IT'S MORNING IN AMERICA! REALLY?!... WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE
Vol. II | Issue. 185 | August 28, 2023
"It's morning in America Again... Better, Prouder, Stronger" was the campaign slogan invented by the Reagan Campaign in 1984. It is widely acknowledged as having been the most successful campaign slogan in presidential campaign history. It has been borrowed and stolen from almost every campaign since. The usual alteration is a paraphrase, as when most often used, the word "Again" is usually omitted, as is the connected phrase "Better, Prouder, Stronger".
Politicians of both parties have hijacked this phrase, either as a slogan, but more often to falsely claim that America is better off than ever before or that we are at the dawn of a new era or an enhanced Pax Americana.
The most recent usage of this slogan was during last week's Presidential Debate, by none other than Mike Pence when he said: “We just need government as good as our people…" It rang hollow and implied that it was “morning in America” but was quickly intercepted and quashed by Vivek Ramaswamy who claimed “It is ‘not’ morning in America. We are living in a dark moment and we have to confront that…"
And guess what? The self-made tech entrepreneur was spot on.
Reagan, when running for his first term in 1980, did not claim that it was morning in America… Reagan emphasized that it was a very dark time. We were re-militarily enervated and still recovering from post-Vietnam syndrome, which was severely exacerbated by the inept and failed presidency of Jimmy Carter. America's industrial base was eroding, being overtaken by the Japanese, and Soviet proxies and Iranian terrorists were wreaking havoc throughout the world.
Reagan proudly, boldly, and with a focused purpose worked for 4 years to reassert American supremacy on the international stage, and it worked. When his re-election team coined the phrase for the 1984 campaign, the U.S. was on an upward trajectory due to Reagan's vision, persistence, and execution. In other words, when he stated "It's morning in America," he had earned the right to do so.
The hollowness of that phrase when currently used is manifestly absurd.
The Left, through the Democrat Industrial Complex, corruption of the culture, dismantling foundational principles of equal opportunity, meritocracy, destruction of economic self-sufficiency, mind pollution and programming of nationally suicidal ideas in higher education, destruction of the nuclear family unit, and worship of obscene identity politics, along with the ridiculous belief that we are to embrace diversity for its own sake at any cost, has transformed the nation into something that, if no corrective course is taken, will destroy America.
There is an aphorism often used in the military that "optimism" is a force multiplier. I'm quite sure that in the annals of military history, that has proven true; where grit, determination, pluck, and luck have won the day for many who have been outnumbered, outmanned, and surrounded. However, the hollow pronouncement of optimism about where we are is dangerous, damaging, and if collectively absorbed, will accelerate our decline.
When a nation depends on its chief adversary for things like aspirin, essential military components, in addition to manufacturing less than half of what its chief rival does while recklessly abandoning meritocracy for identity politics, and a nearly 35 trillion dollar national debt, the idea that we are waking up to fresh morning dew is delusional.
It is not morning in America; it is a very dark time, and it's important that we realize it.
The Left wants to destroy America from within, so they relish it when those who want to keep (or restore) America as The World's Most Powerful Nation are asleep at the switch of phony, hollow optimism.
When you wake up after reading this, look outside your window. Don't declare that it's “Morning in America”, but understand that you need to work so that it may become true once again. In order to effectively do so, you need to read and absorb Reagan’s entire quote:
"It's morning again in America. Today, more men and women will go to work than ever before in our country's history. With interest rates about half the record highs of 1980, nearly 2,000 families today will buy new homes, more than at any time in the past four years. This afternoon, 6,500 young men and women will be married, and with inflation less than half of what it was just four years ago, they can look forward with confidence to the future. It's morning again in America, and under the leadership of President Reagan, our country is prouder, stronger, and better. Why would we ever want to return to where we were less than four short years ago?"
-Emes