Earlytimz wrote:
"Ronald Regan was the best president we've had in recent times... Period." 
Ronald Reagan represents all of the worst elements of the American political experience of the last 50 years. All of them. He was, and always will be, nothing but a steaming hot pile of filthy...well, you get the picture.
Intellectually, Reagan gave chimpy a run for his money. He was vacuous. He was shallow. He was incurious. He was a puppet and a door stop for a group of sick ideologues who really ran the country. He was a crappy actor and foolish tool.
Ideologically, he was a hater and an imperialist and far-right loony-tune. He hated the poor. He hated gays. He hated leftists. He hated communists - and he was pretty sure you were one if you disagreed with him. He hated and he hated and he hated. Just ask his own kids. He hated them and himself and his ex-wife. Ronald Reagan was a twisted unrepentant closed-minded hate monger. And that's just for starters.
The foreign policy of Ronald Reagan did more to impoverish and kill the poor and helpless humans of the world than any world leader before or since - with the possible exception of Bush. Reagan just didn't care. He was going to defeat communism (which was already falling of it's own weight) and he didn't care how many children were burned alive or how many people starved to death on the way. Let em die. Reagan was a monster.
On Reagan's watch the military budget of the U.S. grew to the proportions of a heaping pile of 10,000 week-old dead and bloated Blue Whales. And it stunk just as bad. The practice of rewarding incompetent cronies with gigantic useless contracts for unneeded military hardware was elevated to art form under Reagan. Reagan's legendary megalomania, hubris and abject ignorance led him to believe the tales of any crackpot who managed to slither past the goons who comprised his inner circle. Star-wars missiles, atomic shields, space-age death rays. You name it - that dumb bastard would fall for it - and blow billions of your tax dollars on it.
And on the domestic front - holy cow the domestic front. Ronald Reagan was a force for the rampaging evil of anti-human destructiveness. He never met a social program he didn't scorn. He never met an American in need he didn't crap directly upon. His response to the AIDS epidemic is one of the most sickening cold-blooded expressions of pure murderous political evil in the history of the earth. Genghis Khan could only dream of such depravity and indifference to human suffering.
Then there was Iran-Contra - the infamous orgy of unfettered criminality at the heart of the Reagan legacy. Again, look it up. Rogues, liars, crooks, murderers and ignorant heartless scum surrounded Reagan at all times. Alli Babba would've been shamed. But Ronald Reagan was shameless.
Oh, did I mention The War on Drugs and it's ballooning of the prison/criminal industrial complex and the rise of brainless goon-like authoritarianism? Or the destruction of the modern labor movement including the cowardly firing of the Air Traffic Controllers puting every air crew and passengers in peril for years? Or the beginnings of the current trend of packing the Judiciary with corrupt freakish pseudo-fascist stoolies? Or the repugnant rapes of Lebanon and Grenada? Or the dim-witted goofball junk science that came to known as "Reaganomics?" Or grant rigging at the Department of Housing and Urban Development? Or James Watt and the whole-hearted attempt to destroy the earth and all it's inhabitants at the expense of greed mongers and corporate whores? Or the largest white collar theft in the history of planet Earth - the Savings and Loan Bailout? And on and on and on and on.
Ronald Reagan will forever be remembered as one of the most idiotic, vile, worthless leaders of any any nation in any era.
Let's examine Ronnie the Raygun's contributions to our great country:
(1) The beginning of rampant homelessness;
(2) The crack cocaine epidemic AND "Just Say No;"
(3) The groundwork for media deregulation and consolidation;
(4) Wholesale deregulation of all critical national infrastructure;
(5) The Iran/Contra Affair;
(6) "Morning in America" which has turned out to be "Mourning in America;"
(7) Lee Atwater, Roger Ailles and KKKarl Rove;
(8) The Savings and Loan Crisis;
(9) The stock market crash of 1987 "Black Monday;"
(11) Sandra Day O'Connor and Anton "Italian Inquisition" Scalia;
(12) Reagonomics and "trickle down" economics
(13) The invasion of Grenada;
(14) The AIDS/HIV crisis;
(15) Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars");
(16) The HUD Scandal;
And the list just goes on and on.
The Great Communicator: Communicating greed, arrogance, cronyism and bad hair dye to everyone!
Whoops...I forgot something.
Reagan did more to ruin the lives of Central Americans than any President this century. His support of the Contras was obviously criminal, but what it did to the people of Nicaragua should never be forgotten.
Now ask me how I really feel about RR.
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