The Charlie Kirk Show - February 22, 2021


Ask Charlie Anything 51: UPDATE on Radical New Education Standards in Illinois, Registering As a Democrat? America's Christian Founding And More


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In this episode, Charlie answers a listener's question about if America was founded on Christian values. He also talks about the Illinois education reform bill that passed the state Senate and is now in the process of being signed into law.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, it's Monday, so I take your questions, the questions you guys emailed me at freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:05.000 I do a deep dive on the Illinois educational standards that have now been passed.
00:00:11.000 I say something early in the podcast that is not necessarily true.
00:00:15.000 I say that it passed the House and it gets marked up by the Senate.
00:00:18.000 It's already been implemented.
00:00:19.000 I correct myself later in the podcast, so I just want to say that in case you don't listen to the whole episode through.
00:00:23.000 I talk about was America founded on Christian values?
00:00:26.000 I touched on this, I think, last week or two weeks ago, but Michelle asked.
00:00:29.000 I want to make sure I answered her question.
00:00:31.000 We talk about should you register as a Democrat to go vote for the less radical Democrat in certain states.
00:00:36.000 And I also talk about Ross Perot and the Reform Party, amongst many other topics that you guys have emailed me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
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00:02:06.000 Hey, everybody.
00:02:07.000 Hope you had a great weekend.
00:02:08.000 Great to be back in the chair behind the mic.
00:02:11.000 Last week was an unusual week.
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00:03:07.000 Okay, let's get right into it.
00:03:09.000 A significant portion of our emails the last couple weeks have been about what is happening in the Illinois education system.
00:03:19.000 We were the first program to highlight, expose, and put a light on the blatant indoctrination that is happening in Illinois high schools.
00:03:29.000 This is a proposed bill, and I'm actually reading from CharlieKirk.com.
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00:03:46.000 But we have a story that we wrote here, and it's a bill pushing left-leaning politics into the classroom in Illinois has officially passed.
00:03:54.000 Now, that's putting it very nicely.
00:03:56.000 That's actually probably as vanilla as I could probably phrase it.
00:03:59.000 We did an entire podcast on this a couple weeks ago with Isabel Brown from Turning Point USA, and many of you emailed us afterwards.
00:04:06.000 In fact, we're still getting an email saying, Charlie, what's the status of this?
00:04:09.000 What's the status of this?
00:04:10.000 So let's take a step back and tell you exactly what's happening in Illinois.
00:04:13.000 And many of you live in Rhode Island or California or Oregon.
00:04:16.000 You say, why does this matter to me, Charlie?
00:04:18.000 I don't live in Illinois.
00:04:19.000 Well, first of all, it's happening in our country.
00:04:21.000 And you have to listen very carefully.
00:04:24.000 You might not know anyone in Illinois.
00:04:25.000 You might never plan to visit in Illinois.
00:04:27.000 You might live in a great state like Florida, where I'm doing this broadcast right now, and you might say, none of this matters to me.
00:04:34.000 I don't care.
00:04:34.000 Wrong.
00:04:35.000 This is our country.
00:04:37.000 When you hear what's happening in Illinois, which used to be a wonderful state, it used to be a conservative state, state I grew up in, a state that was somewhat reasonable and normal, you will be shocked.
00:04:47.000 So we previously covered and wrote also on CharlieKirk.com about how the Illinois State Board of Education was passing a bill called, quote, culturally responsive teaching and leading standards.
00:04:58.000 I actually got this from a friend of mine, a former teacher and football coach, who anonymously emailed us saying, Charlie, don't read my name on air, but I can't believe what's happening here.
00:05:07.000 You guys got to know about it.
00:05:08.000 I couldn't believe it when I first read it.
00:05:11.000 But the new standards that were being pushed by this bill, which when we first covered it was a proposed bill, was to have teachers assess, quote, how their biases affect how they assess tools to mitigate their own behavior, such as racism, sexism, homophobia, unearned privilege, and Eurocentrism.
00:05:29.000 A prominent advocate, Bettina Love, of critical race theory, she said that white teachers need an anti-racist therapy.
00:05:39.000 And this bill argued that students need to get involved in the activism in the local community.
00:05:48.000 Climate change protests, pro-choice protests, pro-abortion protests, anti-church protests, pro-lockdown protests.
00:05:55.000 This bill would become law, not suggestion, not recommendation, not guidelines, not outline, law, that every student in Illinois must participate in activism, political activism.
00:06:07.000 So when we first covered this story, it was a proposed bill.
00:06:11.000 It has now passed in committee in the Illinois State House of Representatives.
00:06:16.000 I think it's getting marked up right now in the Illinois State Senate.
00:06:21.000 So let me read part of this bill directly from you.
00:06:23.000 I'm reading from the ThomasMorrisSociety.org, and this is straight from the bill.
00:06:28.000 The Illinois State Board of Education Notice of Proposed Amendments.
00:06:32.000 It goes on to explain what this bill is and the purpose of this bill, to prepare a program, of course, of studying and teaching for school support or administrative field pursuant to the State Board of Education rules.
