August 2, 2025 • 34 mins
In this powerful best-of episode, Sean Hannity is joined by Mark Levin to discuss his new book On Power, a deep exploration of how centralized authority threatens liberty. Levin contrasts negative power—coercion, deception, and authoritarianism—with positive power rooted in constitutional protections and God-given rights. They cover the dangers of Marxism, radical Islamism, and what they argue is the authoritarian drift of the modern Democratic Party. The conversation touches on the Enlightenment, the U.S. Constitution, and the role of language in preserving—or destroying—freedom. This is a must-listen for those concerned with the philosophical battle shaping America's future.
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The Democratic Party is breaking records in the way, Jessica, Dean,
you don't want to break records.
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To be honest with you, the country is moving towards Trump.
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These polls that come out and show him not doing well,
I don't I don't buy that.
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In many ways at the future, he knew how to campaign.
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There's a lot to learn from him.
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Thank you a goot ten an hour two Sean Hannity's
show Toll Free are numbers eight hundred and nine to
four one sean, if you want to be a part
of the program. There's no doubt that the books, the
great one my dear friend Mark Levin has written, are impactful, influential,
and I would even argue many of them will be
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studied for decades to come. I don't care if it's
men in black talking about unelected judges that will legislate
from the bench. We see weaponization and what Democrats can't
get done electorally, what they can't get done legislatively, they
raise to liberal courts, they go judge shopping. We've talked
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often about that. Another one. Liberty and Tyranny would be
one that I think will be read decades and decades
from now. Amertopia would be another one. American Marxism would
be another one. The Democrat Party Hates America would be
another one. And the one that Mark has just written
is out today for the first day in bookstores all
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around the country, is right up there with all of
his top best selling books. And it's called On Power.
And I decided I didn't want to race through this
book because it is so relevant.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's ripped right.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Out of the headlines that we're living today all of
these new developments through declassification by Tulsea Gabbard. More to
come with John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, about what the
Democrats have done, how they have abused Donald Trump and
abused the people that voted for him, How they orchestrated
a phone Russia hoax, how they had validated the authenticity
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of a very real laptop nobody ever examined it. They
prebunked it for an entire summer meeting weekly with big
tech companies, knowing the story would drop because they knew
Rudy Giuliani's then attorney, Bob Costello had a copy of it.
It does drop, they won't confirm to big media that
reached out to them, social media companies, people like Mark
Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey at the time running Twitter, who said,
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is this the Russian disinformation about Hunter and Joe you
were warning us about or is this real meaning Hunter's laptop?
They had validated its authenticity in March of twenty twenty.
That would be putting cinderblocks on the scales of an election.
So his new book is called On Power, and it
is ripped from today's headlines, a great one. Welcome to
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the program. It's been a while. How am I thank me?
God bless us?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
You look great? Run radio? How can I look create
on radio? It was great to see you.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It was fun over the weekend because I got to
interview you on your show Life, Liberty and Levin. I
got a lot of positive comments on it. I haven't
seen the ratings yet. I hope they were through the roof.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
The issue of power, I mean we see a power
struggle both the Republican Republican Party, Democratic Party. They have coalitions,
but we see within the Democratic Party that the radicals
in that party have taken over Kasmin Krockett, the Squad,
Grandpap Bernie, AOC Pocahontas.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Now this guy mom Nani.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
And what you write about power and when you apply
it to the headlines that today you said, throughout the history,
throughout history, from ancient civilizations to modern Western republics, power
has been used to both oppress and to liberate, to
reward and to exploit, to destroy, and to build Monarchs,
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dictators elites who impose tyranny seek to soliday power, stripping
freedom from individuals. To maintain control over societies. They use
force and deception to ensure that their rules remain unchallenged,
claiming to act in the name of the common good
while stripping individuals of their freedoms.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
That is a powerful power graph. Let's start there.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Well, you know, Sean, I take this word power and
I divide it into positive power, and you're talking there
about negative power. Because I got to thinking, what was
the Revolutionary War really about? You know, we talk about
it very superficially, the Declaration, What does that really mean?
We talk about that at a very surface level. And
I got to thinking it's over power, because liberty without
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rights is nothing. Rights without power don't exist. And so
God is the sovereign. God gives his children sovereignty over government,
over society. That's us, we the people, and that's where
our government comes from, our country comes from. That's what
makes it so unique. Fused with the Enlightenment. What's the
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enlightenment that power needs to check power, that you need
three branches of government. Again, we don't want mobocracy, pure democracy,
and we don't want dictatorships centralized power. And look at
the beautiful Constitution, the Declaration of the Constitution. You and
I and our audiences are having to spend our lifetimes
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to defend it against what against negative power against individuals
who reject all of this. They reject the Enlightenment, they
reject the Judeo Christian belief system. That's what makes America unique,
even from other Western democracies, certainly from radical Islam, certainly
from communism. Communism attacks the whole basis for the American founding.
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It is incompatible Marxism. This guy Mandami, all of them,
Bernie Sanders, what they're preaching is incompatible with Americanism and
our experiment. Same with radical Islam, which believes in not
freedom of speech and ideas. They reject the Enlightenment. They
reject at all because that political Islam has never gone
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through the Reformation. They reject the Enlightenment, and their scholars
talk about destroying the West. So they have fused, and
the Democrat Party represents this negative power. Now they're not yet,
you know, genocidal in that sense, So it's a soft
negative power. They believe in what I call authoritarian democracy.
