Vivek Ramaswamy talks China, 9/11, war, economic collapse and LGBT ideology

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Monday, August 21, 2023

'What does it mean to be an American?'

Ramaswamy, who is Hindu, described American society as "individuals who are members of these units we call families, families which are embedded in the substructure of this thing we call a nation and a nation which exists under the broader blessing of God."

He cited "individual, family, nation, God" as the hierarchy of the American worldview and identified LGBT ideology and the focus on climate change as examples of an "alternative worldview."

He outlined an obligation for the next president to help people understand "What does it mean to be an American" and "What does it mean to be an individual rather than riding a tectonic plate of group identity?"

Ramaswamy also stated its important for Americans to know: "What does it mean to be a member of a family, a nuclear family with a mother and a father that by definition brought you into this world" and "What does it mean to be a citizen of this nation?"

"I think that's our moment, and I believe that if we fill that void with an actual affirmative vision, we will dilute these other poisons to irrelevance," he said. "They are symptoms; they are symptoms of a deeper cancer. That cancer itself is a void, a black hole."

Ramaswamy said that American leaders have an obligation to "fill that void with an actual affirmative vision of who we really are, adding that he believed "that's got to be how we win."