This President is why America today is run by warmongers and traitors!

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136. Sure, it's fun to beat up on Reagan...

but, if the republicans would have picked an actor instead of Romney, that person would be president now.

Aside from that - there were other things that changed when Reagan became president that were new. For example: the republicans hadn't controlled either body of congress except for the two years under Truman (when they controlled both) and two years under Eisenhower since the Great Depression. The reason that they hadn't is because the American people blamed the Great Depression on the republicans. That generation (of people who's fat was pulled out of the fire by democratic programs) had pretty much passed the baton when Reagan ran for president.

http://wiredpen.com/resources/political-commentary-and-analysis/a-visual-guide-balance-of-power-congress-presidency/

...and everyone can wail and gnash their teeth all they want about how great the government is, and how great unions are, but both were pretty unpopular with a lot of people at the time. There are still a lot of times that the government tends to look out for itself at the expense of the people and unions are very often portrayed as selfish by the press. People were ready to fight back against them. Some people are still angry at unions and the government.

The other thing that happened was that Reagan very successfully blamed the recession on Carter (mostly because of interest rates on homes as high as 18%) and the recession in the early 80's was very deep (many were calling it a depression) and Reagan successfully took credit for the recovery.

Shit is getting worse in this country because we let the republicans take control of congress. It isn't all Reagan's fault, it isn't all Clinton's fault or Obama's fault. It's our fault. We need to get democratic control of congress. The democrats worked for us when they controlled congress. We got some health care reform, we got some banking reform and we got some reduction in the MIC. It would have continued if the republicans hadn't taken control of the house.

For those of you that think FDR did such a wonderful job - he had a democratic controlled congress his entire time in office, LBJ same thing. You want this president to fight for liberal ideals - give the president a democratic controlled congress.

Reagan wouldn't have been able to do nearly the damage if he'd always had a democratic controlled congress and Clinton would have been able to do more. Proof - Nixon (clean water act, EPA, etc) Eisenhower (top marginal tax rate 91%, interstate highway system). Clinton - impeached.

It isn't Reagan's fault (or the people that voted for him) it's those of us who are getting sidetracked about the important things. The democrats' hands are tied as long as those fuckwads control the US House of Representatives - blaming it on Reagan is not productive.