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Hey, Larkin Rose here. Those Democrats want unconstitutional gun control.

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The topic of today's video isn't actually gun control, but that makes for a fine example of how

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Republicans and Democrats super-duper care about principles and constitutional rights and morality

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when they're criticizing things that the other side is doing, but they don't give a crap about those

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things when it comes to the authoritarian garbage they want. And it comes up constantly in that,

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you know, of course, Republicans like to, gosh, gun control is unconstitutional. Fine example.

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Yes, it is. The ATF shouldn't exist, which weirdly the law and order crowd seem to support an

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agency which, according to their own stated beliefs, didn't exist. But it's funny how the

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self-righteous, that's unconstitutional, okay? Show me where in the Constitution immigration

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is something the feds are allowed to forcibly control. Oh, you can't because it's not there

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and never has been there. Oh, yeah, but I mean, we need to, we have to have a whole bunch of

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reasons why they don't give a shit about the Constitution. Meanwhile, they pretend to care about

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it when it's, like I said, authoritarian garbage the other side wants. And same thing is true of

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just moral principles in general and freedom in general. I mean, and I can bash the left just

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as easily as the right. My body, my choice. Now go get that injection or be fired. Like,

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you don't believe in bodily autonomy. You're pro-abortion, but in no other way do you believe

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in bodily autonomy. You think the state should violently control a whole bunch of things as

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is obvious by what you support. And so I'm trying to find the good news in here,

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trying to sort of goes along with my new book, Unbound, that you can't get right now. So why

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am I bothering to tell you about it? It's not in print, working on the audiobook version of it,

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which will be out probably maybe before the printed version.

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But trying to look for the good in that in all these people's brains, part of their brain thinks

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they believe in principles and freedom. Democrats think that Republicans think that it's not

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true of any of them. That's the bad news. The good news is they believe their own hypocritical

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unprincipled virtue signaling BS. And it's weird that that's good news. But it's good news in that

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they imagine themselves to be pro-freedom. They imagine themselves to be in favor of

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individual sovereignty or however you want to phrase that. They imagine themselves to be

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unbound. I'm a free-thinking individual. I decide what I believe for myself and

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I believe in individual rights. I mean, the left pretends that, the right pretends that,

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it's not true of either of them. But the fact that that game even works of self-righteously

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complaining, oh, that other party as showing things that are unconstitutional or violates our right

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to privacy, like right now about the only thing that both sides agree with is the surveillance

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state garbage currently in the form of plot cameras, but can be in the form of any stupid spy

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garbage, about the only thing they agree on is we're against that. That's an invasion of privacy.

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Like neither of you care about that. Like where are the Republicans saying, wait a minute,

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why did this war on drugs suddenly and coincidentally serve as a justification for

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random stops and raids and armed swat raids because somebody said maybe you had a plant

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you're not supposed to have. And the drug sniffing dogs that are literally trained to

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pretend they smell, say, well, now I have probable cause to rip your car apart

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because I trained my dog to do a trick. And he did the trick. That counts as probable cause

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I'm going to rip your car apart. Is it because you think I have a dead body in my trunk? No,

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it's because we think maybe you have a substance that politicians didn't say you're allowed to have.

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What in the Constitution allows the federal government to do anything about narcotics? Nothing.

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Do Republicans care about that? No, not in the slightest. The entire war on drugs is every bit

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as unconstitutional as all federal gun control and a socialist welfare state and everything else,

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but they don't care in that case. So the bad news is that they're total hypocrites and they

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don't actually have that principle, but it's weird that there's sort of good news in that they

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like to imagine that they believe in that principle. And you can see it in, especially in

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conservatives and Republicans who are like, worry about living the Constitution. I mean,

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Trump is out there constantly bragging about, now he's whining about what's her face from Somalia.

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She doesn't believe in the Constitution. She never even heard of the Constitution.

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Like shut up, you lying scumbag. Literally every part of the Constitution he's used

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as toilet paper, the entire time that puppet has been on the puppet throne.

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But conservatives like to imagine that they believe in that as a principle of limited government.

