What The Hell Happened?

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21. Agree.

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Reagan also kick-started the wholesale destruction of the labor movement and the push towards deregulation of many industries - none more so illustrated recently than the Texas energy disaster.
Of course, major POS's like Newt Gingrich helped that cause along significantly.
The Right used Falwell and his dupes by embracing the abortion issue and cloaking themselves as the "moral party".
Similarly, they adopted "law and order", an old Nixon trick, as their mantra, turning the Police against the people, a situation that is totally out of control these days (see January 6th perpetrators).
They established themselves as the "strong" ones and loaded up an already bloated military-industrial complex. Yet, many of them never served and the ones that did, with few exceptions, did so out of the line of fire. Nowadays, they still use the military for their props and still scare Americans into pouring massive amounts of money into "modernizing" and "restoring readiness". Meanwhile, our infrastructure is stuck in the 1950's, our education system is operating off of poverty level funding, and we still have a poorly funded national heath care system. But those Stealth bombers sure look great over the damn Super Bowl don't they?
The fact is, the republican party abandoned the concepts of governance in favor of cultism - and that's all they have left now. Trump was exposed as the lazy pretender he always was, incapable of managing anything other than his own self-image to anyone stupid enough to believe him. The others that are still in our government, again with few exceptions, are also incapable of managing, directing, or even participating in governance. They exist only as ideologues with an empty, bankrupt ideology.
So now, all that's left are the ruins - both of their party and our government and country.
The republican party has duped this country. Its' only achievement, as it were, is the dumbing down of America.