00:01:17.480I unpack the post-war consensus and how we went from a nationalistic, patriarchal Christian0.63
00:01:23.160America to a hellhole of diversity, tolerance, feminism, multiculturalism, and individualism.0.99
00:01:29.760In my weekly audit, I'll be discussing sinful black partiality in our Western court system0.91
00:01:34.220and white guilt that continues to be cultivated across mainstream media.0.89
00:01:38.540All that and more coming up right now.
00:01:47.480Welcome to American Grit. We're going to be talking about American identity.
00:01:58.440I'm your host, Dale Partridge. This is episode number four, titled The Post-War Consensus and
00:02:04.940the Fall of America. Each season, I'll be covering an American theme with about eight
00:02:10.100episodes. And in the last episode, I offered the seven marks of the pre-war consensus, which
00:02:15.800functioned as part of kind of a one part or a part one of a two-part series. Now, my goal in
00:02:21.740this episode is to give you a macro view of the sociopolitical landscape and how it shifted from
00:02:29.120the closed, strong societies of the pre-war world to the open, weaker societies of the post-war era.
00:02:36.640Now, ultimately, I want you to see how we went from a strong Christian nation to a weak,0.62
00:02:43.860secular nation in less than 60 years. And when you understand this kind of larger cultural pattern,
00:02:50.840it'll help you not only see your place in history and the greater world, but also
00:02:58.020better understand where things are headed. And let me say this, because of the rampant
00:03:05.400Gnosticism in the church today, that's the belief that only the spiritual matters. American
00:03:11.020Christians have been almost willfully ignorant of cultural and political realities. It's made us1.00
00:03:17.440unable to contend or contribute and engage at the national level. And this is not true of Muslims.1.00
00:03:26.400It's not true of Hindus. What's so frustrating is that this kind of spiritual-only way of thinking
00:03:34.460is foreign to almost all of church history. In fact, in most of Christian history, the key
00:03:41.460political players are Christian. And so my hope is in this episode is really to educate the church
00:03:47.560on the macro political and cultural landscape so that more Christian men can contribute
00:03:53.200to the Christianization of America. So let's begin.
00:03:57.240so how do we get here how did we get to race wars and israel wars and boomers against zoomers and
00:04:06.180mass immigration and multiculturalism how do we get lady judges and foreign politicians how do
00:04:12.240we get this adoption of dei and tolerance and individualism and atheism and globalism
00:04:18.260what about the homosexual marriages the transgender people right what about legalized0.99
00:04:23.920sex trafficking through gay adoption and surrogate babies? Why are nationalists and natural0.99
00:04:29.860affections called racist? Why is patriarchy called misogyny? Why are you not allowed to
00:04:37.660notice patterns in black crime or in Jewish political involvement? Why can't you speak0.76
00:04:43.080against the 19th Amendment without being called a bigot? And why are Christian white men portrayed0.85
00:04:49.880as essentially the ultimate enemy. The answers to all of these questions are connected to the
00:04:56.800post-war consensus. Now, before some, you know, evangelist says to me, Dale, these are just sin
00:05:05.280problems. That's why they're here. Stop making it more than it is. To them, I would say something
00:05:12.300like this. Well, you're correct. It's at the very least a sin problem, but it's not merely
00:05:18.340the organic result of sin. This is a unique, manufactured, cultural phenomenon never seen
00:05:26.120in the history of the world. See, prior to 1950, we had thousands of years of the pre-war consensus.
