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What makes America exceptional? · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  May the fourth be with you, my friends.
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  Welcome to the Dean's List.
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  We are happy to have you on board.
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  And today is not only is it uh Star Wars Day, but it's also an anniversary.
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  Happy birthday to the Freedom Riders.
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  May 4th, 1961.
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  Should we just should we just visit the Freedom Riders right here at the top?
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  Let's just let's just go to history class right here, right now, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Find yourself a seat in the front row, front front front roar, front row, history class awaits because it was on May 4th, 1961, that the Grand 13.
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  13 men and women, black and white, boarded a bus in Washington, DC.
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  Which by the way, yesterday, yesterday was the anniversary of the incorporation of Washington being uh being incorporated as a city.
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  Yeah, it was it was May 3rd, 1802.
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  Did you know that?
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  You did not know that.
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  Don't you feel better now that knowing that?
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  Yes, it was yesterday.
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  DC became a uh it was a swamp, it was swampland, and that's why they that's what we still call it a swamp today.
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  Uh what Washington chose this land.
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  I mean, it was uh, you know, there was some probably some backroom negotiating happening, you know, because it was a piece of Virginia, piece of Maryland that was sectioned off to be its own, its own district, separate from any of the other states.
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  Washington, DC, the DC District of Columbia, of course, it's an honor, named in honor of Christopher Columbus, who is castigated to this very day, but not here.
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  We do not castigate Christopher Columbus.
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  We tell the truth of Columbus and history class, and it's it's his name is is given to the district here.
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  Uh Congress authorized Washington to find a site along along the uh Potomac for the nation's new capital, and he did.
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  And um the thing that that's so unique about this is that it was the first time a country had ever established its permanent camp uh capital by legislative action out rather than than war or just you know, the dictates of the king, the legislative action determined uh gave Washington the authority to pick it out, and and he did just just a few miles upstream from Mount Vernon, he found a place along the uh Potomac.
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  Now that's that's not the history class, that's just an added bonus.
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  The history class is the freedom riders who who boarded a bus in Washington, DC, and their objective was to ride to New Orleans.
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  Why would you board a bus from DC and ride it to New Orleans?
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  What's the point here?
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  Well, they had a very specific mission.
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  Their mission was to challenge the segregation practices on public transportation in the South.
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  Perpetrated by white democrats, and history remembers these these fearless 13 as the Freedom Riders.
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  The Supreme Court had already ruled that segregation in interstate bus travel was unconstitutional, illegal.
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  It didn't pass muster against the constitution.
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  So the Supreme Court said you can't do this, but in the deep south, where Jim Crow laws, that the Democrat, by the way, the Democrat Jim Crow, and his laws still prevailed, and who was gonna go in and who was going to stop it.
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  Because the local institutions, the local law enforcement, the the local local department of justice that they were all in support of this.
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  And it was the Democrats who were still in charge in the South.
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  So it didn't matter that the Supreme Court had already ruled.
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  Um several southern states where Jim Crow laws, the Democrat Jim Crow, and his laws still prevailed.
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  Uh it was considered a crime for whites and blacks to sit side by side on a bus.
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  Yes, you heard that correctly.
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  And the democ and the democrat-controlled deep south.
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  It was a crime for white people and black people to sit side by side.
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  Yet, my friends, that's exactly what the freedom riders did as they headed south because you had black people and white people together.
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  When they stopped at bus stations, they sat together.
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  They sat together on the bus, they sat together in the segregated waiting rooms of the bus stations, and they sat together in the segregated lunch counters.
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  They're like, we don't care.
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  What are you gonna do to us?
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  You're gonna arrest us.
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  The freedom riders barely escaped with their lives.
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  In Birmingham, uh riders on a second bus were beaten with clubs and lead pipes by angry white democrats.
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  And in Montgomery, uh, an angry mob of white democrats surrounded the church where they sought refuge.
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  Some civil rights activists, uh, both black and white urged these these famed 13 to to halt their journey because they're like, you guys are gonna die.
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  13 to halt their journey because they're like, you guys are gonna die.
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  The angry white democrats are resorting to violence as they always do, and they're gonna kill you.
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  The angry white democrats are resorting to violence as they always do, and they're gonna kill you.
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  So please give up the ride.
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  So please give give up the ride.
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  Give it up.
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  Give it up.
