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- Negativity, it seemslike it's everywhere

in our culture today on socialmedia in Washington, D.C.

and in Hollywood.

But as we complete the Fall Harvest

and Thanksgiving seasons,

and now move into Christmas time,

it seems to many of usforget God's blessings

not only in our lives,

but also for our nation.

Author, historian and radiohosts Michael Medved is

with us now to discuss his latest book,

"God's Hand on America: DivineProvidence in the Modern Era"

Michael, it's always good to have you here

and to see you again.- Thank you Gary.

- Before we get intotalking about your book.

Your med heads and people that you talk

to on the radio and elsewhere podcasts.

What are they tellingyou about their concerns

about the culture today?

- Well, I think thereare lots of concerns.

I mean, one of we werejust speaking about off

the air is, there is been a rise

of anti-semitism in America today.

I think that the overwhelmingconcern that I understand

is the need for what Isaiah talks about,

which is, "Come let us reason together."

Americans aren't reasoning together,

we're shouting at each other.

And I think that people literally pray

for a more constructive discourse.

- It's gotten to the point where people

of Judeo-Christian faithseem to be having less

of an influence on the society.

Do you see that?

- Yes.

- And why is that?- Unfortunately,

well partially because theyounger generation seems

to be so disillusioned.

And I think that part ofwhat they are reacting to,

is the politicization of religion.

In other words, andit's on the left as well

as the right it's on all sides.

And I think that whatwe need more than before

is not a religion thatis fused by politics,

but a politics that mightbe fired by religion,

and part of the religious imperative

for people who are Jews

and people who are Christians,

is decent behavior, communication,

respect for other people,

and a more constructiveattitude, which was,

by the way, typical ofall of our great leaders.

Our great leaders didnot become great leaders

through anger, they bebecame great leaders

through preaching basicallyhope and optimism.

- And leading.

- And leading.

And I think about President Reagan.

And it's one of thethings that I mentioned

in my book is, he displayedsuch exemplary optimism

and confidence when he was shot,

shot in the chest bulletcame within a quarter

of an inch of his heart.

- And humor too.

- And humor.

And by the way in six weeks later,

another great humanbeing Pope John Paul II

also had that wound, thatshould have killed him.

And both men took the lesson

that their lives had been given back

to them by God for the purpose

of defeating the evil of communism

and advancing the cause of world peace.

- Well, that is the theme of your book.

I mean, I read this"God's Hand on America".

- Thank you.

- It's amazing, because froma historical perspective,

you go through someevents in American history

to some of our leaders,that have really changed,

and changed the country if ithad not been for God's hand.

Now one in particular that I think

of has to do with FDRand Winston Churchill.

- Right.

- And how they had some close calls.

Now with FDR, he ended up with polio.

And that could be seen by some people

as a negative but you turn it around,

say no, that was a positive thing.

God's hand was on him.

Tell us about that.- And he understood that.

Well, partially becausehe had a reputation

of being sort of a lightweight of Playboy,

one of the quotes about him.

"Justice is a Supreme Court",

Oliver Wendell Holmes allegedly said that,

"Well Roosevelt is asecond rate intellect,

but a first rate temperament."

And but the whole idea that he

was a second rate intellect,

this changed the youngman who was something

of a playboy understood

that life had been given back to him.

And one of the things people forget

about Franklin Roosevelt is that in 1933,

literally two weeks before he was due

to take the oath of office.

Bullets were fired at him,

five of them from 30 feet away,

not yards, 30 feet away.

He should have died.

And it was a miraculous deliverance.

I go into the details from this crazy guy

who had been tracking him,

and if he had not beenspared John Nance Garner,

who was an isolationist,

who would not have played the same role

and helping Britain survive Nazism

would have been president.

And in fact, do you remember

that TV series that hada man in the high tower?

- Yes, "The High Castle".

Yes.- Right.

Yeah, pretty interesting.

(indistinct)

This book which that is based on starts

from the premise thatRoosevelt wasn't spared

from those bullets, which by the way,

came within months of WinstonChurchill being rundown

by an automobile speedingalong Fifth Avenue

at 35 miles an hour, hewas crossing the street.

And this is in Christmas season of 1931.

And he was rundown, the wheelsof the car stopped inches

from his head.

