Peter Kaplan on Ronald Reagan, 1980, The New Republic

[rich]

no conservative Reagan-loving twat by any means but one cannot deny this
propaganda, the new day in America with all its trimmings had a very
influential effect on the culture, certain aspects we are still dealing
with and feeling the negatives effects of. what did the left ever put forth
that spread widely throughout the culture that didnt seem to emanate from
some obscure college campus or warhol whore monger?. These conservative
messages rang true to many a working class stiff, be they misinformed. i
still listen to early gang of four like any post punk miscreant but was
that all there was?

maybe the problem is (to quote This Heat's A New Kind of Water)--its
innate, we're [just] selfish

rich


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Robin Landseadel <
robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> "Two hundred years ago, Tom Paine—" (Shot of Paine and Reagan in school
> together.) "when the 13 colonies were trying to become a nation, said we
> have it in our power to begin the world over again." (On Griffith-like
> silent screen, hundreds of revolutionary soldiers and Young Republicans
> rush up to Tom Paine with welding irons, safety helmets, and Lincoln logs.)
> "And tonight we can build that world over again. We can meet our destiny
> and that destiny can build a land here that will be for all mankind a
> shining city on the hill." (Props Dept.: please build shining city, on
> hill. Don't make it look like Manhattan.) "I think we ought to get at it."
> (Music: traditional, "Turkey in Straw," "Yankee Muster March," "Begin the
> Beguine." Warner Brothers sign-off.)
>
> http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115783/peter-kaplan-
> ronald-reagan-tnr-1980-
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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