Will Millennials Turn to Capitalism or Socialism on Their Quest for Truth?

October 18, 2016

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Authenticity without truth and humility means nothing. Millennials, especially Christian millennials, are looking for authentic leaders who will make a difference in the world. On a quest for truth, they want actions, not words.

"Don't count millennials out. Millennials are the hero generation. They are just biding their time and looking for someone that will stand up and say, let's go this way," Glenn said.

No one understands this important block of voters more than Audrea Taylor. Formerly with TheBlaze, Audrea launched Because I Care to reach millennials across the U.S. The program has reached students on 40 college campuses, informing them about the importance of voting.

"We want to make a difference. And so we have to connect that to voting and help millennials understand that part of your civic responsibility and part of you making a difference, part of the way that you love and serve and care for your neighbor is in the voting booth and the way that you elect your leaders and who you elect to represent you and delegate that authority to," Taylor said.

Audrea joined Glenn on his radio program Tuesday to talk about the success of Because I Care and what millennials really want.

Read below or watch the clip for answers to these questions:

• Do millennials affiliate with a political party?

• What is the number one goal of millennials?

• What do millennials have in common with the generations that came up during the Great Depression and fought in World War II?

Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors:

GLENN: A good friend of the program. And somebody who used to work for me and is now on their own doing a campaign, Because I care. And it's BecauseICare.us. Right?

AUDREA: Correct. Yeah.

GLENN: And you have felt compelled for a long time to work with millennials. At 17 years old, you were out doing all kinds of things. And I think you're a rising superstar.

Tell me -- tell me where millennials are right now.

AUDREA: They're just apathetic to the political process. They don't like the candidates. They don't like the parties, even. And so I think the concern is that a lot of them are going to stay home. They're -- a lot of polling and studies are showing that millennials are less engaged than they were in 2012.

GLENN: Which is the opposite of what the Democrats thought would happen, because of Barack Obama. They thought they would develop this army of millennials who would come and march into battle with them, one after the other.

AUDREA: Not the case. Not the case. So what they're discovering is that millennials are really fair game right now for anyone because they're -- they're seeing through the hypocrisy in both parties, and they're realizing, "Hey, I don't think I'm into this." So what we're talking about, you might not like the candidate or the party, but we vote because we care about too many other things, in our community, in our nation, locally. Our friends that are still looking for a job. There's too many issues close to our heart that we care about. And so we're talking to millennials on over 40 college campuses nationwide, and we're saying, "Let's vote because we care about too many other things."

GLENN: So who does a millennial vote for? As I watched the campaign -- I try to watch it as a millennial. I try to watch it from four different perspectives. And one of them is millennials. And as I watched them, I realized this last election -- or, this last debate, that we all thought authenticity was the key word. But it's not authenticity. Because I believe that, in a way, Hillary Clinton is authentically who she is. She's nobody. She's -- she's hollow.

AUDREA: Uh-huh.

GLENN: And she is fake. I think that's who she really is. I bet you if you meet her in real life, much of what you see is who she is.

AUDREA: Yeah.

GLENN: Donald Trump is authentically like that. I don't think there's a game or a face --

AUDREA: He's himself. Yeah.

GLENN: He's himself.

AUDREA: Yeah. Yeah.

GLENN: Okay?

I think the word is transparent, that you would say, "This is who I am, flaws and all."

AUDREA: Uh-huh.

GLENN: Hillary won't say flaws. Donald won't say flaws.

AUDREA: Arrogance there.

GLENN: And so we need truth. Authenticity without truth is nothing. Without humility, is nothing. And as I'm watching these two, I think to myself. They look to me like 1956.

AUDREA: Uh-huh.

GLENN: Millennials would have nothing to relate to with these two. Nothing.

AUDREA: Well, you said it. It's truth. Millennials are on a quest for truth. They're trying to discover what truth is. And so what we talk about a lot is that millennials to have discover that for themselves. We've had a lack of education for us to even delve in and begin having those conversations. But then we're also encouraging millennials, it's not just about these two candidates, although it represents the problems in the political system.