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We vote, but it has less and less meaning. We
have a democracy, really republic, but it has less and
less meaning. They spend their entire existence trying to get
around the constitution, trying to destroy its firewalls, trying to
destroy our culture. You and I our listeners. We defend
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all these things. So I thought, got to thinking, Sean,
let's figure out a better way to discuss this. Let's
get to the number, the matter and the battle, the
battle today of the people you mentioned in US. It's
over power, That's what it is. And so I take
that term and I try and explain it and unravel it.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
We saw the worst of negative power, and then I'll
get to positive power in a minute. We can go back,
for example, in the last century, and I don't care
if you're talking about Mao and China and Stalin and
Russia and Hitler and Germany and Mussolini and Tojo in Japan,
and you combine it all together, and we lost well
over one hundred million human souls in the name of
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some ism I wrote about in Livery or Die socialism
and its history of failure. And it's a little bit
different because this is when that last century, when you
talk about death and destruction, that is the nth degree
that it can go to. And then you have different
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degrees of whatever manifestation, whatever name you put on its socialism, statism,
I mean as a Marxism. It's all one and the
same in many many ways. And what I was trying
to point out is you always have these incredible promises
that will never be fulfilled. You end up poorer than
when you started. And then you calculate how much of
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your freedom you gave up in the name of false security.
And when you get to the positive side of power,
which you go into in great detail, you talk about
our framers, You talk about God, and you spend a
lot of time on God in this book. You talk
about our constitution and how they understood that strong societies
are borne not from force, by consent of the governed,
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and societies building these checks and balances, fair elections and
the preservation of individual rights, but they will only thrive
in that environment. So you have two competing forces here.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
But let me be clear, I'm not proselytizing in this book,
as you know, I'm not even good at it. I'm
explaining what the founders of our country did, what they believe.
Let me give an example, because you make a very
good point faith the Judeo Christian belief system. People don't
have to be Jewish, they don't have to be Christian,
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they don't believe anything. They could be agnostic, they can
be atheists, they can be Buddhists and Hindus, mother, whatever
you want. But just understand, this country is tolerant. This
country embraces representative constitutional government. This country believes in debate
and free speech and freedom of association. Why because of
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the way it was created with the Judeo Christian faith,
fused with the Enlightenment. Who's the Enlightenment, Locke Montesquieu. People
like that, How do I know I'm right? Because our
founder said so. Most of all, Jefferson said so. And
so the point is that that's the kind of society
we created. Marx attacked our declaration of Independence. He attacked
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individual he will, he attacked the idea of unalienable rights.
Woodrow Wilson, the first of the intellectual progressives, I call
them American Marxist, a president who is based on modern
day Democrat party belief systems. He rejected the Declaration of Independence.
He wrote such he was an American Marxist progeny from Mars.
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FDR rejected rejected the Declaration of Independence. FDR comes up
with what he calls the Second Bill of Rights. What
is it? It's literally plagiarized from Stalin's nineteen thirty six constitution,
and they have all these beautiful words and phrases. Sean
like this Mondami. I'm concerned about affordability. He's not concerned
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about affordability. He supports open borders, massive debt, inflation, registribution
of wealth, which kills wealth. He wants to take the
means of production from home. The guide it owns, the
pizza parlor, the plumber who has a little business, the
means of production, that's your labor, intellectual and physical. It's
a constant war against the sovereign. As the individual, your
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own circle of liberty. It's the constant war on we
the people, we the sovereign, which is why they are
endlessly centralizing government, coming up with governmental answers. And the
Democrat Party is a power hungry party. Look and honestly,
we're not power hungry. We fight for power, positive power.
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They fight for negative power, to lard over us, to
have power over us. This is the big distinction, and
I think it would help us if we make this
distinction rather than talking platitudes to younger people and other people,
to explain, do you really want this kind of authority
in your lives, telling you what to do day in
and day on. Now, some of our fellow citizens do, Okay,
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that's their problem, But I don't believe most Americans, or
at least a majority of Americans, are ready to go
in that direction. If it's explained and debated properly.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
All right, quick, freak will come right back.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
More with the Great One, Mark Levin is brand new
book out today, bookstores around the country. It's called On Power.
Also on Amazon dot com, Hannity dot com. You definitely
want to get this book. You want to read it.
Get a copy today, and it goes deep and hard
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Speaker 3 (14:02):
All right, We continue now with Mark Levin. The Great
One is brand new book out today. It's called On Power,
Amazon dot Comhannity dot Com, bookstores all around the country
as of today. Reagan's famously said the freedom is but
one generation away from extinction. I think we came perilously
close in this last election from maybe getting to the
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point of no return. Maybe that's an overstatement, and maybe
you disagree with that. I don't know how we would
have come back with four more years, maybe eight more
years of open borders and the radical Green New Deal
and you know, a taxpayer funded sex change operations for
illegals and convicts and and feminine products and great school boys'
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bathrooms and taxpayer funded college education, and you know, the
Green New Deal, et cetera, et cetera. I don't know
if these policies were implemented, how you ever unravel them.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
And that's a great point. You see, here's the deal.
