I lived through the whole thing, and I assure you what you have there is subjective fantasy.
Or as the rest of us call it with your usual range of insipidity, "Friday".
A lot of us lived through the whole thing, the malaise of Carter and the revival of Reagan. I know you hacks want to rewrite history - but your bullshit has no resemblance to reality, which you fully know.
I'm not the one sitting on a message board claiming "my clown made us happy, your clown made us sad", am I, sad little man?