The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 449 - Our Civil War of Religion

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00:00:37.680 It was the best of times.

00:00:39.460 It was the worst of times.

00:00:41.420 It was the age of make America great again.

00:00:44.320 It was the age of America was never really great.

00:00:46.960 It was the election season of hope.

00:00:48.940 It was the election season of despair.

00:00:52.260 Are we heading toward a civil war?

00:00:53.740 The Atlantic Monthly and many other outlets and people think America is headed for civil war.

00:00:59.520 The Atlantic is dedicating its entire December issue to how that civil war might be avoided.

00:01:03.940 We will examine how to bring our country back from the brink.

00:01:08.060 Then, a Canadian broadcaster loses his job for calling on his countrymen to honor their veterans.

00:01:14.780 Honoring veterans is now apparently racist.

00:01:17.500 Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono admits that global warming is a religion.

00:01:21.060 And Americans warm up to the idea of men beating women at sports.

00:01:26.240 All that and much more.

00:01:27.760 I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:36.940 What schizophrenic times we live in.

00:01:40.140 We live in the age of Me Too hyper-feminism. 1.00

00:01:43.320 We live in the age of men beating women at sports and women can't do anything about it. 1.00

00:01:46.820 We live in Make America Great Again, the height of patriotism, most patriotic we've seen ourselves in a long time.

00:01:53.860 We live in an era where we can't even celebrate our nation's history, where we're ripping down statues of George Washington and the people who founded this country, where we hate ourselves as a country, where Canadian broadcasters are getting fired for honoring veterans.

00:02:08.300 I know Canada's not America, but it is America's hat and Washington's greatest mistake.

00:02:12.760 So, you know, I think it's kind of lumped in, very similar culture here.

00:02:15.840 We'll get to all of that because a lot of people have called our moment a cold civil war.

00:02:23.260 I have refrained from using that kind of language.

00:02:26.420 And friends of mine have used it.

00:02:27.580 Dennis Prager uses it.

00:02:28.820 A lot of other guys were very sharp guys.

00:02:30.960 I've refrained.

00:02:31.800 I felt it was a little hyperbolic.

00:02:33.580 But now it is getting real.

00:02:35.020 Why is it getting real?

00:02:35.960 How has our division deepened so much that I'm pretty much willing to use the term?

00:02:41.640 Because Ann Coulter is calling for Donald Trump to get out of the White House.

00:02:47.600 Ann Coulter, whom I love, tweeted out,

00:02:52.040 Okay, that does it.

00:02:53.100 I give up.

00:02:54.280 They can stay, referring to DACA illegal aliens. 0.84

00:02:57.760 You must go.

00:02:59.100 That was to President Trump.

00:03:00.420 That was in response to a Trump tweet where he said,

00:03:03.320 Many of the people in DACA, no longer very young, are far from angels.

00:03:08.120 Some are very tough-hardened criminals.

00:03:10.160 President Obama said he had no legal right to sign the order, but would anyway.

00:03:14.020 If Supreme Court remedies with an overturn of DACA, a deal will be made with Dems for them to stay.

00:03:20.400 So he's saying, look, this is a mess.

00:03:22.060 I inherited this mess on DACA.

00:03:23.640 The whole concept of the Dreamers is obviously political propaganda.

00:03:29.260 But if the Supreme Court overturns DACA, which it may well do right now,

00:03:33.320 then we'll get a deal and we'll let the Dreamers stay. 1.00

00:03:37.060 And Ann Coulter says, it's over.

00:03:38.600 I feel like a true child of divorce if Ann Coulter and Donald Trump are fighting.

00:03:42.660 I hate it.

00:03:43.080 I don't want them to fight.

00:03:44.020 But the divisions are real.

00:03:45.920 And it's not just Ann Coulter and Donald Trump.

00:03:48.900 It's not even just on the issue of immigration.

00:03:52.380 Donald Trump Jr. was heckled the other night at UCLA at his own event,

00:03:57.140 not by the left, but by very, very far-right activists.

00:04:01.520 San Francisco is now officially turning one of America's great cities into a giant, very expensive outhouse.

00:04:09.540 Even as we're like the richest country ever on the face of the earth,

00:04:13.420 even as San Francisco is one of the richest cities ever to exist and has,

00:04:17.300 as far as I can tell, the highest real estate prices in the whole country,

00:04:20.820 you've also got that once great city, once golden city, turned into an outhouse.

00:04:25.380 Americans are now warming up, according to polling, to men beating women at sports,

00:04:30.760 to men saying that they can be women, to men disadvantaging women.

00:04:35.180 And this Canadian broadcaster is now fired for honoring veterans.

00:04:38.940 Obviously, that's across the border in Canada.

00:04:40.620 We're seeing many similar things in the United States.

00:04:42.940 Things have gotten completely insane.

00:04:47.300 We are divided over ideology.

00:04:50.720 We're divided over race.

00:04:51.860 We're divided over religion.

00:04:53.260 We're divided over even basic scientific facts.

00:04:55.960 And people are throwing out a whole lot of ideas as to how we can bridge that divide.

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00:06:56.720 So America is really divided in these extremely schizophrenic times where, on the one hand,

00:07:02.720 everything looks like it's going so great and yet people are losing their minds.

00:07:05.900 So how are we going to bridge the divide in America? 1.00

00:07:09.260 A lot of very stupid answers and nobody's focusing on the real answer. 1.00

00:07:12.820 Some people are calling for moderation from conservatives. 1.00

00:07:17.060 They're always calling for moderation from conservatives.

00:07:19.240 Even conservatives are calling for moderation from conservatives.

00:07:22.820 If only those conservatives would just lay down and let the left run roughshod over the

00:07:27.380 entire culture, then we could all get along.

00:07:29.400 Yeah, I don't think so.

00:07:30.560 Some people are calling from moderation for leftists.

00:07:33.280 Good luck.

00:07:34.260 Good luck, buddy.

00:07:35.760 We'll see how that's going.

