Vivek Ramaswamy says America faces new revolution as he calls for 'great uprising'
In a major speech, 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said: "Now it's up to us to take the kind of Founding Fathers of the nation that are looking to lead in the United States, a great uprising."
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Vivek Ramaswamy believes Americans are facing a "1776 moment" as he called for a "great uprising" in a major speech today.
The Republican 2024 candidate, just behind frontrunner Donald Trump in many polls, spoke via video link to a major international conference of conservatives in London from the back of his battle bus while campaigning in Iowa.
Entrepreneur Ramaswamy, who worked in finance after the 2008 crash, has made questioning climate change issues and attacking woke capitalism the centerpieces of his pitch to the American people.
While Donald Trump is the outright favorite with around 60 percent of Republican suppport, Ramaswamy has impressed many and even been discussed as a possible running mate for the former President.
With his popularity growing, he used his new international status to be a keynote speaker at a conference for the Alliance of Responsible Citizenship. It attracted Americans, Britons, Australians, Canadians and many from the right in Europe.
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Ramaswamy told the conference the origins of "woke capitalism" came in the aftermath of the financial crash in 2008.
And he said the US and other western democracies are living in "a 1776 moment" just like the Americans did when they ended the rule of George III with the Declaration of Independence.
He said: "We, the citizens, will take back control from this merger of state power and corporate power that together is doing what neither one could do on its own.
"I think that we live in one of those moments today. To be alive in the spring of 1776 of the United States.
"It was an exciting time to be alive. I think we live in one of those moments.
"Now it's up to us to take the kind of Founding Fathers of the nation that are looking to lead in the United States - a great uprising."
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In response to the Occupy Wall Street movement to "redistribute the money of city fatcats", he said Wall Street and other financial centers "made a clever choice".
Ramaswamy said: "Wall Street said 'we will adopt certain of the norms of that left wing ideology - climatism, COVIDism, racialism, whatever the idea that was of the day.
"'But we won't do it for free. We effectively expect the Occupy Wall Street movement to go away.'"
He went on: "And then it turns out that other institutions and corporate life began to be scared - Silicon Valley around the same time was facing calls for breaking up big tech.
"But Silicon Valley was able to make a similar ruling saying that we will censor hate speech and misinformation through the back door, as governments, at least in the United States, could have done better.
"But they didn't do it for free. They expected that the new left look the other way when it came to the Silicon Valley's monopoly power."
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