The Charlie Kirk Show - The Kids Who Will Win Back America: My Speech to TPUSA's New Hires

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, a new hire speech.

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00:00:25.000 Here we go.

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00:00:26.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:24.000 Hi, how are we doing, everybody?

00:01:27.000 Great to be here.

00:01:28.000 I'm early, believe it or not.

00:01:30.000 It's hard to believe.

00:01:31.000 Welcome.

00:01:32.000 For those of you that are now working for the most important organization in America, welcome aboard.

00:01:38.000 And I think you're going to learn this is the most fulfilling thing you could do with your career.

00:01:41.000 And I want to say you're being led very, very well.

00:01:45.000 They know what they're doing.

00:01:46.000 Andrew, Amy, Nick, Brandon.

00:01:49.000 Nick, you've been around for what, seven, eight years?

00:01:50.000 I ask you every time, right?

00:01:52.000 Brandon, eight years, right?

00:01:53.000 Eight years.

00:01:54.000 It's amazing.

00:01:55.000 And Andrew and Amy and all of them.

00:01:57.000 And what's so cool about our field program is that everybody who's running our field program, from Chris and everyone, they all used to have your job.

00:02:05.000 So they know what it takes.

00:02:07.000 And look, it's a very fulfilling job.

00:02:10.000 Not always easy, but it's definitely going to make a very big impact.

00:02:13.000 In fact, Turning Point USA started because I once had your job too.

00:02:18.000 I used to go around to college campuses with just a card table, literally, trying to start chapters.

00:02:23.000 And it learned a lot about what it's necessary to build a field program and what it takes.

00:02:29.000 And you look around and you see what we're building here.

00:02:33.000 It's unique and it's extraordinary.

00:02:35.000 We very well could be taking it easy and coasting.

00:02:38.000 We're hiring you for a reason because we have bold and ambitious goals to hit.

00:02:42.000 And we feel like our country is falling apart.

00:02:44.000 And honestly, there's a lot of work to, not just a lot of work to be done, but I don't know if you saw the poll, but young boys, more conservative than ever since 1975.

00:02:53.000 And that's really great.

00:02:56.000 Young ladies, we got some work to do.

00:02:59.000 So we'll talk about that.

00:03:01.000 But a couple things that I want to just make sure is clear.

00:03:04.000 And then we're going to go through this a little bit more informally than in years past, but I want this to be a discussion, you know, not just about the topics and ideas, but also just any questions you guys might have, things that I might be able to answer.

00:03:18.000 You're on the front lines.

00:03:20.000 The most important thing that we do at Turning Point USA is that we invest in our students and we believe that our chapters, which we say chapters change the world, and the development of leaders is what's going to help save Western civilization.

00:03:34.000 And we're starting to see the fruit of that.

00:03:37.000 We have Turning Point alumni in Congress, Ana Paulina Luna, who's doing an amazing job.

00:03:41.000 We have Austin Smith, who's the youngest member of the Arizona legislature.

00:03:46.000 We have a member in the Florida legislature.

00:03:47.000 You're starting to see all of a sudden Turning Point and the fruit of the Turning Point work really pay off.

00:03:52.000 But even in the more immediate, it's just amazing.

00:03:55.000 And you're going to see this as you get deep into the high school work and the college work.

00:03:58.000 I know we have both here.

00:03:59.000 It's so incredibly fulfilling for me to see now after 11 years the types of leaders that are gravitating towards our work, but also how much work has left to be done.

00:04:09.000 Typically in the conservative movement, what you are doing is not been done because it's gritty, it takes hustle, but also it's not in DC.

00:04:19.000 Like the DC framework is just like write papers no one is going to read and complain.

00:04:24.000 Like we believe in being in the country to save the country.

00:04:28.000 And we do a pretty good job of it at Turning Point USA, if I may say so.

00:04:32.000 So we're so thrilled that you're part of this.

00:04:34.000 How many of you are former chapter leaders or involved in one way?

00:04:37.000 That's the coolest of all thing.

00:04:39.000 That shows that we are, you know, now having people involved in the staffing side of things that were involved in the programmatic side.

00:04:46.000 So I want to go through a couple of these slides rather informally.

00:04:50.000 And we're just going to kind of take questions and I'll ask some questions of you guys.

00:04:54.000 And the slides are going to be parallel to the activism weeks that you guys are doing this fall, right?

00:05:02.000 So understand as a field rep, your job is multifaceted.

00:05:07.000 Richard knows this very well.

00:05:08.000 Richard did a lot of great work in the Pacific Northwest and screamed at by a lot of people, right, Richard?

00:05:13.000 And University of Oregon, Go Ducks, right?

00:05:16.000 And got like three Ducks fans here.

00:05:18.000 Yep.

00:05:19.000 And your job is not just about organizing, but it's also about equipping people to persuade.

00:05:24.000 You'll learn that part of your job is you're going to have thousands and thousands of conversations with people, right, Michaela?

00:05:30.000 Lots of conversations.

00:05:31.000 So you have to know your stuff.

00:05:32.000 Now, for those of you that enjoy listening to podcasts, that enjoy watching videos, this is going to become really easy.

00:05:38.000 For those of you like, oh boy, I don't know.

00:05:40.000 This is something that we hope we can help you with in the next hour, right?

00:05:43.000 And give you resources.

00:05:44.000 You might say, well, what do you mean?

00:05:45.000 Well, if you're setting up a table at UW-Madison or University of Illinois or University of Florida and somebody comes up and they think they know everything because you have some signs that are rather, let's say, pointedly written, that's a conversation starter.

00:05:57.000 That's a spark.

00:05:58.000 That's how you find students that agree.

00:06:00.000 That's how you find students that disagree.

00:06:02.000 That's how all of a sudden you gain attention on campus.

00:06:05.000 And this has been really one of the secrets to our success at Turning Point USA.

00:06:10.000 And we'll go through some of those activism weeks here, kind of around what we believe, you know, why we believe it at Turning Point USA.

00:06:16.000 Super simple.

00:06:17.000 What do we believe at Turning Point USA?

00:06:19.000 We believe in the promises of the Declaration of the Constitution.

00:06:22.000 That's it.

00:06:23.000 And you might say, well, Charlie, that's a little short.

00:06:25.000 That's a lot deeper than you might think, okay?

00:06:28.000 We believe that things can be self-evidently true and false.

00:06:32.000 We believe that there is a truth in the world.

00:06:34.000 We do believe that government should be restrained.

00:06:37.000 We believe people have a moral right to be free.

00:06:39.000 We believe that you have a moral right to own handguns, to speak, that government can't raid you without a warrant or a good reason.

00:06:46.000 We believe in the founders' promise for our country.

00:06:48.000 There's a lot to that, right?

00:06:50.000 We believe in a private property, free market-based system.

00:06:53.000 And so that's the best way I could organize it.

00:06:56.000 And every single one of those things is totally against the universities that you guys are going to be trying to be going to, right?

00:07:02.000 They believe that there is no truth, that you can come up with your own truth, that you could see, that all there is power.

00:07:07.000 America's a terrible country.

00:07:09.000 So we're going to walk through that.

00:07:10.000 So first one is register to vote.

00:07:11.000 I don't know if there's that much to color in on this one, but mass voter registration drive that we're going to be doing this fall.

00:07:17.000 Try to register as many students as possible.

00:07:19.000 And especially through, it's a great thing to get your chapters to deploy.

00:07:22.000 So I think Nick gave me a very handy thing here.

00:07:25.000 Thank you, Nick.

00:07:26.000 Okay, let's get into this one, which is one of my favorites.

00:07:29.000 The Second Amendment.

00:07:29.000 So we're unapologetically pro 2A at Turning Point USA.

00:07:33.000 And if that is a surprise to you, sorry, I guess.

00:07:39.000 I don't know what to tell you.

00:07:41.000 There is no First Amendment without the Second Amendment.

00:07:43.000 The Second Amendment is unbelievably unique.

00:07:46.000 And it's something that we not just advertise, but is a great conversation starter on most of your campuses.

00:07:53.000 And by the way, it's also a way to find conservatives really, really quickly and also generate a lot of disagreeable conversation amongst Marxist-italitarian progressives, right?

00:08:04.000 So I could go as deep as you guys want on this, right?

00:08:07.000 Second Amendment of the United States Constitution is basically a promise that you have a right to be able to not just defend yourself.

00:08:15.000 The ultimate reason for the Second Amendment is to be able to challenge government authority.

00:08:18.000 I'll get to that in a second.

00:08:20.000 This is considered to be a huge thought crime on many of the campuses that you guys go to, right?

00:08:24.000 Why?

00:08:25.000 Now, this is the deeper point that you have to understand.

00:08:27.000 It's more philosophical and psychological.

00:08:29.000 There is this like fear of anything that you can't control to exist amongst a lot of college kids.

00:08:36.000 I think it's a neurotic fear of death.

00:08:38.000 And these are people that are afraid to live because they're always afraid of dying.

00:08:42.000 And they're the people that wear masks while they're alone in a car.

00:08:45.000 And you think about it, it's like, oh, there might be a gun that might end up killing me.

00:08:49.000 I was like, okay, yeah, there also could be other things that end up harming you.

00:08:54.000 There are any benefits from having firearms.

00:08:56.000 There's a lot of benefits from having firearms in a society.

00:08:58.000 But more than that, and we understand this, it's not about personal protection.

00:09:01.000 It's not about hunting.

00:09:03.000 It's not about any of those things.

00:09:04.000 It's about a free people being able to defend themselves and, God forbid, having to use those weapons against a potentially tyrannical government.

00:09:14.000 That is an argument that most people do not want to make because they're afraid to make it.

00:09:18.000 I'm happy to make it over and over again.

00:09:20.000 We are 75 years removed from 60 million people being murdered of Mao's China and Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Nazi Germany.

00:09:29.000 And so what is the purpose of the Second Amendment?

00:09:32.000 To protect all your other God-given rights and freedoms.

00:09:35.000 And boy, is there a pathological campaign to take away your weapons right now, right?

00:09:39.000 So this is a great conversation starter.

00:09:41.000 I could go through all of the different statistics and figures.

00:09:44.000 They're changing a little bit year over year.

00:09:46.000 A lot of misleading ones.

00:09:48.000 But I actually find this is a great one, especially for those of you that are on campus and they're like, oh, I'm a libertarian.

00:09:53.000 I'm a conservative.

