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The Supreme Court has said no more race in drawing congressional district lines

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>> Rick Green: Welcome to at the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green. I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution coach. Thanks so much for joining me today. Man, oh, man, oh, man. We have had some incredible decisions by the Supreme Court over the last few weeks. Not only the Supreme Court of the United States, but the Supreme Court of Virginia. And I know I harped on this a lot last week. Some of you are probably tired of me talking about this, but it's so huge. This is such a seismic shift in what was a Democrat machine and method for being able to manipulate representation in Congress so that they got more seats and more influence and more power than actually represented the American people. In other words, there are more people in Congress right now representing a value system that most Americans don't have, then there should be. I mean, let's just say if you really think half of America is Democrat and half is Republican, then, you know, it should be pretty much evenly split in Congress. If you think that half of Americans actually believe that men should be able to play in girl sports, if you think that half of Americans actually believe that men can have babies or some of the other insane things that these Democrats in Congress actually believe, then you probably also believe there's nothing wrong with the system. If you think that people should be able to draw congressional district lines to guarantee that someone would be red, white, yellow, black or brown representing them in Congress or to guarantee, that a particular, you know, race or religion is represented rather than drawing those lines so that you have fair representation in Congress, then you probably think there's nothing wrong with the system. I think the system has been broken for a long time and I am so thankful that we finally are number, number one getting Rid of race in the way that we draw district lines. Number two, that we are actually going to have a representation in Congress that is pretty close to the population of the country in terms of the breakdown of values and what people are for. It's just a turning point. It truly is. And what I'm referring to in terms of the Supreme Court decisions, number one, the court has said no more race in drawing your congressional district lines. Number two, they have specifically said to multiple states now that you can in fact redraw your lines in order to not take race into consideration. What I mean by that is Alabama, Louisiana, several of these states, that they were going to just go ahead and have the elections based on old maps that did consider race that actually drew lines based on the color of skin completely racist. And what the Supreme Court has said is, nope, go ahead, redraw your lines, you've got time. And then do your elections in November based on fair district lines. Lines that are not based on race, they're based on party. They're based on these, you know, non raced, race based maps. Well folks, what that means is that number, one, Tennessee, is going to get rid of a district that was attempting, think about this, even Democrats guaranteeing a Democrat district supposedly based on race, supposedly going to guarantee that a black representative will be in Congress still had a white represented a white Democrat representing that district when a black Republican is running against that white member. And so people are now on television, AOC and others saying that this is Jim Crow, that somehow that Republicans are drawing districts to prevent blacks from being elected, when in fact it's the Democrats that made sure that they had a white person representing what was a black majority district. And now you have a chance for a female, black, Republican to win that district. So it's just, it's insane the excuses that they will use. But here's what's going to happen, I believe, I think you're going to have districts come out of Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, other states that have done this where it's going to be more important what someone believes and what their positions are going to be when they represent the district than their color of skin. And that's a win for everyone.

Virginia's Supreme Court struck down a constitutional amendment for redistricting

