Vivek Ramaswamy is visiting elderly family relatives when he is informed that they are having health issues because the cuttings from the neighbor’s lawn work are being blown {along with pollen} onto his relative’s driveway. Vivek decides to act.
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He confronts the neighbor and suggests the man change his behavior. The neighbor doesn’t take kindly to Vivek’s approach, and things escalate to the point where Vivek implies that he would bring in the authorities. The Black neighbor counters, saying that Vivek is a few shades lighter than he, but even so, it might be the time that he got his gun. The two parties separated, and the issue festered.
January 2021 Vivek Ramaswamy has an epiphany.
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the Jan 6th capital riots, Vivek senses the America he loves is tearing itself apart.
America’s investment giants {Think BlackRock} were demanding companies ignore their shareholder’s (owners) concerns and were forcing them to submit to Environmental Social Justice (ESG) and Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity {DIE}, or be unable to raise capital {and ultimately fail}. CEOs embraced ESG by having expensive woke/green agendas and DIE by disregarding qualified applicants and hiring on the basis of the color of an applicant’s skin or their gender. Simultaneously, helping to light the flame of inflation, dumbing down America’s workforce, dulling America’s competitive edge, and cheating investors out of optimal investment returns.
The CEOs subjugated their employees and forced them to pay homage to ESG/DIE or lose their jobs. The national media and social media giants (Facebook, Twitter, Google) became the enforcers; people either capitulated or were canceled.
America’s children were being sexualized and programmed to hate their race and heritage {think CRT}. Gender was not a biological fact and United States history was being rewritten that slavery was the reason for America’s foundation. Climate change, not world peace {Think Ukraine, China, and Iran} was America’s biggest problem. Our great cities were deteriorating into cesspools of crime while America’s borders were becoming nonexistent. George Soros-backed prosecutors were undermining the criminal justice system. Allowing criminals to run free while the DOJ/FBI became a corrupt arm of the Democrat party.
All of these realities {and others}, taken together, defined America’s new religion: “Wokeism.”
Vivek grasped the gravity of what was happening, and it was impossible to look the other way. If something were not done, the America that gave a first-generation Indian boy the opportunity to achieve and thrive would be no more.
Vivek resigned as CEO of the Pharmaceutical Company he founded.
Vivek would oppose these dark “Wokeism” forces using his God-given mind and the tools that a once-free America allowed him to earn- – a Harvard College and Yale Law school education and Wall Street CEO Experience. The moment Vivek exorcised himself from the dark “Woke religion,” he was labeled a traitor to the elite progressive Ivy League, and there was no going back!
Over the last year, Vivek threw himself at the huge task of confronting the pernicious effects of “Wokeism.” He founded a new investment vehicle (Strive Assets) that focuses on maximizing returns {not political causes} for the investors. Over $700 million has already found its way to Vivek’s creation. He also championed the concept of forcing asset managers to inform their investors of how much they will lose by prioritizing ESG stocks. The two-prong attack of competition for woke ESG investment vehicles and informing people of the truth is having an impact.
The movement is contagious. To maximize their citizen’s retirement fund returns, large states like Texas, Florida, and West Virginia are moving investments away from woke-infested BlackRock.
Vivek supports Legal Action, which would stop employers from terminating workers who express their political beliefs both in and outside of the workplace.
And legal action that designates “Wokeism” as a religion. If this can be accomplished, it would be against the law for employers to force their woke religious beliefs on employees.
Vivek said things the “Woke Religion” forbids.
He pointed out that studies which indicated DIE hiring led to better corporate outcomes were poorly done and flawed. Admission officers at elite colleges were systematically discriminating against Asian Americans, and affirmative action was the problem, not the solution – Because true diversity is the diversity of thought, not the color of one’s skin.
But as a “Woke” tidal wave threatens to overwhelm America, Vivek senses that all of his endeavors are no better than putting a finger in a leaky dike.
February 7, 2023
The NH doctor sits at the local Margaritas having dinner with Vivek Ramaswamy, Kathy Barnette (his trusted advisor), and a savvy NH political activist.
Vivek never utters a single bad word about other Republicans, and having Kathy Barnette as an advisor makes a powerful statement.
Kathy is a black woman who ran for the Republican Pennsylvania Senate nomination and lost. She is a Christian whom the political world brutally attacked with character assassination. By all measures, none of the attacks were true, and she is a delightful woman. It speaks volumes that Vivek is unafraid to have her by his side.
Vivek is animated about the need for America to heal its spirit. Because if it doesn’t, Wokeism will eventually overwhelm the nation and bring on an age of socialistic darkness.
He talks about running for President and how he would champion a new Republican message. One that would combine Abraham Lincoln’s iron resolve to keep America together with MLK’s uniting, nonviolent vision of a colorblind America. This message would generate a powerful light that would expose “Wokeism” for the fraud it is.
Because with the help of MLK’s spirit and Lincolnian resolve, Vivek can dream.
Inner cities could be made safe, and children could go to charter schools and get a good education. Faith-based institutions could strengthen minority families while the government lent a hand, not a handout. Opportunities would be available to know the dignity of work and the creation of their own business, not the dead end of equity-obtained outcomes. And that a united America could make the dreams come true.
The doctor asks Vivek about the long-ago confrontation with the black neighbor. Vivek stops short and responds, I was wrong. There was much more going on that day than I appreciated, and I could have handled that situation so much better.
Driving home, the doctor thinks, “imagine that,” a man of Vivek Ramaswamy’s stature had the humility to reflect on a difficult experience, where he probably fell short, and admit he was wrong.
February 21, 2023, 8:15 PM: Tucker Carlson’s FNC TV show.
Vivek Ramaswamy announces his candidacy for the Office of President of the United States of America. During the next 12 months, New Hampshire will overflow with qualified Republican Presidential candidates. Vivek Ramaswamy may or may not catch fire, but one thing is for sure. If he is on the stage, all of the other candidates will have to step up their game and talk about real issues and solutions. Because Vivek is a new-generation non-swamp Republican, who has the vision to heal America, has shown he can make things happen, and offers everything outsider Donald Trump brought to the table without the distractions.
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