Point of View June 20, 2024 – Hour 2 : Joseph Project International

[00:00:00] I'm first of all talking about the Joseph Project, then we'll get back into some other issues in the news. One of the questions we receive on a regular basis is if I want to help individuals who

[00:00:32] have been devastated and very significantly impacted by what took place on October 7th, where can I go? And of course, we've given you some options, but today we want to focus on the Joseph Project.

[00:00:45] We have a link to josephproject.org, and you can imagine what it would be like to have been in a kibbutz or any kibbutzim and actually have seen this attack or even been bearing the brunt of that attack.

[00:00:58] Or if you are still waiting for maybe one family member that is held hostage and you hope that they might come home as those four did, we certainly want to give you some action items for that.

[00:01:12] So we go to the guest that we have now, Susie Salway, who is actually at the Joseph Project International, but again an organization to help local Jewish and Arab organizations. As a native Israeli, she really brings, I think, a unique perspective and cultural

[00:01:30] understanding of what is actually taking place there on the ground. So Susie, thank you for joining us today here on Point of View. Hi, Shalom. Hi, Shalom. Let's, if we can, first of all, educate our listeners for just a few minutes about the Joseph Project.

[00:01:46] I'm encouraging everybody that has access to a computer, just simply go to josephproject.org or go to pointofview.net, follow the link, and you have some very good updates on the war but also ways in which you have been involved in reaching out.

[00:02:03] Over $16 million of goods and services and resources have been distributed since the Gaza War, but tell us a little bit more about the Joseph Project. So, Shalom, I'm Susie, I'm from Israel, and the Joseph Project is basically a big humanitarian aid ministry here in Israel, in the land.

[00:02:25] We have a big storage warehouse close to the city of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. We're really in the middle of the country. And we have a big professional logistic team, we have trucks, we have the ability to release big containers and importing goods here in the land.

[00:02:50] And what we basically, our vision is to deliver what's needed here in the land to the right people, to the right ministries here, both Jews and Arabs, that really have the ability to reach families and people in need.

[00:03:10] And again, one of the things I understand is that you have like 190 different distribution points, so it isn't just that you're right there on the lines of the border between Israel and Gaza, although that's one place you are located, but there are opportunities to

[00:03:27] reach out to displaced families wherever they may be located there in the nation of Israel. True? Yes, exactly. What we do is we have, that's exactly what I do, I'm a project manager at the Joseph

[00:03:40] Project, and we have a good relationship with many ministries in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, even in Eilat, in the north, all over the land. And we get requests from them. They tell us exactly what the need is, if it's displaced families, you know, people,

[00:04:01] still refugees from Ukraine get here. Any need that's, you know, popping up, we have the ability to answer it. That's what we do. Let's begin to maybe talk about some of the kinds of needs.

[00:04:16] I've illustrated one, and that is those who were in a kibbutz who are displaced. These are individuals that thought they were setting up home and developing that and living their lives, who now are like immigrants. They're like migrants. They're like refugees. What is happening to them?

[00:04:35] Yes, so the need is big. And basically, let's say the 8th of October, exactly a day after the tragedy happened, we were there. Those people got evacuated immediately to many hotels here in the land.

[00:04:54] And we were there ready to give them even, you know, board games and towels and sheets and clothing and anything they needed. And in time, you know, it took time for them to understand what they really need, you know,

[00:05:11] especially many of them lost dear people and family members and friends, like you said, in the kibbutz. So it took them time to realize what they need. Let's say one, I remember one story that the mother decided that her two daughters,

[00:05:28] young daughters, I'm talking like five and six, she couldn't live anymore with them in the hotel as refugees, as you said, as displaced families. So she decided to take a small room in a different kibbutz not close to Gaza and to renovate it.

[00:05:46] So we got her request through some ministry and we helped her renovate the place and get furniture and a bed and a dishwasher, a refrigerator. So this is what we do, you know, we examine every case and we try to answer immediately

[00:06:04] to the need because the need is big and some people need an immediate, you know, response to their problem. One of the stories I'd love to tell, and just one of those, if you will, ironies is Marina,

[00:06:18] who was in Ukraine and then you have the war breaking out there in February of 2022. So I've heard of a number of Jewish individuals that were in Ukraine that left Ukraine and come to Israel with the idea that we'll all be safe in Israel.

