Ronald Reagan was a Bad President

Rebuttal 1) Just because the majority says something doesn't mean it is necessarily true. Most of the world thought the world was flat. Did that make it true? No. The majority of Americans thought Reagan was great because he cut their taxes. Little did they know that his economic policies hurt the economy. 2) Ronald Reagan did NOT end the cold war. That goes to Sr. George Bush. (http://www.presidentprofiles.com...) In fact the way Reagan worked to end the Cold War was extremely unethical. He supported uprisings and dictatorships all in the effort to stop communism even if it meant oppressing people. (http://historynewsnetwork.org...) 3) The economy. It is already proven that Reagan's use of Trickle Down was a failure. Lets look at some charts. http://quietmike.org... Not only did Ronald Reagan ignore the positive effects of the past economic policies he REVERSED THEM. The bottom 20 percent went into the negatives and the middle class stalled while the rich grew tremendously. He caused the Saving and Loans industry to fail and many other banks and farms. He also TRIPLED the deficit. (http://crooksandliars.com...) 4) Intelligence has many things to do with a presidents performance. Ronald Reagan only wanted to "watch movies and tv" and rarely contributed to any press conferences or meetings. His aides reportedly complained that it took a tremendous amount of effort to inform him on many issues. One time a reporter asked about an issue and HIS WIFE had to save him because he wasn't even paying attention to issues. You talk about many other presidents that were "low-tier" intelligence but you fail to understand that these presidents made an effort to understand the political atmosphere they were in. 5) Contras: My opponent tries to defends the Contras by pointing some of the blame of the problem on the FSLN. targeting health care clinics and health care workers for assassination kidnapping civilians torturing civilians executing civilians, including children, who were captured in combat raping women indiscriminately attacking civilians and civilian houses seizing civilian property burning civilian houses in captured towns. These are some of the atrocities committed by the Contras and while the FLSN were not perfect they sure didn't commit these crimes in the same brutality as the Contras did. (https://en.wikipedia.org...) 6) Without the training and arming of the Muhjadeen the Soviets would have taken over Afganistan. The Muhjadeen at the time were not using modern weapons and were actually using bolt-action rifles. Reagan then armed them with assault rifles, new sniper rifles, AA rockets and anti tank weapons. This LARGELY assited the Muhjadeen in facing Soviet armor which halted Russian progression significantly in Northern Afghanistan. I don't understand why you say there is no evidence the CIA trained Al-Quedia. (http://newsone.com...) 6) Apartheid Ronald Reagan vehemently halted any sanctions against South Africa and even called Nelson Mandela's civil rights movement a terrorist organization. His "sanctions" were extremely harmless and didn't even harm South Africa like congress would have. 7) Support of Dictatorships. Whether you like it or not Ronald Reagan supported multiple dictators and kept them in power He supported Manuel Noriega (Panama), Saddam Hussein (Iraq), Ferdinand Marcos (Phillipines) and supported the brutal El Salvador Regime and while he did later retract his support of Noriega he did not retract his support of El Salvador and Philippines regimes. Jimmy Carter's failures have NOTHING to do with this discussion. One president doing something terrible does not condone something does not condone something of another. Reagan of course realized his mistakes but it does not condone his initial support of the brutal dictatorships in the first place. 8) Reagan's corruption. Firstly I would like to say I could not fit 138 people with their reasons and not make it repetitive. I added the most important people which were these 9. I gave a link so that people could look at it so yeah. This is not "NonUnique" as my opponent says. In fact the Reagan administration is the most corrupt administration in American History http://www.liberalslikechrist.org... Reagan set a wrong example by pardoning people that commited felonies that deserved jail time furthering the idea of corruption in America so of course that was bad for America 9) Do I really need to prove that automobiles pollute more than trees? Really? The Chicago woman never existed. There is absolutely no proof to show that he knew any women like that whatsoever And there is no proof he ever visited a concentration camp (http://inthesetimes.com...) All these facts add up to a terrible president. Back to you Con Sources: http://www.gallup.com... http://www.presidentprofiles.com... http://reagan.civiced.org... http://historynewsnetwork.org... https://www.bing.com... http://crooksandliars.com... https://en.wikipedia.org... https://en.wikipedia.org... http://newsone.com... http://www.democracynow.org... http://www.liberalslikechrist.org... http://inthesetimes.com...