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A Further Perspective
A Tale of Two (Reagan) Cities
Dixon, Illinois is Reagan’s America. Chicago, Illinois is not.
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Besides, Barack Obama wasn’t born in Chicago, but does anyone doubt that someday Chicago’s “progressives” won’t hesitate to erect a monument stretching to the moon — surely with taxpayer funding — where The One once bestrode and sanctified the paths of the Windy City? Obama’s home will become a political shrine to the secular left. The very lane to the Obama household will look like a leftist version of the Stations of the Cross, each juncture pointing the way to the Boy Wonder’s onetime majestic dwellings. The university community in particular will hail and make straight the ways to the Obama abode.
In fact, as Peter Hannaford notes, “Meanwhile, while the university is more-or-less ignoring the Reagan home preservation effort, it is actively lobbying for an Obama Presidential Library. President Obama’s own home is in the Hyde Park neighborhood. Chicago politics being what they are, the betting is on that project and not saving the cold-water flat apartment building in which the only U.S. president born and bred in Illinois lived during his boyhood.”
Yep, that’s about right. No surprise there at all.
The demolition of Ronald Reagan’s Chicago home is scheduled for the end of this year — i.e., very soon. That would be quite sad, and would also be quite instructive.
About the Author
Paul Kengor is professor of political science and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. He is author of the new book The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor. His other books include The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism and Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.
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Philo Vaihinger | 12.17.12 @ 6:18AM
You do realize far more voters live in Chicago than in Dixon.
Right?
MCrites| 12.19.12 @ 10:03AM
It does help to read the article ...
"Chicago is representative of those tiny, isolated blue spots so packed with liberals and Democrats that they turn entire states Democrat every four years."
Purp| 12.17.12 @ 7:13AM
"Reagan claimed Dixon and its people claimed him, happily and proudly to this day. " - Reagan is simply reaping what he sowed. He ignored them, so what could he expect. I'll wager most people, most Republicans know nothing of his Chicago roots.
However, I might point out that Ronald Reagan was a life-long Democrat until the 1960's, and FDR Democrat at that.
Moreover, he was President of the Screen Actors Guild UNION to boot! Quite a Commie, that Ronald Reagan.
We don't need to pretend he was a Conservative Saint, he was opportunistic - Why did he switch from an FDR liberal to a Goldwater Conservative.
Either way, it has nothing to do with Chicago, a beautiful, clean and fun city I might add, just your own twisted mind laying all this crap on us.
fmm| 12.17.12 @ 9:03AM
As many do, Reagan grew up and found the right path.
Purp| 12.17.12 @ 9:06AM
Grew up? He was a Democrat well into his 50's...
Perhaps it was early onset of Alzheimer's that changed him?
Are you suggesting that dementia is the "right path"?
CJW| 12.17.12 @ 10:57AM
Purp the Village Idiot
Now purpie descends into racism:
"Oh, and YOU'RE a LOSER ... can't even beat the black man... you're so awful... hahahaha (that's for your last line, you wanna dish it out, then take it)"
Can't even beat the "black man?" So you believe blacks are inferior and easy to beat.
Keep posting moron, you provide fresh material every day.
You are truly an idiot and a racist
Kwan| 12.17.12 @ 7:50AM
No doubt the commie sewer rats that infest the ruling elite of the University of Chicago's inner sanctum, view Reagan as an enemy of the People's Revolution. They must view Reagan's participation in the dismantling of the left's "Shining City Upon a Hill" the Soviet Union, as an act of extreme terrorism. And yes might I suggest constructing a 500 foot Lenin-style statue of Obama giving one of his inspiring 100-lies-a-minute speeches to a crowd of slack-jawed, drooling morons, to be constructed on the site of Reagan's demolished childhood home.
Purp| 12.17.12 @ 9:07AM
You are completely stupid if you believe the tripe you just wrote.
Reagan was just like President Obama in many ways ...
Kwan| 12.17.12 @ 9:29AM
If the truth hurts you slack-jawed, drooling HOMO just rub some vaseline on it like you do with your boyfriend Brucie.
fmm| 12.17.12 @ 9:04AM
Can't wait for the signposts so I can go take a leak there.
Von Mises Jr| 12.17.12 @ 9:06AM
If Rahm hears that the Soviet Union banned "The Road to Serfdom" with punishment of seven years for possession and death in Siberia for selling the tome; he may burn all the Reagan biographies so that the people in the windy city are never again exposed to his ideas.
Is that how you define progressivsim? One must really marvel at the "openness" of our liberal Democrat ruling class.
Purp| 12.17.12 @ 9:13AM
On the contrary, the more people understand the ideology Reagan foisted on the American people, and what is has done to America, the less we think of him.
FDR he was not. 30 years hence from FDR's time we didn't have the middle class failing, poverty increasing, the wealthy getting wealthier at everyone else's expense, and the economy crashing...
Reagan started the downward spiral of America with the hidden agenda of becoming a Corporate Feudal Society, where corporations and monied interests rule, not the people.
It's all around us, look around and see what he and his minions have wrought.
And, no, this is NOT advocacy for Communism - you're favorite boogeyman. Communism is dead as is Marxism - the sooner you let it die, the more peaceful you will be.... It's just the Rulers of the Right's way of keeping y'all in line, with the Conservative Entertainment Media as the tool. Think about it.
Von Mises Jr| 12.17.12 @ 9:33AM
Piss off troll. I would not waste my time reading your tripe, and if anyone else has any sense, neither will they.
You are a low-life. I don't owe you any civility or respect, and you won't get any here. So don't bother me stalker.
Purp| 12.17.12 @ 9:57AM
Awwww, whining againg, gutless WHINER.
Can't argue the issues, so you cower in your ideological pig sty?
LMAO ... it's hysterical, you accept my distillation of Reagan's legacy. You have to accept it, you're living it!
We all are, and sadder for his existence and destruction of our country.
Von Mises Jr| 12.17.12 @ 10:47AM
I am not stupid enough to talk with you Caliban. It would be like trying to debate with a mongoloid or the devil. I am not sure which it would be, but I know they are the choices.
Von Mises Jr| 12.17.12 @ 10:49AM
BTW, have you ever been, or are you now a stalker?
Wait a minute, we know you are a stalker now since nobody wants to talk to you but you won't go away.
Al Adab| 12.17.12 @ 10:16AM
Chicago and Dixon are only symbolic of the greater divide which is that between urban centers and suburban and rural America. Urban values of collectivism and dependency oppose values of individualism and opportunity. The gurantee of subsistence against the potential of great success. Sadly, as Purp notes above, the ducks live in the cities which is why the collective wins elections.
Dr. B| 1.4.13 @ 12:07PM
If Barry had taken a dump in Reagan's house, Chicago would preserve it as a historic site.