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21 sats \ 23 replies \ @didiplaywell 31 Jul 2024 \ parent \ on: Deconstructing Mileinomics econ
I see. It always boils down to the same: the USA will have to wait for the newer young generations to have enough weight to allow for such a paradigm change, just like it happened here. The challenge is to ensure that new generation hasn't been brainwashed by socialist propaganda by then. The cultural battle must be relentless
Ronald Reagan said the same thing, not exact words but the gist.
The fight for liberty and freedom is never ending.
Only takes one generation for socialists to defeat capitalism and freedom.
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Absolutely. It's an eternal truth that freedom is an eternal battle.
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
-- Ronald Reagan
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His speeches are the most libertarian stances I have heard from a president after Washington. Reagan is also the only president to have delivered a speech praising the father of our (originally) libertarian constitution, Juan Bautista Alberdi (the one Milei praises and seeks to re-establish):
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Amazing speeches, unimpressive administration. He gave a speech in 1964, while campaigning for Barry Goldwater, that is probably the greatest speech I've ever heard.
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I fully agree. I appreciate Reagan words, but accompanying such sacred words with such a bad administration had the catastrophic consequence of people associating the bad consequences to the ideas he promoted.
The Carter years were horrible. Reagan changed that. Inflation fell to 5 percent after a decade of double digit inflation. The economy grew by 7 percent in 1983 and 1984 after a decade of stagflation. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989 after he said tear down that wall in his 1987 speech in Berlin. The Cold War ended because the Russians were scared by Star Wars defense initiative. On his first day in office Iran freed the hostages.
He made Americans feel great again and confident about the future. He fixed the crisis of confidence in America
Viva La Reagan Revolucion!
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This is likely why we get generational political cycles. Second and third generations tend to squander their inheritances.
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Absolutely. This is why I think that a culture of "indoctrination" on freedom must take place. It's the only way to ensure that the ideas survive those tendencies, while freedom provides the much needed disciplining factor to keep new generations strong. As much as I hate boomers, their fathers, the same, industrious ones that got so much built from nothing, where solely responsible for laying the foundations of the socialist collapse.
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I'm not sure that can work. Maybe I'm being overly pessimistic, but I think liberty may only be appreciated by the generation that wins it.