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  Uh, despite the danger, however, more people, not less, but more people joined in the effort.
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  Uh, despite the danger, however, more people, not less, but more people joined in the effort.
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  More people said, you know what?
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  More people said, you know what?
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  These 13.
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  These 13.
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  Yeah, that's what I want to be a part of.
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  I can get behind that.
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  I don't care how many angry white democrats try to firebomb the bus.
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  I'm on board with this freedom ride.
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  Black people, white people coming together in a show of unity.
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  And I can tell you, they none of them were Democrats.
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  There wasn't a single, there wasn't a single Democrat in the I don't know.
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  There, there might have been Northern Democrats who who um who didn't support you know such villainy, such hatred, such evil, such disgust.
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  I suppose that's possible.
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  But oh, those Southern white Democrats, they were oh, they were not happy about this, and they were not happy to see more people joining the effort.
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  The freedom ride, however, came to an end in Jackson, Mississippi, where police herded the riders through the bus station in and into petty wagons.
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  Come on, just come on right through the bus station.
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  We've got we've got a special escort waiting for you.
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  And about 300 of them went to jail.
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  It had bolstered from 13 to 300.
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  It actually was more than that.
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  They only took 300 to jail in Jackson, Mississippi.
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  That the freedom riders had grown to more.
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  Certainly to more to 300.
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  Uh, their goal of New Orleans, they they didn't reach.
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  They never made it to the big easy.
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  But nonetheless, they achieved their objective.
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  Inspired by those brave 13, more Americans work to break segregation and lead the country down a better road.
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  Because that was the objective.
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  The objective was to break the Democrat controlled stronghold of segregation.
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  And just like the Democrats, though, they found a way to commandeer the um the vote here of black communities.
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  I don't know how they did it.
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  I don't know how they did it.
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  I mean, the Democrats spearheaded the Ku Klux Klan, yet for decades they commandeered the vote of black communities.
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  Uh they're tell you what, they're not dumb.
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  They are not, they're not dumb at all.
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  In 2001, when some of the freedom riders made a 40th anniversary bus trip, retracing their route, the mayor of Anniston welcomed them with the keys of the city, which is a pretty cool story.
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  It's a pretty cool story.
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  And so today is the celebration.
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  It's it's the anniversary of the freedom riders, and uh, I think it's important, as you know, for us to take a minute, just a minute, and acknowledge the effort there, acknowledge that the work.
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  The declaration of independence made it clear that all men were created equal.
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  And at the time of the declaration, we know that they were not treated equal.
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  But it it didn't uh detract from the truth that they were created equal.
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  And it took some time.
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  It took 20 years before the slave trade was ended.
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  It took, you know, four or five decades after that to go to war to end slavery altogether.
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  And even after that war, a hundred years later, in you know, 1960.
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  What's the year there?
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  1961.
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  Yeah, 100 years later.
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  We are um still fighting to to break the back of this evil, to break the back of segregation, to break the back of the of the Democrat stronghold on this um this filth.
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  Uh to achieve something of greatness.
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  The struggle is a lot of times the struggle is long lasting.
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  It's ongoing.
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  Just when you think you've achieved victory, um the lurking darkness rears its ugly head yet again, and you have to strap on the sword.
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  You have to put on the boots and you have to go after it one more time.
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  It always seems like there's one more time.
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  One more time, you gotta you gotta go do battle with evil.
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  Evil, unfortunately, exists.
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  It exists in the world, and it's up to us, though.
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  It's up to citizens who desire to pursue what is good.
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  It's up to us to strap on the sword and go after it, and to do battle with evil.
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  We desire to to go after what is good, what is true, what is beautiful in this world.
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  That's what we're striving for.
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  Evil is antithetical to that.
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  Evil is antithetical to goodness, it's antithetical to truth.
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  It's certainly antithetical to beauty.
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  It despises beauty.
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  Sometimes it disguises itself in beauty in order to woo the good in order to defeat the good.
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  Sometimes it disguises itself in truth in order to defeat the good.
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  Sometimes it disguises itself in good in order to defeat the good and the true and the beautiful.
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  But it despises these things.
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  We, however, we do not despise them.
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  We love them.
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  And in defending them, we go after evil.
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  It's really the the premise of the great stories.
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  Men and women fighting evil.
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  It's the premise that lies at the root, lies at the foundation of a classical education.
