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Democrats' Founding Fathers - Big Picture with Jack Atherton · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: The economy.
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  Speaker 2: I want to know how we are and where we're going.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta know the weather.
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  Speaker 1: Listen and you'll know my city.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me Sharp fifty five car talk Station fifty five KRC,
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  Speaker 2: the talk station seven oh five on this Wednesday morning,
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  Speaker 2: June seventeenth, already Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas, and June
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  Speaker 2: seventeenth will be a memorable day, in part because we
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  Speaker 2: get to have our weekly conversation with our old buddy,
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  Speaker 2: Jack ath Jack, how are you this morning?
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  Speaker 1: It's great to be back with your old friend. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Are you getting excited about Father's Day coming up?
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  Speaker 2: Father? Yeah? Of a big weekend on Father's Day. I
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  Speaker 2: think there will be some some grilling to be had,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, kids running around the house, that sort
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  Speaker 2: of thing. So always look forward to Father's Day, and
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  Speaker 2: I hope you do too, Hi too.
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  Speaker 1: I too. How about combining a Father's Day and America
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  Speaker 1: two fifty message today?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm all about it.
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  Speaker 1: If Democrats seem less jubilant than we are about the
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our independence, maybe that's
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  Speaker 1: because their founding fathers are not Washington and Jefferson, but
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  Speaker 1: instead Karl Marx and Jean Jacques Rousseau we talked about
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  Speaker 1: last week. We can get back to him. They were terrible.
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  Speaker 1: Father's dead in every sense. We all talk about Marx.
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  Speaker 1: Let's focus on his mentor Rousseau. A century before Carl
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  Speaker 1: Marx took game at private property in des Capital, Rousseau
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  Speaker 1: had already written that the state, the big state, has
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  Speaker 1: the right to seize all proper for the common good.
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  Speaker 1: While America's founders insisted that God given individual rights, including
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  Speaker 1: the rights to life, liberty, and property. That's what Jefferson
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  Speaker 1: wanted to insist on, that they precede government, and that
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  Speaker 1: legitimate government exists to protect individual rights, which was a
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  Speaker 1: revolutionary idea in seventeen seventy six. Rousseau and Marx and
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  Speaker 1: today's social democrats want to scrap all that, at least
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  Speaker 1: for ordinary folks like you and me, Now for their
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  Speaker 1: own elites. You remember or well, all animals are equal,
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  Speaker 1: but some are more equal than others, including Democrat elites.
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  Speaker 1: Jean Jacques Rousseau was born in Switzerland. He spent a
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  Speaker 1: lot of his time in France. He and his mistress
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  Speaker 1: had five children. Put only for a few days, Dan
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  Speaker 1: Jean Jaques insisted that he could have been a great father,
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  Speaker 1: just as Marlon Brando could have been a contender, But
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  Speaker 1: the philosopher explained that working to support a family would
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  Speaker 1: have cut into his time as a social reformer. So
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  Speaker 1: Rousseau abandoned his newborn babies, one after another, to an
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  Speaker 1: orphanage where seventy percent of all children had a life
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  Speaker 1: expectancy of one year or less. Most survivors at that
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  Speaker 1: orphanage grew up to be beggars or thieves by Charles Dickens'
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  Speaker 1: Oliver Twist. Not coincidentally, Carl Marx, a German immigrant in England,
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  Speaker 1: spent all of his time writing about how to destroy
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  Speaker 1: the country that had welcomed him. In kind of like
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  Speaker 1: today's elan Omar, Carl Martz kept his seven children good
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  Speaker 1: for him, but he let them starve. Only the charity
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  Speaker 1: of family and friends kept them alive. Like Hillary Clinton,
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  Speaker 1: Marx believed it takes a village to care for your children.
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  Speaker 1: Rousseau and later Carl Marx also believed the children of
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  Speaker 1: all ages, both the youngsters and adults who never become
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  Speaker 1: responsible adults, everybody has to submit to the collective will
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  Speaker 1: of the totalitarian state. At some unspecified time, Marx and
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  Speaker 1: his partner FRIEDI Engels believed their big state would wither away.
