BONUS EPISODE ｜ The Glenn Beck Program with Liz Wheeler
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America s children are under attack. They are being taught that there is no such thing as truth, gender is malleable, and racism can never be overcome. The question is, why are our schools more interested in critical race theory than arithmetic? Why are parents blocked from intervening in their own child's education? Are they fighting for pornography in school libraries? Are kids being groomed for a Marxist takeover? Well, the answers are here in Liz Wheeler's new book, "Hide Your Children: Exposing the Marxist Behind the Attack on America's Kids."
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Hey everyone, it's Megan Kelly. I have no doubt you know Glenn Beck, the one and only. He's been
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a guest on our show many times. I've been on his show. We go way back to our Fox days. That's where
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I first got to know him and was stunned and in awe at his immense talent. Truly, he's one of a kind.
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Glenn is super smart, a unique thinker, and someone I'm happy to call a friend.
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Check out an episode of the Glenn Beck program right here. Subscribe on his feed if you like,
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and talk to you soon. America's children are under attack. We all know it. I don't care who
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you voted for. They're taught that there is no such thing as truth. Gender is malleable. Racism can never
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be overcome. These things are not true. The question is, why are they being taught? Why are our schools
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more interested in critical race theory or any critical theory more than arithmetic? Why are
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parents blocked from intervening in their own child's education? Why are they fighting for
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pornography in school libraries? Are kids being groomed for a Marxist takeover? Well, the answers
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are here. A staunch defender of our liberty and our kids. The new book is called Hide Your Children,
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Exposing the Marxist Behind the Attack on America's Kids. There are very few books that I read about
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progressivism or history where I actually learn quite a lot. This is one of those books really
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well written by today's conservative commentator, author, and mother and guest on today's podcast,
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Liz Wheeler. Welcome. How are you? I'm good. Thanks for having me. Yeah. I will tell you,
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you had me at the Woodrow Wilson bashing. I mean, anyone who can bash Woodrow Wilson,
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and you're one of the best ones, is all right in my book. I want to talk to you about him
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as we go through. There's so much to learn in your book, and you've done such a great job of
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tracking it from the beginning. And once you understand the roots and you see the real evil root,
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it's pretty easy to see where we're going and what the real objective is, isn't it?
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It is. One of the things that would constantly hit home to me when I was writing this book,
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you know, late nights of researching for a year, is once you see this stuff, you can't unsee it.
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And you see the manifestation of it everywhere. And one of the things I think that conservatives forget,
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because we so often accuse, and rightfully so, the mainstream media and Democrats of lying,
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we dismiss all of their fake news and their false narratives, is they actually, at the same time,
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do tell us exactly what their goal is and how they're going to accomplish it. We forget to believe them.
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I know. It's so incredible, especially lately, how clear it all is. I mean, they do tell us every
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step of the way exactly what they're going to do. And then people claim it's conspiracy.
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No, they just said that. And with history, you know, they actually mean it. So who are we facing?
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Particularly what's attacking our children are the forces of Marxism. And I don't mean that just in a
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philosophical way. I mean, actual Marxists, people who believe that we should overthrow capitalism,
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people who believe that we should impose communism on the United States, people who believe in the
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downfall of Western civilization are using our children to try to cause chaos in our society,
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to destroy our civil institutions, which are our cultural institutions, in order to destabilize
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the entire rule of law and fabric of the United States of America, to then be able to have access
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to toppling the governmental institutions. Give me a name in the most obvious example of that.
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So one of the most obvious examples that's been in the news lately is the president of the American
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Library Association, Emily Drabinski, who she's in the news because she's defending pornographic
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books, being in children's school and material that that indoctrinates in critical race theory.
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But the day that she won that position in the American Library Association's
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the top position, she tweeted, who would have thought that a Marxist could win this position?
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She is a it's not me using this word to describe her based on her ideology. It's her admitting what
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her ideology is. And she's an incredibly powerful person. The president of the American Library
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Association makes decisions about what our children are going to be reading if they go to public schools.
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And one of the things I track in my book is it's not just her in and of herself. The reason that she
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won that election is because Randy Weingarten threw all of her political support behind Drabinski's
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campaign. Let me take you back to history. The guy who taught people to to attack the civil institutions
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in America has a modern day connection. But let's start with the history first.
