53rd Congress Inaugural Address

Inauguration Day in Patria!

Following is the text of the 53rd Congress (LIII Con. Pat.) inaugural address, as delivered shortly after 12:00 noon today:

Devi prapanartihare prasida, prasida matar jagato’khilasya.

Prasida vishveshwari pahi vishvam, twam ishwari devi characharasya.

Madam Chief Justice, Mr. Sergeant-at-Arms, distinguished guests, honourable members of the Fifty Third Congress, those who well and faithfully served in the Fifty Second Congress, fellow citizens of Patria, Amma’s beloved children, all those who have assembled on the grounds of the Capitol on this traditional quadrennial noon hour of the 30th day of June, we invoke the Divine Mother’s blessings on this new Congress with the same verse from the Devi Mahatmyam that introduced the address to a special Patria-India Joint Session two and a half years ago in Amritapuri: O Devi, you who remove the sufferings of your suppliants, be gracious. Protect the universe. You are, O Devi, the ruler of all that is moving and unmoving.

The members of this new Congress stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before, who have supported and defended this Inner Realm since 1818. The men and women who have served Patria so long and so well, who beginning in 1989 transitioned this lovely land from a plain vanilla secular republic into an Inner Realm of compassion and dharma, who replaced an American-style President with the Speaker of the House serving as a ceremonial head of state and who believed that concentrating executive power in the hands of one person and a hand-picked cabinet could lead to oligarchic, over-reaching personality cults that would not end well for both the leaders and ordinary citizens.

The Oath of Office that you have just heard promises to “support and defend” the Constitution of Patria. Support and defend, what exactly? The Constitution is not an old piece of parchment written with quill pens by men - and in 1818 they were exclusively Caucasian males - in funny suits and powdered wigs at a time when news could be disseminated only by word of mouth or hand-operated printing presses and could travel only as fast as a ship could sail or a horse could gallop. The Constitution of Patria is not a static document. It has evolved as technology has evolved, as society and culture have evolved, and as it evolves Patria remembers certain milestones in its history.

Fifty years ago in July 1976, amid the US bicentennial celebrations, the raid on Entebbe and the Montreal Olympics, a special session of 40th Congress took place in response to perceived notions that Patria was failing and powerless against the forces arrayed against it. But Patria survived a dark time, even if it led only to darker times in the failed 41st Congress. Nonetheless, the fear-driven legacy of stoners doing drugs,the proliferation of teenage sex and the peer pressure from high school kids half a century ago, to say nothing of the dreadful music, cars and fashions that prevailed in the 1970s, are duly remembered on this day.

Forty years ago, on this day in 1986, the 43rd Congress was inaugurated and today Patria also remembers its legacy. Even if it melted down and became a house divided against itself in 1989, that Congress taught once-socially backward citizens relevant life skills, real independent living, living as “normal” a life as possible, as well as external growth. Not without reason, the 43rd Congress has been called Patria’s Project Gemini. In the 43rd Congress, the laggardly social and economic legacy of previous failed administrations was finally made up, just as the Gemini space missions of 1965 and 1966, during which American astronauts learned to walk, dock, rendez-vous and truly fly in space, finally overcame the Soviet Union’s early 1960s lead in space exploration.

In 1926, the All-Patria Radio Network, now known as Ramrajyavani, was established. One hundred years later, tune this in: broadcasting on the 520 to 1700 kilohertz medium wave or AM band will never disappear from Patria’s airwaves and that programming on those frequencies will consist of relevant local news and public affairs, Patrienish Hockey League, All Patria Football Federation and other sports, as well as dharmic broadcasts that uplift all spirits.

These legacy AM stations will continue to broadcast the message that has been referenced in previous Inaugural Addresses and Annual Messages, but must be said again: While citizens of Patria are awake, PATRIA IS NOT WOKE! While democratic socialist principles, along with classic age-old human values of compassion and empathy, underpin much of Patria's daily life, Patria is not far-left, communist, libtard, or whatever tired, lame buzzwords the “faith, family, freedom” Reaganite neo-conservatives and MAGA Trumpist Americans choose to slander us with. Does offering a universal basic income make Patria woke? Does affordable public transit make Patria woke? Does comprehensive single-player health care that includes prescription drugs, dental and vision care, make Patria woke? Does making billionaires and oligarchs pay their fair share of taxes make Patria woke? Patria will continue to embrace the progressive left, the old left of Bernie Sanders and Tommy Douglas, while saying no to those who claim to be liberals and leftists - the so-called progressives, mostly in the US, whose feelings are hurt by “microaggressions”, the censorship-loving petty totalitarians who shut down free speech and open debate, the gender-benders who refer to themselves with pronouns that defy both reason and grammar, the land-acknowledgers who shame us with claims of settler colonialism, and many more who hate Patria’s freedom, who will not travel on Patria's politically incorrect go-it-alone path where there are no thought crimes and forbidden topics of debate.

