They are still renting their garmnets on the island over President Reagan.
Long post so just the first paragraph....
McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-19-08 02:40 PM
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Mourning in America: The Reagan Years Were Enough to Make You Cry
Ronald Reagan did not become president on a platform of optimism or hope. In 1980, he sent George W. Bush to arrange a deal with the Iranians to keep the hostages until after the November elections. We knew about this at the time, because the president of Iran told the world about it shortly after he went into exile. This served to increase Americans' sense of despair. Recall how bad we felt when George W. Bush stole the 2000 election? That is how we felt when Reagan stole the 1980 election. Our highest national office had been hijacked, and there was nothing we could do about it. The only news network that would report the story was PBS.
Ronald Reagan had the help of the corporate media. ABC’s Nightline, the progenitor of the 24 hour news network, ran the headline “America held hostage†night after night, while host Ted Koppel (who would later remark, ironically, that “ABC is a pimple on the elephant’s behindâ€) reminded America that its saintly president Jimmy Carter was a wimp when it came to military action of the John Wayne-scorched earth variety. If Jimmy Carter could not keep a handful of embassy employees safe, how could he protect us from the nuclear bombs that the Soviet Union was sending our way? Seeing the news media become a paid political advocate for one party shattered more of our illusions. That lead to more despair.
Ronald Reagan ran an old fashioned Republican all fear all the time campaign. And administration. In the early 1980s, we literally lived in terror that each day would be our last. Movies featured end of the world scenarios. We watched Jane Alexander watch her world die around her. None of us expected to make it to the year 2000. The crazies who had stolen control of our government were bound and determined to build an arsenal capable of making Armageddon a reality. Every day could be our last. As the android Roy said in Ridley Scott’s futuristic film Blade Runner “Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.â€
Drugs, sex and rock &roll became a way to escape from the constant anxiety and the terror that there was no tomorrow---until the AIDS epidemic struck. Too bad that the Reagan administration did nothing in the early days of the AIDS crisis when the spread of the disease might have been checked.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2720116Newsflash DUmmies..as always you were wrong then and you are still wrong today.
History has proved it no matter how much you insanely try to re-write it.
Then in good DUmmie fashion claim that it was someone elses fault that you turn to drugs and that you are owed relief from the results of your actions.
