"If Fascism ever comes to America it’ll come in the name of Liberalism." -- Ronald Reagan

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[–]Mnemonic 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

That's a bit of twisting around definitions to give a low blow to his opponents.

A classic: "Everything I don't like is Fascism".

[–]Tom_Bombadil 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

IMO: Every quote Reagan ever said was read from his note cards.

The guy was a dunce.

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Reagan was literally a movie actor. Trump is also literally an actor.

The entire point of the president is to be a good PR guy for the military-industrial-banking complex and to take all the blame so we can throw him in the trash and start again on a new guy in 4 or 8 years. And the military-industrial-banking complex never sees any bad PR or penalties because it's blamed on one individual, who became president based on how good they looked on TV. As it ever was.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Bedtime For Bonzo

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wonder how many presidents have IMDB pages...

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's impressive that Reagan was able to do even that with early stages of Alzheimers affecting him.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

People with dementia are amazing actors. They can forget who their children are, yet cope by pretending to know them.

I've seen it, and it's always tragic.