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00:04:08.000It's a concept that most young people, when I come and I talk about how America is the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world, how the Constitution is the greatest political document ever written.
00:04:18.000They want to believe it because in the soul of a person is a yearning to want to actually love the place that you're from.
00:04:24.000But there's this disconnect between all the propaganda that they've been led to believe and versus what they are all of a sudden hearing what they know to be true.
00:04:32.000And I think one of the reasons for that is actually something that is playing out right here in Lancaster, Pennsylvania right now, which is Lancaster Online.
00:04:41.000I think that's a newspaper around here.
00:07:02.000Genesis 6 says that Noah was a righteous man amongst those in his generation.
00:07:09.000Now, mind you, they didn't just say Noah was a righteous man because maybe Noah was not so righteous of a man if we compared him to Elijah or Joseph.
00:07:16.000But no, Noah was a righteous man amongst those in his generation because Noah was the best we had to offer at that period of time.
00:07:24.000It's like looking around like, well, we got Noah.
00:07:30.000Who are we to go and say all of a sudden, you know that Thomas Jefferson guy, yeah, all right, whatever, architect, governor, statesman, secretary of state, president, author of the Declaration, but we don't like him because he owns slaves.
00:07:45.000But Thomas Jefferson on his deathbed, which of course Nicole Hannah Jones would never tell you, he was one of the principal reasons why slavery, as we know it in the West, was on its way out, not on its way in.
00:07:55.000You see, Nicole Hannah Jones, being the charlatan that she is who teaches your children, she would never tell you that in the United States of America in 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first ever anti-slavery convention was held and chaired by Benjamin Franklin.
00:08:08.000She would never tell you that the first state ever to abolish slavery did so inspired by the Declaration of Independence in 1777, Vermont.
00:08:15.000She would never tell you that Thomas Jefferson in the original draft of the Declaration of Independence blamed King George for bringing the sin of slavery to America.
00:08:23.000She would never tell you that Thomas Jefferson fought tooth and nail to try to abolish slavery in the 1790s as governor of Virginia.
00:08:29.000She would never tell you that Thomas Jefferson in 1807 in March signed a moratorium of new slaves coming into the United States.
00:08:35.000She would never tell you that nine out of 13 of the original founding colonies or states had already abolished slavery by the time the Constitution was ratified in 1787.
00:08:44.000She would never tell you that in the Northwest Ordinance, which was a reflection of American founding values, had a unanimous agreement to say new territories, no slaves.
00:08:56.000It's because those little pesky things called facts make you thankful to be an American, and she does not want you to be thankful to be an American.
00:09:02.000Instead, she wants to train your children to be ungrateful.
00:09:06.000And that is the divide in America, isn't it?
00:09:08.000When you have a citizenry that is thankful, that is anchored to the land, the story, the history, the culture, all of a sudden, they're a lot less likely to go burn down a Wendy's.
00:09:18.000They're less likely to go march in some silly parade around systemic racism, whatever that is, doesn't exist.
00:09:24.000When people are thankful citizens, they slow down and they want to conserve what they've been given.
00:09:29.000You see, this all starts in whether or not we teach history correctly.
00:09:33.000If we teach history correctly and we are able to engender a sense of informed patriotism, if we're able to get young people to be thankful for the land of which they are in, not only will be less likely to go to these radical movements, they'll be inspired to do the opposite.
00:09:50.000They'll be inspired to all of a sudden want to go to great lengths to try to preserve the good, the true, and the beautiful.
00:09:56.000We as Americans are stewards of this inexplicable project in self-government, a constitutional republic that was summoned into existence.
00:10:06.000And so, the question that I'm asked often on college campuses, they say, and again, only someone who hasn't traveled could ask something so stupid as this, right?
00:10:13.000They say, what makes America different?
00:10:15.000And again, I would love to go send them, I don't know, Bangalore, India for a week, where they have 100 million people that don't have running water and without a toilet.
00:10:23.000But anyway, what makes America different?
00:10:51.000The idea that America started at a specific time, that we were declared as a country, showed that we believed something so firmly that we were willing to act on it.
00:11:00.000Now, when you read the Declaration of Independence, which by the way fits beautifully into the U.S. Constitution, there's this modern liberal project that tries to make it seem as if the Constitution remedied the problem of the Declaration.
