Thursday, August 13, 2020

Kay C. James: Why Reagan’s Call to Conservatism Needs to Be Heard Again Today

Kay C. James, the president of the Heritage Foundation, has written a very cogent article which was printed in the Washington Times that clearly lays out the coming choice Americans have.  I think it is well worth the read.

"Today, America has a choice of two paths. We can embrace the foundational principles that created this nation of limited government and individual liberty. Or we can veer down the path of bigger, more intrusive government that promises to solve all our problems if we just turn over more of our freedom and our paychecks. 

The difference between the two paths recently has become even starker as those on the left have gotten more radical. They have sought to destroy the lives of those who disagree with them, rewrite history to teach our children that America was illegitimate from the start, and express solidarity with those rioting across the country. 

This future-altering choice reminds me of 1964 when Ronald Reagan spoke about a similar decision the American people faced. 'A Time for Choosing' was Reagan’s indictment of big government policies and the deceptive lure of socialism. Amazingly, his warnings are just as applicable today as they were nearly six decades ago.

He gave 'A Time for Choosing' shortly after President Lyndon Johnson introduced his 'Great Society' proposal, which created new welfare programs, expanded food stamps, gave birth to Medicaid and Medicare, and inserted the federal government into local education, among other massive expansions of government."

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2 comments:

Dave Dubya said...


Not all Republicans and conservatives have abandoned their conscience. Many are now opposed to the white nationalism, racism, corruption, and criminal behavior of the “Liar in Chief”.

Now we have Birtherism 2.0.

Racism and birtherism go hand-in-hand.

Former Reagan Office of Public Liason director and Bush Labor Department nominee Linda Chavez slammed the new push to try to discredit the American citizenship of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA).

“Kamala Harris was born in California—which no one disputes is part of the United States of America (yet)—but a group of what passes for legal scholars in Trump World want you to believe that she still does not meet the constitutional qualification of “natural born citizen” that would allow her to be sworn-in as vice president... So why raise the issue now with respect to Kamala Harris? It is little more than a thinly veiled effort to redefine who counts as a real American. Trump and his minions find the idea of a multi-racial, multi-ethnic America threatening. Trump’s goon squad have already made fun of Harris’s name, with Tucker Carlson willfully refusing to pronounce Kamala correctly. Somehow Ivanka and Melania roll off the tongue for these guys...”

Looks like you have a lot more canceling to do, buddy.

Darrell Michaels said...

Hmmm... Yeah, I think I'll take that bait.

California is technically part of the United States, but in the mentality of its majority leadership and the majority of citizens and illegal aliens that elect them, they exhibit anything but constitutional American values.