9 senseless social panics that did lasting damage to America

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21. Not crazy about the way this person presents AIDS as a panic when it was the health crisis of our

time and the main problem with the societal reaction to the epidemic was inaction and criminal negligence on the part of Ronald Wilson Reagan and his hate filled Party of bigoted thieves. Reagan was silent about AIDS for 7 entire years saying nothing until the death toll was at 30,000 in the US alone. To blame the public for a 'panic' when the threat was actual and the government maliciously apathetic is not the correct placement of blame.
I think many current people seek to downplay the Republican's genocidal intentions with their AIDS non policy and they do so in service to the public images of Republicans past and present who still all refuse to address that time, refuse to apologize or even offer a simple explanation as to how and why they could have endorsed such ignorant, deadly policy. Lincoln Chafee. Jim Webb. Elizabeth Warren, all three of them voted for Reagan and Bush both times, the second Reagan vote taking place with thousands of Americans dead without a hint of concern from their government.
There are rich white straight people on DU who voted for all of that Reagan horror as well, and some of them sit here sniping at LGBT people and African Americans. One of them asked me 'Was AIDS really all that bad'? 36 million dead so far so yes, it was all that bad.