1 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 1: My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 1: American student organization in the country, fighting for the future 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 1: of our republic. My call is to fight evil and 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 1: to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you 5 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: is just feeling good, you're gonna end up miserable. But 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: if the most important thing is doing good, you'll end 7 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to 8 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: stop sending your kids to college. You should get married 9 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. 10 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 1: Go start at turning point, you would say, college chapter. 11 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 1: Go start at turning point, you say high school chapter. 12 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 1: Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign 13 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: up and become an activist. I gave my life to 14 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: the Lord in fifth grade, most important decision I ever 15 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: made in my life, and I encourage you to do 16 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:49,279 Speaker 1: the same. Here I am Lord, Use me. Buckle up, everybody, 17 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 1: Here we go. The Charlie Kirk Show is proudly sponsored 18 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:02,639 Speaker 1: by Preserved Gold, leading gold and silver experts and the 19 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:06,479 Speaker 1: only precious metals company. I recommend to my family, friends 20 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 1: and viewers. I love it. Hello everyone, thank you for 21 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 1: coming tonight. I heard there are some characters outside, so 22 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 1: that's always fun. So we're gonna We're gonna have some 23 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: fun tonight. I would love to just talk a little 24 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: bit about what our organization, Turning Point USA is doing 25 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: on college campuses across the country, the values that we 26 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: hold near and dear, some things that I feel personally, 27 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: and I'll disclaim those before I mentioned them. But also 28 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: I want to hear questions. I want to hear comments, disagreements, 29 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:43,479 Speaker 1: come ready with facts you've been warned, But I want 30 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 1: to have some dialogue. I want to hear what's going 31 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: on on your on campus right here at University of Illinois. 32 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: But this is these ideas that we're talking about first 33 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: and foremost, whether you agree or disagree, it's so important 34 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: to be able to fight for free speech on campus today, 35 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: which I've been a pretty pretty vocal critic of college 36 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: campuses if you follow me closely enough, if you look 37 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: at what's happening at UC Berkeley, Middlebury College speakers such 38 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 1: as myself shouted down, you know, stages being stormed. You know, 39 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 1: conservative ideas are really having a difficult time being heard 40 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:17,519 Speaker 1: on college campuses. But that's why I'm glad to be 41 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 1: here tonight in a hopefully very peaceful, respectful environment to 42 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: discuss these ideas, why we believe them, and hear your 43 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: your thoughts and your opinions in return. So I'm going 44 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: to go through a series of these and you can clap, 45 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:33,079 Speaker 1: you can boo, you can cheer, you can disagree. There's 46 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 1: about eight couple. I only have my personal opinion of 47 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: some that our organization holds near and dear. So the 48 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 1: first one, this is something that Turning Point USA talks 49 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:44,639 Speaker 1: a lot about, something that we believe near and dear 50 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: to our heart. America is the greatest country in the 51 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:59,679 Speaker 1: history of the world. Right, very good. So we talked 52 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 1: a lot of this, and I'm going to detail why 53 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 1: America is the greatest country in the history of the world. 54 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: First and foremost, it was the first country ever to 55 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: be founded on an idea, not on a racial background, 56 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: not on ethnocentrism, not on any sort of lineage, but 57 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: an idea, an idea, very simple, an idea that we 58 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 1: do not get our rights from government, but we get 59 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: our rights naturally, whether it be from a creator, from God, 60 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: or from some super supernatural being. So America is the 61 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: greatest country in the world for couple reasons. Number one, 62 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: our diversity. I'll talk about that, our economic power, our generosity, 63 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: and our upward mobility. Let's go one by one, our diversity. 64 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: You know, I talk a lot about this and people say, Charlie, 65 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: America is an institutionally racist country, and I respond, yes, 66 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: we absolutely have a history of racism in this country 67 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: that's bitter, and we need to fight at every single term. 68 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 1: We need to fight it when we see it in 69 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: the streets, we need to find it, fight it when 70 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 1: we see it on TV. Totally agree with that, but 71 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: I would make a compelling argument that America is actually 72 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: the least racist country in the world. We're the most 73 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 1: ethnically diverse, religiously diverse country in the world. We take 74 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: more immigrants into our country on a multiple than any 75 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: other country around the world. The next closest country it 76 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: takes anywhere near as many immigrants just recently would be Germany, France, Spain, 77 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: and some of the Western democracies in Europe. Now you 78 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: talked to some statistics about it. America for the last 79 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,359 Speaker 1: one hundred, one hundred and fifty years has been a 80 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: country that has embraced not any sort of national state 81 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 1: run religion, not sort of any sort of central ideology, 82 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,280 Speaker 1: but an idea that you can come here with nothing 83 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 1: and you could take risks and you can succeed. So 84 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: it's because of our diversity, and only in this country. 