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00:01:34.000One of the individuals there, she asked, she said, you actually go here to learn.
00:01:39.000Not that I've heard anything that was totally new and profound, but I learned a lot at kind of where this generation is politically and philosophically.
00:01:47.000And yeah, I learned a lot kind of about some of the major sticking points there.
00:01:51.000And I do want to thank a couple people.
00:01:53.000I want to thank the students there that were there for all two hours and were respectful.
00:02:53.000Here I am complimenting that everyone had a great time and trying to be magnanimous even though people said very bad things, whatever, and that happens.
00:03:07.000Speaking of how wonderful of a university this is, let me continue with my compliments.
00:03:12.000No, I mean it, it's that the UT administration came in to a couple people that were trying to interrupt and play music or whatever, and they said you have to do that elsewhere.
00:03:20.000So that allowed our discussion and our conversation to continue, and so that was very nice.
00:03:34.000And they had a commitment to free speech, which is very, very important.
00:03:37.000So something that kept on coming up in our discussions today, which I found to be fascinating, not surprising, but it was fascinating to keep on hearing, which is who are you to say what is right and wrong?
00:03:51.000I thought that that would be probably well understood by the time you get to college, but it shouldn't be a huge shock for those of you that are.
00:03:58.000Kind of consuming postmodern deconstructionist philosophy on an almost daily basis, which is who are you to say?
00:04:07.000And that really does ask the question of what is the purpose of college, right?
00:04:10.000Where I think college should be, kind of what Hillsdale College has become, which is an exploration of the good, the true, and the beautiful, and what is right, what is good, what is, how should you as a human being properly develop?
00:04:23.000And, you know, it was a really interesting question where they said, you know, your beliefs should not be able to be imposed on somebody else.
00:04:49.000Not to do something is actually a decision to do something, and you have to have a moral basis for that.
00:04:54.000And so we had a very long conversation about that, and I hope that can continue in the question and answer line, of which disagreement will be invited, and you guys can have the microphone.
00:05:04.000But, you know, it kind of goes back to that question of who are you to say?
00:05:07.000And boy, the founding fathers really thought deeply about that.
00:05:11.000And we are the beneficiaries of framers that gave us the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:05:17.000And I have to say, when I said that today, there were a lot of people gasping and booing, which is just such a shocking thing because that is as close to an objective fact of anything I could say here tonight that you are the beneficiaries to live in the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:05:49.000We have the longest waiting list of people that want to come into our country.
00:05:52.000Our ideals have been successfully replicated all across the planet.
00:05:56.000We're the nation that goes and fights wars for the freedom of other people, not perfectly all the time, obviously, but has an ethic within our history and within our background.
00:06:06.000Of something that is not an empire to try to gain lands, but in some ways something greater than yourself.
00:06:12.000And I could go on from medical advancements to cultural impact.
00:06:15.000There's something very special about America.
00:06:17.000And I'm deathly afraid that we're losing it.
00:06:20.000And not only are we afraid of losing it, I'm afraid that people want it to be lost.
00:06:27.000And it wasn't said today, but I've heard it before when I was at Berkeley, which, don't laugh too much, you guys are right up there with Berkeley, so it's right up there.
00:06:48.000It's a force of evil in the world.0.98
00:06:51.000And only spending an exhaustive amount of time in a lecture hall listening to someone who hates about America could you come to such a ridiculous conclusion as that.
00:07:00.000Which, I mean, just the evidence in front of it is you look at America's greatness, which, again, I think we're losing through self inflicted decisions, and you look through our history and you look at what we've been able to accomplish.
00:07:12.000There's just one fact that will tell you everything you need to know.
00:07:16.000America's the only nation on the planet where even those who hate it, and they say they hate it, they refuse to leave.
00:07:22.000And so, and people, and they say, well, you know, where am I supposed to go?
00:07:31.000I said, I don't know, you guys talk about Denmark all the time, like Paris?
00:07:34.000I'm not saying leave, I'm saying, why don't you?
00:07:37.000And because I have to hear about how awful this place is, but your actions speak a lot louder than your lectures in that regard.
00:07:44.000And that does kind of tell you something.
00:07:46.000It kind of reminds me of all the celebrities that said they were going to leave the country.
00:07:49.000After Donald Trump won, it's actually like, yeah, okay, you might have a problem with that, but it turns out that this place still is the best hope.
00:08:22.000At Hillsdale College, they shared a deep understanding that learning is the key to shaping your character, creating courage, and changing lives.
00:08:30.000Charlie never stopped learning, and neither should you.
00:08:33.000Through Hillsdale's online courses, he spent time studying the classics, the American founding, and the enduring truths of the Bible.
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00:10:09.000Is a human being an image bearer, has a soul, has something that is worthy of protection?
00:10:14.000And the answer to that question can tell you directly the type of government that you think should exist.
