View to hold conservative ideals that built this country. Programs like this conference to promote individual freedom Free Enterprise, Strong National defense and traditional values. Each year the foundation succeeds in introducing thousands of people to these ideas through conferences, internships, campus lectures americans for freedom, president of entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise and National Journalism center. In 1998 the foundation stepped forward, Ronald Reagans ranch in the sky. His ranch is fundamental in helping our ability to build on his ideas to future generations. For more information on our mission or programs you can visit www. Ef. Org or call 800usa1776. Our first speaker today is one of the most distinguished leaders of the conservative movement. Dinesh dsouza is at the forefront of the movement for 25 years as a writer, scholar and documentary movie producer. He also served as fellow at the American Enterprise institute and robert and karen rish wing fellow at the Hoover Institution at stanford university. The president of Kings College in 2010 to 2005. In 1995 he published the end of racism which became one of the most controversial books of the time and a national bestseller. 1997 book ronald reagan, how ordinary man became an extraordinary leader was the first book to make the case for reagans intellectual and political importance. In 2002 he published his New York Times bestseller what is so great about america which was critically acclaimed for its thoughtful patriotism. His 2003 book letters to a young conservative is a handbook for a new generation of Young Conservatives inspired by his style and ideas. Dinesh dsouza stands out as an incredible speaker not only has he encountered Great Success in literature but film. He infiltrated liberal hollywood and produce three of the most successful political documentaries in history. s most recent, critically acclaimed documentary that will change the landscape of the news cycle from now until november launched nationwide july 15th to become the highest grossing documentary. Before we bring Dinesh Dsouza to the stage, look at this. Who are these democrats . It is my judgment Dinesh Dsouza was on tuesday spending eight months in a private ceremony. It all began when the Obama Administration tried to shut me up. What did i learn . All crime is about stealing. The big criminals are still at large. Didnt see any reason to keep him. The system doesnt go after them because they rot the system. It is time to go behind the curtain and discover the soul of the Democratic Party. 50 lashes. The democrats support slavery. The Civil Rights Act will allow colored men to sit at the same table as a white guest. Democrats are now selling arms to the ku klux klan. The Democratic Party has always been swept under the rug. We are not even talking about ancient history. Racism continues. As long as the black men ravage our white women we will continue to lynch him. Got to give them a little salt. Democrats went from slavery to enslavement. Corrupt bigcity bosses and corrupt unions. Social engineering, social control. The opening video of the Democratic Convention in 2012, government is the one thing we all belong to. Government belongs to us, we dont belong to it. What i democrats hiding. Four oligarchs and governments. When we follow the money there are very few. What is the goal of the Democratic Party . To steal the most valuable thing the world has ever produced. What if their plan is to steal america . Who will stop them now . [applause] thank you very much. It is always an honor and privilege to be here at the Young America Foundation Summer conference. I am thrilled to be accompanied by my wife debbie. We are both immigrants. Debbie is from venezuela and me from india. Whenever i look at you guys i always think about when i first came to america i was 17 years old and i was an Exchange Student from india going to Public School in arizona and the airplane descending on new york city, i looked out the window and saw the skyline of new york, i saw the statue of liberty, kind of a strange feeling came over me because i realized my life from that moment on would be totally different. I realized even without being political, intuitively i was moving from the margin of the world to the center. I realized i might be able to do things with my life that i would not be able to do if i had stayed back in india. Here in america, i have experienced the American Dream which is not just a dream of economic success or opportunity. It is a dream of being able to be the architect of your own destiny. It is a dream of being able to write a script of your own life. Here in america comparing billy or james, what do you want to be when i grow up . They can advise you but at the end of the day they know it is you who will fly, the answer to that question. Fastforward 25 years, a year ago i found myself locked up in a federal Consignment Center under the supervision of the bureau of prisons of the Obama Administration with 120 seasoned hoodlums. I was going to say season to those like myself but they were seasoned hoodlums and this was for my crime of exceeding the Campaign Finance limit, i had given 20,000 to a College Friend of mine who was running for the senate. Normally this is an offense