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The recent Republican National convention in Milwaukee,

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seemed to many like a kind of

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victory lab for the Republican party. Donald Trump

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celebrated as a hero for surviving it. Assassination

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attempt.

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His rival,

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joe Joe Biden decline has... Both

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cognitive and in popularity has been visible to

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all Trump picked a new vice president Jd

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Vance, exciting conservatives.

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And both he and Vance

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pledged to defend the country from the left?

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Which prompts the question.

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Why is it that there are certain prominent

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socialists

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who envy

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the Gop 20 24 platform in a recent

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article,

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came out in the last few weeks.

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In the guardian,

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the Republicans new party platform is scary because

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it can win.

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2 prominent

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democratic socialists, Dust

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And Ba Sun,

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argued that it could and expressed their fear

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that it would.

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These socialists say that the new Republican party

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platform rejects

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the small government Republican tradition.

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And as they formulated it common sense policies

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that are more reflective of the governing practice

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of today's democratic, party from defending the social

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safety net to the to growing manufacturing jobs

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have become rebranded

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as the bread and butter of the Republican

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party. They say that Trump is campaigning to

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win in a dangerously

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coherent way.

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So what are the platform policies

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that the Republicans have adopted that have led

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socialists

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to envy

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the policy statements of the Republican party, and

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what are the cultural

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trends, and the Philosophical ideas that are at

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the root of such a curious development. Well,

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welcome to new ideal lives the podcast of

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the ina Institute. I'm Ben Bae. I'm a

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fellow with the Institute with me is my

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colleague,

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Nico to your cop Hi nico

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Hi, everyone.

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So we're gonna dive into this

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Republican party 20 24

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platform.

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Analyze it, compare it to other platforms, I

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should say right now, I promise to you

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that when the democratic

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convention happens next month, we will do the

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same thing

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for the Democrats. So the reason we're doing

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this this week is because the convention in

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Milwaukee.

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Wrapped up,

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and this is the national time to comment

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on it. But

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I think you can tell from the way

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that I introduced things that we're gonna be

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somewhat critical. Just of the Republican party's platform,

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to give

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to give them their due, Niko, we should

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probably start by at least saying a few

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things about what was in the platform that

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was not worthy of criticism.

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Yeah. So the good things in the platform.

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The most important positive thing that I found

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in the platform is the promise to unleash

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the energy potential of the United States. So

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we read in the platform that

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the commitment needs to make United States the

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number 1 producer of oil and natural gas

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in the world.

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And at some other points, they promised to

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end market distort distort restrictions on oil natural

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and natural gas. Also they promise more nuclear

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energy and they promise an end to the

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green new deal. Now why is this important?

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energy is the

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industry in the economy that makes possible every

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industry. You bring down energy price also, this

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will make the life of

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people affordable.

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I in, Europe, we have a... We've been

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having a heat wave and we are scared

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to turn on the air condition because of

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the energy prices, this is not a way

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to live. So this is a very welcome

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development.

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energy, more energy production is important for geopolitical

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reasons. Remember Ben,

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think it was a year ago when we

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saw the very weird and depressing

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spectacle,

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United States considering importing

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energy from Venezuela.

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So leasing this energy production is important also

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international politics reasons, but also, it is

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important in terms of, in terms of kickstart

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boosting the rest of the American economy. So

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most important thing,

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a committed and looks like a principle stance

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on the need for cheap energy for

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for for more energy production.

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Something else which was very important in the

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the Vision for

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the... For the national defense. So we read

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the that there there will be temp towards

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an iron dome missile defense sealed.

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missile defense seal that Israel has. It has

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protected bit from attacks. From its neighbors. Now

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the United States is envisioning a similar system

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against ballistic missiles.

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tried to build such a system once. It

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was in the 19 eighties. The star wars

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as many people might know it project of

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Reagan

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was decisive

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for the United States winning the called war

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so this is also something very positive.

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in in the platform,

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and moral clarity in terms of Israel's says,

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Israel is an ally,

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and particularly Ben, having seen yesterday,

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the scenes with many democrats and how they

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dealt with Netanyahu in his

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in his visit in the United States, I

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think it's important that in the Gop platform,

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we see this explicit reference to Israel. We

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don't see a an explicit reference to Ukraine,

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that's for another time.

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Another positive point, we see more than once

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in the platform, a promise to eliminate

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costly and

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unnecessary

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regulations. Now this is a move to the

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right direction, but notice, this is a bit

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vague.

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you tell him, Do you want to keep

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unnecessary and costly regulations, and they would say

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yes. So they promise us some cuts to

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regulations, but again, it's it doesn't get... Specific.

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surprise that I had reading the the platform

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a commitment to allow more research and developments

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artificial intelligence.

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the party. They have this prejudice to this

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against big tech.

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turns out the the official platform says, we

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will we will allow more freedom for Ai

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development. And also, it says that it will

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keep bitcoin away from government's surveillance and government

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interventions. So these are the good things that

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in the platform of the Republican party for

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the 20 24 elections.

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Nicolas you moment... You mentioned a moment ago

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you thought. That the

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their statement about unleashing American energy was principled.

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I would say it based on what it

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says and what their policies have been in

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the recent past that it's it's steadfast and

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that they're they are digging their heels in

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a philosophical sense because as we're gonna see

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when we look at the other things that

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are in the platform that are

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that are bad,

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and the good things that are notably missing

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from the platform,

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it it it's principles,

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especially that are missing from this platform. And

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the the few good things that are in

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there. I think are in there kind of

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accidentally or by inertia, it's

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if looking at the rest of it is

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to be any judge, and we should look

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at the rest of it.

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So 1 of the points that the socialists

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socialists

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1 of the points they make about this

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platform is that it drops

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any call to reduce

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entitlement spending. And that had been a

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steadfast position of the Republicans

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for probably decade

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1 penny,

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to be cut from social security. It's and

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Medicare with no changes at all to be

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the retirement age. Now here, let me quote

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directly from the platform.

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What they want to do instead. Quote, Republicans

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will support increased focus on chronic disease, prevention

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and management, long term care and benefit flexibility

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access to primary care and support policies that

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help seniors remain in their homes and maintain

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financial security. Now, this is this is the

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language of the welfare state. The entitlement state,

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which republicans have traditionally

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tried to reduce, tried to oppose,

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tried to stop the halt of and here

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they are doubling down on expanding

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on it. And so the reason that, socialists

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appear to be afraid

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of the Republicans here is because Republicans are

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stealing

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most popular policies.

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Why exactly is a good question. This is

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not the only thing, but Niko, I know

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you wanted to say something about entitlements in

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I was in a flight, and I was

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watching the Tv series house of cards.

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situation where the republicans,

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and the democrats need to come into some

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which is a line in the sun for

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Entitlement reform. Like, they've always spoof for entitlement

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reform every time when we want something from

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them, they want the in advance entitlement reform.

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their actual Manifesto saying, no. We don't need

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any entitlement reform. And why is entitlement reform

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if we put together medicaid.

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they are responsible for a hundred percent, of

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the un funded liabilities

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of the United States. And we're talking about

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numbers that I had to write them down

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and I had to double check them because

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I couldn't believe them. So by the end

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of the century,

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the cost from these un funded liabilities from

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Medicare and Social security.

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Apparently, it will be close to 70000000000000

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dollars.

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And if you put together the depth and

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the un unwanted liabilities

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They are close to the global Gdp. So

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we're are talking about numbers that are difficult

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even to fathom.

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So we would expect that the Republicans should

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say, look, something needs to change because we

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are in a

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course with reality. At some point, we need

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to do something to deal with this

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situation. And I come from a country that

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gone bankrupt basically

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because of this type of un liabilities.

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But what the Republicans are doing, they're saying,

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their they their clothes... They... They're something their

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eyes to to reality here. And they're just

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kicking the the the calm down the road,

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and, yeah, The the future version of ourselves

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will have to deal with it.

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It reminds me niko of how during the

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the tea party protests, which many people at

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the time saw as

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hope for a new free market focus on

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the Republican party. There were some people at

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these protests

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walking around with signs saying government take your

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hands off my social security.

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Government take your hands off my Medicare, which,

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of course, was noted

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ironically,

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because

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social security and Medicare are major socialist inspired

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government programs, and it seems like the the

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seeds of that are now bearing fruition in

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the 20 20 for Republican platform. I think

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the the point about entitlement spending is is

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the biggest and most dramatic turnaround.

