in your opinion when did politics lost its integrity and became more of entertainment?

@SW-User Reagan, exactly.

@SW-User Reagan was a pretty good President, one of the few. I'm sure liberals think otherwise.

@jackson55 I agree with that, I only selected him on the basis of his movie star status tbh

@SW-User I didn't think much of him as a actor but then I was very young then. He was the president of the screen actors gild. I remember when he was governor of California. He did a good job there.

@SW-User He wasn't a movie star when he was elected president. He had been a very successful governor of California. And before that.... But it doesn't matter; I know.

@uncleshawn I know that🤭

@SW-User Oh....you got me there. 🙄

@uncleshawn lol

@jackson55 [quote]Reagan was a pretty good President, one of the few. I'm sure liberals think otherwise.[/quote]

It's not the liberals, it's his own record.

Graduated college with a C average.

Did not volunteer for service in WWII, but he got drafted. Ended up serving as a public relations officer, in Burbank, California.

As President of the Screen Actors Guild, he became an FBI informant, reporting (inventing) "communist" actors.

As Governor of California, he oversaw the most blatant suppression of the 1st amendment rights of students, by using the national guard to violently put down student demonstrations, in an effort to end student opposition to the Vietnam war.

As President, he set the country on the path of trickle-down economics, something George Bush, his rival for the Presidency, called voodoo economics. Bush was right. But we forgot as a country, and we put Trump in office. Trump thought he invented trickle-down economics. Turns out it's still voodoo economics.

People who forget history, or ignore it, are bound to repeat it. We did.

@Northwest An excellent summation about Reagan and his legacy.

Under Reagan, and his Secretary of Defense, Caspar Weinberger, military spending increased to $34 million [b]per hour[/b].