Forty years of Raygun- an unmitigated disaster

[Casady1]

I hope when history is finally written that Raygun will be recognized as the worst influential President in modern American history. Any unbiased reading of the last 40 years will show that we retreated in every way from the shrinking of the middle class to race relations and unity in America. God I hated him then and I hate him more now. What we are seeing today is all Raygun.

[Bluethroughu]

1. There you go again...Raygun

There I go

[AllaN01Bear]

2. that name is profanity in my mind .

esp what he did to ca and now the rs want to do it again because they couldnt party , etc?

[musette_sf]

3. Agree.

TFG never would have made it past the f'n escalator ride without f'n Reagan's initial earth scorching.

[colsohlibgal]

4. Agree Totally

The long term damage he did is incalculable. He undid FDR’s New Deal.

The Top Marginal Tax Rate was 70% when he took over, down some from historical highs a bit. He slashed it to 28% before he left. On top of that he did away with the Fairness Doctrine.....which eventually begat Fox News, OAN, NewsMax, etc.

The B Actor President is hardly ever called to account on this, at least on Mainstream Media.

[brush]

5. He also disrupted a lot of LBJ's Great Society gains...

which were more recent than the New Deal programs.

[BigmanPigman]

6. Most of my life was held hostage by Reagun.

Whether it was the harm he did to unions, mental health care, ignoring AIDS, extreme anti-drug policies, no help for the poor but lots of goodies for the GOP, etc.

Don't even get me started on his extensive crimes. The mutherf**** killed the economy, 12 years of a shitty admin who boasted family values, morality, Christian Right, Iran Contra deal, ...........

[aggiesal]

11. I agree, and don't forget that Bull $h1t line he gave during his ...

Admittance speech about Iran/Contra affair, of his part of the crimes committed.
He went on TV to admit what he did was illegal.

"A few months ago, I told the American people, I did not trade arms for hostages.
My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true. But, the facts and the
evidence tell me it is not. ..."

And the dumb$h1t people bought it.

[MuseRider]

7. I say this all the time too

and most people look at you like you are nuts unless they too were actually paying attention to what they did and not his doddering, head bobbing, jelly bean eating, stupid shucks show.

[Efilroft Sul]

9. Many clueless X'ers take it as a personal insult when I go scorched earth on his legacy.

He was "their president" as kids or teens growing up, so they must identify in some way with the stage-managed version of that bullshit-spewing bastard.

[MuseRider]

12. That makes me want to gag!

Good grief, is that the deepest their brains will take them? Don't answer, we ALL know the answer to that.

My sons thankfully both investigate everything and are right with us on all of that. I taught them young about who wrecked the forward trajectory of this country. There were a lot of people who participated over a good number of years but Reagan captured something I will never understand in people. The willingness to like someone so much that they can get away with anything they want and not ever be questioned or punished. Those 8 years scared the hell out of me and with a few exceptions I have remained either scared or just hella skeptical.

[pansypoo53219]

8. why can't historians say it now how he sucked?

[Locrian]

10. raygun sucked - but he was a stooge....

the same type of people that pulled his strings are still at it.

[Auggie]

16. +1,000,000,000

[relayerbob]

13. Yep. Terrible. Fucked up CA, then fucked up the USA

[dianaredwing]

14. That's two times

DO NOT ELECT A F...ING ACTOR President of the United States. The only thing they know how to do is ACT. Think about it. They are TRAINED to make people believe lies. Entertainment is fine when the entertained understand that they are being entertained. It is criminal when it masquerades as government policy.

[FakeNoose]

15. This is something the millennials will never understand

I totally agree with you. Ronald Reagan was the beginning of the end.

I was hitting 30 when he got elected, and I still remember how it was in 1980. Our parents and grandparents were the ones who put Reagan in office. Personally I didn't know anybody my age or younger who voted for him. But the things he did during his 8 years in the White House have affected everything and everyone of us for the rest of our lives.

[mountain grammy]

17. The one chance we had to stop this runaway train wreck

was re-electing Jimmy Carter and America blew it on Raygun.

I knew we were doomed the day he was elected.

[StClone]

18. In my Mind Reagan was the worst thing in the past 50+ years...

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...to happen to the USA. His feeble mind and avuncular style propped up my monied cons were the absolute worst. Name a problem of today and many can be directly linked to the old nuts demented reign of errors.