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This is a tweet from June 2020 from Mr. Mamani flipping Christopher Columbus's statue, the middle finger, and saying, "Take it down." I mean, I I saw this thing and it makes my blood boil. Mr. Mom Donnie is the face of the new American elite.
Hey there, friends, fans, and foes of Dad Saves America. John Papola here and I thought I would take this Friday, this Halloween Friday to talk about something pretty scary and that is well this guy >> socialism. Ah, terrifying word. >> Zoran Mdani, the probably going to be mayor of our biggest city, New York. a self-avoued socialist and a man who wears many masks, many costumes. And I think I have spent a lot of time talking about his socialism. And we'll talk about that a little bit, but I want to go a lot deeper in this one because the Zoran picture is more complicated than just his his platform or his his ideology.
But what is that platform and ideology? In some ways, Mamani, who's a self-proclaimed socialist, doesn't sound that different from other progressive Democrats. >> We will take on corporate landlords and cap unfair rent increases. >> It's time to stop protecting billionaires. >> Every single thing he says, even right down to, you know, that there shouldn't be any billionaires, is merely an extension of what Elizabeth Warren has said. >> We need universal child care in this country. >> What Bernie Sanders has said >> is insane. and absurd. They got people with hundreds of billions of dollars, tens of billions of dollars. The system cannot afford them. >> He is radical for the Democratic party, but he's also just being more honest about the policies that a particular wing of the Democratic party have pushed for a long time. >> We have to continue to elect more socialists and we have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism.
Mandani's ambition is nothing less than leading the vanguard of the new American socialist movement. His message is resonating with young voters in particular who turned out in record numbers for Mam Donnie in the Democratic primary. So Mr. Mani's first mask is that he is not as radical as he seems and he has a lot of support in keeping that mask on his face from people who are in what we used to call the mainstream media. >> I wish you all the best. Honestly, you know, I think any New Yorker who looks at someone getting an opportunity, who's representing communities that have not been as representative, a a Muslim, a a young person, a progressive, a Democratic socialist, you know, there are so many different communities that are looking to you and this, I hate to put it on you as a bit of a Jackie Robinson moment. And I know that that that probably wields some weight, but man oh man, >> just as a little reminder, Jackie Robinson was actually like a Rockefeller Republican, but you know, anyway, >> but man oh man, what an exciting opportunity >> and I wish you the best. >> Thank you. >> I wish you the best with his big smile. >> Take it. >> Beautiful. I'mma get it after this right now. Feel free. You can share with everybody here. >> Okay. Beautiful. >> Socialism. I'm so social.
>> I mean, we are talking about a Joker-like character here, a Joker-like laugh taking over Gotham City. And and frankly, the 1989 Batman, I think, presented the Joker as mom Donnie probably better than any other. >> Time for Who Do You Trust? Hubba hubba hubba. Money. Money. Money. Who do you trust? me. I'm giving away free money. And where is the Batman? Where is the Batman? Where is the Batman to combat the free money, the free bus fairs, the free child care, the free grocery stores? Some people uh might think this is Batman. >> I am Batman. >> I don't know. I don't know if you're Batman, but uh I do know this. The Joker had a couple other kind of prophetic things in common back in 1989. >> Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But if you got to go, go with the smile. >> Yep. The Joker dawning a mask in New York City in the streets outside. kind of like Saran mom Donnie donning a mask outside. This is 2022. This guy is not what he sees. He puts himself forward as this friendly, happy guy, as this guy that cares about the little guy. He is wearing a mask, a literal mask and a figurative mask.
>> Persona is the Latin word for the mask worn by an actor. Each society has its wardrobe of persona for you and it's through the persona of the society that one comes into relationship to other human beings and also into the world of nature which means into the world of one's own character.
