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00:11:01.260So the first foundation began with the Civil War and the American Reconstruction. Now, as many of
00:11:08.880you know, the Naturalization Act of 1790 limited citizenship to free white persons of good character.
00:11:16.880But the 14th Amendment of 1868 overturned the criteria for birthright citizenship, where essentially all free people, including blacks and other races, could be considered American citizens if they were born on American soil.
00:11:34.780Now, what did this do? Well, of course, this was the embryonic effort to erase racial distinctions
00:11:42.120tied to a particular nation, especially as it pertains to American law. And it primed the
00:11:49.020country to be a multi-ethnic nation. So up until that point, so you're talking, you know, since
00:11:55.2001620 or so, you had a nation that was exclusively white. While there were blacks there, they were0.92
00:12:02.240not considered citizens. And so it also marked the beginning of eliminating racial differences0.73
00:12:08.160in American law. So this is planting the seed for future non-European immigration policies0.80
00:12:15.300and creating a legal foundation that later tempted illegal immigration, anchor babies,
00:12:23.320all of the things that would come with that because essentially you could earn
00:12:26.060automatic citizenship simply by being born on American soil. So that's the foundation number
00:12:33.260one. The second foundation was the first wave feminism, which emerged in the late 1800s.1.00
00:12:41.060Now, so just as the Civil War and the 14th Amendment began erasing racial distinctions0.98
00:12:46.920in American law and the understanding of ethnicity in a nation, first wave feminism begins to1.00
00:12:53.800systematically erase sexual distinctions. And so when they were demanding involvement through1.00
00:12:59.860suffrage, women, the suffragettes successfully pressured the state to stop treating married
00:13:06.400couples as a single legal unit under that historic doctrine, which we talked about called0.52
00:13:11.940coverture, where a woman essentially loses her legal identity in her husband. It's from the
00:13:17.160biblical idea of two becoming one. And instead, the laws began viewing husbands and wives as
00:13:24.940separate autonomous legal individual entities. Now, this legal shift was a critical step in
00:13:34.900what? Well, in dismantling the biblical model of marriage and the family. And it directly fueled
00:13:40.520the rise of radical individualism and self-expression that came to define the post-war
00:13:47.240consensus many decades later. So feminism's war on sexual distinctions laid the groundwork
00:13:53.940for the modern view that men and women are essentially interchangeable and that individual
00:14:00.980rights trump covenantal responsibilities and structure. So that's point number two.
00:14:07.640The third foundation is what I call American supremacy, American supremacy. Now, as America
00:14:16.640became the world's leading superpower, we began to see it as our kind of noble responsibility
00:14:24.800to think less like a nation and more like an empire. And what I mean by that is that the seeds
00:14:33.300were planted for, you know, so let me just back up for a second. You got point number one, the
00:14:38.960seeds are planted for eliminating racial distinctions in the 14th amendment, then the1.00
00:14:43.400sexual distinctions in the third wave feminism. And here we begin to lose our nationalistic
00:14:49.240distinctions because we're thinking like an empire. Okay. So, so the empire, the way that
00:14:54.980it's kind of flattening out is that we're not thinking like a sovereign nation. We're now
00:14:58.520thinking bigger, like an empire that is less nationalistic. It's more multi-ethnic,
00:15:07.340multinational. Okay, that's how we started to think. In the 1910s, Woodrow Wilson had something
00:15:14.240what's called Wilsonianism, and this dramatically reshaped America's identity with his famous
00:15:19.640call to, quote, make the world safe for democracy. And he had something what's called the 14 points
00:15:25.020policy, where he casts America essentially as like a global political missionary. And we were
00:15:31.480charged with essentially spreading self-determination, collective security, and open
00:15:36.760trade across the world. Now, this is a really dangerous shift away from nationalism for two
00:15:41.920reasons. So first, our founders built a constitutional republic, not a pure democracy.
00:15:48.460Second, they warned against foreign entanglements. Don't get involved with foreign entanglements.0.99
00:15:55.020Yet again, Wilson turned us into an empire to police the world.
00:15:59.940In fact, his emphasis on democracy became, you know, a Trojan horse that really pulled
00:16:05.000us into World War I, and it laid the foundation for a variety of other things of global order,
00:16:09.400including the Atlantic Charter and also the United Nations.
