The Charlie Kirk Show - End Game: What the Left Really Wants

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00:00:08.000 Today on the Charlie Kirk show, we ask the question: what on earth does the left want?

00:00:13.000 We answer that question through the most important thinkers that you probably never knew existed that are teaching our kids to hate Western society.

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00:00:34.000 Very informative episode.

00:00:36.000 Get your notepads out.

00:00:37.000 I hope you learn a lot.

00:00:38.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:00:40.000 Here we go.

00:00:41.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:43.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:45.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:48.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:51.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:52.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:54.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.

00:01:02.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

00:01:11.000 That's why we are here.

00:01:13.000 So I was recently in the People's Republic of Los Angeles, and I was with some really close friends and some people that support Turning Point USA.

00:01:21.000 And we were having a candid conversation.

00:01:23.000 Producer Andrew was with us there, and he does a great job.

00:01:26.000 And he helps produce two podcasts for us a day and one on the weekends.

00:01:30.000 Our whole production team does great.

00:01:32.000 And I'll say their names if they're okay with it.

00:01:34.000 I don't know if they are or not.

00:01:35.000 I don't want them to have to have their entire identity smashed by the radical and tolerant left, but they all do a great job.

00:01:41.000 And for those of you that support us at charliekirk.com/slash support, you help this entire production team continue to give you the truth, facts, logic, and history every single day.

00:01:52.000 What was really incredible is some of the most successful people in the entire country had some phenomenal questions.

00:02:00.000 They're dear friends of mine.

00:02:01.000 And a lot of them were so confused as to what was happening in our country for good reasons, by the way.

00:02:07.000 A lot of these very generous people, very successful people that were running massive businesses, they do not understand or they were failing to understand exactly why the arson was happening in America.

00:02:21.000 What exactly was driving George Soros and the radical left?

00:02:25.000 Why is it that the left and their forces are so focused on deconstructing marriage, the family, our history, and our statues?

00:02:38.000 I got question after question as to why are they doing this?

00:02:41.000 Why is the left doing this?

00:02:43.000 So I thought to myself, why don't we do an episode actually going through the motives of the left?

00:02:50.000 So we've talked about this a little bit here on the program in episodes previous, but we wanted to really dive into what is it the left is trying to achieve?

00:03:01.000 What is their end game and why is it they are fighting for what they are fighting for?

00:03:06.000 Do they actually just want a country that is burning and on fire?

00:03:10.000 Are they actually trying to achieve some form of end goal?

00:03:14.000 We're going to explore this together throughout this episode and go through some of the key thinkers that the left derives inspiration from.

00:03:20.000 We are going to go through multiple historical examples.

00:03:24.000 We're going to go through some of the philosophers that were some of the driving forces of the American left.

00:03:28.000 And a lot of these people that I was talking to, they could not understand why BLM Incorporated is trashing their cities and why the media is so complicit and covers for them by constantly calling them peaceful protesters when they obviously are not.

00:03:45.000 As one of our listeners wrote to us this morning, this is what they said.

00:03:49.000 It seems like justice and objective truth are a thing of the past.

00:03:53.000 The world is upside down and opposite of reality.

00:03:56.000 Criminals are free, and hardworking, normal Americans feel stifled and trapped.

00:04:01.000 I completely agree. 0.57

00:04:02.000 So many people don't understand the anger that is actually pointed at America, especially by our own citizens.

00:04:10.000 Now, without saying any names, I met this incredible couple, this woman that was wearing a MAGA hat, bright red MAGA hat at this private dinner.

00:04:18.000 And she said she was a liberal for her whole life.

00:04:21.000 She owned a gym in West LA, and BLM Incorporated came and stole everything, ransacked the place, destroyed it. 0.71

00:04:30.000 She was livid.

00:04:31.000 She found out that her insurance only covered $36,000 of reimbursed material.

00:04:38.000 And her friends, the people she thought were her friends, said, oh, we're so sorry that your business got caught up in such a good and righteous cause.

00:04:47.000 This was her red pill moment.

00:04:49.000 She immediately became a Trump supporter.

00:04:51.000 She recognized that this movement is rooted in destruction, malevolence, hostility, and anger.

00:04:58.000 So I answered a lot of these people's questions, but the one that just kept popping up, and I love these people, some of the most generous, incredible people that I've known for years.

