Seeing Barry Goldwater's 1964 Speech Helps To Understand Republican Conservatives Today
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- The speaker is the 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. I collected these speeches back then because I was developing ideas for my 6 part television series, Making Sense of the Sixties. Barry Goldwater was defeated by Lyndon Johnson in that election. His conservative message did not resonate with the experiences most Americans were having back then. But when I re-examined this recently, much of what he is saying corresponds to what many Republicans feel and what President Trump has been expressing about America and what needs to change.
The issues that Goldwater raised during this speech include the American drift to the left, moral decay, crime, the morals of the young, political corruption, 1960s values, religious freedom, the state of the Supreme Court, and other issues that resonate with how many Republicans and conservatives feel of the issues that need to be dealt with today. Some political. Some economic. Mostly about social behavior engaged in by other Americans.
When I recently heard this speech I had a deeper understanding for the elements of American society that would like to bring the values of the 1950s back to America. The freedom caucus. Religious fundamentalists. Marjorie Taylor Green. Supporters of MAGA, and others.
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This young conservative woman describes what she and others felt about Sen. Goldwater and about conservative values back in the 60s - th-cam.com/video/GU7xMSYiWzk/w-d-xo.html
What actual year was this speech?
I remember a neighbor saying to my parents, "If you vote Goldwater we will see more war in Vietnam." My parents voted for Goldwater. Johnson won. The Vietnam war escalated. I suppose those neighbors were correct. Thanks for sharing this clip. David.
Democrats excelling at projection.
Your comment completely encapsulates my thoughts on that situation: i can't tell WHAT the hell to think! The 60s produced some amazing things. But conclusive thoughts or ideas? No! Im lost on that one. Going backwards, Korean war? I don't know. WWII? I know what we're talking about.
Nixon is responsible for extending and escalating the Vietnam War.
There's even a record audio tape of Johnson and Nixon lying his @$$ off about NOT interferring with the arrangements Johnson worked hard to make North Vietnamese leaders.
It's a sleezy scandalous story Nixon hiring a Vietnamese woman to convince them to waiting on a resolution until Nixon was in office.
It worked.
It's a perfect example of how many American lives republican politicians casually sacrifice for their own personal benefit.
Nothing about that has changed in the sightest.
What?
Mr. Hoffman, I sure wish all media were like you. You present us with gems of history with no agenda, no bias. I appreciate your work so much.
This speech was so great 🙏🇺🇸👍
I appreciate how David Hoffman doesn't frame this as a good or bad clip. Just that he sees a similarity to Trump and let's the viewer decide the morality for themselves. As always, great work David. Thank you for giving us this opportunity to learn more about history and ourselves.
Ayeohx exactly what I was thinking, love how David is such a good observer with out feeling the need to pull one way or another, everything is left to our interpretation.
@@ryintel I can't help but feel he must have _some_ kind of political agenda but I'll be damned if I can find any clear evidence for it or even what he believes exactly. He does a really good job of keeping politics out of his work.
@@maelstrom2313 *Exactly, what I was thinking. Lol.*
Wrong. Goldwater said that those who refuse to pay their taxes are unpatriotic cheaters. Trump avoids paying his taxes more than sex with Rosie O'donnell.
Andrew Jackson why are you missing the point so hard listen to the damn speech in this video it’s not supportive or counter to anything to recognize the similarities from this speech to the populism today
Thanks Mr. Hoffman. I sense that you're not a conservative, but you didn't use this as an opportunity to take a dig at those of us who are.
Agreed. I love this channel because he gives everyone a bit of time in the sun so they can speak on their own behalf.
I think about his warning that corruption is excused from the top down. Trump has really screwed the pooch on this one.
@@sophieoshaughnessy9469 trump is still the president of the usa. the military is in control of our country. every thing that is being done behind the scenes now by the patriots is all legal under the constitution. the information you are going to experience over the next couple of years will blow your mind. hang on. its going to be the biggest ride in world history. peace.
@@sophieoshaughnessy9469 lol. This comment didn't age well.
@@hulado Yeah, thanks qanon. whatever you say. lol.
"J. Edgar Hoover, a very faithful and impartial servant of the people" LOL
Yeah no shit.
Got good laugh
When he wasn't cross dressing,lol
@Daniel Natal Fair enough. I don't know for sure. I removed the comment.
That itself just had me question the entire speech.
Goldwater was spot on about GDP and materialism. The importance of GDP pales in comparison to the importance of a healthy, moral society. I would rather live in a happy unified society than a rich one any day of the week.
I think I see what you're getting at. Maybe you didn't mean to make it "either, or," but the two (healthy and moral, and rich) do not have to be mutually exclusive, though if you get too much of one, it impedes and corrodes the other. I've been learning about how in history, too much wealth in a society is the downfall of the society it exists in, because it wears away people's virtues. If things come too easy to people (if they don't have to earn what they get), why have virtues? No healthy society--particularly a free one--can exist without virtuous people in it. OTOH, as Aristotle said, any virtue taken to its extreme becomes a vice, oppressive.
@@mmille10 What about distribution of wealth? We have a country where 3 richest people have more wealth than bottom halp of population. I don't want to kill the free market entirely, but that seems like a sickness in the body politic to me.
