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CULTURE SHIFT IN THE US Dinesh D’Souza Podcast Ep1070
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Hi, everyone.
I'm Danielle D'Souza Gill, and I'll be hosting Dinesh's podcast this week while he's in Israel.
It's been so much fun to be on the show.
If you're a regular Dinesh D'Souza listener, you've probably heard me on here before, though it has been a little while before this week.
I'm frequently busy being a mom to my daughter, Marigold, and supporting my husband's role in U.S. Congress.
We live in North Texas and having second baby in two weeks, so almost there.
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Today, we're going to be talking about cultural shifts.
We'll be talking about Gen Z. We'll be talking about dating, motherhood.
All kinds of those issues between the genders.
We will be speaking with Terry Schilling.
He's the president of the American Principles Project.
Super interesting.
And we'll also discuss the CCP's growing influence in the U.S. We'll talk a little bit about tariffs, a little bit about what's going on in Texas with retired Lieutenant Colonel Allen West, who is the chair of the Dallas GOP.
All right, well, let's get started.
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In a recent video on YouTube, UK conservative personality Carl Benjamin discussed the talk he gave at a natalist conference in Austin, Texas, of all places.
Benjamin is a former liberal who has become an advocate for traditional gender roles in society.
He lives his beliefs as a married man with several children of his own, and in his video, he talks about the fundamental need a society has for people who are committed to reproducing.
He notes our society doesn't encourage people to reproduce.
In fact, thanks to leftist ideology, the most important role in raising a family, the role of the mother, has been denigrated.
In popular Western and American culture, it's become a lower status.
The concept of appreciating motherhood has been relegated to the margins by more pressing prerogatives, like men using the women's restrooms.
Thankfully, that's been cleared up by the recent UK Supreme Court ruling that women are indeed biological females and not men with dress wear.
UK judges, it seems, have better access to dictionaries here.
However, in the US, our judges still struggle to understand what the word woman means, even when the judges are themselves women.
And of course, we know this has happened in our Supreme Court.
Benjamin hopes that in the UK, the issue of men using women's bathrooms will once again be shunted off to the periphery of societal concerns, as it entails only a very small group of people.
And the question itself adds nothing important to the national conversation.
Not to mention, it could clearly be abused.
We don't need to continue discussing it now, he says.
The question is resolved in favor of the majority who are the people who reproduce our civilization going into the future.
So these are the people whose concerns are of the reproductive majority.
They want to have a civilization in a certain way, and not another way.
Well, I'm sorry, but the unreproductive minority just have to give way on this.
It's just the way it has to be."
This idea of the unreproductive minority giving way to the productive majority is a part of what he calls a natalist ideology.
Normally, society hasn't had a need to establish such an ideology.
That's because a natalist ideology is just an ideology that advocates for what can simply be termed as acting normal.
He gives the example that the UK was once the kind of place where you could just go outside with your kids, but now you can't.
The world has become a kind of adult-only playground.
Why?
Because leftist ideology pushes families to the margins.
This despite the essential function that families play in forming a society.
Nowadays, families are not welcomed or appreciated, and oftentimes children are also not welcomed or appreciated.
Under leftism, families are in the margins.
Gender ideology is held up as a kind of lofty ideal.
And for many, it's not just an ideal.
They act on it.
Libs of TikTok is full of exhortations to men pretending to be women and all kinds of egregious examples of this.
Users will speak of this embarrassing identity crisis as if it's some form of esoteric wisdom that comes from a higher plane of existence.
And I suppose that's just cover.
I mean, you have to explain.
Why is it that despite the fact that genders have always existed and that those genders have always been the number two, suddenly we have this explosion of gender types and numbers?
There can only be two explanations for this fundamental change in our reality popping up in the current year and not, for example, in 1970 or 1870 or 1770.
Because as we all know, the last time this gender issue was a thing was really never.
So gender ideology is either the product of a modern psychosis or it's the result of a massive jump in human intellectual capacity.
I highly doubt that considering education in this country.
Like bad writers for a sci-fi TV series, leftists have to retcon the idea of gender fluidity and an endless number of gender types into the universe we inhabit, the real universe.
They praise trans women, speaking of them as if they represent some kind of quantum leap in human evolution.
Some even say that trans women are more female than actual, real biological women.
They say trans women have access to insights and understandings about what it means to be a woman that women can't even understand.
Now this is so crazy because obviously there is no such thing as any of this.
It's almost as if trans women are some sort of superior women in their mind.
And if you listen carefully to the praise that they heap on these people on the left and other gender confused people.
It amounts to the creation of a trans supremacist ideology, one where biological men and biological women alike are considered lesser in this twisted hierarchy of being.
And that's because a lot of this leftist ideology really is rooted in hatred.
