Exposing How a Crazy Minority Silenced a Reasonable Majority | Ben Shapiro | POLITICS | Rubin Report
Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Ben Shapiro of The Daily Wire about his new book “The Authoritarian Moment”, which COVID experts he trusts, signs that we now live in an illiberal democracy, and why college is a scam. First, Ben discusses COVID mission creep. He walks us through how we went from two weeks to flatten the curve, to delaying life until the vaccine rolled out, to waiting until everyone could get the vaccine, to our current state which seems to be a goal of zero COVID deaths. He shares the reasons why the only people he trusts on COVID issues are Dr. Marty Makary and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and what they are able to do that Anthony Fauci cannot. Ben also talks about why he thinks the delta variant will cause mask mandates to return in some states even for the vaccinated. Next, Ben teaches you how to lie with statistics. He explains how mainstream media manipulates statistics to make COVID infection rates appear far worse than they actually are. Ben also describes why he doesn’t fear authoritarianism from the government, but from cultural institutions that no longer encourage critical thinking and instead encourage silencing dissent. He shares frightening poll results that show how most people, except the far left, are afraid of talking about their politics publicly. He gives his prediction of what center left liberals of the intellectual dark web like Sam Harris and Bari Weiss will have to do to prevent themselves from becoming victims of cancel culture. Ben talks about how Joe Biden’s Build Back Better is just another example of disaster socialism that Democrats have used throughout history to never let a crisis go to waste. That they always fail doesn’t seem to matter to Democrats. Ben speculates if Joe Biden is experiencing cognitive decline and why the Democrats don’t want to be stuck with Kamala Harris. Ben also answers the question “is college worth it”? He explains how the benefits of college have declined significantly since students emerge with less critical thinking abilities and mounds of student debt. Higher education has become mostly a training ground for the ruling class. Students learn few usable skills and spend the rest of their lives paying off student loan debt. He thinks more employers will eventually see through the college scam and find alternative ways to find qualified employees.
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