Is Reagun responsible for many of the problems

[BigmanPigman]

we have been experiencing over the past 40 years?

[Mme. Defarge]

1. Yes.

That’s all.

[katmondoo]

16. I wrote Reagan a letter telling him to get out of women's lives , just play his Presidential thing.

[In It to Win It]

2. Yes

A second Jimmy Carter term would have progress this country forward so much more than we are today.

[TwilightZone]

3. Yep.

He started the ball rolling in part by giving the Christian Right too much influence and credibility. People like Gingrich took advantage of the momentum and started driving it downhill. Trump, et al, drove it off a cliff.

[texasfiddler]

4. Yes!!!!

Government is the problem. Fairness Doctrine. Southern Strategy. I could go on!

[MichMan]

5. Yet, somehow he did it all with a Democratic house his entire presidency

Still don't understand why they went along with so much

[TheRealNorth]

8. A lot of southern, conservative Democrats in the '80's.

That got annihilated in 1994.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. Is this a trick question?

[BigmanPigman]

7. I thought I was over generalizing

since I hate him so much and wanted to know if I am on the right track. I like to know the source of problems. It seems his name comes up quit a lot these days and not Nixon.

[Earth-shine]

9. It was the spring of 1982. I remember this protest sign ...

"Bonzo went to college. Why can't we?"

I was a freshman at Stony Brook University at the time.

Reagan was attempting to take away our financial aid.

[BigmanPigman]

11. I was a freshman at Parsons

in 1980 and that was my first election since I had just turned 18 that summer. All of the art students hated him and when he got shot everyone on my floor in our apt was joyous.

I feel sorry for the voters in my family. My parents' first presidential election was lost to Ike and my niece's was lost to tRump. I think my family of Dems is jinxed.

[unblock]

10. Yes, but it was hardly just him.

Nixon started the strategy of going after the southern vote by feeding the bigotry monster.

Gingrich was more responsible for starting the hyper-partisanship and obstructionism.

And Murdoch was responsible for turning our news media into a right wing propaganda machine.


But yeah, Reagan help make greed and selfishness all that evil crap seem charming and acceptable

[Baked Potato]

12. Yes, along with Roger Stone. Nt

[SergeStorms]

13. Absolutely.

It all started with Nixon, but Reagan took the dumbfuckery to a new, secretive level.

[electric_blue68]

14. And among other things Raygun took down Carter's WH solar panels, and...

Air Traffic Controllers Union.

(I went on the big labor march to DC)

[electric_blue68]

15. And among other things Raygun took down Carter's WH solar panels, and...

broke the Air Traffic Controllers Union.

(I went on the big labor march to DC)

[DBoon]

17. Reagan destroyed organized labor

Which was a progressive force and one of the pillars of the Democratic Party.

[electric_blue68]

18. The Air Traffic Controllers was the first attack, I think.

Yeah, I know Labor Unions mostly supported Dems.
I did Dem GOTV phone banking at a Union set up back in the late 70's, or very early '80's.

[DBoon]

19. Reagan engineered a recession and made the dollar very expensive

specifically to gut US mass production industries by allowing cheap foreign imports to flood the market.

The 1930s CIO unions (UAW, etc.) were the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, supporting the civil rights movement and even playing a role in starting the Students for a Democratic Society.

[former9thward]

20. Industrial manufacturing leaving the U.S. destroyed organized labor.

The only union Reagan picked a fight with was PATCO and it was a small professional type union which had little power in organized labor as a whole.

[Grins]

21. It ALL started with Reagan...! NM

[Raine]

22. Definitely! 🤬 nt

[Diablo del sol]

23. Not only no - BUT HELL FUCKING NO

He is dead! It isn't him, it isn't tRump, it isn't Gingrich, McConnell, Cruz.

The focus needs to be on every person who votes for the idiots. No safe spaces, no apologies.

[Mr.Bill]

24. The thing I hope lives on in history

is how he got our economy hooked on the prosperity of borrowed money. And the supply-side economics that never trickled down to the working people.