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To: Dale Baker who wrote (3226)	8/19/2003 2:50:20 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

..social attitudes and practices on abortion, gay rights, unmarried couples, interracial couples, women in senior positions, affirmative action, environmental issues....all are radically different than they were even 30 years ago. Times change and the definition of what is conservative and what is liberal changes. What pushes sentiment to the right is reaction to liberal excesses IMO. Conservative excesses have the potential to push sentiment back to the left. But that's not the situation that most people perceive, I think. Did Reagan really produce no lasting change? He busted the air controller's union and the country is far less unionized today than it was in the '70's. Trade was far freer after Reagan. Military spending was increased, military strength increased and the US took a more aggressive stance toward the USSR in particular. The Soviet Union fell apart a few years after Reagan. Yes, Reagan's impact was primarily on economic, military and foreign policy issues. And he had little impact on strictly social issues. Because social issues mostly are not matters of federal policy.