00:07:37.220 Some people are calling for a return to the founding of the country.

00:07:40.520 If we just would regain that spirit of 1776,

00:07:43.280 if we would just live like we lived 250 years ago, then we could reunite the country.

00:07:49.200 Some people on very specific policy are calling for an end to all immigration

00:07:53.960 because they see immigration as this hot button issue.

00:07:57.240 It was the central issue of the Donald Trump campaign.

00:07:59.980 It's a central issue of the fights that we're having right now over the southern border,

00:08:03.480 over DACA, at the Supreme Court, even on the right.

00:08:06.940 Some are calling for greater government involvement in social questions.

00:08:12.920 It's those social questions.

00:08:14.200 It's the role of the state because you can say, okay, you've got this pie in the sky philosophy.

00:08:18.540 What are you actually going to do?

00:08:19.480 Are you going to get the government more involved in social policy?

00:08:22.440 Or are you going to try to get the government to back away and not have anything to say about

00:08:26.700 social policy?

00:08:27.800 That's the kind of debate you saw with So Rab Amari and David French, David French-ism,

00:08:32.820 as it's called.

00:08:33.840 Do you want the government to start making some value claims saying this thing is better than

00:08:39.840 this thing and government policies are going to be geared toward virtue?

00:08:43.460 Or are we going to say that the government needs to totally back out of these issues?

00:08:49.200 You can't legislate morality.

00:08:51.140 You've just got to let people live as they're going to live, come what may.

00:08:54.980 That's the best way to preserve a good society.

00:08:58.040 Let's go through each one of these because I think they're all pretty flawed.

00:09:01.280 Moderation from conservatives is absurd.

00:09:06.980 We've moderated.

00:09:08.200 We've moderated so much.

00:09:10.600 We nominated John McCain.

00:09:12.400 We nominated Mitt Romney.

00:09:14.340 You can't moderate any more than that.

00:09:17.060 I mean, listen to just the issue of the dreamers, which got Ann Coulter all upset at President

00:09:22.980 Trump.

00:09:23.560 When President Trump was running for office and early in his administration, he said, we need

00:09:28.840 to end this dreamer thing.

00:09:30.180 The language is absolutely absurd propaganda.

00:09:33.780 It's exploitative.

00:09:35.500 It's, it's a euphemism that's being used to create open borders here.

00:09:40.480 And we want dreamers in America.

00:09:42.720 We want Americans to dream again themselves.

00:09:46.480 Here he is.

00:09:47.260 I want dreamers to come from the United States.

00:09:49.800 I want the people in the United States that have children.

00:09:52.740 I want them to have dreams also.

00:09:54.840 We're always talking about dreamers for other people.

00:09:56.880 I want the children that are growing up in the United States to be dreamers also.

00:10:01.860 Okay.

00:10:02.340 He wants the, yeah, that's perfectly fine.

00:10:04.480 Who could object to that?

00:10:05.600 The whole left objected.

00:10:06.920 They said it was racist to say that we want Americans to thrive, that we want Americans

00:10:11.080 to do well and to be able to dream.

00:10:13.060 That was considered racist.

00:10:15.160 How is it racist?

00:10:16.280 Because they call everything racist.

00:10:18.580 And when everything's racist, nothing is racist, right?

00:10:21.160 Now, President Trump moderates that and says, look, just overturn DACA and we'll, we'll

00:10:27.260 even let them stay.

00:10:28.260 I'm going to put my cards on the table.

00:10:29.560 We'll let the illegal aliens, some of whom are pushing 40 now, we'll let them stay. 1.00

00:10:34.000 Even that is too much for the left.

00:10:37.080 Even that is too, so there's no conservatives moderating.

00:10:39.360 That ain't going to happen.

00:10:40.200 We've, we've moderated enough pretty much unsuccessfully, at least in recent years.

00:10:46.260 And, and how else would you like us to moderate?

00:10:48.320 If we're not going to moderate on policy, then are you saying we need to moderate on our

00:10:53.020 language, on our civility?

00:10:54.700 We already did that.

00:10:55.600 We've, we've done that very well.

00:10:57.160 And I think that's a good thing, but you can't, you're not going to do that anymore.

00:11:00.460 We've been respectful.

00:11:02.060 We've gone after right-wingers who we find distasteful.

00:11:05.120 The left never does that.

00:11:06.240 You never hear about never Hillary on the left.

00:11:08.620 There's no significant movement of never Hillary.

00:11:11.300 No, they come together.

00:11:12.180 They never police their own, their own ideologues.

00:11:17.840 So that, that answer ain't going to work.

00:11:19.600 I mean, that'll just push the acceleration button on the, on the vehicle and we're going

00:11:23.960 to careen off into a leftist nightmare.

00:11:26.840 How about moderation from the left?

00:11:28.100 Is that going to work?

00:11:29.040 Also completely absurd.

00:11:30.700 I'll give you an example up in San Francisco.

00:11:32.920 The new DA of San Francisco, Chesa Boudin.

00:11:37.280 I'm probably butchering that name, but so what?

00:11:39.660 But Chesa Boudin is the new DA of San Francisco and says that he will not prosecute cases

00:11:49.940 involving, quote, quality of life crimes.

00:11:52.560 Those are his direct words.

00:11:54.080 Quality of life crimes, meaning public urination, meaning shooting up drugs on the street.

00:11:59.780 He says it.

00:12:00.400 He actually goes on verbatim. 0.87

00:12:01.540 Crimes such as public camping, meaning being a bum, offering or soliciting sex, prostitution,

00:12:09.120 public urination, blocking a sidewalk, et cetera, should not and will not be prosecuted.

00:12:14.400 Now, of course it should be prosecuted because there is self-government in San Francisco,

00:12:18.260 or at least there used to be, and there are laws against those things.

00:12:20.380 And it's this guy's job to enforce the laws, but he's not going to do it because he's made

00:12:23.620 himself dictator of San Francisco.

00:12:25.020 So now he says that he's not going to enforce these laws.

