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It was an article at the Washington Examiner, 12 00:00:39,759 --> 00:00:42,520 and I missed it on their website. But I do 13 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:48,439 get a dead tree copy recycled to me by a friend, 14 00:00:48,439 --> 00:00:51,039 and so I get them. But I'm usually a couple 15 00:00:51,079 --> 00:00:53,840 weeks behind on the dead Tree copy because the Washington 16 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:58,520 Examiner's got a paywall, and you know, I'm just living 17 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:00,679 on a radio salary, so I can't I can't have 18 00:01:00,759 --> 00:01:05,480 all the subs, you know. Anyway, the big piece by 19 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:09,159 David Hersani, and we've had David on the program over 20 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,799 the years, and I had a really good I think 21 00:01:12,799 --> 00:01:15,680 this was the cover story. Yes, it was one of 22 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:18,439 it was connected to another story. That's two stories that 23 00:01:18,439 --> 00:01:22,840 were part of the cover headline writing the book on 24 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:28,879 political violence. And I remember when I first came across 25 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:31,879 this guy's name, not David Harsani, although I guess it 26 00:01:31,879 --> 00:01:33,760 would have been about the same time. But no, I'm 27 00:01:33,799 --> 00:01:39,319 talking about the name Saul Olinsky. And I had never 28 00:01:39,359 --> 00:01:42,159 heard this name before. I mean, I was a product 29 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,680 of you know, government K twelve education, so it's not surprising. 30 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:50,120 But the name Saul Olinsky I only started learning about 31 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:54,319 when Barack Obama ran for president and I started seeing 32 00:01:54,359 --> 00:01:57,760 this name of some community organizer and he wrote a 33 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:02,239 book called Rules for Radicals. And then, of course was 34 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:07,879 the famous photo of Barack Obama at college and he's 35 00:02:08,439 --> 00:02:10,120 or maybe not at college, maybe it was like right 36 00:02:10,159 --> 00:02:13,759 after college where he where he went out to be 37 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:18,319 a street organizer, community organizer guy. And he was doing 38 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:23,319 like a chalkboard presentation of some kind, you know, teaching 39 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:31,120 people about stuff about communities and organizing. And when you 40 00:02:31,159 --> 00:02:33,960 look at the photo, you can make out what's on 41 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:39,520 the chalkboard, and it's it's the Olinsky stuff on the chalkboard. 42 00:02:40,599 --> 00:02:44,080 And I remember when I saw that picture, and I 43 00:02:44,159 --> 00:02:48,439 was like, huh, I'm reading this guy's name popping up, 44 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:54,039 you know, from certain commentators and writers and such, and 45 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:59,280 they're tracing the connections between Barack Obama and Saul Olinsky 46 00:02:59,759 --> 00:03:06,360 and what Olenski taught. And I remember the pushback because 47 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:08,800 you know, this was going on for a while in 48 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:14,159 conservative media. I covered it. I remember there was a 49 00:03:14,199 --> 00:03:17,000 whole case that was made that Barack Obama is a 50 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:21,599 red diaper baby as they're called. You know, his parents 51 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:28,360 were Communists, his grandparents commis ount in Hawaii. The guy 52 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:33,000 in his book, his own biography, his autobiography, and he 53 00:03:33,159 --> 00:03:36,680 talked about his relationship with this guy, this father figure. 54 00:03:36,719 --> 00:03:39,759 His name was Frank, and that was Frank Marshall Davis, 55 00:03:40,439 --> 00:03:46,319 a Kami that his grandmother had sort of introduced her 56 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,879 grandson too. So he had a father figure mentor in 57 00:03:49,919 --> 00:03:54,599 his life. Because at that point when Obama and his 58 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:58,759 now single mom moved back from where were they, Indonesia, 59 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,319 I want to say, and they had moved back to 60 00:04:02,479 --> 00:04:05,280 Hawaii and because she had gotten a divorce from her 61 00:04:05,319 --> 00:04:12,319 second husband, and that that was because he was working 62 00:04:12,599 --> 00:04:18,199 for I think it was a gas company maybe, but 63 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:21,120 he was working in a corporate environment and it was 64 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:25,040 getting he was becoming wealthier, and he was like welcoming 