 All right. Hi everybody. This is your run book show and you're listening to my post election analysis Was it trying something new today? I'm trying and I don't think I've quite succeeded in getting the show on Facebook live. So You know, I let's see if this is actually working and You know some of my one thing says yes Facebook says no Somebody text me or let me know if it's actually working or not. It looks like it is not so Don't know. Don't know if it's working or not. All right. Let's let's focus on the show and You know, I prefer that you don't Listen on both because actually then my statistics kind of my my data gets all screwed up so my preferences that you actually You know, listen to it on block talk radio because I get better data there But I know that block that Facebook live is really cool But I prefer that you do one or the other and not both now Whoops Okay, let me mute because I'm also hearing myself on Facebook. Okay. It's actually working so cool All right, let's let's get on with the show You know a shocker this week at least to many people a shocker I was shocked. I was surprised although I In many conversations. I predicted this I said that if the polls were within a few percentage points two to three percentage points a day before for Clinton It was likely that Donald Trump would win I also also find it really interesting and something to really be thought about to discuss then and Analyzed is the fact That the polls have now been systematically wrong over and over and over again for about a year so if you think back to The Israeli election to the Greek election to the British election to Brexit and now to the US election all of these elections Have the polls have got them wrong and all of them have got them wrong in the same direction Which is also interesting all of them had a Bias towards the left all of them predicted that the left would do significantly better Than it actually did Or in the case of brexit, I know brexit is right or left But in the case of brexit they predicted that the you know, what will we generally I guess generally in the population Is considered the left position of state? I guess in brexit it doesn't really hold but the state position would win so all of them In a sense had the same bias and I think it's that you know that fact Is really interesting and I'm trying to move the microphone so that Those on facebook don't just see microphone That there's actually a a face there as well We'll see if that works. All right So so that's point one the whole polling issue The whole issue of analyzing poll the whole issue of what seems to be a systemic bias Uh within the polls is I think a fascinating issue and something That needs to be analyzed needs to be discussed and I I believe that people are going to be doing that In the weeks and months to come because it's not just a random bias clearly It's a very specific. It's a very specific bias. Uh, it's a very specific tendency. All right So just my general comment about the trump victory just so we get this out of the way I am horrified. Uh, I'm horrified again not completely unexpected. I I somewhat You know somewhat in some moments of dread predicted this but I think this is a Really really bad sign about america. I think this is a the beginning of a decline That won't be measured by the specific things that he does but is measured by The you know the the state of mind the sense of life The approach of the the american people have today have today that is reflected by this election I think this is a first of its kind election in in in the sense that it is elected a kind of person that we've never seen Uh hold the presidency of the united states I think this suggests kind of again. I'm giving you the punchline This suggests and I've been saying this for months and months This suggests a continue a uh the first step Towards authoritarianism that we have seen in this country the first real step towards the american people Wanting an authoritarian not the government hasn't been authoritarian government expansion government intervention government involvement It's not that other presidents haven't Shown elements of authoritarianism they have they all have certainly obama has executive orders and all this other stuff But what's unique here is we've elected a person In my view because He exhibits authoritarian tendencies. That is the reason he won because let's think About who donald trump is as presented in the campaign. I'm not interested in what he is in private I'm not interested in what he is with this family. I'm not interested in what his friends say about him I'm not interested even In what he's going to be as president because I do not think I do not think That what he's going to be as president, which might be much better than what he was as a candidate Is the essential issue. Yeah, it's not what things he passes and I'll be trying to say this for months and months and months It's not what he passes. It's not if he appeals obamacare. It's not if he actually builds the wall or not Although there's some issues where I think is very It's scary and we'll see but and I think we need to be diligent, but it's not that these particulars that are the issue What we need to be concerned about now today right now and I think over the next decade Is the state of mind of the american people that has brought them to the point Of electing donald trump now I know a lot of people voted for donald trump because they hated hillary clinton more I get that and that is a certain percentage of the population It's a certain percentage of the trump vote and it's fine I know a lot of people who do that and I understand it. I did not do that But I understand it right. I understand voting for him because you hate hillary clinton so much And I understand a certain sense of yes That left got what it deserved and I I felt that the election night. Yes I hate hillary clinton isn't it great that she goes down isn't it great I want to see an end on purpose because I wanted to see these leftist squirming I wanted to see them You know not have not know what to say. I was watching the new york times I was watching the washington post which by the way called the election before fox did which was interesting But I was watching all these people and it was just fun. It was fun to watch them squirm, right? It's Fun to to listen to npr and watch and listen to the depressed voices And then listen to listen to their attempts to analyze what happened And yet at the back of my mind deep down I was truly Horrified by the idea that this guy is now president-elect of the united states in which he serve as president So granted Hillary would have been awful. Hillary's tough, but Hillary would have been status quo What we're getting here is a shift a change a fundamental change In the electorate in its attitude In its attitude towards america toward what america stands for and look You know We'll talk about the fact that many of you I know listening Hate the left more than you hate anything else And many of you I know this because I see your emails have bought into all kinds of conspiracy theories about the left They're going to take over the world your source and all this stuff and and if I have time I'm going to address some of these things But we need to be objective about what just happened here. What just happened and the standard by which You evaluate all politic politics or policy or political decisions or political events is is This particular event this particular election this particular person Is this a sign that we're moving towards more respect for individual rights? Or less respect for individual rights. Is this moving us away from collectivism or towards collectivism? Away from individual liberty or towards individual liberty And my conclusion from this election now it would have been true with hillary as well But I think even worse in this case is they're moving dramatically away from individualism this This uh election is going to elevate the whole idea of collectivism And in the engagement with collectivism to a level We've never seen before in the united states. You've already seen it in the analysis the analysis is all about Your ethnic group your racial group your color of your skin and so on in your in your social class We're now Breaking down people into hispanic Working class college educated and not college