The Glenn Beck Program - September 28, 2026


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00:00:00 so a new report is out came out friday for uh tp usa and uh uvu the place where uh charlie kirk
00:00:10 was killed and it's a it's an internal uh document that shows what really happened that day and
00:00:17 there are going to be people give you all kinds of opinions on it i have an opinion and it's all
00:00:22 about the facts and i share those with you on today's podcast plus broken families there's
00:00:28 this heartbreaking story um in the wall street journal came out this weekend about 138 families
00:00:36 every month have somebody say you're not my parent anymore you're toxic you're you know you're you're
00:00:45 dangerous to be around i need a safe space or whatever it is we talk about that and the reaction
00:00:52 from the audience was pretty intense. We did a poll and, uh, more than half of us are facing
00:00:59 these kinds of problems and it's getting worse. This is 10 times worse than it was five years
00:01:05 ago. Also, Justin Haskins joins us. He's got a new poll out and it'll show you how much trouble
00:01:11 We are actually in with the youth, anybody under 30.
00:01:17 The extreme views is shocking.
00:01:22 We go into the war with questions like, do you want America to win or the Iranians to win?
00:01:30 Would you trade for cheap oil and gas? 0.62
00:01:34 Would you dismantle Israel and replace it with a Palestinian state for cheap oil and gas? 0.89
00:01:42 What do you think the results are? 1.00
00:01:45 It's terrifying.
00:01:47 We have that and so much more on today's Best Up podcast.
00:01:59 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:02:04 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
00:02:09 We're glad you're here.
00:02:11 This weekend we had, I don't know, about 100 people up to the house here at the Standing Rock Ranch.
00:02:16 We had the first wedding here at the ranch.
00:02:20 It was a family wedding.
00:02:23 And had a conversation with one of my nephews.
00:02:28 We don't see the world the same.
00:02:30 And I love him to death.
00:02:32 And he loves his uncle.
00:02:34 And we were having a conversation.
00:02:36 I said, just when we finished hugging each other,
00:02:41 I looked him in the eye and said, just make me a promise, will you?
00:02:44 That this will never stop.
00:02:45 Our love will never stop because we disagree on politics
00:02:47 because it's not worth it.
00:02:49 And he said, Uncle Glenn, I promise you.
00:02:52 I'm going to talk about those families that are struggling,
00:02:56 including mine, from a story from the Wall Street Journal here
00:02:59 coming up in just a minute.
00:03:00 If you're struggling with your family because of politics, you are not alone.
00:03:05 And I have to tell you, I have a hard time.
00:03:09 Well, we'll get into it in a minute.
00:03:11 There was news that came out on Friday.
00:03:14 Utah Valley University released the independent review of the day Charlie Kirk was killed on campus.
00:03:20 Outside experts did more than 70 interviews, read thousands of pages, videos, dispatch logs, text messages, blah, blah, blah.
00:03:29 It's all released, and within an hour, everybody had a verdict.
00:03:32 Everybody had something.
00:03:34 I got to get on the air, and I got to talk about this.
00:03:36 I got to quick.
00:03:37 I got to get on my podcast.
00:03:39 The family's lawyer blamed the university.
00:03:42 Parts of the left blamed Turning Point.
00:03:44 Podcasters said, the silence is the real story.
00:03:49 Is it?
00:03:50 Is that the real story?
00:03:51 The silence?
00:03:51 Huh.
00:03:54 Most of these people couldn't even finish page 10.
00:03:57 They told us, you know, silence.
00:04:05 Sometimes silence is the real story.
00:04:08 Like my opinion on some of these podcasters is...
00:04:15 Now, I just told a story there, didn't I?
00:04:20 My silence was the story.
00:04:23 Not this time.
00:04:24 You know, we're living in the so-called information age.
00:04:28 We're not living in the information age anymore.
00:04:30 We were in the information age.
00:04:32 Now we're in the opinion and outrage age.
00:04:36 Opinion is the currency of the day, and it is so cheap to print.
00:04:40 It is nobody ever runs out of opinions.
00:04:43 My gosh.
00:04:46 Facts are what's scarce in today's world.
00:04:49 So let me not sell you a side here.
00:04:52 Let me tell you the facts of what's in the report in order.
00:04:56 You decide what it means.
00:04:57 You're smart enough to figure this out.
00:04:58 So you decide.
