Alex Mehr

I immigrated to America for that reason.

I came from a totalitarian country, and I came here because I read stories of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Paper and stuff like that.

So to me, that is absolutely in the core, and I believe America is a very unique country in that sense.

However, I did not myself talk openly about politics for years because it does hurt, especially living in San Francisco.

It does hurt your ability to conduct business.

People sort of shun you and they are like, you know, you don't get like they you kind of get grayballed, to put it mildly.

But something switched.

It wasn't actually business because look, end of the day, I will survive because inside my head, my skull, I'm a free person.

So you can put me in Venezuela, in the ghettos of Venezuela, in a totally dictatorial country, I'll be free inside my skull and I'm fine.

The thing that flipped the switch for me was actually having kids.

So once I had kids, I realized, look,

I may be able to live and survive in any scenario.

I don't really care.

But do I want my kids to grow up in a completely totalitarian, I wouldn't say we are like Mao Zedong level, but we were actually going in that direction a little bit.

Especially COVID opened my eyes.

I'm like, do I want to live in a country?

So I started talking about it myself after years of being an entrepreneur.

essentially after covet i'm like this i don't want my kids to have their individual rights and liberties being taken away by the country by the government and that's the whole purpose that's why we have first amendment second amendment we they have all these things that limit the the level of government involvement in our lives and that's why we have been a prosperous country because

All the founding fathers, they were on board.

They came.