00:10:19.000And it said so clearly because the Declaration of Independence starts completely and totally universally.
00:10:24.000It doesn't start specific, it gets specific.
00:10:26.000But Thomas Jefferson writes when in the course of human events, he's talking about all time, all human beings, all people, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands that have tied them to another.
00:10:35.000Deriving the separate but equal power that it goes on to equal station, it goes on to say laws of nature and nature is God.
00:10:40.000What he's making is a moral argument that the people of this nation have something that is even greater than reason and is even greater than touch and feel in the senses.
00:10:49.000And again, you can have your own religious views, but it's an arguable argument to say that the founders of the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world believed you had a soul, and that's a very big deal.
00:10:58.000And if you believe you have a soul, then you must have a government that respects all human dignity, regardless of size, level of development, environment, or degree of dependency, including those in the womb or outside of the womb.
00:11:08.000That those beings are worthy of protection.
00:11:11.000And when you start to talk in that way, all of a sudden natural rights start to come into the picture.
00:11:30.000Is that the government protects those rights first and foremost from government abusing those rights.
00:11:35.000And not only were they able to tell you what a human being is, they told you how human beings acted.
00:11:39.000And if there was kind of the bit, one of the big lies, if you will, of American progressivism is that somehow human beings change just because technology changes with it.
00:11:53.000In fact, technology only makes it easier for us to do the bad stuff that would have been harder for us to do a couple hundred years ago.
00:11:58.000Said differently, the Constitution was not written for the times, it was written to stand the test of time.
00:12:03.000That it was an analysis of human behavior, of every civilization that ever acted before, and they had some truths in it that all of us are able to enjoy today.
00:12:11.000The first and most obvious one is consent to the governed.
00:12:14.000You are the sovereign in the US Constitution.
00:12:16.000And that is so easy to take for granted.
00:12:18.000And it only existed in a short little spurt in maybe Athenian democracy before that.
00:12:22.000And it's a big deal they put that into place.
00:12:25.000But it's important that it's not a democracy, though.
00:12:32.000In a democracy, the majority rules no matter what all the time.
00:12:35.000And I say, well, that's the way I want it.
00:12:37.000Well, if the majority wants something that is evil and wrong, shouldn't there be a check and balance against the majority?
00:12:41.000Shouldn't there be a process to slow it down?
00:12:44.000You see, a constitutional republic says there are things that are true that will always be true.
00:12:48.000Do you notice that the preamble to the U.S. Constitution has never had to be changed?
00:12:52.000It's because it's always been true that we do ordain these truths.
00:12:57.000We do ordain this Constitution said differently.
00:13:00.000And so when we kind of look at all these different things that are kind of factoring in, I think it's important to note that the posture that I encourage you to have, and we can have obvious disagreements here, we're going to get to questions early tonight because, boy, some of you guys wore me out today.
00:14:20.000What is the form of the structure of government?
00:14:22.000And there's a reason why that Constitution has stood the test of time and the stress test at every single corner, despite opposition, foreign and domestic.
00:14:29.000It locates the sovereignty within you.
00:14:33.000And at the same time, the people are actually not running the administration of the government.
00:14:37.000It excludes the sovereign from the ordinary business of the government or the ordinary operations of the government, which in some ways is a check and balance on the people, which again shows that absolute power can corrupt absolutely.
00:14:49.000And it comes down to this fundamental question and this fundamental thing where it goes down to at some point you have to agree upon what C.S. Lewis said, which is you have to come to some consensus of the Tao or the way.
00:15:00.000And this is what really troubles me about some of the things I heard today more than anything else.
00:15:04.000When they say there's an unlimited amount of truths.
00:15:08.000And I want you to understand the ramifications of what that looks like in society.
00:15:13.000And somebody said, different cultures have different truths.
00:15:18.000Different cultures can have different diets and customs and attitudes.
00:15:22.000But is it really the case that if you believe that child sacrifice to Molech is okay, that's somehow something we should act as if that's not eternally wrong, regardless of where it happens?
00:15:33.000No, there's eternal principles that apply to all people, regardless of where they are on the planet.
00:15:39.000Of course, be respectful of them and all things, but you do look at that question.
00:15:43.000There's an unlimited amount of truths.
00:15:44.000Now, there could be lots of different shared experiences, but for example, if you have a car crash and there's five witnesses, everyone says, well, this happened and this happened, eventually you want to get to the truth of what ended up happening.
00:15:55.000You want to be able to get to the consensus of the matter.
00:15:57.000And when you design a government or you have a society and you raise a generation that says, you know what, anyone can believe whatever they want to believe about anything at any time, how on earth are you going to have a stable and civil society from that point?
00:16:09.000If everybody had a definition of what North is, Good luck trying to orient everybody.
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00:17:12.000See why so many believers are taking a leap of faith?
