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So then the question is why in a conservative court with a six to three majority would you have two justices defect Hello. Welcome. This is Victor Daves Hanson in his own words. This is our Friday edition where we look at all of the current news and we've got lots of things going on with Sotis cases. So we'll look at those first. then If I can say it, the crazy leftft has all sorts of new communist ideas and sympathizers and candidates out there. So we're going to look at how they are doing, how theoc Democrat partarty is doing. You know, Victor, somebody wrote and corrected us on it's probably my fault. It's the Democrat partarty and not the Democratic partarty. so just for our audiences Yes Here's the issue Republic the Democrats see the United States as a Athenian democracy, fifty one percent The Republicans see it as a Roman repepublic. I'm being simple. So public democracy So they use I Latin Greco Laatin pre suffixes to make an adjective out of a noun. a republic becomes Republican and a deemocr ocrat democracy becomes what democratic So what The right says These people don't believe in democracy They're Democrats, but they're not democratic with a small D because In English, we say to talk about the United States or consensial government, we don't say Republican the all are We say democratic. There are democratic country We don't say they're a Republican a country because that's too technical a term for and republic All that difference is it's more a representative government, a repepublic with checks and balances rather than just a vote of the assembly So the Democrats then the right fieels are not democratic peoples. So why would you call them democratic So what the right wants to do is to say we're going to use the adjective for a republic. So we are repepublic cons But we're not going allow them the same usage. So they're going to be Democrats with a big D. so everybody knows who they are because they use the small D as the aditival form for both us and them and we're not like them. Technically, it's proper English usage to say Democratic party But so that's an ideological on the part. but may be valid. All right. So stay with us and we'll be back after these messages for those news stories. Stay with us. For two hundred and fifty years, America has been a bastion of freedom As we look ahead to the next two hundred fifty, we're reminded that freedom is ours to defend. Today, Alliance Defending Freedom stands in courtrooms across the country to protect those freedoms we cherish, life, free speech, religious freedom, parental rights These freedoms are at the core of who we are as a nation and they must be preserved ADF is approaching a critical fiscal year end fundraising deadline Your support today helps ADF defend these freedoms so they may endure for many years to come. Every dollar you give will be doubled thanks to a special matching grant while funds last visit Join ADF dot com slash Pansen or text Pansen two eight three to give today. That's join aDf dot com slash Hansen or text Hansen to eight three eight four eight Welcome back. This is Victor Davis Hansen in his own Wds. Victor's the Martin Nilly Anderson, senior fellow in military history and Classics at the Hoover Institution, An the Wayne and Marshcia Busky, distinguished fellow in history at Hillsdale College. You can find him at his website, Victorhansen dot com and the name of the website is the Blade of Perseus. So please come join us there So Victor, let's start with the Sotis cases. The biggest one out there today is Trump versus Barbara. and it is over birthright citizenship. and the court has ruled that birthright citizenship is okay. Can I, if you would give me a second, I know Well, we'll probably talk about the the Oh, sorry that was on another case I was going to do. But your thoughts on this right citizen the minority of Thomas. Alito Gorsich to a certain extent Kavanaugh he had a qualified dissent Was it They are originalist and they said, if you look at the fourourteenth Amendment, came in the aftermath of the Civil War and the increasing the increasing pacification of Native American tribes So what are we going to do with people who were traditionally not considered citizens of the United States. And so we said if you were a former slave and your parents were here than you were a citizen i. e., or didn't just come in C on your own without being born here. And the same thing is true of Native Americans case sometimes later reinterpreted that as anybody born here, be a citizen, but It emphasized the original wording of the amendment that says and not subject to the jurisdiction of another country But in fact, everybody knows that if you come in here and you're a foreign national Right? You are subject to the jurisdiction of another country. I'm not. what do I mean by that? I mean, ific Mexico has a extradition or a hold on somebody and they come in here and they come and say to us, we're going to extradite him back to Mexico as a Mexican national, we say, okay If Mexico says Victor is going to be exted died it I'm not subject to their jurisdiction And so to simplify things Every single person knows three things about this Number one, it was never the intent Never the intent of the drafterters of the fourourteenth Amendment to give automatic birthright citizenship Number two Everyone knows it is widely abused and it's not sustainable are flying in from China in their third trimester having a baby and flying back with the baby so that that baby who might not know English, anything about the United States at any time in his or her life, if things get bad, in China can fly over here or can come over here and sponsor their children Same is true south of the border So everybody knows it's an unsustainable crazy idea that has green lightighted a very pernicious habit of Coming here and in your third and then Three, everybody knows while there are a number of Nations that and ten technically allow it Usually they require both parents. We don't to be citizens. I mean to be citizens or at least So if you come in the United States and you're born on this to all. Most countries, I think the majority, require either one parent or two to be a citizen And if you're born here Yeah, if I think if you're born in France You can only be a French citizen if one of your parents is French required to, but It's not the norm. there's it's not that it doesn't exist anywhere else But it's not the norm person to be born here to foreign nationals born here in the United States or anywhere in any country. It's not the norm A lot of people say, well, a lot of Latin American countries are doing it, but yes, but it's still not the norm. So just to recap Everybody knows it was not the intent of the drafterters of the fourourteenth Amendment to have this anchor baby maladay we have. numberumber two, we know it's not sustainable because we're handing out citizenship people we have no idea who they are. don't they have no affinity with the United States. The parents don't. they can leave Number three Most countries, not all, but most countries understand that and don't do it So then the question is why in a conservative court with a six to three majority would You have two justices defect Barrett Amy Comey Barrett and John Roberts I think is a political decision I think that They understand that this is right up with the Dobbs case is one of the most controversial cases that would radically change things immediately It would tell the dreamers, for example Not all of the twenty million, but it would say to some dreamers who are now in their thirties or forties You came when you were two And so you're not a citizen, but you were born here and That's You're not a citizen. you think you're a citizen. You're not I shouldn't say dreamers. I should say a lot of immigrants right now as we're talking parents who are either illegal or legal aliens and they will be born immediately. and now they're going to be told You're not a citizen You have no right to be here unless you apply for a green card or something courourt like to In the case of abortion, they could outsource it to the states so they could get the heat off them. They can just say, you know what? We're not banning or we're not approving abortion. Were under our federalist system, we're allowing regional control. They count with this. It's going to be a fundamental change. And we have fifty three million immigrants here and we have a million coming every year and it's the Democratic Party would go ballistic