Reply #235: Back to your point about Carter...

[Virginia Dare]

his downfall came about because he was the last President who told the truth to the American people, and they didn't want to hear it. He was honest about how our non renewable energy resources were going to begin to dry up and cause us major problems in the future, so we'd better start finding ways to conserve. That was a very hard pill to swallow, and something that the corporate power elite didn't want known.

Along comes Ronald Reagan, the great communicator, who cheerfully tells us that is all nonsense, that America can retain it's benevolent power throughout the world and keep up the mass consumption, as long as we get rid of the nasty Russians and give tax cuts to the rich! Yay!!!