April 19, 2024 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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What we are seeing, this explosion or explosions around the city of Isfahan is indeed an Israeli attack against Iran.
This is the retaliation that we have thought may be coming for several days now, ever since Iran carried out that strike last weekend.
A full jury of 12 now sworn in in former President Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial after the day began with drama surrounding two jurors dismissed.
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This is an American president.
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And we're doing this?
This is sheer stupidity.
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This should be pushed until after he wins or doesn't win.
This should be not part of this election cycle at all.
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Well, you certainly, of course, you don't want to because it is an absolutely damning indictment of your policies.
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Today is April 19th, 2024.
I know, Dominique, a man has just set himself, moments ago, set himself on fire outside the Trump courtroom in New York City.
We're looking at this.
I've got images from and these are extremely graphic images and suffice to say it does not look like this individual will survive.
This is similar to another series of self-immolations that have gone on recently regarding the Israel-Gaza conflict.
Of course at this point we have no indication as to why this person chose to do this.
We do see strewn around the body and I've got Um some other footage that I'm looking at that's honestly it's just too graphic to play because and it's it's on ZeroSum24 on his telegram page so everyone within the sound of my voice go follow ZeroSum24 on x and then get access to his subscriber only telegram page there is video here and it shows uh
flyers around the guy's, the individual's body.
They're colored, many in pink.
There's white around.
Now, of course, this is the protest area.
And we don't know for sure if this is the, or these are the flyers that the man himself was carrying.
They could have been brought by somebody else.
So what we're trying to do is make sure we can determine who exactly this guy was.
And I've instructed everybody out there, I put this out on Twitter, I've instructed all the producers here at Human Events Daily, we are going to scour For anyone who has footage of the protest area prior to this incident to see if we can find anyone particularly who's handling the pink flyers who's holding the pink flyers and if we can find anyone who's going around with you know any type of
of accelerant, any type of torch or something like this, and make sure that we can try to identify what's actually going on.
This is a horrific situation, obviously.
It appears to me that the man, if he is not dead, he is severely, severely wounded.
And at this point, all we can do is show the footage as much as possible to try to identify what exactly happened here, but more importantly, identify what's going on in our country.
We'll be right back.
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Just been sent here by Still Boneless a new tweet from Henry Rosoff.
Henry Rosoff is a Brooklyn-based political news reporter who's covering the situation outside the trial courtroom.
Listen to this.
Breaking can confirm a man has lit himself on fire in the protest area outside the Trump criminal trial.
Police are now investigating a large sign that he held along with smaller pamphlets.
An amateur photographer told me he told her to back up before dowsing himself in gasoline.
So we don't have any indication as to What exactly was going on?
Clearly, this is an example of someone who wanted to assault the bank of cameras, saw the international attention that was there at the protest area, wanted to do something that would get everyone's attention.
He certainly has.
We're told it's a male individual.
But again, we don't have information yet on what exactly was on that sign.
A lot of people asking, is this another Aaron Bushnell?
Is this another?
We know, obviously, the Free Palestine rallies have been going on throughout New York City this week, and so it's a possibility.
But again, we have no information yet, and we're going to be covering this as much as possible.
Mike Benz from the Foundation for Free...
Foundation freedom online is with us for free.
Yeah, I'm getting it all mixed up here is is joining us Ben's What do you make of this type of situation?
Why is it that how have we gotten to the point where where self?
Immolations are now being seen in the United States This is the tactic that is formally associated with like Buddhists during the Vietnam War We never really saw this in America since the 1970s.
So what's going on?
I Yeah, it's it's hard to say.
I mean, in this case, there's a weird poetry because of the parallels of what they're doing to Trump and the Salem witch trials.
I mean, this is very much a modern update of that where they set the witches on fire.
So I very much see the attempt to set the defendant in the case on fire inside.
I can't imagine that it's one of Trump supporters on the outside who's who's doing this.
But, you know, this is one of these things where, you know, there are so many other
Protected acts of violent protest because none of these Soros prosecutors will prosecute them if they throw feces or tomatoes, you know at the at the courtroom door, so, you know this this type of faux desperation by having to let light yourself on fire This is the sort of thing that that our press used to lionize when foreign populations would do such a thing for example in Tiananmen Square standing before the tank
Or these kinds of light-yourself-on-fire demonstrations that were lionized by U.S.
press during the Arab Spring.
