00:00:27.000It's our Ask Me Anything episode where I take questions from listeners from you guys, freedom at charliekirk.com and also some of our attendees at the Young Women's Leadership Summit here at Turning Point USA in Dallas, Texas.
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00:00:55.000I take a lot of your questions such as was America built on stolen land?
00:00:59.000What is the proper way to view our history?
00:01:01.000What should conservatives fight for in this moment?
00:01:27.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:34.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:05.000I'm starting to see that happen more and more.
00:02:07.000So I'm going to get to one of the questions here.
00:02:09.000Lisa says, Charlie, do you see any comparisons between what's happening now and what happened in the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Revolution?
00:02:18.000And that actually ties perfectly to this question, this tape I want to play, Cut 75 in a second, of this parent who testified, I think it was Loudoun County Schools, wasn't it?
00:02:30.000And she points out all the identical traits behind the Cultural Revolution.
00:02:34.000So maybe you know what Mao's Red Book was.
00:02:36.000Well, Mao's Red Book was required reading for every single child and then eventually adult in China to walk around with quotes from Mao Seitong that literally deified him.
00:02:45.000Maybe you know about the Mao's Red Guard, where people that went around and they spied on private conversations and journals of citizens.
00:02:53.000And if they said anything against Mao, they would be tried and executed.
00:02:56.000The Cultural Revolution was a complete deletion of history, of books thrown down memory holes, to use an Orwellian term.
00:03:04.000And there are some similarly eerie resemblances.
00:03:08.000And then you should ask yourself the question, why are there so many identical patterns?
00:03:15.000But first, listen to this parent who testified at a school board meeting, who shows that we are going down the same road as the Cultural Revolution, CUT 75.
00:03:26.000I've been very alarmed about what's going on in our school.
00:03:29.000You are now teaching, training our children to be social justice warriors and to loathe our country and our history.
00:03:36.000Going up in Mao, China, all this seemed very familiar.
00:03:39.000The communist regime used the same critical theory to divide people.
00:03:44.000The only difference is they use class instead of race.
00:03:47.000During the Cultural Revolution, I witnessed students and teachers again turned against each other.
00:03:51.000We changed school names to be politically correct.
00:03:54.000We were taught to denounce our heritage.
00:03:57.000The Red Guards destroy anything that is not communist.
00:04:00.000Oats, statues, books, and anything else.
00:04:04.000We are also encouraged to report on each other, just like the student equity ambassador program and the bias reporting system.
00:04:12.000This is indeed American version of the Chinese communist, the Chinese cultural revolution.
00:04:17.000The critical race theory has its roots in cultural Marxism.
00:04:21.000It should have no place in our schools.
00:04:31.000What she said is the reporting system is exactly what happened in the Cultural Revolution.
00:04:38.000If you guys know anything about what's happening on college campuses across the country, of which I am a critic of, we are incentivizing and paying students to spy on their fellow classmates if they are not adequately agreeable to the equity climate.
00:04:53.000The Cultural Revolution was a socio-political purge that happened until 1966 for about 10 years, launched by Mao Cedong.
00:05:02.000It got rid of any sort of remnants of the idea of private property or a traditional transcendent order.
00:05:07.000It even got rid of some Confucian ideology.
00:05:10.000Of course, it contributed to the great Chinese famine.
00:05:14.000And this was all part of this great leap forward.
00:05:16.000This is this constant indulgence in this historicist Hegelian lie, the German philosopher of historicism, that we are all marching towards perfection and eventually we're going to get there.
00:05:29.000We just got to get rid of everything bad around us.
00:05:31.000It's not people that need to be improved.
00:05:33.000It's not people that need to make better decisions.
00:05:35.000It's not people that need to have self-government or have a constitution over themselves.
00:05:50.000We don't know the exact numbers because there were hundreds of square miles of graveyards of bones they had to dispose of.
00:05:58.000Well over 10 million urban intellectual young people were sent to the countryside and were never seen again.
00:06:07.000But this idea of social control seems to always seem to rear its ugly and evil and pernicious head.
00:06:14.000It's because human beings do not change.