00:05:07.000 But they had a question I know a lot of you have had, and you've emailed me at freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:05:12.000 This question is, what is in it for them?

00:05:14.000 What do the rioters and the anarchists want?

00:05:17.000 So many people cannot understand why our nation and our state and our city and our communities are now being held hostage by the arsonists, the deconstructionists, and the disintegrationists.

00:05:32.000 In other words, so many people are confused as to why the rioters and the revolutionaries are actually doing things to hurt themselves.

00:05:42.000 There are some very real and important answers to these questions, but it really occurred to me and it struck me so deeply that so many people still do not understand what motivates the left.

00:05:56.000 I might have just left it at that and talked about something entirely different today.

00:06:00.000 But we've talked about exactly what is happening.

00:06:02.000 We've talked about some of the history behind it.

00:06:04.000 But I think we need to do an even better job of communicating to you, the Charlie Kirk show audience, as to what is behind the pathology of national suicide, of what is behind the motivation of a rich, prosperous, wealthy, free, and equitable nation deciding we no longer want to exist.

00:06:23.000 And there was a great piece written by Peter Hassen, who we just recently had on the show.

00:06:26.000 I encourage you guys to go back in the archives and listen to as many episodes as you can, because some of the episodes we've done, especially in the last couple of weeks, and even more so in early June, are completely timeless.

00:06:36.000 I encourage you guys to check out America's War on Men, one of my favorite episodes we ever did. 0.79

00:06:41.000 We did one where we deconstructed BLM Incorporated. 0.82

00:06:44.000 We called out the nonsense around the rioting and the looting and the arson in our country.

00:06:48.000 Back on July 1st, we had BLM Incorporated versus America.

00:06:51.000 And it's kind of incredible to think.

00:06:53.000 We have done 76 podcast episodes here on the Charlie Kirk Show since July 1st.

00:07:00.000 It's pretty awesome.

00:07:01.000 So for those of you guys who support us at charliekirk.com/slash support, we have done 76 podcasts since the 1st of July.

00:07:08.000 No other podcast team has produced that much content out there.

00:07:11.000 That actually brings me great joy at how much support we are getting from you guys and the emails I get from you where you say that we are helping persuade you, helping give you hopefully some clarity in these very confusing times.

00:07:22.000 But that's what I want to focus on today.

00:07:25.000 What do they want?

00:07:27.000 What is their driving motivation?

00:07:29.000 And where do they get it from?

00:07:30.000 So there's this great piece that said, there's this great piece by Peter Hassen that just really struck me.

00:07:35.000 It said this, abolish the United States of America.

00:07:39.000 The Radical Youth Liberation Front, active in Portland, encourages violence and explicitly rejects peaceful protesting.

00:07:46.000 This is from the Daily Caller.

00:07:47.000 It says, the Youth Liberation Front is credited with organizing protests in Portland last week that extended into the early morning hours and turned violent.

00:07:56.000 The radical group's goals extend far beyond changing policies and even beyond abolishing the police.

00:08:02.000 As noted in a July 8th tweet, we don't want to be led.

00:08:06.000 We don't want to lead.

00:08:08.000 We want to destroy the United States of America.

00:08:11.000 The group said to their more than 32,000 followers, abolish the United States of America.

00:08:17.000 YLF has over 32,000 followers on its social media platform on Twitter.

00:08:22.000 Now they say they are between the ages of 14 to 25.

00:08:25.000 This is what they claim.

00:08:26.000 And so far, the feckless Seattle City government is refusing to clamp down on the group.

00:08:32.000 They sound like a terrorist organization.

00:08:34.000 Sergeant Kevin Allen of the Portland Police Department said, We are aware of this group.

00:08:38.000 However, we do not assign actions to a group.

00:08:41.000 We will take action against individuals when we have probable cause that have committed a crime.

00:08:45.000 This is such an incredible double standard.

00:08:49.000 We do not prescribe actions to a group.

00:08:52.000 That's the entire philosophy of the left.

00:08:55.000 Now, all of a sudden, they don't do it when it's actually correct to prescribe it to an entire group.

