Over a week ago I happened to leave the PBS channel on only to hear a jaw dropping “interview” by RW newz reader and relative of Herbert Hoover, Margaret Hoover with Ramaswamy. Republicans like Vivek keep proving that they are anti-democracy. What’s worse is that PBS seems to be on board with their agenda too.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/firing-line/video/vivek-ramaswamy-s/
On eliminating the Department of Education, FBI, and IRS…
… “I will not promise you to reform those agencies. We will shut them down!”
“… It will take an outsider who has executive experience, who’s been a successful CEO…… with a deep understanding of the Constitution … of the laws that actually empower a US president to shut down the administrative state and the federal bureaucracy that gets in the way of prosperity and liberty in this country. … I bring that combination to the table.”
“Trump was actually a very good president, but he fell short of the level that I would want to see us go to … he fell short …. We didn’t solve the border crisis….I would use the US military to secure the southern border.”
“Take the Department of Education. He put a good person on top of it, Betsy DeVos. I believe an agency like that is not subject to reform... I would shut down the US Department of Education. …Trump did not go far enough … that’s a big part of why I’m in this race.”
“I would pardon him [Trump] … his behaviors did not obviously constitute a legal violation, even as stated in those indictments…I think it will set an awful national precedent for us to become a country in which the ruling party, whoever it is, uses police power to indict its political rivals. That is the stuff of banana republics.”
“We need a revival of the American Revolution…. Ideals like self-governance over aristocracy. The idea that we the people, sort out our differences through free speech and open debate in the public square without elite interference. The ideal that it’s not in the back of palace halls or three-letter government agencies that we decide the right answers to questions from climate change to racial injustice, but that the citizens do it in a constitutional republic. And we have lost that.”
“Every young kid who graduates from high school should be able to pass the same civics test that every immigrant has to pass in order to become a citizen... At the age of 18, let’s attach civic duties to civic privileges…either knowing something about the country—the exact same things an immigrant has to know—or else serve the country in some minimal way: first responder or the military.”
Part of reaching young people isn’t just pandering by telling them what in the short term they want to hear, satisfying their moral hunger by saying– you know what the left says, ‘go to Ben & Jerry’s and order a cup of ice cream with some social justice sprinkles on the side.’ No. That’s not how we satisfy the hunger for purpose and meaning.
“I think the revival of actual civic duty is a big part of how we feed that hunger for purpose. Citizenship means something to me. And if we make it mean something to young Americans, they’ll be much less drawn to secular cults from wokeism to climate-ism than they are today, because they actually believe that the fact that they’re a citizen of the United States of America actually means something to them.”