Succeeds in introducing thousands of people with these ideas during numerous conferences on internships, campus lectures, americans for freedom chapters, center for entrepreneurship and free enterprise, and the National Journalism center. In 1998, the foundation stepped forward to save the beloved ranch. His branch has been fundamental in helping with our ability to pass on his ideas to future generations. For more information on our mission or our programs, you can visit www. Yaf. Org or call 1800usa1776. Our speaker today dinesh dissesa former policy analyst at the white house this also served at the American Enterprise institute and the fellow at the Hoover Institution at stanford university. In addition he served as the president of the Kings College from 2010 to 2012. In 1995 he published the end of racism that became the most Controversial Book of the time and the national bestseller. How the ordinary man became an extraordinary leader was the first book to make the case for the intellectual and political importance. In 2002 he published his New York Times bestseller whats so great about america which is critically acclaimed for its patriotism. His 2003 book letters to the Young Conservatives have become a handbook for the generation of conservatives inspired by this title and ideas. The dinesh stand up as we thought only has he encountered Great Success in literature but also film and he managed to infiltrate liberal hollywood and has produced the most successful political documentaries in history. His most recent a criticall criy acclaimed documentary of the news cycle from now until november launched nationwide and has already become the highest grossing documentary. Before we bring into the stage, take a look at this. Who are these democrats it is my judgment was sentenced to spend eight monthss in a confinement 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. The system doesnt go after them because they run the system. Its time to go behind the curtain and discover the soul of the Democratic Party. The Civil Rights Act allows colored man to sit at the same table lighter white guests. [inaudible] to the Democratic Party white has all of this been swept under the rug . We are not even talking about ancient history. As long as they continue to ravish we will take you. The democrats went from slavery to enslavement. Thats how you get a corrupt unions. Social engineering and social control. One of the members is secured. The opening video at the convention, the government is the one thing we all belong to. What are the democrats hiding . When you follow the money there are very few. What is the goal of the Democratic Party to steal the most valuable things 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 for me always an honor and a privilege to be here at the Young Americas Foundation summer conference. Im thrilled to be accompanied by my wife. We are both immigrants, debbie is from Venezuela Venezuela comt from india. Whenever i look at you guys, i always think about when i first came to america i was 17yearsold and i was an Exchange Student from india going to Public School in arizona and remember to send in on new york city i looked out the window and i saw the skyline of new york and the statue of liberty and a strange feeling came over me because i realized my life from that moment on what the totally different. I realized even without being political intuitively that i was moving from the margin of the world to the center and i realized i would be able to do things with my life that i wouldnt be able to do if i had stayed back in india. Here ive experienced the American Dream which isnt just a dream of economic success or opportunity. Its the dream of being able to be the architect of your own destiny. Its the dream of being able to write the script of your own life and for here in america if your parents say to you what do you want to be when you grow up. At the end of the day they know that its you who will supply the answer to that question. Fast forward about 25 years, it was about a year ago i found myself locked up in a federal Confinement Center under the supervision of the bureau in the Obama Administration with 120 season hoodlums. Id given 20,000 to a College Friend of mine running for the senate. Normally this is an offense when there isnt any corruption you arent trying to buy favors or do any kind of underhanded dealings. Normally this is referred to the federal Election Commission and its not a criminal matter at all. You get a fine and maybe some Community Service by the Obama Administration prosecuted me with the full force of the law and unleashed the battery of fbi agents on me to try to get the assistant where a hidden wire as if i were al capone and there i was in the federal court from hearing the balis bark out the phrase United States of america versus dinesh dsouza. Kind of a chilling feeling down your spine when you are an immigrant. Now, did i exceed campaignfinance law, yes. Right about the same time that my case was migrating through the court another guy. In any event, he gave 180,000 in straw donations to Hillary Clinton and a group of other democratic candidates. He was also found guilty of witness tampering and boasted about his corruption about trying to buy these politicians. He gets no confinement, so i mentioned this because justice is not simply a matter of did you break the law. Its also a matter of does the penalty for the crime. Did the others who did the same thing that the same penalty . I think we can see from my case that the progressive justice that i was subjected to was a sham. This was a selective prosecution. Now why do i think that . Because just a few months earlier i had made the film 2016, Obamas America in which i got not only into his world but also into obamas had. People wil will see what makes u think the president of the United States, a relatively busy man would care what you did . The reason i know he did this because right after the film came out, the attacks on me and the movie began to appear on a website called barack