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[–] vegafjord@freeradical.zone 5 points 2 months ago

@Confidant6198 That's why I like to call them the Genocidal Regimes of America.

[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Carter was a pretty good person, at least post-Presidency, can't really speak on how he was in the White House though.

Reagan, otoh, was irredeemable all the way through, given while he was in the White House, that guy effectively destroyed the middle class, created the current disaster that is unaffordable post-secondary education, and created the current credit score system among other atrocities, not to mention that whole Contra business.

Yes, really, if it weren't for Reagan, there wouldn't be a massive and progressively-widening gap between the bottom and top of society, it would still be possible to get affordably educated, and people wouldn't be getting completely screwed by bad credit.

For a perfect foil of everything the US has stood for for at least the last four decades, look at most of the EU having universal healthcare, having an actually regulated education sector where for-profit grift schools like University of Phoenix or even the late ITT Tech or EDMC and its subsidiaries, wouldn't have ever been allowed to take root to begin with.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Everything you mention for Reagan was passed by a democrat controlled Congress. Both parties killed the middle class

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (15 children)

You want to find me a head of state that wasn't or isn't?

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[–] Thepotholeman@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

I mean sure, the ruling men of more then a century ago by our standards were terrible people. But goddamn teddy Roosevelt was a man fighting for shit you're still fighting for today and hell he got you closer to it then compared to you now.... You can lump him in with slave owners and child rapists FFS.

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