Ronnie the Myth Maker

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In the present day corrupt thinking US society speaking the plain truth is seldom met with any favor .The critics will not understand you; the public will not believe you; your neighbors
,fellow workers and family will shake their heads.

The truth is straightforward: Virtually every significant problem facing the American people today can be traced back to the policies and people that came from the Reagan administration. It
is a laundry list of ills, woes and disasters that has all of us, once again, staring apocalypse in the eye.

How can this be? We hear all this fictitious revisionist history nonsense about the Reagan junta the week of his death Much of the reporting and commentary, under the guise of respecting the dead, has represented a dramatic rewriting of the history of the Reagan years in office. The answer lies in the reality of the corrupt brainwashed society . Our corruption is the absolute
triumph of image over reality, of flash over substance, of the pervasive need within most Americans to believe in a happy-face version of this increasingly fascist nation we call home, and we label telling the truth as unpatriotic. Ronald Reagan was, and will always be, the undisputed heavyweight champion of salesmen in this regard.

Reagan took advantage of post Jim Crow white backlash and by virtue of his towering talents in this arena, to sell to the American people a flood of poisonous policies. He made Americans feel good about acting against their own best interests. He sold the American people a lemon, and they drive it to this day as if it was a Cadillac.Now look at us : 38 % of this nations wealth is in the hands of 1 % of the population . The wealthiest 1 % have more wealth than the bottom 94 % . Reagan with his senseless lying tax cuts for the wealthy and species threatening increases in military spending increased the national debt more than all the presidents from George Washington to Jimmy Carter combined . It isn't the lies that kill us, but the myths, and Ronald Reagan was the greatest myth-maker we are ever likely to see.

Mainstream media journalism today is a shameful joke because of Reagan's deregulation policies. Once upon a time, the Fairness Doctrine ensured that the information we receive - information vital to the ability of the people to govern in the manner intended - came from a wide variety of sources and perspectives. Reagan's policies annihilated the Fairness Doctrine, opening the door for a few mega-corporations to gather journalism unto themselves. Today, Reagan's old
bosses at General Electric own three of the most-watched news channels. This company profits from every war we fight, but somehow is trusted to tell the truths of war. Thus, the myths are
sold to us. The deregulation policies of Ronald Reagan did not just deliver journalism to these massive corporations, but handed virtually every facet of our lives into the hands of this
privileged few.

The air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat are all tainted because Reagan battered down every environmental regulation he came across so corporations could improve
their bottom line. Our leaders are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the corporations that were made all-powerful by Reagan's deregulation craze. The Savings and Loan scandal of Reagan's time, which cost the American people hundreds of billions of dollars, is but one example of Reagan's decision that the foxes would be fine guards in the henhouse. Ronald Reagan believed in small government, despite the fact that he grew the military facets of government massively during his time all while cutting taxes for the rich . Social programs which protected the unfortunate were gutted by Reagan's policies, delivering millions into despair. Reagan was able to do this by caricaturing the "welfare queen," who punched out babies by the barnload, who drove the flashy car bought with your tax dollars, who refused to work because she didn't have to. This was a vicious, racist lie, one result of which was the decimation of a generation by crack cocaine. The urban poor were left to rot because Ronald Reagan believed in 'self-sufficiency.Real self-sufficiency-by the way - means working for socialist revolution .

The veneer of honor and respect painted across the legacy of Ronald Reagan is itself a myth of biblical proportions. The coverage proffered today of the Reagan legacy seldom mentions
impropriety until the Iran/Contra scandal appears on the administration timeline. This sin of omission is vast. By the end of his term in office, some 138 Reagan administration officials had
been convicted, indicted or investigated for misconduct and/or criminal activities.

Some of the names on this disgraceful roll-call: Oliver North, John Poindexter, Richard Secord, Casper Weinberger, Elliott Abrams, Robert C. McFarlane, Michael Deaver, E. Bob Wallach, James
Watt, Alan D. Fiers, Clair George, Duane R. Clarridge, Anne Gorscuh Burford, Rita Lavelle, Richard Allen, Richard Beggs, Guy Flake, Louis Glutfrida, Edwin Gray, Max Hugel, Carlos Campbell, John Fedders, Arthur Hayes, J. Lynn Helms, Marjory Mecklenburg, Robert Nimmo, J. William Petro, Thomas C. Reed, Emanuel Savas, Charles Wick. Many of these names are lost to history, but more than a few of them are still with us today, 'rehabilitated' by the
administration of George W. Bush.

Ronald Reagan actively supported the regimes of the worst people ever to walk the earth. Names like Marcos, Duarte, Rios Mont and Duvalier reek of blood and corruption, yet were embraced by the Reagan administration with passionate intensity. The ground of many nations is salted with the bones of those murdered by brutal rulers who called Reagan a friend. Who can forget his support of those in South Africa who believed apartheid was the proper way to run a civilized society?

