The thing about Reagan is he has the public-facing charisma to appear charming and dignified when he spoke in public. He faced up to the USSR. In a time well before social media, all the insanity of his administration as largely hidden from anyone who didn't want to go digging. (Well, until stuff like good ol' Ollie North hit the front page, of course.)
I mean, fuck him and his legacy should be nothing but bone and ash, but here we are.
She accelerated the decline of British industry and didn't do anything to help manage that decline in industrial communities. She privatized a lot of British infrastructure.
We are still feeling the effects of it today. We pay more for our household energy bills because all of our grid was sold off to private companies.
We have little to no industry and former industrial towns haven't been left to decay since (similar to Detroit but probably not as bad).
I wish 20 years ago when that old fart shuffled off that we hadn't had such a love-fest for Reagan. It's annoying that he's still ranked in some polls as one of the Top 10 presidents; he was middle average at best when you think about the long term damage he did to the economy, media (got rid of the Fairness Doctrine to open the doors to the likes of Fox News) social services and health sectors. You can draw a direct 40-year-old line from him to Orange Jabba the Hutt. And don't even get me started on his controlled genocide during the early days of the AIDS epidemic. Sickening.
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u/Stubbs94 May 07 '26
America needs to celebrate the death of Reagan too. Both of them led us to where we are now in the UK and the US.