- That's amazing.

- He was hospitalized for 10 days.

- Think of the turn of eventsif had been killed there.

- If he and Roosevelt had been killed,

then the whole worldquestion is, let's see,

do we have Stalin dominating us

or Hitler dominating our future.

- And then you move into you talked

about Martin Luther King

and how he had close calls as a boy.

And I think one quote about

that was one person said,

one of his followers in 1956, said,

"The Lord had his hand on Martin,

he was saving him for us

that no harm could come to him."

- Correct.

And by the way, a yearafter she said that,

he had a knife in his heart,

which is something nobody knows about.

There's a very seriousassassination attempt in Harlem.

He was speaking in Harlem,

a black woman who was insane,

came up and plunged thislittle miniature samurai sword

into his heart, andthey couldn't remove it

cause it would have killed him.

And he always associated that

with what he called hiskitchen table conversion,

which he wrote about a lot,

which was where he actuallyheard the voice of God

commanding him and hiswhole life was prophetic

of the night before he died,

he gave this mostremarkable prophetic speech

there may not get there with you.

- Well, the book is"God's Hand on America",

a wonderful book.

- Thank you.

- I would recommend it to anyone.

- Thank you.

The cover of the book

is a painting by Thomas Moran,

which was the leading exhibit at

the Philadelphia Centennialin 1876, which again,

renewed people's faithafter the Civil War,

we've had this horrible carnage.

But God is still looking out

for the United States of America.

And he put his seal on this14,000 foot high mountain,

the mount of the Holy Cross,

which then was made intoa national monument.

Now what happened to themountain of the Holy Cross?

There was an avalanche thatremoved the signs of the cross.

And a lot of people felt at the time that

that was a sign from God

that his blessing had been removed.

I believe the blessing continues

to this day if we married it.

- It sure does.

And we're very thankful for that.

Thankful for you.

Thanks for being with us.

- Thank you so much Gary.

Thank you.

Great to see.- God bless you.

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- Protests and riotingin Portland, Oregon.

Other major US cities have

also experienceddemonstrations and violence.

So what's the end game?

Are these just some frustrated

American young people demanding equality

and justice or somethingbigger at play here?

Well, our next guestcontends the United States is

in the throes of what he says is a move

towards soft totalitarianism.

Author Rod Dreher is senior editor

of the American Conservative.

And his latest book is "Live Not by Lies",

a manual for Christian dissidents.

Rod it's nice to have you with us.

So let's begin with this idea

of soft totalitarianism.

First, what is it?

Then explain why youthink the United States

is already moving in that direction?

- Well, there's a differencebetween soft totalitarianism

and hard totalitarianism.

The hard version is what we all think

of as totalitarianism.

It's George Orwell's 1984.

It's the Soviet Union.

It's the infliction ofpain and terror on people

to get them to conform.

I don't think that's what we're facing.

I don't think that'swhat's happening here.

Rather, ours is gonnabe a more soft version

where they use theinfliction of economic pain

and marginalization and shaming

to force Christians outof the public square

and to compel us to conform

with left-wing ideology.

And the fact that it's soft does

not mean it is any less totalitarian.

- I know you quote Hannah Arendt,

who after World War II published the book,

"The Origins of Totalitarianism".

Now, at that time, she said,

"Loneliness is an everyday experience,

not just for the elderly."

So how has social media made

us particularly young people lonely?

And how is that feeling, thisrise of soft totalitarianism?

- Yeah, Hannah Arendtin trying to understand

how Germany gave itself over

to Nazi totalitarianism

and Russia to Bolshevik totalitarianism,

said that, "The sense of beinglonely and socially alienated

was the major precursorto totalitarianism."

What social media hasdone is it has served

as a sort of substitute forperson to person contact,

and it has made young peoplehave extraordinary levels

of depression, of again, of alienation.

And it has made themdesperate for something

to solve their problem ofalienation and their anxiety.

I think that this is opening them up

to the acceptance of a false idol,

that will be totalitarian,

that will tell them we can take care

of all your problems, we can fix it,

if you'll only say yes to us.

That's what happened in Russia.

And that's what happened to Germany.

And that's what's coming here.

- Well, that is scary.

Now, I know when wethink of totalitarianism,

and let's say the Russian Revolution,

which was really a communist one,

but led to totalitarianism.

