I lived in DC during the entire Reagan adm. He was as egotistical as Trump.His tricked down economics made us, the working class poorer.Bag ladies, homeless people, mentally ill people started living in the sts.Don’t forget the Iran-Contra Affairs!He had full Alzheimer in entire 2 term. F the GOP!
Not just Regan but every single politician who didn't work to reverse his orders. When dems had all three branches of go, they could have ended his madness, but they chose not to.
Nixon also set the stage. After he resigned ahead of certain impeachment, 1/3 of America still said he was a "great president." That 1/3 of the population is still here, still willing to ignore the Constitution to feed their hatreds and prejudices, and always ready to find another demagogue.
in 1980 I said Reagan was the harbinger of fascism... they laughed at me.. in 2016 for 3 months before the election I said they would elect the fascist... they laughed at me... Now I tell you all, this is just the beginning of the fight, how long it lasts will be up to YOU.. More People= More Power
In the 80s Reagan took the leash off Capitalism. It gave a short term boost, but those who benefitted most used their new found wealth and power to build financial castles, ossifying social mobility, creating a new caste system. 40yrs later we have Financial Feudalism.
Reagan surrounded himself with evangelicals and picked up where Carter left off on the Moral Majority. Politics and fundamentalist Christian ideology were a way of life where I grew up.
In the town where I went to university, there was a lone redwood left in the space between the freeway and the offramp. It was widely known as the Ronald Reagan Memorial Grove. I guess he wasn't a fan of saving the tallest trees in the world from the chainsaws.
Reagan made it normal to believe that government is a problem—the very government Reagan served in and swore an oath to protect and defend. The notion is just ridiculous. Magas notoriously hate the U.S. government.
Sadly, if we cannot turn trump's anti-climate agenda around as he destroys the nation by clear cutting it, not to mention his wanting to drill everywhere for oil products, and mining the ocean for minerals, we might stand a chance in 40-100 years from now...
Reagan was the mouth piece for hundreds of policies he did not understand in any way.
Trump has an agenda of retaliation because that is all he knows.
The current policy insanity is being run by the same freak fest of Christo Fascist right wing terrorist that set the Reagan agenda.
Gosh and there i was thinking he was a U S president and the person responsible for wrecking UK industry and subsequently society in general was his little girl follower Maggie Maggie Maggie
I saw a video clip last year of Teddy Kennedy talking about Single Payer Health Care and why it is needed. The video was from 1975.
It isn't just Republican destruction but Democratic inadequacy that's got us here. Both party suck and string voters along for CHANGE, only one party delivers.
I was around for it, and it definitely is the root of all the evil we see today. Taxing SS benefits?? Closing mental health hospitals? Denying the HIV crisis? I could go on, but Ronny Rayguns and his sleazy keepers (as his dementia worsened) opened Pandora's box on us.
I've been saying this for years. A fascist white supremacist GOP was inevitable after what Reagan put into motion. What surprised me was how there were enough people who were fine with/ignorant of this and voted for republicans time and again
Johnson is the reason student loans exist. They might be talking about the growth of private student loans under Reagan, which definitely incentivized universities to raise the prices, but Johnson created student loans.
Reagan made racism come out of the closet again. I think George Bush did the student loan thing
We are living the fallout of military industrial complex, the end of Glass Steagall, Telecom Act, NAFTA (all Clinton), the BIG LIE of Iraq, failure of ACA & drones
I voted for Jimmy Carter, and against Reagan, the very first time I was legally able to vote. I’ve watched the shift go farther to the right for the last 45 years. It’s gone from mostly disappointing and disheartening to straight up Christofascist State-sponsored terrorism.
There is so much more to say about the profound and long lasting impact of the Reagan administration but I think you and any other informed person are already aware.
You are so correct.
Reagan began the extreme wealth divide with supply side economics and actual deficits (not trade but as in US now owes 36 trillion) in support of making the rich more rich.
I recall, I lived through the economic hellscape of his administration.
Now we have an even uglier version.
I was there and you are right he was terrible and people thought he was great, but it was the one of the worst republicans he is to blame for a lot of problems we have now.
Absolutely 100% spot on! The White Christian Nationalists and the Heritage Foundation and the Federalists Society run by Leonard Lee and very well hidden figure that caused a lot of damage.
Thank Reagan for "trickle down" economics. Under Trump, billionaires will decide what cuts to make to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Veteran's benefits, education for poorer states, food stamps for hungry children in order to fund an extension of Trump's tax breaks for billionaires.
Reagan was the reason for mental hospitals closing in California. Instead, he thought halfway houses within residential areas without supervision would be better. That did not farewell for one young mother.
