June 27, 2025 • 31 mins
Herbie introduces his concept of anti-politism, a system where government officials are selected by merit-based lottery rather than elections, and explains how it would create lasting political reform that Trump's administration cannot achieve.
• Anti-politism converts politics from a career to a civic duty through lottery selection of qualified citizens
• Under the current system, even successful reforms will eventually "snap back like rubber" to previous dysfunction
• 80% of Americans receive more in government benefits than they pay in taxes, creating unsustainable debt
• Social Security bankruptcy timeline has moved up from 2033 to 2031, yet remains unaddressed by politicians
• Current political system resembles mob rule with both parties competing for larger pieces of the mob
• Merit-based selection would bring common sense leadership regardless of political affiliation
• Trump's accomplishments are significant but cannot fix the fundamental flaws in our political structure
Check out my book "A Radical Reset" on Amazon to learn more about anti-politism and policy solutions for a rational government.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Happy Friday.
Dudes and dudettes.
It's me your pal Herbie, hostof Eradical Reset.
Sorry, I didn't post a podcaston Wednesday as I promised I
would.
I actually recorded one, butthere was some issue with the
recording and when I went tomaster it it was pooped up.
And by that point it was latein the day and things are coming
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so fast and furious I decided,oh well, things happen, I'll
just post one today.
So what a week it has been.
It's hard to say what I reallywant to talk about in any one
specific thing.
I think I want to relate thecurrent situation to maybe an
alternate history of what wouldhave happened with all of this
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had politics been anti-political.
So, for those of you who arejoining me for the first time, I
am the founder of an idea thatsounds so much more grandiose
than the guy who came up with,an idea that is so obscure that
nobody knows about it yet.
But listen, every journey isshortened by the first step.
I think it was the Buddha whosaid that, but anyway, every
journey is shortened by thefirst step.
I think it was the Buddha whosaid that, but anyway, it is
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absolutely true.
So, long story short,anti-politism is a republic, but
instead of voting, it's alottery selection based upon
merit.
Now, if you want to read aboutit and how it works and why, it
converts politics from a careerto a duty, and it makes it
impossible to have a career andit makes corruption far less
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likely.
It takes not some of the moneyout of politics, all of the
money out of politics, it getsrid of all political parties and
it makes it possible that evenyou, listening to me right now,
could be president of the UnitedStates.
And if any of that interestsyou, then go buy a copy of A
Radical Reset.
It's on Amazon, by me, herbie K.
Herbie with a Y, by the way.
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I spell it with a Y, not an I-E.
I'm not a love bug, I'm Herbie.
So pick up a copy.
It's in Kindle, paperback andhardcover, read it and learn
about antipolitism, as well as anumber of policy prescriptions
that I think a rationalgovernment would undertake.
And that is really the subjectof today's discussion, which is
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rationality in politics, whichwe really don't have very much
of Now.
To give you a little review, bythe way, I predicted that a week
from the bombing, the Ayatollahwould be out of power.
It hasn't been a week yet.
So my prediction stands.
We'll see.
Looks like I'm going to bewrong, but listen, stranger
things have happened and it'sonly Friday and by Sunday, god
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only knows what will havehappened.
So things are moving so fast,just digressing slightly.
If you had to pick someone tobe, donald Trump would be a good
person to be, just because he'shaving the week from heaven.
I mean, my God.
Today alone, it was announcedthat the Chinese affirmed the
deal that he made with them onrare earths and microchips and
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technology and so on and soforth.
Anyway, it's all good and, as Itold you, this is all part of
the game of chess that he'splaying when most everybody else
is playing checkers.
So the Middle East is connectedto China because of the Chinese
need for Middle Eastern oil.
That was the reason that KargIsland was not bombed by the
Israelis or the United Stateswas to leave the door open for
China as part of thatnegotiation, but letting them
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know that we could close thatdoor at any moment, and that
gave Trump enormous leverage andthat's why this deal this
morning, for example, wascompleted.
It's all working out.
In the short term, I'moptimistic, but in the long term
, I'm very pessimistic and Iwant to talk to you about that
in reference to antipolitism.
Now let me make a couple ofthings clear.
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First of all, I think DonaldTrump whether he ends up being a
successful or unsuccessfulpresident, remains to be seen.
It's too early in his term tomark.
This term, his first term wassuccessful.
His second term, most secondterms are not successful, but
we'll see.
We will see.
He is in this term in office,this second term, the single
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most productive president, Ithink.
In American history I don'tthink there's ever been a
president to do so much so fast.
Now, maybe not even FranklinRoosevelt, who, by the way, was
a big dumb schmuck.
I credit him with some thingspositive.
It's not true that I always sayhe's a big dumb schmuck, but
basically it was FranklinRoosevelt that created the big
depression.
Somehow he gets credit forending it when in fact, he
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turned the recession into adepression by government
intervention.
But anyway, so let's talk aboutanti-politism, the thing that
concerns a lot of what Trump'sdoing, as you guys know,
bringing it to the present event.
I'm very much in favor of, Ilike what he's doing on the
border generally, although, asyou guys know, I think both
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sides are wrong on the issue ofamnesty in particular, which you
can read about also in aRadical Reset and also in past
podcasts.
I've discussed it at length,I'm not going to rehash it here.
I don't agree with him oneverything, because I don't have
to agree with him on everything.
People who think that you know,oh my God, he disagrees with
Trump, does he still like?
Yeah, in general, I think Trumphas the makings of potentially
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a great president.
His instincts are libertarian.
Frankly, he's a big deregulator.
He doesn't like the governmentinvolved in your life.
He doesn't want the governmenttelling you how to use your
property or run your business.
That's very, very libertarianstuff.
So I like it.
And he's been very strong inthe Middle East, very strong on
foreign policy in general.
He's got NATO paying.
I don't have to.
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You know what I'm going to leavethat to other pundits.
They're all doing that.
I'm not another pundit.
I'm coming at it from a wholedifferent angle.
I'm trying to start a movementand so I don't need to
necessarily mimic every otherpolitical pundit on.
I need to present analternative, which is the
anti-political alternative, andthe concern here is let's say
that Trump gets everything hewants, including this big
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beautiful bill.
The one thing he's not dealingwith is the debt, and the debt,
ultimately, is going to do us in.
