You can take your Bible, turn to Matthew chapter 16. We continue our series, The Danger of Silence, The Danger of Silence, and this is our third message on that, and it is to speak single-mindedly against global communism. So that's the challenge, is to speak single-mindedly against global communism. Matthew 10, Jesus is sending out the disciples. He wants them to know what they're going to face. It's not going to be easy. A lot of adversaries, a lot of evilness thrown at them. And so he tells them this in verse 16 of Matthew 10. Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Wolves love to devour sheep. So be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves. So we see all the evil and what they accomplish, but we do not become evil like them to accomplish the goals God has for us. But we are shrewd. We are to be wise. The word shrewd means a wisdom that comes from understanding. So that's what he called them to do. And he calls us. So we've looked at the issue of elections. in three categories that are all pressing on what's involved in this election. And I don't know if you know it, but there have been marches and so forth in India and England and other countries about our elections, wanting Trump to win. These are in other countries. We've tried to look at it biblically, and we looked at these three areas. We wanted to look at it historically and contemporarily, and we have done that in the first two messages. This third message, we look at it globally. We look at the election or what we're doing even beyond the election globally. So globally is Marxian socialism, is their answer. That's the answer to the world problems. So the third factor we consider biblically must be a crucial component in our voting decision this year. I do not necessarily believe the globalists will accomplish all of their goals in their time frame or how they describe it without unexpected modifications along the way, like others who predict long-term weather conditions, economic failure, or growth, because they simply do not know all the present or potential variables at the time of their prediction. As in my other series that I've preached to you through the years, I have warned of threats that are threats to the mission of the church that God has given us, such as Islam, scientism, progressivism, and secularism under what I call the liberal or the scientific liberal culture, which has served as a warning not against science proper, but against scientism, expanding science beyond its legitimate bounds. And these warnings would include Marxism that I introduced to you and preached on in 2020. I continue here to make warnings and no predictions. However, I do believe in scripture So consequently, I believe the predictions made in scripture regarding the coming one-world government ruled by the Antichrist to be precise and unalterable. But I do not predict who, when, or precisely how. With regard to the globalist, I refrain from predictions beyond what the globalists say. are doing, can do, and think they will be able to do. And this would include the entailments of their aspirations and vocabulary. Therefore, my message is not a conspiracy message unless one's leading it are the conspirators, since I quote them verbatim and in context. In our days, Satan works intensely to promote globalism in various forms, such as Marxian socialism, communism, Islamic dictatorships, scientism, progressivism, and using global fears to unite us in a universal fear, such as an array of supposed pending pandemics and that global warming poses an existential threat, meaning it's looming over us and it could wipe out the planet tomorrow. We must do something now. That's the fear. That's why you see people destroying paintings and gluing their hands to cars and all of the things that are going on. It's all out of fear. And we're supposed to join in with that. Therefore, because of this existential threat of the end of humanity by global warming, we must implement, as soon as possible, immediately, zero carbon emissions or we will perish. Know that that means no fossil fuel being used, period. So just think about waking up in the morning. There's no use of fossil fuel. Just think of it if you can. They're calling for it. They promote the idea that all such threats are so big for individuals and for individual nations, so they must be fought by a central elite governing body that controls the global community. In my writings, I use the term Marxian socialism, and I hyphenate between the two. It's not normally used that way, but I do it because I'm using it in a particular way, and that is that Marxism hates socialism. So you can find it all in their writings. And yet, they refer to themselves as socialists sometimes. So you remember the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. So Stalin hated it, but they refer to themselves as socialists. They also sometimes embrace socialism to further their Marxian utopia. So it becomes very confusing, and so I call it Marxian socialism. It's tied together, but it's a particular kind. So one of the fundamental difference, there's about, last count, about 25 kinds of socialism, so I deal with just the core thing that permeates all of them in my writings, and in speaking. But the difference in Marxian socialism, you can call this communism, Marxism, whatever you would like, but the difference in it and other socialisms is this, that socialism sees socialism as a destiny, a goal, place to stop. Marxian socialism sees socialism as a transitional state. In other words, you get there and then you move on to Marxian utopianism. That's the idea. The socialists don't fully understand that. So when they come, they think the Marxists like them right now because they're all working for socialism. But once they