The Glenn Beck Program - June 25, 2023


Ep 1 ｜ Control Freaks： The 'Scientific' Roots of Progressive Tyranny ｜ History Pilot


Episode Stats

Length

58 minutes

Words per Minute

130.33809

Word Count

7,677

Sentence Count

487

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

14


Summary

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a group of men rose to power in the United States through a cult-like devotion to the science. They became so powerful, in fact, that they became responsible for some of the most important decisions America has ever made.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 This podcast is going to try to give you honest history, the good, the bad, the ugly, without
00:00:10.080 an agenda, just the truth of how we got here.
00:00:14.800 How did this happen?
00:00:17.320 American pilgrims came over not just because they wanted to worship God the way they saw
00:00:23.220 God.
00:00:24.720 They were also escaping a tyrant.
00:00:27.280 A tyrant that was an expert appointed by God.
00:00:34.200 That's why William Tinsdale was burned at the stake.
00:00:37.920 He just felt that you shouldn't have to go to a priest that worked for the king to read
00:00:44.860 the Bible or actually stand there while someone told you what it said.
00:00:51.480 Tinsdale believed you had the right to read it yourself and to discover it yourself.
00:00:57.280 And apply it yourself without the priesthood, the expert, the guy that could read Latin.
00:01:04.520 How many times lately have you heard, well, do you have a doctorate in that?
00:01:11.500 Oh, are you an expert?
00:01:13.680 Oh, you must be a scientist.
00:01:16.840 No, I'm not any of those things.
00:01:19.600 I am somebody who's a reasonable thinking American.
00:01:23.440 I have a right to question, and I also have a responsibility to be involved in all of the
00:01:31.240 decisions that now seem to be being made for me.
00:01:36.420 So how did we get here?
00:01:38.680 How many times in the past few years have you heard some version of this?
00:01:45.320 Health experts say your time might be running out.
00:01:48.440 Experts say it's happening.
00:01:49.860 Well, experts.
00:01:50.660 Health experts say.
00:01:51.740 Some experts.
00:01:52.620 Experts follow the science.
00:01:54.300 Follow the science.
00:01:55.480 Be driven by science.
00:01:57.060 Listen to the scientists.
00:01:58.680 But if we now have access to so many experts and so much science, why is it that everything
00:02:07.720 seems to be breaking down and basic common sense is gone?
00:02:13.040 Answer?
00:02:15.160 Expertise killed it.
00:02:16.800 Every day now, decisions are being made by a class of experts that have a direct bearing
00:02:23.100 on your life and the future of not only your nation, but the world, and no one is asking
00:02:29.380 you about any of it.
00:02:31.720 As the world learned in 2020, expertise untethered from humanity and combined with a cult-like devotion
00:02:39.680 to the science, end quote, can have disastrous, far-reaching consequences.
00:02:46.800 But again, how did we get to this point?
00:02:49.560 That's the journey I want to take you on this season.
00:02:52.600 How the experts rose to such power.
00:02:56.020 How they wielded that power.
00:02:58.400 And how America is now struggling with the fallout.
00:03:10.660 Our story begins with Louise Marie Taylor.
00:03:13.760 She had traveled all over Europe numerous times, but she had never seen a lavish spectacle quite
00:03:20.140 like the one that greeted her in Rome in 1927.
00:03:24.800 Lou, as her family called her, was in Rome for the Third International Management Congress.
00:03:31.200 The pageantry and the crowds surrounding the conference demonstrated the power of her late
00:03:36.820 husband's legacy, Frederick W. Taylor.
00:03:39.780 He'd been dead now for 12 years, but he was a legend in the field known then as scientific
00:03:47.420 management, a field that he basically invented in more ways than one.
00:03:55.740 Frederick Taylor's most famous book called The Principles of Scientific Management was first
00:04:01.160 translated into Italian in 1915, the year Taylor died.
00:04:06.240 Just 11 years later, Italian bureaucrats were so taken with Taylor's principles that they
00:04:13.000 created a government agency to promote scientific management.
00:04:18.020 At the closing ceremony of the conference, banners, flags, soldiers all provided a regal atmosphere
00:04:24.280 in the Italian Senate chamber.
00:04:27.460 Lou was moved when a photo of Frederick, her husband, was projected on a big screen.
00:04:31.840 Then the leader of the conference rose to speak and gave a full-throated endorsement of scientific
00:04:39.280 management, and the crowd roared with approval.
00:04:43.520 After the closing ceremony, Lou received a special invitation from the revered conference
00:04:49.140 leader to his private office.
00:04:51.200 He was eager to present Lou with a photo of himself in exchange for a photo of her husband,
00:04:57.300 Frederick Taylor, whom he said was a great man and had revolutionized management.
00:05:04.660 Lou thanked the man, who happened to be a little bit more than just the Italian leader
00:05:09.640 of the management conference.
00:05:12.200 In fact, he was the new leader of everything in Italy.
00:05:17.640 He was Benito Mussolini.
00:05:20.680 When you learned about the progressive era in history class, it probably went something
00:05:45.860 like this.
00:05:47.340 The progressives are big-hearted heroes who cared for the common man.
00:05:51.600 They used government to fight for the poor, for children, for women, and immigrants, battling
00:05:56.480 all the terrible things that they had suffered at the hands of evil industrial capitalists.
00:06:02.720 Right?
00:06:03.660 This reform obsession that came to be known as progressivism was not an overnight sensation.
00:06:10.340 It was a slow burn, roughly the 1890s to the end of World War I in 1918, and some of the
00:06:18.220 reforms that progressives brought about were good things, like basic safety and sanitary
00:06:23.160 standards for America's food and drugs.
00:06:26.220 No one's going around today saying, gee, I wish we still had kindergartners working on
00:06:31.160 the factory floor.
00:06:32.120 But overall, America's history textbooks don't tell you the whole story about progressivism
00:06:40.060 or, frankly, anything.
00:06:42.260 They fail to mention how a cult of expertise developed among progressives and how these experts
00:06:49.440 took a sledgehammer to our constitutional system of government.
00:06:53.940 And we're still feeling the effects today.
00:06:56.680 In 1856, Frederick Winslow Taylor was born into a wealthy family in Philadelphia.
00:07:05.060 When he was 12, he spent three years touring around Europe with his family at a time when
00:07:10.320 no one outside of the wealthiest Americans did such a thing.
00:07:15.020 When he was 16, Taylor attended Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, an elite boarding school
00:07:21.040 for America's wealthy young men.
00:07:22.700 Two years later, he passed the Harvard Entrance Exam with honors, then horrified his parents
00:07:29.340 by deciding not to attend Harvard.
00:07:32.640 He hung out at his parents' Philadelphia mansion for several months until his father finally
00:07:37.960 helped Taylor get an apprenticeship at a machine shop called the Enterprise Hydraulic Works.
00:07:45.340 There, Taylor learned to cuss like a commoner and work with his hands.
00:07:50.000 He had a genuine knack for engineering and design.
00:07:53.380 In fact, he eventually owned several patents, including tennis racket and golf club designs.
00:08:00.860 Taylor would always use his apprenticeship as a badge of honor.
00:08:04.440 Having rubbed shoulders with the common folk gave him some sort of street cred.
00:08:09.820 But Taylor was always an elite.
00:08:12.680 He never shed that part of himself.
00:08:14.720 And the major difference between he and the regular men that he apprenticed under was that
00:08:20.000 ultimately, he didn't need the job.
00:08:22.880 He had a safety net.
00:08:24.940 After his apprenticeship, he pleased his parents by completing an engineering degree from Stevens
00:08:30.600 Institute of Technology in New Jersey.
00:08:33.500 He then got a job at Millvale Steel Company in Philadelphia.
00:08:36.940 And it was there that he discovered the knack that would make him famous.
00:08:42.200 The knack for telling people how to do their jobs better.
00:08:47.320 At Midville, Taylor observed inefficiencies through the company, including what he believed
00:08:53.220 to be employees working slowly on purpose.
00:08:57.360 Taylor soon fell in love with the stopwatch and then began doing time studies each step of
00:09:03.120 the manufacturing process.
00:09:04.540 He then corrected the workers, dictating the best technique that they should follow in
00:09:09.760 performing their job.
00:09:11.620 Oh, he must have been mighty popular.
00:09:15.140 Detailed performance standards were put in place for all of the areas of the operation.
00:09:20.440 He moved equipment around and meticulously streamlined everything.
00:09:25.100 Through these efficiency audits, he was able to enhance a company's productivity and cut
00:09:29.780 costs.
00:09:30.380 He essentially invented management consulting.
00:09:34.540 Here's how historian Jill Lepore described what Taylor did.
00:09:39.320 Quote,
00:09:39.760 He'd get himself hired by some business, spend a while watching people work, stopwatch and
00:09:44.880 slide rule in hand, write a report telling them how to do their work faster, and then submit
00:09:50.260 an astronomical bill for his services.
00:09:53.080 End quote.
00:09:54.100 He called it science.
00:09:56.260 And since no one had really done it before, no one really argued with him about how scientific
00:10:02.480 it actually was.
00:10:04.400 His favorite example, which he talked about in his book and countless lectures, was his
00:10:10.140 1899 pig iron study at Bethlehem Steel Company in Pennsylvania.
00:10:15.820 Pig iron was part of the steelmaking process in which iron ore was smelted and then poured into
00:10:21.880 molds.
00:10:22.880 When the iron cooled, you can have individual planks of iron that were later used as raw material
00:10:28.660 for producing steel.
00:10:31.040 Taylor loved to tell the story about how his efficiency science got a man named Henry Knoll,
00:10:36.660 who he referred to as Schmidt in his book, to work harder than everyone else when it came
00:10:42.940 to the job of moving pig iron.
00:10:45.460 The legend, as Taylor always told it, was that he got Henry Knoll to prove that a man could
00:10:51.100 move 47 and a half tons of pig iron per day instead of 12 and a half tons.
