Charlie Kirk is the President of Turning Point USA, an organization dedicated to fighting for freedom on college campuses across the country. He is also a father of two adult sons who are growing up in a conservative household. He has seen his sons' attitudes towards women, Israel, and even God have worsened in recent years. In this episode, Charlie talks about why this is happening and how to address it.
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00:01:45.000I'm a concerned parent of a 21 and 19-year-old man, young men.
00:01:49.000I've seen some pretty big changes in my sons in the last 18 months.
00:01:52.000Their attitudes about women, Israel, and even God have worsened.
00:01:57.000I try to temper and dispute these fice out false ideologies, but I don't think I make a dent.
00:02:02.000I'm praying constantly for the Lord to intervene and change their hearts and bring them back to Him.
00:02:07.000However, I wondered if you consider doing a show on this.
00:02:09.000Many, maybe touch on some false teachings by conservatives that are brainwashing young men to hate women, Israel, and even question Christianity.
00:02:16.000I think parents should be aware and equipped to help their sons.
00:02:19.000I feel like you have a platform to do this.
00:02:41.000Young women are more empowered to engage in the venom of feminism where they just want free sex and that they want nothing to do with men in any sort of deep relationship.
00:02:53.000I experienced this recently where I spoke to a couple of young women at a certain event I was at, and they're like, We just use men for sex, money, and dinners.
00:03:20.000But there's a second part to it that I think sometimes is missed here.
00:03:24.000So, the first of which we need to talk about why it's happening, but then also realize that it's actually not excusable that you engage in this.
00:04:40.000But what does it mean for you out there if you are a 19 or 20 or 21-year-old man?
00:04:46.000Well, the problem is when you are economically disordered and societally and relationally disordered, you tend to find yourself engaging in bitterness and resentment politics.
00:04:55.000And at that moment, we must call timeout.
00:04:58.000It is all good, fair, and acceptable to say I can't afford stuff and it's wrong.
00:05:03.000It's all good, fair, and acceptable and should be actually highlighted to say my parents had it easier than me.
00:05:58.000I would postulate that we have actually one of the most diverse audiences of anybody in the right-wing world.
00:06:05.000We have Jews, we have secularists, we have atheists, we have Christians, we have Mormons, we have Catholics, because we don't pander.
00:06:12.000We don't try to just have a little fringe, little corner.
00:06:16.000And that's the key is some content creators, they just want to hold on to a fraction of the population, constantly feeding it what they want to hear.
00:06:24.000And some people that are catering specifically to the resentment of young men, they might consider themselves be right-wing, but what they actually represent sometimes is very similar to the left rhetorically.
00:06:36.000They promote resentment-based views of the world.
00:06:39.000They promote blaming other people for your problems and not taking ownership of your life.
00:06:57.000Are you going to stop watching pornography and stop doing drugs and stop drinking alcohol and stop staring at your screen till 3 a.m.?
00:07:03.000The question is not the environment, which is important and we must address, but the most important thing is what are you going to do with your agency?
00:07:12.000On the left, you hear people say all the time, well, white people are racist and that's why minorities can't get ahead.
00:07:21.000More and more you are hearing from some fringe voices is that you can't succeed because we're ruled by the Jews or some Zionist occupied government.
00:08:48.000And we talked about homes and renting.
00:08:50.000All that is legit and that it's fair game.
00:08:52.000But we always, always, always, always say that those problems are fixable.
00:08:57.000And they are fixable through our own actions.
00:09:00.000And if you reduce some of the right-wing, quote-unquote, right-wing commentators that are saying this, you reduce it down to we'll get better once we kick out all the Jews.
00:09:08.000Now, there's something dark about you, actually, if you're saying that.
00:09:11.000Oh, it's going to get better if we just kick all the Jews out of the country.
00:09:14.000If you are a young man today, there's honestly a ton of opportunity out there.
00:09:24.000College is less necessary than it was 15 years ago.
00:09:26.000Salaries for skilled work in America are high, and there's a labor shortage.
00:09:30.000In fact, people that are working in AI, they say there will be more millionaires created in the next five years than we're creating in the last 50 years.
00:10:49.000You have a supercomputer in your right-hand pocket, and this supercomputer should be used for self-improvement, taking inventory, journaling, self-authoring, aiming at a transcendent destination.
00:11:01.000Instead, you don't use this supercomputer for resentment and bitterness.
00:11:33.000One will give you joy, purpose, children, and a future.
00:11:37.000The other one, I think we know where that leads.
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00:14:14.000New Hampshire has two Democrat senators and Democrats have won New Hampshire every single year presidentially for the last 20 years, but it has a Republican governor, as you well know.
00:14:22.000It actually has more registered Republicans than Democrats in New Hampshire.
00:14:26.000Republicans control the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and they control a lot of the House of Representatives, a lot of libertarians, and very, very grassroots politics.
00:14:49.000Now, the question is always the independents and how you mobilize them and how you reach out to them.
00:14:54.000However, it is very, it's clear that New Hampshire, like Arizona, they will elect Arizona.
00:14:59.000They will elect Republicans to statewide office.
00:15:02.000So we want to try to invest in New Hampshire to possibly win a Senate seat or two Senate seats in the future.
