WEBVTT - Guest Host: Benjamin Weingarten 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.920 This is the buck Sexton Show, where the mission or 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:08.080 mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:14.280 or mistake American, You're a great American. Again, the buck 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:23.119 Sexton Show begins. No, welcome to the buck Sexton Show. 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:27.319 This is Ben Weingarten in for Buck Sexton here on 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:31.600 New Year's Eve, live in Midtown Manhattan. I don't know 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.760 if this is this qualifies as the Freedom Hut, given 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.080 that we are in the Blasios, New York, and it's 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:41.279 also just madness outside these studios right now. Maybe it's 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:45.239 a safe space for liberty lovers, conservatives and the like. 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.960 Thank you so much for spending your holiday season with 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.800 me here on New Year's Eve. If this is a 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:55.880 time to be thankful and appreciative, and I want to 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:59.560 start first by sending out my condolences to the family 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:04.000 of one of my colleagues at the Federalist, the late Brepayden, 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.520 who was taken from us way too young. It's a 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:14.520 tragic loss for our company, for family, for freedom itself, 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.560 and her life should serve as an example for what 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:22.960 people in the media should strive for. As I mentioned, 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:27.360 Ben Winegarden filling in for Buck Sexton today, Senior Contributor 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.479 at The Federalist Senior Fellow at the London Center for 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:34.760 Policy Research. I'm also the proprietor of The Big Ideas 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:38.399 with Ben Winegarden podcast, where we focus on long form 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:43.000 conversations with deep thinkers and expert doers. You can subscribe 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.760 everywhere podcasts are found, and you can follow me on 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:49.880 Twitter at bh Winegarden. I also want to start we 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.960 should appreciate what we have, the freedoms that we have, 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:54.880 that we live in this amazing nation. I want to 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.440 also thank right up at the top, Buck Sexton for 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.280 giving me this opportunity to spend this time with you 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:06.000 and fill his large shoes. Today, given that we are 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.079 at the start of a new year and in the 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:12.919 holiday season, we should talk about how lucky we are 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.320 to be in this nation and how great we have it. 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:20.079 And it's not just the material bounty that we have. 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:25.160 It's about the freedom that provides us the opportunity to 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:28.760 pursue our happiness however we define it. This is the 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:33.720 exception in the history of mankind, the standard in world history. 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.200 And this isn't just historically. Look at a map today, 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:41.120 look at the governments and where the largest population centers 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:46.320 in this world exist. Freedom is the exception. It is 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:50.399 darkness almost over the entire globe, and that actually is 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.639 what is normal in the history of mankind. The standard 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.120 is that you live as a surf under a lord, 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.840 or as a slave under a slave master, or in 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:03.000 a gulag nation like what North Korea is today. Look 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.560 at a world map, study world history. The reason history 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.440 is so important, in part, is so that we appreciate 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.959 the fruits of what we have in this nation. Billions 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:16.960 of people throughout human history and including today, have only 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:21.480 known totalitarianism and an oppressive state where if you have 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.880 any rights, you really do have crumbs, like Nancy Pelosi 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.040 likes to say, and they can be snatched from you 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:31.160 at any time. Rule of law non existent, could be 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:35.600 gone tomorrow. Property rights, what are property rights in many nations? 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.400 Take the case of Venezuela for example. In two thousand 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.600 and one, Venezuela was South America's richest country. Now it's 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.600 a failed state. It is literally like Iraq when you 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.400 look at what the metrics are in terms of economics 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:53.560 and crime. The collapse all due to bad ideas. Bad 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.720 ideas can take everything that you've built up over centuries 0:03:56.720 --> 0:04:02.040 and destroy them. Amazing. One of the benefits that we've 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.200 had in America from our success, much of which we've 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.440 taken for granted, and few people even think about all 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.280 the necessary steps that it took to get to this 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:14.760 place today. One of the benefits is that we have 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:18.320 it so good that we can take time to explore 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.800 all the flaws within our nation. We can focus on 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:23.720 those flaws