00:00:00.000Hey everybody, Joe Biden has a younger voter problem.
00:00:03.000We dive into that and also some of the other trends that Democrats are struggling with.
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00:01:20.000We as conservatives are repulsed by identity politics, and we should be.
00:01:26.000The politics of trying to put people in different categories based on their skin color is not something that we appreciate or something that we support.
00:01:36.000Now, identity politics is rooted in the idea of trying to, let's just say, use a word that came in the 1990s, balkanize the American political, the American political landscape.
00:01:50.000However, there is one part of kind of segmenting of politics, if you will, or the country that I think is very helpful, and that is to look at things generationally.
00:02:00.000Instead of looking at things based on skin color, I think looking at political dynamics based on age is far more helpful.
00:02:08.000While I do believe there are differences between men and women, I do not believe there are differences between white people and black people.
00:02:14.000I do not believe in racial differences, and people who do, we have words for them.
00:02:19.000Racists, like Nicole Hanna-Jones, or like Robin DiAngelo, or Ibram X. Kendi.
00:02:24.000But I do believe that there's big differences in experiences and, let's say, things that people have to live through in generational dynamics.
00:02:36.000So typically, the younger the voter, the more Democrat and the more liberal they are.
00:02:41.000They tend to be more idealistic, utopian, less rooted to the tragedy of life.
00:02:46.000And not all life is a tragedy, but life can be tough.
00:02:49.000The first Buddhist principle is life is suffering.
00:02:52.000I don't quite believe that, to be perfectly honest.
00:02:54.000Life can be full of suffering, but it also can be beautiful and full of joy and love and prosperity.
00:03:01.000Generational dynamics, for me, are the most helpful and interesting to look at.
00:03:07.000And so when we look at Joe Biden's approval rating and we look at who actually is driving the decline of Joe Biden's approval, it's remarkable when we learn that it's younger voters in particular that disapprove of Joe Biden the most.
00:03:25.000Vox.com, which is a communist rag, writes, quote, Joe Biden's young voter problem.
00:03:34.000Quote, Joe Biden has a younger voter problem.
00:03:37.000If you look at about any poll from last year, the president's support amongst younger voters ages 18 to 34 has dropped significantly.
00:03:45.000The decline is worst amongst younger voters of color.
00:03:51.000Young Americans never really loved Biden, and they think he's broken his campaign pledges.
00:03:57.000The youngest of these voters came of a political age, isolated away from schools, friends, uncertain of their jobs, school prospects, and unsure of whom to trust.
00:04:07.000It says here that according to Gallup survey, nearly 60% of voters approved of Joe Biden at his inauguration.
00:04:18.000And now that is down to less than 40%, according to the Gallup poll, a 23-point plunge, 37% actually, approval rating, and that's high.
00:04:30.000It's actually 21% according to a Quinny Piak poll.
00:05:04.000It's difficult to live in a major metropolitan area.
00:05:07.000Phoenix and Dallas and Atlanta, inflation is anywhere between 20 to 25 percent, which actually doesn't hurt older people as much.
00:05:14.000If you own a home, inflation actually is somewhat good for you.
00:05:17.000Your debt liability or your debt that you own your home, your mortgage technically stays the same, but it decreases if there are more dollar bills in the economy because everyone has more dollar bills.
00:05:28.000And so even though your debt is fixed, the amount of dollar bills is fluid.
00:05:33.000Therefore, the dollar bill to debt ratio goes in your favor.
00:05:38.000But most 18 to 34-year-olds don't own property.
00:05:40.000They can't afford a down payment, and certainly not right now, with the skyrocketing price of housing across America, not to mention student loan debt, where young people borrowed money they did not have to study things that did not matter, to go find jobs that do not exist.
00:05:56.000But they do have a piece of paper showing that they studied 13th century queer poetry, which I hear is all the rage right now at Brown University, 13th century queer poetry.
00:06:12.000And there is this general feeling of generational disgust.
