American Glory - The Pre-War Consensus： America Before Tolerance
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Summary
Part 1 of a two-part series that will give you a clear historical framework for how America has arrived at its current state. In this episode, we re going back to the pre-war era, the older, stronger, and unapologetic American vision that built a nation of glory and order.
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America will either have Christ or it will have chaos.
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Well, welcome to American Grit. This is season one on American Identity. I'm your host, Dale
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Partridge. This episode is titled The Pre-War Consensus and the Glory of Old America. Now,
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each season, I'm going to be covering a variety of topics within one theme. Now, in the last
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episode, if you haven't seen it yet, you should go back and check it out. I offered a biblical
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defense for Christian colonization and the recolonization of the West. Now, this is part
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one of a two-part series that will give you a clear historical framework for how America has
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arrived at its current state. So in this episode, we're going to do part one. In the next episode,
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we're going to examine the post-war consensus, which is the cultural and political convictions
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that essentially reshaped America after 1945. Now, as I say it often, a nation digs its grave
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with the shovel of forgetfulness. So today, we're going to be going back to the pre-war era,
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the older, stronger, and unapologetic American vision that built a nation of glory and order.
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So let's begin. I want you to think of a body with a strong immune system. Sometimes it overreacts,
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it causes fevers, inflammation, hives, discomfort. People begin to think, you know,
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the immune system's the problem, right? The system itself is essentially too aggressive.
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So what do they do, right? You know, in the autoimmune world, right? They suppress it,
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right? They quiet it down. They tone it back. They make it less forceful. Now, no more fevers,
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no more hives, no more, you know, feeling inflammation. Everything feels calm. Everything
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feels manageable and even peaceful. But then sickness comes. And I'm not talking about a
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little bit of sickness. I'm talking real sickness. And now there's nothing left to fight the sickness.
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And what was once causing discomfort was actually protection. And in removing kind of the struggle
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of aggression of an overactive immune system, they removed the strength of the preservation.
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And that's really the story of what's happening in the pre-war consensus and the post-war
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consensus. Before World War I, nations had conflicts. Wars existed. Pride was real. Dictators
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rose up. There was even a little bit of real racism. But the structure of the nations were
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generally stable. Countries knew who they were. Borders actually meant something. Their people
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had identity and continuity and rootedness. Now, in trying to eliminate the dangers of the old
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world, we have created something far more fragile, and I would say far more dangerous.
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Now, before, there was the risk of nations becoming militant and dogmatic, but now there's
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a reality of nations being extremely weak and overtaken by parasitic people. So before,
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wars were fought between nations, and now wars are fought within nations. And before,
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men struggled with pride and being potentially evil. Now, they struggle with not even knowing
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who they are. See, the old world, with all of its flaws, was not chaotic. It was ordered in a way
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that our current world is not. It was a world with walls, not to imprison people, but to preserve
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people. And before we can understand where we are now in the post-war consensus, we have to
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understand what we tore down in the pre-war consensus. So today, we're going to be discussing
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that pre-war consensus. Now, prior to World War I, the nations operated on what we called
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maybe a closed system. Now, nations are really the broadest expression of a family. And like a
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family, people knew who they were and who was in and who was out. They knew what they valued and
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what they hated. And this was just kind of the natural order of human history, which was again,
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rooted in scripture and aligned with the, you know, maybe Augustinian idea of the order of
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Morris. And so the pre-war world was not really afraid of reality, right? It was, it was not afraid
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of distinctions and hierarchies and superiority and inferiority and preferences. And to our soft
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kind of modern ears, the pre-war world can sound brutal and inflexible. But if we're just being
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honest, it was an honest time. It looked as the world actually was, and it ordered life
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accordingly. And it knew that some people groups were barbarians and savages, and some were not.
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It knew that there were orcs, and that knew that there were hobbits. And again, it's not that the
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old order had no problems. It did. But as we're going to see today, if you had to choose your
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problems, the pre-war world or the post-war world, I think you're going to choose the pre-war world.