00:16:13.940So what started as lofty rhetoric quietly transformed us from a self-governing republic
00:16:22.680into the world's self-appointed social engineer for democracy. So this was kind of, again,
00:16:29.760laying a foundation for globalism. So you, again, you have these foundations, the first three,
00:16:35.040right? So you have the distinctions of eliminating racial distinctions, at least in the law.
00:16:39.480And then you have the foundation of sexual distinctions. And then here you're now losing
00:16:44.560some nationalistic distinctions. Everything's kind of blurring, right? It's kind of becoming,
00:16:48.800and, you know, androgynous. And the last major foundation is Jewish involvement in American0.75
00:16:55.360politics, but more than politics, really also finance, culture, and media, which truly began0.97
00:17:04.140the elimination of our religious distinctions from the Jews and gave us birth to this kind0.92
00:17:11.500of hyphenated heresy of Judeo-Christianity. And so what many American Christians don't know0.61
00:17:18.460is that throughout Christian history, the Jews have been viewed as the enemy of Christians,
00:17:24.820the enemy of Christ, right? Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, they all wrote about it
00:17:30.600in the second and third centuries. Augustine, John Chrysostom wrote about it in the fourth
00:17:35.180centuries. Chrysostom wrote, quote, the Jews sacrificed their children to Satan. They are
00:17:41.380worse than wild beasts. The synagogue is a brothel, a den of scoundrels, the temple of demons devoted1.00
00:17:47.960to idolatrous cults, a criminal assembly of Jews, a place of meeting for the assassination of Christ,0.99
00:17:55.940a house of ill fame, a dwelling of iniquity, a gulf and abyss of perdition, end quote.0.96
00:18:02.740So, I mean, this is the historic posture, right? Several popes held similar positions.
00:18:09.500Abogard of Leon, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Calvin, many of the Puritans. So our modern0.88
00:18:17.220connection of Jews and Christians is a historical theological phenomenon. At the peak of Henry
00:18:27.040Ford's wealth and his influence, Henry Ford, by the way, he's a practicing Anglican. He began
00:18:34.180speaking about what he believed was a disproportionate Jewish role in banking,
00:18:42.020media, and politics. He actually wrote a book about it. I thought it was so fascinating. He
00:18:45.760wrote a book called The International Jew. It was released in 1920. He argued that Jewish influence
00:18:51.780was essentially reshaping America in ways that undermined the traditional Christian and national
00:18:56.700values and identity that we had held. Now, this pattern became especially visible in the 1930s.
00:19:05.680FDR's administration, I don't know if it was for the first time, but they started having several
00:19:10.320prominent Jewish advisors who played major roles in designing the New Deal and expanding centralized0.66
00:19:17.480federal power, which made the federal government far stronger and the states much weaker. And it0.73
00:19:23.120continued to push us toward more of a pure democracy and not a republic. And at the same time,
00:19:29.480we had dispensationalism, which was growing in American churches, which further primed the soil0.85
00:19:35.020for a political relationship with the Jews. Now, I'm sure that you know that Talmudic Judaism0.60
00:19:42.860is literally antichrist. I mean, it openly regarded, you know, it talks about in the0.99
00:19:48.860Talmud, Christ burning an extrament. It calls him the bastard child of a whore. There is a variety1.00
00:19:55.460of elements of Talmudic Judaism. It openly regarded Christian Western civilization as a
00:20:00.420kind of Babylon or a spiritual enemy that must ultimately fall. Now, I will be clear, not every
00:20:08.600individual Jew holds these views, but history testifies to a deep general Jewish involvement
00:20:15.840in many of the dimensions of the post-war consensus that we're going to be talking about.
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00:21:51.760So by the 1930s and 40s, all four of these foundations, the erasure of racial, sexual,
00:22:00.060national, and religious distinctions had fully primed the West for what would become the PwC.
00:22:07.480Now, when you combine the victory of World War II against fascism, which again, an idea,
00:22:15.120what is fascism, right? It's basically totally built on having strong distinctions of race,
00:22:21.080sex, nation, and religion. But when you combine the victory in World War II, and you combine that
00:22:29.120with the dominant Holocaust narrative, it like supercharged this kind of modern egalitarianism.
