How the Left Hijacked America’s Institutions and Installed a New Bureaucratic Morality
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- Опубликовано: 19 апр 2023
- Liberalism has been compromised. Over the past century, the American Left has exploited the separation of church and state to advance a new bureaucratic morality that threatens to swallow all of our institutions whole. From a speech at Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest, Hungary.
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I would love to see a panel discussion with Rufo, James Lindsay, Coleman Hughes, Douglas Murray, and Jay Dyer. 2 hours minimum.
I would add Peter Bogosian. But ultimate choice would be Thomas Sowell
And Jordan Peterson
Coleman Hughes is SO boring 😴.
@@jamesvandykes7027 That would be great, although it would need to be 3 hours instead of 2. It takes time to unpack alot the ideas and their origins.
@@trainerdisability I would love to see Thomas Sowell more but a panel might not be the best, I think I would rather hear him speak more than a panel would allow.
Bureaucratic morality. That's a chilling term.
"Red Rudi" coined the phrase "the long march through the institutions" but that idea was the basis for Antonio Gramsci's writings. Antonio Gramsci was the founder of the Italian Communist Party and was an associate of Vladimir Lenin. For the curious, the American professor who was a Marxist who spoke fondly of the Communist Manifesto, translated Gramsci's works into English, formed a Gramsci foundation and dedicated a significant portion of his academic career to the work of Gramsci was named Joseph Buttigieg. And, yes, he's the father of "Mayor Pete" Buttigieg. What a coinkydink.
Wow! Didn't know that. Thanks!
I recall this discovery when Mayor Pete achieved national prominence. Imagine the diatribe at each evening meal as father Joe instills in the mind of his young son the bright lights expected to emanate from the "The New American Cultural Hegemony". I harken back to the first years of Reagan's presidency while I sparred in the Veneto with Italian University students during Anni di piombo and stood at my post against The Red Brigade.
Ma ovunque ansimavano i cani della guerra.
LOL @ you, if you think that Pete Buttplug is a Marxist. 🤦♂
Yes. Someone else who noticed. Seriously, if you don't even know the origins of the statement that sums up your talk's thesis statement that does not look good. It wasn't Mao; it was Gramsci, while in prison in Italy, who originally proposed the "long march through the institutions," as a means for advancing the goals of Leftism and Socialism.
Just because you've failed to reduce government does NOT mean it's not the solution.
Look either you use power or someone else will, and right now that someone else is already and has been using it for decades.
@@jacobj3933 A valid point. Counterpoint: They wouldn't be able to use it if it didn't exist.
Rufo speaks the truth.
Italy faced this exact issue in the 1970s, _statolatria_ (state-idolatry).
Again: thank you! Please keep pushing the board at NCF for more radical (and necessary) change-the mandate is there. And you’ll have the support.
@Jesse, fully agree. Your generous donation to the cause will help. People don't realize how much it costs a person to fight the good fight.
Yes yes please keep giving this openly dishonest grifter your money.
@@MelGibsonFan hello, can you please explain what you mean by “openly dishonest”? I’m genuinely curious.
@@jessehudson7036 I’m wary of posting links because sometimes RUclips will mark them as spam. That said, Rufo said on 15 March last year “The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think "critical race theory." We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.” This is a pretty straight forward admission of dishonesty, bad faith critiques and straw manning the opposition. I’m not saying there isn’t some truth to his critiques, but he’s an ideologue first and foremost, not someone interested in genuine discussion of ideas… if you want a solid critique of CRT from an actual conservative scholar and intellectual, I would recommend Glenn Loury if you haven’t seen him already.
@@MelGibsonFan You are the Ideal Subject. Look it up.
Brilliant analysis!
"Bureaucratic Morality" is a wonderful term for this. You got a license for those opinions, Rufo?
You have great courage Christopher. PLEASE keep speaking the truth no matter what.