65 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:29,160 this like new infusion of investment into the country, and 66 00:04:29,519 --> 00:04:33,600 the people were raising their station in life. And Obama's 67 00:04:33,639 --> 00:04:37,120 mom not so big on the capitalism, and so they 68 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:41,040 had fights and stuff. They eventually separated, and yes this 69 00:04:41,199 --> 00:04:44,319 was the period in which Barack Obama ate dog. But anyway, 70 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,439 he moves back to Hawaii. He's then, you know, paled 71 00:04:48,879 --> 00:04:55,800 up with Frank Marshall Davis, and I saw him referred 72 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:58,959 to as red diaper baby, raised in this culture, in 73 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,240 this ideology, and then he became sort of I saw 74 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:06,040 another tag for him, which was the Red Avenger. In 75 00:05:06,079 --> 00:05:11,000 other words, I'm going to prove that the life's mission 76 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:17,040 and philosophy of my parents, my mentor my grandparents, the 77 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:21,040 weather underground terrorists that you know, helped launch my political 78 00:05:21,079 --> 00:05:23,800 campaign in their living room in Chicago. Like I'm going 79 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:28,800 to prove that like I am the you know, the 80 00:05:28,879 --> 00:05:31,120 light bringer. People refer to him as like I'm going 81 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:33,160 to bring the light to all the people, and I'm 82 00:05:33,199 --> 00:05:37,160 going to show everybody like this is fundamental transformation of 83 00:05:37,199 --> 00:05:42,000 America and like their philosophy was right, their lives weren't wasted, 84 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:47,839 you know, pursuing the communist utopia. But I remember when 85 00:05:47,879 --> 00:05:51,560 I started looking into Saul Alinsky's stuff, reading through the 86 00:05:51,639 --> 00:05:55,920 Rules for Radicals, talking about it, and there was this 87 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:03,600 sort of stiff arming in the legacy media, mainstream media 88 00:06:03,639 --> 00:06:06,959 outlets and such. I would get lefties that would call 89 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,480 into the show and they would they would mock me, 90 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,480 Oh yeah, rules for Radicals, Oh it's Sawlolinsky like. They 91 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,560 would just like mock me in order to make me 92 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:20,079 shut up about this guy Sawlolinsky like, denying that this 93 00:06:20,199 --> 00:06:26,160 guy and his strategy was you know, animating in any way. 94 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:31,480 For any of these politicians, let alone Barack Obama, you 95 00:06:31,519 --> 00:06:34,000 get the same reaction, by the way, with George Soros. 96 00:06:34,519 --> 00:06:37,040 Right people try to stiff arm you out of that 97 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:41,160 conversation too, because when it started breaking containment out of 98 00:06:41,199 --> 00:06:47,439 the right wing conservative media ecosystem and it started filtering 99 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:51,639 into the mainstream, then there was this rush to dismiss 100 00:06:51,879 --> 00:06:57,079 and deflect and defend Saul Olinsky and Barack Obama because 101 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,120 you know, the precious Obama has to be protected at 102 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:05,240 all costs. And so I was interested to see this 103 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:10,959 piece by David Harsani because he is connecting what we 104 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:18,920 see now with Slolinsky. This is the natural trajectory. His 105 00:07:19,399 --> 00:07:24,279 headline writing the book on political violence, the subhead is 106 00:07:24,759 --> 00:07:29,920 how Slolinsky mainstreamed the radicalism seen on the left today. 107 00:07:31,639 --> 00:07:35,720 Perhaps no one helped bring violence and the disruption of 108 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:40,160 all norms into the mainstream from the fringes more than Saulolinsky. 109 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:44,600 His book Rules for Radicals explains what we are seeing 110 00:07:44,639 --> 00:07:47,959 today and how we got here. Just as the title 111 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:52,680 of this nineteen seventy one work of practical militancy suggests, 112 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:59,240 it codified tactics intended to overturn the constitutional order. At 113 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:03,879 the same time, the quote Rules that Alinsky had championed 114 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:10,360 threatened and promised to propel American politics into violence. The 115 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:15,279 most reprehensible accomplishment of Rules for Radicals was convincing a 116 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,319 generation of progressive Democrats that it no longer needed to 117 00:08:18,399 --> 00:08:24,199 ask the fundamental question does the end justify the means? Indeed, 118 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:30,600 Olynsky derided this broad rule of civilized conduct as a 119 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:35,480 meaningless moral formulation. That's what he called it. Who's meaningless? 