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  That unfortunately there's evil in this world, but we must pursue what is good and what is right and what is true and what is beautiful in order to combat, in order to fight, in order to defeat the evil.
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  Unfortunately, there's evil in this world.
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  But we must pursue what is good and what is right and what is true and what is beautiful in order to combat in order to fight in order to defeat the evil.
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  This is the this is the beauty of a classical education.
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  This is the this is the beauty of a classical education.
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  Kids get it, kids receive it, kids understand it.
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  Kids get it, kids receive it, kids understand it.
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  The hearts and souls and minds of these young people are shaped and formed in this fashion to.
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  The hearts and souls and minds of these young people are shaped and formed in this fashion to go after beauty, to go after goodness, to go after truth.
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  It truly is what has made America exceptional.
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  I've got this this piece I want to get into today on that regard.
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  It's called America at 250, still dominating the world.
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  And it's it's from uh Victor Davis Hanson's podcast a few weeks ago.
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  And Hanson is commenting on the exceptionalism of America.
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  What has made us exceptional?
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  And and he goes to the list, and I was happy to come across this because we've talked about this here a lot, American exceptionalism, and we will continue to talk about it.
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  But Hanson delivers some fresh data.
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  And uh his perspective, which we love here, by the way, his perspective as to what has made us exceptional.
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  And it the beauty of it is, and what what makes me so happy after reading his piece is that it aligns with my own opinion.
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  And if my opinion is lining with with Victor Davis Hanson, I'm happy about it.
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  That's all I gotta say about it.
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  You know, somebody who you respect and admire and look up to.
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  And when you when you find and discover that he is saying things that you're also saying.
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  I don't know.
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  I just um makes me uh it makes me happy.
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  It makes me happy to have the opinion that I have.
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  All right, my friends, we're gonna dive into this piece on the other side of this break.
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  Okay, I want to look at this piece here from Victor Davis Hanson.
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  Okay, I want to look at this piece here from Victor Davis Hansen.
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  America at 250, still dominating the world.
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  America at 250, still dominating the world.
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  It caught my eye.
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  It caught my eye, caught my eye, because uh we are still dominating the world.
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  Caught my eye because uh we are still dominating the world, and I want to hear uh his take on it.
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  And I want to hear uh his take on it, Victor Davis Hansen.
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  Victor Davis Hanson.
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  Of course, he comments that um uh a lot of people ask this question as to oh, why are we so exceptional?
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  Of course, he comments that a lot of people ask this question as to why are we so exceptional?
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  I mean, here we are, 250 years celebrating the declaration of independence.
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  We have been operating uh for the entirety of our existence under this one constitution.
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  I mean, I say the entirety of our existence.
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  I mean, I know that there were years that we were under the Articles of Confederation, but since the Constitution was drafted, since this new form of republicanism was instituted under the guise of the declaration, I might add.
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  It's been our constitution.
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  Um, and and we are exceptional.
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  It this isn't just American braggadocio.
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  This isn't just, oh, you Western cowboy from America, you think you're something, the American cowboy out here strutting.
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  No, it's it's it's really not that because we've we can back up the talk.
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  We can back up the walk.
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  I mean, uh look at major indicators, and this is what what Hansen does.
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  He he invites us to to look at major indicators, and in his words, he says it's pretty clear that America stands like a colossus over the world today.
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  And it's true.
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  If if you look at the indicators, he starts out first with the economy.
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  And even though the economy isn't great right now by historical standards, Hansen points out that the U.S.
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  economy is roughly a 30 trillion nominal economy in goods and services.
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  30, 30 trillion in goods and services.
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  I mean, that is it's crazy.
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  He goes on to note that it's one third larger than the Chinese economy.
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  He says we hear a lot about ascendant China, but this data essentially means that one American is producing as many goods and services as four Chinese counterparts.
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  One to four.
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  You, you one American, you are doing the work of four Chinese men or women in China.
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  Just consider that.
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  Is it because you're better or smarter or faster or taller or stronger?
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  Probably not.
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  Well, what is it?
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  Well, it's it's that you live in a country that's exceptional.
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  That's what it is.
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  You live in a country that allows you to work in freedom, that allows you to work in liberty.
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  You live in a country that believes in the inalienable right of liberty.
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  Liberty is an inalienable right given to us from God.
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  Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.
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  It can't be stolen, it can't be taken.
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  Freedom can, but liberty cannot.
