What major are the differences between Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Reagen?
As far as I can tell there are no MAJOR differences in the policy or administration but there is a large difference in popular perception
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Ike: Most people just think of “McCarthyism”, the cheesy suburb “leave it to beaver” type life (which always gets potrayed as bad / or gets deconstructed), or racism.
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JFK: An intellectual warrior poet god among men (who was a supporter of McCarthy). This is Camelot. He died young, because he was the Messiah. Young people loved him, friend to all living things, great intellectual, etc.
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Ronal Reagen: Republicans like him a lot, but he still gets wildly criticized with no reserve amongst more fashionable people. He is seen as a war monger and a person who caused a lot of poverty. To this day “trickle down” and “Reagonomics” are seen as bad buzz words, even though nobody has the slightest clue what this means. This is also the period of time when most people think of all those televagelists who supported him that got slammed due to their scandles.
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Also of note: is it just me or do Ike and Nixon get a disproportionate amount of blame for Korea and Vietnam. I see many movies, articles, and TV shows very willing to address and criticize Eisenhower and Nixon for the wars but they definatly seem a lot less likley to demonize Truman and Johnson (in fact these two are many times praised). Also while Ike and Reagen get ridiculed for the anti commie sentiment I hardly ever see JFK, Truman, or Johnson get blasted for anti commie actions.
Are these observation valid, is the Democratic party that clever and in control of propaganda? Or am I just over exagerating things? Please note: I am NOT in any way a Republican, but I do fear the Democrats more as I think they have had a much greater influence on the way information gets presented to the general public.