00:00:00.000Victor Davis Hansen has 10 rules that are radically redefining America.
00:00:06.000It's a very important episode that we go through piece by piece.
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00:03:06.000He writes for American Greatness at amgreatness.com.
00:03:10.000Common guest on Fox News, wrote The Case for Trump.
00:03:15.000He actually has just recently started commenting on politics.
00:03:25.000He used to just comment on Greek history.
00:03:30.000He's a classicist, focusing on Socrates and Plato and Aristotle and ancient Greece, Homer, Odysseus.
00:03:40.000But Victor Davis Hansen, because he is a master of wisdom, because he studied things that actually mattered for a couple decades, is so beyond brilliant in his capacity and his ability to analyze what's actually happening here through A historic lens.
00:04:00.000So, here are 10 rules, radical new rules that are changing America.
00:04:05.000I want to go through each one of them in detail and give some examples and some tape and some clips.
00:04:12.000Number one: money is a construct, it can be created from thin air.
00:04:20.000Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much.
00:04:26.000Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits, but at least there were some concessions that money was real and had to be paid back.
00:04:35.000As we near $30 trillion in national debt and 110% of annual GDP, our elites either believe that permanent zero interest rates make the cascading obligation irrelevant, or that larger the debt, the more likely we will be to be forced to address needed income redistribution.
00:05:06.000Venezuela was one of the top economies on the planet, had more natural gas and oil depositories than any other country, had a booming middle class.
00:05:21.000But then a man named Hugo Chavez got elected president of Venezuela.
00:05:29.000He decided to implement massive social programs called Boliviarian Missions.
00:06:30.000But anyone that's dealt with that or has experienced it, I have, knows that there's a moment where all of a sudden the blood sugar starts to go down.
00:06:41.000And all of a sudden, you start to realize: I have no carbohydrates, protein.
00:07:19.000An almost non-existent middle class and one of the worst economies on the planet.
00:07:27.000One of the biggest lies, according to Alexander Soshanitsyn, who wrote the Gulag Archipelago, said that when people say that it can't happen here, no, no, the laws of economics are equally applicable to all countries, all people, in all times.
00:07:42.000There's some people that believe in this idea of the modern monetary theory that John Maynard Keynes might actually be right, that we could have massive influxes of cheap money and we'll never experience inflation because technology will be our salvation.
00:07:56.000Boy, are we pushing the boundaries of the laws of economics?
00:08:01.000And history tells us that you're going to get a sugar high.
00:08:03.000We are living to the sugar high right now.
00:08:06.000Merger and acquisitions are at record highs.
00:08:09.000The market as sweet as it could possibly be.
00:08:12.000We have multiples of companies that are 85 times earnings.
00:08:17.000Bitcoin is up, which is an indictment of the dollar.
00:09:01.000And every country that tries to live off of the sugar high pays a price.
00:09:10.000Every single time our country has decided to indulge in the temptation of cheap money, we experience a crash.
00:09:22.0002008 was largely because of the artificial lowering of interest rates after 9-11, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the massive government intervention into the private lending market when it came to mortgages.
00:09:39.000So for our solution, Hank Paulson, a government Sachs guy, Goldman Sachs, government Sachs, decided to come in as the Secretary of the Treasury and say, I don't want a water gun.
00:10:00.00012 years ago, $800 billion sounded like a monumental amount of money.
00:10:05.000We executed TARP, which was the targeted assets relief program.
00:10:11.000The stimulus, which was $900 billion, and rates remained relatively low.
00:10:17.000Now, Republicans, one in 2010, complaining about the debt, won in 2014 complaining about the size of government, delivered on very little of it.
00:10:27.000Donald Trump expanded the deficit, but at least we had correlated economic growth, but it's nowhere even close to the debt and deficit that we're experiencing right now.
00:10:38.000But the new radical revolutionary rule that we must embrace, and if not, you're a racist, is that money's a construct.
00:10:45.000And quite honestly, it's similar to the Whose Line Is It Anyway episode.
00:11:17.000Whose Line Is It Anyway seems to be running our government.
00:11:19.000In fact, I think there's more rational thinking in that show than there is in the halls of Congress.
00:11:23.000Number two, laws are not necessarily binding anymore.
