Ep. 352 - Why Aren’t Millennials Growing Up？
Summary
A new survey shows millennials are poor, lonely, depressed, and socialist. We analyze why young Americans are so miserable. Then, Apple CEO Tim Cook gives Tulane graduates terrible advice. And from the U.S. to the UK, leftist are becoming violent and threatening our political system. We will examine it.
Transcript
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A new survey shows millennials are poor, lonely, depressed, and socialist.
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We analyze why young Americans are so miserable.
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Then, Apple CEO Tim Cook gives Tulane graduates terrible advice.
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And from the U.S. to the U.K., leftists are becoming violent and threatening our political system.
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We will examine it. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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This, obviously, we see this in our own meanderings through life.
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This is also being borne out according to surveys and data.
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I know they all think they're young and fresh faces, but millennials are actually now approaching middle age.
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The oldest millennials are 38 years old right now, and they are staring down middle age in worse financial shape than Gen X or their parents, the baby boomers.
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They're looking down middle age actually in worse shape than every living generation ahead of them.
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Now, what the millennials will do is they'll blame the financial crisis and the recession.
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A lot of millennials graduated during an economic downturn.
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This does have negative effects on your earning potential for the rest of your life.
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However, we've also now experienced a full decade of economic growth and falling unemployment.
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I mean, we have millions of jobs right now that are going unfilled because there aren't enough people who are looking for the jobs.
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We have virtually no unemployment at 49-year lows, and the economy is going gangbusters.
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Also, by the way, during the recession and the economic downturn, baby boomers were entering their 50s.
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So they were entering into their prime earning years during that downturn.
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And yet, millennials have less money, less property, lower marriage rates, and fewer children.
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They are not doing the things that adults are supposed to do as they grow up.
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Just as an example, the average household net worth of millennials is $92,000.
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That is 40% less than what Gen X had at the same age and 20% less than what baby boomers had at the same age.
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And baby boomers were hippie, dippy flower children.
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I can't believe they would have any money, and yet millennials somehow have even less.
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The only area where millennials are outperforming the people who came before us is in education, and even that is fake.
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So the one area, according to all these social surveys, where millennials are doing better than other generations is in education.
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And the reason they come to that conclusion is they say, well, see, X percentage of millennials went to college.
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X percent of millennials went to a four-year college.
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X percent of millennials got a master's degree or a PhD.
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So on the surface, it looks like millennials are better educated.
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Except we know they're not better educated because we've talked to them and we have eyes and ears.
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A third of American millennials believe that George W. Bush killed more people than Joseph Stalin.
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Two-thirds of millennials have never heard of Auschwitz.
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About 50% of millennials believe there are more than two biological sexes.
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In really demonstrable ways, they are not educated at all.
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We know there was a survey from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute that tracked students at some of the top colleges in the country.
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They found out that seniors graduating from Berkeley, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, all these highfalutin schools,
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seniors who were graduating knew less about their nation's history, system of government, and civics than incoming freshmen.
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They had actually gotten stupider during their time in college.
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So they have a lot of degrees, but they don't know very much.
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Even that one area where they're supposed to excel, they don't.
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However, what did they get for all of their degrees?
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So the one area in education where they are actually outperforming other generations is they have a lot more debt.
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The average student loan balance for millennials is $10,600, and some people obviously have a lot more than that.
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Some people have zero, but that average is twice what Gen X owed at our age.
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The generation that came right before us had half the student debt on average that we do.
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So as a result of all of this turmoil, as you might expect, millennials are miserable.
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Again, not just subjectively, objectively, we can see they are miserable.
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You can see this in rates of stress and anxiety.
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The New York Times, like a broken clock, write twice a day, dubbed millennials the antidepressant generation.
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Right now, one in six Americans is hooked on antidepressant drugs.
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Millennials are hooked on these drugs and are getting these diagnoses at twice the national average.
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Who is to blame for this or what is to blame for this?
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A lot of pandering politicians are going around and they're blaming everything but the millennials.
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And this is especially true as millennials become the politicians.
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So Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for instance, blames the sun monster for everybody's problems
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And, I mean, AOC, the millennial par excellence.
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They've now convinced millennials to support socialism.
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For the first time ever, the majority of millennials, the majority of that generation,
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Some baby boomers, our parents, are blaming themselves for this.