120 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:39,600 Does the end justify the means? What? He said? The 121 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:44,840 only question worth posing, he said, was does this particular end, 122 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:54,120 justify these particular means, and what does that mean. Well, 123 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:59,320 that's why you get different standards in every conversation and 124 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:03,480 on every top right. That's why you can be arguing 125 00:09:03,519 --> 00:09:07,159 with a lefty and they're taking a position of X, 126 00:09:07,759 --> 00:09:10,559 and then you shift to a different topic and now 127 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:16,360 they're arguing not X, and it doesn't matter. There doesn't 128 00:09:16,399 --> 00:09:19,840 need to ever be a consistent application of a standard 129 00:09:20,639 --> 00:09:24,679 because of this philosophy that has so permeated the way 130 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:28,600 the left engages in I was going to say discussion, 131 00:09:28,639 --> 00:09:30,919 but I mean, let's be clear, like that's not happening 132 00:09:31,159 --> 00:09:35,440 right by the way. I know, I have mocked the 133 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:41,639 inflatable costumes that the left has been wearing of recent days, 134 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:45,080 and I shouldn't have been doing that, not because it 135 00:09:45,159 --> 00:09:48,080 hurts their feelings or anything, but because they're simply doing 136 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:52,360 that to deflect attention away from their violence. They knew 137 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:56,320 things got too hot. That's them dialing it down. They're 138 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:58,080 trying to dial it down by Oh my gosh, look 139 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:00,679 at me. I'm just so silly. I'm dressed like a unicorn. 140 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:06,679 M Yeah, I know what the person inside that costume 141 00:10:06,759 --> 00:10:09,600 is capable of. You know, stories are powerful. They help 142 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:13,399 us make sense of things, to understand experiences. 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It can probably 163 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:29,159 be viewed somewhere without purchasing. It's called a wolf in 164 00:11:29,279 --> 00:11:34,559 sheep's clothing. Also regarding Obama, I could just never trust 165 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:38,240 a guy who ate a dog. That's fair. That's fair, 166 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:43,440 all right, So David Arsani writing about Saul Alinsky in 167 00:11:43,519 --> 00:11:48,320 the Washington Examiner. This was from the September twenty fourth edition, 168 00:11:48,519 --> 00:11:55,720 the Dead Tree Edition, the paper edition. Alinsky wrote, a 169 00:11:55,799 --> 00:12:01,440 practical revolutionary understands that quote, one does not always enjoy 170 00:12:01,519 --> 00:12:05,200 the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with 171 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:11,840 one's individual conscience and the good of mankind. So a 172 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:21,559 practical revolutionary understands that you don't always have the luxury 173 00:12:21,639 --> 00:12:24,840 of making a decision that is going to be consistent 174 00:12:24,919 --> 00:12:27,840 with your conscience and the good of mankind. So in 175 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:29,960 other words, you're going to have to do some stuff 176 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:32,279 that you don't want to do, that would offend your 177 00:12:32,279 --> 00:12:35,639 own conscience, but it's for the good of mankind. See, 178 00:12:35,639 --> 00:12:41,559 this is what makes communists so dangerous, much like well, 179 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:45,000 really all of the worst people throughout history is they 180 00:12:45,039 --> 00:12:50,159 think they're doing good. They think that I am going 181 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:54,639 to reach for this utopian vision. I can perfect society 182 00:12:54,759 --> 00:12:58,840 and people, and then everybody will be better off. This 183 00:12:59,639 --> 00:13:02,759 is a good place to be, and it's just all 184 00:13:02,799 --> 00:13:06,559 of this rabble getting in my way. And so you 185 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:09,000 know what, Sorry, I'm going to have to exterminate a 186 00:13:09,039 --> 00:13:11,960 whole bunch of people in order to get to the utopia. 