I'm just conjecturing. not I have no evidence, but I think that. and their way of looking out saving the court's reputation, not allowing it to be biased perception wise They were going to rule in favor of the left on this issue. And they were going to rule in favor on the right of the trans issue and say that States, locales, regions, have organizations have a perfect right to say if you're not a biological female, you're not going to compete in female sports. and that was controversial The problem with all of this is That's not the purpose of the Supreme Court. to adjudicate what pololitically feasible or tolerable. Number one Number two Keagan Katanji Brown and So do my ear. they don't defect. They're locked out. They would be dead in democratic circles. They wouldn't be able to go speak The left socialist Democratic Daash socialist dash communist now They're intolerant intolerant. They would not if so to my ear or Kagan voted for this all they're speaking invvitations would be withdrawn. They would be persona non grati And so they they stay that way. They're enforced by that The Democrats enforce cohesiveness and unanimity, we don't on the conservative side. So we get these constant defections, constant defections And we're always told that they're to save the court or the reputation of the Supreme Court or not to be partisan. But this is not a partisan issue. This is something that affects the well beinging of the United States then criticized Trump, I think Kavanaugh did, but other on the left and said that he had issued a Executive order stopping it which precipitated the lawsuit And he can't do that. And They cited evidence where you have constitutional U Edicts in the Constitution are constitutional by way of an amendment cannot be overturned. by a presidential order. They need an act of Congress or maybe even an act of amending bringing in another men, which is about impossible because you require three quarters of the state legislatures and I think it's two thirds of the Congress they're missing here, I think, is when they they are saying You If you want to change the law, you have to bring either an amendment or maybe an act of Congress. And the conservatives are saying, we don't want to change the law Not at all. We want you to obey what is written in the law. The law says that if you were born in the United States and your subject sububject. to the jurisdiction of another country, you're not going to be a citizen And everybody knows that if you come across the southern border from Venezuela, And you're here And Mr. Chavez or Mr. Maduro, whoever the government is, says I want you extradited because you're a citizen, that will be adjudicated. Nobody will doubt that. And so what I'm getting at is the conservatives were saying Well We don't need an amendment. We just need an act of Congress to enforce the law or something like that The other thing is very quickly, it wasn't too handled by conservatives. I think they should have said We just want it reciprocity If China allows somebody to be born in China be an automatic citizen of the People's Republic. Okay, mayaybe we'll extend the same what they're saying is we have been aken We're taking on tariffs, we're taking on technological appropriation we're takaking on all of these issues and we're taking on birthright citizenship So any country that does not allow birthright citizenship whose people come over here and take advantage of our allowance shouldn't do that. If they did something like that, they broadcast that fact. I think they would have got a lot more support Yeah. But so you're saying to me that when a Chinese woman comes here, has her baby because she's in the third trimester and gives birth to a child, it's still subject to the Chinese government because it has two Chinese parents and so it is a Chinese national. Yeah. Therefore China considers The law says that they're not ciz China does not take the citizenship away. None of these countries do. If we are saying, you come from Mexico, you come from China, you're born here parents that were Mexican citizens or Chinese citizens. Therefore you're an American, but you're not a citizen of Cha. No, you're dual citizens And that's a problem with China because why are they doing it? They're doing it for two or three reasons. Some of them whatever they tell the government are deathly afraid that they will either be sought out by the communist government, get on the wrong side of it. and have to flee China And they want a place to flee to. And if they have a child here that's a citizen, they can anchor them as family members Some of them want to send them to school here And they think that there is now a million, one point one million foreign students and we're going to crack down on that. But their children be given the same opportunities as American citizens because they are And then The third is to be quite frank U The Chinese government wants this to happen because they want people to be American citizens indoctrinated in China. and at the whims of the Chinese Communist government sent back as adults with their loyalties to China, I think Also If you want to get around it And I think there may be legislation already introduced in Congress All you'd have to do is go back to the COVID precedents when we were very worried about people coming in in the third trimester So We could just say, we're not prejudiced against anybody. We don't want any woman family, any person coming in in the third trimester because we're going to have to pay for and We're not going to do that anymore. We're broke. We owe thirty one trillion. So pregnant women are not going to be allowed to come that are foreign nationals are not going to be able to come to the United States until they can get a green card if they qualify until after Birnt Oh and a suitable time before it and give them a visa, a tourist visa so they can go back home And that would be just you can just sidestep the whole problem and you could do it legally and he could do that by executive order He could just say, we have a new travel. He'd traveled he bann travel from Iran from Syria Somalia, Sudan. All you'd have to say is from now on, if you want to come to the United States, Do not come in here if you're seven, eight, nine months pregnant because you won't be allowed And maybe I don't know how they would prove it, but they could do it by side. They could just say, you seemed pregnant to me or you'll have to file a document. if you lie on the federal document, you're going to be deported that would be enforcement and law. Yeah, that sure would. And I think that that is the greatest concern here of this ruling is the Chinese subversive reasons for coming into the United States and giving birth. Victor, let's welcome back, our sponsor Allegiance Sold. If you've studied enough history, you start to see a pattern. Nations don't lose their way overnight. They drift through debt and division until one day you realize the foundations you thought were permanent were never permanent at all. Today, America is spending at levels once reserved for wartime. We've normalized deficits that would have stunned earlier generations, and policymakers now debate whether the only path forward is more intervention, more printing, more distortion. But here's the historical truth. 