Reaction & Commentary
You know what I wanted to give some of my thoughts on Memorial Day patriotism and kind of where we’re at as a country and of course we’ll go into questions if you have questions leave them in the chat we’ll get to them we talk about other things as well like the debt
Ceiling if you want to talk about it but you know going back to Memorial Day you know I I feel like patriotism in the United States is dying and I feel it’s dying both on the right and the left and I think this is a very unhealthy thing for a country because patriotism
Is what what holds up generationally the idea that represents what a nation is you can only go a couple Generations without that before basically you have a restructuring of a nation and I mean I know some people maybe think maybe that’s where America needs to go and I I
Believe there are people in the right and left who do believe that in fact it may maybe it would be a good thing but my concern is that what America represents and has represented for the entire world was was not something the world typically had through most of History
If you look at the the you know the annals of History typically the law this the law of the world in which we live was that the strong ruled by force and that was always how it was no matter where you were in the world no matter which empire you lived under
Conquering conquering by force ruling by force uh the strong Conquering the weak that was always the nature of this world and the only anomaly we’ve had the little blip in the very long line of History was you know through the United States essentially I mean you could argue even the Roman Empire achieved
Relative peace You could argue that some Empires achieved relative peace but they did it through constant war and also and often very extreme brutality you can even look for example at the you know the former government in Mexico was it the Aztecs of the English camera
Which one it was it was the Aztecs and where of course you know they were known for mass human sacrifice and the way that the way that worked actually I’ve ever noticed from I know this from reading books written in the 1800s you know about this history
Uh the way that worked typically was that the government there would go out and they would Massacre the smaller tribes on a regular basis and you know you might think oh they did it because they needed slaves now they did it because they wanted human sacrifice because basically anytime you had a
Coronation for a new official anytime there’s a coronation for a new leader they believe that the amount of human sacrifice is what would lay the foundation for that new system that there had to be Mass Bloodshed and so they would oftentimes just Dominate and Slaughter and horribly kill a lot of
These smaller smaller tribes and such which is actually funny enough why when the Conquistadors the Spanish conquistadors arrived in Mexico and remember you know the Spaniards were sent from Spain as a crusade The Taking of America The Taking of the Americas was a Spanish Crusade the idea was to
Humanize and christianize the new world that was that was that was the exact phrase they had to humanize and christianize the new world sent by the pope himself and you had a small number of Spanish conquistadors like I think it was like 300 men it was not a lot uh who were
Able to unite the smaller tribes who did you know engage in an overthrow of the Mexican Government at the time and formed even before the United States actually very strong Empires throughout most of Latin America the United States or what is now the United States was the
Last to be taken it was very for some reason it was very hard for them to ever achieve it the first colony in America was actually a it was a French colony in Florida in fact and they built a functioning colony in Florida and the Spaniards actually
Rolled in killed everybody men women and children burned it and that was the end of it then took it out while didn’t burn it they took it over then the French out of spite rolled back and killed everybody there and then abandoned it and that was you know they had various
Attempts to establish colonies people talk about Jamestown as being you know the original colony there’s a reason why we recognize the pilgrims and not the people of Jamestown as being you know essentially the first people to begin the United States why is that Jamestown did not represent America
Jamestown was where he had 1619 project and all that stuff Jamestown was a failed state Jamestown maintained the same type of contract that he had under the Plymouth Plantation which was the idea of essentially shared redistribution of food and all that stuff it was failing Jamestown did in fact have slaves
Although you could argue they were brought by accident it was it was a ship that captured another ship that had slaves on it they arrived in the Americas of these these freed slaves actually who then arrived there and actually it was one of those slave one of those former slaves who you know
Really did not become a slave when he was here who actually fought for his right to own slaves it was actually brought here by one of the black slavery was introduced by one of the black slaves because he sued to have the right to own slaves because of the white settlers didn’t wanted
Jamestown actually maintained it was again Jamestown after King James it was a British colony it was not representative of the pilgrims and so on who were a very very different type they maintained the same type of contract the Plymouth pen Plantation initially had which was really like a type of