00:12:31.640 One of what was the nicest cities in America has become a public toilet.

00:12:37.380 Same thing in Los Angeles.

00:12:38.940 Los Angeles, just in Hollywood over here, a woman was a few months ago pulled out of her 1.00

00:12:44.840 car by a homeless person and he poured a bucket full of human feces on her head. 0.97

00:12:50.100 But she's now going through psychological counseling because of how traumatizing this

00:12:53.960 was.

00:12:54.440 Fortunately, she didn't catch any, any physical diseases from it.

00:12:59.000 That's what's happening in the cities right now.

00:13:01.000 That's what's, that's what the left is campaigning on.

00:13:05.060 It's not even like it's, that's just happening because of the, the maladministration and the,

00:13:10.920 the bad unintended effects of their policies.

00:13:13.040 They're actually campaigning on it.

00:13:14.960 The, the guy, the DA of San Francisco is campaigning on, yes, we're going to have more public urination. 0.77

00:13:19.100 Yes, we're going to have more homeless people living in squalor on the street.

00:13:22.980 And you know what else?

00:13:23.820 We're going to have more drugs and prostitution too. 1.00

00:13:26.860 That left is not going to moderate guys.

00:13:29.100 Ain't gonna happen.

00:13:30.460 How about what happened up in America's hat in Canada?

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00:15:17.140 So you've got the left campaigning on turning our beautiful cities into public toilets.

00:15:24.080 Then up in Canada, and this is the most recent example, but you've seen plenty of this PC 0.98

00:15:28.760 censorship go on in the United States.

00:15:30.340 There's an NHL broadcaster, Don Cherry, who for Armistice Day said that, you know, this

00:15:37.580 is a day that Canada is honoring her veterans, that people should wear the little poppies. 0.56

00:15:43.420 Buy a poppy, wear a little poppy on your lapel to remember Armistice Day or to remember the

00:15:48.260 sacrifices made by Canadian veterans during that first world war. 0.81

00:15:51.860 And he said, look, it's very important to do this.

00:15:54.280 And even as there's mass migration all over the West, including in Canada, it's important 0.65

00:15:58.660 for new migrants to honor the customs and traditions of Canada, which is now their adopted 0.99

00:16:04.240 home country.

00:16:05.660 Here is what Don Cherry had to say.

00:16:07.540 You know, I was talking to a veteran.

00:16:09.200 I said, I'm not going to run the poppy thing anymore because what's the sense?

00:16:12.380 I live in Mississauga.

00:16:13.460 Nobody wears, very few people wear a poppy.

00:16:17.740 Downtown Toronto, forget it, downtown Toronto.

00:16:19.940 Nobody wears a poppy.

00:16:20.960 And I'm not going to, he says, wait a minute, how about running it for the people that buy

00:16:25.660 them?

00:16:26.180 Now, you go to the small cities and, you know, you know, those, the rows on rows, you people

00:16:31.460 love you, they come here, whatever it is, you love our way of life.

00:16:35.620 You love our milk and honey.

00:16:37.080 At least you can pay a couple of bucks for poppies or something like that.

00:16:41.300 These guys pay for your way of life that you enjoy in Canada.

00:16:45.520 These guys paid the biggest price.

00:16:48.560 Anyhow, I'm going to run it again for you.

00:16:50.040 Great people and good Canadians that bought a poppy.

00:16:53.780 I'm still going to run it.

00:16:55.540 Anyhow, I'm looking for it.

00:16:57.600 He got fired for those remarks.

00:16:59.560 Does anybody actually object to those remarks?

00:17:03.240 Honor your veterans.

00:17:04.520 And especially if you're a recent immigrant, you should be especially grateful to this country

00:17:08.420 that's taken you in and done so much for you.

00:17:10.260 If you're, say, a refugee or just an economic migrant, you should be very, very, very grateful

00:17:16.700 to the country that took you in and you should take part in their customs and traditions and

00:17:21.120 you should honor their veterans who helped build that country.

00:17:23.620 Totally unobjectionable stuff.

00:17:26.000 He gets fired from it.

00:17:26.920 Sportsnet issues this apology, quote, Don's discriminatory comments are offensive and

00:17:31.000 they do not represent our values and what we stand for as a network.

00:17:35.600 That was the president of Sportsnet.

00:17:37.200 We have spoken with Don about the severity of this issue and we sincerely apologize for

00:17:41.960 these divisive remarks.

00:17:43.000 He didn't say anything divisive.

00:17:43.920 What he said was uniting, uniting Canadians, including immigrants, including recent Canadians,

00:17:50.960 uniting all of them and saying, get behind these customs and traditions and be grateful

00:17:55.680 to your, to your people who went before you.

00:17:59.220 But according to the left, division is unity and unity is division.

00:18:04.120 That left is not going to moderate.

00:18:05.840 I mean, a left that in Canada is firing people for honoring their veterans in America is protesting

00:18:11.360 the American flag on the sports network.

00:18:13.680 Same thing.

00:18:14.800 That left is not going to moderate.

00:18:16.420 We can't, it's wishful thinking.

00:18:17.880 It's false optimism to, to say that it will.

00:18:20.940 By the way, in general, moderation doesn't usually serve anybody, right?

00:18:26.940 You know, I always loved, we were talking about Dennis Prager earlier and we'll talk about

00:18:30.020 Dennis Prager's movie a little bit later because I was at the Hollywood premiere last night.

00:18:34.040 Prager always says to his guests when he's talking to people, he'll say, I don't really

00:18:38.420 care if you and I agree.

00:18:40.140 Probably we don't agree.

00:18:41.640 But we don't need to pretend that we agree in our conversation.

00:18:44.520 We just need clarity.

00:18:45.960 We just need to be clear about where we disagree so that we can understand the issue.

00:18:52.420 What moderate middle ground can there be between the left and the right right now?

00:18:57.820 At this moment, the left wants open borders, at least the political left.

00:19:02.940 The majority of Americans, by the way, want radically lower rates of legal immigration.

