Reality is stranger than the fiction we all live within, because fiction has the constraints of being something we can comprehend and live with. It has to be redeeming and hopeful, reality doesn't.
And, aside from spending on BS like "Star Wars" and escalating things with USSR, Reagan also established the neoliberal greedy nightmare we live in since.
Well, he was also a union big shot for over two decades, eventually elected as president of SAG.
Then, he was governor of California for nearly a decade.
So, quite a bit more qualification than "just an actor."
Yeah, so like Schwarzenegger.
He had a longer political career (and one more directly relevant to being the chief executive of a government) than Obama before each became president.
Marty: Ronald Reagan.
Doc: Ronald Reagan? The actor? [rolls his eyes] Ha! Then who's vice-president, Jerry Lewis?
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