00:00:41.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:47.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:01:52.000And my wife baptized Catholic, my mom baptized Catholic, and I think my grandmother was one of the most Catholic people of the last hundred years.
00:02:01.000Some of my earliest childhood memories was her telling me to stop talking because EWTN was on.
00:02:13.000But I have such great respect for, you know, really serious Catholics in so many different ways.
00:02:20.000And, you know, our team has a lot of devout Catholics.
00:02:24.000I'm going to talk just about what we, you know, I as an evangelical and Catholics have in common because I think the unity between us is far greater than people ever realize, especially in the fight for what my day-to-day work is in the fight for life and the fight for truth in a world that has lost its mind and has gone totally mad.
00:02:42.000And I want to just emphasize one thing that I think for those of you that are engaged in this space, it's something that especially the last hundred years, the Catholic Church in America has done very well, and that's the emphasis on education.
00:02:56.000It's something that evangelicals have done poorly.
00:02:59.000And I say this all the time to pastors and people in the Protestant faith.
00:03:03.000I say, how many evangelicals can you name that are on the Supreme Court?
00:03:09.000What has happened is that the Catholic Church and so many of you have believed in pouring into the next generation and building institutions and building schools and passing down your values.
00:03:20.000And that fruit is fighting for truth every single day in America.
00:03:25.000And I was so blown away by how many people are homeschooling and sending their kids to great Catholic churches.
00:03:52.000And If we're honest, it really, the Catholic Church has been terrific on this issue in an unwavering way.
00:04:05.000And so much of the wins that we now see are multiple generations of Catholic activists, of people that prayed the rosary every single day for the reversal of Roe versus Wade.
00:04:17.000And honestly, as someone who is a warrior for life and someone who, you know, you might not hear this, I just want to thank those of you that have fought for life over the last couple of decades because that, and we have the beautiful child right up front.
00:04:30.000It's one of the most important things.
00:04:31.000So I want to touch on some stuff, then we can do some questions.
00:07:48.000And I'm afraid we're becoming a nation of strangers in more ways than one.
00:07:51.000And this is one of the reasons why I think what's happening on the southern border is one of the greatest humanitarian crises in the history of the country, not just because people are literally being sold into sex slavery and girls are being raped every single day, which is happening in the fentanyl and the drugs.
00:08:06.000But I'm afraid that you lose that connective tissue that so many of us remember in this country, where if you don't share something in common with your neighbor, or if you feel as if you don't have to be neighborly to your fellow citizen, then you become this kind of harsh and cold, hostile community of strangers.
00:08:23.000It's not even a community at that point.
00:08:27.000And we were having this amazing conversation where you knew every neighbor by name, and that if for whatever reason, you know, the dad didn't go into work, you'd knock on the door and you'd say, Hey, is everything okay?
00:08:39.000And now you'd be lucky even if you know your neighbor's name.
00:08:42.000And I think that is a symptom of what I am dedicating a large portion of my life of: proving that secularism destroys everything it touches.
00:08:53.000And this is not a popular opinion always to bring, even in the conservative movement at times, because they say, Well, Charlie, we can have conservatism without religion or conservatism without a belief in God.
00:09:05.000To be perfectly honest, I'm not interested in that type of conservatism.
00:09:08.000I'm not interested in conservatism without a belief in the divine and the transcendent and the beautiful and the eternal.
00:09:15.000Because then, what are you conserving?
00:09:17.000How much stuff you can put in your garage, your stock market portfolio?
00:09:22.000You conserve that which God gave us, which is good and true and beautiful.
00:09:26.000Conservatism is an outgrowth of our faith, of our belief in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.
00:09:33.000And anyone can be conservative, but they must understand the ancestry of where that came from, which is an understanding of the natural law, understanding that we live in a world that God made that was intelligible, that we could discover.
00:09:46.000And I can point to so many different examples.
00:09:50.000And again, some people will push back against this, and it's fine, probably not here tonight.
00:09:54.000But on college campuses, they certainly do.
00:09:56.000Where I believe that one of the reasons we have the most depressed, suicidal, alcohol-addicted, and drug-addicted generations in history is we also have one of the least churched, least religious, and least engaged in their faith generations ever.
