Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. ~Ronald Wilson ReaganI’ve never forgotten that statement. I knew it beforehand, from my grandfather, but he really encapsulated it. We should teach it in our schools.
FYI, my paternal grandfather was an immigrant from Russia, in 1923. Both my father and I, in our respective youths, made the mistake of telling him (in essence) that the USA was so rich and powerful that our system would last forever. When I said it, he laughed, and said, “Listen to me, sonny boy, NOTHING is forever. When I was a young boy of 11, my entire country celebrated the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty’s rule over Russia. Russia was and is the world’s largest country, and it had not lost control over its territory since the time of Ghengis Khan, nearly 700 years earlier. My grandfather’s grandfather’s grandfather could not have remembered a time before the Czar, and we all believed in our bones that the Czar was forever. Yet only 5 years later, the Czar was overthrown, and less than a year later, he and his whole family were murdered by a bunch of savages. So the Czar wasn’t forever, and neither is this country, however much you and I may love it.”
It is a great tragedy that a bunch of traitorous Democrats have nearly proven my grandfather, and Reagan, correct. One or two more terms under their rule, and our nation will cease to exist.