00:00:29.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:35.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:00:50.000Pursuing truth is a huge part of who I am and what I stand for.
00:00:54.000When you look around at what's happening to our country, you can see why many people are experiencing real frustration with the news media along with feelings of uncertainty and a lack of hope for the future.
00:01:02.000How can we know which news is true and where or in whom can we place our trust?
00:01:07.000The only place I found unwavering truth and peace is in my faith in Jesus Christ.
00:01:12.000If 2020 has beaten down your spirit, I'd like to recommend a book to you called Reflections on the Existence of God by best-selling author Richard Simmons III.
00:01:22.000Reflections on the Existence of God is a collection of short essays that tackles the biggest question of all.
00:01:30.000This book is well researched and easy to read.
00:01:32.000Former White House aide Wallace Henley says, quote, I've taught apologetics for many years and have read every scholar mentioned in this book.
00:01:40.000Of all the books on apologetics, Simmons is the best I have ever read.
00:01:45.000If you want to challenge yourself to spiritual and intellectual growth, then be willing to ask yourself life's toughest questions.
00:01:51.000I challenge you right now to get your copy of Reflections on the Existence of God by Richard Simmons III.
00:02:05.000Hey, everybody, welcome to this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:02:08.000I am personally super excited for this episode.
00:02:11.000I'm excited for all my episodes, but this one in particular, I have my notepad and my pen ready to go because this man I have learned more about history from than I can say anyone else.
00:02:20.000Bill Federer, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show officially.
00:02:35.000And some people say, Charlie, where do you get your information?
00:02:38.000Say, to know what's going on today, just go back in time a little bit.
00:02:42.000And we've known each other for years, but just in the last 18 months in particular, I've just really grown an appreciation for the research you've been doing.
00:02:49.000So Bill, tell us about the book you just wrote, and then we can go from there into current events or any direction this takes us.
00:02:54.000Yeah, well, I tell people history is not prophetic, but it is predictive.
00:03:00.000So past behavior is the best indicator of future performance.
00:03:03.000So we can look back at the past and get a trajectory of where things are going.
00:03:08.000And that's sort of what I do in this book called Socialism, The Real History from Plato to the Present.
00:03:13.000For those that are not familiar with the book, Plato lived 380 BC in Athens.
00:03:18.000It was a democracy, but he didn't really like a democracy.
00:03:23.000In passing, Plato mentions several times of Atlantis, this highly advanced civilization that sinks in the sea.
00:03:32.000But it was structured, and he liked that.
00:03:34.000And he considered a democracy an unstructured society.
00:03:39.000And he says the chief characteristic of a democracy is tolerance.
00:04:27.000And he says, at first, they're all smiles and charming, but then they finally stand in the chariot of state holding the reins of power and they're revealed as the tyrant.
00:04:35.000And if anybody objects to their will, they have a pretense of destroying them.
00:04:41.000And so here's Plato's scenarios: that democracy, without the people having morals and virtue, ends in domestic chaos out of which some tyrant usurps power.
00:04:54.000Then he says that it's inevitable because he says people really don't have morals and virtue.
00:04:59.000He says, if you give them a choice of giving up their life or giving up their virtue, they'll always give up their virtue to save their life.
00:05:05.000Now, ancient Israel's model had a big magnet in the sky called God.
00:05:10.000And so people were virtuous for a little bit longer, went on a couple more centuries, but it finally cratered.
00:05:17.000And then they got a king, a king Saul.
00:05:19.000But in Plato's time, the people really didn't believe their deities were these fickle Greek personalities that nobody really believed in.
00:05:30.000And so it wasn't like you're accountable to a God.
00:05:32.000It was, and so Plato said, it's just a matter of time until this democracy experiment is going to end in this social chaos.
00:05:38.000And so he said, the best you can hope for is a nice tyrant.
00:07:52.000As you mentioned, Socrates lived when there was a war and the Athens Navy fought, and the ships had some sailors fall in the water in the middle of the battle, and the admiral was not able to rescue all the sailors.