00:08:59.000 They do this to us. 0.99

00:09:00.000 They say, all white people are evil. 1.00

00:09:02.000 You have white privilege. 1.00

00:09:03.000 All men are awful. 1.00

00:09:04.000 I mean, what if it was the KKK marching through the streets of Portland? 0.97

00:09:07.000 Like, oh, we're only going to measure them all by one person by one person.

00:09:10.000 No, they would rightfully condemn anyone who is part of the KKK demonstration.

00:09:16.000 They wouldn't say, well, there's some good people and some not so good people.

00:09:20.000 No, they would get absolutely ridiculed for that.

00:09:23.000 And that very same wrongful accusation is what they did against President Trump back during his correct repudiation of the Charlottesville incident a couple years ago.

00:09:34.000 And in case you're wondering, they have not been removed from Twitter.

00:09:37.000 That's considered acceptable dialogue by the tyrants at Twitter.

00:09:41.000 So let's now start diving into motivation.

00:09:44.000 What drives the left?

00:09:47.000 What do they want?

00:09:48.000 Why are they burning the streets every night?

00:09:50.000 Why are they stealing merchandise?

00:09:52.000 Why is it that the press is covering up for them so much?

00:09:55.000 Why are they not covering the growing insurrection happening in America?

00:10:00.000 We can take a 5 a.m. raid and be back on our feet a few hours later.

00:10:04.000 We'll be back again and again and again until every prison is reduced to ashes and every wall to rubble, YLF wrote in a June 18th tweet.

00:10:11.000 And this, members of our group report that watching the Senate hearing on Antifa was very inspiring.

00:10:17.000 Countless times, the movement was referred to as being well organized, and it was conceded that they are winning on various occasions.

00:10:23.000 We will succeed in abolishing America KKK America, YLF wrote on Twitter on August 4th. 0.72

00:10:30.000 When some members of a crowd at June 2nd protest booed the burning of the American flag, the group tweeted, if you are booing someone burning a symbol of white supremacy and state violence at a protest against white supremacist state violence, what the F is wrong with you.

00:10:44.000 So their opening argument is that the United States of America is equivalent to white supremacy, the Ku Klux Klan, state violence, prisons, walls, and oppression.

00:10:56.000 This is a very important point. 0.52

00:10:59.000 So what you're seeing is a confluence of inputs and ideologies working themselves out in a uniquely American form of cultural Marxism.

00:11:09.000 This indoctrination started in the universities and in certain online communities, but the ideologies themselves have their roots in certain thinkers.

00:11:19.000 We have talked extensively here about the French fraud by the name of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

00:11:26.000 He argued that we should value the infant over the adult, the primitive over the civilized, the passionate lover over the calmly loyal spouse.

00:11:36.000 He thought that human beings were naturally good in the state of nature.

00:11:40.000 I take a much more Hobbesian view of the state of nature.

00:11:44.000 I think that human beings and the state of nature, it's more nasty, brutish, and short.

00:11:50.000 This is actually very consistent and harmonic with a biblical view of nature.

00:11:55.000 The Rousseauian view of nature by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, he thought that human beings did not have original sin.

00:12:04.000 They did not have natural sin.

00:12:05.000 He thought that human beings do bad things because of flawed systems around them, because of personal property, because of private property, because of government, because that we have created civilized society.

00:12:19.000 He had a romantic, idealistic view of going back to the jungles, going back to the woods, where human beings could act as natural primitive beings.

00:12:28.000 And then and only then will we be able to have harmony with each other, and that should be the ideal of the planet. 0.92

00:12:35.000 This, of course, is so foolish, it requires somebody to go to college to actually believe it.

00:12:40.000 So I'm going to mention three people that have heavily influenced what is happening today, and probably a fourth, but he's so difficult to be able to explain and deconstruct. 0.88

00:12:51.000 So I guess I'll start there.

00:12:52.000 The first is just called Hegel, or George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a German philosopher.

00:13:02.000 He is so hard to understand.

00:13:04.000 I have not read his literature.

00:13:06.000 I understand some of the big arguments that he tried to make in many of his writings.

00:13:11.000 He is one of the hardest philosophers to dive into and to actually understand.

00:13:16.000 I tried to dive into some of his writings, the phenomenology of spirit, and quite honestly, I had to take a pause.

