 This is Puro Pelka with Michael Pelka only on the blaze radio network all right you're listening to your own book filling in for Michael Pelka I'll be here through Thursday he'll be back on Friday and you know we ended up we ended up the last hour talking about immigration look there are a lot of other issues to talk about in immigration which I'm not talking about right what about mass migration what about migration of Muslims if you want if you're interested in any of that call in 888-900-3393-888-900-3393 happy to talk about any of that or any of your other objections to immigration but I want to shift topics and I'm sorry Max's disappeared again he keeps calling and dropping and calling and dropping come on Max stick with it Max wanted to talk about the rise and fall of America and and and I do too I want to talk about why we have this idea which I think is real that that America's in decline and I can tell you you know the difference between America as I imagined it when I first decided to come to America and between America I found when I came was significant and then the difference between America that I found when I came and America that exists today the America of the last 30 years I came to America exactly 30 years ago is significant in my view America is in decline it's not gone yet there's still America here but America's in decline and we have to define what we mean by America and this will connect a little bit to to the president's comments from yesterday particularly early on we have to define what America is to really talk about rise and fall and luckily for us Max called back all right so so max you want to you want to lead us off here on this topic with a with some comments or question yes I just had a question sure yeah how how long do you think till it actually gets to like another world war because the way US is looking now it's kind of like how Germany was used to be all you know it used to be a religious place and a lot of good stuff there then you know it fell down to Hitler yeah but you know really didn't do anything wrong what's that did you just say Hitler didn't do anything wrong yeah he really didn't oh Hitler was one of those evil people in human history he did everything he did was wrong everything he did was evil and he is is certainly one of the nastiest characters in in human history but as to how long before we have a world war something like yeah I don't know I'm not in the business of predicting and putting timetables on things I will tell you we're in decline thanks max for calling although I didn't think you would be a supportive Hitler that I wouldn't have taken a call if I know that I even I have my my my my limits and being a supportive Hitler and being a supportive Stalin that's where you hit my limits in terms of in terms of tolerance but look America is in decline whether it ends up in a world war whether it ends up in just slow decline or whether we just go into a massive depression or whether we start killing each other who knows what it looks like and I'm not even sure it has to end that way I'm an optimist I think that the client can be reversed I think we can save this country and I think there's certain signs in the culture that suggest that this country is is still able to save itself but I want to first try to understand what America is what America represents what America when we say America do we just mean this particular geography do we just mean the particular people who live here I understand why people are hostile to immigrants if you believe it's just the people who happen to live within these borders right now oh they're not Americans to me America is much more than that to me America is an idea an idea there was codified in this particular geographic area an idea there was manifest in reality in this particular geographic area and not by accident but because of the existence of men of genius like the founding fathers who created this country this is their country or at least the country I love the America I love is their country and it's their ideas their ideas about what a country should be like that is slipping away that is disappearing that is under constant attack here's is a an example this is from Donald Trump's speech last night right and this is this is I think very telling on what the right today has to offer Americans now he talks about this you know too often we forget that a wound inflicted upon a single member of our community is a wound inflicted upon us all when one part of America hoods we all hoods and when one when one citizen suffers an injustice we all suffer together really is that true I mean I know that there are people hooding right now in America I don't feel it and I can't say necessarily I care I mean if they're good people I care if they're not so good people I don't care just because they're Americans doesn't make me care is that what makes us American is the fact that we all have some some kind of communal pain threshold that we all feel for each other we have some kind of collective consciousness and we all share in each other's experiences really is that America loyalty to our nation he goes on demands loyalty to one another love for America requires love for all of its people really when we open our hearts to patriotism there is no room for prejudice no place for bigotry and no tolerance for hate now I agree that they should never be room for prejudice and never be room for bigotry I'm not so big on this everybody hates hate I'd like to hate that some people who deserve my hatred hate is not a bad thing it's so politically correct to say we must eradicate hate from our world really I hate lots of people I hate Norm Chomsky some of you might not know he is but he's a is the most cited I think intellectual in America today I leftist nihilist really bad guy I hate him I hate Hitler I hate Stalin I hate a lot of people out there who advocates really bad idea yeah I hate them don't be don't be don't be embarrassed by your hate don't be ashamed of your hate if you hate people for good reason if you hate people for rational reason then hatred is not a bad thing so I hate this politically correct nonsense about we must eradicate hate from America no I I hate I hate Islamic terrorists I hate that guy who drove his truck into a group of tourists and and and locals just trying to enjoy their lives in in Barcelona the other day and I will always hate people like that I have no tolerance for them I have no sympathy for them I will not turn the other cheek for them and I will not love my enemy I will not love my enemy I will hate my enemy so I don't