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And his policies were 40 years ago. At some point, we need to own our own problems.

I’ve been echoing this online for a while now, glad to know I’m not alone. Ronald Reagan isn’t some ghost controlling the country like a Sith Lord. That fuck’s been dead for decades by now. Everytime I see someone dredge up Reagan’s name for problems we’re experiencing right now, I can only think about how the people perpetuating those problems are getting off essentially blameless.

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njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Nobody’s arguing that he’s still pulling strings man. They’re saying he got the ball rolling. That is policies have reverberated up until this day. That he started a trend that others continued.

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- PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Reagan had one of the highest approval ratings in modern US history; he didn’t force these policies on an unwilling country and he sure as hell didn’t draft them himself. My original point still stands that blaming current problems on an administration from forty years ago is harmfully reductive. The people we should be blaming are alive today and hold seats in Congress right now. We can worry about the historiography later.
  
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  - njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Do you feel anyone who’s blaming the Reagan policies is claiming we shouldn’t do anything about today? Are you suggesting they’re all pining for time machines? In fact I’ll go further and ask this do you really think you can address the problems of today without understanding how they began? How can you even approach economic policy reform without looking back and understanding what went wrong?
    
    Also there’s a long long history in our world of horrible evil brutal leaders being popular at the time. So I don’t think we need to go into that absurd argument any further.
    
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    alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The people blaming Reagan are fighting a 3 decade old culture war.
    
    Fact is, things really weren’t all that bad in the 80s and 90s.
    
    They only really started getting bad after the financial crisis in 2008.
    
    And which party got both the presidency and a majority in Congress that year? Hint: doesn’t start with R.
    
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alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Well said, I regret that I have but one upvote to give you, PP boy.

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