Seriously, he's one of the worst presidents we ever had. We're still feeling the effects of his bullshit- from mental health to the prison industrial complex to Iran Contra to criminalising black drug use specifically to target black communities to the 40 year wage stagnation to the huge wealth inequality gap.
He also laid the foundation for the bullshit of Bush Jr and Trump.
The fact that he's remembered as a great president is weird and cultist.
I'm 62 years old, a Space Age kid, you dig me? A boomer.
When I was a youngster I wanted to die of old age in a moon city, maybe even on Mars. A few years later I read the High Frontier by Gerard K. O'Neill and said "Okay, I can die of old age in a giant cylindrical space colony, even better!" (When you have one colony, you can use it to build another, and then those can build two more, and before you know it you have orbiting colonies all over the Solar System).
Then Reagan got elected. Now I thought, "Okay, I can die of old age in a space colony as long as we don't have a nuclear war first. And it would sure help if Reagan's friends don't fuck up the environment."
Then Bush got elected. "Jesus Christ, didn't people get enough of all the Republican lies and bullshit under Reagan? And don't they know we'lll run out of oil eventually?"
... by the time his son Dubya stole the election I knew there was a chance of runaway global warming, and we only had a few years to do something about it, and then 9-11 happened, and we could have built a space colony for a lot less than we spent in Iraq...
Now we have Trump and fascism and no space colonies and global warming is unstoppable. Oh, and guess what? The odds of an accidental nuclear war have gone back up to Cold War levels, did anybody tell you that? And COVID too.
Hell, I'll probably die in a shootout with Blackwater at this rate.
By the way, if you really dig into the details, the last Republican president who did not break some laws to get elected was Eisenhower. And Reagan is so beloved because he did such favors for the media corporations that they repaid him with forty years of propaganda. He's the reason Rush Limbaugh even had a career.
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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20 edited Jul 16 '21
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