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July 6, 2022 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Country Music Red Pills and 'The Age of Entitlement' with Coffey Anderson and Morgan Zegers
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Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show 00:01:47
Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show.
I'm joined by a big country music star, Kafei Anderson, who plays a song or two and talks about his faith and his belief in the Lord.
And then Morgan Zeegers joins us from Turning Point USA's Freedom Papers to talk about the Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell.
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All right.
So it's not Kevefe.
No, it's not Confifi.
Bro, I got so many tweets on that.
Oh, gosh.
Anyway.
Using Talents and Gifts 00:06:54
You were probably just getting.
I was like, really, y'all?
Really?
I'll take the extra 5,000 subscribers because of that mistake.
Perfect.
That's so funny.
So you're here to convince me to like country music.
I mean, I guess there's a couple songs I like.
Really?
Yeah.
Okay.
So I was on Facebook.
I saw my ex's profile.
Okay.
Every status she had was about her new boyfriend.
Does she live in Texas?
She does.
Everything she had about her new boyfriend.
Do you get the reference?
Exes.
All my exes live in Texas.
I got it.
I got it.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's one of my three songs.
You're getting better.
Getting better.
So I wrote this for her.
I saw you in Walmart.
See, you're grinning already.
You were holding his hand.
We've only been broken up for about a week and a half, really.
I'm not jelly.
I'm just telling you.
You left before him.
Something looked peculiar.
And I was noticing that your new boyfriend is ugly.
And I'm glad that he is.
Why don't y'all go get married and have some ugly kids?
Hey.
Okay.
All right.
Not a rise.
Oh, stop.
Let's stop.
It's poetry.
It is poetry.
That was pandering.
Okay.
What's another one?
So tell us about yourself.
My name is Kafei Anderson.
Grew up in Central Texas.
Mama taught school.
Daddy worked at a jail.
She graduated him.
He welcomed him in.
And I think music was just a part of our house.
It was just a part of our house.
My granddad sang gospel music.
My mom sang when she wasn't teaching.
And it was just something that was there.
And it originated in the church.
And so gospel music was really big for in my household.
And in high school, I sang a little talent show, and I realized that there was a gift there.
And I wanted to run with it.
Basketball was the sport that I kind of grabbed.
Come on, you know, you already know.
Big boys.
You don't put a book on boots.
I'd be your height.
No, I'm kidding.
I got boots for you.
What size you wear?
Okay.
And I think just being around music, it just kind of stuck.
But I think the country music that I make is a blend of faith, family, and freedom.
And we don't run from singing about those or defending them at all.
I made my Grand Olopry debut two months ago.
And the record label that I was with, one of the people that worked there didn't want to take me to radio because I'm conservative.
I believe.
And when I got to the Opry, the first thing I said was, I'm thankful to the Opry for letting me sing my brand of country music of faith, family, and freedom.
And I sing a song called Blessed.
And Blessed was written by an Army Ranger who's battling cancer.
And it's beyond lucky every single second every day.
I think if we have an attitude of gratitude, amazing things happen for you.
In the midst of the storm, can you have peace?
And I believe you can.
So that's what the music has done for me.
And I think you just have to be a part of all of it.
I think you have to use your talents and your gifts.
When the 13 were killed in the bombing by the coward in Kabul, I got on TikTok and offered to sing at the funerals.
And I was able to sing at six of those in a week.
Wow.
And it's a hard thing to watch a mama bury her baby.
But I just felt honored that they would let me sing my song, Mr. Red, White, and Blue, and Amazing Grace.
And we have to be a part.
You got to be a brother and sister's keeper now, especially with how our country's being ran.
We have to take care of each other.
Yeah, no kidding.
Do you find it more difficult to be outspokenly conservative?
I think you have to pick the hills you want to die on.
I think boundaries give you freedom.
I think people know that we have boundaries.
And we have things that we believe between my wife and I and our family.
We have a reality show on Netflix and we're pretty out about how we love our family and love the Lord and love our country.
And people loved it.
I mean, so I think for us, we have to pick and choose what battles we have.
I think you could be in it and out of it.
I think people kind of know in an early conversation, if we're at dinner and we're meeting with producers, we, hey, let's pray.
You know, I just tell them all the time, bless the food, you're going to catch diarrhea.
I'm just saying, somebody going to get you.
So it's just one of those things.
We make it fun to love our country and love the Lord.
And so you got into music at an early age.