00:19:07.260 That's according to a Harvard Harris poll that came out a year ago.

00:19:09.660 But that's, that's where you get kind of what you would call populist movements from.

00:19:14.040 The political left, however, wants open borders.

00:19:16.080 They've advocated for it very openly at Democratic presidential debates and on the Hill.

00:19:20.420 So you've got the left wanting open borders, the right wanting a reduction in immigration.

00:19:24.260 So what's the compromise?

00:19:26.280 We take in nearly two and a half million people a year now.

00:19:31.380 We're going to take in a million and a half.

00:19:33.100 Is that going to appease anybody?

00:19:35.120 Is that going to solve the problem?

00:19:36.360 I don't think so.

00:19:37.040 The left wants to erase your constitutional rights.

00:19:40.220 The right wants to keep your constitutional rights.

00:19:42.900 So what's the middle ground?

00:19:45.100 You're only going to sort of take away your right to free speech.

00:19:47.640 You're only going to sort of take away your right to guns.

00:19:50.380 What?

00:19:50.500 That doesn't solve anything.

00:19:51.600 That's no, that moderation there doesn't, doesn't address any issue and it doesn't please

00:19:56.420 anybody.

00:19:58.260 So I think we got to throw moderation out the window.

00:20:00.520 Then one way that people want to avoid the civil war, as the Atlantic puts it, one way

00:20:05.520 that people want to unite the country is they want to return to the founding, the founding

00:20:10.040 era.

00:20:10.320 If we could just go back to 1776, everything would be great. 1.00

00:20:13.020 That was kind of the idea behind the Tea Party and it was great.

00:20:15.920 You know, it was, I loved the Tea Party.

00:20:17.340 I thought it was a terrific movement.

00:20:19.780 Tea Party's gone.

00:20:21.520 Why is the Tea Party gone?

00:20:22.840 Because it doesn't really work.

00:20:25.460 It's kind of a charming and beautiful idea and it works in short spurts.

00:20:29.860 The Tea Party worked really well from 2010 to like 2014, but it's not sustainable in

00:20:34.320 the long term.

00:20:35.900 Why not?

00:20:36.600 Because it misunderstands what tradition is.

00:20:40.080 Tradition and conservatism, right?

00:20:42.040 Conservatism, we're trying to conserve something, is not about picking some random date in history

00:20:47.080 and saying, that's the date that we're all going to live in.

00:20:50.380 1776, that's when history is going to stop.

00:20:52.780 That's when fashions are going to stop and we're all just going to wear those triangle 0.99

00:20:56.680 hats and buckle shoes and shoot muskets and that's it.

00:20:59.860 No true conservative, nobody who has any conception of the founding itself or the founders themselves

00:21:08.600 wouldn't have wanted to do that.

00:21:10.180 I mean, that's kind of the argument for getting rid of the Second Amendment that the left makes

00:21:13.500 is they say, those founders couldn't imagine any world outside of 1776.

00:21:18.800 They couldn't imagine any guns other than muskets.

00:21:21.100 They were pretty smart guys.

00:21:22.500 They were smarter than you and me.

00:21:23.600 They understood that history moves on.

00:21:26.260 Technology advances.

00:21:28.760 The way that we conserve things, the way that we have a tradition, is we follow in this sort

00:21:34.920 of unbroken line throughout the ages and we preserve and cherish those institutions which endure.

00:21:39.820 The tradition isn't some old thing that happened 200 years ago.

00:21:42.680 The tradition is the newest thing on earth because it's endured.

00:21:45.480 It's that lively.

00:21:46.940 It's that fresh.

00:21:48.140 It's that renewing.

00:21:50.480 It's that innovating.

00:21:53.220 It sort of innovates in its own durability.

00:21:56.000 It's kind of the same thing with libertarianism and communism.

00:22:00.360 You know, there are people who love libertarianism.

00:22:02.920 They say, look, if we could all just agree to live in this anarcho-capitalist environment

00:22:07.780 without any government, then we'd all be happy.

00:22:09.880 You say, okay, maybe that's true, but that's never going to happen in reality.

00:22:13.860 That never has happened in reality.

00:22:15.500 That's an ideological utopian pipe dream.

00:22:18.860 It's kind of nice to have those fantasies, but it is a fantasy.

00:22:22.180 Same thing with communism.

00:22:23.220 The left will always tell you true communism has never been practiced.

00:22:28.380 Capital T, capital C with a trademark over the M.

00:22:31.460 Okay, maybe it hasn't.

00:22:32.860 Maybe there's a reason for that, though, because it's not practicable.

00:22:35.760 It has no relation to reality.

00:22:39.200 What's another solution?

00:22:40.380 One solution that's being advanced by the right and people in the center is to end immigration.

00:22:45.420 Just stop immigration right now. 1.00

00:22:47.140 That's a real hardcore policy position, right?

00:22:49.020 Stop immigration. 1.00

00:22:50.160 Then we'll all learn to assimilate and we'll get together and it'll be much,

00:22:53.220 much better.

00:22:54.520 They think this would unite the country.

00:22:57.960 It could help to reduce immigration, right? 1.00

00:23:00.740 A great reduction in immigration would be popular and it would help to assimilate people 1.00

00:23:05.800 who are already here.

00:23:07.260 But even that solution could not work.

00:23:11.740 Even that solution is a pipe dream.

00:23:13.400 We'll get to why in a second.

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00:25:28.020 They always do.

00:25:28.680 So this idea of, look, stop immigration and we'll just hunker down and that will unite

00:25:39.500 the country and avoid the civil war.

00:25:40.840 First of all, the left is pushing mass immigration and has been for decades and decades.

00:25:45.040 That's the problem that a lot of people, especially on the right, don't understand.

00:25:49.740 But there's another structural problem, which is that we actually can't turn off immigration 0.99

00:25:53.820 right now.

00:25:54.240 We can't do it because our society is not having any kids or they're not having very

00:25:59.020 many kids at least.

00:26:00.100 We are, our birth rates are way below replacement levels.

