From the Archive: Charlie's Why — From His 2018 CLS Speech

00:00:03 Speaker 1: My name is Charlie kirk I run the largest pro American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you'll end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start at turning point. You would say college chapter. Go start aturning point, yould say high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade, most important decision I ever made in my life, and I encourage you to do the same. Here I am Lord, Use me. Buckle up, everybody, Here we go. 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Of course not I could bash the Italian's NonStop, a lot of nostrological You think she's Italian, her parents had like invented the country. Anyway, So I'm trying to explain to them all this and they say, well, wait, so people voluntarily I was just bashing Italy, that's okay. So she's like, yeah, that's okay. People voluntarily give money to Turning Point USA. Like what do they get out of it like equity? Are they like shareholders? Like? No, no, No, We're a nonprofit, We're a charity and we have thirty thousand donors all across the country, a growing budget. You know, people that believe in US. People will give money without getting something in return, just to advanced ideas and all this. They say, yeah, but they get nothing in return. It's not a business investment. They don't understand philanthropy in Europe. They don't understand individuals helping individuals. They couldn't wrap their head around the idea that an eighteen or nineteen year old would not go as they call it, university is what they call it over there, that wouldn't go to university would start something to actually try to save the country and it would be successful. And so everything that I believe and I'm in just the speech I'm gonna give today is an unusual one, but it's one that all of you will enjoy. Why I believe what I believe, and why I started this, and the foundational principles at the very level, a very foundational level. And then we'll open up for questions. What I believe that America is the greatest country ever to exist, period, bar none is the greatest country ever to exist, right, you're looking at a living example of that. If I was an enthusiastic eighteen year old from France that really thought that France need to be turned around, which it does, by the way, it's a total disaster. Or if I was a really enthusiastic brit but with that place at a mess, or what unbelievable. I'm glad we did the first Brexit way back when. I'm glad we did we defected from that madness. But if I really believed in that, I couldn't have done this. I would have been looked by European snobbish elites. Go to college, just go do that, this is a waste of time. Or we don't give our money to anything unless it's a business investment. By the way, the amazing Brown family, I love them, unbelievably great from Colorado State University. Your sister did an amazing work. Anyway, does amazing work. This wouldn't have been possible anywhere else, and so only in America when an eighteen year old with no idea what he was doing, literally no idea, be able to walk the halls the Republican National Convention. Give out business cards to every human being that you could possibly see that I made on a little topographical printer, say, we are losing our country. Young people are the answer. We need to do more in college campuses and bit by bit and piece by piece, people said, oh yeah, I might believe in you a little bit. I'll pitching five hundred dollars. So the first year you raised twenty thousand dollars, which at the time was unbelievable amount of money. Right, And we didn't have an office, we didn't have a staff. It was just me just traveling the country doing this pure grit peer energy. And I was driven by core ideas and core principles that we are we should be thankful, not angry to live in this country. Would you agree we should be thankful. We should be kising the ground and saying we are the luckiest human beings ever to exist, that we are able to live in this country at this time with this president. We should be so thankful. Right, were allowed to say that here? I think we're allowed to say that, And yet I see that half our country seems upset, they seem angry that they're born in this country. 00:05:25 Speaker 2: If you think wireless companies are all the same, you might need to take a look at our friends over at Patriot Mobile. Patriot Mobile isn't just different because of its mission, It's actually built to outperform the other carriers. They offer premium priority nationwide service on any of the three major US networks, helping you get the best possible coverage wherever life takes you. With Patriot Mobile, you can even have two separate networks on a single device, eliminating the need to carry multiple phones and giving you peace of mind you just can't get with other carriers. Need Internet on the go, Patriot Mobile Wi Fi hotspots connect to multiple netw it works to keep you connected while traveling or working remotely. 