The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 22: Lessons in Radicalism, Philosophy, American History, And How To Stand Up To Leftist Bullies

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00:02:02.000 So if I read your question off, you guys win a free copy, a free signed copy of the New York Times bestseller, The MAGA Doctrine, if I select your question.

00:02:15.000 Here's the first question.

00:02:16.000 Hey, Charlie, I've heard you mention Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals before. 0.84

00:02:22.000 What are they?

00:02:23.000 I'm kind of confused as to how the rules apply to what's happening in the news cycle and what I can learn from them.

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00:02:31.000 Alan from Oklahoma.

00:02:33.000 Well, thanks, Alan.

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00:02:41.000 So The Rules for Radicals, it was a book written by Saul Olinski.

00:02:45.000 Saul Olinski was a Chicago community organizer.

00:02:48.000 He trained Barack Obama.

00:02:49.000 Hillary Clinton wrote her senior thesis on Saul Olinsky.

00:02:52.000 Rules for Radicals is one of the most instructive and important books of the left.

00:02:57.000 It really lays the foundation of how the left operates, why they do what they do, and how they're able to achieve their version and their demented version of success.

00:03:06.000 So I encourage you to check out our sister episode today where I dive into this in great detail, but I'm going to list all 13 rules.

00:03:12.000 I think that it's important that repetition is the soul of memory, that we go through them one by one so you recognize exactly what the left is doing to our country in real time.

00:03:21.000 They are using so many of these rules right now to take down our history, to pollute our heritage, to communicate to the next generation things that are patently untrue.

00:03:32.000 So here are the Rules for Radicals by Saul Olinski.

00:03:34.000 Remember, Saul Olinski actually wrote the dedication to his book, Rules for Radicals, to Lucifer, saying to the first rebel, the first fallen angel who rebelled against God.

00:03:44.000 So this book is Luciferian in nature because it's dedicated to Lucifer.

00:03:50.000 Okay, the first rule.

00:03:52.000 Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.

00:03:57.000 That's interesting.

00:03:58.000 It's not just what you have, but it's the appearance of power.

00:04:01.000 This should give those of us that are constitutionalists or conservatives some optimism that maybe the left is making themselves seem a lot more powerful than they really are.

00:04:09.000 In fact, that is rule number one.

00:04:11.000 Rule number one is power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.

00:04:16.000 So maybe the left isn't as strong as we give them credit for.

00:04:18.000 Maybe the left is not as sophisticated.

00:04:22.000 But boy, does it seem as if they're doing so much damage to our country with so few people that are standing against them.

00:04:28.000 Rule number two: never go outside the expertise of your people.

00:04:33.000 That's a very important rule to recognize that what the left does.

00:04:36.000 They try to keep the activists that are talking about police brutality specifically on the issue of police brutality.

00:04:42.000 They don't try to have them go on television and talk about corporate tax reform.

00:04:45.000 Rule number two is violated by one of the people on the Minneapolis City Council where she said, Well, even asking the question about breaking into a home is you showing your white privilege play tape.

00:04:56.000 Do you understand that the word dismantle or police-free also makes some people nervous?

00:05:02.000 For instance, what if in the middle of the night my home is broken into?

00:05:07.000 Who do I call?

00:05:10.000 Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors.

00:05:14.000 And I know, and myself too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality where calling the police may mean more harm is done.

00:05:32.000 So, that Minneapolis city council member was way outside of her own expertise.

00:05:36.000 The left, they say this is one of their rules, but they go outside of their rules quite often.

00:05:42.000 Now, remember, this list is not just suggestions.

00:05:45.000 If you know the list of these 13 commandments, now we as Bible-believing conservatives have the 10 commandments and the teachings of Jesus Christ.

00:05:53.000 These are their teachings.

00:05:54.000 This is how they effectuate social change.

00:05:58.000 Rule number three: wherever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.

00:06:03.000 So, always try to make us go off our turf.

00:06:06.000 Make us talk about issues that we are a little bit less literate in, not as well-versed in, that we're a little uncomfortable talking about.

00:06:13.000 So, for example, they're doing this so well right now.

00:06:17.000 Conservatives and Republicans have no comfort at all whatsoever to talk about issues in regards to race.

00:06:24.000 And we'll talk about that later in the show on some of the other issues and questions we've gotten around that topic.

00:06:29.000 But conservatives and Republicans are very uncomfortable talking about police brutality, the Black Lives Matter movement.

00:06:36.000 Is there white privilege?

00:06:37.000 In fact, they get really nervous.

00:06:38.000 Their knees get wobbly.

00:06:40.000 The left is so good at saying, We are going to take you off of your terrain that you're comfortable talking about, which is free markets or the Constitution, and we're going to make you talk about race.

00:06:51.000 Conservatives don't like that.

00:06:52.000 Conservatives are not well versed in that.

00:06:54.000 In fact, some CEOs of conservative organizations have even written op-eds saying that America is a systemically racist country.

00:07:02.000 It's a pathological lie.

00:07:04.000 It's totally and completely untrue.

00:07:07.000 Rule number four: make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

00:07:12.000 The left does this so well.

00:07:13.000 The radicals make us live up to things that we've said previously.

00:07:18.000 For example, they make us live up to things that we talk about all the time.

00:07:23.000 We say opportunity, we say freedom, we say make America great again. 0.53

00:07:29.000 Or maybe what the left might do is they might go to a Christian community, they might say, Well, one of your core teachings is help the least of these.

00:07:36.000 Therefore, don't you believe that we should do more to help the black community?

00:07:40.000 And of course, we should do more to help all people that are in need: black Americans, white Americans, Hispanic Americans.

00:07:45.000 We should go out of our way to rebuild the family.

00:07:49.000 We should go out of our way to rebuild value in all communities.

00:07:53.000 However, helping people might not mean giving them more government money.

00:07:57.000 In fact, I think the best way to help people is not to grow government, but is to empower people.