educated. How do they vote differently than how other people vote? So so collectivism is on the rise individualism Is in on the decline again no matter what specific policies trump engages in What does this tell us about the electorate? And and I see somebody here on the chat talking about trump as ceo That's the scary part Government is not our ceo. The president is not a ceo The president's job is to protect us not a run government like a business government is not a business shouldn't be a business It should not run like a business anything the government does it is a business should be privatized all right, so My concern is that so many of you Uh, uh have been enamored have been bought in To trump being bought in to his agenda Uh, some of you have accepted it because you reject clinton even more But many of you bought into it that you're not critical about what he really stands for And that's so many people in this country have voted 56 57 million people have voted for this This creature right this creature this vulgar creature That's what donald trump is the way he talks about women Anybody else would have talked about women weird. It's the fact that You know that he could talk this way and get away with it, which appeals to so many people He's bad. He's shattering constraints. He is unconstrained exactly a characteristic Of an authoritarian again. Let me be very clear. I do not believe That donald trump will be a dictator. I do not believe that donald trump is Going to be an authoritarian whether he wants to be a not different question I I believe the system is still such that we are protected from dictatorship and authoritarianism, but Has their electorate signaled Indicated the willingness to accept a dictator a willingness to accept an authoritarian Yes Trump is no hero. Trump is a villain the villain of our time And we are going to play heavy consequences in the distant future because of this learning look history unfolds Slowly it does not unfold fast When you elect somebody When you elect somebody It's not that election that matters. It's what Is going to be a long-term consequences of that election And the long-term consequences here i fear is the rise of a populist authoritarian leaning population That is willing that is willing to elect somebody to power who has no firm positions on anything As peter teo put it the people who voted for trump take trump seriously But not literally they take him seriously, but not literally What does that mean? It means they take trump as a figure trump as a Leader trump as somebody to follow trump as somebody who will solve all our problems They take that trump Seriously, but they don't take him literally it doesn't matter what positions you take They don't take him literally on trade. They don't take him literally in immigration They don't take him literally on uh on any of the things that he says on obama king They don't care what his specific positions are what they care about is the individual that That is the sign of a people Accepting authoritarianism nobody was concerned by donald trump's flip-flops every Presidential candidate in history that's flip-flop as much as donald trump has suffered the consequences of it. No consequence of trump nothing It proposes things that are ridiculous and undoable mexican government is going to pay for the wall Does anybody ask him how don't worry? I'm taking care of it. I got it. You don't have to worry about anything I'm gonna do it Give us give us a clue. How are you gonna achieve this? How is this gonna be successful? How's it gonna happen? blank nothing nothing So I have a trade deal with china. We do not have a trade deal with china I'm gonna use any kind of detail forget about details. We don't need details. It's about donald trump and making america great again That's what it's about Nothing else matters. It's not about It's not about facts it's not about Reality it's not about what's doable. It's about donald trump all right, so um It looks like facebook live keeps freezing up. So We'll continue the experiment. I'm not sure. I'm not sure how this will work. It's still running But uh, you know, we'll have to figure out. I have to figure out how to get a better internet connection up in my office I'll have to get a route a special router just for the camera up here Uh, everything else everything else. I have wired on wired internet. Anyway, so let's let's think about The donald trump campaign in in in what he What did he what did he present to the american people as is an argument is his argument? Well, he started off I mean, he's very clever. It's very clever how he did this. He starts off With how bad things are america's in decline america's dark Crime is everywhere Uh, we we we're being you know murder rates are going through the roof primarily by illegal immigrants, by the way Our borders are completely open completely open. We're being flooded by immigrants just like Happening europe where you know muslims just flooded across the border Supposedly the same thing is happening in the united states again. No facts No evidence We're being flooded by illegal immigrants who are committing amazing numbers of crimes Amazing numbers of crimes We are we are suffering left and right. No solutions. No presentation of solutions I mean, I thought that his speech At the republican national convention was one of the most horrific speeches i've ever heard It was so dark so negative so False full of lies and misinformation and non facts I did not say mass migration into europe was not happening and it wasn't a bad thing That's not what I said. What I said was there is no mass migration happening in the united states There is no flooding of the u.s borders So, yeah, we we've got some ultruite people on my chat that are pissing me off But and by the way, uh, whoever said that I woke up on the wrong side of the bed Not at all. I'm actually uh, actually not not on the wrong side of the bed at all but actually Pissed off more than anything else by the fact that so many people so many people who call themselves Objectivists who call themselves free markets can't see through What this election is really about so, uh The whole pitch is Our country Is finished our country's dead our standard of living is declined Which is just not true. It's just not true As bad as things are on this country Even those white working class people in Ohio and in wisconsin and in florida Even they stand up living has gone up All of them are using iPhones All of them Are living, uh, you know much better lives Much better lives Then they did 30 years ago this mythology which I deal with with don wackens in our book Equal is unfair this mythology that the standard of living in america is declined dramatically We are so much poorer today than we were 30 40 years ago. The 70s are the shot. This is this is leftist rhetoric. This is This is exactly the rhetoric of Bernie Sanders And donald trump picked up on it and in spades. This is indeed I think exactly what happened that many of the boney sanders many boney sanders voters Voter for donald trump. I mean that's and that's what i think democrats are recognizing as well And I think what you're gonna see in a democratic party is a significant rise in In the boney sanders wing of the democratic party because they realize that that it's their voters They're people who voted for donald trump. It is boney sanders as people who voted for the boney trump Particularly the older ones. I think young people either didn't vote or voted for helary But the older generation The more socialist generation of working class americans who want protectionism who want their jobs protected who want So-called higher wages or convinced that inequality is destroying the world They voted for donald trump. So read equal is unfair read the chapter about The fact that a standard of living is so much higher today There's so many good things happening in america and I know It's funny because every time every time I talk about silicon valley and how phenomenal silicon valley is and how I believe silicon valley represents all the best in america not from a political perspective not from a explicitly political ideological perspective but because of the productiveness because of the innovation because of entrepreneurship That's what america is america's business america's building america's creating Think of atlas