Glenn Beck talks about the crisis in Canada and the financial crisis in the United States, and how the government is using emergency powers to try to get people associated with the anti-vaccine movement to stop doing business with the banks.
00:49:00.120So the last time you were in was a couple of weeks ago and I did a podcast with you and you can find it on YouTube dot com forward slash Glenn Beck.
00:49:10.780But it was it's fascinating because you know this inside and out.
00:49:17.000I was reading your book, I was reading your book last night and it's all on CRT and you talked about the practice of CRT.
00:49:26.620I really want to make sure we get to that.
00:49:29.140But first, can you quickly describe what CRT is so people who are fighting it can fight it more effectively?
00:49:50.560So it's Marxism that uses race in place of class.
00:49:53.040If you understand the ideological engine of Marxism, if you understand the activism of Marxism, if you understand the trajectory of a Marxist society, that's what you're looking at.
00:50:03.880Just using race in place of economic class.
00:50:07.380And that came because Marx thought that the working class would rise up and overthrow the the big banks in the business and everything else.
00:50:16.320And they would want to be able to take control.
00:50:19.000So you would go into communism that didn't work in the West.
00:50:23.040And so later, race Marxism was was founded or or.
00:50:35.260I don't think I somehow I think that the scholars, bless their hearts, have missed the trajectory of Marxism over the past, say, 50 to 70 years.
00:50:45.560You know, truly from a southerner, bless their heart.
00:50:49.460Well, yeah, Marxism, Marxism took a gigantic exit ramp in the 1960s.
00:50:54.880What happened was that the middle 20th century Marxists, we call them sometimes neo-Marxists or critical Marxists, they realized they said Marx was wrong.
00:52:05.100So like I started to say, this other guy, Herbert Marcuse, most influential of the critical Marxists, writing in the 1960s, very famous books, very famous essays and articles, hundreds of thousands of readers.
00:52:18.420He's considered the father of the so-called new left.
00:52:21.160And so he says that what happened was that advanced capitalism works.
00:52:27.240It allows the working class to stabilize.
00:52:30.020And when they stabilize by becoming a middle class with stuff, they become a conservative and a counter-revolutionary force.
00:52:37.400So he says in this essay in 1969, that same year Horkheimer said that capitalism works, he said in this essay, we need a new working class, a new one.
00:52:46.780And let's look, he says in his own words, to the ghetto populations, let's look to the feminists.
00:53:02.260They came up with a new way to analyze and they say, well, yeah, capitalism works, but not for everybody.
00:53:08.060And it doesn't work for the sexual minorities and it doesn't work for the racial minorities and it doesn't work for the women.
00:53:12.780And let's cobble together an identity politics movement.
00:53:17.060Identity Marxism is what I actually call it.
00:53:19.940And critical race theory is the race brand of that.
00:53:24.360Can I ask you, James, you know, because I've always thought that it was weird that the biggest racist of the day, Lyndon Johnson, became the guy who did the Great Society.
00:53:36.740And when you see the effects of the Great Society, you realize this just destroyed the black family.
00:53:44.300And I've always thought it was racism that keeps these programs going.
00:53:48.980And because everything, even today, let's get rid of the police.
00:53:54.040That's hurting the black family much faster.
00:53:57.580The people who live in the inner cities much more than the people who are are living in the suburbs.
00:54:24.280But this is actually more, if you ever listen to people that escaped, say, the Soviet Union or Mao's China, they don't say Marxism, Marxism.
00:54:41.320It means make the misery visible to people because then they'll hate the system and want it to be overthrown.
00:54:46.560What was he specifically referring to when he said accelerate the contradictions?
00:54:50.320He was responding to somebody who said that the Ukrainians and the Holodomor were starving, dying by the millions.
00:54:56.560And he said, accelerate the contradictions.
00:54:58.620So the entire model of the Marxist theory, as put into practice by Vladimir Lenin, was to make life as miserable as possible for the people that you want to become, your revolutionaries, so that they'll hate everything and be willing to burn it all down so that they might have a shot at a better life.
00:55:17.200It sure explains everything that our government is doing, because it's almost as if every possible way they could poke a stick at us, they have.
00:56:12.840Everything has to be made as miserable as possible.
00:56:14.920Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Claymation, 1950s, every Christmas they spend, you know, article after article condemning that for its bullying culture and its patriarchy and its racism.
00:59:00.160You will understand it in a completely different way.
00:59:04.140And you will have people in your family, you'll have people who are youths, who will say, oh, well, you're not really somebody that wants to stop this problem because you won't declare that you're anti-racism and anti-racist.
01:00:02.540Marx believed, just to summarize quickly, that there is a superstructure to society, and that's the upper class.
01:00:08.720And then there's a infrastructure to society.
01:00:11.060That's the lower class, the productive class, the farmers and workers with the hammers and the sickles doing all the productive work.
