If I could erase one person from history it would not be Adolf Hitler. It would not be any other dictator alive or otherwise. It would be Reagan. The amount of harm he caused not to just the US but the entire world is astronomical and has caused the suffering of hundreds of millions of people and the death of tens of millions.
I mean both are horrible, but the problem with Reagan is that he knew how to hide his atrocities. People don’t really grapple with how bad what he did was because he wasn’t overthrown by the Allies in a Great War, there was no purpose-built death camps, he didn’t make rambling speeches declaring entire races as vermin.
He just quietly let AIDS happen, pretending it’s not a real thing. He deregulated banks for the sake of “competition”. He fucked with the Middle East.
We compare Trump to Hitler a lot, but he’s like a more outwardly fascist Reagan.
In order to have a middle class, you need government subsidies for the working class and regulations on the robber baron class.
FDR started to do that. And do it went for a couple decades. Hence the booming 50s with a house and car got everyone on a single income.
Then, in 1981, Reagan happened. The subsidization of the working class was slowly peeled back. More was given to the robber baron class.
Which brings us to where we are now. + Dictator voted into office on top of that. So, no help there.
I find it amazing how so many bad things in America can be traced back to Reagan.
If I could erase one person from history it would not be Adolf Hitler. It would not be any other dictator alive or otherwise. It would be Reagan. The amount of harm he caused not to just the US but the entire world is astronomical and has caused the suffering of hundreds of millions of people and the death of tens of millions.
I mean both are horrible, but the problem with Reagan is that he knew how to hide his atrocities. People don’t really grapple with how bad what he did was because he wasn’t overthrown by the Allies in a Great War, there was no purpose-built death camps, he didn’t make rambling speeches declaring entire races as vermin.
He just quietly let AIDS happen, pretending it’s not a real thing. He deregulated banks for the sake of “competition”. He fucked with the Middle East.
We compare Trump to Hitler a lot, but he’s like a more outwardly fascist Reagan.
Hitler vs Reagan in a steel cage match. You’ll never believe who they’re rooting for.
It’s all a game of 6 degrees of Ronald Reagan.