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June 22, 2020 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Ask Charlie Anything 22: Lessons in Radicalism, Philosophy, American History, And How To Stand Up To Leftist Bullies
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The Myth of White Privilege 00:02:41
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Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, I go into the whole myth of white privilege.
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Welcome to this edition of Ask Me Anything on the Charlie Kirk Show.
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Here's the first question.
Hey, Charlie, I've heard you mention Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals before.
What are they?
I'm kind of confused as to how the rules apply to what's happening in the news cycle and what I can learn from them.
Thanks so much.
Alan from Oklahoma.
Well, thanks, Alan.
I hope you were at the President's Rally.
And if you weren't, I hope you're also having a good time watching the President on television.
Alinsky's Rules for Radicals 00:15:33
So The Rules for Radicals, it was a book written by Saul Olinski.
Saul Olinski was a Chicago community organizer.
He trained Barack Obama.
Hillary Clinton wrote her senior thesis on Saul Olinsky.
Rules for Radicals is one of the most instructive and important books of the left.
It really lays the foundation of how the left operates, why they do what they do, and how they're able to achieve their version and their demented version of success.
So I encourage you to check out our sister episode today where I dive into this in great detail, but I'm going to list all 13 rules.
I think that it's important that repetition is the soul of memory, that we go through them one by one so you recognize exactly what the left is doing to our country in real time.
They are using so many of these rules right now to take down our history, to pollute our heritage, to communicate to the next generation things that are patently untrue.
So here are the Rules for Radicals by Saul Olinski.
Remember, Saul Olinski actually wrote the dedication to his book, Rules for Radicals, to Lucifer, saying to the first rebel, the first fallen angel who rebelled against God.
So this book is Luciferian in nature because it's dedicated to Lucifer.
Okay, the first rule.
Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.
That's interesting.
It's not just what you have, but it's the appearance of power.
This should give those of us that are constitutionalists or conservatives some optimism that maybe the left is making themselves seem a lot more powerful than they really are.
In fact, that is rule number one.
Rule number one is power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.
So maybe the left isn't as strong as we give them credit for.
Maybe the left is not as sophisticated.
But boy, does it seem as if they're doing so much damage to our country with so few people that are standing against them.
Rule number two: never go outside the expertise of your people.
That's a very important rule to recognize that what the left does.
They try to keep the activists that are talking about police brutality specifically on the issue of police brutality.
They don't try to have them go on television and talk about corporate tax reform.
Rule number two is violated by one of the people on the Minneapolis City Council where she said, Well, even asking the question about breaking into a home is you showing your white privilege play tape.
Do you understand that the word dismantle or police-free also makes some people nervous?
For instance, what if in the middle of the night my home is broken into?
Who do I call?
Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors.
And I know, and myself too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality where calling the police may mean more harm is done.
So, that Minneapolis city council member was way outside of her own expertise.
The left, they say this is one of their rules, but they go outside of their rules quite often.
Now, remember, this list is not just suggestions.
If you know the list of these 13 commandments, now we as Bible-believing conservatives have the 10 commandments and the teachings of Jesus Christ.
These are their teachings.
This is how they effectuate social change.
Rule number three: wherever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.
So, always try to make us go off our turf.
Make us talk about issues that we are a little bit less literate in, not as well-versed in, that we're a little uncomfortable talking about.
So, for example, they're doing this so well right now.
Conservatives and Republicans have no comfort at all whatsoever to talk about issues in regards to race.
And we'll talk about that later in the show on some of the other issues and questions we've gotten around that topic.
But conservatives and Republicans are very uncomfortable talking about police brutality, the Black Lives Matter movement.
Is there white privilege?
In fact, they get really nervous.
Their knees get wobbly.
The left is so good at saying, We are going to take you off of your terrain that you're comfortable talking about, which is free markets or the Constitution, and we're going to make you talk about race.
Conservatives don't like that.
Conservatives are not well versed in that.
In fact, some CEOs of conservative organizations have even written op-eds saying that America is a systemically racist country.
It's a pathological lie.
It's totally and completely untrue.
Rule number four: make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
The left does this so well.
The radicals make us live up to things that we've said previously.
For example, they make us live up to things that we talk about all the time.
We say opportunity, we say freedom, we say make America great again.
Or maybe what the left might do is they might go to a Christian community, they might say, Well, one of your core teachings is help the least of these.
Therefore, don't you believe that we should do more to help the black community?
And of course, we should do more to help all people that are in need: black Americans, white Americans, Hispanic Americans.
We should go out of our way to rebuild the family.