00:17:44.000It's something that says, okay, within the maxims of liberty, We can agree that separation of powers, consent to the governed, independent judiciary, private property rights, these things are important to protect.
00:17:55.000And whenever there is a threat against those things, we're not going to put up with that.
00:17:59.000Like, we're not going to say, you know what, yeah, maybe you could believe that you're a platypus or that you could believe that you're actually six foot eight when in reality you're not.
00:18:08.000That your feeling is not as important as to what actual reality is happening in that exact moment.
00:18:15.000And the consequence of this, I could tell you, will end up being two things.
00:18:21.000If you don't have all these things, You have societal chaos.
00:18:23.000But we never talk about what happens after that, which is then you get totalitarianism.
00:18:28.000You see, as soon as you confuse everybody, there is no truth, you have your own truth, and you have all these different kinds of bickering tribes, eventually people are going to want order.
00:18:37.000And that's when you get someone like Joseph Stalin that comes along.0.84
00:18:40.000And all they care about is power, and they're good at it.0.84
00:18:43.000And then all of a sudden you could throw out all the stuff I've talked about consent to the governed, separation of powers.
00:18:47.000Chaos is a strategy towards totalitarianism.
00:18:51.000And not everyone who's participating in it even recognizes or realizes it.
00:18:54.000They say, oh, we're liberating groups to be able to have whatever truth they want to have under any circumstance.
00:19:00.000But do you notice how quickly it goes from this is my truth to all of a sudden if you don't accept your truth, you're going to be penalized?
00:19:56.000There's two ways we could take this, and I think both have something that we can glean from it.
00:20:03.000The first is the reality of the topic is that this is the most depressed, suicidal, alcohol addicted, and drug addicted, psychiatric drug addicted generation in history.
00:20:12.000Most likely to kill themselves, least likely to get married, least likely to have kids, most likely to believe that there is no God, no eternity, no reason or harmony for life.
00:20:22.000And for those of us that are not in Generation Z, we should press pause and take time out and say, what is going on?
00:20:27.000That is a very troubling and sad thing.
00:20:29.000Now, I do believe that there is a direct connection between a lot of this postmodernist garbage that a lot of you guys are going into debt for.
00:20:36.000To learn, and the fact that all of a sudden you have something that could be best described as existential despair.
00:20:44.000You feed a child a steady diet of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault and Herbert Marcuse without being anchored in absolute truth, or at least the kind of inquiry of such, you're going to really mess with some kids' heads.
00:20:57.000But also, even deeper than that, and this is where I think some students would totally agree, especially those on the left, and some adults would say not so fast, is I think that older generations did a massive disservice to this generation.
00:21:17.000The lockdowns will go down as one of the worst mistakes in American history where we decided to harm a generation for an awful reason.
00:21:26.000And this generation is still trying to climb out of it.
00:21:29.000We locked down a generation and masked them and forced mRNA gene altering technology on them by saying, maybe you'll get kicked out of school or have your entire life ruined for a virus that did not significantly threaten them.
00:21:40.000And every single person in this room could tell you a story of someone that has been left aside.
00:21:43.000Maybe you are one of those people, and we're here for you if you need help in any way possible, of someone that is now in a very serious mental health crisis, someone that took their life.
00:21:52.000And I'm telling you, the lockdowns are a direct correlation to this generational carnage that a lot of young people are living through.
00:21:59.000And a lot of adults will say, oh, young people just need to work harder.
00:22:27.000And it was so perverse when you really think about it, which is the 15, 16, and 17 year olds that have their whole life ahead of them, they need to be locked at home so that they won't spread a virus to their grandparents.
00:22:41.000Now, I'm not a fan, obviously, of anyone spreading viruses to anybody, but the question should have always been the kids come first.
00:22:52.000And not to mention all of our insane fiscal policy is around this.
00:22:56.000And I say this to conservatives all the time.
00:22:59.000And I think that we could find some agreement with some people on the left here tonight, which is you want to know why so many people on the left, younger, that love socialism, yeah, part of it, they want free stuff and they've been indoctrinated, all that.
00:23:40.000And good luck trying to buy a home if you're a young person right now, with what, 6.6% interest rates and down payments out of reach?
00:23:48.000And this is something that some conservatives reject this argument, but just hold on, which is some people that then embrace socialist ideas, at some point you have to wonder like, man, you can blame them a little bit, but did we create the conditions where they're ready to embrace free enterprise?
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00:25:46.000If they were smart, they would say the very simple, which is really true, which is a 25 year old is working harder and getting poorer than any other time in American history.0.97
00:25:55.000Not American history, the last 50 years.
00:25:57.000And not only is that true, it creates a lot of anger in people, and it should, because you have a rule following generation.
00:26:02.000That's what I call Gen Z and millennials, because they followed every single rule put in front of them, and they say, I can't afford gas, I can't afford groceries, I have to go into debt just to be able to survive.
