Definitely wasn’t solely him, libertarian economic philosophy really began to take hold again in at least the ‘50s, with the US widely attributing its economic success to the superiority of consumer capitalism over communism due to their rivalry with the Soviet Union, but still. I hate him.
by Rude-Neck-2893
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I feel like people forget Reagan, Tatcher and John Paul II helped bring down the Soviet Union.
Call me when you reach American History X
Right.
So what’s your class teaching you about the economy in the 1970s?
I think it’s more that all the checks on capital fell apart around that time too. The labor movement was one real check against capital, it was losing steam before Reagan but Reagan finally put them down as a major political force so there wasn’t any counterbalance to capital in the US government; the rightward shift wasn’t possible until then. The USSR was also finally showing cracks and was finally overthrown just after Reagan. Since they were weakening throughout the 80’s, the US lost its check on the world stage as well.
Reagan was absolutely terrible for the country, but he was a symptom of what was happening around him, not the cause.
The father of modern American Conservatism and Reaganomics, name two more destructive forces in US politics
You don’t hate him enough. My hatred of what he (and by extension noted sexual predator William Jefferson Clinton) did really gained texture after 400 level economics courses.
How i feel watching modern American political discourse, too
Which is weird because he was actually wildly popular
By working with Iran to delay the end of the hostage crisis until after his inauguration, [Reagan may have committed TREASON.](https://youtu.be/PY09Ord-jZ8?t=8276&si=2VTzb7NLy–VxYZz)
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Nixon never gets enough hate
Didn’t know they were calling blatant propaganda and indoctrination “American History II” these days.
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Reagan is very much a relic of his time.
If you put yourself in thr shoes of someone in the late 70s and early 80s, you could somewhat see why someone would have voted for him.
It was a different America, a different world. Americans **wanted** to be optimistic because they had seen how much society could improve. As faux as his optimism was, Reagan brought about that optimism.
Some of his economic reforms were genuinely helpful but stayed for too long and overall no long apply to the modern world.
Reagan’s America was a nation where people didn’t compete with automation and foreign labor like they do today.
I’m not surprised that his legacy and presidency have been aging terribly.
How I feel listening to Behind the Bastards.