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There's others that are in this category that

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are worth mentioning. So

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there's no mention whatsoever of reducing deficits or

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debt. There's only reference to reducing wasteful spending.

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Well, who would oppose wasteful spending when you

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qualify like that, just like costly as unnecessary

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regulations nico

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they want to rebuild our cities. They want

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to an industrial policy, national federal industrial policy,

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which will quote unquote bring our supply chains

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back home.

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Whatever that's supposed to be. And there is,

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of course, and this part is

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not too surprising given Donald Trump's history, but

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outright opposition to free trade, which is the

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the the 1 policy that all economists

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or most economists agree about that's consistent with

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free market economics free trade. They say, on

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the the plot the party platform says unfair

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trade deals,

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and a blind faith in the siren song

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of global

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have led

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politicians to adopt free trade deals

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over the past few decades.

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That speaking of the language of the siren

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song of global ism. That is the same

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language that socialists use when they talk about

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the their critique of neo liberal economics. It

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used to be

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globalization. It's, sometimes called global.

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Trump and the party want to end outsourcing.

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They want to, of course, have the largest

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deportation in American history of illegal immigrants. This

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is a related issue with free trade because

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that is a free trade in labor across

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borders.

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And most,

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surprisingly, even for someone who, has been following

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Trump's views on a free trade. There is

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the proposal made for

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cross the board, baseline tariffs on all

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foreign made goods. The way they put it

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is as tariffs on foreign producers go up,

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taxes on American workers, families and businessmen can

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come down. Now, of course, that's on the

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face of it,

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absurd because, of course, a tariff is a

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tax on American consumers who are trying to

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buy

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foreign goods and massive...

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Intrusion on free market economics and on the

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liberties of Americans, not just

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foreign governments. But I would also say this,

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which is that,

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Like, I can... I don't know if I

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would agree with. But I can see a

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semi plausible argument someone could give for why

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we should have tariffs or trade barriers.

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Maybe,

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against

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against,

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authoritarian

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like China.

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I don't think there's to right that the

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Chinese have to trade with us when, what

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they're doing could support an authoritarian government. But

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baseline tariffs on all foreign main goods is

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not targeted to trade with

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authoritarian. It is across the board, treating the

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Chinese in exactly the same way as our

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our trade free market allies

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around the world. So that there's no longer

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any kind of rationalization that this is,

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just a a way of trying to deal

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with foreign enemies,

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it's it's pure protectionism,

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and we'll have all of the usual consequences

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that that does economically and of course,

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for for causing further erosion of free market

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principles.

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Of Let me say 1 thing very quickly

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here, Ben. They always start by mentioning China.

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So I watched these days many talks by

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Jay Vans, the vice president. We're gonna talk

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about him in a second.

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They start by talking about China, but noticed

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that then they switched to

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globalization, or they gonna talk... They they talk

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about Nafta. They talk about

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trade partners which are not China. So in

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the same way that, for example, you'll see

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they talk about

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Jay Once again does this a lot. He

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talks about. This policy is harmful for children.

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And then they want to ban this policy

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this this or something

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something which is which has nothing do with

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children. They use the same moral blackmail. They

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say we cannot have trade with China, And

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then they say, we cannot have trade with

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something basically anyone. So be very... I want

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to... I want the audience to be careful

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with this. They start by using China, and

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then they apply the same principle even to

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countries, which have nothing to do with the

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the the threat that China poses or with

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an authoritarian regime like the Chinese regime.

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Yeah. That is that is definitely

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suspect.

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Where is all of this coming from?

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What are the values that seem to be

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driving

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this platform.

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What is the moral compass with the platform?

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Well, what's clear to me from reading it

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several times now is at the very least,

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it's not coming from any kind of

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reverence

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for American ideals.

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1 way you can see this is by

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looking at way

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the platform deals with the concept of freedom.

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And I divide

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it's the few and far between

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references to freedom

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into the good, the weird and the bad.

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There are a few places where they seem

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to say

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good things about freedom and connected to policies

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that they're proposing.

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But they're also few very few. I found

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only 2 spots where there's kind of positive

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mention of the right kind of freedom, and

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they're also very ambiguous. So...

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When they talk, about pub

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regulations. They say Republicans will slash regulations that

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s jobs, freedom, innovation and make everything.

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More expensive. Well, that's freedom on a laundry

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list of other

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alleged benefits. So it's it's ambiguous which 1

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is in control there. But then... And there's

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also reference to free speech,

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but in the same breath as they talk

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about protecting free speech, they talk about

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protecting it online.

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And while there are good things said about

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the need to rest constrain government from

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trying to threaten or control

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companies from

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from,

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allowing certain information onto the Internet, We also

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know that in the Republican party today, there's

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pressure to use the power of government

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to

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force

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social media. Companies to,

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abide by certain policies that they might not

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otherwise want to.

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And there are several policy initiatives in Texas

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and Florida, which were recently struck down by

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the Supreme Court,

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where

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that the state governments were trying to do

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just that. And so

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It's ambiguous exactly what the Republican platform talking

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about here. I suspect they mean something like

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what happened in Texas and Florida and in

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which case, that is not actually the protection

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of free speech.

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Even when it is cloaked in that language.

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So that was

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something I said about 1 of the 2

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good examples

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on the list, the the fact that free

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speech speeches are right. But now we get

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into the weird and the bad.

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The weird is when there are freedoms,

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that I think you can argue our freedoms,

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freedoms that government should protect.

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But the emphasis that they put on them

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to the exclusion of others

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is rather weird. There is much more attention

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put, for example, on the freedom to pray,

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then on, let's say, the freedom 2

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engage in other kinds of

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ideological activities. So we we see actually they

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want to s,

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the use of certain kinds of ideas and

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and

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public schools related to d, I Crt.

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And, of course, I don't agree with those

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ideas, and we've had plenty of negative things

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to say about them, but it's unclear why

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1 ideology religion.

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Should get preference

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over left wing ideologies in the public schools.

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I I don't think either of them should,

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and public schools are, always going to set

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you up for a... Should dilemma like that.

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You you get then

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freedom to transact bitcoin without government surveillance,

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a

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new technology that obviously, many people are

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enthusiastic about, But, what about, freedom to transact

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everything else. No reference to that and as

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we've discussed,

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there are things that Republicans are proposing that

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would be ana to that. And then the

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very weird section, freedom, prosperity and safety in

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space.

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For those of us who are planning to

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start businesses there. Yes, there are private American

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companies who are making

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innovative,

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entrepreneurial steps into space for the first time,

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and I think that they should be protected,

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but it's it's it's again strange that,

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the Republicans are more concerned with protecting freedom

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there where almost nobody threatens it,

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and not here on earth where many people

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are.

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And then we get to the bad,

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there is

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talk of the importance of the freedom of

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states.

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To protect, to pass laws against abortion,

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which

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viewers of this channel should not be surprised,

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I would find bad,

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Ina institute is a defender of abortion rights.

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Rand was a vocal defender of abortion rights.

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00:21:22,964 --> 00:21:24,260
Saw it as a

559
00:21:25,209 --> 00:21:27,606
reproductive freedom as a fundamental freedom. It's no

560
00:21:27,606 --> 00:21:29,285
surprise of course, that republicans are against that.

561
00:21:29,445 --> 00:21:29,924
But,

562
00:21:30,404 --> 00:21:32,961
when the language is put in terms of

563
00:21:32,961 --> 00:21:35,053
the freedom of states to, out well, abortion.

564
00:21:35,691 --> 00:21:37,127
That is that is particularly,

565
00:21:38,243 --> 00:21:38,961
particularly gall.

566
00:21:39,919 --> 00:21:40,238
Overall,

567
00:21:40,796 --> 00:21:42,551
the... There is very little reference to the

568
00:21:42,551 --> 00:21:44,958
concept of freedom. Overall, there's very little to

569
00:21:44,958 --> 00:21:45,753
the constitution,

570
00:21:46,629 --> 00:21:49,255
and to the founding fathers of America.