00:11:27.000Quote, Joe Biden took an oath to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, but he has willingly rendered federal immigration laws null and void.
00:11:36.000Some rioters are prosecuted for violating federal laws, others not so much.
00:11:40.000Arrests, prosecutions, and trials are fluid.
00:11:43.000Ideology governs when a law is still considered a law.
00:11:51.000Crime rates do not necessarily matter.
00:11:54.000If someone is carjacked, assaulted, or shot, it can be understood to be the victim's fault as the perpetrators.
00:12:01.000Either the victim was too lax, uncaring, or insensitive, or he provoked his attacker.
00:12:06.000How useful the crime is to the larger agendas of the left determines whether a victim is really a victim and the victimizer really a victimizer.
00:12:14.000Do you guys know there's a mass shooting that happened in the last 24 hours by a black former NFL player who killed five people and then himself?
00:13:19.000Border Patrol drive through, but about 37 or 38 spots do not, by the way, we went to one of the gates and all it was missing was a motor.
00:13:28.000And so all he had to do was put the motor in.
00:13:30.000But apparently, when the stop order came down, they just stopped everything and gates are literally just stuck wide open and people are walking through.
00:13:43.000And as Victor Davis Hansen says, the laws are not necessarily binding anymore.
00:13:46.000If you want to enter America illegally, welcome.
00:13:52.000But if you want to open your church, you're going to jail.
00:13:56.000If you want to come into America and sex traffic children, we will open up the gates for you, literally.
00:14:04.000But if you want to bring your child to a park, you could get arrested.
00:14:10.000You see, human beings, we're not built to handle this kind of contradicting government rule.
00:14:18.000It is pure despotism and tyranny, the impartial execution of our laws.
00:14:25.000For a specific political agenda to serve a ruling class that wants you to be able to chemically castrate your children like the governor of Arkansas does, and then to be able to shoot yourself up with heroin.
00:14:45.000But if you dare misgender somebody in California, for example, you can go to jail.
00:14:54.000Basically, not enforcing certain laws on the books, like the mayor of Baltimore that says we are no longer going to faithfully execute the laws of prostitution, drug trafficking, amongst other crimes.
00:17:34.000Rule number four by Victor Davis Hanson: the immigrant is mostly preferable to the citizen.
00:17:39.000The newcomer, unlike the host, is not stained by the sins of America's founding and history.
00:17:44.000Victor Davis Hanson writes: Most citizens currently must follow quarantine rules and social distancing, stay out of school and obey all the laws.
00:17:52.000Those entering into America illegally need not follow such laws and apparently superfluous COVID-19 rules.
00:18:00.000Their children should be immediately schooled without worrying of quarantine.
00:18:04.000Immigrants need not worry about their illegal entry or residence in America.
00:18:08.000Our elites believe that illegal entrants more closely resemble the founders than do the legal citizens, about half of whom they consider irredeemable.
00:18:15.000Point exhibit A, and I do want to get to this whole list, so I'm not going to spend too much time on each one of them, but it's a phenomenal piece.
00:18:24.000A new decision in New York is saying that illegals get $2.1 billion.
00:18:35.000A new fund has been created in New York City that offers one-time payments up to $15,600 to illegals, people that broke the law to come here, criminals, who lost work during the pandemic.
00:18:56.000People that are criminals that came here in defiance to international law and broke the law every day by being here illegally, which again is one of the biggest misnomers that people have.
00:19:09.000They say, oh, it's a misdemeanor to cross into a country.
00:19:46.000You see, the person who invades your country is getting preference over the citizen, over you.
00:19:54.000How many people watching this could use $15,600 right now?
00:19:58.000Well, all you have to do is denounce your citizenship, go to Mexico, illegally break into America, go to New York City, and you could be eligible for $15,600.
00:20:07.000Rule number five: most Americans should be treated as we would treat little children.
00:20:13.000Americans cannot be asked to provide an ID to vote.
00:20:15.000Noble lies told by our elites about the Chinese coronavirus are necessary to protect the Neanderthals from themselves.
00:20:22.000Victor Davis-Hansen continues by saying: Americans deserve relief from the stress of grades, standardized testing, normative rules of school behavior.