But in this case, when it comes to the sort of anti-Trump protesters, they've got a free license to protest any way they please.
This kind of self-immolation was always seen as a message of last act of desperation.
They're the ruling party.
It frankly means nothing to me to see someone light themselves on fire and protest against Trump.
And, and it's really interesting because, you know, this, this is continuing.
I'm just, I'm scanning right now.
Of course, you know, we're looking at this.
There's some closeups.
I mean, the footage is all over the internet at this point, and yet I can't yet find anyone who's got direct information on the actual, uh, on the actual sign, on what he was holding.
It seems like it goes up.
CNN was live when it happened, and yet they weren't able to get their account.
looking right now, they weren't able to get the camera around close enough.
I'm sure we'll get the pamphlets out sooner rather than later.
It's just a matter of time given today's the speed of the internet today.
And that really is, you know, Benz, that is the one thing that they've been trying to shut down so long.
The fact that when something happens in the real world, we have the ability, particularly, and I'm just going to say it, particularly with X, there's no other platform out there that allows the speed and the specificity of searching by direct terms for an entire just, you know, open there's no other platform out there that allows the speed and the specificity of searching by
And even, no offense to Elon, but, and I'll surely understand what I mean by this, even X as it is now, if you go back to like 2014, 2013, it was even, I would say, more powerful in terms of how open it was.
That's why in 2015, 2016, Trump was able to use, you know, Twitter back then was able to use it so well because of its dissemination power.
Ben, why is that dissemination power such a threat to the status quo, the blob, as you call it, the matrix?
Why are they so scared of us, you know, just being able to look up this stuff on our own?
Yeah, well, X really is the most powerful platform on that because all the other social media platforms are much more of a walled garden.
You know, Facebook is mostly for personal posts.
There are political groups, but they are very segmented and hard to search.
YouTube is commonly referred to as a social media platform, but it's 99.9% consumers and only .0.
You don't just immediately become a journalist when you watch a YouTube video.
But the retweet button on Twitter is very powerful because you essentially become a platform.
You essentially become a journalist, a microjournalist of the story.
By republishing it on your own platform the moment you hit the retweet button.
So it's a very unique platform that way for breaking news.
And of course, whoever breaks the news shapes the narratives.
This is why you had, after the 2016 election, tens of millions of dollars from the federal government here in the US, from the federal government in the UK, and all across NATO, to try to create what were called Rapid Response Units, or RRUs, to be able to control rapid breaking news.
On any sensitive issues so that you could have an instant clamp down on any gray listed or black listed news institutions from being able to influence the very first outbreak of news.
And these censorship institutions were very specific about this, that that first, you know, 12 to 24 hours of a breaking event set the kind of parameters because the first impression cuts deepest.
And so they were even contemplating in 2017, 2018 ways to install these virality circuit breakers so that You would have authoritative news would be the only basically, you know, institutions, whitelisted news institutions would be the only ones allowed to go viral on something when news breaks.
And then you'd have, you know, basically the Internet would open up a little bit after that 24, 48 hour period.
And we actually saw this happen in the Kyle Rittenhouse case and in several others.
CNN has a reporter on who is yelling, a man has emblazoned himself.
Just see the clip now.
It looks like they've got him on a hospital stretcher, by the way.
And again, I'm able to do this, right?
I'm able to do this in real time because we've got, you know, just got a basic laptop here.
I can do the same thing with cell phone.
And that really shows, Andrew Breitbart used to talk about this all the time.
He said, if you have a smartphone, you are now as powerful as any journalist out there.
And you have the ability, I always say by the way, Uh, that the most powerful, the most powerful journalist, and I think you'll appreciate this, in all of 2016 wasn't any member of conservative media, certainly wasn't any member of liberal media or corporate media.
You know who it was?
It was the off-duty fireman in New York City at the 9-11 memorial who turned his camera when Hillary Clinton fell out at the 9-11 memorial.
