00:00:08.000Today on the Charlie Kirk show, we ask the question: what on earth does the left want?
00:00:13.000We 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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00:00:54.000His 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.
00:01:02.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:13.000So 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.
00:01:21.000And we were having a candid conversation.
00:01:23.000Producer Andrew was with us there, and he does a great job.
00:01:26.000And he helps produce two podcasts for us a day and one on the weekends.
00:01:35.000I 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.
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00:01:52.000What was really incredible is some of the most successful people in the entire country had some phenomenal questions.
00:02:01.000And a lot of them were so confused as to what was happening in our country for good reasons, by the way.
00:02:07.000A 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.
00:02:21.000What exactly was driving George Soros and the radical left?
00:02:25.000Why is it that the left and their forces are so focused on deconstructing marriage, the family, our history, and our statues?
00:02:38.000I got question after question as to why are they doing this?
00:02:43.000So I thought to myself, why don't we do an episode actually going through the motives of the left?
00:02:50.000So 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?
00:03:01.000What is their end game and why is it they are fighting for what they are fighting for?
00:03:06.000Do they actually just want a country that is burning and on fire?
00:03:10.000Are they actually trying to achieve some form of end goal?
00:03:14.000We're going to explore this together throughout this episode and go through some of the key thinkers that the left derives inspiration from.
00:03:20.000We are going to go through multiple historical examples.
00:03:24.000We're going to go through some of the philosophers that were some of the driving forces of the American left.
00:03:28.000And 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.
00:03:45.000As one of our listeners wrote to us this morning, this is what they said.
00:03:49.000It seems like justice and objective truth are a thing of the past.
00:03:53.000The world is upside down and opposite of reality.
00:03:56.000Criminals are free, and hardworking, normal Americans feel stifled and trapped.
00:04:02.000So many people don't understand the anger that is actually pointed at America, especially by our own citizens.
00:04:10.000Now, 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.
00:04:18.000And she said she was a liberal for her whole life.
00:04:21.000She owned a gym in West LA, and BLM Incorporated came and stole everything, ransacked the place, destroyed it.
00:04:31.000She found out that her insurance only covered $36,000 of reimbursed material.
00:04:38.000And 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.
00:04:49.000She immediately became a Trump supporter.
00:04:51.000She recognized that this movement is rooted in destruction, malevolence, hostility, and anger.
00:04:58.000So 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.
00:05:07.000But they had a question I know a lot of you have had, and you've emailed me at freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:05:12.000This question is, what is in it for them?
00:05:14.000What do the rioters and the anarchists want?
00:05:17.000So 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.
00:05:32.000In other words, so many people are confused as to why the rioters and the revolutionaries are actually doing things to hurt themselves.
00:05:42.000There 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.
00:05:56.000I might have just left it at that and talked about something entirely different today.
00:06:00.000But we've talked about exactly what is happening.
00:06:02.000We've talked about some of the history behind it.
00:06:04.000But 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.
00:06:23.000And there was a great piece written by Peter Hassen, who we just recently had on the show.
00:06:26.000I 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.
00:06:36.000I encourage you guys to check out America's War on Men, one of my favorite episodes we ever did.
00:06:41.000We did one where we deconstructed BLM Incorporated.
00:06:44.000We called out the nonsense around the rioting and the looting and the arson in our country.
00:06:48.000Back on July 1st, we had BLM Incorporated versus America.
00:07:01.000So for those of you guys who support us at charliekirk.com/slash support, we have done 76 podcasts since the 1st of July.
00:07:08.000No other podcast team has produced that much content out there.
00:07:11.000That 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.
00:07:22.000But that's what I want to focus on today.
00:07:47.000It says, the Youth Liberation Front is credited with organizing protests in Portland last week that extended into the early morning hours and turned violent.
00:07:56.000The radical group's goals extend far beyond changing policies and even beyond abolishing the police.
00:08:02.000As noted in a July 8th tweet, we don't want to be led.
00:09:04.000I mean, what if it was the KKK marching through the streets of Portland?
00:09:07.000Like, oh, we're only going to measure them all by one person by one person.