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No, you don't. There's not one Republican who actually believes in limited government

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like the way the Constitution describes it. None of them at all. Because if they did,

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they'd say, well, nobody should pay the income tax like as people understand it,

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because that's totally bogus. And there shouldn't be an ATF or a DEA or an FBI or a CIA or an NSA.

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Shouldn't be a standing army. 99% of what the feds do that shouldn't exist, that shouldn't

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happen at all. Are any Republicans saying that? No. Even when they're like, we need a drastically

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slash taxes. By drastically, do you mean down to what the Constitution describes,

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like a few import, export, excise taxes and that sort of thing?

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Well, no, that would be too extreme. Okay, so you don't actually believe in any of the

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principles you pretend to believe in. You just use that fake-ass virtue signalling when you're

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bashing the authoritarianism of the other side, just like they do to you. Like the people

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complaining about ICE, this is a violation of our constitutional rights. You don't give a

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shit about the Constitution. When's the last time a Democrat showed the slightest concern for

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the 9th and 10th Amendments, which say that the feds aren't supposed to do anything that

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isn't specifically authorized by the U.S. Constitution? Literally everything the

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Democrats want the feds to do is a violation of the 9th and 10th Amendments, literally all of it.

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All the Socialist crap, all the welfare, all the Social Security, all the free housing, all

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that. And you can say, well, we need that. Well, whatever you think we need, all of those are

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obviously and blatantly violations of the Constitution. And Democrats don't care. So when

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they go, hey, it's my 4th Amendment right to blah, blah, blah, and my 1st Amendment to come

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protest ICE, like, yeah, it is only you giant freaking hypocrite. You don't believe in that crap,

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except when it suits you to do so, except when you get to play victim of this is unfair,

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this authoritarianism is unfair to me. Yeah, it is. And it also is when it happens to the people

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you want it to happen to. And for example, when I got raided and then robbed into poverty and caged

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by the federal extortion racket, you Democrats with your tax and spend BS did, were you outraged?

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No, you didn't even hear about it. Would you have been outraged if you heard about it?

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No, because that's the authoritarian crap that you want. You want violent redistribution of wealth.

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You don't want it called violent. You want to think of it as I compassionately want to give

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to the last fortunate. Give what? Money. Money that came from where? I don't want to say,

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because it's violently robbing people. The answer is you want lots of people violently robbed

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so they can hand out stolen loot so you can feel good about fake as fake as generosity that you had

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nothing to do with. So when they went either side winds about this is a horrible injustice. The

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irony is yet usually is when they're saying that and they advocate things that are just as bad

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against other people. And so, but again, trying to note the good in there, the fact that

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part of them even believe because they're not just going out there intentionally lying and spinning

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like the politicians do that all the time, but regular people actually believe their own hypocritical

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bullshit. Republicans actually believe they support the Constitution. No, you don't. Zero

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Republicans support the Constitution. There wouldn't be ICE or the DEA, like I said, or the ATF.

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There almost wouldn't be a federal government. There wouldn't be a standing army that you

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worship constantly, the war machine and the constant warmongering wouldn't be happening at all.

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But trying to find the good side and talk to the part of people like this is what

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candles in the dark does, not being judgmental and mean like I am right now, just a violently mean,

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but still it mostly makes people defensive. And the mirror that, yes, I'm still working on. I'm

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in the past because now I've had people helping me be able to work on it way more often. So the

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entire script is done. Not going to get into that whole thing if you're wondering what that is. I'll

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talk about that in a different video. But the whole approach is find the thing inside the person

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that believes in freedom because everybody believes in his own freedom. Nobody wants his own consent

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violated. And that's sort of a truism. Like, well, I'm perfectly okay being like violently forced

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to do something I don't want. No, you're not. You can't be. By definition, the thing you don't

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want and don't consent to and don't agree to is the thing you don't want to pretend that, oh,

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no, I wanted to be forced to do the thing I didn't want to do. Like, no, you didn't.

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So everybody, I mean, everybody, everything, every cockroach doesn't want its own consent

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violated. Hey, I don't want you stepping on me just because I'm in your kitchen eating your

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food. Yeah, that's not a virtue. But when people imagine I don't want anybody's consent violated,

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the only people that's true of his voluntaryists and anarchists, every status, every advocate of

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government in any form of any flavor, any type, absolutely cheers for the violation of individual

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consent of millions and millions of other people. That's just and it was true of me

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back when I was a stage two. But they don't see that. And if you start by saying, you hypocritical

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butthead, you're cheering for violence against almost everybody you know, and then pretending

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playing the victim when it lands on you, you hypocritical cowardly, unprincipled twit.

