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June 13, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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American Political Parties and Their Devolution
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I'm always fascinated by organizational...
Components, how people group together, this notion of left and right and the Democrats and the conservatives.
And for the most part, everything that normally was applied regarding parties makes no sense today because what we're seeing right now...
What we're seeing in this iteration of groups has nothing to do with anything that is even remotely familiar historically.
Does that make any sense?
Good, I hope so.
Because it's one of these things that is so fascinating.
And what's fascinating, let me say it again, is that we...
Are walking around in the middle of a riot.
That's our organizational.
That's our politics.
Our clock receives murmurations, swarms, schools.
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Let me tell you a couple of moments in my life that I remember for the longest time.
You know, sometimes you see things, whether it's, oh, I don't know, maybe it's something in nature or something that's, I don't know.
Murmurations.
Murmurations, swarms, and And movement swaths of starlings.
Are you familiar with that?
They're called murmurations, these movements.
And I looked at this and said, how does this work?
I was a kid.
How come one bird doesn't go off, miss the cue, miss the turn?
There's never any misprecision.
What is it?
How do we think?
How do we work?
How do we...
Work together.
How do we fly and flock and move and swarm?
How do we do this?
How does all of this work?
And what's the most fascinating to me is that especially now, and especially those people who are involved in politics and the like, always love to think of themselves as being part of either, this one's a liberal and these are the Republicans.
And I'm telling you, we have movements today and organizations that have no names.
And why organizations are important is that when you are in a group or a swath or this school, passel, permutation, murmuration, whatever, when you're in this, you lose individual ideology.
You lose individual identity.
And what you do is you instead, by virtue of this, you become part of the organization, part of the group, and the group that defines you.
I started in talk radio in 19...
really, for the first time, professionally in 1988.
This is on the air.
And this was at the time of Rush Limbaugh.
And I didn't know who any of these people were.
These conservatives.
But I paid attention.
And the term conservative defined them.
It made them.
They loved it.
Oh my God, they just...
To them it was like saying proud, glorious, American, upright, honest, to be a conservative.
Oh my God, it was the most important thing in the world.
Everybody went berserk.
People went crazy.
They went crazy over this idea, this thing.
This, again, this murmuration, this, whatever you want to call this, this group, they went nuts over this.
And I saw this.
I know people who've always identified themselves as being, well, I'm a Catholic.
I'm a retired Catholic, but I know people say, well, I'm a Catholic.
And it defines them, and I'm thinking, well, I mean, who am I to say what a Catholic is, but they never follow the holy days of obligation.
The same thing I know with, you know, Protestants or Jews, or people, well, I'm a veteran.
I'm an American.
I'm a New Yorker.
I'm a male.
I'm an American.
I'm a Catholic.
I'm a Christian.
People always identify with some group they're in.
It's really something.
It's this group.
This thing that they're in.
And what's so fascinating throughout this venture is that it's used with such a frequency That the real meaning means nothing.
Now let me tell you what I am politically.
I am my guy.
And I have things individually that I believe in.
And I'm not a part of any occlocracy.
I might share some stuff with others.
Let me give you an example.
This is kind of confusing, perhaps.
I happen to be a pro-choice person.
Meaning, I don't believe a woman should face prison for having an abortion.
How's that?
So I'm pro-choice.
Huh?
Sounds good, doesn't it?
I'm pro-choice.
Alright.
I'm pro-choice and I hate abortion.
Hate it, hate it, hate it.
Wouldn't want to be a part of it.
I find the notion disgusting.
But I'm not going to put a woman in prison.
It is a prohibition that's for all practical purposes.
You don't want this to be unavailable.
You don't want to remove this.
You don't.
And I think it's got a mood that ever would be removed.
This is the Constitution right here.
This is my Bible.
This is my belief.
This is what I follow.
And in this Constitution, and through its various iterations and its interpretations, there has never been anything that's even remotely guaranteeing the right to choice, the right to an abortion.
That does not exist.
So you got it so far?
I don't believe in the constitutional right, but I'm pro-choice.
Because the Constitution is not the only means by which I do things.
What I do and what I believe and where I go and how I travel and what I do and what I say has nothing to do with the Constitution.
What I purchase, what I don't purchase, what I elect to do.
What I want to eat has nothing to do with the Constitution.
I do things that are completely unfettered, unencumbered, unimpeded, that have nothing to do with the Constitution.
Okay, fine.
You got it?
So I'm pro-choice, but I'm also, I believe, that the Constitution has no basis for this.
I'm also against the death penalty.
Ideologically, practically, because particularly one reason, not because it's immoral, but because of the fact that so many people, very frankly, don't get the representation they need.
Sometimes the death penalty is administered unfairly.
A lot of reasons.
But there is nothing in the Constitution that prohibits it.
In fact, the Constitution specifically provides for the death penalty, unlike abortion, which is kind of interesting, which is kind of a death penalty in a weird way.
It says, under the 14th Amendment, you are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and that you cannot have life, liberty, or property removed without due process.
It doesn't say you can't have your life.
Deprived.
You can't be killed.
You can't be put away forever.
You can't have your property seized.
It just says, if you do that, it must be done pursuant to the notion of due process.
That's all.
So understand this.
I'm against it.
