Has everyone forgotten that Ronald Reagan, purportedly the “Great Communicator,” ignored AIDS–would not refer to it, let alone support funding for the entire AIDS crisis–throughout most of his administration? I am listening to encomium after encomium in disbelief. He’s being remembered as charming, fatherly, courtly, and good-humored. Even BBC World News reporters gushed that “everyone” in America would be mourning Reagan.
Some of us are still mourning the many people who needlessly suffered agonizing deaths while Reagan pushed his anti-government, socially conservative agenda.
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One letter in today’s SFChronicle noted Reagan’s obliviousness re AIDS, also re homelessness.
I also remember his grandfatherly imposition of martial law in Berkeley for the better part of a month, and the eventual city-wide Memorial Day parade under the truckloads of heavily-armed National Guardsmen that resulted in its being lifted. For that period, you couldn’t have two people “congregating” in public…ah, life in America.
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