You've become one of the best, you know, most popular people in your industry.
There must have been a moment of time where you were underappreciated or not yet noticed.
Absolutely.
Tell us about that moment, that chapter of your life.
I think people really undervalue consistency.
I think we're so likes driven.
We're so followers-driven.
We're so, how many views did we get?
It's almost instant.
And when you're building something, it takes time when you're honing in your craft, when you're getting good at it.
And I think also to take the temperature of my own business and say, if I'm not as popular as I should be, where am I losing?
Where can we be better?
Is it in our sales pitch when people want to book me?
Is it in the quality of music I'm putting out?
Is it that the songs that I'm writing aren't catchy enough?
You know, what are we doing?
And I think a lot of times if you're not afraid to take the triage of your business or of your career, because no matter what's wrong with you, Charlie, when you go to the hospital, you could have your leg dang there falling off.
That woman's going to check your blood pressure and your temperature.
You know, she's going to do that.
Can we do that with our own business?
We can keep our eyes on the big prize, but can you do that with your marriage, with your friendship, with your business?
A lot of times people are afraid to get in the triage.
So I wasn't afraid to get in and say, where am I losing?
What's your biggest challenge now?
I think My biggest challenge is budgeting my time because I think the more money you get, the more you're in time debt.
And so, aren't you getting married?
Are you married?
I'm already married, yeah.
Okay.
You're learning that.
And it's okay to schedule dates to be like, this is our date night and not be as you're going to have to budget time.
And I think time debt is real.
And so you have to figure out where you want your time to go.
And so I think my biggest hurdle right now is figuring out in the midst of everyone calling and how big we're growing and being able to help and being there, really allocating time.
I think it's the biggest hurdle.
As far as building the career, I think fighting the narrative of mainstream media is tough.
Hot Sauce and Time Debt 00:03:11
Because you can have people try to divide you black versus white.
But I was raised by an Air Force veteran, and he fought for three colors.
It was red, white, and blue.
And I think those colors matter.
I think those colors matter more than anything.
Do you find it more difficult to be outspoken in that way?
Or do you think your life would be easier if you just...
Absolutely.
Wouldn't your life be easier if we pandered?
Come on.
Yeah, my life would probably be easier.
Absolutely, but it's not in us.
Yeah.
It's not.
You can't make an ego hang with turkeys.
I'll never do it.
I'll always fly high.
Because come Thanksgiving, they're going to get eaten alive and I won't.
We're not for everybody, and that's okay.
Neither is Cajun food.
Neither is country music.
Some people have horrible tastes.
I love Cajun food.
Okay, now you're.
I'm a big hot sauce.
You want to try my hot sauce?
It's right up there, my own hot sauce.
No, it's not.
You don't have your own hot sauce.
Get it now.
Let me.
No, I want to taste it.
Can I open it?
Yeah, of course.
Okay, don't be weird.
It's good.
Took me five years.
It took you five years?
How many recipes?
Oh, at least.
So this is Kirk's 19.
It took you 18 formulas?
Yeah, it's about 60 or 70.
Are you kidding?
Uh-huh.
Five years.
I'm not sure.
You really do hot sauces.
Why don't you have a cooking show?
God.
Add that to the list.
No cooking?
We should do a cooking.
Reliability.
I'll do one with you.
Yeah.
Are you kidding me?
I'll do one with you.
It'd be like emerald.
I'll bring papa.
Yeah.
My dad's from Louisiana.
I'll bring Pawpaw.
See, when I heard that your dad was from Louisiana, someone said that you're in the screen.
He's like, he'd love my hot sauce.
There you go.
Try it up.
All right, hold on.
Oh, you did good.
Thank you.
Are you kidding me?
Uh-huh.
Man, you better than you look.
Thank you.
Five years of work.
Over.
Wow.
80 variations finally got to perfection.
It's the funniest thing.
So I made that for an audience of one, me, because I couldn't find a hot sauce I liked.
I sing for an audience of one.
There you go.
Go get it.
And I never thought my hot sauce would be successful.
Next thing I know, we have boxes of this stuff that we ship all across the country.
Okay, but it's not in the back.
It's actually shipping out.
Yeah, I mean, we have some in the back if you want.
We got crates of it.
No, I can't walk on with how many ounces of it.
I'll send it to you.
Will you?
I'll send you a whole sauce.
Okay, cool.
It's not bad, right?
No, it's really good.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Okay.
See, people expect it to be bad.
Look here.
