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In reply to the discussion: ronald reagan. The "legacy" (from the depths of HELL). [View all]hopemountain
(3,919 posts)while in socal last month my sis and i were driving to pasadena when she brightened and said "we're going to be driving by the ronald reagan library, would you like to go?"
she then described how much she enjoyed & was fascinated by her visit and the walk back through his presidency - a time when she was too young to really know what was going on politically. sis is a designer and was particularly enraptured by the decor of the era. she had gone there with her friend, a die hard reagan worshipper. yes, unfortunately, there are many of them - young republicans who have no idea what the man was really like.
i know i nearly had a heart attack at the suggestion. "what's the matter?" she asked, glancing my direction and seeing my revulsion.
i held back not one word! i ranted about his heartless selfishness and his abandonment of the mentally ill and poor with his policies and propaganda and how his greed & twisting of democracy in the republican party platform persists to this day - similar to your perfectly expressed post, calimary.
he was not a good man at all.