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Most of its problems were simply, again, like overextensions of good things, a strong monarch
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becoming a tyrant or healthy nationalism twisting into some sort of hatred of others or rightful
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borders turning into some sort of isolation. They were good things that had gone bad and they should
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have been reformed, not like thrown out completely. So today I want to walk you through what I'm
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calling the seven marks of the pre-war consensus. And you might be wondering, you know, why does
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this old system even matter to us today? So there's a powerful book by R.R. Reno called
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Return of the Strong Gods. And his central argument is that the pre-war world was ruled by
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what he called strong gods. These are powerful, demanding realities like truth and loyalty and
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nationalism and religion. And the post-war consensus tried to replace them with weak
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gods, right? Openness and tolerance and diversity and multiculturalism and feminism and consensus
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and all these things, right? But Reno's thesis is that the strong gods are returning, whether we
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like it or not. But before we can understand how we embraced the post-war consensus, I think we
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really have to first understand what we left behind. And by understanding it, I think we can
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begin to recover it and restore it to those older ways as we move into the future. So let's examine
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these seven marks together, truth, religion, covenant, ethno-nationalism, patriarchy,
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authority, and historical preservation. So let's start with number one, truth.
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When the American founders declared, you know, we hold these truths to be self-evident, right?
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They weren't expressing opinions. They were standing on objective reality. Pre-war societies
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treated truth the same way. From the cathedrals of the medieval Europe era to the universities
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of the 19th century Britain, the classrooms in early America, truth was really understood as
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an objective reality. It was fixed. It was God-ordained. It was something to be discovered
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or recognized, not really as a result of consensus or some sort of deconstruction.
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Today, you can't even say things like the sky is blue or that only women have wombs without
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like four camps of idiots evolving with some sort of subjective interpretations of what you said.
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And so this commitment to reality produced an extraordinary strength in the pre-war world
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because truth allows for what? Well, I mean, it allows for conviction and prosperous societies
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are built on conviction. And so when people agree on what is real, they can build stable societies.
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my truth all the garbage that we have today law really begins to lose its foundation a city
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becomes a place of a constant negotiation instead of justice it's all about you know personal
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preferences and emotion instead of principle and the stability of a society begins to really
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unravel. Schools in America used to teach facts and virtues without apology, right? Courts pursued
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justice. Murderers were hung. Leaders called people to sacrifice for what was actually right.
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Science rapidly grew and advanced because it rested on this kind of belief that an orderly
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universe is revealed through knowable laws, that you can see them with your own eyes, and we
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believed in reality. And so I think if I could sum it up in one statement, here's the heart of
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kind of the truth element of the pre-war world. The pre-war nations feared lies more than they
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feared offending feelings. They were so committed to truth. And so this fearless honesty about
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reality. It created clarity, trust. It gave nations a moral backbone. It turned boys into
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disciplined men, citizens into patriots. Nations really became these powers that endured for
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centuries. Objective, rigid truth is like the bedrock of any healthy civilization. And when
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people know what is true, they know that it is real and they know how to behave. But to rightly
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interpret, and this is the next point, to rightly interpret what is real and what is true, you have
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to have the next mark, which is religion. So I think that these both kind of go hand in hand
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together. So a high commitment to truth and reality. And then also the second one is religion.
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So going back in 1862, the Union troops, they marched into battle and they sang Julia Ward
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And I don't know if you know the lyrics, but they say,
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mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
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As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, end quote.
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Pre-war America was driven by what I would call totalizing Christianity.
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Soldiers, statesmen, factory workers, entrepreneurs, teachers, everyone in between, they saw the
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And so the privatizing of religion is like very much a post-war phenomenon.
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Historically, religion was not like this private relationship or Sunday hobby.
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If you were not a religious person, you were like a degenerate.
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it was very much important that people knew what church you went to and what were your doctrines
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and convictions. And, you know, you were a godly man, or people would say you were a moral man or
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a religious man. Anytime the old world used the word religion, it meant Christianity in America's
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context. So faith in Christ essentially animated everything, law, education, government, business,
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family life, national purpose, for sure. And so nations were understood to be inherently religious.
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We're starting to figure that out again. All of life flowed from this religion aspect because
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all of life belonged to God. And so men willingly died for their country because of their country's
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religion. Laws reflected biblical morality. Culture honored the sacred. Everything was
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dignified because citizens saw themselves as, at least in America, as children of God and as
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builders of the kingdom of God. I think not just America, I think just the West.
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The moral clarity alone made America matchless. Not only were we Christians, but we were reformed
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Protestants, right? We were Bible people. We were 10 commandments people. We were sermon on the
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mount people. We were the Lord's prayer people. Scripture was like on our buildings, our money,
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our schools, like everything in between. We were scripture people. We knew that without Christ,
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the church, without religious life, the nation would essentially fall apart.
