it turned us into, because it made us think we're a little bit better than the rest of the world. Now maybe that's good. Maybe the system of America worked better because we thought we were better than other people. We were trained to think that. But it's definitely got its downside, right? You get too arrogant, you get too cocky, you start thinking you're better than everybody. Then it's easy to attack them and kill them because our needs are more important than your dying children. So I think we overshot the mark a little bit. But there's no doubt that that operating system propelled America to become the dominant power.

At the moment it looks more like this. You've got China that owns TikTok that's influencing the kids. You've got Soros money that's influencing the government, which probably has a little or a lot to do with how the government runs the schools. The teachers unions, for example, they've got their own version of what is right. So you've got the colleges creating woke teachers, etc. Now this new brainwashing situation pretty much guarantees that you get a lot of kids who believe in communism and the oppressor-oppressed model, which guarantees the destruction of your country. Let me say it as clearly as possible. This isn't just a problem. This is a guarantee of the destruction of your country. Because you would actually be training young people to do all the least practical things, to fight about the repression instead of making money, you know, the things that drive the world.

So the government needs to be in charge of the kids, but the government is no longer unified. There are two versions of what the government would want that are pretty different. Wasn't so different in the '50s. I don't think the Democrats and Republicans were too different, were they, when it came to patriotism, melting pot, capitalism? Wasn't it Democrats and Republicans pretty much the same when I was a kid? I don't even remember a difference. Yeah, the Democrats wanted more welfare stuff but they were certainly completely in favor of the brainwashing model that was the common one.

So now you've got kids brainwashed all over the place. What it should do is drive society apart and it should destroy America. Now keep in mind that that's a straight-line prediction. A straight-line prediction says there will never be a counterforce. Everything will keep going the way it was going. But nothing goes like that in the real world. Nothing goes in straight lines forever. There's always a counterforce. What would be the counterforce in this case? I don't know. Could it be that the X platform will become dominant? And then maybe. But I don't see that happening because I don't see children on X. Could it be that our government might get its stones back and get rid of TikTok? That could be a big step.

But here's what I think. I think the federal government should federalize the schools and I think they should come up with one common curriculum. That gets to brainwashing right there. There could be lots of variety in some of the details, but there should be a brainwashing standard federal message that says to raise good children you've got to teach them they're not oppressed or oppressors. You can't have DEI. You can't have this whole oppressor-oppressed thing. And you have to teach them that capitalism is better than communism, you know, with a little socialist flavor to it. We prefer it that way. And some version of patriotism but maybe without the excesses of that.

So do you think that Congress could collectively come up with a set of maybe three missions that people would accept at the moment? The Democrats wouldn't be able to say yes to that. But here's what I'd like. I would love a national debate so that everybody shows their work. I would want the Democrats to say here's what we want to teach kids, oppressor-oppressed, whatever it is, socialism is good, communism wasn't so bad, whatever it is. Just put it out there. This is what we want to teach them. And then have the Republicans and the moderate Democrats say here's a better idea. How about teaching them patriotism but not too far and melting pot and everybody has a chance to make it and all that.

And I think that this is a huge opportunity for Republicans except they have that whole states rights thing. The worst thing you could do for America is let all the states run their education systems on their own without any federal influence, in my opinion. That would be the worst thing you could do because I guarantee you some states are going to be garbage. Here's one thing you can't take a chance on. Do you know why the federal government handles the military? Right, we all prefer that authority be driven down to the state and local and individual level. But the federal government handles the military. Why? Because it's the only thing that works. There's no other reason the federal government handles the military, because nothing else would work. It's the only thing that works. The education system is closer to being like the military than it is to picking up the garbage. Do you get that?

I love the fact that my local municipality is in charge of picking up my garbage. Why would the federal government be part of that? So I love it for the little stuff. Drive it down there, right? Personal decisions. But the education or let's say the brainwashing, even more than the education, the brainwashing of our children is national defense. It's not like it. It's not similar to it. It's not oh this should be also in the conversation. It's not another variable you should consider. It is your whole game. It's the whole game. Your military is worthless if you haven't brainwashed your young people to be productive citizens who contribute. So the big problem with education is that we treat it like a social thing instead of a national defense thing.

What are the what is Hamas doing? Hamas is treating their children like a social thing or like a national defense thing? Well they've weaponized their children. They at least get one thing right, which is that they know their children are their weapons. They know that their cultural defense or offense in this case might be the weaponized kids. And we're letting our enemies weaponize our kids against us. We're literally, not just figuratively, we're literally allowing our enemies to brainwash our children to be on the enemy side. And we're allowing that under free speech, right? We're allowing it. And the federal government should clamp that down immediately.

Now the reason this would be hard to do is that unless you follow this livestream I don't think you'd have quite the same feeling that the right frame to look at this is the persuasion frame. Right? If you're looking at everything from a political frame it looks like you don't know what to do. If you look at it from a follow the money frame, which usually works, it also doesn't work because the money isn't as obvious. You know there's some Soros money in there and there's some China money but it's a little harder to follow the money. But if I say to you follow national defense, that's your frame, protecting the country. And then on top of that frame is the persuasion frame. If you get those two frames right, the persuasion frame, and you understand how bad TikTok is and what a risk it is to our whole civilization, and you understand the national defense frame, then you can make the right decisions. But you would need somebody at a Vivek level of communication to sell to the public what they need but maybe they don't understand they need it.

Trump maybe could do it. He's more of a, he creates a dumpster fire no matter if he's doing the right thing or the wrong thing. So he's controversial. I know Vivek would hate to hear this because he's running for president and I think he actually has a shot. People ask me does Vivek have a shot? Yes, because the two leading candidates for president both have a cloud hanging over them, right? And what happens if Trump actually goes to jail? What happens if he's at a certain age and a medical problem pops up that you weren't expecting? So Vivek I think could take DeSantis if anything took Trump out, God forbid. But we're in a world where anything could happen. If anything took Trump out you'd have a Vivek who looks like a younger Trump with advantages without the baggage. And then you'd have a DeSantis who looks like DeSantis. I feel like Vivek would almost immediately take a slight lead if not a larger lead the moment if you imagine a moment where something happened to Trump, God forbid. So could he become president? Absolutely yeah. But if it didn't happen, let's say you straight line it and Trump becomes the nominee and let's say he wins, I would hate to see Vivek wasted as a vice president. Would you agree that would be the biggest waste of talent? It would be almost unimaginably waste of talent. And I think that's the reason why Vivek has said you know I'm not really built for the number two job.

And that's why the model that would work the best would be remember how Jared was to Trump. Now people didn't like Jared for all the reasons but Jared was like a strong partner who could simply execute things in the smartest possible way. So it was just an amazing,