thats what my sense is but I am not sure Obama supporters feel that way.
When I hear people dogging Reagan, who I myself had issues with, it sounds to me to be very similar to when the right wing went after Kerry in 2004 as if *protesting the vietnam war* was some kind of bad thing. It represents something of a denial and while you might be able to convince voters that somebody who protested the vietnam war was somehow misguided.. for a few months, or that Reagan was somehow bad for the USA for a few months, the reality is history has already determined what Vietnam was about, and whether Reagan was good for the USA or not.
My father was trying to run businesses in the 70s, it was impossible. Unions were in complete control, unionized grocery store checkers were making more than salaried engineers at Lockheed and going on strike every month, the air traffic controllers union was shutting down air travel every month, employees thought companies like Braniff were "too big to fail" and had a major entitlement problem, there was no status in entrepreneurialism etc. The rampant liberalism of the 60s and 70s CREATED the detroit of that time that lost our manufacturing sector to Japan. Reagan was the solution- the Reagan economy kicked off the great bull market in stocks, Reagan broke the unions - Reaganomics basically worked, at that time. He shouldn't have run up the debt, but that is not the part of his legacy that is revered.
In the 80s the country had the common sense to see that rampant liberalism was a loser - hopefully the same is true now. |
