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...
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.
@@LeejaMillerand then as president he closed all of the federal mental hospitals and suddenly the mentally unstable people were wandering around the streets talking to air. Scary crazy people who need help with managing their meds and self care. Very sad and how dare he?
@@cl5619 probably both costs are way higher now and it is a different situation with psych meds and the attitude of lockdowns for mental patients is not good after Coocoos Nest by Ken Kesey
@@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
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.
AS an 80s High Schooler/College attende I can confirm this. WE are still operating with a capitalism system Reganomics, A he allowed Manufacturing jobs to be moved overseas to destroy unions, Destroying Unions dropped everyone's wages. And he kept minimum wage at 3.35 an hr.
i wrote a high school essay on AIDS. when i found out that the reagan administration laughed in the face of people asking them what they were going to do about it-which is not hyperbole, they did that-i was beyond enraged. that was when i really realized how vile of a person reagan was.
Yes because Dr. Fauci created AIDS and spread it among the gay population. So Reagan didn't care. If it was in the general population there might have been some type of response but that was so evil of him to ignore it especially since hemophiliacs were getting it through blood transfusion.
I suggest you look into the background of the first Space Shuttle disaster where Christa McAuliffe died. When you do, you will realize there are questions about why the senior management of Morton Thiokol were convinced their company would survive a Shuttle disaster. Once the you start thinking about this fact, it raises questions which leave a sour taste in the mouth.
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
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 lost two friends to HIV who were hemophiliacs that were given the disease through their Factor VIII infusions. They were given a small settlement for being given the tainted medication but died soon after. The Republicans have a lot of blood on their hands. A LOT!!!
@@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 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.
@@fritzforsthoefel8031 Reagan and Nixon axed unions, causing only rich business owners to have power when the power actually resides in the people that actually do the work everyday. And this is obviously because these two bastards were in the pockets of these rich business owners. Additionally, Reagan ruined a lot of the progress LBJ made with his war on poverty and helping raise up the poor.
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
"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
@@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 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.
@@user-ki1un4jg2d “Oh Boy: “This is 6th grade spelling stuff: “Alexandria” - The High School Diploma Party! The elite GOP just picking the high schoolers pockets in exchange for a 10 foot border wall that Mexicans laugh at, not pay for😂
The whole “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” mentality really makes me angry. Anytime you criticize these economic policies, you get called a “socialist”. You get called “lazy”. And worst of all, it’s the working class people that believe in this crap. It’s almost as if they’re proud of being a serf.
There’s a lot of educated working class people that see what’s going on but there’s a LOT of willfully idiotic people in the working class too. Only thing they care about is celebrity gossip or what the grossly overpaid pro athletes are gonna do in the big game.
@@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. )
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.
I love how the phrase "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" originally referred to attempting something impossible, but now we are _expected_ to do it, lest we be considered lazy. That's some choice victim-blaming right there.
It's painful to hear this, but thank you for saying it! I have held the same view of Ronald Reagan since 1980 when I was 18 years old and saw with horror the changes that started to happen right in front of my eyes. Who remembers James Watt? This was the man Ronald Reagan appointed as the head of the EPA who tried to dismantle the agency from within. Because there was still a functioning Congress - with liberals, moderates and conservatives in each party - there was enough consensus across party lines that Secretary Watt was stopped. Fast forward to Trump's presidency when the EPA was practically shredded from within, and no one dared to object in the Republican Party even though this was about clean water to drink and clean air to breathe. But the corrosion had begun, and the love of wealth without charity became the new normal. Suddenly the poor were the problem, not poverty. Suddenly you were unpatriotic if you were not in favor of a military budget that drained funding from social and human services and education. Reagan brought back the same tactics that were used by Joseph McCarthy - which had destroyed