Ben Shapiro
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They're somebody else's fault.
But the reality is that in the freest country in the history of the world, it's time for Americans to grow up, generally speaking.
Yes, there are huge problems in America.
Sure, there are systems that are sometimes stacked against you, but we ought to be able to name those systems.
We ought to be able to correct the problems in front of us.
The idea that there are insuperable problems buried within the American systems, evil cadres of elites manipulating that what we need, in the words of Graham Platner, is a revolution.
That is the kind of stuff that foreign enemies are loving.
They love every element of it.
They love it.
It is their favorite thing.
And this is why when you see Democrats, for example, trying to claim that what just happened in Virginia and what is a fairly generic voting rights case is somehow yet another racist attack.
It's just nonsense.
It's a conspiracy theory.
So we didn't talk at length about this last week, but on Friday.
The Virginia Supreme Court, which the way that Virginia judges are selected, they're basically selected by the legislature.
Those judges, I believe there's seven of them.
One was selected by an entirely Democratic legislature.
Three were selected by a Republican legislature.
Three were selected by a mixed legislature.
So it's not like a wildly right wing Virginia Supreme Court.