Most of these autocracies, as you say, call whatever it
is and you want, they don't rely on majority rule.
They rely on rule if they win one election. They
seek to make permanent changes. The Democrat Party has made
what they hope were permanent changes through immigration, lack of
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assimilation to destroy the status quo. The American culture. They
don't even talk about the American culture unless they're attacking it.
Sixteen to nineteen Project, attacking our history, CRT, attacking our
Bill of Rights. The Constitution, they said, written by a
bunch of white slave owners while they wave around the Constitution.
But they hate it because the Constitution believes in power
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checking power. That's the genius of the Constitution right there,
power checking power. Which is why I decided there's not
enough focus on this issue of power. The Democrat Party
is power hungry. They want centralized power, They want to
lord over us. They don't believe in the sovereignty of
the individual. They don't believe in the sovereignty of we
the people. So it's absolutely crucial that we start going
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on the offense rather than playing defense. So this guy
talks about affordability in New York. Really, so where has
Marxism ever provided affordability? Empty shelves, economic dislocation, impoverishment. But
what else? The growing iron fist of a police state
that gets involved in every aspect of your life. That's
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what he stands for. That's what they stand for, and
that's what we need to explain.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
All right, Well, take a break, we'll come back more
with the great one. Mark Levin is brand new book
is out. It's called On Power, just release today. It's
some bookstores all around the country. It's on Amazon dot Com,
It's on Hannity dot com. And if you want to
educate yourself about the underpinnings of what all these elections
are all about, philosophical difference are all about, and want
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to take a deeper dive into the battle of power,
positive powered negative power, this is the book to read.
We'll come back more with Mark on the other side
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Speaker 1 (18:19):
We're talking about his new book. It's called On Power.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
It's in bookstores all around the country starting today. It's
on Amazon dot com. We have it up on Hannity
dot com. I wanted to drill a little deeper into
a couple of chapters you have on this book, and
that's negative power and positive power. I never thought we'd
get to a point in a free America where the
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government would want to tell us what cars we can
and cannot drive, but we were getting very close. I
never thought we'd get to a point that the government
would tell us what stoves we can and cannot use.
I never thought they'd want to pick and choose our
refrigerator and freezers and washers and dryers, or you know,
tell us that we can't use plastic straws anymore. They
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wanted us to use paper straws. But that's negative power.
You know, define this, explain this, extrapolate on this.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Any government that has the power to tell you what
kind of straw to use has enormous power. Way outside
of our constitutional republic, that's for sure. And that's the point,
which is this negative power is about coercion, It's about
conformity and uniformity. It is about re engineering human beings.
It is about rejiggering society. It is about turning the
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culture inside out. It is antithetical to everything that the
Revolution was fought for and our Constitution was ratified for.
This whole idea is imported from Europe. It is a
Marxist mindset, as von Mesi says, and I quote him
in the book A Great Austrian Economists, which is we
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all talk and sound like Marxists. Now you can even
hear some of the populaces. I hear what we ought
to give this group this in this group, that okay, great,
But what is that? It's not liberty, it's redistribution of
wealth by force. Now there needs to be some of it.
There needs to be some taxation, there needs to be
some level of a centralized government. But positive power embraces
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that kind of power for the purpose of promoting what
a civil society? What do the democrats want to do?
They seek to destroy the civil society. What a Marxist
seek to do? Destroy the civil society. What are these
these fundamentalists Islamis seek to do destroy the civil society.
The French Revolution, about the same time as the American Revolution,
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was a war on society. The American Revolution was never
a war on society. It was a war on a
far off monarchy that would not allow representative government, representative
consensual government by the people, the sovereign. We we have
unalienable rights, we have free will. That's the point of
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the declaration, that's the point of the founding. And yet
at every turn, whether it is Marxism or Islamism or
frankly the Democrat Party, what I call soft negative power
they are trying to seize from us. Are God given
liberty and rights they're trying to seize from us the
American experiment, And what I'm saying is we need to
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start explaining this as a battle over power. The Democrat
Party takes its identity sadly enough but true, from the
Communist Party in a soft negative power way. They are
about empowering the Democrat Party at all costs, and it
has a poisonous canter effect. Let me be let me
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give you an example. Wocism. What is wokeism? Wocism is
basically a communist construct. What is it. We are going
to impose new words on you. We're going to take
old words and redefine them them. We're going to take
the nuclear family and destroy it. We're going to take
science and pretend it's science when it's not science. We're
going to do all these things. Why for thought control,
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for conformity. We don't want the sharing of knowledge. We
don't want the sharing of information. We don't want a
healthy republic. We want a thought controlled republic of sorts,
in which we impose our views through propaganda and so forth.
It is about controlling your mind, controlling the people. Look
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what happened during the pandemic. How quickly the Democrat cities
and Democrat governors kicked into action. Immediately your liberty was attacked, Immediately,
your mobility was attacked. Immediately everything the nation was found
on became subject to government rule. And that's exactly what
the Democrats believe in. Just listen to how they speak.
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And so this battle for the future needs to be
properly defined. We need to go on offense. This is
a struggle over power, ours as individual, ours, as the
sovereign people versus them who wants the lord over us.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Explain and contrast it to positive power. You spend a
lot of time on.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
That wellgative positive power is this, Look at the Bill
of Rights. That's positive power. Why it protects the individual.