@@micah4242 - I'd encourage you to learn about the Pareto Principle re. wealth distribution. However, the social obligation aspect to society I think needs watering, where people who are able can offer opportunities to learn skills of perception, and repositories of knowledge where people can see possibilities for what can be accomplished, and mix with people who have a greater work ethic, and social connections that can then offer the opportunity to change their own lives, so they can achieve what they want in life. The thing is, though, if the opportunity is offered, people who could benefit from it need to have the initiative to take advantage of it. I am reminded that many years ago, when Oprah Winfrey was asked why she decided to fund the construction of a school in Africa, rather than here in the U.S., when people pointed out there were so many poor minorities here. She said straight out that she explored that prior to constructing the school. She went into poor black communities here, and asked them about what they were interested in learning about. She said all she got back from the kids was that they wanted the latest expensive shoes. She found interested kids in Africa. She said she wasn't going to invest millions of dollars in a school if students weren't interested in learning anything. I say this to make the point that socioeconomic improvement is a two-way street.
@@mmille10 I used to work in public schools in NYC. Unless they have a neurological problem, children are naturally curious and enthusiastic about learning. However, some schools are so deficient (and home lives troubled) that the kids never enter the cycle of exploration, achievement, and positive feedback. They are yelled at, presented with boring worksheets by substandard teachers. A rare few might have such strong initiative that they overcome such environments, but most become jaded.. It's very sad when you see it happening before your eyes.
Oprah gave up on those kids too soon.
@@micah4242 - The only alternative I've heard about is modeled on boarding schools. Geoffrey Canada has operated such a school in Harlem for many years. It targets kids in inner city neighborhoods, who don't have good schools to go to, and don't have good home environments. It's a delicate process, though, because he can't force parents to enroll their kids in his school. He needs to be persuasive, and I think that's the way it needs to be; not forced. It's very intensive, including the parents in the process, talking about better parenting. Taking him at face value, it works really well for the kids. He has to console himself, though, with the fact that even with his best efforts, he's not going to be able to help all the kids that need help, because there are parents who aren't convinced to enroll them in his school.
I can relate in a way. I've met plenty of people who are going down what I regard as a wrong track. I try to convince them to look at the world differently, to see what they're missing, but they refuse to listen. I have explored the possibility that my methodology is flawed, and I continue to look into that. I can look to myself, because there were people who tried their best to do the same with me (not using effective methods, I might add, because they didn't know how), and I didn't listen to them. Not that I was in bad economic straits, but I wasn't realizing that something better was out there. It was only when I reached a point of being receptive, and finding someone who I trusted to steer me in a better direction that I realized what the others who were bugging me were on about.
Receptivity is really a necessary ingredient. It's not something you can just "plug in" to people, like a missing piece of a puzzle. Not everyone can be reached. We can only hope that those who need help have the necessary life experiences such that they will be open to what they might need, and that someone, maybe some of us, will be there to help them understand what they need. I see it as a cooperative process between teacher and student.
I know this is about America but moral decay is an alarming trouble all over the world today
Is it though? Or do they want you to think that’s the case.
@@V3_media It kinda is. History shows that when morals collapse, societies often collapse. Morals are an big part of the things that drives human beings into action, actions of humans beings define a society's future or survival. A society with no morals nor traditions is simply an society that lacks a future, and when that happens, things go grim very fast.
Lucky for us all is reversible, so we can change the situation if we really want to
@@V3_media it's both. Mortality was and still is on the decline, and this message was intended to help people understand that.
Tocqueville had a quote that addressed this succinctly: "Liberty cannot exist without morality, nor morality without Faith." It follows, then, that liberty cannot exist without Faith. Some people like to insist that one can practice morality without the need for Faith; but invariably that leads to moral relativism -- because instead of being answerable to a Power greater than ourselves, we're answerable to _no one_ -- that we're our _own_ gods. A civilization cannot function in that environment, because if we're ultimately only answerable to ourselves we claim no responsibility to our fellow human beings, who might not see the world the same way we do.
Our own system of government could not function without faith in Our Creator - regardless of what we view as Our Creator - because our system is predicated on the proposition that our natural rights are an endowment of our Creator, and _not_ a dispensation of Government - and therefore cannot be taken away or controlled by Government, because they _precede_ government. Putting power in the hands of The People was supposed to ensure that centralized government could not exercise that sort of control over our rights; yet despite that there's a segment of society that seems only too happy to trade in their right of self-determination for the chains of slavery under a government of elite intellectuals. Where's the morality in that?
Thanks. Appreciate this. It was at a time of more civil discourse. Good reminder to us in an age ruled by “Rules for Radicals,” where Mocking the Opposition is the golden rule vs. just listening and appreciating the others differences…..and forging a common ground.
A time of more civil discourse … depending on whether or not you were seen as an equal member of society.
I remember yesterday fondly too. After all, I was a child then. I didn’t really see or know about much of went on in the nation, much less the world.
There was ALWAYS crime, the worst kinds of crime, in the streets of America. Murder, vandalism, corruption in government, the police and courts …
All of it with 'Almighty God in our schoolrooms.'
It was, for many, a horrendous time. Only clinging to the romantic recall of youth can lend it any luster.
I've had some good one-on-one conversations with Trump supporters. It is possible, just not on Social Media.
civil if ur white lmao
I think Goldwater was Spot on!
I got into some pretty scary situations for supporting Goldwater. I was 10 and in a white kid in 90% black school. I was echoing my parents. When I refused to say I supported Johnson, I was surrounded by a mob of at least 50 older ( held back) kids. I was saved at the last minute by a black classmate. He grabbed the leader's hair and yelled"RUN". I did.
thats messed up....
Joan Halcomb that’s more to the point of why Segregation was good keep those hooligans away
Joan Halcomb
@Joan Halcomb
Wow that's some experience.
We know the democrats screwed African Americans around but played politics for the black vote in 64.
But just can't understand why Goldwater would vote against the Civil rights bill.
I guess it was too much change for the South
@@drzoidberg844 Pretty sure that segregation is part of what created these hard divisions in the first place.