GLENN: Yes.

AUDREA: There's so many other races statewide and congressionally and locally, that millennials can have a huge impact on. We're the largest voting bloc right now in history. And so when we look at us sitting back and not, you know, participating, largest generation in US history. And so millennials can have a massive impact, if we decide to do something with that power.

GLENN: What is the response on campus?

AUDREA: The response on campus has been good because they are -- they're encouraged that someone is not telling them who to vote for and that we're not telling them the answers and a party. So the only voice that's been on campus is either a Republican group or a Democratic group. And millennials are saying, "I'm not either one of those."

And when we talk to them and say, "Look, we realize that we're not going to tell you who to vote for, you vote according to your conscience, but we're encouraging you to educate yourself and to care about these things. And we realize that you don't like politics, I don't like politics, but we vote because too many other things are important."

GLENN: So help me out on the churches. I think the church has really done more damage to itself than Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker did. Jimmy Swaggart did. And because that one is about an individual. This is about the institution. Millennials -- and correct me if I'm wrong -- I hope I'm wrong. Millennials -- at least the ones that I know -- you are a good example of it -- are, don't tell me about it. I'm so sick of hearing about it. Show me.

AUDREA: Yeah. Solutions.

GLENN: Show me -- not just a solution. Show me what you are doing. I'll follow you if you are doing it and it's making a difference.

But what's happened is, in my point of view, millennials have been going to church. They've been listening to this. And then they see, when the chips are down, you jettison all that and make an excuse and say, "Well, but it's different this time." That's putting your faith in action, but in the wrong direction. Which, if I'm a millennial, I'm sitting at church -- which, I don't want to go to on Sunday, and I go, "These people don't mean it anyway. Why am I going there?"

AUDREA: That's exactly right. And it's because we're not consistent in our Biblical worldview. So churches are picking a candidate that they like, for whatever reason --

GLENN: Or, picking because they don't like the other one.

AUDREA: Exactly. But they're not consistent in explaining their Biblical worldview. Because it's not consistent. And they know it's not.

And this is happening, not just nationally, but also locally. We've seen this happen to churches locally too.

So they need to talk about a Biblical worldview, all four years, right? Not just every four years, every two years. And talk about those Biblical principles and how they apply to the tough issues of our day. When they do that, consistently, authentically, truthfully, you're right, millennials do understand it, and they want to be a part of it. But the church hasn't done that. And they've been hypocritical in the way they've approached elections for a long time.

GLENN: And that is the thing that we don't -- we don't understand. This generation is different than the proceeding four generations.

AUDREA: Way different. Uh-huh.

GLENN: This is -- your generation is the hero generation. That's the actual title. It is the generation that is exactly like the generation that came up in the Great Depression and fought World War II.

And so you're all about action. You're all about togetherness. It's why you can be swayed by a socialist message.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

GLENN: Because you want to do good.

AUDREA: It's our number one goal in life.

GLENN: Right. You want to do good. You look at the world as a collective.

AUDREA: Uh-huh.

GLENN: And if somebody is saying those things to you, it immediately connects.

AUDREA: Yes.

GLENN: But if nobody is on the other side saying, "Yes, we can make a difference. We can make things good, and we can make things better together, but we have to remember the individual, that you count."

AUDREA: Yeah.

GLENN: It goes awry.

AUDREA: Absolutely.

Millennials volunteer more than any other generation before us in the history. We give to more charities than any other generation in history. And we're young right now.

So why is that? You're right. It's because we are the hero generation. We want to make a difference. And so we have to connect that to voting and help millennials understand that part of your civic responsibility and part of you making a difference, part of the way that you love and serve and care for your neighbor is -- is in the voting booth and the way that you elect your leaders and who you elect to represent you and delegate that authority to.

So it's absolutely right. We are the hero generation. That's what we want to be.

GLENN: What is the number one -- if you listen to the parties, the number one thing that millennials want is free education. Is that true?