571
00:21:49,892 --> 00:21:51,483
And when you look to the key parts

572
00:21:51,483 --> 00:21:54,164
of the platform for some kind of prince

573
00:21:54,284 --> 00:21:56,674
a clue as to what the actual guiding

574
00:21:56,674 --> 00:21:57,311
principles are.

575
00:21:58,028 --> 00:22:00,816
I turned in particular to the dedication and

576
00:22:00,816 --> 00:22:02,648
the pre am places where you would expect

577
00:22:02,648 --> 00:22:04,813
there to be a statement of values.

578
00:22:05,449 --> 00:22:08,494
That get the dedication of the platform says

579
00:22:08,710 --> 00:22:09,926
to the forgotten

580
00:22:10,301 --> 00:22:12,051
men and women of America,

581
00:22:13,262 --> 00:22:14,240
the pre em

582
00:22:14,936 --> 00:22:17,567
is entitled America first, a return to common

583
00:22:17,567 --> 00:22:20,060
sense. And it begins with references to

584
00:22:20,676 --> 00:22:21,176
the

585
00:22:21,568 --> 00:22:23,400
men the forgotten men and women of America,

586
00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:25,870
the ones who are supposed to have built

587
00:22:26,029 --> 00:22:26,427
America,

588
00:22:27,941 --> 00:22:30,576
and it's then described how the politicians sold

589
00:22:30,576 --> 00:22:32,799
them out to the highest bidder overseas. These

590
00:22:32,799 --> 00:22:34,069
were the global. This is again,

591
00:22:34,783 --> 00:22:35,869
the language of

592
00:22:36,388 --> 00:22:37,446
socialism ferment

593
00:22:38,143 --> 00:22:40,376
revolution of the the of the proletariat.

594
00:22:41,174 --> 00:22:43,247
Although it has its own distinctive flavor, it

595
00:22:43,247 --> 00:22:44,763
puts it in terms of the needs return

596
00:22:44,763 --> 00:22:47,428
to American greatness. This is not new language

597
00:22:47,484 --> 00:22:48,836
for Trump's party.

598
00:22:50,346 --> 00:22:50,743
But

599
00:22:51,221 --> 00:22:53,128
when as soon as it's done with that

600
00:22:53,128 --> 00:22:54,798
kind of opening statement of values,

601
00:22:55,275 --> 00:22:58,161
this working for the forgotten men, the little

602
00:22:58,161 --> 00:22:58,480
people,

603
00:22:59,597 --> 00:23:01,272
and against the global lists.

604
00:23:02,229 --> 00:23:05,315
It then immediately goes on to highlight its

605
00:23:05,434 --> 00:23:08,078
top policy priorities. And

606
00:23:08,452 --> 00:23:10,755
the first of these are stopping the so

607
00:23:10,755 --> 00:23:12,208
called invasion at the border

608
00:23:12,740 --> 00:23:13,240
and

609
00:23:14,267 --> 00:23:17,135
the industrial policy, quote, the Republican party must

610
00:23:17,135 --> 00:23:19,684
return to its roots as the party of

611
00:23:19,684 --> 00:23:20,821
industry, manufacturing

612
00:23:21,278 --> 00:23:21,778
infrastructure

613
00:23:22,154 --> 00:23:22,871
and workers,

614
00:23:24,805 --> 00:23:26,404
I thought that the roots of the Republican

615
00:23:26,404 --> 00:23:29,464
party were standing up for freedom against slavery

616
00:23:29,525 --> 00:23:31,924
and against the confederacy, but there doesn't seem

617
00:23:31,924 --> 00:23:34,574
to be any desire to revisit that moment.

618
00:23:35,371 --> 00:23:37,625
Instead, they are talking about

619
00:23:38,082 --> 00:23:40,475
the manufacturing and the workers, which is again,

620
00:23:41,511 --> 00:23:42,011
all

621
00:23:42,481 --> 00:23:44,383
language that you would expect to be coming

622
00:23:44,383 --> 00:23:46,920
from someone who wants a revolution on behalf

623
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:47,420
of

624
00:23:47,951 --> 00:23:49,140
the proletariat?

625
00:23:52,738 --> 00:23:52,978
Yeah.

626
00:23:53,934 --> 00:23:56,086
You you mentioned you mentioned the reaction to

627
00:23:56,086 --> 00:23:56,586
global.

628
00:23:57,281 --> 00:23:57,781
And

629
00:23:58,174 --> 00:24:01,048
it's very important for anyone who wants to

630
00:24:01,048 --> 00:24:03,283
takes Ds service. We to understand that, this

631
00:24:03,283 --> 00:24:04,661
is... This was literally

632
00:24:05,358 --> 00:24:07,056
the agenda of the left

633
00:24:07,369 --> 00:24:09,150
20 years ago. The anti

634
00:24:09,529 --> 00:24:10,910
globalization movement was

635
00:24:11,289 --> 00:24:12,350
the big comeback

636
00:24:12,730 --> 00:24:15,470
of the global left in the in the

637
00:24:15,529 --> 00:24:18,330
international stage in the international arena. So if

638
00:24:18,330 --> 00:24:21,296
you remember, they were following the g 8

639
00:24:21,750 --> 00:24:24,730
or the the what people they call global

640
00:24:25,342 --> 00:24:28,124
around General and Seattle, and they were doing

641
00:24:28,124 --> 00:24:29,157
all these protests,

642
00:24:29,634 --> 00:24:30,610
claiming that

643
00:24:31,303 --> 00:24:34,255
globalization, is bad for the working class. And,

644
00:24:34,334 --> 00:24:37,032
of course, people back then on the right.

645
00:24:37,350 --> 00:24:39,907
It's 1 topic they got right. They were

646
00:24:39,907 --> 00:24:42,240
saying you people are completely

647
00:24:42,776 --> 00:24:43,732
economically literate.

648
00:24:45,007 --> 00:24:45,825
Globalization is

649
00:24:46,281 --> 00:24:48,853
protection is with bad protection is bad

650
00:24:49,404 --> 00:24:52,139
for the... For the local working class, and

651
00:24:52,197 --> 00:24:54,751
protection doesn't work and doesn't help anyone. And

652
00:24:54,751 --> 00:24:56,268
in the year 20 24,

653
00:24:56,826 --> 00:24:59,898
we see the Republican party adopting

654
00:25:00,517 --> 00:25:01,656
the agenda of the

655
00:25:02,115 --> 00:25:04,353
globalization left? I want the audience who is

656
00:25:04,353 --> 00:25:06,770
gonna think, oh, why are these people criticizing

657
00:25:07,801 --> 00:25:10,106
Trump, are they leftist? No. If you think

658
00:25:10,106 --> 00:25:12,412
this, you are the leftist who have adopted

659
00:25:12,412 --> 00:25:14,104
the agenda of the anti

660
00:25:14,558 --> 00:25:14,956
globalization left.

661
00:25:17,596 --> 00:25:19,925
Yeah. If I had to sum up the

662
00:25:19,982 --> 00:25:21,653
the values that are...

663
00:25:24,059 --> 00:25:26,133
Suggested by the pre am and by the

664
00:25:26,133 --> 00:25:28,845
deck by the dedication and the values that

665
00:25:28,845 --> 00:25:31,078
tie together all of the policy proposals we've

666
00:25:31,078 --> 00:25:32,035
just been talking about.

667
00:25:33,246 --> 00:25:35,638
I would say that they're essentially the values

668
00:25:35,638 --> 00:25:37,791
not of America and individual freedom.

669
00:25:38,748 --> 00:25:40,901
But the values of nationalism pop,

670
00:25:41,393 --> 00:25:43,321
and the kind of pro proletariat

671
00:25:44,170 --> 00:25:45,701
pop. There's there's

672
00:25:46,312 --> 00:25:48,692
much more emphasis on so called national greatness

673
00:25:48,692 --> 00:25:49,619
than there is on

674
00:25:49,978 --> 00:25:52,450
individual freedom. And and so no wonder the

675
00:25:52,450 --> 00:25:52,950
socialists

676
00:25:53,407 --> 00:25:53,806
fear it.

677
00:25:54,603 --> 00:25:57,394
They fear it because these are their values.