00:09:54.000 It's a great unifying issue, right?

00:09:56.000 It's a really good one to kind of bridge students together that might have, and if they're libertarian, they'll grow up eventually.

00:10:02.000 And I used to be really libertarian too.

00:10:05.000 And then you're not.

00:10:08.000 And if I offended you, that's fine.

00:10:11.000 I love it because I've read all the libertarian literature.

00:10:14.000 I know it like the back of my hand.

00:10:15.000 And we could have that dialogue if you guys want.

00:10:18.000 There's some things I love about libertarianism, some things I don't, obviously.

00:10:21.000 But this is one that I love about libertarianism.

00:10:23.000 We need less gun laws, not more gun laws in America.

00:10:25.000 So that's a great point of agreement that I have with staunch libertarians.

00:10:29.000 And I think that as government becomes more tyrannical, people should be able to easily own weapons because of what's coming next.

00:10:36.000 Anybody questions about this one?

00:10:37.000 I know this one is probably one that gets the most heated excitement, passion, disagreement, thoughts, questions, disagreements.

00:10:45.000 Yes?

00:10:45.000 So one of my professors was very, very liberal, but not when it came to gun laws and things like that.

00:10:50.000 And he worked for the FBI and has all this research on how gun statistics are actually way wrong.

00:10:55.000 We're being totally misinformed.

00:10:56.000 School shootings are not at an all-time high.

00:10:58.000 People are not being murdered in the street.

00:11:00.000 Whatever.

00:11:00.000 How is it that conservative people, conservative authors and things, why is that not being put out there as much?

00:11:06.000 Do you think?

00:11:07.000 You know, that is right.

00:11:09.000 There's actually a great Washington Post article.

00:11:11.000 I'm trying to think of the headline.

00:11:13.000 She said, I used to be for gun control.

00:11:15.000 Then I looked at the numbers and it turns out it wouldn't do anything.

00:11:18.000 And I'll just give you one thing.

00:11:19.000 These are approximations off the top of my head.

00:11:21.000 So they'll say, oh, there's 33,000 gun deaths every year.

00:11:24.000 You've heard this before, right?

00:11:25.000 We're the only country that counts death by suicide as a gun death, okay?

00:11:29.000 Now, death by suicide with a gun is a tragedy, but I think we can all agree there's other things at play there than just guns, right?

00:11:36.000 And there's other ways people commit suicide.

00:11:38.000 So that's two-thirds of all ways we count gun death is death by suicide, two-thirds.

00:11:43.000 That number now goes on to 11,000.

00:11:45.000 Okay, so you have a country of 330 million people.

00:11:47.000 You got 800 million guns, 11,000.

00:11:50.000 What is the number one driver besides that?

00:11:53.000 Pistol, or let's just say, less than semi-automatic pistol, gang-related urban violence.

00:12:01.000 That accounts for like 6,000 to 7,000 of the 11,000.

00:12:05.000 So now you're down to like 4,000.

00:12:06.000 Now I'm approximating the numbers.

00:12:08.000 Then there's like accidental discharge, family dispute, like, and you're talking about a very low number, statistically macro.

00:12:16.000 You're talking like 2,000 gun deaths.

00:12:18.000 That is still bad, but you would think it's 200,000, right?

00:12:25.000 And so that's 2,000 gun deaths.

00:12:27.000 It's a fact that 110,000 people are overdosing on fentanyl and opioids every single year, right?

00:12:32.000 So that is a factor of almost 80 of a difference versus gun deaths, right?

00:12:37.000 I see that there's plenty of upsides to firearm ownership.

00:12:39.000 I see no upsides to allowing opioid or opioids or fentanyl coming into our country, right?

00:12:45.000 And I could go, and whether it be heart disease, you know, so like suicide's a tragic thing in our country.

00:12:52.000 The number one way people commit suicide is not even by firearm, even though the volume is so much.

00:12:58.000 And yet it gets all the attention.

00:13:00.000 You have to ask the question why.

00:13:01.000 I think there's malevolent and innocent explanations.

00:13:04.000 The malevolent is that they want to take the guns because once they take the guns, you become a much easier population to control, period.

00:13:12.000 The innocent explanation is it's driven by neurotic suburban voters that are like constantly trying to create a safe society instead of a virtuous or a decent society.

00:13:27.000 See, we as conservatives, or if you're a libertarian, that's fine, whatever.

00:13:29.000 We as like rational people, right, we understand that there's evil in the world and we're not going to eradicate all of it and that we could try to minimize it, create good people, but the eradication of all evil is utopian.

00:13:40.000 It's never going to happen, right?

00:13:42.000 I've obviously very strong religious views on that.

00:13:46.000 And therefore, if evil is going to continue to exist, wouldn't it be rational to have good people have ability to defend themselves?

00:13:52.000 And you have violent crime going up in nine out of 10 of the largest cities, and we're trying to take people's guns away.

00:13:59.000 It will only cause more damage, more carnage.

00:14:02.000 And so, but you're right, the numbers that the government pushes, again, I hate to be like that guy, that like if the government is lying to you, but it's like totally true, the government is lying to you.

00:14:10.000 That should be our new shirt, by the way, new activism.

00:14:12.000 The government, instead of big gov sucks, the government is lying to you.

00:14:15.000 I love that.

00:14:17.000 It's totally true.

00:14:18.000 And by the way, never before has big gov sucks been more true than in 2023.

00:14:24.000 I'll tell you what, it's just unbelievable.

00:14:26.000 So I could go on at length about that.

00:14:28.000 Other thoughts on guns, firearms, Second Amendment objections?

00:14:31.000 You might hear that it's only meant for a militia.

00:14:33.000 That's an improper, poor reading of the Second Amendment.

00:14:36.000 Militia means all people ages 18 to 30, all males when the actual is written.

00:14:41.000 They should say well-regulated militia.

00:14:43.000 That's actually the wrong interpretation of the word regulated.

00:14:46.000 Well-regulated means well-armed or well-supplied.

00:14:49.000 It's just the way that we use the word regulated is different than back then.

00:14:52.000 But then, of course, they ignore the last couple words shall not be infringed, right?

00:14:56.000 They don't like that.

00:14:57.000 Just to get an idea, I mean, obviously, you guys are sympathetic to the Second Amendment cause.

00:15:02.000 And by the way, if you're not, I always tell people, if you don't, if you're not pro 2A, go to a shooting range, learn how to shoot, and then tell me you're against it, right?

00:15:10.000 I think a lot of it, I mean, look, I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

00:15:13.000 I didn't fire a firearm until I was 18, 19 years old.

00:15:15.000 I always felt like uneasy about the topic until you realize that it's a tool, it's a technology that could be used for good or evil, right?

00:15:21.000 It's in the hands of the person who actually ends up using it.

00:15:23.000 That's my encouragement to you guys.

00:15:25.000 And also, you know, when done appropriately, I think we've had chapters go to gun ranges and be walked through stuff.

00:15:30.000 I think it's actually a great way to teach responsibility and self-sovereignty and a lot of other great things with that.

00:15:39.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

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00:16:42.000 Other thoughts, questions, objections?

00:16:44.000 Okay, let's get to the next one here.

00:16:47.000 Know your rights.

00:16:48.000 By the way, who wants to?

00:16:49.000 We can go through all.

00:16:51.000 I mean, we can go through the Bill of Rights, right?

00:16:52.000 First Amendment, ability to speak and petition against the government.

00:16:55.000 Second Amendment, ability to defend yourself, Third Amendment, no soldiers in your home.

00:16:59.000 Fourth Amendment, government can't spy on you and illegally wiretap.

00:17:02.000 They break all these rules, by the way.

00:17:03.000 It's just ridiculous, right?

00:17:04.000 Right?

00:17:05.000 Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment, Seventh Amendment, Fifth Amendment is obviously about pretrial detention, about your Fifth Amendment rights.

00:17:10.000 Eighth, basically, five, six, seven, eight is all about trials.

00:17:14.000 Ninth Amendment is really goofy, which is that if it's not mentioned, it doesn't mean it's not here.

00:17:19.000 It's actually really much deeper than that.

00:17:21.000 And the 10th Amendment, all rights left to the states or the people.

00:17:25.000 I wish we had more 10th Amendment energy right now.

00:17:28.000 Okay, I will do this one very quickly.

00:17:30.000 Entrepreneurs are the backbone of a free society.

00:17:33.000 I hate the word entrepreneur-only sense.

00:17:35.000 I love it and hate it at the same time because most people just think of, like, I don't know, pick, what's that guy that always swears on Instagram that doesn't say anything really insightful?

00:17:44.000 Yeah, Gary Vee.

00:17:46.000 Yeah, that guy is a waste of time.

00:17:48.000 So, yeah, like, oh, wow.

00:17:51.000 Entrepreneurs are problem solvers.

00:17:52.000 It's that simple.

00:17:53.000 Entrepreneurs are problem solvers in any sort of industry.

00:17:53.000 Okay.

00:17:56.000 A free society means you're going to have problems.

00:17:58.000 Free society also allows you to solve those problems.

00:18:00.000 Entrepreneurs are more efficient than government.

00:18:02.000 Entrepreneurs are the future of America.

00:18:05.000 I think far too many colleges destroy the spirit of entrepreneurialism.

00:18:09.000 And our life is made better by entrepreneurs.

00:18:11.000 And that does allow you to the three P's of a market system: right?

00:18:14.000 Private property, the price system, and obviously a profit, right?

00:18:17.000 So price system is how we communicate, value one another.

00:18:20.000 I care about this so much.

00:18:22.000 The price goes up, goes down based on that.

00:18:24.000 Prices are our silent way of communicating value in real time.

00:18:28.000 If there's no profit, no one will do it.

00:18:28.000 Profit.

00:18:30.000 And then finally, private property, which is a nice segue to Marxism.

00:18:34.000 The number one thing that all of you are fighting against is Marxism.

00:18:36.000 Okay?

00:18:37.000 I could do a 45-minute speech on Marxism, where it comes from, where it's going, or I could tell you a 10-second way that you'll never forget for the rest of your life.

00:18:45.000 Okay?

00:18:46.000 Marxism must destroy the family, religion, and property.

00:18:49.000 That's it.

00:18:50.000 That's what you're fighting against.

00:18:51.000 Everything the Marxists care about is to destroy family, religion, and property.

00:18:55.000 Marx wrote extensively about those three things.