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But what kept us together was not just religion, but a particular dimension of religion, which is
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leading us into point number three, which is covenant. Okay, covenant. I want to talk about
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this. This will probably maybe be the longest section that we talk about today. In the summer
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of 1882, Chinese workers, they had helped build the Transcontinental Railroad. And once they were
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done building it, they returned it to these crowded Western towns. The laborers in California,
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they erupted in fury. They were so upset. You know, they had placards that they were holding
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up, things like, you know, the Chinese must go, right? Mobs started driving families away from
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their homes. But fascinatingly, again, we're in the pre-war world. So Congress listened.
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And on May 6th, President Chester A. Arthur, he signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which was
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like the first federal law to ban an entire ethnic group by race. See, lawmakers openly declared
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that America must remain a white man's country, or at least America was for Americans and
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Europeans in extension in that. And so they were essentially warning that they called these people
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Mongolian at the time. They were essentially unable to assimilate. And they really pushed
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this particular group out. And this was the natural fruit of a covenantal mindset. This is
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what we talked about in earlier episodes of kind of in-group preference that had defined the nation
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since its founding. In the, or not the 1950s, in the 1850s, there was a nativist American party
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called the Know Nothing Party. Because when you asked about it, their members responded by saying,
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I know nothing. I know nothing, right? And they're actually the ones that produce that
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American flag that we all love that says Native Americans, beware of foreign influence. Okay,
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so they demanded a 21-year naturalization period because they saw America as kind of a blood and
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faith inheritance that's guarded for their children. It's not like a boarding house for
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the world. And pay attention to this. When they said that, a 21-year naturalization period,
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they're talking about other Europeans. They're talking about the Irish and the Germans that are
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coming over. They're not talking about non-Europeans. They couldn't even imagine a world
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of non-Europeans entering into the American covenant. And so by the early 1900s, Theodore
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Roosevelt, as we mentioned in previous episodes, thundered that same conviction, right? There's no
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hyphenated Americanism. He celebrated the American race forged by kind of this Northern
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European stock and insisted that immigrants, again, European immigrants, have to fully
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assimilate into the American race or leave. And so ultimately, the nation's leaders were in step
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with the people, right? They viewed policy and upheld a particular people. Every law from the
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1790 Naturalization Act that said, essentially, naturalization or immigration is limited to free
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white persons of good moral character. You also have in consideration the National Origins Act
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of the 1921, 1924 that was crafted to, again, preserve sameness, not celebrate diversity.
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So that's a really big statement right there is that in the pre-war world covenant had this
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commitment to preserve sameness, not celebrate diversity. It didn't mean that they didn't have
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any diversity or immigration. They did, but it was so minimal in comparison to what we see today.
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And so unity came from shared blood. Again, we know that nations are large families. So shared
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blood, shared tongue, religion, tradition, not just shared geography, not just proximity.
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No, the individual's highest duty was to strengthen the corporate body of the covenant people.
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We're not here to express individualism the way that we do today.
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The covenantal mind step, again, this is stemming from the Christian mentality.
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I mean, if you see my pin right here, this is the Scottish Covenanters pin.
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And it's the idea of we're a people together covenanting with one another.
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And the covenantal mindset, it built high-trust societies, a cohesive civilization.
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Americans once believed it was their sacred obligation to hand down kind of this unbroken
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inheritance. And after all, I mean, the preamble of the Constitution, we all know, right? It says
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that we created this nation for ourselves and our posterity, which was, again, we had the Western
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and Northern European stock that it was speaking to. Now, again, in previous episodes, you may
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have heard me address. We also had some other people groups. We had the slaves that came over.
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We also acquired portions that were owned by Mexico or just Central America. And so we have
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At a deeper level, Americans believed that God had entered into covenant with the United States.
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And they thought that because of its victory over Britain in the Revolutionary War.
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That essentially had given the American cause God's approval that the United States was a nation.
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And we know that Acts 17 talks about God establishes nations and their boundaries and when they rise and when they fall.
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Now, this was actually reinforced by George Washington in his 1789 Thanksgiving proclamation,
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which again, publicly recognized God's blessing of the United States.
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And as a result, Americans, they saw themselves as one people, right?
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One people under God, you know, bound together in a shared covenant.
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And this covenantal mindset shaped early American culture by making in-group loyalty
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and cultural preservation feel like it was sacred. It was like a sacred Christian responsibility.