And I'm not even saying thatTrump is wrong about his plan to
increase the trajectory of theeconomy so that it's growing
faster than the debt, and thatwould put the debt issue aside
for the time being anyway, andhe's right.
That happens to be true.
I just don't have any long termconfidence in the Congress
maintaining that or in interestrates being as low as they are.
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I know Trump thinks they're toohigh, but historically they're
really too low.
I'm going to take a sip of teanow, so just this is why I'm
taking a short break.
You too low.
I'm going to take a sip of teanow, so just this is why I'm
taking a short break.
You know, here in Arizona, Idon't want to make you feel bad
wherever you are, but thehumidity this morning is 8%,
that's eight, not 18, not 80,eight.
I grew up in Miami beach.
This time of year in Miamibeach, when you walk outside,
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it's like you're taking a showerwith your clothes on.
You have to put your, yourtowel, in the dryer after you
shower, otherwise it'll neverdry Better.
Yet you wash it after everywash because it's got a mildew
after every shower here inArizona, your towel's dry five
minutes after you hang it up.
I'm not exaggerating.
I've washed my hands.
I don't have to use a towel.
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By the time I walk from mybathroom into, let's say, the
living room, my hands arealready dry, naturally.
But on the other hand, I haveto run a humidifier 24-7 in my
home because my skin gets so dry.
But that's a small price to payfor all the other good things
that come with dry heat.
Okay, why do I get the dry heat?
I don't even know.
Okay, back on subject.
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So let's talk aboutanti-politicism.
So what I'm concerned with here?
Let's say that Trump gets allof his ducks in a row.
He's successful on the border,which he's already been.
He's successful with thenegotiations and the tariffs
with the Chinese, which Ibelieve he's going to be, and
with everybody else, includingthe EU.
He's gotten NATO to pay up 5%of GDP, which no one thought was
even remotely possible.
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He's the only.
Every president talks about it.
He's the only president that'sever done it, and I know that
all of you Trump deranged areout there now thinking that I'm
a mega guy.
You know that's just stupidity.
That's just people who don'tlisten.
You know it's.
I like a lot of what Trump'sdone.
I don't like a lot of whatTrump's done, but you know what?
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On balance, he's going to be anincredibly consequential
president.
He's changed American politicsin a very, very major way, but
what he's not is an ideologue,and Trumpism, if it is an ism,
doesn't really exist.
What we're living through nowis a cult of personality.
I don't mean that in thecommunist, you know, mao Zedong,
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joseph Stalin sort of way,adolf Hitler sort of way, I know
, all you Trump deranged aregoing to jump on that.
No, it's just that hispersonality is so huge, he's so
charismatic and he has enrolledso many people into his vision,
which are their visions as well.
He didn't really what Trump did.
I don't think Trump so muchinvented MAGA as identified it
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and then gained control of it.
In other words, the underlyingvalues that make up what MAGA is
the hardworking men and womenof traditional values who go to
church on Sunday and havechildren and still go to the
soccer games and the softballgames and roll their eyes at the
things that come out of the IvyLeague, the normal, what I
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would call normal America.
That's MAGA and Trump didn'tinvent those values.
In fact, if anything, he liveda life contrary to them, given
his playboy times, but he hassomehow embraced them and gained
control of them.
He's riding that beast for thetime being, but he's an
80-year-old man.
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I'm rounding, I know, and heamazes me, but he's still going
to slow down and he's not goingto be president in three years
and that's that.
And do I think JD Vance is thelikely successor?
I do.
Do I think JD Vance is an ableperson?
Oh, I think he's exceptionallyable.
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He might continue the role, butI don't think of, you know, a
couple of years, or even sevenyears, let's say, or even 11
years.
Let's say that Vance is electedand then it serves two terms.
So from this day forward, wehave 11 more years of this kind
of government minimum.
It's still the very nature ofthe system and the bureaucracy
is going to the minute these menare off the stage.
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Come right back again.
It's just, it's the nature ofthings since the founding of the
Republic.
Alexis de Tocqueville, who is aComte, c-o-m-p-t-e, c-o-m-p-t-e,
yeah, comte, which is a count,count Alexis de Tocqueville of
France in 1815 in his bookDemocracy in America.
I think it was 1815.
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Might have been 1815.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm right.
Anyway, it doesn't matter whatyear it was why do I care, I
don't know but in 18.
And then I've got to repeat itagain.
You know, I need to be moreself-aware of what I'm saying.
Anyway, he warned of what'shappening right now, that once
people figured out they couldvote for, they could vote
themselves benefits they don'tpay for, they would never stop,
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which is why the founders builtin protections.
Protections like you had to ownproperty in order to vote.
Well, you know, by doing awaywith that you basically like.
And, by the way, in those daysthat made perfect sense, since
it was an agrarian's economy and80% of the people worked in
farming.
So a lot of people on propertyeven the ones that didn't work
in farming on property, everyonehad their own garden.
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And that meant you had skin inthe game, because there was no
income tax and the governmentraises money through tariffs and
through fees.
And when you're spending yourown money because you have skin
in the game, you're much morecareful with it.
When Woodrow Wilson, who is I'vesaid it before, I'll say it
again the single most evil manin history, I think in modern
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history, for sure of anynationality, that we can discuss
one day when I have absolutelynothing else to talk about but
Woodrow Wilson, in one of hisunending lists of heinous acts
God, I hate him Did away withthe property requirement and by
doing so he unleashed what'sgoing on now.
Then he introduced the incometax and that was the end of that
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.
I mean, the mess we're in nowis, in many ways, directly as a
result of Woodrow Wilson, andthen people like Franklin
Roosevelt, lyndon Johnson,building on it in big ways.
And then you know the welfarestate taking over to the point
where not even the Republicansconsider reforming it, and it's
eating us alive.
And the biggest part of that isSocial Security.
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And if you were payingattention I know with so much
going on it's hard to payattention but the time frame for
Social Security to go bankrupthas been moved up from 2033 to
2031.
That's not very far, guys, andthis is a looming crisis.
It's like we're walking into acrisis and no one wants to talk
about it and there's going tohave to be major reform.
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And the problem is, even ifthere is major reform, even in
the best case scenario, even ifthey get control of it.
Now it will come back, just asit has for the last 200 years,
because it's a selfish instinctthat motivates it, and the
selfish will find a way to beselfish.