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And so of course, the trans community is up in arms, but the state will decide. so I imagine California will decide on the side of AB Hernandez Yeah, I thought that Um I thought that they might make a sweeping judgment on that one because on I can see where they can argue that abortion historically, there was I'm talking as a parallel I can see where they relegated abortion to to the states, but this is not It's not a matter of disagreement. It's just a biological fact. people born biologically male No matter How many hormones or surgery, whatever they have, they still have a muscular skeleton system. that's male and people born female. who want to transition to male have a female And that is proven by what caused the lawsuit in the first place. cause of lawsuit is men's bodies who then say that They suffer from gender dysphoria and they are now women win matches against biological and people who identify as women They are women Women who transition to males never win. They never win male competitions, maybe in chess or something that would be mental or cerebral but not physical And so that is prima facia evidence that There is a difference biologically from a woman and someone who was born a man who transitions to a woman And the entire purpose of this trans movement that has males to go into female sports is to give opportunistic people advantages over females and destroys the aspirations. They talk about the aspirations of trans people, but it destroys the aspirations of females. To take the left's argument, you would have to say Well, how about women who transition to males. And then they can't win So maybe we should have affirmative action for trans males and give them I don't know, ten points or ten percent of a particular event to give them equity because they are males, but they can't win So it's unfair to them. They just can't win So we have to give them a level playing field planing and see how you get into a circular argument that's ridiculous. And so basically when they went along To go along with that argument U and I understand the states are outsouring, but even to give any type of credence to that argument, is fallacious. It's just surreal And We've had gender dysphoria. the historian Diodorus has a passage about it. It's in Vronius is Syricon poem by Kalus, the Atis poem And it's a well known U got to be very careful, what I say. well known biological mental Maladay pathology that people very, very, very small percentage of the population has a U brain that sees it as the opposite sex of what its body is. And So That' So it's not new and it's always been dealt with. I mean, we can be very compassionate and you can say to the trans community, We have special Olympics for people who cannot compete in either of the two categories because of physical disabilities Why don't you have a trans Olympics? Why don't you have trans And they would tell you There's not enough of us. we wouldn't have enough people to compete, yes, and you tell us at certain times that twenty percent of a particular I don't know if it was Brown. It was one of the Ivy League Cegees said that twenty percent of the people thought they were going to transition. And you hear these these ridiculous numbers Tteen to twenty five percent of people have suffer from possible gender dysphoria. And then when you say, wow, you know, there's three hundred forty million people here, so you're telling me that I don't know, seventy million people wouldouldn't that be a big audience for a transr Olympics? but then they go back and say, it's Wh's not enough of us So it's all part of the Democratic partarties, they said we We got a lot of We. We had the civic right. We stamped ourselves as civic civil rights, even though they were the party that had Jim Crow and segregation But they owned it, they said. We own the feminist movement. We owned the gay Liberation movement So we need the trans liberation because we need another movement partart of the reason they're championing it. B. red defefined it as a human rights issue when People knew that people had gender dysphoria and they were not necessarily harassing them at all, because there were civil rights protections. that were so generic it included everybody. So people who had gender dysphoria were suing under civil rights legislation. they didn't want to be prejudiced The supporters say this is defending Title Iine. As you've said, it probably should have been sweeping federal statement rather than states' rights. Yeahah. U So let's turn to the Trump versus Rebecca slaughter case and she was a Federal Trade Commission commissioner and he fired her. And so the whole case was over Trump's ability to fire people who have executive power or positions that affect the executive. Now the lower court said she didn't that her position was quasi judicial, quasi legislative. so they were trying to take it out of the executive branch. But the Supreme Court found that Trump had the right to fire people that could because he's the elected executive and he has to be able to fulfill what the will of the people is. so he needs to have people who are working with. That's a funny argument because when Obama came in He just masfired everybody in the DOJ In my little small capacity, I was on the American Battlefield Monuments Commission. It was an aolitical position. I was appointed by George W. Bush, I think in two thousand. Seven. And for the last two years of his term And believe me, there were people from all walks of life Our duty, our portfolio, was to take care of half the people who died in the Mexican War, the Spanish American War, World War O, World War twoo, Vietnam or Korea, who chose to be buried not so much in Vietnam. I should take that back in Korea, but in the sheer numbers in World War one and World War two made it to ship everyone back. The families had a choice finally So we were in charge of all the grave sites. and you know in France and Belgium everyverywhere It was non political. So Barack Obama was elected in November of two thousand eight, and he decided as the new executive that he was going to fire every single person on that commission He didn't care that it sat idle for the next nine months and didn't do anything because he didn't appoint the people because he was sifting through his donor class, see You know, a donor says, I gave you one hundred thousand dollars Brock and then call is say, hey, what does a hundred thousand dollars get you G me all the positions I don't want that position. I want this. We'll give me another fifty thousand then. That's what they were doing. They all do that Point is we were all fired and we had red passports So I had a tour coming in and I had to go hire a special Cer to get a new passport thirty six hours But they just sent me a curt letter. will It didn't say thank you for your service or anything. It said, you will surrender your passport you are hereby Uh, not on the commission And I didn't say, Oh Mbama fired me. I thought, well he right has a perfect right to do that. And any member of the executive branch, if you're not covered by civil service. If you're appointee. And believe me, I think if you would go back and look at the number of people that Obama fired or Biden fired that were conservatives, they would be the same number, if not greater than the ones Trump has fired, especially Trump's first term when he didn't do that. And the president needs to be able to do that. Let me read you part of Sota Mayor's dissent on this She says Congress may limit the causes for which the heads of commissions like the FTC can be removed by the president. In holding otherwise, the court gives the president a power unknown even to the English crown against which the founders revolted elevating him above his once co equal branches by transforming a duty to take care of the laws fith to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws. She doesn't believe that becausecause the people, Justice Sotomarer elected a president. They didn't elect King George III. King George II remove colonial officials that had been elected in regional councils or governors and things. They didn't vote for George the third. We voted for Donald Trump. So we had our Dmocratic say. And the reason that The majority ruled as it did because they understood that your party and people thought they were going to be insurrectous. Remember anonymous I work in homeland security and I'm a very powerful official and I'm undermining Trump. and I can guarantee you that there's a lot of us all through the federal bureaucracy that have been appointed And we are doing our best to undermine Donald Trump. That was in this first term So The president has to have the ability carry out his agenda as it pertains to the executive branch Otherwise you're just going to have Venmen's everywhere, you know what I mean? He was on the National Security Council. Trump should have fired him the moment he came in. And what happened? he didn't fire him. He the classified inform classified phone call to Mr. Caramella, who never heard the phone call And then he pleaded a nominity anominity and said, I'm the whistleblower This is horrible. Trump It was all based on hearsay. He never heard the call. And he wasn't even allowed to even being cross examined Venman did that You're saying you can't fire him. He's on the National Security Council I think you can fire them, you can fire people anywhere that have been appointed. If you can't fire you can't go in necessarily and fire a secretary or HR person and they're protected by civil service If you don't have cause. Yeah, if they're making decisions that affect the execution of law, then he should be able to We know what's going on. in both terms, people there's so many thousands of people they get under the radar or