678
00:25:57,553 --> 00:25:58,644
It's it's it's a Nash

679
00:25:59,399 --> 00:26:01,805
version of their values. It's not the nationalist

680
00:26:01,940 --> 00:26:02,916
version that you're usually

681
00:26:03,290 --> 00:26:07,284
getting from, socialist. It's an American branded nationalist

682
00:26:07,419 --> 00:26:07,578
version,

683
00:26:08,229 --> 00:26:09,664
of the core values of socialism,

684
00:26:10,780 --> 00:26:12,215
where we've seen that in history. I'll lead

685
00:26:12,215 --> 00:26:13,012
to the reader to guess.

686
00:26:13,730 --> 00:26:14,129
But

687
00:26:14,687 --> 00:26:16,042
that is not these are not the values

688
00:26:16,042 --> 00:26:16,680
of America,

689
00:26:17,652 --> 00:26:20,544
And Niko, I think an elegant symbol

690
00:26:21,161 --> 00:26:22,219
of this

691
00:26:24,191 --> 00:26:26,915
transformation of the Republican party is is Trump's

692
00:26:26,915 --> 00:26:27,415
choice

693
00:26:27,789 --> 00:26:28,504
for Vp,

694
00:26:29,378 --> 00:26:30,831
Jd Vance, and

695
00:26:31,444 --> 00:26:32,556
what can you tell us about him?

696
00:26:33,765 --> 00:26:36,585
Jay Ivan. So when did we first hear

697
00:26:36,724 --> 00:26:39,065
about J Events? Around 2016

698
00:26:39,285 --> 00:26:40,345
where he published

699
00:26:41,059 --> 00:26:42,971
his book, Hill billy El.

700
00:26:43,768 --> 00:26:45,600
And when I read that book, if you

701
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,911
told me that this guy would be the

702
00:26:47,911 --> 00:26:49,823
vice would go for the vice presidents of

703
00:26:49,823 --> 00:26:52,390
the United States, would be very happy because

704
00:26:52,390 --> 00:26:54,465
it's a book that I found very good

705
00:26:54,465 --> 00:26:57,098
and inspiring. It's actually book about... It's a

706
00:26:57,098 --> 00:26:58,216
story of overcoming.

707
00:26:58,869 --> 00:27:01,986
They stocks about his family and in his

708
00:27:01,986 --> 00:27:03,264
community. They were born the,

709
00:27:04,702 --> 00:27:06,860
Kentucky and then move to a small town.

710
00:27:07,355 --> 00:27:08,634
In in Ohio.

711
00:27:09,275 --> 00:27:12,394
And people there found themselves in a vicious

712
00:27:12,394 --> 00:27:12,795
circle.

713
00:27:13,275 --> 00:27:15,355
A vicious circle of 2 big problems. The

714
00:27:15,355 --> 00:27:16,174
1 was

715
00:27:16,489 --> 00:27:20,245
the economic problems, an economy, indeed industrialized economy,

716
00:27:20,645 --> 00:27:23,303
which have not been able to adapt

717
00:27:23,921 --> 00:27:25,061
to the new circumstances,

718
00:27:25,933 --> 00:27:26,490
but also,

719
00:27:27,206 --> 00:27:30,092
this aside from the economic problems, a culture

720
00:27:30,228 --> 00:27:33,609
that was anti achievement, a cup sure that

721
00:27:34,470 --> 00:27:36,070
incur many negative traits.

722
00:27:36,710 --> 00:27:39,590
So J ivan says that people in this

723
00:27:39,590 --> 00:27:41,049
environment have dealt

724
00:27:41,443 --> 00:27:42,637
have been dealt a bad hunt.

725
00:27:43,512 --> 00:27:46,875
People in this environment indeed start life facing

726
00:27:47,409 --> 00:27:48,227
many difficulties

727
00:27:48,539 --> 00:27:49,576
but he says,

728
00:27:50,214 --> 00:27:51,410
at the end of the day,

729
00:27:52,208 --> 00:27:54,441
each person holds their faith in their own

730
00:27:54,441 --> 00:27:54,760
hands.

731
00:27:55,478 --> 00:27:56,536
Yes, it is difficult.

732
00:27:57,153 --> 00:27:59,983
Yes, you might need help from a

733
00:28:00,362 --> 00:28:02,679
from inspiring people in your family in your

734
00:28:02,679 --> 00:28:03,079
community.

735
00:28:03,558 --> 00:28:05,156
We eating in his book that although he

736
00:28:05,156 --> 00:28:06,515
comes from a chaotic family.

737
00:28:06,929 --> 00:28:09,000
Has a sister figure and a grandmother and

738
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,072
a grandfather who helped him. So at the

739
00:28:11,072 --> 00:28:12,028
end of the day, he says,

740
00:28:12,745 --> 00:28:15,693
people have the agency to escape this difficult

741
00:28:15,693 --> 00:28:16,193
background.

742
00:28:16,570 --> 00:28:19,766
He and his his story is an example

743
00:28:19,766 --> 00:28:21,674
of this. He could have been a statistic,

744
00:28:22,231 --> 00:28:24,855
and yet he managed to succeed life.

745
00:28:25,507 --> 00:28:27,260
And it's on not. It's not only that

746
00:28:27,260 --> 00:28:30,150
he's telling us an inspiring story. He's also

747
00:28:30,208 --> 00:28:30,708
drawing

748
00:28:31,084 --> 00:28:32,439
the right conclusions.

749
00:28:33,076 --> 00:28:35,404
So he says that, at some point in

750
00:28:35,404 --> 00:28:38,121
the book, he uses the... This example. He

751
00:28:38,121 --> 00:28:40,059
says that if you think that

752
00:28:41,077 --> 00:28:41,577
your

753
00:28:42,037 --> 00:28:43,849
difficult life is due to. At

754
00:28:44,609 --> 00:28:45,348
the Chinese

755
00:28:46,047 --> 00:28:49,004
or Obama, the White House or a big

756
00:28:49,004 --> 00:28:49,484
business,

757
00:28:49,963 --> 00:28:52,361
you're making a big mistake. At the very

758
00:28:52,361 --> 00:28:53,480
end of the day, yes.

759
00:28:54,134 --> 00:28:55,894
Politics can make our live worse At the

760
00:28:55,894 --> 00:28:57,974
very end of the day, it's on us.

761
00:28:59,015 --> 00:29:02,134
And looking jay advanced today, I wonder where

762
00:29:02,134 --> 00:29:03,095
has the spirit gone?

763
00:29:04,067 --> 00:29:06,700
Because this is not the views J vans

764
00:29:06,700 --> 00:29:09,673
halls today. I encourage its people to go

765
00:29:09,732 --> 00:29:12,159
to Youtube and find a talk he gave

766
00:29:12,297 --> 00:29:15,403
in a national conservative confidence in 20 19.

767
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:17,337
The talk is called

768
00:29:18,191 --> 00:29:19,680
beyond Ib libertarian is

769
00:29:20,197 --> 00:29:21,572
and there, he

770
00:29:21,947 --> 00:29:22,925
makes the opposite

771
00:29:23,778 --> 00:29:25,949
point of view than he made in He.

772
00:29:26,881 --> 00:29:30,160
He says that our social and cultural problems,

773
00:29:31,356 --> 00:29:34,326
at the root have to do with political

774
00:29:34,863 --> 00:29:36,058
choice. Such as, for example,

775
00:29:36,776 --> 00:29:39,283
globalization. And also that they have

776
00:29:39,819 --> 00:29:40,319
political

777
00:29:40,934 --> 00:29:41,173
solutions.

778
00:29:41,970 --> 00:29:43,165
So it looks at the end of the

779
00:29:43,165 --> 00:29:44,462
day that it is

780
00:29:44,853 --> 00:29:47,706
the mistake of Wall Street end of the

781
00:29:47,706 --> 00:29:48,974
government or of the Chinese.

782
00:29:49,450 --> 00:29:51,827
If some people's lives is not good.

783
00:29:52,799 --> 00:29:53,299
And

784
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,099
recently, what did he say in the

785
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:57,460
in the Republican

786
00:29:57,759 --> 00:30:00,966
convention about, for example, the crisis of 2008.

787
00:30:01,125 --> 00:30:03,455
He said that Wall street barron

788
00:30:03,909 --> 00:30:05,341
crossed the economy.

789
00:30:06,296 --> 00:30:06,375
Now,

790
00:30:07,184 --> 00:30:09,273
think about it this. Right? So these dis

791
00:30:09,328 --> 00:30:10,281
rights supposedly.

