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Dinesh D'Souza (0:04)
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Coming up, my topic today, Angry Young Men. I'm going to consider the life experience that has radicalized many angry young men on the right. Also going to explore the connection between a highbrow philosophy called post liberalism and the somewhat lowbrow group called the Groipers. And the legendary radio host Michael Savage joins me. He's going to talk about what's up with this antisemitism stuff. Hey, if you're watching on YouTube, X or Rumble Listening on Apple or Spotify, please subscribe. Hit the subscribe the Follow the Notifications button. I'd really appreciate it. This is the Dinesh d' Souza Podcast.
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Michael Savage (1:37)
I want to go through today a detailed post by a guy on X talking about his son. And it is a way of explaining the phenomenon of these angry young men. Erica Kirk called them these lost or wayward young men. Some of them are known as the groipers. Who are these people and what makes people go in this direction? I don't want to so much analyze or even argue with this. I have plenty of time to do this another time. What I want to do here is lay it out and explain it and understand it. So this is an effort to sympathetically engage with what produces these angry young men and what are they angry about? Because as we're about to see, a lot of what they are angry about is completely justified. So here is the post and I'm only going to read a part of it, but enough to give you the full flow. I despise the Groiper movement. Very important opening statement, because this parent is saying, look, I'm not defending all the stuff the gripers say. And a lot of it may be out of line, a lot of it may be hysterical, a lot of it might be self dramatization. It reflects very few of what we would call the conservative virtues. The conservative virtues, by the way, are things like resilience, an uncomplaining temperament, a certain respect for how things were in the past, a certain respect for parents, a love of history. And we find Very little of this, by the way, among these angry young men, they don't seem recognizably conservative in the sense of they don't have a wry view of human nature. They don't accept that, hey, listen, the world is of course messed up. It's always been messed up. And the reason it's messed up is because human nature is a little messed up. So this is the conservative attitude. We're talking about a bunch of people who think of themselves as on the right, but they don't think like this. They don't have this temperament. But why don't they have it? Well, here is. Let's listen to this parent. My 11 year old son joined the elementary school band. The classrooms were inundated with. So the parent goes to the band and sees the classrooms are inundated with DEI messages and Trans Pride flags. On the walls were posters, stickers, various decorations invoking various totems of diversity, Black Lives Matter, decolonization, lgbtq, every sort of race and gender social justice messaging you can imagine. Then you have these themes of social justice hammered into these young people. Indigenous ways of knowing, safe spaces for all kinds of ethnic and minority groups. And then a woman in the mask, who was evidently in charge, got up and read a number of land acknowledgments before acknowledging the contribution of indigenous people to indigenous ways of knowing. So there's a little bit more of this. And then when it comes to how the teachers behaved, I'm going to draw on that night. And the other times have been at my son's school. To begin, the boys are treated almost as though they are defective girls. Wow. The feminine modes of interaction and socialization are treated as though they are the only legitimate modes of interaction. Almost all the authority figures in my son's school are women, with almost no exceptions. And one day the school hired a single male education assistant and the boy comes home and says he's amazed to see a male teacher in the school. So my son comes home from school, expresses utter frustration that his own way of communicating is automatically treated as weird, maybe autistic, defective, handicapped in some way, and that he lacks all the qualities, basically female qualities that essentially make him out to be a deficient person. And now I want you to imagine what it's like for an 11 year old boy to be saturated in this environment. Day after day he is an alien in his own school. He's treated like a ticking time bomb. So the hostility toward the boys that is driven in at every level of the institution produces at some point, a pushback and a revolt. And by and large what this parent is saying, what I want to point out to you, how absurd the world must appear through the eyes of the average 11 year old boy. He's told he has a host of advantages, white privilege, male privilege, straight privilege that he has never experienced and he will never benefit from. And this justifies the system that he is immersed in. And the worst part is if he tries to point this out, the very people who are who are doing it will look at him straight in the face and say we're not doing it. This has never happened. And all of this is happening with, in your most formative years. So according to the parent, look, this is going to produce a pushback that