obama. Com. If you read these closely in their mixture of arrogance come in coherence one could recognize the unmistakable signature of the man who currently occupies the white house. So, this was why i found myself in federal confinement. Now initially the administration wanted to lock me up for up to two years. By the way, have they succeeded there is no way that i could have made this movie in fact i would be locked up now. But instead, i got this Confinement Center in which i would spend the night in a dorm about the size of this room with 120 others who have served prison sentences. And if they were not white collar. There were five or eight whitecollar criminals. The rest of them were drug smugglers, armed robbers, the whole gamut of very rough guides and initially, i i was kind of terrified because i thought to myself first of all the majority were hispanics but everybody seemed to be in some group into the games are complex. The hispanics were in one, the american hispanics called us outsiders have another and the mexicans had their games so i could talk to this guy because he would want to kill me. So i did consider starting my own gang, the asian indian gang. [laughter] but after about a month, i thought to myself look, im in a strange place like an anthropologist in a strange land and this isnt a place you normally find conservatives. Im noi am not going to walk doe hall and see Charles Krauthammer or george well. So i said lets me talk to these guys and learn the ideology of the criminal class. My previous exposure to this ideology was limited to the viewings of the Shawshank Redemption in which i had the idea that all criminals insisted that they didnt give it, they are totally innocent. For 25 years ive looked at american politics as a kind of debate. We are the conservatives, and we believe this, and the liberals believe that, and the republicans are for equality of rights, and the democrats are for equality of outcomes and blah, blah, blah. It is the view of the criminal underclass that this whole way of thinking about american politics is total and complete nonsense. Why . Because human nature isnt motivated that way. Human nature is not motivated by an urge to debate. Human beings actually are motivated by inquisitiveness and greed and lust is lust and rage and anger and hatred and revenge. And if these motives actually drive human life, why should politics be immune or exempt . In other words, we need a wider angle of vision to see politics in its full motive. A motive that is not merely idealistic, but also realistic. Why do people do what they do . Why do the clintons do what they do . What motivates obama . So id like to talk about that briefly this morning. Ill begin by talking a little bit about the Democratic Party. Now, im a creature of the reagan revolution and, in fact, reagan used to say in the 80s i didnt leave the Democratic Party, it left me. It left me. Now, you get the idea from this that the Democratic Party was actually a good party. And it was actually humming along pretty well until maybe the late 60s or the Mcgovern Campaign when it kind of went off the rails. It left him. But i regret to say that this is one area where, in a way, reagan was wrong. And what i mean by that is in adult life later as i began to dig into this subject and began to research it, i began to realize that, no, the Democratic Party has actually had a sordid strain that has defined this party from the very beginning. From the very beginning. And the reason we dont know about it, i didnt know about it, reagan didnt know about it is because of the success of progressive his or to have yoking my historiography. The progressives have been ingenious at covering their tracks. And ill start by giving a small example of this, because it actually pertains to one of the really horrific events of the 20th century, the holocaust. So in the 1930s, the Democratic Party was fascinated not only by fascism, but also by naziism. They liked it. And if this seems a little unbelievable, young john f. Kennedy went to nazi germany in the 30s and came back super excited about hitler. In fact, full of praise of hitler. He called him a legend. There are people who dont like hitler, but theyre jealous of him. He said the nazis claim to be superior, they claim that the nordic people are better than everybody else, and he goes, thats cuz they are. Thats cuz they are. This is jfk. And by the way, i should tell you that nothing im about to say this morning is controversial in the sense of its debated whether it occurred. You can actually google jfknazi germany 1930s on your phone, and in 30 seconds youll see that what i just said to you is true. Fdr was enamored by mussolini. Fdr actually dispatched members of his brain trust to go to italy to study italian fascism because he thought it was more progressive than the new deal. And he thought that he could import ideas from italian fascism here to america. This was not a oneway 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 is this guy is one of us, hes a fascist. This is mussolini. Now, after world war ii progressive historians looked at all this, and they went, whoa. Fascism now carries the order of the holocaust, the gas chambers, dachau. We cant have this kind of stuff in the textbooks. Young people may find out about it. Lets make sure we prudently leave it out. Were not going to lie about it, were just not going to say anything about it. So this is a small but telling example of a way in which two of great progressive figures of the 20th century, jfk and fdr, have been, i you may say, protected, protected by the progressive left. Lets continue with fdr for a moment, because fdr, when he was elected, wanted to push through the new deal. But it was difficult to push through the new deal because he needed the support of other democrats, and the Democratic Party in fdrs time was racist to the core. Racist to the core. Fdr needed the racist democrats to get the new deal through. So he goes to the racist democrats, and he basically says please support the new deal. Ill