00:05:00 So in July of last year, a Turning Point field representative asked the campus club to request the outdoor courtyard.
00:05:10 Charlie had spoken at UVU before he knew the place.
00:05:13 The police chief learned about the event three weeks out.
00:05:16 Okay. All right. That's probably a, you know, the planning form estimated 600 people didn't list any safety concerns. So the police chief doesn't find out until three weeks out. That's a problem. That's a problem. University staff warned the courtyard would be hard to control. Point in their favor. Turning Point wanted it anyway with its own ticketing. University went along. Probably shouldn't have done that. Reviewers said it should have kept those decisions for itself.
00:05:43 Then there was no security assessment, no written plan.
00:05:48 Nobody studied the rooftops.
00:05:50 Two days before Charlie's own security flagged the walkway above the stage,
00:05:58 the chief taped it off and posted two officers there.
00:06:02 That morning, he texts Charlie's security supervisor, meet at 11.
00:06:06 Well, they didn't meet.
00:06:07 Why?
00:06:08 The chief was clearing protesters off the walkway,
00:06:11 than chasing students off a balcony outside the president's office.
00:06:14 He was busy fixing the problems he could see.
00:06:18 13 sworn officers for the whole university.
00:06:22 No screening, bike racks for barriers, camera recording,
00:06:26 nobody watching, no ambulance.
00:06:29 You know, the emergency manager was on vacation.
00:06:33 And then at 1223, a shot came from the roof more than 400 feet away.
00:06:38 So
00:06:40 Whose fault is it?
00:06:46 Well, I read this thing
00:06:48 I can't find any bad faith
00:06:50 I can't find any plot line here
00:06:53 No conspiracy
00:06:54 I didn't find a single Jew in the report 1.00
00:06:57 What I found were serious failures 1.00
00:07:00 And failures on both sides of the table
00:07:03 You know what?
00:07:05 This is one of those things like 0.99
00:07:07 Crap happens 0.97
00:07:08 Charlie's security leads 0.99
00:07:16 Turning Point's field representatives
00:07:18 The student who invited him
00:07:21 All declined to be interviewed
00:07:23 The family has filed notice of a lawsuit
00:07:27 Lawsuits make people stop talking
00:07:29 That's what it is
00:07:31 That's not a confession
00:07:32 That's the silence
00:07:33 It's a lawsuit and litigation
00:07:36 The silence speaks volumes.
00:07:38 Yes, everybody's going to court and they've all got an attorney.
00:07:43 It's just a blank space.
00:07:46 And in the opinion age, somebody has to rush to fill in that silence.
00:07:51 I can talk, I can talk, I can talk, listen to me.
00:07:53 I can talk, I can talk, look how many followers I can get.
00:07:59 You know, this would make me feel awful if we hadn't been here before, but we have.
00:08:03 Let me take you back to probably the biggest one, April 1912.
00:08:10 Days before the most famous ship in the world left Southampton.
00:08:15 The line shuffles its officers.
00:08:17 The second officer gets bumped.
00:08:20 He walks off the ship down the gangway with a little key in his pocket.
00:08:24 Little key.
00:08:25 What was that little key?
00:08:26 You probably never heard this story.
00:08:27 Oh, this was a big scandal back then.
00:08:29 He kept the key.
00:08:31 It opened the locker that held the binoculars for the crow's nest.
00:08:35 Nobody noticed.
00:08:36 Nobody thought it mattered.
00:08:38 Okay?
00:08:38 Four nights later, two lookouts standing in that nest.
00:08:42 No moon.
00:08:43 The sea so flat, nothing broke against the ice.
00:08:46 They're watching with their bare eyes.
00:08:48 They have no binoculars.
00:08:49 Because he left with a key, he did it intentionally.
00:08:52 All day, other ships had warned of ice warnings.
00:08:57 Titanic's radio men, buried, buried.
00:09:00 Why weren't they watching the radio?
00:09:01 Why weren't they getting those reports?
00:09:03 Because they were buried in passenger telegrams.
00:09:06 The job they were paid for.
00:09:09 Late that night, the nearest ship broke in one more time.
00:09:12 Stopped, surrounded by ice.
00:09:14 Titanic's operator told him, shut up, we're busy.
00:09:18 So the man shot off the set and went to bed.
00:09:21 About 10 minutes later, the lookout rang the bell.
00:09:26 Asked under oath, how much sooner would you have rung that bell if you had had your glasses?