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And this bled into my fourth mark, which is ethno-nationalism. Now, you know that I'm a
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Christian nationalist, but I think that there is a dimension of ethno-nationalism that can be a part
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of Christian nationalism. Because you have, again, you have Christianity, you have Christian
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and Christian nationalism. But then in addition to that, you have nationalism. And right now,
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I think a lot of people really like the Christian side, but they don't understand the nationalism
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side. And so ethno-nationalism, I think, is a very important discussion to be having
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in the Christian nationalism discussion. I don't think we need to be hard-lined,
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but I do think we need to be far more rigid than we have at this current moment.
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And so if covenant was the musculoskeletal framework of how citizens related to one another,
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um, ethno-nationalism is quite literally the blood. Okay. God created nations as extensions
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of like genetic families, you know, large communities where, you know, shared biology
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naturally produces a variety of things like likeness, uh, familiarity, trust, um, strong
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bonds. So everyone knows that like who their people are like visually, right? Everyone knows
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that people prefer their own immediate families.
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Almost every race understands that except white people, right?
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you know, white people's, we are our own in-groups, out-group.
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But black people understand this. You know, Asians understand this. You know, Indians and
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Muslims understand this. You know, Hispanics understand this. Like white people need to
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figure out how to understand these conversations around the order of Morris. Just because, you
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know, if you're a white German, it doesn't mean that you hate black Nigerians because you prefer
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white Germans. It just means that you have a natural preference for your own people, which
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is normal and good. The apostle Paul had a natural preference for his own people, according to his
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kin, according to the flesh, the Jews. And so before the world wars, virtually every nation
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on earth was an ethno nation, borders, identity, loyalty. They were all external expressions of
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ethno nationalism. There were no, you know, what people call it today, civic nations, or
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or some people call them propositional nations, like the idea that America is an idea. There was
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none of that. There was no multiculturalism. There was no multi-ethnic world. That wasn't
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happening. No, there were Brits, and there were Canadians, and there were Scots, and there were
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Japanese, and there were Mexicans, and there were Aussies, and there were Americans, and more,
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right? They were ethnic families. And some of them, and let me say this, not just are they
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ethnic families, there's really truly was a diversity in the world. We are reducing our
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diversity the more that we have kind of multicultural societies that intermarry and we
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actually lose ethnic genocide or through ethnic genocide, particular populations, especially right
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now. We know that white people are the minority population in the world and that's happening.
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And so true diversity, to preserve diversity, would be preserving those families by having
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strong borders, limiting immigration, and multiculturalism.
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And so now there were multi-ethnic empires, like the Ottoman Empire, the Austro-Hungrian
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But even those empires were generally composed of related ethnicities.
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And I think that's kind of like a far cry from our Western nightmare of multiculturalism
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that's like radically different peoples, conflicting ethnicities that are living
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together in the same land. Okay. But even these like ethnically related empires,
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they were notorious for constant tension, um, eventual fracture, um, homogenous nations,
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you know, where you have like 90% of one primary ethnic group. These people generally throughout
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history enjoyed peace and strength. I mean, to this day, roughly 90% of all nations function
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as ethnostates with a dominant native population. I mean, just think about it. I mean, you got
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Mexico and you got Russia and you got Korea and you got Colombia, whatever you want to name,
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right? Like 90% of the nations today still function that way. And so the only exceptions
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today are white Western Christian nations that have been wounded by mass immigration and
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third world immigrants with what I would say ethnically incompatible or morally incompatible
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at least people coming into our lands. And as many of you know, Japan remains as one of the
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great examples of a successful pre-war style ethno-nation today. The country is still like
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98% ethnically Japanese. Now, their genetic and cultural unity has produced a variety of benefits.
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Rapid consensus, right? Explosive economic growth, universal education, efficient cooperation,
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minimal internal conflict, exceptionally high trust societies, and social cohesion.
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Now, I've said this a few times now, but I'm just going to say it again.
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Nationalism, it may create wars between nations, but multiculturalism creates wars within nations.
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I recently saw a graphic with an arrow going up for, it's like an arrow going up for immigration
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and an arrow going down titled everything else.
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parallel societies, identity warfare everywhere.
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You may have recently heard Vivek's Ramaswamy. He quoted Ronald Reagan's absolutely worst quote. He said, quote, this is Reagan's quote, but it's Vivek quoting it. He says, you can go to live in France, but you cannot be a Frenchman.
