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RNC superstar Mia Love talks to Glenn on radio

August 29, 2012
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Utah's Mia Love found herself thrust into the spotlight today following an electrifying speech at the Republican National Convention. This morning, Glenn closed out the radio show with an interview with the mayor where they discussed the RNC, her local election, and the conservative principles that should be the foundation of the Republican party.

Read the transcript of their interview below:

GLENN: We have Mia Love. She is the mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah. She is running for congress. She was born in Brooklyn, but her story is pretty amazing. Her parents came from Haiti with $10 to their name and now she is on stage. Last night she was at the Democratic National Convention

PAT: Republican.

GLENN: The Republican National Convention and hit it out of the park. Now she is being taken down by the left in really horrific ways. Let's first say hello to me a. Welcome to the program. How are you?

LOVE: How are you? This is such an honor to be speaking to you.

GLENN: Well, thank you very much. The same can be said back to you. You hit it out of the park last night.

LOVE: Well, I was just trying to tell the American people the truth and, you know, I really want them to remember that America that we know and have pride in and wanted to draw contrast to what is happening today and the leadership that we have in this country today.

GLENN: What did it what did it feel like? Because I've been I just asked the boys a few minutes ago if it felt to them as though there's been a change in the Republican Party, if this felt like a different convention than I have seen in the past. To me it has. Did it feel that way to you at all, or is that something I'm just misreading?

LOVE: You know, I think it may feel that way now because we have gone so far away from the America that we know. I mean, if you think about it, we've got this leader who has taken class warfare to new highs and lows. They judge us on, they try and point out people's genders, they try and point out, they divide us by income status and social level, and I think that that's why we get so we've got so much diversity, we've got so many people getting up and they're talking about the issues, they're talking about preserving this, opportunities for our children, and I think that people are waking up and saying and realizing what's at stake here.

GLENN: They have really taken you apart since last night. Do you care to go into any of this and what's happening to you?

LOVE: Well, you know what? I'm fine with it. You know, if I wasn't a threat, if I wasn't speaking if I wasn't speaking to the American people and having it have an effect, I'm sure they would probably leave me alone but, you know, I've got children I have to look after who are going to inherit this $16 trillion debt. So they can come after me with whatever they want to. I'm a I'm a mother, I'm a wife, I'm a concerned citizen, and they can they can bring it.

GLENN: The Wikipedia on you is, excuse me for repeating it, but calling you a house N word, a dirty worthless whore and

STU: Jeez.

GLENN: It is absolutely vile what they're saying. How do you how do you respond to the people, especially in the media, that say we're hate mongers and yet you can say in the same week that they hope that, you know, the hurricane comes in and washes all of the conservatives out to sea and kills all the conservatives, et cetera, et cetera? How do you how do you respond to any of this?

LOVE: Well, let's hope that the hurricane doesn't come and wash out the people that are all of the people that are working hard tightening their belts, living within their means out to sea because I would hate to see what our country would look like then. But you know how I respond to it is I think that we say, look, you know, these are the issues that we have. This is what we're going to need to get back on our feet. I'd rather have a leader tell me the truth. And I think that that's what we're going to talk about. We're going to talk about the serious problems that we're in. We're going to talk about that there's a reason why unemployment is so high. There's a reason why, you know, people have stopped looking for work, 23 million Americans unemployed, underemployed or just gave up. You know, there's a reason why we have this and it's because, you know, we don't have anybody that's concerned about economic growth. We're more concerned about redistribution of wealth, we're more concerned about divisiveness and that's the leadership we have right now. And we're going to have to change that.

GLENN: There was a last night there were two story lines going on. One was on small business. The other was on women. Do you know Ann Romney and what did you think of her speech last night?

LOVE: I thought her speech was great. You know, what was great was to listen to her just talk to the audience about Mitt Romney as a human being. You know, not so many people looked at him as being this man who understands the economy, but she drew this picture of what he was like as a husband and what he is like as a husband, what he is like as a father, what he is like in his community and the service that he's given. I think the most powerful word to me was the powerful line to me was Mitt will never tell you or brag about his service because he sees it as a privilege.