00:06:44.000 It continues by going, the number one objective of this bill of what's happening in Illinois is to teach self-awareness and relationship to others.
00:06:53.000 You see, teachers, as it says, must become culturally responsive.
00:06:57.000 And leaders are reflective to gain a deeper understanding of themselves and how they impact others, leading to a more cohesive and productive student development.
00:07:03.000 But this is how they're going to do it.
00:07:06.000 They are going to know about their students and their lives outside of school, using this knowledge to build instruction that leverages prior knowledge and skills.
00:07:14.000 It will engage in self-reflection about their own actions and interactions and what ideas motivated those actions.
00:07:21.000 It continues by saying that understand and value the notion that multiple lived experiences exist and there's not one correct way of doing or understanding something and that what is seen as correct is most often based on our lived experiences.
00:07:37.000 Let me say that again.
00:07:38.000 The Illinois State Board of Education that will teach children, by the way, in both private and public schools.
00:07:43.000 We got lots of emails from people in the Chicagoland area saying, oh, I go, my kid goes to St. Viter, my kid goes to Loyola, my kid goes to Notre Dame, my kid goes to Mount Carmel.
00:07:51.000 They won't be impacted by this.
00:07:53.000 Wrong.
00:07:53.000 This is the state standards.
00:07:55.000 According to this bill, both private and public education will be impacted.
00:07:59.000 Now, that might be argued in the courts, that might be litigated.
00:08:03.000 I don't know how that is possibly constitutional, but that is the current status of this bill, which, by the way, has passed and all it's going to take is a Senate markup and then a governor's signature.
00:08:14.000 But let me say this again: that there's not one correct way of doing or understanding something, and that what is seen as correct is most often based on our lived experiences.
00:08:24.000 So, let's pretend you're a physics teacher, and you say, Today we're going to learn Newtonian physics.
00:08:31.000 And according to these guidelines, it says that there is not one correct way of doing or understanding something.
00:08:38.000 So, you're a seventh-grade teacher and you say, Today, we're going to learn about Sir Isaac Newton.
00:08:42.000 Force equals mass times acceleration.
00:08:44.000 An object of rest will stay at rest.
00:08:47.000 And someone raises their hand and they say, Well, based on my lived experience, force does not equal mass times acceleration.
00:08:55.000 Or what if a geography teacher is saying that the capital of Illinois is Springfield?
00:09:01.000 And someone raises their hand and they say, Well, my experience is the true capital of Illinois is Chicago.
00:09:08.000 The teacher says, Well, it's objectively Springfield.
00:09:11.000 Or what if a math teacher says that there's a certain way to do order of operations, that you must follow the order of operations, or else everyone's going to get different results when you do a math equation?
00:09:24.000 But some kid raises their hand and they say, Well, based on my lived experience, order of operations is a white supremacist, Anglo-Eurocentric, which is a phrase that's used in this educational bill, to advance a phallologocentric patriarchy, and it's racist.
00:09:41.000 What I've just given you a small window into, what I've just described in non-sarcastic terms, by the way, I am so serious when I say this, is postmodernism running the American Academy.
00:09:54.000 Postmodernism started with, of course, Michelle Foucault, Jacques Derrida, amongst many other thinkers in the 1960s, who were Marxists from the Frankfurt School in Germany.
00:10:06.000 They came to America, and they first said there is no such thing as absolute truth. 0.76
00:10:10.000 There's an infinite amount of interpretations of everything: math, science, history, logic, reason, all of these are just tools to keep white people in power perpetually.
00:10:20.000 Now, what they really were were economic Marxists that hit a nerve in the American psyche of people that were very uncomfortable, for good reason, with some of our racial past.
00:10:34.000 So, because of that, Jacques Derrida and Michelle Foucault, Herbert Marcuse, amongst others, popularized a way of thinking called postmodernism.
00:10:44.000 Now, I could do an entire podcast just on this, but what they are now passing in Illinois into law is the 1960s revolution of postmodernism, Marxist ideas, directly into the classroom.
00:10:56.000 You keep on reading this bill, and it says that teachers must engage in self-reflection about their own actions and interactions and what ideas motivated those actions.
00:11:08.000 Now, incredibly, you read this bill, nothing about this education bill is about actually teaching people what they need to succeed in life.
00:11:16.000 It's never about increasing literacy rates.
00:11:19.000 It's not about making children in the inner city of Chicago more likely to be able to understand the world around them.
00:11:24.000 Instead, number six of the educational bill that has now been passed in Illinois is: quote, explore their own intersecting identities, how they were developed, and how they impact the daily experience of the world.
00:11:37.000 Oh, no, but it gets better.
00:11:38.000 In this bill, it also says, quote, recognize how their identity, race, ethnicity, national origin, language, sex and gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical development, emotional ability, socioeconomic class, and religion affects their perspectives and beliefs about pedagogy and students. 0.99
00:11:55.000 This is a bunch of trash. 0.92
00:11:58.000 You see, when I grew up in Illinois and I went to Wheeling High School, my teachers said, do you know what means nothing? 0.99
00:12:03.000 Your race, ethnicity, national origin, language, sex, and gender, gendered identity, sexual orientation, physical and development, emotional ability, and socioeconomic class.
