VIVEK: America Is So Unexceptional That Anybody Can Be One! #1124

Just days before Christmas, Vivek Ramaswamy once again chose the holiday season to denigrate America, its culture, and its people, repeating his execrable performance of December 26, 2024.  This time, however, Vivek denigrated America, its culture, and its people not in a lengthy X post, but in a lengthy speech at AmericaFest, a purportedly conservative political event put on by Turning Point USA, the organization established by the recently assassinated Charlie Kirk. The message Vivek sent to America and Americans? There’s nothing exceptional about being an American, literally anybody can do it, including billions of third-worlders, and America should simply accept that any recent third-world arrival onto America’s shores who mouths a few American ideals is as entitled to the legacy and resources of America as is any other American citizen—at the cost, of course, of those scarce resources now no longer being available to those other American citizens. The argument conflates the notions of technical or paperwork American citizen, on the one hand, and cultural American citizen, on the other, conflates the abilities and interests of third-world versus first-world cultures, and cheapens the deeply-loved notion of American as something exceptional and precious that was founded and built and sustained by the blood and sacrifice of generations of American forbears, rather than by billions of foreign nationals. I, for one, object to Vivek’s cheapening of America, its culture, and its people, I object to culturally Indian Vivek Ramaswamy seeking to govern over culturally American citizens, and I object to the infestation of America by tens of millions of third-worlders, including far too many millions of purportedly “legal” Indians.