From the Archive: "Defending Small Town America" — Charlie's 2021 Minnesota State University 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 gonna 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 attning 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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We're actually gonna talk about that because my whole family's actually from Austin, Minnesota. Many generations bagone from Austin, Minnesota. Yeah so and also Marshallton, Iowa, so not too far from here. I grew up in Chicago, but many generations pass, so we have a lot of Minnesota ties here and I was looking forward to coming to this specific stop. Like little House on the Prairie, this kind of idea of small town America, which feels as if we're now intentionally destroying that. And so I grew up listening to someone who I fundamentally disagree with on many issues. But I don't think he ever was characterized correctly. And many people not in college will know this name. Maybe you guys will know Garrison Keeler, and you know, Garrison Keeler obviously wasn't Little House in the Prayer, his prairie home companion, and he was always kind of this national public radio voice for Minnesota eight hundred radio stations across the country, and he got me too, in like twenty seventeen or whatever. And but I think that in some ways the Garrison Keeler wing of the American left is gone and dead. Where his whole approach was that there's something profoundly beautiful about small town America and that there's something special about the family. And what was that how he opened up every broadcast or closed it he said, we're like the men are above the children above average, and the women are you know, super strong. Whatever. It was kind of this like sign off that was like really kind of quaint and romantic and made you chuckle. But the whole idea of kind of the Garrison Keeler, you know, Prairie Home companion was that maybe we shouldn't hyper corporatize our entire lifestyle and all move to cities and become childless and godless. That maybe there's something worth preserving and conserving. And he would call himself a left winger. I never actually thought that he might have had really socially liberal policies. But the idea that all of a sudden towns like Mancato and he called it like Lake Wobegone, which was the famous lake that he used to talk about, is we've seen this massive trend in the last couple of years, especially of rural America being destroyed and allowing just like all moving to kind of these urban sense of madness, Minneapolis being one of them. We're going to talk about Minneapolis, where the founding fathers warned us about this, where they said, if you become too concentrated in these urban areas, urban areas are prone to rumor with a spice of madness. I just kind of love that. That's what James Madison said, where it's going to be these kind of combustible centers of activism where if you're a farmer and you're actually in touch with the land, and you know the person who educates your children, you know the pastor that that's the truest form of local government. And this country was founded on thousands and tens of thousands of fictitious but actual cities like Lake Wobegon that Garrison Keeler once talked about, and so kind of coming to a place like this that doesn't quite honestly get as much attention. Usually people just go to Minneapolis or wherever with something that we really wanted to do for a variety of different reasons. But also I think it's profoundly important that we as conservatives don't over indulge in this idea of everyone moved to the cities and stop having families and stop owning property. I think the trend should be the opposite. Actually, I think that we should defend small town America and say that there's something profoundly beautiful about it. And so we'll talk about that, and you could tell me why I was wrong about Garrison Keeler. I'm sure he has plenty of shortcomings and failures. He was kind of a sarcastic snob in a lot of different ways, but I think he was onto something, and I think the American left has just dismissed that entire view. In fact, they have nothing but contempt for this part of the world. And so, but what I want to open up with in addition to that is kind of why we named our two or what it is. And some people have been very opinionated about what they think we're talking about here, But CRT is now everywhere, whether we like it or not. It's in our schools, it's in our military, it's in our corporations, it's in our political process. Critical race theory, woke is, and whatever you want to call it. It's a very simple ideology. We don't have to overthink it. If you guys want to ask questions about it, we can go into the actual intellectual roots of it. But it's this idea that somehow the systems we have in front of us in our country are systemically unjust actually racist, that if you're a white person, whether they realize it or not, you're participating in this racist experiment that you must now endlessly apologize for things you didn't do, but simply what you look like. And I could go through example for example, and some for example, you let's just use Atlanta public schools where they're segregating white kids in one classroom and black kids in another classroom in a second grade classroom in Atlanta public schools. United Airlines has come out and they said they want fifty percent of all the new pilots that they hire to be black pilots. Now, I have no problem with black pilots obviously, but are they now going to be prioritizing competent pilots or pilots with a certain melanin content in their skin color? Now I know for you, I want to make sure the pilot that's hired in the plane I'm riding in actually knows what they're doing, not like check some sort of diversity quota box. I mean, if you go to your doctor, you're like, hey, okay, it's not that I want to see the best doctor. If I have a tumor, i've cancer, you know what, I want to diverse doctor. I mean that what's really happening here is the deterioration of competency and the elevation of diversity. So this is where it all comes home. Here, is that just seventy miles down the street and an hour twenty minutes north, our country profoundly changed. And this is the other reason why I wanted to come to Minnesota, because we're going to participate in all sorts of thought crimes here tonight. So buckle up. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Which is thank you, which is on May twenty fifth, twenty twenty up in Minneapolis, a cell phone video changed the trajectory of our entire nation in this state. The reason why our tour is called the CRT Tour is because of George Floyd's death and the misinterpretation of that. And I'm not going to go on this endless soap box defending Derek Schouvin. I think he's kind of not a great person. But I am also going to offer some context and some nuance about the death of George Floyd that no one dares to say out loud, which is that this guy was a scumback. Now, does that mean it deserves to die. That's two totally different things, of course not. But the idea that someone who had ten times the legal limit a fentanyl was illegally counterfeiting current like trading counterfeit currencies, was resisting arrest and previously put a gun to a pregnant woman's stomach, who then dies. According to the first medical examination for the Henepen County Examiner said he died due to asphyxiation or a drug overdose. The second the medical examination said it was due to suffocation or due to the knee on the neck. That somehow we must say, you know what, let's profoundly restructure society. And that's what happened, is that one video, in one moment of highly emotional footage that was a lot more complicated in a nuanced than anyone ever wanted to admit at the moment, did what all of a sudden says, you know what, this American project's been going really well. Instead, let's put white people one classroom, black people in other classroom. Western Washington University has come out and they have black only dormitories. Columba University has come out and they have black only graduation ceremonies and Hispanic only graduation ceremonies. Why because of one cell phone footage that happened on May twenty fifth, twenty twenty right down the street. And here's why is that we as conservatives and what do you want to call yourself? You know, pro American pro freedom whatever. You know. There's this old quote that if you label me, you negate me. I'm happy to say I'm a conservative. I'll tell you why. 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We then allowed, quite honestly, the most corrupt and disingenuous voices that any human being could possibly find around anything to completely and totally reorganize society. And this then, of course happened with the entire summer of what they call the racial reckoning of last summer, you know, otherwise known as Floyda Paloozo, when we decided just to destroy our entire nation. And whereas says, if like, I'm so angry about systemic racis, I'm gonna go burn down a Wendy's Like, yeah, just like robbing Adida sneaker from all of America is not gonna bring George Floyd back, right, that's a very obvious thing. But if you dare say that they call you a bad name, which again couldn't really care less, we're gonna say things that are true. And so what ended up happening throughout June and July of last year two billion dollars in damages. By the way, after that specific incident, America's actually become a less pleasant and more dangerous place to live. Murders are up thirty percent since May of last year. Of what happened here in Minneapolis, I'm not sure really the status quo of like what that SA that's cool, but like the state of affairs of what's happening in Minneapolis. But they try to defund the police. They slowed private secure. What is kind of the latest there? I guess they're sort of half defunding the police. It's a more dangerous place to live all of you know that if you've gone down to Minneapolis, it's not the town it used to be. And so right on that corner of Chicago Street and thirty eighth Street where George Floyd died, all of a sudden, we as a civilization said, you know what, our entire history of the rule of law, of the administration of such separation of powers, checks and balances, independent judiciary, presumption of innocence, you know, trying to put criminals off the streets. Let's throw that all out instead. We need to reconsider and recalibrate society as we know it. And the damage is real, is what I'm here to tell you tonight and tonight as we do this tour we need to stop and realize how severe and real of a mistake we have made as a country to allow it to go as far as we have for this long that here we are in October twenty twenty one, and every single metric you can imagine a violent crime is going up. Now, it's not necessarily going up in rural America. It's actually the very communities that they say they want to help and serve Black and Hispanic communities, where their communities are actually becoming more dangerous, more violent, and a less safe place to live. The kind of embedded into this entire narrative is and that's why this one video