Ask Charlie Anything 64: Deconstructing White Guilt, Term Limits, Standing Your Ground on Vaccines & MORE
It's Monday, and that means Charlie takes the questions you submit to him at Freedom@CharlieKirk.com and dives deep into the answers. On this edition, he tackles an important question from a listener about how to overcome & debunk the concept of white guilt & American guilt that leads people to support ideas like CRT & Reparations. He also gives his stance on term limits, one which may surprise you, as well as a deep dive into the constitutionality of mandatory vaccines, and so much more. Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Term Limits and Ambition00:11:24
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Or what am I supposed to think about this idea that I should feel guilty for something my ancestors did?
We talk about whether or not it's a good thing or a bad thing that summer camps are mandating vaccines and so much more.
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So there's a couple of questions that will just keep on getting sent to us in a lot of different ways.
And here's one I want to get to, which actually has to do with this beautiful declaration and constitution that I'm reading from here at Hillsdale, which is, I don't hear any conservatives referencing the benefits of pursuing term limits via the Convention of States, change of the Constitution.
I would appreciate your opinion on the subject.
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And this is Rick, who emailed us freedom at charliekirk.com.
So do I support term limits?
The answer is absolutely yes.
However, they are not the only solution.
I think they generally work very, very well.
So there is a correlation between states that have term limits and how economically free they are, about their business climate, about how they're able to stave off political corruption and the quality of their schools.
Now, there is an outlier to this.
One state in particular has term limits, and it actually made things worse.
And I tell people I'm a big term limits fan.
I think it will work, but there will be downsides.
Now, one of the downsides of when you have term limits is that it almost reinforces, if the state is very corrupt and very wealthy, a system where the lobbyists truly run everything and there is no way to possibly push back against it.
I think this is a fair argument.
I think there is a counter argument to that, and I'll get to it because, again, I am in support of term limits.
But I think we must be honest and fair about the positives and negatives of every single one of these kind of bumper sticker type promises.
Like, if we only had term limits, then this would happen.
Well, there's a downside, like all things in mind.
And the state I'm talking about, of course, is California.
California is without a doubt one of the most corrupt, if not the most corrupt, states in the Union.
They have term limits.
They have term limits for all their state reps and senators.
And in fact, California got significantly worse when they enacted term limits.
How is that possible?
Well, first, before I get to that, let's just go through why term limits generally work.
Term limits prevent career politicians.
It requires fresh blood, new ambition, that the voters have to look at new candidates and not just say, oh, I know that guy, he did me a favor, whatever.
No, they have to go in with a new look and people, they have to earn their vote.
They can't use the power of incumbency to get reelected.
I agree with all of those things.
I think it actually creates an active and alert citizenry, alert citizenry.
I think it creates a citizenry that is more engaged and involved.
With that being said, though, California, the exact opposite happened.
When California passed term limits, California then took a turn that only elected Democrats statewide.
Because of the heavy influence of CalPERS, you know what CalPERS is?
It's the California Pension Fund and the people that are beneficiaries of it.
And the California Civil Service, which is in relationship and harmony with AppScammy and the public sector teacher unions that basically run the state of California, they designed a system that made term limits work for them.
That if you wanted to get elected to anything in California meaningful, you had to go through the special interests in order to get power in Sacramento.
Therefore, it gave all the power to who?
The staffers.
You see, I think term limits only work if you have term limits for staffers as well.
You see, when you put in term limits and you give all the power to the administrative state, you give all the power to the staffers.
Now, I used to be enthusiastic about term limits.
I still am.
But I'm a little bit less enthusiastic because in some sense, in some ways, I see that there are good politicians that have to no longer able to be politicians because of term limits.
Now, sometimes ambition can be a very good thing in politics.
Sometimes ambition can be a very bad thing in politics.
Let me give you an example.
Ron DeSantis is a terrific governor of Florida.
He's a terrific governor because he has courage and wisdom.
He's also a good governor, though, because he probably wants to be president.
So his ambition makes him want to deliver results that he can brag about.
Ambition in and of itself is not necessarily a bad thing.
Now, what is bad, though, is when you want to use the purse strings of the government to purchase votes or purchase favor so that you can stay in power.
That I find to be largely morally reprehensible.
And so I think term limits are a great idea, especially for Congress.
And here's why.
There are members of Congress that have been there longer than I have been alive.
Just using prudence, practical wisdom, and what would always be called common sense, there's something deeply troubling about that.
Go find something else to do.
You see, if I had my system and I could wave a wand of which I do not have, I would have strict lobbying reform.
I would have campaign finance reform, corporate money reform, and yes, term limits for staffers.