Great content
Only one thing I'd disagree with is 'it wasn't popular then, and it still isn't popular today'. Those hideous social survey results seem to unfortunately suggest very differently. The Long March wasn't just successful at infiltrating the state bureaucracy, but genuinely at winning hearts and minds, particularly young people. Conservatives today are just progressives at the speed limit, just look at how views on gay marriage rapidly shifted, from an absurdity in the mid 1990s to something even conservatives can't touch today. I greatly admire Chris Rufo and all he's done for Florida and the conservative movement by focusing on fighting entrenched woke bureaucracies, but with the greatest respect, his congratulations to Dave Rubin on him buying a child and separating it from its natural mother shows that he is not immune to this.
I'm not saying that we should be purist in our approach, indeed, when it came to issues like abortion and gay marriage the left deliberately lied about what it believed, compatible with what was palatable in the current Overton Window, to push the Overton Window in its favour. But we need to have the same approach to fundamentally transform society and stay focused on that goal, making no compromises with the destructive social changes of at least the last 25 years, even if, like they did, we need to present a more palatable façade compatible with the current Overton Window at first.
As long as we accept certain left-wing constructs as untouchable, the left will always be able to taunt us about being on the 'wrong side of history'. The shift on gay marriage on the right gives the campaign for the abolition of gender so much smug confidence that they will eventually give in, and to be fair, why wouldn't they have? What guarantee do we have that this time will be different? Unless we actually are prepared to roll back social changes, not just stagnate further cultural left-wing attack, we will always be on the 'wrong side of history.'
@Doomsday Clock Radio Well what about polls on gay marriage today, compared to 20 years ago? It went from something that was seen as absurd by many liberals, to something that conservatives think they can't touch, even though everything the conservatives of that period warned of came true. It starts with elite liberals, sure, but when they have cultural power, the ordinary people are beaten into compliance through 'manufactured consent'.
This is why the trans activists can be so smug about being on the 'right side of history', because with the precedent set by conservative surrender on gay rights, what indication is there that this time will be different?
The campaigns against gay marriage were probably bigger than the current campaigns against transgenderism, and won every single state referendum held, often with very high turnout. But yet when gay marriage was judicially imposed, the right considered it 'settled', despite the fact that judges overturned democracy, and the concerns of social conservatives utterly vindicated in the past 8 years.
At the current rate, the right will probably have surrendered on transgenderism in 20 years time, and will be joining forces with 'Non-Binaries Against Paedophiles'. The right of today seems to only be about defence, never offense, and for the woke activists it is always 'two steps forward, one step back.' The direction of travel is still firmly in the cultural left's favour, and unless the right not only stops the current advance, but has plans to actually roll back social changes, it will always just be 'progressivism at the speed limit', doomed to forever be on the 'wrong side of history.'
I think you are on the money. For that reason i reject conservatism as the other side of the coin that is liberalism and instead i advocate traditionalism.
@@theregent3397 Yes, I used the word conservative only in a sense that would be commonly understood, the anti-woke faction in American politics.
In truth, I hate the word 'conservative' as it is almost an admission of 'you're on the losing side'. All successful political movements call themselves progressive, not conservative, the fight is over who's definition of 'progress' we're talking about. The Nazi's thought they were progressive, and so do the Taliban.
I find the term 'traditionalist' also problematic as it means a similar thing to conservative. I prefer the word 'communitarian', which is neutral as to whether it is forwards or backwards, and it also clearly distinguishes itself from liberalism, which much conservative thinking does not do. The neoliberal right since the 1970s was just pro-corporate liberalism, and has conserved nothing.
Gay marriage should have been fought then and must continue to be fought now and in the future. Likewise with the tr@ns madness.
Incidentally, I am an atheist.
@@TheArctofireHD Oh, don't touch the word "communitarian"! It's tainted by association with the vile ideology of that name created by Amitai Etzioni.
Need to get back to the heart of where our values thrive most and where we find ourselves caring for each other again.....gotta get our eyes fixed on truth and fight to put each other on track again with Jesus....