00:13:24.000 So I instead watched a couple lectures and spent some time with some serious philosophers who understood Hegel, but even I struggled to work through a lot of his writings.

00:13:36.000 So we will do an entire podcast on Hegel.

00:13:39.000 Some of his big ideas were around the synthesis of two ideas.

00:13:45.000 You have a thesis and an antithesis.

00:13:47.000 A thesis and an antithesis, not an antithesis.

00:13:50.000 He called it an antithesis.

00:13:51.000 And essentially out of that, you get a synthesis.

00:13:54.000 Very much argued for the slow and prolonged but steady progression of politics and sociology.

00:14:02.000 He is so difficult to understand.

00:14:04.000 He almost was intentionally difficult.

00:14:06.000 We will do an entire podcast just on Hegel and what he called the Hegelian dialectic or the Hegelian way of solving problems.

00:14:16.000 But let's focus on three individuals that are probably easier to understand, two of which lived in the last 50 years and one of which, which of course was in the mid-1800s.

00:14:28.000 We'll start with Karl Marx.

00:14:29.000 Many of you know Karl Marx.

00:14:31.000 The term Marxist, of course, comes from Karl Marx.

00:14:33.000 He wrote the Communist Manifesto.

00:14:35.000 He was incredibly influential in economic theory.

00:14:39.000 He argued that all things are a class struggle economically, the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat, the working class versus the ownership.

00:14:49.000 He eventually argued in his writings, the Communist Manifesto, for a absolute and total abolition of all property into a state of anarchy and a state of harmony.

00:15:02.000 He actually derived his original worldview from Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

00:15:08.000 Karl Marx was actually very material in his criticism.

00:15:13.000 Almost everything that Karl Marx talked about was in economic terms, whereas the people that came after him, the people that followed Karl Marx, were much more about broader power struggles outside of just material wealth.

00:15:28.000 So by the 1960s, two other thinkers from France came up.

00:15:34.000 And these two people have polluted the minds of the next generation more so than any other combination that I can pinpoint. 0.75

00:15:44.000 They were from France, and they came up with a series of thinking called post-modernism.

00:15:52.000 Unlike Marxism, which is just strictly material in how they view the struggle between the powerful and the not so powerful, they go even deeper.

00:16:03.000 They go into what actually drives a society, and is there any such thing as absolute truth?

00:16:10.000 So you start with the first, Michelle Foucault. 0.97

00:16:14.000 This guy was a complete and total trickster and fraud.

00:16:18.000 In fact, I encourage all of you to go into Jordan Peterson's lectures. 0.94

00:16:22.000 He has some of the most thorough takedowns of Michelle Foucault and Jacques Derrida, which we'll get to in a second.

00:16:28.000 Interestingly enough, Michelle Foucault grew up extremely wealthy.

00:16:32.000 His entire body of work was around the study of power.

00:16:36.000 He did not believe Western society was a positive force for the planet.

00:16:41.000 He thought the only thing were groups struggling against each other.

00:16:46.000 He challenged preconceptions.

00:16:49.000 He coined a term that he really enjoyed, and this was originally from Nietzsche in the 1800s, which we can get into at a different podcast, a different program, which was this idea of madness in civilization.

00:17:02.000 You see, Michel Foucault, his entire thought process was around trying to deconstruct and destroy Western society.

00:17:12.000 Prisons must be abolished.

00:17:14.000 Police are a problem.

00:17:16.000 Private and personal property should go away.

00:17:19.000 This is rooted in bitter, resentful, and arrogant thinking.

00:17:24.000 Jacques Derrida accompanied him.

00:17:27.000 Jacques Derrida and Michelle Foucault actually hated each other.

00:17:31.000 They hated each other despite themselves having very harmonic and agreed upon, sinister, backwards, very dangerous worldviews.

00:17:43.000 So Michel Foucault, he was born in 1926 and he died in 1984 at the age of 57.

00:17:50.000 It was more than enough time, by the way, to ruin millions and tens of millions and eventually hundreds of millions of Western minds.

00:17:59.000 He really believed that power is a relationship between individuals and institutions.

00:18:06.000 He did not believe that human action could actually improve an individual's life.

00:18:11.000 He believed it was all an aberration.

00:18:14.000 He believed that if you work hard and play by the rules, your life does not get better.

