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Seth Grossman Spent the Last Three Months Writing a History Book: “1676 Project”.
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Seth Grossman announced that Liberty and Prosperity has an ambitious agenda for the year and requested $30 in annual dues by January 1st to help maintain their media presence.
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Grossman stated he has finished a new book titled Project 1676, which is expected to be published in about a week.
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The book is intended as a counter to the New York Times’ 1619 Project; Grossman argues that America was not shaped by slavery, but by the “liberty and prosperity” established by Quakers in South Jersey in 1676.
What Happened to Kwanza”
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Grossman discussed Kwanzaa, theorizing that it has disappeared from the media landscape because it was a “fake holiday” created to destroy Christmas and is no longer useful to the political Left, partly due to conflicts with Islamic influence.
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He commented on the death of Brigitte Bardot, criticizing the media for describing her simply as an “animal rights activist” while ignoring her specific political objections to Muslim immigration and halal slaughter practices.
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He critiqued the Netflix movie Good Fortune, arguing that Hollywood falsely blames “greedy capitalists” for economic struggles, whereas he believes the real blame lies with government debt and spending.
Socialism Always Brings High Prices and Massive Fraud.
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Grossman agreed with Harry Hurley’s comments regarding rising health insurance premiums, attributing the cost explosion to third-party payment systems.
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He used the example of his father, a dentist who charged $2 for fillings in the 1960s, to argue that costs remain low when patients pay directly, but skyrocket due to administration and fraud once insurance or the government pays.
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SETH GROSSMAN: I want to first apologize for not sending email updates during the past five weeks. That’s because I’ve been writing a history book. Its called 1676 Project: How Liberty and Prosperity in Quaker South Jersey Shaped America. What does that mean?
Well, about five or six years ago, the New York Times did a project called the sixteen nineteen Project. And according to that project, it’s a bunch of teaching materials which dominates every school and college in America. And it basically teaches that, well, in Virginia, the first slaves came to Virginia in 1619. And they say that everything about America since then has been based on, conquest, exploitation, and slavery, and that America was an evil country until just about twenty years ago when Obama changed it. And that’s why we had to change America from this evil country of 1619 to make it the, the new America of Obama and Biden and Mamdani. And what I did during the past six weeks, I did a lot of research as to how South Jersey was created. And what I found out is that, South Jersey was created by Quakers in 1676 even before, William Penn came to Philadelphia. And, basically, the Liberty and Prosperity, created by Quakers in New Jersey in 1676, made America great for 300 years. If you want America to be great again, we have to start doing what those Quakers did back in 1676.
SETH GROSSMAN: What happened to Kwanzaa? Have you heard much about Kwanzaa during the past two weeks?
JOHN DEMASI: No. Nothing at all.
SETH GROSSMAN: Today is either the fifth or sixth day of Kwanzaa.Ten years ago, that was a big deal. It would be in the front page of the paper. The Kwanzaa event would be sponsored by most libraries and schools. It was on TV. Kwanzaa books were all over the children’s section of big box stores like Target. Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa.
And now suddenly, it’s gone. It reminds me of that Sherlock Holmes mystery where the dog that did not bark was more important than the dog that barked. Here’s my theory on what happened to Kwanzaa. Now Kwanzaa, of course, was always a fake holiday. It was invented, by this radical, black nationalist in Los Angeles called Ron Everett right after the Watts riots of 1965. In those days, you had a new group of Black militants who hated everything white. They had Afro hair, the Afro dress, they tried to speak Swahili. And, of course, they did not want black Americans celebrating Christmas and sharing that beautiful holiday with white people. So they invented this fake holiday that only black people in America could celebrate. And it was just black Americans. Black immigrants from Africa, Haiti, and Jamaica never heard of this Kwanzaa holida and wanted nothing to do with it.
And the guy who invented it, Ron Everett was a genuine psychopath. He actually murdered people. His black nationalist was feuding with the Black Panthers, another radical black nationalist group. In 1969, Ron Everett’s group murdered two unarmed Black Panthers in cold blood on the campus of UCLA. Later Everett was convicted for sadistically torturing two women in his group with a soldering iron. It was real horrible stuff. He was sent to prison, for about twenty or thirty years.
But J. Edgar Hoover, the guy who ran the FBI for more than 30 years liked this lunatic who invented Kwanzaa. That was because J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI hated Communists, and Ron Everett’s group was murdering Black Panthers who were Communists. So Ron Everett was somehow released from prison early, he got a lot of his records expunged. Now the criminal Ron Everett is a distinguished academic scholar called Maulana Karenga. Now he is paid to speak at colleges around America, including Stockton.
That’s where the holiday of Kwanzaa came from, and that’s why it was a big deal. So why is it not a big deal this year? And I have a feeling I have two explanations, and maybe our listeners might have some ideas. Number one, I think we don’t hear about Kwanzaa because, the whole holiday was invented to destroy Christmas. And it’s almost like a mission accomplished. They succeeded in destroying Christmas as a central part of American public life. We no longer say Merry Christmas. We say happy holidays. And TD Bank was typical of many corporations that actually instructed their employees not to say “Merry Christmas” to customers.
So that’s part of it. But I also think part of it is the new Muslim influence. It’s like we don’t need a fake holiday, to destroy Christian America, to destroy Christmas. We now have the Muslims doing it, and and now it’s just embarrassing, to to have, you know, black Americans embracing something other than Islam. But whatever it is, it just shows how the left uses things like Kwanzaa when it’s useful for their purposes. But as soon as it’s not useful anymore, it’s gone. It’s over its history. They just move on to something else. So I think that’s worth talking about. And we will have many other things to talk about in 2026.
The media also changed the narrative on Brigitte Bardot. She was one of the greatest sex goddesses for us Boomer guys growing up in the 1960s.
JOHN DEMASI: Yes, sexy French actress.
SETH GROSSMAN: Now the media calls her an animal rights activist. Well, she was a lot more than that. She also spoke out against the mass migration of Muslims to France. And she did mention the barbaric way they slaughtered animals for their Halal meat. But when she died, they didn’t mention that. They just called her an animal rights activist. So, it it just you know, that the news is almost everything the news is slanted to promote a certain political agenda, even the death of a beloved French actress at the age of 90.
Will Republicans fix health insurance? Harry Hurley talked about this earlier during the week. Health insurance premiums for many people are going to almost double when they renew this year. And if Republicans and president Trump don’t get a handle on this issue, then, it’s just going to wipe them out in in the midterm elections and we’ll lose control of Congress.
And this failure of Republicans in Washington to deal with health insurance reminds me of the failure of Republicans in New Jersey to deal with high electric bills. We have high electric bills in New Jersey because Governor Murphy and the Democrats shut down the six power plants. That forced us to buy expensive electricity out of state and caused rates to go up. The only way to fix the problem is to rebuild the power plants to make the rates go down. Very simple issue. And, of course, Jack talked about this on your program and when talking to other Republicans. But he never made it a key part of his campaign, the way a Democrat called Jim McGreevey once made high auto insurance the key part of his campaign.
And because the Republicans couldn’t come up up with a clear, persuasive message, voters were confused, and Democrats used their issues to define the campaign. And that message was hate Trump and vote against Ciattarelli because Ciattarelli is with Trump.
I think Harry Hurley was very correct in in pointing out this danger that if Republicans don’t identify what is causing, health insurance to go up and have a program for Republicans to bring those costs down. It’s gonna be a rerun of what happened in New Jersey. And so I’d like to talk a little bit about, what’s causing the, the health care to go up.
JOHN DEMASI: Yeah. What is causing it?
SETH GROSSMAN: Well, of course, we see the massive fraud with the Somali, clinics, in Minnesota. But I actually grew up watching this train wreck start years ago because my father was a dentist. And I remember in the nineteen sixties when he was, you know, was was fixing teeth, and he was charging $2 a filling in the, in the nineteen sixties. And then suddenly, they had, Linda Johnson and the Great Society, and they had Medicaid for poor people. And they would pay the dentist, you know, what they were charging, if if you were poor. So my dad was charging, you know, $2 a filling for if you’re walking off the street. If you had Medicaid, he’d charge in, you know, $2 a a filling, except the government would pay. And then suddenly, once it became other people’s money that was paying for it, and the money wasn’t coming out to the patient, now my dad is a dentist, starts going to dental association meetings. And they say, well, don’t be a sucker. The government could pay you $2 for a filling, but, they’ll also pay you $2 to do an examination, $2 for teeth cleaning. And they came up with, like, five other gimmicks that you could charge, things that dentists never charged people before because it was part of the package. Now you come in, the doctor looks at your dentist, looks at your teeth. You you had an exam. He gives you a filling. He cleans your teeth, all one thing for $2. But now they find out they’re getting $10, that the government will pay for it, so, of course, they’re gonna do it. And now you have to hire more, you know, secretaries to take care of the paperwork with the government insurance. And and then suddenly they’re making more money from the the government sponsored people than the private people, so they start raising the rates on the private people. But then so then private people start demanding their own insurance, and suddenly the whole thing blows up. And and something else happened. I remember my dad told me a story, that when he was in the hospital for a prostate surgery, he’s in the hospital, a local hospital, and he has his local urologist, does the, the the surgery, and the urologist comes in to see him. And and that’s all part of the normal medical package. But my dad has a, a friend of his. He’s a doctor, and it’s his family doctor. And while his family doctor was in the hospital making rounds, he’d come in and see my dad, and he’d say, oh, hi. You know, Eli, how you doing? You know, like a social visit because he was in the hospital anyway. When my dad got discharged from the hospital, three months later, he gets a statement from the, Medicare that, that that his friend, the doctor, who he thought was just coming by to say hello, actually charged charged, that the his insurance, you know, for for making a a medical visit in the hospital for for $20 just for coming in to say hello. And that’s really where the corruption starts. Because what’s my dad gonna do? He’s gonna, you know, report his, his friend for fraud? Is is he gonna make a big deal of it? And the answer is he did not. But as long as somebody else is paying for it, then nobody cares. And and and so the real problem is with the with the health insurance, once we got away from money coming out of your pocket to pay for a doctor, just like money comes out of your pocket to pay for groceries or to pay for rent or to pay for an airline ticket, suddenly nobody cares what the cost is. And if the cost goes up and it’s you know, you just look for ways to make somebody else pay for it, That’s the corruption that, you know, that created this culture, and all the Somalis did, which show the absurdity that as long as you could get money and as long as it’s somebody else’s money, you’re gonna get away with it, especially if as you’re stealing money, you vote for the people who are running things. So, I think it’s not enough to just, put everybody in jail who has anything to do with that, and it’s not enough to, you know, follow the money and claw back that money and and really financially ruin everybody who had a a a a part in that system. But we also have to get back to, you know, how we pay for medical care. And once again, we had a system that worked perfectly where you pay for your runny nose and your your sprains and your sprains and your small doctor visits out of your own pocket, and you only have insurance for what we call major medical catastrophe when you have to go to the hospital and get major surgery because you need insurance for that. And, again, as with all insurance, insurance is something you buy when you never expect to collect. You get health insurance, in case your house burns down, but 99% of the people who buy, house you know, homeowner insurance never expect your house to burn down. You get auto insurance to pay for your if your car gets wrecked, but 90% of people don’t get their car wrecked. You you pay for stuff you need out of your pocket, and that’s how you keep the cost down because nobody cares about the money you spend more than you. Yeah. That that’s that that’s putting it right where it is. But but as long as everybody’s saying, well, my bills are too high. I want someone else to pay for it. We’re never gonna get a handle on the situation. And and by the way, that that idea of where the danger is, I’ll just finish up with this. We we all know how horrible what, you know, Ma’am Dany is doing in New York. The fact that, he’s a socialist saying how great socialism is. But just as as dangerous as Ma’am Dany is like an innocent Hollywood movie. You know, over the holidays, I saw a movie called Good Fortune with Kino Reeves as the angel Gabriel and Seth Rogen as Jeff. I don’t know if you heard about that movie. No. But it’s a it’s a popular Netflix movie, but the whole theme of the movie is that young people are struggling because you have a bunch of rich hedge hedge funders are stealing too much money, and they’re filthy rich, and everybody else is too poor. So to make society better, we have to get even with those those rich people. And and also, one of the heroes is trying to organize a union, at at like Home Depot to, to to make things more affordable. And what that misses is the thing reason that everybody is broke and the reason young people today don’t have a chance is that the government is stealing about two thirds of all the wealth in this country, and we’re heavily in debt. But you don’t see any movies talking about government being too big or government wasting too much money or government fraud. All the Hollywood pop culture talks and and and and it doesn’t mention government at all. It’s all that these these greedy capitalists are causing all the problems. So, of course, young people are gonna wanna vote for politicians who are gonna teach those greedy capitalists a a lesson. So instead of putting our anger at Ma’am Danni, I mean, he’s just the result. But the cause of it is this Hollywood culture, you know, in our movies and entertainment and also the garbage we’re teaching our kids in our schools, which goes back to why libertyandprosperity.com, our main focus is gonna be that book, the sixteen seventy six project.
