"Also, in all seriousness, I cannot stand the way Reagan is idolized for playing John Wayne against the Soviets while domestically undertaking policies that have possibly permanently changed the distribution of income and wealth in the USA unfavorably for people at the bottom of the economic ladder."
to be fair I don't think the show is doing it on purpose - that's the way things were at the time. but the two are so totally interlinked - the whole idea of communism is an existential threat to the conservative religion that was behind Reagan and probably is still most of the controlling interest in American society today... (This is obviously separate from the domestic terrorism / dictatorship of Stalin, though that was also generally over by the time of the show)
which is why I really have no trouble rooting for P/E :P
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Re: QR's Final Episode Rambliew
Date: 2014-05-22 07:00 pm (UTC)to be fair I don't think the show is doing it on purpose - that's the way things were at the time. but the two are so totally interlinked - the whole idea of communism is an existential threat to the conservative religion that was behind Reagan and probably is still most of the controlling interest in American society today... (This is obviously separate from the domestic terrorism / dictatorship of Stalin, though that was also generally over by the time of the show)
which is why I really have no trouble rooting for P/E :P