00:09:10.000No, they would rightfully condemn anyone who is part of the KKK demonstration.
00:09:16.000They wouldn't say, well, there's some good people and some not so good people.
00:09:20.000No, they would get absolutely ridiculed for that.
00:09:23.000And 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.
00:09:34.000And in case you're wondering, they have not been removed from Twitter.
00:09:37.000That's considered acceptable dialogue by the tyrants at Twitter.
00:09:41.000So let's now start diving into motivation.
00:09:52.000Why is it that the press is covering up for them so much?
00:09:55.000Why are they not covering the growing insurrection happening in America?
00:10:00.000We can take a 5 a.m. raid and be back on our feet a few hours later.
00:10:04.000We'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.
00:10:11.000And this, members of our group report that watching the Senate hearing on Antifa was very inspiring.
00:10:17.000Countless times, the movement was referred to as being well organized, and it was conceded that they are winning on various occasions.
00:10:23.000We will succeed in abolishing America KKK America, YLF wrote on Twitter on August 4th.
00:10:30.000When 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.
00:10:44.000So 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.
00:10:59.000So what you're seeing is a confluence of inputs and ideologies working themselves out in a uniquely American form of cultural Marxism.
00:11:09.000This indoctrination started in the universities and in certain online communities, but the ideologies themselves have their roots in certain thinkers.
00:11:19.000We have talked extensively here about the French fraud by the name of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
00:11:26.000He argued that we should value the infant over the adult, the primitive over the civilized, the passionate lover over the calmly loyal spouse.
00:11:36.000He thought that human beings were naturally good in the state of nature.
00:11:40.000I take a much more Hobbesian view of the state of nature.
00:11:44.000I think that human beings and the state of nature, it's more nasty, brutish, and short.
00:11:50.000This is actually very consistent and harmonic with a biblical view of nature.
00:11:55.000The Rousseauian view of nature by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, he thought that human beings did not have original sin.
00:12:05.000He 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.
00:12:19.000He 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.
00:12:28.000And then and only then will we be able to have harmony with each other, and that should be the ideal of the planet.
00:12:35.000This, of course, is so foolish, it requires somebody to go to college to actually believe it.
00:12:40.000So 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.
00:13:06.000I understand some of the big arguments that he tried to make in many of his writings.
00:13:11.000He is one of the hardest philosophers to dive into and to actually understand.
00:13:16.000I tried to dive into some of his writings, the phenomenology of spirit, and quite honestly, I had to take a pause.
00:13:24.000So 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.
00:13:36.000So we will do an entire podcast on Hegel.
00:13:39.000Some of his big ideas were around the synthesis of two ideas.
00:14:04.000He almost was intentionally difficult.
00:14:06.000We will do an entire podcast just on Hegel and what he called the Hegelian dialectic or the Hegelian way of solving problems.
00:14:16.000But 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.
00:14:35.000He was incredibly influential in economic theory.
00:14:39.000He argued that all things are a class struggle economically, the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat, the working class versus the ownership.
00:14:49.000He 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.
00:15:02.000He actually derived his original worldview from Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
00:15:08.000Karl Marx was actually very material in his criticism.
00:15:13.000Almost 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.
00:15:28.000So by the 1960s, two other thinkers from France came up.
00:15:34.000And these two people have polluted the minds of the next generation more so than any other combination that I can pinpoint.
00:15:44.000They were from France, and they came up with a series of thinking called post-modernism.
00:15:52.000Unlike Marxism, which is just strictly material in how they view the struggle between the powerful and the not so powerful, they go even deeper.
00:16:03.000They go into what actually drives a society, and is there any such thing as absolute truth?
00:16:10.000So you start with the first, Michelle Foucault.
00:16:14.000This guy was a complete and total trickster and fraud.
00:16:18.000In fact, I encourage all of you to go into Jordan Peterson's lectures.
00:16:22.000He has some of the most thorough takedowns of Michelle Foucault and Jacques Derrida, which we'll get to in a second.
00:16:28.000Interestingly enough, Michelle Foucault grew up extremely wealthy.