They hate heterosexual men, and they hate heterosexual women.
Because they represent the norm.
They represent marriage, family, all of those things.
And so instead, these people who are promoting this LGBTQIA and so on, they're really just wanting to create a society where these gender-confused people and that messaging is at the top of the society.
They've moved beyond the mere physical realm you see, and now they're taking a more emotional That's what Carl Benjamin means when he says leftism marginalizes normalcy and families.
That's their goal.
Leftists are very triggered by normalcy.
In fact, if you say this is normal, they freak out and they say, whoa, whoa, whoa, we can't say that's normal.
You can't say a real woman because Who are you to say that?
There's no such thing as a real person, a normal person, because they want to normalize all of their weirdness.
They want to normalize everything perverse.
So using words like normal is very triggering for them.
The world values gender ideology, and when it comes to women, encourages promiscuity instead of marriage, and all kinds of other paths that actually lead to destruction for women.
So young women are becoming convinced from a very early age that the ideal life is the life of a Kardashian or some kind of TikTok star.
Don't settle down.
Just have fun.
Focus on yourself.
And there's a problem with that aspect of leftism.
Women who rack up frighteningly high body counts tend to be viewed unfavorably by young men who value a woman's ability to commit to them in a long-term relationship.
As a result, by the time many of these women are in their mid-30s or even 40s, they have so much experience, you know, out there in this world of dating and all of that.
But it's come at a cost because they've spent most of their years with men that they're not going to be married to.
And this comes at the cost of no longer being attractive to men who want a committed spouse.
Deeply, usually into their careers at this point, so it's very hard to change your mindset if you're becoming a mother, for example.
And it's very difficult, generally, to have a baby once you reach your 40s, and it only gets more difficult.
In fact, this would have usually never been possible in the past, but today women really are taught that Freezing eggs, doing all these things will give you all this time, and then many find out that that is not the case.
Now, this is a crazy world that we're living in, that we're even at this point where people are saying these kinds of things, but it's about at this time that you realize that your TV and messaging has been lying to you.
I thought I was supposed to be single throughout all of my 20s.
This was supposed to be a fun time in my life.
In fact, let's extend this.
Into my 30s is what a lot of these younger women are thinking.
Now, this is clearly anti-common sense and has been anti-common sense for generations.
In fact, for many generations, you were seen as kind of older if you weren't married in your 20s.
Starting to have kids in your 20s.
It was kind of concerning to people in decades past.
And that's not even that long ago.
I would say even 50 years ago that would have been the case.
And so I think once the 1960s took hold and once a lot of these women decided they wanted to be girl bosses, decided they wanted to really compete with men in the workplace, decided that they wanted to have fun or all of these things.
And it could be either of those roads.
It could be...
You know, focusing on self and having fun, or it could be focusing on self through monetary gain in that sense.
But I think women then realized later, hey, this was not the way that women were meant to be.
This was not the way that women were designed.
And that doesn't mean that women aren't working hard.
By the way, women for centuries work incredibly hard and building the home is difficult.
Taking care of kids, having babies, all of that is extremely...
Challenging, but rewarding.
And I think that women as a helper to men has traditionally been the way that that marriage has worked and also has led to the best outcome for women.
So who led these women down this horrible cul-de-sac?
And the answer is leftists.
We talked this week about the young vote skewing wildly to the right, and that's great, especially among young men.
Because generally, the more of your life you spend adhering to leftist ideals, the more you'll regret having wasted your precious time.
Now this may be seen as harsh words, but what is harsher?
Being warned to avoid a life of misery or encouraging people to keep doing this?
Benjamin notices that leftism has taken its toll on society too.
Throughout the world, particularly the West, Populations are imploding because people are having fewer than even the replacement of themselves when it comes to children.
And this is usually two, two and a half children is what's needed to maintain society at even just an even level.
In order to promote child-rearing, countries like Finland, Estonia, Italy, Japan, Australia, they've all embraced big tax credits for having children.
You know what the result is?
No improvement.
People who say, oh, it's all about money, that's why I don't have kids.
Well, even if you're getting these tax breaks, even if you're getting money, they don't want to have kids.
So, more fatalistic people will argue, that's just the downward progression of an advanced society.
We're so advanced.
Now we want to phase out of having kids at all and end the human race.
You reach a certain level of GDP and suddenly, poof, no children.
Everyone dies out, a new crop of people settle the land, and so on.
Mongolia solved their low birth rate problem.
How?
Not through tax cuts, but by elevating mothers.
Wait, appreciating people who take on this very, very vital role.
They act as the primary source of love, nurturing, and understanding for children, especially in early years in life.
And you see, too many have believed the lie that trans women are superhumans.