00:09:31 He said, enough to get away.
00:09:34 We wouldn't have hit the iceberg if I would have had the binocular.
00:09:36 See, he took the key. 1.00
00:09:38 He was probably a Jew. 1.00
00:09:42 The ship that tried to warn them could see the Distrex rockets. 1.00
00:09:45 It never came.
00:09:46 The only man who could have heard that call was asleep.
00:09:51 The lifeboats, Titanic carried more than the law required.
00:09:54 but the law was written for smaller ships.
00:09:57 Nobody updated it.
00:09:59 A key in the wrong pocket, a radio man doing his job,
00:10:02 a tired man going to bed, an old rule.
00:10:07 There's no villains there.
00:10:08 More than 1,500 dead.
00:10:15 There wasn't a conspiracy,
00:10:16 although everybody tried to make it into a conspiracy at the time.
00:10:20 You do the small job in front of you like the ship depends on it,
00:10:23 and sometimes it does.
00:10:24 For a hundred years, we've refused to believe it.
00:10:29 It was the sister ship, swap for insurance.
00:10:33 It was the banker who canceled his trip.
00:10:38 They wanted to sink the rich men who stood in the way of the Federal Reserve.
00:10:43 The banker did counsel. The rich men did die.
00:10:47 The Fed did come the next year.
00:10:49 Every dot is real, but the line between them is not.
00:10:53 We want the plot.
00:10:54 Why?
00:10:55 Why do we want the plot?
00:10:56 Why do we insist on these conspiracy theories?
00:10:58 Because it's comforting.
00:11:00 Believe it or not, it's comforting.
00:11:02 A plot means somebody is in charge.
00:11:05 Catch him and it can't happen again.
00:11:07 But the truth is harder.
00:11:09 Nobody's driving.
00:11:10 Sometimes they are, sometimes they're not.
00:11:13 It's just ordinary people doing ordinary jobs,
00:11:16 leaving a small hole,
00:11:17 and that's how Charlie Kirk gets killed.
00:11:19 Safety engineers call it Swiss cheese
00:11:24 You stack the slices and every one of them has holes
00:11:27 Most days, the holes don't line up
00:11:29 The disaster is the day they do
00:11:34 A familiar courtyard
00:11:36 A wrong head count
00:11:38 A university that deferred
00:11:40 A meeting that never happened
00:11:41 Cameras nobody watched
00:11:43 The holes lined up at 1223
00:11:46 you know i i know this game i've connected dots that weren't connected and had to come back on
00:11:55 this microphone and say okay i was wrong on that they weren't connected the plots i fear
00:12:00 are not the ones before the shooting they're the ones that come after
00:12:04 because every show needs the next episode
00:12:08 who's making their career on episode after episode after episode after episode
00:12:16 The boring answer is usually one episode.
00:12:20 The plot is a series
00:12:22 and it'll make you the most famous person in the world.
00:12:28 Nobody ever built an audience on,
00:12:30 yeah, and then the radio guy went to bed
00:12:32 and the guy just forgot the key was in his pocket.
00:12:38 I can't read anybody's heart,
00:12:40 but I can read incentive.
00:12:42 I live inside it too.
00:12:46 The conspiracy lets the real failures off the hook.
00:12:49 That's the problem here.
00:12:51 If it was a plot, nobody answers for 13 officers.
00:12:57 A courtyard ringed by roofs.
00:13:00 A site the security team never walked with the police.
00:13:04 Nobody fixes the cheese.
00:13:06 The next speaker stands in the next courtyard under the next roof.
00:13:14 But here's what came after the Titanic.
00:13:16 A lifeboat seat for every soul
00:13:20 A radio watch 24 hours a day
00:13:23 An ice patrol that still sails the North Atlantic
00:13:27 By the Coast Guard's account, no ship that has heeded its warnings has ever been lost to an iceberg
00:13:33 The theories went nowhere
00:13:38 The theories didn't save anybody
00:13:40 The boring facts did
00:13:46 They've saved countless thousands of lives.
00:13:53 By the way, I was doing the research on this.
00:13:55 I found the key survived.
00:13:57 The key survived.
00:13:58 It was sold at auction about 20 years ago for 90,000 pounds.
00:14:02 It's about the size of your thumb.
00:14:05 And that's usually the size of the truth.
00:14:08 It's inconsequential sometimes.
00:14:11 It's just a whole bunch of little teeny pieces.