792
00:30:10,916 --> 00:30:13,934
They came out partly from their own poll

793
00:30:13,934 --> 00:30:16,012
campaigns of the 2008 and 2012.

794
00:30:16,250 --> 00:30:17,227
This was the first

795
00:30:17,599 --> 00:30:20,853
anti establishment, let's say, movement within the Republican

796
00:30:20,853 --> 00:30:21,170
party.

797
00:30:21,805 --> 00:30:24,158
2 and big part of that campaign was

798
00:30:24,217 --> 00:30:26,614
a criticism of the federal reserve,

799
00:30:27,413 --> 00:30:28,633
free market criticism

800
00:30:29,012 --> 00:30:30,290
to the 2008

801
00:30:30,290 --> 00:30:33,172
financial crisis. And now you have the vice...

802
00:30:33,967 --> 00:30:35,795
The the nominee for the vice presidency,

803
00:30:36,272 --> 00:30:37,647
telling you that the crisis

804
00:30:38,022 --> 00:30:40,902
was the result, of the big banks, which

805
00:30:40,902 --> 00:30:43,292
has been the rhetoric of the left.

806
00:30:44,168 --> 00:30:45,146
But there's a second

807
00:30:45,841 --> 00:30:48,963
point in which. They advanced today of is

808
00:30:48,963 --> 00:30:51,592
different from J Vance of the Hill bill

809
00:30:51,592 --> 00:30:53,424
reality. Of the guy who... When I was

810
00:30:53,424 --> 00:30:54,778
reading the book, I was thinking I want

811
00:30:54,778 --> 00:30:56,792
to give a hug to this guy. He's

812
00:30:56,929 --> 00:30:57,668
he so

813
00:30:58,377 --> 00:30:59,886
he saw inspiring his struggle.

814
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,062
So in the book, he says, how he

815
00:31:03,062 --> 00:31:04,277
has this respect

816
00:31:04,650 --> 00:31:07,112
for things like objectivity and truth.

817
00:31:07,924 --> 00:31:09,924
And he gives us an example. He says,

818
00:31:10,484 --> 00:31:12,644
what a pt is that we live in

819
00:31:12,644 --> 00:31:14,805
a country that such a big part of

820
00:31:14,805 --> 00:31:15,605
the population.

821
00:31:16,257 --> 00:31:19,068
Believes crazy theories, such that

822
00:31:19,763 --> 00:31:21,914
Obama maybe is not really an American citizen.

823
00:31:22,074 --> 00:31:25,042
This has... Is the whole discussion that took

824
00:31:25,042 --> 00:31:26,501
place back then about

825
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,277
whether he has a legitimate birth certificate.

826
00:31:30,396 --> 00:31:32,246
By the way, who was a major Antagonist

827
00:31:32,246 --> 00:31:34,785
is in this conspiracy a theory, Trump.

828
00:31:35,499 --> 00:31:38,197
And here we see some years later, the

829
00:31:38,197 --> 00:31:41,240
same guy Who in 20 16 says, what

830
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:42,837
a pity that we live in a culture

831
00:31:42,837 --> 00:31:45,072
that has no respect for truth and objectivity,

832
00:31:46,828 --> 00:31:48,685
joining sides in the most

833
00:31:49,476 --> 00:31:53,140
institutional and official way becoming vice president of

834
00:31:53,140 --> 00:31:53,878
the guy

835
00:31:54,255 --> 00:31:57,281
who was a big a major contributor to

836
00:31:57,281 --> 00:32:00,115
that conspiracy theory. So unfortunately,

837
00:32:00,575 --> 00:32:01,715
j Demands of

838
00:32:02,095 --> 00:32:03,535
today is not the same guy.

839
00:32:04,494 --> 00:32:06,015
Is not a guy with the same beliefs,

840
00:32:06,349 --> 00:32:07,881
as the guy who wrote that

841
00:32:08,335 --> 00:32:09,549
inspirational book about

842
00:32:10,003 --> 00:32:12,148
individual agency and about overcoming.

843
00:32:15,102 --> 00:32:17,985
Yes. And and nick nico because another

844
00:32:18,438 --> 00:32:19,414
really telling

845
00:32:20,185 --> 00:32:22,909
symbol of this vance own life

846
00:32:23,616 --> 00:32:25,602
is something that anybody in our audience can

847
00:32:25,602 --> 00:32:27,374
read straight from him

848
00:32:27,748 --> 00:32:30,211
if they look up his article, how I

849
00:32:30,211 --> 00:32:31,245
joined the resistance.

850
00:32:32,213 --> 00:32:35,547
Which was published in magazine called the lamp

851
00:32:35,547 --> 00:32:37,293
magazine. It's a Catholic magazine,

852
00:32:38,722 --> 00:32:40,706
Vance is a recent Catholic convert,

853
00:32:41,516 --> 00:32:42,789
convert from atheism,

854
00:32:43,425 --> 00:32:45,732
and not just a convert from atheism is

855
00:32:45,732 --> 00:32:47,721
atheism, but a convert from Iron rand,

856
00:32:48,371 --> 00:32:49,242
And in this article,

857
00:32:49,955 --> 00:32:52,492
he talks about how he was an Amber

858
00:32:52,492 --> 00:32:55,186
divine Rand and her free market individual principles.

859
00:32:56,236 --> 00:32:57,350
And was also an atheist,

860
00:32:58,624 --> 00:33:01,649
and but how he abandoned rand in favor

861
00:33:01,649 --> 00:33:04,853
of Saint Augustine and Catholicism and here's... Here's

862
00:33:04,853 --> 00:33:07,410
explicitly what he says. My... About his conversion,

863
00:33:07,570 --> 00:33:08,848
my randy arrogance,

864
00:33:09,488 --> 00:33:10,606
about my own ability,

865
00:33:11,166 --> 00:33:13,818
melted away when con... Confronted with the realization

866
00:33:13,818 --> 00:33:16,534
that an obsessive an obsession with achievement would

867
00:33:16,534 --> 00:33:18,712
fail to produce the achievement that mattered most

868
00:33:18,852 --> 00:33:20,470
for so much of my life, a happy

869
00:33:20,529 --> 00:33:23,977
fronted thriving family. So it's not about individual

870
00:33:23,977 --> 00:33:27,431
achievement and individual rights for vance. It's about

871
00:33:27,569 --> 00:33:28,468
family values

872
00:33:29,006 --> 00:33:29,506
and

873
00:33:29,899 --> 00:33:31,333
God and religion.

874
00:33:32,768 --> 00:33:34,601
These are his own words look up how

875
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,173
I joined the resistance on the lamp magazine

876
00:33:37,231 --> 00:33:38,677
if if you don't believe me.

877
00:33:40,107 --> 00:33:42,196
By the way, why why is that achievement

878
00:33:42,729 --> 00:33:44,556
incompatible with family values? That's...

879
00:33:45,430 --> 00:33:47,433
So it's not... So on the 1 hand,

880
00:33:47,592 --> 00:33:50,456
j vans is an ideological choice for trump.

881
00:33:50,615 --> 00:33:52,842
Trump is not an ideal look, but vance.

882
00:33:53,734 --> 00:33:55,412
Wants to be an idea, look. And and

883
00:33:55,412 --> 00:33:58,129
then we see him making some tip points

884
00:33:58,129 --> 00:33:59,269
or points that

885
00:34:00,287 --> 00:34:01,806
we've heard the many times from people who

886
00:34:01,806 --> 00:34:04,476
have no idea what rand was about or

887
00:34:04,853 --> 00:34:08,043
what this going after achievement and going after

888
00:34:08,043 --> 00:34:09,240
values means anyway.

889
00:34:10,596 --> 00:34:11,734
Yeah. So the

890
00:34:12,844 --> 00:34:14,431
it's true of course that,

891
00:34:15,304 --> 00:34:16,518
individual can

892
00:34:17,128 --> 00:34:19,271
choose to make family part of their life

893
00:34:19,271 --> 00:34:19,826
when they choose...

894
00:34:20,638 --> 00:34:22,392
Their spouse when they choose to have kids.

895
00:34:22,552 --> 00:34:23,269
These are, of course,

896
00:34:23,907 --> 00:34:26,698
choices that today's republicans don't always want you

897
00:34:26,698 --> 00:34:28,293
to be able to make, especially with regard

898
00:34:28,293 --> 00:34:30,059
to having kids in their an abortion.

