Pushing Back Against the Cultural Assault

You might think you are being kind, but you are not. We need to prioritize what is good and optimistic for all children.

Discussion includes parental rights, drag shows, gender identity, education, government assistance, UBI, and ESG.

Transcript

Will Loconto:

I'm Will Loconto. I'm here with my partner Cindy Bass. Today we're talking about America's cultural assault, what many refer to as "the culture war." The culture war is not an isolated thing right now. We've got an across the board, methodical attempt to indoctrinate people, with its fingers in virtually every aspect of our lives today. In these contexts, culture should not be taken to mean race, ethnicity, or religion. We've got all kinds of issues popping up all across America, all through the public and private lives of people. What do you think?

Cindy Bass:

Well, first I think it's out of hand and it's so widespread that it's been effective. They, they've really done some work. You have drag queens for children. We were talking about the MAP, minor attracted person, which I can't even believe they have an acronym for that. But softening language for "minor attracted people"v is they want to separate it from the problem and make it like a victim with pedophilia. And these are just examples of this. It's an assault, it is an attack on the very basics of America

Will Loconto:

Normalizing the abnormal, as we say,

Cindy Bass:

Normalizing the abnormal. It's something I can't, I've told you over and over, I can't wrap my mind around this because my question is why I say why a hundred thousand times in my head. Why would someone want drag queens to sit and read to kids in a library? Why?

Will Loconto:

Why would you normalize that?

Cindy Bass:

Why would you normalize that? Why? What would be the outcome of normalizing that?

Will Loconto:

Well, it's kind of weird too because you saw in Florida when they banned the pride parade for children, that they canceled the parade. The idea was that if they were not able to include children, that they didn't want to do it, which is really, really weird and disturbing.

Cindy Bass:

I'm sitting here without a word all of a sudden, which is very rare. I can't wrap my mind around grown ass men dressed up like women that would say I, I'm not doing that unless children can watch. That's sick.

Will Loconto:

And I'm hoping that the facts as reported were wrong about that because there is no other take to be had if that's the case.

Cindy Bass:

Well, they've just, sometimes I think these people all want attention. They want fame, even if it's the 15 minutes of fame.

Will Loconto:

Well, on the drag thing, a lot of it is the queering element. And queering element is just, it's another word for dismantling and destroying, disrupting. There are people that the idea of dismantling normal society,

Cindy Bass:

They must have had very bad childhoods. That's all I can say. I can't imagine wanting to disrupt a childhood of an innocent kid of any kind, not just this drag stuff. All I could think of is how I could help or how we could do things better or it just makes me sad. It makes me really sad. They're getting into our education systems, our schools. They're undermining the parents. Parents are the guardians, the legal guardians of the children. The schools have no right to do anything when it comes to medical or mental health.

Will Loconto:

The craziest thing is when you end up having in schools, counselors that are basically transitioning kids without parental knowledge,

Cindy Bass:

And we're hearing that they have committees for LGBTQ committees and all this stuff. So why do you need that?

Will Loconto:

Well, it's weird. We're being force fed the idea that exceptions and anomalies should be treated as normal and it's not a healthy environment for success.

Cindy Bass:

I know it's like a virus and it's spread so far and wide that it's getting to be comical like a clown. How much more ridiculous can it be?

Will Loconto:

Well, when we start talking about things with so-called equity initiatives in schools and things like grades, merit, standardized tests, even standards of conduct, are being treated as negative somehow, and it's disruptive. It harms kids. It's no wonder that the school performance levels are abysmal. It's embarrassing. It's not a money issue. We're rewarding and celebrating things that shouldn't be rewarded. Most of it shouldn't even be tolerated. Basically what we're doing is we're creating a society where nobody is accountable, nobody is responsible, nobody has agency. Nobody is looked at as having power over themselves,

Cindy Bass:

And it's a free for all.

Will Loconto:

And a lot of it just seems to be about what can people get? What is everybody entitled to? What is everybody? Rather than saying, “what are you expected to do?” Everybody's thinking, “what am I expected to get? What should I be given?”

Cindy Bass:

Well, and they learned that from somewhere. I mean, I think they're learning that now widespread from all the money that was sent through checks down. Yes, people needed money for covid shutdowns and all those things, but I think it disturbed some people's minds getting all that money and didn't want to go back to work. Or when they did go back to work, they thought about the money they got sent in the mail and it doesn't transpose to their hourly rate. So they just sit down.

Will Loconto:

Suddenly hard work doesn't seem like the thing to do. And then they say, “I deserve more money. I deserve a living wage.” And really know what you deserve is an opportunity to make yourself employable. That's all you deserve,

Cindy Bass:

To try to educate yourself. Some of the things I think about have always thought about even before this kind of crazy assault's going on in our country is welfare is like a learned behavior. I have seen it all my life. People that are on welfare, their children tend to get on welfare. It's

Will Loconto:

A cycle.

