This idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite, in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. You and I are told increasingly, "We have to choose between a left or right." Well, I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down: Man's age-old dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.
Ronald Reagan, 1964

Although back then the country did turn from darkness and failure to the light and success on 11/4/2008 we turned back to darkness and failure, This time I am afraid it will be too late to save the country as the forces of totalitarianism will now do whatever it takes to consolidate and maintain their power. Those who feel otherwise today, check back in with me in 4 years and tell me how it worked out.