Zombie Reagan Worship? There's an App For That
This is beyond pathetic:
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library has come up with a new way for Reaganites to bask in the glory of Ronaldus Magnus: A free iPhone application!
It has a gallery of pictures of Reagan in all his glory, for an admirer to cycle through with only the swipe of a finger (such as the pic shown above). There is also Reagan playing mini-golf in the Oval Office, Reagan visiting with the Pope, Reagan with his horse, Reagan in front of an American flag, and other such glorious memories.
There is also ready access to the library’s YouTube account, to watch Reagan’s 1980 Republican acceptance speech, his 1981 inaugural address, his 1961 speech opposing the creation of Medicare, and other great moments in Reagan history.
Another gallery is of text, with short quotes to read through, such as: “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
The creators claim that this is a way of reaching out to and connecting a new generation of voters with Reagan, a guy who has been dead for five years, out of office for 20 and whose politics of hate and disdain for the poor are the polar opposite from the beliefs demonstrated by a wide majority of age 18-29 voters at the ballot box and all over the internet.
Maybe if the GOP spent a little less time canonizing a long dead dog whistle racist that spent his life fighting against the interests of everyone that wasn’t a rich white man, and a little more time thinking about real solutions to the grave problems that Saint Ronald’s ideological successor put us in, people wouldn’t think of them as ignorant obstructionists hell-bent on teabagging the downtrodden.
You’re not going to reach the iPhone generation with nifty a downloadable — you’ll reach them by developing policy that, like the iPhone, makes their lives better.
Now who is up for creating an FDR app?