00:10:10.000Because when you do not, when you stop believing in God, you don't believe in nothing, you'll believe in anything.
00:10:14.000I didn't come up with that, I wish I did.
00:10:58.000All of a sudden, people say, well, I don't understand why is it that the people that are always crying about racism want black-only dormitories.
00:11:05.000And then when I say that, that's segregation, they call me a racist.
00:11:12.000Or why is it that when I say that we shouldn't teach 12-year-olds graphic, pornographic imagery, that I'm called a hater and not a lover of our children?
00:11:24.000And understand that as we have yielded the terrain and yielded the ground to the people that say they believe in nothing, we have fallen for a false trap.
00:11:34.000If there's only one thing that you take away tonight from my speech, is that the people that tell you that they're neutral are anything but neutral.
00:11:43.000There is no such thing as viewpoint neutrality.
00:11:45.000So either you are the ones, or we are the ones that administer some sort of a cogent worldview that can make sense, or the people that say they're for neutrality end up pushing transgenderism and this garbage that we now see in our schools.
00:12:20.000Well, anyway, even if you're sympathetic to that, sure.
00:12:26.000Which is that the forcefulness and the ferocity of what they're pushing it, according to a recent poll, one out of three, nearly 35% of Gen Z self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit.
00:13:13.000Do you want the viewpoint that Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, articulated, that built the Western tradition, one that is in harmony with the natural law, or one that they will advertise on the streets of San Francisco?
00:13:25.000And I think you guys can fill in the blanks of exactly what I mean by that.
00:13:28.000And it is a false promise, and they've taken advantage of us.
00:13:32.000And I'll be honest, people are starting to wake up.
00:13:34.000The amount of broken trust that parents currently feel, where they say, I gave you my child, I trusted you with my kid, and now all of a sudden they're taking hormones or puberty blockers.
00:14:01.000And I'll close with this and then we could do some questions.
00:14:03.000My favorite part of the Bible is the first couple books of Exodus.
00:14:07.000If you ask any serious Jew, tonight is the Shabbat, which is the longest standing celebration of the creation of the world.
00:14:14.000I believe we as Christians could do a better job of honoring the Shabbat.
00:14:16.000We could talk about that later, if you so choose.
00:14:19.000But honoring the creation, that God rested for a day and that we should work for six days and one day we shall rest, as it says in the Ten Commandments, I think is something that actually nourishes the soul and makes us better versions of ourselves to celebrate the divine.
00:14:35.000But if you ask any believing Jew, they'll tell you the two most important things in Judaism is the creation and the Exodus.
00:14:42.000And the Exodus, properly understood, is very similar to what we're living through right now.
00:14:46.000In the first book of Exodus, it talks about, and then rose a king over Egypt who did not know Joseph.
00:14:52.000Basically, the king or the Pharaoh who rose over Egypt had no memory of what came before, did not know all the sacrifices, the wisdom, the prudence, the blessing that Joseph gave to the prior king that allowed the Hebrews to multiply into big numbers.
00:15:05.000That's a great lesson for today, by the way.
00:15:13.000If you don't know your history, you get tyranny.
00:15:16.000The setup of the book of Exodus, of the captivity of the Jewish people, was because they forgot what prior generations did to make them possible.
00:15:27.000But it goes on to say, it goes on, it's a beautiful story, and it's really the first kind of example we have of outright commandment from what was a godlike figure, Pharaoh, for child sacrifice.
00:15:39.000And child sacrifice or child murder, if you will.
00:15:42.000We must understand this, that child sacrifice and destroying children and manipulating children is not the exception.
00:15:55.000And it might sound controversial when I say that, but there are more kids being sex trafficked into this country across the southern border in what is now the modern-day North Atlantic slave trade.
00:16:05.000What do you call planned parenthood other than a modern-day equivalent of the spilling of blood that looks exactly what happened in Egypt?
00:16:11.000But here's what I love about that story: the Pharaoh says the Jews are multiplying in too much number, and he says, get rid of all the firstborn.