get to socialism and they can say America or the West is totally socialistic and they're celebrating, the Marxists will abandon them, attack them, destroy them as they move on towards their utopia. By then, the capitalist military powers will probably be nonexistent or too feeble to deliver the liberals, the progressives, socialists, and the rest of us that wake up in Marxism's grip. Globalism eliminates many human dimensions, including the sanctity of human life, which includes the freedom of speech and choice, This attack upon human sanctity is being done through demoniacal powers to divest us of our national mind, our history, Christianity, and truth. And it's using people in all kinds of places to promise that we can bring about, humanly, a utopia. We can solve all the problems. through a global society. But when they do that, they destroy Christianity, truth, and we find out their hope is false. But it is too late. So I want to speak to you about what's called stakeholder capitalism. and the World Economic Forum. Some of you are familiar with those terms. Some of you have never heard them. It's okay. This week and next week, you'll be able to write about them, I pray. Stakeholder capitalism and the World Economic Forum. So I believe that the advancement of stakeholder capitalism is partly accomplished by concealing the truth of their Kafkaesque or nightmarish goals and processes, they do this through cryptic language. In other words, when they say things, if you don't understand what they're saying, you don't know what they're saying, but you think you know. When they use this cryptic language, They are able to create federations of incalculable influence over countries and the world's leading businesses and governments to move towards Marxian socialism, a global Marxian socialism. This may be done through the rubrics of non-elected entities, global organizations, such as G20, which was started in 1999, and the World Economic Forum that was started in 1971, as the planet and the people's protectors. Klaus Schwab, not Charles Schwab. Some of you have your retirement, not him, it's Klaus. Klaus Schwab holds PhDs in economics and engineering. He holds an MPA in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was a longtime professor at the University of Geneva. He's the founder of the World Economic Forum. And as the founder of the World Economic Forum, he is one of the most powerful men on planet Earth, period. He has served as not only the founder, but the executive chairman for over 50 years. But at 86 years old in May of 2024, he began to shift the day-to-day operation to the president, Borja Brinde. And what Schwab did was there's a board and there's Borger Brende, the president that are running the operation. Now, Schwab is not doing the day-to-day, but he sits as the chairman on the board. But he is the founder of it. Schwab established the World Economic Forum to promote and advance the idea of what's known, he coined this phrase, stakeholder capitalism. in order to replace shareholder capitalism, which we have in the West, and state capitalism, which they have in communist countries. Stakeholders include, and why do they call it that? Well, a stakeholder includes all interested in the company's future. And that would include the World Economic Forum and G20, among others. So according to the World Economic Forum, and you should be able to read this with me, the G20 is a forum of the 20 largest economies in the world that meet regularly to discuss the most pressing issues facing global economy. Together, the G20 accounts for 80% of the world gross domestic product. 80%, 75% of global trade, and 60% of the population of the planet. Schwab defines a stakeholder as Stakeholders are all who have a stake in the destiny of the company. So shareholder capitalism, those people who have invested in it, they sit on the board, they are the ones. But in stakeholder, it goes out to all these different people, theoretically. Always remember that global stakeholder capitalism is a replacement for national shareholder capitalism, which we have in the West, and we have had in the West, and we still do, but there is a move towards Schwab's stakeholder capitalism. What they call capitalism is not capitalism as customarily and historically understood. You'll see that. So this is what I would say to you summarizing some of this. Schwab seeks to move the world from state capitalism in communist countries such as China, Vietnam, Singapore. And this is where they may have some capitalism because remember, socialism and Marxism never works. They always have to have some capitalism. So Mao has done it out of necessity. Stalin did it out of necessity. because socialism doesn't work. That's why they have it. They're not becoming more like us. They're just surviving so they can take over. The news gets it totally wrong. If they don't do this, they end up like Venezuela, one of the richest countries in the world with oil, and they're in destitution. You have to have capitalism to make it work. But anyway, in state, the one who's in charge of the capitalism and state capitalism is the Communist Party, the people at the top. Not shareholders. And shareholder capitalism is in the West where companies are responsible to their investors So the people that invested sit on the board and you're listening to them and you're responsible to people who've invested in the company through stock and so forth. And this is all being moved to stakeholder capitalism. So stakeholder capitalism came to greater prominence in the world in 2020. So Schwab developed it in 1970. He's been working to advance it around the world for over 50 years now. But in 2020, it came to prominence. Its implementation was accelerated and strengthened by COVID-19. Remember