re: #220 GeneJockey

Well, if he’d looked like Mr. Burns, he wouldn’t have been elected. His ‘sunny personality’ overcame nervousness about the crazy horseshit he was selling. The irony is that although he was instrumental in unleashing the ignorant, uncompromising horde, in practice he compromised all the time. One writer pointed out that he had been a Union President, and knew that in a negotiation you start out demanding the impossible, then allow yourself to be talked down to what you really want.

The problem is, the current Right remembers the impossible demand, not the inevitable negotiation and compromise, hence ‘Zombie Reagan’.

There were some people that Reagan couldn’t fool.

Strange, isn’t it? That damaged perceptions can make you immune to propaganda?