when there is no corruption, you arent trying to buy favors or do any underhanded dealings, normally this is to the federal election commission, not a criminal matter at all, you get a fine, continued service. In my case the Obama Administration prosecuted me with the full force of the law, unleashed a battery of fbi agents on me to get my assistant to wear a hidden wire as if i was out capone. There i was in a federal courtroom hearing a bailiff markout the phrase United States of america versus Dinesh Dsouza. Kind of chilling feeling down your spine when you are an immigrant. Did i exceed the Campaign Finance law . Yes. But no american has been locked up for doing what i did. Write about the same time my case was migrating through the court another guy whose name was and asian indian guy, we Asian Indians specialize in campaign violations, in any event, he gave 180,000 in fraud donations to Hillary Clinton and a group of other democratic candidates. He was also found guilty of witness tampering and openly boasted about his corruption, trying to buy these politicians. This guy gets no prison, no confinement. I mention this because justice is not simply a matter of did you break the law. Justice is a matter of does the penalty fit the crime . Did other guys who did the same thing get roughly the same penalty . I can see from my case the progressive justice that i was subjected to was a sham, this was actually a kind of selective prosecution. Why do i think that . Just a few months earlier i had made the film 2016 Obamas America in which i got not only into obamas world but obamas head. You will say what makes you think the president of the United States, relatively busy man, would care what you do . The reason i know he did is right after the film came out, the attacks on me and the movie began to appear on a website called barack obama. Com. These attacks were unsigned but if you read them closely in their peculiar mixture of arrogance, incoherence, pomposity, one could recognize the unmistakable signature of the man who currently occupies the white house. This was why i found myself in federal Confinement Center. Initially i was jubilant, the Obama Administration wanted to lock me up for two years. Had they succeeded, there is no way i could have made this movie on hillary. I would be locked up now. Instead i got eight months Confinement Center in which i would spend the nights in a dorm, about the size of this room, with 120 other guys who had served prison sentences. These were not whitecollar guys. Maybe 5 to 8 whitecollar criminals. The rest of them were drug smugglers, coyotes, armed robbers, rapists, the whole gamut of very rough guys. Initially i was terrified, the majority were hispanic but everybody seemed to be in some group or gang and the gangs were complex. Even the hispanics werent in one game. The american hispanics had their own gang and mexicans had their gang so i am like i cant do this because that guy will want to kill me. I did consider starting my own gang, the asian indian gang. But after about a month i thought to myself look. I am in a strange place. I am an anthropologist in a strange land. This is not a place you normally find conservatives. I wont walked down the wall and see Charles Krauthammer or george will so i said let me talk to these guys, learn the ideology of the criminal underclass. My previous exposure to this ideology, two versions of the Shawshank Redemption in which i had the idea all criminals insist they never did it. They are totally innocent. And talking to these guys over a period of many weeks, the view is somewhat different and more interesting. They did it, we are guilty. But we are the stupid criminals, we are the guys who got caught, that is why we are here. We are also the small fry. The big fry never get caught. They are out there. The big fry are not even pursued by the system because they run the system. They have connections that protect them. So this got me thinking because for 25 years i look at american politics has a kind of debate. We are the conservatives and we believe this and the liberals believe that the republicans are for equality of rights and the democrats are for equality of outcomes. It is the view of the criminal underclass that this way of thinking of american politics is total and complete nonsense. Why . Because human nature isnt motivated that way. Human nature is not motivated by it. Human beings are motivated by inquisitiveness and greed and lust and rage and anger and hatred and revenge and if these motives drive human life why should politics be immune or exempt . We need a wider angle of vision to see politics in its full motive which is not merely idealistic but realistic. Why do people do what they do . What motivates obama . I would like to talk about that briefly this morning. I will begin by talking about the Democratic Party. I am a creature of the reagan revolution. Reagan used to say in the 80s i didnt leave the Democratic Party, it left me. Now you get the idea that the Democratic Party was a good party and do was humming along pretty well until the late 60s or the Mcgovern Campaign when it went off the rails. I regret to say this is one area where reagan was wrong. As i began to look at this subject and research it, began to realize the Democratic Party has