I'm a severe Hemophiliac. When Reagan refused to take AIDS seriously because it was the "Gay Virus" almost 90% of severe Hemophiliacs also contracted AIDS, such as my self, during this time due to lax testing protocols. We were essentially given $100,000 and told to fuck off forever. Fast Forward to today, I'm 42 years old, still an AIDS survivor and incapable of working due to my health conditions. My 'relief fund' is entirely exhausted as they never expected any of us to survive this long. I was 2 years old when I was infected with HIV, and when I was 5 I also contracted Hepatitis C due to the same lack of real testing protocols. The Reagan administration completely destroyed my life and I'll never be able to forgive the Republican party for these crimes against humanity.
@EpicWesley I'm truly sorry you have AIDS, but you cannot blame RR for "lax testing protocols". That should be laid at the door of the Red Cross, or your local blood facility, or the CDC. You act like RR sent out the order, "Let 'em die!" The question can be raised: "What did they know and when did they know it?" I think it's a miracle you made it through the early years alive. According to my calculations, you were born in 1981, the first year of the AIDS epidemic. You acquired HIV in 1983 - very early in the epidemic, when very little was known and very little was available for treatment. From the WHO: "“With no effective treatment available in the 1980s, there was little hope for those diagnosed with HIV, facing debilitating illness and certain death within years,” says Dr Gottfried Hirnschall, Director of the HIV department at WHO." It seems to me that you are a walking miracle - having survived the "early years". From what I've read, I don't see how. On the other hand, I don't see how you can blame any President for the victims of a new disease, the likes of which had never been seen before.
because of course a virus is political.. the fact you are not grateful to still be living shows your character.. had you been born 1OO years ago you wouldnt be alive more than likely past the age of 1O.. so maybe be grateful for the time you were born, making medical advancements, available because of GOP R&D funding, a key factor in your survival.. unless of course you want to take credit for curing AIDS, which isnt true because it was julie mikovitz who first isolated HIV as the root cause..
@@BEAUTYnIQ Brother... what in the fresh flying fuck, this man contracted aids at the age of 2 and you're blaming him for being upset at the people that allowed it to happen... Now that sHoWs YoUr cHaRaCtEr...
Reagan began the Republican practice of packing the courts. He made sure to grill every candidate for an appointment to the Federal courts to make sure he was a hard-right ideological conservative.
It seemed to make sense at that time. PS Edit update He wasn't really wealthy, actually. He was quite struggling and he had to actually go to work at a office at GTE And It is here where he was seeing a lot of his checks being taxed like crazy over programs he did not like for the poor Just like back in the 70s when a lot of workers would over time or work time and a 1/2 and their time and a 1/2 would be taxed to death He Got into politics because of what FDR did for Government and the Nation as a whole.
@@thefezbelchershow5443 stealing from the economy to fund mental health institutions is not the way to do it. the private sector is infinitely more efficient at providing these things and more voluntary.
@@thefezbelchershow5443 No, what lilyscarlet is saying is that they should NEVER had closed the institutions for the veterans who suffer from PTSD and cannot work or get a home etc. IF Regan hadn't had closed them down, war vets would have been given care, a roof over their head, three squares a day and a decent chance of living.
@@GenGamesUniverse I don't think so, she says they shouldn't be "subsidized in the first place," which is saying the government has no business paying for veterans' care.
I saw Reagan-ism as an attack on education, which proved to be the start of the dumbing down of America, the consequences from which we are still experiencing. Social Security survivor benefits helped me get a college degree starting in 1980, a benefit that Reagan immediately cut off from my younger siblings.
I'm 69. I was in college from '75-'81and not yet politics savvy. Governor Rhodes (of Kent State infamy) cut the education budgets during all those years. When Reagan did the same with his first budget, the whole class warfare nature of politics suddenly became nauseatingly obvious. There could be no possible benevolent reason for wanting us to be stupid.
So true. It was also petty stuff, like attacks on school lunches. During Reagan's rule, the budget for the federal school lunch program was cut 25%. Ketchup was declared a vegetable in order to satisfy the need for a "nutritious" school lunch and still stay within the limits of the reduced funding.
I was born in the early 80s, so I felt the Reagan pain even if I didn’t realize it at the time due to my age. All of your stories in these comments make me so angry. Our country is so much better than this. I hate that so many drank the Kool-Aid that Reagan, Gingrich, McConnell, and Trump have been trying to force down our throats, a flavor of hate, greed, and nothing but contempt for those who are not “the norm” (straight cis white Christian). We don’t need to hate each other. Our differences shouldn’t be points of contention but rather points of pride in our diversity. The only ones who benefit from our country being this unequal and this unjust are the 1% and our enemies abroad. As a Christian, I pray for the hate to be removed from these Republican voters’ hearts and minds, and as a Democrat, I’m gonna do all that I can to aid in that endeavor.
It wasn't that they forgot that they benefited from those policies, it was that the "others" benefited from those policies and hate always clouds judgement
@UlisesHeureaux I don't really like ranking presidents within the last 30 years or so. I feel that it's too recent to judge without biases and harder to see the long-term effects of their policies. That said: I think history won't be kind to Dubya (not actually a Jr btw), and Trump will mostly be forgotten
@UlisesHeureaux I think it's the only fair way to judge presidents tbh. Otherwise I think it's easy to nitpick every little part of a presidency, and I just don't think that's as fair to more recent presidents
That is true, I have tried to understand why they want more children born into less humane communities, cities, states, countries, worlds, and it always looking at really sadistic goals!!!!!!!!!!!
What a load of crap. Take a look at the massive homeless situation now. The inflation, food pricing, utilities rates. The middle and lower income hpusehokds are syrughling. Its not hurting the elites one little bit!
I recall everyone I knew having full time jobs in 1980, with benefits. We mostly worked factory jobs. Never had to worry, even worked OT a lot. Then Reagan took office in 1981. By spring of that same year we started working 3-4 days per week then 2 days then sign up for unemployment. By the fall of '81 most textile mills in the area were either part time or closing their doors as the jobs were moved overseas with no penalties as Reagan had lifted all restrictions on American companies seeking cheap labor, so the rich could get richer. Soon Fathers could not find full time work to support their families. Grown men were now out of work or working low paying retail jobs. wives had to pitch in and that started the downfall. Free time and low esteem led to the crack epidemic. The country has not been the same since.
People wanted cheaper goods people wanted goods from other countries. Is the American people's appetite for whatever is a reason why manufacturing died in this country
@lestergreen8316 it did make goods cheaper, but it put a lot of Americans out of work and spurred the crack epidemic. It had long term negative effects and some cities never recovered. Look at the "rust belt."
And all the frustration and rage resulting from all you describe there also resulted in mass shootings becoming frequent for the first time ever. During the eighties, mass shootings were often called "going postal" because postal workers committed some of them, as they were stressed out from Reagan's attacks on the postal service and his refusal to enforce labor laws, resulting in life stresses like you write about above.
My uncle was one of the air traffic controllers that marched on Washington and was fired. He had four little kids at the time and ended up working in a hard-labor job that would keep him away from his family for 6 weeks at a time to barely make ends meet. He was also disabled from suffering polio as a child, so hard labor was really harsh for him. Make America great? For whom?
I still remember my grandmother ranting about how awful his policies were during Reagan's presidency and I've never forgotten it. She lived through the Great Depression and knew a bad idea(s) when she saw it.
Reagan is what happens when a leader operates entirely on ideology while totally ignoring precedent and refusing to prosecute their own assumptions. People like Reagan believe they shit gold bricks that smell like magnolias.
Same here. I was only 17 when he got voted in, and I was mad I couldn't vote yet. My parents and grandparents, and everyone I knew hated him. Kinda like trump. But somehow, the bugger still won. Politics were discussed all the time in my house.
@@sharimeline3077 He committed treason to hold the hostages and got 4 SCOTUS seats. Carter was too Christian for America. He was against the Mayan genocide in Guatemala as charged by The Hague in '83. Eliot Abrams was behind that. He also sent dth squads into Nicaragua to slaughter Jesuit nuns and priests. But, they ran as a pro-life party against Carter's pro-choice for a 4 week zygote the size of a poppy seed, or this [ . ]. GOP protects periods but no further.
Thank you ! I just cringe when people put him on pedestal! He was the president of a union, switched and started breaking up unions. He ruined college tuition. He did his best for the rich. I don't want to talk about him anymore !
@@chinedujames638 She lucked out with Galtieri. Argentina attacked the Falklands resulting in Thatcher winning an election she should have lost. In the end her own cabinet rebelled against her. (She had sacked so many people, she couldn't replace them. )
My great uncle passed away in 1991 from a long painful bout with AIDS. Most of his family and society cast him aside here in Texas. My great grandma and grandma took care of him in Dallas until his final breath. My grandma still tells me how doctors and state clinics stigmatized AIDS patients. He was an amazing artist and figure painter, love you Uncle Bennie.
@@fritzforsthoefel8031 Reagan might not have caused it but they barely did a single thing to destroy negative stigmas or raise awareness for the horrible disease.
I get a kick out of the "pull up your bootstraps" ordered by people who were born into privilege and never had to worry about paying a bill their entire lives.
Not to mention it's meant to be a nonsense term. It's literally like telling someone to climb out of a hole by picking themselves up by their shoelaces, and someone heard that example and unironically said, "Yes! Exactly! Do that!"
This is behavior that initially began when people who sat on the porch, in the shade would criticize anyone who wasn’t performing up to their expectations and would refer to them as “lazy hood for nothings”. The Reagan version is just the dog whistle version
@@DissentOrConcur And for that, I say more power to you because you know what it takes to be productive and successful on your own. And there's a deeper satisfaction of living life knowing you didn't need a rich daddy to pave the way .
Your opening statement is exactly right and I have been pointing this out for decades. And you are SO right about companies expecting loyalty and passion for jobs that barely keep you housed and fed. You just earned a new subscriber.
this is a free country. if a person fails to create value in the marketplace -- the rest of us are not to blame, and nor is the marketplace. my god, the leftist brain is so full of shit.
Being young during the Regan years, I remember how much my momma struggled. She was a single (divorced) mom of one, who often worked so many hours in a week, she would be exhausted on her days off. I also remember how she was unable to qualify for any type of help, that we sometimes only had peanut butter in the house to eat. When Trump came on the scene and stating all of the tropes, and whistles from Regan's time, I knew it was all about the wealthy and corporations all over again.
Under trump wages for unskilled workers went up as a percentage faster than anyone else and the top ten percent pay over seventy percent of the federal taxes
My father was a presidential gaurd for reagan in the marines. With the values he gained from the work he ended up owning 8 houses at one point before getting ready to retire. Democrats just blame others
Under Biden illegal immegration is at record levels inflation levels are high riseing intrest rates north Korea was talking when trump was in office not shooting missiles over Japan and Russia was not in Ukraine
One thing you may have forgotten to mention is Reagan also disabled the cost of living allowance (COLA) on the minimum wage,thus sealing the fate of the working poor and guaranteeing where we are today with a seriously lob sided economy.
Oh yes, he was so terrible when the mortgage interest rates under Carter was 18.5 percent, but Reagan reaped the grim poor and middle class by decreasing inflation and interest rates.
(Piped Piper would be a better image : he sent them to the polls, and when the debt came due, the Piped Piper got rid of the children. ) Ronald Reagan, crushed 90%, and by stopping the Fossil Fuel transition, has taken away the future prospects of his own and other children.
@@maryellis8902 Favorite Carlin joke: If there’s a God (Carlin was an Atheist), it has to be a man because a woman wouldn’t have fucked it up so badly.
@@russell-gt1dy Carlin wasn't too far off base... Have you read the book, "The Creature From Jekyll Island"? It's fascinating how The Powers That Be get one over on us... Year after year, decade after decade, century after century... We really must be as stoopud as THEY say we are. Cheers - Stay VIGILANT 👍
I did six years in the Marines. My body and mind are both broken. Since I've left, I've never faced so much difficulty in my life. My PTSD and physical injuries are individual failures in the eyes of employers. I'm a young guy, so the boomers in charge tell me I have no excuse to be stressed or in pain. I can't hold a job, I'm struggling to keep a roof over my head, I have no idea what I'm doing trying to get my veteran's benefits, and I've never felt so lost in my entire life. I just have to pull myself up by my bootstraps, I guess.
I’m so sorry you had to go through that. Please remember that there are people rooting for you. I hope you figure out how to get the veteran benefits you’re entitled to.
To a lesser extent, everyone does less well due to the trauma inflicted by Reagan & his successors. I can't imagine what a veteran experiences, but I recognize some of the symptoms in my own life.
It sickens Me, what The Marines, and Other Armed Forces, did to You, and others. They also did it, under Eisenhower, Kennedy, and especially, Johnson and Nixon; to My Generation, in Indochina. Later, Bush 41, did the same thing, to Gen X'ers, in Kuwait, and later, Gen Y'ers, as well; by Draft-Dodging Bush 43, his "crew", and "Chickenhawk" Auxiliary Members, like Hillary Clinton; in Iraq, and Afghanistan. Obama didn't exactly do Himself, any favors; by "going along" with Bush 43, and continuing His Programs. They then "compounded" their crimes, along with Trump, Biden, The Republican'ts, and The "New" (read, same, old; Democrats; by ignoring The Veterans, and forcing them, to take Charity. If You go back, You will see, the same thing, done; to World War I Veterans (The "Bonus Marchers", and "Coxey's Army). Don't blame the withdrawal, from Afghanistan, on Biden (not entirely). Afghanistan, and Iraq; were messes, long before He took, The Oath of Office; and Trump just made it, worse. On another matter, Why don't We try; working, with The Planet 🌏, and restoring it, instead of exploiting, and destroying it. If The Fundamentalists, and The End-Timers, think that God will give, Them; another chance; They've got "another think", coming. Why should God give THEM, another Planet, when they've "trashed" this one?
Hey, just wanted to say don't give up. Too many of us veterans do, and that is exactly what those who sent us to war prefer - they want to forget what they sent us to do, to keep it at arm length. On a more practical note if you haven't gotten a veteran representative do so as soon as you are able, or send a family member / friend in your place. No sugar coating it, the process is long and difficult, but a rep will make a great deal of that easier. I went through the DAV, but there are many organizations out there that will help. Just be sure they are recognized by the VA before settling on one. If you are awarded disability you get backpay to when you first applied, so it literally costs you money to wait.
My father was a union man and he said many of his co-workers voted for Reagan. He told them that's against your interests but they would say "he makes me feel patriotic."
And that is the Republican Party leadership ploy, make them feel how they want to feel, they take everyone for cretins and their voters keep proving them right.
Same in UK I tried to get people to vote for Jeremy Corbyn. I said he's for the people not Establishment. They still voted for a Conservative government
@@dan32113 they voted for the Tories for nearly 15 years straight, so now the economy is in the toilet, the NHS is dying an ignoble death, and the pound is worth half of its value. Brexit was the stupidest idea the Brits have had since chattel slavery.
Reagan left California in a fcking mess as governor. How he duped the American public into thinking his economic policies would be good for the United States is fcking beyond comprehension
I had him as governor. Somehow he was persuaded that an educated populace is a threat to the ruling class. And so he cut off state funding of higher education in California and here we are almost 60 years later. My grandchild can't read my script!
Before he was governor, Reagan worked as a spokesperson for GE. He became a mouthpiece of the rich, and for a particular faction of wealthy zealots. The people he represented hate democracy, and the public education system that makes it possible. They have worked steadily to erode both, and sadly, this work is paying off for them. Educators and voters have resisted. But the whole system is right on the edge. Hopefully, we can save it.
College graduates are the most likely competitors to the aristocracies businesses. The biggest theme of Reaganomics was to kill competition so the wealthy can have more.
An educated populace is a threat to the ruling class, because that education could lead them to believe they could change things while also giving them the capability to do so. If a blue collar individual was given the same education, and provided even half of the same opportunities that come out of it as the white collared individuals(especially in the 80s), they may have found footholds into their society and(because of their background) be of a mind to tear it all down. The dumber we are, the easier we are to control and the less likely we are to try and inhabit or influence a world that seems so far above us. Can't have us thinking we're as good as they are
We came across an old friend's baby-book (scrapbook/record of a child as a baby and toddler) and on the first page it had information like where a person was born and who was governor. It didn't name Reagan but rather said, "An idiot B-movie actor and pawn of the military industrial complex." That was written by her mother who wasn't particularly political, it was just known info at the time.
YESSSS! That is not at all well understood. I graduated high-school in 83 so idk about the underpinnings of politics, the unspoken read-between-the-lines parts of politics before around like 81 or 82, but from that time forward (at least) I think that those who help power in the Republican party came from a thought to keep the masses easier to control through less education, more religion and whenever and however possible, in desperation, fear, anger and hate. I saw it over and over in what they did with their power. Needless to say I'm a Dem.💙💙💙
@@fritzforsthoefel8031, did you even listen to the video because it talks about the Welfare Queen and “handouts” that are so conditional. Why do you want people to suffer just because they are struggling
@@caveygamingWhy is it called Reagonomics? Also, he was a large part of why union membership started to fall. Anyways, we have to move on despite the evils of Reagan. Currently, Biden is the only president to have attended a pickett with striking union members, so Democrats are at least sending a clear message of support to unions. On the other hand, most Republicans are still trying to trick Americans into thinking unions are evil because they think most Americans are dumb. I mean how can they not, low IQ republicans keep voting them in despite all of their lies, no wonder they think working class citizens are dumb
I remember Charlie Chaplin was forced to return to England. ( Reagan used his position as head of the actors union to supply information to the Unamerican activities committee. (McCarthy) )
@@dennisholliday2454 He didn't look that good : his secret was that he was blind, blind people pay extremely close attention to people voices, they have to, and he had perfected the art of emotional manipulation. See my comment on the teacher Christopher Mc Auliffe. Your feelings are mild compared to many on this page.
@@StoutProper Reagan used the art of the false image throughout his life : he had so perfected the art of emotional manipulation, he could get people to act against their own interests. He always acted in his own interests, and ignored all others. To understand how far this went, in the case of the Kent State University Massacre, Reagan was one of the first, if not the first, to suggest the use of violence to crush the protests against the Vietnam war. Others followed after him, Spiro Agnew, and others. (See the Thomas Hartman video on Trump planning Kent State Massacres across the country. (He got the idea from Reagan. )) See my comments on the Space Shuttle Disaster, another instance of his being able to blind people with emotional language. He projected an image of himself as a nice guy when he was utterly ruthless.
THANK YOU!!! I lived through Reagan, am a white single mother of three sons who I raised with no assistance from their father or family. I put myself through nursing school and worked for 28 years as a critical care RN. I am now 66 years old, on disability, have no pension nor any help from my family. I live a simple life with my cat, I never remarried. My sons do not speak with me-they have bought into this destructive belief system. It has broken our family irrevocably, I see no solution. The people who adhere to this are not Christian. Christ himself is heartbroken I am sure. THANK YOU!!!!
As a former employee of a well known national used car dealer, it’s disgusting how they blatantly and openly tell you during “training” that unions are evil, that they’re bad for employees and that the company will take care of you.
Exactly please tell every young person you know or come across about the benefits and need of unions. Nixon and Reagan worked for the "trickle down" mafia to destroy unions. But unions were the only bulwark Americans had to balance against the "trickle down" cult of the 1%. Once unions were pretty much wiped out, the 1% just started hunting everyone and turning us all into their livestock. Over past 10 years the ultra-wealthy pulling the strings orchestrating all the endless nonsense stupidity and chaos the easily manipulated buy into systematically shredded the legitimate U.S.A constitutions to that purpose.
