treatise continues and it's just so amazing when you read this.
00:07:48.000It just makes you shocked That not every young person in the country is exposed to this.
00:07:59.000And I quote: Another art of the tyrant is to sow quarrels among the citizens.
00:08:06.000Friends should be embroiled with friends, the people with the notables, and the rich with one another.
00:08:12.000The tyrant will also impoverish his subjects.
00:08:17.000He thus provides against the maintenance of any guard by the citizens, and the people having to keep hard at work prevented from conspiring against him.
00:08:28.000What better way to execute a plunder of the people than have a race, class, and gender war perpetually happening, and no one actually questions who's in charge?
00:08:40.000An art of the tyrant is to sow quarrels among the citizens.
00:08:57.000The act of a tyrant, the act of a failed leader, and I think a little bit of Biden in this sense, but he's obviously not all there.
00:09:08.000I think more of Whitmer, I think more of Cuomo, I think more of Newsom, I think more of Pritzker is to sow quarrels amongst the citizens.
00:09:37.000And it was a lecture on Aristotle's book on politics, which every young person in the country should have to read before they're allowed to comment on anything political.
00:10:03.000We don't talk about this enough in the conservative movement.
00:10:07.000And I think the reason that people don't like talking about it is it gets too esoteric and too out of reach too quickly.
00:10:15.000So let me just read this one piece again for you.
00:10:18.000It couldn't be more real or applicable.
00:10:21.000Dictators, dictators, preserve themselves by not letting there be any schools or any other college gatherings or collegial gatherings for leisured pursuits and doing everything that will keep all people as unknown to one another as possible since familiarity breeds a greater degree of mutual trust.
00:10:43.000Basically, when you are familiar with one another, when you have relationships, you are less likely to be controlled by a tyrant or by a despot.
00:10:59.000It says, quote, canceling or not letting there be leisured pursuits, no boating in the state of Michigan, no family gatherings for Thanksgiving, no playing catch with your son in a public park in a constant state of fear.
00:11:19.000And so this is a strategy that is literally as old as the written word.
00:11:26.0002,400 years ago, they're talking about closing schools.
00:11:33.000Maybe if schools remained open during the lockdown, the energy, the camaraderie, the relationships amongst the most ambitious, the most forward-thinking, would be challenging all of this tyranny.
00:11:48.000If you shut people into their home, you keep masks on them, and they open up their laptop, then they'll be in a constant state of fear, which remember, we've gone over, scared people are easier to command.
00:13:28.000A tyrant is also fond of making war in order that his subjects may have something to do and be always in want of a leader.
00:13:41.000We're always in the midst of a crisis.
00:13:43.000We're always in the midst of an emergency because war, chaos makes it so that his subjects may have something to do and always be in want of a leader.
00:14:00.000How does a dictator make himself in demand?
00:14:40.000They're really on this Myanmar kick right now.
00:14:43.000Front page of the Wall Street Journal today.
00:14:48.000Paul Powell pledges steady policy as yields rise.
00:14:53.000Federal Reserve's powell reiterated his intention to keep easy monetary policies in place or easy money policies, but provided no sign the central bank will seek to stem a recent rise in treasury yields.
00:15:04.000That's code for we will create money endlessly and limitlessly out of thin air.
00:15:13.000But there's a story bigger than all of that that goes to the heart of what we're living through.
00:15:19.000It's a story that will not get press coverage, but it is a story that in itself is important, but with a broader application, it is critical to understand.
00:15:34.000Joe Biden's Department of Justice has dismissed more than one-third of the cases against Portland's rioters.
00:15:50.000Local news reports: quote, federal prosecutors have dismissed more than one-third of cases stemming from last summer's violent protest in downtown Portland, where protesters clashed with federal agents.
00:16:12.000The network, who actually did their job, reviewed federal court records and found 31 of the 90 cases have been dismissed by the United States Department of Justice.
00:16:23.000Some of the most serious charges dropped include four defendants charged with assaulting a federal officer, which is a felony.
00:16:37.000All of the charges stem from Antifa rioters clashing with special agents of the federal government brought in to protect the courthouse.
00:18:32.000The message this sends, though, is that if you are a pastor in San Jose keeping your church open, we will threaten you with arrest and put $2 million of fines behind you.
00:18:43.000Mike McClure, if you're a rioter who assaults a federal agent in Portland, we will not even press charges against you.
00:18:55.000If you want to go sing Christian music publicly in Idaho, we will arrest you.
00:19:53.000But the Biden Department of Justice is now choosing to not focus on anything that happened in Portland.