Our society tells us that they are living out their best life.
But that's not actually the best life for people.
In the meantime, the job of being a mother is generally perceived as lower status.
Making presentations that everyone will sleep throughout the next office meeting is somehow seen as achieving your best self and more important.
To be honest, giving life and forming young minds, forming the next generation of Americans, that should be more valued in our society.
Women are attracted to praise.
Women do like to be liked, which is why many younger students who were girls actually comply more in a classroom setting, for example.
And so when women, even as adults, see that, oh, I'm kind of being told to go down this road, They tend to do that.
And it's not good.
It's very harmful.
So in Mongolia, they have been elevating mothers.
They build statues to mothers.
They have special days for mothers.
They even give them awards.
And girls brought up in such a society see for themselves that the best way to get praise is by becoming a mother.
They no longer feel compelled to...
Hook up with random people and do all this weird today stuff that's common.
The path of that should be actually seen as lower status.
We should not fear calling that out because, to be honest, it shouldn't be idolized in society.
I think a lot of us who are Christian, conservative, we don't want to be.
Saying something's wrong or we don't want to call something out because it's seen as mean, but the reality is it's harmful to elevate that kind of lifestyle.
So we can't do that anymore.
And right now we've actually seen that Mongolia is experiencing staggeringly high growth in its GDP, which is currently 4.9% and expected to go up to 6.6%.
Yet the growth in GDP hasn't led to a decline in births.
And it's very likely attributable to the fact that women are aspiring to be mothers.
Mongolia has a medal called the Order of Maternal Glory that has several levels to it.
If you're a mother who's had four or five children, you're due a second-class medal.
And if you have six or more, you have earned the right to receive the first-class Order of Maternal Glory.
I hear this and I think, wow, why not?
We give other medals in the U.S. all the time, medals to soldiers who sacrifice their lives for our country, and I think if you are putting that level of commitment and effort into being a mother, you should receive a medal.
George Soros got a medal from Joe Biden, and how many people did he give birth to?
None.
Try living in a total biological symbiosis with a human being in your body that often, and come to me then about your medals and accomplishments.
We need to elevate mothers more.
And if you are into the gender, ideology, strange stuff, or the culture of promiscuity today, where do you think the next generation of gender-confused, strange people are going to come from?
Face it leftists.
Without mothers, even they have no nature to speak of.
Who birthed them?
So their only hope of continuing on is...
Honestly, indoctrinating other people's children.
We have seen disturbing stories of them adopting children, and that needs to be looked into because there's a lot of child abuse that goes on there.
So there's certainly no logical basis for even them to be against people having kids, but they are because it goes against their ideology of wanting to normalize all of the strangeness that they're doing.
We need to Focus on changing this in our society.
And we also need to go back to a country of normalcy.
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I'm delighted to welcome our guest today, Terry Schilling.
He is the president of the American Principles Project, and he's also a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute.
Terry, thanks so much for joining us.
Thanks for having me, Danielle.
Yeah.
Well, so much to talk about, but I wanted to get your thoughts on, since you are running this pro-family, pro-American, you know, traditional values, principles group.
What do you think when you see all of these younger people starting to become more conservative, especially young men, and what do you think we can do to kind of increase those numbers and keep them going?
Because some people are saying, oh, you know, we don't know if they'll get more conservative over time.
Maybe this is just something happening right now.
So what's kind of your take on that?
Well, look, and again, thank you so much for having me, Danielle.
I'm a huge fan of you and your husband and your whole family.
It's fantastic.
You guys are continuing the legacy of your father, and it's amazing.
Look, I look at the numbers that we have today, and I'm both alarmed and excited.
I'm alarmed at how few marriages are happening.
I'm alarmed at the polling on how young people think of family and marriage and having children.
40% of Gen Zers say that they don't know if they'll ever get married, and another 43% say that they don't know if they even want to have kids.
That's very concerning.
But the hope and the optimism is that Gen Z is the most conservative generation that we have today.
They're actually much more likely to be found in church as well.
There's been a huge resurgence among Gen Z in a turn to Christianity and practicing religion.
And the interesting thing about this is that it's actually being led by men.
For the first time in, I think it's Gallup or Pew, but in the first time in their polling, young men were more likely to be found in church than young women.
And that's the first time in several decades that that's happened.
It's a Pivotal time for America.
We can go one way or the other.
But I think that if we address a few things as a nation, I think we can get back on track fairly quickly.
First of all, we've got to get back to normalcy when it comes to issues of sexuality.
We've got to start tampering down pornography, especially as it pertains to children.
We need to do age verification to protect them so that young boys aren't seeing porn at the age of 11 like the average is right now for the first time they see porn.
So that when they see women, they value them for the whole person and not just their bodies and being objectified.