We should go out of our way to rebuild value in all communities.
However, helping people might not mean giving them more government money.
In fact, I think the best way to help people is not to grow government, but is to empower people.
It's not to give them free stuff.
It's not to take from other people and redistribute it through some government bureaucracy, but instead to rebuild the core family.
However, they make us live up to our own book of rules.
One of our rules is we say, well, the truth really matters.
And they say, how can you say the truth matters when this politician on this day said something untrue?
They make us live up to our own book of rules.
Rule number five, ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
Man, does the left do this better than almost any other group of political activists I've ever seen.
They mercilessly ridicule people they disagree with.
They go after conservatives and they hawk them, they shame them, and they ridicule them relentlessly.
You saw the president of the United States had a rally in Tulsa.
It was a very big success.
There were some portions of the stadium that were not full.
And the left went after Trump.
Personally, it went after the Trump campaign.
The ridicule that the left uses, it's hard to go up against unless you punch back twice as hard.
That's one of the reasons why the president has been so effective.
Rule number six is a good tactic is one your people enjoy.
So a tactic would be burning down buildings.
I guess certain people on the radical left enjoy burning down American cities or stealing TVs in Long Beach, California.
You could fill it, you can fill in the gaps however you wish.
But a good tactic is one that gets your people fired up, that gets your organizers really focused on material social change.
A good tactic is not one that your people dread going to organize, Solinsky would also talk about.
It's not one where they wake up and they say, oh boy, we have to go do this today.
Instead, it's we are going to go protest outside of this person's house and we're going to follow them using ridicule and we're going to enjoy it.
We're going to throw bricks through a window because we enjoy that.
I know this might sound very dark to you, but this is exactly the rules that the left operates from.
Number seven, a tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
So if you're throwing too many bricks through too many windows, it could become a drag on your cause.
The tactics must have the perfect amount of time.
It can't be too long, can't be too short.
This is a very interesting one that's happening right now.
Rule number eight, according to Solinsky: keep the pressure on.
The left believes that they must have a full court press, to use basketball terms, and boy, do I miss watching basketball, but they must have a full court press against those of us that believe in the Constitution and believe in conservative values.
That there's no space for compromise, that there's no space for us to come up for air.
They are trying to metaphorically waterboard the entire conservative movement right now till we call up for mercy.
They are trying to suffocate the conservative movement around taking down statues, protesting people you disagree with, getting corporations to relent to their demands, getting corporations to donate through almost forms of extortion right now.
Keep the pressure on is rule number eight in the rules for radicals by Saulinsky.
And right now, we see that happening more so than almost any other rule in America of the rules of Solinsky.
Rule number nine, the threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
So the things that they're threatening right now against us, it's actually probably more terrifying what we conjure up in our head than actually what they're going to do to us.
The threat when they say they're going to come into suburban America and burn down suburban homes, the threat is probably worse than actually what's going to materialize.
But they play games in our heads.
They play games in the heads of conservatives and mainstream Americans.
There's some other rules that Solinsky talks about at the end, but they don't make the 13.
I'm going to get to them in a second.
Rule number 10.
It's a little bit more of a complicated one.
The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain pressure.
So basically, there should never be a tactic that is created that does not allow you to keep the pressure on.
Protesting outside of someone's house.
Corporate boycotts.
Taking over corporate boardrooms.
Solinsky would be so proud right now.
All of his rules are happening in real time.
All of his rules are being used by the most aggressive, dedicated, foaming-at-the-mouth Marxist radicals, and they're being implemented every single day.
His rules are being followed more so than the Ten Commandments right now in the American left.
Rule number 11, if you push a negative hard enough, it will break through to the counterside as a positive.
Defund the police.
Defund the police.
Starts as a negative.
All of a sudden, it becomes a positive.
Becomes something that actually becomes law.
Rule number 12, the price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
So actually, talk about something that on the other side could become something you can build.
So you're going to attack Bible believers for believing in God?
Well, the attack can't just be against them as Bible believers.
It has to be, well, what's the alternative?
Maybe a world without any sin or suffering.
You just give us control.
Rule number 13, this is the one that's probably in place more so than any other rule in American discourse and American political strategy right now.
Pick the target.
Freeze it.
Personalize it and polarize it.
They picked the police, the Black Lives Matter radicals, the anti-American Black Lives Matter radicals, picked the target a couple years ago.
They said the police are the barrier for us from fundamentally destroying and fundamentally taking down America.
They picked the target.
They froze it.
The police are the problem, but they needed a character.
Personalize it.