00:06:19.000They know that something is not right, and they're not exactly sure who to blame.
00:06:26.000They're not exactly sure who to pinpoint for their suffering, but they know that Biden is a good start.
00:06:34.000It says here, quote, the current inflationary spike is the first time many millennials and Gen Zers are confronting this kind of economy.
00:06:41.000Coupled with rising rent, debt, and ultra-hot housing markets in the country's 20 largest metropolitan areas, the current affordability crisis is hitting young people especially hard.
00:06:50.000In part due to the last recession, millennials were already a lost generation financially.
00:06:55.000And Generation Z, both graduating into a recession and dealing with the pandemic economy, saw higher rates of job instability, causing them to dip into their savings more than older generations.
00:07:06.000It says, quote, when the economy roared back in 2021, which it didn't, it was a fake roarback.
00:07:23.000If Republicans do not seize this opportunity with younger voters, this will be the most radical socialist generation in history.
00:07:31.000Just wait until a socialist starts to run for office and stops talking about pregnant men and talking about transgender curriculum for five-year-olds.
00:07:40.000If a Democrat socialist actually ran on class instead of race or these kind of trans woke issues, it would resonate in a way that most Republicans would not know how to process it.
00:07:57.000Christina Tinzutin Ramirez says, quote, they have real economic anxiety and pain at this moment.
00:08:04.000Many young people feel worried about the future.
00:08:06.000Young American adults are the first generation in history to be worse off than their parents.
00:08:29.000We've come under great criticism by calling the $7 trillion credit out of thin air, robbing future generations to try to inflate stock and commodity and security prices.
00:08:40.000And so this generation is now inheriting the multi-decades of the same sort of generational theft, of borrowing money we do not have, of printing money that does not exist, that's not rooted in any sort of value or wealth, locking down an economy to do what?
00:08:56.000The lockdowns served zero meaningful civilizational or epidemiological purpose.
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00:11:02.000The country was a lot more stable, even though it didn't feel that way at times, looking back at it.
00:11:07.000And so I used to go to these campuses, like Cleveland State University was kind of one of the most famous ones where I got protested nonstop by all these socialistic apparatchiks.
00:11:18.000And it's just a very simple question that you need to ask.
00:11:21.000Okay, do you trust the government, young socialist?
00:12:17.000They think that young people don't like Biden because he's not hawkish enough on COVID, right?
00:12:24.000It says, quote, the pandemic chaos helped fuel a historic jump in young voters' participation in electoral politics with record numbers of young people voting out to turn against Donald Trump, largely because of mail-in ballots being sent to their home so they could just fill it out and have some pick it up or whatever and put it into a zucker box.
00:12:43.000But things went downhill around the time Biden promised Americans would be able to declare victory by the 2021 4th of July.
00:12:50.000It says, quote, the vibes are off with Joe Biden.
00:12:54.000We kept being told that something better is coming, Rahel Hali, the executive director of Minnesota's Youth Collective, told me.
00:13:00.000With Joe Biden, it was, oh, this is going to be better than Trump, and the approach is the lesser of two evils.
00:13:06.000With that, we want a leader that can actually change things and actually think about the precariousness of the future of a young person's life.
00:13:12.000Yeah, I mean, you think that Bernie Sanders is radical.
00:13:14.000They are going to draft a candidate that will make Bernie Sanders look like a moderate.
00:13:20.000And Republicans, what do you have to do about this?
00:13:22.000And we've talked about this for a while.
00:13:23.000Republicans should talk about a national recovery program.
00:13:28.000A national recovery program that makes it easier for young people to own property, get married, and have children.
00:13:32.000If we do not fix those three things, this generation will go from hating Biden to loving legitimately radical Marxism.
00:13:41.000And so the preconditions for a Marxist or a socialist political movement are when people don't own anything, they're not married in large numbers, and they're not having children.
00:13:54.000Now, one of the reasons why people do not have children in this country is it's too expensive.
