The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 48: GOP Chances in 2022? Who the Heck is William Blackstone? Charlie's Reading List and More

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00:03:13.000 Gary from New Mexico.

00:03:15.000 Hey, Charlie, a lot of my teachers say America was not founded on Christian principles.

00:03:21.000 How do I refute that?

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00:03:23.000 Well, congratulations, Gary.

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00:03:28.000 Well, first of all, it's a statement of fact that America was founded by Bible-believing Christians with a philosophy that was directly inspired from the Bible, with a vast majority of the signers of the Declaration of Independence being regular church-going Christians.

00:03:47.000 If you read the Declaration of Independence, it mentions God four times, and it says explicitly that we get our rights and our existence from God and that we must obey the laws of nature and nature's God.

00:03:59.000 But anytime anyone brings this up, put them on defense, respectfully, of course, and just ask the question: hey, what do you think of William Blackstone?

00:04:10.000 And they might say, I don't think much of William Blackstone.

00:04:12.000 Why?

00:04:15.000 Well, William Blackstone, who of course was born in 1723 and passed away in 1780, he was an English jurist, he was a politician, and he is one of the most influential figures that basically founded what we know today as common law.

00:04:36.000 All the founders knew their Blackstone.

00:04:39.000 All the founders were inspired by his writings.

00:04:42.000 And some of his most famous quotes we still use to this day.

00:04:46.000 William Blackstone was an unapologetic Christian and derived the truth that he talked about from the truth of the Bible.

00:04:54.000 He really started to theorize this idea of original law, with God's law being at the very top.

00:05:01.000 William Blackstone argued that we cannot challenge the sovereign, the ultimate sovereign, being Almighty God.

00:05:07.000 He believed that there were really four areas of common law.

00:05:11.000 He was very much inspired by Aquinas, but as Aquinas was, of course, one of the early church fathers, Blackstone argued that all revelation that matters in creating laws are revelations from scripture.

00:05:27.000 I cannot emphasize enough William Blackstone's critical nature to America's founding.

00:05:36.000 He believed and wrote extensively that God was inseparable to any form of a functioning governmental system.

00:05:45.000 Now, mind you, William Blackstone, he was a defender of the British monarchy.

00:05:51.000 And of course, we took great exception with the British monarchy.

00:05:55.000 But William Blackstone was really onto something when it came to using the laws of nature and nature's God to create a civil society.

00:06:02.000 Blackstone, of course, knew his classics.

00:06:04.000 He studied Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in great detail.

00:06:08.000 He was the first professor ever to create a course on common law.

00:06:14.000 Now, common law versus statutory law gave judges more leeway.

00:06:20.000 Blackstone re-emphasized the idea of common law being necessary for civil society to endure and to flourish.

00:06:31.000 Now, Blackstone and Montesquieu, alongside John Locke, were three of the most critical philosophers behind the American founding.

00:06:40.000 Montesquieu, of course, being a French judge, we did an entire episode on Montesquieu a couple weeks ago.

00:06:45.000 John Locke, one of the three social contract theorists, Jean-Jacques Rousseau being the other, Thomas Hobbes, who wrote the Leviathan, and of course, John Locke.

00:06:55.000 John Locke recognized that our rights come from God, not from government.

00:07:00.000 John Locke also wrote extensively about tolerance and what it means to be tolerant, but most importantly, without John Locke, you do not get Thomas Jefferson.

00:07:10.000 William Blackstone re-emphasized the presumption of innocence for the accused.

00:07:16.000 Now, there's a lot of mechanics that came before Blackstone, such as the idea of lawyers, the idea of cross-examination of witnesses, the introduction of evidence.

00:07:25.000 But most importantly, William Blackstone argued that every single person that comes before the court of law must be given a presumption that that person is innocent until proven guilty by their peers.

00:07:41.000 One of the most famous quotes of William Blackstone, which our entire system of government, which our entire system of law and with it our entire system of government is built around is, quote, it is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

00:07:59.000 Now, he drew inspiration from this quote from Abraham, when Abraham asks God, where he said, God, should we consume the righteous with the wicked?