00:26:03.860 We're at about 1.7.

00:26:05.000 You need to get to about 2.1 or 2.2 for the population to sustain itself.

00:26:09.620 It's not.

00:26:11.000 Now there's a kind of irony here, which is that we kill a million babies a year through abortion.

00:26:16.660 If we just got rid of abortion and had those million babies a year, you would have no problem. 0.98

00:26:20.300 You would have no population shortfall and you would have no need for this kind of immigration 1.00

00:26:28.400 on the level that we're seeing right now.

00:26:31.560 That is an us problem.

00:26:33.300 That is a social and cultural problem.

00:26:35.340 That's not a problem of just lots of people trying to come to America.

00:26:39.400 At the extremes of the immigration debate and the immigration issue seems to crop up a lot

00:26:44.000 in all of this civil war talk.

00:26:46.180 At the extremes of this debate, there becomes a debate over race.

00:26:51.540 At the, I would say extreme left, although it's really become the mainstream left, there

00:26:56.280 seems to be an antipathy for white people, meaning on the New York Times, you'll see these

00:27:00.920 stories about how whiteness is terrible or you'll see classes and workshops at colleges 0.96

00:27:05.700 about toxic whiteness and how terrible whiteness is.

00:27:09.280 And so you have this racial obsession from the left that you've had for at least 60 years 0.91

00:27:14.800 now.

00:27:15.100 I mean, that, that is what identity politics is and the left is what embraced it.

00:27:18.760 However, the fringe right, not the mainstream right, but the fringe right also appears to

00:27:23.240 have an antipathy to people of other races.

00:27:26.300 The very fringe right wants to become some sort of white identitarian movement.

00:27:30.620 And both of those things are completely absurd. 0.84

00:27:33.980 Now the left is absurd because the majority of America is white. 1.00

00:27:38.580 So if you're going to form a, a movement that basically is antipathetic to white people, 0.70

00:27:45.080 then you're going to have a problem winning any sort of hearts and minds if you're in 0.83

00:27:49.500 a country where most people are white.

00:27:51.060 The rights, the very fringe rights obsession with race is also absurd for a few reasons.

00:27:59.680 One, because there's not white ideological solidarity and there never has been.

00:28:05.540 White people are quite divided ideologically.

00:28:09.440 Okay.

00:28:10.040 There's a real irony here to this kind of white identitarian politics because it presumes that

00:28:15.020 there is some sort of pan-European solidarity.

00:28:19.040 One need only crack the spine of a history book of Europe to find out there is not, will not be,

00:28:26.400 and never has been pan-European solidarity.

00:28:29.080 All the various nations of Europe have spent most of history murdering each other and at 0.99

00:28:33.760 war with one another with brief moments of partial unity.

00:28:37.680 That doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

00:28:40.820 It also doesn't make a lot of sense with this white racial politics focus from the fringe

00:28:47.800 right because America has always been multiracial. 0.66

00:28:50.320 It began when English pilgrims who had actually moved to Holland came over to Massachusetts and

00:29:00.540 formed a very close alliance with one Indian in particular, Massasoit, through the intercession

00:29:07.720 of Squanto, this unbelievable Native American who coincidentally spoke English, and then forged 1.00

00:29:14.360 really productive alliances with various Native American tribes in the early and mid-17th century.

00:29:21.340 And then they imported black slaves from Africa. 0.56

00:29:24.520 And from the very earliest days of this country, you had a lot of different ethnicities, nationalities,

00:29:29.780 races here together, working together in working relationships.

00:29:34.900 So the idea of some kind of white as the driven snow racial politics in America just has never

00:29:41.860 existed and doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

00:29:44.580 The other aspect of this is it's blaming the wrong people.

00:29:49.580 It's blaming immigrants for mass immigration.

00:29:55.880 The immigrants are not the ones who pushed mass migration.

00:29:59.680 It's leftists in America, specifically white leftists, specifically a white leftist named

00:30:04.600 Ted Kennedy in 1965.

00:30:06.940 All right, that is, that is, that cannot be boiled down to race.

00:30:10.840 It's an ideological question.

00:30:12.460 So then we're left with a choice.

00:30:14.380 If we throw away even that argument, which is the most sort of tangible issues argument,

00:30:18.680 then we're left with a choice.

00:30:20.320 We can debate the nature of the government.

00:30:23.940 Should the government get more involved in social questions and moral questions and religious

00:30:29.220 questions even?

00:30:30.020 Or should it get less involved and just keep a totally neutral stance and simply let the

00:30:36.480 culture and people in their civic associations decide these questions for themselves?

00:30:41.300 The right is divided on this.

00:30:42.760 The left is not.

00:30:44.000 If we have a civil war in this country, it will not be a war like 1860.

00:30:48.140 It will not be a war over a particular political issue such as slavery, which it was back then.

00:30:53.560 If we have a war, a civil war, it will be a religious war. 0.71

00:30:58.700 People are pretending that we have religious neutrality in this country, a separation of church and state.

00:31:06.420 People who don't understand what that phrase meant when it was written.

00:31:09.740 Those people are kidding themselves.

00:31:12.440 We do not have a separation of church and state in this country.

00:31:17.220 We have a state-established religion here, and that state-established religion is leftism, and that is the problem.

00:31:26.860 It's not an effect of mass migration.

00:31:29.780 It's not an effect of some university policy even.

00:31:33.780 It's not an effect of some tax policy.

00:31:36.520 It's not an effect of any of those particular political issues.

00:31:40.540 It is the root cause of it.

00:31:42.860 The civil war will be a religious war, and leftism is a totalizing religion.

00:31:48.920 Don't take my word for it.

00:31:50.780 A Democratic sitting senator, Maisie Hirono, is making the point for me.

00:31:55.920 She's admitting it.

00:31:56.840 We'll get to that in a second.

00:31:57.960 We'll get to what that means, how we can fix it, and we will get to 2020 because there is major, major news afoot.

00:32:05.140 A presidential candidate has dropped out in 2020.

