Reply #13: The worst part of all this Reagan worship is....

[Ferretherder]

...that a LOT of Americans will NEVER get it.

They don't want to be bothered with details. They don't want to be 'overloaded' with 'useless' factoids. 'The man is dead', they'll say. Let him rest in peace.

you know it's true! Just look at the Soviet Union, just after Stalin's death. For Christ's sake, the man BRAGGED to Churchill about killing more than TEN MILLION of his own people. Yet, when he died, he was revered as a near-saint by a staggering portion of the populace.

Humankind is far from inquisitive when confronted with facts running contrary to their cherished perceptions.