Those ten amendments to the Constitution are all about protecting
the individual, all of them. You do process rights, you
have to get warrants. You have the right to bear arms.
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You have a right to exercise religion, but nobody has
a right to impose the religion on you. You have
a right to free speech and freedom of association and
so forth and so on. The government can't impose, you know,
outrageous finds on you, outrageous jail terms on you. The
ninth Amendment really, to me, is an embodiment of the
Declaration Individual Liberty. The tenth Amendment says, hey, power has
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to check power. We are not creating an all powerful,
sensualized governm. In fact, we're creating a centralized government powerful
enough to actually do things, but not to devour the society.
To devour the society, negative power is about devouring the
society through government, through a relative handful of individuals, masterminds
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of the ruling class. This is why If you listen
carefully to a Bernie Sanders, he goes on and on
about eliminating billionaires, eliminating this get rid of capitalism, because
all of that challenges them. As an example, billionaires, What
do we care if there's one billionaire or one hundred
thousand billionaires, How does that affect you and me, mister
and missus America. Not in the least. We live better today,
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whether you're a plumber, electrician, a doctor, a cop, a firefighter,
than any king and queen lived one hundred years ago.
We have more access to more food, to housing, to transportation,
to more than any king or queen could have dreamed
or for that matter, Mao or Stalin or any of
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the rest of them. Why because of positive power, because
of the emphasis on the individual, because of the emphasis
on we the people. The sovereign Communism or Marxism, radical Islamism,
economic socialism are completely incompatible with the sovereignty of the
individual and the sovereignty of the people. So this is
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why I say we need to make this a battle,
a tug of war over power. We need to go
on offense. When some jerk who's thirty three years old,
who has this massive wedding and you're gone to but
comes back here and preaches Marxism and Islamism and anti Semitism.
That guy needs to be confronted. It's not enough to
expose his hypocrisy. It's not enough to say, oh, he'll
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chase out business, so do all those things. But people
need to understand, mister, and this is America. Need to
understand that he's at war with you. He wants to
steal from you your god given rights, your ability to
prove your lot in life, your ability to live the
lifestyle you want to live. And he some thirty three
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year old know nothing, like Castro who was a twenty
nine year old, know nothing. They wish to impose their
will on you. And one of the things in the
book I talk about that I hope we'll get to
is the use of language, the use of what.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I ask you about ja yes, sir, because you have
a whole chapter on language, and that's what it's called
on language. You know, many years ago, Mark I read it.
It was sort of like a pamphlet that was fairly comprehensive,
and it was a synthesis of Russian mind control techniques
and the way you express it in the book is
that there is a power of language and a power
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over language. And you said, for the tyrant, positive speech
in the form of free speech is the gravest threat.
And then you said conversely, and to underscore the point,
free speech is requisite to all other freedoms. And language
control is mind or thought control. If you look at
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the foundational aspects of wokeism or group think, isn't it
all rooted in this battle over language? And it really
is a battle over language?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
One hundred percent? Are you looking all these well, look
look at the Democrats. The whole wokeism ideas I mentioned,
is a way to control communication. Look, the way you
improve a society is if free people are communicating with
each other, sharing their knowledge, sharing policy ideas, sharing their thoughts,
sharing their experiences. Okay, great, what do you need for that.
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You need free speech, You need these these channels of
free speech, and you need it especially when the nation
is challenged like during COVID or whatever. What did the
Democrats do? What did Biden do? They shut it down
as fast as they could. Why, as we now know,
and as many of us knew before, control control. It's interesting.
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I went back and looked at liberty and Tyrian and
I said, often situations like that pandemic, even though the
pandemic hadn't happened, are used for the government to seize power.
And what do they do. They seized power from whome,
from the sovereign, from the people, from the individual who
they said couldn't make decisions on their own. So we've
elected politicians who have exactly no experience in science, no
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experience of any kind in anything. For the most part,
many of them have been lawyers. Many of them are
very wealthy people, but they don't know anything about anything,
and they decide we're going to seize control. We're going
to make this an issue. We're going to determine what
stores will be open, whether churches and synagogues can be open,
whether you can go on public parks. That was frightening.
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That is a lesson to us. And again it's a reminder,
what is this battle over our power versus their power?
The Democrat Party has thrown in with the authoritarians. The
Democrat Party is about authoritarianism and the people running against
Mandami and the rest. This is what they need to explain. Hello,
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this guy is a want to be Marxist dictator. This
guy is an authoritarian. This guy's trying to steal your liberty.
What do we fight wars for? What do our men
go into war for? Carrying the American flag, redistribution of wealth,
the control of the means of production by the guvernment. No, No,
we fight for our system of government. We fight for
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our sovereignty. We fight for our liberty. That's what we
fight wars over. Not what the Democrat Party is trying
to transition this nation into. The Democrat Party is the
American Marxist Party, is the Radical Islamist Party. It is
not the party of the individual and prosperity and success
and merit.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
All right, quick, freak right back. We'll continue more with
the grade one Mark Levin. His brand new book is
out On Power. It's on Amazon dot Comhanity dot com,
and as of today, bookstores all around the country. James Gomy,
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You know, when you look at individual rights, I mean,
what really comes down to is our Americans are are
they willing to embrace freedom? And with freedom comes responsibility,
and with freedom comes choice, and with choice comes consequences
for one's choices in life. And to me, it really
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all comes down to the individual and the and the
types of decisions they all make in their lives and
whether or not they live under a governmental system that
allows that choice. Our governmental system on paper allows that choice,
although you do have from time to time politicians pop
up that want to even control the means of production,
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like in the case of Mamdani, and doesn't even want
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bail laws and replacing police with social workers and everything
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We have about a minute left mark.
