Reagan, Thatcher, Bush
Two are dead and one is alive, and that is one distinction of significance. But what these people have in common is an undeserved upward mobility in esteem, partially because of amnesia, and partially because of incessant efforts of Republicans to rewrite history.
I despise Ronald Reagan exactly as much as I despised him when he was still alive. To name an airport after him was obscene since he was responsible, single-handedly, for the layoff of more than a third of the professional air-safety personnel, with consequences that were counted in lives for years.
I despise Margaret Thatcher exactly as I despised her then since she introduced her reforms on the backs of the poor, and left her country bitterly divided and in shambles.
And to hear that GW Bush enjoys a recent upswing in popularity galls me most of all. He had the intellectual capacity of a four-yer old. He managed to destroy two countries, Iraq (physically) as well as his own (morally and economically), re-introduced torture, and set the fight against Global warming back by a decade.
I hope that one day, upon wiser reflection, these three destructionists will be relegated to the place where they belong, to the dustbin of history.
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