00:06:17.000A smaller and smaller group of people desire and lust to control more and more.
00:06:24.000And what we saw in the cultural revolution as articulated by this amazing parent, this incredible parent in Louden school system is now coming here.
00:06:32.000And the only way you can fight back against it and the only way we can fight back against it is early and preemptively.
00:06:38.000As soon as you see it, we must have bold and dramatic action.
00:06:42.000Almost every single person that lived through Mussolini or Stalin or Mao can tell you that they wish they would have done more earlier.
00:07:13.000It's, Charlie, I have a lot of friends who are Christians but put little to no effort into their politics or their views.
00:07:19.000What is the best way to encourage fellow believers to be involved in politics or at least educated on what they believe?
00:07:24.000Faith 18 from the California Baptist University.
00:07:28.000So I bet she's around a lot of Christians that are serious about their faith, but not so serious about government.
00:07:32.000Well, the most important thing you can do in your life is give your life to Jesus Christ.
00:07:35.000The second most important thing is to make sure you can do the first thing.
00:07:38.000In China, do you think churches are flourishing in China right now?
00:07:43.000No, Mao went after every single place of worship and of faith.
00:07:48.000You see, the church is not able to exist in a dominant atheistic, status, secularist environment.
00:07:54.000The cultural revolution was intent on steamrolling people that believed in a transcendent order.
00:08:02.000So if you believe in that, then you must contest.
00:08:04.000You must contend for the freedom to be able to do that.
00:08:08.000Deuteronomy 6 goes through the laws that man must live by.
00:08:13.000Jesus Christ said the greatest commandment is to, of course, put the Lord your God first, always.
00:08:20.000The second greatest commandment is to love your neighbor as yourself.
00:08:22.000And he says, on those two things hang the laws of all the prophets.
00:08:28.000And what he means by, there's many different interpretations of that, but if you do not have the civil framework to be able to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind, because we're all going to be in prison and you're not going to be able to even flourish or have any sort of capacity to live, then how are we even able to spread the gospel at all?
00:08:46.000And some people say, Charlie, that's never going to happen here.
00:08:49.000They've said that before, and it's already starting to diminish.
00:08:52.000We're already seeing religious conscious disappear.
00:08:54.000We're already seeing pastors go to prison.
00:08:56.000We saw the church lockdowns last year, which are one of the greatest measures of unconstitutional, I would argue, illegal and immoral actions of government.
00:09:04.000We have Canadian pastors still in prison.
00:09:08.000Is the gospel spreading in North Korea right now?
00:09:10.000We have a North Korea story we can share soon.
00:09:15.000If we do not contend for the framework to be able to spread the good news, then can the good news actually be heard as salt and light to all people?
00:09:25.000Now, some Christians don't want to get involved in politics at all because they say that it's messy and they don't like it.
00:09:30.000Well, the Bible has a lot to say about civil government.
00:09:33.000The Bible has a lot to say about the ecclesia getting involved in the public square.
00:09:37.000But more than anything else, I believe that we are commanded to bring the truths of the gospel and of the Bible to everywhere we possibly can.
00:09:47.000And if we're just going to be indifferent about government, about civil government, about the consent of the governed, then I believe that that's a major missing piece, a serious missing component.
00:09:58.000So what can we do to educate other people on this?
00:10:00.000Well, we try to do that here on this podcast, so I encourage you guys to send this to your friends that might be on the fence or might not be interested at all.
00:10:06.000But more than anything else, also read Vishal Mengel Waldi's book on the book that built your world.
00:10:13.000Know about the faith and the reverence of our founding fathers.
00:10:17.000Read The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk from Burke to T.S. Eliot.
00:10:23.000Get deep into this three-tied knot about honoring those that came before us and preserving what we have now, hopefully, and then giving something to the next generation that's not born yet.
00:10:35.000Your question was, how do we encourage fellow believers to be involved in politics or at least educated on what they believe?
00:10:41.000It's a clear call to action that if they sit idly by and do nothing and they just say, hey, I don't really care what government does, well, then government's going to care about you.
00:10:50.000They say, well, we want separation of church and state.