actually had assorted strain that has defined this party from the very beginning. The reason we dont know about it, reagan didnt know about it, because of the success of progressive historiography, the progressives have been ingenious at covering their tracks. I will start by giving a small example of this because it pertains to one of the horrific events of the 20th century, the holocaust. In the 1930s the Democratic Party was fascinated by fascism and not to use them. If this seems unbelievable, young john f. Kennedy went to nazi germany in the 30s and came back excited about hitler, full of praise of hitler, called him a legend, there are people who dont like hitler but they are jealous of him, he said the nazis claim to be superior, the nordic people are better than everybody else and goes that is because they are. This is jfk. I should tell you nothing i am about to say this morning is controversial in the sense of it is debated whether it occurred. You can google jfk nazi germany 1930 on your phone and in 30 seconds you will see the what i just said to you is true. Fdr was enamored by mussolini. Of the are dispatched members of his brain trust to study italian fascism because he thought it was more progressive than the new deal and he thought he could enforce ideas from italian fascism, this is not a 1way fascination. It was actually a mutual admiration society. Mussolini reviewed fdrs book in an italian magazine. He loved it. He goes my conclusion upon reading this book, this guy is one of us, he is a fascist. This is mussolini. After world war ii progressive historians looked at all this and went well, fascism now carries the order of the holocaust, the gas chambers, we cant have this kind of stuff in the textbooks. Young people might find out about it. Lets make sure we prudently leave it out. We are not going to lie about it, we are just not going to say anything about it. This is a small but telling example of the way in which two of the great progressive thinkers of the 20th century, jfk and fdr, have been protected by the progressive left. Lets continue with fdr for a moment, fdr when he was elected wanted to push through the new deal. He needed the support of other democrats and the Democratic Party in fdrs time was racist to the core. Needed racist democrats to get the deal through. Please support the new deal, i will give all kinds of benefits, build the Tennessee Valley project in your neighborhood, the racist democrats, that is not enough. And agreed to block all antilynching laws proposed by the republicans, fdr agrees. The two main occupations blacks are in, mainly Domestic Service and Agricultural Labor are excluded from most new deal programs. No new deal for blacks. Here is the progressive hero of the 20th century completely in bed with the worst racists in america who were a critical part of getting the new deal through. Once again this is a fact. Lets take in the big picture. The big picture can be summarized as follows. The Democratic Party who founded it, right away this who started the Democratic Party . We know Abraham Lincoln was the founder of the Republican Party who started the Democratic Party . It was fdr . There was a Democratic Party in the 19th century. Thomas jefferson . It wasnt jefferson. Jeffersons party was called the democratic Republican Party. It split and became the Democratic Party, later the Republican Party. Andrew jackson, the founder of the Democratic Party, Andrew Jackson is a controversial figure. Because of his indian wars and a savage indian fighter, i want to highlight aside of Andrew Jackson, that never mentioned this. Andrew jackson figured out to profit greatly for public policy. Profit from public policy. Jackson was ready to have a fight with indians, pushed them for the west. This land would be auctioned off the settlers. Since Andrew Jackson new which would become available, before the flight, would send in his private surveyor. It was reported privately to him. He would contact his buddies who were investors and they would bid on the land before it became available for sales. They had been on the land before the indians were thrown off the land. To use the phrase from Hillary Clinton, dead broke to becoming one of the richest men in the country. In todays money, over 100 million. He took this money and bought a big slave plantation in tennessee. Why do i tell you this . The roots of the clinton foundation, can be found in the land stealing policies of Andrew Jackson. The stuff we see today, to market policy. Think of the clintons if i could fastforward a little bit, the clintons, the clintons didnt come into politics with money. Jfk was rich. The clintons came into politics but didnt have a lot of money. How do you go from 0 to 300 million on government salary. How do you accumulate a total of 3 billion when you havent done anything. You didnt start a business. How do you do that . Is there a plausible way to imagine how that could legitimately occur . No, no. And corkery, to market policy, for private benefit, back to the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party began not only as the party of Indian Relocation but the party of slavery. Democrats didnt invent slavery. Slavery has been around since the dawn of mankind but the democrats something called the positive