"A time is coming when men will go mad,..."

[HopeAgain]

8. This really started to take hold in the Reagan years...

The idea that government can be run on simplistic notions, false realities and modeling an ideal past that never was.

I remember my father (a republican, but not usually "staunch&quot told me I was living in an "ivory tower" because I became very interested in civil rights and liberal policies after going to law school. I was shocked, but for someone who grew up a farmer in Iowa, the Reagan appeal was very alluring, even if ridiculously simplistic.