Was the soviet union collapse a good thing though? East German communists take over Germany push Communist ideals to the EU. Makes Americans lazy, lets our guard down, we elect Clinton who brings in China, now we're attacked internally from foreign invaders (including those made citizens by Reagan). Russia gets gang raped and strip mined by cronies and billionaires.
Tell me how that was a good thing, and for who exactly?
Better to have an enemy you know, rather than 7 billion enemies you don't. The problem is that sometimes the thing you think you want isn't the thing you really need.
How much of Reagan's failures were actually Reagan and not say Bush running shit in the background while senile Reagan put on a smile for the cameras.
I remember when being a conservative meant secretly agreeing with Democrats on just about everything but you can't act on it because there's too much in the pockets of Wall Street
We're not talking theoretical utopian timeline, we're talking about how things work in reality. Thinking that the wall is going to come down and everyone's going to jerk each other off and dance naked in the streets, was naive and silly.
One side stopped fighting a war, and the other side didn't, while we welcomed the enemy with open arms as they plotted against us. And appear to be winning.
That's based on the idea that for some reason the leftists wouldn't have prospered in the West with the USSR present. They already controlled academia before the USSR collapsed, and that's how they started controlling/perverting our elites.
Germany had a problem starting after 1982. When the FdP( close to libertarians) and the CDU/ CSU ( Conservatives) were coming to power, they promised a spiritual and moral turn (geistig moralische Wende). This turn never came. Similar to Reagans policies.
This was biting us hard when the wall came down. Promises of "blooming landscapes" were not delivered aside from "large blooming rapeseed fields". The government mismanagement of the former west how to integrate and build up an economy again is haunting the German pension funds and politics up to today.
How chancellor Kohl could allow Merkel to gain power so fast, is completely unexplainable.
She should have never been allowed into the cabinet to start with. Not with that past she had.
Since her rule started, Germany is in free fall economically, defensively and socially.
The real republicans are now in the younger generation of the former east, while the west is completely corrupted.
Yeah well, gerMoney is still too strong in spite ofbaoo that. Nobody is looking at a german societal collapse, which is why it will be sudden and swift.
well, I'm sure the Russians (and the Eastern Bloc) are happy not to be living in a communist country anymore. Having Putin as a czar must be better than living in the USSR.
Other than that, a net loss since people thought the war against communism was over after the Soviet Union fell. The war continues today.
Reagan brought the USSR to their economic knees. The lefties, after it collapsed, went all out to ensure that "Reagan had nothing to do with it.".
That was total bullshit. Reagan had everything to do with it.
Yes, eventually the USSR was doomed due to communism, but with Reagan at the helm it collapsed quickly and not over many many decades. They would've expanded and [fiscally] raped their way to maintain power.
Reagan boxed them in and forced their end.
As for Best President Ever, Trump wins, but Reagan is a close second. It was different times with a different environment and Reagan was essentially the Trump of the day. Trump has had way more social battles and way more opposition and still won bigly so Trump gets the win... with only four years to do it.
Well, now you are on the right track. Since school, you now have something they didn't teach you: the ability to do your own research and validate what is a lie and what isn't.
Being on Patriots.win is a huuge step toward seeing truth. Trump himself red-pilled enough people to start down that path of discovery. (I had always been red-pilled).
Back before the intestines, it was difficult to find the truth, but I learned how the left lies and that helped greatly.
Remember, if a reporter interviews somebody but then leaves out of the article some rather obvious questions they would've asked, then you know they have an agenda. There are many such clues.
I completely understand that. And I agree. The issue Trump had/has is that he was fighting the deep-state and a completely uniform MSM in opposition. I remember Reagan fighting against the MSM, but now they are so far radicalized. Reagan did not have a weaponized government and weaponized MSM against him so besides being one of the greatest president ever, Trump had/has more difficulty dealing with it.
I've hated the MSM longer than most people here. It was bad then, but now it's fucking commie propaganda levels.
To be fair to Reagan, the soviet union collapsed, in part, because RR accelerated an arms race that he both knew the USSR could not win and would bankrupt them by trying.
RR was a very good republican president. Donald Trump is not a Republican president. He is a republican revolution.
The poll is essentially “do you like Reagan over the first shot at Lexington and Concord”
Regan got a free win when the Soviet union collapsed. Trump got every win by sheer force of will
Was the soviet union collapse a good thing though? East German communists take over Germany push Communist ideals to the EU. Makes Americans lazy, lets our guard down, we elect Clinton who brings in China, now we're attacked internally from foreign invaders (including those made citizens by Reagan). Russia gets gang raped and strip mined by cronies and billionaires.
Tell me how that was a good thing, and for who exactly?
It's always nice to see an evil empire fall. It was just a failure of the world that allowed the new fresh hell of the present to replace it
Better to have an enemy you know, rather than 7 billion enemies you don't. The problem is that sometimes the thing you think you want isn't the thing you really need.
How much of Reagan's failures were actually Reagan and not say Bush running shit in the background while senile Reagan put on a smile for the cameras.