And I would say that former members of Congress cannot become registered lobbyists, and former members of Congress cannot become staffers, and staffers cannot become lobbyists either.
Go find a real job like the rest of us.
Not go become what I call a lobbyist, a legislative smuggler.
You see, in Washington, D.C., the reason why good ideas die is that getting an idea through Washington, D.C. is like getting it across East and West Germany or the DMZ.
It's going to get shot down.
You're going to die from machine gun fire.
The only way to get through that is you need a smuggler, a guy that knows the weak points.
You could bribe a guard, get it through.
You guys understand the imagery I'm getting at here.
You got to find a little bit of a vulnerability zoning.
You pass through that bill.
You add it to something else.
Next thing you know, the good ideas die.
The bad ideas become law or the corrupt ideas are the most likely to get passed through.
So the whole system is not in itself bad, but the system is not currently working for the people.
We've been through this before.
One of the worst amendments of the U.S. Constitution, as I bring up my Hillsdale College Constitution here, was the 17th Amendment.
The 17th Amendment, I believe, was one of the worst decisions ever made, which is the Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state.
Well, that's fine.
Elected by the people thereof for six years, and each senator shall have one vote.
The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors for most numbers of branches.
It should be the state legislatures that appoint the state senators.
If that was the case, Republicans would have 64 senators right now in Congress.
Let me say that again.
If we did not have the direct election of senators, Republicans would have 64 senators.
Do you see why the founding fathers put that in place?
Because the Constitution is the most effective conservative device in human history.
It's hard to change things.
It's hard to revolutionize things.
It has to be slowed down, methodical in a process.
That's why I think that the administrative state that has been implemented is such an unprecedented force and threat to our freedom and liberty.
What is the administrative state?
It is the fourth branch of government.
It's the IRS.
It is the Employment Prevention Agency, the EPA.
And the administrative state is unknown.
We don't know their names.
They're unelected.
No one voted for them.
And they're unaccountable.
There's no way to oversee them.
Congress is supposed to do it, but Congress is too busy trying to find out why the shaman man walked into the Senate building and some guy came with zip ties who looked like he was out of a movie mash.
That's what Congress is focused on.
Instead of overseeing this massive leviathan of the administrative state, and at Turning Point USA, we say big government sucks because we know the implications that that administrative state has against entrepreneurs, small businesses, and free people.
And you know who gets to navigate the administrative state?
Corporations.
And so as I criticize corporations, we must always remember that they are in bed and in partnership with the massive leviathan of the administrative state.
Unelected, unknown, and completely unaccountable, the fourth branch of government.
So do I support term limits?
Yes.
Is it the solution that will fix all others?
No.
Instead, term limits is a step.
Term limits is a measure that must be done, amongst other robust reforms that would make the American political system more transparent and accountable to you, the sovereign, the people, the voters.
Navigating the Administrative State00:02:00
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Hi, this is Taylor.
Really good question.
I was talking to my mom today.
She's a private Christian school teacher, elementary school teacher.
Nuance in Reparations Debates00:11:16
She didn't know much about critical race theory, and I showed her in your videos where you explain it.
I think you gained a fan.
This led down the rabbit hole of race, riots, et cetera.
The talk ended with my mom saying, quote, but our grandparents did horrible things to the black people and Native Americans.
And that was her justification, understanding for the stuff that's going on last year.
I'm a Chinese adoptee, adopted in the late 90s under the horrible one-child policy.
My adopted parents are Caucasian and have lived in the South for at least two generations back, probably more.
Do you have any suggestions on how I could respond to this?
How can I explain or justify that this isn't a justification or reason there should be riots?
There was a boundary between us since I don't have the, quote, tie to my family's history like she does.
Thanks for your thoughts and God bless.
So Taylor, thank you again for your question.
This is a common refrain and your mom seems wonderful.
I hope to meet her and thank you for sharing my videos with her.
And so, first of all, we have to be careful not to generalize a race with action.
It's always a very, very dangerous thing to do.
For example, saying that white people abused black people.
It's a lot more nuanced than that.
Especially, it's not even more nuanced.
It's just not true, especially when you look at the Northwest Territories and the Northwest Ordinance and the abolition of slavery.
You look at how Abraham Lincoln, the great Abraham Lincoln, was a white man.
Obviously, he cared about black lives.
I'll tell you a story about Abraham Lincoln that I love, even though the San Francisco Zealots say that Abraham Lincoln did not adequately care about black lives.
Yeah, he lost his life caring about black lives.
Okay, he was shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theater caring about black lives.
Abraham Lincoln was a stoic.
He was a great man.