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We're exactly right, and people need to ask themselves, why
in the hell would I surrender my personal liberty, my
family's liberty, my choices, my hard work. Why would I
surrender at there's some punk politician who's running around and
making these these obtuse promises. You need to compare something
with something. What they do on the left, what the
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Marxists do, and so forth. Is they make precticable and
impossible promises. Compare something to something well.
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Great one another masterpiece. It's called On Power, the great One,
Mark Levin in bookstores as of this very day. You
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This is right up there with all your great books,
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Now I appreciate you greatly, your wonderful, wonderful friend and broadcaster,
and I really hope people will read this and share
it with their kids so we can make sure that
we confront this enemy properly. God bless you, my friend.
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So his new book is called On Power, and it
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God bless us?
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You look great? Run radio? How can I look create
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It was fun over the weekend because I got to
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got a lot of positive comments on it. I haven't
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Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
The issue of power, I mean we see a power
struggle both the Republican Republican Party, Democratic Party. They have coalitions,
but we see within the Democratic Party that the radicals
in that party have taken over Kasmin Krockett, the Squad,
Grandpap Bernie, AOC Pocahontas.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Now this guy mom Nani.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
And what you write about power and when you apply
it to the headlines that today you said, throughout the history,
throughout history, from ancient civilizations to modern Western republics, power
has been used to both oppress and to liberate, to
reward and to exploit, to destroy, and to build Monarchs,
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dictators elites who impose tyranny seek to soliday power, stripping
freedom from individuals. To maintain control over societies. They use
force and deception to ensure that their rules remain unchallenged,
claiming to act in the name of the common good
while stripping individuals of their freedoms.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
That is a powerful power graph. Let's start there.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Well, you know, Sean, I take this word power and
I divide it into positive power, and you're talking there
about negative power. Because I got to thinking, what was
the Revolutionary War really about? You know, we talk about
it very superficially, the Declaration, What does that really mean?
We talk about that at a very surface level. And
I got to thinking it's over power, because liberty without
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rights is nothing. Rights without power don't exist. And so
God is the sovereign. God gives his children sovereignty over government,
over society. That's us, we the people, and that's where
our government comes from, our country comes from. That's what
makes it so unique. Fused with the Enlightenment. What's the
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enlightenment that power needs to check power, that you need
three branches of government. Again, we don't want mobocracy, pure democracy,
and we don't want dictatorships centralized power. And look at
the beautiful Constitution, the Declaration of the Constitution. You and
I and our audiences are having to spend our lifetimes
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to defend it against what against negative power against individuals
who reject all of this. They reject the Enlightenment, they
reject the Judeo Christian belief system. That's what makes America unique,
even from other Western democracies, certainly from radical Islam, certainly
from communism. Communism attacks the whole basis for the American founding.
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It is incompatible Marxism. This guy Mandami, all of them,
Bernie Sanders, what they're preaching is incompatible with Americanism and
our experiment. Same with radical Islam, which believes in not
freedom of speech and ideas. They reject the Enlightenment. They
reject at all because that political Islam has never gone
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through the Reformation. They reject the Enlightenment, and their scholars
talk about destroying the West. So they have fused, and
the Democrat Party represents this negative power. Now they're not yet,
you know, genocidal in that sense, So it's a soft
negative power. They believe in what I call authoritarian democracy.
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We vote, but it has less and less meaning. We
have a democracy, really republic, but it has less and
less meaning. They spend their entire existence trying to get
around the constitution, trying to destroy its firewalls, trying to
destroy our culture. You and I our listeners. We defend
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all these things. So I thought, got to thinking, Sean,
let's figure out a better way to discuss this. Let's
get to the number, the matter and the battle, the
battle today of the people you mentioned in US. It's
over power, That's what it is. And so I take
that term and I try and explain it and unravel it.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
We saw the worst of negative power, and then I'll
get to positive power in a minute. We can go back,
for example, in the last century, and I don't care
if you're talking about Mao and China and Stalin and
Russia and Hitler and Germany and Mussolini and Tojo in Japan,
and you combine it all together, and we lost well
over one hundred million human souls in the name of
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some ism I wrote about in Livery or Die socialism
and its history of failure. And it's a little bit
different because this is when that last century, when you
talk about death and destruction, that is the nth degree
that it can go to. And then you have different
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degrees of whatever manifestation, whatever name you put on its socialism, statism,
I mean as a Marxism. It's all one and the
same in many many ways. And what I was trying
to point out is you always have these incredible promises
that will never be fulfilled. You end up poorer than
when you started. And then you calculate how much of
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your freedom you gave up in the name of false security.