was so powerful in some ways, was that this is a caricature of what's happening every single day, that black people are being gunned down simply because of the color of their skin. Now, this is also why the nuance around the Floyd incident was so incredibly misleading, is that Derek Chauvin actually had multiple interactions with other black people throughout that day and did not single out George Floyd because he was black. Did you know George Floyd actually in the video asked to be put on the ground that he was the one that has actually resisting arrest, and now again people conflate that, will say, Charlie, do you think it deserves that? Of course I'm not. What I'm saying, obviously, I'm saying, is you watch the video, the actual police cam video. There's back and forth going there where he says I can't breathe seven times before he actually goes down onto the ground because he was actually probably already experiencing a drug overdose well before that incident actually happened. But when you actually look at the Setts, not only have we been lied to, but it's an Orwellian trick. It's the opposite of the truth. Not only are black people not being gunned down because of the color of their skin, the opposite is indeed true that in community after community, police officers are restraining themselves to actually police many of these communities of color. I'll go through some of these numbers, which is you look at so they say that they're being unarmed, Blacks are being gunned down at a massive rate in America, Well, the police fatally shot nine unarmed blacks and nineteen unarmed whites. In twenty nineteen, more unarmed whites were gunned down and shot by police in twenty nineteen. In just the last two years nineteen and twenty thirty, total unarmed blacks were killed in two years with six hundred million police interactions. So you have six hundred million police interactions and you have thirty blacks that are killed that are unarmed. Now, if you actually go into those numbers, many of them are like they were reaching for the weapon, they were in a car trying to run over a police officer, Very very nuanced. And so you're trying to tell me that we should completely restructure civil society for maybe ten or twelve incidents in a country of three hundred and thirty five million people with six hundred million police interactions. So in twenty eighteen, there were seven four hundred and seven black homicide victims, assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine on armed black victims of police shootings represent zero point one percent of all blacks killed in twenty nineteen. Yeah, that's the emphasis of the entire conversation in that question. And in twenty eighteen, you actually look at crime statistics, Blacks made up fifty three percent of known homicide offenders in the United States and commit sixty percent of robberies, even though Blacks are thirteen percent of the population so far committing far more crimes than the percentage of the population are Now, if you dare say these things, you will lose your job, you get kicked out of class. Guess what, I couldn't care less because things that are true need to be said. That if you are afraid to read off crime statistics as they are, and there's a big conflation that sometimes happens. The major reason why the black community unfortunately gets into a cycle of crime and violence is because they're missing the most important ingredient. 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She released five gang bangers just back onto the streets, even though there's cell phone footage of a gunfire back and forth of two gang shooting at each other and one person was killed, and she says there was insufficient evidence, even though you could very well see, and they all but admitted to it. Even Lori Lightfoot, who I'm not a fan of at all, has come out and said that this is going to make Chicago a much more dangerous place. But Kim Fox says that you don't understand communities of color, You don't understand these dynamics. So at first, over the summer, we had to be told you can't break up night fights. Remember that whole thing. Now, we can't break up gang fights, even though there's people that are being killed in the collateral damage. There are about one thousand fatal police shootings every single year at a three hundred and eighty five million police interactions. Being a police officer is a hard job. There are bad cops, of course, there are bad cops. They're also bad teachers. It's bad of everything. Is the general police officer waking up trying to oppress people, absolutely not. In fact, a general police officer wants to keep their community safe, wants to look after their fellow citizen and their fellow countrymen. And the assault on police officers is intentional because police officers are what stands within this fixation on destroying the rule of law as we know it. In America, we're seeing this happen where we have now had four hundred thousand people that have illegally crossed from the southern border in the last sixty days. Where the people that burned down Minneapolis, a majority of the people that did that actual violence that destroyed the small businesses in the black community, many of whom will never be tried for the crimes that they committed in Minneapolis during last summer. But if you dare walk into the US Capitol building and take a selfie, they'll put you in solitary confinement and lock you away indefinitely. So it's not that we have the destruction of the rule of law. It's antarcho tyranny. It's anarchy. If you do something that fits a certain subset