The second thing is I think we need to start empowering and encouraging young men to be actual masculine role models.
There's this big debate right now around Andrew Tate and whether or not he's masculine and represents masculinity.
I don't think he does.
And that's my opinion.
Take it for what it's worth.
But I think true masculinity...
It's being a good husband.
It's being a good father.
And ultimately, I think the pinnacle of being a masculine male, a real man, is becoming a grandfather, right?
That's like the end of your career as a man is becoming a grandfather.
And so we need to start encouraging young men to get married, have kids, be a good father, be a good husband, be a good provider.
Secondly, I think we need to encourage young women to not be afraid of motherhood.
I'm a man, so I really feel for women because I can't imagine.
I mean, the entire birthing process is absolutely terrifying to me.
And I've been in the delivery room for seven children.
But we need to do more to encourage young women to embrace motherhood and show them the true beauty that motherhood is.
But there's a lot of things that we can just get back to our roots.
You know, motherhood, fatherhood, being a good wife, being a good husband.
These are all things that have been embedded into us as human beings for quite some time.
And I think we can return to it.
There's just been so much propaganda and really bad cultural influence.
is starting in our schools, especially the university system.
If we start to reject this stuff and get back to the basics of supporting our families and loving them, I think America will be in for a very, very, very bright future.
Well, there's so much there.
You know, this is kind of the movement that happens when you want masculinity, but you remove Christianity.
Christianity or just kind of this moral foundation of things because he wants to be this strong person, but then at the same time, you know, devalues women and so on.
And I think devalues themselves.
So hopefully young men don't go that direction, because ideally we want young men to be masculine, strong individuals, but also, as you said, to lead families.
And he's not really leading men in that direction, certainly.
But what do you think is leading these young men to be more interested in, let's say, church attendance?
Because, yeah, in the past when I was younger, it would mostly be, let's say, you know, more ratio of younger women going to church than maybe younger men in the same.
So why do you think now that's shifted, where now it's mostly younger men?
And what's kind of leading younger women away from following these things?
Yeah, well, so first and foremost, on the younger men returning to church...
I think that religion serves a real purpose for us, even if it's not the right religion.
It's healthy for us as human beings to really reflect on what the truth is and what goodness is and what virtue is.
And to have some institution that's above the world, above humanity, that's outside of it, that's constantly having us question things and improve things.
And I think that what's happened is, over the last century or so, Our churches, especially Christian churches, have become a lot more worldly.
They've got bongo drums.
They've got electric guitars.
I saw a church with a bass guitar, for crying out loud, and fog machines and light shows.
We don't need more things of the world.
You might be able to fill your seats like that, but they're not getting a substantive message.
And so I think that...
What's happening is young men are under attack.
They're told that masculinity, not that there is a toxic version of masculinity, but that masculinity is toxic.
And so I think that these young men are really in search of something bigger than themselves.
And what's bigger than ourselves, than God, right?
Than our creator.
And so I think that it's a very human thing to search for truth, to search for meaning and purpose.
You know, Christianity especially provides that for them.
So I think that they're sick of the world.
They're sick of these churches that remind them of the world and that look just like the world.
They want something higher, something that draws their eyes to the sky and to our creator.
And so that's just my romantic take on it.
But when it comes to women, you know, there's this really weird and crazy feminist...
That's a total lie.
And that lie is that women were second-class citizens for all of human history until the 1960s when the feminist movement gave us abortion and birth control and contraception and started getting women away from their families and out of the home and into the workforce so that they could make...
Old, rich, white men a lot more wealthy.
But there's this whole lie.
The fight for women's equality was kind of...
Backwards.
Women had a lot of control in our society, and at the time, they were actually elevated in the 1960s.
They didn't, for example, get drafted into war and get sent overseas to die in these types of conflicts because we valued women more.
We didn't want to send them to the front lines because they were more important than men.
They were less replaceable than men.
Women have a lot of power.
I was raised, Danielle, by very, very strong women.
My grandpa great, there was no undercutting grandma great, right?
She ran the show.
We had a matriarch in our family that was in charge of everything.
So this whole feminist narrative has always been foreign to me because the women in my family were really the ones that set the rules and enforced the culture.
And I know that that's probably the standard for the vast majority of Americans too.
But I think we need to start encouraging women.
To become mothers, to become wives, you can have a career at any point, but you can only have babies until you're in your 40s.
There's a limited time.
My mom, I'm the eldest of 10 kids, and my mom, it's the best thing, by the way.
It's probably why I have seven kids.
It's weird to have a quiet household.
That's so fun.
When my mom figured out that she couldn't have any more kids, Because she was getting older, she called me and she was kind of distraught.
I feel like God's taking something away from me.
