On May 29th, Dr. Cornel West was being interviewed on CNN. In that interview, he referred to America as “a failed social experiment.” The next day, Elon Musk launched Bob and Doug into orbit using his revolutionary Falcon 9 rocket, and the equally stunning Dragon capsule, which Bob and Doug named Endeavor, after the now-retired Space Shuttle that had given them both their first ride into space in what was, in comparison to the Dragon capsule, a remarkably 20th Century-looking vehicle. You could hardly call that a failed social experiment.
So which one of these two visions of America is true? Well, the sad reality is that they both are.
Cornel West’s rage-fueled Blue America is a land divided by racial hatreds which, according to West and his colleagues, continues to get worse with each passing year. And yet, the SpaceX Demo-2 launch showed men and women from all racial backgrounds pulling together, their very lives quite literally in each others hands. Musk and his Red America had done something that the entire governments of China, Russia, the European Union and even the United States had failed to do: usher in a 21st Century Space Race II using what used to be called Big Dumb Rockets, but which now delicately (if spectacularly) alight on what is essentially a floating postage stamp in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, named Of Course I Still Love You. That was not just a success; it was, as Elon Musk pointed out after Bob and Doug had reached orbit, a uniquely American achievement. Endeavor is, after all, private property.
It’s clear that Two Americas exist today; not side by side but each inside the other. And that got me wondering what made them so different. Listing the attributes of Team Red vs. Team Blue showed me just how far Team Blue has departed from the historical American norm; it was actually kind of fun — and kind of sad — to stack the attitudes and motivations of Red America and Blue America against each other.
When Cornel West refers to this country as “a failed social experiment,” he’s right. His Blue vision for America is an utter catastrophe. But Red Team is alive and kicking. And, I might add, we are actively recruiting. If sharing this video helps you swing people into a happier and more productive life, feel free to use it in any way you can. That’s what it’s there for.
<iframe loading="lazy" title="America&#039;s Failed Social Experiment: Are You On Team Red or Team Blue?" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eRPo_cNfOM8?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
The Daily Wire, headed by bestselling author and popular podcast host Ben Shapiro, is a leading provider of conservative news, cutting through the mainstream media’s rhetoric to provide readers the most important, relevant, and engaging stories of the day. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe">member</a>.

Bill Whittle

WHITTLE: Two Americas: Are You On Team Red Or Team Blue? [Video]

Conservatism

Cornel West

Elon Musk

Leftism

Social Justice

A song from actor-turned-musician Dennis Quaid, who is playing former President Ronald Reagan in an upcoming biopic, will be featured in a new documentary about freedom of speech and censorship.
Quaid&#8217;s song will be part of &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; a film by comedian Adam Carolla and radio talk show host Dennis Prager. The song will be &#8220;Out of the Box,&#8221; the title song of a new album by Dennis Quaid and the Sharks, which was released in November.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t care if I have to climb a mountain, cross a desert or an ocean, I am open to a different point of view,&#8221; Quaid sings. &#8220;It don&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re suffering a broken heart, don&#8217;t just sit around watching your life fall apart.&#8221;
&#8220;You don&#8217;t have to hold on to what makes you blue, that kind of living never did a favor for you. Don&#8217;t get hung up in the schism of an ism, it&#8217;ll put your life in prison, it&#8217;ll lead to self derision. Don&#8217;t you listen, think out of box,&#8221; he sings.
The rock/country song touts &#8220;being open to other points of view and not mindlessly giving yourself over to an &#8216;ism,&#8217;&#8221; Quaid said in an interview with the <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/12/24/dennis-quaid-to-sing-in-new-documentary-on-political-censorship/">New York Post</a>.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not just Hollywood. Our whole culture has become intolerant,&#8221; Quaid, 64, told the Post.
<blockquote>
The movie&#8217;s producer, Mark Joseph, approached Quaid about contributing a song to &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; which he also produces.
&#8220;When I heard &#8216;Out of The Box&#8217; it was so obvious that this belonged in the film,&#8221; Joseph said. &#8230;
Quaid, an independent, doesn&#8217;t plan to dive too much into politics, but wants to fight against the instinct to silence others who have different views.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t give myself to any party or ism. I don&#8217;t march lock step with anything or anybody except for God and the values my mom taught me back in Texas,&#8221; Quaid said. &#8220;So if a president does great things I can acknowledge that no matter his party. I&#8217;ve voted for candidates from both parties and I&#8217;m a registered independent.&#8221;
</blockquote>
The movie features actor/comedian Tim Allen, along with commentators and authors Cornel West, Van Jones, Alan Dershowitz, Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubin &#8212; and Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro.
Watch the trailer for <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/no-safe-spaces?utm_source=affiliate&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=sasdeep&amp;utm_content=link&amp;sscid=c1k2_nmfya#/">&#8220;No Safe Spaces&#8221; here</a>.