00:08:08.000 And God says, no, I will spare the righteous and I will condemn the wicked.

00:08:14.000 The idea that you should not have a justice system that tries to punish many to make sure that all of the guilty are accused.

00:08:27.000 Instead, Blackstone said that one innocent person must not suffer if that means that 10 people that are guilty suffer alongside of them.

00:08:38.000 The system must be difficult to convict.

00:08:41.000 The system must inherently protect those natural rights.

00:08:44.000 Now, that's not to say the system must act as if people are not doing wrong.

00:08:49.000 Instead, freedom for that one innocent person must be cherished more than the penalty for 10 guilty people.

00:08:59.000 Blackstone really argued of common law versus statutory law.

00:09:03.000 He loved the Bible.

00:09:05.000 He believed that the Bible was the blueprint for all functioning societies.

00:09:11.000 These terms of self-evident law and the laws of nature, we all get from William Blackstone.

00:09:17.000 Now, properly understood, the Declaration of Independence, which was written by Thomas Jefferson, was a court filing.

00:09:25.000 That's right.

00:09:26.000 If understood in its proper context and its proper timing, the Declaration of Independence was nothing more than a legal brief submitted, not so respectfully, to the King of England, saying, we want to separate, grant us our own independence.

00:09:41.000 Now, as we mentioned in a previous episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, Thomas Jefferson, in the original draft of the United States Declaration of Independence, an original draft of the Declaration of Independence, actually condemned slavery and blamed King George for bringing slavery to the colonies.

00:10:00.000 Now, that never made it in the final draft for very specific reasons, one of them being they did not want to divide the colonies or Britain would divide the colonies for them.

00:10:10.000 But just to throw away all of the founding documents saying that they were pro-slavery bigots, it's actually a lot more complicated and nuanced than that.

00:10:18.000 Blackstone drew great inspiration from Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newton, of course, who discovered the laws of physics as we know them to this day.

00:10:29.000 Aristotle and Da Vinci understood the laws of physics, but Sir Isaac Newton articulated them in a way that no one had before.

00:10:39.000 Of course, the three laws of physics as we know them to today is that first, an object will not change its motion until a force acts upon it.

00:10:47.000 An object at rest will stay at rest.

00:10:49.000 The force of an object is equal to a mass times acceleration.

00:10:53.000 Force equals mass times acceleration.

00:10:56.000 And the third law is when two objects interact, they apply forces to each other of equal magnitude and of opposite direction.

00:11:03.000 Plainly said, for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.

00:11:08.000 Blackstone was fascinated by the laws of physics.

00:11:12.000 And he believed that if you can understand the laws of physics, you can also understand the laws of human beings.

00:11:18.000 And that's what scripture is for.

00:11:20.000 Blackstone was not right about everything.

00:11:23.000 He thought that kings could do no wrong.

00:11:25.000 Now, he thought kings could be illogical.

00:11:28.000 He did defend the divine right of kings, something that is directly condemned by James Madison in the writing of the United States Constitution.

00:11:38.000 Where Blackstone was wrong on that, he was right on the idea of looking to scripture for inspiration.

00:11:45.000 He argued that property, liberty, health, and humanity must never be violated under any set of circumstances by the sovereign.

00:11:57.000 Now, mind you, King George was violating a lot of that.

00:12:00.000 But the Founding Fathers saw his writings and drew that as inspiration to actually implement them in real form.

00:12:07.000 But the most important legacy of William Blackstone in America and with that with Western civilization and the entire world was the First Amendment.

00:12:18.000 The right to assemble, the right to speak, the right to pursue your own religious conscience as you see fit.

00:12:25.000 William Blackstone was the inspiration for the First Amendment, for freedom of speech, for dialogue.

00:12:31.000 The Founding Fathers were playing around with this, and he said, quote, the liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state, but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications and not in the freedom from censure for criminal matter when published.

00:12:46.000 Every free man has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public.

00:12:52.000 To forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press.

00:12:57.000 But if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.