Now other big news is Virginia. I talked about it last week, how they violated their Constitution. They completely ignored very clear, very rules in the Constitution for how you do a constitutional amendment which they needed in order to do redistricting in the middle of the decade. And they just cheated. They just flat out cheated. They flat out ignored the law. They violated their own Constitution. I mean, on its face, like, not even close. This wasn't a judgment call. This wasn't like, oh, the wording was, you know, ambiguous. You could have gone either way. No, this was a very clear, like, you have to count 1, 2, 3. And they decided, nope, we're just going to count from 03 and ignore one into. Even though it was clearly required to do so. I mean, that's how blatant and obvious this was. Their own Supreme Court in Virginia has struck down the map that they spent nearly $70 million getting done. They spent all of this money to ram through, I mean, literally force through this constitutional amendment in Virginia so that they could redraw the lines and get rid of the Republicans in Virginia. And their own Supreme Court in Virginia has said, no, you have to follow the law. You have to follow the Constitution. This is blatantly unconstitutional. If you do this, what's the point in having the law? So you talk about being for the rule of law or for chaos, anarchy, literally mob ocracy. Anarchy is what the Democrats are pushing for. So that is a huge victory in Virginia that their own state Supreme Court said no, which I told you two weeks ago when they did this, that it was very, very likely this would happen. That if they did, if they upheld this unconscious constitutional action, then the rule of law in Virginia is gone. Thankfully, their Supreme Court had some, you know, not only common sense, but legal sense in striking down this, this blatant power grab. Unconstitutional. Unbelievable. You know what the Democrats are saying now? Their response to this is that they're going to fire the Supreme Court. They are saying that they plan to pass laws because remember, they've got the legislature and they've got this crazy communist governor that's willing to do the kind of things that they just did to get this redistricting, through and violate their constitution. And then for anybody that wasn't listening last week, go back and listen to my programs last week. Redistricting is fine in the middle of a decade if your constitution, state constitution allows for it. Virginia's did not allow them to do it without having multiple sessions where it was done. And all these other steps that they take places like Texas, you still have a high bar, but instead of having multiple sessions, you just have to get 2/3 of the, legislature to vote for. So you have a really high bar, two thirds. And then you have to, you know, send it to the, to the people to be able to vote for. So all states have a high bar for a Constitutional amendment. They just do it in different ways. Texas did not have to amend the constitution to do redistricting. It already allowed for it. Virginia did. And then their constitutional amendment process was violated and their Supreme Court threw it out. And so now they're, they're turning around and saying they're going to lower the age of the requirements for Supreme Court members by something like 20 something years. They're going to go from 74 to 53 or 54, I forget, and in essence fire their Supreme Court in order to now reappoint a brand new Supreme Court in order to ram this. You know, basically allow themselves to violate the Constitution. It's crazy. I mean, I've been around politics for my whole life. I've been very involved for 30 years. I've served in the legislature. I ran for state supreme court twice in Texas. Barely lost both of those, by the way. Won the primary and one of the those years and lost the runoff. But anyway, all that to say, I've been around this stuff forever. I've seen people attempt to cheat or play nasty or whatever. I've never seen this level of blatant disregard for the rule of law, blatant disregard for the Constitution. I mean, just a raw power grab. It's beyond anything I've ever seen. And so maybe this is just talk. Apparently it's a recorded conversation of strategist Democrat strategists in Virginia. Maybe it's. They're not actually going to try it. Maybe I hope they, I mean, one side of me says I hope they do because it's so raw and so terrible that I think they'll push voters away from the Democrat party. But the other side of me is like, it's just unhealthy for the country. I would rather the Democrats come to their senses. I would much rather the Democrats come back to, you know, some sanity. Get away from this transgender insanity and get away from this raw in justifies the means. We'll cheat to win. But let's not forget the Democrat party are the same ones that lynched nearly 5,000 people in the South. Blacks and whites. 25% of the 4,900 lynchings were white. But they were all Republicans. Let's not forget that the Democrat party has a horrible history. I mean, horrible. they have been willing to cheat, steal, lie, murder in order to hold on power. That's just the history. That's just the facts. We would hope that that was the past, that that was 100 years ago or 50 years ago. But when I see Them violate a blatant constitutional requirement for something so important as a constitutional amendment, and then see them talk about literally firing their own Supreme Court and, and just saying, we're just going to do whatever it takes. We're going to do anything and everything to hold on to power, to gain power to it. Really. It makes me lose hope for the Democrats. And maybe, maybe it's time for the party to be destroyed.

Rick Green: Midterms could have huge implications for Republicans, Democrats

Maybe it's time that they do fall apart, that they do that they do such evil that their own people wake up and hopefully start a new party. you know, it's happened. It hasn't happened for a long time in American history. You know, the founders had the Whigs and the Federalists, anti Federalists, the anti Mason Party. I mean, they had a lot of different parties. And, you know, over time you had changes. I mean, the Republican Party was created in 1856 because of slavery and because the Democrats were so racist and the Whigs and others were not getting it done. And so you had anti slavery, a small portion of the Democrats that left and joined some of these other groups to start the Republican Party. You know, maybe that's good for the country if the Democrats were to do that. but I'm just telling you, this is what they're doing in Virginia is beyond the pale, over the top. Now, take all of these things that I've been throwing out there. The Supreme Court decisions with regard to race not being used, the Supreme Court decisions with regard to it's okay to redraw your maps, the upholding of the Texas map, the, Virginia Supreme Court throwing out the Virginia map. And you have basically a tremendous amount of victories for the Republicans, a handful of victories for the Democrats and a major defeat for the Democrats. Put all of that together and you're probably at a net. I think I said this last week that if the Virginia one got thrown out, you'd probably be at a net 10, maybe 12 Republican districts. In other words, if all things being equal, which they're not, and you're gonna have different candidates and amounts of money and you're not guaranteed to win any of these districts. But, you're probably gonna have. Could have a 10 to 12 vote pickup for Republicans rather than losing the House. Now, that's only if. Only if people show up. That's only if the Republican base and conservatives show up to vote in the midterms. That's only if we get out the vote and the midterms are seen correctly. So as an endorsement and a. You know, encouragement to the Trump agenda and what's been done so far in the first two years of his, of his term. By the time we get to that point, we're at what, a year and you know, two months, three months right now. But by the time you get to November, you're going to be at close to two years. and there should be a resounding thumbs up and support of what President Trump has done so far in his second term. There's just no comparison to, it's probably the most successful second term of any president in history, potentially the most successful presidency overall in history. And the, whether you look at the. I saw a headline, I think it was this morning on, jobs in America, that we are up in terms of private jobs and we are down in terms of federal employees, that something like 11% of the federal workforce has been, let go by the Trump administration. Three hundred and something thousand jobs. That's huge, folks. That's.

