"If You Are Not a Good Actor, You Cannot Be A Good President"
SO true that Reagan was the first caricature out of American culture.
Yes, he was the Manchurian Candidate for the austerity economics of global corporatists and bankers. "They believed it" from the start.
Those years showed me the pervasive, dark, conman politics of corporate Republicanism.
The rich corporate class loved this theater which kept huge swaths of the population distracted enough to keep their insurgency in American government unknown. And as the video says, Reagan was their frontman.
Anyone too little or yet unborn in those days should watch this documentary, along with any of us who lived through it. Reagan's damage, we told each other, would last into the next century. We were right.
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I'm still, to this day, wondering who made up the Reagan Democrats. I never could figure it. So you'd say that maybe they were among the Southern Democrats? I was gone from the South by then, but considering how they cherished southern hero myths, I could see that they'd be those Dixiecrats that went for the gipper.
Good on you for changing your dad's mind. He sounds like someone who watches what people do and not what they say.
Lee Atwater, the godfather of dog whistling and Karl Rove's predecessor.
