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00:02:56.000So there's a couple of questions that will just keep on getting sent to us in a lot of different ways.
00:03:01.000And here's one I want to get to, which actually has to do with this beautiful declaration and constitution that I'm reading from here at Hillsdale, which is, I don't hear any conservatives referencing the benefits of pursuing term limits via the Convention of States, change of the Constitution.
00:03:19.000I would appreciate your opinion on the subject.
00:03:22.000That, in effect, would reduce the corporate money influence on elections.
00:03:35.000However, they are not the only solution.
00:03:38.000I think they generally work very, very well.
00:03:42.000So there is a correlation between states that have term limits and how economically free they are, about their business climate, about how they're able to stave off political corruption and the quality of their schools.
00:03:58.000One state in particular has term limits, and it actually made things worse.
00:04:05.000And I tell people I'm a big term limits fan.
00:04:07.000I think it will work, but there will be downsides.
00:04:10.000Now, one of the downsides of when you have term limits is that it almost reinforces, if the state is very corrupt and very wealthy, a system where the lobbyists truly run everything and there is no way to possibly push back against it.
00:04:26.000I think there is a counter argument to that, and I'll get to it because, again, I am in support of term limits.
00:04:30.000But I think we must be honest and fair about the positives and negatives of every single one of these kind of bumper sticker type promises.
00:04:37.000Like, if we only had term limits, then this would happen.
00:04:39.000Well, there's a downside, like all things in mind.
00:04:42.000And the state I'm talking about, of course, is California.
00:04:45.000California is without a doubt one of the most corrupt, if not the most corrupt, states in the Union.
00:05:01.000Well, first, before I get to that, let's just go through why term limits generally work.
00:05:05.000Term limits prevent career politicians.
00:05:08.000It requires fresh blood, new ambition, that the voters have to look at new candidates and not just say, oh, I know that guy, he did me a favor, whatever.
00:05:16.000No, they have to go in with a new look and people, they have to earn their vote.
00:05:20.000They can't use the power of incumbency to get reelected.
00:05:24.000I think it actually creates an active and alert citizenry, alert citizenry.
00:05:30.000I think it creates a citizenry that is more engaged and involved.
00:05:35.000With that being said, though, California, the exact opposite happened.
00:05:39.000When California passed term limits, California then took a turn that only elected Democrats statewide.
00:05:45.000Because of the heavy influence of CalPERS, you know what CalPERS is?
00:05:49.000It's the California Pension Fund and the people that are beneficiaries of it.
00:05:54.000And the California Civil Service, which is in relationship and harmony with AppScammy and the public sector teacher unions that basically run the state of California, they designed a system that made term limits work for them.
00:06:07.000That if you wanted to get elected to anything in California meaningful, you had to go through the special interests in order to get power in Sacramento.
00:06:15.000Therefore, it gave all the power to who?
00:06:34.000But I'm a little bit less enthusiastic because in some sense, in some ways, I see that there are good politicians that have to no longer able to be politicians because of term limits.
00:06:48.000Now, sometimes ambition can be a very good thing in politics.
00:06:52.000Sometimes ambition can be a very bad thing in politics.
00:06:57.000Ron DeSantis is a terrific governor of Florida.
00:07:00.000He's a terrific governor because he has courage and wisdom.
00:07:03.000He's also a good governor, though, because he probably wants to be president.
00:07:07.000So his ambition makes him want to deliver results that he can brag about.
00:07:12.000Ambition in and of itself is not necessarily a bad thing.
00:07:16.000Now, what is bad, though, is when you want to use the purse strings of the government to purchase votes or purchase favor so that you can stay in power.
00:07:24.000That I find to be largely morally reprehensible.
00:07:28.000And so I think term limits are a great idea, especially for Congress.
00:07:46.000You see, if I had my system and I could wave a wand of which I do not have, I would have strict lobbying reform.
00:07:52.000I would have campaign finance reform, corporate money reform, and yes, term limits for staffers.
00:07:58.000And I would say that former members of Congress cannot become registered lobbyists, and former members of Congress cannot become staffers, and staffers cannot become lobbyists either.
00:08:08.000Go find a real job like the rest of us.
00:08:11.000Not go become what I call a lobbyist, a legislative smuggler.