Unions wouldn’t be effective in any capacity in a car dealership. Sales is a competition between employees and unions are focused on ensuring equality. Not even the salesman would entertain that notion
An added bonus - As governor of California, Reagan closed the majority of state mental hospitals. Hence, there was a surge in the number of mentally-ill homeless people.
That was nationwide. It made homelessness worse. Mental health care was never funded like it should have been even when the hospitals were functioning. Things got worse when they were closed and community mental health care was the only thing left. That was underfunded too.
@@alangray9117 While I don't know the difficulties of community health care in the US, I am aware how difficult it is in the UK. It needs to be remembered, many of the people under such care suffer from problems of emotional control, resulting in, to the uninitiated, unexpected outbursts of violence. The motives for closing hospitals have become obvious : they were on the edge of town in the 19th century and became prime real estate in the 20th : a real estate scam. There were a number of cases in the UK were documents were lost, resulting in areas bequeathed for hospital usage being reduced to a tiny fraction, of the total, and rest used for real estate, patently against the original wishes.
Yea that explains a lot I was once grabbed by homeless man in downtown San Jose when I pushed him off me and asked wtf are you doing he grabbed my shirt again than I punched him in the face and he let me go twitching when I walked away he came running towards me and slapped me in the back the head I chased after him but couldn't catch up then put my hands up in the air and called it a day mad asf with the homeless problem in this State
My dad raised me on Reaganomics because he was convinced that the richest knew best. I got to see the CEO at my company in action and how he was a bumbling idiot, and as time went I continued to see more and more rich people being the dumbest people alive: Elizabeth Holmes's Theranos duped so many investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars despite the outrageous claims of her product. Investors of FTX thought it was amazing that Sam Bankmanfried was in a call with them while playing League of Legends. Dude was ranked bronze. Spez, the CEO of Reddit has so little to do that he scoured the site looking for comments about himself and editing them. Stockman Rush, the CEO of Oceangate needs no introduction.
I wish I could bumble into a few billion. call me the dumbest fool on the planet, meanwhile I'd be laughing all the time. Meanwhile I'm listening to this idiot.
The thing about the rich is, they have so much cash that they don't have to be intelligent. They simply throw some money at their problems and thus never get to learn from the consequences of their stupidity. And so it goes.
If you vote democrat don't you to deserve a long prison sentence Madoffs Ponzi scheme for which he went to prison for was set up exactly like ss and medicare and democrats set up both programs
They called the homeless villages that popped up during the Depression "Hoovervilles" - we need to start calling the current homeless encampments everywhere "Reaganvilles" (under overpasses, side of the road, etc.)
If you look up pictures of Hoovervilles, you'll notice that most of them are these sprawling, makeshift neighborhoods of homeless housing made from sheet metal and plywood. We don't have homeless encampments like that in the modern day because the cops destroy them (and in turn the belongings of all the homeless who live there) before they can get that large. Implying that they're large enough to earn the -ville suffix is a bit of an overstatement and an implication that the homeless are allowed to have anything permanent in this economy. Therefore, I suggest a more fitting name: Reagapartments.
Reagan's charisma charmed many pople... enough for people to completley ignore his horrendous policies. The man everyone thinks is a patriot harmed the United States the most of any president in the 1900s.
Don't forget the Bush family. Reagan was the front man, making intolerable policies and actions, acceptable. The Bush family was the back, thieving every $. The combination effect was catastrophic. Thatcher was the nearest equivalent : she was limited by the Parliament and Cabinet, who in the end simply couldn't stand her. Her length of tenure was greatly facilitated by the Falklands War, without which her opportunities for damage would have been greatly reduced.
You're absolutely right. Their scam worked like this. Nixon and Reagan both pretended to be "standing up to the Soviet Union"). This gave Nixon the cover to go work with the CCP basically kiss Maos butt and pretend it was "all about 'countering USSR" when it was really all about Mao had enslaved his people and had a huge slave labor force that Nixon and the "trickle down" mafia could use to destroy unions in the U.S. Reagan working for same "trick down" caste system followed the same playbook. Reagan (like Trump) was a charismatic movie actor who is absolutely not qualified intellectually morally or any other way to be president or involved in government. But the "indiocracy" always votes for whoever superficial jerk has the most charisma especially since the advent of television and now the perverse incentives of "screen economy." Everything about Reagan "beating the Soviet Union" was NOT what the Republican Party claims it was or what people want to believe and the proof is in the terrible problem we have with Putin over many years to culminate in this terrible war. The reality is the vile "trickle down" mafia and their rotten to the core locked us all in place class structure runs everything in this country and free-rides on everyone's hard work and sacrifices. But the "trickle down" mafia has no sound judgment or long term perspective and their decisions are perpetually unsound. Reagan like Nixon, it wasn't exactly about "defeating the Soviets," but about the "trickle down" mafia free rein rushing right into Moscow the moment Berlin Wall fell "investing" in Russia willy nilly any way they wanted with absolutely no requirements whatsoever like Russia dismantling its nuclear weapons in order to get our investment. But what really happened the freeloading "trickle down" mafia behind Reagan got all intertwined with Putin mafia at the expense of the American people and American security and on the backs of everyone who suffered and died in the Cold War. And the corrupt money flowed into the London, Germany, the U.S. Florida big magnet for it, flowed like wine into the coffers of the "Republican Party" corrupting everything. (This same pattern has happened before in our history after defeating the "biggest enemy.") So because the "trickle down" mafia is loaded with Putin mafia money and because psychopaths demagogues like Trump and his cult want to be outright Putin overlords of this country, now the "Republican Party" that was all Gung ho anti-Russia in the 80s is not pumping out all that colossal anti Russian propaganda they pumped out in the 1980s for Reagan. But the American public gives no thought to any of this because the "trickle down" mafia is so good at distracting and deflecting everything away from themselves controlling the "conversation" dividing and conquering thieving wages manipulating subjugating and exploiting us. It's just mind boggling how many bandwagon no questions asked with whatever garbage the "Republican Party" puts out, take no responsibility for voting for Reagan and still buy into all the lies surrounding Reagan to the detriment of this country. Same people either blindly or willfully follow the inevitable result of downward spiral of "Idiocracy" electing a movie star as president and bow to that outcome of an orange Mussolini like a hive of madmen elevating a psychopath to the level of a "god."
So I guess you think things are going really well right now in our country? I remember the 80s and 90s and things were going MUCH MUCH better than they are now. According to you and Leeja I am sure it is a Republican that is at fault for the mess we are in now. Reagan did not harm the US more than any president in the 1900s, that is YOUR opinion, most people don't agree!
@@graciel2313 Reagan was responsible for the gross national debt. Remember after he was shot, how school children were questioning him about the debt. He simply quoted the growth mantra. By crushing taxation of workers, and slashing maximum tax rates, he moved the balance of campaign contributions by a factor of 4 to 5. The Clintons, Hilary bragged she was a hard line Republican in her youth, got the Presidency as a result. No one since Reagan has been able to control debt growth. The debt $ 35 Trillion is now sufficient to create the conditions for Weimar style inflation : the interest rate is now limited by the debt. Given 2/3 of the US population live paycheck to paycheck, when the US $ loses Reserve status, at least 3/4 of the US will be economically crushed.
I'm a retired Psych RN. One thing u didn't mention was that Regan closed many State Hispitals and promised they would be replaced by Community based hospitals. However, he never followed through w the 2nd part; hence the beginning of rampant homeless. Thx for 'the memories'😢
He made President Carters Mental Reform act both meaningless and void. I don't doubt it would have taken several iterations to be truly effective but the political will was there, along with the insight needed.
Not to mention, thousands of mentally ill patients were thrown on the streets to die when Republican president Reagan cut funding and closed State Hospitals.
President Kennedy started this though thank God the psychiatric Institute I was at for 3 months was not closed until 2002 because of the owner diverting tax money from Medicaid to his Florida hospitals which were failing because Florida Medicaid wasn't paying them right so they shut that hospital down and build another one in Westbrook Maine with smaller number of beds. We need to re-open these psychiatric hospitals because some of us just can't live on the streets fortunately I can but there are some who can't and they're living in group homes and some of them just walk away from it and they're on the Street Homeless you can't keep somebody unless they're harm to themselves or someone else some people do much better in a hospital setting than they do in public setting when it was time for me to leave I was in tears because I didn't want to go
@@Davey-TheDJ The original concept was the usage of modern drugs would elevate mental problems for many patients sufficiently to allow them to live independent lives. (The use of lithium for bipolar disorder for example. ) Reagan and his buddies viewed this as an opportunity to perform a land grab. The closing of the hospitals was real estate fraud. Carter was trying to get realistically good living conditions for the mentally afflicted.
what never fails to surprise me is how all these politicians use the same speeches without fail. im from brazil, and we recently had a president that replicated reagan's welfare queen discourse to justify taking away a welfare that helped low class mothers. this is so revolting.
After watching your post election vid with no makeup last night, I bought a shirt! :) I hate the trickle down economics and consider myself an economic populist. II think the world is so much better with people like Leeja in it.
That's another thing he introduced. The police and consequences are something for the morally failing poor. The morally superior rich are above such things.
Reagan got away with murder on the Iran contra scandal. He should’ve been investigated, because of what he did in his involvement with that scandal, because it was actually a treasonous act!
I remember loving Reagan. I remember loving everything about him. I remember defending him for decades. And I remember the decades long process of completely changing practically EVERYTHING i once believed about EVERYTHING. Thank you for your excellent video!
The Right has lied about Reagan ever since he left office. His pals at National Review and other conservative rags have deified Reagan for years and have succeeded in making him a kind of god.
You are testament to the ability for human beings to make monumental, positive change. Your story gives people hope that our society will not spiral into a irreversible dystopia. Thank you for being so honest and giving me hope. ❤
It's crazy to think that nearly all the problems in our country right now are, by varying extents, due to Reagan's policies. Even worse, every president since Reagan has only continued to uphold those policies.
You know we have had a few elections since Reagan's second election, and a few different Congresses and Senates elections as well. No one has produced the change you seek? Have you contacted yours?
@@fredrodriguez177 I have been in frequent contact with her. Oh, I see what you're saying, sir, I'm making fun of the Democrats back east in the hopes that they will see the error of their ways. I'm in CO and not Blue Denver. Here, the sheriff actually dislodges squatting campers!
I'm a Union worker and for the life of me I can never understand why some of my fellow union members vote for Republicans when they're the one's that are against unions and want to see us fall!🤦🏾♂️
Both Carter and Reagen used government force to bust up Union strikes. Idw to let Carter off too easy, but , at least, he felt bad about it and he felt he had to to protect kids from freezing to death due to the striking coal miners. Otoh, Reagan busted up the air traffic controlers strike and the only thing he prevented was airline customers being inconvenienced.
@@oksaturn122 Actually, they were fired for striking. 12,000 of them. It's even covered in this video that you don't appear to have watched very carefully. You don't seem to know very much about unions for someone with such a strong opinion about them. You're wrong, btw.
He wouldn't feel at home, to be honest. He'd be horrified for sure, the question is, would he have any idea that he helped create it? See back then they felt the need to hide much of the awfulness so they could pretend they were 'the good guys'. They had to believe the lie themselves, first. Ever more of the right wing today is dropping that pretense.
Only a partisan Democrat would argue that there's no difference between Reagan and Trump. That's not a fair statement and I say this as someone who never voted for Trump.
"Ronald Reagan is the greatest president ever" "But what about AIDS? He actively ignored a whole pandemic, and let thousands of people die" "Exactly" A conversation between my dad and a teenage me. Im a literal saint for having not killed him tbh
He gave the biggest tax cuts on middle class. That’s why the us economy was the best it ever was. You are absolutely wrong about middle class. My family went from poor to upper middle class.
I think this could be due to an underlying desire to feel like they're in control. Nobody wants to believe their problems may have roots in things that are out of their ability to change or control.
Conservatives essentially think of themselves as the true inheritors of the country whereas everyone else is a parasite or tourist. So, how do you make the parasites have less power? Don't allow collective bargaining.
...and Reagan fired over 11,000 union members when they went on strike, effectively encouraging other employers (like Hormel, Phelps Dodge and International Paper) to fire striking union workers and replace them at will. So started the murder of the middle class -- by Ronald Wilson Reagan and the Republican Party.
He decided to tax waitresses for suspected unreported income, making tipping a general requirement because they were going to be taxed a percentage according to the amount they served. That bully was picking on some of the most struggling citizens in the country.
Oh yes, I was going to bring that up--I was cooking in a restaurant in California at the time and some of the waitresses had checks for under $10 for their take home pay for a WEEK! He was an evil SOB.
@@Marcus_C51 How long did he need to get that into effect ? After Reagan became President, doctoral students were being tax audited one month after his inauguration. I suspect that he spread such action nationwide, one month after his inauguration : I live in the UK, not the US, so I have no direct way of knowing but judging by his other actions, he would have acted instantly to wreck everyone.
@@michaeledwards2251 One month sounds about right, maybe two. As bad as that was, I wasn't really aware of the extent of his damaging actions. The bs trickle down economics and small government. He was a prime example of someone who was living in an ivory tower with not a sliver of concern about helping the lower middle class and poor. I'd also forgotten of his firing of all the air traffic controllers-who in the hell does that? No concern of the safety of the American people either. Don't get me started about Trump...he is a cancer to this country.
RFK jr is a candidate who does have the hardworking class of America in his best interest. He wants to stop the influence big corporations have in politics and politicians. Vote RFK 2024🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸
Regan and Thatcher were perhaps the most destructive duo in all of human history... we're half a century away from them, and we're nowhere near escaping the shadow of their insanity
I hated that man. It was beyond me how anyone could fall for his hail-fellow-well-met _bullschiesse._ He ruined this country, and his fate was well deserved.
Thank you for this! I am now 72 and have been screaming this virtually my whole adult life. My wages have effectively never gone up, I've always been chasing debt and the day the unions let him fire the air traffic controllers and they all went back to racism/sexism/church, was the day they died. We should have had a nationwide sympathy strike then. We didn't. And now people vote against themselves!
I'm 75, and didn't really forgive my dad for voting for him. I saw the effects live, when working for a wonderful federally funded program--just lost money that we once had. Known for his ignoring AIDs, destroying PATCO, (and most unions), racist policies, many jobs going overseas, etc.
There is another thing many often like to overlook. Reagan destroyed American manufacturing cause most factory workers were left leaning. There used to be laws, tariffs and regulations preventing American companies to outsource production. That makes sense, you don't want to invest in your industry only for that industry to then move and take all your investments with it. However Reagan abolished those laws and companies left in droves. The most popular destination for them was an impoverished country with a huge potential workforce: China. But many still talk about the deindustrialization as a natural thing of economics rather than a political decision.
American Workers should have engaged in a General Strike after Reagan fired the PATCO workers and should not have returned to work until Reagan gave up on his Supply-side Economic policies.
Reagan also increased the national debt by 186% the next closest modern president to this was George W Bush at 101%. Reagan started our national debt problem.
Reagan was the one who changed the attitude, on the part of government, what a tolerable national debt was. Remember how when school children questioned him about the debt, he simply repeated the growth mantra. Every President since has done the same thing : it won't be long before the debt is past 40 Trillion $ and rising. The ceiling has been suspended, supposed temporarily, but does anyone believe it can every be bought under control ? The only option left will be default with the loss of reserve status : the process is already underway and accelerating.
He was the worst he changed this country with his redistribution to the wealth he altered the top 99 percent of this country fired all air traffick controlers brought scabs information lower wages he is the start of the magga maggats
@@fritzforsthoefel8031 actually Johnson added 13% from Kennedy. Nixon followed Johnson with adding 34%. If you want to blame a president for increasing the public debt for social programs that would be Franklin D. Roosevelt who increased the budget by 1048% to pull the country out of depression. Reagan added 1.86 Trillion to the national budget. This makes him #3 behind Roosevelt and Wilson 723 % in increasing the national budget.
My Great Aunt HATED Reagan. She would seethe at the TV when he would come on. She lived through the depression and WWII. Loved Roosevelt. I think of her regularly and thank her for providing my foundation of being an ardent leftist.
I mentioned to my father that Reagan was being called a "Roosevelt of the Right". My father, who came of age during the Depression said no, he wasn't a Roosevelt of the Right. My father, a working man, lived through the thirties and knew what he was talking about. Roosevelt was one of our greatest presidents, while Reagan was little more than a liar and slick con man.
Seething at a person you disagree with is a sign of mental illness. Roosevelt's policies created stagflation, your grandmother doesn't know what she was talking about.
I was a kid during this. And I watched the beginning of what would become America today. It's been a long game, and one that has made foundational changes that are hard to reverse. In that way, they were smart. They knew what to do over time, like changing the courts, to cement these changes. We've lost generations and lives to this way of thinking and even more to come. From AIDS to COVID and the merging of religion with law, we're seeing the horrible results and reversing it is going to be difficult but it must be done. Younger generations have seen the result of this in the worst ways, from school shootings to being constantly broke, it's a warped way to govern that puts 90+% of the population into wage slavery, denies reality, and puts people in power with no concern or knowledge of the people they are supposed to represent.
Well said! Our government has been taken over by millionaires & billionaires who rule our laws & federal government! This is 40 years of trickle down BS! We the people need to ALL Vote Democrat & Tax the Rich…. It’s only fair! ⚖️🇺🇸💙
This should be required viewing for Americans under the age of 45 (those who aren’t old enough to remember Reagan’s presidency) Clear and concise and very informative.
Wait a second. My Pa went to work at a blue collar job at ei dupont shortly after he returned from the Korean War. His job provided a good pay check, matching savings, stock by in, medical, dental, 2 weeks of vacation a year and a very safe work environment (at time his plant was certified as the safest factory in the world) My mom stayed home and took care of the kids. He could buy a new car pretty frequently, he bought some vacation/retirement property and he could send his kids to college. When I was in my twenties he told me he lived in the Golden years of the factory worker. And I laughed at him. At that time corporate taxes were 90%. But rather than spending that money on taxes, corporations invested that money back in the company and its employees. After Reagan cut corporate taxes to 30% there was no incentive for corporations to take care of their workers. Capitalism ran a muck and all the profits went to the top tier CEOs and VPs. I'm 67 now he's 94. There are no blue collar jobs like that in America anymore. The retirement health insurance is gone, the life insurance he paid for 60 years was canceled. The promise of America is gone! THAT'S WHAT CAPITALISM WILL GET YOU!!
Totally correct, plus he made going to college to lower middle class and poor totally out of reach . He basically ruined any chance for me to go to college. Because kids like me had No Bootstraps.
@havable thankfully he has SS and VA! At least for the time being. Let's see that MAGAot republicans don't cut they're own throats! It seems pretty easy to get them to vote against their own self-interest!
Thank you for doing this. I've been trying to point out on "social" media for YEARS that Donald Trump IS NOT an "accident" or an "anomaly" of our politics. Donald John Trump is and always was the WHOLE POINT of and the INEVITABLE and UNAVOIDABLE conclusion of The Reagan "Revolution".
Hilary was the point : everyone had a let off with Trump. (Victory was an accident : he was trying to increase his brand value, he didn't plan on being President. If that sounds like an idiot, remember Trump's estimated IQ is about 70.) Hilary was so war mad, even Obama was influenced to go further than he would have otherwise. (Remember Nobel Peace winner, who had drone Tuesdays.) Trump, a man who is barely literate, unable to read a graph, proved too much for the alphabet soup. At the end he was trying to achieve peace.