So what is the character of Mr. Mani? What mask is he wearing? I mean for one thing as if if the mask is an image of the actor Mr. Mani has a good pedigree. His mother is a famous filmmaker. The one of the masks that comes along with that is being a member of our elite. He presents himself as a man of the working class, as a man who's fighting for the little guy, but he is very much an avatar of the elite. And that is the central theme of this video because our elite has some really dark pathologies. They wear a lot of masks and they put them forward as if they are for all of our own good and they are not. Among the masks is the friendly happy mask put on socialism. Here is Mr. Mandani writing in Jacabin magazine which I've talked about in other videos hearkening back to the uh the radicals the radical mass murderers of the French Revolution Mr. Robes Pierre and the and the guillotine. Here is how he tries to put a fresh face, a fresh mask on socialism. It is it is dignity. Dignity, my friends, is another way of saying freedom. You see, socialism is freedom. This is not a new claim by socialists. >> A lot of people are afraid of the word socialism. I'm a democratic socialist and what socialism means to me is a commitment to dignity. Dignity is this squishy word that can take a lot of meanings. I happen to like the word dignity, but it has been captured. This use of dignity is a kind of adsp speak, a kind of ad agency sophistry. And this image, this image that the democratic socialists put forward of the single rose is itself a product of ad agency propaganda. This image is also a kind of mask. It is a mask put over top of the old image that still gets used by a fair number of Mr. Mani's comrades, namely the the good old fist and hammer and sickle, the forces of revolution, of smashing of force. This is the most modern version right here, but this one still retains that fist. It's like they sort of like plopped a rose in the hand of the fist. This actually was born many, many years ago as part of the French Socialist Party. The emblem was created in France within the socialist party at the time of its transformation from the prior SFIO at the Alfredville Congress in May of 1969 and its enlargement to the rest of the non-communist left. And if you jump ahead, you can see that in late 1969, the founder of a communications agency was asked to come up with ideas that would expect to signal change and attract new members, especially women, with the request that it not look too bullsheik. And and so they came up with this image, you know, to to get women in the tent to help be less bolevik. And you know, if this was a business, that would make some sense, right? You you want to attract women. Women are actually 80% of all consumer spending. It's a good idea to go after women. >> When Sears decided to go after women in their advertising and said, "Come see the softer side of Sears," their revenues went up 30%. 30%. >> Yeah. 30% growth. Let's get 30% more socialists, right? >> Come see the softer side of Sears. right below the surface there. The mask drops quick with these folks.
And indeed, if you are a Democrat, if you are on the moderate left, if you are someone that fundamentally wants to see the government play a larger role in helping people who fall in hard times or who have bad luck and need a social safety net, there's a lot of completely reasonable positions you could occupy and call yourself a Democrat. And we used to have a politics in this country in which you actually had liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats. In fact, Jackie Robinson was a liberal Republican, though, a Rockefeller Republican, and he didn't like the rightward shift that was happening in the Republican party. And there were conservative Democrats. Well, Mom Donnie and his ilk are part of a movement that is looking to infest, ingest, and destroy the Democratic Party and replace it from within with communists. >> DSA is not the Democratic Party. We must separate ourselves from the toxic Democratic party. >> We can promote a clear, aggressive, principled strategy that pushes back against the Democratic leadership and the Democratic party as a whole. >> DSA candidates run as Democrats in safe blue districts. They slip through low turnout primaries. And once inside, they use the Democratic label as camouflage while advancing an extremist anti-American agenda far beyond the party's mainstream. >> I don't agree with the Democratic party, but it's a great tool. The Democratic is a tool that we use. >> Once in office, DSA candidates take orders from DSA's internal enforcers and working groups. City halls and state houses start running as socialist machines controlled by the organization, not the Democratic Party and certainly not voters. >> They have to have a connection with DSA's internal politics and they have to be committed to the eventual goal of building a separate entity from the Democrats. >> DSA are revolutionaries and the Democrats are their first victims. And in city after city, DSA victories prove their plan works. >> I think that the model that we used in New York is 100% replicatable.