Derek Chauvin was the perfect personalization and the personification of the evil that they believe that the police embody.
And finally, they polarize it.
Make it so that no one could possibly associate with Derek Chauvin and the Minneapolis Police Department.
Spread that singular polarization to the entire society.
Spread it to everyone that might dare speak in support of the police, that dare speak in support of law enforcement.
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it.
Rule number eight, keep the pressure on.
You put these together.
Rule number five, eight, and 13 are the ones that are happening more so than any of these other rules.
They're all happening right now, but they're not all happening equally.
Rule number five, ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
Rule number eight, they keep the pressure on, that pressure campaign.
Rule number 13, pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
If you know the rules of the left, then you're able to fight them successfully.
See, I'm a student of the American left because I've been fighting these people for eight years.
I've been fighting them since 2012.
I've seen how the left went from a mainstream operation within the Democrat Party when they elected Barack Obama to becoming a fringe during the early years of President Trump, then getting back into the mainstream and turning the mainstream of the Democrat Party even more radical than they ever have before.
I've been run out of restaurants by Antifa.
I've been followed in the street by Antifa.
I've received death threats from the radical left that I've had to file police reports behind.
I understand these people.
I know how they operate.
I know how they communicate.
I know what drives them.
And that question I get a lot is, Charlie, what do they want?
What's their end game?
You are assuming as if they want something constructive.
For them, seeing the flames is satisfying enough.
The arson, the burning, the destruction gives them fulfillment.
Now remember, I did a previous episode on this a couple before, and I encourage you to go back in the archives of the Charlie Kirk show and take a listen.
Back in the archives, you'll listen to one of the episodes where I talk about how they don't want to build.
The left has never built anything.
The left only destroys.
The left, in its most basic form, is a virus.
It's a virus that takes over healthy hosts.
And we were convinced that this virus would be more like a radioactive spill that we could contain on college campuses, but it's spread.
It's metastasized.
It's grown to a troubling extent.
And it's infected every single portion of American society, from the church to corporate America.
They destroyed the family to mass media to Hollywood.
And these rules that I just articulated are the rules that they operate on.
However, Saul Linsky would not be proud about one of the things that's happening right now in America.
One of Saulinsky's most famous quote, he said, a true radical is not someone who marches in the streets and breaks windows and starts fires.
He said, a true radical is someone who wakes up every single day, shaves, showers, slicks back his hair, puts on a three-piece suit, and goes to work.
Saul Linsky believed that a true Olinskyite pretended to be something that they were not.
That they were not the torchbearer in the street, that they were not the revolutionary committed to social change.
But a true radical was someone that infiltrated pre-existing bureaucracies, that infiltrated pre-existing infrastructure, that tried to destroy things from within, that tried to target, isolate very specific things that were vulnerable within a capitalist Western society.
Saw Linsky was also a very big believer in not destroying the symbology of a country you were trying to take over.
Don't destroy the American flag.
Embrace the American flag.
Don't burn the history of the country you're trying to take over.
Say that you're on the actual side of that history.
You see, what's happening right now in America is the first time we see a full-fledged Marxist-communist movement.
That movement actually is against the country they're trying to take over.
The Russians, the Cubans, the Chinese, and the Italians, any collectivist statist movement is almost always pro the nation they're trying to take over.
They're actually against the country they're trying to take over.
Now, the minute the Marxists realize that all they have to do is be nationalist Marxists, forget it.
That combination is going to result in a very, very dangerous equation for those of us that are conservatives and American patriots.
Hobbes, Locke, and American History 00:15:41
The Marxists use these rules.
They implement them.
They live by them.
They honor them.
In some ways, they worship them.
In a lot of ways, this is almost a pseudo-religion of the left.
In many ways, the left is so hyper-focused on these rules and on destruction.
There's no way they could be looking at what to build or what to be productive in society.
Know these 13 rules.
Rules for radicals.
Rule number 8, 13, and 5 are the ones that they're doing most now.
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
Keep the pressure on.
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Thanks for the question.
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This question is from Otto in Florida.
What a fun name, Otto.
I had some friends growing up named Otto.
He says, Charlie, I've heard you mention John Locke before and Thomas Hobbes.
I'm a little confused who they were and the significance to the creation of America.
Thanks so much, Otto.
Well, Otto, you have won a free copy of the MAGA Doctrine signed, New York Times bestseller, and that is shipped off to you right now.
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So John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, they were two of the most formative thinkers of the 1600s.
Thomas Hobbes had a completely different application of some of the same admittances that John Locke also had.