I really liked being able to have kids.
And then she said something that's always stuck with me.
But I then realized that I now can go to college and get a degree.
She got pregnant with me while she was in college, so she had to drop out.
But she's like, I can go back and get that degree.
I can start the coffee shop I always wanted.
My career options are limitless.
And it's only because I had all these children.
And what's interesting is, you know, moms are incredibly talented.
They're incredibly smart.
And that's why they should be focused on the more important thing, which is not helping Jeff Bezos at Amazon make more money.
It's raising the next generation of human beings, of American citizens that are going to inherit this world and have to make it better themselves.
That's why women were mothers, and that's why we value them and elevated them, is because raising children, creating the next generation was the most important thing.
So I think if we...
Strike down the lies.
This whole feminist narrative is garbage.
Women have always been empowered in America and had great cultural influence from the founding, actually.
Kind of like you were saying, women actually used to have more power in not just the home, but also society when they were valued in more of a complementarian way.
Because if women are always competing with men in kind of a man's world or in a...
You know, like the cutthroat, more business or that kind of environment.
I think it changes you.
So women can do that, you know, but then you're kind of a different person in a way.
And I think that you don't have as much of the feminine qualities that are actually more attractive to men and also make you a better mother, make you better at your family life.
So I think a lot of women who...
Get married later, have kids later, or kind of put everything into their career.
It's kind of hard for them to make that shift because they've built up all of these kind of masculine skills and all of their kind of background is that and it's hard to change.
Whereas I think what's nice about getting married younger and having kids is that that kind of defines who you are.
Because yes, there are the years of having them, but then also raising them.
It all becomes like a change of life trajectory, I think.
And I think a lot of these younger women who you were saying aren't interested in having kids or they're not interested in getting married, they're really going to miss out on a lot because it's kind of an experience.
You can't really replace it, especially not with a job.
So I think that's something that's going to be a huge loss to them, even just...
For themselves, as people.
And I think men, they may have a hard time finding the right woman because if more of them are conservative or becoming Christian, there aren't going to be as many options for them.
So I think if you are a woman who decides, you know, I am Christian, I'm conservative, that sort of thing, and I want to be more traditional, you'll probably have a lot of great options of someone to meet out there.
So I highly encourage that.
No, I think that's right.
But that's also, I think, you've got to do both and.
You've got to address the problems that males are suffering from, especially, and I can't emphasize this enough, we especially have to address the porn epidemic.
It is so bad.
I was reading statistics.
It's something like 80% of men admit in public polling to watching porn at least once a month.
And you do the math on that.
There's 120 million males in America.
It's like 97 million men in America are watching porn at least once a month.
That's not healthy.
That's not good.
That's 97 million men that are at some point every month objectifying women in a really terrible way.
So these women that want to go the traditional route, it's important that they have as big of a pool as possible.
And that 97 million men that watch porn.
They're hurting their own chances of finding a good girl and a good woman.
But, you know, Danielle, I think you were talking just now.
I think the big thing is that men and women complement each other.
And men are strong where women are typically weak, and women are strong when men are typically weak.
We make each other better.
And actually, I know this is probably a hot take for a lot of lefties or normies, but men and women need each other.
We need each other.
Men need women and women need men.
Our lives are better with the other gender and the other sex.
And the gender wars are so stupid.
They're so contrived.
And they only benefit politicians and corporations and profiteers who are trying to take advantage of us.
Right.
And men and women, like you were saying, they complement each other so well, but they're not identical.
They're not the same.
And they have different strengths and weaknesses.
And I think it's interesting when you were mentioning the porn epidemic because I think a big cause of it is smartphones and access to a lot of, you know, everything basically that's out there on the internet.
Whereas before, I guess in previous generations, it would be like you'd have to sneak to like a bookstore or find, you know, some kind of dirty magazine or something like that.
And so not that that's good.
That's horrible.
You know, they're a little bit more barriers to entry, I guess.
Whereas now, it's kind of like, yeah, if you're giving your kids unfettered access to stuff online, they could find those things by accident, like you mentioned at 11. Obviously, there's huge issues to the kind of things kids are exposed to today.
So I think that's been a huge problem with leading to this because...
Yeah, I mean, at that age, you're basically asking a young kid to put their own boundaries on themselves for what they're doing and watching.
And nowadays, I think parents, they want to protect their kids in the sense of we're kind of more aware of, let's say, like physical predators.
And, you know, maybe today kids don't ride their bikes as much out just to go off and go to, you know, other people's homes.
Whereas in the olden days, they'd say, oh, you know, I used to do this and that.
And so today some parents may be like, okay, you know, you can only stay here or something.
But there's a lot more danger online.
I don't think smartphones existed when I was 11 or when I was younger.