I’ve been saying this for my entire lifetime. My parents LOVE Regan. I just can’t wrap my head around it. They have been lower middle class their whole life and still working in their late 60’s…mostly because of him.
He did more damage than so many people realize. I'm glad that you're telling the Truth.... the Truth that needs to be told!! I was born in the 50's.... I watched and lived the damage he inspired. People need to know. 🙏❤ Please cover the close of State run Mental Hospitals. All these facts need to be a part of every school curriculum! Thank you!!😊❤
"A rising tide lifts all boats." Way too many of us found out that, if you cannot afford a boat (or to pay someone to be on theirs), a rising tide just causes you to be cold and wet and eventually to drown.
Great analogy. While a few hundred billionaire families now live on a fleet of megayachts, we have 40% of the entire population who has less than $400. And over 90 million people now so poor they qualify for Medicaid (not Medicare for the elderly, Medicaid), with over 60% of those people working at a job, and over 80% in a household where someone is working. This is what trickle down gave us.
When one President leaves office, he talks to his replacement alone in the White House for a few hours to discuss the state of the Nation. I remember Jimmy Carter saying when he sat down with Reagan to discuss topics/issues on the state of the Nation, he could tell Reagan had no clue what he (Carter) was talking about. I always thought Reagan was just a figurehead for Big Business and Wall Street. The fact that he closed all the Mental Facilities, threw vulnerable people on the street and cut rehabilitation funding in prisons pretty much says it all.
I believe it. When Margaret Thatcher, who was prime minister of Great Britain during the time Reagan was in office, met with him, she was quoted as saying, "There's nothing upstairs."
Agree with everything you said. I'm 70 so lived through Reagan and remember his "Voodoo Economics" and the middle and lower class economy being negatively effected by the "Ray Gun" . Never voted for him myself but sadly not enough voters saw him for what he was. Make no mistake, our current democracy is very fragile and will remain so because a very large portion of the population is so easily misled.
@@StevenBazin-bp4sc I know poor people however did they afford $2 eggs, 2% inflation, buying houses at 2% interest rates, how ever did NYC get by before they had to support all those illegal aliens in those hotels? Poor, poor, poor people!
In 81 I was working midnights caring for pediatric psych patients while attending nursing school. It was OK to nap on our 1-hour break, but I was never enamoured of waking up in a mental hospital. One shift I did nap and woke up to my worst nightmare--Bonzo Reagan as MY PRESIDENT!!
T-bills were 16-18%, Home mortgages were 18-20% my occupation as a timber faller was on hold as nobody but the rich were able to do anything. The Lumber mills were all closed, try feeding your family when no jobs were available.
@@donaldindividual-1 And, You can't make the Connection. You already "logged over", the Western Forests, to where only 10 Percent of The "Old Growth" Forest, remained. And, You wanted THAT, too! Mismanagement of Our Natural Resources, is an old story, on both sides. Ask Yourself, why were T-Bill Rates, so high? Probably had nothing to do, with "shutting down", the sawmills. Our so-called "Economists", have also been less than honest, with Us. The OPEC Cartel, and Our Unqualified Support of Israel, hasn't helped, either. What happened, to The Camp David, and Dayton Accords, anyway?
@@zendonrey122 One of the first things that should be done, is remove Mount Reagan's name, in New Hampshire; and transfer it, to a Gravel Pile. Whether you are aware of it, or not; a PAC was formed, to put Reagan's Name, on something, in every County, in the United States; In Cincinnati, The Cross-County Freeway was renamed, for Reagan; He didn't deserve it. Also, ask The People, of Dixon, Illinois (Reagan's alleged "Hometown"); what He did, to Them. They wouldn't even fund the restoration of His Boyhood Home; That was done, by a Florida Developer. Reagan's doings shut down the Town's two biggest Employers: Northwest Tool and Die, and The Dixon State Developmental Center.
I can remember my ultra conservative dad talking about how reagan was the greatest president ever and Jimmy Carter was the worst president ever. In reality it's pretty much reversed
@@cattibingoSince Vietnam and the rise of the MIC the GOP has been singularly obsessed with doing everything possible to sabotage the Democratic Party and screw America’s middle and lower classes. Every policy they’ve pushed proves this. And the Reagan administration literally committed multiple acts of treason. The Founders would have had them all hung.
Oh yeah, Jimmy Carter was such a great president, boy, we screwed up not re-electing him (NOT!!). Because of Jimmy peanuts, the liberal media, created, for Jimmy the "misery index." Double digit inflation rate, double digit interest rates and double digit unemployment rate. Boy, those were the good old days (NOT!!). And Jimmy did such a good job standing up to Iran-who was holding a large group of Americans hostage (NOT!!). If you take a look back, you will find that those very same hostages were being loaded on a plane headed to the US just as Reagan was taking the oath of office. This action was not because of anything Jimmy peanuts did, but because of something the Iranians feared that Reagan WOULD do.
I remember the Reagan years, when all the clothes, necessities, toys, etc. It said made in the US; ten years later, it was already one in four, 15 years later, one in ten, and now, one in 20-25, it is practically a rarity. When you destroy unions and sell your industrial base for scrap, these things often happen. Ronald Reagan was the best investment of people with money in history.
Reagan had the idea but, what really caused alot of the factories leaving and rarely seeing made in the US labels was NAFTA and subsidies for corporations to move to other countries like China. And the rapid rise of Walmart was one of the leading culprits in Made in China promoting.
@@piotrd.4850 Please, I need some historical references to rectify my "foolish" assumptions. What policies where implement by previous Administrations that impacted in so profund ways the industrial base and economy of the US, policies that are still use today as references for a major political party?
As a non-american all of this is fascinating. It explains the behaviours of my own politicians at the time. When you are from a poor country people look up to the developed economies and think: This people have objectively better lives and they do all this stuff. We must do the same so we can be like them. So in a way Reagan not only ruined lives in the US. But internationally.
You're right about that; with Climate Change, especially! Reagan had a chance, to lead The United States, and The Free World, maybe even Russia, into a Better World; and He blew it, BIG TIME! Jimmy Carter had his share of blame, as well, but I did a little research, in the Meantime; and He made TWO, BIG, mistakes: The first, was Inexperience, especially with Washington. He had been a Peanut Farmer, in Southern Georgia, after being in The Submarine Service. He had a couple of terms, either as a Representative, in The Georgia Legislature, or in The U.S. House of Representatives, then I believe, one term, as Georgia Governor. Just like Barack Obama, after Him; He was woefully unprepared, for The Morass, that is Washington D.C. He did not have good advisors, BEFORE He ran for President; like Franklin Roosevelt did; nor did He have Big City Experience (Roosevelt, New York City), or Government Experience (Roosevelt, Secretary of The Navy, under Woodrow Wilson, during World War I (Roosevelt also went, beyond his "jurisdiction", as The American Navy was there, mainly as a "countering Chess Piece", to keep The German Navy, "bottled up", in The Baltic; so Roosevelt went to London, met with King George V, and Winston Churchill; Who was Roosevelt's Counterpart, in Great Britain, visited The Front (The Position He visited, was attacked; shortly after He left, so draw Your own conclusions), and met, with other European Royalty; building relationships that would "serve Him well", during World War II. No doubt He also discussed Japan, with His Great Uncle-in-Law, Theodore; Who received The Nobel Peace Prize, and The first shipment of Japanese Cherry Trees, from The Japanese Emperor; as a "Thank-You", for acting as an "intermediary", negotiating The Treaty that ended The Russo-Japanese War, in 1905. Roosevelt then served at least one term, as a Representative in The New York State Legislature, was James Cox's Running Mate, in The 1920 Presidential Election; Contracted Poliomyelitis, but then built The Warm Springs Polio Rehabilitation Center, with His Own Fortune, as well as locating His White House "Getaway" there, later, served as New York Governor, at the Start of The Great Depression (New York was The Largest State, Population-wise; in The Country, with a substantial Industrial; and National and International Trade Base, and Financial Market Base. Dealing with The Depression, in New York State, plus Assistance from His Wife, Eleanor, and his substantial Political Connections; prepared Him, well, for running for President, in 1932, as well as dealing with Washington.) Carter had none of that experience, was somewhat combative, chose his advisors, badly; like listening to David Rockefeller, President of Chase Manhattan Bank, who persuaded Carter, to allow The Deposed Shah of Iran, into the United States, for Cancer Treatment, further angering The Iranians, after He persuaded Mexico, to accept The Shah, and his Wife, in exile. He made mistakes; calling The Shah, an "Island of Stability", in The Middle East; handled The OPEC Oil Embargo, and the resulting inflation, badly; allowed Alfred Kahn, to persuade Him, to Deregulate The Airline Industry; creating Chaos there (Kahn later received an award, from The Airlines); Was a Strong Supporter of Israel, further angering The Arab Bloc, as well as negotiating The Camp David Accords, between Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, and The First Likud Prime Minister, and Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt. The Camp David Accords, didn't last too long; The Palestinians felt, like they had been "thrown, under The Bus", Israel continued its "creeping annexation" of The West Bank, under Likud (Begin coined The Term, "Judea, and Samaria", for The West Bank, using two ancient Jewish State Names, for that Area); and Anwar Sadat, and twice-Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin; were Assassinated, by religious fanatics, on their own respective sides. Carter was also perceived, as badly handling The Three Mile Island, Nuclear Crisis, The Oil Crisis, then following these up, with a speech, which became known as The "Malaise" Speech, where He criticized Americans, for a "lack of Confidence", and "runaway materialism", exhorting them, but not submitting any "concrete proposals" for dealing with The Energy Crisis. The "Topper" was The 444-day Iranian Hostage Crisis, which was compounded, by an alleged "October Surprise" Deal (and there is strong evidence for this, as there was, with Nixon's similar Deal, in 1968; to derail The Paris Peace Talks), with The Reagan Campaign, secretly contacting The Iranian Regime, and arranging for The Hostages' Release, as Reagan was "Sworn in", as President. There was also a "botched", attempt, to "shred" secret documents, when The American Embassy was invaded, by The Iranian Revolutionary Guard, where in the Aftermath, Iranians painstakingly pieced the Documents, back together, and released their contents, allegedly showing American, and CIA Interference, in Iranian Affairs. A "botched" attempt, to rescue The Hostages, didn't help either, when one, or both Helicopters; crashed in The Iranian Desert, at night, killing several Marines. ABC News, for some reason, kept up a steady "drumbeat", on The Hostage Crisis, and initiated their "Nightline" Program, broadcast after local late-evening News; beginning with the announcement: Today is the xxxth Day, of The Iranian Hostage Crisis. Carter in November 1980, lost heavily to Ronald Reagan; carrying only about eight States, and The Iranians "kept their word" about releasing The Hostages, with a special bulletin, of The Jetliner leaving Tehran Airport, as Reagan was inaugurated. For this reason, and The Fact that Carter was a "good man", but a bad President; and enabled Reagan's Election, I am considering raising Carter, to Number 8, or 9, of Worst U.S. Presidents. Trump is Number one, on that list, with Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush, in a virtual "tie" for Second Place, Richard Nixon, Number 4; Andrew Jackson, Number 5, Calvin Coolidge, Number 6, Woodrow Wilson, Number 7, then Jimmy Carter. Anyone care, to dispute this?
Yes, I immigrated to Mexico ten months ago and the ‘American Dream’ vibe is present here too. Some want to go to the US, some just emulate the materialism
I grew up in a wealthy Western European country and my parents taught me that we have to hold out against the American insanity because their influence could ruin our social democracy, I'm glad we managed to stay a country with universal healthcare, free university and strong unions but things have shifted to the right and I don't have all the same benefits my parents had in their student days. I guess the death throes of the US will last longer than my life and only once climate change has irreversibly devastated the planet and the super rich have escaped into orbit, who knows, maybe something new will rise from the ashes.
@@c.w.8200Raygun's nonsense was bought lock stock and barrel by Thatcher in the British Isles. My god Weare in a mess now as a result of those facists.
I was a railroad conductor for UP for 10 years till I got injured on the job. It is unionized but the rail labor unions are really weak now and they basically capitulate to what the company wants every time a new contract comes up to be signed. It’s very bad for train crews and now the public because railroads want to run trains with only ONE person where there used to be 5-6 man train crews.
@@likesanddislikesetc Surprising there aren't more and worse incidents, especially given the stupidity of many drivers who stop on train tracks and wonder why their vehicle gets destroyed. (Including police drivers who left a prisoner in their car. )
@@MICHAELEDWARDS-x1y one time the breast cancer awareness bicycle race had a route that crossed the tracks. I was on a 100 car empty grain train going 50 mph. About 10-12 women on bikes stopped in the middle of the crossing and just stared at us as we barreled down the tracks; guess they thought we’d stop. Nope: they just barely got off there as we went by. Stupidity at its finest.
@@likesanddislikesetc By the way the prisoner in the police car got $7.5 million compensation, she had to agree to a deal because the local municipality involved had to use their $10 million insurance. Their lawyers got $2.5 million for doing essentially nothing. (Barely sufficient to cover medical bills and loss of earnings. )
well said! Unions also protect workers from industrial accidents. Having worked in a shipyard in the 60's our union protected workers from abuse from management!
I was in the AFT. I can't recall how often the union was there to protect against some stupid administration decision. OTOH, there was less they could do since only around 5% (??) of teachers belonged. Back in the day it would have been closer to 100%.
Unions are essential for a true democracy. They provide an essential check on corporate power. Reagan led the assault on unions from which they have never recovered. The rise of Trump was almost inevitable because unions could no longer provide a counter to right-wing and corporate propaganda. As pointed out in the New York Times, employer power in the workplace is absolute as workers have lost nearly all their rights with working people reduced to little more than wage-serfs for capital. Reagan was a clever spokesman for employers and he convinced many that unions were nothing more than tyrannies for union bosses to enrich themselves.
Regan made it acceptable to be a semi-fascist. As someone that practices law, has studied economics and political science, I can 100% agree that his economic and social policies are devastating to people to this day. I never thought of this until you did this video, but the star of "bed time for bonzo" as a republican president is eerily similar to the host of the apprentice becoming president.
Sorry, no evidence of Fascism. "Thou shalt not bear false witness" (9th Commandment). You are a liar, and you shall answer to the Lord Jesus Christ on Judgment Day (Revelation 21:8, KJV). Even so, come, Lord Jesus! Establish the Kingdom in Jerusalem and save the world from the tyranny of Democracy (Daniel 7:7, KJV)!
@@davidlafleche1142 Are you serious? Did you watch the video or are you just trolling people on her comment section? I am not a liar. I am open to being wrong and a healthy debate. Bible quotes don't really do it for me though as an argument. I have read the new and old testament (I thought about becoming a priest in the roman catholic church in my youth instead I started practicing law). Have you ever read those books. Also I am bisexual so I guess I am already going to hell for that. Everything else is just gravy now.
@@bgb9822 Reagan was not a Fascist. He also saved the USA from Carter's recession. Granted, both Parties should cut Federal spending 70%, but tax hikes are unfair.
@@davidlafleche1142 “After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.” Daniel 7:7 KJV What kind of weed are you smoking?
This is so true, but also Leeja's content is useful for some of us who understand what is wrong with society but don't know exactly where it began, and we can point it out and open discussions with other people who are willing to learn, and perhaps some day educate our children and make a change for the future generations.
@dotstewart3682 None of which are adduced. Such as the shrinking of the middle class, despite Americans moving into higher income brackets adjusted for inflation.
Of course, at the same time we in the UK had Thatcher! They were like two peas in a pod. One difference though was that even her own party plotted to get rid of here. But she managed to serve for 10 years. One thing that boosted her popularity was the total pointless Falklands war. She also believed in trickle down economics, threw all the miners under a (actually I suppose several) Buses/bus, removed virtually all banking restrictions leading to economic disaster a little further down the line. She was even afforded a state funeral, just like Churchill! This must have caught in many people's craw.
I was raising little children and working as a skilled tradesman during the Reagan administration. There were two intentionally caused recessions at that time that forced tens of millions of American workers, the majority of whom were husbands and fathers, out of good paying jobs. My customers were very wealthy and so I was able to support my family. But, tens of millions of middle-class mothers were forced to go back to work in numbers America hadn't seen since WWII. The term "latch-key kid" was invented during the Reagan admin. Millions of young children were forced into looking after themselves after school while their mothers were working instead of being home when schools let out. The long-term negative effects of Reagan's voodoo economics on our culture and society have been devastating. The proliferation of drug abuse, declining levels of higher education in the American work force, increasing dependence on welfare, food stamps, etc. Reagan was NOT a conservative. He was a destroyer of the American middle-class as it had been thriving and growing since the late 40's through the 70's. He promoted isolated examples of welfare fraud to destroy public assistance at the same time his trickle down economics were destroying the middle-class incomes of many millions of American families. Trickle down economics is a mask for the autocratic rule of oligarchs. Reagan used his movie star fame to put a trusted face on the conceited domination of the wealthy few over the many, a throw back to the very abuses of power that America's founders rebelled against.
@@bill8985 Accomplished? Is destroying the American middle-class as it had been thriving for 35 years an accomplishment? Reagan was a complete fraud who conned millions of good people into supporting his efforts to undermine the economy that was the foundation of their lives. "Hindsight is 20/20," as the saying goes. Another expression is, "Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it." Personally, I try not to let the same dog bite me twice. I don't always succeed.🤭 But, I try.👍
Reagan didn't accomplish anything : he was an actor hired by the Bush family to put a friendly face on them. They did all the detail work needed to crush everyone. Bush senior is known to have remarked, " If the public knew what we had done, we would be hung up on the nearest tree "
I'm low income but vote against democrats meaning against my own interests because I don't want to leave our children with a bankrupt shell of a nation so we adults can have free or subsidized things shame on you for putting self intrests ahead of our future generations handout democrats are greedy and think everything should be subsidized or free
Yea , they would have, people are basically greedy , especially after they are bombarded by "Shock Doctrine" advertising and reporting methods that were brainwashing not informative. This actually started in the 70's with Tricky Dick Nixon's resignation.
Yea , they would have, people are basically greedy , especially after they are bombarded by "Shock Doctrine" advertising and reporting methods that were brainwashing not informative. This actually started in the 70's with Tricky Dick Nixon's resignation.
Since the inception of the US the "right to vote" has been kneecapped to block all the people who could have made this country significantly better for everyone.
Reagan also raised excise taxes on things like cigarettes, phone lines, gas, etc He taxed social security and tips. He shifted the tax burden to the poor and middle class.
Yup....also lowered corporate tax and stopped us from being able to write of the interest on credit cards . So he didn't do any of us any favors at all.
@c4real69 exactly Reagan's "tax cuts" were just taxes on social security. The Republican Party has always been about tax shifting, not "tax cuts." He didn't do the American people any favors.
Ronnie screwed the steel industry, it took about 16 years to start hiring again. I'm a retired 40 yr steelworker and everytime a Republican was elected we had down turns and layoffs.
My grandma worked as a nurse in a mental hospital here in SoCal until Reagan shut them all down. She lost her career and we gained a terminal homeless crisis…thanks, Ronnie
I worked (in the basement) of transcient hotel during the "era"! I grew to know these people! Reagan SHAT on them; as he did on ALL "non-exclusives"! He was GARBAGE, as his "party" CONTINUES TO BE!
@Ed I know one thing is Reagan and his policies crippled the working class and caused a hostile corporate takeover of our government. Money is the root of evil in a capitalistic pig society as we see today.
And here we go again. My deepest condolences from Poland. Let's hope that in four years sun will rise again for US. People sometimes are so easily manipulated. I just can't believe that a person like Trump could be re-elected.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. ...So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone." -Frank Wilhoit
And economics under Carter was so much better, oh and, what's better! Bidenomics! How's that $5 petrol working out for you, like buying $8 eggs, how about buying new homes at >7% interest. Brilliant!
