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In reply to the discussion: I was 19 years old when Ronald Reagan was first elected... [View all]kimbutgar
(21,224 posts)It is a very vivid memory. Because the next day my Dad drove me to work ( i was lucky, my Dad drove me to work for 5 years) it was a 20 minute drive on the way downtown. I told my Dad I was interested in RR. He told if I voted for Reagan he would kick me out of his house and disown me. He proceeded to tell me how RR hurt California. The cuts in higher education, closing of Mental institutions, cutting their funds and putting the people on the Street. It was such an enlightening conversation. I never knew my Dad was so well informed. A Minority WW2 veteran. He had 1 semester left to get his college degree but he didn't finish. But he got the 2 daily papers, and watched the evening news. We always had magazines and books around our house and yes, my Dad loved his Playboy magazine. But I will never forget my Dad being so against RR to the point of disgust. He always had this look on his face when he saw RR or heard him on TV. Dad's been gone 17 years. And his head would be spinning
to see RR saintifized. Dad would have been proud of President Obama but appalled by Faux and the dirty stinking lousy republican party as he used to call them.
But I myself , was close to find RR appealing until I was enlightened as to who RR was really all about. I don't blame others who didn't have an informed person to point out the difference between words and actual deeds. But RR was the beginning of the end of America for the people. He opened pandora's box of corporations running the country and bush ripped the lid off and threw it at the American people. Sadly 45% of Americans think RR and his policies are great for the country even though the majority of them have gotten hurt by St. ronnie.