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This via a press release from the Young America’s Foundation (YAF). Reagan paraphrases a bit of scripture in the preview below, “I look to the hills, from whence cometh my strength.” Reads the actual scripture, “I lift up my eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help. My help comes from the Divine; Maker of heaven and earth.”
SANTA BARBRA, CA – Young America’s Foundation announced today that their inaugural film production, Still Point in a Turning World: Ronald and his Ranch, will premier at the conclusion of the Foundation’s Reagan 100 Gala with Vice President Dick Cheney. The dinner banquet will be held at the Reagan Ranch Center on Saturday night. The film, written and directed by Stephen K. Bannon, is the definitive examination of Ronald Reagan’s beloved ranch and its personification of his philosophy and values. Ronald Reagan’s Rancho del Cielo, the “‘Ranch in the Sky,” was not just a respite from the chaotic world that his Presidency encountered, but also a living embodiment of the values he held dear. The Ranch was where hard work and self-reliance showed themselves in the principles he championed for all Americans: Freedom, Prosperity, Victory.
The thought of an homage to Reagan’s Ranch left me thinking about Sarah Palin’s recent travelogue from Alaska, which some in the establishment viewed as un-presidential. Somehow I doubt they would dare say the same thing about former President Reagan drawing strength from his ranch. It’s also worth noting how his Crawford ranch played such a significant role in the presidency of George Bush. The theme of a rugged outdoorsman, or perhaps one day a woman, and the American spirit, and even the presidency, goes all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt, if not further.
YAF has a section dedicated to the ranch at its website. There’s also a photo gallery and information on the documentary, which comes from filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon (Generation Zero, Fire From the Heartland). A ranch as context for an optimistic America based upon rugged individualism, or self-reliance, stands in stark contrast to the current occupant of the White House, a community organizer, who perhaps sees America and Americans as more in need of help from the government, than able to go it alone with only a more genuine liberty as their companion. If there are two competing political Americas today, perhaps those two concepts embody them best.
Certainly, both views see some role for both charity and the strength of the individual. But which view is dominant within each of the competing ideologies, Left versus Right? The answer to that question may be obvious; however, which view America embraces in 2012 and going forward is open to question. The answer to that second question may determine the course of America for some time to come. Personally, I’d take life on a ranch, over that in some government housing project, or planned community any day of the week.
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