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I think the misery is mostly millennials' fault.
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I'm asking him to change his ways, taking a little personal responsibility.
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I think most millennial misery is not to blame on economic cycles or politicians or the sun monster,
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I think it's because of what we ourselves are doing.
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Deloitte has come out with its global millennial survey.
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Can you imagine how awful that survey must have been to administer?
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Just talking to 13,000 millennials from 42 different countries.
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It looked also at a little over 3,000 members of Gen Z.
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And it identified personal behaviors that young Americans and young people around the world are engaging in
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Deloitte came out with a global millennial survey.
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And I don't think they did the survey to figure out why millennials are children and why millennials are miserable.
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But they identified a lot of behaviors that explain it.
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So, just 50% of millennials and Gen Zers aspire to purchase a home.
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Even fewer millennials and Gen Zers aspire to start a family.
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Do you know what the majority of millennials and Gen Zers want to do?
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They just, you know, they just want to collect experiences.
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They say, who cares about owning stuff and settling down?
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I just kind of want to be on the road, doing my own thing.
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You know, I'm like Jack Kerouac on the road and puff, puff, pass.
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In a certain sense, I think people admire this attitude.
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Because you're saying, oh yeah, you don't care about material possessions.
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You don't care about this stuff that'll just pass away.
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I mean, my desk, even this Leftist Tears Tumblr eventually after 7,000 years will disintegrate
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However, what this ultimately means is an epidemic of selfishness.
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You collect experiences because they're just personally satisfying.
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When you purchase a home, you are saying, this is my land.
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I am going to pay for the new oil burner if the oil burner breaks.
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I am going to fill this house with kids and with furniture and with other stuff that I'm
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I'm going to take out a mortgage that I'm going to have to pay off.
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Am I going to work because it's personally satisfying all the time?
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Hopefully, sometimes it'll be personally satisfying.
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But I'll do it because I have accountability to my creditors, who I took the mortgage out
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And I don't just get to go out and travel the world whenever I want to.
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The defenders of the millennial view, the ones who say, I just want to go out and collect
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experiences and see the world, they say, look, people graduated with a lot of student debt.
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But if you can't afford to buy a house, how can you afford to travel all over the world?
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And world travel is extra expensive because if you actually want to go around the world
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And I think what it boils down to ultimately is responsibility versus selfishness and self-indulgence.
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Now, I have more evidence for this from the Deloitte survey.
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According to the Global Millennial Survey, 52% of millennials said that earning a high salary
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52%, 48% of millennials don't care about earning a high salary.
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Again, the charitable view is, well, we're just not attached to stuff.
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The, I think, more realistic view is millennials are kind of lazy.
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I mean, if you're, why would you work hard if you're not going to get that much more out
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You say, okay, I'm perfectly willing to settle for an okay salary if I don't have to work
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The people who build things, the people who do great things, the people who really succeed
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In terms of money, if they make $100,000 a year, they want to make a million dollars
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Some people, if they make $100,000 a year, they say, okay, cool, I'm going to only work
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But people who really build things, who work really hard, they'll say, no, I want more.
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Even if they don't get more, $100,000 is a great salary.
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The people that I've met who are really succeeding at the top of their game, the ones who have
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made a ton of money or have gotten super famous or have been really effective in politics,
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the one thing I notice about all of them is they are working all the time.
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I think there's this myth that a lot of millennials have bought into because they bought into socialism
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which is that the guys at the top are all lazy fat cats who just sit at their desk and
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they have their feet up and they're counting their money like the guy on the Monopoly box
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and they're puffing cigars and they're not working.
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And it's really all the people who aren't making a lot of money.
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In my experience, I've known a lot of people who don't make a lot of money.
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I know a lot of people who make an okay amount of money and I've known some people who have
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In my experience, the ones who make a lot of money are the hardest workers.
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Because there's not a lot of room at the top and you've got to fight really hard to get up there
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If I work really, that means I'm going to have to subordinate my will.
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That means I'm going to not be able to indulge in everything I want to indulge in.
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That means that I'm going to have to make a mortgage payment.
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Then I'm going to have to settle in a place, in a town.
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I'm going to have to know people and know my neighbors.
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I mean, the only moral rule that we follow in this culture is if it feels good, do it.
