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Another shooting in Atlanta, and this time they burned a Wendy s down, which is always a good reaction to almost anything. We have the details on that, what you should know. Also, Pat Gray joins us, first, to tell us about Spongebob being gay, but also to give us chocolate peanut butter cookies, which are amazing from scrumptiouscookies. Then, as well, we get into Chaz, aka Chop, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, a man who lives there, fearing for his life. We get into that with Elijah Schaefer, who was there. And Dinesh D'Souza joins us to give a lowdown on his new book, United States of Socialism.
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Welcome to the podcast, another shooting in Atlanta this time.
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They burned a Wendy's down, which is always a good reaction to almost anything.
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We have the details on that, what you should know.
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Also, Pat Gray joins us, first of all, to tell us about, you know, Spongebob being gay,
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but also to give us chocolate peanut butter cookies, which are amazing from scrumptiouscookie.com.
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The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, which they're trying to change the name of now.
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We get into that with Elijah Schaefer later on in the program.
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The ones you're seeing going viral came from Elijah Schaefer, most likely.
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You'll get Glenn's show, Stu Does America, all of Elijah's stuff as well.
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And Dinesh D'Souza joins us to give us a lowdown on his new book, United States of Socialism.
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First of all, if you listen to Stacey Abrams, here's what she had to say.
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Activists are necessarily calling into question what's actually being done.
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And what I would say is that there is there's a legitimacy to this anger.
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A man was murdered because he was asleep in a drive through.
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And we know that this is not an isolated occurrence.
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We also know that a man taking a taser from a police officer in Pennsylvania resulted in his arrest.
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But because this person was black, it resulted in his death.
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Those are conversations that have to be had, not only through speeches, but through the decisions made by budget allocations.
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And I think that's the next conversation we have to have.
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So Stacey says that this gentleman who I've watched the video of, and I feel, I mean, strangely bad for everybody involved in this one.
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But she says that Rashard Brooks died because he was asleep at a Wendy's.
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He didn't die because he was asleep at a Wendy's.
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He was asleep and drunk, intoxicated at a Wendy's.
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It took the police officer about, I don't know, 30 seconds to rouse him.
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He pulled his car over and he was a really nice guy.
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He said he was visiting his mom's grave earlier.
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It was, you know, her anniversary of her death.
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I think it was his daughter's birthday a couple of days before and the police were really good to him.
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He agreed to take a breathalyzer because he he smelled of alcohol and was was legally drunk.
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He passed the sobriety test when he walked the line.
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Then the police officer who was called in to investigate for sobriety came in and said, look, you don't have to take this breathalyzer, but I'm asking you if you will.
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And when they when they put the handcuffs on him or try to, he begins to resist arrest.
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I don't know if if this is something that maybe I was just taught and others just kind of miss this lesson.
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If they are arresting you, you're going to have to go to jail and you will sort it out.
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You'll make your phone call and you'll sort it out.
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If you are resisting arrest, chances are something bad is going to happen.
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Well, he resists arrest and they keep saying to him, stop fighting, stop resisting, stop, stop.
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I don't know how this guy bested the two of them, but he did.
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And as he's rolling over and on top of him, he grabs the stun gun and he takes it away from the officer.
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Rashad turns around and shoots the taser at the cop.
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Well, now you're in a whole different ballgame.
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Now you're not only resisting arrest, but you are now trying to take down another cop.
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That cop goes down and he says he's got my taser.
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That's when the other cop draws his gun and shoots, which I would imagine is standard procedure for somebody who has a weapon, a police officer's weapon, because you don't know what's going to happen.
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When when officer is down, the fear is if an officer is down somehow or another, he'll go down and grab the gun of the police officer.
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I don't I mean, you roll the dice with your life and everybody else's life as well.
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But you also roll the dice that you're going to be stopped and you're going to be arrested.
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But where are where's where's the mothers against drunk driving?
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But if you watch the video, it all went down from the time he has the stun gun to the time he's down is what?
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From the time the officer goes down to the time that Rashad is is shot is about a second.
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Now, I can sit here in my studio and I'm in the comfort of air conditioning and it's beautiful and I'm not panicked and I watch the video and I think, well, I don't know if I would have done.
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I wasn't the one who had my life at stake and my fellow officers life at stake.
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We have so convinced ourselves that we are just horrible human beings, that we're just a horrible nation and we have horrible cops.
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You've been told you have been bad for the last, what, 12 years?
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You've been told at least for 12 years over and over and over again.
