LOL, that's like saying thank you Nathan Knorr.
Ronald Reagan
by free2beme 45 Replies latest jw friends
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FlyingHighNow
Social Darwinism at its finest.
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Mad Sweeney
I get a vision of plutarchy every time I open my eyes and look around. It isn't some grand Reaganesque plan for the future, it is the reality humans have been living under for centuries, if not millennia.
Just because we proles get to buy our toys and watch movies and pay for our own infrastructure doesn't mean we've got anything to do with the ruling class. We don't.
Blaming Reagan is short-sighted and not productive. The concepts of freedom spoken of by the early founders of the USA have yet to be acheived; it isn't as if they've been taken away by one party who is inherently more evil than the other.
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FlyingHighNow
Of course Reagen is only partly to blame. Afterall he was just one man/demon. But do your homework, he was in on the beginning of the new gilded age we find developing all around us. The man was no hero, unless maybe it would be to people who are ignorant of his evil side. Oddly enough, some people revere him for that very thing, his dark side which was as a Social Darwinist.
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free2beme
Reagan put pride in this nation, we felt strong and we felt important. He pumped so much in to the military, the Soviet Union could not keep up. Because he also kept an extremely healthy economy that could sustian the military. A mix the USSR could not come close too. He was also the strong grandfather, who when tragedy hit this nation. You just felt better when he came on the television and acknowledged it and said we would make it through. I just thought the guy was great and the last quality president!
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Robdar
I hope Reagan is spinning on a rotisserie in HELL.
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BizzyBee
I hope Reagan is spinning on a rotisserie in HELL.
LOL! I still don't see Reagan the man as inherently evil as his policies. I could be wrong, however. In any case, the downward spiral of the US picked up speed during and after his administration.
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FlyingHighNow
Free, you are a sweet, trusting soul.
Bizzy, maybe his policies were driven by a man early in in Alzheimer's Disease and easily manipulated by his advisors? I sometimes think that vanity blinds what could be great leaders and renders them pawns in the hands of evil.
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FlyingHighNow
I hear Hitler made the German people feel better, too. When people feel desperate, they will look to a leader like Reagen to tell them what they want to hear. Reagen was an actor. Anything he promoted as a comfort was part of his act.
Free, there is no one man who can get us, the entire world, out of the fix we are in. It's a complex problem too big for one guy. One thing is for sure, we can't look to a Social Darwinist as a savior.
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BizzyBee
FHN - When I was 18, I dated a co-worker 10 years older - he was a German chef (I got him to study with my uncle who was a congregation overseer - another story).
Anyway, one day I said, "Horst, how could the German people have been so stupid as to go along with Hitler?" He was insulted and said, "Watch it! You don't know how much the German people needed to believe what Hitler was promising." His father was in the SS.
Perspective is everything.