"There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they (should) already know...Have a cup of Kool-Aid on me. How in the world can you state, with an assumed straight face, "...actual economic policies of the Reagan administration were demonstrably favorable to the general population..." unless you consider the general population to be the very top 1-2% wealthiest? I standby my theory of governance, particularly as you scan the history of socialized mankind for the past 4 millennia or so. Sorry to say, the human species has not advanced very far in this short span if at all and nothing much has changed.