00:20:30.900Part of that is caused because green energy.
00:20:33.520The other part of that is caused because now we need more power.
00:20:38.080Ties into everything I said about the truck.
00:20:41.460Under the Federal Power Act, the states, not Washington, not the weather,
00:20:46.640the states have exclusive authority over what kind of power feeds their grid,
00:20:50.840where it's built what you get charged for it exclusive which means when your bill climbs
00:20:57.620it isn't fate it isn't bad luck it's a room full of people that you can name that you made the
00:21:05.620decision to hire to elect people you can look up that reaches through your wall and into that one
00:21:14.260outlet you thought was yours. Same exact hand. So when you're electing the socialists, this is
00:21:22.020what you're going to get. The same hand that sealed the hood of my truck so I couldn't fix
00:21:26.320the engine is the hand reaching into your wall to set the price of your own light and your own heat
00:21:31.980and the same hand again reaching up to the river to drain the dam and take the water.
00:21:36.860It's the same instinct every time that somewhere far beyond your kitchen, a body of experts and officials and activists know better than you know how to warm your house, what your light should cost, how long you should be able to run your lights, and whose water gets spent on what.
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00:24:56.080you know can we ever find anyone on the other side that will speak honestly
00:25:23.440i mean cnn is so wrong once again you know here we are 250th anniversary cnn says we're the most
00:25:33.600divided we've ever been we've been divided before you think during the civil war you think yeah but
00:25:39.740this one this one is really bad worse than the civil war really yeah you know why donald trump
00:25:46.780whoa now you completely took you took me by surprise there cnn i didn't wait donald trump
00:25:53.220what that's a whole new theory yeah donald trump because he um he makes things worse
00:26:01.240because he's uniquely dangerous he's uniquely dangerous yeah yeah because he picks at people
00:26:14.020He picks at scabs. He he mocks people. He is keeping political divisions wide open. Donald Trump is. Wow. Wow. OK. All right. Let me give you CNN. Let me give you every bit of that. I don't agree with that.
00:26:34.620i think donald trump has done some really divisive things yes um and and that's unfortunately kind of
00:26:42.380the way he is at times he gets pissed and he'll do things like that and i don't like it so i'm
00:26:47.200going to give you absolutely every bit of that i'll say donald trump is really divisive
00:26:53.560will you give me that your side is saying exactly the same things
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00:46:03.760From the nation's capital, this is the Glenn Beck Program.
00:46:10.360The 4th of July was, I mean, I don't even know how to describe it.
00:46:13.860If you weren't there, unfortunately, a lot of people, the crowd was cut in half because there was a threat of really violent lightning storms.
00:46:24.560And so the government, I mean, you know, and I get it.
00:46:28.920If you're on government property, you can sue them and say, it's their fault.
00:48:57.020So there's this horrible photograph from Saturday morning that went around the world.
00:49:01.620It was a black woman sitting alone on a metro bench in Washington, D.C., and it looked very much like Rosa Parks.
00:49:11.300Here it is, the 250th, 4th of July, and this woman all by herself on the bus, sitting alone, surrounded by these masked men in matching shirts.
00:54:47.120who assigns guilt and virtue by skin color
00:54:50.440the day you draw breath who puts every white man in the same guilty bucket word for word same
00:54:56.840sentence they just flip which blood is cursed but they're the same people let me go further
00:55:04.800you've seen it with antifa they tell you the rich capitalist is the enemy they have to be smashed
00:55:12.480they have to be hung they need a guillotine you've seen it in the socialist who says the problem is
00:55:18.240always the capitalist class, and the solution is always more state control over your life.
00:55:23.020You've seen it in the Islamist or the Palestinian activist who's gone bat crap crazy, who chanced
00:55:28.500that the Jew is the root of all evil and must be driven out from the river to the sea.
00:55:33.720Every single version that blames an entire group, black, white, immigrant, Jew, rich, poor,
00:55:39.560capitalist, it doesn't matter. They're doing the same thing, and they're offering the same cure.
00:55:45.020A hard reset. A great reset. More power to the right tribe. More hatred of the wrong tribe. More division into us versus them. It's the same game every single time. Every time. Blame the group.
00:56:06.940Never the individual choices or the ideas, then demand a reset that gives the correct collective more control, more tribes, more uniforms, more loyalty tests, more enemies to hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.
