E-Newsletter No. 128 August 2024
During his campaign to be the Republican nominee for president, Vivek Ramaswamy put forward a list of Ten Truths–
1. God is real.
2. There are two genders.
3. Human flourishing requires fossil fuels.
4. Reverse racism is racism.
5. An open border is no border.
6. Parents determine the education of their children.
7. The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind.
8. Capitalism lifts people up from poverty.
9. There are three branches of the U.S. government, not four.
10. The U.S. Constitution is the strongest guarantor of freedom in history.
For conservatives, we know exactly what each of these ten truths mean, and we accept these long-standing and (until recently) universally accepted truths. Unfortunately, there are elements of these truths that are being rejected by the Left. For purposes of this short newsletter, we will let the above truths stand “as is.” However, to give the Left their fair amount of airtime, we have prepared an Addendum where we discuss what we have heard from certain Leftists as to why they do not agree with these truths.
US Debt Clock – – July 1st – $103,500 per citizen / August 1st – $104,200
Left vs Right – Ten Truths – Addendum
E-Newsletter No. 128-A August 2024
1. God is real. Conservatives don’t really care if you are a Catholic, a Protestant, a Jew, a Hindu, a Buddhist, or even a (non-Jihadist) Muslim. Conservatives only care if you are a moral person. John Adams once said “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Unfortunately, it has become apparent that for many on the Left, their religion has become Big Government. Some Leftists regularly attempt to remove the words “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance and oftentimes are seen excluding these words when they recite “their” pledge.
2. There are two genders. The science is real – the combinations of X and Y chromosomes determine gender. If you have XX chromosomes, you are a female. If you have XY chromosomes, you are a male. Gender dysphoria is a mental-health disorder. Unfortunately, some Leftists (including a recently appointed and confirmed Supreme Court Justice) reject this science and instead believe that gender is a “social construct.” According to Wikipedia, some Leftists believe there are over 50 genders. Sponsoring Drag Queen Story Hours in schools and sowing the seeds of gender confusion in a young child’s mind is immoral.
3. Human flourishing requires fossil fuels. Eight times as many people die from cold temperatures as warm ones. In fact, climate-related deaths have dropped 98% over the last century. This is due to both heating and air-conditioning, which are primarily powered by fossil fuels. These facts are not reported by the mainstream media, which focuses on spreading fear about a theoretical increase in temperatures 100 years from now. The Left continues to try to use the fear of Global Warming (now known as “Climate Change”) in their war against fossil fuels. The adverse economic effects of this war – high gasoline prices and the resulting high inflation – are detrimental to all of us, but especially to the poor. Regular (normal) weather events are now automatically tied to this doomsday narrative. Contrary to the projection by Al Gore in the 2006 documentary entitled An Inconvenient Truth, a 20-foot increase in sea levels “in the near future” has not happened. The number and intensity of hurricanes and tornadoes have also not increased as they were “predicted” to do. The mainstream media has also failed to report on the disastrous environmental effects of forcing consumers to purchase EVs, starting with the mining of the rare earth minerals that are needed to produce the batteries. And the subsequent environmental effects of disposing these batteries (along with the disposal of wind turbine blades and solar panels) once they reach the end of their useful life is not reported at all.
4. Reverse racism is racism. It was the Republican party that ended slavery in the 1860s. It was the Republican party that pushed for and passed the 1960s era civil rights legislation (overcoming the obstacles and obstruction from the Democrat party). The Democrat party is now fixated on race, whereas conservatives couldn’t care less about the amount of melatonin in a person’s skin. “Systemic racism” and “White Privilege” are simply false narratives being pushed by the Democrat party and their allies in the mainstream media. The 1619 Project is an attempt to re-write American History and help promote the teaching of Critical Race Theory in public schools. The real underlying narrative of the Democrat party is that blacks are victims, and they need reparations and government welfare programs. Reliance on the government only leads to an increase in dependency. Buying votes, instead of helping people escape poverty, appears to be one of the primary objectives of the Democrat party’s welfare programs.
5. An open border is no border. It is shameful that we spend hundreds of billions of dollars in military aid to other countries, but we fail to protect our own southern border. Illegal immigrants, human traffickers and fentanyl are crossing our open borders. The Democrat party in many of the states they control is the party of failure, high taxes and increasing debt. Citizens are fleeing those Blue states to move to Red states. The Democrats need to re-fill their states with illegal aliens to maintain their seats in the US House of Representatives. The apportionment of seats in the US House of Representatives should be based on the number of US citizens in each state, not the total number of people. The Democrat party appears to be more interested in the welfare of illegal aliens instead of our country’s citizens.
6. Parents determine the education of their children. When Ralph Northam was governor of Virginia, he made the mistake of saying that the teachers unions and school administrators were the sole decision makers on what is taught in public schools. Parents in Virginia said “I don’t think so” and voted him out of office. Unfortunately, the Left will not stop in their efforts to indoctrinate our children via the public school system. As Vladimir Lenin said, “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” Parents know what is best for their kids. The current monopoly that is run by the teachers unions and Democrat politicians needs to end and be replaced by school choice alternatives.
7. The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind. Children in father-absent homes are almost four times more likely to be poor and twenty times more likely to end up in jail. Nearly one-fourth of children in America don’t have a father in the home. True “privilege” in our country is being raised in a stable family with two parents. Until they removed this particular “plank” from their website, Black Lives Matter used to say “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families… “ Obviously, conservatives do not agree with that particular recommendation.
8. Capitalism lifts people up from poverty. Capitalism has lifted more people up from poverty than any other economic system in the history of mankind. Economic Socialism has never worked in any country where it has been tried, including Sweden and Denmark. Capitalism is the only truly moral economic model that exists – it operates as a (non-coerced) exchange of goods and services between individuals who mutually benefit from the exchange. Crony capitalism, which is the collusion between big businesses and big government is the economic model that the Democrat party is trying to advance. Crony capitalism’s beneficiaries are the elites in those businesses and the government – at the expense of individuals.
9. There are three branches of the U.S. government, not four. The biggest open secret in modern America is that the people we elect don’t actually run the government. The Administrative State is comprised of nonelected government officials who have no accountability to American citizens, only to the government itself, and oftentimes to the detriment of our country’s citizens. The Founders never envisioned the massive size and scope of the current federal government. Instead, they said in the Tenth Amendment that if something isn’t listed in the Constitution, it was a responsibility that was reserved to the States “or to the people.” The amount of money wasted by the federal government is truly staggering, and the Democrat party regularly calls for more programs, more agencies, more taxes, and more spending.
10. The U.S. Constitution is the strongest guarantor of freedom in history. “Progressive” Leftists tout themselves as being the “champions of democracy,” and they want to fundamentally transform our country. In many ways they constantly demonstrate how they reject the original intent of the Constitution, especially the Tenth Amendment. Our country was established as a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy, where 51% get to rule over the other 49%. The Left’s desire for power has no limits. On the other hand, conservatives want a government so small you can barely see it. As government grows, the freedom and liberty of each and every individual American citizen diminishes.