Dinesh D'Souza at BLEXIT Greenville

ladies and gentlemen please welcome to. the stage author. filmmaker and political activist dinesh. d'souza. [Music]. thank you.

wow guys i'm so excited to be here. delighted to be part of blexit. and uh what a critical time for our. country. now. what's the end game for the left today. we we see all the tactics that they're. doing. paramilitary gangs on the street. something that i don't think i've seen.

in my lifetime. you'd have to go back to italy in the. 20s to see. armed thugs attacking business owners. then a deep state. by which we mean the police agencies of. government. somehow weaponized to go against. political opponents. what is what is the left up to those are. the means but. but what is the end what's their goal.

their goal is i think. socialism socialism. they wanted to they want us to be the. united states of socialism. now socialism. is the most discredited idea. since slavery it has been tried in 25. countries it has been. failed everywhere it's tried it has.

produced a body count. that closes that approximates a hundred. million. and yet powerful people want to bring it. back. it makes no sense. you know slavery is dead i suppose there. are certain forms of slavery that still. exist. but there's no political party anywhere. in the world. that advocates slavery you don't have a. group of people anywhere in the world. who say well you know.

slavery was actually an excellent. concept. but the implementation was poor. this time we're going to get it right. but that is what people do say about. socialism. now if you if you look at the socialism. being. promoted by the left today the socialism. that has kind of migrated from bernie. to biden and harris. it is actually different in a couple of.

respects that are worth worth. commenting about the first. the left says it's democratic socialism. it's not authoritarian socialism they. say we don't we don't want to be like. mao. or stalin this is democratic socialism. it's it's sanctified by the idea of. democracy itself. but if you think about it democracy. doesn't actually sanctify.

any kind of confiscation at all. when i was a kid i used to go to school. and at recess we'd play marbles and i'd. carry. you know 10 marbles in my pocket so. imagine if i was jumped by a bunch of. guys. or one guy who attacked me and took my. marbles. authoritarian socialism one guy. is seizing my possession by force. but here's the second scenario i go i.

fall in with a bunch of guys. they take a vote the ten of them. and eight of them agree let's knock down. dinesh and take his marbles. in both cases i've been robbed. and the fact that eight guys voted to. rob me. collectively doesn't make it any more. just than if one guy did it. so the democratic socialism doesn't. solve the problem. now second.

the left says and we can observe this. their socialism is not the socialism of. class. it's the socialism of identity politics. in other words it is socialism married. to identity politics we were talking in. the green room a moment ago about some. of these athletes like lebron james. well but let's think about it it's very. tempting to say.

that guy's so dumb he doesn't know what. he's saying. but the truth of it is he actually does. know what he's saying. let's try to think about what he what is. what is lebron and. i use him here as a metaphor for a. larger phenomenon what are these guys up. to. well here's what they're up to. here you have lebron james a guy who's. making what 80 90 100 million dollars a. year. and think of the lifestyle that goes.

with that. it is a lifestyle a lifestyle of. indescribable. luxury you don't actually have to move a. finger. it some of us who are lucky enough might. have a maid who comes to our house and. cleans it once a week lebron james has. domestic staff. most of us feel really good if we get to. travel first class. lebron james has a private plane. so if you look at lebron james let's say. compared to some ordinary guy.

some working class guy who makes 50 000. a year. lebron james actually makes 2. 000 times what that guy makes. so if you were to apply kind of a. marxist analysis. lebron james would be the oppressor. and that guy would be the victim. according to marx. and and you can only imagine what marx. was thinking about capitalists who ran. big businesses. imagine if you told him here's a guy who.

basically bounces a ball. and he makes 2 000 times what another. guy does. who works like 60 hours a week. so lebron james knows all this he. doesn't want to be having a. class discussion in which he has to. explain. why in exchange for what he does as an. athlete and by the way think of what it. means to be an. athlete i'm not denying that athletes. work hard but by and large an athlete is. a major. winner of the genetic lottery.

right you or i can work hard we can't. get on the nba. we have no chance so what. so it's a very clever move then to take. the class analysis. out and flip the lens in the camera and. stick in the race card. because now lebron james gets to go up. to some guy whether it be black or white. or asian it doesn't matter. and basically say you owe me buddy. because i lebron james i'm black and so.

i am a victim. and you are white you could be treated. differently by a cop who stopped you on. the street. you're my oppressor so in addition to. all the indescribable privileges that. these athletes have on top of it. they want the moral credentials of being. a victim. so the socialism we're talking about. here. i call it identity socialism because it.