00:18:18.000 You're nothing more than a pawn of a greater power play by the phallo-logocentric dominant hierarchy.

00:18:28.000 Now, phallo-logocentrism, boy, that is a weird sounding word.

00:18:33.000 Well, it is.

00:18:34.000 This is what Jacques Derrida used to describe Western civilization.

00:18:39.000 Fallow, meaning focused on the patriarchy, logo, meaning logic, being far too high of a preference for society, centric, meaning those two things are at the center of all of Western society.

00:18:53.000 The postmodernists, they do not believe in any form of truth.

00:18:57.000 The only identity you have is that in your tribal group that you can resort back to.

00:19:04.000 Everything they view from is from a victim versus the oppressor.

00:19:08.000 They believe in this neo-Marxist dominance, power struggle.

00:19:14.000 Jacques Derrida, alongside Michel Foucault, and if these are new names for you, perfectly okay and understandable.

00:19:21.000 But please continue to listen in on our future podcasts and programs because I'm going to tell you exactly why your kids are being taught to hate America, why your friends hate America so much.

00:19:33.000 Because we dive into the philosophy, the root ideas as to how they are trained up to have resentment, arrogance, and deceit about Western society and Western civilization.

00:19:46.000 Foucault focused on micro forms of power.

00:19:50.000 He called these things forced relations, as quote, whatever in one's social interactions that pushes, urgents, or compels one to do something.

00:19:59.000 In Foucault's world, his is a postmodern theory of power.

00:20:04.000 So it differs from classic material Marxism and feminism.

00:20:08.000 Marxism was failing in the 1960s. 0.93

00:20:12.000 It was actually widely accepted that Marxism was a foolish ideology.

00:20:16.000 In fact, many people in the academy were afraid to espouse their Marxist ideologies because neoliberal capitalistic ideas generally made the Western world richer.

00:20:27.000 They went on a rebranding campaign. 0.96

00:20:29.000 When Derrida and Foucault came into the Western world, specifically into Yale University, the entire academy was excited to embrace a new rebranding campaign of the Marxist ideas they actually believed, but they could not articulate because everyone would mock them at how foolish they were.

00:20:49.000 So they came up with the school and the thought process of postmodernism.

00:20:54.000 They are the architects of everything we are living through right now to undermine the structure of our entire civilization.

00:21:03.000 They believe that they should motivate the marginalized versus the reasonable.

00:21:08.000 They despised any form of hierarchies.

00:21:12.000 They believed in three big things.

00:21:15.000 People are very good by nature.

00:21:17.000 There should be no hierarchies.

00:21:19.000 And revolution is overdue.

00:21:21.000 A revolution is past due and it needs to happen yesterday.

00:21:24.000 And they're going to make sure it happens at any cost.

00:21:28.000 There is no such thing as math, science, truth, logic, or reason. 1.00

00:21:31.000 These are all just constructs of power to try to oppress the disadvantaged, mostly people of color. 1.00

00:21:39.000 Sound familiar? 0.71

00:21:41.000 But for both Michelle Foucault and Jacques Derrida, their sense of power is this abstract sense is that everywhere they tend to criticize hierarchies of power when they are external.

00:21:53.000 That could be in government, in business, in finances, or in outcomes of life.

00:21:57.000 Foucault called external power sovereign power, and this is all generally bad.

00:22:04.000 With sovereign power, Foucault meant power hierarchies, similar to a pyramid, where one person or group of people holds all the power, while normal or the oppressed people are at the bottom of the pyramid.

00:22:16.000 And the middle parts of the pyramid are the people who enforce the sovereign's orders, like cops, bureaucrats, or mid-level politicians.

00:22:23.000 This is why they hate cops.

00:22:25.000 They see them as the infantry or the soldiers of the oppressors.

00:22:31.000 This is also why we see so many of these woke mayors in Seattle and Minneapolis who think they can charm the mobs, that they can win them over to their side. 0.99

00:22:42.000 We know this is foolish. 0.98

00:22:43.000 We know this is balderdash. 0.98

00:22:45.000 We know this is a false promise.

00:22:48.000 The revolutionaries and the mob, they just think of them as mid-level hierarchy enforcers.

00:22:56.000 So now let's get into internal or disciplinary power.

