The Truth with Lisa Boothe: The Rise of Modern Socialism: Why Historical Blindness Threatens American Freedom

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Podcast: The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
Episode: The Truth with Lisa Boothe: The Rise of Modern Socialism: Why Historical Blindness Threatens American Freedom
Host: Lisa Boothe
Guest: Maximo Alvarez (Cuban American businessman, RNC 2020 speaker, founder of Sunshine Gasoline Distributors)
Date: November 20, 2025
Duration (core content): Approximately 03:11–41:36

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Overview

In this urgent episode of "The Truth with Lisa Boothe," Lisa tackles the theme of modern socialism’s rise in the United States, examining how increasing historical blindness—especially among youth—makes American freedom vulnerable to the threats of socialism and communism. Boothe is joined by Maximo Alvarez, a Cuban-American entrepreneur who escaped Castro’s regime, to provide a personal perspective on the dangers of socialist ideologies, the erosion of traditional American values, and the crucial role of education in safeguarding liberty.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Rise of Socialism and Youth Attitudes in America

• Growing acceptance of socialism: Citing a recent Axios study, Lisa highlights how 67% of college students view socialism either positively or neutrally, while only 40% feel that way about capitalism. (03:11–04:51)
• Political shift: Boothe and Alvarez discuss the recent election of self-identified socialist Zoran Mamdani as New York City mayor and speculation about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a future presidential candidate.
  • Lisa Boothe: “Is America sleepwalking toward the same nightmare that forced our guest today to flee Cuba as a boy?” (03:31)

2. Alvarez’s Personal Story – Warnings from a Cuban Exile

• Family history: Alvarez describes coming from a family that fled communism twice—first in Spain, then in Cuba, losing everything to totalitarian regimes. (05:57–09:42)
• Indoctrination and cultural differences: Contrast between American values (truth, forgiveness, conscience) and communist ethos (“the ends justify the means”).
  • “You take a child that is indoctrinated from the time he's born into a communist philosophy...they can lie, they can steal, they can do anything, including killing, as long as they get what they want.” – Maximo Alvarez (07:34)
• The American paradox: Despite claims by critics that America is deeply flawed, Alvarez points out, “Everybody wants to come here. So why we want to come here if this is such a bad country?” (09:18)

3. How Historical Blindness Develops

• The power of education: Alvarez passionately argues that socialist and communist ideas spread through early and consistent indoctrination, while American society, valuing freedom, takes liberty for granted and fails to protect it in the classroom. (10:16–16:08)
  • “They start indoctrinating their children from the time they're born...We are a free country. We take things for granted.” (10:38)
• Tactical use of freedoms: Alvarez notes that radicals use America’s constitutional rights (freedom of speech, protest, etc.) against itself—something never allowed under actual socialist regimes.

4. Socialism vs. Communism – The Rebranding of Totalitarian Ideas

• Terminology and deception: Alvarez argues that “socialism” is often a marketing euphemism for communism in order to sound less threatening in the U.S. context. (10:16–12:01)
  • “They claim to be socialist democrats. They're not. They're communist, okay?” (10:40)
• Policy tactics to ruin nations: Alvarez identifies key strategies of socialist/communist indoctrination:
  • Government dependency (free food, healthcare, education)
  • Erasing faith and God
  • Fomenting social divisions
  • Disarming the populace (12:56)
• He credits Florida’s law requiring the teaching of the evils of communism in schools, but cautions that “a law that is in the books that you don't enforce is non existent.” (15:19)

5. The Empty Promises of Socialism – Power and Oppression

• Equality rhetoric vs. reality: Referencing both history and President Trump’s 2019 Miami speech, Boothe and Alvarez emphasize that socialism is about consolidating power for the ruling class, not uplifting the poor. (20:00–20:41)
  • “Socialism is not about justice...it's about one thing only: power for the ruling class. And the more power they get, the more they crave.” – Quoted by Lisa Boothe (20:19)
• Personal recollections: Alvarez connects current American rhetoric to Fidel Castro’s “social justice” appeals, noting the chilling similarities. (20:41–22:19)
  • “When I heard Obama give his opening speech... it was the same BS I remember exactly. It’s all about social justice.” (21:01)

6. Case Studies: Cuba and Venezuela

• Decline by policy: Alvarez lays out how Cuba went from economic parity with the U.S. to destitution after 1959, paralleling the collapse of Venezuela under Chavez and Maduro. (24:07–27:03)
  • “Cuba had the same standard of living as the United States of America…from one day to the next, this guy destroyed Cuba.” (24:12)
• Warning about losing values: Emphasis on teaching family values, belief in God, and respect for parental/generational wisdom.