marries. see marx divided the world into just two. groups the rich and the poor. that's it but the left today divides. america. many different ways rich against poor. true also black against white. also male against female also straight. against gay. also legal against illegal so. division is the name of the game. and what is their goal their goal is to.

create. a majority coalition of oppressed. victims. they want to assemble a coalition of 51. percent. so they can then ultimately loot. and oppress the other 49 namely. us their socialism is not just. about money it's not just about picking. your pocket or. taking your earnings it is about that. but it's also about.

running your life it's about telling you. what to think. it's about controlling what you say in. public it's establishing a regime of. conformity. it is ultimately about regulating the. way you ex you express your religious. opinions. whether you own a gun so. this isn't just about repressing our. economic freedom it is about repressing. our freedom pure and simple. that's their goal they want to turn us. into worms.

and the reason they hate people like me. like candace like trump. is we won't go along we won't play with. their narrative. [Applause]. i want to talk about a couple of tidbits. of american history because so much. of what the left has been doing is.

trying to. sanitize and rewrite and reinterpret. the narrative of america. and one of the reasons the new york. times came up with this idea. of the 1619 project one of the reasons. that the left targets the. the monuments not just the confederate. monuments but the monuments at all. is they're trying to they're trying to. conceal. an important fact that is that is.

concealed. in virtually all accounts of american. history. and that is that the democratic party. was established it was. founded on a very clever bargain. to protect the slave plantation that is. the actual origin of the party. let me explain so the first democratic. president was a war hero andrew jackson. a slave owner and very popular because. he had been the hero.

of military expeditions his election and. re-election were pretty well. assured but his vice president. was a man named martin van buren a. northern democrat from new york. who wanted to make the democratic party. the permanent party. of america to have it dominate american. politics. for 50 years which by the way it did. until the civil war and martin van buren.

although a northerner realized that the. way to do that. was to go south and so he made these. secret trips to the south and he met. with a guy named thomas ritchie. thomas ritchie was the sort of most. influential. spokesman for the slave plantation owner. class. richie was the editor of the richmond. enquirer. and he was the most influential. virginian. that spoke as a sort of voice for.

slavery. and martin van buren had a series of. secret meetings with richie. the content of which is not known but. what we do know is what van buren. subsequently wrote to richie in a letter. that says in effect this he said. look he goes you slave owners. need help because there's an abolition. movement that is. brewing in the north that is going to be. attacking slavery. in the north at this point he didn't.

know about the republican party there. was no republican party but there were. abolitionists. and so martin van buren says we need to. have a force. in the north to block the abolitionists. and protect slavery in the south. he goes you can defend slavery in the. south but you need friends to do it for. you in the north. he goes that's the job of the northern. democrats. so the bargain he proposed is that the. slave owner class supports the. democratic party. in return for which the democratic party.

in the north. blocks anti-slavery activism. and keep slavery going permanently. so the point i'm trying to make here is. that the reason the left likes to talk. about 60 19. when there were a handful of slaves and. indentured servants so they like to talk. about the american founding. what they're concealing is the fact that. it was eli whitney's invention the. cotton gin in 1793. that caused the massive proliferation of.

slave plantations in the south. and then in the 1820s led to the rise of. a political party. specifically with the purpose of. protecting the plantation. that's the role of the democratic party. that's its history. um this guy roland martin who used to be. on cnn. you know he goes you're you're you're. misstating the history of the two. parties he goes it's really a divide. between the north and the south.

this is part of what i'm talking about. the attempt ultimately to blame. the south for the crimes of the. democrats. and when abraham lincoln. spoke about the four horsemen he was. talking about the four great defenders. of slavery. he named them and of the four. one roger tawny the guy who wrote the. dred scott decision. was lincoln counted him as a southerner.

even though even though the guy was from. maryland. but nevertheless let's count him as a. southerner. but interestingly all the other three. that he named. were northern democrats the former. president franklin pierce who's from new. hampshire. he mentioned james buchanan who is the. current president at the time. from pennsylvania and stephen douglas. who was lincoln's own rival from. illinois so you notice this whole. attempt to besmirch the south.

is camouflaging the crimes of the. northern. wing of the democratic party. i want to flash forward to a second. titbit that is worth. knowing about because it ties into the. so-called big switch the importance of. the big switch to the left is. is very obvious right because if you're. the party of slavery and segregation. and terrorism and jim crow and the ku. klux klan. and if you did all those things how do.

you get out of it. short of admitting it short of. apologizing short of. paying some restitution how do you get. out of it. well the only way they get out of it is. by basically saying you know at some. point. the two parties switch sides. i mean first of all on the face of it. this is ludicrous not only the. implausibility that it could have. happened. but let's say the parties did switch. sides that still doesn't take all the. crimes that you did.