Vanna Brown.
Is it Vanna White, though, right?
Vanna Brown.
I get the rest.
Okay.
All right.
This is our first date.
I'm learning.
All right.
Shoot.
So you get as much hot sauce as you want.
But yeah, the country thing is going to be a harder sell.
Bro, everybody doesn't have good taste.
You're going to put the hot sauce in your coffee.
What do you have there?
This is vanilla coffee.
I'm married to blonde.
I don't play with nothing else.
See, when I put the hot sauce in my.
Oh, son.
Come on.
It's good.
I'm all right.
I'm good.
First date.
We're getting to know each other.
Put this away.
All right.
Yeah.
All right.
So you got a song?
Yeah, I do.
All right.
Red White Blue Songs 00:03:59
You got red, white, and blue.
I do.
So, Military Warrior Support Foundation, they give homes away.
You may have seen them all over the country.
Tax-free mortgage free to combat veterans and their families.
So, we were given a home away in Abilene, Texas, and I met Sergeant Craig Carp, the U.S. Marines.
And he had come back from two tours.
And when the anthem played that night, my country music shows extremely patriotic.
And when the national anthem played that night, it was a very different look in his eye than everybody else in the room.
And he was the only one that came back from his unit alive.
Wow.
And we're still friends.
It's a good man.
And so I put my guitar around my shoulder, Charlie, and I walked around the arena.
And the song came out.
I promise it just downloaded from Heaven to Me.
Just boom.
And no labels wanted to touch it.
So I released it independently.
And now we're at 200 million streams.
Wow.
And I was able to sing this at Chris Kyle's Gravestone Dedication.
I sang this at Six of the Funerals.
American Sniper, yeah.
Yep.
At Six of the Funerals of the 13.
And so I'm honored to play it for you today, my friend.
Thank you.
Proud of what you're doing.
Thank you.
So here's Mr. Red, White, and Blue.
It's the guts and it's the glory.
A hundred stripes, a hundred stories.
It's the pledge of allegiance on the 4th of July.
It's some handwritten letters from home.
It's some sleepless nights alone.
It's his newborn baby he left with his wife.
Mr. Red O'White and Blue lay down his life.
Mr. Red O'White and Blue.
For these stars are shrimps.
From the fields of Indiana to the swamps of Louisiana.
From good old Texas out to California.
Uncle Sam's the only family he's got.
His purple heartbeat of all time.
And his 18th birthday was the day he was born.
Mr. Red O'White and Blue lay down his life.
Mr. Red O'White and Blue.
For these stars are stripes.
Was the man of the house when he was born.
His family is proud, but they're torn.
If you knew him, you would understand.
We were raised on how to be brave just to see our flag still wave.
But then he came home with only one hand.
He's Mr. Red O'White and Blue Lay down his life.
For these stars are shrimps.
Red O'White and Blue.
He'll stand on the front line.
He'll pay the ultimate price.
Mr. Red O'White and Blue.
Please the audience of one, that's for sure.
It's awesome.
Thank you, man.
Well, God bless you.
Thanks for your courage.
I appreciate it.
It would be easy to conform.
So we appreciate that.
Well, it's good having like-mindedness.
When I open my phone to see what you've been able to do in your team, to see what y'all are putting out, the content, asking the questions, be on campus.
You're literally in the mud.
You're literally in the dirt of it.
And, you know, the Bible talks about us being Shepard.
Shepherd is a nasty job.
And so is Lee.
I'm going to be somebody something.
The Age of Entitlement Book 00:15:18
Yeah, sometimes.
Sometimes you got to get in and help them share, get them clean.
That's right.
Thank you for what you're doing, brother.
Thank you.
I just want you to know that you have a lot of people that want you to continue to be outspoken.
The record labels and all this, they're all weak.
They can have it.
Yeah.
I got out of my deal yesterday.
Well, yeah, we amicably said, you go your way, I'll go mine.
I think we the people is enough.
You'll be more fruitful this way.
I agree.
Yeah.
God bless you, man.
You too, my friend.
Thanks.
Nice to meet you.
Thanks.
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So there's a book that I read last summer.
I spent a whole week at the Claremont Institute.
And this is the book that I encourage everybody to read if you want to really understand what we are living through.
It's called The Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell.
I've mentioned this book many times on this program.
It's a relatively easy read.
And what makes this book so incredibly persuasive is that it really doesn't make arguments on the surface.
You have to kind of decipher between because it's kind of written in a historical context.
