00:00:50.000His 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.
00:00:58.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:08.000You could believe in Western values, separation of powers, the consent of the governed, independent judiciary.
00:02:14.000Or you could be ideologically corrupted.
00:02:17.000Now, the problem with ideology, as Alexander Solshenitsyn said in his phenomenal book, The Gulag Archipelago, which largely brought down the Soviet Union, is he had that famous quote: he said, All the suffering, all the death, all the gulags, all the mass murdering was thanks to ideology.
00:02:34.000That ideology at times can direct you and inform you, but you must live in the real world.
00:02:43.000You must understand that there are the laws of nature and nature is God.
00:02:46.000There are some truths that do not change, regardless of your effort or your will.
00:02:53.000Every ideology that has ever been put in front of people eventually can reach a breaking point, albeit it sometimes takes way longer than we would like, an almost frustrating long period of time.
00:03:08.000So there's an ideology that has seeped into district attorney offices, into legal offices, and it's been going for 30 or 40 years.
00:03:17.000We've been trying to warn about it for quite some time on this program.
00:03:21.000For quite a while, we were not taken seriously.
00:03:23.000We were told that this is a fringe ideology, that this was only in academic circles, and it wasn't worthy of study or consideration.
00:03:31.000It comes from a basic belief that people commit crimes, not because of anything that might be wrong with them or in the nature of a human being, but instead they commit crimes because of the environment around them.
00:03:46.000They commit crimes because they see too many police officers.
00:03:49.000They commit crimes because of free market systems.
00:03:52.000They commit crimes because they don't have anything themselves.
00:03:57.000Now, this sort of belief was incubated and perfected.
00:04:02.000And it has, I'll be very honest, there's an expansive amount of literature supporting this insane ideology.
00:04:12.000I've been battling it for nearly a decade on college campuses.
00:04:15.000When I would tell this to some of our donors and supporters, they just wouldn't believe it.
00:04:19.000They'd be like, people believe that, whatever.
00:04:22.000Well, this might actually grow into higher levels of power eventually.
00:04:27.000And it really wasn't taken as seriously as it probably should have.
00:04:31.000And so in many academic circles, this is a normative belief.
00:04:35.000This is something that is well accepted.
00:04:37.000They believe that crime comes from things around you, not anything within you.
00:04:42.000So therefore, they believe that if you stop enforcing the law and change the law itself, get rid of the police, defund the police, then you can actually change human nature itself.
00:04:55.000Now, this ideology is so patently untrue on its face that it never really had a fair hearing, I put in air quotes, to get implemented into any of our cities.
00:05:09.000And we had, as we call it on this program, Floyd-Palooza, mass rioting, looting, murder, rape, targeting of police officers, the disintegration of our cities.
00:05:20.000And there was kind of this collective agreement that occurred, especially in cities like San Francisco and New York and Los Angeles, that we now need to embrace this radical deconstructionist ideology that is rooted not in empirical data,
00:05:37.000not in shared life experience, but instead in an unfounded fringe promise that somehow we can usher in utopia by the abolition of this idea of being owned private property, the abolition of prisons, which is a growing movement on the left, and that our better, with the kind of this combined effort, heaven on earth can be ushered in.
00:06:08.000Now, this is a widespread argument that we experience on college campuses with the work we do at Turning Point USA.
00:06:16.000However, for years, there is not someone who is willing to really financially back this ideology.
00:06:23.000You see, this ideology was always present in Democrat or left-wing circles, but generally, kind of Democrats said, okay, we got to stop short of doing this because this makes no sense.
00:06:34.000And the activists would get very angry.
00:06:36.000That is until a certain benefactor, a financier who believes in this ideology, who believes the police are instruments of fascism, who believes that prisons create more crime, who believes in systemic inequality and systemic racism.
00:06:54.000This financier, of course, was George Soros.
00:06:58.000George Soros believes this at his core.
00:07:00.000Now, do I believe that Soros has something more malevolent?
00:07:03.000Yes, I believe he wants the full and total complete destruction of Western civilization and the United States of America.
00:07:10.000But Soros also believes as one of his top projects on the Open Society Foundation that the criminal justice system itself is the problem.
00:07:22.000Not the like how long the sentences are, no, no, but the whole philosophy governing Western law has a false premise.
00:07:31.000And so all of these fringe ideologies for quite some time, they never were able to get any traction.
00:07:37.000There'd be a couple activists here and there, and they'd be like, yes, defund the police.
