00:01:00.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:06.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:48.000I think it was LRushbo at EIB.net, which is if you have the combined intelligence of your entire audience, you're going to hit things with much greater precision than just one person staring at a wall and talking.
00:02:21.000Charlie, we know that historically, all representative societies and governments have eventually fallen.
00:02:27.000Do you know of any historical examples of societies moving back towards freedom after taking a slide towards totalitarianism like our country has without a major revolution or conflict?
00:02:40.000I agree with the plans you lay forward on taking back our country.
00:02:44.000But in doing so, are we in uncharted territory historically?
00:02:49.000I think we all want to see our society move back towards freedom without it falling apart completely.
00:03:00.000I actually address this question at great length in my book, The MAGA Doctrine.
00:03:05.000One of the things that I talk about in the MAGA doctrine is that there is the cycle of civilizations where, of course, there's a kind of a time where you are trying to form your identity.
00:03:18.000Then you start to collect combined power.
00:03:22.000You start to choose what kind of government you want.
00:03:24.000If it's representative, it usually slips into a democracy.
00:03:27.000And democracy is largely unsustainable without a check in a balance or a Republican small R republic as a basis of it.
00:03:36.000And it drives the media nuts when you say democracy is unsustainable, but it is because you're just going to have people continually vote themselves stuff and vote other people's rights away.
00:03:45.000Remember, tyrants always use fear and free stuff as the two ways to try to manipulate a population.
00:03:52.000And so, but there are examples, though, of resurgence.
00:03:55.000Talked about this in the book, The MAGA Doctrine, because I admit in the MAGA Doctrine, we are currently on a civilizational decline.
00:04:02.000And I ask the question: Has there ever been a time where someone resurged a dying civilization?
00:04:08.000Justinian is a great example of one leader who did this.
00:04:12.000So did Queen Elizabeth, amongst many others.
00:04:15.000As far as somebody who, and those are the two best examples I could think of the top of my head, it's been a while since I was kind of getting in the weeds of writing the book.
00:04:21.000But this idea of civilizational resurgence is not a new topic, but it's very hard.
00:04:28.000It's very hard to turn away, turn around a civilization that is participating in monetary, cultural, and spiritual decline, especially one where it's being done to yourself.
00:04:40.000I would argue historically, and I'm a student of history, I'm constantly learning.
00:04:44.000I learned under Bill Federer, I learned under many other people.
00:04:46.000I spend a couple hours a day studying history and diving deep into it.
00:04:49.000That a civilization is much more likely to fall from internal combustion than foreign invasion.
00:04:58.000As Churchill beautifully said, he said, a nation that goes down fighting will rise again, but a nation that surrenders will never see glory ever again.
00:05:08.000So even if you are invaded by a foreign power, that's actually not the worst thing that can happen to your country.
00:05:15.000You can live under despotic, authoritarian, and tyrannical rule.
00:05:19.000But if you really want your civilization to go into the dustbin of history, as many of the great civilizations have, have it happen internally.
00:05:28.000And if you look at the fall of the Roman Empire, it is almost identical what has happened with the fall of the Roman Empire and what's happening in America: an inflated currency, moral decline, the perversion of children, the blurring of gender norms, free stuff, widespread corruption in the capital.
00:05:45.000Now, it's very interesting, though, because Rome did not all fall at once, which is kind of goes to this idea of a national divorce, of what is the path forward.
00:05:58.000Rome broke into the Eastern Roman Empire, which then became Byzantium and flourished for hundreds of years post-the fall of the traditional Roman Empire.
00:06:08.000We then had Constantine and many others that actually helped proliferate Christianity and protect core Christian ideas that some would argue built the basis for modern-day Western civilization.
00:06:23.000So the question is a very good one: which is, has civilizational resurgence ever happened again?
00:06:51.000Now that we have technology and we have Rumble, we have podcasting, I can tell you, or Steve Bannon can tell you, or Tucker Carlson can tell you, what is the game plan?
00:07:24.000Because we're dealing with the same type of thing.
00:07:27.000We're dealing with human beings that act in predictable ways.
00:07:31.000This is where the left completely disagrees with us.
00:07:34.000The left believes that human beings are malleable based on the type of civilization, the structure all around them, and that anything you see wrong is because of capitalism, private property rights, racism, misogyny, homophobia.
00:07:46.000We have to remove those things and human beings can perfect themselves and get closer towards what they would consider to be the Ãœbermensch, as Friedrich Nietzsche would put it.
00:07:54.000We think human beings are all pretty screwed up, that our general internal operating system is flawed.
00:08:00.000This is a biblical concept, but it doesn't have to be exclusively those that believe in the Judeo-Christian canon of believing that essentially man is flawed from the beginning.
00:08:12.000We call this the original sin or the fall, and that anything that we do to try to glorify God or serve our neighbors is to try to improve our conditions and improve our life, but we're never going to perfect man itself.
00:08:26.000That's where Christianity is such an unbelievably different religious promise than any other religion that's ever happened because God actually became man.
