Posted on 07/17/2020 7:40:19 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
During a speech on Thursday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated that America was far from perfect at its founding, but Americas founding principles gave us a standard by which we could see the gravity of our failings and criticized the New York Times 1619 Project for arguing that Americas institutions continue to reflect the countrys acceptance of slavery at our founding. Pompeo stated that the Chinese Communist Party must be gleeful when they read these arguments, and that rioters have taken these false doctrines to heart and thus see nothing wrong with desecrating monuments to those who fought for our unalienable rights, from our founding to the present day.
Pompeo said, America is fundamentally good and has much to offer the world. Because our founders recognized the existence of God-given, unalienable rights, and designed a durable system to protect them. But I must say, these days, even saying that America is fundamentally good has become controversial.
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No doubt they are.
Why fight a country if it’s destroying itself?
Great, fighting back.
It’s Pompeo vs. Haley in 2024, and Mike knows how weak Nikki is on this subject.
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