Here's what happened.
Here's what we got from it.
Here's what happened.
Here's what we got from it.
Here's what happened.
Here's what we got from it.
And this book, more than any other book, I think really frames modern American neoliberalism in its proper light, which is a total sham and a con.
And it shows that a lot of the promises of the Civil Rights Act and the civil rights era actually had the opposite intended effect, that we're talking about race more than ever, that we're more focused on the things that the Civil Rights Act were supposed to fix.
One of our team members here at Turning Point USA recently read this book and is enthusiastic about talking about it.
It's Morgan Ziegers, who hosts Freedom Papers with Turning Point USA.
Morgan, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
Thanks for having me, Charlie.
I'm really excited.
I loved the book.
So walk us through what your take was on the book, Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell.
For me, I found it to be illuminating and eye-opening.
What was your take?
I could say the same.
Now, it's kind of funny.
I had a friend recommend it to me because I am a bit more radical with looking at recent policies over the last handful of decades in the country.
And after I read it, I said, you want to know who would love this?
Connor Clegg.
And I was going to gift it to him.
And I told him about it when we were on Freedom Papers together for Turning Point.
And he said, wait a second, now I have to tell Charlie.
So it turns out this is quite the book for a lot of young conservatives.
And not a lot of people talk about it, which is fascinating.
Charlie, what got me is that a lot of these topics just aren't discussed in high school classes in American classrooms.
I don't know if you had the same experience, but when I was going to school, a lot of things were just normalized.
And so trillions of dollars of debt that we were in at a national level, the Department of Education, all of these concepts were just normalized in our minds.
And it took me kind of re-educating myself over the last few years, and especially thanks to Turning Point, to realize that these are all fairly new concepts.
Our nation didn't always used to be in this massive level of debt.
We didn't have to have these struggles of families needing two incomes to get by.
And then taking care of the children was done by other people, by government services, by other men and women that weren't parents.
And it really just changed my whole perception on this.
And I'm just thankful that I found the book.
So I tell everybody to read it.
Yeah.
So, what was your takeaway of its criticism or its take on the Civil Rights Act, which is kind of a sacred cow.
You're not ever allowed to criticize it.
Now, I think the Civil Rights Act solved some great things.
I thought it went about to solve things, but it talked about it in rather vivid terms.
What was your take on that?
Yeah, I mean, you kind of put it nicely there.
It's a hard topic to talk about.
And addressing its faults is definitely something where, as I'm reading, you have to read pretty slowly and go sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, to really understand what's being said there.
It's nothing against the concept that everybody is equal, that everybody deserves basic human rights in America, but it's more so of the structure of the legislation, the structure of the Civil Rights Act.
It allowed for the mess of litigation that we have in this country where we don't lead with legislating anymore.
We lead with litigation.
And it allows the liberals to really succeed.
And so, what really struck me too about this is back then, especially, these woke people, the political correct leaders and activists on campus, they used to get laughed at.
And people used to say that it was just a quick flash of activism, especially because at the time, Reagan had just won against communism, right?
We just speak communism.
And so nobody really understood the threat.
When in reality, yeah, they got laughed at for a brief moment of time, but structurally, they were going to win.
What hit me the most about it is just this concept that perhaps conservatism has been failing at a massive level for decades, and we've been framing it as small, tiny victories, when in reality, we have done very little for the country.
Yeah, and to conserve really the nation that we once had.
And so, what it talks about, though, is the radical nature of the Civil Rights Act in a way that I've really not seen a modern author go after and do that.
And it talks, there's one part of the book here where it talks about the origins of affirmative action and political correctness, which is instead of having very pinpointed pieces of legislation that could solve discrimination that existed in the 1960s.
No one's debating that.
It created an entire new civil rights regime that hyper-focused on race and did the exact opposite.
Instead of going about solving the issues that existed in the 50s and 60s, it went about actually almost counterbalancing them with an entire superstructure, a machine that still exists to this day in the Department of Justice, in the EEOC.
And it's really interesting because it showed that the people actually weren't demanding that in the 1960s.
They were not demanding a new kind of Washington, D.C. legislative machinery to go about and do that.
This is all in the chapter of race in the book that is written by Christopher Caldwell, The Age of Entitlement.
What was your take, Morgan, on this idea of winners and losers?
Talked a lot about kind of who won over the last 30 or 40 years and who lost.
What was your take on that?
