Michael Knowles Tells Students: “Kamala Wants You Single”
Michael Knowles Tells Students: “Kamala Wants You Single”
Michael Knowles speaks on VP Harris, the anti-family onslaught, and leftist violence.
(Michael Knowles. | SOURCE: The Spectator)
Michael Knowles, a prominent conservative Catholic commentator and host of The Michael Knowles Show, gave a speech on September 16 titled “Kamala Wants You Single.”
Knowles spoke on the left’s “special hostility toward marriage and family,” arguing that liberalism “boils down to three words: ‘Screw you, Dad.’”
He also discussed a variety of political topics, including the second assassination attempt on President Trump, the left’s “despicable” rhetoric toward Trump, and political violence toward Republicans.
(Michael Knowles addresses the audience. | SOURCE: The Spectator)
According to Knowles, the rhetoric of Democrats “up to and including Kamala Harris and Joe Biden” against Trump has served to “justify his assassination.” By calling conservative figures like Trump and Republican Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance “existential threats to the country as well as Nazis,” the Democrats have encouraged attempted assassins to follow these labels to their “violent and deadly conclusion.”
He stated that political violence is a “left-wing phenomenon in America,” citing violent attacks against himself and other conservative speakers on college campuses. He pointed out statements made by Democratic politicians, such as Hillary Clinton telling supporters to not be civil with Republicans.
Knowles also stated that the family is “the primary educator of children and the ultimate bulwark against radical social engineering.” He posited this makes it “the most stubborn impediment to the liberal political project.”
(Attendees listen to Michael’s speech. | SOURCE: The Spectator)
He went on to argue that the “earliest leftist thinkers,” such as Charles Fourier, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels, all shared the current left’s disdain for family. The left’s “once-fringe, radical opinions,” he pointed out, are now “commonly held and promoted by the most powerful people in our society.”
Knowles believes that the consequences of this thinking are dire. “The Kamala Harris campaign promises to kill babies, trans the kids who survive, remove those kids from the family … at earlier and earlier ages, abolish the meaning of marriage in law, and encourage divorce for the relative few who get married anyway,” Knowles said.
On abortion, Knowles cited Mother Teresa, stating that abortion is evil because it “severs the most fundamental political bond: the familial bond between mother and child.”
When discussing divorce, he criticized the left’s relaxation of divorce laws and argued that it led to the 70% upswing in divorce rate from the early 1960s to 2018.
He denounced the left’s so-called expansion of marriage to include same-sex unions, arguing that “marriage is an exclusive thing … when you expand a thing beyond its limits, you destroy it.”
(Michael Knowles speaking. | SOURCE: The Spectator)
“Things are defined by what makes them distinct,” he continued, adding that “the most distinctive feature of marriage is that it can, in principle, produce children.” This union, he says, “provides the stable conditions necessary for a child to learn and grow in the best way.”
According to Knowles, this “stability and grounding” provided by the nuclear family goes “against the utopian vision of the left.” He criticized the idea that “love is love,” arguing that the natural conclusion of these ideas is that “men and women are exactly the same.”
To conclude, he stated that “as goes the family, so will go the country.”
In the following Q&A session, he answered questions on a variety of topics, including America’s culture toward money, secularism in American government, divorce laws, the attraction of youth toward leftism, aid to Israel from a Christian perspective, sexual immorality in our society, and cigars.
(Michael Knowles fields questions. | SOURCE: The Spectator)
He told a student that people on both the left and the right “sometimes fall into the error of worshiping money, rather than recognizing that material wealth is good, but it’s good for a purpose.”
He continued to say that pluralism, secularism, and liberalism have “run away with us,” resulting in a culture with “no coherent conception of the good” which “doesn’t really work” since “lawmaking is just applying morality in practice.”
Answering another question, Knowles said that “young people are attracted to leftism … because they’ve been trained to be attracted to leftism.” He continued, “no longer do you see just sixteen-year-olds having a rebellious phase, now they’re lopping off whole body parts … the deeper engrained the habit is, the harder it is to break, which is why the left have focused on education so directly.”