Trump holds a double-digit lead over the incumbent on the top issue in the country. In short, people were doing a lot better under the previous administration, especially pre-COVID. They don't just know that based on data, they feel it.Overall prices are up 17 percent, and are still rising. Most people -- quite rightly -- believe Biden's policies have made conditions worse. Protesters Crash AOC's Press Conference: Close the Border!
Since you mentioned the airport controllers, immediately afterwards we had 3 jet crashes all involved take off and landing screwups... The media silent although hundreds died
Married to a more horrible person who was his puppet master, Nancy was so vile and believed in doing anything for power and to harm marginalized communities.
Air traffic controller here (and proud union member.) Just a little addendum: While Reagan fired the PATCO controllers, Bill Clinton allowed many of them to be rehired in 1993. I worked with a few them during my career. However, in the mid-2000s Bush 43 attacked controllers again, hiring union-busting experts, lying about our wages to the public, and imposing (with the collusion of a Republican Congress) a "contract" that our union never signed that slashed our pay 30% and imposed a bunch of ridiculous work rules. I was hired during that time and it wasn't fun. Obama, however, corrected that nonsense.
I was on the electrical union & the steel workers union in the 70's & 80's. I was routing for u guys and KNEW when u all got fired, we were fμ€ked as union ppl.
Uh, my mother did the budget for the ATC side of FAA... Clinton re-hired those folks who illegally went on strike. Obama tracked those people. In a nutshell, this is what happened...once they were rehired they would stick around just long enough for their training. When it came time to be tested for their competency tests, they would be put in for a transfer, they would be trained on the RADARs and before they could be tested, they would transfer again. My mother said that she would get so aggravated with having to do all of that work of following all of these ATC workers and nothing was ever done about all of this moving around. They would collect their paychecks and eventually age into retirement. Pretty Sweet!
Same old story, republicans tank us, Dems pass bills trying to fix it just for Republicans to get back in office & destroy something else. I don’t agree with everything Dems do or say but I vote blue because they & their policies are more for the people than Republicans, I hate you had to experience this .
Your union ATC guys wanted to bring the airline industry to a complete halt, destroying the economy Reagan was being so successful at rebuilding. They deserved to be fired. Bravo Mr. President.
@@catherineskis After the Reagan episode, no one was going to trust : they were not going to allow the possibility of a test being used to eliminate them. I am sure they were aware they were being tracked.
His own son, disavowed his politics. During the Depression, Ronald Regan's family was held together solely through government programs-- the same sort of programs he got rid of as President: people shouldn't rely on government handouts-- like the ones my mom and dad got.
Yep his son Ron Jr. Reagan Sr used the social net as a weapon by showing images of non white folks as the primary recipients of aide. And yet it was poor whites who were and still are today the single largest group of folks to get aide. He wasn't alone. Lots of help from the media of the time and other politicians. In fact several states placed greater burden on brown and black people to prove they were worthy of assistance. And many couldn't because of illiteracy, little or no transportation to offices, and no one to advocate for them. So they relied upon churches and other community based groups for help. And yet the prevailing image is that of the "Welfare queen." Who by the way was a grifter and criminal.
Boy you nailed it!!! I was 4 - 12 during Reagan's presidency and just knew him as a president comedians always impersonated. As I've gotten older and have gotten more politically attuned, I've learned just how much he has helped to decimate certain segments of our society. Well done.
I'm a Brazilian lawyer and I'm obsessed with your videos. So much in common between our countries, especially the ever so frequent conservative reforms and the far right approach to the evangelical christians. Brazil, the biggest catholic country in the world, is set to have a majority of evangelical christians by 2030. I can tell you they want to impose their theocratic agenda. 6 years of Jair Bolsonaro and Michel Temer presidency and it felt like a theocracy, our social security and labor protections were absolutely dismantled, and I fear they were only rehearsing for what's to come, if we don't organize ourselves better.
Just like your country. More than half the people in the USA are trying to fight the good fight. Never give up. Our children cannot afford for us to lose this fight. With love from the US.
Our children are why democrats should be voted out we have a debt bigger than our entire economy meaning when our creditors cash there bonds in for cash they will be able to buy everything meaning no matter how much money you have it won't matter there won't be any thing to buy leaving our children a bankrupt shell of a nation because of democrat handouts
BRICS was conceived as a trade union that could serve as network of commerce in the developing world. It can only work so long as one member state or a bloc doesn't become dominant in it. Which itself is a problem since china is the driving force behind it but let's see what becomes of it. @@OMamifero
I don't normally try to influence how my kids feel about things, I give them facts and let them draw their own conclusions as they age, but recently my 13 year old was helping my mother in law put some of her books away on her book shelf, and she handed him a Ronald Reagan book and said, "He's one of the best president we ever had." And I couldn't help myself. My son turned and looked at me, and I shook my head, "no".
The best president the US ever had in my opinion is no contest; it's FDR. He not only was a great leader in WW2 but he also helped America out of the great depression and ushered in one of the greatest middle classes of any society in history. FDR was also lucky that his successor Harry Truman was also democrat and dedicated to continuing his legacy and finished the project that FDR had worked so hard on. One thing we often forget is that American fascism was very strong in the 1930's. There is a famous quote from FDR regarding this: The only thing we truly have to fear is fear itself. He knew that fascism relied on fear and worked tirelessly to provide for Americans to give them security and improve their lives despite considerable pushback from business and evangelicals. There was even as assasignation attempt and he was called a communist all over. America could have very easily been Germany's ally in WW2 in an allience against communism.
@@MrMarinus18I always thought of that quote as being about economic uncertainty. It never occurred to me that it was also about the political struggles of the day. And now, it's an apt saying for the times we live in. The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.
Reagan hated university students from his time as California governor. Once in office as president, the first thing his administration did was cancel all Pell Grants in January 1981, which we had to go out and get market interest rate student loans, which took me nearly 20yrs to pay off
@@catherineskis easy to do if you slash funding for many needed things, like I don't know - the money that kept a bunch of people with mental problems off the street and in mental hospitals (the homeless problem and crime shot up at that point). His BS economics on the federal stage were argued against by the world best economists at the time, and everything they warned about came true - he was pathetical bad governing. How sad the things you must ignore so you can celebrate over and under budget. PS - Blue states are richer than red states and pay for red states to exist - those red states that buck that trend are going purple and/or blue. The Right doesn't actually know economics and they barely even understand business - all they know is balancing by removing things (to make rich people pay less taxes) that cause society to get provably, factually worse.
The modern republicans starting with Nixon and exacerbated by Regan, have historically hated education and those they deem as "intellectual" while at the same time clinging to religion. This is because education teaches one to question authority and to be a self-thinker. Republicans hate this, they want a citizenry that adheres to religious practice because religion inspires followers, not independent thinkers, it tells you WHAT to think where education teaches you HOW to think.
I think he's lost his luster in the Trump years After all he had some presidential skills however disgusting most of his presidency. I don't think I could say Trump had any. All you have to do is quote Ronny about immigration, and I think they'd say "open borders". :D
Just a point to note: Jimmy Carter inherited a truly screwed up economy, had to contend with the consequences of past administrative foreign affairs failures, and a press that just loved pretending his drunken brother was part of his administration. He started social programs that helped people get jobs, housing and a chance in life. He endorsed unpopular fed policies that eventually resulted in reversing the out of control inflation he inherited. It was the lingering effects of Carter's policies that turned the economy around, not anything Reagan did. People don't realize that economies the size of the U.S. economy do not turn on a dime. It takes a lot to move them and a long time to see the effects of even huge events.
Yes, everything that happened during Carter's presidency had already been predicted before he was even elected. The down turn of the economy and the election of a Democratic president were predicted before he became president. This prevented his reelection and he didn't really have time to get much done. Reagan actually meant well. He wasn't making policies for personal gain, but he was taking advice from business leader, "friends", who advised him towards policies that they thought would help them gain personally. There were several Supreme Court rulings that affected Reagan policies and those rulings weren't up to him, but did require some changes be made by his administration, even if they weren't popular.
@Jim Brogan You started with the words, "Jimmy Carter". You meant Ronald Reagan, didn't you? Everything you described happened during the Reagan years. As for large economies turning on a dime, just look to the governmental mismanagement of the recent pandemic and what it has done to the nation's economy.
@@olwill1 you choose to be ignorent and dont realize Your making it easy for them To get away with the deception designed to keep Them rich and us struggling.
The worst thing Americans ever did for themselves was to vote for the smooth talking Ronald Reagan instead of honest down to earth Jimmy Carter in 1980. America's finished now, and it started there.
I was a struggling young man just trying to get by during Reagan's great subversion of the American middle class. Looking back, the most amazing aspect of it all was his uncanny ability to actually make the very people he was screwing over like it, and then go down in history as a savior. I even voted for him the first time around, but soon afterwards was ashamed to admit it and didn't do it again.
Don’t blame yourself, he was clearly very effective at his campaigning! My own mother voted for Trump twice and is finally seeing the error of her ways, the most important thing is growth and you are showing that 😊
Same here, He fooled a lot of union members, I voted for him the minute I turn 18, I was an apprentice at the time, once I learn that he was a Union buster, I ended up not voting for another Republican since.
@@georgealicen66 Ya, imagine the president of the Screen Actors "Guild" going around busting unions, when every working stiff knows that "guilds" and "associations" are nothing but "unions" for rich folks. I always taught my kids that Reagan was just a lowlife snake in the grass - the absolute sorriest president we ever had, bar none. ...The sneakiest too!
@@georgealicen66 Don't trust labels, always vote for some one who is supported by the public and no one else. They will be awkward personalities but they will listen to what people want.
When people say “make America great again” they’re usually referring to the post-war era in the 50s when there was a strong middle class and good economy. What they refuse to acknowledge is that the economy was so strong because union membership was at its peak and the top tax bracket was 92%
Reagan was also the president, who decided to do massive snow job with climate change, the first denier. Money is more important than this blue ball, lets just buy new one when this goes bad. So he screwed us globally. Thanks a bunch, Ronnie!
@@billybarnett2846 We have known about climate change since 1965. The scientists have warned us for years through the news. But nobody listened then and not many listen now. There are no political will to do what's needed because it's expensive and goverments only do short time stuff.
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I'm a severe Hemophiliac. When Reagan refused to take AIDS seriously because it was the "Gay Virus" almost 90% of severe Hemophiliacs also contracted AIDS, such as my self, during this time due to lax testing protocols. We were essentially given $100,000 and told to fuck off forever. Fast Forward to today, I'm 42 years old, still an AIDS survivor and incapable of working due to my health conditions. My 'relief fund' is entirely exhausted as they never expected any of us to survive this long. I was 2 years old when I was infected with HIV, and when I was 5 I also contracted Hepatitis C due to the same lack of real testing protocols. The Reagan administration completely destroyed my life and I'll never be able to forgive the Republican party for these crimes against humanity.
@EpicWesley I'm truly sorry you have AIDS, but you cannot blame RR for "lax testing protocols". That should be laid at the door of the Red Cross, or your local blood facility, or the CDC. You act like RR sent out the order, "Let 'em die!"
The question can be raised: "What did they know and when did they know it?" I think it's a miracle you made it through the early years alive.
According to my calculations, you were born in 1981, the first year of the AIDS epidemic. You acquired HIV in 1983 - very early in the epidemic, when very little was known and very little was available for treatment.
From the WHO: "“With no effective treatment available in the 1980s, there was little hope for those diagnosed with HIV, facing debilitating illness and certain death within years,” says Dr Gottfried Hirnschall, Director of the HIV department at WHO."
It seems to me that you are a walking miracle - having survived the "early years". From what I've read, I don't see how. On the other hand, I don't see how you can blame any President for the victims of a new disease, the likes of which had never been seen before.
Wow, that is so sad! I'm so, so sorry about that. I can't even imagine what it is like to be in your situation.
because of course a virus is political.. the fact you are not grateful to still be living shows your character.. had you been born 1OO years ago you wouldnt be alive more than likely past the age of 1O.. so maybe be grateful for the time you were born, making medical advancements, available because of GOP R&D funding, a key factor in your survival.. unless of course you want to take credit for curing AIDS, which isnt true because it was julie mikovitz who first isolated HIV as the root cause..
@@BEAUTYnIQ Brother... what in the fresh flying fuck, this man contracted aids at the age of 2 and you're blaming him for being upset at the people that allowed it to happen... Now that sHoWs YoUr cHaRaCtEr...
Sorry friend. Regen should be burning in hell if it exists, but of course it doesn’t.
It's amazing, a wealthy actor told the struggling public that the answer to their problems was to give the wealthy more money. Won 49 states that way
And the irony is that members of his party keep telling Hollywood actors to stay in their lane.
@@doomsdayrabbit4398 But that reality show actors should run a political party.
Reagan began the Republican practice of packing the courts. He made sure to grill every candidate for an appointment to the Federal courts to make sure he was a hard-right ideological conservative.
It seemed to make sense at that time.
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He wasn't really wealthy, actually. He was quite struggling and he had to actually go to work at a office at GTE And It is here where he was seeing a lot of his checks being taxed like crazy over programs he did not like for the poor Just like back in the 70s when a lot of workers would over time or work time and a 1/2 and their time and a 1/2 would be taxed to death He Got into politics because of what FDR did for Government and the Nation as a whole.
@@alliwishis_2 ..... That's not great logic
One positive side effect that I recall - the punk rock movement was largely driven by being pissed off at Ronald Reagan.
AND MaggieThatcher!
and thatcher...
triggered leftards
Punk came along before either Thatcher or Reagan,.....
@@user-pt1ow8hx5l Of course -- but anger toward Thatcher and Reagan really gave it a shot in the arm.
Reagan also defunded mental health, which was why so many institutions closed and those patients poured into the streets, where they are to this day.
because they never should have been subsidized in the first place.
@@lilyscarlet2584What you're saying is you are fine with homelessness.
@@thefezbelchershow5443 stealing from the economy to fund mental health institutions is not the way to do it. the private sector is infinitely more efficient at providing these things and more voluntary.
@@thefezbelchershow5443 No, what lilyscarlet is saying is that they should NEVER had closed the institutions for the veterans who suffer from PTSD and cannot work or get a home etc. IF Regan hadn't had closed them down, war vets would have been given care, a roof over their head, three squares a day and a decent chance of living.
@@GenGamesUniverse I don't think so, she says they shouldn't be "subsidized in the first place," which is saying the government has no business paying for veterans' care.
I saw Reagan-ism as an attack on education, which proved to be the start of the dumbing down of America, the consequences from which we are still experiencing. Social Security survivor benefits helped me get a college degree starting in 1980, a benefit that Reagan immediately cut off from my younger siblings.
I'm 69. I was in college from '75-'81and not yet politics savvy. Governor Rhodes (of Kent State infamy) cut the education budgets during all those years. When Reagan did the same with his first budget, the whole class warfare nature of politics suddenly became nauseatingly obvious. There could be no possible benevolent reason for wanting us to be stupid.
So true. It was also petty stuff, like attacks on school lunches. During Reagan's rule, the budget for the federal school lunch program was cut 25%. Ketchup was declared a vegetable in order to satisfy the need for a "nutritious" school lunch and still stay within the limits of the reduced funding.
Reagan cozied up to the right wing evangelicals and their hateful attacks against gays and the science of evolution.
My survivor SS benefit was terminated under reagan which would have continued as I was a full time college student at the time. It was a hardship.
I was born in the early 80s, so I felt the Reagan pain even if I didn’t realize it at the time due to my age. All of your stories in these comments make me so angry.
Our country is so much better than this. I hate that so many drank the Kool-Aid that Reagan, Gingrich, McConnell, and Trump have been trying to force down our throats, a flavor of hate, greed, and nothing but contempt for those who are not “the norm” (straight cis white Christian). We don’t need to hate each other. Our differences shouldn’t be points of contention but rather points of pride in our diversity. The only ones who benefit from our country being this unequal and this unjust are the 1% and our enemies abroad. As a Christian, I pray for the hate to be removed from these Republican voters’ hearts and minds, and as a Democrat, I’m gonna do all that I can to aid in that endeavor.
What’s crazy is Reagan and those of his generation, benefitted from New Deal policies but somehow forgot that.
right???
It wasn't that they forgot that they benefited from those policies, it was that the "others" benefited from those policies and hate always clouds judgement
The "New deal" was a retarded set of policies the economy was already recovering before it and its responsible for almost all of current US Debt.
And they yanked that ladder right up behind them. So unbelievably selfish.
@@LeejaMiller What's the meaning of Leeja?
this could be a 20 part series. Reagan was the WORST president ever and we still suffer under his presidency.
yeah there's SO much!!
Worse than Woodrow Wilson, James Buchanan or Andrew Johnson? Really?
@UlisesHeureaux I don't really like ranking presidents within the last 30 years or so. I feel that it's too recent to judge without biases and harder to see the long-term effects of their policies.
That said: I think history won't be kind to Dubya (not actually a Jr btw), and Trump will mostly be forgotten
@UlisesHeureaux I think it's the only fair way to judge presidents tbh. Otherwise I think it's easy to nitpick every little part of a presidency, and I just don't think that's as fair to more recent presidents
AMEN!
It’s always the “pro life” party that cares the least about human life.
That is true, I have tried to understand why they want more children born into less humane communities, cities, states, countries, worlds, and it always looking at really sadistic goals!!!!!!!!!!!
What a load of crap. Take a look at the massive homeless situation now. The inflation, food pricing, utilities rates. The middle and lower income hpusehokds are syrughling. Its not hurting the elites one little bit!
Try again
It's the Democrats who create dependence and co-dependence.
More children are needed for the economy, do not be hoodwinked into thinking it’s about “Family” or “Gods mission”!
I recall everyone I knew having full time jobs in 1980, with benefits. We mostly worked factory jobs. Never had to worry, even worked OT a lot. Then Reagan took office in 1981. By spring of that same year we started working 3-4 days per week then 2 days then sign up for unemployment. By the fall of '81 most textile mills in the area were either part time or closing their doors as the jobs were moved overseas with no penalties as Reagan had lifted all restrictions on American companies seeking cheap labor, so the rich could get richer. Soon Fathers could not find full time work to support their families. Grown men were now out of work or working low paying retail jobs. wives had to pitch in and that started the downfall. Free time and low esteem led to the crack epidemic. The country has not been the same since.
People wanted cheaper goods people wanted goods from other countries. Is the American people's appetite for whatever is a reason why manufacturing died in this country
@lestergreen8316 it did make goods cheaper, but it put a lot of Americans out of work and spurred the crack epidemic. It had long term negative effects and some cities never recovered. Look at the "rust belt."
And all the frustration and rage resulting from all you describe there also resulted in mass shootings becoming frequent for the first time ever. During the eighties, mass shootings were often called "going postal" because postal workers committed some of them, as they were stressed out from Reagan's attacks on the postal service and his refusal to enforce labor laws, resulting in life stresses like you write about above.
@@ProfessorLester 😄
@@ProfessorLester "people wanted goods from other countries" - That's a lie
My uncle was one of the air traffic controllers that marched on Washington and was fired. He had four little kids at the time and ended up working in a hard-labor job that would keep him away from his family for 6 weeks at a time to barely make ends meet. He was also disabled from suffering polio as a child, so hard labor was really harsh for him. Make America great? For whom?
For those who are rich. More and more billionaires came to be with Reagan.
And the gull for Republicans to rename National Airport in DC after him.🤮
Your uncle shouldn’t have broken the law.