GLENN: You are LDS, correct?

LOVE: I am. I am.

GLENN: And Mike Huckabee is on tonight.

LOVE: Mmm hmmm.

GLENN: And that is seen as a good thing, I guess for, you know, people who say, "Well, Mike, you know, he'll be there." So I guess I guess there's some people that still believe that we wouldn't elect somebody of a different faith. Do you feel any of that is real, or is most of that media hype?

LOVE: Well, you have to figure out whether you've got two decisions here. Whether you're going to be hung up on somebody's rights to practice their First Amendment, which is their religion; or you're going to be hung up on, you know, somebody who is going to actually fix the problems. And I think that when people are suffering in this country, they want someone who's going to create jobs, who's going to give them opportunity, who's going to find solutions to the problems that we face today. Again, you know, to me his religion, my religion, it's my personal life, our personal right to practice and I think that what we need right now is we need by the way, just remember this, also. This is all by choice. Nobody's forcing anybody to believe in any faith. This is a choice that we all have, and that's what's great about this country is that we have, we have the ability to choose to work. We have the ability to choose our education for children and to choose the life that we have and to choose our religion and that's what's great about this. So, you know, I think that most people are going to be more concerned about what's happening in their lives and the fact that they cannot they don't have the opportunity to put food on the table or they don't have the opportunity to give their children an education.

GLENN: Well, you know,I find it interesting that people like Brian Williams are so worried about what's happening in the Mormon faith but I can guarantee you one thing that has never happened in a temple is anybody of any, any clout or power or I believe anyone at any time ever say "GD, America" like was happening in the church that Barack Obama was going to that Brian Williams never seemed to have a problem with.

LOVE: Right.

STU: Also, Glenn, I was on the looking at this Wikipedia page story about all the horrible things they've said about Mia Love and I just, I don't know how this happened but I happened to click on a couple of links and got over to this page that seems to be Love4Utah here, right here, dot com and there happens to be strangely this thing called a money bomb going on which Mia Love is only $10,000 away from this goal and it's just so weird. I wonder if people are also going to go to that same page and see what happens.

PAT: What page would you want to go if you wanted to?

STU: Probably go to love, the number 4 Utah and there's a big thing for a money bomb there. I'm not saying, of course, but I'm just interested because now it's just less than $10,000 from the goal. So that's interesting.

PAT: That's great.

LOVE: Well, we need we certainly need as much help as possible. After last night we've got a lot of liberals coming into Utah trying to do whatever they can to buy this race, and we are not going to let that happen.

GLENN: How are you doing

LOVE: I am calling on all Americans to send a message in saying we are not going to allow the left to buy these races. We are going to take back our country. We're going to unite the country.

GLENN: How are you doing in the polls against Matheson and what is the difference between the two of you?

LOVE: Well, he the DCCC released a poll having him about 18% ahead of us. We have our own internal polls that say completely different. Our governor just had a poll done and it's a dead heat according to the governor's poll. So, you know, we're doing well. We're going to win this race. We're building momentum and, you know

GLENN: What's the difference between what's the difference between you two?

LOVE: Between? Well, Matheson well, let's think about this. It's very easy. He voted for stimulus. Utah was completely against the $700 billion stimulus. He voted for card check. He voted for Cash For Clunkers. He voted for ObamaCare. He's actually stated publicly that he's going to vote for Obama again this November. In a state that Obama only has a 26% approval rating. He doesn't

GLENN: How do you wait, wait. How is this how is this possible he's doing as well as he is?

LOVE: Well, because he hasn't had first of all, we haven't had a candidate that's had enough money to put out his vote and put out the information out there. He's you know, if you think about ObamaCare, for instance, he voted for ObamaCare, against ObamaCare, for ObamaCare before it went to the Supreme Court and then voted against it. He waits to see if his party needs him and then he decides which way he's going to vote. If they need him, he definitely goes with Nancy Pelosi. If they don't, then he says I'm going to vote Republican and he can go back home and say, hey, by the way, I'm an independent thinker, I'm a bipartisan thinker. But he, in fact, has voted with the president 75% of the time.

