MSNBC AGREES Trump Must Deploy National Guard To Chicago, Larry Elder Says Fix The Black Family
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On today's show, we have a special guest, Larry Elder. Larry grew up in Chicago and has lived in the city for the past 23 years. He talks about growing up in a gang-ridden neighborhood, how he dealt with it, and why he thinks Donald Trump should deploy the National Guard into Chicago.
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Joe Scarborough calls on J.B. Pritzker to seek Trump's help to stop Chicago crime.
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that Donald Trump will be deploying the National Guard into Chicago.
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Someone who spent 23 years of his life growing up in this city.
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And oh boy, do these lefties really just lie to try and win brownie points.
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I say, please, please Donald Trump fix my city.
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You know what's funny is what these liberals have been doing.
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A lot of firefighters and police because it's cheap.
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And you have to live in the city if you're going to work for the city.
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We had an area that was pretty bad, I will leave unnamed, where gangs, largely groups of
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young black males were the gangs, although we had Latin kings and otherwise.
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Vice lords, two-six, four-corner hustlers, the popes, the disciples, a lot of Catholic
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I had friends who'd witnessed corpses being dragged to the street.
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I, myself, had been shot at randomly for no reason.
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Me and my brother were driving in our car and someone just fired at us.
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The high school in my area, I went there for about two months.
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A fight broke out and one of the guys brought a gun.
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And because I can say that and say, that's how I grew up and we shouldn't live this way,
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They start lying and spreading rumors saying, Tim actually isn't from the city, which is wild.
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And, like, I go and hang out in my old neighborhood sometimes, like for the holidays.
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That way, when they go to these political debates, they tell liberals, don't listen to
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He didn't actually grow up in the city like we did, to try and discredit what I have to
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So, my friends, we're going to be joined by, I believe we got Larry Elder in wait.
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Let's bring him in and have this conversation with him.
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I also want to talk about the flag burning stuff and the potential rumors that Trump
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will be dispatching the National Guard, not just to Chicago, but other places.
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Let me try and adjust the levels a little bit here and bring in.
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There's a lot that I want to talk to you about.
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But the big rumor right now, I don't think it's true, but there is something to talk
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Donald Trump will be deploying National Guard to Chicago, is the rumor.
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And they say that he's going to make that announcement in an hour or so.
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Carolyn Levitt said that it's related to the Department of Defense.
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But in the past couple of weeks, there's been discussion about Donald Trump sending
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National Guard troops to 19 different cities, Chicago being the most notable.
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It's called trying to do something about urban crime that nobody seems to care about.
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I hope he deploys troops in places like Chicago.
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And by the way, while Chicago has the honor of being the murder capital of the country in
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terms of absolute number of murders, it is not even close in terms of per capita.
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And let me just say something quickly, Tim, about Birmingham.
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Right now, as we speak, there's a man named Damian McDaniel on trial for allegedly killing 18 people.
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He happened to be Black, as are virtually every single one of his alleged victims.
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And the answer is nobody gives a rip about Black on Black crime.
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If this guy gets convicted, he will be the deadliest mass killer in the history of Birmingham.
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Nobody knows his name because the media could not give a rip.
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Right now, Chicago, Labor Day weekend, over 50 people shot.
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I guess Black lives only matter if they're taken by white cops.
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Yeah, we saw this Gallup poll a few years ago that stated in the Black communities,
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these actual neighborhoods, they were, it was like 80% said, please give us more cops.
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This was during the defund the police cycle or whatever you want to call it.
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I left for a variety of reasons, one of which largely is the crime and the corruption.
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So when I hear that Trump wants under the National Guard, I can tell you right away,
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like my friends, my family would be like, awesome.
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Maybe we don't have to worry about all of these murders.
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You bring up no one, no one cares about Black on Black crime.
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I was doing some research on this, and I used everyone's favorite, ChatGPT, and asked it
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because we had this other mass shooting at the Catholic school.
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And it told me that white men are the biggest perpetrators of mass shootings.
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And then I asked it about Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, and D.C.
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And it's fascinating to see how Google, these AI platforms, they omit the Black on Black
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mass shootings that happen all too often, that are the majority of your general mass
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How are we going to solve the problem of mass shootings that the liberals claim they want
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When they ignore the majority of it and claim it doesn't happen at all.
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You remember the D.C. sniper, those two people that were mowing down people a few years ago
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Turns out they had been stopped several times by the cops.
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But some FBI profilers said that the likely perp will be a white male, so they were let
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The fact is that whites are around 60 percent of the population, but they commit roughly
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Blacks are about 14 percent of the population, but they commit about 17, 18 percent of the mass
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So in terms of population, whites are underrepresented when it comes to mass killings.