to such a degree that we end up 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.320 tearing at the very fabric that made us into what 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:30.479 we are. It's an amazing thing. People have never had 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.800 things so good, and they want to throw this experiment 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:36.760 into the trash band of history. I should tell you 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.200 I have a child on the way right now. That'll 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:40.880 be one of the New Year's gifts. I could be 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.560 called out of this show at any minute, potentially as 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:45.839 a result of where we are right now. And as 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.760 a future first time parents, one of the things that 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.800 you think about is what kind of world are you 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:55.800 going to bring your child into? How do you inculcate 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:59.480 them with the beliefs, the values and principles that you 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.800 want to dominate in this world. You know, part of 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:04.680 it is protecting them, but they also have to live 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.720 in a reality and what is the reality today? Well, 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:12.440 the reality today is that among our elite, the ideas 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:17.960 that trickle down and percolate into society are completely antithetical 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:22.520 to the ones on which this nation was based. And 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:28.679 in a sense, what you have is progressive agitprop progressive propaganda. 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.480 It's in government and in the bureaucracy, which is its 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.240 own branch of government, even though it's not treated as such. 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.200 It's in the media, and it's in our education system. 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:42.599 You have highly credentialed people, but not necessarily wise people. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.640 Their intelligence, but they're they're intelligent people, but their intelligence 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:51.680 leads them to believe they can perfect society, that they 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:55.520 have a moral duty to try to perfect society through 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.960 wielding the power of the state to nudge us deplorable 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:02.680 as as cass sunst Obama regulatories are once put it 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:07.000 to nudge us deplorables towards the right answer. But who 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.400 were they to make that decision over us? Why is 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.480 that the morally right thing to do? They would argue, Essentially, 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:17.960 they're morally superior as virtue signalers, and as holders of 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.159 these values and principles, they should be the ones to 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.159 point us in the right direction. And what is the 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.280 impact of these bad ideas well. I mentioned they destroyed 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.920 Venezuela in a very short period of time, in under 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.800 two decades. Bad ideas took the richest nation in South 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:38.000 America and destroyed it. But those ideas have seeped in 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.640 here as well. And people look at campus craziness and 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:42.320 they kind of shrug it off as well, this is 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:47.719 just young people, immature. It's crazy Ivory tower sort of stuff. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.119 And when they get onto the real world and see 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:54.440 the percentage of tax dollars taken out of their smaller paychecks, 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.559 then they start to see, oh my gosh, there actually 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.000 are some pretty negative consequences for me and my family 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.520 in my future. But it's about much more than just economics, 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.760 because economics are an outgrowth of our belief system. Free 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.760 market economics are an outgrowth of a system of values 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:13.880 and principles, Judeo Christian Western values and principles, and that 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.240 free market capitalist system springs from them. It's the result 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.440 of them, but that's not the end. That's just one 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:25.440 of the benefits. There was a recent poll put out 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:28.120 by the Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness slash you 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.680 gov and it was called the State of American Patriotism Report. 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.400 They pulled eleven hundred people, a bit under fifty percent 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.560 of them between fourteen and thirty seven years old folks, 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.560 So we're talking millennials and premillennials and maybe a little 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.040 bit of gen xers as well. Here were some of 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.840 the findings from that survey. Half of those survey believe 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:52.080 the United States is sexist and racist. American exceptionalism is 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.160 on the decline. According to the report, forty six percent 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.480 of younger Americans do not agree that quote unquote, America 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.239 is the greatest country in the world. Thirty eight percent 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.080 of younger Americans do not agree that quote America has 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.400 a history that we should be proud of. One in 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.880 eight fourteen percent of millennials agree America was never a 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:11.960 great country and it never will be. So that is 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:16.559 the future. Andrew Cuomo constituency. Forty six percent of younger 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.720 Americans agree that America is more racist than other countries. 