Remembering ReaganHistories Idiots Ronald Reagan was born February 6th, 1911 and will forever be immortalized as the 40th president of the united states of America. I have not done such a recent figure in history yet, but I believe that some of the mistakes that Reagan made during his time as president of the united states sent us into a spiral and pushed us toward one of the most unequal periods of life in the United States. He is often looked back as a good president, his economics plans seemed to have worked and he really took to the war on drugs. He told Gorbachev to tear down that wall and many other Reaganisms over the course of his presidency. There are certain aspects that some, or most do not like to remember about his time in the white house. We don’t like to remember the war on Race, the deregulation of financial institutions which lead to the collapse of the economy in 2008 and 1990.  We don’t like to remember the arms deals with Iran and the money sent to fund central American guerilla warfare. Let us look first to who Ronald Reagan was, he was a small-town man born to poor parents in Illinois. He eventually became an actor, a motivational speaker then as a politician gaining fame for his “time for choosing” speech in 1964. I will have the audio available to listen to on the website, if nothing else it provides a look at both his personal motivations and can be looked at as the beginning of his corruption in government. His opinions shared in that speech change drastically by the time he reaches the oval office. I do not blame the man for failing to reach the white house, I do not want to be seen as a miser of history and distortion of facts so before I go any further along this path I want to reiterate a few things.  This is a podcast about Real “history” I can not say fact because most of history is observation and personal reflection on the topic. But this history, the stuff I will share with you today and in the following few episodes are facts. You can hate me, I am not here to be liked. You can try and discredit me, good luck I have no credit anywhere except maybe with my wife and children. You can check my sources four or five times but do not blame me for sharing important truths to the public, do not blame me for your closed mind. Look instead to your neighbors, your friends, your colleagues and all those whom you love and cherish and relish in all of the opportunity we as humanity have in sharing unique ideas that can expand our mindset. Being stuck in the left or right has gotten us into this mess. We need to find a way out, so I want to start with the truth; not as I see it but as history should and with a speculative eye for detail does see it.Before 1962 Reagan was a registered Democrat, then registering with the republican party became governor of California. In 1967 where he repeatedly got into trouble for solving problems with violence, including an incident which is remembered as Bloody Thursday where 111 police officers were injured and one student University of California, Berkely student was killed. This only happened after Reagan Sent in the police officers during a peaceful protest, originally to discuss the Arab-Isreali conflict. “If it takes a bloodbath, let’s get it over with. No More appeasement”  Reagan's terms as governor helped to shape the policies he would pursue in his later political career as president. By campaigning on a platform of sending "the welfare bums back to work," he spoke out against the idea of the welfare state. He also strongly advocated the Republican ideal of less government regulation of the economy, including that of undue federal taxationHe failed to run for President of the United States twice before finally being elected following Jimmy Carter’s failed presidency. First, on the list, Reagan’s war on drugs and holy shit was this a problem. A little background then the goods. President Nixon declared the war on drugs in 1971 af--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/seth-michels66/support

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