Reagan's popularity is our own damned fault, & what it means for our future.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

A recent Zogby poll claims that the majority of people want someone like a Reagan to fix the many problems created by Bush&Co.
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1232
Ok, so 850 people is a small sample, but it is still telling in a scary sense, that people seem to like disengaged, uneducated, semi-literate people in charge. Even though most people recognize that our current White House lease holder is probably the most disengaged, the most certain (in absence of fact and logic) and the most disastrous, they continue to cling to the false idea that Reagan was somehow great.

The great communicator. bah.

By that shameful standard, that means that Katie Curic is a great journalist. not.

Not too long ago, after Reagan disappeared into a pile of chopped wood, I started hearing from my conservative friends that Reagan was the greatest president ever. There was even a drive to carve his image on Mount Rushmore. Highways, federal buildings, and more were named after him. And we let it happen.

It is understandable, in a way. Most of us realized that he was a poor president, but after the fact, and given his disease process, and the fact that his wife was still alive, we generally withheld comment. It seems unseemly and rude to pile on, to tell the truth, to argue a stupid fact, and to point out how pathetic he was. It is simply impolite to say that he was probably senile the last 6 years of his presidency. And because we are moderates, liberals and independent thinkers, we try not to get down to a gutter level of conversation.

So it was that we held our tongues. We did not comment, we did not correct, we did not point out painful, horrific truths, and look where it got us.

Bush
Cheney
Rumsfeld
Abrams
Wolfowitz
Addington
Rice
and many, many, many more got their start under reagan. Had we pursued Iran Contra, had we pursued other impeachable offenses way back when, and had we continued to point out just how corrupt many of these very same players were, Bush 1 would not have been elected and Bush 2 would be digging more empty holes in texas with bin laden money.

But we fucked up. We decided to be polite. We dropped the ball, and that damned vampire crept out of his crypt and grew in strength until they could steal the presidency.

What does that mean for the future?
Assuming we survive 2 more years, it means that we have to plant that stake, deep into their hearts (if we can find those minute things). We cannot allow this beast of neoconmanism or PNAC or the Christian Coalition or any of their future lives to become active again. And if they try, we use all of our efforts to shoot that beast before it gains the slightest bit of control.

We must maintain eternal vigilance against a repeat (the third or fourth one) of this group of evil, anti-American despot-wannabees. We must report, expose and attack any one of these critters should they seek higher office ever again. We need to contact MSM and chide them for even giving them the time of day, much less free air time to spew their filth. And, we need to write, publish, expose and rationally explain why they and their kind pose such a danger to the USA , if not the world.