2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Salon: "America has never recovered from Ronald Reagan. That’s why Bernie Sanders is so important." [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)My claim is not that he was a good President while in office. My claim is about what has or has not happened since he left office in 1988. My claim is that, at some point, it stopped being his fault, all his fault and only his fault. Were people still blaming Hoover and only Hoover in 1960, Eisenhower's last year in office? Anyone who tried that would have made a laughingstock of himself or herself.
We are more of an oligarchy or plutonomy now that we've ever been before. Money and wealth has been moving to the richest faster than ever before. Not a little of that is due to bills for which Clinton (Bill) lobbied.
Stop the learned helplessness. Stop excusing the current calamities based on what a now long dead President did thirty years ago.