posttexasstressdisorder: gop-are-corporate-socialists:reasonandempathy:Reagan:Ignored acid rain beca

posttexasstressdisorder: gop-are-corporate-socialists:reasonandempathy:Reagan:Ignored acid rain because fixing it might hurt corporations against his own EPA director who himself was a wildly non-conservationist personActively tried to block clean air and water regulation in California that he would later try to take credit for.Fought tooth and nail to try to keep OSHA from existing. He literally wanted it and every workplace regulation gone with an “Amen”.Rewrote numerous regulatory bodies to rely on self-regulation of industries instead of protecting the safety of workers.Because everyone knows companies police themselves adequately and responsibly.  Just like Wall Street.Regularly ignored EPA research and proposals that lead to a mass resignation in protestOpposed the Civil Rights Act.Weakened Habeus Corpus protections.Actively undermined bipartisan anti-discrimination efforts, which was over-ruled by a republican-Majority congress.Began his career attacking civil rights and free speech protesters.Supported mandatory prayer in public schools while simultaneously wanting to dismantle the Dept. of Education (literally the same year).Proposed NAFTALaughed at people dying of AIDS and viewed it as divine punishment of gay people.IranContraAttempted to dismantle the minimum wage.Killed the Fairness Doctrine that required newscasters to be factually unbiased and accurate. Wish i lived in the timeline where Reagan, Bush II AND Trump were never president. Think of the advancements in economics, peace, prosperity, and personal liberties we would have experienced. If we’re playin’ timeline, let’s take it all the way back to Nixon.  Nixon is the reason we’re goin’ through this shit now.  It’s all on his watch, all these vile swine like Roger Stone and Manafort.I’ll take the one where Jimmy Carter’s solar panels stayed, and our descent into the climate maelstrom would be a dark fantasy that would not come to pass, as we would have, by now, the whole fossil fuel thing done and over with. -- source link
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