of the regime, you can do whatever you want. But if you cross the line, then all of a sudden what Merrick Garland, Attorney General of the United States, came out yesterday and said that we are going to use the FBI, Department of Homeland Security to identify the threats, the harassment, and the violence of which I've seen none happening at school board meetings across the country. This is now a priority the federal government of the United States, saying that if you're a mom showing up worrying about pornographic content being taught to your kids, or being worrying about critical race theory being taught to your eight year old, now the federal government says, not so fast. Might we might monitor your communications, we might track your social media activity, and so make no mistake, there is a clamp down on certain behavior if you dare disagree with a certain subset of ideas. And this whole kind of idea of critical race theory is a betrayal of the Western idea of the rule of law, which is this a very simple idea We used to teach this in our schools, which is that all human beings deserve dignity, regardless of their skin color, regardless what they look like. All human beings are made in the image of God, that all human beings deserve dignity and equal application of the law. And so what we've seen is that entire premise being challenged. And so if you believe that all human beings have dignity, then you must ask yourself the question what is more important, things you can change or things you can't change. Now, America at its best was always prioritizing human agency and action, and at our best we are deemphasizing things you cannot change. For example, you cannot change your racial complexion, you cannot change your biological parents, you cannot change the type of world you were born into. At that very moment. You know what you can change how hard you work, the type of character you have, the type of spirit and soul you want to develop. Those things take a lot of work. So America at its best would prioritize your own human action, not what tribe you're from, not who your parents were, not what sort of ethnic group you might be part of. Now this is very obvious stuff, right, This is all of you were saying, Yeah, of course that's true. Everything that CRT stands for, woke, industrial complex, diverse, the equity, inclusion, all this stuff stands against that. Instead, it says, hey, what what is your what tribe are you a member of? Because what they say is white silences violence, that if you have white skin color, you are instantaneously or automatically i should say, privileged that without you even realizing it, without even knowing it. The society is built for you and buy you and because of you, and you must sit down and shout up and take any so other people can advance ahead in front of you. That is then de emphasizing your own human action, how hard you can work, the type of person you can be, the development of your soul, the improvement of your of your relationship with your creator, very basic Western ideas, And instead it's elevating tribal politics and saying, you know, what's the most important thing? Not human agency, not choice, not whether or not you make good decisions or not not Praxeology, which is a Greek comes from the word practice, where you get the word practice from which means the repetition of good choices that improve one's soul towards the good. No no, no, Instead it's let's just be super sloppy and lazy. Let's put the people that look like this over here, the people that look like that over there to try to right the wrong of generations in society's past. And what's so disappointing about this entire thing is how many people that I thought would stand against it are going for it. Now, let me be very clear, this ideology, albeit sinister, albeit all these different things that I've gone through, I do not think a majority of Americans deep down agree with this. I don't I think that there is a majority consensus that organizing people by skin color, by prioritizing not your actions, not your choices, not your deeds, but your ancestry and your tribe, I think most Americans generally reject that. What I do think, though, is most Americans don't know how to push back against this. They're afraid of the cost associated with it, which is you're a racist, sit down and shut up, which is a real thing. By the way, you could lose your job, you could lose your friends, and CNN might say bad things about you. It's true. But also I think that people are petrified and paralyzed to have a conversation on race in this country. And so as we are trying to plan this entire tour, we said to ourselves, well, if we're not willing to go into the issue that is dominating the number one thing that all of you are living through, then what good are we at turning point USA? And so here's the other question, is that when we used to do these tours and I'm happy to talk about immigration, abortion, socialism, whatever you guys want to, by the way, the question and answer, but I wanted to make sure that the remarks that we have here are framed around this idea that we're no longer in like an economics debate. High taxes, low taxes, more regulation, less regulation. I obviously have my preferences. 