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Tierra_y_Libertad

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Sat Jun-05-04 08:20 PM
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3. Reagan was merely a reflection of America.

After Vietnam, after Watergate, after all the disgrace. He exploited America's justified feeling of shame and helplessness. The American people yearned for a nice, safe, picture of a mythological "American Dream". Some kind of Mayberry, USA. With nice obedient wives making cookies, nice obedient kids looking up to dad, nice friendly folks sayin' nice things in a nice White society that didn't trouble itself about anything exept the church bazaar and what size white picket fence to erect.

Reagan represented that "dream". Some of us saw it for what it was. A nightmare built on the backs of the poor of the world.

Bush is trying to resurrect it.

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