A replicatable model to infiltrate a party that is already being pulled to the left. A party that has a lot of problems as I've talked about on this channel. One that does need an overhaul. And in one sense, I think that the energy for Saran Mandani is not that dissimilar from that of the 2016 support for Donald Trump. It is an energy that is looking for change, that is looking to see an outsider come in and crack the system open, if not destroy it from the top to the bottom. I can understand that sentiment. I can understand where it's coming from. I can empathize with people who feel like that is what has to happen in both parties, but certainly at this point, if you're in New York, the Democrats are basically all you've got. I mean, that's what's going on here. Mr. Mani's most credible opponent at this point is Andrew Cuomo, who is basically the ultimate example of the corrupt institutional elite of the Democratic Party. He is an aristocratic son of a former governor, somewhat disgraced, and yet if you care about the actual policies, he's the lesser of the two evils, if you will. But I can understand not wanting to vote for Andrew Cuomo in New York City in 2025. I get that. But this is out of the frying pan into the fire. That fire burns hot. And the fire of hatred for this country from the Mandani family is pretty intense. This is a tweet from June 2020 from Mr. Mandani wearing rubber gloves outside because of COVID of course flipping Christopher Columbus's statue the middle finger and saying take it down. I mean, I I saw this thing and it makes my blood boil. And I realize that if you like his burn it all down approach, you probably like this, too. So, I don't expect this to be that persuasive for people that are caught up in the frenzy. But this is this reminds me of something. This reminds me of another adjacent ideology.
Let's say these communities live near the site of the Bameyan Buddhas, giant stone carvings from Afghanistan's rich pre-Islamic past. In 2001, 6 months before 9/11, the Taliban declared the statues an affront to Islam and drew a line in the sand for the whole world to see. >> That's what we're dealing with, folks. That's what that's the mask coming off. This is Mr. Globalized the Inifata. This is the man who said that he got into his politics through radicalization around Gaza and the Palestinians going all the way back to 2013 actually. But he does get it honestly from his family and you know his mother may may or may not be as radical as he is. But his father, who is a professor at the namesake of Christopher Columbus, Colombia University, doesn't particularly like America much either. He is a professor of slavery, colonialism, race, race, racial capitalism, empires. He's an anti-colonialist. He is what some might call a third worlder. a belief that everything that bad that's happened in the third world is the fault of the first world and specifically of America. And pay attention to what this guy believes. >> America is the genesis of what we call settler colonialism. And the American model was exported all around the world.
So you're with us so far? America invented colonialism. Settler colonialism. America did. Not the French, not the Spanish, not the English, not the Japanese, not Islam, which spread by the sword from the very very beginning. No, America. America invented it. Okay, let's keep going. >> When the settlers conquered it, first they tried to eliminate as many Indians as possible. This was the first recorded gen genocide in modern history. still with us. America, Americans, not even Americans, the British colonies, the the early arrivals that mostly killed people through smallpox and disease, they were the first genocide. And of course, in the modern era, which is the the era in which you start the clock for genocide with America, so that you can tell the story about America. We've been killing each other for as long as we've been on this planet. that we have been committing tribal warfare and extermination for as long as we've been on this planet. This is crazy talk. This is dishonest and it is celebrated in academia. Then with the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations. They herded American Indians into separate territories. For the Nazis, this was the inspiration. >> You got that? The Nazis were inspired by Abraham Lincoln. That's that's that's it. I I'm If this is surprising to you, as it is to me, well, I mean, the the story is surprising that he believes this is actually not surprising. >> Hitler realized two things. One, that genocide was doable. And it doesn't matter what the second thing was because I'm pretty sure Adolf Hitler didn't need Abraham Lincoln to prove that genocide was doable. I'm pretty sure that's complete. But this is the kind of stuff that you get in anthropology at Colombia University or Harvard or Yale or countless others. And one of the reasons why you get it is because these disciplines are completely ideologically captured and corrupt. There was a study done by the National Association of Scholars on partisan registrations in academia and they are quite shocking. In the ratio of D's to Rs, Democrats to Republicans, the overall ratio in academia among professors is 95 to1. 95 Democrats to every one Republican. But the the the nature of their politics is even more extreme. When you look at a sample of 12,000 professors in raw numbers, there is 281 donors, Democratic donors, so people activated enough to to contribute money to campaigns. 2081 to just 22 Republican donors. So even the Republicans that are there in that 95 to1 DTOR are pretty weak ones in comparison to the far more active Democrats and that probably doesn't even account for the outright Marxists. But among the disciplines, which ones are the worst? Anthropology takes the cake. There are 42 Democrats to every one Republican in anthropology. Anthropology is the study of the longlost disappearing Republicans. They are an endangered human species in anthropology. Economics, which is among the least insane disciplines, is only 3:1, which is frankly not so bad. The ratio on donor dollars is even more extreme. As you could see, anthropology 214 Democratic donors to every one Republican and uh and that's number two. English weirdly has the most 244 to1. This is where this guy is coming from. This is his upbringing. This is his intellectual roots.