00:05:32.980It was still a sinful and fallen world, yet there was no mass feminism. There was no
00:05:38.740mass homosexuality or transgenderism or globalism or mass immigration or interracial marriage0.86
00:05:45.020happening everywhere or pornification of society. There was no careful culture. Okay. What we are0.91
00:05:49.980dealing with in the last 70 years is historically unprecedented. Okay. Like I cannot look to any
00:05:57.660previous generation for advice on these issues because none of them have ever existed on this
00:06:03.700type of scale before. In other words, society has simply never had to address what we are dealing
00:06:11.780with at mass. So the question again is what happened? How did we have such a catastrophic
00:06:18.520shift in such a short amount of time? So let me, let me just get clear first. Okay. If I had to
00:06:26.140summarize the central intent of the post-war consensus, it would be this, the erasure of
00:06:32.700distinctions and hierarchies. Okay. So the deliberate removal of differences between races,
00:06:39.360ethnicities, nations, genders, religions, right? It is the great flattening. The technical term,
00:06:46.480as we all know, is egalitarianism. Now, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
00:06:50.980defines egalitarianism as, quote, a school of thought in contemporary political philosophy
00:06:57.860that treats equality as the chief value of just political system, of a just political system.
00:07:04.760Simply put, egalitarians argue for equality. They have a presumption in favor of social
00:07:11.820arrangements that advance equality, and they treat deviations from equality as suspect,
00:07:18.540end quote. Okay, now here's why. As we will see, much of the PwC, the post-war consensus,
00:07:25.440is driven by the feminization of society. Okay, women of both sexes hate conflict.0.91
00:07:33.220They will do anything to avoid it. Eliminating distinction between sex and race and nation and religion, all these things. Eliminating distinctions is a way to remove any possibility of comparison, competition, hierarchy, because distinctions imply difference.0.99
00:07:53.880Indifference inevitably leads to judgments of superiority and inferiority, which produces,
00:08:00.440you guessed it, conflict. So for most of human history, okay, distinctions were seen as natural.
00:08:07.900They were God-given and they were socially beneficial. They created order. They created
00:08:12.980identity, accountability. They created a sense of cultural continuity. But again, how did we
00:08:19.380lose this? How did distinctions go from good and necessary for thousands of years to problematic
00:08:28.500and oppressive in just 70 years? Now, I believe there were five, five main drivers behind the
00:08:39.300switch. I might only list four because I might, so there's four to five. But before we talk about
00:08:47.220those drivers. I'm going to go with four. I'm going to go with four because I'm going to save
00:08:50.300the fifth one for my next episode. I want to discuss four earlier foundations that were laid.
00:08:58.440So this makes it simple, right? So four foundations and then four drivers. That's
00:09:02.820what we're going to talk about, right? And so I want to discuss these earlier foundations that
00:09:07.080were laid. And these are the groundwork that allowed the West to embrace the post-war mindset
00:09:13.800so rapidly in the 1960s. In other words, while the shift was rapid, there were prerequisite
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00:11:00.440So the first foundation began with the Civil War and the American Reconstruction. Now, as many of you know, the Naturalization Act of 1790 limited citizenship to free white persons of good character.
00:11:16.660But 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.
00:11:34.560Now, what did this do? Well, of course, this was the embryonic effort to erase racial distinctions
00:11:41.900tied to a particular nation, especially as it pertains to American law. And it primed the
00:11:48.800country to be a multi-ethnic nation. So up until that point, so you're talking, you know, since
00:11:54.9801620 or so, you had a nation that was exclusively white. While there were blacks there, they were0.92
00:12:02.020not considered citizens. And so it also marked the beginning of eliminating racial differences0.73
00:12:07.940in American law. So this is planting the seed for future non-European immigration policies0.80
00:12:15.080and creating a legal foundation that later tempted illegal immigration, anchor babies,
00:12:23.100all of the things that would come with that because essentially you could earn
00:12:25.840automatic citizenship simply by being born on American soil. So that's the foundation number
00:12:33.040one. The second foundation was the first wave feminism, which emerged in the late 1800s.1.00
00:12:40.840Now, so just as the Civil War and the 14th Amendment began erasing racial distinctions0.98
00:12:46.700in American law and the understanding of ethnicity in a nation, first wave feminism begins to1.00
00:12:53.580systematically erase sexual distinctions. And so when they were demanding involvement through1.00
00:12:59.640suffrage, women, the suffragettes successfully pressured the state to stop treating married
00:13:06.200couples as a single legal unit under that historic doctrine, which we talked about called0.52
00:13:11.720coverture, where a woman essentially loses her legal identity in her husband. It's from the
00:13:16.940biblical idea of two becoming one. And instead, the laws began viewing husbands and wives as
00:13:24.720separate autonomous legal individual entities. Now, this legal shift was a critical step in
00:13:34.700what? Well, in dismantling the biblical model of marriage and the family. And it directly fueled
00:13:40.320the rise of radical individualism and self-expression that came to define the post-war
00:13:47.020consensus many decades later. So feminism's war on sexual distinctions laid the groundwork
00:13:53.720for the modern view that men and women are essentially interchangeable and that individual
00:14:00.760rights trump covenantal responsibilities and structure. So that's point number two.