187 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:13,320 But once we get there, it's going to be so 188 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:17,799 good for you. See, don't you get it right? They 189 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:22,559 think that they are doing something good. That's what makes 190 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:26,799 them so dangerous. Well, that and all the murdering. Of course, 191 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:31,480 as Harsani says, this is an invitation to do what 192 00:13:31,519 --> 00:13:38,360 your nature and civilization teach you is wrong, and then 193 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:43,279 to allow you to excuse any enormity as being for 194 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:47,200 the wider good. According to rules for radicals, what was 195 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:51,360 good for mankind? Well, its answer was building a revolutionary 196 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:57,519 force that methodically deconstructed the system and imposed class justice. 197 00:13:58,519 --> 00:14:02,720 The book is an instruction manual for appropriating the ideals 198 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:07,440 of an open society and turning it against itself. It's 199 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:12,799 also a ready made strategy of disruption by trial attorneys. 200 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,879 This revolution begins with the fundamentally destructive task of transforming 201 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:26,919 every interaction between citizens into confrontation. One of his rules 202 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:32,120 you may have heard. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, 203 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:36,559 and polarize it. One of his rules. I think there 204 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:43,840 were thirteen. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. 205 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:49,879 This is perhaps Lensky's most vulgar rule. Aim your fire 206 00:14:49,919 --> 00:14:57,399 at humans rather than amorphous institutions. Create caricatures of your opponents, 207 00:14:57,679 --> 00:15:01,039 because if you quote push a negative horr and deep enough, 208 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,840 it will break through into its counterside. Is what he wrote. 209 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:09,720 This is how to isolate your adversary and deny him 210 00:15:09,799 --> 00:15:14,120 public sympathy, even from his own side, which is really 211 00:15:14,159 --> 00:15:16,639 at the roots of the defender disavow game that the 212 00:15:16,679 --> 00:15:19,799 media make Republicans play all the time and never make 213 00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:22,440 Democrats play. By the way, have you heard of this 214 00:15:22,519 --> 00:15:27,799 guy what's his name, Plampton or something up in Maine. 215 00:15:27,799 --> 00:15:31,559 He's running for Senate. I want to say, I'm pretty 216 00:15:31,559 --> 00:15:34,919 sure he's in mein. And the guy was like a 217 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:39,759 poop poster on Reddit that they don't call them poop posters, 218 00:15:39,799 --> 00:15:44,279 but you get the idea. And he has said some vile, 219 00:15:44,519 --> 00:15:48,360 awful things. I know it's not a secret group chat 220 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:52,519 with you young Republicans. This guy was posting on you know, 221 00:15:52,799 --> 00:15:57,480 open threads on a public forum, and today it turns 222 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:03,799 out dude has a Nazi tattoo on his chest. He's 223 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:09,720 a democrat. Anybody playing defender disavow with him, No, didn't 224 00:16:09,759 --> 00:16:14,000 think So see how that works. Pick the target, freeze it, 225 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:18,799 personalize it, and polarize it, and so you isolate the 226 00:16:18,879 --> 00:16:23,039 adversary and you deny them public sympathy, even from people 227 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:28,399 on his own side. People who have gone through these cancelations, 228 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:34,000 they go into depression because all your friends and family 229 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:37,360 now want nothing to do to do with you. Oh 230 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:39,159 my god, I can't believe you said this thing. And 231 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:45,039 now you're isolated and there's no path back. There's no forgiveness, 232 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:48,960 there's no grace, there's no apology. Even in fact, if 233 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,759 you offer an apology, then it's worse for you. There's 234 00:16:52,799 --> 00:16:57,960 no respite for grace or compromise. 