![]() LBJ had the great society but he also escalated the War in Vietnam, oh and he was a bit of a vulgar man but that's not necessarily a politically relevant point. Though seriously, as an anarchist I have no respect for the office of president, even the supposed great ones like Lincoln, FDR, etc all had big problems like treatment of indigenous people and persecution of ethnic or racial minorities like the Internment of Japanese-Americans. I'm sure if Reagan was president when Hitler was marching through Europe, we would have been aiding Nazi Germany. The same people blaming Islam for 9/11 forgot the part where Reagan armed the forerunners of Al Qaeda because Reagan was such a fucking idiot, he thought anyone who wasn't a communist and hated communists automatically was a great guy. Special interests then promoted propaganda to put the idea in people's heads that he was a powerful and good president. ![]() He had dementia in office and was just an actor while his special interest aligned cabinet deregulated and empowered corporations. ![]() Or perhaps half of the US genuinely think he did everything right as POTUS in comparison to Carter or loved his slashing taxes and deregulation platform, at least until most people soured against corporations having too much economic power over time, because of the 2008 crash and the larger monopsony, more inequality, and outsourcing trends going on since NAFTA. ![]()
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