And when you get to the positive side of power,
which you go into in great detail, you talk about
our framers, You talk about God, and you spend a
lot of time on God in this book. You talk
about our constitution and how they understood that strong societies
are borne not from force, by consent of the governed,
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and societies building these checks and balances, fair elections and
the preservation of individual rights, but they will only thrive
in that environment. So you have two competing forces here.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
But let me be clear, I'm not proselytizing in this book,
as you know, I'm not even good at it. I'm
explaining what the founders of our country did, what they believe.
Let me give an example, because you make a very
good point faith the Judeo Christian belief system. People don't
have to be Jewish, they don't have to be Christian,
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they don't believe anything. They could be agnostic, they can
be atheists, they can be Buddhists and Hindus, mother, whatever
you want. But just understand, this country is tolerant. This
country embraces representative constitutional government. This country believes in debate
and free speech and freedom of association. Why because of
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the way it was created with the Judeo Christian faith,
fused with the Enlightenment. Who's the Enlightenment, Locke Montesquieu. People
like that, How do I know I'm right? Because our
founder said so. Most of all, Jefferson said so. And
so the point is that that's the kind of society
we created. Marx attacked our declaration of Independence. He attacked
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individual he will, he attacked the idea of unalienable rights.
Woodrow Wilson, the first of the intellectual progressives, I call
them American Marxist, a president who is based on modern
day Democrat party belief systems. He rejected the Declaration of Independence.
He wrote such he was an American Marxist progeny from Mars.
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FDR rejected rejected the Declaration of Independence. FDR comes up
with what he calls the Second Bill of Rights. What
is it? It's literally plagiarized from Stalin's nineteen thirty six constitution,
and they have all these beautiful words and phrases. Sean
like this Mondami. I'm concerned about affordability. He's not concerned
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about affordability. He supports open borders, massive debt, inflation, registribution
of wealth, which kills wealth. He wants to take the
means of production from home. The guide it owns, the
pizza parlor, the plumber who has a little business, the
means of production, that's your labor, intellectual and physical. It's
a constant war against the sovereign. As the individual, your
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own circle of liberty. It's the constant war on we
the people, we the sovereign, which is why they are
endlessly centralizing government, coming up with governmental answers. And the
Democrat Party is a power hungry party. Look and honestly,
we're not power hungry. We fight for power, positive power.
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They fight for negative power, to lard over us, to
have power over us. This is the big distinction, and
I think it would help us if we make this
distinction rather than talking platitudes to younger people and other people,
to explain, do you really want this kind of authority
in your lives, telling you what to do day in
and day on. Now, some of our fellow citizens do, Okay,
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that's their problem, But I don't believe most Americans, or
at least a majority of Americans, are ready to go
in that direction. If it's explained and debated properly.
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All right, We continue now with Mark Levin. The Great
One is brand new book out today. It's called On Power,
Amazon dot Comhannity dot Com, bookstores all around the country
as of today. Reagan's famously said the freedom is but
one generation away from extinction. I think we came perilously
close in this last election from maybe getting to the
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point of no return. Maybe that's an overstatement, and maybe
you disagree with that. I don't know how we would
have come back with four more years, maybe eight more
years of open borders and the radical Green New Deal
and you know, a taxpayer funded sex change operations for
illegals and convicts and and feminine products and great school boys'
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bathrooms and taxpayer funded college education, and you know, the
Green New Deal, et cetera, et cetera. I don't know
if these policies were implemented, how you ever unravel them.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
And that's a great point. You see, here's the deal.
Most of these autocracies, as you say, call whatever it
is and you want, they don't rely on majority rule.
They rely on rule if they win one election. They
seek to make permanent changes. The Democrat Party has made
what they hope were permanent changes through immigration, lack of
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assimilation to destroy the status quo. The American culture. They
don't even talk about the American culture unless they're attacking it.
Sixteen to nineteen Project, attacking our history, CRT, attacking our
Bill of Rights. The Constitution, they said, written by a
bunch of white slave owners while they wave around the Constitution.
But they hate it because the Constitution believes in power
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checking power. That's the genius of the Constitution right there,
power checking power. Which is why I decided there's not
enough focus on this issue of power. The Democrat Party
is power hungry. They want centralized power, They want to
lord over us. They don't believe in the sovereignty of
the individual. They don't believe in the sovereignty of we
the people. So it's absolutely crucial that we start going
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on the offense rather than playing defense. So this guy
talks about affordability in New York. Really, so where has
Marxism ever provided affordability? Empty shelves, economic dislocation, impoverishment. But
what else? The growing iron fist of a police state
that gets involved in every aspect of your life. That's
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what he stands for. That's what they stand for, and
that's what we need to explain.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
All right, Well, take a break, we'll come back more
with the great one. Mark Levin is brand new book
is out. It's called On Power, just release today. It's
some bookstores all around the country. It's on Amazon dot Com,
It's on Hannity dot com. And if you want to
educate yourself about the underpinnings of what all these elections
are all about, philosophical difference are all about, and want
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to take a deeper dive into the battle of power,
positive powered negative power, this is the book to read.
We'll come back more with Mark on the other side
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We're talking about his new book. It's called On Power.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
It's in bookstores all around the country starting today. It's
on Amazon dot com. We have it up on Hannity
dot com. I wanted to drill a little deeper into
a couple of chapters you have on this book, and
that's negative power and positive power. I never thought we'd
get to a point in a free America where the
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government would want to tell us what cars we can
and cannot drive, but we were getting very close. I
never thought we'd get to a point that the government
would tell us what stoves we can and cannot use.
