RE: vote Donald trump!?
March 7, 2016 at 6:47 pm
(This post was last modified: March 7, 2016 at 6:51 pm by Brian37.)
(March 7, 2016 at 6:28 pm)abaris Wrote:(March 7, 2016 at 4:45 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I think Powell and even Reagan, while their economics views sucked, I think they had good intent. I think far too many people simply took advantage of them.
Reagan, while being a dick in office, seems to have been rather liberal privately. His daughter, can't be arsed to look up her name, told the story of watching a Rock Hudson movie with him. She told him that it didn't look like as if Hudson really wanted to kiss the female lead. Reagan, according to her, simply responded by saying that there are men loving men and women loving women without being judgmental. Also he's got a vocal atheist for a son and they didn't seem to have had major issues about it. Reagan's fault rather lies in not carrying that attitude into office.
Hate to say this, but unfortunately it can be political suicide to be open. Pete Stark has been the only open atheist in congress. Barney Frank didn't talk about his homosexuality for a long time and only came out as an atheist after he left office. I'd bet even in both parties there are in the closet atheists. But because both liberals and conservatives are a majority believers, while many liberals would consider an atheist for office, it still seems far too taboo at the national scale right now. But even that is slowly changing.
Even with the founders, by the time Jefferson died slavery was gone in most of the North. Several of the founders were abolitionists, so in reality, the idea of ending slavery began long before the civil war.
I think Ron Jr is a great guy, so his dad had to do some things right, at least as a father. I think Reagan did what most politicians have to do to get elected, tell the public what they want to hear, instead of what they need to know.