00:32:09.200 It's breaking news.

00:32:10.000 For many people, it's breaking news that this guy was running in the first place.

00:32:13.480 Plus, news on the whistleblower.

00:32:15.100 Plus, I'm going to talk about the No Safe Spaces premiere, the Adam Carole and Dennis Prager movie, which we went to last night.

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00:32:55.420 The root cause of this division is religion, is a religious division.

00:33:15.400 It's the hard religion of the left, and it's religious denial on the right.

00:33:20.100 The right which wants to pretend that we don't have any established religion.

00:33:25.140 Or the right that wants to pretend that secularism and atheism is somehow value neutral, which it's not.

00:33:31.720 Trust the left on this when they admit it.

00:33:34.760 Maisie Hirono was talking specifically about global warming.

00:33:37.620 And she said it's important for people to think about global warming not as a scientific fact, but as a religion.

00:33:45.660 For a lot of us, protesting, marching, that's not something that we normally do.

00:33:51.300 But these are times that call for us to do those things that we believe in and to march, and not just to march.

00:33:57.660 Because that's important, to show solidarity.

00:34:00.080 But then to do those things, such as voter registration, get people out to vote, so that we can have people here who truly are committed to human rights, environmental rights, climate change, believe in climate change, as though it's a religion, it's not a science.

00:34:16.500 And all of the things that remains to be done, and there is a lot.

00:34:20.580 That's it.

00:34:22.880 She's admitting it.

00:34:24.360 I've said this many times.

00:34:25.940 I've said it on TV.

00:34:27.000 I've said it in debates.

00:34:27.960 I've said it on this show.

00:34:29.280 I've written about it.

00:34:30.480 Global warming is a religion.

00:34:32.160 It's part of the left's religion.

00:34:33.740 And the left always tells me that's a lie, and then Maisie Hirono accidentally tells the truth. 0.90

00:34:37.540 It's obviously a religion.

00:34:40.320 Leftism broadly is obviously a religion.

00:34:42.460 It is a totalizing worldview that encompasses all the eternal questions.

00:34:47.620 It gives people meaning.

00:34:48.600 It gives people a sense of the beautiful.

00:34:51.320 It gives people a sense of purpose.

00:34:53.700 It gives people an original sin, the original sin of privilege, for instance.

00:34:58.340 It gives people redemption, redemption in wokeness and public apologies.

00:35:04.140 It is a religion, and it's, I don't even blame them for having this religion.

00:35:08.400 It's no coincidence that as religiosity in the United States, in traditional religion, Christianity, Judaism, as that has declined, adherence to leftism has increased.

00:35:18.220 It was ever thus.

00:35:19.240 It was always going to be that way.

00:35:22.340 I mean, you don't just see it in the global warming example, although the global warming example is so clear because they actually now have climate confessionals, and they sell indulgences in the form of carbon tax credits.

00:35:31.980 So there you can really see it.

00:35:33.400 But you see it, for instance, on gender ideology.

00:35:35.680 There was a poll that just came out from Rasmussen.

00:35:38.360 Rasmussen tends to lean right.

00:35:39.620 The poll shows that a slim majority of Americans oppose allowing male-to-female transgender athletes to compete in women's sporting events, meaning men who are pretending to be women. 0.95

00:35:52.440 Can they compete in women's sporting events and then almost inevitably beat them at them because men are physically stronger? 1.00

00:35:59.220 The good news is a majority of Americans still think that's wrong.

00:36:01.920 The bad news is it's only 51%.

00:36:03.820 29% of Americans think it's totally fine to let men compete against women and beat them, and 20% are undecided.

00:36:11.880 But this is moving in a pretty bad direction here.

00:36:14.140 And it's, by the way, entering into the school systems now.

00:36:18.460 So there was an organization that was, I think it's called LGBT Questions or something.

00:36:22.980 It's putting out a proposed curriculum to teach elementary school students, very, very young students, this gender ideology to indoctrinate them in a completely unscientific gender ideology that tells you that boys can be girls and girls can be boys.

00:36:37.700 Here's just a clip from it.

00:36:39.080 Hi, I'm Nadine, a sex educator.

00:36:41.060 And I'm Eva, a sex researcher.

00:36:42.460 I use the pronouns she and her because I'm a woman, and when I was your age, I used to be a girl.

00:36:48.160 Gender is how you feel on the inside about whether you're a boy or a girl, a man or a woman.

00:36:53.920 If you're non-binary, feel like neither or both.

00:36:57.180 People can also be fluid, feel more like female, more like male, based on a different day or time.

00:37:03.480 It's really individual.

00:37:04.700 Absolutely.

00:37:05.460 Everyone born with a vulva is a girl. 0.99

00:37:07.680 True or false?

00:37:09.280 Or identifies as a girl.

00:37:10.360 Well, not everybody is sure, and that makes sense.

00:37:15.500 But our genitals actually don't determine our gender. 0.99

00:37:18.880 So some people born with vulvas can be boys.

00:37:21.260 So what I love about this clip, I mean, it's a horrifying clip, but what I love about this clip is they say,

00:37:26.320 so, okay, boys can't become girls just by thinking it, right?

00:37:30.740 All people who are boys are boys, right? 0.93

00:37:32.860 And how many people think that?

00:37:34.720 And then all the kids raise their hands because the kids, they don't know, they don't know maybe, you know, advanced calculus,

00:37:40.100 but they know basic biological facts.

00:37:41.900 They say, yeah, that's right, boys are boys and girls are girls.

00:37:44.180 They say, actually, that isn't true.

00:37:46.780 So they're indoctrinating these kids younger and younger.

00:37:48.940 They have to do it because their religion of leftism is so disconnected from reality.

00:37:54.880 Then they go on.

00:37:55.660 They have a person who's a woman who now identifies as a man telling children that they can be whatever sex they want to be.

00:38:03.220 I have been through the spectrum, if we were to say a spectrum of, like, boys and girls, I have been everywhere in between.

