While most teenagers are gaming and doom-scrolling, 16-year-old Ocean Razo is debating the Constitution on doorsteps and stages across the country. On this episode of Disturbing the Peace, guest host Stephen Davis sits down with the young author, speaker, and Turning Point USA activist — who wrote Preserving Freedom for the Next Generation at age 15 — for a conversation about apathy, civic engagement, and why he believes freedom is only one generation away from extinction.
Ocean makes his case on the questions driving the national debate: why so many young people are drawn to democratic socialism, what the Pilgrims’ failed experiment at Plymouth actually proved, and why he argues that the greatest threat to America comes from within rather than from any outside force. He and Stephen dig into the state of public education — the loss of debate and civics, the push he wants to see toward mock legislatures and citizenship testing — and the difference between conserving a society and uprooting it. The episode closes on history and faith: the Christian foundations of the founding, the Holy Trinity v. United States decision, John Adams on a moral people, and what Ocean hopes his grandchildren will one day say he did when America stood at a crossroads.