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  Speaker 1: Thank goodness. Meantime, though from each according to his ability,
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  Speaker 1: to each according to his needs. The mayor of our
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  Speaker 1: biggest city, Kami Mamdani adheres to that Marxist creed, and
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  Speaker 1: it's driving people who can afford to leave out of
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  Speaker 1: New York by the hundreds of thousands. They're emigrating the
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  Speaker 1: states where ability is incentivized, low tax, business friendly, job
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  Speaker 1: creating states Florida, Texas, Tennessee. And we can only hope
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  Speaker 1: Dan Ohio if we elect a Republican governor Vivek Ramaswami, who,
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  Speaker 1: unlike today's Rhinos, values makers, not takers, not the descendants
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  Speaker 1: of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx. Because socialism ruins character.
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  Speaker 1: That's my theme almost every week. It keeps adherents in
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  Speaker 1: a state of arrested adolescence. The state will bring up
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  Speaker 1: my kids, or better yet, I won't bother to keep
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  Speaker 1: my kids or even give them to an orphanage. I'll
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  Speaker 1: just abort them. During this two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
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  Speaker 1: of America's independence, which we declared just before Jean Jacques
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  Speaker 1: Rousseau died. Let's celebrate the parents, the entrepreneurs, the skilled workers,
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  Speaker 1: the service members like you, Dan, firefighters, police, the adults
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  Speaker 1: who have made this country the greatest in the history
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  Speaker 1: of the world. The adults who came here seeking opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: not handouts, much less Minnesota style fraud, who learned a
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  Speaker 1: new language, learned American history and civics. They used to
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  Speaker 1: tea so they could assimilate, not to surrender their religion
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  Speaker 1: and cultural backgrounds. Nobody is asking that America's melting pot
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  Speaker 1: makes us all the richer for being exposed to different cultures,
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  Speaker 1: but to embrace the American ethos that each of us
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  Speaker 1: has God given rights, including freedom of religion, free speech,
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  Speaker 1: and freedom from totalitarian communist government. As we honor our
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  Speaker 1: founders Dan for all their flaws, because great leaders usually
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  Speaker 1: have flaws that are easier to criticize than to weigh
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  Speaker 1: against their achievements. And yes, I am thinking of Donald
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  Speaker 1: John Trump as we honor our founders brought Let's give
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  Speaker 1: thanks that the fathers of our country were not Jean
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  Speaker 1: Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx, two of the worst fathers
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  Speaker 1: in history. So what do you say, Dad.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Jack, it's amazing how the common thread of what
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  Speaker 2: these individuals believe when you talk about Marx, when you
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  Speaker 2: talk about Rousseau, it's amazing how much of the common
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  Speaker 2: thread is still prevalent today in much of what you
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  Speaker 2: hear from the left and from the Democrat Party, the
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  Speaker 2: idea that there can be this reliance on socialism, that
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  Speaker 2: there can be this reliance on big government to do
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  Speaker 2: everything for the individual from womb to tomb. It reminded
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  Speaker 2: me of the if you remember, when Obama was president,
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  Speaker 2: they put out this animated cartoon showing how this girl
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  Speaker 2: is born, and from the moment of her birth, all
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  Speaker 2: the way through her educational period, all the way through
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  Speaker 2: her working life, all the way through her retirement, all
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  Speaker 2: the way up until her final breath, there was government
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  Speaker 2: involvement in her life, in every single stage of her life.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that is the ultimate goal of people
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  Speaker 2: like Bernie Sanders, that people like aoc of people like
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  Speaker 2: that who populate the Democrats by and large, and much
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  Speaker 2: of what we I think Amy acton is things along
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  Speaker 2: those exact same lines, and we need to get away.
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  Speaker 1: Obama cartoon was called The Life of Julia. Yes, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what he aspired for everybody, not for himself. He
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be able to build the big houses in Hawaii,
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  Speaker 1: and he wanted the huge library that's now opening up.
