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00:36:20.220That's why he beat the 16 other Republicans in the primary in 2016.
00:36:23.840That's why a lot of people still like him today.
00:36:25.800And it's why the people who like him are disproportionately normal people.
00:36:29.480That's why even the political establishment on the right hates him so much.
00:36:34.000Because the political establishment on the right, they're not all that normal either.
00:36:37.880Very often among the politicos on the right, their heads are filled with all sorts of bizarre five-point manifestos and ideologies and absurd kind of thinking.
00:36:47.880That's why the people who support Trump tend to be the normal people.
00:36:52.100Now, there have been other political actors who have tried to channel this normal person energy.
00:36:59.400Not the radical left or the radical right or the libertarian or the anarchist and the progressive socialist.
00:37:05.980Just to channel that normal person energy.
00:37:07.960One of them who has tried to do it, I think totally unsuccessfully, is Andrew Yang.
00:37:12.920You remember Andrew Yang ran in the Democratic primary in 2020.
00:38:15.900We are working to build the first open party, a place that celebrates diverse viewpoints and creativity, welcoming Democrats, Republicans, and independents who are committed to rejecting the extremes and solving problems.
00:38:28.040Other parties are more interested in partisan fights than governing.
00:38:30.480We are focused on doing, not dividing.
00:38:36.860I was afraid we only had those dividing parties.
00:38:38.940You know those other parties where they would split you into coherent groups based on the things that you want to do in the country and the political and moral vision you have?
00:43:38.280Licensed counselor and sex therapist, who Jenna Ellis is reporting works for the Pennsylvania government.
00:43:43.900I'm not, I haven't seen a ton of news reports on that.
00:43:45.820But at the very least, a licensed counselor and sex therapist advocating on video for the poor oppressed pedos.
00:43:53.280I'm a licensed professional counselor and sex therapist in Erie, Pennsylvania.
00:43:58.520And today I want to talk about minor attracted persons.
00:44:02.940And I want to talk about minor attracted persons because they are probably the most vilified population of folks in our culture.
00:44:11.640And most folks are making incorrect assumptions about them without actually knowing much about them.
00:44:18.760And those assumptions create harm for an already marginalized population.
00:44:25.200You may have noticed that I'm using the term minor attracted persons, sometimes abbreviated to maps, instead of the more commonly used term pedophile.
00:44:36.800And I'm doing this because the term pedophile has moved from being a diagnostic label to being a judgmental, hurtful insult that we hurl at people in order to harm them or slander them.
00:44:51.860I also prefer person first language that recognizes that any label we might apply to a person is only part of who they are.
00:45:01.580This is coming to a psychology department near you.
00:45:04.460This is coming to a mainstream media near you.
00:45:07.000This is, we are, we're not 10 years away from this being the term of art for pedos, minor attracted person.
00:45:14.280We're probably two years away, if that.
00:45:18.560They are now earnestly pushing for this.
00:48:31.480And if you even suggest that we in any way try to resist our desires, that this would be conversion therapy and that's evil and that's terrible.
00:48:38.780Now, of course, they're changing their tune and they're saying not only is desire mutable, but even sex itself is mutable.
00:48:43.780That's why we chop people up and boys can be girls one day and then they can become boys again on the next day and that's totally fine.
00:48:48.280So they've abandoned that, but you're still seeing that premise around and a lot of people on the right have imbibed that premise, but that's not true.
00:48:55.640Desires can change, maybe not entirely, but anyone who's ever dealt with an addiction knows this.
00:49:00.700Let's say you're an alcoholic and you drink.
00:49:03.840The more and more you drink, the harder it is to not drink.
00:49:06.580The more intense your desire for drinking becomes.
00:49:08.760It's true of drugs, it's true of food, it's true of anything, it's true of sex, it's true of anything.
00:49:11.540And you can, the more you engage in vice, the more vicious you become.
00:49:15.120The more you engage in virtue, the easier it is to engage in virtue.
00:49:18.460That's because these things are habits and habits become easier the more that you do them and they become harder to break the more that you do them.
00:49:25.480That's true on the good side and that's true on the bad side.
00:49:29.860And we've been told in our culture that you should never resist any of your desires.
00:49:33.460We've been told that repression is really bad.
00:49:35.060And repression and suppression of desires can be a very, very good thing, but that's not even the end stage, by the way.
00:49:42.620That's not even the conservative and Christian view of things.
00:49:45.520The conservative and Christian view is that we have these desires and desires are properly ordered all toward God.
00:49:53.200That desire in and of itself is not a bad thing, but because this is a fallen world, sometimes desires get perverted, even to the extreme perversion of pedophilia.
00:50:00.260And what we have to do is sublimate those things, kind of reorder them, recognize that our desires sometimes go in the wrong direction and stop that and resist them going in the wrong direction and channel them toward that which is good and ultimately toward the highest good who is God.
00:50:16.020That's the way to actually deal with this.
00:50:18.900And I fear that conservatives are not willing to have that conversation because they're going to have to get past a lot of the absolute detritus of the moral sloganeering, the immoral sloganeering and shallow idiocy that we've had to deal with in recent decades.
00:50:35.920That's the only way we're going to get through this, though.
00:50:38.420And just yelling and screaming about how the libs are normalizing the pedos and we need to pull out the wood chippers and the helicopter rides again.
00:50:44.840That's really not going to do it because we're not taking on the fundamental problem, which is beyond the level even of just a certain policy or a certain definition in a textbook.
00:50:56.060It goes into a cultural level, into a moral level, and it would, if we could get there, it would restore a normal political order that is much more traditional in the United States than we had until just a few decades ago.
00:51:07.820Or has the culture shifted so far that we can't do that anymore?