>> Rick Green: And for your job growth to be in the private market instead of in government, just think about that from a basic economic perspective. If you add a job in the government, you're not producing anything, you're not making anything and you have to pay for that person's job with what is produced and made by someone else in the market. If you have private sector jobs being created, then that means something is being, is being done to increase the economy. Now you have another taxpayer and a person that's producing and they're being, even their job being possible and the money that's being used to pay them for that job is because of growth in the economy, because of something being done that is serving and helping, people. So it's a huge, huge deal. So between that and Venezuela and all the other things, it's just remarkable. He deserves, to be applauded and deserves a midterm that breaks all the rules, because normally in the midterm a president's party loses. More on this when we come back. We got to take a quick break. I'm Rick Green. You are listening to at the Core with Wakawat Miller Green.

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Rick switches topics to talk about redistricting on Green Army

>> Rick Green: Welcome back to Walker Wildmon with Green Army, Rick Green America's, Constitution Coach, thanks for staying with me today again. Just, a tremendous amount of movement on the redistricting issue. It's a very, very important topic that I know I probably burned you all out on in the audience just talking so much about it last week. And this week. So I'm going to totally switch topics for this segment and our final segment today and I'm actually going to share an interview. I know I did this a couple weeks ago, but this one's so good I got to do it again. And it's Nick Freitas, who is a, speaking of Virginia, a legislator in Virginia for the last ten years, who is also just a fantastic author and speaker and has become a friend of Wallbuilders builders and all of us guys, at Wallbuilders Builders. And so we had a chance to have him on the program yesterday and I want to share that interview with you because it is so good and he is so entertaining and his new book called the Man Book is so worth talking about. So we're going to jump into my interview with Nick Fr. Freitas, and I'm just going to give you the whole program with David and Tim Barton because they had some great commentary as well on the outside of the interview. So here we go.

Nick Freitas wrote a book to help young men understand what masculinity is

This is Nick Freitas on the Wallbuilders Builder Show. David, Tim, this ought to be fun, man. This is one of those guys that we've all just kind of recently started getting to know and and just super enjoyable guy. But what a, what a track record. 10 years as a legislator, doing a great job influencing things out there on college campuses. Really somebody that we want kids to hear from and learn from. Not just kids, us.

>> Tim Barton: Well, and to add to his resume, right. I'm a military combat veteran with a Rick Green Beret, lots of deployment, so all kinds of real world experience and also one of my favorite social media follows. for people listening right now, if you're not quite putting the face to the name, he's the one that always has the mug at the end. He'll make a comment and drinks the bug to end it. It's, it's. He's just one of the best follow him on social media. but he is, he is somebody that is one of many of the voices that, that God has raised up, we would argue strategically like in this kind of Esther thought for such a time as this. And he's been able to get on college campuses. God's expanding his horizons in many ways. I think there's a lot of things yet to come for him and from him. But he is someone that is now addressing one of the big issues. There's young men that are coming to faith and yet there's a lot of unanswered questions for them. And he wrote a Book, literally to try to help young men know what it means to be a man. And, guys, I went to the book. I was texting Nick along the way, like, man, this chapter is so good. This was so great. I loved it. And so I, I messaged you guys.

>> Rick Green: I was like, hey, we need to get Nick on the program to talk about his book. It is so good. I love the fact that he did something to encourage young men. And also, in fairness, this is for young men. but I would say this is not something that only men could or should read. Because girls, if you want to know what kind of standards you should have, right? Moms, grandparents, if you want to help your women, your, your young ladies know what a man should look like, what they should be able to do. This is a really great step by step guide in his book. so really excited about having Nick on the program. Well, Nick will be with us when we return. Stay with us.

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Rick welcomes Nick Freitas to the Wallbuilders Show

>> Rick Green: Welcome back to the Wallbuilders Show. Thanks for staying with us. Great to have Nick Fretas with us. Do I say your name right? Fritos. Free Frito. What do I. What do I say? What's the right way to pronounce it?

>> Nick Freitas: Technically it's pronounced Freitas, but my drill sergeant taught me to respond to anything close.

>> Rick Green: All right. Freitas is the right way to say it. One of our favorites out there. A, great legislator, author, speaker, all of that good stuff. And new book coming out. And I will say Tim called me and said, nick's got a new book coming out. You gotta. You gotta get Nick on the program. And then my son in law is hitting me up going, man, I'm learning all this great stuff in this book by M. Nick. And he's like, I literally talked about how to get a date, how to, how to cook a steak. I mean, I'm like, man, this is good. I'm impressed. Anyway, so thanks for coming on. We appreciate you being with us.