This country is over with. A large multiracial society will fail. "They" knew this which is why the Left pulled on your heart strings to get the 1965 Immigration Act passed along with all the other unconstitutional legislation from the 1960s.
Chris, it would be interesting to see a debate between you and James Lindsay mediated by someone such as Bret Weistein.
Is there a fundamental disagreement in their philosophies that is worthy of debate? I think it would be an interesting discussion however.
So because we have a concept of dividing church and state this lead to fighting between different Ideologies. And the solution is to re-draw the line between church and state. But who should draw the line?
The separation of church and state means separation of Christianity from State, and now we see that we also need to specify the separation of Gnosticism from State.
Thx
Pay what you owe, 40 acres and a mule.
Two problems with school choice:
1- The teachers colleges have been captured by woke ideology for decades. Try finding a school not staffed by woke teachers, public or private. Homeschooling is your best option.
2- The Government will put "strings" on the money sent to the schools you choose and they will have to qualify to receive the funds. There will be SEL requirements, etc. Even in Florida, the "get woke out of schools" legislation includes an SEL requirement. SEL is Maoist struggle sessions. When new legislation is drafted, make sure it's READ by someone who knows what to look for. I'm sure an infiltrator snuck that in.
No, the original idea was not strict separation of church & state, that was only in Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists; in 1787 the original idea was “freedom of religion” as stated in the text of the First Amendment, which was more than just freedom of worship inside a church, it included the possibility of discussion, debate and implementation of religious and moral values in the public square and in the law. That’s why all the states when they were first admitted to the union adopted various forms of ancient religious laws regarding traditional marriage, anti-sodomy laws, and at some point laws banning pornography, and the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
However you interpret the Establishment Clause, it was created way before a Congress Member unapologeeticallly declared "I am proud to promote my religion" that is, on the job, with tax-payer's salary. And it was before another congress member expressessed animus toward the Jewish State, Israel creating an indirect preference of the same religion her colleague is "proud to promote."
He makes a great case for conservatives to embrace bitcoin, the ultimate in distributed power through individual sovereignty and responsibility.
Good
16:05 If only private schools weren't just as cucked as the public ones.
People may think Florida schools look free but we’re steeped in DEI, SEL, and data mining. Mr. Rufo knows this well particularly at the university level. School choice will not be the answer if these same programs are demanded in the preferred schools to which students flee. How can that be stopped? Not taking money from the government is the only way I see.
How about homeschooling?
Charter schools as well articulated by Dr. Thomas Sowell
Is The State not also responsible for accrediting the curricula of private as well as public schools? And even home-schooling curricula? I'm not an expert here, just raising the question. My understanding is that the leftists have already infected many of the accrediting bodies. It's insidious.
@@aspensulphateI don’t believe they accredit homeschooling curricula and especially not in Florida. Probably yes on Charter schools.
He’s getting closer…
To what?
@@TheArctofireHD rejecting liberalism
@@progskep Yeah. But what do you replace it with? That's the big question.
@@TheArctofireHD I think Auron Macintyre is correct when he says it’ll have to be some sort of post-liberal philosophy. Can’t be like the TradCaths or BAP crowd that just want to throw it all away and start from scratch.
@@TheArctofireHD . . . Libertarianism coupled with Tribalism.
Monotheism gave us the chosen people
Private schools have also been infiltrated. So school choice not such a good move.
Blackrock and Larry Fink happened.
You didnt mention WHO leads world revolutions?
Yeah . Aint it great?
Rebuild community
House of un-American activities
What we need is to do away with separation of church and state tbh
No thanks, no ideologies are the best way to go, and we've seen how that ends, besides morality and religion are to me, not mutually exclusive.