AUDREA: No. I think it's a lack of education and really understanding -- millennials want everyone to have opportunity. And they don't understand that the best thing to create opportunity is a free market system. And it's not free handouts. It's a system that is so prosperous that it allows for people to, you know, work their way through college and to do it themselves. But I think for a long time, we haven't talked to millennials. We've talked about them. But we haven't really spoken to them. And there's other people that have, and they've done it really well.

PAT: Yeah, their teachers have talked to them.

AUDREA: Yeah.

JEFFY: Yeah.

PAT: Their teachers have taught them that socialism is superior to capitalism.

AUDREA: In Christian colleges. In Christian universities.

GLENN: Oh, I know.

PAT: Yes. Yes.

GLENN: I've talked to people at Liberty, and I've talked to people at BYU.

PAT: How do we overcome that? How do we overcome it?

GLENN: I don't know. I've talked to BYU and Liberty University. And they both have said that, you know, there's -- it's tough to find a Biblical worldview person that believes in the American system of free markets.

PAT: Yeah, they're having a tough time.

GLENN: And get them to teach. It's almost impossible.

AUDREA: And there's two reasons. The first is that they use secular textbooks that are written with communist and socialist messages. Unbelievable.

PAT: Right.

AUDREA: And then they hire professors that have a really great credential but have never been trained in a Biblical worldview. And they put them in the classroom, and they think that if they pray before class, it might magically translate into a Biblical worldview. And we know that it doesn't. You know, we see it. We see it played out right now.

GLENN: What an interesting thing to say, that if we put them in there and we just have them pray at the beginning, it will magically transform them.

AUDREA: Maybe quote a Bible verse at the start too, you know.

GLENN: Yeah, that will transform them.

So are you registering people?

AUDREA: Yeah, so what we're doing is we're working on 40 Christian college campuses across the country. And we're realizing -- we all know this: Twenty-five million Christians were registered in the last election, but they didn't vote. And I'm not even talking presidential. There are so many other important races.

So we've created a really great system that helps millennials get to the polls. We tell them where their polling place is. We help them register. Twenty-five states, you can still register.

But a lot of these students have requested absentee ballots. So this is a great tool, not only for college students, but also for Christians to share and make sure that people get to the polls.

This is too important of an election for us to allow two candidates at the top of the ballot to define the rest of our decisions.

PAT: Before we've educated them, do we want them to vote? I mean, I have (laughter) about that frankly because, you know, like you said, they -- they tend towards socialism right now. Because that's what they've been taught their whole lives in school. So they --

GLENN: I just have to echo -- I just have to echo Thomas Jefferson on trusting the people. They'll get it wrong, but eventually they'll get it right. We have to trust the people.

STU: That's a different standard though than what I think many people do, which is, you know, rock the vote, or whatever. It's like, rock the vote after you've thought about it for 15 seconds.

PAT: Yeah.

STU: If you thought about the issues for ten minutes in the past four years, then rock the vote. If you haven't done that, don't rock the vote. It's -- there's no shame --

GLENN: Yeah, but what she's saying is that that's what their group does, is not rock the vote.

STU: Exactly. It's exactly what we need. We need people -- because, I mean, we always -- we sit here and blindly encourage people to vote. It's actually a terrible instinct.

PAT: It is.

STU: You should not be voting if you don't know about the issues or candidates.

AUDREA: Yes. And exactly what you said. Rock the Vote does, you know, 100 campuses, right? But they don't educate. And so we've started with a smaller number. We're on 40. We're sponsoring educational events on these campuses. And then we're feeding them a lot of messages that go in line with, what are these principles? Why are the reasons that we should vote? And really covering those. Because, yeah, we want to get out the vote.

GLENN: How can we help you get the word out?

AUDREA: Have people go to BecauseICare.us and just check out what we're doing. Share it with your kids, with your college students that are on a campus right now, or even with Christians maybe within the church that might think about voting but don't get out and actually do it because it's on top important for people's communities, for your local government, to sit this one out.

GLENN: BecauseICare.us. Remember that. BecauseICare.us.

I'm on my way to TCU this week.

AUDREA: Awesome.

GLENN: To spend an evening with the students out there, to hear where they're out at. What should I expect? I'm actually kind of -- I'm a little nervous.

