Vivek Ramaswamy
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Every person is able to do the thing that we want in America, which is to realize your own God-given gifts. They're not the same God-given gifts, by the way. We all have different God-given gifts. That's true diversity. But the country that we know and love is the country that recognizes that difference. Stop trying to pretend that we all have the same skills and everything because we don't.
Every person is able to do the thing that we want in America, which is to realize your own God-given gifts. They're not the same God-given gifts, by the way. We all have different God-given gifts. That's true diversity. But the country that we know and love is the country that recognizes that difference. Stop trying to pretend that we all have the same skills and everything because we don't.
Every person is able to do the thing that we want in America, which is to realize your own God-given gifts. They're not the same God-given gifts, by the way. We all have different God-given gifts. That's true diversity. But the country that we know and love is the country that recognizes that difference. Stop trying to pretend that we all have the same skills and everything because we don't.
That's a beautiful thing, actually. It's not a bad thing. It's a beautiful thing. but to say that we are the country where no matter what those unique God-given gifts are, you get to achieve the maximum of that potential without really any manmade obstacle standing in your way.
That's a beautiful thing, actually. It's not a bad thing. It's a beautiful thing. but to say that we are the country where no matter what those unique God-given gifts are, you get to achieve the maximum of that potential without really any manmade obstacle standing in your way.
That's a beautiful thing, actually. It's not a bad thing. It's a beautiful thing. but to say that we are the country where no matter what those unique God-given gifts are, you get to achieve the maximum of that potential without really any manmade obstacle standing in your way.
These are the kinds of solutions, starting with early education, early economic empowerment, the family one, I will grant you, I didn't give you a fully satisfactory solution because there's no government-ordained solution there, but basic issues that I believe we can actually tackle, right?
These are the kinds of solutions, starting with early education, early economic empowerment, the family one, I will grant you, I didn't give you a fully satisfactory solution because there's no government-ordained solution there, but basic issues that I believe we can actually tackle, right?
These are the kinds of solutions, starting with early education, early economic empowerment, the family one, I will grant you, I didn't give you a fully satisfactory solution because there's no government-ordained solution there, but basic issues that I believe we can actually tackle, right?
And I don't think that our political class has taken a great interest in addressing over the course of the last- Because they're not incentivized to do it either. No. And a lot of it's on the federal level. And I don't mean to be pitching my own book here about what I'm doing next, but I do think the action is, a lot of the action there is at the level of the states.
And I don't think that our political class has taken a great interest in addressing over the course of the last- Because they're not incentivized to do it either. No. And a lot of it's on the federal level. And I don't mean to be pitching my own book here about what I'm doing next, but I do think the action is, a lot of the action there is at the level of the states.
And I don't think that our political class has taken a great interest in addressing over the course of the last- Because they're not incentivized to do it either. No. And a lot of it's on the federal level. And I don't mean to be pitching my own book here about what I'm doing next, but I do think the action is, a lot of the action there is at the level of the states.
I would love to see you do this. Show what's possible.
I would love to see you do this. Show what's possible.
I would love to see you do this. Show what's possible.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And this gets back to where we started, right? This is why I was... Well, people should care about it, is my view. But prove it there, and then all of a sudden everybody else... It's kind of sad to your point. I just want to pick up on that for a second, because... Right now, you guys are, we're all, you know, millennial or whatever, but Gen Z, the phrase, that's so Ohio, is like a butt of a joke.
And this gets back to where we started, right? This is why I was... Well, people should care about it, is my view. But prove it there, and then all of a sudden everybody else... It's kind of sad to your point. I just want to pick up on that for a second, because... Right now, you guys are, we're all, you know, millennial or whatever, but Gen Z, the phrase, that's so Ohio, is like a butt of a joke.