00:08:16.000You see, in Washington, D.C., the reason why good ideas die is that getting an idea through Washington, D.C. is like getting it across East and West Germany or the DMZ.
00:08:55.000One of the worst amendments of the U.S. Constitution, as I bring up my Hillsdale College Constitution here, was the 17th Amendment.
00:09:04.000The 17th Amendment, I believe, was one of the worst decisions ever made, which is the Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state.
00:09:46.000It has to be slowed down, methodical in a process.
00:09:49.000That's why I think that the administrative state that has been implemented is such an unprecedented force and threat to our freedom and liberty.
00:10:14.000Congress is supposed to do it, but Congress is too busy trying to find out why the shaman man walked into the Senate building and some guy came with zip ties who looked like he was out of a movie mash.
00:10:30.000Instead of overseeing this massive leviathan of the administrative state, and at Turning Point USA, we say big government sucks because we know the implications that that administrative state has against entrepreneurs, small businesses, and free people.
00:10:44.000And you know who gets to navigate the administrative state?
00:10:48.000And so as I criticize corporations, we must always remember that they are in bed and in partnership with the massive leviathan of the administrative state.
00:10:56.000Unelected, unknown, and completely unaccountable, the fourth branch of government.
00:11:11.000Term limits is a measure that must be done, amongst other robust reforms that would make the American political system more transparent and accountable to you, the sovereign, the people, the voters.
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00:14:39.000Especially, it's not even more nuanced.
00:14:40.000It's just not true, especially when you look at the Northwest Territories and the Northwest Ordinance and the abolition of slavery.
00:14:48.000You look at how Abraham Lincoln, the great Abraham Lincoln, was a white man.
00:14:52.000Obviously, he cared about black lives.
00:14:54.000I'll tell you a story about Abraham Lincoln that I love, even though the San Francisco Zealots say that Abraham Lincoln did not adequately care about black lives.
00:15:00.000Yeah, he lost his life caring about black lives.
00:15:02.000Okay, he was shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theater caring about black lives.
00:15:23.000And then he became, and he became a fierce defender for abolition, not defender, proponent for abolition.
00:15:30.000And he actually at one point did not like the American founding documents.
00:15:33.000Then he read them with fresh eyes and he realized that the Declaration of the Constitution were, in one way, a promissory note, a ticket, a gateway for black emancipation.
00:15:45.000So Frederick Douglass did not like something that was happening in the Civil War.
00:15:49.000He did not like the mistreatment of a certain black platoon.
00:16:39.000Now, we don't know what Abraham Lincoln's voice exactly sounded like, but through oral tradition and through custom, he did kind of have that low, raspy voice.
00:16:47.000And of course, Daniel Day-Lewis, I think, did a great job of personifying it.
00:16:51.000Now, what does that question have to do with your question?
00:16:54.000Well, first of all, the point is that not every single white person was indecent to blacks.
00:17:00.000Now, was there a form of systemic racism towards blacks or systemic laws against them?
00:17:06.000There were Jim Crow laws and poll taxes.
00:17:09.000However, there were states that were eradicating them.
00:17:11.000And despite all of that, black welfare and black well-being was improving prior to the passage of the Great Society and the Civil Rights Act.
00:17:20.000The larger issue right here is not racial conflict.
00:17:23.000And if you want to really say something that's controversial, even slavery itself is not about racism.
00:17:31.000Even slavery itself is not about racism.
00:17:33.000Now, before Media Matters has a field day writing this up, I'm just quoting Thomas Sowell, the entire first part of his book, Discrimination and Disparities.
00:17:41.000So maybe in a unique four-dimensional underwater chess way, I actually might get Media Matters to read Thomas Sowell, where he said that slavery has never been about race.
00:17:50.000It's always been about economics and it's been about exploitation.
00:17:54.000That this idea that slavery and race are directly tied together is a new phenomenon created simply and solely for the benefit.
00:18:02.000Now, did for the benefit of a certain political party, now, did certain people have racial resentment because of slavery and the tradition of slavery and the dehumanizing nature of it?
00:18:12.000But this idea of ancestral discrimination or ancestral wrongdoing, then applying itself to today and then blaming all of the wrongdoing with what you experience now today is very, very dangerous and very tricky.
00:18:26.000And I want to explore that because it's a great question.
00:18:28.000And what should we do about it, if anything?