00:18:56.000 It's a fact.

00:18:57.000 So those three things can be eliminated: your ability to own private property, the ability to have beautiful and strong families, ability to have freedom of religion, and/or a religious people, gone.

00:19:06.000 That's it.

00:19:07.000 And entrepreneurs stand against one of those, multiple of those verticals, especially the ability to own property.

00:19:12.000 Any thoughts on that?

00:19:13.000 Questions?

00:19:14.000 We could talk about Marxism if you want, which is the kind of enemy that you guys are fighting against every single day.

00:19:18.000 Marxism is ascendant on many of the campuses and high schools that you guys work at because Marxism plays to the lowest level of human existence, resentment.

00:19:30.000 Marxism channels people's jealousy, resentment, and greed, and envy.

00:19:34.000 Envy is a bad trait.

00:19:36.000 So Marxism takes people's naturally broken, envious spirit and channels it into a political movement.

00:19:42.000 You don't have this, they do.

00:19:43.000 You're not this, do this.

00:19:44.000 Take this, take that.

00:19:45.000 Instead of creation, risk-taking, understanding value allocation, it's they have this and you don't.

00:19:51.000 You should be angry.

00:19:51.000 Let's go take it.

00:19:52.000 That's Marxism in a nutshell.

00:19:54.000 So it's a lot deeper than that, but that's good.

00:19:57.000 Okay.

00:19:58.000 I Love America Week.

00:19:59.000 Is this sequential, guys?

00:20:01.000 Or is this just all is this meaning?

00:20:02.000 Like, is this the actual order of the semester?

00:20:06.000 Cool.

00:20:07.000 So I want to make sure this is this distinction is made.

00:20:10.000 I actually didn't have to do this before, even though it was somewhat true.

00:20:14.000 I love America.

00:20:14.000 Now it's totally true.

00:20:15.000 I can't stand our government.

00:20:16.000 So when I talk and brag on America, I am not bragging on our government.

00:20:20.000 Does that make sense?

00:20:21.000 I'm bragging on our people, our tradition, our history, our customs, our decency, our generosity, our sacrifice, our bravery, not the cartel of criminals that's currently running the federal government and most of our state government and all the intel agencies and other things.

00:20:21.000 Okay.

00:20:37.000 America is the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world, period.

00:20:40.000 Why?

00:20:40.000 It's because the three things Marxists want to destroy, we've always prioritized.

00:20:45.000 Ability to own private property, having strong families, and a belief in the divine.

00:20:49.000 The divine is mentioned in the Declaration four times.

00:20:51.000 We can go through that if you so choose.

00:20:53.000 But more than that, America has always prioritized what you can change more than what you can't change.

00:20:58.000 So most societies, Hindu, Indian caste system, Mesopotamian river civilization cultures, Egyptian, whatever it is.

00:20:58.000 Okay?

00:21:05.000 Like you can go through 99% of all societies ever to exist, they would organize society based on things you cannot change.

00:21:10.000 How you look, who was your daddy, you know, and whether or not they were involved in like the religions of the time.

00:21:16.000 America said, nah, we don't really care as much about that.

00:21:19.000 In fact, we don't really care at all.

00:21:21.000 All men created equal, not that you have equal talents or equal skills or even equal opportunity.

00:21:25.000 That's a nice thing to strive for, but you're equal being.

00:21:28.000 You have the equal rights.

00:21:29.000 You have an equal, you're made in the equal image.

00:21:32.000 It does come from a Christian idea.

00:21:34.000 And wow, look at the result.

00:21:36.000 The best country ever.

00:21:38.000 And we are losing it.

00:21:40.000 We are losing it rapidly.

00:21:41.000 Honestly, it's amazing how long we've held on.

00:21:44.000 And it goes to show how I think we're actually stronger than people give us credit for.

00:21:47.000 I think there's a lot of fight left in this country.

00:21:49.000 And I by no means think it's a death sentence.

00:21:51.000 I think we can turn it around.

00:21:52.000 That's your job, is to save this place.

00:21:55.000 And it starts with young people fighting against these idea toxins of post-modernism and post-structuralism and totalitarian nonsense that honestly is creating so much of the misery we see in this generation.

00:22:08.000 The promise of America is really simple.

00:22:10.000 It's that if I work hard and play by the rules, my life will improve over a period of time, and so will my kids' life.

00:22:15.000 That is not a promise guaranteed to most countries.

00:22:18.000 It's not.

00:22:19.000 That American dream, as we call it, is in jeopardy, but it is not dead.

00:22:22.000 That's something that the cynics will tell you.

00:22:25.000 If you still work hard and you could still succeed in this country, it's harder than for your parents.

00:22:29.000 It is not that it's not dead at all.

00:22:31.000 And what are the American ideas?

00:22:33.000 America is not an idea.

00:22:34.000 It is our home.

00:22:35.000 It's a nation.

00:22:35.000 It's a people, but we do have great ideas as well.

00:22:37.000 It's all those things simultaneously.

00:22:40.000 If I had to summarize what is the American idea, it's that we are a country, not a colony.

00:22:45.000 We are a nation, not a temporary project.

00:22:48.000 And we believe in a small R Republican style of government.

00:22:52.000 And something that drives me nuts is: we're not a democracy.

00:22:55.000 We're not a democracy.

00:22:56.000 We're not a democracy.

00:22:57.000 If I hear you guys say we're a democracy, I'm going to lovingly correct you.

00:23:01.000 We are not a democracy.

00:23:02.000 I could tell you the difference.

00:23:03.000 If you guys are interested in that, we can walk through a long explanation of it.

00:23:06.000 You should love this country.

00:23:08.000 You should be thankful that we live in this country.

00:23:10.000 And we need to do everything we possibly can to save it.

00:23:13.000 The amount of anti-Americanism and outright America hatred on campuses, it's widespread.

00:23:18.000 And my goodness, we have a society full of ingrates.

00:23:22.000 Ingrates are ungrateful people that have no gratitude.

00:23:27.000 I think gratitude, gratitude and the lack thereof is really the division of whether or not you have a decent or civil society, right?

00:23:32.000 So if you're thankful for your nation, well, then you're going to be less likely to revolutionize it or tear it apart.

00:23:37.000 If you are not thankful, then you're going to be more likely to engage in envy-driven, resentful-driven politics like Marxism and totalitarianism to just tear down the entire system.

00:23:47.000 And so we have to try to teach gratitude.

00:23:49.000 It's hard when they have been told that we're a colonialistic, racist, misogynistic type country, all of which is not true.

00:23:58.000 I mean, you have broken people.

00:23:59.000 Of course, you're going to have elements of things that are less than desirable.

00:24:02.000 This is the least racist country, most generous country, most forward-thinking country ever in the history of the world.

00:24:08.000 And you guys should proclaim that every day.

00:24:10.000 Thoughts, questions, disagreements?

00:24:13.000 Yes, hello.

00:24:14.000 How would you explain we are not a democracy to a high school student?

00:24:18.000 Because they learn that in government class.

00:24:20.000 Like, how would you put that in their language?

00:24:23.000 That is a great question.

00:24:25.000 So, let's first just go through the technical side of it.

00:24:27.000 Democracy is not in any of our founding documents.

00:24:29.000 So, there's just, it's just a created word.

00:24:32.000 Not that it was not around.

00:24:34.000 Actually, the word democracy appears in the Federalist Papers negatively, saying that we are not a democracy, we are a republic.

00:24:39.000 So, let me just explain it to you guys, and then I'll try to high schoolify it.

00:24:43.000 High schoolify it?

00:24:43.000 Is that a word?

00:24:45.000 Or TikTok it, right?

00:24:47.000 So, yeah, geez, what a messed up generation.

00:24:47.000 Or whatever.

00:24:51.000 So, all right, let me try to explain it, okay?

00:24:55.000 So, a democracy believes the majority will rule always, okay?

00:25:00.000 Democracies move fast, immediate, and to the impulses of a people, okay?

00:25:05.000 Now, that sounds really interesting and good, right?

00:25:08.000 Now, a republic is different.

00:25:10.000 A republic does believe in consent to the governed, but a republic has rules for the road that is much more slow and deliberate with eternal truths that do not change, that govern the rules of what the government can and cannot do.

00:25:24.000 So, for example, the majority does not just get to come together immediately overnight and say that Second Amendment is gone.

00:25:29.000 No, because you have a Bill of Rights that supersedes all of that.

00:25:33.000 Now, you can get rid of amendments we have, but it's a ridiculously long, drawn, intentionally so process, right?

00:25:39.000 We can add amendments like to abolish slavery, but you need not just 51% consensus.

00:25:44.000 You need multiple states, you need measures, you need time, it takes years, and then we can agree.

00:25:49.000 That's how you know you have a good idea, right?

00:25:51.000 It takes a long period of time to get it done.

00:25:53.000 So, here's the best way I could describe democracy.

00:25:56.000 Here's how I would say it to a 16-year-old or 17-year-old: say, hey, do you think that if I say, you know, 51% of Americans say all black people should go to jail?

00:26:04.000 Do you think that's a good idea?

00:26:06.000 But hey, the people agree.

00:26:08.000 51%, man, we're a democracy.

00:26:09.000 Let's do it.

00:26:11.000 Why not?

00:26:12.000 51%?

00:26:14.000 No, because the Constitution says in the 14th Amendment, you can't do that.

00:26:17.000 That's a republic versus a democracy.

00:26:19.000 51% of Americans say that we should be able to take money from the 49%.

00:26:24.000 Is that okay?

00:26:25.000 That's immediately what it is.

00:26:27.000 Founding Fathers rejected democracy.

00:26:29.000 I think democracy is a really bad idea.

00:26:31.000 I've said it over and over again.

00:26:32.000 People attack me for saying that.

00:26:33.000 I don't care because they don't understand what it actually is, right?

00:26:36.000 Democracy is playing to the hordes and the masses and the impulses.

00:26:41.000 And as James Madison would say, it was a beautiful quote.

00:26:43.000 You guys could look it up and we'll send it to you later.

00:26:45.000 It's the immediate desires of the mob to like and not playing to the prudence or the rationality of the actual policies.

00:26:56.000 Does that make sense how you would, I don't know if that's helpful at all.

00:26:59.000 Understand when you say this, you're going to be attacked by these super low IQ teachers that think like democracy has become the golden calf of the Marxist left, right?

00:27:08.000 Like you can't question it.

