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Is socialism the future of America? · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  Helping to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
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  This is the Constitution Study on the America Out Loud Network with your host Paul Engel.
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  With all of the talk and reactions to Zoran Mandami becoming the new mayor of New York City, one question seems to keep coming to the fore.
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  Is socialism the future of politics in America?
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  Hello there, everyday Americans.
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  Paul Engel here with the Constitution Study where we read and study the Constitution.
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  Teach the rising generation to be meat-free.
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  I'm so glad you could join me today.
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  You know, um, yeah, a lot is being made about um Zoran Mandami and uh the socialist um becoming the first socialist and first Muslim president or mayor of New York City, the arguably the largest city in the nation, certainly our financial center.
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  And of course, the reactions have been interesting.
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  Uh, some people believe that we would never do no, no, never in America would a socialist attain a position of power forgetting that we've had a socialist in the Senate for how many years now?
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  Decades.
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  Bernie Sanders, vowed socialist.
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  But what's interesting is he's also a dead.
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  Well, he he says he's an independent, but he basically follows the Democrats around like uh like a puppy dog.
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  Um, then we've got uh Mr.
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  Mondami, who's a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and I'm seeing a pattern, of course.
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  He's not the only socialist, they're just these the ones that are most uh vocal about it in national news, which again reminds me of a quote from Vladimir Lenin.
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  Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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  This idea that um uh and and democracy in this idea that that you know, people will always choose what they think will benefit them the most.
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  All right, let's put another way.
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  People are greedy.
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  You offer them free stuff, they're gonna vote for it.
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  That just seems to be the way of things.
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  It's the way so many things are just look at Mondami, right?
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  What did he promise?
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  Um, free buses, uh government-run grocery stores, rent control, all of this free stuff, and uh like I said, apparently people well, they haven't looked at the um they haven't looked at the rest of the story because this has been played, this has played out before, and it never really ends well.
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  But believe it or not, um Mr.
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  Mondami isn't the only socialist that won elections this past week.
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  Uh Kelsa Bond in Atlanta, Georgia, Denzel McCampbell in Detroit, Michigan, Denny uh was it Noel in Carlborough, North Carolina, Aya Alzubi in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Frankie Fritz and Greenbelt, Maryland, and four Minneapolis uh Minnesota candidates, Aisha Chugatti, Jason Chavez, Robin Wonsley, and Soren Stevenson, all won their races after being endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America.
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  Now, not all of them, I don't know if they were all party members, I don't know if they had paid their dues, but they all were endorsed by the socialists.
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  So Mondami is not as much of a one-off as some people would think, which goes back to the question is socialism the future of America.
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  Have the American people decided, or are I should say, are a greater number of the American people deciding that the the promises of socialism outweigh the downside, the benefit, the pain and and a heartbreak that socialism has wrought uh throughout history?
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  It seems so, at least to a small extent.
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  Now, why after looking at the history of socialism in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, even China?
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  Why do so many of the American people keep voting for people who if not are directly avowed socialists, at least are supported by the socialists?
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  And I believe the answer is quite simple.
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  It's the promise of free stuff.
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  Americans are human, and just like every most other humans, we want to rob other people's pockets.
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  We think that anybody who has more than we do somehow got it illegally or illegitimately, and and we are owed stuff from other people's pockets, which is exactly what socialism feeds on.
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  It's the promise of Brumall according to their ability.
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  No, no, is it to each according to their needs, from each according to their ability?
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  The idea of you know it's it's the fake Robin Hood, right?
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  Steal from the rich, give to the poor, which by the way is not what Robin Hood did.
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  Um, the actual story of Robin talked about stealing from those who stole from others and returning to them.
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  But that's that's not the purpose of today's episode.
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  So the question is again, is socialism our future?
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  And if not, what are we gonna do about it?
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  Do we look at what happened in New York and say, how do we keep that from happening here?
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  How do we keep that from happening in you know Nashville or or Louisville or even Miami and Los Angeles and Chicago?
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  How?
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  Because remember, uh, Los Angeles has flirted with this before.
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  They came up with the great ideas of of you know huge uh uh minimum wages and free health care and California's tried this and it failed miserably.
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  But we're trying it again.
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  Now, I predict that um if Zoramandani is able to implement a free half, a quarter of the programs he has touted.
