WEBVTT - Insidious Ideology 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:16.040 You are entering the freedom hunt. The liberal left is 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:20.520 still chanting about the need to abolish ice. It's a 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:22.840 stupid idea, but they seem to be running with it. 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:26.400 Why obviously unwise, but they must have a plan in 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:28.080 mine or do they will get into that. And also 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:31.440 a victory for the far left in our neighbor to 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:36.199 the south, Mexico. What this could mean for cartels, for 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.760 human smuggling, and for the US economic relationship with Mexico. 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:44.240 And also looking at everything else going on with the 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:46.479 North Korea deal to date. We'll talk about that and 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.519 much more coming up on The Buck Sexton Show. This 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.800 is the Buck Sexton Show, where the mission or mission 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:58.840 is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.400 no mistakes America. Ready, you're a great American Again. The 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:14.559 Buck Sexton Show begins. No, Welcome to the Buck Sex 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:16.959 and Show. Everybody. Great to have you here, Thank you 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:20.959 so much for joining. So we have a lot of 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:24.880 folks running around right now who are who are talking 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:30.880 about the need to abolish immigrations and customs enforcement. We 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:36.480 discussed this last week and here's what I see happening. Um, 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:39.320 Because it seems on its face to be so dumb. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:46.240 It seems like such a a political loser that there 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:50.640 must be some way that they're planning to make sense 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:52.960 of this. Right and and you know, you also have, 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.520 at the same time as all this abolished ICE stuff 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:02.000 is happening, a resurgence in the idea that millennials, young 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:08.040 people are are comfortable with socialism. And you have the 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:16.519 victory of this far left social justice warrior Ocasio Cortes 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:20.200 in New York City, and that has led to think 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.600 pieces like this one at Slate, which is kind of 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.560 a hip left wing website of news and you know, 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:34.200 analysis or whatever. Why young Democrats are so open to socialism? 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:38.480 M hm. So you have young democrats so open to socialism, 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:44.040 you have the abolition of ice as a rallying cry 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:49.679 on the left. It certainly feels quite a bit like 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:57.600 there is a a radical leftism that is emerging right now, 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:02.920 or that perhaps we're just seeing more clearly something's going on. Uh, 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.640 something is is changing. I mean, why democrats are so 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.560 open to socialism? And this is fascinating because I think 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:13.840 that young people are only open to socialism well for 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:17.480 a couple of reasons. One, Uh, the media keeps telling 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:21.359 them that it's cool. So that's very important because or 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.120 whatever they're told is cool, they're gonna believe must be 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:28.919 a good thing. Two, they don't know the history of socialism, 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:30.880 right they don't know what this has led to in 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.800 the past. And three and in some ways it's most important. 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.760 They have no ability to look forward into their own 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:40.760 future and conceive of what it would mean to live 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:45.160 in a truly socialist country or a country that is 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.400 trending much more radically towards socialism than where we are 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:53.600 right now in this country. And so that there's a 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.920 a left wing radicalism that is resurgent right now. There's 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.760 something happening, and I'm gonna time that's also into Mexico 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:02.320 and just a few moments because there he had a 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:08.480 far left guy, a far left guy one there presidential election, 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.160 and no one in the in the mainstream media is 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:14.520 gonna want to touch this. But I I obviously will. 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.200 I think this is going to be a big, a 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.880 big problem for us. I think this is going to 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.559 be an issue because of what his plans are going 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.920 forward for dealing with particularly dealing with cartels. But for 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:34.039 let me stay on this socialism is cool meme and 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.359 you've seen this in the past. Read Bernie Sanders was 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:42.159 the first effort to really run at a national level 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:49.440 a pro socialism presidential campaign. And they'll call it democratic 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.400 social and whatever. That's what do they really mean and 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.200 what are they really saying. They're talking about a much 0:04:54.240 --> 0:05:00.120 more radical redistribution of wealth done by the state, and 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.240 with the idea that it's about equality, even at the 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.120 expense of freedom and prosperity. Right, equality is a more 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:14.839 important goal then prosperity and individual freedom. This is the 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:19.360 this is the essential fundamental conflict we have with socialism. 