give you all kinds of benefits, well build a Tennessee Valley project in your neighborhood and so on. But the racist democrats said thats not enough. Well vote for the new deal if you, fdr, agree to block all antilynching laws that are proposed by the republicans. Fdr agrees. The racist democrats say in addition to that, we want to make sure that the two main occupations that blacks are in namely, Domestic Service and Agricultural Labor are excluded from most new deal programs. No new deal for blacks. Fdr agrees again. So 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 his new deal through. Once again, this is a fact. A fact. Now, lets back up and take in the big picture because the big picture can be summarized as follows the Democratic Party, who founded it . Right away thats kind of a mystery. Who started this Democratic Party . We know that Abraham Lincoln was kind of the founder of the Republican Party. Who started the Democratic Party . Maybe it was fdr. No, it cant be fdr. There was a Democratic Party in the 19th century. Maybe it was thomas jefferson. No, it wasnt jefferson. Jeffersons party was called the democratic Republican Party, and it split and later became the Democratic Party, later the Republican Party. So Andrew Jackson. Andrew jackson was the founder of the Democratic Party. Now, Andrew Jackson is a controversial figure. Hes controversial because of his indian wars. He was known as kind of a savage indian fighter. But i want to highlight a side of Andrew Jackson that is never talked about. There are whole biographies on Andrew Jackson that never mention this, and that is Andrew Jackson as somebody who figured out how to profit greatly from public policy. Profit from public policy. So heres what jackson would do. He would be getting ready to have a fight with the indians and drive them off their land and push them further west, and the whole idea was that this land would then be auctioned off to settlers. But since Andrew Jackson knew which land was going to become available before the fight, he would send in his private surveyors who would determine the value of that land which would then be reported privately to him. He would then contact his buddies who were investors, and those guys would bid on the land before it even became available for sale. In fact, they would bid on the land before the indians had even been thrown off the land. In this way, Andrew Jackson went from to use a phrase from Hillary Clinton dead broke to becoming one of the richest men in the country. He was worth in todays money over 100 million. And be he took this money, and he bought himself a big slave plantation in tennessee. Now, why do i tell you this . Because the roots of the Clinton Foundation can be found in the landstealing policies of Andrew Jackson. This stuff that we see today in which the clintons are able to, you may say, market policy. Think for a moment about the clintons, if i can fast forward a little bit here. The clintons, well, hillary was derided for saying she was dead broke, but it is true the clintons didnt come into politics with money. Weve had president s who were rich. Fdr was rich. Jfk was rich. But they were rich before. The clintons came into politics, and they didnt have a whole lot of money. So how do you go from 0 to 300 million on a government salary . How do you do that . How does your foundation accumulate a total of 3 billion when you havent done anything . You didnt invent the iphone. You didnt start a business. How do you do that . Is there even a plausible way to imagine how that could legitimately occur . No. No. In other words, what were dealing with here is crookery. Were dealing with people who have learned how to market policy for private benefit. Now, back to the Democratic Party so i can lay a context for this. The Democratic Party began not only as the party of indian relocation, but as the party of slavery. This requires a moments explanation because, clearly, democrats didnt invent slavery. Slavery has been around since the dawn of mankind. What the democrats invented is something called a positive good school of slavery. In other words, the democrats invented the idea that slavery is good not merely for the master, but also for the slave. This is kind of unbelievable. Historically, people who defended slavery like aristotle said slavery is a function of regrettable necessity. Theres dirty work that has to be done, someone has to do it, thats why we have slaves. The democrats came up with the idea that slavery benefits the slave. And i say this because there is an echo today in the way that democrats run what im going to call urban plantations on the same rationale. Our urban plantations benefit the people who live on those plantations. This is an echo of the protoslavery argument proslavery argument of the 19th century. Now, the democrats defended slavery consistently, and 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 northsouth fight. And amazingly, this way of thinking about it is itself a triumph of progressive historiography. The progressives took their own crimes, the crimes of the Democratic Party, and said lets blame the south. Lets get it off ourselves by making the south a 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 own slaves . No. Threefortyfourths of threefourths of the people who fought on the confederate side in the civil war did not own a slave. By the same token, the northern democrats protected slavery with the same aggressive enthusiasm as the southern democrats. So slavery wasnt a southern thing. The northern democrats were covering for it too. So right away you see the northsouth divide, the south did secede. Im not denying that. But im saying that the actual argument was between the two parties. After slavery the Democratic Party was in a funk. They had, they had lost their biggest stealing project, and i say stealing project because slavery is theft. Slavery is theft. Lincoln could it you work with, i eat. Youre stealing a mans labor for his whole life. After slavery the democrats came up with some new