00:07:46.000We should allow people to do mass looting.
00:07:48.000And it just, when people hear that, it doesn't make any sense.
00:07:50.000And no one would want to donate to that until George Soros came on the scene.
00:07:56.000George Soros, being a firm believer in this ideology, poured millions of dollars into district attorney races across the country while conservatives had no idea this was happening.
00:08:07.000This kind of connects to our conversation yesterday rather perfectly, where we said conservatives were asleep while the left took over our institutions.
00:08:15.000So Soros poured in millions of dollars to the district attorney race in Chicago with Kim Fox into New York City and yes, into San Francisco.
00:08:26.000Soros became the chief sponsor, the chief subsidizer of this movement, of the abolish prison, abolish private property, open up the society from any sort of enforcement.
00:08:40.000Basically, what Soros did with his millions of dollars and his tens of billions of dollars of influence in the Open Society Foundation is he was able to subsidize the movement of these ideas from college campuses into the cities of America.
00:09:01.000But by being able to pour money into these races, now these fringe lunatics, these academics that believe that crime is nothing more than a construct and that if you rape or steal or plunder or murder, there must be something wrong with society, not something wrong with you.
00:09:16.000And that if we send you off to prison, that's actually an unfair punishment.
00:09:20.000Now they had the ability to make their case, quote unquote, in air quotes, with tons of money to the people of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York.
00:09:31.000Now, the good news is that every ideology has a breaking point that even the most well-funded machine of bad ideas eventually can shatter.
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00:11:15.000You know, when you look at these ideologies, you must understand where they come from.
00:11:21.000I know this is something that is not frequently discussed in, let's say, mainstream media circles, but look, there were three social contract theorists that wrote in the 1700s, 1600s, 1700s.
00:11:38.000Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
00:11:41.000Thomas Hobbes believed that human nature was nasty, brutish, and short.
00:11:45.000Jean-Locke had a mixed view, but basically he believed in a blank slate or what was called tabula raza.
00:11:53.000Jean-Jacques Rousseau had a different belief, and he inspired a lot of what was called romanticism in the 1800s.
00:12:01.000Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that we should value the kind of the spirit of the infant is more important than that of the adult, that we must understand the primitive more than the civilized, that human nature was naturally pure in the state of nature.
00:12:16.000So they all wrote extensively about this and disagreed about a lot.
00:12:20.000Now, the problem with Rousseau's view of human nature is it's so basically untrue.
00:12:26.000It's so evidently untrue when you see how people actually act.
00:12:31.000That we, of course, are a mixture of good and bad, but we definitely have bad in us.
00:12:36.000We have inclinations to sin, to steal, to cheat, to lie.
00:12:41.000So you have to teach goodness to children.
00:12:45.000And so the ideologies that have been basically reigning terror over our cities, this idea of no private property, of no enforcement of the law, of the abolition of police, it all kind of hit a breaking point yesterday.
00:13:02.000Thanks to George Soros' subsidy, an unbelievably radical person became district attorney.
00:13:15.000Chessa Bowdoin was elected recently, and under his leadership as district attorney, started to see a massive spike in crime in San Francisco.
00:13:26.000Murder was up 11%, rape up 9%, and just the entire aesthetic of San Francisco started to fall apart.
00:13:37.000Homelessness, vagrancy, looting, the quality of life of San Francisco went down considerably.
00:14:17.000And this is in San Francisco, which again goes back to this point that every ideology eventually reaches a breaking point, especially.
00:14:25.000And in particular, the ideologies that are so at odds with human nature.
00:14:32.000And so we ask ourselves the question: what drives people to commit crimes?
00:14:36.000Is it the fact that there are police or that there's laws protecting against looting?
00:14:42.000Or is it something about the human nature and our maybe we have to do something better with education or family formation or having fathers?
00:14:48.000They don't want to talk about any of that.
00:14:50.000Instead, they believe in mass, aggressive, abrupt societal revolution.
00:14:59.000And what's amazing is that the people in the highest positions of power believe in these pathological ideas.
00:15:08.000And then they're using force to be able to implement them.
00:15:11.000But we saw yesterday, and as the results have come out, a shocking repudiation of this.
00:15:19.000The people of San Francisco don't want to live under some sort of Berkeley ideology.
00:15:23.000They don't care if there's books written by some sort of smart guy, and I put that in air quotes, that tells them that the police are a tyrannical, oppressive, colonialist institution.
