2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Krugman: Sanders campaign needs to stop feeding the right-wing disinformation machine [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)about the role of the Reagans in the early days of the AIDS crisis. She lavishly praises them for doing the exact things they are hated for not doing. She denies their villainy and erases the true history of the times.
In reality by the time Reagan even said the word AIDS out loud about 40,000 Americans had died.
What she falsely claimed:
"It may be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about HIV/AIDS back in the 1980s and because of both president and Mrs. Reagan in particular Mrs. Reagan we started a national conversation, when before nobody would talk about it, nobody wanted to do anything about it, and that too is something I really appreciate with her very effective low-key advocacy. It penetrated the public conscience and people began to say, hey, we have to do something about this too."
The fact that Hillary is so unaware of the basic history of her own lifetime along with the fact that her supporters do not seem to mind such horrific demonstrations of ignorance needs to be discussed.
Note the extravagant way she gilds that lily for Reagan. Others don't remember correctly she claims she does, she uses specific words about these actions they never took, makes exacting claims that are expressly false. Millions of Americans were in the streets calling for action, Hillary claims nobody but Ron and Nancy wanted to talk about it. Obscene. Obscene.
Of course such bigoted views go a long way in explaining her opposition to marriage equality.