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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Neocon who wrote (56449)9/29/1999 6:03:00 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
And yet- he says about Reagan and IRan Contra that although Reagan clearly DID trade arms for hostages, the pure force of his own belief made him sure he did NOT. In other words the man was so convincing, such a good actor, he could even convince himself. Such people may indeed be capable of leading people- but since they are not in touch with reality one has to wonder where they will lead.

I think that far from being some regenerative force, Reagan allowed Americans to become full of false pride and complacency. We needed a leader to say "America IS great but not perfect- here is what is broke, let's fix it" , but instead we got morning in America, and pandering to the corporations, and no serious introspection and no serious address to our true national and cultural malaise- which is STILL with us. Ignoring problems may make them seem to disappear but oddly enough they don't ACTUALLY disappear. And people wonder why disaffected youth go off on shooting sprees? Why our jails are filled with drug offenders (who have no business being in prison)? Why, why, why? Because we never address the really hard problems in ways that make long term sense. We go with the "feel good". And Ronnie baby made everyone feel good (unless you were poor, or close to being poor- then he didn't make you feel so good). It is easy to say you don't want intellectual presidents if you only want to minister to the short term exigencies, in reactive short sighted ways. I grant you a moron with no vision is really good for that.
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