I have observed many, many times how the most militaristic Republicans seem to have almost never actually served in the military–John McCain being a notable exception– but then, real Republicans still don’t like him.
Someone told me that Ronald Reagan served. I couldn’t believe it so I checked. By golly, it’s true. Reagan was a captain… eventually… in the cavalry! And then in the Army Air Force Motion Picture division.
He never left California, except to go to New York to raise war bonds. But then, during election campaigns, he seemed to remember events from the movies as if they had really happened. Or maybe he realized that he was in a movie, about a long-ago, far-away, dreamy America of white picket fences and crime-free small towns… and look– there’s Opie.
Suggestion for Democrats: try to add an amendment to any bill that takes away collective bargaining rights that no executive or manager with the same organizations, institutions, or companies, can earn more than 4 times the highest wage of the lowest-paid 25% of employees.