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And the whole time you've been saying, no, I'm not.
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I don't want to get all California hippie on you, but my my father was a practitioner.
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Of my father was a practitioner of something called the Church of Religious Science, and it wasn't it's not Christian science.
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I said, can we talk about God for a second, Dad?
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But the first thing we have to do is not use the word God.
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What kind of dope smoking hippie kind of what are you talking about?
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He said, I believe in God, but the word itself has too many connotations.
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It has too many of your own personal beliefs wrapped around that word.
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He said, so if we really want to understand it, we have to start on neutral territory.
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He said, what is Big Bang may have happened, may not have happened.
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The idea behind his philosophy was the great I am.
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I am are the two most powerful words ever spoken.
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And don't take the Lord thy God's name in vain.
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Understand that the brain doesn't process negatives to everything that is creative in your brain.
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So if you're saying I am not a racist, we are not a racist country.
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It doesn't do anything but build the defense of I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not.
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I am a person that really loves everybody until they give me a chance to hate them.
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I used to be a person that hated everybody unless you gave me a reason to love you.
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Now I, I, and you know this if you've listened to me for a long time.
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I'm a sucker for people because I see the best in them.
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I want to believe they're going to be that person.
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And they, you know, most times are not, unfortunately.
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We've been told over and over again what a bad country we are.
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We're being told over and over that our cops are racist.
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Our cops are the ones after 9-11 that we went and we shook the hands of.
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Every time we saw a police officer, we said, thank you.
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it feels as though the majority of people in this country are saying and questioning the cops,
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I know every time I see one of these shootings,
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Do you want to make these decisions for the cops?
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Did you see if you watch the footage of the body cam and don't,
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you don't have an opinion on this unless you've watched the footage.
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Did you watch all of the three and a half minutes?
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You don't have an opinion until you've watched the video.
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And you're going to like the officer that first woke him up.
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zero indication that this guy was going to be a problem.
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And then all of a sudden he just something flipped and he changed.
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It's a summer of love have been told Friday night that they have to start giving black people at least $10 before leaving the area.
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So they're there in the they're in like this park setting.
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And I want you to find by the time you leave this area,
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I want you to give $10 to one African-American person from this autonomous zone.
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you think it's hard to give $10 to people of color,
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Are you going to actually give up your power and your land and capital when you have it?
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If you have a hard time giving up $10 and you'll have to think again,
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I want you to give $10 to one African-American person from this autonomous zone.
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if you find it's hard for you to give $10 to people of color,
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especially you have to think really critically about in the future,
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are you going to actually give up power and land and capital when you have it?
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You find that African-American person and you give them $10.
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I think the solution to all racism is I'm just going to throw money at black people when they pass me.
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just throwing balled up of bills will really solve the racism problem.
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you're going to be able to give up your land and your capital?
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So we also had a really interesting encounter with a street preacher.
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What does it feel like to get hugged by a homosexual?
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What does it feel like to get hugged by a homosexual?
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So they forcibly held him down and then they kissed him.
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somebody was kneeling on his back and his neck and he said,
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a view from a Seattle resident living in Capitol Hill where they are inside of
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listen to what this and listen to how emotional this Seattle resident gets about
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Like I've been scared every day since Sunday and,
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cause for the first time in my life in Capitol Hill,
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And I've heard people screaming every single night outside.
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but I've also heard like screams of terror out there.
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Just hearing the screams for the first time and not knowing what's going on.
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he talked about different things that he had seen,
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My government has abandoned me and I am afraid for my life.
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when there are no police and when the government is corrupt and in bed with
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our argument was about gay and transgender rights.
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an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates
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we have a extreme right-wing court who has now come out,
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it's interesting to see how that would play out in a situation where,
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someone changing from male to female in a role that was designed for a male in the middle of that,
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would you be able to change them to another job?
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They would not be able to be fired based on this ruling,
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and he comes in and he's dependable and everything else.
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And you would have to have a conversation with Bert or Bertina and say,
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You could go do that someplace else where customers might expect you to be,
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with the business unless you're going to control every aspect of that business.
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You're arguing for hatred is what you're doing.
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Normal is something that you would see commonly.
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it's not commonplace in the urban city to see a cow.
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It's not normal for a cow to be wandering the streets of New York city.
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there's a few famous places that are staffed completely by transgendered people who,
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because you were specifically hired because you were,
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but you can't specifically hire someone for not being a transgendered or transvestite.
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I'm actually standing up for the transgender person here.