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You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German or a Turk or a
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Japanese. But anyone from any corner of the earth can come to live in America and become an American.
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Now, both Reagan and Vivek acknowledge that every other nation on the planet is allowed to have
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an ethno-state except Americans. See, ultimately, the pre-war generation understood that ethnic
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homogeneity preserved peace because it eliminated the constant risk of minority discrimination
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or conflict, demographic replacement, the threat of that at least, and internal conflict between
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peoples. See, when you have multiculturalism, you have all these groups that are consistently
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battling for governmental influence and power that are aiming to produce laws in their favor,
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supporting and protecting their particular doctrines or beliefs. And so it's not whether
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America will be religious, it's which religion will dominate America. And so all of history
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testifies to this fact. People are loyal to those who look like them and who share their culture,
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right? If you don't believe me, just like go to a prison just for like a weekend, right?
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Look at, even in America, like look at the Slavic churches and look at the Slavic neighborhoods,
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right? Or the Asian neighborhoods down in, you know, the Slavic neighborhoods up in the Northwest,
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you got, and in Sacramento area, you got the Asian neighborhoods down in Irvine, Orange County,
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Um, you know, you can look at, uh, Chinatown and little Korea and, and, you know, black churches
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and Hispanic churches and more, right? The left hates identity politics and wants to like erase
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all of our distinctions, but this is how God designed the world. Okay. Birds of a feather
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flock together, right? Yes. Christ has come to bear, to bring peace between every tribe,
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nation, and tongue, but he does not eliminate every tribe, nation, and tongue. So we have peace,
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especially if we're Christian, we can have peace between Christian nations. That's a glorious and
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godly thing. And I know we failed at that in World War I and World War II. So this, I think, again,
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the difference between Christian nationalism and nationalism needs to be emphasized as we go forth
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in the future. So the next, the fifth mark we're going to be talking about is also very important.
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It's patriarchy. One of the more deeply rooted realities of the pre-war society was patriarchy.
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Men led, right? Men provided, men protected. Women bore and nurtured children, and they took
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care of the home, right? Property, inheritance, and political authority, they all belong to men,
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This wasn't even like a point of contention for the vast majority of people, including women.
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Women didn't contend against this structure.
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I mean, the majority of women did not contend against this.
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Now, as many of you know, patriarchy just means father rule.
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And that was reality because it flowed again from Christianity.
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The husband stood as the head of the household.
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You know, husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church
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You know, Christ is the head of the church.
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They identified with his lineage and culture, estates.
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They passed through the male line, voting, contracts, public office, civic responsibility.
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They were all completely male domains. Now, legal reality actually reinforced this. So this wasn't
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just like a cultural or spiritual thing. This was actually a legislative government thing.
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Okay. Women operated under what was called coverture. This is essentially like, it's like
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a 13th century English common law where a woman's legal existence was essentially suspended upon
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marriage. And this is like the practice of society to adopt the biblical idea of a man and a woman
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becoming one flesh. And so it's why women used to say, oh, I'm Mrs. John Smith. Like they lost
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themselves. They lost their identity in their marriage. And so for that reason, they couldn't,
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as married women, independently owned property. They couldn't retain their own wages, enter
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contracts without their husband's involvement. And beginning in, I think it was 1840, 1839,
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states started to pass what was called the Married Woman's Property Acts. And that allowed women to
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legally represent their husband's estate. So it gave them a little bit more structure. I think
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it was more of a practicality at that point. But nobody viewed this under kind of the Marxist
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oppressor and oppressed model that we do today. Instead, they viewed it as, you know, their lives,
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men and women, as kind of a division of responsibility and labor, right? Men bore
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the weight of provision and defense and public order. Women exercised authority in the domestic
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realm with family and child rearing and moral formation of the children. And in the 1800s,
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this structure was actually called a thing. It was popularized under the name of the doctrine
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of spheres, of separate spheres. And ultimately, it held that men and women excelled in distinct
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realms. So they had like their own spheres. And we knew that men, you know, by their biology and
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the way they looked, they excelled in the exterior sphere and women in the interior sphere.
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And so men were in the public world, commerce, politics, competition, invention. Women are in
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the private world of the home, the family, again, that moral cultivation in children.