00:14:14 And that's what I found.
00:14:17 Every April, a Coast Guard plane flies out over the spot where Titanic went down and drops a wreath into the sea.
00:14:24 Not a theory, not an opinion. Flowers. A wreath.
00:14:27 Then the crew turns around, goes back to watching for more ice.
00:14:32 That's how you honor the dead.
00:14:34 You get the facts straight.
00:14:37 You fix what's broke.
00:14:39 You leave the conspiracies where they belong, in the trash can,
00:14:43 unless you can actually connect dots and they stand under scrutiny.
00:14:49 If any of those dots, I'm going to say it, Candace,
00:14:55 if any of those dots had anything, they would be used in a court of law.
00:15:01 Shame on you. Shame on you.
00:15:05 It looks like everybody made really bad mistakes.
00:15:11 Charlie deserves more than this.
00:15:14 Not a series.
00:15:15 Not a villain who happens to look like whoever we are supposed to dislike this week.
00:15:21 The truth.
00:15:23 The fix.
00:15:25 And somebody watching the roof.
00:15:28 I got to tell you, the opinion age is going to burn itself out quickly.
00:15:32 because it's going to continue to sell you a plot.
00:15:37 Give up on the opinions.
00:15:39 Don't even take mine.
00:15:41 Go read.
00:15:41 If you want to know the truth,
00:15:42 go read the report yourself.
00:15:45 The silence says everything.
00:15:47 No, actually the words say everything.
00:15:50 Read the report and decide for yourself.
00:15:52 Back in just a second.
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00:17:19 This last summer, in a conference room in Chicago, more than 200 moms and dads filled chairs.
00:17:25 Some of them flew in from as far as Australia.
00:17:27 Another 250 watched online.
00:17:31 Every one of them has a grown child who stops speaking to them.
00:17:36 Wall Street Journal was in that room, and they reported on it.
00:17:41 One mom, a retired event planner from Atlanta,
00:17:43 hasn't heard from her 28-year-old son in three years.
00:17:47 What still stuns her is all the kids are using the same words. 0.82
00:17:55 Narcissist, self-absorbed, your fault.
00:17:57 A Cornell sociologist found that at any given time, about one American in 10 is cut off from a parent or a child, and one in four from some close relative.
00:18:10 Last month alone, more than 138,000 new TikTok videos were posted about cutting off their parents.
00:18:18 this is 10 times what it was in august of 2020 10 times
00:18:30 a family therapist surveyed a thousand estranged parents 82 percent said the same levels the same
00:18:38 labels show up right before the abuse the door is closed and that is you're toxic you're abusive
00:18:45 This is an unsafe...
00:18:47 Oh, I can't take it.
00:18:52 Researchers have a name for it.
00:18:54 Concept creep.
00:18:57 Ordinary conflict, criticism, a hard disagreement,
00:19:00 a parent who doesn't approve gets relabeled as toxic, harmful, dangerous.
00:19:09 And once it's harm, leaving isn't a rupture, it's self-care.
00:19:15 It's brave.
00:19:18 There's a video for it.
00:19:19 There's a coach for it.
00:19:20 There's paid support groups for it.
00:19:24 One psychologist in the piece says that for some adults,
00:19:31 cutting off a parent is their first chance at teenage rebellion.
00:19:35 You're so brave.
00:19:38 He says a parent who disagrees is no longer seen as a family with shared history,
00:19:42 but as a member of the other tribe.
00:19:45 A professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota summed up what changed in the counselor's office.
00:19:51 Therapist gave estrangement the professional authoritative stamp of approval.
00:19:56 Why are we listening to these experts?
00:20:01 Now, some parents are dangerous.
00:20:03 Some children are abused, beaten, terrorized.
00:20:08 And you got to leave them because it's a matter of survival.
00:20:15 And the generation before mine looked away from that.
00:20:18 I'm proud that we look at that.
00:20:22 If that's your story, nobody in this program is going to tell you to go back to that house.
00:20:29 And some parents need to hear what their kids are saying before they dismiss it.
00:20:34 A grievance can be exaggerated but can still be true.
00:20:38 And I'm open to hear it.
00:20:41 I am open to hear it.
00:20:45 but that's not what 138,000 videos a month are about. 0.99
00:20:50 For 20 years, this generation told us rightly
00:20:53 that a parent who cuts off a child for being gay
00:20:57 or living a life a parent didn't approve of
00:20:59 has failed as a parent.