00:56:20.940It doesn't matter if the uniform is khakis and masks, black block and masks, kefas, academic robes.
00:56:32.900It's the same lie wearing different clothing.
00:56:37.060The individual over there, the one that we hate in that group, that soul doesn't matter.
00:56:43.040Only the blood, only the class, only the identity, only the grievance.
00:56:46.960once you accept that premise the solution is always the same tear down the old empower the
00:56:53.660tribe that agrees with you and punish the rest that's why all of these groups must be rejected
00:56:59.560you reject one you must reject all of them this is why socialism is so dangerous it requires you
00:57:06.480to hate the capitalist as a class enemy this is why race essentialism on any side is poison
00:58:43.000We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, and among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:58:56.960And governments are instituted among men to protect those rights.
00:59:31.540It indicts the Klansman and the Nazi and the race essentialist, the socialist class warrior, the Islamist collective, and every other mirror version of the same lie, no matter what their uniform is that they're wearing today.
00:59:51.800The founders bet everything they had on ink.
00:59:55.640their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor.
01:02:31.700My tribe, your tribe, none of the tribes.
01:02:37.220The men in the mask just want to tear up that check.
01:02:41.220So does anyone, left, right, or disguised, who looks at your face and thinks they already know your worth by your blood, your class, or your group.
01:02:53.680Man, I don't know what's happened to me this week here in Washington.
01:02:58.100I have such a clear understanding of the Declaration and of the Founders.
01:09:28.060I don't have what I want to talk to you.
01:09:29.980I worked on this for a couple of hours last night,
01:09:33.180And I just can't, I can't get it right. And I need your help because we're talking over each other. We're talking around each other. We're not talking to each other. And it's becoming so clear that we have so much in common or should have so much in common.
01:09:51.260When did that stop becoming a problem for Democrats?
01:09:54.700When did someone going over to the Ayatollah Khamenei's funeral in Iran not be a problem in the Democratic Party?
01:11:16.580and um and i said at the time back in 2008 you know it's really in fact i said this in 2004
01:11:24.640why are you putting a socialist in the presidential box this is dangerous they're not you're not using
01:11:30.160them they will eat you in the end because they actually believe in these socialist things and
01:11:35.920that's not the same as being a democrat what are you doing and it seems like democrats are
01:11:41.520increasingly comfortable with ideas that not too long ago both parties considered well outside of
01:11:48.800the american mainstream socialism and now it's starting to edge into actually saying communism
01:11:55.480identity politics replacing class solidarity growing hostility towards capitalism an uneasy
01:12:07.280relationship with israel and you know what that one i kind of understand we should have an uneasy
01:12:12.800i have an uneasy relationship with all countries
01:12:15.260but in particular the growing anti-semitism and as i said these things 20 years ago i was called
01:12:25.720all kinds of names i i was i was hit by progressive jewish organizations as being an anti-semite to
01:12:34.120say that anti-Semitism was coming because it always comes with socialism and collectivism.
01:12:44.260You always say a democratic socialist, that's a Republican talking point. No, it isn't. I was
01:12:50.720using a technical term. Nobody's going to be an American socialist. Okay. All right. But here's
01:12:59.980where I get confused here. Now, now everybody is trying to change in America into socialists,
01:13:07.660a socialist country. I mean, I remember when Barack Obama was asked if he was a socialist,
01:13:13.800he didn't embrace the label. He rejected it. In fact, he called me all kinds of names for
01:13:19.940even suggesting that he liked Karl Marx or Mao or communism or Marxism or socialism.
01:13:29.980Joe Biden didn't campaign as a socialist.
01:13:34.460Over and over again, he said, I'm a Democrat.
01:13:36.720Nancy Pelosi said socialism was not the Democratic Party.
01:13:45.020And I think at their time, they believed that.
01:13:49.740They just didn't realize they were playing footsies with people who would not forgive them for using them.
01:13:59.980Now, whether whether they personally admired parts of Europe's, you know, social democracies, they believed Americans still drew a bright line between liberalism and socialism, real socialism.
01:14:12.660And that distinction mattered. I think that's where we started. But today, does it?
01:14:19.280Today, candidates openly call themselves democratic socialists. They are no longer dismissed as fringe voices in a large part of the party.
01:14:29.580They're winning elections. They're shaping debates. They're influencing the direction of democratic politics.
01:14:36.060And I'm not asking you whether you agree with them. I'm asking you, I think, something that I think is simpler.
