ronald reagan. The "legacy" (from the depths of HELL).

[LibertyBell7]

24. I, too, am old as dirt...

...and lived through the start of Reagan's anti-democracy revolution.

I, too, knew at the time it was happening that the things he popularized were corrosive to the fabric of this country and its constitutional underpinnings. Starting with his declaration of war against our representative democracy (paraphrasing), "the government is not the solution — it is the problem," my logic-reaction was something like, "um...'in order to form a more perfect union' We the People are the government. Did that man just tell us we can't solve our own problems?"

Indeed he did. Through his starting the ball rolling on "trickle-down economics" (labeled "voodoo economics" by his primary challenger, Poppy Bush), I knew early-on that the country was in for a difficult time of rule by the country's plutocrats.

However, I'm not prescient. I could barely imagine, back in the 80s, just how far this revolution would advance, and that advance was aided and abetted by one of the later long-serving and beloved Democratic presidents — yes, I'm looking at you POTUS Clinton. From signing NAFTA to signing the death certificate on Glass-Steagall, Bill Clinton mightily contributed to our current our current economic mess and to the continuing rise of (what I "fondly" refer to as) the Corporazis that have completely taken over the Rethugs and all Blue Dog DINOs.

So, ''right on, dude!" You nailed it.