He was right, in more than one way

Posted by nickursis 3 years, 8 months ago to Government

Ronald Reagan, in what I see as a very Objective dissertation on freedom and our need for it to survive...

https://youtu.be/ole1GOQrlfU

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Posted by Dobrien 3 years, 8 months ago

Thanks Nick for posting. It is a crying shame the Deep State forced Bush on Reagan as his VP.
Of course that Satanic pricks family friend attempted to kill him and he was never the same after that. It was almost as if Bush was in charge after that. Iran Contra scandal and the set up for Desert storm followed. The Poppy king and the middle east murder and mayhem became the norm until the Trump dismantlement. Trump deserves the Nobel peace prize for sure.

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Posted by allosaur 3 years, 7 months ago

Just like Ayn Rand, Reagan saw our current terrible threat of a complete socialist takeover coming.
Should Trump be reelected, I fully expect dirty tricks pulled.
The Marxist lust for power goal of conquest justifies any and all means.

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Posted by Thoritsu 3 years, 7 months ago

So correct.

Here we are. I doubt even 25% of the population would recognize the government is beholden to the people. There is so little evidence of this today.

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  Posted by nickursis 3 years, 7 months ago
  
  There you go, Thor. You nailed it, and it is really the root of the problem. Government (and elites) think the people are the sheep to support them. I see that as a very Ayn Rand thing to expose.
  
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Posted by Commander 3 years, 7 months ago

After crossing the Mn, Wis border night before last, the timbre of dialog and action changed.
I crossed from an environ of fear to that of outrage at the present clime. I heard facsimile of what Goldwater and Reagan bespoke decades past.
I have confidence that the smaller communities of the overwhelming land mass will prevail, if not immediately, over the long term. The majority of the population may occupy 1 to 2% of the landmass. If this majority pushes too hard....they can be starved into objective reality...literally.

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Posted by freedomforall 3 years, 8 months ago

As a reply to that posting, I would remind you of another speech that is as valid today as it was in 1964.
https://youtu.be/TvpvL-4WH1E

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  Posted by Olduglycarl 3 years, 8 months ago
  
  I was only 12 then but saw a lot of hate and ridicule for ole Barry...today, at 68, I understand why...because he was correct...the turtle head of the worlds backsides was rearing it's ugly head in those days also...I was too young to notice...same problems then as now.
  
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    Posted by mccannon01 3 years, 7 months ago
    
    12 at the time, also. I remember seeing him on television (B&W, of course), but at that age politics was boring so I didn't pay much attention. How's that old German saying go... "To soon old, too late smart."
    
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      Posted by ohiocrossroads 3 years, 7 months ago
      
      I thought that line was from Will Penny.
      
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        Posted by mccannon01 3 years, 7 months ago
        
        It was first told to me many years ago by a German octogenarian with a thick German accent who said it was an old German saying. He's gone now, but was a great guy to know. Don't know about Will Penny.
        
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      Posted by Olduglycarl 3 years, 7 months ago
      
      Yep...laughing
      
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  Posted by rhfinle 3 years, 7 months ago
  
  A good one. I was seven years old at the time. All I remember was:
  Goldwater! Goldwater!
  He's our man!
  Johnson belongs in the
  Garbage can!
  
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    Posted by freedomforall 3 years, 7 months ago
    
    AUH2O
    
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    Posted by mccannon01 3 years, 7 months ago
    
    Then there was a later one: "Why change Dicks in the middle of a screw? Vote for Nixon in 72!"
    
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      Posted by nickursis 3 years, 7 months ago
      
      Todays version:
      B.I.D.E.N.
      Biggest Idiot Democrats Ever Nominated.
      
      Ta da!
      
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        Posted by rhfinle 3 years, 7 months ago
        
        Excellent! I came up with this one; pass it around:
        Sniff This, Joe: <"( * )
        
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        Posted by mccannon01 3 years, 7 months ago
        
        Good one!
        
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  Posted by Commander 3 years, 7 months ago
  
  And Arizona got Harry Reid after Goldwater......WT?
  
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    Posted by freedomforall 3 years, 7 months ago
    
    I lived in Phoenix several times (1983, 1990-1991, 1999-2002) and the degradation of the political views from sane responsible self-reliant westerners to the irrational mommy-state leftist was sickening.
    
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      Posted by Commander 3 years, 7 months ago
      
      The Westerner's I experienced were in west Tx..same thing as yours. The others are retirement transplants...literally transplanting the "culture" of dependency.
      
      The saddest thing; When we bleed or breed we find ourselves universally connected...a biological "Absolute".
      
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        Posted by freedomforall 3 years, 7 months ago
        
        Agreed. Phoenix was infiltrated with retirees from Dem. strongholds of Detroit, Chicago, and transplants from Southern CA. The Arizona Republic daily newspaper turned left about 1990, iirc.
        
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        Posted by Commander 3 years, 7 months ago
        
        What I find interesting...not once do I remember seeing "Democracy" in the US Constitution.
        
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        Posted by nickursis 3 years, 7 months ago
        
        As I am fond of saying, "Democracy" is a dirty word, 50.1% of the mob ruling the 49.9% sane ones. Nope. Democratic rule is tyranny of the masses....
        
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        Posted by Olduglycarl 3 years, 7 months ago
        
        Demonocracies FAIL when they become TOO demoncrapic and ANYTHING goes...be what ever you will...or are TOLD to be.
        
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        Posted by Casebier 3 years, 7 months ago
        
        Democracies also fail when small minority rights are allowed to overrule large majority rights.
        
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        Posted by nickursis 3 years, 7 months ago
        
        The failing of democracy is that it ignores the rights of the individual in favor of the group. If the group is hijacked by a power that has evil intent, we have 1984 and big brother. The current demonrat party is part of such a hijacking. That, IMHO, is the root of the Patriots and Trump, they are the best hope for some form of respect for the individual. Democracy is an evil thing in and of itself. A republic at least allows the smallest group to have some way to choke the crap out of the the little turd who sold them out. Too long we have not choked such crap, we have shrugged and allowed it to continue, creating "the swamp".
        
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    Posted by Rex_Little 3 years, 7 months ago
    
    Harry Reid represented Nevada. It might be right next door to Arizona, but it's a different state.
    
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      Posted by Commander 3 years, 7 months ago
      
      Geeze...you're right. Mental slip on my part. thanks for correction.
      I think I transposed some dates of careers and didn't check back correctly.
      
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Posted by Jkj7 3 years, 7 months ago

I keep hoping that there are enough people from Galt's Gulch to retrieve what is left when the looters are done. I become less confident the more supposedly intelligent people I find who are subscribing to the altruist philosophy...and that we can have free everything. There is no free anything...it is all paid for by the few and the loss of all rights. The loss of all rights except those of the elitists. It is frightening.

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