AUDREA: I think they're going to be really eager to have a conversation with you. Millennials are eager to learn and learn from people that they --

GLENN: I don't want to teach. I want to learn from them. I really want to learn -- and because I believe -- and I hope I'm not disappointed. I believe millennials are more like you.

AUDREA: They are. They absolutely are. They absolutely are.

GLENN: Yeah.

AUDREA: No, but I think you're going to have a good conversation with them, is what I'm saying. You're going to learn from them. They're going to learn from you. I think you'll discover that they're not as pre-decided in their thought process as people think that our generation is. They're really not. They're searching for truth.

GLENN: That's great. Thank you so much.

AUDREA: Thanks for having me.

GLENN: God bless.

Featured Image: Audrea Taylor featured Tuesday, October 18, 2016 on The Glenn Beck Program.

Faith, family, and freedom—The forgotten core of conservatism

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Conservatism is not about rage or nostalgia. It’s about moral clarity, national renewal, and guarding the principles that built America’s freedom.

Our movement is at a crossroads, and the question before us is simple: What does it mean to be a conservative in America today?

For years, we have been told what we are against — against the left, against wokeism, against decline. But opposition alone does not define a movement, and it certainly does not define a moral vision.

We are not here to cling to the past or wallow in grievance. We are not the movement of rage. We are the movement of reason and hope.

The media, as usual, are eager to supply their own answer. The New York Times recently suggested that Nick Fuentes represents the “future” of conservatism. That’s nonsense — a distortion of both truth and tradition. Fuentes and those like him do not represent American conservatism. They represent its counterfeit.

Real conservatism is not rage. It is reverence. It does not treat the past as a museum, but as a teacher. America’s founders asked us to preserve their principles and improve upon their practice. That means understanding what we are conserving — a living covenant, not a relic.

Conservatism as stewardship

In 2025, conservatism means stewardship — of a nation, a culture, and a moral inheritance too precious to abandon. To conserve is not to freeze history. It is to stand guard over what is essential. We are custodians of an experiment in liberty that rests on the belief that rights come not from kings or Congress, but from the Creator.

That belief built this country. It will be what saves it. The Constitution is a covenant between generations. Conservatism is the duty to keep that covenant alive — to preserve what works, correct what fails, and pass on both wisdom and freedom to those who come next.

Economics, culture, and morality are inseparable. Debt is not only fiscal; it is moral. Spending what belongs to the unborn is theft. Dependence is not compassion; it is weakness parading as virtue. A society that trades responsibility for comfort teaches citizens how to live as slaves.

Freedom without virtue is not freedom; it is chaos. A culture that mocks faith cannot defend liberty, and a nation that rejects truth cannot sustain justice. Conservatism must again become the moral compass of a disoriented people, reminding America that liberty survives only when anchored to virtue.

Rebuilding what is broken

We cannot define ourselves by what we oppose. We must build families, communities, and institutions that endure. Government is broken because education is broken, and education is broken because we abandoned the formation of the mind and the soul. The work ahead is competence, not cynicism.

Conservatives should embrace innovation and technology while rejecting the chaos of Silicon Valley. Progress must not come at the expense of principle. Technology must strengthen people, not replace them. Artificial intelligence should remain a servant, never a master. The true strength of a nation is not measured by data or bureaucracy, but by the quiet webs of family, faith, and service that hold communities together. When Washington falters — and it will — those neighborhoods must stand.

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This is the real work of conservatism: to conserve what is good and true and to reform what has decayed. It is not about slogans; it is about stewardship — the patient labor of building a civilization that remembers what it stands for.

A creed for the rising generation

We are not here to cling to the past or wallow in grievance. We are not the movement of rage. We are the movement of reason and hope.

For the rising generation, conservatism cannot be nostalgia. It must be more than a memory of 9/11 or admiration for a Reagan era they never lived through. Many young Americans did not experience those moments — and they should not have to in order to grasp the lessons they taught and the truths they embodied. The next chapter is not about preserving relics but renewing purpose. It must speak to conviction, not cynicism; to moral clarity, not despair.

