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00:03:37.000Now, the answer to that question, most Americans get right because most Americans aren't insane.
00:03:44.000The answer is usually a question of morals.
00:03:49.000Crime occurs because of a lack of a moral footing, a lack of a family environment that teaches people right from wrong, not just pleasurable from unpleasurable.
00:04:06.000But the predominant view on the American left, it's always been this way, but now it's become widespread, especially in colleges and academia, is that criminals commit crimes not because that they don't know right from wrong or they weren't raised correctly, but because of their circumstances.
00:04:26.000That criminals commit crimes, especially violent crimes, because they have to.
00:04:32.000You see, this belief has been around the left for quite some time.
00:04:35.000It's one that always tries to blame the external for a problem that very well might be one of the internal.
00:04:42.000Now, that's not to say that external circumstances can't play a role with internal development.
00:04:46.000The most important one that no one wants to talk about on the collectivist authoritarian left-wing side is: are there fathers in the home?
00:04:55.000What causes the rise in crime and what causes crime?
00:05:00.000So here's a thought crime for you, first and foremost.
00:05:03.000That 5 to 10% of the population, unfortunately, has a chemical imbalance where they have a predisposition to commit crimes.
00:05:14.000No one wants to say the obvious that as we have opened mental institutions, certain areas have seen an increase in crime.
00:05:22.000Another percentage of the population, which is an unknown number, if you take any percentage, if you take any group of people, on average, one in about 20, and in certain populations, one in 10 are sociopathic.
00:05:36.000Sociopathic people are more likely to commit crimes because they do not feel the emotions.
00:05:43.000They do not feel a connection to their potential victims.
00:05:47.000And then, yes, there is a portion of people that commit crimes that happen in the moment.
00:08:30.000The Census Bureau's count shows that just 17.8% of the United States, 130 million households, featured married parents with children under the age of 18.
00:08:42.000U.S. households with married couple and children is at its lowest it's been.
00:08:49.000It's now 17.8%, the lowest it's ever been.
00:08:56.000KidsCount.com says that 34% are single-parent households of all colors, all races, I should say.
00:09:05.00064% of black households do not have a father.
00:09:10.00052% of Native American households do not have a father.
00:09:13.00042% of Hispanic households do not have a father.
00:09:17.00024% of white households do not have a father.
00:09:20.000And 15% of Asian households do not have a father.
00:09:23.000Now, if you were to run those numbers backwards, guess what?
00:09:27.000Asian Americans are the richest group in America.
00:09:32.000Whites are the second richest, then Hispanics, then Native Americans, then blacks.
00:09:36.000It's almost as if there's a direct correlation between whether or not you have fathers in the home, wealth, not going to prison, all these things.
00:09:43.000And it asks the question: what causes crime?
00:09:45.000Now, the one external thing that I think you can blame for crime is the fact that there are not fathers in the home.
00:09:53.000Seven out of 10 of every young person that is housed in a state-operated correctional facility, including detention and residential treatment, come from a fatherlessness home.
00:10:03.000Children from a fatherless home are twice as likely to drop out of school before graduating from children who have fathers in their lives, according to the NPR.
00:10:11.000Yet, where is the corporate-funded, let's get fathers back in the home agenda?
00:10:16.000Where is the taxpayer-funded, non-stop, get vaccinated, get vaccinated agenda saying keep fathers in the home?
00:10:25.000Well, the problem is that father staying in the home goes right at the root of something that corporate America and the government never wants you to actually do: take responsibility.
00:10:38.000Taking responsibility for your actions is something that the government definitely doesn't want you to do.
00:10:46.000But also, there has been for many years an exemption that men can impregnate women and abandon those women.
00:10:55.000It's almost built into a large part of American culture.
00:11:01.000Children from fatherless homes are twice as likely to drop out from school before graduating than children who have a father in their lives.
00:11:08.000Children who live in a single-parent home are more than twice as likely to commit suicide than children in a two-parent home.
00:11:14.00075% of rapists are motivated by displaced anger that is associated with feelings of abandonment that involves their father, U.S. Department of Justice.
00:11:22.000Living in a fatherlessness home is a contributing factor to substance abuse, with children from such homes accounting for 75% of adolescent patients.
00:11:31.00085% of all children which exhibit some type of behavioral disorder come from a fatherlessness home.
00:11:36.000And 90% of youth in the United States who decide to run away from home or become homeless for any reason originally come from a fatherless home.
00:11:43.000All of that is according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
00:11:45.000Yet we're not allowed to have a conversation about this widespread epidemic.
00:11:51.000Instead, we talk about systemic racism.
00:11:55.000We talk about gun crime, but not the root issues.