00:21:01 Good parents, we were told, love their kids no matter what.
00:21:04 And you know what?
00:21:05 They were right.
00:21:11 Now, let me turn this around.
00:21:13 I'm sorry, I get a little angry.
00:21:16 Let me turn this around on the same young adults who are now passing judgment.
00:21:23 Slamming the door on a mom or a dad for believing something you don't.
00:21:29 And then you call it enlightenment.
00:21:32 I got news for you.
00:21:33 That's the same sin with the chairs turned around.
00:21:45 Oh, Lord.
00:21:59 I'm not sure how much more I can take from these safe space, over pampered, everybody gets a trophy holier than thou crowd.
00:22:08 I can't take it.
00:22:15 But when the Lord attends me, I find this really sad.
00:22:32 Your parent is hurting deeply, and they will feel that pain to the end of their life.
00:22:42 But I want to tell you something, and this is the saddest part.
00:22:47 Their pain is going to end long before yours does.
00:22:52 See, we've lost parents already, and that never goes away.
00:23:00 And you will have decades left to live with a divorce you filed yourself
00:23:07 and didn't even, in many cases, give it a hearing.
00:23:12 we've been here before
00:23:20 not with an app
00:23:22 but with a war
00:23:23 we've been here before
00:23:24 we were here during the Civil War
00:23:28 we were here in the Revolutionary War
00:23:30 Ben Franklin, one of the saddest stories
00:23:32 he had one son, William
00:23:34 he raised him, took him to London
00:23:36 watched him become the royal governor of New Jersey
00:23:38 and then came the revolution
00:23:40 the father chose the country
00:23:44 the son chose the king
00:23:45 William was arrested in 1776
00:23:50 spent two years in an American prison
00:23:52 and when he got out
00:23:54 he led loyalists against the causes
00:23:56 father had bet his life on
00:23:58 nine years without a word
00:24:00 then the war ended
00:24:02 Franklin was the one who signed
00:24:06 the peace with Britain
00:24:07 And it was Franklin who reached out first.
00:24:12 He dropped a hint through a merchant headed for London.
00:24:16 Why hasn't my son made any move towards reconciliation?
00:24:21 If nations can make peace, why can't we?
00:24:26 William wrote back.
00:24:29 He asked to revive the affection that had been, in his word, the pride and happiness of his life.
00:24:37 He also said, if all of it happened again tomorrow,
00:24:41 he'd do exactly the same thing.
00:24:46 Franklin answered with a letter you can still read, we should post it.
00:24:50 Nothing has ever hurt me so much, he wrote,
00:24:53 as to find myself deserted in my old age by my own son.
00:24:58 And then he wrote the wisest thing in it.
00:25:02 I ought not blame you for differing with me.
00:25:05 We are all men
00:25:08 Subject to errors
00:25:10 Our opinions
00:25:12 Are not in our own power
00:25:14 And then this
00:25:17 There are natural duties
00:25:19 Which precede political ones
00:25:21 And cannot be extinguished by them
00:25:24 Franklin knew the answer
00:25:28 He wrote it down
00:25:31 He could not do it
00:25:37 They met once more
00:25:41 In an English port in 1785
00:25:43 A few days of business
00:25:45 Settling of property
00:25:46 Franklin sailed home
00:25:49 They never saw each other again
00:25:51 When his will was read
00:25:54 The son got almost nothing
00:25:55 With one line of explanation
00:25:58 the part he acted against me in the late war.
00:26:05 The man who made peace with the British Empire
00:26:08 couldn't make peace with his own son.
00:26:13 And it cuts both ways. 0.81
00:26:14 The father was right about the war. 0.54
00:26:15 The son believed he was right about his duty.
00:26:18 Both were proud.
00:26:20 Each wanted the other to go first.
00:26:22 And when the other one didn't, it wasn't enough.
00:26:28 Being right didn't give either one of them a father or a son back.
00:26:35 I'm telling you that piece of history because nothing's new.
00:26:39 The riff isn't new.
00:26:41 The families have split over kings and churches and money,
00:26:44 a thousand smaller things since Cain.
00:26:48 Here's what's new.
00:26:49 The applause.
00:26:51 The cheering.
00:26:53 The coaching.
00:26:54 the verbiage that goes along with it
00:26:59 to celebrate your courage for destroying your family
00:27:04 over an opinion.