shrug. What place on the planet represents atlas shrug more than silicon valley and yet Blank out on all of that. Oh, no the world is going to help Life is horrible in america america is a massive decline And there's elements of truth all that that's why it's tenable That's why it's tenable America's in massive decline Why is it a massive decline you ask? Why is it a mess? Why are all these horrible things happening to us? And this is way again. So the first step Of an authoritarian like figure is to tell you how everything is falling apart. How horrible the world is Step two Why is it falling apart? Well, it's not your fault. It's not our fault It's not any it's not ideas ideas don't change the world whose fault is it Well, it's other people's fault. It's the mexican's fault It's free traders fault It's the japanese and the chinese fault It's the medias fault. It's the medias fault Right the mainstream media the corruption of the mainstream media I want to talk about the media afterwards because the attacks on the media Are very very very dangerous and many of you are part of these attacks and you got to watch what you do It's the media It's their elites It's their elites. It's their establishment It's somebody else. It's not the american people god forbid. No the american people are perfect It's all these people are screwing you All these people are screwing you so We scapegoat so part one America is a dark dark scary place Why is it scary because of mexicans and chinese and muslims and people and again the elements of truth all this? Yes You know crime has been on the rise the last year exploit said yes policemen to be shot. That's a bad thing Yes There's illegal immigration. Yes some people Their wages are being stagnant You know all yeah, there's elements of truth to all of them But none of them are they essential None of them they're essential It's not the media destroying this country. It's our intellectuals. It's our universities Why are they destroying the country because they have bad ideas and if you want to combat them? How are you going to do it? With good ideas With good ideas mexicans are not the guilty trade is not the guilty NAFTA is not the guilty And the media is not the guilty The elites what are the elites the elites by the way are often On the left and on the right described as the one percent. Are they the guilty really? Really silicon valley in spite of all in spite of its political leftism Is holding this country pulling this country forward You want to blame them really? It's their fault Yes, the political elites are corrupt But much more importantly, it's the intellectual elites and why are they corrupt because of ideas? And what do you propose in terms of alternative ideas? Blank Nothing I have nothing to propose It's their fault We don't need to change ideas quite the contrary. We're gonna double up on their ideas We're gonna double up on their collectivism We're gonna double up on their statism I'm gonna be the CEO because the state is a venture that i'm gonna run We're gonna double up on all the bad things that have caused this problem Yes, trade is bad. You know what trade is bad because we have too many tariffs Trade is bad because we limit too much trade The tpp is bad because it's not free trade enough But that's not donald trump's position NAFTA's bad because we should just have no tariffs between the u.s And mexico an american company should be able to go into mexico And open up shop there if they want, but do you remember what donald trump said about that? He was gonna have a special tax for companies who left the country Now how is that consistent any of you out there who support donald trump and his ideas? How is that consistent with the individual rates? How is that consistent with freedom? How is that consistent with capitalism or free markets? The idea that if an american company wants to move to mexico, you're going to penalize them Or if they want to buy an ireish company if you want to buy an ireish company And move to ireland And move your headquarters to ireland to minimize taxes which is which is a which is a uh, what do you call it? A shareholder maximizing position Which is a pro-capitalist position You know, how how do you donald trump wants to penalize that how do you defend that? And it doesn't strike you that if he thinks that way about american companies moving their businesses Trying to maximize shareholder wealth trying to make more money that if he thinks that that about it That he has a real problem. I'm not saying donald trump should be an objectivist I don't measure anybody by him being objective But there's a sudden sense in which that plus his immigration position plus his trade position Reflects on a certain mentality that is so anti capitalist so anti individualist so anti american I do not know Of a more anti american president and I used to say this about about obama, but now I see this about donald trump in principle in his principle You know approach to the world than donald trump um Okay, so we skate We're all gonna die It's all their fault. It's the fault of the other um, and then of course the solution Is to shield us from the other to protect us from the other. How are we gonna do that? well We might even consider silencing. We might even consider silencing some of them the media So one of the most horrific things he said was the idea of going after amazon because he was being criticized by the Washington post I don't know a statement like that Just even in a half joke by a presidential candidate in my view disqualifies that candidate Just even as a half joke just the fact that he could say that and you guys are cheering on Scares the bejesus out of him Okay, so we're gonna protect you by You know, we've configuring the media by putting the media in its place, right really This is the job of the president By closing off the borders God forbid we have more immigrants because immigrants all the problems we have today are caused by immigrants the violence The low wages all of this stuff is caused by immigrants nonsense, but nobody nobody Nobody wants to deal with facts. God forbid we talk about facts So we're gonna shield you we're gonna protect you from those immigrants and and all those people outside You know the japanese the koreans the mexicans Everybody else Who trades with us? Oh, and it's taking our jobs Taking our jobs Then we're gonna shield you from them as well. We're gonna erect walls trade barriers To keep them away from us Right, so we're gonna shield you from all those evil threatening monsters at the out there to get you And that's the job of government is to shield you to protect you, right? How are we gonna do this? Oh, don't worry about the details. Don't worry about facts Don't worry about details. Don't worry about facts We're gonna do it. We're gonna take care of it And this is where the author doing this really comes in, right? Don't worry about the details of the facts Trust me Trust in me. Isn't that song trusting me trust me. I'll take care of it Hi I don't know and and and some of you are still defending him Some of you are still defending him. Yeah, and I know anyway, um so These are, you know This is what we elected right flip-flops Undoables no details trust me Unconstrained by anything. This is what people really liked. He's unconstrained. They love that fact that the lack of pc came across in that he's gonna clean the swamp But I agree that washington's a swamp. I hate washington dc. How you gonna clean? By the way, I found it fascinating that when you look at this transition team, it's all washington insiders All washington insiders and at the heart of the at the heart of the transition team is the heritage foundation heritage the pro-religion Pro-religion Pro-conservative pro romney care heritage, uh, devised romney care They are at the heart of the whole transition team. If you look at the members of the transition team all insiders many of them lobbyists And by the way, if you guys think Rudy Giuliani is a good guy really Rudy Giuliani is exactly the kind of guy we should be very very very afraid of Yeah, right Rudy Giuliani is the guy who went after mike milkin Rudy Giuliani is the guy who used to handcuff people and invite the press when he arrested them Rudy Giuliani Rudy Giuliani is the guy Who used his attack on wall street in order to create a political career who