00:27:09.000 Our democracy has become like a church, right?

00:27:12.000 It's like, by the way, you can insult Christianity way more freely than our democracy, right?

00:27:18.000 You can make fun of Christianity.

00:27:19.000 You could defecate on the cross, like no one would care.

00:27:22.000 But if you said like anything negative on our democracy, like they'll put you in jail, literally.

00:27:26.000 It's just unbelievable.

00:27:27.000 Because that's like the holy right now.

00:27:28.000 Every society has something they consider to be holy.

00:27:31.000 The holy thing in society is our democracy, which is not even what we are, which is what's so unbelievably frustrating about this entire thing.

00:27:38.000 Also, Republican-style governments, small R republics, they're intentionally decentralized.

00:27:45.000 So local and states tend to have outsized voice than in a democracy.

00:27:51.000 And a great example is during COVID, right?

00:27:53.000 Let's just go to a recent example when the German government came out and were like, we are doing lockdowns.

00:27:58.000 Everyone said, okay.

00:27:59.000 Like there's no provincial government.

00:28:01.000 It's like top-down done.

00:28:01.000 There's nothing.

00:28:03.000 It was a different story in America, right?

00:28:05.000 Like we had all these sorts of different federal government edicts, but we had states that were like, I'm not going to go along with this.

00:28:11.000 We had counties.

00:28:12.000 It was all over the place.

00:28:14.000 That actually keeps you free because then the government is much more responsible and reflective closer to the people, if that makes sense.

00:28:22.000 So republics tech traditionally are more decentralized.

00:28:26.000 Yes.

00:28:27.000 How do I explain to my students that the American dream is not dead?

00:28:31.000 Yes.

00:28:32.000 So, boy, that's a good question.

00:28:34.000 How do you explain to your students the American dream is not dead?

00:28:37.000 I would actually answer that more morally, which is to ask them, are you able to make choices for yourself?

00:28:45.000 This is one of the things, if you had to ask me, like, one of the great venoms of identity politics, right, is this hypnosis that kids fall under, that they're part of like this pre-described identity group.

00:28:58.000 Like, the game is rigged against me because I have black skin color or, you know, I'm a lesbian in a wheelchair or whatever thing that they teach.

00:29:06.000 It's like, no, you are a sovereign being that can make choices, right?

00:29:11.000 So here's a way that I would explain it to like an 18 or 19 or if they're receptive, right?

00:29:15.000 Say, if you get blitzing drunk, okay, like blackout drunk, how will you feel at 7 a.m. the next morning?

00:29:24.000 Okay?

00:29:25.000 And like, so what you're doing is what they should learn when they're four, which is called cause and effect.

00:29:31.000 Right?

00:29:32.000 And they'll be like, well, I won't feel well.

00:29:33.000 Okay, so you make a conscious decision to overdrink and you don't feel well.

00:29:39.000 Okay?

00:29:40.000 So what if you then made a conscious decision to not drink?

00:29:44.000 Then you would probably feel better and your life could potentially improve.

00:29:48.000 You won't have as many calories.

00:29:50.000 You won't be as whatever.

00:29:51.000 I'm not making a moral argument on drinking.

00:29:52.000 I'm just saying that's something that a college kid would definitely, you know, attach to really quickly.

00:29:57.000 And then say, okay, if that is true, extrapolate that to other parts of life.

00:30:01.000 If I start saving money instead of spending money, maybe my life will improve a little bit, right?

00:30:07.000 And then you can also say there's no guarantee the American dreamer is alive, but if you believe it's dead, it is dead.

00:30:14.000 That's 100% guaranteed.

00:30:16.000 It's like Pascal's wager, right?

00:30:17.000 Anyone familiar with Pascal's wager, sort of, yes?

00:30:19.000 Pascal's wager is like, okay, to believe in God is much more rational because if you don't believe in God, it's a guarantee that something bad will happen.

00:30:27.000 So I might as well wage, because there's no downside to believing in God, right?

00:30:31.000 There's no downside to not believe in the American dream.

00:30:33.000 What you're really saying is you don't believe in yourself because you've fallen into this toxic victim heavy weightedness.

00:30:41.000 And I could go into a lot of deeper parts to that of what I think is kind of the psychological and philosophical cancers that are and the tumors that need to be removed.

00:30:51.000 But man, we have a society that is just like so driven on complaining.

00:30:57.000 And it's like, go be a better version of yourself.

00:31:00.000 Like stop putting those neurotoxins in your body.

00:31:03.000 Like stop eating like trash.

00:31:05.000 Start working out.

00:31:06.000 Start telling the truth.

00:31:07.000 And I think there is a revival with young men, young women, not as much, in like, this is why Jordan Peterson is popular and Joe Rogan is popular.

00:31:14.000 And despite all of his shortcomings, Andrew Tate is popular and what he's saying is popular because the essence of a lot of their messages is like, I'm going to cut it to you straight.

00:31:23.000 Like no one's coming to save you, man.

00:31:25.000 Like get your freaking act together, right?

00:31:27.000 Stop complaining.

00:31:28.000 And honestly, it creates a happier people.

00:31:30.000 The very same people who say the American dream is dead are people that do not make their bed in the morning.

00:31:36.000 There's like 100% correlation.

00:31:38.000 Like one to one.

00:31:39.000 They're like, they don't shave.

00:31:40.000 They're sloppy.

00:31:42.000 They're like slovenly and they're like, oh, the American dream is dead.

00:31:45.000 Yeah, for you it probably is, man.

00:31:51.000 The world is in flames and biodynamics is a complete and total disaster.

00:31:55.000 But it can't and won't ruin my day.

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00:32:32.000 All right, next question.

00:32:32.000 Yeah.

00:32:33.000 Today's students typically have a PhD in TikTok before they do have their high school degree.

00:32:38.000 So how do you think that we, as being on the front lines, can combat that total misinformation?

00:32:44.000 This is what I saw on TikTok, so it's fact and that kind of thing.

00:32:48.000 Yeah, I actually have never had TikTok, and I think our team runs one for me.

00:32:53.000 I have other social media.

00:32:54.000 I actually have deleted all social media from my phone.

00:32:56.000 So the TikTok thing is really amazing.

00:32:59.000 I have a whole thesis on it as to why it's so popular, but that's not as relevant.

00:33:06.000 If you were to design an app that inherently plays to the dark aspect of narcissism, I would design TikTok.

00:33:15.000 So just as an you're like shocked.

00:33:18.000 No, I'm sorry.

00:33:18.000 It's true.

00:33:19.000 Yeah.

00:33:20.000 Yeah.

00:33:21.000 Is he viral on TikTok?

00:33:23.000 How many?

00:33:23.000 Oh, it's congratulations.

00:33:24.000 It's good.

00:33:26.000 It's great.

00:33:27.000 No, I'm not trying to insult you.

00:33:29.000 I'm just being honest.

00:33:31.000 And hear me out.

00:33:33.000 So if I could ban it, I would.

00:33:35.000 It's a terrible toxin.

00:33:36.000 It's a terrible thing, all that stuff.

00:33:37.000 Whatever.

00:33:37.000 Fine.

00:33:38.000 Okay, but it's not going to happen.

00:33:39.000 I don't get what I want, and you don't either.

00:33:40.000 Welcome to life, right?

00:33:41.000 So hear me out on this.

00:33:43.000 So most school shooters and most really evil people that do things right now, do you think they suffer from too much guilt or too much narcissism?

00:33:55.000 Yeah, narcissism.

00:33:56.000 And that's interesting, right?

00:33:57.000 Because it never actually used to be that way.

00:33:59.000 In the 70s and 80s, all the bad people said that they felt guilty for things that they weren't able to reconcile.

00:34:05.000 So something's changed.

00:34:07.000 So if you had to choose, would you rather have a society that has a guilt problem or a narcissism problem?

00:34:13.000 I'd rather have a guilt problem.

00:34:15.000 I mean, guilt can be dealt with.

00:34:18.000 I think the best way to deal with it is called Christianity, but narcissism is a real, real tricky beast, right?

00:34:25.000 Because you think about a guilt is that you feel as if you're falling short of a standard.

00:34:29.000 Narcissism is that I am the standard.

00:34:31.000 It's like, whoa, that's not a good idea, right?

00:34:35.000 So don't think TikTok is healthy because it creates, I mean, you're literally looking at yourself if you're creating the content most of the time.

00:34:40.000 It's all about yourself.

00:34:41.000 It's fine.

00:34:41.000 Like, I do stuff on social media.

00:34:43.000 So you have to fight that beast every day.

00:34:47.000 The PhD in TikTok is totally true.

00:34:50.000 How do you fight it?

00:34:51.000 I mean, point them to our voices that are pretty viral and talented.

00:34:54.000 But also, it's just like, I don't know.

00:34:57.000 I think that it would be really wonderful and lovely to remind kids that you could spend time without your phone.

00:35:05.000 I do 36 hours a week without my phone.

00:35:07.000 It's great.

00:35:07.000 I encourage you guys to do the same.

00:35:08.000 I turn it off Friday night, turn it on Sunday morning.

00:35:10.000 It's amazing.

00:35:11.000 It actually makes me work harder the other days.

00:35:14.000 I'm not saying you have to do that.

00:35:15.000 I'm just saying you're missing out if you're not.

00:35:17.000 The phone is a toxin.

00:35:19.000 It is making you unhappier.

00:35:21.000 It's probably control.

00:35:22.000 If you're depressed, you're probably depressed because of your phone, I'll be honest.

00:35:25.000 If you're on antidepressants, take your phone out of your life.

00:35:28.000 Almost every study shows that phone is the driver of Prozac, Xanax, benzodiazepins, suicide.

00:35:33.000 But we're like, oh, I must have my phone.

00:35:34.000 You really don't, actually.

00:35:35.000 Like, I mean, I grew up in a world where we didn't have phones everywhere, and it was a happier place, honestly.

00:35:40.000 I think they make us miserable, more neurotic, more paranoid, less connected, less human.

00:35:46.000 But obviously, this is a hard message, right?

00:35:48.000 Because Gen Z needs their digital pacifiers.

00:35:52.000 Okay, other thoughts?

00:35:54.000 And if I offended you, again, I'm not really, I really, really don't care.

00:36:01.000 Why do you think that young men are turning more conservative and young women are not?

00:36:05.000 It's a great point.

00:36:06.000 So, a great question.

