Fighting for the Soul, Part II

I apologize for the history lesson, but there may be those who don't remember W.I.N. buttons and trying to free our hostages in Iran with ONE HELICOPTER! Of course, we know the answer. Ronald Reagan, the Great Communicator, came in and, with a purpose of will not seen probably at least since WWII, was able to start our beloved country up the steep climb to a position of prominence and power it may have never seen on a global scale. Although so many issues lay before the founder of the New Conservative Revolution and his allies, President Reagan chose the two most vital. The first was to restore our economy by applying a scarcely taught theory; supply-side economics. The idea that you could grow the economic base and RAISE tax revenue by cutting taxes was so foreign to our "friends" in Washington that they ridiculed the President for promoting "voodoo". An objective look at the results speak otherwise. The Eighties and Nineties were probably the most prosperous stretch of time in U.S. history. (By the way, you cannot change an economy in just a couple of years. It takes time for investment to work its way through the system and once in place it takes time to undercut it by changing policy.)

The second issue was how to deal with the Soviet Union. It was an axiom that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. would always be at odds. We saw no possible way that we could ever hope to defeat the Soviets outside of destroying our own country, so America had settled into a defeatist attitude to world affairs. Detente became the buzz word for our relations. In reality, that meant the Soviets could do whatever they wanted. President Reagan knew that true strength lay not in just military might, but in the economic power supporting it. He believed that if he could press the Soviet economy enough, the thread that held the socialists together would unravel and a large portion of the Communist threat would pass into history. Again, President Reagan was ridiculed and mocked by the leftists who admired the Soviet system and the moderates who bought the liberal line. Again, history shows who was correct. Reagan exposed the soft underbelly of the dragon that Lenin and Stalin had built, and that beast fell under its own weight. Ronald Reagan had shown that true conservative ideas and values could be exerted to the betterment of not just a select few, but of this nation and of the world itself.

Where am I going with all this rambling? Stay tuned for part 3!