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00:02:32.000First of all, I want to say before we get started, Kelly, what you're doing is one of the most important efforts in the entire country.
00:02:39.000I've been more made aware of what you're doing in the last 24 hours than I was previously.
00:02:45.000And something the left has really perfected is what I call lawfare, like warfare in the law arena, which is overly using the courts to basically get their backwards and malevolent worldview by fiat.
00:02:58.000And what you're doing to fight for first principles is incredible and so important.
00:03:02.000So everyone who's supporting Kelly and First Liberty, it's incredible.
00:03:46.000And that was a great, great thing they told me because I had to try to, I had to grow up in a hurry.
00:03:52.000And so I was then had to go through the decision: is it worth me going $70,000 to $80,000 in debt like this for college I really wasn't that passionate about?
00:04:00.000And so I told my parents, like, hey, I'm going to take a gap year.
00:04:03.000And they said, what are you going to do?
00:04:35.000As soon as they decided to be kind of like a spokesperson for the Democrat National Party, our family left.
00:04:41.000And not kidding, it's if you know, if you know that tradition of Presbyterianism, as soon as they were spending more time commenting on Rachel Maddow's opening segment and not on the gospel, I was like, there's something wrong here, right?
00:04:56.000Church should not be hardball with Chris Matthews at organ music.
00:05:03.000So anyway, really, faith is always very important to me and convinced my parents to let me take this gap year, which was really a gap six months.
00:05:14.000I felt like we were losing our country back in 2012.
00:05:17.000I felt like our generation was completely unaware of the type of intergenerational theft that was happening and the kind of decisions that were being made on our behalf or we were making in the ballot box.
00:05:30.000So I started this organization, Turning Point USA, on June 5th of 2012.
00:05:34.000No money, no connections, and no idea what I was doing.
00:05:38.000A lot of energy and some sort of a vision to try to get started.
00:05:42.000And I just, that's exactly what I did.
00:05:44.000I got started and I visited all sorts of different Tea Party rallies, Republican groups, talking about how we needed to have a youth conservative organization that would really recapture this country and really re-educate my generation in particular.
00:06:01.000Never actually thought it would work, but I thought that we would make some sort of an impact.
00:06:05.000And I didn't even know what success looked like.
00:06:07.000And for those of you that have been entrepreneurs, you know exactly that feeling.
00:06:10.000You just get started and you kind of God takes you in a different path.
00:06:13.000And so fast forward eight years now, it's been actually incredible.
00:06:18.000It's been one of the most incredibly humbling journeys.
00:06:21.000Actually, the individual who helped me get started passed away just last week, Bill Montgomery.
00:06:27.000He was the first person I called in June of 2012.
00:06:31.000And he believed in me when I was an 18-year-old, when he had no reason to, by the way, when everyone said, go to college, sit in line, stop doing what you're doing, go get a degree.
00:06:41.000I mean, everybody told me that except this guy.
00:06:44.000And he was an incredible mentor and friend of mine.
00:06:47.000And so, yeah, look, God has had his hand on our journey.
00:06:50.000And eight years later, we're on 2,000 high school and college campuses across the country.
00:06:54.000We have done something that everyone thought was impossible.
00:06:56.000We've organized hundreds of thousands of young people in the places that, quite honestly, are the most hostile to conservative, reasonable, pro-American, patriotic ideas.
00:07:06.000We have a great relationship through our political arm with the president.
00:07:09.000Just last month, we had 3,400 students in Phoenix, Arizona, in the midst of a pandemic, 107 degrees outside, hosting an event for the president of the United States.
00:07:21.000Joe Biden couldn't have like 50 people show up, you know, even without a pandemic.
00:07:26.000And so there's something very special happening.
00:07:28.000And I've just been blessed to be on this journey.
00:07:31.000And I really think that we're just getting started.
00:07:37.000I don't even know, I don't think you know this, but I grabbed a clip, just a minute and a half, just one of your interactions that I want to show because not everybody's seen you in action.
00:08:27.000Don't tell me how many degrees you have.
00:08:29.000Don't ask me to change the conversation.
00:08:31.000I'm actually, I would argue I'm more informed because I didn't go to college and I've traveled the world and I've met with world leaders and I've read many books.