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  Speaker 1: But for all the rest of us, it was enough
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  Speaker 1: that government gave us crumbs. It's human nature. But there
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  Speaker 1: are different ways of looking at human nature. Rousseau and Marx,
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  Speaker 1: but especially Russeau, believed, Oh, people are naturally good, they're wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: Just leave them alone and give them a little bit
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  Speaker 1: that they need to be able to get by other
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  Speaker 1: people said, no, human nature involves backsliding unless people are
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  Speaker 1: challenged to be their best, to aspire to something better,
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  Speaker 1: to take care of others, starting with their children. But
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  Speaker 1: as we've said, those two guys Rousseau and Marx didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to today. Getting back to ilan Omar, who certainly
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  Speaker 1: as far as for a life of Julia for all
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  Speaker 1: of us, again, not for herself. She's now a multimillionaire today.
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  Speaker 1: Too many illegal immigrants forget that they are fleeing from
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  Speaker 1: tyranny and are instead they're taught as soon as they
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  Speaker 1: arrived that America is the land of tyranny and always
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  Speaker 1: has been that immigrants, legal and especially illegal, are entitled
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  Speaker 1: to reparations for America's original fundamental sinfulness. And of course
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  Speaker 1: America's own people are taught this too by schools, left
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  Speaker 1: wing media, and especially pop culture. Elections, even if they're fair,
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  Speaker 1: elections won't change this. Instead, each of us has to
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  Speaker 1: offer our children the truth about America. One great place
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  Speaker 1: to start is to see before it leaves theaters, Amesley
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  Speaker 1: and I just did Hillsdale College's new film called Revolutionary America.
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  Speaker 1: It's the story of our rebellion against Britain's big government
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  Speaker 1: and the fight for individual rights. I heartily recommend it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that sounds good and Jack will continue the conversation
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  Speaker 2: right after this on fifty five Krcation seven nineteen, Dan
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  Speaker 2: Carroll four, Brian Thomas. We continue on now with Jack
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  Speaker 2: Aveton and the Big Picture and Jack, I always find
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  Speaker 2: it interesting when you have individuals who want to call
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  Speaker 2: for the implementation of a socialist style government, of a
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  Speaker 2: communist style government, that they when they call for this
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  Speaker 2: and they say this is the way to go, the
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  Speaker 2: people who do that always want to put themselves at
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  Speaker 2: the top of that food chain and really don't want
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  Speaker 2: to live under the all the accoutuma that comes with
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  Speaker 2: a socialist or a communist style government. So on one hand,
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  Speaker 2: it's good enough for the rest of us, but for them,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they need to be the ones calling the shots,
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  Speaker 2: and they need to be the ones who benefit in
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  Speaker 2: a large way from what it provides those at the top.
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  Speaker 1: Our thame, as I said, is that socialism ruins character.
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  Speaker 1: And that's because the even bigger theme is that power corrupts,
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  Speaker 1: and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Even for the people who
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  Speaker 1: are most idealistic and seek to go into political office,
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  Speaker 1: they may compromises, they have to build coalitions with the
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  Speaker 1: best of intentions, they start to give up their ideals
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  Speaker 1: and eventually they just become power hungry. That's all it is.
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  Speaker 1: And as far as the rest of us go, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they'll use us as long as they can. And when
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  Speaker 1: we get wise to their game and start electing conservatives, populists,
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  Speaker 1: naga people, what do they do. They have to bring
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  Speaker 1: in a new population, and of course they try to
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  Speaker 1: make us feel bad for being worried about that. They say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're a racist if you criticize the fact
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  Speaker 1: that we're letting in ten million or more people completely unvetted,
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  Speaker 1: many of them criminals immediately receiving benefits from the state,
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  Speaker 1: not like the people who came here generations ago. But
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  Speaker 1: you can't feel bad about it. You have to say no,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we have to have an orderly process for
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  Speaker 1: allowing people the privilege that you and I were born with.
