The End of America.

The Wall Street Journal just put

together a piece that really makes me

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actually it's this piece right here that

is a little disappointing American

values uh have pulled back according to

a new Wall Street Journal and University

of Chicago poll and I want to show you

some of the takeaways here patriotism

religious faith and having children

other priorities are receding in

importance some uh take a look at some

of these charts over here okay so we're

going to go through so these look at

this percentage of Americans who say

values are very important to them this

is a 1998 a study right here compared to

2019 compared to 2023. listen to this

patriotism went from 70 percent

important to 61 percent important to

just 38 important now I actually think

that's really sad uh I actually fly an

American flag on uh both my office and

my home I'm a big fan of America I

wasn't born in America uh I I'm an

immigrant I'm a big fan of the

opportunities that America creates so I

I'm very sad to see that now who knows

maybe maybe is that because of people's

frustration with politics you know have

things gotten too divisive uh in in our

country maybe but that's kind of sad to

see religion people who say religion are

very important to them look at that

going from 62 percent in the last 25

years down to 39 nine percent religion

becoming way less important yikes look

at this one having children what the

hell man having children halved in

importance to people from 59 to 30. dude

I want to have like 10 children I'm like

Lauren start lining up surrogates like

this is taking too long like we need an

army of children here we only have two I

need a 10x man I need 20 children uh and

she's like but you said six when we

started and I go clickbait and she's

like ah all right well I'm used to that

oh anyway having children have in

importance like what the heck

Community involvement has fallen in

importance down to 27 percent crazy

crazy and look at the only thing that

actually went up in importance from 31

importance to 43 importance baby the Big

M word money money money

that's the only thing that's gone up in

importance how crazy is that to people

now there's a lot in this look at this

so we saw the patriotism decline uh only

23 of adults under 30 said having

children is very important are you

kidding me more children more children I

will I will make up for this

single-handedly make sure we have more

children in America I'll take it upon

myself that'll be my charity is having

more children

what else do we have here oh yeah there

are some more polls here look at this

percentage of these values are very

important to them okay we saw that about

okay that's a reformatted chart here we

go for each of the following has our

society gone too far not gone far enough

or is it about right

and the following chart shows the people

who say something has gone too far so

accepting people who are transgender

Republicans say it has gone too far well

that's true if you go on Republican Tick

Tock or Twitter right now basically

everybody's like that's it transgender

people are now shooting up schools this

is because of the disaster that just

occurred in Nashville absolutely

horrific thank God police were already

on site clearing the first floor of that

school before shots started being fired

by an individual who had a rifle and a

handgun thank God police were already on

scene when the shooting began uh it's

still terrible that six people had to

lose their lives three eight

nine-year-olds absolutely disgusting uh

and and three adults who were in their

60s terrible absolutely terrible and

devastating but but anyway you go on

Republican drink done now everybody's

blaming the transgender Community you

know which that's not fair uh

and I know people are going through like

the list of School shooters and stuff

and they're like oh well look at all

these people who identify in in whatever

ways

I I I I don't know like I

I don't think

that we could really take School

shooters and identify and say that's it

people who are of of one persuasion are

definitely School shooters I think that

goes a little too far but you do see

that kind of stuff on the Republican

Tick Tock and Twitter right now I'm open

to obviously your opinions on that uh

you know I personally I I there's I have

no problem with accepting people who are

a gay lesbian bisexual you want to be

trans I have no problem with that that's

my opinion right it's it's totally my

opinion uh and so I actually I think

that could potentially go further so I

probably sit over here in more of that

independent Camp uh where people are

like no it hasn't gone too far but it

actually seems like a lot of Republicans

agree with that only half of Republicans

think uh acceptance of gay and bisexual

has gone too far so that that seems to

be pretty uh pretty neutral there

schools and universities taking steps to

promote racial and ethnic diversity uh

this is the same question is then asked

of businesses so they ask question of

schools and universities and then

businesses and here there's a really big

divide so uh here you have Republicans

who think you know over half of them

think this has gone way too far but only

six to seven percent of those on the

left think it's gone uh too far I also

again probably identify in the middle

here uh and more of the independent Camp

uh but but yeah I mean they're they're

like I'm a big fan of Merit uh I'm a big

fan of I don't care if you're Muslim if

you're Jewish I I'm not Jewish but I

went to a temple as a child because I

don't care uh what your religion is I

don't care what color your skin is none

of that matters to me you know what

matters to me is that you work your ass