7. The Need for Early and Consistent Civic Education

• Dangers of waiting: Both agree indoctrination starts early, and American civic education needs to do the same. (27:03, 40:53)
  • “We need to start in kindergarten. We cannot wait to college. It’s too late.” – Maximo Alvarez (40:53)
• Impact of advocates: Lisa and Maximo lament the loss of youth advocates like Charlie Kirk, whom they credit for making conservatism relatable to students and standing against “woke” culture.

8. Removing God & Faith from Public Life

• Purposeful secularization: Alvarez asserts that socialist regimes must remove faith to ensure total dependency on the state. (32:04–35:15)
  • “If you are a person of faith, you know that you’re here a short period of time and something much better awaits us…that’s why they hate God. That’s why they hate religion.” (32:20)
• Cultural consequences: He warns about a values vacuum—erosion of loyalty, prevalence of self-interest, and the normalization of broken commitments.

9. Immigration and Borders

• Border crisis as strategy: Alvarez argues the open border policy is calculated to destabilize and ultimately transform America, warning about the damage even a small number of bad actors can inflict. (35:15–37:06)
  • “This is how they take over the country. You flood the country with these people who are going to destroy you from within.” (35:54)
• Critique of current administration: Alvarez and Boothe suggest President Biden is not truly in charge, and policies are determined by unnamed handlers.

10. Final Warning and Prescription

• Learn from others: “The best way to learn is to learn from things that happen to other people. Look at Cuba…Venezuela… Don’t swim in there, there’s sharks.” (38:13)
• Effective persuasion: Alvarez emphasizes the importance of individual engagement, following the example of Charlie Kirk—listening, dialoguing, and teaching rather than preaching. (38:04–40:53)
  • “If we can get to have just one individual to understand, that’s a success.” (41:08)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “You take a child that is indoctrinated from the time he’s born into a communist philosophy…they can lie, they can steal, they can do anything, including killing, as long as they get what they want.”
  — Maximo Alvarez (07:34)

• “Everybody wants to come here. So why we want to come here if this is such a bad country?”
  — Maximo Alvarez (09:18)

• “They claim to be socialist democrats. They’re not. They’re communist, okay?”
  — Maximo Alvarez (10:40)

• “They start indoctrinating their children from the time they’re born…We are a free country. We take things for granted.”
  — Maximo Alvarez (10:38)

• “Socialism is not about justice… it’s about one thing only: power for the ruling class. And the more power they get, the more they crave.”
  — Lisa Boothe, quoting President Trump (20:19)

• “When I heard Obama give his opening speech… it was the same BS I remember exactly. It’s all about social justice.”
  — Maximo Alvarez (21:01)

• “Cuba had the same standard of living as the United States of America…from one day to the next, this guy destroyed Cuba.”
  — Maximo Alvarez (24:12)

• “We need to start in kindergarten. We cannot wait to college. It’s too late.”
  — Maximo Alvarez (40:53)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Rise of Socialism Attitudes & Concerns: 03:11–05:08
• Alvarez’s Early Experiences with Communism: 05:57–09:42
• How Indoctrination Works: 10:16–16:08
• False Promises of Socialism: 20:00–24:07
• Cuba & Venezuela Case Studies: 24:07–27:03
• Need for Early Civic Education & Advocacy: 27:03–32:04, 38:04–41:08
• Secularization and Destruction of Values: 32:04–35:15
• Border Crisis as Ideological Strategy: 35:15–37:06
• Final Warning to America: 38:04–41:27

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Conclusion

This episode provides a personal and emotive warning against the creeping influence of socialism and the dangers of historical ignorance. Maximo Alvarez’s testimony—rooted in lived experience—underscores the importance of educating youth, cherishing freedom, and safeguarding the values that make America unique. Both Boothe and Alvarez urge listeners to start civic education early, defend constitutional principles, and remain vigilant against ideological manipulation masquerading as benevolence or justice.