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Blacks are overrepresented, by the way, as are Asians.
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Fact is that 60 percent of the burglaries, the robberies and the shootings in America are
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committed by black people, often against other black people, which brings us to the reason
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The reason why is the epidemic of fatherlessness.
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Even Barack Obama once said, if you're raised without a father, you're five times more likely
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Fact is, 70 percent of black kids today enter the world without a father in the home married
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It is a massive, massive problem that neither Republicans nor Democrats are talking much
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I mean, I've heard a lot of the talking points, you know, the expansion of the welfare system
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But I'm curious your thoughts on why it is that there's so many fatherless young people.
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You look back in 1965, 25% of blacks entered the world without a father in the home mirror
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If you look at the welfare state, the so-called war on poverty launched by Lyndon Johnson,
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and look at the amount of money that's spent and the increase of fatherless homes, they
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What they've done is incentivize women to marry the government and incentivize men to abandon
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The out-of-wedlock birth rate in the white community has also tripled since 1965.
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So it's not just affecting blacks, it's affecting everybody.
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And what we need to do is rethink the welfare state, but that's an unpleasant conversation.
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The left doesn't want to do it because they created the problem, and Republicans often
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don't want to do it because they fear that they'll be accused of racism or somehow demeaning
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single women who are heroically raising these boys and girls by themselves.
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It's controversial, but Kanye West, the arc that he went on, there were a few points he
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One was he had tweeted something like, abolish the 13th Amendment, or we need to abolish it.
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His point was the 13th Amendment says in it, slavery is acceptable if someone's been duly
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And he was talking about the high rates of incarceration of black people in this country,
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But aside from that point, back to the crime and the issues here and fatherlessness, he
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had made a point that these record labels were promoting gang culture and violent culture
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to young black men through pop music, as well as degeneracy and sexual deviancy.
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He had several years ago, maybe like 10 years ago, he was doing these Christian Sunday services
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He was trying to get people to be more involved in religion and things like this.
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Unfortunately for Ye and for people around him, he misunderstood why this was happening
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And he blamed the Jews for why there was this culture happening.
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But I bring this up because there is an interesting point in there is a pop culture that targets
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young black men and women with songs and rap about being violent, being in gangs, stealing,
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Do you think that that culture plays a role in telling these young men who to be?
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Most of this stuff, this gang stuff, this rap stuff, is purchased by and enjoyed by white
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They're not committing the kind of crime that I'm talking about.
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The breakdown in the family is what's going on.
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A mother and a father shield you from this kind of nonsense, tells you what your values are.
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So you're not going to be infected by somebody rapping something stupid like some of these
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Look, even Tupac Shakur once said, I know for a fact, had I had a father, I would have been
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He talked about how he grew up in Mount Vernon.
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And while his parents were divorced, he had a father who was actively involved in his life.
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And he has friends who are right now in prison.
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So, you know, you're finding people really talking about the truth, but the media and
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the Democrats do not want to because they want black people to be perceived as victims
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And by the way, we wear the white hat in the fight for your social justice.
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I didn't know that about young, young suburbanite white people buying this gang culture rap
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Most of the rap music is purchased by white people.
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But these these these rappers could not get wealthy if it weren't for white kids in the
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So when Brandon Johnson got elected in Chicago, I was everyone was talking about how the socialist
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And I looked at the electoral map of Chicago and unsurprisingly, it was all by race.
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The Latino areas voted for Latino guy and the black neighborhoods voted for the black guy.
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So I'll clarify, white areas voted for a white candidate, Latino for a Latino candidate,
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The top three candidates in the black neighborhoods were all black, even if they weren't the front
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Now, Brandon Johnson wasn't the front runner among the black community in Chicago.
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There was one neighborhood that got Brandon Johnson over the edge to win.
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And that was the university, the Loyola University area where young white socialists voted for
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Brandon Johnson, giving him the edge and getting him elected.
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In fact, it is these white uppity suburbanites that voted for the socialist candidate who now,
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I don't know if you saw the video, is saying they should fight back against Trump if he deploys
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A state senator from Illinois named Barack Obama challenged an incumbent Democrat named
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Bobby Rush, a former Black Panther for Congress, and Obama got his clock clean.
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It turned out that urban blacks, poor blacks did not vote for him, voted for the other guy.
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So Obama went back and redesigned his state Senate district.