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  And because of this liberty, you, my friend, you are able to outwork and outproduce, or at least the equivalent of four people in China.
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  Uh it uh Hanson notes that our economy is a third bigger than the than the European Union, which is about 70 million more people than the United States.
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  Not just a country in Europe, but the entire, the entire union.
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  The European Union in its entirety.
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  Our economy is a third larger than that.
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  And they have 70 million more people than we do.
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  Hansen notes uh about culture.
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  He says, look, look at culture.
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  He said, if you look at Netflix, streaming entertainment, Hollywood, even in its decline, because Hollywood is in decline, by the way.
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  If you look at popular music, all of this, the the entertainment culture, it accounts for about 75% of international box office receipts of all sorts.
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  75% of the entertainment in this country, box office receipts are coming from America.
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  And it's not even great.
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  I mean, the the quality in it is not even, it's not even considered great.
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  As Hanson notes, it's in decline.
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  Our education system isn't even great.
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  It's in decline.
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  And Hanson notes that even educationally, there's a lot of global uh indexes that usually have the United States with eight to nine out of the top ten universities in the world.
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  And our universities are in decline.
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  They're not even great.
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  He says that kind of mimics the same economic standards that that show that that very thing.
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  He said at the top 10 companies in terms of international market cap.
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  He he said, I think eight of them now are American.
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  Eight of the top 10 in terms of market cap are from America.
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  He said in the case of education surveys, it's usually Caltech, MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, etc.
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  And the top 10.
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  But in the top 50, 40 of them are American.
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  And our education system isn't even great.
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  It's in decline.
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  Even in decline, we stand head and shoulders above everybody else.
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  He said, if you look at politics, and this is where the rubber meets the road.
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  He said the U.S.
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  Constitution is the oldest surviving blueprint for democracy republic in the world.
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  All the others have either faded or they come in and out of existence, but ours is that continuity of one particular consensual government, and its foundational document is unprecedented.
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  We've talked about this quite a bit here.
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  That our one document, our one constitution over these uh, you know, 200 plus years, uh, is juxtaposed to how many from Poland?
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  Is juxtaposed to how many from Poland?
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  I think it's nine or ten.
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  I think it's nine or ten.
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  Uh, I think France in the same time frame as us has had 15.
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  I think France in the same time frame as us has had 15.
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  Russia, I don't know, seven or eight.
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  Russia, I don't know, seven or eight.
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  Afghanistan's had a million.
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  Afghanistan's had a million.
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  I don't know.
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  I don't know.
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  China's had four or five or six.
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  China's had four or five or six.
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  You can look at countries of the world, and the number of constitutions that they've had is just compared to ours, are one.
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  You can look at countries of the world, and the number of constitutions that they've had is just compared to ours, our one.
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  And
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  And if I had to choose one thing that that made that made and still makes us exceptional, I would have to point to our founding documents, the declaration and the constitution.
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  The declaration of independence declared things that at that point in time, uh, the nations of the world just didn't believe.
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  And they didn't understand when when Jefferson penned it, and the well, I say the 13, but New York didn't vote.
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  They abstained.
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  12 of the 13 colonies said yes, we're on board with this.
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  We like this.
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  It was unanimous because New York, you know, said they were told to abstain.
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  They weren't voting one way or the other.
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  So therefore they were out.
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  It was unanimous that we believed these things, that we believed we were created equal.
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  Now, again, as I mentioned in that first segment, and as I have said here regularly, men and women weren't treated equal.
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  But that doesn't disprove the truth that we were created equal, and that we were endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, God given rights.
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  And among these, Jefferson so proudly noted, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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  That's just among those.
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  I mean, the list is not exhaustive.
• 30:12
  That's just for starters.
• 30:14
  And here was the kicker.
• 30:16
  It's the it's the government's job to protect those rights.
• 30:21
  That, my friends, that's the purpose of government to protect the God given rights that you have.
• 30:29
  People just didn't, they were like, holy smoke, you see what just came out of America.
• 30:34
  Did you see what those what those colonists over there just said?
• 30:39
  Did you see it?
• 30:42
  And it has done its part, not only in making this country exceptional for 250 years, but those founding documents have done their part in reshaping the world.
• 30:58
  And yet there are people who would do whatever they could possibly do to destroy both documents, to destroy the declaration and to rewrite the constitution.
