Reagan Screwed the Country -- That's the "Legacy" Conservatives AreCelebrating

Subject: Re: Reagan Screwed the Country -- That's the "Legacy" Conservatives AreCelebrating

In posting excerpts from Ike's farewell address in 1961, I never meant to suggest that he was a great president or even a leader.  Ike was a ho hum general with good political connections.  World War II was not won through his clever, inspired leadership.  Our Golden Age during his years as president had more to do with the post war boom than with his dynamic leadership. 

But I've always believed Ike to be a decent man who believed he was doing the right thing.  The "right thing", just as long as we keep in mind who Ike was serving. 

But Ronald Reagan was a man without virtue or morals.  He was, in Spirit at least, a member of the, "I'm For Me First Party". 

Ronald Reagan dreamed of being so much more than a Grade B actor, a level he barely reached.  Someone mentioned that he turned to politics because his acting career was in decline.  Please!  The man's acting career declined long before it ever got started. 

His most memorable role was sitting in front of the camera and saying, "At General Electric, Progress is our most Important Product".  And once he'd sold out to GE, he found it easy to sell out to the rest of the Ruling Class.  Indeed, Ronald Reagan became the Poster Boy for the Empire Builders, just as he had for GE.  Just a pretty face uttering meaningless platitudes. 

Ike believed that what he did was in the best interest of America.  But Ronald Reagan did not care for America.  In his 8 years as president, Reagan undermined our American Way of Life to a far greater degree than any of the so called Terrorists we are supposedly defending our nation against. 

 

But if you have your doubts, watch over the next days as the mass media fawns over our fallen hero and raises him to the lofty heights as a Great American Patriot. 

There are many presidents who might be voted, "Worst of All", Grant, Harding, Hoover, even Nixon could be in the running.  And when you really think about it, there are many more.  What about old huggable Andy Jackson?  But Ronald Reagan has more than earned that Oscar for Worst Performance.  Unless you happen to be in the 1.5% of the wealthiest Americans. 

 

Curious Carl