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There's an article about this in ProPublica called Obama's Gerrymander, about how he redesigned
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his district to make it less black, more affluent, more white, more Jewish, because that's where
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It's the, what do they call it, affluent white female liberals leading the charge for
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a lot of these leftist policies and socialist policies.
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Obama, Trump has done so well with blacks, about 20% of black males voted for him this
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The number one group most hurt by illegal immigration are black people with high school
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or less living in the inner city because they have to compete against illegal aliens for
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And the presence of illegal alien labor puts downward pressure to the tune of almost $1,800
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This was before Joe Biden allowed in 10, 15, 20 million, however many it was over the last
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Black people living in the inner city are getting a very poor education.
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There are 13 government schools in Chicago where 0% of the kids can do math and can read
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There are over 50 in Illinois altogether where 0% of the kids can do math or can read at
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So they're the ones that are most hurt by the failure to have school choice, which Democrats
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do not want because the number one funder typically is the teachers union.
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So the people that are most hurt by Democrat policies are the very black people that have
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traditionally gone in there like lemmings and pull the lever for the Democrat party.
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Do you think if we got rid of this welfare system, it would it would end this or is there some
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kind of, you know, transition period where you'd need some kind of hybrid or system or
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Yeah, you can't just cut people off right away.
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But look, at one time, things like this were handled by nonprofits, by churches, by people
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Uh, and, uh, when government stepped in, people began donating less during the great
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depression, uh, donations shot up substantially.
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But then when FDR did his new deal, donations still went up, but not quite as sharply because
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There, there's no reason to believe that if we didn't have a welfare state by government,
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Americans would allow other Americans to die and suffer.
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We're the most compassionate people on the face of the earth.
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So that's what we would do if we didn't have the welfare state, but by having no questions
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L.A. Times 10, where people on welfare were asked,
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is welfare a stepping stone towards self-dependency or is it a crutch that makes you dependent?
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More of them said crutch than they said a stepping stone towards independence.
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So these are people on welfare telling you it's a trap.
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Well, now I think, you know, what's going on with SNAP?
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I think Trump, the Trump administration has enacted some kind of policy.
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A bunch of videos started popping up where you can't buy cookies and candies anymore.
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And there's videos of women trying to buy snack cakes and their EBT and things are getting rejected.
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So it looks like the Trump admin, you know, it's happening.
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1996, Bill Clinton changed welfare, as we know.
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He ran in 1992, promising to do that, didn't do it.
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But his advisors told him, if you don't do something, you're not going to get reelected in 1996.
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So he, for the first time, put time limits on welfare and what were called children caps.
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So if you had additional children, you didn't get additional money, which was the case in the past.
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Welfare roles declined by 50 percent, a far steeper decline than anybody predicted.
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And there wasn't a corresponding increase in abortion.
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A bunch of able-bodied people and able-minded people got off the couch and went to work because they had to.
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And little by little, we put those, we've loosened those restrictions.
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And what Donald Trump is doing is trying to put them back.
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So if you're on Medicaid and you're able-bodied, you don't have children, there's a certain amount of hours per week you have to work in order to continue getting benefits.
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You mentioned donations in the church and things like that as well.
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Well, I think another huge component that extends beyond the black community to this country as a whole is the loss of religion.
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And I say this as somebody—I'm not a Christian.
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I always—I don't know what I am, but there's a word for it somewhere.
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And people—you know, I'll have atheists question me and say, like, how would you defend that or whatever?
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I say, listen, the issue that I'm bringing up is not about whether or not someone has faith in Jesus Christ, although I know that Christians believe that to be the most important thing, or one of the most important things.
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The issue is community, that we would come together once a week and sit down with each other in the same space.
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The church was the charitable arm to protect the community when it could, and we had trust and faith in each other as well.
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But now nobody congregates and nobody meets, and so you have across the board in this country police officers that say, listen, I don't know you.
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You've got criminals who say, if I steal from you, nothing bad will happen to me because I don't know you.
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And this is the problem we're experiencing where people are not concerned with wronging their neighbor because there will be no social repercussions.
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Arthur Brooks was a professor of public policy at Syracuse.
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He wasn't particularly conservative or liberal, but he found out that nobody ever did a study to find out whether or not conservatives were more generous with their time, with their money, versus liberals.
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He assumed the answer was going to be liberals.
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So he did a whole study, got the conclusions, got rid of all the people that did the conclusions because he didn't believe it, hired another people.
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It turns out conservatives were far more generous with their money and their time than liberals.
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The first is that conservatives believe that help for people should be done people to people, not government to people.
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But the second factor, the more important factor, is conservatives were more likely to be religious than liberals.