In a way that all of the, just like today at the courtroom trial of Trump, all the media of the world were there and none of them filmed Hillary having this episode.
And because we know that the stress of that campaign had given, put her in a health situation.
It's just true.
And everyone was covering it up.
He takes the video and where did he upload it?
He uploaded it to Twitter.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They would call that a crisis event and, and the crisis managers and these rapid response units.
would be deployed to to basically saturate the field and work with the tech companies to prohibit the coverage of, you know, of anyone who might shape that that crisis event.
And, you know, this that it's exactly right.
I mean, I remember immediately as soon as that event happened with with Hillary Clinton and being thrown in the back of the truck, you know, basically like a hunk of meat.
That was that's that sparked a huge controversy around whether she was even healthy enough Just to sustain a presidency, which on top of her already weak campaign was, you know, threatened to topple it.
She basically stopped campaigning for something like a couple months before that.
She was basically MIA for much of the summer.
And then you throw in the health problems and everything else.
And, you know, that became a crisis.
And the management of that crisis was performed through Internet censorship.
Real quick, Benz, someone, there's some, I think it's out of the New York Post, they have some sources saying that the man was sitting on a bench and was possibly homeless, that he threw his belongings on the ground and doused him before going up in flames, rushed by first responders to the hospital.
So we've got competing stories out there.
Someone said he was holding a pamphlet.
We can see the pamphlets in the video.
But again, like I said before, we don't know that they were his.
It said something about him holding a sign.
Most people hold signs asking for money, that sort of thing.
So it could be many things, and we are covering it as fast as the information comes in.
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Mike Benz, in addition to protecting your data and all, what I really wanted to ask you about before I knew that this situation was going on today, The blobbing.
I want to talk about the blobbing of Mike Johnson, Speaker Mike Johnson, and really get into this question of the Yankee-Cowboy Alliance, something that you and I have done these incredible specials on.
You've walked everyone through this.
How does somebody go from being this movement conservative to getting one taste of power, being, you know, just upjumped very high to the speakership?
And then suddenly we get sold this bill of goods and all the media is out there.
He's a tough job.
He's doing a tough job.
He's got a tough job.
And he's a statesman who's balancing the needs of the party with the needs of the country.
And it just so happens that the needs of the country are I'm not surprised, but the level of this is quite extraordinary.
No warrants for wiretapping and funding to hundreds of billions of dollars to foreign wars, chief of which, of course, is Ukraine.
Mike Benz, you're not surprised, are you?
I'm not surprised.
But, you know, the level of this is quite extraordinary.
I mean, the number of records that Speaker Johnson has already broken in terms of betrayal of his own party is – the magnitude and the speed of it, I would say – I actually would use the word a little bit surprised.
I think that there was a worst case scenario that was a tail risk fear that it might manifest as this, but the speed at which the worst case scenario manifested itself is quite something.
I mean, we have now had The speaker introduced multiple bills where there were more Democrat votes than Republican votes despite a Republican majority in the House.
You can't ask for a better deal as the other side.
It's almost like you control the House.
The Speaker, who's from the other party, is getting more votes from the minority party than from his own majority party.
That is a very difficult thing to understand without first appreciating the GOP civil war between the foreign policy establishment blob faction and the domestic focused MAGA populist faction.
And there were a lot of folks who were disenchanted by Kevin McCarthy.
And we're excited for the, you know, the new prospects of a new speaker under the kind of presupposition that McCarthy was doing what he was doing because he was a coward or because he just didn't have the stones to stand up to Washington.
And what we needed was somebody who would be common sense and do what's right for the people and resist blob pressure.
That was, that was the kind of impetus between Matt Gaetz's drive, uh, for Matt Gaetz's drive to get, A new speaker in place.
And what we saw with Johnson was even worse than McCarthy.
I mean, McCarthy had never introduced a bill that got more Democrat votes than Republican votes.
McCarthy never changed the House rules to be able to basically block his own party from any sort of challenge.
And, you know, you saw McCarthy under a lot of pressure and really trying to negotiate as much as he could with his own party.
But, you know, Mike Johnson is in a position of weakness.
