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Subject: Re: Reagan, again
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Date: Tue, 20-Jan-87 00:18:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 20 00:18:29 1987
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>    The point of the exercise is to support the following assertion:
>the American people have decided to "like" Ronald Reagan, no matter
>what he does.  They have equated their sense of national identity 
>with him, and they are not going to turn on him any more than they 
>will attack their own mothers.  If you disagree with this, I repeat 
>the challenge: tell me ANYTHING remotely within the realm of 
>possibility that Reagan could do to cause the public to lose faith 
>in him.

     I think the reason you have such a hard time understanding this
is that your frame of reference, if you will, is different from many
other peoples.  I, for one, start with the assumption that Regan, or
any president for that matter, is a reasonable person.  I also assume
that his actions are at least motivated by the desire to do the right
thing.  I then seek to determine and understand that motivation.

     Many liberal individuals I know begin with the opposite
assumptions and, of course, see every act Reagan does as proof of his
evil nature.  Their goal in viewing the man is to find more evil acts,
and reaffirm that their position is correct.  Any person who assumes a
position like this becomes stagnated in thier views and soon loses
their objectivity.  Their frame of reference becomes, this guy is as
asshole and I am going to prove it.  Not, what is really hapening, and
what are its ramifications long term and short.


>Steve Upstill
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