Reply #9: That's about when we started to go wrong. I remember back then too. And I remember

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before then. When it was - "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." Now it's ME FIRST and SCREW YOU. IGMFU.

I thought at the time that reagan was probably the most dangerous man in America because he made greed and selfishness and getting rich above all else and plundering the earth to get that way was A-OK sound good and feel good! He was the Crown Prince of Packaging. He was about a tenth of a millimeter thick, as far as substance, but MAN could he read a cue card! LORDY LORDY could he deliver lines and sell you on stuff. He was a world class salesman who sold a galaxy-size load of shit to the American people, and many of 'em bought it, felt their deepest darkest dirty secret (of being selfish and wanting to screw your neighbor if it meant you got ahead by an inch) was validated and justified, and even elevated and then glorified.

He was the bastard who sugar-coated republi-CON shit, standing in front of 100-foot-tall American flags and Buzby Berkeley-style Hollywood staging. He was the monster who cemented "trickle-down," "supply-side," "welfare queens," and other lies deeply into our national consciousness. He was the god of "Greed is Good." He was the guy who made it okay to say government isn't the solution, it's the problem. And he wrapped it all around the bible and called it red-white-and-blue America. And people still believe fervently in it, to this very hour.

THAT'S when the America I grew up with, that I was proud of, and that I believed in, died.