85 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: So someone want to name another country where you have 86 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 1: leaders in government, in culture, in business that are Asian Americans, 87 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 1: African Americans, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, atheist. No other country has 88 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: that sort of viewpoint diversity, No other country has that 89 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:51,160 Speaker 1: sort of religious diversity, and that is something that should 90 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: be applauded. But it's not just racial diversity, that's ethnic diversity, 91 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: but it's also ideological diversity. And this country we've always 92 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: had very vocal debates over political differences, over differences of 93 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: how to solve ideas. We're an incredibly ideologically diverse country 94 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: in a geographically diverse country too, whether people in Texas 95 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,160 Speaker 1: don't always are people in New York and California for 96 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 1: some reasons, some bad reasons. So the second one is 97 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: our economic strength. No other country in the history of 98 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: the world has been able to deliver the economic output 99 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: of the United States of America in such a short 100 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:24,559 Speaker 1: period of time. And I would argue it's mostly because 101 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,359 Speaker 1: of our embracing of free enterprise principles and our rejection 102 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: of socialist ideas. So since our inception in seventeen seventy six, 103 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: the same year that Adam Smith wrote The Incoury into 104 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:38,839 Speaker 1: the Wealth of Nations, we have seen one of the 105 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:42,359 Speaker 1: greatest success stories of economics, the greatest success stories of 106 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,719 Speaker 1: economics in human history. We have seen more people lifted 107 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 1: out of poverty, the greatest standard a living increase known 108 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 1: to man. And basically every country that's ever succeeded, even marginally, 109 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 1: has copied our policies of individual property rights, individual initiative, 110 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,559 Speaker 1: free enterprise, so on and so forth. We have five percent 111 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: of the world's population here in this country, five percent 112 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: of the world's population, yet we create over sixty five 113 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 1: percent of the world's wealth. We have seventy five out 114 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: of one hundred of the world's most valuable companies, and 115 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,280 Speaker 1: we have the greatest economic output of any engine. As 116 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: the expression goes, the world goes as America goes, and 117 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,599 Speaker 1: that's because we have created the largest economic engine. It's 118 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 1: not because we have the social programs or that we 119 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 1: because we distribute the most amount of goods and services. 120 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:25,720 Speaker 1: The reason not because of our population either. India has 121 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:28,279 Speaker 1: a billion people as one point three billion people. China 122 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 1: has a billion people. We have double the GDP of China. 123 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 1: Russia has more natural resources in America. The reason America's 124 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: the greatest economic country in the history of the world 125 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: is because still to this day, we're losing it a 126 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 1: little bit. We embrace free enterprise. We embrace the idea 127 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: that you can come here with nothing. In a short 128 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 1: period of time, you can work your way up the ladder, 129 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: what is called the American dream. Some people will disagree 130 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 1: with that, but I believe the American dream should be protected. 131 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: You can come here with nothing, risk everything, and create 132 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: an amazing amount of wealth for yourself and other people 133 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: in return. The third reason why America is the greatest 134 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,039 Speaker 1: country in the history of the world is generosity. And 135 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 1: I'm going to break generosity into two different components, generosity 136 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 1: domestically and generosity generosity internationally. So America by far is 137 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: the most generous country in the history of the world 138 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: by how we give just donations to international relief organizations, 139 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: how we give to churches, to synagogues, to mosques, to 140 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: local hospitals voluntarily. Last year, America gave over five hundred 141 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: and eighty billion dollars voluntarily to charity. To put that 142 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 1: in perspective, that's the GDP of about thirteen African countries 143 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 1: combined that people gave voluntarily to charity last year. We are, 144 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 1: by far, per capita, the most willing to give away 145 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 1: our own resources, time, energy, and money a way to 146 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: causes that we believe in. We're by far the most 147 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 1: economically generous, but we're also generous in another way that 148 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: I think gets widely misrepresented on college campuses and gets 149 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: widely misrepresented by the medium. We're also generous, and we 150 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: step up when the world is in me A great 151 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: example is the Korean War. The Korean War, you saw 152 00:07:56,120 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 1: the march of fatalitarian communism on the Korean Peninsula only, 153 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: but the United States sent our own men and women 154 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: to die. Fifty thousand Americans died for the creation of 155 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: a free society known as South Korea. If it wasn't 156 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: for our ability to intervene in the Korean Peninsula, we 157 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:15,239 Speaker 1: not have seen a free society such as South Korea 158 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: be created versus a totalitarian state of North Korea. The 159 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: final reason why America is the greatest country in the 160 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: history of the world is upward mobility. We still have 161 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 1: what I believe is a meritocracy. If you make good 162 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: decisions in this country, you are almost guaranteed, almost statistically guaranteed, 163 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 1: to stay out of institutional and perpetual poverty. Those three 164 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: decisions are this, to quote my favorite conservative thinker Ben Shapiro, 165 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 1: I see some people smiling right there. You know, if 166 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: you do these three things, you're almost assured to stay 167 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 1: out of poverty in this country. Not every country can 168 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 1: brag this. The three things are this, graduate from high school, 169 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: get married before you have kids, and get a job. 170 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 1: You do those three things, you're almost assured to stay 171 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 1: out of perpetual and institutional poverty in this country. So essentially, 172 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: we still are a country that embraces this idea of 173 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 1: making good choices. That also means that, yeah, if you 174 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:00,559 Speaker 1: make bad choices, you're going to live not as good 175 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: a life. But thankfully, thanks to what I mentioned earlier, 176 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: being the most generous country in the history of the world, 177 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: we have the most diverse and deep charitable network to 178 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: help people that really are at need, whether it be churches, mosques, synagogues, 179 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 1: and local community organizations. We are still an upwardly mobile society. 