so many lives in the 1950s - to demonize liberals and liberalism. And except for Mario Cuomo, Ted Kennedy, and a handful of other politicians, the majority of Democrats ran from the ideals that had become part of the fabric of our society since Franklin Roosevelt. And these politicians share accountability for how much we lost during those years. Reagan also violated the ethics of his office by trying to circumvent Congress, hence the Iran-Contra affair where he diverted money from the sale of arms to Iran, so that he could support the "anti-communist" forces in Central America. The Congress had voted not to fund groups that might very well be committing crimes against their own people in the name of fighting communism. Reagan was ready and willing to break the law. The hypocrisy of a president who preached accountability and responsibility and took absolutely none for his own unethical and illegal policies speaks volumes about the real Ronald Reagan. He deserved to be impeached but because there are two systems of justice in this country, he suffered no consequences. It's so hard to have lived through the unraveling of the American dream for so many people, including my own family, and not feel pain and bitterness. It wouldn't be so bad except people are still so ignorant about our history. And I'm not a bitter person and never have been. But as I'm older now, it's hard not to feel the loss of how much better a direction we would have traveled all these years if not for Ronald Reagan and his distortions. The quality of daily life, the quality of our immigration system, our environment, our schools and hospitals and housing. Well, just as we emerged from the gross inequalities of the 19th century, and made great strides throughout the 20th century, so too will we need to emerge from this time of extremes and fight our way back to a more just and sane society. Peace! ✌️
I hope your optimist sentiment comes true. Reagan ripped the Solar panels off the White House and treated the Limits to Growth report with contempt. His actions have prevented a transition to using energy from other than fossil fuels for decades. At the current rate of expansion, there is only sufficient fossil fuel for another generation. Once fossil fuel decline, an energy transition will be difficult as any energy used on the transition away will be taken from essential needs.
🤨🌎🌐 REAGAN'S VERSION OF CAPITALISM "TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS" FROM THE WEALTHIEST TO THE POOREST NEVER WORKED THEN AND DOESN'T WORK NOW !!! THE WEALTHY CORPORATIONS POLITICIAL PARTIES and BIG CHURCHES HORDE $USD FOR THEIR OWN GAINS... EVEN WHEN USA GRANTS ARE GIVEN TO THEM TO HELP THE POOR THEY TURN A BLIND EYE... REAL CAPITALISM IS BUYING AND SELLING OF GOODS snd SERVICES TO ALL EQUALLY and PROMPTLY WITH HESITATION IN REGARD TO HUMAN STATUS... MONEY IS A TOOL, NOT A NECESSITY... GOVTS FEAR SPIRITIAL PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY ARE ROOTED IN A UNIVERSAL GOD WHO TEACHES WORSHIPPERS THAT DON'T SEEK MATERIALISM THINGS; BUT ONLY SEEK ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE SOUL& SPIRIT TO BECOME ONE WITH THE NATURE UNIVERSE DURING ITS VESSELS LIFESPAN. THE SPIRIT IS ETERNAL AND IS ONLY OBEDIENCE IS TO ITS CREATOR & MASTER TEACHER GOD... GOVTS LOSE CONTROL OF SUCH A BEING... REGULATIINS & LAWS MADE BY EVIL FIRMS OF CAPITALISTS GOVTS PROVE THIS POINT OVER & OVER AGAIN... BLESSED ARE THE MEEK FOR THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH AFTER THE EVIL ONES OF HUMANITY WIPE THEMSELVES OUT OF EXISTENCE...🌎🌍🌏🥰
Touché! I salute a fellow historian who gets it right! After Pandora’s box was empty all that was left in the bottom was Hope. It is hard to stay bitter as one grows older but it is increasingly difficult not to be sorrowful. My sons blame me-a much reviled baby boomer. Not my parents though because they were “the greatest generation”. It’s all marketing and branding-better get on top of it early and keep it spinning. Thanks 🙏 for letting me know I am not the only one who can see clearly.
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 .
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
Honestly, Reagan was the beginning of a malaise for America, that has led to the present day, and America entering its equivalent of the Italian years of lead.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For those who haven't already, check out Greg Palast's farewell to Reagan, June 6 2004: _Killer, Con-Man, Coward, Good Riddance Gipper_ ..."I remember as a student in Berkeley the words screeching out of the bullhorn, “The Governor of the State of California, Ronald Reagan, hereby orders this demonstration to disperse” - and then came the teargas and the truncheons. And all the while, that fang-hiding grin from the Gipper."
Reagan speeches advocating the use of force against the demonstrations against the Vietnam War were a likely cause of the Kent State Massacre. He induced other politicians to copy him, changing the state of mind of those policing the demonstrations.
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.
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.
@@GuinessOriginal 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.
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!
