Remember how much we feared and hated Iranians? Iran had a revolution and took American hostages for over a year.
Iran had terrorist training camps and were sending out terrorists all over the place. Iran was behind the blowing up of the Marine barracks. Iran funded Hezbollah and Hamas which carried out terrorist attacks all over the Middle East, and particularly in Israel, a great ally of the US.
Iranians were hijacking airplanes and blowing shit up all over the place.
And then there were the Iranian refugees trying to get away from these maniacs.
Do you know what Reagan did about the refugees?
Did he shit his pants in fear? Nope.
Did he stir up the Right with anti-Muslim rhetoric and say we should not allow these refugees in? Nope.
Did he do some kind of fucked up calculus and say it wasn't worth the risk? Nope.
He let the Iranian refugees in. Because Republicans had real balls of titanium and real compassion back then.
http://www.paaia.org/CMS/Data/Sites/1/pdfs/iranian-americans---immigration-and-assimilation.pdf
Do you see that? At the peak of our anti-Iranian sentiment, we let in more Iranian refugees than any other kind of refugees.
Now THAT is what "home of the brave" looks like, boys and girls. That is what "American exceptionalism" looks like.
Reagan's own words:
I don't know who these people are today who are calling themselves Republicans. I really don't.
I don't know why an America hating socialist calls themselves a Republican either, but you do.
To a nazi, everyone else is left wing.
I'm a Reagan Republican and people like you prove every day the modern day Republican has nothing in common with Reagan. You're stupid, credulous, and cowardly.
You must be a child if you don't know about Iranian state sponsored terrorism.As to your question, I don't remember the threat Iranian terrorists were going to do things like shoot 500 people in Paris. Can you remind me what that fear was based on?
Nazis are socialists, they are pretty far left. Pretty much there with you.
You're a Reagan conservative, that's comic. Like how you think Republicans moved to the right, they are left of Reagan, Holmes
And again, I say I'm not a Republican, and you insult me by calling me a Republican, while you claim to be a Republican. Where is your clown avatar? The dress fits
Nazis are about as "far left" as the Klan. Fatter o' mact they have a lot in common -- hypernationalism.... hyperreligionism.... racial purity fantasies... hypermoralistic persecution of drunks and loose women... da evil Jooos..... da evil communists..... da eebil homosexuals .. da eebil intellectuals....
Yep, that's what I call "far left" awright.
Revisionism never sleeps around here. It's like rust.
The Nazis were more aware than you, Holmes, that's why they accurately called themselves a socialist party. They believed in government control over the economy. That's as leftist as you
The "socialist" tag --- a new and trendy buzzword at the time --- was already there when Hitler joined the party around 1920. He objected to it but went along.
Do you believe Grape Nuts is made with any grapes or nuts at all?
Or that the Pennsylvania Dutch have something to do with Holland?
Pop quiz -- how many band members comprise Ten Thousand Maniacs?
DUH.
In any case all that shit I just mentioned --- class hierarchies, übernationalism, übermilitarism, appeal to past glories, denigration of minorities/immigrants/women/homosexuals/communists/intellectuals -- those don't live on the left, as even retards know.
And my name is not "Holmes". Quit looking at my dick.