How to Defeat the Left's Socialism in 30 Seconds: Liz Wheeler

my name is Rosa Terrace I'm going to be a freshman at American University this fall and I interned for this Clare Boothe Luce Center for conservative woman last semester our next speaker Liz wheeler profiled by political magazine as a Titan of conservative media is known for her show tipping point with Liz wheeler on one America news network her final point videos the air at the end of her show received millions of views on Facebook Liz attended Penn State University with a bachelor's degree in political science and a minor in homeland security after graduating high school at 16 in college she served as the Commissioner on the boning Board of Zoning Appeals in her hometown in Ohio and was the youngest person in her city's history to hold that position Liz also organized a group of 14 young conservatives to self publish a handbook called young conservative and why it's smart to be like us which reached number 2 on Amazon's Kindle bestseller list in the Civic's category she has been named a top 10 30 under 30 conservative rising star by red alert politics in 2016 and has also spoken at a met many conservative conferences and conventions such as CPAC the steamboat Institute Freedom Conference and many more please welcome Liz wheeler thank you thank you hi ladies my name is Liz wheeler and I appreciate the introduction I want to give a big thank you for to the Center for conservative women for having me and for hosting all of you all for this conference I hope you appreciate how amazing it is to be able to be in the same room with other like-minded women I think we've all experienced a time where we feel very isolated or very alone in our morals and values so look around you and take a minute to appreciate what an incredible opportunity this is to be here today so my name is Liz wheeler I host the show tipping points on one American news network we are a one hour news show that challenges all the liberal talking points in rhetoric day after day and they certainly supply us with a lot of it so what I want to do tonight is I want to talk to you about the history of whaling in Nantucket and how that has impacted our economy over the past 400 years oh no wait that is what my husband made me listen to on the five-hour drive up here that is not what we will be talking about I took a nap and for good reason okay what I actually want to do tonight should be a little bit more fun so you have learned a lot of information on this conference so far right a lot of good stuff and I assume you come in knowing yourself to begin with so you probably feel extra equipped with all these different talking points all these different new angles all these different tactics for how to defeat the left correct so what I want to do tonight is I want to teach you how to take that information and essentially weaponize it to use to defeat the left because I think a lot of times and you can correct me if I'm wrong a lot of times we as conservatives will feel like we know the answer we know what's right we know our stuff but when we get into a conversation with liberals sometimes we feel stumped we feel oh how do I answer that I know I'm right I know I'm morally right I know I'm factually right I know I read that in a book somewhere but we don't remember how to articulate it right so that's we're gonna do tonight I'm gonna show you how to do it so that the next time you're on campus or you're talking to your boyfriend's father or you're talking to anybody who is of a different political view you will know how to very politely very calmly completely defeat them so we're gonna do this on many different topics you guys have pen paper to take notes okay so this I'm not going to require you to take notes on my entire speech but there are a couple things I want you to write down as we go along tonight which you'll understand towards the end of my speech so we're gonna talk about multiple topics but the example that I want to give to explain to you how to do this to start will be socialism this is the topic of the day from the Democrats they tell us it's wonderful we know it's horrible but it's kind of shocking isn't it if you look at polls how many people in our generation and people that we go to school with maybe our friends uh actually buy into that and it's sometimes it's hard to know how to defeat that without again getting very intellectual or talking about moments in history that are obscure to us because we didn't live through them they don't feel personal to us so what I'm gonna do tonight is I'm going to teach you a strategy for how to identify the left's agenda behind their policies and then how to destroy it so what I mean by this is you and I know that the left's goal is to create a bigger government right to put government in charge to take rights away from us and to have government bureaucrats dictating to us what they think is moral what they think is right what we should do and say and how we should act in what we should believe and how that applies to the work place they want to make the decisions and they don't want us to make any decisions and that's fundamentally wrong to begin with from a moral standpoint but I think I think I speak for a lot of the ladies in this room when I say I don't want anybody telling me what to do I want to decide that for myself so we're gonna start tonight with a strategy that I call unpack define and debate and what I mean by these three things unpack define and debate is first you have to identify what the left's ulterior motives are and for this I'm gonna use the example of the green New Deal so the green new deal right so the green New Deal they tell us it's about climate change right but we know it's not about climate change if we look you know