01:14:50.440I'm hoping it still does, but if it does, how come I don't hear Democrats saying it?
01:14:56.740I mean, you just heard what I said about the Patriot. You should be condemning them like I just condemned the Patriot front without exception.
01:15:09.620Here's another question. You tell me Donald Trump represents authoritarianism.
01:15:14.400OK, I'm just just for the sake of argument, I'm going to say everything you've ever said about him is right.
01:15:19.280OK, I don't agree with that, but let's just assume that your concerns are completely justified.
01:15:24.400then shouldn't you become even more skeptical when someone promises that more power should be concentrated in Washington?
01:15:34.500Shouldn't every American left or right become suspicious whenever government is presented as the answer to every problem?
01:15:43.120You know, you fought for socialized medicine, and I told you it wouldn't work, and it's not working.
01:15:50.880It only made things higher because that's what happens when government gets involved.
01:16:08.700If too much power in Donald Trump is dangerous, isn't too much power in government worth questioning as well?
01:16:15.380Do you really trust everyone on your side, especially those who say, yeah, I'm a democratic socialist. I don't believe in capitalism. I kind of lean towards communism a bit. Don't you think we should have smaller government if that's even a possibility?
01:16:30.260i really want to know when did capitalism when did the free market because i have a problem with the
01:16:41.040way capitalism is being done it's it's grotesque and why is it grotesque because it got into bed
01:16:47.100with big government so why would we make the government even more powerful why would we give
01:16:54.100the government more power to be able to do things behind everybody's back and get into bed with
01:16:59.880these politicians that's not a problem with just the republicans that's a problem with all of
01:17:04.400washington but when did the when did the free market become something to apologize for
01:17:10.620not reform not improve apologize for to detest
01:17:16.980my my grandparents were democrats till the day they died why because of fdr
01:17:25.560are, because they remember him defending the worker. The worker who wanted jobs, the factories,
01:17:33.740the small businesses, a chance to own their own home, to build something, to pass something
01:17:40.560on to their children. They didn't see success in small businesses as something shameful.
01:17:47.140They wanted more Americans to achieve it. When did that language begin to change?
01:17:55.560And what really breaks my heart is something I never thought we would do, because I don't think Democrats hate Jewish people. I really don't.
01:18:10.300I don't believe that most Democrats support Hamas. I don't. I don't believe most Democrats support the Ayatollah Khamenei.
01:18:20.700but but how come i'm not hearing people going that person can never become there can never
01:18:28.700come back and work with elizabeth warren and elizabeth warren should be questioned how did
01:18:32.520you have this person on your staff when jewish americans tell you something deeply disturbing
01:18:38.220has changed when they tell you they no longer feel welcome inside parts of the coalition they
01:18:44.220helped build when they hear slogans that sound less like calls for peace and more like calls
01:19:19.000But you're hoping that it's not going to turn into something bad and someone else deals with it.
01:19:30.400Because maybe that's the way I would deal with it if I were a Democrat.
01:19:33.360Maybe I would be like, somebody else, it's not going to turn into that.
01:19:37.360And I ask because I remember another Democratic Party, Harry Truman, recognized Israel within minutes of its birth.
01:19:44.400John Kennedy stood against Soviet communism.
01:19:47.240They knew what it was. Democrats, Republicans argued constantly, but they generally, generally agreed that Marxism was bad and not the future of America. And that wasn't controversial ever. It was common ground. And the Democrats denied that they were going that way in 2008, 9, 10, all the way up till about a year and a half ago.
01:20:12.740and i don't know the question i i mean i wish i could have a series of questions that could
01:20:19.240really truly be disarming that wouldn't sound accusatory and i struggled with this because i
01:20:26.460don't i don't know how to put it because look i have i have people in my own family who wrote
01:20:32.240some horrible things in family text this this weekend and accused me of you know fascism and
01:20:41.480everything else and it made me sad it made me go that that's not who i am and and really you
01:20:51.720really think that about me that i am for fascism huh and i just wanted to ask wait wait but how
01:21:05.360do you feel about communism how are you dismissing these things and i think the only thing that you
01:21:10.420could say that i could understand is you're just hoping that that's not really a problem but
01:21:17.300you must look at it because it is growing at an exponential rate
01:21:24.440yes you can point to the patriot front and i just dealt with that clearly condemn that
01:21:40.420Can you meet reasonable people halfway and say, look, we're not going to solve, you're not going to be convinced Donald Trump is a good guy. I'm not going to be convinced that, you know, Mamdani has, you know, the Patriots heart in mind.