So Thomas Hobbes was writing a little bit before John Locke.
John Locke was probably the most instructive, important, influential writer to the American Revolution.
Whereas Thomas Hobbes, some of his analysis of human behavior and what he called the state of nature was instructive to the American founding, but the application of it, not at all.
So let's start with Thomas Hobbes.
Thomas Hobbes, he wrote the Leviathan.
And if you actually read the book of Job in the Bible, it mentions a Leviathan a couple times.
A Leviathan is a sea monster.
So understand Thomas Hobbes, he got his upbringing during the English Civil War.
He saw brutality and violence and civil conflict, the likes of which most human beings will never experience.
Thomas Hobbes believed in the absence of an invisible absolute ruler, we would all kill each other.
So Thomas Hobbes, his analysis of human beings, I think, was pretty spot on.
In fact, Thomas Hobbes agreed with Calvin, John Calvin, who of course was one of the original rebels, who was the, let's just say, the father of Calvinism and Presbyterianism and all the different skews of that.
And actually, interestingly enough, John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes, Calvin and Hobbes, you guys ever hear of that cartoon series?
That's actually where it comes from because they both had the same analysis and agreement in human behavior.
And so I saw an acronym on the web at one time, and I looked it up in reference to this question where it said S-P-N-B-S, which is kind of how Thomas Hobbes analyzed human behavior.
And I agree with a lot of this.
He said that human beings in the state of nature were solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and life was short.
I agree with a lot of that.
And by the way, the biblical reference is in Job 41.
If you guys think your life is going bad, read the book of Job.
That should be a shot in the arm of positivity and optimism for the world.
Now, mind you, Hobbes, because of his analysis of human behavior and because of what he saw in the state of nature, he wanted a totalitarian leader to prevent us from destroying each other.
And so he thought human beings were so broken, so awful by nature, his idea of a social contract, not the Rousseauan social contract.
People wrote about social contract before Rousseau wrote the book Social Contract, so I don't want to blur those two lines.
Hobbes then applied his analysis of human nature, saying we must have a total autocratic, tyrannical government because human beings are so awful and they're just going to tear each other to shreds.
John Locke came a little bit after Thomas Hobbes, but overlapped in history, right around the same time, he really wrote on three big things.
Education, how we should be ruled, and the importance of diversity of opinion and religion.
Now, the first thing, let's just start with the last one.
John Locke talked about how we must be tolerant of other people's opinions.
This was in direct contradiction to the divine rights of kings.
Now, mind you, he thought that religion was a personal choice, and he really said that we must have tolerance for other people's opinion.
That idea of tolerance was actually straight from John Locke, interestingly enough.
So John Locke's most famous writings, though, was around individual rights.
I could categorize John Locke under the category of philosophical constitutionalism.
He came up with this idea of natural rights.
So he did agree with Thomas Hobbes in man in the state of nature.
He totally disagreed at the application of what you do with that.
He did believe that people were generally solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short in the state of nature.
Now, mind you, Thomas Hobbes and his analysis of people in the state of nature is directly in contradiction with the Rousseauian idea of the people in the state of nature.
Hobbes thought that people were naturally brutish and awful, and this is actually totally congruent with the idea of original sin, that man is so awful at birth, and because of that, we must have a total autocrat.
Terrible application, correct analysis.
So when I say Hobbes was right, I mean that he was right in how he viewed people in the state of nature.
Now, here's the best way I can kind of divide this.
Hobbes believed that fear must be a guiding motivator to how we build the government.
People are most likely to operate around fear, and therefore we must submit those rights.
John Locke believed freedom must be protected.
Therefore, we must protect those rights.
So, John Locke wrote a lot.
He wrote in 1693 about education.
It was actually one of the most important and instructive writings around this thing, around this idea called the association of ideas.
This is really where we get the idea of elementary education, three and four and five-year-olds saying that the younger the education is actually the most important to the philosophical and moral foundations.
John Locke used the Bible.
It was actually biblical constitutionalism of how he found justification for the ideas of why he believed what he believed.
And so, John Locke kind of embarked on what is the origin of government?
What should government actually do?
Now, this actually might sound very familiar because it is familiar to you.
John Locke thought that government should protect life, protect liberty, and protect property.
Sound familiar?
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson edited it.
Actually, in the original drafts of the Declaration, he did have property, but he didn't want to be accused of plagiarism when it came to John Locke.
Now, mind you, John Locke is probably the most instructive, important philosopher of the 1600s on until the American founding.
The American founders found so much wisdom in John Locke for good reason.
