by Noah
Tonight's meme reminds me of more than how much of a con "Trickle Down Economics" is. It shows me how completely evil the entire Reagan administration was and how the effects of its policies are still adversely affecting us today. Until Trump came along, you could make the case that Reagan was the worst president this country has ever afflicted itself with, even worse than George W. Bush or James Buchanan and that's really sayin' something.
Anyway, intelligent Americans saw the obvious con and the pitfalls of Reagan's "Trickle Down Economics" beforehand but, as always, there weren't enough intelligent Americans around in 1980. The victims even cheered and eagerly voted Reagan to a second term.
Aided by things like a propagandistic media and education policies designed to deliberately make our schools fail, that crisis of stupidity has only worsened in the intervening decades. In 2017, Trump and his congressional doppelganger Paul Ryan (a lunatic in his own right) doubled down on the Republican Party's attack on our economy and gave us the Trump-Ryan Tax Scam Of 2017. Since then, they have called for even more tax cuts for the wealthy, especially their donors who will kick back some of the congressional largess to their campaign coffers and elsewhere. At every turn, the victims cheered.
Tonight's meme also reminds me of something else. It reminds me of how evil Reagan was when he insisted the Challenger Space Shuttle be launched in adverse weather conditions just so he could attempt to bask in its glory during his State Of The Union speech originally scheduled for that night. After that disaster of his making, Reagan postponed his speech for a week. He then gave the speech and began it by using the horrific results of his ego as a prop for his own glorification. To this day, Republicans worship Reagan like they worship Trump. They are a Death Cult.
"trickle down" shows just how evil reagan was and how evil everyone since *IS*.
(When have you heard a democrap try to tell you how and why this is nonsense?)
but, in reality, it also proves just how colossally stupid american voters *ARE* and have been for 41 years and counting.
You don't have to know much about economics to realize that it's always been a steaming pile of horse shit. Even if you are utterly clueless about human nature, especially among the very rich, you should know better.
All you need is a 5th-grade understanding of basic math.
And since all american voters since 1980 fail those tests... dumber than shit.
thus the shithole... and soon the reich.