I feel like nobody's mentioning Jimmy Carter only lost the 1980 election after Ronald Reagan committed treason by negotiating with Iran through backchannels to keep the hostage crisis going until after the votes were cast.
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We did not know then, but we know now.
Regan was the beginning of the division and chaos to distract from the Heritage Foundation/ oligarchs’ take over of our democracy.
i remember growing more and more frustrated with carter as the hostage crisis dragged on. and then not trusting reagan when it was all resolved so suspiciously fast.
i definitely put the blame on iran. but towards the end, it seemed like it was dragging on for no reason. turns out the reason was the treasonous republicans, who totally got away with it. just like they now have gotten away with insurrection.
True…it’d be nice to have facts upfront. That rarely happens though. IMHO, Reagan’s admin was the most evil and why we are dealing with so much corruption now. All we can do is buckle up. It’s going to get bad. 🙁
reagan's financial deregulation made way for the derivatives that precipitated the 2008 economic collapse. he's the origin of many other problems as well. that's the reason he's been such a hero to the republicans for so long, but today's MAGAts would think he was a commie liberal.
Maga was Reagan's campaign slogan. The Heritage Foundation released its Mandate for Change January 1981. The actor, without an original thought of his own, ate it up. Copies were distributed to his admin. Thus began the downfall of the citizenry.
He sold trickle down economics as a great thing. He instituted changes in the education system to keep the masses ignorant. Banking became a GOP chew toy and Social Security their piggy bank. The foundation revised the mandate with the socioeconomic times for maximum effect.
I know saying the President's name is shorthand for their administration, but we should remember that the whole backchannel stuff was carried out by traitors like John Connelly and William Casey.
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Regan was the beginning of the division and chaos to distract from the Heritage Foundation/ oligarchs’ take over of our democracy.
Also Nixon and the North Vietnamese.
These betrayals gave us the term "October Surprise."
This treason didn't come out officially until the early 2000s.