11:07 forgot to mention the switch of defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans. In other words, the switch from pension plans to 401(k) which made the financial companies rich through fees.
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 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.
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.)
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
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!
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!!😊❤
Important thing to note, Reagan only really won in 1980 because he paid the Iranians to turn down negotiations so Carter would look weak and ineffective
Exactly the real truth about the "great all powerful Reagan" needs to come out. That was a big manipulation going on. It was good the hostages were freed but the Republican Party lied about how it really went down and falsely portrayed it as "the Iranians were so scared of Reagan and the Republican Party they just released the hostages" when the truth was the "trickle down" mafia simply used taxes to pay off the Iranians, not because they genuinely cared about the hostages but it was important to their "trickle down" plans to make Reagan appear powerful and Carter look weak
The "trickle down" mafia repeats the same playbook over and over and figures the American people will never figure it out or next generation unaware. What happened with the Iran hostage situation, it's similar to how Trump made deal with the Taliban to sabotage Biden. it's all lies and manipulation and the Republican party has colossal propaganda machine to portray everything how they want and mosr just believe it. the Taliban and Iranians are not the "total enemies" the Republican Party pretends when they go on TV but the Republican Party will make any deal with any dictatorship at any cost if they think it can give the "trickle down" wage theft modern day slavery rigid class structure an advantage over the American people as a whole
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
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.
I cried when he was elected. I have continued telling people about the problems he created that we are dealing with still. Mental health is a big one. The vast difference in wealth is another. The sense of entitlement of Republicans today goes straight back to Reagan. He was a racist. I could go on and on.
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.
@@oksaturn2928 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.
Yes. The same reason they make fun of climate change. Same reason they want more guns everywhere. They know that minority communities and other undesirables will suffer and die in larger numbers, even if a few straight, white folks get caught in the crossfire.
Feels like the difference is one was ignored out of malice (Reagan and co laughed at the idea of gay men dying and many religious people saw it as Gods vengeance for their sin) vs Trump just being ignorant and arrogant enough to think he could ignore the problem and it would go away or that it would only harm his opposition in majority democratic cities so it wasn’t his problem
It was less ignoring and more "What were his options". Do you round up everyone with HIV and ship them to Hawaii like lepers? That was an option on the table. We still don't have an HIV vaccine like Covid well now 30 different varrients of Covid many of whom the vaccine doesn't protect you from but will "Lessen your symptoms". That was an option (Though would you let your child get a supposedly dead virus that could kill them in a few years to "Protect them" from it.
@@amandalogan89 Trump was heard thinking covid was serious in the Woodward recordings. He played it off as a flu to appeal to his base, to appear as a "strong man". The GOP has long claimed vaccines "causes" autism years before covid was a thing.
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!!!!
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.
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.
Because Reagan wasn't the President, he was the front for the Bush family who did all the detail work, and were the real Presidency. They had to keep hidden because they were not elected.
The actual President was Bush Sr. who was working 16 hours a day to grab $. Reagan was uninformed, he simply sent people to the appropriate departmental head, allowing Bush Sr control of the Presidency.
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.
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
Just found your page. This one on Reagan was so brilliant! Can think of lots of people (ex friends) I wish could listen to you. I am a 73 yo white guy and I think you are perhaps the most articulate and brilliant young attorneys I've ever listened to, great work keep it up!
Exactly so. Federal debt rose steeply in the eighties huge increases in military spending to counter the alleged Soviet threat and a sharp reduction in taxes which were said to be much too high, although these actions greatly enriched the wealthy and began this country on its addiction to deficit spending. Republicans, of course, have the solution: make drastic cuts in social spending and don't increase taxes on the insanely rich.
And Reagan got incredibly lucky with the collapse of the Soviet Union which was almost entirely due to internal political reasons and nothing to do with him but many still credited him with it, still to this day.
"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.
Hi as a Brit we had much the same with Thatcher our Prime Minister at the time of Regan and her adoption of so called trickle down ecconomics has resulted in similar consequences here too.
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.
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. ❤
...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.
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!
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 "
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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
You forgot as a governor he closed the psych institution dumping them unserved on the street.
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@@LeejaMillerand then as president he closed all of the federal mental hospitals and suddenly the mentally unstable people were wandering around the streets talking to air. Scary crazy people who need help with managing their meds and self care. Very sad and how dare he?