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Harsani goes into depth 264 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:56,839 on what the rules do and how they are implemented, 265 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:58,799 and then you know, we're looking at the long term 266 00:18:58,799 --> 00:19:01,799 impact now, because seventy one it's been you know, fifty 267 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:10,720 five years of training and people adopting these tactics. They 268 00:19:10,759 --> 00:19:15,440 may not even realize where the tactics came from. If 269 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:21,200 I recall correctly, he dedicated his book Rules for Radicals 270 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:26,440 to Lucifer. It's kind of out in the open, so 271 00:19:26,559 --> 00:19:31,079 it's like right there, page one dedicated to Lucifer. So anyway, 272 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:37,759 hyper personalization, hyper personalization of politics. It works only if 273 00:19:37,799 --> 00:19:40,839 you can convince people on your side that their opponents 274 00:19:40,839 --> 00:19:45,440 are all evil. This is why progressive democrats bred on 275 00:19:45,519 --> 00:19:50,359 this kind of radicalized politics treat every single political setback, 276 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:54,279 no matter how trivial, as if it's an existential threat 277 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:59,400 to the nation or as I would say, to the democracy. Right. 278 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:04,519 He is spot on. Harsani is spot on, Like this 279 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:09,559 is why every single issue, no matter how big or small, 280 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:15,319 is the end of the world. Everything is lost. Every 281 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:19,319 Republican president is Hitler, and the next president that's a 282 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:22,000 Republican is worse than the last Hitler. It's like at 283 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:27,400 some point, like where Hitler cubed or something. He goes 284 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:32,119 on to say, conservatives are not seen as merely adopting 285 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:36,079 misguided policies, but as putting the elderly, the poor, and 286 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:42,599 minorities in perilous situations. Even fleeting and mundane policy disagreements 287 00:20:42,799 --> 00:20:46,759 like a tax cut or the institution of net neutrality 288 00:20:47,039 --> 00:20:50,319 portend death. Well, okay, and hang on a second, that part, 289 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:56,519 that part is actually true. I myself died when net 290 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:00,599 neutrality was repealed, so like that, I'm not sure sure 291 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:02,759 he may have missed the mark on that one. A 292 00:21:02,799 --> 00:21:06,880 lot of people died from net neutrality. Okay. Former President 293 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:11,559 Joe Biden, you'll recall, delivered a speech smearing the right 294 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:18,319 as budding fascists. Remember that speech right in Philadelphia. It 295 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:22,839 was all had red lighting, had the black, black and 296 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:28,640 red motif going a tableau. He had the two marines 297 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:32,200 stationed behind him, and he was angry, calling all of 298 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:36,599 his opponents fascists. And it was such a bad visual 299 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,440 that I believe it was CNN. It may have been MSNBC, 300 00:21:40,599 --> 00:21:42,160 but then nobody would have seen it, so I think 301 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:47,960 it was CNN. They actually adjusted the color filtering to 302 00:21:48,079 --> 00:21:52,279 try to make it less red. You could actually see 303 00:21:52,319 --> 00:21:56,680 it happen where it morphed into sort of a purplish 304 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,359 you know. They tried to. They tried to increase the 305 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,960 tinting of the blue a little bit, to make it 306 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,519 a little bit more purple so it wouldn't be quite 307 00:22:04,599 --> 00:22:10,519 so jarring. Alinsky would have approved of that speech. He 308 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:14,559 understood that the threat is usually more terrifying than the 309 00:22:14,559 --> 00:22:18,720 thing itself. That is a direct quote from Olinsky. The 310 00:22:18,759 --> 00:22:23,759 threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. Net neutrality, 311 00:22:24,599 --> 00:22:30,759 climate change, right, which is why democrasse is always allegedly 312 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:35,319 hanging in the balance, but somehow never ends. It's why 313 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:38,480 you see these people in their inflatable costumes and such. Oh, 314 00:22:38,519 --> 00:22:41,000 by the way, somebody said something about the inflatable costume. 