00:20:01.000In fact, 68% of all referred cases dropped.
00:20:08.000So, what does this say to the rest of us?
00:20:13.000You say, you see, if there are rules and the punishment and the consequence is generally unknown, then you have a form of chaos.
00:20:24.000I call this a new anarcho-fascist regime where anarchy is encouraged as long as you're advocating for the correct positions and doing what is socially acceptable.
00:20:41.000For example, the federal government or a state government under a Democrat mayor or governor will allow you to shoot up with heroin on the side of the street.
00:21:10.000Heroin, public benefits, and injection sites.
00:21:15.000About a month ago, a young man who did something he probably shouldn't have done, posted a series of deceiving memes in the 2016 election, got arrested by Biden's Department of Justice.
00:22:02.000He said, The more laws, the less justice.
00:22:06.000What he meant by that was that when you have so many laws on the books, so voluminous, all of the power then goes on the implementation and whomever is charged with enforcing those laws.
00:22:23.000He had another phenomenal quote, which was, in the time of war, the law falls silent.
00:22:34.000The left believes that they are in the middle of a mass revolution.
00:22:41.000And you hear them say all the time, well, we have to fight for social justice, environmental justice, racial justice.
00:22:51.000Well, it's directly at odds with the biblical principle that justice should never show favor to the rich, to the poor, but instead, and we've embodied this in our imagery and the symbols of our justice system, Lady Liberty is blind.
00:23:10.000The secular nihilist left does not believe this.
00:23:15.000They believe justice, the role of justice, is to insert themselves to rebalance the playing field.
00:23:25.000Therefore, the Portland rioters are actually doing something moral, regardless if they burned down half the city, if they started chazz in Seattle, if they killed a young man who still have not found out all of the details of that murder.
00:23:43.000That is in the pursuit, the long march to justice.
00:23:50.000But if you dare sing in Moscow, Idaho, we will arrest you.
00:23:58.000If you open your church, we will arrest you.
00:24:03.000Storm a federal courthouse, get off on all charges.
00:24:08.000Now, I no longer have to do this theoretical thought exercise.
00:24:16.000Imagine if 300 or 800 people with Trump flags went into a federal building.
00:24:29.000Well, we don't have to imagine that, and we've already broken down the facts of it: of the people largely responsible for the instigation was a group of very radical, small group of people, and we've gone through all of the nuance around it.
00:24:46.000But those people involved are not just being held accountable, but they are having the entire force of the federal government thrown at them.
00:24:55.000Whereas the Biden Department of Justice is now basically saying, anyone involved in the racial justice protests in Portland, you're good to go, including four defendants charged with assaulting a federal officer.
00:25:13.000And some of them were dismissed with prejudice, which means the case can never be brought back to court.
00:25:46.000We have a two-tier justice system, one for allies of the left and one for adversaries of the left.
00:25:53.000That is the two-tier justice system we have in our country.
00:25:56.000Where if you open your church, you will be criminalized.
00:26:01.000But if you go storm a federal courthouse in Portland, you can do as you wish.
00:26:08.000And when people do not know the consequences of their actions and they believe that the only way that you'll be held accountable is if you have a different opinion from the predominant viewpoint, then we have lost anything resembling a justice system in our country.
00:26:49.000They are being released into the United States.
00:26:52.000Now, you're not going to tell me that a governor is going to shut me down and not allow me to do my job and let in illegals because we've got a heart.
00:28:02.000Hundreds of thousands of people are coming from Nicaragua, from Honduras, from Mexico, from El Salvador with diseases, potential dependence on the U.S. taxpayer.
00:28:16.000It's happening at a rate we have never seen before.
00:28:21.000One of President Trump's crowning achievements was solving the southern border crisis, working with our allies, and constructing a southern border.
00:28:28.000While Joe Biden wants to give preference to foreigners, and it has been higher on the southern border, but it's spiking and on pace to get to its highest ever levels.
00:28:46.000But it's the highest it's been in recent years.
00:29:06.000You want to plan that you will be able within a reasonable time to pull back, but not at a time when we have circulating variants and when you have what looks like a plateauing of the decline in the cases on a daily basis.
00:29:22.000When people are scared, they are easier to control.
00:29:27.000You want to know why people don't trust their government?
00:29:30.000Exhibit A as to why you don't trust the government is that guy, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has failed upwards his entire career, has never been right about anything consequential, wrong about epidemiology, wrong about social distance, wrong about masks, wrong about therapeutics, wrong about mental health consequences.
00:29:52.000You want to know why people don't trust the government?