What will Joe Biden do about the large number of illegally immigrants with mental illness? Will they be dumped on the streets?
Yes but why hasn’t this mistake been revered during 5 terms of Democrat administration?
@@cl5619 probably both costs are way higher now and it is a different situation with psych meds and the attitude of lockdowns for mental patients is not good after Coocoos Nest by Ken Kesey
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?
@@backpackerraden6268or Trump or even Bush Jr
@@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
@@backpackerraden6268 that’s a good point, actually.
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
AS an 80s High Schooler/College attende I can confirm this. WE are still operating with a capitalism system Reganomics, A he allowed Manufacturing jobs to be moved overseas to destroy unions, Destroying Unions dropped everyone's wages. And he kept minimum wage at 3.35 an hr.
This is a capitalism free market nation. Would you rather have communism? Name something better?
He did not allow jobs to move overseas. CLINTON did with NAFTA. Get your history straight.
@@jayairBofRwe can still have capitalism without it being exploitative. or maybe we cant bc humans are inherently greedy.
40 years later and it's not much better.😢
i wrote a high school essay on AIDS. when i found out that the reagan administration laughed in the face of people asking them what they were going to do about it-which is not hyperbole, they did that-i was beyond enraged. that was when i really realized how vile of a person reagan was.
Ronald reagen is burning in hell
Yes because Dr. Fauci created AIDS and spread it among the gay population. So Reagan didn't care. If it was in the general population there might have been some type of response but that was so evil of him to ignore it especially since hemophiliacs were getting it through blood transfusion.
I suggest you look into the background of the first Space Shuttle disaster where Christa McAuliffe died. When you do, you will realize there are questions about why the senior management of Morton Thiokol were convinced their company would survive a Shuttle disaster. Once the you start thinking about this fact, it raises questions which leave a sour taste in the mouth.
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?
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 lost two friends to HIV who were hemophiliacs that were given the disease through their Factor VIII infusions. They were given a small settlement for being given the tainted medication but died soon after. The Republicans have a lot of blood on their hands. A LOT!!!
Gays has a lot of blood on their hands
@@cocococop6082
Clearly you haven't been keeping track of the origin of HIV.
@@cocococop6082No Republicans and the Reagan administration, don’t get it twisted.
Ronald Reagan was the grim reaper of the poor and working middle class.
"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 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
Wow in the first second of the vid my mind is already blown. I had no idea Reagan used "Make America great again."
The more I learn about Reagan, the more I hate the guy.
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 Reagan and Nixon axed unions, causing only rich business owners to have power when the power actually resides in the people that actually do the work everyday. And this is obviously because these two bastards were in the pockets of these rich business owners. Additionally, Reagan ruined a lot of the progress LBJ made with his war on poverty and helping raise up the poor.
@@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
"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.
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.
I have been saying for decades that Reagan was a awful president and person‼️
Now just a moment his wife listened to the stars and he listened to his wife. What else do you need to know?
@@williamrudolph3481 🙄🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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
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.
His first official campaign rally was in Philadelphia, Mississippi; he didn't mention one word about the three slaughtered civil rights workers!
That's because Reagan was not a rascist .
@@user-ki1un4jg2d You spelled "racist" wrong!
@@geraldellison2453
Oh , my bad .
Let me spell it the right way = Alexandra Ocasio - Cortez .
@@user-ki1un4jg2d “Oh Boy: “This is 6th grade spelling stuff: “Alexandria” - The High School Diploma Party! The elite GOP just picking the high schoolers pockets in exchange for a 10 foot border wall that Mexicans laugh at, not pay for😂
Funny how you don't mention they were murdered by Democrats
The whole “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” mentality really makes me angry. Anytime you criticize these economic policies, you get called a “socialist”. You get called “lazy”. And worst of all, it’s the working class people that believe in this crap.
It’s almost as if they’re proud of being a serf.
There’s a lot of educated working class people that see what’s going on but there’s a LOT of willfully idiotic people in the working class too. Only thing they care about is celebrity gossip or what the grossly overpaid pro athletes are gonna do in the big game.
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.
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.
I love how the phrase "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" originally referred to attempting something impossible, but now we are _expected_ to do it, lest we be considered lazy. That's some choice victim-blaming right there.