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And this is something I want all of you to bring back to your campuses because the what is in consequential. The how is inconsequential. It's important, but it's not going to get you to that fundamental level. If you can answer the why, then you can answer every single question. Then why is like a shovel because you can keep on asking, you keep on digging deeper, and you can keep on digging deeper. So someone say, Charlie, do you believe in tax cuts? I'll say yes, right, I believe in that. So someone said the next question is what? What? Okay? What? Fine? Well, I believe that people should be free from government. I believe that you should be able to keep the money that you earn. That your time, your treasure, your own property is yours, not someone else's. What's the next question you should ask someone? Why? Why do you believe that? Okay? Why? I believe that individuals, the individual is much more important than the collective. Correct, right. The most important thing is the protection of your consciousness, of your choices, of your creativity, of whether it be good choices or bad choices. You should be able to benefit from making good choices, but you might have to suffer if you make bad ones. What's the next question you should ask why? Now we're getting really deep. Right now, we're getting to philosophy. Forget politics. What do we start with taxes? We're talking about what human nature. I believe that human beings are broken by nature, that we are not We're not good. In fact, we're really, really, really bad. So I believe that we have to teach goodness to our children. See someone, let's make an objective argument to this. Some people will say, well, the Marxists, for example, the Marxists will always say we are good people in a broken system. How have you heard this before? But this is the postmodernist stuff. Yeah, of course, my buddy from Portland here, he might as well live in Caracas, Venezuela, Portland, organ where the disaster that city is. But we're going to come and speak out there once we go do that. So the Marxists will say, we are good, but we live in a broken culture, in a broken system, rigged for what, rigged for the rich, the powerful, in the elite, against us, which bring out the worst parts of human nature. We as individualists, we that believe in rational and reason and history, will say, well, no human beings are broken by nature. We should not try to be perfected at all. That's a horrific idea. Utopianism is evil. The idea of utopianism is impossible, and it is evil. More people have died on the pursuit of utopianism than any other idea in the history of humanity, whether it be Mao's China or Polepot's Vietnam, or Stalin's Russia, or Mugabe Zimbabwe or Castro's Cuba or the Kim jan Uns of North Korea. More people die in the pursuit of utopianism than any other idea. Now, why is that? Because people are broken by nature? And you say, Charlie, why or how do you can you possibly know that? So this is where it gets in the chart. Why Charlie believes what Charlie believes? Right? Why do you believe something very simple and it's three words. You might believe, he might not. God is real. I believe that I believe there is a God, and I think we shouldn't be afraid to say it. If you believe that, great. If you're not sure, that's okay. If you don't believe that, that's okay too. But why do I believe what I believe? Well? I believe in the idea of original sin, Okay. I believed in the Judeo Christian construct that God created a perfect person that fell from nature, that committed a piece of sin. We all know the original story of Adam and Eve, and then sin was entered in the world. God created a perfect world that was broken by sin, and ever since we have three words to describe life life as suffering. 00:10:20 Speaker 2: Hi, folks, Andrew Colvett here, I'd like to tell you about my friends over at Why REFI. You've probably been hearing me talk about Why REFI for some time now. We are all in with these guys. If you or someone you know is struggling with private student loan debt, take my advice and give them a call. Maybe you're behind on your payments, maybe you're even in default. You don't have to live in this nightmare anymore. Why refy will provide you a custom payment based on your ability to pay. They tailor each loan individually. They can save you thousands of dollars and you can get your life back. We go to campuses all over America and we see student after student who's drowning in private state and loan debt. Many of them don't even know how much they owe. Why ref I can help. Just go to wy refi dot com. That's the letter, why then refi dot com? 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Where's Sophia. She's somewhere. She's yeah, well it is Shabbish, right, so it's okay. The Bible's the greatest book ever to exist. Sixty books, over thirty authors, five thousand years of history, answers to every single problem that you could ever possibly encounter with the most important individual ever to exist, whether you agree with them, disagree with them, think he was divine or not divine, he was the most important person ever to exist. We used to have our calendar based around him. Now they're changing that too, But he was the most influential person ever to exist. No book has been copied, replicated, translated, or read as much as the Bible. But no book has been banned or burned or banished as much as the Bible. It is the most important book ever to exist, the most influential book. Even if you think it is heresy and it is old wives tales, it's inarguable. Yet it's the one book we don't teach in our schools, which I find to be very troubled. We'll get back to that in a second. So, Charlie, why do you believe what you believe? Well, I believe quite simply that God created the heavens in the universe and everything that we exist in and he created man. Now why did he create man? No, that's a whole different conversation. I'm not going to get into that, but I will say this that if you look at if you want to describe the Bible in six words, anyone wantn't you try to do that and want to try to describe the Bible and six words you do that, I'll give you a prize. Really tough, right, if I had to do it is life is suffering, redemption is possible? Six words? Not bad? Right, That's the story. Of the Bible in six words. Now, it's more than just the story of the