good school of slavery. They invented the idea that slavery is good, not merely for the master but for the slave. This is unbelievable. Historically people who defended slavery like aristotle said slavery is a function of regrettable necessity. Dirty work to be done, someone has to do it, that is why we have slaves. Democrats came up with the idea that slavery benefits the slave. I say this because there is an echo today in the way democrats run what i call urban plantations. On the same rationale. Our urban plantations benefit the people who live on those plantations. This is an echo of the proslavery movement of the 19th century. Democrats defended slavery consistently, the civil war is understood better as a fight not between the north and the south but between the proslavery Democratic Party and the antislavery Republican Party. We think of the civil war as a north south fight, amazingly, this way of thinking of it is itself a triumph of progressive historiography. The progressives took their own crime, the crimes of the Democratic Party and said lets blame the south, lets get it off ourselves by making the south the bad guy, lets make the civil war the antislavery north and the proslavery south but right away if you pause you think wait a minute, did most southerners owned slaves . 3 fourths of the people who fought on the confederate side of the civil war did not own slaves. By the same token the northern democrats rejected slavery with the gray same aggressive enthusiasm as the 7 democrats but slavery wasnt is having thing, the northern democrats were covering for too so right away the north south divide, the south did secede. The actual argument was between the two parties. After slavery the Democratic Party was in a funk. They had lost their biggest stealing projects. Lincoln called it you work i eat. Stealing a mans labor. And jim crow, lynching and the ku klux klan. The other four landmark them aquatic Party Policies after slavery. It may seem exaggerating a little bit, segregation, wait a minute, every segregation law without exception was backed by Democratic Legislature and signed by democratic governor. There is no exception to this rule. The clan was founded by Nathan Bedford force, delegate of the Democratic National convention and for 30 years the ku klux klan served as domestic terrorist arm of the Democratic Party. This is not my way of putting it, progressive historian eric voter, i am quoting him from his book on reconstruction. The clan had a revival in the early 20th century on account of Woodrow Wilson who showed approach ku klux klan moving in the white house called birth of a nation that revived the clan not only in the south but also in the midwest and the west. In the 20th century the democrats became the party for sterilization, eugenics and social darwinism and later, later progressivism became it metamorphosed into a new scam. I mentioned earlier about fascism and how the progressives cover their tracks. The great genius of progressive historiography, and blame them on the south. The most important intellectual task of my book is to debunk and destroy the myths of the big switch. Whats the big switch . The basic idea is, well, gee, now that youve kind of got the goods on us, we admit that we did all this bad stuff, but just kind of at the last minute we changed. We democrats saw the light and became the good guys, and all the racists became republicans. This is the big switch. Now, this is a very cunning argument because on surface it appears to be supported by two momentous facts. The first fact is that blacks, who used to vote republican, do in fact vote democrat. And so this would seem to support the idea there must have been some kind of a switch. Dont blacks realize today that their friends are the democrats . Why else would they switch . Number two, southern whites who used to be monolithically democratic have now, in fact, become largely republican. So that, too, appears to corroborate the notion of the big switch. I want to tell you why the big switch is a big lie. First of all, lets start with blacks. Blacks did switch but not because of race. When did blacks switch from being republicans to being democrats . Blacks switched during the era of the new deal, the new deal. Why . Because the conditions were economically desperate. Essentially, they were bribed into doing it. The blacks who switched knew that they were leaving the party of lincoln and emancipation and joining the party of segregation and the cue ku klux klan. But they did it anyway. Now, i dont blame them because conditions in the depression were terrible. But long term this has proven to be a really bad deal for blacks. Ill come to that in a minute. And i want to turn to southern whites. When did whites switch from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party . They actually switched between the 1970s and the 1990s. Why . The reason that southern whites switched is not because of racism, but it was because of the decline of racism. In other words, if you look at survey data, you can see that racism is declining dramatically in the south in the second half of the 20th century. So as the south becomes less racist, it becomes more republican. You can just chart those two things, and you can see that theres an inverse connection between as