00:36:07.000 Not a great point.

00:36:08.000 Okay, so the entire society's gone too feminine.

00:36:10.000 You can go too masculine, you can go too feminine, okay?

00:36:12.000 Mussolini's Italy went too masculine, okay?

00:36:14.000 America's gone too feminine, okay?

00:36:16.000 Way too feelings-based, way too the literature we read, how we organize education.

00:36:20.000 By the way, if you're a young lady and you find this objectionable, you should actually want society to be equally balanced, masculine or feminine, okay?

00:36:26.000 When it gets out of whack, it's bad for everybody, okay?

00:36:29.000 You want strong men, you want leaders, you also want, you know, you want equilibrium, okay?

00:36:34.000 You want to try to have some sort of balance.

00:36:36.000 We're way out of balance.

00:36:37.000 But you think about it, young men, especially young white men, I hate to racialize it, but it's just true.

00:36:41.000 It's just there is this undercurrent told them from a young age that you're terrible, you're awful, you're bigoted, problem with whiteness, University of Chicago class, right?

00:36:49.000 The transgender thing, like the hyper-feminists saying they're like, no.

00:36:53.000 And they're looking for anything and they're gravitating towards a content stream that thankfully exists.

00:36:58.000 Matt Walsh, Shapiro, you know, what we're trying to do, Tate, Rogan, Huberman, Peter Attia.

00:37:04.000 There's like this mass reservoir of basically like masculinity is good.

00:37:08.000 Improve your diet.

00:37:09.000 Like you don't have to become this like former metrosexual version of yourself.

00:37:12.000 And it's incredibly popular for young high school boys because they don't get that anywhere, right?

00:37:17.000 And so the identity politics, I hate identity politics, but it makes sense because the conservative message is inherently rooted in saying no to really bad ideas.

00:37:25.000 And the masculine role in society is to say no, right?

00:37:29.000 And you might say, oh, no, we as women say no all the time.

00:37:32.000 Okay, that's not actually totally true.

00:37:34.000 But like it's, it's okay because, I mean, again, if you want a masterclass in like how I believe God made men and women, like get married and have kids, like you'll see it really quickly, how God created you for one another and how different you are.

00:37:47.000 Like this idea that men and women are the same is literally one of the stupidest things.

00:37:51.000 That you have to get like a PhD to believe it.

00:37:53.000 It's against everything that is self-evident.

00:37:56.000 You don't need like a study.

00:37:57.000 You don't need some sort of like poll.

00:37:59.000 Just look, right?

00:38:01.000 Just observe, notice, see patterns.

00:38:03.000 You're like, wow, okay, way different, right?

00:38:05.000 My wife is amazing, like from how she nurtures to the baby.

00:38:09.000 I was like, wow, where did that come from?

00:38:10.000 I'm like clumsy, making a big mess of myself, right?

00:38:14.000 But if there's like an intruder through the door or there's a noise at night, like, okay, like, let's go.

00:38:20.000 And that's the way it should be, by the way, okay?

00:38:22.000 And that's okay to believe in a natural harmony to that.

00:38:26.000 Young men in becoming more conservative are basically getting a middle finger to a hyper-feminized society and being like, I'm going to go to the one place that says it's okay.

00:38:36.000 I can be who I actually biologically am, right?

00:38:41.000 Young ladies, I think the abortion thing, you know, I'm very pro-life.

00:38:44.000 I'm 100% pro-life, but we're not even going to get into that today.

00:38:46.000 But I don't think it helps for 18 or 19-year-olds.

00:38:49.000 I'll just be very honest.

00:38:50.000 A lot of young ladies gravitate towards left-wing politics because of the abortion issue.

00:38:56.000 And then you think about it, like young women, from the stuff they consume to the, you know, not just the products, but the podcast and all this, it's very, very, it's like an automatic, you have to be like a card-carrying social justice warrior.

00:39:11.000 And I'm going to say something that might offend you guys, again, not totally, but like, you know, my heart.

00:39:16.000 It's like young, like 16, 17, 18-year-olds, they complain all the time, okay?

00:39:20.000 And like left-wing politics, they love people who complain, okay?

00:39:24.000 Their whole political movement is built on complaining, okay?

00:39:28.000 And it's not like there's something right or wrong about it.

00:39:30.000 It's like, okay, you're 17 or 18 years old.

00:39:32.000 It's like, oh my goodness, what about this?

00:39:34.000 It's gossip culture and all that.

00:39:35.000 And here's a political movement where it's like you're validated for, like, pick your complaint, any complaint.

00:39:39.000 You want to complain about race?

00:39:40.000 You want to complain about the environment?

00:39:42.000 You want to complain about birth control?

00:39:43.000 You want to complain about trans thing?

00:39:45.000 You want to complain about income levels?

00:39:46.000 Like, take your seat.

00:39:47.000 What's our thing?

00:39:48.000 We're like, yeah, you're probably wrong.

00:39:50.000 It's a bad study.

00:39:51.000 Like, wake up earlier, stop doing drugs.

00:39:53.000 America's great.

00:39:55.000 Like, okay.

00:39:55.000 Like, our message is completely different than I'm going to validate your concern, which is just you being a perpetual child, right, in an adult's body.

00:40:04.000 So, yeah, you have a follow-up?

00:40:06.000 Yeah, do you think that, like, the introduction of like OnlyFans and like you don't need no man kind of thing has contributed to women being more liberal?

00:40:13.000 So, the introduction of the OnlyFans culture, you know, it's interesting.

00:40:15.000 I don't, I don't know if it's anything that new.

00:40:17.000 I just think it's manifested itself differently.

00:40:20.000 I mean, look, if you read, if you read Betty Friedan's feminist mystique, are you anyone familiar with that?

00:40:26.000 Yeah.

00:40:28.000 I'm sure if you guys went to college, you had to read it.

00:40:31.000 It was kind of like considered to be, how do I, what's in modern equivalent?

00:40:36.000 It was like the eat-prey love of like the 60s, 70s.

00:40:40.000 Now you guys, that it was so important that like everybody, is it prey, eat, love?

00:40:43.000 I always get it wrong.

00:40:44.000 Love, eat, prey.

00:40:46.000 Love, pray, eat.

00:40:49.000 I got it right, though.

00:40:51.000 The first time.

00:40:52.000 Okay.

00:40:53.000 I got the words right?

00:40:55.000 Okay, good.

00:40:56.000 Never read it.

00:40:57.000 Don't know what it's about.

00:40:58.000 Saw it everywhere.

00:40:59.000 It's not that good.

00:41:00.000 Got it.

00:41:00.000 It's so bad.

00:41:01.000 It's cringe.

00:41:03.000 Okay.

00:41:06.000 Self-journey.

00:41:07.000 Yeah, like super narcissism.

00:41:08.000 Yeah.

00:41:09.000 Yeah, okay, got it.

00:41:10.000 You don't need anybody else.

00:41:10.000 Got it.

00:41:11.000 So Betty Friedan, it was that important back then, right?

00:41:16.000 Feminist mystique, you can read it.

00:41:18.000 And what's sad about feminism 60s and 70s is actually their argument was to make men, women more like men.

00:41:24.000 And that's why I make a very provocative argument that the trans thing makes sense, where people say, like, wait, where are the feminists?

00:41:31.000 I'm like, the whole feminist argument is that you should stop being like an anchored woman and you should become more masculine in your behaviors and your habits.

00:41:39.000 And then eventually you actually then become men and everyone's like, where are the feminists?

00:41:43.000 Like, they wanted this transformation for a while, right?

00:41:46.000 What people are really saying is, where are the people who believe in women?

00:41:48.000 That's what people are saying, right?

00:41:50.000 Which, again, is a strange thing.

00:41:52.000 The OnlyFans thing, I don't know.

00:41:54.000 I mean, I don't want to dive too.

00:41:56.000 I mean, I have very strong opinions about all that stuff.

00:41:59.000 But how widespread is that in college?

00:42:01.000 I mean, what percentage of very consumption or production?

00:42:07.000 Both?

00:42:08.000 Really?

00:42:12.000 You're like a oh, wow.

00:42:14.000 Okay.

00:42:16.000 They do it out of their dorms.

00:42:17.000 Yeah.

00:42:24.000 Wow.

00:42:25.000 I mean, I'm so out of touch.

00:42:26.000 I mean, I know what OnlyFans is.

00:42:28.000 Besides that, it's like, that's where I.

00:42:32.000 I think that's...

00:42:33.000 That's good.

00:42:34.000 Do you have a thought?

00:42:35.000 Yeah.

00:42:36.000 Okay.

00:42:36.000 Interesting take.

00:42:38.000 So one of my conservative friends and I had a debate about this.

00:42:40.000 Like, we as conservatives want to ban porn and we want to ban OnlyFans.

00:42:45.000 But at the same time, like, obviously I find it disgusting.

00:42:48.000 Like, it's porn.

00:42:49.000 But isn't that like, okay, I'm not like an advocate for OnlyFans or porn, but like, isn't that like capitalism?

00:42:58.000 And like, we don't want big tech censorship.

00:43:00.000 We don't want the government to tell us what we can post on the internet and what we can't post.

00:43:05.000 But wouldn't that be like contradicting ourselves if we start banning porn and we start banning OnlyFans and all that kind of stuff?

00:43:11.000 Yeah, I mean, I totally think we should ban those things.

00:43:14.000 I'm not even here to talk about that today, but if you guys want me to, I could talk about that.

00:43:17.000 I just want to let you know.

00:43:18.000 But yeah, look, it's kind of my argument with weed, which is like, okay, we have an unbelievably polluted society.

00:43:24.000 Am I going to keep the gutter going or am I going to do what I can?

00:43:27.000 Like, there's not a virtuous argument where you can say America's free or happier or more decent because 19-year-old college girls are posting naked pictures themselves for $6 a month.

00:43:37.000 So the question is, what do you want, right?

00:43:39.000 And this is an interesting question.

00:43:41.000 So why do we like capitalism?

00:43:42.000 Do we like capitalism because it points towards something good?

00:43:45.000 Or do we worship capitalism itself and hard stop and whatever happens happens, right?

00:43:49.000 So a libertarian view would be like, Charlie, come on, who are you to say?

00:43:52.000 No, I am going to say that like posting naked pictures of yourself is disgusting, awful, and immoral.

00:43:57.000 And honestly, it's demeaning to you and demeaning to the consumer.

