Barrage of hypocritical adoration for Nancy Reagan goes on. Barf if you must.

The ruling class never loses a beat when it comes to reinforcing any of its successful impostures, and the selling of Ronald Reagan as a great president (of which all this disgusting fuss over the passing of his mediocre wife is really a continuation of) is just the latest example.

For ages, the ruling elites have been whitewashing what it means to be “conservative” in America, and countless fools have fallen for it. To this day Reagan remains one of the patron saints of the right, enjoying an ill-advised popularity even among many blue-collar people, despite the fact he was a disgrace as president, a sworn enemy of the working class, and an effective shill for the rich. His administration (aside from those that followed, and in particular that of GW Bush) owns the distinction of being one of the most high-handedly corrupt in history. (At the end of his tenure his regime had seen more than 100 top officials indicted for serious crimes, including his Attorney General). Ronnie was also the man whose idea of “conservatism” and “small government” was to appoint administrators who would be sure to dismantle instead of safeguard the mission of the agencies entrusted to them—the legendary fox in the chicken coop routine. The case of James Watt who served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1981 to 1983 is emblematic of Reagan’s rotten legacy. An out and out “anti-environmentalist”, his pro-development views played an instrumental role in ending the Sagebrush Rebellion. The word “rebellion” sounds salutary in an age of putrid and self-serving policymaking in favor of the powerful, and systematically deleterious to nature, but, folks, this was a rightwing rebellion, clamoring for “the right” to put more public lands at the mercy of private interests:

The Sagebrush Rebellion was a movement during the 1970s and 1980s that sought major changes to federal land control, use and disposal policy in the American West where, in 13 western states, federal land holdings include between 20% and 85% of a state’s area.^[1][2] Notably, supporters of this movement wanted more state and local control over these lands, if not outright transfer of them to state and local authorities and/or privatization. As much of the land in question is sagebrush steppe, supporters adopted the name Sagebrush Rebellion. The sentiment survives into the 21st century with pressure from some individual citizens, politicians, and organized groups especially with respect to livestock grazing, mineral extraction, and other economic development policy for these lands. (Wikipedia)

Watt, naturally, in keeping with his conservative creds as a Pentecostal, and Born-again Christian, made it easy for these reactionaries to get their wishes (even today they still want more). Watt’s venality eventually required token censure—one of the ways by which the system pretends to be still holding up justice and the rule of egalitarian law:

In 1995, Watt was indicted on 25 counts of felony perjury and obstruction of justice by a federal grand jury, accused of making false statements before the grand jury investigating influence peddling at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which he had lobbied in the 1980s.^[24] On January 2, 1996, Watt pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor (sic) of withholding documents from the grand jury. On March 12, 1996, he was sentenced to five years’ probation, and ordered to pay a fine of $5,000 and perform 500 hours of community service.^[25] In a 2001 interview, Watt applauded the energy policy of the Bush administration, stating that its preference of oil drilling and coal mining to conservation was just what he recommended in the early 1980s.^[26]
(SOURCE: James G Watt, Wikipedia)

In any case, this is just one of many vignettes to remember what kind of leader Ronald Reagan really was, what conservatism really implies, and what an abomination it is for the presstitutes to organize this posthumous celebration of his name using the pathetic “accomplishments” of a nullity like Nancy Reagan.

In a recent (as usual excellent) analysis on this entire revolting spectacle, Dave Walsh had this to say, and we could not concur with him more:

In the interests of continuing and deepening the decades-long, bipartisan policies of social reaction and war, the American ruling elite feels obliged to perpetuate the official mythology about the former president and extend it to his wife. This is no less true for what purports to be the “left” wing of the political establishment, concentrated in the Democratic Party, than for the Republican right. While the effusive and absurd adoration of the former first lady does not come as a surprise, that does not make the spectacle of intellectual cowardice and debasement less repulsive…There is nothing to celebrate about this life—and yet it is being widely celebrated. We explained at the time of Ronald Reagan’s death in 2004 that the tributes being paid to him were “in essence, a celebration of the services he rendered to the rich. The overriding goal of his administration was the removal of all legal restraints on the accumulation of personal wealth.”

The genuflection of every American politician before the supposed greatness of the Reagans is an element of the political vetting process, and each figure who aspires to the highest offices knows this. ( The death of Nancy Reagan )

To close, let me say that perhaps one of the most unsavory aspects of this manufactured soap opera is not so much the fact the whores at CBS, NBC, CNN and the rest in the US media have been bloviating nonstop about Nancy’s departure, that’s what they are paid for, but that people who should know better and who have no demonstrable debt to the Reagans, or “the conservative cause”, celebrities like Anjelica Huston, should also lend their names and presence to this fraudulent act.  It is useful idiots like that who end up putting the final nails on the coffin of what could have been a great republic.—PG