Independent presidential candidate and long-time LaRouche associate Diane Sare delivered her own State of the Union Address via livestream video on Monday night, Feb. 23, preceding that given by President Donald Trump by 25 hours. A retired Pentagon official described it as follows: “Measured, which made the shockingly irrefutable, inescapable, undismissable. Makes ‘unimaginable’ vision a necessity, especially for kids seeking room ahead for themselves.”
The full text of Sare’s remarks is below:
DIANE SARE: Good evening. Although I am not yet the President of the United States, I believe the American people deserve to hear the truth about the status of our nation, the relationship of our nation to other nations around the world, and what must urgently be done to dramatically improve it.
I have low to no confidence that the current occupant of the White House understands the situation in which he and we find ourselves, and by that I am absolutely not implying that the previous President or his Vice President, had she become President, would have been capable of understanding the crisis or expressing it in English.
The American people deserve better. That is why I am speaking with you now.
My remarks tonight will be divided into three sections:
First, the economic and cultural collapse as it is manifest inside the United States.
Second, our relations with other nations on the planet, including the danger of thermonuclear war.
Third, what must be done to ensure that our precious republic enters its 251st year in a position to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity for the next 250 years (which is by no means guaranteed at this moment).
First, what is the condition of the American people?
Americans are currently holding the greatest amount of personal debt ever in history—close to $19 trillion. The average American household is carrying $105,000 in debt. The national debt is rapidly approaching $40 trillion!
President Trump’s tariff boondoggle, which has correctly been overturned by the United States Supreme Court, not only did not decrease our trade deficit, but helped to increase the trade deficit to a record $1.41 trillion.
As a result of that failed policy, and others embedded in the decades-ago shift to a post-industrial economy, accompanied by Nixon’s tragic 1971 decoupling of the value of the dollar from gold, 4.2 million young Americans will experience homelessness for some amount of time in 2026.
During the abnormally cold days of January, in New York City 19 people died, unsheltered, on the street.
Over 20% of Americans who purchased a new car in the 4th quarter of last year are paying more than $1,000 per month for their auto loan, and 3 million cars were repossessed in 2025.
25% of all student loans are in arrears.
14 million American households were behind on their utility bills in 2025, with 4 million households projected to have one or more utilities off by the end of last year.
We spend more than twice as much per capita on health care as Japan, Canada, and the U.K., but our life expectancy at birth is 2-5 years lower than it is in any of those nations. Maternity wards are closing in rural hospitals across the nation, and many hospitals are closing, too.
Our physical infrastructure is a disaster. You are aware of the shameful conditions of our roads, railroads, and bridges, as well as our inadequate and insecure power grid.
Due to a lack of upkeep of water management systems and crazy green financier takedowns of dozens of dams during the Biden administration in particular, much of our farmland is jeopardized by floods and droughts, or windmills and solar panels. Mega corporate monopolies are being deployed to eliminate the family farm, making our food supply vulnerable and insecure.
According to 2025 National Assessment of Educational Progress data, only 35% of U.S. high school seniors are proficient in reading.
In 1776, the literacy rate in the United States was close to 95%. Today, two-thirds of American high school seniors could not read Thomas Paine’s “Crisis” pamphlet.
According to the National Literacy Institute, over 54% of Americans read below a 6th grade level, and over 25% of Americans are functionally illiterate.
This means that the American people are suffering, physically, due to lack of shelter, food, transportation, and adequate medical care; psychologically, due to anxiety related to the rising cost of living and the collapse of society, which is evident everywhere; and, on top of these hardships, the American people are unprepared to mobilize themselves in their own self-interest, because they have been robbed of a literate form of language and an education that would enable them to understand the issues that are plaguing the nation and hold their government accountable.
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison were able to rally the people of New York to support the newly drafted U.S. Constitution by writing and circulating the Federalist Papers. Today, most Americans could not even read them, let alone understand them.
Our foreign policy is equally bankrupt, if you believe that peace and stability are the objectives of American diplomacy, which apparently no longer exists.
I cannot blame only Donald Trump for this, although the Roy Cohn approach to foreign relations is not helpful. The British Nazi Synarchist takeover began immediately upon the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Winston Churchill was planning a nuclear first strike against the then-Soviet Union before FDR’s body was lowered into the grave.
While many of us are rightly concerned that we may be in a major war against Iran in the coming hours and days, the war we are currently waging against Russia may be the more ominous. The recent strikes from Ukraine on Russia’s missile-manufacturing site at Votkinsk, following on the 91-drone attack on President Putin’s Valdai residence in January, are a dangerous escalation. The CIA has admitted involvement in the targeting of energy infrastructure inside and outside of Russia and, apparently, also the 91-drone attack on Putin’s residence. Russia presented the evidence to the American military attaché in Moscow just days after the attack.
The United States, under the direction of an Epstein-client-infested cabal of billionaires and Anglo-Zionists, appears to be intent upon starving the tiny island nation of Cuba into submission and is plotting to build fancy resorts and casinos over hundreds of thousands of dead Palestinian bodies.
Were it not for the iron nerves of President Putin, and the 5,000-year-plus civilizational outlook of Chinese President Xi Jinping, and their close collaboration, the world might have already plunged over the abyss to nuclear Armageddon. Ambassador Mike Huckabee might believe that that’s a Biblical approach.
We have a drug cartel destabilization of Mexico to our south—anyone remember Obama’s “Fast and Furious”? We have to ask, who arranged for the narco-terrorists south of the border to be flown to Ukraine to be trained by pro-Nazi battalions in the use of drones and other NATO tactics?
I must be very blunt: If these policies are allowed to continue, you won’t need to worry about electing me. We will have ceased to exist long before November 2028.