00:44:00.000 And it cheapens society and it creates depressed people.

00:44:03.000 And if we can't have a consensus against that, then I think we've fallen a lot more than we want to willing admit.

00:44:10.000 And again, I don't know the complexity.

00:44:11.000 I thought it was more rare.

00:44:12.000 You guys are making it seem it's actually more commonplace.

00:44:16.000 Yeah.

00:44:16.000 Every girl has it in their bio.

00:44:18.000 Wow.

00:44:19.000 So some people here have it in their bio?

00:44:21.000 Oh, okay.

00:44:23.000 Oh, wow.

00:44:24.000 That's really telling.

00:44:26.000 So is it all naked pictures or is it also scandalous?

00:44:39.000 Yeah, look, I mean, this is the same argument.

00:44:43.000 Again, this is nothing new, right?

00:44:45.000 It's just digital prostitution is what it is.

00:44:48.000 It's morality versus money.

00:44:50.000 Yeah, I mean, so I don't have to like overthink it.

00:44:53.000 I'm not trying to, I mean, and you say, oh, Charlie, you're being like moralizing.

00:44:56.000 Like, no, actually, they're the ones that are like imperializing society with, you know, let's just say polluted air.

00:45:05.000 So yeah, this is funny.

00:45:06.000 I got in a debate with a liberal once, and I wish it was filmed.

00:45:09.000 But it was, you know, they were so worried about environmental climate change.

00:45:13.000 So worried about it.

00:45:13.000 Oh, my gosh, blah, So, okay, so I said, let's just take a pause.

00:45:17.000 You're like, you hate pollution, right?

00:45:18.000 And I said, do you believe the soul could become polluted?

00:45:22.000 And they said, no, of course not.

00:45:23.000 I was like, okay, but your whole idea is that something that's pristine and nice could be contaminated, right?

00:45:28.000 Like, don't you think if everyone's swearing all the time and like public nudity and pornography everywhere, that same concept could metaphorically apply?

00:45:35.000 Never thought of it, right?

00:45:36.000 I think it's hilarious that the left-wingers want like a perfectly clean environment and a totally polluted soul.

00:45:43.000 I think we should have clean both.

00:45:45.000 So, okay, but that's a fun question we could keep on discussing, but I'm not here today to say we should ban pornography.

00:45:51.000 I do believe that, but you guys can disagree with that.

00:45:54.000 So, okay, taxation is theft.

00:45:57.000 Don't have to overthink that.

00:45:59.000 We way overtax society.

00:46:00.000 Honestly, the best way that you could talk about taxation is the hidden taxation of inflation.

00:46:06.000 Inflation is taxation by the means.

00:46:08.000 Love the libertarians on this.

00:46:10.000 This is probably one of my favorite things that they've made it a dent on.

00:46:14.000 Talking about how we do our money is a corrupt, unelected group of bankers that slowly but deliberately deteriorate our purchasing power and make all of you poorer and harder to get, pay your rent, harder to save money.

00:46:26.000 So don't have to do a long speech on the Federal Reserve.

00:46:29.000 I would actually talk about the hidden taxation of inflation, okay?

00:46:33.000 It is a fact that inflation is theft.

00:46:35.000 Forget like income tax and all that stuff.

00:46:37.000 That stuff's that obviously.

00:46:38.000 But it is immoral and wrong that you have become 20% poor without any say in the last two and a half years just because the Federal Reserve Bank wants to put more dollars out there.

00:46:48.000 Are you guys tracking what I'm saying?

00:46:50.000 Yeah.

00:46:50.000 Inflation makes you poor.

00:46:52.000 You didn't vote for it.

00:46:53.000 It's not by consent.

00:46:54.000 There's nothing you could do about it except you have to try to out-earn the rate of inflation, right?

00:47:00.000 Which is unjust, honestly, and it's central planning at its worst.

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00:48:09.000 Okay, think it's not illegal yet.

00:48:12.000 Free the first.

00:48:13.000 I love the First Amendment.

00:48:14.000 So here's an interesting question, and there is a right answer, but if you're wrong, that's okay.

00:48:20.000 We'll correct you.

00:48:21.000 Raise your hand if you think human beings naturally want to be free.

00:48:26.000 Raise your hand.

00:48:27.000 Okay.

00:48:28.000 One, two, three.

00:48:29.000 And then how about if you think that people do not want to be free?

00:48:32.000 They'd rather be taken care of.

00:48:34.000 Okay.

00:48:35.000 What if you have no idea?

00:48:37.000 It's okay.

00:48:38.000 So does anyone that thinks that human beings want to be free wants to tell me why?

00:48:45.000 Or either way.

00:48:45.000 We can go either way.

00:48:46.000 Where is the mic, by the way?

00:48:47.000 I lost track of the mic.

00:48:48.000 Okay.

00:48:49.000 Let's go back there.

00:48:50.000 Yeah.

00:48:51.000 Well, when I say it, I think people believe that they want to be free.

00:48:55.000 They like the idea.

00:48:57.000 But then practically, they do want to be taken care of.

00:49:01.000 And they might think that that's their idea of freedom.

00:49:04.000 Their idea of freedom is safety because they say, oh, let's ban the guns because now I could be, you know, safe at school and I'm free to live my life because, you know, nobody's going to come shoot me.

00:49:16.000 So it's a very free by being less free.

00:49:20.000 Exactly.

00:49:21.000 Exactly.

00:49:21.000 So it's like this warped sense of freedom.

00:49:23.000 So people will say, everybody, if you ask them, do you want to be free?

00:49:27.000 They'll say yes.

00:49:28.000 But they don't know what freedom is.

00:49:30.000 That's the problem.

00:49:31.000 And that's why I say most people want to be free.

00:49:34.000 They say they want to be free.

00:49:35.000 You want to chime in really quick?

00:49:37.000 I would say if you observe a baby, babies immediately start crawling, they start, you know, crying or yelling or whatever.

00:49:47.000 They start like walking around all over the place.

00:49:50.000 And then they were taught that they can't do it by themselves.

00:49:55.000 And then they become clinging to their mother or their parent or whatever.

00:49:59.000 But naturally, freedom comes first.

00:50:02.000 Are you a parent?

00:50:03.000 No.

00:50:04.000 Okay.

00:50:07.000 Interesting, though.

00:50:08.000 I'll have to think about that.

00:50:10.000 So, yeah.

00:50:11.000 Okay, so coming from like a Christian standpoint, being created by God and having to rely on Him, I would say we're naturally wanting to be taken care of just because of the presence of God and what He provides to your life.

00:50:22.000 You have to rely on Him to get through the tough times.

00:50:25.000 So let's get to the next question.

00:50:25.000 Cool.

00:50:28.000 Raise your hand if you think human beings are naturally good.

00:50:31.000 Anybody?

00:50:32.000 Naturally, not so good.

00:50:32.000 Okay.

00:50:34.000 Or how about inherently blank and it's a neutral in the middle?

00:50:38.000 Okay.

00:50:39.000 So no one thinks naturally.

00:50:40.000 You guys have, you're here for a reason.

00:50:40.000 That's really good.

00:50:42.000 Okay.

00:50:42.000 Almost every single college professor thinks human beings are naturally good.

00:50:46.000 Okay.

00:50:47.000 And so why, why, what does all this matter, right?

00:50:50.000 I firmly believe people do not want to be free.

00:50:52.000 They want to be taken care of.

00:50:53.000 Okay.

00:50:54.000 Now, freedom is a value.

00:50:55.000 Once you taste it and you have a memory of it, certain people then develop an attachment of it.

00:51:00.000 The reason we know people do not naturally want to be free is that in totalitarian countries, they don't even know the concept because it's not natural.

00:51:08.000 Yanmi Park was the most incredible teacher of me on this.

00:51:12.000 I had her on the podcast.

00:51:13.000 She grew up in North Creek.

00:51:14.000 She said, we don't have the word.

00:51:16.000 It's not even a word.

00:51:17.000 Free?

00:51:18.000 It's like I didn't have to.

00:51:19.000 She said, when I first went to Japan, you guys should listen to my podcast.

00:51:22.000 I've done three podcasts with her.

00:51:24.000 It's unbelievable.

00:51:25.000 And I only promote my stuff.

00:51:27.000 I promote myself all the time, but this stuff's really good.

00:51:29.000 Okay.

00:51:31.000 But she says, Charlie, when I went to Refugee South Korea, she said, I sat in this apartment and she said, I had to take a six-hour nap because I had to think for 10 minutes.

00:51:45.000 And she's like, I didn't ever have to do that.

00:51:48.000 And she's like, I had the same way as if, like, you have to learn how to lift boxes after being in the hospital for like six months and redevelop muscles.

00:51:54.000 She's like, I never had to actually reason.

00:51:58.000 And so that's really like the extreme example.

00:52:01.000 And don't believe me, you could watch it.

00:52:03.000 So this idea is more, even more provocative than that when you are on a campus.

00:52:07.000 You will encounter a large portion of people that refuse to entertain ideas that might make them uncomfortable, right?

00:52:17.000 And that is the, I think, honestly, the question in front of whether or not America will succeed or not succeed is can we convince people to care even if it makes them uncomfortable?

00:52:25.000 That's a really hard question, isn't it?

00:52:28.000 I mean, how many times do you have to hear from people where like, no, no, no, that's not true?

00:52:32.000 I'm like, oh, nope, it's perfectly fine.

00:52:34.000 Everything's great.

00:52:35.000 It's like that meme where everything's burning around, you know, and that's what it is.

00:52:39.000 So think it's not illegal yet, free the first.

00:52:41.000 You have to constantly be, and here's the cool thing, though, is that once you do engage, once you do have some form of freedom, it comes at a cost, right?

00:52:51.000 When you are free, you have to be responsible.

00:52:53.000 It can come with tragedy, it can come with harm, but it is a deeper life.

00:52:57.000 It's a better life when you are free than if you are controlled, right?

00:53:01.000 And then if you are constantly being, you know, told to do something or not.

00:53:05.000 Now, this is an even more provocative question that I don't think we have time, is that if you actually go into, that's kind of ties into the big tech thing, but it's the Constitution one.

00:53:14.000 I'll go back to big tech.

00:53:15.000 Yeah, okay.

00:53:16.000 The Constitution one is that if you talk to some of these kids on campus, and you touched on this, and this is why, you know, I am no longer a libertarian.

00:53:26.000 I'll tell you why.

