Jenny Beth Martin opens this one with something she has been sitting with. There are Americans voting today who were not alive on September 11. One of her daughter's friends is married to a man born that day. For that generation, communism, socialism, Marxism and the Soviet Union are not memories. They are foreign concepts. So what do we teach them?
Jim Gilmore's answer starts with history as a teacher. Nazi Germany, where people gave up their freedoms over economic and security fears. The rise of Bolshevism. What happens when a state decides it is going to remake the individual in its own image, and discovers it cannot do that without stamping out the thing human beings always want, which is to be free.
Then he says something that cuts against the panic. He is not very worried about socialism in the United States as a movement. He thinks it is too alien to take root. What he does take seriously is why it sells. Affordability has become the issue. Working people cannot make ends meet, and they are frustrated, and candidates calling themselves socialists are exploiting that frustration to propel themselves into office without any real ability to deliver on it.
His closing line is the whole show's thesis in one sentence: people like you and I are more interested in the liberation of people and the freedom of people, which he calls the natural state of humankind.
Watch the full conversation at jennybethshow.com. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org.
00:00 — The generation that never lived through it
00:54 — Born on September 11, 2001
01:47 — What should we be teaching them
02:09 — History is a powerful teacher
03:17 — Why he is not worried about socialism
03:51 — Affordability became the issue
04:41 — The natural state of humankind
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