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  Now, granted, he's a politician.
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  How can you tell when a politician is lying?
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  Their lips are moving, right?
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  So maybe he was just lying to dupe the foolish Americans to put him in power, and then he's gonna do something else.
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  We'll find out.
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  But if he puts into place what he's been talking about, New York City is going to continue to fall into the dystopia that they've asked for.
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  Yes, asked for.
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  Would you vote for a socialist and you look at history?
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  You say, hmm, that's what I want.
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  I want breadlines.
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  I I want uh uh you know, no choices.
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  I want to be told where to go to school and where to go to work and where I'm gonna live, and and I want to be told how to live my life.
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  But again, I think the American people forget we are hiring employees.
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  And I want to ask you, um, if you had an employee, you were working in a in a business, and you were to hire an employee and found out that uh they once claimed to be an illegal alien.
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  Would you hire them?
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  I guess I suppose is what's the job is.
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  How about his mayor?
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  Because that's what the people of St.
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  Paul, Minnesota did.
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  State representative uh Coley Vong, uh, I'm sorry, Coley Vong her.
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  Uh she won Tuesday, the male election for St.
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  Paul, Minnesota.
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  Though she had previously stated that she's she's an immigrant into this country from Lyle from Laos.
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  She was born in Laos, and she came in as a refugee, and once claimed during a public meeting, she says, I am illegal in this country.
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  My parents are illegal here in this country.
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  And um, she goes, I tell you this story because I want you to think about who it is that you are calling illegal.
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  My family was smarter in how we illegally came here.
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  So she claims not to be illegal, but to be a smart enough to game the system illegal, and she's who the people of St.
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  Paul chose to be there.
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  Mayor.
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  In many ways, I think that tells me a lot more about the people of St.
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  Paul than it does about Ms.
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  Herr.
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  So if we look at these races, if we look at the number of of uh DSA supported candidates who won, we look at the prominence of Zoran Mandami and his entire campaign was not one of hiding his socialist desires, but of promoting his socialist desires.
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  And the people voted for him.
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  Well, if we live in a in a republic, we get to choose our representatives.
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  Uh, I think the American people should get exactly what they voted for, and they should get it good and hard.
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  Maybe that's how they're learning their lesson.
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  I mean, New York City's done this before.
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  I was around during the during the the Koch days.
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  Uh I saw the murder rate spike.
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  I saw areas of the city you simply didn't go to or maybe didn't go to at night because of the criminal activity.
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  And eventually uh New York City voters chose uh Rudy Giuliani to clean up the streets.
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  Which he did.
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  But again, I'm you know, maybe that's what it takes.
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  Maybe every so often uh was it the Jefferson's.
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  That the Tree of Liberty needed to be watered every so often with the blood of patriots.
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  Maybe these cities just need to be reminded just how ugly socialism really is in order to go back to something, well, a little less socialist.
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  Or is this a sign of things to come?
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  Is this the first wave of a group of uh socialist candidates winning prominent elections and leading this country down a socialist path?
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  We've been heading this way for a while.
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  I'm this is not something new, right?
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  Obama was uh was a socialist, uh Biden was a dictator um with a lot of socialist tendencies, at least when he was coherent.
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  So it this is not like it's suddenly, oh my god, everything's changed.
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  No, this has been the slow ebb, and have we the question really is have we turned a corner?
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  Yeah, I I remember it before my time would happen, but I remember the stories about how um John F.
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  Kennedy broke his glass ceiling as the first Roman Catholic to win the presidency.
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  Could this be something similar?
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  Could these could could Zora Mondani being the first uh uh socialist to be mayor of New York City be a turning point in history?
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  I don't know.
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  History will only history will tell.
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  We will only learn over time.
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  But I have to come back to that basic question.
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  If this is what the people of New York City want, this is who they've voted for, this is what they want.
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  What happens when they find out the true costs?
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  Will they reach out to the rest of us for a helping hand?
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  Will they demand that we bail them out of their bad mistakes, as well other states and cities have in the past.
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  Whether or not socialism is the future of America is not in the hands of the politicians, it's in the hands of the American people.
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  You see, I think part of the reason why Mondani won and why probably most of the other uh DSA endorsed candidates won, is not so much the Democratic Socialists of America, but the fact they were part of the Democratic Party.