It’s an anti collectivist statement.
It's painful to hear this, but thank you for saying it! I have held the same view of Ronald Reagan since 1980 when I was 18 years old and saw with horror the changes that started to happen right in front of my eyes.
Who remembers James Watt? This was the man Ronald Reagan appointed as the head of the EPA who tried to dismantle the agency from within. Because there was still a functioning Congress - with liberals, moderates and conservatives in each party - there was enough consensus across party lines that Secretary Watt was stopped. Fast forward to Trump's presidency when the EPA was practically shredded from within, and no one dared to object in the Republican Party even though this was about clean water to drink and clean air to breathe.
But the corrosion had begun, and the love of wealth without charity became the new normal. Suddenly the poor were the problem, not poverty. Suddenly you were unpatriotic if you were not in favor of a military budget that drained funding from social and human services and education.
Reagan brought back the same tactics that were used by Joseph McCarthy - which had destroyed so many lives in the 1950s - to demonize liberals and liberalism. And except for Mario Cuomo, Ted Kennedy, and a handful of other politicians, the majority of Democrats ran from the ideals that had become part of the fabric of our society since Franklin Roosevelt. And these politicians share accountability for how much we lost during those years.
Reagan also violated the ethics of his office by trying to circumvent Congress, hence the Iran-Contra affair where he diverted money from the sale of arms to Iran, so that he could support the "anti-communist" forces in Central America. The Congress had voted not to fund groups that might very well be committing crimes against their own people in the name of fighting communism. Reagan was ready and willing to break the law.
The hypocrisy of a president who preached accountability and responsibility and took absolutely none for his own unethical and illegal policies speaks volumes about the real Ronald Reagan. He deserved to be impeached but because there are two systems of justice in this country, he suffered no consequences.
It's so hard to have lived through the unraveling of the American dream for so many people, including my own family, and not feel pain and bitterness. It wouldn't be so bad except people are still so ignorant about our history. And I'm not a bitter person and never have been. But as I'm older now, it's hard not to feel the loss of how much better a direction we would have traveled all these years if not for Ronald Reagan and his distortions. The quality of daily life, the quality of our immigration system, our environment, our schools and hospitals and housing.
Well, just as we emerged from the gross inequalities of the 19th century, and made great strides throughout the 20th century, so too will we need to emerge from this time of extremes and fight our way back to a more just and sane society. Peace! ✌️
I hope your optimist sentiment comes true.
Reagan ripped the Solar panels off the White House and treated the Limits to Growth report with contempt. His actions have prevented a transition to using energy from other than fossil fuels for decades. At the current rate of expansion, there is only sufficient fossil fuel for another generation.
Once fossil fuel decline, an energy transition will be difficult as any energy used on the transition away will be taken from essential needs.
🤨🌎🌐 REAGAN'S VERSION OF CAPITALISM "TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS" FROM THE WEALTHIEST TO THE POOREST NEVER WORKED THEN AND DOESN'T WORK NOW !!!
THE WEALTHY CORPORATIONS POLITICIAL PARTIES and BIG CHURCHES HORDE $USD FOR THEIR OWN GAINS... EVEN WHEN USA GRANTS ARE GIVEN TO THEM TO HELP THE POOR THEY TURN A BLIND EYE...
REAL CAPITALISM IS BUYING AND SELLING OF GOODS snd SERVICES TO ALL EQUALLY and PROMPTLY WITH HESITATION IN REGARD TO HUMAN STATUS...
MONEY IS A TOOL, NOT A NECESSITY...
GOVTS FEAR SPIRITIAL PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY ARE ROOTED IN A UNIVERSAL GOD WHO TEACHES WORSHIPPERS THAT DON'T SEEK MATERIALISM THINGS; BUT ONLY SEEK ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE SOUL& SPIRIT TO BECOME ONE WITH THE NATURE UNIVERSE DURING ITS VESSELS LIFESPAN. THE SPIRIT IS ETERNAL AND IS ONLY OBEDIENCE IS TO ITS CREATOR & MASTER TEACHER GOD...
GOVTS LOSE CONTROL OF SUCH A BEING...
REGULATIINS & LAWS MADE BY EVIL FIRMS OF CAPITALISTS GOVTS PROVE THIS POINT OVER & OVER AGAIN...