00:12:11.000 Now the teachers are being told to do the exact opposite.
00:12:14.000 Now teachers are now being taught to tell their kids, no, no, no, your race matters. 0.98
00:12:19.000 If you're a black kid, you can't actually succeed in this country. 0.98
00:12:23.000 An unbelievably racist, an unbelievably dangerous thing to tell any person. 0.98
00:12:28.000 It is what Clarence Thomas, who's a black member of the U.S. Supreme Court, calls the bigotry of low expectations. 0.74
00:12:36.000 You keep the expectations low. 0.98
00:12:38.000 You're actually a bigot. 0.98
00:12:39.000 You're actually racist towards that group of people.
00:12:42.000 The bill continues by saying, educate themselves about students' communities, cultures, and histories.
00:12:48.000 Critically think about the institutions in which they find themselves, working to reform these institutions wherever and however necessary.
00:12:54.000 It continues by saying teachers must assess their own biases and perceptions, how they affect their teaching practice and how they access tools to mitigate their own behavior.
00:13:04.000 I mentioned this earlier, but I'm rereading parts of this because it's mentioned in the bill twice.
00:13:08.000 Let me say that again.
00:13:09.000 If you're teaching math, if you're teaching reading, you must now go through your own bias training as if what you are teaching might actually be racist.
00:13:20.000 Part B of the bill says, quote, that teachers must understand the systems of oppression.
00:13:25.000 And now let me just take a pause here.
00:13:27.000 A lot of our podcast listeners are not in Illinois.
00:13:30.000 This is coming to every single state across the country.
00:13:33.000 Illinois is an incubator for the rest of the country.
00:13:37.000 What you are reading here will be instilled and installed into public education all across the country.
00:13:44.000 They will perfect it in Illinois and they'll export it to other states.
00:13:47.000 They're already doing something similar in California.
00:13:49.000 Continues by saying, culturally responsive teachers and leaders understand that there are systems in our society that create and reinforce inequities, thereby creating oppressive conditions.
00:13:59.000 Educators work actively against these systems in their everyday roles in educational institutions.
00:14:04.000 Performance indicators, the culturally responsive teacher and leader will be able to understand the difference between prejudice, discrimination, racism, and how to operate at the interpersonal, intergroup, and institutional levels.
00:14:15.000 Collaborate with colleagues to determine how students from different backgrounds experience the classroom.
00:14:20.000 And of course, you must know.
00:14:22.000 You must be aware.
00:14:23.000 I'm quoting, this is unbelievable.
00:14:24.000 Be aware of the powers of privilege and the need for social advocacy and social action to better empower diverse students and communities.
00:14:33.000 It is now the obligation, it is now the requirement of a teacher in Illinois to mobilize their students for social activism and be aware of the effects of power and privilege and how social advocacy can better empower diverse students and communities.
00:14:51.000 Now that would be bad enough, but it continues by even saying no and understand how a system of inequity creates rules regarding student punishment that negatively impacts students of colors.
00:15:01.000 Oh yes, telling a young child who might be a student of color, a black or Hispanic kid, to not swear, to listen to the rules and discipline them for that might negatively impact the student for color, but not the white kid. 0.95
00:15:17.000 Unbelievably racist.
00:15:19.000 Continues to say this, quote, culturally responsive teachers and leaders view their students as individuals in the context of their families and communities.
00:15:28.000 They will provide parents with information what their child is expected to learn, know, and do at their grade level in ways to reinforce these concepts at home because the indoctrination must not just stop in the classroom.
00:15:38.000 It must spread all across the community.
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00:16:32.000 Part E of this bill, quote, leveraging student activism.
00:16:37.000 Culturally responsive teachers and leaders will support and create opportunities for student advocacy and representation in the content and classroom.
00:16:46.000 The culturally responsive teachers and leader will, quote, offer guidance, get this, to students on how to develop a, quote, self-advocacy plan to inform decisions and choices.
00:16:57.000 So it's not just enough to educate children, which, by the way, Illinois schools are some of the worst in the country.
00:17:03.000 Literacy rates, graduation rates, kids are not reading at grade level.
00:17:07.000 And while they're trying to teach kids to become activists, Illinois' education system objectively rates 30th according to the NAEP ranking in 2013.
00:17:16.000 Now, I spent a couple minutes just going through trying to find where Illinois education ranks now.
00:17:21.000 You cannot find objective education metrics anymore.
00:17:25.000 They bury them.
00:17:26.000 With that even being said, though, Illinois has an 86% graduation rate.
00:17:29.000 So 14% of kids that go to high school won't even graduate.
00:17:33.000 59% is the ISAT score in Illinois.
00:17:36.000 It's abysmal.
00:17:38.000 54% is the PSAE score.
00:17:42.000 And you go down to the lowest levels in Illinois.
00:17:45.000 The literacy rate is barely above 50%.
00:17:49.000 Amazingly, that's not even the worst education system in the country.
00:17:52.000 How we educate our children is an absolute disgrace.