As this new Congress is seated, let us advance a new answer to the question asked of every generation: To whom does Patria belong? For much of our history, the response from Congress, from the Precinct legislatures and from City Halls has been simple: It belongs only to the elites, to the wealthy and well-connected, those who never strain to capture the attention of those in power.

For decades, working people have reckoned with the consequences. Broken, failing infrastructure. Crowded classrooms taught by overworked teachers. Graffiti-splattered, crime-riddled, rodent-infested public housing developments where the elevators sit out of order as does the heating and air conditioning. Roads littered with potholes and filthy molasses-slow buses, streetcars and subways. Wages that do not rise and corporations that rip off consumers and employees alike.

So to whom does Patria belong? The simple answer is that Patria belongs to all who live in it. All who, as stated in today’s oath “love and serve, support and defend” the Inner Realm of Patria, seek peaceful co-existence with our neighbors and commit themselves to growth on all levels, and who are open to spiritual growth through regular practice of yoga and following the path of Sanatan Dharma.

So that Patria may truly belong to all who live in it, this Congress must strive to deliver an agenda of safety, affordability, and abundance, where government looks and lives like the people it represents, never flinches in the fight against corporate greed, and refuses to cower before challenges that others have deemed too complicated, too costly, or outside the Overton window of acceptable ideas, policy and discourse.

Well outside that window: refuting the argument that feminists and woke social justice warriors have been claiming since the 1970s: there is a ‘patriarchy’ that serves to discriminate against females and that works to the advantage of all men, even those who deny its existence. They even say “You can’t spell ‘patriarchy’ without ‘Patria’”. But the near disappearance of men in colleges and universities, even in the hard sciences and engineering, suggests there is no such thing as patriarchy. The high proportion of women serving in this Congress and the 13 Precinct legislatures suggests no such thing. The number of women in medicine, law, engineering and other once-overwhelmingly male professions also suggests no such thing. The incredible growth and popularity of women's sports, along with thriving professional women’s hockey, basketball and soccer leagues also suggests no such thing. Therefore, we reject the notion of patriarchy and the claim that you can’t spell Patria without it.

In actual fact, the main reason why one must assert that patriarchy does not exist is because Patria as we know it would not exist without feminine principles. Study any macro-world matrilineal society, of which there are several in India such as the Nairs of Amma’s home state Kerala and you will find a pattern that Patria has attempted to emulate since the first stirrings of the Dharmic Revolution: lower violence, higher social stability, deeper continuity between generations. When the feminine principle leads, life tends to thrive.

By contrast, the masculine obsession with domination has written its legacy in smoke and steel: wars, colonization, resource plunder, environmental collapse — all symptoms of unchecked aggression and ego. The archetype of the conqueror has brought us to the brink of self-extinction, not only in the previous century’s two world wars but countless times throughout history.

Think of all the women who raised us—the mothers who carried our bodies before we had names, who kept us alive before we understood what life even was. The teachers who showed us language, the healers who tended our wounds, the partners who reminded us how to feel when the world demanded we stop. To reject the feminine is, in essence, to reject the very hands that built us, fed us, healed us, and held us when we were too small or broken to hold ourselves. As the Devi Mahatmyam says, striyaha samastah sakala jagatsu - all women in the world are aspects of the Divine Mother.

There is no need to attack men or masculinity. But it is a call, particularly for National Unionists, to evolve it. To make it worthy of the world we claim to defend. Any man who believes in masculinity worth practicing must understand that it cannot exist in isolation—it depends on balance. It depends on the feminine. A world run entirely on masculine energy is a world forever trembling at the edge of collapse—a world out of equilibrium. Much of twentieth century macro-world history is virtual proof of this reality.

In Patria, men were never meant to be the whole story. They were never meant to be the center of the stage. The sooner they stop mistaking their dominance for destiny, the sooner they can step into something far greater: a partnership with the rest of humanity that honors both the builder and the nurturer, the defender and the dreamer.

Amma does not have to say it; the truth is both simple and humbling: no man stands who was not once held by a woman. No civilization survives that silences the voice of compassion. No future is possible if half the same species must still fight twice as hard to be heard, recognized, or appreciated in it.

Imagine not only Patria, but any macro-world civilization recalibrated around the feminine values evolution has spent millions of years refining: cooperation over conquest, empathy over ego, nurture over dominance. Fewer wars, fewer oligarchs, fewer authoritarians and autocrats (in the macro-world, Margaret Thatcher and Golda Meir are the exceptions that prove the rule), but more homes, more gardens, more sanctuaries of understanding. The instinct that protects a child could just as easily protect a planet.

Feminism and matriarchy are not reversals of power; they are restorations of balance. To embrace them is not to diminish men but to remember what we once knew—that strength without compassion corrodes infinitely, and logic without empathy destroys definitely. The story of our species has always depended on the emotional intelligence of care.

The truth is not radical. Women were built to sustain and nurture life, men to help defend it. But defense without creation becomes destruction, and the sword has long forgotten the hand that forged it. If humanity is to survive its own inventions—weapons of mass destruction, biological weapons and artificial intelligence —it must return to its original genius—the feminine principle of care, cooperation, and continuity as it has evolved through human intelligence, both male and female, not through genderless, soulless artificial intelligence.

