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Reagan hated what? Free speech? I have to ask that question because I really remember that the Vietnam War with the draft had been over several years before he took office and you bring in that left leaning slogan from the years before him. Where in hell did you get the idea that the president elected the first time had to call in police for the "Hell no, We won't go" thing. Oh, yeah, now I get it. He was the governor of California from 1967 to 1975. Was there a law that provided that draft that was done away with in 1970 or 1971? I really thought it was a law and that people have always been forced to obey the law.
Oh well, when lefties squeal about the law they are only using their freedom of speech, according to lefties.
I believe Dew was talking about Reagan's antics as gov. of CA.
Ronald Reagan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
***On May 15, 1969, during the People's Park protests at UC Berkeley, Reagan sent the California Highway Patrol and other officers to quell the protests, in an incident that became known as "Bloody Thursday", resulting in the death of student James Rector and the blinding of carpenter Alan Blanchard.[81][82] Reagan then called out 2,200 state National Guard troops to occupy the city of Berkeley for two weeks to crack down on the protesters.[81] A year after "Bloody Thursday", Reagan responded to questions about campus protest movements saying, "If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement."[83
Apparently the death of a student was no biggie as far as RR was concerned.
Of course, as usual for righties you pull a statement out of your behind with nothing to back it up. Just throw a dumb idea out there to see if it sticks - and it never does. Why is the right so shameless in this? Answer" because you got nothing else.
There are plenty of useful idiots out there including A. the tea party, B. middle class republicans, C. some seniors on social security. I would bet you have no clue about why I say this. Pathetic really.
Some advice for you:
* Wake up! Fox-type media is neither centrist nor traditional American!
* Liberals and Democrats are not "marxist" because Fox says so.
* Wall Street is full of the welfare queens you hate!
Use the brain God gave you, and try to let these simple truths sink in. It may hurt at first...
Look it up. It's on youtube and I read it in one of his books.
Why are you so afraid of FoxNews or any media organization that does not follow the Liberal line?
It's hard to defend Liberals/Democrats when despite the facts they continue to follow failed ideas. Massive transfer of wealth from productive people to non-productive people via the Great Society programs have not worked. We have more people in poverty and on food stamps than ever before. Black unemployment is at record levels, black drop out rates from schools are at an all time high, single parents are the rule in black homes.
I don't defend giving anyone on Wall Street any of my money, but Obama did not go after anyone on Wall Street and took millions of dollars from him.
You can cry, but you need to take an honest look at Liberalism. It has failed.
I will bet that Obama doesn't carry a card like his most important mentor did, so he can't be a communist. How big a step toward communism is the law we call Obamacare? It has walked us a far piece toward it and by the time it is fully implemented will have us a far piece down that road. He did push pretty hard for that law all those months he wasn't concentrating on unemployment and the like, didn't he?
Roy you are laughable. One of the greatest boons ever passed by congress for a private industry is socialism. Yup all those socialist insurance companies who backed obamacare and will profit enormously from it are a step toward communism. And yet as I have read, posted by you elsewhere, you love your socialist, communist medicare. Didn't you say once that if not for them paying a huge chunk of your medical bills you'd be dead long ago?
As a college educated person, your cries of socialism and communism don't effect us. In fact, all it really does it make it less likely to side with you because you look ignorant and frankly...a little crazy. "Socialism" and "communism" are not dirty words to us. We happen to understand that they are nothing more than another socioeconomic philosophy, and one that is of relatively little impact in the world today.
The Red Scare is over folks, and the Soviet Union has collapsed. This watered down brand of McCarthyism isn't going to do a thing for young voters.
Yes it's over.
But we aren't focusing on the 'Red Scare' or the Soviet Union.
It's the here and now and we want people to be informed about.
Are we really going to have to hear about Karl Marx, socialism, and Kenya for another four years? Didn't the wing nut conservatives learn anything from last week's election?
Did that election prove where Obama was born or what country he claimed as his home on his Occidental enrollment papers? I guess my ballot was really backward, since I demanded paper and I guess there just wasn't room on the ballot for all you talk about to be voted for or against. Wow, that election must have really had lots of stuff involved that I didn't see.
Exactly right, and until we re-create a REAL education system from our current Indoctrination system, we have no hope to stop the downward course we currently embrace.
Unfortunately, in pretty much every college today, there almost NO real study of history (world or American, of political systems, of REAL economics that is not simply a justification of current policy, etc.
For one thing, INTRODUCTORY classes (all high school classes, and Intro classes in college) are pure liberal indoctrination. Only by spending many years in real research, and taking many advanced courses and grad-level courses (if they have adequate professors), can you get past these and understand the REAL issues, conflicts and trade-offs that define real life.
For instance, an Intro college course (for freshmen) on the Civil War will leave you with the impression that Lincoln was a wonderful man who saw that slavery was wrong, and went to war because that was the only way to right that wrong.
But major in history and then get a Masters or PhD, and talk with others who have studied the field their whole lives with open minds, and you will realize that Federalism had finally risen to the point where it was powerful enough to challenge Constitutional state power by military overthrow. The slavery issue was merely a political ad to get New England liberals to support the war.
When I was in college we were beginning to see the most brilliant and most educated professors be forced out because they invited us to learn MORE than the liberal party line. But that was a long time ago, and I don't know of ANY new college graduates today that know ANYTHING beyond the Liberal Party Line.
As one of those who studied history in the 50s, 60s and 70s I must say that what you say is very true about what happened and is now happening. Yes, we were told that Lincoln let that little thing at Charleston and the really early battles in Kansas become a full blown war in an effort to maintain the Union and then after Antietam decided to throw in slavery. I wonder if I wouldn't have to start over again, completely, if I decided to go back to school. I wouldn't last long in classes like we talk about from spouting what had been the truth before the progressive take over.
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