‘National Identity Crisis’: Anti-revival businessman Vivek Ramaswamy launches 2024 campaign at White House
Anti-revivalist businessman Vivek Ramaswami officially launched his 2024 presidential campaign on Tuesday night with the release of a video outlining what he says is the “national identity crisis” the nation is facing and the need for rebirth.” American exceptionalism.
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“Today we are experiencing a national identity crisis,” Ramaswami says in the video. “Our nation yearns for cause, purpose, meaning. Things that used to fill this void, such as faith, patriotism, hard work and family, have disappeared. We now embrace one secular religion after another, from covidism to climatism to gender ideology, to satisfy our deeper need for identity. But we can’t even answer the question of what it means to be an American in 2023. Today, the awakened left is taking advantage of this vacuum. They tell you that your race, gender and sexual orientation determine who you are and what you can achieve in life. If you question this orthodoxy, you are called a bigot, a homophobe, a climate denier, a racist. There is no greater curse in America today than being called a racist. It’s psychological slavery, and it’s created a new culture of fear in our country that has completely replaced our culture of free speech in America.”
Vivek Ramaswamy, Chairman and Founder of Montes Archimedes Acquisition Corp., speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas on Friday, August 5, 2022. (Dylan Hollingsworth/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Ramaswamy, only 37 years old, had a remarkable career in business as a young man, managing several investment firms and later writing a bestselling book. Woke, Inc.: Social Justice Fraud in Corporate America which exposed the left-wing awakening tendencies of large companies. Ramaswami appeared on Tucker Carlson tonight on the Fox News Channel to post your application along with a launch video.
We’ve celebrated our “diversity” so much that we’ve forgotten how we’re really the same as Americans, bound by the ideals that held together a divided, stubborn group of people 250 years ago. I believe that deep down these ideals still exist. I’m running for president to revive them. pic.twitter.com/bz5Qtt4tmm
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRAmaswamy) February 22, 2023
“I remember being in second grade in 1993 and hearing Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I have a dream’ speech for the first time,” Ramaswami says in a video message for her campaign. “It was a speech in which he said: ‘I hope my four children grow up in a country where they are judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.’ This dream is stuck in me. It meant something to me. I grew up in Ohio in the 90s as a skinny kid with nerdy glasses and a funny last name. My parents taught me that if you’re going to stand out, then you can be great. Achievement was my ticket forward. I’ve started multi-billion dollar companies – and I’ve done it by getting married, having a family, and following my faith in God. And yes, I’m a millennial. I was born in 1985. But the saddest thing is that if I had been born 20 years later, my story would have been impossible.”
Report for 2016 from Forbes estimated his net worth at around $600 million. Ramaswami’s campaign website is Vivek2024.com.
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Interestingly, his issue is very focused on ideas and themes – it asks questions about what the ideals of Americans really are. This is something that most of the other 2024 candidates, announced or potential, lacked in whole or in part in their actual or perceived campaigns. This broad vision of what a country should be like and what principles bring people together, combined with the outside perspective that Ramaswamy brings to the race, could be a lot like Dr. Ben Carson’s 2016 Republican campaign or Andrew Young’s Democratic 2020 campaign. year. can go even further.
“If you ask me, the best indicator of the health of American democracy is the percentage of people who really feel free to say what they really think in public,” Ramaswamy says in the video. “Things are going horribly right now. That is why today I am announcing my run for President of the United States. This is not just a political campaign. It’s a cultural movement to create a new dream for the next generation of Americans, and this time it’s not just about money. It is about the uncompromising pursuit of excellence in our country.”
Ramaswamy is set to campaign in New Hampshire on Wednesday and then again this week in Iowa, right after his announcement. In his presentation video, he continues to explore these broad ideas and themes as he lays out his vision for the country.
“It means that you believe in merit, that you move forward in this country not by the color of your skin, but by the content of your character and your contribution,” says Ramaswami. “It means you believe that the people we choose to run the government are the ones who actually run the government, not the federal bureaucrats who are multiplying like a national cancer that is now metastasizing to the private sector. This means that the best ideas win, not get censored. This means you don’t have to choose between speaking your mind freely and serving food at the dinner table. It means that you believe that these ideals form the backbone of the greatest nation on earth that the rest of the world still looks to as an example, not the Soviet Union in the last century and not Communist China in this one. This is the new American dream. Ask yourself if you still believe in these ideals. I don’t care if you’re black or white, gay or straight, Democrat or Republican, for that matter, do you agree with these core principles? If yes, then we are on the same team. I think most of you believe this is true. I think that most of you think that your neighbors, your colleagues and classmates also believe that this is true, but you can no longer be sure of this, because you cannot speak freely about it.
He ends the video by explaining that the “ruling party” in the United States is determined to divide Americans so they can continue to “accumulate more power for themselves.”
“Well, you know what? I have a dream that we can be one people again, that our best days are actually, really – not in some crappy political sense – but are actually ahead of us,” says Ramaswami. “We have become so obsessed with our diversity and our differences that we have forgotten all the aspects in which we are actually the same. We are bound by a common set of ideals as Americans. Deep down I believe these ideals still exist, and I’m running for president to revive them. E pluribus unum – out of many, one. This is the dream that defeated the American Revolution. This is the dream that reunited us after the Civil War. It is the dream that won two world wars and the cold war, and it is the dream that still gives hope to the free world. If we can revive this dream of a capricious group identity, then no one in the world – not a nation, not a corporation, not a virus – will defeat us. This is the essence of American exceptionalism, and this is what we need to revive in order to save this great nation.”
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