00:11:11.000They're beautiful documents that fit one and the other.
00:11:14.000You understand very quickly, the founding fathers, being the students of human nature and history, they were making universal declarations.
00:11:22.000When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands that ties them to the other, deriving from the separate but equal station of the powers.
00:11:30.000And it goes on to say the laws of nature and nature is God.
00:11:33.000That they are making an argument that what we're doing right here is right no matter when it happens.
00:11:40.000The founding fathers were making an argument that even though technology might progress, even though quote-unquote times change, human beings do not.
00:11:49.000And then they put that into the law itself, the United States Constitution, the greatest political document ever written, which, by the way, is even more applicable today than it was in 1787.
00:11:59.000You might say, Charlie, how dare you say something like that?
00:12:02.000The Constitution, every single day, protects us against a tyrant, a health director, a ridiculous mask mandate, or something that tries to prey on our liberty.
00:12:12.000Thank the Lord we have the Constitution still right now and say, actually, you have to live by this.
00:12:19.000Now, mind you, because of bureaucratic despotism and fourth branch of government shenanigans, far too often the Constitution isn't obeyed.
00:12:27.000But the Constitution was not written for the times.
00:12:31.000It was written to stand the test of time.
00:12:34.000And this is where we as Christians can find great comfort in what the Founding Fathers gave us.
00:12:39.000It's because we think that, no, we believe that even though we have airplanes and Twitter and all this nonsense, that human beings remain exactly the same.
00:12:49.000Human beings are equally as broken and sinful in the 1780s as they are in the 2020s.
00:12:54.000You needed Jesus Christ then, and you need Jesus Christ now.
00:13:16.000They made no qualms that they were not trying to create utopia.
00:13:20.000Federalist 51 James Madison said, if all men were angels, government would not be necessary.
00:13:25.000He's basically saying, we're dealing with a rather tampered raw product here called human beings.
00:13:30.000How else could you explain separating power amongst so many different places?
00:13:35.000How else could you explain a structure where it's so hard to get something done?
00:13:40.000The founding fathers knew that if you're able to centralize power, that you are trying to touch something that only one being should be able to do, and that is God.
00:13:50.000The founding fathers made no mistake that only God should be able to have the executive, legislative, and judicial power all combined in one.
00:13:56.000That we as human beings must always separate those powers into different buckets.
00:14:00.000That if you try to get them all in agreement, it better be a very, very good idea at the right time.
00:14:04.000In fact, the tension, the structure between the branches is important.
00:14:08.000Now, I'll ask, I ask college kids all the time, I say, what makes America freer than other countries?
00:14:13.000And if they even believe that, which is nice, they'll say it's our Bill of Rights.
00:14:18.000I'll say, every banana republic has a Bill of Rights.
00:14:55.000Every other despot, dictator, civilization, country that came prior, with very few exceptions, when you win wars, you keep the spoils.
00:15:03.000They could have created the Hamiltonian, Jeffersonian, Madisonian dynasty.
00:15:07.000They could have split every state to go be kind of their own kind of king and make everybody pseudo-serfs, and no one would have questioned it.
00:15:16.000Who wins a war and makes yourself less powerful?
00:15:22.000People that understand the Bible and knew that they were fighting not just for land and for treasure, but for something that's God's idea, not man's idea, liberty.
00:15:31.000They were trying to bring forward something that was biblical, that was abstract, and they wanted to make it concrete, self-government, the ability to chart your own destiny.
00:15:40.000They said, what if we can all of a sudden create a civilization, create a society that people can be free in the pursuit of virtue and pursuit of morality?
00:16:31.000In the beginning was the word, and the word was God, and the word was with God.
00:16:34.000That word is logos, rational speech, the ability to reason.
00:16:38.000The founding fathers believed that they said, listen, the only way that could properly give up power for a civilization was you got to make a really good argument to be able to get power.
00:16:48.000You got to convince people over a long period of time.
00:16:50.000The Constitution was so distrustful of human nature, it spread power over time and space.
00:16:56.000So it takes a long period of time to do something, and a lot of different people from a lot of different corners have to agree to it.
00:17:04.000Said differently, the states created the federal government and the federal government did not create the states.
00:17:09.000That it was a bottom-up people movement, not a top-down despotic dictator movement, which is another promise of the United States Constitution.
