It still galls me that Reagan’s name is invoked as the hallmark of the common good. His administration was the snowball running down the mountain that became an avalanche: Citizens United (corporations are people), firing 11,359 air traffic controllers . . . Remember when he said, “ The 9 most terrifying words in the English language are…
It still galls me that Reagan’s name is invoked as the hallmark of the common good. His administration was the snowball running down the mountain that became an avalanche: Citizens United (corporations are people), firing 11,359 air traffic controllers . . . Remember when he said, “ The 9 most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” Remind people in the red states who are recipients of the most federal dollars. Mitch McConnell rules over one of those states. They’re always first in line after a disaster. And Reaganomics? “trickle down economy?” What we’re seeing today in this country is the embodiment of all of that. And remember, he was an actor—a showman.
I agree, Jan. I was one of those air traffic controllers. It sickens me when I hear his name in regards to something good for America. I will never consider calling Washington National Airport by any other name. Trickle down economics is more appropriate to associate with his name.
Or John Wayne airport. Seems to me Reaganomics harks back to feudalism; the preponderance of wealth in very few hands and stratified, authoritarian rule.
Foreshadowing Trump- a conman. Both conmen so far as I could see, but Trump is even a deeper sociopath. They both despised a republican (small "r") form of government and preached the glories of plutocracy. They both use(d) big lies. They both rule(d) with stagecraft over statecraft, both maliciously, but Trump out-Orwell's Orwell; “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and of your ears.", and now the last flicker of reason of your brain.
Reagan was pretty out of it in the White House, and even the press noticed, yet (mostly) smiled. I always suspected that "The Gipper", while genuinely right wing, he was more the mouthpiece for the plutocratic coup than the author; but I have not researched enough to prove it.
It still galls me that Reagan’s name is invoked as the hallmark of the common good. His administration was the snowball running down the mountain that became an avalanche: Citizens United (corporations are people), firing 11,359 air traffic controllers . . . Remember when he said, “ The 9 most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” Remind people in the red states who are recipients of the most federal dollars. Mitch McConnell rules over one of those states. They’re always first in line after a disaster. And Reaganomics? “trickle down economy?” What we’re seeing today in this country is the embodiment of all of that. And remember, he was an actor—a showman.
I agree, Jan. I was one of those air traffic controllers. It sickens me when I hear his name in regards to something good for America. I will never consider calling Washington National Airport by any other name. Trickle down economics is more appropriate to associate with his name.
I always spell that as "tinkle down".
Or John Wayne airport. Seems to me Reaganomics harks back to feudalism; the preponderance of wealth in very few hands and stratified, authoritarian rule.
Foreshadowing Trump- a conman. Both conmen so far as I could see, but Trump is even a deeper sociopath. They both despised a republican (small "r") form of government and preached the glories of plutocracy. They both use(d) big lies. They both rule(d) with stagecraft over statecraft, both maliciously, but Trump out-Orwell's Orwell; “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and of your ears.", and now the last flicker of reason of your brain.
Reagan was pretty out of it in the White House, and even the press noticed, yet (mostly) smiled. I always suspected that "The Gipper", while genuinely right wing, he was more the mouthpiece for the plutocratic coup than the author; but I have not researched enough to prove it.