And the New York Times has actually done some deeper coverage of Mr. Mom Donnie and where he comes from and where his ideas come from. And he is very much a member of the elite. His parents are elite academics and filmmakers. They are the secondhand dealers of information, which I'll come back to. He went to a very expensive high school and then a very expensive private liberal arts college. Mr. Mom Donnie stood out to his professors, too. Quote, number one, it's very rare for someone to come to college and say, I want to major in Africana studies. Dr. Pernell, his professor who taught the Haitian Revolution said, this was his undergraduate major, Africana studies. I'm pretty sure they don't prepare you for governing the largest city in America with Africana studies. As one of only 10 students in his class who graduated with his major, his interest tended towards classes that dealt with history and sociology, his professors recalled, and he expressed particularly interest in slavery in the United States and reconstruction. A chip off the old block. His activism for the Palestinian cause made him at times an adversary of the college when Mr. Mammdani and other students organized a campaign in 2013 to make Bowen part of a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. Mr. Mills, the uh president at the time, rebuffed them. So what is this Bowen College? The same National Association of Scholars published a 376 page report on Bowen that was unsparing in its criticism, accusing the college of promoting close-minded orthodoxies, including Africana studies, in the name of diversity and inclusivity. The report estimated that there were only four or five conservatives out of the approximately 182 full-time faculty members. This is the incubator of our elite. This hyperartisan, completely divorced from reality, entirely abstract, fictionalized world is the world in which our elite live. Mr. Mani is the face of the new American elite. For all the talk of being a man of the people, that is a mask. This Mr. Mani is a elitist through and through. But wearing that mask, that populist mask, it's all the rage these days.
And there are few places where wearing that mask is more cringe than Gavin Newsome. But also, you know, it was also about paying the bills, man. And it was just like hustling. And and so I was out there kind of raising myself. uh turning on the TV, started, you know, just getting obsessed, you know, sitting there with the, you know, the Wonderbread and five stacks of >> like the white story. >> Come on. >> There's actually been studies done that left-wingers are way more likely to change their affect based on the people they're they're speaking with. You could say it's a kind of form of empathy, although I think it's mostly just condescending pandering. But let's keep going. >> Macaroni and cheese, bro. >> Are you talking about me, man? >> Every day. Every day in the backyard just bouncing the basketball, throwing the ball against the wall until the ball is just like fraing, man. And you're >> that's it. Whole thing. So just and and then you know then this student that would student is in the back with his head down all of a sudden started throwing the baseball a little faster than everyone else and started you know make a few free throws cuz I was sitting there practicing 500 of them every damn night in high school I look up in the stands my dad's back up there. Okay, dope. >> And it's like >> it's amazing. He he has a father and he showed up for his basketball game, >> man. And then he's bringing his friends and and you're captain of the team and you're like, geez. You know, and it just saved me and it got me into college. >> It saved him. Saved Gavin Newsome from certain doom, from being a dreg of society. He is exceptional at basketball. I will say that. >> And the governor stumbled while playing basketball at a school in China. The governor with ball in hand accidentally ran into a student out there on the court. both fell to the ground and then quickly sat up. Neither were injured. The governor joked afterward with reporters that he quote needed to work on his balance. These are the hoop dreams of Gavin Newsome. This is ridiculous. This is the mask these people wear because there is nothing about that story that makes any sense. That video was pulled from a tweet from uh Adam Kroll who just notes his dad worked for Getty Oil. Let's not kid ourselves about what was going on there. In fact, this was Gavin Newsome in his senior year looking like a cartoon character of an elite complete with a Burberry scarf. Here he is in another picture, Gavin Newsome with Paul Men, Andrew Getty, and Billy Getty posing for a quote children of the rich feature that ran in the San Francisco Chronicle in December 12th, 1991. Got to get those hoops. Need the hoop dreams to get into school. Sure. Sure. Here he is with Mr. Getty uh in a collaboration together and in a wine bottling business because that's what you do when you have hoop dreams. You get into business with oil billionaires and start wineries. That's exactly what we all do. You build entire multi-million dollar business empires because you're a man of the people.
