Scott Walker is the perfect example of why revisionist history is dangerous.

[livingonearth]

Remember toward the end of the fake Koch brother call how Walker brought up Reagan? He said that firing the air traffic controllers was one of the "defining moments in Reagan's political career", that it caused the "first crack" in the Berlin Wall, and that it showed the Soviets "Reagan wasn't a push over". This is revisionist history at its finest, and Walker is a fool for it.

If anything, it was Reagan's support of Poland's free union "Solidarity" that helped to bring down the Soviets. Walker is oblivious to the fact he is acting more like the Communists of the early 1980s than like Reagan: the Communists were the ones that didn't want the workers to have free unions and collective bargaining. Reagan saw Poland's Solidarity union as a way to freedom and supported it.

The air traffic controllers strike did not make the Soviets fear or respect Reagan. If anything it may have served to weaken Reagan's stance in the world by making him look like a hypocrite.

Walker needs to either work on his reading comprehension or look at some real history.

[bluestateguy]

1. Conservatives conveniently forget how anti-union communists are

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[Rage for Order]

6. On the contrary, communists love unions

Well, a union, to be more exact: the Communist Party. Attempting to form any competing unions, however, is frowned upon.

[Drale]

2. Reagan got lucky with the fall of the Soviets

They where out of money and where starting to have interal problems and it was only pure luck that they fell when they did. Reagan did not have nearly as much to do wit hthe fall as the right give him credit for.

[DarthDem]

3. Saint Ronnie Didn't Have Anything . . .

... to do with the fall of the USSR. Their system was rotted from within and was not sustainable. The USSR would have collapsed whether or not Raygun "forced" them to spend all that money on defense, as the rightwing meme goes.

[livingonearth]

5. Oh, I agree.

The conservatives give Ronald credit for something that started happening before he ever became president. I'm just trying to show how Walker has no idea what he is talking about.

[fishwax]

4. I'd say that shows the danger of stupidity and distortion, not revisionist history

Nothing wrong with historical revisionism in and of itself, but when it's inaccurate, of course, it has to be resisted, as you've done here.