The left-wing press was very aggressive towards Johnson when he was first being nominated, arguing that he was too poor, basically.
He wasn't a billionaire like Trump.
He didn't have hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank like traditional congressmen do as they made their way up the ranks of Congress.
That he was, you know, so financially vulnerable, they were arguing he could barely afford his own mortgage.
What was his retirement plan going to be?
Who would he have to sell out to in order to secure his own personal future?
You know, he's not exactly an old man.
And at the time, I think a lot of right wing folks responded to that by saying, well, he's a man of principle.
He can withstand pressure simply because he's, you know, he's a man of faith and he's a man of principle and he'll just do what's right.
And I think that vastly underestimated the power of the blob to exert pressure.
You know that right now we we there is a fog of war because Mike Johnson has claimed that all these betrayals were principle based that despite having hundreds of thousands of FBI abuses that he personally witnessed campaigning to add a warrant requirement to FISA for 10 years before he became speaker that a single confidential briefing in a in a skiff once he became speaker 180'd everything he'd stood for, for 10 years.
I don't believe that for a second.
I think it was Justin Amash, the, uh, the representative who said that, um, what he, you know, what he learned in the skiff is that he would no longer be speaker.
Not that he learned anything about, uh, the, you know, the, the FISA warrant, uh, warrant being an attack on national security.
And look, here's, here's the plain facts of it.
I, I was Part of the cheerleading squad once Johnson's nomination was finalized, because I think there was a sense of optimism that maybe what was underlying this push for a new speaker was a kind of grand strategy in getting good people in place.
But that process never reckoned with the institutional forces that exert pressure on the speakership.
The speaker's job is to get in the House, which primarily controls budget, is to do budget log rolling and negotiations.
In this case, it's basically spoken for itself.
funded or defunded to support the priorities of the party.
That's the main function of the House Speaker in addition to selecting the committee chairs.
Well, you know, in this case, it's basically spoken for itself.
Johnson has decided what the budget priorities are, and he steamrolled the exact faction of the party that got him in office.
It was the Matt Gates wing that got him in office, that took down McCarthy.
And so I think what's being revealed here is a kind of Iago figure, a kind of little finger from Game of Thrones, if you will.
You know, there's, I think part of the slickness of Mike Johnson, the reason that he was so unilaterally backed, during the time of his nomination was this idea that he got along with everyone, got along with everyone in the party.
And I think what was underestimated was the degree to which he got along with those who very much wanted to make that faction of his own party that supported him part of the dustbin of history.
Yeah, I mean there's – potentially.
I guess my analysis is very much along the same lines, although I don't know if I would go with Littlefinger, or I think in this case, or even Lord Varys, you know, the Lord of Spidas.
I almost feel like this is almost like a Lancel Lannister kind of character.
Where, you know, this is a guy who gets brought up by one faction and basically installed in a position and says, this is how you will act.
But because that individual has no personal agency or not much of a strong moral constitution or just personal constitution, that he gets immediately grabbed by another faction and said and told, you're going to work for us now.
And we're going to give you more power and we're going to give you more glory.
Your name is going to go down in history.
You're going to be known as this this great figure.
And then eventually they just, you know, use and abuse him and they find their next Mike Johnson to find their next bespeckled, you know, backbench congressman from Louisiana.
So, you know, remains to be seen, of course.
But it's sorry, you triggered my Game of Thrones autism.
And, you know, at the end of the day, though, what people should come back, right, what people should come back from understanding this is that there is a powerful alliance in Washington, D.C.
It's referred to as the Uniparty.
Mike Benz has given us this great lens for looking at this as the Yankee Cowboy Alliance.
And the importance of having a lens to look through politics is, number one, it should be descriptive.
That's number one.
But it should if it's accurate, it should also be predictive.
And if it's predictive, then that means it should predict behavior.
And what can I say, Mike?
You predicted it.
Yeah, well, you know, in this case, I think what really needs to happen within the Republican Party is there needs to be when these type of speaker battles happen, there needs to be transparency about what that speaker's plan is to resist blob pressure.
You know, this is one of these things where Johnson was mum for about three days after he betrayed everyone on FISA.