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And this structure totally informed not just home life, but public life. Parents prepared
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daughters for the home, for the future in the home. From girlhood, females learned domestic
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competence, right? Cooking, cleaning, sewing, household management, child rearing. Even the
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working class girls were learning these things. And the wealthy class girls were learning how to
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oversee servants, but still kind of internalize the expectation of like a graceful domestic
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oversight. And so in the pre-war world, feminine virtue centered on modesty and gentleness and
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moral purity and Christianity, domestic ability, right? Virtuous men, Christian men, they sought
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wives for traits, not because they were just beautiful, but because they were meek or because
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a woman was restrained in her opinions, or she had a kind of a cheerful competence in the private
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sphere. And so youth was spent mastering these domestic arts for young women. And it produced
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women who were comfortable in their role. They weren't resentful of it. Lady Markby,
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who was a character in Oscar Wilde's book, The Ideal Husband in 1895, he contrasted this kind
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newer pressures of feminism with the kind of older era. And he's actually applauding the time
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when women were spared the burdens of public striving and advanced education and how it was
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preferable to just remain at home for a woman. And so ultimately, the women of the pre-war
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consensus rejected the core feminist premise that fulfillment for women requires identical access
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to male spheres. Now, of course, patriarchy without Christianity often descends into some
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sort of degree of tyranny, which plants the seeds for feminism. And so the recovery of America
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requires biblical patriarchy, not just patriarchy. Okay, the sixth mark is authority. Now, one of the
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bedrock convictions of the pre-war world was the deep respect for authority. You know, the authority
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of God, you know, king, parents, teachers, judges, law enforcement, you know, hierarchy was seen as
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natural and essential for ordered liberty and life. Okay. Monarchies and republics expected
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submission to kind of the legitimate laws and rulers that were in place. Judges, they would
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deliver swift, often severe, justice. Public executions, stocks, corporal punishment, these
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were visible reminders that actions of sin carried weighty consequences. And this consensus produced
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a remarkably safe society. In fact, homicide at this time, the pre-war consensus, was
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dramatically low. I mean, historic lows. You're talking like one per 100,000 in many
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different countries. I mean, today, the national homicide rate is like 6.5 per 100,000. That's a
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national rate. And if you go to certain cities, like you go to St. Louis or you go to Chicago
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or something, it's like 50 to 60 per 100,000. And so crime was so rare in the pre-war world
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that most towns, they didn't even have police. They didn't have judges. They had to bring in
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judges and officers from other cities because criminals were just rare. And so we have drifted
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so far, so far. And the cultural upheavals that really started in the 1960s, Western societies
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rejected this kind of traditional authority in favor of, oh, the individual autonomy and
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question everything was kind of the theme of the 60s. And the results are visible, right? They're
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visible. Violent crime has absolutely surged in the U.S. and in Europe from 1970s to now, right?
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Courts became backlogged. Parental authority is eroding. No-fault divorce, state interventions
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everywhere, lawlessness, lack of liberty in certain places, urban riots, shoplifting. Everything is
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normalized now. Like we have become so numb to the chaos of our time. And that's why it's so
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important. We have to look back. That's why I wanted to do this episode. You have to look back
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to this previous era to remember who we were so that we can be so frustrated about where we are.
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So the pre-war mind understood this timeless truth that without submission to rightful authority,
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freedom collapses into disorder. Okay. Number seven. Number seven is one you might not expect.
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Historical preservation. Historical preservation. The pre-war consensus revered tradition. Okay.
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They viewed it as the accumulated wisdom of the generations. Okay. It's really the manifestation
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of everything we have discussed so far. And what I mean by that is like they preserved the past
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because they valued truth and religion and covenantal identity and nationalism and
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patriarchy and authority. They valued these things. Christian nations were shaped, and this
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is a key here, they were shaped by a linear view of history. They believed that God was restoring
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the world through the centuries by the gospel, and they saw themselves as stewards of that
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development. And they understood the wisdom of Jeremiah 6, 16 that says, ask for the old paths
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where the good way is and walk in it. And so this was a contrast to the pagan nations that had a
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cyclical culture that treated the past and history as kind of an obstacle to be discarded.
