1984 is the first Presidential election I voted in. My father was a democrat who voted for Reagan and never went back, sadly. I believed in all the things he told me about Reagan and "supply side economics" and then I started to see how the Christian Right demonized those in the LGBTQ community and how they ignored the AIDS epidemic. My eyes started to open. What really did it was when I moved OUT of America (to London) and was able to see how people outside of the U.S. thought of us and him. It was the best education ever.
You remember it as a landslide. However, voter turnout was piteously low in 1984. Another form of voter suppression is apathy. There was a lot of fear and loathing, and apathy, then. Ah yes, I remember it well.
1984 is the first Presidential election I voted in. My father was a democrat who voted for Reagan and never went back, sadly. I believed in all the things he told me about Reagan and "supply side economics" and then I started to see how the Christian Right demonized those in the LGBTQ community and how they ignored the AIDS epidemic. My eyes started to open. What really did it was when I moved OUT of America (to London) and was able to see how people outside of the U.S. thought of us and him. It was the best education ever.
You remember it as a landslide. However, voter turnout was piteously low in 1984. Another form of voter suppression is apathy. There was a lot of fear and loathing, and apathy, then. Ah yes, I remember it well.