Take it from me, a formercriminal you can talk yourself
into believing that you're holyeven as you're committing a
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crime.
Believe me, when I wascommitting my crime and this is
no excuse you know intention isnot an excuse here I should have
known what I was doing.
Going in, it was willfulblindness.
Believe me, I'm not makingexcuses, but I did not think of
myself as a criminal until I wasidentified as a criminal and
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finally finally engaged in someself-reflection.
That was long overdue.
But that's not the case withmost people in government and in
career, and when their careersare in politics.
It should be impossible toserve all these terms of
politics.
It just should be impossible,and yet somehow it isn't, and
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that just blows me away.
It just blows me away.
So, anyway, and anti-politism,because it is government by
lottery and it's selecting froma meritorious class of people.
Again you can read about it.
We eliminate career because youhave no way of knowing you're
going to be selected by thelottery until you're selected
and then you can only serve oneterm and then you're done.
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There's no re election and onceyou've served your one term,
you're out of the pool forever.
You can never serve again.
So the idea of people cominginto Congress like Joe Biden
when they've never held a realjob in their life and going from
not having a lot of money tosuddenly being worth you know
millions, can't happen.
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Okay, that kind of corruptionand believe me, that's all it is
, and it's not just Biden,there's tons of them Tend to be
on the Democratic side onlybecause they're the party of the
state and the bureaucracy andthat's where a lot of the theft
goes on.
And the insider dealing and thenon-government NGOs that are
really geos, that are reallycontrolled by cronies and
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funneling millions.
All of that would never happenin an anti-political system,
because there are no politicalparties and no political careers
.
As such, congress then wouldbecome a part-time pursuit,
because today, when I saycongressmen, I mean senators and
representatives as well.
Congresspeople generally spend80 to 90 percent of their time
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raising money, and inanti-politism there would be no
need for money because therewould be no elections.
So zero money in politics.
And since there's zero money inpolitics, they could continue
doing what they do for a livingand going like the original,
like the founders did.
This was how the foundersthought it was never a full-time
job at the beginning.
They would go, they'd balancethe budget, they'd meet if there
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was an emergency, if someforeign power was attacking us
which is a legitimate role ofgovernment then they would get
together and decide if they weregoing to declare a war or what
they were going to do about it,and then they'd make their move
and go home again.
That's what we have to returnto a Congress that doesn't have
so much time on its hands thatit has to find ways to spend our
money.
So the problem with now, andthe reason that anti-politism
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would be so much better, is that, no matter what Trump does,
it's going to bounce back likerubber.
I'll share a story with youthat'll illustrate what I'm
trying to say with you.
That'll illustrate what I'mtrying to say.
Years and years ago, when I wasa young man, I was living in
Loveland Colorado.
My oldest son was born at McKeeMedical Center in Loveland
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Colorado and I was in my firstbusiness, which was a small
chain of pet stores in NorthernColorado.
That's PET, p-e-t, pet.
I have a thing for animals, Istill do.
My home is in Menagerie.
I have a dog, a cat and twoaquariums and I really would
like to have more.
Okay, so I've always been ananimal person.
I won't go into the whole storyof how I ended up in the pet
business, but I opened a coupleof pet stores yada, yada, yada.
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That was back in the early1980s.
Now, living up there in northernColorado, I had you know it was
good in business to join clubs,organizations, get to know
people, and one of the groups Ijoined was Kiwanis.
Now, the reason that I joinedthe Kiwanis, which is a service
club for those of you who areunfamiliar with Kiwanis was
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because when I was in highschool at Miami Beach High
School, I was very active in KeyClub and Key Club was the high
school.
I don't even know if they stillexist, but back in the day,
when it was still not lookeddown upon, back in the 1960s and
70s, high schools had serviceclubs I don't know if they still
exist and the Kiwanis ServiceClub in high school was the Key
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Club and I was very active in itand I had a lot of friends in
it and it was a wonderfulexperience and I don't regret
any of it.
So, as an adult and when I sayan adult, I was in my early 20s
I joined the Kiwanis Club inLoveland, Colorado.
While I was there, I met alovely man and he was a
Presbyterian minister named Jim.
Oh, my God, I want to say JimBaker, but that's not right.
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It might have been Jim Parker.
It's not right.
It might have been Jim Parker.
It's not important.
We'll just call him Jim.
Reverend Jim.
Oh, no, that sounds likesomething out of Taxi.
Let's not do that.
Pastor Jim, okay, so, pastorJim, he had a common last name.
I want to say it was Parker.
Pastor Parker, no, that's notright.
Anyway, if you're alive and youhear this out there somewhere,
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and he's probably still alive Iwould love you to remind me of
what's your last name.
I'm so embarrassed.
Anyway, he was the pastor ofthe first Presbyterian church in
Loveland, which is a beautifulI'm sure it's still there a
beautiful old stone church.
And one thing led to another,and I was going through a rough
patch in my first marriage thatended in disaster.
Yadaada, yada.
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I began to experiment withChristianity, even though I'm
Jewish, and I grew very, veryclose with Jim, and it was a
great experience and even thoughI did not convert to
Christianity, I certainly have agreat appreciation for for it,
that that since that time, sincepastor Jim, I was and I was not
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the word is not indoctrinatededucated and I got to see the
best side of Christianity and hewas the real deal and a really
fine guy.
Anyway, he invited me over fordinner one night at the
Parsonage, which is where theparson lives.
I guess I'm using the wordparson a lot.
I hope I'm using that rightAgain, being Jewish, there are
no Jewish parsons, so I'm notsure if I'm overusing it.
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Anyway.
Parsons, so I'm not sure if I'moverusing it.
Anyway, stick with me.
The Reverend, the Parson, thePastor oh, I wasn't even using
Parson, I was using Pastor.
I get so confused Parsons,pastors, pastor, anyway.
But it was called the Parsonage, not the Pastorage.
So that's how I got on Parson.
But anyway, I went over and Imet his very lovely wife and his
children and she was expectingme, she made dinner, it was
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really great, and she said whydon't you go out with Jim?
He's in the garage, in his woodshop.
And what I didn't share withyou as part of the story was is
that Jim had a master's degreein theology and a PhD as well in
psychology, and he was just avery educated and well-read guy.
I might have that backwards, itmight have been a master's in
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psychology and a PhD in theology.
It was one of the two.