00:09:08.000Maybe if you didn't go to college, you would learn more.
00:09:14.000So that's one of the more civil ones, but there's ones where, I mean, I could have shown when you walked in front of the Kavanaugh protesters.
00:09:35.000So our whole philosophy at Turning Point USA, people say, what is your mission statement?
00:09:39.000We play offense with a sense of urgency to win America's culture war.
00:09:44.000Our entire modus operandi is we're tired of managing a declining culture.
00:09:50.000We're tired of just trying to play defense on the terms of the left.
00:09:53.000Unlike most conservative organizations and pundits out there that are happy to prognosticate about the best analysis of the decline of America, we're actually not accepting the premise.
00:10:04.000Like we don't actually accept the premise that this country has to go into inevitable decline.
00:10:08.000And so because of that, we play offense.
00:10:10.000And so the entire premise of what we do is that college campuses have become islands of totalitarianism.
00:10:16.000They are infecting the next generation around the most sinister, malevolent, backwards ideas imaginable.
00:10:22.000And we are going to go on the college campuses physically, culturally, and in every way you could possibly imagine and organize young conservatives, talk about indistinguishable truth and irrefutable truth.
00:10:34.000I mean, I put myself out there right there on a college campus, as you saw, that was University of Connecticut.
00:10:39.000No conservative in their right mind would ever do such a thing as go to stores, Connecticut, set up a coffee table.
00:10:46.000But what's been amazing, and you kind of saw me, I always wear the jersey of the campus I'm going to.
00:10:51.000It makes the potential for physical retaliation far less, which I've been through plenty of times.
00:10:57.000Trust me, I've been stormed out of restaurants and I've been dealing with Antifa for years, and I could tell you all about them.
00:11:02.000But what really captured there, and that's one of the many clips that has been seen tens of millions of times, my personal content has been seen over 750 million times, Turning Point USA, well over 2 billion times.
00:11:14.000And that doesn't even count some of the stuff we're actually doing on the ground.
00:11:17.000But it's really important because the left, they despise what we are doing.
00:11:23.000Because what you saw right there is actually one of the reasons why America was actually able to exist for so long.
00:11:29.000Is the collision of ideas in the marketplace of ideas, which college is not, by the way?
00:11:34.000Just dismiss that out of your entire, get that out of your mind.
00:11:38.000If you think college is a place where civil discussion exists, and a lot of people say, oh, yeah, my child is going to be exposed to all sorts of different ideas.
00:11:46.000Yeah, all sorts of different Marxist ideas, absolutely, all sorts of different anti-American ideas.
00:11:51.000But that individual is just one example.
00:11:53.000And again, I have probably 2,000 videos like that.
00:11:56.000I personally travel absent the pandemic, and I'm actually making up for it because we've been traveling nonstop, 330 days a year.
00:12:06.000We host over 850 campus events a year.
00:12:09.000We have over 20,000 students attend our events off campus every single year, which include the largest black leadership, Black Leadership Summit, Hispanic, and Women's Leadership Summit.
00:12:19.000And look, we have a country that right now is teetering on the brink.
00:12:23.000It's either going to go a direction that none of us want it to go, or we can reassert first principles.
00:12:28.000And one thing that we don't talk about is that if you want to see the direction the country is going, just look at where the 16, 17, and 18-year-olds are.
00:12:37.000And so if you go straight to the campuses, and let's just be honest, that's not good.
00:12:41.000I mean, we have, as a generation, decided the best decision is to put 6 million of our smartest people into indoctrination factories to learn from 4,000 professors that are all bitter, resentful, and arrogant.
00:12:54.000And that's a really, that's a recipe for disaster.
00:12:58.000The way we fix that is to go straight into that place of indoctrination.
00:13:03.000And the amount of people, Kelly, young people, that say, Charlie, I was a liberal, now I'm a conservative.
00:13:11.000I've never heard one nice thing said about America in my four years at Boulder, at Colorado State, at University of Texas Austin, at Texas AM.
00:13:21.000And yes, I know there's a lot of Texans in here.
00:13:23.000I'm happy to talk about any school in the country because I've visited almost every, you know, every, and I'm aware of a lot of them, that it is widespread.