Socialist redistribution type contract which only when the Plymouth Plantation got rid of that did they succeed and they were also massacred brutally massacred by one of the Native American tribes very shortly after all of that in fact that that was King Phillips war King Philip one of the Native Americans
Brutally massacred Jamestown killed all of them or just about all of them like I mean it was a very brutal War and the reason King Philip did that I believe it was his father they had made peace with the Indians and uh you know basically they were mad because of course the
Settlers Coming to America were converting a lot of the Native Americans to Christianity King Philip saw that as an assault under culture and so he not only killed all the America all the European settlers he could but he also killed massacred all the Indian Christians he massacred all of them
Uh and that’s the history of Jamestown Plymouth and the Plymouth Plantation and you can still read you can still read the old books and this the journals are still in fact I have I have copies of them in fact they’re fantastic and I recommend reading them and I think the
World would be a better place if more Americans did read them the Plymouth Plantation was was the root of America and we recognize it as such and always have recognized it as such for a key reason it was the success story that began the full settlements across the United States
It was people who were fleeing religious persecution right it was Protestants it was people who were brutally persecuted in Europe when you had of course a Spanish Inquisition and laws restricting you know heresy and so on if you read the old Christian Bibles at that time the Protestant Bibles because
The printing press basically gave their religion back to the people it was no longer that you had to listen to you know an agent of the state essentially interpreting your religion for you you can go and study it yourself and you could come to your own conclusions and self-study and self-understanding and self
Responsibility became the Creed of a new people established by really this new this new view of morality those individuals fled of course the Netherlands right and of course came to the United States as the pilgrims it was a very narrow success them coming here they built a colony they purchased that
Land from the Indians they bought it they’re the in fact the the documents of them buying it still exist and oftentimes they would buy it multiple times because they’d buy it from one Indian you know tribe and they’d be like okay thank you then another Indian tribe
Would come in and they’d be like hey you have to pay us because they stole it from us and then they’d pay them too and then the next tribe would come in and say no you have to pay us because they stole it from us and then they stole it
From them and they’d have to buy it again and that happened a lot in America they would buy the land from the Indians the contracts of the purchases still exist and the Indians would make them pay multiple times regardless you know but basically there was a there was a
Very where the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock there was a very dangerous tribe there that would have killed all of them they would have massacred them but through an act of God or whatever you want to call it um there was an outbreak of some weird disease there and it killed everyone
Before the Nate before the pilgrims arrived and there was one remaining individual who was who was Squanto going lo and behold uh who had been of course taken to the Americas learned to speak English and so these settlers arrived there and there’s a single Indian guy there who
Was from that former tribe that had died right he came back and everyone was dead already and like yeah they arrived there and there’s this Indian guy who speaks perfect English you know but of course it was from that that basically they had the same type of contract that the other
Settlements have had that were failing and what they were was redistribution programs everything went into a shared pool they were like communist communes if you farmed your fa the the fruits of your labor went into a shared pool and everybody could take from it and because nobody was responsible for themselves
Some people worked harder and some people did not work very hard and the people who worked very hard stopped seeing a reason to work hard because the guy who didn’t work hard could come and take whatever he wanted there was no there was no individuals you know there was no element of self-responsibility
That maintained a strong work ethic people were not responsible to themselves and they certainly were not responsible to their neighbors that’s the nature of socialism it’s white usually well one of the many reasons why it usually fails and it was failing they were dying they were starving
And they ended up getting rid of that social that contract and made it so that everybody would be able to keep what they had and if you didn’t take care of yourself that was your own dang business and that led to had very deep prosperity and that Prosperity was what allowed
Essentially a successful colony to finally be established in the Americas and unlike the Spaniard colonies and the French colonies and even the British colonies to an extent the you know the Plymouth Plantation the pilgrims they maintained pretty good relationships with the Indians they they did not have
The strength to fight them they were not Warriors they were they were religious they were more religious refugees and of course you know the nature of their settlement did establish a very harmonious settlement which again began spreading and essentially that’s how the whole thing started that is why we recognize