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Religious people give way more money, way more time than do non-religious people.
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Religious liberals gave the same amount of money as religious conservatives.
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So it turns out that if you're more religious, you're more compassionate, you're more caring, you give more time, you give more money to people.
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I think it's fascinating to think—I want to approach this completely just objectively.
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Would Chicago rather have gang, culture, or Christianity?
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You know, the neighborhoods that I grew up on, I just tell you it's very simple.
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I grew up in the southwest side of Chicago, and there were areas that—we had a street, 47th Street.
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South of it, it was largely, like, white working class with some Latino.
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And that division, whether intentional or otherwise, created two separate communities where people distrusted each other.
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If someone came to me and said, this is a liberal Chicago, a lot of atheists, we want Christian missionaries to go into this, and so I'd say, oh, thank you.
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I would much rather have Christian culture—and it's a no-brainer.
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But it's fascinating because there are many, you know, atheist liberals who spend their days blaming religion for everything, blaming Christianity for everything, saying that Christianity is bad and that these values should be removed from government.
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And I'm just wondering, have you ever been to a church—I mean, look, you might not like what they believe or whatever, but I'd much rather have a bunch of people singing songs, clapping, and being bigoted, whatever the liberals think about it.
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Oh, they have bad views, then gangs shooting at each other.
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And, you know, a few years ago, as you know, I did a documentary called Uncle Tom, where I talked about how the black community continued to grow after slavery, even though there was Jim Crow, even though there was a KKK.
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In 1940, 87 percent of blacks lived under the poverty level.
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20 years later, 1960, that number had fallen to 47 percent, a 40-point drop in 20 years.
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The greatest 20-year period of economic growth in the history of black America.
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Why? Because it was rare for a black kid to be brought into the world without a father in the home married to the mother, a strong belief in entrepreneurship, a strong belief in American values, even if those values were not being applied fairly to black people, and more importantly, a strong belief in Judeo-Christian values.
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That is completely broken down, again, as a function of the breakdown of the nuclear intact family.
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And, therefore, the kids are less likely to be religious and less likely to learn the kinds of values that religion can put into your brain, make you behave responsibly.
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Yeah, we had a show a few years ago with Seamus Coughlin—he's the Freedom Tunes guy, he's a devout Catholic—and we talked about the Ten Commandments as an objective path towards successful life.
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Now, you know, I grew up Catholic briefly, and I believe, you know, being heavily influenced in Chicago by just general liberal atheism.
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Had my atheist angsty teen years, I don't consider myself Christian today.
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But I think if you look at the Ten Commandments objectively, it's a great path towards a functioning society and a good life.
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These things, if they are taught to children and upheld by their elders and those who inspire and motivate, will bring you to a more successful culture than having no father, being told that all that matters is getting yours.
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And that's what I saw when I grew up. The kids in my neighborhood who joined gangs were told, no one's going to help you, no one's there for you, and you've got to be hard.
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And these gangs would go to these kids, and they'd say—they'd give them guns and say, go kill our enemies.
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Don't worry, you'll only go to jail until you're 18.
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That's the message they were being given instead of, honor your parents, do not steal, do not kill.
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I would prefer these kids were told by a mentor, it's better to have faith and follow these.
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Even if you don't believe, these tenants will give you a better life.
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We're losing that, and it's fascinating that I've discussed with many people who, again, fans of mine, they're atheists.
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They just—they have a visceral reaction against Christianity.
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And I say, I'm not a Christian, but objectively, look at how much better things are with this worldview than the lack of.
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Absolutely. And not only that, they're happier.
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People who are religious are happier than people who are not religious.
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Just that people who are married are happier than people who are not married.
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If you don't feel that you're a victim, if you feel that you're loved by a higher power, you're much more likely to be happy.
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So for all these reasons, they're more generous, they're more charitable with their time, with their money.
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They're happier. There are a lot of reasons to be religious beyond a belief in a higher being.
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I think a lot of these young men have no purpose.
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And, you know, what I see, not with literally every religious person, and I don't just mean Christianity,
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but I find that many individuals who follow a faith feel like they have some kind of divine task.
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That something is expected of them from a higher power that they must fulfill,
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A lot of the guys I knew growing up with, they're like, what's the point of anything?
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And then the people I knew who were religious were like, I have a mandate from God.
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I must be a good person. I must be a good leader. I must help my community.
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You know, being part of something bigger, I feel like it inspires people to be better.
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And we are losing that as a nation across the board.
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I think that's resulting in a lot of the political turmoil.
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It's resulting in this—society is becoming more and more trustless,
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And whether or not—you know, actually, I'll put it this way.