For almost the entirety of the 2026 election campaign, far beyond the culture wars, talking points and shifts of the Overton window, one major issue has stood out and has been endorsed by virtually every party: Patria must stop the proliferation of artificial intelligence. There is only one intelligence: human intelligence. Patria is a micronation created by humans, for humans. Not only has this address been written and edited without the use of ChatGPT or other AI programs, the entire 2026 election cycle was conducted without AI. No algorithms. No fake “photos”, no AI-generated bogus videos and fake speeches, and none of the various forms of AI slop that have become more than just an annoyance on social media. Why does Patria so disdain AI? Someday, perhaps even in these next four years, there may be effective guardrails governing the use of AI. Until then, Patria is committed to keeping this awful scourge out of our schools, workplaces and all media, be it print, broadcast or social. It is no exaggeration to say that AI is the most dangerous technology in human history, a technology that does not lift anyone out of poverty while lining the pockets of the Big Tech billionaires. The Green Party detests AI because of the unsustainable environmental toll of data centers. Social Democrats despise the massive job losses, tens of thousands of real working people replaced by AI bots. National Unionists believe AI can help the bad guys commit even more heinous crimes. The Chakra Party believes yoga must be taught by a real teacher, not a chatbot. For the SRM, the teachings of Sanatan Dharma must be propagated through a bona fide spiritual master and a lineage of gurus, not a chatbot. Finally, virtually all parties are on board with eliminating AI in all of Patria’s schools as this rogue technology will only lead to the end of basic 3-R education as we know it in grade school, will destroy research and essay-writing skills in high school, and take plagiarism to a whole new level in colleges and universities, institutions of higher learning where young people, as recently as four years ago, learned “critical thinking” or “how to think”. If left unchecked, AI will not only take your job, it will take your brain. It will rob you not only of a livelihood, but of your ability to read, write and reason. Know this: Patria has thrown down the gauntlet against Big Tech and all who would promote the use of AI. Here in Patria, from the floor of the Fifty Third Congress let the word go forth: there will be not one word of AI-generated text, not one pixel of AI-generated illustration, not one note of AI-generated music and not one kilohertz or megahertz of AI-generated radio programming. The AI genie will be stuffed into the bottle and thrown back into the ocean, not to return to Patria's shores for a long time, if at all. 

In the big picture of the macro-world, what good is AI? Does anyone actually think that AI can help bring about social justice and compassion? How can AI help repair the world - the Jewish concept of tikkun olam? How can AI help unite the world as one family - the Hindu concept of vasudhaiva kutumbakam?

Can AI end wars? Can AI bring about a free Palestine? Of course it can’t.

Can AI bring down dictators and fascists? Can AI remove Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu from office and put them behind bars? Of course it can’t.

Can AI cause hatred, racism and bigotry to vanish from the earth? Of course it can’t.

Can AI find a cure for cancer? Of course it can’t.

Can AI reverse climate change? Of course it can’t.

Can AI put a stop to rape and violence against women? Of course it can’t.

Can AI end urban decay, homelessness, drug abuse, mental illness and street crime? Of course it can’t.

To paraphrase the Unite the Right protesters of 2017, “AI WILL NOT REPLACE US!”

With human intelligence, and only human intelligence, Patria says “Yato dharmastato jaya”, “Where there is Dharma, there is victory.” 

Yato dharmastato jaya. Victory over the Thought Police and speech codes that have run amuck in our colleges and universities.

Yato dharmastato jaya. Victory over the thin-skinned snowflakes whose hurt feelings or claims of so-called microaggressions are grounds for being prosecuted, canceled and censored.

Yato dharmastato jaya. Victory over the masked totalitarians of the COVID era and the masked secret police such as those seen on the streets of Minneapolis this past winter.

Yato dharmastato jaya. Victory over the billionaires and oligarchs who believe they can buy Patria, the pompous, self-righteous elites and intellectuals who believe they are the smartest in the room, to say nothing of the finger-wagging Karens, moral high-grounders and humorless holier-than-thou totalitarian left censors.

Yato dharmastato jaya. Victory over woke-ism on all fronts and fake progressive gatekeepers who are not progressive at all.

Yato dharmastato jaya. Let those words set the path that Patria is to take in the four years to come as our fellow citizens continue to chant the mantra that this micronation has been given almost from the outset of the Dharmic Revolution: Om namo bhagavate vasudevaya. Not my will, O Lord, but Thine. All goodness and truth are Thine. May no evil estrange us from Thee, nor error darken our vision of Thy purposes. Help us to discern Thy justice and to understand Thy will. In adversity and prosperity, let Thy law be a lamp unto our feet to illuminate our path. May the citizens of Patria so labor in Thy service that their lives become a hymn of praise unto Thee. May God bless each and every one of you here and may God bless Patria!