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.080 I gotta tell you, these people have never been to 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:26.160 any other country. Probably, It's absolutely mind numbing, both the 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.280 ignorance and the arrogance, the ignorance to not know and 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.760 the arrogance to put forth these sorts of views not 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.280 knowing anything about them. Eighty four percent of Americans do 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.400 not know the specific rights enumerated in the First Amendment, 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:40.440 So how can they be counted on to defend that 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.400 First Amendment when they don't even know what it is 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:47.440 or why it existed in the first place. Nineteen percent 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:49.720 of millennials believe that the American flag is a quote 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:54.640 unquote sign of intolerance and hatred. My god, Forty four 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.440 percent of younger Americans believe Barack Obama had a quote 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:01.480 unquote bigger impact on America than Orge Washington. So that 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:05.920 is what young Americans get out of our education system, 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.920 out of our media. I mean, you gotta give the 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.200 left credit. At least with Alexander Hamilton, people know a 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:18.720 little bit about him. So you have this ignorant, arrogant 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:23.160 young population in America, and that is our future. The 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.920 bad ideas have consequences. If people hate the very values 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.080 and principles on which a country is based, how can 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.719 they be counted on to defend them, to promulgate them 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.640 to their kids. And we're talking multiple generations of this 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:38.360 kind of propaganda. So naturally, in Axios last night, there 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.760 was an article titled the Coming Reckoning for Capitalism. A 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.240 quote from that article, one of the most important trends 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.760 likely to drive the twenty twenty presidential race a growing 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.079 dissolusion with capitalism as practice and a coming struggle over 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.480 how to recast this pillar of the Western order. And 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.720 you know, it's funny. These people like to talk about 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.760 how Trump is a threat to Western civilization, yet they're 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:59.840 the ones that want to throw out the very principles 0:09:59.880 --> 0:10:04.960 on which Western civilization derives. The article goes on the 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.319 bottom line, you could hardly challenge a more basic part 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.920 of who we are as Americans and Westerners. Polling shows 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:13.959 a rising number of young Americans prefer socialism to capitalism. Now, 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.440 I would question whether or not they can define what 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.120 socialism is and what capitalism is. So the fact that 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.480 they have an opinion on it is I would say 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:25.000 questionable to begin with. But that's staggering because if we 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.120 won the Cold War, how can it be that half 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.360 the country believes in socialism over capitalism among the youth. 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.679 That is a direct failure on the part of those 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.560 who run our institutions, who are supposed to be the 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:41.200 ones safeguarding what this country is based on and the 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.120 article continues, that's a twelve point decline and young adults 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.440 as positive views of capitalism in just the past two years, 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:48.760 and a market shift since twenty ten, when sixty eight 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:52.120 percent of viewed it positively. We're talking about fourteen to 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.440 thirty seven year old folks, millennials, eighteen to twenty nine 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:59.080 year olds. But it starts way before they're even in college, 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:03.320 this sort of prop gandizing and effectively brainwashing people, and 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.280 there's something very sick about that. So there was a 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.839 Wall Street Journal editorial that caught my eye recently is 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.360 titled Reading from Left to Left at Barnes and Noble, 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.640 and it goes on to talk about a display at 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.800 Barnes and Noble that this journalist saw called quote unquote 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:20.720 Inspiring Books to Empower young readers. What inspires and empowers 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:25.000 young readers. While the collection included first Generation, thirty six, 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:29.120 trailblazing Immigrants and Refugees who make America Great, which lionizes, 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.520 among others, Univision anchorman Jorge Ramos, and the first fashion 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.960 model to wear a he job. The article goes on, 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.280 there were three memoirs by illegal aliens, two novels whose 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.520 protagonists were refugees. So any side of my oars, Supreme 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:45.040 Court justice, turning pages my life story and we rise, 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:48.280 We resist, We raise our voices and anthology that includes 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.760 a fictional story of a child who is arrested by 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:54.320 Immigrations and Custom enforcement agents at school as he endorsed 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.400 taunts from white classmates wearing Make America gride again. Hats 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.760 who writes this stuff up? This is the onion, This 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.079 is a Barnes and Noble but display. This is what 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.360 These are the books that are pushed on our kids. 