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.520 And in this you know, hipster millennial socialism we're seeing now. 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:26.560 But also it's a fundamental conflict of the twenty and 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:30.240 now in the twenty century in developed countries right now, 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.760 in countries that are mechanized, countries that have seen the 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:39.640 industrial revolution, countries that are that that have created the 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.520 material the circumstances of material prosperity such that we don't 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.400 worry about having to feed ourselves really right were we 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.760 we don't have the same concerns as as we used to. 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.000 Now there there are people that are just focusing well, 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:55.360 let's just spread the instead of increasing the wealth let's 0:05:55.360 --> 0:06:00.360 spread the wealth. And Obama was very favorable to this 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.800 notion as well. Right, Obama was somebody who would go 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.200 out there and say, you know, we need to you know, 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.320 prayer Fair, Sure, yeah, I needed to spread the wealth 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.599 around payer Fair, Sure and all of us. But they, 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:18.120 the the young Democrats, as we see here in this 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:22.040 slate piece, are are are quote so open to socialism 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:26.320 because they don't know what socialism has meant in the past. 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.760 They don't understand what socialism really would mean in practice, 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.960 and they even don't understand what socialism would mean for them. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.600 You know, it does not mean everybody gets an iPhone 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:42.640 and all the avocado toasts they can eat, you know, 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:46.000 Socialism and the contact in the case of Venezuela, I 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:51.599 think is a very that's a very important story that 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.839 doesn't get told enough in this country because to take 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:59.680 a relatively well off and sophisticated country like Venezuela with 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.880 the law are just proven oil reserves in the world 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:07.960 larger than Saudi Arabia's, and to turn it into the 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:12.880 the eighth Circle of Hell with massive violent crime problems, 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.440 shortages of of bread and milk in the stores, and 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:20.440 just in every at every possible stage, though, there was 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:24.720 a justification for the government's position and the Venezuelan government 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:31.760 under Maduro that the the Venezuelan governments basic rallying cry 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.880 for everything it was doing was, well, it's the it's 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.040 someone else's fault and we're just trying to help people. 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:45.360 You know, it's someone else's fault, and we are doing 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:50.440 the best we can for the poor people, you know. Uh. 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.240 And that and that that gives them a lot of 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:53.920 you know that there's a lot of places they can 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.360 take that they can run with that. And when you 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.240 look at someone like Ocazio Court Orcasio Cortez here in 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.760 New York City, you here or not. I'm in d C. 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:03.600 I'm in the swamp, but up in New York City. 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.920 Sometimes they get confused about where I am. You're seeing 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:11.320 something similar. I saw over the weekend that, uh, the 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:18.600 Democratic Socialists of New York City. Um, the Democratic Socialists 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:24.280 of New York City are an organization that Occasio Cortes is, 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.760 you know, is a is in good standing with and 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.400 on their official side, they will have they have the following, 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.920 they have all these things. This is on their on 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:38.080 their site via Twitter. New York City Democratic socialists want 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:49.199 to abolish profit, abolish prisons, abolish cash bail, abolish borders 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:56.520 and abolish ice. This whole abolition of immigrations and customs 0:08:56.600 --> 0:09:00.160 enforcement rhetoric. This is not happening in a vacuum. This 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:04.720 is not just a an emotional response to all the 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.680 images and the audio of children being separated from parents 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.320 at the border, which I would note, you know, children 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:12.679 separated from parents when they commit crimes and do bad 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:14.600 things all the time in this country. But you know, 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.079 