00:10:57.840 How did Taylor's science come up with 47 and a half tons as the standard?
00:11:03.080 Well, he picked 10 men.
00:11:04.940 He challenged them to load 16 and a half tons as fast as they could.
00:11:09.240 They did it in 14 minutes.
00:11:12.480 So, at that rate, over a 10-hour day, that equaled about 71 tons per man.
00:11:19.100 But then he knocked that number down to 47 and a half tons based on his guesstimate of
00:11:25.120 what he called the law of heavy laboring.
00:11:28.480 But only Henry Knoll was ever able to get close to 47 and a half tons per day.
00:11:34.700 And he certainly didn't reach the number every day.
00:11:39.640 Was that really science?
00:11:42.220 Well, apparently it was, if you just kept saying science over and over.
00:11:46.820 And if you saved your client some money in the process.
00:11:51.360 You can really see Taylor's elitism shining through as he discusses the pig iron job in
00:11:57.140 his book.
00:11:57.620 This work is so crude and elementary in its nature that the writer firmly believes that
00:12:06.040 it would be possible to train an intelligent gorilla so as to become a more efficient pig
00:12:12.040 iron handler than any man can be.
00:12:15.060 Yet it will be shown that the science of handling pig iron is so great and amounts to so much
00:12:21.360 that it is impossible for the man who is best suited to this type of work to understand
00:12:27.040 the principles of this science or even to work in accordance with these principles without
00:12:32.260 the aid of a man better educated than he is.
00:12:36.180 Unfortunately, he goes on.
00:12:38.720 Quote,
00:12:39.060 Now, one of the very first requirements for a man who is fit to handle pig iron as a regular
00:12:44.980 occupation is that he shall be so stupid and so phlegmatic that he more nearly resembles
00:12:51.840 in his mental makeup the ox than any other type.
00:12:56.140 He is so stupid that the word percentage has no meaning to him and he must consequently be
00:13:02.980 trained by a man more intelligent than himself into the habit of working in accordance with him.
00:13:09.060 Here is the progressive hero narrative of experts in action.
00:13:19.920 Poor Schmidt had no chance on his own.
00:13:23.420 But with rules and prodding by expert overseers, he can rise above his station.
00:13:30.860 Taylor's audiences ate up the Schmidt story.
00:13:34.080 Never mind the fact that Taylor described the workers he was supposedly helping
00:13:38.440 as stupid gorillas and oxen.
00:13:42.140 He was merely doing science.
00:13:45.580 As America would find out, elitism usually goes hand in hand with progressivism.
00:13:52.380 Frederick Taylor considered himself a progressive.
00:13:56.140 But he wasn't much of a political activist during most of his career.
00:14:00.200 Politics and state power were not his passions.
00:14:02.940 Yet, he had basically stumbled onto the holy grail that would make him a hero and a saint
00:14:09.720 to American progressive elite.
00:14:11.960 He synthesized the spirit of the progressive era he lived in.
00:14:16.780 He codified what progressive leaders were instinctively building, but just hadn't branded it yet.
00:14:23.080 It was the idea that we should put experts in charge of all aspects of life.
00:14:29.140 And life would improve for everyone.
00:14:32.400 Taylor said, quote,
00:14:33.840 In our scheme, we do not ask the initiative of our men.
00:14:38.040 We do not want any initiative.
00:14:40.360 All we want of them is to obey the orders we give them, do what we say, and do it quick.
00:14:47.060 Perhaps nothing made Taylor more progressive than the fact he was so in love with his own ideas.
00:14:54.520 In his book, he said scientific management should be applied across all of society.
00:15:00.320 Quote,
00:15:00.640 This would become music to progressive ears.
00:15:25.340 Taylor's concept of scientific management gave PowerMad progressives the perfect label and tool they needed.
00:15:34.260 If you could transform a complex business through careful study and planning and dictated change,
00:15:41.040 imagine what could be done by using those same techniques on government and society.
00:15:47.560 Now, progressivism had a unifying rallying cry.
00:15:52.760 Taylor was the Moses for them.
00:15:55.340 Coming down from the mountain with a new set of commandments and giving them even more justification to take charge.
00:16:03.300 Because now, science was on their side.
00:16:07.500 And you can't argue with science.
00:16:10.260 Progressive leaders took Taylor's concept and married it with political power.
00:16:15.280 But it would take another progressive titan,
00:16:18.600 someone that the left still worships today,
00:16:21.180 to take Taylor's ideas about the importance of experts and make them go viral.
00:16:27.060 A century ago, as we're now learning,
00:16:32.740 we witnessed the dawn of the expert class in this country.
00:16:36.780 The consolidation of power into a few hands was something the founders tried to avoid.
00:16:42.900 But we had progressivism.
00:16:45.200 Woodrow Wilson, he brought it all crashing back into our lives.
00:16:48.720 And in one of the most blatant efforts of all time,
00:16:51.900 trying to stamp out individualism and freedom.
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00:17:56.040 Louis Brandeis.
00:17:57.500 He was one of those guys you didn't want to get into a debate with.
00:18:01.220 You know, kind of like Elon Musk.
00:18:03.200 You're certain to lose.
00:18:05.940 The son of a secular Jewish immigrant from Prague,
00:18:09.360 Brandeis was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and mostly grew up there.
00:18:13.720 He was incredibly smart and ambitious,
00:18:16.560 graduating from Harvard Law School when he was 20 years old,
00:18:19.800 with the highest grades in the school's history at the time.
00:18:23.540 In 1879, Brandeis started a law firm in Boston with a friend from Harvard.
00:18:29.820 And soon their practice was so profitable
00:18:32.720 that Brandeis started taking on select cases for free,
00:18:36.820 cases that furthered his progressive ideals.
00:18:40.420 For Brandeis, that included advancing the idea of rule by experts.
00:18:45.660 This speaks volumes about Brandeis' philosophy.
00:18:50.880 Among his papers,
00:18:52.060 a note was once found that he had written himself which said,
00:18:55.360 quote,
00:18:56.120 Advice client on what he should have,
00:18:59.160 not what he wants.
00:19:01.080 That could practically be the progressive motto.
00:19:04.120 In our history textbooks,
00:19:08.660 a 1908 Supreme Court case,
00:19:10.820 Mueller v. Oregon,
00:19:12.460 is often cited as an example of superhero progressivism at work.
00:19:17.320 Before this case,
00:19:18.400 the Supreme Court had considered it
00:19:20.280 a right of employers and employees
00:19:23.200 to establish a work contract without interference from the state.
00:19:28.420 Brandeis would change that.
00:19:30.120 This case demonstrated Brandeis' passion for rule by experts.
00:19:35.780 He defended the state of Oregon in front of the Supreme Court,
00:19:39.020 packing his brief with over 100 pages of research
00:19:42.800 and supposed science,
00:19:45.140 backing up his theory that women working long hours was,
00:19:49.400 quote,
00:19:49.960 dangerous to the public health,
00:19:52.300 safety,
00:19:53.300 morals,
00:19:54.200 and welfare.
00:19:55.720 This progressive argued that the state was correct
00:19:59.700 to restrict work hours for women,
00:20:02.220 rather than allowing employers and employees
00:20:04.700 to set up their own work arrangement.
00:20:08.760 Brandeis won the case,
00:20:11.020 as he usually did,
00:20:12.420 and he's been hailed as a hero ever since
00:20:15.080 for his Brandeis briefs.
00:20:17.820 Judicial historian Stephen Powers wrote,
00:20:20.800 quote,
00:20:20.980 the so-called Brandeis brief
00:20:23.020 became a model for progressive litigation.
00:20:25.680 He says the hallmark of this approach is,
00:20:29.340 quote,
00:20:30.120 its disregard for common law jurisprudence
00:20:33.560 in favor of
00:20:34.920 faith
00:20:35.820 in a jurisprudence
00:20:37.480 that takes into account
00:20:38.840 social and historical realities.
00:20:42.640 Because of cases like
00:20:43.920 Mueller v. Oregon,
00:20:45.280 Brandeis gained a saintly reputation
00:20:47.480 on the left as
00:20:48.780 the people's lawyer.
00:20:50.080 In 1910,
00:20:51.600 he got another big opportunity
00:20:53.120 to stand up for
00:20:54.360 the people,
00:20:55.960 this time in a hearing
00:20:57.160 before the Interstate Commerce Commission.
00:21:00.200 The ICC
00:21:01.180 was an early product
00:21:03.040 of progressivism.
00:21:04.260 It was established in 1887
00:21:06.380 to regulate
00:21:07.480 the railroad industry.
00:21:09.860 It was the first
00:21:10.520 regulatory authority commission
00:21:12.120 in U.S. history.
00:21:14.360 Brandeis was brought in
00:21:15.780 by the Trade Association
00:21:17.060 of the Atlantic Seaboard
00:21:18.280 to make an argument
00:21:19.380 for why railroad companies
00:21:21.220 should not be approved
00:21:22.820 to increase their rates.
00:21:25.000 He dug in,
00:21:25.920 preparing one of his famous
00:21:27.140 Brandeis briefs,
00:21:29.020 and that
00:21:29.840 is when he stumbled
00:21:30.940 onto the glories
00:21:32.480 of Frederick Taylor's
00:21:34.140 scientific management.
00:21:38.360 Brandeis traveled to Philadelphia
00:21:39.940 and met with Taylor
00:21:40.900 in person
00:21:41.560 to glean everything he could
00:21:43.160 about the amazing new science.
00:21:45.480 He also met with
00:21:46.460 Taylor's associates
00:21:47.680 In true progressive
00:21:49.180 expert style,
00:21:50.880 Taylor was extremely
00:21:52.320 protective of his
00:21:53.460 scientific management concepts.
00:21:56.020 Only he could certify
00:21:57.620 official scientific
00:21:58.860 management experts.
