Why We Are Still Living in Ronald Reagan's America

Newsweek ^ | 07/28/2021 | H.W Brands

[I want the USA back]

We are not. The America of our youth is gone. Parasites are in its place, eating it alive, destroying all that was good and replacing it with rot - liberalism.

[billyboy15]

You’re nothing but a quitter.

[L,TOWM]

Yep... and when you get sideways with the federal government on some technical bulls-—t, you get to pay for your own attorney while your taxes and fees pay for the ones doing a number on your livelihood... Pretty certain it wasn’t supposed to be like THIS.

[Hiddigeigei]

A system based on individual freedom and individual responsibility only works with a certain type of citizenry, as Tocqueville pointed out: The Constitution of the United States is like those exquisite productions of human industry which ensure wealth and renown to their inventors, but which are profitless in any other hands. This truth is exemplified by the condition of Mexico at the present time. The Mexicans were desirous of establishing a federal system, and they took the Federal Constitution of their neighbors, the Anglo-Americans, as their model, and copied it with considerable accuracy. But although they had borrowed the letter of the law, they were unable to create or to introduce the spirit and the sense which give it life. They were involved in ceaseless embarrassments between the mechanism of their double government; the sovereignty of the States and that of the Union perpetually exceeded their respective privileges, and entered into collision; and to the present day Mexico is alternately the victim of anarchy and the slave of military despotism. — Alexis De Tocqueville (Democracy In America).

[billyboy15]

“They were unable to create or to introduce the spirit and the sense which give it life.”

Exactly right. Our system can only work if people follow the law and abide by the guidlines laid down by our Founders.

If people who refuse to abide by our laws and get a free pass from the authorities they will become more and more violent.

Someone or some group needs to take a stand if the authorities now in charge refuse. It may take a few violent acts to send a wake up call to the thugs that their activity will no longer be accepted.

[one guy in new jersey]

“Here in heaven we have plenty of preachers.”

“His story remains true...”

His story is likely no longer true even if it was true at the time, or was true at a certain point in time.

Presuming (please do not attack, it’s only a stated presumption) Catholic priests are the only ones capable of preaching properly and effectively leading souls more or less directly to heaven, the majority of such poor shepherds (hirelings, really) are certainly failing in this endeavor and are thus likely falling into perdition like snowflakes along with the millions of sheep they have served so poorly.