On of the best things ever said about Reagan

From Natasha Chart, at Scholars and Rogues:

The establishment political class have learned how to make people feel they’re in control without giving them any. Reagan was sunny, yes. He also had a message of ostensible empowerment that people liked hearing and that wasn’t a threat to anyone powerful. It was just snake oil. ‘I will empower you to shop and not give a damn about your neighbor, who will in turn not have to give a damn about you.’

That’s the sort of empowerment the corporate media likes. The kind that keeps the peasants happy, but still peasants.