Almost 60 years ago Ronald Reagan gave his brilliant "A Time for Choosing" speech, during which he challenged Americans about the progressive principles behind President Johnson’s Great Society.
During his speech he declared, “If we lose that war, and in so doing lose our freedom, it has been said history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening.”
Back then, Reagan spoke of war against “the most dangerous enemy ever known to man.” He asked a tough question.
“It’s time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers?” said Reagan. Almost 60 years later, have we finally realized we are at war?
Last month many friends and COS family members said, “Bill relax, Trump has this.” Just three weeks later many of those same people are suddenly concerned and angry about what happened and about what might happen in the next four years.
Others are focusing on control of the U.S. Senate as a way to stop the progressive movement. I am left wondering what it will take for my fellow Americans to realize that the progressives have quietly and gradually taken away many of the very freedoms the Founders intended for us.
I am writing tonight, hoping that maybe, just maybe, one more person will hear the cries of a man who has seen the price of the progressive’s war on humanity and says, “Bill I will commit to one more hour of volunteering than I did before the election.”
I am writing this hoping that maybe there is someone out there who is familiar with the writings of our great Founders or President Reagan and will find the strength is their words to sacrifice a little more time than they did last month.
I am writing this in hopes that there is one person who will take the time to read this and hear the message of our Founders. If we are going to keep this great experiment called America, it will require us to give up dreams and hopes for the sake of the gift that they left us.
Help us build an engaged grassroots army here in Michigan, not with lip service but with real commitment to make calls, follow up with new petition signers, and get the word out about Convention of States.
I do not want to be known as the generation that did the least to prevent Americans from losing their freedoms. I have walked the halls of veteran hospitals and looked in the eyes of our war-torn veterans.
I have stood on the airport tarmacs when the flag draped caskets were unloaded. I understand freedom is not free.
I hope that this generation will realize the message that Ronald Reagan expressed, because we have reached “A Time for Choosing.”