@KRIGBERT
It's been 60 years since, and nothing has changed in a bit. It's even got worse. So NO, the JOGGERS are the problem
Try to walk in the inner city alone and see how that goes 🙈
The irony is that the moral decline had nothing to do with colloquial ideas of what left or right wing values are. Both "mainstream" parties since LBJ have been apologists for the Neoliberal Capital economic model (financialization) that eradicates all ideas of value beyond shareholder concerns.
Talking to people about their faith doesn't challenge strategy or policy making, but it does generate an affective response.
Well the moral decline sure dont come from our corrupt power structure and bastardized market capitalism. I'd say it's the opposite.
Regardless, gotta fix the system and the people. If fixing the moral rot myself and many other young folks experience is hopeless, I'd reckon everything is hopeless.
RVNSGLCR it's the forces of Woke capital in full force world wide now a days
Exactly
Nicely said!!!
@@351cleavland Remember Congress still had not passed the civil rights act of 1964 and the voting rights act of 1965. Cops were still out breaking heads. We called the policeman's club the best tool for radicalization. J Edgar Hoover secretly wrote that the Young Socialist Alliance was the best organized left wing organization. So we printed his secret assessment in the Young Socialist as a matter of pride. You couldn't turn on the nightly news without seeing another protest of government policy.
Barry Goldwater was the righteous senator who wanted to unveil the cover up of the UFO phenomenon by the US Military Industrial Complex, the very same complex Eisenhower himself warned against by name in his departing speech as president... Thanks for your work Mr Hoffman, these are outstanding pieces of history now available to the internet at large thanks to your work and diligence in preserving these priceless pieces of history. Great job, From a millenial history undergraduate.
What he said^^.
Could I get you a roll of aluminum foil?
John Martin no, thanks though, anything that can travel to earth through space is undoubtedly benevolent and trans dimensional.
Eisenhower’s military and industrial complex was just his way of describing the deep state.
Hey i am UFO pilot, and i must say I'm so glad that we stop Barry Goldwater in 1960's.
I really wish people still had this kinda voice
Skeeter Sociation I turn it on from time to time
Intelligent voice
@@maplenook if only he had something to say that wasn't fearmongering and clueless.
Matt Pizzano Couldn’t have said it better
The way he speaks or some reason reminds me of Obama.
Fantastic work David. Thanks for your commitment and prior work to document these important times in our country. I’ve been watching your mini docs all day. Scary the parallels of past to present. May we get through these times unscathed. Thanks again.
Another amazing bit of historical footage David , I so enjoy watching your films ! Thanks for sharing your lifes work, all your films and documentaries are excellent ! 👍❤ And I can sure see that this film done in the 60s seems to be related to whats going on now, with our President and with all the media issues, that surrounds him .etc Wow, very intresting. The old saying that says History always repeats itself, sure makes one wonder, if that is true ! Have a great day David & God bless
I always go to Eisenhower who said, "A people that value its privileges above it's principles soon loses both!"
The country has fallen away, but that's why there shall be another great enlightenment. It's upon every American this duty to do so "to do this great work with bravery, with charity and prayer to almighty God!"
@@sumpinhapenin3070True. The left would try to crucify him and he'd rear them down 1 by 1. That's why it's sad we don't have people like him.
I'll never forget what Ike said most often: "Fore!"
Beware of Military Industrial Complex
@@sunrise8263 lol...Balfour...
@Tra Ho Are you sure you don't mean Fox News?
I GREW UP NEAR BARRY. It was Scottsdale Arizona in the 1960s. Scottsdale and Paradise Valley attracted independent thinkers, back then. Like my parents. I saw him at my school concerts and around town or at town hall meetings. My family was liberal on foreign policy but he was a hawk and wanted to send the marines to any unruly country. Like Barry, my family was concerned about growing crime and rudeness and drug use. My family was neither conservative nor liberal nor independent. We tried to be whole and complete--to value all of the political persuasions.. I never told my liberal friends but I looked up to Barry for his charity work, volunteer work, his championing of native Americans, his distaste for conservative preachers, his desire to legalize marijuana, his desire to allow gays in the military, and how he left the GOP in the early 90s out of disgust. He was part of an Arizona tradition I'm proud of, which is speaking plainly and honestly like Jeff Flake and John McCain, and the tradition actually started before them. Psychologists thought Goldwater was a crank, but I don't think so. He could be overly-serious, though. He was labeled Mr. Conservative by people who felt that they had to be either vehemently liberal or conservative, but he was more of an anti-politics person like my parents and he wouldn't come out and say it. Early on, he was influenced by native Americans, and tribal people don't divide themselves into liberal and conservative because that's a set-up for endless conflict. Therefore, he was hard to categorize for most Americans. I miss him, and his kind. This country has mental health problems, now. Fear of the future, directionless, helpless. Fear of a slowly degrading planet, and fear of inadequate social institutions. Fear is driving all the craziness. I'm writing several books about human nature and they are like no books that I know of. I'm going to dedicate the book to him, among others.
If juvenile delinquency went up by factor 3 and overall crimes by factor 5, then the youth is actually more wholesome than the rest of society...
Yeah I was about to say haha, at least he didn't make up another number to lie like a new political figurehead would
That is only true if you assume that juvenile delinquency was equal to or less than the rest of society to start with.
@@Draganism true but it is usually the young you commit street crime
Well, juvenile delinquency implies that the criminals have been identified, while crime in general can rise without perpetrators being identified/caught.
Fair dues, Goldwater wouldn't have pissed on Trump if Trump were on fire. Goldwater had a deep well of personal decency and integrity rarely seen today.
