In 1858, on his way to becoming perhaps our greatest president ever and with the growing possibility of a civil war looming over the issue of slavery, Lincoln in his “House Divided” speech foreshadowed with eerie prescience our very situation today:
“I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided,” Lincoln said.
“It will become all one thing or all the other.”
He was right, and that’s where we are today. Americans have a choice between “one thing” or “the other”: a return to slavery under socialism, or the freedom of a constitutional republic, with its guarantees of individual rights and liberty.
Both sides have presented their visions. At stake is a very clear electoral choice between freedom and tyranny. It’s now up to you to make it.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board