Cindy Bass:

It's a cycle. I'm just saying that I don't know how people want to not get out and do things or teach their children. You don't live off the government for any reason. Now, there are times that people need this and it should be there, but living off of welfare or these people that go and use the food stamp cards after they've bought all the stuff for their hair, their nails or tanning all their designer bags, then they might buy the food and sell the food to get drugs. There's very much corruption in that and there's a lot of false claiming of welfare. But that's a culture too.

Will Loconto:

A culture of dependence.

Cindy Bass:

It is. It's a culture of dependence and the people that believe in wealth distribution, equity, we were talking today, someone we know is wanting to go to an Ivy League school that really takes an application and discriminates against someone, against someone who's qualified for someone who's lesser.

Will Loconto:

Yes.

Cindy Bass:

This is all woke. It's all equity crap and it's discrimination.

Will Loconto:

Fundamentally, the idea of minimizing the impact of merit and standards is crazy. It shouldn't be controversial to say math teaching jobs should only be available to people who are good at math.

Cindy Bass:

Yeah. There's nothing else you can say that's common sense.

Will Loconto:

I mean, that should be a basic fundamental truth.

Cindy Bass:

Don't hire a math teacher that doesn't know math.

Will Loconto:

And I certainly wouldn't want a math teacher that was last in the class or got their degree because of equity. I don't want a doctor that got an equity degree. I don't want to be in an airplane flown by a pilot that got their position because of diversity, equity, and inclusion. I want the best people doing their best to serve the public, to serve people to the people who participate with a work ethic should be getting the benefits of society. The only people that should be getting assistance are those that are disabled

Cindy Bass:

Or for a very temporary time when they've been

Will Loconto:

With a path to success to where,

Cindy Bass:

Yes, and I told you that I had a thought. I think it's a good one that if you get on welfare that you must sign up. I think it could be implemented that you must sign up for something that shows it as a loan in the future. When you get a job, they come up with something, a ratio. You can't take someone's whole check because they can't live, but at some small ratio of repayment because I believe that people won't sign up for things if they knew they had to pay it back. Now. Yeah, there'll be some that do,

Will Loconto:

And it's not discriminatory to do that either.

Cindy Bass:

No. But I'm saying when you go in, you have knowledge that whatever that you ask for in assistance, because it is assistance, it's temporary help, whatever you get, you will have to pay back over a time period when you get back on your feet and get a job. What that says to you is, this is a loan, and in the future my work, I'm going to have to make payments back. And I'm telling you, I think that that's a mindset.

Will Loconto:

Well, right, and the idea that if you're going to get assistance, there needs to be a string attached with the idea that you're going to eventually be working again.

Cindy Bass:

Right. That's what I was going to say is, you know you have to work and you know that it's temporary

Will Loconto:

And there's nothing wrong with that. That's the craziest thing is that we've become a society where it's somehow inappropriate to say,

Cindy Bass:

I know.

Will Loconto:

And yeah, I know I've said it before, but the reality is that life is a competition and you have to participate if you're able, there shouldn't be anything wrong with saying that to people.

Cindy Bass:

You shouldn't lay down and

Will Loconto:

Expect things,

Cindy Bass:

And the only time you get up is to go to the mailbox looking for a check.

Will Loconto:

No,

Cindy Bass:

I mean, that's the reality.

Will Loconto:

and that's why that whole universal basic income idea is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Because if you're going to get a check for doing nothing, why would you work?

Cindy Bass:

I can't even think about that because it doesn't make sense. It can't compute that everybody gets a check. So what happens with that is people,

Will Loconto:

You've got the people that actually work hard subsidizing the people that don't.

Cindy Bass:

No, what I'm saying is, let's say you worked really, really hard all your life and you made a ton of money, but you worked for it, and all of a sudden, this culture,

Will Loconto:

You deserve a ton of money.

Cindy Bass:

You do. But this cultural assault comes in and they change it to where now you've got to disperse all that money you worked for to others to help them.

Will Loconto:

Well right, and even if they cap it, like the dumb idea that we should cap the wealth that somebody's allowed to have, you don't understand the unintended consequences of that.

Cindy Bass:

But what I was going to say at the end of that is the guy that really worked really hard and made a ton of money, those types of guys, after they change it to distribute the wealth, that guy could have made something that was patented to help people stay alive, and he made a ton of money. But now that they have this distribution thing, that guy's not going to do it.

Will Loconto:

No. Right.

Cindy Bass:

He's not going to push himself to make that ton of money for himself and his family because he's

Will Loconto:

Why

Cindy Bass:

Would

Will Loconto:

You? Well, no. Right, and the thing that people seem to misunderstand and dismiss completely is the idea that with a capitalist society, you have to have the rewards because you're not going to, if drug companies can't make money with the drugs that they make and the research that they do, you will end up not having these drugs being made. And you can't just say, oh, well, the government will make it because the government does generally a poor job at everything that it does. So the capitalist system is actually the key to innovation and success. And one of the reasons that life expectancies go up is capitalism.

Cindy Bass:

We were talking about earlier. I haven't read too much about this, and you just explained a lot of it. And this E s G for corporate, the corporate world, it's disgusting to have ratings and scores.