00:53:27.000 Again, no, I'm not trying to make you feel bad.

00:53:28.000 It's just the way it is on my beliefs.

00:53:31.000 That they'll say that freedom is doing weed, only fans, and less sentencing, right?

00:53:39.000 And so, like, is that freedom or is that what the founding fathers would call as license, right?

00:53:44.000 Licentiousness, right?

00:53:45.000 So, the question, that's a question.

00:53:46.000 You guys could come up with your own answer.

00:53:48.000 Like, has America become more free the more public nudity, public defecation, and shooting up on the side of the streets of San Francisco?

00:53:56.000 Is San Francisco a better place, more free, better private property rights?

00:54:00.000 Like, is that a flourishing society, a virtuous society, a place people want to visit, right?

00:54:04.000 But the ideal is like, hey, man, freedom, who are we to judge?

00:54:07.000 You got to think about that, right?

00:54:09.000 And so, is it freedom or is it license, right?

00:54:13.000 But at the same time, the very same people that are like heroin everywhere, they don't want you to be able to have a nine millimeter.

00:54:19.000 Okay, so America's Roots, Constitution Week, 10 Amendments to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and then how many articles anybody can tell me?

00:54:19.000 Think about that.

00:54:28.000 Anybody over under?

00:54:29.000 It's not a true question.

00:54:31.000 Anybody?

00:54:32.000 No?

00:54:33.000 Seven articles, the U.S. Constitution.

00:54:35.000 Article 1, which is what?

00:54:37.000 Legislative branch.

00:54:38.000 Article 2, executive branch.

00:54:40.000 Article 3, Supreme Court.

00:54:42.000 Okay?

00:54:44.000 Please read the Constitution, guys.

00:54:46.000 It's important.

00:54:46.000 Okay?

00:54:47.000 It's what we all try to defend.

00:54:49.000 The Declaration and the Constitution are tied together.

00:54:53.000 One of the course human events becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bans that have tied them to another.

00:54:57.000 Goes on to say that we find these truths to be self-evident.

00:55:00.000 What does that mean?

00:55:01.000 All people can come across this wisdom.

00:55:03.000 There is not a secret knowledge, a secret gnosis, a secret society.

00:55:06.000 You don't need to halt, you know, like a secret passcode.

00:55:08.000 All people can come to this conclusion.

00:55:10.000 That is the great leap forward.

00:55:12.000 What makes America different?

00:55:13.000 They wrote that down.

00:55:14.000 They believe it.

00:55:15.000 Most countries to this day still don't believe that.

00:55:17.000 Unbelievable that they designed a project that all people can come to that knowledge.

00:55:21.000 Because if you think about it, what do we hear now?

00:55:23.000 Trust the experts.

00:55:24.000 What does that mean?

00:55:24.000 That means secret society, we're in charge, you're not.

00:55:27.000 You don't get to know what we know.

00:55:28.000 Just we have to tell you, it's unbelievable totalitarian.

00:55:31.000 Founding fathers put it on his head.

00:55:32.000 They're like, no, no, no, all people can come to the knowledge because we believe all people are created equal.

00:55:37.000 It's self-evident.

00:55:38.000 You can figure out that it's not right to live under King George.

00:55:40.000 You can figure out the best way to live.

00:55:41.000 Totally different, right?

00:55:43.000 Not trust Fauci, trust the experts, trust Jim Comey, trust John Brennan, right?

00:55:47.000 Trust the scientists.

00:55:48.000 It's completely at odds with the promise of the U.S. Constitution, right?

00:55:51.000 So the Constitution, greatest political document ever written, because it's written for the times, not written, it's not written for the times, written to stand the test of time.

00:55:59.000 Because the founding fathers believed human nature does not change, and they were right.

00:56:03.000 Human nature does not change if you believe people are naturally bad or evil, or at the very least, blank slate, right?

00:56:09.000 Therefore, you have to design a project that makes it the hardest possible way to screw up.

00:56:13.000 Here's an interesting provocative question: what's the worst thing a human being can do?

00:56:16.000 Anybody?

00:56:18.000 Let's ask.

00:56:19.000 Anybody want to?

00:56:20.000 This is what they should be teaching in most colleges, by the way.

00:56:22.000 But yeah, anything, what's the worst thing a human being can do?

00:56:26.000 Okay.

00:56:26.000 Murder.

00:56:28.000 Anyone disagree with that?

00:56:29.000 What's worse than murder?

00:56:30.000 Yeah.

00:56:31.000 I would say not care.

00:56:32.000 Be apathetic.

00:56:33.000 Apathetic?

00:56:33.000 Okay.

00:56:33.000 Yeah.

00:56:34.000 So that's interesting.

00:56:35.000 Was the guy who ran the concentration camp did greater evil than the guy that just sat idly by and just kind of yeah.

00:56:43.000 So being a spectator.

00:56:44.000 So that's really actually invigorating that you guys believe apathy and being a spectator is more evil than actually doing the act.

00:56:51.000 I don't agree, but that's actually a really good sign that you guys want to do something because that's actually a great sign.

00:56:59.000 So the worst thing the founding fathers believe you could do is murder is up there, but it's collectivizing it.

00:57:03.000 Okay?

00:57:04.000 So it's bad enough that you do something evil.

00:57:05.000 It's worse to institutionalize an entire government around that evil.

00:57:09.000 That's the worst, outside of blasphemy-nulling spirit.

00:57:11.000 Or I could actually go even deeper if you want religiously, and I'll second and I will.

00:57:15.000 It is collectivizing an entire government around these ideas, because then you're not just harming one person, you're harming an entire society.

00:57:23.000 Now, you obviously, Ten Commandments, I know we have all different religious views here, but just interestingly, what is the, so do not take the Lord's name in vain, right?

00:57:32.000 So does it say, I can't say, oh, my, whatever, or does it mean you can't carry the Lord's name and do evil in his name?

00:57:38.000 Think about it.

00:57:40.000 I think that's actually what it's saying.

00:57:41.000 It's you can't carry the name of God and do evil in the name of the divine.

00:57:44.000 What does the Constitution say?

00:57:46.000 Constitution says we must decentralize power, make it slow, make it arduous, because you have rights given to you by God, as it says in the Declaration, laws of nature, nature's God, not by government.

00:57:56.000 Okay?

00:57:57.000 This, I cannot, I mean, I'm a super nerd on this stuff.

00:58:00.000 I can't tell you how beautiful the Constitution is.

00:58:03.000 Like, in words that can suffice, we are so unbelievably blessed to have the system still in place.

00:58:11.000 And we are losing it every day.

00:58:12.000 But it's so profound.

00:58:14.000 It's so deep.

00:58:15.000 It's so exceptional.

00:58:16.000 It's so beautiful.

00:58:17.000 Do you guys have questions on it at all?

00:58:19.000 Criticisms, questions, things you hear?

00:58:21.000 Objections?

00:58:21.000 Yes?

00:58:22.000 What would you say to people that I've heard a lot of people that are really hesitant to talk about how the founding fathers, like they did believe that our rights were God-given.

00:58:34.000 And I hear some people get a little hairy with that because then others will say, oh, well, then our Constitution's a theocracy.

00:58:41.000 And oh, we have to get rid of that because it goes against our First Amendment rights of freedom of religion.

00:58:47.000 And if you have this, you know, these God-given rights and this Constitution that was written under the name of God, then people can't, like, fulfill their First Amendment right of freedom of religion.

00:58:59.000 So how would you kind of deal with that argument?

00:59:01.000 Sure.

00:59:02.000 So a couple things.

00:59:03.000 The founders were very clear.

00:59:05.000 They believe in ethical monotheism.

00:59:07.000 Okay.

00:59:07.000 So that is Judaism, could be Christianity.

00:59:10.000 It could even be Benjamin Franklin, which would just kind of be, I believe there's an unmoved mover, but there is a way to live.

00:59:17.000 Okay.

00:59:18.000 So every founder was an ethical monotheist.

00:59:20.000 Every single founder.

00:59:22.000 Not every single founder was a Christian, but they were all ethical monotheists.

00:59:25.000 That's a very important distinction.

00:59:27.000 Number two, the objection that you were telling me is they were saying, well, freedom from religion, that's nowhere in the Constitution, okay?

00:59:34.000 You have freedom of religion, which says Congress shall pass no law, right, prohibiting the free exercise they're establishing or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

00:59:45.000 But at the same time, they conflate that with that God should not be mentioned anywhere in our government or in our founding documents.

00:59:54.000 That's a concept completely.

00:59:56.000 It's totally out of anything with the American founding.

00:59:59.000 55 out of 56 said that signers of the Declaration were Bible-believing church attending Christians, right?

01:00:04.000 Thomas Jefferson wanted to put a picture of the Exodus on the American, the American seal.

01:00:09.000 Now, no one's arguing for a theocracy.

01:00:12.000 What we are saying is, though, where did these ideas come from?

01:00:15.000 And shouldn't we be able to mention it and remember it?

01:00:18.000 And we still do, by the way.

01:00:19.000 If you go to Congress, which I'm Moses is right there in the hall of Congress, right?

01:00:24.000 Just wait till they take that one down.

01:00:26.000 I can't wait.

01:00:27.000 Moses owned slaves.

01:00:28.000 No, he didn't.

01:00:30.000 You know what they will say?

01:00:31.000 Moses killed a man.

01:00:32.000 He did kill a man.

01:00:32.000 Yeah.

01:00:33.000 And he buried him, ran away.

01:00:35.000 Murder, take him down.

01:00:36.000 Like, Moses is coming.

01:00:38.000 I'm telling you, these statue people are coming for Moses, right?

01:00:43.000 Bunch of freaks.

01:00:44.000 So all throughout, I mean, whether it be the Ten Commandments, whether it be, so I'll just give you another great example, okay?

01:00:49.000 Deuteronomy was quoted more than more than any book, religious or secular, in the founding of our nation, okay?

01:00:55.000 That's done by a secular Harvard historian who ranked John Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire, all that, Deuteronomy, the book of Deuteronomy, which is not exactly an easy book to read, right?

01:01:03.000 Deuteronomy means second law.

01:01:05.000 It's like Moses' farewell address.

01:01:06.000 If you read it, he's just like all over the place.

01:01:08.000 And I got problems with you people and you people and you guys complain too much and I'm mad at you and do this and all that.

01:01:13.000 And like all of a sudden he's like, in honor of your God, you're like, what is all this?

