Comments by "KGS" (@kgs2280) on "FDR Saved America—Then the GOP Ripped Us Apart" video.

Exactly. And an interesting thing I just learned is that The Heritage Foundation (the authors of Project 2025) wrote a Mandate for Leadership for 1981 (Mandate for Leadership is also the primary name of Project 2025), which Reagan gladly adopted. I never knew it went back that far, but, as the old saying goes, “now it all makes sense”. It also had the calls for overturning Roe and outlawing contraception, just like Project 2025.
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@hlnbee I was born shortly afterward, and grew up under Eisenhower, and the difference between that period of time, with that type of government and today’s, is incredibly different and enlightening. We were at our peak then, and, hopefully, we’re at our bottom now (unless, somehow, trump gets back in office) and we might be able to start climbing back into the light. But it’s going to take all of us, and it’s going to be a rocky path, and a whole lot of work.
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Very often children have a “6th sense” about people, and have an inner recognition of phoniness. Unfortunately, we are essentially taught not to listen to our inner voice/understanding, and to trust the adults, especially adults in positions of authority, and we end up losing that ability.
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@MarvinThiessen I would add Milton Friedman, the man who gave Reagan his economic policies.
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@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty I don’t remember W. as a kid, but I remember Reagan as an actor. And I remember JFK’s assassination, and I even remember seeing Eisenhower driving by my neighborhood when I was a kid.
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@bartrobertson8444 And don’t even stand near them because they spray.
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⁠ @elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 He was always a puppet for the rich and corporations, but his Alzheimer’s didn’t really show up until his last year or so of his presidency, when they had to mostly hide him away and have other people speak for him. We were never “allowed” to know. I just wish more people would recognize the same thing happening to trump.
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@randyellis9460 He was a TERRIBLE president. Have you ever heard of Reaganomics, or “trickle down economics”? Did you get “trickled on” by the wealthy? And, since you’re a guy (I’m guessing from your name), I’m not even going to go into the ways his programs were specifically terrible for women, because, being a guy, you undoubtedly wouldn’t have noticed (and I not saying it’s because men are stupid, or bad, at all, but men really don’t tend to notice things that affect other people, especially women). I’m betting you are aware of Project 2025, right? Do you know that the Heritage Foundation also had a Mandate for Leadership (the lead title for Project 2025) in 1981 (I just learned that a couple of days ago myself), and it included things like overturning Roe v. Wade and outlawing contraception, but, fortunately, Reagan didn’t get that far, but he did start some of the lowering of standards and benefits to women, and caused the loss of government jobs for women in Washington D.C., including the percentage of women in both houses of Congress in the following election for Congressional seats. And he also brought in the cuts to education, which is why he have the expression “the dumbing down of America” now. He/they did that. They intentionally lowered the standards of education because they know that the “poorly educated”, (as trump called them, to their faces, and they effing cheered), are much easier to manipulate. Trump is both the outgrowth of those policies as well as a racist reaction to us having had a Black President.
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@randyellis9460 He was a terrible president! He also gutted education. That’s where the phrase “the dumbing down of America” came from. He did that. And he also implemented ‘Reganomics” that wrecked the middle class with his “trickle down theory”, that if you give more tax cuts to big corporations, saying they would use their extra money to uplift their workers, which would improve the economy. How did that work out? Of course, in their greed, they just bought more yachts and jets and stock buybacks, and put the rest in offshore accounts. Just as Trump’s tax cuts did, because they were only for the wealthy and corporations. And it’s because they both were pushed by The Heritage Foundation, the ones who recently created Project 2025 (A Mandate for Leadership). Funny thing, they also had a Mandate for Leadership in 1981, which had some of the same ideas, the only difference being that Project 2025 goes even further, and trump is all for it even though he won’t openly admit it. But the Republicans in Congress are almost all are on board.
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@donaldwalstead9977 You’re kidding, right? How do you think trump was convicted of 34 felonies, as well as adjudicated for sexual assault, by JURIES OF HIS PEERS, selected by both the lawyers for the prosecution as well as his OWN lawyers and NOT by the judge? So, yes, it was for things he has done.
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@jamesbosworth4191 And like Ted Cruz when trump called his wife ugly. What was it…”dog face” or “horse face”? Something like that. I don’t understand how those women can continue to stay with a husband who won’t even defend her from public ridicule by another man, and a particularly nasty man at that.
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@erinj9642 Yes. As Bernie Sanders said, “America doesn’t need billionaires”. We need to raise the tax rates to what it was under Eisenhower. Imagine how many Americans that money could help! We could have Universal Healthcare and free university education to everyone who wants it, just like in a number of European countries, and it might even wipe out all or, at least most poverty in the country.
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Thank you to both!
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