00:13:34.000The future of our country really depends on our ability to communicate our values to the next generation that will soon be in charge of this country.
00:13:43.000And our failure to do that will mean that Alexandria Casio-Cortez is nothing but a preview of the type of country, the leadership of this country of what's to come.
00:13:53.000You mentioned something there that a lot of people don't know about, which is your effort to focus on colleges that need to be divested.
00:14:09.000And this has been, I think, mislabeled as probably an overly controversial project.
00:14:13.000Again, the people labeling that, I get attacked every day, so it really doesn't bother me that much.
00:14:18.000But look, our viewpoint is this: if you are someone that cares deeply about the future of America and first freedoms and the Constitution, you should not be voluntarily giving over your hard-earned money unrestricted to places where their mission statement is to make sure this civilization no longer exists.
00:14:36.000That's probably a pretty simple equation.
00:14:41.000And so now, I mean, no offense to anyone in this room because I know there's a lot of people that have given big gifts to higher education in this room.
00:14:49.000So I want to just preface it by saying this is not an attack on people that have done that.
00:14:54.000Instead, it's an honest observation that the unrestricted gift model, where Harvard is now sitting on $41 billion, which is a bigger endowment than the combined GDP of Hungary, that's probably, they probably don't care what anyone thinks, and they're going to become the most liberal institution they possibly can, right?
00:15:15.000So our whole idea is how do we get decent Americans, reasonable Americans, business people, to say, I'm no longer going to give these massive seven-figure checks to higher education if what you are producing is bitter, resentful, arrogant, angry people that want to destroy our history and quite honestly hate the very civilization that has given them so much opportunity.
00:15:37.000If you're creating ungrateful people and not thankful people, we should take a pause and ask why exactly that's happening.
00:15:44.000And what we have found and discovered through mountains of research is these universities actually depend on the unrestricted gift flow of their alumni.
00:15:53.000Is one of the main reasons they've been able to have these professors that have nothing but bad ideas given credibility and a platform is because they sit on these massive endowments and they're able to start these new schools of North African lesbian poetry or some ridiculous nonsense that they're teaching your kids.
00:16:11.000Or, you know, how to destroy your country now.
00:16:17.000And so we are celebrating donors that divest their dollars from higher education.
00:16:23.000And so far in just three weeks, we have successfully divested $30 million from over 15 schools across the country and from the biggest schools, including some in Texas, some across Harvard, Yale, University of Southern California.
00:16:37.000And look, divestment is a tactic, right?
00:16:39.000So divestment is something that the left has used against us for decades.
00:16:44.000It's not a tactic I necessarily would choose as my first selection, but it is unbelievably effective.
00:16:50.000And you would not eat, you would not go to a religious service or to a restaurant if you knew the proceeds were going to Planned Parenthood, right?
00:17:01.000Then why would you give millions of dollars to a college where the proceeds are creating people that want to make sure Planned Parenthood gets more money?
00:17:09.000That's a very simple way to look at it.
00:17:11.000And so, look, there's a lot of reasons why people do it, and I understand it.
00:17:15.000Just a broader perspective, though, is until we use divestment as a tactic, which the left has, these universities will never reform themselves into places that respect free speech, where I do not have to walk onto a college campus with 15 armed guards, which is the average amount of I cannot go on a college campus without secure armament, something as if I'm ready to launch a coup against a Central American country, right?
00:17:39.000I mean, I've had helicopter support before, snipers on the rooftop, you know, drone surveillance, you name it, because I have to go to college campus.
00:18:00.000And that our republic is worth saving.
00:18:02.000And if that's too controversial and you have to go to a safe space and you all of a sudden have to resort to violence, your institution has failed you.
00:18:09.000And quite honestly, you are not on a path towards, I think, a flourishing or a fulfilling life.
00:18:16.000Whether you're working from home or working on your fitness, you want to know what you're listening to to be actually what you're listening to, not what your roommates or your neighbors or the garbage that your left-wing neighbor might be listening to.
00:18:28.000If they're listening to Rachel Maddow, you need to be able to tune it out.
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00:19:38.000Obviously, there's this cancel culture going on right now of people being fired, being intimidated, being bullied to not express their opinion, which is as anti-American as anything I can think of to not have the exchange of ideas.