they plead that they're nonpartisan. and then when a guy like Trump comes in then They slowwalk things, they don't do things. they have internal resistance. and he has to have the ability to fire them Yeah, this getuts down to the old argument about whether the bureaucracy is a bunch of nonpartisan experts or whether they are partisan and not so expert. There's a great article just for the audience. But this is not even making an arg about the bureaucracy. This is making a bar an argument about government and an executive branch that has political appointees. and once they're saying She was not appointed by Trump. She was appointed, I think by Biden And once that she's appointed, so we're really going to believe that after Trump leaves office, And he has saturated the executive branch with Trump appointments. And in this case had come up under the next president, let's say Camella Harris, that Sa my ear would have been so principled and said, Sorry, President Harris, you don't have the right to remove this right wing trade representative that Trump appointed. Be that's political. I doubt that she would have written. I'm sorry, I was cynical. No honest. All right, Victor, let's take a break and then we'll come back and talk a little bit about the left, some crazy things going on. Stay with us and we'll be right back We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. But among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends. It is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it. and institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as shall to them seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness. For the support of this declaration for a firm reliance on the protection of divine provroidence, we mutually pledge to each other Our lives are fortunes and Our sacred honor Welcome back. Victor Davison Hansen in his own words and you can find him on X. hisis handle is at VD Hansen and on Facebook at Hansen's Morning Cuub So Victor, lots of things going on on the left. I think the first things are just the thoughts and ideas of these new communist socialist candidates. So can I interrupt you? Yes.. Some of your listeners and my listeners We're going to say Samy, you call them communist That was that was what we did in the McCarthy period They're democratic socialists No, they actually are communists and it's not a slur of them. And what would be a communist? It would be someone who thinks he has the right to appropriate private property. Did anybody do that? Mandami did. He said, I'm going to survey renters and see who their landlords are. And if I find that I don't like the quality of rooms that are being rented out by the landlord, we can take them. and we can run them or we can, this is what I like, give them to the people Of course, when people started to examine private ownership versus New York City's apartments, what did they find? The New York City in the good communist spirit apartments were much more run down than private people were What else do communists do they want to appropriate private enterprise. So they want to take doctors from their private practice and make them employees of the state under one payer system. They want to buy, I think they wanted to buy airlines One of the candidates says she wanted to buy airlines. They want to buy utilities buy them and then incorporate. I should say buy. that's a wrong word. They want to steal them and nationalize them like they did inrit How is that working out in Britain, by the way? with nationalized industries. How is the British healthcare system working in the Canadian healthcare system We hear they're so wonderful Canada has some It has a greater number of euthanasia cases than they do many major surgery cases So I They They're not embarrassed to be called communist. So we can call them communists. Because they're also than you. They want a revolution of the United States. They want to overthrow and the gain and they use the word gain that means of production. I've heard that twice or three times from them Yes, I think Cheavalier was the one who talked about taking away the means of production. Chevalier, if since we'll start with her, has also been the one thing that hasn't been talked about very much is she complained that Arab and black men were dating quote ugly colonizer women. I guess that's her way of saying white women. and she disapproved of such a thing. It was very racist. It was racist with all due respect And I want to be very careful here because I don't believe in an invective, For someone I've never called anybody ugly in my entire life. Please Taght it a lot If somebody says that generically these white women are ugly, There's a lot of things going on. Number one, she's jealous Do she reference it in terms of, I think, Middle Eastern men and black men? Think about that. It's kind of a racist idea. She's basically saying the ugly white women or the ones that are left over for people of color And she's objecting to that because that people like herself are available and being passed over. That's the subtext of it. And that's an old trope in the minority community U I've known a lot of white women that have married or dated people of color and their biggest resistance and hostility comes from women of that The other thing is when anybody says she's uglier, everybody makes fun of Trump when he says The other day, he was at a rally and he said, we're going we're going to and fast fast track weight reduction shots Number that. Maybe you can get them cheap. and then he made a joke about I know a guy who's a fat slob. And then the left said, well, how about you? You weigh two hundred and fifty pounds, you know, you're overweight debatable what he actually weighs So The point is Is she but Cvleet Is she beautiful? I think so. I've seen her. I find her euphemistically plain So then she's the adjudicator of who's ugly and beautiful Look in the mirror And then the next thing about her was, isn't she the perennial graduate student seven years to get a degree in literature or something No, she's a sociologist Victory, even. But I thought she had a minor in literature so Oh pererhaps I'm not be onntowered, but if you get a PhD in classical languages, then you have to have The ability at least under the old system that I went through, you have to have the ability to write in Latin and Greek You have to have the ability to get a text, a classical text Eeschclsus Persians or Thucidity' history, they give it to you in your PhD exams, you haven't seen it. You have a finite time to translate it into English You have to pass a French test, you have to pass a German test. They suggest you be able to read Italian That's in addition to archeology, epigraphy, numis madics, et cetera. And then you have twelve seminars in classical languages topics such as what is, you know, the manuscript tradition of Escosus supplis or the dating of each of the books of Thucydity's history They're very hard classes and then I finished all the coursework in two and a half years and finished all my thesis. I took a year to go to American school But I know a lot of people who did that The idea you do for seven and by the way, I had to teach for my support. I taught TA I had to teach whole classes myself at twenty one, twenty two Stanford students in intensive Greek. I just can't imagine this perennial graduate student who's been around these students, faculty, administrators and then pontificating about the world at large And she's You know, there's a whole bunch of them. You can read all of their names. One of them said that we more or less deserve nine hundred and eleven. we could Kos, is that her name? Yeah, the Colorado delegy. She's from Colorado. That was what Bin Luden said. and You know I looked at all these names ureoss Oh Iillian Omar ALC Rashida Tali Mandami Saballet I could go on. talks about proportionality. These are disproportionately first or second generation immigrants And they come into this country from Uganda Somalia Dany Puerto Rico Ethiopia I don't see those as prosperous, successful states. I see them as fail stay ripe with violence. Tarianism, civil war, mass poverty, socialism So they or their parents came over here And they almost exclusively settle in university towns cities, urban or bicoastal places or both They have no idea about so the white people they see or elites in the universities or the corporations or the big cities. They don't see any of them. that are on farms or rural America or suburbs And so they just generalized them all but we're going to go