He said that you should not be ruled by a monarch, that there actually might be limited government, and the people have the right of revolution.
In fact, it is government's role to protect rights.
And you had these religious colonies founding in America, and this was music to their ears.
They said, wait a second, we can start a government that protects rights.
It's limited.
We can live freely, and if we don't like it, we can overthrow it.
Where do I sign up for that?
Now, mind you, John Locke didn't get everything absolutely correct, but it's hard for me to find anything that he wrote that I categorically disagree with.
Thomas Hobbes got a lot right on his analysis of human behavior because he saw people tearing each other to shreds, literally.
But his application of it was used by tyrants all across the 1700s, 1800s, and 1900s.
And so Thomas Hobbes and John Locke are two very important people to study.
If you want to learn more about the foundations of America and where we get these ideas from, John Locke and the Bible are probably the two most important places to look.
Adam Smith as well, but Adam Smith didn't come until like 100 years after John Locke.
John Locke was part of the Scottish Enlightenment.
He started the Scottish Enlightenment.
I'm a proud Scott, by the way.
I'm proud to be originally from Scotland.
My bloodline, Kirk, means church.
I think everyone should be proud from where they're from.
Stop this nonsense about apologizing for your bloodline.
It's awful.
It's anti-Christian.
It's anti-biblical.
I'm proud to be from Scotland originally.
You should be proud of that.
There's so much good that came from Scotland, including the idea of natural rights, individual liberty, property, the sanctuary of the individual, and all of Western society.
So that's a little bit of a crash course on Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.
I hope that's helpful to you.
And now, mind you, I do want to give Thomas Hobbes a little bit more handicap.
He did write this in the midst of a civil war.
He did believe in absolute authority, but he did that out of his own fear that he thought human beings would not be able to participate in self-government.
John Locke deserved credit because he went as far as to say, what if?
What if human beings could be generally moral, generally in the right direction of trying to improve themselves?
Create a government that is limited and people can be free.
God bless you, John Locke.
We enjoy what's left of the American experiment, largely thanks to you.
Let's get to the next question again.
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This is Scott from Arkansas who says, hey, Charlie, my high school teacher says that we have to be ashamed for being American.
I'm currently studying American history, and I don't know what to make of it because my teacher is so vehemently anti-American.
What do I do?
Love your show.
Thanks so much.
So look, the American founding is intentionally misrepresented by the American left.
The more I study it, the more I realize the courage, the conviction that it took for the first American presidents just to keep this entire experiment together.
Did you know that in 1777, Vermont, the first state to abolish slavery, did so out of inspiration from the signing of the Declaration of Independence?
So it was actually after the American founding, right after, that inspired the abolition of slavery, not the continuation of slavery.
Not defending the evil sin.
I'm simply talking about factually how long it took America to remove that sin from our country.
You look at the early presidents, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Henry Harrison, and John Tyler, but specifically Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, the first five presidents.
They were all different in their own way.
Washington, of course, was a war hero, and he was really wrestling with how to create a government.
In 1787, there was actually a huge debate in the Constitutional Convention of how do we actually choose a president?
Now, Washington, God bless him, and they're taking down his statue right now.
And any history teacher in the country that does not teach this history is doing an immoral service to their students.
It is simply and totally immoral not to teach the beauty of America to our own citizens.
It actually gives me physical pain to know that there are children in our own country that are being taught to hate America.
That's why when you guys support us at charliekirk.com slash support, we have dozens of new contributors.
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Because it helps our show keep going to reach hundreds of thousands of young people.
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So George Washington rejected the idea of becoming a king or a monarch.
In fact, there was a huge debate in the beginning stages of the country whether or not they should call the president His Highness or Your Highness.
Instead, they settled on His Excellency.
And eventually, by Thomas Jefferson, they called him Mr. President.
Now, mind you, George Washington had to kind of create a cabinet around him.
And here's a good question.
Why don't we have more cinema?
Why don't we have more movies around these American founders, these heroes, these giants that did so much for our country?
It's interesting.
I know there's some here and there, and there was an Adams series, but not nearly enough at all.
Thomas Jefferson was Secretary of State for George Washington.
There were some huge court decisions that eventually came through where we established judicial review.
But the vice president for George Washington was John Adams, who actually ended up becoming the second president of the United States.
The capital of the United States was first in New York.
It would move to Philadelphia, and eventually they brought it down to Washington, D.C.
Now, mind you, what really set the precedent for presidents was when George Washington decided to serve only two terms.