00:38:12.620 I was born a girl, and then when I was two years old, I told my mom for the first time that I was a boy.

00:38:18.760 And I think that I framed it, I don't remember it, I've only been told stories,

00:38:22.660 but I framed it because my brother's middle name was the same as my dad's,

00:38:26.860 and so I insisted that my middle name was also the same as his.

00:38:30.320 But back in the day, there was no talk shows, and there was no internet, there was no resources,

00:38:35.960 so she just ignored it, and then nothing happened for many, many years.

00:38:41.600 And then it still took me a long time into my 20s before I decided to transition.

00:38:47.440 But in there, I was a, you know, a tomboy, if that's what we say, or, like, I was sporty, I had short hair.

00:38:54.380 Look at how exploitative this is, or look at all the advocacy here.

00:38:59.600 This isn't just presenting some facts to children.

00:39:02.000 It's not presenting any facts to children, it's presenting fantasy.

00:39:04.600 But the suggestion here is, look, I was a tomboy.

00:39:07.460 Maybe if you're a tomboy, you're actually the opposite sex. 0.99

00:39:10.880 Yeah, I had short hair.

00:39:11.880 Maybe if you've got short hair, maybe you're the opposite sex. 1.00

00:39:14.500 It's horrifying.

00:39:15.780 I mean, this is, it's horrifying to subject children to this kind of sexual confusion at such a young age,

00:39:21.600 to subject them to such a bizarre, radical, new ideology that has no basis in science,

00:39:26.780 and it's only been around for a few years.

00:39:29.440 But they're doing it.

00:39:30.260 They're doing it because leftism is a totalizing religion.

00:39:34.420 And this is, this is not just something that's neutral with the neutral government.

00:39:38.540 The government is pushing this on kids.

00:39:41.400 Why?

00:39:41.920 Because education is inherently, intrinsically coercive.

00:39:47.000 You don't, you can't just be educated by consent because you're, you're being taught a curriculum.

00:39:55.080 Right?

00:39:55.660 So you consent to go to school, but then you are taught from a teacher who has a different power dynamic than a student does.

00:40:01.900 And they're teaching you something.

00:40:03.360 That's why you have fears about political indoctrination rather than proper education.

00:40:07.520 This, we have to acknowledge that this leftism is the state religion.

00:40:14.480 And we have to acknowledge that America has a religion, that all societies have a religion.

00:40:19.840 You know, it's true in the First Amendment, we don't have any established particular sect of religion.

00:40:27.200 There's no established church, right?

00:40:29.140 And that is forbidden by the First Amendment.

00:40:31.200 Rightly so.

00:40:31.940 But that doesn't mean that there's no religion in public life.

00:40:35.500 That's impossible.

00:40:36.700 And that's certainly not what the founders thought.

00:40:38.420 It just means that there's no official American Methodist church.

00:40:41.620 And the official church of America is Methodism.

00:40:43.660 Or the official church of America is Anglicanism or, or Presbyterianism.

00:40:48.940 At the founding, there was a national religion.

00:40:52.780 That religion was a vague but shared Christian religion.

00:40:56.720 And it was Protestant, and it was pluralistic, and it was tolerant.

00:40:59.600 And it made room for Catholics, and it made room for Jews. 0.81

00:41:03.160 But it was clear there was this vague, tolerant religion.

00:41:08.840 Then in 1962, long after the founding, and not that long ago, but right around when the whole country started to lose its mind,

00:41:17.520 the Supreme Court outlawed reading the Bible in schools.

00:41:20.680 That was no longer permitted.

00:41:21.760 From the beginning of the country until 1962, it was permitted and encouraged just about everywhere.

00:41:26.160 And then that went away because the Supreme Court decided to rewrite the country.

00:41:31.380 Also in 1962, they outlawed prayer in schools.

00:41:34.980 So that kind of national religion, the vague, tolerant Protestantism, went away.

00:41:40.800 As a result of that, people started to focus on what's called the American civic religion.

00:41:46.560 You know, fireworks on the Fourth of July, the idea of American nationalism,

00:41:50.540 the idea of America's divine institution, that America is a sort of quasi-religious entity.

00:41:57.320 And that kind of dominates mid-20th century understanding of ourselves all the way up at least through the 1980s.

00:42:03.260 That focus on American civic religion failed to, particularly in recent times, in light of the failed interventions abroad.

00:42:12.080 We tried to plant American-style Madisonian democracy in these deserts around the world,

00:42:17.700 and it didn't work out the way that many people told us it would work out.

00:42:21.080 That's why I think so much of the American civic religion kind of lost faith in itself, and we lost faith in it.

00:42:28.140 Particularly in light of mass migration, if the American civic religion were really a totalizing religion or a sufficient religion,

00:42:36.740 then you could flood the country with unlimited aliens or illegal aliens or legal immigrants.

00:42:42.560 You could have millions and millions per year, and they would simply assimilate by divine fiat or something.

00:42:50.400 But that's not what happened, and that's why the wars abroad are such a touchy issue right now.

00:42:55.980 That's why mass migration is such a touchy issue.

00:42:58.780 Is there something practical we can do? Absolutely.

00:43:01.500 What we need to do immediately is to reverse the decisions that banned the Bible from schools and banned prayer from schools.

00:43:07.100 Not saying we need to make it compulsory.

00:43:09.120 Not saying we need to make any of those things compulsory, but we need to permit it.

00:43:12.760 We must encourage proper religious and civic engagement.

00:43:16.240 We have to do away with the lie that secularism is neutral.

00:43:20.440 Secularism is not neutral.

00:43:21.680 It is atheistic, and it is intrinsically leftist.

00:43:25.740 We have to do away with the lie that you can't legislate morality.

00:43:28.440 All legislation is moral.

00:43:29.940 All laws are moral because they draw on the moral law.

00:43:32.580 That's obviously true when you look at issues like abortion.

00:43:35.260 It's true when you look at tax rates, too, because tax rates are talking about property rights.

