00:00:01.000Live from Lexington, Kentucky, the five biggest lies that people tell you about America and that your professors or teachers are teaching your children, or maybe even you, about our country.
00:00:11.000We go through that in live format, then I take questions.
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00:00:48.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:55.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:11.000I want to thank the University of Kentucky.
00:01:14.000Really, really worthy of praise because we've been doing this campus tour.
00:01:19.000And the fact that we're able to do this basically on campus is a great thing.
00:01:24.000So I want to thank the University of Kentucky.
00:01:26.000I don't actually make a habit of thanking colleges, but I think this is actually one where I'm going to say thank you to the University of Kentucky.
00:01:33.000Given everything that's happening, they had every reason not to allow this event to happen and they deserve some thanks for that.
00:01:38.000So I want to make sure I start with that.
00:01:41.000I also want to say that my friend Senator Ram Paul was not able to join us tonight.
00:01:47.000We had a video from him, but unfortunately, we weren't able to get that done.
00:01:51.000Rand is a great guy, and he represents everyone in this room, if you're a citizen of Kentucky, every single day in Washington, D.C.
00:01:59.000I also want to say Senator Mitch McConnell, I don't agree with him on everything, but what he did with Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett and protecting the filibuster is incredible.
00:02:10.000And now we look back, we say, you know what?
00:02:12.000I'm glad that we protected the filibuster.
00:02:14.000And so I just want to say you have two good senators, different, different ways of going about things.
00:02:21.000And I'm going to say nothing but positive things about both of them tonight.
00:02:24.000And I think Senator Ram Paul, I probably agree with him on more issues.
00:02:27.000But Senator Mitch McConnell, what he did with Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett and 200 circuit court judges, he deserves applause for that.
00:02:50.000And I want to talk about kind of the biggest lies that we are told about the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world, America, the United States of America, the country that we all love and that we're really worried about the current direction and the trajectory of our nation.
00:03:05.000And over the last year, I think it's fair to say that we've never seen a year like this.
00:03:16.000And not only with the lockdowns and the infringing of our freedoms and liberties, but also over the summer with BLM Incorporated basically burning down our civilization, we had an entire national conversation.
00:03:30.000I can't stand that because it wasn't a conversation.
00:03:32.000No one was having a conversation as we were being lectured by people that hate our country and they got billions of dollars from our corporations to basically platform really, really bad ideas.
00:03:42.000And before you know it, our children are being taught hatred of our country and a misrepresentation of who we are, why we're here, and what we believe.
00:03:53.000And so this is not an exhaustive list by any means, but I pinpointed five lies about America that I want to talk about tonight that I want to explore with all of you that I want to talk about.
00:04:04.000And every single one of you have seen this, either in social media, in your classrooms, from your professors.
00:04:13.000And it's this idea that America was founded on slavery.
00:04:18.000You've probably heard this before, right?
00:04:20.000And this one bothers me more than anything else because it is an intentionally lazy and inaccurate argument.
00:04:26.000It's an argument that if you do not do further research, you don't really know the complexities of what was surrounding the American founding.
00:04:33.000It sounds true because certain founding fathers did own slaves.
00:04:37.000But when you take a broader picture at it and you say, wait a second, why were the founding fathers, who, by the way, were not just, they were not just special men.
00:04:46.000They were, and women, of course, if you count Abigail Adams and the amazing people that were involved.
00:04:52.000But these people gave our entire, the generations to come, a civilizational gift that we're totally screwing up right now.
00:05:00.000And these founding fathers were, and this is another lie that I'm not even going to get into, but they were people that believed in the Bible.
00:05:06.000They believed that people were made in the image of God.
00:05:08.000They believed that our rights were given to us by God and not from government.
00:05:12.000They believed that you deserve a right to live the life as you see fit.
00:05:16.000And the greatest threat to that is probably going to be government.
00:05:20.000And I'll make an argument tonight that there's actually another threat against that in addition to government.
00:05:24.000And it's something that we use every single day in our right-hand pocket.
00:05:28.000But this idea that we were founded on slavery is pathologically untrue.
00:05:33.000So really the birth certificate to our nation was the Declaration of Independence.
00:05:37.000What's so amazing about that document is it very well could have been a death certificate.
00:05:41.000The founding fathers who signed that document, they did not know how things were going to end.
00:05:45.000Now, mind you, they signed that in Philadelphia, which was right there on the coastline.
00:05:50.000You're basically picking a fight with the greatest naval power in the history of the planet.
00:05:54.000At any time, the British Navy could have came in and killed all of them almost instantaneously.
00:05:59.000But they did that, and they pledged their lives and their fortunes and their sacred honor for a purpose.
00:06:04.000And Thomas Jefferson beautifully wrote in the Declaration of Independence that we want to contest for the laws of nature and nature is God.
00:06:11.000But if you look at the original draft of the Declaration of Independence, it's very interesting.
00:06:15.000Thomas Jefferson, in his own handwriting, in some of the harshest language, he blames King George for slavery.
00:06:24.000He says that it was the British Empire that brought slaves to the United States, and America should do everything they possibly can to try to get rid of it.
00:06:31.000Now, you might say, well, why didn't that make it into the final draft?
00:06:33.000Well, because you need to build a coalition of states, and the only way you could possibly ever push back against the British Empire is involving southern states.
00:06:41.000Southern states were obviously more likely to support slavery than northern states.
00:06:45.000A year after the Declaration of Independence was signed, Vermont independently abolished slavery in 1777, the first sovereign state in the history of the planet that we have recording that actually abolished slavery.
00:07:39.000The Northwest Territories included Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois.
00:07:43.000Nowadays, they didn't have those state lines back then.
00:07:45.000And the fact that those states were non-slave states ended up being a tension point in years to follow.
00:07:51.000Not to mention Thomas Jefferson, who was a very complicated person himself, the third American president, he, as one of his first acts as president, signed a moratorium of no new slaves allowed to be brought into the United States of America, which actually was a provision allowed in the U.S. Constitution, and he signed it into law.
00:08:11.000And America was a better place because of that.
00:08:14.000Now, the second great crisis in America was, of course, the crisis of slavery.
00:08:18.000And then you saw a re-emergence of people that tried to defend slavery, Calhoun in the 1820s, Andrew Jackson among it.
00:08:24.000Of course, obviously that came to a boiling point with the American Civil War.
00:08:27.000But the idea that our founding and our ideals were rooted in the apology of slavery is completely untrue.
00:08:33.000Now, a better way to say it is that some of the founding fathers had very complicated, very complicated issues that they were personally dealing with, but their ideal remained true.
00:08:45.000When Martin Luther King Jr. was advocating for civil rights legislation, he said that we are here to cash in on the promissory note of the founding fathers.
00:08:54.000He never said that we have to get rid of the Declaration or get rid of the U.S. Constitution.
00:08:58.000He said, if we're actually going to live up to these ideals, then we must pass the Civil Rights Act that all men are created equal and we should care about character, not skin color.
00:09:06.000Now, unfortunately, in our country right now, we care more about skin color than character.
00:09:11.000We're actually regressing backwards thanks to critical race theory and all these bigoted ideas that are being taught in many of your classrooms across the country.
00:09:19.000Now, mind you, slavery was a human and universal.
00:09:23.000And by the way, slavery still exists on our planet.
00:09:25.000Before we start to get on our moral high horse and we act as if all slavery has been abolished, just look at the southern border.