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  Speaker 1: But we should never forget of being Americans, and we
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  Speaker 1: can't allow the country to be taken over wholesale just
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  Speaker 1: so the Democrats socialists can have a new voting base.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Jack, When I saw when I was watching
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  Speaker 2: the process of Zorhan Mondani in New York City and
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  Speaker 2: how he was accepted, how his voting base was largely
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  Speaker 2: younger Americans, I saw this as a complete failure of
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  Speaker 2: the educational system that we have in the United States.
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  Speaker 2: When I was younger, and I'm sure you too, when
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  Speaker 2: you were in your formative years, we were constantly to
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  Speaker 2: about why capitalism is so beneficial, what living under at
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  Speaker 2: that time, the Soviet Union and China was really like
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  Speaker 2: under the idea of communism, and those things were talked
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  Speaker 2: about repeatedly as I was growing up, and I came
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  Speaker 2: out with an understanding of why the United States is
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  Speaker 2: the greatest country on the face of the planet, why
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  Speaker 2: capitalism works, why we have the political system that we do,
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  Speaker 2: Ideas about freedom of speech, free will, natural law, all
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  Speaker 2: the rest of that. But I think those types of
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  Speaker 2: teachings have been largely abandoned, and I just don't think
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  Speaker 2: that much of the education base that we have in
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  Speaker 2: this country right now, especially with young people coming through
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  Speaker 2: the educational system, have a clear understanding of that. And
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  Speaker 2: that's why ideas like socialism gain the popularity that they do.
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  Speaker 1: Left has been trying to make us feel guilty for
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  Speaker 1: communism ever since the days of Joe McCarthy. Joe McCarthy
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  Speaker 1: in the fifties was a creep, There's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 1: Should we have been worried about the Soviet Union, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: especially after they got atomic weapons. We had to put
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  Speaker 1: up a fight. We had to be worried about mutually
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  Speaker 1: assured destruction, just as we have to be worried now
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  Speaker 1: about Iran. And we should not have felt the least
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  Speaker 1: bit guilty about opposing communism because we only had to
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  Speaker 1: look at what Stalin and his successors were doing there.
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  Speaker 1: And the great achievement, of course of Ronald Reagan was
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  Speaker 1: bringing down that regime. No, we can't feel guilty. We
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  Speaker 1: have to be willing to uphold our values the greatest
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  Speaker 1: in the history of the world. The reason that we
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  Speaker 1: talk about history every week during this section, this session
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  Speaker 1: that we have is that people have to put that
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  Speaker 1: into perspective. You only realize what you have when you
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  Speaker 1: look around the rest of the world now, and especially
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  Speaker 1: when you look back on history.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, tell me one more time the name of the
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  Speaker 2: movie that you saw that that came out from Hillsdale,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm interested in this now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is much more important than listening to me.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Revolutionary America. It's not a fictional film. It's
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  Speaker 1: Larry arn the president of Hillsdale, and a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: other really compelling, wonderful speakers. The thing is beautifully produced,
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  Speaker 1: and you can only see it at a few theaters,
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  Speaker 1: I think once a day. At this point, I hope
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  Speaker 1: they're going to hold it through July fourth. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's another movie that's coming out for July fourth called
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  Speaker 1: Young Washington. He's my hero. We have a bust of
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  Speaker 1: him and a painting of him here in the house,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, I would see them. Both Revolutionary America and
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  Speaker 1: Young Washington. I haven't seen Young Washington yet, but you
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  Speaker 1: can't kill that story. It's one of the best.
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  Speaker 2: Well, maybe that'll be what next week's A Big Picture
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  Speaker 2: is all about. Jack Atherton. Is always so great to
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  Speaker 2: have your thought provoking commentary, and we'll certainly look forward
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  Speaker 2: to next week when you join us again for the
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  Speaker 2: Big Picture with Jack Atherton. Jack, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Happy Father's Day, Dan and everybody