Young people are searching for meaning in a culture that mocks truth and empties life of purpose. Conservatism should be the moral compass that reminds them freedom is responsibility and that faith, family, and moral courage remain the surest rebellions against hopelessness.

To be a conservative in 2025 is to defend the enduring principles of American liberty while stewarding the culture, the economy, and the spirit of a free people. It is to stand for truth when truth is unfashionable and to guard moral order when the world celebrates chaos.

We are not merely holding the torch. We are relighting it.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Glenn Beck: Here's what's WRONG with conservatism today

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What does it mean to be a conservative in 2025? Glenn offers guidance on what conservatives need to do to ensure the conservative movement doesn't fade into oblivion. We have to get back to PRINCIPLES, not policies.

To be a conservative in 2025 means to STAND

for Stewardship, protecting the wisdom of our Founders;
for Truth, defending objective reality in an age of illusion;
for Accountability, living within our means as individuals and as a nation;
for Neighborhood, rebuilding family, faith, and local community;
and for Duty, carrying freedom forward to the next generation.

A conservative doesn’t cling to the past — he stands guard over the principles that make the future possible.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: You know, I'm so tired of being against everything. Saying what we're not.

It's time that we start saying what we are. And it's hard, because we're changing. It's different to be a conservative, today, than it was, you know, years ago.

And part of that is just coming from hard knocks. School of hard knocks. We've learned a lot of lessons on things we thought we were for. No, no, no.

But conservatives. To be a conservative, it shouldn't be about policies. It's really about principles. And that's why we've lost our way. Because we've lost our principles. And it's easy. Because the world got easy. And now the world is changing so rapidly. The boundaries between truth and illusion are blurred second by second. Machines now think. Currencies falter. Families fractured. And nations, all over the world, have forgotten who they are.

So what does it mean to be a conservative now, in 2025, '26. For a lot of people, it means opposing the left. That's -- that's a reaction. That's not renewal.

That's a reaction. It can't mean also worshiping the past, as if the past were perfect. The founders never asked for that.

They asked that we would preserve the principles and perfect their practice. They knew it was imperfect. To make a more perfect nation.

Is what we're supposed to be doing.

2025, '26 being a conservative has to mean stewardship.

The stewardship of a nation, of a civilization.

Of a moral inheritance. That is too precious to abandon.

What does it mean to conserve? To conserve something doesn't mean to stand still.

It means to stand guard. It means to defend what the Founders designed. The separation of powers. The rule of law.

The belief that our rights come not from kings or from Congress, but from the creator himself.
This is a system that was not built for ease. It was built for endurance, and it will endure if we only teach it again!

The problem is, we only teach it like it's a museum piece. You know, it's not a museum piece. It's not an old dusty document. It's a living covenant between the dead, the living and the unborn.

So this chapter of -- of conservatism. Must confront reality. Economic reality.

Global reality.

And moral reality.

It's not enough just to be against something. Or chant tax cuts or free markets.

We have to ask -- we have to start with simple questions like freedom, yes. But freedom for what?

Freedom for economic sovereignty. Your right to produce and to innovate. To build without asking Beijing's permission. That's a moral issue now.

Another moral issue: Debt! It's -- it's generational theft. We're spending money from generations we won't even meet.

And dependence. Another moral issue. It's a national weakness.

People cannot stand up for themselves. They can't make it themselves. And we're encouraging them to sit down, shut up, and don't think.

And the conservative who can't connect with fiscal prudence, and connect fiscal prudence to moral duty, you're not a conservative at all.

Being a conservative today, means you have to rebuild an economy that serves liberty, not one that serves -- survives by debt, and then there's the soul of the nation.

We are living through a time period. An age of dislocation. Where our families are fractured.

Our faith is almost gone.

Meaning is evaporating so fast. Nobody knows what meaning of life is. That's why everybody is killing themselves. They have no meaning in life. And why they don't have any meaning, is truth itself is mocked and blurred and replaced by nothing, but lies and noise.

If you want to be a conservative, then you have to be to become the moral compass that reminds a lost people, liberty cannot survive without virtue.