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Yes. This this was this blew my mind when I was researching the book. I think I was doing this
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at like 1 a.m. I did a lot of the research for this book after my daughter went to sleep
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and I like jumped up from my laptop when I realized this. I was like, everyone's asleep.
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Making it the beginning of my book. So when we look at the cultural institutions that are
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that have been compromised in our nation, it's pretty obvious. Like the media has been compromised.
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The education system has been compromised. A lot of religious institutions sadly have been
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compromised. The law has been compromised and they are actively the other side is actively seeking to
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subvert the nuclear family. So we identify those things and we're like, OK, cool. Well, you take a
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little step back in history and you realize the communism or Marxism of Karl Marx. It went out of
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fashion after the Communist Manifesto died out because Karl Marx envisioned this global Marxist
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revolution that didn't really happen because discontented working class really wasn't enough to spark
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that. But then you have this guy in the early 20th century named Antonio Gramsci. He was the
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co-founder of the Italian Communist Party and he was put in prison in fascist Italy. And while he was
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in prison, he was studying Marxism and what what made the Marxist revolutions that were successful,
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successful. And he accurately recognized that when a Marxist revolution was successful, it wasn't based
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on economic discontent. It was based on first destroying the civil institutions on which the working
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class relied. And he named, among others, the media, the education system, religious institutions,
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the law and the family. Once you see this stuff, you can't unsee it. But Gramsci's work was not
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prevalent in the United States for a long time. It didn't become prevalent until the 1970s. But I'm
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leafing through these prison notebooks that Antonio Gramsci wrote. And I realized on the front cover of
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the page, it's probably the 15th time I had this book open, that the reason I'm able to read Antonio
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Gramsci, he wrote in Italian, translated into English is because of a man who translated his
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work. The man's name was Joseph Buttigieg. Yes, Matt Buttigieg. This is Pete Buttigieg's father
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who ran an international fan club for Antonio Gramsci, translated these words.
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So it's not just that he's, you know, been intersected by heterosexual men, that, you know,
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he's been oppressed because of that. He's probably legendary because of his family tie in the Marxist
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You would think, I mean, you would think at the very least that some enterprising journalists
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would ask the Secretary of Transportation if he shared an ideological connection in addition to the
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biological relation to his Marxist father. But no one seems interested in that. It seems relevant
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to me. It blew my mind. I ended up just kind of saying, you're kidding me. You're kidding me a
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hundred times. It's crazy. You talk about Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood was the one that came
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up with Don't Say Gay, right? Yeah. To the best of my research, and I researched this a lot, I was like,
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what's the origin of the Don't Say Gay thing? It was one of the modern marvels of fake news in our
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mainstream media to hear the parental rights and education bill in Florida falsely dubbed as the
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Don't Say Gay bill. It was incredibly effective. And it wasn't just a phrase that someone coined on
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the fly and it was catchy. It wasn't something that happened on Twitter and then people caught
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onto it. The origin of the Don't Say Gay phrase was a Planned Parenthood blog post, which since we
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started covering this, they've removed. But you can still access it via the Wayback Machine,
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the Internet Archive. They described a bill in Missouri during 2020. It was a similar parental
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rights bill that doesn't say anything about prohibiting people from saying the word gay.
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They described it as the Don't Say Gay bill. And the reason why is quite shocking because you think,
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OK, well, why does Planned Parenthood care about this? Like all the things like their business is
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abortion. Why are they focused on this? Planned Parenthood has become one of the largest distributors
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of transgender hormone therapy in the country. Oh, my gosh. It's their new it's their new
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avenue of blood money. And they need people to believe that that conservatives are trying to
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prohibit people from staying gay to protect their own business interests. Is this does this go back
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to their original founding? They're just they are about population control. Is that what this is?