racism goes down in the south, the republicanism of the south becomes stronger. In other words, the Republican Party won over the nonracists in the south who identified with patriotism, Economic Opportunity and social conservativism. Christianity. Now, did the racist dixiecrats in the south become republicans . Answer no. The whole case that claims the big switch relies on one guy, strom thurmond. Strom thurmond was a dixiecrat. He did become a republican, but he was pretty much the only one. You can make a list of dozens if not hundreds of racist dixiecrats. You can do this very easily yourself, and you will see the vast, vast majority of them remained in the Democratic Party. They felt more comfortable in the party of bigotry than they would in the Republican Party. This is a fact. So the big switch is bogus. Well, but didnt Richard Nixon have a southern strategy . No. Richard nixon did not have a southern strategy, and if he had a southern strategy, it didnt work because the deep south went for wallace. Wallace was the guy whose slogan was segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. I dont have to tell you that wallace was a democrat. He carried the deep south, not nixon. Now, this may all seem like im fighting about history, but its very important history. Why . Because the moral capital of the Democratic Party comes from the idea that the Democratic Party are the good guys. Theyre the good guys. They have always been the good guys. They have always been fighting for the little guy and the ordinary man. Theyve been fighting for immigrants and latinos and blacks. In fact, the Democratic Party is the deadly enemy of the ordinary guy. They have been an antiimmigrant party from the beginning, they have been the enslavers and session regators and tormenters and murderers of blacks. You might say, well, what about today . What about today . So i was in philadelphia a couple days ago, kind of trolling the Democratic Convention, and then i decided to take a walk. And about a mile away, you see a very interesting sight. A real contrast with the glitz of the convention. And that sight is im going to call it the urban plantation, the urban plantation. Now, this may seem like a little bit, dinesh, you know, youre being a little bit strong here. Plantations . Are you comparing the old slave plantation to whats happening in inner city philadelphia . Actually, yes. Lets look at the features of the old slave plantation. Im going to mention five. And i draw this from the historian kenneth stamp in his book on the plantation called the peculiar institution. So he points out that on the old slave plantation we had ramshackle dwellings. In other words, rundown quarters called slave quarters, number one. Number two, a Family Structure in complete disarray. Obviously, children could be bought and sold under slavery, so the Family Structure was in ruin, a lot of illegitimacy on the plantation, mulattos running around. Number two, family disfunction. Number three, a high degree of violence. Slavery is based on force. You have to force people to work. Its not easy to do that if you dont have is whips, if you dont have the display of actual force. Four, everybody has a meager provision. So you basically have food, if you get sick, they call the doctor, you have health care. I dont think they called it obamacare in those days. But theres no opportunity. Nobody gets ahead. Everybodys stuck where they are, and there is no advancement. No education. And nihilism, hopelessness, despair. So now i ask you, is it not a fact that if we walked today through inner city oakland, detroit, chicago, philadelphia, dallas that you see exactly the same features today . The rural plantation and its characteristics have been transplanted. And this is particularly interesting since the same party and, in effect, the same people are running both. The difference is that in the old days the democrats were stealing peoples labor, and today their only interest in these people is their votes. Thats all they want, thats all that they care about. And, in fact, they have a vested interest that those peoples lives never get better. Never get better. Trillions of dollars have been spent to fix these places, they never get fixed. Theyre about where they were in 1968. How is this possible . In fact, anytime someone wants to gentrify the inner city, hightech Companies Come and go, listen, were going to create lofts, were going to create new living spaces, hightech companies, starbucks will come in, everything will be safe, therell be a lot of ladders to progress, they fight it tooth and nail. Why . Because if you give people ladders of opportunity, they have no reason to want to be democrats, and the Democratic Party knows that. So the point im trying to make, and ill kind of wrap it up here, history is not dead. People say we immediate to know history so we dont repeat them. No. You need to know history because youre living it. History is with us today. The echoes of the past are in the present. For most of my career, i was a writer and speaker. The reason ive gone into making movies is movies appeal to the head and the heart. Movies are a way to reach a wider audience. Movies have the potential of recreating and telling stories that people can see and identify with. And yet if you see the