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In reply to the discussion: What must it have been like to be a Democrat after the 1984 election? [View all]Warpy
(111,239 posts)enough to vote for him. His dementia was obvious to whoever knew what to look for and the "improved" economy benefited the few at the expense of the many. We especially couldn't believe people saw families thrown out on the street and would vote for more. And in a truly mind boggling national exercise in sheer stupidity, they voted his VP into office after him.
I can only conclude it was some sort of mass hypnosis caused by his history as a perfect corporate pitchman. Some people still haven't snapped out of it.
Fellow nurses expressed nausea at his reelection. The AIDS holocaust was hitting us hard and that evil man thought it was killing the right people (gay men) so he refused extra funding to study it and work on both treatment and a cure.
I will never forgive that old bastard for that. Never.