Reagan tried to join the Communist Party but they said he was a "flake".

[Carl Brennan]

I don't know what to make of this.

http://www.geocities.com/tangental/fquotes.htm

Happened after he got to Hollywood. Reagan got carried away by stories of the Communist Party helping the unemployed, the homeless, the dispossessed. Some of his friends, people he respected, were Party members. So he turned to them. Said he wanted to become a communist... Said he was determined to join. They discussed it with the local Party leader, who asked around, and word came back that Reagan was a flake... They said Reagan couldn't be trusted with a political opinion for more than 20 minutes. So the decision was taken to prevent him from joining, but to use him as a friend of the Party." - Howard Fast as quoted by Edmund Morris, - Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan


The more I think about it it is like Hitler being rejected from art school. Just think of how the effect on history.

[DenverDem]

1. If only the United States were that wise.

Imagine what a wonderful world it could have been.

[the Kelly Gang]

2. isn't this what Roy Cohn had over him ?

[Carl Brennan]

4. Who's Roy Cohn? Pardon my ignorance.

[TahitiNut]

6. HUAC, Joe McCarthy, Communist witch-hunts of the early 50's

Google is your friend.

[Fenris]

8. Not to mention the most closeted homosexual in US history

Died of AIDs as a matter of fact.

[Carl Brennan]

9. And a Nazi too?

I heard of McCarthy as a Nazi which is a no-brainer.

http://www.geocities.com/realmccarthy/

[PartyPooper]

3. Well, Ronnie was a member of the 'subversive' movie crowd.

I can't wait until FreeRepublic reads this thread. Their "hero" was a commie wannabe. LOL!

:smoke:

[Carl Brennan]

7. Cohn? His name sure if fitting

is that pronounced "cone" or "con"?

Thanks.

[Cronus Protagonist]

5. He was probably a COINTELPRO operative

I doubt very much that he would have wanted to make films for the same pay as a farm hand.

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[oasis]

10. A former"New Deal" Democrat who wanted to shrink government. Flake and

flip flopper.

[Carl Brennan]

11. more

http://www.culturedose.net/review.php?rid=10001531
According to Morris, "Dutch" Reagan was a bland child with a photographic memory, seldom feeling anything deeply. His father's alcoholism and his mother's increasing religious fanaticism barely touched the boy.

Reagan grew to be a bland, careful man, always with his eye to the main chance. In Hollywood, Morris writes, Reagan (a hardcore New Deal Democrat, like his father) attempted to join the Communist Party, but the real Reds considered him a gadfly, not truly committed to the cause, and refused him entry. He turned his political ambitions to the world he lived in-the film industry-and became president of the Screen Actor's Guild. As an aging B-star, his film options were limited, and he had to find something else to do.
(Note: He went to doing commercials for GE......GE went from paying $340million in corporate taxes in 1980 to $0 by 1983.....he brought good things to their life eh.

Along the way, Reagan became disillusioned with what he saw as the betrayal of the Democratic Party toward the working class. In some trick of mind known only to Reagan himself (and not explained in Dutch), he switched party allegiance and became a hardline Republican.