899
00:34:30,933 --> 00:34:33,317
But their idea of family values is a

900
00:34:33,317 --> 00:34:34,215
package deal

901
00:34:34,827 --> 00:34:35,327
between

902
00:34:35,860 --> 00:34:36,360
the

903
00:34:37,068 --> 00:34:40,016
legitimate chosen aspects of family that can be

904
00:34:40,016 --> 00:34:41,530
part of the values of an individual's life,

905
00:34:41,689 --> 00:34:44,494
and the chosen ones, and they use they

906
00:34:44,494 --> 00:34:46,728
use the part that's legitimate to give credence

907
00:34:46,728 --> 00:34:48,963
to the illegitimate part, which gives credence to

908
00:34:48,963 --> 00:34:51,518
the the whole notion of chosen duty, which

909
00:34:51,518 --> 00:34:52,715
of course comes from religion.

910
00:34:55,047 --> 00:34:55,547
Niko

911
00:34:56,086 --> 00:34:57,685
last thing I I think we should talk

912
00:34:57,685 --> 00:34:59,304
about today is

913
00:34:59,683 --> 00:35:02,320
just how much of a shift this is.

914
00:35:04,094 --> 00:35:06,734
There's been things to criticize about the Republican

915
00:35:06,734 --> 00:35:09,454
party from an individual perspective for a long

916
00:35:09,454 --> 00:35:09,695
time.

917
00:35:10,414 --> 00:35:10,914
But

918
00:35:11,787 --> 00:35:14,989
you don't have to go back that far

919
00:35:15,363 --> 00:35:16,101
in history

920
00:35:17,906 --> 00:35:21,444
to see when the Republicans had a still

921
00:35:22,622 --> 00:35:23,122
ob

922
00:35:23,740 --> 00:35:25,978
dramatically different policy stance.

923
00:35:26,697 --> 00:35:28,396
And I decided to go back

924
00:35:29,026 --> 00:35:31,009
into the ancient history of 20 12,

925
00:35:32,436 --> 00:35:35,053
you know, just 12 years ago, during the

926
00:35:35,132 --> 00:35:36,401
Romney Ryan campaign,

927
00:35:36,974 --> 00:35:39,131
And I I read most of the 20

928
00:35:39,131 --> 00:35:40,350
12 platform

929
00:35:40,889 --> 00:35:42,668
to see what was there

930
00:35:43,046 --> 00:35:44,485
that isn't there anymore.

931
00:35:45,220 --> 00:35:47,220
And 1 thing to notice about it is

932
00:35:47,220 --> 00:35:49,860
just that it is an actual serious document,

933
00:35:50,019 --> 00:35:52,680
62 pages versus 28

934
00:35:52,900 --> 00:35:53,880
written in

935
00:35:55,071 --> 00:35:57,164
English for literate readers

936
00:35:57,859 --> 00:35:59,315
as opposed to the weird

937
00:36:00,329 --> 00:36:01,626
cap... Weirdly capitalized

938
00:36:02,161 --> 00:36:03,356
Twitter style writing,

939
00:36:04,088 --> 00:36:05,521
in the style of Donald Trump that you

940
00:36:05,521 --> 00:36:07,512
see in the 20 24 platform, but leave

941
00:36:07,512 --> 00:36:08,786
aside the matter of style,

942
00:36:09,422 --> 00:36:11,173
which I think is nonetheless significant,

943
00:36:12,700 --> 00:36:13,915
the the content

944
00:36:14,528 --> 00:36:16,618
of the 20 12 platform,

945
00:36:17,071 --> 00:36:19,456
whatever there is to criticize it about it,

946
00:36:20,349 --> 00:36:22,530
is is coming from a different universe

947
00:36:22,989 --> 00:36:24,670
than what you see in 20 24.

948
00:36:24,989 --> 00:36:26,609
And I'll start just by

949
00:36:27,083 --> 00:36:27,583
noting

950
00:36:27,961 --> 00:36:31,710
the moral compass issue. I mentioned the lack

951
00:36:31,710 --> 00:36:33,863
of a moral compass in the 20 24

952
00:36:33,863 --> 00:36:36,016
platform or where 1 was visible, it sounded

953
00:36:36,016 --> 00:36:37,069
more like social them.

954
00:36:38,027 --> 00:36:40,762
But 1 thing to note is just how

955
00:36:41,699 --> 00:36:42,199
reverence

956
00:36:42,736 --> 00:36:45,051
for the wisdom of the founding fathers and

957
00:36:45,051 --> 00:36:45,664
the constitutes

958
00:36:46,340 --> 00:36:48,568
is all over the 20 12 platform.

959
00:36:49,045 --> 00:36:51,511
Franklin is quote is quoted and the front

960
00:36:51,511 --> 00:36:55,019
piece, jefferson in Madison Washington are alluded to

961
00:36:55,019 --> 00:36:55,812
from time to time.

962
00:36:58,508 --> 00:37:01,483
And they begin, then the platform

963
00:37:02,019 --> 00:37:03,954
by saying, and I don't agree with every

964
00:37:04,172 --> 00:37:06,164
phrase in this, but we are the party

965
00:37:06,164 --> 00:37:09,604
of the constitution, the solemn compact which confirms

966
00:37:09,604 --> 00:37:12,222
are god given individual rights and assures that

967
00:37:12,222 --> 00:37:13,516
all Americans stand

968
00:37:13,889 --> 00:37:16,055
equal before the law. And then

969
00:37:16,684 --> 00:37:18,202
little bit later the same page Page 9.

970
00:37:18,362 --> 00:37:20,201
In a free society, the primary role of

971
00:37:20,201 --> 00:37:22,118
government is to protect the god given an

972
00:37:22,118 --> 00:37:24,755
ina inherent rights of its citizens, including the

973
00:37:24,755 --> 00:37:26,684
rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of

974
00:37:26,684 --> 00:37:28,915
happiness. This is right at the beginning. This

975
00:37:28,915 --> 00:37:30,849
is how they are announcing their value

976
00:37:31,465 --> 00:37:33,934
orientation, and they immediately go on to Cha

977
00:37:34,094 --> 00:37:34,594
Democrats,

978
00:37:35,462 --> 00:37:36,438
for not

979
00:37:36,892 --> 00:37:40,092
using the same standards for not justifying their

980
00:37:40,149 --> 00:37:41,125
legislation by the

981
00:37:41,578 --> 00:37:44,041
constitution by failing to uphold the rule of

982
00:37:44,041 --> 00:37:44,359
law.

983
00:37:45,248 --> 00:37:48,517
There is then an enormous amount of emphasis.

984
00:37:49,076 --> 00:37:51,308
On the issue of economic freedom in the

985
00:37:51,308 --> 00:37:53,380
20 12 platform. They explicitly say,

986
00:37:54,032 --> 00:37:55,725
we are the party of maximum

987
00:37:56,099 --> 00:37:58,643
economic freedom. It's the topic of the very

988
00:37:58,643 --> 00:38:00,153
first chapter in the platform.

989
00:38:00,947 --> 00:38:03,586
They say, quote, Republicans will pursue. Free market

990
00:38:03,586 --> 00:38:05,755
policies that are the sure way to boost

991
00:38:05,811 --> 00:38:08,116
employment and create job out a job growth

992
00:38:08,116 --> 00:38:11,074
and economic prosperity for all. They free prompts

993
00:38:11,074 --> 00:38:13,474
to, quote, return government to its proper role,

994
00:38:13,795 --> 00:38:16,855
making it smaller and smarter, and they justify

995
00:38:16,914 --> 00:38:19,690
it by reference to the value of

996
00:38:20,126 --> 00:38:23,297
success and entrepreneurship. They want to encourage and

997
00:38:23,297 --> 00:38:25,677
protect energetic and entrepreneurial Americans.

998
00:38:26,232 --> 00:38:27,604
That's a completely different

999
00:38:28,152 --> 00:38:28,549
outlook,

1000
00:38:29,186 --> 00:38:31,594
from what you see in 20 24

1001
00:38:31,731 --> 00:38:33,640
with the emphasis instead being put on the

1002
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:34,992
forgotten people who've been,

1003
00:38:36,359 --> 00:38:40,135
is screwed over by the evil nefarious gl.