00:17:18.000I'm afraid we're losing this right now, and we need a revival to reclaim it.
00:17:22.000For most of America, the many ruled the few.
00:17:26.000I'm afraid we're getting closer and closer to where the few rule the many.
00:17:30.000Now, this gets wrongly labeled as a democracy.
00:17:56.000It means if 51% of the room wanted to all of a sudden take the rights in the 49% of the room, they could do it.
00:18:02.000A democracy is an up-or-down vote of what is good, true, and beautiful.
00:18:05.000A constitutional republic makes truth claims and you must live to them.
00:18:09.000And if you want to change them, you're going to need more than a 51% vote.
00:18:13.000You're going to need a long, drawn-out process to change that.
00:18:17.000A constitutional republic makes it intentionally difficult to be able to take your God-granted liberty away.
00:18:23.000A democracy, you could do it in one session of a legislature.
00:18:27.000It's one of the reasons why Europe just continually votes themselves into further oblivion.
00:18:32.000The structure of what we've been given by the founding fathers is exceptional and unique.
00:18:36.000Now, look, there's a lot of different directions I could continue to go with this.
00:18:39.000And what I just articulated, unfortunately, is not being taught very well in our schools.
00:18:44.000In fact, we are now seeing civilizational turning chaos happening, not because we don't just teach the Declaration, the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the founding, but instead, the deconstructionist ideology has seeped into every major institution, where now we have someone that is now a Supreme Court justice who cannot answer the question, what is a woman?
00:19:06.000Katanji Brown Jackson was asked the question, what is a woman?
00:19:18.000I'm not a meteorologist, and I know when it's raining.
00:19:20.000And I'm not a biologist, and I can tell the difference between a man and a woman.
00:19:24.000And we as Christians, and those of us that live, and those of us that live on team reality, must understand the broader game that's at play here.
00:19:34.000And this is where Day Spring comes in so beautifully.
00:19:37.000If you do not teach children that certain things are true, then where does it stop?
00:19:45.000You have a Supreme Court justice that cannot give you a definitive answer of what is a man and a woman.
00:19:50.000That is the furthest right now, and it will go even crazier, extrapolation of deconstructionist ideology.
00:19:58.000It at every turn tries to make you doubt, question, and tear apart things that we know are fundamental to existence, that we know are essential to our survival.
00:20:11.000You see that in the whole transgender movement.
00:20:14.000You see that where all of a sudden we have the blurring of lines where, you know, Pennsylvania's own at University of Pennsylvania, the death of women's sports, where you had the man who thinks he's a woman all of a sudden be the 462nd best swimmer overnight transition to be a woman and win the NCAA championship.
00:20:40.000Number one, I want compassion for the person who thinks they're in the wrong body.
00:20:44.000I want treatment for that person, and most importantly, I want their soul to be one for Christ.
00:20:48.000But secondly, that doesn't mean we have to all of a sudden rearrange the rules of the game to allow cheating.
00:20:55.000We as Christians believe cheating is wrong.
00:20:59.000Both things can be simultaneously true because we as Christians and most societies are not able to articulate this, but the Bible tells us when you have strength, you are morally called.
00:21:11.000In fact, you are required to protect the not as strong.
00:21:14.000That's what we as Christians are called to do.
00:21:16.000You see, in a pure Darwinistic secular view, why wouldn't it be wrong to terminate the child in the womb?
00:22:59.000Courage is doing what is right when there is risk.
00:23:02.000You cannot be courageous if there is no risk.
00:23:06.000Just getting up and having a cup of coffee is not courageous, regardless of what your silly self-help Eastern meditation book tells you, okay?
00:23:17.000It's an act of courage to do whatever.
00:23:20.000No, courage is when a mom shows up at a school board meeting trembling in fear, knowing that she might be called every single name in the book to go say, you're not going to teach my kid who's seven years old that he can transition to be a woman and give him puberty blockers.
00:23:45.000Courage is the pastor who decides to speak up for the unborn, even when he gets emails saying that I'm going to leave this church if you speak about this.
00:23:53.000And he says, I'm going to do it anyway.
00:25:32.000It could be admitting to a friend that you've been talking bad to them about their back.
00:25:35.000That is courageous, because you don't know how it's going to work out.