GLENN: How are you

LOVE: We want to make sure we put it out.

GLENN: How are you with the 9/12 project, the Tea Party and Freedom Works?

LOVE: You know what? They have been great. I certainly don't put myself under a one category, but we have Tea Party support. We have support from all, all walks of life and we've gotten a lot

GLENN: Well, it's not like they're alien life forms. I mean, Mia, it's not like they're aliens. We have dogs and cats that are for us, too.

LOVE: Yes. No, we've just we have a lot of support from many people. We've got people that are just tired, whether you're Tea Party or not, that says, "Hey, I'm concerned about the future of my children and my grandchildren and I prefer to have someone who's going to be honest about it and find solutions to problems than to have somebody to just take this, lie about things and decide that they're not going to be concerned about the issues we have."

STU: Mia, one area of concern I would say is I'm at Love4Utah.com right now and the issue here is that you're so close to this goal, and a lot of people are asking if you hit this goal, is it still okay to donate?

LOVE: Absolutely. We need to donate

GLENN: What a good question.

LOVE: We've got a million dollar gap we're going to have to close and we need everyone's hope. We've been toe to toe with raising money with my opponent, but he came in with a million dollars and we're going to have to close that gap.

STU: This is my attempt to this is how they ask Democrats questions from the media. So I thought I would do the reverse.

GLENN: This is MSNBC all of a sudden except in reverse. All right, Mia Love, Mia Love4Utah.com.

LOVE: Love4Utah.com.

GLENN: Thank you very much and we'll talk again. God bless.

 

 

Grim warning: Bad-faith Israel critics duck REAL questions

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Bad-faith attacks on Israel and AIPAC warp every debate. Real answers emerge only when people set aside scripts and ask what serves America’s long-term interests.

The search for truth has always required something very much in short supply these days: honesty. Not performative questions, not scripted outrage, not whatever happens to be trending on TikTok, but real curiosity.

Some issues, often focused on foreign aid, AIPAC, or Israel, have become hotbeds of debate and disagreement. Before we jump into those debates, however, we must return to a simpler, more important issue: honest questioning. Without it, nothing in these debates matters.

Ask questions because you want the truth, not because you want a target.

The phrase “just asking questions” has re-entered the zeitgeist, and that’s fine. We should always question power. But too many of those questions feel preloaded with someone else’s answer. If the goal is truth, then the questions should come from a sincere desire to understand, not from a hunt for a villain.

Honest desire for truth is the only foundation that can support a real conversation about these issues.

Truth-seeking is real work

Right now, plenty of people are not seeking the truth at all. They are repeating something they heard from a politician on cable news or from a stranger on TikTok who has never opened a history book. That is not a search for answers. That is simply outsourcing your own thought.

If you want the truth, you need to work for it. You cannot treat the world like a Marvel movie where the good guy appears in a cape and the villain hisses on command. Real life does not give you a neat script with the moral wrapped up in two hours.

But that is how people are approaching politics now. They want the oppressed and the oppressor, the heroic underdog and the cartoon villain. They embrace this fantastical framing because it is easier than wrestling with reality.

This framing took root in the 1960s when the left rebuilt its worldview around colonizers and the colonized. Overnight, Zionism was recast as imperialism. Suddenly, every conflict had to fit the same script. Today’s young activists are just recycling the same narrative with updated graphics. Everything becomes a morality play. No nuance, no context, just the comforting clarity of heroes and villains.

Bad-faith questions

This same mindset is fueling the sudden obsession with Israel, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in particular. You hear it from members of Congress and activists alike: AIPAC pulls the strings, AIPAC controls the government, AIPAC should register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The questions are dramatic, but are they being asked in good faith?

FARA is clear. The standard is whether an individual or group acts under the direction or control of a foreign government. AIPAC simply does not qualify.

Here is a detail conveniently left out of these arguments: Dozens of domestic organizations — Armenian, Cuban, Irish, Turkish — lobby Congress on behalf of other countries. None of them registers under FARA because — like AIPAC — they are independent, domestic organizations.

If someone has a sincere problem with the structure of foreign lobbying, fair enough. Let us have that conversation. But singling out AIPAC alone is not a search for truth. It is bias dressed up as bravery.

