 So let's let's start with this lady whose name I don't know. It's right here. Hopefully you can see it and She is talking about here, right? She's talking about here Christian nationalism, so this is 20 seconds out of a longer discussion where she's talking about the rise of Christian nationalism and and Donald Trump is gonna surround himself with Christian nationalists and This is gonna be their agenda. The second Trump administration is gonna be a Christian nationalist agenda I don't necessarily disagree with much of that, but this 20 seconds Has created a firestorm. It's it's it's a standard view But suddenly everybody picked on it because this is how social media works, right? Somebody says something like a million people say stuff and it's ignored and one person says something and suddenly it just hits in The right time in the right place somebody clips it out puts it up on and boom a Firestorm happens Anyway, let's let's watch let's see what actually happened So this is her let me know if the volume is off or are there any other problems And that unites all of them because there's many different groups orbiting Trump But the thing that we're not unites them as Christian nationalists not Christians by the way because Christian nationalists is very different is that they believe that our rights as Americans as all human beings don't come from any earthly authority. They don't come from Congress They don't come to the Supreme Court. They come from God and that unites right, so she's basically Saying Because she's she's been critical here. I mean she's not saying this is kind of a neutral position She's been critical. She's saying these Christian conservatives. They they Think this crazy thing They think that rights don't come from Congress They don't come from the Supreme Court. They come From God now we'll get to the argument about them coming from God in a minute but let's first deal with this question of Do they come from Congress do they come from the Supreme Court and the answer of course is God if you read the funny fathers if you know anything about the funny fathers if you read the collusion of independence if you know anything about the conception of rights on Which this country is founded Then clearly the answer is It doesn't come from Congress and it doesn't come from the Supreme Court Indeed the whole concept of rights to a large extent is There to protect to protect us from Congress the Supreme Court a president or any other group that has a Majority that can inflict a will on us even if they don't have a majority any group They can oppress us in any kind of way as I ran writes The principle of individual of man's individual rights represents the extension of morality into the social system as a limitation on the power of the state as Man's protection against the brute force of the collective as the subordination of might to write Individual rights in a sense stand above government They are what limit government. They're what constrained government They can't be something that government determines Because then they're not rights at all Then they kind of privileges granted to us by the authorities However, the authorities come to be whether through a democratic process or whether through any kind of process rights must be primary to government and Government has to be subordinated To rights its functions must be subordinate to rights So there's no way that government can give us rights. They're not rights then again It's a negation of the whole idea of what rights are and It's a negation importantly of The purpose of rights the function of rights the function is whoops I almost almost screwed that up the function is To subordinate might to write and here might You can conceive of might as Majority war a dictatorship that the force that government can bring to bear on Dictating how you live your life or not live your life so Right, so they're to limit the power of the state. That's their purpose and we'll talk about limit on the basis of what as Man's protection against the brute force of the collective so whether rights come from God or from somewhere else So we haven't yet discovered or that they haven't yet discovered Rights cannot be Something to society votes on you know, the rights are exactly that it protect us exactly from that They're there to protect us From Congress and to the Supreme Court and from the president and from all the other They're there to protect us from politics They're there to protect us from our neighbors that they protect us from the majority They're there to subordinate Those functions of society to a specific kind of moral law and And that is really the concept that the founders have is That rights are in that sense above government that government is there to Protect the rights But the rights are not defined by the agency that is protecting them one of the problems with anarchy is There's no mechanism by which rights can be above the law Rights are exactly defined by differently by different protection agencies go figure that one out and how that lands up and how that all gets settled All right, so What she's saying is complete negation a complete negation of The American system government complete negation of individual rights you know the left wants to keep the concept of rights Without adhering to the way it arose historically without adhering to how you know to where it came from Without any kind of understanding of what the purpose of the concept is Because if Congress just decides then why is it a right? It's just a law. It's just something Congress decides The whole idea is that rights are the measure by which we evaluate every law Is it violating our rights or is it protecting our rights? So it's the standard