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  I got an interesting comment that that pointed something on.
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  It's like most people vote vape for donkeys or elephants.
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  And when you vote for donkeys or elephants, you get for whoever the donkeys want and the elephants want.
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  Which means you've intentionally limited your choices to what some other people think would be the best person for specific uh uh specific office, and making that person dependent on the political party for their position, meaning they're gonna want to support that work because that's how they keep their position.
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  Which leads me to believe that if socialism is the future of this country, it'll be because the American people voted for one of two things greed or donkeys.
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  In other words, they voted because someone offered them something for free.
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  Forgetting there's no such thing as a free lunch.
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  But in the in their greed to get something from somebody else to you know, tax the rich or whatever, they will sell themselves into socialism to a an enslavement by the government for the promise of free stuff.
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  The other will be a blind faith in a political party, regardless of where they're going, regardless of how effective their policies are, regardless of the rule of law.
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  Which means ultimately the question of is socialism our future is not a question for the politicians.
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  It's a question for we the people.
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  You know, there's a reason why my family moved out of New York City way back in the 70s.
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  There's a reason why I moved my family out of New York State altogether uh 10 years ago.
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  We the people have to choose, and if we're in a in a city or a state that is following uh a damaging socialist destructive direction, then we have to decide what's more important, our attachment to a location or an attachment to our freedom.
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  Because so far, socialism is isolated spots in this country.
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  They're pimples on the pardon the phrase of their pimples on the back side of America.
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  The question is, will we let those pimples grow?
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  Or will we keep them contained into the little areas where they can do the least amount of damage to the rest of us as possible?
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  Now, as the political focus turns to the uh uh midterm elections in 26, ask yourself that question.
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  What is it worth?
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  What's more important to you?
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  Your party or your freedom.
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  What's more important to you?
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  The promise, uh, the the false promise of free goodies, or the liberty of your children.
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  And whether or not socialism takes hold in these enclaves is up to those citizens.
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  And if those if if that uh foothold grows, it's because we the people in those areas let it happen.
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  And if it does eventually take over this nation, if we sell our birthright for a promise of free stuff, the fault will ultimately be with we the people.
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  Because as much as people like to complain to the contrary, it is we the people that choose those in Congress in the House and in the Senate.
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  Uh, indirectly, we choose the president, indirectly we choose, which means indirectly we choose the judges.
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  It is our representatives that are doing that work for us.
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  And if we don't take seriously the constitutional requirement of those representatives to hold them accountable for their actions, then aren't we responsible for our lack of vision?
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  Our lack of fulfillment of the duties we claim we have as free and independent citizens, as a free people.
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  Welcome back, everyday Americans you'd rejoin the Constitution study.
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  And today we're asking is socialism the future of America.
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  There are some people that look at the recent elections and say, yes, socialism is on its way.
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  There are others saying, no, America would never be a socialist country.
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  And well, I think both of them have some bit a bit of a point, but uh I want to keep looking at this information.
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  Uh going back to New York City.
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  Uh um, there was an announcement made.
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  I hadn't heard this position before, but it was made by a campaign staffer for Mr.
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  Mondani.
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  Zoran is literally attempting to do what conservatives say uh, you know, we want to do, which is provide gender affirming care to anyone who laws it for free, and we're gonna like ship people, we're gonna fly people in and pay for their hotel rooms, we're gonna do all of the like Fox News stuff.
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  Now, they're claiming that, or this gentleman is claiming that they're getting information from the conservatives, what the conservatives are saying, uh, what Fox News is saying, and that is yeah, we're gonna provide uh uh free, they call it gender affirming care.
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  It's actually gender denying care.
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  It denies the gender that a person is and makes it up with something else, and they're even gonna fly people in, pay for their hotel rooms.
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  Oh boy, all the mentally disturbed transgender people get to go to New York City to get their treatments absolutely free.
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  I'm sure a majority of the people of the city of North New York are more than willing to pay um, I guess Mondani's pledged 65 million dollars from the tax New York City taxpayers uh to treat trans people, including by the way, kids, absolutely free.
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  Well, not free, just the taxpayers of New York City are going to pay for it.
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  And I wonder, I now maybe this is out there.