00:13:03.000 Now, he would actually be in favor of changing libel laws, as I am today.

00:13:07.000 But the essence of this quote is that everyone must have the freedom to speak publicly as they see fit.

00:13:13.000 The Founding Fathers saw this, they understood this, they saw the biblical and scriptural basis for this, and they implemented it in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.

00:13:25.000 Anyone who says America is not founded on Christian ideas, on Christian thinkers, on Christianity or the Bible, they got to get through William Blackstone, not to mention Jonathan Edwards, not to mention Whitfield and the First Great Awakening, not to mention the pastors who formed and founded the philosophical and religious backing for America.

00:13:47.000 All of that is something that the people who say that must grapple with, where Jonathan Edwards gave his famous sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, that argued that there must need for a revival in our land.

00:14:03.000 The First Great Awakening, the Second Great Awakening, the First Great Awakening came right before America's founding, the Black Robe Regimen.

00:14:11.000 But the person that really wrote at a philosophical level with the diction, the sophistication, the historical knowledge that the Founding Fathers respected.

00:14:25.000 Because the Founding Fathers were very well read.

00:14:28.000 Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, a little bit less.

00:14:33.000 George Washington was a man of action, but he was still very well read.

00:14:36.000 But Thomas Jefferson, especially, and James Madison, they poured over the writings of William Blackstone.

00:14:45.000 They understood that the Bible must be a blueprint.

00:14:48.000 They're not going to try to start a theocracy or a dominionist type government.

00:14:52.000 Instead, they knew a pluralistic society founding on the teachings of the Bible was the only moral way to govern.

00:14:59.000 Now, mind you, they did not want a democracy.

00:15:02.000 A lot of people say, we must have a democracy, an Athenian democracy.

00:15:06.000 Well, that's how they killed Socrates.

00:15:08.000 Socrates, who taught Plato, Plato, who taught Aristotle.

00:15:11.000 Socrates was killed by mob rule, by the majority.

00:15:15.000 Instead, a constitutional republic respecting the writings and the teachings of the Bible, the truths that the Bible tells, the protection of the innocent, the rights of the accused, the cross-examination of witnesses, all of that comes from scripture.

00:15:34.000 That a constitutional republic where certain things cannot be voted away by just a simple up or down vote.

00:15:40.000 Now, things can be amended, things can be changed, but it takes a very long, overwhelming process.

00:15:49.000 For example, the abolition of slavery.

00:15:51.000 It's a good thing that we had the ability to amend our original founding documents.

00:15:56.000 But it wouldn't just, it couldn't just be done by a 51 vote, 51 person vote.

00:16:02.000 It took getting states involved.

00:16:04.000 It took building coalitions.

00:16:06.000 And I'm glad the founding fathers gave us the capacity to amend our Constitution.

00:16:11.000 But at the same token, if there was a 51-person vote in the Senate that said, you know what, we're going to get rid of the First Amendment, can't happen.

00:16:18.000 It would take a coalition of states.

00:16:20.000 It would take interpretation of courts.

00:16:23.000 That's the difference between a republic and a democracy.

00:16:30.000 And so, great question.

00:16:31.000 I appreciate it.

00:16:32.000 You win a signed copy of the MAGA doctrine.

00:16:34.000 I could go at length on this topic, and I've done a lot of scholarship and a lot of study.

00:16:39.000 And I appreciate the question, and thank you for it, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:16:44.000 Next question here.

00:16:46.000 Hey, Charlie, are you aware that three Republican senators won't be running in 2022?

00:16:50.000 It looks like you guys have a lot of work to do to win back the majority as Democrats see an opportunity.

00:16:54.000 Another question.

00:16:55.000 Is it more important that we flip the Senate than the House, Steve?

00:16:59.000 So yes, let's talk about 2022.

00:17:01.000 It seems like it's a far way away, but candidates are already starting to launch their candidacies and starting to think about running.

00:17:08.000 So there's a couple states that are in play that will determine the future of the United States Senate.

00:17:14.000 Let's start with the Senate.