00:20:45.000And it infects people and it's incredibly infectious and it doesn't just stay on the campus.
00:20:50.000And so one of the most eye-opening things for me, and I encourage all of you to look very closely at this, is how incredibly against our country corporate America is.
00:20:59.000And it's a hard thing for me to admit as a capitalist and as someone that enjoys entrepreneurial stories.
00:21:05.000But when I see Bank of America commit $1 billion to BLM, I ask myself, what side are you on, Bank of America?
00:21:13.000When PepsiCo dedicates $400 million to BLM, I ask myself, who are you really representing?
00:21:19.000When the National Basketball Association goes out of its way to attack our police officers and they won't say one word about the 1 million Muslims in concentration camps and the Chinese Communist Party death camps, I ask myself the question, who are you representing?
00:21:33.000And so that's been a real eye-opening, honestly, about how, and so you answer about cancel culture.
00:21:38.000Well, what's happened is these HR departments and these corporate boardrooms are now being overrun by the storming of the Bastille tactics that they perfected on a college campus.
00:21:49.000And so you take Tufts University in Boston.
00:22:06.000I spoke at Brown, and I had to come in with, again, an entire standing army.
00:22:11.000So Tufts is really interesting because the Tufts is a feeder system to a lot of the best companies on the planet.
00:22:17.000It's almost an Ivy League school, right?
00:22:19.000So five years, four or five years ago, the Tufts radicals, they stormed the president's office, right?
00:22:24.000And they got all these listed demands.
00:22:25.000And instead of the president's office saying, get out of my office, I'm going to kick you out of school, he capitulated, of course, and was weak.
00:22:32.000And if you ever experience infantile behavior, the worst thing you could do is to pander that.
00:22:38.000Any of you that are parents, you know that.
00:22:40.000You have to have discipline and order and structure and some sort of accountability.
00:22:43.000Anyway, where did those Tufts kids go?
00:22:46.000Well, they now staff Bank of America and PepsiCo.
00:22:49.000And the tactics that they once used to extort their college president, they're now using to extort the CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
00:22:57.000I mean, the radicalism that we have seen on these campuses has now infected every single portion of civilized society, including our churches, by the way.
00:23:06.000I could go in at length about how our churches have become infected by just people that care much more about America becoming Marxist than America becoming Christian.
00:23:43.000We are now living in a society of what I really call the most dangerous mixture of fascist authoritarianism we could possibly imagine, culturally, where if you wear a Make America Great Again hat on a certain campus, you will end up in the hospital.
00:24:23.000Well, that's part of the personal role that I play, quite honestly.
00:24:26.000I say things so that other people can't.
00:24:29.000I take the arrows for a lot of people that are not allowed to speak out.
00:24:33.000I get journalists attack me every single day.
00:24:35.000I'm one of the most targeted people under the age of 35 on the planet for this reason, because I'm not afraid to say all lives matter.
00:24:43.000I'm not afraid to say that BLM Inc. is actually sowing racial division in our country.
00:24:48.000I'm not afraid to say we only take a knee to Jesus Christ our Lord, not to some arbitrary cause that corporate America wants us to believe in.
00:24:56.000But I mean, look, a recent survey says that 71% of people under the age of 30 say if they speak their mind, they're going to lose their life.
00:25:21.000And the only way you fight back against that is with courageous people that are unafraid of the cost and are willing to stand unified with other courageous people and stand up against the tyrants.
00:25:31.000That's the only way you can fight that.
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00:29:06.000If you trust a bunch of people that are godless, secular Marxists to have that much power, then maybe you don't believe in limited government.
00:29:11.000Because that's why we believe in limited government, right?
00:29:34.000I think that if you have 92% of anything, you should probably like not have that much.
00:29:38.000Dr. Robert Epstein, who is a Biden-supporting, formerly Hillary Clinton supporter, testified in front of Congress under oath.
00:29:45.000And he said, I have been a lifelong studier of the internet and of search engine manipulation.
00:29:52.000He says that Google manipulated at least 2 million votes in the 2018 midterms and manipulated at least 4 million votes in 2016, and they will manipulate up to 10 million in 2020.
00:30:50.000They have driverless cars and they're just getting started into e-commerce.
