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6.06.2004
On Reagan, On Nixon, On Donner, On Blitzen. Reagan was the president. I didn't pay much attention to politics. It wasn't until the '84 election that I started to see politics at all. It was that year, with my older brother in rehab recovering from a bad car accident, that I sat in the recreation room at the Rehab hospital and watched the 1984 presidential returns. I was ten. I also learned to play pool that year as well. Reagan was the president. Another fours years At fourteen I cared more about girls and skateboards that I did anything else. Bush became president, which was just wrong, because Reagan was president. We went to war with Iraq. I started to pay closer attention to politics. What I know about Reagan is limited by my utter lack of interest in his presidency at the time. I neither admire or despise the guy. He was just the president, that's all. It wasn't till years later that I read, secondhand about his policies. I found much to dislike about them. I'm not big on saying nice things about people just because they're dead. Its always sad when people die. When its somebody famous it gives us a chance to think about our own mortality. I find the need to mythologize Reagan pretty disturbing. His legacy, if it is indeed being practiced by those that idolize the man, is a bane to our society and one we would be better off without. UPDATE: I recognize this language in the current inhabitant of the White House. Reagan's Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida Now, I don't have to tell you that this puts us in opposition to, or at least out of step with, a prevailing attitude of many who have turned to a modern-day secularism, discarding the tried and time-tested values upon which our very civilization is based. No matter how well intentioned, their value system is radically different from that of most Americans. And while they proclaim that they're freeing us from superstitions of the past, they've taken upon themselves the job of superintending us by government rule and regulation. Anyone that believes that the Evangelicals will not, if given the chance, grab hold of the power of the state to serve their own "well intentioned" aims is naive. But nobody ever got poor pandering to the Evangelical's own sense of importance. They do, after all, believe they are God's chosen. If not for the Constitution, and the "activist" judges that defend it, we would already be in trouble. I can see, with a odd sense of respect, how getting the Evangelicals to equate battling evil with increased militarism would be useful; as Reagan gets to not much later. At the same time, however, they must be made to understand we will never compromise our principles and standards. We will never give away our freedom. We will never abandon our belief in God. And we will never stop searching for a genuine peace. But we can assure none of these things America stands for through the so-called nuclear freeze solutions proposed by some (laughs) We must defend God with our missiles. If we fall, God will fall. Earlier he had recounted a tale of one man who would rather see his daughters die believers than live as Communists. Not very subtle I think. God = American Militarism. That we are scared to death that the Islamic Terrorists will get their hands on the weapons we developed to defeat the Nazis/Communists is ironic, almost as much as knowing that we funded those same terrorists in God's last holy war. We, America, are God's defenders. I have to wonder, who fought for God before we came along? So, I urge you to speak out against those who would place the United States in a position of military and moral inferiority. You know, I've always believed that old Screwtape reserved his best efforts for those of you in the church. So, in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride -- the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil. Then, as now, Satan is testing us. We must continue on our moral crusade to transform America into God's country as we arm ourselves for the waves of Satan's armies that will seek to destroy us and defeat God once and for all. If we falter by allowing secularism to gain popularity, or we fail to build even more deadly Weapons of Mass Destruction God will be defeated. According to that same worldview, the new War on Terror is nothing more than Satan, once again trying to defeat God's people. That would be us, the Americans. The spirit of Satan has apparently left the Russian people. It has drifted over to the Middle East to possess our former allies, the Islamists. Luckily for those in the weapons industries, Satan never really goes away, he just changes form. The only thing holding him at bay is school prayer and Nuclear Warheads. ----- For those too stupid for subtlety: Fundamentalism, of the Soviet, Islamic or any other flavor that declares that they, and no others, are the sole holders of truth... ...are wrong and must be opposed. You see, what we do right is tolerance. That's how the Communists got it wrong, that's how the Islamists get it wrong and that's how the fundies get it wrong. We are just as right to oppose those that wish to give power to the state for secular reasons as we are to oppose those that wish to give power to the state for God. Getting it half right still means you're half wrong. |
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