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  I I mean I have to admit I wasn't following this race that closely, other than the fact that you know the socialist was expected to win, and I was expecting him to win, and this is not a surprise, but um is this the future of New York City?
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  Is this a future of America?
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  Because now the Bureau of Prisons has been ordered by a um a U.S.
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  magistrate, um a judge David Christel, um, claiming that uh this gentleman, uh a Mr.
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  Mr.
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  Buckingham, who claims he's a female, um that he's likely to win in his case because he hasn't been provided the treatment.
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  What's he looking for?
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  Uh laser hair removal, cosmetic services, um, and uh uh other things to make him appear and sound like a woman for this, by the way, man who's arrested, who's been incarcerated, he's he was tried in car for sexually abusing his own son.
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  He is a transgender pedophile currently in prison, and under an executive order signed by Trump, uh the Bureau of Prisons is not providing transgender treatment, but a judge, a single judge says, nope, nope, you're he's likely to win in his lawsuit, so yes, you have to treat him as a female, and you have to pay for the the U.S.
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  taxpayer has to pay for these services to make this dude uh look and sound more like a woman.
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  Now, heart of me wonders, is this the I mean, this is the logical booth of the radical left wing of the part of the Democratic Party.
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  It's been uh, you know, which has been going more and more socialists, actually communist, actually Marxists more than anything else.
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  And now they've got a judge that says, oh, yeah, you know, you have to we have a transgender pedophile.
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  So let's make them more comfortable as a transgender pedophile.
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  And it's not just uh, you know, federal prisons.
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  Uh Thomas Blake Middle School in Massachusetts uh put together a survey for their students, um, asking questions like, what sex were you assigned at birth?
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  Apparently, they middle school doesn't understand biology.
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  Uh ask them about transgenderism, that's about a lot of different questions.
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  Now, the school did send um advanced copies to parents to give them the option to opt out.
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  I I appreciate that.
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  That's that's good.
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  How however, um the what was sent home also warned parents to not share the survey with anyone else.
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  Now, I'm not exactly sure why that is.
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  And yeah, again, I give the the school after some of the other things have been happening recently.
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  The school notified the parents, gave them the option to opt out, but why not share it?
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  Does it they don't they did it that they didn't want the public at large knowing this survey was being given to middle schoolers?
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  Uh again, not sure.
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  There's there's there's some certainly for me, some questions involved in that.
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  But I I give this middle school credit.
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  You did you did send it, let the parents know you get did give them the option to opt out.
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  And I want to point that out for the number of times I've complained about schools that hide these types of surveys from the parents, the Thomas Blake Middle School in Massachusetts did not do that.
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  Now I'm curious why they didn't want it shared.
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  I can think of some well, let's just say less than good reasons, but I don't know.
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  That's the one question I would like to see answered is why why didn't you want it shared?
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  But I find it interesting is uh socialism has a history of obsession with sex.
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  You go back to the 60s, and it was all about free love and no consequences, and then uh through the 70s and 80s, it was all about homosexuality and into the 90s, and then we had trans transgenders and and uh we have this history in this in not solely, it's not but they seem to have an obsession with everything involving sex.
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  You can't, you know, anybody can do whatever they want, and nobody, there's no right and wrong about sex, and that is getting spread as well, as we see with Mondami saying, hey, sure, come to New York.
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  We'll uh we'll give we'll give you the operation, we'll even pay for your airfare.
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  And there's also an obsession with illegal immigration, legal aliens.
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  Just take a look at uh the socialist leaning countries in Europe, and they're having a real problem with people illegally entering their country, and it's like we can't they can't seem to do anything about it.
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  Of course, socialists in this country, uh i.e.
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  the Democratic Party, they just love having people breaking the law to come in here.
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  Come on in.
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  We'll uh we'll even make up rules so that you we pretend that you're actually here legally, and uh if you happen to give birth here, we'll give them citizenship and we'll do all these things.
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  And uh I'm I'm not entirely sure why, but that seems to be the pattern.
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  And speaking of patterns, again, socialists seem to love the idea of government-funded health care.
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  Uh, having recently dealt uh with my father's final days on Medicare.
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  Uh, I can tell you that is a nightmare.
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  The the stuff we went through just to deal with the Medicare loopholes.
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  Um just just crazy.