@@sigsauer7929 “no ideologies” or “value neutral” institutions don’t exist. They’ve never existed and never will.
morality only comes from religion
@@sigsauer7929 If you think atheism and secularism aren't religions, and that they don't hold the State hostage, you are the Ideal Subject: __“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exist.” Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951__
@@uppityglivestockian I’m confused, or maybe you are? Are you agreeing that we should get rid of the separation of church and state in the Bill of Rights? If so to what end? How will that help?
Also, not sure why you are quoting Hannah Arendt, she was a political philosopher; her quote and her writing have nothing to do with religion.
Also, did you click the like button on yourself for this comment? Is there someone else out there who understands what you’re saying?
@@progskep Now that is Progwash, I personally find it weak that a human being would need to rely on religion to have morals. I'm a good man because I choose to be, not because fear or any other reason compels me. That sounds like a house of cards for your worldview.
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and the Chine Communist Party (CCP) has nothing to do with it
*...said no one, ever.*
Great Hod, if you're going to document and criticize a social movement, at least get the origin of your title thesis correct! The person who originally proposed a "Socialist Long March Through the Institutions" was not Mao Tse-tung but Antonio Gramsci.
I disagree CR.
Replace the state and the systems..piece by piece with AI. You disagree?
Can your drivers license be replaced online with the help of SW or AI.... Yes
Can you file a permit for a home addition, submit documents and draftings and so on. And an AI algo gives you permit...or not? Yes
Can you not use AI to schedule a garbage pick up. Yes
The AI can balance the budget and the crunch performance data and respond.
Do you want a teacher with Blue hair teaching math that 2+2 = oppresion? Or an AI trainer teaching math!
The State and institutions can be replaced.
Here in Canada, the Federal Govt Union is on strike. One of the workers 'demands' is MORE DEI Training. How nuts is that?
Give them what they want. Pay them high salaries. Then replace the state bit by bit with AI. They end up homeless and without a bully pulpit.
He is spot on !!!! we are sadly "STUCK WITH THE STATE" .... Sad But True ... But there are other options to the Wesphalian state....
Many would agree that we need sensible, sustained policies that redress the toxic Westphalia monopoly power model.
One that supports individual agency and Human Rights (see UDHR 1948). A strategic precondition to a more equal society based on enhancing individual rights and agency, and rethinking our violence based coercive tax and identity system.
Imagine a world of equal power balances for all, where each person can choose the CITIZENSHIP, governance culture, tax policy, government services and passport they want ,( imagine the Amish, or First Nations - with passports, and self taxing / governance, freedom and authority) instead of having one coercive centralized “national” government inflicted on them. A First Nations person could choose a first nations governance model and passport, a Monarchist a King or Queen as their sovereign , a Gay person a Gay governance model and passport, a Socialist a Socialist Passport, an Islamic, Christian, Buddhist, Jewish person the same, and a libertarian person a Libertarian governance model and passport….Each person paying their taxes to the governance model they choose for the reasons and services they choose… and ending the waste, lies, and coercion of the old Westphalian model of coercion based territorial based“ governanace”. All this while at the same time ensuring better adherence to Human Rights Laws ( see UDHR 1948)
Today more people are exploring these new (or old) governance themes than ever, often called Panarchy, Parallel governance, Extraterritoriality, these Identity Based Governance models offer much hope for a better less violent, less coercive, less toxic world.
Parallel Social Governance Structures are consistent with Human Rights Law ( UDHR 1948), often more so than normative Westphalian Nationalisms .
Parallel Social Governance Structures not only protect everyone’s human rights , Freedom of Speech, Religion, Association, Economic and Property Rights they can actually enhance everyone’s rights to support the cultural expressions that best suite them through the development of non-coercive taxation policies that offer much better value for money. Nothing is more culturally or economically more damaging than coercive taxation as inflicted by every coercion based Westphalian National Government. ( see Dr. James Payne paper The End of Taxation) .
The structural intolerance intrinsic to the Westphalian ideology of sovereignty based territoriality has been the cause of every major cultural conflict since the Pharaoh oppressed the Israelites.