00:22:00.520 According to him,
00:22:01.840 there were only five
00:22:03.120 other authorized experts
00:22:04.500 in the world,
00:22:05.520 and they all happened
00:22:06.440 to work for him.
00:22:08.440 After learning everything
00:22:09.540 he could about Taylor's
00:22:10.640 scientific management,
00:22:12.080 Brandeis was enthralled,
00:22:13.600 writing, quote,
00:22:14.440 Of all the social
00:22:15.900 and economic movements
00:22:17.520 with which I have
00:22:18.420 been connected,
00:22:19.860 none seemed to me
00:22:21.180 to be more equal
00:22:22.500 in its importance
00:22:23.760 and hopefulness.
00:22:26.860 Brandeis felt he held
00:22:28.480 the key to a glorious
00:22:30.000 progressive future,
00:22:31.640 and that key
00:22:32.540 was experts in charge.
00:22:35.960 Just like Taylor
00:22:37.160 hovering over his
00:22:38.120 stopwatch and charts
00:22:39.340 to reconfigure
00:22:40.260 every department
00:22:41.160 of a steel company,
00:22:42.900 Brandeis could see
00:22:43.980 experts reconfiguring
00:22:45.560 every aspect
00:22:46.740 of America's
00:22:47.680 messy society.
00:22:49.780 Brandeis said,
00:22:50.720 quote,
00:22:51.360 Efficiency is the hope
00:22:53.500 of democracy.
00:22:56.500 In October 1910,
00:22:58.740 before heading to D.C.
00:22:59.940 for the Interstate
00:23:00.720 Commerce Commission
00:23:01.600 hearing,
00:23:02.540 Brandeis held a meeting
00:23:03.820 in New York City
00:23:04.880 with some of Taylor's
00:23:06.080 associates.
00:23:07.360 Among the attendees
00:23:08.240 were Frank and Lillian
00:23:09.900 Gilbreth,
00:23:11.140 who later would become
00:23:12.500 famous in the book
00:23:13.520 Cheaper by the Dozen,
00:23:15.200 which was written
00:23:15.900 by two of their children.
00:23:17.940 Yes, they really did
00:23:18.980 have 12 kids,
00:23:20.160 and if you read the book
00:23:21.600 or seen the 1950s movie,
00:23:24.020 you recall that it's
00:23:25.180 about these eccentric
00:23:26.580 parents who try to run
00:23:27.960 their chaotic household
00:23:29.340 with strict efficiency rules.
00:23:32.120 The Gilbreths were all
00:23:33.720 about studying human motion
00:23:35.540 to eliminate inefficiencies
00:23:37.960 in everything
00:23:38.960 from factory work
00:23:40.240 to household tasks.
00:23:42.540 At that meeting,
00:23:43.700 Brandeis had everyone
00:23:45.360 help him settle in
00:23:46.560 on an official title
00:23:47.660 for this efficiency
00:23:48.740 management by expert system.
00:23:51.320 They decided to call it
00:23:52.640 scientific management.
00:23:55.380 Taylor, who was not
00:23:56.360 at the meeting,
00:23:57.200 had used the term before,
00:23:58.700 so he was sure
00:23:59.540 to approve their choice.
00:24:01.000 And of course,
00:24:01.640 using the word scientific
00:24:03.040 was the key ingredient.
00:24:05.540 At the ICC hearing,
00:24:08.320 Brandeis built his case
00:24:09.800 trying to demonstrate
00:24:11.240 how evil capitalist railroads
00:24:13.460 had no clue
00:24:14.560 as to how they arrived
00:24:16.140 at their crazy high rates
00:24:17.840 and therefore were not justified
00:24:19.540 in raising them even more.
00:24:21.940 He built up to his
00:24:23.220 you-can't-handle-the-truth moment
00:24:25.960 when he questioned the VP
00:24:27.880 of a New York railroad company
00:24:29.780 named Charles Daly.
00:24:31.880 Daly admitted setting their prices
00:24:33.960 was based on judgment.
00:24:36.300 So Brandeis asked him
00:24:37.580 for details
00:24:38.280 on exactly how
00:24:39.780 he made that judgment.
00:24:41.000 The basis of my judgment
00:24:43.080 is exactly the same
00:24:44.640 as the basis of a man
00:24:46.220 who knows how to play
00:24:47.380 a good game of golf.
00:24:49.760 It comes from practice,
00:24:51.480 contact,
00:24:52.380 and experience
00:24:53.220 with the particular subject
00:24:54.780 at issue.
00:24:55.660 Then Brandeis said,
00:24:57.140 I want to know,
00:24:58.780 Mr. Daly,
00:24:59.860 just as clearly
00:25:00.900 as you can state it,
00:25:02.560 whether you can give
00:25:03.840 a single reason
00:25:05.000 based on anything more
00:25:07.020 than your arbitrary judgment
00:25:08.800 as you have expressed it.
00:25:11.040 None whatever,
00:25:12.640 replied Daly.
00:25:13.980 None whatever.
00:25:15.880 None whatever.
00:25:19.200 Frank Gilbreth,
00:25:21.240 the cheaper-by-the-dozen dad,
00:25:23.820 was a star witness
00:25:24.900 for Brandeis.
00:25:27.240 Gilbreth put on a show
00:25:28.460 mesmerizing the commissioners
00:25:30.360 when he used a stack
00:25:31.420 of law books
00:25:32.200 to demonstrate
00:25:32.960 the bricklaying
00:25:34.280 efficiency techniques
00:25:35.660 he had developed
00:25:36.880 using the new
00:25:38.020 science of motion study.
00:25:40.580 When Gilbreth
00:25:41.680 was done with his show,
00:25:43.140 one of the commissioners said,
00:25:44.480 this has become
00:25:45.680 a sort of substitute
00:25:46.980 religion with you.
00:25:48.780 Yes, sir,
00:25:50.160 responded Gilbreth
00:25:51.240 with enthusiasm.
00:25:52.320 The commissioner
00:25:54.240 had no idea
00:25:55.040 how prescient he was
00:25:56.220 comparing this
00:25:57.220 to a religion.
00:25:59.920 The other thing
00:26:00.960 that made Brandeis
00:26:01.880 an activist lawyer
00:26:03.080 who was way ahead
00:26:04.940 of his time
00:26:05.620 was his genius
00:26:07.120 at controlling narrative.
00:26:09.660 At one point
00:26:10.460 in the hearings,
00:26:11.160 he made a startling claim
00:26:12.620 that scientific management
00:26:13.920 would save the railroads
00:26:15.220 one million dollars a day.
00:26:17.920 He knew that figure
00:26:18.880 would turn heads.
00:26:20.180 The next morning,
00:26:20.860 the New York Times headline read,
00:26:22.900 Rhodes could save
00:26:23.840 one million dollars a day,
00:26:25.560 Brandeis says,
00:26:26.860 scientific management
00:26:28.460 would do it.
00:26:29.760 Calls rate increases
00:26:31.220 unnecessary.
00:26:34.660 Well, similar headlines
00:26:36.100 like that
00:26:36.680 ran all across the nation,
00:26:38.240 and it was a brilliant
00:26:39.440 PR coup.
00:26:40.920 Brandeis had no real way
00:26:42.340 to back up
00:26:43.140 the million dollars a day claim,
00:26:45.020 but it didn't matter.
00:26:46.540 Reporters had never heard
00:26:47.860 of scientific management
00:26:49.280 before,
00:26:49.800 and they were mesmerized.
00:26:50.900 That dollar figure
00:26:52.340 struck in the public's mind.
00:26:54.200 Brandeis won,
00:26:55.340 as usual.
00:26:57.140 The railroads
00:26:57.720 were denied
00:26:58.240 their rate hike.
00:26:59.500 It was like
00:26:59.940 taking candy
00:27:01.200 from a baby.
00:27:02.500 All you had to do
00:27:03.480 was invoke
00:27:04.180 scientific management.
00:27:07.540 But Brandeis
00:27:08.500 wasn't just
00:27:09.280 some clever
00:27:10.000 con man.
00:27:11.440 He actually believed
00:27:13.040 what he was preaching,
00:27:14.040 and
00:27:15.140 he was just
00:27:17.500 getting started.
00:27:20.480 Frederick Taylor.
00:27:21.920 He became
00:27:22.720 an overnight star.
00:27:24.260 His scientific management
00:27:25.820 spread like wildfire.
00:27:28.880 Brandeis hooked him up
00:27:29.880 with a glowing profile
00:27:31.640 in the American magazine,
00:27:33.920 written by
00:27:34.520 uber-progressive journalist
00:27:36.320 Ray Stannard Baker.
00:27:38.940 The same issue
00:27:40.180 also serialized
00:27:41.460 Taylor's book,
00:27:42.280 The Principles of Scientific Management,
00:27:44.780 which came out
00:27:45.560 just in time
00:27:46.620 to ride the public wave.
00:27:48.960 The magazine issue
00:27:50.040 was titled
00:27:50.660 The Gospel of Efficiency,
00:27:53.660 A New Science
00:27:54.840 of Business Management.
00:27:57.440 In his profile of Taylor,
00:27:59.820 Baker wrote,
00:28:00.700 quote,
00:28:01.160 From the very first,
00:28:03.180 young Taylor
00:28:03.920 with his early home environment
00:28:05.700 in a reform atmosphere
00:28:07.180 and his natural
00:28:08.340 democratic instincts
00:28:09.620 was impressed
00:28:10.680 with the deplorable conditions
00:28:12.220 of industry
00:28:12.980 and the heartlessness
00:28:14.720 which characterized
00:28:16.000 nearly all
00:28:16.940 industrial operations.
00:28:19.180 It was as natural
00:28:20.500 as sunlight
00:28:21.240 for him to inquire,
00:28:23.100 how can I change
00:28:24.680 these things?
00:28:26.500 Mr. Taylor
00:28:27.360 is a man
00:28:28.180 of wide cultivation,
00:28:29.900 of varied interest,
00:28:31.300 and of personal charm.
