I decided to look up "Ronald Reagan" for some reason on DeviantART, and saw many pictures honoring the man as a true American hero. Now, they've convinced me: he WAS a great man. Let's look at all the things he gave us...

Thanks to him:

We did indeed share our technology and economy with the rest of the world. America's industrial scene is virtually dead, as now Far-Eastern children do all our work for us. The few things that ARE made within our borders are of horribly low quality to cut manufacturing cost, causing many people to opt for foreign products, leaving the fourth most populated country on Earth teetering precariously on a service-based economy while we blissfully ignore the kids who slave away over our products.

We no longer suffered under the illusion of "mental illness", which is just a fancy term for lack of personal integrity. The asylums were swiftly dealt away with, leaving these hopeless individuals to live out their lives on the streets, unable to care for themselves or find jobs.

AIDS was dismissed as a "gay disease" and a "punishment by God". It was not taken seriously until it was far too late, and had exploded into a national epidemic that involved not only gays and blacks, but straight white people, too. Oh, and after Ronald Reagan was long gone.

The threat of Communism was kept under control. Any Hollywood actor with a questionable history, a Russian or Liberal family member, or even a strange last name, was targeted and blacklisted as a potential spy. Jobs were lost, lives were ruined, and people were taken into harsh interrogation in a good ol' fashioned revival of McCarthyism.

The War on Drugs had indeed succeeded in its quest to diminish substance "abuse".....at least in the case of marijuana and LSD, which were two drugs that were relatively harmless to society as a whole (but also promoted liberal *read: COMMUNIST* thinking). Meanwhile, crack was introduced, and along with cocaine, was allowed to thrive within the inner cities and poor Black communities with little to no resistance. Even today, crack abuse isn't taken seriously, while again and again marijuana is demonized.

And let's not forget "trickle-down economics". Or, more accurately, "let's give all the money to all my business buddies at the top 2% of the economic pie and try to convince everyone else that it'll actually benefit them".

You know what? Fuck this. Ronnie wasn't a hero. He was a complete dick who screwed up the lives of millions. It's such a damn shame that assasination attemt failed, because people are STILL suffering because of what he did.

American hero my ass. More like one of the greatest villians in known history.