Chris Moritz
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332 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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No, look, I'll be honest with you. I like him personally. Yeah, everyone does. Yeah, I really do. And I really wish, you know, he was a phenomenal governor. I think, you know, if we do have to live in a one-party state, at least our leaders should be, you know, really competent within the machine. And I think he had a lot of potential. And certainly...
But he's also a slave and captured by this movement and this leftism that has cast this pal over California.
Well, I will tell you that I have heard, at least from folks in the VC world, that there is a lot of quiet support even in this cycle for Trump.
There is. And there's some loud support.
Like, why not just do that? I think it's not it's because it's because these nobles do not have noblesse oblige. Now we're cooking with gas.
Yeah. So, so the idea, you know, for societies that are stratified by class and where there is especially, um, you know, an aristocracy that has a political, you know, hegemony, as well as social power. There was a sense, I think, in those kind of societies in the past, even frankly, you know, within the United States, that there were certain responsibilities
as a noble to your county, to your city, to your land, and so forth. To your nation. To your nation, of course. But today, we have a situation where there's a disconnect from that, and it's entirely about the self, and it's Nihilism.
Right. They're totally disconnected. They're completely removed from the bad schools, from the bad roads, from the crime. They have private police force, basically.
Well, so like when we talk about neo-feudalism and maybe how that's not a perfect analog, I would add in support of your approach is, well, at least in feudalism, they believed in God.
It actually structured the entire society.
I would say that, you know, if you're going to make a historical comparison to like, let's say, are we in a new dark age? You could argue that, you know, the dark, the so-called dark ages was characterized by a dark, separation from Hellenism and classical ideas and literacy, right?
And so I think you could argue, frankly, that modern America, actually modern society as a whole, and this is especially true in California, is also disconnected from its history. It is forgetting its history purposefully. Oh, I know. And we're also becoming... Ironically, we are subject to more information than we can absorb, and so we absorb nothing. And maybe that's a kind of new illiteracy.
Yeah. You know, it'll be very interesting to see if there ever, if things get so bad that it catalyzes action by the voters themselves. One of these prosecutors I talked to from Alameda County, we were discussing the broader implications of how we got to the place that we did. And she said to me, she said, I blame you. And I said, what?
I blame, and when she said, you, I mean the uneducated voter, right? The voters that are susceptible to the marketing gimmicks of our politicians that reframe legalizing theft as Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act. And this kind of complacency has resulted in a significant way to the degradation of the state.
Yes.
In fact, Victor Davis Hanson. Right? victor davis hansen um who was very kind in uh helping me with some of the research for my book um made some incredible insights uh on the comparison of uh the late roman empire really the period between 376 a.d and 476 a.d and what we're experiencing now in california and that period can i just say
And it was characterized by things that are eerily similar to what we're seeing in California. So, of course, there is the erosion of borders. There is the influx of migrants, about, I think, like one or two million from Honduras. Germanic and Huns into Rome, not assimilated, breakdown of law at the county levels, a disconnect from the capital.
And a lot of those immigrants in Rome went into law enforcement, went into the legions. That's right. That's right. And there was also cultural factors where the elite were – Hansen calls this – it's called luxus. And it was this notion that –
that the elite at that time were embracing um decadence uh cult religions hello trans right of course and um and other sort of uh values that were antithetical to the martial values that built the roman the roman republic narcissism and carmela harris whatever the hell she's calling herself now
She is the personification of everything that is bad about California. And it's not because she did all that awful of things in California. I get it. She actually doesn't have that much of a track record in California. But that's the point, isn't it? She is just a husk. She is a face. Yeah.
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