00:20:33.000Americans are still clueless why it is good for them to pay far more for their gasoline, heating, and air conditioning.
00:20:40.000Victor Davis Hansen is saying that the citizenry must be treated like a nursery.
00:20:48.000Five, six, seven, eight-year-olds are now able to watch Car EV or change their gender, but adults, you don't deserve an explanation why your utility bills are going up.
00:22:15.000And the media, of course, gets away with it, whether it be Gavin Newsom eating at French laundry, or John Kerry boarding an airplane without a mask on, or John Kerry flying on a private jet to Iceland to go get a special award for climate change, whatever that is, the award for climate change.
00:22:38.000That they get a complete endorsement by the activist press that you can do whatever you want, whenever you want to do it, however you want to do it, as long as your public statements are in line with the new dogma of the American left.
00:22:53.000Rule number seven: ignoring or perpetuating homelessness is preferable to ending it.
00:23:01.000According to the left, it is more humane to let thousands of homeless people live, eat, and defecate, and use drugs on public streets and sidewalks than it is to green light affordable housing, mandate hospitalization for the mentally ill, and create sufficient public shelter areas.
00:23:23.000What a disgrace of what that city has become.
00:23:28.000For hundreds of yards driving on the 405, you can see on the side of the road homeless encampments.
00:23:36.000Instead of trying to transition people to living quiet and peaceable lives themselves, there is a top-down draconian order to say we must subsidize homelessness.
00:23:57.000Instead of trying to end these problems or at least try to curb them, they want to subsidize it and expand it.
00:24:06.000Rule number eight: McCarthyism is good.
00:24:11.000Destroying lives and careers for incorrect thoughts save more lives and careers.
00:24:17.000Cancel culture and the Twitter reign of terror provides needed deterrence.
00:24:25.000Now that Americas know that they are one word or act or look away from losing their livelihoods, they're more careful and will behave in a more enlightened fashion.
00:24:35.000The more so the social media guillotine, the humane scientific tool the woke.
00:24:39.000Now, maybe Victor Davis Hansen listens to this podcast, or maybe we are just having this mind-meld.
00:24:46.000But a lot of that, right there, are things that we've talked about at great length here on this program.
00:24:53.000Joe McCarthy was a senator from Wisconsin, and he famously had the either Senate or House.
00:25:02.000I think it was, of course, he was a senator, obviously.
00:25:04.000So it was the Senate Committee on Un-American Activities, if I'm not mistaken.
00:25:08.000And he would have these hearings on trying to find the communists in our government.
00:25:14.000And what no one wants to say, but I'll say it is: McCarthy was wrong about some things, but really right about most things, that there was a communist infiltration happening in our country.
00:25:23.000The way he went about doing it, less than desirable.
00:25:27.000But it became this pejorative, like, oh, you're going to have a McCarthyite.
00:25:34.000I don't want them infiltrating our apparatus, our institutions of government.
00:25:39.000But now, McCarthyism is embraced by all the top levels of power.
00:25:44.000What used to be considered a negative, which was a reign of terror, is that if you step out of line and you don't agree with us, we're going to destroy your life.
00:25:59.000Rule number nine: ignorance is preferable to knowledge.
00:26:03.000Probably my favorite rule in the sense of how true is this.
00:26:06.000It is better to know nothing, but be very confident about it than to actually pursue knowledge and wisdom.
00:26:12.000Wisdom, of course, is the knowledge of all things eternal, things that do not change.
00:26:20.000Victor Davis Hansen beautifully writes: Neither statue toppling nor name changing nor the 1619 project requires any evidence or historical knowledge.
00:26:29.000Like renaming the Abraham Lincoln School in downtown San Francisco.
00:26:34.000Heroes of the past were simple constructs.
00:27:35.000And Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter are the new gospels.
00:27:39.000Americans privately fear these rules while publicly appearing to accept them.
00:27:45.000They still could be transitory and invite a reaction.
00:27:50.000Or they are a near permanent and institutionalized.
00:27:54.000The answer determines whether a constitutional republic continues as once envisioned or warps into something never imagined by those who created it.
00:28:03.000The 10 rules that are changing America.
00:28:06.000And then I want to get into another piece that Victor wrote that ties all of this even more beautifully together.
