Internationally, despite the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and its client states, over one billion people remain enslaved under the tyranny of Marxist governments in the People's Republic of China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba. Now is not the time to cooperate with these regimes and extend their hold on power. Ten years ago, we struck a fatal blow against the mightiest of tyrannies the world has ever seen. Now is not the time to capitulate to those that remain. They are lesser in might but equal in evil.
Conservative ideas remain in ascendance, and that is good reason to be optimistic for the future.
They are critical to maintaining this era of freedom, peace, and prosperity. Thanks to the innovations spurred by the free market, wondrous new devices are constantly being developed to improve our quality of life. Communications technologies that are still evolving promise to make it nearly impossible for would-be tyrannical governments to control all access to information. We must be careful not to regulate these promising fields into stagnation. We must now shift as much power as possible to the individual over his own life, at the expense of the government, to reduce the ability of some aspiring demagogue to control our lives in the future.