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:11.000 The article goes on one Portlandia esque title, You Are Mighty, 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.040 A Guide to Changing the World, is built as a 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.280 how to manual on build up being an activist. It 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:20.720 features Genesis Pelacio, a preteen girl wearing a Vegan power 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.880 T shirt who became a vegetarian when she was three 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:28.880 after learning that quote unquote, animals were killed for her food. Apparently, 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.280 according to the article, Barnes and Noble stores and other 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:35.000 cities have similar displays. The chain's corporate office didn't answer 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:39.280 the emails of the author, and the article concludes conservative 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.080 theme children's book books are out there, but you have 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:46.640 to seek out these subversive titles like pornography before the Internet. 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.319 Liberals are devoted to diversity, but they define it in 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.760 a particular way, obsessing over race, sex, and sexual orientation 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:58.600 while demanding conformity of thought. Une. Let me tell you 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.720 as a future father or I recently received a book. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.000 My family received a book by someone who did not 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.680 know where I stood on the ideological spectrum. I kid 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:09.960 you not. It's called as for Activists. This is a 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.920 picture book. I'll quote a bit from it, and then 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.520 we'll go to a correct quick break letter. E Equal rights, black, 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.800 brown or white, clean and healthy is a right every 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.480 place we live in play Environmental justice is the way. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.880 Letter j J is for justice, YEA for justice, Juanita Jamala, 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:30.080 justice for the janitors, Justicia for all. Letter. Oh, this 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.079 is a great one. Open minds operate best, critical thinking 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:37.280 over tests. Wisdom can't be memorized, educate, agitate organized. Now 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.719 tell me where our response to a book like that is, 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.960 because I don't think there's AS for America is exceptional. 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.320 B is for borders and national sovereignty. See is for 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.040 capitalism and creative destruction. That would be laughed out of 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.559 the bookstore. But the other side is propagandizing with picture 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:58.040 books for young, impressionable children who cannot cannot conceivably grapple 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.559 with any of these sorts of ideas. It's on imaginable 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.240 that there's anything like this on our side, and frankly, 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.440 I don't begrudge us, because it's sick to try to 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:08.520 propagandize among young people with this stuff. So what do 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:10.160 you do when you're dropping your kid in the middle 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.600 of a world where everything is insane and where everything 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.360 is about breeding left wing activism and ignorance. We're creating 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.920 activists and idiots, useful idiots for an agenda, and we'll 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.000 talk a little bit about that agenda right after this 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.840 quick break. This is Ben Winegarden in for Buck Sexon 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:30.720 on the Buck Sexton Show. More next, This is the 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.400 Buck Sexton Show and this is Ben Winegarden in for 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.200 Buck Sexton. Happy New Year's Eve to you all, and 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.920 thank you for joining me today. Follow me on Twitter 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:43.360 at b h Winegarden. All right, before the break, we 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:47.359 were talking a bit about poisonous ideas and the poisonous 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:51.960 consequences they have for society, and it's very hard to 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:55.240 kind of quantify or sum up what the impact of 0:14:55.440 --> 0:15:00.360 multiple generations of this sort of progressive thought policing has 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.440 been but I think there was a fine example of 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.680 it this weekend on Meet the Press, where Chuck ta 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:10.680 did a full episode on environmentalism, and he stated near 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.560 the start of the show, and I'll quote here, We're 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.680 not going to debate climate change the existence of it. 