Yep Reagan was an absolute douchebag. He really thought that rich people earned every dollar and that poor people were leeches on society and the government. He’s also famous for coining the phrase “welfare Queen”. As if living on welfare was somehow an easy life
He’s also directly responsible (along with Thatcher) for the neoliberal economic order which dominates the globe today, favoring the wealthy while offering nothing but austerity to the poor.
Before him, we had the remnants of the New Deal economic order, which wasn’t perfect but relative to today’s standards it was basically social democracy. Of course, Nixon took a chunk out of that progress, but it wasn’t truly dead until Reagan.
If you can’t see the inherent connection between Reagan-era economic policies and “rich white people” becoming the monstrosity that it is today, then I think this conversation is above your level.
Yep Reagan was an absolute douchebag. He really thought that rich people earned every dollar and that poor people were leeches on society and the government. He’s also famous for coining the phrase “welfare Queen”. As if living on welfare was somehow an easy life
He also did fuck all about the AIDS epidemic.
And him, along with Hitler and Drump, promised to “make america (Germany) great again”, word for word.
As in, return it to the time where you could beat a black boy to death by accusing him of whistling at a white women and face zero repercussions.
Absolute evil.
He’s also directly responsible (along with Thatcher) for the neoliberal economic order which dominates the globe today, favoring the wealthy while offering nothing but austerity to the poor.
Before him, we had the remnants of the New Deal economic order, which wasn’t perfect but relative to today’s standards it was basically social democracy. Of course, Nixon took a chunk out of that progress, but it wasn’t truly dead until Reagan.
In the USA it’s either racism or Reagan that’s the cause of some of the most fucked up stuff.
You forgot one, “Rich white people.” while typically they are associated with the first two, there are distinct evils that happen as well.
If you can’t see the inherent connection between Reagan-era economic policies and “rich white people” becoming the monstrosity that it is today, then I think this conversation is above your level.
You’re not wrong, Walter…