He read his Bible and Shakespeare with great regularity.
So Frederick Douglass is one of my favorite figures in American history.
If you don't know who Frederick Douglass is, you should absolutely check it out.
He's terrific.
He was a slave.
He was from Maryland, a freed slave.
And then he became, and he became a fierce defender for abolition, not defender, proponent for abolition.
And he actually at one point did not like the American founding documents.
Then he read them with fresh eyes and he realized that the Declaration of the Constitution were, in one way, a promissory note, a ticket, a gateway for black emancipation.
So Frederick Douglass did not like something that was happening in the Civil War.
He did not like the mistreatment of a certain black platoon.
I can't remember the exact issue.
So Frederick Douglass decided to go to Washington, D.C. to go see the president himself.
So he goes all the way to Washington, D.C., and travels, and he goes up to the White House.
And back then, it wasn't the same sort of fortified structure, but there were still guards.
And he says, I'm here to go see the president, President Lincoln.
They looked at him, a black man.
They said, What do you mean, see the president?
And so he gets in line to wait.
And about a couple minutes later, someone says, Mr. Douglas, the president will see you.
And so Frederick Douglass comes.
And still, when he walks into the White House, almost every corner, someone tried to stop him, being like, who is this?
Who is this?
And finally, President Lincoln sees him and he says, Oh, Frederick Douglass, my friend, come on in.
Now, we don't know what Abraham Lincoln's voice exactly sounded like, but through oral tradition and through custom, he did kind of have that low, raspy voice.
And of course, Daniel Day-Lewis, I think, did a great job of personifying it.
Now, what does that question have to do with your question?
Well, first of all, the point is that not every single white person was indecent to blacks.
Now, was there a form of systemic racism towards blacks or systemic laws against them?
Of course, there was.
There were Jim Crow laws and poll taxes.
However, there were states that were eradicating them.
And despite all of that, black welfare and black well-being was improving prior to the passage of the Great Society and the Civil Rights Act.
The larger issue right here is not racial conflict.
And if you want to really say something that's controversial, even slavery itself is not about racism.
Let me say that again.
Even slavery itself is not about racism.
Now, before Media Matters has a field day writing this up, I'm just quoting Thomas Sowell, the entire first part of his book, Discrimination and Disparities.
So maybe in a unique four-dimensional underwater chess way, I actually might get Media Matters to read Thomas Sowell, where he said that slavery has never been about race.
It's always been about economics and it's been about exploitation.
That this idea that slavery and race are directly tied together is a new phenomenon created simply and solely for the benefit.
Now, did for the benefit of a certain political party, now, did certain people have racial resentment because of slavery and the tradition of slavery and the dehumanizing nature of it?
Of course, absolutely.
But this idea of ancestral discrimination or ancestral wrongdoing, then applying itself to today and then blaming all of the wrongdoing with what you experience now today is very, very dangerous and very tricky.
And I want to explore that because it's a great question.
And what should we do about it, if anything?
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So just in my case, I have no such relatives that engage in that behavior.
But let's pretend that someone right now from Arkansas had ancestors that owned slaves.
What are you supposed to do about that?
Are you supposed to pay reparations for the rest of your life?
This idea of intergenerational guilt is an idea that I reject wholeheartedly.
It's this idea that if you commit a crime, then your kids are going to have to pay for that crime and you will be banished forever.
What did you do?
If you did not do that and you don't hold those feelings, then you should not have to do or pay you to pay any sort of reparation.
That's the word I'm looking for.
Pay any sort of reparation for that certain incident.
Now, let's take the Native American example, because I actually, I have a soft spot in my heart for Native Americans.
I really do.
I think that the treatment of Native Americans were terrible, and I think that generally terrible.
It's more nuanced than that.
The Natives were very violent.
However, there was a, I think, an overly aggressive behavior and posture from certain governments, including Abraham Lincoln, by the way.
Abraham Lincoln was a terrific president, probably America's greatest president.
Yet he gave some orders against some natives that were questionable.
Now, so what have we done for Native Americans?
The question is: have we tried some form of reparations?
The answer is yes.
The Native Americans have their own department of government called the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
And do you know the poorest, most depressing, highest level of alcoholism and drug usage places in America?
They're Native American reservations.
Now, Native American reservations are a very tricky deal because they claim sovereignty when they want it, yet they want all the free stuff from the U.S. taxpayer.
And so there's really nothing we can do about how they conduct their own laws and how they conduct their own practices.
But it is the largest open-air collectivist experiment in America.
And what's the result?
Is it stronger families, a strong ethic, flourishing businesses?
No, they're depressing both economically, spiritually, and socially.