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While I do think the National Guard deployment would be a good thing,
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it worries me that we're at the point where we need it.
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And reversing the problems that led to this request of a National Guard
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is not going to be related to a National Guard.
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But we have this culture war going on where there's two distinct worldviews.
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And one, I just—it's hard to say, but it looks objectively evil.
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You know, there are all sorts of stories people have that illustrate what you just now said about religion.
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I have a friend who works at an insurance company,
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and her boss told her that when he was a kid, he was crying.
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He was two or three years old, and his father was out of his life,
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Social services found out about it, investigated it, and didn't take him away from her.
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This time, social services came and took him away from her.
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And he was in a series of foster homes for a number of years, angry at the world, angry at life,
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And then one time, a Catholic priest came to one of the foster homes that he was staying,
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and he said, you know, God has a purpose for everybody.
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He walked up to the priest afterwards and said, told him what I told you.
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You survived a mother who broke your jaw, a mother who broke your arm, a father out of your life,
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And you must use that and show other people how to be strong.
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And for whatever reason, Tim, it turned him around.
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Fast forward, the guy is now a senior executive making seven figures at an insurance company.
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Isn't it funny how the logic was there the whole time?
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He had suffered tremendously and survived it and said,
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And it breaks my heart to see the wasted potential of so much of humanity.
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You know, Elon Musk talks about the population crisis.
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We need more people, but many people haven't had kids.
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And what's always—it gives me a sadness is to see there are tens of millions, hundreds
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of millions of human beings of tremendous potential that struggle to reach it, if not
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for just that single sentence that could tell them, like that story you told me.
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You know, this is going to sound self-serving, but I was telling this to my pastor.
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I'm 73 years old, and from time to time, I thought about retiring.
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I'm in an airport, and this black man walks up to me.
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He's about 35, 40 years old, very well-dressed.
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I started listening to your radio show, and I couldn't stand you at first, but little
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by little, I realized you were telling me to get off my butt, play the card to the best
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About a quarter of all the offices report to me, had it not been for you and for the
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way you encouraged me, I don't think I would be here.
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I mean, I get that all the time, Tim, all the time.
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I have a pastor named Pastor Jack Hibbs, who I admire a great deal.
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It's, you know, I liken it to lighting that spark, the fire within people.
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There's, I feel similarly why, you know, I speak passion about what I believe.
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There are so many people that just need that hand on the shoulder, and it lights them up,
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Hopefully, if, you know, the National Guard comes in and can put a stop to this crime,
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it can create a path where people will feel safe and these conversations can happen.
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But we need a cultural shift if we're really going to solve these problems.
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I'm on from 3 p.m. until 6 p.m. live, based in Los Angeles, a nationally syndicated radio show.
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Just go to my website, LarryElder.com, and check out the show.
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My last one is called As Goes California, My Mission to Rescue the Golden State to Save the Nation.
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And I've done a couple of documentaries, including Uncle Tom 1 and Uncle Tom 2.
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I've written about 1,400 columns once a week since April of 1998.
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I really do appreciate you joining us, and we'll see you next time.
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He hits the nail on the head with the hammer so much.
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I'll say one quick thing as we move on, and we're going to be obviously sending you guys
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on your way to the next show, which I believe we should have Russell Brand usually.
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But, of course, I'm just back from a few weeks out.
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So, you know, the only thing I want to say is there's—I'm—oh, yeah, Russell Brand is
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I don't follow Christianity or something like that.
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And there are people who are—you know, they accuse people in this space of being
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There are some people who were liberal atheists who converted.
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We are better off with a faith-based Christian nation than we are with a secular atheist one.
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They want to pretend that the secular atheist society is flying spaceships and, you know,
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We are learning right now what we actually end up with, and it is a low-trust society, violence and crime.
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I'm not saying, in my view, that Christianity is the perfect solution.
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I'm saying, where I grew up, I would much rather have the young men in my community singing choir songs in a church.
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However, I get along with those people, even when we disagree.
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I would prefer that over the low-trust gang and violence and, you know, crime that we ended up seeing.
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So, by all means, tell me you think there could be something better.
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I'm just saying, as we see religion on the decline, across the board, all religions,
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we can see this low-trust fragmenting of society, which is worrying to me.
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But I'm going to get you guys on your way to go hang out with our good friend, Russell Brand.
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It was miserable, but it is absolutely amazing to be back.
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And I got a new YouTube channel, YouTube.com slash at Tim Pool.
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For the people who just want to hang out, it'll be less specific, but more content to come.