@@Maestrohbill bro wtf!?
@@Maestrohbill 💯
I still remember my grandmother ranting about how awful his policies were during Reagan's presidency and I've never forgotten it. She lived through the Great Depression and knew a bad idea(s) when she saw it.
Reagan is what happens when a leader operates entirely on ideology while totally ignoring precedent and refusing to prosecute their own assumptions. People like Reagan believe they shit gold bricks that smell like magnolias.
You had a perceptive grandmother. I love it when I hear older folks don't fall for conservative policies.
Same here. I was only 17 when he got voted in, and I was mad I couldn't vote yet. My parents and grandparents, and everyone I knew hated him. Kinda like trump. But somehow, the bugger still won. Politics were discussed all the time in my house.
@@sharimeline3077 He committed treason to hold the hostages and got 4 SCOTUS seats. Carter was too Christian for America. He was against the Mayan genocide in Guatemala as charged by The Hague in '83. Eliot Abrams was behind that. He also sent dth squads into Nicaragua to slaughter Jesuit nuns and priests. But, they ran as a pro-life party against Carter's pro-choice for a 4 week zygote the size of a poppy seed, or this [ . ]. GOP protects periods but no further.
Reagan yrs were my twenties. Lots of people were still around from ww2 and depression yrs. Yes many of them couldnt be fooled by bad policies
Thank you ! I just cringe when people put him on pedestal! He was the president of a union, switched and started breaking up unions. He ruined college tuition. He did his best for the rich. I don't want to talk about him anymore !
The video isn't even 1% of his activities. He needs to be exposed.
only the political left lies repeatedly about Reagan, because the give clinton all the credit for reagans successes. so dumb. trump 2024
As a British person listening to this, it’s amazing how similar Reagan and Thatcher were in terms of the damage they did to our countries.
I heard of Thatcher but never understood what she did until you compared her to Reagan now
I thought thatcher is the best UK prime minister
@@chinedujames638
She lucked out with Galtieri. Argentina attacked the Falklands resulting in Thatcher winning an election she should have lost. In the end her own cabinet rebelled against her.
(She had sacked so many people, she couldn't replace them. )
@@chinedujames638 :Ask the Welch Coal Miners? She threw them "Under the Bus"!!!
@@chinedujames638yeah, that's how PROPAGANDA works, friend.
My great uncle passed away in 1991 from a long painful bout with AIDS. Most of his family and society cast him aside here in Texas. My great grandma and grandma took care of him in Dallas until his final breath. My grandma still tells me how doctors and state clinics stigmatized AIDS patients. He was an amazing artist and figure painter, love you Uncle Bennie.
How did Regan cause that I am sorry about the cruel behavior from others your family received sometimes our fellow human can act very badly
@@fritzforsthoefel8031 Reagan might not have caused it but they barely did a single thing to destroy negative stigmas or raise awareness for the horrible disease.
I agree at minimum much more compassion was needed
@@fritzforsthoefel8031: Google “Larry Speakes”. He was Ronnie’s press secretary.
@@fritzforsthoefel8031 He blocked funding the cure because it only affect "the undesirables"
I get a kick out of the "pull up your bootstraps" ordered by people who were born into privilege and never had to worry about paying a bill their entire lives.
Not to mention it's meant to be a nonsense term. It's literally like telling someone to climb out of a hole by picking themselves up by their shoelaces, and someone heard that example and unironically said, "Yes! Exactly! Do that!"
This is behavior that initially began when people who sat on the porch, in the shade would criticize anyone who wasn’t performing up to their expectations and would refer to them as “lazy hood for nothings”. The Reagan version is just the dog whistle version
We are the ones we are waiting for. - Obama
i was raised poor, never given anything and started from nothing. im also black. i started my own business in Texas. I pulled myself up just fine.
@@DissentOrConcur And for that, I say more power to you because you know what it takes to be productive and successful on your own. And there's a deeper satisfaction of living life knowing you didn't need a rich daddy to pave the way .
Your opening statement is exactly right and I have been pointing this out for decades. And you are SO right about companies expecting loyalty and passion for jobs that barely keep you housed and fed. You just earned a new subscriber.
Reagan was also a union busting, racist. they have convinced the working class that unions are bad and you can't raise the minimum wage.
And the government expecting passion and loyalty while it does everything to screw you.
this is a free country. if a person fails to create value in the marketplace -- the rest of us are not to blame, and nor is the marketplace.
my god, the leftist brain is so full of shit.
Being young during the Regan years, I remember how much my momma struggled. She was a single (divorced) mom of one, who often worked so many hours in a week, she would be exhausted on her days off. I also remember how she was unable to qualify for any type of help, that we sometimes only had peanut butter in the house to eat. When Trump came on the scene and stating all of the tropes, and whistles from Regan's time, I knew it was all about the wealthy and corporations all over again.
Under trump wages for unskilled workers went up as a percentage faster than anyone else and the top ten percent pay over seventy percent of the federal taxes
My father was a presidential gaurd for reagan in the marines. With the values he gained from the work he ended up owning 8 houses at one point before getting ready to retire. Democrats just blame others
How do you see the people who worship Trump compared to Reagan? Im curious how you feel about the public’s opinion of him.
The rich pay almost all the federal taxes what are you talking about
I'm a republican who don't like trump republicans need a different nominee
My dad always said that "Reagan was the beginning of the end of the working man with a family being able to earn a living".
Why is that was things better under democrat Carter
@@fritzforsthoefel8031 Yes, they were. Things are better under Biden too.
Under Biden illegal immegration is at record levels inflation levels are high riseing intrest rates north Korea was talking when trump was in office not shooting missiles over Japan and Russia was not in Ukraine
Biden is running a prepandemic record level of deficit spending
Putin took Crimea when Obama Biden was in office and invaded the rest of Ukraine when Biden became president
One thing you may have forgotten to mention is Reagan also disabled the cost of living allowance (COLA) on the minimum wage,thus sealing the fate of the working poor and guaranteeing where we are today with a seriously lob sided economy.
Because he stopped inflation are you serious.
@@johnlast6066 *looks around* No the fuck he didn't
@jasonkehr3727
Yes he did stop inflation at the time the inflation today is a result of Democrat policies. Are you really that ignorant?
can you believe it’s $30 a month in 2023 where are we living
The helpless poor. Why should the government spend trillions on lazy worthless pathetic leeches?
Ronald Reagan was the grim reaper of the poor and working middle class.
Oh yes, he was so terrible when the mortgage interest rates under Carter was 18.5 percent, but Reagan reaped the grim poor and middle class by decreasing inflation and interest rates.
(Piped Piper would be a better image : he sent them to the polls, and when the debt came due, the Piped Piper got rid of the children. )
Ronald Reagan, crushed 90%, and by stopping the Fossil Fuel transition, has taken away the future prospects of his own and other children.
that's a total lie. Ronald Reagan cut taxes, reduced the size of government and massively expanded GDP which lead to lots of employment.
False. Everything that’s blamed on Reagan by ignorant people is actually Nixon’s fault. Specially the destruction of the US dollar.
Ironically, that’s where he came from too. Instead of trying to uplift the folks he grew up with, he worked against them.
"Its called the American dream cause you gotta be asleep to believe in it."
-George Carlin
God, that's so funny. One of the greatest comments I ever hard Carlin make.
Nice hypocritical statement from a multimillionaire joke teller. Now that's the real joke
@@maryellis8902 Favorite Carlin joke: If there’s a God (Carlin was an Atheist), it has to be a man because a woman wouldn’t have fucked it up so badly.
@@russell-gt1dy Yes, Reagan was a hypocrite.
@@russell-gt1dy Carlin wasn't too far off base...
Have you read the book, "The Creature From Jekyll Island"?
It's fascinating how The Powers That Be get one over on us... Year after year, decade after decade, century after century...
We really must be as stoopud as THEY say we are.
Cheers -
Stay VIGILANT 👍
I did six years in the Marines. My body and mind are both broken. Since I've left, I've never faced so much difficulty in my life. My PTSD and physical injuries are individual failures in the eyes of employers. I'm a young guy, so the boomers in charge tell me I have no excuse to be stressed or in pain. I can't hold a job, I'm struggling to keep a roof over my head, I have no idea what I'm doing trying to get my veteran's benefits, and I've never felt so lost in my entire life.
I just have to pull myself up by my bootstraps, I guess.
I’m so sorry you had to go through that. Please remember that there are people rooting for you. I hope you figure out how to get the veteran benefits you’re entitled to.
To a lesser extent, everyone does less well due to the trauma inflicted by Reagan & his successors. I can't imagine what a veteran experiences, but I recognize some of the symptoms in my own life.
You sound like you might also have ADHD. There is federal government help for that . Just Google it
It sickens Me, what The Marines, and Other Armed Forces, did to You, and others. They also did it, under Eisenhower, Kennedy, and especially, Johnson and Nixon; to My Generation, in Indochina. Later, Bush 41, did the same thing, to Gen X'ers, in Kuwait, and later, Gen Y'ers, as well; by Draft-Dodging Bush 43, his "crew", and "Chickenhawk" Auxiliary Members, like Hillary Clinton; in Iraq, and Afghanistan. Obama didn't exactly do Himself, any favors; by "going along" with Bush 43, and continuing His Programs. They then "compounded" their crimes, along with Trump, Biden, The Republican'ts, and The "New" (read, same, old; Democrats; by ignoring The Veterans, and forcing them, to take Charity. If You go back, You will see, the same thing, done; to World War I Veterans (The "Bonus Marchers", and "Coxey's Army).
Don't blame the withdrawal, from Afghanistan, on Biden (not entirely). Afghanistan, and Iraq; were messes, long before He took, The Oath of Office; and Trump just made it, worse.
On another matter, Why don't We try; working, with The Planet 🌏, and restoring it, instead of exploiting, and destroying it. If The Fundamentalists, and The End-Timers, think that God will give, Them; another chance; They've got "another think", coming. Why should God give THEM, another Planet, when they've "trashed" this one?
Hey, just wanted to say don't give up. Too many of us veterans do, and that is exactly what those who sent us to war prefer - they want to forget what they sent us to do, to keep it at arm length. On a more practical note if you haven't gotten a veteran representative do so as soon as you are able, or send a family member / friend in your place. No sugar coating it, the process is long and difficult, but a rep will make a great deal of that easier. I went through the DAV, but there are many organizations out there that will help. Just be sure they are recognized by the VA before settling on one. If you are awarded disability you get backpay to when you first applied, so it literally costs you money to wait.
My father was a union man and he said many of his co-workers voted for Reagan. He told them that's against your interests but they would say "he makes me feel patriotic."
And that is the Republican Party leadership ploy, make them feel how they want to feel, they take everyone for cretins and their voters keep proving them right.
😮
Same in UK I tried to get people to vote for Jeremy Corbyn.
I said he's for the people not Establishment.
They still voted for a Conservative government
@@dan32113 they voted for the Tories for nearly 15 years straight, so now the economy is in the toilet, the NHS is dying an ignoble death, and the pound is worth half of its value. Brexit was the stupidest idea the Brits have had since chattel slavery.
That's sad :(
Why Regan never got an Emmy for playing president on TV for 8 years is beyond me.
Because his wife was actually doing the work.
@@adriannespring8598 I didn’t say ‘being the president’. I said ‘playing the president’.
It seems like there is a LOT that is "beyond you".
Reagan fixed the stupidity of the 70's which lead to the rise of the 90's
Reagan left California in a fcking mess as governor. How he duped the American public into thinking his economic policies would be good for the United States is fcking beyond comprehension
I had him as governor. Somehow he was persuaded that an educated populace is a threat to the ruling class. And so he cut off state funding of higher education in California and here we are almost 60 years later. My grandchild can't read my script!
Before he was governor, Reagan worked as a spokesperson for GE. He became a mouthpiece of the rich, and for a particular faction of wealthy zealots.
The people he represented hate democracy, and the public education system that makes it possible.
They have worked steadily to erode both, and sadly, this work is paying off for them. Educators and voters have resisted. But the whole system is right on the edge. Hopefully, we can save it.
College graduates are the most likely competitors to the aristocracies businesses. The biggest theme of Reaganomics was to kill competition so the wealthy can have more.
An educated populace is a threat to the ruling class, because that education could lead them to believe they could change things while also giving them the capability to do so. If a blue collar individual was given the same education, and provided even half of the same opportunities that come out of it as the white collared individuals(especially in the 80s), they may have found footholds into their society and(because of their background) be of a mind to tear it all down. The dumber we are, the easier we are to control and the less likely we are to try and inhabit or influence a world that seems so far above us. Can't have us thinking we're as good as they are
We came across an old friend's baby-book (scrapbook/record of a child as a baby and toddler) and on the first page it had information like where a person was born and who was governor. It didn't name Reagan but rather said, "An idiot B-movie actor and pawn of the military industrial complex." That was written by her mother who wasn't particularly political, it was just known info at the time.
YESSSS! That is not at all well understood. I graduated high-school in 83 so idk about the underpinnings of politics, the unspoken read-between-the-lines parts of politics before around like 81 or 82, but from that time forward (at least) I think that those who help power in the Republican party came from a thought to keep the masses easier to control through less education, more religion and whenever and however possible, in desperation, fear, anger and hate. I saw it over and over in what they did with their power. Needless to say I'm a Dem.💙💙💙
My dad (71) once told me " Reaganomics is the equivalent of pissing down my leg and telling me its raining"
🎯, Dad. 🙌
Name some of the things you disagreed with that Reagan did democrats party of handouts
But yet the Democratic house didn't veto it.
@@fritzforsthoefel8031, did you even listen to the video because it talks about the Welfare Queen and “handouts” that are so conditional. Why do you want people to suffer just because they are struggling
@@caveygamingWhy is it called Reagonomics? Also, he was a large part of why union membership started to fall. Anyways, we have to move on despite the evils of Reagan. Currently, Biden is the only president to have attended a pickett with striking union members, so Democrats are at least sending a clear message of support to unions. On the other hand, most Republicans are still trying to trick Americans into thinking unions are evil because they think most Americans are dumb. I mean how can they not, low IQ republicans keep voting them in despite all of their lies, no wonder they think working class citizens are dumb
During the McCarthy hearings, Reagan ratted out his fellow actors and directors, many of whom were blacklisted.
I remember Charlie Chaplin was forced to return to England.
( Reagan used his position as head of the actors union to supply information to the Unamerican activities committee. (McCarthy) )
@@michaeledwards2251 He was a snake even though he looked like a frog
@@dennisholliday2454
He didn't look that good : his secret was that he was blind, blind people pay extremely close attention to people voices, they have to, and he had perfected the art of emotional manipulation.
See my comment on the teacher Christopher Mc Auliffe.
Your feelings are mild compared to many on this page.
@@michaeledwards2251imagine being the head of union and then being on the side of corporates
@@StoutProper
Reagan used the art of the false image throughout his life : he had so perfected the art of emotional manipulation, he could get people to act against their own interests. He always acted in his own interests, and ignored all others.
To understand how far this went, in the case of the Kent State University Massacre, Reagan was one of the first, if not the first, to suggest the use of violence to crush the protests against the Vietnam war. Others followed after him, Spiro Agnew, and others.
(See the Thomas Hartman video on Trump planning Kent State Massacres across the country. (He got the idea from Reagan. ))
See my comments on the Space Shuttle Disaster, another instance of his being able to blind people with emotional language.
He projected an image of himself as a nice guy when he was utterly ruthless.
THANK YOU!!! I lived through Reagan, am a white single mother of three sons who I raised with no assistance from their father or family. I put myself through nursing school and worked for 28 years as a critical care RN. I am now 66 years old, on disability, have no pension nor any help from my family. I live a simple life with my cat, I never remarried.
My sons do not speak with me-they have bought into this destructive belief system. It has broken our family irrevocably, I see no solution. The people who adhere to this are not Christian. Christ himself is heartbroken I am sure. THANK YOU!!!!
Taxed social security at 50%
the lies about reagan from the left are just pathetic.
As a former employee of a well known national used car dealer, it’s disgusting how they blatantly and openly tell you during “training” that unions are evil, that they’re bad for employees and that the company will take care of you.
Really??
Exactly please tell every young person you know or come across about the benefits and need of unions. Nixon and Reagan worked for the "trickle down" mafia to destroy unions. But unions were the only bulwark Americans had to balance against the "trickle down" cult of the 1%. Once unions were pretty much wiped out, the 1% just started hunting everyone and turning us all into their livestock. Over past 10 years the ultra-wealthy pulling the strings orchestrating all the endless nonsense stupidity and chaos the easily manipulated buy into systematically shredded the legitimate U.S.A constitutions to that purpose.
then start your own business like i did
Unions wouldn’t be effective in any capacity in a car dealership. Sales is a competition between employees and unions are focused on ensuring equality. Not even the salesman would entertain that notion
Good unions are a cancer.
An added bonus -
As governor of California, Reagan closed the majority of state mental hospitals.
Hence, there was a surge in the number of mentally-ill homeless people.
Take the time to look into the ACLU lawsuits, but you won't.
@@yogoombah2356
I take you mean the lawsuits about the treatment of the mentally ill in police custody ?
That was nationwide. It made homelessness worse. Mental health care was never funded like it should have been even when the hospitals were functioning. Things got worse when they were closed and community mental health care was the only thing left. That was underfunded too.
@@alangray9117
While I don't know the difficulties of community health care in the US, I am aware how difficult it is in the UK. It needs to be remembered, many of the people under such care suffer from problems of emotional control, resulting in, to the uninitiated, unexpected outbursts of violence.
The motives for closing hospitals have become obvious : they were on the edge of town in the 19th century and became prime real estate in the 20th : a real estate scam.
There were a number of cases in the UK were documents were lost, resulting in areas bequeathed for hospital usage being reduced to a tiny fraction, of the total, and rest used for real estate, patently against the original wishes.
Yea that explains a lot I was once grabbed by homeless man in downtown San Jose when I pushed him off me and asked wtf are you doing he grabbed my shirt again than I punched him in the face and he let me go twitching when I walked away he came running towards me and slapped me in the back the head I chased after him but couldn't catch up then put my hands up in the air and called it a day mad asf with the homeless problem in this State
My dad raised me on Reaganomics because he was convinced that the richest knew best. I got to see the CEO at my company in action and how he was a bumbling idiot, and as time went I continued to see more and more rich people being the dumbest people alive:
Elizabeth Holmes's Theranos duped so many investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars despite the outrageous claims of her product.
Investors of FTX thought it was amazing that Sam Bankmanfried was in a call with them while playing League of Legends. Dude was ranked bronze.
Spez, the CEO of Reddit has so little to do that he scoured the site looking for comments about himself and editing them.
Stockman Rush, the CEO of Oceangate needs no introduction.
You forgot the king of that, Madoff.
I wish I could bumble into a few billion. call me the dumbest fool on the planet, meanwhile I'd be laughing all the time. Meanwhile I'm listening to this idiot.
In the words of Greirat: “I may be a petty thief, but I’ve more wits than most royalty”
The thing about the rich is, they have so much cash that they don't have to be intelligent. They simply throw some money at their problems and thus never get to learn from the consequences of their stupidity. And so it goes.
If you vote democrat don't you to deserve a long prison sentence Madoffs Ponzi scheme for which he went to prison for was set up exactly like ss and medicare and democrats set up both programs
They called the homeless villages that popped up during the Depression "Hoovervilles" - we need to start calling the current homeless encampments everywhere "Reaganvilles" (under overpasses, side of the road, etc.)
