America is still haunted by the ghost of Ronald Reagan's corruption
America is still haunted by the ghost of Ronald Reagan's corruption
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Let's try to make a list of where America went wrong
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The Louisiana Purchase: turned the nation into an expansionist empire.
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Andrew Jackson ignoring the rule of law so he could genocide the natives
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Lincoln keeping Johnson as his VP while at war with the south.
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Ending reconstruction early
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FDR not hanging the conspirators in the business plot
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Nixon using the Southern Strategy to win his election
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Ford pardoning Nixon
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Everything Ronald Reagan did
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Ruby Ridge, Waco, and NAFTA radicalization of rural Americans
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Supreme Court awards GWB the presidency
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The Iraq War
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Unregulated banks allowed to crash the global economy
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Limited US involvement in the Arab Spring fails to capitalize on popular movement, Syrian refugee crisis sends far right into overdrive
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Allowing the host of celebrity apprentice to be President
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Ignoring the COVID pandemic until it's too late then not locking down hard enough.
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Supporting Israeli genocide in Gaza
You forgot repealing the fairness doctrine.
Covered under #8!
Right you are, Ken.
Clinton's telecom act did more damage to public knowledge and information than the fairness doctrine
Congress passing the Taft-Hartley act and then overriding Truman's veto of it to enact laws to cripple unions (which made important union activities illegal, like solidarity strikes, jurisdictional strikes, and mass picketing) and basically completely fucked up unions, before Reagan went ahead and fucked them up even more than previously thought possible again
McCarthyism
Citizens United v. FEC
You missed Wilson.
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Created Wilsonian doctrine that led to forever wars
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Segregated the federal government.
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Wrote Southern Revisionism
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Fostered the second founding of the KKK
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Erected a bunch of statues of traitors that specifically said to never erect statues of them.
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Probably caused Lenin, and Stalin thereby causing Hitler and WWII plus a host of downstream knock-on effects such as The Cold War and the demonization of socialism and communism in the US.
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Robbed us of Teddy's third and fourth terms in office.
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15 could ultimately end up giving Biden the presidency, because it likely ended up killing more conservative voters.
*Not jailing all politicians involved in January 6th attempted coup
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