Now, I have nothing against building a multi-million dollar business empire if you do it on your own without stealing from other people through the political system. I call that creating value. I call that actual capitalism, free enterprise. This is something else. This is an elite grift. And this is the mask these people wear. There's there is a movie in fact he is the audience for this movie called Metropolitan that captures this class pretty pretty brilliantly. The titled aristocracy are the scum of the Europe. >> What really makes me furious is this idea of a whole class of people mostly Europeans all looking down on me. >> You always say titled aristocrats. What about untitled aristocrats? >> Well, I couldn't very well despise them, could I? That would be self-hatred, which is unhealthy. >> And have self-hatred. The way to avoid your self-hatred as a untitled aristocrat in America is to pretend to be a populist. To pretend to care about the working man.
And this brings us to something that has really not gotten anywhere near the coverage it needs to. And that is a piece of research done by Scott Rasmusen on our political elite, on our elite in general, but especially our politically obsessed elite. This came out about a year ago and it is it is shocking. And I'm going to walk you through a couple of the findings. This was a survey that cut across 20 other surveys into essentially our elite class in this country. And buckle up because this stuff is crazy. These are the people that Gavin and Mom Donnie run with. This is their crowd. So, who are they? This elite 1%. They are postgraduate degrees. Because at this point, if you're just like me and you just got a bachelor's degree from a state college, you're not in this 1%. You have to have a post-graduate degree like a master's or a PhD. They live in densely populated urban areas and they make more than $150,000. This is their definition. This is the cluster of factors. And they are overwhelmingly Democrats. They're over 70% Democrat. They are the new base of the Democratic party, which is part of the weirdness of Democratic party politics. They are not a party of the working people. They are a party of the wealthy, overschooled elite.
While average voters have seen trust in government collapse down to under 25% since Watergate and JFK, trust in the elite by the elite is at an all-time high. So only 6% of voters have a favorable opinion of members of Congress, only 10% of journalists and only 17% of professors. We the people think these people are bozos. But the elite 1% and especially those who pay attention to politics and end up getting into it, people like Zorhan Mandani, they 69% of them have a very favorable opinion of members of Congress. 71% love journalists. And of course, 76% love their professors, especially when they are professors. This is selfloving. You can't have self-hatred now, can you? What about getting a job? What's honorable? Well, the question was asked, is it more honorable to work for the government than to work for a company in the private sector? Me and you, Joe Blow voter, 17% say yes. Most of us think it's more honorable to work in the private sector than to work at the expense of everyone else in the government. Although, look, there are legitimate things you can be doing in the government. So, I'm not trying to say that everyone that works in the government creates no value at all. But this is where the public is, 17%. 60% of the politically obsessed elites think it's more honorable to work in government. The delta here between the elite and everyone else is wide, but it gets wider and weirder. How about perceptions of individual freedom? Voters, 57% say there is not enough individual freedom. Only 16% say there's too much. And I'm frankly disturbed by that number. But when the shoe is on the other foot and when the elite are asked how they feel about personal freedom, 47% say there's too much personal freedom in America. 47%. 