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Summary by Podcast Summarizer AI—structured for clarity, depth, and accessible reference.

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[Lisa Booth]

Welcome to the Truth with Lisa Booth where we get to the heart of the issues that matter to you. Today we're going to talk about something really important, this creeping socialism and communism that is happening in America right now. We saw this with New York City just electing a self avowed socialist mayor or the fact that AOC is being talked up for 2028 to be the Democrat nominee. We've recently seen studies and surveys like Axios looking at college students and finding that 67% view the world's socialism positively or neutrally, while only 40% feel that way about capitalism. So is America sleepwalking toward the same nightmare that forced or guessed today to flee Cuba as a boy? We're going to talk to Cuban American businessman and you probably remember him from the 2020 RNC, the Republican National Convention when he warned us against taking the communist poison pill. He had talked about escaping Castro's Cuba, the loss of freedoms he witnessed, and warning us about what could happen here in America. He is also an entrepreneur and founder of Sunshine Gasoline Distributors and he joins me for this urgent wake up call that you can't afford to miss. Stay with us, Maximo. It's great to have you back on the show, sir. I had you on a while ago. I don't remember exactly when. You know, we were just talking before we got started about how life just flies by and you know, Thanksgiving's right around the corner. So appreciate you coming on the show, sir, and making the time.

[Maximo Alvarez]

It's always an honor to be in your show and I really appreciate what you have done for so long which is to let people understand what is going on and being on the right side of the equation. So I really thank you. To me, it's an honor being here.

[Lisa Booth]

Well, thank you sir. You know, you've been a powerful voice of freedom and reminding us here in America that, you know, freedom can be fleeting. You fled communist Cuba and you know, you told us this message at the 2020 RNC speech, you know, warning us about what you saw under Castro's grip in Cuba and the loss of freedoms that you witnessed and warning us to not swallow the communist poison pill. Unfortunately, it seems in New York City they have, you know, they just selected Zoran Mamdani, a self described socialist. Some people call him a communist, but he's going to be the mayor of New York City. Why do you think he won? And you know, what does this mean to you? You know, what did you think when you saw that he won?

[Maximo Alvarez]

Well, first of all, it's a lesson that we should learn. Lisa, I understood communism at a very young age. And by the way, we went through some very difficult times. But as you get older, as I get older, I realize that I was a blessing because I was born to a mother and a father who already knew what it was like to be under a communist regime. They had fled Spain back in the turn of the century and they worked very hard. They were teenagers when they came to Cuba, and they worked very hard. And when they were about to enjoy the fruit of their labor from one day to the next, they lost everything. So I am blessed to have learned at such an early age what it means to. What is the communist philosophy? You know, very few people in our country understand what the end justify the means it's all about simply because we are raised in a different culture. Okay? No matter what religion you practice in America, you are not supposed to lie, you're not supposed to steal, you're not supposed to kill, and so on and so forth. You have to honor mom and dad, you have to love God. And most important, if you violate anything, we still have to forgive you. Now keep that in mind. So even the conscience that we have formed from the time we're born, when you do something wrong, even if people don't realize that you did something wrong, you know it. So when you look at yourself in the mirror, you know, because you have a conscience that tells you you did wrong and you feel bad about it. You may feel good that you got away with it, but you really understand that you did something wrong. Now, you take a child that is indoctrinated from the time he's born into a communist philosophy where the ends justify the means. They can lie, they can steal, they can do anything, including killing, as long as they get what they want to get. In other words, if I want to have your automobile, I said, lisa, I want to take over your automobile. And you say, no, Max, I need it. I can kill you. And when I kill you, they'll say, why you kill her? Because I wanted her car. Oh, that's okay then. So how many people really understand that not only understand I lived that I saw people being murdered just for saying something against the revolution. Just to say Fidel Castro is a bad guy. Fidel Castro is whatever, boom. Because they don't forgive you. And it is very sad that in one of our major, probably the biggest city in the Union, to see young people not understanding what you can just see when you look at Cuba, when you look at Venezuela, when you see what is happening. Lisa, this country may be the worst country in the world, but you don't see anybody leaving this country to go somewhere else. Everybody wants to come here. So why we want to come here if this is such a bad country? These people hate America. These people hate our country. And look what the background is. Look where they came from. Why don't they go back? Why are they here? Why they want to install here? The very same reason or the very same situation that made them live where they come from.