Reagan was the greatest President of the 20th century. Trump is the greatest President since Lincoln.
Biden and friends count as an evil empire?
I don't know what this Cult of trump is about. Why are people so cultish around trump?
moST RePubLiCAns doNt LiKE TRUmp
We need to go back to REAL conservatives like romneyy
trump is not a conservative. We Need to go back to REAL conservative principles
like cutting taxess for the rich and tax increases for the poor
And lying about weapons of mass destruction to start an endless war that killed millions and millions of people
And pretending to support small government but then turning around and trying to legislate what people can do in their own bedroom..
And busing the power of your office to spy on your political opponents
And creating Obamacare [but calling it Romney care
And supporting things like the EPA
And secretly supporting the idea of universal health Care but the only reason you don't pass it is because you were paid not to by lobbyists
I remember when being a conservative meant secretly agreeing with Democrats on just about everything but you can't act on it because there's too much in the pockets of Wall Street
(Do i really need an /s??)
Yes.
You can argue about how the followup was handled, but the world is a better place for having lost the Soviet Union.
We're not talking theoretical utopian timeline, we're talking about how things work in reality. Thinking that the wall is going to come down and everyone's going to jerk each other off and dance naked in the streets, was naive and silly.
One side stopped fighting a war, and the other side didn't, while we welcomed the enemy with open arms as they plotted against us. And appear to be winning.
That doesn't mean the world would be a better place if the Soviet Union had survived.
That's based on the idea that for some reason the leftists wouldn't have prospered in the West with the USSR present. They already controlled academia before the USSR collapsed, and that's how they started controlling/perverting our elites.
Germany had a problem starting after 1982. When the FdP( close to libertarians) and the CDU/ CSU ( Conservatives) were coming to power, they promised a spiritual and moral turn (geistig moralische Wende). This turn never came. Similar to Reagans policies. This was biting us hard when the wall came down. Promises of "blooming landscapes" were not delivered aside from "large blooming rapeseed fields". The government mismanagement of the former west how to integrate and build up an economy again is haunting the German pension funds and politics up to today. How chancellor Kohl could allow Merkel to gain power so fast, is completely unexplainable. She should have never been allowed into the cabinet to start with. Not with that past she had. Since her rule started, Germany is in free fall economically, defensively and socially. The real republicans are now in the younger generation of the former east, while the west is completely corrupted.
Yeah well, gerMoney is still too strong in spite ofbaoo that. Nobody is looking at a german societal collapse, which is why it will be sudden and swift.
That will be nice. Sudden collapse in the land of planers 🤣
well, I'm sure the Russians (and the Eastern Bloc) are happy not to be living in a communist country anymore. Having Putin as a czar must be better than living in the USSR.
Other than that, a net loss since people thought the war against communism was over after the Soviet Union fell. The war continues today.
No. Cold War era war movies > Dumbfuckistan war movies.
Reagan brought the USSR to their economic knees. The lefties, after it collapsed, went all out to ensure that "Reagan had nothing to do with it.".
That was total bullshit. Reagan had everything to do with it.
Yes, eventually the USSR was doomed due to communism, but with Reagan at the helm it collapsed quickly and not over many many decades. They would've expanded and [fiscally] raped their way to maintain power.
Reagan boxed them in and forced their end.
As for Best President Ever, Trump wins, but Reagan is a close second. It was different times with a different environment and Reagan was essentially the Trump of the day. Trump has had way more social battles and way more opposition and still won bigly so Trump gets the win... with only four years to do it.
More evidence my public school education failed me
Well, now you are on the right track. Since school, you now have something they didn't teach you: the ability to do your own research and validate what is a lie and what isn't.
Being on Patriots.win is a huuge step toward seeing truth. Trump himself red-pilled enough people to start down that path of discovery. (I had always been red-pilled).
Back before the intestines, it was difficult to find the truth, but I learned how the left lies and that helped greatly.
Remember, if a reporter interviews somebody but then leaves out of the article some rather obvious questions they would've asked, then you know they have an agenda. There are many such clues.
Bro just assume anything you learned in public school is bullshit, and assume the opposite to be true.
I completely understand that. And I agree. The issue Trump had/has is that he was fighting the deep-state and a completely uniform MSM in opposition. I remember Reagan fighting against the MSM, but now they are so far radicalized. Reagan did not have a weaponized government and weaponized MSM against him so besides being one of the greatest president ever, Trump had/has more difficulty dealing with it.
I've hated the MSM longer than most people here. It was bad then, but now it's fucking commie propaganda levels.
The internationalist Left also tried to fuck up russia, giving us our current problems with it.
Let's be fair, Reagan had more than a little to do with the Soviet Union's collapse.
To be fair to Reagan, the soviet union collapsed, in part, because RR accelerated an arms race that he both knew the USSR could not win and would bankrupt them by trying.
RR was a very good republican president. Donald Trump is not a Republican president. He is a republican revolution.
The poll is essentially “do you like Reagan over the first shot at Lexington and Concord”