180 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,680 Speaker 1: I'm afraid we're losing part of that. But there is 181 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:21,959 Speaker 1: a reason why there are hundreds of millions of applications 182 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 1: to come into this country. There's a reason for that. 183 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:27,079 Speaker 1: It's because people around the world still look to America 184 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 1: as what Ronald Reagan called the City on the Hill, 185 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 1: as the last weak and the last great hope for 186 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: freedom in this world. And you know what, some people 187 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: don't embrace that. Some people say, I think, I think 188 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 1: we should be more egalitarian, we should be more equal. 189 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: We'll have a conversation about that if that's the most 190 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 1: important thing in the world. There's other countries that embrace 191 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 1: that model, I would say rather unsuccessfully. But this country 192 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 1: is about being able to start with nothing, achieve your dreams, 193 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: don't throw rocks at the top of the building, fix 194 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 1: the elevator. Being socially and economically mobile is what makes 195 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:53,959 Speaker 1: this country unique and great. 196 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 2: We're honored to be partnering with Alan Jackson Ministries and 197 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 2: today I want to point you to their podcast. It's 198 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:06,199 Speaker 2: called Culture in Christianity, the Alan Jackson Podcast. What makes 199 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 2: it unique is Pastor Allan's biblical perspective. He takes the 200 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 2: truth from the Bible and applies it to issues we're 201 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 2: facing today, gender confusion, abortion, immigration, doge Trump in the 202 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 2: White House, issues in the church. He doesn't just discuss 203 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 2: the problems in every episode, he gives practical things we 204 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 2: can do to make a difference. His guests have incredible 205 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:28,319 Speaker 2: expertise and powerful testimonies. They've been great friends and now 206 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 2: you can hear from Charlie and his own words. 207 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: Each episode will make you recognize the power of your 208 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: faith and how God can use your life to impact 209 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: our world today. The Culture in Christianity podcast is informative 210 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 1: and encouraging. You could find it on YouTube, Spotify, or 211 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Be sure to subscribe so 212 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:47,679 Speaker 1: you don't miss any episodes. Alan Jackson Ministries is working 213 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 1: hard to bring biblical truth back into our culture. You 214 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 1: can find out more about Pastor Allen and the ministry 215 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 1: at Alan Jackson dot com. Forward slash Charlie So second thing, 216 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 1: the constant Ution is the greatest political document ever written 217 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: in men, What do you men? Good? That? Okay? By men? 218 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: I could say without getting it too into it too 219 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 1: deep of a discussion about this. The Constitution was the 220 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: first political document institutionalized in government that protected what we 221 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 1: like to call natural rights. So we can go through 222 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 1: the amendments one by one. But the Founders, as in 223 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: their absolute and total genius, studied human history. They studied 224 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 1: the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the successes 225 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 1: of the British Empire. They studied Mets, they studied Mesopotamia, 226 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 1: they studied the Ottoman Empire, and they saw some commonalities. 227 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:37,400 Speaker 1: They actually saw no matter where you are in the world, 228 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 1: certain things do not change. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, that 229 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: the diffusion of power and representation in government is incredibly 230 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: important to represent but also that if you give too 231 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: much power to a centralized government without people having the 232 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: ability to have a check and balance on that, then 233 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 1: you're going to have a big problem. So, of course 234 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 1: they designed the three branches of government that we know today, 235 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 1: the executive, the legislative, and the judicial branch, and each 236 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: one of them have a check in balance on the other. 237 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: You can't get in the judicial unless you're originally nominated 238 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 1: by the executive and approved by the legislative. The people 239 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 1: who are in the who are in the legislative were 240 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: chosen by all of you in two different capacities, whether 241 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 1: it be on the Senate side or the House side, 242 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: and of course the executive is chosen through an electoral 243 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: college vote. The Constitution. If you look through the original 244 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 1: Bill of Rights, why do the founders put every single 245 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: one of those amendments in first amendment? Be able to 246 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: say what you want to say, when you want to 247 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 1: say it, as long as it doesn't harm someone else, 248 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:31,320 Speaker 1: an absolutely revolutionary concept when they drafted the Constitution, nor 249 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 1: the civilization before that protected and enumerated in their political 250 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 1: document the ability to express yourself. The second Amendment will 251 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:39,680 Speaker 1: get into that in a second under a lot of 252 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 1: heat right now, a lot of misrepresentation, look forward to 253 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 1: having a discussion on that. But you have to be 254 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:45,680 Speaker 1: able to protect your rights, not only protect your rights 255 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:47,679 Speaker 1: on an individual basis, put protect your rights against the 256 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 1: usurptaitious government, which, if you read history in the last 257 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 1: one hundred years, is riddled with governments that get too 258 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 1: much power and invade on our rights. The fourth Amendment 259 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 1: the ability to not have government invade your stuff without 260 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: a warrant. They're essentially protect against a two powerful government. 