superunknown23
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Yup, he raised taxes for that shyt 5 times... and still TRIPLED the deficit in 8 years 
Why was Ronald Reagan so beloved by CACs?
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Brown_Pride
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Its was Reagans unwavering belief in American exceptionalism that made him a great President, and easy to follow. 
Breaking Reagan's popularity down to its social compounds, reveals that like anything else when you love something or someone logic and reason gets thrown in the bushes. Reagan is coated with a heroic veneer, simply because he was able to tap into the collective white psychology that no other president has been able to do before or after, with the exception of JFK.
Many domestic and geopolitical shocks and events aided in Reagan revisionism (the soviet union collapse; domestic economic rebound) which granted him exceptional political capital even when undeserved --- but overall it was a "feeling" he provided white America. For instance, Carter had one memorable foreign policy disaster, which framed his legacy --- there were several foreign policy disasters under Reagan, but those are conveniently ignored.
Reagan was tremendously charismatic and like 2pac he was all things to different people. 2pac was a thoughtful, black panthers quoting, black women defending intellectual to some, and a exciting, thug niqqa to others. Reagan could strike a sweet, grandfatherly tone one second, and become a ruthless uber-capitalist, who could stare down sociopathic regimes and not blink the next.
This video illustrates the selective memory and standards of judgment. One is a tax payer stealing socialist, while the other is a pro business God:
Reagan also raised taxes numerous times:
PolitiFact Virginia | Rep. Gerry Connolly says Reagan raised taxes during five years of presidency
This aforementioned psychology is backed empirically and anecdotally. Sam Greenberg conducted a study of white democrats, and revealed that the power of Reagan informed them to see govt. and Reagan's administration through lenses that didnt square with reality. You see it all the time online when white conservatives often punctuate every sentence with exclamation points --- conservatives are highly emotional, and they are emotionally aligned with Reagan, which Reagan helped to ensure symbolically.
You're on the right track w/ the idea that Reagan's antagonism towards the black community helped to aid in his popularity with racist whites. Reagan had the "good fortune" of presiding over the crack epidemic, which decimated the inner city. The drug, in essence, took back the civil rights gains of the 70s-80s, and re-established white superiority economically and politically. Reagan was the symbol of this, and he damn sure didnt do anything to discourage it.
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FreshABM
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just gotta get my post in here..
Fucc him
Fucc him
Family Man
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Get the fukk outta here with that c00n shyt and go educate yourself.
Republicans lionize him because they got nobody else. Teddy Roosevelt and Ike would be called communists by teabaggers today, and they'd rather forget about Hoover, Nixon, Bush 1 and George W.
As for black people...
*Reagan kicked off his 1980 campaign in Philadelphia, Miss., which at the time was known for only one thing: the Ku Klux Klan murder of three civil rights workers. Reagan, using the code words of the day, said, I believe in states rights. (just like George Wallace, Orval Faubus and other white southern politicians before him)
*Reagan was opposed to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 (a referendum on Jim Crow).
*He was also opposed to the Fair Housing Act, saying: "If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes or others in selling or renting his house, he has a right to do so.
*As president, he actually tried to weaken the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (he called it a great insult to the South).
*He tried to veto the Civil Rights Restoration Act passed by Congress to overturn a Supreme Court ruling (Grove City v. Bell) that limited the remedies available to the federal government when going after private organizations that receive federal subsidies. The democratic-led Congress overrode Reagans veto.
*He tried to get rid of the federal ban on tax exemptions for private schools that practiced racial discrimination (Bob Jones University). Congress blocked it.
*In 1988, he opposed a bill to expand the reach of federal civil rights legislation. The democratic Congress overrode the veto.
*Reagan also opposed the imposition of sanctions on the apartheid regime in South Africa. The Democratic Congress overrode that veto, too.
After one of Reagan's pro-apartheid speeches, the normally mild-mannered Bishop Desmond Tutu said: I found it quite nauseating. I think the West can go to hell Your president is the pits as far as blacks are concerned. He sits there like the great, big white chief of old.
*He referenced to black women as "Cadillac-driving welfare queens" (nevermind that most welfare recipients are white)
*When MLK was murdered, he argued that he had it coming. Reagan said it was just the sort of great tragedy that began when we began compromising with law and order, and people started choosing which laws theyd break.
*He opposed the MLK holiday: When John Conyers introduced the bill with the backing of the NAACP, Reagan vowed to veto it.
He only signed it after the democratic Congress passed the law with a veto-proof majority. All 22 senators who opposed it were republicans.
Reagan signed the law grudgingly, noting he did so because Congress seemed bent on making it a national holiday.
Black people didn't hate him by accident. He was a racist, plain and simple.
He also held up funding for AIDS research for 3 years after it was initially described as a "gay disease" by Jerry Falwell and the Christian right.
Damn Ron
In addition to some of the other answers, I'd add:
He was a great communicator. Soaring rhetoric, bold differences, the whole deal.
and
He flattened the tax rate. Might not be good to a lot of you but well, yeah.
He was a great communicator. Soaring rhetoric, bold differences, the whole deal.
and
He flattened the tax rate. Might not be good to a lot of you but well, yeah.
Midwest
Hanging em up
Republicans lionize him because they got nobody else. Teddy Roosevelt and Ike would be called communists by teabaggers today, and they'd rather forget about Hoover, Nixon, Bush 1 and George W.
As for black people...
*Reagan kicked off his 1980 campaign in Philadelphia, Miss., which at the time was known for only one thing: the Ku Klux Klan murder of three civil rights workers. Reagan, using the code words of the day, said, I believe in states rights. (just like George Wallace, Orval Faubus and other white southern politicians before him)
*Reagan was opposed to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 (a referendum on Jim Crow).
*He was also opposed to the Fair Housing Act, saying: "If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes or others in selling or renting his house, he has a right to do so.
*As president, he actually tried to weaken the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (he called it a great insult to the South).
*He tried to veto the Civil Rights Restoration Act passed by Congress to overturn a Supreme Court ruling (Grove City v. Bell) that limited the remedies available to the federal government when going after private organizations that receive federal subsidies. The democratic-led Congress overrode Reagans veto.
*He tried to get rid of the federal ban on tax exemptions for private schools that practiced racial discrimination (Bob Jones University). Congress blocked it.
*In 1988, he opposed a bill to expand the reach of federal civil rights legislation. The democratic Congress overrode the veto.
*Reagan also opposed the imposition of sanctions on the apartheid regime in South Africa. The Democratic Congress overrode that veto, too.
After one of Reagan's pro-apartheid speeches, the normally mild-mannered Bishop Desmond Tutu said: I found it quite nauseating. I think the West can go to hell Your president is the pits as far as blacks are concerned. He sits there like the great, big white chief of old.
*He referenced to black women as "Cadillac-driving welfare queens" (nevermind that most welfare recipients are white)
*When MLK was murdered, he argued that he had it coming. Reagan said it was just the sort of great tragedy that began when we began compromising with law and order, and people started choosing which laws theyd break.
*He opposed the MLK holiday: When John Conyers introduced the bill with the backing of the NAACP, Reagan vowed to veto it.
He only signed it after the democratic Congress passed the law with a veto-proof majority. All 22 senators who opposed it were republicans.
Reagan signed the law grudgingly, noting he did so because Congress seemed bent on making it a national holiday.
Black people didn't hate him by accident. He was a racist, plain and simple.
He also held up funding for AIDS research for 3 years after it was initially described as a "gay disease" by Jerry Falwell and the Christian right.
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So anyone co signing him we all know where they stand. *takes notes*