00:08:02.000 It's not to give them free stuff.

00:08:03.000 It's not to take from other people and redistribute it through some government bureaucracy, but instead to rebuild the core family.

00:08:11.000 However, they make us live up to our own book of rules.

00:08:15.000 One of our rules is we say, well, the truth really matters.

00:08:18.000 And they say, how can you say the truth matters when this politician on this day said something untrue?

00:08:24.000 They make us live up to our own book of rules.

00:08:27.000 Rule number five, ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

00:08:30.000 Man, does the left do this better than almost any other group of political activists I've ever seen.

00:08:37.000 They mercilessly ridicule people they disagree with.

00:08:41.000 They go after conservatives and they hawk them, they shame them, and they ridicule them relentlessly.

00:08:49.000 You saw the president of the United States had a rally in Tulsa.

00:08:52.000 It was a very big success.

00:08:53.000 There were some portions of the stadium that were not full.

00:08:55.000 And the left went after Trump.

00:08:58.000 Personally, it went after the Trump campaign.

00:09:00.000 The ridicule that the left uses, it's hard to go up against unless you punch back twice as hard.

00:09:06.000 That's one of the reasons why the president has been so effective.

00:09:09.000 Rule number six is a good tactic is one your people enjoy.

00:09:14.000 So a tactic would be burning down buildings.

00:09:17.000 I guess certain people on the radical left enjoy burning down American cities or stealing TVs in Long Beach, California.

00:09:25.000 You could fill it, you can fill in the gaps however you wish.

00:09:27.000 But a good tactic is one that gets your people fired up, that gets your organizers really focused on material social change.

00:09:36.000 A good tactic is not one that your people dread going to organize, Solinsky would also talk about.

00:09:42.000 It's not one where they wake up and they say, oh boy, we have to go do this today.

00:09:45.000 Instead, it's we are going to go protest outside of this person's house and we're going to follow them using ridicule and we're going to enjoy it.

00:09:52.000 We're going to throw bricks through a window because we enjoy that.

00:09:55.000 I know this might sound very dark to you, but this is exactly the rules that the left operates from.

00:10:00.000 Number seven, a tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

00:10:05.000 So if you're throwing too many bricks through too many windows, it could become a drag on your cause.

00:10:11.000 The tactics must have the perfect amount of time.

00:10:13.000 It can't be too long, can't be too short.

00:10:16.000 This is a very interesting one that's happening right now.

00:10:18.000 Rule number eight, according to Solinsky: keep the pressure on.

00:10:24.000 The left believes that they must have a full court press, to use basketball terms, and boy, do I miss watching basketball, but they must have a full court press against those of us that believe in the Constitution and believe in conservative values.

00:10:40.000 That there's no space for compromise, that there's no space for us to come up for air.

00:10:44.000 They are trying to metaphorically waterboard the entire conservative movement right now till we call up for mercy.

00:10:52.000 They are trying to suffocate the conservative movement around taking down statues, protesting people you disagree with, getting corporations to relent to their demands, getting corporations to donate through almost forms of extortion right now.

00:11:06.000 Keep the pressure on is rule number eight in the rules for radicals by Saulinsky.

00:11:10.000 And right now, we see that happening more so than almost any other rule in America of the rules of Solinsky.

00:11:17.000 Rule number nine, the threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

00:11:23.000 So the things that they're threatening right now against us, it's actually probably more terrifying what we conjure up in our head than actually what they're going to do to us.

00:11:31.000 The threat when they say they're going to come into suburban America and burn down suburban homes, the threat is probably worse than actually what's going to materialize.

00:11:39.000 But they play games in our heads.

00:11:41.000 They play games in the heads of conservatives and mainstream Americans.

00:11:45.000 There's some other rules that Solinsky talks about at the end, but they don't make the 13.

00:11:49.000 I'm going to get to them in a second.

00:11:51.000 Rule number 10.

00:11:52.000 It's a little bit more of a complicated one.

00:11:53.000 The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain pressure.

00:11:59.000 So basically, there should never be a tactic that is created that does not allow you to keep the pressure on.

00:12:06.000 Protesting outside of someone's house.

00:12:08.000 Corporate boycotts.

00:12:10.000 Taking over corporate boardrooms. 1.00

00:12:12.000 Solinsky would be so proud right now.

00:12:14.000 All of his rules are happening in real time.

00:12:17.000 All of his rules are being used by the most aggressive, dedicated, foaming-at-the-mouth Marxist radicals, and they're being implemented every single day.

00:12:28.000 His rules are being followed more so than the Ten Commandments right now in the American left.

00:12:33.000 Rule number 11, if you push a negative hard enough, it will break through to the counterside as a positive.

00:12:39.000 Defund the police.

00:12:40.000 Defund the police.

00:12:41.000 Starts as a negative.

00:12:42.000 All of a sudden, it becomes a positive.

00:12:44.000 Becomes something that actually becomes law.

00:12:46.000 Rule number 12, the price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

00:12:52.000 So actually, talk about something that on the other side could become something you can build. 0.82

00:12:59.000 So you're going to attack Bible believers for believing in God?

00:13:03.000 Well, the attack can't just be against them as Bible believers.

00:13:07.000 It has to be, well, what's the alternative? 0.64

00:13:09.000 Maybe a world without any sin or suffering.

00:13:12.000 You just give us control.

00:13:13.000 Rule number 13, this is the one that's probably in place more so than any other rule in American discourse and American political strategy right now.

00:13:23.000 Pick the target.

00:13:24.000 Freeze it.

00:13:25.000 Personalize it and polarize it.

00:13:28.000 They picked the police, the Black Lives Matter radicals, the anti-American Black Lives Matter radicals, picked the target a couple years ago.

00:13:36.000 They said the police are the barrier for us from fundamentally destroying and fundamentally taking down America.