00:16:18.000And he goes to the midwives, to the Hebrews, which could have been Egyptian or could have been Hebrew, but we'll put that aside for a second.
00:17:06.000They disobeyed the godlike authority because they loved life and they loved God more than appeasement of a despot dictator or a tyrant.
00:17:15.000And it sets up the entire narrative because it properly understood Egypt was a death cult.
00:17:25.000And we are up against a modern equivalent of a death cult.
00:17:29.000Now, this might be too heavy language for you right now, but start to look around.
00:17:34.000We worship death in this society and we reject life.
00:17:38.000If that was not the case, why are so many people killing themselves, medicating themselves, trying to say, I can't wait for the day to be over?
00:17:45.000So Judaism became centered around the idea that we shall reject Egypt.
00:17:54.000The most beautiful thing they built was a tomb to the underworld.
00:18:00.000When you hear somebody toast in Hebrew, they say, Lehaim, to life.
00:18:04.000Everything that the Old Testament is built around is a rejection of a death cult that they were trying to escape.
00:18:10.000And as we try to fight for the most important thing, life, which this republic is founded on, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, we must understand that is not agreed upon.
00:18:20.000When I go to college campuses, and I go so you don't have to, you're welcome.
00:18:47.000But when I go to these college campuses, they're not excited about life or excited about their future.
00:18:51.000Many of them are sad and broken and heavy because we know what truly gives life.
00:18:56.000And that is the promise and the truth of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, who lived a perfect life, who came not because we deserved it, but because God loved us, died on the cross, and rose from the dead so that we might have eternal life if we accept him as our Lord and Savior.
00:19:14.000What a beautiful thing for us to be able to spread.
00:19:16.000And we must do that in every possible way in the fight for the unborn, in the fight for the child right now that is being preyed upon.
00:19:25.000There are protectors of infants, there are infants, and there are predators.
00:19:29.000And there are always going to be predators out there.
00:19:31.000And right now, there are predators that are trying to go after children to prescribe them hormone blockers and puberty blockers to make irreversible damage against them.
00:19:39.000Question is: Will there be a protector of the infant to stand up for them?
00:19:43.000And do not rely on secular society to do that.
00:19:50.000And it's foundational because it is not against flesh and blood of which we struggle, but it is principalities of darkness and it's a spiritual war all around us.
00:19:59.000And I could tell you that I have been so inspired and convicted by Catholics across the country that are the most enthusiastic, that are the most passionate, and I'm honored to link arms with all of you in this fight for life, this fight for the most important and beautiful stuff.
00:20:15.000Let's do some questions, and God bless you guys.
00:21:17.000But in the scriptures, we learn about the fruits of the Spirit, of the Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self-control.
00:21:26.000And if it was left to my fleshly, broken self, it's not a lot of self-control.
00:21:31.000But thanks to the gifts of the Holy Spirit, one part of the equal Trinitarian Godhead, I'm able to have self-control that I'm not born with, that is not part of my DNA.
00:21:42.000And I thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for remaking me and being born again.
00:21:49.000And I could tell you that as I have taken my faith more seriously and asked for more self-control, it has been given to me.
00:21:57.000And because if you've seen any of my videos at times, the only explanation could be supernatural for why I don't lose my mind.
00:22:06.000And I say this as somebody who's the person there.
00:22:09.000And hundreds of hours of things that I otherwise would go a little nuts.
00:22:16.000It's a fruit of the Spirit, and glory be to God that I don't lose my temper because I think it's important that I remain a cool, call, and collected even in the face of adversity.
00:22:33.000You had said something in an address to a large pastor's group not too long ago, and you got on the subject of transgenderism and the transgender ideology.
00:22:47.000When I was hearing you speak, you got some applause in that room of maybe 500 or 1,000 pastors.
00:22:53.000But there was also a noticeable silence in there somehow.
00:22:57.000And I'm asking, am I right that that was a silence of fear?
00:23:02.000And then as you go along to speaking with pastors' group these last many months and touching on that subject, where do you think this is headed in the clergy community?
00:23:55.000It says back here, fear not, just believe.