00:30:53.000They also have the number one email processing platform, the number one cloud sharing platform, Google Drive, which all of your kids probably use if they're in public schools.
00:31:01.000And they have the number one search engine browser, Google Chrome.
00:31:06.000At some point, you should say, well, we don't know their motives.
00:31:42.000And I'm telling you right now, the liberty of millions of people are being violated hourly by this small, this company of small ruling class elites in Silicon Valley that if they have their way in 10 years, this country will be remade in the government of Google's image.
00:31:57.000So, yeah, I am more aware of this than most people.
00:32:02.000I did not come at that conclusion lightly because I think that we should use government power rarely.
00:32:08.000But I think that we have the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act for a reason.
00:32:12.000I support what the Republican president Teddy Roosevelt did in the 1900s to break up a lot of the monopolies that were controlling some of our industrial capacity.
00:32:21.000And I think because of that, we actually had a flourishing middle class.
00:32:25.000And I think that we should be unafraid to use that power when it comes to a company that controls 92% of all search results, which is literally the exploration of ideas.
00:32:32.000And Orwell said it back to George Orwell.
00:32:34.000He said, if they can get you to stop seeing something and thinking something, that thing will stop existing.
00:32:41.000I'm not okay with a small company evidently.
00:32:44.000You mentioned a couple of the president a couple of times.
00:32:52.000And you become friends with the president.
00:32:55.000I mean, the president calls you out in the crowd.
00:32:57.000I mean, you're a 20-something-year-old guy, and the president likes you.
00:33:50.000Until kind of the end of the cruise Trump out back and forth, where I remember a friend of mine who was completely uninvolved in politics, all of a sudden became the biggest Trump supporter.
00:34:02.000I'm like, what is he saying that communicates to?
00:34:05.000He said, Washington, D.C. could not care less about me.
00:34:09.000And there's finally someone who's going to go there and do something different.
00:36:17.000I went from kind of a, you know, cruise guy that was supporting Trump to all of a sudden, wow, okay.
00:36:23.000To pastors that were like, my church is going to go under because there's no one to ever tithe anymore because everything is shut down and the fabric of Youngstown, Ohio is gone.
00:36:39.000We hosted youth events in places where it's supposed to be Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania with my friend Gentry Beach and Tommy Hicks.
00:36:44.000We did some crazy and wild things and got the, the president won in a surprise fashion.
00:36:49.000And I became very close with him and the family.
00:36:52.000And in a lot of different ways, I've understood kind of what this movement represents.
00:36:56.000I've probably talked to more grassroots voters than most people ever will, traveled the country, understood different perspectives.
00:37:02.000And to kind of put it all in one piece, it's this guy is a vessel for decent America that quite honestly has been taken advantage, taken advantage of by a bipartisan group of cartel elites for a couple decades.
00:37:18.000That we have been told the decisions that were being made were, of course, sit down and shut up and do not question them.
00:37:23.000It's a good thing that China is beating us in trade.
00:37:26.000It's a good thing that we're in the World Trade Organization.
00:37:28.000It's a good thing that we keep on invading countries halfway across the world.
00:38:00.000He canceled the Iran deal, most pro-life president in American history.
00:38:04.000I understand it's very perplexing and puzzling for Christians out there because they say, wait a second, what?
00:38:07.000You're trying to tell me that the three times married, twice divorced cover the Playboy magazine, Billy Bush taped guys, the most pro-life president in American history?
00:38:19.000So the guy that said that two Corinthians walk into a bar when he was citing a Bible verse, seriously, that's the guy that's going to come on a white horse and put on 200 circuit court judges to make it possible for Kelly to go defy, to go defend religious liberty?
00:38:35.000Because God used Samson, God used David, God used Cyrus, and God is using a billionaire from New York who came down on a golden escalator who's willing to be prayed over to have a Christian vice president who says he loves the evangelical community, that is open to the word of God, that is willing to fight for it, which is nice and refreshing, not just allowed to be a doorstop for every time the left wants to do something to you.
00:38:54.000You're like, well, I guess we have to capitulate to that one, who stood by Brett Kavanaugh when he was wrongly accused of all those things.
00:39:00.000Someone who's been the greatest friend of faith of any president in my lifetime.