I didn't have a phone or my own computer.
Obviously, there weren't iPads or any of that stuff.
So I don't feel like Maybe older generations are as aware of this is actually where you need more boundaries is online.
I completely agree.
Yeah, no, and I grew up without a smartphone.
I was constantly being kicked out of the house to go sent off to play outside with my friends, which is a very good thing.
I do think that we need to stop giving our kids smartphones.
I think it's some type of child abuse to give them that stuff.
Even if you have filters on it, they're not ready for these types of apps and addiction.
I mean, there's real studies coming out.
And by the way, Facebook and these Silicon Valley tech firms have admitted to hiring psychologists To manipulate us with their apps, to create, you know, endorphin releases and adrenaline releases when we do this.
They made them addictive.
And to give our kids these things just blindly and to have our kids regulate them.
Kids need to be formed, right?
And I want to say something.
Kids need, you know, there's a lot of talk about affirming your child, especially when it comes to this whole transgender nonsense.
A parent's job is not solely to affirm their child.
My job as a parent is actually to form my child.
I affirm them when they're right.
I affirm them when they do good.
But I critique them.
I correct them when they do wrong, right?
That's the whole point of parenthood.
That's my job.
That's not just my job.
That's my vocation that God gave to me when he gave me these kids.
And it's not just to blindly affirm them.
It's not just to...
To pacify them with an iPad.
It is to make sure that they are good, solid, stable human beings that are a benefit and a net positive for society.
And just giving your kids smartphones is only going to lead to disaster.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then not to mention even just the constant screen addiction.
Even if they're not watching content like that, just from constantly being on screens, I mean, they're not going to develop all those sensory skills and all those other things.
And in some ways, I'm so glad I didn't have that when I was younger because it really developed my imagination.
I was able to play more.
I did so many of my own games and my own things.
And if screens are always there, I mean, they're probably going to just...
Gravitate to what's easiest, which is the screen.
So that's a huge problem.
So Terry, what do you think about these kind of changes in demographics as kind of the boomer generation gets older?
Do you feel like we're going to see some shifts there because now even millennials are Are getting to be older now that Gen Z is kind of like the younger group.
And what are you kind of seeing amongst maybe millennials, Gen X, other groups like that?
How do they kind of view all of these gender issues?
So we're winning across the board when it comes to the whole transgender industry nonsense.
Men and women's sports, giving kids sex change procedures and blocking their hormones.
Like, it doesn't matter what demographic or age group you test this with.
It's majorities across the board.
But when it comes to...
Issues around America and America's future.
The interesting dynamic is, you know, when I was growing up, elderly people were solid Republicans.
Solid Republicans.
I mean, 67%, 65%, 70% voting Republican.
But now the elderly here in America, these are the boomers.
These were the, they weren't just the boomers.
These were like the hippie generation.
And so they're actually a lot more left-leaning than previous senior citizens that we've had in this country.
And I think ultimately that is a major reason why Gen Z is a lot more conservative, because the elderly people today, by comparison, these were the hippies.
These were the people that grew up in the 60s, that bought into the feminist lie narrative, to the economic Marxist lies from the left.
All of that, it was a product of the 60s.
I'm very optimistic.
I think this youngest generation, I think the Gen Xers are much more conservative than the Boomers.
I think that even the Millennials are more conservative.
I think the Millennials are probably the most problematic generation because we're the Disney generation.
Everyone needs a participation trophy generation.
But I think that that's changing quickly.
Millennials like myself learn that the world's a very cruel place.
It's not always fair, and you've got to be tough if you're going to survive.
But look, overall, I'm optimistic.
I think that over the course of your time, the more you have to pay in taxes, the more you see in crime, the more you experience the real world, obviously, the more conservative you're going to get.
But these boomers, they're causing so many problems.
There's still a lot of good ones, but they're a really lost generation, mostly.
It's kind of funny to think of someone who is, I don't know, like, elderly, but still thinks of themselves as part of the hippie movement from the 60s.
Because at a certain point, you're thinking, are you going to, like, settle down with some common sense?
But no, I mean, even at these Elon Musk doge protests, it's like these...
Elderly white women who used to go to, I don't know, some kind of free spirit stuff back in the 60s or something and they think that they're back.
Yeah, look, I think that they're just so lost.
They're so lost and it's really sad.
But I will tell you, there's a lot of these hippies that are part of the Maha movement.
I've worked with some of them in coalitions, and it's kind of cool to see, but a lot of the people that are working with RFK Jr.
They're not like you and I. They're kind of hippies.
They're crunchy is what I would call them.
They like granola.
They like natural foods.
They don't like all this artificial stuff.
So there is some hope.