it doesn't you don't have to look very deeply it's a six page document if you look if you look at this six page document on any congressional website a OCS congressional website or you know the web archive feature where the truth is after she pulled it down you can see that the policies in the green New Deal are not particularly pertinent to our environment you know universal basic income how does that have to do with trash how does that have to do with recycling getting rid of cows like these things are not getting rid of billionaires these things are not pertinent to our environment so we have to identify what's what the old your motive is so essentially with the green New Deal we have the Democrats using this as a medium to usher socialism into our nation right they're telling us that we have to address climate change and that's that's their sales pitch it's essentially but really they're using it to get socialism into our nation so that's sort of what I mean by unpack then once you unpack it and I'm gonna show you how to unpack it in just a second but I want to I want to outline this first after you unpack it and you figure out the left's ulterior motives then you want to define what it is and what I mean by define I mean that very literally when we are talking about socialism we can't just say Oh socialism it's killed tons of people we have to define exactly what it means because there's a shocking number of our peers who don't know what the technical economic definition of socialism is what it means to our community what it means to our laws and what it means to our economy so we have to define what it is that we are trying to defeat after we've identified it so we unpack it we define it and then we debate it once we have set the stage for how we want to debate okay so going back to the green New Deal I'm gonna show you first how to unpack it and then we'll get to the then we'll get to define it then we'll get to debate it so if we take the green New Deal we have to ask ourselves how did we get to a point in our nation where we have not just some obscure freshman congresswoman but every single 2020 Democratic presidential candidate who has signed on to a piece of legislation so vague that we don't really know what it will do but the parts that we do know about it tell us that we wouldn't be able to fly an airplane to Hawaii we would have to take a train how did we get to this point because it's so it's so absurd it's so eminently ridiculous we have to say how did the Democrats trick so many people to get to this point well we look at what they do we go back 10 years 20 years 30 years and we want we look for their strategy we look for their strategy what did they start doing you probably before you and I were even born what do they start doing in the 1970s they started talking about climate change and they didn't talk about it scientifically they talked about it emotionally they told us that this was something that was going to destroy our lives as we know it they told us the polar bears we're gonna die they told us the ice caps are melting they started using language and rhetoric that Stokes fear so we feel this fear especially as young women we feel pre-emptive protection for our families our children our future children our grandchildren we want them to be able to grow up you know in a yard with grass and go sledding in the winter like we did when we were children we don't want them to live in some destroyed version of our earth where snow has melted and deserts have burned out and the climate is completely ruined so they plant this seed the seed of fear and then they create urgency they say if we don't do something soon we're gonna get past the point of no return so that plants in our mind not only the seed of fear but that impetus that we need to take action and they do this and they repeat this over and over I used to work for before I worked for one American news I worked for a veteran advocacy organization and I worked in their messaging in their marketing department and we always operated by this rule of marketing that people had to hear something seven times before they would buy it you know whether it's a product I mean it doesn't take me that long to see an ad on Instagram and buy it but maybe a little bit a little bit less for the social media generation but people have to hear it a certain number of times before they'll buy into it but once they've heard it no matter how ridiculous it is a certain amount of times they put a level of credibility to it whether or not that credibility is deserved it becomes normalized to them so that's what the Left did they planted that seed of fear they created that urgency that impetus of Oh what do we do how do we save this and then they repeated it until it became normalized it normalized to us and then they told us well the free market the private sector they've had their opportunity to fix this we've already given them their chance they they failed they couldn't do it so the only people that can solve this problem they tell us is US government vermin bureaucrats so what have they done fear urgency they've said the private sector can't fix this we can fix this we're the only ones that can fix this and then they bring it to a head they tell us well this at this isn't something that's gonna happen in the you know indefinite future this is something that if we don't do in 12 years you guys have heard that line right 12 years 2030 and we're all dead they cite the United Nations very very nonpartisan group those people you can really count on them for science they cite the United Nations said it and say 12 years and we're dead if we don't do something radical they use the word radical and then once they've prepped us once they've planted the fear and stoke the urgency