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See, Christian societies were the ones who built museums and historical societies and national
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parks and monuments. They wanted to honor their forefathers and preserve the virtue and identity
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that they were building upon over the generations. They wanted to highlight where they were and where
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they've come. They kept artifacts and archaeological sites and, you know, even painful artifacts,
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believing that an honest memory built stronger people. You know, America's Mount Vernon,
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you know, Britain's stately beautiful homes, the cathedrals, right? Europe's medieval towns,
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you know, they maintained these things because they testified to God's story and providence
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in their nation's history. The old proverb rang true, before you tear something down,
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ask why it's there, right? Today, we tear down statues and sell historic buildings and churches
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and rewrite the past to soothe kind of our modern sensibilities. The pre-war mind was stronger,
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right? It understood that a people who forgot their story soon lose their future. And again,
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I said this when we opened up the show, right? The grave of a nation is dug with the shovel
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of forgetfulness. And so these were our seven points. So you can go back, you can write them
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down, you can listen to them, but I want to kind of bring it back to the front, right? So, you know,
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when R.R. Reno talked about, you know, in his book, The Return of the Strong Gods, he's referring
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to the revival of these foundational forces that we're talking about here and others like them.
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There's more, right? And he's describing the end of the modern liberal experiment and the
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unraveling of the liberal open society. But what replaced the natural convictions
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of the pre-war world? And that's what we call the post-war consensus. It's the world that we all
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grew up in. And it's all over us. We don't even know how much we've been influenced by it.
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and it's like a fish that doesn't know it's wet. We are wet with the pre-war consensus
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and it's why we're going to be covering that in our next episode.
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So at this point, let's move on to the weekly audit.
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So a few things I want to talk about in this section of the weekly audit. I like to take
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a few things that catch my eyes on the internet. We can have a discussion about them, understand
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them within a biblical framework. But this video I thought was pretty fascinating. It's a young
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woman, European, and let's listen to what she has to say. Ethnonationalism is the real true form of
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nationalism and everything else is a lie. Those that wish to subversively dilute its meaning,
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to ignore truths they find hard to accept, cannot be trusted and they must be cast aside.
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countries like japan have got it right because they are essentially an ethno-state they are
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97 ethnically japanese and this is why they are a success they do not want the third world to
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invade and infest their country and destroy it and they are unapologetic about it they look to
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european nations like ourselves as a prime example of what not to do the british identity was true
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yeah so she's basically going on and on about this idea of an ethno-state and okay so a few
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things. One, you obviously know that I agree because you basically said what I was saying
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in my piece here. But in addition to that, I'm almost frustrated that she's saying it, right?
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Where are the men saying this? We live in a society where women are saying more of these
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truths because they do have essentially more freedom in a feministic culture. We've made it
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almost illegal for men to criticize anything that a feminist would agree with. And so men have become
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more timid. I do believe that we are seeing an uprising of men. But you see this, like the PTA
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meetings, who's there? It's the women that are there at the PTA meetings that are having these
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recorded things or city council. It's the women that are there doing that. And again, I do believe
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in Europe, especially women do have this particular need to speak because they are being victimized
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by rape at such a high degree. To be a woman in Europe, to walk around at night is absolutely
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dangerous. And so, but I appreciate young women. My hope is that, I don't know if she's married,
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I don't know her story or whatever. I also, again, you guys know that I'm not a giant fan
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of women being on the internet, but I think there is a time and place and exceptions for particular
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things to have discussions that we might together overturn some of these greater problems. So I
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thought that was a fascinating episode. Her name is, I think, S-A-S or something like that.
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Syska. I can't remember her actual name, but you can find her on Instagram. The next one
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is Adam Carolla. And I haven't paid attention to him for some time. And this video just popped up
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and I thought it was really good. It's a little long, so we're going to just watch it for a few
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minutes together. But it was really helpful because it used the term gyno-fascism. And I
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think that's a very good term. Let's take a look. What's the one thing we're not talking about that
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we should be? Gyno-fascism. I figured you'd make that look. It's something I've been thinking about
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a lot over the last like 20 years like we need more women in positions of power we need more
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women making the calls and calling the shots we need a woman president we need a woman prime
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minister we need more feminine presence like everywhere and and la is like mostly women
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uh city council we have a female mayor and we don't get anything done and i started to really
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think about like what there's a difference between the male brain and the female brain and the male
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brain wants to do stuff like go go go like if you want no difference between the male brain and the
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female brain karen bass and donald trump got together three days after the fires and donald
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trump was like let's get going move clean up those lots let's get building and she was like slow it
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down, slow it down. She is a process person and women are more likely to be process people. They
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talk, they want to talk it out. They want to work. They want to have a meeting and they want to break
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off and have another meeting. And then I'm going to put together a blue ribbon panel. And so in LA,
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we have a homeless problem and the homeless problem keeps getting worse every year, but we
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keep having more conversations and more panels and more groups, but it's mostly women and nothing
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ever gets enacted. And we are heading toward a society that used to be men, men, men, testosterone,
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testosterone. And by the way, I'm not making this up. You're going to see more articles and stuff
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coming out that the feminine mind is different. And the feminine mind is also satiated by actually
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discussing the thing. So if we're sitting here and, you know, you're going, we should take this
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The feminine mind actually feels like we did something,
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whereas the male mind is like we haven't done anything.