>> Nick Freitas: No, thanks for having me.

>> Tim Barton: Well, and Rick, I would, I do want to say it's not coming out. It's out. I listened to it on audible. I texted Nick while I was listening to it. And man is incredible. Literally, I was encouraged, I was challenged, I was convicted in a couple areas, like, ooh, I need to do a better job. There it is. So good and practical, Nick, incredible job.

>> Nick Freitas: No, well, thank you. Thank you very much. You know, it's funny, on the audible side, they asked me like, do you want to narrate your own book? I'm like, well, if I want the sarcasm to come through the way I intend, I probably should. No.

>> Rick Green: Yeah. And I was trying to, I was trying to find my notes for my son in law. Yeah, he said, said, I'm not, I'm not doing this to blow smoke up your skirt, Nick. Okay. He said, one of the best. That's my son in law. One of the best books I've read. it'll be the one that our guys group goes through, next. And, and, and and just because of your rivalry with level, I will let you know they've already gone through Warrior Poet way. And so if he comes back and says Nick was a lot better, I'll give you some, you know, ammunition for your.

>> Nick Freitas: Well, no, that's actually how you should do it. You should start off with Warrior Poet way and then you should go up to the advanced study with my.

>> Rick Green: I love it. Yeah, I love it. Well, I, I know he's told me a lot that, that he got out of it. And, and, and he basically put it this way. He said, and he had a difficult family situation, coming up. And, and, and he said, this is, this is great for guys that had good dads, but it's really great for guys they didn't have dads that just taught them some of these manhood things in life. And so I'm assuming that was kind of part of your goal to fill that gap of some of these basic things that you need to know to be a good man.

>> Nick Freitas: Well, I think masculinity has been under attack from the left, for about, you know, well, for decades. But, like, really, the last 20 years have been bad. And it's amazing how many young men have grown up in an environment where they've told. They've been told that every instinct that God put in them to be men, to be masculine, is wrong. It's bad, it's toxic. It's the source of all the world's ills. And, And so they're looking for guidance because they see the results. They see the results of denigrating masculinity as being horrible univers. Horrible for society. The problem is, is that they're not just getting lies from the left. They're also getting lies from some people that would, I guess, colloquially be considered on the right. And the lies coming from the right are, hey, everything the left told you, everything the feminists told you, all of that is wrong. You need to be strong. You need to be capable. But you need to be strong and capable so you can sleep with a lot of beautiful women, so you can have a nice house, you can have a car. So you can be powerful, so you can intimidate, so you can get what you want. Essentially, it's the reject toxic masculinity and actually engage in barbarism, like this kind of hedonistic approach. Two ditches.

>> Rick Green: You're in a ditch either way. Yeah, yeah.

>> Nick Freitas: And. And my whole question is, okay, but what does God say about masculinity?

>> Rick Green: Yeah.

>> Nick Freitas: And, that's what I really wanted to hone in on is this idea that, no masculinity, those. Those instincts that he gives. Men are good now. There's negative manifestations of them. And there's positive manifestations of those instincts. And it's all a question of where do you get your identity and who do you serve. And once you identify those two things, mostly I get my identity in Christ. I serve him well. Now, of course, if I want to be a representative of Christ, I better be strong physically, intellectually, emotionally. I better be professionally competent. I better be the sort of man that other men can rely on in a dangerous situation. I better be the sort of guy that when my kid goes to school and says, my dad can beat up your dad, there's at least a reasonable chance that that's true. Right. So these are the sort of things that, I wanted to go over to encourage young men that. That, yeah, you want to develop these skill sets, but you got to know who they're in service to.

Nick Freitas writes about teaching your kids to share in his new book

>> Tim Barton: Well, Nick, I love the fact that you get into some very, practical things. and then. And in My mind some was maybe a little more theoretical, like pitting a car. You were giving practical advice and I'm like, I don't know when I'm going to use this, but I kind of want to go try it now. I'm excited about this. but, but also you said something. So I have a seven year old, a four and a half year old, and as I'm listening to the book, I'm going, man, this is such solid information. And every now and then you're dropping these nuggets and I'm like, like, oh my gosh, I've never, I've never thought of it quite that way. You explained it so well. So just, just as an example for everybody listening. One of many reasons you should go get the book. on a quick thought. All of the chapters are short. They're easy. You're so concise. You're so well spoken and, or actually well written. And you just read it. Well, so you sounded well spoken. But the section on parenting, you talked about how if we're not careful in teaching our kids to share. the way that I was perceiving it is you come across almost like we're raising these entitled socialists. because mom and dad always took things from everybody else and gave it to you. And I was like, oh my gosh. I'm literally like in the process of teaching my kids to share and I haven't taught them enough about private ownership in the midst of teaching them to share. And so again, you just give such great thoughts and insight along the way. And not to give away too much of the book because we want people to go read it. But when you said it actually was seeing an encounter. Experience. An encounter with a kid. I don't remember. If you remember this part of the book coming and screaming and yelling. Can you tell part of that story? Sure.