00:08:11.000And they get back, and the people of Athens were so upset at this admiral for not rescuing the sailors that fell in the water that they got whipped up into a frenzy.
00:09:07.000These are people that have no real experience running anything.
00:09:10.000They just somehow got famous, maybe a Greek actor or a Greek Olympic athlete, or maybe like a Hollywood action hero that gets to be governator of California.
00:09:20.000And you think, you know, what did Arnold run before he became the governor?
00:09:27.000Now, Plato says these famous people, they love fame so much they hate being defamed.
00:09:33.000So these you can manipulate with public opinion.
00:09:36.000The first group, they're going to do what's right no matter what you say about them.
00:09:38.000The second group, they'll bend when you say things about them.
00:09:42.000And so since they don't know how to run stuff, they end up yielding to the human temptation of avarice or selfishness.
00:09:49.000And they can't help but funnel a little money to their friends, a little money to their supporters, a little money to some brother-in-law's company.
00:09:55.000And before you know it, it turns into a two-tiered society of the insider clique and then the outsiders.
00:10:04.000And then Plato again says that they'll throw the bums out, set up a democracy, and it's charming.
00:10:09.000And then finally, their democracy gets taken over by a tyrant.
00:10:13.000But if we fast forward from Plato, 2,000 years, we go to Columbus discovering America.
00:10:20.00020 years later, Sir Thomas More writes Island of Utopia.
00:11:13.000The government tracks everybody everywhere you go with an internal passport.
00:11:17.000If you're caught without it, it's a lifetime of slavery.
00:11:20.000And the government decides who gets to have children.
00:11:23.000And then the government takes the children away from the parents and indoctrinates them with lies and chooses their careers that they have to work the entire rest of their life.
00:12:37.000Gulliver is washed up on this island of Lilliput, and it's a structured society with this ridiculous ruling class and then everybody else that has their fates determined by that.
00:12:51.000So the early 1600s, the Pilgrims were originally a company colony with bylaws written by investors that looked back to Plato, Sir Thomas More, Sir Francis Bacon.
00:13:01.000And lo and behold, the Pilgrim bylaws said everything would be owned in common.
00:13:05.000Everything would be gained by cooking, hunting, fishing, trading, jungle into ye common stock, and everyone's livelihood comes out of ye common stock.
00:13:12.000And William Bradford said they almost starved to death.
00:13:14.000He says the young men objected to doing twice as much work as the old guy, but didn't get paid anymore.
00:13:20.000The old guy considered it an indignity to be classed in labor with the young men.
00:13:25.000And then he says the women objected to having to wash other men's clothes.
00:13:30.000And William Bradford said they almost starved to death.
00:13:33.000So we had to come up with a fitter plan that gave everyone their own plot of land.
00:13:37.000He said this made all hands more industrious.
00:13:40.000The women now went willingly into the field and took their little ones with them, where before they would have led weakness and to have forced them would have been great oppression.
00:13:47.000So here we have, and believe it or not, William Bradford, the governor of the Pilgrims, writes, he says that this experiment of communal service was tried by good and honest men and it failed, proving the emptiness of the theory of Plato applauded recently by scholars in Europe.
00:14:06.000So the Pilgrims knew they were trying to act out this theoretical.
00:14:24.000When running a business, HR issues can kill you.
00:14:26.000I can tell you from Turning Point USA that wrongful termination suits, minimum wage requirements, labor regulations, they can really add up.
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00:15:30.000And that was the big contrast between Plato and Aristotle.
00:15:33.000And it is wonderfully summarized in that famous painting, I think, by Raphael, where Plato is pointing up and Aristotle is pointing to the ground, almost like Plato is dealing in the clouds and the ideal.
00:15:46.000And Aristotle is saying, let's look what actually works.
00:16:05.000Where Aristotle being better versed in the actual applied sciences, a lot of our scientific method can be actually back to what Aristotle combined.
