In 1995 Newt Gingrich wrote the book “To Renew America”. The first two paragraphs of the book state the most important political philosophy of the last 40 years. I recommend every voting American get a copy and read it at least twice until they understand how completely out of touch the Liberal Left is with who we are as Americans. These ideas, in my opinion, are more important now than they were in 1995.
FROM “TO RENEW AMERICA”
“These are the best of times and the worst of times, as Charles Dickens wrote. On the one hand, America is the leading country on the planet, with the largest economy and providing the opportunity to pursue happiness to more different kinds of people from more backgrounds than any society in history. On the other hand, our civilization is decaying, with an underclass of poverty and violence growing in our midst and an economy hard pressed to compete with those of Germany, Japan, and China.
We can look around us with both great satisfaction and great concern. We are the people who led the coalition that defeated Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and fascist Italy and then led a worldwide coalition that contained the Soviet Empire for half century before its collapse. While we as a people were winning our battles around the world, here at home our elites were deserting us. For the past thirty years, we have been influenced to abandon our culture and seem to have lost faith in the core values, traditions, and institutions our civilization. The intellectual nonsense propagated since 1965 – in the media, on university campuses, even among our religious and political leaders – now threatens to cripple our ability to teach the next generation to be Americans. We have placed men on the moon, led the world in molecular medicine, and entered the age of computers and telecommunications. Yet we have simultaneously allowed our schools to decay to the point that our children regularly score below all others of the industrialized world in math and science. We risk not being able to understand the very world we have invented…”
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