1004
00:38:40,914 --> 00:38:43,072
And, yeah, I could go on for a

1005
00:38:43,072 --> 00:38:44,291
while en

1006
00:38:45,404 --> 00:38:47,881
the policy proposals that they make in 20

1007
00:38:47,881 --> 00:38:51,477
20... In 20 12 that follow through on

1008
00:38:51,477 --> 00:38:52,536
this kind of value

1009
00:38:52,996 --> 00:38:56,305
orientation is they say taxes by their very

1010
00:38:56,363 --> 00:38:58,837
nature, reduces a citizens freedom. They call for

1011
00:38:58,837 --> 00:39:01,550
a flatter tax. They wanna reduce the corporate

1012
00:39:01,550 --> 00:39:01,710
tax.

1013
00:39:02,522 --> 00:39:04,835
They wanna end tax policies that promote class

1014
00:39:04,835 --> 00:39:08,184
welfare. They call for constitutional require a super

1015
00:39:08,184 --> 00:39:10,018
majority for any tax increases. They wanna rep

1016
00:39:10,018 --> 00:39:10,917
appeal Obamacare.

1017
00:39:11,309 --> 00:39:14,036
And Dodd Frank, there's not a single reference

1018
00:39:14,332 --> 00:39:16,720
to Obamacare let alone rep repeating it in

1019
00:39:16,720 --> 00:39:18,152
the 20 24 platform.

1020
00:39:18,724 --> 00:39:19,522
There's of course,

1021
00:39:20,878 --> 00:39:23,350
celebration of free trade. There's talk talk of

1022
00:39:23,350 --> 00:39:25,366
protecting internet freedom removing

1023
00:39:25,743 --> 00:39:28,375
regulations on the Internet opposition to net neutrality,

1024
00:39:29,905 --> 00:39:33,834
there's the recognition that inflation isn't caused by

1025
00:39:33,892 --> 00:39:34,052
immigrants,

1026
00:39:34,929 --> 00:39:36,762
but by the federal Reserve that inflation is

1027
00:39:36,762 --> 00:39:37,480
a monetary,

1028
00:39:37,813 --> 00:39:39,186
phenomenon as economists

1029
00:39:39,558 --> 00:39:40,193
generally know.

1030
00:39:40,907 --> 00:39:42,597
And so they propose

1031
00:39:42,970 --> 00:39:45,192
transparency for the Fed. They propose auditing the

1032
00:39:45,271 --> 00:39:45,771
Fed

1033
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,880
They even suggest revisiting the idea of the

1034
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:50,980
gold standard in the 20 12

1035
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:51,760
platform.

1036
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,640
Again, night and day versus 20 24.

1037
00:39:56,014 --> 00:39:58,264
Whole set of proposals for more

1038
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:01,583
privatization. They wanna eliminate Amtrak and privatized the

1039
00:40:01,583 --> 00:40:02,300
postal service,

1040
00:40:03,668 --> 00:40:06,293
They call for reducing government spending. They critique

1041
00:40:06,293 --> 00:40:08,679
deficits. They critique entitlement society.

1042
00:40:10,523 --> 00:40:13,088
Now it's not like everything in this platform

1043
00:40:13,223 --> 00:40:13,778
is good.

1044
00:40:14,811 --> 00:40:15,922
There are seeds,

1045
00:40:16,558 --> 00:40:18,146
I think, small seeds.

1046
00:40:18,637 --> 00:40:21,019
Of what would eventually turn into 20 24.

1047
00:40:21,972 --> 00:40:24,830
There is the idea of more infrastructure spending.

1048
00:40:25,226 --> 00:40:27,235
There's the 10 commandments in the classroom. There's

1049
00:40:27,235 --> 00:40:28,515
the rights of the un onboard, which you

1050
00:40:28,515 --> 00:40:30,594
would expect from the Republicans at that time.

1051
00:40:30,994 --> 00:40:33,474
There's even talk of saving Medicare and Medicaid

1052
00:40:33,474 --> 00:40:36,786
for future generations in and social security, but

1053
00:40:36,923 --> 00:40:40,534
not in the way that involves not

1054
00:40:41,071 --> 00:40:42,666
taking a penny from it. They wanted us

1055
00:40:42,666 --> 00:40:44,954
to transition away from it so that those

1056
00:40:45,154 --> 00:40:48,023
who had planned to depend on Medicare Medicaid

1057
00:40:48,023 --> 00:40:49,857
and Social security would be able to in

1058
00:40:49,857 --> 00:40:51,929
the immediate future, but others would be we

1059
00:40:51,929 --> 00:40:52,248
off.

1060
00:40:54,253 --> 00:40:57,670
The most interesting thing that I found in

1061
00:40:57,670 --> 00:40:58,965
the 20 12 platform

1062
00:40:59,657 --> 00:41:00,872
was the following

1063
00:41:01,326 --> 00:41:01,723
statement.

1064
00:41:03,167 --> 00:41:03,405
Quote,

1065
00:41:04,595 --> 00:41:07,927
when the constitution is evade, trans or ignored,

1066
00:41:08,244 --> 00:41:09,990
so are the freedoms at guarantees?

1067
00:41:10,878 --> 00:41:13,602
In that context, the elections of 20 12

1068
00:41:14,056 --> 00:41:16,041
will be much more than a contest between

1069
00:41:16,041 --> 00:41:18,742
parties. They are a referendum on the future

1070
00:41:18,742 --> 00:41:20,172
of Liberty in America.

1071
00:41:21,542 --> 00:41:23,376
Well, of course, we know that the Republicans

1072
00:41:23,376 --> 00:41:23,876
lost

1073
00:41:24,334 --> 00:41:26,807
the election in 20 12. And it seems

1074
00:41:26,807 --> 00:41:29,132
like they have They took that

1075
00:41:29,927 --> 00:41:31,939
that promise at the end of their platform

1076
00:41:32,314 --> 00:41:35,668
seriously. They they viewed it as a referendum

1077
00:41:35,668 --> 00:41:37,492
on the future of Liberty in America, And

1078
00:41:37,492 --> 00:41:38,626
so because

1079
00:41:39,632 --> 00:41:41,693
the American people voted for Obama and not

1080
00:41:41,693 --> 00:41:42,328
for Romney,

1081
00:41:42,899 --> 00:41:44,894
Republicans seem to have decided well, I guess

1082
00:41:44,894 --> 00:41:47,209
that referendum on the future of liberty lost.

1083
00:41:48,007 --> 00:41:48,507
And

1084
00:41:49,284 --> 00:41:52,010
therefore, if you can't beat them, the Join

1085
00:41:52,010 --> 00:41:52,168
them.

1086
00:41:53,121 --> 00:41:55,925
Join the left, join the socialist

1087
00:41:56,298 --> 00:41:58,601
move towards state and collect activism.

1088
00:42:00,607 --> 00:42:02,123
They said that it's it it almost seems

1089
00:42:02,123 --> 00:42:03,639
like this is what they were promising to

1090
00:42:03,639 --> 00:42:05,473
do by thinking of it as a referendum

1091
00:42:05,473 --> 00:42:06,192
in that way.

1092
00:42:06,924 --> 00:42:08,599
Now, I think a party that had a

1093
00:42:08,599 --> 00:42:10,992
moral backbone that had leadership would not have

1094
00:42:10,992 --> 00:42:13,385
said such a thing. And and certainly, even

1095
00:42:13,385 --> 00:42:15,299
if they had lost such a referendum, they

1096
00:42:15,299 --> 00:42:17,545
would have continued to fight for principles of

1097
00:42:17,545 --> 00:42:19,057
freedom on principle.

1098
00:42:19,535 --> 00:42:20,967
But Niko, this is why I think,

1099
00:42:21,763 --> 00:42:24,707
at least today Republican party has no such

1100
00:42:24,707 --> 00:42:27,032
principle. They have no for real reverence for

1101
00:42:27,032 --> 00:42:28,728
the ideas of individual freedom

1102
00:42:29,185 --> 00:42:30,701
of the type they were talking about in

1103
00:42:30,701 --> 00:42:32,216
20 12 of the type that the founding

1104
00:42:32,216 --> 00:42:33,913
fathers actually articulated.