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.520 The Earth is getting hotter and human activity is a 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:23.240 major cause. Period. We're not going to give time to 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:26.800 climate deniers. The sciences is settled, even if political opinion 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.840 is not. Unquote, that's a very scientific attitude there by 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.640 Chuck Todd, because after all, we know exactly how much 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.920 human beings have contributed to warming. We know for effect 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:41.200 that this isn't just one of another million historical cycles 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.000 that there have been in terms of temperature. We know 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:47.480 the temperature is climate. They're exactly the same thing. He's 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.560 so confident in his position that anyone who would who 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:55.080 would deign to present some countervailing evidence, shut up. And 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.320 by the way, we're going to call you climate deniers, 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:59.600 which is a pretty offensive kind of term, because what 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.680 they're When you hear deniers use what does that usually 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.840 bring up, Well, it's holocaust deniers. Chuck Todd is smart 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:08.040 enough to know that he probably shouldn't be using that 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.200 phrase to describe anyone who would challenge of you that 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.760 is not unanimously held. Look up, the ninety seven percent 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:18.479 of climate scientists all agree statistic and it's a bogus statistic. 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.200 Stand He had Jerry Brown on the California Governor and 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:26.120 Jerry Brown said this about climate change. First, he was 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.440 talking about the challenge from China and then climate change. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.320 So I want to put this in context here, he said, 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.600 and I quote, instead of worrying about tariffs, I'd like 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:34.760 to see the President and the Congress invest tens of 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.800 billions in renewable energy, in more efficient batteries to get 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:39.760 us off fossil fuel as quickly as we can. Well, 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.560 they really love this in France, the green invest He 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:44.680 goes on, I would point to the fact that it 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:48.600 took lad President FDR many, many years to get America 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.000 willing to go into World War two and fight the Nazis. 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:54.400 And he continues here, well, we have an enemy, though different, 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.400 but perhaps very much devastating in a similar way, and 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.600 we've got to fight climate change and the President's got 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.760 to lead that. So what I want to understand. Is 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:06.280 is he saying that fighting something that may or may 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:09.640 not be transpiring in the environment that human beings may 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.080 or may not have a disproportioned impact on, is the 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.480 equivalent of fighting the Nazis? Or is he go bearing 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:18.320 the Chinese to the Nazis. I'm not quite sure where 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:22.600 he's going with that analogy, but let's sum up what 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:27.520 this really is. Climatism is a secular religion, or at 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:31.440 least it is a sect in the progressive secular religion, 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:37.040 and the state is their church. What is climate change 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:40.280 really about for them? It's about sort of in some sense, 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:44.840 justifying mass redistribution of wealth. It's about apologizing for our 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:49.080 western sins of being industrialized and therefore redistributing the fruits 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.160 of it to the first and through world nations. It's 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.760 a form of elite virtue signaling. It's very easy to 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:55.760 say I care about the environment and then go trotting 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:57.600 around on a jet. You don't really have to deal 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.840 with the consequences or take responsibility. And oh, by the way, 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.720 there's also the self interested aspect of this, which is 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:07.200 that those who promote this vision oftentimes with the very 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:11.880 people who end up personally benefiting from government investments, the Greens, 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.640 more Cylindras, well Clendras all over the country. If these 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.720 people are the ones who are allowed to dominate ultimately, though, 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.359 what progressive insm is about, as I mentioned, is a 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.240 secular religion. It is about dominance, and the way that 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:29.000 you instill that dominance is to propagate these messages starting 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:31.879 with little children, starting with toddlers, and working all the 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:33.399 way up through college. And how are you going to 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:35.240 be able to compete against that when all you have 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.320 is the real world? This has Ben Winegarden in for 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.360 Buck Sexon on The Buck Sexton Show. This has Ben 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:43.679 Winegarden in for Buck Sexton on the Buck Sexton Show. 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.400 Follow me on Twitter at bh wine Garden and thank 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:49.520 you so much for spending your New Year's Eve evening 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:54.879 with me. We've been speaking about the dominance of progressivism 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:58.639 in media and academia. We've all followed that sort of 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:02.440 running theme. It's a huge challenge, and frankly, conservatives haven't 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:06.280 even begun to grapple with just how devastating it's been. 