and put them on someone else. i mean. if you're a thief and you live on this. side of the street and your neighbor is. a good guy and he lives on that side and. then you each. trade homes that doesn't. trade your moral characters that doesn't. mean that you're exempt for all the evil. deeds that you did you still did them. [Applause].

but i do want to say a word about. goldwater. because because you'll sometimes hear. from people who. know that goldwater did oppose the civil. rights act of 1964. and goldwater did in fact win the deep. south. so goldwater actually appears to be a. sort of confirmation. of what the left is saying about the big. switch. the interesting fact however is that. goldwater is actually kind of an anomaly.

goldwater was a first of all he was a. crusty kind of. very cantankerous independent-minded guy. he was also. economically a libertarian his reasons. for opposing the civil rights act were. libertarian essentially there were small. government reasons the civil rights act. by the way outlaws not only government. discrimination. but also private discrimination that was. goldwater's problem right there. now goldwater by the way was a founder.

of the phoenix naacp he had helped to. integrate the phoenix schools. he had integrated the arizona national. guard he was actually not a bad guy he. was not a racist. but he had this economic libertarian. objection to the civil rights act. and he opposed it and as a result he. lost the deep. he won the deep south but he lost the. rest of the country. and that's how johnson won a landslide. in 1964. now the very interesting thing about. this is that richard nixon who came.

after goldwater. learned the lesson of goldwater lincoln. nixon contrary to what the left says. didn't actually have a southern strategy. lincoln had what nixon had what can be. called a sun belt strategy. nixon realized that the country was. changing there was a new urban south. that was developing. and nixon targeted fl the cities of the. south. going all the way to the west all the. way to nixon's home state of california.

so nixon targeted in florida cities like. tampa. houston greenville dallas. phoenix san diego this was the nixon. strategy. not to go for the deep south but to go. for the upper. south and the non-racist south. and that's what nixon won and that's how. nixon got. got in in 68 and won an even bigger. landslide in. in 72.

let me come now to the present. because um. we are in a big fight with the other. side. and the important thing to remember is. that they know. that we are in general the party of the. nice guys. they know this and it is their secret. weapon it is their secret weapon because. they know.

that we will not do to them what they. do to us they know that. and they and they count on it they will. knock down. our monuments they know we won't knock. down their monuments they will use the. deep state against us they know that. when we come in. we won't use the deep state against them. they'll appoint judges who are nakedly. partisan. knowing that when we come in we will. swear to appoint judges who respect the.

constitution no matter which way it. falls. so my message to you as i close. is it's time for us to stop being so. nice. [Music]. [Applause]. [Music].

[Applause]. i think we've reached a point where we. have to demand. that these guys be held accountable. across the board. [Applause].

no more wiping out your cell phones. and then claiming immunity. no more setting things on fire and. claiming you're just on fire for justice. the republican party needs to become. more of a trump party. it does.

for sure. the fight needs to be. enjoyable for us. [Applause].

we have to we want to get to the point. where. when they attack us we like it. we like it um. the the genius of of trump. reagan was sort of above the fray. and and there was a value to that. because reagan was an actor he could. sort of. skim over the heads of the media. the beauty of trump is that he's in the.

fray. he moves forward. [Applause]. one little plug if you'll permit me. trump card. [Applause]. i i think it's my best movie yet i. wanted to put it in the theater. the theaters were actually behind us but. they're still closed in a bunch of. places. and so it was very frustrating that some. people would be able to see it and other.

people wouldn't. so basically it's going straight to. video on demand. but you'll be able to see it on apple. itunes or google. amazon prime any platform any device. your phone. your big screen tv and. it's a movie that pulls out all the. stops it's hard hitting. [Applause].

let me close by saying that long term. we cannot have these huge institutions. of. academia and the media and the whole. entertainment industry and corporate. america and. sports world we have to start creating. our own. institutions we have to we have to. [Applause].

i too use the language of unity. we are one america but. when you hear the other side and when. you see them it's very clear that now. when we say the american flag. a certain part of us has to grudgingly. recognize that it is now. our flag and not theirs it's our. national anthem. and not theirs these are our colors and. not theirs. they don't want them we can't.

force them to sing the song we can't. force them to salute the troops. and so thinking through the implications. of that. ultimately shows that we are not. blessed just the democratic party. we are ultimately taking their whole. world. everything in it and we are saying. sayonara we're out of here goodbye. thank you very much.

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