The ideals espoused by Reagan are what a large portion of the voting populace - both Democrat, Independent and Republican - want, according to Rasmussen Reports. According to the polling organization, 83% of Republican voters around the country still agree with Reagan along with 40% of Democrats and 60% of those not affiliated with either major party. The Reagan ideal is what voters want to see in modern Republicans. Fifty-nine percent of voters still agree with Reagan's stance that government is the problem.
In 1981 Reagan said:
"From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price.”
Reagan's words still resonate today despite the seemingly opposite tack taken by the Obama administration.
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