the Democrats are way less interested in that because it's 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:21.000 not politically useful for them right now. But trying to 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.320 abolish all these things, you start to see that this 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:27.000 is this is a radical agenda in the in the true, 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.120 in the truth, in the true sense of the word. Uh, 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.920 the abolition of ice and the abolition of borders, this 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.080 goes side by side, So you know, and this is 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:37.720 why I have to be so careful when you're talking 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.360 about democrats, or trying to talk to a Democrat who 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.280 is on the left and and in good standing with 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.400 the progressives, you'll say, you know, you guys are so 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.960 hustle immigration and customs enforcement because you don't want to 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.080 you just don't want the laws to be enforced. Period. 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.240 They'll say, oh, buck, you know, Immigrations and Customs enforcement, 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.800 it was just constructed in two thousand and three, and 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.560 you know it's okay. Well before that it was US 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:06.719 US Customs, right. All the consolidation two thousands three did 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:08.959 was for bureaucratic reasons. They brought it under the overall 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:13.440 umbrel of Homeland Security and was supposed to be streamlined 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.760 and more effective. Whether it is or not, it's not 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.360 really doesn't really matter for our purposes right now. It's 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.560 just all the functions that Immigrations and Customers enforcement do 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:28.720 existed before the reorgan two thousand and three and would 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:33.440 have to exist going forward. Unless you really believe in 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:35.160 the abolition of borders, unless you want to be an 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:39.040 open borders country, and they keep saying we're not. We 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.120 don't want open borders, we don't want open borders. I'm 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.160 here to tell you that a lot of Democrats, a 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:47.160 lot of leftists are lying on that issue. They do 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.720 want open borders. They just know the American people are 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:55.679 not there with them. Yet they use this among them. 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:57.440 You know, this is what they say among themselves. This 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.959 is what they'll say at rallies, abolished ice, abolished borders, 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.960 probably abolished profit. That's the scariest one of all. And 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:06.600 I have I mean this, I'm looking at this right 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:10.480 now on their Twitter account. I'm I'm reading this abolished profit. 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:16.160 Think about that. You know, those of us are sitting 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:19.920 around like working ourselves, you know, probably into it early gray, 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:21.840 but working ourselves crazy because they're trying to do better 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:28.120 for ourselves, for our families. Uh, they would probably stop. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.679 We would probably stop doing that if there was no profit. 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.840 Our society which has so much prosperity. I mean, we 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:38.800 are so well off you look back. I mean, one 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:40.480 of the reasons I love history so much is because, 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.599 as you know, you understand history better, you understand the 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.439 present better. You also have a context for how you 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.520 should view our current moment in history. And it always 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.199 keeps you humble because you know, you know, we come 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.320 and go pretty fast, your folks mean a lot of times. 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:55.640 It might as well be nice to people and do 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.439 your best to be a good person. Right, These are 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:02.120 these are important lessons you can take from story. But 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:06.600 the system of capitalism that the left, including in America 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.600 and more openly now that we've seen a long time. 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.440 This system of capitalism that they rail against us unjust 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:16.559 as unequal, as has brought more people out of poverty, 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:20.680 has given more people hope and comfort and happiness than 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:24.640 any other economic system in the history of the planet. 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.960 And it's not even a close call. And socialism has 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:34.559 condemned generations and countless hundreds of millions of people to 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:41.880 misery and poverty. And yet somehow in this country there 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:45.040 are folks who are powerful, who are wealthy. By the way, 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.080 Elizabeth Warren lives in a three million dollar house. Do 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:53.600 you know that maybe two point eight at current market value, 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.280 But she's a millionaire, folks, and she's running around, oh 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.280 you know, but she's in good standing with these abolished 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:06.240 profit people. This is an insidious ideology we're talking about here, 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:10.360 you know, abolishing profit, abolishing borders, abolishing immigrations and customs enforcement. 