Newly elected Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) is deeply worried about the country’s economic state – so much so that he fears the current economic crisis is as much of a threat to the country as Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany were to the nation during World War II.
In fact, he views it as the first “internal” threat the country’s faced since its creation in 1787.
“With the exception of the Civil War, every threat to our country’s existence was external in nature—what were the Germans going to do to us, what were the Japanese going to do to us, what were the Russians going to do to us, what were the British going to do to us, what were the French going to do to us—it was always what somebody was doing to us,” Sanford told a crowded gathering of young Republicans at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, D.C. Monday night. “I would argue that the real challenge of today is what are we going to do to us?”
He also argued that the country is at a cultural and financial tipping point, commenting that we are “living beyond our means.” That tipping point, however, is something that young conservatives can use to sway their more progressive friends to the right side.
“There’s in essence a moral essence to definite spending that leaves somebody else with the bill to pay,” Sanford remarked. “If you care about other people, how in the world could you leave them the bill for current government consumption?”
The former governor also pleaded with young conservatives to disregard the notion that “it couldn’t happen in America,” especially with the size of the federal government growing exponentially in recent years and ultimately infringing on our rights and liberties.
“What I’d argue is, this is a lot more than just a job that y’all have,” Sanford said. “This is a chance to be engaged in the fight for civilization’s very existence based on the tipping point right down that path.”
