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The Glenn Beck Program

Ep 31 | Matt Kibbe | The Glenn Beck Podcast

The Glenn Beck Program

Mercury Radio Arts

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.625.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Glenn sits down with Matt Kibbe who is the President and Chief Community Organizer at Free the People, an education organization turning the next generation on to the values of liberty which is fitting because he is also the host of Kibbe on Liberty on Blaze TV. They discuss various dimensions of socialism as well as answer the question, "is there really such a thing as good socialism?" They also discuss capitalism and how it ultimately is the only thing that will work in terms of continuing to build this country as well as solve other problems like poverty in the world.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I want to tell you about a movie called Unplanned. I don't know if you've heard, but MPAA has decided to slap an R rating on it.

0:08.3

And it's crazy to do this. This is so far away from an R rating. The reason why it has an R rating is because there is a CGI scene that lasts maybe 30 seconds tops.

0:18.9

And it is of a baby CGI on an ultrasound fighting its abortion. It's crazy. It's a true story about Abby Johnson and Planned Parenthood.

0:29.5

This, I think, is a game-changing movie. So much so. I have volunteered my time to be able to tell this story and to get people to come.

0:38.2

So please, go to unplannedfilm.com. That's unplannedfilm.com. It will change you.

0:45.0

You and I have known each other for a long time. And I hate to use this word, but it's gotten progressively worse in the nation.

1:05.6

The media is trying to make socialists still into a bad word. They're saying, the GOP is just going to throw around the word Socialist.

1:27.9

I want to spend some time with you on what a socialist is and all of the many dimensions of socialism.

1:36.2

Is there good socialism? We know there's bad socialism. What's the difference? What's Sweden? What's Venezuela?

1:42.2

And what are people really talking about here? Let's do it. Okay. So they say that they're talking about Swedish socialism, Canadian socialism.

1:52.7

But already their proposals are going further than Canada on just healthcare alone. Canada said that was unconstitutional. What they're proposing.

2:04.4

Yeah. It's fascinating to me that the modern democratic party has not only allowed the S-word into their vocabulary, but it's almost a litmus test now.

2:18.7

Yeah. It strikes me that everybody has to pledge some sort of fealty to this idea of democratic socialism.

2:27.7

And in some ways they're chasing rainbows. They've seen AOC and how she succeeded on social media.

2:34.8

And they think that, oh, let's go there. Let's do that. So part of it is sort of cynical virtue signaling and all of that kind of stuff.

2:43.8

And when you talk to young people, they don't mean the kind of socialism that you and I know.

2:49.1

So tell me, let's start with the socialism that you and I know and the difference between what young people are gravitating to.

3:01.1

So socialism as we understand it means the government owns everything. The government owns the means of production.

3:09.9

And so it's a single top down centralized centrally planned, not just economy, but world where the smart people in power are going to redesign things, presumably in a fair way.

3:24.4

Right. And from the top down, the way that that has manifested itself in history has been horribly brutal.

3:36.7

Right. The best killing machine ever designed by man. And if you go back to Marx, and he has this sort of determinist arc of history where he talks about feudalism, late stage capitalism, socialism, communism.

3:54.0

And it's important to actually go back and read what Marx talked about because socialism is not the end. So when someone describes himself as socialist today, I think I think Marx would be sort of mystified.

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