once they've told us the private sector can't fix it and that governments the only way that we can solve this problem or we're gonna die in 12 years then only then did they give us the green New Deal and so what do people feel when they see this do they look inside of it and do they think about it critically or do they think finally finally we're going to be safe from this our lives are gonna be put back to normal and we're going to be the generation that solved this moral crisis people don't look at it that is how you unpack the Democrats ulterior motive you look at what they did whether it's short game or whether it's long game and you unpack it to look at what they're actually trying to do the Democrats know that if they try to sell socialism directly to us if they say hi I'm whatever John Smith and I'm running for president of the United States and I'm a socialist a lot of people are gonna be like buzz off so what do they do they tell us it's about climate meanwhile you unpack it you unpeel the layers of that onion and what do you find in there just straight-up socialism you find government-run health care at a universal basic income guaranteed jobs free college you know redistribution of wealth to the point that it's immoral and egregious to have billionaires that even exist in our nation anymore it is just socialism so once you've unpacked it you can do this with any topic any political topic and this is the point I want you to write down two of the political topics in our current discourse that you believe are either the most critical or or your pet topics your favorite topics write them down cuz we're gonna come back to them so you unpack it to find out what there are ulterior motive is and once you know socialism is their ulterior motive you define it what is socialism this is not a rhetorical question anyone can throw it out what is socialism the definition of socialism that's right it's government being in charge of the means of production and distribution in an economy so Democrats of course are gonna say well that's not what we want we just want everyone owning everyone owning collectivism everyone owning it well it's the same thing isn't it if government taxes all your profits away it's the same redistribution as if government owns the means of production and distribution just a little a little tiny bit different of a definition but the ends are the same once you define it no one wants it because no one wants to give up their labor to the government have the government give the fruits of their labor which is part of who we are to somebody else who didn't earn that so you unpack it you define it and then you debate it and now we get to the fun part this is the part where I want you to picture you don't have to picture a specific person in your life but I want you to picture being in a conversation at a coffee shop on your college campus one on one with a liberal if a liberal asks you what's wrong with democratic socialism why shouldn't we have that here isn't that fair what do you say and you can write you can raise your hands here what do you what do you say in response to that who wants to answer that good okay so when you when you address your friends do you do you address them and maybe we'll do maybe we'll do almost like role playing if I'm if I'm your liberal friend and I say what's wrong with socialism you know why wouldn't we have that here I mean it is it is we do want to help we do want to help people who are worse off and you know a billionaire doesn't need all of that money doesn't need the yacht doesn't need the private jet I mean what's wrong with that how do you respond so do you respond by bringing up all your talking points for socialism because I think we all have sort of uh I know this is an outdated reference but sort of a card catalog in our heads right of talking points for every topic the things that we know to be true on our side and the things that we know to be false from the Democrats how do you respond to that pretend that I'm I'm a leftist what's wrong with social that's a really good topic first of all so you're a terrible example for the first question because usually we have to teach the ton the tactics so no that's a it's a really good thing to do to be able to do personally I will say if you don't know the person personally it makes it more difficult so I would say that's exactly right to put make it personal and bring it home I think that's why a lot of people in our generation why socialism seems ok to them because they don't feel it in their personal life if there's a way to make them feel it in their personal life hopefully hypothetically then that works personally but if the person is not if you don't know them intimately enough to know the situations in their life that socialism was would hurt the best way to go about this and this this is what I do by the way on my show every night we debate a Democrat at the end the last segment of the hour-long show every night is to ask them questions and so this is how you take the information that you know the information in your card catalogue of why socialism is bad and this is how you learn how to phrase it to come back to them so one of the examples that what one of the examples that I mean is and by the way I'm talking about very calm questions very rational questions I'm not talking about escalating escalating the debate we're not talking about you know the news clips that are very fun to watch you know the two-minute videos on Facebook which I'm guilty of sometimes I'm talking about in a realistic way to change hearts and minds you say well where in the world has socialism ever worked and then you're quiet and this is a problem that I have being quiet because my first inclination and you probably can relate to this my