The Original Reagan Democrat

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The Original Reagan Democrat
In Politics on September 3, 2010 at 12:53 pm

Aside from the sheer pleasure derived from hearing right-winger’s heads exploding all over America, this archived radio broadcast of a liberal Democrat by the name of Ronald Reagan campaigning for President Truman, as well as soon-to-be liberal lion Hubert H. Humphrey, presents an important lesson to Democrats everywhere.

In the radio address, the Gipper is:

- For wage growth

- For Social Security

- For union and fair employment practices

- For school lunch programs

- Against tax cuts for the wealthy

- Against excessive corporate profits

And the money quote? “High prices have not been caused by higher wages.”

Wow, there you go again, Ronnie.

(Audio at link)

So what’s the take-away here?

Okay, Ronald Reagan was a turncoat, hypocritical SOB who abandoned his core values for political expediency and sold this country to the rich and powerful. We all know that.

But what’s more important is to see how the Democrats have allowed the conservatives to systematically dismantle most of the progressive gains we’ve made by forcing their obstructionist, anti-working family, pro-corporate, pro-wealthy agenda on our country. ...

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- SF

http://thedonkeyedge.com/2010/09/03/the-original-reagan-democrat/

[Warpy]

1. I think being married to Nancy and lectured to by her daddy

is what caused him to abandon those core values and sell out to the plutocracy.

Reagan was a lazy SOB who thought what the last person he talked to told him to think. As years went on, that last person was some member of the Davis family.

[Ikonoklast]

2. Exactly.

Raygun was easily molded by others, it was said as an actor he did whatever a director told him to do, without question.


The Davis family money told Ronnie he was no longer a Democrat, and like the good sheep that he was, he followed.