thegreekdog wrote:There's an argument that FDR's policies did not help get us out of the Great Depression. Those people argue that World War Two got us out of the Great Depression. Which, frankly, I agree with
then you're another dullard who fell for a conservative canard older than your parents. the depression was effectively over by 1938, well before america entered the conflict.
At the risk of being subject to nonsensical abuse with no backup information (from the good Sultan)... What was wrong with President Reagan?
he was the progenitor of the modern conservative movement, which has done more to harm america socially, financially, and culturally than anything else in the current era. he ballooned defense spending to insane levels, cutting funding for vital social programs to do it -- among them education and healthcare.
his voodoo economics are the single worst, most discredited economic theory to ever hold sway over the country and represent a transparent attempt to benefit the rich at the expense of the poor that would have been laughable if it hadn't worked.
basically he was a demagogue and by the end of his second term he was a literal doddering moron who barely remembered that he was even president.
further if the ussr hadn't had the single weakest (by a huge margin) head of state to ever serve, and if the ussr hadn't already raped itself to death with obscenely poor planning, reagan would not have been able to "end" the cold war. in fact his "tear down this wall" and other brinksmanship-type antics probably would have led to nuclear war if someone like stalin had been in office. though i prefer to think reagan possessed some semblance of sanity and wouldn't have tried ridiculous stunts like that if he didn't know he could get away with them.
and i haven't even touched on nicaragua, iran, his lasting effects on the supreme court, or about 10,000 other things that make him probably one of the worst figures in all american history