00:08:40.000I mean, again, to truly understand that, to understand that you have a ubiquitous, perfect God who then transforms, that actually becomes that of which is broken to save us from ourselves, that is a concept that is very difficult for human reason at times to wrap our hands around.
00:09:05.000This is why we have to be very clear about the long-term nature of the fight.
00:09:10.000This is why some people are calling for a new founding.
00:09:13.000Now, the idea of a new founding is that what's happened before is wonderful, but we have to now reassert our principles and say, now this is day zero or this is day one.
00:09:22.000There's actually something rather refreshing to it.
00:09:24.000You can almost discard the mistakes of generations past and chart a vision forward.
00:09:29.000As it says in the Bible, without a vision, the people perish.
00:10:02.000What we're experiencing is we're dealing with the same type of thing.
00:10:05.000When the founding fathers said, all men are created equal, what they meant is that all men are the same sort of thing, human beings, the speaking beings.
00:10:14.000By the way, anyone that tells you the founding fathers did not believe in God, why did they say that all men are created equal?
00:10:19.000Why didn't they say all men are equal?
00:10:22.000That word created has a lot of weight.
00:10:24.000That means that there is intent and design behind the human species.
00:10:32.000The founding fathers believe that you're here for a purpose.
00:10:36.000Then they go on to say the laws of nature and nature is God.
00:10:38.000God is mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence.
00:10:43.000Are you like every one of us that thinks our country has gone nuts, whether it's Russia Gate, market crashes, or selling oil to China, or this insane inflation?
00:10:52.000Well, right now, you need a financial mind who understands your concerns, but the same time as a Christian worldview of money.
00:10:58.000That's why you should talk to my friends at PAX Financial Group.
00:11:02.000Look, I've given my money to PAX Financial to manage.
00:11:04.000If it's good enough for me, I think it's good for you.
00:11:06.000Like all of us, they have concerns, but they also have hope.
00:11:09.000In this market, you must have a financial person who shares your hope and at the same time can help you with biblical responsible investing.
00:12:25.000You got to talk about harsh sentences.
00:12:27.000You got to talk about getting rid of bail reform.
00:12:29.000You got to talk about increasing police.
00:12:31.000You have to talk about patrolling streets.
00:12:34.000You have to talk about busting down doors of gangbangers.
00:12:37.000And what a great opportunity it would have been post-Mar-a-Lago raid for the Senate Republicans to come out and say, go do the cartels next.
00:12:47.000Go into the gangs in the inner city of Philadelphia.
00:12:50.000Now, right now, there is a Senate race happening in Pennsylvania.
00:12:55.000Polls show Dr. Oz down 18 points with Fetterman up massively.
00:13:01.000Now, I wish Fetterman a quick and speedy recovery.
00:13:04.000I don't make light of people's health issues, but Fetterman is a legitimately awful candidate right now.
00:13:09.000He could barely talk in coherent sentences.
00:13:24.000Well, it's because the most obvious issue is not being campaigned on in Pennsylvania, which is we're going to find every criminal, lock them up, and be unapologetic about it.
00:15:57.000Now, Mastriano, I think, will be able to properly message on this and talk about the increase of crime and do something about it.
00:16:06.000But man, we're going to lose these Senate races if all we're talking about is their way of setting the terms of engagement on abortion.
00:16:13.000We should be unapologetically pro-life, but we also must be honest that a lot of voters are not as pro-life as we are.
00:16:19.000So you have to be smart because I want to win.
00:16:21.000Number two, if we're going to talk about the issues they want to talk about, like Donald Trump and January 6th.
00:16:27.000And number three, if it just becomes a personality contest, they're going to win the Hollywood contest.
00:16:33.000But if we talk about crime, talk about immigration, you talk about the chemical castration of children, and we call ourselves the Parents Party.
00:21:53.000What she is describing, vomiting and shaking, if not having her phone, is no different than heroin or cocaine addicts, where the brain literally goes into a withdrawal mode.
00:22:06.000It is so deplete of dopaminergic function that it can only survive with the continuation and the consumption of the drug.
00:22:36.000No one can check their phones in three to four days.
00:22:39.000The clinical data shows it takes three to four days to begin the process of detoxification.
00:22:45.000Believe it or not, in three to four days, you can make an enormous amount of brain reset, especially if you're in nature, if you're away from the phone, you're away from otherwise stimulating objects.
00:22:56.000So I say this, you know, kids come up to me sometimes and say, Charlie, I'm so depressed.
00:23:00.000I'd say, maybe you are, but you're probably burned out.
00:23:06.000This device, without you realizing it, is destroying your body's ability to decipher reality from fiction and stimulant from normal.
00:23:19.000Remember, dopamine is a reward molecule in your brain.
00:23:22.000Dopamine, I believe God gave us dopamine to keep us going, to keep us going to the next thing.
00:23:29.000The problem, though, is, and these Silicon Valley serpents, these Silicon Valley masters of the universe knew exactly what they were doing.