[00:06:36] And then October 7th unfolds and one of the things you were able to do in her case and her family was provide not just food but clothing and furniture. Can you talk about that? Yes, of course.

[00:06:48] That's something we do regularly and that's also through a center we have in Israel. I think it's in Haifa, the case that you are referring to. And we get, she's one, but you know, we get like hundreds of people like that during the

[00:07:07] year and we give them furniture and food. We have a food project. We have a new home box for especially refugees like that that have nothing, that usually come with nothing to the land. So they get furniture, whatever they need, they get in the center because we provide

[00:07:27] all those goods to the humanitarian centers that we have communication here in the land. Well, let's take a break and when we come back I want to get into a few other aspects as well. First of all, you've had a number of people volunteering.

[00:07:41] I doubt any of our listeners will be able to make it over to Israel to volunteer, but you do have a way in which you've had a ministry to those volunteering. Also there's an issue which I know that you identify on your website of children at risk

[00:07:55] and some of the issues as well. And then even what you were able to accomplish during Passover, that was another opportunity. So if you are listening right now and you say, I've always sort of wondered, what can

[00:08:06] I do in light of what is happening there in this war between Israel and Gaza? We can't solve all the problems, but we can be involved in one way or another to actually begin to be involved financially, maybe in prayer.

[00:08:25] So we do have a link to josephproject.org. There is a war video. It's about three minutes long. Of course, we do encourage at least viewer discretion. They don't show any overt exact actions of violence, but it's just a reminder of why they're doing what they're doing.

[00:08:42] You can watch that as well. We'll take a break and continue on right after this. This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson. The world keeps getting increasingly more dangerous. Robert Clark provides several examples. There is the war in Ukraine, China's increasingly bellicose actions in the South China Sea and

[00:09:13] its little talked about proliferation of nuclear weapons, the Iranian aggression that threatens the existence of Israel, the lives of U.S. forces and their allies in the Middle East and the security of global shipping lanes.

[00:09:25] All of that is enough for any of us to avert our eyes and focus on something else. But his argument is the world needs the West. You may not want to think about foreign policy, but the future of a stable world depends on

[00:09:37] us electing the right politicians and appointing the right cabinet officers. After the Cold War, we enjoyed a peace dividend that allowed many European countries along with this country to reduce defense spending. This loss of military capability led to a loss of credible deterrence.

[00:09:54] Many Americans do not want to go to war. Perhaps the best way to avoid war is to have enough military might that will deter aggression. Now the editors of the Wall Street Journal put it this way.

[00:10:03] Mr. Biden talks about a world that is at risk from autocracies, but he acts like it is 1992 and the Soviet Union just collapsed. The world today is more like the late 1930s as dictators build up their militaries and

[00:10:16] form a new axis of animosity while the American political class sleeps. The editors are also aware of the fact that we have a national debt and argue that what is currently spent for defense in 2025 is a fraction of what Congress has blown on social

[00:10:30] programs over the past three years. They argue that we need an informed debate about priorities. During this election year, we need to remember what is at stake not only for this country but around the world. I'm Kirby Anderson and that's my Point of View.

[00:10:47] For a free booklet on the Biblical view on wokeness, go to viewpoints.info.com. That's viewpoints.info.com. You're listening to Point of View. Your listener supported source for truth. Back for a few more minutes. Once again, we are talking about the Joseph Project.

[00:11:07] I want you to know about that and there is a great opportunity for you to give. But Suzy, talk about some of the other projects you've been involved with. First of all, this project of actually distributing an incredible amount of aid, $16 million so

[00:11:22] far and counting, requires not only some people on staff but lots of volunteers. As I understand, you have not only been able to get a lot of volunteers but you've been able to, in many cases, minister to them. Can you speak to that?

[00:11:37] Yeah, you mean about the faith? Yes. What did you mean by that exactly? Actually, we collaborated with other ministries here in the land because we had a lot of work to do at the beginning of October.