So why am I getting at there?
Well, Taylor asked, what are we supposed to do for Native Americans?
Okay, so we treated Native Americans poorly, we being the American people.
I did not do that.
My ancestors did not do that.
Let's just pretend that the American nation made some mistakes against Native Americans, which I have a soft spot for because I generally like it when Native Americans, when anyone protects their land, their people, their customs, their language, their culture.
I have a soft spot for tradition.
And if Native Americans wanted to do that, then so be it.
Now, what's done is done, but then we did something arguably not worse, but really bad and very damaging.
We decided to create a massive social welfare state, which has now addicted Native Americans and Indigenous people and Indians on government welfare where there is no hope.
From all across America, from Shiprock, New Mexico to the Iroquois to Alaska.
This is a stain on America.
So what should have been an opportunity for empowerment and increasing literacy and entrepreneurship, Natives are now in a point of desolation.
So what I'm getting at here, though, is we've tried massive reparations.
The Great Society Program was one of the largest social welfare interventions in American history that attempted to give black America more stuff.
And what it did is it destroyed the black family where 22% of black children were born without a father back before the Great Society program.
And now it's well over 77%, according to the Washington Examiner.
And so how much more should we try to do to right the wrong of the past?
And that's why there's a terrific book.
I think it was actually written by Jason Riley.
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Where he said, stop helping us.
Stop helping us.
Stop trying to feel this form of guilt.
Look, reparations usually go terribly.
Post-World War I reparations laid the seeds for World War II.
They create resentment.
They pit groups against each other, forcing Germany to have to pay reparations for the rest of the continent for a war that they were blamed for, even though it was way more complicated than that.
So the seeds for authoritarian resentment mix that with nihilistic Nietzsche philosophy where every single conscripted soldier in World War I in the German army was forced to read Frederick Nietzsche because of his overemphasis on the rejection of metaphysics and how if you embrace your own will or the ubermensch for a greater purpose, then you can actually live a fulfilling life.
Reparations have a track record of being awful for society and for the people that want to receive them.
And so, Taylor, I appreciate the question.
I hope that helped answer the question.
Protecting Our Country First00:09:39
Here's a question here from Carl from Arizona.
Hey, Charlie, I just heard the governor of Arizona avoid answer whether or not Trump is the leader of the party.
Do you think he still is?
Thanks so much.
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Let's play Cut 67 so people can hear it for themselves.
Is Trump still the leader of the party?
But I think if you look at Arizona and what's happening in other Republican states, we really have a compendium of best practices.
Real quick, yes or no.
Is Donald Trump still the leader of the Republican Party?
Well, he's the former president.
He's the largest voice.
Is it leader?
He's a 75 million plus party.
Will it be a party of addition?
Is he the leader?
Yes.
Yep.
Is he the leader?
I don't think anyone defines leadership of a party.
It's defined by principles, by core values, by good government.
Is it the America first, make America greater?
Absolutely.
That's all part of it.
This kind of tap dancing.
That's why I can't stand politicians.
Just answer the question.
Yes or no?
Yes, no, yes, no.
Look, of course he's still the leader of the party, and his ideas are the leading of the party.
And this is something that I really want to thank Sean Hannity for putting these people on notice, which is the question is, what kind of party do we want?
We've been exploring that.
And it's very simple.
We want to put our country first.
We want to put the interests of our nation first.
There's nothing that frustrates me more than leaders that try to pander to the needs, wants, and interests of something overseas while our own nation is decaying.
For example, we spent over $500,000 on studies from the National Science Foundation to study if taking a selfie while smiling and then looking at it later at the day will make you happy.
I want to get to that sound.
It's Cut 54.
And that's not as much about pandering to other nations, not putting our country first, but that is something of where's our priority in government?
What do you think $500,000 could have done for black or Hispanic families in the inner city for charter schools?
$500,000?
I just met with a guy from charter schools from Hillsdale.
That could get a charter school started in the inner city.
Instead, we're studying this nonsense, play cut 54.
One of my other all-time favorites from the National Science Foundation, they wanted to know if you take a selfie of yourself while smiling and you look at it later in the day, will that make you happy?
Really?
That's a half a million dollars.
I don't think we need a scientist to say that that's BS and the government's got no business doing this kind of research.
And they refuse to put the citizens first.
Instead, they're studying $500,000 on whether or not, what is this, a selfie?
Whether or not taking a selfie while smiling and then looking at it later in the day will make you happy.
Okay, so it's like the study of narcissism.
That's what we got.
And so, yes, of course, the Trump doctrine is still what the party should embrace and will embrace.
It broadened the party.
It did not shrink the party.
