Ding Dong the Witch is Dead

[quesarah]

Rot in Hell, Ronald Reagan. You hateful stupid close-minded fuckwit, you drove this country into a debt we haven't recovered from, ignored the AIDS crisis, and cozied up to every bigoted evangelical "Christian" with a fat checkbook. I hated you then, I hate you now, and I'm glad you're dead you evil troll.

I have some sympathy for his family; I know from watching my grandmother deteriorate that Alzheimers is a horrible way to go but that is the extent of kindness I can summon. I just wish I still had the t-shirt I bought from Alternative Tentacles Records with the cartoon of Reagan saying "Let them eat jellybeans." Today I would wear it in joyful celebration.

Comments

Re: better later then never/ better never then later/better ever then..

[joebanks.livejournal.com]

OK! I'm going to be real general because a lot of the dates are lost in the mists of my mind.
But basically: John Paul II the first Polish Pope is elected around 1980. The Poles were a very down trodden nation living bleak suppressed lives.
Not long after-a year or two?-Polish shipyard workers dare to form a trade union; Solidarity. This wasn't a coincidence. Anyone who watches baseball knows a team loosing a game can get a hit and suddenly get inspired and turn it all around and win.

Experts knew the Soviet Empire would eventually implode and U.S. policy was to help this along. Even though Russian tanks-or was it the Polish Army to prevent a Russian occupation? I don't remember.
Either way Solidarity was eventually crushed; but the shock waves of people power were not forgotten. Just like the American Revolution inspired the French Revolution, which changed Europe. These were the first tears in the iron curtain. Reagan was in the right place at the right time. It would have happened under someone's watch.

Simplistic? Maybe. But that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Makes as much sense as anything else. But I do agree, Reagan was in the right place at the right time. The Soviet Union was going to fall apart regardless of who was in the White House. Blah.