00:17:15.000 There is currently a 50-50 tie in the United States Senate, and it benefits the Democrats because the Vice President of the United States can break that tie.

00:17:26.000 So coming up in 2022, three Republicans are retiring.

00:17:29.000 Senator Richard Burr from North Carolina, Senator Rob Portman from Ohio, and Senator Pat Toomey.

00:17:34.000 Those are three states that President Trump won in 2016 that will be up.

00:17:38.000 We are not sure if Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin will be retiring or whether he will be running again.

00:17:45.000 North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are three critical Senate races for Mitch McConnell to at least keep some of the races close so that he can become Senate majority leader.

00:17:55.000 In Iowa, Senator Chuck Grassley is deciding whether or not to run again.

00:18:00.000 There's an open Senate race coming in Missouri, in Kansas and Oklahoma, in Arkansas, Louisiana.

00:18:06.000 Those should be safe Republican seats.

00:18:09.000 And there are two races happening in North Dakota and South Dakota, also safe Republican seats.

00:18:14.000 There's a race happening in Idaho and Utah, both of which should be comfortable Republican races.

00:18:20.000 In addition, there's a state, there's a race happening in South Carolina, again, comfortably Republican.

00:18:25.000 Now going to where Republicans can pick up some ground.

00:18:28.000 There is a race happening in Arizona and Georgia.

00:18:31.000 Those two races will be top-tier races for Senate Republicans.

00:18:36.000 In particular, Senator Markelli and Senator Raphael Warnock will be top focuses for the Republicans to win back the Senate majority.

00:18:46.000 So in order for Republicans to win the majority, here's their game plan.

00:18:51.000 They have to hold all the comfortable Republican races, such as Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Louisiana, Florida.

00:19:00.000 If Marco Rubio runs again, he should be just fine.

00:19:03.000 And then they have to hold the three that they already have, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, which will be difficult, and then flip at least one, flip one Democrat to a Republican.

00:19:14.000 There's also a Senate race happening in New Hampshire.

00:19:16.000 It's just becoming an increasingly tough state to win in, but you can flip Arizona or you flip Georgia, and then Senator Mitch McConnell becomes Senate Majority Leader.

00:19:26.000 It all is based on a couple things, whether or not the House of Representatives and the Senate and President Joe Biden pass H.R. 1, which is House Resolution 1, which changes voting as we know it in our country.

00:19:38.000 And it is also dependent on whether or not there is a wave election.

00:19:44.000 It depends whether or not that this election is one that we usually see in midterms where the opposing party stands to pick up massive seats, where there is a backlash against the incumbent party that seems to do things too radical or out of the mainstream of the party.

00:20:01.000 So Arizona and Georgia are two critical states.

00:20:03.000 Now, none of this matters if we do not change the way we do elections in our country.

00:20:08.000 We have to change the way we do elections and the way that we count ballots and the way we register voters and the way we have signature verification.

00:20:15.000 It is critical that we make serious and significant reforms in the way we actually do elections in our country.

00:20:21.000 And so that's a little bit of a snapshot in 2022.

00:20:24.000 But to answer your question, what's more important than the Senate, their House?

00:20:28.000 It's critical we get the House back. 0.93

00:20:30.000 Nancy Pelosi has been Speaker for far too long.

00:20:33.000 She reassumed the speakership in 2018.

00:20:35.000 We have to take back the House of Representatives.

00:20:38.000 We have to get a new Speaker of the House.

00:20:41.000 Things are looking good for that.

00:20:42.000 House races trended in the Republican direction in 2020. 0.78

00:20:46.000 A lot of Democrats are retiring.

00:20:48.000 There's new maps coming up.

00:20:49.000 States like Arizona and Texas and Florida are gaining seats.

00:20:52.000 Republicans tend to do very, very well in congressional races, especially in the heartland of our country and in the Sunbelt.

00:20:58.000 I think Republicans are poised to take back the House of Representatives in 2022.

00:21:04.000 Ideally, we take back the House alongside taking back the Senate.

00:21:09.000 We'll be in a good position coming in 2024.

