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In reply to the discussion: I was 19 years old when Ronald Reagan was first elected... [View all]deutsey
(20,166 posts)was how so many people (working people, middle class people, the people his policies were designed to screw over) blindly cheered him on.
We still have idiots today saying what a great president he was (I use the word "idiot" here in its original ancient Greek meaning: "An idiot in Athenian democracy was someone who was characterized by self-centeredness and concerned almost exclusively with privateas opposed to publicaffairs." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot )
Even when Stockman actually revealed what Reaganism was all about (eliminating the New Deal), no one cared. By then, I guess people had forgotten just how we came to have a strong middle class in America and bought into the right-wing lies about New Deal-style programs only helping lazy minorities.