00:09:31.000Thousands of children are being sold as slaves for unaccompanied minors, rented would be the term, and it's a disgusting thing to even think about, to be able to gain access into the United States with a cartel member or someone who wants to come into America.
00:09:46.000That's Tom Holman, who used to ran immigration, customs, and enforcement.
00:09:50.000Many of the world right now, actually, there's more slaves in the world today than there were back in the 1800s, Horn of Africa, all throughout the Middle East.
00:09:57.000So the question should be: slavery was a human universal.
00:10:02.000And the answer to that is that men and women who took the teachings of the Bible very seriously, who took the Enlightenment very seriously, started and they created a great leap forward that we know is the United States of America to challenge humankind and mankind to be better and to create civil government to protect first principles.
00:10:23.000We did not completely and totally live up to it at the beginning.
00:10:25.000But as you can see in the Northwest Territories, the Northwest Ordinance, when we had an opportunity to actually live out that value system, our founding fathers did it.
00:10:33.000And people say, and I'm never going to say America's a perfect country.
00:10:37.000And I'm happy to go through it, but it's kind of a waste of time because that's why you go to college, right?
00:10:41.000You go to college to learn how terrible America is.
00:10:43.000Tonight, you're going to learn how great America is, right?
00:10:45.000That's the opposite of why you're here tonight.
00:10:47.000I could go through everything we've done wrong, and I'll probably admit many of those things.
00:10:50.000We've made mistakes, but America is not a mistake.
00:10:54.000America in itself is a moral good for the world and the greatest country ever to exist, as I said, in the history of the world.
00:11:00.000Okay, that goes to my second big lie about America that is just floating around and we need to, quite honestly, cut this entire thing out, which is that America is systemically racist.
00:11:12.000I mean, and this is, there's a great book written on this topic.
00:11:17.000Thomas Sowell wrote it, Discrimination and Disparities, which is when there's a disparity, you cannot automatically just blame discrimination.
00:11:24.000And so I'm sure you've all heard that America is systemically racist repeatedly over the last couple of years.
00:11:29.000And built on this idea, is that our systems are systems of law, are systems of how we engage in commerce.
00:11:37.000They're so broken, they're so backwards that only white people can succeed and black people cannot succeed.
00:11:43.000You've probably heard this in one manifestation or the other.
00:11:46.000And it's not just that this is true, but the opposite is actually true.
00:11:50.000Do you know that one of the richest immigrant groups to America are Nigerian Americans?
00:11:54.000If America was systemically racist, how do Nigerian Americans do so well in our country?
00:11:58.000They say, well, white privilege is what is guiding our entire country.
00:12:02.000And if you're a white person, you must take a knee and atone for your privilege.
00:12:33.000And so this idea of our systems are racist also does not stand up against any sort of cross-examination of different ethnic groups in our country.
00:12:44.000White people, on average, if you were to classify it, and again, I don't like the over-racialization of our country, but if that's where the left wants to lead this, the facts don't even support their entire charge against our country, is that Asian Americans and Indian Americans are far wealthier on average in our country than white Americans.
00:13:01.000There are twice as many white Americans in poverty than black Americans in our country.
00:13:05.000Now, black Americans are, they have a higher percentage to live in poverty, but this idea that every single white person in the country is living a life of luxury and convenience is totally untrue.
00:13:14.000And according to not just the Hoover Institution, but U.S. Census data and government labor data, this is the greatest statistic to dispel it, which is that a black child raised by a mother and father is more likely to succeed by every independent metric than a white child who is raised by a single mother.
00:15:01.000I actually think our immigration policies are way too generous and relaxed.
00:15:04.000But we are the most generous, the most open-minded, most benevolent country ever to exist on the planet.
00:15:10.000And yet we get labeled and categorized as the exact opposite.
00:15:14.000And my challenge and my charge to everyone here in one way or the other is instead of just looking at skin color, look at other circumstantial factors such as education, such as two-parent households.
00:15:26.000And the argument that the activists will make, and I'm sure someone here will make the argument, is that racism created those systems, right?
00:15:35.000And I can actually agree with part of that.
00:15:37.000Just be very specific of what systems those are.
00:15:40.000Like racist Southern Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson created the Great Society program to take black fathers out of the household to create a generation of blacks in poverty.
00:15:51.000And if we're serious about improving the livelihood of our fellow countrymen, maybe we should be less focused on government welfare and more focused on work and literacy education and bringing fathers back into the home.
00:16:00.000Did you know that actually the black marriage rate was higher than the white marriage rate in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s and 50s?
00:16:08.000The black middle class was actually growing faster than the white middle class in the 1950s, despite discrimination.
00:16:14.000And so we passed the Civil Rights Act, which I'll get to in a second.
00:16:17.000And then despite after the Civil Rights Act, we passed the Great Society Act, where Lyndon Baines Johnson himself, it's reported to have said that he said something so gross where he said, I will have black people voting Democrats for the next 200 years by having them addicted to government programs.
00:16:31.000That kind of black middle class boom that you were seeing in cities like Chicago and Detroit, completely destroyed through housing and urban development, through the subsidies of single motherhood.
00:16:41.000Okay, so the third lie about America is that we are like every other country.
00:17:32.000Why is it that we're the wealthiest for now, most generous?
00:17:36.000We give more to charity than any other country in the world.
00:17:38.000And there's a couple reasons for this.
00:17:40.000One of the reasons is our history is a history of a hero's journey, which is always improving, constantly reanalyzing, reorienting ourselves.
00:17:48.000Our ideas are also centered in things that do not change.
00:17:53.000Whether no matter what your professors might tell you, human beings are not malleable based on public policy.
00:18:03.000Now, let me be very clear because it might come across as if I'm contradicting something earlier.
00:18:07.000Human behavior and human character in its raw material form, who you are at birth, is consistent all throughout time, regardless of technology.
00:18:16.000This is something that the left will completely, you know, reject.
00:18:21.000And I can ask this audience, do you think human beings are naturally good, basically good, or basically bad?
00:18:27.000And the answer is, of course, they're basically bad.
00:18:30.000You have to teach goodness to young children.
00:18:32.000You have to tell young kids to stop stealing things and to stop making themselves the center of attention and manipulating one parent against the other.
00:18:40.000It's naturally in their nature to try to do those.
00:18:44.000You have to tell a young person to continually say thank you.
00:18:47.000We should have entire institutions based on teaching goodness.
00:18:50.000And that wrestling between good and evil is very important.
00:18:53.000So the question is, why is it that America that doesn't have the most oil, and I'm going to get to this Green New Deal nonsense in a second and this environmentalist garbage, because it's just since we're in Kentucky, it's just going to be kind of fun.
00:19:14.000Why is it that our country has such a unbelievable success rate?
00:19:19.000And I will contest to you, it's because of our history, our culture, our ideals, and our constant pursuit of improving our own character for the pursuit of the good.
00:20:01.000That there was this massive switch after the Civil Rights Act, and that everything that used to be Republican is actually think of that as a Democrat, and everything that used to be Democrat, think of that as a Republican.
00:20:25.000They kind of just shrugged their shoulders.
00:20:26.000Here, I'm sure a lot of you are propagandized with this nonsense.
00:20:30.000And so I'm going to first debunk it, and I'm going to say it's a little bit more complicated than the absolute switch, but I'm going to say that the talking point that saying the parties switched is completely untrue.
