the gipper's art of winning
It may be time to move our thoughts onto that departed former American president, Ronald Reagan. As the sycophants and hypocrites spew out their tributes, now is as good a time as any to assess his real life and worth.
Born in Tampico, Illinois, in 1911, he became a radio presenter after graduating from college. Initially a fervent supporter of Roosevelt's reforming Democrats, he turned against the party partly owing to its increasing support for the civil-rights movement.
In 1937 he became an actor, and in 1947 became president of the Screen Actors Guild for the first time - a position he used to spy on actors, and falsely accuse them of Communist sympathies to the F.B.I.
He supported the far-right crook Barry Goldwater's presidential bid in 1964, and in 1967 became Governor of California until 1975. It was 1980, at the age of 69, when he became president, and was noted for his efforts in attempting to block sanctions against Apartheid-era South Africa, supporting Saddam Hussein's Iraq and selling arms to Iran, using the profits to fund the neo-Nazi cocaine dealing Contra terrorists, who were trying to overthrow the democratically elected government of Nicaragua. Oh, and the "cold-war" ended. It's always intriguing to consider what the cold war really was - an attempt by two bloated super-powers to carve the world up between them, suppressing independence and neutrality. However, when there was the chance of genuine reform in the Soviet Union, it was always feared by the US right - don't want to let the people have there say. Much safer to bankrupt the country, and let it be taken over by gangsters. That way the carve-up of the world can continue, unimpeded by what the charity Oxfam once described as "The threat of a good example" - a successful, independent country.
So that's it. Well, that, his idiotic fundamentalist Christianity (he genuinely believed that a "rapture" would take all Christians to heaven) and his wife's astrological opinions, which influenced him. Overall, he did nothing that can be counted as positive, and will not be missed by lovers of democracy and freedom.
He was married twice and is survived by his second wife, Nancy, their children, Patti and Ron, and by Michael, his adopted son from his first marriage.
Born in Tampico, Illinois, in 1911, he became a radio presenter after graduating from college. Initially a fervent supporter of Roosevelt's reforming Democrats, he turned against the party partly owing to its increasing support for the civil-rights movement.
In 1937 he became an actor, and in 1947 became president of the Screen Actors Guild for the first time - a position he used to spy on actors, and falsely accuse them of Communist sympathies to the F.B.I.
He supported the far-right crook Barry Goldwater's presidential bid in 1964, and in 1967 became Governor of California until 1975. It was 1980, at the age of 69, when he became president, and was noted for his efforts in attempting to block sanctions against Apartheid-era South Africa, supporting Saddam Hussein's Iraq and selling arms to Iran, using the profits to fund the neo-Nazi cocaine dealing Contra terrorists, who were trying to overthrow the democratically elected government of Nicaragua. Oh, and the "cold-war" ended. It's always intriguing to consider what the cold war really was - an attempt by two bloated super-powers to carve the world up between them, suppressing independence and neutrality. However, when there was the chance of genuine reform in the Soviet Union, it was always feared by the US right - don't want to let the people have there say. Much safer to bankrupt the country, and let it be taken over by gangsters. That way the carve-up of the world can continue, unimpeded by what the charity Oxfam once described as "The threat of a good example" - a successful, independent country.
So that's it. Well, that, his idiotic fundamentalist Christianity (he genuinely believed that a "rapture" would take all Christians to heaven) and his wife's astrological opinions, which influenced him. Overall, he did nothing that can be counted as positive, and will not be missed by lovers of democracy and freedom.
He was married twice and is survived by his second wife, Nancy, their children, Patti and Ron, and by Michael, his adopted son from his first marriage.
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