315 00:22:41,039 --> 00:22:42,799 Here it does on the text line stand says an 316 00:22:42,839 --> 00:22:46,079 adult in an inflatable costume at a protest is scary 317 00:22:46,519 --> 00:22:54,720 because they are reproducing. Are they? Are they? I'm not 318 00:22:54,759 --> 00:22:57,680 sure about that. You need a fact check on that one. 319 00:22:59,319 --> 00:23:03,440 Radicals were council to compare their conservative opponents with Nazis 320 00:23:03,559 --> 00:23:08,680 even back in the day, back in the seventies, even prior. Actually, 321 00:23:09,079 --> 00:23:11,559 it's been going on for a very very long time. 322 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,000 Many of the modern left have convinced themselves that their 323 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:21,720 political opponents are ideologically as dangerous as Nazis. Again, this 324 00:23:21,799 --> 00:23:25,440 sort of hyperbole has been around for a long time. 325 00:23:25,559 --> 00:23:32,359 Alinsky used the Nazi analogy. The left began accusing Republicans 326 00:23:33,079 --> 00:23:37,240 of being Nazis when Harry Truman said that Thomas Dewey, 327 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:42,119 the GOP presidential candidate, was a hitlarian frontman for bigots 328 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:48,400 and profiteers. That was nineteen forty eight, right. Olinsky himself 329 00:23:48,799 --> 00:23:53,359 claimed to have quote survived the Joe McCarthy holocaust of 330 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:57,880 the early nineteen fifties. That was a holocaust, Joe McCarthy, 331 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:03,200 that was a holocaust. Really. Later in the piece, David 332 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,960 Arsani goes on to say that modern Olenskiites don't function 333 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,200 under any book of rules, that is, under any code 334 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:14,240 that applies principles consistently. Their principles are contingent. That's the 335 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:19,720 key to always remember that the principles are contingent. Everything 336 00:24:19,799 --> 00:24:24,480 is contingent. It's relativistic. Right. If an act moves your 337 00:24:24,559 --> 00:24:30,720 cause forward, it's okay, you can do it. There's no guardrails. 338 00:24:32,519 --> 00:24:34,920 They can play innocent. But anybody functioning in the real 339 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,440 world understands that many progressive Democrats, perhaps most of them, 340 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:45,119 have a difficult time coexisting with conservatives, usually treating conservatives 341 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:50,319 as pariahs. I would refer you to the story that 342 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,240 I covered at the end of the last hour about 343 00:24:53,279 --> 00:24:57,720 the man from Atlanta who could not bear to see, 344 00:24:58,559 --> 00:25:03,559 to simply view, a Trump banner whilst driving through western 345 00:25:03,559 --> 00:25:07,680 North Carolina. So he stopped his car and ripped it down. 346 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:12,160 And then when the owner of the property saw him 347 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,880 and fired warning shots into the air to scare him 348 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:23,400 off of his property, the leftist accountant from Atlanta opened 349 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:28,359 fire on the guy's house, firing indiscriminately from out of 350 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:31,279 his sunroof, which just like that's just a really bit 351 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:35,400 just from a tactical standpoint, that's not that's not wise, Like, 352 00:25:35,759 --> 00:25:38,079 it's not a natural position to be firing out of. 353 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:39,839 Just like stick your hand up out of the sun 354 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,039 roof and just fire around, you know, like you got 355 00:25:43,039 --> 00:25:46,920 no you got no firearm control there, you know. Just 356 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:53,839 that's how I knew he was a lefty. Anyway, it's 357 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:58,960 always the think pieces and the explanatory journalism pieces and 358 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,160 the uh, you know, hey, I'm going to offer you 359 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,960 this advice for Thanksgiving dinner when you're sitting around with 360 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:11,039 your trumper Republican uncle. Here's how you here's how you 361 00:26:11,079 --> 00:26:16,119 fight back, and all this other stuff. Right, Democrats, according 362 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:20,119 to the polling, have a difficult time coexisting with conservatives. 