00:14:07.420The third foundation is what I call American supremacy, American supremacy. Now, as America
00:14:16.420became the world's leading superpower, we began to see it as our kind of noble responsibility
00:14:24.540to think less like a nation and more like an empire. And what I mean by that is that the seeds
00:14:33.100were planted for, you know, so let me just back up for a second. You got point number one, the
00:14:38.760seeds are planted for eliminating racial distinctions in the 14th amendment, then the1.00
00:14:43.200sexual distinctions in the third wave feminism. And here we begin to lose our nationalistic
00:14:49.020distinctions because we're thinking like an empire. Okay. So, so the empire, the way that
00:14:54.780it's kind of flattening out is that we're not thinking like a sovereign nation. We're now
00:14:58.320thinking bigger, like an empire that is less nationalistic. It's more multi-ethnic, multinational.
00:15:08.060Okay, that's how we started to think. In the 1910s, Woodrow Wilson had something what's called
00:15:14.400Wilsonianism, and this dramatically reshaped America's identity with his famous call to,
00:15:20.940quote, make the world safe for democracy. And he had something what's called the 14 points policy,
00:15:25.240where he casts America essentially as like a global political missionary. And we were charged
00:15:31.700with essentially spreading self-determination, collective security, and open trade across the
00:15:37.240world. Now, this was a really dangerous shift away from nationalism for two reasons. So first,
00:15:43.360our founders built a constitutional republic, not a peer democracy. Second, they warned against
00:15:50.740foreign entanglements. Don't get involved with foreign entanglements. Yet again, Wilson turned1.00
00:15:56.740us into an empire to police the world. In fact, his emphasis on democracy became a Trojan horse
00:16:04.100that really pulled us into World War I, and it laid the foundation for a variety of other things
00:16:08.440of global order, including the Atlantic Charter and also the United Nations. So what started as
00:16:15.960this lofty rhetoric quietly transformed us from a self-governing republic into the world's
00:16:24.860self-appointed social engineer for democracy. So this was kind of, again, laying a foundation for
00:16:30.860globalism. So again, you have these foundations, the first three, right? So you have the distinctions
00:16:35.800of eliminating racial distinctions, at least in the law. And then you have the foundation of
00:16:41.460sexual distinctions. And then here, you're now losing some nationalistic distinctions. Everything's
00:16:46.240kind of blurring, right? It's kind of becoming androgynous. And the last major foundation0.86
00:16:52.160is Jewish involvement in American politics, but more than politics, really also finance,0.79
00:17:00.500culture, and media, which truly began the elimination of our religious distinctions0.65
00:17:06.640from the Jews and gave us birth to this kind of hyphenated heresy of Judeo-Christianity.0.73
00:17:15.220And so what many American Christians don't know is that throughout Christian history,
00:17:20.620the Jews have been viewed as the enemy of Christians, the enemy of Christ, right?
00:17:25.940Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, they all wrote about it in the second and third centuries.
00:17:31.880Augustine, John Chrysostom wrote about it in the fourth centuries.
00:17:36.060Chrysostom wrote, quote, the Jews sacrificed their children to Satan.0.99
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00:21:51.060So by the 1930s and 40s, all four of these foundations, the erasure of racial, sexual, national, and religious distinctions, had fully primed the West for what would become the PwC.
