Crime Crisis, Criminal Justice Reform, War on Cops

10/13/22 • 58 min

Crime is out of control in America, inflamed by a dangerous anti-police narrative being pushed by progressive elites and activists, corporate media, and academia: America's criminal justice system is systemically oppressive and racist, that America has a mass incarceration problem---too many people are in jail---driven by 'overpolicing' and 'overprosecution,' and that cops are hunting down black and brown people.
This narrative is easily and devastatingly debunked using official government crime data. In so doing, we shed light on what is actually going on in America's most dangerous neighborhoods. Progressive policy prescriptions such as defund/abolish the police and emptying prisons would wreak havoc on the same marginalized communities progressives claim to be fighting for.
In the largest crime spike since the country got (correctly) tough on crime in the 1990s---with mandatory minimum sentences, three strikes laws, truth-in-sentencing regimes, and proactive policing---America witnessed over 21,000 murders in 2020, a 30 percent increase over 2019. We debunk the progressive narrative that racial disparities in arrests imply that law enforcement is systemically racist. Irresponsible false narrative reduces police presence in high-crime neighborhoods and puts the very same people on those behalf progressives say they are fighting in greater danger and with devastating consequences.
Without law and order, there are no private property rights. Without private property rights, there’s no capitalism. Without capitalism, there’s no freedom. Without freedom, we’re are no different than a Third World country that you don’t want to live in.
We discuss and connect the dots on crime and criminal justice reform in this episode.
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The China Threat

Since China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001, it has used every dirty trick in the book and unfair trade practices to undermine American manufacturing and industries; steal our ideas, jobs, and intellectual property; engage in espionage and cyber-espionage; use its intelligence agencies to help state-run companies create jobs, increase GDP, and build up its military might; and reduce American economic growth and geopolitical influence.
China lied to the world about it's long-term strategy and how it would behave if admitted into the WTO. Contrary to misguided American beliefs that China would become more democratic if allowed to expand its economy, it has since become more totalitarian as evidenced by its treatment of Uyghurs and the Hong Kong democracy protesters. Give a tiger more food, and it wants more food.
In his book, Death by China, Peter Navarro details China's "Eight Weapons of [American] Job Destruction": illegal export subsidies, currency manipulation, theft of intellectual property, environmental damage, lack of health and safety standards, colonialism and global control of raw materials, predatory pricing and "dumping" practices, and the "Great Walls of Protectionism."
At the same time, China seeks to replace the United States as the number one world power by 2049, if not sooner, or 100 years since China’s revolution in 1949: its 100-year marathon to world domination. To accomplish its goal, it has used the strategy of deception to deceive and manipulate Americans to obtain intelligence, and connive Americans to get more assistance for its military, technology, and economy. Induce complacency, hide in plain sight, and wait to strike when America is weakest.
The China Threat is a totalitarian take over of the world and it must be stopped. Brent and Vadim discuss these and related issues on this episode.
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Victimhood, Identity Politics, War on Merit and Excellence, National Decline

Victimhood is America’s currency of the day. There are fake victims everywhere---from Jussie Smollett to Naomi Osaka to Rachel Dolezal to Michelle Obama to Stacey Abrams. Victimhood is the fastest path to garner sympathy, and to use that sympathy to greater money and influence in America today. There's a difference between victimhood and hardship. Everyone encounters hardship. But one chooses to be a victim.
Victimhood breeds mediocrity, incompetence, economic disaster, and national decline. Victimhood and identity politics are tools used by elites to avoid accountability. All empires eventually fall. Some are defeated by foreign enemies; some are debased by domestic greed and power.
The downward spiral of victimhood leads nowhere good---to a country where identity groups subjugate each other depending on who's in power. Victimhood breeds more victimhood as groups try to stick it to their so-called oppressors. That's not equality. That's not freedom. That's tyranny masquerading as social justice.
Our society is corrupted by Orwellian use of language used by the ruling class to gaslight us. Conformity is "diversity." Inequality is "equity." Racism is "anti-racism." Exclusion is "inclusion." These linguistic lies are used to disempower individuals and empower woke elites and totalitarians.
We discuss and connect the dots on victimhood, identity politics, merit, excellence, and the future of the country.
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