America Is Exceptional—in All the Wrong Ways

[signalmankenneth]

I was born and raised in an America far more Orwellian than many now remember. Matters have gone so far off the rails since 9/11 that few seem to recall the madness of the 1980s. The U.S. had a celebrity actor for president, who railed about America’s ostensibly existential adversary—the Soviet “evil empire.” Back then, Ronald Reagan nearly started a nuclear war during the all-too-real Able Archer war game. He also secretly sold missiles to Iran, and then laundered the windfall to the Contras’ Central American hit squads, resulting in some 100,000 dead.

Looking back from 2019, at least as the contemporary media tell it, those were the good old days. Heck, even Barack Obama—faux liberal that he was—proudly and publicly admired Reagan. Oh, and one of Reagan’s favorite campaign slogans: “Make America Great Again.”

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/am...he-wrong-ways/

[Truth Detector]

What a false and mortonic anti-American hit piece written by a piece of human excrement.

I was born and raised in an America far more Orwellian than many now remember. Matters have gone so far off the rails since 9/11 that few seem to recall the madness of the 1980s. The U.S. had a celebrity actor for president, who railed about America’s ostensibly existential adversary—the Soviet “evil empire.” Back then, Ronald Reagan nearly started a nuclear war during the all-too-real Able Archer war game.

So if Reagan had hugged the Soviet Empire at the time, it would have had the same results as their eventual collapse and the removal of the Berlin Wall?

Moronic.

He also secretly sold missiles to Iran, and then laundered the windfall to the Contras’ Central American hit squads, resulting in some 100,000 dead.

Those 100,000 dead were due to Communist backed Marxists attempting to infiltrate and control the region. It had NOTHING to do with Reagan or America.

But morons like this writer naively believe that it is okay for Russia or Cuba to arm Marxist extremists, and bad for America to arm those who would defy Marxist extremists.

Moronic.

Looking back from 2019, at least as the contemporary media tell it, those were the good old days. Heck, even Barack Obama—faux liberal that he was—proudly and publicly admired Reagan. Oh, and one of Reagan’s favorite campaign slogans: “Make America Great Again.”

There was NOTHING good about the efforts of Communism back in this days nor was there anything great about Obamunism. But hey, keep crying about Hillary's pathetic showing and loss to Trump.

[Bill]

I was born and raised in an America far more Orwellian than many now remember. Matters have gone so far off the rails since 9/11 that few seem to recall the madness of the 1980s. The U.S. had a celebrity actor for president, who railed about America’s ostensibly existential adversary—the Soviet “evil empire.” Back then, Ronald Reagan nearly started a nuclear war during the all-too-real Able Archer war game. He also secretly sold missiles to Iran, and then laundered the windfall to the Contras’ Central American hit squads, resulting in some 100,000 dead.

Looking back from 2019, at least as the contemporary media tell it, those were the good old days. Heck, even Barack Obama—faux liberal that he was—proudly and publicly admired Reagan. Oh, and one of Reagan’s favorite campaign slogans: “Make America Great Again.”

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/am...he-wrong-ways/

he stole that slogan outright but his fans didn't seem to mind. Nor did they mine when he became the least like reagan of the bunch........

He is the pig they have been praying for........->

[MAGA MAN]

Why does Kenneth hate America so much?

[Sailor]

Why does Kenneth hate America so much?

Not enough free shit yet.