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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWrong Rush! It was Reagan who politicized AIDS!
With Rush blathering on about ebola, he warned that this would be politicized just as the left politicized Reagan's mishandling of the AIDS crisis. The fact of the mater is that Reagan didn't want to anger conservatives by helping gays and drug users so he remained silent as the epidemic raged. What leadership! As an epidemic killed hundreds of thousands of people in America and Africa, the president of the United States did nothing because of his political hatred for the victims. He politicized the disease! The Reagans did know gay people, but it was all about the politics.
What about AIDS activists? They did what people are supposed to do. To get politicians off of their asses, they got involved in politics. First they went after DEMOCRATIC mayer Ed Koch in New York. They had numerous protests to get him to act. This is how politics is supposed to work. Today, politics means that a corporation wants to pay lower taxes and they pay their congressman to put a loophole in some bill to lower their taxes. Real people no longer have a political voice.
Republicans will try to whitewash Reagan's handling of the crisis, but history tells us the truth: during the AIDS crisis epidemic, Reagan sat on his ass.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)And far, far too many people paid the price for his cowardice.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)God, this legendary figure... who if running for office today, wouldn't be close to sufficiently RW enough for the teapublicans; he wouldn't make it past a primary....
JJChambers
(1,115 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)an act that prior had never been done
The Republicans and teapartiers and cons are really bad people, REALLY bad, and the election of Obama made it OK for them to come out and show us just who they REALLY are and ALWAYS have been
Watch HBO "Nixon on Nixon" and you will see what I mean
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)unblock
(52,276 posts)aids infected more gays than straights in only one country on the planet, the u.s.
and even that is no longer the case as its victims are now more straight than gay even in the u.s.
aids doesn't care who you are. aids infects humans. full stop.