@thefezbelchershow5443

Reagan also defunded mental health, which was why so many institutions closed and those patients poured into the streets, where they are to this day.

@ItsEpicWesley

I'm a severe Hemophiliac. When Reagan refused to take AIDS seriously because it was the "Gay Virus" almost 90% of severe Hemophiliacs also contracted AIDS, such as my self, during this time due to lax testing protocols. We were essentially given $100,000 and told to fuck off forever. Fast Forward to today, I'm 42 years old, still an AIDS survivor and incapable of working due to my health conditions. My 'relief fund' is entirely exhausted as they never expected any of us to survive this long. I was 2 years old when I was infected with HIV, and when I was 5 I also contracted Hepatitis C due to the same lack of real testing protocols. The Reagan administration completely destroyed my life and I'll never be able to forgive the Republican party for these crimes against humanity.

@mytmouse57

One positive side effect that I recall — the punk rock movement was largely driven by being pissed off at Ronald Reagan.

@jhersk

Like Trump, Reagan was a professional entertainer. He kept his adoring public enthralled with his homey witticisms while he stabbed them in the back.

@TheTlewis3074

I recall everyone I knew having full time jobs in 1980, with benefits. We mostly worked factory jobs. Never had to worry, even worked OT a lot. Then Reagan took office in 1981. By spring of that same year we started working 3-4 days per week then 2 days then sign up for unemployment. By the fall of '81 most textile mills in the area were either part time or closing their doors as the jobs were moved overseas with no penalties as Reagan had lifted all restrictions on American companies seeking cheap labor, so the rich could get richer. Soon Fathers could not find full time work to support their families. Grown men were now out of work or working low paying retail jobs. wives had to pitch in and that started the downfall. Free time and low esteem led to the crack epidemic. The country has not been the same since.

@BrutalSnuggles

It's amazing, a wealthy actor told the struggling public that the answer to their problems was to give the wealthy more money. Won 49 states that way

@Cinemancy

this could be a 20 part series. Reagan was the WORST president ever and we still suffer under his presidency.

@anourtine6204

It’s always the “pro life” party that cares the least about human life.

@Ronniecoolblues

One thing you may have forgotten to mention is Reagan also disabled the cost of living allowance (COLA) on the minimum wage,thus sealing the fate of the working poor and guaranteeing where we are today with a seriously lob sided economy.

@kevinskiles2033

During the McCarthy hearings, Reagan ratted out his fellow actors and directors, many of whom were blacklisted.

@henrurust2025

I saw Reagan-ism as an attack on education, which proved to be the start of the dumbing down of America, the consequences from which we are still experiencing. Social Security survivor benefits helped me get a college degree starting in 1980, a benefit that Reagan immediately cut off from my younger siblings.

@joeblow5087

Republicans need to stop idolizing Reagan.

@idaslapter5987

My uncle was one of the air traffic controllers that marched on Washington and was fired. He had four little kids at the time and ended up working in a hard-labor job that would keep him away from his family for 6 weeks at a time to barely make ends meet. He was also disabled from suffering polio as a child, so hard labor was really harsh for him. Make America great? For whom?

@ericHHII

What’s crazy is Reagan and those of his generation, benefitted from New Deal policies but somehow forgot that.

@blakkat4126

I get a kick out of the "pull up your bootstraps" ordered by people who were born into privilege and never had to worry about paying a bill their entire lives.

@ToddHurney

The OG of propaganda and the beginning of the end of this country. He was a terrible president. He started the attack on the middle-class and we are still paying for his reckless and ill-advised economic policies. I thought his greatest performance was as president, I just couldn't believe I'd have to sit through eight years of this turd of a human being. Now we have a man who makes Reagan look like a pauper. I hated Reagan with a passion, but the American people couldn't see the forest through the trees. Thank you for a very adept and truthful examination of a president who has been exalted and put on a pedestal for decimating the middle-class, our institutions (unions) and raising taxes indirectly on working people while cutting taxes the wealthiest among us. Right On Leeja! Watched and lived through all of this and yet the people of this country voted for him. He also loosened regulations on the news particularly the "Fairness Doctrine" which held news organizations accountable to report news in an unbiased fashion as objectively as possible. That went by the wayside and voila...Fox news another propagandist organization that has polluted the minds of millions as a right-wing shill group to push ultra-conservative hate speech. Let's get this video to go viral in all the Maga regions of this country. They need to hear this. These are facts and documented. My bootstraps have been worn out...no bootstraps left here after 45 years of struggle just to keep my head above water. Hate this man's voice as much as I hate Trumps! Men of no character, ethics or morality. And they have and will be again, president of this confused and woefully uneducated country. More suffering ahead.

@jamesbeyler2229

He decided to tax waitresses for suspected unreported income, making tipping a general requirement because they were going to be taxed a percentage according to the amount they served. That bully was picking on some of the most struggling citizens in the country.

@murphnturph2664

I did six years in the Marines. My body and mind are both broken. Since I've left, I've never faced so much difficulty in my life. My PTSD and physical injuries are individual failures in the eyes of employers. I'm a young guy, so the boomers in charge tell me I have no excuse to be stressed or in pain. I can't hold a job, I'm struggling to keep a roof over my head, I have no idea what I'm doing trying to get my veteran's benefits, and I've never felt so lost in my entire life.

I just have to pull myself up by my bootstraps, I guess.

@Bones1701

As a British person listening to this, it’s amazing how similar Reagan and Thatcher were in terms of the damage they did to our countries.

@heatherhellickson9166

THANK YOU!!! I lived through Reagan, am a white single mother of three sons who I raised with no assistance from their father or family. I put myself through nursing school and worked for 28 years as a critical care RN. I am now 66 years old, on disability, have no pension nor any help from my family. I live a simple life with my cat, I never remarried.
My sons do not speak with me-they have bought into this destructive belief system. It has broken our family irrevocably, I see no solution. The people who adhere to this are not Christian. Christ himself is heartbroken I am sure. THANK YOU!!!!