00:13:43.000 They picked the target.

00:13:44.000 They froze it.

00:13:45.000 The police are the problem, but they needed a character.

00:13:49.000 Personalize it.

00:13:50.000 Derek Chauvin was the perfect personalization and the personification of the evil that they believe that the police embody.

00:13:57.000 And finally, they polarize it.

00:14:00.000 Make it so that no one could possibly associate with Derek Chauvin and the Minneapolis Police Department.

00:14:06.000 Spread that singular polarization to the entire society.

00:14:11.000 Spread it to everyone that might dare speak in support of the police, that dare speak in support of law enforcement.

00:14:20.000 Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it.

00:14:22.000 Rule number eight, keep the pressure on.

00:14:25.000 You put these together.

00:14:26.000 Rule number five, eight, and 13 are the ones that are happening more so than any of these other rules.

00:14:31.000 They're all happening right now, but they're not all happening equally.

00:14:34.000 Rule number five, ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

00:14:37.000 Rule number eight, they keep the pressure on, that pressure campaign.

00:14:40.000 Rule number 13, pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

00:14:43.000 If you know the rules of the left, then you're able to fight them successfully.

00:14:47.000 See, I'm a student of the American left because I've been fighting these people for eight years.

00:14:51.000 I've been fighting them since 2012.

00:14:53.000 I've seen how the left went from a mainstream operation within the Democrat Party when they elected Barack Obama to becoming a fringe during the early years of President Trump, then getting back into the mainstream and turning the mainstream of the Democrat Party even more radical than they ever have before.

00:15:08.000 I've been run out of restaurants by Antifa.

00:15:10.000 I've been followed in the street by Antifa.

00:15:12.000 I've received death threats from the radical left that I've had to file police reports behind.

00:15:17.000 I understand these people.

00:15:19.000 I know how they communicate.

00:15:19.000 I know how they operate.

00:15:21.000 I know what drives them.

00:15:22.000 And that question I get a lot is, Charlie, what do they want?

00:15:25.000 What's their end game?

00:15:27.000 You are assuming as if they want something constructive.

00:15:30.000 For them, seeing the flames is satisfying enough.

00:15:34.000 The arson, the burning, the destruction gives them fulfillment.

00:15:40.000 Now remember, I did a previous episode on this a couple before, and I encourage you to go back in the archives of the Charlie Kirk show and take a listen.

00:15:46.000 Back in the archives, you'll listen to one of the episodes where I talk about how they don't want to build.

00:15:51.000 The left has never built anything.

00:15:52.000 The left only destroys. 0.60

00:15:53.000 The left, in its most basic form, is a virus.

00:15:58.000 It's a virus that takes over healthy hosts.

00:16:02.000 And we were convinced that this virus would be more like a radioactive spill that we could contain on college campuses, but it's spread.

00:16:12.000 It's metastasized.

00:16:13.000 It's grown to a troubling extent.

00:16:15.000 And it's infected every single portion of American society, from the church to corporate America.

00:16:21.000 They destroyed the family to mass media to Hollywood.

00:16:24.000 And these rules that I just articulated are the rules that they operate on.

00:16:28.000 However, Saul Linsky would not be proud about one of the things that's happening right now in America.

00:16:33.000 One of Saulinsky's most famous quote, he said, a true radical is not someone who marches in the streets and breaks windows and starts fires.

00:16:42.000 He said, a true radical is someone who wakes up every single day, shaves, showers, slicks back his hair, puts on a three-piece suit, and goes to work. 0.55

00:16:52.000 Saul Linsky believed that a true Olinskyite pretended to be something that they were not.

00:16:59.000 That they were not the torchbearer in the street, that they were not the revolutionary committed to social change.

00:17:05.000 But a true radical was someone that infiltrated pre-existing bureaucracies, that infiltrated pre-existing infrastructure, that tried to destroy things from within, that tried to target, isolate very specific things that were vulnerable within a capitalist Western society.

00:17:22.000 Saw Linsky was also a very big believer in not destroying the symbology of a country you were trying to take over.

00:17:29.000 Don't destroy the American flag.

00:17:32.000 Embrace the American flag.

00:17:33.000 Don't burn the history of the country you're trying to take over.

00:17:36.000 Say that you're on the actual side of that history.

00:17:39.000 You see, what's happening right now in America is the first time we see a full-fledged Marxist-communist movement.

00:17:45.000 That movement actually is against the country they're trying to take over.

00:17:48.000 The Russians, the Cubans, the Chinese, and the Italians, any collectivist statist movement is almost always pro the nation they're trying to take over.

00:17:56.000 They're actually against the country they're trying to take over.

00:17:59.000 Now, the minute the Marxists realize that all they have to do is be nationalist Marxists, forget it.

00:18:05.000 That combination is going to result in a very, very dangerous equation for those of us that are conservatives and American patriots.

00:18:14.000 The Marxists use these rules.

00:18:16.000 They implement them.

00:18:18.000 They live by them.

00:18:20.000 They honor them.

00:18:22.000 In some ways, they worship them.

00:18:23.000 In a lot of ways, this is almost a pseudo-religion of the left.

00:18:28.000 In many ways, the left is so hyper-focused on these rules and on destruction.

00:18:33.000 There's no way they could be looking at what to build or what to be productive in society.

00:18:39.000 Know these 13 rules.

00:18:40.000 Rules for radicals.

00:18:41.000 Rule number 8, 13, and 5 are the ones that they're doing most now.

00:18:46.000 Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

00:18:48.000 Keep the pressure on.

00:18:49.000 Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

00:18:53.000 Thanks for the question.

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00:19:00.000 This question is from Otto in Florida.

00:19:03.000 What a fun name, Otto.

00:19:04.000 I had some friends growing up named Otto.

00:19:06.000 He says, Charlie, I've heard you mention John Locke before and Thomas Hobbes.

00:19:10.000 I'm a little confused who they were and the significance to the creation of America.