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00:13:57.000We know that the lack of morality and just social decay and societal decay makes any country less safe, more dangerous.
00:14:08.000See, American civil society is built on this idea that the everyday man, the middle-class man, the muscular class man, is going to do the right thing.
00:14:18.000But as America becomes a much more dangerous country, all of a sudden people are starting to point fingers.
00:14:25.000Now, the other side, the left, they start with this idea that there is no rise in crime.
00:14:33.000So, for example, the Philadelphia district attorney says that there is no major rise in crime in the country or in Philadelphia, which, of course, is gaslighting.
00:14:48.000So, the Phil, and by the way, whatever happened to that story of the illegal alien who raped a woman for 45 minutes on a train while everyone else was filming it and did nothing.
00:15:17.000And L.A. was dangerous to begin with, but L.A. is basically a complete war zone at this point.
00:15:24.000There's a big recall effort underway to try to get Gascon out of office.
00:15:29.000And Gascon said, look, when I took the office, the legal system here offered victims one solution after someone caused them harm, a long sentence.
00:15:38.000We have set a path for ourselves to turn around the criminal legal system in this country in a way that's more humane, more equitable, and above all, will create a safer environment for all of us.
00:15:48.000So basically, they believe in almost a Rousseauian view of the world that if there's anything wrong with the world, it's not because of broken human nature.
00:15:56.000It's because human nature can progress to the next station of perfection.
00:16:04.000So you must understand when you hear the word progressive, the thing that they're actually trying to progress is human nature.
00:16:16.000One thing that is a massive difference between conservatives and leftists is we as conservatives believe in a fixed station of human nature.
00:16:27.000We believe that human nature is unchangeable.
00:16:34.000Now you can improve who you are as a person.
00:16:37.000You can improve your character, but your nature, your natural operating system, it's there to stay.
00:16:57.000We have set a path for ourselves to turn around the criminal legal system in this country in a way that will become more humane, more equitable, and above all, will create a safer environment for all of us.
00:17:14.000Los Angeles Times, crews of burglars publicly smashing their way into Los Angeles' most exclusive stores, robbers following their victims, including a star of the real housewives of Beverly Hills and a BET host to their residences.
00:17:27.000And this week, the fatal shooting of an 81-year-old Jacqueline Avant, an admired philanthropist and wife of music lecheon Clarence Avin in her Beverly Hills home.
00:17:35.000After two years of rising violent crime, the Los Angeles Times writes, these incidents have sparked a national conversation.
00:17:44.000If they have a problem, they're like, oh, there's a debate and a conversation.
00:17:49.000There's really not much of a conversation.
00:17:50.000People are dying about both the crimes themselves and where the outrage over the violence will lead.
00:17:57.000Quote, the fact this has happened, her being shot and killed in her own home after giving, sharing, and caring for 81 years, has shaken the laws of the universe, declared Oprah Winfrey.
00:18:09.000Oh, Oprah, I thought once Joe Biden got elected, everything else, I thought the laws of the universe were going to recenter.
00:18:15.000I should say once Joe Biden got implemented, not elected.
00:18:18.000While overall city crime rates are below what happened in the notorious gang wars in the 90s, violent crime has jumped sharply in LA as it has in other cities.
00:18:28.000And what does Biden say and his whole team say?
00:18:31.000They say, look, it's because of the pandemic.
00:18:34.000So when a huge group of criminals organizes themselves and they want to go loot a store, a CVS, an Ordstrom, a Home Depot, until the shelves are clean, you think that's because of the pandemic?
00:18:46.000I think a root cause in a lot of communities is the pandemic.
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00:20:29.000So Pedro, you've been speaking out lately about a lot of different things.
00:20:33.000I want to start with kind of the war on American men and the importance of talking about masculinity and how that ties into several different kind of unfolding crises in front of us.
00:21:07.000I don't think that word actually sums it up.
00:21:09.000When you have things like educators pushing critical race theory and radical gender ideology on kids, when you have educators pushing things like transgenderism on our kids and experimental vaccines on our kids behind our backs, I don't want civility.
00:21:25.000I don't want endless blathering about the free market of ideas.
00:21:29.000I want methodological barbarism because for me, being a man means defending the family, not talking about the importance of the family endlessly, but actually doing something about it.
00:21:40.000And I think that the conservative intellectual movement has really failed to go beyond that stage, simply talking about masculinity and trying to kind of denude it and make it something that is civil and harmless.
00:21:53.000We need the kind of middle American that shows up in school board meetings and gets thrown out because they call out the superintendent or the people on the school board for the right reason and they don't like to hear it.