00:23:00.000 So internal or disciplinary power came from inside the individual, and it could be a good thing.

00:23:05.000 You see, they argued that disciplinary power is internalized and therefore doesn't continuously need external force.

00:23:12.000 Foucault says that disciplinary power is primarily not an oppressing form of power, but rather so a productive form of power.

00:23:19.000 So basically, it doesn't matter if you started from nothing and made something out of yourself.

00:23:25.000 At all costs, it's the power that they hated.

00:23:28.000 And success you have accumulated, if they perceive you as part of it, is only because you now are part of the enemy or the oppressive class.

00:23:36.000 That's why the Foucault, Derrida, Rousseau, Marxist left today that are part of BLM, this is why they hate Candace Owens so much.

00:23:48.000 You see, they don't look at her as being a success story. 0.79

00:23:53.000 They look at her as a tribal traitor to black America. 0.94

00:23:58.000 They look at her as someone who now is part of the dominance hierarchy that is oppressing other black people. 0.91

00:24:05.000 We know this to be completely untrue. 0.94

00:24:07.000 We know this to be a racist and bitter lie.

00:24:10.000 That's why they will never applaud the achievements of Clarence Thomas, the only black individual on the United States Supreme Court. 0.82

00:24:19.000 So in America, that means if you're white and male, no matter what condition you're in, you might be addicted to opioids and your whole family might have committed suicide.

00:24:27.000 No matter what, you are privileged.

00:24:31.000 This is how they view things, through strictly tribal lens.

00:24:34.000 You see, fundamentally, they hate the external structure that we live in that allows for the accumulation of power at all, regardless if that power is used for good, as America has done countless times throughout history.

00:24:49.000 But what Michelle Foucault did through his writings, especially through the argument of, quote, disciplinary power or internal power, is just restating in his own postmodern language an age-old debate.

00:25:03.000 Is man fundamentally good or fundamentally bad?

00:25:09.000 So now we are back to a conversation that was quite, for those of us Christians, solved and for our Jewish friends out there in the first couple books of Genesis.

00:25:19.000 Are people naturally inclined to sin or are they naturally inclined to do good in the world?

00:25:24.000 Foucault posits the theory that human beings are good.

00:25:30.000 This is a Rousseauian idea.

00:25:32.000 That if we discipline ourselves and remove all external or sovereign power that is oppressive, we human beings can live in a form of heaven.

00:25:41.000 Plato had a similar observation.

00:25:43.000 Aristotle disagreed with him, but Plato was not as direct as Rousseau and definitely not as misguided as Michelle Foucault.

00:25:51.000 Plato got a lot right, and I think he also got plenty of things wrong.

00:25:55.000 Thomas Hobbes, who wrote in the 1600s, had a different view of things.

00:26:00.000 As I mentioned earlier, he called the origin of life nasty, brutish, and short.

00:26:05.000 Yes.

00:26:06.000 Now, what Thomas Hobbes got wrong is he thought because we live in a state of nature where man is nasty and brutish and short, we need a dictator to make sure we don't do those bad things to each other. 0.94

00:26:17.000 Ridiculous conclusion.

00:26:19.000 I agree with the Hobbes observation of man.

00:26:22.000 I disagree with the application of the Hobbes observation of man.

00:26:26.000 So he was an English scholar in the 1600s.

00:26:29.000 He wrote the Leviathan during the British Civil War.

00:26:34.000 And so Hobbes agreed, generally, with a biblical view of human nature.

00:26:41.000 We that are Christians, or those of us that believe in the laws of nature and nature is God, which is a statement that is said in the Declaration of Independence and articulated by our founding fathers, is that we have the law given to us by God.

00:26:54.000 We understand that kings and all authorities are created by God and appointed by him.

00:27:00.000 The Bible is very nuanced.

00:27:02.000 We are good in the sense that we are made in the image of God, but we are fallen by nature because we rebelled against God, Eve in the Garden of Eden.

00:27:11.000 And from that point forward, human beings are inclined to sin.

00:27:16.000 From a governing standpoint, however, Hobbes thought that we needed a dictator to try to prevent the nasty, brutish, and short human nature from resulting in total catastrophe.

00:27:27.000 Remember, he lived through a civil war.