[00:11:55] We built a big tent in the land, in the center of Israel. Many volunteers came, especially from the Tel Aviv area, non-believers. It wasn't me specifically but I know they had many conversations, conversations about the Lord, about everything. It wasn't just us. It's all the ministries involved.

[00:12:23] I think what especially we see today is that people are very touched about the ability of believers, of Christians to give, especially in distressed times. It's really touching the heart of Israelis.

[00:12:42] I can say for myself, before I was a believer, it always touched my heart to see that people actually love Israel. You know what you see today in the news and campuses. When you see someone that loves Israel, that comes to help, that comes to volunteer, that

[00:13:00] donates, that brings aid, it's touching the heart of people here in Israel. It's very, very special. I was just going to say to our listeners that if you are lamenting and frustrated by the protests that you've seen on campus, the anti-Israeli protest, the pro-Hamas protest,

[00:13:20] can't do much more about that. But you can provide a positive impact and the positive impact comes from your giving, maybe your letters of encouragement and the rest. That's why we wanted you to know about the Joseph Project.

[00:13:33] A couple more things I wanted to chat with you about just real briefly. One I know that there are at-risk boys in Israel. I was unaware of that until I read your website. And that's another area for ministry as well, isn't there? We give unconditionally.

[00:13:52] We're not sharing anything with them. We're working with a religious institute that helps these children that are not able to stay in their homes due to many reasons, even abuse. And we're not basically, like I said, we're not sharing with them about anything about

[00:14:16] the faith because it's unconditional giving. You know, it's like the Good Samaritan. The story Yeshua told. He didn't tell him anything. He just helped him to help and he didn't get anything in return.

[00:14:30] So that's basically the vision here because in Israel you need to be very careful about humanitarian aid. It needs to be unconditionally. You know what I'm talking about? Sure. You need to give because you want to give and you're not bringing anything else with it.

[00:14:48] And I think as an Israeli, it touches the heart of people anyway. They know who you are. They know who the ministry is. We're not saying anything. We're not giving them booklets or any flyers. We're just giving them what they need.

[00:15:04] And at the end, you know, the Lord has his way to work in people's hearts. And I can say as an Israeli, you know, when I, people ask me many times, why do you give them things? Why do you help these needy people?

[00:15:20] Wow, this is so awesome what you're doing, the Joseph Project. And I'm not saying anything else because they can go online and they can read and they can realize, they know it's coming from donations of Christians and believers who love Israel, who love the Bible.

[00:15:37] And they know what these people believe at the end. Everybody knows here. So that's why I'm saying it's unconditional, what the Joseph Project does. And this is why we're able to maintain a good relationship even with mayors here in the land, with many big Israeli ministries.

[00:15:56] I'm not just talking about, you know, Messianic or Christian ministries. I'm talking about generally that we are known, we can get to places with new immigrants because we're not coming with a condition that we're going to share something with them. You know what I mean?

[00:16:17] So this is actually opening doors. And at the end, it's touching people's hearts. I might just mention too, we have some links to the Messianic Jewish Alliance and a variety of others. But most importantly, Susie, let's talk about how people can be involved with the Joseph

[00:16:35] Project as they go there. There's a place where they can donate. And just talk about how we can begin to support you and the ongoing ministry that you have there in Israel. Yes, of course, donations are always needed.

[00:16:51] We have now big requests from people who got evacuated from their homes in the north. I'm talking about the border with Lebanon and Syria. You know, there are many rockets and missiles coming into Israel now from the north area. And basically people are losing their homes.

[00:17:15] They're not even in their home. They're getting a phone call from the mayor of Kiryat Shmona, close to the Lebanon area, telling them, listen, man, your house was burned down today because a missile hit it. And they're not even there to take care of it.

[00:17:31] So basically, I think what I'm doing is we need to be prepared, you know, as a logistic ministry. And we have a big storage house. We need to get prepared because those people, hopefully, we're all praying that they will

[00:17:49] be able to go back to their homes in the north. And they'll need someone to help them to get furniture, to renovate like we did with people in the Kibbutzim in the Gaza area, finding a new room to live in. And they will need things.