But if I were a judge...
And I'm a trial judge, and the jury comes back and recommends a death penalty.
And if I can't find any particular legal impediment, I would go ahead and sign and order and declare and adjudicate this person convicted of this to the chair or to the death house, even though I'm against it.
Because what I think, personally, has nothing to do with the Constitution.
The Constitution particularly provides for it.
Is that inconsistent?
I don't think so.
So what am I?
Am I a liberal?
You think I'm a liberal?
What does that mean?
You think I'm a liberal?
I've been advocating gay marriage since I can remember.
Marriage is a marriage is a belief it is a practice it is a it is a I guess an application of a licensure provided by the state,
which may or may not have concomitant and attendant Christian or religious applications as well.
And I don't think there's anything that should prevent a man and a man or whatever it is, illegal adults from getting married.
Sorry.
Now, churches can exclude whatever they want.
Now, does that make me a liberal?
I think I'm a conservative.
I don't see anything in the Constitution that would prohibit.
I mean, it could.
And I don't need the Constitution to validate, but I've got no problem with that at all.
Done.
Done.
But I don't believe that you should be having drag shows and drag queens and transvestite promenades in schools where kids don't understand that.
I don't.
Kids are different.
Kids are off limits.
What does that make me?
Am I a liberal?
I'm anti-war.
I hate war like you cannot possibly believe.
I despise Joe Biden.
Despise him as a president.
I don't know him individually.
It will be generations when people will still be Talking about what a terrible job he did and how he was ever allowed to be president in the first place.
This man who did not know where he was.
How strange is that?
He didn't know where he was.
He never knew where he was.
Okay.
What we see right now are groups of people.
They're not left.
They're not progressive.
They're not liberals.
Do you think OAC is a liberal?
Do you think that what she is saying or Ilhan Omar Is a liberal?
What does that mean?
Sometimes people think a liberal is somebody who's not a conservative.
So by default, you must be a liberal because, well, you're sure as hell not a Republican or a conservative.
See how that works?
It doesn't make any sense.
Do you think Joe Biden?
Did you think Hillary Clinton is a liberal?
What does this word mean?
What is a liberal?
What is a prototypical?
I don't know.
I think it's lost its meaning.
I don't think...
George McGovern, they thought, was this lefty.
He's like a rhino now.
These words, they change.
They fluctuate.
They mean nothing.
We have swarms and horrors and oclacracies.
BLM and Antifa, swarming.
What are they?
Do you think BLM and Antifa, are those liberals?
Do you think thugs, organized thugs?
People who are just, I mean, they're roving bands of rioters?
You think this is left?
These words mean nothing.
Left and right, two sides of the same coin.
The left-right paradigm is ridiculous.
It makes no sense.
It is time to say, enough!
Enough!
That simple.
Enough!
And right now we have people who, again, If we would just lose these labels, lose them, lose them, and look at it individual issue by individual issue.
When you want to talk about protecting kids like Mrs. L does, do you want to do it as a Republican or as a Democrat?
No, I want to protect kids!
Would you like a Republican fireman or a conservative policeman?
Or a conservative heart surgeon?
I mean, what does it have to even do with anything?
It doesn't make any difference.
It doesn't make any difference.
This may sound trite to you.
It may sound like, well, that's pretty odd.
No, no, no.
You've got to get rid of these labels.
The two-party system, there are two parties.
Because there's a shadow government.
There's a cryptocracy.
There's a group of people who basically came about and seized control From these individuals.
They seized control.
And they happened to contaminate.
They happened to invade, like a parasite does, the host party.
And that's of the Democratic Party.
And they came in and they seized it.
Which is exactly what they did.
They seized it.
And the other people who normally would be there, the real You know, liberals and the like, or progressives, they're pushed out of the way.
Do you think that transgender athleticism has anything to do with liberal ideology, big government, or social programs, or class differentiation?
Do you think that has anything to do with this?
I mean, if somebody were to say, okay, we're going to institute a draft, and you're going in the army, but I'm a woman.
No, you're not.
We're going to apply a transgender application.
You say, you can't do that, but you can?
You can say, well, I can do it because it's my body, and I can say whatever I want.
So, think about this.
Would somebody then be fighting for binaries?
And by the way, when you say LGB, be bisexual, that's binary.
Where's all this non-binary talk if there's binary?
Why doesn't anybody transition into something, into a kind of a hybrid gender?
Something not woman, not male, just kind of stuck in the middle with you, a stealer's wheel.
Jerry Rafferty might say.
These issues have nothing to do with left-right ideology.
These are promoted, these are propounded, these are promulgated.
By the shadow government, the deep state, the shadow government, police state, intel state, ruling class, silent class, secret, silent, whatever you want to call it, the cryptocracy.
The actual, this is it.
The shadow government, they're the ones running the show.
Don't ever forget this.
Don't ever, ever forget who's in charge.
Lose the labels.
They don't mean anything.
And as soon as you're able to do that, then you can look at each issue, issue by issue.
And ask yourself, what do I think about this?
Not, what does the party think?
What does progressive ideology think?
What would Ronald Reagan do?
No, no, no, no, no.
What do you think about this?
What's your take?
What's your position?
That's the issue.
Okay?
Good.
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