• 31:12
  That has been the objective for a long time.
• 31:16
  Let's make the Constitution a living, breathing document.
• 31:21
  Let's hold it to the standards of modern vocabulary, not to the high standard of what the original intent of the document was.
• 31:33
  No, no, the document needs to be living and breathing and ever changing to keep up with the societal changes, uh the contextual changes to keep up with the progressiveness of American society.
• 31:52
  Wrong.
• 31:53
  Nope.
• 31:55
  Nope.
• 31:56
  The standard is original intent.
• 32:01
  Once we start playing around with that, the document changes.
• 32:06
  And we no longer have what we had.
• 32:10
  We are currently living under that, by the way.
• 32:13
  Yes, Hanson's right.
• 32:15
  America is exceptional, and we're exceptional because we've had this this one long-lasting government document, politically speaking, the declaration and the constitution.
• 32:26
  However, the constitution has been under assault for decades.
• 32:31
  And our current, our current definition of the First Amendment is proof of that rewriting.
• 32:40
  It's proof of that changing.
• 32:41
  It's proof of that evolving, as it were.
• 32:44
  When what's his name over there?
• 32:46
  The dude who who said that we evolved.
• 32:48
  What was his name?
• 32:49
  I don't even remember.
• 32:50
  Come on, you know his name.
• 32:52
  I don't, I don't even want, I don't know.
• 32:56
  I literally, his name escapes me.
• 32:58
  The the evolution dude.
• 33:00
  When he said that we evolved, there were legal minds and legal scholars who were like, oh, that's right, since we evolved, and everybody knew it wasn't true.
• 33:12
  Everybody knew we didn't evolve from apes or monkeys.
• 33:16
  Everybody in their brother knew it.
• 33:19
  But the lie was promoted.
• 33:23
  The lie was expressed.
• 33:25
  The lie was told beautifully, elegantly, by the way.
• 33:29
  And the idea of evolution was embraced by legal minds and le and legal scholars who begin to say, you know, uh the constitution should evolve, and the law should evolve.
• 33:43
  And and and case law should be a thing.
• 33:47
  And if one court says one thing, that should stand as precedent, irregardless of the situation.
• 33:54
  And so the document began to quote unquote evolve.
• 33:59
  A la evolution.
• 34:01
  And that has brought us to our current definition of the First Amendment, which by the way, I believe we, you and I are alive in a time when the current wrongful definition, I might add, of the First Amendment, is about to be reapplied back to original content.
• 34:18
  I think we're gonna uh original intent.
• 34:21
  We are going to see this unfold in our lives, the First Amendment, and we're gonna see it unfold in this uh I I think in probably two cases, both out of Texas, one wherein the state of Texas has said, yes, the Bible and passages from the Bible are going to be a part of public school curriculum.
• 34:46
  And also where the Ten Commandments are posted on the public school walls, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas as well.
• 34:53
  These cases are going to go to the Supreme Court.
• 34:56
  I'm telling you, they are, and it's going to change the way that we view the First Amendment.
• 35:00
  The way that we view the First Amendment.
• 35:04
  And I believe we have a court with the Cahonas to take us back to the original intent of the First Amendment.
• 35:04
  And I believe we have a court with the Cahonas to take us back to the original intent of the First Amendment.
• 35:13
  And the 1960s, we had that Supreme Court that took one clause of the First Amendment and weaponized it against the other clause of the First Amendment.
• 35:13
  And the 1960s, we had that Supreme Court that took one clause of the First Amendment and weaponized it against the other clause of the First Amendment.
• 35:24
  Yes, the freedom of expression clause was was attacked by the
• 35:24
  Yes, the Freedom of Expression Clause was attacked by the clause that says Congress shall not.
• 35:34
  Congress shall shall shall not.
• 35:44
  Support a uh a religion.
• 35:47
  That was weaponized against free speech.
• 35:51
  And definitions were uh, I mean, words were changed.
• 35:54
  Uh, I mean, public school teachers were now defined as Congress, and it I mean, it was a convoluted mess.
• 36:02
  But I'm telling you, we're we're gonna get back.
• 36:05
  Uh and my opinion, I believe we're gonna get back.
• 36:08
  I could be wrong, maybe I'm wrong.
• 36:09
  It's my opinion.
• 36:10
  I think we're gonna get back.
• 36:12
  I think we have a court that has the guts to pull it off.