If you look up pictures of Hoovervilles, you'll notice that most of them are these sprawling, makeshift neighborhoods of homeless housing made from sheet metal and plywood. We don't have homeless encampments like that in the modern day because the cops destroy them (and in turn the belongings of all the homeless who live there) before they can get that large. Implying that they're large enough to earn the -ville suffix is a bit of an overstatement and an implication that the homeless are allowed to have anything permanent in this economy. Therefore, I suggest a more fitting name: Reagapartments.
Reagan's charisma charmed many pople... enough for people to completley ignore his horrendous policies. The man everyone thinks is a patriot harmed the United States the most of any president in the 1900s.
Hitler too had charisma once in Germany.
Don't forget the Bush family. Reagan was the front man, making intolerable policies and actions, acceptable. The Bush family was the back, thieving every $. The combination effect was catastrophic.
Thatcher was the nearest equivalent : she was limited by the Parliament and Cabinet, who in the end simply couldn't stand her. Her length of tenure was greatly facilitated by the Falklands War, without which her opportunities for damage would have been greatly reduced.
You're absolutely right. Their scam worked like this. Nixon and Reagan both pretended to be "standing up to the Soviet Union"). This gave Nixon the cover to go work with the CCP basically kiss Maos butt and pretend it was "all about 'countering USSR" when it was really all about Mao had enslaved his people and had a huge slave labor force that Nixon and the "trickle down" mafia could use to destroy unions in the U.S. Reagan working for same "trick down" caste system followed the same playbook. Reagan (like Trump) was a charismatic movie actor who is absolutely not qualified intellectually morally or any other way to be president or involved in government. But the "indiocracy" always votes for whoever superficial jerk has the most charisma especially since the advent of television and now the perverse incentives of "screen economy." Everything about Reagan "beating the Soviet Union" was NOT what the Republican Party claims it was or what people want to believe and the proof is in the terrible problem we have with Putin over many years to culminate in this terrible war. The reality is the vile "trickle down" mafia and their rotten to the core locked us all in place class structure runs everything in this country and free-rides on everyone's hard work and sacrifices. But the "trickle down" mafia has no sound judgment or long term perspective and their decisions are perpetually unsound. Reagan like Nixon, it wasn't exactly about "defeating the Soviets," but about the "trickle down" mafia free rein rushing right into Moscow the moment Berlin Wall fell "investing" in Russia willy nilly any way they wanted with absolutely no requirements whatsoever like Russia dismantling its nuclear weapons in order to get our investment. But what really happened the freeloading "trickle down" mafia behind Reagan got all intertwined with Putin mafia at the expense of the American people and American security and on the backs of everyone who suffered and died in the Cold War. And the corrupt money flowed into the London, Germany, the U.S. Florida big magnet for it, flowed like wine into the coffers of the "Republican Party" corrupting everything. (This same pattern has happened before in our history after defeating the "biggest enemy.") So because the "trickle down" mafia is loaded with Putin mafia money and because psychopaths demagogues like Trump and his cult want to be outright Putin overlords of this country, now the "Republican Party" that was all Gung ho anti-Russia in the 80s is not pumping out all that colossal anti Russian propaganda they pumped out in the 1980s for Reagan. But the American public gives no thought to any of this because the "trickle down" mafia is so good at distracting and deflecting everything away from themselves controlling the "conversation" dividing and conquering thieving wages manipulating subjugating and exploiting us. It's just mind boggling how many bandwagon no questions asked with whatever garbage the "Republican Party" puts out, take no responsibility for voting for Reagan and still buy into all the lies surrounding Reagan to the detriment of this country. Same people either blindly or willfully follow the inevitable result of downward spiral of "Idiocracy" electing a movie star as president and bow to that outcome of an orange Mussolini like a hive of madmen elevating a psychopath to the level of a "god."
So I guess you think things are going really well right now in our country? I remember the 80s and 90s and things were going MUCH MUCH better than they are now. According to you and Leeja I am sure it is a Republican that is at fault for the mess we are in now. Reagan did not harm the US more than any president in the 1900s, that is YOUR opinion, most people don't agree!
@@graciel2313
Reagan was responsible for the gross national debt. Remember after he was shot, how school children were questioning him about the debt. He simply quoted the growth mantra.
By crushing taxation of workers, and slashing maximum tax rates, he moved the balance of campaign contributions by a factor of 4 to 5. The Clintons, Hilary bragged she was a hard line Republican in her youth, got the Presidency as a result.
No one since Reagan has been able to control debt growth. The debt $ 35 Trillion is now sufficient to create the conditions for Weimar style inflation : the interest rate is now limited by the debt.
Given 2/3 of the US population live paycheck to paycheck, when the US $ loses Reserve status, at least 3/4 of the US will be economically crushed.
I'm a retired Psych RN. One thing u didn't mention was that Regan closed many State Hispitals and promised they would be replaced by Community based hospitals. However, he never followed through w the 2nd part; hence the beginning of rampant homeless.
Thx for 'the memories'😢
He made President Carters Mental Reform act both meaningless and void. I don't doubt it would have taken several iterations to be truly effective but the political will was there, along with the insight needed.
How does the FEDERAL government control STATE hospitals? Get real, miss.
Not to mention, thousands of mentally ill patients were thrown on the streets to die when Republican president Reagan cut funding and closed State Hospitals.
President Kennedy started this though thank God the psychiatric Institute I was at for 3 months was not closed until 2002 because of the owner diverting tax money from Medicaid to his Florida hospitals which were failing because Florida Medicaid wasn't paying them right so they shut that hospital down and build another one in Westbrook Maine with smaller number of beds. We need to re-open these psychiatric hospitals because some of us just can't live on the streets fortunately I can but there are some who can't and they're living in group homes and some of them just walk away from it and they're on the Street Homeless you can't keep somebody unless they're harm to themselves or someone else some people do much better in a hospital setting than they do in public setting when it was time for me to leave I was in tears because I didn't want to go
@@Davey-TheDJ
The original concept was the usage of modern drugs would elevate mental problems for many patients sufficiently to allow them to live independent lives. (The use of lithium for bipolar disorder for example. )
Reagan and his buddies viewed this as an opportunity to perform a land grab. The closing of the hospitals was real estate fraud.
Carter was trying to get realistically good living conditions for the mentally afflicted.
what never fails to surprise me is how all these politicians use the same speeches without fail. im from brazil, and we recently had a president that replicated reagan's welfare queen discourse to justify taking away a welfare that helped low class mothers. this is so revolting.
KKKKKKKKKKKK vc acha que a intenção dos políticos e ajudar com esse financiamento kkkkkkk vtnc
Espero não ter copia do USA em 2026, já tô cansado dessa merda
@@splashnskillz37 sempre tem, nem que seja o menor discurso deles
@@splashnskillz37nós precisamos organizar nossos sindicatos e outros coletivos
@@splashnskillz37
Don't worry, it will be worse.
After watching your post election vid with no makeup last night, I bought a shirt! :) I hate the trickle down economics and consider myself an economic populist. II think the world is so much better with people like Leeja in it.
Let's not forget the Iran-Contra scandal. Reagan should of been investigated for his part in that...
Oh yes that’s coming in the communism video next week
The double standard of the just us justice system.
That's another thing he introduced. The police and consequences are something for the morally failing poor. The morally superior rich are above such things.
Reagan got away with murder on the Iran contra scandal. He should’ve been investigated, because of what he did in his involvement with that scandal, because it was actually a treasonous act!
He escaped being impeached by the Democrats because it was so late in his presidency that he would soon be out of office anyway.
I remember loving Reagan. I remember loving everything about him. I remember defending him for decades. And I remember the decades long process of completely changing practically EVERYTHING i once believed about EVERYTHING. Thank you for your excellent video!
The Right has lied about Reagan ever since he left office. His pals at National Review and other conservative rags have deified Reagan for years and have succeeded in making him a kind of god.
Captain Sunshine, that is a beautiful comment to share. I wish I could hug you, my fellow countryman.
Are you my mother? lol this is the same trajectory she took, her shift happened mostly in the last 5 or so years. And I'm so proud of her for it
@@emilyb.8219 lol, I am not your mother. But her journey and mine are evidence that people can and do change.
You are testament to the ability for human beings to make monumental, positive change. Your story gives people hope that our society will not spiral into a irreversible dystopia. Thank you for being so honest and giving me hope. ❤
It's crazy to think that nearly all the problems in our country right now are, by varying extents, due to Reagan's policies. Even worse, every president since Reagan has only continued to uphold those policies.
You can say that again. Every single one of them, whether R or D, talked about how great he was. This country is slipping, thanks Ronnie.
and Clintion normalize it for Democrats. People don't realize that there is a difference between Liberal and Neo Liberal
"NYC Mayor Eric Adams Quits on Migrants Camped on Sidewalk". Another reason to vote for the Democrats! Thanks Joe.
You know we have had a few elections since Reagan's second election, and a few different Congresses and Senates elections as well. No one has produced the change you seek? Have you contacted yours?
@@fredrodriguez177 I have been in frequent contact with her. Oh, I see what you're saying, sir, I'm making fun of the Democrats back east in the hopes that they will see the error of their ways. I'm in CO and not Blue Denver. Here, the sheriff actually dislodges squatting campers!
Idea for a business startup: a line of urinals with Ronald Reagan's face in the bowl, and a caption that says "MAKE IT TRICKLE DOWN!"
I'm a Union worker and for the life of me I can never understand why some of my fellow union members vote for Republicans when they're the one's that are against unions and want to see us fall!🤦🏾♂️
because unions don’t help anyone just more bureaucracy
Both Carter and Reagen used government force to bust up Union strikes. Idw to let Carter off too easy, but , at least, he felt bad about it and he felt he had to to protect kids from freezing to death due to the striking coal miners. Otoh, Reagan busted up the air traffic controlers strike and the only thing he prevented was airline customers being inconvenienced.
@@bbbabrock unions strikes don’t do any good just inconvenience patrons/customers
@@bbbabrock air traffic control gets paid a lot of money they should have been fired for striking.
@@oksaturn122 Actually, they were fired for striking. 12,000 of them. It's even covered in this video that you don't appear to have watched very carefully. You don't seem to know very much about unions for someone with such a strong opinion about them.
You're wrong, btw.
The idea that Reagan wouldn’t recognize today’s Republican Party is laughable.
Reagan would feel right at home in the GOP today; he helped create it.
He wouldn't feel at home, to be honest. He'd be horrified for sure, the question is, would he have any idea that he helped create it? See back then they felt the need to hide much of the awfulness so they could pretend they were 'the good guys'. They had to believe the lie themselves, first. Ever more of the right wing today is dropping that pretense.
Only a partisan Democrat would argue that there's no difference between Reagan and Trump. That's not a fair statement and I say this as someone who never voted for Trump.
@@brettsinger9565both are the one of the worst presidents in US history
@@brettsinger9565dawg did you not watch the video? Trump copied his homework and tried to make it look like his own shit
@@p0Rp I don't need to watch the video. I already know it's wrong.
"Ronald Reagan is the greatest president ever"
"But what about AIDS? He actively ignored a whole pandemic, and let thousands of people die"
"Exactly"
A conversation between my dad and a teenage me. Im a literal saint for having not killed him tbh
tbh you'd be a saint even if you had.... a rare win/win opportunity
Sounds like my dad who told me Rome fell because they let gay people get married
Is your dad my dad?
It’s not too late
@a s agreed, they will need our help to self deport.
He gave the biggest tax cuts on middle class. That’s why the us economy was the best it ever was. You are absolutely wrong about middle class. My family went from poor to upper middle class.
Conservatism always tries to individualize systemic problems.
Conservatism is an actual mental disorder
I think this could be due to an underlying desire to feel like they're in control. Nobody wants to believe their problems may have roots in things that are out of their ability to change or control.
The exact same happens with neoliberalism
Conservatives essentially think of themselves as the true inheritors of the country whereas everyone else is a parasite or tourist. So, how do you make the parasites have less power? Don't allow collective bargaining.
@@BleedForTheWorld Neoliberalism is a conservative ideology.
Ironically, the air traffic control union PATCO was one of the few unions to endorse Reagan in the 1980 election.
oh man you're right I totally forgot to include that, so nuts!!
Oops
Scorpion and the Frog
They voted for the face eating leopard and were surprised when he ate their faces.
...and Reagan fired over 11,000 union members when they went on strike, effectively encouraging other employers (like Hormel, Phelps Dodge and International Paper) to fire striking union workers and replace them at will. So started the murder of the middle class -- by Ronald Wilson Reagan and the Republican Party.
He decided to tax waitresses for suspected unreported income, making tipping a general requirement because they were going to be taxed a percentage according to the amount they served. That bully was picking on some of the most struggling citizens in the country.
Oh yes, I was going to bring that up--I was cooking in a restaurant in California at the time and some of the waitresses had checks for under $10 for their take home pay for a WEEK! He was an evil SOB.
@@Marcus_C51
How long did he need to get that into effect ?
After Reagan became President, doctoral students were being tax audited one month after his inauguration. I suspect that he spread such action nationwide, one month after his inauguration : I live in the UK, not the US, so I have no direct way of knowing but judging by his other actions, he would have acted instantly to wreck everyone.
@@michaeledwards2251 One month sounds about right, maybe two. As bad as that was, I wasn't really aware of the extent of his damaging actions. The bs trickle down economics and small government. He was a prime example of someone who was living in an ivory tower with not a sliver of concern about helping the lower middle class and poor. I'd also forgotten of his firing of all the air traffic controllers-who in the hell does that? No concern of the safety of the American people either. Don't get me started about Trump...he is a cancer to this country.
why would it be fair for waitresses to pay no taxes while all the other professions do? what a stupid argument.
@@ronaldreagan-ik6hz sure but meanwhile hes cutting taxes for the ultra wealthy. look at the whole picture here
RFK jr is a candidate who does have the hardworking class of America in his best interest. He wants to stop the influence big corporations have in politics and politicians. Vote RFK 2024🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸
notice-- RFK left the democrats and joined Trump. Common sense lives on the right today.
Regan and Thatcher were perhaps the most destructive duo in all of human history... we're half a century away from them, and we're nowhere near escaping the shadow of their insanity
Definitely not lol. Plus scapegoating them shows you really don't know anything.
At least in peacetime that's probably true, they caused so much suffering that they should rot in hell with Hitler and Stalin, just saying.
lol
Ronnie is a mass murderer
@@wowmazin4399 I’m picturing you with your hands on your hips when you say “shows you really don’t know anything” 😂🤣 Lol sorry
I hated that man. It was beyond me how anyone could fall for his hail-fellow-well-met _bullschiesse._ He ruined this country, and his fate was well deserved.
Not that surprising, people r stupid, see also trump becoming president, but at least he lost reelection,
Unfortunately, he didn't get what he deserved.
He hated you as well. He told me so.
@@robertwoodpa6463 AHAHAHA. Awww. Poor widdle wingnut got his widdle feewings hurt.
@@johnwright9372 Oh, I'd say his brain rotting was a pretty good payback.
Thank you for this! I am now 72 and have been screaming this virtually my whole adult life. My wages have effectively never gone up, I've always been chasing debt and the day the unions let him fire the air traffic controllers and they all went back to racism/sexism/church, was the day they died. We should have had a nationwide sympathy strike then. We didn't. And now people vote against themselves!
I'm 75, and didn't really forgive my dad for voting for him. I saw the effects live, when working for a wonderful federally funded program--just lost money that we once had. Known for his ignoring AIDs, destroying PATCO, (and most unions), racist policies, many jobs going overseas, etc.
There is another thing many often like to overlook. Reagan destroyed American manufacturing cause most factory workers were left leaning. There used to be laws, tariffs and regulations preventing American companies to outsource production. That makes sense, you don't want to invest in your industry only for that industry to then move and take all your investments with it.
However Reagan abolished those laws and companies left in droves. The most popular destination for them was an impoverished country with a huge potential workforce: China.
But many still talk about the deindustrialization as a natural thing of economics rather than a political decision.
American Workers should have engaged in a General Strike after Reagan fired the PATCO workers and should not have returned to work until Reagan gave up on his Supply-side Economic policies.
If there had been a general strike as a response to Reagan firing PATCO, it would have killed the Reagan Regressolution. Hindsight.
I'm 71 and I lived it too. We are in total agreement.
Republicans need to stop idolizing Reagan.
Reagan also increased the national debt by 186% the next closest modern president to this was George W Bush at 101%. Reagan started our national debt problem.
Reagan was the one who changed the attitude, on the part of government, what a tolerable national debt was. Remember how when school children questioned him about the debt, he simply repeated the growth mantra. Every President since has done the same thing : it won't be long before the debt is past 40 Trillion $ and rising. The ceiling has been suspended, supposed temporarily, but does anyone believe it can every be bought under control ?
The only option left will be default with the loss of reserve status : the process is already underway and accelerating.
They also traded guns for drugs and put drugs in low income communities.
He was the worst he changed this country with his redistribution to the wealth he altered the top 99 percent of this country fired all air traffick controlers brought scabs information lower wages he is the start of the magga maggats
Johnsons war on poverty started the huge deficits
@@fritzforsthoefel8031 actually Johnson added 13% from Kennedy. Nixon followed Johnson with adding 34%. If you want to blame a president for increasing the public debt for social programs that would be Franklin D. Roosevelt who increased the budget by 1048% to pull the country out of depression. Reagan added 1.86 Trillion to the national budget. This makes him #3 behind Roosevelt and Wilson 723 % in increasing the national budget.
My Great Aunt HATED Reagan. She would seethe at the TV when he would come on. She lived through the depression and WWII. Loved Roosevelt. I think of her regularly and thank her for providing my foundation of being an ardent leftist.
I hated Reagan hated more than any other president, even Nixon, and I could hardly wait until that dark decade ended.
I mentioned to my father that Reagan was being called a "Roosevelt of the Right". My father, who came of age during the Depression said no, he wasn't a Roosevelt of the Right. My father, a working man, lived through the thirties and knew what he was talking about. Roosevelt was one of our greatest presidents, while Reagan was little more than a liar and slick con man.
Seething at a person you disagree with is a sign of mental illness. Roosevelt's policies created stagflation, your grandmother doesn't know what she was talking about.
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Yeah you aren't mentally ill at all.
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Roosevelt would be considered a conservative today.
I was a kid during this. And I watched the beginning of what would become America today. It's been a long game, and one that has made foundational changes that are hard to reverse. In that way, they were smart. They knew what to do over time, like changing the courts, to cement these changes. We've lost generations and lives to this way of thinking and even more to come. From AIDS to COVID and the merging of religion with law, we're seeing the horrible results and reversing it is going to be difficult but it must be done. Younger generations have seen the result of this in the worst ways, from school shootings to being constantly broke, it's a warped way to govern that puts 90+% of the population into wage slavery, denies reality, and puts people in power with no concern or knowledge of the people they are supposed to represent.
Well said! Our government has been taken over by millionaires & billionaires who rule our laws & federal government! This is 40 years of trickle down BS! We the people need to ALL Vote Democrat & Tax the Rich…. It’s only fair! ⚖️🇺🇸💙
So true
Much of the same thing happened in the UK with Margaret Thatcher.
90% wage slavery is denying reality. Buy a share and a dividend for life instead of another lousy video game kid
@@russell-gt1dy Is that you Bezos?
This should be required viewing for Americans under the age of 45 (those who aren’t old enough to remember Reagan’s presidency) Clear and concise and very informative.
too bad most of it is leftist lies packaged as if they were true. sad. the left is so dumb today.