Now, mind you, that precedent was basically followed until Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who served three terms, elected to a fourth and died in the fourth.
And eventually we passed the 22nd Amendment in 1951, I believe it was, that's right, yeah, 1951, which prohibited any president to serve more than two terms.
And by the way, if we have term limits for our presidents, why don't we have term limits for our members of Congress?
And mind you, one of the interesting things that the founders actually never thought that we would have political parties.
They never actually thought we'd get into different buckets or brackets.
They thought there'd be factions and they warned against them, but within a couple of years, we had political parties.
We had Hamilton running the Federalists and Jefferson running the Anti-Federalists.
Now, mind you, in 1793, one of my most favorite things happened.
If you don't know this history because a teacher did not teach you this history, then shame on the teacher.
I encourage you guys to pour into American history.
Read the biographies.
They're trying to delete our history right now.
They're trying to destroy our country from within.
It makes me so proud to be an American.
And as we get closer to July 4th, I hope that you guys spend hours of reading about Washington and Adams and Jefferson and Madison and Monroe, Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Henry Harrison, Tyler, Lincoln, Grant, you name it.
The statues they're trying to take town.
Know the history.
Know what they did.
Know what they did right.
Know what they did wrong.
Understand the moral governance that they fought for.
But in 1793, George Washington declared us neutral from the French European War.
This is a really big deal because it really set a precedent that we were not going to get involved in European squabbles and allowed America to flourish.
One of my favorite things that I believe happened in 1794, I recently did a kind of a couple-hour study on this, was when George Washington summoned federal troops to stop a whiskey tax rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
Sound familiar?
When you have insurrection within your own country?
Now, finally, when 1796 rolled around, we finally parties were formed, and we had the Federalists and the Democrat Republicans.
So the Federalists and Anti-Federalists, they kind of rebranded themselves a little bit.
John Adams became president.
He had an amazing resume.
He did help write the Declaration of Independence.
He put James Monroe, who ended up being the fifth president as a diplomat to try to end this foreign intervention into our own country.
And Adams, he passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which were met with a little bit of hostility.
And they said, yeah, that First Amendment thing, I don't know if we're really going to live by that.
And said, if you write anything against our country, we're going to come after you.
By 1801, Thomas Jefferson became the third president.
Of course, he had some very strong opinions.
He was an architect and actually lost the bid to design the White House.
One of the most important things happened under this idea of judicial review.
You had Chief Justice Marshall, Marbury versus Madison, which was a huge collision of federal oversight through the Supreme Court.
And finally, by the fourth president, James Madison, we had the War of 1812, which almost brought down the entire country as we know it.
The first lady, Dolly Madison, was kind of invented the first lady role, prevented the portrait of George Washington from actually being destroyed.
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There's over 2,000 Americans that were killed in the War of 1812, but God makes bad things work for good.
War of 1812, what was the good thing?
People no longer viewed themselves primarily as Virginians or North Carolinians or Pennsylvanians.
Instead, they viewed themselves as Americans.
That history right there is just a beautiful snapshot.
There's complexity, there's depth.
You should be proud of your history.
From our founding, we established an ideal that we did not even necessarily live up to: that all men are created equal, equal under law, not equal of outcome.
Equal under law, then equal of opportunity, never equal of outcome.
Remember that.
Equal under the law, then we can try to establish equal of opportunity, which is very hard.
Never equal outcome.
You try to have equal outcome, that is wrong.
It is dangerous.
It is against how human beings were made in the image of God.
Equal opportunity, if it can be achieved in some sense, is moral and good.
Equal under law is necessary and moral.
We have a beautiful country, everybody.
Know the history.
Know what the founding fathers wrote about, what they dreamed about.
They went through so much to found this republic.
So much.
They were inspired by the Bible.
They were inspired by John Locke.
And the writings of the founders need to be understood and the sacrifices they made in the most infant stages of America, especially as we come up on July 4th, and even more so as they try to burn down our country from within.
This is Rebecca from New Mexico.
Hi, Charlie.
Thank you so much for what you do.
I'm constantly surrounded by people who believe the lies of the left, people who are very close to me.
It breaks my heart, but they are so stubborn.
Anyways, listening to you and others in the Turning Point family really encourages me and gives me hope.
You're also a reminder: I am not alone.
Please keep it up.
Thank you.
Anyways, I have a question about the model minority that supposedly is a tactic of white supremacists when people talk about how Asians are the wealthiest.
What are your thoughts?
Thank you, Rebecca.
Well, first of all, I always reject this categorically.
It's either Asian Americans are the richest group per race in America or they're not.