00:27:29.000 All philosophers are a byproduct of the times they lived in and the things they were witnessing.

00:27:34.000 So, hopefully, you're beginning to understand why the BLM Incorporated arsonist left hates the church so much and traditional faith in general. 0.64

00:27:45.000 Foucault, Michelle Foucault, the trickster postmodernist fraud from France, he's thought the church as embodying a biopower, the norms we internalize that control the masses. 0.59

00:27:59.000 This is to borrow from Karl Marx.

00:28:01.000 His students, therefore, want to destroy the church along with the rest of our society, because in their view, it helps strengthen the oppressive structures of our society.

00:28:12.000 This is exactly why they hate America and Israel, and to a lesser extent, why they hate the West so much.

00:28:20.000 They're the only two nations in the history of the world to be founded upon Judeo-Christian values. 0.72

00:28:27.000 America is also the symbol of free enterprise capitalism, which to them is systemically oppressive to all people who are not white. 0.69

00:28:36.000 America is a shining city on the hill that carries with it not just a landmass with the government, but the very embodiment of the freedom and success of Judeo-Christian values, the Enlightenment, and classical liberalism. 0.74

00:28:50.000 One of the key differences between the French and the American Revolution was that Americans sought to strengthen the power and freedom of the individual, which was the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:29:03.000 The French, they sought fraternity, which is collectivist in nature.

00:29:08.000 Karl Marx pointed to the French Revolution and Rousseau as the necessary philosopher that helped wipe away the vestiges of the past to make way for the Russian Revolution.

00:29:18.000 Now, mind you, this war on religion is nothing new.

00:29:22.000 Karl Marx called religion the opioid of the masses.

00:29:26.000 Basically, that religion made us feel good of all the chaos that's around us, but it was only a utility to help us not even recognize the suffering around us.

00:29:37.000 Cultural Marxists generally want to remove and replace our history.

00:29:43.000 You see this with the removal of our statues and the demonization of white men who founded this nation.

00:29:50.000 History keeps people tied to the old, the traditional, to the structures of power and oppression.

00:29:57.000 The French revolutionaries tried to remove history and even restart time itself.

00:30:03.000 Brought to you by the French revolutionary Robespierre.

00:30:06.000 Jacques Derrida, the kind of partner in crime who actually hated Michel Foucault, said this, quote, one of the gestures of deconstructionism is not to naturalize what is unnatural, to not assume what is conditioned by history, institutions, or society is natural.

00:30:22.000 You see, they are naturally critical of what has come before.

00:30:26.000 They think it's inherent in Western society that it is oppressive.

00:30:30.000 All this ties into something extraordinarily important, critical race theory.

00:30:35.000 Critical race theory is a school of thought meant to emphasize the effects of race on one's social standing.

00:30:42.000 It arose as a challenge to the idea that in the two decades since the civil rights movement and associated legislation, racial inequality had been solved and affirmative action was no longer necessary.

00:30:53.000 Critical race theory originated among legal scholars like Derek Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Richard Delgado in the 1980s.

00:31:01.000 And you see their kind of lax approach to law enforcement as our cities burn and are looted is all rooted in critical race theory, which is derived through Michelle Foucault and Jacques Derrida.

00:31:12.000 They argue that racism and white supremacy are defining elements of the American legal system and of American society writ at large, despite language related to, quote, equal protection in our statutes, laws, and regulations.

00:31:25.000 Again, think of all this in terms of power dynamics.

00:31:28.000 They wanted to challenge seemingly neutral concepts like meritocracy and objectivity, which in practice tend to reinforce white supremacy.

00:31:37.000 According to them, African American museums infographic, which claim things like hard work, were terms of whiteness.

00:31:45.000 Critical race theory is interdisciplinary, drawing on a wide range of scholarly ideologies, including feminism, Marxism, and postmodernism.

00:31:54.000 Kimberlé Crenshaw is even more well known for coining the term intersectionality, which meant to highlight the multiple and overlapping systems of oppression that women of color face to make their experience different from that of white women's.

00:32:07.000 You see, it's all interconnected.

00:32:09.000 Identity politics, postmodernism, intersectionality, critical race theory, power dynamics, hierarchies, Marxism.

00:32:16.000 It's all an assault on objective truth.

