text: Wow, all this bitterness for such misconstrued, misplaced reasons.  o_O
  
  "...  intellectually disabled, the bigoted, and the ignorant ..."  You have a very low opinion of your neighbors.  Any wonder that they tend to dismiss your other opinions?
  
  "... Reagan presided over no notable bull market ..."  {shrug}  Be that as it may, he certainly provided a vast improvement over what came before - and the whole country thought so, too, when RR nearly ran the electoral table in his re-election.  (If only 5,000 people had changed their votes in Minnesota, poor Mr. Mondale wouldn't even have carried his own home state!)  And gee, EN, the Gipper has been dead >10 years now (and out of office >25 years) --- don't you think it may be about Time To Just Get Over It??
  
  "... shreds your "Carter's fault" BS ..."  Not words I ever used, and regardless, your argument is with the academics who wrote the Gwartney et al. economic text.  They still win; again, you ought to just Deal With It.  :-/