00:17:55.000 School choice, parent empowerment, and challenging the public sector teacher unions is the only way to fix education in our country.
00:18:02.000 But what's the Illinois State Board of Education advocating for?
00:18:05.000 Part E, leveraging student activism.
00:18:08.000 I repeat, culturally responsive teachers and leaders will support and create opportunities for student advocacy and representation in the content and classroom.
00:18:17.000 It'll help students identify actions.
00:18:19.000 I quote, identify actions that can be taken to apply learning to develop opportunities and relationships for alliances.
00:18:28.000 Create a risk-taking space that promotes student activism and advocacy.
00:18:34.000 So for every young person that might be listening to this right now, if this ends up becoming law and you're a conservative student in Illinois, you should tell your teacher that you want to create an action plan to start a turning point USA group at your local high school.
00:18:49.000 Maybe there's some kids listening to this right now in St. Viter.
00:18:51.000 Maybe you're in Notre Dame.
00:18:52.000 Maybe you go to Hersey High School.
00:18:55.000 Maybe you go to Libertyville.
00:18:57.000 Well, you should research and offer student advocacy and activism content with real-world implications.
00:19:02.000 Listen carefully to this. 1.00
00:19:05.000 Your tax dollars in Illinois, and yes, your tax dollars outside of Illinois because federal government money is bailing out the broken Illinois pension system education system will now be going to subsidize the creation of a generation of Greta Thunbergs.
00:19:20.000 People that are ungrateful, people that have no wisdom, people that are now going to be mobilized for political action in their community. 0.53
00:19:28.000 And that's not even about Greta Thunberg. 0.99
00:19:30.000 I think she was used and manipulated by her parents and self-righteous activists for a political gain and purpose.
00:19:38.000 It's not even about Greta.
00:19:39.000 I don't mean to make it about her.
00:19:42.000 What I'm saying is that the type of activism she engaged in is now the blueprint that they want to employ in Illinois.
00:19:49.000 We've warned against this for quite some time here on this program, that education is far less about teaching young people how to be or how to interact in the world, and instead it's about training activists.
00:20:05.000 It's about giving students a toolkit, literally, as it says in this bill, to go destroy the country around them.
00:20:16.000 It continues by saying, quote, family and community collaboration, culturally responsive teachers and leaders will partner with families and communities to build rapport, form collaborative and mutual relationships, and engage in effective cross-cultural communication.
00:20:30.000 This entire bill is written using the belief that our country is irredeemably racist, and the only way to fix it is massive social action, mobilizing students and young people into the streets, and also teaching them that they have privilege if they're white in the curriculum using critical race theory.
00:20:56.000 And then finally, reinforcing that your actions can't actually improve your life.
00:21:05.000 That the world around you is so broken, the only action you can take is full-scale revolution.
00:21:12.000 In addition to that, the Illinois State Board of Education with the critical race theory racists and the Democrats that run the state of Illinois have partnered together with this piece of curriculum to teach young people that skin color matters.
00:21:27.000 I went to Wheeling High School.
00:21:29.000 53% English is a second language. 1.00
00:21:32.000 Skin color means nothing.
00:21:34.000 If you think skin color means something, you're a racist.
00:21:37.000 If you think that someone has privilege just based on the melanin content in their skin, you're a racist. 0.96
00:21:42.000 If you think you're better than someone based on your color of your skin, you're racist. 0.99
00:21:46.000 Black people can be racist to white people. 1.00
00:21:48.000 White people can be racist to black people. 1.00
00:21:50.000 Hispanic people can be racist to white people. 1.00
00:21:52.000 I could continue on and on. 0.89
00:21:54.000 And finally, this bill forces teachers, gives them no freedom whatsoever, gives them no suggestions or guidelines, but forces them to become community organizers.
00:22:08.000 You see, the left, they are not pleased that Illinois is already a bankrupt, miserable, broken state where Illinois loses a taxpayer every 11 minutes.
00:22:21.000 They're not satisfied.
00:22:22.000 They want a complete totalitarian takeover of Illinois to lead the country in misery.
00:22:29.000 If you're listening to this right now in Illinois, every single parent, regardless of political affiliation, needs to listen to this podcast.
00:22:37.000 If you're listening to this outside of Illinois, I encourage you guys to text this podcast to your family or friends.
00:22:43.000 Everything I have talked about here is actually reading the bill, which I'm not even sure every single person that voted for this bill in the Illinois State House actually read the bill.
00:22:54.000 That every single person on this Illinois Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, JCAR, actually understood this bill.
00:23:05.000 And so let me be very clear, though.
00:23:07.000 I'm going to reinforce something.
00:23:08.000 The JCAR does not require a governor's signature.
00:23:12.000 The ISBE, the Illinois State Board of Education, passed the Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards in December.
00:23:19.000 And so then they have this joint, allegedly bipartisan committee, the JCAR, split evenly between Democrats and Republicans from out the House and the Senate.
00:23:28.000 And they needed eight of their 12 members to oppose the cultural standards in order to block them.
00:23:32.000 But instead, it passed along party lines.