BLESSED ARE THE MEEK FOR THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH AFTER THE EVIL ONES OF HUMANITY WIPE THEMSELVES OUT OF EXISTENCE...🌎🌍🌏🥰
Touché! I salute a fellow historian who gets it right! After Pandora’s box was empty all that was left in the bottom was Hope. It is hard to stay bitter as one grows older but it is increasingly difficult not to be sorrowful. My sons blame me-a much reviled baby boomer. Not my parents though because they were “the greatest generation”. It’s all marketing and branding-better get on top of it early and keep it spinning. Thanks 🙏 for letting me know I am not the only one who can see clearly.
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 .
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.
Man I never knew Reagan actually said "make America great again" 💀
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.
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.
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 :(
I've been saying these things about Reagan for decades. It's hard to pull yourself up by your bootstraps when they take away your boots.
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".
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
This video needs to be seen by everyone.
Honestly, Reagan was the beginning of a malaise for America, that has led to the present day, and America entering its equivalent of the Italian years of lead.
What do you mean, the 80s was a a great time and so were the 90s.
@@polishherowitoldpilecki5521 Clinton was a respite, but that’s all he was.
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.
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.💙💙💙
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!"
The whole "pull yourself up by your boot straps" originally meant to do something thats impossible or improbable.
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"
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?
Right on lady. Reagan pushed slogans that covered deceit. Big government increased under Reagan - it was outsourced.
He passed before I ever paid any attention to politics and I wish I had so I could've reveled in it
🎯
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.
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
What is it with self-important actors fucking this country up?
Lets not forget Regan didn't want work with Black actors and got pissed he had to work with them and let them join the union.
I would like to know more about this. Please tell me more about who he really was as an actor ?
LBJ declared war on poverty. Reagan declared war on the poor.
🎯💙
Yeah, and how's that "Great Society" working out now. Smh.
@@SoldierPoet The decline since Reagan gave us MAGA's attacking the USA Capitol, attempting to end our democracy.
@@SoldierPoet Not great bc of people like you
😅😅😅😅
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.
For those who haven't already, check out Greg Palast's farewell to Reagan, June 6 2004: _Killer, Con-Man, Coward, Good Riddance Gipper_
..."I remember as a student in Berkeley the words screeching out of the bullhorn, “The Governor of the State of California, Ronald Reagan, hereby orders this demonstration to disperse” - and then came the teargas and the truncheons. And all the while, that fang-hiding grin from the Gipper."
Reagan speeches advocating the use of force against the demonstrations against the Vietnam War were a likely cause of the Kent State Massacre. He induced other politicians to copy him, changing the state of mind of those policing the demonstrations.
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.
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
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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
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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.
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.
11:07 forgot to mention the switch of defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans. In other words, the switch from pension plans to 401(k) which made the financial companies rich through fees.
Reagan was sick the entire time with true dementia.
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 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.
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.)
His policy’s kept inflation at bay for years and years. But he signed the Gun act of 86 and that is unforgivable.
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
"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.
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!!😊❤
Great overview: one biggee I think both feature prominently is the dismantling of the EPA.
Important thing to note, Reagan only really won in 1980 because he paid the Iranians to turn down negotiations so Carter would look weak and ineffective
Exactly the real truth about the "great all powerful Reagan" needs to come out. That was a big manipulation going on. It was good the hostages were freed but the Republican Party lied about how it really went down and falsely portrayed it as "the Iranians were so scared of Reagan and the Republican Party they just released the hostages" when the truth was the "trickle down" mafia simply used taxes to pay off the Iranians, not because they genuinely cared about the hostages but it was important to their "trickle down" plans to make Reagan appear powerful and Carter look weak
The "trickle down" mafia repeats the same playbook over and over and figures the American people will never figure it out or next generation unaware. What happened with the Iran hostage situation, it's similar to how Trump made deal with the Taliban to sabotage Biden. it's all lies and manipulation and the Republican party has colossal propaganda machine to portray everything how they want and mosr just believe it. the Taliban and Iranians are not the "total enemies" the Republican Party pretends when they go on TV but the Republican Party will make any deal with any dictatorship at any cost if they think it can give the "trickle down" wage theft modern day slavery rigid class structure an advantage over the American people as a whole
Yep. Truth
YES!