buy this tolerance you know that that we should we should have no tolerance for hate some people need to be hated though those people who marched in Charlottesville with Nazi slogans let me tell you I hate you guys and Antifa the the the leftist group that goes around the country attacking people who they disagree with and beating them up and using pepper spray on them I hate you guys and it's when we when we have the the the stomach and the and the spine to identify people we hate and rationally defend our position that is all that is when we will resurrect America I mean the founding fathers hated the king and they offended him and they were vaulted against him and they shot people I don't buy this I guess this Christian idea of turning the other cheek and loving your enemy I don't love my enemy never will never have you know I've been in a war and in Israel I know what it's like to see you know to see people you know die in a war I hate people who attack my values I hate people who want to destroy my country I hate people who want to destroy my values I'm not I'm not a turn the other cheek kind of guy and I'm not a patriot if patriotism just means opening my heart so loving America because it's this geography I'm a patriot only to the extent that this country lives up to its founding principle only to the extent that this country protects individual rights only to the extent that this country is a country that you know that is individualist that protects the individual that values the individual but this collectivist garbage coming out of the president of the United States mouth does not does not encourage me to be patriotic really I'm supposed to feel anytime an American is feeling pain no I'm not I love this country I am a greater to this country because I love this country because this country represents freedom it represents individualism it represents individual rights and it was founded to protect those rights that's the extent to which I love it to the extent this country becomes socialist to the extent this country becomes status to the extent this country become collectivist I will fight it all right we come back we'll talk more about why we're losing this battle for America why America slipping away or at least this idea of America is slipping away slipping away so much that our president doesn't even advocate for it and the people who support the president don't advocate for it and very few people out there know what America really is all right you're listening to your own book filling in for Palka on the blaze radio network we'll be back right after this pure opulka with Michael Palka you're listening your own book filling in for Michael Palka today through Thursday and just to make it clear guys I don't walk around hating everybody all the time but hate is appropriate hate is appropriate I actually am a big believer in love loving yourself first and foremost loving your own life and then figuring out what are the most important values that are make your life the best life that it can be living so you can live the best that you can live and and loving those values loving those things and I love this country and I love this country because it is the best country from my life it's a country where I can still make the most of my life it's the country where I've chosen to fight the battle for freedom because I think it's a country with the most upside potential we were free we come from a history of great fighters for freedom we come we come from from from the founders of this country who really believed and understood what freedom stands for and I still believe that we can resurrect we can resurrect and in a century invent those ideas and make them even more solid now than before so now life is about loving but not your enemies then I still hate all right I want to talk about you know we're talking about this false sense of patriotism that I think the president projects this false sense of collectivism that I think now is embedded in our culture and more and more we get a sense of it so much statism around and all of this I think is a consequence of the fact that the statists have been winning against the founders against the individualists in American history for the last for the last hundred plus years and and to put it in a perspective of left and right basically the left is winning and you can think about it this way when FDR passed all of his agenda right the new deal the new deal that FDR passed regulation of finance complete regulation every aspect of the financial industry regulation of employment labor laws social security the establishment for the first time in American history at the federal level of a welfare state massive massive intervention in the economy the building of a big projects by the government and on a scale that the government had never done before Republicans fought him Republicans stood up against him and fought every single thing that he did indeed the Supreme Court fought him until he basically threatened to to wipe them out to stack the court and then they basically folded and accepted his view of the Constitution and and Republicans always said during the 30s when we get into power we will reverse everything that FDR did and then they got into power and they didn't they embraced everything FDR did they're the biggest supporters of public projects look at the infrastructure bill that Trump wants to foist upon us so security they don't want to do away with so security they're the big proponents of security we want to defend so security say the Republicans deregulation away maybe sometimes you know once in a while they'll deregulate a little bit but nothing systematic nothing on principle no Republicans today are basically have accepted FDR as a hero most Republicans today consider FDR a great American president not like Republicans at the time who are opposed to him or fought against him who thought he was anti-American a disaster no today's considered a hero among Republicans when Johnson then in 1960s two minutes passed the great society the massive expansion of the welfare state war on poverty Medicare Medicaid Republicans opposed it argued against it you should listen to Ronald Reagan speech from 1964 we attacks Medicare and a they said as soon as we get into power we can undo all this did they know no soon as they got into power they reinforced all of it and today nobody challenges the great society Republicans are way to the left of where they used to be throughout in terms of everything with regard to to to economic issues to the role of government Republicans they believe in a robust