00:16:32.000His entire body of work was around the study of power.
00:16:36.000He did not believe Western society was a positive force for the planet.
00:16:41.000He thought the only thing were groups struggling against each other.
00:16:49.000He 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.
00:17:02.000You see, Michel Foucault, his entire thought process was around trying to deconstruct and destroy Western society.
00:18:34.000This is what Jacques Derrida used to describe Western civilization.
00:18:39.000Fallow, 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.
00:18:53.000The postmodernists, they do not believe in any form of truth.
00:18:57.000The only identity you have is that in your tribal group that you can resort back to.
00:19:04.000Everything they view from is from a victim versus the oppressor.
00:19:08.000They believe in this neo-Marxist dominance, power struggle.
00:19:14.000Jacques Derrida, alongside Michel Foucault, and if these are new names for you, perfectly okay and understandable.
00:19:21.000But 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.
00:19:33.000Because 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.
00:19:46.000Foucault focused on micro forms of power.
00:19:50.000He called these things forced relations, as quote, whatever in one's social interactions that pushes, urgents, or compels one to do something.
00:19:59.000In Foucault's world, his is a postmodern theory of power.
00:20:04.000So it differs from classic material Marxism and feminism.
00:20:12.000It was actually widely accepted that Marxism was a foolish ideology.
00:20:16.000In fact, many people in the academy were afraid to espouse their Marxist ideologies because neoliberal capitalistic ideas generally made the Western world richer.
00:20:29.000When 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.
00:20:49.000So they came up with the school and the thought process of postmodernism.
00:20:54.000They are the architects of everything we are living through right now to undermine the structure of our entire civilization.
00:21:03.000They believe that they should motivate the marginalized versus the reasonable.
00:21:08.000They despised any form of hierarchies.
00:21:41.000But 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.
00:21:53.000That could be in government, in business, in finances, or in outcomes of life.
00:21:57.000Foucault called external power sovereign power, and this is all generally bad.
00:22:04.000With 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.
00:22:16.000And the middle parts of the pyramid are the people who enforce the sovereign's orders, like cops, bureaucrats, or mid-level politicians.
00:22:25.000They see them as the infantry or the soldiers of the oppressors.
00:22:31.000This 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.
00:22:48.000The revolutionaries and the mob, they just think of them as mid-level hierarchy enforcers.
00:22:56.000So now let's get into internal or disciplinary power.
00:23:00.000So internal or disciplinary power came from inside the individual, and it could be a good thing.
00:23:05.000You see, they argued that disciplinary power is internalized and therefore doesn't continuously need external force.
00:23:12.000Foucault says that disciplinary power is primarily not an oppressing form of power, but rather so a productive form of power.
00:23:19.000So basically, it doesn't matter if you started from nothing and made something out of yourself.
00:23:25.000At all costs, it's the power that they hated.
00:23:28.000And 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.
00:23:36.000That's why the Foucault, Derrida, Rousseau, Marxist left today that are part of BLM, this is why they hate Candace Owens so much.
00:23:48.000You see, they don't look at her as being a success story.0.79
00:23:53.000They look at her as a tribal traitor to black America.
00:23:58.000They look at her as someone who now is part of the dominance hierarchy that is oppressing other black people.
00:24:07.000We know this to be a racist and bitter lie.
00:24:10.000That's why they will never applaud the achievements of Clarence Thomas, the only black individual on the United States Supreme Court.
00:24:19.000So 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.
00:24:31.000This is how they view things, through strictly tribal lens.
00:24:34.000You 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.
00:24:49.000But 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.
00:25:03.000Is man fundamentally good or fundamentally bad?
00:25:09.000So 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.
00:25:19.000Are people naturally inclined to sin or are they naturally inclined to do good in the world?
00:25:24.000Foucault posits the theory that human beings are good.
00:25:32.000That if we discipline ourselves and remove all external or sovereign power that is oppressive, we human beings can live in a form of heaven.
00:26:06.000Now, 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.
00:26:19.000I agree with the Hobbes observation of man.
00:26:22.000I disagree with the application of the Hobbes observation of man.
