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The Reaganite Gospel of Prosperity

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In 1980 Reaganism was sold to America as being "patriotic and religious," but if you examine it very carefully you can see how and why the richest few now hold 95 percent of the nation's wealth while everyone else is worse off, because it is a very misleading and self-serving partisan right-wing political ideology.

For example, take the idea that "God helps those who help themselves." That's an idea that is deeply ingrained in the American culture, and, because there is an element of truth in that idea, right-wing partisan ideologues claim it means that if you're poor, God condemns you because you are lazy and deserve your lot. After all, that what Ronald Reagan told America.
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E.J. is a progressive activist serving to help promote an initiative based on Jeffersonian principles regarding government and religion -- principles which Abraham Lincoln said are "the axioms of a free society."

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