Season 5 Podcast 122, A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, “Restoration.”

A New Voice of Freedom

Season 5 Podcast 122, A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, “Restoration.”

Hello, America. My name is Ronald Keith Messer. I am 82 years old. I was named after Ronald Regan before he became our 40th president, but I echo his sentiments. I have been silent too long, and for those of you who feel as I feel, I speak for you, some even from the grave.

Let me note here why we must vigorously carry on the fight against the prevailing theory that we have no freewill. For democracy to survive we must gain victory over the narrow minded, ignorant, dangerous, socially destructive, and logically absurd movement to remove personal responsibility from human behavior. There are certain attributes that are essential for democracy to continue: self-reliance, individual accountability, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, right to property, right to bear arms, right to fail, right to be poor, right to be rich, right to feel, right to judge, right to keep what one has earned by his own industry, right to share opinions, and a universal belief in freewill. Political correctness is a soft phrase for shackling free speech and binding our wills to the conscience of others. Government cannot legislate equality, charity, love, ambition, wealth, or prosperity. It cannot tell us who to like or dislike. It cannot even legislate freedom. First the government should provide just laws equally enforced to protect us criminals. Second it should provide an environment where we can rule our own natures and make ourselves free.[1]

Our government has lost its way. It has become too intrusive in our lives. It reaches too deep into our pockets. Some of our leaders have taken it upon themselves to tell us how we should feel, how we should run our lives, what is good and what is bad. They run us into debt too astronomically high to imagine, and yet preach economy. They waste our resources funding governments whose entire desire is to destroy the people of democracy, yet they curtail how we light our homes or fuel our cars. They have made charity loathsome, sacrifice an obligation, and beggars out of us all.

Let me here raise my voice for a new kind of call. Now is not the time for revolution. The time for revolution is over. I am sick to death of revolution. For half a century all I have seen in this country is demonstrations against traditions and a call for change. It has become a social obligation to demonstrate against everything. We suffer from a national sickness. Our youth have been taught that all change is noble until finally we have elected officials whose entire slogan is change. The word change has become so ingrained that we do not require politicians to define what they mean. It is automatically assumed that change means a better life. We have become so accustomed to thinking that old traditions are evil, we vote agents of change into the highest office in the land without even knowing their politics, heritage, ideology, or character. We have been unaware that change meant the destruction of democracy in exchange for socialism. Our reward? —we are now drowning in 30 trillion dollars of debt, we are being overrun by illegal immigrants, we are funding terrorists, we are tearing down democracy, we are attacking religion, we are creating drones and breeding invalids, we are redistributing wealth, we are guaranteeing entitlements, we are empowering the few against the many, we are promoting racism in the highest office in the land, we are trampling on the law, we are changing the Constitution, we are succumbing to tribalism; therefore, this country is in worse shape than it has ever been in its history.