>> Nick Freitas: you know, we, our kids were out there playing with a toy. I think in this case it was my son. He was playing with a toy and it was a brand new toy and he'd gotten. And he was excited about having it. And it's not like my son has a. It's not like my son, who was like 6 at the time, had a difficult time sharing. It's just that he wanted to play with his toy. And, the person that wanted it started to get all like pushy and shovey and like share. You need to share. And, and he's like, well, I want to play with it. And so he runs to, I think he ran to my wife, Tina. And was like, luke's not sharing. And she looks her dead in the eye and goes, yeah, he doesn't have to. And there's, a lot of parents. Well, isn't it important to teach your kids to share? It's like, yeah, as long as they understand what sharing is. Sharing is a voluntary choice that you make with your property in order to give it to somebody else. And you can share for altruistic reasons. You can share because you think it would be a nice thing to do for another person. You can share for cooperative reasons. I'm going to share my toys, because then you'll share your toys. And now we're engaging in voluntary transaction. I said, but the moment you teach your kids that they are compelled by force to share, it's not sharing. What you've done is you've taught your kid that the moment they don't get what they want, run to an authority figure who's going to use force or coercion in order to give you what you want. I said, yeah, those kids grow up and they become members of Congress. Right? So we need to teach it within the proper context. Here are the benefits of sharing, but here's the benefits of being nice and respectful. And no, you don't have to share your property with someone that's being a little brat or a little punk or is going to break it. And when you put it into that context, all of a sudden it's like, oh, yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

>> Rick Green: Wow, that's good. And.

>> Tim Barton: And there were so many guys. I'm telling you, there were so many chapters like that where there are many things.

>> Rick Green: I was like, I feel like I

>> Tim Barton: kind of know this topic. And then you drop this nugget. And I'm like, that's such a good thought.

There are chapters on how to effectively defend your faith and how to argue

Was there a specific chapter, that you enjoyed more than others, or there's some that. That you were more excited about, thinking that, man, this is something people really need to know.

>> Nick Freitas: I. I like that. I like the chapters on how to effectively defend your faith.

>> Rick Green: Faith.

>> Nick Freitas: And one of the reasons why that's so important to me is because I was raised in the church. I've always considered myself a Christian, but there was many years there where I wasn't living that way. And the reason why is because I found a lot of the arguments for Christianity intellectually unsatisfying. And then on top of the intellectual component, I also saw a lot of Christian men who I didn't respect. It was almost like they demanded respect because they were Christians. It's like, no, you should be worthy of respect if you are going to claim Christ. And so talking about this whole idea of if you're going to claim Christ, well, then you better be living and acting and performing in a way that resonates that and the intellectual component. It's one of the reasons why I love Wallbuilders builders. I love the intellectual arguments you make for the principles which I feel are true, but I want to know are true. I want to be able to effectively articulate and defend these positions. And if you believe that. That the word of God is true, well, then it has, then it's equipped you with all the abilities that you need to be able to effectively defend it. You just need to dig in. You need to understand. You need to understand context. And so learning about Christian apologetics and learning how to effectively provide an intellectually rigorous, defense of my faith, that was huge. Not just for the impact it had on other people. As I was having these discussions, it was huge in my walk with Christ. Because now all of a sudden, if you think about any meaningful relationship you have with another person, there's an emotional component, right? You might be attracted to them, or you might like some of the same stuff. But when you talk about really meaningful relationships, there is always a deep intellectual bond there. There's the ability to talk through with this other person meaningful things and discuss challenges and to work through problems. And that's the relationship God wants to have with us. But if you treat Christianity as if it's a fad diet it, or it's this emotional thing that I do because it makes me feel happy as opposed to a genuine relationship, well, then you're missing this entire component which is absolutely critical. And so going through the chapter of explaining my experience with that and really finding just the richness of what it means to embrace your Christian faith and your relationship with God. That was a fun chapter. a very rewarding chapter to write. they're like, nick, you wrote a chapter on how to defend or how to win an argument with your wife. They're like, so this is a fiction book. and I said, no, I'm actually very serious about that chapter. Because I think one of the worst pieces of advice married men give to young men as they're about to become married is, oh, don't argue with your wife. I'm going to teach you two words. The key to a happy m. Marriage. Yes, dear. No, that's not. That's how to destroy your marriage. because you should lead. You should be the man and you should be wise. And so if you disagree with your wife, you should be capable of having a good conversation with her about whatever the problem is. And the challenge is, and you should be able to articulate those reasons in a way that she can respect. And oh, by the way, if you're dating a woman right now where you can have a reasonable discussion with her, for the love of God, don't marry her. And so that was another chapter that I really enjoy that people get kind of a kick out of. But I'm deadly serious that this is, this is so important about understanding, effective communication with your wife, because that's the most important earthly relationship you're going to have with another human being. And you better be able to discuss things and work through things and to do so in a mutually respectful manner.