Whether they flipped, I don'tknow.
Anyway, not important,completely unimportant.
Anyway, it struck me in my youthand my immaturity, as in
Congress, that this verywell-read and educated guy was
doing woodworking.
This was a leftover prejudicefrom my mother who somehow
looked down her nose at manuallabor.
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Believe me, I don't have that,but in those days I kind of had
it.
And anyway, to make a longstory short, and I said so, I
said to him I said, jim, what'swith the woodworking?
You're educated, blah, blah,blah.
I'm not going to repeat all thethings I already told you about
.
And then he said to me he said,look, it's really simple.
I spend all day counselingpeople.
Whether I'm counseling them inthe context of Christianity or
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psychology or both, I'mcounseling people all day.
And he said, 99% of the timethey go on and do what they want
to do.
Anyway, they snap back, youknow, I think.
I have them, you know, fixedback.
You know I think I have them,you know, fixed, and I'm not his
word was not fixed, I forgetexactly what it was, but you
know I have them at least on theright path.
And then they snap right backlike rubber and they go right
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back to doing what they weredoing.
And he said what I love aboutwoodworking is that when I cut
it it stays that way.
And, as he related to me, thatit explains I I have shared with
you, by the way, that I'm apilot.
One of the things that I loveabout being a pilot is that if I
do everything the right way, italways comes out the right way.
Like landing a plane is acontrolled crash, but if you
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control it the right way, thenevery single time you're going
to put it on nice and soft andeasy.
And then there are proceduresfor other situations when the
wind is blowing in the wrongdirection, this and that and the
other.
I'm not going to go into flying, but for the same reason I
think and I like fishing verymuch, and fishing I think it's
not so much and fishing is notcatching.
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I many times go fishing anddon't catch anything, but
there's something about thepeace of being in nature.
That does it.
So I could appreciate himsaying that, and that's the
problem with government.
So this whole story relates tono matter what President Trump
does, no matter how straightenedout he gets the country, no
matter how much he gets thingsgoing in the right direction in
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a number of different areas,inevitably they're all going to
snap back, because that is thenature of humanity at its
selfish worst.
And in democracy, democracy isjust another word for mob rule,
and that's what we have now ismob rule, and both sides are
trying to figure out how to geta bigger piece of the mob.
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And the thing of it is whatantipolitism does is it
basically picks out, through avery simple system, who's doing
something with their lives interms of achievement.
And the reason that that'simportant isn't because they're
better people, but people whoachieve something in their lives
.
And I don't set the bar allthat high.
I'm talking just.
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You know well, anyway, you'llread the book, but where I set
the bar is not unachievable, itjust means that you have to put
your head down and do all theright things to get there.
And that's very intentional,because in order to achieve a
certain level of success in life, unless you're lucky or a trust
fund baby which I eliminate inantipoliticism, by the way.
You'll see why when you readthe book or the possibility of a
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trust fund baby gettinginvolved.
People who work for a living andachieve a certain level of
success share common habits,regardless of their nationality
or their race or their religion.
So you know, whether you'rePresbyterian, jewish, muslim or
Buddhist, you know the samehabits that propel you into your
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career and have you rise up theladder, no matter what your
career is, are identical,regardless of what your ethnic
background or religiousbackground is.
And that's so important becausewe have a fetish today with
everybody, separating everybodyout by melanin level or religion
or whatever it might be melaninlevel or religion or whatever
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it might be, or nationality whenreally America is about decency
and it's about recognizing therights and the primacy of the
individual and about naturalrights, rights given to us by
God, whether God is a literalbeing or an understanding.
Those natural rights are, isare what make America great, and
by setting up a professionalpolitical class.
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You know, remember also, thefounders never envisioned people
living typically into their 80s.
You know, in the Founders' Day,if you were 40 years old, you
were dead.
I mean most of the time.
It's just it was a wholedifferent understanding.
They never envisioned JoeBiden's taking place.
Yes, benjamin frank lived to bein his 80s, but that's.
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That was the.
That was an anomaly, not a, nota common thing.
And boy he must have, he andjefferson and adams.
They must have been toughcookies man, because they all
got sick over and over and overfrom horrible things, but
somehow they fought through andof of course, they survived.
They had great immune systems,but most people were dead.
I'd have been dead because Ihad appendicitis and my appendix
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ruptured when I was 11 yearsold.
I'd have died at the age of 11.
Think about that as you relateto how democracy has morphed all
the way to today, to where wehave a lot of people voting who
really have no business voting.
You cannot allow.
It is a fact today, in thewelfare state and in an
anti-political government, thiswould change.
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But right now, 80% of thepeople derive more in benefit
from the government than theypay in taxes.
It's the top 20% who literallypays all the actual taxes.
Yes, the other groups pay sometaxes, but they're collecting
more, and when I say they, we,I'm a member of the lower group
since I got out of prison.
But here's the bottom line, guys.
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You know, between theinfrastructure, the roads, the
hospitals, the police, thegarbage pick, all the things
that we take for granted are allgovernment services of one
government or another in one wayor another, and we are not
paying enough in taxes to getthe service we're getting.
We're getting a pretty sweetdeal, except that we're running
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up a debt that we'll never beable to pay, which is immoral,
and none of this would have evertaken place in an
anti-political government,because the people involved
would have been people of merit,and people merit all think
about the same.
They don't have to be democrats, republicans, they have common
sense, or they would have nevergotten to where they are.
You know, they're people whohave done something with their
lives, not just talked about it.
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They're not talking heads,they're not politicians.
They're not people who havemade careers out of yapping and
hearing themselves.
They're not sociopaths, they'relawyers.
We're not going to have alegislature that's over half
just lawyers.
There will be some lawyersCommence with the percentage of
lawyers in the population, maybea third of 1%, 1%, something
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like that but not this plethoraof people who are basically.
What is a lawyer, but a paidprostitute?
A paid verbal prostitute?
A paid intellectual prostituteis a better way of putting it.
They'll take your side as longas you pay them, and they will
prostitute themselves.
Even if they think you're wrong, they'll still do it, and
they'll do it with a big smileon their faces Paid intellectual
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prostitutes.
Anyway, I think I'll leave itthere today.
Antipolitism.
Let me just sum up by sayingthis If we had an anti-political
system, the good things thatPresident Trump is doing would
still be done and would last.