I never thought they'd want to pick and choose our
refrigerator and freezers and washers and dryers, or you know,
tell us that we can't use plastic straws anymore. They
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wanted us to use paper straws. But that's negative power.
You know, define this, explain this, extrapolate on this.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Any government that has the power to tell you what
kind of straw to use has enormous power. Way outside
of our constitutional republic, that's for sure. And that's the point,
which is this negative power is about coercion, It's about
conformity and uniformity. It is about re engineering human beings.
It is about rejiggering society. It is about turning the
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culture inside out. It is antithetical to everything that the
Revolution was fought for and our Constitution was ratified for.
This whole idea is imported from Europe. It is a
Marxist mindset, as von Mesi says, and I quote him
in the book A Great Austrian Economists, which is we
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all talk and sound like Marxists. Now you can even
hear some of the populaces. I hear what we ought
to give this group this in this group, that okay, great,
But what is that? It's not liberty, it's redistribution of
wealth by force. Now there needs to be some of it.
There needs to be some taxation, there needs to be
some level of a centralized government. But positive power embraces
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that kind of power for the purpose of promoting what
a civil society? What do the democrats want to do?
They seek to destroy the civil society. What a Marxist
seek to do? Destroy the civil society. What are these
these fundamentalists Islamis seek to do destroy the civil society.
The French Revolution, about the same time as the American Revolution,
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was a war on society. The American Revolution was never
a war on society. It was a war on a
far off monarchy that would not allow representative government, representative
consensual government by the people, the sovereign. We we have
unalienable rights, we have free will. That's the point of
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the declaration, that's the point of the founding. And yet
at every turn, whether it is Marxism or Islamism or
frankly the Democrat Party, what I call soft negative power
they are trying to seize from us. Are God given
liberty and rights they're trying to seize from us the
American experiment, And what I'm saying is we need to
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start explaining this as a battle over power. The Democrat
Party takes its identity sadly enough but true, from the
Communist Party in a soft negative power way. They are
about empowering the Democrat Party at all costs, and it
has a poisonous canter effect. Let me be let me
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give you an example. Wocism. What is wokeism? Wocism is
basically a communist construct. What is it. We are going
to impose new words on you. We're going to take
old words and redefine them them. We're going to take
the nuclear family and destroy it. We're going to take
science and pretend it's science when it's not science. We're
going to do all these things. Why for thought control,
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for conformity. We don't want the sharing of knowledge. We
don't want the sharing of information. We don't want a
healthy republic. We want a thought controlled republic of sorts,
in which we impose our views through propaganda and so forth.
It is about controlling your mind, controlling the people. Look
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what happened during the pandemic. How quickly the Democrat cities
and Democrat governors kicked into action. Immediately your liberty was attacked, Immediately,
your mobility was attacked. Immediately everything the nation was found
on became subject to government rule. And that's exactly what
the Democrats believe in. Just listen to how they speak.
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And so this battle for the future needs to be
properly defined. We need to go on offense. This is
a struggle over power, ours as individual, ours, as the
sovereign people versus them who wants the lord over us.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Explain and contrast it to positive power. You spend a
lot of time on.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
That wellgative positive power is this, Look at the Bill
of Rights. That's positive power. Why it protects the individual.
Those ten amendments to the Constitution are all about protecting
the individual, all of them. You do process rights, you
have to get warrants. You have the right to bear arms.
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You have a right to exercise religion, but nobody has
a right to impose the religion on you. You have
a right to free speech and freedom of association and
so forth and so on. The government can't impose, you know,
outrageous finds on you, outrageous jail terms on you. The
ninth Amendment really, to me, is an embodiment of the
Declaration Individual Liberty. The tenth Amendment says, hey, power has
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to check power. We are not creating an all powerful,
sensualized governm. In fact, we're creating a centralized government powerful
enough to actually do things, but not to devour the society.
To devour the society, negative power is about devouring the
society through government, through a relative handful of individuals, masterminds
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of the ruling class. This is why If you listen
carefully to a Bernie Sanders, he goes on and on
about eliminating billionaires, eliminating this get rid of capitalism, because
all of that challenges them. As an example, billionaires, What
do we care if there's one billionaire or one hundred
thousand billionaires, How does that affect you and me, mister
and missus America. Not in the least. We live better today,
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whether you're a plumber, electrician, a doctor, a cop, a firefighter,
than any king and queen lived one hundred years ago.
We have more access to more food, to housing, to transportation,
to more than any king or queen could have dreamed
or for that matter, Mao or Stalin or any of
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the rest of them. Why because of positive power, because
of the emphasis on the individual, because of the emphasis
on we the people. The sovereign Communism or Marxism, radical Islamism,
economic socialism are completely incompatible with the sovereignty of the
individual and the sovereignty of the people. So this is
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why I say we need to make this a battle,
a tug of war over power. We need to go
on offense. When some jerk who's thirty three years old,
who has this massive wedding and you're gone to but
comes back here and preaches Marxism and Islamism and anti Semitism.