Pharisees alert 👀
This is one of the best history channels out there 👏🙌.
Some would say that I'm not that old (32) but I am old enough to notice the cycle of history repeating itself: the same slogans and sales pitches used to sell the agenda toted by politicians. What is it like when you get even older and it's still the same old story? How do you take any politician seriously the older and wiser you get?
Goldwater lost. His agenda was never implemented, and the problems he say didn't go away. Occasionally a Presidental candidate has come along who, like Goldwater, sincerely aspired to fix them. What repeats itself constantly is the assertion that history repeats itself.
Erik
If you're paying attention as you get older you'll be able to sort out the facts from the propaganda.
You won't get it in sound bites you have to listen to the whole conversation in context and pay attention common sense and a conscience is all you need.
you won't!! you will see how full of S they are even more clearly and than (if you are bold) try to find a way to change the status quo
It’s honestly dumbasses that buy into their shit. Same problems today as yesterday. Bottom line people kill and people fuck and people want to belong to a team and people want to feel important.
It’s not that difficult. Know who you are and what you believe, and vote for the party and the candidates that come closest to sharing your priorities. Politicians are no better or worse than the rest of us, they’re just our representatives. If you disagree with all of them, run yourself (if you can stomach spending most of your time raising money and being called every name in the book).
Thanks for posting this David. As someone who will probably die trying to understand things this is a good little clip for me to ruminate on.
Thank you for sharing this. It's surprising how relevant this is today and how much the themes and issues he described are occurring today.
Just another reminder that what's happening today isn't exclusive to today. The arrogance of youth is a given, only the context of the times in which those youth live are different. I grew up in the 60s and so I had a front-row seat for all the rancor and tumult of the Counterculture Revolution and the destructive burnout that followed in the 70s, and got caught up in some of it myself. But somewhere deep down I sensed that the mood and direction of the country was not normal, and so when Reagan became President that sense of normalcy I experienced as a young boy returned and the Counterculture sorta flamed out -- everywhere but in our universities (which explains why they're such a mess today).
@@briane173 Thank you as well for sharing this. In light of the recent protests at universities, I was recently thinking how this is not a modern phenomenon but has occurred in universities in the 60s, from videos and documentaries I’ve seen. Colleges thus seem to be a cesspool of self-confident adolescent thought.
This is the first time I've ever heard Goldwater speak. My first thought was his cadence and inflection are very similar to Ronald Reagan.
@@josephtobin3347 Its like he watched too much Dragnet and it became part of his demeanor.
I started just listening to the audio, and had the same impression. But it was clear it was not him.
Reagan loved his political
He claimed to be a conservative, but he knew how to bend that philosophy in Southern states, like Regan
Reagan was the beginning of the end. Destroyed Unions, signed the first Trade Deal, deregulated Rail, Air, and Trucking.
And big deficit.
I remember after Reagan's second term we couldn't find anyone that votes for him, nobody would admit to it.
David, I love how you don't lead the viewer; you just give the information, which is exactly what a journalist should do.
Thank you Lucy
I mean. It doesn’t need lead up. It’s just so bad
@@iamking132How? Any qualifiers?
"No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa." Eugen Ionesco
Of course not because it’s a pursuit NOT an absolute truth. The pursuit of happiness is called a pursuit for a reason. You have to pursue happiness to obtain it. The few times you are happy make happiness worth pursuing.
@@chris7285 That's not what the left is promising though; they'll tell you that they have all the answers to human suffering, if only they were granted enough power and enough money. People want to believe that because then it absolves themselves of any responsibility for their present lot and they can lay the blame on either the government, who promised them utopia and didn't deliver; or that somehow the rich "stole" something from them. Another natural tendency of humans.
You have great insight, David. I'm grateful for your knowledge and experience. Thanks for sharing.
I found the ad at the end interesting because when I lived in Fairfax VA I was active in the public access TV station there I discovered Barry Goldwater was connected w/ legislation to help support public access television in 1984. Unfortunately the wording of that legislation was such that many cities opted out and we were left dependent on cable companies. Equal access is not what it could have been.
We have local public access on our cable system.
Great video. Thanks post posting!
Everything changes. If you are a liberal democrat, you wish conservatives were like Barry Goldwater, even though he was considered a nut (he wasn't); if you are a conservative republican, you wish most liberals were like George McGovern, even though he was considered to be a communist agent (he wasn't). People will forever be complicated.
It's nice to see a politician stand on their own conviction rather than pander to the masses for votes. How I wish it were still like that today. Thanks for posting another great video! :)
Becky Rose what makes you think he wasn’t pandering!
@@NotShowingOff The fact that he lost miserably. He could easily have punched all the hot buttons but he didn't -- because with his values and convictions there was no place to compromise or resonate with the Left. He stuck to his guns, the public by that time was too used to government interference in their lives, and the groundwork for economic revival laid by Eisenhower and Kennedy made them feel secure. I remember the catch phrase of his campaign, "In your heart you know he's right;" and I do think that deep down voters _were_ concerned about the moral slide of the country at that time and its implications for the future. But voters always vote their pocketbooks and were not going to trade privilege for principle -- not in 1964.
@@briane173 Oh no, the moral slide of people realizing segregation and Jim Crow laws were bad, realizing that having a mandatory draft for useless wars was bad, and realizing that you don't need to believe in a made up deity in order to be a good person. Goldwater tried to make popular the phrase "In your heart you know he's right". However, the much more popular phrase was "In your guts you know he's nuts". The modern world still has problems, sure, but the world has progressed so much since the 50s, we have so many more freedoms these days and society is much less repressive and as a result much more prosperous, we should be more appreciative of it and it's sad how much we take about our modern world today for granted. For the vast majority of people today, if they were given a time machine back to the first half of the 20th century, it wouldn't be long before they come running right back to the present day.
