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| Sounds like you were directly affected. I felt like that about Reagan at some point, but I was somewhat young and liberal at the time. In hindsight though, its tough to imagine what the alternative could have been. For example, would the Berlin wall still be up? We don't know, right? Things happen. We have no control over them. The only thing you really have control over is yourself. With that, is there really room for blame? | |
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Reagan is just one of several people who according to their supporters brought down the Berlin Wall. Others laying claim to that include Lech Walensa, Gorbaschow, Pope John Paul II, and others besides. I'm sure we can discuss the pros and contras of all these candidates for weeks. Maybe we sometimes give people more credit than due, and believe there was a master plan when people just got lucky. Things often happen for multiple complicated reasons rather single simple ones. And often the full significance of what happened doesn't become clear until after its all over. I think the same will happen to the present situation.