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The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat” (theintercept.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Whenever the 'smother Hitler as a baby' topic comes up, my first instinct is generally, 'can we do Reagan too'?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Also Putin, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

And Trump and Gingrich.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The problem wasn't really Reagan, though, it was all the wormtongues whispering in his ear. If it wasn't Reagan, they'd have found some other useful idiot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

No, the problem was very much Reagan.

Look at the incredibly shitty job Bush I did, by contrast, with many of the same assholes chirping in his ar. We'd be in a much better position if he'd never been president.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Reagan spent at least half of his administration suffering from alzhiemers. He was most definitely a puppet, though a charismatic one.