first inclination is to drop my information bomb to say listen I have two books worth of information about why you're wrong and why I'm right let me just give it to you all so that you can tell how wrong you are it's not a tactic you want to use it's not gonna work what you want to do is you want to ask a simple question where in the world has socialism ever worked and they're gonna point to Scandinavia and you can point out why Scandinavia isn't really socialist or you can go to another question and you can say well you want democratic socialism what's the difference between democratic socialism and regular old socialism and you'd be quiet' and you listen for them to answer that question because that does two things it not only exposes exactly what they're talking about it lets you set the stage it lets you direct how the conversation is going to go you're playing on your home field to use a sports reference it puts that it puts the conversation in your power if you ask those tiny calm questions to direct the conversation because there's no way that they can pivot there's no way they can get away from it and those answers expose either the fallacy of their position or the truth in your own ok so who has a topic that they wrote down before when I asked not socialism any other topic you do yes what's your name Daniella ok so what's the most common liberal talking point that you hear from the left when it comes to that right so they murder innocent children right they just bomb with no abandon than just terrible terrible people who are you know have no reason to be attacking the poor Palestinians in the way that they are they're just aggressive people how do you respond to that right so how do you think a leftist is gonna respond to that right so you don't but you don't want them to walk away right so the way to the way to get around that cuz that's a very common reaction so it's also just a human nature reaction something that I think is important to remember when you're talking to leftist if you are aggressive and you try to information bomb put yourself in their position you'd probably want to shut down and walk away too because it's kind of overwhelming so the the thing to do is ask the calm quiet question say which side uses children as human shields say which side warns innocent people to move out of the way planning their attacks in advance each piece of information that you said is 100% correct but when you drop it in an information bomb it's overwhelming and it makes the other person shut down if you ask a short calm question it's gonna draw them out okay so every every time it's it goes against your inclination ago I mean I've actually on the show today so we filmed my show before early today in advance because we're gonna drive up here and I sort of lost my cool with a Democrat that was on the show this morning he was being ridiculous about the Moller report ridiculous he was saying that you know Attorney General Barr is staging some sort of cover-up and there's no reason to delay this and we should see it unredacted and instead of saying instead of responding the way that I should have I should have said well is there a federal law that prohibits the release of grand jury proceedings and he would have had to say well yes there is and that's why it needs to be redacted you know I went off on him because he was being very annoying it was not it was not my best debate moment but I could have trapped him if I'd done it better if I had exercise some self-control in that debate I could have actually led him to exam where I wanted him to go I wanted him to admit that Attorney General bars currently following the law redacting classified information and information pertinent to grand jury proceedings our ongoing investigations and that there's no reason to suspect to cover-up unless you're just so psychotically leftist that you can't accept the truth and I could have led him to that if I done it right but I didn't and so now I'm teaching you how to write all right does anyone have another topic yes social equity in our schools do you support school choice yeah yeah you do conservatives do because that's the way to get social equity in our school so what's the liberal argument here against school choice what would a liberal if you were engaging with a liberal what with a liberal say to you when you say I support school choice well that's a privilege because you know school choice you have to you have to have the money to pay for that so how would you respond if a liberal said that to you if they said well that really does you know that really is you know a scheme for for richer people that really doesn't help us out how would you respond to that I don't know I think I don't know a question a calm question you would say who takes advantage in the highest percentage of voucher programs what socioeconomic class of people low income people do you would ask a calm rational question you would say well in Florida this past midterm election Democratic women voter Democratic voters African American women were actually the ones if you analyze that race they were actually the ones who elected Republican governor Ron de santis because he was a proponent of school choice they voted for the Democrat for Senate and they voted for the Republican for governor because DeSantis his opponent Andrew Gilliam said you know that school choice was terrible and he was gonna decimate that program and Ron de santis said no I think we should do that that's great for our kids so you can use a calm question don't drop that information bomb on right then but you can say well what about the hundred thousand African American women in Florida who thought it would be better for their children to have a school choice program are you saying that you know