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[den]

why do people wait for a bloke to die before they list all the bad things he did? Would you have said these things before he died? If so, why didn't you?

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[emeraldkitty.livejournal.com]

Be you a Republican or Democrat, Reagan fan or not, there is absolutely no reason to become inflamed by the things the man did almost 20 years ago. The president is, as has been pointed out before this, a man and therefore fallible. The thing I really wish people would figure out is that A) the man is dead. nothing he did or said or set in motion can be changed whether those things were good or bad. B)When someone dies it is commonly accepted practice to try to remember the good things about them and to downplay or not mention the bad. It's called respect, both for the newly dead and the surviving members of his family. It's bad enough that his family lost him but it seems some of you advocate destroying his legacy and their good memories of him too. C) The American system of government was created to allow a GROUP of elected officials to make decisions for the country based on the desires of the majority. Not all of us fit into the majority (there is after all a minority) While the policies from Reagan's era carry his name, he is the equivalent of a figurehead. He did not single handedly make the decisions and policies that many of you disagree with. Much like Microsoft, Bill Gates is the man everyone blames for every problem but in reality he has very little to do with most of what people complain about. So to complain only of Reagan's involvement in policy making is ignorant. The point of democracy is for every man, woman, and undecided to have a voice in what goes on around them. Blaming the President for decisions that also involved Congress and everyone else on Capitol Hill will never bring about the changes many of you seem to desire in government policy. Write to your congressman and representatives. Actively promote the policy changes you desire. But until you do those things and find yourself in the majority, quit complaining about things that happened 20 years ago. Move on please. Concentrate on the present and the future which you can change instead of the past which is now and forever history.