00:19:14.000 Thanks so much, Otto.

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00:19:29.000 So John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, they were two of the most formative thinkers of the 1600s.

00:19:36.000 Thomas Hobbes had a completely different application of some of the same admittances that John Locke also had.

00:19:44.000 So Thomas Hobbes was writing a little bit before John Locke.

00:19:49.000 John Locke was probably the most instructive, important, influential writer to the American Revolution.

00:19:56.000 Whereas Thomas Hobbes, some of his analysis of human behavior and what he called the state of nature was instructive to the American founding, but the application of it, not at all.

00:20:07.000 So let's start with Thomas Hobbes.

00:20:08.000 Thomas Hobbes, he wrote the Leviathan.

00:20:10.000 And if you actually read the book of Job in the Bible, it mentions a Leviathan a couple times.

00:20:15.000 A Leviathan is a sea monster.

00:20:17.000 So understand Thomas Hobbes, he got his upbringing during the English Civil War.

00:20:22.000 He saw brutality and violence and civil conflict, the likes of which most human beings will never experience.

00:20:29.000 Thomas Hobbes believed in the absence of an invisible absolute ruler, we would all kill each other.

00:20:35.000 So Thomas Hobbes, his analysis of human beings, I think, was pretty spot on.

00:20:39.000 In fact, Thomas Hobbes agreed with Calvin, John Calvin, who of course was one of the original rebels, who was the, let's just say, the father of Calvinism and Presbyterianism and all the different skews of that.

00:20:53.000 And actually, interestingly enough, John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes, Calvin and Hobbes, you guys ever hear of that cartoon series?

00:20:58.000 That's actually where it comes from because they both had the same analysis and agreement in human behavior.

00:21:03.000 And so I saw an acronym on the web at one time, and I looked it up in reference to this question where it said S-P-N-B-S, which is kind of how Thomas Hobbes analyzed human behavior.

00:21:15.000 And I agree with a lot of this.

00:21:16.000 He said that human beings in the state of nature were solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and life was short.

00:21:22.000 I agree with a lot of that.

00:21:23.000 And by the way, the biblical reference is in Job 41.

00:21:26.000 If you guys think your life is going bad, read the book of Job.

00:21:29.000 That should be a shot in the arm of positivity and optimism for the world.

00:21:32.000 Now, mind you, Hobbes, because of his analysis of human behavior and because of what he saw in the state of nature, he wanted a totalitarian leader to prevent us from destroying each other.

00:21:43.000 And so he thought human beings were so broken, so awful by nature, his idea of a social contract, not the Rousseauan social contract.

00:21:51.000 People wrote about social contract before Rousseau wrote the book Social Contract, so I don't want to blur those two lines.

00:21:58.000 Hobbes then applied his analysis of human nature, saying we must have a total autocratic, tyrannical government because human beings are so awful and they're just going to tear each other to shreds.

00:22:07.000 John Locke came a little bit after Thomas Hobbes, but overlapped in history, right around the same time, he really wrote on three big things.

00:22:15.000 Education, how we should be ruled, and the importance of diversity of opinion and religion.

00:22:21.000 Now, the first thing, let's just start with the last one.

00:22:22.000 John Locke talked about how we must be tolerant of other people's opinions.

00:22:28.000 This was in direct contradiction to the divine rights of kings.

00:22:32.000 Now, mind you, he thought that religion was a personal choice, and he really said that we must have tolerance for other people's opinion.

00:22:40.000 That idea of tolerance was actually straight from John Locke, interestingly enough.

00:22:44.000 So John Locke's most famous writings, though, was around individual rights.

00:22:49.000 I could categorize John Locke under the category of philosophical constitutionalism.

00:22:54.000 He came up with this idea of natural rights.

00:22:56.000 So he did agree with Thomas Hobbes in man in the state of nature.

00:23:02.000 He totally disagreed at the application of what you do with that.

00:23:06.000 He did believe that people were generally solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short in the state of nature.

00:23:12.000 Now, mind you, Thomas Hobbes and his analysis of people in the state of nature is directly in contradiction with the Rousseauian idea of the people in the state of nature.

00:23:20.000 Hobbes thought that people were naturally brutish and awful, and this is actually totally congruent with the idea of original sin, that man is so awful at birth, and because of that, we must have a total autocrat.

00:23:34.000 Terrible application, correct analysis.

00:23:37.000 So when I say Hobbes was right, I mean that he was right in how he viewed people in the state of nature.

00:23:42.000 Now, here's the best way I can kind of divide this.

00:23:45.000 Hobbes believed that fear must be a guiding motivator to how we build the government.

00:23:52.000 People are most likely to operate around fear, and therefore we must submit those rights.

00:23:57.000 John Locke believed freedom must be protected.

00:24:01.000 Therefore, we must protect those rights.

00:24:03.000 So, John Locke wrote a lot.

00:24:05.000 He wrote in 1693 about education.

00:24:07.000 It was actually one of the most important and instructive writings around this thing, around this idea called the association of ideas.

00:24:13.000 This is really where we get the idea of elementary education, three and four and five-year-olds saying that the younger the education is actually the most important to the philosophical and moral foundations.

00:24:25.000 John Locke used the Bible.

00:24:26.000 It was actually biblical constitutionalism of how he found justification for the ideas of why he believed what he believed.

00:24:34.000 And so, John Locke kind of embarked on what is the origin of government?

00:24:38.000 What should government actually do?

00:24:40.000 Now, this actually might sound very familiar because it is familiar to you.

00:24:44.000 John Locke thought that government should protect life, protect liberty, and protect property.

00:24:49.000 Sound familiar?

00:24:50.000 Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:24:53.000 Thomas Jefferson edited it.

00:24:54.000 Actually, in the original drafts of the Declaration, he did have property, but he didn't want to be accused of plagiarism when it came to John Locke.