00:39:03.000I think that's someone who's worthy of praise, re-election, and we have to get fully behind his effort for another four years of our country.
00:39:11.000And I only touched on the surface of some of his accomplishments.
00:39:20.000I think one of the things probably everybody wants to know is you're working hard for the future of the youth of this country.
00:40:36.000I'm incredibly worried about, first and foremost, I think that we're actually coming up against some very serious economic headwinds that no one wants to talk about.
00:40:45.000In conservative circles, this is one of my biggest critiques of the Senate Republicans and the House Republicans.
00:40:51.000They refuse to have a conversation that a portion of America, specifically recent college graduates under the age of 35, are actually not doing as well as their parents economically.
00:41:01.000It is a hard conversation to have, but it is brutally true.
00:41:06.000When you do not have, when 29, 30, and 31-year-olds, after five years post-college, their net worth is negative $30,000, and they can't buy a car, let alone take a girl out on a date, let alone buy an apartment, don't be surprised when they start smashing your cities.
00:41:25.000Don't be surprised when all of a sudden all those bad ideas that they were taught five years ago start actually turning into real action.
00:41:33.000So it's a mixture, of course, the cultural indoctrination, but it's also a very serious economic reality that we just, quite honestly, we've just said, well, the GDP is going up, unemployment is low, everything is great.
00:41:46.000There's entire parts of the American population, and they were getting better under the Trump economy if we could have sustained it, but we decided to lock down our country, which hurt middle-income earners.
00:41:57.000And I understand there were some reasons for it.
00:42:00.000That middle-income earners, especially young people, we are on the precipice of something that is very dangerous.
00:42:07.000And I'm not talking about just the cultural indoctrination.
00:42:10.000You ask anyone that lived through the Cuban Revolution, go read Dolsieski, who wrote the Gulag Archipelago, which was the number one book that brought down the Soviet Union.
00:42:20.000You read anyone that has lived through a Marxist revolution in the 20th century.
00:42:24.000It is disgruntled 25 and 26-year-olds that you have to watch out for.
00:42:30.000They're the ones that can bring down your civilization.
00:42:44.000Some of them, they actually have been convinced, go borrow $80,000 to go study North American migratory bird studies and go move to Seattle and your life is going to improve.
00:42:54.000They go become a barista where 40% of recent college graduates, according to the New York Federal Reserve, 40% of recent college graduates are in jobs that don't require a college degree.
00:43:04.000So they have all this debt and they're not getting anything for it.
00:43:07.000According to the federal government, which is the number one holder of student loan debt, most students are not even getting close to paying the principal of their student loan debt.
00:43:14.000They barely can even service the debt.
00:43:15.000They're barely even touching the interest.
00:43:17.000The average age of someone that is debt-free is 59 years old.
00:43:20.000It takes them that long to pay it off.
00:43:21.000That doesn't count medical debt, car debt, mortgage debt.
00:43:24.000So we have leveraged an entire generation, not to mention the national debt and the hyperinflation that's probably going to happen because we've decided creating $5 trillion out of thin air is a good idea, which I completely morally and economically oppose, what Congress is doing to continue to create money out of thin air.
00:43:38.000It's going to hurt young people the most.
00:43:51.000Of course, you want them to be on marijuana all the time.
00:43:53.000Like, this is you, yes, it makes actually, I think it's reprehensible to legalize it, but it makes perfect sense why the ruling class wants everyone to be on weed.
00:44:02.000Like, it's a lot easier to control them.
00:44:04.000Like, it's a lot less likely they're going to burn down everything.
00:44:08.000And I take that, I actually say that half kiddingly.
00:44:11.000And so I'm really worried about that because now all of a sudden, when I talk to young people, 31 and 32-year-olds, especially in these urban clusters, they don't think the system works for them.
00:44:21.000When you guys were seven years out of college, you probably thought the system was generally working if you kept working hard.
00:44:27.000So that's something that's an alarm bell that we got to fix.
00:45:20.000I'm like, it's funny that actually worked that way.
00:45:22.000Okay, there's a reason why this worked for like 2,000 years because God gave us these laws because he actually loved us, not because he wanted to be the fun police, right?
00:45:30.000Because he wanted you to be able to live peaceable and quiet lives, as Paul said in 1 Timothy.