movie and it makes all kinds of extraordinary claims and you go, what . And a lot of people go what, theyre substantiated in my book. I say in the film, for example, i have this line that in 1860, the year of the civil war, no republican owned a slave. None. All the slaves in the entire country were owned by democrats. And, again, people go is this, are you serious . Is this really true . It is i true. The leftwing critics are thrashing around trying to scream at the movie, scream at the book, they cant find one little fact in the entire movie or the entire book that they can even plausibly dispute, let alone refute. They cant do it. And so they engage in their usual rhetoric, this is paranoid, its delusional, blah, blah, blah, its just a squidlike cloud of empty rhetoric. And me . I love it. I love this stuff, because i love seeing my opponents thrashing around helplessly looking for weapons and not being able to find any. So i urge you as young people to learn and to equip yourselves and become very dangerous americans. Our times demand it. Normally, we dont need it. In fact, normally we dont even need to know about the founding that much. We have a great country. Its kind of like your house. You dont need to know the blueprints of your house. You just sleep on the couch, walk in the hallways. Its only when your house begins to shake that you say, hey, i better get up in the attic, i better figure out how this thing was put together. We are living in such a time. And so i want to encourage you to be smart, strategic, creative and brave. Aristotle says that bravery is the most important, courage, the most important of all the virtues because it takes courage to carry out all the other virtues. And that is very much needed today; creativity, knowledge and bravery. And armed with those things, we can help america, we can restore america, we can save america. This has been a very bad obama period weve been living through. American influence is down, obamas doubled the national debt. Hillary, i think, is even worse. Hillary, i think, is worse than obama because obamas at least ideological. He has a goal. You may not agree with the goal, but his goal is principled. He has a direction he wants to take america, to remake america. Clintons are bonnie and clyde. Theyve been running rackets since the arkansas days. When they were in the white house, they were renting out the lincoln bedroom for monies. Taking things off the walls, later forced to return it. And then on to the clinton foundation. I mean, my gosh. Weve had corruption in politics before, tammany hall in new york, the daily racket in chicago. Weve never had a secretary of state whos figured out how to make money on Foreign Policy by collecting money from canadian billionaires who want mineral rights, by selling out to russian oligarchs, by intercepting aid money, for gods sake, intended for earthquake relief in haiti. It doesnt get to haiti. It gets to the coffers of the clintons, and haitians are standing outside the clinton foundation, tell me, bill, tell me, hillary, wheres the Haiti Earthquake money . And this is going on. And the media is not to be seen. Why . Because this is super embarrassing. Its one thing for democrats to rob from the rich. Thats kind of an accomplishment. But robbing from the poor does carry a certainties taste with it. A certain distaste with it. So progressives decide just what i told you about fascism, lets kind of leave that off the news. Lets not highlight that one. Its not going to make our gal look all that good. This is our predicament. This is our time. Our generation, the reagan generation, is handing the baton to yours. May you be worthy of it. Thank you very much. [applause] we have a but the minutes for questions a few minutes for questions, and ill be delighted to answer a few. If youre short, ill take a lot of them. Go for it. My name is stephen hayes, i go to the university of colorado. I was wondering, what do you expect Hillary Clinton to focus on in her speech tonight . Tonight i think hillary will focus on the fact that the democrats have always been the party of civil rights and human rights and women. She will claim the historic mantle of being a historic first. I mean, i think it is she will be kind of a historic first. Weve never had a female mob boss run this country, so she would be a historic first. No. Well hear the usual dog and pony show, and our movie actually directly contradicts it. So im looking forward to hillary. Shes going to give you the official story, and then Hillarys America is going to give the real story. Yes. Trevor, university of nebraska. I guess as a future history teacher, find all this really interesting. Do you see this trend in the Education System ever changing back to a more, i guess, true historical narrative . And if so, like, are there any specific educational policies you would advocate in order to see that change in Public Education . Thirty years ago as progressives dominated the universities, conservatives had almost no response because its not enough to send dinesh to campus because i speak on monday, i leave on tuesdays. The professors live there. Wed have to start 300 campuses to rival the. Com a nation of the left. The domination of the left. The beauties today because of technology and because of other