How Obama Is Like Reagan
This is a new post from an earlier post which I delete to refresh. I sometimes misplace my notes. This updated blog post has even more information (evidence) of how Obama is like Reagan.
Sometimes it astounds me how much Republicans hate Obama. Have they any clue that the left in this country has actually moved to the right? The right have moved so far to the right that the middle (“common ground”, “bipartisanship”) is no longer the middle anymore.
I never considered Obama a progressive. He was always just a liberal to me. I even got into a debate one time about how “liberal” Obama really is. He’s not really, when you look at it. He’s more moderate. In fact, one could even argue that he’s what used to be called a moderate Republican.
Obama and Reagan actually share a lot of the same things. Reflecting on a few we can see:
- Both wanted to disarm nuclear weapons
- Both lowered taxes
- Both increased military spending
- Both increased the national debt (by a lot)
- Both wanted a raise in capital gains tax
- Reagan appointed the first woman to the Supreme Court; Obama appointed two women
- Both tried to find a bipartisan consensus with Congress on simplifying the tax code
- Both ran on hope and optimism
- Both faced economic turmoil and high unemployment
- Both had midterm setbacks
I’ve blogged before on my Politics Notes how Reagan should be considered liberal by today’s standards. In fact, Reagan is further to the left than Obama on a few issues:
- Reagan raised taxes
- Reagan increased the size of government while Obama has decreased it
- Obama has been harder on immigration where as Reagan gave amnesty to millions of undocumented workers
- Reagan helped create Osama bin Laden where as under Obama he was destroyed
Contrary to republican belief, Obama has NOT raised taxes, expanded illegal immigration, nor has he increased the size of government. Their idol, Reagan, did all of these.
It’s just kind of shocking how much Obama is hated by the right, yet their hero and him shared a lot of the same ideology and we could argue, Reagan was to the left of Obama.