Goldwater didn’t believe in segregation. He just didn’t believe the federal government could interfere to stop it, that it was up to the states to get rid of it, or that it required a constitutional amendment to end segregation. He was a senator from Arizona, and passed legislation to end school segregation well before the Brown v Board decision. His opinion here is a reflection of the idea that society has pushed beyond the reason of law and structure. Whether you agree with that or not, that’s up to you. But don’t get him wrong on segregation.
@big tornadoes No, segregation was not terrorism - it doesn't fit the definition. It is also a perfectly reasonable view to oppose terrorism and segregation, and yet also think that the federal government should not dictate to states about what ought to happen, but that change should instead come from democracy at the state level.
its so nice to hear an honest plain talking man, telling it like it is, unafraid .
This could have been from the 1860's if television existed then.
Coffee Now no you just don’t know about history
@@drzoidberg844 Read the transcript of the speech Jefferson Davis gave just before the onset of the Civil War, then you will notice the similarities, and broaden your own history lessons.......
@@coffeenow2382 Or 1760, 1660, 1560. Yet the world continues on improving in almost every aspect.
I understand how people back then didn’t see much Change in the country but fast forward 50 years till now. Its easy to see how decayed this country is
And the people...I have never been so disgusted and disappointed with how low people will stop for some fake-ass money they can't take with them when they die..when will people learn that humanity is more important than profit. We live in this hell together and we will die in this hell together...nobody gets out alive and nobody can run from the final judgment of how they lived their life. Would hate to be an elderly person with a ton of guilt and regrets...a horrible way to end your time in this world.
@@justaroot4315 Are you a Christian Justa Girl
@@kennethjohnson9256 I am a spiritual person who seeks Christ. Et vous?
So in 1963 during the civil rights movement, the MOST important thing he could speak of was prayer in school....I wonder why he lost?
NO SHIT!
And no mention of Viet Nam war
First of all this is 1964 and the subject was Prayer in School or how to get the Federal Government to stop controlling what you think. If the Federal government could prohibit freedom of expression in local schools, they could easily prohibit freedom of association. I think Mr. Goldwater's speech was about Civil Rights and the freedom to decide who and what you wanted to be. After all do you want the Federal Government to ban Muslim girls from wearing a hijab or a young Jewish boy from wearing a tallit while attending a public school? Aren't those freedoms Civil Rights?
@@marcparella Regarding Public School Prayer: it’s elimination eventually caused today’s unrest. Until it’s restored on a localized basis, based on the faiths of the student body in a particular school, proper education won’t ever be restored.
@@CatholicTraditional U believe that bringing back the option of school prayer will fix things but it won’t. Why? People spend 50x the time they pray on their phones, and the trend is only growing. Their thoughts and morals are molded by what they see and their eyeballs are on Netflix and smartphones. A prayer to start and end the school day and an hour at church every Sunday doesn’t undo what u absorb from 20+ hrs per week of screen time. Religion didn’t lose to the left, it lost to commercialism and what ever flashy new thing is the on sale today.
David Hoffman you are doing amazing work
Anytime an older generations want to rule by fear they use a younger generation as scapegoats. I am older but I remember when I was young we were the scapegoats.
It happens again and again. It's funny and sad how many older people forget how once their own generation was similarly scapegoated in the past. People don't seem to learn from the past, even when it involves their own personal past. People have extremely short memories.
Yes, democrats using young Americans as hippies by ruining their lives with sex and chemical drugs created by Big Pharma.
Walk down the streets of Chicago
@@johnstown2451 those young troublemakers are going to be old troublemakers.
🤡🤡🤡
Biden is 80+ years old, and he won bc of the corona fear-mongering
In 1963, Barry Goldwater told the Saturday Evening Post, “Sometimes I think this country would be better off if we could just saw off the eastern seaboard and let it float out to sea.” - Agreed! Just be sure to include the West Coast, too.
This ia a great channel!
David Hoffman
I saw you briefly in The Battle for Brixton Doc. I use to live in Clapham Common but left for Montreal at 11 in 1970
Wow! Just....WOW! Thank you for posting this video!
Thank you for the uploading and I’ve subscribed your channel. Looking forward to more valuable videos!
Thank you for putting this together. Very informative to help understand the situation we are in.... America is godless.
Yeah its very sad today to see that.
Always has been
In reflecting on this video it occurred to me the recurring nature of History. These recurrences always follow a technology revolution. starting with the stone age , then the bronze age , the Iron age , the steel age , the wheel , fire , gunpowder ,etc etc . Societies are always forced to cope with these type of revolutions. The manner of this usually happens and is imposed by those taking advantage of the technology against those who have not. For example , when a stone age society rubs up against a steel age society , the steel age society always prevails . Such was the case when aboriginal Americans rubbed up against the European exponent . My point being it seems like societies across the globe are still struggling to adjust to the last three technological revolutions , 1) The Industrial Revolution 2) The Nuclear Revolution 3) The Integrated circuit / Micro chip revolution. We might even throw in the Genomic revolution
Perhaps that is what is underlies the conflicts people and societies are contending with in the present affairs of the world .Just a thought. In the mean time , I am going to listen to Sly and the Family Stone's " Everyday People " That always seems to put me at ease after considering politics. Have a blessed day people.
Harmony Alexandria great exchange... lots to mull over, thanks to both of you.
You are one of those rare souls who sees the bigger picture. Technological changes, particularly in media (written texts, printing press, radio, tv, internet, etc), drives cultural, societal, ideological, and political changes. Not the other way around.