Where?
Today, no matter what he does,it's not going to last.
It's as simple as that.
I wish that weren't true, butit is so.
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Anyway, you guys have awonderful and beautiful day, a
wonderful and beautiful weekend.
We'll talk again on Monday andwe'll see if my prognostications
of last Monday come trueregarding what's going to go on
in the Middle East.
We shall see Peace out.
God bless you and God blessAmerica.
Happy Friday.
Dudes and dudettes.
It's me your pal Herbie, hostof Eradical Reset.
Sorry, I didn't post a podcaston Wednesday as I promised I
would.
I actually recorded one, butthere was some issue with the
recording and when I went tomaster it it was pooped up.
And by that point it was latein the day and things are coming
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so fast and furious I decided,oh well, things happen, I'll
just post one today.
So what a week it has been.
It's hard to say what I reallywant to talk about in any one
specific thing.
I think I want to relate thecurrent situation to maybe an
alternate history of what wouldhave happened with all of this
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had politics been anti-political.
So, for those of you who arejoining me for the first time, I
am the founder of an idea thatsounds so much more grandiose
than the guy who came up with,an idea that is so obscure that
nobody knows about it yet.
But listen, every journey isshortened by the first step.
I think it was the Buddha whosaid that, but anyway, every
journey is shortened by thefirst step.
I think it was the Buddha whosaid that, but anyway, it is
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absolutely true.
So, long story short,anti-politism is a republic, but
instead of voting, it's alottery selection based upon
merit.
Now, if you want to read aboutit and how it works and why, it
converts politics from a careerto a duty, and it makes it
impossible to have a career andit makes corruption far less
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likely.
It takes not some of the moneyout of politics, all of the
money out of politics, it getsrid of all political parties and
it makes it possible that evenyou, listening to me right now,
could be president of the UnitedStates.
And if any of that interestsyou, then go buy a copy of A
Radical Reset.
It's on Amazon, by me, herbie K.
Herbie with a Y, by the way.
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I spell it with a Y, not an I-E.
I'm not a love bug, I'm Herbie.
So pick up a copy.
It's in Kindle, paperback andhardcover, read it and learn
about antipolitism, as well as anumber of policy prescriptions
that I think a rationalgovernment would undertake.
And that is really the subjectof today's discussion, which is
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rationality in politics, whichwe really don't have very much
of Now.
To give you a little review, bythe way, I predicted that a week
from the bombing, the Ayatollahwould be out of power.
It hasn't been a week yet.
So my prediction stands.
We'll see.
Looks like I'm going to bewrong, but listen, stranger
things have happened and it'sonly Friday and by Sunday, god
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only knows what will havehappened.
So things are moving so fast,just digressing slightly.
If you had to pick someone tobe, donald Trump would be a good
person to be, just because he'shaving the week from heaven.
I mean, my God.
Today alone, it was announcedthat the Chinese affirmed the
deal that he made with them onrare earths and microchips and
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technology and so on and soforth.
Anyway, it's all good and, as Itold you, this is all part of
the game of chess that he'splaying when most everybody else
is playing checkers.
So the Middle East is connectedto China because of the Chinese
need for Middle Eastern oil.
That was the reason that KargIsland was not bombed by the
Israelis or the United Stateswas to leave the door open for
China as part of thatnegotiation, but letting them
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know that we could close thatdoor at any moment, and that
gave Trump enormous leverage andthat's why this deal this
morning, for example, wascompleted.
It's all working out.
In the short term, I'moptimistic, but in the long term
, I'm very pessimistic and Iwant to talk to you about that
in reference to antipolitism.
Now let me make a couple ofthings clear.
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First of all, I think DonaldTrump whether he ends up being a
successful or unsuccessfulpresident, remains to be seen.
It's too early in his term tomark.
This term, his first term wassuccessful.
His second term, most secondterms are not successful, but
we'll see.
We will see.
He is in this term in office,this second term, the single
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most productive president, Ithink.
In American history I don'tthink there's ever been a
president to do so much so fast.
Now, maybe not even FranklinRoosevelt, who, by the way, was
a big dumb schmuck.
I credit him with some thingspositive.
It's not true that I always sayhe's a big dumb schmuck, but
basically it was FranklinRoosevelt that created the big
depression.
Somehow he gets credit forending it when in fact, he
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turned the recession into adepression by government
intervention.
But anyway, so let's talk aboutanti-politism, the thing that
concerns a lot of what Trump'sdoing, as you guys know,
bringing it to the present event.
I'm very much in favor of, Ilike what he's doing on the
border generally, although, asyou guys know, I think both
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sides are wrong on the issue ofamnesty in particular, which you
can read about also in aRadical Reset and also in past
podcasts.
I've discussed it at length,I'm not going to rehash it here.
I don't agree with him oneverything, because I don't have
to agree with him on everything.
People who think that you know,oh my God, he disagrees with
Trump, does he still like?
Yeah, in general, I think Trumphas the makings of potentially
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a great president.
His instincts are libertarian.
Frankly, he's a big deregulator.
He doesn't like the governmentinvolved in your life.
He doesn't want the governmenttelling you how to use your
property or run your business.
That's very, very libertarianstuff.
So I like it.
And he's been very strong inthe Middle East, very strong on
foreign policy in general.
He's got NATO paying.
I don't have to.
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You know what I'm going to leavethat to other pundits.
They're all doing that.
I'm not another pundit.
I'm coming at it from a wholedifferent angle.
I'm trying to start a movementand so I don't need to
necessarily mimic every otherpolitical pundit on.
I need to present analternative, which is the
anti-political alternative, andthe concern here is let's say
that Trump gets everything hewants, including this big
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beautiful bill.
The one thing he's not dealingwith is the debt, and the debt,
ultimately, is going to do us in.
And I'm not even saying thatTrump is wrong about his plan to
increase the trajectory of theeconomy so that it's growing
faster than the debt, and thatwould put the debt issue aside
for the time being anyway, andhe's right.
That happens to be true.
I just don't have any long termconfidence in the Congress
maintaining that or in interestrates being as low as they are.
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I know Trump thinks they're toohigh, but historically they're
really too low.
I'm going to take a sip of teanow, so just this is why I'm
taking a short break.
You too low.
I'm going to take a sip of teanow, so just this is why I'm
taking a short break.