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Shockingly, people don't usually respond well to that. But if you can find the part of them

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that already thinks that they're pro-freedom and start with them on the receiving end of the

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injustice, and we do this in candles in the dark and the mirror is going to do the same thing,

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where, hey, if government is forcibly robbing you to fund something you think isn't just a

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stupid waste, but is genuinely immoral, do you think they have the right to do that? Do you

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think they have the right to make you pay for something you think is immoral and destructive

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and horrible? And most people will say, well, no, like the people on the left are like,

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I don't want to be taxed to fund this warmongering over there that's killing innocent

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people. Okay, good, and you shouldn't be. And if you start by sympathizing with them and like,

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yeah, that's wrong, you shouldn't be forced to do that. You shouldn't be forced to fund things you're

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against. Even if they're things I might want and you don't want for whatever reason or vice versa.

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And if you start them in that direction and then then have to gently lead them up to,

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how about the person next to you? Should the person next to you be forced to fund

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something he's against? Let's say you don't want to fund that war machine because you

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think it's killing innocent people. What if the person next to you, in fact, let's say the person

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next to you is me, doesn't want to fund the welfare state because he actually thinks it's

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very destructive. It doesn't actually help poor people as much as it creates dependence

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and creates a disincentive for people to be actually productive and happy and self-sufficient.

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And I think it's destructive. You might not think it's destructive,

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but if I think it's genuinely harmful to fund this welfare state,

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what do you want to have happen to me if I don't fund it? And once you've started them in the

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position where they're thinking, yeah, I'm for freedom and principles and individual sovereignty,

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they won't usually use that word, but right to privacy and the right to freedom of speech

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and freedom of this, that and the other thing. Now that you're pro-freedom, what do you want to

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have done to me if I want to be free too? And it's amazing how much just putting them in a

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different mindset, suddenly they're more hesitant to say, oh, yeah, it's a horrible injustice

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if I'm forced to fund that war machine. But if you're extorted at gunpoint

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or thrown in a cage for not paying for the welfare state you think is destructive,

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well, it sucks to be too bad. And just the different perspective of putting them in the

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shoes of somebody who's the victim of authoritarianism and then turning it around and go, okay,

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how about the person next to you? Will you extend that? Will you do unto others as you would have

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done unto you? Or will you not do unto others what you don't want to have done unto you,

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which is even better? Because most people think they believe in such principles,

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and zero people who believe in government actually do. But bringing them to the point

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where they can recognize that if you start by sympathizing the goodness within them,

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that actually believes they're pro-freedom. Republicans think they're for limited

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government. They think they believe in the Constitution. The Constitution is

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authoritarian garbage anyway. So that's a pretty low threshold and they still come nowhere near

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actually reaching that threshold. You don't believe in the Constitution.

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And I'll just tell them what you're going to do is complain about gun control is unconstitutional.

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I'm going to ask you where in the Constitution ice is authorized or the feds forcibly controlling

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immigration in any way shape or form and what you're going to do. I will tell you ahead of

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time because this is what you always do. Instead of going, oh, it's not there. Then never mind because

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I believe in the Constitution. What you're going to do instead of that is fabricate excuses exactly

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like the left does to make excuses for illegal unconstitutional gun control at the federal level.

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You're going to do exactly what they do and then they do exactly what they do.

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Because none of them believe in the principles they pretend to believe in.

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But if you can start by that and go, okay, so you believe in this principle, right?

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And then gently walk forward until they have to see that doesn't match the principle I just

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pretended to believe in and have them be the one to notice it and sort it out

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rather than doing what this video does, which is just point out in people's faces. Yeah,

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if you're a Democrat or Republican, you're an absolute unprincipled hypocrite.

