“We are in the second American Revolution,” Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts declared Friday.  “I don’t mean that there needs to be bloodshed,” Roberts said at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s 52nd Annual Meeting. “Although [on] The Left, if you spend some time in Washington, D.C. around Capitol Hill and outside of the Heritage Foundation every Monday, you know that these people are getting more and more violent.” Roberts talked about what issues need to be addressed to promote human flourishing for the American people. Roberts said that through leadership such as that of Heritage and Gov. Mike Braun of Indiana, the country is “renewing sovereignty and self-governance and faith and fellow man.”  Over the next twelve months as the nation celebrates its 250th anniversary, Roberts said that we must not lose sight of the founding principles our country was built upon and remember them.  The most important institution in society in the family, Roberts said, and noted that the “health of the family determines the health of the republic,”  “We’ve been trying to figure out what’s the appropriate role of public policy, whether at the federal level or state level or local level, to arrest declining birth rates, to arrest declining marriage rates,” the Heritage president said. Immigration, whether legal or illegal, is not the answer to these declining rates, he went on.  Roberts applauded Braun for his “common sense smart conservationist” approach to environmental policy, citing the Green New Deal as one of the leading factors of overpriced housing, acting as a “barrier” to the American Dream.  Roberts also praised the Trump administration for its handling of the immigration crisis and added that Heritage would recommend that at the state level only citizens are counted in consensus. He said that “sanctuary cities and runaway municipalities” are unfortunately standing in the way of the federal government doing its job to remove illegal aliens. Another “America first” policy Roberts recommended was to replace the standard ACT and SAT test requirements for students applying to college with the Classical Learning Test.  Roberts said that he believes quality education is essential. Looking to the future, Roberts said that over the next year, Heritage will be publishing an “index of cultural flourishing” to give information on “everything we’re doing in public policy, at the state level, at the federal level, at the local level.” “If we start thinking about all of our policy decisions through that lens, then I can tell you that America’s 250th birthday next year will actually be the beginning of another, a second 250th period in which we continue to be the last best hope in the world,” Roberts said. The post Heritage President Says America’s Second Revolution Must Aim at Cultural Flourishing appeared first on The Daily Signal.