00:32:18.000 It's an assault on common sense and reason, an assault on history and traditions.

00:32:23.000 It's a war on order, on morality, meritocracy, and the rule of law.

00:32:27.000 Why?

00:32:28.000 Because to these people, all of these are instruments of oppression.

00:32:32.000 And that's where we are today.

00:32:34.000 We started with telling you about the Youth Liberation Front.

00:32:37.000 They want to burn the flag.

00:32:39.000 They reject peaceful protesting.

00:32:41.000 They reject liberalism and Western society.

00:32:45.000 They reject America and they want to burn it to the ground.

00:32:47.000 You can't have social justice inside our present system.

00:32:51.000 They don't believe in reform because that would reform a system that is rotten to the core.

00:32:56.000 You have to destroy it utterly and completely.

00:32:59.000 Then you can revolutionize it, or as Obama said, fundamentally transform it.

00:33:04.000 And if you're in favor of the system, if you love America, then they hate you.

00:33:09.000 You are nothing but a tool for the perpetuation of systemic oppressive power.

00:33:14.000 Ultimately, I believe we are all designed to worship.

00:33:18.000 When we worship God, we innately understand who is truly in power, seated on a throne in heaven.

00:33:25.000 We understand healthy and external power.

00:33:28.000 Their religion is social justice.

00:33:31.000 Our religion is to follow, believe, and obey God.

00:33:35.000 If you're a Christian, to believe in the one that God sent, his Son, Jesus Christ.

00:33:40.000 We understand that our mission is to make life on earth emulate and reflect the goodness of God in heaven.

00:33:47.000 We don't believe that we can achieve heaven or utopia on earth like the revolutionaries, the socialists, the Marxists.

00:33:54.000 We believe that it is best the most morally upright country in the world that has lifted more people out of poverty and true oppression from monarchies and starvation and sickness than any other nation in the history of the planet.

00:34:08.000 They have been taught the opposite.

00:34:09.000 They have been taught to hate themselves.

00:34:13.000 And we must fight back against this.

00:34:15.000 In the face of postmodernism and the assaults of the left on objective truth and meaning, that segues into our thinker book of the week, thin kr.org slash Charlie, T-H-I-N-K-R.org, one of my favorite websites, thinker.org.

00:34:32.000 And we are going to dive into our book of the week, which is Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning.

00:34:40.000 So look, those of you that know thinker.org, you guys can consume amazing information very quickly.

00:34:45.000 I encourage you to go to thinker.org slash Charlie.

00:34:48.000 But here's what you'll learn in this book of the week.

00:34:51.000 In the face of unspeakable cruelty and crushing conditions in the Nazi concentration camps, Victor Frankl learned that it is still possible to live a life with dignity and purpose.

00:35:01.000 In Man's Search for Meaning, Frankl reflects upon his experience and how he found hope in the most unlikely places.

00:35:07.000 Here are some key insights.

00:35:08.000 If a man wanted to stay alive in Auschwitz, he shaved with regularity.

00:35:13.000 There are harrowing conditions revealed just about how adaptive human beings are.

00:35:19.000 Under camp conditions, food became the preoccupation of conversation, imagination, and dreams.

00:35:24.000 Politics and religion were featured prominently in discussions among prisoners.

00:35:29.000 The simple and the mundane took on new significance for prisoners.

00:35:33.000 Art and humor kept prisoners' spirits from being utterly crushed.

00:35:36.000 And regardless of one's circumstances, there's always a choice.

00:35:39.000 Liberation was not the immediately joyous experience that the prisoners anticipated.

00:35:44.000 Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl is our book at thinker.org slash Charlie.

00:35:48.000 T-H-I-N-K-R.org/slash Charlie.

00:35:52.000 We are going to continue to dive into the left and what motivates them.

00:35:56.000 But what do they really want?

00:35:57.000 They don't want America.

00:35:59.000 America stands in the way of them creating a utopia that will never exist, a power grab that God willing they'll never get.

00:36:07.000 Many of them are driven by bitter arrogance and deceit to try and destroy everything that we love in our country.

00:36:14.000 We're going to dive more into the philosophy of the left and the psychology of the left, especially coming up with our Ask Me Anything on Monday.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - August 14, 2020

End Game: What the Left Really Wants

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