00:22:35.960And suddenly, anything associated with distinctions became equated with Hitler or Nazism,
00:22:42.740So what was the goal? The goal is stamping out every such distinction because that was framed
00:22:50.460as a moral duty. It was kind of a solemn vow that the old world must never, ever happen again
00:22:56.100because that would be, again, Hitler. And so this brings us back to the phenomenon of this great0.98
00:23:03.380shift. So even though these four foundations had been laid, the scale and the speed of the
00:23:10.980transformation after 1945 were still historically unprecedented. So I want to look at them. I want
00:23:19.480to look at these four drivers behind the shift and how America, despite winning the war, now feels
00:23:27.980as though we lost and we lost our soul. We lost our identity. We are losing our nation. And so
00:23:33.980we're going to look at four of these major drivers in this process of developing the post-war
00:23:42.360consensus. Number one is collective guilt and the pathologization of the West. That's a long
00:23:50.440word, right? All right. The devastation of two world wars and the horrors of the Holocaust
00:23:58.320narrative, they did more than create backlash against fascism. It instilled a deep collective
00:24:06.540sense of national guilt in the Western psyche. When you look and you zoom out, I mean, these
00:24:15.660were essentially white wars. Now, the very existence of Western civilization was now0.99
00:24:23.800something to be ashamed of. What began as a war among white nations quickly mutated into kind of0.87
00:24:33.060a blanket condemnation of anything that made the West distinct. Its European ethnic roots,
00:24:40.540its Christian heritage, its nationalistic pride, its history of conquest and colonization,
00:24:46.040its confidence in its own objective superiority among other nations.
00:24:52.460So post-war America became steeped in a profound sense of self-hatred after the war.
00:25:02.560Now, instead of placing the blame where it belonged, maybe on poor leadership,
00:25:07.940maybe on the overextension of nationalism into dictatorship,
00:25:12.080um, more, uh, maybe a sinful degree of racial prejudice, uh, instead of pointing it towards
00:25:19.400those things, the Western culture assigned guilt to the good things, nationalism, race,
00:25:26.500and religion. Now this shift transformed, um, multiculturalism and inter-ethnic mixing and,
00:25:34.460and religious pluralism and, you know, all of these kind of PWC things into a powerful
00:25:40.860public virtue signaling of repentance and tolerance. I would say repentance from that
00:25:48.260old world that caused those terrible wars. And look at us. We're so tolerant. We are repenting.1.00
00:25:55.960We are signaling that we are not that anymore. And so by embracing these ideals, these new ideals,
00:26:04.520America and the West could demonstrate that they had rejected that old historical identity that
00:26:10.560cause such great atrocities. Now here, here's the catch and this is it. Okay. It was all built
00:26:19.260on the fantasy that peace could be achieved. If only distinctions no longer mattered,
00:26:26.300that if we just erased borders, if we just blurred biology, if we just removed our eyes,
00:26:32.760you know, through colorblindness, if we just diluted our convictions and flattened every
00:26:37.180difference and distinction. Conflict would just disappear. But that is not reality. And we are
00:26:44.840beginning to learn that again now. Okay. So that's the first driver. The second driver is
00:26:51.900the rise of Marxist and cultural Marxist thought. Okay. Now, Marxism is the great equalizer. Okay.
00:27:04.180the ideology of envy and destruction. It was the philosophy of a Jewish man named Karl Marx.0.98
00:27:13.320Now, in the 1960s, after classical Marxism had failed, a new form took root. Classical Marxism0.56
00:27:21.600divided the world into oppressor versus oppressed, and it did this along economic class lines.
00:27:30.560But when the economic approach of Marxism didn't work, it collapsed, the Frankfurt School and other kind of neo-Marxist groups shifted the battlefield from economics to culture.
00:27:43.160So race, gender, nation, religion became the new categories of oppression.
00:27:50.620Okay, this aligned perfectly with the Western guilt that felt a constant need to kind of pay
00:27:57.620these reparations for its own existence, for what had happened in World War I and World War II.
00:28:04.780Okay, so the goal of Marxism was essentially, it's like gas on the fire. It was dismantling
00:28:12.580the old order. Anything superior was viewed as a threat. And if you cannot raise the bottom,
00:28:19.820you must tear down the top. And so instead of an objective meritocracy that honestly
00:28:27.120acknowledges superior individuals, groups, distinctions, cultures, nations, we began
00:28:32.600treating superiority as oppression. And these distinctions were reframed as essentially tools
00:28:40.260of domination rather than natural God-ordained parts of creation. And so this ideology slowly
00:28:50.720captured academia. It captured media and cultural institutions after 1945 and really into the 60s.