that, because you're going to hear it a lot as we work through this. All of which Schwab labeled The Great Reset, which refers specifically to the global change from shareholder capitalism to stakeholder capitalism, which is a 10-year plan that began in 2020. Remember, COVID started the end of 19, beginning of 20. From 2020 to 2030, it's a 10-year plan to move the world to stakeholder capitalism. My understanding is they say now they're about two and a half years behind, but it's still going ahead. If you've ever heard the term Great Reset and wondered what it meant, where it came from, it came from Schwab, and this is what it means. Stakeholder capitalism is a global political economic system. I'm trying to summarize what it is with all of its moving parts. It is a global political economic system, global political economic system, and it has social issues as well. So regarding Schwab's development of stakeholder capitalism, he said this, in 1970, as a young professor, I pioneered the stakeholder concept. He then said, and this is important, as a consequence, I created the forum, meaning the World Economic Forum, forum is short for that, as a not-for-profit foundation. So there you have the reason why there is a World Economic Forum. He started it, the reason he started it is to promote the idea of stakeholder capitalism. He further states, I have further developed stakeholder capitalism into a global business citizenship. So first notice that the World Economic Forum was founded. Its purpose, its existence is to promote stakeholder capitalism. And you'll come to know what that is. But just remember that this forum that everybody basically knows about, that's the reason it was founded. And he now calls it a global business citizenship. In other words, it's a world citizenship. It has world citizens. So it is more than an economic consortium, as some tend to believe. He promoted stakeholder capitalism through the World Economic Forum for over 50 years. but it has gained traction. And so Schwab now has said this, today, stakeholder capitalism is finally becoming mainstream. So we're not talking about something that's been on the outskirts, it's now mainstream. So this is the way I would define stakeholder capitalism. It is a centrally controlled, global, political, economic, social system. Let me say it again. It's a centrally controlled global political economic social system. If you haven't seen that already just by quoting him, you will see this very clearly. I just am trying to summarize it for you. Centrally controlled global political economic system. Now I want to talk about stakeholder capitalism, the World Economic Forum. The World Economic Forum is about social justice. Things like Black Lives Matters, sustainability, a centralized distribution of wealth, products, liberty, and access to everything. For example, travel both local and to other countries. So you would be decided whether you could do that or not by this forum. That is communism, if you don't recognize it. They don't use the word, many of them, but communism is there. It's a centralized distribution of wealth, products, liberties, and access to everything, even travel, even out of your community, as you will see. This is forcing corporations, if they want to be favored by the World Economic Forum, They have to have high ESG ratings, Environment Social Governance ratings. And anybody in business or corporations, they know what that means. It's everywhere. So they have to be having policy that's good for the environment, global warming, social governance, for social movements, etc., etc. Businesses in capitalism have made decisions based on the planet, based on things in society, but they did it because they wanted to. Here it is being forced and controlled. So the ESG, the environment social governance, so the environment is global warming basically, and social governance is issues like diversity, equity, inclusion, those kinds of things. You can read the literature and you know to shift from businesses being about profit, making better products, safer products, to increasing value. If we do this, it'll increase value. And you can find it in the literature and if you're in any of these board meetings, you probably have already heard it. So this precedes value, may do away or put second, third place, safety, trust, things like that. But it includes things like inclusiveness, diversity, social justice. So they're no longer promoted for competition, for profit, making a better product, but do you meet these ESG goals? That's when you will be favored. And I was heartened, and this is going on some, so I don't want to just depress you every week. That's not my goal. Boeing, massive company, just, and this was in the New York Post and the Bloomberg News, I'll read part of it to you. Quote, Boeing dismantled its global diversity, equity, and inclusion department as a part of an overall overhaul of its operations ordered by the company's new top executive. They got a new president. But listen to part of what brought them to that place. The aerospace giant which was slammed by tech mogul Elon Musk, you're going to hear his name more than once through this on the good side, for prioritizing DEI over safety and quality controls after a near catastrophic blowout during an Alaska Airlines flight. That's what's going on. We got to have a certain number of women, certain number of all the different races and everything. They may not be the best at designing planes, but where our value is really up by it. And Boeing said, no, we're not going down that road anymore. The president of the DEA, been there five years, gone. Whole thing's dismantled. They're replacing those people in other areas. Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. They had an essay entitled The Stakeholder Model and ESG. It was posted Monday, September 14th, 2020. Remember 2020 COVID. COVID started in the end of December 2019 and January 2020. So I just keep reminding you because it keeps coming up and it does have an influence. So the Harvard Business Roundtable says the same thing as Klaus does about ESG. It says in this article, in August 2019, the Business Roundtable released its new stakeholder model of the revised purpose of the corporation, stating explicitly that the businesses exist to serve multiple stakeholders, including customers, employees, communities, the environment, suppliers, in addition to shareholders. So they all have a part. Further, the COVID-19 pandemic the associated economic impacts, and listen to this, and increased focus on social justice. When you read social justice, just think of socialistic justice. It's socialism. Illustrate the increasing expectations and willingness of corporate leaders to address social issues that may extend beyond a traditionally narrow view of business purpose of the corporation. What they're saying is, and COVID made us realize that society can push these things and the corporations will bow and incorporate them into the reason they exist. Social justice is socialistic justice. Remember the BLM, all the flags and all of that over all these big corporations and everything? Robin DiAngelo, her book, White Privilege. There have been others, but she has spoken in our government agencies, our military agencies, our church agencies, and educational agencies, but also in corporation headquarters. and uses the book White Fragility, which is her most popular book. And I've read it from cover to cover, and she never mentions, as far as I can tell, anything to do with Marxism, communism, anything like that. But it permeates it if you're familiar with the subject. But in her more forthright book that's entitled, Is Everyone Really Equal?, that's written for teachers, My copy, the printing of it, you can go to page 25, so we're not very deep into the book, and she's attributing everything she's saying and all of this thinking to the Frankfurt School that started Neo-Marxism. She mentions Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse. She mentions Marx. What I'm saying is she unabashedly and explicitly in that book, hey, this is all based on that thinking. But you know, you don't put that in your popular book. You just promote what it is. Later in the Harvard article referring to stakeholder capitalism and the environment social governance that's included, It says, some saw it as a social and economic enhancement, too, or replacement of the concept of shareholder primacy. So many of them saw it as a contradiction of replacing shareholder capitalism, and that's exactly what it's doing. So not everybody's for it. But the article continues and it goes through companies that are at certain levels of embracing this and putting it in. So you know like there's some ready to do it now, some are coming down the pike, some are getting better. So I'm just going to read from one, but there's just a couple of things I want you to see. And I'll point them out. So these are companies that are ready to set quantitative ESG goals. And I'm quoting. Companies with robust environmental sustainability and our social responsibility strategies. So you have global warming, you have socialism, all of this stuff. CRT, everything. Strategies including quantifiable metrics and goals. There's got to be a way we're going to test you to see if you're really doing what you say. Now look at this. For example, Carbon reduction goals. What are the goals? Net zero carbon emission commitments. Net zero. No longer fossil fuel. Imagine the world. You say, well, it'll all collapse and fall apart. That's fine with Marxism. Because then you have to look to them, don't you? You see? They're okay with that. They don't mind bringing chaos. Look at the riots. They don't mind. This is, look at the Bolshevik Revolution. Look in Venezuela, look in Cuba, just look. You say, yeah, but this is a global scale. Marxism is always about globalism. It doesn't effectively work, communism, until it's a global thing. So net zero. Then look at diversity and inclusion metrics. That's your social. So that's a company that's ready. There are others. So DEI, my understanding, it's already going through some changes because when things become unpopular on the left, then they change the name. So when I was studying education, the history of it and stuff, there was a point in that a few years ago when outcome-based education, the idea was there, the name had changed 34 times. I could trace it back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Herbert Spencer in 1850 and Rousseau before him. Same ideas. I remember when Gina went through the education program at OU, and I looked at her book, and I looked at Herbert Spencer's book on education that was written, I think, in 1851. I was looking at both of them. You just get a little better language. You just change some names. So you're going to see the DEI change, but it'll still be there. The great reset, COVID-19. Four years ago in 2020, Klaus Schwab said, very important, COVID-19 has shown us that our old systems, everything that preceded going into COVID-19, are not fit anymore for the 21st century. In short, we need a great reset. So notice, that our old systems are not fit anymore for the 21st century. The old systems, you'll see what those are. So he wrote the book, The Great Reset. It was published four months after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. And he wrote this in his book, The Great Reset. Since it made its entry on the world stage, COVID-19 has dramatically torn up the existing script. Look at this, how to