261 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:02,960 Speaker 1: Do you see a trend here? Almost all the amendments 262 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: that they enumerated in the original draft the Constitution was 263 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 1: to prevent government from being able to tell us how 264 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: to live our life, and that's again what makes America 265 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: so unique. Finally, you can go to the Fifth Amendment, 266 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 1: the right to representation and the right to do process, 267 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: and the tenth Amendment, which is my favorite amendment, which 268 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 1: is we actually probably didn't figure out everything. Times are 269 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 1: going to change, but we are going to leave the 270 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: things not enumerated in the Constitution to the people and 271 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: to the states. It shows the humility and it shows 272 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: the foresight of the founding fathers to be able to 273 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 1: put that in the Constitution. Here's the next one. This 274 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 1: will definitely get some response. Free enterprise capitalism is the 275 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:38,720 Speaker 1: most moral, effective and assured way to guarantee poverty, elimination, 276 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:47,560 Speaker 1: and prosperity for all. I can start to see a 277 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: couple of people getting a little triggered. I appreciate you 278 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: silently and respectfully enduring this because I'm a big proponent 279 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 1: of being able to hear something and disagree with. So 280 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:01,079 Speaker 1: in short, let's define first with free enterprise capitalism is 281 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: because I think it gets a horrible misrepresentation both by 282 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 1: academics and in the medium. So free enterprise Capitalism at 283 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 1: its core, is the belief that I can sell what 284 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: I want to sell, buy what I want to by 285 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:17,199 Speaker 1: not without government coercing itself into those transactions. It's the 286 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 1: belief that value is traded for value. It's the belief 287 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: that people get equally richer when trade happens, that trade 288 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: is a good thing. It's the belief in the price system. 289 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:27,640 Speaker 1: It's the belief in profit, and it's the belief in 290 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: private property rights. It's the three piece price system, private 291 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 1: property rights and profit. And you know what ELSEO is 292 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: a belief and it's the belief and losses that when 293 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 1: you take a risk and you lose, you should not 294 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: be bailed out by government. You should not be incentivized 295 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: one way or the other. Prices actually matter that prices 296 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 1: indicate something to us. If something costs too much or 297 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 1: something cost too little, it's either the consumer or the 298 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 1: buyer telling us something about that product, and people will 299 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: make appropriate choices as they see fit. If you look 300 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: at the World Economic Freedom Index, which I conveniently have 301 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 1: with me, you look at the countries with the highest 302 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 1: amount of economic freedom by total correlation, I would argue 303 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 1: and causation would have the highest round of economic freedom 304 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 1: also had the highest GDP per capita. Even the countries 305 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 1: that are the self professed socialist experiments of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, 306 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 1: and Finland are on the higher end of economic freedom. 307 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 1: As economic freedom continues to deteriorate, you start to see 308 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 1: people have less ability to make choices, own property and 309 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: government decisions. Government make decisions for them. Look no further 310 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: than the failed socialist experiment of Venezuela just five years ago. 311 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: That country is being heralded by none other than Bernie 312 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 1: Sanders and Michael Moore by the wonderful ability that to 313 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: provide everyone healthcare. Venezuela now has seven hundred percent inflation. 314 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 1: They're eating zoo animals because they're starving in the streets. 315 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 1: They're on the brink of civil war. They're anything but 316 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 1: democratic or equally represented. That is democratic, socialism and nutshell. 317 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: They're just about last on the economic freedom index. As 318 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 1: you get higher and higher on the ability to preserve 319 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 1: people's ability to preserve people's right, I would say to 320 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: buy what they want to buy and sell what they 321 00:15:57,600 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 1: want to sell, as long as I'm not harming someone else. 322 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:03,000 Speaker 1: The base non aggression principle, that is embedded in free 323 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 1: market capitalism. It has shown right now, despite what you 324 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: might think, world poverty is at an all time low. 325 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: We have never seen world poverty as low as it 326 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 1: is today. Less than ten percent of the world's population 327 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 1: lives in extreme poverty. Do we have a lot of 328 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: work to do? Absolutely? 