is very, very strong. Once you understand all this, says the parent, the real question is not why are some young men radicalizing. The real question is why are there any young men at all who have not been radicalized? Now the parent goes on to say, none of this is to excuse any of the extremist radicals. The point here is to, is to understand where this is coming from. But I also want to take this post, a very eloquent post by the way, very heartfelt post and in my view accurate post, to show what it is that these young people are really against. Because to listen to them, they are against a whole bunch of different things. They're against the post war economic order going back to 1945 if they believe a guy like Tucker. They're against the whole story of World War II, they're against the greatest generation. Some of them are against like Vivek Ramaswamy, they're angry at immigrants. But you notice that all of this that I've just described is nothing more than heavy handed brow beating leftist ideology. This is the leftist ideology that has overtaken their schools and their colleges. And this is what these young people are enduring day after day. It's the full triumph of leftism. Now where they have a point is that when I didn't go to high school except for the 12th grade in America, but I did go to college in this country when I was a student, there were still remnants of the earlier generation, which is to say the pre Vietnam War generation in the colleges. And that influence kept the colleges sane and balanced. What made the colleges tip over is when the 60s generation came fully in charge. And these are the people who essentially made sure that the economics department is six different types of Marxists. These are the people who kept all the conservatives out. These are the people who devised all These programs at the school level and at the college level that this parent is talking about. So I guess what my take on all this is is that we have seen leftism run rampant in our culture. Now, again, is this the fault of the conservatives? Because there's a lot of anger among the younger generation toward their own parents, even if their parents are conservative. And the idea is, why didn't you say stop this? And it's actually worth answering that question. Because the truth of it is the reason we didn't stop it is because we couldn't. The reason we didn't stop it is because we were outnumbered eight to one. The reason we didn't stop it is because we didn't have anything like the resources of the people who are implementing these programs over our objection. Many of us in the Reagan generation have devoted our careers and our work to attacking these ideas. And given the fact that we were outnumbered, given the fact that the takeover of academia preceded us, we didn't let academia fall. Academia fell and we were the victims of that fall. And we as students rebelled against it. We took on things like affirmative action. We fought DEI before it was even called dei. And we fought it when our troops were numbered on the fingers of both your hands. And so the point I'm trying to make here is not to say that there is not a legitimate grievance. I'm just trying to point the blame, the focus on where it ought to be. Because if you have a correct grasp, sometimes what happens I think generationally is people think that the earlier generation all operates as a single entity. But that's kind of like saying that the younger generation operates as a single entity. I could easily turn it around and say to young people, let's just say young people who are 35 and under, I could say, well, listen, you're to blame for all our social problems. Why? Because by and large, look at the voting habits of your generation over the last three elections. Most of you voted for Obama, most of you voted for Obama's reelection even though Trump won in 2016. It was only a minority of you who actually voted for Trump. Most of you voted for Biden. And so you want to find out who's really to blame for the world's problems. It's you. Because if you subtracted out the young people's vote, Republicans and conservatives would do much better in the election results. Now that would be. You'd say that's horribly unfair. Because guess what? All these woke leftists are not our fault. We voted differently. We tried to fight Them on the campus. We were outnumbered. Well, don't you see? That's exactly what I'm saying. We were outnumbered the same way you are outnumbered. And so you can't put a sort of onus on an entire generation. The real question is this, like, what did you do? Like, what did the conservatives of your time do to fight these things? How effectively did they do them and how did they come out on all that? So all of this is a way of saying that I think that we are facing serious problems in our society. Some of them have to do with the economic structures that we're dealing with. Things like housing, things like the prospects of getting jobs, the impact of illegal immigration, possibly legal immigration, certainly technology, and with more to come with artificial intelligence. All these things are realities of our time and in many ways somewhat different from a generation ago. But nevertheless, these angry young men aren't going anywhere. And their problems do need to be addressed. And the best way to do it, identify where the problem really lies. And that's where you want to focus on the solutions. If you are a homeowner in America, you need to listen to this. The FBI has been warning about a type of real estate fraud on the rise called title theft. And your equity is the target. Here's how it works. Criminals forge your signature on a single document, use a fake notary stamp and file it with the county. And just like that, on record, they own your home. Using your ownership, they can take out loans against your equity or even sell your property. 