00:20:40.000Okay, so in order to believe in this great switch, you must believe in three big kind of mythologies around that.
00:20:48.000So basically, it's around this idea of the Southern strategy.
00:20:50.000Anyone heard of the Southern strategy before?
00:20:52.000Richard Nixon gets in a kind of a cigar-filled room and he says, Hey, we're losing.
00:20:58.000And in order for us to win the South and win the country, we have to be more racist and we have to go pander to deep-seated racial resentment.
00:21:06.000You guys have probably heard this in one way or the other in your political science course.
00:21:10.000But in order for that to be true, those people, the left or the professors, they'd have to explain how is it that Herbert Hoover in 1928 won 47% of the Southern vote?
00:21:22.000How is it that Dwight D. Eisenhower, well before the switch ever happened, Dwight D. Eisenhower won Tennessee, Florida, and Virginia, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican, re-ran in 1956, won this state, as well as Louisiana and West Virginia?
00:21:36.000Dwight D. Eisenhower supported the integration of schools.
00:21:41.000He supported the ruling of Brown versus the Board of Education and sent in federal troops to the Little Rock Nine.
00:21:46.000How is it that Republicans started to do better in the American South before the Great Switch ever happened?
00:21:52.000The answer is that maybe the Great Switch never occurred.
00:21:55.000So the myth number two, which of course, as I mentioned briefly, is that the Democrats all switched parties at once.
00:22:18.000Now, this is wrongly used as a reason not to use the filibuster, right?
00:22:23.000This is something that, again, Mitch McConnell deserves a tremendous amount of credit for holding the line on the filibuster.
00:22:29.000What he's doing right now and he's articulating is so important.
00:22:32.000I know it's like a procedural wonky thing, but it might actually be the end of our civilization if we don't have the filibuster right now with these maniacs running our government.
00:22:39.000So only one person switched parties, one person, and that's Strom Thurmond.
00:22:44.000Now, the reason for why he switched could be largely attributed to that he just wanted to continue to win re-election.
00:22:50.000It wasn't a massive ideological switch.
00:23:08.000Actually, if you look into it, the Republicans did not start dominating the deep South until 1994.
00:23:15.000Bill Clinton won Georgia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, this state, and West Virginia in 92.
00:23:22.000And in 96, I'm not sure if he won the state, but he won most of the South.
00:23:27.000Jimmy Carter in 1976, just 12 years after the Civil Rights Act passed, Jimmy Carter swept the entire South.
00:23:33.000So if the great switch was enacted, why was it that Jimmy Carter was continually doing pretty well in the racist South by the account of the media, the professors, and the people that are trying to recreate history?
00:23:47.000In reality, here's what actually happened.
00:23:50.000What actually happened is that the American South got considerably less racist over time.
00:23:56.000And as the American South got less racist, it got more Republican.
00:24:01.000As the South got less racist, more Republicans were able to be in elected office, like your former wonderful lieutenant governor, who did a great job, and she deserves to be applauded, and she knows all about this.
00:24:20.000This point is, I will contend with you that the philosophical underpinnings of the Democrat Party have been largely unchanged.
00:24:28.000That the Democrats went from the plantation to intimidation to entitlement.
00:24:33.000That the Democrats have always cared about skin color then, and they care about it now.
00:24:38.000That Republicans have always cared about character and not skin color.
00:24:42.000And so you go through the last and final point of this, and then I'll connect it all together, which is kind of the history of the Democrat Party, which is that in order to believe this, you must think that the South is as racist as it was back in the 1960s.
00:24:58.000Some people believe that, which is just pathological.
00:25:02.000South Carolina, which is considered to be one of the most racist states, according to the New York Times, has a Republican black senator where Republicans said, I don't want a white liberal, but I prefer a black conservative.
00:25:14.000Louisiana, which is the home of David Duke, who, by the way, is a Democrat, just so we're clear, he endorsed Joe Biden for president and Elon Omar.
00:25:21.000Louisiana had an Indian-American governor, so did South Carolina.
00:25:25.000Again, as the South started caring less about skin color, it started to become more Republican.
00:25:33.000And so the history of the Democrat Party is one that must be reinforced.
00:25:37.000Did you know the Dred Scott decision, which was an evil decision in our country, that every single Supreme Court justice who voted for it, all seven, all of them were Democrats, and the two dissenters were Republicans?
00:25:48.000John Wilkes Booth, also a Democrat, who killed the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, who said, quote, if slavery is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.
00:25:57.000The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment were all opposed by Democrats.
00:26:02.000Do you know that Republicans sent 22 black people to Congress before the year of 1900, and Democrats did not send a single black person to Congress till 1935?
00:26:12.000What was the first movie ever shown in the White House?
00:26:14.000A racist movie by the name of Birth of a Nation.
00:26:20.000Democrat Woodrow Wilson from Princeton University, who became governor of New Jersey, then an awful president of the United States, screened that movie as the first ever movie shown in the White House.
00:26:31.000And so I am not contending that either party has a monopoly on racism.
00:26:37.000When you have a group of people that is 75 million, you're going to have a couple scumbags.
00:26:42.000Instead, what I'm contending with you is that you have been sold a lie.
00:26:46.000You have been told a lie by the people in charge that there is this some sort of perfect seamless switch when in reality, it's not just more nuanced than that.
00:26:56.000That people that harbor racial resentment, they have no place in the American conservative movement.
00:27:01.000And if I have anything to say about it.
00:27:03.000And you look at what the conservative movement cares about, it's upward mobility.
00:27:07.000It's about improving people's lives, about school choice.
00:27:10.000It's about caring about your soul, about your character.
00:27:13.000Which side of the aisle right now can't stop talking about skin color?
00:27:17.000So the fifth lie about America, and then we'll get to some questions.
00:27:20.000I just, I wanted to make sure I hit that.
00:27:22.000Actually, can I just, can I say something about, is the environmental thing a big deal around here?
00:27:26.000Is that a big thing, sort of, cold country?
00:27:29.000So, let me just say this, that I'm not going to get too weedsy into some of that stuff, but let me say this: if your biggest concern, and this might not be anyone here, but it could be someone, if your biggest concern is something that you cannot control or something that is not directly impacting you, you just must first admit you're living a great life.
00:27:50.000So, if your biggest concern is existential, you by definition have a great life.
00:27:54.000For example, the 300 million people that do not have access to toilets in India, their biggest concern is sanitation every single day, they're not living a great life.
00:28:04.000And what I find about the activists that are finding on the environmental movement, more than anything else, there is an ingratitude baked into it.
00:28:14.000Now, I'm not going to get into it, I'm not going to contest every single one of their charges.
00:28:19.000What I am going to say is this: that the alarmism that is built around the climate change and the Green New Deal nonsense is not just bad for our country, it's bad for humanity at large.
00:28:29.000You want to know why we're able to improve products so quickly?
00:28:32.000Because fossil fuels are cheap, plentiful, and reliable.
00:28:36.000When you're in negative 30-degree weather in New Hampshire, solar panels are not going to be able to help you very much.
00:28:42.000And what's amazing is that there's also a misunderstanding of actually what our energy grid is.
00:28:47.000So, 33% of our energy grid would be classified as petroleum, right?
00:28:51.000About 11% as coal, and they are pathologically obsessed about destroying every single coal job, despite the fact that the demand for coal is both domestic and international.
