reagan made us feel good about our racism again

[mopaul]

in his own reassuring grandfatherly way, he made it acceptable to be a racist pig again. just as all that jimmy carter peacenik crap was boiling over, reagan brought back america's love with white supremacy.

suddenly, it was o.k. to be against affirmative action, and it was o.k. to look upon islam as an inferior religion. conservative christians could now hold their heads up high and rejoice in their hatred of all other religions. there were no black faces on reagan's cabinet, and he snubbed the naacp and many other minority groups, and fomented hatred of homosexuals as well.

and don't forget his honoring nazi soldiers with a wreath.

gosh, i miss the old fart already

[demnan]

1. A fitting tribute for the old bastard

n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. yeah, Ronnie made me big on bigotry...

...not.

[burythehatchet]

3. It was the first time that I realized that

the leader of a nation actually does affect the people's actions in a very real way.

[scrotim]

4. I don't disagree with a lot of what you say, Mopaul, but why are these

complaints any more true today, after he just died, than they were two weeks or two years ago?

It's this urge to stomp on a fresh corpse that puzzles me, not that Reagan was an asshole.

Are you moved to speak out because so many others are gnashing their teeth and wailing through their right-wing hankies?

[mopaul]

6. yes scrotim....i'm blasting through all the lying tributes to the nazi

sorry it puzzles you. i don't want to stomp on his dead corpse. i don't even want to pee on it, but i do figuratively.

some people hate reagan, and have hated him for so long, they couldn't hold back. and i ain't the only one.

[truizm]

5. My Church service today will probably be largely about..

"The Reagan Legacy" and I might throw up. Last week's service was jingoistic. This week will be idolization of a international terrorist. Surreal what passes for "Church" these days.

[H2O Man]

7. mopaul: do you remember Reagan

commenting on the deaths at Kent State? I know that he said something to the effect of, "Maybe a little bloodshed in the streets will be good for the students." I think it was one of the most offensive things he ever said. But it seems to have been removed from the public's memory.

[cosmicdot]

8. Ronald Reagan Redux

some Reagan political history and background:
http://www.moldea.com/ReaganRedux.html

though a large part of the Republican story over the last 144 years ... RWR is still just a part of it ... as this essay relates:
http://home.att.net/~vlaszlo/essay_1.htm

[frank frankly]

9. yep. "welfare queen"

he was a bad man. a terrible, terrible man.

[seabeyond]

10. yes......this is the something i was trying to articulate

he created the me me me generation. he fed the selfishness and the pride in greed. he basically started the disinigration of the family. cause me is priority.

[Catt03]

11. And this

"I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
--Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1966

[barbaraann]

12. Didn't "All in the Family" do that too?

I never could figure out why people liked Archie Bunker.