00:27:05 And I don't care who started it.
00:27:07 I don't care who's responsible for it.
00:27:09 It's your family.
00:27:18 I've lost four dear family members.
00:27:22 I don't know if I'll ever see them again
00:27:25 I write all the time
00:27:28 I never get word back
00:27:31 You are not alone
00:27:36 Franklin at least called it what it was
00:27:48 The thing that hurt him most in his life
00:27:49 He didn't post it as a victory
00:27:53 Nobody coached him through it
00:28:00 Nobody sold him a membership
00:28:02 Today there's a whole economy standing at the door
00:28:05 Cheering while those doors close
00:28:07 An algorithm that noticed what you lingered on
00:28:11 And feeds you more of it
00:28:13 Influencers who are only credentialists
00:28:15 They did it too
00:28:16 And often it's a professional who's never met your mom
00:28:21 Telling you the reason is her
00:28:25 That you're the brave one
00:28:29 Even the man who runs one of the biggest estrangement support groups in the country
00:28:35 Admits it
00:28:36 The person on your phone isn't listening to you
00:28:40 Doesn't know you
00:28:41 Can't judge your situation
00:28:44 A stranger's story is not your diagnosis.
00:28:51 To the grown kids, honor your father and your mother.
00:28:57 Paul called it the first commandment with a promise detached.
00:29:02 He doesn't ever say agree with them.
00:29:04 He doesn't say obey them forever.
00:29:07 He doesn't say let them hurt you.
00:29:10 He says honor them.
00:29:13 honor can be done from a distance
00:29:18 with rules and limits
00:29:19 basic kindness
00:29:22 for people
00:29:24 who bore you
00:29:25 and raised you
00:29:27 who worried when you were sick
00:29:38 who still think of you
00:29:39 every single day
00:29:40 boundary is a fence with a gate a cutoff is a wall with no door know which one you're building
00:29:53 and who sold you the bricks and to the parents in chicago go first not with a defense surrender
00:30:01 just ask a question
00:30:04 what did I do
00:30:07 to hurt you
00:30:08 to deserve this
00:30:10 and then do the hardest thing
00:30:13 a parent ever does
00:30:14 don't explain
00:30:15 just listen
00:30:15 you don't have to agree
00:30:18 just hear it
00:30:21 a door you closed
00:30:26 to punish something
00:30:27 to punish the actions
00:30:30 to punish someone
00:30:32 You close that door, that door locks from both sides.
00:30:38 Benjamin Franklin died in 1790.
00:30:40 His son outlived him by 23 years in London, a man without a country,
00:30:44 and in the end, a man without a dad.
00:30:49 They were both right about something.
00:30:52 It didn't matter.
00:30:53 I know how hard it is to write
00:31:02 even though you think about them
00:31:05 every single day
00:31:06 multiple times a day
00:31:08 never stop writing
00:31:15 never stop texting
00:31:17 never stop calling
00:31:18 reach them one way or another
00:31:23 in hopes that they will read that text, that email, that letter.
00:31:33 Franklin wrote them.
00:31:37 For us, those words, for us, 240-some years ago,
00:31:42 we are all men subject to errors.
00:31:45 The natural duties come first.
00:31:50 Write the letter, no matter which side you're on.
00:31:53 Write the letter, and when the answer comes, let it be enough.
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00:33:39 Justin, welcome to the program.
00:33:41 This this poll that you just are releasing here this week is absolutely terrifying.
00:33:48 Yes, it is. It is. It's one of the more terrifying polls I've done.
00:33:52 I've done dozens of polls over many years.
00:33:54 As you know, you have highlighted a lot of them.
00:33:57 One of the key things that I'm always looking for is to find out just how insane America has become, especially with younger people, especially on the left.
00:34:06 Been tracking it for a long time. And as this poll illustrates very, very clearly, it's really a series of polls. They all illustrate the same thing. Younger people and the Democratic Party is so far gone and detached from reality that it's hard to believe how crazy things have actually gotten.
00:34:27 And we have a lot of work to do on the right to try to repair this, because eventually younger people are going to be the majority voting bloc. 0.69
00:34:35 And when that happens, God help us, because they have absolutely no idea what's going on in the world, and we're going to talk about it in this poll. 0.99
00:34:46 Okay.
00:34:48 Give me the first one that want socialist president.