00:23:34.000 So all the Republicans voted against it.
00:23:36.000 Good.
00:23:37.000 So this will now come into effect in Illinois.
00:23:39.000 It's happening.
00:23:40.000 So I correct what I said earlier.
00:23:41.000 There's nothing you can do about this except get a new governor, get involved in your local community.
00:23:48.000 But in Illinois in particular, I know this so well, has wonderful people that were never involved locally in politics.
00:23:55.000 And the Democrats were relentless with public sector teacher unions.
00:23:59.000 They took over the school boards.
00:24:01.000 And well-meaning, mostly suburban families that were just raising their kids were not engaged enough to understand that their entire livelihood has been hijacked by the most radical, racist, and I say that word intentionally, forces in our country.
00:24:19.000 So this is now going to become implemented in the state of Illinois, the Illinois State Board of Education.
00:24:27.000 You can get a new governor.
00:24:28.000 You could try to sue about it, but it's not going to happen immediately.
00:24:31.000 It's going to take a little while to implement it.
00:24:35.000 But some of you are going to be listening to this program, God willing, 10 years from now and 20 years from now.
00:24:41.000 And we're going to be watching someone at Stevenson High School, one of the largest high schools in the country, all of a sudden mobilize their fellow students because their teacher told them to go protest climate change.
00:24:55.000 And when you see that story happen 10 years from now, I want you to remember back to this podcast.
00:25:00.000 When this was passed and it was a below-the-radar bill, this is going to pass all across the country.
00:25:06.000 That we must have culturally aware teachers.
00:25:09.000 Oh, the word, the term they use is culturally responsive teachers.
00:25:13.000 It's hard for me to even find the words to describe how dangerous, disappointing, and how threatening these guidelines are to our republic.
00:25:23.000 It will create millions of future liberal activists, create teachers that are incentivized, subsidized, and paid to create more Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:25:36.000 Republicans did the right thing and voted against it in the state committee.
00:25:39.000 They should have done a lot more than that.
00:25:41.000 Republicans in Illinois have been rather corrupt over the last couple decades and weak.
00:25:46.000 A very, very bad combination.
00:25:48.000 If we do not take the education of our children seriously, we will forever lose our country.
00:25:53.000 So now some of you are saying, Charlie, what can I possibly do?
00:25:56.000 Go run for school board in Illinois right now and reject these standards.
00:26:00.000 Say that District 214 or District 211 will not abide by these teaching standards.
00:26:10.000 Won't happen.
00:26:11.000 We're going to use our tax dollars the way we see fit.
00:26:13.000 We are not going to follow it.
00:26:15.000 I hope this results in a grassroots call to action of the wonderful patriotic people of Illinois that might have been taken it easy before to start running for school board positions across the country, to start running for local government.
00:26:26.000 This is going to impact all of Illinois, from the very conservative southern Illinois area of Fairfield and Mount Vernon and Salem and Centrilla, Nashville, Greenville, all the way up to northern Illinois, Crystal Lake, Waukegan, even Naperville and Rockford.
00:26:43.000 The Democrats are a lidless eye.
00:26:45.000 You know what a lidless eye is?
00:26:46.000 Imagine an eye that never blinks.
00:26:49.000 Lidless, the eyelid.
00:26:50.000 Imagine an eye without a lid.
00:26:52.000 They never stop staring.
00:26:55.000 They never stop working.
00:26:57.000 It is now time for conservatives to take this at least one fraction as seriously.
00:27:02.000 And for maybe some of your liberal friends that might be listening to this out of state, maybe you're listening to this program in South Carolina or Oregon.
00:27:09.000 Text this to your liberal friends.
00:27:11.000 Have them listen to this part of the program where I started up going through this Illinois culturally responsive teaching standard, which is now in, it's implemented, it's done, unless J.B. Pritzker will repeal it, which he won't.
00:27:24.000 Are Democrats okay with this?
00:27:26.000 Are they okay with teaching young people skin color matters? 1.00
00:27:29.000 They would have been amazing KKK members. 1.00
00:27:32.000 If you think skin color matters, why? 1.00
00:27:36.000 What makes a white person different than a black person? 1.00
00:27:38.000 Don't give me this nonsense of shared experiences and all that garbage. 1.00
00:27:42.000 There are twice as many white people that live in poverty in America than black people. 1.00
00:27:46.000 Yes, there are more white people, but this idea that every single white person in this country grows up with unforeseen and unprecedented privilege is nonsense.
00:27:54.000 You want to know the true privilege in our country?
00:27:55.000 Two-parent privilege.
00:27:57.000 We don't talk about that anymore.
00:27:59.000 You know that 78% of all prisoners in our country grew up without a father in the home?
00:28:03.000 You know that 74% of all children, black children, will grow up without a father in the home?
00:28:08.000 Why is that? 0.99
00:28:09.000 Because we subsidize single motherhood in our country. 0.59
00:28:11.000 So instead of the State Board of Education going in and teaching young black men to stay loyally married to the women that they impregnate or that they end up getting in a relationship with, we're passing this 35-page bill about, quote, leveraging student activism. 0.70
00:28:28.000 Instead of rebuilding the American family, which, by the way, if the Republican Party was serious about ever winning elections again, we, of course, have to talk about voter integrity, big tech censorship.