Bible. It's the story of Western civilization. See Western civilization. What we live in today is based on the Judeo Christian construct that things suck. We get that. The problem is the communists will never admit that. They'll say things suck now, but we're going to create utopia. Things will get better. We'll take money from the rich, we'll create something a lot better. But pup, up, upbout all this down sense, right, and people believe in it. Free healthcare, free medicare free, this free schooling. Right. They're always trying to paint that there's something in the distance that's always going to be better. But you know what we as conservatives need to do. We need to tell brutally hard truths, not well crafted lies. We need to say, you know what, You're gonna suffer. You're probably gonna get sick, you're gonna lose loved ones, you're gonna lose a job, You're gonna have a lot of a lot of tough times. Okay, we all get that. So what can first and foremost, what's the most important next question after that? Not what revolution? I can start, not what government I can overthrow. What's the most important question after that, what you can do about it? Right? What can the individual do? As my buddy Jordan Peterson says, we love Jordan Peterson, right, we loved him. He's so right. We love Jordan. Sit up straight, tell the truth, work harder, be better today than you were yesterday, and find a way to be better tomorrow than you were today. That's the story of Western civilization because for thousands and thousands and thousands of years people lived as serfs. You got up every single day, you worked in the field. If you were lucky, you had a wife, you had a kid. The kid had half a chance of living because infant mortality was so high. You lived in suffering, You went to church. That was it, and then you die when you're thirty five. That's human history between essentially one hundred BC to seventeen hundred Literally that was it is some variations, lots of wars, lots of conflict. 00:15:13 Speaker 2: Angel Studios has a new feature film that is a must see and I really really mean it. 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And they decided to do the impossible and the improbable and start a revolution against the greatest military power to exist of its time. And they were successful, and they overthrew the government, and they were the first political victors in world history. Think about this, the first political victors in world history that voluntarily gave up their political power. They could have created the Washingtonian, JEFFERSONI and Hamiltonian ruling class. But they gave up their political power back to the people. They said, I don't want to be the ruler, I don't want to be king. I'm going to give it back to the people. Now. Is the Constitution a perfect political document? No, nothing's perfect except the divinity of God. But it is the best political document ever written by far, by far. Now it is the best for one very simple reason, because they acknowledged exactly what I believe human beings are broken by nature, that human beings are very predictable. The rise and fall of the Roman, the Greek, the Chinese, and the British Empire are all very similar, even though they came in totally different times in totally different parts of the world. And what was similar about them that when too much power gets concentrated too quickly, people die, people suffer, people's lives don't get better. So they said, boy, that was a disaster. They started to study Aristotle, which talked about brutal truth and not Plato's utopianism. Big difference, right, So Plato talked all about we could talk communism, we do all, let's forget about that, talk about the individual, all about the individual, the individual and the individual individual. Constitution was we'll get back to the constitution a second. But how does this all connect to why I believe what we believe? Well, this is where the left gets it so horribly, horribly wrong. And I want you to raise your hand if you've heard this that somehow the Bible or the Life of Jesus is a defense of Marxism and communism, like Jesus is the communist. Who's heard this before? Right. You've all heard this, well, I love it because it's a bunch of atheists telling me this first and foremost right. So, first of all, if there's any atheists here, God bless you. Good, God bless you, God bless you. I'll pray for you. They don't find that fun. I'm kidding up, kidding up to me. Without God, there would be no atheists. I got a couple more, but I'll save him for later. What I what, I always what? I always am challenged by that. So, first of all, a lot of atheists always try to use the life of Jesus Christ as a defense of neomarxism. So why do I believe what I believe? Well, I believe that the Gospel and four words, okay, gospel and forwards, what is the gospel? If you ever want to say, if you if you're not a believer, that's fine, I'm gonna tell you what the Gospel is. And four words through words two words won't work. Forwards, Jesus took my place. Forwards, okay, three words him for me, two words substitutionary, atonement, one word grace. That's it. That's the Gospel. Four three two one words. You don't have to believe that. That's fine. I'm not trying to evangelize. I'm just telling you what I believe and why I believe. This is not this is not reflect the views a turning point. You say, you hear that, Tyler, you get that. That's all good, Okay, But why did I start this? Why why do I fight as hard as I fight? And why why do I do this? Okay? So those are the those are the Gospel. So the story of the Gospel and the story of the Bible is life is so offering redemption as possible. So we have four accounts Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John by four different authors from four different perspectives, four different backgrounds, written in two different languages, that account the depiction of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Okay, we got it. Whether or not you believe in it or you don't believe in it, it's miraculous. It's amazing that those texts actually existed, that the parallels, non contradictions, all those sorts of things happen. There's no other historical figure with that sort of that sort of authenticity, that sort of verification that long, that stood the test of time. With the archaeological backing and that evidence. That's pretty amazing. That's pretty miraculous. 