Moral decline is always a popular subject- oh and almighty God.
B. Goldwater, R. Perot, R. Paul... some of our best "non-presidents"
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B. Goldwater was a HAM operator and knew how to shoot his mouth off all around the world on radio. He was good at actual congressional investigations into defense department spending esoecially. I can recall him barely saying on TV he'd use nukes in Viet Nam. Of course LBJ never knew what he was doing there nor Ike or Harry Truman either. But LBJ got his false flag operation going in the Tonkin gulf before the election and got the resolution passed so he had the present dangers power, so he looked anti-communist enough to beat Goldwater, and that's all it took. Goldwater even went to Antarctica while JFK was killed checking out the illegal nuclear reactor at McMurdo that never really worked. I can remember seeing the vote LBJ ad on TV that ran only one day potraying Goldwater using nukes in Viet Nam that got took off the air right away by the RNC. Goldwater was a rehash of the McCarthy era I always thought. Americans owned plenty of guns, communists were never going to overtake the country. They just kept scaring people to keep spending more money for the new D.O.D. not unlike today with the Homo Land Suckerity Dept.
Fascinating. As much as I know the faults of Hoover, and of Trump, I still would vote Goldwater.
It may have made a difference, especially more sane decisions on guns or butter spending.
@Joe Smith No, I was refering to the national debt being run up by LBJ on the war, and MEDICARE great society stuff commonly refered to as 'guns or butter' spending.
Robert Richard I had an amazing Econ teacher ~10yrs ago, some upper div class I forget which, was always on about guns and butter. I’ll never forget what that’s actually referring to- national defense or items other than national defense, like agriculture, basically.
@@KazzArie Correcto Mundo
You have a very unrealistic view of how the world works
From the Depression on, our family was always Democrat. The party of the little man. The party that saved us from starving. They liked what Goldwater said but voted Democrat again in 1964, giving Lyndon Johnson the presidency. I remember watching the Democratic convention in 1968 and the riots in Chicago. After that, and what Johnson did in Vietnam and domestically, our family all moved to the Republican Party. The adults always said that the Democrat Party was taken over by communists. The only viable option was the hated Republicans. I later read "Radical Son" by reformed communist journalist David Horowitz where he tells the story of Tom Hayden, Bill Ayres and their "Weather Underground" communist group that organized and agitated the 1968 riots. Reminds me of today's "Antifa"....Happy Day!
The Democratic party got taken over by communists yet managed to accomplish nothing communist?
How do you figure that?
SeTo Well, actually, they accomplished quite a lot of the communist agenda of the 1950s. One item on the list was the take over of the public school system and the dumbing down of the general population so that they wouldn't understand the difference between the opposing systems. Cheers!
@@sfdko3291 look at the mess your medical system is in look around you and see George Orwell 1984
Earl you must be talking about Obamacare. After the next election President Trump and the new congress will scrape that off the country like dog crap off a boot. The answer to 1984 is 1776 :-)
What about the wars in the Middle East trump arresting protesters the alt right the modern GOP is way more violence now then LGJ was then have you no shame or is violence in god name fine
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great video man!
J Edger Hoover?? Honorable and impartial? LOL!
This video just proves that some things haven't changed. Older people are always complaining about the youth of the day. He even said his parents did.
Since he admitted old people are always complaining, you'd think he'd learn from the past. If his own generation had been scapegoated before and somehow civilization hadn't collapsed, why did he go on repeating the mistakes of previous generations of older people who themselves also had been scapegoated in their own youths.
Goldwater here laid the blueprints here for at least 60 years of future Republican Party messaging.
This speech really encompasses a hard shift from Nixon/Eisenhower of the 50's.
I appreciate you David, all the best from Tennessee!
David Hoffman thank you Tennessee.
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If you close your eyes and disregard the language differences then and now, it sounds like today only things are more extreme
Except Democrats and Republicans hate each other today. Back then Goldwater and Humphrey would sit in the Senate Cafeteria trading barbs and laughing at each other's jokes.
Political misdirection is the worst moral evil of all.
I think someone else commented this, but even if you don't agree with what he's saying, it is easy to appreciate how Goldwater speaks with his audience, not to them. He speaks with a steady pace and calm volume, inviting the individual the chance to think about what he's saying, not demanding them to agree with him. It's a quality that I really wish more of our important politicians had.
Amazing accomplishment, sir.
Everyone knows this, and everyone applauds him, but no one does anything, everyone gives up, they listen like they listen to his song, and it's over, no one does anything, everyone speaks, everyone hears, everyone clap, and we all do nothing. Just cry or smile or clap. Where will everyone go today and tomorrow? Where will our children go?
I like the deliberateness and pacing of his speaking. Whether or not you agree with him, this old-fashioned method of public speaking is sorely missed today; it encourages listening and critical evaluation of what is being said. That said, Goldwater's approach is rife with the kind of naivete that most political thinking of the period possessed. We can look at much of what anybody said at the time and see the blind spots in their reasoning due to the lack of data that's been compiled since to form a more thorough understanding of issues and causality.
Can you cite some examples of Goldwater's naivete in this speech?
@@lysanderofsparta3708 Sorry it took so long to get back. For one, his assessment of Hoover is way off the mark, but he might not have known about projects like COINTELPRO until it was exposed; people in DC, however, were afraid of Hoover, even if they were Republicans. But essentially, he emphasizes that the core concern of America's problems are a lack of unified moral participation, largely as a result of insufficient religious influence. It's a simplistic summation, but that was a habit of political discourse at the time, Republican or otherwise, so it's not just him. He's not taking into account the complex melange of varying economic, political, legal, and psychological issues that all played parts in the upheaval of the period. Some of this is due to a lack of research or data models at the time regarding population, demography, financial contributions and job markets (which couldn't really be helped) but he centers it all on the lack of religious influence on the public. That's naive. Much in the same way that a lot of liberal suggestions that extreme welfare programs or busing would cure social ills because it bridged a gap between two things, but in reality didn't address the core problems.