00:29:01.340And it planted the seeds of tolerance, equality, diversity, inclusion, right? It gave us
00:29:08.840participation trophies, the elimination of objective standards, the kind of weaponization
00:29:14.800of guilt, right? And it really was the slow erosion of Western confidence. All of our previous
00:29:25.480generations, pride and strength and honor and integrity, all of these things now were framed
00:29:32.660as oppressive and we need to run from those things. We need to get away from those are the
00:29:36.740things that led back to Hitler. We got to get away from that, that authority, you know, that's0.96
00:29:41.860not good. So the third driver, the third driver is the economic globalism and the demand for cheap
00:29:52.160labor. And so since both world wars were fought across Europe and Japan and not here in the United
00:30:01.160States, minus, you know, Pearl Harbor. The devastation of their lands destroyed their
00:30:06.160manufacturing and all of their economies. Now, here in America, we emerged from the war and we
00:30:14.540had essentially no trauma here on our lands. And we emerged essentially as the undisputed global
00:30:22.000economic superpower. Now, here's a line I just want you to remember, right? This is very important.
00:30:29.180Capitalism, when disconnected from Christianity, leads to corruption.
00:30:34.480Capitalism, when disconnected from Christianity, leads to corruption.
00:30:39.920Okay, and this is exactly what we see.
00:30:42.060Under the emerging globalistic framework, American corporations saw themselves with
00:30:50.200a massive opportunity, and capitalistically, they said, hey, let's open up these borders.
00:30:55.440They saw cheap labor overseas, cheap manufacturing overseas, cheap imported labor and products from overseas. And so this economic pressure, heavily influenced by the passage of the 1965 Hart-Celler Act, which we're going to be talking about in the next episode.
00:31:13.280Um, but we began essentially, um, seeing an opportunity to further this globalistic framework
00:31:24.460through economic desires. And that was a huge driver on importing people. I mean,
00:31:33.020you think about the H1B visas, you think about, uh, all of the stuff around labor, um, you know,
00:31:38.820not made in America, made in Japan, made in China, all of that stuff came, and it started
00:31:43.980making us think more internationally, more globalistically, more empire, and less nationally.
00:31:50.680Okay, the fourth driver. The fourth driver is the triumph of radical individualism and consumerism.
00:32:01.360And there's a really good book, The Age of Entitlement, that really talks about this.
00:32:06.760But when you remove all of the distinctions, when you're drowning in now and guilt and shame from the Marxism, and then you fuel it with raw capitalistic greed detached from Christianity, the natural result is radical individualism.
00:32:28.060Every person became an autonomous God. The old world's covenantal group mindset,
00:32:36.940duty to church and family and nation, they're like butchered on the altar of self-expression.
00:32:44.500And when the individual becomes king, any call to group identity becomes an enemy.0.85
00:32:52.800And this manifested heavily with the boomer generation. They are the most objectively0.98
00:33:01.220selfish generation in human history. They were raised by, well, yeah, there's some rationale
00:33:09.540here. They were raised by checked out fathers, broken by war, so PTSD, feminist mothers who
00:33:16.300left the home for work during their husband's time for war. And for the first time ever,
00:33:24.380children were raised on the television. Now, it wasn't the TV or the TV shows that necessarily
00:33:33.600destroyed them. It was the commercials that taught them that life revolves around me.
00:33:39.720In other words, they were the first generation of children deliberately targeted by corporations for advertising.
00:33:49.280And so this childhood entitlement that started post-war, it exploded in the 1960s.
00:33:57.640And so you had this, again, entitlement mentality that was built up into these young people.
00:34:04.280And then you have the sexual revolution, which quickly became essentially a marketplace
00:34:09.120to quench sexual desires. Pornography was born. Birth rates collapsed. Children were now seen as
00:34:16.760kind of a threat to personal freedom. We saw that the boomers had less children than the
00:34:21.960generations before them. Even the church morphed into kind of a marketplace of programs and
00:34:28.520entertainment and emotional pragmatic experiences. And so this kind of me first generation
00:34:35.560acts somewhat like a tsunami that's like roaring through the 1960s and 70s and really pushing
00:34:44.680through even the 2010s. And this group, if you just look through 1960 to 2020, what happened?
00:34:54.060Well, we enshrined feminism, sexual anarchy, untethered capitalism, mass immigration.0.92
00:35:01.220And so, you know, blinded by this self-love, they never once, these boomers, never once0.60
00:35:08.980asked what kind of nation they were handing their children and grandchildren.
00:35:15.420I mean, we see this with their bumper stickers, right?