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00:12:24.000It says, Charlie, how do you debunk or push back against this idea that America was built on stolen land?
00:12:32.000Well, if you go back to the history of colonial America, it's actually really fascinating.
00:12:36.000I encourage everyone to go read the Mayflower Compact.
00:12:39.000The Mayflower Compact was one of several documents that inspired the American founding.
00:12:44.000The Magna Carta to the Mayflower Compact has a direct connection to Common Sense by Thomas Paine, the Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights.
00:12:55.000They all have a transcendent theme of worshiping the divine, naturally granted rights, self-government, independent judiciary, checks and balances.
00:13:04.000Started with the Magna Carta and the Mayflower Compact, which is really interesting because there's about 123 people that signed that.
00:13:28.000I think they thought they were going to Virginia.
00:13:30.000Mayflower, the Mayflower came, I think, in 1620, if I'm not mistaken.
00:13:34.000Now, the first lie is that American settlers and pilgrims, they're called pilgrims because they thought they were going to New Israel.
00:13:42.000Again, we call people that go on a pilgrimage either on the Hajj, which is the Islamic word for it or the Arabic word for it, or if you're going to Israel as a Christian or a Jew, but we call them pilgrims because they were coming to America because they wanted to create new Israel.
00:13:56.000That's one of the main reasons they left in the first place because of religious persecution under the monarchy in Britain or in the British Empire.
00:14:04.000So they come to America and the slave trade predated American colonialists coming, the British colonialists of Roger Williams and the reflections on the Plymouth Plantation, which is a terrific piece of literature that I encourage all of you to read.
00:14:17.000So when they came to America, it was 41 people.
00:15:03.000So there was indigenous people, and they had a tradition and they had custom and they had some form of regular order.
00:15:10.000Now, number one, here's a couple lies about the indigenous people.
00:15:13.000And then I will perfectly admit that the way that we treated indigenous people and Native Americans in certain scenarios was less than desirable and something that we should not necessarily be proud of.
00:15:21.000With that being said, there's a lot more nuance to this history than it's taught in school.
00:15:25.000Number one, Indigenous people fought amongst themselves incredibly brutally.
00:15:30.000These were not necessarily always peaceful people.
00:15:33.000The term scalper actually comes from the Iroquois fighting the Sioux, fighting the Navajo, fighting all sorts of indigenous tribes fighting each other.
00:15:43.000So the fact that the white man came in and we were the reason that all of a sudden all this conflict happened is not true.
00:15:48.000Number two, the idea of private property was a completely unknown concept to Native Americans.
00:15:54.000Private property is a biblical concept that came from literally Abraham contracting the first ever real estate deal done in human history that we know of, where he goes to Hebron and he's like, look, I want to have a place to be able to bury myself and bury my children and grandchildren.
00:16:21.000It's repeated many times in the scriptures.
00:16:22.000So this idea then manifested itself in what we know as private property.
00:16:26.000That's why John Locke wrote about life, liberty, and property.
00:16:29.000Now, the provocative thing, which happens to be true, which we say here on this program, is how could you possibly steal what was never owned?
00:16:37.000The founding fathers and Americans that came here, there was nothing to steal because it was not owned.
00:16:41.000Now, this argument that there was mistreatment of Indigenous people and there was abuse of power, I'm perfectly cool with that argument.
00:16:47.000In fact, I have a soft place in my heart for any person that wants to preserve the land of which they are in.
00:17:09.000However, this idea that was completely stolen is just not true.
00:17:13.000These colonies were formed in Massachusetts and Connecticut and Rhode Island largely on religious principles, Pennsylvania, mostly Pennsylvania Dutch and Quakers, on an idea of self-government without ever impacting most Indigenous and Native American populations.
00:17:27.000In the next segment, I'm going to get into more of that history.
00:17:30.000But you cannot steal what was never owned.
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00:19:41.000Which, by the way, in a bizarre turn of events, the French government is way more conservative than our own government.
00:19:47.000Emmanuel Macron is talking about how French culture is terrific, about how the French language is awesome, about how he wants to deport illegal aliens, about how postmodernism is destroying France.
00:19:56.000Now, I'm a little bit salty about this because a lot of this actually came from France.
00:19:59.000Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, all these philosophers that might say, Charlie, who are those people?
00:20:07.000I read them for you so you can enjoy a life, hopefully, of wisdom and truth and happiness, not worry about this entire nihilistic diatribe of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
00:21:10.000And by the way, it's totally evil and awful.
00:21:13.000But you're not allowed to say that because in France, there are all these postmodernist, pleasure-seeking, very unhappy people that have, they love to retreat and whatever.
00:21:21.000Anyway, so the French culture is one that's completely different than ours.
00:21:25.000And so we purchased land from the French.
00:21:27.000Going back to that question, we purchased land from the French in the largest ever real estate deal in the Louisiana purchase.
00:21:32.000I love talking about the Northwest Ordinance.
00:21:34.000I enjoy talking about the Northwest Territories.
00:21:36.000I think it's a really good moral argument about how the first expansion of the American country outside of the original 13 colonies or states was actually one that was free, that allowed self-government, and that allowed this kind of idea of expanding westward and building something significant.
00:21:53.000So, no, America was not built on stolen land.
00:22:27.000Native Americans had some form of hierarchy, but they just had a different way of governing themselves.
00:22:33.000And I'm not going to say it was worse or I'm not going to say it was better, but I am going to say that it was definitely incomplete to how human beings, I think, are meant to live on this planet.
00:22:42.000Obviously, because I have a different religious view than Native Americans do, who have a much different, have a much more, let's just say, naturistic view.
00:22:49.000That's probably the best way to say it, right?
00:22:54.000And as trying to right our wrong for some of the things we did wrong against Native Americans, I think the greatest American president outside of George Washington was Abraham Lincoln.
00:23:03.000He did some awful things against Native Americans.
00:25:03.000No, it's because the states actually ended the lockdowns.
00:25:06.000It's because thanks to our federalist-type system that gives the consent of the governed to the actual voluntary compact of the states that created the federal government, states started to reopen.
00:25:16.000They said, I don't care what CDC says, I don't care what Fauci says.
00:25:28.000It's like the last state to reopen, and they have awful virus case rates, go figure, awful death rates, small businesses going under, but Oregon is just kind of Oregon is as close to Spain as I think we're going to get.
00:27:28.000So if you are tired of these lockdowns, as I am, as I consider them to be probably one of the most unconstitutional immoral central government actions ever taken, United Kingdom is still locked down until at least July 19th, where they value the false promise of safety instead of liberty.
00:27:45.000That is one of the most fundamental applicable ways that I can show you that American system is supreme and superior to that of the British parliamentary and non-natural rights granted system that's there.
00:28:03.000Wes asks this, Charlie, have you ever taken a stand on something to later change your mind on the topic or only do speak out on things you stand by 100%.
00:28:29.000I've never not believed that our history is anything but heroic and worthy of appreciation.
00:28:34.000Have I changed my mind on some issues on, for example, what the actual motives of some of these things are, like mass migration and international trade?
00:28:43.000And those things have been really healthy developments the more scholarship I've done, the deeper reading I've done, the more reflection I've done on these things.
00:28:50.000And so if you change your mind on really big things, we would call those conversions.
00:28:54.000If you change your mind on smaller things that adjust to your big picture goals and aims, those are more adjustments.
00:29:00.000So if you have a conversion, God bless you.
00:29:03.000But you better have a really good reason for a conversion.
00:29:13.000No, actually, we shouldn't have mass migration just for the sake of a bunch of plastic coming from China and cheap labor to appease the Chamber of Commerce.
00:29:20.000And I think that, and we had a really fun discussion.
00:29:22.000You guys can hear this discussion on our podcast.
00:29:23.000I don't know when we're going to drop it, a discussion with Dana Lash, where I believe that one of the top things a society must do is to make sure we have strong, vibrant families, and we need the amount of children a family has to go up, not go down.
00:29:41.000I think it creates a more joyful society.
00:29:43.000And I think the government should get in the business, taxpayers, of trying to have family size go up and actually fix the population collapse occurring in America.