We think of a violent overthrow the murder

of the Tsar and his family, of course,

the murderous violenceordered by Joseph Stalin.

Now, we're seeing riots,

violent protests in some American cities,

but nothing like that.

So how likely as it couldbecome that evolve into

that type of violence here?

- Well, it could happen.

In fact, some of the people I talked to,

for this book, immigrants to the US

from communist countries,

they say that they believe

it will ultimately turn hard here,

because that's what theleft will need to do.

I think we have a longway to go before that.

I think that rather,

we're going to see somethingdevelop in this country,

like the Chinese have today,

the social credit system,

where they monitor everythingChinese citizens, do,

they get all the datafrom their computers,

from the internet, and so forth.

And they assign them a rating,

the more socially positive you are

from a communist point of view,

the higher your rating,

the more your privileges,

the lower your socialcredit rating is like,

if you go to church,

they'll get a lower rating,

the more imprisoned you are in your home,

and you can't send your kids to college,

and so on, so forth.

That's the sort of thing

that I believe it's coming here

that the left is going to be doing

to us and especially to Christians,

who are now seen as the chief obstacle

to this world of progress and tolerance

and anti-racism.

And they already have the data.

Most Americans don't realize this,

but big corporations get tons and tons

of data that we handover to them ourselves,

through our use of computers,

the Alexa and smartphones.

All it's gonna take is alittle bit more political will

and we're sunk.

- And of course we'reseeing in this country,

churches have been shut down.

And Portland we saw at least

one Bible burned, churches attacked,

vandalized or burned over the summer,

mostly Catholic ones I might add.

Why are Christians and theirchurches being targeted?

- Because again, we are seeingconservative Christians,

not the progressive Christianswho have already assimilated

to the new order.

Conservative Christians and their churches

and institutions are seenas an obstacle to progress.

If you stand againstLGBT rights for example,

if you stand against abortion rights,

if you stand against critical race theory,

you are a problem.

Now I should say that all Christians ought

to be against racism, we are.

But critical race theory issomething very different.

It draws a line between good and evil

between the races and alienates the races

and turns us againsteach other when we ought

to be standing together.

All these things aregoing to come down hard

on Christian churches,

who may not survive if theydon't have deep confidence

in their mission,

deep confidence intheir Christian identity

rooted in Scripture,and if they don't have

the ability to suffer, and to suffer.

Well, this is the mainlesson I got from talking

to Christians in the former Soviet Union

and Soviet bloc who camethrough hard totalitarianism.

They want American Christiansto know be ready to suffer.

So many of the people Italked to the dissidents,

did not imagine that in their lifetime,

communism would fall, they resisted it,

and were willing to suffer for it

because it was the right thing to do.

And it was the right thing to do

to be faithful to Jesus Christ,

we have to have that same attitude,

hope for the best.

But we also have to remember

ours is a religion of martyrdom.

Those who suffered andeven died for the faith,

they received the crown of glory

that may well be our calling.

And we need to accept that as believers.

- There is a lot of hope out there.

I was standing in Berlinwhen the wall came down

and never thought I'dsee that in my lifetime.

It happened. God did it.

Well, the book is

"Live Not by Lies: A Manualfor Christian Dissidents".

Rod Dreher thank you

for sharing your thoughtprovoking insights today.

God bless you.

- God bless you, too.

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- Remember when moderator Chris Wallace

asked President Trumpabout critical race theory

during their first presidential debate?

Wallace wanted to know why the President

ended racial sensitivitytraining for federal workers.

- We would pay peoplehundreds of thousands

of dollars to teach very bad ideas

and frankly very sick ideas and really,

they were teaching peopleto hate our country.

And I'm not gonna do that.

I'm not gonna allow that to happen.

We have to go back to thecore values of this country.

They were teaching people

that our country is a horrible place.

It's a racist place andthey were teaching people

to hate our country.

And I'm not gonna allow that to happen.

- Here to set a straightand critical race theory

is professor of psychology andsociology, Anne Hendershott.

Ms. Anne Hendershott is director

of the Veritas Centerfor Ethics in Public Life

at the Franciscan Universityin Steubenville, Ohio.

She's author of the just released book,

"The Politics of Envy".