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:14.760 This is destructive. And they want to run around and 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:16.839 cry about Trump and Trump is m and they say 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:21.440 it's fascism and Nazism and they're just delusional. But when 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.120 I see this, I see people that are effectively being 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:31.360 openly Marxist. I have real concerns about where this country 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.600 is going to ahead unless we confront this stuff head on, 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.280 and that's what we'll do here on the show. A 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:42.160 four to five eight four buck. I will be right back. 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:55.880 I hope they keep thinking about it, because they're gonna 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.720 get beating so badly. I love that issue. If they're 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.520 going to actually do that, they're obviously talking about that, 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:03.800 because they you are going to have a country that's 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:08.040 crime written, the Border Patrol, the Border Patrol agents ice, 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:16.080 these people are incredible. Hashtag abolish Ice has made a 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.600 lot of rounds on social media. You know that the activists, 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.880 set and the media are really focused on this, But 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.600 even the Huffington Post realizes it's not a great idea. 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:29.760 Abolishing ice isn't very popular yet, it says in the 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.880 Huffing Your Post, which is another way of saying it's 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:38.120 just not very popular. So I can't really tell at 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.720 this at this stage of the game, if this is 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:44.120 just a leftist temper tantrum in the era of Trump 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:48.000 and it's unwise and there's no method to madness, or 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.640 they think this is part of the long game of 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.880 moving the country slowly, but in their minds and a 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:00.720 kind of you know, marks a sense of the inevitability 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:05.840 of history moving us toward a more radical left wing society, 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:08.960 and it will take time. And you know the fact 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:13.320 that whatever percentage, uh, you know, whatever percentage of people 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.560 are in favor of this here here we go, favor 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.440 abolishing ice is according to Huffing and Post folks left 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.200 wing sites. Yeah, I go root around on these left 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:22.840 wing sites, so you don't have to waste your time 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:31.240 doing it. Uh. The percentage of of um Hillary Clinton 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:39.400 supporters here who favor ah, who strongly favor abolishing ice 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:43.120 is about That's what I guessed. The radical left, of 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.520 the radical love which unfortunately runs a Democrat party, and 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:50.760 most of the media, but that's who favors of Hillary supporters, 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:55.840 So you're sort of standard Democrat is in favor of this. Basically, 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:57.920 no Donald Trump supporters are in favor of this. I 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:59.800 mean the Donald Trump supporters that say they're in favor 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:02.280 of either probably didn't hear the question or just trying 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.880 to be provocative to the to the people who conducting 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:10.600 the survey. And then you know, you see the non 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:15.320 voter that they pulled here, it's again it's like four 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:18.760 or five. So it's just the radical left that wants 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.880 to do this. But the Democrat Party is being run 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:25.960 increasingly by the radical left, and this goes to show 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.800 you that they can't be honest about their real intentions. 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.160 And so when they put forward someone like Ocasio Cortez, 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:36.400 who is all about abolishing profit prisons, cash bail, borders, 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.800 and ice, they want to destroy all this stuff. Meanwhile 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:43.160 the rest of government they want to grow endlessly. I 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.360 always find this fascinating about leftist The parts of government 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:50.120 that we actually need they are hostile to, and the 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.880 parts of government that we don't need at all they 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:56.560 can't get enough of. You know, the military, no, no, no, 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:58.760 we need a smaller military, less funding. The military is 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:02.760 a problem. Department of Education, Oh my gosh, there's not 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.679 enough money for teachers. And Department of Education, Oh no, 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:09.600 what are we gonna do? You know that they're exactly 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:14.199 the polar opposite of correct on all of this, and 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:18.159 they're radicalism when it comes to the abolition of these 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:22.520 different members. I mean, abolished prophet is just that's something 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.680 that people say and they're either too stupid to know 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:30.560 what it means, or or they're just I don't know, 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:34.800 they really want their advocating. There's such malcontents that they're 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:37.960 advocating for the misery and suffering that has been on display, 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.520 and every country that has ever even begun to try this. 