cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/45077170
Actually it was called the Iran-Contra Affair.
this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2026
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I blame Reagan for everything that sucks today.
I was just telling my kids about how public universities charge tuition because of Reagan.
Holy fucking shit. I learn new things every day about how he fucked things up.
https://newuniversity.org/2023/02/13/ronald-reagans-legacy-the-rise-of-student-loan-debt-in-america/
Terrifying. Thanks, I just looked up this topic. Comes back to the same as orange man saying " the educated dont like me" being just general GOP ideology I guess.
Well he didn't start the Iran thing that happened in the 50's when the US and Britain ousted Iran's democratically elected leader called [Mossaddegh](Mohammad Mosaddegh https://share.google/oHyWn3GiAmqHRIz0l)
And you’ll probably be right most of the time.
indeed
good articles here
https://aeon.co/essays/why-western-democracy-is-ailing-and-how-to-fix-it
He helped, but was hardly the principal person. Its a large movement fueled by hatred and bigotry, led by a small wealthy few.
So much happened under his watch though. And he gets so much credit from republicans for the economy doing well too.
I think what makes me the most mad about him is he paved the way for the ultra rich that we have now. Massively cut taxes on the wealthy and cut regulations. The tech boom started under his watch, but was paid for by government sponsored research and colleges. They took ownership and now we’re all worse off for it.
He was the face and completely on board with pushing the agenda of those wealthy few, just like Trump is now.
2nd term reagan was a dementia fueled circus.
Everything old is new again.
When they find a play that works, they run it again.
Because we let Iran/Contra blow over with Ronnie's "i meamt well, and what i said was true, but the facts say different", Oliver North taking the 5th, and everyone else singing in the "I cannot recall, Senator" choir - government has ZERO accountability.
In the 80s the allegience with the Moral Majority somewhat tempered the corruption and abuse of the poor/disenfranchised.
Just like Trump, he just abuses the holes in the rules that have never been fixed. Reagan was the first to do that large scale, but in reality nothing out of manners or some moral code was preventing things like that happening before, and as we currently see, the americans haven't fixed anything in the last decades - it rather seems many have forgotten more than they ever learned.
The US is a joke - we can see how much their constitution and democratic institutions are worth in reality. Outside of an outsized ego and megalomaniac tendencies, there's not much to see there.
Yeah they didn’t solve every single aspect of moral public governance on day 1. What a friggin joke of a country.
Noone expects it to do it day one. But they ignored obvious flaws for hundreds of years now, and that makes them the butt of the joke for sure, and they deserve the fallout of their glorious empire becoming an autocracy.
Who’s they? They must be old as hell.
You know, civil society? The millions of people who neglected updating the basic rules their country is running on? That's the problem when you write down that state and religion have to be separated, but at the same time adopt a civic religion - because at that point, changing the constitution becomes akin to blasphemy.
Here's the problem with that.. It starts with education, and in the late 70's when Texas became the school textbook publishing capital in the nation, all bets were off.
There's a reason that in 1980 my 11th grade High School US History textbook was from 1967.
What started being published come that Texas capture of school textbooks, changed the course of the country.
NGL, sad as it is to admit, the boomer generation that came of age (now being called "generation Jones") just as Reagan was in his first term was the last generation to get an education that included civics lessons as if they mattered. Afterwards, it all apparently went to hell.
It's our older generational siblings that came of age in the mid-60's (before Vietnam hit) who became the insufferable reactionay MAGA jackasses the generation is known for. The change they saw post-Vietnam scared the hell out of them, and they've been reactionary ever since.
My mom (who's a Silent) has younger 'boomer cousins - whom I've tanged with online - that are MAGA diehards and bigoted as fuck - and they are unreal. Don't wanna know.. Don't care and they live in such fear they vote to deliberately hurt other people. Horribly lost, terribly damaged Americans, and typical of the reactionary boomers born before 1958.
The Gen-X, Millennials and Gen-Z got the shit end of the stick WRT education and civic and engagement as an obligation of being an infored citizen.
Which sucks as it's led us here.
Oh man don’t get me started on civil society!