Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy called for remembering the United States’s original founding values to find patriotism that can unite the country.
While appearing on Fox News, Ramaswamy proposed that every high school student take the same civics test that immigrants take during nationalization in order to graduate.
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“As the first millennial ever to run for the GOP nomination, I think that is my responsibility,” Ramaswamy said. “One of the things I think we should require is that every high school senior who graduates from high school should be required to pass the same civics test required of every immigrant who becomes a naturalized citizen in this country.”
Ramaswamy said, “Young people don’t value a country; they just inherit.”
“They value a country they have a stake in knowing something about. Those are examples,” he added. “It’s not a Republican or Democrat idea. We’re going to have to think outside the standard partisan and identitarian boxes to ask ourselves how our kids’ generation will once again be proud of the greatest country known to mankind — that’s the United States of America.”
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The GOP candidate also suggested that the Department of Education be shut down to rid the education system of “toxic and racial agendas” that are destroying patriotism.
“I will tell you what the U.S. president can do that’s most effective,” he added. “Shut down the Department of Education that uses that money as a cudgel to get local school districts to adopt toxic and racial agendas. Instead, give that money back to those schools to fund underfunded school choice programs in those states. But it’s going to require a comprehensive response.”
