Posted on 10/21/2014 3:22:22 PM PDT by mkleesma
It's morning again in America.
It is our memory of Ronald Reagan that is sustaining us in these rough days.
It is certainly one of the ways I’ve kept sane has been by watching stuff from the 80s on YouTube. Even if it’s 20 minutes of commercials or just a news report with Reagan in it.
A couple of times, I actually forgot that Reagan wasn’t still president.
"It is our memory of Ronald Reagan that is sustaining us in these rough days."
Interesting that you should mention that notion...
My family and friends often comment to each other that once we can finally unshackle ourselves from this America-hating sociopath currently occupying the Oval Office, our country can once again ascend to that earlier greatness. All these years later and the great Ronald W. Reagan still fortifies us.
The Rat Party's long term strategy...begun in the mid-late 60's...has been very successful and has brought us very close to...or even beyond...a tipping point.That tipping point is the percentage of Americans who see themselves as victims,who see themselves as being entitled to other people's money.
Sorry,I calls 'em as I sees 'em.
The republican fixation today with Reagan is akin to my parents generations fixation with FDR. And, to the younger generation, it is just as ineffective.
We need to look forward, not backward.
Chokes
me
up.
Even harder to believe that, in 30 years, we went from Reagan’s America to a country on the brink of road with a socialist president
Ain't it the truth.
If the country-clubbers had any sense they would just run Ronald Reagan ads again.
Obama, on the other hand, is nothing more than a dry, woody, weed primed for the flicker of a match.
When “forward” is the wrong path to take and going back leads us to the right path, then we need to go backwards.
Obama’s idea of “forward” is socialism and worse. His idea of “change” is to utterly destroy our country and its foundational values. Staying on the “forward” path is suicide for the American way of life.
I lived through the Reagan years. Perhaps you didn't and do not appreciate what he boldly stood for and how he operated as a strong leader. There is so much to be emulated from his life. It is never a mistake to identify what a wise and successful leader did and learn from him or her. Those Republican politicians today who despise Reagan or who belittle him do so because their values and goals align more closely to the Democrats. They clearly have no problem with moving “forward”. It is the path of least resistance, and it brings us to the mess our country is in today.
Very well put...Thanks for posting.
Boo Yah!!!
I needed that.
It’s rare I’m exhausted but, got this thing going on and all I wanted to do today was nap and watch TV.
Skip that!!!
Man in motion lives better and The Gipper was tireless.
Think I’ll take on what’s left of my day.
Pretty much. People went through common experiences of Depression, World War, Cold War, and they saw the changes in the 60s and 70s threatening what they'd worked and saved to create.
Nowadays people don't have that common cultural background and sense of shared values. Forty or fifty years on, one can't keep harping on the 60s and the 70s, and feelings about what's happened in recent years aren't anywhere near as monolithic as the rejection of Carter and 70s liberalism was.
The idea of Middle America versus East Coast and West Coast elites doesn't fly as well today as it once did. Many people whose parents voted for Reagan don't see Republicans as the default American option but as another player in the political game whose values they don't always share.
Oh please.
Of course I lived through Carter and the 80s.
You missed my point completely. He was a great man for the times. We need another great man for these times.
Looking forward doesn’t mean forgetting the past. But too many folks around here are a little too hung up on the past.
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