THOUGHTS ON REAGAN AND RISE OF TEA PARTY

Bill Hessell shared your blog post on Google+ Reagan's administration did initiate the damaging economic changes that have led to our growing economic inequity, the shrinking of the middle class and a weakened support network, while his southern strategy has over time produced the tea party movement, many middle class people voting against their own best interests, and greater social discord and conflict. Our nation's current problems go back even further, though, almost as if we have never recovered from the assassination of John Kennedy 50 years.  The lies and the tragedy of Vietnam, the corruption and deceit of the Nixon years, the economic and social imbalance brought on by Reagan, Clinton's welfare reform further damaging our social safety network and his trade agreements, economic deregulation, and job outsourcing leading to a buildup of later economic woes.  Bush's 8 years of needless war and financial mismanagement have only added to the culmination of where we are today--a nation struggling to regain its footing, with leaders incapable of reaching agreement and finding solutions to basic governance issues, and a foreign policy that is confused and adrift, no more able to provide leadership to the free world than it is to handle its domestic problems. REAGAN'S SOUTHERN STRATEGY GAVE RISE TO T PARTY