 Hey guys Dylan Schumacher with Citadel Defense and I have been listening to this podcast recently Called philosophize this by mr. Stephen West Started back in 2013. So it's 2019 right now. So I'm about six years behind the ball But I've been listening through it and he goes through kind of historical Philosophers and then goes from kind of the beginning of philosophy to till present. I guess I don't know I'm not there. I'm still in the beginning parts, but I was working through that series and he made an interesting point that I thought was Pretty pretty valid for the current political situation And basically how the pointy made was this At any given at a certain crisis moments in certain societies right when a society thinks hey We got a big problem here. Something's wrong. There are typically and we're painting with a broad brush here two reactions On one hand you have the conservative reaction and the conservative reaction says something like this Look we as a society as a country as a nation, whatever have lost our way We need to go back to the things that made this country great, right? What what we are the reason we have problems now the reason we're at war at now is because we have strayed From those original principles or values or ideals Etc. Etc. Etc. Right we abandoned our core principles and because of that that's why we have problems That's where we're here now. Okay, obviously. That's kind of the side that I'm on in general And the other side of the coin or the other the other side of the aisle Says something like those are the conservatives right the people that say we need to go back That's the I want to call that conservatives for the sake of this video I realize there are a lot of conservatives that don't believe that and that's a problem But that's just for the sake of this video. I'm gonna call that conservatism conservatism. Okay, the other side is the progressives, right? Progressives would say something like look the reason we have problems in society is because of those core principles That's why we're here now that obviously isn't working. We tried that it didn't work Look at all the problems we have what we need our new ideas new laws new legislation new direction That's what we need. That's what we need to fix this this culture in this society So you can obviously see that at play right in in in America particularly from the the rabid progressive side, right? Well, we need a green new deal and we need Medicare for all and we need free college We need to get rid of the second amendment We need to stop the first amendment because we can't have things like hate speech going on We need to have five-year-olds be totally cool with transgenderism and homosexuality and pansexuality and genderqueer Blah blah blah blah blah blah right so the story just goes on and on not so that's obviously that's that agenda side, right? This country is founded on white supremacy. That's the thing I've heard recently from which I'm just like read one history book Just just one So that's obviously that side and then the other side which unfortunately I think is a quieter voice than it should be says something like look what we need to do is enforce the Constitution We need to enforce the second amendment all gun laws. Yeah, you can get rid of those NFA ATF We can all repeal all of that stuff. We need to go back to the core principles We need to cherish freedom of speech. We need to cherish the the protection against Warrantless searches and seizures So we need to cherish these rights and go back to them and if we do that then we can turn this the society around That's that's the divide So I think at the end of the day When it it puts it in those two camps to me like the the with those people think Is that we need to go new directions, right? That's that's the progressive side or we need to go back that that's clarifying to me It's like, okay, that kind of puts us in two different camps In general again, Rob brush here. Okay the problem with our current situation Compared to other possible historical examples are in this case the new direction that that the progressives want to go isn't just like hey conservators saying we should go straight and Progressives saying we should just take a right-hand turn. We just need to go right it. They're directly contradictory Right there. There's a direct assault. So it's well Shall not be infringed. We should be able to own whatever guns we want How about we take away all your guns, right? That's that's directly contradictory. Hey look I don't think the government should be able to warrantlessly enter my home and take my guns or my property Look through my bag when I go to the airport, right? I don't I don't think it should be able to happen Well, how about they can go through your bags at the airport and they can just enter your home If someone reports you because I think you're a danger, right? So there's some directly Contradictory agendas here, and I don't think there's a reconcilable solution, right? There's no compromise in the middle between I would like to own an AR 15 and I can't own an air 15 There's no compromise there. It's one or the other I can own it on Monday Wednesday and Friday and on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday. I have to change it in and every Sunday We toss a coin to see if I can have it. I mean, you know what I'm saying Like there's there's no compromise there and on a variety of these issues not just guns I pick guns because it's the clearest example and because this is a gun channel and I teach people how to shoot guns But on all of these examples, there's direct contradiction and so there's no compromise. It's either The the left progressive left wins and gets their way and everybody on the right just folds over the progressive left collapses under its own weight of self-contradiction or There's blood in the streets and we go to war. I mean, I don't know what the other options are I can't Envision the other options because the conservative side in this case says look We want to go back to the principles. Just leave us alone Just leave us alone We just want to do our thing and the progressive side just says we need to control every aspect of your life And we're gonna keep coming until we have all of it And the scary part to me as I was thinking about it It's not necessarily that there are people out there that believe in those things like gun confiscation and lack of due Process and lack of freedom of speech and etc. Etc. It's not that there are people out Because of course there's always gonna be some crazy people out there who believe in that The scary part to me is that Americans by the millions are voting for those people That's the part that's truly scary to me that there are millions of my fellow Americans in this country Who would vote to restrict my rights and their own rights? In an era when everybody hates Trump I find it deeply ironic that those same people would say only Trump should have all the guns That only Trump should be able to decide what what is is and is not allowed to speech, right? Like that's a really weird contradictory thing But when you view the state as an apparatus of power, of course you want to give all of the Power to it so that then you can wield the state in order to affect who you want to affect and do what you Want to do so again? Directly contradictory visions for the future of America and I don't I don't necessarily know where this is going to go Or how this is going to go, but I don't think there's a reconciliation or a compromise down the middle I think one side will win or one side will lose or It's going to get a lot worse than that Again if you see a different solution to that I would I would love to hear it in the meantime I would tell you to vote I Had an argument with a bunch of my good friends a couple weekends ago And they told me they're done voting and I flipped out on them And and I just don't understand that right voting works That's why the progressives are winning in certain places because they're voting in their crazy agendas, right? So we want to vote I want to be politically active because if we can solve something at the ballot box That's much better than going to the cartridge box, right? That that's what makes America so fantastic and so great is that we have been able to vote for hundreds of years and Because we've been able to vote we have avoided voting with our firearms, right? And that's what's prevented this country from falling into a lot of conflicts where otherwise other countries very well may have if you read a history book it is a story of the rise and fall of kingdoms and rebellions here and rebellions there and States being very unstable throughout history very unstable throughout history And you could say oh well that was then this is now you know we've advanced we were No, you haven't it's it's not People are people human nature has never changed throughout history. That's what makes it human nature And of course things could always be more tumultuous than they are they're not right now I think that's great. I like living in a semi stable society But we are never immune to the rise and fall of kingdoms. That's that's a story of human history So vote let's vote. Let's be politically active Let's let's say we believe it. Let's put our money where our mouth is and believe in these things and be politically active So we don't have to get to that third horrible option Again, if you see it differently out of this, I would love to hear it That's why I think America is so divided at the core is because you have people who think we need a new direction and people Who think we need to go back to the core principles if you have a different solution that I'd love to hear it honestly because I think about this just about every day and I'm always looking for a deeper understanding of where we're at as a society and What that means for where we're going? Do brave deeds and endure