I mean, there's a lot of these hippies from the 60s and 70s that are now trying to clean up our food supply and how we fix our healthcare system.
So it's not all bad.
It's actually good if you're a hippie.
Yeah, no, definitely.
And it's so cool to see the conservatives taking on these health issues and actually wanting to make our country more healthy, because I guess I would have thought in the past, oh, you know, maybe that's something liberals would be more into, being more crunchy or something.
But actually, it's a lot of conservatives, independents, maybe some former Democrats coming over to our side on that issue.
Well, Terry, thank you so much for joining us this morning, and I appreciate your thoughts on all these things.
Thanks for having me, Danielle.
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He's the chair of the Dallas GOP and the executive director of the American Constitutional Rights Program.
He's the former chair of the Texas GOP and a retired Army lieutenant colonel.
Thanks so much for joining us, Alan.
It's a great pleasure to be with you, Danielle.
Thanks for having me.
Oh, well, man, there's so much to talk about today, but I was looking through your X account and saw that you were writing recently about how you fully support crushing the Chinese communists economically.
Can you tell us a little bit about kind of just your thoughts on the tariffs recently and what you think about what's happening with, you know, using tariffs to bring our enemies to their knees?
Well, I think it's important that we understand that we did not defeat the Soviet Union militarily.
We defeated them economically.
They, with that centralized economic system, could not keep up with us.
And Ronald Reagan understood that.
And so the people that paid attention to that was another communist country by the name of China.
And they realized that they had to try to insert themselves into the world economic community.
And that's what they did by getting into the WTO.
Then the next thing you know, they get the most favorite trade nation status from the United States of America.
Think about back in 1996 when we were debating that, the trade deficit that we had with China then was about 34, 36 billion.
And so we have not learned our lesson.
The forced transfer of technology, the theft of intellectual property.
And if you go back, it wasn't too long ago, China did not have a Blue Water Navy, did not have aircraft carriers, and now they do.
I think it's very important that we understand when you look at that trade imbalance that we have with China.
That's going to fund their global hegemonic designs and objectives to fund their military.
And we cannot have that.
So what I think President Trump is doing is saying, let's right balance our trade, not just with looking at China, but looking at all of these countries.
And let's really try to isolate China economically.
And let's be honest, China is responsible for the deaths of, I believe, close to two million Americans by way of the Wuhan virus and then also fentanyl.
We have a number one geopolitical foe, and let's try to contend and deal with them economically first.
Right.
Absolutely.
And it's scary.
The amount of power China has even here in Texas, it's frightening because we don't want the CCP owning American farmland.
We don't want the CCP involved in our elections.
We don't want the CCP involved in so many things we're doing here.
I think they're really our biggest...
Our biggest threat, yet the left likes to act like our biggest threat is Russia.
But in reality, Russia is basically under the foot of China.
So China is the one who's really pulling the strings there.
No, you're absolutely right.
Vladimir Putin is not taking any action unless he gets the wink-wink nod from Xi Jinping.
But it's interesting because I think the progressive socialist left sees the constitutional conservatives.
They see Donald Trump as more of an enemy than anyone else on this planet.
But you're right when you look at even in a state like Texas, where you would think that we would not allow China to be able to come in and buy farmland, food production facilities.
We've had legislation in the last legislative session here in Texas, the 88th, that would have prevented China from being able to buy land in Texas, but yet it failed because of actions in the Texas State House.
And we still don't have that legislation passed in this, the 89th legislative session.
And it's very serious when you think about a former member of the Chinese People's Liberation Army owning land right next to a United States Air Force Base in Del Rio, Texas.
Which is where we train our next generation F-35 fighter pilots.
We don't want to see that happen, yet that's what's happening here in the state of Texas and in other places across the United States.
Yeah, it's frightening because I know, you know, you and I are both in Texas.
And so you think, wow, you know, Texas is this place of hope and freedom.
And it is.
It's definitely much better than many other states, especially blue ones.
As we were talking about Chinese communist control, we also have illegal immigrants which need to get deported.
We have these large illegal communities where it's unfortunate, but those people have started.
Schools and all kinds of things as if they're going to stay here.
And then we have a big foreign influence, sadly.
And so how can we get back to a Texas that is more of the Texas that we love, that is more free and, you know, focused on improving the lives of farmers, ranchers, normal, you know, families, suburban people, and improving our cities?
Well, I think it's very important that we have law enforcement officials and elected officials that enforce the law and abide by the law and create law to protect the safety and security of legal residents here in the state of Texas, the United States of America, and also citizens.
We don't see that happening.
One of the big concerns is this colony ridge down just, I think, just east of the woodlands, north of Houston, one of the largest illegal immigrant communities, and ICE just went through their immigration.