00:14:58.000I got my whole start in kind of actually studying this stuff.
00:15:02.000And it was like, nope, got to do something.
00:15:03.000Why do we have to do something exactly?
00:15:05.000Well, now we're paying the price of the multiple variations of the stimulus bill, creating money out of thin air, paying people to stay home and do nothing, bailing out companies that didn't need it.
00:15:16.000Instead, opening up the economy, investing in early treatments, not having a spirit or culture of fear would have prevented all of this.
00:15:23.000And so Republicans need to get serious about addressing these issues or else at some point, Democrats are going to realize there's a political gold mine here.
00:15:33.000There is a multi-trillion dollar bill sitting right on the sidewalk that one political party or the other can pick up that could capture younger voters for the next couple decades to come.
00:16:13.000The student loan debate shows this divide, though the most progressive wing of younger voters back loan forgiveness, about a third of young people still oppose it.
00:16:21.000There's an opportunity right now for Republicans to capitalize on this political chaos that is happening.
00:16:42.000And we're going to have some political news next week of, actually, yeah, a week from today, we're going to be announcing something very exciting that the great Tyler Boyer will be running a political operation to hopefully do some very exciting things in our country.
00:16:56.000We're going to do our part for younger voters in particular.
00:17:00.000Whether Republicans will do that or just keep talking about corporate taxes, I'm not sure.
00:17:05.000So if you look carefully, there's a food shortage happening in America.
00:17:12.000Here's Bob Unanu on Fox saying that we have weaponized food, the CEO of Goya, play cut 42.
00:18:40.000That tells you a large chunk of the Republican Party right now, a large chunk of the Republican base, are, well, I'm not exactly sure what word you would, I've been using the word fascist for some time, that there is a fascist strain in the Republican Party for at least a third or so of those members.
00:19:05.000So can you screen grab that and send that to me that they were looking at?
00:19:10.000So I was dialoguing late last night with a friend of mine from Chicago who I really respect.
00:19:15.000And I'm going to just kind of read part of our back and forth, the essence of it, which was a really interesting conversation, which is, can we pinpoint what the left is thinking right now?
00:19:28.000Typically, when it comes to domestic politics or when it comes to what's happening here in America, I'm not always as murky as I am right now.
00:19:37.000Okay, so just to finish the point on this, though, when things happen domestically, typically I could see things very clearly, but I'm a little bit murky.
00:19:45.000I'm a little bit unclear on some things, and maybe you guys can help us.
00:19:48.000Email is freedom at charliekirk.com, help our entire team, and let me explain why, which is what are Democrats thinking right now?
00:19:57.000I'm a little bit uncertain and confused why the Democrats are accelerating the continuance of what could be called a suicide mission.
00:20:09.000Either they have a great plan to cheat coming into November, or they figure there's still enough time to ruin the country, or the third option is they're just completely and totally delusional.
00:20:22.000I've been trying to put myself in their shoes for the last couple of days and weeks, and I'm sure you have as well.
00:20:28.000The Democrats, I believe, have always been very good at playing chess.
00:20:33.000When we think we have them dead to rights, COVID comes and mail-in ballot zucker boxes, and the Time magazine article by Molly Ball gets written of the shadow campaign that won the 2020 election.
00:20:47.000I've been observing some of the Twitter comments and the liberal media comments very closely.
00:20:54.000And I think that the group think between the left, it's so dense, and the kind of sheltering from all their safe spaces is that they just can't think rationally.
00:21:07.000It's as if they're having these kind of delusional tendencies and suffering from self-inflicted denial.
00:21:15.000Now, it really begs the question, like, is the left going through some form of a nervous breakdown of some kind?
00:21:22.000I mean, there could be very serious psychological underpinnings of this.
00:21:28.000Now, if the left is able to get kind of another emergency in the fall, that might be their default plan.
00:21:36.000But I do wonder, which is what are the Democrats thinking internally?
