Hey Reagan Democrats: Now Do You Get It?

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Hey-Reagan-Democrats--Now-by-David-Michael-Gree-081221-654.html

by David Michael Green Page 1 of 2 page(s)



Sometime in the future...

"And now, ladies and gentlemen, if you’ll just follow me over in this direction, I’d like to show you one of our rarest and most reviled species here at The Human Zoo – it’s the proverbial ‘Reagan Democrat’.

"Most of your younger visitors here at the Zoo have no idea what a Reagan Democrat could be, so I always like to take the time to explain it to them. Indeed, most of them don’t even know what Reagan was, except that they keep hearing the people who wrecked Old America talk about this wrinkled prune faced guy with the Gumby hair as if he were some sort of deity. I get a lot of questions about how someone could actually have done things that don’t sound even remotely plausible, but I generally leave that for the historians to explain, other than to remind people that injecting religious dogma into politics doesn’t just mean stupidity only when it comes to policies related to sexuality, war, taxation, the economy or the environment.

"But already I digress... The Reagan Democrat (technically, Imbecelicus politici) was always the strangest and most contemptuous of species from the habitat of American politics, as you’ve perhaps already heard. Try to imagine another example from the animal kingdom that could be so readily counted upon to bring harm upon itself and others. There are some of course, but usually they are simply ignorant animals, often with very limited cranial capacity.

"The Reagan Democrat, on the other hand, was simply obnoxiously greedy, and took great pains to aggregate to itself as much stuff as was possible, including even meaningless psychological affirmations of its existential worth. It wasn’t very long, of course, before another animal in the jungle noticed this tendency, and established a parasitic relationship with the Reagan Democrat. These others were known as The Wealthy (Plutocratus illegitimi), and they got very rich – though they could still never seem to achieve happiness – by exploiting the opportunities provided to them by the Reagan Democrat. A very mean-spirited and deceitful group of marketing gurus like Lee Atwater and Karl Rove were generally the weapon of choice for accomplishing this.


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[DesertFlower]

1. i'm 67 years old

and i could never figure out what a reagan democrat was.

[Skittles]

5. there's plenty of DUers who voted for that piece of shit

oh yes

[tom_paine]

7. Plenty of DUers would vote for him RIGHT NOW.

I wish I didn't believe that...but I do.

[Skittles]

9. it was my first vivid realization that there were a lot of stuipid, gullible Americans

a real eye-opener at age 23

[tom_paine]

10. Guess that vivid realization has been fed and watered these last 28 years and is now a Mighty Oak.

Sadly, in a collective way (and noting that there are exceptions to every generalization), I've gone well beyond "stupid and gullible" to "contemptible and cowardly" regarding the American Subject Populace.

I don't think Obama's election changes any of that, however I do think is it very possible that if he is the man we think he is, that The American Mind can begin the long recovery to get from "contemptible and cowardly" back to JUST "stupid and gullible". And maybe from there it can get even better...

[Skittles]

11. I've been in Texas for 32 years

my knowledge of stupidity is fucking INFINITE

[tom_paine]

12. YOU, Skittles....live in TEXAS...for more than THREE DECADES?!?

Honestly, Skit, there must be a helluva good reason why you stayed. I understand if it's personal and you don't want to share it.

But, even if you can't tell me the reason, which may be as simple as It's my home and I'm not leaving. or It's my home place and I love it. at least tell me there IS a reason.

Honestly, the first thought I had was, "Ever heard of a Moving Van?"

But I am sure you have very good reasons to subjecting yourself to that nightmare for a conscious, self-aware proud Liberal for that long.

Just...WOW...though. You blew me away, Skit.

[Skittles]

13. I enjoy tormenting conservatives

it's a hobby of mine - I am committed to it :)

That and I like living far away from my family

[Shiver]

2. I've found out that many Reagan Democrats

Were actually Republicans who were unable to register as such. As a woman on the Republicans for Obama site explained to me during the GE, her first time voting was for Reagan, but to vote in Louisiana she had to register with a party (not sure why, and I don't think it's the case now). At the time, the only way to resister was as a Dem. Several others backed her up on this, saying it was like that for their districts or towns or whatever.

How many this actually happened to... :shrug:

[HughBeaumont]

3. "YEH? Carter wuz STILL a fuggin' wimp (burp) . . ."

Reagan DUMBs were really Republican crackshots at their own boots.

[Skittles]

4. Reagan Democrats have always disgusted me

I saw through that hateful bastard as easily as I saw through bush

[Fearless]

6. I'm betting ... no.

Just a feeling.

[tom_paine]

8. Politicus Imbecilus NEVER "gets it". That is what makes them so useful to tyrants.

The number of people who can be fooled "all of the time" is the fastest growing demographic in America.

[Locrian]

14. Reagan can rot in hell

I posted this in another issue but it applies here. The 80's and 90's really saw the mythos of the market take off. By the 1990's GREED IS GOOD was everywhere and st Reagan was holding court. eTrade, dot com millionaires, whiz kid internet startups (well, this was AFTER Reagan but you get my drift).

The "free marketeers" were able to portray themselves as "populists". THEY are the "change agents". The "will of the people". Markets are a "natural order" and they set people free - you can hear the happy cries of the workers every time a union is busted.

Governments - ALL governments - were trying to restrain. They make stupid "rules" and "regulations" that stifle the freedom and creativity of "the people". Well, golly, it was the "market" after all the brought down the Berlin wall right? And nothing could stand in its way. The Regan Democrats were loving this - the market, after all, was what was in charge and who better than that free market leg humper Reagan?

The upper "elite" has been able to pull off the trick of being the "outcasts" and the "cool rebels". That "business" was were it was all at, and you were stupid if you weren't on that train. All the while raping us blind, sucking the whole world into a house of card ponzi scheme.


Read "One Market Under God" by Thomas Frank. About the dot-bomb erea - but the insight applies today.