00:21:33 Speaker 2: Hi, folks, Andrew Colvett here, I'd like to tell you about my friends over at why Refy. You've probably been hearing me talk about why Refi for some time now. We are all in with these guys. If you or someone you know is struggling with private student loan debt, take my advice and give them a call. Maybe you're behind on your payments, maybe you're even in default. You don't have to live in this nightmare anymore. Why Refy will provide you a custom payment based on your your ability to pay. 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Ever, he never talked about banning your resources together, or pooling a bunch of stuff as a collective, or overthrowing a governments that you could have a better running community. Said no, no, you go give away your money, right, the first center amongst you throw the first stone. It's not well, we can the ends justify the means. Therefore, oh, he never said any that stuff. It was always about the individual. It was about voluntary cooperation, right. It was always about treat others the way you want to be treated. Essentially is the golden rule? Right? Well, what system requires you to treat others the way you want to be treated? What system? The exactly? Capitalism exactly right? What's up man? How it is you? No? I didn't realize you there? And capitalism exactly right? Because if you if you treat a customer horribly, They're not going to return. Right. If you have a product or service that you lie or you cheat your steel, you're not treating that customer the way you would want to be treated. So a free market requires requires you to act in a virtuous way, which is against human nature. We'll get to that in a second. Okay, So why do I believe what I believe? Well, I'm a strict constitutional us and a Conservatorian, if you want to boil it down to that, I believe I'm very skeptical of governmental power. I believe in natural rights, that our rights come from God, not from government. That government exists to protect our rights, not to give them the way, that we should have rules for government first and foremost, and then rules for the citizen ry. That too much, when power is concentrated and collected way too quickly, that suffering ensues. So what does all this tie together? And why do I do what I do? And why do I believe what I believe? Well, I believe God is real. We went through that. I believe Jesus Christ is the savior of the world. We went through that the Bible is the greatest book ever to be written. But then how does this all tie in together with America and who we are and what we're doing well? So I believe that we are literally at a turning point in our country. Forget politics, right, So I'm not here to talk about politics. If you love Trump, great, If you don't like Trump, that's fine. You know, in my opinion, all that we can get into anyone asked questions about it, low tax is terrific, embassy moved to Jerusalem. That's great. It's a lot bigger than that. What we're fighting. I hope you'll understand that fighting a war, and I'll leave the spiritual side to a second. We're fighting a culture war. Where are we going to embrace neo Marxist postmodernism that is all about victim and ideology, a pressor versus oppressed. That's going to create a very very dangerous society for all of us to live in. Anyone that has aspirational goals or dreams, or wants to better yourself for the individual, Or are we going to embrace an idea that the individual does matter, that dialogue and discourse, discourse and freedom of speech that is paramount first and foremost for a country and a civilization and I see kind of what's happening. I see the forces of evil starting to win. You see it on college campuses. How many outwards socialist and Marxist you know, probably your entire professor list is all Marxist socialists. Because these ideas are growing, and these ideas are growing, and these ideas are growing, and it's up to dedicated patriots like this, everyone in this room, to fight back against that, and to fight back in a variety of different ways. But if you cannot answer the why, you're nothing more than just engaging the same sort of popcorn politics to the people that you're fighting as. Your why might be very simple. Why might be while I'm inspired by the teachings of mind Rand and I believe so firmly individual that I only believe what I believe and that I exist. If that's your why, that's great. I told you my why, didn't I. You have to be able to articulate, because every activist will, every leftist activist cannot answer the why. They can't. There's hypocrisy within them, there's anger, there's you ever see how angry leftists are, by the way, I mean, there's a reason for that, though, there's a why are leftists so angry? Why are they? Well? They're miserable because they would rather tell other people how to live their life than improve their own. 00:26:33 Speaker 2: Alliance. Defending freedom knows that freedom belongs to those who fight for it. Americans have carried that legacy for two hundred and fifty years, and now we must do so again. Censorship is rising, threatening your free speech in every sphere, from classrooms to counselors' offices and even online. 