[Lisa Booth]

How do you think we got here, though? You know, why do you think? Because it's really this shift too, particularly with young people. I mean, Axios did this survey recently of US college students and found that 67% view the word socialism positively or neutrally. And only 40% feel that way about capitalism, which, you know, means we're heading towards this socialism worldview and then leading to communism. So, like, why are so many young people embracing this? How do you think we got here?

[Maximo Alvarez]

But let me start by saying that the term socialism is just a front. United States of America is the most socialist country in the world. Otherwise I wouldn't be here. I came here with nothing. And their generosity allowed me to go to school, to open a business and to be free. That's socialism. Communism is what they are. And of course they use the word socialist and Democrats because that is a marketable, marketable idea. Much more marketable than the word communism. Because everybody knows that communism is bad. So they claim to be socialist democrats. They're not. They're communist, okay? Now why is this happening? Simply because they do a better job than we do. They start indoctrinating their children from the time they're born, when they go to school, they start at that time. We are a free country. We take things for granted. We don't do as good of a job in education as they do. It all starts in education. By the time a kid gets to high school or college, they're already indoctrinated. And they use our Constitution, our rights. They use them in their favor to attack us and then defend them. You follow me? They go on Work, business. And they say that is a peaceful demonstration. And of course you have the right of freedom. They have the freedom of speech and all that. Why don't you go to their country and try to do that, see what happens? So they use our constitutional rights to destroy us, and we don't understand that. We take it for granted. For example. I'll give you an example. My son, who is on the right side and very intelligent and reads a lot, heard me say something negative about young people burning the flag in the university. And he literally got in my face. He says, dad, dad, listen, you may be upset because they burned the flag, but that is not a crime. The Constitution allows them to do that because this is a free country and says, dad, you don't want to lose freedom, do you? So you can be upset, you can teach them, but you cannot kill them and you cannot punish them because our. And that's why we have the best country in the world. So here. He's right. He's totally correct. But we need to do something because we cannot continue on. People allow. So maybe we need to pass some regulation that if you burn a flag, you know, you're sentenced to something, because why would you allow that? That's, to me, that's not freedom, that's abuse of freedom. So what they do, if you notice, they're teaching kids the eight super important things to ruin a country, okay? One, make sure that everybody depends on the government. That's why they want to give you free food, free education, free health care. Number two, make sure that nobody believes in God or nobody believes in a supernatural power. So you live here from day to day. The unjustified means. Make sure that everybody hates everybody else. Make sure that the whites hate the blacks and the Jews hate the Christians and make sure that this is divide and conquer. Make sure that nobody has weapons. That's the first thing. Every time there's a shooting, of course we're going to have more regulations because they don't want you to have weapons. Why do they want to have weapons? Because our Constitution provides you the capacity to have. Why? Because you can have a civil war when you're threatening. You can defend your property and your life with a weapon. They don't want that. So these are the things that they teach the kids from the time they're born and by the time they get to high school, they're already brainwashed. They already have, by the way, they already have swallowed that ominous poison pill that I mentioned. And this is the problem we need to pay attention to. Education. Thank God in the state of Florida we passed some legislation that every school has to teach about the evils of communism. Now the thing is that's a law. Now we passed it. Now we need to enforce it because a law that is in the books that you don't enforce is non existent. So I think it's very sad that we allow somebody in Congress that tells you disobey the orders of the president or the army or the Navy where you have sworn that you will follow the orders and that should be punished. You should not be an elected official and try what are they doing? They're trying to promote insurrection. And then just so what happened during that famous summer? There were burning businesses, innocent people and the media was saying, oh, this is peaceful demonstration and no one got prosecuted. This is crazy. So we need to start in school. Lisa. That is the most important. Naturally. We are very fortunate that we have a president who understands this and the first thing that he did is to close the borders. A nation without borders is not a nation. Why don't these people open their doors at night in their homes? Why don't they when they have an illegal immigrant, why don't they bring them? Why don't they adopt?