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  And uh again, you uh people who deal with the VA, same scenario.
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  Now, here's where I find two things that actually come together, and that is the uh a recent uh website from the uh White House that uh looked at the number of people in this country illegally that are on Medicaid.
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  The the website started publishing the names and mud shots and even criminal charges of in the of people who are illegally in this country who are have received Medicaid benefits.
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  Now, a statement from the administration says that they are intensifying their effort against criminal illegal aliens receiving taxpayer funded Medicaid benefits.
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  They've arrested hundreds of unauthorized individuals since taking office, and many of
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  Them included serious crimes, also exploited taxpayer funded Medicaid through different loopholes.
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  And of course, one of the issues with the budget showdown, the failure to pass the continuing resolution of closing the quote unquote shutdown of the federal government has to do with a desire in the provision to expand Medicaid eligibility to illegal aliens.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, we have a debt crisis, and there are people that want to spend even more money, but not just on Americans, but on people who came to this country illegally.
• 30:41
  And that is the future of socialism.
• 30:45
  This insatiable desire for Americans all over the country to get somebody else's money.
• 30:54
  It is pure unadulterated greed.
• 30:58
  Now you may look at yourself and say, I'm not greedy, but if you want a government subsidy for anything, you want someone else's money.
• 31:06
  That's greedy.
• 31:08
  As a nation, we have continued to vote for people that promise to give us free stuff.
• 31:15
  That, ladies and gentlemen, is greed.
• 31:19
  And if there's one thing that means that will bring socialism to America, it's not going to be its effectiveness.
• 31:26
  It's not going to be the promises it makes.
• 31:29
  It's going to be its effect on the heart of the American people.
• 31:32
  The greed that rests at the heart of so many Americans that they want what someone else has.
• 31:42
  They feel justified in wanting and taking what someone else has earned.
• 31:51
  It is ultimately the corruption of the Declaration of Independence, that we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
• 32:05
  That they are endowed by their creator, which we're not allowed to talk about anymore.
• 32:09
  At least not supposed to.
• 32:12
  And they're down with the create with certain unalienable rights.
• 32:14
  And among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
• 32:18
  That happiness was originally property, the original versions of life, liberty, and property.
• 32:24
  That was the quote I think he took from John Locke.
• 32:27
  I'm not sure about the where Jefferson got the quote.
• 32:30
  But the idea of no, no, no, we're going to take your property because we know better what to do with it.
• 32:35
  We're going to take your liberty.
• 32:37
  We're not going to let you live the way you want to live.
• 32:39
  We're going to tell you how to live.
• 32:42
  And ultimately, we're going to control your life.
• 32:49
  That's the way New York City has gone.
• 32:51
  That's the way many other cities have started to move.
• 32:54
  The question is are there enough Americans who can recognize their greed and set it aside for the betterment of themselves and their families?
• 33:07
  Notice, I didn't say the betterment of their country.
• 33:11
  That is a byproduct of what is best for your family.
• 33:18
  Protecting liberty is to me is more important than protecting money.
• 33:24
  It's more important than getting mine.
• 33:27
  Because the liberty I protect today is the liberty my daughter will live with tomorrow.
• 33:37
  So when someone comes and offers me a free lunch, I refuse.
• 33:45
  Because it will cost the liberty of my daughter.
• 33:49
  And that is a price that I will not pay.
• 33:53
  How about you?
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  Will you sell your children into the slavery of socialism for the false promise of goodies today?
• 34:05
  They've done it in New York.
• 34:07
  They've done it in Minnesota.
• 34:10
  They've done it elsewhere.
• 34:12
  Will you?
• 34:15
  Because there are a group of people that believe that is the best future for this country.
• 34:22
  Now, why they think that, I'm not ready to speculate.
• 34:27
  Some people I'm not going to speculate.
• 34:30
  I'm not trying to get into people's heads, but there are obviously people who believe the best future for this country is a socialist one, which means it is one where we are not free.
• 34:43
  I know there mean we're not free.
• 34:45
  They're not free.
• 34:47
  Government tells them how to live their life.
• 34:49
  The only way socialism shows any monicum of uh ability to fulfill its promises is if they take over and control everything.
• 35:01
  That's why the socialist countries in Europe, they've only worked because they've only lasted this long because they've been dependent on the United States for protection.