It's either you're going to take the data on its face value or you're not.
So mind you, there's this article that was written in the LA Times by Sky Lee, who's an Asian American, and she says this.
I'm going to debunk a lot of this.
She says, model minority sets up Asian Americans on a pedestal above all ethnic minorities by pointing out that the success of a race proved the American dream is achievable for everyone as long as they work hard enough.
That's not totally true.
I'm editing now.
I'm editorializing.
It's not all hard work.
It's not.
I'll tell you why in a second.
Although diligence can result in rewards, to some extent, model minority, quote, downplays racism and dismisses claims of white privilege.
Okay, so Sky Lee is totally wrong here, first of all, because those of us that debunk white privilege, the first thing we talk about is not how many hours worked.
It's actually the family you come from, whether or not you have a two-parent household or not.
So that's completely different than how hard you work.
Yes, meritocracy or the input you put into something matters.
However, the hierarchy of which you are able to rise or fall in is mostly a byproduct of a two-parent household.
It is the number one indicator for success.
Fact, a white child raised by a single mother is less likely to succeed than a black child raised by a mother and a father.
Sky Lee continues by saying, additionally, using the term to describe all Asian Americans isn't representative since it covers such a vast diverse range of people.
It looks past certain races, such as Bhutanese Americans, who have, quote, far higher rates of poverty than other Asian populations, according to NPR.
Totally recognize that.
However, if you actually break it down, six of the more, let's say, fractionalized Asian groups, such as Vietnamese Americans or Korean Americans, still earn more than white Americans every single year.
And a lot of the individuals from Bhutan came here as refugees.
If they do the three things that are most likely needed to succeed in America, get married before you have kids, get a job, any job, graduate from high school, you will succeed in America.
She finishes by saying, by crediting Asian Americans solely on the success of their work, it makes people question why African Americans aren't doing as well.
However, while, quote, Asian Americans have faced various forms of discrimination, end quote, it's not the same as, quote, the systemic dehumanization that black people have faced during slavery and continue to face today.
This is all according to NPR.
First of all, it should ask the question why black Americans aren't doing well.
That's the point.
Black Americans are not doing well because 77% of black children right now in America are born without a stable father in the home.
That's why they're not doing well.
They also enter awful schools.
Those two things are not because of the color of their skin.
It's because we destroyed the family in general in the 1960s.
It just so happens the black family being more urban focused was more victim to that than any other population.
There are other reasons to attribute suffering than racism.
If you blame every single thing in the world on racism, which of course is a legitimate sin that exists, but it is not the only problem on the planet.
Fatherlessness, abdication of authority, indulgence in sexual sin, all those things need to be addressed.
Sloth, gluttony, lack of responsibility, and just blaming it all on racism because black people and white people look differently, there's a massive disservice to us ever actually achieving some form of progress, as the left tries to call it.
And by the way, this is exactly what happens when you indoctrinate a country to participate in the grievance oppression Olympics.
Instead of accepting that Asian Americans have been amazingly successful, they want to explain it as yet another reason to pinpoint white privilege.
It is correct that not all Asian cultures perform equally as well.
But that's why we're always very quick to be specific about which subgroup within it is earning an average on what amount.
And by the way, Indian Americans have a different culture than Taiwanese, and Indian Americans earn about $118,000 per year in America.
White Americans, $74,000 per year in America.
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Why is that?
Well, maybe because Indian Americans value marriage and fidelity more so than the average white American in America does right now.
Maybe that's a good reason for it.
And so look, this idea of model minority, I asked myself, well, the model human being, the model person in America is someone who gets married, doesn't cheat on their spouse, acts ethically, works hard, tells the truth, and does that over again.
That was the 1950s, 60s, and early 70s American dream.
That's why we became the strongest superpower on the face of the planet.
If you do those three things and you obey the laws that were given to us in the Bible and you act with compassion and love and honesty and the teachings of Christ, you're going to succeed.
And you're really going to succeed as a culture, especially if you work hard and you embrace entrepreneurship and risk-taking.
When you get away from those things, which has been encouraged, in fact, glorified in some communities in America, that's when you start to see the destruction that we're seeing.
So I got this letter from Chance.
I don't want to out where he's from because actually it says he's from California, so I guess not.
But it's so sad and it's so normal.
I want you guys to all email me your questions and your experiences, what you're going through right now.
And I want to make one other plug.
If you guys want to check out our event, Phoenix, Arizona, this Tuesday, trumpstudents.org slash convention.
We still have a couple tickets left.
Email us, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Here is chance.
