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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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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also Putin, right?

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago

And Trump and Gingrich.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days 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.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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