after wider neighborhoods. Remember that? he said. They have no idea of The great majority of white people are middle class and lower middle class So They don't meet and not they're not chauvinistic about their race and they're not ashamed of it they associate with elite frustrated colloege educated whites who are very left wing, who tra and they are always saying, there was a woman in Minnesota, I have I'm so ashamed I was running for office. I'm so ashamed to be being white So they think that that applies to everybody doesn't So they're urban people. They're obsessed with whiteness they are all anti Israel She refused the attack on the Jewish protest about Um the hostages She said basically that Jews had it coming because they support Israel. And she didn't quite say it that way, but that's how it translated at the end You mean Melat Kon? Yes, I think. She in fact was also fired from a job for being obsessive about hate for Israel. and she explain that degradation of life was due to capitalism in the United States. So it was it was those two things. So basically seemitic ant the core of the democratic Socialist communist movement And younger people, there's not many Bernie Sanders Right younger people comeome over here to this country from failed states their antenna up sense that if they trust the United States, and they get And they're in left wing enclave cities. then they will get rewards and they do. Ilien Omar, they all get scholarships to go to college. They get educated. They are saturated with anti Americanism And they meet white people who are anti American and ashamed of being white that they can guilt trip all the time completely out of touch with what 're they're consumers too They don't produce any. They're not around producers. They sit in these cities like most people and they think Oh where's my water Where's my food Where is my lumber? they don't produce it I got gas. They have no idea of the thousands and hundreds of thousands of nameless people that every day get up at four in the morning. orre they try to pump oil out of the ground or they deliver it? or there in those log jams getting into New York or L.A to bring urban people their stuff. They have no idea where their garbage and their sewage goes There's a whole array of people who produce things. That's not these people They don't represent them, they don't know them, they don't care about them. They're consumers And their're urban consumers. or what Jefferson said he feared for the country when it was Everybody was piled up in the city without autonomous people in the countryside They're not even suburban. There's another trait of these And I have to be very careful because I have a lot of friends that are single and have never had children And as one person said to me, than God, I didn't have children because there would be two of me point is that's a choice, that's okay. but Dmography is demogphy is demography country doesn't have two point zero children per You know person, you're going shrink. and if you shrink, you're going to be aging and shrinking like China And we're down to one point seven. But when you look at all of these people, they're either single or they have no children or both And we're not talking about a suburban family is what I'm saying, which is about half the sixty percent of the country So they don't have an experience with that They're ground And then the other thing is they're hypocritical. So many of them Um or affluent or they want to be affluent. They hate capitalism, but Graham Platinner says he hates capitalism basically But he's an oyster moan But then you examine, well, where's your oyster factory Well, if your dad's friend gave it to you, your dad will Where's your house Oh, your dad put the down payment two hundred thousand, huh And where's your salary? Oh, the government is paying you for being stressed I thought that was kind of a con. How can you be a U S. Senator when you're stressed But then when I started reading all the things he said aboutur excuse me, masturbating and a portter potty Putting a third panzer Eisen Grpen tattoo on his chest. He is disturbed. You mean post traumatic stress. He is disturbed point is that Then he has his little five oysters a day, and what does he do with them He sells them to his dad's restaurant or his mom's restaurant And where's Mandami? He's the one person he talks about as I said, settler Colin Colonialist. setettler colonialists. You're a settler colonist. Jews are settler colonialists Two things You are a colonialist and a setter. Y family came into indigenous Uganda and make up about sixty thousand people of that multimillion person country, one percent And you saw his wedding digs when he went back to be married with the Indian community there. They control sixty percent of the GDP. Think of it. He lectures everybody about inequality, Mandami. and he drives out Ken Griff And then he comes from a family that is a settler colonial family that came into Africa and under Marxist terminology, not mine, Marxist exploited the indigenous people and ended up with sixty percent of their wealth He did And then if you wanted to be even more cruel, to this group of communist socialists Millions of Americans that live here where there was no indigenous population places in Utah where there was places in the Central Valley there weren't You could argue that there is an indigenous populations And it's the people who came and centuries ago here And all the so who is the assurping settler colonial, thiss Mandami is Ien Omar, you come over to a country that's completely antithetical to your own and you start to settle it And then as colonialists do, you form an ethnic enclave and you don't want to intermarry, and she did finally in her third quote marriage You form this enclave and it doesn't want to acculturate, integrate, or intermix And so it's a colonial settlement. And then we're supposed to feel that were're as shamed that we're settler colonies from these people And then when they get a chance, there was a picture today of Rosie O'Donll and Kathy Grippt in front of the Private jet. didid you see it They're always railing about climate change and the wealthy And then you read that this sigm Sigman from Nepppel Sigman from Shanghai, an American who made a fortune went to Communist China where he lives Then you think of George Sorrels who broke the bank of England and was driven out of France with a civil civil conviction. And then you read about Reed Hoffman, billionaire that funded the Egene Carroll case who is all over the intimate letters of Jeffrey Epstein. And these are billionaires And that's who's funding a lot of this stuff. And we're supposed to feel bad that billionaires are conservative and they're awful, but they don't believe billionaires are awful. They believe some billionaires are awful good billionaires and those who are fund socialists and communist projects. That's Tom Steyer, who's another billionaire they love U So don't ever, anybody listening, don't ever think these people really hate wealthy people. They only hate wealthy people who see through them. The naive wealthy people are the people who think they're going to take over and they want a special concession from them They love And there they have three enemies Enemy number one is the old guard. They hate Schumer, they hate Jeffrees, they hate Pelosi, they hate the Clintons because they lost power. They look and say, we don't have the Supreme Court. We don't have the House. We don't have the Senate. We don't have the White House. It's your fault. And number two They hate the United States They really do. all they don't joy read all those people We're not going to participate U Sunny hosts and Black people are not going to participate in july fourth. U all it is a sixteen, nineteen People are crazy, terrible Western Civilization is toxic Clitay historical. slavy slavery, slavery, I have no idea that ten times the number of African slaves were sent to Latin America. i. e. from Chile all the way up to the Caribbean. Why? Ten times more than to the American South because they died ten times more quickly because they were even worse treated. Nobody in South America. Yes. Nobody ever says to a Brazilian, I haven't heard any of these people say You guys should be ashamed of yourself. You had slaves. They never say anything about the eleven or twelve, now I think I've read fifteen million slaves that went to the Arab world And we're not and were there as slaves until recently They never say anything about the thousandousands of black tribal leaders