That freedom untethered from moral order is nothing, but chaos!

And that no app, no algorithm, no ideology is ever going to fill the void, where meaning used to live!

To be a conservative, moving forward, we cannot just be about policies.

We have to defend the sacred, the unseen, the moral architecture, that gives people an identity. So how do you do that? Well, we have to rebuild competence. We have to restore institutions that actually work. Just in the last hour, this monologue on what we're facing now, because we can't open the government.

Why can't we open the government?

Because government is broken. Why does nobody care? Because education is broken.

We have to reclaim education, not as propaganda, but as the formation of the mind and the soul. Conservatives have to champion innovation.

Not to imitate Silicon Valley's chaos, but to harness technology in defense of human dignity. Don't be afraid of AI.

Know what it is. Know it's a tool. It's a tool to strengthen people. As long as you always remember it's a tool. Otherwise, you will lose your humanity to it!

That's a conservative principle. To be a conservative, we have to restore local strength. Our families are the basic building blocks, our schools, our churches, and our charities. Not some big, distant NGO that was started by the Tides Foundation, but actual local charities, where you see people working. A web of voluntary institutions that held us together at one point. Because when Washington fails, and it will, it already has, the neighborhood has to stand.

Charlie Kirk was doing one thing that people on our side were not doing. Speaking to the young.

But not in nostalgia.

Not in -- you know, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan.

In purpose. They don't remember. They don't remember who Dick Cheney was.

I was listening to Fox news this morning, talking about Dick Cheney. And there was somebody there that I know was not even born when Dick Cheney. When the World Trade Center came down.

They weren't even born. They were telling me about Dick Cheney.

And I was like, come on. Come on. Come on.

If you don't remember who Dick Cheney was, how are you going to remember 9/11. How will you remember who Reagan was.

That just says, that's an old man's creed. No, it's not.

It's the ultimate timeless rebellion against tyranny in all of its forms. Yes, and even the tyranny of despair, which is eating people alive!

We need to redefine ourselves. Because we have changed, and that's a good thing. The creed for a generation, that will decide the fate of the republic, is what we need to find.

A conservative in 2025, '26.

Is somebody who protects the enduring principles of American liberty and self-government.

While actively stewarding the institutions. The culture. The economy of this nation!

For those who are alive and yet to be unborn.

We have to be a group of people that we're not anchored in the past. Or in rage! But in reason. And morality. Realism. And hope for the future.

We're the stewards! We're the ones that have to relight the torch, not just hold it. We didn't -- we didn't build this Torch. We didn't make this Torch. We're the keepers of the flame, but we are honor-bound to pass that forward, and conservatives are viewed as people who just live in the past. We're not here to merely conserve the past, but to renew it. To sort it. What worked, what didn't work. We're the ones to say to the world, there's still such a thing as truth. There's still such a thing as virtue. You can deny it all you want.

But the pain will only get worse. There's still such a thing as America!

And if now is not the time to renew America. When is that time?

If you're not the person. If we're not the generation to actively stand and redefine and defend, then who is that person?

We are -- we are supposed to preserve what works.

That -- you know, I was writing something this morning.

I was making notes on this. A constitutionalist is for restraint. A progressive, if you will, for lack of a better term, is for more power.

Progressives want the government to have more power.

Conservatives are for more restraint.

But the -- for the American eagle to fly, we must have both wings.

And one can't be stronger than the other.

We as a conservative, are supposed to look and say, no. Don't look at that. The past teaches us this, this, and this. So don't do that.

We can't do that. But there are these things that we were doing in the past, that we have to jettison. And maybe the other side has a good idea on what should replace that. But we're the ones who are supposed to say, no, but remember the framework.

They're -- they can dream all they want.
They can come up with all these utopias and everything else, and we can go, "That's a great idea."

But how do we make it work with this framework? Because that's our job. The point of this is, it takes both. It takes both.

We have to have the customs and the moral order. And the practices that have stood the test of time, in trial.

We -- we're in an amazing, amazing time. Amazing time.