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We just keep talking about this thing that we're not doing,
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So the feminization is causing a huge shift in our culture.
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We just got crushed by COVID, especially in Los Angeles,
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And by the way, men can be stricken with this.
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Gavin Newsom's a pussy, and Eric Garcetti, our former mayor.
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And they're signaling, they're presenting.
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And it will fuck up our society because if something like COVID comes around, their plan is nobody leaves their house, shut all the schools.
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Dealing with the danger is shut is shut down.
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Barbara Ferrer, the health whatever crazy witch who ran this town, her plan was just shut it down.
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Rochelle Walensky, CDC, just no, no nothing.
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And by the way, lie, if you have to, to keep it shut down.
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So there is a gyno-fascism that's sort of coming,
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we wouldn't have wars, we wouldn't have crime,
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I'm really impressed with his willingness to say it
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So I think we're going to see a great noticing of this
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Two points that I thought were fascinating.
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The reason they have the meetings and the gatherings
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is because they are desiring harmony. They don't want to steamroll anybody. And the reason they
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desire harmony is because they absolutely abhor conflict. And so harmony is the other thing.
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And the other thing I thought was fascinating was that women are satiated by discussions.
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So they think that something is done when in reality, nothing is done. And this is, again,
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we're rediscovering old truths. And it's why women must not be in positions of leadership
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anywhere, really. I think that women, I mean, outside of, again, like unique circumstances,
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dealing with babies or caring for the hospice care for the sick. I mean, there's just like a few
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exceptions, but generally speaking, men need to be running the vast majority of society,
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all of the government, all of the church, all of the home. And so I thought that was a fascinating
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take. And I love the term. The next clip that we're going to be talking about is just,
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you know, I have my book, 19 Reasons to Repeal the 19th Amendment. And this is just one of those
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videos that you see and you go, oh my gosh, these people vote. These people vote.
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do you think about brexit what what's that like where we're leaving the european union i don't i
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seriously don't have so like if you so it was to leave the eu so we wouldn't be part of europe
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yeah which would mean like welfare and like things we trade with would be cut down so does that mean
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we won't have any trees cheese trees oh no that's got nothing to do with it we have trees we're just
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not in the european union we're still classes like being in europe doesn't it mean it'd be
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odd so these people vote okay and that happens uh in america as well these young 18 year old women
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who have no clue about any civic reality legislative system they probably can't name
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the branches of government and these people vote part of my argument in the 19 reasons to repeal
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the 19th Amendment is that it's dispelling the myth that everybody should vote. The reality is
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that very few people should vote. Not even all men should vote. There should be high qualifications
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in order to vote and lead society. The idea that just anybody, like if you have a pulse and you're
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over the age of 18 that you should vote, it's the most foolish idea. We don't do that in any other
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dimension of our life. And so this was just a fascinating take that really helped me,
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I think, communicate why we need to have this discussion at a national level about the repealing
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of the 19th Amendment. And by the way, I know that it's going to be almost impossible to repeal
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the 19th Amendment. Why would I be talking about it? Why would I write a book about it?
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Well, the reason is this. If we balkanize as a nation, if we shrink down into a conservative
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America made up of a handful of states and become our own country in five to 10 years,
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I want that nation to be very clear on not letting women vote. I'm a big fan of the household vote
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cast by the husband. But this cannot happen. So this is why I'm planting the seeds of this
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discussion. And honestly, a vast majority of women are for it. I mean, when I post about it,
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the comments, you get the crazy blue haired liberals that are pissed. But outside of that,
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you have lots of women that are willing and ready to give up the 19th amendment because
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they connect the dots that our world is what it is because of feminism.
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Next week, I'm going to be discussing the post-war consensus and the fall of America.
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Thank you for watching or listening to American Grit, and I'll see you next week.