00:30:10.000I don't think self-government is possible without large families.
00:30:13.000I think if you have declining birth rate, self-government will never happen and you will be subservient to either the state or a corporation or a false secular pleasure idea.
00:30:21.000If you have strong families, it replaces the state.
00:30:23.000Large families then become its own kind of city-state.
00:30:27.000You know this if you guys have ever seen large families.
00:30:29.000If you guys have ever met families that have like five or six or seven people, it's basically like they have their own Athenian democracy.
00:30:43.000It works in this really kind of bizarre way.
00:30:45.000Like we don't really care what's happening in D.C. because the Jones family, we have our own rules.
00:30:50.000For those of you that grew up with like traditional Catholics where they had like 45 kids per family, it's totally the case.
00:30:56.000And by the way, that was actually how the founding fathers envisioned the original form of self-government, is that there would be a family structure to be able to stop you from going on government welfare.
00:31:05.000As families have gotten smaller and people have had less children, oh, I want one of each and I'm going to go move to Philadelphia or go to New York, then all of a sudden you've seen government replace that.
00:31:15.000When you have a large family, all of a sudden you have a vested interest to want to preserve the nation, to want to all of a sudden have some sort of compelled interest to conserve things that matter.
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00:32:42.000It makes great radio and great podcasting, but I actually don't know my opinion on this.
00:32:47.000I'm very honest with my audience when I don't know where I come down on it.
00:32:50.000But I know two people I really respect, like Tucker Carlson and Dennis Prager, have the contrarian view here.
00:32:56.000Now, this is actually not the question that Macy is asking, but I'm going to answer the question that I want to answer because it's more interesting.
00:33:03.000Not than her question, but it's just interesting.
00:33:05.000She asks, she said that when she was 18, she went and bought a pack of cigarettes because she legally could and it gave her a sense of freedom.
00:33:21.000Fast forward to the last couple of years.
00:33:23.000I have been paying, I've seen people playing the biggest game of follow the leader.
00:33:26.000I understand government is in place to keep ethics proper.
00:33:29.000At least that was the purpose of the founding fathers.
00:33:31.000Now the demeanor seems to how much they can control people.
00:33:34.000It should be feared, the evils that have arisen publicly in the past year.
00:33:37.000My biggest question is, how far do you believe this is going to have to go despite enough fear in the American people to realize that our freedom is dissipating as seconds go by?
00:35:29.000What I think is interesting, though, is there a correlation between the spike of obesity, unhappiness, and the complete and total destruction of anyone allowed to smoke cigarettes.
00:35:45.000What I think is interesting, though, is that we've replaced one for the other, and I don't think we've ever had a question or discussion about the downsides.
00:35:52.000And so, Macy, you said you bought a pack of cigarettes, it gave you a sense of freedom, and a year later, the laws change.
00:35:58.000It does seem a little bizarre, the overemphasis on this cannabis marijuana push over the last couple of years.
00:36:05.000Does it make a lazier population less likely to challenge their leaders?
00:36:08.000Does it make people less likely to want to revolt in the streets against the plunder of the elite?
00:36:13.000Does it make people less likely to be aware of the treachery?
00:36:16.000I do know this, that George Orwell and Ayn Rand both said they would not have been able to write their masterpieces, Atlas Shrugged, 84, Animal Farm, Fountainhead, or We Need a Living, without nicotine or cigarettes.
00:36:28.000Now, I think that might be an over kind of giving the platform there, but there have been plenty of studies to show that nicotine does give people a form of mental clarity unlike any other.
00:36:40.000Now, again, I don't like nicotine gum.
00:37:03.000But I do find these people that have lied to us about vaccines, they lied to us largely about masks and lockdowns, hydroxychloroquine, ivermetkin.
00:37:12.000The one thing they can all agree on is marijuana is awesome.
00:37:14.000Excuse me while I say, hold on, you fool me once, shame on you.
00:37:22.000Once you tell a lie, all your truths become questionable.
00:37:27.000And so, excuse me while I think that there might be something more at play here about this mass marijuana movement that all of a sudden is going to solve all of our problems.
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