363 00:26:21,039 --> 00:26:25,519 Our mere existence is triggering to them. They get angry 364 00:26:25,559 --> 00:26:28,880 with us. Now I'm not and this is not all 365 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:34,200 people who are liberal. Again, I use the word leftist, 366 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:39,920 uh specifically, that is a it is an ideology, it's 367 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:44,359 a religion. It's an ideology that animates a portion of 368 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:49,240 people that would be considered you know, democrat liberal, not 369 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,559 not even progressive, like I see those as as further 370 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:57,559 towards towards the center than leftists. I use that word intentionally. 371 00:26:58,839 --> 00:27:03,039 It's not leftists who are browbeaten into silence and learn 372 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:05,359 to keep their opinions to themselves in case they are 373 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:09,880 attacked verbally at a minimum. Right, I don't ever hear 374 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,119 of leftists having any kind of problem, you know, celebrating 375 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:14,799 Charlie Kirk's death and then they're like, oh my gosh, 376 00:27:14,839 --> 00:27:17,680 I can't believe I'm getting fired for posting Charlie Kirk's 377 00:27:19,319 --> 00:27:22,920 assassination was justified somehow, Like that's the first time I 378 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,519 can recall there being any kind of ramifications for this 379 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:29,440 kind of behavior. Conservative self censor themselves, particularly in the workplace, 380 00:27:29,559 --> 00:27:33,039 all the time, all the time. 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Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, 400 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,799 but it also supports ground News as they make the 401 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,279 media landscape more transparent. All right, So back to the 402 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:43,799 David Arsani piece. This is from the Washington Examiner talking 403 00:28:43,799 --> 00:28:47,319 about saul A. Lenski's rules for radicals that has laid 404 00:28:47,359 --> 00:28:50,519 the groundwork for the kind of violence that we are 405 00:28:50,559 --> 00:28:56,759 seeing today because we've had fifty years of leftist agitators 406 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:02,359 trained up in this kind of in the Olinski philosophy. Okay, 407 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,920 for example, there was one this is not in the article, 408 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:13,680 but what Alinsky called it the eyes, ears nose tactic, 409 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,759 which is, if you have the numbers right, if you're 410 00:29:18,799 --> 00:29:22,039 going to march someplace, you're going to protest whatever. If 411 00:29:22,039 --> 00:29:25,440 you've got the numbers, then you show up with the 412 00:29:25,519 --> 00:29:28,599 numbers and you parade around and you show your force. 413 00:29:28,799 --> 00:29:32,359 You show the size of your army. Right now. I 414 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,359 also would just point out here that some of these 415 00:29:34,359 --> 00:29:38,240 tactics are not actually new. Olinski did not invent these, 416 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,759 like I think this one is actually Sunsu Art of war. 417 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,279 But regardless, this is what he says. If you have 418 00:29:45,319 --> 00:29:48,000 the numbers, you bring the numbers and you march around 419 00:29:48,039 --> 00:29:54,519 and you show the opponents the size of your forces. 420 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,920 If you don't have the numbers, well then you just 421 00:29:59,279 --> 00:30:03,880 make yourself sound like you've got the numbers. And this 422 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,759 is where social media becomes very effective because with the 423 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,680 bot armies and such, you can you can make it 424 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,799 seem like remember remember when Rush Limbaugh got targeted for 425 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:19,880 the boycott, the Advertiser boycott, and he actually hired investigators 426 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,400 to go find like who is doing this because it 427 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:27,920 was all anonymous online people and I think I forget 428 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,640 the exact number, but it was basically like ten to 429 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:35,759 fifteen people and they had created what appeared to be 430 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:41,000 or what sounded like a large army, but it wasn't. 431 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:46,680 So that's the ears. Make yourself sound bigger, Maybe give 432 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,240 yourself some important sounding name. Oh my gosh, these these 433 00:30:50,279 --> 00:30:55,359 sound this organization sounds powerful, sounds legitimate or whatever. Now, 434 00:30:55,359 --> 00:30:59,759 if you if you, if you don't have the the 435 00:30:59,799 --> 00:31:03,599 large army, and you can't make yourself sound like you're 