govern countries, live with others, and take part in the global economy. This is not just about economics, is it? It's about changing the world. Three things, govern countries, live with others, take part in the global economy. He summarizes. In early July 2020, we are at a crossroads. One path will take us to a better world, more inclusive, more equitable, more respectful of Mother Nature. That's stakeholder capitalism. The other will take us to a world that now resembles the one we just left behind. You see that? COVID is the mark of moving into the Great Reset, according to them. But worse, and constantly dogged by nasty surprises. So when he says that, if we continue what we were doing, then there's all these pandemics, there's global warming, and you're not going to be able to handle them, and the whole human population will be destroyed. That's what they're talking about. We must therefore get it right. The looming challenges could be more consequential than we have until now chosen to imagine, but our capacity to reset could also be greater than we had previously dared to hope. Now, there may be some people who can show you this, but I don't find any indication in reading their stuff and listening to them that they had any influence on bringing COVID about. So I don't find any of that. And that's not what I'm contending at all. So we're just going off the premise. I understand the China thing, but I'm not dealing with that at this point. We understand that COVID happened and it was declared a pandemic. We saw it one way. They saw that as a game changer. And that began the great reset that would take 10 years, from 2020 to 2030, to create this global society which is global communism and stakeholder communism. So our Environment and Social Governance, ESG, The term has been around since about 2004, but it was coined in 2004, but the ideas have been around before that. But in 2017, a group of 140 CEOs gathered to sign a compact for responsive and responsible leadership. The compact was drafted by the World Economic Forum. The signatories committed to working together to help achieve the United Nations SDGs. SDGs are Sustainable Development Goals. So they were designed by the United Nations, no friend of the nation state, very liberal. And this compact, drafted by the World Economic Forum, signed by these leaders of the world corporations, was to accomplish these goals. Akindalee Alawandra, he's not from Arkansas, no, says this, the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, and environmental, social and governance, ESG factors are two of the most important concepts in the world. Please hear him. The SDGs are a set of 17 goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015 to end poverty and protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. ESG factors are a set of criteria used to measure the sustainability and the responsible business practices of companies. In other words, to see if the companies are doing what the World Economic Forum says they need to do. The SDGs and ESG factors are closely related. So let me back up just a second. What he said was the United Nations' 17 adopted goals have this goal for them, this end, to end poverty, to protect the planet, to ensure prosperity for all. If you know anything about communism, this is it. This is the promised utopia. This is it. Yes, they use cryptic language, but you can't get any more succinct essence of what they're promoting. This is it. Notice they never had mentioned shareholder capitalism, which the West has now, but it's all about eliminating it and getting rid of it and imposing stakeholder capitalism. So now I want to talk about degrowth. You may have heard the term degrowth. Again, if you read economics and certain things, you'll hear it. And you may not, but here it is. In an article on the World Economic Forum, Victoria Masterson, who's a senior writer for the forum, she says that the term was coined by an Austrian-French social philosopher, André Gortz. And she says it will, basically the article is that using the gross domestic product will lead us to perdition. She writes, how do we save our planet? Some economists believe the only way to radically scale back our global consumption of resources, this is a key premise to degrowth. So we have to scale back. A political and economic theory that is gaining traction as fear grows over climate change. Fear is what it's about. So the idea of degrowth is Marxism. And what it does effectively is it severely limits or halts the new discoveries that provide better, safer, freer human life. It's always aimed at the West, which they refer to as the Global North. And if you want to know what the Global North is, those are the prosperous countries that have capitalism. If you want to know what the Global South, what countries are included in that, it's the ones that don't have capitalism. And they're poor. That's it. So that's the way they refer many times. It is aimed at the West, but make no mistake about it, it has its dead eye on America. Less will be obtained by a redistribution from global north to global south. The north countries have capitalism doing well, the south do not. So one of the key in becoming one of the most influential books promoting degrowth is Slow Down, the Degrowth Manifesto by Kohei Saito. Notice it's called a manifesto, hearkening back and it's supposed to be kind of a new Marxist, the communist manifesto put together by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It was first published in Japan. He's a Japanese. It was published in English in January 9 of 2024. Kohei Saito is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tokyo. He was awarded the 2018 Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize. It is the most prestigious