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1. 00:01 In the wake of my talk with Ginger Koi about the United States, its past and possibly its future, I have been the unfortunate recipient of Harangs, diet tribes, and vitriol. People have disputed many of the things I've said, which is legitimate, but some
2. 00:22 of them went beyond the pale, and many of them were amazingly ignorant. They accused me of being a Trumpenzee, presumably a conflation of Trump and chimpanzee. So I'm a fan and adherent and unthinking follower of the great orange one. The truth is completely different. Of
3. 00:47 course, I was the first ever to suggest that Donald Trump may be a narcissist. in other words that he suffers from narcissistic personality disorder. In an interview I granted to American thinker in March 2016, I made this suggestion. And ever since then, I've been warning
4. 01:10 repeatedly in writing and on video against the ascendants of this man and the incalculable damage that he ineluctably is going to inflict on all of us being a narcissist that is.
5. 01:28 So, here's the thing. My credentials as far as Donald Trump are beyond impeccable. I don't owe anyone any explanation about my position. I am not a supporter of Donald Trump and this probably is the understatement of this new century. The first point that many people made is
6. 01:52 that I was wrong about the founding fathers. Well, here's the fact. The founding fathers were oligarchs. They were slaveholders. Almost all of them. They were dead set against democracy of any form, direct participatory. They simply abhored democracy, the mob, the crowd.
7. 02:17 They feared correctly. As it turned out, they feared that all democracies devolve into okcracies, mob rule. So they created, the founding fathers created checks and balances. And presumably these checks and balances are intended to preserve democracy. And yet nothing
8. 02:36 is further from the truth. The checks of and balances instituted by the founding fathers were geared towards preserving preserving the competing elites. The checks and balances were instruments in the hands of the elites. They had nothing to do with the people. They had
9. 02:56 nothing to do with democracy. They were intended to regulate the distribution of power among the few, not among the many. To this very day, the various elites jostle to make use of the checks and balances in the constitution in order to somehow preserve their power.
10. 03:22 One could even argue that the American con construction of checks and balances when deconstructed is an anti-democratic mechanism. But that's a topic for another video. Further on, I claimed that fascism is the normal in the United States and that democracy or liberalism are an
11. 03:46 aberration. The United States has always been a fascistic country. And the greatest fascist of all, the biggest tyrant ever, the dictator against which all others should be measured, was to quote boo his assassin Abra Abraham Lincoln. a prototypical
12. 04:08 tyrant. Suspension of human and civil rights, militarization of society, engaging in unnecess unnecessary war, coercion, aggression, and so on and so forth. The United States has always been most of its history a fascistic country. There are five crucial elements in fascism.
13. 04:34 a permanent revolution, utopian nihilism, reactionary values, and elite populism and individualism that expresses itself via belonging or affiliation with some kind of collective, religious, political, scientific and so on so forth. This is the case with the United States.
14. 05:01 This is these five elements capture the spirit and essence and history of the United States like no others. Things started to change after the two world wars. Starting with the first world war, the world wars forced the United States hitherto up to that point isolated provincial
15. 05:29 forced the United States into renewed exposure or renewed contact with Europe. In the first world war and later on in the second world war, millions of Americans were shipped overseas and were exposed to what Europe had to offer. This culminated in the 1940s and 1950s
16. 05:53 as early as the 1930s. Franklin Delano Roosevelt um imported into the United States and superimposed on its denison European ideas and theories which were alien to them. I'm talking about Keynes Keynesian uh economics and then in the 1960s there was a French and British
17. 06:19 invasion especially French many values many beliefs many theories social theories cultural theories the construction you name it were imported locktock and barrel from a Europe infirment a Europe as you recall in which in 1968 there were massive revolutions.
18. 06:45 So this this intellectual baggage was imported lock, stock and barrel into the United States and imposed on its citizens on its denisens through the higher education system. Gradually, these foreign alien values,
19. 07:07 these unamerican beliefs have infected or permeated not only the intellectual sphere but some parts of the political arena and postmxism essentially took over between the 1930s and the 1970s. America therefore has been exposed to an invasion not through immigration because
20. 07:33 America has always been a melting pot always been multicultural and multithnic and multi societal that was not the vector of invasion America was exposed to an intellectual doxastic and axiological invasion. In other words, an invasion of values,
21. 07:52 an invasion of beliefs, an invasion of theories about society and culture. This invasion started in France and ended on the shores of the United States. And I'm saying shores because the coastal areas north the Atlantic part, the Pacific part where the hubs of ferment.
