I think the advent of Obama has helped us to understand even more clearly that Ronald Reagan was fighting for good against evil, and on more fronts than just the battle against Soviet communism. The Gipper stood up for good, true American values; and by so doing, he smoked out all the leftists. They complained about everything he did and said, and tried vainly to paint him as a cruel racist. Sadly, many of these communist creeps are now in charge of the United States government. But nothing has changed. Reagan's principles were right for the 80s and they are right for all time. They don't change, just as God's law doesn't change.
I think that with decades of hindsight we can see that the "kinder, gentler nation" was just a more liberal nation, involving capitulation to the leftists on many fronts. The man who saw the "thousand points of light" barely put up a fight against the disgraceful satyr and liar Clinton in 1992. Clinton disgraced the presidency; however, Bush the Second couldn't even bring himself to condemn the looting of the White House by the outgoing Clintonoid barbarians. W Bush then scandalously betrayed the people who (barely) elected him twice, then committed the crowning insult of setting the table for the malevolent communist Obama. Now, we must deal with the rubble left in the wake of Obama and the last Congress.
Few politicians have had the principled courage that Ronald Reagan had to champion conservative values. They've always had to have qualifications and provisos and wrinkles. They've always had to have an excuse for standing on conservative principles. Precious few have had the courage, when it might have mattered, to stand up and say that our principles are right, and liberal-socialist principles are wrong and inimical to American society. The result is that the damage cannot be repaired without great dislocation. I don't believe that many people have the taste for that sort of thing. I think what we are looking at is accelerating decline and ultimately, domination by peoples who have no hesitation about becoming strong and dominant.
When I worked as a volunteer in the Reagan-Bush '84 campaign, the campaign handed out buttons to us that read, "We can make a difference." I believed that slogan and felt that it actually meant something. I don't believe that it is true anymore. I recognize that the "Tea Party" has accomplished a great deal; but I see it as a wrestler who has achieved a "reversal" in a long, grueling match that will be resolved in accordance with the Book of Revelation. Praise God.
