Show me a Leftist or Statist entity in which the Individuals accept Truth as an inner standard for critical thinking.
How about the Democrat Party?
The ACLU, NAACP, SPLC, CORE, BLM, Occupy (Fill in blank)
The American Mainstream Media?
Any part of American Government subsidized educational system?
American Hollywood Motion Picture Elite?
The biggest part of American Music, Stage and Literary communities?
How about even the GOP Elite and FBI cops?
NO, we live in the Era of the Ninth Commandment, the modern Western Reality is Entirely based upon the False Witness Lie, the Uniparty Deep Swamp rules with the lie, and they use Useless Idiot "Democracy" to accomplish that rule.
While Reagan was a GREAT Man, he was also tricked more than once by the Leftist Liars.
Democracy is not the solution, it is the moral and ethical value of Men themselves as Reagan noted.
Navy Patriot, you may be right...Reagan instinctually and internally knew why the Cold War would turn out in our favor but:
Even he did not make the narrative clear enough for America and the world. Hence why Soviet/Marxist values already taking hold of the West became entrenched.
And also why (even though I think these people are overly demonized) - the American reformers who sought to rebuild post-Soviet Russia with a secular Harvard-guided market-based economic model FAILED miserably.
They had zero clue on the massive, depths-defying grip the Soviet vision had on people’s souls!
I spoke to a Russian man from Odessa who came to the U.S. in the late 70s: said it took him TEN whole years to adjust to life here, even after learning English. He had to detox from all the lies, all the habits of cheating, deceit, and bribery he engaged in for survival of life under oppression - all the perceptions of his Soviet imagination ingrained in him since birth. It was collective brainwashing on an unprecedented level in human history!
(Now you can see why the post-Soviet space has struggled so much to find its footing!) And why North Korea is such a mess.
Communism is an atheist vision of the world fundamentally at odds with the reality of God and His jurisdiction over the universe. It is literally attempting on a heaven on earth without Him - and ends up creating hell instead. This is why it failed and fails and fails time and time again.
And too many Americans don’t realize how our precious free institutions are inseparable from the reality of God, from whom all fundamental laws of nature and rights of man (as His image bearer) find their origin.
“Endowed by our Creator...”
I believe, Trump — his speechwriter Stephen Miller — they have a clearer narrative about why the world looks like the way it does today and how crucial it is that America stand firm and own our place in the narrative as beacon of freedom.
Loved the “Western civilization must survive” speech Trump gave in Warsaw, Poland last spring especially.