You know by now the Hillary praised Nancy Reagan for being in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Sh has subsequently said she “misspoke”. This is WRONG on so many levels, as my kids say.
This is revisionist history, problem one. There are a VERY large number of people around who were alive back then. We know it is revisionist history. So she is flat out feeding people bullshit, and expecting us to eat it. I hope older people make sure that younger people know it is bullshit.
But what is worse is that if Reagan and Reagan had been just not looking to find a cure, that would be bad, but Reagan and Reagan, actively FOUGHT what quickly became evident as ways of slowing the spread of HIV/AIDS. They were opposed to sex ed, and pushed abstinence only. They opposed condom distribution. They opposed needle exchanges.
All of these were low hanging fruit, easy to do and not much cost. However, such policies would have pissed off the fucking fundies who were now part of the GOP base. These policies would have lead to serious discussions about sex and sexuality. They would have admitted that there are the gays, and it is not a chosen lifestyle but a trait. It would have admitted people are going to have sex for fun and not just to make babies. It would have admitted that “Just say no” was not going to work because addiction is an illness not a choice.
So untold numbers FUCKING DIED BECAUSE OF Reagan and Reagan. This was true here and it was true in places like Haiti, and Africa. Reagan (Ronald) helped block funds for foreign aid programs to use federal funds to distribute condoms.
These are facts, indisputable facts. And they are just from my memory. I didn’t have to Google shit. I am sure there were many other policies that helped exacerbate the spread of HIV/AIDS and the suffering that went along with it. This is one more powerful negative against Hillary.