00:22:40.000All the things that I just described, the things that boil parents' blood, the things that make them show up and fight for their children at these meetings and things like that.
00:23:31.000The new right, strange and dangerous cult of toughness, an emergency culture idolizing a twisted version of toughness at the highest, the highest ideal, despises a false version of weakness as the lowest vice.
00:23:49.000But why, first, obviously he's mistaken, but some people on the intelligentsia say, no, we shouldn't talk about masculinity or toughness.
00:23:59.000We should be focused on tax rates or at most just kind of school choice.
00:24:05.000Why is the war on the American male and masculinity in general an issue that kind of touches almost every other issue or connects to almost every other issue?
00:24:15.000Well, first, weakness is not strength.
00:24:18.000And there's nothing virtuous about turning the other cheek when the person that's trying to strike you wants to destroy you, everything you love, your family, and the country that you live in.
00:24:39.000And this gets to my point, actually, of the conservative movement.
00:24:42.000French is actually just a small part of this.
00:24:45.000Recall that National Review condemned Nick Sandman as evil for doing nothing but smiling while being right.
00:24:52.000National Review sided with Al Sharpton against George Zimmerman and has called for the Confederate monuments to come down.
00:24:59.000National Review has called for us to compromise on LGBT ideology.
00:25:03.000The conservative intelligentsia, the conservative political movement has failed Middle America precisely because it thinks of itself as somehow perhaps better than middle America.
00:25:34.000A strong person takes responsibility for their actions and is able to control the impulses of the flesh for something that is virtuous, good, beautiful, and true and rare.
00:25:46.000Talk a little bit about that practically, because some people just kind of have this idea of, oh, strong men, it's going to be a bunch of weightlifters.
00:25:53.000By the way, we do have declining testosterone in the West.
00:25:59.000But what does this actually look like practically outside of kind of a more abstract kind of critique?
00:26:04.000Well, I think there is actually a fundamental connection between physical strength and mental toughness.
00:26:09.000And mental toughness matters because whether you are mentally tough or not will determine how you react to persecution and pain and suffering, which is what we need right now.
00:26:19.000Men who are strong in body and mind and able to resist being persecuted, whether that is for what they believe or literally perhaps being physically confronted for what they think, because that is the world that we live in today.
00:26:32.000So I actually think that the connection between the mind and the body is inseparable.
00:26:36.000A good philosopher on this, although he's not American, is Yukio Mishima in Sun and Steel.
00:26:41.000He compares the body to essentially an orchard, and that if you allow your orchard to just fall apart, well, then the fruit that it bears isn't going to be all that great, right?
00:26:51.000So I think there's a fundamental connection there.
00:26:57.000What is actually our vision of healthy masculinity?
00:27:01.000Because on the other hand, there is such a thing as unironically toxic masculinity, which you just described, the man who gets a woman pregnant and then leaves.
00:27:10.000The man who thinks that the apogee of manhood is beating a woman, something like that, right?
00:27:16.000That's obviously not what we mean when we talk about masculinity.
00:27:20.000It's almost not even worth addressing that point to your critics because it's so stupid and absurd.
00:27:25.000This is a constructive discussion to have with people that are like-minded and are trying to work this out.
00:27:30.000But do we actually need to entertain this argument that when we talk about healthy manhood, we mean beating women and things like that?
00:27:37.000It's so dumb, it doesn't really deserve an answer.
00:27:58.000The question is, what is our ultimately our one hand vision of masculinity?
00:28:04.000And on the other hand, how do we cultivate it?
00:28:05.000I actually don't think there's a solution at scale.
00:28:07.000You can't snap your fingers, pass a law, and then, you know, put HGH or TREN in the water supply, and then everyone's testosterone levels go back up.
00:28:17.000This is actually a long-term civilizational project that actually begins with ourselves and the people that we know and love.
00:28:25.000From the food we eat to the lack of actual muscular exercise that children are now undergoing, testosterone rates have gone down nearly 80% in some circles since the 1970s and 80s.
00:28:38.000And who knows if it's intentional or not?
00:28:40.000I mean, we could, I think it is when you have public intellectuals saying that it's because of men that these things are happening.
00:28:47.000But what they're really getting at, though, is that there is this kind of hyper-feminization of the American project.
00:28:54.000And of course, feminine qualities are important for a balance for the continuation of the human species.
00:29:01.000But a hyper-feminized society is an incredibly fragile society.
00:29:05.000It's also one that we're living through in that case.
00:29:08.000Talk a little bit about that and talk about kind of just some of the attributes of the masculine and the feminine.
00:29:13.000And we're totally out of whack in this sense.
00:29:15.000And then all of a sudden, people wonder why young male suicide rates are so high.