00:25:38.000It could be running for office, it could be homeschooling your child, but generally, the type of courage that is most missing in our country is standing up to the bully.
00:25:48.000What's been missing is that for the last two years, we've seen the not so gradual erosion of our God-granted freedoms and liberties in a way that I never would have imagined so well, how do you stop it?
00:26:01.000Courage is contagious, which was said previously, but it requires someone with the risk to go, require to go up against someone that currently has power over them.
00:26:10.000Could be a county supervisor, could be a school board member, it could be a boss and, mind you, it might not go out the way you want it to.
00:26:19.000But it was beautifully said previously and I totally agree, liberty is only protected by the courageous.
00:26:27.000You cannot have liberty if you do not have courage, and courage is very difficult to have without faith, but it requires that in action.
00:26:42.000It's so hard to find the courageous, but they're starting to bubble up.
00:26:46.000I'm starting to see more parents say i've had enough, i'm.
00:26:49.000I'm starting to see more pastors say I've had enough.
00:26:52.000I'm starting to all of a sudden see people realize that they are in a bitter fight up against those that wish to destroy the Republic, destroy their family, and destroy the way of life as they've known it.
00:27:03.000And courage also requires a dedication and an understanding that you'll do what you could do and you'll leave the rest up to God.
00:27:22.000It's a beautiful document, and so do I.
00:27:24.000And it's the same with Hillsdale College, the best liberal arts college in America.
00:27:28.000Hillsdale's mission is pursuing truth and defending liberty.
00:27:32.000It gives its undergraduate and graduate students the best education and is working to make this education available to all, from offering free online courses to helping support K through 12 schools.
00:27:42.000But today I want to tell you about Hillsdale's amazing free monthly digest of liberty.
00:29:32.000We've got to start watering the tree from the bottom up.
00:29:35.000We've got to start looking that our great hope will be this next generation that will have lived through this attempt to terrorize and implement tyranny at a high level, and they're not going to let it happen.
00:29:53.000An unintended consequence, what man will use for evil, the enemy will use for evil, God will use for good of this awful chapter that we've lived through is all of a sudden we've seen homeschooling quadruple in the last couple years.
00:30:03.000We're seeing dinners like this get at full capacity because you know there's something not right and you want to do something about it.
00:30:10.000And you're rather disgusted, impatient with people that don't know any better telling you that you live in a racist country.
00:30:17.000We're the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:30:21.000More people of more countries of backgrounds have come to this country and flourished than any other place on the planet, most racist country in the world.
00:30:28.000Show me another multiracial country that's able to flourish and have peace, relative peace, like we do.
00:30:46.000Learning where you come from, but also teaching.
00:30:49.000I believe that there will be, starting at this period of time, a revival from the bottom up, an awakening, an enlightenment, whatever you want to call it, where all of a sudden there will be a reference point of a generation that will be so committed to these ideas that the opposition will not understand where it's coming from, where they'll be blown away by the passion, the precision, the understanding, and the wisdom of a generation that very well had every reason to give up and be cynical.
00:31:18.000And that's where Day Spring comes in, and that's where the work we at Turning Point USA do every single day comes in.
00:31:24.000And so I'll close with this because I'm very precise with time, as I promised I would be.
00:31:34.000However, I believe that there is momentum.
00:31:37.000I'm starting to see the rise of the citizen against the regime.
00:31:42.000I'm starting to see people that have never been engaged and involved at every corner start to take back what is theirs because the founding fathers gave you ownership of the country.
00:31:58.000I'm starting to see a revival of self-government.
00:32:02.000I'm starting to see people ask questions of the tyrants and say, I'm going to remove you.
00:32:08.000I'm starting to see all of a sudden people in leadership challenge the unchallengeable defunding Disney's special tax privileges in Florida being one of them.
00:32:23.000But it all comes down to this: the greatest man to live in the 20th century was a man by the name of Winston Churchill.
00:32:31.000The West would not exist in its current form without Churchill.
00:33:36.000And Churchill took a puff of his cigar and a sip of whiskey and he looked at his war cabinet and said, Ah, over the last couple decades, I've got to know the Americans.
00:33:47.000And let me tell you, that beast has been awakened and the war is over.
00:33:53.000And let me tell you this, everybody: when we awaken as Americans, nothing can stop us with faith, courage, and the fight for liberty.