What A Stupid Question
The Pesky Fly has a request.
Someone explain to me how Reagan was a transformative figure relative to anything other than Republican party politics?
What an incredibly stupid question. I don’t know how old this particular irksome insect is, but I happened to have lived through the Reagan years, and also the Carter years. Reagan did transform the Republican party, but he undoubtedly also transformed the whole country and also the world. He completely reversed an American trend toward Western European style socialism that had begun during the 1930’s and culminated in the 1970’s with double digit inflation and double digit unemployment, something the Keynesians told us would never happen. The top tax rate in the United States when Reagan took office was 70%. At no time, not even during the eight years that a Democrat occupied the White House in the 1990’s, would the top tax rate come anywhere close to that again. Reagan cut taxes, freeing up capital to be spent in the economy. By doing so, we experienced, during the eighties, the largest economic boom in our nation’s history. In fact, the last twenty-five years have been the most productive quarter century this country has ever seen. He created a bi-partisan social security commission that saved social security. He inspired this nation like no other since FDR. In 1981, the general morale in this country was negative. Reagan changed that and reminded us of our greatness. He reminded everyone that America was a “shining city on a hill”.
When Reagan took office in 1981, Americans had grown used to detente. Nobody believed in 1981 that the Soviet Union would be gone in ten years and that eastern Europe would be free from communism. Nobody but Reagan that is. It was Reagan, the one they called a cowboy, who knew that the only way to negotiate with the Soviets was from a position of strength, and strong is what he made us. Liberals have made it a point to revise history and claim that Reagan had nothing to do with the fall of the Soviet Union, but intelligent people know better. Famous Polish patriot Lech Walesa once wrote, “When talking about Ronald Reagan, I have to be personal. We in Poland took him so personally. Why? Because we owe him our liberty.” Ronald Reagan is a hero in those newly formed Eastern European republics where millions were freed because of his sheer determination to defeat Soviet communism, rather than to peacefully coexist with it.
Reagan won two landslide elections. In fact you can actually say that he won three, counting the Bush victory in 1988. Americans loved Reagan. He transformed this nation like no other except for Roosevelt. To support a change from the transformation caused by Reagan would mean to go back to the failed economic policies of the 1970’s. Liberals love to argue about how great the 1990’s were and they should, the nineties were great because they were a continuation of the Reagan revolution. The type of economic populism you hear on the Democratic campaign trail today was never tried during the nineties. Thankfully taxes remained low during the nineties and Clinton kept reappointing a Reagan appointee to the Fed.
To say that Reagan was not a transformative figure is like saying that Roosevelt was not a transformative figure. What an amazingly stupid statement.
And Reagan, the killer of Euro-social programs saved Social Security (by raising TAXES!!!) as well as other basic social safety net parts of the new deal while destroying the parts catering particularly to minorities… welfare queens & the like.
As I said: a post Civil Rights president.
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Lived through it.
Got the scars and the stupid Tee shirts.
Reagan was a pivitol figure in American conservatism but America’s “transformation” resulted from a major change in the media, particularly the rise of talk radio and media deregulation generally.
Here’s the problem: the more Bush has tried to wipe out SOCIAL Security )in order to save it) the more people pushed back—- to save their beloved “socialist” program.
Indeed Roosevelt was a transformative President, and we are still made in his image. Reagan, not so much.
Narrowminded unreflected dumbass.
Reagan actually created a bipartisan commission and allowed them to come up with the compromise to save social security. Whatever they came up with, he promised to support, and he did.
It wasn’t Reagan that brought about welfare reform though. That was Clinton and he and the Republican Congress should be commended for that. Reagan was actually pretty unsuccessful at pushing back on social programs, due to the Democratic Congress.
The major change in media was a result of the market created by a change in attitude brought on by the leadership of Ronald Reagan. Talk radio is a business, and businesses respond to markets. I realize this is hard for a command economy person to understand, but you don’t create a product when there is no demand for it. Well I guess you do if you are a liberal (see Air America). But thats not the way normal markets work.
Bush did not try to wipe out social security, nor did he try to privatize it. He merely wanted to set up a way for someone to VOLUNTARILY put a small amount of the money that is confiscated from them every week, into a private account. Not all of what is deducted from your check, but about an eighth. It was a great idea, but you guys seem to have a lot of trouble with the VOLUNTARILY part. You all are more into compelling people to do what you think they should do. That’s basically the crux of modern liberalism and socialism.
Roosevelt made the people feel good and he was a great leader in a time of war. But the damage that he did to this country in the long term is immeasurable. If the republic folds, history will look back at Roosevelt and the entitlement monster he created, including the Ponzi scheme known as social security, as the one to blame.
You live in a world where you are entitled to things just because you breathe, yet you assume that all of that money just drops out of the sky. There is no such thing as a free lunch though.
Reagan brought out the best in Americans. He reminded them that the greatest strength in the world was inside them as individuals and that they were capable of greatness. He changed the morale of this country and put it on the path to greatness, which is where we are now.
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