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.640 You know, we don't have to reach far back into 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:46.760 antiquity for this. You just look at what's going on 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:50.399 in Venezuela and you figure that Democrats can never they 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:52.399 never learn their lesson about this, They never have a 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:56.760 real understanding of what needs to be done, and they 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:00.920 are completely willing to use this stuff at a minimum 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:04.240 for base turnout. But but I also think that, you know, 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.199 if if they had their way, if the left had 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.480 their way, they would implement some of this they have been. 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.439 Abolished ice and replace it with what you're gonna call 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.719 it something, Abolish ice and replace it with nice. Everyone's 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:17.280 gonna be so nice to each other. It doesn't make 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.400 any sense. This has been the primary political issue we're 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:22.919 heading into a mid term. Are they are the Democrats 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.960 telling you anything about how they're going to increase jobs, 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.200 how they're gonna, you know, help raise wages, how they're gonna, 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.919 you know, produce better health. People say, oh, buck, well, 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:35.000 they're not in power. Yeah, but they're not even talking 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:37.119 about what they would do if they were in power. 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:43.000 They got nothing except Trump hatred and Jay Guivera wanna 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:46.240 be is um so a big election here in uh 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:51.760 in Mexico, and one that I think has implications that 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:53.280 you're certainly not going to hear from most of the 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:57.920 mainstream media. But they are troubling, my friends. They are troubling, 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:01.440 to say the least. Mexico is in many ways are 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:09.080 most important immediate security challenge. And I know that it's 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:12.119 not framed that way. It's not discussed as though that 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:15.919 is the case, but it is the case. When you 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:20.520 look at the drug cartels, the human smuggling, the importation 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:23.320 of lethal substances that are killing tens of thousands of 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:28.560 people of our fellow Americans, Mexico is a massive security challenge. 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:32.760 And you you also have to wonder over the long term, 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:36.919 will there be a strain of Mexican irredentism, meaning they 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:40.800 don't want to that they want to regain lost territory. 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:45.200 That will become a political problem as well. I'm seeing 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.840 here that there's already an effort to split where people 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:51.120 keep talking about this that the splitting California into three states, 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.200 which it's not going to happen because it's just complicated, 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:57.560 but it would certainly be an interesting situation if it 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:02.280 were to happen. Uh. And you wonder if over the 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:06.600 long term, there's the possibility that maybe a separatist movement 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:11.080 from within the American Southwest or along the US Mexico 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:13.800 border will be a problem we have to deal with. 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:15.800 But that's further done the line. For now. Let's look 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:21.719 at what happened here with this Mexican national election. Now 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:31.200 you have a far left guy, Obrador, Lopez Obrador, who 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:34.080 has won this thing. You know, he beat he beat 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:38.240 the competition. The New York Times refers to him as 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:45.120 an a typical leftist mm hmm, a typical leftist, okay. 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:48.080 And they're saying that he wrote a wave of populist 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:52.879 anger fueled by rampant corruption and violence. Uh, and he 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:57.280 wanted a landslide victory. And now they're saying he has 0:20:57.320 --> 0:21:03.000 a sweeping mandate two uh, change things with the country, 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:06.120 all right, and and that this is a huge rejection 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:09.280 of the status quo and that he will Uh. This 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:12.040 is ac cording to the the Times, end corruption, reduce violence, 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:19.080 and address Mexico's endemic poverty. Folks, we have been to 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:23.719 this dance before. With some of our Latin American friends 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:27.080 and and regional partners, we have seen this play out. 