329 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 2: Yes. 330 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: There's one point three billion people that live in India, 331 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: six hundred million of them don't have toilets. I'm not 332 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 1: saying po I'm not saying poverty is gone. I'm not 333 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 1: saying poverty is not an issue. I'm saying the best 334 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 1: way to address poverty is not give about give out 335 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: a munch of money. Not to say we need to 336 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: have block brands of billions of dollars or third world countries. Instead, 337 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: have people trade value to people, value for value. Trade 338 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 1: is the most assured way to lift the most amount 339 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 1: of people out of poverty in the quickest possible way. 340 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: The next one, Oh, this one's gonna be fun, fun, fun. 341 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 1: The gender wage gap is a total and complete Why 342 00:16:49,520 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 1: how about it? So it's I see these takes, If 343 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: you keep going, if you keep applauding, I love it. 344 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: So I hear all the time, and I want to 345 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:12,200 Speaker 1: be as respectful as I can to those that disagree 346 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 1: with me. But there is a movement, the seventy seven 347 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: cents on the dollar movement. Right, that women earn seventy 348 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:20,399 Speaker 1: seven cents on the dollar, then the man makes a 349 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:23,399 Speaker 1: man makes, And on its surface, that statistic is not untrue, 350 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: but incredibly deceiving and not taking into effect how long 351 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 1: those women have been in the workplace, education and other 352 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 1: work experiences. So breaking it down first and foremost using 353 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:38,919 Speaker 1: a more i would say, appropriate economic index, and then 354 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:41,919 Speaker 1: actually reciting some statistics that I think will really surprise 355 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:43,480 Speaker 1: all of you. It surprised me when I saw so 356 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 1: first and foremost. When you take into account men and 357 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 1: women equally that started the same major were in the 358 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 1: workforce at the same period of time, and had a 359 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:54,160 Speaker 1: similar trajectory in their own job, the wage gap nearly disappears. 360 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: It nearly disappears. In fact, women earn more than men. 361 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:00,920 Speaker 1: Let me recite some statistics to you recently graduate women 362 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:04,160 Speaker 1: from the ages of twenty two to twenty six in Atlanta, Memphis, 363 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 1: New York, and San Diego and Atlanta, women earn twenty 364 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 1: one percent more than men under the age of twenty five. 365 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 1: In Atlanta and Memphis, women earn twenty percent more than 366 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,120 Speaker 1: men under the age of thirty. In New York, women 367 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: earn seventeen percent more than men under the age of 368 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:20,400 Speaker 1: twenty eight. In San Diego, women earn fifteen percent more 369 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:21,879 Speaker 1: than men under the age of twenty seven. Do you 370 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 1: see a trend here that actually, we have more women 371 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,879 Speaker 1: than ever going to college. Sixty percent of all college 372 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,920 Speaker 1: graduates are women. That's a good thing. Right, we should 373 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 1: applaud that right. Isn't that a good thing? Because of that, 374 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,919 Speaker 1: we're seeing a near obliteration of this idea that we 375 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,119 Speaker 1: need a government bureaucracy and a government mandate to eliminate 376 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 1: gender based wage discrimination. Look no further than our organization. 377 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: Turning point USA. I'll use a micro example. No one 378 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 1: told me to hire women, No one told me to 379 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: hire men. Yet we have more women that work for 380 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:50,960 Speaker 1: us than men. And the women that work for us 381 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 1: earn more than men. What a concept. It's because they're 382 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:54,960 Speaker 1: really good at what they do. And women are better 383 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 1: than men and certain things, and men are better than 384 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: women at certain things. Yes, I will say that again, 385 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:01,120 Speaker 1: women are better than men at certain things, and men 386 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 1: are better than women in certain things, and I think 387 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 1: that's an okay thing to say. At the US average 388 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:10,639 Speaker 1: found this is a study. You can check it out 389 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 1: yourself by NPR. Now, NPR is not exactly a conservative 390 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 1: think tank, Folks, Okay, NPR that recent college graduate women 391 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:21,440 Speaker 1: earn eight percent more than recent college graduate men as 392 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:24,119 Speaker 1: of February first of this last year. So you're seeing 393 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: the gender wage pay gap absolutely disappear for recent college graduates. 394 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 1: In fact, isn't there there is a wage gap in 395 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: favor of women. I have no problem with that because 396 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 1: it's happening in a market based way, because I do 397 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 1: believe again that women are better than men at certain 398 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 1: professions and will let the market sort it out. As predicted, 399 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:42,439 Speaker 1: women will out earn men without government having to mandate it. 400 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:46,080 Speaker 1: You might say, Charlie, but what about employers that intentionally 401 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:49,439 Speaker 1: discriminate against women. Well, there's actually a law that's already 402 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:51,080 Speaker 1: been passed. It was signed in the law by John F. 403 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 1: Kennedy in nineteen sixty three, which is illegal to pay 404 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,879 Speaker 1: a woman or pay a man less work for equal 405 00:19:56,920 --> 00:19:59,439 Speaker 1: work in for a profession. So if you know an 406 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:01,919 Speaker 1: instance where that what's happening, you should report them to 407 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 1: the Better Business Bureau or report them to the Department 408 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: of Labor. What theyre's the statistic and the lie that 409 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 1: is built around this is that there is this institutional 410 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 1: sexism built in into business, which is wrong. It's false, 411 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 1: it's wrong, it's built on bad statistics. You can see 412 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:18,360 Speaker 1: women are actually out earning men that are recently graduating college. 413 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 1: That is a wage gap, but in the wrong direction. 414 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 2: We're honored to be partnering with Alan Jackson Ministries and 415 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 2: today I want to point you to their podcast. It's 416 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 2: called Culture in Christianity, The Alan Jackson Podcast. What makes 417 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:36,199 Speaker 2: it unique is Pastor Allan's biblical perspective. He takes the 418 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 2: truth from the Bible and applies it to issues we're 419 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 2: facing today, gender confusion, abortion, immigration, Doge Trump, and the 420 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 2: White House issues in the church. He doesn't just discuss 421 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 2: the problems in every episode, he gives practical things we 422 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:51,280 Speaker 2: can do to make a difference. His guests have incredible 423 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 2: expertise and powerful testimonies. They've been great friends and now 424 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 2: you can hear from Charlie in his own words. 