00:23:57.000I think I'm paraphrasing that correctly, which is we as Christians, we can't really pull the fear card because we have hope in Jesus Christ.
00:24:05.000And 365 times in the scriptures, God says, do not be afraid, do not be afraid.
00:24:10.000And said, in Joshua 1:9, it says, be strong and courageous.
00:24:44.000But let's just be honest, a lot of these people need serious psychological help, and they're getting the wrong doses of drugs, and they're being told false things.
00:24:51.000And, I mean, in some ways, I don't feel sorry for them, but I understand they become incredibly belligerent.
00:24:57.000You have a 16-year-old girl who has antisocial tendencies, is on the autism spectrum disorder spectrum.
00:25:04.000And all of a sudden, you're giving her testosterone replacement therapy and benzodiazepines and Zoloft and Prozac, and she has to go to sleep with Ambien.
00:25:13.000And she's like up and down, and she already has bipolar tendencies.
00:25:16.000Don't be shocked when all of a sudden she becomes super violent and starts targeting people and starts saying things that otherwise would not be necessarily rooted in just like rational discussion or chatter.
00:25:27.000But yes, I do think that it's changing.
00:25:29.000I think people are finding a new resolve.
00:25:31.000And I think the transgender issue, like many other issues, they take advantage of our compassion.
00:25:37.000They take advantage of our generosity.
00:25:39.000They take advantage of the large heart that America has that largely is a Christian tradition.
00:25:45.000And I think a lot of us have a heart for the downtrodden and a heart for the people that are suffering.
00:25:51.000The problem is the way that we handle the suffering is completely wrong.
00:26:27.000One of my favorite parts of the book of John is John 8, where the first part is commonly referenced, but the second part is almost never referenced.
00:26:36.000Where it was the young woman who was a prostitute, and they were going to stone her.
00:26:40.000And Jesus famously walks in and says, let the first without sin throw the first stone.
00:26:44.000And they drop the stone, drop the stone.
00:27:27.000I mean, look, I believe firmly, and this will sound extreme, well, actually, won't sound too extreme, because one thing I love about Catholics is you guys understand we're in a spiritual war and that there's an invisible war and a devil who hates us, who lies, steals, cheats, and destroys and wants us all dead, which is that it is Lucifer's plan.
00:27:58.000Is that we have to fight against this agenda at every single turn with love and truth.
00:28:02.000And the most loving thing we can do is to get a young person or any person back into biological reality of how God made them.
00:28:11.000Not drugs, not surgery, back to how God made you.
00:28:16.000And the final thing I'll say on this topic, of which, as you could tell, I'm rather passionate about, is that it's a false promise.
00:28:23.000Is that you give someone who thinks they're something that they're not that they actually can become the other thing through surgery and drugs.
00:28:30.000And they go on a self-destructive campaign thinking that there's light at the end of the tunnel.
00:28:36.000And there might be fake victories along the way.
00:28:38.000Yes, testosterone does make you feel better for a short period of time.
00:28:42.000Yes, if you get your breasts cut off, that all of a sudden you think you're that other thing.
00:28:45.000But eventually, you realize your DNA is the same.
00:29:08.000I read two books a long time ago: Why Johnny Can't Read and Why Johnny Still Can't Read.
00:29:15.000The National Education Association of the United States, most of the teachers, and I don't mean any harm to our Catholic teachers here, but most of the teachers are now radical.
00:29:57.000I have visited more Catholic colleges than probably you have, and they take their left-wing views more seriously than their Catholicism at Loyola University of Chicago and other Jesuit places I visited.
00:30:07.000And if you disagree, we can have a robust debate on that.
00:30:10.000Now, there is this unclean, I won't go that far.
00:30:14.000Let me just say this as an outsider because I want to be respectful of everyone in this room.
00:30:20.000There is a, I think, a theological detour.
00:30:33.000And this is a Marxist application perverting the scriptures, perverting what Christ our Lord believed in to try to revolutionize the world via Catholicism to say that it is our mandate to always look at things through social justice, which is another way of saying redistribution, abolition of private property, remaking the Western tradition, and out of that you get cultural Marxism and all this other stuff.