00:28:33.200 He has a lively
00:28:34.340 and progressive mind,
00:28:36.040 seizing eagerly
00:28:36.940 upon the problems
00:28:37.960 of the day.
00:28:38.620 As would be the case
00:28:41.000 with many leading progressives,
00:28:42.760 they often revealed
00:28:43.880 their true colors.
00:28:45.720 Maybe Baker missed
00:28:47.180 the part
00:28:47.780 in Taylor's book
00:28:49.040 when he described
00:28:50.240 the common laborer
00:28:51.620 as, quote,
00:28:52.840 Too stupid properly
00:28:54.440 to train himself.
00:28:56.520 But that kind of rhetoric
00:28:57.840 didn't matter
00:28:58.860 because with the progressive cause,
00:29:01.460 the ends
00:29:02.160 justifies the means.
00:29:03.900 One biographer
00:29:06.180 stated that Taylor's
00:29:07.160 Principles of Scientific
00:29:08.460 Management book
00:29:09.440 was, quote,
00:29:11.400 Above all,
00:29:12.460 a reformed tract,
00:29:14.100 a progressive manifesto.
00:29:16.660 Regardless of whether
00:29:17.840 Taylor actually
00:29:18.700 considered it that,
00:29:20.160 many progressive
00:29:20.900 activists did.
00:29:23.400 Louis Brandeis
00:29:24.360 raved that,
00:29:25.620 quote,
00:29:25.860 The coming
00:29:27.180 science of management
00:29:29.160 in this century
00:29:30.580 marks an advance
00:29:32.420 comparable
00:29:33.240 only to that
00:29:34.480 made by the coming
00:29:35.580 of the machine
00:29:36.420 in the last.
00:29:39.400 Nothing captured
00:29:40.640 progressivism
00:29:41.480 quite like
00:29:42.220 scientific management.
00:29:44.320 Here was a bulletproof
00:29:45.800 form of improved control.
00:29:48.500 You couldn't argue
00:29:49.520 that it wasn't better
00:29:50.580 for you
00:29:51.080 because it was
00:29:51.980 based on science.
00:29:53.820 More than a century
00:29:54.960 later,
00:29:55.440 progressives are still
00:29:56.940 using this
00:29:57.840 science argument.
00:30:00.720 And that's why
00:30:01.720 in my first
00:30:02.360 inaugural address,
00:30:03.460 I vowed to return
00:30:04.420 science to its
00:30:05.660 rightful place.
00:30:06.580 Follow the scientists
00:30:07.680 and the science.
00:30:09.140 We have seen a pattern
00:30:10.100 with this administration,
00:30:11.160 which is they don't
00:30:11.760 believe in science.
00:30:12.580 Science is settled.
00:30:14.040 Science, science,
00:30:15.120 science, and science.
00:30:16.440 On almost every subject
00:30:17.840 that you can name,
00:30:19.340 science is the answer.
00:30:20.940 The science determines
00:30:22.280 what is the correct
00:30:24.580 answer to a particular
00:30:26.120 question.
00:30:27.860 Armed with this magic
00:30:29.420 new rhetorical device,
00:30:31.540 it was time for
00:30:32.320 progressive operatives
00:30:33.460 to do what Taylor's book
00:30:35.360 dictated.
00:30:36.860 Apply scientific management
00:30:38.620 to basically everything,
00:30:41.080 but especially
00:30:42.660 government.
00:30:43.460 A little over a year
00:30:47.500 after Taylor's book
00:30:48.520 came out,
00:30:49.460 Louis Brandeis
00:30:50.380 met his ideological
00:30:51.720 twin,
00:30:53.160 Woodrow Wilson.
00:30:54.960 They met just after
00:30:56.180 the Democratic Party
00:30:57.240 nominated Wilson
00:30:58.400 for president.
00:30:59.720 Wilson,
00:31:00.140 the former president
00:31:00.900 of Princeton
00:31:01.640 and governor of New Jersey
00:31:03.220 at the time
00:31:03.820 of his nomination,
00:31:05.240 was instantly
00:31:06.540 captivated
00:31:07.660 by Brandeis'
00:31:08.860 intellect.
00:31:09.520 Wilson biographer
00:31:11.300 A. Scott Berg
00:31:12.820 wrote that
00:31:13.920 Brandeis,
00:31:14.800 quote,
00:31:15.600 as much as anyone
00:31:16.740 would shape the future
00:31:18.260 of Woodrow Wilson's
00:31:19.440 campaign and career.
00:31:21.880 Brandeis and Wilson,
00:31:23.840 a perfect match.
00:31:25.560 Two self-styled experts,
00:31:28.220 a Harvard man
00:31:29.080 and a Princeton man,
00:31:31.100 like-minded
00:31:32.020 about the problem
00:31:32.900 facing America.
00:31:34.500 They both thought
00:31:35.320 America had outgrown
00:31:37.280 the Constitution.
00:31:39.200 An editorial
00:31:39.820 in the New Republic
00:31:40.760 magazine perfectly
00:31:42.000 captured this
00:31:42.900 progressive mindset,
00:31:44.440 quote,
00:31:45.580 the business of politics
00:31:47.140 had become too complex
00:31:48.580 to be left
00:31:49.400 to the pretentious
00:31:50.660 misunderstandings
00:31:52.080 of the benevolent
00:31:53.240 amateur.
00:31:55.320 Ray Stannard Baker,
00:31:56.920 the guy Brandeis
00:31:57.880 got to write
00:31:58.520 that glowing feature
00:31:59.880 about Frederick Taylor,
00:32:02.020 called for a,
00:32:03.000 quote,
00:32:03.460 new aristocracy
00:32:04.960 which must appear
00:32:06.440 in America
00:32:07.120 if our inefficient
00:32:08.660 and halting
00:32:09.560 political democracy
00:32:10.800 is ever to develop
00:32:12.100 into a true democracy,
00:32:14.060 that higher and finer
00:32:15.480 sort of aristocracy
00:32:16.880 based upon
00:32:17.900 a scientific
00:32:18.680 and artistic outlook
00:32:20.280 and inspired
00:32:21.600 by an intense
00:32:22.720 enthusiasm
00:32:23.420 for human progress.
00:32:27.300 Brandeis and Wilson
00:32:28.580 believed the situation
00:32:30.000 required experts
00:32:31.780 to fix it.
00:32:32.500 They nominated
00:32:33.760 themselves to do it.
00:32:35.840 Wilson was the first
00:32:36.820 president to have
00:32:37.780 a PhD
00:32:38.720 and progressives
00:32:40.200 were beside
00:32:41.040 themselves about it.
00:32:42.840 The left's charge
00:32:43.820 against every
00:32:44.860 non-progressive
00:32:45.940 president
00:32:46.340 since Wilson
00:32:47.340 has been
00:32:48.620 that they're just
00:32:49.740 dumb.
00:32:51.220 When Wilson
00:32:52.040 was president
00:32:52.920 of Princeton,
00:32:54.200 he gave a speech
00:32:55.140 titled
00:32:55.580 Our Elastic
00:32:57.080 Constitution.
00:32:58.760 That really should
00:32:59.760 have been a warning
00:33:00.420 sign to America,
00:33:01.920 but progressives
00:33:03.180 saw it as a virtue.
00:33:05.420 Wilson and Brandeis
00:33:06.360 helped institutionalize
00:33:08.000 this notion
00:33:08.660 of a living
00:33:09.800 constitution.
00:33:11.700 Wilson was the
00:33:12.380 very first president
00:33:13.480 to ever
00:33:14.040 disparage
00:33:14.920 the constitution
00:33:15.760 and the separation
00:33:17.260 of powers,
00:33:18.100 which he considered
00:33:18.940 an outdated
00:33:19.780 barrier to his agenda.
00:33:21.940 He thought it was
00:33:22.880 time for America
00:33:23.980 to evolve
00:33:24.960 beyond the constitution.
00:33:27.300 He was a fanboy
00:33:28.220 of the British
00:33:28.840 parliamentary system
00:33:30.020 and desired to see
00:33:31.200 the U.S. convert
00:33:32.360 to a British-style
00:33:33.760 setup.
00:33:34.880 Wilson said,
00:33:35.560 quote,
00:33:35.860 Each generation
00:33:36.860 must form
00:33:37.940 its own conception
00:33:39.100 of what liberty is.
00:33:41.180 We are not bound
00:33:42.360 to adhere
00:33:43.280 to the doctrines
00:33:44.200 held by the signers
00:33:45.360 of the Declaration
00:33:46.080 of Independence.
00:33:47.440 We are as free
00:33:48.540 as they were
00:33:49.280 to make and unmake
00:33:50.320 governments.
00:33:51.540 Every Fourth of July
00:33:52.780 should be a time
00:33:53.700 for examining
00:33:54.640 what forms of power
00:33:56.540 we think most likely
00:33:57.780 to affect
00:33:58.400 our safety
00:33:59.400 and happiness.
00:34:01.620 Brandeis and Wilson
00:34:02.440 had big plans
00:34:04.160 for America,
00:34:05.280 which they dubbed
00:34:06.580 the New Freedom
00:34:07.760 during the 1912
00:34:09.160 presidential campaign.
00:34:10.780 But when Wilson
00:34:11.740 won the election,
00:34:13.380 the reality was
00:34:14.420 that he still had
00:34:15.340 to work within
00:34:16.300 the constitutional system
00:34:17.780 for the time being.
00:34:19.460 So they needed
00:34:20.260 willing allies
00:34:21.260 in Congress
00:34:22.000 to carry out
00:34:23.420 their progressive bidding.
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00:34:44.060 They insisted
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00:35:36.740 Have you ever heard
00:35:42.900 of Robert LaFollette?
00:35:44.720 If you live in Wisconsin,
00:35:46.560 you probably have.
00:35:48.280 When you see a photo
00:35:49.500 of Senator Robert LaFollette,
00:35:52.180 one aspect
00:35:52.800 makes him stand out
00:35:54.220 from almost every other
00:35:55.240 politician of his era.
