Speech- “E Pluribus Unum”

I, Zachary D. Larkin, officially stand before you today a candidate for the office of President of the United States of America during the 2032 Election.
I know what you’re thinking. What’s a kid doing running for president?
Good question.
Throughout my life, I’ve experienced the many follies of older generations, which all resulted in crisis to day; including a polluted planet, unnecessary wars, and genocide in all of the forgotten corners of the world, to list a few.
My generation is not ignorant about the world’s problems.
I believe that the people of my generation, as well as every other generation, have the potential to change the world, for the better, or for the worse.
I believe that we can absolutely fill that potential to make the world a better place.
The only ignorant thing about this is ignoring it.
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My generation absolutely has the potential to change and fix the world, and here’s why:
My generation has a fresher; more neutral “new perspective” about the world’s problems.
We will not begin to influence the future tomorrow, we will begin influence the future today.
We see, entering the world and society as newcomers, that changes are needed, policies rethought, and problems fixed.
I am here today, a presidential candidate, because I believe that we, as a whole, can unite to fix the problems dividing us today.
For we are a divided people. And divided people fall together.
But I believe that we all can unite for any common cause and every common cause. Today, this cause is a call for unity.
So today, each and every one of us must answer this call, because only together will we prevail.
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The founders sought a nation of stability, a nation where in which their families could live in peace.
There were no political parties, an idea which was looked down upon at the time.
There was little division.
There was a common goal, a common belief, a commonality to stand together against the face of tyranny, corruption, and injustice, as well as a belief of Unity that our country was founded upon. “E Pluribus Unum”, out of many, one.
We will have given up this idea of freedom and unity when we forget our past.
And again, almost a century later, the country was plunged into another major war.
But this war had much higher stakes and expenses:
The Civil War.
Didn’t we, the American people, learn almost one and a half centuries ago, that more blood is shed when brother fights brother than in any other war we’ve ever participated in?
Didn’t we learn, during that civil war, that united we stand, and only divided we may fall?
America was tested during those two points in time upon whether it could remain one united nation.
A nation of equality, a nation of hope, and a nation of the people.
It almost didn’t.
But coming out of both wars, the new United States of Americas learned that it could only survive as one.
Many lives have been lost, so that you today can stand proud and free.
That is something worth preserving.
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Unity. A simple word with a convoluted meaning; “one”.
Without unity, society condemns itself to failure every time.
One and a half Millennia ago, the Roman Empire collapsed, and only decades ago, the Soviet Union disintegrated.
Why was this?
These two powers shared two core problems:
Government corruption and a sharp divide in ideologies.
A sharp divide in ideologies causes a sharp divide in people.
Sound familiar? I think so. It’s happening today.
Right here. The “United” States of America.
For we are in the midst of another battle, with stakes that can potentially become just as significant as they were one and a half centuries ago.
And that’s why we ought to be concerned.
This huge cultural, psychological, and political civil war has been dividing America for years and continues to divide us today.
The combatants?
Are they the democrats and republicans? The poor and the rich? The left and the right? Black and white? Jews, Catholics, and Muslims? Religious and secular?
All of them, and none of them, in a way. For the real threat to our unity is not any particular conflict. The reality of the situation is not as simple.
The real threat towards America, democracy, and the World is the fact that the named conflicts, and so many more exist and perpetuate.
The fact that these conflicts divide us is the real culprit.
But we must come together by settling our differences, and only once that has happened can we take on the world’s problems.
If we are to solve the world’s problems, we must unite immediately.
Because procrastination is not an answer. In order to achieve unity, we MUST unite.
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A president needs to be the one who steps up and resolves conflicts to heal the nation and the world.
And that’s the reason that America wants a President, and NEEDS a President who is going to strive for the rights of all Americans, as well as all the People of the World.
And that, my friends, is why I, Zachary D. Larkin, now officially stand before you today, a candidate for the office of President of the United States of America.