00:23:37.000They manipulated neuroscience, especially in developing brains, to have you to continue to scroll unnecessarily.
00:23:44.000That literally overheats your entire operating system.
00:23:49.000It would be the equivalent of running a car going 130 miles an hour for five days straight.
00:24:35.000Depression and anxiety in a lot of different cases.
00:24:38.000Now, I'm not discounting that there's legitimate genetic and hereditary potential predisposition to this, but I believe a vast majority of this is imagination gone wrong.
00:25:05.000You are dealing with a primitive brain designed by God to survive in the wild, of which a stimulation might be a human conversation, a campfire, or a hunt.
00:25:18.000That's what we were designed to be able to intake.
00:25:21.000God designed us to survive in the wild.
00:25:24.000But now we throw our kids and we have these screens of which not only are they hyper-stimulating, there's someone on the back end of the screen that is intentionally prodding and provoking your dopaminergic response where you feel as if you need more of that drug and they're manipulating all the way through.
00:25:45.000Now, a lot of parents don't quite understand this.
00:25:50.000Now, data shows this, that you will see more attractive women or attractive men swiping on Instagram or single sites in 10 minutes versus 10 lifetimes 100 years ago.
00:26:02.000For young men, especially, that makes them feel rather depressed.
00:26:22.000Now, I could say this, by the way, as soon as I started limiting screen time and I started to spend more time in nature, my happiness increased dramatically.
00:26:31.000I can't imagine, though, how frustrating it must be.
00:26:34.000For parents, and they have 15 to 6 years old, why are you depressed all the time?
00:26:40.000Here's a couple other things that you could do, which is after maybe that three to four day trip to Boundary Waters or to go somewhere with no phone, that's when a new regime needs to be set in.
00:26:53.000So the three to four days the brain has reset, all of a sudden you're going to start to see more regular serotonin and dopamine type levels resurge.
00:27:05.000And then at that point, a new regime needs to be put forward where you need to have, you need to convince your daughter.
00:27:10.000Well, you don't have to convince her because you're the parent, but you could just say very clearly that this device is making you depressed and unhappy and not yourself.
00:27:18.000And we are going to do everything we can to create distance from that.
00:27:24.000That also includes, by the way, making sure young people are getting a steady and healthy dose of art, music, and literature that glorifies an objective standard.
00:27:44.000You need to be consuming information, books, and literature that glorifies something that is objectively true.
00:27:53.000Now, there's also exercise and all these other things.
00:27:56.000Now, I have a whole protocol that if people are really interested in my recommendations for people that are struggling with this, including doing something very, very hard every day, going through 25 active denials a day.
00:29:08.000And so to this mother that emailed me, I just want to implore you, read Comfort Crisis, listen to our program.
00:29:15.000There's a lot of different protocols that you can implement.
00:29:17.000But understand, resetting the brain, this is where you're going to have a difficult time.
00:29:21.000If you take that phone away and you do that trip to nature and you're already describing that, taking the phone away, she starts having vomiting and withdrawal.
00:29:27.000She's going to have drug addiction-like withdrawal symptoms.
00:30:05.000So there's so much more I can contribute to this, but I hope that's somewhat helpful.
00:30:09.000But I would retreat, put the phone away, create a new regime, try to reset the brain, find art, beauty, and literature that really glorifies something objective.
00:30:19.000Get away from all that nihilistic garbage.
00:30:21.000Those are just a couple points that I hope will help.
00:30:24.000Hey, Charlie, have you heard about the 9-11 museum closing?
00:30:27.000Interesting, the New York City government chooses to house illegal immigrants, but not fund a museum that honors the death of thousands of Americans.
00:31:02.000I was like, oh my goodness, there's no way they're closing it.
00:31:04.000And I said, and I thought to myself, no way.
00:31:06.000I read the article and all the way at the bottom of the CNN article that I was reading was, oh, by the way, this is different than the official 9-11 Memorial Museum.
00:31:15.000So just want to make sure that's clear for everybody.
00:31:17.000The media did such a disservice because people say they're closing where it actually, no, they're not.
00:31:22.000They're closing a tribute museum that, yes, does have artifacts.
00:31:25.000It does have legit stuff, but it's not the official one, the one that many of you have probably visited, which I think is one of the most moving, spectacular, would you agree, Connor, spectacular museums and tributes on the planet.
00:32:58.000I then started laughing and went on to explain that Blake Masters actually won the primary and is the Republican nominee to face Democrat Mark Kelly in the general.
00:33:45.000Properly inform people because the RNC does not have the conservatives' best interest right now.
00:33:48.000Now, I don't know if that's the RNC or an organization that kind of pretended they have the RNC, but this email from Kevin seems pretty firm that it is from the RNC.
00:33:56.000So, look, a lot of people are talking about in great numbers.
00:34:02.000They're emailing us freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:34:04.000Is it really true that this fundraising gap is immense?