Truth Podcast - Vivek Ramaswamy - May 09, 2024


Listen to Season 3 Episode 2 of TRUTH | Hosted by Vivek Ramaswamy


Episode Stats

Length

56 seconds

Words per Minute

200.35715

Word Count

187

Sentence Count

13


Summary

In this episode, I talk about nationalism and why it's important in the United States of America, and why we don't need to run away from it. I also talk about why I don't think it's a bad word and why I think it doesn't have to be a bad thing. I hope you enjoy this episode and tweet me if you do! with any thoughts or suggestions on what we should be talking about in the next episode! Timestamps: 1:00 - What is nationalism? 2:30 - What are the differences between nationalism and civic nationalism 3:20 - What does nationalism mean 4:15 - Why we shouldn't run from it 5:40 - Is nationalism bad or good 6:00 Why we don t need to go back in time 7:20 What is the best kind of nationalism ? 8:30 9:15 10:30 | What is it? 11:00 | What does it mean to be an American nationalist 12:15 | What do we need to be nationalist? 13:20 | Is it a good thing? 14:30 // 15:00 // 16:00 Is nationalism good or bad? 15:10 | What are we running away from? 16:40 | Should we be worried about it 17:00 / 17:10 18: Is it good or is it's not? 19:40 21: What do you need to have a national identity? 21 - How do we know about it's better than it's good or it s better than that it s not better? 22:40 // Is it better than what we can we need it to be better than the other way? Is it more important than it s more than that we know it s different than it is better than we think it s a better than other countries? 23:40 / 22: Does it matter if it s? 25:30 Is it possible to be more diverse? 26: What are our country better than they have a more diverse or less? 27: How do you know it's more diverse than they don t have a better country than it has a better idea of itself? 35: Is there a better way to have it better or it's too complicated? & so on?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 There's an N-word that you're not allowed to say anymore.
00:00:02.000 But I'm going to say it.
00:00:04.000 Nationalist.
00:00:05.000 It doesn't have to be a bad word.
00:00:07.000 We've got to distinguish between two different kinds of nationalism.
00:00:10.000 The first is ethno-nationalism.
00:00:12.000 That's the kind people usually think of.
00:00:13.000 And it's natural, because most nations' identities have been built around an ethnicity, or a religion, or a monarch.
00:00:19.000 And in that case, the track record of history hasn't been great for what that type of nationalism produces, either for a country or for its neighbors.
00:00:28.000 Distinct from that, though, is civic nationalism.
00:00:31.000 And that's the kind of nationalism that I think is relevant in the United States of America because our country is defined not based on an ethnicity, not based on a language or a monarch or cuisine or religion, for that matter.
00:00:43.000 Our country is defined on the basis of a civic set of ideals that brought together a divided polyglot and, yes, religiously diverse group of people 250 years ago.
00:00:54.000 And so I don't think that that's the kind of nationalism we need to run from.