00:25:01.000 Now, mind you, John Locke is probably the most instructive, important philosopher of the 1600s on until the American founding.

00:25:08.000 The American founders found so much wisdom in John Locke for good reason.

00:25:13.000 He said that you should not be ruled by a monarch, that there actually might be limited government, and the people have the right of revolution.

00:25:20.000 In fact, it is government's role to protect rights.

00:25:23.000 And you had these religious colonies founding in America, and this was music to their ears. 0.76

00:25:28.000 They said, wait a second, we can start a government that protects rights. 0.96

00:25:31.000 It's limited.

00:25:32.000 We can live freely, and if we don't like it, we can overthrow it.

00:25:35.000 Where do I sign up for that?

00:25:37.000 Now, mind you, John Locke didn't get everything absolutely correct, but it's hard for me to find anything that he wrote that I categorically disagree with.

00:25:46.000 Thomas Hobbes got a lot right on his analysis of human behavior because he saw people tearing each other to shreds, literally.

00:25:54.000 But his application of it was used by tyrants all across the 1700s, 1800s, and 1900s.

00:26:00.000 And so Thomas Hobbes and John Locke are two very important people to study.

00:26:03.000 If you want to learn more about the foundations of America and where we get these ideas from, John Locke and the Bible are probably the two most important places to look.

00:26:13.000 Adam Smith as well, but Adam Smith didn't come until like 100 years after John Locke.

00:26:18.000 John Locke was part of the Scottish Enlightenment.

00:26:20.000 He started the Scottish Enlightenment.

00:26:21.000 I'm a proud Scott, by the way.

00:26:23.000 I'm proud to be originally from Scotland.

00:26:25.000 My bloodline, Kirk, means church.

00:26:27.000 I think everyone should be proud from where they're from.

00:26:29.000 Stop this nonsense about apologizing for your bloodline.

00:26:34.000 It's awful. 0.99

00:26:35.000 It's anti-Christian. 0.97

00:26:35.000 It's anti-biblical. 0.97

00:26:36.000 I'm proud to be from Scotland originally. 1.00

00:26:39.000 You should be proud of that.

00:26:40.000 There's so much good that came from Scotland, including the idea of natural rights, individual liberty, property, the sanctuary of the individual, and all of Western society.

00:26:49.000 So that's a little bit of a crash course on Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.

00:26:52.000 I hope that's helpful to you.

00:26:54.000 And now, mind you, I do want to give Thomas Hobbes a little bit more handicap.

00:27:00.000 He did write this in the midst of a civil war.

00:27:03.000 He did believe in absolute authority, but he did that out of his own fear that he thought human beings would not be able to participate in self-government.

00:27:09.000 John Locke deserved credit because he went as far as to say, what if?

00:27:14.000 What if human beings could be generally moral, generally in the right direction of trying to improve themselves?

00:27:21.000 Create a government that is limited and people can be free.

00:27:24.000 God bless you, John Locke.

00:27:26.000 We enjoy what's left of the American experiment, largely thanks to you.

00:27:29.000 Let's get to the next question again.

00:27:31.000 All of the people that are selected get a free book.

00:27:34.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:27:35.000 Email me your questions, freedom atcharleykirk.com.

00:27:38.000 This is Scott from Arkansas who says, hey, Charlie, my high school teacher says that we have to be ashamed for being American.

00:27:45.000 I'm currently studying American history, and I don't know what to make of it because my teacher is so vehemently anti-American.

00:27:53.000 What do I do?

00:27:54.000 Love your show.

00:27:54.000 Thanks so much.

00:27:55.000 So look, the American founding is intentionally misrepresented by the American left.

00:28:01.000 The more I study it, the more I realize the courage, the conviction that it took for the first American presidents just to keep this entire experiment together.

00:28:11.000 Did you know that in 1777, Vermont, the first state to abolish slavery, did so out of inspiration from the signing of the Declaration of Independence?

00:28:20.000 So it was actually after the American founding, right after, that inspired the abolition of slavery, not the continuation of slavery.

00:28:28.000 Not defending the evil sin.

00:28:30.000 I'm simply talking about factually how long it took America to remove that sin from our country.

00:28:38.000 You look at the early presidents, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Henry Harrison, and John Tyler, but specifically Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, the first five presidents.

00:28:51.000 They were all different in their own way.

00:28:53.000 Washington, of course, was a war hero, and he was really wrestling with how to create a government.

00:28:59.000 In 1787, there was actually a huge debate in the Constitutional Convention of how do we actually choose a president?

00:29:06.000 Now, Washington, God bless him, and they're taking down his statue right now.

00:29:10.000 And any history teacher in the country that does not teach this history is doing an immoral service to their students.

00:29:18.000 It is simply and totally immoral not to teach the beauty of America to our own citizens.

00:29:26.000 It actually gives me physical pain to know that there are children in our own country that are being taught to hate America.

00:29:32.000 That's why when you guys support us at charliekirk.com slash support, we have dozens of new contributors.

00:29:38.000 Thank you for that.

00:29:38.000 God bless you for that.

00:29:40.000 Because it helps our show keep going to reach hundreds of thousands of young people.

00:29:43.000 We are reaching millions and millions of downloads on this podcast every single month.

00:29:48.000 And most of them are young people that are actually going to us for their source of news.

00:29:52.000 So thank you for that.

00:29:53.000 So George Washington rejected the idea of becoming a king or a monarch.

00:29:57.000 In fact, there was a huge debate in the beginning stages of the country whether or not they should call the president His Highness or Your Highness.

00:30:06.000 Instead, they settled on His Excellency.

00:30:09.000 And eventually, by Thomas Jefferson, they called him Mr. President.

00:30:14.000 Now, mind you, George Washington had to kind of create a cabinet around him.

00:30:18.000 And here's a good question.

00:30:20.000 Why don't we have more cinema?

