Reagan's Legacy: The ZombyTroof Edition

[Zomby Woof]

I came to bury Ronald Reagan, not to praise him.

The icon of modern American conservatism represented everything that is wrong with America and Americans: Intellectual dishonesty, hostility to the poor and excluded of society, unchecked greed, worship of celebrity and obscene wealth, indifference to the truth, and arrogant disregard for dissent and reason. He is the perfect figurehead for the unthinking flag-wavers and war fetishists who claim to represent wholesome, mythical "middle America".

The irony of course, is that Reagan ran as an anti-government conservative, promising to balance the budget, and strengthen the military, all the while selling us on the myth of a "morning in America". The most mind-numbing myth we will be sold by the media these next few weeks is that he "ended the Cold War" and "saved the world from Communism". Don't you believe it for a second.

Rooster - credit - sunrise, anyone?

The reality, as always, is less than flattering. Obviously suffering from Alzheimer's far earlier than publicly declared (as far back as the 1940's, in fact), this treacherous cretin played to the basest, worst instincts of an America humbled by Vietnam, Watergate, and the Iranian hostage situation. Americans have an unhealthy sense of entitlement, which springs not so much from our cherished freedom, but from the Me First Individualism that is the dark side of the E Pluribus Unum coin. Extremism in the defense of selfishness is a vice, and Reagan was the Dealer-in-Chief.

The man who brought us Ollie North's secret government, record deficits, the worst homelessness since the Depression, rampant filling of the troughs of the military-industrial complex, hostile disregard of truth and accountability, and perhaps occupied the emptiest suit to ever legally win the White House... is dead.

Unfortunately, his memory (pun intended or not is up to you) will survive, albeit with the same gross distortion of fact his White House and a compliant media enabled for far, far too long. And will so now, as the mourning in America unfolds.

But he is dead, and I feel the same sense of relief we should all feel when petty tyrants and despots pass into the great unknown.

Fuck you, Ronald Wilson Reagan, and everything your wretchedly hollow life stood for, in perpetuity. The damage you wrought may never be undone, and the America you claimed to love so much is a shell of its former self in no small part due to your 'legacy'.

Fuck you, forevermore.