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1. 00:02 if you listen to liberal democratic elites all over the world they will tell you that dictators impose themselves on the people that they are hated and resented and ultimately rejected by their own citizens that they have no constituency at least not a legitimate
2. 00:23 one that their power is derived from vast networks of corrupt and venal patronage and so on so forth regrettably all this is counterfactual simply untrue the fact is that authoritarian leaders tyrants dictators have been mostly elected in fair free
3. 00:48 and legitimate elections example Adolf Hitler or they surfed the wave of the popular will for example Franco in Spain dictators and tyrants rise to power because the people want it the people fully support them the people love them the people adore and admire and adulate
4. 01:11 them the people regard them as the solution to a monopoly of myriad problems in a variety of fields economically socially culturally and so on so forth dictators are the raification of the popular will no they do not impose themselves on the people
5. 01:30 the majority of dictators are very loved sometimes to the very end of their regimes and so we need to dispense with this idea that there are there are the people and then there are dictators the dictates some kind of growth outgrowth or tumor or cancer a malignancy that
6. 01:53 needs to be excised and removed from the body politic that is completely untrue dictatorships reflect the will of the people they are not imposed on them tyrannies are the invariable outcomes of culture wars when there is a sense of imminent threat to identity to beliefs
7. 02:18 to values to a way of life the reaction to such a threat is to resort to a strong men to a powerful personality she's charismatic and seems to offer a clearcut unequivocal and unambiguous solution cruel as it might be the strong man is there to cut through the chase to
8. 02:47 untangle the gordic knot and the to represent the values the culture the identity the beliefs and the way of life of vast constituencies it is surfing the wave of discontent and chagrin and disgruntlement and disenfranchisement real or imagined people will do anything
9. 03:15 to win a culture culture war a culture com people will suffer a corrupt tyrant they will sacrifice their well-being they will absone with a livinghood or livelihood they they will uh give up their safety their rights and even their lives they will uh forgo their freedoms
10. 03:39 and they will incarcerate and kill if necessary their adversaries culture wars are are not about money they are not about power they are not about the redistribution of resources they're not about scarcity culture wars are about one's soul it is the soul of
11. 04:02 the nation or the soul of a group of people or the soul of a collective or the soul of a period in history of the soul of a culture the soul of a society these are battles pitched battles that seeks seek to preserve such soul to elevate it to somehow make sure that it
12. 04:24 doesn't perish and when people are fighting for their souls everything else is secondary and negligent everything else is tangential and not important and irrelevant people are fighting for their souls people are fighting for their essence and their quidity people are fighting
13. 04:46 for their identity people are fighting for who they are people want the familiarity and the comfort zone of their axiological and doxastic systems systems of beliefs and values and so in such a war the commanderin-chief the leader of the army can be a corrupt tyrant
14. 05:13 it's a minor point a non-issue actually and those who kid them kid themselves those who selfdeceive into believing that such a tyrant can be stopped dead in his or her tracks using institutions they're wrong because the tyrant immediately co-opts all existing
15. 05:39 institutions transforms them with his magic and enchantment and they become subservient slavishly obedient to the tyrant that includes the court that includes parliaments and congresses that includes intellectual elites that includes universities that includes law
16. 05:58 firms that includes everyone everyone at play all the institutions of the state all the institutions of any collective all the institutions on the individual level all of them crumble in front of the inexraable transformation or the inexraable transmogriification one
17. 06:17 should say that the tyrant brings about the very progress of the juggernaut of history culture wars are protracted remember the civil war in the United States in the 1860s culture wars often end in real wars culture wars are an existential threat
18. 06:40 you could lose your money and still be you you could lose your family and still be you you could lose all your freedoms and still be you but if you lose the culture wars you are no longer and no more that's why people fight tooth and nail that's why people sacrifice everything
19. 06:59 that's why people give up on everything that's why people adhere to obey and and observe the commands of the tyrant the tyrant is perceived as the only cure a panacea the only solution having tried everything else and failed the tyrant seems to be the ultimate goto
20. 07:23 gateway to victory triumphant the tyrant stands at the nexus of the past and the future the tyrant therefore is in full ownership of the present the dictator dictates dictator in the Roman Republic was actually an elected official post and so modern dictators
21. 07:52 are usually brought to power as I said in fair and free elections sometimes multiple times multiply and when they do assume power they immediately embark on the task of undoing deconstructing and if necessary destroying the old in order to bring in the new
22. 08:16 and the overriding purpose the overriding plan is to create an environment which would exclude preclude and expel anything and anyone who challenges the values the beliefs the systems the institutions of the constituency of the tyrant of the dictator
23. 08:45 the tyrant can represent for example white people against minorities the dictator can represent a master race against inferior races there's always a narrative and there's always a group of people who feel who feel ominously and imminently and imminently threatened
24. 09:07 the tyrant affords this group of people a sense of stability and safety recourse and it is through the dictator that this group of people express themselves he is their loudspeaker he is their channel of communication he channels them a life under the adversary
25. 09:33 under the other a life under the other camp is perceived as a life not worth living give me freedom from the adversary or give me death say these people today there's such a battle a culture war taking place in the United States between progressive liberals woke
26. 09:57 movements and and such and conservatives and traditionalists not in the classical sense the new the new uh reincarnation of traditionalists and conservatives fused with evangelical Christians and so on and it is a culture war war and no one in either camp can
27. 10:22 contemplate losing because losing would mean losing one's soul there's a tyrant emerging in the United States a dictator it's the new the new phrase is a unitary executive it's a dictator in all in all by name he does what he wants he is corrupt and venal he is vindictive
28. 10:46 and he is on the path to destroying all his enemies what is the source of his power his enemies are also the enemies of his constituency his base and this is why Donald Trump is most definitely going to win and all the existing institutions of the United States are
29. 11:09 going to be dismantled or reduced to size or silenced the liberal majority has failed and has lost this war they just don't know it yet