And all we got was basically a 20 second clip from a random journalist in a hallway who managed to corner him when he was on the way into an elevator when he revealed, oh, it was actually one confidential briefing that caused me to betray 10 years worth of campaigning.
And this is the sort of thing where there should really be a pledge by whoever is at the top of House or Senate leadership in the Republican Party.
To do a kind of FDR-style fireside address every week and answer questions, come on X, and do a weekly space where you are accountable to people publicly for these kinds of questions so that we can really probe it and understand what kind of pressures are being put.
For example, we know that... Oh, I was gonna say, we've only got about a minute left, and I know that you've got some points as well as ways for people to do live streams with you, so please let people know.
Yes, so at MikeBenzCyber is the best way for that, on X. I post 30 times a day on there.
The one point I want to leave with, though, is we got news that both Merrick Garland, the head of the Justice Department, and Jake Sullivan, basically, you know, the head of the intelligence community, if you will, were making personal phone calls to folks in the House.
I want to know, did Merrick Garland call Mike Johnson?
Did Jake Sullivan?
Yes.
And what did he tell him?
And what did they tell them?
And what did they bring on?
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All right, we're getting some more information.
There's a lot of information coming out now about this individual who set himself on fire.
None of this is really confirmed right now, other than we've got this photo from Viral News NYC.
Uh, who's a great on-scene reporter up there in New York.
Go follow him at Viral News NYC on X. Has a photo of police investigators at the scene in this protest area, looking at the pamphlets, looking at the sign.
And the sign reads, and I'm going to read this for you.
We'll get the photo up when we get a chance.
It says, Trump is with Biden, and they're about to fascist coup us.
So, you know, if that's true, then this is someone who is just completely, completely anti government is not a Trump supporter is not a Biden supporter.
There you go.
That's the last I've got.
There's some reporting potentially of a name of the individual.
There's some discussion about a manifesto.
We will find out all of that in due time.
So, Since none of that stuff is confirmed, I'm not going to report it right now.
I'm just going to say that this is the type of stuff that we're hearing, and of course we don't know what the medical update is on this protester, on this guy who potentially did this.
But a guy that we do know a lot about, and we need to know more about, is named Ali Ghaffari, and he is leading a revolution.
He's pioneering a revolution when it comes to classical education for children, specifically Christian classical education.
And Ali, we had you on the other day, and you know, we had some live stuff going on, kind of like we do today, and we didn't get enough time to really dig into this.
And this is something, what you're working on, we had the guys yesterday who are bringing Christ back to public school students and work with the Great Academy that's doing that, but this is something that I'm finding kind of a theme lately, really since Easter and since some of the discourse has turned in that direction.
I said that Christians have to stop being passive and Christians need to start becoming more Active.
What's one way that you found yourself?
I'll even ask you this.
I'll even ask you a personal question.
What made you want to become an active Christian and put your faith first and so much of your time, your effort, your money, all of that into this project?
That's a great question.
For me, it was the classics.
It was coming face to face with Aristotle and Plato and reading the greatest works, the philosophy and the pursuit of truth and joining that and realizing, gosh, I am made to live a life of virtue.
And if I want to live a life of human flourishing, that I need to align my life in a certain way.
And that naturally led to the discovery of faith for me out of a Out of the darkness of atheism and agnosticism.
And then just as a parent, every parent naturally wants what's best for their children and what's better than heaven for your kids.
And then here on earth and on their journey to heaven, what does that look like?
It looks like a life filled with virtue and flourishing and joy and happiness, which naturally accompanies a fully lived Christian life.
So you were actually not so, so I'm like, I'm cradle Catholic, you know, that's, you know, I always say we're Polish, we pretty much only come in one flavor.
Tell me a little bit about how the classics got you to Christianity.
Yeah, so when I was, I was raised nominally Methodist, but I never really went to church.
My mom had us go to church in high school, but by that time I was pretty much lost.
And all of my teachers were atheists, and I bought into this relativism.
And it wasn't until I was challenged by a Catholic friend who barely graduated high school.
It was a self-made man, and he asked me some questions about some research I was doing in college.
