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Style liberalism is obsolete. >> if you look at what's happening in los angeles where it's so sad to look and what's happening in san francisco and a couple of other cities which are run by an extraordinary group of liberal people. i don't know what they're thinking. >> the question, i guess -- >> i don't mind that he doesn't know who john lock is or john stewart mill who are great beacons of liberalism. what's sad is he doesn't understand is we are the product of western liberalism, that the post cold war order of freedom and democracy and globalization was something that we created and we co...

Those amendments had to be adopted by, what, the states. and it's often said while, quote, unquote states rights, i call it federalism, is a problem because you look at it pre-civil war, it's the states that fought the states and i know it's the union but in the end it was states fighting states and it was states that passed the post civil war amendments, abolishing slavery, conferring equal rights formally and due process on former slaves. when you look at the declaration of independence, there's no reference there to religion, race, sex, or anything. >> intentional. mark: intentional. they w...

Law, but it only gives the laws to the jews, see? they're the ones who have to bear to burden, right? whereas, in christianity, there are no courts, judges, no legislatures appointed, so you still have government, you have to have government, people are made in their nature to live under law, but now there has to be a limit on the law. the law can't mess with your religion or your conscience more generally. you have a right to exercise your religion as you wish, and john lock more than anybody else, and along with others, laid out the ground of how government would work like that now, which is...

That john lock that is so important that goes along with the birth of universal monotheism. mark: that is universal monotheism? >> well, it starts with the jews and the christians. so if you just think of abraham's god's covenant with abraham, i will be your god, and you will be my people, and this will be a blessing to all the peoples of the earth. you know, the jews have a hard deal. as you know, right? because they're the chosen people. turns out that's hard duty, you know? lot goes wrong when you're the chosen people and much is expected of you, right? but once you've got that kind of idea...

On their backs, nor others booted and spurred them to ride them by the grace of god. men cannot be ruled the way horses can be ruled, because they're not the same thing, and the laws of nature, nature is a very rich word, and it means that each kind of thing has an essence of its own, i is entitled to protection and the essence.hat go with that mark: this is crucially important, isn't it? we're really the only country that was founded on these ideas, on these principles, on these truisms. as a matter of fact, john lock, was the most important philosopher on the revolutionary period, correct? p...