00:21:11.000 But get engaged, get involved, run for your precinct committee positions, get involved in your state party.

00:21:17.000 It's already coming up, 2022.

00:21:19.000 We cannot be taken by surprise.

00:21:22.000 It is more important than ever that we assume this position of leadership in our party and that we are ready to field grassroots candidates, conservative candidates, to take back our positions of leadership in 2022.

00:21:36.000 Next question here.

00:21:38.000 Hey, Charlie, love what you're doing and your team.

00:21:40.000 You've been an inspiration.

00:21:40.000 Thank you.

00:21:41.000 Couple things.

00:21:42.000 Now that I'm no longer doing any social media, can you tell me great ways of getting good factual news?

00:21:47.000 Also, I plan on purchasing The Tale of Two Cities after hearing your shows last week.

00:21:52.000 I too plan on getting a copy of, quote, Reflections on the Existence of God to further my appreciation of knowledge of our God.

00:21:58.000 Awesome.

00:21:59.000 Can you please suggest to me other great reads for someone who loves our country and really only become political since Trump?

00:22:05.000 God bless you, man, and keep up the great work.

00:22:07.000 Thank you.

00:22:08.000 Well, Adam out of Dallas, Fort Worth, thank you.

00:22:11.000 You win a signed copy of my book, The MAGA Doctrine.

00:22:14.000 There's a couple books I'd recommend.

00:22:16.000 I'd recommend Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, the last great Roman emperor, who, of course, had a little bit of a troublesome son, Commodus.

00:22:24.000 But Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a phenomenal piece of literature for anyone that has to deal in the position of leadership and with a lot of adversity.

00:22:33.000 Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a tremendous read.

00:22:36.000 I'd also recommend for people that are maybe trying to find whether or not they believe in Jesus Christ or they believe in the Bible.

00:22:43.000 The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel is a terrific book.

00:22:47.000 I also recommend the book That Built Your World by Vishal Mengdalwadi.

00:22:52.000 I have recommended this book many times before on this podcast, and it is a terrific book.

00:22:57.000 And in addition, I encourage all of you that might want to get just big ideas but synthesize them easier, go to thinker.org. 0.79

00:23:05.000 It's T-H-I-N-K-R.org.

00:23:08.000 You can go to thinker.org slash Charlie.

00:23:10.000 You guys can understand big ideas very quickly.

00:23:14.000 So for example, there's books at thinker.org that would take you weeks to read, but actually you'll be able to understand them and digest them a lot easier.

00:23:24.000 And so let's just go to some examples here at thinker.org.

00:23:28.000 And you actually go to thinker.org slash books.

00:23:29.000 And by the way, you spell it, T-H-I-N-K-R.org.

00:23:34.000 One of those here at thinker.org is Cynical Theories by James Lindsay.

00:23:39.000 We've had him on our podcast before, and we got some great response there.

00:23:42.000 At Cynical Theories, it talks about what critical race theory is and postmodernism is and how to deconstruct it.

00:23:49.000 Where does our new woke language actually come from?

00:23:51.000 And why is it so harmful to actual progress in the realm of social justice?

00:23:56.000 The social justice movement that dominates the thinking of contemporary society didn't always exist.

00:24:02.000 Rather, it originated in the 1960s French academia through an intellectual movement called postmodernism, a way of thinking about reality that disregards objective truth and meaning.

00:24:11.000 Later in the 1980s and 90s, postmodern thought produced critical race theory or critical theory, which supplies the current social justice movement with a majority of its ideas.

00:24:20.000 Liberal thinkers such as Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay illustrate the rise of social justice movements in Culture and the academy, advocating for a return to true liberalism as a means to question reality without forsaking objectivity.

00:24:34.000 For example, critical race theory does not believe in math.

00:24:37.000 They don't believe in science.

00:24:38.000 They don't believe in objectivity.

00:24:39.000 They don't believe in freedom of speech.

00:24:40.000 They don't believe in the individual.

00:24:41.000 They do not believe in Western society.

00:24:43.000 They don't believe in tolerance.

