Vivek Ramaswamy Speaks to the Spritual Void in Our Country
Vivek is an Exempliary Role Model for Our Next Generation
Tucker: …….How do you think the country is doing?
Vivek: I think the country is doing poorly is the answer. I think that we have a void in our country. I'm the first Millennial ever to run for U.S president as a Republican and I see people my age in particular across this country who are not doing well because we're starved for purpose and meaning. The people are looking to be part of something bigger than ourselves and yet we've lost the things that used to ground us; Faith patriotism, hard work, family, these things are gone and so we're lost in the wilderness.
And then we latch on to whatever the other side serves up for us —-you know —wokeism transgenderism, climatism— whatever it is, These are symptoms: drug addiction, depression, suicide you name it. These are symptoms of a deeper void of purpose and meaning in our country.
But Tucker I think the good news in that is I think our country is not doing well but I think that this is also our opportunity as a movement to level up and fill that void, that vacuum, with our own vision: individual, family, Nation, God. When I talk to young people about this they're more interested in that than they are in race, gender, sexuality and climate and so now we got to start running to something as Americans and if we do I'm confident that our country will be doing well again, That's where I'm at.
Tucker: Is it my imagination or people who weren't raised in traditional religious households who haven't spent a lot of time thinking about theology all of a sudden talking about God a lot. Do you notice that?
Vivek: I do notice that actually and I think this is a good sign because there's an old expression, right, if there's a hole the size of God in your heart and God does not fill it, something else will instead. That's what's happened in the last decade in our country. Something else, some secular religion has filled that void but it hasn't really satisfied our moral hunger, right so that's kind of that effect is fading and I think people are hungry to turn back to the real thing.
The conversation's coming up but they say it with a kind of prudishness yes right right God is a four-letter word it's sort of a thing you have to tiptoe around and I think that right now family is the same way the nuclear family makes some people uncomfortable when I say it but actually this is the best known form of governance to mankind. And so if we start talking more about ‘hey that's what we're running to, that's actually what we stand for, yes we are one nation. I'm a citizen of this nation, not some nebulous Global citizen somewhere else — that it is one nation under God, yes it is a nation that is stronger when we ground ourselves in the unit of the family. Then I noticed something happens especially for younger people across the country Tucker is they're more open to that message than they thought but they need someone to serve it up to them.
And I think as a I'm the first non-politician but I'm also a younger person in this race. I don't have a ton of experience running governments before, but I think in reaching younger people that's something I feel called to do in this race and it's why we're traveling college campuses across this country and I am optimistic about what I see.
Tucker: well since you are a younger person and spend time with them we saw yesterday that a group of reservists has been called up to Europe apparently to prepare for war with Russia of people in the age cohort who might plausibly be called up to do that, what's the response?
Vivek: I think there is no basis for us to send our young men and women our sons and daughters people my age or any age to go defend somebody else's border Halfway Around the World when we should be using our own military to secure our own Border in this country. And I will not apologize for that. We have to put the interests of this country first. And one of the things that does frustrate me Tucker is that this is one issue where I I so love many of the other people who are running for this nomination for president I think most of us in the entire field I speak for are in this for the right reasons we are people who care about our country and want to deliver our country to a better place.
But on this, nearly our entire field is indistinguishable, in practice, from where Biden is on this — which is in an undefined, ill-defined way: pouring more money into a war that I think is destined to become Vietnam or Iraq all over again. And if you don't learn from the lessons of the past you're going to be making the same mistakes on an even larger scale going forward we have to end this war. We can end this war and start prioritizing prioritizing the interests of actual U.S citizens here at home.
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From Vivek's Campaign ad:
Fellow American,
Wokeness is a new secular religion that says your identity is based on your race and sexuality. This is destroying America in front of our eyes.
I'm on a mission to stop it. I wrote two bestselling books and started a new company to take on wokeness on Wall Street, but we must do more and address the real problem: we are going through a national identity crisis.
I'm Vivek Ramaswamy, and I launched my campaign for President of the United States to deliver an answer to the most important question of our time: what it means to be an American. Today I am asking YOU to be a part of our movement.
I remember when I was in 2nd grade and heard Martin Luther King's "I Have Dream" speech for the first time: America judges its children not on the color of their skin, but on the content of their character.
I grew up in Ohio in the 90s to two immigrants who came to this country with almost no money. I was a skinny kid with nerdy glasses and a funny last name. Achievement was my ticket to get ahead. After graduating from Harvard and Yale, I went on to start a family and founded multibillion-dollar companies.
You probably know me as the author of Woke, Inc. – or by what left-leaning outlets have called me, like "the intellectual godfather of the anti-woke movement" (Politico), "CEO of Anti-Woke, Inc.," (The New Yorker), or the "right's leading anti-ESG crusader" (Axios, Bloomberg, and others). I take their criticisms as a badge of honor because we are standing up for what is right – and true.
I'm 37 years old. People my age and younger can't even answer what it means to be an American today.
My peers have abandoned faith, patriotism, and hard work and instead embrace new secular religions like covidism, climatism, and radical gender ideology.