Reply #23: I Think Most Here are missing a BIG point

[sampsonblk]

The Repugs are manipulating us again, this time by making Ronald Reagan a symbol of the "greatness" of their right-wing ideology and "leadership." The hell with that. In my view, Reagan was a poor president, and his economic claims have been disproven at every turn. Yes, he spent the Soviets into collapse. But that wasn't his intention. Star Wars was a bluff? Nonsense! He really wanted to use it. It just didn't work, and was far too expensive. It just so happened that the Soviets came crashing down because of the competition.

Yet today, I saw (on C-SPAN) young people - people who weren't old enough to remember the Reagan years - crying crocodile tears over this American "hero." We are losing a big battle for history, and for the hearts and minds of the next generation. If we agree (by our silence) that Reagan is a great American hero, then we are also agreeing that George W Shrub is a great American hero. He runs with the same crowd of criminals and spouts the same supply-side, shoot-em-up nonsense. We have to oppose this tastefully but strongly.