Nick Freitas writes about duties and responsibilities as a man and father

>> Rick Green: Nick, how much are you getting to dive into some of these subjects when you're at the campuses and doing some of the tabling events you've been doing?

>> Nick Freitas: That's another reason why I wanted to write the book was because 10 years ago or five years ago, when I would speak to students, it was all about politics, right? I'm, I was a state legislator at the time. They wanted to know about tax policy or communism or whatever. And I still get those questions. But it's amazing how many more of the questions now are about being a father, being a m. husband, about your, your, your, your faith. How do you effectively defend and live out your faith? And so this is in, in, in one way you might look at that is that's a little bit concerning that we have so many young men that don't know the answer answers to these questions. But another way to look at it is, oh no, the harvest is ripe. We have young men who recognize that something is wrong with the world. And instead of trying to solve that just through political questions, they're actually getting to the fundamentals about their relationship with God, about the potential relationship with their spouse one day.

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>> Rick Green: We're back here on at the Core with Waka Wildmon and Rick Green. I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution coach. Jumping right back in with Nick Freitas, special guest for this interview I just did yesterday with he and David and Tim Barton. So I'm just sharing the whole thing with you from our Wallbuilders Builder show, and I know you're enjoying it. Let's jump back in with Nick Freitas

>> Nick Freitas: about their duties and roles and responsibility as a man, as a husband, as a father. And so this is the time for men to be able to offer that sort of discipleship that is desperately needed.

Turning Point USA seeks to equip parents and grandparents to disciple next generation

>> Tim Barton: Nick, along those lines, obviously for our audience, we have a lot of parents, a lot of grandparents, a lot of the Christian school, homeschool world, etc, and so I'm curious, knowing that we want to equip people to disciple the next generation, what are some themes that that. And I, I'm asking this knowing you've done several tabling events for Turning Point USA recently. and Charlie used to tell us that when he would go from campus to campus, he heard a lot of the same questions. and usually there were themes behind it. What are the themes that you are hearing that you think are the best discipleship opportunities to make sure parents and grandparents are pouring into their kids and their grandkids to, to have the right answers for these questions?

>> Nick Freitas: Well, the first thing that you need to understand, and Vodi Bauckham said this best, he goes, you can't send your kids to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they come home as Romans. And, I say this as a member. I say this as someone who sat on the education committee in the Virginia House of Delegates. I say this as someone who was the subcommittee chairman on higher education. I say this as somebody that regularly interacts with college students on campuses all over the country. I see a lot of students that were raised by Christian that, that the parents think they're the ones that raised their kids. No, they didn't. The public school system did. And now the university system is. And when those students come, come home with questions to mom and dad, let's say they still have a good relationship with mom and dad. Mom and dad get scared and intimidated by the questions, and instead of engaging with their kids, they say, we didn't raise you that way. Or they say, you just need to pray more and what I would tell parents is that one of the most. One of the most upsetting things I have learned is the number of Christian parents that didn't raise their kids in the faith, didn't raise their kids with their values. What they did was they taught their kids an authority structure. And the authority structure that they taught their kids was, when you live under my house, you follow my rules. Okay, great. I'm sure you had good Christian rules. They don't live under your house anymore. They're in the college dorm. They're in a different world. They're off by their own. And what you taught them was. Is you listen to what the authorities say. And, well, the authority on the college campus at University Seattle is telling them to come and spit and yell and scream at me for two hours straight. And they think that's an argument. And so the thing I would tell parents is, understand something. You can and should delegate authority to proper resources and proper, experts and whatnot in order to assist in the education of your children. I was very happy to use the curriculum that Wallbuilders builders designed in order to help teach my kids about American history. Why? Because I knew it was coming from a place that was rooted in my faith, but was also academically and intellectually rigorous. And so I didn't mind delegating authority to Wallbuilders builders to help me in that process. But, parents, you can delegate authority. You cannot delegate responsibility. It is your responsibility to raise your children in the way that they should go. And if you are regularly and routinely taking those kids and putting them into an environment with different authority figures that will challenge and question your faith, that will mock and denigrate your faith, that will mock and denigrate your values. You are causing confusion in your children. And then they go off into the world, and they're no longer equipped to fight for the values that you thought you taught them because you didn't. Now, the good news is this. There has never been more resources. There have never been more people that are willing to come alongside and assist you.