Wait a second. My Pa went to work at a blue collar job at ei dupont shortly after he returned from the Korean War. His job provided a good pay check, matching savings, stock by in, medical, dental, 2 weeks of vacation a year and a very safe work environment (at time his plant was certified as the safest factory in the world) My mom stayed home and took care of the kids. He could buy a new car pretty frequently, he bought some vacation/retirement property and he could send his kids to college.
When I was in my twenties he told me he lived in the Golden years of the factory worker. And I laughed at him. At that time corporate taxes were 90%. But rather than spending that money on taxes, corporations invested that money back in the company and its employees. After Reagan cut corporate taxes to 30% there was no incentive for corporations to take care of their workers. Capitalism ran a muck and all the profits went to the top tier CEOs and VPs.
I'm 67 now he's 94. There are no blue collar jobs like that in America anymore. The retirement health insurance is gone, the life insurance he paid for 60 years was canceled. The promise of America is gone! THAT'S WHAT CAPITALISM WILL GET YOU!!
Totally correct, plus he made going to college to lower middle class and poor totally out of reach . He basically ruined any chance for me to go to college. Because kids like me had No Bootstraps.
"the life insurance he paid for 60 years was canceled"
Best argument for social security I've ever heard.
@havable thankfully he has SS and VA! At least for the time being. Let's see that MAGAot republicans don't cut they're own throats! It seems pretty easy to get them to vote against their own self-interest!
@@havableAND health care for ALL!!!
unREGULATED capitalism.
Thank you for doing this. I've been trying to point out on "social" media for YEARS that Donald Trump IS NOT an "accident" or an "anomaly" of our politics. Donald John Trump is and always was the WHOLE POINT of and the INEVITABLE and UNAVOIDABLE conclusion of The Reagan "Revolution".
We can hope he's the conclusion and will not have a sequel...
"NYC Mayor Eric Adams Quits on Migrants Camped on Sidewalk". Another reason to vote for the Democrats! Thanks Joe.
Hilary was the point : everyone had a let off with Trump.
(Victory was an accident : he was trying to increase his brand value, he didn't plan on being President. If that sounds like an idiot, remember Trump's estimated IQ is about 70.)
Hilary was so war mad, even Obama was influenced to go further than he would have otherwise. (Remember Nobel Peace winner, who had drone Tuesdays.)
Trump, a man who is barely literate, unable to read a graph, proved too much for the alphabet soup. At the end he was trying to achieve peace.
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Don't worry, the sequel will make Trump look like a saint.
@@michaeledwards2251 that's not something I want to see...
I’ve been saying this for my entire lifetime. My parents LOVE Regan. I just can’t wrap my head around it. They have been lower middle class their whole life and still working in their late 60’s…mostly because of him.
Show them this video, could help 😅
@@cedrikpelletier5735 FAKE 🔪🍊#
The image he had. That was his secret.
I'm lucky that my parents have Brains and never voted for Reagan. And actually hate his guts
Othering is a helluva drug.
He did more damage than so many people realize. I'm glad that you're telling the Truth.... the Truth that needs to be told!! I was born in the 50's.... I watched and lived the damage he inspired. People need to know. 🙏❤ Please cover the close of State run Mental Hospitals. All these facts need to be a part of every school curriculum! Thank you!!😊❤
"A rising tide lifts all boats." Way too many of us found out that, if you cannot afford a boat (or to pay someone to be on theirs), a rising tide just causes you to be cold and wet and eventually to drown.
A rising tide lifts all YACHTS!
Great analogy.
While a few hundred billionaire families now live on a fleet of megayachts, we have 40% of the entire population who has less than $400. And over 90 million people now so poor they qualify for Medicaid (not Medicare for the elderly, Medicaid), with over 60% of those people working at a job, and over 80% in a household where someone is working.
This is what trickle down gave us.
rising tide lifts those in the boats but those who are just swimming will loose ground and drown sooner or later
@Phil Anderson Besides that, I prefer not to swim in what usually "trickles down." 🤢🤮
When one President leaves office, he talks to his replacement alone in the White House for a few hours to discuss the state of the Nation.
I remember Jimmy Carter saying when he sat down with Reagan to discuss topics/issues on the state of the Nation, he could tell Reagan had no clue what he (Carter) was talking about. I always thought Reagan was just a figurehead for Big Business and Wall Street. The fact that he closed all the Mental Facilities, threw vulnerable people on the street and cut rehabilitation funding in prisons pretty much says it all.
Imagine the handoff from Obama to Trump. That must have been an interesting conversation.
@@christophersmith3005 True. Good point.
I believe it. When Margaret Thatcher, who was prime minister of Great Britain during the time Reagan was in office, met with him, she was quoted as saying, "There's nothing upstairs."
Jimmy Carter is the 2nd worst president in my lifetime. Biden wins as 1st. Tell me why I should care what Jimmy Carter thinks of Ronald Reagan?
@@christophersmith3005 Or lack thereof !!!!!!!!!!!!
Agree with everything you said. I'm 70 so lived through Reagan and remember his "Voodoo Economics" and the middle and lower class economy being negatively effected by the "Ray Gun" . Never voted for him myself but sadly not enough voters saw him for what he was. Make no mistake, our current democracy is very fragile and will remain so because a very large portion of the population is so easily misled.
"NYC Mayor Eric Adams Quits on Migrants Camped on Sidewalk". Another reason to vote for the Democrats! Thanks Joe.
@@catherineskis "Another reason to vote for the Democrats! Thanks Joe." - Yes, things are much better now than 4 years ago.
@@StevenBazin-bp4sc I know poor people however did they afford $2 eggs, 2% inflation, buying houses at 2% interest rates, how ever did NYC get by before they had to support all those illegal aliens in those hotels? Poor, poor, poor people!
@@mrsatire9475 Hard No
@@pH7screwtube a Hard No Indictments ... that is.
"Another reason to vote for the Democrats! Thanks Joe."
In 81 I was working midnights caring for pediatric psych patients while attending nursing school.
It was OK to nap on our 1-hour break, but I was never enamoured of waking up in a mental hospital. One shift I did nap and woke up to my worst nightmare--Bonzo Reagan as MY PRESIDENT!!
Thank you for telling the truth about Reagan! I’m so tired of the right worshipping him.
T-bills were 16-18%, Home mortgages were 18-20% my occupation as a timber faller was on hold as nobody but the rich were able to do anything. The Lumber mills were all closed, try feeding your family when no jobs were available.
There are still people who think his ugly mug should be carved onto Mount Rushmore.
@@donaldindividual-1 And, You can't make the Connection. You already "logged over", the Western Forests, to where only 10 Percent of The "Old Growth" Forest, remained. And, You wanted THAT, too! Mismanagement of Our Natural Resources, is an old story, on both sides. Ask Yourself, why were T-Bill Rates, so high? Probably had nothing to do, with "shutting down", the sawmills. Our so-called "Economists", have also been less than honest, with Us. The OPEC Cartel, and Our Unqualified Support of Israel, hasn't helped, either. What happened, to The Camp David, and Dayton Accords, anyway?
@@zendonrey122 One of the first things that should be done, is remove Mount Reagan's name, in New Hampshire; and transfer it, to a Gravel Pile. Whether you are aware of it, or not; a PAC was formed, to put Reagan's Name, on something, in every County, in the United States; In Cincinnati, The Cross-County Freeway was renamed, for Reagan; He didn't deserve it.
Also, ask The People, of Dixon, Illinois (Reagan's alleged "Hometown"); what He did, to Them. They wouldn't even fund the restoration of His Boyhood Home; That was done, by a Florida Developer. Reagan's doings shut down the Town's two biggest Employers: Northwest Tool and Die, and The Dixon State Developmental Center.
@@donaldindividual-1 There's more job available under Biden than there was under Reagan (double digit unemployment)
Justice for Jimmy Carter man, imagine the world if he was elected instead 😢
I can remember my ultra conservative dad talking about how reagan was the greatest president ever and Jimmy Carter was the worst president ever. In reality it's pretty much reversed
@@cattibingo yep!!!
@@cattibingoSince Vietnam and the rise of the MIC the GOP has been singularly obsessed with doing everything possible to sabotage the Democratic Party and screw America’s middle and lower classes. Every policy they’ve pushed proves this.
And the Reagan administration literally committed multiple acts of treason. The Founders would have had them all hung.
Oh yeah, Jimmy Carter was such a great president, boy, we screwed up not re-electing him (NOT!!). Because of Jimmy peanuts, the liberal media, created, for Jimmy the "misery index." Double digit inflation rate, double digit interest rates and double digit unemployment rate. Boy, those were the good old days (NOT!!). And Jimmy did such a good job standing up to Iran-who was holding a large group of Americans hostage (NOT!!). If you take a look back, you will find that those very same hostages were being loaded on a plane headed to the US just as Reagan was taking the oath of office. This action was not because of anything Jimmy peanuts did, but because of something the Iranians feared that Reagan WOULD do.
Unfortunately Jimmy Carter wasn't any better
So necessary. I lived through this horrific transformation, and stopped believing the BS by 18…sadly, the Reagan MYTH is hard to counter.
Good job!
Working for a union and voting republican is wild.
I remember the Reagan years. How people could claim he was anything but a bimbo, I'll never know.
A BIMBO! I love it
Bedtime for Bimbo, huh?
A Himbo.
The party that loves to whine about hollywood worships an objectively awful actor and a reality tv conman. Makes all the sense
@@LetsGoChaseThatTrain Eh, he wasn’t sweet enough for himbo status. Dimbo, maybe, because of his asshole qualities.
I remember the Reagan years, when all the clothes, necessities, toys, etc. It said made in the US; ten years later, it was already one in four, 15 years later, one in ten, and now, one in 20-25, it is practically a rarity. When you destroy unions and sell your industrial base for scrap, these things often happen. Ronald Reagan was the best investment of people with money in history.
If there is a hell, Reagan is 🔥
Reagan had the idea but, what really caused alot of the factories leaving and rarely seeing made in the US labels was NAFTA and subsidies for corporations to move to other countries like China. And the rapid rise of Walmart was one of the leading culprits in Made in China promoting.
@@DianeLake-sw3ym And you don't see any relation between his presidency and those events?
@@JGARCIA2012FULL No, because while it started being visible back then, doesn't mean it started then. Correlation vs. casuation.
@@piotrd.4850 Please, I need some historical references to rectify my "foolish" assumptions. What policies where implement by previous Administrations that impacted in so profund ways the industrial base and economy of the US, policies that are still use today as references for a major political party?
As a non-american all of this is fascinating. It explains the behaviours of my own politicians at the time. When you are from a poor country people look up to the developed economies and think: This people have objectively better lives and they do all this stuff. We must do the same so we can be like them. So in a way Reagan not only ruined lives in the US. But internationally.
You're right about that; with Climate Change, especially! Reagan had a chance, to lead The United States, and The Free World, maybe even Russia, into a Better World; and He blew it, BIG TIME!
Jimmy Carter had his share of blame, as well, but I did a little research, in the Meantime; and He made TWO, BIG, mistakes:
The first, was Inexperience, especially with Washington. He had been a Peanut Farmer, in Southern Georgia, after being in The Submarine Service. He had a couple of terms, either as a Representative, in The Georgia Legislature, or in The U.S. House of Representatives, then I believe, one term, as Georgia Governor. Just like Barack Obama, after Him; He was woefully unprepared, for The Morass, that is Washington D.C. He did not have good advisors, BEFORE He ran for President; like Franklin Roosevelt did; nor did He have Big City Experience (Roosevelt, New York City), or Government Experience (Roosevelt, Secretary of The Navy, under Woodrow Wilson, during World War I (Roosevelt also went, beyond his "jurisdiction", as The American Navy was there, mainly as a "countering Chess Piece", to keep The German Navy, "bottled up", in The Baltic; so Roosevelt went to London, met with King George V, and Winston Churchill; Who was Roosevelt's Counterpart, in Great Britain, visited The Front (The Position He visited, was attacked; shortly after He left, so draw Your own conclusions), and met, with other European Royalty; building relationships that would "serve Him well", during World War II. No doubt He also discussed Japan, with His Great Uncle-in-Law, Theodore; Who received The Nobel Peace Prize, and The first shipment of Japanese Cherry Trees, from The Japanese Emperor; as a "Thank-You", for acting as an "intermediary", negotiating The Treaty that ended The Russo-Japanese War, in 1905. Roosevelt then served at least one term, as a Representative in The New York State Legislature, was James Cox's Running Mate, in The 1920 Presidential Election; Contracted Poliomyelitis, but then built The Warm Springs Polio Rehabilitation Center, with His Own Fortune, as well as locating His White House "Getaway" there, later, served as New York Governor, at the Start of The Great Depression (New York was The Largest State, Population-wise; in The Country, with a substantial Industrial; and National and International Trade Base, and Financial Market Base. Dealing with The Depression, in New York State, plus Assistance from His Wife, Eleanor, and his substantial Political Connections; prepared Him, well, for running for President, in 1932, as well as dealing with Washington.) Carter had none of that experience, was somewhat combative, chose his advisors, badly; like listening to David Rockefeller, President of Chase Manhattan Bank, who persuaded Carter, to allow The Deposed Shah of Iran, into the United States, for Cancer Treatment, further angering The Iranians, after He persuaded Mexico, to accept The Shah, and his Wife, in exile. He made mistakes; calling The Shah, an "Island of Stability", in The Middle East; handled The OPEC Oil Embargo, and the resulting inflation, badly; allowed Alfred Kahn, to persuade Him, to Deregulate The Airline Industry; creating Chaos there (Kahn later received an award, from The Airlines); Was a Strong Supporter of Israel, further angering The Arab Bloc, as well as negotiating The Camp David Accords, between Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, and The First Likud Prime Minister, and Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt. The Camp David Accords, didn't last too long; The Palestinians felt, like they had been "thrown, under The Bus", Israel continued its "creeping annexation" of The West Bank, under Likud (Begin coined The Term, "Judea, and Samaria", for The West Bank, using two ancient Jewish State Names, for that Area); and Anwar Sadat, and twice-Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin; were Assassinated, by religious fanatics, on their own respective sides. Carter was also perceived, as badly handling The Three Mile Island, Nuclear Crisis, The Oil Crisis, then following these up, with a speech, which became known as The "Malaise" Speech, where He criticized Americans, for a "lack of Confidence", and "runaway materialism", exhorting them, but not submitting any "concrete proposals" for dealing with The Energy Crisis. The "Topper" was The 444-day Iranian Hostage Crisis, which was compounded, by an alleged "October Surprise" Deal (and there is strong evidence for this, as there was, with Nixon's similar Deal, in 1968; to derail The Paris Peace Talks), with The Reagan Campaign, secretly contacting The Iranian Regime, and arranging for The Hostages' Release, as Reagan was "Sworn in", as President. There was also a "botched", attempt, to "shred" secret documents, when The American Embassy was invaded, by The Iranian Revolutionary Guard, where in the Aftermath, Iranians painstakingly pieced the Documents, back together, and released their contents, allegedly showing American, and CIA Interference, in Iranian Affairs. A "botched" attempt, to rescue The Hostages, didn't help either, when one, or both Helicopters; crashed in The Iranian Desert, at night, killing several Marines. ABC News, for some reason, kept up a steady "drumbeat", on The Hostage Crisis, and initiated their "Nightline" Program, broadcast after local late-evening News; beginning with the announcement: Today is the xxxth Day, of The Iranian Hostage Crisis. Carter in November 1980, lost heavily to Ronald Reagan; carrying only about eight States, and The Iranians "kept their word" about releasing The Hostages, with a special bulletin, of The Jetliner leaving Tehran Airport, as Reagan was inaugurated. For this reason, and The Fact that Carter was a "good man", but a bad President; and enabled Reagan's Election, I am considering raising Carter, to Number 8, or 9, of Worst U.S. Presidents. Trump is Number one, on that list, with Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush, in a virtual "tie" for Second Place, Richard Nixon, Number 4; Andrew Jackson, Number 5, Calvin Coolidge, Number 6, Woodrow Wilson, Number 7, then Jimmy Carter. Anyone care, to dispute this?
China and India have climbed the economic ladder through liberalising their economy so I guess he actually saved lives internationally.
Yes, I immigrated to Mexico ten months ago and the ‘American Dream’ vibe is present here too. Some want to go to the US, some just emulate the materialism
I grew up in a wealthy Western European country and my parents taught me that we have to hold out against the American insanity because their influence could ruin our social democracy, I'm glad we managed to stay a country with universal healthcare, free university and strong unions but things have shifted to the right and I don't have all the same benefits my parents had in their student days. I guess the death throes of the US will last longer than my life and only once climate change has irreversibly devastated the planet and the super rich have escaped into orbit, who knows, maybe something new will rise from the ashes.
@@c.w.8200Raygun's nonsense was bought lock stock and barrel by Thatcher in the British Isles. My god Weare in a mess now as a result of those facists.
I was a railroad conductor for UP for 10 years till I got injured on the job. It is unionized but the rail labor unions are really weak now and they basically capitulate to what the company wants every time a new contract comes up to be signed. It’s very bad for train crews and now the public because railroads want to run trains with only ONE person where there used to be 5-6 man train crews.
Plus mile long trains : an accident waiting to happen.
@@michaeledwards2251 now it’s actually 3 mile long trains
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Surprising there aren't more and worse incidents, especially given the stupidity of many drivers who stop on train tracks and wonder why their vehicle gets destroyed.
(Including police drivers who left a prisoner in their car. )
@@MICHAELEDWARDS-x1y one time the breast cancer awareness bicycle race had a route that crossed the tracks. I was on a 100 car empty grain train going 50 mph. About 10-12 women on bikes stopped in the middle of the crossing and just stared at us as we barreled down the tracks; guess they thought we’d stop. Nope: they just barely got off there as we went by. Stupidity at its finest.
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By the way the prisoner in the police car got $7.5 million compensation, she had to agree to a deal because the local municipality involved had to use their $10 million insurance. Their lawyers got $2.5 million for doing essentially nothing.
(Barely sufficient to cover medical bills and loss of earnings. )
well said! Unions also protect workers from industrial accidents. Having worked in a shipyard in the 60's our union protected workers from abuse from management!
Solidarity Forever! (AFSCME 30 years.)
I was in the AFT. I can't recall how often the union was there to protect against some stupid administration decision. OTOH, there was less they could do since only around 5% (??) of teachers belonged. Back in the day it would have been closer to 100%.
Unions are essential for a true democracy. They provide an essential check on corporate power. Reagan led the assault on unions from which they have never recovered. The rise of Trump was almost inevitable because unions could no longer provide a counter to right-wing and corporate propaganda. As pointed out in the New York Times, employer power in the workplace is absolute as workers have lost nearly all their rights with working people reduced to little more than wage-serfs for capital. Reagan was a clever spokesman for employers and he convinced many that unions were nothing more than tyrannies for union bosses to enrich themselves.
Regan made it acceptable to be a semi-fascist. As someone that practices law, has studied economics and political science, I can 100% agree that his economic and social policies are devastating to people to this day. I never thought of this until you did this video, but the star of "bed time for bonzo" as a republican president is eerily similar to the host of the apprentice becoming president.
Sorry, no evidence of Fascism. "Thou shalt not bear false witness" (9th Commandment). You are a liar, and you shall answer to the Lord Jesus Christ on Judgment Day (Revelation 21:8, KJV). Even so, come, Lord Jesus! Establish the Kingdom in Jerusalem and save the world from the tyranny of Democracy (Daniel 7:7, KJV)!
@@davidlafleche1142 Are you serious? Did you watch the video or are you just trolling people on her comment section? I am not a liar. I am open to being wrong and a healthy debate. Bible quotes don't really do it for me though as an argument. I have read the new and old testament (I thought about becoming a priest in the roman catholic church in my youth instead I started practicing law). Have you ever read those books. Also I am bisexual so I guess I am already going to hell for that. Everything else is just gravy now.
