As for where we are now, part of it IS a Republican’s fault, that being Bush. But that isn’t because he spent like Reagan. It is because he spent like a traditional Democrat. And Obama is keeping that up. That being spending money that isn’t there.

That said, I’m not a follower of Saint Reagan, and find it incomprehensible and annoying when he’s valorized. I think he was an ignorant reactionary whose 1947 Boys Life worldview did incalculable damage to this country. If, after a presidency of pretending not to recall anything inconvenient and recounting movie plots and Reader’s Digest articles as fact, he had gotten run over by a bus, I would still have experienced schadenfreude, but the means of his demise would not have been ironic.

Also, thanks to Fester and Jules for the info on “karma”.

That said, I think Reagan was a rotten President, whose 1947 Boys Life worldview did incalculable damage to the country. Had he gotten run over by a bus, or had John Hinckley had better aim, I still would have enjoyed schadenfreude, but it would not have been ironic in the way that his Alzheimer’s was.

Also, thanks to Fester and Jules for the info. I was indeed using karma in the colloquial, “cause and effect”/”payback” sense of the word.

It isn’t illogical to say that violent men/people/women/gerbils would use violence. Past fact is that these are violent men ergo they would use violence against us if they could without a retaliation they couldn’t handle. I think you are getting way too picky because I caught the logic.

I’ve said several times that I don’t want an innocent to die. It happens sometimes though. Life sucks. It still is a pretty painless death compared to degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

Please correct me: I *want* to be wrong. To me, the above reads, “It’s a pity, but generally okay if we kill a few innocents, as long as we put them away in a humane fashion. After all, the death penalty is sweet compared to the fate of some people we like.”