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Do you feel anyone who's blaming the Reagan policies is claiming we shouldn't do anything about today? Are you suggesting they're all pining for time machines? In fact I'll go further and ask this do you really think you can address the problems of today without understanding how they began? How can you even approach economic policy reform without looking back and understanding what went wrong?
Also there's a long long history in our world of horrible evil brutal leaders being popular at the time. So I don't think we need to go into that absurd argument any further.
The people blaming Reagan are fighting a 3 decade old culture war.
Fact is, things really weren't all that bad in the 80s and 90s.
They only really started getting bad after the financial crisis in 2008.
And which party got both the presidency and a majority in Congress that year? Hint: doesn't start with R.
A financial crisis that was caused by those and the policies that sprung from those policies. The trends that were started then. The idea that you look at something as gargantuan as the economy and think that it's not affected by things that happened decades before is insane. Also weird to complain about culture War when that's what Reagan began. Though it's policy that we're concerned with at the moment. Policy.
Also the 2008 financial crisis started under Bush. I dont know why you think you could change history on that one.
Not changing history. Just saying that democrats had all the power they could want and failed to implement change to make things better. Literally after running on a campaign of Change.