00:34:52 How many people want a socialist president overall, Democrats, and then Republicans?
00:34:59 Yeah, so actually that poll question is not in this poll.
00:35:03 That's from a different poll that we did a while ago.
00:35:05 No, but the answer to that question is, generally speaking, support for socialist presidential candidates is pretty low.
00:35:15 But with younger people, it's around 50%.
00:35:18 So about 50% of people say under the age of 30 or so that they want a democratic presidential, a democratic socialist president in 2028. So they want a socialist now. And when you trace all sorts of other socialist and Marxist questions that I've asked in previous polls, you'll see that it's around 40, 50%. Sometimes it drops below 40%, depending on the question.
00:35:44 But you ask about socialist policies like nationalizing whole industries.
00:35:49 You ask about, you know, you name it.
00:35:53 Health care, energy, and big tech.
00:35:55 Health care, energy, and big tech.
00:35:57 It is 76%.
00:35:58 76.
00:36:00 Yeah, exactly.
00:36:01 And so widespread support among younger people for socialism.
00:36:05 So you're looking at socialism.
00:36:07 Remember, red-green alliance.
00:36:09 So you've got socialism.
00:36:11 That's the red.
00:36:12 Now let's look at the green. 1.00
00:36:13 Islam and these numbers are terrifying let's just look at today we'll look at Islam tomorrow 1.00
00:36:22 and Sharia law which is holy cow are we in trouble let's look at just the war with Iran here 1.00
00:36:29 in the ongoing war between the United States and Iran who do you hope will ultimately win
00:36:37 and you were asking americans that's right likely voters not just all americans not just
00:36:43 registered voters likely voters and what we found is that among all voters six percent said iran so
00:36:50 not a huge percentage 74 said the united states which is the obvious right answer you would think
00:36:57 correct 10 10 said they don't care which is pretty astounding and 11 said they're not sure
00:37:03 They're still trying to figure out whether they want, you know, Iran to win the war or not.
00:37:08 I guess they haven't figured that out.
00:37:09 But the really scary thing is not those top line results because the average everyday
00:37:14 American is not insane, but many young people are and a huge chunk of the Democratic Party
00:37:21 is becoming that way.
00:37:22 A quarter of the Democrats surveyed said that they either want Iran to win or they don't
00:37:28 care who wins, but they're not rooting for America.
00:37:30 less than 50 percent of them said that they want the united states to win this war less than 50
00:37:35 percent and younger people it was similar similar thing so under 30 the most radical positions taken
00:37:42 throughout all of these polling questions are going to be with younger people and with democrats
00:37:46 and it's going to be depending on the question around a quarter or so of of these groups saying
00:37:53 the most rap taking the most radical position that you could the second question i actually
00:38:01 want to discuss this one because i will discuss it who do you think is most to blame for the war
00:38:06 between iran and the united states this one does not surprise me go ahead yeah 39 said it's iran's
00:38:15 government 41 which was this is the plurality this is the number one answer said the u.s
00:38:21 government. 10% said Israel's government, which is actually interesting because not a lot of people
00:38:25 said that. And 9% said not sure. I did too. But when you add Israel's government and the US
00:38:32 government together, you have a majority of all voters saying, yes, we think this is either
00:38:38 Israel's fault or the United States' fault, primarily the United States. And when you asked
00:38:43 Democrats and young people, it was much, much higher. 77% of Democrats said it's either Israel's
00:38:49 fault or the U.S. government. Most of them said the U.S. government. Same thing with younger
00:38:53 people. The vast majority of them, it was over 60 percent, said it's either America's fault or
00:38:58 Israel's fault. So I look at this differently. I look at this as, you know, who's most to blame
00:39:04 for the war between Iran and the United States? Well, I mean, we were the ones who pulled the 0.75
00:39:10 trigger. You know what I mean? It's not like they pulled the trigger. We did a preemptive
00:39:14 strike on them. And it was because of Hezbollah and Hamas and also nuclear. So you could look at 0.97
00:39:22 that and say, well, it was their actions, but we were the ones who pulled. So I can look at this
00:39:27 at 39% say it's Iran, 41% say it's the US government without attaching negative views
00:39:34 to America. Do the numbers bear that out when you're looking at it? Go ahead.
00:39:44 If this was the only question we had, then I would say, yeah, there's all sorts of ways you could read this. Maybe they're just thinking, well, America's the one that launched these attacks to begin with.
