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MisterP

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12. ayup, the backlash built steam after Vietnam '75, in four parts that Reagan harmonized:

Reply to pangaia (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 03:03 PM

Oct 2013

1) right-libertarians ("Hayek is the biggest hippie out there! he hates war and big business!&quot
2) Big Business ("no raises for you! how dare you ask anyone besides a middle-aged conservative white male on how to do things, you creationist!&quot
3) the Religious Right ("Apocalypse 1979?!&quot
4) Cold Warriors (giving them Cambodia and Latin America to play with so he could frolic with Gorbachev)

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