It's a little bit long, but it's worth it.
Hey there, I don't know if you'll see this email, but I feel you need to hear it.
I'm a high school junior conservative and I live in California.
Most of my family and friends are liberals or leftists.
I'll explain why I separated them in a minute.
I've been stating my opinion on what's happening as a use of my First Amendment rights and free speech.
And I felt good about it for the most part.
I often debate this one person who has a parent who turns out is undocumented, or we say a foreign national, that's fine.
And they use this against me.
I once stated my stance on ICE and illegal immigration, and they flipped off.
They totally twisted what I said in our debates and out of context and got some people to lie about me being a racist.
I've been bullied and attacked and had to temporarily disable my Instagram.
I was pretty depressed at how much hate I was getting, and it was excruciating.
I even considered if my life was worth living after the hate I was getting.
I saw a post someone made on me that said, quote, if you go to his high school, drop him.
He's a racist, homophobic, and a Trump supporter.
Don't even bother to argue with him.
Just drop him.
And that really hurt.
People all over took advantage of this and continued to attack me.
And at one point, I considered redacting what I believed in just so I would be free of the hate.
So I did what I never should have done, and I apologized to the person that hurt me so much.
What did they do?
They attacked me on their Instagram and made fun of me for apologizing.
At this point, I wanted to move out of my city and start a new life.
Fortunately, there were those who were there for me, family and friends and fellow conservatives, even a few liberals who have simple human decency.
I wanted to share this experience with you because of what effect it had on me, my reputation, my mental health, my self-esteem, because my opinion and where I placed my support was out of line with theirs.
I won't forget those who defended and comfort me and offered to help on both sides.
And it reminds me that there are people with decency on both sides, but it is one thing that is leftists feed upon.
It's hate and power.
Most of what they were arguing with me was about racism, which is a form of intolerance.
And yet, they were very intolerant of my beliefs, and I find that to be contradictory.
I know I'm a conservative Trump supporter here to stay, and I know there are good people in this world, just as there are those who think they can fight fire with fire.
God bless you, Charlie Kirk, and let's keep America great.
Chance, my goodness.
First of all, anyone out there that's experiencing anything like this, email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
I'll do my best to respond to those emails.
The left is so beyond vicious right now.
They are allowed to do whatever they want to do.
Teachers, principals, people in leadership are allowing the left to literally destroy young people's lives.
We are in a bitter culture war right now.
And the media is covering for them.
Hollywood is covering for them.
I'm doing everything I possibly can.
They're trying to destroy this program.
So thank you.
That allow me to communicate to people like Chance that you go to charliekirk.com slash support.
We are communicating to the next generation of conservatives and Trump supporters around freedom, truth, and the American way, the American dream, the Constitution every single day.
But it saddens me.
In fact, it angers me.
And I try not to get to anger too much.
But when I read that kids are contemplating taking their life because of leftist bullies, this is not America.
This is not the country that we think we live in.
Listen to what he said right here.
I even considered if my life was worth living after the hate I was getting, Chance said.
Contemplating his own self-worth.
And we're just supposed to believe that the left is perfectly decent.
It's disgusting.
Happens every single day.
We'll go to one more question.
This is freedom at charliekirk.com.
Emily says, hey, Charlie, my name is Emily, and I'm 17 years old from Orlando, Florida.
Hey there.
I've been following your platform about two years and have found your podcast to be super helpful.
With all that's going on in the country, I'm saddened to see so many conservatives be easily swayed by the left's media bias.
What are your thoughts on this?
And do you think Republicans will have a chance at winning the culture war in spite of recent events?
Yes.
That's why we must continue to support podcasts like mine, support alternative media.
Do not watch the mainstream media.
Do not watch the mainstream press.
Do not do it.
Do not give them your eyeballs.
Do not give them any of that.
The more that you're able to engage in fact-first media like us on the Charlie Kirk show, and you can email us, freedom at charliekirk.com if you ever have any questions.
Unlike the media, we are accessible and they are not.
We will give you the truth.
We'll give you the facts.
We'll give you the basis of what we're talking about.
And look, the media needs to crumble from within.
They have way too much power.
They have way too much influence.
People listen to them.
People allow their propaganda to influence their decisions.
I'm telling you right now, they are doing such damage to our country.
It is almost unspeakable.
Emily, congratulations.
You win a free copy of the MAGA Doctrine.
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Get engaged, get involved, fight for this country.
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We have a beautiful gift given to us by many generations before.
Stand and fight right here, right now.
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God bless you.
Thanks for listening.
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