who when they won a tribal war enslaveed their They enemies and sole them It's all simplistic and it's all predicated on We're going to guilt trip you and say your country's no good. and then you're going to be so hurt You're going to give us all these entitlements and concessions. You wouldn't dare do this. You wouldn't rule against the trance. You wouldn't rule against birthright. You wouldnt and they intimidate people. There's no power there. You just laugh and say I don't care what you say Yeah You don't like it, leave. You know, if you don't, you don't like it, don't come over here. But this is a Private property, free market capitalist, consensual constitutional republic. It always was, it always will be It has a self correcting mechanism called amendments and legislation and court decisions. And when we have a problem, we fix it. It's just mind boggling. So they do hate the United States And they hate the Dmocratic old guard And they hate the West. And I hate to say it, but They hate white people. They really do because I'm just quoting them. They can't finish the sentence without white, white, white white white, white It's whether it's AOC or Talib. O Ilien Omar or you name it You know Bernie Sanders even A saying all of that, you would wonder why anybody would support these people. And I've been since I've been reading about it, the argument that they have that I think appeals to a constituency is that capitalism is not working for the middle classes and that somehow people today have way you know, their lives or not are worse off than they should be. And I think that that's the only thing I can come up with because you know why because we don't have capital take California, twenty one percent of the population is on the poverty line three hundred to five hundred thousand a year are leaving Why Because you can't build houses. Why? Because you have a socialistic regulatory state I know a lot of developers they have to film builduilding their home because they'll be sued by some organization You can't build you go out to a high speed rail and it says we hire trans, homeless people preferences. It's such a highly regulated socialist. We have the highest redistribution teen point three percent tax rate And then you say, well, people And you hit at sixty thousand, I think you hit eleven or ten percent. So we have the biggest black market in the world here, you know what I mean And they've destroyed the free market. When you have a quarter the people can't pay their power bills, maybe you need six or seven electric companies And when You drive out We find reason and say, well, we're going to run them ourselves. Maybe it doesn't work So we don't have a free market capitalistic system. We're socialistic and we have a more anti progressive Well, put it this way. we are more progressive if that's the term they use than Europe is as far as income tax tax at a higher rate. in California. And I think we're getting to the same in the United States in general They have a, you know, a sales tax Yeah, I think that that case needs to be made especially to the young generation who's coming up and they can't afford a house or they can't do this and that. Those socialists are turning that into a, if only you could have the socialists in to That was always the big debate at think tanks at Hoover. We always under John Raysason There was a big There was a big argument. The donor class would say, get the message out the message out about capitalism and the scholars would say, I'm working on a very important paper that'll take me five years And they say noobbody's going to read it. I don't want to pay for that And then they' say, well, we're not just organs of a donor class. So and I think now in the last two or three years The message is it doesn't do any good to do esoteric research got to get the message out because free market capitalism, consensual It's all endangered And so I think now from what I can tell at Hoover, we're really trying to get out the message And it's a complete, I think it's very successful Oh The young generation is I I think what we need to do the Republicans things very quickly. They think they're taking over everything. And they basically go to a guy like Schumer Yeah. U Scott Wiener at the local California state level, and they say you have three choices. You either become a socialist communist? or you get out because we'll primary you or they say retire right now. You don't have no choice. Get out or they'll say Join the socialists and maybe we won't primary or they say join us And most of them have this typical democratic talking point. Big tent, big tent, big tent. So every morning, almost like the Pulit Bureau, they get a little memo. MS does CNN DNC and it says this today, everybody on the media say bigig t, bigig tent, big tent, big tent. So all these frightened Democratic functionaries Well, we have a big tent We have a big tent, and then they say to Republicans Well, you got to get rid of that guy. He's a crazy Nazi And then you No, you have a Nazi He's actually put his Nazi trademark on his own chest We have a big tent. So That's it That's the one thing. And then the other thing is they haven't won over outside the regional elections. They win blue state. may mayorial races. So you've got that crazy woman that said bye bye in Seattle, Katie Wilsoners whatever her name was And then you have the Portland. you have the crazy mayor and mayayor Fry who's always And then we had the Summer of loveove, Mor of was up Portland pointoint is Once in a while they get a governor who flips Spanberger, I think she's almost a socialist now, but she But more anybody who says I'm a Democratic socialist of America candidate, and here's my and gets into what we talk about and airs it It's this going to be a city it's going to be Raman and the LA City cououncil or crazy Karen Bass Are they going to be look at Javio Javier Bisera is running for governor He's a hard leftist, but he is not running as a hard leftist And Camella Harris did not run as a hard leftist. She said, I'm for Facie now. I've changed I'm not for deportations. I've changed. I'm for the wall. I've changed. I have changed on defund the police People don't They're a lot more honest. They say I'm a hardcore stalinist and I'm going to stay that way. And I hate the United States. I hate West civilization. I hate white people. I hate Jews. I hate Israel And you can filter that out from everything I say, Okaykay, what have they done? They have three big Senate races that they have got socialists. got Gram Plotner in Maine Eseaid in Michigan. And James Taler Rico And the moment people started fixating on what they have said, take Texas first Oh, he said, I hate Christians Remember that And then he said the flag is kind of like the cross, flag for Americans like the cross. It doesn't it's been warped or manipulated And he's got this whole body of invective. He makes Bado look sober and judicious. And now everybody said, that if you didn't nominate Cornan the cintrus you were going to lose Paxton is ahead He's in the latest polls. He's ahead. Yeah, the latest polls have Talar Rico dropped by eight points. And he'll drop more if the Texas Republicans just they don't have to do they don't have to be mean. They just said, here is the person who wants to be senator. blah, blah, blah, blah, blah in his own just run those every day And then I ever seen T Tal Rico in his cowboy hat and truck boots It's like, remember the same thing. It's like Buddha jag with his work vest, puff vest and his little caterpillar hat. They were just dying to get Somebody who looks like he's from the white working class and the white working class sees through these people because the white working class is ten times smarter than these people Th thenen you have Graham Platner and everybody said He's ten points ahead of Susan Coolin, shes, well, he was in theory, but the more they got out, the more he doesn't like women He masters excuse me, he masters self abuses and port of poties He, uh He says he has never been violent, but he twists the arms of women and locks them in rooms He wears muset tattoos He goes on anti Jewish. He's a bad guy. So what happens? He is now behind She caught up to him. And the thing is, the last two races that she's won She was behind in the poes. all the way to election day. So thing about Susan Collin is she sits there And she's right down the middle of she's an old fashioned Oh Bob Mitchell, he was the kind of guy like a Republican or John McCain Republican and all the right hater and the left hateater