Does the US still believe in it's own virtue?
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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In this encore presentation, erstwhile PragerU contributor and hirsute author, Will Witt, describes the new paradigms through which Americans are forced to peer and The Wall Street Journal's glabrous Editor-at-Large, Gerard Baker, sets a timeline of events culminating in the total annihilation of mutual trust and goodwill between American institutions and the citizens they purport to serve.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Michelle Tofoya podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | So I've never met Will Witt. I've never spoken to him before. This will be a first. And I'm really excited because I'm deep into his book, Do Not Compli. |
| 0:17.3 | He first kind of gives you this overview of how we are in decline in this country and it's |
| 0:24.3 | heartbreaking and i didn't know what to expect i read first i read the the forward by dennis prager |
| 0:29.8 | who's a i think a great mind talk about this book and sort of the where it what the genesis of it was, why you decided to write, do not comply. Well, thank you so much for that. And obviously, Dennis Prager, I worked for Prager, you for five years. He's a mentor to me. So if you guys read the book and you're like, oh, that sounds like something Dennis might say in some parts is because he's kind of one of the guys who's inspired me more than |
| 0:54.3 | really anyone else in the world, even though, you know, he's Jewish, I'm Christian, and a lot of my book has a lot of Christian values, but he's still just one of the most brilliant thinkers on this earth right now. But in terms of why I wrote the book, I think the title kind of plays it out for us right there do not comply what is it that all these people want us to do they want us to comply |
| 1:14.4 | this isn't just I think the title kind of plays it out for us right there. Do not comply. What is it that all these |
| 1:12.7 | people want us to do? They want us to comply. This isn't just COVID with lockdowns and masks and |
| 1:17.2 | vaccines. This is the bureaucrats. This is the Democrats, the Rino Republicans. This is the |
| 1:22.8 | big pharma. This is the teachers union, the big media, big tech, all these different entities |
| 1:28.3 | want to turn you into a slave. And so I wrote this book essentially as what I would say is an |
| 1:33.4 | antidote to these people's corruption, to these people's greed. How do we break free from all the |
| 1:38.8 | things that they are trying to make us comply with? It's about being an individual and standing |
| 1:43.2 | for integrity all that you can. |
| 1:45.2 | When you use the word slave, that could inflame some people, that could make some people think, |
| 1:49.6 | oh, how could you possibly use that word? You know, words are toxic these days. You've got to stay |
| 1:55.8 | away from certain words. But what do you mean when you say slave? Well, Frederick Douglass said that to make a contented slave, you need to have a thoughtless one. |
| 2:05.6 | And I thought that that was pretty eye-opening when I heard that. |
| 2:08.7 | And that what we have today is more of a brave new world type of slave than a 1984 type of slave. |
| 2:14.4 | In the novel, 1984, you have big brother coming down. He's watching every move. The people know that they are being watched. |
| 2:21.6 | Versus if you ever read the novel Brave New World, it is positive reinforcement. It is positive reinforcement that turns you into a slave because you essentially can do anything you want. |
| 2:31.4 | There are no consequences for immorality and any sort of thing that you could |
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