Monday, throughout an look on FBN’s “Varney & Firm,” GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy didn’t again off his claims about believers in anthropogenic local weather change.
Ramaswamy referred to as it a “cult” and stated it was serving as an alternative choice to religion and patriotism.
“Your technology feels very strongly about local weather change,” FBN’s Stuart Varney stated. “The youthful the particular person, the extra they’re to see it as an existential menace. Aren’t you going in opposition to your individual technology?”
“Properly, Stuart, I’m bucking the pattern as a result of we have now to talk the reality,” Ramaswamy replied. “What’s occurring with younger folks on this nation is we’re hungry for a trigger. We’re starved for objective and which means at a time in our nationwide historical past when religion and patriotism and laborious work and household have disappeared. So we’re turning to new secular religions, cults, as a substitute.”
“That’s what this local weather change cult actually is,” he continued. “It’s a perception system that substitutes for emotions like religion and patriotism. That’s why you’re seeing it amongst younger folks particularly. But when — the extra we dilute that irrelevance with our personal constructive imaginative and prescient for American nationwide id, the much less we’re going to obsess over these secular local weather cults.”
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