You know, here in Arizona, Idon't want to make you feel bad
wherever you are, but thehumidity this morning is 8%,
that's eight, not 18, not 80,eight.
I grew up in Miami beach.
This time of year in Miamibeach, when you walk outside,
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it's like you're taking a showerwith your clothes on.
You have to put your, yourtowel, in the dryer after you
shower, otherwise it'll neverdry Better.
Yet you wash it after everywash because it's got a mildew
after every shower here inArizona, your towel's dry five
minutes after you hang it up.
I'm not exaggerating.
I've washed my hands.
I don't have to use a towel.
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By the time I walk from mybathroom into, let's say, the
living room, my hands arealready dry, naturally.
But on the other hand, I haveto run a humidifier 24-7 in my
home because my skin gets so dry.
But that's a small price to payfor all the other good things
that come with dry heat.
Okay, why do I get the dry heat?
I don't even know.
Okay, back on subject.
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So let's talk aboutanti-politicism.
So what I'm concerned with here?
Let's say that Trump gets allof his ducks in a row.
He's successful on the border,which he's already been.
He's successful with thenegotiations and the tariffs
with the Chinese, which Ibelieve he's going to be, and
with everybody else, includingthe EU.
He's gotten NATO to pay up 5%of GDP, which no one thought was
even remotely possible.
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He's the only.
Every president talks about it.
He's the only president that'sever done it, and I know that
all of you Trump deranged areout there now thinking that I'm
a mega guy.
You know that's just stupidity.
That's just people who don'tlisten.
You know it's.
I like a lot of what Trump'sdone.
I don't like a lot of whatTrump's done, but you know what?
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On balance, he's going to be anincredibly consequential
president.
He's changed American politicsin a very, very major way, but
what he's not is an ideologue,and Trumpism, if it is an ism,
doesn't really exist.
What we're living through nowis a cult of personality.
I don't mean that in thecommunist, you know, mao Zedong,
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joseph Stalin sort of way,adolf Hitler sort of way, I know
, all you Trump deranged aregoing to jump on that.
No, it's just that hispersonality is so huge, he's so
charismatic and he has enrolledso many people into his vision,
which are their visions as well.
He didn't really what Trump did.
I don't think Trump so muchinvented MAGA as identified it
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and then gained control of it.
In other words, the underlyingvalues that make up what MAGA is
the hardworking men and womenof traditional values who go to
church on Sunday and havechildren and still go to the
soccer games and the softballgames and roll their eyes at the
things that come out of the IvyLeague, the normal, what I
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would call normal America.
That's MAGA and Trump didn'tinvent those values.
In fact, if anything, he liveda life contrary to them, given
his playboy times, but he hassomehow embraced them and gained
control of them.
He's riding that beast for thetime being, but he's an
80-year-old man.
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I'm rounding, I know, and heamazes me, but he's still going
to slow down and he's not goingto be president in three years
and that's that.
And do I think JD Vance is thelikely successor?
I do.
Do I think JD Vance is an ableperson?
Oh, I think he's exceptionallyable.
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He might continue the role, butI don't think of, you know, a
couple of years, or even sevenyears, let's say, or even 11
years.
Let's say that Vance is electedand then it serves two terms.
So from this day forward, wehave 11 more years of this kind
of government minimum.
It's still the very nature ofthe system and the bureaucracy
is going to the minute these menare off the stage.
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Come right back again.
It's just, it's the nature ofthings since the founding of the
Republic.
Alexis de Tocqueville, who is aComte, c-o-m-p-t-e, c-o-m-p-t-e,
yeah, comte, which is a count,count Alexis de Tocqueville of
France in 1815 in his bookDemocracy in America.
I think it was 1815.
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Might have been 1815.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm right.
Anyway, it doesn't matter whatyear it was why do I care, I
don't know but in 18.
And then I've got to repeat itagain.
You know, I need to be moreself-aware of what I'm saying.
Anyway, he warned of what'shappening right now, that once
people figured out they couldvote for, they could vote
themselves benefits they don'tpay for, they would never stop,
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which is why the founders builtin protections.
Protections like you had to ownproperty in order to vote.
Well, you know, by doing awaywith that you basically like.
And, by the way, in those daysthat made perfect sense, since
it was an agrarian's economy and80% of the people worked in
farming.
So a lot of people on propertyeven the ones that didn't work
in farming on property, everyonehad their own garden.
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And that meant you had skin inthe game, because there was no
income tax and the governmentraises money through tariffs and
through fees.
And when you're spending yourown money because you have skin
in the game, you're much morecareful with it.
When Woodrow Wilson, who is I'vesaid it before, I'll say it
again the single most evil manin history, I think in modern
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history, for sure of anynationality, that we can discuss
one day when I have absolutelynothing else to talk about but
Woodrow Wilson, in one of hisunending lists of heinous acts
God, I hate him Did away withthe property requirement and by
doing so he unleashed what'sgoing on now.
Then he introduced the incometax and that was the end of that
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.
I mean, the mess we're in nowis, in many ways, directly as a
result of Woodrow Wilson, andthen people like Franklin
Roosevelt, lyndon Johnson,building on it in big ways.
And then you know the welfarestate taking over to the point
where not even the Republicansconsider reforming it, and it's
eating us alive.
And the biggest part of that isSocial Security.
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And if you were payingattention I know with so much
going on it's hard to payattention but the time frame for
Social Security to go bankrupthas been moved up from 2033 to
2031.
That's not very far, guys, andthis is a looming crisis.
It's like we're walking into acrisis and no one wants to talk
about it and there's going tohave to be major reform.
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And the problem is, even ifthere is major reform, even in
the best case scenario, even ifthey get control of it.
Now it will come back, just asit has for the last 200 years,
because it's a selfish instinctthat motivates it, and the
selfish will find a way to beselfish.
Take it from me, a formercriminal you can talk yourself
into believing that you're holyeven as you're committing a
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crime.
Believe me, when I wascommitting my crime and this is
no excuse you know intention isnot an excuse here I should have
known what I was doing.
Going in, it was willfulblindness.
Believe me, I'm not makingexcuses, but I did not think of
myself as a criminal until I wasidentified as a criminal and
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finally finally engaged in someself-reflection.
That was long overdue.
But that's not the case withmost people in government and in
career, and when their careersare in politics.
It should be impossible toserve all these terms of
politics.
