Interviews with Robert

Robert speaks to “The General” on Twitter Spaces about the preamble of the constitution.

“We the People are supposed to establish justice. We the People are supposed to ensure domestic tranquility. We the People are supposed to provide for the common defense. We the People are so promote the general welfare, and We the People are supposed to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity. We cannot afford to give that responsibility to anyone else but ourselves. Should we do so, we rob ourselves of the of the opportunity to form a more perfect union.

I thought it was very important to go over that tonight with you and your audience because I think it's something that I believe has been systematically designed to be forgotten within this day and age. Everything is so comfortable. We're victims, if you will, of the virus of affluence, where we're supposed to be the richest country in the world and yet almost everybody has a cell phone and yet we have forgotten the most basic principles that our country was founded on, and that has to do with us taking responsibility to ensure that the next generation would know how to keep this Republic and know what this Republic is made of. So yes, we might have cell phones and yes, we might be able to go to McDonald's, and yes, we might be able to, you know, sleep on the couch or a mattress or what have you. I hope that we haven't truly forgotten what kept this country as free as it has for so long and what began its freedom. And that was sacrifice. It was the people willing to deny themselves on behalf of their creator and their kin. And I want to highlight this.

To reference something else that I think can motivate this point home, you'll find it very similar message within the pages of Victor Frankl's “Man’s Search for Meaning” and within it he talks about how if a man has responsibility and he gives every decision that he makes from here on out a special type of significance as opposed to wandering the aimlessly through life. And I do feel as though that perhaps our sons and daughters these days are hurting themselves and hurting each other because they haven't been given the opportunity to recognize how big of a purpose awaits them and how big of a responsibility that they have on their shoulders. It is their job in order to do those things that the preamble has requested, almost demanded that they do. But how do we teach these kids to do this if they cannot find it within themselves to begin? I think it's the responsibility of everyone that's older than me and my age to look down at the next generation and say, alright, it's time that we start having a serious conversation about how do we keep this Republic. I think it's time that we really start reading our documents. I think it's time that we start reading documents that supported the documents that makes the foundation of our government because the Constitution is just a piece of paper, but what it does is it convicts the souls of men to strive for a goal that's bigger than themselves and for a version of themselves that's better than who they were yesterday. And this was the cumulative result of those men in that Philadelphia courthouse that designed our Constitution in that hot summer of 1787, to challenge the next generation to be better than who their fathers were and who their fathers were, so that our children would know what it was like to be free. And if we do not do that tomorrow and the next day, then we don't just fail ourselves, but we fail our children and their children to live a life of tyranny and despotism.”

Link to “The General’s” Twitter Spaces full interview here.