Let's go to another question here.
Hey, Charlie, just want to say thanks.
I listen to you every day.
This year, my church campus requiring either a negative COVID test or for you to be fully vaccinated, for you to go to camp, 100% outdoor church camp.
We're not giving our money to this camp this year because of that reason.
My question is: what do I say to people who don't understand this whole thing is for theater because many of them just think getting a COVID test is no big deal.
They don't understand the bigger meaning behind that.
Thanks, Jay, from Nashville.
Look, this entire thing is about social control and under the auspices of public health.
And look, I've lost friends to the virus.
The virus is a very real thing.
With that being said, this has now gone from a momentary virus that could have been handled with therapeutics, maturity, wisdom, vitamin D, a brisk walk, and main trying to limit obesity, and then protecting the most vulnerable, those over 65 that have comorbidities, underlying health conditions, and being and acting, I think, in a way with proper prudence and practical wisdom into a massive social control exercise, which has been such a disaster and has been just, in my opinion,
so destructive to our country.
And so, I want to just applaud you, Jay.
I love people that stand by their convictions when there is a cost.
I call that courage.
And so, if you believe that's the right thing to do, not go to that camp, then good for you.
And I'm a firm opponent to mandatory vaccinations.
And we're going to have some announcements about that very soon.
Let's get to some more questions here.
Here's one: Charlie, my question is: what we can do with finance, helping with financing positive morale seekers like yourself, bookstores, and other forces to combat the evil force we have to deal with every day, BLM and the left, and all of the rest rarely charge for things because of large donations from the wealthy and corporations.
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But you're making a point that's really important, which is how do we push back against these corporations?
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Coca-Cola's retreated, and it's not easy.
It's not going to happen overnight.
But I can tell you that when people that have strong morals and strong ethics act with courage in opposition to something that seems to be overwhelming odds, never underestimate those people.
And that is in the corporate structure, that is in enterprise, that is whatever it might be.
And the other thing is, start new businesses.
We need new entrepreneurs.
If you're a young person listening to this podcast and you have a good idea for a business or you already have a business that's working, email it to me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
I love seeing creation.
I love self-starters.
I love people that dare to take on the world, that know that they have an idea that can work.
That's a uniquely American value.
And I think we should preserve and protect it, not just this corporate oligarchy.
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Let's go to this question here.
Noel says, Hi, Charlie.
Everyone thinks I'm crazy for talking about raising my kids one day to think independently and not exposing in the violent video games, cable, TV, and YouTube.
Oh, that's really good.
Because that is sheltering them and that will only backfire.
This is a really good question.
How should we raise this new generation as they grow up in the world of excess, waste, liberal ideologies, and nonsensical and morals?
Thanks for all you do.
Noel, it actually ties together with my other question, my other point here about Hillsdale, which is how do you raise good people?
That is a question that has always plagued every single civilization.
And not plagued, but they've wrestled with this.
How does one pass down values successfully?
And so I wouldn't call it sheltering.
I would call it properly not just protecting them, but there are certain things that certain ages should not be exposed to.
That's why we have decency laws.
One of my favorite stories to talk about is how in San Francisco, they decriminalized public nudity.
And instead of talking about the moral issue why people should not be naked in public, the reason why they temporarily said they should not do it is for sanitary reasons, was that it wasn't clean.
Now, not anything that, oh, an eight-year-old shouldn't see someone without clothes on.
No, no, no.
How dare we make a moral judgment like that?
We should just allow everything to happen at all times.
And so I think you should kind of use this as an example of you should be proud of the fact that you are willing to say that your children should not be exposed to everything the broken world has to offer until they are ready to experience that.
And that takes them being raised in proper wisdom, reading things that matter, understanding good versus evil and the transcendent order that really properly organizes people's capacity to work in this chaotic world.
I could tell you this, that if I was raised in America today, exposed to all this garbage and this nonsense, I don't know what would have happened.
You see, when I was raised 10 years ago, there was this tradition that children should not see certain things, that children should be brought up in the ways of the nation and the culture.
And so I will say this.
Make sure you expose them to things that matter and things that strengthen them.
Make sure they have the intellectual muscles to be able to tell right from wrong.
Tell them, teach them ethics.
Then when they see things that are rooted in debauchery and degeneracy, of disorder and chaos, they'll be able to say, that's not right.
I don't want to do that.
But until they're raised up in those ways, that's why the tradition of protecting children was important.
Because it takes many years to have children's broken nature and the negative nature of indulgence and selfishness and narcissism change and hopefully in ethical conduct where they want to pursue the good, be courageous, and not necessarily always make everything about themselves.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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