Reagan was the inevitable result of FDR’s efforts to buy us off to “save capitalism.” It worked. We were so happy to get Social Security, unemployment benefits, and a jobs program that we didn’t finish the job and change the system. We can do better than capitalism!
Considering that the Kremlin is taking over US politics and government with Trump and MAGA as its vector, yeah. We're cooked. I hear they're trying to get MAGA to go along with a joint Russian-American invasion of Greenland now.
I was around when Reagan was President and I can still remember how my dad supported him (even though we were dirt poor). Even at the age of 18 & registering to vote for the 1st time, I knew his policies were wrong. Have been a Democrat ever since.
Reagan was also the first president to take advice and execute policy from the Heritage Foundation. So - the correlation is stronger between he and Trump 2.0 than most realize.
Until January 6, 2021, I told anyone that would listen to me Reagan was the absolute worst modern president we had. Iran-Contra made Watergate look like an episode of Scooby Doo.
J6 is what sealed that felon’s legacy during the first term. I’m terrified what he’s going to leave behind this time.
I remember it well. Just started college and Ron Fuckhead Reagan cut college budgets.
Classes cut, professors let go.
Tuition increases!
But the worst was when he cut taxes by 1/2 for the rich. The beginning of the end.
#eattherich
Reagan is
Up there with Trump - the worst 2 Presidents ever!
Seems like Reagan was the point at which GOP began actively courting the Evangelical Christian vote. I don’t think that group was as politically engaged before the Reagan era. Then anti abortion, misogyny, homophobia exploded. Plus the “welfare queen” trope
I was a little too young to be as frightened about nuclear war (although I was a very serious child), but it’s insane that Reagan’s party “Evil Empire” “Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall” is now aligned with Russia.
I was in Seattle last summer and went to the Museum of Pop Culture. I snapped this photo of a T-shirt (might be hard to see) from a “Rock for Choice” concert they played. 10/25/1991. And now 3 DECADES later they’ve overturned Roe
The right to lifers movement back then was f ing annoying with women like freak Phyllis Schafley (sp) and the right wing Christians who were and STILL ARE total hypocrites and liars.
They want women in the kitchen barefoot and Pregnant!
That’s it.
How women (white women) voted for this disgusting rapist I’ll never understand. I mean religious indoctrination, but MAN. It’s like waking up every day and just punching yourself in the face
Exactly. You can see why they are defunding education and attacking universities. There is this overarching theme that there is always an enemy at the gates: Muslims, communists, ANTIA, trans community, immigrants. Keep ‘em dumb, keep ‘em scared, keep ‘em under your thumb.
I was about 11 when I started getting in to Nirvana and learned about their hatred of the right wing “Moral Majority” party of “Family Values” Kurt and Krist were exposed to this growing up in rural WA, and that was anathema to their values
Oh yes I would think so. I’ve driven through there I think it was around 2010. We wanted to see Kurt’s house and this little memorial they have for him. Oh God it’s such a depressing place. Extremely poverty stricken (yet the GOP policies keep people in that crushing poverty)
I was in Alaska going to college and the moral majority was there. Protested a lot of that.
A red state that is now going blue I think.
It’s all about the oil money.
I would say publicly courting the Evangelical Christian vote. The Koch Brothers and ‘The Family’, were already a powerful force in D.C., albeit mostly hidden from the public. Think of the National Prayer Breakfast. There is a film about them on Netflix I think.
Same in UK. Margaret Thatcher sold off social housing, water companies, gas /electric as well. Now we have record homeless, rents no one can afford, pollution in the rivers and sea, & energy prices are highest in Europe. She also gave the money from North Sea oil/gas away as tax cuts to the rich.
Add to that the incalculable amt of human suffering and financial loss from scump's inaction on the climate catastrophe, a challenge completely unlike any other in human history and one whose damage cannot be reversed.
I don't think that a recognizable US will exist in a century, sadly.
It’s also going to take a considerable amount of time before our country trusts the US again. We are really having to divest from trading with the Americans. But we simply can’t trust this regime as an ally. Too erratic. Plus he’s a Russian asset. How do you trust intelligence?
We won’t have student loans, because education is being defunded and dismantled.
We won’t need tariffs, nobody will trade with us.
We won’t have inflation, the stores are empty.
We won’t need social security, the dollar will be worthless.
We won’t have elections,
Trump declared himself king.
it is my hope that David Hogg will bring in new young Democrats to get back what we lost. Also Trump has cause so much harm that people now care about others and while not his intent it will make for better future once he is a distant memory
I have yet to find one Hogg fan who can give me a concrete reason why Hogg is the great white hope of the Democratic Party besides, "Oooh, he's young and wants new blood!"