00:26:12.000And they want to just be preached by the older generation, like, oh, just go work harder, go apply yourself more.
00:26:19.000You want to have a Marxist revolution on your hands?
00:26:28.000You got a bunch, you know, it's a great rule for life.
00:26:30.000People burn down Wendy's only if they don't own anything, okay?
00:26:34.000Like the people, if you own a mortgage, you're probably less likely to go all of a sudden act in revolutionary fervor.
00:26:39.000And I think we're on the cusp of an economic collapse in this country in more ways than one.
00:26:43.000And again, it's not even political, it's just talking very realistically, which is do you think the hard economic left, which again, this is the great miscalculation of the American Marxists, and if there's a Marxist here tonight, I'd be happy to talk to you.
00:26:56.000Because the Marxism, here am I giving advice to Marxists, right?
00:27:00.000Which is, they decided to go all in on this race Marxism garbage, which actually was the best gift for those of us that are conservatives because they decided to show their true colors that they're actually not about economics, they're about dividing people based on skin color and tribes and going against straight white men and all that sort of nonsense that they're doing.0.64
00:27:15.000When every single one of their arguments, like, oh, we need to confiscate wealth and all, it was all total and complete garbage, obviously, being a free enterprise guy, has kind of gone by the wayside in a way where you have a legitimate economic anxiety amongst the younger generation.0.87
00:27:31.000And so the question is, how are conservatives going to respond to that?
00:27:34.000Well, I mean, I think our response needs to be, of course, rooted in market principles and rooted in consent to the governed and constitutional ideas.
00:27:40.000But I have to even say, beyond that, it's we should also, as conservatives, be defenders and we should be pushers of things that would give this generation that currently is telling us they're in misery by every metric possible things that would give them meaning.
00:27:54.000Make it easier to marry and have children in our country, make it easier to be able to buy a home, to have a little bit of investment in that very same American dream.
00:28:02.000You want to de radicalize a generation?
00:28:04.000Have them experience the same sort of growth that many of you experienced, adults in the room, in the 1980s.
00:28:10.000Your politics get very deradicalized when you're getting wealthier and you start having kids.
00:28:15.000You want to know why this generation has radicalized politics?
00:28:18.000Because they're getting poor and they're not having children and not getting married.
00:28:21.000It's the perfect kind of raw material for every single one of these awful ideas to kind of go in and metastasize.
00:28:30.000I tell young people work harder, apply yourself more.
00:28:33.000At the same time, as someone who's kind of a bridge between generations, being 28 years old, I think there needs to be a national recovery plan.
00:28:40.000I don't know what that means, but I've said this before.0.97
00:28:42.000I would much rather see money go to help kids be able to own homes and have families and send it to Ukraine.
00:28:49.000I think that is a much more important priority for our leaders.0.97
00:28:56.000That's not a popular position in every room.
00:28:58.000Obviously, it is here, but I think there's a moral obligation to defend your citizens.0.67
00:29:03.000But yeah, look, for those of you that are Gen Z and you're here tonight and you don't know how you stand politically welcome, by the way, we're glad you're here.
00:29:10.000It's more important where you ask yourselves the question, how am I going to be able to live a life of contribution and meaning and purpose?
00:29:17.000And I guess I'll close with this and we'll do some questions, which is it could be very depressing and very dark when you watch the news and all this, but I just want to be able to tell you that there is a beautiful life that is ahead of all of you.
00:29:29.000There are things that give your life meaning that you might be told on a daily basis you shouldn't do getting married, having children, having a job that you believe in, being able to serve your country, your church, your community, whatever those things might be.
00:29:41.000Those are very beautiful and important things.
00:29:44.000And so we're kind of going through this massive thing where they say, you know, we have this mental health crisis on our hands.
00:30:21.000I think that's necessary, and I think it's very compelling.
00:30:24.000In fact, I know it's compelling, and I think that's a lot more important for conservatives to talk about than tax cuts.
00:30:30.000But it also goes into this, which is one of the main strategies if you get a generation to no longer believe in the history and the story of that nation, then why wouldn't they just tear it all down?
00:30:40.000And that's one of the reasons why I'm such a defender of the American Republic and our history, which is a beautiful history.
00:30:46.000It really is the great American story, it's a land of hope.
00:30:50.000It's a story where you can start with absolutely nothing and you can achieve something.
00:30:55.000It's a place of applied success and meritocracy, and we have to get it back.
00:30:59.000And that starts here at this campus and spreading the truth and having debate and dialogue and reason and hearing each other's ideas out.
00:31:06.000But I'll tell you right now, it's a massive crisis because I look at the next generation and I'm very afraid that we're going to be talking about a country that used to exist.
00:31:15.000And I'm not okay with that, and that's why I'm here tonight.
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