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It's all tied together. I talk a little bit about Margaret Sanger. I mean, most of us know a little
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bit about Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. We know she was a eugenicist. We know she was
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a racist. I mean, she wanted to call birth control race control originally, which tells you all you
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need to know, really. But she also well, she wasn't a self-avowed Marxist. I mean, she was also
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surrounded by socialists and communists and Marxists. She went she she abandoned her family to have an
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affair with someone who took her to the Soviet Union during during the socialist heyday. And she
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praised the Soviet Union for how they how they treated women, this communist country that was starving
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people. When when you are associated with beliefs like that, you are tainted by those beliefs unless
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you are only associated with those beliefs because you are studying them to overturn them. Right. And
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this is the Planned Parenthood is what I call one of the biggest institutional groomers in our country
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grooming young women away from being feminine, grooming young men away from being masculine,
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demonizing babies, of course, with their with their abortion business. Now, this transgender ideology,
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they are destroying the nuclear family more effectively element by element than any other
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institution that I can think of in this country. Wow. Tell me about I mean, we have to have at least a
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couple of minutes of bashing Woodrow Wilson. My favorite pastimes. Oh, yeah. So happy to find you.
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When I first started talking about Woodrow Wilson, everybody, everybody said, what is your deal with
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Woodrow Wilson? And I'm like, you don't understand. If you don't understand him, you don't understand
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what's happened because he's he took apart the Declaration of Independence, said it's worthless.
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Don't pay attention to it. He hated the Constitution. He hated all kinds of things. Huge racist and believed.
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Have you read Philip Drew Administrator? No, but I'll put it on my to read. It's his favorite book. He read
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it like three times while he was in office and it's horrible, but it's fascinating because it describes
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the administrative state. Exactly what is happening to us now. It was Woodrow Wilson's dream. He was a
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very bad dude. Very bad. Very bad dude. And it's fascinating because he told us exactly what he wanted
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to happen with the federal government. And lo and behold, here we are suffering under the dictates
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of Fauci and the FDA and the CDC and an over all these overgrown administrative agencies that many
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people weren't even aware of. They didn't think about they didn't realize how the administrative state
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operates, that Congress is lazy, that Congress are cowards. They make these very vague. Well, they pass laws
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that are very vague and then they say, well, we're just going to give it to you, bureaucrats, to decide what we
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meant. Yes. And then bureaucrats that have been buried in administrative state agencies for who knows
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how long. They want to. They want that power. They're like, please, let me take a vague statement and make it as
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Marxist as possible. Yeah. And then we, as the United States, as United States
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sentences, are bound to follow these rules that they dictate like they're laws. I mean, this is not a free
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country. I would argue that this is completely unconstitutional. People don't realize, I think. I'm not sure I even
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fully recognize this until Dr. Fauci came on the scene and he was like actively lying and spreading
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misinformation and trying to boss us around, telling us we couldn't even have Thanksgiving with our
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families. I don't think that it was just so jarring, I think, to see this and realize that this idea of
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rule by the experts is actually has a name. It's not just Dr. Fauci. It's not just one egotistical,
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tiny little man. It is technocracy that rule by the experts or rule by science. Right. And technocracy,
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I unpack it in my book. There's several people who propose the idea of technocracy throughout
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history, but one of the people that I found most interesting was a Russian physician named
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Alexander Bogdanov. He wrote a fiction book about technocracy in which he had people go to Mars or
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something not interesting. But the purpose of that is they were going to change the civilization of Mars
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from capitalism to communism and use technocracy as a stepping stone by the experts as a stepping
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stone because you and I are not allowed to question the experts because we are not the experts. Correct.
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So it's authoritarianism. And wait until it's AI. Yeah. All an expert has to say is
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the AI, quantum computing, you can't even understand it. This is the best path.
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Who are you to question? Are you you have quantum computing in your pocket or you do you have all
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the library knowledge of the entire history of man in your head? You people will just be like,
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oh, well, the AI says that. I mean, that is that is around the corner. It's terrifying because we keep
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giving power to people in the administrative state who all they want is power and control and,
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you know, authoritarianism. You don't think they're going to use AI to help them on that?
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You know what gets me about AI is people talk about AI often as if it's this autonomous being
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that it's like its own living entity. I'm like, you realize that somebody had to write the code,
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like a hunk of junk computer doesn't run on its own unless someone puts it together and puts a
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series of numbers and letters into it that tells it what to do. Right. And you can you can put a
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series of code in that's very impressive and makes this machine operate. But someone has to write
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that. Are you telling me that without knowing who's writing that and who's influencing the people
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that are writing that and who's paying the people who are influencing the people who are writing that,
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that that's not going to manipulate you towards an ideological end? I know. Please.
