I was born in 86, and my parents divorced in 92 (which for me was the first step down in quality of life, and I've seen a few other people throughout the years remark on 92/93 being a step down). From there on things really seemed to deteriorate. I know a lot of people point to the dot.com crash and 9/11 as major markers, but I think 2008 had a bigger impact of the socioeconomic climate then anything. I feel like I have been living my life of pause since 08, like a sort of safe mode.
What about the rest of you, especially you older folks that have been around longer? Was there a before and after year? Or years where there was a progressive and noticeable step down?
Oh ya, Bush, Reagan and most are just patsies.
Reagan may have been a patsy ... I have no idea ... however, that man was hated by the DS. The left makes the 1980s seem like the most miserable time on the planet. If you haven't noticed, they rarely make any big movies/productions that involve the 1980s (there are exceptions ... like Stranger Things ... but they're few and far in between when compared to other eras the left loves to exploit). It's like they want that entire decade to vanish. The fact they call it "the decade of greed and excess" tells you everything you need to know about their feelings on individual success and liberty.
Anyway, Reagan had two big goals ... one was beating, not coexisting, with the Soviet Union. From 1981-1984, liberals worked overtime keeping the nation petrified that he was going to kill everyone in a nuclear war with the USSR. Of course, just a couple of years after Reagan left office, the USSR dissolved. The fucking press made it seem like Gorbachev with that bird shit on his head and his glasnost/perestroika bullshit was the reason ... heh heh, no.
Defeating the USSR was a world-changing success on Reagan's part and is more than likely half of the reason why he is hated by those freaks (part of the other half was the way Reagan proposed policy that got people back to work, brought interest rates down, and got the economy roaring ... the left hates it when people can become independent of government).
This achievement alone makes Reagan one of the greats in my opinion. Moreover, had HW Bush and Clinton not been DS trash, we probably could have had peace in our time by 2000 if we simply would have fucking worked with the Russians instead of letting the region collapse into turmoil. Instead, those two worked hard to insure that nothing was going to change ... tells you all you need to know about them.
Reagan's other goal was reducing the size of the Federal Government ... this didn't happen ... at all ... and he could have done a much better job in this department. He basically let the Rats spend like drunken sailors to get what he wanted. At first this made some sense ... the dollar was very strong back then and goods made in the USA on the world market were a tough sell due to the strength of the USD. However, it set the stage for the binge spending we've basically seen since then (there was a very brief return to sanity in the late 1990s thanks to the Contract with America, but Congress got sick of not being able to pork their way back into office. Bush put an end to fiscal sanity using 9/11 as an excuse).
Reagan also let the DS slip amnesty into law ... that basically handed California to the Rats in '92. However, part of that deal was supposed to involve border enforcement. Reagan, certainly, could have done a better job anticipating Congress doing jack shit about the border. By the time that fucker HW Bush came to power, illegal immigration was swept under the rug and forgotten until his retarded son assumed the throne.
If it comes to light that Reagan was DS, I will be stunned. Some of Reagan's speeches were beyond inspirational. I am not talking about ginned up garbage like the crap Obama spewed ... some of Reagan's speeches will be viewed and read hundreds of years from now by millions of people. He came at a time when people needed to be reminded what the United States are all about. The man set this country on a path to prosperity and reminded people that we are all individuals ... collectivist liberals will forever fucking hate him for that ... it means that they'd need another 50 years to create the socialist cesspool they dream about.
W Bush, and his fucking father, aren't patsies ... they bigger players in the globohomo scam. I doubt they're top-tier pieces of shit, but that family is certainly up there. If either Bush were a patsy, that would imply that they were being used. They weren't being used. They are in on it. They are both Rats that love war but hide that fact by using Jesus. Hopefully HW Bush is rotting in hell. I doubt we will see any kind of "awakening" when it comes to W too ... his stupid fucking "idiot gentleman" act doesn't work anymore.
Reagan didn't start off that way. But they came after him with assassination attempts and then his health went downhill.
6 Ways You Didn't Realize Ronald Reagan Ruined The Country
https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-objective-reasons-ronald-reagan-was-our-worst-president
I don't get why President Trump likes Reagan. I remember a lot going downhill with him. Closing mental institutions, creating homeless crazy people. Trickle down economics. Enjoying your job to feeling like you got hit with a train every day. Firing all the air traffic controllers and then airplane crashes.