I don't think people remember how weird Regan's Whitehouse was. Full of cringe religious stuff, Nancy was into the horoscope, everyone pretended it was normal
My views on Reagan were very different. I was in the military stationed overseas so the news I did receive was very “surfacy”. I remember my dad telling me that my desire to make the military my career was a good one since the military was fat under Reagan. It wasn’t until recently my views 1/3
2/3 about Reagan changed. I was stationed in Turkey during the First Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm) where the news I received became more “in depth”…from FOX Entertainment. Geraldo Rivera’s exploits during that time made me cringe because he would broadcast our troops positioning!
3/3 Wait…is this where Hag-seth got the idea that he could also broadcast our troops’ movements!?! My views of Nixon has also changed. I grew up feeling sorry for him..even making the argument he brought our soldiers home. Not so much now!
Yes Reagan tax cuts is where it all started, the loss of revenue caused everything after it, then we had the beginning if faux news and all that followed.3 clowns reaching the heights of the oval office, all with tax cuts that ruined everything clown 1 Reagan, clown 2 Bush and we know the 3rd clown
Yeah Johnson created federal student loans. I think the x poster might be referring to the birth of private student loans, which incentivized universities to raise tuition bc they could.
New research exposes the long-term psychological consequences of lead exposure – from gasoline in particular – on one wide swath of the U.S. population.
Generation X experienced the greatest risks for anxiety, depression, ADHD, and personality changes.
At least somebody made sure to educate you. That’s the good part. The rest, and all about what Reagan did, it’s true. And we are so much worse off for it.
Now your kids and grandkids may live with this idiocy syndrome, thanks to Felon47.
I also believe Regan’s recklessness in tearing up banking regulations eventually led to the big crash in 2008… I lost 10 years of my hard earned 401k money then and feel that pain even now. Actions have consequences that can last for decades, sometimes the damage is irreparable.
Reagan ushered in the Moral Majority. Back when you could watch the 700 Club or that creepy nun. But never forget how many of those preachers ended up being caught in affairs. Bakker, Swaggart to name a few. The trend continues to this day (Graham). Remember this performance? They never learn.
💯 Reagan was a real POS. But like today he was a mouthpiece in front of The Federalist Society, and some powerful Oligarchs like The Kochs. Reagan was the beginning of the end of US exceptionalism.
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Just consider the south's ongoing resentment about the Civil War.....
Reagan's legacy?
America becoming
A debtor nation.
Glad Reagan 💀
not even the nazis were this arrogant from what i know about them
Trump has an agenda of retaliation because that is all he knows.
The current policy insanity is being run by the same freak fest of Christo Fascist right wing terrorist that set the Reagan agenda.
It isn't just Republican destruction but Democratic inadequacy that's got us here. Both party suck and string voters along for CHANGE, only one party delivers.
We are living the fallout of military industrial complex, the end of Glass Steagall, Telecom Act, NAFTA (all Clinton), the BIG LIE of Iraq, failure of ACA & drones
It's karma. we need to become better
Reagan began the extreme wealth divide with supply side economics and actual deficits (not trade but as in US now owes 36 trillion) in support of making the rich more rich.
I recall, I lived through the economic hellscape of his administration.
Now we have an even uglier version.
They are extremely consistent in their incompetency.
Just sayin'
Trump just loses the left 20 years, at least.
GMAFB
J6 is what sealed that felon’s legacy during the first term. I’m terrified what he’s going to leave behind this time.
Classes cut, professors let go.
Tuition increases!
But the worst was when he cut taxes by 1/2 for the rich. The beginning of the end.
#eattherich
Reagan is
Up there with Trump - the worst 2 Presidents ever!
The Moral Majority is neither. I think they referred to their movement by that slogan.
Another bumper sticker on the same car:
One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day.
😝
They want women in the kitchen barefoot and Pregnant!
That’s it.
A red state that is now going blue I think.
It’s all about the oil money.
I don't think that a recognizable US will exist in a century, sadly.
We won’t need tariffs, nobody will trade with us.
We won’t have inflation, the stores are empty.
We won’t need social security, the dollar will be worthless.
We won’t have elections,
Trump declared himself king.
Generation X experienced the greatest risks for anxiety, depression, ADHD, and personality changes.
https://bsky.app/profile/conspiranon.bsky.social/post/3lo5zjxtwzk2q
It is often impossible to predict when or where tectonic plates will shift.
We might be the ones to give that last little push. 🫂✊
Now your kids and grandkids may live with this idiocy syndrome, thanks to Felon47.
THEN....
Bill Clinton and the New Democrats couped the Democratic Party and joined Republicans in serving Oligarchy.
This is why we have had everything happen that we see right now, after the SAME CORRUPT FACTION HAS RULED US FOR 4O YEARS.