00:29:02.000A lot of the coal demand is also overseas in the third world because they have such rising populations.
00:29:07.000Wait a second, you are able to use coal to develop your economy.
00:29:13.000About 11% of our grid is renewable energy, which is solar and wind.
00:29:17.000If you hate birds, you probably love wind energy because there's no better way to destroy just millions and millions of birds than wind energy.
00:29:24.000And they're also just awful to look at.
00:29:26.000And then, nuclear energy is about 8%, but the environmentalists want to get rid of nuclear energy as well.
00:29:31.000And then, about 32% is natural gas, which, again, is thanks to fracking and those developments, which is another thing they want to get rid of.
00:29:38.000And so, when you talk about energy, it's really a morality argument.
00:29:41.000And I don't make this argument lightly.
00:29:42.000It's this: Do you care about human beings more or do you care about the planet more?
00:29:51.000I do not want to see dirty rivers and air that we can't breathe.
00:29:54.000With that being said, I care about the flourishing of human beings and mankind a lot more than some delta-smelt fish that they have in Central California that causes power outages every single summer where the working class and lower-middle-income people, mostly racial minorities, are not able to have access to reliable, plentiful, and cheap energy.
00:30:15.000And you want to know why utility rates are rising in other parts of the world?
00:30:18.000It's because in parts of the country, it's because of the attack on fossil fuels.
00:30:22.000And so, happy to talk about that if that interests people and we open up for questions.
00:30:26.000But understand that most of the lifestyle you enjoy is made possible thanks to the amazing advancements that we have made in the fossil fuel industry.
00:30:38.000Okay, my last point, my fifth lie about America, and then I want to get to some questions because that's always fun, which is that the Constitution is outdated.
00:30:48.000So, really, the main thrust of this contention is whether or not you think human behavior is constant over time or whether it changes over time.
00:30:59.000I will submit to you and I will make this argument that the Constitution was not written for the times, it was written to stand the test of time.
00:31:08.000It was written by a group of thinkers and scholars who studied very seriously about Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, St. Augustine, Burke, John Locke, every one of the thinkers that really cared deeply about who are we, why are we here, and how are we supposed to interact with the natural world?
00:31:28.000And they made the contention over a long period of history examination that the greatest threat to your freedom and liberty is resigning all of that power to an unchecked bureaucracy or an unchecked governmental authority.
00:31:44.000So the Constitution comes from the premise that you actually deserve to be free and that you are the sovereign and whomever's in charge is only there thanks to you.
00:31:54.000They only have any power because you have what?
00:31:58.000You see this throughout the Declaration, which obviously came before James Madison was the father of the U.S. Constitution, Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration.
00:32:04.000And James Madison contended in the Federalist Papers, which I encourage all of you to read, that liberty must be the default condition of humanity.
00:32:14.000Otherwise, government will come in and act despotically and like a tyrant.
00:32:18.000And I want to be very clear: liberty is really hard.
00:32:28.000You're going to have unequal outcomes.
00:32:30.000Some people are going to make better choices.
00:32:31.000If I gave $100 to every single person in this room and I asked you to come back tomorrow night and we saw what happened, we're going to have all sorts of different decisions being made.
00:33:00.000They create people that sometimes say, I don't like that someone has more than I do.
00:33:04.000And if they stole and they compromise the system, that's a perfectly valid complaint.
00:33:09.000But the Constitution is so remarkable because it treats you in a position that you must act responsibly.
00:33:16.000And that's why that's one of my biggest complaints over the last year with all these unconstitutional and demoral lockdowns.
00:33:22.000Is all of a sudden we went to this kind of compact or this construct where all of a sudden we are acting as if the government was supposed to be the one that was telling us how to best live our life.
00:33:47.000The rise in suicides, the mental health issues, the small business closures, it only created more, it created so many more problems than it ever actually solved.
00:33:56.000And that's not to say I'm not minimizing the virus.
00:33:58.000The virus is a very real thing, and it's a very, very real thing if you're a certain age with certain underlying health conditions, and you should take that risk seriously.
00:34:07.000Just like how, if you have a, if you have difficult seeing, I probably wouldn't recommend go buying a Ford F-150 and driving.
00:34:16.000Every person has to make decisions based on your own condition in the natural world.
00:34:22.000If all of a sudden if we're going to micromanage every single decision, and we've already been through that, but I'm going to say this: that the Constitution also spread authority over time and space, geographic space.
00:35:29.000And those kind of ideas of differences between states is a uniquely American idea.
00:35:34.000And I'll close with this when it comes to the Constitution, which is that it can be very frustrating to activists that want to fundamentally reshape the image, the country, and their image.
00:35:45.000It's hard to get massive things done quickly.
00:35:49.000And what I'm going to say to you is, because I think there's either a storm or someone's, I don't know, that what I'm going to submit to you is that that's a good thing.
00:35:58.000That's an attribute of the American system.
00:36:01.000In the French system and in the British system, you could take over the government in almost one election cycle and completely change the way of life.
00:36:36.000In fact, there's a through line that I would make from the original Democrat Party, the Democrat Party today, and the Republican Party, then the Republican Party today.
00:39:10.000You know, there's got to be some balance in this overindulgence in pro-Chinese trade.
00:39:16.000I don't like the fact that we just keep on bringing people limitlessly into our country, which is why I called for an immigration moratorium last year during the pandemic, where our obligation when it comes to immigration, by the way, should always be to serve our fellow countrymen and fulfill the promise.
00:39:32.000So, for you college graduates, the way that I view immigration, you guys deserve jobs first.
00:39:37.000You went into debt, you played by the rules, you paid into the system.
00:39:56.000That's something that I really want to thank Senator Rand Paul on for leading on for quite some time.
00:40:01.000Senator Paul's been terrific on that, and you guys are really lucky to have a spokesperson on that.
00:40:05.000And so then Donald Trump won an election.
00:40:07.000He wasn't supposed to win in a style that no one thought he could win, right?
00:40:10.000And boy, did he give our country some breathing room, didn't he?
00:40:14.000And that's the way we have to think about it, right?
00:40:16.000And I'm also going to thank your other senator here, Mitch McConnell, who, unlike Trent Lott, put in more judges and more circuit court judges, where now a lot of this nonsense that Biden is trying to do is going to get struck down by those judges.
00:40:33.000We got some time in the sense that the only, you know, the only, you know, no one ever talks about this.
00:40:37.000You know the only reason we were able to survive the lockdown the way we did is because we had a booming economy over the three years prior.
00:40:44.000So when you're able to save for the winter metaphorically, all of a sudden 90, 100 days is a little bit more manageable thanks to what President Donald Trump did with a middle-class renaissance, which is a segue to where I really want to see the Republican Party go.
00:40:57.000And I foreshadowed this a little bit, but I want to bring this out.
00:41:00.000And then I'm going to actually answer your question.
00:41:02.000So, which is the Republican Party has a moment right now that I hope we don't screw up to be the working-class party.
00:41:10.000I believe that America is not divided by rich and poor.
00:41:14.000I think the current divide is the Zoom and Skype class and the muscular class.
00:41:20.000And we have treated the muscular class like trash the last couple decades.
00:41:25.000We consider them dumb, stupid, backwoods, rednecks.
00:41:29.000You guys have heard all the pejoratives.