academic award for Marxian studies. making Saito its youngest recipient ever. In 2021, Slowdown received the Best Asian Book of the Year prize from the Asian Book Awards. It was the best seller in Japan and selling over a half a million copies. So it just came to America in January. But when you read it, the title page just kind of summarizes what it's about in very simple terms. Kohai Saito delivers a bold and urgent call for a return to Marxism in order to stop climate change. So you understand how much you're finding Marxism, climate change, Marxism, climate change, all of this. In other words, it's the way to help us in that. In chapter seven of his book, Saito entitled it, so this is the title of chapter seven, page 174, Degrowth Communism Will Save the World. That's why you have about 25% of young people, my understanding, that are socialist. And more are gathering every day. Saito writes, in that chapter. Up until now, I have argued for the necessity of making a clean break from capitalism and transitioning to de-growth communism. He's honest about that, by the way. Now I want to address the question of how to bring de-growth communism in concrete terms, as well as how this transition will help solve the climate crisis. This is the answer that they're all proffering to us. It's all Marxism. He was interviewed about his book. And Saito spoke, and he said, quote, green economics is new imperialism. So I told you I ran into this in England a few years ago at a roundtable. And it just shocked me that all of these advances are being made in Western countries to make cars more efficient. You buy a new air conditioner or heater, and it'll tell you how much more efficient it is than the last one, the refrigerator. And we think they love this. They don't. Why? Because the money that's saved on that feeds capitalism, and they hate capitalism. So that's why he's against green stuff, like the Green New Deal. We just spend more resources on capitalism, and they think that's imperialism. Saito said, we need to redefine Marx's idea of socialism, comma, degrowth. Saito said this, one more thing about my problem with all 20th century socialism is basically it's bad image. So I really want to redefine Marx's idea of socialism. And he goes on to say, we have to really change the common public perception of communism, socialism, Marxism and de-growth. So this is what you find in critical race theory. We have to create a new language. Herbert Marcuse said that we have to do that in Neo-Marxism. He's saying that we have to do it in de-growth. Why? Because you'll read it and you won't understand it. They'll use terms that we use. We think they mean what we do, but they don't. And long they carry us along right into a communist dystopia. Do not let anybody fool you. It is not about an actual existential threat to global collapse, the end of humanity, the end of the world that's caused by capitalism. That's the cause. So it's not just cars or people, it's capitalism. And if we can go to de-growth communism, we'll solve it all and we'll be all happy. And they make a lot of promises. They just never quite tell you how that works. But the existential threat of global collapse is one of the most potent tools for switching the world to communism. So pro-growth supporters point out things like this, Masterson says it. She says, there are plenty of opponents to de-growth theory. News and opinion site Vox argues that economic growth is what has given us, given the world, cancer treatments, neonatal intensive care units, smallpox vaccines, insulin, freedom from poverty, indoor plumbing, electricity. Longer life expectancies and other gains and the list goes on and she's right it goes on so long Nobody can put it in a book. I've read many lists in many books, but you can't get them all in one book There are so many But we can add to these at least safer and more efficient cars and houses and cities, and all medical treatments almost, and all the miracle drugs. I don't know what it is now, but years back when I was studying that, there were a hundred miracle drugs that were so named, and a hundred miracle drugs existed, and a hundred had been created in capitalist countries. a military that can fend off dictators, safer travel, efficient communication, which undeveloped countries do not have access to. We have the Internet. One half of the globe does not have the Internet. Now, the Marxists are trying to get it installed at the government expense of all the countries because they want to be able to communicate their message to the world, you see. But the ones that don't have it are what? The non-capitalists. But rather than help them grow their economies and grow by bringing industrialization and capitalism and all of that, they want stakeholder capitalism where they take the money from the capitalist countries and they infuse it to the ones that don't have it. And you bring up industrializing them and you'll get shouted down. So we think this way, but they don't. Nigel Biggar, in The Genius of the West, he and some others say the same thing. The West is the wealthiest, healthiest, securest people who ever lived in human history, period. And yet all they focus on is the bad, and they want to move us to communism. Degrowth severely limits or halts new discoveries. But what they believe, it's not right for the global right to have the wealth or the global north and the global south not to have it. So how do we fix that? Well, let's take capitalism there. No, no, no, no, we don't want to do that. We'll just take what you have and give it to them, forced redistribution. Those in charge will redistribute and they will leave you what is necessary. You say, well, how do they know what's necessary? Well, they'll determine that. I remember the first time