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[Lisa Booth]

You know Maximo. We see with the promises of socialism and communism. It always starts out with, you know, equality and it ends with oppression. President Trump gave a speech a while back to the Venezuelan community in 2019 in Miami. And he said, we know that socialism is not about justice. It's not about equality, it's not about lifting up the poor. And it's about one thing only, power for the ruling class. And the more power they get, the more they crave. That's inevitably what happens here, right? Like there's all these promises of equality, and then you have the power concentrated with the ruling class, and they oppress the rest of society.

[Maximo Alvarez]

Lisa, you know, I was 11 years old when Castro gave the first speech in Havana. I happened, you know, everybody had to listen because everywhere, I mean, you know, in schools, everybody had to. Everybody had listened to that speech, okay? If not, you were punished. So I pretty much remember most of that speech. And when I heard Obama give his opening speech when he became president, I heard goosebumps because it was the same BS I remember exactly. It's all about social justice. They even asked Fidel Castro one time if he was a communist, and he went crazy. He says, I'm Roman Catholic, educated by the Jesuits, I am not communist. I believe in social justice. Really? And the same promise, free education, free food, free healthcare, the same bs. Every country is the same way. I remember telling, you know, I was distributed with Citgo Petroleum, owned by Venezuela at the time when Chavez takes over, and they started acting up. I remember telling this, these are engineers. These are well educated people. I remember telling them, I said, listen, this is a replica of Cuba. Everything that happened yesterday happened in Cuba in such and such a year. Oh, Max, come on. We got petroleum, we got oil. Cuba only had some sugar cane. You know, we supply 20% of the. They didn't believe it. By the time they understand that, it's too late. And it is the useful idiots who get them in there, who do they go, lisa, if you're hungry and I offer you a bone, you follow me, because you got nothing to lose. And this is what they do. They pray on the people's feelings, people who perhaps are not as fortunate or as lucky or hard work, whatever the case may be, and that if you're a student and you have a degree and you cannot get a job because you got a degree in basket weaving and you owe $30,000 in loans, and I come over to you and I said, I'm going to pay for your loan. You're going to file me. And this is what they do. They're all false promises, but they don't tell you who's going to pay for that. They're always giving, but they're giving somebody else's money. When that somebody else's money is finished, that's it. Everybody's the same, everybody's poor. And look at them. They got all the money. Look at the Castros in Cuba. Look at the people from Venezuela. The people in power got all the money. The rest of the country is in shambles.

[Lisa Booth]

When you mentioned, just to remind listeners, you're an entrepreneur, you're the founder of Sunshine Gasoline Distributors. And we saw you look at Venezuela, you know, one of the richest countries in the world, you know, by 1950 to 1970, because of these massive oil revenues. And so Venezuela went from, you know, a once very rich country to poor because of the policies that we're speaking of. And, you know, yet the leaders like Maduro is rich, he's got money. But the, the rest of the citizens are, are, are struggling and are impoverished and are starving.

[Maximo Alvarez]

It all started in 1959 when Castle takes over. Believe it or not, you can look it up. It's public record. Cuba had about 6 million people. Cuba had the same standard of living of United States of America. The Cuban peso was equivalent to the American dollar. Havana was the same as it is Las Vegas today. Okay, so the automobiles were sold in Cuba a month before they were put in the market in America, in the United States. So Cuba was one of the most progressive pieces of property in America. And from one day to the next, this guy destroyed Cuba. Just look at it right now. These people don't even have sugar, which is amazing. Cuba at the time in 1959. And you can check it out, they had one cattle per citizen or more. So Cuba again had the same standard of living of United States of America. And in no time at all, he made it into one of the poorest places in the world. And what is the Castro family? They've been there over 60 some years and they talk about democracy. You gotta be kidding me. If you read a Cuban history done in the Fidel Castro, they got rid of the dictator Batista really well. The dictator was in there 60 some years, but he was a dictator. You're not. It's amazing. It's really amazing. And the thing is we need to start in kindergarten, teaching our children, making sure that we preserve the family values that got us here. They are destroying us one value at a time. They're teaching kids about changing sex when they're eight and nine years old. They're teaching kids making sure that they don't believe in God. Making sure that they believe that we're destroying the environment because we have fossil fuels. This is crazy. So what I think is the most important part besides going to vote in the midterms. Because by the way, if we lose the midterms, we're in trouble. Besides voting and making sure that you love your country, we need to start teaching children. This is your country. This is your family. There's no one like mom and dad. There's nothing like God. And we are not doing a very good job, by the way. You have no idea how much has negatively impacted me when we lost a guy like Charlie Kirk.

