Be Your Own "Great Communicator"

A new Ronald Reagan statue was recently unveiled in the Capitol Rotunda. It is ironic that this statue, a tribute to Reagan's legacy is being unveiled in the era of the biggest big-government spending spree ever. The statue is seven feet tall.

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While Democrats work so hard to destroy the nation we know and love with what appears to be complete mainstream-media complicity, we realize that it is exactly a person with the demeanor, spirit, and values of a Ronald Reagan that needs to step from the shadows and on to the national stage. In the meantime, Democrats would love to claim the Gipper's popularity as their own, all the while pushing on us everything diametrically opposed to his legacy.

While we lament the lack of a Reagan in the present time, we must remember that it is not government that runs our lives. If we allow government to steal our joy, smack down our spirit, and trample our values, the Democrats and their allies have won.

They do not want you making your own choices, running your own businesses, living the freest lives possible. They would prefer that you be attached to government as if you were attached to the Matrix, devoid of real muscle of your own, all the while being a disposable human battery in the tax machine of the federal government. (Watch "The Matrix" if that last analogy causes you to scratch your head.)

No matter what government does, you must personally embody the values of Reagan, carrying them as your standard. You must know your Constitution, knowing that when courts tell you that you cannot exercise your religious values freely, they are tramping upon your First Amendment Rights, which are not freedom FROM religion, which are not "separation of church and state" but the ability to exercise your faith freely, in public and in private: to speak against the ills of abortion freely, to defend traditional marriage freely, to hold your head high as a person of faith. Politicians are not gods, nor should we make them into idols. We must do what is right ourselves, and hold politicians accountable to our own standards and not accepting their own misguided directives.

As I think of Ronald Reagan's legacy, I love that pieces of the Berlin Wall can be found in that statue, a remember of his stand against Communism in a dark time. Don't forget that Wall, nor the power of tyranny. Big government can always become a rule of despots, tyrants, and dictators. They can't if you don't let them, and you must not allow the "state" to have the last word. You must teach the value of freedom, the dangers of big-government, the value of capitalism, the lessons of history, and the importance of faith to your own children. You must be their "Great Communicator" because otherwise the government machine will have its own say in your children's lives more than you will. You must write letters, protest, speak to your neighbors who are on the fence, and never ever shrug your shoulders and give in. You are your own "Great Communicator." -Cal Samuel August