Grassroot Americans

Yesterday marked the fourth anniversary of President Ronald Wilson Reagan’s death, 1911-2004. The Patriot has developed the most comprehensive resource on, and tribute to, Ronald Reagan, and I personally found it fascinating.

In this presidential election year, I believe the following statement to be as true today as it was when first spoken in 1964 in support of Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign:

“This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.” [SOURCE]

I personally believe we can self-govern, but that means Americans need to wake up. We need to tackle issues head on. If the government is not doing what we want, then we need to change it!

“Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends?”

I’m willing to spend that time educating myself and sharing what I learn with you. Will you join me?

“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”

Source: Ronald Reagan - A Time for Choosing

Read the entire speech and let’s do all that can be done so that we may return to being a government that is of, by and for the people as our founding fathers intended it.