This will be considered unamerican

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but I am so dancing on ronnie reagan’s grave right now

he was everything i didn’t want my country to be, and we’re still stuck with his ideas.

rot, reagan, rot.

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Re: how quickly people forget

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The thread started with you dancing on a dead guy's grave. It was flame bait to begin with. As for "winning"? It's blog, I'm not trying to change opinions, just trying to get people to think a little bit before they jump on the bandwagon of the week.

As for the working poor, ya the 80s sucked for the working poor. What was a good decade for the working poor? Since WWII, the working poor have continued to get screwed. Why? It's economics, not politics. Same thing happened in the late 50s-60s. Wives started to work to support their families. Eisenhower introduced some Trickle Down type cuts to spur the economy. It worked because businesses bought into the idea, then 10 years later they got screwed because they overextended due to Trickle Down and the government changed to a different theory, one that was adverse to business. So comes the 1980s, Reagan tries TDE because it worked before. What happens? All the guys that were their 30s in the 1960s and saw the government change from TDE and screw them over are now in their 50s and high level managers. They realize that they shouldn't buy into it again and pocket the profits. Lower levels of employment get screwed. Reagan's fault? Doubtful. He tried a proven method for spurring the economy and decisions by businessmen hurt the lower classes. Ironically though, the economy still grew, which technically is good for all Americans. So, yes, I can understand the anger over the 80s, especially being a 20 something at the time, probably the worst hit age group. But not for Reagan, all I see is anger looking for a face to blame.

As for values, well, my opinion on our country just must be different than yours. I believe most of the morally questionable behavior that took place during Reagan's years happened during all the administrations. The difference? Ease of information. Since Watergate, everyone in the political system loves the sensationalism and the way the American people buy it. Just look at the media. It's a joke, and in that joke we lose the real story. What Reagan knew, did, or was oblivious to is lost. There simply is no information there to make a character judgment of any kind. Kennedy was elected by dead West Virginians that voted 3 times. FDR/Truman purposefully drove us into WWII by causing Pearl Harbor and then dropped not one, but two atomic bombs on a country (not that both decisions weren't neccessary). Frankly, I haven't seen much in the 20th century from the White House that has shown values or morals. Are we meant to piss on every President's grave?

So ya, I still believe you are on the bandwagon and am thoroughly interested as to the proof you are not.