[00:18:06] So the need will, today, we have big requests from the north area, from these evacuees. And I'm just anticipating, you know, many, many requests. Today we have the mayor of Kiryat Shmona and Metula, they're always asking for hygiene

[00:18:27] supplies and soaps and toiletries because those people actually are not working as well. And they're Jews and Arabs I'm talking about. And they don't have money to buy a deodorant, you know. So this is what we're doing.

[00:18:43] We're getting these products to our centers in the north, in Nazareth, in Haifa, in Nariyah, all over the land with ministers, with people that we know that they are really doing the job. So yeah, so the nation is always welcome.

[00:19:05] You can always say you wanted to go to people who were affected by the war or Ukrainian refugees. And we also have healthy food boxes that we provide people in need. And I emphasize healthy food because we know that needy people are not really eating healthy.

[00:19:27] So we're trying to provide with healthy, nutritious products. You can always say you want to donate for that project or you want to donate for the families who lost their homes. So we have many, many projects.

[00:19:44] I think online it's also, you can also say what you want to support. So basically our vision is to be like Joseph, to have a full storage house, a big warehouse full of goods that exactly like after the 7th of October, I think we were one of the

[00:20:11] first ministries to answer the need immediately. It took other ministries time to get organized. But you were ready to go. That's right. We were ready to go. Yeah, you're just like Joseph. They had the storehouses full and ready to go.

[00:20:28] We're just about out of time in this segment. So let me just mention again, we have the josephproject.org. You can go there. Let me encourage you maybe to watch that short video. It's only about three minutes long.

[00:20:38] And of course I'll issue again a disclaimer because it does have a footage or two from the battle, but it's done in a very tasteful way. And then it really shows you exactly what you would be giving in terms of food, clothing

[00:20:50] and other events and how they are actually organized there. So many of you have been wanting to know, what can I do? Well, I do want to provide you with a link to the Joseph Project. And Susie, thank you for joining us today.

[00:21:03] I know it's a little bit later there in Israel, but thank you for joining us today here on Point of View. Sure. No problem. My kids are sleeping. We're going to take a break and when we come back, we're going to get into some other issues.

[00:21:15] And again, if you find yourself wanting to know more, that's why we exist there at Point of View to educate you about these issues and a place where you can give to really make a difference. We'll be back right after this.

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[00:22:48] Point of View will continue after this. You are listening to Point of View. The opinions expressed on Point of View do not necessarily reflect the views of the management or staff of this station. And now, here again is Kirby Anderson. Final half hour today.

[00:23:14] Let me just mention that tomorrow we'll have our weekend edition, and I think it should be quite a robust conversation about a number of different issues. Some real successes in the area of religious liberty, so we'll be talking about that.

[00:23:26] Again, as we illustrated at the outset of the program, we do have a debt problem, but it's more of a spending problem, and our friends at the Wall Street Journal document that in very significant ways.

[00:23:40] We'll also cover a number of other key topics that I think you will appreciate. But this last half hour, I thought I would bring to you two different articles. They are in some respects related to each other, although they are different articles,

[00:23:55] and they're both under the heading in this last half hour of how to maybe give you greater discernment. It is seeming to me more and more the fact that there are factors that are working against us really being able to see things clearly.

[00:24:12] The first one that I'm bringing is from Edward Ring. I've quoted from him before, and it has this sort of optimistic title, The Way to Unite America's Political Spectrum. Now the point he's making is that there is a culture war that's been taking place, and

[00:24:31] in some respects there are people quite willing to fuel that so that it takes away from the fact that, as he points out, back just a few years ago you had one group on the left called

[00:24:43] Occupy Wall Street and another group on the right called the Tea Party. And though they were very different in their makeup, they both were pointing to some real concerns about what was happening in Wall Street, especially what happened after the 2008 clash.

[00:25:03] And to illustrate this point, you can go to non-Christian political scientists and sociologists and see they have been making similar cases for the fact that though they're different, they're a lot more in agreement than you might imagine.