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this is the problem with government getting involved.
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if you don't understand that the change you're making is a big deal and your employer might say,
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get and having somebody greeting our customers is,
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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he truly gets America because he grew up in India and he saw America from abroad.
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even the fact that a former president had him jailed,
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It's just full of a lot of bad people right now.
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and he's got a new book out called the United States of socialism,
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but United States of socialism is a great companion for arguing with socialists.
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the grocery store that you walked into when you first came to America.
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I arrived Glenn in Arizona as a exchange student at the age of 17.
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I lived with the host family and they were very eager to show me America.
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They had all these sort of fights planned for me.
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my idea of sightseeing is take me to a grocery store.
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I know the abundance of America and its availability to the ordinary man in
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but I think a country is judged by the kind of life it makes available to the
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And I was always struck at how good the ordinary guy had it in America,
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I was just impressed at how smooth the roads were and how everything worked and how you
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didn't have to pay people under the table for everything.
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Remember I grew up in socialist India and the two things I remember the most about
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our family had a ration card and that meant that every month we could only buy so
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When I saw images of India as the begging bowl of the world,
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my family was on a seven year wait to get a phone.
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And I don't usually mention this because Americans look at me like I'm insane,
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Some of the scarcities we glimpsed very briefly under coronavirus are a kind of nasty preview
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of what things would be permanently like if India was,
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it's strange because India now has shaken off many of the chains of,
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of socialism and have become much more capitalist society.
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And we are now starting to go where the rest of the world has discovered is nothing but abject poverty and failure.
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my wife is from Venezuela and our two countries,
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India and Venezuela have moved in opposite directions.
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a once thriving country now reduced to complete ruin by adopting socialism.
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the begging bowl of the world is now more prosperous because it abandoned socialism and embraced technological capitalism.
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So you would think that looking around the world,
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that's why I think the revival of socialism in America,
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one country where socialism has never been in the mainstream is not only a mystery,
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but it's something that demands explanation and deep understanding.
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this isn't comprehensive Stalinism in which there's an official position in classical music and chess,
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The left's goal is to stigmatize resistance as discrimination and ruthless,
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And you talk about how this is really an attack on the heart,
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that is the way to get to America is to go in through their heart and then destroy it.
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Many people think socialism is merely a system of economic confiscation,
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the state is about is reducing citizens to abject conformity,
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to crushing their independence of spirit and of mind.
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And I think that's ultimately the worst aspect of it.
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these kinds of liturgies of genuflection and subordination.
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They're ultimately ways of us being of us submitting,
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I know it was the same for me when I was writing,
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And then they became more and more bold as they started just to admit,
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But the speed to which we are now seeing Americans,
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a brave embrace socialists in BLM and excuse what's happening in Seattle is a little astounding.
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I have seen this kind of ideology in academia for a long time,
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I think what has surprised us is that what we previously thought was occurring in the nuthouse or asylum of academia has now metastasized into the larger culture.
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You could almost say that academia is the theory and antifa is the practice.
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So academia has been drilling into young people's heads without challenge, without critical scrutiny.
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The idea that what happened to George Floyd is not a normalist.
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Our institutions are racist and they have been chronically so since the beginning of the country itself.
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it seems normal to fling a Molotov cocktail into a police,
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Because you're doing what you can to fight the system by any means necessary.
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this kind of destructive mayhem we're seeing on the street is the logical outcome of progressive ideology.
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the typical socialist today is not a union guy who wants higher wages.
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Antifa and black lives matter rallies and throw cement blocks at her political opponents.
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the logic behind socialism and a revolution was to get the workers of the world to unite the people,
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an economist named Werner Sombart wrote a book called,
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why is there no socialism in the United States?
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all socialist utopias came to grief on roast beef and apple pie.
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And what he meant is that America has managed to deliver so much for the working man that the working man has no intention of overthrowing the system.
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So what they have to do is tap into other forms of resentment that exist or can be fomented in the society.
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Obviously the most profitable is racial resentment.
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The scheme is to divide America every which way to create a 51% majority of oppressed victims.
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That's the strategy of so-called identity socialism,
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which is a marriage of classic socialism and identity politics.
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So I want to talk to you about the end game on that.
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the name of the book is the United States of Socialism by Dinesh D'Souza,
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And I think he can do it because he watched us with,
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and he believes the American dream and it still exists.
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because not enough of us are preaching it anymore.
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Not enough of us are seeing how great it really is here in the United States.
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The United States of Socialism by Dinesh D'Souza.