436 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:08,400 larger than you are, well, then there's the nose. And 437 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,599 that is just to stink up the place. And that's 438 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:16,720 what we see in like the North Carolina General Assembly 439 00:31:16,759 --> 00:31:21,519 with the Moral Monday protesters. We see it today, happened today, 440 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,720 happened yesterday in the General Assembly where the protesters go 441 00:31:24,799 --> 00:31:27,680 in and they just they cause a scene. They stink 442 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:31,960 the place up, right, they disrupt. These are the tactics 443 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,519 and they've been the tactics for fifty years. Okay, so 444 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:40,000 back to the piece here by David Arsani. The problem 445 00:31:40,079 --> 00:31:44,279 of leftists shutting down speech on campus is an old one. 446 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:49,319 According to a recent you gov poll, people who identify 447 00:31:49,359 --> 00:31:52,880 themselves as very liberal people, which I think is a misnomer, 448 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:57,119 as does David, But people who are quote very liberal 449 00:31:57,599 --> 00:32:01,920 are eight times more likely to say that political violence 450 00:32:02,079 --> 00:32:08,599 is justified. Then very conservative people do eight times the rate. 451 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:14,599 The Foundation for Individual Rights and expression, fri or fire. 452 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:19,119 They put out their college free speech rankings every year, 453 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,920 and the latest one found that about one third of 454 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:27,200 students contend that using violence to stop a campus speech 455 00:32:27,839 --> 00:32:34,400 is acceptable, about a third it's acceptable to use violence 456 00:32:35,319 --> 00:32:40,599 to shut down freeze. This isn't even the Heckler's veto anymore, right, 457 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:44,279 that's not the Heckler's veto. That's the assassin's veto. That's 458 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:49,920 very dangerous. And this, of course is at the root 459 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:55,720 of this authoritarian mindset on the left that has to 460 00:32:55,839 --> 00:32:59,440 silence opposition because they can no longer if they ever 461 00:32:59,559 --> 00:33:06,160 could persuade based on rhetoric, based on oratory skills, based 462 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:10,200 on data, for whatever reason, they cannot convince you that 463 00:33:10,319 --> 00:33:13,319 they are right, that you should do what they want. 464 00:33:13,599 --> 00:33:15,880 So if you're not going to do what I want, 465 00:33:16,079 --> 00:33:19,519 then I'm going to prevent you from making any case 466 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,880 against me. And by the way, this is not just 467 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:31,079 a leftist ideology. Islamists also engage in this very same 468 00:33:31,319 --> 00:33:35,319 kind of behavior. There is a nexus of authoritarianism, of 469 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:39,759 tyrannical behavior. You're not even allowed to question this stuff 470 00:33:40,519 --> 00:33:43,519 in either camp. You can't question. You question, you get 471 00:33:43,559 --> 00:33:47,000 shouted down, you'll get canceled. Factions of the progressive left 472 00:33:47,319 --> 00:33:50,920 have made heroes of murderers for decades, like Jay Govara 473 00:33:51,119 --> 00:33:54,799 Castro Mao Stalin. For years, he says, I attended the 474 00:33:54,799 --> 00:33:58,880 Conservative Political Action Conference or SEAPAC, and never once did 475 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:02,039 I witness anyone celebrating the legacy of a mass murderer 476 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:06,240 or terrorists. But whenever I go to the Socialism Conference 477 00:34:06,279 --> 00:34:10,519 in Chicago, I can purchase a slew of their work 478 00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:15,079 at the book sale. The only way for the mainstream 479 00:34:15,159 --> 00:34:17,679 left to join the side of angels is to reject 480 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:23,880 Alensky's moral relativism. All right, that'll do it for this episode. 481 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,000 Thank you so much for listening. I could not do 482 00:34:26,039 --> 00:34:28,159 the show without your support and the support of the 483 00:34:28,199 --> 00:34:31,239 businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, 484 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,480 please support them too and tell them you heard it here. 485 00:34:33,639 --> 00:34:36,119 You can also become a patron at my Patreon page 486 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,840 or go to thepetecallnershow dot com. Again, thank you so 487 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:46,960 much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.