21% say there is not enough. So a near majority think we have too much freedom in this country. And that plays a big role in what comes next. Even worse, if you go to one of the 12 what's called the dirty dozen schools, this is the Ivy League and the Near Ivy's, the Ivy League plus, the Envy League, the Poison Ivy League, then 55% of you think that there is too much individual freedom in America. Out of this cohort, out of this set of schools comes basically half of the leaders of all of our major institutions, our government, our big corporations, all of academia, journalism, the media, Hollywood. They are packed. They are stuffed with these people. It is something like 16% of all of our leading positions of institutions of authority come out of Harvard alone. And so jumping off of a belief that we have too much freedom, um they don't think we should be listened to very much either. Does the government pay too much or too little attention to what voters want. 77% of voters think the government pays too little attention to us, to we the people. And that is understandable and it is almost certainly correct. Among the politically obsessed elite, 46% think the government pays too much attention to voters. These are the folks that added the tagline democracy dies in darkness to the Washington Post after President Trump was elected in 2016. These are the people that are constantly clamoring about how we are under threat of the death of democracy in America. And they don't seem to like democracy very much. In fact, they're perfectly happy to rig democracy if it suits them. This is one of the most terrifying stats in this whole deck. Cheating in elections. 7% of voters would rather cheat than lose a close election. That's still kind of high since you're talking about crime, but only 7%. single digit. Among the broader elite, the people that meet that initial set of criteria, 35% would rather cheat than lose a close election. Now, we're getting in some trouble. That's enough to swing things. But this one's just completely crazy. Among those who are the most likely to be in politics, the ones who are paying attention to politics every day, the politically obsessed elite. 69% would rather cheat than lose a close election. This is absolutely insane. This is a complete breakdown of any sense of fair play in our society. You're so convinced that you know what's right that it doesn't matter how you get there. This is proto Leninism, singleparty rule. And places like California and New York already have single party rule. They don't have democracy. They have democratic. That's what they have. It is a question of which Democrat do I vote for? And of course, if you think this way, if you think that government spends too much time worrying about voters, if you think that voters don't even deserve to be franchised at all, it should come as no surprise that a majority, 53% of the politically obsessed elite, say that the federal government should be allowed to censor social media posts. the kinds of things that were revealed in the Twitter files that intelligence agencies, the FBI, DHS, the Global Engagement Center. Just yesterday, we had Mike Benz on the show who lays all this stuff out. A majority of the politically obsessed elite are fine with this. That's why they called the Twitter files a nothing burger. Their mask was was saying it didn't really happen. There's nothing to see here. But when the mask drops, what they really meant by nothing burger was that they're perfectly fine with government censorship of the rest of us because we're just a bunch of rubes that shouldn't be listened to and have too much freedom just because how can you not? Uh, preferred pronouns. Have you ever introduced yourself to others by expressing your own preferred personal pronouns? Hello, my name is Charlie and I go by he, him, his. Only 10% of we the public voters have said yes. 61% of the politically obsessed say yes. They've introduced themselves with their personal pronouns. This is a cohort that verges on psychopathy and they come from a set of universities that feed all of our lead institutions and they exist in a feedback loop. They are the managers of our society. They are the people that if you want change, you should be revoling against. And Zaram Mandani is proposing change. But he is absolutely one of these people. That is the great irony. That is the mask off moment for this guy. He is not a populist. He is using that rhetoric. He is a member of the elite.