taught What's his name uh spitzer everything that he knows about using the attorney general's position In order to create a political in order to create a political career Rudy Giuliani cleaned up new york. Absolutely by using Fascist techniques by violating property rights left and right So Rudy is no hero. Rudy is exactly the kind of authoritarian we should be worried about I have been wailing about Rudy Giuliani since the 1980s I hate the guy for what the injustice he did to one of the greatest entrepreneurs One of the greatest businesses is one of the greatest financiers in history. What he did to uh to mike milkin And of course we saw with bridgegate, you know, what what what our, you know, new jersey governor Trump's other fan other big pal You know, what kind of what kind of government he runs Where you penalize people you don't like by Victimizing their constituencies So he's gonna clean up the swamp. Is he really how's he gonna do that? How's he gonna do that? How's he gonna clean up the swamp when he has been part of the swamp his entire career Where he has been hand in hand with the governing elite from the beginning He's not he said he said I'm not I'm not constrained by previous statements previous things that I said Yeah, that doesn't mean anything We're gonna we're gonna just go by By by what what we think is gonna work in the moment He's not constrained by previous statements because he's unconstrained by anything. That's what we want in a authoritarian, right? We want to know somebody who's gonna lead through his You know personality alone He wouldn't he said he wouldn't necessarily accept the results of the election now He's complaining about demonstrations who are not accepting the results of the Of the election nobody seems to think that's a problem Nobody seems to think that maybe His saying over and over and over and over again that he would not accept the results of the election is not why partially their demonstrations right now Again, I'm not measuring him versus an objectivist But I would say on all of these things On all of these things. I don't know Any presidential candidate who's been worse any president now he's a president elect who's being worse Right. Do you remember that he said do you remember that he said at some point in the campaign? that he This this represents everything you need to know about the people who voted for donald trump and his understanding Of the people who voted for for him He said that he could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot someone And people would still vote for him Now think about that That means that he's saying that his voters are so enamored with him So focused just on his personality's ability to get stuff done That even if he was a murderer and everybody knew he was a murderer that People would still vote for him. All right so This is where we are. This is who we've got This is uh, this is the person that we've elected president He will be president We have to accept it now, and I think the focus needs to be on what we need to do How do we minimize? How do we minimize? The damage that donald trump has done How it is going to do how do we minimize the It's not so much that donald trump has done I'd say differently. How do we minimize the damage? That has been done to the electorate That would vote for donald trump. So my focus is and your focus should be not on donald trump But our focus should be On the people who voted for him. What do we have to do so that this doesn't happen again? What do we have to do? to Change the orientation of the american people away from authoritarianism away From this idea the one man can solve all the problems that america's in darkness and the solution to all our problems Is building walls walls around trade walls around our country Walls around the media walls around their so-called bad people Yeah, for those of you who wonder, you know, uh, would I be this? Of angry if hillary clinton had won my answer is no i would not No, the hillary clinton would have suggested to me That the electorate has ejected authoritarianism and they voted for this standard corrupt Stupid leftist politician that hillary clinton is and we would have dealt with another four years of the status quo And it you know, but but what donald trump selected Is a seismic shift in my view Now again donald trump might turn out in his specific policies to be much much better than anybody else and we'll talk I'm gonna talk about that in a minute Doesn't change the fact Doesn't change the fact I'm not gonna deal with the concrete because the concrete's here. I mean liwan You're the guy who claims to know how to think give me a break Give me a break um He might concretely do good things But the question is what is this election? Tell us about the american people What is this election? Tell us about the future of america not in one year not in five years But in ten or twenty years, where are we heading? This is This is the first small step towards authoritarianism Not obama No judge bush Not all the rest But this is the fall first fall step You have to be able to think conceptually about this if you just focus and i've been saying this for months If you just focus on a list of concrete items who gets the checkmarks that is not the right approach to thinking It's not the right approach to evaluating one has to look at the fundamentals One has to look at what can induce from the character The language the ideas of the person who won that motivated the people to vote for you That is what objectivism is all right So In order to understand In order to understand What we need to do I think we have to first understand Why we're in the place the wheel? Why Are we where we are today? How did we get here? How do we other american people get to the point get to the point of Electing this guy what are what are the things that have happened in america? to our people That have brought us to this point all right So i'm going to go i'm going to go over some of those and then i'm going to talk about some of the Promises is made obama care regulations the wall the trade and what i think is actually going to happen And what i think will actually get done What i find uh, you know Let me just know for those of you think i've been uh talking about abstractions and detached from reality everything i've given you american darkness That's all concretes scapegoating all concretes It's the protectionism all examples all concretes what people say about him his flip flops His uh, his completely unconstrained ideas about everything all concretes all particulars all concrete particulars and yet You want to avoid facts you want to avoid reality? You are blinded you are blinded by and this is exactly what authoritarianism does to you. You are blinded by oh You know, but he said this thing out of context that sounded like sounded right But he gets stuff done. Yeah, that's exactly what authoritarianism That's exactly what authoritarianism. All right um Let's talk about the causes, but before we do that i'm going to take a short break sorry You guys on facebook live You don't get to hear the commercials really feel sorry for you All right, here we go All right, we're back And uh, I see facebook live is still working Probably some technical problems. It's freezing once in a while. So we're gonna improve it. This was a test First time but hopefully in the future we'll get a whole bunch of other people, you know, they're about uh, Right now there were over a hundred uh people watching it live. So, uh You know, it was it reached 3 000 people. We'll build an audience slowly. We'll expand what we do And uh, now you can exactly somebody on the chat said now you can find out what I do in the commercials I eat pecans and drink coffee and you can see that I drink coffee while I talk to All right, uh now the only thing is if you watch and listen I'm gonna talk all my statistics get screwed up. So but so be it. That's fine We're gonna blow out all these statistics. Anyway, we're gonna turn the show You know, we're gonna take it from right now. We get about We're getting about 55 000 downloads uh a month Every 30 days, which is about two and a half times to three times what it was a year ago But we need to get this up to half a million downloads 30 days or a million downloads of 30 days and and as usual, I'm asking for your help to make this happen