Ronald Reagan Gassed Me

[Coyotl]

Ronald Reagan Gassed Me
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/08/31/ronald-reagan-gassed-me-151047

Dr. Dean Chavers
August 31, 2013

I never liked Ronald Reagan and still don’t. The fact that he tear gassed me had a little to do with it. But it wasn't personal. I thought he was a phony and a Johnny-come-lately conservative.

After Reagan had served as president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) as a left-wing Democrat, he married his second wife, Nancy Davis. She was from a wealthy family who were all conservative Republicans. In less than a year, Reagan was spouting the Republican line. In his left-wing days, he had friends who were soft on Communism; he turned them in and helped to get them blacklisted.

... He wanted all the protesting students at Berkeley thrown off the campus and disenrolled. When UC President Clark Kerr refused to do it, Reagan fired him. Kerr was fired three weeks after Reagan was sworn in as governor. The Free Speech Movement, it turned out, was a mild protest compared to the protests against the war in Vietnam that started in 1969. ...

[mysuzuki2]

1. He was a supremely stupid man.

I don't think he had enough brains to be considered evil.

[alphafemale]

6. very malleable personality as far as I'm concerned.

He just read his lines and did what he was told.

I don't think he was an evil man himself, but he was indeed unaware of the evil around him.

George Bush was also stupid and easily manipulated but that bastard has a meaness to him.

[XemaSab]

2. Dude must have gone to school with my mom

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

3. Just a mouthpiece,

he was just a mouthpiece.

[gopiscrap]

4. Reagan was the biggest fucking prick I have ever seen

and one of our three worst Presidents. Him, Harding and Bush Jr.

[B Calm]

5. Between Reagan and W Bush, I don't know which one I despised more.

[Jefferson23]

7. The Reagan era, so much damage that still remains today. Evil policies. n/t

[sakabatou]

8. +1

[cordelia]

11. + another 1

[Egalitarian Thug]

9. Thom Hartmann's epitaph: "It All Started With Reagan". K&R n/t

[Zorra]

10. Reagan halted our social and political evolution and reversed the progressive humanitarian course

we were on.

We went from moving forward on the path to a bright, beautiful future, to moving backwards toward the Dark Ages on a speeding hellbound train.

IMO, the damage he and Bush II did cannot be repaired without engaging in a successful non-violent mass revolution.