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You see this expressed in how we treat sex in just a hookup culture rather than a more
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And that is the definition of if it feels good, do it.
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I mean, you see this in this social survey, 49% of millennials would, if possible, quit
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Because they're dissatisfied with pay and they are not advancing as fast as they would like.
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They come in and they want to be the boss on day one.
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Less than three in 10 millennials expect to stay at a current job for the next five years
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And you're told when you come from a generation, look, I came from it.
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This is why I am passionate about this topic is when you come from a generation where you
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get a participation trophy and you get really high grades, even though you don't know that
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much, you're going to be dissatisfied with the real professional world.
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Now, I did lean into pitches like Don Baylor, so I had a pretty high on-base percentage, but
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Guess how many times my team won anything, any championship?
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But I have eight trophies because they gave them to me.
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You'll notice in colleges now, the average GPA is much, much higher than it was in the
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They would attack George Bush when Bush was running for president because he was a C student,
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but he actually had higher grades than John Kerry, who he was running against.
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It's because a lot of people had C grades then.
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Now, very few people get Cs because of grade inflation.
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When I was in college, it was hard to get below a B+.
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You pretty much had to punch the professor in the face to get below a B+.
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At Harvard, Harvey Mansfield, who's probably the last conservative faculty member there,
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He gives them the grade they deserve and then the much higher grade for their transcript
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So you come out of that world where you're told you're super duper special and everything
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You come into the professional world and then most people start out as grunts.
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I mean, I've worked grunt jobs, plenty of them.
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And if you've been told your whole life that you're a winner and you're a winner and everything
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you do is great and you're better than this and you get into a job where you just have
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to be a grunt, you'll be dissatisfied with that.
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You want to leave it within the next two to five years.
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The percentage of millennials who see starting a family as very important is now down to 39%.
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That's down way from the generation before us and the generation before that.
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The bright side is actually, it's a little bit higher for members of Gen Z.
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So it's not just that things are getting progressively worse all the time.
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It's actually that millennials are the most stuck in childhood.
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In terms of the behaviors that describe the difference between adulthood and childhood,
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the generation that came right before us, Gen X, exhibits them at a higher rate than millennials.
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And the generation that's coming right after us is exhibiting it at a higher rate than millennials.
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There's just something about our generation, which especially won't grow up.
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I think part of this is we grew up in the Obama era, not to blame Barack Obama for everything,
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but talk about a mealy-mouthed, wishy-washy administration.
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When Obama ran for re-election, you had the life of Julia.
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From cradle to grave, Big Daddy Obama would give you everything you wanted.
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I mean, when Barack Obama passed the Affordable Care Act,
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and Nancy Pelosi was trying to push Obamacare through Congress,
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she said it'll be so great because right now your health insurance is tied to your employment.
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So you've got to stay at your job to keep health insurance, which is very expensive.
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But now, once we divorce health insurance from your job, you can quit your job.
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Now, I've looked at a lot of bad art, and I've read a lot of bad poetry in my life.
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But we were told during those years, work is a bad thing.
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So I'm not surprised that Gen Z is starting to change its views on that.
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But do you know what the top concerns for millennials are on, according to this survey?
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If I were a millennial, and I had read all of this information, my top concerns would be,
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Do you know what the top concern for millennials is?
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And they are most worried about the sun monster.
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And how in 100 years, the global mean temperature is going to increase 0.2 degrees,
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according to some model somewhere, which will have some effect on the polar bears, but we don't know what.
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Do you know what their next biggest concern is?
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Their concern isn't their own incomes, which are low, and they should try to make them higher.
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They would be fine if everybody's income were lower, as long as they were less unequal.
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As long as the rich were poorer, that would be okay.
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Imagine the entitlement that you would have to feel to say,
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yes, my second most important concern is that that guy's money is in his pocket instead of my pocket.
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I mean, it is literally the feeling of entitlement to somebody else's money.
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It's like what Bill de Blasio said, the mayor of New York, in his presidential announcement video.
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First line, there's a lot of money in this country.
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And then the third biggest priority, according to millennials, terrorism, crime, personal safety.
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So the only actual threat to these people is the third biggest concern.
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After global warming and after the redistribution of wealth,
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because they think that rich people are too rich.