00:30:58.000I cannot express to you the damage that that is doing both to the country and also, in my opinion, to the Catholic faith.
00:31:04.000I believe that Marxism destroys everything that it touches.
00:31:08.000And I'm by no means saying that there should be anything short of compassion and love, but when you start to all of a sudden view the entire world as if Christ's mandate on earth was to try to create a government where we redistribute the property of others and that we take by force from other people, and you try to remake what has been the most prosperous and generous society in the history of the country, which is Western civilization, that that is not what Christ believed in at all.
00:31:36.000And so fighting back against liberation theology, which came largely from South America and made its way into a lot of Jesuit schools in this country, and social justice is very important.
00:31:47.000But let me also equally brag that some of the most deep and exciting breakthroughs in education are coming through in Catholic, classical education schools across the country.
00:31:59.000And classical education, if you're not aware of it, classical education is how our founders were educated.
00:32:05.000It is the belief system that there is good and true and beautiful, that we're trying to develop the soul of a human being.
00:32:11.000We're not just trying to create desk workers or administrative bureaucrats, that you study the great works to Catholics' credit.
00:32:18.000Evangelicals did not do a good job of this, but Catholics will use ancient Greek philosophy and texts to point towards Christ, to point towards the scriptures.
00:32:27.000They will take Aristotle seriously, Socrates seriously, Plato seriously.
00:32:35.000They'll use extra-biblical texts, I think, in a very, in a very, in a remarkably successful way.
00:32:41.000That there is this belief in evangelical circles that if it's not in the Bible, we shouldn't study it and we shouldn't learn it, which is actually not even biblical because it says in Philippians, whatsoever is good, whatever is true, whatever is beautiful, dwell and think on these things.
00:32:55.000And so to compliment those of you in the space that are teaching young people all the things that are good, true, and beautiful, as it says in Philippians 4, then God bless you and I think that's excellent.
00:33:05.000But if I may say, and be very blunt, that you guys need to wage a war for the moral center of Catholic education because it has taken a disturbing left turn in the last couple decades and especially in the last 10 years.
00:33:21.000Thankfully, it ended up being okay, but this was a major fight where I think it's St. Mary's, the Sister School of Notre Dame in South Bend, is that right?
00:33:29.000Where is this huge controversy where they backtracked?
00:33:32.000Thankfully, a Catholic school in South Bend, Indiana entertained allowing biological men to go to this female school.
00:33:39.000Now, there was such backlash, there was such uproar that even that was too far of a step.
00:33:48.000And my advice always is hold fast to the teachings of the church, hold fast to the scriptures, and do not give an inch to a world that hates you.
00:33:57.000Do not give an inch to people that are trying to destroy your traditions and destroy your deeply held beliefs.
00:34:03.000And the education space is super important.
00:34:06.000And I would just play offense because the entire kind of social justification, for lack of a better term, of Catholic education has been a big disappointment.
00:34:23.000I have a daughter who's going into college.
00:34:25.000And I just bought your book, College is a Scam.
00:34:28.000You mentioned Hillsdale College in Michigan is the one college you still believe is the right place to go.
00:34:36.000But if what are you said, there's a few others left.
00:34:38.000What can we do to tell our family members, our children, with things we don't want to give them away, that we raise them in a Christian family with conservative values, and they come home and they're not that same person anymore?
00:34:52.000I've heard that so many times from other friends.
00:35:41.000It's small, but they do a really great job.
00:35:42.000Hillsdale is America's greatest college.
00:35:44.000I don't put my name behind it lightly.
00:35:46.000Liberty University is also a great school with evangelical school, but they have a pretty serious Catholic community there as well that people don't actually know about.
00:35:57.000But look, I will say this as kindly as I can.
00:36:01.000If the events of the last six months have not convinced you that colleges are rotten to the core, that should basically be bankrupted and burned to the ground and remade into something new, I just and here's my one thing I will say to answer your question.
00:36:21.000And yes, you could check out the book, The College Scam, or you just read the title and believe it and don't buy the book.