Will Loconto:

Well, it's a way to implement policy without policy. Basically, they're trying to force the manipulation of capital to keep these companies in line with what they believe the

Cindy Bass:

Agenda. So you were saying that they have, they're controlling environmental stuff with these companies or policies or protocols or whatever they're doing with their companies. And then that's called greenwashing, which

Will Loconto:

Well, right. When companies, PR companies would pretend to be more environmentally friendly than they actually are in order to get these virtue signaling fund managers to invest in those companies. But what it ends up doing is starving capital from the companies that don't tow the line. So it's actually a political maneuver being put into control these companies and to control the agenda. And it's ends up being a very unhealthy financial formula

Cindy Bass:

Under the guise of corporate social responsibility.

Will Loconto:

Social responsibility. And it's, there's social engineering, climate equity, basically it's ways to control, I know you had said it's about making money. It's about making money, but it's also about using that to control things in ways that most people don't understand. Most every day people are not understanding how this stuff matters. But what it actually, it will matter is how long are you able to drive a car? How long are you able to eat meat? How long are you able to live the way you want to live? Can

Cindy Bass:

You eat bugs?

Will Loconto:

Well, it's real. I know that's, people laugh about that stuff, but it's real. And the idea of these 15 minutes cities, everybody has an electric car that these things are actually being implemented under our

Cindy Bass:

Noses in our country.

Will Loconto:

In our country. But

Cindy Bass:

The thing is, our little country does all this, but the whole rest of the world does what they want to do. Yes. We're not fixing anything.

Will Loconto:

No. That's like the plastic straw thing. Not using the straws isn't helping anything. And we ignored how many billions of masks are probably in the ocean now.

Cindy Bass:

Yeah. It's just nonsensical.

Will Loconto:

It's very nonsensical. And

Cindy Bass:

I guess the worst one is transitioning children. I think if I had to vote for the worst one, it would be this transitioning children. And there is no trans kids. No. That's my opinion. And I stick

Will Loconto:

By that. No, there are no transgender kids. Unfortunately, a lot of the "transgender children" are victims of their parents rather than a naturally occurring phenomenon. A lot of the parents are virtue signaling. When you hear somebody saying that they have two non-binary kids, unfortunately that means that they've abused their children. That's not real. You don't just happen to have two kids that identify as non-binary organically in a world where less than a tiny minuscule percentage, less than 0.5% in the world are transgender. And if somebody's identifying as transgender, multiple kids in a family, that's not a natural phenomenon.

Cindy Bass:

Some of these schools are now taking the role as a guardian and making decisions for children while keeping it from parents. And some of it is pretty gruesome.

Will Loconto:

And in

Cindy Bass:

My opinion's, illegal.

Will Loconto:

It should be illegal.

Cindy Bass:

It's illegal. It is, and the problem is, is this harm that's being done is you can't take it back. Once it's done, it's done. And you just can't take it back. And schools don't have any place of making decisions. And even I'm saying that with any parent parents that completely are off the wall, that don't even do anything like me. It's still their parent and it's, they're the guardian of their own children and they have the right to teach them religion or whatever they want to do or not do. It is their right. Legally. Yes. And these schools that are taking children and doing things behind the backs of parents and harming them, it is illegal. And

Will Loconto:

Now somebody will come out and say, so if the parents are the ones in charge, if the parent wants to give their 12 year old gender affirming surgery, they should be able to. And I don't agree with that.

Cindy Bass:

No, I don't either.

Will Loconto:

There needs to be an age limit on this to where the idea of having a sex change operation should be reserv

Cindy Bass:

To adults. Well, a school can't give an okay on a sex.

Will Loconto:

No, no, no. But I don't, A parent shouldn't be able to either.

Cindy Bass:

No, no. But that should be a medical community of doctors and medical facilities.

Will Loconto:

Well, and actually what's follow rules, what I think is going to stop this transgender madness bullshit is going to be lawsuits. The only thing that's going to stop this is when all of these medical centers and are fearful, fearful of, start being afraid that they're getting sued. And that's really the only thing that's going to do it. And the school boards need to be getting sued. And there, that's the only thing that's going to stop this. And it needs to start being an organized effort.

Cindy Bass:

Little bitty kids, even early teens and stuff, they d, they're so hormonal that they don't know what's going on. Now, yes, they could be lesbian or gay, whatever, but they need a time period to work through all this and then become an adult and make adult decisions. And if anyone argues with that, I don't, I think that you're an idiot. And this is part of this woke assault. It's a culture war of too many things.

Will Loconto:

Normalizing the abnormal. Yes. We need to stop focusing on the abnormal. We need to stop focusing on anomalies. We need to prioritize the normal. We need to prioritize what is good and optimistic for children. We need to stop the endless parade of everything is okay and showing tolerance for things that shouldn't be tolerated. Start standing up and saying, hang on a minute, push back on this

Cindy Bass:

Because you're not being kind.

Will Loconto:

No, it's not being kind.

Cindy Bass:

You think, if you're listening and you think that you're being kind, you are not.

Will Loconto:

No,

Cindy Bass:

That's all I have to say.

Will Loconto:

Well, that does it for us today.

Cindy Bass:

See ya.