[00:25:20] And if you would like to read about that, there is a very good study called Hidden Tribes, but if you say, look, I don't want to read one of those scholarly documents, well then simply go to Point of View, scroll down to the bottom, there's a search engine

[00:25:35] there, just type in Hidden Tribes, because I've written a couple of commentaries about it. And the point they were making is you could actually get people in a room and talk about the concern that the elites are actually making more and more money and that's really hollowing

[00:25:50] out the middle class, and you would find that people with very progressive ideas like Occupy Wall Street or people with very conservative ideas like those people of the Tea Party would agree with that and might find a lot more in common than they might understand.

[00:26:06] With that as background then, this is what Edward Waring says. He says, really, they have actually been fighting a culture war to stop you from fighting a class war. It was designed that way in 2012 when the woke left and right were created.

[00:26:24] Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party were making inroads, uniting the political spectrum and the people against Wall Street following the 2008 crash. So instead they wanted us to talk about the culture wars. And it reminded me of George Carlin.

[00:26:42] Now you're probably not going to hear me quote George Carlin too often, who is the comedian, but oftentimes in some of his bits he would make a point about the fact that really politics

[00:26:52] is about getting the two of you fighting while the people at the top make more money. And so I always thought, well, okay, George Carlin, you're going a little bit off the deep end on that one because who are these elite? Who are the they?

[00:27:05] But I think we now know that is definitely the case. And Edward Waring puts it this way. Andrew Breitbart used to say that politics is downstream from culture. You've heard us say that many times before.

[00:27:15] And he says we still have to recognize that every American institution is pushing right now everything from transgenderism and abortion on demand. And their goal is not to turn America into a transgender abortion loving nation, he says,

[00:27:32] but actually in some respects to take focus away from the class politics that was actually starting to surface after the 2008 crash. I think it's kind of interesting. And he points out that the last time we did a survey, and that's in 2023, just a few months

[00:27:52] ago, one percent of the population controlled 76 percent of all household wealth in America. The top 10 percent own more than the bottom 90 percent combined. So yes, there is wealth inequality. There have been people talking about that from Bill Clinton to Barack Obama.

[00:28:14] But it's interesting, once they get to be in that one or 10 percent, they don't seem to talk about it so much anymore. But it is getting worse for all individuals. Wealth inequality has become very good for the elite.

[00:28:28] And it has been very bad for middle class and lower class families, for small businesses and the rest. And the point he's making is that a lot of this may have simply been done to distract us. Why?

[00:28:42] Well, he says the question is, what are we being distracted from? Where are the American elites along with their counterparts throughout Western Europe trying to take us? Why is it that as if inflation weren't bad enough, thanks to trillions of magically materializing

[00:28:59] dollars, that we'd have to shut down our conventional energy industry in favor of renewables, shut down our farms and cull our livestock to cope with climate crisis? No wonder everything is so expensive. What is the point?

[00:29:14] And he says one answer, at least for America, is that we are trying to preserve the global demand for dollars. We monetize the world with dollars through, for example, our trade deficit, through remittances from foreigners working in the United States, sending their earnings back to their homes

[00:29:31] abroad, through hundreds of military bases spending money in foreign nations and through foreign aid. And all those dollars can come back to the U.S. in the form of investments by foreigners who purchase our assets, our factories, our real estate, our farmland, and our mineral resources.

[00:29:48] So why not utilize environmental regulations to limit the supply of everything and make those assets more expensive? And he says, of course, there are solutions to America's debt binge. There are ways to restore upward mobility and make products and services reasonably affordable again.

[00:30:07] In the long run, they would also guarantee the status of the dollar as a hard currency. They're not complicated, but they're controversial because they would reverse the ongoing transfer of what now goes into the pockets of those elites.

[00:30:22] And he says, if you think about it, we are facing a crisis which I really haven't had a chance to mention. So let me use his two paragraphs to illustrate this. And that is America's ability to print more money as it wants while still retaining a

[00:30:39] reasonably hard currency just took a major hit because on June 9th, Saudi Arabia declined to renew their 50-year agreement to sell oil exclusively in dollars. It's called the petrodollars. This comes at a time as the BRICS, those would be Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa,

[00:31:02] Egypt, of course Iran, a variety of others, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia are actually trying to create, if you will, their own currency that they would trade in instead of the U.S. dollars.

