c b wrote: > http://www.examiner.com/liberal-in-orlando/8-reasons-why-ronald-reagan-was-a-horrible-president-1
Why the reverse cult of personality? Didn't leftists learn a long time ago from Marx that it's not individual politicians (no matter how powerful) as much as social forces that matter in politics? the focus on a single evil individual distracts people from the neoliberal bloc hiding behind the curtain. BTW, it's unfair to blame Reagan for the 11% unemployment in 1982-3. If you want to blame anyone, it would be Paul Volcker, who the DP president Jimmy Carter named to be head of the Federal Reserve. RR's tax cuts for the rich actually counteracted Volcker's tight monetary policy when it came to the unemployment issue. Whether the Gypper was "horrible" or not depends on your perspective. If you want there to be a neoliberal consensus among the ruling forces in US and world society, RR was great. He cemented the coalition that transformed US and world society, so that DP icons such as Bill Clinton and Barack Obama went along with neoliberalism (and have deepened it). - Jim Devine / "In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness." -- George Bernard Shaw _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