We need new governance models based on decentralization, models that move away from established traditionally centralized imposed coercive governance, to one based on the choice and trust of the individual that chooses the governance culture they want.
Smartphone plans are an example of such governance models, all plans different, each suited to the requirements of the individual, yet the phones work with each other in an environment, engaging in a complex social/economic culture offering a model as to how the new governance cultures can evolve and work when there is an agreed upon standard relationships. Such human governance models can indeed work best within an enhanced appreciation of everyone’s basic Human Rights ( see UDHR 1948) as the basis for a new governance culture.
The new social networking options as we use them are reinventing the trust based systems of old with new networks and social layers that have nothing to do with the old Westphalian based sovereignty structures that currently define “national” identity and trust systems. The new technologies are scaling peer-to-peer relationships as they create the need for new evolving governance cultures - and expose the flaws in the older ( Westphalian) systems ( coercion, lying, violence, waste, corruption) .
This new Digital Governance and voluntary taxation (think crowd funding/service fee/endowment funding/tithing/zakat) marks the Age of Decentralization, increasingly enabling anyone and everyone to invent or reinvent governance cultures or choose the governance culture best suited to their interests, needs or aspirations.
SOME MORE INFO…
International human rights law (IHRL) and Extraterritoriality
Shany, Yuval. "Taking Universality Seriously: A Functional Approach to Extraterritoriality in International Human Rights Law" The Law & Ethics of Human Rights, vol. 7, no. 1, 2013, pp. 47-71. doi.org/10.1515/lehr-2013-0004
EXTRATERRITORIALITY: ITS RISE AND ITS DECLINE by Shih Shun Liu www.panarchy.org/shihshunliu/Extraterritoriality_Liu.pdf
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/vaclav-havels-lessons-on-how-to-create-a-parallel-polis
Coercive governments are corrupt, and politicians so detached from reality that they view those who want freedom as enemies. The mainstream media has morphed into the propaganda arm of the government, global economies have been ravaged by government policies, rampant money printing and coercive taxation has created a cultural death trap.
truthcomestolight.com/the-parallel-society-vs-totalitarianism-how-to-create-a-free-world/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Polis
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_77
The Future of Governance is In The Cloud A framework for Legal governance in the Digital Age
imthedronelord.medium.com/the-future-of-governance-is-in-the-cloud-4788b953054e
There is nothing secular about this movement. Rufo alludes to that with the Latin “DEI” but is afraid to make that argument and to align with someone who isn’t.
Agree. James Lindsay has gone to great lengths to expose the religious underpinnings of Marxism.
Christopher on the beam.
The mistaken separation was of God and state. That we worship God was a given. How a freedom. Our forefathers and mothers could not imagine that a state would at that point in history refuse to be under God. And instead deny God in His totality. The rest is history. Ours and the worlds.
God have mercy.
Complete misunderstanding of the issue. Religion - or lack thereof - has nothing to do with the problems we are facing today. Not understanding this basic fact will lead to idiotic "solutions." Look instead to the Natural Law and especially the concept of individual agency/responsibility for actual answers.
this left wing ideology seems like a kind of religion to me ... but I am not an expert
@@rolfjohansen5376 The current version of leftist ideology (in the US at least) is indeed a religion, or rather, a cult. But it was not always so. But even if we accept it is a religion, then the issue (for Rufo anyway) is: why this religion versus that religion? And you will not be able to answer this question without recourse to the Natural Law. The Founding Fathers understood this quite well.
@@rolfjohansen5376 Cult, ideology, religion...acts, quacks, and walks like a fanatical duck, so I agree.
Tradcons have an idiotic solution to every problem. Religion makes muh demographics go BRRR
I would be with him in all the details if his sole solution wouldn't be theocracy.
This country has been undergoing secularization for decades, and you're afraid that a theocracy could be established? The threat to freedom comes from the political left, whose hostility against devout people goes all the way back to the French Revolution. What about the horrendous impact of the trans movement on the family? How do the parents of tranned kids feel about it? Here's a tip: Do a google search on "parents with inconvenient truth about trans."
