General Discussion

He was tremendously gifted as a salesman. But have been the actor in him. Good Grief could he read a script! SOOOOOO convincing! Made you want it - whatever it happened to be that he was pitching. He made it sound SOOOOOOO good. He made you yearn for it and give over your every waking moment to wanting it. Whatever it was that he was selling at any given moment. And you couldn’t wait to vote for it - whatever it was, even if it was gonna be bad for you and it wouldn’t make you rich like he said it would.

Good GRIEF but he was gifted in that. He could sell ANYTHING that he could wrap up in beautiful red-white-&-blue and make you want it. People fell for it - some of ‘em with a rapture over the sparkly “shining city on a hill” and “it’s morning in America” stuff that he was selling. I have to concede that it all sure sounded good. But it was all in the “too good to be true” department. In the cheap-copy bargain-bin aisle where the magic only existed in the store and very seldom ever actually went home with you to improve your life or circumstances.

Reagan was a snake. Like the proverbial one that talked Eve into taking a bite out of that gorgeous shiny tasty-looking apple. The apple that was pure fakery that led you straight out of Eden and locked the door behind you so that the reality you then faced was NOTHING like what the snake was selling. He was the Republican wet dream that was going to turn the world upside down the way they wanted to make you think it was - that sounded soooooooooooo good and sucked you right down into Hell.