Una_Persson:
When I was in 6th grade all of the teachers in my school had long, serious talks with the classes of 4-6 graders (we had a shared area) about how we all needed to go home and do anything we could to get our parents not to vote for Ronald Reagan, because he was going to start a nuclear war and kill us all. My 6th grade teacher, possibly the most evil and hateful teacher I ever had, also told us that if we didn’t convince our parents to vote Democratic for “Congress” then if Reagan was elected no one would be able to stop him, and we were all going to burn in nuclear fire. She even passed around civil defense books that showed us horseshit like how to build fallout shelters from couch pillows and how to recognize the 7 stages of radiation poisoning (IIRC, there was a page on how to dig a proper grave to prevent rotting corpses from spreading disease). Somehow, none of us either told our parents, or had parents who cared.
Reagan did have some campaign staff and advisors inherited from Barry Goldwater who were advocates of a preemptive nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, such as Brent Bozell.
florez
March 16, 2012, 6:43pm
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Semjaazah:
OP is way off the mark moaning about the current situation, but all the ‘you young squirt we lived through Reagan and the Cuban missile crisis and the cold war and blah blah blah’ advocates are just as bad. Try being born In Uganda with AIDS, to a mother who died in childbirth and a father hacked to death by militia-men, with the possibility that you’ll die before your 10th birthday. Even if everyone’d died in a nuclear apocalypse, at least you lived a relatively good life up 'til then. 1st world problems for 1st world people
Oh, this is like a cattle prod to the head. I, for one, wish this poster would get off the high horse about the direction of responses to this foggy OP, and start worrying more about color trends in the next Fall fashion line.
Speaking of cattle and horses, I’m going to put this thread out to pasture.