00:41:31.000I will make the argument that a plumber or someone working in a coal mine has far more wisdom than a professor at Harvard University.
00:41:40.000And so I want to see him answer your question: where do I want?
00:41:45.000I want to see him actively involved in keeping the Republican Party a people-based party.
00:41:49.000And also, so I talked about the Constitution and the greatest threats to our freedoms and liberties.
00:41:55.000And I've talked about this the last two nights, where we as conservatives also have to recognize that it's not just a binary threat against our nation.
00:42:04.000It's not just, oh, we're going to go to socialism or we're going to have American revival.
00:42:09.000There's a second threat, which is we are possibly going to enter into a corporatist country.
00:42:17.000Now, for all the Bernie Sanders people out there and the liberals out there, I could probably find some agreement with you guys on some of this.
00:42:22.000I don't think it's a good thing when Jeff Bezos is able to demolish 40% of American small businesses.
00:42:29.000I don't think it's a good thing when four tech companies control all the information flow in our country.
00:42:34.000I don't think it's a good thing, nor do I think it's a constitutional thing, mind you, when our freedom of speech is basically controlled online by 5,000 people in their pajamas in Menlo Park that hate our values.
00:42:44.000And so I want to see the conservative movement push back against this overly corporatist.
00:42:49.000And I'm talking about 10 or 15 companies that fund all the Democrat candidates, that fund all the liberal causes.
00:42:55.000So where does Donald Trump come into that?
00:42:57.000He's able to raise small dollar donations.
00:42:59.000Donald Trump could come here and just say nothing and just smile and he'd have 55,000 people.
00:44:28.000So my question is: as someone who's aspiring to be a pastor, what advice would you give to someone who wants to do that regarding the political ideas and issues of that time, especially considering how far left the church is becoming?
00:45:03.000And so I want to encourage you to absolutely do that.
00:45:08.000We're going to be launching a very big initiative very soon, which is very exciting, where we want to bring our capacity to organize and inspire and train into the pastor and church realm.
00:45:18.000I've spoken to over 55 churches over the last year.
00:45:20.000My pastor, Rob McCoy, has refused to lock down.
00:45:24.000Jack Hibbs, James Cadiz, Ken Graves, the Barnett, Steve Smotherman.
00:45:28.000There's a lot of great pastors out there.
00:45:30.000So I think this actually might be of some interest to this audience because this tends to be a region of the world that has more awareness around American Christianity than not.
00:45:41.000When I'm in Malibu, it kind of goes right over their head, right?
00:46:01.000And if anyone wants to ask me questions about that, perfectly happy to, right?
00:46:05.000And so, with all that being said, with that kind of framework, I think that Christians have a biblical mandate to get involved in the political fights of our time.
00:46:18.000So some Christians say, no, no, no, stay away from that.
00:46:22.000Well, how are we supposed to deal with Esther, Mordecai, Daniel, Joseph, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, all in the Old Testament, who tried to influence secular government for God's purpose?
00:46:31.000How are we supposed to wrestle with in Jeremiah it says to pray for the welfare of the nation or the city of which you are in?
00:46:37.000It says in 1 Timothy that pray for the leaders who are in charge that you might live quiet and peaceable lives.
00:46:44.000Jesus at Caesarea of Philippi brought up his disciples and he asked his disciples, Who do you say that I am?
00:46:51.000It's one of the most famous dialogues in the entire Bible.
00:46:54.000And it gets to the point where one of the most famous verses ever, he says, on this rock build my, and we say church.
00:47:00.000But the real word for that is a Greek word called eklesia.
00:47:04.000It means public square, political influence.
00:47:07.000It's a Greek term where people used to come and meet to improve the welfare of the nation around them around two Greek words.
00:47:15.000Don't want to get too into the weeds about this.
00:47:17.000Eleutheria and isonomia, which means freedom and equality.
00:47:21.000I make the argument that Christians, we should not wall ourselves off and run to the hills and wait for the persecution to pass like it's some form of a hurricane or a tornado.
00:47:29.000Instead, we should have comprehensive Christianity, not compartmentalized Christianity, that we should be in the cultural fights with grace, compassion, but 100% truth, never compromising what the scriptures tell us to do and why we do it.
00:47:44.000What's happening is three things: pastors that want to get engaged and involved and they're speaking out, but they need a little bit of help.
00:48:17.000But let me also say this on the second group.
00:48:19.000They're under this false belief that their ties and their offerings and their church attendance will go down.
00:48:24.000Let me tell you: the churches that are open that are taking stances on these issues, they're having parking problems.
00:48:31.000The American Christians are saying, Wait a second, you're going to tell me you have a financial counseling ministry, you have a youth ministry, you have a marriage ministry, but you're not going to tell me whether abortion is right or wrong.
00:48:45.000You're not going to tell me whether or not this transgender garbage that is happening in our country, which is child abuse, by the way, what is happening in our country right now with this transgender nonsense.
00:48:56.000All of a sudden, you're going to, all of a sudden, people are going to leave those churches because, like, hey, I rely on you, Mr. Pastor, to speak truth and clarity when I'm confused.
00:49:07.000And if you're like, hey, I'm indifferent, then I'm going to go find another church.
00:50:56.000Again, we want to say thank you, Charlie, for being here today.
00:50:59.000My question for you is: many people, just like me in this room, are men and women that are pro-life.
00:51:04.000We've all come to the consensus that life begins at conception.
00:51:08.000And because that argument is solidified in science and in the Bible, okay, we've come to this split in the road where we're not arguing over whether life begins at conception.
00:51:17.000Now we're arguing if life has value at conception.
00:51:20.000For that reason, as a Christian and as a man of science, I believe in science, what is your biggest argument for that claim?
00:51:26.000Yeah, that's a great, that's a great point.
00:51:29.000So here's how I look at the abortion debate.
00:51:31.000We just had a wonderful dialogue last night.
00:51:34.000And I encourage you guys to... think about what that word dialogue means because we don't have enough of that in our country.
00:51:40.000Dialogue comes from the two Greek words dia, through, log, logos, which we know in the Bible, John 1, reason, thinking, speech.
00:51:48.000So the more that we're able to reason, we're actually able to find truth and we're not going to tear each other apart, which is what the people that don't want dialogue want.
00:51:54.000So we had a great dialogue on this last night.
00:51:55.000But really, really gentle young woman who was asking about my position on abortion and what exceptions I would have.
00:52:02.000And my position on that is only life of the mother.
00:52:05.000That's the only exception that I would have.
00:52:07.000And I'll tell you why, which is if I had a child right here in my arms, I would say, is it right to terminate that child?
00:52:17.000And it's irrelevant whether or not that child was conceived in a brutal, unspeakable tragedy of which rape is, or whether it was done the otherwise.
00:52:26.000The point is that it's a life either way.
00:52:28.000And let me be very clear on my position on rapists.
00:52:31.000I think they should be castrated and put in prison for the rest of their lives.
00:53:10.000We're also like, there's more questions around it, it's the better way to actually say it, where we say we get deeper into how does this miracle, and that's really the best way to describe it, actually be formed.
00:53:19.000That is deserving of constitutional protection.
00:53:22.000But here's why this argument is framed as difficult in the public arena.
00:53:27.000Because small things are easier to crush.
00:53:32.000There's a belief that I'm already fully developed, therefore I should be able to have the moral authority to get rid of things that are smaller than I am.