I ever read Natalie out of one of the Marxists that we need to get people to have what they need. So you and your family, you decide what you need, don't you? And you try to work towards that. Well, you won't have to do that anymore. They'll tell you what you need. It'll be a lot less than any of us have. I promise you that. In a podcast, Saito with Haymarket Books about his book, Slowdown, I'm not quoting him, but he said and defended, he basically did say this, degrowth applies to the global north and not the global south, and his reason was because they need economic growth. So all this degrowth, all of this stuff, it's really pointed to the west, not the south. The Global North, just us. Why? Well, they need economic growth. Well, of course they do. You keep fighting them to have any kind of new progress or technology. And he mentioned, by the way, that all of them read Stalin, Mao Zedong, and so forth. Continuing the interview, Saito summarized degrowth Marxism, and he said, number one, degrowth is about challenging the GDP growth. So they hate that. When we say we're doing better because we have a higher GDP, they hate it. Number two, they're against it and want to destroy it. Distinguishing between necessary and unnecessary. We have to do that to degrow. Okay, who's going to decide that? They'll take care of that for us. You don't have to worry. Number three, and he said this specifically, and I'll address it later, may be making some kind of small 15-minute cities. So I explained to you the concept of 15-minute cities next week, give you more information, but I just note that he said it as well. And then he argued things like de-growth communism or socialism to create new forms of the form of abundance by sharing Did you hear what he said? Arguing things like de-growth communism or socialism creates new forms of the form of abundance by sharing. Well, what are they sharing? You ever shared nothing? You ever get two people together that have nothing and they're going to share? You ever done that? It's not fun. You want to eat? They have no food. You have no food. Where do they get what they're sharing? From capitalist countries. And when they drain them down, then you all live like they do in communist countries, without capitalism. The whole time he was talking, I thought, why don't you tell us how you're going to create wealth? And read their literature. They just don't talk about it. They're going to have it. Make no mistake about it. They just don't talk about how to create it. And at some point, the people you're taking it from run out of money. He said this, and this is a quote. So I kind of want to hit you where you sit, especially young people. He said, and I quote, you might keep your iPhone into the world. It's the end. Do you see what he's saying? He's sitting there talking to these young people. He said, well, you know, and you might keep your iPhone. Well, who will decide that? Not you, not your parents. They will decide. And by the way, you won't get the new one when it comes out. And by the way, there won't be a new one coming out, because you know what drives the new one coming out? It's capitalism. You know what caused Steve Jobs, imagine this guy, and I'm kind of charading it here, but he's sitting in a room and he's thinking, you know, I think I could invent something like that phone on the wall over there, and people could carry it in their pocket, and they could call people and maybe watch shows, and I'll bet you they'd pay $1,000 for it. I think I'll do that. That doesn't come from communism. It comes from capitalism capitaling on the human value, the human ability, the human capital, which is what a human being can do. He spoke about commodifying education, the medical part and transportation. And again, they'll tell you where you can go and when you can go. So, yes, the election is a national election. But in it, you can vote against socialists, Marxists and globalists. Who permeate the Democratic Party? If you want global Marxism, if that's the direction you want to go, I would vote Democratic, and I wouldn't care who they were. I'd just go in and pull the lever and just one thing and be gone. If you don't want that, then you vote Republican. That's your choices. But make no mistake about it, when you vote, you are voting locally, nationally, and globally. And you are either fighting something that is evil to its core and is advancing rapidly while we speak, or you are jumping on board and you're advancing them just like they want. Let's pray. Father, we thank you, God, for helping us to see these things, to understand them, so that we can be wise as serpents. We're wise in your Word. We're wise in what you call us to, where you send us among wolves. And we fear not. It won't be anything like an automobile or capitalism that brings the world to its knees. It'll be Jesus. And our trust is in Him. We don't fall for the lies of man being able to offer us the perfect environment. If we'll just kill and imprison a few more hundred of millions of people, we'll get there. And won't it be wonderful? And so, Lord, our trust is in Jesus, but we do have a responsibility, and not only that, but a privilege, and it is not only about patriotism, but it's about a spiritual responsibility to what you've given us to be a part of. And if we haven't voted, may we vote, and may we do it with a thrill, with a smile. a sacred privilege that much of the world, most of human history has never experienced. Win or lose, may we do that so that when it's over, we will have stood for the things that approximate your righteousness, and we would have stood against those who corrupt what your righteousness and creation is all about. We love you in Jesus' name and we want to be used by you. In his name, we pray.