We live at a time now, where anything -- literally anything is possible!

I don't want to be against stuff. I want to be for the future. I want to be for a rich, dynamic future. One where we are part of changing the world for the better!

Where more people are lifted out of poverty, more people are given the freedom to choose, whatever it is that they want to choose, as their own government and everything.

I don't want to force it down anybody's throat.

We -- I am so excited to be a shining city on the hill again.

We have that opportunity, right in front of us!

But not in we get bogged down in hatred, in division.

Not if we get bogged down into being against something.

We must be for something!

I know what I'm for.

Do you?

From Pharaoh to Hamas: The same spirit of evil, new disguise

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The drone footage out of Gaza isn’t just war propaganda — it’s a glimpse of the same darkness that once convinced men they were righteous for killing innocents.

Evil introduces itself subtly. It doesn’t announce, “Hi, I’m here to destroy you.” It whispers. It flatters. It borrows the language of justice, empathy, and freedom, twisting them until hatred sounds righteous and violence sounds brave.

We are watching that same deception unfold again — in the streets, on college campuses, and in the rhetoric of people who should know better. It’s the oldest story in the world, retold with new slogans.

Evil wins when good people mirror its rage.

A drone video surfaced this week showing Hamas terrorists staging the “discovery” of a hostage’s body. They pushed a corpse out of a window, dragged it into a hole, buried it, and then called in aid workers to “find” what they themselves had planted. It was theater — evil, disguised as victimhood. And it was caught entirely on camera.

That’s how evil operates. It never comes in through the front door. It sneaks in, often through manipulative pity. The same spirit animates the moral rot spreading through our institutions — from the halls of universities to the chambers of government.

Take Zohran Mamdani, a New York assemblyman who has praised jihadists and defended pro-Hamas agitators. His father, a Columbia University professor, wrote that America and al-Qaeda are morally equivalent — that suicide bombings shouldn’t be viewed as barbaric. Imagine thinking that way after watching 3,000 Americans die on 9/11. That’s not intellectualism. That’s indoctrination.

Often, that indoctrination comes from hostile foreign actors, peddled by complicit pawns on our own soil. The pro-Hamas protests that erupted across campuses last year, for example, were funded by Iran — a regime that murders its own citizens for speaking freely.

Ancient evil, new clothes

But the deeper danger isn’t foreign money. It’s the spiritual blindness that lets good people believe resentment is justice and envy is discernment. Scripture talks about the spirit of Amalek — the eternal enemy of God’s people, who attacks the weak from behind while the strong look away. Amalek never dies; it just changes its vocabulary and form with the times.

Today, Amalek tweets. He speaks through professors who defend terrorism as “anti-colonial resistance.” He preaches from pulpits that call violence “solidarity.” And he recruits through algorithms, whispering that the Jews control everything, that America had it coming, that chaos is freedom. Those are ancient lies wearing new clothes.

When nations embrace those lies, it’s not the Jews who perish first. It’s the nations themselves. The soul dies long before the body. The ovens of Auschwitz didn’t start with smoke; they started with silence and slogans.

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A time for choosing

So what do we do? We speak truth — calmly, firmly, without venom. Because hatred can’t kill hatred; it only feeds it. Truth, compassion, and courage starve it to death.

Evil wins when good people mirror its rage. That’s how Amalek survives — by making you fight him with his own weapons. The only victory that lasts is moral clarity without malice, courage without cruelty.

The war we’re fighting isn’t new. It’s the same battle between remembrance and amnesia, covenant and chaos, humility and pride. The same spirit that whispered to Pharaoh, to Hitler, and to every mob that thought hatred could heal the world is whispering again now — on your screens, in your classrooms, in your churches.

Will you join it, or will you stand against it?

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Bill Gates ends climate fear campaign, declares AI the future ruler

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The Big Tech billionaire once said humanity must change or perish. Now he claims we’ll survive — just as elites prepare total surveillance.

For decades, Americans have been told that climate change is an imminent apocalypse — the existential threat that justifies every intrusion into our lives, from banning gas stoves to rationing energy to tracking personal “carbon scores.”