• 35:14
  They took the trillions of euros they would have spent for their own defense, and they used it to prop up their social welfare programs because they figured the American United States would come to protect them.
• 35:26
  But what happens when we do the same thing?
• 35:29
  When we take our dollars that we used to use for defense, and we use it to prop up these social welfare programs, who's gonna save us?
• 35:39
  And sooner or later, you end up with well, the Soviet Union, communist China.
• 35:47
  You end up with a controlled populace.
• 35:52
  And I don't know, I don't think that's what the American people want, but then again, maybe I'm wrong.
• 35:57
  Maybe the people they don't care about the Constitution anymore.
• 36:00
  They don't they don't worry about the the rights of their children.
• 36:03
  They just want to be comfy, you know, sitting on their couch eating Cheetos and playing video games.
• 36:10
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• 40:43
  And today we've been talking, we've been asking the question is socialism the future of America.
• 40:48
  Now, what would such a socialist nation look like?
• 40:52
  Well, uh, we see a lot in socialist nations a lack of privacy, uh, a lack of um well, private, the distinction between private and public.
• 41:03
  For example, uh, we've been talking about Jack Frost and Arctic Front Jack Smith and Arctic Frost, and apparently, at least according to uh Attorney General Pamela Bondi and uh I think um uh Chuck Grassy, Senator Grassi was involved in this, but apparently during the Arctic Frost investigation, we found that special counsel, Jack Jack Smith sees President Trump's government issued phone.
• 41:31
  This means the Biden administration turned over President Trump's phone to special counsel, which is apparently an unprecedented action.
• 41:39
  In addition, special counsel subpoena all of Trump's personal phone records.
• 41:43
  Now, okay, if the government sees Trump's government-issued phone, um, there may be ethics issues there, but it is government property.
• 41:54
  Anything on there belongs to the people through their government.
• 41:57
  So, you know, the fact that you would have an administration that was hell bent on getting Donald Trump turning over his phone.
• 42:07
  I'm not sure if that's precedented or not, but it certainly shouldn't be a surprise.
• 42:12
  However, subpoenaing personal phone records, this is again the problem that there's a distinction between a subpoena and a warrant.
• 42:20
  See, a subpoena legally is only a request.
• 42:24
  It does not fit the Fourth Amendment's requirement.
• 42:28
  It needs you need a warrant to be compelled to turn over that information.
• 42:32
  Now, I know this is not the way the lawyers are taught.
• 42:35
  In fact, when I got my subpoena, I was commanded to show up.
• 42:39
  Uh, excuse me, but the government doesn't have the right to command me to go anywhere without due process, without a process that protects my rights.
• 42:47
  They're not allowed to seize me unless I have probable cause supported by oath or affirmation.
• 42:54
  So that to me is really an issue I look at going, that you know, wait a second.
• 42:58
  So now we're just gonna subpoena personal records of our political opponents as we try to tar and feather them, politically at least, uh, so that they um they they I don't know, maybe as revenge, maybe so they won't hurt us in the future, but we will see a degradation of those unalienable rights that our founding fathers talked about, the life leader life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
• 43:27
  We see that as socialism becomes more and more prevalent.
• 43:30
  Um what off fiscal will we see fiscal responsibility?
• 43:35
  There's no way you're seeing fiscal socialism depends on fiscal irresponsibility because there's no way they can provide all the free stuff they claim to provide.
• 43:45
  So as we look at the current government shutdown, um, can we expect similar things in the future?
• 43:52
  Well, it depends on how far socialism goes, at least in the foreseeable future.
• 43:56
  Yeah, we're gonna see more.
• 43:58
  I expect to see more shutdowns because we are seeing more and more strident disagreement and and fiscal irresponsibility, which to me brings up an interesting point.
• 44:09
  I want to talk about this here.
• 44:11
  Um Donald Trump uh has been calling for Senate Republicans to end the filibuster.
• 44:18
  Now, understand the filibuster has nothing to do with the Constitution of the United States.
• 44:24
  I shouldn't say nothing.
• 44:25
  The Constitution says each of the houses of Congress can create their own rules.
• 44:30
  There is a rule in the Senate that says a vote cannot be taken on a bill with certain exceptions unless closure is in vote.