A clean video without editorial. Thank you.
Barry Goldwater was not an extremist.
He was just ahead of his time.
“Mob violence....across the nation...” The civil rights movement was happening. Anti Vietnam war protests as well. These social protests are what he is referring to.
The fight against oppression, wars of aggression, etc are always described as "mob violence" by the political right. The same thing happened in the struggle against slavery and during the American Revolution. Those challenging corrupt power are scapegoated by those wielding and/or benefitting from corrupt power.
There is an argument to be made that righteous protest and anger became perverted by general lawlessness and ultimately led to a very destructive cycle which culminated in the inner city blights of the the 70's onwards. A very difficult subject to unravel indeed, and no easy answers, but little attention is given to minority thinkers who go against the grain by arguing this line such as Thomas Sowell.
2:45 The Elders of every generation always shakes their heads and wonder, whats becoming of the younger generation.
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Fast Forward to 2024, now RFK Jr is the Barry Goldwater!
Thank you Mr. David Hoffman for this educational video. I'm a conservative and I'm hated by many people these days but, fantastic work sir!
I lean Conservative and have good friends who lean Liberal. It’s possible because we respect and listen to each other’s points of view. We even get into good natured shouting matches sometimes 😄!
I read 2 of Goldwater’s books he was an honest politician, as best one can be in Washington” so much so that it was a mission for Lyndon B Johnson and the DNC machine to destroy him. I recommend reading “With no apologies” it’s a good and informative read used books are relatively easy to find and are cheap.
I read those books too in the 1980s. I especially liked the one he wrote upon his retirement, "With No Apologies". It's too bad he never became President later, like during the time Nixon was in office, or even later. Of course if he had been the Prez instead of Nixon the country would've been put on a much, much better course. For obvious reasons. Most of all because like you said he was an honest politician. Make that statesman. A real rarity.
When Bill Clinton won in 1992 he and Hillary went to Arizona and visited with Barry during the transition time before being sworn in. Reportedly Barry told them that they would have to deal with the nutty Evangelical, Moral Majority crowd. As a confirmed libertarian at the end of his career and life he had absolutely nothing good to say about those hypocritical assholes. He said on more than one occasion that they largely ruined the GOP. He also blamed Reagan for encouraging them. Which of course Reagan truly did.
Goldwater is the best president America never had!
Powder River people don’t Read anything anymore... tv and social media tell them what to think
Men he is right i love it!!!
Keep ‘em comin!
Generational repetition- the older generation always in despair over the "moral decay" of the younger generation, and so on and so forth.
Excellent by the way, like all of your films!
it is a blame scam, just blame the younger generation for not being robots
Ernest Grouns I mean the generational repetition exists, but what they blamed the next generation for actually happened.
@Debra Charles no party has the right values
It’s Selective outrage. The old corrupt, moraless sellouts are raising youth who are trying not to be that.
“If there is no God, everything is permitted”. - Dostoyevsky
If there is GOD why Goldwater attacked youth saying they are the decline of morality. GOD would love them regardless, GOD isn't punitive. SO I say "there is no love with a punitive GOD"
Vernon Mahabal That doesn't make any sense.
@@BuyTheDip627 Makes perfect sense. What God prohibits we rebel and celebrate it. Like sodomy for example and adultery. Most of us are guilty of at least one of these
pat cola No it doesn't make any sense for a number of reasons. In the first place, God (as he is understood) is a metaphysical impossibility, but more importantly, God is not the reason rational people choose not to kill or murder. God does not represent OBJECTIVE morality; in fact, God represents supernatural subjectivism. In other words, if you'd like to know what is moral, it's whatever God dictates, which is predicated on His feelings ultimately.
Without the concept of God, an individual is now free to rely on his mind to solve his issues. And, a rational person will ultimately come to the conclusion that he needs moral codes to guide his actions in life. Those moral codes have to be discovered through reason, not revelation.
@@BuyTheDip627 If you notice, none of us come with a battery or a plug. What keeps your heart and vital organs working ? What is holding every molecule in the universe together and from flying apart ?
God doesn't work on his FEELINGS. HE IS RIGHTEOUS. HE IS HOLY. It is who he is. He can't lie either . The Bible says GOD IS LOVE. He isn't fickle like humans are. His FEELINGS don't change. He is the same yesterday, today and forever.
The reason you know something to be right or wrong is because the LAW is written in your heart. Your own conscience either excuses or accuses of you when you do wrong or right. Roman 2:15.
So what put it there or whom in this case? You and I are not evolved pond scum with no rhyme or reason. YOU know murder is wrong. If someone stole from you, would you like it ?
God forbid if someone in your life that you loved was murdered in cold blood. Would you seek justice ? Is that wrong ? So....is murder wrong ? Or is it not ? You know the answer.
I don't know what level of education you have but if it blinds you to truth then abandon it and come to JESUS for the forgiveness of your sins against a HOLY GOD.
We all have a day when we will give an account. Jesus Christ died and rose again for sin so that we could be reconciled back to God our creator.
Unfortunately, this is what we don't see today 😔
I recognize that auditorium. Isn’t that where the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs and records their weekly broadcast? What a historic setting.