better than they do about their children's education and what are they going to say it's gonna put it in a different perspective and it's going to it's gonna bring the conversation back to where you want it to be rather than just some vague you know social equity that they haven't even defined so always remember phrase it as a question and phrase it as a it's a leading question it's actually the type of question that you know lawyers aren't supposed to ask the jury you've lead them to the answer that you want them to give because there's only one right answer there and if they answer in the way that you've led them to answer then they can't really take their own position without contradicting themselves and that's really it's it's it's a trick but it's a rhetorical trick to combat the rhetoric the talking points that the left uses to mask the real agenda and if we as conservatives master this in a way that empowers us to be able to do this ourselves in our regular lives instead of waiting for instead of waiting for someone you know a talking head on TV or waiting for that spine that congressmen to finally grow a spine if we take it into our own hands and equip ourselves to do this learn how to do this tactic and feel comfortable doing it then we are going to be able to help change the narrative across our entire country we are going to be able to spread conservatism outside of the outside of the bubble of people that we already know who already share our values and we're going to be able to reach out to the other side and convert them and that's what we're here for right right all right we'll do what we'll do one more of these does anyone else have a topic idea sure what's your name Jamie okay so I'm gonna play the left is here ready okay cow emissions we have to stop people from eating meat it's not only a humane issue but that co2 emissions it's the faults of those bovines that our children are never gonna know a polar bear how do you respond do you know how many people in America and average farmer feeds yes perfect a question a question a simple calm question so how's the bluff just gonna respond to that right well if they know then doesn't that make them a terrible person for taking that position if they don't know then you very calmly and respectfully educate them I think this is another point that I want to make so sometimes for entertainment it's very entertaining to trap a leftist right to see them it is to see them have the proverbial brain smoke down or splutter or try to pivot but truly what is one of the hardest things as not just young women what is one of the hardest things as human beings for us to do to admit that we're wrong because we're afraid of losing face it's embarrassing it's hard to be able to change your mind on a position when things are so polarized so even though it's entertaining to destroy the left in that way and even though it's satisfying and you probably get a dopamine rush from it if you actually want to change hearts and minds what do you have to do you have to create a loving environment that allows someone to see the light and that's why that's why you have to stay calm that's why you have to ask those questions because even if the person doesn't change their mind right then and they won't I they won't that's not how human nature works you planted that seed you've given them you've empowered them with that information that they can think over later maybe they'll google it maybe they'll hear it the next time a politician actually uses it instead of letting it go one ear in one ear and out the other you will have started you will have given them the opportunity to start their conversion and that counts for something I said that was the last one but I want to do one more does anyone over here well someone over here raised their hand before I think it was you why do you hate gay people how do you respond to that that's what the liver that's what the left is gonna say to you you think that there's a biological difference between males and females yeah that's a good question yeah I don't know that that one's pertinent to gay marriage that one's more pertinent to the transgender issue I think but that's exactly the kind of question that you want to ask it's kind of a closed-ended question do you think there's a difference between men and women I mean please yes or you're anti science but gay marriage I don't I don't think that I don't think that's pertinent to gay marriage though so yeah like that's well that's what the left is gonna say to you if you say oh I support traditional marriage you know whether it's informed by my religious beliefs or I mean most whether it's a form I marry religious beliefs or tradition throughout the world whatever it is they're immediately going to say well you're discriminating against gay people you know why don't you want them to be happy this is the by the way this is a great topic and I can tell it makes people uncomfortable and conservatives should not absolutely not should not cede ground to the left on social issues they're uncomfortable topics but they're really really important foundational topics that we need to be able to have a conversation about without the left successfully labeling us as a bigot we're talking about the transgender issue I'm talking about gay marriage I'm talking about abortion I'm talking about just sexual morality in general we should not cede ground to the left we should be able to have these conversations and not brush them aside yeah yeah that's why I asked cuz this is a big thing for me like I want to know how to refute it but I guess do you ask another question no no I mean I if you don't know how to answer that I'm I want to teach you all how to do this because there are two really really effective ways now the