Rebuilding America After the Great Betrayal

**Tucker Carlson** (0:00)
The point of any system is protect the interests of the people it serves and governs. It's just the nature of it. So what's a preacher's job? It's to minister to the souls of his congregants. What's a president's job? It's to look out for, to protect the interests of his citizens. Really, really simple. It's inherent to the definition. So it's been obvious for a while now that our system is not working as intended because the people in charge of it seem to be looking out mostly, not exclusively, but mostly for their own interests. And you see that all around you.
Government workers make more than the average American. That kind of says it as clearly as anything, but you see it up and down every institution in American life. A lot of them seem to be run primarily for the benefit of the people who run them. And that is bad. And they're less hidden about it than they've ever been. I mean, they're off buying private islands and exempting themselves from the rules that apply to you. And that has caused enormous frustration and resentment from ordinary people. It's like, wait a second, you're not following your own rules. I have to stay home during COVID, and you're going to the French Laundry. Because what, are you a king now? And the answer is, yeah, kinda. So that's a very recognizable degradation of a system. It just gets more corrupt over time. And the people with power use it to benefit themselves and their families and their friends. And after a while, you call it the Epstein class, because that's exactly what it is. It's a group of self-interested people acting on their own behalf against yours. Okay. And that's, again, bad. But it can limp along for a long time, because that's just the nature of systems. That's the Ottoman Empire went from conquering half the world to being kinda pathetic and just basically focused on the harem. And in the end, it... Well, it dissolved.
But something different has happened to our system, and it's obvious recently. So it's one thing to have a system run by people who are looking out for their own best interest and not yours. Again, we've had that. It's another to have a system that's totally incapable of responding to reality. It is basically paralyzed. And unfortunately, ominously, that's the system that we now have. And we know that, because the two greatest threats, arguably, in all recorded history, and those would be nuclear war and AI, are looming right in front of us. And no one in our society, in a position of authority, seems capable of responding at all, or even really acknowledging that this is happening. It's like they're frozen, staring at the trees that approaches the windshield at 70 miles an hour. It really does feel that way. And if you listen carefully, that is where we are. So we are moving toward, on this trajectory, if it holds, we are moving toward a nuclear exchange. Because you have two conflicts, one in the Middle East, and one in the Near East, Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and Iran, that are suddenly somehow merging. And what does that mean? It means a world war. And you have two sides with essentially inflexible positions. Not to get into the details, if you're following this, if you're one of the small percentage of Americans following this, you already know, that there's no obvious resolution for either one of those conflicts any time soon. And yet the stakes couldn't be higher. And of course, the key participants in both of those wars, now becoming one war, are nuclear armed. And they feel that this is, to use a very tired term, existential for them. And so unless, again, the angle of attack, the trajectory changes really soon, we are going to wind up inevitably with the use of weapons of mass destruction. And you have one participant, President of the United States, openly threatening that already on truth social, on the internet, for everyone to see we are going to eliminate your civilization. Well, of course, you can't do that with tomahawks, but you can with nuclear weapons. So you have the President of the United States, whatever they tell you, openly threatening the use of nuclear weapons in a conflict that has no immediate or obvious resolution. So where is that going? Well, toward a nuclear strike. And what happens then? God knows. But if you can even live with that fact, if you can even say or just acknowledge without words that, yeah, this could wind up with people unleashing nuclear weapons on civilian populations, you're already around the bend. You've already proven yourself incapable of leadership because that's crazy. That's beyond reckless. That's, well, it's literally suicidal and homicidal.