00:15:34.000They want the homeless person to stop defecating on their porch.
00:15:38.000They want to be able to walk down to Fisherman's Wharf and be proud of their city again.
00:15:44.000They don't want to become the laughingstock of America, and they know it.
00:15:48.000Property values, I don't know what's happened in San Francisco.
00:15:51.000I think they might have gone down slightly, but hard to believe all the dollar bills out there.
00:15:55.000They've collapsed, but they certainly aren't keeping up with other areas such as Phoenix or Vegas.
00:16:00.000I know, at least even with liberals that I know, when they go to San Francisco, they know it's become a complete and total mockery of what it used to be: heroin injection sites, no prosecution for looting, a complete and total relaxing of criminal standards.
00:16:17.000But it's all ideological until the people rise up against it.
00:16:24.000I'm sure a lot of you are wondering how you can learn about things that are good, true, and beautiful.
00:16:29.000Well, I've talked about Hillsdale College for a while, but look, there's a video I want you to see.
00:16:34.000It's the trailer to Hillsdale College's newest free online course, C.S. Lewis on Christianity.
00:16:40.000We talk a lot about current events on the show, but some things are more important than today's news.
00:16:45.000And C.S. Lewis was a master at addressing life's most important questions through vivid language that's entertaining and fascinating.
00:16:52.000You may know Lewis as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, but he's also considered the greatest Christian apologist of the 20th century.
00:16:59.000As a radio host, I appreciate Lewis' ability to communicate an inspired fact.
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00:17:48.000The ideology of open prisons, abolition of prisons, has now reached a breaking point.
00:17:54.00061% of San Francisco voters have voted to recall Chessa Bowden.
00:18:04.000Now, look, these sinister ideologies, they tend to collapse quicker when the people are active and aware.
00:18:13.000This is the argument for why you must be consuming news, aware of what's happening around you.
00:18:19.000You must be always constantly processing information and understanding what's happening around you.
00:18:24.000Now, it doesn't hurt when ideologies involve like defecation on your front porch or your daughter getting mugged on the way to school.
00:18:36.000Tends to make these ideologies evaporate quicker.
00:18:42.000Now, the person behind all of this, and I just want to reiterate it, is George Soros.
00:18:47.000Not behind the recall, but behind getting Chesa Bowdoin into place.
00:18:50.000And make no mistake, the recall of Chesa Bowdoin is a direct recall of George Soros himself.
00:18:57.000George Soros, who has put millions of dollars into these races.
00:19:02.000Now, when you dive into it, it's incredible to think how much money George Soros and his affiliated groups have involved themselves in these elections across the country.
00:19:13.000George Soros has helped elect over 75 social justice prosecutors in cities across America.
00:19:22.000In cities where George Soros has helped get these district attorneys elected, jailings have plummeted and crime has surged.
00:19:31.000There's a 17-page report that was compiled by the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund.
00:19:37.000And a decade of spending has put Soros prosecutors in enough big cities that they represent one in five people in America, or about 72 million people.
00:19:50.000That includes about half of about 50 of the most populous cities in America and counties where 40% of the U.S. homicides occur.
00:20:02.000Soros has been hard at work while we as conservatives have been building families, businesses, churches, and stronger communities.
00:20:10.000Soros has been plucking in, I should pumping in millions of dollars to be able to implement these ideologues.
00:20:20.000You find a college campus activist who wants the abolition of police, who says looting should not be prosecuted against.
00:20:29.000And San Francisco under Chessup Bowdoin, if it is less than $1,000, you will not be prosecuted.
00:20:36.000You've seen video after video of people going to Walgreens, CBS, Rite Aid, and just taking whatever they want.
00:20:52.000When I was in San Francisco just a couple years ago with the great Candace Owens and Dave Rubin, right after a speech at University of California, Berkeley, we went right near the Trans-America building.
00:21:02.000And this was when San Francisco was even better then than it is now.
00:21:05.000Parked right outside the Trans-America building, went to the only restaurant that was open right nearby.
00:21:10.000We came back to our car about an hour later.
00:21:16.000He actually points to that story as one of the radicalization moments in a good way that made him more conservative and helped bring him over to our camp.
00:22:46.000If you sat them down in a private meeting and you said, what would you like to see happen in America when it comes to the inner cities and criminal justice?
00:22:56.000They would say, I think it would be great if America stopped enforcing their laws, opened up their prisons, and created anarchy on the streets.