00:45:35.000These laws are there for a reason, so you can actually survive as a species.
00:45:39.000And so I'm actually optimistic about it because if you have the amount of it's almost religious, is what the left has become.
00:45:46.000They've almost created a religion out of their core beliefs that you're going to see in some ways an opening.
00:46:22.000Well, number one, your young men are not dating, let alone marrying anymore, because you've been told, we've been telling our young men they're the worst things on the planet since they were five years old and that they're guilty on two brim and innocent and sit down and shut up.
00:46:33.000And okay, well, then they become basically feminized men and they have no direction.
00:46:38.000Number two, they have no resources to be able to marry.
00:46:40.000Number three, a lot of young people do not want to bring children into this world because they see the world around them burning and they're like, why do I want to continue to bring people into this awful existence?
00:47:12.000The women have to go into the workforce.
00:47:14.000Now, I'm not against that, but it makes it impossible to have four kids anymore.
00:47:18.000You just can't do it unless you're in the ruling class and you have savings and you have intergenerational wealth, especially when you're talking about cost of healthcare, student loan, all this sort of intergenerational.
00:47:29.000And boy, I mean, if I was a socialist, I couldn't have designed a better set of economic circumstances for that.
00:47:34.000But here's the opening: is that if we are able to win this election and if what we are doing continues to work, I think we can actually see a revival the likes of which the left is not anticipating, where people are going to be saying, what does it mean to live a meaningful life?
00:47:49.000And my answer actually might be kind of boring on the surface, but they've never heard this.
00:49:46.000But beyond that, there's a crisis in Christianity where we saw more Christian churches get more involved in BLM than they ever did for the fight for life, where most of the funding came from Christian woke celebrity pastors that were mobilizing their congregation around a lie, which is that we're a bitter racist country.
00:50:07.000We're actually systemically unracist and we're systemically decent.
00:50:11.000So they mobilize their congregation in the streets to go protest an institutional lie.
00:50:16.000So that was really incredibly disheartening.
00:50:19.000I see more pastors speaking out, and I think they need to.
00:50:22.000A lot of pastors say a couple things, that I shouldn't get involved in politics.
00:50:39.000So therefore, we, the people, actually determine which laws are just and are not just.
00:50:43.000And if there's an immoral law, you have absolutely a biblical and theological, not just right, but prerogative to defy that law, especially the misapplication of the law when you allow indulgences like casinos and marijuana shops to remain open, and we can't go to church on Easter Sunday.
00:50:57.000And the fact the church was okay with this, not all, but too many were far okay with this.
00:52:14.000It's a miss, and it's nowhere in our document.
00:52:18.000And so the future of religious liberty really lies in people like Kelly and First Liberty's capacity to fight.
00:52:25.000I mean, what Kelly's, what First Liberty is able to do with the budget they have versus the ACLU, which raised 50%, their budget plus 50% in 24 hours post-Trump's inauguration.
00:53:00.000Tie it up in the courts, you demonize it, and you infiltrate it.
00:53:02.000Well, the infiltration has happened through once Christian institutions that call themselves Wheaton College and Calvin College and all that.
00:53:09.000I mean, you talk about the most leftist universities in the college, in the country.
00:53:13.000Oh my gosh, go to these theological seminaries that call themselves Christian seminaries, and they are the ones that are driving this.
00:53:20.000So they are infiltrating churches all across the country.
00:54:17.000Kelly's one of them, and so is First Liberty.
00:54:19.000Would have been really easy for you to kind of just do nothing during all of this, because that's what most people did in this kind of space.
00:54:25.000Or they just filed every lawsuit under the sun recklessly, which actually set us back the different ways.
00:55:35.000I mean that in the most clear sense I could possibly need salvation, they need ultimate truth.
00:55:40.000However, when they are confronted, they scatter.
00:55:44.000They are not prepared for an active, vibrant, faith-centered community that says you're not going to give it no more, no more, not one more inch.
00:55:55.000I actually think that there can be a counter to this, the likes of which they're not prepared for, that can put them into ideological and the cultural minority for the next couple decades.
00:56:41.000Communication, dialogue, confronting that tyranny head on, eye to eye, and saying what you are doing is using your strength to exploit the weak.