Tear Down This Myth
How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future
Chapter One
Ronald Reagan Boulevard
"Who controls the past" ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."
-- George Orwell, 1984
The present was January 30, 2008, when four powerful men walked onto a freshly built debate stage in Simi Valley, California, seeking to control the past -- most ironically, the American past that was at its peak in that very "Morning in America" year of 1984. They knew that whoever controlled the past on this night would have a real shot at controlling the future of the United States of America.
Lest there be any doubt of that, the large block letters UNITED STATES OF AMERICA hovered for ninety minutes over the heads of these men -- the last four Republican candidates for president in 2008 -- who had made the pilgrimage to the cavernous main hall inside Simi Valley's Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. This was the final debate of a primary campaign that had basically started in this very ro ... read full excerpt from: Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future ebook