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00:18:34.000For many others, it's a day to get through.
00:18:36.000Because Father's Day hurts if you don't have a father.
00:18:39.000Fatherlessness drives many bad outcomes in America, from teen pregnancy to incarceration.
00:18:43.000And astounding 85% of youth in prison come from fatherless homes, 20 times the national average.
00:18:49.000But there's a path forward from these grim statistics.
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00:18:56.000It features the journey of three inner city Chicago men from fatherlessness to gangs and from life in prison to prison ministry programs that set them on the road to redemption and lives as productive members of society.
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00:21:09.000Now, Native American reservations are a very tricky deal because they claim sovereignty when they want it, yet they want all the free stuff from the U.S. taxpayer.
00:21:18.000And so there's really nothing we can do about how they conduct their own laws and how they conduct their own practices.
00:21:24.000But it is the largest open-air collectivist experiment in America.
00:21:52.000Let's just pretend that the American nation made some mistakes against Native Americans, which I have a soft spot for because I generally like it when Native Americans, when anyone protects their land, their people, their customs, their language, their culture.
00:22:07.000And if Native Americans wanted to do that, then so be it.
00:22:10.000Now, what's done is done, but then we did something arguably not worse, but really bad and very damaging.
00:22:17.000We decided to create a massive social welfare state, which has now addicted Native Americans and Indigenous people and Indians on government welfare where there is no hope.
00:22:30.000From all across America, from Shiprock, New Mexico to the Iroquois to Alaska.
00:22:39.000So what should have been an opportunity for empowerment and increasing literacy and entrepreneurship, Natives are now in a point of desolation.
00:22:51.000So what I'm getting at here, though, is we've tried massive reparations.
00:22:55.000The Great Society Program was one of the largest social welfare interventions in American history that attempted to give black America more stuff.
00:23:05.000And what it did is it destroyed the black family where 22% of black children were born without a father back before the Great Society program.
00:23:13.000And now it's well over 77%, according to the Washington Examiner.
00:23:18.000And so how much more should we try to do to right the wrong of the past?
00:23:22.000And that's why there's a terrific book.
00:23:23.000I think it was actually written by Jason Riley.
00:23:49.000They pit groups against each other, forcing Germany to have to pay reparations for the rest of the continent for a war that they were blamed for, even though it was way more complicated than that.
00:24:01.000So the seeds for authoritarian resentment mix that with nihilistic Nietzsche philosophy where every single conscripted soldier in World War I in the German army was forced to read Frederick Nietzsche because of his overemphasis on the rejection of metaphysics and how if you embrace your own will or the ubermensch for a greater purpose, then you can actually live a fulfilling life.
00:24:26.000Reparations have a track record of being awful for society and for the people that want to receive them.
00:24:36.000And so, Taylor, I appreciate the question.
00:24:38.000I hope that helped answer the question.
00:24:41.000Here's a question here from Carl from Arizona.
00:24:43.000Hey, Charlie, I just heard the governor of Arizona avoid answer whether or not Trump is the leader of the party.
00:25:40.000Look, of course he's still the leader of the party, and his ideas are the leading of the party.
00:25:44.000And this is something that I really want to thank Sean Hannity for putting these people on notice, which is the question is, what kind of party do we want?
00:25:56.000We want to put the interests of our nation first.
00:26:01.000There's nothing that frustrates me more than leaders that try to pander to the needs, wants, and interests of something overseas while our own nation is decaying.
00:26:15.000For example, we spent over $500,000 on studies from the National Science Foundation to study if taking a selfie while smiling and then looking at it later at the day will make you happy.
00:26:31.000And that's not as much about pandering to other nations, not putting our country first, but that is something of where's our priority in government?
00:26:38.000What do you think $500,000 could have done for black or Hispanic families in the inner city for charter schools?
00:26:48.000I just met with a guy from charter schools from Hillsdale.
00:26:50.000That could get a charter school started in the inner city.
00:26:52.000Instead, we're studying this nonsense, play cut 54.
00:26:56.000One of my other all-time favorites from the National Science Foundation, they wanted to know if you take a selfie of yourself while smiling and you look at it later in the day, will that make you happy?
00:27:55.000This year, my church campus requiring either a negative COVID test or for you to be fully vaccinated, for you to go to camp, 100% outdoor church camp.