00:28:37.000 But the idea of rebuilding the American family and saying we're going to cut fatherlessness in half and we're going to be a responsible nation again is very, very popular.
00:28:46.000 Why Republicans don't talk about this is beyond me.
00:28:49.000 Some of them mention it here and there. 1.00
00:28:50.000 We need a Marshall Plan to slash single motherhood in our country. 1.00
00:28:54.000 And so this is where our education system is going. 1.00
00:28:57.000 Not teaching young people to make good choices, not teaching young people to act ethically.
00:29:01.000 Instead, look at everything through a lens that our country is racist, bigoted, homophobic, backwards.
00:29:07.000 It needs massive social revolution and action.
00:29:11.000 And this blueprint will come to all of your children's schools soon.
00:29:13.000 I don't care if you live in Wyoming.
00:29:15.000 I don't care if you live in Idaho.
00:29:17.000 And if you think you're above this, oh, it's never going to happen in my neighborhood.
00:29:22.000 I was in Illinois schools nine years ago, where if you dared to say any of this stuff, my Democrat teachers would have called you out for it.
00:29:32.000 If you would have said that skin color matters when I was in high school, nine years ago, everybody, nine years ago, I was in high school.
00:29:41.000 You would have been kicked out of the school.
00:29:42.000 If you would have said America was a racist country, even to the 53% Hispanic high school I was in, the Hispanic kids would have said, what are you talking about?
00:29:51.000 This is the least racist country in the world.
00:29:52.000 We love our country.
00:29:54.000 But now, that very same high school is now going to become a manufacturing facility for liberal activists.
00:30:03.000 It's going to become a chief exporter of activism.
00:30:06.000 So what do you do about it?
00:30:08.000 Boy, if you live in Illinois or across the country and you're not involved in your school board, I'm going to say this as lovingly as I can.
00:30:13.000 If you can't name every school board member right now, their names, if you can't name every school board member in your local area, and if you've not personally contacted them, then you have not done what the left has done.
00:30:25.000 Find out their names at least.
00:30:26.000 Email them.
00:30:27.000 Email them this podcast and say, do you support this?
00:30:30.000 Do you support the Illinois State Board of Education?
00:30:33.000 New notice of proposed amendments, which has now been passed and it's going to be implemented.
00:30:38.000 But most conservatives and Republicans are too busy building our businesses, going to church, building our local communities, taking care of our families.
00:30:45.000 I understand that.
00:30:46.000 I have sympathy for that.
00:30:48.000 But you're not going to have a country to do all that stuff in very soon because you're now going to have millions and millions of 13, 14, 15, and 16-year-olds instructed by law with your tax dollars to be taught that everything is racist, the country is awful, and then develop a social activism plan to get out in the streets about it.
00:31:07.000 You guys are smart.
00:31:08.000 You're a very smart audience.
00:31:10.000 You guys know exactly where that leads.
00:31:12.000 Do something about it.
00:31:14.000 Email me your thoughts on this and what you might be seeing in your states.
00:31:18.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:31:20.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:31:24.000 In our fast-paced world, it's tough to make reading a priority.
00:31:27.000 At least it used to be.
00:31:29.000 Use what I use to digest big ideas quickly at thinker.org, T-H-I-N-K-R.org.
00:31:35.000 They summarize the key ideas from new and noteworthy nonfiction, giving you access to an entire library of great books in bite-sized form.
00:31:42.000 Read or listen to hundreds of titles in a matter of minutes, from old classics like Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to the recent bestsellers like Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life.
00:31:51.000 When I'm going for walks or when I'm riding on the bike, I always pop open thinker.org, T-H-I-N-K-R.org, and I just try to learn something new every day.
00:32:01.000 That's something we talk about here a lot on this Charlie Kirk show.
00:32:03.000 So make sure you guys do it.
00:32:05.000 So if you want to challenge your preconceptions, expand your horizons, and become a better thinker, then go to thinker.org.
00:32:12.000 That's T-H-I-N-K-R.org to start a free trial today. 0.91
00:32:16.000 That's thinker.org, T-H-I-N-K-R.org.
00:32:21.000 Next question here from Michelle.
00:32:23.000 Congratulations, you and a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine.
00:32:26.000 I'd really appreciate it if Charlie put together a show describing how the aspects of our government, democracy, capitalism, et cetera, were founded on the Bible, giving specific references.
00:32:33.000 I'm trying to learn so I can teach others.
00:32:35.000 Michelle, thank you, Michelle, for the question.
00:32:37.000 We've done a couple podcasts on this.
00:32:39.000 I'm happy to dive into it even further about how the Bible was the foundation that built our entire country.
00:32:47.000 It is a fact that if anyone says anything different, they're using revisionist history.
00:32:52.000 From William Blackstone to John Locke to the Founding Fathers to Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, they were all inspired from the Bible and by the Bible.
00:33:00.000 What was the verse that the Founding Fathers put on the Liberty Bell?
