An Event Worth Celebrating

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Ronald Reagan
PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES
BORN
February 6, 1911
Tampico, Illinois
(Born on this day)
DIED
June 5, 2004 (aged 93)
Los Angeles, California






"On the broad Left, in the media, academia and among our self-appointed intelligentsia, were many who disliked old-fashioned Soviet communism. They thought they had an alternative to offer in less authoritarian forms of socialism. They couldn’t understand that the former victims of communism wanted something completely different. The newly liberated peoples weren’t binning hard-line Leninism to opt for a lighter version of Marx, or the social vision of the New Statesman. They wanted free market capitalism and consumerism instead.”

And in an emphatic two-fingered gesture to the Left in general, many Eastern Europeans adopted as a symbol of their liberation American President Ronald Reagan.

…Reagan is a hero to many in the old Soviet bloc. There are Reagan statues in Tbilisi in Georgia, Ploiesti in Romania, Warsaw and Budapest, as well as streets galore named for him.” The death of communism – a 30-year anniversary we won’t be hearing much about



The Democrats....the party of communism, socialism, Fascism.....still haven't learned.

 

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Articulate a point and I'll put you in your place.

 

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"Ronald Reagan, though dismissed by Europeans as a second-rate actor and fondler of cue cards, possessed that magic faculty that separates run-of-the mill politicos from history-molding leaders.

"I didn't understand", recalls Time's Joe Klein, "how truly monumental, and morally important, Reagan's anti-communism was until I visited the Soviet Union in 1987." He continues with a seemingly trivial vignette. Attending the Bolshoi Ballet, he was nudged by his minder: "'Ronald Reagan. Evil empire', he whispered with dramatic intensity and shot a glance toward his lap where he had hidden two enthusiastic thumbs up. 'Yes!'"

When an American president manages to pluck the soul strings of those who have been raised to fear and despise what he represents, he surely deserves the honorific 'great.'
The "amazing and mysterious" life of Ronald Reagan - National Interest, The Articles | Find

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And now the Democrats are fronting a Marxist for President.

That's government schooling for ya'.....