means of delivering information, movies being one of them, the disinfectant of truth and facts is crushing. Its crushing. Because in some ways precisely because the left has been hiding so much and sweeping it under the rug, thats what gives emotional power to my movie. Imagine if everybody already knew this stuff. Theyd be like, hohum. Tell us something we dont know. Its been kept from you. And once its out there, its kind of a challenge. Ive put down the gauntlet. Okay, if im wrong show me . And im still waiting. And ill be waiting a long time from now. So today facts are very powerful be, but we have to creatively deploy them. If i just wrote it in an oped, no one would see it. But by sticking it on 1200 screens around the country, its a little hard to ignore. Okay . Hi. My name is [inaudible] im a rising freshman at hillsdale college, and my question was based on not so long ago my home state of georgia became a republicantilting state as a result of conservative democrats in my state switching to the Republican Party which solidified republican control of the state legislature. Now, the left still uses that party switching as a result of republicans being racist. How can we refute that . The refutation is in a book by Byron Schafer and Richard Johnston called the end of southern exceptional itch. It divides the south into the most racist people and the nonracists, and it shows that the most racist people never switched. In fact, they felt comfortable staying in the Democratic Party, the nonracists in the south moved over to the Republican Party because of Economic Opportunity. Remember that racism was a technique to provide psychic consolation to the poor white man. It was a way of saying to the poor white man, your life sucks. But the good news is you belong to this exclusive club called for whites only. So each though youre unbelievably stupid and unsuccessful, we are still going to put you on a totem pole that is higher than the most educated black man. This was Democratic Party political strategy for more than half a century in the 20th century. Thats why the democrats held the poor whites. Thats why the poor whites never left the Democratic Party. So its important to fight this big switch nonsense because its the last out for the left. But there is no out because the evidence is the other way. And its important for you to be familiar with, so get the Byron Schafer Richard Johnston book, get my book. Together the two are kind of like one of those muhammad ali onetwo punches. Itll be really helpful. Yes. Hi, im. George washington im from George Washington university, it seems the system is rigged. So my question is, what can we do specifically to get back to the rule of law . Number one, you have to expose the kernel of whats going on. Look what these recent scandals show. Number one, the democrats the party called democrats are rigging their own elections. Unbelievable. Theyre running a sovietstyle election in america. Right . Amazing. Number two, when you listen to the private conversation of democrats, you realize that the the party of racism hasnt changed all that much. Their Hispanic Initiative . They call it the taco bell initiative. They make all kinds of fun of blacks, homosexuals. They want to use Bernie Sanders alleged atheism against him. This is a party in its actual private, you may say uncensored speech. Imagine if this was trump and the republicans, the media would be so all over this. As it is, its once again a progressive embarrassment that the people at npr, the people at abc, cbs, the New York Times, they view their job, this is their job, how do we cover it up. How do we minimize it. We cant deny it, but how do we make it a no big deal, kind of a lets move on . This is how these people think. Thats why its very important for you as young people to think how can i influence the institutions of media, hollywood, comedy and academia. Because we cant allow the left to continue its current monopoly in those areas. Yes. Hello. My name is marlene hadad, and im from connecticut. I recently saw your movie, Hillarys America, and it was amazing. But one of the questions that came to mind when i was watching it was how did you do this, you know . Most of the movies in theaters, everything in hollywood is, has a bias, the liberal bias. So my question really is was there any resistance from the democratic side, from the government when getting your movie in theaters, you know . I mean, you really did expose the true side of Democratic Party and the evils that they do. So the left, it was a very pleasant discovery for me that the left controls hollywood, which is movie production, but it doesnt control movie distribution. Movie distribution is completely different. So bilal lying ourselves with the by allying ourselves with the distributers, i realized, i went to hem and they said, look, dinesh, if you can get people lined up around the block, were happy to put your movie in our theaters. And thats all i needed to hear. So were not, were not part of hollywood. We filmed this whole movie in dallas. And this keeps us outside the influence of hollywood people to be able to torpedo us. Now, the moment the movie comes out, 300 critics are deployed to destroy it. And theyll go, and they will absolutely trash the movie. Happily, most of these people are sort of ignoramuses. Theyre full of bile and hatred, but they dont know anything. 