You are the Hero.. do not let a politician tell become the hero in your story

One of the things I hate about the political cycle when it comes up a presidential year is you have people on all the news channels — people on the left and one the right, you have Republicans and you have Democrats — telling you how they’re going to fix your life. And the reason I hate that is, A. That’s a lie, that’s not true; B. It makes you think that you can sit around and wait on one of those morons to fix your life.

There’s nobody on the news channel that’s gonna fix your life. There’s no government program that’s gonna fix your life. There’s no Republican that if he gets elected is going to become Jesus. And there’s no Democrat that if they get elected is going to be Jesus of your life and give you everything you ever wanted. It’s an absolute lie and it’s been going on since man invented politics, I guess.

But you know what? I don’t care, I don’t care where it came from. What I care about is what it’s doing to this nation and what it’s doing to some of you that are watching.

You are not a victim. You’re not a victim of big corporations. You’re not a victim of Wall Street. You’re not a victim of capitalism. You’re not a victim of wealth inequality. You’re not a victim of racism. You’re not a victim.

Now, are all of those things real and do they sometimes oppress you and me? You bet. I had a big company step on my neck and kick my face in last week. Pissed me off, man. (They) just broke a contract and just got a way with it because they’ve got such power that all I can do is sue this multi-million-dollar company. And I’m not gonna waste my millions of dollars doing that. It made me mad. I was oppressed by a big company. But you know what? I’m not a victim. I’m not gonna adopt the thinking, “Well, you can’t get ahead in America because that one big company kicked Dave Ramsey’s face in.”

No, you get up off your butt. You’re the hero of this story. You’re not the victim in this story. And when people tell you you’re a victim and that they have the solution, that makes them the hero. Do not let a politician, do not let a news anchor become the “hero” in your story. You are they hero in your story. You are in charge of your destiny. You are the one who gets up off your couch and decides to live your life. You’re the one that get sick and tired of being sick and tired and decides to get out of debt; decides to change your body by going into an exercise program; decides to read some nonfiction books this year; decides to understand the Bible for the first time in your life; decides to start attending church and becoming that kind of dad that you’ve always wanted to be.

You’re not a victim. You’re not a victim of your parents and your upbringing, your dysfunctional family. Honey, we all came from dysfunctional families. Some families put the “fun” in “dysfunctional.” You’ve got to decide you’re the hero. You’re not the victim. You’re in charge of your life.