00:35:56.680 His full-on,
00:35:58.280 gravity-defying,
00:35:59.940 righteous mane of hair,
00:36:01.820 which totally fit
00:36:03.520 the man
00:36:04.020 who became known
00:36:05.180 as Fighting Bob.
00:36:07.560 Theodore Roosevelt,
00:36:08.760 progressive himself,
00:36:09.860 called LaFollette
00:36:10.740 an extremist
00:36:12.260 with a touch
00:36:13.240 of fanaticism.
00:36:15.140 And that's coming
00:36:16.200 from the guy
00:36:16.760 who started
00:36:17.420 the progressive party.
00:36:19.640 The way Robert LaFollette
00:36:21.360 told it,
00:36:22.380 his own party
00:36:23.080 turned him
00:36:23.640 into a rebel fighter.
00:36:25.320 He was a Republican
00:36:26.080 from Wisconsin
00:36:26.980 with a law practice
00:36:28.300 in Madison.
00:36:29.660 In 1890,
00:36:30.580 he claimed that
00:36:31.300 Wisconsin U.S. Senator
00:36:32.800 Philetus Sawyer,
00:36:34.500 a fellow Republican,
00:36:35.980 offered to bribe him
00:36:37.260 if he would influence
00:36:38.420 a court case
00:36:39.320 involving Sawyer.
00:36:41.200 The judge in the case
00:36:42.260 happened to be
00:36:43.300 LaFollette's
00:36:44.180 brother-in-law.
00:36:45.740 LaFollette said
00:36:46.420 he refused the bribe
00:36:47.760 and his outrage
00:36:49.080 set him on a war path
00:36:50.840 against corruption
00:36:51.760 in his own party.
00:36:53.720 It also put him
00:36:54.480 on the outs
00:36:55.060 with Wisconsin Republicans.
00:36:57.240 He stuck with his party
00:36:58.500 but became the leader
00:36:59.880 of the progressive wing
00:37:01.360 and rallied a coalition
00:37:02.900 that got him elected
00:37:04.320 governor in Wisconsin
00:37:05.400 in 1900.
00:37:08.900 As Governor,
00:37:09.900 LaFollette
00:37:10.460 was an early pioneer
00:37:12.140 of the progressive
00:37:13.080 obsession
00:37:13.920 with experts.
00:37:15.740 One of his co-pioneers
00:37:17.000 of this strategy
00:37:17.720 was Richard T. Eli,
00:37:20.180 a University of Wisconsin
00:37:21.360 professor
00:37:21.860 who had major influence
00:37:23.840 on a young Woodrow Wilson
00:37:25.260 years earlier
00:37:26.440 when Wilson
00:37:27.560 was his student
00:37:28.520 at John Hopkins University.
00:37:31.300 LaFollette,
00:37:32.060 in partnership
00:37:32.780 with the University
00:37:33.980 of Wisconsin,
00:37:35.200 established the
00:37:36.040 Legislative Reference Bureau
00:37:37.860 in which professors
00:37:39.180 and other experts
00:37:40.520 provided guidance
00:37:41.860 to lawmakers
00:37:42.620 and actually drafted
00:37:44.200 legislation for them.
00:37:46.420 In 1905,
00:37:47.580 Wisconsin's legislature
00:37:49.000 elected LaFollette
00:37:50.440 to the U.S. Senate.
00:37:51.740 Within a few years,
00:37:53.180 he established himself
00:37:54.520 as the leader
00:37:55.660 of the progressive
00:37:56.540 Republicans in the Senate
00:37:58.120 who were often called
00:37:59.580 insurgents.
00:38:01.440 The American magazine
00:38:02.480 published a glowing
00:38:03.680 10-part series
00:38:04.780 on LaFollette
00:38:05.600 titled
00:38:06.020 An Autobiography
00:38:07.600 of an Insurgent.
00:38:09.860 His co-writer
00:38:10.540 was Ray Stannard Baker.
00:38:13.360 You remember him?
00:38:14.600 The guy who would go on
00:38:15.740 to write that puff piece
00:38:17.000 on Frederick Taylor
00:38:18.220 and scientific management.
00:38:21.840 In 1909,
00:38:23.180 LaFollette called
00:38:24.340 the insurgents together
00:38:25.400 to divvy up the work
00:38:26.800 of pushing progressive reforms
00:38:28.480 through the Senate,
00:38:29.600 their biggest reform
00:38:30.840 was the 17th Amendment
00:38:32.380 and it allowed
00:38:33.200 for the direct election
00:38:34.680 of U.S. Senators.
00:38:36.680 The insurgents
00:38:37.720 thought they were
00:38:38.360 improving democracy
00:38:39.740 by empowering voters.
00:38:41.980 But clearly,
00:38:43.000 it was a massive tilting
00:38:44.600 of the playing field
00:38:45.740 away from the states
00:38:47.360 and toward bigger,
00:38:49.780 more destructive
00:38:50.900 federal power.
00:38:52.320 In 2010,
00:38:54.720 the late Supreme Court
00:38:55.760 Justice Antonin Scalia
00:38:57.240 said that through
00:38:59.080 the 17th Amendment,
00:39:00.440 quote,
00:39:01.220 you can trace
00:39:02.080 the decline
00:39:02.880 of so-called
00:39:03.940 state rights
00:39:05.040 throughout the rest
00:39:06.560 of the 20th century,
00:39:08.200 end quote.
00:39:09.380 The 17th Amendment
00:39:10.720 was a seismic win
00:39:12.480 for progressivism.
00:39:14.140 The fighting Bob,
00:39:15.400 he was fast becoming
00:39:16.800 a progressive icon.
00:39:18.660 He started a magazine
00:39:19.780 to promote progressive ideas
00:39:21.600 called La Follette's
00:39:23.060 weekly.
00:39:24.320 It's now called
00:39:25.320 The Progressive
00:39:26.380 and it's still running today.
00:39:29.080 Shortly after
00:39:29.940 Louis Brandeis'
00:39:31.400 scientific management show
00:39:33.500 at the ICC hearings,
00:39:35.180 La Follette brought
00:39:36.960 his fellow insurgents
00:39:38.180 together for a meeting
00:39:39.580 where they formed
00:39:40.480 the National Progressive
00:39:42.240 Republican League.
00:39:44.360 Historian William Murphy
00:39:46.120 described the league
00:39:47.080 as, quote,
00:39:48.160 a bold effort
00:39:49.220 by a group
00:39:50.040 of Republican reformers
00:39:51.440 to seize control
00:39:52.640 of their party
00:39:53.580 and transform it
00:39:55.380 into a party
00:39:56.220 of progressivism,
00:39:57.960 end quote.
00:39:59.760 Ultimately,
00:40:00.460 Woodrow Wilson
00:40:01.000 solved the Republican Party's
00:40:02.600 progressive insurgency problem
00:40:04.260 by making progressivism
00:40:05.820 dominant in the Democratic Party.
00:40:08.700 And when Wilson took office,
00:40:10.480 he and Brandeis
00:40:11.360 had no bigger champion
00:40:12.900 for their new freedom agenda
00:40:14.600 than Robert La Follette.
00:40:17.080 One historian stated,
00:40:26.320 quote,
00:40:26.640 Woodrow Wilson
00:40:27.420 was the first president
00:40:28.600 to develop systematically
00:40:30.660 the legislative powers
00:40:32.540 of his office.
00:40:34.320 The Constitution
00:40:34.900 does not give the president
00:40:36.400 any legislative powers,
00:40:38.800 but surely the founders
00:40:40.320 meant to make an exception
00:40:41.660 for the president, right?
00:40:43.100 I mean,
00:40:43.480 if he has a PhD.
00:40:45.440 Louie Brandeis
00:40:46.820 became Wilson's
00:40:47.840 chief economic advisor.
00:40:50.240 Wilson wanted to give Brandeis
00:40:51.860 a cabinet position,
00:40:53.260 but there was strong
00:40:54.480 public pushback
00:40:55.780 because of Brandeis' radicalism,
00:40:58.000 so he remained
00:40:59.000 just an advisor.
00:41:00.800 In that role,
00:41:01.840 Brandeis was one
00:41:02.980 of the chief architects
00:41:04.260 of both
00:41:05.200 the Federal Reserve Act
00:41:06.720 and the new
00:41:08.220 Federal Trade Commission.
00:41:10.360 The Federal Reserve
00:41:11.240 was absolutely transformational.
00:41:14.520 It created
00:41:15.060 12 regional reserve banks
00:41:17.360 controlled by
00:41:18.240 the Federal Reserve Board.
00:41:20.320 Naturally,
00:41:21.000 board members
00:41:21.600 were appointed
00:41:22.580 by the president.
00:41:24.000 But this government monolith
00:41:26.020 would have power
00:41:27.280 to adjust the interest rate,
00:41:29.580 regulate banks,
00:41:30.520 and control
00:41:31.560 the nation's
00:41:32.360 money supply.
00:41:34.380 Just weeks before
00:41:35.740 Wilson took office,
00:41:37.000 the 16th Amendment
00:41:38.020 was ratified,
00:41:39.300 allowing federal
00:41:40.380 income tax.
00:41:41.920 Wilson then
00:41:42.700 signed in
00:41:43.320 the first peacetime
00:41:44.740 federal income tax law
00:41:46.760 in U.S. history.
00:41:48.500 And the only
00:41:49.300 Republican senator
00:41:50.440 to vote for it
00:41:51.940 was Robert La Follette.
00:41:55.480 Wilson considered it
00:41:56.920 his duty
00:41:57.720 and right
00:41:58.500 to lead Congress
00:41:59.580 by the nose
00:42:00.720 to accomplish
00:42:01.400 his agenda.
00:42:02.840 He forced himself
00:42:03.780 on Congress
00:42:04.660 more than
00:42:05.500 any other
00:42:06.340 previous president.