00:24:45.000 Instead, they only believe in power struggles.

00:24:47.000 At thinker.org, you'll be able to really understand these ideas in a short period of time, such as postmodernism has a radical skepticism, which denies our ability to know anything, but culture creates truth.

00:25:01.000 It also talks about postmodernists needed to change.

00:25:03.000 So it's decided the world needed to change too, with the help of some ridiculous theory.

00:25:08.000 In this book, you'll be able to unpack what critical theory really is and how critical theory unravels discourses to prove that language creates identity.

00:25:16.000 It talks about how identity determines the capacity for power and for knowledge.

00:25:20.000 But identity politics wants to turn this on its head.

00:25:23.000 And it also talks about in this book, you can't prove social justice scholarship, but you can't argue with it either.

00:25:29.000 At the core of liberalism is a desire to question, empathize, and repair small L liberalism, classical liberalism, not leftism that we critiqued so much on this program.

00:25:38.000 So check out thinker.org.

00:25:40.000 Just one of the books, Cynical Theories by James Lindsay, a friend of ours who's done an amazing job for our country.

00:25:46.000 And he's a previous episode of the Charlie Kirk show.

00:25:48.000 Check it out.

00:25:49.000 And so that's the best way I can answer that question when you ask for a book recommendation.

00:25:52.000 Okay.

00:25:53.000 Next question.

00:25:54.000 With all the new Illinois education corruption, at what point will the government try to ban homeschooling?

00:25:58.000 I asked this as a proud homeschooler.

00:26:00.000 Thanks for everything you do, Luke.

00:26:01.000 Luke, thank you for listening.

00:26:03.000 You get a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine.

00:26:05.000 And if anyone is listening from Illinois, I'd love to hear from you.

00:26:08.000 Email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:26:10.000 And I would love to see a Turning Point USA chapter in District 214.

00:26:14.000 And just by the way, anyone listening to this, please get involved with TurningPointUSA, tpusa.com, tpusa.com.

00:26:21.000 Start a chapter, get involved.

00:26:23.000 tpusa.com slash get involved is actually the best place to do that.

00:26:26.000 Okay, yes, they are going to try to ban homeschooling soon.

00:26:29.000 This is their next big project.

00:26:31.000 Be ready for it.

00:26:32.000 Beware of it.

00:26:33.000 Look, the left, they have done everything they possibly can to control education in our country, to even control it through parochial or Christian or Catholic education.

00:26:43.000 Now they want to control homeschooling.

00:26:45.000 They are going to put through edicts and measures in California and other states, you heard it here first, to try and control what you can teach your child in your home.

00:26:54.000 Of course, it's unconstitutional.

00:26:56.000 Of course, it's immoral and it should be illegal.

00:26:58.000 But this is coming to schools very soon.

00:27:00.000 And we did a video about all the nonsense happening in the Illinois education system.

00:27:05.000 I encourage you guys to check it out on our YouTube channel.

00:27:07.000 Type in Charlie Kirk and just subscribe to our YouTube channel, which always helps us.

00:27:11.000 But we went into great detail in this where in the new Illinois bill, it will be required for you to teach critical race theory, mobilize students for social activism.

00:27:20.000 For example, a class might mandatory by Illinois law might have to go to a gun protest or an environmental protest.

00:27:27.000 That's where your tax dollars are going in Illinois.

00:27:29.000 And that's where it's going to be happening all across the country very, very soon.

00:27:33.000 So to answer your question, yes, homeschooling is on the chopping block.

00:27:37.000 And if you're homeschooling your kids in a blue state, just watch the legislation happening in your state because it might happen very, very soon where they might make it illegal for you to teach your child.

00:27:47.000 Another question from Illinois.

00:27:48.000 Boy, we got... thousands and thousands of emails from people in Illinois.

00:27:51.000 I love it.

00:27:51.000 Hello, Charlie.

00:27:52.000 Thank you for sharing your video.

00:27:53.000 I'm currently a teacher in Illinois at St. Vincent DePaul School.

00:27:57.000 And we do teach the Common Core standards.

