10 years since Ronald Reagan's death

[Meursault]

ChairmanSanchez white nationalist Reaganaut.

How's this for 'edgy' - I wish Hinckley had better aim.

[Meursault]

Now look up Nixon's comments about Saint Ron on the Nixon tapes to see how he actually felt.

[Meursault]

Primarily it was their completely unnecessary trampling of the air traffic controllers union that fired the pistol inaugurating the rape of the working class.

Government is a mirror before an ape: private agents see the State acting a certain way and they reproduce that behavior, however unconsciously. In this case, private sector employers aped Reagan's union-busting.

I do not love public sector unions. Or non-industrial unions. Or America's myopic, collaborationist unions more generally. But Reagan is undoubtedly to blame for deunionization - and hypocritically so, given his own love for the Screen Actors Guild (hardworking actors require unions; layabout machinists and electricians, evidently, do not).

[Meursault]

Reagan should never have issued that ultimatum in the first. He was wrong to do so and should have been defeated for re-election for it.