• 44:40
  In other words, anybody can stop the the uh the the voting process unless clotures in vote, which means you're gonna close debate and and move on to voting.
• 44:51
  And in order to do that, you have to have 60 votes.
• 44:56
  So what we've seen during the shutdown is um the while the Republicans control the Senate, uh they don't have 60 votes, so they need the Democrats to invoke cloture so that they can actually vote on the continuing resolution to fund the government temporarily.
• 45:13
  In fact, at this point, it's almost a mood point.
• 45:16
  I think it was only supposed to uh fund the government until was it November 14th, 15th, something like that.
• 45:23
  I mean, the time's almost up, it's almost a moot point, which just means that this is going to start all over again.
• 45:30
  We're gonna have another bill, it's gonna go through the House, it'll eventually hit to the Senate, and who's it?
• 45:35
  So Trump is like, let's just get rid of the filibuster.
• 45:38
  Well, okay, I I can I can see the frustration.
• 45:42
  I can see the logic behind the frustration.
• 45:44
  Um, there's not a constitutional issue.
• 45:47
  The Republicans, by a simple majority vote, can change the rules.
• 45:51
  Harry Reid did this involving uh voting for judges, and well, let's just say it really bit them in the backside, the Democrats in the back side a few years later.
• 46:02
  So is it constitutional for the Senate to get rid of the filibuster, at least say for uh continuing resolutions?
• 46:12
  Yeah, there's nothing unconstitutional about it.
• 46:14
  They're setting their own rules, they only require a simple majority to change the rules.
• 46:18
  Of course, you know, uh uh the the Democrats are gonna fall out like uh like a faking you know soccer player, just oh my god, dude everyone, the children will all die because we can't block this uh this procedure anymore.
• 46:34
  Um but I also want to remind the Republicans of what the Democrats did.
• 46:39
  You see, when they got rid of the filibuster for judges, how do you think Trump got so many of his judges in the first time?
• 46:46
  There's no filibuster he had to deal with.
• 46:49
  If you want to get rid of it now, what's to prevent the the Democrats from doing the same thing to you later?
• 46:57
  In other words, they're gonna push through bills you don't like, and you're not gonna have sufficient uh votes in the Senate.
• 47:03
  Of course, the Senate has all become all of Congress is become a partisan nightmare.
• 47:08
  The that the majorities go mostly along partisan lines with rare exceptions, so um, I don't think that's gonna work out quite as well as Mr.
• 47:18
  Trump thinks it will.
• 47:20
  And those are just some of my predictions of what a socialist America would look like.
• 47:27
  But I keep coming back to the point.
• 47:29
  It's not a question of will the politicians make a socialist.
• 47:35
  It really comes down to what will we the people put up with?
• 47:40
  How far will we let this go?
• 47:44
  I think most Americans, as at least based on some of the comments and conversations I've been having lately, think they have no say, they have no nothing to do with any of this.
• 47:54
  It's all someone else's fault.
• 47:56
  And well, that's not entirely true.
• 48:00
  I admit, right?
• 48:01
  You've got the politicians are pushing a lot of this, but remember, it was the people of New York City that voted to elect Zora Mandani as their next mayor.
• 48:12
  It wasn't the political parties, it was the people that did that.
• 48:18
  It was the people of St.
• 48:20
  Paul that elected a woman who declared that she was here illegally.
• 48:26
  I don't know if she actually was here illegally or if she was just saying that as a matter of uh getting getting attention, getting uh votes.
• 48:34
  I don't know.
• 48:36
  But it's there.
• 48:38
  And I expect to see more of the uh from the socialist democratic Marxist party.
• 48:46
  More push for um this promoting this trans mental uh mental disease agenda.
• 48:58
  Um, whether it's you know prisoners getting treatment or um promoting it in schools.
• 49:07
  All of this is exactly what you expect from a socialist country.
• 49:15
  So I have to ask you, is it just the fact that Zoramandani was elected that says we're heading towards a socialist dystopia?
• 49:26
  Or is it the decades of dependency on government on greed for what my neighbor has on the promotion of, you know, tax the tax somebody else?
• 49:39
  Let's get rid of the police.
• 49:41
  Let's just turn this into a dystopia.
• 49:48
  I tend to think that Mondani is the is the symptom of a long running move towards socialism over liberty.