J. Edgar Hoover. Right, fascist head of the FBI for far too long. Spied on anyone he didn't agree with, scare tactics abound. What's wrong with parents instilling religious faith in their homes. Why is it the responsibility of schools to teach religion. Prayers are usually lead by the dominant religion in this country without regard to other faith groups
The American Founders feared theocracy and politicized religion. They realized that freedom from religion was as important as freedom of religion. But conservatives never seem to understand this, no matter how many times the danger of organized religion has reared its ugly head throughout history.
This is what a real American sounds like.
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Bravo, Senator Barry Goldwater.
When hope and opportunity disappear, crime and unrest increase. It has little to do with morality and what more about makes sense to individuals on how they should act to survive.
That is the difference between the left and right. Conservatives (at their worst) get lost in abstractions of culture war rhetoric and revisionist nostalgia, while those on the political left (at their best) focus on material conditions of what makes life better in practical ways.
At the time when Goldwater made this speech, you also had a young generation that wanted to have a revolution. The purpose is different, perhaps. And the schools back then didn't dumb down youth. My generation isn't blameless
My mother didn't like Goldwater in 1964 and held her nose as she voted for Johnson. We ended up in a war, regardless.
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It's so sad to hear this knowing now that if they were alive today they would kill over dead seeing what we have become.
I could not agree more
Thanks!
Thank you so much Chuck
Wow...such a great speech. I agree with everything he had to say!
Dang GUYS why are ya saying Hart-Celler when you coulda said *Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965* and made a lot more sense to me :)
1965, truly Americas tragic turning point.
No country in the history of mankind has flourished when being truly multicultural (it’s always been one group ruling over the others), the Greeks warned us against multiculturalism same as King Solomon. It’s simply against human nature to not be tribal. Unfortunately some people have stupidly attempted to make the whole world their tribe.
@@LigerMan95 Are you saying that we were better off when we were all one culture? Was that by any chance the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant hetrosexual conservative male chauvinist culture that wouldn't tolerate people who were different from what they were, like Jews, Catholics, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, gays, immigrants, etc.? The same type of culture that discriminated against these other people, that passed laws segregating them from the rest of society, that even resorted to violence and terror to keep the minorities "in their place," that denied women the same rights that men enjoyed, including the right to vote?
Is that what you're trying to say?
It seems to me that your kind of world is the kind that the Ku Klux Klan envisioned.
Michael Palmieri Your probably saying all that because your gay or something if your also a communist then why don’t you defect to The Eastern Bloc?
@@drzoidberg844 Hoo boy, that is a typical right-wing reactionary response! Just because someone disagrees with you or your far-right world view, you automatically assume that he's either gay or a Communist. Well, I am sorry to disappoint you, but I am neither of those things! I have never been gay or a Communist, and I never will be either of them.
Your type of thinking is right out of the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis. They too think anyone who isn't like them is a commie or gay, especially if that person is also a Jew.
You ask why I don't defect to the Eastern Bloc. Because a) I am an American, b) there is no more Eastern Bloc! That went out with the Berlin Wall.
Don't you pay attention to what's going on in the world, or have you been asleep for the last thirty years or so?
Stop living in the past, already!
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Daniel 12:10 Thank you David for this fine observation.
Wow, I liked what he said about religion and materialism. I grew up in Southern California and there were churches left and right. Yet, the oppulence was off the charts. I knew quite a few "devout" Christians and many of them were Narcissistic, HIGHLY materialistic and judgmental of those who were middle or upper-middle class and didn't have the "right" car or house. If one was poor then they were obligated to say in a group something like "Oh, don't say anything about So and so because they are struggling." A few of the churches were "Bling" Cathedrals.
I tried many churches and realized most people didn't have a clue about Jesus but they were great at recitation to make it sound like they did. Too many masking thier anger and fear with broad smiles.
Very interesting, I would like to hear more about your experiences from then
No wonder Christianity is dieing in the West
@@ianlilley2577 Agree but its about bible beliving christian not the false doctrines of man. For an example the Roman Catholic Church.
Well its about what the bible says not the what man says. Are you saved.
@@kennethjohnson9256 Geez thought the whole Protestant vs Catholic thing was over by now
Wasn’t this Who Hilary Clinton got started in politics working for? She was a “Goldwater Girl”
Sam DOUGHERTY she was a Goldwater girl to. I think she was inspired by Alinski after that in college
@@danielj6824 She learned tactics from Alinksi, as did everyone on the political spectrum.
Materialism and greed corrodes the soul but that is the American way. It’s not religion but decency and fairness,this man is really calling for. Deprivation and brutality leads to disaffected youth,to disaffected society. Money is your god, you should forget abstract notions like god for a minute and instead consider the possibility of believing in ordinary people.Invest in their education,healthcare,living conditions and sense of self worth. There’s godliness in that, but there’s none in the greed that is woven completely into the American psyche.
They say history repeats itself
Great video. Love the comments. So many distortions and conspiracy theories to choose from. It's like the marketplace of imaginary ideas.
J. Edgar Hoover, faithful and impartial...
Yikes!
If this guy knew what J Edgar Hoover was doing in his spare time, he wouldn't be quoting him!!!
Now we have the Squad...
Jebus... This comment section.
Ikr
Hahahaha. He had me up until the point where he claimed that not paying income tax is compairable to stealing. It is the inverse of reality. Income tax itself is the theft.
Christopher Pittman agreed
@@Walk_Off_0311 no his point being the conservative principle of common good, you espousing neoliberal post modern capitalist ideas
Christopher Pittman yeah, I thought the same.
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I might repeat what l've always heard repeated; repeatedly. History repeats it's self. I've concurred with this assessment, repeatedly.