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Much more than whatever outside force they're whining about.
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This attitude is what is going to make you miserable.
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That hysterical, apocalyptic, ideological view of nature and politics.
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And it makes you feel good because you have actually accomplished something.
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Out here in Hollywood, everybody is an unemployed actor or writer or director.
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If you feel better about yourself, you can provide more for your family.
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At a certain point, you have got to stop blaming daddy for all of your problems.
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We talk about millennials like they're still kids.
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And they're mostly unmarried and not having kids.
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I mean, the lie that we have been told is you can be a kid forever.
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Oh, how free and happy everything was when we were children.
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I know you think in your teens or early 20s, you think, gosh, all I want to do is go out
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to bars and hang out and be single and hook up and do whatever.
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They're really fun when you're a teenager in your 20s.
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If you don't mature, if you stagnate, then you will decay and you will become miserable.
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And this is in part because millennials have been taught awful lessons that they have internalized.
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And one of those lessons came to us just the other day at the Tulane University commencement ceremony
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Ten bucks a month, $100 for an annual membership.
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You get to ask questions in the mailbag coming up on Thursday.
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When you're a little kid, you drink milkshakes.
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So, the millennial generation is particularly miserable because they won't grow up.
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At a certain point, it's your own failure that you're not engaging in those behaviors.
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But millennials are continually being taught bad lessons.
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The generation after us, Gen Z, continually being taught bad lessons.
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And in this case, from one of the most successful people in the world, Apple CEO, Tim Cook.
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He's got one opportunity to give advice to graduating seniors.
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In some important ways, my generation has failed you in this regard.
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We've been too focused on the fight and not focused enough on progress.
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And you don't need to look far to find an example of that failure.
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When we talk about climate change or any issue with human costs, and there are many,
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I challenge you to look for those who have the most to lose and find the real, true empathy
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Today, certain algorithms pull toward you the things you already know, believe, or like,
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In that speech, he gives completely contradictory advice.
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So the first thing he says, this is the worst thing he said, and he made it at the center of his speech.
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He said, in many ways, my generation has failed you.
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We focused too much on the fight and not enough on progress.
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And what he means is, we focus too much on open debate.
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We focus too much on debating our ideas in the public forum and letting everybody have their say
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We focus too much on that and not enough on progress, like on the issue of climate change.
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What Tim Cook is talking about is what he thinks is progress.
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And he said, we focus too much on letting everybody have their own say in their own self-government and not enough on forcing people to do exactly what I want them to do.
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We focus too much on letting people debate the science of global warming and pointing out that all of the models that the global warming alarmists have made haven't come true and how the world actually won't end in 12 years.
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We focus too much on that and not enough on completely upending the economy because Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told us to.
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What he's saying is undercutting our system of government.
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And then, not five minutes later, he says, algorithms are feeding you your own opinions and you shouldn't just get your own opinions.
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Yes, that part is true, but then why did you just tell us to stop engaging with other people's opinions and just through our own brute force and tyranny of will, force progressive opinions on the whole country?
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But that is the message that the culture is telling us.
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That's the message that millennials have internalized.
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We have become much less capable of civil discourse.
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We've become much less capable of self-government.
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There's a new report out from the Knight Foundation.
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It shows that 41% of college students, the people that Tim Cook is talking to, believe that hate speech should not be protected by the First Amendment.
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One, because Apple censors conservatives, but also because he's saying we have to stop focusing on the fight.
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This is what the left has done broadly is they conflate speech with violence.
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And so, listen, we use the fight in a metaphorical way.
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The left is now actually conflating speech with violence, saying we focus too much on open debate.
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And if you're just going to focus on progress, then you have to stifle debate, which is what big tech is doing.
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They want to shut up people who have different views from them.
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Now, fortunately, 58% of college students believe that hate speech should be protected by the First Amendment.
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So you have 41% say it shouldn't, 58% say it should, 1%, apparently too stupid to understand the question, probably shouldn't be in college in the first place.
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But only 58% believe that hate speech should be protected by the First Amendment.
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The only speech that is addressed by the First Amendment is hate speech, by the way.
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The left wing says if you're to the right of Hillary Clinton, you're engaging in hate speech.
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So the only reason we have to protect speech is because some people want to shut it down.
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If speech is inoffensive to everybody, you don't need to protect it because no one can.