00:27:59.000 Thankfully, I'm able to teach and send my three boys to Catholic schools.

00:28:02.000 I choose this because of the indoctrination going on in public school system.

00:28:05.000 Good for you.

00:28:06.000 My question for you is this.

00:28:07.000 Will the Catholic schools have to follow the so-called curriculum since we follow Common Core?

00:28:11.000 Yes, you will.

00:28:12.000 I will be sharing this information with my principal so I can get an answer.

00:28:14.000 I'll let you know.

00:28:15.000 Thanks for all you do.

00:28:16.000 Teresa Joseph or Tressa Joseph, conservative mother and teacher.

00:28:21.000 I believe you will.

00:28:22.000 I believe that these standards will be state standards for any school that is accredited by the Illinois State Board of Education, which most of the private religious schools have to be as well.

00:28:29.000 I'll look into that, but I'm 99% sure that most of these pieces of legislation also hit private schools.

00:28:36.000 Another question here.

00:28:37.000 Hey, Charlie, I want to start a Turning Point USA group.

00:28:39.000 I'm a little bit scared and nervous given how hard it is to be a conservative in my high school.

00:28:44.000 What are your thoughts?

00:28:45.000 Thanks so much, Isaac from Virginia.

00:28:47.000 Well, I encourage you to do that.

00:28:48.000 You can go to tpusa.com slash get involved and start a chapter today.

00:28:52.000 It's the best thing you can possibly do.

00:28:54.000 But look, people are going to come after you no matter what.

00:28:57.000 The most fulfilling thing you can do in your life is to assume responsibility for truth.

00:29:02.000 You will receive backlash.

00:29:04.000 You will receive some condemnation.

00:29:06.000 Some people might get very angry at you and they'll call you bad names.

00:29:08.000 You'll become a tougher person and that adversity will make you into a better prepared human being to endure the suffering of life.

00:29:18.000 Look, we all know that life is full of suffering.

00:29:24.000 The real question is, what are you going to do to make yourself stronger to be able to live a fulfilled life?

00:29:31.000 Now, looking to the scriptures and looking to the Bible, we are told not to play the victim, not to blame other people, but to pick up our suffering.

00:29:39.000 You see, schools are supposed to make you stronger, not train you to remove all the difficult stuff around you.

00:29:47.000 How do I make myself better prepared to endure the inevitable suffering that I will encounter?

00:29:54.000 How do you overcome the difficulty of life?

00:29:58.000 Find something that matters.

00:30:00.000 Find something worthy of being responsible for.

00:30:02.000 By the way, you will then have difficulty.

00:30:06.000 People will lie about you.

00:30:08.000 They'll slander you.

00:30:08.000 They'll libel you.

00:30:10.000 But then you're able to put yourself together.

00:30:13.000 Be thankful for your circumstances around you.

00:30:16.000 And then you say, what actually matters in the world? 0.58

00:30:19.000 Do I want to just be someone that goes along with all my classmates around the black square tile and the spitting on Trump supporters and Christians?

00:30:27.000 Or do I want to pursue what I know is true in the world?

00:30:30.000 Do I want to pursue something that is worthwhile?

00:30:33.000 Worthwhile?

00:30:34.000 Do I want to pursue something that is rooted in the moral construct that built the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world?

00:30:42.000 That is a journey worth embarking on.

00:30:45.000 And yes, if you start a Turning Point USA group, you will receive backlash.

00:30:49.000 Yes, if you start a Turning Point USA group, people will call you bad names, but you'll become stronger and tougher and you'll meet friends for a lifetime and you will become a better person because of it.

00:31:03.000 So I encourage you to do that.

00:31:04.000 Tpusa.com slash get involved.

00:31:06.000 And if you guys want to get involved in a chapter and you're having any issues at all, getting in touch with your local staff member.

00:31:12.000 We have over 60 full-time staff members at Turning Point USA, just in our field program.

00:31:16.000 You know how to reach me, freedom at Charliekirk.com.

00:31:19.000 Thank you guys, so much for listening.

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