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What a difference 40 years makes. What Reagan saw in 1964 was a world marching toward collectivism; America's distinction was that it was marching toward collectivism in smaller steps than the rest of the globe. Reagan saw to removal of the yoke of political control from communication and transportation industries. He made sure that this yoke was never imposed on the nascent computer industry. America finally turned to our own true direction. And within a few years the rest of the world began to turn also.
Reagan is rightly given credit for standing up to the Communist empire with American ideas and strength, but it was really Reagan's de-control of America's communication industry, his de-fanging of the FCC and the freeing of America's own culture, that undermined, worldwide, the false moralities of altruism and collectivism on which Communism was built, and without which it could not grow or even exist. We see the results today, with country after country around the globe becoming freer and more prosperous, having been turned around not merely by the manifest failures of altruism and collectivism, but particularly by the great global flourishing of newly free, American individualist culture in the 70s and 80s.
Today, unfortunately, it is America that failed to turn toward individualism and freedom. In our confrontation against governments and terrorists driven to totalitarianism by faith, America's silent allies of the theocratic wave have revived FCC censorship, and removed from American media everything that might undermine the foundations on which our new enemies are standing. When shall we again have a President who understands the dynamics of history?
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