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And 41% of American college students want to gut the First Amendment.
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And this is interesting because it breaks down a little bit by demographic groups.
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The majority of college women don't think hate speech should be protected.
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The majority of black students don't believe that hate speech should be protected.
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The majority of students believe that shouting down speakers is always or sometimes acceptable.
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A lot of the administrators of these schools have defended that practice.
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But now the majority of students at university campuses, which depend on the free exchange of ideas,
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think it is acceptable always or sometimes to silence through the heckler's veto ideas that they disagree with
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or that they think that they disagree with, but they probably don't understand them because they haven't heard them
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At least, at least, the silver lining is that 83% of these students agree that violence is unacceptable
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as a means to ending an event that you don't like.
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The bad news is 17% of college students think that physical violence is an acceptable way
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Again, this varies along racial lines for some reason.
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60% of black students believe inclusivity is more important than free speech.
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It's ironic that 60% of black students believe that inclusivity is more important than free speech
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because now at half of the colleges in America, they have racially segregated dorms.
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So you have the majority of black college students saying,
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we need inclusivity, we're so focused on inclusivity that we should trounce the First Amendment.
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Also, we should racially segregate our dorms, which is the exact opposite of inclusivity.
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49% of Hispanic students believe inclusivity is more important than free speech.
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42% of white students believe that inclusivity is more important than free speech.
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Now, I don't know why this varies along racial lines.
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I suspect it is the same problem that we've been talking about.
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You've got cynical people, cynical educators and cynical politicians targeting specifically black students
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and insisting to them that they are victims, that life isn't fair,
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that it's rigged against them, that they can't succeed.
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And if you've been told that from the time you were in the cradle
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if you've been told that you shouldn't listen to other ideas,
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if you've been told by the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook,
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It makes perfect sense to me that you especially would believe that inclusion
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or progress or whatever euphemism you want to throw in is more important than free speech.
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What this is leading toward, all of it, is violence.
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You know, I got attacked by that weirdo Antifa guy at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.
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There was an event with a conservative, Charles Murray, at Middlebury College,
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and a female professor there got whiplash because of it.
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When Ben went to speak at Berkeley, it cost the city $600,000
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to secure Berkeley against a 5'9 Orthodox Jew who's relatively mild-mannered
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Now, from the U.S. to the U.K., the violence has turned on politicians.
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So, in the United Kingdom, the conservative politician Nigel Farage,
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who is a Brexiteer, he wants to affect the Brexit that the people voted for,
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And in Britain, leftists are throwing milkshakes at politicians they don't like.
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And so, Nigel Farage just got hit with one yesterday, and he keeps on walking by.
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Tommy Robinson, who is an independent journalist, he's a political activist,
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and he talks about questions of Islam, same thing, gets attacked with a milkshake.
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How do you think the mainstream media are reacting to political violence in the U.K.?
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Protesters in Britain have weaponized the milkshake.
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In the latest in a series of attacks on right-wing politicians,
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage was doused with a milkshake yesterday.
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That was actually salted caramel, if anyone's wondering.
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These attacks have come to be known as milkshaking.
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I'm sure people love the feeling, and the pictures fly around the world.
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Maybe the people you don't want to be in office won't be in office.
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Police are actually asking places to not sell milkshakes.
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Around Edinburgh, supposedly, they actually asked places around a political appearance not to sell milkshakes.
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They tweeted out that they were going to give out free milkshakes so that people could throw them at politicians.
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And if you don't like a certain politician, it's funny to throw something on him.
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The weird chemicals that they threw on you at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, they weren't toxic.
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I mean, I don't like buying new suits, but that's fine.
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We can take a milkshake or we can take a squirt of some weird perfumes.
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But the principle that is being established here by the left and being laughed at by the mainstream media and by corporate America is that it's okay to throw things at politicians.
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Not a week after these protests started, someone decided to up the ante and throw a brick at Tommy Robinson.
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That's a little tougher than a milkshake, isn't it?
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I mean, this is what we said when it happened at University of Missouri.
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You say, okay, I mean, I'm glad it was a non-toxic chemical that they squirted on me.
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Just as easily could have been a toxic chemical.
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Just as easily could have been something else out of a different kind of gun.