role for government we've got a president who wants to regulate control trade wants to tell seos who to high-end who to fire and went to high-end way to fire where to locate their plans Republicans are not as I mentioned earlier a capitalist party they have drifted way to the left on all those issues and the question is why why does the left keep winning why is the left dominating the intellectual discussion the intellectual landscape why do Republicans they look like Democrats of the past and so we're gonna take a break in a few seconds and that's really what we're gonna talk about in in the next part of the show why is the right the right of old keep losing to the left and why are the right and left today indistinguish in many respects all right we're coming up to a break you listening to your on my three two one pure Opelka with Mike Opelka right this is your own book filling in for Mike Opelka you can follow me in Facebook follow me in Twitter just put in my name you're on Y a R O N Brooke be our okay Twitter Facebook YouTube you know I'm I'm there and lots more content I was have a show here on the blaze every Sunday from 2 to 4 Eastern time I hope you start listening there as well hopefully you're intrigued all right we're talking about why the left is winning and I mean let me clarify it's not that I think the left is winning because they gain the most votes so they obviously they don't they they win the elections obviously they don't it's because they dictate the terms of debate they have moved the entire political spectrum to the left today's Republicans are Democrats of the past there is no capitalist party in America today everything is to the left everything has shifted and the only response Republicans have had recently to the left's agenda is to adopt the collectivism to adopt their identity politics and some have gone out to the fringe right and and and to the alt-right and adopted the same kind of racist identity politics that the left the radical the the fringe left is embraced right so no everything we talk about today is on the left's terms I mean think about it for yourself how many of you think that the financial crisis was caused by Wall Street I mean a majority an overwhelming majority of Americans believe that that is a leftist story that is not reality how many of you we think in America today that race is really really important that racial characteristics are really really important to who you are that is a leftist idea and an alt-right idea but the alt-right and the alt-left not much difference there in in in so many respects you know if we leave business alone they will you know they will poison us and they will destroy us and we have to regulate drug companies and now now we're getting more and more this idea we have to regulate the internet and we have to we have to control Google and those are all those are not ideas of a pro-capitalist party and yet they are prevalent everything the whole political map a shift at the left there's no discussion of actually establishing freedom freedom in America all right before I go on on their discussion we have Malachi I think Malachi and pronouncing that right from Chicago hi Malachi what's up I'm enjoying with the question your honor I wanted to know how how do you respond to the criticism about being a globalist and and that you know as a critique of many I suppose on the right now I mean especially when it comes to not only issues about immigration but also trade and isn't this something that the right kind of has going for it now is that you know it's been so passive and now the right is kind of getting tough and cracking down on neocons and globalist such as yourself yeah well let's let's unpack that let's let's identify what globalism is and it doesn't really mean anything would be my start-off point right what does globalism actually mean it means for some people a world government control over the United States from other nations loss of sovereignty the placing of the world people all over the world as the thing to be to be loyal to versus your own state it also means free trade and and relatively open immigration but that is a package deal the two have nothing to do with one another I for example and offer free trade and I'm for much more immigration than we have today and I'm against the world government and I'm against other countries telling our government what they can and cannot do I'm against of looking at the world from the perspective of countries and world government and so on my whole approach is to look at the world from the individual up not from the state down so globalism is used it's thrown about left and right all over the place to describe what to describe people want to control my life in the name of the planet or something then it's a bad thing to describe people who believe in free trade and allowing individuals to pursue their own life and their own happiness without coercion I'm all for people like that so it's a meaningless term I hate the term it's meaningless and I suddenly am not a globalist but I am for free trade and I am for for immigration all right so thanks Malachi great name by the way I don't know how you came up with that one thanks for calling I appreciate it we've got Douglas from Chicago wants to talk about Jerry Lewis I'm gonna hold off on that while I keep the discussion going Jerry Lewis is a little and out of out of out of the topics I wanted to cover today all right so why is it drifting left constantly and I would say it's because the left has had the ideological high ground the left is intellectual the left is philosophical the left has ideas the right does not the right has nothing to counter the ideas of the left and let's let's talk a little bit about what some of those ideas are great the idea of you know fundamentally that much of the left much of philosophy today many of their philosophers out there many of the teachers teaching your kids are teaching them to reality reality is not real there is no actual reality it's you shape reality it's it's it's it's your imagination it's your emotions it's it's there's no actual solid thing out there think about the consequences of that how do we know what truth is well the left tells us today we're in a post-truth era you can't even debate ideas with people like that but what does the right offer in response to that to this post-modern you know leftist ideas that are driving the social justice warriors and are driving so much of the antifa and but so much of the university professor so many of the classes that your kids are taking in college advocating that reality