00:16:17.000And you can see the kind of divergence here in a lot of different ways in the West of how we process the correct way to govern ourselves.
00:16:25.000It's not a perfect fit, but Plato dealing much more in the theoretical, much more in the ideal.
00:16:31.000You can see why so many university campuses are places of people that are filled with ideas that would never have any sort of applicability in the real world.
00:16:40.000It would be much more, they'd worry much more about what would almost the, I want to say narrative, but what they would consider to be working on a chalkboard or in this kind of idea space.
00:16:53.000And would you consider that to be a correct summaration?
00:16:57.000And it goes from it goes from being a benign error to dangerous.
00:17:05.000And now, when the COVID just happened, I couldn't help but see an article where some nature people had planned to go to Panama and they had some spot along the beach and they sort of lived like that survivor program.
00:17:18.000You know, it was back to nature and they were going to have this wonderful time.
00:17:22.000Well, then when COVID hit, Panama would not allow them to fly out of the country and they were trapped there.
00:17:29.000And then it got to the place where they began to bicker amongst themselves and fight and say, no, don't take my stuff.
00:17:36.000And they would end up, you know, long and short of it, this beautiful experiment of let's all go live back in nature turned into this gang of people bickering amongst themselves.
00:17:48.000And so that's where socialism is this promised dream that delivers a nightmare.
00:18:07.000So when Ulysses leaves and he's sailing through the island, the Greek islands, there's one of the islands where there are women that sing and they're called sirens.
00:18:18.000We think of siren today as on an ambulance, but back then, these were pretty women that stood along the cliffs on the shore and would sing and the sailors would get close to hear them only to crash on the rocks.
00:18:31.000And then all the villagers would come out and get all the stuff that was lost on the rocks.
00:18:35.000And so this was the siren's song is this, it always sounds promising, but it ends up delivering death.
00:19:52.000Then they chopped off the heads of the preachers who in the clergy and whole orders of nuns because they were speaking out against the head chopping off stuff.
00:19:59.000Then they chopped off the heads of the former revolutionaries, the ones that used to chop off heads, but got tired of it.
00:22:35.000And at each crisis, people surrender a little bit more of their independence, their freedoms, their rights in exchange to have this real bad crisis just be a semi-bad crisis, right?
00:22:47.000And so Karl Marx, who was a member of the young Hegelians at the University of Berlin, Berlin, Karl Marx says, well, how do you create an antithesis?
00:22:57.000You send in agitators, agent provocateurs, community organizers, labor organizers.
00:23:02.000Their job is to identify groups with grievances and stir them into rioting.
00:23:07.000And it was, they'd be the proletariat against the bourgeois, which is the working class against the business owners.
00:23:12.000They'd organize the blacks against the whites, the Muslims against the Christians, the Catholics against the Protestants, even the Hutus against the Tutsis in the Congo and Rwanda.
00:23:21.000They really don't care who the two sides are and they really don't care what the issues are.
00:23:25.000Their goal is a destabilizing crisis that makes everyone panic that they give up their freedoms so that some dictator can usurp power.
00:23:32.000And so this model was used over and over again.
00:23:38.000And it's interesting, and interrupt me at any time, that Britain used a variation of this to take over India.
00:23:47.000So 1714, the British lands in Bengal, and they open up a trading post that turns into a fort.
00:23:53.000That's filled full of guns, and then they give guns to one kingdom, and then they give guns to another kingdom.
00:23:59.000Then they stir up ancient animosities and the two kingdoms fight and beat each other up, and when they're all worn out, the British come in and conquer both.
00:24:06.000And then they did it again and again and again until they took over all of India.
00:24:09.000A quarter of the world's population came underneath British control through this.
00:24:13.000They tried doing it in America when they would incite the natives on the frontiers to butcher the people on the the, the frontiers during the you know, the revolution, the War Of 1812.
