Episode 137 - Socialists on Parade

Socialists have won a number of Democrat primaries. What is it that they actually stand for - besides lying about how things will work?

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Welcome to Careful Consideration of Our Common Concerns. I'm Dr. Ted Noel. Welcome back to the seminar. And as always, enjoy your favorite beverage as we discuss the issues of the day. Today the topic is socialism. And the candidates who have managed to get through the Democrat primaries, and most of the socialists did, because the Democrat Party has ceased to have any relationship with America. The first one is Abdul Rahman Al-Sayed in Michigan. And one of the key things to notice about him is he has erratically pushed for socialism up until he gets nominated. All of a sudden, he's saying, Oh no, I didn't really mean that. I support this or that or the other thing. I don't support abolishing the police. And this tells you everything you need to know about this guy because he he went hard, hard left, which is probably where he lives. That's where he intends to stay. It speaks to his personal beliefs. He did that to win the Democrat primary. And he barely squeaked by in Michigan. But what he has done is shown the world by suddenly pivoting to the center. And all you political scientists out there will recognize the term. You have to play to the base to get nominated, and then you have to pivot to the center to get elected. The idea is oh, all those things I said I believed in, I really don't believe in. And yet he campaigned with that idiot who lives in West Hollywood. Hassan Piker. And you'll recall Hassan Piker is making millions of dollars off of being a loudmouth hard lefty. And when he was asked why he lived in a three million dollar house in West Hollywood, he says that's because that's how much houses cost there. And it tells you everything you need to know about him because he chose to live in a high-rent neighborhood. I couldn't afford to live there, and I spent a career doing medicine, which is a well-paid profession. But he decided that he would live in West Hollywood because he wanted the luxury and he's making the money. He's being a capitalist, he's selling his speeches for lots of money. That's called capitalism. People want to buy it, and so he is bashing capitalism and saying, no, I didn't really want to spend three million dollars on a house, but this is the only place I could get one. Wrong. I could show him lots of places. I lived in Southern California for seven years. I could show him lots of places where I lived, in Redlands, in uh San Bernardino, in Pomona, and you know, run the list Riverside, all of these other places, and there are literally hundreds of communities out there where he could have a house for a lot less money. But remember, what he wanted was the luxury, he doesn't give a damn about anything else, and that's the same thing about Al Saeed. He was born into money, he is working with money, and he claims he is in favor of the little guy. Notice he claims it. Let us all now switch to Florida for a moment, where Angie Nix Nixon. Now, Angie Nixon is a flat-out nut job. There's no way of putting it differently. She ran around the floor of the legislature with a bullhorn, screaming and hollering, trying to prevent the hall from doing business. And this tells us where we are, it tells us what we want, what they want. They don't want you to have a representative republic. That's what America is. And our constitution guarantees every state a republican government, which means that its representatives inside the state are elected by the people, by the district, and then sent to the legislature to do the legislature's work. No, they don't want that at all. In fact, if we stay on that topic, what they want is to abolish the Senate. Well, first of all, they can't do it because you won't get 38 states to agree to it, and it's part of the Constitution. But they're going to try to pack the court, they want to pack the court so it'll approve everything they say. So they don't want you to have a voice, they want the only voice, like Angie Nixon, to be the person with the bullhorn who is screaming over top of the people who are just trying to live. And this continues on and on. If we look at their platform, you can go to program.dsausa.org and read what they stand for. The political and economic system under which we live is built on private ownership and profit at all costs. As capitalism fails to solve problems of its own making, it turns to right-wing authoritarianism. Some other time we will talk about the problems and where they came from. I will simply mention it came from the New Deal, which abolished the enumerated powers and said Congress could do anything it wanted. Those are the problems that allowed Congress to subsidize various businesses. Okay. But they say it turns to right-wing authoritarianism. Oh, that's a big nasty word. But what does authoritarianism mean? It means that we tell them how they must live. They have to get our permission in order to do anything. Let's ask Michael and Chantel Sackett. This couple bought a residential lot in a subdivision near Priest Lake in Idaho in around 2005. They were preparing to build a house in 2007. Then the EPA declared their property a wetland. Even though it wasn't, it had