and uh Maybe this facebook live is part of the strategy to get more people Millions of people ultimately to the listening to the show Although, you know, I'm getting a lot of hate stuff here about my position on now On trump. So how did so so let's Let's talk about how we got here And uh, I have a feeling my my uh, listenership is gonna drop because uh, god forbid I should say anything negative about trump So, uh, never mind say the trump in fundamental terms in essential terms Is worse than his election is a worse thing than any previous election, but which is what I've been saying Let's talk about the causes. How did we get him? What is it? What is it that has brought us to the situation with american people freedom loving Individualistic american sense of life for somebody like donald trump And I think we have to start about I don't know I was listening today on the radio and amp you on somebody make this point And I think he's absolutely right when the new york times spends more columns on gender issues Than on economic issues On the issues that most americans care about You might have a problem not am I against dealing with these gender issues I think many of them are important But just the amount of time and the tone and the way it's expressed and the way it's discussed It leaves so many american people felt Detached completely when the left constantly talks about Racial identity gender identity identity In the context of In the context of Groups in the context of the collective Oh, I'm getting somebody on the chat saying you on please leave trump alone. That man is not harmed in Homed on you. Yes. He has he just became president I can't think of things that have harmed me more that are harming me more and will be harming me more Here's a reflection of the american people and it scares me. Okay um Of the way the american people are today So part of this is a backlash a backlash again, not just a political correctness of the left But the whole agenda of the left black lives matter Yeah, black life matter has a legitimate Legitimate base a legitimate base But then they spout all this moxist nonsense and they accuse all white people of being racist And people are going wait a minute. Wait a minute. Most of the cops 90% of the cops. I know good people Stop vilifying all cops stop encouraging cop shootings and stop advocating for this moxist nonsense. That's anti american And this is what this is what So much of the so much of our media so much of our elites so much of these are focused on So there's an enormous backlash against the subjectivism the moral relativism the politically correctness the moxism the The vilification of america the vilification of americanism the vilification of americans There's a huge backlash Against all of that So I think a lot of this is a backlash against the left But the backlash against the left only works It only it only works because The right has no answers to all the claims of the left the right The right doesn't actually present a viable real Intellectual alternative And that's what's missing. So you've got a left That's wacky I mean when people in america hear about safe spaces when people in america hear about These snowflake students and all the stuff that they study in school They rebel they rebel positively. This is a good thing that they're rebelling But then what happens is the right gives them nothing The right gives them the same old religious Nonsensical platitudes that they always have and then they get into power. They do nothing They promise all these things, but nothing changes Nothing changes and then You've got this left that does all these and advocates for all these horrible things And then what's the right? The right is fox news No new ideas and reflects no No intellectual combat to what is you know, no intellectual answer to what the left has raised It's empty. It's hollow. It's shallow And indeed at the end of the day It is saying And it's not surprising in my view that fox news overwhelmingly went for uh, donald trump even during the primaries People like hannity because they were they were eager to they have no answers They don't know how to deal with the left. They don't know how to deal with the problems this country's facing They don't know how to talk to the american people intelligently about shrinking the size of government about entitlement about Regulations. They have no idea how to do it So they're much better off now. They're much better off So what what what they actually do? Is to say Oh, here's a guy who can fix it because he's a businessman So we're gonna revert We're gonna revert to um Oops Sorry, I'm being distracted by the fact that I don't think the facebook thing Is uh is working. I'm not sure why I'm not sure why it's not working If it is working If you guys are actually seeing a picture because I'm I'm looking at my facebook and I can't see anything Now I see it's telling me the internet is slow, but there's no reason for the internet to be slow so um All right, we're gonna keep going under the assumption that uh facebook live will take care of itself, right? All right, it's working. They say it's working fine. I'm talking. All right, so um, the right has no answer to the left Except religion now. What is religion? Train us to do What is religion at the end of the day demand that we do? think evaluate study No religion Trains us epistemologically to follow orders religion fundamentally Fundamentally is authoritarian. It fundamentally is authoritarian. So religion demands that we give up our minds Well surprise surprise The right has pounded away at religion has said that the problem in america is not enough religion has said that the problem in america is You know too much secularism and secularism is represented by the left There is no secular right So so most people look at the left that's secularism I don't want to be that and they look at the right and they say oh i'm religious and what and religion is more important I need to become more religious and at the end of the day All of that is doing is making the american people Making the american people more cynical more skeptical More emotional less and less and less intellectual And more open to authoritarianism. That's what religion does. That's what i'm thinking does now I lost to say that there's a wall here for the internet Which is which is interesting and i you know the internet's an amazing tool and it's an amazing tool To communicate And everybody gets to communicate. There's no filtering on the internet. So you can find anything from anybody It's very hard to tell what is right and what is wrong. What is true and what is false right and The internet is filled with all kinds of conspiracy theories and crazy ideas and and explanations for things And also the algorithms on the internet particularly on facebook and twitter and places like that are such that they Encourage you to keep seeing the same stuff over and over again. They encourage you to keep seeing more and more of the same material Because you keep seeing you keep reinforcing the same messages So if you click on a link from a particular perspective, you're gonna get more stuff on that perspective That's what google does. That's what facebook does. That's what twitter does. They create these echo chambers Well, all we hear is reinforcement of the ideas. We already believe in including The the wacky stuff when when the wacky stuff is relevant So technology plays a role here and i've seen more people more people who i think are basically good people Buy into conspiracy theories buy into crazy ideas In this last few years and ever before Why because they read it on the internet They read a story it gets reinforced by other stories and because we don't trust the mainstream media There's no forum. There's no place in which to get a counter to the nonsense To the nonsense that you that that that you get from these conspiracy theories There's no place where you can get sanity except on the iran gochio. That's why you should listen So what you get is more and more and more and more Of this You know of this these ideas And and i see this now i i get i get so many Emails and so many people telling me about this vast left-wing conspiracy It starts with george soars and i'm gonna do a whole show on george soars It starts with george soars Who is the devil and who is connected and funds