When I heard the news that Reagan had won the presidency - the first time - if felt like a gut punch. And I remember thinking, "This is going to be the worst thing that's ever happened to women." Little did I know then that my instinctual thought would come true in so many different and horrific ways. That though we had abortion rights t…
When I heard the news that Reagan had won the presidency - the first time - if felt like a gut punch. And I remember thinking, "This is going to be the worst thing that's ever happened to women." Little did I know then that my instinctual thought would come true in so many different and horrific ways. That though we had abortion rights then, but only for 7 years, that they'd be gone 43 years later. I FELT more than understood what he was ushering in. It all came true. When he fired all the air traffic controllers - I was in shock then, too, because I knew what else was coming for the country where I was born. Nothing good. And here we are - trying to try to keep the planet we live on from burning up - with people in charge who don't have a CLUE or any willingness to do the right things. It's scary down here at the bottom, living on Soc Sec only after a long disease took all my hard-won resources away - healthcare in the US does that.
I wish I didn’t have to use a heart symbol to indicate that I agree with you, Dana Bennett. I knew also that Reagan’s election did not bode well for the country. When he was re-elected in 1984, I lowered my flag to half staff. Like you, I FELT more than understood what he was ushering in. Reagan was enthusiastically supported by Jesse Helms, senator from NC, a hateful, bigoted SOB if there ever was one. Now most Republicans are cut from Jesse’s piece of cloth, especially the political class. Criminal fraudsters like Rick Scott become governors and senators when they ought to be in jail. The greedy death party is trying to kill us all. The Republican political party cannot die soon enough.
Thank you, Thom Hartman for articulating what I knew all along to be the truth.
Thanks, JennSH for replying. I didn’t know Jesse Helms supported him - yes he was awful and so are all the rest of the Republicans. I’m from Florida left there nearly 40 years ago now - in Colorado. But I know ALL about Rick Scott who also STOLE that senate seat from Bill Nelson, a longtime Democrat who helped so many people personally throughout the state for a very long time. And now DeSantis is scaring everyone - with a brain - that he’ll run for president. I’m trying to do everything I can think of to get more Dems to show up and vote. We have so much at stake now.
When I heard the news that Reagan had won the presidency - the first time - if felt like a gut punch. And I remember thinking, "This is going to be the worst thing that's ever happened to women." Little did I know then that my instinctual thought would come true in so many different and horrific ways. That though we had abortion rights then, but only for 7 years, that they'd be gone 43 years later. I FELT more than understood what he was ushering in. It all came true. When he fired all the air traffic controllers - I was in shock then, too, because I knew what else was coming for the country where I was born. Nothing good. And here we are - trying to try to keep the planet we live on from burning up - with people in charge who don't have a CLUE or any willingness to do the right things. It's scary down here at the bottom, living on Soc Sec only after a long disease took all my hard-won resources away - healthcare in the US does that.
I wish I didn’t have to use a heart symbol to indicate that I agree with you, Dana Bennett. I knew also that Reagan’s election did not bode well for the country. When he was re-elected in 1984, I lowered my flag to half staff. Like you, I FELT more than understood what he was ushering in. Reagan was enthusiastically supported by Jesse Helms, senator from NC, a hateful, bigoted SOB if there ever was one. Now most Republicans are cut from Jesse’s piece of cloth, especially the political class. Criminal fraudsters like Rick Scott become governors and senators when they ought to be in jail. The greedy death party is trying to kill us all. The Republican political party cannot die soon enough.
Thank you, Thom Hartman for articulating what I knew all along to be the truth.
Thanks, JennSH for replying. I didn’t know Jesse Helms supported him - yes he was awful and so are all the rest of the Republicans. I’m from Florida left there nearly 40 years ago now - in Colorado. But I know ALL about Rick Scott who also STOLE that senate seat from Bill Nelson, a longtime Democrat who helped so many people personally throughout the state for a very long time. And now DeSantis is scaring everyone - with a brain - that he’ll run for president. I’m trying to do everything I can think of to get more Dems to show up and vote. We have so much at stake now.