00:36:27.000So I always try to make my titles just so good in case someone just buys the book and reads the title.
00:36:47.000But I mean intellectual and philosophical predators.
00:36:51.000And I know that's a tough, that's a heavy statement because you think of them as the best welfare to open your kids' eyes and to walk them through.
00:37:38.000And my senior thesis kind of involves feminism in a way, but kind of relates to younger enlightenment with Catholic religion.
00:37:50.000And my senior thesis is Catholic wives and mothers should be able to pursue professional careers without the degradation of the role of the husband.
00:38:00.000And I think that's really important nowadays because we have all these new opportunities in this modern age.
00:38:06.000And I think I want to know what your stance is on a traditional view or even on a view of today's modern age.
00:38:24.000I would be interested to see if you still believe that in five or ten years.
00:38:29.000Look, everything in life comes at a cost and a choice.
00:38:32.000And let me just tell you currently what's happened, and you could think about it whatever you want, right?
00:38:37.000And I'll just talk about it from a general societal perspective.
00:38:40.000The vast majority of the consensus in America right now for young women is get married late, if at all, pursue your career, freeze your eggs, go to college, have as much sex as you want, and you're in charge.
00:38:57.000Think of just kind of boss babe type stuff.
00:39:00.000And I know you're not recommending any of that.
00:39:02.000I'm just saying, let me just kind of tell you.
00:39:04.000So what has the result of that belief been?
00:39:07.000The result has been we have more single early 30-something women than married 30-something women.
00:39:14.000We have a generation, millions and millions of young ladies who went to college, got a college degree, have a good job.
00:39:21.000They have a big apartment and it's full of cats.
00:39:26.000And they are by far the angriest group of people that America has at our disposal.
00:39:43.000And let me just tell you, everything at life comes at a cost and a choice.
00:39:46.000And I get hundreds of these emails every single week of young women in their 30s that are burdened that they were told to prioritize career.
00:39:55.000Now, your question specifically was about wives and husbands, right?
00:40:47.000So let me, I was recently introduced to a way to frame this, which is we actually do everything backwards and we just have to not fight biology.
00:40:58.000We should instead encourage our young ladies to get married and have kids sooner and then pursue the career once the kids are grown up, not the other way around.
00:41:08.000And I know that sounds counterintuitive, but obviously have kids while you can have the kids, right?
00:41:15.000And then when you're in your mid-30s or late 30s and you might have a certificate in nursing and your kids are 16, 17, or 18, that's the perfect time to do that.
00:41:24.000And it actually has, I see it work a lot.
00:41:27.000And by the way, you have grandkids by the time you're like 45, which, and then you have, it's like, you know?
00:41:33.000And so you laugh, but a lot of you are in that situation.
00:41:37.000So anyway, that's something to think about.
00:41:50.000I'm run for the Republican Central Committee for District 4.
00:41:55.000With the polarized political system that we're in right now, which seems very divided, obviously, how can you encourage the people in this room to engage in the political process in a way where they don't feel defeatist, where they're not doing enough, that they're committed to the Constitution and what Americans bring to be?
00:42:34.000And if there's a takeaway of the book of Numbers, it's God does not put up with despair.
00:42:39.000I mean, again, the least impressive group of people in the history of ancient texts are the ancient Hebrews.
00:42:45.000They're constantly complaining and fighting with one another, and we don't have enough food, and God keeps giving them food, and we don't like this food.
00:42:51.000I mean, it's like if God can deliver these people and bring them to a prominent nation, He is the creator of the heavens and the earth because these people were not exactly Alexander the Great or the Roman Empire, right?
00:45:23.000I think Turning Point is the most important organization in the country, especially reaching young people.
00:45:28.000And we're doing a great job, and we have thousands of high school and college chapters across the country, and it's just amazing what's happening.
00:45:35.000You can acknowledge that it's rigged against you.
00:45:36.000It's rigged against you in many different ways.
00:45:38.000And I sometimes, every so often, I'll get an email and they'll say, you know, young people are so lazy and all this.
00:45:43.000And I don't like that because there's lazy members of every generation.