and is responsible intellectually and through everything else for everything The left us and basically wants to take over the world and establish world government run by the united nations Now george soars is a bad man george soars is philosophically corrupt george soars is um george soars is a uh You know he funds all these programs. He funds all these things. It's all true But is george soars running a vast left-wing conspiracy to think about world government? No No, he's not able to do that. He's not competent enough to do that and he's just That's not what he's doing. It's not what he's doing Um, but i'll do a whole show on george soars, but people are so terrified of this guy Now what's amazing to me? What's amazing to me is if you shift Is if you shift To listen and read left-wing media. So the the the uh, what do you call it the social justice warriors That everything they see that the right wing alt-right says about george soars The other guys Say about the coke brothers It's a vast right wing conspiracy And everything that you say about george soars is said about the coke brothers Exactly the same stuff And i know a little bit about the vast right wing conspiracy because i guess i'm part of it You know full disclosure i get money to the coke foundation. I've actually met one of the coke brothers. Oh my god And it's about as much of a conspiracy as they have on the left There's some very walkie people who believe in certain ideas and they fund a lot of programs And yes, there's even some coordination that goes on but there's no conspiracy here left all right And yet if all we read are the same books by the same authors over and over again It's scary It's scary. Oh my god. The world is being taken over the world is being taken over And the world is being taken over by bad ideas I have to remind you Some of you are new but at least the ones who are considered themselves objectivists After remind you that iron rand's view of history is that ideas shape history Not conspiracies not rich guys not money Ideas Hey, by the way, i'm not saying the coke brothers alt right. I'm saying the left views the coke brothers is alt right Oh my god. I say stuff and the way it's interpreted on the chat It scares the bejesus out of me You know somebody on the chat tell me I didn't say I'll imply that the coke brothers are alt right No, the left views them as such the cock the the coctopus view Soos That was my point It's that the same kind of silly thinking or silly thinking is called non-thinking Is going on in both sides so all this stuff The reinforcement of Of conspiracy theories the echo chambers that we only hear news from one place We only hear one side of stories. We don't listen to the other side. We don't know people from the other side This is why I listen always to npr And I have to admit I enjoy npr. I find npr much better news source than anybody else that I that I listen to I don't I don't I don't watch I don't I once in a while go to drudge. I once in a while will dabble in the right wing I watch fox once in a while though. I hate I hate television news of all forms But I I'll read you know, I'll read the new york times. I'll read the washington post and I'll read the The the wastreet journal and I'll read the finn stuff left and right But most people only read one side of it Now if you add into this mix Of a discussed with the left, which is what lenna peak of has been saying all along in dim that it will be discussed with a d2 That leads to authoritarianism. It's absolutely right discussed with the left. They're disintegration. They're nihilism So that's on one side and then on the other side on the other side, you've got The right that is advocating religion And when it's not advocating religion, it's not advocating anything meaningful No ideas to counter the left And the echo chamber and you add into all of that our lousy pathetic educational system That is the election of donald trump and that means That what we need to do today What we need to fight Is the philosophy of the left and the religion of the right What we need today is a secular right-wing capitalist So a secular capitalist movement that is pro free speech One of the reasons I am so excited or So, uh, enthused about, um, what's his name? Dave rubin Is because I think he represents a secular Potentially capitalist we're heading in that direction, but pro free speech movement Right now, let me just let let me just say something about free speech before I get back to this free speech is one of the I'm ran identified this and I think it's it makes sense anybody thinks about it. It's one of the most important issues of In any intellectual if you believe in intellectual change History of what will shape the future Then What we need Is free speech what we have to have is free speech without free speech. We are lost. We're finished. It's a disaster and If we're gonna watch donald trump on anything it's his attack on the media it's his Threatening the media. I gave you the example of the washington post before but just he also said something about Expanding libel laws so they could silence people That attack That hostility to the media That is the most dangerous thing we face. I am willing to defend The mainstream media that all of you vilify so much Because in defending them. I'm going to defend free speech And because I actually think a lot of the mainstream media The garbage in the new york times is better than the garbage a lot of you are reading from the so-called alt right Or alt left And reading the new york times once in a while gives you a certain perspective on what's going on in the world that you will not get anywhere else Yeah, I know I've been accused of being in the msnbc bubble so the idea The idea That that we should limit the mainstream media that we should be attacking their media Those who we should be attacking the expressions of free speech expressions of Attempts of people biased as they may be To deliver the news to deliver information Is horrifying and it's something that we need to be Super super super vigilant I don't care if the newspapers fact check or not I mean, I do care But they have a right to free speech whether they fact check or not There's no special category where newspapers have to be right In order to get free speech Any more than you have to be right in order to for the first amendment to protect your speech Labor laws have a place a place which exists today. We have labor laws in america we need Stronger labor laws to protect us from speech that the president doesn't like I can't think of anything more dangerous than that I can't think of anything more dangerous than that So free speech we have to fight for it And if that means and I'm saying this here if that means defending npr I'm on the front line as I said I listen to it PR every day when I'm home And I I enjoy it I enjoy it and If you don't believe If you don't believe that Free speech is the most essential White that must be defended right now then This is why we're losing. This is why we're losing. All right, so We need a secular right. We need a secular right movement And and I'm using right here. I hate using right. We need a secular pro free markets movement That defends as a primary free speech again This is why I love Dave Rubin so much because he is such a defender of free speech and he's secular and we're slowly moving him in the right direction when it comes to economics and We need this movement to be able to have the right arguments against the left and the right arguments against religion and to do that That movement needs I meant And we need to convince that movement that they need I meant We need to convince that Dave Rubin's of the world that I meant is essential and then we need to fight We need to fight Fight every sign of authoritarianism find every sign of attacking free speech I mean What if president president, uh, uh, Trump Through executive order abolishes Obamacare What if he finds a way to get around congress to launch a war that we all like What if he does stuff that we all think is good? But he does it in an authoritarian way We're gonna have to fight against it We're gonna have to fight against it just like we fought against obama doing authoritarian things for wrong for the wrong goal We have to fight Trump when he does good things In a wrong way Our system of government the idea of