because their main left wing And they say she's getting old. and she's like, your school teacher or librarian Let's consider this very well. I have some opinions and let's not be rash. and she wins. And she is eighty percent of the time she's a solid Republican vote in Maine And so the Republicans finally got smart and said, Thunder And I think the Jewish community says funder. and she has outraised Blam Platner. I think he's raised four hundred fifty thousand. She's raised over four million ten times. He's never going to catch up. He's never going to catch up because the Democrats look at him and say, Man, this was a mistake. And El Said, he was way ahead They're going to have a primary in Michigan. Everybody said, he's the only one that can beat U, Mike Rogers is the only one that can do it What they meant by that is one point ahead of a pole. Once they get LIE and they put all those quotes of what he said And they fund Mike Rogers and he says play that hot mic. We got to be very careful about. The suupreme leader. Don't rejoice in killing him in Iran My constituents are going to take that badly And what does that mean? My constituents are on the Iranian side of the equation I don't think any of them are going to win a statewide race. And I think in twenty twenty eight, I hope they run somebody that is a deemocratic socialist for president. And he will do a Barry Goldwater, whom I thought was a decent wonderful person, but his views had no chance of winning. and he had the second largest popular vote landslide and they ran McGovern in seventy two, the Democrats did I think that was the largest Peter Vte Lanslight of the modern era or maybe FDR and thirty two. but Anyt timee You go way beyond the middle, you don't do well on national elections. These people are crazy Republicans, they have a lot of money. I don't know why they're not making the case now Yes. Well, we'll see in the midterms we need the govern made theM commercial. remember that for Trump? Tump is for you There or for they then They need to bring that guy or woman out and say, here's ten million bucks. We want to have commercials quoting all these crazy communists, what they said and just say, wouldould you like to vote for eded out nationwide You're right, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and then we'll come back and talk a little bit about U the NB WNBA. stay with us and we'll be right back Welcome back. This is Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. And just to finish off our former conversation, I do hope that these the candidates lose by a lot though. I'm going to be curious if they just lose by a little. Its it's Yes, I hope. So I know that you and Jack talked about Caitlyn Clark being hit smashed, I guess by that other player unnecessarily and that she was her name Alsia F Alicia Thomas. Yes. and she was fined given a small fine in one day day thousand bucks Yes. And there was all sorts of outrage. And then the commissioner, though gave in to Alicia Thomas because she started saying, Well, you're a racist for penalizing me, but I was wondering your oh, and your thoughts on Sophie who went viral with her pointing at the other player. Well They still don't get it whether you whatever your views are on the W NBA. O person has revived it. It was a money losing proposition for the owners. Nobody watched it I think more people watched femalees swimming or female tennis visa v the male counterparts than they did basketball And it's hard because it's one of the three major sports. I don't think a lot of people would watch women's softball or women's baseball or women's football Maybe women's socer is different Although Meghan Rapppentaou did her best to destroy that image to half of America She got apparently on social media, there were people I remember Caitlin Coolin is from Iowa and she plays for Indiana. That's a white place. so Obviously when she was portrayed as sticking her trying to hurt her people that that objected to that. I'm sure there was a few fanatics that said racial things And so then there the get me, let me get this straight The leeague reacts to that and they start lecturing That's intoleral. toerable But the commissioner doesn't say what prompted that was There has been a systematic attack on her and by mostly black players And they have been overt in talking about her race and to a lesser extent her heterosexuality and the fact that she gets too much attention when she actually doesn't get the awards she deserves and she doesn't get the advertising time This Commissioner looks at the He looks at the majority of the players are black. I think it's sixty five percent And the referees and coaches, I think, are predominantly black, but not exclusively so. And she says to herself, is any good gutless, spineless administrator? If I say a, where does the reaction come from If I say B, it's antithesis, where does it come from So if I say we have to be Calm down And there has been a systemic pattern of attacking Caitlin And we're going to stop it What does she get? She gets Nothing but abuse from the minority community. Right And all these players would get angry if she says, I'm not going to mention. She says to herself, I'm not going to mention Caitlyn. I'm not going to mention one girl tried to almost knat her in the head, the other girl put her fist to hurt her on her neck they all kind of lingered too long so she couldn't even get up. She was like a piece of meat on the floor. of a felony assault in the real world if it wasn't on the court. not to mention any of that No, no, no, I'm going to say that the people who perpetrated that have been the victims of racism That's a win win in her world of professional sports Then she knows that the sports writers, the New York Times columnists that kind of blasted Caitlyin. All of them will be on her side. So she does the gutless thing. In the short term, it's successful in the long term people are saying I'm getting sick of this. They're are they going to turn it off or they're going to say to Katean, you need to quit You're only twenty three or twenty four. Maybe she's twenty five. I can't She's been there three years. so she's probably close to twenty five. You need to go to Europe and They'll treat you better than that. You'll make as much money and come back in five years and retire. But these people are going to hurt you. They're going to disable you. And this commissioner is not going to do a thing about it And they're all going to hide on the fact that they're scared of being called racist and they're going to unleash this fury against you. orr they're going to say as a New York columnist say toughing up Go girl. You got to be tough. Tough So they see this kind of lanky white girl who can shoot from anywhere on the court And the larger muscular black girls are much It looks like they're stronger And they're going to try to intimidate her so that she's thinking about it all the time The whole purpose in the league is that every time Caitlin gets on the court, She's thinking Someone's going to shield me, somebody's going to been to me. you can see it and I think it was Alisa Tom, one of the perpetrators, she was making fun of her the way she showed pain, you know what I mean? L a Panama They they're not going to keep going because there's no downside. They can afford a thousand dollars. and that resonates with the audience apparently, that they went out to hurt her. And Sophie Cunningham became an international star with that point, The way she did it. herer facial expressions, the position of her head, the way she pointed down It's everywhere now. Everybody's emulating it. Yeah. and the girl that she was pointing at couldn't handle it and just kept yelling like throwing a timper tantraum. You would think somebody ref pointing at me. No, I'm not. just pointing. hadn't said a word. She didn't say a word It was a shame point Yeah. anyyway, you would think a professional could handle that I had a wonderful principple fourth, fifth, six on the west side of my community. It's tough campus for ten, eleven year old twweler fights all the time And he would you know, like a step ladder At lunch, she would get like three runs on a low step lightider. And he would survey the playground. He had this whistle And he would preem. So if he saw two people squaring off, he'd go like that You, you, you get over here, you and this is frightening story, but And he would point at us And then he would take you to his office was it had an outside door, but we had a breeze wise and hanging up in the window was a paddle But