00:42:08.040 He was the first
00:42:08.680 since John Adams
00:42:09.740 to give a
00:42:10.420 State of the Union
00:42:11.300 speech in person
00:42:12.700 before Congress.
00:42:14.560 Most previous presidents
00:42:15.820 rarely visited
00:42:16.820 the Capitol building.
00:42:18.540 But Wilson
00:42:19.120 used an office
00:42:20.380 in the Capitol
00:42:21.320 as often as
00:42:22.320 three times a week
00:42:23.380 to strong-arm
00:42:24.720 the legislative process.
00:42:26.240 Wilson had barely
00:42:28.000 been in office
00:42:28.740 for a year
00:42:29.400 when one journalist
00:42:30.380 remarked,
00:42:31.060 quote,
00:42:31.820 the vital fact
00:42:32.900 in any present
00:42:34.080 American politics
00:42:35.320 is the enormous
00:42:36.800 control,
00:42:38.340 if not ascendancy,
00:42:40.100 which President
00:42:40.720 Wilson is exerting
00:42:41.880 over Congress.
00:42:43.880 Republican Senator
00:42:45.240 Albert Cummins
00:42:46.420 of Iowa
00:42:47.160 told his Senate
00:42:48.440 colleagues,
00:42:49.200 quote,
00:42:49.980 the influence
00:42:51.020 which has been
00:42:51.660 exerted by the
00:42:52.540 president upon
00:42:53.420 members of Congress,
00:42:54.740 an influence
00:42:56.120 so persistent
00:42:57.180 and determined
00:42:58.340 that it became
00:42:59.460 coercive,
00:43:00.600 is known to
00:43:01.400 every intelligent
00:43:02.460 citizen of the
00:43:03.420 United States.
00:43:05.000 It ought to
00:43:05.680 humiliate us all
00:43:06.980 somewhat
00:43:07.540 when we'd look
00:43:08.680 around and find
00:43:09.820 that the people
00:43:10.640 generally not only
00:43:12.040 understand the
00:43:13.040 surrender of our
00:43:13.880 rights and privileges,
00:43:15.280 but observe it
00:43:16.280 with a certain
00:43:16.960 degree of satisfaction.
00:43:19.900 Besides dominating
00:43:21.220 Congress,
00:43:22.020 Wilson also signed
00:43:23.340 over 1,800
00:43:25.040 executive orders.
00:43:27.420 That's the second
00:43:28.260 most of any
00:43:29.220 president of all
00:43:30.300 time,
00:43:31.180 behind FDR.
00:43:33.200 Remember,
00:43:34.500 Wilson had two
00:43:35.340 terms,
00:43:36.280 FDR had four.
00:43:38.720 This was the
00:43:40.200 expert at work.
00:43:42.100 This was scientific
00:43:43.200 management at work.
00:43:45.060 After all,
00:43:45.860 he was a doctor,
00:43:47.360 and doctors
00:43:48.220 know best.
00:43:49.020 Here's how
00:43:56.840 Princeton historian
00:43:57.860 Thomas Leonard
00:43:58.740 summed up
00:43:59.420 Wilson's radical
00:44:00.460 first term in
00:44:01.360 office.
00:44:01.940 Quote,
00:44:02.180 By March
00:44:03.440 1917,
00:44:05.180 the fourth branch
00:44:06.140 of government
00:44:06.700 was established.
00:44:07.940 Fourth branch
00:44:08.820 describes the
00:44:09.860 independent government
00:44:10.880 agencies,
00:44:12.300 staffed and
00:44:13.000 advised by experts,
00:44:15.240 which,
00:44:15.700 though nominally
00:44:16.500 inside the
00:44:17.460 executive branch,
00:44:18.420 were chartered
00:44:19.760 specifically to be
00:44:21.380 free of political
00:44:22.660 influence,
00:44:23.660 employing a
00:44:24.580 permanent civil
00:44:25.740 service rather
00:44:27.140 than political
00:44:28.160 appointees.
00:44:29.620 These experts
00:44:30.820 represented
00:44:31.820 themselves as
00:44:33.020 objective scientists
00:44:34.780 above the
00:44:35.840 political fray,
00:44:37.360 administering
00:44:38.160 progress for the
00:44:39.380 good of all.
00:44:40.660 How's that
00:44:41.280 working out for us?
00:44:42.120 This was the
00:44:43.820 birth of what
00:44:44.580 many conservatives
00:44:45.400 mean when they
00:44:46.200 refer to the
00:44:47.160 deep state,
00:44:48.560 a vast bureaucracy
00:44:49.600 of unelected
00:44:50.860 experts creating
00:44:51.840 policies that
00:44:53.220 have the force
00:44:54.040 of law because
00:44:55.000 they're under
00:44:55.460 the executive
00:44:56.180 branch.
00:44:57.320 To Wilson and
00:44:58.160 Brandeis,
00:44:58.900 consolidating power
00:45:00.000 under the
00:45:00.680 executive was the
00:45:02.160 natural evolution
00:45:03.160 required for
00:45:04.440 efficiency.
00:45:05.580 To them,
00:45:06.460 the Constitution's
00:45:07.460 separation of powers
00:45:08.660 was for a bygone
00:45:10.500 era.
00:45:11.540 True progress
00:45:12.420 required more
00:45:13.460 concentrated power.
00:45:16.020 Near the end of
00:45:16.740 Wilson's first term,
00:45:17.820 he rewarded
00:45:18.580 Brandeis for all of
00:45:19.780 his transformative
00:45:20.580 work with the
00:45:21.480 Supreme Court
00:45:22.100 nomination.
00:45:23.540 The only senator
00:45:24.620 consulted before
00:45:25.840 Wilson announced
00:45:26.900 his nominee
00:45:27.580 was who else?
00:45:29.300 Robert LaFollette.
00:45:31.560 Wilson needed to
00:45:32.340 know he could
00:45:33.040 count on progressive
00:45:34.080 Republican votes
00:45:35.000 to confirm
00:45:35.760 Brandeis.
00:45:37.300 Fighting Bob
00:45:38.260 assured him,
00:45:39.400 oh yes,
00:45:40.260 you'll have the
00:45:40.820 votes.
00:45:42.200 Not everyone was
00:45:43.360 so enthusiastic
00:45:44.300 about Brandeis'
00:45:45.480 nomination.
00:45:46.800 However,
00:45:47.380 former President
00:45:48.100 Taft pulled
00:45:49.160 zero punches,
00:45:50.820 saying that
00:45:51.280 Brandeis was,
00:45:52.320 quote,
00:45:53.720 a muckraker,
00:45:55.380 an emotionalist
00:45:56.420 for his own
00:45:57.160 purposes,
00:45:58.180 a socialist
00:45:58.860 prompted by
00:45:59.880 jealousy,
00:46:00.840 a hypocrite,
00:46:02.080 a man of
00:46:02.820 infinite cunning,
00:46:03.760 of great tenacity
00:46:05.300 of purpose,
00:46:06.380 and in my
00:46:07.320 judgment,
00:46:08.120 of much power
00:46:09.080 for evil.
00:46:10.760 This nomination
00:46:11.780 is one of the
00:46:12.880 deepest wounds
00:46:13.560 that I have ever
00:46:14.300 had as an
00:46:14.960 American and a
00:46:16.060 lover of the
00:46:16.660 Constitution.
00:46:20.460 In the end,
00:46:21.820 LaFollette voted
00:46:23.140 yes,
00:46:24.360 even though he
00:46:25.260 only got two
00:46:26.200 other progressive
00:46:26.920 Republicans to
00:46:27.940 join him.
00:46:29.400 Louis Brandeis
00:46:30.380 was on the
00:46:31.280 highest court
00:46:31.960 in the land.
00:46:32.720 now he could
00:46:34.680 really give
00:46:35.440 the living
00:46:36.180 Constitution,
00:46:37.980 a run
00:46:38.540 that would
00:46:39.360 long outlast
00:46:40.540 him.
00:46:41.740 Now,
00:46:42.320 progressives had
00:46:43.100 hardcore disciples
00:46:44.440 of the gospel
00:46:45.720 of expertise
00:46:46.980 in key leadership
00:46:48.600 roles in all
00:46:50.180 three branches
00:46:50.920 of government.
00:46:52.700 Progressive dreams
00:46:53.760 were coming true,
00:46:55.420 and yet,
00:46:56.200 there was still
00:46:57.220 so much
00:46:58.280 to be done.
00:46:58.900 The experts
00:47:03.820 in our society
00:47:04.640 helped bring
00:47:05.380 about some
00:47:06.000 of the modern
00:47:06.880 miracles we've
00:47:07.940 experienced in
00:47:08.840 technology,
00:47:09.640 no doubt.
00:47:10.500 But they've also
00:47:11.340 helped usher in
00:47:12.500 modern horrors.
00:47:14.420 At the dawn of
00:47:15.040 the 20th century,
00:47:15.900 as mankind was
00:47:16.760 raising its
00:47:17.460 hackles and
00:47:18.140 nations were
00:47:18.900 slowly preparing
00:47:19.960 to go to war
00:47:20.640 with each other
00:47:21.300 in what would
00:47:22.040 be the bloodiest
00:47:23.000 war in history,
00:47:24.360 until its sequel,
00:47:26.280 while all of that
00:47:27.120 was going on,
00:47:28.000 the experts
00:47:28.940 in the medical
00:47:29.920 field,
00:47:31.060 they were
00:47:31.920 raising their
00:47:33.140 ugly heads
00:47:33.960 as well.
00:47:35.120 They were the
00:47:35.840 experts,
00:47:36.720 the doctors
00:47:37.400 that you could
00:47:38.000 trust,
00:47:39.040 and they were
00:47:39.820 promoting
00:47:40.360 eugenics,
00:47:42.080 the systematic
00:47:42.880 weeding out
00:47:43.700 of undesirable
00:47:45.060 human beings,
00:47:46.360 because their
00:47:47.100 lives and their
00:47:47.760 rights weren't
00:47:48.340 that important,
00:47:49.260 because they
00:47:49.840 stood in the
00:47:50.420 way of progress.