00:15:07.000And if you're able to do that, you're able to create another, you're able to create a red wall to counter the prior blue wall.
00:15:15.000If the Democrats are able to win back Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, taking New Hampshire plus Nevada, it's basically like winning another battleground state.
00:15:24.000And so I'm cautiously bullish on New Hampshire.
00:15:28.000As you know, there are some really fast-moving towns and cities like Portsmouth and Nashaw and Manchester.
00:15:35.000New Hampshire has an increasing population, which not every northeastern state does.
00:15:41.000I know a lot of Mainers that are moving to New Hampshire for freedom and for lower taxes.
00:15:48.000And there's a lot of spillover from Massachusetts, which people think is bad, but it's actually not.
00:15:52.000A lot of the spillover is actually more right-wing, center-right people that are a little more conservative, that don't want to have the nonsense that they see in Boston or they see in Portland.
00:16:04.000And so, again, New Hampshire is very local.
00:16:59.000Caroline Levitt did not win her congressional seat.
00:17:02.000She should have, and everyone thought, wow, you know, what will her future be?
00:17:06.000Well, now she's one of the most name-recognized ID people in the conservative movement, doing a fabulous job defending President Trump every single day as press secretary.
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00:18:59.000Well, thank you so much for taking my call.
00:19:01.000I greatly appreciate it and thank you for everything that you do.
00:19:05.000My question is basically regarding Arizona, because we have a huge governatorial race coming up, and I don't see that we've really addressed the voter ID and the problem with the machines and things like that.
00:19:20.000And I thought that we were all gangbusters to go forward and get that resolved.
00:19:27.000I don't see enough action coming up, and the election is right around the corner.
00:20:32.000I wanted to run something by you real quick.
00:20:34.000So props to Kane at Citizen Free Press.
00:20:37.000These are two of them that he's had on recently.
00:20:39.000So Winston Sears a week ago had tweeted out about the Virginia man who tried to abduct a child at a local mall.
00:20:50.000And shocking, we come to find out that he's got 43 priors.
00:20:54.000I don't know the actual citizenship status of the man, so I have to be fair in that regard.
00:21:00.000But then there's another article from Alabama about a Haitian immigrant who is running from some legit, you know, for some legitimate reasons who seems to be pillar of the community.
00:21:12.000So I'm kind of thinking a carrot and stick model here that I'd love to get your take on.
00:21:18.000So number one, with legal enhancements, why can't we just add legal enhancements almost like tongue in cheek here, like a three-strike policy where we say, hey, we're going to put a, you know, first time, if you get a speeding ticket or something, you know, whatever, we're going to put an enhancement that's going to mark you for deportation.
00:21:39.000So instead of letting you get to number 43, Charlie, let's get you at like five.
00:21:45.000You know, but then at the same time, why can't we have a carrot?
00:21:49.000You know, some grace, I don't know what you want to call it, where if I can get $50 million for rabid breeding habits from, you know, major universities, why can't I find enough money to put something like Hillsdale together that gives a program for people who want to be pillars of the community,
00:22:06.000who are illegal, that learn our constitution, learn our form of government, learn to speak English, yada, yada, yada, and can be ready if and when we decide to turn this around and bring them into the community.
00:22:38.000He kidnapped a kid and he had 43 priors.
00:22:41.000And this is, Blake called this, boy, Blake called this shot that we said we're afraid we're going to see an increase in kidnappings in this country.
00:22:49.000And you can see the video right there.
00:22:57.000Most of the times you guys hear the Amber Alerts, it's just a usually almost always a custody battle.
00:23:02.000Well, we are now seeing a return of kidnapping thanks to the third world coming in because the third world, kidnapping is very, very normal.
00:23:12.000Three guys did 200 Home Depot burglaries in the news today.
00:23:29.00020 or 30 years ago, kidnapping was not a country, it was not a problem at all.
00:23:34.000But now we're seeing more and more of it being a problem because we have imported a third world where kidnapping is normative criminal behavior.
00:23:42.000You kidnap the kid of somebody wealthy and you hold them hostage against to go get some sort of ransom.
00:23:48.000And people don't let their kids go outside by themselves anymore.
00:23:51.000People say, what kind of country do you want?
00:23:53.000I want a country where I feel my kids can go outside right now.
00:23:56.000But with all the third worlders prowling around, I don't feel safe with that.
00:25:47.000And so I don't really know the way to answer that, to be honest, except that you need to go to church, try to find a wholesome Christian man there, and save yourself for marriage.
00:25:59.000And one of the most important things is maximize your contact with the world.
00:26:04.000Not just going to church, that's important, but join organizations, join clubs, become a hobbyist, and be involved in things in your community.
00:26:13.000You will not just meet people by staring at a screen all the time.
00:28:31.000I was just wondering, how would you manage time between going to classes, working, and then, I guess, getting quote-unquote the college experience?
00:28:56.000So I don't think drinking will be a problem at that college.
00:29:00.000However, one of the best things about college is tons of young people to socialize with.
00:29:04.000But again, you're going to a Baptist college.
00:29:05.000You're not there to drink and party, but you're there to explore big ideas and have the tough conversations and to debate and have dialogue and disagreement.