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But when in candles in the dark mode, I don't do that. I gently ask them questions until

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they have to notice, wait, I can't really sort out which one it is. Like if you're going to just

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not believe in the Constitution, just say, I don't believe in the Constitution. I want arbitrary

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authoritarian power that I think serves my interest. Every supporter of ICE, that would be

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the honest answer. You don't at all believe in the US Constitution. You want arbitrary authoritarian

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power because you think it might serve your interest or the country or the collective or

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whatever the hell. But notice how few people will just say that, just hell with the Constitution.

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I just want whatever government violence I think will benefit me. That's what every Republican

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and every Democrat actually believes, but they don't even recognize that. Inside their own head,

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they don't even recognize it. They think they have principles and believe in individual blah,

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blah, blah, and believe in constitutional. No, you don't. None of you believe in that.

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But because they think they do, that's at least a starting point to have a discussion. Okay, you think

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you want limited power, okay? Does that include ICE? Because that's not in the Constitution any

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like there's a thing about, well, we're going to normalize the procedure you go through to

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become a citizen. Yeah, that doesn't mean you get to violently control who can set foot over

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invisible line. So it's just the dip. So yeah, they're all total freaking hypocrites,

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but there's a difference between starting by pointing that out to them like this video does,

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somewhat ironically, and trying to find the part of them that thinks they really do believe in

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freedom and justice and the Constitution, which isn't freedom or justice, but it's a limited version

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and they don't even believe in that. And so starting the discussion in the direction to try to

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have people go, oh yeah, how do I like resolve that with what I think I believe? Because that's

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what I did. Like by accident is looking at my own beliefs. I'd debate people. Everybody I was

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debated wanted more government than I did. Like nobody, I wasn't arguing with anarchists who

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talked to me into being an anarchist. I was arguing with status who wanted way more

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authoritarianism than I did. But I would notice in my arguing, wait, there's a conflict there.

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I'm kind of being a hypocrite. Yeah, you can have involuntary taxation for anything.

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Like saying it's for the common good, but we need this huge military, it's going to protect you

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whether you want it or not. So you have to pay for it. Like that's the same garbage they do

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with the welfare state. Well, you might benefit someday. So it's okay for you to be forcibly

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robbed. It's like, so me sorting out the contradictions myself by noticing them.

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That's what changed my mind. It wasn't somebody else saying you're wrong and evil and stupid,

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even though I was wrong and stupid. Well, the evil part is debatable. I wasn't trying to be evil.

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I thought I was one of the good guys. Like every state just always does. Every Democrat,

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every Republican, they think they're one of the good guys. And their perceptions have

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been so distorted by stateism that they don't even notice that they're cheering for the exact

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opposite of what they actually think that they believe in. The principles they think they hold.

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No, you don't. And I can show you don't. But if you gently show them in a way that they

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have to sort of make the discovery that, yeah, how do I justify this when I just argued the

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exact opposite when it came to that thing that the other party was doing? Maybe I

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should sort my shit out before I have another argument about it. Yeah, maybe you should.

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I did that and I accidentally turned into an anarchist. And you will, too, if you think too

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much, you've had too much to think. So, yee-haw. So, yeah, all status are total hypocrites.

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But if you can gently get them to notice that starting by finding their inner volunteers

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and talking to that, that is by far the best chance there will ever be for having that individual

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notice. Yeah, I don't even match my own beliefs. I should probably sort this out.

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Because why should they care whether their beliefs have your approval or my approval?

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But when their own beliefs don't have their own approval, like mine didn't,

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when I was a statist who was starting to think about things,

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that's what makes them uncomfortable, that's what causes the cognitive dissonance,

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and then they notice it and go, ah, yeah, I have to do something about this.

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So that's what Kendall's in the Dark is all about, is how to talk to people that way.

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I'll put a link for that in here. And the mirror, the huge interactive thing I'm making,

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that will do, that's a program that does it by itself. It asks questions and then,

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depending on how they answer, it goes in different directions. So that's about psychology. Yeah,

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philosophically, they're all totally freaking hypocrites, none of them as a principle.

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But psychologically, if you want people to recognize that, just telling them that

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isn't going to make most people question anything, it's just going to make them defensive

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and mad and deny that they're the total hypocrites that they absolutely are.

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So yee-haw, go spread the scary extremist idea that maybe you shouldn't violate the consent of

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other people. Radical, I know. I should probably be-