Posted on 07/02/2023 3:02:56 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
“As a businessperson, you're saving lives…why politics?” I ask.
"I think there is an opportunity to drive a national revival in our country,” he tells me. "I couldn't think of a better way to do it than to...get elected U.S. president.”
Ramaswamy is obviously a long shot, but his arguments--that America has become a nation of victims, and that some on Wall St now collude with government to cripple capitalism--made me want to learn more about him.
Here is our full interview.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
He’s an excellent candidate.
But first, run for Congress.
Trump would probably support him.
Been following him for two years in his books and business. Top flight guy who deserves to be heard and for whom the future is wide open.
“ But first, run for Congress.”
That’s the most insulting thing I have heard said about him
I listened to an interview with him early on and I was impressed. I have noticed recently that he is rising above a lot of the people under Trump. He is now 3rd or 4th on the list. So, maybe other people have listened to him and came to the same conclusion that I did, he is not bad, definitely America First in his policy points.
I believe he was, also, the only other candidate that showed up in Florida to support Trump when he was indicted. He said that what was going on was wrong and he thought all of the other candidates should be saying so, not just him.
Great guy.
Has he become a Christian yet?
Running mate material?
Today I was in Haifa in a neighborhood full of Arab businesses and Arabic signs, all of them closed because it was Sunday. I was looking for a hardware store to duplicate some keys, following a friend’s directions to a lone Jewish store that would be open. On Sunday. As I got nearer my destination, I saw a huge stone church with signage above the arch—in Arabic!—and two scoutmasters conversing at the door in Arabic. I had stumbled on an ethnically and linguistically Arab Christian neighborhood that takes its faith seriously.
Ramaswamy has the name and complexion of a man of Indian descent. I don’t know what religion he is, although he’s probably Hindu. But he might be Christian for that matter.
Vivek is a voice of sanity.
Articulate and quick on his feet.
As an outsider, his chances are slim as candidate for President in 2024.
DeSantis would do well to study Vivek and take pointers.
But, more importantly, Vivek has a solid grasp of the important issues, and is the best of all people on the stage at explaining what is “America First”.
While entering a church - and even joining one - doesn't give entry to heaven, it can help make someone culturally Christian. I don't mean to overlook that.
And as you point out rightly, there are many who claim the name of Christ, but their lives say something very different.
Obviously, it would be best if Vivek came to saving faith. I certainly hope so.
The Mafioso are Catholic, too, and after confessing to their routinely heinous litany of crime, their Father Confessor prescribes to them the penance of giving a tithe of their ill-gotten gains to their local parish, which is well financed as a result. No doubt the Kennedys, Bidens, Pelosis, et al., have a similar arrangement with their graft and theft. I don’t envy Catholicism this institutional rot, and sympathize with the sincere Catholics who must put up with it.
Orthodox Jewish, myself, Lubavitcher Chassid.
He’s too high brow to make it as a candidate on his own. You need Trump to do the heavy lifting and crowd pleasing. But he ought to be offered a job.
Do you mean Vivek should NOT follow Trump’s example?
I do not recall Trump running for congress.
Sure, by all means, do like Trump did.
Run against Trump*.
(*not what Trump did)
I didn’t make it up. It was told to me by a former Catholic who related along these lines the experiences of a now-lapsed priest.
In Judaism there is no doctrine of clerical absolution and indulgences, but there is donating to charities to re-establish the connection with G-d that was damaged by the sin, albeit after a sincere repentance. Of course, this itself invites abuses similar to that which I described. Plenty of utterly repugnant people who have new wings of the synagogue named after them, or a Torah scroll commissioned.
By no means do I allege that this exclusively a Catholic phenomenon. Hypocrisy is as universal as ethics codes are. Can’t have one without the possibility of the other. And whatever your religious code, it’s meant for observance by humans, not angels, who always start out flawed, and often get worse instead of better over time.
Trump could be in prison at election time. That is DOJ plan.
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