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What Thomas Sowell Believes May Be the 'Point of No Return in This Country'
Townhall ^ | 07/13/2020 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 07/13/2020 7:59:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Mark Levin, host of “Life, Liberty & Levin,” described the 2020 election on Sunday as one of the most important in American history.

Beyond looking at the candidates, Levin said the election pits the ideologies behind the 1619 project against the 1776 project, “and you can see where the Democrats have tied into the 1619 project, and many of the Republicans are trying to defend the founding in the 1776 project.”

Speaking with economist Thomas Sowell, Levin asked if he saw the election that way.

“What I see is if the election goes to Biden then there is a good chance that the Democrats will then control all two branches of Congress and the White House, and considering the kinds of things that they are proposing, that can well mean the point of no return for this country.”

Sowell said phrases used by the left, such as 'systemic racism' and 'system oppression' don't really mean anything.

"You hear it on our college campuses. You hear it from very wealthy and fabulously famous sports stars. What does that mean? And whatever it means, is it true?" Levin asked.

"It really has no meaning that can be specified and tested in the way that one tests hypotheses," Sowell responded.

He said the phrases remind him of “propaganda tactics” used in Nazi Germany where if a lie was "repeated long enough and loud enough" people would believe it.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: decline; lifelibertylevin; marklevin; sowellinterview; thomassowell
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1 posted on 07/13/2020 7:59:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 07/13/2020 8:04:21 AM PDT by caww
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Here’s a 33 minute video of Mark and Dr. Sowell from last night’s show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK14nNRchaE


3 posted on 07/13/2020 8:06:48 AM PDT by Perseverando (Liberals, Progressives, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder.)
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Far more difficult than subduing domestic conservatives and completing the installation of the Federal racial nanny state - the Left with their socialist schemes will find it impossible keep the US empire afloat and the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency


4 posted on 07/13/2020 8:07:12 AM PDT by PGR88
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Both of those guys preach “Free Trade” which is a basic tenent of Marxism.


5 posted on 07/13/2020 8:09:10 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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"You hear it on our college campuses. You hear it from very wealthy and fabulously famous sports stars. What does that mean? And whatever it means, is it true?" Levin asked.

"It really has no meaning that can be specified and tested in the way that one tests hypotheses," Sowell responded.

Exactly! They may as well be chanting Four legs good, two legs bad.

6 posted on 07/13/2020 8:12:25 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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Another straw-man. The bottom line is the Marxists want to control the country any cost. It's like a predatory invasion, their object is to consume the wealth of the nation.
7 posted on 07/13/2020 8:14:36 AM PDT by oldbrowser (They are trying to take away our self respect.)
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We can’t recover unless we can stop the shaming.

If anyone in a high school or college age group says “all lives matter” or “I love this country and it’s not evil” then she or he will be roundly ostracized and shunned. No parties, no dates, no anything. Shortly after they’ll find no professional opportunity because no one will hire “the guy who was in the white racism controversy.”

And corporations and sports league bosses hypocritically pretend to agree with absurd Colin K., BLM and LGBTQ , CHOP anarchists and pro-choice stances. At least I believe they’re pretending. Or just worthless fools.

If you are the Papa John’s Pizza founder or the Goya CEO then you are headed for society’s destruction for being guilty of free speech and being an American.

As in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure: “Those are strong charges, Pee Wee. Do you have any proof?”
My answer yes, just try exercising a constitutional right and see if you can do it. That’s the proof.


8 posted on 07/13/2020 8:14:46 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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What was your 1st clue?

Tawana Brawley? - white boys

Chrystal Mangum? - Duke Lacrosse team

Michael Brown? - Cops - hands up don’t shoot

Jussie Smollet? - Trump supporters

Bubba Wallace - Nascar - f’n rednecks

Barack Obama - Bitter Clingers

and on, and on, and on...

Amplify the lie.

Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.

Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF1lqEQFVUo

Good morning America, how are ya?


9 posted on 07/13/2020 8:18:02 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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As these gentleman have noticed, exactly what exactly constitutes this systemic racism and oppression?


10 posted on 07/13/2020 8:18:42 AM PDT by Eagles6
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Bookmark


11 posted on 07/13/2020 8:19:41 AM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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RE: SYSTEMIC RACISM AND OPPRESSION


12 posted on 07/13/2020 8:22:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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“What I see is if the election goes to Biden then there is a good chance that the Democrats will then control all two branches of Congress and the White House, and considering the kinds of things that they are proposing, that can well mean the point of no return for this country.”

At that point socialism will have been voted in...
and freedom voted out.


13 posted on 07/13/2020 8:23:11 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Bookmark


14 posted on 07/13/2020 8:28:43 AM PDT by Irish Eyes
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The only decent person to come out of The Hoover Institute of Stanford is Victor Davis Hansen.

All the rest, including Thomas Sowell are never-Trumpers that gave us the douche bag McMasters for one.

Even Levin was a never-Trumper, but at least he's come around.

Sowell, Condeleeza Rice and too many others like Congresswoman Cheney trying to block the President's troop withdrawl are Bush league anti-Trump globalist war mongers.

Sadly Thomas Sowell is their token black.

15 posted on 07/13/2020 8:28:44 AM PDT by lewislynn ( It's not your color stupid, it's your attitude.)
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“Sowell said phrases used by the left, such as ‘systemic racism’ and ‘system oppression’ don’t really mean anything.”

The other one is “implicit bias”, which every human since Adam has had. Every. Single. One. Everyone, through their experiences and upbringing, carries a set of criteria against which they measure other people and daily circumstances.


16 posted on 07/13/2020 8:29:37 AM PDT by jagusafr
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Don’t forget BET (Black Entertainment TV)


17 posted on 07/13/2020 8:29:48 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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RE: Sadly Thomas Sowell is their token black.

Are you familiar with the work of Thomas Sowell spanning 5 decades?


18 posted on 07/13/2020 8:30:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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RE: Don’t forget BET (Black Entertainment TV)

Yes, and the Congressional Black Caucus.


19 posted on 07/13/2020 8:31:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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At that point socialism will have been voted in... and freedom voted out.

At that point, decent people should respond to everything Democrat/Biden is exactly the same way that the thugs and terrorists responded to everything Trump for these past four years - multiplied by ten. "Resist" 100% of the time. If it's a choice between doing your job well or resisting and just barely doing your job adequately, go with resistance (okay, we're the country's producers, unlike the left, so we cannot completely abandon our work, but we can and should make work a secondary priority). If the corrupt left steals the election, which is the only way they can claim a win, we need to resist for so long as America's enemies hold power and without ceasing.

20 posted on 07/13/2020 8:33:14 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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