00:43:39.380 Tax rates are talking about the dignity of the human person when you get down to the end of it.

00:43:43.820 That's what we have to do.

00:43:45.140 I remember the scene in Breaking Bad.

00:43:46.840 There's a scene right after a big moment in the show, and the kids in the high school are at an assembly.

00:43:54.100 And one of the girls says, I just don't know why God would allow this bad thing to happen.

00:43:58.540 And the principal cuts her off and says, hey, hey, hey, let's keep it secular.

00:44:02.500 As if secularism were neutral.

00:44:04.080 It's not.

00:44:04.580 It's not neutral.

00:44:05.360 It's radical.

00:44:06.800 And it doesn't help us to explain anything or to understand ourselves or to live in a harmonious society.

00:44:11.700 John Adams said, our country is built for a moral and religious people.

00:44:15.100 The religion he was talking about is not leftism.

00:44:17.260 That's the, leftism is immorality.

00:44:19.600 And that's the, the religion that we're living in now.

00:44:22.420 The creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy, as Winston Churchill called it.

00:44:25.820 We need to acknowledge that religious reality or we're not going to, we're not going to be able to avoid that civil war.

00:44:32.580 So, this is urgent now because censorship is heating up, okay?

00:44:38.700 The Trump election bought us some time on this, but it's heating up.

00:44:43.960 Right now, YouTube just issued a policy.

00:44:46.320 It hasn't even been, been that well publicized that says that YouTube basically has the right to kill any channel that it finds not commercially viable.

00:44:55.320 So, if YouTube is not making money on your YouTube channel, it reserves the right to take away your YouTube channel.

00:45:01.000 Now, most people don't make money on their YouTube channels.

00:45:03.960 It's not going to affect most people.

00:45:05.600 But, what it's going to do is, in the run up to the 2016 election, allow the left to censor conservatives.

00:45:11.300 Because first, what they do is they cut down your reach of your channel.

00:45:14.920 Then, they demonetize you.

00:45:16.120 And then, once they've demonetized you, you're obviously not making money.

00:45:18.800 They can delete your channel altogether because it's not commercially viable.

00:45:23.140 This is a really tricky and dishonest way that YouTube is trying to silence conservatives.

00:45:27.600 It's all about 2020 and cutting off any momentum that conservatives and the right have right now.

00:45:34.560 Now, speaking of 2020, before we go, I do have to point out major story.

00:45:42.100 A candidate has dropped out of the 2020 race, and it's a candidate you didn't even know was running.

00:45:47.740 Former South Carolina governor who left the governorship to go run away to Argentina with his mistress and then ran for Congress and got reelected.

00:45:54.480 Mark Sanford has dropped out of the race.

00:45:58.320 I'm not even going to play the clip for you because you've never heard him before and you're not going to hear him again.

00:46:04.820 So, he's out.

00:46:05.920 The right-wing challenges to Donald Trump fall apart every day.

00:46:09.320 Hillary Clinton wants to run again in an interview with the BBC.

00:46:12.800 She has again opened up this possibility that she's going to run.

00:46:17.080 She said, I say the same thing every time people ask.

00:46:19.860 I'll do everything I can to retire the incumbent.

00:46:22.640 That can be by supporting those running.

00:46:24.800 I'm just grateful for the opportunities I've had.

00:46:27.240 A lot are pushing hard for me to run again.

00:46:29.780 But I believe we have to keep our focus on what it will take to get a new president.

00:46:33.280 She obviously wants to do this, and maybe the opportunity is right for her to get back into this race. 0.98

00:46:38.900 Why would she get back in?

00:46:39.920 Because as much as the right is divided, the left is very divided too.

00:46:42.920 They've had 25 candidates for president.

00:46:44.400 They can't pick a single one of them.

00:46:46.760 Then, a little preview on the whistleblower.

00:46:49.320 We'll get to this a little bit more, hopefully, tomorrow.

00:46:52.280 There is now a whistleblower blowing the whistle on the whistleblower.

00:46:55.500 This second whistleblower has filed a complaint with the intelligence community IG

00:47:00.200 because the first whistleblower is using his whistleblower status to make money and raise funds on GoFundMe.

00:47:06.260 So, we've now got the whistleblower on the whistleblower on something that we already saw the transcript for.

00:47:11.800 It is a total joke.

00:47:13.040 It is a total farce.

00:47:14.720 As impeachment heats up, I think the Democrats are going to get a lot more than they bargained for.

00:47:20.420 They're getting a lot more than they bargained for because the right is not sitting down.

00:47:24.200 We're not giving up.

00:47:25.560 We're not letting them run roughshod over us and shut us up and kick us off of the internet

00:47:29.020 and kick us out of the mainstream media and overturn the 2016 election.

00:47:34.780 We're not doing it.

00:47:35.960 We're not doing it on campuses either.

00:47:37.320 I was at the premiere last night of No Safe Spaces, which is Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager's movie on the college censorship issue.

00:47:44.960 It is really good.

00:47:46.440 I told them that I, since we're friends, I would have told them it was good even if it wasn't good.

00:47:51.960 But there's this extra nice thing, which is that the movie is really, really quite good.

00:47:58.380 I highly recommend you go see it.

00:48:00.500 It's shocking.

00:48:01.480 It was shocking even to me, and I live it.

00:48:02.940 You know, I go to these college campuses.

00:48:04.360 And some of what you see in that movie is so, so terrifying.

00:48:07.980 It's playing this weekend, I think, in Burbank.

00:48:09.720 They're kind of doing a little bit of a slow rollout, and then it's going to go to a lot more theaters around the country.

00:48:14.680 By the way, there's a little Easter egg.

00:48:17.240 You'll be able to see me in the movie if you look very, very closely.

00:48:20.360 So go check it out.

00:48:21.660 We've got a lot more to get to.

00:48:23.260 I don't know how we ran out of time like this.

00:48:25.180 We'll have to get to all of it tomorrow.

00:48:26.860 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 13, 2019

Ep. 449 - Our Civil War of Religion

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