00:28:02.000We're not giving our money to this camp this year because of that reason.
00:28:04.000My question is: what do I say to people who don't understand this whole thing is for theater because many of them just think getting a COVID test is no big deal.
00:28:13.000They don't understand the bigger meaning behind that.
00:28:26.000With that being said, this has now gone from a momentary virus that could have been handled with therapeutics, maturity, wisdom, vitamin D, a brisk walk, and main trying to limit obesity, and then protecting the most vulnerable, those over 65 that have comorbidities, underlying health conditions, and being and acting, I think, in a way with proper prudence and practical wisdom into a massive social control exercise, which has been such a disaster and has been just, in my opinion,
00:29:05.000And so, if you believe that's the right thing to do, not go to that camp, then good for you.
00:29:09.000And I'm a firm opponent to mandatory vaccinations.
00:29:15.000And we're going to have some announcements about that very soon.
00:29:17.000Let's get to some more questions here.
00:29:20.000Here's one: Charlie, my question is: what we can do with finance, helping with financing positive morale seekers like yourself, bookstores, and other forces to combat the evil force we have to deal with every day, BLM and the left, and all of the rest rarely charge for things because of large donations from the wealthy and corporations.
00:29:37.000How do we get corporation sponsors on board and be gutsy enough to help Chris?
00:29:41.000Well, look, that's why I want to thank all of you for supporting us at charliekirk.com/slash support.
00:29:45.000Look, we're not going to be Delta Airlines and Coca-Cola is not going to support the Charlie Kirk show anytime soon.
00:29:51.000But I could tell you this: that those of you that get behind us and support us mean so much.
00:29:56.000You guys can do that at charliekirk.com.
00:29:58.000But also, this, every single action you guys make, and that's why I want to encourage you to support our sponsors on our program.
00:30:04.000When we tell you about these sponsors, it's also a way to help our program continue to grow and reach millions of young people every single year.
00:30:11.000But you're making a point that's really important, which is how do we push back against these corporations?
00:30:16.000Well, one of the ways to push back the corporations is not just with your dollars, but with your voice.
00:30:22.000Expressing your displeasure with how Coca-Cola has become a Democrat super PAC and Delta Airlines has also done the same makes a big difference.
00:30:30.000Coca-Cola's retreated, and it's not easy.
00:30:36.000But I can tell you that when people that have strong morals and strong ethics act with courage in opposition to something that seems to be overwhelming odds, never underestimate those people.
00:30:50.000And that is in the corporate structure, that is in enterprise, that is whatever it might be.
00:30:55.000And the other thing is, start new businesses.
00:30:58.000If you're a young person listening to this podcast and you have a good idea for a business or you already have a business that's working, email it to me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:31:26.000Everyone thinks I'm crazy for talking about raising my kids one day to think independently and not exposing in the violent video games, cable, TV, and YouTube.
00:32:13.000One of my favorite stories to talk about is how in San Francisco, they decriminalized public nudity.
00:32:18.000And instead of talking about the moral issue why people should not be naked in public, the reason why they temporarily said they should not do it is for sanitary reasons, was that it wasn't clean.
00:32:28.000Now, not anything that, oh, an eight-year-old shouldn't see someone without clothes on.
00:32:32.000How dare we make a moral judgment like that?
00:32:34.000We should just allow everything to happen at all times.
00:32:37.000And so I think you should kind of use this as an example of you should be proud of the fact that you are willing to say that your children should not be exposed to everything the broken world has to offer until they are ready to experience that.
00:32:51.000And that takes them being raised in proper wisdom, reading things that matter, understanding good versus evil and the transcendent order that really properly organizes people's capacity to work in this chaotic world.
00:33:05.000I could tell you this, that if I was raised in America today, exposed to all this garbage and this nonsense, I don't know what would have happened.
00:33:13.000You see, when I was raised 10 years ago, there was this tradition that children should not see certain things, that children should be brought up in the ways of the nation and the culture.
00:33:46.000But until they're raised up in those ways, that's why the tradition of protecting children was important.
00:33:52.000Because it takes many years to have children's broken nature and the negative nature of indulgence and selfishness and narcissism change and hopefully in ethical conduct where they want to pursue the good, be courageous, and not necessarily always make everything about themselves.
00:34:10.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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