From London to Mississippi: Why I Love America | Douglas Carswell

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🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Former UK Member of Parliament Douglas Carswell believes the front line for liberty has shifted to the United States—especially the American South. That’s why he moved his family 4,000 miles from Britain to Mississippi. In this PragerU 5-Minute Video, Carswell shares why he sees America as the last, best hope for freedom and opportunity in the modern world. Discover why this British politician believes states like Mississippi are leading the fight for individual rights, limited government, and constitutional values. Get all our content ad-free on PragerU.com or download the PragerU app: https://l.prageru.com/45GvWlu Follow PragerU on social media: YouTube Instagram X/Twitter Facebook Rumble Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.0	I'm a long way from home.
0:34.0	Home is England.
0:35.5	That's where I grew up and where I spent much of my professional career.
0:39.3	That career was politics.
0:41.2	I was a member of the British Parliament for 12 years.
0:44.6	My preoccupation, you might say, was and remains, freedom.
0:49.3	I love the word and all that it conveys.
0:52.1	It was this preoccupation with freedom that led me to become
0:55.1	a founding member of the Brexit movement, the campaign to get Britain out of the European Union.
1:00.8	I didn't like the idea of a bunch of bureaucrats in Brussels telling me, a free Englishman,
1:05.5	how I should live my life. After we won that campaign, I decided to leave the House of Commons
1:10.7	and move 4,000 miles to the United States, to Mississippi, to be precise. Why? Because I believe the new battle for freedom is in America. If it's lost here, and that danger is real, it will soon be lost everywhere. Maybe it takes an outsider to appreciate
1:30.0	this reality, to appreciate how exceptional America is and how important it is to the world.
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