Professor Hendershott good tohave you here with us today.

So tell us about critical race theory

it goes way beyond racial sensitivity.

- It does, yes.

- What are people teaching?

- It's very little to do with sensitivity.

I'll tell you that much.

What that is doing is encouraging.

Well, for one thing, white guilt,

but another thing, it'sencouraging the envy

that I see permeating society right now.

I see a huge increase inrhetoric surrounding envy,

encouraging envy.

And I think it's pretty evil.

I mean, I think yourlisteners Christians know

that it's a serious sin, that envy is one

of the seven deadly sins.

And to hear politicianskind of promoting that.

And critical racetheorists also promoting it

to engender division andhatred and resentment.

When you hear a politicianlike Mayor de Blasio

in New York City saythere's plenty of money

in New York City, it'sjust in the wrong hands.

He's implying that that's your money

that they have.

And we need to take it back.

That's envy.

- And it seems like ithappens every election year,

every election cycle,critical race theory,

the critics say itcreates racial division,

as you mentioned, perpetuates segregation,

and the view that minorities are victims

of a privileged majority.

So what would Martin LutherKing think about all this?

After all, he gave his lifefighting for integration

and a color neutral society?

- Right and content of our character.

Yeah, those days are gone.

There is an, and I think that's part

of the reason they wanted(indistinct) this kind of hatred,

because it they believe it will help them

by confiscating more wealthand taking more from others.

I mean, it's almost impossible

for Democrats to get elected today

without promising to confiscatewealth from the rich,

that's all they talk about.

And critical race theorydoes also the same thing.

But what politicians do,

and what critical racetheorists do is encourage

that kind of envy, theyhave more than you do.

So they must have somehowtaken it from you.

Now, there's an ugly history of slavery,

certainly, and we haveto acknowledge that.

But to say that there's systemic racism,

today is a mistake.

- So what needs to be done actually,

to promote unity here in America

rather than advancingviews that divide us?

- So much that bind us together and

so much that we canwork on together instead

of using a theory and teachingthat theory promulgating

that theory to divideus it's just a mistake.

So I mean, I think the shared values

that we do have,

I mean, everybody loves their families,

loves their children wantsthe best for their children.

That's what we have in common.

And if we could focus on that,

instead of what divides us

and how much moresomebody has for another,

and move away from that,

I mean right now we're ina really terrible place.

I mean, that guillotinethat was erected in front

of the chair, the CEOof Amazon, Jeff Bezos,

that's a symbol for me.

That's a French Revolution again,

I worry about that,

because this rhetoric isbecoming ever more heated up.

And I know the guillotine wasjust a model and everybody,

so don't make such a big deal of it.

But I think we need to make a big deal

of it cause it showsvery clearly the hatred

that is being engendered by its groups

well there's a new magazine "Jacobin"

that's been around for a couple of years.

But that's from the French Revolution.

Never you kind of know all that.

I mean that's, the first revolution is

not a model to aspire to.

It's just not and so to embrace

that symbolism worries me.

And he's not the only person

that's a former disgruntledenvious former employee

of Amazon, the formerCEO of Twitter just said

that any CEO who doesn'tembrace the Black Lives Matter

or the social justice,

or critical race shouldbe lined up and shot.

And he said he would videotape it.

He posted that on Twitter.

He removed it, butTwitter didn't remove it.

- Kind of a double standardby our social media companies.

Okay, I'm sorry.

We're out of timeprofessor, Anne Hendershott,

author of the new book,

"The Politics of Envy".

Thank you so much forsetting us straight today.

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- "Cuties" and Californiarewriting the rules.

Have we learned nothing from Bill Cosby,

Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein,

and the #metomovement.

Unfortunately, now we needto add another one #kidstoo.

Some rich and powerful people

are still pushing the exploitation

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"Cuties" becomes cute.

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It expands judicial discretionand statutory rape cases.

So now in the Golden State,

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to be placed on the sex offender registry

if his male victim is 14 years old,

and a judge decidesthe sex was consensual.

Yes, there is still hope for our culture.

When these things happen let's

not throw up our handsand say all is lost.

It's too late.

We are called to be light.

We must speak up when wesee wrongdoing and evil.

And we must work to stop it.

Our children and future depend on it.

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