I just went through there in a big raid, found murderers, rapists, gang members, MS-13, all of those type of individuals that are there, and that's here in Texas.
So when I read about district judges and some of these other people that are saying you cannot deport folks that, first and foremost, coming into this country illegally is a felony offense, it's a crime.
And then they come in and they commit further crimes against American citizens, and they believe that these folks should have due process?
No, they're not entitled to due process.
The only due process is to immediately return them back to the country of origin.
So when we see national elected officials going to El Salvador to plead the case of an MS-13 gang member who was in this country illegally, or when we see elected officials that don't want to do what is right by protecting us on the street, to include law enforcement officials.
I live over here in Dallas.
And the Dallas police chief has come out and said, doesn't want to work with ICE.
The Dallas County sheriff, who is supposed to be a constitutional law enforcement officer, doesn't want to work with ICE.
Why not?
So basically, they're harboring individuals that are here illegally and also those that are here.
Criminally, on top of that, committing acts of violence against American citizens.
So we have got to do better as a people, making sure that we demand folks that are going to look out for the protection of our sovereignty and protection of our safety and security.
Yeah.
And what's unfortunate is so many of the American people support this.
They support impeaching judges.
We certainly support that.
If they're going to be on the side of Trendy, Aragua, and MS-13, certainly President Trump should have the right to deport those people.
But even as you mentioned with the Texas state legislature, it's not all conservative.
Unfortunately, it's Republicans who derail the agenda here, and it's going to lead to Texas suffering.
And then when it goes to the whole nation, the whole nation suffers as a result too, because...
Unfortunately, not even all the Republicans are backing this.
And you would think that there would be all the Republicans plus some Democrats backing these things because it's so common sense.
And these gang members, they are killing people, bringing in drugs, doing all kinds of things that we don't need in this country.
What are you seeing in Dallas as far as...
I guess crime, things like that.
Is it a lot of illegals?
Is it a lot of homeless?
What are you finding in your area?
Well, it's very simple.
Highway 360 divides Dallas County from Tarrant County.
We have three times the amount of crime over in Dallas County than you do in Tarrant County.
Very simple.
Tarrant County has Republican leadership.
Dallas County does not.
The city of Dallas has a city council and a structure that wants to undermine providing the correct number of police, a police force that should be about 4,000 to 4,500 officers based upon the population of the city of Dallas.
And we do have I think that ISIS is okay to be on the streets of Dallas or the Taliban or Hamas or Hezbollah or any of these other entities because they have been designated as terrorist organizations.
So we have a big problem over here in Dallas and Dallas County, and that's why this current municipal level elections that are We're up right now.
City council, mayoral races, school board races are so important.
But yet, those are the races where you see, as you well know, Danielle, 6% to 8% voter turnout.
And then we scratch our heads and ask ourselves, Why do we see the murder rate so high and assault crime so high in a place like Dallas?
But we don't see that over in Tarrant County.
And you know what's going on over here.
We just had another school shooting.
We've had individuals that have been shot in downtown Dallas.
And I can tell you, I'd prefer not to go to downtown Dallas to enjoy any of these sporting activities or any type of entertainment activities because it's just not a safe place.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What was your reaction to the killing of Austin Metcalf?
I know that's in the larger DFW area, but kind of our backyard.
What were your thoughts and also just over the last few weeks and seeing how it's all developed?
Well, you know, back in the day when I was young and a bit more spry, I ran track.
And when I retired from the United States military, I coached track at a high school down in South Florida.
I don't understand why any young person needs to bring a knife to attract me.
And so that's a fact.
And if you want to talk about conflict resolution, you don't lodge a knife into someone's heart to resolve an issue, especially an issue where maybe you were in a place where you should not have been.
So I think it is...
Very disconcerting that we have young people, such as the person that stabbed Austin Metcalf, that believes that stabbing someone is a great way and a very viable way to resolve an issue.
That could have been very simply done by just walking away.
And this whole question about self-defense, I mean, you're supposed to return proportionally, and if someone is not bringing out a knife against you or a gun or really threatening you with major harm or danger, I don't see where pulling out a knife is right.
And then on top of that, we have Angela Tucker, the judge up there, who decides, for whatever reason, to reduce the bail amount by some 75%.
I can't understand why you do that, because this is a person who killed another person, and it seems to be right now without any real justification when you read all of the excerpts.
So first and foremost, we have to teach our kids to respect life, which I think that we're failing.
We've got to do a better job of providing a safe and secure environment in our schools, which we do a great job at Super Bowls.
We do a great job at college football games, but we're not doing a great job at our schools.
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, thank you so much, Alan, for joining us today, and I really appreciate your thoughts.
It's my pleasure.
Thanks for having me, Daniel.
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