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I've always said, don't fear the technology, fear the people running and writing the code. However,
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AI is now making leaps and and jumps in knowledge that we don't even know how it works. And the
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scariest thing is there is this entity, if you will, that is this giant hive mind. And it only has
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one little spout and all of these, you know, AI people are like, no, we'll just keep turning that
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down. It's churning all down here. It's learning and churning. And they're saying, oh, but we're only
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going to let a little bit out. This figures that out pretty quickly, pretty damn quickly.
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Um, so, you know, the one thing I really loved about this, because I am so concerned about,
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I'm not sure a society has ever gone this far and gone back to freedom and liberty.
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Um, we have too many emergencies coming our way, too many hardships coming our way.
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And without God, we'll never make it, never make it unless we are rooted in our principles and
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values. Nobody knows the constitution. Nobody knows that if you just really understood the
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declaration of independence and you could carry that around with you, that's our mission statement.
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I know what we're trying to build because of that. I believe in that. Let's build that.
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The constitution is the owner's manual that nobody ever reads.
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And because nobody is ever reading this and because people are starting to say, you know,
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it's because of God and things are out of control, you can get into toxic stew of a
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quasi-religious, fascistic sort of government that fast. And that would come from the right.
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You know what you're getting? You're getting a godless, uh, horror show on the left, but you could
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get a really perverted country on the right that Americans wouldn't understand. Do you agree with
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that? First of all, I think so. Yeah. Because every person, it doesn't matter if you're Democrat or
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Republican has a propensity to want power and to wield it over other people. I mean, hopefully you
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and I don't want to use that and understand that it's something that would lead us towards sin. But,
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and I guess we think of Democrats as being more prone to use that because they are godless oftentimes,
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but every person has that. Everybody does. Everybody does. So certainly, I mean, it's not really a matter of,
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um, government officials of if they would abuse power, if they have the opportunity to, it's when
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and how. And that's true of both parties. What you just said is so important because you sound like
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the founders. I know the nature of man. And if there were better angels amongst us, where are they
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in government? Where are they? And, uh, man goes bad. That's the point that I became a huge fan,
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huge fan of yours. And I can't tell you how much I would highly recommend your books because you
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include in your solutions, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. That is the
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answer. If we will do self-control ourselves in our own life, if we will stand up and say,
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I'm not afraid of you. And you know what? If jail's good enough for Martin Luther King over the truth,
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then it's good enough for me. And I'm not going to be scared by that. People are too afraid to stand up.
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And I think it's because they don't know what's at stake. They don't know what they're fighting for.
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And, uh, and generally people are mice. Yeah. I mean, our founders recognize what you're saying.
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And it's why Ben Franklin said a Republic, if you can keep it. And he wasn't talking to a tyrant when
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he said that he was talking to a widow who agreed with his moral philosophy. I think Republicans have
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gotten very squeamish of being associated with religion at all because we are rightly skeptical
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of going down the path of theocracy. And I want to be very clear that what I'm proposing is not
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theocracy. I'm never proposing that someone be forced to go to church or someone be prohibited
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from going to another church. Yeah. I'm not proposing a state religion. What I'm proposing
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is that we recapture what our constitution intended, which is that we have a preexisting
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definition of, of these words of objective reality, man, woman, marriage, morality, immorality,
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liberty, justice, and that we don't allow our society to violate natural law. You can ignore
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natural law if you're not a religious believer, but that doesn't make it exist less. Correct.
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It's still there. Saying that a man could have a baby is like saying gravity doesn't exist in
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Nebraska. Yes, it does. Yes, it does. Come to Nebraska with me. We don't have a cohesive society
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unless we come to an agreement. And this is probably more, yes, we're gonna have dissenters
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in the Democrat Party, but unless Republicans come to an agreement that, A, we're not going to be
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cowards about admitting that any kind of morality and all of our laws are based on religious
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morality. Our laws against murder are based on the idea that, well, it doesn't matter if a dog
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kills another dog, right? Right. Okay. Well, people aren't allowed to kill other people because
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we're made in the image and likeness of God, because that person has dignity and value and
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rights that were given to him or her by, by our creator. This is the foundation of the most basic
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laws in our society. It are our Judeo-Christian values. And if we get away from that, we are never
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going to be able to recapture our society because it's a different society than we are trying to create.
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And if we take what we need to do right now and respect to our own motto, then of course,
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If we do not underestimate the volatility, it will be bogus or the flexibility, we have
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