00:22:07.340Now, when you combine the victory of World War II against fascism, you know, which again,
00:31:02.200and products from overseas. And so this economic pressure, heavily influenced by
00:31:07.680the passage of the 1965 Heart Seller Act, which we're going to be talking about in the next
00:31:12.580episode. But we began essentially seeing an opportunity to further this globalistic framework
00:31:24.240through economic desires. And that was a huge driver on importing people. I mean,
00:31:32.820you think about the H-1B visas, you think about all of the stuff around labor,
00:31:37.680you know, not made in America, made in Japan, made in China, all of that stuff came and it
00:31:43.500started making us think more internationally, more globalistically, more empire and less
00:31:48.960nationally. Okay. The fourth driver. The fourth driver is the triumph of radical individualism
00:31:58.040and consumerism. And there's a really good book, The Age of Entitlement, that really talks about
00:32:06.180this. But when you remove all of the distinctions, when you're drowning in now and guilt and shame
00:32:16.960from the Marxism, and then you fuel it with raw capitalistic greed, detached from Christianity.
00:32:24.100The natural result is radical individualism. Every person became an autonomous god.
00:32:32.580The old world's covenantal group mindset, you know, duty to church and family and nation,
00:32:38.980they're like butchered on the altar of self-expression. And when the individual becomes
00:32:48.160king, any call to group identity becomes an enemy. And this manifested heavily with the
00:32:56.120boomer generation. They are the most objectively selfish generation in human history. They were1.00
00:33:04.100raised by, well, yeah, there's some rationale here. They were raised by checked out fathers
00:33:11.480broken by war, so PTSD, feminist mothers who left the home for work during their husband's time for
00:33:20.700war. And for the first time ever, children were raised on the television. Now, it wasn't the TV
00:33:30.240or the TV shows that necessarily destroyed them. It was the commercials that taught them that life
00:33:37.680revolves around me. In other words, they were the first generation of children deliberately targeted
00:33:45.480by corporations for advertising. And so this childhood entitlement that started, you know,
00:33:52.580post-war, it exploded in the 1960s. And so you had this, again, entitlement mentality. It was
00:34:00.960built up into these young people. And then you have the sexual revolution, which quickly became
00:34:07.880essentially a marketplace to quench sexual desires. Pornography was born. Birth rates collapsed.
00:34:15.220Children were now seen as kind of a threat to personal freedom. We saw that the boomers had1.00
00:34:21.020less children in the generations before them. Even the church morphed into kind of a marketplace
00:34:26.480of programs and entertainment and emotional pragmatic experiences. And so this kind of
00:34:33.820me first generation acts somewhat like a tsunami that's like roaring through the 1960s and 70s and
00:34:43.460really pushing through even the 2010s. And this group, if you just look through 1960 to 2020,
00:34:52.020what happened? Well, we enshrined feminism, sexual anarchy, untethered capitalism,0.98
00:34:59.280mass immigration. And so, you know, blinded by this self-love, they never once, these boomers,0.91
00:35:07.620never once asked what kind of nation they were handing their children and grandchildren.
00:35:15.220I mean, we see this with their bumper stickers, right? Spending my children's inheritance.
00:35:19.840Now, again, I get it. Not every boomer is like that. There are some great, excellent men and
00:35:25.720women in the boomer generation. But the post-war consensus, the world we all grew up in
00:35:33.300was a violent pendulum swing against the old order. It was, again, driven by guilt over
00:35:41.560nationalism and Christianity. It was shamed by Marxism. It was fueled by godless capitalism,
00:35:47.700powered by the most selfish generation to ever walk the earth. It was essentially leaving us
00:35:54.940with a relentless sense of what? Confusion, right? We have no anchor points, no identity,
00:36:01.580no heritage, no history, no patterns to follow from the old world. Everything has been stripped0.58
00:36:10.360away. We are kind of become this blob of androgyny, and any expression of group identity
00:36:18.500is racist. It's white supremacy. It's white nationalism. It's like we've been struck0.91
00:36:27.380with some sort of national amnesia and getting out of this is going to require a long process
00:36:36.060of retrieval and recovery. It's going to require us reading books from before the 20th century.
