Vivek for VP over Tulsi
Our historic military recruitment shortfall of 41,000 last year leaves the U.S. with our smallest active-duty military since before WW2. Many military families increasingly don’t want their children to serve. A recent Gallup poll found that less than half of Americans would be willing to fight for their country in a time of need, while 77% of young people are too obese, too medicated, too drugged, or too mentally ill to qualify for military service even if they *want* to sign up.
The greatest threat to our nation isn’t someone else, it’s right here at home: our crisis of national purpose. Our destructive border policies, third-world conditions in cities, rising crime, and economic decline are really just symptoms of a deeper malaise.
This is becoming obvious to our rivals: according to a new report from the Heritage Foundation, Chinese scholars believe America has destroyed its “common political culture” and torn up its “civilizational roots.” They’re expecting us to self-implode.
Ordinary Americans feel lost & disempowered when we can’t even hold our own leaders accountable: the people we elect to run the government aren’t even the ones who actually run the government, and those who do have lost any sense of duty to our own citizens, which in turn erodes the civic duty our citizens feel back towards our nation - triggering a downward spiral of national identity.
Shutting down the administrative state & reviving our national identity are by far the two most important objectives to save our country. We can still do it. But we’re running out of time.
