Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Reagan Constructs a Dangerous, Evangelical Mythology
Paste ^ | August 30, 2024 | Hafsah Abbasi

Posted on 08/31/2024 9:18:03 PM PDT by willk

In this sense, Ronald must be shown making bedroom eyes at Nancy (Penelope Ann Miller) after she professes how important family is to her, if only to show that Reagan’s countless presidential addresses are entirely rooted in truth—that he really did wholeheartedly believe that the responsibility for society’s welfare rested on individual families (and not on the embedded liberal governmental policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson). Forget about the rest of Reagan’s lasting legacy—his neglect of the AIDS epidemic, his jingoistic foreign policy, his trickle-down economics, and so on. By Reagan’s logic, anyone adversely affected by these weren’t saintly the way Reagan was; if someone suffered from his moral policies, it’s only indicative of their profound moral failings

(Excerpt) Read more at pastemagazine.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barf; chat; clickbait; fakenews; hafsahabbasi; lyingscreed; notnews; reagan; reaganmovie; sleepingmoderators; tvmovies
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-32 next last
These people hate you just as much as they hate Trump. On a side note, I find it funny how Google keeps putting these left-wing websites into my newsfeed even though I keep asking them to be hidden. What I mean is that I won't get anything more from Paste but they will then include some other left-wing websites.
1 posted on 08/31/2024 9:18:03 PM PDT by willk
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: willk

So camel hockey Hafsah Abbasi doesn’t like Reagan. Was it even alive or in America when Reagan had his amazing presidency?


2 posted on 08/31/2024 9:23:46 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: willk
that he really did wholeheartedly believe that the responsibility for society’s welfare rested on individual families (and not on the embedded liberal governmental policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson)

Yes, he did. As do I. As did Marvin Olasky in his 1990s work that Newt Gingrich used to quote, The Tragedy of American Compassion. As did de Tocqueville in the 1830s when he praised America for its "voluntary associations."

You see, Mr. Paste, there is something uniquely American about letting the people take care of the people in an Aristotelian manner, rather than forcing people to sacrifice for the supposed common good in a Platonic manner, which always devolves into feudalism or socialism. And Reagan figured that out, which is why he stopped being a Democrat, just as I figured that out, which is why I stopped being a Democrat at about the same time.

3 posted on 08/31/2024 9:27:15 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: willk

What is ‘Paste’?

I’ve never heard of it.


4 posted on 08/31/2024 9:28:17 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DesertRhino

I doubt it.


5 posted on 08/31/2024 9:37:19 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Jamestown1630

It’s just another lefty rag.


6 posted on 08/31/2024 9:37:33 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: willk
Guess what, paste, the responsibility for society’s welfare does rest on individual families.
7 posted on 08/31/2024 9:45:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: willk

Hey, I’m all over what a muzzie like Hafsah Abbasi might want to lecture me regarding.

I’m sure this across-the-ocean puke has a LOT to inform me on regarding one of the best Presidents we have ever been blessed with.

GFY Hafsah. Good and hard!


8 posted on 08/31/2024 9:55:19 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jamestown1630

It’s the substance that makes up what passes for Hafsah Abbasi’s brain.


9 posted on 08/31/2024 10:19:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: willk

Bkmk


10 posted on 08/31/2024 10:20:02 PM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: willk
"Reagan Constructs a Dangerous, Evangelical Mythology"

I have read that obama "loved" Reagan. Maybe that is why obama was inspired to introduce trickle-up poverty.


11 posted on 08/31/2024 10:51:09 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: willk

It’s sad, everyone hates Reagan now. It’s not deserved.


12 posted on 08/31/2024 10:53:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

“ It’s sad, everyone hates Reagan now.”
***************************************

Just the globalists and the neocons.


13 posted on 08/31/2024 10:59:00 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: House Atreides

Not really. I hear Trump supporters bashing him, and saying he’s a neocon.


14 posted on 08/31/2024 11:00:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway
I hear Trump supporters bashing him, and saying he’s a neocon.

I don't. But I do hear them saying that "Reaganism" isn't the answer to today's problems. I've said that myself.

15 posted on 08/31/2024 11:11:09 PM PDT by x
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: x

I’ve heard it even on here. There’s no such thing as Reaganism.


16 posted on 08/31/2024 11:12:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: x
Now, the philosophy is, if Republicans stay 5% to the right of Democrats, everything will work out.

That was first devised by Arnold Schwarzenegger, but no one gives him credit now.

17 posted on 08/31/2024 11:15:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Jamestown1630
What is ‘Paste’?

It’s what Hafseh eats when he’s sitting in the corner and rocking back and forth.

18 posted on 09/01/2024 12:14:47 AM PDT by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Jamestown1630
What is ‘Paste’?

It’s what Hafseh eats when he’s sitting in the corner and rocking back and forth.

19 posted on 09/01/2024 12:14:48 AM PDT by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: willk
These people hate you just as much as they hate Trump. On a side note, I find it funny how Google keeps putting these left-wing websites into my newsfeed even though I keep asking them to be hidden. What I mean is that I won't get anything more from Paste but they will then include some other left-wing websites.

And now Google, as with all but one search engine I tried, limits results to just 10 per page (+ no more able to change it) , with its usual bias, thus fostering the latter and ignorance.

20 posted on 09/01/2024 4:17:50 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-32 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson