Here is why I’m preserving the original ‘All in the Family’ set

On January 12, 1971, Archie Bunker walked through his front door at 704 Hauser Street for the first time, launching “All in the Family,” which would become the intersection of discussion where 1960s-era counterculture collided with blue-collar, middle-class families in the early 1970s.

Now, the house on 704 Hauser Street sits inside Stage 19 at BlazeTV studios.

So why did I preserve it?

For the first time in television history, “All in the Family” brought real topics of contention directly to American audiences in their living rooms. Issues like taxes, the government, feminism, and racism were all considered too controversial for TV. But “All in the Family” ran directly toward them.

Archie played the part of the blue-collar, taxpaying worker who resisted change. Meathead, his son-in-law, played the part of the leftist freeloader who was more than comfortable living off his in-laws and staying indefinitely in college. Both sides got in their jabs and both made their points, but something happened then that rarely does any more: conversation. This is why I felt the need to protect this set.

Can you imagine this today? We get one side of the story, and anything else is demonetized, shut down, or instantly labeled “misinformation.” People are vilified, deplatformed, and guilted into compliance.

Have you ever listened to the lyrics of the “All in the Family” theme song?

Didn’t need no welfare states. Everybody pulled his weight. Gee, our old LaSalle ran great. Those were the days.

What TV producer, actor, or director would allow those lyrics today?

Or what about these?

And you knew who you were then. Girls were girls and men were men.

These lyrics are more relevant now than they were in the ’70s. Try to say that on YouTube without getting a strike or kicked off altogether.

The song goes on:

People seemed content. Fifty dollars paid the rent. Freaks were in a circus tent … those were the days.

Oh, how the mighty in Hollywood have fallen! Come anywhere even close to these kinds of conversations, and the groupthink of the arbiters of speech comes knocking. Just ask people like Tim Allen, Roseanne Barr, Jon Voight, James Woods, Gina Carano, Stacey Dash, and Kirk Cameron.

The list is much longer. How many more people in Hollywood have absolutely given up or been beaten into silence?

The conversations that happened in Archie and Edith Bunker's living room no longer happen. They are no longer allowed. And it’s about to get much worse.

I fear that 2024 will be the year when future generations will look back and say, "That was the year the First Amendment was officially assassinated." The signs are everywhere.

Over the past few months, the globalists and progressives have been telegraphing their punches. Your ability to speak your own mind and to consume the information you want to consume is a direct threat to their agenda and rule. The flurry of globalists getting caught in the act as we were preparing for the holidays was absolutely insane.

Take Al Gore at COP28 as an example.

If you have social media that is dominated by algorithms that pull people down these rabbit holes that are a bit like pitcher plants, these algorithms — they are the digital equivalent of AR-15s. They ought to be banned. They really ought to be banned. It’s an abuse of the public forum.

Gore continued:

And you spend too much time in the echo chamber, what’s weaponized is another form of AI — not artificial intelligence, artificial insanity. I'm serious. ... And these devices are the enemies of self-government, and they’re the enemies of democracy. We need reforms for both democracy and capitalism.

Got it? Any information outside the mainstream media — the approved forum — is a threat to democracy, according to Al Gore.

Didn’t Gore invent the internet? So why is he so mad? Seriously, does he not realize that he and his globalist comrades control nearly every outlet where we get information? They control the mainstream media. They control Big Tech and social media. They control Hollywood and entertainment.

People like Al Gore are the fascists, looking to gobble up everything they don't have full control of yet. They fear outlets like BlazeTV because we tell you to think for yourselves. We tell you to have conversations, which should tell you everything you need to know about these people.

They don’t control us, and they never will.

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