He lost because of the economy
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
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
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True.
That's racism for ya.
These worthless people hate dark skin more than they love themselves.
I cried when he was elected. I have continued telling people about the problems he created that we are dealing with still. Mental health is a big one. The vast difference in wealth is another. The sense of entitlement of Republicans today goes straight back to Reagan. He was a racist. I could go on and on.
I'm not going to waste my time listening to this but it scares me when his son says he doesn't mind living in hell something very wrong there.
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.
@@oksaturn2928 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.
Reagan ignoring AIDS is exactly like Trump ignoring COVID.
Both had Fauci at the helm. Just like Dementia Joe
Yes. The same reason they make fun of climate change. Same reason they want more guns everywhere. They know that minority communities and other undesirables will suffer and die in larger numbers, even if a few straight, white folks get caught in the crossfire.
Feels like the difference is one was ignored out of malice (Reagan and co laughed at the idea of gay men dying and many religious people saw it as Gods vengeance for their sin) vs Trump just being ignorant and arrogant enough to think he could ignore the problem and it would go away or that it would only harm his opposition in majority democratic cities so it wasn’t his problem
It was less ignoring and more "What were his options". Do you round up everyone with HIV and ship them to Hawaii like lepers? That was an option on the table. We still don't have an HIV vaccine like Covid well now 30 different varrients of Covid many of whom the vaccine doesn't protect you from but will "Lessen your symptoms". That was an option (Though would you let your child get a supposedly dead virus that could kill them in a few years to "Protect them" from it.
@@amandalogan89 Trump was heard thinking covid was serious in the Woodward recordings. He played it off as a flu to appeal to his base, to appear as a "strong man". The GOP has long claimed vaccines "causes" autism years before covid was a thing.
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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!!!!
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
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
All I remember is..he would work 2 weeks and then take a month long vacation
Because Reagan wasn't the President, he was the front for the Bush family who did all the detail work, and were the real Presidency. They had to keep hidden because they were not elected.
...and the afternoon nap.
The actual President was Bush Sr. who was working 16 hours a day to grab $. Reagan was uninformed, he simply sent people to the appropriate departmental head, allowing Bush Sr control of the Presidency.
Well, now I know who put the "trick" in trickle down economics. Thanks for posting.
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.
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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.
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
Comon Leeja, don’t sugarcoat it. Tell us how you really feel about old Ronnie.
Just found your page. This one on Reagan was so brilliant! Can think of lots of people (ex friends) I wish could listen to you. I am a 73 yo white guy and I think you are perhaps the most articulate and brilliant young attorneys I've ever listened to, great work keep it up!
"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.
Reaganomics actually failed. The "prosperity" of the eighties was actually caused by runaway military spending and increasing national debt.
Exactly so. Federal debt rose steeply in the eighties huge increases in military spending to counter the alleged Soviet threat and a sharp reduction in taxes which were said to be much too high, although these actions greatly enriched the wealthy and began this country on its addiction to deficit spending. Republicans, of course, have the solution: make drastic cuts in social spending and don't increase taxes on the insanely rich.
Run away military spending and national debt now no prosperity what's up with that
Which the Republicans claim the Democrats do but do it's worse when they run things and nobody including democrats call them on it
And Reagan got incredibly lucky with the collapse of the Soviet Union which was almost entirely due to internal political reasons and nothing to do with him but many still credited him with it, still to this day.
AND REGAN NEVER FELL UP THE STAIRS. REMEMBER TEAR DOWN THIS WALL? NOW ALL WE GET IS" DON'T "...
"The Gipper" was like FDR in reverse
"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." 🤢🤮
Hi as a Brit we had much the same with Thatcher our Prime Minister at the time of Regan and her adoption of so called trickle down ecconomics has resulted in similar consequences here too.
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.
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. ❤
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.
The real way that he failed was that he prevailed the chinese to buy interest into our assets to facilitate our growth. Now, we pay.
It doesn't matter how much the government taxes. It still has about the same tax amount.
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!
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
I used to have a bumper sticker "The Moral Majority is neither"
so good
Even in 2023, it seems that we cannot wash the stench of Regan off of us. There is also not much time to finally get rid of it.
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.