Ronald Reagan was right......

[freshwest]

14. I watched my coworkers go from Carter to Reagan, not over gas prices. It was AA that did it for them

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It built slowly with media pundits and the reverse racism changes relating to college admissions, employment, etc.

By the time Carter got in office, the workplace had changed with consent degrees, etc. mandating equal opportunity, not quotas, at least not where we worked. There was an influx of women, blacks, browns and gays in what had been a previously all white work force and some resented it a great deal.

So it was a few years coming, along with the right of the televangelists. Oh, it was grown by the right wingers, creating a new victim group, white males. It was disappointing.

Add in a little bit of Cold War talk and there it was. People vote more in terms of their economic interests no matter what that leads to and they were being promised that a lot of that affirmative action would be rolled back under a Reagan administration. And it was.

But the same tide of inequality he unleashed left no stones unturned and degraded their lives as well. When Reagan gave illegals amnesty, they were blaming them for the downfall of their working conditions.

Carter was the subject of fossil fuel industry hatred because he signed a bill that would put the nation on the road to independence with alternatives and the global energy companies had to stop that no matter what. The hostage crisis and gas shortage were possibly both manufactured for that reason. I lived in a state hurt when Reagan got in bed with the Saudis for 'cheap gas' and watched it devastate the domestic production of gas.

Reagan did a lot of damage to the domestic social and economic scene. Some of us remember the rust belt and the other moves to send our manufacturing base off shore in those years. His fabled Star Wars defense shield and other programs purposefully ate up the peace dividend the American people expected at the end of the Vietnam War.

Those who worked with him bragged they were going to run up the deficit to destroy Social Security, etc. Gotta keep a 'thrifty working class' on tap for cheap labor.

I'd have said RR was the worst president of my lifetime, and then Shrub showed up. If RR get in office, we can kiss our ass goodbye.