00:33:04.000 It was from Leviticus that you might proclaim liberty of which the land that you are in.
00:33:09.000 The Founding Fathers were Bible-believing, church-attending patriots.
00:33:16.000 I talked about this a little bit in the program last week.
00:33:18.000 I encourage you guys to check it out.
00:33:19.000 But from people like William Bradford, who was a man of God and knew what the original colonial people wanted.
00:33:31.000 Actually, William Bradford is a phenomenal person to study.
00:33:34.000 I could dive into this at great length.
00:33:36.000 He saw the pilgrims originally try communism and socialism, some form of it, and it failed miserably.
00:33:43.000 And they never went back.
00:33:44.000 William Bradford was an advocate of private property.
00:33:47.000 And one of the most important documents that I encourage all of you to know and to understand is the Mayflower Compact.
00:33:54.000 The three most important documents that led to the American Constitution, which is the greatest political document ever written outside of the Bible, is the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, and the Declaration of Independence.
00:34:06.000 If you don't know those three documents, then you're missing out.
00:34:10.000 Now, they don't teach that in our schools anymore, obviously.
00:34:13.000 We just went through all of that.
00:34:14.000 They're definitely not going to teach it anymore.
00:34:16.000 But if you understand the Mayflower Compact, you understand so much about our country.
00:34:20.000 The Mayflower Compact, of course, was a document that was signed on the Mayflower as the Mayflower was coming to America.
00:34:27.000 And it was really amazing because the people that signed onto the compact, they did not know where they were going or what would happen to them.
00:34:34.000 But instead, they created almost this covenantal culture with each other, which was inspired, of course, by the Hebrews.
00:34:41.000 There were many people that were involved in the Mayflower Compact.
00:34:44.000 But what's so amazing is that they recognize in the compact that their rights come from God, that their charter is from above, and that they will be good to each other, not perfect to each other.
00:34:55.000 Now, William Bradford, who wrote an amazing book called The History of the Plymouth Plantation, I encourage all of you guys to check it out.
00:35:01.000 He articulated a lot of that.
00:35:03.000 And all the people that signed the Mayflower Compact understood Hebrew covenantal culture, which was a civil body of politics.
00:35:12.000 This big breakthrough was the consent of the governed, that if we do not agree to this government, it is invalid.
00:35:19.000 We do not agree to the government of King George.
00:35:21.000 We're going to go to a rocky, cold, blustery, barren wasteland, which ended up being very fertile land, but in the winter, it was very barren, and start something new.
00:35:32.000 And what was so incredible about the pilgrims, and by the way, why do we call them pilgrims?
00:35:37.000 Do you ever think about this?
00:35:39.000 We don't teach kids this very often.
00:35:41.000 We call them pilgrims because they thought they were going to go to New Israel.
00:35:45.000 People who go to Israel are on a pilgrimage, so then they come to America.
00:35:49.000 We call them pilgrims.
00:35:50.000 They were trying to create goodness on earth inspired by the Bible.
00:35:54.000 We call them pilgrims.
00:35:55.000 You never ask the question, well, why do we call them pilgrims?
00:35:57.000 We call people that go to Mecca as Muslims pilgrims.
00:36:00.000 Technically, they're on a pilgrimage.
00:36:02.000 Pilgrimage I don't believe in theologically, but they're still in a pilgrimage.
00:36:07.000 If you, as a Jew, go to Jerusalem, you're being a pilgrim.
00:36:11.000 But all of a sudden, you have Christians going from Britain to America, and we call them pilgrims because they were going to a land that they thought that they could create new inspired by God's teaching, the most important text ever written, the Holy Bible.
00:36:27.000 So I'm happy to go into it more.
00:36:28.000 The biggest reason, the other person that you just can't get over, and all the atheists and the secularists and the people that try to say that we are founded purely on reason and not on revelation or the teachings of the Bible, you can't get over William Blackstone.
00:36:41.000 You cannot get to the American founding without William Blackstone.
00:36:44.000 Impossible.
00:36:45.000 He was a devout Christian, and you can't, there's a gap there that many of the secular historians can't fill.
00:36:54.000 So happy to get into that more.
00:36:56.000 Thank you, Michelle, but I've done a couple episodes on it, so I don't want to belabor that too much.
00:36:59.000 Thank you.
00:37:00.000 Caleb says, quote, Caleb says this, and congratulations, Caleb, you win a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine.
00:37:05.000 Hi, I'm a 15-year-old homeschooler from Eastern Oregon.
00:37:08.000 I love what you're doing on your podcast and with Turning Point USA.
00:37:11.000 In our state, we haven't elected a Republican governor since 1982.
00:37:13.000 It's true.
00:37:14.000 Do you think it would be logical to be a registered Democrat and vote in the primaries to pick the less radical leftists?
00:37:19.000 What are your thoughts?
00:37:19.000 Thank you.
00:37:19.000 Well, you're 15 years old and you're wise beyond your years to be asking a question like that.
00:37:23.000 Wisdom is the knowledge of all things eternal, not just the knowledge of a bunch of stuff.