Well, I would say perhaps you feel the same way, Charlie.
I'm 25.
And so coming of age and becoming a conservative and going through, you know, college Republicans and going through the fun campus clubs, it's easy to just want to take those basic winning mentality conservative infamous quotes from Reagan and the rest of them and think, no, this is just politics as usual.
We've had our wins, we've had our losses.
But when you actually take a big look at it, a lot of it is kind of a farce.
And so understanding that and realizing that as a movement, we have a lot of internal work to do is definitely something that just changed my whole mentality on it.
Now, for Turning Point, I'm not sure how many of your listeners know this, but for Freedom Papers at Turning Point, we break down all of the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers.
And we have your producer Connor Clegg on a lot.
He's my guest host.
And we go and we try and understand where did things go wrong?
Where did this really start to break down?
And so we can look at from the founding, of course, but then we look at the early 1900s with the New Deal, the great society that came in starting in the 1960s.
And what I find so interesting is that with this Civil Rights Act, you had the creation of the bureaucratic regulations that were then used to oppress people at the smallest, most intimate levels of their lives.
And I would say that that's really one of the pinpoint areas for where we lost freedom in this country.
And it's going to take massive change to look forward, but I am really excited for us because now people are starting to read this book and understand what we're really up against.
Yeah.
And it's actually, we're focusing on race more, not less.
And this is just, again, it's kind of a thought crime to ever say that anything in the 1960s wasn't beautiful or amazing.
This is one of my favorite.
It's actually in the insert of the book.
A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s were intended to make the nation more just and humane.
Instead, it left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, and misled and ready to put an adventure in the White House.
Morgan, I'm sure you've heard many times people on the conservative side talk about free trade and, you know, opening up our markets.
Caldwell argues, though, that this actually was really bad for the country, that it deindustrialized our base, that it destroyed our manufacturing base.
What was your take on that?
Because it really challenged a lot of modern conservative orthodoxy when it came on international trade.
Yeah, well, we see the rise of that too across the country of more national pride, I would say.
And people were scared to show that for quite some time, but there's really nothing wrong with being proud to make things in America, to have your companies based in America and to incentivize that.
And this globalist view, I don't know what really struck me, Charlie, is when they bring up how Buchanan, he was considered too early for his time.
But he had a supporter that wrote a really powerful quote about how it might not be his time to win right now, but in the future, the movements will have grown.
The forces that will be existing at that point in the future will be built on the principles he's talking today.
Because at the time, people didn't realize the threat of globalization.
And now we are rising.
And I would say that we are the forces.
We are the people that are going to be bringing us together and fighting back for a greater cause.
And that's preserving American pride at that national level.
So I'm very excited about it.
What also got me was that concept of the military guys from the greatest generation.
They come back from World War II.
At that time, everybody respected that generation of veterans.
They became top leaders in Congress.
They were top leaders in business.
They were leading our society with their experience, with their wisdom.
And then unfortunately, for some reason, things got pretty industrialized, but not in a good way.
I'm talking about these tiny buildings that I believe Caldwell says they believed were good enough for our children to be educated in.
But in reality, they were just these tiny brick buildings that were going to be commercialized into military-looking barracks.
And so when we look back at that and we look at these buildings from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and we look at that last half of the 20th century, a lot of us wonder, why did we start to decay?
Why did we get the greatest technology?
Why did we get all the civil rights, all of this empowerment for so many people in this country?
But at the same time, we started to decline on a domestic level.
Where did that take place?
So it's just really fascinating.
It's a lot of topics to try and break down, but all of it really blew my mind.
Well, great.
Morgan, thank you for joining us.
The book is Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell, America Since the 60s.
This right here is a red pill as a book.
take this book, you'll be red-pilled.
We'll see you at SAS Morgan.
Thank you so much.
Thanks, Charlie.
Thank you.
Everybody, email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
I'm going to play a piece of tape here.
It is of a 100-year-old Marine who is crying about his country.
Play cut 15.
I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it.
It's all gone down the drain.
Our country's gone to hell.
We haven't got the country we had when I was brave.
Not at all.
Nobody will have the fun I had.
Nobody will have the opportunity I had.
It's just not the same.
That's not what our boys, that's not what they died for.
Just not it.
You could just hear a college liberal saying, actually, you're a bigot and you fought a colonialist imperialist war.
And you could just hear the arrogance of the college academic elite dismissing everything he just said.
It's a hundred-year-old Marines saying, the country is going to hell in a handbasket.