left is still gonna call you a bigot and if you're not I assume you know we're not if you're not then you have to just let that roll off their back off your back but it's not about gay people is it gay marriage it's not about your feelings even your religious views on homosexuality at all it's about an institution the government is redefining and we can't let government step in and redefine things and force us forced churches force religious people to let the government dictate how we practice our religion right we have a constitutional protection against that very thing in regards to discrimination it's not it's not discriminating against gay people a gay man is just as free to go out and marry a straight woman as a straight manis and a straight man is just as prohibited if gay marriage were illegal to marry another man as a gay man is it's not about sexual orientation it's not about the people it's about government telling us what we have to believe in what we have to celebrate as you have to separate those two things the left has been extremely successful this is maybe the most successful the left has ever been in defining a narrative where they have conflated the two things opposition to gay marriage with dislike bigotry or homophobia against gay people opposition to gay marriage doesn't and I think I hope I speak for the majority of people here when I say opposition to gay marriage or support for traditional marriage has is absolutely unrelated to our feelings about gay people absolutely nothing to do with it you know even even religious beliefs and I know I don't have time to go into that although I could speak for an hour on that even religious beliefs do not teach that there is anything less about gay people that there's any reason why gay people should be treated as less Christian beliefs I'm Catholic a practicing Catholic the Catholic Church has been the oh I saw that face the Catholic Church has been the stalwart standing against gay marriage more than any other institution in the history of the world and they call us to treat every single person no matter their gender no matter their sexual orientation no matter their identity with dignity and respect and as a child of God and it's actually partially our fault as conservatives and as Christians as many of you are Christians correct as Christians for how we have misinterpreted church teachings and we have participated in the oppression of gay people to our detriment over the last 200 years part of the reason we are having this pendulum swing on this social issue of gay marriage and the transgender issue is because of how we have failed in treating gay people the way that God calls us as Christians to treat gay people even as we gay marriage and support traditional marriage and so those different types of things like I said we cannot be afraid to talk about this and we have to identify immediately the difference and the difference between opposition to gay marriage and opposition to gay people and if you pull that apart and you explain it to them and I've done this personally before not just on my show I've done this with friends who are either very Pro gay marriage or are gay themselves and explained to them that there's a huge difference between the two and the left has twisted them together but you talk to most conservatives I would say the vast majority of conservatives and it's not the same thing to conservatives and so I know that that's not the short the short question but it starts you have a short question you have like is there a question that you can add like say in response yes the question you say in responses do you think opposition to gay marriage means that conservatives hate gay people and if they say yes then say well let me tell you let me tell you the truth and you can give examples too of how conservatives and how a lot of Christians now are are socially sticking up for gay people it's conservatives in this country who are speaking out the loudest about the persecution of gay people in Iran or in Saudi Arabia in the Middle East its conservatives it's not the left it's conservatives who are talking about the exploitation of transgender youth while the left's while the left are the ones who are exploiting those children so if you actually unpeel that onion again and you look at it opposition to gay marriage is not at all tied to either policy personal position or religious beliefs about homosexuality in general and we have to you know we have to put an axe right in between that and we have to make sure that we do not allow the left to conflate that thank you of course sorry I told you that that would go off on a tangent to me yeah no problem okay so just a round back to the beginning of this when we see when we see the left whether they're on TV whether this is people in Congress when we hear their talking points and we want to be able to defeat them ourselves and not leave it to someone else what do we do first we unpack we figure out what their ulterior motive is what their underlying agenda is and we identify that and then we identify what the medium that they're using again going back to the green New Deal socialism is their agenda the green New Deal is the carriage that they're using to try to advance that agenda once we have once we have unpacked that then we define it we make sure that the debate that we're having is the debate of the real issue and not some periphery pivotal tangential point that the left wants to make to try to stay away from the heart of the matter so we define it what is socialism or you know if we're talking about abortion the heartbeat bill in Georgia or Governor North um in Virginia talking about infanticide you don't talk about the peripheral issues you go back to the heart of the matter when does life begin