And that elite goes all the way back to the former president of Princeton University, Woodro Wilson, who published this paper in 1887 in Political Science Quarterly, the study of administration. And in this paper, he lays out the ideology that permeates the elite who answered these surveys. the belief that frankly worrying about votes and voters and politics is messy and nasty and we just need to have credentialed experts use the government like some kind of machine that just needs to be managed. They already know the truth. There's no need to have discourse or debate or disagreement. There's no issues that are contentious because they involve conflicting values. No, we have all the answers. We just need to manage the public, manage the population like cattle. This is the romance of the technocratic elite. This is what they really want. It is what they really believe. And what makes them even more troubled is they are fundamentally driven by envy. They are driven by status seeking. And the center of the voter base of Zaran Mani are the people possessed by luxury beliefs as Rob Henderson talks about. They are in a kind of interclass warfare with each other. There is something interesting here where they are objectively doing extremely well. If you, you know, take a random upper middle class college educated New Yorker, they're doing better than just about everyone in New York. But people don't compare themselves to the average person. and they compare themselves to those who are around them, those who they could reasonably hope to be, those are their competitors and rivals. It is the ultimate status seeking hierarchy. All of the talk, all of the cosplay, the radical cosplay is all just an attempt to get social status and a fear that they're missing out. It is FOMO politics.
I think that that that we are all in a sense doomed. >> What are you talking about? >> Downward social mobility. We hear a lot about the great social mobility in America with the focus usually on on the comparative ease of moving upwards. What's less discussed is how easy it is to to go down. And I think that's the the direction that we're all heading in. >> That is their fear. When your father is a professor from Colombia and your mother is a famous movie director, it's pretty hard to go up from there. And so you live in fear of going down and that leads you to adopt radical politics where you can find a new place to be special.
>> You're a Marxist? >> No, I'm a committed socialist but not a Marxist. I favor the socialist model developed by the 19th century French social critic Forier. >> You're a forist? >> Yes. >> Forism was tried in the 19th century and and failed. I mean, wasn't Brook Farm forest? >> It failed. That's debatable. >> Whether Brook Farm failed that it ceased to exist, I'll grant you. But whether it was really a failure, I don't think can be definitively said. >> Well, well, for me, ceasing to exist is is failure. I mean, that's that's pretty definitive.
I've done plenty of other videos on why socialism fails, but this movie again, you got to watch. It just captures this mentality so perfectly and it's going all the way back to the 1990s like you know the time when critical theory first started capturing academia in full force. There's another author that looks into this that tries to understand what is it about intellectuals that attract them to socialism and that is Friedrich Hayek who wrote this paper the intellectuals and socialism and one of the most important things he notes is that socialism has never and nowhere been at first a workingclass movement. the working class to the socialist vanguard are always a tool for them. It is an intellectual playground and the working people that they claim to care about are chess pieces that they want to move around on the board of their game. That is what it is. That is what it has always been. And it is predicated on an illusion. an illusion that you can design society. And Hayek is not the clearest speaker, but his insights here are incredibly important. And the people who imagine, oh, it should be possible to design all this to arrange this accept the government to do this in a manner that the distribution is just. So that is literally impossible because it would require that all this widely dispersed information about particular facts and particular circumstance and particular gifts can be used and controlled by a central authority. This is the central problem of this central planner mentality. Mom Daddy believes that he can centrally plan a city of 8 plus million people. That he knows what the right level of the rents are. That he knows how to deliver everything for free, including systems that are very, very complex that he doesn't understand and that no one person can actually understand. We have free speech. We have free markets because we don't know the answer. We don't know the truth. If we did, we'd already have it. If we knew how to make the buses free and fast, they would already be free and fast. It would be obvious that we don't know the future and don't know the answer is why we need freedom and why you can't centrally plan the world. But the conception of a social justice to expect from an impersonal process which nobody can control to bring about a just result is not only an meaningless conception it's completely impossible. See everybody talks about social justice but if you press people to explain to you what they mean by social justice what they would accept as just nobody knows. I telling you because I've been trying for the past 20 years asking people what really are your principles of social justice.