‘Don’t Get Hung Up In The Schism Of An Ism’: Reagan Actor Dennis Quaid To Sing In New Documentary ‘No Safe Spaces’

Alan Dershowitz

Ben Shapiro

Dave Rubin

Dennis Prager

Jordan Peterson

Political Correctness

Tim Allen

Van Jones

On his Fox News show Friday night, Tucker Carlson invited on liberal Harvard professor Cornel West to discuss the ideology of &#8220;the future&#8221; of the Democratic Party, Democratic Socialism, and what it would look like in America. The problem, Carlson underscored, is that Democratic Socialism has &#8220;never actually worked anywhere.&#8221; People in Venezuela, which describes itself as a Democratic Socialist country, currently &#8220;don&#8217;t have toilet paper&#8221; and the country is &#8220;less equal than ever,&#8221; noted Carlson. But West dismissed such ugly realities and stood by the &#8220;ideals&#8221; of the movement.
Carlson began by noting that radical New York Congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was famously described by the head of the Democratic National Committee as &#8203;representing &#8220;the future of our party.&#8221; Former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders also describes himself as a Democratic Socialist.
So what is Democratic Socialism?, asked Carlson. &#8220;Democratic socialism is not a wing of the Democratic Party, at least not yet; it&#8217;s an entirely separate movement with its own national organization, the Democratic Socialists of America,&#8221; he explained (video below). The rapidly growing group&#8217;s platform is clear: &#8220;They support socialism. State ownership of major industries, that would include healthcare, technology, manufacturing. Some of them explicitly support communism.&#8221; Among some of the other positions promoted by the DSA: race-based reparations, retroactive forgiveness of student loans, a guaranteed lifetime minimum income, and the end to all deportations of illegal immigrants.
Here are a few tweets by New York City&#8217;s chapter of the DSA calling on the abolition of profits, prison, cash bail, borders and ICE and promoting Ocasio-Cortez as a pure socialist:
<div class="embed tweet">
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
Abolish profit 
Abolish prisons 
Abolish cash bail 
Abolish borders<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AbolishICE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AbolishICE</a> <a href="https://t.co/TCFIZqzJrU">pic.twitter.com/TCFIZqzJrU</a>
&#8212; New York City DSA (@nycDSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/nycDSA/status/1012808259818926080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
</div>
<div class="embed tweet">
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
The Intercept on <a href="https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Ocasio2018</a> win &#8211; &#8220;Socialism is inextricable from Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s success because it&#8217;s the secret behind her ability to do what the Democratic party has long failed to do &#8212; articulate a holistic progressive vision for America.&#8221;<a href="https://t.co/G1Tzw0CvlQ">https://t.co/G1Tzw0CvlQ</a>
&#8212; New York City DSA (@nycDSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/nycDSA/status/1014219477083414528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2018</a></blockquote>
</div>
<div class="embed tweet">
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
This is what <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/soldidarity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#soldidarity</a> looks like <a href="https://t.co/CSxonmoOWA">https://t.co/CSxonmoOWA</a>
&#8212; New York City DSA (@nycDSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/nycDSA/status/1015366282777112577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
</div>
&#8220;Not all Democratic Socialists have the same views on everything, but that gives you some idea: Unlimited, uncontrolled immigration into the U.S., coupled with race-based reparations, the abolition of prisons and by extension law and order itself, and a massive expansion of the welfare state financed by an economic system that does not recognize profit,&#8221; said Carlson. &#8220;How would that work exactly? Has it ever worked in any country in the world?&#8221;
