• @Addition1291
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      396 months ago
      • Only state to not vote for Reagan
      • Weed legalized
      • Free Breakfast and Lunch for all students
      • First state to protect LGBT Americans from discrimination
      • Only state to not vote for Reagan
      • Protected abortion rights
      • Childcare assistance for low income parents
      • Planned high speed rail between the Twin Cities and Duluth
      • Legalized gay marriage before Obergefell v. Hodges
      • Only state to not vote for Reagan

      There’s plenty more but those are just the ones I can think of right now.

        • @Addition1291
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          176 months ago

          Damn, can’t believe I forgot that one

      • @NewDay
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        76 months ago

        Tell me why you don’t like reagan? As a foreigner ive not enough information about him

        • @Addition1291
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          256 months ago

          That’s a really long one but pretty much every shitty trend since the 80s can be attributed back to him: Wage stagnation, climate inaction, police militarization, Middle East wars, no taxes for the wealthy, war on drugs, for profit prisons, elimination of pensions, union busting, media polarization, Iran-Contra affair, etc.

          He was popular because he was charismatic but literally all of his policies hollowed out the country into what it is today.

        • @Ballistic_86
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          176 months ago

          Reagan started the slow move to conservative legislation by both sides of the US two-party system. It’s the reason a lot of people on social media hate everything about whoever is president.

          Our liberals are center/center right, our conservatives are basically fascists and those are the two options. Most of this started with our first “celebrity” president, who was a well-known actor many years before.

          Before the Reagan era, Richard Nixon had to resign his presidency for hiding some evidence. Trump was found hiding evidence and he finished his term and is running a second time (while actively fighting multiple criminal trials). The tide shift was Reagan.