How much of this can be truthfully laid at the feet of Ronald Reagan? It depends on who you ask. Those brainwashed right wingers who worship Reagan see him as the man in charge, the man who defeated Soviet communism, the man whose vision and charisma made Americans feel good about themselves after Vietnam and the malaise of the 1970s. Those who despise Reagan see him for what he is , nothing more than a pitch-man for corporate raiders and looters , the man who allowed greed to become a virtue, the man who made racism in vogue ,chic , and acceptable ,the man who smiled vapidly while allowing his appointees to run the government for him. In the final
analysis, however, the legacy of Ronald Reagan - whether he had an active hand in its formulation, or was merely along for the ride - is beyond dispute. His famous question, "Are you
better off now than you were four years ago?" is easy to answer. We are not better off than we were four years ago, or eight years ago, or twelve, or twenty. Thanks to Reagans' policies , we are a badly damaged state, ruled today by a man who subsists off Reagan's most corrosive final gift to us all: It is the image that matters, and be damned to the truth.

GREAT POST!!!

Reagan is Satan and Bush is his only begotten son, sent to earth to KILL US for THEIR sins, and so their stock portfolios and bank accounts can increase at our expense, even while they destroy the economy and bloat the budget.

Amen to Whoop45 !! Before Reagan came along the middle class here in America most definitely tended to favor policies that were not against their best interest . During and after Reagan the US is the only place where the middle class roots for and supports policies concepts and politicians that benefit only the
super rich- the wealthiest 5% of the population .The only possible explanation is racist blindness. It was as if Reagan hypnotized middle class white America .

All should be warned that an ominous recycled Reaganite is coming back onto the world scene . That would be John Negroponte who was for all practical purposes a Proconsul directing a murderous "War on Terror" decimation of the people of Nicaragua under the pretense of his being US ambassador to Honduras . The whole-sale slaughter of the Nicaraguan people by US mercenaries was so horrendous that
the Reagan junta was condemned by the World Court and two Security Council resolutions that the US had to veto .Now ,here we are in 2004 and that butcher Negroponte is being appointed US Ambassador to Iraq .Not good .

Don't ever forget that Reagan enjoyed 98% disapproval in Mexico because of his Latin American policies .He enjoyed 92% disapproval among African Americans in the US for obvious reasons .


Right on the money from whoop45 .Ronald Reagan took advantage of post Jim Crow white backlash to fashion policies which began the dismantling of all aspects of government that benefited the general populous . Regan fashioned policies that benefited only the top elite wealthiest.... Reagan apparently was incapable of having any regard or feeling any concern about the unservicable financial debt that he created and left for America not to mention the imbalance in the distribution of wealth.

Ronald Reagan was not just the worst US president in history . He was the worst American


What kind of racists lowlife to kicks off his 1980 campaign at of all the places Philadelphia, Mississippi: a town famous only for the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers and fails to even acknowledge the injustices of that earlier era that produced a level of hate that could result in the such a horrendous act as the killing of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner ? Let's not ever let ourselves forget that not only were these men killed with axes , but were also sledge hammered into the rocks and the dirt . It was a purposeful snub by Reagan, who did at Philadelphia, Mississippi express his support for "state's rights", a long-standing white code for rolling back civil rights gains and longing for the days of segregation. This despicable oversight by Reagan was designed to send a message to southern whites that the concerns and sentiments of Blacks were of no consequence to him.

The depth of Reagan's racial animus was revealed when he unsuccessfully tried to restore tax exempt status to private schools that practiced racial discrimination Reagan was such a de-humanized racist that he -believe it or not- saw nothing racist in South Africa's apartheid policies.

Ronald Reagan had no heart , no soul , no sense of the human side of anything, no right or wrong defining conscious , no concern for the future of this country past his lifetime . Reagan's feelings and emotions and hopes seemed totally monopolized by the desire that the powerful and the privileged sustain and yea enhance their own ways of life at the expense of the masses , and his lifelong hatred of African Americans.

Ronald Reagans legacy is that he built up the United States of America and US defense and promotion of the horrors of capitalism as sort of a sick racist cold genocidal heartless "golden calf" to be venerated by brainwashed masses . Whoop45 is lead pipe right on in saying that Reagan took advantage of post Jim Crow white backlash to achieve this .

Middle class whites turned their worship to that golden calf even though Reagan counted middle class whites as no more than usable riffraff .Blacks ,Latinos, the poor and even the elderly were immaterial in Reagan's bemused ,racist consciousness. The fallout continues to this day.

As far as I have heard ,none of the US press has commented on the racial and ethnic makeup of the crowds that flocked to his ranch , the undeserved library or lined the streets of DC for the funeral procession or thronged in the capitol Rotunda .