00:30:22.000 Why don't we have more movies around these American founders, these heroes, these giants that did so much for our country?

00:30:28.000 It's interesting.

00:30:29.000 I know there's some here and there, and there was an Adams series, but not nearly enough at all.

00:30:34.000 Thomas Jefferson was Secretary of State for George Washington.

00:30:38.000 There were some huge court decisions that eventually came through where we established judicial review.

00:30:43.000 But the vice president for George Washington was John Adams, who actually ended up becoming the second president of the United States.

00:30:51.000 The capital of the United States was first in New York.

00:30:53.000 It would move to Philadelphia, and eventually they brought it down to Washington, D.C.

00:30:57.000 Now, mind you, what really set the precedent for presidents was when George Washington decided to serve only two terms.

00:31:02.000 Now, mind you, that precedent was basically followed until Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who served three terms, elected to a fourth and died in the fourth.

00:31:11.000 And eventually we passed the 22nd Amendment in 1951, I believe it was, that's right, yeah, 1951, which prohibited any president to serve more than two terms.

00:31:20.000 And by the way, if we have term limits for our presidents, why don't we have term limits for our members of Congress?

00:31:25.000 And mind you, one of the interesting things that the founders actually never thought that we would have political parties.

00:31:29.000 They never actually thought we'd get into different buckets or brackets.

00:31:32.000 They thought there'd be factions and they warned against them, but within a couple of years, we had political parties.

00:31:36.000 We had Hamilton running the Federalists and Jefferson running the Anti-Federalists.

00:31:40.000 Now, mind you, in 1793, one of my most favorite things happened.

00:31:43.000 If you don't know this history because a teacher did not teach you this history, then shame on the teacher.

00:31:48.000 I encourage you guys to pour into American history.

00:31:50.000 Read the biographies.

00:31:51.000 They're trying to delete our history right now.

00:31:53.000 They're trying to destroy our country from within.

00:31:55.000 It makes me so proud to be an American.

00:31:56.000 And as we get closer to July 4th, I hope that you guys spend hours of reading about Washington and Adams and Jefferson and Madison and Monroe, Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Henry Harrison, Tyler, Lincoln, Grant, you name it.

00:32:08.000 The statues they're trying to take town.

00:32:10.000 Know what they did.

00:32:10.000 Know the history.

00:32:11.000 Know what they did right.

00:32:12.000 Know what they did wrong.

00:32:13.000 Understand the moral governance that they fought for.

00:32:16.000 But in 1793, George Washington declared us neutral from the French European War.

00:32:22.000 This is a really big deal because it really set a precedent that we were not going to get involved in European squabbles and allowed America to flourish.

00:32:29.000 One of my favorite things that I believe happened in 1794, I recently did a kind of a couple-hour study on this, was when George Washington summoned federal troops to stop a whiskey tax rebellion in western Pennsylvania.

00:32:41.000 Sound familiar?

00:32:42.000 When you have insurrection within your own country?

00:32:45.000 Now, finally, when 1796 rolled around, we finally parties were formed, and we had the Federalists and the Democrat Republicans.

00:32:52.000 So the Federalists and Anti-Federalists, they kind of rebranded themselves a little bit.

00:32:56.000 John Adams became president.

00:32:58.000 He had an amazing resume.

00:32:59.000 He did help write the Declaration of Independence.

00:33:01.000 He put James Monroe, who ended up being the fifth president as a diplomat to try to end this foreign intervention into our own country.

00:33:09.000 And Adams, he passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which were met with a little bit of hostility.

00:33:14.000 And they said, yeah, that First Amendment thing, I don't know if we're really going to live by that.

00:33:17.000 And said, if you write anything against our country, we're going to come after you.

00:33:20.000 By 1801, Thomas Jefferson became the third president.

00:33:23.000 Of course, he had some very strong opinions.

00:33:26.000 He was an architect and actually lost the bid to design the White House.

00:33:30.000 One of the most important things happened under this idea of judicial review.

00:33:33.000 You had Chief Justice Marshall, Marbury versus Madison, which was a huge collision of federal oversight through the Supreme Court.

00:33:40.000 And finally, by the fourth president, James Madison, we had the War of 1812, which almost brought down the entire country as we know it.

00:33:48.000 The first lady, Dolly Madison, was kind of invented the first lady role, prevented the portrait of George Washington from actually being destroyed.

00:33:56.000 There's over 2,000 Americans that were killed in the War of 1812, but God makes bad things work for good.

00:34:01.000 War of 1812, what was the good thing?

00:34:03.000 People no longer viewed themselves primarily as Virginians or North Carolinians or Pennsylvanians.

00:34:08.000 Instead, they viewed themselves as Americans.

00:34:12.000 That history right there is just a beautiful snapshot.

00:34:14.000 There's complexity, there's depth.

00:34:16.000 You should be proud of your history.

00:34:17.000 From our founding, we established an ideal that we did not even necessarily live up to: that all men are created equal, equal under law, not equal of outcome.

00:34:28.000 Equal under law, then equal of opportunity, never equal of outcome.

00:34:31.000 Remember that.

00:34:31.000 Equal under the law, then we can try to establish equal of opportunity, which is very hard.

00:34:35.000 Never equal outcome.

00:34:38.000 You try to have equal outcome, that is wrong.

00:34:40.000 It is dangerous.

00:34:41.000 It is against how human beings were made in the image of God.

00:34:44.000 Equal opportunity, if it can be achieved in some sense, is moral and good.

00:34:49.000 Equal under law is necessary and moral.

00:34:53.000 We have a beautiful country, everybody.

00:34:54.000 Know the history.

00:34:56.000 Know what the founding fathers wrote about, what they dreamed about.

00:35:00.000 They went through so much to found this republic.

00:35:02.000 So much.

00:35:04.000 They were inspired by the Bible.

00:35:05.000 They were inspired by John Locke.