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That's join EIGHTYF dot com slash Charlie or text Charlie to eight three eight four eight. 00:27:55 Speaker 1: It's very easy to be externally upset. Try to go twenty four hours without complaining. It's very hard. Try to do that, seriously, try it. I can't do it right. Whether it be an airplane along with TSA, which you put me in touch with TSA, the complaints come very quickly. They shall be fired, every single one of them. Try to go twenty four hours without complaining. It's very very tough to try to live with a aura of gratitude and gracious. It's very very difficult. It's much easier to complain and to be resentful, and to be angry, and to be externally harsh towards the world. It's the rich people's fault. It's the white people's fault, it's the straight people's fault, it's the christian's fault, it's the university's fault. No, well, maybe all that could be right. There could be arguments, But what are you doing to improve your own life? If you've done everything that you possibly can do. Are you waking up earlier? Are you not going out to drink? Are you exercising? Are you making better choices? Are you doing all those things and you're improving yourself to the top of the possible pinnacle of your of the individual, then you might be able to start complaining. I very much doubt that the left of social justice warriors, based on just looking at them, are they making any of those decisions? Okay, not that I'm judging, but I'm just observing difference, kidding. So you got to be able to answer the why. I'm not going to tell you what your why is. You know my why. So once you have your why, then you can have agreements, right, you can have Also, it's so cool about conservatives and libertarians. Any libertarians here, hope we have libertarians? Any conservatives here, hope we have conservative tredcial Republicans, Trump supporters that thought. That's great. We can have disagreement all that, and we should. We should. We love disagreement. That's what we're all about. We're not a mob. We shouldn't be. We're not the left. We should be able to disagree and to have dialogue or discourse. But we all love America. If you don't love America, that's there's other organizations out there, Turning Point, Turning Point, USSR or something like that. Mutual respect on that front. But that's if we all agree on the big stuff that the other disagreements will sort itself out. And but I guarantee you there's different whys all across the room. I guarantee it. Some of it might be well, I just feel as if I'm losing my country and my family just came here, my family came here as immigrants, and I want to save it. Great answer, terrific, dive deeper, get to the why, gets to the why, get to the why, get the why. And that's hard because sometimes you might not under you might not know, you might not know, you might get down to the point where, well, I believe the individual is really important. Why I don't know because I want to be able to do what I want to do without someone telling me, well, why, what's the end result? And if if you can't answer that, then one or two things will happen. You'll you'll you're much more likely to have kind of ambiguity in your political statements, which is fine, there's nothing wrong with that inherently. Or number two, you'll get quickly, you'll get quickly exposed by a leftist for being exactly what they are. But I guarantee you there's a lot of good answers as to your why here, I guarantee it. And by the way, once you're able to answer that question, you will fight harder, and you'll be more convicted and more foundational in your activism than ever before, because then you know exactly why you are doing what you are doing, not what you are doing. And that's the most important question, isn't it? Because the answer to why is why. A lot of people just wander through life without ever being able to do that. And there is no right or wrong answer. By the way, I'm not telling you my answer is correct what I walked you through. It's the right answer for me. Someone else might have a different answer, and that's perfectly okay. And and because every individual is different. Every every individual has different backgrounds or leanings or understandings or passions. But being able to articulate that to it to a level that is a lot deeper than saying I want low taxes because it's gonna spur economic growth, or I want low low regulation because it's going to make the economy better. Or I think we should have a big foreign policy. You know, I should do it big military because there's forces of evil. Those are talking points, folks, get deeper than that, get into the philosophy of all that. So as you can see, we're growing very quickly as an organization. And I love these couple of days. These are always my favorite couple days of the year because you are on the front lines, you really are, and we are an organization committed to ideas and to principles, not the political parties or politicians. I have my own opinions, that's that's fine. But we have people within the organization that love the present support and that don't love that that that's all just that, that's all temporary, that's all momentary. We are in a generational battle right now that the stakes could not be higher, and the experiment and the gift that our founding fathers gave to us could be easily lost if we don't make the proper choices of the right course corrections. 00:32:20 Speaker 2: For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to Charliekirk dot com