Political Commentator: ‘Americans are at a Crossroad’

Lawrence Strong Williams, it's so great to have you here at the DNC chatting. It is always an honor to sit and extract knowledge from the Epoch Times. Well, listen, I'm actually here to extract the knowledge. How many political conventions have you been to? I've attended every political convention since 1984, starting with Ronald Reagan, both Democratic and Republican. That is astonishing in itself. How is this one different? I've never attended a convention where the president himself withdrew from the race. I don't think people realize how much it turns a convention into chaos. You might be surprised to hear me say this, but this is the most disorganized convention I've ever attended. Hopefully they can come out with a nominee that will begin to talk about policy to really define herself, because up until now, this has been theater. It's not real, because beyond this, people are having serious issues in America. They're struggling. They're a paycheck away from being homeless. They can barely put food on the table. They can barely put gas in the car. They're getting their kids to school. You and I may come here in our bowtie and our suits and our ties, but real Americans across this country, especially the middle class, are really suffering, and they're really living in fear, not just about their way of life, but the stability and the future of America or whether it will go off a cliff or not. What opportunities do you see for bipartisanship in America right now? The best part of America is ordinary Americans doing extraordinary things. To find the best of America, you no longer find it in our leadership, in our elected officials. You find it in everyday Americans who sacrifice little to help someone who has far less. You find it in Americans who take care of communities when the government fails, when someone has paid their insurance policy for 20 years, and all of a sudden they're in a crisis and the insurance companies don't want to pay. Everyday Americans quietly do things that the government no longer is capable of doing. So much of government's money that is fleeced from people who work hard to make that money is used for so many things that are just frivolous. We go off, we fight these wars, and while people may think Ukraine is important and Israel is important, all those things are important. While the American people understand that, Americans want to see America's first world change. Then Vice President Harris is talking about fixing food prices. That's the start of socialism. It tells you that you're appealing to the French element of your party, not to the centrists of your party, not to the majority of your party, but you're appealing to the French element. When you start talking about taking from landlords to make sure that tenants can afford their rent at the expense of putting businesses out of business, it's okay to take care of people when you're living in a day of prosperity and things are going well. But when you're suffering and you don't know the future, sometimes you've got to look inward and take care of yourself before you take care of somebody else. I look forward to the battle and the American people deciding on who the next president is going to be. Americans want civility, but everybody's become so petty. Each party does its darndest to say they're the worst thing that exists. I'm the best. I'm perfect. Vote for me. The American people are left wondering as their lives continue to be chaotic, out of control. They don't know sometimes what leadership is anymore. They look to the church and feel the church is failing them. Americans are really at a crossroads, and the sad news is the world is watching us. We are still the last known superpower. People are still looking to America for hope, for direction, and we seem to be without a leader right now. The people are saying, is this the best the American people can offer on the Republican Party and the Democratic Party? Is this a statement of what our leadership has become? No, because most people don't want to go through the tarnish of their character, questioning their character. People are threatening them, threatening their families. They'll say to you, it's just not worth it. I think what is most difficult for us in the media, because sometimes we won't access, sometimes we won't favor, we compromise the truth because we want to be in bed with political parties, and we compromise the American people because we cannot be a neutral arbiter. I consider what we do as citizen journalism. We talked about President Trump a couple of weeks ago, about how incoherent he had become. I think I lost 4,000 followers, but I'm not in the business of likes and dislikes. I'm in the business of telling the truth, putting out the facts, no matter who defends, let the chips fall where they may. I think sometimes the mainstream media, the forfeit state, has been too involved and too loyal to one party or the next at the expense of the American people. I have great respect for what you contribute, not only to enhancing and enriching the dialogue, giving people alternatives. I think you guys do one of the better jobs of printing facts. You get a lot of bows and arrows for it. You get a lot of pushback. But that's the very small price you pay for standing on principles, standing on truth, because normally what you say, even though people may question it, eventually people say, well, they got it right. It's a fact. So just keep standing for journalistic integrity. That's what this country needs.