>> Rick Green: You.

>> Nick Freitas: And you would be shocked at how God blesses imperfect yet faithful attempts to raise your children the way that they should go. One of the greatest things I love about homeschooling and the experience I've had in raising my kids is that I love being around my kids. People, oh, wait until you get to the teenage years. Teenage years were the easiest. And it's not because we didn't expose them to different ideas or concepts. We challenged them in their faith every chance we got because we wanted him to be equipped. But if you want to know the common theme, what's going on in college campuses with kids, it's confusion about the truth, about the concept of truth, confusion about identity. It's not confusion about socialism versus capitalism. That is like seven questions down. No, it's about who am I? Who do I belong to? Where do I get my identity? Is identity? Is truth objective? Those are the fundamental questions that are informing all of the other ridiculousness that you see going on.

>> Rick Green: Fun man. I'm just thrilled that you're out there able to answer those questions with those students and hopefully get this book in as many of those hands as well.

>> David Barton: David, you know, one of the things, Nick, that I'm loving about this is all these little things you're focused on even going back to kids, sharing. And you're right. So often parents say, now go share with them. Wait a minute, that's private property. That's a choice to share. There's not a mandate to share. And so those are little things. But what I love is if you grow up with that, you're not going to buy any part of socialism when you hear it. I mean, these are all little ideas that grow into big things. And, oh, you shouldn't have an argument with your spouse. Wait a minute. Bible says iron sharpens iron. If you can't contend for your beliefs, then you're not going to be worth anything in a classroom when a professor says something crazy and you just, you bow down and you know, I'm going through all this and, and it's just so many cultural things that come from these little habits that you're focused on. And those are the cultural things that will raise a generation, that will fight for a country, fight for a civilization, fight for a structure that we've had. You know, we're celebrating 250, but not

>> Nick Freitas: if we keep going with the kind of thinking we've got today. That's another 20 years, maybe 30. But it's so cool, the stuff you're hitting. These are such core principles, and they're not just for individuals. When individuals start thinking this way, it'll change the whole country.

>> Nick Freitas: We can win this thing in one generation because we have more kids. We just have to take more responsibility for raising them in the way that they should go.

>> Rick Green: It's called the Man Book, A point by point guide to sucking it up and getting the job done. Nick. God bless you, man. Thanks for coming on with us today.

>> Nick Freitas: Thank you all very much, and thank you for what you do.

>> Rick Green: Stay with us, folks. We'll be right back on the Wallbuilders Builder Show.

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Tim Barton: Nick's book is a great primer on manhood

Welcome back to the Wallbuilders Builder Show. Man, what a, what a fun interview, guys. And how important this is to get, if we don't get manhood right, if we don't get fatherhood right, we're not going to make America great again. I mean, this is at the heart of it.

>> David Barton: You know, we've gone through a, generation of what they call toxic masculinity where they're just being a man was toxic somehow to the culture. And, and so we've started raising generational wimps. But I was thinking, even during Nick's interview, okay, you're Jesus, you're in the temple, you see something that really ticks you off, and that is that they've turned the house of prayer into a house of commerce. So you braid together a, a set of whips and you go through and you overturn private property, you destroy private property, you chase people out. There is not a single indication that anybody fought back against Jesus. And at that point, he's just a man walking through the temple with a whip and he's just letting them have it. And there's no indication of that ever being toxic masculinity. That exercise of strength that Jesus did is what set an example for the rest of us to know that, hey, there are things worth fighting for. And so I, think that's what Nick hits here, is pushing back on that culture that says, hey, you shouldn't stand up and fight for things. And there are things you should stand and fight for.

>> Tim Barton: Dad, I completely agree with everything you're saying. I, do want to point out. And I, I, you would agree, Nick would agree. When you stand up and fight for what matters, there will be opposition. So even though the Bible doesn't give us examples of, ah, people in the temple opposing Jesus, there was a group of religious leaders that led to Jesus being crucified because it did create opposition, but he did it in, in a godly way. The Bible says that we can be angry and sin not, and there are times that we should be angry with evil. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil and, and it takes a masculine man to be able to oppose and stop evil at times, which is exactly what Nick was talking about.

>> David Barton: And you know, even when Moses came down off the mountain after receiving the ten Commandments, there they built a golden calf and he just went physical on them. He went, he launched. And you know, the Bible doesn't condemn that because it was something that needed to be done. And there are times for that exercise of strength. Tim, as you said, it did lead to opposition later, but the wimpy man kind of thing has got to go away. It's not biblical. And if we're going to restore a biblical nation, this book that Nick has written is just, you know, I think Tim, you said there's 50 short chapters in it, 50 pieces of wisdom that helped put us back in the right direction.