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If someone wants to question foreign aid to Israel, fine. Let’s have that debate. But let’s ask the right questions. The issue is not the size of the package but whether the aid advances our interests. What does the United States gain? Does the investment strengthen our position in the region? How does it compare to what we give other nations? And do we examine those countries with the same intensity?

The real target

These questions reflect good-faith scrutiny. But narrowing the entire argument to one country or one dollar amount misses the larger problem. If someone objects to the way America handles foreign aid, the target is not Israel. The target is the system itself — an entrenched bureaucracy, poor transparency, and decades-old commitments that have never been re-examined. Those problems run through programs around the world.

If you want answers, you need to broaden the lens. You have to be willing to put aside the movie script and confront reality. You have to hold yourself to a simple rule: Ask questions because you want the truth, not because you want a target.

That is the only way this country ever gets clarity on foreign aid, influence, alliances, and our place in the world. Questioning is not just allowed. It is essential. But only if it is honest.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

The melting pot fails when we stop agreeing to melt

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Texas now hosts Quran-first academies, Sharia-compliant housing schemes, and rapidly multiplying mosques — all part of a movement building a self-contained society apart from the country around it.

It is time to talk honestly about what is happening inside America’s rapidly growing Muslim communities. In city after city, large pockets of newcomers are choosing to build insulated enclaves rather than enter the broader American culture.

That trend is accelerating, and the longer we ignore it, the harder it becomes to address.

As Texas goes, so goes America. And as America goes, so goes the free world.

America has always welcomed people of every faith and people from every corner of the world, but the deal has never changed: You come here and you join the American family. You are free to honor your traditions, keep your faith, but you must embrace the Constitution as the supreme law of the land. You melt into the shared culture that allows all of us to live side by side.

Across the country, this bargain is being rejected by Islamist communities that insist on building a parallel society with its own rules, its own boundaries, and its own vision for how life should be lived.

Texas illustrates the trend. The state now has roughly 330 mosques. At least 48 of them were built in just the last 24 months. The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex alone has around 200 Islamic centers. Houston has another hundred or so. Many of these communities have no interest in blending into American life.

This is not the same as past waves of immigration. Irish, Italian, Korean, Mexican, and every other group arrived with pride in their heritage. Still, they also raised American flags and wanted their children to be part of the country’s future. They became doctors, small-business owners, teachers, and soldiers. They wanted to be Americans.

What we are watching now is not the melting pot. It is isolation by design.

Parallel societies do not end well

More than 300 fundamentalist Islamic schools now operate full-time across the country. Many use Quran-first curricula that require students to spend hours memorizing religious texts before they ever reach math or science. In Dallas, Brighter Horizons Academy enrolls more than 1,700 students and draws federal support while operating on a social model that keeps children culturally isolated.

Then there is the Epic City project in Collin and Hunt counties — 402 acres originally designated only for Muslim buyers, with Sharia-compliant financing and a mega-mosque at the center. After public outcry and state investigations, the developers renamed it “The Meadows,” but a new sign does not erase the original intent. It is not a neighborhood. It is a parallel society.

Americans should not hesitate to say that parallel societies are dangerous. Europe tried this experiment, and the results could not be clearer. In Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, entire neighborhoods now operate under their own cultural rules, some openly hostile to Western norms. When citizens speak up, they are branded bigots for asserting a basic right: the ability to live safely in their own communities.

A crisis of confidence

While this separation widens, another crisis is unfolding at home. A recent Gallup survey shows that about 40% of American women ages 18 to 39 would leave the country permanently if given the chance. Nearly half of a rising generation — daughters, sisters, soon-to-be mothers — no longer believe this nation is worth building a future in.

And who shapes the worldview of young boys? Their mothers. If a mother no longer believes America is home, why would her child grow up ready to defend it?

As Texas goes, so goes America. And as America goes, so goes the free world. If we lose confidence in our own national identity at the same time that we allow separatist enclaves to spread unchecked, the outcome is predictable. Europe is already showing us what comes next: cultural fracture, political radicalization, and the slow death of national unity.