01:21:55.860He wants to fundamentally transform America into something that it is not, and that's not good.
01:22:04.280But do we have anything in common anymore?
01:22:06.960If I could somehow go back 15 years, if I could walk into a union hall or a neighborhood democratic club or a family barbecue,
01:22:16.060and I could show you a video of today's political arguments,
01:22:21.780I could show you that video and say, that's somebody with Elizabeth Warren.
01:22:25.860I could show you, Mom Donnie, and what he said about America and people calling themselves Democratic Socialists and calling for the destruction of the Democratic Party, that capitalism is the problem, the engine that lifted people out of poverty, billions of people, the free market system.
01:22:47.260I could show you the campus protests where chants are being said that leave Jewish students terrified.
01:22:57.900Arguments whether America is a fundamental force for good or fundamentally a force for oppression that should be destroyed.
01:23:06.180If I showed all of that to Democrats 15 years ago, would they say yes?
01:23:12.800Yes, that's exactly where I hope our party ends up.
01:23:15.660or would they stare at the screen and say that's crazy that's not true that's not us
01:23:21.940i know because i said those things that's what they said to me that's not us that's crazy
01:23:27.560that's a conspiracy theory that's what you that's what you are
01:23:32.240but because i know that answer would be different today than it was
01:23:39.300i guess the only question i want to ask you is why
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01:31:05.740Has he not earned his money? I mean, I don't know how you earn a trillion dollars, quite honestly. But does he not deserve what he has brought to the world through speech and technology, communications, what he has done for the world where they can now communicate freely in countries where you could not be free to speak?
01:31:33.320he's got the satellite system up he's reinvented the car and given all of the tech he didn't put
01:31:40.940a patent on it he gave the patents away for free so anyone can use it he is transforming
01:31:48.080the idea of space he is building a space um a space economy which you won't understand for
01:31:59.120another five to ten years but when that thing hits you will understand
01:32:04.460he's he may have soft hands but he's done the intellectual plowing of almost every field
01:32:13.920i don't want to get this you know i'm just tired of socialism i i'm tired i just wish we could have
01:32:22.720an honest conversation but we we are dealing with so many people that are so uninformed yes
01:32:28.600there are great disparities in wealth yes and you say and while they're buying elections yes
01:32:36.040like soros do you mean soros or is he exempt because i would like the money to get out of
01:32:41.780politics as well but it's not an honest fight most people who are saying that's not honest
01:32:49.000if you have a problem with all the money in politics good good so do i if you have a problem
01:32:58.640with corrupt capitalism so do i but the answer is not bigger government
01:33:04.480but socialism will work let me tell you america's been told a really simple story for a very long
01:33:16.640time. If America could only be more like Denmark. Now we're not even talking about Denmark or
01:33:21.560Sweden, you know, or Norway anymore. We're not talking about that. They are talking about a
01:33:25.640different kind of socialism now, but let's just say they're talking about, we just want to be
01:33:29.500like Norway and Sweden. It's the favorite exhibit in almost every debate about capitalism in
01:33:36.760government. The Nordic countries, they're proof socialism works. But before you remodel your house
01:33:42.600after somebody else's blueprint let's walk through the front door first okay because the story that
01:33:48.740almost everyone tells you about scandinavian nations leaves out the part that actually made
01:33:54.480scandinavia successful the leaders themselves reject the label socialist don't believe me
01:34:03.720look it up the former danish prime minister andres rasmussen or something came to the united states
01:34:11.740and addressed it directly he said americans associate denmark with socialism then he added
01:34:18.820and i'm quoting denmark is far from a socialist planned economy denmark is a market economy
01:34:26.560wow how come it how come where are the posters for that that's a remarkable statement imagine
01:34:32.660somebody insisting texas is a communist state while the governor keeps coming out going we're
01:34:37.260not we're not we're texas we're not communist and yet the myth survives somehow
01:34:43.120so what's really happening the nordic countries have built generous welfare states that part is
01:34:52.760absolutely true they provide universal health coverage college is subsidized heavily subsidized
01:35:00.360or free. Parents receive paid leave. Safety nets are extensive, but those benefits sit on top of
01:35:08.620economies that depend on capitalism every single day. Not just capitalism, competitive capitalism,
01:35:16.120strong property rights, private ownership, entrepreneurship, open trade, innovation,
01:35:23.420businesses that are expected to compete in the marketplace rather than survive on government
01:35:28.300protection those days are long gone and this is the part that never makes it to a campaign speech
01:35:35.100according to the index of economic freedom denmark has consistently ranked among the freest
01:35:42.280economies in the entire world the country most often used to argue against capitalism
01:35:50.060scores routinely as the world's freest capitalist economy wow does that make you curious at all
01:35:58.200at all? I mean, should we look into that?