425 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 1: Each episode will make you recognize the power of your 426 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: faith and how God can use your life to impact 427 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 1: our world today. The Culture in Christianity podcast is informative 428 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,399 Speaker 1: and encouraging. You could find it on YouTube, Spotify, or 429 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Be sure to subscribe so 430 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: you don't miss any episodes. Alan Jackson Ministries is working 431 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:17,359 Speaker 1: hard to bring biblical truth back into our culture. You 432 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: can find out more about Pastor Allen and the ministry 433 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:26,199 Speaker 1: at Alan Jackson dot com. Forward slash Charlie the next one. Oh, 434 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: this one's going to be too much fun. White privilege 435 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,879 Speaker 1: is a divisive, data skewed campaign built on wise, how 436 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 1: about that white privilege? I love this song white Privilege. Now, 437 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,399 Speaker 1: while recognizing, of course everyone has a certain element of 438 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 1: privilege in your ability to think, your size, your background, income, 439 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 1: this idea that every person that has white skin has 440 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: an institutional advantage and has a thing called white privilege, 441 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,199 Speaker 1: which I'm sure you've all heard once or twice throughout 442 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 1: your college years, is wrong. It's built on bad days, 443 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 1: and I think it's incredibly divisive. So I asked someone 444 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: the other day. They said, you know, white privilege is 445 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 1: a horrible thing. White people are much better off than 446 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 1: people of minority and color. And so a couple things. 447 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 1: First of all that anyone want to guess with the 448 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,360 Speaker 1: richest sub racial group in America is right now, it's 449 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:20,400 Speaker 1: not white people, it's Asian Americans. And that actually goes 450 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 1: back to why the Constitution is the greatest political document 451 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,919 Speaker 1: ever written by man. The Constitution was not written in Korean, Okay, 452 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:29,400 Speaker 1: it was written in English. Essentially means that any anyone 453 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:33,680 Speaker 1: can succeed in this country. Asian Americans came here mostly 454 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 1: fleeing communism and socialism. In the late nineteen thirties early 455 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:39,239 Speaker 1: nineteen forties, we did not treat Asian Americans very well. 456 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: In fact, we should be ashamed of our history of 457 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 1: our treatment of Asian Americans in the nineteen forties. We 458 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 1: built internment camps, We violated their constitutional rights. Despite all that, 459 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: they rose past horrible oppression, graduated high school and record rates, 460 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: built businesses all throughout the West Coast, grew and grew 461 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,679 Speaker 1: and grew as a portion of the population. They are 462 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,639 Speaker 1: now the richest per capula, per capita racial group in 463 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,400 Speaker 1: the country. I have no problem with that at all. 464 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,879 Speaker 1: I think that's actually a great thing. I think embodies meritocracy, 465 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: which meant what makes this country so unique and so great. 466 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:10,280 Speaker 1: But this idea of white privilege. So I had this 467 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: discussion the other day, and this might sound a little aggressive, 468 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,680 Speaker 1: but so apologize in advance. But this guy said, all 469 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 1: white people are very privileged. I said, all white people. 470 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: Do you really want to stand behind that? I said, 471 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:21,719 Speaker 1: and I challenged with a couple of statistics which were 472 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 1: too easy, that there's twice as many white people living 473 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 1: in poverty than black people. But that's not percentage of population, 474 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 1: so it's a little bit of a deceiving statistic. Admittedly 475 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,720 Speaker 1: that black people live in a lot worse poverty conditions 476 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 1: per portion of their population. So I even self dismissed 477 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 1: that statistic. But I asked, I said a very innocent question. 478 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,479 Speaker 1: I said, would you consider Jewish people to be white? 479 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:40,399 Speaker 1: And he said yes, absolutely. I said, do you think 480 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 1: they had a good twentieth century? Do you think they 481 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,640 Speaker 1: lived they privileged life in the laste hundred years? And 482 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:48,399 Speaker 1: he's stammering. And that's the point is that, unfortunately, you know, 483 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 1: Jewish people in particular are categorized as white. I wouldn't 484 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 1: necessarily think that they have some sort of inherent privilege. 485 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,119 Speaker 1: In fact, there was an extermination order against them throughout 486 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 1: all of Europe. They were drove out of their houses 487 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: by thousands of miles, and million of them led to 488 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 1: their grave. That's not to say that they should get 489 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,399 Speaker 1: any more preferential treatment in another group. There's been horrible 490 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 1: atrocities committed throughout the twentieth century. I wouldn't consider them 491 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 1: to be a privileged class. I don't think that they're 492 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 1: born with a certain amount of institutional privilege more so 493 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:15,680 Speaker 1: than another group. Now, if any of you disagree, I 494 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 1: would love to hear that about how you believe there's 495 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,439 Speaker 1: institutional racism throughout our country and we can have a 496 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:30,679 Speaker 1: discussion on that such as like where I started this. 497 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 1: I went to high school, decided not to go to college. 