Boy, you could say that again.
This is not the country that I once knew or that I fought for.
But we can make it great again.
We still have the memory of a great country, but it's going to require an honest assessment and take of where we are right now.
That's for sure.
Anti-Americanism has infected the entire Democrat Party.
It used to be that Democrats would appreciate July 4th and celebrate Independence Day.
Well, now someone running for the Senate in Wisconsin is just the latest example of the Democrat Party being outwardly and vividly anti-American.
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Imagine being so ashamed of how we got to this place in America that you outlaw teaching it.
You know, and things were bad.
Things were terrible.
The founding of this nation, awful.
You know, but we are here now and we should commit ourselves to doing everything we can do to repair the harm because it still exists today.
Yeah, the founding of the nation was awful, Democrat candidate for the Senate says.
The Pima County Democrat Party says, F the 4th, see you at Reed Park.
Orlando, the city government of Orlando, sent out a press release and said that we understand that you might not want to celebrate July 4th, all the racism and division in the country.
Who would want to celebrate July 4th with all that's happening?
America itself has now become a contentious political issue.
Long gone are the days where we can agree the Constitution is the greatest political document ever written, agree that the structure of the Constitution is brilliant and exceptional.
Gone are the days of appreciating American history and the journey that we've been on and the exceptionalism of our founders.
All of that is now considered to be controversial and political.
And that really kind of goes to the political moment that we're in, isn't it?
Someone asked me what are my politics recently.
They said, Charlie, how would you describe your politics where you are right now?
I said, it's very simple.
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We win and they lose.
That's my politics.
Now, that might sound a little harsh for some people because they say, well, Charlie, what does that mean?
It means that we're not going to allow them to destroy our country without giving it everything that we have.
We're not going to sit idly by and lose as a spectator.
If we're going to lose, we're going to lose in the arena with everything that we got.
We're going to give every piece of energy, every piece of dedication, every piece of wealth and money and resources.
Because basically, the way Republicans and conservatives have been fighting over the last 20 and 30 years is it's kind of been a performative act.
Their fighting is not fighting at all.
They just hope the country will moderately improve by setting out a press release or doing some sort of a town hall or a rally.
You see, when we're up against an opposition that says America's founding was awful, up against an opposition that says F the Fourth, up against an opposition that says, why even celebrate the fourth?
Why does that matter?
Is that something you can bargain with or negotiate with?
People say we need to find common ground.
What's the common ground between F the Fourth and I love the fourth?
What exactly is the arithmetic mean between that?
There is none.
And so an uncomfortable piece of truth that most conservatives do not want to admit is that there will be only one winner out of this.
Here are the expected outcomes.
A free society of which everyone leaves each other alone.
I would love that.
Not going to happen anytime soon.
Or we win or they win.
It's that simple.
And currently they are winning.
Now, it's not just a matter of winning politically.
It's a matter of we have to win culturally, educationally, socially, spiritually.
It means that we must have an offensive, not an offensive, but an offensive mindset in every single way and capacity.
I was reminded this July 4th that we as conservatives must realize and frame the proper guardrails of what we're up against.
I know a lot of different conservatives and grassroots patriots listen to this right now.
It's an uncomfortable truth, but you listen to that Marine, that 100-year-old Marine, where he said, our country is going to hell in a handbasket.
It's not the country that it once was.
Why?
Well, I think it's because conservatives were okay with losing because they thought that what we had was not able to be lost.
Oh, it doesn't matter.
What difference does it make?
In fact, I'm creating a series of podcasts.
I write these podcasts and I sometimes use them, sometimes I don't.
But that is going to be a speech I'm going to give very soon, which is more destruction will be done in our lifetime when someone says, what difference does it make?
What difference does it make that you have to call someone a pro-nun that they ask?
What difference does it make that a 12-year-old gets chemically castrated?
What difference does it make that the baby in the womb gets terminated?
What difference does it make that a six-year-old has to get the gene therapy, experimental gene therapy call the vaccine?
What difference does it make if they take your guns away?
What difference does it make if 7,000 illegals come across the country, come across the border into our country?
And the answer is it makes all the difference.
The small things are the big things.
More destruction will be done to our way of life when people say what difference does it make.
So I'll present those three options.
Free society, not going to happen anytime soon, unfortunately.
We win or they win.
My politics is us winning and them losing.
Thank you so much for listening to everybody.
Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Thanks so much for listening.
God bless.
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