00:29:20.000They wonder why young men are kind of this lost boys generation.
00:29:24.000Well, some of it is they walk outside the door and all of society, especially if you're a young white man, is almost propagandized against you.
00:29:35.000So I can talk a little bit from experience.
00:29:39.000My father was a really hard man, and he taught me how to be a man and directly teaching me that, but then also he taught me not how to be a man.
00:30:05.000I understand now that every little thing that I do, everything that I say, everything that I, the habits that I have, all of this will affect the way that my son grows up and the way that he acts when he goes out into the world.
00:30:19.000And so what I try to project around my son, and I mean, this ultimately, this is kind of forcing me to grow up, although that probably should have happened a while ago.
00:30:29.000But for me, the qualities of a man are someone who is stable, someone who is stalwart, someone who is calm under pressure, someone who knows that there is a time to use aggression.
00:30:46.000We should never accept the idea that aggression is bad.
00:30:49.000Aggression is good when it's constructively channeled.
00:30:52.000Assertiveness is what we need, actually.
00:30:55.000You raise this question of what happens when basically the effeminate and masculine get swapped, basically when men act like women.
00:31:06.000It's when men just roll over and let terrible things happen to their country and their community.
00:31:12.000So, but without a healthy masculine role model, we see the things that you're seeing now and all across the United States and in cities where crime rates are going through the roof.
00:31:24.000Basically, this is uncontrolled aggression.
00:31:41.000It's just that we hate men so much in society that we have decided that we can eye roll when people talk about this.
00:31:49.000But then we scratch our heads and wonder why are we seeing these spikes in crime and things like that, or these spikes in childhood depression, in a sense of loneliness, a feeling that there's a kind of void that needs to be filled by something.
00:32:05.000It's precisely of this issue, that there are no healthy or there are too few healthy male role models in our lives.
00:32:15.000And that's something that we need to say, that it's creating deeply unhappy women, especially unmarried single women in their early 30s that were told that they have to go pursue a career and they have to become masculine to compensate for the society that doesn't have men around.
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00:33:45.000A man who thinks he's a woman come and do that vaccine promo.
00:33:48.000But then Pedro, what's really weird is that as we're told strength is a bad thing and all this, there's this kind of baseless posturing done by the American national security apparatus when it comes to a foreign border that most Americans shouldn't care about, don't care about, and can't even identify in a map.
00:34:05.000And it says, if Vladimir Putin dares cross this line, we might have to use nuclear weapons.
00:34:35.000There are plenty of people who actually believe in this.
00:34:36.000Like the woke generals probably are actually woke.
00:34:39.000But the important thing is, is that the LGBT stuff, it provides a kind of a, this is the basis for us getting involved everywhere all over the world, is that we have to bring feminism and LGBT ideology to all these countries that don't have it.
00:34:57.000We have to decriminalize laws that institute traditional marriage, whether it's in Africa or whatever, Russia.
00:35:05.000I think that there is a tendency among the conservative political movement to kind of jiu-jitsu genuine masculine feelings into these imperial projects.
00:35:26.000There's nothing manly about getting involved in other people's business while your own country is going to hell.
00:35:31.000And there's certainly nothing manly about bringing the pride flag to Kabul.
00:35:37.000There's nothing manly about fighting for a regime.
00:35:41.000And this still provokes disbelief in people, but this actually happened.
00:35:46.000The CIA bribed Afghan tribal leaders over there with, among other things, Viagra, because there's a penchant among these Afghan tribal leaders to rape little boys.
00:36:02.000Many of these leaders are older, right?
00:36:14.000Let me ask you, is part of this, and I know this sounds kind of bizarre, but you'll get, is this some of this like a compensation strategy for people that are really like uncertain of their own masculinity that they have to kind of like saber rattle with Russia?
00:36:27.000Maybe I'm like going too far with that, but the true masculine thing is to know your limitations and take responsibility for your family and your nation, not to be irresponsible.
00:37:02.000But I do know that there is absolutely nothing masculine about neoconservative foreign policy.
00:37:09.000When the Pentagon says, sorry, we can't deploy troops and resources to the border.
00:37:16.000The apparatus is in charge of national security doesn't care about national security, but it wants you to fight and die to protect other people's borders.
00:37:26.000It's an exploitation of masculinity, of the last little bits of it in this country, and using it for fundamentally stupid and perverse projects.
00:37:35.000What you just articulated is so important that at times some of these wars are actually sold on the premise that it is the masculine thing to do to beat our chest and to go into every conflict.
00:37:48.000In reality, the higher level of masculinity is one of restraint, prudence, and contemplation, to use an Aristotelian framework of, is this really our role?