>> Rick Green: The man book, A point by point guide to sucking it up and getting the job done. You can get it on audible. Tim said that was fun to actually listen to, to Nick read the story. So you, you got his sarcasm in, in the audio audible part. Huh?

>> Nick Freitas: Huh?

>> Tim Barton: Oh man. Yes, because. And there's a couple parts where he pauses to make like the sarcastic comment along the way. I loved it. the book itself would have been great. I spend a lot of time behind the windshield and so listening on audible is my preferred method for going through a lot of content. But the sarcasm from audible is worth the listen on Audible. Otherwise, the book I would highly recommend.

>> Rick Green: So during the pauses, you just imagined him taking a drink from the mug. That, that's probably what happened. As, as you were listening. All right, that was, that was Tim Barton's voice you were hearing right there at the end. so I get to do this show with David and Tim Barton every day. the Wallbuilders Builder show. We've been doing it for 20 something years now. And what a privilege to get to learn at those guys feet, but then also just to get to have a lot of great guests. And you know, sometimes it just makes sense to go ahead and share that interview with you here on AT the Core because it's just so good and it deserves to be played again. And I just felt like Nick Freitas was definitely one of those. And I wanted you to hear what David and Tim had to say about it as well outside of the interview. So that's why I shared the whole thing with you. You what? a treat man. And, and, and I think part of what I'm, I've been trying to share lately with some of these interviews that I'm bringing to at the Core is just to expand your horizons and know that there's a lot of good people out there that are fighting the good fight that are, you know, the, the school, the, the state Board of education people that I've had on in the last few weeks and months, the pastors, the the people like Nick Freitas or you know, we'll probably get Jon Lovell in soon, Chad Robichau, those kind of guys that are literally tender warriors. You know, Jon Lovell calls it warrior poet way. It's basically a modern day version of Stu Weber's book Tender Warrior that I gave to every man in my wedding. I mean it was, it was massively influential in my way of thinking about family and my role, my job as a man, as a godly man. What did I want to be and do. And I just love the fact that there's so many good resources now for men to begin to get like we had. And you know, this was for me, Tender Warrior was. Wow, what was that? 93, 94. and you know you had Steve Farrar and Point man and Ed Cole and Maximum. I mean all, all of those resources that helped us navigate marriage and fatherhood and all of those things. I am so thankful that this generation now has these guys like Nick Freitas and Jon Lovell and Josh McPherson and just there's so many, I mean, and they're solid biblically, Victor Marks. I mean in fact, if you, if you were going to give a reading list, in fact I did do this, I did this with my son in law before he was my son in law, when he wanted to be my son in law. and I gave him a reading list I did do Tender Warrior said you got to go back and read the one I did. but then I also, I gave him Dangerous Gentleman by Victor Marx. Warrior Poet Way by, Jon Lovell and now, Man Book. And as you heard in the interview, my son in law actually sought that one out himself. I didn't even know about it, until he told me about it, and then Tim Barton told me about it. So I guess what I'm getting at is there's some really good resources out there. Do not be, do not look at this culture that in many ways is dark and in many ways has run from God and rejected God and tried to destroy the family, destroy manhood. Don't look at all of that and say, oh, I don't, you know, how's my son or my son in law or my, my grandson going to be able to navigate manhood in this world where it's either toxic masculinity or it's effeminity? It's the Andrew Tate, Nick Fuentes, in my opinion, scumbag, masculinity. It's not true masculinity. It's selfishness and sinfulness in that dish. So there's ditches on either side. And I don't want you should be fearful or think, you know, those are the only options for my son or son in law or grandson or grandson in law. There are good godly men out there teaching these things, teaching people how, teaching these young men how to live and how to thrive and how to do it biblically. We're doing it at Patriot Academy. We're teaching these young men that come to us, whether they come through one of our summer programs for just a few days and they come get a taste of that, or they come spend a whole year with me at the campus and the other men at our campus that have a chance to mentor them and, or just being around other young godly men that they can do iron sharpening with. There are good resources out there, so do not despair, but instead be joyful and be thankful for what God's put, in our paths, the things that he's orchestrated for us to raise up a remnant of godly men, to be able to bring our country back, to have tough men who bring us back into good times. I am absolutely convinced that it's. The table is set. Every single one of us has a role to play. And if you hear anything from the program today, I hope it's that you will step up and be a tender warrior, that you'll be a warrior poet, that you will take these things and teach them to the young men in your life as well. Thanks so much for listening. You've been listening to at the Core with Rockaway.

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