Reagan Speaks on the 2012 Election

Before he died, Ronald Reagan sent a message to the voters of 2012, offering an astute analysis of the choice we face in this election.  He said our choice is between, on the one hand, higher taxes, increased government power, increased debt, decreased freedom, wealth destruction, and fomenting war and strife abroad in the name of "appeasement" of our enemies, and, on the other hand, vigorous defense of our liberties, decreased government interference in our lives, greater prosperity through honest work and free markets, and true peace through strength.  His prescient message asks if we are willing to defend the freedoms the nation was founded upon, noting, "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 most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man."  He continues:

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.

Reagan's complete video message to the future is below.  Incredibly, it was recorded in 1964.