00:53:41.000To just reinforce the lunacy of that argument, I'm 6'4, 6'3, 6'4.
00:53:56.000My good friend Seth Gruber, who only talks about this, by the way.
00:53:59.000He's far more fluent on this than I am.
00:54:01.000And I consider myself to be pretty engaged in the pro-life movement, has the acronym SLED, where these are the four biggest kind of framing of the pro-abortion activists.
00:54:10.000The one that really is the one that stumps most pro-life people is degree, is the level of dependency, right?
00:54:16.000Is that that child is dependent on a host?
00:54:19.000Well, anyone who's raised children knows if you just leave a child in a crib, once it's fully born, it will die.
00:54:37.000What about people that have mental challenges in our country?
00:54:42.000They're dependent on other caregivers.
00:54:44.000So that doesn't stand up in any way at all.
00:54:47.000Here's the bigger argument, though, is that we have 1 million abortions in our country every single year, 3,000 every single day.
00:54:54.000So by the time some of you listen back to this podcast tomorrow, 3,000 more children will be aborted, right?
00:55:00.000It's easy to do this because it's done in private and it's not done in public.
00:55:05.000And I'm going to contend to you right now that the abortion argument is the new moral fight for every, not the new one, but it's the moral fight that's a winning argument.
00:56:22.000I mean, like, for example, it was like watching Rachel Matt out with organ music, right?
00:56:26.000It was like as liberal as you could possibly imagine, right?
00:56:28.000We would just, we would sing the Democrat National Committee anthem.
00:56:31.000And it was hard because I was raised in that church, right?
00:56:33.000And we eventually made the decision to leave when we felt as if it was far more about politics on the left than it was actually about character development or pursuing truth.
00:56:43.000But here's my specific piece of advice.
00:56:46.000Number one, have private dialogue with your pastor if you do not feel they are speaking out correctly on these issues or not speaking out at all.
00:56:55.000And lay out all the facts and the information and give them repeated attempts to try to make it right.
00:57:23.000You could write a private note, and then just all of a sudden, your noticeable empty chair will send a very, very big message, right?
00:57:30.000After you've had those meetings, that is actually a lot more powerful than a stathing incendiary email to the entire church elder board, right?
00:57:38.000In fact, I think that actually makes them less likely to reform.
00:57:41.000I think that makes them less likely to correct course.
00:57:43.000So it's not easy, but I encourage everyone to have those tough conversations and try to offer a little bit of grace for that correction because we need the churches that start stepping up in our country.
00:57:52.000We need our churches to start speaking to them moral clarity and talking about what is right and what is wrong, the proper education of our children, character development, what is the good, the pursuit of truth.
00:58:01.000Look, the church has built this country.
00:58:04.000The first great awakening brought to you by Whitfield and Jonathan Edwards and before that, Roger Williams, that's what built the basis for this country.
00:58:17.000He was an Irish-English member of parliament.
00:58:21.000You're saying, how you're Irish-English?
00:58:22.000You're really from Ireland and that he originally from Ireland and served in England.
00:58:25.000He's known as like the first conservative.
00:58:26.000He wrote reflections on the French Revolution.
00:58:28.000But he has a super interesting paragraph.
00:58:31.000I encourage you guys to look at it where he's looking as a foreigner on what's happening in America right before the American Revolution.
00:58:38.000And now, mind you, this guy's Anglican at the time, right?
00:58:41.000He's not, he wouldn't be what was considered necessarily Protestant, but he's mainline hierarchical English church, right?
00:58:48.000Obviously, after the English church stopped being Catholic for very selfish reasons.
00:58:53.000But he's looking at the American Revolution.
00:58:56.000He says, I have never seen a people desire liberty like the Americans because they read their Bibles, they understand what it says, and they're willing to fight for it.
00:59:04.000And so he actually counseled the king of England, King George, who was actually not a very smart person.
00:59:20.000And Edmund Burke was like, no, no, no.
00:59:22.000There's something different with the Americans.
00:59:24.000They have a spirit moving within them.
00:59:27.000And that was the black robe regimen of activist pastors that started our country.
00:59:31.000And this rich, beautiful history, I encourage all of you to check out because the deeper you get into it, the more you realize how much you've been misled by the popular narrative.
00:59:38.000But this country, when that Declaration of Independence was signed and it says, the laws of nature and nature is God.
00:59:44.000You know, God is mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence.
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01:01:32.000Like, for example, they're trying to pass the magazine registrations and capacity ban.
01:01:37.000What kind of outcome do you think that will have just in America?
01:01:41.000So I'm not libertarian on a lot of things.
01:01:44.000I'm very libertarian when it comes to firearms.
01:01:46.000And I think that our firearm laws are too restrictive and cumbersome in our country, truly.
01:01:52.000And if you do not understand, I'm going to say what almost every pundit is afraid to say, which is why we actually have a Second Amendment.
01:02:01.000Everyone tap dances around this, right?
01:02:32.000When the Hong Kong freedom fighters were fighting against the evil and sinister Chinese Communist Party, what's the one thing Hong Kong didn't have?
01:02:39.000Well, Hong Kong used to be a territory or a province or port of the British Empire.
01:02:44.000And they basically outlawed all firearm ownership.
01:03:41.000Instead, I'm reinforcing the need for the freedom and the liberty that we uniquely have.
01:03:46.000The Second Amendment protects all the other amendments.
01:03:49.000And every trend of civilization we see are the few dominating the many.
01:03:56.000The only balance we have against that is if the many have something to protect themselves against the few.
01:04:03.000And that's what the founding fathers saw, and they built that in there for a reason.
01:04:07.000If I may, one of the biggest lies around the Second Amendment, and I love your hat, it says we the people, which is obviously the beginning of the greatest political document ever written, which is the United States Constitution, the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights.
01:04:20.000Some people will wrongly say, Well, Charlie, only people in a militia are allowed to have a firearm.
01:04:25.000Well, if you understood what a militia meant back then, it was every man over the age of 18.
01:04:31.000So basically, the gun laws that they were advocating for back then were way more lazy fair using their own definition of militia than they would even today.
01:04:39.000And I encourage all of you to dive deep into the Federalist papers, understand why we have these rights.
01:04:43.000And the final thing I'll say is this: that states that actually have the most pro-freedom gun laws actually have reducing crime.
01:05:49.000If it's not anything you've kind of exercised and run through, that's fine.
01:05:53.000But if you have any thoughts to lend to that, I'd love to hear them.
01:05:57.000I have done a lot of thinking about it.
01:05:58.000So just so everyone knows, there's some amendments called the Liberty Amendments, which that's what Mark Levin calls them.
01:06:04.000My friend Mark Meckler ran Convention of States for years.
01:06:07.000And essentially, a lot of people don't know this.
01:06:09.000There's a provision in the U.S. Constitution that allows the states to call a convention, basically a convention of states around certain issues.
01:06:16.000Some people argue that that could eventually turn into a runaway convention.
01:06:32.000It takes, I think, two-thirds of states to call a convention.
01:06:35.000They convene around a couple different issues, let's say term limits, balanced budget amendment, and building a southern border wall, right?
01:06:41.000And then they'll vote amongst themselves, and it's a way to kind of bypass Congress.
01:06:45.000My actual concern with the Convention of States is that it's never going to happen.
01:06:52.000We're not going to get two-thirds of states.