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Why because they can't change it, Because that is racism, which is exactly why we put that word in and let me be very clear for everyone that's watching at home, just to reiterate it, if you care about people's skin color, you are a bigot and a racist for believing that that is racism by caring about people's skin color and focusing on and you have like the kind of the Pope of CRT. You have this whole kind of like Mount Rushmore of ibramex Kenny and Robin DiAngelo and Taha Nisi Coates. I'll focus on Henry Roger or Harry Rogers, Henry Rogers whatever his name is, who's ibramx Kendy, who's come out and he says, okay, we now need segregation and discrimination today to right the wrong of segregation and discrimination yesterday. And so this is a really important point. I'm a Christian and Christianity heavily influenced English common law William Blackstone. The idea of presumption of innocence due process, that you must be held accountable for you that your salvation with your creator. You must get that right. You've got to get in a relationship with your creator. You might have to accept Jesus into your life. That's a Christian idea and I'm happy to go into that if people are you know, want to ask about it. That's not the main point of this thing. But it is true, which is this, which is, no matter how hard your parents try, they can't save you for you that you must be accountab for your own actions. Why is this important because Ebramex Kendy believes that we must now hold you accountable because you look like people that did something wrong one hundred and fifty years ago, because you are related to them, because you come from that bloodline. It is a breakdown of the Western promise, which is this, which is it doesn't matter where you come from, show me what you got. That's why we are always the envy of the world. You want to go live in a cast system, go to India. It matters a lot who your parents are. Good luck escaping that cast. What CRT does is it implements a racial cast system into this country, where all of a sudden people are paralyzed. They say, well, maybe I've been a racist my entire life without without realizing it. Maybe I've been this terrible and awful human being. Now if that is true, And I always have to say this because so not everyone listens everything I say. A repetition of the solo memory. We have a supply and demand problem with racism in America. There's an incredibly low little supply and an incredible big demand to find it. If you happen to be in the very small percentage of a racist in the country, then you got work to do. Go get in contact with your creator, quickly read the Bible, ask for forgiveness to the people that you know. With that being said, just because you're of a certain skin color does not automatically make you a racist. Just because you're a white person does not mean you have to begin apologizing simply for how God made you. And so the second question, of course is black only dormitories, which is the resegregation. IBRAMX Kennedy says, Okay, the way we're going to fix inequity is now go back to segregation, because this kind of idea of a multiracial, multicultural society, it's actually a false promise. And then the third thing I've kind of got into this should people be punished by group? Should you be held accountable for not your own actions but instead what jersey you're wearing, is that the country you want to live in. I think it's really disgusting. Actually, if all of a sudden we're going to be a country where your jersey is your skin color, where all of a sudden we feel as if the values we share is because of the melow and content in your skin. I honestly think that is a disservice to how incredibly unique, complex and special every single human being is created. And if we want to go back to tribes, which is literally a five thousand and six thousand year regression, then with it we will throw away the centuries of interpretation of the Bible and the Constitution that says neither slave, nor Greek nor jew we are all one in Jesus Christ. We are all one in the image of God. Where does this lead? Countries that tend to organize themselves based on race go into civil conflict very quickly? South Africa, Brazil. This idea of this many different people from this many backgrounds coexisting for as long as we have is actually remarkable. As I watched the race riots last summer, I couldn't believe that it was happening, and we tolerated it. But when I really thought about it, and I kind of viewed the racial demographics in our country, which again, race means nothing to me. I think it's an unnecessary talking point. But if you look at the racial demographics in most countries, they'll have those race riots every month. Why it's because if absent the American trinity in God, we trust, liberty and e plurbus unham then all of a sudden you are going to get into tribes really quickly. That if all of a sudden you remove the core promises of America, what are you going to replace it with. There's not that many other things you can think of. We've basically experimented with every type of governmental model you can imagine. And I hate to be too binary about this, but there's only two ways you can organize every single government in the history of the planet. Do you emphasize speech in how you set up the government or force? It's that simple Soviet Union, force, Communists, China, Force, Venezuela, force America. Is supposed to be speech, meaning, tell me your idea and then I'll give you power. You got to run for office, You've got to give a speech. You got to tell people what you're gonna do. The idea, the capacity to speak and to reason is what makes us human beings. Aristotle said, we are the speaking beings, which means that without speech, there were nothing more than just warring, conflict and tribes. And this idea of reason is a uniquely Western idea, and so why are we all here, And to kind of summarize it before we get to questions, is seventy miles down the street. All of that changed, and it changed for a variety of for reasons. Number one, the other side was ready. They were prepared to push all of these ideas. CRT did not start with George Floyd. It's been in the school system for a long time, and they went all in with a full kind of push at the moment that they saw fit. But more importantly, we were afraid as conservatives and unequipped to be able to launch a counter move by what we saw happening in front of us. I think that's changing. 