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Thank you for listening to this Podcast 1 production now available on Apple Podcasts, Podcast 1, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. Hey, everybody. Today I am excited to announce the President has done something so historic that involves the teaching of our history. We get into that and so much more. Thank you for supporting us@charliekirk.com support. Please listen to our sister episode with the amazing Eric Metaxas. We will get our kids to love America again. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
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I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point usa.
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We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are gonna fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Hey, everybody. Welcome to this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show. I'm still trying to solve the problem of being in two places at once, you know. Today, the President of the United States had an incredible announcement. The President addressed a core problem in our country about how our children are not being taught to love America. It's a problem that has been growing for decades and quite honestly, festering at the root level of our education system. We talked in early June, in fact, we had an entire podcast on what the President needs to do to address some of the root causes of BLM incorporated civil unrest and the racial divide that is brewing in our country. We talked about how the President needs to talk about getting our kids to love America again. The President did just that. I was invited to go to that ceremony. However, as I'm recording this episode right now, I'm about to take the stage in the key battleground state of North Carolina with Donald Trump Jr. And Kimberly Guilfoyle, and hopefully soon to be governor of North Carolina, Dan Forrest. So couldn't be in two places at once. But I want to lead the program today, talking about this incredible announcement that the President made from the National Archive Museum. As we talked about before, radicals want you to believe America was founded on oppression, not on opportunity. The President said this today. We must clear away the twisted web of lies in our classrooms, and we want our citizens to know they live in the most blessed nation of the world. Critical race theory, which we talked about, is an extension from the Frankfurt School. Herbert Marcuse, who came to this country as an expat and really infiltrated higher education with this awful idea of critical race theory. BLM Incorporated is rooted in this idea, in this idea that racism is everywhere, that your identity is nothing more than your skin color, that there's nothing more than tribal groups. It is a pseudo Marxist movement. In fact, we've talked about before how the founders of BLM Incorporated are trained Marxists. In fact, they admit it as such. And we want to make sure we're very clear about what a Marxist is. We've talked about that before on a previous episode of the Charlie Croak Show. I encourage you guys to check that out. About 10 episodes ago. The only path to national unity is our shared identity as Americans. Not our skin color, not any specific religion, but the American creed of E Pluribus unum, in God we trust and liberty. That is the American trinity that Dennis Prager talks about. So often, a country's ability or inability to communicate founding values and shared values to young people will determine whether or not that country continues to exist. This is precisely why we must restore patriotic education in our school system. The 1776 Commission, which is what the President called his commission and announcement today, established by the President's executive Order, aims to promote patriotic education. This is the President not just looking at the problem in our country, which is the racial unrest and the growing ingratitude in America, trying to actually solve the problem through communicating our values, teaching young people to have an appreciation for our history, communicating the brilliance of the founding documents, the heroism of our founding fathers, diving deeper into George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, getting young people to be defensive of the heroes that built our country. And so, as many of you know, we have an amazing partner here on the Charlie Kirk Show. It's called Thinker T H I n k r.org no e thinking thinker.org and we profile one book a week through our partner@thinker.org and I think a perfect partner to use today because of the President's announcement on patriotic education is the Federalist Papers. This is our book of the week, when in reality it's a collection of letters. If you guys have not yet read the Federalist Papers, you guys need to check it out. The brilliance of thinker.org, and you guys can get a discount@thinker.org the brilliance of thinker.org is you can consume very important books and information in 10 to 15 minutes. You go to thinker.org they summarize the great works of our country and also very important Books in business and finance, economics and religion. Then you're able to go to thinker.org and get the big picture ideas and distill it in bite size form. What exactly were the Federalist Papers? The Federalist Papers were written of course, by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison. There's also the anti Federalist Papers, but we'll focus on the Federalist Papers for today. Here are some key takeaways from the Federalist Papers. For the sake of the common good, decisions should follow from evidence rather than emotions or personal interest. Let's just stop right there. The Founding Fathers that wrote the Federalist Papers because it was a debate back and forth between the Federalists and the anti Federalists and some of them are written anonymously to actually local newspapers of Hamilton, Jay and Madison. They articulated and argued that we should build a government and a society not based on my truth. This is something that the postmodernists and the people that argue for critical race theory believe in, that everyone has their own version of truth. The Founding Fathers rejected this. They embraced empiricism. They wanted reason, not just experience. This is a key takeaway from the Federalist Papers. One of the other big takeaways of the Federalist Papers, and you guys will understand this if you go to thinker.org charlie and basically consume the summary of the Federalist Papers is that one of the biggest advantages to a union is its ability to deal well with factions. You're always going to have factions, always. Human beings are always going to try to put themselves into tribal identity groups. You start to see this happening in our country right now where people are wrongly trying to associate based on skin color. And so the Federalist Papers were able to articulate a governance strategy to unify people, not just keep them divided. Now, without a national government to unite the states, the new nation will likely dissolve into anarchy. This is a very important point. And that is why the Federalist Papers concluded that without some form of a national government to unite the states, the new nation will likely dissolve into that state of chaos that you're going to have tribal group against tribal group. You're gonna have state against state. So you need some form of a federal government now. Albeit the federal government in their vision will was going to be small, was going to be minimal, was going to be limited. Also, Madison, Jay and Hamilton theorized that a republic is the only form of government that was worthy of the American people. They talked about a system of checks and balances. And we get this idea of checks and balances from Montesquieu we talked about that in a previous episode of the Charlie Kirk show where checks and balances, they harness humans natural tendency to hold onto power. And in a way that protects citizens from tyranny, it's actually using human beings lust for power, for the betterment of first principles and for a constitutional republic. Now, what's really interesting is you now fast forward to where we are in our country today and you see the architecture of the founding fathers, the brilliance that they articulated on Constitution Day. And it is Constitution Day. As a Constitution Day today, it's important to know who were the actual people and the framers behind it and what was their intent. The intent was always to preserve individual liberty and first principles, freedom of association, private property, to be able to protect your family. That remember, it's the states that created the federal government. The federal government did not create the states and the people created the state government. Because when the United States Constitution was drafted and ratified, what made our founding document so philosophically different than any other government that came before it? It's the people that were the sovereign and it's the government that had to be held accountable to the people. We take this for granted so often. We say, well, in America, we're a free country. What does that mean? It means that in our state of nature, people should be free. We get this idea from John Locke that when you are in your state of nature that you should have the freedom and you do have that God given freedom to be able to speak your mind, own property, pursue your dreams. So the Federalist Papers, they're our book of the week@thinker.org Charlie T-I N K R.org Charlie highly encourage you to check it out. And it segues beautifully to President Trump's incredible announcement today where he says, we are going to take on left wing indoctrination head on. President Trump told the story about a founding father that you might not have heard of, called Caesar Rodney. You probably know about Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin. I hope you know about John Jay and Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, but you might not know about Caesar Rodney. Play tape.