00:21:42.000And I mean, we can conjecture, we can guess, we can speculate.
00:21:48.000We do know that we as conservatives are wired to think less about our own kind of narcissistic tendencies and more about the country or the nation as a whole.
00:22:01.000I'm struggling to kind of find what their game plan is here.
00:22:04.000Now, if you can find their game plan, then you can better thwart it.
00:22:08.000Now, one other potential theory is that Democrats believe it's inevitable that the opposition party takes back the House, and you might as well not fight it too hard, win the redistricting, win the infrastructure of it, try to lessen your losses.
00:22:22.000Republicans are going to win the House.
00:22:24.000That's just kind of part of the cycle of politics, but we're still going to be in charge of the deep state.
00:22:29.000We're still going to be in charge of the bureaucracy and kind of accelerating the suicide mission.
00:22:34.000We might as well accelerate it because no matter what we will do, we're going to lose power in the off-election year of a midterm year after winning the presidency.
00:22:42.000There might be kind of this acceptance of the inevitability of political collapse.
00:23:57.000Which is, and by the way, why is political polling this?
00:24:00.000It's like, there's a lot of other problems than other whether you think people have homophobic and racist remarks.
00:24:05.000Republicans just don't believe those accusations anymore.
00:24:08.000They're like, wait, I don't really care because it's not actually what you say it is.
00:24:16.000And you kind of tie this into what Democrats are thinking.
00:24:19.000Well, instead of what are they thinking, let's look at what they are doing.
00:24:25.000What they are doing is a rapid, intentional, and accelerated decline of the country.
00:24:32.000Now, why they are doing that, we can have our own theories.
00:24:38.000And we can even see in a place like Oregon, very liberal Oregon, according to Breitbart.com, Oregon voters are souring on Democrat leadership.
00:24:48.000Oregon voters have turned on Biden and Democrat Kate Brown.
00:24:53.000Oregon is one of the five most liberal states in America.
00:24:56.000It goes California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island.
00:25:04.000Those are like the most liberal states in the country by far.
00:25:08.000Voters in the state of Oregon, who have reliably voted Democrat in every presidential election since 1988, do not have a favorable view of Joe Biden.
00:25:17.00063% of voters in Oregon have a negative view of Joe Biden.
00:25:23.00053% of those have a very negative view, making his net approval negative 28% in Oregon.
00:25:32.000Now, mind you, part of the reason is this not because they think that Trump is great.
00:26:02.000They think there's inevitability that Congress will turn over, try to limit the losses, and then try to implement their own kind of central bureaucracy further so that no matter who controls Congress, they still control the country.
00:27:24.000If you want to slow down, just go to the south of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 20 minutes.
00:27:30.000You might find yourself stuck behind a horse buggy, and you'll start asking yourself the question: why is everyone drying their clothes outside?
00:27:43.000The answer is in the question, actually.
00:27:46.000Cut 64, the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, says he wants to eliminate the filibuster to codify abortion without any limitations.
00:27:55.000I don't believe there should be any limits to abortion, play cut 64.
00:27:58.000To make sure that we codify women's reproductive freedom in law to make sure that even if the Supreme Court does go down that road and eliminate or revoke Roe v. Wade, that we already existingly codify that into law.
00:28:15.000And are there any limits on abortion you would find appropriate?
00:28:37.000He looks like a muscular labor guy, like he's going to be working in the mines, like fracking in like central Pennsylvania, like an Altoona Pennsylvania guy.
00:28:45.000And he starts talking as if he's like a college professor.
00:29:40.000He's much more haphazard and hectic and chaotic where he's willing to just like cut his chest open with broken glass and be like, take my soul.
00:30:52.000Somehow a year and a half later, having worked, walked through hell together, having laughed more than I ever imagined possible, he asked me to marry him.
00:31:00.000And just in every lifetime before this one, as in every lifetime that will follow it, I said yes, and then we drank each other's blood.