00:47:52.220 They didn't
00:47:52.600 have a life
00:47:53.320 that's worth
00:47:54.180 living.
00:47:55.300 Our experts
00:47:56.280 today,
00:47:57.400 Yuval Harari
00:47:58.200 is one of
00:47:58.680 them,
00:47:58.880 says by 2030
00:48:00.000 there will
00:48:00.400 be millions
00:48:01.060 of useless
00:48:02.100 people.
00:48:03.880 Maybe we
00:48:04.520 should learn
00:48:04.980 from the
00:48:05.500 past.
00:48:06.440 This podcast
00:48:07.420 today is
00:48:08.280 a pilot,
00:48:10.000 and we're
00:48:10.300 watching the
00:48:11.040 metrics to
00:48:11.660 see if you
00:48:12.420 connect with
00:48:12.960 it.
00:48:13.480 If you want
00:48:13.900 more,
00:48:14.500 let us know.
00:48:15.600 But in one
00:48:16.500 of our
00:48:16.760 upcoming episodes,
00:48:17.880 if it indeed
00:48:18.780 goes well,
00:48:20.040 and you like
00:48:20.720 this podcast,
00:48:21.780 we'll be about
00:48:22.740 eugenics and
00:48:24.300 the experts
00:48:25.140 in medicine.
00:48:27.060 Tragically,
00:48:27.700 the brainchild
00:48:28.260 of that
00:48:28.620 historic evil
00:48:29.560 is embedded
00:48:30.180 in our
00:48:30.620 society to
00:48:31.360 this day.
00:48:31.800 It's practiced
00:48:32.260 every time
00:48:33.140 an expecting
00:48:33.760 mother walks
00:48:34.560 into a clinic
00:48:35.200 and allows
00:48:35.720 a doctor,
00:48:36.460 an expert,
00:48:37.020 to destroy
00:48:38.220 her unborn
00:48:39.040 child.
00:48:40.480 Progress is
00:48:41.920 progress,
00:48:42.760 don't you
00:48:43.220 know?
00:48:44.440 I want to
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00:48:57.820 against
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00:48:58.520 sadistic
00:48:59.340 experts.
00:49:01.160 Save a
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00:49:03.140 Do it
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00:49:10.060 Written on
00:49:10.940 Frederick Taylor's
00:49:11.780 tombstone in
00:49:12.860 Philadelphia are
00:49:13.620 the words,
00:49:14.460 father of
00:49:15.200 scientific
00:49:15.960 management.
00:49:17.300 So much
00:49:18.100 for Taylor's
00:49:18.720 science,
00:49:19.960 because it
00:49:20.400 really wasn't
00:49:21.180 science at
00:49:21.960 all.
00:49:23.320 Taylor's
00:49:23.760 biographer,
00:49:24.740 Robert
00:49:25.060 Canigal,
00:49:26.020 put it like
00:49:26.460 this,
00:49:26.940 quote,
00:49:27.660 his scientific
00:49:28.600 time studies
00:49:29.520 weren't very
00:49:30.320 scientific.
00:49:31.520 He had left
00:49:32.000 a legacy
00:49:32.500 not of
00:49:33.060 harmony,
00:49:34.240 but of
00:49:34.580 turmoil.
00:49:35.920 Yet these
00:49:36.480 elements of
00:49:37.240 the story
00:49:38.220 would,
00:49:38.920 in his
00:49:39.240 telling and
00:49:39.780 retelling,
00:49:40.460 recede into
00:49:41.220 the dark
00:49:41.640 corner of
00:49:42.260 the stage.
00:49:43.540 Meanwhile,
00:49:44.280 bathed in
00:49:44.880 the flood
00:49:45.400 light would
00:49:46.400 be another
00:49:46.780 version,
00:49:47.600 close enough
00:49:48.660 to the events
00:49:49.300 to be true,
00:49:50.260 yet sufficiently
00:49:51.580 rearranged and
00:49:52.680 reconstituted to
00:49:53.800 be seen with
00:49:54.480 equal justice
00:49:55.900 as the product
00:49:57.040 of Taylor's
00:49:57.740 art.
00:49:59.960 All of this
00:50:01.080 would become
00:50:01.620 the stuff of
00:50:02.600 story,
00:50:03.460 myth,
00:50:04.180 and drama.
00:50:05.720 According to
00:50:06.660 historian Jill
00:50:07.460 Lepore,
00:50:08.280 quote,
00:50:09.320 Taylor fudged
00:50:10.120 his data,
00:50:11.060 lied to his
00:50:11.700 clients,
00:50:12.420 and inflated
00:50:13.060 his record
00:50:13.720 of success.
00:50:15.360 An analysis
00:50:16.140 of Taylor's
00:50:16.740 work by two
00:50:17.340 historians in
00:50:18.080 the 1970s
00:50:19.100 concluded,
00:50:20.460 a careful
00:50:20.900 study of
00:50:21.460 Taylor's
00:50:21.820 published
00:50:22.160 accounts of
00:50:22.800 the story
00:50:23.260 about his
00:50:23.740 1899
00:50:24.620 pig iron
00:50:25.360 study,
00:50:26.160 his biography,
00:50:27.460 his papers,
00:50:28.340 all revealed
00:50:29.320 Taylor's story
00:50:30.220 to be more
00:50:31.040 fiction than
00:50:32.020 fact.
00:50:33.800 Yet,
00:50:34.660 none of that
00:50:35.380 mattered to
00:50:36.020 progressive leaders
00:50:36.860 because Taylor's
00:50:38.380 art helped
00:50:39.500 legitimize their
00:50:40.660 cult of
00:50:41.280 expertise.
00:50:42.880 Harvard was
00:50:43.560 finally convinced
00:50:44.840 to open its
00:50:45.820 business school
00:50:46.560 by a man
00:50:47.300 who wanted
00:50:48.040 to model
00:50:48.640 it on
00:50:49.200 Taylor's
00:50:49.700 scientific
00:50:50.200 management.
00:50:51.860 Taylor delivered
00:50:52.480 a lecture
00:50:53.020 series there
00:50:53.900 every year
00:50:54.540 until his
00:50:55.100 death.
00:50:56.280 Many other
00:50:56.720 universities
00:50:57.280 soon followed
00:50:58.040 suit.
00:50:59.120 Elite
00:50:59.400 universities
00:51:00.000 would become
00:51:00.640 America's
00:51:01.360 factories that
00:51:02.760 churned out
00:51:03.540 experts to
00:51:04.680 run everything.
00:51:07.120 Oh,
00:51:07.300 and do you
00:51:07.660 remember Frank
00:51:08.280 Gilbreth,
00:51:09.300 the cheaper
00:51:10.160 by the dozen
00:51:10.780 dad?
00:51:11.120 he helped
00:51:12.580 start the
00:51:13.060 Society for
00:51:13.820 the Promotion
00:51:14.540 of the
00:51:15.520 Science of
00:51:16.260 Management,
00:51:17.280 which was
00:51:18.120 later renamed
00:51:19.120 the Taylor
00:51:20.280 Society.
00:51:21.620 During the
00:51:22.380 1920s,
00:51:23.280 the Taylor
00:51:23.780 Society was
00:51:24.960 an incubator
00:51:25.880 for future
00:51:26.760 new dealers
00:51:27.660 and members
00:51:28.440 of FDR's
00:51:29.380 so-called
00:51:29.960 brain trust.
00:51:34.420 In the
00:51:35.380 introduction to
00:51:36.280 The Principles
00:51:37.300 of Scientific
00:51:38.080 Management,
00:51:39.060 Taylor said,
00:51:39.960 quote,
00:51:40.240 But what
00:51:48.160 happens when
00:51:48.980 you carry that
00:51:49.660 system too
00:51:50.600 far?
00:51:52.100 Mussolini was
00:51:52.860 a devoted man
00:51:53.760 of scientific
00:51:54.600 management,
00:51:55.600 but so was
00:51:56.360 Lenin, who
00:51:56.940 read Taylor's
00:51:57.860 books,
00:51:58.660 created a
00:51:59.340 Soviet Council
00:52:00.240 for Scientific
00:52:01.200 Management,
00:52:02.080 and insisted
00:52:02.800 that the
00:52:03.320 Taylor system
00:52:04.040 be taught
00:52:04.720 and incorporated
00:52:05.520 across Russian
00:52:07.020 territory.
00:52:08.740 And what
00:52:09.600 happens when
00:52:10.200 the scientific
00:52:10.780 management system
00:52:11.780 is supreme and
00:52:13.300 it merges with
00:52:14.100 technology and
00:52:15.140 artificial intelligence.
00:52:17.540 All you would
00:52:18.400 have to do is
00:52:19.340 watch what's
00:52:20.160 unfolding in
00:52:21.340 real time in
00:52:22.660 China.
00:52:23.560 And a happy,
00:52:25.000 smiley, in this
00:52:26.180 swell version,
00:52:27.500 is right around
00:52:28.300 the corner for
00:52:29.160 Western progressive
00:52:30.040 societies.
00:52:30.860 At the World Economic
00:52:33.960 Forum conference in
00:52:35.240 Davos in 2023,
00:52:37.440 Duke University
00:52:38.200 professor Nita
00:52:39.560 Farhani presented
00:52:41.080 a disturbing
00:52:41.900 seminar on the
00:52:43.180 latest in
00:52:43.800 brainwave technology.
00:52:45.280 After all,
00:52:46.140 what you think,
00:52:47.000 what you feel,
00:52:48.440 it's all just
00:52:49.280 data.
00:52:50.360 Data that in
00:52:51.720 large patterns
00:52:52.900 can be decoded
00:52:54.180 using artificial
00:52:55.440 intelligence.
00:52:55.960 smartphones.
00:52:56.960 We're not
00:52:57.160 talking about
00:52:58.100 implanted devices
00:52:59.320 of the future.