doesn't really exist it's not really real that you're just making it up that your reality is guided by your nature as a black person or white person and therefore if you're white you should have immediate guilt because you've been oppressing black people I mean all this garbage that is a complete rejection a fact a complete rejection of reality because they don't believe in facts in reality the world is completely subjective reality is completely subjective it's up to you now what is the right response to that does the right have a theory of explaining how to understand the world where truth comes from when knowledge comes from no most people on the right do not most intellectuals on the right either default to religion as the source of knowledge and by the way religion will never beat out philosophy it has no ground to stand on it it relies on revelation and revelation are not facts of reality are not proof of anything because you can't share a revelation you can't you know revelations are just because you said so that's not facts that's not argument that's not logic that's not reason or pragmatism the right is very fond of pragmatism we'll do whatever works whatever works no principles no ideas and no actual argument about the nature of reality in that sense pragmatism is just like the left the left also do whatever works so you basically have no argument for reality no argument for reason no argument for facts given by the right and if you can't make that argument too many people attempt it by this idea of hey we'll just we'll just adopt and you can see it on American campuses today we'll just adopt this identity politics we'll just adopt this idea that whatever happens in my head whatever my emotions are whatever my leader tells me because I don't trust my emotions that's what the truth is going to be and what you get is mindless brutish young people which is what we're seeing we're seeing so much of on American universities today all right we're gonna take a quick break here and we'll come back and talk about why the left has a moral high ground not only an epistemological philosophical high ground but they'll have the moral high ground and until we challenge that we will continue to lose you're listening to you're listening to your own book on the Michael Pellke show you're listening to pure opalca with Michael Pellke part of the next generation of talk radio on the blaze radio network so this is your own book filling in Michael Pellke today I'll be doing this through Thursday and you know to understand what America is I think it's valuable to understand where it came from what was the founding of America really about which is just a bunch of some people would like to describe a bunch of white guys who are fed up with a king what was the ideas that made America possible America is an ideological revolution America at its founding is the implementation of an idea in politics in reality it's not just you know defining a new country America was a different country than any other country that it existed before America is the first country in human history founded on a moral principle that principle is individual rights the idea that every one of us as an individual has a right therefore is free to pursue our own life to live our lives as we see fit in pursuit of the rational values necessary to live and rational is important America is a country that comes at the pinnacle of the age of reason it's not an accident reason the founders admired reason they understood that reason was our means for knowing the world that reason was our means of gaining knowledge and that if human beings were going to survive and thrive they needed to be free to use their reason in order to achieve their values but to the founders reason was at the core of what it meant to be human this country is a country of the enlightenment of the age of reason of the idea of science discovery knowledge reality the idea that we can know the world that we discover truth and therefore as individuals as we discover truth as individuals we must be free to express that truth we must be left alone to apply that truth to build businesses to create stuff and once you create it it's yours because you created it it's not the states it's not the groups it's not the collectives it's not societies it's not the kings it's not the tribes it's yours starting with your life and the things that you produce they are yours nobody else has a claim against them that is the genius of America the idea of individual rights the idea that individuals must use their reason freely to pursue the things necessary for them to live so when you start a business and create something you that is yours and the only way to live is by producing creating building so America is the idea of individualism combined with the idea that reason is our means of survival our basic means of survival is reason to think to identify truth in reality to identify the facts of reality to integrate them into new knowledge and to apply that knowledge to our lives as individuals America was the rejection of collectivism in all its different forms all its different forms from monarchy to tribalism to even to absolute democracy where the majority gets to decide everything that's why the founders established a constitutional public to protect the smallest of all minorities to protect the individual so that is what America is those are the ideas that made it great and yet do you see anybody defending reason do you see anybody defending individualism no right or left that's where the left has won today the right and the left are both collectivists just the quote I gave you from Trump speech is a great illustration of that the right and left today are both anti-reason there is no party that defends science and technology and and and human knowledge and in the ability of the individual to use his own reason uses own mind to create a life for himself no the left believes you as an individual cannot make a life for yourself you're completely dependent on government you need government's help the collective must support you and you are part of this collective there's a wholesale rejection both on the left and on the right of the ideas of the founding the ideas of individualism and the idea that we must use and can use and have the ability to use their minds in order to make the most of our own lives that's why I don't consider myself on the right anymore right left you're all collectivists you're all anti-reason I consider myself an individualist and in that sense 10 I'm opposed to both political parties today five four three two one