And we got about three questions in, and I realized, and he realized, I had no idea what I was talking about.
And it was because in our public education system, which I was a student of, had taught me and was really good at just learning what are the basics to succeed on this test.
What do I need to know?
And then I'll flush it the next minute.
And my knowledge is a mile wide and an inch deep.
And he exposed that.
And then I had to reexamine my life.
But my desire was to pull the rug out from under him and show him that his Catholic faith was wrong and to do a battle of wits.
And after a year of battling this out in the trenches, I decided that if you can't beat him, you have to join him.
And then we started with Plato and Aristotle.
And that's very interesting.
So you go back to Plato and Aristotle because, well, I guess because, you know, obviously when people read the classics, Plato and Aristotle are not Christian.
So they it's this idea that it gets you from.
But but here's what I get from the classics.
And this is something where.
Really don't know.
I really don't want to get too much into the argument, but Plato and Aristotle believe in something slightly a little bit different than what you would hear today and they believe in the in the ordered world.
This was refined more in the Enlightenment to you know, come to come to the natural order the natural law, but what they essentially believed in was an ordered world.
And so I guess what I would say is if you believe in an ordered world, Then that would presuppose an ordered universe and an ordered universe would presuppose a creator or that universe.
And so from that, you essentially get to the first mover and the first mover would have to be God.
Otherwise, you would have randomness.
Yeah, that's absolutely right.
And so what I read, you know, how Aristotle and Plato before him helped me was to come to the idea that God exists.
And Aristotle was able to identify some very concrete characteristics of God and those things aligned with the Christian vision and understanding of who God was.
And so it brought reason along for me and then united it with faith and these two things working together and not in juxtaposition helped me along my path to become a Catholic.
And so the desire for me was to have for my kids to come to that realization, for them to understand and to love truth and to want to live lives of virtue.
And I understood from my own personal story, I grew up in poverty, but it was through education that I was able to come out of poverty into a middle class living.
And so I understood that the education is very powerful and invaluable in the formation of human beings.
And I wanted my kids to have that.
And so as I looked around at the schools where we landed in the military, I didn't find the school that I really wanted for my kids.
I thought that was going to unlock this life for them where they loved Christ, they loved the church, and they had a good sense of both faith and reason together.
And that's when I heard about classical Catholic education.
But there were no schools nearby that could offer that.
And so we started one.
And this idea of, you know, kind of pulling out of the public school system, you know, you were, I think, ahead of the curve on that.
And at Curve for Home, you started the school pre-COVID, right?
That's correct.
Yeah, we, yep.
Right, and so pre-COVID, I always talk about it this way, we've got a minute until the break, but it's really interesting to me that there was this taboo towards, from homeschooling to classic education, they say, what's wrong with the schools, just go to the schools, the schools are fine, you know, just send your kid there, plus it's free and it's hard to compete with free.
And, you know, free, right?
The issue being, though, people didn't know what was actually going on in those schools until COVID.
And this is where you see the national sea change in public opinion on schools.
Because during the COVID process, when kids were going and studying at home and doing this, you know, class via Zoom, which is horrible just from an educational standpoint, That they were finally looking over the shoulder and seeing what was going on in the classrooms and saying, wait a minute, you know, why don't you know your times tables in fifth grade and you're coming home and you're saying, what?
That you want to be called, uh, you know, different gender, different name, all this craziness.
We'll be right back.
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Alright, Jack Pasovic back live, and we're getting some more information about this individual who self-immolated.
There's a lot out there.
Not completely confirmed, but I will say that there is some information that this individual may be associated with the Occupy movement.
And is a, you know, 99% versus the 1% is totally against the banks, totally against banking, and is very economically driven.
And that's something where, you know, I gotta say that, you know, look, there's some All right, not going to confirm that yet, so I'm not going to say, but it looks like he may have supported some political candidates in the past.
We're talking with Ali Ghaffari from Divine Mercy Academy.
And I'll put it this way, Ali.
The way that I see it is so many people, particularly millennials and younger millennials and starting Zoomers, you find this godlessness that comes in and a lot of trauma in these individuals.
And I believe, I really believe it's because God has been removed so much from the public square beyond the teachings of Jesus.
