This is a talk that I give to college students.
First! America is not a place, America is not a race, America is an idea. And it is a revolutionary idea that had never been seen before in the entire history of the world. America's prosperity and unlimited opportunity is available to anyone, and I mean anyone no matter what your background, who learns the American idea. Check out this short Bono video on the "American Idea", it is mind boggling. And to quote Bono, "It is not a Left Right issue but a Right Wrong issue." We also add that America is not a race because today there are many voices that say, "People of color can not succeed in America because of their race." Throughout the history of America people of all kinds of races have succeeded because they learned the American idea. To do this they also had to ignore the "race baiters" who are trying to promote themselves, get political power, and make money by making themselves the power brokers for some "race of people". The KKK were Democrats, I know big surprise, who tried to do this for white people. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton (Democrats) do this today for African-American people. The Democrat group La Raza does this today for Hispanic people. All the race baiters of today and yesterday are all Democrats. By the way Martin Luther King was a Republican, I know hard to believe, but look here. There are many voices today that want to tell you that you can not achieve the American dream, because of your race, or because you are poor, or because society is against you. Well I am here today to tell you that is BU**Sh**. Anyone can achieve the American dream if you learn and believe in the American idea. And our overall goal today is to make you, "Curious Seekers of the Truth", who ask questions, do independent research, and arrive at your own opinions based on sincere effort.
Oh and to blow your mind, of the Republican Presidential candidates there are two Hispanics, one woman, one African-American, and a person from India. And the democrats have 2 old white men and a very old white woman. But you did not know that because all you have ever heard up to this point is that Republicans are old white country club racists, and Democrats are the party of diversity. Ok, I know you most of you did not even know this because of the biases discussed above, but now back to the American idea...
The foundation of the American Idea is found in the Declaration of Independence, where it says
"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws and Nature and Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind required that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. ... We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. ... We…appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name and Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States. ... And for the support of this Declaration with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
WOW!!! Who would have thought that 4 mentions of God would be allowed in our public schools today and right there in our Declaration of Independence. How about the all of the State Constitutions also mention God, read about it here and here. But of course few if any of you have ever read these words. Because the 95% Democrat controlled school system is just not "No God" but "Anti-God" today. Yes they have a bias and I have a bias but you must determine for yourselves what is the truth. So God is an important foundation to the American Idea. Note I am not saying what religion or denomination you should belong to only that the entire American idea is founded on this the most important founding document of the United States of America which is founded on the concept of God giving us our rights, judging our intentions, and protecting us by His Divine Providence. Why all this talk about God. Well the Democrats who as a whole do not believe in God (read on below) try and make Government their God which is big enough to control everything so that they can bring about their vision of utopia. If you have only heard for all of your schooling the NO GOD or ANTI_GOD point of view then you have only received HALF an education AND YOU WILL NEVER LEARN THE AMERICAN IDEA. And see below what happens to a country that has a low view of the value of life, and a very exalted view on the power of Government.
So to level the playing field you all should know something about libertarian (little "l") conservatives or as one Democrat said to a few of us, "I like you guys you are Progressive Republicans." So as a whole we dislike Elite Republicans and we dislike Elite Democrats. We dislike Country Club Republicans, and we dislike Country Club Democrats. What do I mean by elite? Those politicians who are no longer statesmen, and stateswomen, but are acting in the best interests of themselves to keep their power, and support the lobbyists and corporations that gave them money to get them in power and not "we the people". They practice crony capitalism, which instead of an even playing field for all companies favors companies that gave them money. They also do not uphold the founding principles of our Constitution and defend the Bill of Rights. Recently 167 Republicans voted against the policies of the Speaker of the House John Bonner. Many called this block of voters tea party Republicans. Unfortunately we use to have a block of Democrats called Blue Dog Democrats and they were certainly closer to Tea Party people then any Democrat today, but alas there are few Blue Dog Democrats today.
Yes, we come to you with a bias and our own Worldview, but we would challenge you, that you have only heard the other sides bias and Worldview pounded into your heads for most of your life from school, television and the media. 80% of the news media vote Democrat, 95% of California Professors donate to the Democrat Party, they have a worldview and spin the news and information to fit it. We want you to make informed decisions for yourself and to learn the American idea so you can be wildly successful. We want you to understand that California's, loosing jobs, loosing businesses, not having enough dams for water in the dry times, high housing prices (government restricts building), high gas prices ($2.77 is the price in other states), bad roads, bad anything else is the fault of Democrats because except for the period from 1995 to 1996, the Assembly has been in Democratic hands since the 1970 election, and the Senate has been in Democratic hands continuously since 1970. (ref) I mean really how can it be the rich white country club Republicans fault when in California there are almost no rich white country club Republicans and Democrats have run the State for 45 years. YES 45 years. Most of your parents have only experienced Democrat rule. Why is California the 2nd WORST state in the nation for doing business, I would suggest that 45 years of one party rule might be a plausible explanation. (Ref) Yet many of you until today blamed the evil Republicans.
The Elite group of Republicans and Democrats support big Federal spending policies that put our country further and further into debt. Today the debt from the Federal Government alone is $18 Trillion which is $50,000 for every person in the United States. This is in fact the older generation borrowing from the younger generation to make themselves richer. (Think about it old people die and young people are stuck with the bill.) And the national debt is on top of student loans for young people, which today have reached unsustainable levels of $1.2 Trillion. This elite group of whom most all are Democrats and some are Republicans support a loose monetary policy for the Federal Reserve on top of the Federal Government borrowing from the next generation. What is this policy called? Quantitative Easing. (QE) Why is it so important because it pumps Trillions of dollars into the hands of the Elite. Here is a definition from Investopedia:
To carry out QE central banks create money by buying securities, such as government bonds, from banks, with electronic cash that did not exist before. The new money swells the size of bank reserves in the economy by the quantity of assets purchased—hence "quantitative" easing. Like lowering interest rates, QE is supposed to stimulate the economy by encouraging banks to make more loans. The idea is that banks take the new money and buy assets to replace the ones they have sold to the central bank. That raises stock prices and lowers interest rates, which in turn boosts investment. http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/03/economist-explains-5
