By presidential standards, Ronald Reagan was a moron and a complete intellectual lightweight.
It does not cut the mustard to juxtapose Bedtime for Bonzo with jokes that purport to shine a spotlight on the lack of freedom in the USSR.
Ronald Reagan did not give a rat's ass about the freedom and human rights of Russian people.
>> https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...ald-Reagan-Soviet-jokes&p=3441136#post3441136
If you want a spokesperson for Russian freedom and dignity, look to Andrei Saharov and the Soviet dissidents. Who you might be surprised to learn received substantial support from Jimmy Carter, more so than from Bedtime for Bonzo.
Ronald Reagan did not genuinely give a rat's ass about human freedom and human dignity more generally.
If an evil dictator was rightwing and conservative, Reagan could not contain his love and support for them.
Reagan was a pawn of the military industrial complex and of American corporate hegemony. His only interest was securing, maintaining, and prolonging American global political and economic hegemony. He literally did not genuinely give a shit about freedom, human dignity, free and fair elections, or democracy.