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And because we've sent so many wonderful people to college, excluding everyone in these wonderful yellow shirts in high school, is that a major part of our population have been propagandized and indoctrinated to believe that maybe we are systemically racist, maybe we are racist to the bone. Maybe the founding of our country was wrong since the very beginning. Happy to go into that if that interests anybody tonight. I did an extensive overview on that yesterday. Human equality is a fundamental value and American idea. Now, human equality does not mean we all have the same skills. It does not mean we have all the same outcomes. Some people are gonna be smarter, some people are gonna be faster, some people are gonna be taller. What is human equality? That we're all the same sort of thing, that we're all speaking beings, we're mind, body, spirit, and soul. Pick word, whatever would you want. I prefer soul, mind, body, and soul. That we deserve dignity and due process, the rule of law. And if you want to organize society, let's just say you get to a blank canvas. Do you want to all of a sudden say, hey, I want to try to design society in a way that empowers people and tries to make them better human beings, or disempowers them and keeps them in corners, endlessly apologizing. By the time they're eighteen years old, saying I'm actually a terrible, bigoted, awful, racist, colonialist, imperiless, misogynistic, bigoted person, not because of something I did, but because of how my parents looked. That's where we're going, where kids have to needlessly apologize not because they did something wrong, but because they were born into a certain cast and tribe. We're not going to stand for that anymore. And so I believe regardless of your political affiliation. Regardless of your political affiliation, I really don't care. I'm sure there's people all different political stripes here. This actually needs to be something where we look back on our history and there might have been like a short gasp of this ideology and it was repudiated by people of all different political stripes and colors. Obviously, I'm conservative, Obviously I believe in the Constitution and American exceptions and all this. But if you even have like a remnant of admiration for America, then this should disgust you. Don't try to all of a sudden getting your right left side and be like, oh, this is too much of a right wing critique of CRT, Like what did I exactly say in the last twenty minutes Besides, like all human beings are made in the image of God. Human equality speech is good, and we should treat people based on what they do, not what they look like is exactly a right wing critique of American society. The fact that anyone might even think that, all of a sudden goes to show the exact reason why this is being implemented. Which is this, which is power is most effectively, is most effectively assumed when tribes are at war. If we're getting along and we're living in harmony, what I mean, there'll obviously always be some form of conflict. We're not trying to look at each other's skin color, what's your white privilege card? And do a privilege walk and all this all of a sudden, the people in charge, they actually aren't given as big of a license to dominate and control your life. A country that respects each other, understanding the mind, body and soul, relationship and kids that is a preference, all of a sudden makes tyrants far less powerful. Aristotle had this beautiful thing in the fifth Book of the Politics, where he said, tyrants aim to make citizens unfamiliar to one another. They try to create distance between neighbors. They try to make countrymen distrustful of the people near them. Tyrants try to sow discord, chaos, and confusion, and when that happens, they're able to sweep into total control of a nation. And that was twenty five hundred years ago that he wrote that it's just as true as it is today. People say, how do we stop tyranny? How do we stop the power grab? Happy to go through all of that, but their gateway to making you live in a Huxleian or Orwellian nightmare is to have every single person screaming about skin color all day long, worrying as if that thing actually matters, while they plunder our society, destroy the American middle class, lie to us on television, force vaccines on our children, keep us masked up and obedient, They keep our borders wide open. But they want you distracted with the smokescreen grenade that they've thrown at us, as if the most important thing is something you can't change. Don't take the bait. We're here tonight to say, Okay, we can have our differences on every sort of issue. You know where I stand on all of them, having to go through it, But if we want this American civilization to continue, which is a gift from God. It is a gift from God that we get to live in this country. Then we must reject and repudiate this insidious ideology. 00:42:47 Speaker 2: For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to Charlie Kirk dot com.