00:35:07.000 And the writings of the founders need to be understood and the sacrifices they made in the most infant stages of America, especially as we come up on July 4th, and even more so as they try to burn down our country from within.

00:35:18.000 This is Rebecca from New Mexico.

00:35:20.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:35:21.000 Thank you so much for what you do.

00:35:22.000 I'm constantly surrounded by people who believe the lies of the left, people who are very close to me.

00:35:26.000 It breaks my heart, but they are so stubborn.

00:35:28.000 Anyways, listening to you and others in the Turning Point family really encourages me and gives me hope.

00:35:32.000 You're also a reminder: I am not alone.

00:35:34.000 Please keep it up.

00:35:35.000 Anyways, I have a question about the model minority that supposedly is a tactic of white supremacists when people talk about how Asians are the wealthiest.

00:35:35.000 Thank you.

00:35:43.000 Thank you, Rebecca.

00:35:43.000 What are your thoughts?

00:35:44.000 Well, first of all, I always reject this categorically. 0.61

00:35:47.000 It's either Asian Americans are the richest group per race in America or they're not.

00:35:51.000 It's either you're going to take the data on its face value or you're not.

00:35:56.000 So mind you, there's this article that was written in the LA Times by Sky Lee, who's an Asian American, and she says this.

00:36:01.000 I'm going to debunk a lot of this.

00:36:03.000 She says, model minority sets up Asian Americans on a pedestal above all ethnic minorities by pointing out that the success of a race proved the American dream is achievable for everyone as long as they work hard enough.

00:36:13.000 That's not totally true.

00:36:14.000 I'm editing now.

00:36:15.000 I'm editorializing.

00:36:17.000 It's not all hard work.

00:36:18.000 It's not.

00:36:18.000 I'll tell you why in a second.

00:36:20.000 Although diligence can result in rewards, to some extent, model minority, quote, downplays racism and dismisses claims of white privilege.

00:36:26.000 Okay, so Sky Lee is totally wrong here, first of all, because those of us that debunk white privilege, the first thing we talk about is not how many hours worked.

00:36:35.000 It's actually the family you come from, whether or not you have a two-parent household or not.

00:36:39.000 So that's completely different than how hard you work.

00:36:41.000 Yes, meritocracy or the input you put into something matters.

00:36:46.000 However, the hierarchy of which you are able to rise or fall in is mostly a byproduct of a two-parent household.

00:36:54.000 It is the number one indicator for success. 0.78

00:36:57.000 Fact, a white child raised by a single mother is less likely to succeed than a black child raised by a mother and a father.

00:37:05.000 Sky Lee continues by saying, additionally, using the term to describe all Asian Americans isn't representative since it covers such a vast diverse range of people.

00:37:12.000 It looks past certain races, such as Bhutanese Americans, who have, quote, far higher rates of poverty than other Asian populations, according to NPR.

00:37:19.000 Totally recognize that.

00:37:20.000 However, if you actually break it down, six of the more, let's say, fractionalized Asian groups, such as Vietnamese Americans or Korean Americans, still earn more than white Americans every single year.

00:37:33.000 And a lot of the individuals from Bhutan came here as refugees.

00:37:38.000 If they do the three things that are most likely needed to succeed in America, get married before you have kids, get a job, any job, graduate from high school, you will succeed in America.

00:37:48.000 She finishes by saying, by crediting Asian Americans solely on the success of their work, it makes people question why African Americans aren't doing as well.

00:37:55.000 However, while, quote, Asian Americans have faced various forms of discrimination, end quote, it's not the same as, quote, the systemic dehumanization that black people have faced during slavery and continue to face today.

00:38:04.000 This is all according to NPR.

00:38:06.000 First of all, it should ask the question why black Americans aren't doing well. 1.00

00:38:10.000 That's the point. 0.99

00:38:12.000 Black Americans are not doing well because 77% of black children right now in America are born without a stable father in the home. 0.99

00:38:19.000 That's why they're not doing well. 1.00

00:38:20.000 They also enter awful schools.

00:38:23.000 Those two things are not because of the color of their skin.

00:38:25.000 It's because we destroyed the family in general in the 1960s. 0.84

00:38:30.000 It just so happens the black family being more urban focused was more victim to that than any other population.

00:38:38.000 There are other reasons to attribute suffering than racism.

00:38:42.000 If you blame every single thing in the world on racism, which of course is a legitimate sin that exists, but it is not the only problem on the planet.

00:38:50.000 Fatherlessness, abdication of authority, indulgence in sexual sin, all those things need to be addressed.

00:38:59.000 Sloth, gluttony, lack of responsibility, and just blaming it all on racism because black people and white people look differently, there's a massive disservice to us ever actually achieving some form of progress, as the left tries to call it.

00:39:16.000 And by the way, this is exactly what happens when you indoctrinate a country to participate in the grievance oppression Olympics. 0.57

00:39:22.000 Instead of accepting that Asian Americans have been amazingly successful, they want to explain it as yet another reason to pinpoint white privilege. 0.81

00:39:32.000 It is correct that not all Asian cultures perform equally as well. 0.92

00:39:37.000 But that's why we're always very quick to be specific about which subgroup within it is earning an average on what amount.

00:39:44.000 And by the way, Indian Americans have a different culture than Taiwanese, and Indian Americans earn about $118,000 per year in America.

00:39:51.000 White Americans, $74,000 per year in America.

00:39:54.000 Why is that?

00:39:56.000 Well, maybe because Indian Americans value marriage and fidelity more so than the average white American in America does right now. 1.00

00:40:03.000 Maybe that's a good reason for it. 1.00

00:40:05.000 And so look, this idea of model minority, I asked myself, well, the model human being, the model person in America is someone who gets married, doesn't cheat on their spouse, acts ethically, works hard, tells the truth, and does that over again. 0.88

00:40:21.000 That was the 1950s, 60s, and early 70s American dream.