if life begins at conception as science says it does keeping religion out of it then what right do we have to end that life we do not let them distract us with all of their peripheral issues we go right to the heart of the matter you define what the debate that you want to have is and then you get to debate them and you start the debate with what a question a calm question that defines the court on which you will be playing this debate it leads them to exactly the answer that you want them to give which will either trap them or cause them to contradict themselves or it will plant the seed and they will think about it later and if we do this as I'm just going to repeat what I said before if we do this we will win the culture wars we will start to turn the tide on those culture wars and we will be the ones leading that charge we are the next generation of conservative women we are going to be the ones who are speaking out not just for economic not just on economic topics but on social issues women are typically the ones who lead that charge women were the ones who ushered in abortion and we women should be the ones to usher that out and so my hope today is that you leave this that you leave this conference as a whole but you leave this my part of the my speech specifically feeling like you know how to take part feeling like if you walked up to a leftist or heard a leftist talking point that you can start constructing those questions in your mind you know I'm I'm pretty nerdy about what I do i over prepare for my show I you know I don't I don't read it off on the show but I think about what the left is going to say be about a certain topic before I enter into a debate because then you're not caught off guard and once you think about what they're going to say you can prepare those questions ahead of time for your mental bank for your card catalog of information and I mean it's it's it's what we have to do and my hope is that after hearing this you will feel like you're able to do that and take part in it and it's also why this is really exciting I'm so excited to be able to share this with you this is also why I'm writing a book about this this tiny little thank you this tiny little blip today it's just just scratches the surface of what's in my book and my book is a handbook for us for all of us about how we can go out and how we can defeat the left not wait for somebody else to do it but do it ourselves I think you guys got a handout about it I hope you'll check it out you can pre-order it now if you want to make my day but otherwise it is releasing in August so when you if you do get it when you do get it let me know what you think let me know if this helps you feel empowered to have these debates and then share those debates with others because we're gonna start that revolution we're gonna take back our country for conservatives thank you [Applause] do you guys want to do questions yes hey my name is Ellie first of all I just want to say you look amazing like you thank you you're so pretty anyways um I just want to makeup and hairspray I was gonna say your hair looks so good um anyway after taking a nap in the car too no one can tell trust me um I guess my question is I tend to be a lot better at speak or not speaking at writing than speaking and I don't know you speak so clearly do you have any tips on really getting to the point sometimes I struggle with that um writing is the key I mean reading and writing are the key to a concise argument so if you ever feel that your attention span is short if you ever feel like and we all do right it's because of our phones put down your phone whenever and this is this is a personal thing that I've noticed so I have to be tied to my cell phone because of what I do for a living I have to know exactly what everyone's saying I have to know exactly what news is breaking I have to read about it so you know every time that notification comes up I pick up my phone and if I do that too much I notice that my attention span is shorter and if I put my phone down and pick up a book and sort of like it's it's almost like a drug addict actually trying to push through trying to push through withdrawal if you read for 15 minutes you're like oh man I wonder who texted me I wonder what Twitter saying if you push through that you kind of break through that wall of a short attention span and start really getting into that book and if you start really getting into the book you it informs how you speak actually it informs grammatically it informs vocabulary it informs the way that you logically organize your arguments and so my best advice is to put down your phones for a little while read a book and then if you feel that your personal strength is writing do exactly what I said before write down you know the ten issues that Democrats talk about the most write down up underneath those ten issues write down you know two or three however many you want of the most common talking points and then write down what you believe is the heart of the matter you know with abortion I said it's when life begins with the green new deal it's does socialism actually work and is socialism actually moral you know each each issue you can write it down because then you just have to revert back to your writing you don't think about the speaking aspect of it you think about the logic part of it sure who's next what's your name Katrina thank you for coming today my question is I'm a big fan of the probing question I use it for me with my teachers a lot excellent um works really well but the one thing it also will work with your boyfriend I say that while my husband's back there but the one thing that I have discovered is that sometimes my leftist friends or my teachers or they'll swerve or though they'll like change the subject