And yet some say that history never repeats... Somehow my memory of the Regan years is brighter and better as the final years ran out.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
When Reagan was talking about "assault rifles" he was talking about something completely different than when Obama uses that same term. Something that seems to get lost as we allow the "politically correct" to assign definitions for words and objects.
It is funny. We often see each side of the political spectrum pointing out the flaws of the other side while celebrating those flaws as positives in their own side. Human nature never ceases to amaze, confound, amuse, and confuse me.