[Lisa Booth]

I know he's a friend.

[Maximo Alvarez]

This is. So why do you think they get rid of Charlie Kirk? Because he was making an impact. And who was he working with? Young people. And they were frustrated because he was on the common. This is all about common sense. This is not about you don't have to be a doctor, you have to go to Harvard to understand this. How can you possibly think that your country is better by allowing anybody who wants to come here, not even knowing who they are. When somebody knocks at your door at night, at least you look through a big hole. At least you say, who is it? So whatever church, who said it better? Communism is the concept of humanity. And that is the best that I can summarize anything about communism. Every place, every place that has tried has failed.

[Lisa Booth]

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[Lisa Booth]

Why did they remove God? You had mentioned the removing God. Why is that important in their efforts to implement these ideas?

[Maximo Alvarez]

Because that way not only you live from day to day, but you become totally dependent on government, on the ruler. Because the ruler controls your healthcare, your food, your education, your well being. And if you don't conform with the ruler, they'll dispose of you. That's why. So if you are a person of faith, you know that you're here on a short period of time and something much better awaits us. And we really are free to make sure that we do the right things, just like you're free to do the wrong things. But you know that God is all powerful, all knowledge, and that is the eternity. Because we're only here for a short period of time. And we need to teach our kids not to be motivated by money, but motivated by a dream. Motivated by being the best that you can be. By understanding that in this country, it's the only country in the world, that you can start a business from the trunk of your car like I did and become very successful. I couldn't have done what I did in any other country for sure. So we need to not only understand and love God and Jesus Christ, who gave his life so that we could earn the eternal reward, but that he taught us the values that if you practice, you will always be successful. And by the way, success is not measured by how amount of money you accumulate, how many assets you may have. Success is by the day that you're gone. By the last day, you look back and you say, I helped make this place a little bit better than when I found it. I did my job. And this is. We need to promote that right now. Look what we're doing, Lisa. We're paying a young man out of high school a million dollars or more to play football. And then if he doesn't get to play the position that he wants to play, he leaves that place and goes to another place. You ever heard about loyalty? Loyalty is something that is extremely valuable in life. And we're teaching the kids, forget about loyalty. Just chase that dollar. We're teaching the kids, forget about a contract. You sign a contract, break it, there's no consequences, or you got no money to pay for it. You're teaching kids, it's okay. It's okay to have a divorce. You don't get along with your wife. Get rid of her. We're teaching our young girls. Oh, make sure that that guy has enough money. This is not the country, and this is not the home that I was born in.

[Lisa Booth]

You know, from your perspective, you had mentioned it earlier when you were talking, but why do you think Joe Biden opened the border in the way that he did?

[Maximo Alvarez]

First of all, between you and I, I don't think that was Joe Biden. I think it was somebody else who was telling Joe Biden what to do and say, nod his head as if he had anything to do with it. The poor, poor man. I pray for him all the time. Still today he suffered from dementia. He had no idea what he was doing. So let's start with why. Because this is again. This is again. This is how they take over the country. You flood the country with these people who are going to destroy you from within. They have criminals. They have all these people who came to this country naturally, some of them are really good people who came for the right reason. But forget about. Even if all of them are good, but five of them are bad, do you know how much damage one individual can do? Forget about. Did you remember? 9, 11. Can you imagine how much damage one individual can do inside our country? We already have people like that in our government, elected officials. I don't know if you heard about Corruvia. Somebody told me. I didn't see it, but somebody told me that there was Secretary of State pounded on the table who was talking to Ocasio. And the other, the one that wears that stuff on her head. I don't remember her name and I don't want it.

