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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Working class whites flocked to Reagan and demanded a free market economy. Then, after the cold war, they got what they wanted and  the free market economy really showed up. Ohnoes! Now the working class whites have to actually compete with the rest of the world. Bring on the fentanyl and sad songs.[/quote]

Working class whites are not a monolith and you are being simplistic and bigoted in your analysis.[/quote]

Np. Your white fragility is cute.  The vast majority of working class whites voted for the policies( Reagan's trickle down economics) that brought their demographic and economic demise.Cry me an ocean , ok?! If working clas whites aren't monolithic, they've done a poor job at proving it .[/quote]

Working class people voted for Reagan because they were facing stagflation and were promised a way out. Highly educated economists didn’t know the exact path forward at that time so how on earth can you blame uneducated poor people for what the wealthy stole from them? It was a scam. Not to mention that anyone that isn’t a senior citizen in 2023 was not old enough to vote for Reagan. You are simply a bigot.[/quote]

No they voted for him because he was a racist. Reagan was a reaction to the civil rights movement, Vietnam, the oil crisis and Iranian hostage. He was very anti union and hated the blue collar workers. He was mostly a reaction to civil right movement. [/quote]
I'm certainly not a huge fan of Reagan policy in general and I'm not here to defend his character but you clearly have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. Him getting elected in 1980 most certainly wasn't a reaction to the civil rights movement. He got elected because he was nominated by the party running in opposition to the incumbent at a time when the US economy was turned upside down and we were still reeling from a foreign policy standpoint from the Vietnam War debacle. Carter's administration wasn't solely to blame for this by any means but when the country is struggling to the extent it was struggling in the election year of 1980, the incumbent is not going to be re-elected 100 times out of 100. [/quote]

+1 exactly--thank you[/quote]

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