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:30.400 You've got countries with all this corruption, with a lot 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:36.239 of poverty, a lot of problems, and they come out saying, well, 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:38.720 you know what, we're going to find a way to 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:40.919 address this. And the way they want to address it 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:44.159 is usually the redistribution of wealth and more state spending 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:47.399 and state programs that the productive class will have to 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:51.000 subsidize them one way or another. Is a recipe for failure. 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:54.080 What ends up happening is that the government and I 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:55.600 know we were talking to Venice, we are the earlier 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:57.639 this hour, but this is true. The government comes in 0:21:57.680 --> 0:21:59.560 and says, hey, we're gonna fix your problems, and they 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:01.560 don't fix a problems and they need to find a scapegoat. Well, 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:08.000 who's the scapegoat? If you're a populist, socialist government, far 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:12.800 left radical regime, whoever is doing well is the obvious scapegoat. Right, 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:15.760 The people that are managing to be prosperous and successful, 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:19.080 they're the problem. They're the ones keeping you, don't you see, 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:21.960 from having a better life. So we'll just take more 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:23.640 of their stuff and give it to you and you'll 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:25.440 be better off. And then all of a sudden, people realize, 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:29.880 hold on a second, well, now there's less foreign investment. 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:34.240 Now there's less productive activity going on. Now the people 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:35.800 that know how to run farms, you know, how to 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:40.080 run factories, aren't really doing it anymore, which means there's 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:43.720 less fruits and vegetables in the market. Stall means there 0:22:43.800 --> 0:22:48.639 isn't milk in the grocery aisle anymore. You know, you 0:22:48.680 --> 0:22:50.720 start to see all these problems. They come and they go, oh, well, 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:53.439 it's goo, and then the prices start to go up, right, 0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:56.560 because prices are set by the market, no matter what 0:22:56.640 --> 0:22:58.760 a government says. The government can say whatever, it can say, 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:00.760 the prices whatever it wants, but the price is what 0:23:00.800 --> 0:23:03.440 the price is. People get on the black market, they'll 0:23:03.480 --> 0:23:07.520 find a way. And then the government says, well, they're 0:23:07.560 --> 0:23:11.320 being greedy. That's why you don't have more access to 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:15.560 you know, produce and products. It's because the greedy capitalists. 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:18.280 So now we're just gonna start seizing their assets and 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:21.000 we're we're going to take it from them. We're not 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:23.760 just gonna do it through redistribution, through taxation and other 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:25.879 mechanisms of the state. We're gonna actually try to run. 0:23:26.240 --> 0:23:28.720 Now you're once you have control of the means of production. 0:23:28.800 --> 0:23:32.160 Now you're with straight up socialism. And it's the question 0:23:32.240 --> 0:23:35.440 do you have a revolutionary elite in charge? Then you're 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:37.879 at then you're at communism. Right then you're at the 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:44.840 hardcore level. Now even Venezuela is not communist. But there 0:23:44.960 --> 0:23:48.440 is nothing to be gained from going down this pathway. 0:23:49.160 --> 0:23:53.720 And Mexico's problems are are vast as we know. Let 0:23:53.720 --> 0:23:55.360 me just say this, We had it. We just had 0:23:55.400 --> 0:24:01.280 a an election where Lopez Obrador was the winner. And 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:05.120 this is a country that has for us. The implications 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:08.960 of this national election are more important than I think 0:24:09.000 --> 0:24:10.960 any other country I can think of off the top 0:24:11.000 --> 0:24:13.520 of my head. I mean, maybe you could argue, you know, China, 0:24:13.640 --> 0:24:17.200 but hey, you know, we don't know who we really 0:24:17.200 --> 0:24:19.479 want to run China of the possible options, right, we've 0:24:19.520 --> 0:24:21.320 got hijin Ping right now. But do we want Is 0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:25.159 there somebody better that we know of? But a a 0:24:25.440 --> 0:24:28.680 far left government in Mexico is something to be concerned about. 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:33.200 And Victor Davis Hansen, one of my favorite writers, pointed 0:24:33.200 --> 0:24:36.240 out a National Review that once you start to look 0:24:36.240 --> 0:24:40.840 at what Andrea's Manuel Lopez Obrador has said recently about 0:24:40.880 --> 0:24:46.159 the relationship with the US and Mexico. You're concerned and 0:24:46.280 --> 0:24:50.119 you start to worry, and you realize that there's some 0:24:50.160 --> 0:24:55.960 stuff that needs to be addressed real fast. Um. He says, 0:24:56.000 --> 0:25:01.800 for example, that Mexicans have a human right to enter 0:25:01.840 --> 0:25:04.720 the United States as they please. Well, that doesn't that 0:25:04.760 --> 0:25:07.160 doesn't sound like our border is going to be particularly respected, 0:25:07.160 --> 0:25:11.520 does it. Uh. He says that this is in innate 0:25:11.560 --> 0:25:17.080 privilege that we will defend about the right of Mexicans 0:25:17.080 --> 0:25:20.560 that come to America as they please. He has urged 0:25:20.560 --> 0:25:23.359 his fellow Mexicans to leave their towns and find a 0:25:23.440 --> 0:25:28.080 life in the United States. So he says that basically 0:25:28.119 --> 0:25:29.840 Mexicans can come to America as they please and that 0:25:29.840 --> 0:25:31.800 should be the status quo. Do you think this guy 0:25:31.920 --> 0:25:34.560 is gonna be helpful or not helpful on the issue 0:25:34.560 --> 0:25:38.920