Gavin Newsom

Even more discipline is applied.

And I think what happens is that patriotism sort of splits off down the road.

And one way is a kind of lazy thing fills of slogans and

and is basically used to exclude people.

And the other patriotism, which I think you subscribe to, is one which is energetic.

It is engaged in process.

It is in pursuit of happiness.

It is after a more perfect union, and it involves self-reflection.

This is what our founders, when they said pursuit of happiness, was lifelong learning.

If you learned all your life,

you then could earn this extraordinary gift and responsibility of citizenship.

You wanted to become more virtuous.

This is reaching back over the dark ages into antiquity and pulling out these virtues.

The most important is to be virtuous.

And that if you did that, this constant self-awareness and improvement, then you'd be

OK, I mean, in the middle of the deliberations about the Articles of Convention, while Washington's fighting in New York City against the British and about to lose because of a bad decision, strategic tactical decision, John Adams is going, is there enough?

There's so much ambition and avarice, so much lust for profit.

Is there enough virtue enough to create a republic?

Those are the questions we should be asking ourselves not is this group bad?

Is this is it blood and soil?