The Young America’s Foundation (YAF) premiered its latest video Wednesday night, making the case against the Statists and for small government and conservatism in a short film, titled, The Conservatives.
The 28-minute video features some of the brightest minds and most influential leaders in the conservative movement today, including: Mark Levin, Stephen Moore, Jonah Goldberg, Walter Williams, Monica Crowley, Michelle Malkin and Peter Schweizer.
The film began with the dramatic and somewhat disturbing parallels that can be drawn between Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson to President Barack Obama. It exposed when those leaders—presidents who dramatically increased the size and scope of the federal government—were in their honest moments and what they were doing in office.
However, the film’s mood quickly lightened, and took a more solution-based approach to some of the current economic problems we face today as a nation. The conservatives in the film pointed to lessons of history in order to prove why the free enterprise system is morally superior.
“To pound down the free enterprise system, and simply say we should steal from the rich to make to make the middle class richer, that has never worked anywhere,” said Moore. “If you want complete equality in income, then go to Cambodia. Everybody’s poor.”
The video also argued that conservatives need to make the case that Statism trifles the sovereignty of the individual, which was not the intent of the founding fathers of the United States.
“Every single one of us has God-given rights, inalienable rights, that no power can take—that no power can give—other than God himself,” said Levin.
The film also included a segment at the end in which students are urged to start a YAF chapter on their college campuses.