no connection with the water, navigable waters of the United States. And they challenged the EPA's authority. And finally, in 2012, they got actually approval to take the case to court. And in Sackett versus EPA 2023, the court ruled nine-zip, including all of the liberals, that the EPA's jurisdiction over wetlands is limited to those with a continuous surface connection to traditional navigable waters, which meant that their property was not subject to the EPA's jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act. That's authoritarianism. And who was running the EPA? The Democrats, the Swamp. This was all started, go back and look at the dates, 2007, that was the end of W's term, and he was no friend to conservative. Um and then finally in 2012, we were now in the Obama era, but the EPA had taken this whole position of extreme control over everything with a drop of water on it years before. The swamp did this, and it wasn't until SACAT v EPA in 2023 that this got changed. Who's the authoritarian? Oh, yes, the left are the authoritarians. There's no way around that. They are the authoritarians. But let's go on. What we've got is a situation for ending, quote, the capitalist oligarchy and creating a real democracy. Yes, we get rid of this Senate, we make the president elected by the House, the House is elected popularly, so if we can win the popular vote once, we then, and we have a packed Supreme Court. We can pass laws that say anything we want. That you have to have part your hair on the right side of your head or the left side, or you can't wear braces or whatever else in order to vote. Once they've achieved their utopian goals, nobody else can say anything because they shut you out. That's what's happening in England, where when anybody posts a meme that says anything bad about Islam or about a politician, they get thrown in prison. That's the way it works over there. That's the way these sort of things. Okay, so what they want is to expand public resources to support recreation, learning, and social spaces accessible to all. Establish paid family leave for all workers, a 32-hour week with full pay and benefits, and a living minimum wage. Okay, who's gonna pay for this stuff? Oh, yeah, the government will guarantee universal health care at no cost to individuals. Go look in England, where they have the National Health Service. They have huge problems with funding it. And I've been watching a show, Surgeons at the Edge of Life, and I look at some of the cases they present. For example, the show I just watched, they had a lady with a tongue cancer. It was diagnosed, and it was a full nine weeks later when she got surgery. In the US, it would have happened within a week to two weeks. And as it turned out, in that case, it left that woman with a highly advanced cancer on her scans. Her lymph nodes had markedly expanded, showing that she had rapid malignant spread. Her tumor in her tongue had rapidly expanded. That's just one example. My wife and I like to watch the show because, as a doctor and a surgical nurse, we enjoy the science, we enjoy the process. But every case we see, almost every case we see, involves a huge delay because they simply don't have the ability to get things done. There was so much delay in the emergency rooms that they passed a law that said you can't wait in an ambulance more than four hours. Or if once you arrive in the emergency room, you have to be seen within four hours. So what happened? They said you can't empty the ambulances. So the ambulances sit there. Now, what they've ended up doing is something that is actually pretty smart, which is they put doctors on the helicopter ambulances so they can do a lot of early trauma treatment out in the field. That makes a lot of sense medically. But this is how they're getting around it. And by and large, I mean, why should you wait six months to get a total hip? If you have a total joint replacement due because it's just become too much, in the United States, it'll happen quickly, typically within three or four weeks. I got my total shoulder done in less than two weeks, and that's not unusual. Big surgery, things that really need to be done happen right away. But oh no, universal health care. And I had a debate with a professor at Rollins College. Now, this was an online back and forth via email, so nobody else saw it. But basically, what I said is look, if you're gonna say universal health care, what you've done is made slaves out of the medical staff. Oh no, they're gonna get paid. No, you've said I don't get a choice. That's slavery. And when we go back and look at what led to the American Revolution, the United States had no say in what England did to it. Parliament and the king declared that it had authority over everything. And because of that, they said taxation without representation is tyranny. The tea tax that led to the Boston Tea Party was actually a very small amount of money. The issue wasn't the size of the tax, the issue was we had no say in it, and that's a local issue, and that was what led to the American Revolution. Go pick up your copy of the Declaration of Independence, read all of the parade of horribles that's in it, and you'll look at it, and every one of the items that Thomas Jefferson put in there has to do with Parliament and the King declaring we are totally sovereign, you have no say. He has refused his assent to laws most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing order importance. On and on. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly. The entire parade of horribles in the Declaration of Independence has to do with the fact that the English central government said that America had no say in its own affairs. When you have a situation where you have one house, purely popular elected, people will always vote themselves wheel at the public trough. And somebody else has to pay for it. And what happens? Everything in the world is rationed. It's either rationed by price or by decree. And what will happen is it'll look good for a little while, like Mom Donnie's grocery store started to look good. Then it had to be rationed by decree. You have to show photo ID to get into the grocery store. Oh, yeah. They want to get rid of photo ID for voting. Housing is a human right. Build new publicly owned social housing, strictly regulate investment properties, establish universal rent control. Ask New York City how well New York rent control works. You have all of those abandoned buildings and tenements that are falling down. Why? Because rent control prevented the owners of those buildings from doing proper maintenance. They couldn't charge enough to maintain the buildings. That's why the elevators don't work. That's why you have uh air conditioners that quit. And that's why you have run-down neighborhoods where you have these buildings that are just wrecks. Oh, we're going to end this legacies of slavery and colonialism and reinforce anti-discrimination laws. Well, guess what? We already do that, and anti-discrimination laws say that you cannot declare yourself legally a better person than me because of your race. And guess what? I don't care what other what race you are, but the law says you can't discriminate on the basis of race. That's an anti-discrimination law. The Voting Rights Act decision in Louisiana versus Calais. It said you can't discriminate on the basis of race. And then you look at what's going on there, the stuff that happened in Mississippi and in Texas afterward. And even in California, those redistricting efforts were all done on the basis of pure unadulterated power politics. And the Supreme Court says that's what politics is about. And guess what? The Democrats have been doing this for a long time, but they only scream when their ox is gored. Now, we're going to enact reparations, run the list, demilitarize police departments, disempower police unions, and redirect funding to public services as steps toward fully abolishing the police and prison system, which protects the rich and jails the poor. Um, no, you're just flat lying. People who get in jail have done bad stuff by and large. Yes, there are cases where people were railroaded and framed. Those are the minority. But the fact is, if we're going to abolish the jails, how are you going to protect Irina Zarutzko, who was murdered in Charlotte on public transport by a man who was let out of jail without bond after committing horrible crimes? Oh, yeah. This is going to work really, really well. It doesn't work. Treat drug addiction and mental health illnesses, health issues, not crimes. Well, guess what? That means nothing. Unqualified immunity and empower civilian oversight with real authority. That sounds good because QI gets abused at times. But most of the time, you have to give the cop the benefit of the doubt when the situation is happening rapidly. You know, qualified immunity has some abuses, but it's that's for another top, another time. But listen to how they put it. Workers must lead our democratic transition to a green future. Yeah. Even the UN Council on Climate Change has really decided, you know, carbon dioxide isn't man-made carbon dioxide, is not the problem, has nothing to do with anything. And we do know that raising the carbon dioxide levels makes the deserts bloom because plants need carbon dioxide to conserve water. Oh, yes. This is all pure and simple communism. There's no way about it. Oh, they want to free Palestine. Guess what? There is no such thing as Palestine, where people are Palestinians. In 1948, who became the Palestinians? It's uh the people that the other Arab countries refused to accept. Right of return, no, that is a pure Muslim idea that any territory that was occupied by Muslims is in fact Muslim forever. That's what the right of return is about. The prior right really belongs to the Jews who are occupying Israel right now. I could go on, but here's the thing: these people are loony bin lunatic communists. There's no other way to put it. They're not socialists, they're communists. And as we approach, you have to corner them in town halls or wherever else you ask. How are you going to pay for whatever? On abolishing the police, how are you going to protect the people from bad guys? Oh, we're all going to live together in peace. No, there are bad people. Period. How are you going to protect us? On and on. And just pin them down. Make them answer the questions. They can't answer them because there's not enough money. And Margaret Thatcher had it right. The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money. And hold that thought for our next seminar. Until next time, the message is what matters. I'm Dr. Ted Noel.