checks and balances the idea of separation of powers That has to stand the idea of free speech has to stand even If Quote what he's trying to do is good like an obamacare. Well, you know, and and let me just concede because people people people here People here suggesting let me just concede That He might do some good things He might do some good things his energy policy is probably going to be very good The fact that he's not a global warming nut is very good. He's talking about abolishing and replacing Obamacare although what he replaces it with might be worse than obamacare in the long run But who knows right he's talking about deregulation. I believe it when I see it, but he's talking about it So he I agree. He's gonna do some Good things potentially, but you don't evaluate. You don't evaluate Pinochet Just by just the fact that he brought more economic freedom to Chile You also have to consider the fact that he moated thousands of people You also have to consider the fact that he was a authoritarian He was a dictator that freedom in Chile disappeared that there was no free speech now He gets credit for walking away from that in the end and re-instituting Elections and freedoms in Chile, but you can't evaluate his his period Just by The fact that he brought capitalism to Chile so Yeah, he's gonna do some good things probably maybe Hopefully hopefully hopefully the the the the the bright spot of all this disaster stuff is going to be Things like his energy policy things like some deregulation things like some issues like that All right, I got a couple of calls. I'm gonna I'm gonna at the risk of people yelling at me I'm gonna take these two calls one of them has been waiting Forever, I think I think this is all right. Hi, you're new wrong book show. Who's this? Hey, Jennifer. I'm good. How about you? It's spite of how angry I sound. I'm doing pretty well Yeah Yeah, so unfortunately on on facebook live, you can't hear the call I know that I want you guys at the beginning of the show those of you listened you can't hear the call We don't have the sound Hooked into facebook live slowly. We'll get there But Basically, it's the it was upper management that came in and said Started talking about and and they wouldn't even listen to what you said now That's my experience with people who supported trump. That was my experience in chicago a couple of weeks ago That's my experience on the chat here People are not interested in facts. They're not interested in evidence This is pure emotion and you can tell by how angry and and how obnoxious they get when you try to raise any one of these issues And uh, it it's pure emotion. It's it emotion is what drives. It's what's driving This and and it's it's really, you know, it's really scary. It really is scary All right, thanks for calling really appreciate it. I'm going to try to get two more calls in And say, you know, maybe say a few positive things Hi, you're new on book show. Who's this? Hey, debbie Good. Well, you're calling from one of my favorite places on the planet, which I get ridiculed for constantly She's calling from silica valley for those of you on facebook live What's up I do because you're part of this you're part of the elite that is oppressing this country. You're part of the, uh, leftist, uh Elite that is destroying america And and you like immigrants and and you like immigrants. How bad is that? Yeah, I know Yes, exactly exactly Yeah, and even zuckerberg you can you know, he might be a lefty But you know what he's created a fantastic product Which is allowing me to stream the radio show live and will allow over time Thousands if not millions of people to be exposed to better ideas. So go zuckerberg Yep Yeah, I'm gonna cut you off. I hate to cut you off because this is great stuff and I want you to call back I want to do a show on silica valley On why I think silica valley is is the most important place in america And if we lose silica valley We lose the culture because I agree with you completely and and i'm gonna thanks to call it really appreciate it But i am running out of time let let me just completely agree because There's a lot of great things happening in the world There's a lot of great things happening in our culture and a lot of those great things are happening in silica valley There is a culture of work ethic. There's a culture of meritocracy. There's a culture of achievement. There's a culture of understanding of curiosity of scientific inquiry a reason that happens over there And by vilifying that culture We are vilifying what america really is And why is that culture turning away? From the so-called right. Why is that culture anti? The republican party because that culture won't vote for somebody who doesn't believe in evolution They won't vote for a party who rejects evolution So they won't vote republican and they shouldn't vote republican And this is again my call for a secular pro free market movement emphasis on secular Now I don't have time today to talk about the awful wall street journal article that was published A few days ago. I'll have to pick that up next week But that's exactly what we don't need We don't need more association of iron rand with god I mean not god is iron rand, but you know the idea that it's okay to be religious and love iron rand at the same time Now I have no problem and I and I and I love the fact that a lot of religious people like iron rand But that's not the ideal. That's not the model. That's not what we're striving for. We need We need a secular world We need a world in where rejects the whole idea of religion That rejects the idea of faith If you accept faith and you accept iron rand, you're a better person than if you accept faith and reject iron rand but just stall not Where you need to be What we really need Again, I will say there's a secular pro free speech pro free market movement And I actually put free speech before free market because I think it's more important right now And dave if you ever listen to the show This is a shout out to you. Hi, young new one book show. Who's this? Hey chris. How's it going? I was just in phoenix. I just spoke in phoenix two days ago All right. All right. So that chris cool. Glad you're calling it No Absolutely, that's exactly it's a lot of what I've been trying to say today is exactly that But I think I think it's deeper and this is what scared me. Thanks for the call chris And it was good good having lunch and good seeing you at the federal society in in phoenix and thanks for organizing that event helping organize that event, but I think that it's deeper than that. It's not just That they feel good about rejecting it It's that they have Bought into the idea too many american people have bought into the idea not everybody vote for trump but too many people That the way to fix this is not An intellectual battle of ideas that we need to engage in that's gonna take decades But that we need a strong man We need somebody who says don't worry. I got this. I'm gonna take care of I know how to do this Um And that I think is what fundamentally is scary about about again more about the people than about trump because I don't Can't think trump can get away with it. I don't think trump Because I actually think the fact that the republicans won the house and sent it It's not a bad thing because I think that Particularly at the house, but also in the senate. There are better republicans than donald trump Who won't let him do the really really stupid things at least I hope not you know as much as I I worry about I worry about paul ryan But but I think there are people who are going to be able to stand up for trump and say no And I and I think he doesn't believe in anything very strongly It's not that he believes in a wall or he believes in any of these things. I I don't think he believes in anything So I think people will be able to talk him off the ledge when it comes to really really really really stupid things okay, so We will see okay, we got one last call and really this is the last call. Hi, you're in the iran book So who's this? Hey, ben from new york Okay, well, let me try let me I mean yes and no, but let me try to address that Thanks for calling me and catch up just because I've got like seven minutes to end the show um So are there good things that we can look forward to that will help now the big picture is The answer I think