The Greatness of America Is the People
Thank you to the women and men who are joining me in the political arena.
Yes, that sounds like a cliche, but it is true. Without the people who comprise the word “Americans," the place we call home is little more than geography on a map…a map dot on the globe no different than any other map dot. Yet, America is different. When our Founding Fathers pledged their lives and fortunes to establish this Republic 247 years ago, they did so with the belief that there was something fundamentally different about the people who had risked everything, suffered mightily, and bled to start anew across a huge ocean far from everything and everyone they had ever known.
As their descendants, we not only inherited this amazing country and birthright based on fundamental and unequivocal rights that have been forged and reforged in wars, but we also accepted the responsibility to ensure that we make this country stronger and more prosperous for those who come after us. Our DNA requires us to fight, compete, and innovate, not just pass the time languishing in our excess and riches.
Unfortunately, too many on the Left and in the media see a different America…an America founded on the backs of slaves and perpetually stained by that evil institution. They dismiss the deep rivers of sacrificial blood that flowed across our country by the men who fought and died to preserve our nation and launch a new birth of freedom for black Americans. They ignore the great progress made to form a more perfect union. They denigrate the importance of ensuring equality of opportunity and try to impose at every turn an equality in outcomes as destructive and soul-crushing as every totalitarian ideology we’ve fought so hard to eradicate.
Well, they are wrong. I say that not just as a fifth generation Ohioan/American raising the sixth generation, nor as someone who has experienced first hand the power of the American Dream. I say that as someone who has spent the last five months traversing Ohio talking to Americans of every stripe about our country and our state. I say that as someone who has painted a portrait of an Ohio that can be with bold colors and broad brushstrokes as President Ronald Reagan urged all of us to do and watched as Ohioans of all colors, creeds, and incomes have responded with mighty cheers and passionate applause.
And, I say that as someone who launched an effort with just a few ideas and firm belief that Ohio’s best days remain ahead of us and did so against an entrenched Establishment made up of pale pastel career politicians more wedded to softening Ohio’s decline than renewing its ascent to greatness. Through that effort, I have once again seen that the DNA passed down by our Founders remains alive and well as that solo effort has blossomed to a growing brigade of grassroots volunteers working daily to spread our bold colors agenda to as many Ohioans as possible. In just five months, because of their efforts, we’ve already reached more than half of Ohio’s eighty-eight counties putting us well on our way to reaching our goal of touching all of Ohio’s counties by July 31, 2024. So, if you have doubts about whether America still has citizens willing to fight for it, I can tell you unequivocally there are and that they form a silent majority just waiting for an idea worth fighting for.
I know this groundswell of support is not really about me; rather, it is far more about the common sense, bold color ideas that will make Ohio a more free, prosperous home to raise a family, make a decent living, grow a business, and extend the promise of America to future generations. Thus, on this 4th of July, thank you to the women and men who are joining me in the political arena where we most assuredly will be “marred by dust and sweat and blood.” We may come up short as Theodore Roosevelt noted, but we will fail while daring greatly just like our Founders did 247 4ths of July ago.
Happy Independence Day!
P.S. Whether you are MAGA or NeverTrump, be thankful this 4th of July that Donald Trump was our president for four years during which he appointed three conservatives to the U.S. Supreme Court. In addition to protecting the life of the unborn a year ago, that august body over the last two days rang the Liberty Bell once more by ending the inequality of affirmative action, securing our religious freedom, and reining in the federal leviathan of the Biden Administration. We have much to celebrate.
Beautifully put. I have a lot of friends and family who want large-scale mass immigration, and they are totally missing the point. America is great because of the people who are here; not its land-mass. If you import people from different societies, our society will be different. And if they are from worse societies, our society will likely become worse.
America can integrate foreigners at a moderate pace and with selective immigration criteria; and with an expectation of assimilation and gratitude. But what we're doing now is civilizational suicide.