00:39:56 So I think that the important thing to keep in mind, though, is it's in the context of people saying everything that we just talked about in the first poll question, where we're asking, who do you hope will win? 0.50
00:40:08 And you've got a quarter of people saying, basically, I don't care or I want Iran to win in the Democratic Party and among younger people.
00:40:16 So and the next question that we'll get to shows that this position is more radical than it might seem for this one question that we're talking about alone. 0.86
00:40:24 But the reality is Iran has been attacking America for a very long time. 0.52
00:40:29 It's not as though it's not as though America just woke up one day and said Donald Trump woke up and said, you know, we're going to attack Iran. 0.76
00:40:37 and we have no reason to.
00:40:39 That's not what happened, obviously.
00:40:41 So people don't know the history of this.
00:40:43 Yeah, I was going to say, people don't know the history.
00:40:45 They're not paying any attention, unfortunately,
00:40:47 for the Republic's sake.
00:40:50 Here is the really scary one.
00:40:53 Would you support a proposal that would end the war in Iran
00:40:57 and provide the United States with low oil and gas prices 0.99
00:41:02 in exchange for completely dismantling the nation of israel and replacing it with a new palestinian
00:41:11 led nation yes yes and i did write that question just to be clear because because i want to know
00:41:20 just how radical these factions have become and the answer to this was absolutely astounding
00:41:28 Among all voters, 19% said yes, they would support that proposal. You dismantle Israel, 0.75
00:41:35 you install a Palestinian state, and all the Americans get in return is low oil and gas prices 0.84
00:41:41 and ending the war in Iran. 19%. So one in five people said that of all voters. Only 58% said no. 0.67
00:41:51 So there's a lot of not sure. There's 22% of people, voters, likely voters, who say,
00:41:57 well i'm thinking about it maybe i would support support something like that and then when you look
00:42:01 at the demographics you wait god just a second what right do you have to dismantle a state
00:42:09 for oil and gas i mean that is every charge that every leftist has ever made about any war
00:42:18 that they'll do americans the government is only doing it for cheap oil and gas 0.95
00:42:23 and they'll go and kill anybody you are saying you will dismantle and basically kill all the 0.97
00:42:30 jews for cheap oil and gas it is such a horrific concept i looked at that before i looked at the 0.97
00:42:39 i read that and i i kind of laughed when i read it because i'm like this is a crazy question and
00:42:45 then i looked at the results go ahead and just break it down by democrats right so 24 so one in
00:42:54 four democrats say that they would support this proposal again likely voters these are voters who
00:43:00 are saying this and support among young people and this is really the most terrifying part of
00:43:05 all of it i mean bad enough we have 19 overall among all voters a quarter of democrats that's
00:43:12 all bad, but younger people in particular have bought this idea that we should just get rid of 0.72
00:43:17 Israel, just dismantle it, destroy it. 46% for cheap gas, 46% of those aged 18 to 24 said they 0.82
00:43:28 would support that 60% of those 25 to 29. And then I believe it was in the forties or so for
00:43:35 people who were in their thirties. And so the higher up you go, the less likely you are to
00:43:40 support this. When you get to age 40 and above, 40 and above, support for this proposal is I think
00:43:48 3%. So basically nobody. So all the support for this proposal is people under the age of 40.
00:43:55 It's so important for people to understand this is how radical a lot of our young people have
00:44:00 become. They think this kind of policy is completely acceptable at levels that are 40,
00:44:07 50 60 percent i don't think people understand how extreme young people have become and you know on
00:44:17 the right and the left to some extent but right now we're talking about mostly people on the left
00:44:21 who hold these positions it is a huge problem and as these people grow up and become the primary
00:44:26 voting base these are these ideas are going to be front and center when they're electing politicians
00:44:33 when public policy is going into place,
00:44:35 when we decide whether we're going to support Israel in the future or not.
00:44:39 So this is incredibly important information is not getting anywhere near
00:44:43 enough attention,
00:44:43 how radical young people have become on this issue.
00:44:47 I'm going to take a break and we're going to talk about, okay, okay.
00:44:50 Okay. So now what do we do? Cause these are,
00:44:53 if these numbers don't terrify you, you're dead asleep.
00:44:57 Um, because this is your future. Uh,
00:45:02 And these numbers are, I've never seen anything like this.
00:45:05 I've done this for 49 years, never seen anything like this.
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