00:26:26.000So he was an English scholar in the 1600s.
00:26:29.000He wrote the Leviathan during the British Civil War.
00:26:34.000And so Hobbes agreed, generally, with a biblical view of human nature.
00:26:41.000We 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.
00:26:54.000We understand that kings and all authorities are created by God and appointed by him.
00:27:02.000We 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.
00:27:11.000And from that point forward, human beings are inclined to sin.
00:27:16.000From 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.
00:27:27.000Remember, he lived through a civil war.
00:27:29.000All philosophers are a byproduct of the times they lived in and the things they were witnessing.
00:27:34.000So, hopefully, you're beginning to understand why the BLM Incorporated arsonist left hates the church so much and traditional faith in general.
00:27:45.000Foucault, 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.
00:28:01.000His 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.
00:28:12.000This is exactly why they hate America and Israel, and to a lesser extent, why they hate the West so much.
00:28:20.000They're the only two nations in the history of the world to be founded upon Judeo-Christian values.
00:28:27.000America is also the symbol of free enterprise capitalism, which to them is systemically oppressive to all people who are not white.
00:28:36.000America 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.
00:28:50.000One 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.
00:29:03.000The French, they sought fraternity, which is collectivist in nature.
00:29:08.000Karl 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.
00:29:18.000Now, mind you, this war on religion is nothing new.
00:29:22.000Karl Marx called religion the opioid of the masses.
00:29:26.000Basically, 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.
00:29:37.000Cultural Marxists generally want to remove and replace our history.
00:29:43.000You see this with the removal of our statues and the demonization of white men who founded this nation.
00:29:50.000History keeps people tied to the old, the traditional, to the structures of power and oppression.
00:29:57.000The French revolutionaries tried to remove history and even restart time itself.
00:30:03.000Brought to you by the French revolutionary Robespierre.
00:30:06.000Jacques 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.
00:30:22.000You see, they are naturally critical of what has come before.
00:30:26.000They think it's inherent in Western society that it is oppressive.
00:30:30.000All this ties into something extraordinarily important, critical race theory.
00:30:35.000Critical race theory is a school of thought meant to emphasize the effects of race on one's social standing.
00:30:42.000It 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.
00:30:53.000Critical race theory originated among legal scholars like Derek Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Richard Delgado in the 1980s.
00:31:01.000And 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.
00:31:12.000They 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.
00:31:25.000Again, think of all this in terms of power dynamics.
00:31:28.000They wanted to challenge seemingly neutral concepts like meritocracy and objectivity, which in practice tend to reinforce white supremacy.
00:31:37.000According to them, African American museums infographic, which claim things like hard work, were terms of whiteness.
00:31:45.000Critical race theory is interdisciplinary, drawing on a wide range of scholarly ideologies, including feminism, Marxism, and postmodernism.
00:31:54.000Kimberlé 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.
00:33:31.000Our religion is to follow, believe, and obey God.
00:33:35.000If you're a Christian, to believe in the one that God sent, his Son, Jesus Christ.
00:33:40.000We understand that our mission is to make life on earth emulate and reflect the goodness of God in heaven.
00:33:47.000We don't believe that we can achieve heaven or utopia on earth like the revolutionaries, the socialists, the Marxists.
00:33:54.000We 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.
00:34:15.000In 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.
00:34:32.000And we are going to dive into our book of the week, which is Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning.
00:34:40.000So look, those of you that know thinker.org, you guys can consume amazing information very quickly.
00:34:45.000I encourage you to go to thinker.org slash Charlie.
00:34:48.000But here's what you'll learn in this book of the week.
00:34:51.000In 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.
00:35:01.000In Man's Search for Meaning, Frankl reflects upon his experience and how he found hope in the most unlikely places.
00:35:59.000America stands in the way of them creating a utopia that will never exist, a power grab that God willing they'll never get.
00:36:07.000Many of them are driven by bitter arrogance and deceit to try and destroy everything that we love in our country.
00:36:14.000We'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.
00:36:20.000Thank you guys so much for supporting our program at CharlieKirk.com/slash support.