unfortunately is no because um because The specifics don't matter. It's the specific things that he does doesn't matter. It's how he does them and and And how people interpret the reason that he does it but saying that He is gonna probably gonna try to reform obama k and there's a chance because there are better people um, who uh advising him That they might do a pretty good job with obama k I mean Paul ryan has some pretty good ideas on what to do about health care even about what to do about medicare And about what to do about a lot of the entitlement programs not objective as solutions But pretty good solutions solutions that are move us towards more freedom that are move us Towards uh, you know towards uh greater liberty Slowly so there are things that can be done that can improve the world. So the fact that Stephen Moore Is is one of his economic advice and Stephen was pretty good in economics. It's not great, but he's pretty good in economics Now Really have any influence. I don't know ought to laugh. Uh Is a pretty good economist. He's advising donald trump. Now. I didn't see either one of those in the transition team So I doubt That they're gonna have a lot of influence on uh on uh, Donald trump. I have more of a sense if you think about who he's I find this really really funny But the guy who's supposedly the number one candidate for treasury secretary I want to drum roll guess guess Guess what? He's a former goldman sacks guy I just find that so funny because like Everybody one of the big things that people are so upset about Is the goldman sacks has such a big role in our country and all the treasury secretaries have been from goldman sacks and And now donald trump who's supposed to be this new phenomena who's supposed to be completely different is Goldman sacks going back. It's a goldman sacks. Um But a lot of the people he's going to bring in on economic policies are going to be businessmen who don't know anything about economics Um, and uh, they're going to bring people in on trade and all these people are going to be is is super Super uh cronies They're going to favor their own industry just like You know just like, uh You know my god today. I'm doing terrible in age just like paul son When he was when he was treasury secretary favored goldman over liman and had a buy these guys are going to come from industry They have no principles. They have no real solid fundamental economic ideas And they're going to start cutting deals. They're going to be deal makers And deal making is the last thing you need when it comes to actually setting policy It's really what i'm turning out is it's really hard for me to be positive because the more I know about the The the at least the rumors about the administration the less positive um less positive I become but Look, there's a chance that they redo obama can they do something much better There's a chance that they will deregulate. I don't think they're going to deregulate in mass But they'll deregulate certain aspects of it They won't completely change dot frank, but they'll Take out the worst provisions in it the consumer protection act which is uh, um Um Which is the left's kind of favored institution because it is not supervised by congress. It gets a budget from the fed It's like this little autonomous dictatorial Entity one of the worst things to count out of dot frank. That might be that might be shut down That would be terrific if it shut down and I know the guy who was going to be I don't know if he still is but was going to be in the transition team around the consumer protection agency And if that's shut down that'll be huge uh, there are a lot of things that The trump administration is not going to go after private education after colleges private colleges like the obama administration Or like a hill administration would have done So there are a lot of positives in the specifics I don't know. I mean he's going to start building a wall. There's no question The wall is going to take a decade to build is my prediction. He's going to but he's going to start building a wall Which is going to be stupid. I don't know that he's going to be able to do much on trade He'll do some damage on trade but not huge I think on the specific issues He's not going to do a lot of damage But we need to be vigilant We need to be Watch him because nobody else is going to watch him. There's nobody else out there to watch only some republicans are better But many of them are going to be caught up in his tailwinds because not only did he win They won the house in the senate with him which suggests that the american people want him And a lot of politicians are just whatever you want, right? They're just empty So I'm counting on the better republicans to You know constrained donald trump to some extent But we're gonna have to raise our voices. We're gonna have to fight him. We're gonna have to present better ideas We're gonna have to Talk about a real secular right. We're gonna have to talk about the importance of secularism the danger of religion We've been too timid in talking about it in the past and we're gonna have to talk About free markets to Those people who tend to be secular and who are not convinced by free market and explain them and be patient And walk them through it. We're gonna have to find the people out there Who still respect reason And give them ammunition The future is going to be about a battle between Reason and emotionalism emotionalism derived from mysticism emotionalism just derived from emotion Almost all emotion is derived ultimately from mysticism of some form or another So this is about reason versus mysticism And It's about individualism versus collectivism and this is going to be a tough one for many people Because one of the things that appeals about donald trump is he's gonna make america great again He's about america and we all about america But his america is a collectivistic america and the left's america is a collectivistic america. So again There's a few of us not that many who advocate for individualism so We need individualism secularism We need reason We need free markets We need a new movement to fight for these ideas and we need to get more aggressive about the fight lives Literally at stake this generation's lives at stake political Our future is at stake. So The best way for you guys to help out is a stop demonizing silicon valley b Contribute today. I'm an institute And help us promote these ideas Help us promote these ideas. Help us to get on the dave rubin show. I could actually if I had the money Here's a here's a fundraising stick. Did I just pick my nose on? On facebook live. I need to be really careful. Um Here's the here's the uh, here's the uh, here's the stick We could actually do a whole program with With dave rubin. We could do a whole series of shows focused on objectivist ideas on objectivist principles We just need the money to do it Right, he would dedicate a whole stream For us the whole channel if you will on his network to do this And um And we need money for that basically what we need a fund so iron man dot org slash support Uh contribute some money you can you can allocate it to the radio show you can allocate it to dave rubin You can allocate it to whatever you want or you can just make it open Uh, send us checks send us money you can sign up for a monthly contribution a weekly contribution a daily contribution Whatever works, but we need uh, we need really what we need Is is funds to be able to challenge the crazy world that exists today The crazy ideas that are dominating the world today. This is fundamentally not about politics. This is fundamentally about You know these these basic ideas that we talked about individualism this is collectivism reason versus mysticism And if there's one issue and I'll end with this that we need a fight fight fight on That we need to defend with everything that we have It is the issue of free speech. All right. We're all done for today. I have to go prepare for my next show in uh in an hour which um I don't know what I'll have to think about whether I'm going to do that facebook live as well But I'll consider it. Uh, we'll talk about that in uh in uh in an hour and five sixty in chicago Talk to you soon. I'll I'll be back. Uh, same time same place next week Right, where's the where's the closing music? Thanks guys on facebook live We're ending it