22. 08:19 But the vast majority of Americans felt that they're being occupied. They felt under occupation. These values, these beliefs, these theories, this ethos was alien to the United States. It included progressivism. It included transgender ideology or
23. 08:38 sexual fluidity. It included advanced waves of feminism. It included a kind of rabid democracy bordering on anarchy. It included all kinds of elements which were completely foreign to the American psyche and soul to the American narrative and to the American dream and ethos.
24. 09:02 Consequently, this created a lot of anger, resentment, rage in the hintterland, in the parts of America where the majority of the population lived, people who were relatively undereducated, blue collar, engaged mostly in manufacturing, to some extent in agriculture and so on.
25. 09:27 These people felt that they are being lorded over by European elites masquerading as Americans. And of course there was there was always backlash. The House Committee of unamerican activities was an example of such a backlash. The attempts to eradicate communism as an a
26. 09:50 foreign implant from a xeno a xeno implant from from Europe was another example. Americans fought back. Fought back against gender ideology, against political ideologies which were too democratic for the system and too destabilizing against foreign
27. 10:10 involvement against um foreign the foreign ethos and foreign narratives and foreign theories and foreign prescriptions and foreign policies. Americans rebelled against all these. But it took time. It took time to overthrow the intellectual and political
28. 10:26 elites who find themselves enthralled and committed to European imports, European um contamination if you wish. And what we are witnessing nowadays is the backlash, the mother of all backlashes. It's a reassertion of the real United States. Religious, anti-liberal,
29. 10:50 aggressive, disempathic, non-communal, nonprocial, antisocial, populist, and Darwinian. That's the true face of the United States. Anyone who tells you otherwise is in all likelihood a foreigner, a European.
30. 12:00 Yes, I think people are far less concerned with material well-being. They're far less concerned with having jobs, health care, and they're much more concerned nowadays with maintaining their value system. I think we're in the throws of a culture war, a global
31. 12:18 culture war where people are willing to sacrifice anything. Their livelihood, their prosperity, their prospects, their family, their I mean, you name it. They're willing to sacrifice anything just to come up um on the winning side of this culture
32. 12:35 war just to be able to maintain their value system, their beliefs, their faith and pass it on to the next generations. They perceive this as an existential war and they are not completely mistaken. I think it is an existential war. So people are going to support MAGA in in in
33. 13:00 the states. These are the the very same people. They're going to lose Medicaid coverage or Medicare coverage later. They're going to lose their jobs. They're going to lose they're going to lose everything basically because the vast majority of the of the voters the
34. 13:18 electoral electoral base of Donald Trump recently has become much more uh impoverished than before. Many more poor people vote for Donald Trump than they have four years ago. And these are the very people who stand to be severely harmed by his by BBB and
35. 13:38 other legislation. And yet they they're fully fully behind him. They they trumpet him. They worship him. They they eulogize him. They
36. 13:53 So there's something for everyone in fascism. That's that's that's the secret source. That's the source of the appeal. There's something for everyone. If you're a collectivist, if you are a revolutionary, if you're reactionary, if you are um an individualistic person, if
37. 14:12 you and you're very January 6 type of of person, you know, if you are if you're elitist, if you are populist, if you are a revolutionary, if you are traditionalist, if it's all there, it's all there. And so that's why fascism I think is far more resilient than democracy, liberal
38. 14:37 democracy. We can discuss it later if you wish. But I think liberal liberal democracy never stand a chance. I I think it's an aberration.
39. 14:51 Yes. I think uh we're in a period of transition definitely between reality and fantasy. Mhm. Reality is organizing principle and fantasy is organizing principle. And now we face a choice. We seem to be choosing fantasy which would doom us to a period of of the
40. 15:11 darkest of dark ages and possibly worse. I cannot rule out extinction or massive extinction. So we seem to be choosing fantasy. If we wake up and we revert to reality, then maybe things will be okay. But I'm not optimistic because fantasy is fantasy is a bait. It's very alluring.
41. 15:33 It dispenses. Fantasy dispenses with with all the sharp edges of reality with all the painful moments and aspects of reality. It's fantasy is is designer. It's a designer. you know, finally there's a designer universe, you know,
42. 15:55 whereas fascism is founded on love and founded on empathy. And I'll try to explain what I mean. What fascism does, it humanizes the in-group and dehumanizes the out groupoup and then uses love and empathy as the cohesive glue that endows the members of the inroup
43. 16:19 with belonging and affiliation and a sense of acceptance. And you ask any MAGA supporter and they will tell you that Donald Trump loves them. Donald Trump himself keeps saying, "I love you. You love me. I love you. I hate the Democrats. He said yesterday, you know.
44. 16:35 So, love and hate, these are the dominant emotions in fascism.