it was like a huge it was like a tennis racket Only it was wood Everybody had to sign their name that got paddled three times And so it's say you You want to start a fight, start a fight with me, blow a whistle. Then we'd all go boy. and he would grab him and take him over. And then he had a big window in his office. The boy had to put his hands on the desk. He didn't disrobe him, of course. We had So it didn't hurt that much. wham. Wh? Wow And then he would smile and he'd shake hands with me. He said sign here. and he had to sign his name. And then he hung the paddle in the window. Was your name on this paddle? No. No, I was a nerd. I was always trying to rationalize. One time I saw Mr. Kegel was his name. I literally liked him and he He came up to me and he said, Somebody said that you U had some words with one of our teachers There was We had a Hispanic teacher and we had a really wonderful guy named Dice, German name He was one of my best friends. He was tragically killed, Donald Dice. And this teacher tried to intimidate him all the time and call him Dz onnell, he said mr. Diaz, get over here and he said, My name is Dice No it's D is. and so And I said, whyy didn't you just let it alone Did't you get the message? I said that as an eleven year old to Mr. Foela I liked him too And he told Mr. Kagel l goes you like consulting my faculty? I said, No, you want to rendezvous with the paddle? Do you know what I meanant? I said, Yeahah, I know the word rendezvous. He said, you do So you want to rendezvous with Mr. Patdle? And I said no And he said, you say one more word to my faculty members like that and your name's going to be on that towel Well, Victor, I have a comment on The situation for Caitlin Clark in the WNBA and I'm sorry, I didn't get the name of the person who wrote this, but it was on yours and Jack's podcast and it says, I remember the days in the NBA when Jerry Wes and Gail Goodrich and then Pistol Pete entered the basketball key Yeah They were all given shoves, chops, and body bangs in an effort to hurt them. They were outside shooters and they came into the key. Writers called it a lesson to small guards to stay out of the key where the big men are. When the officials cracked down on that style of play and the league started fining players, the league saw much less sports violence on the basketball court. They could stop it tomorrow. Yeah, they could stop it tomorrow. They should have taken Alicia Thomas they should have called a Fgrrant foul for the first hit And then when she stayed on top of her and took her fist and drove it into her neck She should have been suspended for half the season If not the whole year And her whole team should have been sightited and they should have forfeited the game Otherwise you'res going it's going to continue because now they're going to bait both Sophie Cunningham and Caitlyn Clark. Yeah. U All right. and actually I do have the name on that. That was Steve Lucas S one H. U from the way you were The way you wear your hat seventeen fifty one, he says and he again, this is Jacks ands your podcast. The point is to turn on immigration the point is to turn us into a Sharia Muslim country, one baby at a time. wayay to go, Scotis, sorry, it's the Scotis birthright Thanks for destroying America one baby at a time. and that was from the way you wear your hat seventeen fifty one. And then from this is on your website, Gary R. Rottenberg, mister Hanson, your phrase Monastery of the Mind describes my journey through the ruins of America's institutions perfectly. You have listed virtually everything I've done and learned to live without. I regard the news quotes as I would the product of Gebel's propaganda machine or the pololi Bureau's pronouncements in Pravda I simply cannot tolerate the sound of the announcers' voices, much less the political drivel of their phony news. I have often wondered how many people have retreated into the monastery of the Mind over the last several years, the pace of which went into overdrive with the election of Donald Trump Yeah, I I use that term kind of invented it. because It was kind of a self condemnation. I felt bad about myself because I woke up one morning and I said, when's the last time you went to a movie theater or watch a a late Hollywood production recent on, you know on your computer or on TV streaming. I haven't If you told me right now what are the ten movies that Hollywood is out right now, I wouldn't know I used to know all of them I was watched the I haven't watched the Academy Awards, the Grammyys, the Tonys The MEs, I don't even know what they are anymore I have no desire. I haven't watched the White House correspondence dinner. I just checked out U H I haven't watched a network CBS ABC NBC network newscast in twenty years I haven't listened to NPR in twenty years. I haven't Once in a while I'll watch PBS like they had a good show on Countter Monte Cristo I that was pretty well done And I don't I'm a meemember of the Stanford I mean, I'm senior fellow, tenured at Hoogber, meember the Stanford faculty community. I don't know more than five faculty members at Stanford. I don't want to know any moreore. And I'm kind of worried about that. And I live out here in the middle of nowhere, you know southwest Fresno County, but I go now for medical treatment. probablyrob twice a month And I see Atherton, Meno Park, Los Altos, Pow W Alto, all these Hillsborough, these beautiful places where these eleven hundred square foot homes twowo million dollars, but And I have an apartment on the Stanford campus. It's very beautiful. but I have no desire to be there. And it just because At some point, you get it to an age that just saturates you the whole left wing project, progressive project, and you don't want to hear I could go walk where in my neighborhood and take down all the you This family this family doesn't tolerate racism after George Florich and point the ones that have the Ukraine now, that Ukraine flag, and that's out And now they have a trans something. I mean, it's just boilerplay. again and again and again, you pick up It's just You don't even want to talk anymore. So I think what's happening is a lot of people are self segregating on the conservative side. they don't trust the public schools, theyre have a little Hillsdale Academy hat on which I think Larry Aarn and his daughter who done an enormously wonderful job expanding the accademies. It's a wonderful project Places like that people You can go to college, you can go to high school, you can be charter school, you can be self taught, you can homeschool Public schools are a failure For the most part, they are. And You look at all these institutions that used to Cerries. I don't If you told me who the mayor of my town is, I don't know. If you told me who's on the city cououncil, I have no idea If you when I used to go into that town, it was what Moses Finley, the Great Classicist called a face to face society Usually ten thousand people, if you live there, you get to know the face of every single person When I would go there As Lent as thirty years ago, I couldn't go in that town without seeing ten people I knew I go in there now I don't know one soul And it's kind of like I't live in like a fortified villa, like North Africa around hundred like Augustine and H Porigius, you know what I mean? And the vandals are outside, the gates And soictter this is very upsetting, but it does lead me to Saturday, fourourth of July. We have a show that we're going to do and we're going to look at the Republic then and the Republic now and do I'm confident that we're going to make it. Yeah. It's not that. I just think that U The left controls all the institutions and you can't argue with them And you have to resist it. I'm not saying to be passive, but When you get to a certain age, you just want to be free of it And I still vote religiously. I try to comment on politics, but If I had not gotten ill, I think I had been considering moving I hate to admit that because I think if you move you give up on California, you let them have it. So I was fighting So I'm going to stay here mostly because I'm seventy two and I've got a health problem to get resolved. But I'd like to be a pioneer again in some ways. All right, so our Saturday show, we will be looking into the Republic as it was or when they started it and as it is now make some evaluation about that. So please join us on the fourth of July and thank you, Victor for everything today. Thank everybody for Thank listening and watching. 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