00:23:08.000Now, I'm not saying Soros has the same level of malevolence as maybe the Ayatollah Khamenei, but it's certainly close.
00:23:20.000Ask yourself, who has done more to deteriorate the living standards of the daily life of Americans?
00:23:40.000But George Soros has pumped in $40 million to elect 75 of his chosen prosecutors to make crime more widespread and to further accelerate the war on police.
00:24:03.000If you wanted the downfall of America, if you wanted this constitutional republic to shatter, if you wanted this great nation to be obliterated, if you wanted all those things, then you'd be doing this exactly.
00:24:18.00090% of all the dollars spent in some of these district attorney races came from George Soros.
00:24:28.00090% of all the money spent in these races came from one man.
00:24:34.000According to the Washington Examiner, quote, Soros is not done yet.
00:24:38.000He's already spent another million so far this year on his hand-picked district attorneys.
00:24:45.000So while we as conservatives are focused on national races, we should be, focused on congressional races, we should be, and now we're starting to get interested in school board races, we should be.
00:25:05.000By using these ideological identitarian movements of Black Lives Matter and of abolish the police and abolish prisons, and you might think that the abolish prisons thing is a joke.
00:25:54.000It grew from watching, experiencing, and opposing decades of reliance on concrete and steel cages as a catch-all solution to social problems.
00:26:03.000We want a society that centers freedom and justice instead of profit and punishment.
00:26:09.000Let me just say, if you rape somebody, I think you should be punished, and I don't think you should have much freedom.
00:26:17.000Soros is a big believer in this sort of idea.
00:26:19.000I don't know if he funds the Marshall Project or not, but he's certainly a believer in this.
00:26:23.000The abolition project continues by saying locking up people does not provide adequate housing, proper mental health treatment, or living wage jobs.
00:26:31.000Maybe they should have thought of that before they committed the crime.
00:26:35.000Nor does it make us safe in any other way.
00:26:38.000No, actually, I think we're much safer that Ted Kaczynski is in jail.
00:26:41.000I think we're much safer that Eric Rudolph is in jail.
00:26:45.000I think we're much safer that the scumbag that did the Parkland shooting is in jail.
00:26:51.000Moreover, the Prison Abolition Project writes, reforms that embody electronic monitoring or other form of incarceration, build gender-responsive jails, or broaden the scope of parole and other forms of control only deepen our conviction that fundamental change is the only path.
00:27:14.000While we value philosophy, we've grown wary of worn-out debates of the feasibility of a world without prisons and whether we would like to abolish prison for Dylan Roof.
00:28:22.000So while some rich people buy Gulf streams, yachts, large houses in the south of France, George Soros decides to spend his wealth and his money that he got, by the way, largely because of shorting the currency and nearly destroying the British pound.
00:29:22.000And this is the great takeaway: the abstractions that we are living under are about to descend into reality and voters aren't going to put up with it.
00:30:17.000You rarely see this kind of focus and commitment.
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00:33:08.000One of his top initiatives is criminal justice reform, otherwise known as, well, criminal justice reform is fine in one sense, but if you look what he actually believes in, justice reform and the rule of law, he spent $84.3 million from the Open Society Foundation just in the calendar year 2020 on criminal justice reform, which, of course,
00:33:43.000There's a picture on the Open Society Foundation website of a Seattle police officer with a woman in what appears to be a tent under the heading reforming drug laws in a homeless woman that seems to be prepared to or possibly doing drugs in that picture.
00:34:05.000It's on the Open Society Foundation website.
00:34:13.000Now, when Soros gives this money to the political candidates, he does not give it to them through his 501c3 Open Society Foundation.
00:34:22.000It's a political donation, but they all work in harmony and they work in tandem together.
00:34:28.000This is something that everyone needs to know about.
00:34:30.000His goal is to undermine the Constitution, to deteriorate American exceptionalism.
00:34:36.000But I do want to just kind of break this apart, which, again, it goes back to the amazing Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who I encourage all of you to study and read the Gulag Archipelago.
00:34:45.000It almost single-handedly brought down the Soviet Union.
00:35:37.000All of his money, all of his propaganda.
00:35:40.000And by the way, Soros just bought a bunch of Hispanic radio stations under the ruck $60 million of Hispanic, 18 major Spanish radio stations.
00:35:49.000Wish conservatives would be thinking like that, but they don't.
00:35:53.000But Soros lost this race in San Francisco.