Who do you think was the best president of the United States since 1960?

Jack Sprat .D U

Reagan hardened the hearts of Americans.
You may disagree all you wish and I respect your own opinion. I can tell you that I spent 31 years of my life preceding his presidency interacting with other Americans and living in more than one section of the country in a military career. In all those years, from childhood to nearly middle age, I never saw the deep divisions among the people that are so prevalent now. Almost immediately upon his assumption of the presidency, this former actor delivered a message that seemed to harden the hearts of millions of formerly decent Americans. It was an underlying theme of his rhetoric that the weak and most vulnerable were the cause of any discomfort that someone was feeling and that he (the self-made millionaire) was the proto-typical success story everyone else should be. You have to assume that everyone is capable of being a professional athlete or a Hollywood actor and that anyone who fails to do so is just not worthy of respect. During that time, wedge issues were driven home to the American psyche and pumped full of a contrived anger and people consequently began turning on one another. Instead of showing empathy for one's neighbor, the theme became 'looking out for #1' and thus your neighbor suddenly became your enemy. Our people began showing disrespect for each other and rightwing talk radio was given birth to formulate opinion and that opinion was based on 'Us versus Them'.

You can believe what you will, but Ronald Reagan destroyed the humanity and goodness of a once united and mostly compassionate people. There had always been politics in the years prior but it was not hateful and in no way personal between family and neighbors. This nation has never been the same. We are now surrounded by so many hateful, jealous, and mean people that any hope of compromise or reconciliation seems nearly impossible. It's a sad state of affairs. I'm not sure this deceased president was aware of how much harm he did to the country he claimed he loved.

I so totally agree. I was working in NATO as the Bundeswehr, USAF Liaison NCO. Reagan was such an embarrassment., and I caught hell by people in Europe that thought we, as a people were pretty stupid to put such an obvious failure in charge of the Strongest Nation in the world. When the Brits gave the world Margaret Thatcher, the British Reagan, it was easier to live with still a Class B Actor, who only got to work at all because all the real actors were fighting the Nazis, who failed at everything. Then we did it again with Bush. Difficult to hear anyone so stupid as to think the Whack-a-Doodle Reagan's, Ronnie and Nancy were an embarrassment that created most of the problems we are still living with, like a lying News Broadcasters who based on Reagan Freedom to lie, steal and abuse to sell a product or agenda, and kill the Fairness Policy. I will never understand anyone alive during the Reagan years think he was any better than the Bushies.
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His favorite saying - and True, whenever a Republican is running the Government.
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I lied, and lied to them, but Republicans are dumb enough to still love me.