If this is the case, then why did "a bunch of clowns" vote for Regan, these same clowns who were previously Dems?
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Ronald Reagan was a very unusual figure in American politics. He became a leader in the actors' union and when he ratted out his pals during the McCarthy years, the rightwing fell in love with him.
People loved him in his role as the announcer for 20 Mule Team Borax. (What the Hell has happened to Borax, by the way?)
The right hired Reagan to give speeches to Lion's, Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs and such for something like 20 years. They wrote the speeches, but after a while he started to believe his own hooey. It was his greatest and best rehearsed role. The government is too big, the government is defiling the dollar, the government is the problem and the reason why the good ol' days are gone.
After he was elected, inflation continued, he racked up the highest debt in history and sent troops all over the place on rather silly missions, but he was always grandpaw to a lot pof people. He was a better Grandpaw than Jimmy Carter, who was too preachy and who never told the stories from the gool ol'days that never were: the 1950's without racism, hiding under desks to fend off thermonuclear attack, and big cushy soft-sprung cars that never wasted 29 cent gasoline and were too safe tpo require seatbelts.
Reagan was an actor in a time when all the shows and all the movies ended with the good guys winning and the bad guys foiled and convicted. The myth was far more powerful than reality.