• 49:59
  A lot.
• 50:00
  People say it's socialism over capitalism.
• 50:03
  It's really control over liberty.
• 50:06
  Socialism is the government going to make control of things, or are you going to be at liberty to do life to live life the way you want?
• 50:14
  See, capitalism is liberty.
• 50:18
  You get to sell products that you want, you get to buy products that you want.
• 50:22
  If you sell a product that people want at a good price, you make money, which you could then use to sell more products.
• 50:30
  If you make a product that people don't want, or if you sell it at a price people are unwilling to pay, you lose money.
• 50:37
  But you're at liberty to try.
• 50:42
  Government gets to decide what products are and are not allowed.
• 50:45
  What treatments are and are not allowed.
• 50:48
  And for most of my lifetime, the direction this country has been going is towards socialism.
• 50:55
  So yeah, I don't see Zan Mandani as the cause of this.
• 50:59
  I see him as the effect of this communist Marxist socialist drift.
• 51:07
  And based on my observations, that's exactly what the American people want.
• 51:13
  They want someone else to take responsibility.
• 51:15
  They want someone else to pay for their goodies.
• 51:18
  They want someone else to pay for their lifestyle.
• 51:22
  They just want someone else to do all the work while they sit back, eat Cheetos, play video games, and do whatever they want.
• 51:32
  So if you ask someone, well, what's the alternative?
• 51:34
  We don't have socialism, what's the alternative?
• 51:36
  And the most common answer you probably hear is, well, capitalism.
• 51:40
  But here's the interesting thing, and see if this makes sense.
• 51:44
  Socialism and capitalism are not so much causes as effects.
• 51:50
  What do I mean?
• 51:52
  Socialism is a scenario where special people, elite people in government, tell the rest of the country how to live.
• 52:01
  Now, this goes along a spectrum from, you know, well, we're gonna take your money because we think we have a better idea about helping the poor or providing health care or whatever, whatever it is, it's government control versus liberty.
• 52:16
  People control.
• 52:18
  Now, government control, well, it's painful, but it's easy, right?
• 52:23
  Because you don't have to make any decisions.
• 52:25
  You just hand over your money and your choices and let someone else decide for you.
• 52:31
  Liberty is messy because there are going to be people who choose things that that you don't like.
• 52:39
  They're going to choose things that you disagree with, they're going to choose things that you don't want to have happen.
• 52:44
  And the real question is do you truly believe in liberty?
• 52:49
  Meaning I'm willing to let somebody do something I disagree with as long as they don't harm someone else.
• 52:56
  As long as they don't provide, they don't deprive someone of a legitimate right.
• 53:02
  And today I have to preface it with legitimate because well, pretty much everything somebody wants, somebody calls it a right.
• 53:08
  So that's why I do that.
• 53:10
  So that's really the question.
• 53:12
  Are we heading towards socialism because it's a bunch of free stuff, or at least the promise of a bunch of free stuff, or are we heading towards socialism because we're just too lazy to live free to decide for ourselves, to make our own way, to provide for ourselves, and to be willing to recognize that people are going to make decisions we disagree with, and are we going to grant them the liberty to do so?
• 53:40
  Or are we going to try to impose our will on them?
• 53:46
  I think, as I said, this this mandani is an effect, not a cause.
• 53:53
  I think the ultimate cause is the American people.
• 54:02
  It's not directly from the ballot box.
• 54:05
  The ballot box is an effect that comes from our willingness to learn, our willingness to investigate, and our willingness to be taught.
• 54:17
  Because that's what the constitution here studies all about.
• 54:20
  Teaching the rising generation to be free, teaching the current generation to be free, teaching them how to defend and assert their rights.
• 54:28
  That includes recognizing the rights of others and say, I don't have the right to tell you how to live your life.
• 54:35
  I just have the right to tell you you can't, your how you live your life can only impact me to the point where it doesn't infringe on mine.
• 54:44
  I'm not saying it's not going to impact you, but the limitation is you can't take away my rights in order to do so.
• 54:51
  Now I'm sure today's conversation has brought up several questions.
• 54:54
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• 54:55
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• 54:57
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• 55:05
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• 55:10
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• 55:28
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• 55:55
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• 56:05
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• 56:09
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• 56:22
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