It just should be impossible,and yet somehow it isn't, and
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that just blows me away.
It just blows me away.
So, anyway, and anti-politism,because it is government by
lottery and it's selecting froma meritorious class of people.
Again you can read about it.
We eliminate career because youhave no way of knowing you're
going to be selected by thelottery until you're selected
and then you can only serve oneterm and then you're done.
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There's no re election and onceyou've served your one term,
you're out of the pool forever.
You can never serve again.
So the idea of people cominginto Congress like Joe Biden
when they've never held a realjob in their life and going from
not having a lot of money tosuddenly being worth you know
millions, can't happen.
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Okay, that kind of corruptionand believe me, that's all it is
, and it's not just Biden,there's tons of them Tend to be
on the Democratic side onlybecause they're the party of the
state and the bureaucracy andthat's where a lot of the theft
goes on.
And the insider dealing and thenon-government NGOs that are
really geos, that are reallycontrolled by cronies and
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funneling millions.
All of that would never happenin an anti-political system,
because there are no politicalparties and no political careers
.
As such, congress then wouldbecome a part-time pursuit,
because today, when I saycongressmen, I mean senators and
representatives as well.
Congresspeople generally spend80 to 90 percent of their time
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raising money, and inanti-politism there would be no
need for money because therewould be no elections.
So zero money in politics.
And since there's zero money inpolitics, they could continue
doing what they do for a livingand going like the original,
like the founders did.
This was how the foundersthought it was never a full-time
job at the beginning.
They would go, they'd balancethe budget, they'd meet if there
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was an emergency, if someforeign power was attacking us
which is a legitimate role ofgovernment then they would get
together and decide if they weregoing to declare a war or what
they were going to do about it,and then they'd make their move
and go home again.
That's what we have to returnto a Congress that doesn't have
so much time on its hands thatit has to find ways to spend our
money.
So the problem with now, andthe reason that anti-politism
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would be so much better, is that, no matter what Trump does,
it's going to bounce back likerubber.
I'll share a story with youthat'll illustrate what I'm
trying to say with you.
That'll illustrate what I'mtrying to say.
Years and years ago, when I wasa young man, I was living in
Loveland Colorado.
My oldest son was born at McKeeMedical Center in Loveland
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Colorado and I was in my firstbusiness, which was a small
chain of pet stores in NorthernColorado.
That's PET, p-e-t, pet.
I have a thing for animals, Istill do.
My home is in Menagerie.
I have a dog, a cat and twoaquariums and I really would
like to have more.
Okay, so I've always been ananimal person.
I won't go into the whole storyof how I ended up in the pet
business, but I opened a coupleof pet stores yada, yada, yada.
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That was back in the early1980s.
Now, living up there in northernColorado, I had you know it was
good in business to join clubs,organizations, get to know
people, and one of the groups Ijoined was Kiwanis.
Now, the reason that I joinedthe Kiwanis, which is a service
club for those of you who areunfamiliar with Kiwanis was
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because when I was in highschool at Miami Beach High
School, I was very active in KeyClub and Key Club was the high
school.
I don't even know if they stillexist, but back in the day,
when it was still not lookeddown upon, back in the 1960s and
70s, high schools had serviceclubs I don't know if they still
exist and the Kiwanis ServiceClub in high school was the Key
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Club and I was very active in itand I had a lot of friends in
it and it was a wonderfulexperience and I don't regret
any of it.
So, as an adult and when I sayan adult, I was in my early 20s
I joined the Kiwanis Club inLoveland, Colorado.
While I was there, I met alovely man and he was a
Presbyterian minister named Jim.
Oh, my God, I want to say JimBaker, but that's not right.
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It might have been Jim Parker.
It's not right.
It might have been Jim Parker.
It's not important.
We'll just call him Jim.
Reverend Jim.
Oh, no, that sounds likesomething out of Taxi.
Let's not do that.
Pastor Jim, okay, so, pastorJim, he had a common last name.
I want to say it was Parker.
Pastor Parker, no, that's notright.
Anyway, if you're alive and youhear this out there somewhere,
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and he's probably still alive Iwould love you to remind me of
what's your last name.
I'm so embarrassed.
Anyway, he was the pastor ofthe first Presbyterian church in
Loveland, which is a beautifulI'm sure it's still there a
beautiful old stone church.
And one thing led to another,and I was going through a rough
patch in my first marriage thatended in disaster.
Yadaada, yada.
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I began to experiment withChristianity, even though I'm
Jewish, and I grew very, veryclose with Jim, and it was a
great experience and even thoughI did not convert to
Christianity, I certainly have agreat appreciation for for it,
that that since that time, sincepastor Jim, I was and I was not
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the word is not indoctrinatededucated and I got to see the
best side of Christianity and hewas the real deal and a really
fine guy.
Anyway, he invited me over fordinner one night at the
Parsonage, which is where theparson lives.
I guess I'm using the wordparson a lot.
I hope I'm using that rightAgain, being Jewish, there are
no Jewish parsons, so I'm notsure if I'm overusing it.
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Anyway.
Parsons, so I'm not sure if I'moverusing it.
Anyway, stick with me.
The Reverend, the Parson, thePastor oh, I wasn't even using
Parson, I was using Pastor.
I get so confused Parsons,pastors, pastor, anyway.
But it was called the Parsonage, not the Pastorage.
So that's how I got on Parson.
But anyway, I went over and Imet his very lovely wife and his
children and she was expectingme, she made dinner, it was
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really great, and she said whydon't you go out with Jim?
He's in the garage, in his woodshop.
And what I didn't share withyou as part of the story was is
that Jim had a master's degreein theology and a PhD as well in
psychology, and he was just avery educated and well-read guy.
I might have that backwards, itmight have been a master's in
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psychology and a PhD in theology.
It was one of the two.
Whether they flipped, I don'tknow.
Anyway, not important,completely unimportant.
Anyway, it struck me in my youthand my immaturity, as in
Congress, that this verywell-read and educated guy was
doing woodworking.
This was a leftover prejudicefrom my mother who somehow
looked down her nose at manuallabor.
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Believe me, I don't have that,but in those days I kind of had
it.
And anyway, to make a longstory short, and I said so, I
said to him I said, jim, what'swith the woodworking?
You're educated, blah, blah,blah.
