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In reply to the discussion: This great president has never been recognized at its fair value [View all]erronis
(15,469 posts)19. Yeah. Never tell the people the actual truth with facts.
Coat them with jelly-beans or fear to make them palatable to ram down the proles throats.
Adlai Stevenson, Jimmy Carter, perhaps BHO were too cerebral for the 90% troglodytes that would rather watch paid boob-tube blonds with no real intellect.
Unfortunately, these 90% are still with us and ultimately manipulateable. You have to get to their eyeballs (fux-bux) and their viscerals (sports/beer/guns) before you can have a conversation.
Personally, I don't like to wallow in their mire.
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He also gave up his career as engineer on a nuclear submarine to run that peanut farm
csziggy
Apr 2018
#1
Agree - great post about a great president. The lesser people try to besmirch anyone
erronis
Apr 2018
#17
This sounds like a "horse race" for goodness. The repuglicans are working on the other end. nt
erronis
Apr 2018
#18
He had great policies, didn't he? Unfortunately he suffered from what I call
PatrickforO
Apr 2018
#11
This is a case of a man being ahead of his time. The country was not willing to make sacrifices.
dameatball
Apr 2018
#10
You are correct. I meant the % of the country who went via Reagan and bought the lies.
dameatball
Apr 2018
#25
All Reagan had to do was tell the privileged how great they were and their lives could be perfect
Boomerproud
Apr 2018
#29
Not such a great president, but one of the very best of all human beings!
democratisphere
Apr 2018
#51