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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (141157)	5/2/2018 11:37:50 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218020

Exactly what I thought. You were just as dyspeptic when you were young. Perhaps you imagine yourself as footloose, carefree and accepting when you were young, but I'm confident that's your personal illusion which will not comport well with people who were adults at the time. I had a silver mylar and multi-colored silk-screened Nixon-Agnew poster on my wall as a teenager which my father supplied and I kept it there as it seemed to have a salutatory effect on him when he looked into my room and imagined I shared his political views. I couldn't see the poster from my bed and found it amusing. I did find it extremely curious how emotionally invested my Dad was in a person (Nixon) he'd never met. Watergate was a very serious affair for him and he was most surprised by the fact that most (normal) adults had never expected ethical behaviour from Nixon. In fact my Uncle in the defense industry had anticipated this reveal as they knew what Nixon said publicly was very different to what Nixon did and believed privately. Word gets around real quick. The first time I voted, I voted for George H. W. Bush who had been a stabilizing influence at the fly-by-night CIA and I'd vote for him again if the clock were turned back. I didn't understand Michael Dukakis or why anyone would want to vote for him. I next didn't vote for either Bush or Carter as I was indifferent. But I definitely made sure to vote for Carter four years later after he'd proved himself to me and was running against the preposterous actor I had met while growing up. Ronald Reagan was a remarkably unimpressive man when he was not actively recounting a rehearsed story. Reagan never lived in the same reality you and I share. He rather occupied a bizarre dream-world wholly disconnected from the real world. Only an insane person would vote for that. With Trump running for president I would have gladly voted for Billy the Goat in preference to Trump. Hillary Clinton is unimpressive and inauthentic, but she had the winning property of not being Donald Trump - the singular punch-line of the 1980s and 1990s. A superficial observer would suggest I've fluctuated wildly from one party to another, but my political beliefs haven't changed over this time. I support things that work and people who know how to make things work. George HW knew how things worked but Reagan's "morning in America" and his repeal of the Middle Class is something that was not going to work out and the effects are still reverberating through the class of people who can't think for themselves. The tantrum of idiots voting for a well publicized, mobbed-up scam artist - well, that's really out there - as I suggested, I would have voted for Herbert the Pig over Trump. The results will speak for themselves and Herbert the Pig or Billy the Goat would have had performed the four years more admirably.