In the late 70′s, the US was in such a bad recession that President Carter announced that we would no longer lead the developed world.  The US was demoralized and economists couldn’t figure out how to pull us out of a perplexing “stagflation” situation that didn’t fit into their economic models.  Unions ruled the land and high taxes and regulation were choking our nation’s economy.  It was at this nadir of the late 20th century that a man came along who would change everything:

Ronald Reagan reminded us that we are a nation of free men and women.  For 30 years the Reagan revolution has freed capital and minds to engage in a second industrial revolution: the information revolution.  The quality of people’s lives worldwide have improved in ways and at rates that haven’t been seen since the 1800′s.

Consider the following quote from the video:

“This idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power than the sovereign people…”

Reagan’s words describe a nation that is there to serve, but not rule a people.  It is the only true foundation upon which people can freely pursue their rights to life, liberty, and happiness in their own way and not beholden to any institution or fellow man.  Their lives are their own and their destinies are of their own making.  That is the true and only definition of freedom. The opposite of a free nation would be well described by switching the words “people” and “government”.  No politician has dared to describe the people of the US as beholden to any higher power than themselves for thirty years.  No serious political speaker outside an academic socialist utopia has publicly discredited the success of an individual American entrepreneur as a ”gift” of government benefaction. The idea of a benevolent master party or bureaucracy from which springs all things great and wonderful only happens in a few museumesque communist banana republics around the world. Until last Friday one couldn’t imagine a president of the United States doing such a thing…

And then Obama went off teleprompter:

Once a people submit to a philosophy that a government is responsible for all they accomplish, they are no longer free.  It is that simple.  Governments have used this philosophy for thousands of years.  If the US Government is responsible for all of my monetary success and even the house that I own, then by that logic they have the right to take all of it back.  How can it be I that pursues life, liberty, and happiness if they are all given to me by The Master?  How can I feel pride in my accomplishments and be willing to defend them if they are not my own?

It is not a trivial statement that was made by Obama.  It is the core of a tyrant’s philosophy. As the person in charge of the organization responsible for all of our accomplishments, he views himself as our master.  For almost 240 years our flag has stood against Obama’s core philosophy.  Now it is sitting in our highest office.  There has never been such an important election in our lifetimes.