498 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:40,159 Speaker 1: Self funded an organization, successfully raised ten million dollars in 499 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: the last two years, employe one hundred and fifty people, 500 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,440 Speaker 1: became a best selling offer, the youngest speaker at the 501 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: Republican National Convention. Worked for the successful campaign of President Trump, 502 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:52,400 Speaker 1: was a member of the presidential transition team. I think 503 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: I'm doing okay, But yeah, but was it all because 504 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:04,400 Speaker 1: of me? No? But I'm sorry. My father's an architect, 505 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,199 Speaker 1: my mom's a mental health psychiatrist. I lived an above 506 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:11,679 Speaker 1: average privileged life. I raised it from six thousand donors 507 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,919 Speaker 1: in fifty states, going to different events, different people that 508 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 1: found our initiative and our effort Worthwhile I don't receive 509 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,679 Speaker 1: Koch brother money, because that's a question I could just 510 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:24,680 Speaker 1: hear coming out of left of my ear from over there, 511 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: but it's from patriots across the country that had successful 512 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:32,160 Speaker 1: businesses liquid liquidated effectively. They say, here's an effort that's 513 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 1: actually mobilizing and educating young people around values that I 514 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: care about. Was it all because of me? No, people 515 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:39,679 Speaker 1: believed in me, people invested in me. But I know 516 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:41,160 Speaker 1: a lot of people that went to the same high 517 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:42,959 Speaker 1: school I did that grew up with a lot more money, 518 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: that are bankrupt, have student loans up the wazoo, and 519 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 1: are living a pretty less than desirable life. If you 520 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: want to use me as a poster child for privilege, 521 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,120 Speaker 1: go ahead. I've made good choices. I've employed over five 522 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,199 Speaker 1: hundred people in the last five years. I'm proud of 523 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,639 Speaker 1: that people have jobs because I took a risk. Great, 524 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 1: but that's not I think an effective argument to argue 525 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 1: institutional privilege. So it's been I think meritocracy exists, and 526 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,120 Speaker 1: I think I'm an embodying of it, so I appreciate 527 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:15,120 Speaker 1: the kind interruption, So thank you. No, it's good, it's good. 528 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:17,639 Speaker 1: We'll have questions a little bit. Thank you though. So 529 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: here's the next one that's kind of aggressive, But actually 530 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,680 Speaker 1: I think this will get widespread support. College should be 531 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 1: only three years, and it is way too expensive. You 532 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 1: are all getting ripped off. So there we go. I 533 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,160 Speaker 1: always get the most amount of clause for that one. 534 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,639 Speaker 1: Right now, again, I will admit I did not go 535 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,160 Speaker 1: to college. Seventy percent of Americans did not go to college. 536 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 1: The biggest attack I get against me is Charlie, you 537 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:41,399 Speaker 1: don't know what you're talking about because you don't have 538 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 1: a four year degree. If you are going to encapsulate 539 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 1: yourself and only listen to people that have doctorates or 540 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: master's degrees, then I'm sorry because there's a lot of 541 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,440 Speaker 1: wisdom and plumber's electricians and mainstream America people that did 542 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: not go through the four year traditional route. If I 543 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 1: had a college degree and I was saying everything I 544 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,680 Speaker 1: said today, you wouldn't say that. So it completely invalidates 545 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,439 Speaker 1: any sort of line attack. Say this college as we 546 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,680 Speaker 1: know it today, both Republicans and Democrats have created a 547 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:09,520 Speaker 1: system that benefits the administration, benefits the endowment board, and 548 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:15,080 Speaker 1: does not benefit students. Most modernized countries, including Germany, France, Spain, 549 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 1: Gracium actually using a Bernie Sanders tactic here talk about Europe. 550 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 1: Most modernized countries do college and three years, not four. 551 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:23,639 Speaker 1: How many of you took a class that you probably 552 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 1: felt was redundant or you didn't want to pay for it, 553 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,200 Speaker 1: but it was forced upon you almost all of you, right. 554 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,359 Speaker 1: How many of you had professors that you felt should 555 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,119 Speaker 1: be fired almost all of you. How many you have 556 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:32,879 Speaker 1: had high school teachers you felt should be fired? All 557 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,359 Speaker 1: this the point being is that it's no longer about 558 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,680 Speaker 1: individual choice. It's like you must take these four years 559 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,760 Speaker 1: of school or else you're not going to be successful 560 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,119 Speaker 1: in the world. So I make the compelling argument that 561 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,880 Speaker 1: college should be much closer to the German model, which 562 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 1: is three years. College should not be about life exploration. 563 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 1: It should be about career preparation. College should be about 564 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 1: what am I going to get out of this, not 565 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 1: because I have to go. The number one question that 566 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,199 Speaker 1: we ask our high school seniors is not why are 567 00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 1: you going to college? We ask where are you going 568 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,119 Speaker 1: to college. We've care we need a cultural expectation to 569 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,080 Speaker 1: go to college. The national graduation rate from college is 570 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,119 Speaker 1: fifty nine percent. It's much higher at this nice university, 571 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 1: but I means forty one percent of students that enter 572 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 1: four year college will not graduate. That tells me we 573 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,399 Speaker 1: have way too many people going to college and that 574 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 1: college is not doing a great job of self selling 575 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 1: themselves anyway. College should only be three years. It's way 576 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 1: too expensive, subsidized by the federal government. We could talk long, 577 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 1: long about that. I can already start to hear complaints 578 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 1: and comments on that one. So two more and then 579 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 1: we're gonna have a discussion where we bring the microphones 580 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:33,680 Speaker 1: in the aisle, and then we're just gonna be able 581 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:35,760 Speaker 1: to have question and answer throughout the entire time. This 582 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 1: one is my own personal opinion, not that of Turning 583 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: Point USA. I'm not going to expound on it too much, 584 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: but if you'd like to challenge me, please go ahead. 585 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 1: It might be the most controversial, at least controversial, the 586 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 1: greatest agreement or at least agreement. Three words that I 587 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 1: believe to be true. God is real. Okay, those are 588 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 1: my three days. So I say this for a reason. 