stuff. Segregation, jim crow, lynching and the ku klux klan. Those are four landmark Democratic Party policies after slavery. Now, again, it may seem like, well, dinesh is exaggerating a little bit. Segregation, well, wait a minute. Every segregation law without exception was passed by a Democratic Legislature and signed by a democratic governor. There is no exception to this rule. The klan was founded by Nathan Bedford forest, a delegate to the Democratic National convention, and for 30 years the ku klux klan served as the domestic terrorist arm of the Democratic Party. This is not my way of putting it. The progressive historian eric foner, im quoting him from one of his books on reconstruction. The klan, in fact, had a revival in the be early toth century 20th century on account of Woodrow Wilson who showed a movie in the white house called birth of a nation. That revived the klan not only in the south, but also the midwest and the west. In the 20th century, the democrats became the party of forced sterilization, eugenics and social darwinism, and later, later progressivism became it metamorphosed into a new kind of scam. Now, i mentioned earlier about fascism and how the progressives covered their tracks. The great genius of progressive historiography has been to take the crimes of the Democratic Party and blame them on the south or the Republican Party or america. You saw this with cory booker a couple of days ago in philadelphia. He goes america was responsible for slavery and segregation. And jim crow, etc. , etc. No, america wasnt responsible for those things. If america did those things, theyd still be going on. Some americans did those things, and other americans stopped them. So who did them . The democrats. The Democratic Party. Oh, so the genius of progressive storytelling is to take all the bad stuff that we did and blame it on america. And then present yourself as the solution to it. Its kind of like poisoning the well and then showing up claiming to be the water commissioner. Now, how can anybody get away with this . How can you pull off an intellectual scam of this magnitude that is so comprehensive that you can even fool reagan and dinesh and a whole bunch of other people . How do you pull this off . Basically, you need to control three institutions; academia, hollywood and the media. Those are the three biggest megaphones of our culture. And if you dominate those, theres a whole bunch of propaganda that you can put out, and theres no one around with a voice loud enough to say different. In fact, your propagandas so successful that even the people who are your opponents believe it. And come to accept it. The democrats are kind of like lawyers who make a legal defense. The legal the first line of the to defense is my client was nowhere on the scene of crime. This is pure denial. But then when evidence is produced that your client was unmistakably on the scene of the crime, you go, yes, my client was at the scene of the crime, but he didnt own a gun. And then when you provide irrefutable evidence that not only did he own a gun, but he actually pulled the trigger, democrats then go, yes, but that was in selfdefense. So the last line of democratic defense against this indictment, which is irrefutable, when theyre absolutely up against the wall is called the big switch. The big switch. The most important intellectual task done by this movie, with Hillarys America, and my accompanying book of the same title is to debunk and destroy the myths of the big switch. So 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 the 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 know who their friends are . 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 with. 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 their 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 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. I now 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 . 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 a 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 easy yourself, and you will see 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. Theyve always been the good guys. Theyve 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 a deadly enemy of the ordinary guy. They have been an antiimmigrant party from the beginning, they have been the enslavers and segregators and tormenters and lynchers and murderers of blacks. And you might say, well, what about today . What about today . So i was many philadelphia a couple days ago 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 kenneth stamp points out that on the old slave plantation we had ramshackle dwellings. In other words, rundown living 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 three, a high degree of violence needed to keep the place intact. Why . Slavery is based on force. You have to force people to work. Its not easy to do that if you dont have 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 walk 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 new ladders of opportunity, the progressives fight it tooth and nail. They fight gentrification. Why . Becauseyou give people ladders of opportunity, they have no further reason to want to be democrats, and the Democratic Party knows that. So point im trying to make, and ill kind of wrap it up here, history is not dead. People say we need 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 are, 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. So i say in the film, for example, i have this line which has caused a lot of peoples jaws to drop 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 true. 