00:24:24.000And so this idea that you go in and identify groups with grievances and you stir them up to riot and that's, and that's similar to what's happening today in America.
00:24:35.000They the, the left, they are trying to kind of re-embody the teachings of the young Hegelians, maybe a little bit Antonio Gramshean there too, of Cultural Marxism.
00:24:45.000But there definitely is an idea of trying to turn people against each other intentionally and then try to have a new starting point.
00:24:52.000And Hegel was intentionally hard to read.
00:25:03.000I have no capacity or the patience to read the Phenomenology of Spirit, not exactly something that you've probably read it and you probably can read it in the original German.
00:25:12.000But Hegel was a huge inspiration because he was a systemic thinker uh, similar to Immanuel Kant, similar to some of the kind of really big um, kind of just landscape altering thinkers of the Post-Renaissance period.
00:25:30.000He introduced a new system of thinking and so can you now bring us to so Marx learned under Hegel?
00:25:38.000Rousseau also really impacted Marx as far as valuing the primitive over the civilized, the infant over the adult, the Collective OVER private.
00:25:49.000Uh, Jean-jacque Rousseau being a French philosopher who I believe was before the French Revolution, am I correct right?
00:25:56.000He's actually called the father of the French Revolution, and?
00:26:07.000One of the quotes from Rousseau is, he said, this is Jean-jacque Rousseau in his book the social contract.
00:26:14.000He says, if the state says to an individual, it is expedient for the state that you should die, that individual should die because his life is a gift made conditionally by the state.
00:26:28.000And he says in the social contract, if the state says to an individual, it is expedient for the state that you should die, That individual should die because his life is a gift made conditionally by the state.
00:26:44.000And so, there are, yeah, that's really important because there are different ways to view the social contract.
00:26:51.000The three big thinkers when it comes to social contract would be Thomas Hobbes, then it would be Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke.
00:26:58.000They all had a different opinion of what our social contract would be, but this actually applies to today's politics because the left in America, they would agree with Rousseau's opinion.
00:27:10.000They would say, if the state deems you unnecessary, of course we can eliminate you.
00:27:14.000Yeah, you know, it's interesting when you look at four steps.
00:27:29.000It's like a triangle in the sense that it's people in agreement with each other, but it's more than just an agreement, it's a commitment to each other.
00:27:39.000So, it's people committed to caring for each other.
00:27:48.000You got God at the top, you get the God giving rights to individuals.
00:27:52.000The people are committed to caring for each other because they're personally accountable to this God at the top.
00:27:57.000The next century after the Pilgrims is the age of enlightenment, and this is where covenant turns into social contract, and it's just people in agreement with each other.
00:28:14.000So, this comes out of the scientific revolution where you have Sir Isaac Newton discovering laws of planetary motion, laws of gravity, and Kepler's laws of planetary motion, and Robert Boyle's laws of pressure.
00:28:28.000And so, some theologians said, Well, gee, maybe God made everything with laws.
00:28:33.000And, like a guy winds up a clock and sets it on the shelf, everything is just following these gears and laws.
00:28:38.000And so, if God is there, he is distant, he's impersonal, he's not involved in our lives.
00:28:44.000And the ultimate of this is God is some impersonal force in the universe, right?
00:28:48.000So, we go from this pilgrim covenant where you're intimately committed to caring for each other because you're personally accountable to a God.
00:28:56.000Then, the next century, covenant turns into social contract with a distant God.
00:29:00.000Next century turns into the French Revolution, which is a social contract with no God, intentionally no God.
00:29:08.000They actually didn't want done in the year of the Lord, so they made 1792 the new year one.
00:29:14.000They didn't want a seven-day week with a Sabbath rest because it went to the Bible.
00:29:18.000So, they came up with a 10-day week called a decade week.
00:29:21.000Each day had 10 hours, each hour had 100 minutes, each minute had 100 seconds.
00:29:26.000They said that 10 was the number of man with you count with 10 fingers.