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Stand up and tell the truth

America welcomes Muslims. America defends their right to worship freely. A Muslim who loves the Constitution, respects the rule of law, and wants to raise a family in peace is more than welcome in America.

But an Islamist movement that rejects assimilation, builds enclaves governed by its own religious framework, and treats American law as optional is not simply another participant in our melting pot. It is a direct challenge to it. If we refuse to call this problem out out of fear of being called names, we will bear the consequences.

Europe is already feeling those consequences — rising conflict and a political class too paralyzed to admit the obvious. When people feel their culture, safety, and freedoms slipping away, they will follow anyone who promises to defend them. History has shown that over and over again.

Stand up. Speak plainly. Be unafraid. You can practice any faith in this country, but the supremacy of the Constitution and the Judeo-Christian moral framework that shaped it is non-negotiable. It is what guarantees your freedom in the first place.

If you come here and honor that foundation, welcome. If you come here to undermine it, you do not belong here.

Wake up to what is unfolding before the consequences arrive. Because when a nation refuses to say what is true, the truth eventually forces its way in — and by then, it is always too late.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Shocking: AI-written country song tops charts, sparks soul debate

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A machine can imitate heartbreak well enough to top the charts, but it cannot carry grief, choose courage, or hear the whisper that calls human beings to something higher.

The No. 1 country song in America right now was not written in Nashville or Texas or even L.A. It came from code. “Walk My Walk,” the AI-generated single by the AI artist Breaking Rust, hit the top spot on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart, and if you listen to it without knowing that fact, you would swear a real singer lived the pain he is describing.

Except there is no “he.” There is no lived experience. There is no soul behind the voice dominating the country music charts.

If a machine can imitate the soul, then what is the soul?

I will admit it: I enjoy some AI music. Some of it is very good. And that leaves us with a question that is no longer science fiction. If a machine can fake being human this well, what does it mean to be human?

A new world of artificial experience

This is not just about one song. We are walking straight into a technological moment that will reshape everyday life.

Elon Musk said recently that we may not even have phones in five years. Instead, we will carry a small device that listens, anticipates, and creates — a personal AI agent that knows what we want to hear before we ask. It will make the music, the news, the podcasts, the stories. We already live in digital bubbles. Soon, those bubbles might become our own private worlds.

If an algorithm can write a hit country song about hardship and perseverance without a shred of actual experience, then the deeper question becomes unavoidable: If a machine can imitate the soul, then what is the soul?

What machines can never do

A machine can produce, and soon it may produce better than we can. It can calculate faster than any human mind. It can rearrange the notes and words of a thousand human songs into something that sounds real enough to fool millions.

But it cannot care. It cannot love. It cannot choose right and wrong. It cannot forgive because it cannot be hurt. It cannot stand between a child and danger. It cannot walk through sorrow.

A machine can imitate the sound of suffering. It cannot suffer.

The difference is the soul. The divine spark. The thing God breathed into man that no code will ever have. Only humans can take pain and let it grow into compassion. Only humans can take fear and turn it into courage. Only humans can rebuild their lives after losing everything. Only humans hear the whisper inside, the divine voice that says, “Live for something greater.”

We are building artificial minds. We are not building artificial life.

Questions that define us

And as these artificial minds grow sharper, as their tools become more convincing, the right response is not panic. It is to ask the oldest and most important questions.

Who am I? Why am I here? What is the meaning of freedom? What is worth defending? What is worth sacrificing for?

That answer is not found in a lab or a server rack. It is found in that mysterious place inside each of us where reason meets faith, where suffering becomes wisdom, where God reminds us we are more than flesh and more than thought. We are not accidents. We are not circuits. We are not replaceable.

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The miracle machines can never copy

Being human is not about what we can produce. Machines will outproduce us. That is not the question. Being human is about what we can choose. We can choose to love even when it costs us something. We can choose to sacrifice when it is not easy. We can choose to tell the truth when the world rewards lies. We can choose to stand when everyone else bows. We can create because something inside us will not rest until we do.

