Democrats' Founding Fathers - Big Picture with Jack Atherton

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The economy.

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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Excuse me Sharp fifty five car talk Station fifty five KRC,
the talk station seven oh five on this Wednesday morning,

(00:26):
June seventeenth, already Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas, and June
seventeenth will be a memorable day, in part because we
get to have our weekly conversation with our old buddy,
Jack ath Jack, how are you this morning?

Speaker 1 (00:43):
It's great to be back with your old friend. Uh.
Are you getting excited about Father's Day coming up?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Father? Yeah? Of a big weekend on Father's Day. I
think there will be some some grilling to be had,
and you know, kids running around the house, that sort
of thing. So always look forward to Father's Day, and
I hope you do too, Hi too.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
I too. How about combining a Father's Day and America
two fifty message today?

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Okay, I'm all about it.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
If Democrats seem less jubilant than we are about the
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our independence, maybe that's
because their founding fathers are not Washington and Jefferson, but
instead Karl Marx and Jean Jacques Rousseau we talked about
last week. We can get back to him. They were terrible.

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Father's dead in every sense. We all talk about Marx.
Let's focus on his mentor Rousseau. A century before Carl
Marx took game at private property in des Capital, Rousseau
had already written that the state, the big state, has
the right to seize all proper for the common good.

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While America's founders insisted that God given individual rights, including
the rights to life, liberty, and property. That's what Jefferson
wanted to insist on, that they precede government, and that
legitimate government exists to protect individual rights, which was a
revolutionary idea in seventeen seventy six. Rousseau and Marx and

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today's social democrats want to scrap all that, at least
for ordinary folks like you and me, Now for their
own elites. You remember or well, all animals are equal,
but some are more equal than others, including Democrat elites.
Jean Jacques Rousseau was born in Switzerland. He spent a

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lot of his time in France. He and his mistress
had five children. Put only for a few days, Dan
Jean Jaques insisted that he could have been a great father,
just as Marlon Brando could have been a contender, But
the philosopher explained that working to support a family would
have cut into his time as a social reformer. So

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Rousseau abandoned his newborn babies, one after another, to an
orphanage where seventy percent of all children had a life
expectancy of one year or less. Most survivors at that
orphanage grew up to be beggars or thieves by Charles Dickens'
Oliver Twist. Not coincidentally, Carl Marx, a German immigrant in England,

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spent all of his time writing about how to destroy
the country that had welcomed him. In kind of like
today's elan Omar, Carl Martz kept his seven children good
for him, but he let them starve. Only the charity
of family and friends kept them alive. Like Hillary Clinton,
Marx believed it takes a village to care for your children.

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Rousseau and later Carl Marx also believed the children of
all ages, both the youngsters and adults who never become
responsible adults, everybody has to submit to the collective will
of the totalitarian state. At some unspecified time, Marx and
his partner FRIEDI Engels believed their big state would wither away.

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Thank goodness. Meantime, though from each according to his ability,
to each according to his needs. The mayor of our
biggest city, Kami Mamdani adheres to that Marxist creed, and
it's driving people who can afford to leave out of
New York by the hundreds of thousands. They're emigrating the

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states where ability is incentivized, low tax, business friendly, job
creating states Florida, Texas, Tennessee. And we can only hope
Dan Ohio if we elect a Republican governor Vivek Ramaswami, who,
unlike today's Rhinos, values makers, not takers, not the descendants

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of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx. Because socialism ruins character.
That's my theme almost every week. It keeps adherents in
a state of arrested adolescence. The state will bring up
my kids, or better yet, I won't bother to keep
my kids or even give them to an orphanage. I'll

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just abort them. During this two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of America's independence, which we declared just before Jean Jacques
Rousseau died. Let's celebrate the parents, the entrepreneurs, the skilled workers,
the service members like you, Dan, firefighters, police, the adults
who have made this country the greatest in the history

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of the world. The adults who came here seeking opportunity,
not handouts, much less Minnesota style fraud, who learned a
new language, learned American history and civics. They used to
tea so they could assimilate, not to surrender their religion
and cultural backgrounds. Nobody is asking that America's melting pot

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makes us all the richer for being exposed to different cultures,
but to embrace the American ethos that each of us
has God given rights, including freedom of religion, free speech,
and freedom from totalitarian communist government. As we honor our
founders Dan for all their flaws, because great leaders usually

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have flaws that are easier to criticize than to weigh
against their achievements. And yes, I am thinking of Donald
John Trump as we honor our founders brought Let's give
thanks that the fathers of our country were not Jean
Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx, two of the worst fathers
in history. So what do you say, Dad.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Well, Jack, it's amazing how the common thread of what
these individuals believe when you talk about Marx, when you
talk about Rousseau, it's amazing how much of the common
thread is still prevalent today in much of what you
hear from the left and from the Democrat Party, the

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idea that there can be this reliance on socialism, that
there can be this reliance on big government to do
everything for the individual from womb to tomb. It reminded
me of the if you remember, when Obama was president,
they put out this animated cartoon showing how this girl

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is born, and from the moment of her birth, all
the way through her educational period, all the way through
her working life, all the way through her retirement, all
the way up until her final breath, there was government
involvement in her life, in every single stage of her life.
And I think that is the ultimate goal of people

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like Bernie Sanders, that people like aoc of people like
that who populate the Democrats by and large, and much
of what we I think Amy acton is things along
those exact same lines, and we need to get away.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Obama cartoon was called The Life of Julia. Yes, and
that's what he aspired for everybody, not for himself. He
wanted to be able to build the big houses in Hawaii,
and he wanted the huge library that's now opening up.
But for all the rest of us, it was enough
that government gave us crumbs. It's human nature. But there
are different ways of looking at human nature. Rousseau and Marx,