• 36:17
  And uh, we're gonna be alive to see it.
• 36:20
  You, my friend, are alive in such a great time.
• 36:23
  Not only are you alive celebrating 250 years of gloriousness, but you are alive at a time where the possibility is strong that we go back, that we we rewrite the first amendment in a way that the founders originally intended it to be written and defined.
• 36:43
  Now we started talking about about the fight, the fight's ongoing, and the fight will continue to be ongoing because evil will always exist, and evil will always attempt to confound the good, and the good has to rise up, the good, the true, the beautiful, it has to rise up, and it has to fight.
• 37:07
  And that's where you and I come in.
• 37:10
  Uh, we we we have to we have to fight against forces that are antithetical to American values, virtues, judeo-christian values and virtues that we hold dear, that we hold near and dear.
• 37:24
  All right, my friends, I'm looking at the clock, we are up against it.
• 37:27
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• 37:29
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  All right.
• 41:38
  I want to get back into what Hansen says here in terms of American exceptionalism.
• 41:45
  I I kind of went down the constitutional rabbit hole there when he said, if you look at politics, the U.S.
• 41:53
  Constitution is the oldest surviving blueprint for democracy republic.
• 41:57
  And that just that just set me loose.
• 42:01
  But there's more.
• 42:01
  But there's more.
• 42:02
  But wait, my friends, there's more.
• 42:02
  But wait, my friends, there's more.
• 42:04
  Victor Davis Hansen says finally the military.
• 42:04
  Victor Davis Hansen says, finally, the military.
• 42:09
  Think about think about the military just for a second.
• 42:09
  Think about think about the military just for a second.
• 42:13
  He says we have about 13,000 combat aircraft and their logistical support craft.
• 42:13
  He says, we have about 13,000 combat aircraft and their logistical support craft.
• 42:20
  Let that just sink in for a minute.
• 42:20
  Let that just sink in for a minute.
• 42:22
  13,000 combat aircraft and their logistical support craft.
• 42:22
  13,000 combat aircraft and their logistical support craft.
• 42:31
  That's larger than China, the European Union and India put together.
• 42:39
  Put together, we have we have more firepower.
• 42:43
  And this is interesting.
• 42:50
  When Abraham Lincoln in 1838 was giving a speech in front of the young men's lyceum in Springfield, Illinois.
• 43:01
  Again, we didn't necessarily have 13,000 combat aircraft at the time.
• 43:07
  Combat aircraft didn't exist, actually.
• 43:11
  But but Lincoln prophetically noted that America wouldn't fall from some external power.
• 43:19
  He said, even in his speech, he quotes if if all of Europe were to come at us combined, they couldn't, they couldn't defeat America.
• 43:33
  We're undefeatable.
• 43:35
  Except from within.
• 43:39
  He said an external power isn't going to drop America to her knees.
• 43:45
  She'll drop to her knees from within.
• 43:47
  And he cited an assault on the rule of law as being the primary modality for that to happen.
• 43:54
  Because the rule of law was under assault then in his day in 1838.
• 44:00
  You want to know why?
• 44:02
  You want to know why it was because he cites the mob violence.
• 44:08
  Specifically mob violence against abolitionists, against white and black people who are uniting to uh to abolish slavery and today to abolish racism.
• 44:24
  But the Democrats, the Democrat mob, is lawless.
• 44:31
  That's what he said.
• 44:32
  I mean, I'm paraphrasing.
• 44:34
  But my paraphrase, my friends, is accurate.
• 44:38
  It's that it's that lawless attack on the law and assault on the law from from within.
• 44:47
  That will drive us to our knees.
• 44:51
  Uh I look, I really wanted to finish Victor Davis Hanson, and I'm going to, but I just want to pause for a moment.
• 44:58
  You know, on May 1st, we had schools all over the country saying, eh, we're not gonna, we're gonna cancel class, so our kids can go out and protest law enforcement.
• 45:10
  We are not, and in that speech that Lincoln gave, he instructed, he said schools need to be teaching a reverence for the law.
• 45:22
  His words.
• 45:23
  And our schools aren't doing that.
• 45:25
  I mean, some schools are mine is others like mine.
• 45:30
  But there are there are public schools all over the country that aren't teaching a reverence for the law.
• 45:36
  As a matter of fact, they're they're teaching uh disdain for it.
