Was It Prophecy?

Posted on January 10, 2016 by Stella

This is an interview that Reagan did with 60 Minutes just before he took office as President Of The United States.

And what is Fascism? Fascism is private ownership, private enterprise, but total government control and regulation. Well, isn’t this the liberal philosophy?

The conservative, so-called, is the one that says ‘less government, get off my back, get out of my pocket, and let me have more control of my own destiny.’

If that’s true, and what we seeing today is the future that Reagan foresaw, what are we doing about it?

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18 Responses to Was It Prophecy?

  1. tessa50's avatar tessa50 says:
    January 10, 2016 at 5:33 pm

    Don’t everyone hit me at once, but what I am doing about it is about all I know to do, which is to vote for Cruz. I realize most or all are for Trump here, and that’s okay with me, we should all vote the way we think is the best for our country. I like everyone here too much to argue so let us just hope whoever gets in helps and not hurts our country.

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  2. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    January 10, 2016 at 6:29 pm

    Hi Tessa, vote your conscience, you are an informed voter that is what is important. No violence here 🙂

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  3. scherado's avatar scherado says:
    January 12, 2016 at 10:55 am

    …what are we doing about it?

    That is a very, very, very good question and of monumental significance when answered; and such answers inform us as to who, exactly, is in front of us.

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    • scherado's avatar scherado says:
      January 13, 2016 at 7:22 am

      I made an elaboration to your very-times-3 good question, which I’d like to reproduce here as I think we all need to evaluate the people “on our side” as well as those who are on the other–something that you, Stella, have considered at the treehouse. (I called my essay, “The value of prediction after death; Or: how I learned to love the mirror.”)

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      I’ve been taking to reading the “blog” of Mark Steyn and, recently, I went to a website referenced within the site of Mr. Steyn. While at the linked site, I read an entry written by the author whom he had referenced and, when finished, I wondered and asked myself, in particular reference to the final three sentences, am I to evaluate what I read for its entertainment-value, something more or something less? (I realize, now, that “something less” should not be included.)

      I have no complaint or dispute with content that aims to entertain; and make no mistake, Mr. Steyn attempts to entertain as a method, as does P. J. O’Rourke, to name an example.

      Lately, I have read several entries of Mr. Steyn in which he laments spending as much time and content as he does on the perennial subject of the day, Islam. Today I read: “I’m pretty Islamed out, because I don’t have a lot to say I didn’t say ten years ago.” He followed by citing a few passages from his 10-year-old book—which I have on my shelf—and I inferred, from his implication, that he presaged today’s predicament.

      There is much I could write about this strain of thought. (“Strain of thought”: 9.75 out of 10 on the Euphemism-meter.)

      I’ve decided on this one sentence: I can’t help thinking—as the thought solidified with each reference to the prescient content—that he failed to have enough of an effect—if he had one at all—in the state of the West as it has unraveled in the past ten years.

      Then, I thought of another angle: On what basis would I congratulate the author on the predictive value of a book when he, I and the West may not survive?; If we are both killed in this fight, would he be less dead? Conversely, I know that if I have moved forward and toward improved methods in the fight, but, in the end, died anyway, then I didn’t suffer less of a death than one who never recognized his failed method before being killed.

      The solution to his “problem” of having to repeat himself can be found in the mirror in the sense that he must decide whether he wishes to work within the solution or remain within the problem. This can’t be decided until he identifies the proper solution.

      I think that Mr. Steyn is brilliant and has great style. Further, I can not in any way match his accomplishment of fighting the legal charges against him in several jurisdictions. I own a great debt of gratitude for his courage.

      Prior to the end, if he continues to find the time and space to complain about his personal lack of efficacy in such a manner while civil society is in the middle of a slow flush down the toilet, then I might consider doing the ever-increasing pile of dirty laundry that I’ve been neglecting this week and save the pennies, that I can’t spare, from being spent on a selection of kitty-cat songs.

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