00:29:31.000So, they made every measurement in France divisible by 10.
00:30:26.000I mean, they intentionally wanted to erase God.
00:30:30.000Dug up the bones of Saint Genevieve, the young woman that got all of Paris to fast and pray back in 450 AD when Attila the Hun was scourging Europe.
00:30:52.000And then somehow, miraculously, some good's going to come out of this mess you just made.
00:30:56.000When, in fact, all that happens is a Napoleon seizes power or some dictator or some tyrant.
00:31:02.000And so what we see is we go from pilgrim covenant with the personal God to the Age of Enlightenment social contract with a distant God to the French Revolution social contract with no God to Marxism and socialism where the state is God.
00:32:20.000So what would your argument then be to the counter, as someone would say, who would be more in the, let's say, David Hume category, where they would believe in enlightenment values?
00:32:33.000They would say, no, your rights are based in nature.
00:32:37.000Not nature's God, but this is kind of a very, this is a new kind of belief that has really taken root in some atheist communities, where they say it's not the state, it's just who you are in the natural condition.
00:32:49.000John Locke would sympathize with this, but John Locke, being a Christian, would disagree with it.
00:32:54.000Can you reinforce how it's only a rights giver that could give you rights?
00:32:59.000It's not an accident and how imperative that is to keep our civilization intact.
00:33:04.000So Nietzsche, who's the God is dead type of philosopher, he criticized the other atheists in England, saying that you're basically living off the fumes of Christianity.
00:33:17.000That you're saying he was talking at Hume, basically, right?
00:33:38.000So the fact that you even identify good as a doing to others as you would have them do unto you, you're still following the residual leftovers of a Judeo-Christian culture.
00:33:54.000So even when, and then I keep going back to Plato.
00:33:57.000If someone says, oh, we'll be good, it's like, okay, I'm going to give you a choice.
00:34:03.000You maintain your goodness or you die, right?
00:34:10.000If their life is on the line, they're going to say, okay, I'm holding these personal values, but if I'm going to die for it, forget the values.
00:34:19.000Whereas in the Judeo-Christian model, you're going to keep those values because you're accountable in the next life to this God who wants you to be truthful, that wants you to be honest, that wants you to be fair.
00:34:31.000You're trusting him with your life, right?
00:34:34.000And so when they say, well, we don't need God, we'll just be good.
00:34:38.000It's like, no, if you get rid of God, if you really believe that, go into an inner city, take out your wallet, and set it on the sidewalk and come back the next day, see if it's still there.
00:34:51.000Most people, if there's no consequence for their action, they will yield to their selfish side.
00:34:58.000And this goes all the way back to Cain, killing Abel.
00:35:01.000It's just part of selfish human nature.
00:35:04.000So selfishness is the default setting for human nature.
00:35:07.000And to pull away from that, you need consequence.
00:35:14.000I don't want to get too philosophical, but Montesquieu was a French political philosopher.
00:35:40.000And so different philosophers divide governments differently.
00:35:46.000But Montesquieu's model was republic, monarch, despot.
00:35:50.000So he says republics are based where the people are the king and the people have to have virtue.
00:35:58.000He calls it a spring, but it's more or less the electricity that runs through a republic that makes it come alive is the people having virtue.
00:36:06.000And he goes, this is most prevalent in the northern Protestant countries of Europe.
00:36:12.000He says, a monarch, he says that they motivate people through honor and shame, honor, shame, culture.
00:38:15.000You don't do what he says, you get your hand chopped off, right?
00:38:18.000And so it's sort of a spirit, mind, and body, but it's positive and negative motivations.
00:38:23.000One's in the next life, one's in the mental realm, and one's in the physical realm.
00:38:29.000Does it make sense that the company who controls half of online retail eavesdrops on your private conversations at home?
00:38:35.000What about the idea that a single company controls 90% of search results, runs your email service, and gets to track everything you do on your smartphone?
