Zach Lahn

This is about our culture and identity as Iowans and as Americans.

The free market doesn't take into account culture.

It doesn't fix cultural issues.

Oftentimes it makes them worse.

People ask me, what do you mean by that?

It's like, what's the free market solution for the declining church attendance in our country?

We have to make those decisions.

And that is actually the sole reason I am running, is to say we have to get the culture right in our state.

If we don't get the culture right, we're going to end up like Washington, D.C.

Because the same people that are buying off politicians and looking for influence in Washington, D.C.

are coming to the states.

They're coming less and less because more and more power is being concentrated in D.C.

But that's why we have to start suing.

And we have to start saying we're going to be bringing this back into the control of our state.

So

To me, it goes back to culture.

It goes back to who are we?

What do we want to stand for as a people?

And do the traditions and the heritage of our state and our ancestors matter to us?

Because I can tell you, they would have revolted for far less than what's going on right now.