It IS all about Reagan! The United States is an ultra-resource rich, wealthy, and strong superpower that has more than enough resources to make life bearable for all Americans. He decided to implement and justify a culture where the working class feels as if it should bow down to it's "superiors" and just be lucky for whatever breadcrumbs they allow for the toilers. There are millions of poors in this country who literally think it's THEIR fault they are poor because of that piece of garbage, when it is all by the design of the people who pulled his puppet strings.
As someone who has actually known many poor people, I've never met one that feels the way you think they feel. Have you ever actually met someone that feels this way? Sure, I've known people (poor and non-poor) that are aware enough to admit that some of the choices they've made in life have lead them to their current situation, but most of them have things closer to home to blame (parents, schools, peers, teachers, the judicial system) for their situation than what some politician said about them 30 years ago.
and FTR, some people ARE poor because of some fault of theirs.....as it has always been and will be until the Star Trek utopia comes around
and how does one person "implement and justify a culture"? What kind of weak willed peon allows someone else to change their entire way of thinking? I didn't understand the painting Bush the Lesser with the "evil genius" brush and I don't understand the same thing being done to Reagan. I don't see the evil or the genius in either man.