[Lisa Booth]

Oh, Ilhan Omar.

[Maximo Alvarez]

Correct. And Marco says, if you hate this country, why don't you leave? What are you doing here? You hate this country. What are you doing here? You shouldn't be here. And that's the case. They hate this country. They want to convert this country into something that they came from. And that's. Listen, we go and we kill Osama bin Lara, right? Because he was enemy number one, right?

[Lisa Booth]

Yes.

[Maximo Alvarez]

About George Soros, how do you call him? This guy has publicly said that he wants to destroy the United States of America and all the money that he's made in this country. And we allow him to be okay, this is again, my son will get on my case and say, dad, that's our constitution. We're a free country. That is abuse of freedom and that should be persecuted. I don't care what anybody says. If you try to market insurrection and to tell People who have signed to be in the military to disobey orders. And you're an elected official. Really?

[Lisa Booth]

Yeah, we saw some Democrats do that recently. And then before we go, Maximo, what's your final warning to us? To hopefully wake some people up who might be asleep at the wheel right now.

[Maximo Alvarez]

Again, it's very difficult. I really think it works when I go and I talk to the kids in middle school and you can tell how they pay attention and they really understand. Especially when somebody who has suffered the consequences of being under a communist regime. But it's very difficult to talk to a crowd because, you know, only. It's not cool to listen to somebody saying something to so many people at one time. But I think if I have to say something is very simple. Look at you, look around you, look at your neighbor. Look what happened in every. Cuba is only 90 miles from Florida. Look what happened in Cuba. Look at Venezuela, one of the richest countries in South America. Matter of days it went from something to nothing. Look what is happening in places like Nicaragua and so on and so forth. It's just, it's just, it's amazing. So the. I guess the best way to learn is to learn from things that happen to other people. Just be careful, don't swim in there. There's sharks. So the problem is when you talk to an audience, they will. It takes just a couple of jokers to start laughing and they don't listen to you anymore. That's why Charlie Kirk was so effective. He would go to the school and talk to each and every one on an individual basis. First of all, he listened to. A lot of times we don't listen, we listen. And then without being offensive, he would always say, but this is what I believe. I don't want you to believe what I believe, but I want you. This is what I believe, and this is what I believe. I remember one that. I mean, they can tell you so many of them, I'm pretty sure you saw him too. But there was this black lady talking about white supremacy. And she went on and on and on and on. And Charlie was just, you know, and when she finished, she says, let me ask you a question. Is there anything that you, as a black lady cannot do that I do as a white man? Is there anything that you cannot do? She said, no, I can do everything you can. So he says, very cold blooded. He said, so what is the argument? Where's the supremacy? And of course, she was pitching X. And then he would go on, we need to learn from Charlie. Charlie was a great teacher Charlie was. Oh my God. Anyways, this is what we need to do. We need to have more Charlie's.

[Lisa Booth]

No, we need more Charlie's.

[Maximo Alvarez]

We need to start in kindergarten. We cannot wait to college. It's too late.

[Lisa Booth]

Maximo, thank you so much for your time, sir. We always appreciate your voice and just keeping us reminded of what's at stake here if we let our country go. So appreciate you, sir.

[Maximo Alvarez]

Thank you. Lisa, keep doing what you're doing. Believe it or not, I am pretty sure that even if we can get to have just one individual to understand that's a success. Okay? So keep it up. And we'd definitely keep the faith and we'll keep on fighting until we die.

[Lisa Booth]

Thank you, sir. Happy Thanksgiving.

[Maximo Alvarez]

Thank you. The same to you. Thanksgiving is every day now.

[Lisa Booth]

Yes, yes. Thank you, sir.

[Maximo Alvarez]

Every morning we give thanks. Thank you, Lisa.

[Lisa Booth]

That was Maximo Alvarez. Appreciate him for coming on the show. Appreciate you guys at home for listening every Tuesday and Thursday. But you can listen throughout the week. Also want to thank John Cassio, my producer, for putting the show together. Until next time.

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