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates helped lead that charge. He warned repeatedly that the “climate disaster” would be the greatest crisis humanity would ever face. He invested billions in green technology and demanded the world reach net-zero emissions by 2050 “to avoid catastrophe.”

The global contest is no longer over barrels and pipelines — it is over who gets to flip the digital switch.

Now, suddenly, he wants everyone to relax: Climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise” after all.

Gates was making less of a scientific statement and more of a strategic pivot. When elites retire a crisis, it’s never because the threat is gone — it’s because a better one has replaced it. And something else has indeed arrived — something the ruling class finds more useful than fear of the weather.The same day Gates downshifted the doomsday rhetoric, Amazon announced it would pay warehouse workers $30 an hour — while laying off 30,000 people because artificial intelligence will soon do their jobs.

Climate panic was the warm-up. AI control is the main event.

The new currency of power

The world once revolved around oil and gas. Today, it revolves around the electricity demanded by server farms, the chips that power machine learning, and the data that can be used to manipulate or silence entire populations. The global contest is no longer over barrels and pipelines — it is over who gets to flip the digital switch. Whoever controls energy now controls information. And whoever controls information controls civilization.

Climate alarmism gave elites a pretext to centralize power over energy. Artificial intelligence gives them a mechanism to centralize power over people. The future battles will not be about carbon — they will be about control.

Two futures — both ending in tyranny

Americans are already being pushed into what look like two opposing movements, but both leave the individual powerless.

The first is the technocratic empire being constructed in the name of innovation. In its vision, human work will be replaced by machines, and digital permissions will subsume personal autonomy.

Government and corporations merge into a single authority. Your identity, finances, medical decisions, and speech rights become access points monitored by biometric scanners and enforced by automated gatekeepers. Every step, purchase, and opinion is tracked under the noble banner of “efficiency.”

The second is the green de-growth utopia being marketed as “compassion.” In this vision, prosperity itself becomes immoral. You will own less because “the planet” requires it. Elites will redesign cities so life cannot extend beyond a 15-minute walking radius, restrict movement to save the Earth, and ration resources to curb “excess.” It promises community and simplicity, but ultimately delivers enforced scarcity. Freedom withers when surviving becomes a collective permission rather than an individual right.

Both futures demand that citizens become manageable — either automated out of society or tightly regulated within it. The ruling class will embrace whichever version gives them the most leverage in any given moment.

Climate panic was losing its grip. AI dependency — and the obedience it creates — is far more potent.

The forgotten way

A third path exists, but it is the one today’s elites fear most: the path laid out in our Constitution. The founders built a system that assumes human beings are not subjects to be monitored or managed, but moral agents equipped by God with rights no government — and no algorithm — can override.

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That idea remains the most “disruptive technology” in history. It shattered the belief that people need kings or experts or global committees telling them how to live. No wonder elites want it erased.

Soon, you will be told you must choose: Live in a world run by machines or in a world stripped down for planetary salvation. Digital tyranny or rationed equality. Innovation without liberty or simplicity without dignity.

Both are traps.

The only way

The only future worth choosing is the one grounded in ordered liberty — where prosperity and progress exist alongside moral responsibility and personal freedom and human beings are treated as image-bearers of God — not climate liabilities, not data profiles, not replaceable hardware components.

Bill Gates can change his tune. The media can change the script. But the agenda remains the same.

They no longer want to save the planet. They want to run it, and they expect you to obey.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

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From Pharaoh to Hamas: The same spirit of evil, new disguise

The drone footage out of Gaza isn’t just war propaganda — it’s a glimpse of the same darkness that once convinced men they were righteous for killing innocents.

Evil wins when good people mirror its rage.

Ancient evil, new clothes

A time for choosing

Bill Gates ends climate fear campaign, declares AI the future ruler

The Big Tech billionaire once said humanity must change or perish. Now he claims we’ll survive — just as elites prepare total surveillance.

The global contest is no longer over barrels and pipelines — it is over who gets to flip the digital switch.

The new currency of power

Two futures — both ending in tyranny

The forgotten way

The only way