300 to 1 is pretty good odds for me just in terms of knowledge. [laughter] im not saying there arent progressives who are smart. Believe me, there will be they will ultimately deploy powerful historians from bryn mawr and harvard and stanford to go after the movie and the book. And im ready for that. But the point is in the beginning its all these ridiculous people writing out of Greenwich Village and so on, and theyre just sort of they just come up with really big words that impress themselves and so on. So well get 5 on rotten tomatoes, but then well get 90 from the audiences. Audiences love the movie. So the effort to block this movie has not worked, it isnt working. And i think weve shown a path that other conservatives can follow. The important thing to realize about movies is you dont do movies to make messaging. You make movies to entertain. Michael moore knows this. Its one of the few things he does know. People go to the movies for fun. You make an entertaining movie, you can do a lot of messaging. People always say to me, make a movie on obamacare or, on immigration. No. You have to make a movie that has a storyline, that actually has drama, that has plot, narrative, character, suspense. This movies a thriller because hillarys involved, there are elements of horror. Its a little bit of a horror movie. [laughter] but we dont leave people depressed. [applause] hi. My namesalton stevens, im from Coastal Carolina university. I was just wondering if you see a Bright Future for attracting more minorities back into the Republican Party . How do you see that happening, if so . The, two things are going on. One is minorities and particularly blacks have been sold a storyline. The storyline is the Republican Party is the party of bigotry. So its important to correct that perception. Show the Republican Party is actually the party of emancipation, antilynching, antisegregation. The Republican Party has actually fought for immigrants and for blacks and for minorities for the vast majority of its history. Number two, the way that the democrats hold blacks i thought of myself when i came at age of 17 to america you feel a sense of vertigo when you come to a new country. Its scary. You dont know anyone, you have no family, no credit. Youre making your way in a new land. So the Republican Party says climb up ladder of opportunity, but you dont know how to climb. You dont know where that ladder even is. And then the democrats come to you and say, listen, you dont need a ladder. We are standing on the top of the building, well let down a rope. You hang onto the rope. Happening on is easier than climbing hanging on is easier than climbing. Well pull you up. The thing that blacks and hispanics and immigrants dont realize is the democrats have no intention of pulling you all the way up. Their idea is to pull you a little way up and hold and hold. Why . Because then you are suspended in permanent dependence dependency. If you actually climbed up, youd walk off. They cant have that. Theyve got to have you where youre dependent on the rope, where you know that if they let go, down they go. And that keeps them tied to the Democratic Party. Its a form, its a new form of servitude thats going on in america. Except its a much subtler form of servitude than the good old thrash em and keep em down on the plantation approach of the old Democratic Party. We need to expose the urban plantation, and thats where you strip away the moral capital of the progressive democrats. Yes, sir. Good morning, dinesh. Its an honor to have you speaking here at this convention. I just was hoping that maybe you could elaborate a little bit more about your experience, you know, when you were imprisoned and, essentially, by the left being so vocal as you are and how that impacted your view of progressivism and the left. Well, prison is i wasnt in real prison. I was in this Confinement Center, but it was kind of prison. Finish and you see, first of all, even as a conservative it makes you open your eyes, because im very up on america. But im not so up on the way things are done by our government. If you had asked me when i was young that 95 of all people accused of a federal crime plead guilty, i would have said, yeah, thats because most of them did it. Thats why they plead guilty. The government is right to go after them. Now that i know more, i realize thats not the case. The government has ways of making innocent people plead guilty. Its unbelievable. Essentially, its the plea bargain system. They come to a doctor. Lets say they want to get a doctor. Hes done nothing wrong. Our federal statutes are so voluminous and accordionlike that they can find something if not from your tax return, theyll find Something Like didnt you administer Pain Medicine to mrs. Smith . Were going to charge you with the Illegal Administration of illegal drugs. And you say, but she was in pain, im a doctor. They go, i know, but you exceeded the allowable dose of Pain Medicine. Were going to charge you with a crime that will put you away for five years. But you plead guilty, youll get three months, and you can Practice Medicine again. So whats your choice, ruin your entire life, be known as a federal criminal, be locked up