• 45:43
  They're they're teaching uh vices that the students should embrace that are antithetical to the law.
• 45:52
  We're watching this unfold before our very eyes.
• 45:57
  Now, Victor Davis Hansen here is talking about what makes us exceptional, but there is certainly something that lurks that um could destroy that exceptionalism.
• 46:13
  And Lincoln talked about it in 1838, and we're we're watching it continue to happen.
• 46:18
  And again, I I go back to my to my original comments at the at the top of the show that the fight is ongoing.
• 46:25
  There is a good fight that's got to be had here, and the good have to fight it.
• 46:30
  Those that are in pursuit of truth have to fight it.
• 46:34
  Those that love beauty, we have to fight against those who would who would come at us.
• 46:45
  Those who those who are presenting a version of America that is antithetical to the founding, that is antithetical to Judeo-Christian values, antithetical to American founding values and principles and virtues.
• 47:03
  All right, let me get back here to to Hansen.
• 47:06
  He uh he notes 13,000 combat aircraft, larger than China, EU and India put together.
• 47:14
  He says, we have 11 fleet carrier groups, China is struggling to get a third, and we have 11.
• 47:23
  No other country, he said, has a fleet-sized carrier and carrier group.
• 47:28
  They have smaller carriers, but there is not a country that comes close.
• 47:33
  There isn't a country that comes close to our combat aircraft or comes close to our fleet carrier group.
• 47:40
  They can't do it.
• 47:42
  He says, in addition to our 11 fleet carrier groups, we have nine amphibious carriers that are about the same size as most other countries' fleet carriers, and we spend more money than most of the world combined in terms of defense budget, and this is why NATO begs for our you know, for our defense.
• 48:08
  Why?
• 48:09
  Because of freedom.
• 48:12
  Freedom has allowed the American people to produce more than any other country in the world combined.
• 48:20
  The the statistics that I often cite, and I don't know that they're updated.
• 48:25
  4%, America's 4% of the world's population, yet we produce somewhere in the in the in the neighborhood of 96% of the world's goods and services.
• 48:37
  Why?
• 48:38
  Because of freedom, my friends, because we're exceptional.
• 48:41
  We are exceptional because of our founding documents.
• 48:44
  Our founding documents give us the ability to possess liberty.
• 48:52
  And because of that liberty that we possess, we are allowed to pursue our goals, our dreams.
• 49:00
  We are allowed to have that economic rising tide lift all boats.
• 49:00
  We are allowed to have that economic rising tide lift all boats.
• 49:09
  Because we want to invest in ourselves economically, and we want ourselves to prosper economically.
• 49:16
  And therefore, everyone around us is invested economically.
• 49:20
  Everyone around us prospers economically.
• 49:24
  And the rest of the world comes crawling to us.
• 49:24
  And the rest of the world comes crawling to us.
• 49:29
  Hansen says.
• 49:29
  Hansen says we uh we don't enjoy this preeminence because we have a larger continent-sized country.
• 49:37
  He notes we're actually smaller than Russia and Canada.
• 49:40
  And yes, we are bordered by two oceans, but many countries have two oceans that border them.
• 49:48
  And so Hansen says it's it's not just that we have a large area and we have natural resources.
• 49:53
  It's that we have the freedom to utilize that large area and those natural resources.
• 50:01
  He says other countries have as many or more than we do in terms of natural resources.
• 50:06
  There has to be a secret that explains this global preeminence.
• 50:10
  And one of them, as I mentioned, he says, is the constitution.
• 50:14
  No other country has been able to emulate successfully our constitution.
• 50:20
  It's a very rare document.
• 50:22
  He says that assumes that that power will be collected in one particular person or one particular area given human nature.
• 50:31
  And therefore, it's going to check the accumulation of inordinate power through the legislative and judicial branches as being separate, each with power over the other to stop their ingrandisement of authority in power.
• 50:47
  The check and balance system is beautiful.
• 50:50
  And that system is under assault, just like every other element of our constitution.
• 50:56
  But Hansen says it is this constitution that gloriously makes us exceptional.
• 51:06
  And it's part of this check and balance system that's that's built into it.
• 51:10
  Each power having power over the other aspect of the system.
• 51:18
  It keeps the system going, keeps the system firing on all cylinders, as they say.
• 51:26
  Also, Hansen notes that our constitution has something called a bill of rights.
