Friday, April 28, 2017

Morning in America Again ?

                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              

One of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaigns used the slogan, "It's Morning in America Again."

It was a famous, and successful, image for Reagan.

Never mind that Reagan's reality was shallow ideology, boastful false-front "toughness," "deregulating" corporations to citizens' harm, hostility to commonsense environmentalism, and rebellious nationalist spirituality posing as Christianity.

It was a very evil time.  The beginning of mourning for Christianity prostituted to political deceivers.

But never mind all that.  Image was what Reagan was about: and what his followers believed.

We seem to have another president for whom image is greater than reality.  Though we should give him credit for being unhindered by ideology...except as unrelenting self-promotion is an ideology.

It's Mourning in America.  Again.

                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              

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