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 these to know the blue prints of your house. You 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, America 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. We 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 money, taking stuff off the walls, later forced to return it, selling pardons to bigtime racketeers, felons and criminals. And then on to the Clinton Foundation. I mean, my gosh. Weve had corruption in politics before, tammany hall in new york, the daley racket in chicago. Weve never had a secretary of state whos figured out how to make money on Foreign Policy by selling out to russian oligarchs, by intercepting aid money, for god sake, intended for relief effort in haiti. It doesnt get to haiti. It gets to the coffers of the clintons, and haitians are standing outside the 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. Certain distaste with it. So progressives decide just like what i told you about fascism, lets leave that off the news. Lets not highlight that one. Its not going to make our gal look i 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 few minutes for questions, and ill be delighted to answer. If youre short, ill be able to take a lot of em. Go for it. Hi, dinesh, 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 plant being of being a his mantle of being a historic first. 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. 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 nebraskakearney. I guess as a future history teacher, i found all this super riveting and interesting. My question is, 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 tuesday. The professors live there. Wed have to start 300 campuses to rival the domination of the left. The beauty 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 the emotional power to my movie. Imagine if everybody already knew this stuff. Theyd be like, hoe hum, 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. Im still waiting, and ill be waiting a long time from now. So today facts are very powerful, 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. Thank you. Okay . Hi. My name is doyle, im a rising freshman at hillsdale college, and my question was based on not so long ago in my home state of georgia, we became a republicantilting state as a result of some 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 john stomp called johnston. It divides the south into the most racist people and the nonracists. 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 that even though youre unbelievably stupid and youre unbelievably 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 SchaferRichard Johnson book, get my book. Together theyre kind of like one of those muhammad ali onetwo pun s. Yes. Punches. My question is what specifically can we do 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. 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 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. And so imagine, i mean, 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 . How do we make it 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. Thank you. Yes. Hello. My name is marlene that, 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 the 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 distributers by allying ourselves with the big theater chains, i realized, i went to them, 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. 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. Now, happily, most of these people are sort of ignore ramuses. Theyre full of bile and hatred, but they dont know anything. So fighting against me is actually, i mean, 300 to 1 is pretty good odds for me just in terms of knowledge. Im not saying there arent progressives who are smart. Believe me, there will be they will ultimately deploy powerful historians from britain mar and harvard and stanford to go after the movie and the book. In the beginning its all these ridiculous people writing out of greenwich, and so on. So well get 5 on rotten tomatoes, but then well get 90 from the audiences. Audiences love the movie. And 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 make movies to do messaging. You make movies to entertain. Michael moore does know this. People go to the movies for fun. You try to make a movie people always say to me make a movie on obamacare, on immigration. No. You have to make a move that has a storyline, that actually has drama, that has plot be, narrative, character, suspension. 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 names austin stevens, im from Coastal Carolina university. I was just wondering if you see a Bright Future for attracting more minorities to the Republican Party, 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 Partys 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 the 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 the 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. Hanging on is easier than climbing. Well pull you up. Now, the thing that blacks and hispanics and immigrants dont realize is that democrats have no intention of pulling you all the way up. Be their idea is to pull you a little way up and hold. And hold. Why . Because then you are suspended in permanent dependency. If you actually climbed up, youd scramble, dust off your feet and walk off. They cant have that. Theyve got to have it where you are subordinate to them, where youre dependent on the rope. Where you know if they let go, down they go. That keeps them tied to the Democratic Party. Its a new form of servitude thats going on in america, except its a much subtler form than the good old thrash em and keep em down on 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 ohioan to have you 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, 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. 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 em 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 doesnt 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 if 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 and destroy your relationships with your friends, undermine your family or take a plea . This is the strongarm tactic that is routinely used. I used to believe better nine guilty men go free than one innocent person be locked up. Lots of innocent people are locked up right now. So it clears your mind of a duyeyed view of the way the world is. 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