45 years ago, Ronald Regan gave a speech in support of Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign.

And 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 capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

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Regan was a great actor and a great story teller. He understood that we’ve all got a bias. We tend to ignore information we disagree with, and only listen to what we agree with.