He made the statement in his farewell address on Jan. 11, 1989. He was giving advice on how U.S. foreign policy should view the former Soviet Union as it tried to shed its image as a brutal totalitarian society.
What Reagan was trying to say is that if it still looks like communism, then it probably is. Don’t pay attention to what they call it. Pay attention to how it looks, how it feels to those living under the regime.
Freedom-loving citizens of America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Israel and Canada would do well to heed Reagan’s advice and apply it today.
The label on the political party in power may say “Democrat” or
“Republican” but what’s happening all around you? If you see friends and
relatives in what’s supposed to be a free society being fired from
their jobs – critical jobs like nurses, doctors, firefighters, cops,
soldiers and truck drivers – because they won’t concede to having an
unknown experimental substance injected into their bodies, then you
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