01:00:16.860And that there's a relationship, a conflict between them.
01:00:19.920He called it a dialectical materialist relationship between them that creates social relations.
01:00:24.500And the social relations are the structure of society.
01:00:28.060So structural racism is between white people and people of color, that the racism that white people created in the 1600s that we've fought so diligently to get rid of with blood and so much blood spilled to get past slavery, to get past with the civil rights, to get past segregation and apartheid states.
01:00:48.260All of that doesn't matter to them because the system, they say, is imbued with racism, and you must understand it this way and be against the entire system in order to be an anti-racist.
01:00:59.520And that has nothing to do with actual racism.
01:01:03.140This has everything to do with flipping the system to communism, correct?
01:01:09.320Yeah, I mean, like, we can take the words from the Democratic monstrosity from Massachusetts, Ayanna Pressley, who told us last year, I think last year, maybe it was in 2020, time flies when there's riots.
01:01:21.620She said, we don't want any more black faces who don't want to be black voices.
01:01:25.680We don't want any more brown faces who don't want to be brown voices.
01:01:28.340So what it has nothing to do with racism, what it has to do with is adopting their politics, whether you're white, whether you're black, whether you're brown, doesn't matter who you are.
01:01:36.820If you don't adopt their politics, you don't count.
01:01:39.480So what it's about is installing people who are critical race theorists into positions of power.
01:01:50.400James, we're talking to James Lindsay.
01:01:52.120The name of the book is Race Marxism, a must-have for any library.
01:01:58.860You'll be able to understand it and be able to fight against it.
01:02:03.940I want to – I've got two minutes here before we go to a break, and I want to get to some solutions on how to stop this.
01:02:10.200But I really want you to go into the practice of it.
01:02:15.740I was reading the chapter – I think it was the second to the last chapter last night – and the practice of it changes your understanding of what this is really about.
01:03:19.260And that's why they are so protective of it and will shut people down and call them terrorists if you say, hey, CRT is really bad because they can't be shut down.
01:03:32.440Their thing is if we can just make new apostles – and new apostles mean really the only thing you do is make other apostles.
01:03:44.820And so it just is a – it's a bunny hatch, a breeding ground in our schools.
01:03:52.560And they think – and I believe them – I think they're right.
01:05:46.200We are talking to James Lindsay, who is just a brilliant, I mean, that's putting it mildly, a brilliant math mathematician and math professor.
01:05:57.840He is a guy who has always thought he was liberal until he started, you know, realizing, wait a minute, you guys aren't consistent.
01:07:12.400It has some parallels to the Nazis, but I'm careful to distinguish it from the National Socialist ideology because it actually is different.
01:07:20.540But what it contains is it has this socialist engine underneath, and it has this kind of stratification of society program built into it.
01:07:30.220And in particular, it operates, because it uses race instead of class to do its work,
01:07:35.500it actually creates what the Germans call folkish nationalism that Hitler built his program out of.
01:08:52.240And that is the biggest parallel to the National Socialist Movement, is that it is demonizing by race.
01:08:57.720And for people who don't know, there was a book in 98 by Karen Brodkin titled How Jews Became White Folks.
01:09:05.060And it goes into this tremendous detail about how Jewish people, through other racial groups under the bus to be recognized as white,
01:09:11.940And then when they obtained white privilege for themselves, they became the kind of the leaders of white culture and started to hoard white culture for themselves.
01:09:20.760That reproduces Nazi ideology virtually perfectly with regard to its anti-Semitic tropes.
01:09:26.400Now that only happens in a society where you cannot compromise.
01:09:32.540And we've always been a society where we can say, hey, you know, you believe your thing and I'll believe my thing.
01:09:37.440But that's not these. We are dealing with, they're revolutionaries from the streets.
01:09:44.160They're now just in boardrooms and classrooms.
01:09:46.500And there is no compromise for these people.
01:09:50.960Correct. No. Compromise, as a matter of fact, is something that upholds some of the status quo.
01:09:56.500So therefore, you are part of the enemy.
01:09:58.660The system has to be completely overturned.
01:10:01.320We can look in Critical Race Theory and Introduction, for example, which is a book, obviously, about critical race theory.
01:10:06.040And they tell us that they very carefully on the very first page of the book distinguish traditional approaches of civil rights,
01:10:13.080which they say use incrementalism and step-by-step progress, the kind of thing that we would see in a republic or in a parliamentary system.
01:10:20.020They reject that in favor of revolutionary approaches instead.
01:10:24.440So they have to overthrow the entire system conveniently with themselves placed in the positions of power on the other side of the revolution.
01:10:32.100You need to understand this if you are going to school board meetings and fighting.
01:10:35.680You need to know who you're fighting against.
01:10:38.160And it is not the fight you think you're in.
01:10:41.260You're not fighting somebody who believes in America and believes in the things that you believe most likely.
