It must be so weird to have grown up AFTER Reagan destroyed unions, environmental laws, blew up the deficit, got away with Iran/Contra, “Welfare queens’ and all the rest of it.
If all you’ve ever heard is the outrageous Republican propaganda about him, it may be hard to understand why so many of us viscerally despise him and his entire legacy.
He didn’t end the Cold War. That is such a giant fucking lie. He didn’t show up with his cowboy costume and shake his mighty ‘Murican fist at the Commies to make them surrender, but holy shit if you listen to right wing Boomers, they’ll tell you that’s exactly what happened.
Fuck Reagan. Fuck EVERYONE who voted for him, especially in 1984.
I puke in my mouth everytime I hear one of those yankee-doodle dipshits talk about what a great president he was. He was an empty suit with a hate-boner for punching down on anyone who’s views were slightly left of Archie Bunker. He was 10 pounds of hateful, thieving, racist, traitorous shit stuffed in a 5 pound bag & wrapped in the flag. The Reagan era was the beginning of the end for America.
I hear this shit all the time. The cult of personality around this guy is immense. Every person I know who lived through his regime all say the same thing: He made me feel good! He spewed a bunch of nationalistic bullshit that distracted people from all the fucked up stuff he did at home and abroad. No one’s situation improved, if anything it worsened, but he made them feel good. Proud to be Americans.
When you have a broken leg, morphine makes you feel good. It does not improve your situation but it makes you feel good.
Its especially easy when you deregulate media outlets, consolidate media into the hands of a few billionaires who promote you as the new Jesus because you cut their taxes and let them create monopolies, so they can turn said media outlets into propaganda mills to create your legend.
Reagan was a failed cowboy actor who was recruited as an informant by the FBI (because they love recruiting rejects and losers) who named names during the 50s Red Scare. That’s how he got where he is in life. Being a snitch bitch.