00:38:43.000Big tech and big data, they're more powerful than most countries are, and they profit by exploiting your personal data.
00:38:49.000It's time to put a layer of protection between your online activity and these tech juggernauts, and that's why I use ExpressVPN.
00:38:55.000Look, they're spying on you right now.
00:38:58.000We talk about this a lot on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:39:00.000Do you want to protect yourself from spying thieves?
00:40:16.000And I think that what's, if you, if you read the Federalist papers, no person was more influential to the founding and the formation of government than Montesquieu.
00:40:28.000And maybe John Locke from a philosophical standpoint, maybe.
00:40:32.000But Montesquieu in Spirit of Laws, I think is the name of the book that he wrote, was a French judge.
00:40:38.000And Madison had a great quote about Montesquieu saying he called him the oracle.
00:40:45.000Madison called Montesquieu the Oracle.
00:40:47.000Anyway, we're getting very philosophical, which is very important.
00:40:50.000But can you bring it back to kind of what we're living through today?
00:40:53.000What parts of history do you think are most instructive to make sense of what we're living through today?
00:41:00.000Well, if we pick up with Hegel, and then we had Karl Marx.
00:41:05.000And then let's go to Germany and we'll go to the 1920s.
00:41:10.000And we have, it's a republic, the Weimar Republic.
00:41:13.000And it's a bottom-up form of government, right?
00:41:16.000The people are involved in their government.
00:41:17.000And then you have someone start a political party.
00:41:19.000It's called the National Socialist Workers' Party, or Nazi, and the head of it is Adolf Hitler.
00:41:25.000And he has his brown shirts, which is a BLM antifa type of KKK group that goes and does the violence.
00:41:32.000And these brown shirts are nicknamed stormtroopers, Sturm Abteilung, which means stormtrooper.
00:41:38.000And they would storm into the meetings of Hitler's opponents and shot down the speakers and disrupt the meeting.
00:41:42.000And then they would lock arms and block access to buildings.
00:41:48.000And then, you know, could you imagine people locking arms and blocking things?
00:41:52.000And then they went into the cities and they smashed the windows and looted and set on fire over 7,000 Jewish stores in the downtown cities in Kristal Nach, the night of broken glass.
00:42:06.000And in this confusion, the people panic, right?
00:42:09.000So you have a republic without morals and virtue ends in this panic, this chaos, and they want someone to come along.
00:42:15.000Hitler usurps power, declares himself the Führer, and then what happened is their government transitions from a republic to a dictatorship.
00:42:27.000So, this idea that you have your group go in there and create the crises.
00:42:32.000So, in times of crises, people automatically give up their freedoms.
00:42:36.000And this model is: let's speed it along by intentionally creating crisis.
00:42:41.000And then it comes a little bit closer to home after World War II.
00:42:44.000You have Germany, France, England give independence to their former colonies.
00:42:48.000And they start brand new countries with brand new leaders, and they're climbing out of the post-war crisis.
00:42:53.000And it's a promising world, except the Soviet Union decides it doesn't just want communism to run itself, it wants it to run the world.
00:43:03.000And so, they began to send KGB agents into these brand new emerging countries, and they would identify groups with grievances, ethnically, maybe Croats and Bosnians and Serbs.
00:43:14.000Rhodesia, yeah, religiously with Sunni Shia Orthodox, or racially or economically, doesn't matter.
00:43:23.000They would break them into groups of victims and oppressors, haves and have-nots.
00:43:27.000And then they would stage protests that they would escalate into riots and violence.
00:43:31.000And then they would co-opt the media with bribes and threats to blame the new leader of the new country for all the problems.
00:43:39.000And then they would cultivate weak links in the military.
00:43:42.000And when the country got panicky enough, they would do a coup or a rigged election and replace the leader with a Soviet puppet.
00:43:49.000And then the violence would stop for a while until the dust settles and they realize they just gave up their bottom-up form of government, republic, and now they're ruled top-down by a Soviet dictator.