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So I thought I would get into that in a rather practical way by talking about something that is related and that is the simple issue of home prices. Now, here's a post by a young guy I actually know quite well. He's talking about the fact that his grandparents a Generation ago or two generations ago could buy a house for $25,000. And he says that same house today, $500,000. And he goes on to show that even if you adjust for inflation, the house has gone up even more in value. And then I see a post by Benny Johnson drawing on some data which says that when the greatest generation came home From World War II, half of America's 30 year olds were married and owned a home. And today he says a generation later, really two generations later, only 10% of Americans own a home and are married by 30. Now, there are some big issues here, but I want to just focus on the why people are getting married later. And that is, of course, related to the ability to buy a home. But that's not the only factor. But let's just focus on the home prices here for a couple of reasons. Why is it that that home prices have gone up like this and how much have they really gone up? Now, the second question may seem almost absurd, like, what are you talking about, Dinesh? Obviously, they've gone up tremendously, but it's not so simple. I want to just mention two facts that we need to pull in because those of us who are older and of course, there Are people who are older than me will remember the situation as it's being portrayed now is not exactly the way that was. So the. Your grandparents, for example, yes, they could in fact buy a home. But the average home size in 1950, let's say I just looked it up this morning, was 900 square feet, two rooms. So the home is not what most people today call a home. It was rather essentially little more than an apartment with a roof on it. 900 square feet, two rooms, and then a small kitchen and usually one small bathroom. Not two, not three. No powder rooms, none of that. But that's what it was like. That's what it meant for the average American to own a home in 1950. Now, what about. Let's fast forward a generation to the Reagan generation. When I bought my first home, this would be in the late 80s. But I'm not just talking about myself. Let's just look at people who bought homes for their first home. We're talking about, let's say between 1988 and 1992. In that period, well, home prices were a lot lower than they are now. But guess what, what was the interest rate? Well, the interest rate was somewhere between 8 and 10%. Now compare that to the interest rate of today when you are paying well, you just have to take a house today that has a mortgage of, let's say, 4% or 4.5% and change that number to 10%. And now run the math and you get an idea of what kind of a difference it makes whether your interest rate is 4.5% or whether it is 9%. Now, I mentioned this not because, because it isn't a fact that homes are difficult to buy today. Of course they are. But if we're going to have an intelligent discussion, you have to compare, like to, like, you have to compare the conditions then to the conditions now. You have to look, for example, not just at, for example, like what was the price of the home in 1990, but when you factor in the nine and a half percent, let's say mortgage rate, what were we paying in 1990 or 1989 for that house? And not only that, what was our income at that time? So we have to look at the affordability of that house, given those interest rates and given our income, our average income in that era, and then compare it to today. It's still a valid debate. But I guess what I'm saying is I see these kinds of discussions that look at all the sort of positive facts from the past. Hey, our grandparents could afford to buy a house and hey, home prices. Even the 1980s were less without looking at the other side of the coin. So that makes it very difficult to have an intelligent discussion when you are not able to inputting all the data, when you're not looking at the full picture. But I think something is going on here more broad than all this, and this is something that is worth discussing. I'm only going to begin my discussion of it today, and that is this issue of post liberalism. Now, what is post liberalism? Well, post liberalism, I'm going to take the Harvard Law professor Adrian Vermeul says, I see we're having another round of puzzlement about what post liberalism means. It's not that complicated. It's a negative category, a genus that includes many different species whose common trait Here we go. Is that all members of the genus reject the central premises of liberalism, but who may or may not have anything else common. And this is the question I actually want to focus attention on, which is to say, what does it mean to reject liberalism? The reason this is a complicated question is because liberalism has two different