I'm not going to repeat all thethings I already told you about
.
And then he said to me he said,look, it's really simple.
I spend all day counselingpeople.
Whether I'm counseling them inthe context of Christianity or
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psychology or both, I'mcounseling people all day.
And he said, 99% of the timethey go on and do what they want
to do.
Anyway, they snap back, youknow, I think.
I have them, you know, fixedback.
You know I think I have them,you know, fixed, and I'm not his
word was not fixed, I forgetexactly what it was, but you
know I have them at least on theright path.
And then they snap right backlike rubber and they go right
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back to doing what they weredoing.
And he said what I love aboutwoodworking is that when I cut
it it stays that way.
And, as he related to me, thatit explains I I have shared with
you, by the way, that I'm apilot.
One of the things that I loveabout being a pilot is that if I
do everything the right way, italways comes out the right way.
Like landing a plane is acontrolled crash, but if you
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control it the right way, thenevery single time you're going
to put it on nice and soft andeasy.
And then there are proceduresfor other situations when the
wind is blowing in the wrongdirection, this and that and the
other.
I'm not going to go into flying, but for the same reason I
think and I like fishing verymuch, and fishing I think it's
not so much and fishing is notcatching.
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I many times go fishing anddon't catch anything, but
there's something about thepeace of being in nature.
That does it.
So I could appreciate himsaying that, and that's the
problem with government.
So this whole story relates tono matter what President Trump
does, no matter how straightenedout he gets the country, no
matter how much he gets thingsgoing in the right direction in
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a number of different areas,inevitably they're all going to
snap back, because that is thenature of humanity at its
selfish worst.
And in democracy, democracy isjust another word for mob rule,
and that's what we have now ismob rule, and both sides are
trying to figure out how to geta bigger piece of the mob.
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And the thing of it is whatantipolitism does is it
basically picks out, through avery simple system, who's doing
something with their lives interms of achievement.
And the reason that that'simportant isn't because they're
better people, but people whoachieve something in their lives
.
And I don't set the bar allthat high.
I'm talking just.
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You know well, anyway, you'llread the book, but where I set
the bar is not unachievable, itjust means that you have to put
your head down and do all theright things to get there.
And that's very intentional,because in order to achieve a
certain level of success in life, unless you're lucky or a trust
fund baby which I eliminate inantipoliticism, by the way.
You'll see why when you readthe book or the possibility of a
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trust fund baby gettinginvolved.
People who work for a living andachieve a certain level of
success share common habits,regardless of their nationality
or their race or their religion.
So you know, whether you'rePresbyterian, jewish, muslim or
Buddhist, you know the samehabits that propel you into your
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career and have you rise up theladder, no matter what your
career is, are identical,regardless of what your ethnic
background or religiousbackground is.
And that's so important becausewe have a fetish today with
everybody, separating everybodyout by melanin level or religion
or whatever it might be melaninlevel or religion or whatever
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it might be, or nationality whenreally America is about decency
and it's about recognizing therights and the primacy of the
individual and about naturalrights, rights given to us by
God, whether God is a literalbeing or an understanding.
Those natural rights are, isare what make America great, and
by setting up a professionalpolitical class.
(24:17):
You know, remember also, thefounders never envisioned people
living typically into their 80s.
You know, in the Founders' Day,if you were 40 years old, you
were dead.
I mean most of the time.
It's just it was a wholedifferent understanding.
They never envisioned JoeBiden's taking place.
Yes, benjamin frank lived to bein his 80s, but that's.
(24:38):
That was the.
That was an anomaly, not a, nota common thing.
And boy he must have, he andjefferson and adams.
They must have been toughcookies man, because they all
got sick over and over and overfrom horrible things, but
somehow they fought through andof of course, they survived.
They had great immune systems,but most people were dead.
I'd have been dead because Ihad appendicitis and my appendix
(25:00):
ruptured when I was 11 yearsold.
I'd have died at the age of 11.
Think about that as you relateto how democracy has morphed all
the way to today, to where wehave a lot of people voting who
really have no business voting.
You cannot allow.
It is a fact today, in thewelfare state and in an
anti-political government, thiswould change.
(25:21):
But right now, 80% of thepeople derive more in benefit
from the government than theypay in taxes.
It's the top 20% who literallypays all the actual taxes.
Yes, the other groups pay sometaxes, but they're collecting
more, and when I say they, we,I'm a member of the lower group
since I got out of prison.
But here's the bottom line, guys.
(25:43):
You know, between theinfrastructure, the roads, the
hospitals, the police, thegarbage pick, all the things
that we take for granted are allgovernment services of one
government or another in one wayor another, and we are not
paying enough in taxes to getthe service we're getting.
We're getting a pretty sweetdeal, except that we're running
(26:03):
up a debt that we'll never beable to pay, which is immoral,
and none of this would have evertaken place in an
anti-political government,because the people involved
would have been people of merit,and people merit all think
about the same.
They don't have to be democrats, republicans, they have common
sense, or they would have nevergotten to where they are.
You know, they're people whohave done something with their
lives, not just talked about it.
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They're not talking heads,they're not politicians.
They're not people who havemade careers out of yapping and
hearing themselves.
They're not sociopaths, they'relawyers.
We're not going to have alegislature that's over half
just lawyers.
There will be some lawyersCommence with the percentage of
lawyers in the population, maybea third of 1%, 1%, something
(26:47):
like that but not this plethoraof people who are basically.
What is a lawyer, but a paidprostitute?
A paid verbal prostitute?
A paid intellectual prostituteis a better way of putting it.
They'll take your side as longas you pay them, and they will
prostitute themselves.
Even if they think you're wrong, they'll still do it, and
they'll do it with a big smileon their faces Paid intellectual
(27:09):
prostitutes.
Anyway, I think I'll leave itthere today.
Antipolitism.
Let me just sum up by sayingthis If we had an anti-political
system, the good things thatPresident Trump is doing would
still be done and would last.
Where?
Today, no matter what he does,it's not going to last.
It's as simple as that.
I wish that weren't true, butit is so.
(27:32):
Anyway, you guys have awonderful and beautiful day, a
wonderful and beautiful weekend.
We'll talk again on Monday andwe'll see if my prognostications
of last Monday come trueregarding what's going to go on
in the Middle East.
We shall see Peace out.
God bless you and God blessAmerica.
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