00:53:00.480 I'm talking about
00:53:01.240 wearable devices
00:53:02.320 that are like
00:53:03.320 Fitbits for your
00:53:04.040 brain.
00:53:04.780 Using consumer
00:53:05.800 wearable devices,
00:53:07.540 these are
00:53:08.100 headbands,
00:53:09.540 hats that have
00:53:10.800 sensors that can
00:53:12.040 pick up your
00:53:12.560 brainwave activity,
00:53:13.800 earbuds,
00:53:14.860 headphones,
00:53:15.820 tiny tattoos that
00:53:16.780 you can wear
00:53:17.100 behind your ear.
00:53:18.440 We can pick up
00:53:19.460 emotional states
00:53:20.460 like are you happy
00:53:21.240 or sad or angry.
00:53:22.800 We can pick up
00:53:23.980 and decode faces
00:53:25.660 that you're seeing
00:53:27.140 in your mind.
00:53:28.260 Simple shapes,
00:53:29.520 numbers,
00:53:30.460 your PIN number
00:53:31.360 to your bank
00:53:32.500 account.
00:53:34.940 We're moving
00:53:36.000 beyond scientific
00:53:36.920 management at this
00:53:37.920 point.
00:53:38.880 It's scientific
00:53:39.800 micromanagement.
00:53:42.120 In 1948,
00:53:43.960 C.S. Lewis
00:53:44.820 wrote,
00:53:45.820 Of all tyrannies,
00:53:47.380 a tyranny
00:53:47.960 sincerely exercised
00:53:49.600 for the good
00:53:50.340 of its victims
00:53:51.040 may be the most
00:53:52.360 oppressive.
00:53:53.460 It would be better
00:53:54.480 to live under
00:53:55.460 robber barons
00:53:56.280 than under
00:53:56.900 omnipotent moral
00:53:57.920 busybodies.
00:53:59.560 The robber barons'
00:54:00.680 cruelty may
00:54:01.500 sometimes sleep,
00:54:03.140 but those who
00:54:04.000 torment us for
00:54:04.900 our own good
00:54:05.820 will torment us
00:54:07.320 without end,
00:54:08.360 for they do so
00:54:09.320 with the approval
00:54:10.140 of their own
00:54:10.980 conscience.
00:54:12.880 This kind of
00:54:14.080 expert control
00:54:15.080 continues to be
00:54:16.540 the dividing
00:54:17.240 force of
00:54:18.100 progressives.
00:54:19.280 We see things
00:54:20.340 like the Biden
00:54:20.900 administration
00:54:21.460 telling us what
00:54:22.640 light bulbs were
00:54:23.660 allowed to buy,
00:54:25.120 banning the sale
00:54:26.280 of incandescent
00:54:27.360 bulbs in 2023,
00:54:29.160 and doing it
00:54:30.120 through the
00:54:30.560 Department of
00:54:31.200 Energy,
00:54:32.060 which is under
00:54:32.760 the executive
00:54:33.640 branch.
00:54:34.720 So you have
00:54:35.360 no say in the
00:54:36.240 matter.
00:54:37.060 It's the old
00:54:37.880 progressive
00:54:38.300 obsession with
00:54:39.760 efficiency,
00:54:41.280 only now with
00:54:42.820 the added
00:54:43.280 urgency of
00:54:44.620 climate change.
00:54:45.400 the progressives
00:54:48.220 suffered a
00:54:48.720 backlash after
00:54:49.500 World War I
00:54:50.300 and Woodrow
00:54:50.880 Wilson's second
00:54:51.640 term for
00:54:52.360 reasons we'll
00:54:53.520 explore in
00:54:54.340 another episode
00:54:55.200 later this
00:54:56.080 season.
00:54:57.000 But there's
00:54:57.420 little doubt
00:54:57.960 that Wilson
00:54:58.540 would have kept
00:54:59.240 running for
00:54:59.760 president if his
00:55:00.880 health hadn't
00:55:01.760 failed him.
00:55:02.860 He never fully
00:55:03.680 recovered from the
00:55:04.620 stroke that had
00:55:05.440 incapacitated him
00:55:06.740 for the last
00:55:07.860 year and a half
00:55:09.040 of his presidency.
00:55:10.000 That didn't
00:55:11.360 stop him from
00:55:12.160 collaborating with
00:55:13.160 Louis Brandeis in
00:55:14.840 1921 on a new
00:55:16.960 progressive manifesto
00:55:18.740 just as he was
00:55:20.360 starting to plot
00:55:21.220 another presidential
00:55:22.820 run.
00:55:24.560 Wilson died later
00:55:25.760 that year and
00:55:27.140 instead, Robert
00:55:28.600 La Follette kept
00:55:30.320 the progressive
00:55:30.960 flame burning,
00:55:33.100 running for
00:55:33.800 president 1924
00:55:35.280 with a coalition
00:55:36.240 of labor unions
00:55:37.420 and socialist
00:55:38.600 groups backing
00:55:39.520 them.
00:55:40.000 Who did he
00:55:41.460 choose as his
00:55:42.640 full-time running
00:55:43.240 mate?
00:55:44.640 Louis Brandeis.
00:55:46.220 But Brandeis
00:55:47.180 declined.
00:55:48.520 He couldn't give
00:55:49.280 up his influential
00:55:50.380 lifetime post on
00:55:52.040 the Supreme Court.
00:55:53.740 In 1922, Supreme
00:55:55.640 Court heard a case
00:55:56.520 involving a female
00:55:57.640 student who was
00:55:59.100 barred from attending
00:56:00.360 public school in
00:56:01.620 San Antonio because
00:56:03.040 her parents refused
00:56:03.940 to get her vaccinated
00:56:04.880 for smallpox as
00:56:06.540 required by her
00:56:08.260 school district.
00:56:08.920 Their lawyers
00:56:10.580 argued that the
00:56:12.060 vaccine requirement
00:56:13.420 denied her equal
00:56:15.020 protection of the
00:56:15.980 laws under the
00:56:17.320 14th Amendment.
00:56:18.100 But the Supreme
00:56:19.440 Court unanimously
00:56:20.660 ruled against her.
00:56:22.840 And here's what
00:56:23.560 Louis Brandeis wrote
00:56:24.940 in the decision.
00:56:26.940 Quote,
00:56:27.200 Long before this
00:56:29.060 suit was instituted,
00:56:31.300 Jacobson v.
00:56:32.280 Massachusetts had
00:56:33.940 settled that it
00:56:35.440 is within the
00:56:36.680 police power of a
00:56:38.000 state to provide
00:56:39.340 for compulsory
00:56:40.480 vaccination.
00:56:42.220 These ordinances
00:56:43.260 confer not arbitrary
00:56:44.840 power, but only
00:56:46.660 that broad discretion
00:56:48.080 is required for the
00:56:49.380 protection of the
00:56:50.380 public health.
00:56:51.120 In 2020, America
00:56:56.220 met a certain
00:56:56.900 doctor who was a
00:56:58.540 little bit of
00:56:59.420 Frederick Taylor,
00:57:01.140 Louis Brandeis,
00:57:02.680 Woodrow Wilson,
00:57:03.800 and Robert La
00:57:05.400 Follette all rolled
00:57:06.940 into one.
00:57:08.840 As if he had been
00:57:09.900 created in a
00:57:11.120 progressive lab,
00:57:12.220 few people embodied
00:57:13.860 the sheer elitist
00:57:15.380 progressive conviction
00:57:16.940 of their own genius
00:57:18.360 expertise more than
00:57:22.360 Anthony Fauci.
00:57:24.620 How many times was
00:57:26.180 America told what an
00:57:27.680 expert Dr. Fauci
00:57:29.240 really was?
00:57:30.780 He was a doctor who
00:57:31.960 had been in this
00:57:32.660 position for nearly
00:57:33.620 40 years.
00:57:35.320 That kind of
00:57:35.900 expertise could not
00:57:37.540 possibly go wrong.
00:57:39.980 Even when the
00:57:40.920 contradictions piled up,
00:57:42.640 to question the
00:57:43.720 experts, to question
00:57:45.820 the science during a
00:57:47.440 national health
00:57:48.200 crisis, was
00:57:49.400 considered dangerous.
00:57:51.180 It's very dangerous,
00:57:52.660 Chuck, because a lot
00:57:53.560 of what you're seeing
00:57:54.640 as attacks on me,
00:57:56.400 quite frankly, are
00:57:57.340 attacks on science.
00:57:59.440 Because all of the
00:58:00.500 things that I have
00:58:01.160 spoken about consistently
00:58:03.080 from the very
00:58:03.900 beginning have been
00:58:05.300 fundamentally based on
00:58:06.720 science.
00:58:07.880 Sometimes those things
00:58:09.160 were inconvenient
00:58:10.160 truths for people,
00:58:12.220 and there was
00:58:12.720 pushback against me.
00:58:14.500 So if you are
00:58:15.220 trying to, you know,
00:58:16.600 get at me as a
00:58:18.920 public health
00:58:19.460 official and a
00:58:20.220 scientist, you're
00:58:21.440 really attacking not
00:58:22.500 only Dr. Anthony
00:58:23.500 Fauci, you're
00:58:24.320 attacking science.
00:58:27.680 The expert was no
00:58:29.440 longer just using
00:58:30.820 science as a tool.
00:58:33.200 The expert had
00:58:34.720 become the science.
00:58:37.340 We constantly rely on
00:58:39.200 experts to make
00:58:40.140 decisions for us.
00:58:41.020 Because even
00:58:41.920 eyewitnesses and
00:58:43.100 experts can get it
00:58:44.200 wrong.
00:58:44.720 But experts do get
00:58:45.820 things wrong.
00:58:46.640 You have to seek out
00:58:47.580 sources from other
00:58:48.900 points of view, and
00:58:50.440 then critically examine
00:58:51.600 their motivations and
00:58:52.980 credibility as well.