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It is about years and years and years of propaganda.
Ol' Ronnie Raygun even cut an LP warning of the "dangers" of "socialized medicine"...back in - I wish I was kidding - 1961. And the propaganda against it goes back to decades before that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Speaks_Out_Against_Socialized_Medicine
ugh
I got nausea reading this webpage.
boke
This is a key bit of history, probably one of the dominoes that led to Dump. This album helped to give Ronnie his start in politics. Which ultimately led to him being in the WH for eight years. At that point, his administration was objectively the most criminal administration in history. This culminated in Iran/Contra, which was worse than Watergate, but mostly was glossed over, with his VP becoming President, and Ronnie Raygun getting to skate completely.
The conservatives did a huge amount of damage to everything under his watch, paving the way for hate radio and Faux.
The Republicans didn't pay any real cost for his crimes and spent the 90s trying to get their favorite criminal's name on virtually everything and retconning virtually anything associated with Ronnie Raygun....all while building alternative information outlets to erode trust in democracy and democratic institutions and government in general...
So much about where we are at goes back to Raygun (and Nixon).