00:44:00.000And they would even co-opt the media and have it release false polling data prior to a rigged election, showing the popular leader as unpopular.
00:44:13.000So when they would do the coup, nobody would question it.
00:45:46.000They begin to attack mosques and co-ops the media with bribes and threats and cultivate weak links in the military.
00:45:52.000And when the country got panicky enough, they marched in, put Mazda under house arrest, locked him away for the rest of his life where he died, and they installed the Shah.
00:46:01.000And the Shah loved America because we helped put him in.
00:46:03.000And the CIA did the same thing in Guatemala, 1954, the Congo, 1960, Dominican Republic in Chile, 1973.
00:46:10.000And the KGB did the same thing with Brezhnev helping Yasser Arafat to start the PLO and Brezhnev hugging Castro and helping him take over Cuba and Mugabe and the FARC and Colombia and Venezuela and Latin South America.
00:46:28.000They had over 100 different coups and coup attempts in African countries and then the Chinese doing the same thing in the Far East.
00:46:38.000And the only difference this time around is these tactics seem to be taking place on our own soil.
00:46:45.000That under the previous president, not just was the IRS co-opted and used for political purposes, with Lois Lerner being in the president's office 147 times, and then she turned it into this agency to go after conservative groups.
00:47:01.000It wasn't just the using of the LGBT agenda to drive traditional valued people out of the military and co-opting it.
00:47:10.000It wasn't just co-opting, you know, the DOJ with Eric Holder, you know, doing fast and fear is giving guns to drug gangs in Mexico.
00:47:21.000We began to see that there are people in these government agencies that do not like President Trump.
00:47:29.000And they've been working for four years to try to get rid of him with a false Russian narrative and a false Ukrainian extortion narrative.
00:47:38.000And it just seems like they've just stepped it up one notch higher and used this.
00:47:45.000You don't have pallets of bricks being dropped off right where they're going to have a ride.
00:47:51.000I mean, and they said, gee, they were going to have a peaceful protest and someone dropped off a pallet of bricks right and there was no construction going on in that area.
00:49:16.000And they moved the same people in ball, you know, oh, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Milwaukee and, you know, these different things.
00:49:26.000But here you have this model that we've seen being used all the way back to the brown shirts and all the way back to, you know, the KGB and so forth.
00:49:39.000These tactics under the previous administration have been seem to have been co-opted by the deep state against the current president.
00:49:52.000And so what piece of history do you think can be most instructive for us how to solve this and remedy this?
00:50:41.000We have to remind ourselves that we are in charge and the politicians are our servants.
00:50:47.000We hire them, we fire them, we vote them in, we vote them out, that they need to obey us.
00:50:53.000And when you look up the word usurping, usurping is where somebody does something they're not authorized to do, and people let them get away with it.
00:51:04.000And if you let them get away with it for long, that becomes the new goalpost.
00:51:31.000And so, how can people learn more about your American Minute?
00:51:35.000And by the way, Bill, you're going to be coming up on our program many times, but how can people subscribe to American Minute and get behind what you're doing?
00:51:53.000I'm 63 now, and I can tell that I, when I listen to you talk, especially in an interview with you and Ben Shapiro, it's like, man, it's lightning fast, shooting back and forth.
00:52:09.000My website's AmericanMinute.com, and I send out little history things to try to bring focus.
00:52:16.000One of my favorite quotes is from Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and he was a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian on John F. Kennedy's staff.
00:52:24.000And the quote is: History is to the nation what memory is to the individual.
00:52:29.000So, if you can imagine an individual who has lost their memory, maybe they have Alzheimer's, it's an older person, and they forgot who they are, they forgot who you are.
00:52:52.000And we're blindly staring off into space while some, you know, nursing home person just begins to take all of our freedoms out of our hands.
00:53:01.000And so, sometimes when we tell these stories and you are great at it, it's like that little flicker comes back into people's eyes.