01:36:03.460During the post-war decades, Sweden dramatically expanded government spending,
01:36:09.680the taxes, the regulation. By the 1970s and into the 1980s, economic growth slowed way down.
01:36:17.820Investments weakened. Entrepreneurs left. Some of Sweden's most successful companies and business
01:36:23.520leaders moved they just moved out of the country ikea relocated ownership to the netherlands
01:36:30.520tetrapak moved to switzerland sweden's relative standing among wealthy nations fell sharply for
01:36:39.500two decades and then everybody turns away and doesn't say so what happened next sweden didn't
01:36:46.720double down okay they didn't double down it reversed course governments from both the left
01:36:53.460and the right reduced regulations they reformed the pensions these are things we're not doing
01:37:00.300they introduce private competition into education that's that'll never happen right
01:37:06.300today more than 800 independent schools operate with public funding private companies run a
01:37:13.540substantial share of the Swedish primary health centers. Taxes were restructured. Markets were
01:37:20.260liberalized. The reforms were not a rejection of the welfare state. They were an acknowledgement
01:37:26.300that somebody first has to create the wealth to pay for it. It's really hard to redistribute
01:37:34.180prosperity after you've regulated prosperity out of existence. And that's what New York is doing.
01:37:39.800And here's another fact that surprises most Americans.
01:37:44.820The Nordic countries, they don't finance their governments primarily on taxing billionaires.
01:41:34.880You get rid of business, you don't have the welfare.
01:41:38.400Another ingredient that economists often point to,
01:41:41.080and that is trust, something we don't have.
01:41:43.780Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway consistently are the highest trust societies in the world.
01:41:51.280People generally believe their neighbors will obey the rules.
01:41:54.720Now that's changing because of the border situation.
01:41:58.380Government corruption is relatively low. It's not here.
01:42:02.400Institutions enjoy broad public confidence. Not here. Look at the fraud that's going on.
01:42:07.200That kind of social capital is incredibly valuable because it lowers the transaction cost. It simplifies regulation. It allows systems to function with fewer layers of enforcement. Trust, you cannot legislate trust. It develops over generations, and once it's gone, it's gone. And that's why culture matters, and institutions matter, and history matters.
01:42:33.640i'm not i'm not selling the nordic model down the river and i'm not saying it's perfect it
01:42:41.620has its strengths it has its weaknesses like every system designed by human beings
01:42:46.440the real lesson here is not about socialism versus capitalism
01:42:52.320the real lesson here i think is about intellectual honesty
01:42:58.620If somebody proves or points to Denmark as proof that socialism works, now you have the information.
01:43:08.280You have to say, would you acknowledge Denmark's commitment to private enterprise and taxes?
01:43:16.760If somebody praises Sweden's welfare system, you want to mention Sweden's market reforms after 1990?
01:43:23.6201990? Well, Finland, their public services, we want to mention Finland's strong support for
01:43:31.220private business and global competition. You know, good ideas don't travel alone. Neither do bad
01:43:38.180ones. The danger comes when we import only the policies we like while ignoring the conditions
01:43:46.180that make them possible. It's like pointing to a championship football team and deciding the
01:43:52.020secret to winning is a fancy stadium no no no it's not yeah but look at the stadium it's visible
01:43:57.500yeah but the years of practice i don't see that well but they may not be visible
01:44:03.280well it's it's really the secret is the trophy no it's the discipline that you don't see in the
01:44:09.020in the case the welfare benefits are visible but the productive economy underneath often isn't
01:44:16.740And every society eventually faces the same question.
01:57:17.300And I hate demonic spirits that indoctrinate people that you'll find in fascism, that you'll find in communism, looking at another person saying, oh, they're the peasant class.
01:58:59.820If the parent doesn't want to give the child the option to transition, guess who led this march with a sign in a V formation, the front of the march?