That guy needs to be confronted. It's not enough to
expose his hypocrisy. It's not enough to say, oh, he'll
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chase out business, so do all those things. But people
need to understand, mister, and this is America. Need to
understand that he's at war with you. He wants to
steal from you your god given rights, your ability to
prove your lot in life, your ability to live the
lifestyle you want to live. And he some thirty three
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year old know nothing, like Castro who was a twenty
nine year old, know nothing. They wish to impose their
will on you. And one of the things in the
book I talk about that I hope we'll get to
is the use of language, the use of what.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I ask you about ja yes, sir, because you have
a whole chapter on language, and that's what it's called
on language. You know, many years ago, Mark I read it.
It was sort of like a pamphlet that was fairly comprehensive,
and it was a synthesis of Russian mind control techniques
and the way you express it in the book is
that there is a power of language and a power
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over language. And you said, for the tyrant, positive speech
in the form of free speech is the gravest threat.
And then you said conversely, and to underscore the point,
free speech is requisite to all other freedoms. And language
control is mind or thought control. If you look at
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the foundational aspects of wokeism or group think, isn't it
all rooted in this battle over language? And it really
is a battle over language?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
One hundred percent? Are you looking all these well, look
look at the Democrats. The whole wokeism ideas I mentioned,
is a way to control communication. Look, the way you
improve a society is if free people are communicating with
each other, sharing their knowledge, sharing policy ideas, sharing their thoughts,
sharing their experiences. Okay, great, what do you need for that.
(27:35):
You need free speech, You need these these channels of
free speech, and you need it especially when the nation
is challenged like during COVID or whatever. What did the
Democrats do? What did Biden do? They shut it down
as fast as they could. Why, as we now know,
and as many of us knew before, control control. It's interesting.
(27:56):
I went back and looked at liberty and Tyrian and
I said, often situations like that pandemic, even though the
pandemic hadn't happened, are used for the government to seize power.
And what do they do. They seized power from whome,
from the sovereign, from the people, from the individual who
they said couldn't make decisions on their own. So we've
elected politicians who have exactly no experience in science, no
(28:19):
experience of any kind in anything. For the most part,
many of them have been lawyers. Many of them are
very wealthy people, but they don't know anything about anything,
and they decide we're going to seize control. We're going
to make this an issue. We're going to determine what
stores will be open, whether churches and synagogues can be open,
whether you can go on public parks. That was frightening.
(28:41):
That is a lesson to us. And again it's a reminder,
what is this battle over our power versus their power?
The Democrat Party has thrown in with the authoritarians. The
Democrat Party is about authoritarianism and the people running against
Mandami and the rest. This is what they need to explain. Hello,
(29:02):
this guy is a want to be Marxist dictator. This
guy is an authoritarian. This guy's trying to steal your liberty.
What do we fight wars for? What do our men
go into war for? Carrying the American flag, redistribution of wealth,
the control of the means of production by the guvernment. No, No,
we fight for our system of government. We fight for
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our sovereignty. We fight for our liberty. That's what we
fight wars over. Not what the Democrat Party is trying
to transition this nation into. The Democrat Party is the
American Marxist Party, is the Radical Islamist Party. It is
not the party of the individual and prosperity and success
and merit.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
All right, quick, freak right back. We'll continue more with
the grade one Mark Levin. His brand new book is
out On Power. It's on Amazon dot Comhanity dot com,
and as of today, bookstores all around the country. James Gomy,
you have the right to remain silent, and you might
(30:05):
want to use it.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
This is a Sean Hannity show.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Right, we continue with the great one, Mark Levin. We're
talking about his brand new book just released today in
bookstores around the country.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
It's called On Power.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
You know, when you look at individual rights, I mean,
what really comes down to is our Americans are are
they willing to embrace freedom? And with freedom comes responsibility,
and with freedom comes choice, and with choice comes consequences
for one's choices in life. And to me, it really
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all comes down to the individual and the and the
types of decisions they all make in their lives and
whether or not they live under a governmental system that
allows that choice. Our governmental system on paper allows that choice,
although you do have from time to time politicians pop
up that want to even control the means of production,
(31:18):
like in the case of Mamdani, and doesn't even want
civil society by defunding and dismantling the police and no
bail laws and replacing police with social workers and everything
in between, oh and taxing rich wider neighborhoods. More.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
We have about a minute left mark.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
We're exactly right, and people need to ask themselves, why
in the hell would I surrender my personal liberty, my
family's liberty, my choices, my hard work. Why would I
surrender at there's some punk politician who's running around and
making these these obtuse promises. You need to compare something
with something. What they do on the left, what the
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Marxists do, and so forth. Is they make precticable and
impossible promises. Compare something to something well.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Great one another masterpiece. It's called On Power, the great One,
Mark Levin in bookstores as of this very day. You
can stop by any bookstore around the country. Also, if
you want, you can get it on Amazon dot com.
We have a link on Hannity dot com and of
course another number one best seller guaranteed Great One, Mark Levin.
(32:26):
This is right up there with all your great books,
and I'm certain that these books will be studied likely
decades and decades from now.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
We appreciate your time, sir.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Now I appreciate you greatly, your wonderful, wonderful friend and broadcaster,
and I really hope people will read this and share
it with their kids so we can make sure that
we confront this enemy properly. God bless you, my friend.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
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