Why do people vote for Hilary and Obama?

[elprincipe]

takeru51 said:

 

Believe it or not, you're the one with the common misconception. Do you think that the United States is the only industrialized country without socialized medicine because it's better that way? Please, we've been lied to about public healthcare for decades. Our country has become worse over the past 4-5 decades as we've lost many of the government assitance programs that made oppertunity so widespread here. Ronald Raegan was the worst thing to ever happen to this country, I would argue he was even a worse president than George Bush or Richard Nixon because it was Raegan who did such disasterous damage to the people, then lied to our faces about it. If you want more clarification of this, please just ask me. I could write pages on the regression our country has been going through over the past few decades, but to get back to the original point, you are very, very, wrong.

Better in your opinion, surely?  But if you feel our country has become worse over the past 40-50 years I don't know what to tell you.  When life expectancy, quality of living and income all are drastically up, I don't feel anyone can say that with a straight face personally.

BTW, what bothered you so much about Reagan?