This is the “evil empire” speech that was so often quoted as defining my attitude toward the Soviets. At the time it was portrayed as some kind of know-nothing, archconservative statement that could only drive the Soviets to further heights of paranoia and insecurity.

For too long our leaders were unable to describe the Soviet Union as it actually was. The keepers of our foreign-policy knowledge – in other words, most liberal foreign-affairs scholars, the State Department, and various columnists – found it illiberal and provocative to be so honest. I’ve always believed, however, that it’s important to define differences, because there are choices and decisions to be made in life and history.

The Soviet system over the years has purposely starved, murdered, and brutalized its own people. Millions were killed; it’s all right there in the history books. It put other citizens it disagreed with into psychiatric hospitals, sometimes drugging them into oblivion. Is the system that allowed this not evil? Then why shouldn’t we say so? Even the Soviets themselves are now admitting to annihilating their own people during Stalin’s era.

While America’s military strength is important, let me add here that I’ve always maintained that the struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith.

Whittaker Chambers, the man whose own religious conversion made him a witness to one of the terrible traumas of our time, the Hiss-Chambers case, wrote that the crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which the West is indifferent to God, the degree to which it collaborates in communism’s attempt to make man stand alone without God. And then he said, for Marxism-Leninism is actually the second-oldest faith, first proclaimed in the Garden of Eden with the words of temptation, “Ye shall be as gods.”

The Western world can answer this challenge, he wrote, “but only provided that its faith in God and the freedom He enjoins is as great as communism’s faith in Man.”

I believe we shall rise to the challenge. I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last — last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual. And because it knows no limitation, it must terrify and ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow man. For in the words of Isaiah: “He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might He increased strength… But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary…”

Yes, change your world. One of our Founding Fathers, Thomas Paine, said, “We have it within our power to begin the world over again.” We can do it, doing together what no one church could do by itself.

God bless you and thank you very much.

Who said that?
President Ronald Reagan.

Karl Marx influenced Trotsy, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedung and some Nazism. Hundreds of millions dead. Religious and political persecution. Failed economic systems, mass starvation. If this guy is en vogue, then the culture is mentally ill.

What is truly mystifying is that most people still don’t see that the Democrat Party IS the Communist Party.

Exactly.

There is no difference between the agenda of the Democrat Party and the agenda of the Communist Party USA:

The Road to Socialism USA

On August 20th, 2009 at 2:15 pm, lgm said:

Salt said (#42):

are you content in acting just like the wrestlers you mentioned? You know, the trash talk and macho strutting dismissing conservative authors.

Thank you for noticing. It was fun.

Wow! Your really put him away with that snappy retort! /sarc LOL!

On August 20th, 2009 at 1:55 pm, lgm said:

People buy conservative books for the same reason they watch professional wrestling. They know it’s fake, but trash talk and bulked up macho strutting is fun. Then there’s the thrill of beating up the referee (Supreme Court).

People buy liberal/socialist books for the same reason they watch “reality” shows: They know it’s fake, but living vicariously and pretending that they have a life is fun. Then there’s the thrill of beating up the referee (Supreme Court) when they actually interpret the Constitution instead of going with their feelings. The racially motivated Sotomayor should take the fun out of that for you.

On August 20th, 2009 at 1:55 pm, lgm said:
People buy conservative books for the same reason they watch professional wrestling. They know it’s fake,

Amazing that lgm can see fakery but not in The Won’s administration.

Things that make you go hmmmm.