01:06:53.000I wish we would, but the math is not currently there.
01:06:58.000But I'm supportive of it philosophically, and I'm also supportive of it as an expansion of the conversation of the constitutional tools we have at our disposal to push back against tyranny and protect liberty.
01:07:09.000And so, for that reason, I hope it's very successful.
01:07:11.000Has Kentucky passed the Convention of States?
01:07:34.000Mr. Kirk, your second point during your speech was specifically on systemic racism, and I'm going to expand on that.
01:07:41.000Recently, the Blaze, the news site I'm sure you're aware of, reported a story that Cigna, which is a major insurance company, has urged all of their hiring managers to avoid hiring white men.
01:07:54.000Now, naturally, if this was done with black men or Hispanic men or whomever, it would be immediately outcried.
01:08:01.000So, my question is: why is it okay for the left and corporations to specifically discriminate against white men?
01:08:11.000It's evil and it's wrong, but let me tell you why it passes.
01:08:15.000Because we're talking about two different forms of the definition of racism.
01:08:21.000So, the definition, based on your question, I think we'll agree, of what racism is, is any person of any skin color harboring racial resentment of which is immoral and evil against another group of people.
01:08:32.000That could be a black person against a white person, it could be a white person against an Asian person, or a Latino person against a black person.
01:09:06.000And I would make the argument that affirmative action is legitimate racism against white people and Asian Americans.
01:09:12.000And by the way, let me say this: the anti-Asian hate thing that we've seen in the media, absent that one issue that we saw in Georgia, which was done by a scumbag for non-racial reasons, might I add, just so we're clear.
01:09:25.000This was not an issue of white supremacy.
01:09:28.000This is an issue more about the black community and the Asian American community.
01:09:32.000Just so we're all clear about what the mainstream media narrative actually is there.
01:09:35.000And again, I don't like overly racializing these things, but that's just the truth of the matter.
01:10:08.000Well, okay, so one of my close friends here, she really, really, really supports AOC, and she really likes the Green New Deal.
01:10:16.000And I was wondering if you were able to have a conversation with her here tonight, what would you say to her to try and convince her or change her mind on why it is an awful proposal and also why, you don't have to go into this as much if you don't want to, on why AOC is not fit to run anything?
01:10:44.000So, let's talk about climate change, if we can.
01:10:46.000There's a couple questions that we must ask about it.
01:10:49.000First of all, you must establish with anyone you're talking about what is called chaired intentions.
01:10:55.000Don't allow them to have the moral high ground that they somehow want what's better for innocents or for even the planet or the environment more than you do.
01:11:05.000They win this argument because they make the argument, I'm a better person than you are, and all you want is dirty rivers and dirty lakes.
01:11:12.000That's how they win the argument, not actually on the merits.
01:11:15.000So, when it comes to climate change and rising global temperatures, first, we must recognize that CO2 is not just something that we emit, it's a necessary emission needed for life.
01:11:31.000That CO2 is not just an inconvenience, it's actually necessary for our species to continue.
01:11:37.000There's also many different ways that the climate can cool and the climate can warm.
01:11:41.000Sun, clouds, oceans, orbital variations.
01:11:47.000There's a lot of different inputs that go into that.
01:11:49.000And there is no evidence, despite what your professors might say, that CO2 is the dominant factor in rising global temperatures.
01:11:58.000Between year 1800 and 2000, the best science that we can look at, global temperatures have raised 1.8 Fahrenheit.
01:13:25.000And these social movements have a tendency to do that.
01:13:27.000Now, if there's a social movement that I believe is actually trying to eradicate an immoral wrong in our country, I will join it.
01:13:33.000Like the March for Life, I will go join that.
01:13:36.000But all of a sudden, these people that say, well, the world's going to end tomorrow, that's climate alarmism.
01:13:40.000So let me go through the three questions you must ask.
01:13:41.000Number one, can you definitively prove using the scientific method that CO2 and human activity is absolutely contributing to rising global temperatures?
01:14:34.000Number two, which is a very important question that we must ask, is what can you, let's pretend that the answer is, yes, I believe it, CO2.
01:14:43.000Then what can you say human beings can do to necessarily contribute to lower CO2 levels that will then result in lower global temperatures?
01:14:52.000Is basically what are you willing to do, which is part of the third question.
01:14:55.000At what cost are you willing to destroy our entire civilization to try to get our temperatures down by half a degree?
01:15:58.000If you believe in climate change and you believe that things are getting warmer dramatically, the other question is: is it happening mildly or is it happening catastrophically?
01:16:09.000You see, we human beings can adjust to things mildly.
01:16:11.000For example, in northern Scotland in the 1500s, they had a Mediterranean climate.
01:16:37.000I want what's the best for human beings first, and I want to live in a country where we can breathe easily.
01:16:42.000And I do not want to live in China, so I believe in reasonable environmental regulation.
01:16:46.000And if you talk to people that are in coal and gas, they will never say they want to get rid of every regulation.
01:16:50.000They just want to be treated fairly, and they want to be able to count on what regulation is happening year over year that won't shut them down.
01:16:57.000Fossil fuels have been a gift to humanity.
01:16:59.000We have gotten so rich so quickly and we live longer thanks to them.
01:17:03.000It would be a brutal mistake to all of a sudden turn it off because of a 29-year-old bartender who thinks all of a sudden she can micromanage the decisions of 330 million people.
01:19:06.000Might be crime, might be bad schools, might be taxes.
01:19:09.000Number two, don't go implement the complaint you previously had in the new state you moved to.
01:19:15.000Don't all of a sudden move to a new state and then implement the reason you move, which is what we're seeing in Arizona all the time.
01:19:21.000People coming from California and they're trying to change it.
01:19:23.000Okay, number three: this is a really interesting point that we need to talk about more, and it applies to national immigration too, which is your change is likely worse, and the people that were there before you probably know how to govern that state or that country, which is why you're moving there.
01:19:42.000And your vote to change that place is going to disenfranchise people that can't move and didn't move.
01:20:24.000He has open schools, open businesses, the second oldest population in the country with one of the lowest death rates, and virus rates, and hospitalization rates.
01:20:33.000That's a pretty amazing success story.
01:20:36.000So, where we are headed, it's all dependent on us, actually.
01:20:43.000So, I actually think we're at a moment.
01:20:45.000So, the Greeks had two words for time.
01:20:48.000They had chronos, where you might know chronos watches, or chronology, that's where we get that word, chronological from.
01:20:54.000They had another word for time, which is all throughout the Gospel of Mark, which is kairos, which means an action point, an inflection point, a time that is not like other times, right?
01:21:04.000So, I would make the argument that this time, every one of your actions and your point of involvement matters with an exponent behind it, right?
01:21:12.000So, look, it could go in a really bad direction.
01:21:16.000I think that what these tech oligarchs are doing to our country is evil and immoral, and it has to stop.
01:21:22.000They are manipulating human behavior, and they're acting monopolistically, not just in the marketplace, but also ideologically.
01:21:29.000That really, really bothers me and concerns me.
01:21:31.000You know what the number one form of censorship in our country is, though?
01:21:34.000It's not even from the tech companies, it's self-censorship.
01:21:37.000It's people shutting themselves up because they don't want to lose a friend, lose a job, get kicked out of class, or have to deal with it.
01:21:45.000We have to end this plague, if you will, of self-censorship in our country.