[00:31:16] And when nations in the world decide what currency to use for international trade, shall they continue to use the dollar knowing that if they incur the wrath of the U.S. government, their dollar assets would be seized once the U.S. started using various Russian assets

[00:31:32] to finance war against Russia, the message was sent to other sovereign nations around the world. And that's why you're starting to see some remarkable changes taking place around the world. So we have been in a situation where the dollar, as I think most of you probably know, has

[00:31:49] been the reserve currency. That was something that after we went off the gold standard in 1971, back in about I think it was 1974, we worked out a deal with Saudi Arabia that at that time was of course

[00:32:03] producing so much of the oil that if you wanted to purchase oil from Saudi Arabia, you had to purchase it in dollars. That forced countries around the world that needed energy to actually trade their currency

[00:32:17] into our currency for dollars, and it was a way in which we certainly had a privileged status around the world. That I would have to say is coming to an end. But it also I think brings me back to the thesis of Edward Ring, and that is simply

[00:32:35] this. We are oftentimes being distracted with comments about transgenderism and abortion. We have woke policies, we have critical theory, we have the rise of BLM, we have of course now the various protests about Hamas, actually supporting Hamas in protest of Israel.

[00:32:58] But oftentimes what that has been doing in a culture war is taking our eyes off of what has become kind of a class war. And so his argument is that the culture war obviously is important.

[00:33:13] Remember he says that we should pay attention to the culture wars, but we also recognize that we should not also ignore what actually is taking place on center stage, and that is the continued growth of wealth that is being channeled towards the elites.

[00:33:32] I might just mention I've got a booklet coming out in the future on the issue of globalism and what that might mean to you and your family, but I thought it would be helpful to read this piece. It's our second to the last article.

[00:33:43] We'll come back with the last one right after this. You're listening to Point of View, your listener supported source for truth. Now one last column, and it is called the March of Dimes Syndrome, and that is something again that I wanted to communicate to you.

[00:34:09] If you've ever had a class, maybe an American government, oftentimes they use the March of Dimes as an illustration of what is called goal succession, but it's a much easier thing to understand than that because as John Tierney points out, the better things get, the more

[00:34:27] desperate an activist struggles to try to stay in business. I think most of us would agree that although there are probably vestiges of racism still in this country, racism in 2024 is nothing like it was in 1954.

[00:34:46] We would also I think have to agree that those of us that grew up when we had some significant environmental issues in the early 1970s, the environment is much cleaner than it has ever been in many ways.

[00:35:00] And again, you can get all sorts of people shouting you down because they don't want you to say that. Another good example is the amount of sexual violence for women dropped precipitously, which then led to the publication of a book talking about campus rapes and thus eventually

[00:35:17] the Me Too movement. Wherever you go, you see examples of this, and again, John Tierney puts it this way. Back a few weeks after the partial meltdown of the nuclear reactor in Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, he saw about 65,000 people that were marching on the Capitol chanting

[00:35:40] no nukes, no nukes. And as a reporter at the time for a newspaper, he began to notice that the people he was interviewing all had been previously involved in protest against the Vietnam War. And he struck him as rather curious, and he learned there's a term for this.

[00:35:59] It's called the March of Dimes syndrome. That is the situation in which after the March of Dimes was able to combat polio, then the March of Dimes decided to fund, you know, first of all funded the vaccines against polio.

[00:36:16] But once you eradicated polio, I mean, I do have one person on staff that has polio, but you don't meet anybody who has polio today. Then they began to change their mission to birth defects.

[00:36:28] And recently I saw a commercial for them, and that caused me to come back and look at this whole idea of how they just from one step to another began to see new fundraising opportunities.

[00:36:41] And he says a good example of that, more recently since we're in the so-called Pride Month, is the human rights campaign has declared a national state of emergency for LGBT people. Of course, after the election of the first African-American president or black president,

[00:37:02] you had the Black Lives Matter movement begin to develop. And at a time when sexual violence was going down, you are being told that we have an epidemic of sexual violence.

