I hear stories about how there used to be right wing policies that helped the country...I've seen RNC platforms from "back in the day", and to be honest, they look an awful lot like the DNC platforms nowadays.

In my adult life these are the Republican administrations I've seen:

Ronald Reagan
Bush 1
Bush 2

With Reagan, the "right wing hero", there were much higher tax rates on the rich than there are now...and he's still a hero.

Of course he spent like a drunken sailor and nearly bankrupt the country.

Bush 1 was probably the best of the three, and raised taxes repeatedly, repeatedly enough while saying he wouldn't that he got himself un-elected.

We all know what an unmitigated disaster Bush 2 was...the horrific tax cuts that killed our economy wasn't enough, we had to go to Iraq and not only kill zillions of people, but do it by spending trillions of tax dollars, putting the directly into the pockets of the Military-Industrial complex. Apparently tax breaks weren't enough, we needed to just give away the money while killing lots of people, too.

None of what any of them did spurred any economic growth...they all tanked the economy...and I bet you gleefully voted for all of them...

Todd