By Steve Farrell
The Liberty Letters, 2008, Letter 21
“Ultimately, the choice before the American people is the choice between two visions: on the one hand, the policies of limited government, economic growth, a strong defense, and a firm foreign policy; and on the other hand, policies of tax and spend, economic stagnation, international weakness and accommodation, and always, always, from them, ‘Blame America first.’ It’s the choice between the policies of liberalism or the policies of America’s political mainstream.” —Ronald Reagan
If only we could say this is still the choice between the two parties today. That it isn’t is an invitation to all that the centerpiece of our political involvement be a focus on principle not party, on a defense of our inspired Constitution not partisan politics, on the great and eternal moral truths of the Judeo-Christian ethic, not on the moral relativism of Marx, Lenin, and Dewey.
The Liberty Letters is a project of the Center for Moral Liberalism and are written, edited, and or compiled by CML President Steve Farrell, one of the original pundits at Silver Eddy Award Winner, NewsMax.com (1999-2008), mentor and associate professor of political economy at George Wythe University, and author of the inspirational novel, “Dark Rose.
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Its the choice between the rich not doing their patriotic duty by their countrymen, letting people suffer and die without adequate healthcare, interventionist government that has to nationalise banks to offset its own policy failings, failing to engage with the world in the pursuit of peace and confusing that with ‘weakness’ (sometimes you have to ‘accommodate’ as part of a world community) and not saying ‘we are American’, we can lead the world through our humility and experience and (yes) sometimes take the blame alongside others.