Reply #47: I have pointedly kept out 1980

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due to that being a totally different story. There people were told one thing and got another. But in 1984 we knew Reagan was cutting the budget, created a homeless class, destroyed the controllers union, run massive deficits, increased taxes on unemployment benefits while cutting them on the rich, and caused havoc in Central America. People looked at that record and said give me more in droves. Sorry but the American people deserve a heaping pile of blame here. Reagan was the agent. He sure was a necessary component. But you can't play to racism which isn't there. You can't play to greed which isn't there. You can't make people not care about the poor if they really did.