To answer that question, he invited on West, the most famous advocate of Democratic Socialism. West initially tried to stay as abstract as he could in defining the movement, but eventually was forced to acknowledge that Democratic Socialism has never been successfully instituted anywhere. The blame, he tried to suggest in reference to Venezuela, was external forces, like the United States, &#8220;crushing&#8221; the utopian socialist vision.
&#8220;Can you point to an example, an extant example, of it that works? Venezuela seems like an example of Democratic Socialism. Would you say that it is and if so does it work?&#8221; Carlson asked.
&#8220;No, I don&#8217;t think that Democratic Socialism as an ideal has been able to be embodied in a larger social context,&#8221; West replied in a particularly revealing response. &#8220;There&#8217;s different forms of it. Some are bad, some are medium, some are better, but the fundamental commitment is to the dignity of ordinary people and to make sure they can live lives of decency. So it is not an -ism, though brother, it is about decency, it&#8217;s about fairness, it&#8217;s about the accountability of the powerful vis-a-vis those who have less power. The work place, women, dealing with the household, gays, lesbians, trans, black people, indigenous people, immigrants. How do we ensure that they are treated decently and that the powerful don&#8217;t in anyway manipulate, subjugate and exploit them?&#8221;
Carlson responded by saying if that&#8217;s the definition, then he along with most people would be on board. But clearly not satisfied by that markedly abstract definition, Carlson tried to move the conversation into more real-world specifics.
&#8220;Has it struck you as interesting that it&#8217;s never actually worked anywhere?&#8221;&#8203; said Carlson. As an example, he pointed to Venezuela. &#8220;What happened in Venezuela? They call it Democratic Socialism but they don&#8217;t have toilet paper and it&#8217;s less equal than ever.&#8221;
The dramatic failure of Democratic Socialism in Venezuela, suggested West, is really the result of external pressures by other countries, like the United States, which he blamed for having &#8220;crushed&#8221; Venezuela.
&#8220;Any time there&#8217;s been the attempts of ordinary people to engage in self-determination, they can get crushed by external nations, look at U.S. policies toward Venezuela has been very, very ugly,&#8221; said the professor. &#8220;So we&#8217;ve never had a chance to really pull it off.&#8221;
Asked about all the radical calls for the abolition of major institutions by the DSA of New York, West said they really just want them to be replaced by better versions of those institutions. &#8220;They can be changed, they can be transformed when the right kind of intervention takes place,&#8221; he said.
On the issue of &#8220;abolishing ICE and borders,&#8221; Carlson noted that that doesn&#8217;t do a lot to &#8220;elevate&#8221; poor Americans. &#8220;I don&#8217;t see any evidence that they get richer or happier when you bring in more poor people,&#8221; said the host. &#8220;You ignore their problems.&#8221;

<div class="embed video fluid-video"><iframe loading="lazy" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kuc6C2_Txmw" width="500"></iframe></div>
<div class="embed video fluid-video"> </div>
Video, partial transcript via <a href="http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/07/07/democratic-socialism-america-tucker-carlson-debates-cornel-west">Fox News Insider</a>. H/T <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/2018/07/07/tucker-carlson-cornel-west-debate-democratic-socialism/">Hot Air</a>.

WATCH: Tucker Carlson To Cornel West: Why Has Democratic Socialism Never Actually Worked Anywhere?

Menu

Cornel West

WHITTLE: Two Americas: Are You On Team Red Or Team Blue? [Video]

‘Don’t Get Hung Up In The Schism Of An Ism’: Reagan Actor Dennis Quaid To Sing In New Documentary ‘No Safe Spaces’

WATCH: Tucker Carlson To Cornel West: Why Has Democratic Socialism Never Actually Worked Anywhere?