• 51:33
  Very few countries have a bill of rights that protect individual liberty against state authority, as what's outlined in our constitution.
• 51:44
  Um the Bill of Rights refines or hones uh this precedence.
• 51:55
  Um that the individual has free expression.
• 52:00
  The individual has a sanctity of his or her home from being searched or seized.
• 52:06
  The individual has freedom of religion.
• 52:09
  Unless, of course, you're a public school teacher, then you don't really have freedom of religion because that part of the constitution was rewritten.
• 52:17
  The individual has the right to defend themselves, the right to keep and bear arms.
• 52:23
  These are rights of the individual that the federal government may not infringe upon.
• 52:31
  So it's the Bill of Rights and it's genius.
• 52:34
  And the only reason it's there is because men like George Mason uh refused.
• 52:41
  They said, we're not, I'm not on board with this.
• 52:44
  I'm not signing this unless there's a bill of rights.
• 52:47
  And you know, Madison, Madison said, I there doesn't really need to be a bill of rights, because uh the you know, the constitution didn't give authority to the government to um infringe upon uh self-defense.
• 53:08
  Well, you know, I mean uh George Mason and others like him were prophetic, these guys were forward-thinking.
• 53:18
  I mean, Madison and all of his brilliance believed that that the constitution, because it didn't say the government could do a thing, that the government wouldn't try to do that thing.
• 53:29
  But Mason's like, nope, you gotta have it.
• 53:32
  You gotta put in a bill of rights.
• 53:33
  God bless George Mason and others like him.
• 53:38
  In addition to the Constitution, uh, Hanson notes that the United States wasn't founded on a class system.
• 53:47
  There's no dukes, there's no earls.
• 53:50
  It doesn't matter where you were born or who your parents were or how much land your grandfather had.
• 53:55
  None of that matters.
• 53:58
  Um talent, talent matters more.
• 54:02
  Freedom, freedom matters more.
• 54:04
  We're a meritocratic society.
• 54:08
  We value someone, uh, I suppose Hanson says, based on their net worth more than we do their title.
• 54:16
  And he he notes that that sounds somewhat uh plutocratic, actually, though he says our system of rewarding individual success measured by materialism or good works or philanthropy, is a much more effective barometer of talent than inherited privilege.
• 54:35
  We know that.
• 54:37
  We know that inherited privilege isn't uh it's not the thing.
• 54:42
  And so he says that this lends a message to the people, that anybody can make it in America.
• 54:50
  Uh in a way impossible in many of the European countries and other countries in the world.
• 54:56
  You can do it here in America.
• 54:59
  He said we have until recently had a long tradition of the melting pot, the meritocratic immigration, and that meant that if if you came here legally and immigrants were diverse and they were of numbers of a size that could be assimilated and integrated, then it becomes of a very wonderful thing.
• 55:22
  He notes that where he said eight or nine companies in the top ten by market cap were American companies.
• 55:29
  He said, out of those eight or nine, four of them were founded by immigrants.
• 55:36
  So uh immigration becomes a beautiful thing, it becomes a boom to the country.
• 55:43
  But it is this way because we have a can-do individual culture.
• 55:49
  He notes that there's there's two types of envy in the world, the envy of emulation, which is that the good type of envy, and then the bad type, which is anger or resentment that someone has more than you.
• 56:00
  Has more than you.
• 56:03
  Uh, and here in America, the the good type, the emulation, not the bad type exists, but it's this good type that exists in abundance, which makes people want to go after it.
• 56:03
  And here in America, the the good type, the emulation, not the bad type exists, but it's this good type that exists in abundance, which makes people want to go after it.
• 56:17
  I see that you know, someone's succeeding, and I'm thinking, okay, how did they do that?
• 56:17
  I see that you know, someone's succeeding, and I'm thinking, okay, how do they do that?
• 56:23
  Uh good for them.
• 56:23
  Uh, good for them, first of all, how do they do it?
• 56:24
  First of all, how do they do it?
• 56:26
  Because uh, that means I have the ability to do it.
• 56:26
  Because uh that means I have the ability to do it.
• 56:30
  I I can emulate it, I can duplicate it, I can replicate it.
• 56:35
  Oh, my friends, I wish I had more time to talk about the exceptionalism of America, but I don't.
• 56:41
  I'm I'm plumb out, we're up against it.
• 56:43
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• 56:46
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