589 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 1: I find the rise of atheism in this country to 590 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 1: be curious and to be something I find to be 591 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 1: alarming because I believe that as a culture starts to 592 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 1: embrace atheism, not agnosticism. Let me separate the two. I 593 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 1: think agnosticism is a perfectly respectable intellectual belief. It means 594 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 1: I'm still curious and searching for the truth. The problem 595 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 1: with atheism that I personally have is that it's so certain. 596 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 1: It's that I have come to the irrefutable conclusion that 597 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: there is not a God, and that I am atheist. 598 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,440 Speaker 1: That I believe that there is no God. So I 599 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,960 Speaker 1: hold the belief that God is real. Whether you're Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, 600 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 1: or Jew makes no difference to me. Or you could 601 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,960 Speaker 1: be agnostic. But I believe firmly that the rise of 602 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 1: atheism in this country, and it is rising quickly. I 603 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 1: think something like thirteen percent of millennial self identify as atheist, 604 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 1: is disturbing and something that I think should be challenged 605 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: respectfully in a forum such as this finally my favorite one, 606 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 1: and then we'll get to questions. Socialism is evil, wrong 607 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 1: and in effective and must be stopped at every turn 608 00:29:52,880 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 1: here in the country. So we say socialism sucks and 609 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 1: we believe it. Let's define socialism. Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, 610 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,520 Speaker 1: which people throw at me all the time again have 611 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,600 Speaker 1: more capitalist tendencies at time at times than the United 612 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,720 Speaker 1: States despite having a very very high tax rate. They 613 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 1: have no national military. I talk more about what I 614 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 1: would consider people that go all in for socialism, or 615 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 1: countries that are very very low on the World Economic 616 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 1: Freedom Index, such a Venezuela such as Argentina, such as Brazil, 617 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 1: which is slipping quickly. But you can also look at 618 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:36,160 Speaker 1: the failed socialist experiments of Portugal, of Spain, of Italy, 619 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:38,640 Speaker 1: of Greece that have bankrupted their country that they have 620 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:42,720 Speaker 1: double digit unemployment, near forty percent unemployment, youth unemployment in Spain, 621 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 1: and my favorite example, which is Cuba, not my favorite, 622 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 1: I shouldn't say one of my favorite examples, which is Cuba, 623 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 1: which has wholeheartedly gone all in to the communist tradition 624 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: and has suppressed human rights for over sixty years, has 625 00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:00,120 Speaker 1: seen little to no economic progress compared to that what 626 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 1: comparable Western countries and is a absolute failed socialist disaster. 627 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:07,080 Speaker 1: But even more than that, you look at the body 628 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,920 Speaker 1: count of those people that have under the guys of socialism. Admittedly, 629 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 1: not all of them might have believed in the pure 630 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,800 Speaker 1: Marxist doctrine as enumerated in the Communist Manifesto, but nevertheless 631 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 1: they use socialism as a way to build a movement 632 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 1: and as a way to amass incredible amounts of political 633 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 1: power rooted in Marxist ideology. The USSR, which unfortunately murdered 634 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,920 Speaker 1: sixty one million people, mau to the Chinese Communist Party 635 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,920 Speaker 1: thirty five million people. Some would say Germany, which I 636 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:37,840 Speaker 1: would argue was more fascism, but he did use the 637 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,720 Speaker 1: word socialism in his original term. The National Socialist Workers 638 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 1: Party twenty million people. Cambonian communists killed two million people, 639 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:51,960 Speaker 1: Vietnamese one million USSR communists unknown throughout the Eastern Eastern Bloc. 640 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 1: Grand total last one hundred years that we know of, 641 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty nine million people murdered under the 642 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 1: guys of socialism communism. It's a pretty bad body count 643 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,520 Speaker 1: if you ask me so. Only a socialism evil, but 644 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 1: I believe it's ineffective when put into practice, and I 645 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,720 Speaker 1: think the worst parts of our American political experiment recently 646 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 1: have been those that are most socialist in its inclination. 647 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Veterans Administration, which is single pair 648 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,920 Speaker 1: universal healthcare, governor run doctors. You come in waiting lines, 649 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 1: vets dying in record numbers. We spend one hundred and 650 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,440 Speaker 1: eighty billion dollars a year in the VA, and it 651 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,320 Speaker 1: has horrible approval ratings. And they're saying that we don't 652 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 1: have enough money. They own. They see about a million 653 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,520 Speaker 1: patients a year. You can do the math. That's a 654 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 1: lot of money per patient, right, and you look and 655 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 1: calculate it. Through and through where free enterprise and capitalism 656 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,600 Speaker 1: is allowed to be experimented here domestically and around the world, 657 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 1: we have seen an incredible flourishing of success. Socialism is evil, wrong, 658 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 1: ineffective and must be stopped here in this country. I 659 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,360 Speaker 1: remain committed to it, and that's why Bernie Sanders and 660 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 1: I get along so well. On Twitter. We have quite 661 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,120 Speaker 1: a well, it's not really back and forth. It's more 662 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,720 Speaker 1: just like a one one way diatribe. By the way, 663 00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,360 Speaker 1: I do want to say one thing, a little unexpected, 664 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,360 Speaker 1: a little, but I appreciate the commitment to allowing me 665 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,040 Speaker 1: to say my piece. For those of you that disagree 666 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:04,760 Speaker 1: with me. That means a lot, and you should have 667 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,200 Speaker 1: We should all applaud that those us constriged it. So thanks, 668 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:08,760 Speaker 1: so I appreciate that. 669 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 2: For more on many of these stories and news you 670 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 2: can trust, go to Charliekirk dot com