01:10:48.240There are those people who are just, you know, go along to get along and they think they understand it.
01:10:53.960But if they really understand Critical Race Theory, there is no compromise and you're in trouble.
01:11:05.760Well, it turns out we have a great example.
01:11:09.780You know, I mentioned a few things in the book.
01:11:11.280I talk about different policy proposals we could have to ban the segregation and ban the discrimination and ban the scapegoating that we have going on in our schools.
01:11:20.320I talk about kind of this cultural renewal project of Americanism.
01:11:23.980And I talk about what America in the last chapter is really about this.
01:11:27.480Exactly what you were saying about the freedom of belief and being able to compromise and get along despite differences.
01:11:32.840And I say that that's rooted in a common sensibility.
01:11:35.340And so now we have this great example of how to fight back.
01:11:37.660The Canadian truckers are showing us how to fight back.
01:11:39.940You think that's about just the vaccines, but it's the same for this.
01:11:53.600You see people of all races down to earth, working class people getting together, having fun, being peaceful.
01:12:01.940They aren't going into the backlash that critical race theory through all of its literature predicts.
01:12:06.100They aren't becoming violent to try to protect their racial interests.
01:12:09.120It's multi-racial, multi-ethnic, people out in the street dancing and having fun, playing music, building shelters, feeding people, having a good time.
01:12:19.440It's people coming together, regardless of race, and being friends, and being positive, and refusing to budge on Marxist incursions into their society.
01:12:32.000But again, you're fighting people that are not going to give up.
01:12:36.380I mean, look what they're doing with the banks.
01:12:37.980Do we, you know, when we get to this point, and I think we are, and you know, you have said, I think this book is just in time.
01:12:47.680We've talked about how CRT is an enforcement tool for the Great Reset.
01:13:03.360Before we fight it on the street, we have to fight it in our own life.
01:13:06.640So, parents, you should read this book.
01:13:08.880But what about if you're working in a corporation and they say, hey, we're going to have a discussion on race today, and everybody has to attend.
01:13:16.940Yeah, the obvious challenge there is that you are now in a decision dilemma of your own, because the corporate power structure is quite tyrannical, and you don't have a lot of options.
01:13:27.640Your choices are to go along and, you know, be subversive, primarily gathering information that you might leak to expose the company for doing it, or to try to rebel and find out that you're up against a machine.
01:13:40.660The corporate world is the hardest place to fight it, and this is the place where I think we're seeing not enough of and are going to need the most legislative action.
01:13:48.720We're going to need to see Congress and state legislatures and governors taking strong, decisive action that bans this idea of using ESG scores to determine virtually everything.
01:14:00.020We need to have them coming up with solutions within the borders of the United States that prohibit these kind of very bizarre behaviors by these big banks like BlackRock and Vanguard, where they're using the leverage to put on the company.
01:14:13.180Because once you're in the company as the individual, you don't have much you can do.
01:14:16.480So, you need to be reaching out to your lawmakers.
01:14:18.300You need to be reaching out to your governors.
01:14:20.180We can't rely on the Biden administration that's in on this whole hog.
01:14:23.620So, you have to be reaching out to these other people and trying to get them to start coming up with legislative solutions that they can use to put a roadblock in place of this, to protect workers from this racketeering, basically, that's going on.
01:14:38.140This fraudulent product of DEI that's being used to raise their ESG scores, if you will, with a great reset.
01:14:45.140These things, this product is fraudulent.
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01:26:37.220And people think that Texas is just a shoe-in, that these career politicians are the ones who have to have it.
01:26:42.960But when you have 19 out of 103 House and Senate Republicans in Austin, only 19 have called for a special session to have vaccines that are mandated by an employer made illegal in the state.
01:27:12.560And I try to, what I'm doing is I'm campaigning on numbers.
01:27:14.860So we've seen in the last seven years under this governor, we've seen an increase of spending by 19% with a population growth of only 5.4%.
01:27:21.700Now, if you do the math on that and you project that out the next five years, we look exactly like California.
01:27:27.940So spending has increased by $48 billion under this governor.
01:28:48.040We're a global power recognized for energy.
01:28:50.580And you know about a year ago this week, everything was frozen out and shut down.
01:28:56.260So whenever these California Silicon Valley companies, and by the way, we are the number two subsidizer of Facebook in the nation as a state.
01:29:51.780So what I remind people is, yeah, you say it's jobs for Texans by bringing these companies here.
01:29:57.220But what happens when they bring their ideologies here, and they demand that you get a vaccination in order to keep your job, and you say no?
01:30:03.400Well, they're going to fire you, and they're going to call their cronies out in Silicon Valley, move them to Texas with their ideologies.
01:30:08.560They're already indoctrinated and inoculated.
01:30:13.920Well, we see it happening in Austin now.
