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He Walks, Swims, and Quacks Like a Socialist · Check with Chip

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Check with Chip, brought to you by Operation
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  Speaker 1: Blue Dot Red, turning the Blue Dot Red one podcast
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  Speaker 1: at a time. Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, running for the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Senate in Michigan, triggered some of us on the right
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  Speaker 1: with a recent statement about children. No, not the comparison
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  Speaker 1: of circumcision with castration. He was replying to the claim
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  Speaker 1: that he is a socialist. Here he is in his
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  Speaker 1: own words.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the number of times people debate whether I'm
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  Speaker 2: a socialist or a capitalist, I'm not a socialist. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a scientist. I'm a doctor. But if I have one
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  Speaker 2: political philosophy, I want us to build what we would
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  Speaker 2: build if we took seriously the idea that all of
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  Speaker 2: our kids were all of our kids. If we started
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  Speaker 2: with that idea, every child is our child, we would
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  Speaker 2: build incredible public schools. We would guarantee everybody healthcare. We
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  Speaker 2: would guarantee childcare. We would stop putting money in bombs
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  Speaker 2: and tanks that kill kids, and we would start investing
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  Speaker 2: them in infrastructure and opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Let me explain why I was triggered by that seemingly
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  Speaker 1: warm and fuzzy statement about making children the focus of
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  Speaker 1: society and addressing all their needs. First, some background. Hillary
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  Speaker 1: Clinton was hailed as a visionary by the left in
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  Speaker 1: the 1990s for authoring her book, It Takes a Village.
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  Speaker 1: The premise was that it takes all of society to
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  Speaker 1: properly raise a child. The right countered that it takes
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  Speaker 1: a family. with a father as well as a mother.
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  Speaker 1: The right may have overreacted. I grew up in neighborhoods
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  Speaker 1: in Ralston and in Cathedral, Jocelyn, Castle, Midtown, Omaha that
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  Speaker 1: were similar to villages. The whole neighborhood was our playground,
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  Speaker 1: in and out of neighbors' homes and yards, interacting with
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  Speaker 1: other parents and families who were welcoming but also not
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  Speaker 1: shy about laying down the law when necessary. I presume
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  Speaker 1: that's what Clinton meant saying it takes a village with
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  Speaker 1: adults on the same page cooperating and reinforcing, with all
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  Speaker 1: children in their orbit, the rules of good living. Clinton's
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  Speaker 1: appeal to the village set off alarms on the right
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  Speaker 1: because she comes out of the leftist tradition of valuing
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  Speaker 1: government and the communal collective more than parents and family. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: the goal of what became the left's flagship institution, the universities,
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  Speaker 1: is to turn children against their parents, convince the children
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  Speaker 1: that they are fools if they let parents, families, churches,
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  Speaker 1: and other traditional people and institutions influence them. And there
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  Speaker 1: are horror stories of schools and other government agencies interfering
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  Speaker 1: with families or removing children from families for reasons conservative
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  Speaker 1: and traditional Americans consider appalling. Today, a lot of it
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  Speaker 1: involves parents refusing to accommodate a child's desire to transition sexually.
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear the recent story about a Virginia mother
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  Speaker 1: in a gated community who let her five-year-old son double
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  Speaker 1: back five blocks from their home to the pond they
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  Speaker 1: had just visited to collect some goose feathers? A security
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  Speaker 1: guard for the gated community saw the child walking alone,
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  Speaker 1: escorted him home, and told the mother he was calling
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  Speaker 1: the police. She was convicted of a misdemeanor contributing to
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  Speaker 1: the delinquency of a minor and was put on the
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  Speaker 1: state child abuse registry for the next seven years. In
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  Speaker 1: the movie The Killing Fields, about the communist takeover of
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  Speaker 1: Cambodia in the 1970s, there is a creepy scene featuring
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  Speaker 1: a class conducted at a re-education camp. Children are told
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  Speaker 1: that God is dead. The Communist Party is now their
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  Speaker 1: one and only source of guidance and object of devotion.
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  Speaker 1: On the classroom chalkboard is a stick figure drawing of
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  Speaker 1: a father, mother, and child holding hands. A student is
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  Speaker 1: called forward to demonstrate the new way of thinking. She
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  Speaker 1: draws a giant X through the parents and erases the
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  Speaker 1: drawing at the point where the mother and child are
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  Speaker 1: holding hands, breaking that connection. The teacher and class congratulate
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  Speaker 1: the student with enthusiastic applause. Separating children from parents is
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  Speaker 1: a crucial goal for people who love the idea of
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  Speaker 1: government having total control over society. It was big for Plato.
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  Speaker 1: It was big for Karl Marx. It was big for
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  Speaker 1: the 20th century's most prominent socialist, Adolf Hitler. Here's a
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  Speaker 1: quotation from William Shirer's seminal work, Rise and Fall of
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  Speaker 1: the Third Reich. Adolf Hitler had stressed in his book
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  Speaker 1: Mein Kampf the importance of winning over and then training
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  Speaker 1: the youth in the service of a new national state.
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  Speaker 1: a subject he returned to often after he became the
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  Speaker 1: German dictator. When an opponent declares, I will not come
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  Speaker 1: over to your side, he said in a speech on
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  Speaker 1: November 6, 1933, I calmly say, your child belongs to
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  Speaker 1: us already. What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however,
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  Speaker 1: now stand in the new camp. In a short time,
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  Speaker 1: they will know nothing else but this new community. How
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  Speaker 1: many parents in America today feel that way after their
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  Speaker 1: kid spends a year or two at college, or these days,
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  Speaker 1: maybe high school? A critic might say, hey, your books
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  Speaker 1: are the same kind of effort to sway young people
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  Speaker 1: to your way of thinking. Yes, but with two important differences. One,
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  Speaker 1: I want to connect young people to their parents, families, churches,
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  Speaker 1: and Western civilization based on natural law and 4,000 years
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  Speaker 1: of Judeo-Christian teaching. Not separate them from all that. Two,
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  Speaker 1: I do not try to stop my adversaries from speaking.
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  Speaker 1: I welcome the debate and approach it with a live-and-let-live spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Back to El-Sayed. His view of children belonging to all
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  Speaker 1: of society is classic socialism. And then his call for
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  Speaker 1: health care for all and child care for all was
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  Speaker 1: right out of the Bernie Sanders socialist playbook of government
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  Speaker 1: providing everything for everyone. The left has been terrifyingly effective
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  Speaker 1: at winning the minds and hearts of children for several generations.
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  Speaker 1: We on the right need to wake up to this
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  Speaker 1: and push back. If you would like help in this effort, fixitnowchip.com.
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  Speaker 1: with Chip. I'm Chip Maxwell. Thank you for listening.