00:45:46.000And yeah, maybe millennials are lazier and Gen Zs are lazy, lazier.
00:45:52.000But there's some superstars in this generation.
00:45:54.000There are some really amazing young people that have their life together and doing some great stuff.
00:45:58.000So don't throw out the entire generation.
00:46:01.000You spend some time around Turning Point USA.
00:46:03.000I think you'll have a different attitude.
00:46:04.000But we also must acknowledge, you know, every so often, I also hear is, you know, why are they always complaining?
00:46:10.000You know, it was easy to buy a home way back 40, 50 years ago.
00:46:13.000I hope all of you that are in the baby boomer generation just understand it's a completely different financial situation for this generation.
00:46:22.000But I'm going to be perfectly honest with you that when exactly are they supposed to get the capital at their disposal to afford a down payment on a home that has doubled in value in the last three years of interest rates that are nearly 7% or 8%.
00:46:34.000And meanwhile, they have student loan debt, medical debt, credit card debt, car loan debt, and they're supposed to just scrap together $35,000 for a down payment on a home that they also have to pay property tax on and maintenance on.
00:46:46.000I mean, at some point, it gets to the place where the financials don't make any sense.
00:46:50.000It's creating the most rented generation in history, which is bad.
00:46:55.000That is bad for our country, and it's bad for our politics.
00:46:58.000It creates angrier people because they're not building equity.
00:47:01.000They're not actually getting skin in the game.
00:47:03.000They're just constantly looking at the world as a utility.
00:47:17.000No, you have to understand that the odds are against you, but you still have a great opportunity to make something of yourself and be the best version of yourself in a country that is less free than the country I grew up in, but there's still an immense amount of opportunity to flourish and be prosperous and be happy and be joyful.
00:47:32.000That's a difficult balance to strike at times because it's very tempting to just complain all the time and just want free stuff as because of it.
00:47:38.000But I do see things are changing, and I'll tell you why.
00:47:42.000There's a new politics that is being introduced.
00:47:44.000It's not yet manifested, of a younger generation on the conservative side that is very outspoken on these issues.
00:47:50.000Think about the most popular spokespeople on the American right.
00:47:54.000These are people like Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles and Candace Owens.
00:47:58.000These are people that really understand what's happening in this country.
00:48:00.000These are people that are very faithful.
00:48:04.000And it is a contrast, if I might say, than just even some of the people that dominate some of the cable television talk shows right now that I find to be insufferable.
00:48:51.000You know, my question is, I'll start with a little preamble and I try not to make it okay.
00:48:56.000I'll try to be as concise as possible.
00:49:00.000We live in a country that is arguably more culturally divided than it ever has been, or at least in the last 160 years.
00:49:10.000While this is happening, concurrently, we have our enemies looming over us in other countries, you know, flouting their authority over us.
00:49:19.000Our hegemony as the United States as a great empire is coming to an end, or at least it appears to be.
00:49:26.000And so I guess my question for you would be: what do you think the future of this country looks like in the next five years if things continue on the way they are, you know, without this kind of great rising?
00:50:00.000We have a Potemkin village economically.
00:50:02.000You can't have 6 million people come into your country and you don't know who they are and sustain yourself and have another 6 million on top of that, another 10 million on top.
00:51:59.000Last time we saw you in person, spoken about that.
00:52:03.000I had a policy thought the other day that I think would give the Republican Party a lot of needed votes.
00:52:11.000And I just want your opinion on that a lot.
00:52:14.000So kids that grow up in poverty, statistically, they don't get an investment portfolio until decades later.
00:52:23.000So my thought is kids in high school who are in poverty, every year they move on to a new grave, we would give them like $500 to invest in an American-only business stock market.
00:52:40.000That way, when they leave high school, they would have $2,000 invested, and the American economy would get an economic boost every year.
00:53:59.000And people that deny that reality is why they're in poverty and they remain in poverty.
00:54:04.000And in my personal opinion, it's unloving and it is not Christ-like to act as if just more of other people's stuff is going to lift them out of poverty.
00:54:14.000Instead, it is a different worldview and value system to empower them to improve their conditions.