00:40:24.000 That's why we became the strongest superpower on the face of the planet.

00:40:27.000 If you do those three things and you obey the laws that were given to us in the Bible and you act with compassion and love and honesty and the teachings of Christ, you're going to succeed.

00:40:38.000 And you're really going to succeed as a culture, especially if you work hard and you embrace entrepreneurship and risk-taking.

00:40:44.000 When you get away from those things, which has been encouraged, in fact, glorified in some communities in America, that's when you start to see the destruction that we're seeing.

00:40:53.000 So I got this letter from Chance.

00:40:55.000 I don't want to out where he's from because actually it says he's from California, so I guess not.

00:40:59.000 But it's so sad and it's so normal.

00:41:00.000 I want you guys to all email me your questions and your experiences, what you're going through right now.

00:41:06.000 And I want to make one other plug.

00:41:07.000 If you guys want to check out our event, Phoenix, Arizona, this Tuesday, trumpstudents.org slash convention.

00:41:13.000 We still have a couple tickets left.

00:41:14.000 Email us, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:41:17.000 Here is chance.

00:41:18.000 It's a little bit long, but it's worth it.

00:41:20.000 Hey there, I don't know if you'll see this email, but I feel you need to hear it.

00:41:23.000 I'm a high school junior conservative and I live in California.

00:41:26.000 Most of my family and friends are liberals or leftists.

00:41:29.000 I'll explain why I separated them in a minute.

00:41:31.000 I've been stating my opinion on what's happening as a use of my First Amendment rights and free speech.

00:41:37.000 And I felt good about it for the most part.

00:41:39.000 I often debate this one person who has a parent who turns out is undocumented, or we say a foreign national, that's fine.

00:41:45.000 And they use this against me.

00:41:47.000 I once stated my stance on ICE and illegal immigration, and they flipped off.

00:41:52.000 They totally twisted what I said in our debates and out of context and got some people to lie about me being a racist.

00:41:57.000 I've been bullied and attacked and had to temporarily disable my Instagram.

00:42:02.000 I was pretty depressed at how much hate I was getting, and it was excruciating.

00:42:06.000 I even considered if my life was worth living after the hate I was getting.

00:42:10.000 I saw a post someone made on me that said, quote, if you go to his high school, drop him. 0.99

00:42:15.000 He's a racist, homophobic, and a Trump supporter. 1.00

00:42:18.000 Don't even bother to argue with him. 1.00

00:42:20.000 Just drop him.

00:42:21.000 And that really hurt.

00:42:22.000 People all over took advantage of this and continued to attack me.

00:42:26.000 And at one point, I considered redacting what I believed in just so I would be free of the hate.

00:42:31.000 So I did what I never should have done, and I apologized to the person that hurt me so much.

00:42:35.000 What did they do?

00:42:36.000 They attacked me on their Instagram and made fun of me for apologizing.

00:42:39.000 At this point, I wanted to move out of my city and start a new life.

00:42:42.000 Fortunately, there were those who were there for me, family and friends and fellow conservatives, even a few liberals who have simple human decency.

00:42:49.000 I wanted to share this experience with you because of what effect it had on me, my reputation, my mental health, my self-esteem, because my opinion and where I placed my support was out of line with theirs.

00:42:59.000 I won't forget those who defended and comfort me and offered to help on both sides.

00:43:03.000 And it reminds me that there are people with decency on both sides, but it is one thing that is leftists feed upon.

00:43:09.000 It's hate and power.

00:43:11.000 Most of what they were arguing with me was about racism, which is a form of intolerance.

00:43:15.000 And yet, they were very intolerant of my beliefs, and I find that to be contradictory.

00:43:20.000 I know I'm a conservative Trump supporter here to stay, and I know there are good people in this world, just as there are those who think they can fight fire with fire.

00:43:28.000 God bless you, Charlie Kirk, and let's keep America great.

00:43:30.000 Chance, my goodness.

00:43:32.000 First of all, anyone out there that's experiencing anything like this, email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:43:36.000 I'll do my best to respond to those emails.

00:43:38.000 The left is so beyond vicious right now.

00:43:41.000 They are allowed to do whatever they want to do.

00:43:42.000 Teachers, principals, people in leadership are allowing the left to literally destroy young people's lives.

00:43:48.000 We are in a bitter culture war right now.

00:43:51.000 And the media is covering for them.

00:43:52.000 Hollywood is covering for them.

00:43:53.000 I'm doing everything I possibly can.

00:43:55.000 They're trying to destroy this program.

00:43:57.000 So thank you.

00:43:58.000 That allow me to communicate to people like Chance that you go to charliekirk.com slash support.

00:44:02.000 We are communicating to the next generation of conservatives and Trump supporters around freedom, truth, and the American way, the American dream, the Constitution every single day.

00:44:10.000 But it saddens me.

00:44:11.000 In fact, it angers me.

00:44:12.000 And I try not to get to anger too much.

00:44:14.000 But when I read that kids are contemplating taking their life because of leftist bullies, this is not America.

00:44:21.000 This is not the country that we think we live in.

00:44:23.000 Listen to what he said right here.

00:44:25.000 I even considered if my life was worth living after the hate I was getting, Chance said.

00:44:30.000 Contemplating his own self-worth.

00:44:32.000 And we're just supposed to believe that the left is perfectly decent. 0.99

00:44:36.000 It's disgusting. 0.94

00:44:37.000 Happens every single day. 0.74

00:44:39.000 We'll go to one more question.

00:44:40.000 This is freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:44:41.000 Emily says, hey, Charlie, my name is Emily, and I'm 17 years old from Orlando, Florida.

00:44:45.000 Hey there.

00:44:46.000 I've been following your platform about two years and have found your podcast to be super helpful.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - June 22, 2020

Ask Charlie Anything 22: Lessons in Radicalism, Philosophy, American History, And How To Stand Up To Leftist Bullies

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