Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Thursday shared a list of what he called 10 social media truths, with references to faith, gender and capitalism.
Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur seeking to be named a Republican, has shared ideals on X, starting with “God is real” and “There are only two sexes” – the latter a controversial assertion from the left.
The list also promotes the importance of fossil fuels, condemns “reverse racism,” defends the role of parents in choosing their own children’s education, and claims the U.S. Constitution as the “strongest guarantor of human liberties.” ‘history”.
While many voters may have started the 2024 presidential campaign unaware of Ramaswamy, some polls put the rising Silicon Valley star in the top three GOP candidates, behind former President Donald Trump and the governor of Florida Ron DeSantis.
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Republican presidential candidate businessman Vivek Ramaswamy addresses guests at the 2023 Iowa Republican Party Lincoln Dinner on July 28, 2023 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
“TRUTH,” Ramaswamy said in all caps, starting the post at X.
His list followed:
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 not a 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 out of poverty.
9. There are three branches of the US government, not four.
10. The United States Constitution is the strongest guarantor of freedoms in history.
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He released the list following an event in California and as he pursues a multi-state blitz campaign ahead of next week’s first Republican primary debate in Wisconsin, which will be hosted by Fox News.
During the event at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum located in Yorba Linda earlier today, Ramaswamy shared details about his upbringing and his concern that the American dream does not exist for future generations.
Vivek Ramaswamy, chairman and co-founder of Strive Asset Management and 2024 Republican presidential candidate, speaks with a member of the media at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., Saturday August 12, 2023 . (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“My parents came to this country 40 years ago with no money in one generation,” he said at the event. “I have gone on to build multi-billion dollar businesses and have done so by marrying my wife, Apoorva, and raising our two sons. This is the American Dream, and I am deeply concerned that this American Dream does not exist for my two sons and their generation.”
Ramaswamy also said the country was “in the midst of a national identity crisis” where the traditional ideals of “faith, patriotism, hard work and family…have disappeared to be replaced by new secular religions in American life. [such as] wokeism, transgenderism, climatism, chauvinism, globalism, depression, anxiety, fentanyl, [and] suicide.”
“These are symptoms of a deeper void of purpose and meaning in our country,” he added.
Biotech millionaire and Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy salutes his supporters at the end of one of Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds’ “Fair-Side Chats” at the Iowa State Fair Iowa on August 12, 2023 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Ramaswamy, 38, also said he and other millennials are “hungry for a cause”.
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“We are starving for purpose, meaning and identity at a time in our national history when the things that filled our void. Faith, patriotism, belief in God, nation. The things we talked about when they disappeared. It leaves a moral void in its wake. And I think that presents our opportunity, not to conservatives, I’m talking to Americans. This is our opportunity to step up and fill that void with a vision of what it means to be an American today,” the candidate said in California.
Ramaswamy will join his other 2024 candidates for the Republican debate at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on August 23, 2023. The debate will be moderated by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.