00:36:44.520It'll be a time of remembering what the world operated like outside of our modern
00:36:50.900tolerance, multicultural, multi-ethnic, diverse, you know, inclusion, feministic,
00:36:58.840globalistic world. Okay. Modernity is not going to help us. So what do we do? What do we do?
00:37:08.960A few things. Go read the scriptures. You got to go read the scriptures. You got to remember the
00:37:13.840old world. You got to start, you got to try to not look at it through the lens of your modern
00:37:20.740modern PWC mindset. It's all over us. It's the water we swim in. It's like a fish doesn't know
00:37:26.160it's wet. We are covered in PWC. And so we have to try to read the scriptures. And one of the
00:37:33.460great ways to do this is to read commentaries, pre-1900 commentaries, and see what their
00:37:40.380interpretation was. That is a very helpful way to see how the men before us were reading the
00:37:50.040scriptures. Then go read the classics. Go read that old world classic literature. Go read the
00:37:56.940Puritans. Go read the Reformers. Go read Chesterton. Read Washington. Read Roosevelt.0.99
00:38:03.620Read the biographies of these men and read biographies that were written at least in the
00:38:09.0801900s or earlier, because even now we have revisionist history garbage that's trying to0.53
00:38:14.360erase the old world, you know, Christopher Nolan trying to add every, replace every white person0.97
00:38:20.860with a black person. And, you know, the new Harry Potter trying to replace them with white people0.96
00:38:26.480with black. I mean, it's just revisionist history, revisionist fiction. It's, it's constant.1.00
00:38:30.220It's everywhere. And so we need to turn back to the old men, the dead people to figure out0.99
00:38:40.780But where is the way forward? Where's the way forward? We need their guidance. And that is a desperate work of today's generation. So recovery and retrieval, that is what we are doing. All right, let's move on to the weekly audit.0.84
00:38:58.460so i want to talk about black partiality and this two-tiered justice system so i'm going to show you
00:39:13.060a quick video i've kind of clipped it up a little bit just to make a little bit shorter we'll watch
00:39:17.960it together and i'll have some commentary after it pulled up to their home and pointed weapons
00:39:22.880at the children and the other people at the party here's what she said
00:39:26.220Judge William McLean noted before sentencing that given the nature of the language use,
00:39:34.600heavy use of the N-word directed at the people and children at that birthday party,
00:39:39.540he said that there was no doubt that this was a racially motivated crime.
00:39:44.560And he also said driving around town in a convoy of pickup trucks with Confederate flags
00:39:50.500and waving weapons was seen as a threat not just to this family,0.80
00:39:53.880but to the many people who ended up calling 911 that day, he said that is why he felt like
00:39:58.020the defendants had to be held accountable. There were other people who were charged in this case.
00:40:03.440They pled their serving two to four years. We'll have much more on this.
00:40:07.640Yeah. So this is an old video that had recently resurfaced across X.
00:40:12.580It's a Georgia couple. They flew Confederate flags. They're yelling racial slurs. They're
00:40:19.140brandishing guns and they made implied death threats or at least some sort of threats toward0.98
00:40:24.700a black family. And they were sentenced as committing a hate crime. Joe Torres got 20 years.
00:40:34.360Kyla Norton got 15. Now it was certainly foolish, evil, and wicked. They should not have been doing0.99
00:40:40.780that. But there was no assault. There was no contact. There was essentially just mean words,
00:40:46.940threats and brandishing. But when you contrast that to the sentencing of other cases, not with
00:40:55.020mean words, but with actual assault and murder, you start to see the problem. So there's a few
00:41:02.560other cases that I just think about. Jordan Hill, he's 18 years old. Tesfaye Cooper, age 18 of
00:41:09.920Chicago, Brittany Covington, 18, Chicago, Tunisia Covington, 24 of Chicago. They were each charged
00:41:18.840with aggravated kidnapping, hate crime, aggravated unlawful restraint, battery, use of a deadly
00:41:26.680weapon. The incident involved a victim being tied up, beaten, forced to drink water from a toilet
00:41:35.960while the attackers made derogatory comments on them
00:41:41.360and they received four to eight years.