An AI content generator can borrow our melodies, echo our stories, and dress itself up like a human soul, but it cannot carry grief across a lifetime. It cannot forgive an enemy. It cannot experience wonder. It cannot look at a broken world and say, “I am going to build again.”

The age of machines is rising. And if we do not know who we are, we will shrink. But if we use this moment to remember what makes us human, it will help us to become better, because the one thing no algorithm will ever recreate is the miracle that we exist at all — the miracle of the human soul.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Is Socialism seducing a lost generation?

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A generation that’s lost faith in capitalism is turning to the oldest lie on earth: equality through control.

Something is breaking in America’s young people. You can feel it in every headline, every grocery bill, every young voice quietly asking if the American dream still means anything at all.

For many, the promise of America — work hard, build something that lasts, and give the next generation a better start — feels like it no longer exists. Home ownership and stability have become luxuries for a fortunate few.

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It is flawed because people are flawed, but it remains the only system that rewards creativity and effort rather than punishing them.

In that vacuum of hope, a new promise has begun to rise — one that sounds compassionate, equal, and fair. The promise of socialism.

The appeal of a broken dream

When the American dream becomes a checklist of things few can afford — a home, a car, two children, even a little peace — disappointment quickly turns to resentment. The average first-time homebuyer is now 40 years old. Debt lasts longer than marriages. The cost of living rises faster than opportunity.

For a generation that has never seen the system truly work, capitalism feels like a rigged game built to protect those already at the top.

That is where socialism finds its audience. It presents itself as fairness for the forgotten and justice for the disillusioned. It speaks softly at first, offering equality, compassion, and control disguised as care.

We are seeing that illusion play out now in New York City, where Zohran Mamdani — an open socialist — has won a major political victory. The same ideology that once hid behind euphemisms now campaigns openly throughout America’s once-great cities. And for many who feel left behind, it sounds like salvation.

But what socialism calls fairness is submission dressed as virtue. What it calls order is obedience. Once the system begins to replace personal responsibility with collective dependence, the erosion of liberty is only a matter of time.

The bridge that never ends

Socialism is not a destination; it is a bridge. Karl Marx described it as the necessary transition to communism — the scaffolding that builds the total state. Under socialism, people are taught to obey. Under communism, they forget that any other options exist.

History tells the story clearly. Russia, China, Cambodia, Cuba — each promised equality and delivered misery. One hundred million lives were lost, not because socialism failed, but because it succeeded at what it was designed to do: make the state supreme and the individual expendable.

Today’s advocates insist their version will be different — democratic, modern, and kind. They often cite Sweden as an example, but Sweden’s prosperity was never born of socialism. It grew out of capitalism, self-reliance, and a shared moral culture. Now that system is cracking under the weight of bureaucracy and division.

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The real issue is not economic but moral. Socialism begins with a lie about human nature — that people exist for the collective and that the collective knows better than the individual.

This lie is contrary to the truths on which America was founded — that rights come not from government’s authority, but from God’s. Once government replaces that authority, compassion becomes control, and freedom becomes permission.

What young America deserves

Young Americans have many reasons to be frustrated. They were told to study, work hard, and follow the rules — and many did, only to find the goalposts moved again and again. But tearing down the entire house does not make it fairer; it only leaves everyone standing in the rubble.

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It is flawed because people are flawed, but it remains the only system that rewards creativity and effort rather than punishing them. The answer is not revolution but renewal — moral, cultural, and spiritual.

It means restoring honesty to markets, integrity to government, and faith to the heart of our nation. A people who forsake God will always turn to government for salvation, and that road always ends in dependency and decay.

Freedom demands something of us. It requires faith, discipline, and courage. It expects citizens to govern themselves before others govern them. That is the truth this generation deserves to hear again — that liberty is not a gift from the state but a calling from God.

Socialism always begins with promises and ends with permission. It tells you what to drive, what to say, what to believe, all in the name of fairness. But real fairness is not everyone sharing the same chains — it is everyone having the same chance.

The American dream was never about guarantees. It was about the right to try, to fail, and try again. That freedom built the most prosperous nation in history, and it can do so again if we remember that liberty is not a handout but a duty.

Socialism does not offer salvation. It requires subservience.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.