01:21:51.000And I encourage all of you, own your beliefs publicly and have each other's back.
01:21:57.000And so, I'm a big believer that a lot of this nonsense and this tyranny of the left actually goes away the moment we have each other's back.
01:22:05.000We don't offer this ridiculous cancel culture circus.
01:22:09.000I can't, I hate that word, that term cancel culture.
01:22:17.000Someone tweeted something 10 years ago: if they're a liberal or a Democrat and you see that they're not that person anymore, defend that person.
01:22:24.000I defend liberals all the time that come under this ridiculous crazy that we must judge them by this insane standard.
01:22:30.000And so, prediction, it's all depending on us.
01:22:33.000It all depends on our action and our involvement and our engagement.
01:22:36.000So, as President Trump says, we'll see what happens.
01:22:48.000But my question was, so in recent, there have been times where we have seen two very far ends of the spectrum actually find some common ground.
01:23:01.000One was AMC where AOC and yeah, AOC and Ted Cruz actually were tweeting basically the same thing.
01:23:12.000And then it happened with the border crisis as well where...
01:23:16.000The stars aligned and CNN, Trump, and AOC were sharing some similar thoughts about how the media was not given a chance to report accurately on the situation there.
01:23:31.000So I mean, I don't know what universe it would be.
01:23:34.000It would be the craziest universe ever.
01:23:35.000But do you see a point or room for obviously not someone like AOC, but conservatives and liberals, moderate liberals, moderate conservatives, being able to mesh together and break away from a two-party system?
01:23:52.000No, not in the current state of affairs.
01:23:55.000And I wish that we lived in an America where we had a wonderful policy debate and we had all this shared common interest.
01:24:03.000We are in a brute force political fight for the future of our country, where if you have one more vote than the other person, they are going to jam through their agenda at any means necessary.
01:24:12.000I yearn for an America where we can want the same thing and have different ways of getting there.
01:24:16.000How many of you have heard this before?
01:24:17.000We want the same thing, but we have different ways of getting there.
01:24:44.000They might have a different way of housing the people that are there, but they want that border wide open.
01:24:48.000And I would be able to find some common ground with some of the progressives on corporate oligarchy and some of these other things I talked about.
01:24:55.000If they are going to continue to say that we are the worst people on the planet and accuse our character and call us these awful things, I mean, you guys have seen it.
01:25:06.000I mean, you had a former head in the National Intelligence Service say that we need to go after libertarians and we need to go.
01:25:13.000They want to use the security state against Trump supporters.
01:25:16.000And so we're in a moment of time right now.
01:25:19.000And I wish this wasn't the case where this kind of John Lennon song, we're all going to kind of be running through the meadow and like finding a kumbaya moment.
01:25:33.000They have no interest in subcommittee meetings.
01:25:35.000They have no interest in marking up bills.
01:25:38.000You guys know this on college campuses, the nastiness, the venom.
01:25:41.000And you can find common ground and you should.
01:25:43.000And my one piece of advice to all of you is try to first, before you judge immediately, try to say that I want to have agreement with the best intentions of the person talking to me.
01:25:58.000And we also think they want bad things for the country ever increasingly.
01:26:02.000But I do think that there can be a very, if we can, I don't know what it's actually going to take to get past this moment of just persistent perpetual hostility.
01:26:12.000But I see that hostility basically coming from one political party and one side.
01:26:17.000And I got to tell you right now that there will not be political discourse if that does not change.
01:26:24.000But on just basic policy, yeah, there's a lot that we can agree with some of those people on.
01:26:29.000But we're in a moment right now where they've convinced themselves that the conservatives in this country are moral equivalents to Benita Mussolini.
01:26:37.000They've basically made that argument to themselves.
01:26:39.000And that any action justifies what they want to do.
01:27:12.000My first question was: how do you think that leftist ideals have become, quote, politically correct?
01:27:19.000And how can conservatives challenge that?
01:27:22.000And how long do you think, or how probable do you think it is that conservative ideals could become the politically correct ones?
01:27:28.000And then my second one was: what advice would you give to a young kid that wants to do something similar to what you've done with their career as far as starting Turning Point USA and just impacting people?
01:29:23.000You must teach people the value of freedom, that you live a more fulfilled life, that you're able to reach your highest level of human potential.
01:29:33.000So I'm shocked that they're actually not in control of even more.
01:29:36.000I know that sounds kind of stunning, but what they're selling is no responsibility, indulgence all the time, and I will tell you who to blame.
01:29:46.000I mean, you saw tonight, I have to go through these very logical, rational arguments to tell you, you know what?
01:29:52.000I'm really not going to give you anything for free, and you got to work hard and wake up earlier and take responsibility for your life, and I'm going to try to preserve your liberty.
01:29:58.000Like, that's a harder argument, right?
01:30:01.000But it's a, you will live a better life, and you will be a better person.
01:30:06.000And so, in order for conservatives to get back into the predominant position, I think we have some, you know, kind of momentum.
01:30:13.000We have to be serious about being four things, specific things.
01:30:16.000Number one, rebuilding the American family.
01:30:20.000We have to rebuild the American family.
01:30:23.000We have to support young mothers and we have to support young fathers.
01:30:26.000And we have to do whatever it takes to bring the divorce rate down and the marriage rate up.
01:30:31.000Do you know we're on pace to have 500,000 less children this year than last year?
01:30:36.000We should do everything we possibly can to have more children in our country and having Americans having more children.
01:31:27.000It's like, no, I believe in you to make a sequence of good moral choices over a long period of time, which will replicate your values and, of course, genetically replicate yourself to pass down what you believe in, which will then allow the country to do that.
01:31:44.000It goes from the individual to the family, to the village, to the city, and then to the county or the colony, whatever you want to call it.
01:33:13.000What matters is who you are as a person.
01:33:16.000If you want to succeed, you also must be willing to keep pushing on and enduring when things get really, really tough, when everyone wants you gone and it feels like the pressure on the world.
01:33:27.000The best person that you can emulate in that is Winston Churchill, who I think was the greatest man of the 20th century.
01:33:33.000Winston Churchill wrote 50 books, fought in a couple wars.
01:33:37.000He saved Western civilization, and he gets nothing but hatred from the left for being a colonialist.
01:36:18.000If you're losing hope in our country, a mostly young audience here on a college campus is here to hear ideas and have thoughtful questions and care about the welfare of their country.
01:36:28.000Our best days are ahead of us only if we decide to act in a certain way.
01:36:32.000Make today a starting point for your activism.
01:36:42.000I am done allowing someone to self-censor me and I am going to wear the hat and I'm going to wear the shirt and I'm going to post on Facebook.
01:36:49.000Maybe you're a behind-the-scenes person and you're like, now I am going to every single day dedicate myself to listening to a certain podcast or a radio show.
01:36:57.000And I want to thank those of you, I know some of you are here that listen to our podcast every single day.
01:37:02.000If those of you, just completely self-promotional, if you're not yet subscribed to our podcast, and if every single person took out their phone and subscribed right now to the Charlie Kirk show, we would beat Rachel Maddow in the podcast charts by tomorrow morning.
01:37:44.000But I'm telling you right now, if you apply persistent activism and action, maybe five years, maybe 10 years from now, all of a sudden you are going to see the fruit of that labor.
01:37:56.000The left is getting a little lazy right now.
01:37:58.000They're starting to fight amongst themselves.