[00:37:14] So he takes each one of those on to point out that the facts go one way, but the activists go the other. He says, for example, think about this, the gay rights movement, which had its initial goals in the 1970s, have pretty much accomplished most of those.

[00:37:28] They've overturned anti-sodomy laws. They have certainly allowed for the de-stigmatization of homosexuality. They have an acronym that's getting larger, LGBTQIA+. And homosexuals can marry in every state. They are a protected class. So in some respects, he says the laws against homosexuality have been toppled.

[00:37:53] The pride flag flies from corporate headquarters. As I've said before, you can't call yourself a marginalized group if you have a month that is dedicated to you. You have a flag that you can fly.

[00:38:07] And if a Supreme Court nominee can't even answer what a woman is for fear there would be a backlash from those in the trans movement, I think you've sort of arrived. And so it's a good example now of being told that we have a national state of emergency

[00:38:26] for LGBTQ because the activists have to move the goalposts because actually most of what they wanted to try to achieve has been achieved. You can go to the civil rights movement and the same thing.

[00:38:41] He goes through some of the arguments that legitimately were made during the 1960s, some of the changes that occurred in policy, whether it's a civil rights act or all the way up to affirmative action, which was supposedly, according to the Supreme Court, put into existence back in 1979.

[00:39:03] But it has become kind of a permanent cause. And probably the best example of this is an organization that at one time had a legitimate purpose. That would be the Southern Poverty Law Center, which actually did file lawsuits against chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.

[00:39:21] By the 1990s there really wasn't much left of the Ku Klux Klan to sue so they pivoted and of course we've talked on this program many times about really quality individuals with various organizations that have been labeled as such.

[00:39:39] The list of dangerous extremists were Ben Carson, although they finally took that one off, Rand Paul, Charles Murray and the rest. And of course a veritable who's who of people we've had on this program that are all part

[00:39:53] of what are called hate groups because again that was the case. And so this whole idea of the March of Dimes syndrome is once you get successful, once you bring about some kind of cultural change or political change, we get what's called gold succession.

[00:40:15] And so he says the March of Dimes syndrome is an ancient social affliction that is especially virulent today and destined to get even worse. He says kings, generals and high priests have always tried to maintain power by declaring

[00:40:30] new crusades, new enemies to conquer, new sins to deal with. But it has gotten steadily easier for leaders to rally the public because of another phenomenon known as Spencer's Law. That was named for a Victorian sociologist by the name of Herbert Spencer who observed

[00:40:49] a paradox in the reform movements of his day to combat poverty, hunger, child labor, illiteracy and alcoholism. And so as a result began to see that the louder their explanations about their badness, the more things improve.

[00:41:08] And of course he then ends by talking about some of the things we've already mentioned that well you were told that we have some of the greatest problems with racism after the election of Barack Obama.

[00:41:21] We have a problem, a rampant problem of campus rape because of a book that came out a little bit later as we were seeing sexual violence statistics dropping precipitously and we ended up of course with the Me Too movement.

[00:41:38] And so he says that ultimately the March of Dimes syndrome will lead to increasingly apocalyptic rhetoric. We're going to be hearing more about overpopulation and about all sorts of issues that need to be addressed in the environment and energy and crisis and cancer epidemics and on and

[00:41:58] on and on. And the point I'm making is simply this, those of us that have studied American government are well aware of the March of Dimes syndrome. We see it happening with various political groups where once they are able to accomplish

[00:42:12] one goal instead of deciding to disband and assuming that there's really nothing else for them to do, they instead find something else to focus their time and attention on and we have been going through over these last few decades the March of Dimes syndrome.

[00:42:31] And it's something once again for you to have some discernment and maybe just a little bit of skepticism the next time you are confronted by another one of those epidemics or one of those crises that certainly need your money and your investment of funds and maybe

[00:42:48] even your political support. So that's all we have for today. Just once again a reminder that we need to have discernment and that's one of the things we're dedicated to right here at Point of View.

[00:42:58] You can find out more about all these things we've mentioned on the website pointofview.net. Once again I want to thank Megan for help engineering the program. Steve, thank you for producing the program. Tomorrow is our weekend edition. We look forward to seeing you here right then.

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