off that's it and the people around me

who work their ass off whether they know

it not or yet or whether they know it

now or will know it at some point they

will realize I recognize it very highly

and they will get substantially rewarded

for that

but the point is to me I'm a big fan of

hard work big big fan the people who

work hard it doesn't matter if you're

you're uh Jewish or Muslim or black or

Indian or Mormon or whatever right uh so

I'm a big fan of Merit and I do think

there is a potential argument that uh uh

forcing uh A diversity allocation uh

might have gone a little too far I think

there's an argument to be made there

where uh you know skill-based jobs are

potentially going in the wrong direction

uh solely because of quotas that need to

be met so I do have concerns with that

and and that's not to say that there

shouldn't be balanced representation of

opinions between men and women and

people of different backgrounds but we

we can't let Merit be sacrificed based

on that that's my opinion uh you know

maybe unpopular opinion I don't know at

least I'll I'll speak my mind

so uh I think this is a very interesting

piece right here uh and it's the saddest

thing to me is is probably over here

that you have a really big decline in

patriotism amongst uh left uh people on

the left and Independence uh and a

massive decline in children across the

board all walks of life declining here

in uh in having children and patriotism

on more on the left and middle Community

involvement across the board plummeting

uh and uh and then this this increase

basically in in money yes and importance

from the 1998 levels probably

unsurprising I think some of that is

potentially due to a cynicism of the

system so I think like the way I might

explain this is I think a lot of us are

realizing we have to take care of

ourselves we have to become basically

financially independent that you you

can't uh rely on a union or the

government to support you and really we

have to rely on ourselves

so I think as a result of that maybe we

could say maybe that's why people see a

community uh involvement as an

opportunity cost maybe uh children as an

expense that's a terrible thing to say

uh but it's possible right and then less

belief in government possibly based on

the extremeness uh that we see on social

media and mainstream media that

basically divides our country more

so that would be my explanation for why

we're seeing more of an interest in

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potential

that that the cynicism that we're seeing

in in uh political parties in government

is actually leading to a higher interest

in becoming financially independent in

our society so I think that's very

interesting to me somebody here writes

that's the destruction of the nuclear

family yeah I I think that's um you know

I mean I know there are a lot of

single-parent households and it's

terrible I think uh you know I I you

know my parents divorced when I was six

and I think divorce is terrible I think

single parent households are a lot more

challenged certainly than the nuclear

family so to speak

corporate wokeness to avoid litigation

is being confused with ordinary morals

yeah I do think that that has a lot of

Merit in what you're saying I do think

there's a lot of fear about uh uh

litigation that's leading to a lot of

the policies that we see today hard to

feel patriotic or desire to have

children when you live in financial

precarity as many young people continue

to do this is true yeah I mean if you

don't have money you can't have children

absolutely right absolutely right

completely agree with you the road is

there but not everyone can afford the

tolls

um well yeah but I I mean I think there

are ways to get to where you can afford

you know going down the path like it's

not everybody watching this can buy real

estate in their life it's just a matter

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you got to know how to play the game to

win

if you don't know the rules of the game

why do you think you're losing why do

you think you're broke well because

nobody's taught you the rules of the

game once you know the rules of the game

it's a lot easier to get ahead in my

opinion

Republican values from that poll seem

more in line with core values that made

America great uh steep well we know

Steve I mean this is coming from from

Steve this is uh Commodities guy uh

that's okay though I mean and Steve

acknowledges the uh you know his

position he's not bashful about his

position but I mean look I mean having

children and Community involvement and

patriotism uh and a merit-based economy

these are in regardless of your

political persuasion very important

values uh

very important values so uh Merit over

immutable traits you know for example I

personally think uh it's uh it's it's

unfair uh not that I'd want to but uh

you know some people when I ran for

governor they're like oh it's so lame

you can't run for president because you

were born in a different country and I'm

like I didn't choose where I was born I

didn't choose to be white like I didn't

choose those two things I have zero

control over that but no amount of Merit

will change the color of my skin or

where I was born and so to some extent

you know some people have alluded to the

Constitutional requirement of being born

in the United States as almost a form of

bornism I'm not trying to call it racism

but that's kind of what some people call

it

uh kind of crazy

so crazy crazy time uh to to be alive

and uh sad to see some of those changes

in the polls there but um

update on a change in American values

from a point of view of the Wall Street

Journal and it makes me want to remind

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