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but especially Russeau, believed, Oh, people are naturally good, they're wonderful.
Just leave them alone and give them a little bit
that they need to be able to get by other
people said, no, human nature involves backsliding unless people are
challenged to be their best, to aspire to something better,
to take care of others, starting with their children. But

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as we've said, those two guys Rousseau and Marx didn't
want to today. Getting back to ilan Omar, who certainly
as far as for a life of Julia for all
of us, again, not for herself. She's now a multimillionaire today.
Too many illegal immigrants forget that they are fleeing from
tyranny and are instead they're taught as soon as they

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arrived that America is the land of tyranny and always
has been that immigrants, legal and especially illegal, are entitled
to reparations for America's original fundamental sinfulness. And of course
America's own people are taught this too by schools, left
wing media, and especially pop culture. Elections, even if they're fair,

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elections won't change this. Instead, each of us has to
offer our children the truth about America. One great place
to start is to see before it leaves theaters, Amesley
and I just did Hillsdale College's new film called Revolutionary America.
It's the story of our rebellion against Britain's big government

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and the fight for individual rights. I heartily recommend it.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Well, that sounds good and Jack will continue the conversation
right after this on fifty five Krcation seven nineteen, Dan
Carroll four, Brian Thomas. We continue on now with Jack
Aveton and the Big Picture and Jack, I always find
it interesting when you have individuals who want to call

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for the implementation of a socialist style government, of a
communist style government, that they when they call for this
and they say this is the way to go, the
people who do that always want to put themselves at
the top of that food chain and really don't want
to live under the all the accoutuma that comes with

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a socialist or a communist style government. So on one hand,
it's good enough for the rest of us, but for them,
you know, they need to be the ones calling the shots,
and they need to be the ones who benefit in
a large way from what it provides those at the top.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Our thame, as I said, is that socialism ruins character.
And that's because the even bigger theme is that power corrupts,
and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Even for the people who
are most idealistic and seek to go into political office,
they may compromises, they have to build coalitions with the

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best of intentions, they start to give up their ideals
and eventually they just become power hungry. That's all it is.
And as far as the rest of us go, you know,
they'll use us as long as they can. And when
we get wise to their game and start electing conservatives, populists,
naga people, what do they do. They have to bring

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in a new population, and of course they try to
make us feel bad for being worried about that. They say, oh,
you know, you're a racist if you criticize the fact
that we're letting in ten million or more people completely unvetted,
many of them criminals immediately receiving benefits from the state,
not like the people who came here generations ago. But

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you can't feel bad about it. You have to say no,
you know, we have to have an orderly process for
allowing people the privilege that you and I were born with.
But we should never forget of being Americans, and we
can't allow the country to be taken over wholesale just
so the Democrats socialists can have a new voting base.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
You know, Jack, When I saw when I was watching
the process of Zorhan Mondani in New York City and
how he was accepted, how his voting base was largely
younger Americans, I saw this as a complete failure of
the educational system that we have in the United States.
When I was younger, and I'm sure you too, when

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you were in your formative years, we were constantly to
about why capitalism is so beneficial, what living under at
that time, the Soviet Union and China was really like
under the idea of communism, and those things were talked
about repeatedly as I was growing up, and I came

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out with an understanding of why the United States is
the greatest country on the face of the planet, why
capitalism works, why we have the political system that we do,
Ideas about freedom of speech, free will, natural law, all
the rest of that. But I think those types of
teachings have been largely abandoned, and I just don't think

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that much of the education base that we have in
this country right now, especially with young people coming through
the educational system, have a clear understanding of that. And
that's why ideas like socialism gain the popularity that they do.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Left has been trying to make us feel guilty for
communism ever since the days of Joe McCarthy. Joe McCarthy
in the fifties was a creep, There's no doubt about it.
Should we have been worried about the Soviet Union, absolutely,
especially after they got atomic weapons. We had to put
up a fight. We had to be worried about mutually

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assured destruction, just as we have to be worried now
about Iran. And we should not have felt the least
bit guilty about opposing communism because we only had to
look at what Stalin and his successors were doing there.
And the great achievement, of course of Ronald Reagan was
bringing down that regime. No, we can't feel guilty. We

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have to be willing to uphold our values the greatest
in the history of the world. The reason that we
talk about history every week during this section, this session
that we have is that people have to put that
into perspective. You only realize what you have when you
look around the rest of the world now, and especially

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when you look back on history.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Okay, tell me one more time the name of the
movie that you saw that that came out from Hillsdale,
because I'm interested in this now.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, this is much more important than listening to me.
It's called Revolutionary America. It's not a fictional film. It's
Larry arn the president of Hillsdale, and a bunch of
other really compelling, wonderful speakers. The thing is beautifully produced,
and you can only see it at a few theaters,
I think once a day. At this point, I hope

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they're going to hold it through July fourth. But you know,
there's another movie that's coming out for July fourth called
Young Washington. He's my hero. We have a bust of
him and a painting of him here in the house,
and yeah, I would see them. Both Revolutionary America and
Young Washington. I haven't seen Young Washington yet, but you
can't kill that story. It's one of the best.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Well, maybe that'll be what next week's A Big Picture
is all about. Jack Atherton. Is always so great to
have your thought provoking commentary, and we'll certainly look forward
to next week when you join us again for the
Big Picture with Jack Atherton. Jack, thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Happy Father's Day, Dan and everybody