Nobody knows what social justice is. Social justice is flowery language. It is a verbal mask on the search for power, the grasping for power, the desire to control the society and therefore to control other people. Social justice is a mask on slavery, on subjugation. It is a reformulation of the notion of justice, which is to say an impartial judge. The woman with her blindfold weighing the scales, not putting a finger on them. That is classical justice. That is the rules applied equally to all of us. Social justice says no, she should lift her veil and tip the scales. And even that's not really possible. Not in the complex systems of a society. All you end up with is communism. Vladimir Lenon understood this. Vladimir Lenon was one of the OGs of this kind of vanguard of elite. He said it himself in his writings. We have said that there could not have been social democratic consciousness among the workers. It would have to be brought to them from without. Does this sound familiar? Does this sound like a silver spoon rich kid talking about how he's the workingclass hero? The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade union consciousness i.e. the conviction that is necessary to combine in unions, fight the employers and strive to compel the government to pass necessary labor legislation etc. The theory of socialism however grew out of the philosophic, historical and economic theories elaborated by educated representatives of the property classes by intellectuals by their social status. The founders of modern scientific socialism, Markx and Engles themselves belong to the bourgeoa intelligencia. Even Lenon admits that his whole pitch is a scam. It's a bunch of academics talking to themselves about how they're going to remake the world and turning it into a nightmare. He's just like Markx. He's another guy with a bunch of luxury beliefs. Born in a provincial Russian town in 1870, Vladimir Ilich Lenin grew up in a prosperous family of educators and reformers. He was one of the lucky few. >> He was one of the lucky few, a prosperous family of educators and reformers. And then he had his turn. >> To create the utopian world he envisioned, Lenin did what he thought he had to. His violent seizure of power and the harsh measures he took to hold on to it inspired generations of revolutionaries and dictators. just like those kids at the Democratic Socialists of America with their fists in the air. The tragic sort of pathetic reality is that the people most excited for this stuff that have real power, not the workingclass people struggling to get by who think, well, maybe at least he'll overturn the apple cart and something good will come out of it. No, the people that run our institutions, the people that have long LinkedIn profiles that come in and out of academia, government, and big corporations, at the end of the day, in their heart of hearts, they look like this guy.
>> I've got a good job that pays decently. It's just that it's also mediocre, so unimpressive. Uh, the acid test is whether you take any pleasure in responding to the question, "What do you do?" >> I can't bear it. You start out expecting something much more, and some of your contemporaries achieve it. Start reading about them in the papers or seeing them on TV. That's the danger of Midtown Manhattan, running across far more successful contemporaries. I try to avoid them whenever I can. This is what powers the elite. It is self-importance and jealousy. That's it. That's what's going on. It is the grasping for status. It comes out of the fact that it is a soulless bunch. Some of the other data shows that among the incoming students at Harvard University, the overwhelming majority are atheist or agnostic. They are only striving. They are social climbing. And we the people need to take their mask off and see them for what they are. I I don't know how we get to a place where we have a better elite, where we have elite an elite that aligns with the rest of us on basic principles, on a love of our country's core values, on a shared set of core values. I I don't I think the fundamental start is we have to break the cycle and that starts with education. That starts with smashing these institutions that are producing this cyclone of destruction. And smashing it can be pretty simple. It can be it can just look like President Trump or some future president pulling the plug on all of their coercive funding. Let them sink or swim. If these institutions like Bowen University or Colombia had to sink or swim without billions of taxpayer dollars, they would suddenly realize that Africana studies is a waste of time and that brainwashing the next generation of elites to not only hate our country, but want to climb its ladder anyway, is not a very good business model. And that is what I am here to do. to advocate for all of that and to hope that you, dear dad and mom and fellow traveler, are aware of this landscape and are prepared to escape it because you don't have to be like these people. You can have a happy life. You can strive in ways that actually are fulfilling, focusing on family, on faith, on meaningful work, and and not keeping up with the Joneses. I hope that this Halloween weekend you get some of that. You get some joy in community and passing out some candy and seeing some fun masks, not the kind of ugly masks that we have to deal with every other day in our politics. But let me know what you think. Head down to the comments below. Don't forget to like and subscribe. And of course, if you want to see all the links that went into this video, head over to dadsavesamea.com where we'll put them all there for you to check out. And of course, have a great weekend.