Oh, people did "care" while he was alive. He had legions of stupid devoted followers. Are you kidding me? It was a sad fact.
In like 1987 I had this great anti-Reagan t-shirt that a friend made and sold to all the liberal kids at my high school, this was in my Junior year of high school.
So I wore it to soccer practise, I was JV and all these senior Varsity players said "how can you wear that shirt, how can you disrespect the father of our country?"
And I was all "WTF? George Washington was maybe the 'father of our country'. Ronald Reagan is just some B movie actor who temporarily got hold of the Presidency, and whose policies, esp. in Central America, are totally bad."
And then later I realized the main girl who said this crap to me was this closeted lesbian, and I just did not understand how she of all people could think in such a conservative way.
huh, I guess not living in the US I didn't really notice the Reagan fans until they started camping outside the whitehouse and being on the news *every* night.
Father of the country? I know the British always turn their noses up at America's lack of history but I thought it was a bit older than Reagan at least! Oh well, your t-shirt sounds cool, what did it say?
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Date: 2004-06-09 03:36 pm (UTC)...or is that a very callous thing of me to say?
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Date: 2004-06-09 09:30 pm (UTC)In like 1987 I had this great anti-Reagan t-shirt that a friend made and sold to all the liberal kids at my high school, this was in my Junior year of high school.
So I wore it to soccer practise, I was JV and all these senior Varsity players said "how can you wear that shirt, how can you disrespect the father of our country?"
And I was all "WTF? George Washington was maybe the 'father of our country'. Ronald Reagan is just some B movie actor who temporarily got hold of the Presidency, and whose policies, esp. in Central America, are totally bad."
And then later I realized the main girl who said this crap to me was this closeted lesbian, and I just did not understand how she of all people could think in such a conservative way.
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Date: 2004-06-10 07:23 am (UTC)Father of the country? I know the British always turn their noses up at America's lack of history but I thought it was a bit older than Reagan at least!
Oh well, your t-shirt sounds cool, what did it say?
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Date: 2004-06-10 04:57 pm (UTC)The T-shirt just had a black & white picture of Reagan's head, with a red circle and slash on top, like you see on 'no parking' or 'no smoking' signs.