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There is a fundamental breakdown of polite society, of civil society.
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I mean, this estimate that came out of the schools on the segregated dorms.
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At least 75 American colleges have black-only graduation ceremonies and 43% of colleges surveyed have blacks-only residential halls.
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And in this era, 4 in 10 Americans embraced socialism.
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43% of Americans, not just millennials, Americans overall, as millennials become a bigger proportion of the voting population.
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You know, as Ernest Hemingway said, bankruptcy happens gradually, then suddenly.
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You're seeing it with the upending of our political system, the embrace of socialism.
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President Trump, very clearly trying to fight back.
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America was founded on liberty and independence and not government coercion, domination, and control.
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Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.
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So, President Trump said this during his last State of the Union, and this was a great line.
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America will never cease, will never be a socialist country.
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Because if America became a socialist country, it would cease to be America.
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America would be unrecognizable as a socialist country.
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America is the opposite of a socialist country.
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And yet people want to totally invert what America is and make it into the opposite of America.
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I mean, it is measurably, clinically making people miserable.
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From the gender issue, to the education issue, to the civil society, to the institutions, to the way that we interact with each other, to the way we communicate, to the way that we conduct our politics.
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This is, the left, they have such a knack for this.
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Government program that creates a lot of problems.
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So, all of this welfare spending, it's aimed specifically at, at poor black Americans, but other people as well.
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In the Moynihan Report, you look at it 20 years later, it turns out those government programs hurt the very people they were intended to help.
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Government creates the problem, and then the left tells us we need more government to fix the problem.
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Radicalism creates the misery, then the left tells us we need more radicalism to fix the misery.
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We can measure this from the 1970s to the present.
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Since the rise of second wave feminism to the present, women have become less happy, both in relative terms to men and in absolute terms.
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The reason it's making women miserable is because we don't have enough feminism.
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We have a wage gap, which is completely mythical.
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We need more feminism to fix the problem caused by feminism.
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The sexual revolution, making people miserable, making people lonely.
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We don't need abortion to be safe, legal, and rare.
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There was a piece that just came out in the New York Times.
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Turns out, guess who the happiest of all wives are in America?
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The left would tell you it's single Democrat women living in the city,
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Or like working in some coffee shop or something.
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It turns out that the happiest of all wives in America are religious conservatives,
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followed by their religious progressive counterparts.
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Fully 73% of wives who hold conservative gender values
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and attend religious services regularly with their husbands
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The most conservative, the most traditional people are the happiest.
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It showed that President Trump has made America less racist.
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Make America Great Again has made America less racist.
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racist incidents up since Donald Trump's election.
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Donald Trump's rise has coincided with an explosion in hate groups.
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Except now, there's a new survey out from the University of Pennsylvania.
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have actually become less inclined to express racist opinions since Donald Trump was elected.
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declined by a statistically insignificant degree between 2012 and 2016.
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So during the Obama years, racism and anti-black prejudice did not really decline,
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But then after 2016, it took a sharp dive that was statistically significant.
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the fall was as evident among Republican voters as it was among Democrats.
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Make America Great Again, stark decline in racial bigotry.
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People who have traditional marriages, very happy.
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This tells us something about radicalism and tradition.
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When I talk about conservatism, I'm talking about tradition.
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Traditional American views on hard work and achieving something.
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The left views tradition as an irrational madness to be replaced.
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The right recognizes the brilliance of tradition.
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When I say tradition, I'm talking about just things that have stuck around a long time.
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Because what the right realizes is that if lots and lots of people have done a certain thing
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for a very, very long time, all over the world, all over our civilization,
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Maybe they were onto something that the social engineers
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who concocted a new institution or a new definition of marriage
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or a new definition of the economy or a new definition of gender roles,
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a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle during the sex revolution.
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then how come virtually everyone everywhere has gotten married forever?
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But one generation has been really, really affected by this radicalism.
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If they want to have a good life, they're going to have to wake up to it fast
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we're not living in Neverland as much as we might think we are.
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The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Rebecca Dobkowitz
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The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production.
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It's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
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You know, if it weren't for the fact that the Democrats own the news and entertainment media,
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it would be obvious by now that they are living in a blithering fantasy world.
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Donald Trump is a racist, except who's he racist to?
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They have invented a Donald Trump of the imagination,