GOP political candidate hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy told crowd goers at his campaign visit to Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC, about his belief of an ongoing war in our country for national identity.
“It’s a war for who we are. It’s not a war between black and white, as the media would teach you to believe. It’s not a war between even Democrats and Republicans, not quite. It’s a war between those of us in the United States, who I believe is the majority of us, who share a conviction that all men are created equal… and on the other side we have a different world view. One where your identity is based on your race, gender or your sexual orientation.”
Ramaswamy opened his rally by explicitly wishing the crowd a happy Columbus Day rather than any of it’s alternative names, touting the day as a time to celebrate exploration.
“It’s a day where we celebrate our American spirit of exploration, of pioneering new frontiers, while acknowledging that we’re not a perfect nation, but we’re founded on the pursuit of a more perfect union; the pursuit of equality and liberty and justice for all,” Ramaswamy said.
Ramaswamy said the ongoing war in the United States that he sees is between patriots who love their country and a new fringe on the left that is interested in taking away powers from corporations, but leave power for the corporations that follow “woke rules”.
“Two strange bedfellows in this arranged marriage. Not an arranged marriage of love, more mutual prostitution, actually,” Ramaswamy said.
Ramaswamy was very critical of the Chinese Communist Party and their potential impact and control of American institutions throughout his speech, citing their financial power and influence as their entry point into our country’s lifeblood.
“We thought we could export Big Macs and Happy Meals, and somehow that was gonna spread democracy to places like China,” Ramaswamy said. “We thought we could use our money to make them more like us. What they realized was that they could use their money and market to make us more like them. Take it one step further; they realized they could use our money to be more like them.”
Near the end of the speech, Ramaswamy said that every politician dances to the tune of their highest donor.
“In my case, my biggest donor happens to be me, and I think it’s gonna take an outsider to fix this, so that’s a big part of how we’re gonna win this war at home,” Ramaswamy said.
Ramaswamy ended the speech by calling climate change a hoax because he believes that climate change has nothing to do with the climate, and everything to do with letting China catch up to the United States.
“If we’re gonna win this war, we’re gonna have to understand it, which is what I’m taking the time to do. This is not a political speech I’m giving you, this is an account of understanding what’s really going on in our country.”