His solution is not a theocracy. It is theo-friendly. There is a difference.
@@82abhilash yeah, there's always a difference until there's suddenly no more difference (for good).
@@DoomsdayClockRadio Well put, Sir. And you are correct. They took religion out of the schools just so it could be replaced by marxist ideology (the new secular religion). I've been a non-practicing protestant for most of my life and would basically fall into the agnostic category. However, now in my 40's, after witnessing the utter cultural madness that is destroying western civilization, I realize the significance of religion and the significance of the Judeo-Christian founding principals of the US. After all, the founding fathers never intended the people to have freedom in the strictly libertarian sense. They intended the people to be free to to pursue happiness and free to do what was right under a moral and godly framework. Without this, you get societal degeneration and decay, which is exactly what we are experiencing now in the west.
@Doomsday Clock Radio I wouldn't be so sure. Evangelical christians are continually getting stronger. They reproduce faster than anyone else really. As a European, my kind of conservatives used to talk about properly aristocratic virtues, nowadays spiritual symbolism is (somewhat unfortunately) really a unifier of lesser minds, not much more.
This guy confuses "the Left" with Western Liberalism, when Liberalism, itself, is a Right-Wing ideology.
Nearly all political ideals, and mores, in the West are loosely based on this ideology, so that even those, in the West, who call themselves "Conservatives," are also Liberals, as are the people known as Libertarians. Western Conservatives are, simply, Conservative Liberals. They're all Liberals, and anyone who has studied the history and development of Western political discourse is aware of this.
The basic tenets of Liberalism are 1.) the primacy of the individual, 2.) a belief in Western Parliamentary 'Democracy' and 3.) the sanctity of private property, as opposed to personal property.
Tell me that Conservatives, and Libertarians, don't also share these same beliefs.
It's comical that such people, as the featured presenter, assert that America's institutions have been 'hijacked' by the Left, when America doesn't even HAVE a Left.
The American Democratic Party has no real history of ever being a Left party - notwithstanding the brief period between 1933 and 1945 - and today, it is clear, to anyone with a functioning brain, that this political party, which is the party of Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Finance Capital and Monopoly Capital, has become the most virulent and despicable Right-Wing party.
Sure, they are constantly pushing such issues as transgenderism, gay marriage, the right to have an abortion, et cetera, which has led many people to identify them with the so-called Left, but none of these issues are, or ever have been, Left-Wing political issues.
nah
Lol. This is regular old socialist propaganda nonsense. IF the dividing line between left and right is capitalism vs socialism....then the extreme is actually in the opposite direction. The US does not and has not had a "right wing" party. As the US does not, and almost never has had..... capitalism. Free markets. We mostly always had central banks, money printing, and govt bailouts. All left wing or socialist actions. Not the actions of free markets. The truth is, neither the tepub or Democrats are small govt free market advocates. They are both pro big govt, central banks, and pro bailouts for failing corporations. Not capitalist at all. Again, if leftists midwits like yourself want to divide the right and left by capitalism and socialism, then you should pick up a basic dictionary and learn what words and economic theories actually are. Because neither US party is pro capitalism. And if they aren't pro capitalism, then it's a form of govt control of the economy. And if the govt controls the economy, it's not capitalism.
Liberals are the street level liaisons between the Rothschilds Illuminati capitalist elite and the common citizen liberals work for these elites not for us
Truly having trouble deciding if this contribution is based on (pompous) ignorance or sheer gaslighting. Must say I'm leaning towards the latter.
This guy should get some new material
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@@magicbuns4868 he sure is
Why does he need new material when the problem hasn't changed? Repetition is important.
I'm grateful he keeps going with his talks, and I'm sure he has his hands full fighting the good fight in Florida, but I would really appreciate more leadership in the action area, outside of Florida.
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