You know Plymouth Rock and the pilgrims as the founders of America not Jamestown not the first first you know French or Spanish colony in Florida in fact not Mexico which was it was the Spaniards and not Canada which was the French and then later the British we don’t
Recognize those as being the original colonies although colonies existed there prior to those that are now that are now of what we call the United States that’s why we recognize it and unfortunately this history is just almost totally forgotten but the American idea what you know what
It was it was explained to me one time actually funny enough by an old cowboy poet um I was talking I years ago I was doing a story about patriotism but they must have been it might have been from Memorial Day in fact what is patriotism why is patriotism necessary
He is an old Vietnam veteran and he told me well you know I’m not my this is before Trump and on stuff he says well you know I’m honestly not much of a patriot he goes you know I I see the uh I see the Republicans and the Democrats and the
Way he said it he says the other two two wings of the same bird of prey is an old cowboy part right two Wings on the same bird of prey and he goes I don’t really believe either of them has my best interest in mind this is him right saying this
But he goes but you know patriotism is something that goes beyond that and patriotism is really a love for your neighbor it’s a love for the people of your culture and the love for the people who share the same basic you know view of what a country is as you do
It’s it’s the love for the people of a country that’s what patriotism is now I know people have been talking funny enough since prior to World War One about this whole idea of a Brotherhood of Man the we call it globalism now right call it globalism now
And the idea that well if you can get rid of the things that divide US national identity racial identity maybe even gender identity well all the all the things that would differentiate us from one another would be eliminated and therefore everybody would have a single Identity or maybe just a fluid identity
And we’d have nothing to fight over what you know Kumbaya you know it’s all it’s all stand in a circle and smoke our peace pipes you know that’s what they think it’s going to be like and we’re finding the opposite when you destroy the elements of unity you do
Not get Unity you get disunity when you destroy common identity you do not have this Kumbaya you know peace pipe session no you have people who don’t have who don’t have the glue to hold the society together who don’t have the the unifying ideas and the unifying beliefs that create social harmony
Once you destroy those things you destroy Society once you destroy those things you destroy the moral Foundation that allows for harmonious interaction between people that’s that no matter where you go and I know people have their own beliefs religion serves that purpose religion is the glue that allows
For you know harmonious interaction of individuals it’s what maintains a moral standard you destroy that you don’t get some new you know fluid reason based morality no you end up with people who don’t see don’t see consequence of wrongdoing and you could argue it’s not everybody give or take you’re going to
Always have you’re always going to have good people who even through just moral reason or maybe human conscience can recognize an idea of right and wrong but typically those individuals are going to be crushed by the people who are not like that and so it is the idea of a nation and
The idea of common you know I don’t call it common locks it has other meanings now but but a general idea of Law and morality that holds a society together and if you destroy that if you lose that um you know that that’s when a nation
Dies and so I would urge you all in my my personal opinion and this is just me saying it remember that patriotism is not something represented by politics patriotism is not something controlled by one party or another or one Administration or another it should be something that is beneath the water that
Maintains itself regardless of what’s on the surface and it is something that’s much deeper than just that it’s it’s genuinely a love for the people of your country and I mean I know Crossroads a lot of people in different parts of the world watch it I’m not just saying this as an American
I hope my Korean friends love their culture and I respect you for that I hope my Indian friends love their culture and I respect you for that I hope my Canadian friends and their harsh arctic tundra and you know looking across the that vast expanse from the the national Igloo love their culture
And love who they are you know I’m joking with you all I’m joking with you I have Canadian friends but like we like to poke fun at each other but um you know genuinely it is not that one person or another loving their people and loving their country and
Loving who they are creates disharmony it’s that we can have our own identities and within within national identity and within different cultures and maintain that and still be able to appreciate others who are not of the same culture or mindset as we are there are differences between us and those
Differences are what ironically create actual diversity and so my personal thoughts folks and why this matters so much my patriotism matters uh let’s say they’ll jump into some questions but let’s go over to Epoch TV for that so those of you on YouTube come join us on Epoch TV not only will you
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