meanings. You can find this out very quickly if you travel to places like Australia or to Europe, where you discover that the right wing parties in those countries are called liberals and the left wing parties are called socialists. And sometimes they're called the Labour Party, but they are certainly not called liberals. Why? How can liberalism be right wing in one context and left wing in the context of America? Well, the answer is we're talking about two different liberalisms. Let's call it small L liberalism, Big L liberalism. So big L liberalism is leftism. Big L liberalism is in fact kind of a cousin of socialism. Big L liberals call themselves progressives. These are people who want to raise taxes, for example. These are people who don't like the free market. These are people, for example, who want all these left wing social policies that I've actually talked about earlier in this podcast. These are people who are into climate change and they're into diversity, and they are the ones who do the land. Acknowledgments these are the big L liberals, but the liberals abroad are not like this. They don't like any of this. They are the small L liberals. And this small L liberalism has its roots in the Enlightenment in it also has its roots in the American founding. The American founders were to a large degree. Now to a large degree means not entirely, but it means mostly to a large degree. The American founders were classical liberals. They were small il liberals. And this is important because if you're trying to repudiate liberalism. My question to you is, are you trying to repudiate big L liberalism, in which case we're all on board, or you also trying to repudiate small l liberalism, which is a more problematic matter. For the simple reason that to repudiate small l liberalism is to repudiate the American Founding. It's actually to make you anti American in the classic meaning of that term. Being anti American is to be against the ideas and premises of the American founding. And so it's kind of crazy to go, I'm America first, but I hate the founding. I'm America first, but I repudiate the small il liberalism of the American Founders. Now, where do we find this small l liberalism of the American Founders? We find it throughout the Constitution and we find it throughout the Bill of Rights. When the Bill of Rights asserts these rights, let's just look at a few of those. The right to free speech, we find in the Constitution a protection, although it's not. You don't find this actual phrase, but the Constitution is structured around Locke's idea of property rights. So we have economic freedom. And then we find that the Constitution itself is a structure for political freedom. So if we were to tease out these freedoms, we would say that there are three basic categories of freedom that make up small l liberalism and liberalism itself. The word liberal means the free man and as opposed to the slave. So the American Founders emphasized political freedom. That's constitutional republicanism. That's constitutional democracy. That's the political freedom, self government. The second type of freedom is economic freedom. That's the freedom to own property, the freedom to have your own possessions, to control yourself, freedom over your own body and your own being. In some ways, for Locke, you yourself are property that you own. A little bit of a strange way to put it, but nevertheless, we do in that sense own ourselves. And so you have economic freedom, you have political freedom, and finally you have what can be called civil liberties, which by and large is things like freedom of movement, freedom of speech. So these interlocking freedoms are what make up small l liberalism. Now, did the Founders also care about some other things? Yes, they did. They cared about social order, they cared about the common good, they cared about ideas of civic virtue, and they saw freedom, these freedoms, as the means to reach those goals. So some of the post liberals like the goals. They go, yeah, we're all about the common good. But they are skeptical of the interlocking three freedoms that, that the Founders saw as the pathway, as the vehicle, as the mode of reaching the Good. And so this is the issue I want to put front and center on the table is to have us think about this question of post liberalism. What is it that we are affirming and what is it that we are rejecting? There's a powerful new film coming from Angel Studios on the Wonder Project. It's called called Young Washington. 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Watch it and buy the DVD at SalemNow.com it's SalemNow.com guys I'm delighted to welcome to the podcast and a a legend. A legend who has Michael Savage who needs really no introduction. But if there's anyone who doesn't know him, he is a an author, he's a political commentator, former radio host of the Savage Nation, and also by the way, an inductee into the National Radio hall of Fame. Well deserved. You can follow him on social media on X Savage Nation. His website is michaelsavage.com. hey, thanks for joining me. I really appreciate it. And you were just telling me a moment ago that you have a new article out, a new post up that is about how the woke right is fracturing the gop. This has obviously become a huge topic, and I'd like you to spell out some of your themes so that we can start to get into it and understand better what's going on here.