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:10.080 The progressive march through the institutions, as Grahams Sheet called it, 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.800 over one hundred year period we haven't even been we 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:17.199 haven't even begun to recognize the extent the nature of 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:19.680 the problem, which is imperative to actually then starting to 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:24.800 figure out a way to counter it. Maybe something that 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:29.080 can help us to remember what our principles are is 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:33.600 to look at an adversary who threatens them. It's sad, 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.359 but it could be that perhaps it'll be an external 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:40.919 threat to the US's dominant position in the world that 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.680 allows us, in part to enjoy the freedom that we have. 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:46.120 Maybe it's an external threat that we have to look 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:50.120 to to summon within the American people who we are 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:54.240 and what we really believe in. We're going to do 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:58.760 a deep dive now on China. Most people when they 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:03.840 think about China today, they think trade war, tariffs, President Trump, 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:12.320 Mano Imano with Jijinping. I believe that drastically minimizes what 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:15.280 is actually going on in the world. Maybe the most 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:19.640 monumental revolutionary shift that has happened in Washington, DC under 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:23.840 President Trump, certainly on the national security and foreign policy side, 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:29.280 since the opening of the relationship with China under Richard Nixon. 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:32.320 We're talking in the seventies here. The narrative has always 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:36.360 been that China would peacefully rise, that we would open 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:39.320 up trade with China. China would be rich. Rich countries 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:42.200 ultimately want to be free countries rather than the other 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:45.000 way around, that free countries end up rich, and that 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:50.480 any bellicosity, any adversarial nature, any aggression from China would 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:52.960 be checked by the fact that, look, they're entering this 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:55.760 world trading architecture that the West built, and they are 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:57.840 going to be good partners and we'll all get rich 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:01.000 together if they got access to the world financial architecture 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:03.520 that we built, and it's helped enable them to become 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:06.639 the major producer of goods consumed in America and the 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:11.000 second largest country economy in the world. It's also funded 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:14.320 the world's largest intelligence dictatorship. Something to keep an eye on. 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:18.160 They actually have scores where they grade citizens on their 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:21.919 patriotism and a massive surveillance system around them. So you 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:24.040 could be a bad citizen if they don't like your spending, 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:27.280 habits or maybe where you travel or what you say 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:32.159 on social media checked as it already is. What we 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:34.879 did was we capitalize what was a communist regime and 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:36.960 turned it from a third world country into from a 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:40.679 wealth perspective, a competitive country in economics, and we allowed 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:43.719 it to expand its fear of influenced worldwide. Now, how 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:45.960 has China paid us for the privilege of becoming a 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:48.560 leading world power. Well, they steal hundreds of billions of 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:53.400 dollars worth of intellectual property, in particular from strategically significant sectors. 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:56.840 That's real value taken from the West and of course 0:21:56.840 --> 0:22:00.840 from America, because we're a dominant technological power, So they 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:03.359 steal our blueprints. They don't create them themselves. They're not 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:06.160 a fair competitor. When the President talks about free, fair 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:08.600 and reciprocal trade, part of that is they need to 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:11.400 deal on an even playing field, and they don't. This 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:14.320 is part of a comprehensive plan of economic aggression, which 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:16.760 the White House documented in a June twenty eighteen report 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:19.680 from its Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, which is 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:22.520 run by Peter Navarro, who's cast as a China Hawk. 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:26.080 It lay it out in that strategy that China's goals 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:28.840 are to protect its home market from imports and competition, 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:32.040 expand its share of global markets, secure and control core 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:37.040 natural resources, globally dominate traditional manufacturing industries, acquire key technologies 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:40.399 and intellectual property from other countries, including the United States, 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:43.480 and capture the emerging high tech industries that will drive 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:47.080 future economic growth and many advancements in the defense industry. 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:51.960