1105
00:42:34,609 --> 00:42:37,176
And somebody could argue, I think Well, the

1106
00:42:37,176 --> 00:42:37,835
kind of

1107
00:42:38,771 --> 00:42:41,163
economic proposals, the 20 12 party was arguing

1108
00:42:41,163 --> 00:42:44,910
for were too sophisticated to intellectual 2 esoteric,

1109
00:42:45,802 --> 00:42:48,192
you had to dumb things down to make

1110
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change happen

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in America.

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But

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I think you don't improve politics by pan

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to stupid people,

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00:42:57,610 --> 00:42:58,807
wherever such may be,

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00:42:59,923 --> 00:43:02,713
you... That just empowers the stupid, but more

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00:43:02,713 --> 00:43:03,112
importantly,

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00:43:03,750 --> 00:43:08,073
to and with greater destructive effect, it empowers

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the evil people who want to cater

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to them. And I think that is what

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we are beginning to see,

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00:43:15,288 --> 00:43:17,377
not just on the left, but now

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00:43:17,830 --> 00:43:18,863
increasingly on the right.

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So here's the last word from me before

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we we we end today, related to what

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00:43:25,568 --> 00:43:25,967
you said.

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1 of our friends in the chat many

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thanks to to Stephen and many things to

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00:43:31,414 --> 00:43:33,972
Ryan for their contribution. 1 of our friends

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as imagine if we had an Alex... Epstein

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on free trade. That would be something.

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00:43:38,686 --> 00:43:41,549
Now, of course, Alex Epstein has almost single

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00:43:41,549 --> 00:43:42,049
handedly

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00:43:42,583 --> 00:43:45,659
switched the completely changed the discussion on en

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and this is a major success.

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00:43:48,804 --> 00:43:49,362
The thing is,

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00:43:50,158 --> 00:43:52,865
I don't think that the choice of the

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00:43:52,865 --> 00:43:56,224
republicans to tea sweet sides on free trade

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00:43:56,224 --> 00:43:57,282
has to do with

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00:43:58,693 --> 00:44:00,683
lack of knowledge or it has to do

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00:44:00,683 --> 00:44:03,567
with... They don't understand that issue very well.

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00:44:04,683 --> 00:44:06,438
Am I wrong the tucker cars at someone

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00:44:06,438 --> 00:44:08,193
point was working in ke or, I think

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00:44:08,193 --> 00:44:10,266
or something like that, or many people in

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00:44:10,266 --> 00:44:11,963
the new right, they cite

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00:44:13,074 --> 00:44:13,574
Roth

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00:44:13,875 --> 00:44:16,594
hope particular Hans german Hop. So they must

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00:44:16,594 --> 00:44:17,655
have heard somewhere

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00:44:18,434 --> 00:44:20,514
the marriage of free trade. So it's not

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00:44:20,514 --> 00:44:21,155
that they don't know,

1151
00:44:21,808 --> 00:44:23,345
It is a conscious

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00:44:23,962 --> 00:44:24,201
decision.

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00:44:24,839 --> 00:44:27,152
It is a conscious decision to go for

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00:44:27,152 --> 00:44:29,008
authority authoritarian. It is a conscious

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00:44:29,385 --> 00:44:33,072
decision they want to be central planners. How

1156
00:44:33,072 --> 00:44:35,489
do I know? Again, go and watch

1157
00:44:36,108 --> 00:44:38,046
the... That's the only Bert

1158
00:44:38,839 --> 00:44:42,275
talk by j demands. And see how at

1159
00:44:42,275 --> 00:44:42,834
some point,

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00:44:43,713 --> 00:44:46,350
he he he says that if I have

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00:44:46,350 --> 00:44:47,584
to choose between

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00:44:47,963 --> 00:44:48,463
this

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00:44:48,842 --> 00:44:50,840
abstract idea of freedom in the common good.

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00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:52,917
I know I'm going for the common good.

1165
00:44:53,556 --> 00:44:54,616
And again, people

1166
00:44:55,565 --> 00:44:58,737
who created this dichotomy, freedom more common good.

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00:44:58,975 --> 00:45:00,824
This is a this is a

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00:45:01,672 --> 00:45:04,315
trademark of the left. A trademark of the

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00:45:04,315 --> 00:45:06,574
list. This this fall common good,

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00:45:07,195 --> 00:45:07,835
or freedom.

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00:45:08,394 --> 00:45:10,414
And the conservatives have chosen

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to go down that that way, the way

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00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:14,956
of the central planner.

1174
00:45:15,754 --> 00:45:18,705
And notice again, how Vantage all the time,

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00:45:18,945 --> 00:45:19,981
the term we.

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00:45:20,873 --> 00:45:23,657
Says, we have allowed the globalization to happen.

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00:45:23,816 --> 00:45:24,293
Who we?

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00:45:25,327 --> 00:45:27,871
This is the central planner speaking. This is

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00:45:27,871 --> 00:45:29,873
the person saying. It I want to have

1180
00:45:29,873 --> 00:45:31,405
a say on your

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00:45:31,938 --> 00:45:32,176
decisions.

1182
00:45:32,891 --> 00:45:34,955
And again, if you if you care 1

1183
00:45:34,955 --> 00:45:36,305
iota about freedom,

1184
00:45:37,274 --> 00:45:39,032
At least you should be troubled about that.

1185
00:45:39,192 --> 00:45:41,029
Maybe in the ballot box, you make that

1186
00:45:41,029 --> 00:45:41,928
says again

1187
00:45:42,866 --> 00:45:45,200
lesser of to evils whatever. But at least

1188
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,200
you should be very conscious that this is

1189
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:49,599
something very, very worrying. Here we're dealing with

1190
00:45:49,599 --> 00:45:50,740
people who proudly

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00:45:51,519 --> 00:45:54,168
want to be central planners. And don't even

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00:45:54,168 --> 00:45:54,565
hide it.

1193
00:45:57,898 --> 00:45:59,009
Yeah. I agree with Nico.

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00:46:01,484 --> 00:46:01,961
So

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00:46:02,437 --> 00:46:04,264
we should wrap up. I'd like to share

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00:46:04,264 --> 00:46:06,886
just 1 resource with our audience you'd like

1197
00:46:06,886 --> 00:46:07,998
to know more about some of the ideas

1198
00:46:07,998 --> 00:46:10,404
that we discussed today. There's a article

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00:46:10,953 --> 00:46:13,581
We recently posted to repo to social media

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00:46:13,581 --> 00:46:16,608
from 20 21, which our colleague Journal wrote,

1201
00:46:17,086 --> 00:46:18,144
meet the conservative

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00:46:18,679 --> 00:46:19,077
authoritarian.

1203
00:46:19,969 --> 00:46:22,675
It is a survey of ideas coming out

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00:46:22,675 --> 00:46:23,493
of the recent

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00:46:24,426 --> 00:46:26,893
national conservative movement. I think a lot of

1206
00:46:26,893 --> 00:46:27,871
those ideas

1207
00:46:28,724 --> 00:46:29,224
are

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00:46:30,014 --> 00:46:32,411
filtering their way into the Republican party platform.

1209
00:46:32,570 --> 00:46:33,848
I think many of the ones that we

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00:46:33,848 --> 00:46:35,846
talked about today are coming straight from the

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00:46:35,846 --> 00:46:36,325
nat cons,

1212
00:46:37,455 --> 00:46:40,423
and Jd Vance has been instrumental in elevating

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00:46:41,117 --> 00:46:41,617
the

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00:46:42,231 --> 00:46:45,017
the the the visibility of the National conservatives.

1215
00:46:45,176 --> 00:46:46,392
And he's now

1216
00:46:46,703 --> 00:46:49,111
going to represent that in any future Republican

1217
00:46:49,406 --> 00:46:49,565
administration.

1218
00:46:50,281 --> 00:46:51,496
So check out that

1219
00:46:51,871 --> 00:46:53,938
article by. Jordan, you can see it online

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00:46:53,938 --> 00:46:55,608
if you go to bit dot l y

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00:46:55,608 --> 00:46:56,108
slash

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00:46:56,418 --> 00:46:57,452
meet Khan auth,

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00:46:58,645 --> 00:47:00,077
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1241
00:47:36,150 --> 00:47:37,286
joining me to

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just... We we we read the documents so

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