01:01:15.000 And it's literally the entire book of Deuteronomy is like a super long complaining session of Moses.

01:01:19.000 And by the way, I can't go into Israel.

01:01:21.000 It's all your fault.

01:01:22.000 Joshua, you know, good luck.

01:01:24.000 That's the book of Deuteronomy.

01:01:26.000 But he establishes moral and civil law, which is the most important thing, right?

01:01:29.000 The founders decide, oh, wow, this is really important.

01:01:31.000 They apply it because Moses was basically giving the farewell address to the people of Israel entering Canaan, which then established the nation of Israel.

01:01:38.000 But the founders found something interesting with that.

01:01:40.000 This is what I love about what Jordan Peterson is doing recently, is he approaches it not even a religious way, just a fast, he's wondered by it.

01:01:46.000 Like he has wondered by it.

01:01:46.000 It's like, wow, like every generation seems to find something beautiful in this book.

01:01:51.000 Maybe I should too, right?

01:01:53.000 He doesn't even look at it as like from a divine standpoint.

01:01:56.000 And I wish our academics and our current society had that kind of approach, too.

01:01:59.000 I think we have time for one or two more, but I do want to, yeah, we'll go there.

01:02:04.000 Big tech sucks for the same reason.

01:02:05.000 Big government sucks.

01:02:07.000 I can go ahead and that.

01:02:08.000 And then Constitution.

01:02:09.000 But Constitution, my favorite socialism is a menace.

01:02:12.000 I actually kind of talked about that one.

01:02:14.000 So, yes.

01:02:15.000 Okay, so obviously the Constitution is a big one that we should probably memorize and stuff and get very familiar with.

01:02:21.000 But are there any other documents or important things that you think that we should also familiarize ourselves with before we go out and do this job?

01:02:28.000 Yeah, it's a great question.

01:02:30.000 So you could listen.

01:02:31.000 I've done dozens of podcasts on this.

01:02:34.000 If you guys want to listen on Two Times Speed and try to do that, the Hillsdale online courses are amazing.

01:02:39.000 Charlie for Hillsdale.com.

01:02:41.000 Look, Declaration, Constitution, those are the big two, right?

01:02:44.000 That's what this whole organization is about.

01:02:45.000 Okay, these are calls for freedom, calls for self-government, calls against tyranny.

01:02:49.000 What does turning point stand for?

01:02:50.000 Self-government.

01:02:51.000 We hate tyranny.

01:02:52.000 We hate Marxism.

01:02:53.000 We call for human beings to be able to be free.

01:02:55.000 That's what those two documents are.

01:02:56.000 The traditional academic view is that the Declaration of the Constitution is at odds with one another.

01:03:01.000 That's wrong.

01:03:02.000 They lock together.

01:03:03.000 One answers the other.

01:03:05.000 Every complaint in the Declaration is answered in the Constitution.

01:03:08.000 There's a great book called The Founder's Key by Dr. Larry Arn.

01:03:11.000 He's the president of Hillsdale College.

01:03:12.000 He writes about this.

01:03:13.000 It's beautiful.

01:03:14.000 It's not an easy read, but it's an unbelievably fulfilling read.

01:03:18.000 And yeah, I mean, And what's incredible is like if I would have hired you for this job 20 years ago, and I would tell you, like, go argue for the Constitution Declaration, you'd have like 85% agreement on campus and be like, okay, Charlie, we've signed up the whole school.

01:03:31.000 Now it's like incredibly divisive.

01:03:32.000 Like it's so tragic.

01:03:33.000 It's so sad.

01:03:34.000 These are not even nothing here is necessarily political.

01:03:37.000 It's not like right-wing or left-wing.

01:03:39.000 This is moral stuff, right?

01:03:41.000 Like who are you?

01:03:42.000 Why are you here?

01:03:43.000 What kind of government is best, right?

01:03:44.000 And yeah, I mean, I'm an unapologetic defender of what the founders established because I don't think any of its critics are even remotely understanding of the genius, the brilliance, or I think the divine inspiration that went into it because there has not been a government structure even close to it, even close, right?

01:04:03.000 And how did they do it?

01:04:04.000 Well, it's because there are a lot of reasons, but the simplest one I can give you is they studied every single government before it and they saw a pattern, which is smaller and smaller groups of people getting more and more power over the rest of it, over the rest.

01:04:17.000 And we just broke away from this.

01:04:18.000 Like, how do we break this pattern, right?

01:04:20.000 How do we break this pattern?

01:04:22.000 And they're the first winners of a war that made themselves less powerful.

01:04:26.000 They could have had the Jeffersonian, Washingtonian republics, and they're like, nope, we're not going to do that.

01:04:31.000 This is insane.

01:04:33.000 And yeah, that's worthy of an unbelievable appreciation.

01:04:36.000 We're all beneficiaries of it.

01:04:38.000 But we have to be lectured that they're evil.

01:04:43.000 Okay.

01:04:43.000 Yeah.

01:04:45.000 What advice would you give someone who's running for office?

01:04:49.000 Like a student running for office or like, oh, you're running for office?

01:04:53.000 What are you running for?

01:04:54.000 I'm running for state rep. State rep?

01:04:55.000 Good for you.

01:04:57.000 Well, keep your 501c work separate.

01:04:59.000 That's my first piece of advice.

01:05:01.000 Right?

01:05:01.000 That's right.

01:05:02.000 Everyone knows that's correct.

01:05:03.000 We do not endorse candidates or talk about political issues.

01:05:06.000 So I would imagine you're running as a Republican.

01:05:09.000 Yes.

01:05:09.000 Tough guess.

01:05:12.000 So yeah, show up as many Lincoln Reagan Day dinners as you can.

01:05:15.000 Honestly, like the grassroots is what's going to matter.

01:05:17.000 And I would encourage you to go spend time with Austin Smith.

01:05:20.000 He's around here somewhere.

01:05:21.000 He won as a kind of a young insurgent candidate.

01:05:25.000 And like the local politics goes to people who show up, right?

01:05:29.000 It's like just show up at the dinners, ask for support, and then you have to outwork your competition.

01:05:34.000 So you have to track your competition and say, I'm going to put in twice as much time as them.

01:05:37.000 So twice as many events, twice as many speeches, and yeah, it's going to suck.

01:05:40.000 And it's like you're going to be driving at 5 a.m. to something and like for four people.

01:05:45.000 And then you have to just constantly, relentlessly follow up and know that in politics, if you're young, they're going to be looking for a reason to discount you.

01:05:53.000 So you have to be over polite, you know, over humble, listen more than you talk.

01:05:57.000 Don't give them a reason to hate you.

01:05:59.000 And if you don't, then also there is this amazing community of people in politics that want to support the younger candidate because they're like desiring to make the party younger.

01:06:07.000 So, all right, we'll do one more.

01:06:09.000 So, Charlie.

01:06:10.000 Yes.

01:06:11.000 If you were to be a high school rep today, because I'm the Arizona high school rep. Okay.

01:06:17.000 So, if you were in my shoes, what would you do to build out the territory?

01:06:22.000 Well, I would use the headquarters to your great advantage, right?

01:06:25.000 I would invite people in as much as possible.

01:06:27.000 You kind of have a built-in advantage because we do so many events here and we have so much fun stuff here.

01:06:33.000 So, if I was an Arizona high school rep to hit my goals, like, I mean, you have AmFest, like, oh, my goodness.

01:06:39.000 And then I would just constantly be trying to, you know, build up leaders throughout the valley, throughout the state, and make them feel close to the HQ.

01:06:48.000 And just like anytime, Freedom Night in America, you know, it's extra speakers trying to create roundtables and stuff like that.

01:06:54.000 So, I mean, you have a built-in advantage here that other states don't have because there's just more attention and more stuff happening here.

01:07:00.000 So, and finally, like, there's a massive amount of potential in the charter schools here in Arizona, I think.

01:07:09.000 I know we have some really good chapters up in Scottsdale and the East Valley and many more coming.

01:07:13.000 So, in closing, guys, that was just a small taste of what I wish I could have shared with you today.

01:07:17.000 The big tech thing, we'll send out a podcast.

01:07:20.000 You guys can listen to if you want.

01:07:22.000 A lot of you guys understand it.

01:07:23.000 Socialism, I talked about the Marxism stuff.

01:07:25.000 But I'm very thankful for you, and we want to have the biggest semester ever, okay?

01:07:30.000 And it's going to really start with you guys.

01:07:32.000 And we got AmFest coming up.

01:07:36.000 We got some huge goals to hit everybody.

01:07:38.000 And it's really going to start with you guys.

01:07:40.000 And I know we got org fairs coming up soon.

01:07:43.000 Really blessed by all of you.

01:07:44.000 I'm going to be seeing a lot of you.

01:07:46.000 I'm going to be seeing you at Chaparral, right?

01:07:48.000 September 27th, if I remember.

01:07:50.000 And I don't even know if you guys know the tour schedule or not yet.

01:07:53.000 It's like a state secret around here, right, Chris?

01:07:56.000 We don't tell anybody.

01:07:57.000 But no more than two per region.

01:07:59.000 I know that.

01:08:00.000 That's for sure.

01:08:01.000 And it's going to be really great.

01:08:02.000 And so if you have questions, ask questions.

01:08:04.000 There's places for you guys to work hard and move up through the ranks here at Turning Point USA.

01:08:09.000 And look, I know you guys are here for a reason.

01:08:12.000 You're here because you'll be able to tell your grandkids that you worked hard to save the Republic.

01:08:17.000 That's a big deal.

01:08:18.000 I get letters.

01:08:19.000 We have 270,000 donors at Turning Point USA that pay your salary, that pay for you to be here.

01:08:24.000 It's 270,000 people, right?

01:08:26.000 Soon to be 300,000.

01:08:27.000 We get letters every day.

01:08:28.000 Charlie, I work at JP Morgan and I earn a lot of money, but I'm miserable because I can't speak my mind and I have DEI seminars and transgender stuff.

01:08:36.000 You're actually richer than they are because you get to be free and you get to make an impact.

01:08:40.000 So be grateful for that and I'm grateful for you.

01:08:42.000 Thank you guys so much.

01:08:45.000 Thanks so much for listening.

01:08:46.000 Everybody, email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:08:49.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - March 19, 2024

The Kids Who Will Win Back America: My Speech to TPUSA's New Hires

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