er Prize except that. That's it.

And how many book clubs would have picked the same books? Not many, because each book club would read a different group of books just like the Pulitzer group. The Pulitzer group isn't reading all the books. They're reading a little subset of books. They can't read every book and then compare it to every other book. So it's just a ridiculous prize. I mean it's really ridiculous. It's just somebody liked the book. That's it. And once I learned that then you understand stuff like how do you get a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on something that didn't happen? Well some people probably didn't like Trump. That's why. That's why probably some people who were involved with the Pulitzer that year just didn't like Trump and then they saw Maggie Haberman says lots of bad things about Trump and wrote about things that were bad for Trump and they thought, well that's excellent writing right there. That's some high-class writing, said the book club that happened to be called the Pulitzer committee.

All right. It's pretty anyway. Here's a question I would like to see being asked and it's not because I care about the answer. I only care about how they would answer it. All right. So people on the right were often bedeviled by Black Lives Matter because they had such a clever slogan and they would say "Do Black lives matter?" And then the people on the right would fall into the trap: "Well I think all lives matter," thinking that they're agreeing but in fact it gets framed as racist. So it was kind of a really good trap. And so I like a good trap. And so I wondered if you could use it this way. What would happen if you asked a Democrat on air if unborn lives matter?

Now I know the real answer. They'll say, well you know we're talking about if he is blah blah it's not a life. But the entire argument is the whole Roe versus Wade thing is just thinking past the sale and then arguing after you've thought past the sale. So this is no different than that. I mean it's weaselly. But what would they say? Because if "all lives matter" was ever inappropriate, well maybe we know why. Maybe the reason that the left could not agree that all lives matter is a good slogan is because there's some ambiguity about when life begins. So the moment they say all lives matter they've kind of agreed that abortion is murder. So they really don't mean all lives matter. And literally they don't. And you know you could say well technically they don't think that's life so you're lying, Scott. I get that. But you can see why they would want to avoid accepting the idea that all lives matter because it opens up an argument there.

So I would just love to see what somebody would say if they were really in the fight and they were pro-abortion rights and you said, "Do unborn lives matter?" What do you think? I think the honest answer—the honest answer, and by the way it's very clever to put "unborn" in front of life because that's not the same as life, right? It's kind of clever. An unborn life—not alive, you know, or it could be. I mean you could argue this life. But the phrase doesn't say it's life because as soon as you put "unborn" in front of it you've allowed some ambiguity. So I think that's a good way to ask the question, just to see the quality of the answer.

Because the Democrats have a super consistency problem. They're staging insurrections at the same time they're doing hearings about insurrections. Am I right? I mean it looks like that. In both cases they're not insurrections, but since they decided to call a vigorous protest in which violence is either implied or actually happens—since they're calling that an insurrection—it's hard to explain the fact that you're doing it at the moment you're disavowing it. It's very awkward and inconvenient. They have that consistency problem with their message right now. That's a problem.

Then they also have the—well let's stop with that one.

All right. How many of you think that the world is getting worse? Because—well I won't say because. How many of you think that—let's just say America—how many of you think America is getting worse and that we're on some kind of a long-term drop? Now let me ask you this. If I did a survey—and oh this would be interesting. I don't know if Rasmussen poll is watching this but here's my suggestion. Ask people is America improving or going downhill but sort them by people who watch the news and people who don't. I'll bet you the people who watch the news think we're going to hell and the people who are oblivious to the news and they're just sort of looking around they may have a different opinion. But I'll bet it doesn't work during this current weird recession pandemic stuff. At the moment it does look like things are getting worse. I mean you go shopping, you can't get stuff. You buy something, it's more expensive. So in many ways it seems like things are getting worse.

But I don't think so. I think if you were to look at the macro picture I'll bet almost everything is getting better. Do you know why? Because it always does. Most things, right? 98% of things are just getting better all the time. Airline travel is just always getting worse. I don't know. It's an exception. I mean the reason we point it out is that it's rare. Yeah, and I think that we're feeling some serious growth pains right now. I think that the stress on society that you see is the stress that you get when you lift weights and you push yourself to that third set. I feel like that's what we're experiencing. It definitely hurts. It definitely hurts. But it feels like this is the stress on the system that you get when you're going to the next level. I feel like we're ascending. Somebody used that word. I'll borrow your word. I feel like civilization is ascending.

It doesn't feel like it if you watch the news because t