00:37:27.000 And we don't teach our children wisdom anymore because we don't teach them the Bible.
00:37:30.000 Without God, there is no wisdom.
00:37:32.000 So in the case of the Ivy Leagues, we have a bunch of overeducated, indebted, angry young people that know a bunch of facts about things that are irrelevant but have no wisdom.
00:37:43.000 But Caleb, you have wisdom.
00:37:44.000 No, I wouldn't necessarily agree to do that.
00:37:47.000 I'm not a big believer in camouflage politics, saying you're one thing, even though you might be another.
00:37:54.000 I'm a believer that you tell people who you are honestly.
00:37:57.000 Whether or not you tell the truth in the little things, I think actually manifests whether or not you're going to tell the truth in the big things.
00:38:03.000 So maybe there might be a strategy or a tactical reason to do that.
00:38:07.000 I personally wouldn't do that.
00:38:08.000 I personally wouldn't be able to register as a Democrat and vote as a Democrat.
00:38:12.000 Now, I'm a registered independent because I'm legitimately an independent.
00:38:14.000 I will vote more Republican, obviously, than Democrat.
00:38:16.000 I've never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I'm not a Republican.
00:38:19.000 I tell people all the time, I am a Christian, an American, a constitutionalist, a conservative, then a Republican.
00:38:25.000 I'm not against anyone that's a registered Republican.
00:38:28.000 If you listen to this program with regularity, you know that I criticize Republicans probably more than Democrats.
00:38:32.000 Great question, Caleb.
00:38:33.000 Next question from Mike.
00:38:35.000 I'm not sure why nobody talks about this, but the platform Trump ran on appears to be the platform of the Reform Party started by Ross Perot.
00:38:41.000 It's true.
00:38:42.000 Trump was a member of that party and once rumored to be a presidential candidate for them.
00:38:45.000 It should come as no surprise that Trump was able to get real voters to come out for him.
00:38:49.000 The last time any of these voters came out for was for Ross Perot.
00:38:52.000 Could you please address the similarities between Trump and Reform Party platforms on one of your podcasts?
00:38:56.000 Or if you don't know, they are similar, why they are not, Mike.
00:39:00.000 It's a great question.
00:39:01.000 Thank you, Mike.
00:39:02.000 Yes, they are very similar.
00:39:03.000 So, Ross Perot just passed away.
00:39:05.000 I actually know his son, Ross Perot Jr.
00:39:07.000 Great guy.
00:39:08.000 Ross Perot was a Renaissance man, served in the military, incredibly successful businessman, really, really interesting, fascinating guy.
00:39:15.000 Ran for president twice.
00:39:17.000 He ran for president in 1992 and 1996.
00:39:21.000 1992 was his more successful run for the presidency.
00:39:25.000 Ran under the Reform Party.
00:39:26.000 And some people say that Bill Clinton won the presidency in 1992 because of Ross Perot.
00:39:32.000 He took away from Republicans.
00:39:33.000 There's some evidence to show that.
00:39:35.000 There's also evidence to show that he took away from both Republicans and Democrats.
00:39:38.000 Ross Perot got around 22% of the vote.
00:39:41.000 The Ross Perot Revolution was really about talking about how trade and immigration, the current policy that H.W. Bush were pushing forward, were hurting the country.
00:39:52.000 Ross Perot famously used to say, do you hear that sucking noise? 0.99
00:39:56.000 That's Mexico stealing our jobs. 0.93
00:39:58.000 I wonder who said that later on.
00:40:01.000 And so Ross Perot was a true American patriot.
00:40:04.000 He loved his country.
00:40:05.000 He self-financed much of his race.
00:40:08.000 The Reform Party was always about taking a non-traditional approach to American politics.
00:40:12.000 Very, very effective.
00:40:14.000 People still know Ross Perot.
00:40:16.000 I've seen Ross Perot bumper stickers.
00:40:18.000 But Donald Trump definitely followed in the line of thinking from Ross Perot.
00:40:23.000 More populist in nature, not afraid to call out people in both political parties.
00:40:27.000 And we miss Ross Perot.
00:40:28.000 He recently passed away.
00:40:29.000 But the legacy lives on in those of us that are unafraid to think outside of the box, think creatively, and do so for our country.
00:40:36.000 I want to thank all of you guys for emailing us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:40:39.000 If you're fired up and you want to do something about what's happening to our country, maybe our conversation on the Illinois State Board of Education bill compel you to action, then get involved at TurningPointUSA, TPUSA.com.
00:40:50.000 Email us your thoughts on this podcast, especially if you live in the state of Illinois.
00:40:54.000 I want to hear what you're thinking, what you're doing.
00:40:55.000 And do me a favor.
00:40:57.000 Can you text this episode to some of your other friends, maybe 10 of your friends, 12 of your friends, maybe one of your friends, who knows?
00:41:03.000 About what's happening in Illinois.
00:41:04.000 The rest of the country needs to know about this.
00:41:06.000 We can't ignore it any longer.
00:41:08.000 The longer we kind of just continue to sleep and act as if this does not matter, we're going to keep losing our country.
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