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Wow unhinged comment there champ
@@bgb9822 Reagan was not a Fascist. He also saved the USA from Carter's recession. Granted, both Parties should cut Federal spending 70%, but tax hikes are unfair.
@@davidlafleche1142 “After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.” Daniel 7:7 KJV
What kind of weed are you smoking?
Leeja , you speak with conviction , facts , and pure common sense . The people who should watch you , never will , because they don't like the truth .
You said a mouthful and I'm in total agreement with you. Those among us who truly need to hear and understand this never will.
This is so true, but also Leeja's content is useful for some of us who understand what is wrong with society but don't know exactly where it began, and we can point it out and open discussions with other people who are willing to learn, and perhaps some day educate our children and make a change for the future generations.
Facts?
@@d.7611”TRUTH”
@dotstewart3682 None of which are adduced. Such as the shrinking of the middle class, despite Americans moving into higher income brackets adjusted for inflation.
Of course, at the same time we in the UK had Thatcher! They were like two peas in a pod. One difference though was that even her own party plotted to get rid of here. But she managed to serve for 10 years. One thing that boosted her popularity was the total pointless Falklands war. She also believed in trickle down economics, threw all the miners under a (actually I suppose several) Buses/bus, removed virtually all banking restrictions leading to economic disaster a little further down the line. She was even afforded a state funeral, just like Churchill! This must have caught in many people's craw.
I was raising little children and working as a skilled tradesman during the Reagan administration. There were two intentionally caused recessions at that time that forced tens of millions of American workers, the majority of whom were husbands and fathers, out of good paying jobs. My customers were very wealthy and so I was able to support my family.
But, tens of millions of middle-class mothers were forced to go back to work in numbers America hadn't seen since WWII. The term "latch-key kid" was invented during the Reagan admin. Millions of young children were forced into looking after themselves after school while their mothers were working instead of being home when schools let out.
The long-term negative effects of Reagan's voodoo economics on our culture and society have been devastating. The proliferation of drug abuse, declining levels of higher education in the American work force, increasing dependence on welfare, food stamps, etc.
Reagan was NOT a conservative. He was a destroyer of the American middle-class as it had been thriving and growing since the late 40's through the 70's. He promoted isolated examples of welfare fraud to destroy public assistance at the same time his trickle down economics were destroying the middle-class incomes of many millions of American families.
Trickle down economics is a mask for the autocratic rule of oligarchs. Reagan used his movie star fame to put a trusted face on the conceited domination of the wealthy few over the many, a throw back to the very abuses of power that America's founders rebelled against.
Such a precise description of what Reagan accomplished.
@@bill8985 Accomplished? Is destroying the American middle-class as it had been thriving for 35 years an accomplishment? Reagan was a complete fraud who conned millions of good people into supporting his efforts to undermine the economy that was the foundation of their lives.
"Hindsight is 20/20," as the saying goes. Another expression is, "Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it."
Personally, I try not to let the same dog bite me twice. I don't always succeed.🤭 But, I try.👍
All facts. Thank you and God bless you.
Reagan didn't accomplish anything : he was an actor hired by the Bush family to put a friendly face on them.
They did all the detail work needed to crush everyone. Bush senior is known to have remarked, " If the public knew what we had done, we would be hung up on the nearest tree "
Precisely well said
If it weren't for racism, the masses wouldn't have voted against their own interest.
I'm low income but vote against democrats meaning against my own interests because I don't want to leave our children with a bankrupt shell of a nation so we adults can have free or subsidized things shame on you for putting self intrests ahead of our future generations handout democrats are greedy and think everything should be subsidized or free
Yea , they would have, people are basically greedy , especially after they are bombarded by "Shock Doctrine" advertising and reporting methods that were brainwashing not informative. This actually started in the 70's with Tricky Dick Nixon's resignation.
Yea , they would have, people are basically greedy , especially after they are bombarded by "Shock Doctrine" advertising and reporting methods that were brainwashing not informative. This actually started in the 70's with Tricky Dick Nixon's resignation.
Since the inception of the US the "right to vote" has been kneecapped to block all the people who could have made this country significantly better for everyone.
That’s exactly how the elite mapped it out
Reagan also raised excise taxes on things like cigarettes, phone lines, gas, etc He taxed social security and tips. He shifted the tax burden to the poor and middle class.
Precisely
The "trickle down" mafia doesn't "cut taxes." That is a dam$ MYTH
Yup....also lowered corporate tax and stopped us from being able to write of the interest on credit cards . So he didn't do any of us any favors at all.
@c4real69 exactly Reagan's "tax cuts" were just taxes on social security. The Republican Party has always been about tax shifting, not "tax cuts." He didn't do the American people any favors.
Ronnie screwed the steel industry, it took about 16 years to start hiring again. I'm a retired 40 yr steelworker and everytime a Republican was elected we had down turns and layoffs.
The steel industry, particularly your corrupt, greedy union, screwed you, pal. `
"Boostraping" was a running joke people told each other in 19th century America. Somehow it became serious. :/
Yep. It has its origins in the book The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
That using to justify the haves having so much more than the have nots without considering the haves privilege.
Crazy how that happens. Similar to the "God helps those who help themselves" trope.
a high school dropout today can become a millionaire by bootstrapping their effort into a profitable small business.
My grandma worked as a nurse in a mental hospital here in SoCal until Reagan shut them all down. She lost her career and we gained a terminal homeless crisis…thanks, Ronnie
I worked (in the basement) of transcient hotel during the "era"! I grew to know these people! Reagan SHAT on them; as he did on ALL "non-exclusives"! He was GARBAGE, as his "party" CONTINUES TO BE!
Reagan had nothing to do with closing California mental hospitals. That happened all over the country.
I wonder if your Gamma ever saw Leeja in there
@Ed I know one thing is Reagan and his policies crippled the working class and caused a hostile corporate takeover of our government. Money is the root of evil in a capitalistic pig society as we see today.
Great point
And here we go again. My deepest condolences from Poland. Let's hope that in four years sun will rise again for US. People sometimes are so easily manipulated. I just can't believe that a person like Trump could be re-elected.
For a "Law and Order" president, Reagan sure did break a lot of laws
He should have been impeached over the Iran-Contra scheme.
He was corrupt as F
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
...So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone."
-Frank Wilhoit
DITTO for trump 3 or 4 times FOLD !
LOL - First rule of ALL Republicans - "Don't do as i do - DO AS I SAY".
"Reaganomics" : greatest con ever pushed onto Americans.
And economics under Carter was so much better, oh and, what's better! Bidenomics! How's that $5 petrol working out for you, like buying $8 eggs, how about buying new homes at >7% interest. Brilliant!
The greatest con ever pushed on Americans was that democracy actually works
And there's been a lot of them pushed,Another day a other dollar.
His own vice-president called it “voodoo economics” when he was vying for the GOP nomination.
@@whiplashfatigue1430 And yet somehow America flourished while the USSR floundered.
It's uncanny how many paralells there are between Reagan and Trump.
Both weee sellouts to greed and selfishness. Reagan just did it with more eloquence.
@@alwillk Not to mention did it with better manners.
Trump holds a double-digit lead over the incumbent on the top issue in the country. In short, people were doing a lot better under the previous administration, especially pre-COVID. They don't just know that based on data, they feel it.Overall prices are up 17 percent, and are still rising. Most people -- quite rightly -- believe Biden's policies have made conditions worse.
Protesters Crash AOC's Press Conference: Close the Border!
Right bcz Clinton and Obama cared so much about the poor by having stupid foundations that caused wars and enriched defense contractors.
Yes! Because the billionaires and corporate CEOs pulling the strings behind them are after the same things!
Since you mentioned the airport controllers, immediately afterwards we had 3 jet crashes all involved take off and landing screwups... The media silent although hundreds died
Not only a bad POTUS, a horrible man too
And a really lousy actor to boot!
and a horrible governor
Married to a more horrible person who was his puppet master, Nancy was so vile and believed in doing anything for power and to harm marginalized communities.
A horrible human being.
Even Nixon thought there was something off about him.
Air traffic controller here (and proud union member.) Just a little addendum: While Reagan fired the PATCO controllers, Bill Clinton allowed many of them to be rehired in 1993. I worked with a few them during my career. However, in the mid-2000s Bush 43 attacked controllers again, hiring union-busting experts, lying about our wages to the public, and imposing (with the collusion of a Republican Congress) a "contract" that our union never signed that slashed our pay 30% and imposed a bunch of ridiculous work rules. I was hired during that time and it wasn't fun. Obama, however, corrected that nonsense.
I was on the electrical union & the steel workers union in the 70's & 80's. I was routing for u guys and KNEW when u all got fired, we were fμ€ked as union ppl.
Uh, my mother did the budget for the ATC side of FAA... Clinton re-hired those folks who illegally went on strike. Obama tracked those people. In a nutshell, this is what happened...once they were rehired they would stick around just long enough for their training. When it came time to be tested for their competency tests, they would be put in for a transfer, they would be trained on the RADARs and before they could be tested, they would transfer again. My mother said that she would get so aggravated with having to do all of that work of following all of these ATC workers and nothing was ever done about all of this moving around. They would collect their paychecks and eventually age into retirement. Pretty Sweet!
Same old story, republicans tank us, Dems pass bills trying to fix it just for Republicans to get back in office & destroy something else. I don’t agree with everything Dems do or say but I vote blue because they & their policies are more for the people than Republicans, I hate you had to experience this .
Your union ATC guys wanted to bring the airline industry to a complete halt, destroying the economy Reagan was being so successful at rebuilding. They deserved to be fired. Bravo Mr. President.
@@catherineskis
After the Reagan episode, no one was going to trust : they were not going to allow the possibility of a test being used to eliminate them. I am sure they were aware they were being tracked.
His own son, disavowed his politics. During the Depression, Ronald Regan's family was held together solely through government programs-- the same sort of programs he got rid of as President: people shouldn't rely on government handouts-- like the ones my mom and dad got.
Yep his son Ron Jr. Reagan Sr used the social net as a weapon by showing images of non white folks as the primary recipients of aide. And yet it was poor whites who were and still are today the single largest group of folks to get aide. He wasn't alone. Lots of help from the media of the time and other politicians. In fact several states placed greater burden on brown and black people to prove they were worthy of assistance. And many couldn't because of illiteracy, little or no transportation to offices, and no one to advocate for them. So they relied upon churches and other community based groups for help. And yet the prevailing image is that of the "Welfare queen." Who by the way was a grifter and criminal.
Disgusting generation. I got mine, off the ladder goes
How ironic that corporations rely on government handouts!
What handouts do corperations get show evidence of what you say fact is the rich pay almost all the federal taxes
What programs did he get rid of
Boy you nailed it!!! I was 4 - 12 during Reagan's presidency and just knew him as a president comedians always impersonated. As I've gotten older and have gotten more politically attuned, I've learned just how much he has helped to decimate certain segments of our society. Well done.
I'm a Brazilian lawyer and I'm obsessed with your videos. So much in common between our countries, especially the ever so frequent conservative reforms and the far right approach to the evangelical christians. Brazil, the biggest catholic country in the world, is set to have a majority of evangelical christians by 2030. I can tell you they want to impose their theocratic agenda. 6 years of Jair Bolsonaro and Michel Temer presidency and it felt like a theocracy, our social security and labor protections were absolutely dismantled, and I fear they were only rehearsing for what's to come, if we don't organize ourselves better.
Como você se sente sobre a Lula? Você tem confiança que ele vai reparar algo? Eu tenho fé, acho que BRICS é um bom ideia.
Just like your country. More than half the people in the USA are trying to fight the good fight. Never give up. Our children cannot afford for us to lose this fight. With love from the US.
Our children are why democrats should be voted out we have a debt bigger than our entire economy meaning when our creditors cash there bonds in for cash they will be able to buy everything meaning no matter how much money you have it won't matter there won't be any thing to buy leaving our children a bankrupt shell of a nation because of democrat handouts
BRICS was conceived as a trade union that could serve as network of commerce in the developing world. It can only work so long as one member state or a bloc doesn't become dominant in it. Which itself is a problem since china is the driving force behind it but let's see what becomes of it. @@OMamifero
@@OMamifero Translation, please? Entendo uno pequeno Español; no entendo Portuguesa.
I don't normally try to influence how my kids feel about things, I give them facts and let them draw their own conclusions as they age, but recently my 13 year old was helping my mother in law put some of her books away on her book shelf, and she handed him a Ronald Reagan book and said, "He's one of the best president we ever had." And I couldn't help myself. My son turned and looked at me, and I shook my head, "no".
Lol. I love it. Means he trusts his parents judgments even over other family members!
The best president the US ever had in my opinion is no contest; it's FDR.
He not only was a great leader in WW2 but he also helped America out of the great depression and ushered in one of the greatest middle classes of any society in history. FDR was also lucky that his successor Harry Truman was also democrat and dedicated to continuing his legacy and finished the project that FDR had worked so hard on.
One thing we often forget is that American fascism was very strong in the 1930's. There is a famous quote from FDR regarding this: The only thing we truly have to fear is fear itself. He knew that fascism relied on fear and worked tirelessly to provide for Americans to give them security and improve their lives despite considerable pushback from business and evangelicals. There was even as assasignation attempt and he was called a communist all over.
America could have very easily been Germany's ally in WW2 in an allience against communism.
@@MrMarinus18I always thought of that quote as being about economic uncertainty. It never occurred to me that it was also about the political struggles of the day. And now, it's an apt saying for the times we live in.
The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.
@@davidmenasco5743 Economic uncertainty and political struggle can not be seperated.
That would be like giving a child a copy of "Mien Kampf" to read. Your mother-in-law is a dupa yosh.
Reagan hated university students from his time as California governor. Once in office as president, the first thing his administration did was cancel all Pell Grants in January 1981, which we had to go out and get market interest rate student loans, which took me nearly 20yrs to pay off
Let's see...Reagan left CA with $2mil over in budget. Brown left it four times that amount in debt. Yep, Reagan was terrible for CA.
@@catherineskis easy to do if you slash funding for many needed things, like I don't know - the money that kept a bunch of people with mental problems off the street and in mental hospitals (the homeless problem and crime shot up at that point). His BS economics on the federal stage were argued against by the world best economists at the time, and everything they warned about came true - he was pathetical bad governing. How sad the things you must ignore so you can celebrate over and under budget.
PS - Blue states are richer than red states and pay for red states to exist - those red states that buck that trend are going purple and/or blue. The Right doesn't actually know economics and they barely even understand business - all they know is balancing by removing things (to make rich people pay less taxes) that cause society to get provably, factually worse.
Regan was right,government isspendiñ
problem.Too bad things didn't çhànge mucĥ.We always think
The modern republicans starting with Nixon and exacerbated by Regan, have historically hated education and those they deem as "intellectual" while at the same time clinging to religion. This is because education teaches one to question authority and to be a self-thinker. Republicans hate this, they want a citizenry that adheres to religious practice because religion inspires followers, not independent thinkers, it tells you WHAT to think where education teaches you HOW to think.
I look at university students today and hate them too.
Right on lady. Reagan pushed slogans that covered deceit. Big government increased under Reagan - it was outsourced.
that wasnt the intention but the policies were sound compared to what everyone else was doing.
Anyone who seriously thinks Reagan is the greatest Presiden ever, or at even a top 10 Presiden I will never ever take seriously.
My jaw fell to the floor when she said there's people who think he's the GOAT president.
Sean Hannity and his elk does
But that's all I ever hear from republicans.
@@VhlathanoshThis was actually a joke in King of the Hill.
I think he's lost his luster in the Trump years After all he had some presidential skills however disgusting most of his presidency. I don't think I could say Trump had any. All you have to do is quote Ronny about immigration, and I think they'd say "open borders". :D
Just a point to note: Jimmy Carter inherited a truly screwed up economy, had to contend with the consequences of past administrative foreign affairs failures, and a press that just loved pretending his drunken brother was part of his administration. He started social programs that helped people get jobs, housing and a chance in life. He endorsed unpopular fed policies that eventually resulted in reversing the out of control inflation he inherited. It was the lingering effects of Carter's policies that turned the economy around, not anything Reagan did. People don't realize that economies the size of the U.S. economy do not turn on a dime. It takes a lot to move them and a long time to see the effects of even huge events.
Yes, everything that happened during Carter's presidency had already been predicted before he was even elected. The down turn of the economy and the election of a Democratic president were predicted before he became president. This prevented his reelection and he didn't really have time to get much done. Reagan actually meant well. He wasn't making policies for personal gain, but he was taking advice from business leader, "friends", who advised him towards policies that they thought would help them gain personally. There were several Supreme Court rulings that affected Reagan policies and those rulings weren't up to him, but did require some changes be made by his administration, even if they weren't popular.
@Jim Brogan You started with the words, "Jimmy Carter". You meant Ronald Reagan, didn't you? Everything you described happened during the Reagan years.
As for large economies turning on a dime, just look to the governmental mismanagement of the recent pandemic and what it has done to the nation's economy.
@@olwill1 you choose to be ignorent and dont realize
Your making it easy for them
To get away with the deception designed to keep
Them rich and us struggling.
The idea that Jimmy Carter created lots of jobs with his social programs is fantasy.
The worst thing Americans ever did for themselves was to vote for the smooth talking Ronald Reagan instead of honest down to earth Jimmy Carter in 1980. America's finished now, and it started there.
I was a struggling young man just trying to get by during Reagan's great subversion of the American middle class. Looking back, the most amazing aspect of it all was his uncanny ability to actually make the very people he was screwing over like it, and then go down in history as a savior. I even voted for him the first time around, but soon afterwards was ashamed to admit it and didn't do it again.
Don’t blame yourself, he was clearly very effective at his campaigning! My own mother voted for Trump twice and is finally seeing the error of her ways, the most important thing is growth and you are showing that 😊
@@kelsynicole9135 The sorry sob also gave us qualified immunity - at least in its present, most fallacious and oppressive form.
Same here, He fooled a lot of union members, I voted for him the minute I turn 18, I was an apprentice at the time, once I learn that he was a Union buster, I ended up not voting for another Republican since.
@@georgealicen66 Ya, imagine the president of the Screen Actors "Guild" going around busting unions, when every working stiff knows that "guilds" and "associations" are nothing but "unions" for rich folks. I always taught my kids that Reagan was just a lowlife snake in the grass - the absolute sorriest president we ever had, bar none. ...The sneakiest too!
@@georgealicen66
Don't trust labels, always vote for some one who is supported by the public and no one else. They will be awkward personalities but they will listen to what people want.
When people say “make America great again” they’re usually referring to the post-war era in the 50s when there was a strong middle class and good economy. What they refuse to acknowledge is that the economy was so strong because union membership was at its peak and the top tax bracket was 92%
no it didnt it because there was more capitlism back then
Reagan was also the president, who decided to do massive snow job with climate change, the first denier. Money is more important than this blue ball, lets just buy new one when this goes bad. So he screwed us globally. Thanks a bunch, Ronnie!
ugh I need a feature length film to be able to touch on everything he ruined
“Finally, a worthy contender for the answer to the question, if you could go back in time and kill one person who would you kill?”
- Hitler
Nobody talked about climate change back then.
@@billybarnett2846 We have known about climate change since 1965. The scientists have warned us for years through the news. But nobody listened then and not many listen now. There are no political will to do what's needed because it's expensive and goverments only do short time stuff.
Carter tried. When he put the solar on top of the WH. Then Ronnie took them down :(