And That America has it is and has always been a Christian majority society and so when you when you come back right, you know working back from From the final goal of sending kids to a classic education based Catholic school or just you know Christian education in general What are the effects on society when you take God away?
Yeah, so there was a concerted effort by John Dewey, Horace Mann, and socialists is probably the lightest way to put them, communists or secular humanists to take God out with the idea of creating a utopia.
Here in America and the only the the younger the person was that they could get to to try to condition them The more likely they would be able to be completely formed in this communist ideal And to achieve, you know true happiness the goal was to eliminate crime But the problem is God is for them.
Anyway, God is truth beauty and goodness and so when you take Truth, beauty, and goodness away from something, what are you left with?
You're left with lies or falsity, ugliness, and evil.
And so that's what we have.
We have God removed from our schools, from our institutions, and we're seeing the rotten fruit of all of that now in our schools.
And they've been forming our kids in this way for several generations now.
At an increasing rate, and now we're just seeing this blossoming in our day today.
And the fruit of our education are folks who become, they want to make the world a better place, but they have misplaced idea.
They're miserable, they're empty, and they don't have God in their life, generally speaking.
And so they want to make a change, but they don't know What that change is they think, you know, there's some some right that they want to to have a voice to support, but they're the emptiness will not be filled by advocating for that, right?
It will only be filled by God.
And I've so in the book that I'm actually working on right now.
It's on humans the secret history of communist revolutions that we talk about how a lot of these revolutionary acts are formulated not based on an actual ideal of quality and progressivism and everyone, you know, everyone succeeding.
You know, that's just flowery language that they use for marketing that at its core, what it really is driven by is envy and envy and petty cruelty.
And the idea that if people are successful, if people are well off, if people are doing well, if people are happy, that they are an oppressor and those people must be torn down.
Their world must be destroyed because of course, as we see every time that one of these is tried, it never seems to work out in equality.
It's not the people.
Sure, they end up, they end up, there's a lot of suffering for the upper classes, but the lower classes have a lot of suffering too when one of these things get run out there.
And I would always say that this is the problem of when you have tyranny without ethics, when you have tyranny or power without ethics, that becomes tyranny.
Tyranny and that's exactly what happens when you animate without a God.
Tell us a little bit about the story of just a couple of minutes left in the show here, but about Divine Mercy Academy and what led you to embark on this journey.
So, when I discovered classical education, the beauty of it, and paired that with my love for my kids, the desire to bring them that form of education.
And then I found other parents and lots of families in the area who have shared the same vision and desire for their children.
And we were able to gain momentum in support of this movement and to create a school And we went from 19 to 45 to 85 to 114.
Now we have 140 kids.
We're slated for 170 kids for next year.
Now we have 140 kids.
We're slated for 170 kids for next year.
We have 30 teachers on board.
But, you know, that movement, the most difficult part of that, I thought might be to find the right teachers to come in and teach this, because none of us, a few of us have been formed in classical education, but it's actually been the financial side of house side of the house.
And I think this election cycle, we have 1 of the greatest opportunities.
We can to turn this whole thing around.
Our system now, if you don't like what's coming out of our educational system, it's because we shifted from a free market educational system where many kids were homeschooled or their private tutors or church based schools and we formed this public education system and then jammed.
The socialist ideology down their throats and for generations, and now this is the fruit.
But if you want to remove that and open the floodgates for schools like Divine Mercy Academy and other schools that are doing good work in creating classical critical thinkers, folks who are people of virtue, then the way to do that is to support school choice and particularly educational savings vouchers And that will, even the playing field, because parents who send their kids to a school like Divine Mercy Academy end up paying twice.
They pay their taxes, and then they have to pay tuition again to go to a DMA, and that's hard for a lot of families.
And so that's crushing for us, which means our teachers get paid far less than their public school counterparts, even though they're doing twice what our kids are well prepared.
What is the website for anyone who wants to get more information?
DivineMercy.md.
DivineMercy.MD.
God bless you for being out there and being a public and active Christian.
We need active Christianity.
That is how we're going to take this country back, return to our moral code, send your kids to this school or schools like this.