01:30:15.280Austin is – it's always been weird, but now Austin –
01:30:18.860Well, when 15% of the population of Austin is choosing a transient homeless lifestyle as a choice, some of them have jobs, and they choose to live under a bridge.
01:30:36.740You know, unless you're getting raped or in the process of being murdered, you can't call the police in Austin.
01:30:42.880And then they may or may not show up because of their Defund the Police initiative.
01:30:47.240I call them the blueberries in the chili, whether it's Dallas and now Fort Worth where I live, Austin, of course, El Paso, San Antonio, Houston.
01:30:54.740You know, they just broke a news story of a mail carrier dumping 38 voter registration cards in the trash.
01:31:19.500That's a smart idea because it diminishes the ability for people to just be crooked politicians.
01:31:26.900You're neighbors with the people that you're representing.
01:31:28.920But right now, we're sending these people to Austin, and this big government flow that we're sending in there, people are surprised when I tell them that this governor spent $295 million on contact tracing, that he's violated your constitutional rights 16 times at least in the last 18 months.
01:31:45.580You know, when he shut down the state, he shut down 3 million jobs deemed people and their business as non-essential.
01:31:51.620Couldn't go to work, couldn't go to weddings, couldn't go to funerals unless it was George Floyd's.
01:32:21.120So the media wants Abbott to run again because they know he can't defend his record, whether it's the border, whether it's property taxes, the energy grid, or shutdowns.
01:32:39.960I'm the only guy in this who has a personality.
01:32:43.300And so, you know, and I include my friends who are my primary opponents that we've now done at least 20 events and another one tonight together in candidate forums.
01:32:53.680And I can give their speeches and they can give my speeches at this point.
01:32:56.880We've gotten together with an anyone but Abbott agenda when it comes to this March 1st primary.
01:33:04.200Early voting in Texas has already started.
01:37:48.680Chad, let me let me talk to you about Canada a bit, because I don't think Americans understand that that is right around the corner for us without ever getting into your truck.
01:40:35.420And do you think that they're waking up and going, holy cow, that could happen to me?
01:40:39.720So, you know, we've talked about it on my show as well as, you know, this book, as you say, Glenn, this could be the most important book you've ever written.
01:40:49.580We say that tongue in cheek, but it really is.
01:40:51.400You know, I've tried to explain to people what ESG is, what MMT is, make them understand that this is where that's – you think your credit score matters.
01:41:42.420We've got to get these people out of the way and get back – what I say is Texas needs to be a constitutional sanctuary state.
01:41:48.320If it doesn't fit in the Constitution, then it doesn't do business on Texas soil.
01:41:53.360We've gotten so bloated and expanded beyond that.
01:41:55.700If we continue this big government, this crazy out-of-control big government where people look at it and they say, well, there's nothing we can do.
01:42:13.640And that goes for, quote, conservatives as well.
01:42:16.280Because if suddenly the government tomorrow was made small, you wouldn't know what to do with yourself because we've gotten so dependent on it.
01:42:30.540But this is a haven compared to anything back east or out west.
01:42:38.220I mean, I remember when I came here, and it was this bad when I got here, I thought, oh, my gosh, this is an island of freedom that I've not seen since my childhood.
01:42:51.940So it's still much, much better, but it's not going to withstand.
01:49:14.600It appears now that the people who have hacked Give, Send, Go have released everything from not only the Freedom Convoy, but also the Kyle Rittenhouse legal defense.
01:49:29.340Some voter integrity project type of stuff that went on with the 2020 election.
01:49:34.460All their campaigns and including, in many cases, over a thousand pieces of pictures of, like, IDs, passports, social security cards.
01:58:20.780Because we need to connect with each other and help figure this out and support each other.
01:58:25.140We need to be close to like-minded people.
01:58:28.560And if that means moving to a place where like-minded people are, that's what I did.
01:58:34.660And I would suggest you would do it too.
01:58:39.780If you don't have any money, you're living paycheck to paycheck, which a lot of Americans are, go to the store and just buy anything that's on sale.
02:01:55.100And you kind of come to a conclusion that a lot of it is coming from one guy that you probably don't know his name.
02:02:01.460I'm sure we'll spend more time on this here in the coming weeks and explaining it all.
02:02:06.500But it ties into The Great Reset, your book, but also ties into, I think, the efforts of mal-mis-and-disinformation that we talked about yesterday.
02:02:18.700That was the most incredible section, I think, of the show.
02:02:23.060And it was a very funny show, believe it or not.
02:02:26.320It was the only way I could deal with it.
02:02:27.480But that section where we show you the left creating bogus newsrooms and partnering with Facebook to put these on, which is absolutely disinformation.
02:02:44.900They know what they're doing intentionally.
02:02:50.380And now that same group, while they're doing this, are the ones pushing for the end of mis-dis-and-mal information.