00:28:40.000Very weak people and corrupt people and self-righteous and money-worshiping people that run our country and our corporations, like Ed Bastion and James Quincy.
00:28:50.000Our universities are largely to blame.
00:28:52.000We sent way too many kids to college for far too long for a lot of different reasons, but also because parents didn't want to have to face their neighbors and explain to their friends that their kid wasn't going to Stanford or Harvard or Princeton or Yale or some school.
00:29:05.000And instead of asking the question of whether or not these universities will be developing character or getting my child a skill, it's, oh, they got the piece of paper.
00:29:17.000You extrapolate that over a couple decades.
00:29:20.000You have 60 million people that have been indoctrinated to hate their country.
00:29:26.000She is one of the most powerful voices for faith, family, and for freedom.
00:29:39.000And I want to tell you, Candace has joined the powerful lineup at the Daily Wire, great company, launching a new show where Talk Show meets late night.
00:29:47.000She'll continue to call out leftist lies and the corruption of media and big tech.
00:29:52.000So join Candace each week as she welcomes powerful voices, talk about the most critical issues, break down what's actually happening in our country, and trust me, you're going to laugh a lot too.
00:30:03.000Candace is unfiltered and quite honestly uncancelable.
00:30:07.000Even as she says, all the things other on the right wing are afraid to say, Candace is a dear friend.
00:31:14.000How did we get here and what can we do to fix it?
00:31:17.000We got here because many of the people in charge of our country, people that run our corporations, our colleges sit on the board, they did very little to actually change the trajectory of the nation and push back against this nonsense and actually properly educate young people.
00:31:34.000Exhibit A, and Victor Davis Hansen mentions him in his piece, Ed Bastion.
00:31:40.000Ed Bastion, who's the CEO of Delta, who might be the embodiment of what I can't stand the most in America.
00:32:18.000We also got here because of the university system, where all these ideas originate from, where far too many donations go, kids go to school, too much attention is given to them.
00:32:28.000College enrollment needs to go down dramatically in our country.
00:32:31.000And if you're listening to this podcast, I'm not telling you not to go to college.
00:32:57.000I thought this sentence, might be two sentences, technically three, is some of the best I've heard in some time.
00:33:06.000Victor Davis Hansen writes, wokeness is not really about fairness for minorities, the oppressed and the poor, past or present.
00:33:14.000It is mostly a self-confessional cult of anointed bullies like Ed Bastian and hypocrites of all races and genders like James Quincy, CEO of Coca-Cola, who seek to flex and increase their own privilege and power.
00:33:32.000It is mostly a self-confessional cult of anointed bullies and hypocrites of all races and genders who seek to flex and increase their own privilege and power.
00:33:52.000People that are going to be in charge and say, if you do not do this, we're moving the all-star game from a black county to a white county.
00:33:58.000It's not about the minorities or the oppressed.
00:34:15.000And you virtue signal to the rest of us as if you're such a good person when the tough but the right fights are right in front of you and you decide to run away from them.
00:34:27.000You decide to run away from them because you don't want to be called the R-word.
00:34:30.000You don't want the New York Times, the Washington Post to publish a scathing editorial about you.
00:34:58.000The people who run our universities, the people who run our companies, some parents let it happen, our politicians let it happen, all because they were hedging.
00:35:08.000They wanted what was expedient and what felt good, not what was good.
00:35:14.000For a couple decades, we were able to get away with it.
00:35:18.000But now, because of the biggest vulnerability that is being exposed by the left, the left says, Okay, I'm going to use your own market system and your own love of money against you.
00:35:30.000You can either keep getting paid and obey to us, obey everything we ask in the woke thing, or you can stop getting paid and oppose us.
00:35:41.000You can either have your kid get into a good college and agree with us and be silent, or your kid won't get into that college if you oppose us.
00:35:55.000And the people that should have courage and clarity of leadership-the CEOs, the board members, the head of these county schools-they have failed us.
00:36:05.000We deserve better elites in our country.
00:36:08.000The 10 rules that have radically redefined America, pour over them, read them, spread them to your friends.
00:36:15.000It's incredibly important we know them, especially right now.
00:36:21.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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