change the question answer something else and it's like no that's not what I asked you so how would you like revert that back to your original question let them get all the BS out that they have so that that's actually something that I talk about in my book a little bit about how if you're going into a debate and I see this I see this on TV because a lot because I do the same thing I prepare you know the talking points that I want I know the leftist has the talking points they want and it doesn't matter what you say to them if they have like five or six talking points prepared they will hammer those talking points even if you say how you doing today they'll be like here's why I hate Donald Trump and I'm like not what I asked but sure you have to let them don't interrupt them at the beginning let them get all their talking points out let them go for a minute especially this is a personal conversation you're not on you don't have a producer in your ear yelling at you you know two minutes like if you're not on a time clock let them get all their BS out afterward they won't have one of those talking points to pivot to I mean it maybe a little bit different for a teacher because the teacher is in the power position in that situation they can define the conversation but anywhere else where it's not a power deficit in that way let them get out all the BS and then say ok but what about your original question and then where are they gonna pivot to they've already dumped all of their information their information bomb on you just let it slide by and then you can redefine the conversation if they repeat you can be like yeah you said that before but what about and keep going like that it won't always work but there are little there are little conversational tactics that um that you can use and the left are very they're actually they've beat us rhetorically for a long time because we tend to be you know stereotypically maybe our nose in an economics book and they're learning they're learning how to I don't know have cocktail chatter like you know they're learning how to do do that kind of sub very surface level in very and we're very at the very intellectual level comparatively but that doesn't always win a debate the intellectual level um so yeah just bring it back to where you were originally and go from there sure more question you know Jimmy okay so it's easier to engage with people like that and kind of a back and forth when they're actually willing to talk to you yeah but how do you deal with people or groups on campus who instead of engaging with you just kind of come and you know spit in front of your displays wash away your chalk take pictures of you and post it on their group social media and act like they are engaging when in reality they're just ignoring the issues well two things I think that's probably the situation where you can go ahead and go for that dopamine rush just go ahead and destroy them I think questions still work to a certain extent I mean if there's violence I mean I never don't engage that just film it and get out of there but don't engage that but if they're just being disrespectful you can ask say do you think that spitting is respectful of other people you know you can just ask questions like that to kind of bring it up I mean you're not be probably not going to have a productive conversation in that situation but you can always you can always invite them if especially if you are doing a video or something like that they're trying to expose them you can say listen you're coming over here and you're spitting in front of our table but we'd love to invite you for a debate not not right now when tempers are high but we'd love to invite you for a debate to talk about the things that are important to you are you interested in doing that and if they say yes then great because that'll have to be a calmer debate if they say no then it'll be like well aren't you a loser that would be my recommendation but a lot of those campus groups I mean they they are getting a little more agitated and so I mean I don't have to tell you ladies this just be very cautious of those confrontations because it's not worth even the video if they're being destructive those people are not gonna be the ones who are defining policy and a big part of this debate five or ten years from now so unless they're actually willing to be normal people then just ignore them and do your thing do we have a time for any more no nope we're good ladies give a big hand to the Clare Boothe Luce Centre for conservative women and thank you so much for having me [Applause]

Channel: CBL Women

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Keywords: Liz Wheeler, CBL Center for Conservative Women, 2019 Western Women's Summit, socialism, One America News Network

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Length: 45min 45sec (2745 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 11 2019

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Liz Wheeler, host of Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler on One America News Network, discusses the left's embrace of socialism and how to rebut it. She has something worthwhile to teach us about communicating with others who have opposing views and normally could not be engaged in a rational exchange of ideas. It is clear that when there is no desire(or fear) to consider the other's beliefs, there is no chance for a unifying outcome. Knowing how to get the participants to examine the reasons and find facts to substantiate their positions, could result in a reasonably factual outcome that more people would accept. We should not have to fear bullying for examining or listening with an open mind to the opinions of those who do not agree with what is popular in their communities.